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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="other" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Humanitarian Military Journal</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Humanitarian Military Journal</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Гуманитарный военный журнал</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic">3034-7246</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Eco-Vector</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">691959</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17816/hmj691959</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">VVIAXC</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>Historical papers</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Исторические статьи</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Miscellaneous</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Ark of medical knowledge: evacuation of Military Medical Academy library to Samarkand</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Ковчег медицинских знаний: эвакуация библиотеки Военно-медицинской академии в Самарканд</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6775-1958</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">4240-8872</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Mamaeva</surname><given-names>Svetlana A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Мамаева</surname><given-names>Светлана Анатольевна</given-names></name></name-alternatives><address><country country="RU">Russian Federation</country></address><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Cand. Sci. (Pedagogy)</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>канд. пед. наук</p></bio><email>svetanma@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Kirov Military Medical Academy</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Военно-медицинская академия им. С.М. Кирова</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-30" publication-format="electronic"><day>30</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>1</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en"/><issue-title xml:lang="ru"/><fpage>295</fpage><lpage>304</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2025-10-04"><day>04</day><month>10</month><year>2025</year></date><date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2025-11-06"><day>06</day><month>11</month><year>2025</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Eco-Vector</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Эко-Вектор</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Eco-Vector</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Эко-Вектор</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://manmiljournal.ru/hmj/article/view/691959">https://manmiljournal.ru/hmj/article/view/691959</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Throughout the Great Patriotic War, the Military Medical Academy continued to train personnel and its research deep in the rear in Samarkand. Evacuated together with the Academy, the library became the information base for education and science. During the evacuation, two important tasks were accomplished: 1) relocation of the most valuable part of the book collection to a safe location, and 2) selection and transportation of literature, which ensured a comprehensive educational process and provided for the basic research requirements at the new location of the Academy. An unpublished historical paper by the librarian Vassiliy I. Belolikov provided detailed and reliable information on the library’s preparations for evacuation, its stay in Samarkand, its operations in the new location, and the difficulties it had to overcome in returning to its hometown. The library’s rare book collection and collection of academic theses were successfully transported by rail. The Academy students, whose evacuation route was very difficult and long—by plane, then on foot, and, finally, by train—delivered the academic books to the new place of study in their backpacks. The information on the evacuation of students is sourced from the published memoirs of the Academy graduates and staff. The Academy’s library collection in the rear consisted of the library of the Samarkand Medical Institute, part of the Military Medical Academy library transported from Leningrad on separate occasions; the library collection of the Kuibyshev Military Medical Academy, and new literature acquired from various sources at the new location. The library staff included its former employees who had ended up in Samarkand as members of families of servicemen. Dedicated work of librarians during the Great Patriotic War allowed both to save and preserve the country’s oldest medical library and to continue educational processes and research under the difficult conditions of evacuation.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Военно-медицинская академия на протяжении всей Великой Отечественной войны продолжала подготовку кадров и научно-исследовательскую деятельность, находясь в глубоком тылу в Самарканде. Информационной базой образования и науки стала библиотека, эвакуированная вместе с академией. В процессе эвакуации были решены две важные задачи: 1) релокация в безопасное место наиболее ценной части книжного собрания и 2) отбор и транспортировка литературы, которая в месте нового расквартирования академии обеспечила полноценный учебный процесс и минимальные потребности научной работы. Благодаря неопубликованному историческому труду заведующего библиотекой В.И. Белоликова, мы владеем подробной и достоверной информацией о подготовке библиотеки к эвакуации, о ее пребывании в Самарканде, об организации работы на новом месте и о сложностях, которые пришлось преодолеть при возвращении в родной город. Фонд редкой книги и коллекцию академических диссертаций успели вывезти по железной дороге. Учебную литературу доставили к новому месту учебы в походных рюкзаках слушатели академии, путь эвакуации которых был очень сложным и долгим: сначала самолетом, потом пешим ходом и, наконец, поездом. Источником информации о том, как происходил процесс эвакуации учащихся, являются опубликованные воспоминания ее выпускников и сотрудников. Совокупный книжный фонд библиотеки академии в тылу сложился из следующих составных частей: библиотека Самаркандского медицинского института, часть библиотеки Военно-медицинской академии, вывезенной в разное время из Ленинграда; фонд библиотеки Куйбышевской военно-медицинской академии; новая литература, полученная из разных источников уже на новом месте. Основу библиотечного коллектива составили ее старые сотрудники, оказавшиеся в Самарканде как члены семей военнослужащих. Благодаря самоотверженному труду библиотекарей в период Великой Отечественной войны удалось не только спасти и сохранить старейшую медицинскую библиотеку страны, но и продолжить в сложных условиях эвакуации учебный процесс и научные исследования.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Great Patriotic War</kwd><kwd>library of the Military Medical Academy</kwd><kwd>evacuation to Samarkand</kwd><kwd>training of medical officers in the rear</kwd><kwd>research at the Academy in the rear</kwd><kwd>Vassiliy I. Belolikov</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Великая Отечественная война</kwd><kwd>библиотека Военно-медицинской академии</kwd><kwd>эвакуация в Самарканд</kwd><kwd>организация обучения военных врачей в тылу</kwd><kwd>организация научной деятельности академии в тылу</kwd><kwd>Белоликов Василий Иванович</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Mamaeva SA. Pages from the biography of the head of the Library of the Military Medical Academy V.I. Belolikov. National Library. 2024;(2):61–68. (In Russ.) EDN: QZAWAJ</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Sokolov NK. Memories of studying at the S.M. Kirov Military Medical Academy in 1939-1943. In: Collection No. 15. Almanac of Memories of War and Labor Veterans: To the 200th Anniversary of the Academy. Saint Petersburg: Military Medical Academy; 2000. 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