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1364May 8, 2015
Remembering the great feat of our people!
May holidays… May 9 is likely the most awaited, bright and light of them, similar to New Year in a way.
– When I was a pupil, yet in Sloviansk, this day was marked by a special festive mood as Father would put on his decorations, everybody would attend a the traditional gathering at the central square of the town filled with a lot of well-dressed and beautiful people, their jackets shining with orders and medals. Afterwards, celebration would go on at home: Mother’s brother and his family would drop by. He was a pilot who was in active service during the Great Patriotic War, and it was the main event of May 9: memoirs, jokes, festivities. All the men in the family were related to the war. Mother’s father never came back from the front…
In my student years at the School of the University, I remembered the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Victory Day in 1970. May 9 of that year was as bright a holiday as then, at home… A lot of employees, faculty members were directly related to World War II. In 1970s they were the same age I am now, and a few years later they finished their working career.
– My great-grandfather in the rank of colonel went through the whole Caucasus and, according to his stories, it seemed impossible what ordeals people can live through. Here they are, the true superheroes without superpowers but with the incredible willingness to survive the seemingly impossible! Grandfather was very little and green then, and he helped the front by looking after the military horses. He said that all that discipline and responsibility never left him throughout his life.
When Halia and I were working in the Archives gathering materials for the 70th anniversary of the Victory, when we were looking through the personal records of the faculty members of the School in the post-war years, we were overwhelmed with admiration for how much their lives were filled with various events, drama, ordeals. The Great Patriotic War occupied a special place in the biographies of many of them.
WE REMEMBER THEIR NAMES!
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Nikolay Bogatov In 1953-1960 – President of N. K. Krupsk Kharkiv State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages, in 1960-1970 – Dean of the School of Foreign Languages of A. M. Gorky Kharkiv State University. During the war he served as a fireworker of the field ammunition depot, went through the South, North-Caucasian and Ukrainian Fronts, fought in the Central Military Force. |
Most of the WWII veterans then worked at the Department of German Language (currently: Department of German Philology and Translation), which seems quite understandable. All of them were great lecturers imparting their experience and knowledge to many a generation of graduate students.
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Marina Gorer |
Aleksandr Drachuk |
Vasiliy Molodets |
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Samuil Kaminker |
Pavel Bagrintsev |
Grigory Bosniatsky |
Excellent specialists, language experts, WWII participants and veterans worked at the Department of English Philology.
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Bella Zilberbord |
Vladimir Bezugly |
Dmitry Meniailo |
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Lev Grinbegr |
Boris Khaimovich |
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The faculty members of the Department of Romance Philology and Translation also remembers its heroes, the WWII veterans.
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Olga Galperina |
Antonina Miasnikova |
Lidia Matskova |
Participants of the Great Patriotic War worked at the Department of English Language as well.
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Valentina Balueva |
Zoya Lipko |
Aleksey Kalinichenko
associate professor, PhD in Philology
During the war he was a automatic rifleman of the 169th alternate rifle regiment.
A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, he taught German at the Department of German and French Languages for many years and later on became the Head of this Department.
It is sad that today we can only congratulate in person Zoya Lipko and Aleksey Kalinichenko on the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and wish them sound health for many-many years to come!
Serhii Mashchenko – Halyna Zolotariova
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