The Stavropol SAU celebrated the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Stavropol from Nazi invaders

In the library of SSAU, employees of the Department of Philosophy held a round table dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Stavropol.

- Today, the entire public of Stavropol is celebrating a memorable date in the history of our city - the 80th anniversary of the liberation from the fascist invaders of the regional capital. Of course, SSAU did not stand aside and a whole cycle of events dedicated to this significant date took place at the sites of our university. The city of Stavropol was under occupation and felt all the hardships of the Nazi regime: these were executions of the civilian population, and gas chambers , and the murders of the mentally ill, and much more. Today, our common task is to preserve the historical memory of this great tragedy, to convey to the younger generation objective knowledge about the Great Patriotic War, since it is the knowledge of history that can resist attempts to falsify the events of the war. Today, Nazism is trying to raise its head, there is a revanchist mood in the world! Today Russia stands at the forefront in the fight against Nazism! The younger generation - students must remember the history of their country and prevent a repetition of the human tragedy! - the head of the Department of Philosophy and History, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor Evgeny Tufanov addressed the university staff.

Stavropol Agrarian University and its staff took a direct part in the hostilities. On June 22, 1941, a rally took place in the courtyard of the Institute. It was opened by the head of the department of Marxism-Leninism I.K. Belomestnykh with a speech about the perfidious attack of fascist Germany. In the speeches of the director of the institute G.Kh. Alafinov, teachers and students expressed their readiness to immediately defend the Fatherland. And the very next day, many of the rally participants turned to the military registration and enlistment office with a request to send them to the front as volunteers.

At the beginning of the war, the main educational building was commissioned as a hospital, the largest and most well-equipped in the city. He was served by more than 400 specially trained doctors, nurses and nurses. Students and teachers patronized the chambers of the wounded soldiers.

The learning process did not stop. Due to a significant reduction in the educational and material base of the university, the veterinary faculty was closed, but an agronomy faculty was opened instead.

From October 25, 1941 to the beginning of 1942, the entire staff of the institute was mobilized for defense work on the near approaches to Stavropol. Then classes were restored, but the university continued to provide all possible assistance to the front. Throughout the war, students and staff took an active part in collecting things for the soldiers. Everything was put in the parcels: food, essentials, clothes.

During the occupation of Stavropol, which began on August 3, 1942, the main educational building was badly damaged by the bombing of the city. Hostels were burned down, a power plant, a bathhouse, a laundry, a student canteen, an apiary of an educational and experimental farm were destroyed, sheep and pig farms were plundered. Due to the untimely evacuation of the institute, a large number of educational and visual aids, books, inventory and equipment of the departments were irretrievably lost.

When on August 3, 1942, the Nazis broke into Stavropol, they captured the echelon of our institute. Not having time to evacuate, our university suffered huge damage. A large number of teaching aids, books and other property were irretrievably lost.

A hard fate befell many students and teachers of the university during the occupation. Among them, Dora Karabut, a student of the zootechnical faculty, carried out reconnaissance work behind enemy lines as part of a partisan detachment. In December 1942, she was taken to policemen in the village Arzgir, was tortured and shot in the Nazi dungeons of Budyonnovsk. Among the victims of the genocide was Margarita Karlovna Krymskaya, candidate of biological sciences, professor, head of the department, who was shot along with her six-year-old son.

On January 21, 1943, the Nazi invaders were expelled from the city. Despite the enormous damage inflicted on the institute - the blown up and burned main educational building, the destroyed buildings adjacent to it, on January 25 at the zootechnical and agronomic faculty, classes interrupted by the war continued.

In the 1943-1944 academic year, the veterinary faculty was reopened. From the main educational building destroyed by the invaders, only charred walls with fragments hanging inside the building remained.

Heroic work, in just two months, the students restored one of the destroyed buildings of the institute. To enter the classroom, the knowledge-starved students worked at the construction site even at night. Due to the lack of machines and mechanisms, they performed almost all the work manually. The source of the strength of the students of those years was not the struggle for survival, but the desire to help people and the country with their work. And therefore, the most joyful day for students and employees of the university was May 9, 1945, when the red flag of Victory hoisted over the university.

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