Soviet Nurses - Women, Who Helped Forge Great Victory

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Nurse Elena Kovalchuk retrieves a wounded soldier from the battlefield.

Elena Kovalchuk had once been a hairdresser, but when the war started she was shocked by Nazi atrocities and joined the Soviet Army as a nurse. According to some estimates, during her service she saved roughly 800 lives. She died in 1944 near Alytus, Lithuania and was awarded the Order of Lenin – the highest honor in the Soviet Union.

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Nurse Elena Kovalchuk retrieves a wounded soldier from the battlefield.

Nurses provide first aid to victims of shelling in Leningrad on Socialist Street.

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Nurses provide first aid to victims of shelling in Leningrad on Socialist Street.

The sister of a medical battalion on the 1st Baltic Front helps a wounded soldier write a letter to his relatives.

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The sister of a medical battalion on the 1st Baltic Front helps a wounded soldier write a letter to his relatives.

Ekaterina Mikhailova (Demina) – A medical instructor and the only woman to serve in the Marine Corps, who was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union. She joined the army at age of 15 (she told everyone she was 18) and served until the Victory over Nazis.

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Ekaterina Mikhailova (Demina) took part in numerous battles, including the Vienna Offensive Operation.

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Ekaterina Mikhailova (Demina) took part in numerous battles, including the Vienna Offensive Operation.

Nurses provide medical aid to wounded soldiers near Kiev during the liberation of Soviet Ukraine from Nazis.

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Nurses provide medical aid to wounded soldiers near Kiev during the liberation of Soviet Ukraine from Nazis.

A nurse helps the wounded and covers him from fire.

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A nurse helps the wounded and covers him from fire.

The atrocities of Nazis and their accomplices in the territories of the USSR. A nurse burned alive by Nazi punishers near the village of Spas-Demensk.

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The atrocities of Nazis and their accomplices in the territories of the USSR. A nurse burned alive by Nazi punishers near the village of Spas-Demensk.

Treatment of soldiers in a field hospital.

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Treatment of soldiers in a field hospital.

Nurses at a blood transfusion station in Moscow, 1941.

There is no exact data on the number of blood transfusions during the war period, but there is great certainty that this procedure saved countless lives.

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Nurses at a blood transfusion station in Moscow, 1941.

There is no exact data on the number of blood transfusions during the war period, but there is great certainty that this procedure saved countless lives.

A nurse with a partisan detachment bandages the wounded during a battle near Pinsk in modern-day Belarus.

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