We congratulate our colleagues on Victory Day!
81 years have passed since the day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Year after year, the generation of people who defended our right to life and freedom and rebuilt a country devastated by war passes away. It is important to remember the heroism of these people and preserve their memory.
This year, we've prepared a new piece for the website for May 9th – "Winged Soldiers. Pigeon Mail." This is material collected by our staff about how Red Army units used birds for operational communications between intelligence departments and for transmitting reports from active units. Professor A.A. Mashkovtsev's assistance in breeding homing pigeons for the Red Army's Central School of Communications, Dog Breeding, and Pigeon Breeding in 1941–1942 was a contribution by the A.N. Severtsov Institute of Animal Morphology of the USSR Academy of Sciences to the mobilization of scientific resources for the army.
For more details on how this work was organized, please see the article at the link.
Our website has a section with stories of Institute employees who participated in the Great Patriotic War. We have published these stories in our news articles over the past several years. You can view them all in one place at the link.
There is also a section with family histories of IEE RAS employees.
Happy Victory Day, dear colleagues!