Video: The life and love of the Lobachevs - war veterans who were not prevented by amputations from enjoying life
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
When war was declared, Komsomolets Vasily Lobachev, who lived at that time in sunny Baku, volunteered for the front, without hesitation. His combat path was short-lived: he received his baptism of fire in battles on the Klin direction near Moscow, and was wounded at Sinyavino on the Volkhov front. On the operating table, Vasily lost his arms and legs, but after the Victory he found the strength to triple his job, start a family and raise two sons!
The history of the Lobachev family is a role model. Vasily and Lida, both physically disabled, have been married for almost thirty years. During this time, they raised two sons, traveled all over the Caucasus, traveling in an ordinary Zaporozhets. Lida was driving: despite the fact that her legs were also amputated, she was able to master driving a car.
Vasily was at the front at the beginning of the war, took part in the hardest battles in the Leningrad direction. Wounded, shell-shocked, he lay in a swamp for almost three days, miraculously survived, but paid a high price for the opportunity to live - the doctors amputated both arms and legs. It took several years to recover. While he was undergoing treatment, back in the war years, he graduated from law school in Saratov in absentia, understood that he would have to master a peaceful profession.
Special prostheses were made for Vasily, with the help of which he could hold a pen and write. After the Victory, he worked for many years in a notary office. Received the first prostheses for walking in Moscow in 1947. There, a little earlier, Lida Ryzhova underwent long-term prosthetics. Both Vasily and Lida at that time lived in Stalingrad, therefore, when Vasily left home with new prostheses, he was given gifts for Lida, so the couple met.
Lida's life is also an example of perseverance and fearlessness. Despite her disability, she worked as an accountant, drove a car, even learned to dance and ride a bike! And, of course, she took care of Vasily. Vasily, by the way, was a real "star" in the yard where the family lived. Many loved him, the police came to visit the Lobachevs to help Vasily "go out" for a walk, the neighbors were friends with him, willingly played chess and dominoes. Vasily loved cultural leisure, attended the circus, theaters, concerts, often wrote reviews, could not live without work.
Shortly before his death, the artist Gennady Dobrov painted a family portrait of the Lobachevs, on which, according to the author's plan, the heroes are captured on Victory Day. This picture entered the cycle "Autographs of War".
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