Social Support for Minors in the First Period of Great Patriotic War
https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v21i3.2425
Abstract
This article presents a narrative that reveals the state of life and health of children in the first months of the Great Patriotic War. Special place goes to the analysis of archival documents indicating the distressful situation of evacuated children, faced unsanitary conditions, lack of food, and difficulties with settling in new places of residence. The activity of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the People's Commissariat of Health of the USSR and the RSFSR on carrying out measures of social support for minors in the first period of the Great Patriotic War is presented. The maximum possible conditions for the protection of minors’ health were implemented as consequence of the execution of orders on places. Difficulties with the implementation of measures for the arrangement of evacuated children in various regions of the country are described depending on local resources and taken measures efficacy (Tula, Ryazan, Yaroslavl, Kuibyshev regions). The ongoing activities are clearly illustrated by the example of the work of the Middle Volga Institute for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy.
Supporting agencies: This study was carried out as part of the state task on the topic “Institutional foundations for the development of medicine and healthcare in Russia in the 20th–21st centuries”
About the Authors
Roman S. Serebryaniy
Semashko National Research Institute of Public Health
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Moscow
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Not declared.
Denis V. Kamelskikh
National Medical Research Center for Hematology
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Moscow
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Not declared.
Oksana V. Yaremchuk
Noyabrsk College of Professional and Information Technologies
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Yamalo-Nenets A.D.
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Not declared.
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Serebryaniy R.S., Kamelskikh D.V., Yaremchuk O.V. Social Support for Minors in the First Period of Great Patriotic War. Current Pediatrics. 2022;21(3):229-233. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15690/vsp.v21i3.2425
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