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On scientists’ contribution to the Great Victory
Ural State University of Economics hosted the all-Russian science-to-practice conference “The Contribution of Urals to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War”. The organizers were USUE and the Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Professor Valery Chereshnev, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Medical Sciences, academic adviser of the Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, president of the Eurasian Research Institute of Man, delivered the main report on the Russian Academy of Sciences during the war.
The scientist said that at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a meeting of the RAS Presidium had been held in Moscow to develop an activities plan. The meeting decided to suspend fundamental research and focus on applied developments to defend the country and save it from destruction. Scientific institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences were evacuated to 55 cities, mainly to Kazan and Sverdlovsk.
It was the Ural region that became a forge of talented scientists, whose developments made it possible to turn the tide of war and to win. During the war years, industry, metallurgy, and scientific research began to actively develop in the Sverdlovsk region. For example, a mechanician Evgeny Paton developed the legendary Tank-34, chemists Isaak Postovsky and Grigory Chufarov created a drug innovative for those years: a medical preparation for rapid healing of wounds, and a physicist Isaak Kikoin studied the separation of uranium isotopes, which was an important step in the development of nuclear energy.
“All people knew and understood that they had to live together, work hard and love that huge and beautiful land called Russia,” Valery Chereshnev said.
The academician concluded his speech with the words of Peter I, who expected that Russians, with their successes in science, tirelessness in work and greatness of their strong and reverberating fame, would one day put to shame the most enlightened nations.
The participants of the conference were scientists, representatives of public organizations, government bodies and local governments.
“Representatives of different ages and professions attend the conference. However, today we are all united by common tasks: to preserve the historical truth, expand knowledge about the heroic feat of our fellow countrymen during the Great Patriotic War, and strengthen the generational bridge,” noted Ruslan Sadykov, Minister of Economy and Territorial Development of the Sverdlovsk region.
The rector of USUE, Professor Yakov Silin, took part in the conference.
The event took place within the Ural cluster of the 7th Moscow Academic Economic Forum.
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