Sobir Rakhimov Native name

THE VICTORY WE SHARE
These days we are commemorating the contribution of the Uzbek people to the victory over fascism. According to the Nuroniy Public Foundation, World War Two involved more than 1.4 million Uzbek people, over 400,000 of them died, and 130,000 went missing. Today, there are more than 3,000 participants of the war, and about 70,000 veterans of the labor front in Uzbekistan. There is hardly any family that was not affected to a certain extent by World War Two, which, according to historians, affected 80% of the world population .
Participation in the fight against fascism did not necessarily require going to the battlefield – people needed manpower. 100 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Uzbekistan during the war. The country's leaders and industries were entrusted with providing those enterprises with the workforce. It was a tough challenge, as most of the able-bodied men, including many skilled workers and technical staff, went to the battlefield. Thousands of women at factories voluntarily learned the professions that had been previously regarded as male jobs. Over 20,000 women worked at factories and plants in the first months of the war in Tashkent.
Owing to the labor enthusiasm of the local population, the factories that were relocated to Uzbekistan, reached their full capacity by the middle of the first half of 1942, supplying the battlefield with military equipment, ammunition, outfit, and clothing. That was the time when new industrial towns of Chirchik, Angren, Bekabad, Yangiyo’l appeared on the map.
During the Second World War, Uzbekistan played an important role in addressing the food problem. Adolescents came to help rural workers. Uzbekistan met not only the domestic needs, but also supplied agricultural products to the areas liberated from the Nazis. That was possible through the mobilization of internal resources, expansion of acreage and increase of the yields of grain, vegetables and livestock foods maintaining the previous volumes of cotton production. During those tough years, the farmers had to plow the previously idle agricultural lands, and build new irrigation facilities. This way, numerous irrigation canals appeared throughout the country.
During the war, Uzbekistan became the second home for a huge number of people that were evacuated from the war zone. Local people took care of them, provided shelter, food, and clothing. Particular attention was given to children who had lost their parents.
Uzbekistan saved more than 1.5 million people from starvation and death, including almost 300,000 children of different nationalities from Russia, including the besieged Leningrad, Belarus, Poland and Ukraine. All of them found shelter and care while many found new families.
The Second World War left its trace on all aspects of people’s life, and even in the work of research institutions. The challenges of war changed the peaceful focus of research papers. All areas of research were reviewed in line with the needs of the front and the national economy. Uzbek scientists were greatly supported by their colleagues from evacuated academic institutions. The mathematicians Niyazov and Sarymsakov, geologists Abdullayev, Uklonsky, philosopher Muminov, chemists Sadykov and Yunusov, power engineering specialist Askochensky contributed to the development of the defense industry, mechanical engineering, the discovery of new mineral deposits.
Researchers developed new varieties of cotton, worked on coking domestic coal and other fuels, and increasing the production of medicines. Doctors were busy with advancing surgical and neurosurgical treatment, contributing to the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. Writers and artists left a trace as well. Hamid Olimjon, Ghafur Ghulom, Abdulla Kahhar, Oibek and others glorified patriotism and love for the motherland.