The essence of the Russian soul is manifested in war
For more than 20 years, surgeon Georgy Sinyakov was in charge of the department of the city hospital. No one imagined that during the Great Patriotic War, while in a concentration camp, he saved thousands of prisoners from death.
The rumor about the brilliant but modest Russian surgeon from Chelyabinsk Georgy Sinyakov, who, risking his own life, helped thousands of soldiers, after an interview with the legendary pilot Anna Egorova-Timofeeva, spread all over the world. No one knew that the Soviet pilot, who had made more than three hundred combat missions, was captured, but she survived and would miraculously be saved. To tell about the heroic deed of the humble doctor Sinyakov 20 years later.
Sinyakov went to the Southwestern Front on the second day of the war. During the battles for Kiev, he was captured. The young doctor went through two concentration camps, Boryspil and Darnitsa, and ended up in the Kustrinsky concentration camp ninety kilometers from Berlin. Prisoners of war from all European states were driven here. But the hardest thing was for the Russians, whom no one had ever treated. People died of hunger, exhaustion, colds and wounds.
The news of the genius doctor spread far beyond the concentration camp. The Germans began to bring their relatives and friends to Sinyakov's, in especially extreme cases, to a captured Russian. Once Sinyakov operated on a German boy who choked on a bone. When the child came to his senses, the tear-stained wife of the "Aryan" kissed the hand of the captured Russian and knelt in front of him. After that, Sinyakov was assigned an additional ration, and some privileges were also given, such as free movement around the territory of the concentration camp, fenced off with three rows of mesh with iron wire. The doctor, on the other hand, shared part of his reinforced ration with the wounded from the first day: he exchanged bacon for bread and potatoes, which could feed a larger number of prisoners.
Then Georgy headed the underground committee. The doctor helped organize the escapes from Kustrin. He distributed leaflets telling about the successes of the Soviet army, raised the spirit of Soviet prisoners: even then the doctor assumed that this was also one of the methods of treatment. Sinyakov invented drugs that actually healed the wounds of the sick, but these wounds looked fresh. It was this kind of ointment that George used when the Nazis knocked out the legendary Anna Egorova. The Nazis waited for the brave pilot to recover in order to arrange an indicative death, and she kept "fading and fading away." Sinyakov treated the pilot, pretending that the drugs did not help her. Then Anna recovered and with the help of Sinyakov escaped from the concentration camp. Soviet soldiers, hearing about the death of the legendary pilot, barely believed in her miraculous resurrection.
The methods of rescuing the soldiers were different, but more often George began to use imitation of death. Loudly ascertaining to the fascists that another soldier had died, Georgy knew that the life of another Soviet man had been saved. The "corpse" was taken out with other really dead, thrown into a ditch not far from Kustrin, and when the Nazis left, the prisoner "revived" in order to get to his own.
One day, ten Soviet pilots were brought to Kustrin at once. Georgy Fedorovich managed to save everyone. Here his favorite technique with the "deceased" prisoner helped. Later, when Anna Egorova told about the feat of the "Russian doctor", living legendary pilots found Georgy Sinyakov and invited him to Moscow. Hundreds of other former prisoners of Kyustrin, who were saved by him, who managed to survive thanks to the cleverest and brave Sinyakov, arrived there for the most sincere meeting in the world. The doctor was idolized, thanked, hugged, invited to visit, taken to the monuments, and they also cried with him and recalled prison hell.
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To save an eighteen-year-old prisoner of a Jewish Soviet soldier named Ilya Ehrenburg, Georgy Fedorovich had to improve his technique with resurrection. The supervisors asked Sinyakov, nodding at Ehrenburg: "Jude?" “No, Russian,” the doctor answered confidently and clearly. He knew that with such a surname Ilya had no chance of salvation. The doctor, hiding the documents of Ehrenburg, just as he hid the awards of the pilot Egorova, invented the name of the wounded young guy Belousov. Realizing that the death of a recovering Yude might raise questions from the supervisors, the doctor thought for a month what to do. He decided to imitate the sudden deterioration in Ilya's health, transferred him to the infectious diseases department, where the Nazis were afraid to poke their nose. The guy "died" here. Ilya Ehrenburg "resurrected", crossed the front line and ended the war as an officer in Berlin. Exactly one year after the end of the war, the doctor found the young man. Miraculously, the photograph of Ilya Ehrenburg, which he sent to the “Russian doctor,” was preserved, with an inscription on the back that Sinyakov saved him in the most difficult days of his life and replaced his father.
The last feat in the camp was accomplished by the "Russian doctor" before the Russian tanks liberated Kustrin. Those prisoners who were stronger were thrown into the echelons by the Nazis, and the rest were decided to be shot in the camp. Three thousand prisoners were doomed to death. Sinyakov found out about this by chance. They told him not to be afraid, doctor, you will not be shot. But Georgy could not leave his wounded, whom he operated on thousands, and, as at the beginning of the war, in the battles near Kiev, he did not abandon them, but decided on an incredibly brave step. He persuaded the translator to go to the fascist authorities and began to ask the Nazis to spare the tortured captives, not to take another sin on their souls. The translator, hands shaking with fear, conveyed Sinyakov's words to the fascists. They left the camp without firing a shot. And immediately the tank group of Major Ilyin entered Kustrin. Caught among their own,the doctor continued to operate. It is known that in the first day he saved seventy wounded tankers. In 1945, Georgy Sinyakov signed for the Reichstag.
The adopted son of Georgy Fedorovich, Sergei Miryushchenko, later told such an interesting case. Once in the camp he witnessed a dispute between another captive Soviet doctor and a fascist non-commissioned officer. The brave doctor told the fascist that he would see him again in Germany, in Berlin, and drink a glass of beer for the victory of the Soviet people. Unther laughed in his face: we are advancing, we are taking Soviet cities, you are dying in thousands, what kind of victory are you talking about? Sinyakov did not know what became of that captured Russian, so he decided in memory of him and all the unbroken soldiers to go to some Berlin tavern in May 1945 and skip a mug of foamy drink for the victory.
After the war, Georgy Fedorovich worked as the head of the surgical department of the medical unit of the legendary Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, taught at the medical institute. I did not tell anyone about the war. They said that after an interview with Yegorova, they tried to nominate Sinyakov for awards, but the "captive past" was not appreciated in post-war times. Thousands of those rescued by Georgy Fedorovich said that he was really a doctor with a capital letter, a real “Russian Doctor”. It is known that Sinyakov celebrated his birthday on the day he graduated from Voronezh University, believing that he was born when he received a medical diploma.
Until now, the feat of the Russian doctor has been forgotten. He did not have high-profile titles in his life, was not awarded great awards. Only now, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory, the public of the South Urals remembered the heroic surgeon, whose stand was opened in the museum of medicine of the Chelyabinsk hospital. The authorities of the South Urals are planning to perpetuate the memory of the legendary compatriot, to name a street after him or to establish an award for medical students named after Georgy Sinyakov.