The patronage commissions at enterprises and collective farms continuously replenished health funds, which consisted of a variety of voluntary contributions from the population. Donated blood and serum, meat, dairy and fish products, confectionery, fish oil, pine nuts, berries, medicinal herbs, books, musical instruments - this is an incomplete list of what constituted the contents of the health funds.
And how can you measure the healing power of the touching letters and gifts of women and children pouring in to the wounded soldiers? So, a team of workers of the Khanty-Mansiysk secondary school sent a parcel with gifts - gramophone records, books, personal hygiene items, tobacco, cigarettes and others to the sponsored hospitals.