Front-line Soldiers Research Articles

Breathing Rooms: A Strategy to Improve the Performance of Healthcare Workers During COVID-19 and Future Pandemics.

Healthcare workers (HCWs), as frontline soldiers in the fight against COVID-19, were more exposed to the risk of contracting this disease. In addition to facing psychological, social, and physical trauma and post-traumatic stress due to the corona pandemic, HCWs were also exposed to complications due to the use of personal protective equipment (PPE). The impermeable and confining nature of some PPE poses complications for HCWs that can endanger their physical health, while also affecting the quality of healthcare they provide. Among the complications of using PPE, respiratory problems are more worrisome than other complications. This article makes a suggestion of a breathing room (BR) to improve the health and performance of HCWs in caring for patients with infectious respiratory diseases. A debate on the strengths of the implementation of a BR in hospitals is described.

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Формирование памяти о Первой мировой войне через деятельность британских ветеранов и историческую политику Великобритании в 1930-е гг.

Importance. The scientific problem lies in the World War I historical memory’s formation’s features’ study. The purpose of the research is to reveal what was the ratio of the state’s and veterans’ influence in the narratives’ formation of World War I historical memory in the Great Britain in the 1930s. Research Methods. The historical policy of the British government in the field of the memory about World War I was studied by a historical and systematic approach for consideration as one of the instruments of influence on the Great Britain’s society. The activity of veteran organizations and individual front-line soldiers during the 1930s was analyzed, whose protest against the state narrative of historical memory after the “Great Depression” began to fade by 1939. Results and Discussion. On the basis of the materials of the British press of the 1930s, as well as the involvement of additional sources, narratives about World War I were illustrated, which gradually changed in the 1930s. The ideology and activities of the state in the field of historical policy actively from 1932–1933 displaced negative ideas about the war, suppressed anti-war movements and pacifist sentiments in British society. The strengthening of the state’s influence on the British Legion testified to its subordination to the official agenda, which allowed the ruling circles to use veterans in the implementation of domestic and foreign policy (to develop international contacts, influence public opinion). Conclusion. The value of the research lies in the introduction into scientific circulation of the materials of the British press as historical sources that allow us to trace the gradual weakening of the role of veterans’ organizations in the field of memory about World War I by the middle of 1930s, and the strengthening of the influence of the state in this regard. The correlation of official and public (veteran) narratives in historical memory is shown.

«ЖІНОЧЕ / НЕ ЖІНОЧЕ ОБЛИЧЧЯ ВІЙНИ» (ЗА КНИГОЮ СВІТЛАНИ АЛЕКСІЄВИЧ «У ВІЙНИ НЕ ЖІНОЧЕ ОБЛИЧЧЯ»)

In the information space of modern Ukraine, in fact, since the first months of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in 2022 on the territory of the country, the concept of "female face of war" has been established in the characterization of this war. Nobel laureate S. Aleksievich's book "The War Does Not Have a Female Face is important for conducting a comparative analysis of the experiences of women front-line soldiers during the Second World War and the current Ukrainian-Russian wars. The idea of the book does not contradict the understanding of war as "female", which is highlighted in the text of this intelligence. Soviet historians actually did not take into account the testimonies of women front-line soldiers, which is why the war with German fascism did not have a "female face". It did not appear in the stories of the combatants. It is in this sense that the title of Svitlana Aleksievich's book "The War Does Not Have a Female Face" should be interpreted. The purpose of this intelligence is to conduct an analysis of what happens to women in war and whether there are gender specifics in such events. Within the framework of the announced task, the issue of the "female/non-female face" of war is also resolved. The experience accumulated by the Ukrainian society in the fight against the Russian aggressor during the previous 8 years of the hybrid war and during the period of the full-scale invasion of the territory of Ukraine from February 24, 2022, showed that this war also has a "female face". The gender specificity of experiencing war exists; however, it is not of decisive importance for practical actions in the struggle for freedom and independence. Nevertheless, the study of all the characteristics of this war is an indispensable condition for the creation of a coherent scientifically based picture of this historical event and its truthful coverage. Such intelligence is also important for assessing the prospects of female leadership in Ukraine, in particular, the military.

