The memory that lives In every St. George ribbon is our grateful memory, our pride, the light of that very cherished May day. It is like a connecting thread between generations: heroic grandfathers and great-grandfathers and us, their heirs, who preserve the memory of the Great Victory. Students and staff of the Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy traditionally joined the All-Russian campaign "St. George's Ribbon". Then the participants of the meeting honored the memory of those who forever remained in the ranks of the "Immortal Regiment" of the Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy. Inna Gubanova, a methodologist of the scientific library and museum of the history of the Academy, spoke about the front-line teachers and their invaluable contribution to the Great Victory. 
"The fate of the participants of the Immortal Regiment of the ChSMA reflected the entire history of the Great Patriotic War," Inna Gubanova emphasized. "In 1941, the whole country united for the sake of Victory, and even teenagers made their contribution.
So, 14-year-old Boris Kuznik stood at the machine of a military plant. 13-year-old Alexei Yaroslavtsev, after his father went to the front, worked on a collective farm tractor for four years. Sixteen-year-old Vasyl Butko volunteered to restore the railway tracks. Thirteen-year-old Kapitolina Buranova helped take care of the wounded in the Chita evacuation hospital. Yesterday's schoolchildren also volunteered for the front: Alexander Noskov, Samuel Blyakhman, Konstantin Sergeev and Vasily Kozlov. All of them fought valiantly and returned from the battlefields with awards. Military doctors occupy a special place in history. Surgeons Ignaty Grigorovsky and Wulf Dobrin were drafted in 1941. Graduates Maria Marukhnenko, Vladimir Lyubarsky and Yuri Gerusov went to field hospitals immediately after graduation. Many doctors proved themselves both in the rear and at the front. Semyon Grobstein was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", and Mikhail Kostylev was awarded the medal "For Labor Valor". Anna Levikova specialized in joint surgeries in Krasnoyarsk, Philip Vlasyuk mastered a wide range of surgical interventions in Chita, and Valentina Zolotukhina headed the dental department of the evacuation hospital. In 1945, after the Victory Parade, preparations for the Manchurian operation began. 13 employees of the ChSMA participated in the war with Japan.
"After the war, each of them contributed to the restoration of the country, to the formation and development of the Chita Medical Institute established in 1953," said Inna Gubanova. "We are the heirs of the Great Victory and the creative work of those who developed healthcare, science of our region, our academy.
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