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- Transportation and placement of prisoners of war in camps in the Ivanovo region in the winter of 1942–1943
- Okolotin V.S., Lysykh D.N. Transportation and placement of prisoners of war in camps in the Ivanovo region in the winter of 1942–1943. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2025, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 139–147. (In Russ.) https://doi. org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-3-139-147
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.34216/1998-0817-2025-31-3-139-147
- УДК: 94(470.315)’’1942/1943’’
- EDN: EKAMCV
- Publish date: 2025-07-17
- Annotation: This article is devoted to a topic that has not yet been sufficiently studied in regional historiography, namely, the organization of the transportation of prisoners of war captured by the Red Army during the Battle of Stalingrad and the deployment of some of them in the Ivanovo region. For a long time, this topic was closed to regional researchers, and only scattered facts obtained through continuous study of archival documents were introduced into scientific circulation. first of all, they are concentrated in the fund of the Ivanovo regional committee of the CPSU(b) (Fund-327). Nevertheless, the efforts made to find the necessary information were not in vain and served as the basis for contacting the Russian State Military Archive in order to obtain the missing materials. As a result, it was possible to identify documents that revealed the natural drama of this process in the winter of 1942-1943, as well as the efforts of the convoy troops and the administration of the Yuzhsky and Suzdal camps to preserve the contingent of prisoners of war en route and during their stationary deployment in the Ivanovo region. Of course, they reflect a far from bleak picture of their captivity, complicated by the natural deaths of prisoners of war from exhaustion and frostbite in harsh climatic conditions. Nevertheless, all possible measures were taken in these camps to overcome the current situation, to combat epidemic diseases, to establish camp life and to provide prisoners of war with food. The real reflection of the events described, according to the authors of the article, does not detract from the significance of the feat of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War, but on the contrary, despite the grief and suffering brought to them, shows their national humanity towards the captive invaders in the most difficult conditions of wartime.
- Keywords: Battle of Stalingrad, prisoners of war, transportation, accommodation, Ivanovo region, Yuzhsky camp no. 165, Suzdal camp no. 160, morbidity and mortality, camp life, medical and sanitary care, response of the population and authorities.
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