«НЕ ЗАБЫТЬ НАМ ТЕХ ЛЕТ». ВЕЛИКАЯ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННАЯ ВОЙНА В ВОСПРИЯТИИ ЖЕНЩИН-ФРОНТОВИКОВ БАШКИРИИ

The article deals with one of the scientific problems of the history of the Great Patriotic War, which is of interest not only for historians, but also for researchers in other humanities: the war events, military campaigns, living conditions of military service in the perception of female front-line soldiers. The study is devoted to the experience of women from Bashkiria who participated in the war, and is based on the sources of personal origin and periodicals. In the course of the study, the author took into account the specifics of various sources, the time and conditions of their occurrence. The author explores the ways of mobilizing women from the republic to the front, their participating in various branches of the military, in military campaigns and military operations. She studies the organization of women’s military service, their accommodation and living conditions, reveals objective and subjective factors that influenced their moral and psychological state in combat reality. Particular attention is focused on the reactions of women to extraordinary events, their relations with commanders and comrades, the peculiarities of their manifestation at various stages of the war, as well as the difficulties they had to face.

Authenticity and Gender: Public Responses to Great War Memoirs by Nurses and Frontline Soldiers in Britain, France and Germany

ABSTRACT Great War memoirs by both soldiers and nurses emphasise the role of eye-witness in establishing the authority of the account. This authority is acknowledged in the public response to these texts, which crosses both national and gender boundaries. However, the response is asymmetric between genders: soldiers were often blamed for insisting on the primacy of personal experience in their accounts, on the grounds that this made the war seem senseless, undermining the sacrifices made. Nurses, to the contrary, were not the subject of such attacks, with one noteworthy exception which is explained by the untypical nature of the memoir in question. The asymmetry derives from the attribution of gender-specific forms of authenticity in the memoirs: the authenticity of soldiers’ accounts derived from their own experiences, the authenticity of nurses’ accounts derived from what they did for the soldiers.

Relationship between new media literacy (NML) and web-based fake news epidemic control: a systematic literature review

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the current practices being implemented against the dissemination of fake online news, identify the relationship of new media literacy (NML) with fake news epidemic control and find out the challenges in identifying valid sources of information.Design/methodology/approachTo accomplish constructed objectives of this study, a systematic literature review (SLR) was conducted. The authors carried out the “Preferred Reporting Items for the Systematic Review and Meta-analysis” guidelines as a research methodology. The data were retrieved from ten world’s leading digital databases and online tools. A total of 25 key studies published in impact factor (IF) journals were included for systematic review vis-à-vis standard approaches.FindingsThis study revealed trending practices to control fake news consisted of critical information literacy, civic education, new thinking patterns, fact-checkers, automatic fake news detection tools, employment of ethical norms and deep learning via neural networks. Results of the synthesized studies revealed that media literacy, web literacy, digital literation, social media literacy skills and NML assisted acted as frontline soldiers in combating the fake news war. The findings of this research also exhibited different challenges to control fake news perils.Research limitations/implicationsThis study provides pertinent theoretical contributions in the body of existing knowledge through the addition of valuable literature by conducting in-depth systematic review of 25 IF articles on a need-based topic.Practical implicationsThis scholarly contribution is fruitful and practically productive for the policymakers belonging to different spectrums to effectively control web-based fake news epidemic.Social implicationsThis intellectual piece is a benchmark to address fake news calamities to save the social system and to educate citizens from harms of false online stories on social networking websites.Originality/valueThis study vivifies new vistas via a reinvigorated outlook to address fake news perils embedded in dynamic, rigorous and heuristic strategies for redefining a predetermined set of social values.

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes for treatment of solid tumors: It takes two to tango?

Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), frontline soldiers of the adaptive immune system, are recruited into the tumor site to fight against tumors. However, their small number and reduced activity limit their ability to overcome the tumor. Enhancement of TILs number and activity against tumors has been of interest for a long time. A lack of knowledge about the tumor microenvironment (TME) has limited success in primary TIL therapies. Although the advent of engineered T cells has revolutionized the immunotherapy methods of hematologic cancers, the heterogeneity of solid tumors warrants the application of TILs with a wide range of specificity. Recent advances in understanding TME, immune exhaustion, and immune checkpoints have paved the way for TIL therapy regimens. Nowadays, TIL therapy has regained attention as a safe personalized immunotherapy, and currently, several clinical trials are evaluating the efficacy of TIL therapy in patients who have failed conventional immunotherapies. Gaining favorable outcomes following TIL therapy of patients with metastatic melanoma, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, and breast cancer has raised hope in patients with refractory solid tumors, too. Nevertheless, TIL therapy procedures face several challenges, such as high cost, timely expansion, and technical challenges in selecting and activating the cells. Herein, we reviewed the recent advances in the TIL therapy of solid tumors and discussed the challenges and perspectives.

