Search party "Energy" on tour in Vyazma
There is the forgotten war
Unknown soldiers,
Who is not yet buried,
Who wasn't once.
They sing the song of storms,
They were whipped slanting rain.
Break this eternity
Search Engines Russia.
(Author unknown)
30 Oct 2014 search party SF MEI "Energy" with indifferent freshmen under the supervision of curator of the O. V. Tarasenkova went on an exciting trip to Vyazma. The purpose of the trip: to visit Smolensk regional state institution "Center of Patriotic education and pre-conscription training of youth "the Debt"", the head of which is Irina Pavlovna Olenicheva.
Morning everyone gathered in the lobby of the University. Many came half an hour before the appointed time. The guys were serious and genuinely interested in upcoming outings. And now, the long awaited shipment! The time passed quickly, because search engines is cheerful and active people. On the road stopped at the memorial plate in the village Prudki Safonovsky district, where in 1941, students of the Moscow energy Institute was erected defenses. At the plate we laid flowers and observed a minute of silence in memory of the children, our peers, who lived and worked in wartime.
...Who are hunting to die?!
Each surviving father and mother...
Father calm raised a fighter
A mother sheds tears at the porch
And dusty plantain under the tear
Down, as before ripe dew...
(Author unknown)
The road continues, and each participant of the trip all the more thinking about the victims of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945, about how people survived in this terrible time.
When we arrived in Vyazma, the staff Association "Debt" greeted us very warmly. They told about the main direction of the Centre – organizing and conducting search works with community organizations and search groups. This includes:
- detection of unknown military graves and buried soldiers;
is the commemoration of the dead;
- establish the names and fates of missing persons, tracing of their families.
Establish the names and fates of missing persons is of great importance. Rare to find the remains of a soldier very important thing – his medallion, which indicated his name, surname, place of recruitment, information about relatives. Often found medallions are not subject to reading and interpretation: faded ink, somewhere decayed paper. According to statistics, every year the search engines raise 2500-3000 soldiers. If for every hundred there are 10 medallions is good, if half of them transcribed – that's great!
...And maybe there was no war,
And the world she came up with yourself?
But why the same old people
So in may cry from boredom? -
One night I thought...
(Alexander Rosenbaum)
After the conversation starts the tour through the halls of the Museum of the unknown soldier. "The Museum of human achievement, of heroism, of human fate," so says the tour guide Irina Pavlovna Olenicheva. At the Museum 6 separate compositions, each of which illuminates various aspects of the great Patriotic war and the search movement. All of the artifacts found by search engines Association. Through the tour, Irina Pavlovna described the details of war, cited specific examples from life, told in detail about the work of search groups. Not remain indifferent nobody of us!
After the tour I asked the guys how impressed nip made a visit to the Centre "Duty".
1st year student group ECO-14 Ivanova Victoria:
"My first thought after he heard the last words of the song, the final tour: "It's very hard!". During the tour there was great strength of the atmosphere, in which, I think, would be born the respect for the past, even the indifferent if, however, such people generally are. I look at the work of the search team. Also particularly enjoyable was the simple human warmth with which he treated us in the Museum. It's simple: not a dry retelling, and good conversation, care, care in the details and sincerity. A similar relationship I almost never met".
The student of 1 course of the group ECO-14 Sergey Samusev:
"Some people believe that the remains should lie in the ground and they should not be disturbed. I think that every soldier who gave his life, must be found and buried with honors so that his family knew his history, so he remained nameless. I have no doubt I will continue this case."
Have Fedyaeva Victor, 4th year student group ECO-11, which is a search engine for 2 years, I asked: "Why do you do search activities?". Victor said: "We just want people, through which we now enjoy life, walk under the clear sky, and just breathe freely, not lying scattered through the forests, fields and swamps. Wish they were found and, if possible, transferred to relatives. It's probably more that we can now do for them, but less of what they really deserve."
Yes, indeed, "the war is not over until the last victim is buried soldier" (A. Suvorov). The visit we looked at the work of other search engines eyes. Thanks to the search party every year becoming less unknown missing soldiers.
I want to wish the boys good luck in their hard work and tell them thank you!
Catherine Ryabinin (ПЭ1-14), student employee of the Press center of the branch