Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal.2017. № 3 (23). P. 189—196
07.00.00 HISTORICAL SCIENCES AND ARCHEOLOGY
UDC 94(571.1)“1941/1945”+338.45:623(571.1)
Savitskiy Ivan Mikhaylovich, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher
Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
MOVEMENT OF VOLUNTEERS OF WESTERN SIBERIA IN THE ACTIVE RED ARMY DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
Abstract
The article considers manifestations of patriotic moods of the Western Siberia workers and employees in connection with Nazi Germany’s attack on the USSR. It identifies their motives to join the active Red Army as volunteers and fight the enemy. It determines how massive this movement was in all regions of Western Siberia. It was found that the volunteers, who decided to enroll in the Red Army in 1941 — early 1942 and be sent to the front, were sent to conscript volunteer and military units. But in the middle of 1942 it began to form separate regiments, brigades, divisions, and even Siberian Corps only from volunteers. The paper analyzes the total number of their personnel, as well as social status, party affiliation, nationality and age of the volunteers, command and political staff. It shortly displays the heroic journey of Siberian forces on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and their merits in Homeland Protection.
Key words
Patriotism, Siberian volunteers, divisions, regiments, the Red Army, merits in Homeland Protection.
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