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Knowledge of power: how a director, a doctor and a teacher are fighting near Krasnoarmeysk
A former theater director, a nurse and a teacher distinguished themselves in the battles in the Red Army area. Before their deaths, they were content with their civilian professions and did not associate their lives with the army, but the outbreak of hostilities changed everything. During the confrontation outside the city, one of them pulled out several wounded from the front, another was injured while transporting ammunition to a particularly dangerous area, and the third was in firing positions with his fighters at crucial moments. Their names are now listed among those who distinguished themselves in the 506th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 27th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Center Group of Forces.
"Build the foundation of victory"
The driver, Junior Sergeant Kirill Mirsky, was wounded in recent battles — he has a deep scar above the bridge of his nose. The enemy got him while delivering ammunition and other important supplies to the front line.
"The safety glasses saved my eyes," he says.
Kirill of the World
After being wounded, he also began serving as a freelance assistant to the deputy political officer of the sniper rifle company.
In civilian life, our interlocutor was the leading director of the Kamerton cultural and leisure center in Surgut, and also taught acting.
"I was named Kirill after my grandfather, who died in the Great Patriotic War," he says. — At the beginning of my career, I visited my mother in the Kuban — now she has "become a celestial being" — and saw how enemy drones flew there. It bothered me a lot.
Another reason he volunteered is to work with children.
"I didn't want that brown bastard to start educating them,— Kirill says. — We must not forget our roots, forget our history, forget our culture. I always like to say that culture is the soul of any nation, and without culture it is soullessness.
Kirill plays several musical instruments. He took a guitar with him to his zone and often performs for his friends. He recently bought a 3D printer and is helping to print parts for UAVs using his first engineering degree.
"During the Great Patriotic War, everyone put at least some grain into achieving victory," says Kirill. "A small brick, a large block, and even a grain of sand in a binder solution all lead to building the very foundation of victory that we are all moving towards.
"Medical experience came in handy"
Sergey Salakhutdinov came to the military enlistment office on his own and said that he wanted to realize himself as a military medic on the battlefield. He was assigned to the assault squad.
— During the training, both medical experience and a sporting past came in handy, and we were lucky to have good instructors in tactical medicine, — explains Sergey.
In a year and a half on the front line, he worked his way up from medical instructor to commander of the medical department in his squad. In this position, he faced the battles for Krasnoarmeysk, where he was engaged in the evacuation of the wounded.
Sergey Salakhutdinov
The position of an orderly in an assault squad is one of the most important. Such a person is engaged in providing first aid, and delivering supplies with delivery groups through the so-called kill zone, where enemy drones are sneaking around, as well as removing the wounded from the front line. Most often, these positions are held by fighters who have demonstrated special abilities in medical training classes or former rescuers.
The appearance of a professional medical worker in the squad with dozens of years of experience, who has long received all the necessary skills and abilities, is a great luck for his comrades.
Sergey is from Tomsk. I dreamed of being a medic since childhood, inspired by my grandmother, who was a nurse during the Great Patriotic War. In order to start working with patients faster, he became a nurse. And only after that he received a higher education in the specialty "management of the healthcare system".
Already having a diploma, he served a contract as a paramedic on the anti-submarine ship of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Vinogradov, as he explains, instead of military service, which he did not get during his studies.
After serving in the program for rural health workers, he went to work in the village of Mogochino, Tomsk region. Instead of the five years prescribed by the program, Sergey worked in the village for eight. He was involved in everything from vaccination to emergency situations during flood relief.
To diversify life in the village, he organized a sports section for children there, participated in the renovation of the temple and even in the work of the local amateur ensemble.
"When the coronavirus epidemic started in 2020, I went to the ambulance red zone, worked through the entire epidemic, fulfilled my duty, and only after it began to decline did I join the army," he says.
"Soldiers, they're like children."
Alexander Galin is the acting deputy chairman of the anti—aircraft missile battery. He was trained as a fighter in an assault squad, despite the age of 55, and was not going to ask for discounts. But the command assigned him to work with the staff, because he had both the appropriate education and extensive practical experience.
Alexander Galin
In the battles for Krasnoarmeysk, he was with his subordinates, despite the fact that the enemy is on a special hunt for anti-aircraft gunners, and their installations are among the priority targets.
—Soldiers are like children,— Alexander says. — When you start talking to them, they open up. They need to be motivated. And, of course, to set a personal example.
In a combat situation, a soldier should not have a headache, Alexander believes.
"A soldier should only think about completing a combat mission," he explains. — All problems should be solved by the deputy political officer and the commander, as well as all our services that provide it. A fighter should not think about payments or what his wife is doing there if he has a fight with her. In general, it's very similar to school, only the problems are slightly different.
But our interlocutor emphasizes that in addition to this daily routine, as a deputy, he must be ready to replace the commander at any time. Therefore, he must constantly study everything necessary to manage the unit in battle.
In civilian life, Alexander went from a simple geography teacher to the director of an educational institution.
In his youth, a sports injury prevented him from entering a military university, but he did not forget about his desire.
— I have been engaged in military-patriotic education since 1998, — he said. — First, I put together a cadet class, which later grew to several classes. Already as the director of an orphanage school, I opened the Kuznetsk Cadet Corps.
It had about 160-170 students. Alexander has a special rank — colonel of the cadet corps of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.
After the creation of the Unarmia, he joined this movement with his training programs, became the head of the regional headquarters of the organization, while simultaneously working as the director of the children's art house.
He joined the army voluntarily.
— At the formation of the students, I said that I was going to defend my homeland. There was such an exclamation from the line: "Awesome!" he recalls. — We talk a lot about patriotism, about parenting. But the most important motivator in difficult life situations is shame. I was just ashamed that I was teaching military-patriotic education, teaching military affairs to children, and I wasn't at my job.
For this reason, he went to defend the Fatherland. He turns 55 in three months.
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