The history of the Semey Medical University, NCJSC
Exhibition Hall “Manshuk Mametova – Hero of the Soviet Union”
Preparing for the 7th Student Competition (1978), student Dildash Kashtanova, under the guidance of Associate Professor of the Department of History of the CPSU A.L. Ptushchenko, prepared a report on the topic “The feat of arms of the communist Manshuk Mametova in the Great Patriotic War.” For which she was awarded the title of Laureate of competitions and was awarded the Diploma of the III degree of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education of the USSR and the Central Committee of the Komsomol, as well as a ticket to the GDR.
During the preparation of the report, significant material was collected: front-line letters, photographs, books, magazines, newspapers, etc. about the life and military feat of our countrywoman, a former student of the 2nd year of the pediatric faculty of the Alma-Ata Medical Institute, who voluntarily went to the front in August 1942, Manshuk Mametova.
The communist, machine-gunner sergeant Manshuk Mametova, in bloody battles, while defending the ancient Russian city of Nevel, died, having accomplished her immortal feat.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, she was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The continuation of this work resulted in the mass participation of students at the Semipalatinsk State Medical Institute in the collection of materials and the creation, on a voluntary basis, of the historical museum of the Hero of the Soviet Union Manshuk Mametova.
The work was headed by Associate Professor of the History of the CPSU Anna Lukyanovna Ptushchenko and students: Dildash Kashtanova, Irina Shaiko, Rafik Aitbaev, Alexander Fedoseev, Nurlan Kasabulatov, Lyudmila Saprykina. They repeatedly traveled to the cities of Nevel, Veliky Luki, Alma-Ata, Uralsk – in those places where she lived and studied, young Manshuk accomplished her feat. Many documents were brought, handed over by her mother A.S. Mametova, fellow soldiers – the former commissar of the battalion, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR B. Baishev, front-line correspondent, head of the department, professor of KSU named after. Kirova A.V. Zakarin, captain of the medical battalion, associate professor at the Alma-Ata Medical Institute M.N. Syrlybayeva, Honored Artist of the Kazakh SSR N.S. Gaev, who presented the museum with a portrait of M. Mametova. A school desk was delivered from secondary school No. 28 named after. M. Mametova, where Manshuk sat, books and photographs with a commemorative inscription of the first teacher of the Hero – Honored Teacher of the Kazakh SSR S.A. Savina.
Meetings with the heroine’s mother, Amina Suleimenovna, a professor at the Alma-Ata Women’s Pedagogical Institute, and long conversations with her helped to reveal the main character traits, habits, and aspirations of Manshuk.
In October 1980, students R. Aitbaev and I. Shaiko visited the cities of Nevel and Velikie Luki. They laid flowers at the grave of Manshuk Mametova, visited the Nevelsk city committee of the Komsomol, the city council, school No. 2, named after Manshuk Mametova, the sewing association, where the Komsomol youth brigade named after. M. Mametova and delivered for the future museum the earth from the grave of the Hero, the helmet of a Soviet soldier and the shell of a cannon shell from the height at which Manshuk died.
More than a three-year period of painstaking hard work, persistent search, was crowned with success – on February 10, 1982, the museum was opened.
The museum continues to collect, store and study objects of the material and spiritual life of M. Mametova, her associates from the 100th rifle brigade, formed in August 1942, in Alma-Ata.
The museum is open to the public daily from 10.00 to 17.00, except weekends.
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