Portraits from a Conjoined War: The German 100th Light Infantry Division and First Contact with the Jews of Zinkiv, Ukraine—July 1941

ABSTRACT On July 10, 1941, the German 100th Light Infantry Division rolled into the Ukrainian Jewish shtetl of Zinkiv. Over a three-day period, this division committed gratuitous acts of violence and abject terror. While the total number of murdered Jews was relatively small, the author uses the corpus of pre-invasion orders and daily military objectives and reports in official war diaries, as well as eyewitness accounts to examine how and why these frontline soldiers perpetrated the “Holocaust by Bullets”1 during the initial phase of the Operation Barbarossa campaign in “the murky world where combat and ideology meet.”2

HEROES ON FOREFRONT :ROLE OF ANESTHESIOLOGIST IN COVID 19 PANDEMIC

A page of history few months back battling COVID-19 have been a “once-in-a-lifetime” event for all of us. Medical professionals were the frontline soldiers in this global disaster.Amongst all people around the world are thinking about anesthesiologists a lot more, and Time magazine even featured an Italian anesthesiologist in a special report on Heroes of the Frontlines(1).When the entire world was in a situation of panic and uncertainty,anesthesiologist all over the globe came in front as an interim remedy to the grievious challenge.Although the elective planned surgeries were holded but the emergency services were continued..While handling the airway of asymptomatic patient was threat to the life of all the concerned OT staff.Investigation modality was ill dened therapeutic regimes were not in place.Furthermore the drugs were not rationilised .In an ill dened scenario, anesthesiologist dealt with endangering manoevers with complete dedication especially the airways n thereby droplets generating procedures. Anaesthesiologists were also asked to create isolation facilities, prepare,ensure and procure Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), train their clincal and paraclinical medical personnel, and to allocate the available resources to prepare covid centres. As the specialty that is at the forefront of COVID-19 management due to expertise in airway and ventilator support system , including intensive care expertise, anesthesiologists have been at the helm of management of COVID-19 in the entire world.They not only tackled the acute phase bur also the after effects of the covid 19 infection.

Images of Germans and peoples of Austria-Hungary during the First World War based on the memoirs of Russian veterans

The purpose of the article is to analyze the transformations of the images of the Germans and the peoples of Austria-Hungary as military opponents of the Russian imperial army during the First World War through the prism of the memoirs of front-line soldiers. Research methods: historical-genetic, historical-comparative, method of content analysis. Main results. The pre-war images of Germans and the peoples of Austria-Hungary who lived in Russian society were studied; the memoirs of front-line soldiers were analyzed for the use of propaganda clichés or a critical attitude towards Russian information policy; the combat and moral and psychological characteristics of the German and Austro-Hungarian armies in the memoirs of Russian combatants of the First World War were investigated; the phenomenon of the collapse of the Russian front in 1917 is considered through the prism of transformations in the perception of the military opponent by Russian lower ranks and officers. Conclusions. The experience of the First World War showed the moral unpreparedness of Russian soldiers to engage in battle with the soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary at the initial stage of the confrontation due to the unhistorical nature of this conflict, the alliance between these states in the past. In view of this, Russian propaganda was designed to teach front-line soldiers to hate the new enemy. However, actual combat experience had a greater influence on the perception of the enemy than propaganda. Soldiers of Germany and Austria-Hungary appear through the prism of memoirs as those who are better technologically equipped, however, often capable of personal bravery and willpower, prone to subterfuge, accustomed to fighting in better living conditions than the Russians. Real combat experience contributed to the acquisition of human traits (both positive and negative) by the enemy in the imagination of Russian soldiers. This "humanization" of the enemy contributed to a rapprochement with him and became one of the factors of mass "fraternization" of soldiers and the disintegration of the front in 1917. Practical significance: the results of the study can be used in teaching the course "Social History of Europe" (university elective course at DNU named after Olesya Honchara). Originality: for the first time, the connection between the field of ideas of the mass of soldiers and the phenomenon of the disintegration of the Eastern Front of the First World War in 1917 was analyzed. Scientific novelty: the dynamics of transformations of the images of the military adversary in the environment of the Russian army during 1914–1917 are shown; analyzed a large array of memoirs of senior officers and lower ranks of the Russian army published either during the war or shortly after its end, which were not available to domestic researchers for a long time. Type of article: analytical.

