Rudenko Maria Dmitrievna
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Rank: Foreman. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Maria DMITRIEVNA RUDENKO was born on April 15, 1921 in Altai region, Znamensky district, village of the Donskoy. She lived in the village Lobanovo Danilovsky district of the Volgograd region. Member of the Komsomol since 1942 Called up to the red army in 1941. On the front since June 6, 1942, the Rank: Sergeant, then foreman of the medical service. Position: ward nurse of mobile field hospital No. 4185 in the 8th Guards Army. Awards: order of the Patriotic war II degree.(1985), medal "For defense of Stalingrad" (1943), medal "For military Merit" (25.06.1944 g), "For victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945" (1946), "Twenty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", "Thirty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", "Forty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945" "Fifty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", "Sixty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945», "Seventy years of Victory in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", " Fifty years Of the armed forces of the USSR "(1968)," Sixty years of The armed forces of the USSR "(1978)," Seventy years of The armed forces of the USSR " (1988), Zhukov medal. From the award document of 1943 for the medal "for the defense of Stalingrad": "... medical service Sergeant Rudenko Maria Dmitrievna participated in the battle of Stalingrad from June 1942 to 02.02.1943. In July 1942, she worked in the Kalach area in the reinforcement group at the Mobile field Hospital-80 during massive enemy air raids." From the award list of November 20, 1943 for the medal "for military merit": "... Comrade Rudenko, during the deployment of the hospital on the right Bank of the Dnieper the village of Voiskovaya, worked from 27.10.1943 to 20.11.1943 alone, permanently, without sleep or rest, provided full implementation of doctor's appointments, care and feeding of 500 seriously wounded. For his dedicated service to the wounded since June 1942, she has received a number of verbal commendations and letters of thanks from the wounded. Worthy of the government award: the medal "for military merit". Head of PPG No. 4185: Nikonov". Memoirs of a veteran in 1975: "In 1941, she graduated from medical school and was drafted into the red Army, in a military mobile field hospital, which was formed in the city of Stalingrad. Our hospital was attached to the 62nd guard’s army under the command of General V. I. Chuikov. As part of the army, we went all the way from Stalingrad to Berlin. Our army participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. Already on the territory of Germany, when crossing the Oder river, there were heavy battles. Our hospital was deployed 18 kilometers from Berlin, and we received soldiers who were wounded directly during the storming of the Nazi capital. A few words about our front-line life. During the fighting, we, the medics, sometimes she did not sleep for days, as the wounded came in a continuous stream, and they needed our help. I was an operating nurse. During the war, tens of thousands of our wounded soldiers passed through our mobile field hospital. And each of them had to be taken, washed of blood and dirt, given medical care, performed surgery and sent to the rear for treatment. When there were small breaks from fighting, we studied small arms-a rifle, a machine gun, a submachine gun. To ensure that, if necessary, each nurse can protect wounded soldiers. We also knew how to handle grenades. Despite the military actions, the hospital organized amateur performances. We organized concerts for the wounded: we sang, danced, and read poetry, trying to cheer them up and raise their spirits. And all in order for them to recover faster and return to service." The last battle of the military nurse of the Stalingrad hospital ended on May 9, 1945 in Berlin. Today, a resident of the city of Volzhsky, a war veteran Maria Dmitrievna Rudenko, as she herself says, is a special day. Every year, on the eve of Victory Day, she comes to the monument to fallen soldiers in the civil and great Patriotic wars to lay flowers to those who fell for our Motherland. "It is my duty to honor the memory of the victims," she is convinced. "This is the duty of those who survived thanks to the millions of Soviet soldiers who died in battle." For nurse Rudenko, who spent the entire great Patriotic war as part of the Stalingrad field mobile hospital No. 4185, the battle for the return of front-line soldiers to service continued until the day of the great Victory, which she and the hospital met in Berlin, reports ia "Height 102". With her hospital, which was located in the village of Kuibyshev in the sredneakhtubinsky district, and this place, according to her, was determined by Marshal Georgy Zhukov himself, she went through the roads of war, saving the lives of thousands of Soviet soldiers. "The main thing was that every wounded soldier and commander knew that there was a "sister" who would never leave in trouble, " she says. She remembers how many tears she shed over those who could not be saved. Once the chief doctor of the hospital said to her: "Masha, you will not have enough tears to mourn everyone so much, feel sorry for yourself, the whole war is still ahead." And she was sorry. She drinks Valerian and goes back to the operating table. Surgeries, bandages, more surgeries. As soon as the last one was bandaged, it was time for the first one. The nurses didn't leave the hospital for days. Medals "for the defense of Stalingrad", "for military merit" - the most expensive for a veteran-likes to consider his favorite great-granddaughter Masha, great-granddaughter of Victory, who will soon be 5 years old. For the 94th anniversary of her great-grandmother, whom the girl calls a hero, she drew her portrait. "This is the most expensive gift today - such attention to me," says Maria Dmitrievna Rudenko. Volgograd. 2015. PS: 94-year-old war veteran Maria Dmitrievna Rudenko from Volzhsky-a sister from a field hospital-was brought to the military parade in Volgograd in a special car. At six in the morning, the veteran was already in full dress at the entrance, but on the way to the square of Fallen fighters, she visited Mamayev Kurgan, where her comrades are buried, and laid carnations on their graves. By the way, Maria Dmitrievna Rudenko received a personal invitation to attend the parade after a material about this heroic woman was published on the website of the news Agency "Height 102" before May 9. Before that, the war veteran was not invited to official events dedicated to the great Victory for more than 10 years.