The Local State Archives in Bobruisk prepared an electronic exhibition dedicated to V. I. Dubrovsky as part of the Year of Historical Memory in the cycle “The History of the Great Patriotic War in Persons”

Vladimir Ivanovich Dubrovsky, veteran of Finnish and Great Patriotic wars, Cavalier of two Orders of the Red Star and Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class, member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Was born on 11 July 1920 in the village of Yasny Les, Bobruisk district in a family of collective farmers. Studied at the Bobruisk Medical College and the N. A. Shchors Military Medical College of the Leningrad Military District.

As a cadet, he took part in hostilities of the Soviet-Finnish war. From September 1940 to June 1945 he served in the 30th medical battalion of the 26th rifle division as a military paramedic and commander of the evacuation section. As a part of the North-Western and the 3rd Belarusian fronts the medical battalion went with battles to Koenigsberg.

After the war, he served in the Soviet Army till 1957. After retirement worked as a dentist in a dental clinic in Bobruisk. He was active in collecting materials on the history of the Great Patriotic War, on the missing and fallen Bobruisk soldiers. Worked on a book about the combat path of the 30th medical battalion of the 26th rifle division.

For his combat and labor merits V. I. Dubrovsky was awarded 15 orders and medals: two Orders “Red Star”, the order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, medals “For the capture of Koenigsberg”, “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 – 1945”, “For combat merits”, the Zhukov medal, medals to anniversaries of victory over Germany and anniversaries of Soviet Army, “For valorous labor”, “Veteran of Labor”, commemorative signs “Veteran of the 1st Shock Army”, “Veteran of the 26th Zlatoust twice Red Banner Suvorov Order 2nd degree Rifle Division”, participant of military operations on the North-Western front.

The V. I. Dubrovsky collection holds his personal papers, letters and recollections of his comrades-in-arms, photographs of the war years, archive extracts from the USSR Ministry of Defense archives, unfinished manuscript of the book “The 30th Medical Battalion in Battles for the Motherland” and documents about the Bobruisk residents who lost their lives during WWII.

Collection of small fonds of personal origin.
F. 366, OP. 9, DD. 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 13.