Seeing COVID-19 through a Health care professional’s eye

Background: The world is in a state of war. The health care professionals are the front line soldiers who are fighting this war against COVID-19. The modification in human behavior to a specific stimulus (say the Corona epidemic) is the single most important determinant of the fate of that stimulus. On 26th February 2020, Pakistan reported its first corona positive cases. Till Mid-March, the number raised to a significantly critical level. As the outbreak was unexpected in Pakistan, the situation created chaos and panic among the public as well as among health care workers. The current study analyzed COVID-19 thorough a healthcare professional's eye. There has been no previous study according to the PubMed database. Using the keywords, "Coronavirus, Health care professionals, Pakistan, COVID-19", for any sort of previous cases reported or literature reported relating to coronavirus, our team could not find any article, case report or publication of any sort. So this study is the first from Pakistan
 Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a self-administrated online questionnaire was circulated through emails and social media to the whole country. The questionnaire comprised of assessing knowledge about the cause and symptoms of COVID-19. A total of 146 responses were scrutinized to include in the survey, in the time period of 1 week (March 23-30, 2020). The participants belonged to private and government institutions from all provinces of Pakistan. Results: The mean values of all items depicted that all health care professionals were well aware of the knowledge, symptoms and transmissibility of COVID-19.
 Conclusion: The study concluded that the healthcare professionals were fully aware of the transmission of COVID-19 and its symptoms. However, it is recommended that the government should provide full support to health care professionals, who are at the front line. 
 
 Key words: COVID-19, Health care professionals, Transmissibility, Pakistan

Государственная и общественная поддержка семей военнослужащих, инвалидов Великой отечественной войны и детей-сирот (на примере Кабардино-Балкарии)

This work analyzes for the first time, based on new archival documents and other sources, the problems of material and domestic arrangement of military personnel families; World War II dis-abled veterans, demobilized military personnel and orphans on the materials of Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. The activities of state and party bodies in organizing employment, social se-curity and help to families of front-line soldiers, disabled, demobilized military personnel. This article established the number of beneficiaries who received benefits and pensions, as well as em-ployed families of military personnel disabled during the war years. It also revealed the omissions and shortcomings in the organization of material and household arrangements, the normalized provision of food and industrial goods to the families of military personnel and war invalids. This paper considered activities of state bodies and the public in organizing the help of orphans and children who have become homeless. The experience of labor collectives of factories, factories, collective farms, state farms, public organizations, and citizens in providing patronage help, fami-lies of front-line soldiers, disabled people and orphans is summarized.We concluded that the main areas of state and public support for the families of military personnel, war invalids, orphans and demobilized children in Kabardino-Balkarian Republic were state benefits, pensions, targeted material help, tax exemptions, provision of food and industrial goods, solving housing problems, employment and restoration of orphanages.

Soviet financial «aid» to military personnel in the western regions of Ukraine after world war II

