I, Ida Robertovna Seifert, was born in 1930.
In 1941, like all Germans, I fas resettled from the Autonomous Republic of the volga-Germans to Siberia by force – to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Minusinsk Region, village of Gorodok.
Fortunately, our family did not happen to get to one of the fishing stations in the Taymyr Region. This was really great fortune. The war was on, life was very hard, the people suffered from hunger.
I grew up in my brother’s famils, for our parents had died early.
With considerable delay (I had been suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis for two and-a-half years) I finally succeeded in graduating from the professional school of medicine in Minusinsk. Subsequently, the regional health authorities sent me to Duinka for work; I stayed there for 15 years.
I arrived in Dudinka late in August 1951. I had a job with the surgical department of the regional hospital for 12 years; it was headed by Roman Petrovich Albrecht – a first-class surgeon. He was delegate of the 28th All-Russian Congress of Surgeons in Moscow in 1966. He was the first doctor of medicine in the Taymyr Region. The topic of his dissertation was: “The healing of closed hollow bone fractures under conditions of the Taymyr Polar Region“.
I left the north in 1966 because of my daughter, who had fallen ill, and departed to Tadzhikistan, to Dushanbe. In 1967 Roman Petrovich Albrecht removed, as well. Once again we started working for one and the same department in municipal hospital N° 2 – the department of emergency surgery. We were working together for eight years, then our roads parted. Thus, I have been working twenty years in all with R.P. Albrecht.
Unlike him, I am not in possession of any awards or decorations. However, in the Far North, I was once designed for the title of a „Deserved nurse of the RSFSR”, but since I was of German nationality, my canditature was rejected. I am just a veteran of labour for my 30 years professonal life and continuous commitment for public health.
Roman Petrovich Albrecht died on the 20th July1983 in Dushanbe where he was also buried.
Even after he had gone into retirement, he continued to be on duty as a surgical consultant.
This was in brief all about myself and R.P. Albrecht.
Yours faithfully
Ida Seifert, Germany, Hamburg, 2006