Warriors of the Invisible Front during the Great Patriotic War

This article presents biographic data of the employees of the Department of Microbiology at Kazan State Medical University who took part in the Great Patriotic War. It describes their military and labor feats, their scientific contributions, and work in the post-war peacetime. The aim of this article is to highlight the backgrounds of microbiologists and epidemiologists, employees of the Kazan State Medical University, veterans of the Great Patriotic War as perfect examples of their devotion to duty and patriotism. The article describes the feats of doctors providing qualified medical care to the wounded at the front, conducting diagnostic microbiological research and epidemic control measures, and eliminating outbreaks of infectious diseases in military units. The article was prepared using the primary sources such as autobiographies, memoirs of employees, archives of the Department of Microbiology, personal files from the archives of the Personnel Department of Kazan State Medical University, documents from the archives of the Kazan Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, as well as the website Memory of the People presenting documents from the archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.