Medics Ossetia – soldiers of the Great Victory

In 2025, the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War and the 80th anniversary of the victorious end of World War II are celebrated. For all mankind, these are fateful dates that largely determined the further course of world history. On this date, a series of patriotic events is held at the North Ossetian State Medical Academy, including the all-Russian, with international participation, scientific and practical conference “Ossetian Doctors at the Front and in the Rear”, the purpose of which is to preserve the memory of the Great Feat of the Soviet people and, in particular, medical workers - participants in the Great Patriotic War. Issues of great educational importance in the system of higher and secondary medical education are discussed, and NOSMA, together with the North Ossetian branch of the All-Russian Historical Society and the North Ossetian branch of the Military Historical Society, has become an intellectual platform that unites the scientific community in order to discuss the problems of the history of national medicine, measures to counter the falsification of history and preserve the memory of the events of the bloodiest war in history Humanity. All this is relevant in modern political conditions, when in the international arena, and even by some domestic authors, the tendencies of the so-called “memorial war” - not only monuments to the dead are destroyed, but also the very memory of the events and results of the Second World War, in which the Great Patriotic War is of decisive importance, is desecrated. The authors, based on the analysis of historical sources and bibliography, focus on the history of the participation of medical workers of Ossetia-Alania in the Great Patriotic War. The analysis of this historical problem is also of great educational importance in the system of modern medical education, education of readiness to serve the Motherland in the chosen labor field of a doctor. The materials of the work can be used in the methodology of teaching national history and the implementation of educational work.