Yelena Pozdnyakova is a native of Anzhero-Sudzhensk. She was born here in 1921, to a family of workers. Her father had worked at the Mine No. 5/7 and had passed away early, Yelena was only two years old at the time. Her mother worked as a laundress in a hospital and often took her little daughter with her on her shifts.
When it was necessary to choose a profession, Pozdnyakova entered the Tomsk Medical Institute, Medical Faculty. In her final year, she specialized in surgery. Immediately after final examinations the whole course received call-up notices.
Pozdnyakova recalled that the packing for the front was quick. Already in June the young doctor arrived in Moscow, she was assigned to the hospital No. 3440 and sent to the Western Front.
They made stops on their way to the duty station. Pozdnyakova told that once they stopped for the whole day in the town of Klintsy, the Bryansk region. It was there that she first saw wounded soldiers lying in a barn right on the floor, on spread straw, because there wasn’t enough room for everyone. On that day, a child was brought to the hospital after a mine exploded near him. He could not be saved, and it was hard for the young doctor.
During service, Pozdnyakova was shell-shocked: in Bobruisk, during the operation, a military air raid began, and one of the bombs fell near the hospital. The blast wave threw the doctors and the operating table from the second floor.
Pozdnyakova worked as a doctor at the front line until the end of the war:
When it was necessary to choose a profession, Pozdnyakova entered the Tomsk Medical Institute, Medical Faculty. In her final year, she specialized in surgery. Immediately after final examinations the whole course received call-up notices.
Pozdnyakova recalled that the packing for the front was quick. Already in June the young doctor arrived in Moscow, she was assigned to the hospital No. 3440 and sent to the Western Front.
They made stops on their way to the duty station. Pozdnyakova told that once they stopped for the whole day in the town of Klintsy, the Bryansk region. It was there that she first saw wounded soldiers lying in a barn right on the floor, on spread straw, because there wasn’t enough room for everyone. On that day, a child was brought to the hospital after a mine exploded near him. He could not be saved, and it was hard for the young doctor.
During service, Pozdnyakova was shell-shocked: in Bobruisk, during the operation, a military air raid began, and one of the bombs fell near the hospital. The blast wave threw the doctors and the operating table from the second floor.
Pozdnyakova worked as a doctor at the front line until the end of the war:
