IVANOV V.A. The Role of Female Doctors in the Underground Movement of Crimea in 1941–1944 (On the Example of Koreiz and Saki)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2025.5.8
Vyacheslav A. Ivanov,
Candidate of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Department of Social and Humanitarian Disciplines, Crimean University of Culture, Arts and Tourism, Kyivskaya St, 39, 295017 Simferopol, Russian Federation,
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Abstract. Introduction. The issue of Soviet women’s participation in the underground Resistance has not yet been the subject of detailed study in either domestic or foreign historiography. In this regard, it is important to examine the activities of Soviet women who acted in the ranks of underground organizations and groups in the occupied Crimea during the Great Patriotic War. Methods and materials. The study is based on biographical, gender, comparative historical, and regional methods. The biographical method helps the author to establish personal data and personal qualities of female doctors through the prism of the historical events described. The gender method allowed for a deeper understanding of the predominant role of women in the underground groups of the urban-type settlement of Koreiz and the city of Saki. The regional approach is manifested in the choice of two settlements of Crimea – Koreiz and Saki – as territories that became the object of analysis of underground organizations. The main composition of these organizations was female doctors who used their official position to save human lives in the territory of Crimea occupied by the enemy. The comparative historical method was used to compare the activities of the Koreiz and Saki organizations with the activities of other underground groups of the Resistance movement. Analysis. The activities of Soviet women in the underground organizations of Crimea during the Great Patriotic War are revealed using the example of the underground groups of Koreiz and Saki. By analyzing materials from the funds of the State and municipal archives of the Republic of Crimea, as well as museum institutions of Crimea, new facts were uncovered that reveal details of the struggle of Soviet women in the underground organizations of Koreiz and Saki. Results. In the ranks of the anti-Nazi Resistance in the territory of occupied Crimea, underground women were engaged in the following activities: 1) organizing an underground movement to involve Soviet citizens in the anti-fascist struggle; 2) agitation and propaganda work; 3) warning the population about impending roundups and saving Soviet citizens from being deported to Germany for forced labor; 4) sheltering Soviet soldiers and anti-fascist Slovaks from the 1st Slovak Fast Division who had escaped from captivity; 5) transporting Soviet soldiers who had escaped from German captivity and anti-fascist Slovaks from Nazi Germany who had gone over to the Soviet side to partisan detachments.
Key words: Crimea, Nazi occupation 1941–1944, underground struggle, Resistance movement, female doctors.
Citation. Ivanov V.A. The Role of Female Doctors in the Underground Movement of Crimea in 1941–1944 (On the Example of Koreiz and Saki). Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 4. Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. History. Area Studies. International Relations], 2025, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 102-117. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2025.5.8.
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