History, Archaeology, Ethnography

G. Pipia

The Georgian Railway Transport and a Question of Evacuating the Injured Soldiers to Hospitals

(1941-1945)

During the Second World War (1941-1945) the Georgian railway transport played an imortant role to get injured soldiers to the evacuee-hospitals and made one's bit to care for to them.

The author investigates an interesting episode of the Georgian railway transport, which is unknown uptoday. The history of different subordinate evacuee-hospitals (those were: the Georgian people's commissariat of health, the defence of the peopele's commissariat of the USSR and others) was study some extent in Georgian historiography. But there is not description of the quality of railway transport participation, as very important component of the military transport's infrastructure. In this case, the author gives a clear performance on the Georgian railway transport's patronage working on the evacuee-hospitals.

On the basis of archives, historical documents, for the first time in Georgian historiography the special attention is paid to the questions of many-sided participation of the Georgian railway transport.

 

Georgian Institute of History and Ethnography

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