In Sevastopol, an elderly person was given the status of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. The prosecutor's office intervened

CrimeaPRESS reports:

The prosecutor’s office of the Gagarinsky district of the city of Sevastopol conducted an audit on the appeal of a local resident born in 1928 — Viktor Leonidovich Korotkov — to protect his rights as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

It was established that the elderly man applied to the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Gagarinsky District of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the City of Sevastopol with a statement on establishing the status of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War as a home front worker and issuing an appropriate certificate. In May 2022, the man was refused due to the lack of proof of his labor activity in the rear during the war years. At the same time, the prosecutor’s office established that, as part of a group of schoolchildren, in 1944 he was sent to Georgia, to the Green Cape tea state farm, where he worked at the collection of tea leaves and at a tea factory. This is evidenced by a certificate from Yerevan Secondary School No. 12 and other documents contained in the materials of the applicant’s pension file. In addition, there are documents confirming that from 1942 to 1944, by order of the People’s Commissariat of Defense, annually under the supervision of a class teacher with classmates during the summer holidays, he also went to collect tea for the front in Georgia— noted in the press service of the prosecutor’s office of Sevastopol.

In order to protect the rights of V.L. Korotkov’s prosecutor’s office sent an application to the court to establish the fact of his labor activity in the rear, which was satisfied. The court decision became the basis for recognizing the pensioner as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. On February 21, 2023, the acting prosecutor of the Gagarinsky district of Sevastopol, Yevgeny Pavelchuk, visited Viktor Leonidovich and presented him with a certificate.

photo: press service of the prosecutor’s office of Sevastopol