During the Great Patriotic War, special attention was paid in the Tyumen Region to children who were evacuated from the occupied areas. Particularly many children arrived from the besieged Leningrad.
According to the documents, almost 12,000 children were evacuated to the Tyumen Region. The first train arrived in the city of Ishim on November 10, 1941. Residents of nearby villages met the children on sleighs, covered them with sheepskin coats, blankets, and layers of hay so that they would not freeze in severe frost.
An aid fund was created, which was continuously replenished. Kindergartens, childcare homes, and nurseries were opened. For example, the village of Yemurtla, Uporovo District, gave shelter to 155 little Leningraders who arrived from the besieged city on the Neva in 1941. All of them were children of employees of the Leningrad architecture and arts funds.
They lived in a care home and studied at a local school. There, they had to master new occupations: learn how to sow, harvest, procure hay and firewood. Four-year-old Olya Spivakova arrived in the Siberian village among many other children.
For a while, the girl lived in local childcare home No. 183. When going on the long journey, she took her favorite toy that her father had given her before the war. The plush monkey reminded Olya of her home and family. In 1944, she safely returned with her little plush friend to her native city, by then liberated from the blockade.
The soft stuffed toy made of artificial fur of light brown color had movable limbs and a head, and a long thin tail. The face and the paws were made of yellow-brown cotton fabric, the eyes — of transparent plastic of the same color.
For many years, the toy was kept by Olya Spivakova as a memory of her war childhood. In Leningrad, Olga Moritsovna continued her studies and received the degree of Candidate of Sciences. In 1985, the “Yemurtla Leningraders” decided to meet again on Siberian soil.
Nine people came to the fiftieth anniversary of the Yemurtla state farm, among whom was Olga Moritsovna Spivakova. She decided to present the Tyumen land that had become her second home, relics dear to her heart — the very same toy monkey and a photograph of 1941, in which a little girl is depicted embracing her plush friend.
According to the documents, almost 12,000 children were evacuated to the Tyumen Region. The first train arrived in the city of Ishim on November 10, 1941. Residents of nearby villages met the children on sleighs, covered them with sheepskin coats, blankets, and layers of hay so that they would not freeze in severe frost.
An aid fund was created, which was continuously replenished. Kindergartens, childcare homes, and nurseries were opened. For example, the village of Yemurtla, Uporovo District, gave shelter to 155 little Leningraders who arrived from the besieged city on the Neva in 1941. All of them were children of employees of the Leningrad architecture and arts funds.
They lived in a care home and studied at a local school. There, they had to master new occupations: learn how to sow, harvest, procure hay and firewood. Four-year-old Olya Spivakova arrived in the Siberian village among many other children.
For a while, the girl lived in local childcare home No. 183. When going on the long journey, she took her favorite toy that her father had given her before the war. The plush monkey reminded Olya of her home and family. In 1944, she safely returned with her little plush friend to her native city, by then liberated from the blockade.
The soft stuffed toy made of artificial fur of light brown color had movable limbs and a head, and a long thin tail. The face and the paws were made of yellow-brown cotton fabric, the eyes — of transparent plastic of the same color.
For many years, the toy was kept by Olya Spivakova as a memory of her war childhood. In Leningrad, Olga Moritsovna continued her studies and received the degree of Candidate of Sciences. In 1985, the “Yemurtla Leningraders” decided to meet again on Siberian soil.
Nine people came to the fiftieth anniversary of the Yemurtla state farm, among whom was Olga Moritsovna Spivakova. She decided to present the Tyumen land that had become her second home, relics dear to her heart — the very same toy monkey and a photograph of 1941, in which a little girl is depicted embracing her plush friend.