The article deals with the provision of material aid by the state after World War II to the front-line soldiers of the western regions of Ukraine and at the same time the introduction of incredibly high taxes. To understand this society means in many ways to find approaches to solving modern problems. And although Soviet historiography presented this topic as a significant achievement, at present, all these «pluses» are perceived as components of the seizure of Ukrainian lands. The largest item of financial expenses was the payment of aid, and it was carried out at the expense of the republican budget on a monthly basis.At the same time, under the guise of aid to the post-war economy, the Soviet government, by providing insignificant aid, subsequently formed a new source of its income. We speak about compulsory grocery deliveries and taxes. The main ones were introduced in the USSR in 1944: agricultural, military, single and small-family (for absence of children in the family). As a result of these innovations, the share of income from taxation of the population in the budget has almost tripled. However, in order to show the «advantages» of the Soviet way of life, a group of beneficiaries who were provided with benefits was also defined.The next aid guaranteed by the government of the Ukrainian SSR was lending for household amenities. The difficult financial situation of families was found in all regions and most families were declared insolvent. It should not be forgotten, however, that a loan policy had been initiated. At first, the state pretended to provide financial aid, and soon unilaterally set the size of the loan in the national plan. For those who worked, it was a monthly salary, which was deducted by shares on a monthly basis during the year. About the «voluntary» desire to give funds was written in the newspapers about loans. Annual loans, which were carried out by the state, did not contribute to the improvement of the material well-being of Ukrainians.The patriotic heroics of the restoration era took over the problems of a particular person, was gradually accumulating in Ukrainian society in the late 1940s – early 1950s. After destroying and driving millions of people into the Gulag camps, Stalin forced the majority and workers to come to terms with a minimum of stability and prosperity.

Impact of transformational leadership intervention of head nurses among front-line soldiers (staff nurses) working in government hospital.

To assess the impact of transformational leadership intervention among head nurses on staff nurses in improving job performance. The quasi-experimental study was conducted from December 2020 to August 2021 at the public-sector Services Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan, and comprised head nurses and staff nurses enrolled through multistage cluster random sampling technique. Sixteen weeks of transformational leadership interventions were organised in morning and evening shifts. Pre- and post-intervention assessments were done. Data was analysed using SPSS 25. Of the 576 subjects, 480(83.3%) were staff nurses and 96(16.6%) were head nurses. Transformational leadership intervention caused a significant improvement in staff nurses' job performance owing to improvement in the behaviour of the head nurses behaviour (p<0.05). The study showed that staff nurses' performance significantly improved after transformational.

Мемориальная память в лицах: герои-фронтовики Большой Ялты

The article considers memoirs from of the funds of the Yalta Historical and Literary Museum, namely, letters from the front during the Great Patriotic War of the heroes of the front-line Big Yalta, in the context of such branches of modern historical and humanitarian knowledge as microhistory and history of everyday life. The interdisciplinary connection in the study of memorial (historical) memory and microhistory is demonstrated using specific examples in the form of submitted personal documents, namely, front-line letters from the times of the Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the work is to show their importance in the development of microhistory as a discipline on the basis of the information received from the front letters stored in the funds of the Yalta Museum of History and Literature. Objectives: to consider and analyze the information contained in the front letters, thereby demonstrating their theoretical and practical significance for historical science as additional sources of information on the Great Patriotic War. To indicate the importance of this information for such humanitarian disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ. Methodology. In the process of working on the study, the following research methods were used: analysis, synthesis, analogy and generalization. Results. The development of this problem proves the promise of such modern trends as microhistory and history of everyday life in the study of history as a science. This work helps to see new opportunities and study the history of everyday life on the basis of specific personalities during the Great Patriotic War. So, the study of front-line letters written by the heroes of the Great Patriotic War helps us to look at some historical facts from a different perspective, thereby studying the subject in more detail and volume. In particular, the obtained historical data and details are a special addition to the history of the liberation of Crimea from the fascist invaders. Conclusion. Thus, letters from the front are a valuable scientific source of information, showing us important details in the context of such disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ. The personal history of a front-line hero becomes a significant addition to the study of the history of the liberated city (Yalta) and, in general, shows new promising directions in the study of the history of everyday life on the other hand, namely, on specific historical personalities who were active participants in significant events. In this study, we directly introduce new documents into scientific circulation, namely the presented memoirs of the heroes - front-line soldiers of Big Yalta, from the funds of the Yalta Historical and Literary Museum. This scientific research sets a new direction in the interdisciplinary (complex) and multilateral study of memorial memory in the mainstream of such humanitarian disciplines as “Microhistoryˮ and “History of everyday lifeˮ.

The Russian Military near Cracow during the First World War

The article is devoted to the presence of Russian troops in November and December 1914 in villages and towns near Cracow. Autumn 1914 is remembered as the month of the biggest success of the Russian army that took place at the eastern front during World War I. One of the purposes of the Russians was to take control of Cracow, which was then a very strong fortress. The capture of the city opened the way towards Silesia and Vienna — the capital of Austria-Hungary. These actions did not bring about any effect, and in the winter of 1914 the Russian army was repelled from Cracow. The short stay of the Russians in November and December 1914 in villages and towns near Cracow was permanently etched on the memory of their inhabitants. Tsar’s soldiers, commonly referred to by them as “Muscovites” or “mongrels”, were seen as the enemy. There is no doubt that some frontline soldiers and Cossacks, performing reconnaissance functions committed destruction, theft, rape or murder in the occupied villages and towns. However, there were also those among soldiers and officers whose behavior was noble towards the local population. Many officers in the the Russian army were Poles who displayed dignity under war conditions. Well-educated tsarist commanders belonging to the nobility or aristocracy behaved similarly. The presentation of both bad and good demeanors will allow to refute the existing stereotypes regarding the behavior of Russian soldiers stationed in villages and towns near Cracow in 1914.

Use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine in COVID-19 patients: A dilemma

The terror of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is present universally. The number of cases is on rise. There is always debate about the use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis. Healthcare workers being the front-line soldiers need additional protection as compared to general population. This review article highlighted the mechanism of action of both drugs and their role in COVID-19 patients.

«Крыша над головой» для советского солдата в Европе и Азии. Из эпистолярного наследия фронтовиков 1944–1945 гг.

The article reconstructs practices for solving the “housing problem” in the front-line everyday life of Soviet soldiers and officers in 1944–45, when advancing through the territory of a number of European states and participating in the Far Eastern military campaign. The topic is in the mainstream of military anthropological research and has been developing in the Russian historiography for over 25 years. Such studies are based on sources of personal provenance, which are being actively introduced into scientific use, interpreted, and compared with official documents. The article throws light on housing situation of the Red Army soldiers, a poorly studied aspect of their daily life at the final stage of the Second World War. It fills the gaps concerning living conditions of Soviet combatants, dynamics and practices of their housing outside the USSR, and their interactions with local population. The author aims to prove that living situation of Soviet soldiers and officers was important for defeating the enemy. The research methods are content and discourse analysis of epistolary documents, private correspondence of the front-line soldiers with their family and friends (both published and unpublished). The study confirms correlation between everyday life of combatants and combat effectiveness of the army. It clarifies the concept of “front-line life” and its structure. During the hostilities that took place abroad of the USSR in 1944–45, Soviet soldiers and officers visited a number of European countries (Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, etc.). They were housed in forests, temporary dwellings (dugouts) and endured great inconveniences. However, billeting for overnight or prolonged housing was also a common practice. Letters of front-line soldiers describe living conditions in cities and villages of several countries, demonstrating interest of the Soviet people in the living conditions abroad. They note comfort of the housing and availability of the amenities, features of the architecture and interior. There is much information on the living conditions in Germany, and we see contradictions in the attitude of Soviet combatants to the German housing and things. Letters about the living conditions in China show that they seemed exotic to the Soviet people.

ГОСУДАРСТВЕННАЯ ПОДДЕРЖКА КАК ОДИН ИЗ ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ ПОВСЕДНЕВНОЙ ЖИЗНИ СЕМЕЙ ФРОНТОВИКОВ В УСЛОВИЯХ ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ 1941–1945 ГОДОВ (НА МАТЕРИАЛАХ ДАГЕСТАНСКОЙ АССР)

The work, written on the basis of diverse sources, literature and memoirs of contemporaries, shows the state of families of front-line soldiers in the conditions of the Great Patriotic War, as well as measures taken by party and state structures of various levels in Dagestan to provide normal living conditions for them. The article concludes that, despite the objective difficulties faced by many families of Red Army soldiers who found themselves in difficult living conditions, they were sympathetic to the problems characteristic of the war period. According to the author, the main forms of social assistance to the relatives of front-line soldiers in Dagestan during the war years were the payment of benefits, the provision of various benefits to disabled veterans and families of front-line soldiers, as well as the adoption of measures for their employment. Of no small importance was the help from enterprises and public organizations of Dagestan, which assumed part of the responsibility for the family members of the front-line soldiers, thereby solving everyday problems. The material used in the study shows that despite the existence of objective problems, support for military families was among the priorities of the country&amp;#x27;s leadership, thereby strengthening the faith of the Red Army soldiers in the victory over Nazism, and becoming one of the sources of the manifestation of the heroism of the people in the Great Patriotic War.