Ambulance SVO. Ulyanovsk paramedic of the third ambulance substation Albert KseidInov volunteered for the special operation zone in August last year.
Arriving at the point of conflict, I was convinced: I’m friendly with knowledge, I’m needed in the service! After being wounded, Albert returned to his small homeland and met with my colleague, Tatyana Damadanova.
The ambulance door closes, but the help portal of Ulyanovsk paramedic Albert Kseydinov is always open. This has been the case since childhood:
Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
My sister got sick when she was younger, her stomach hurt, and it later turned out to be appendicitis.
She was in pain, she was crying. And from these moments a plan arose in my head!
I implemented the plan “how to join medicine” sequentially: Ulyanovsk medical school – managing the Radishchevsky first-aid post – working in the regional emergency room. What prevented me from fully responding to the professional call… was the call:
Tatiana DAMADANOVA
CORRESPONDENT
Albert, you entered military service when you were only 19 years old. Young man. First, as I understand it, they served in Ukraine for six months, and then they served in Georgia for a year and a half, and there was a military conflict there. Was it scary?Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
Some parts were mined. But it wasn’t felt so acutely.
There were both wounded and simply sick. That is, my knowledge was useful.
The ambulance is moving – specific situations come to mind: It was in Georgia, a wounded man with a shattered knee was taken to the hospital:
Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER AT THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT
To support him, I sort of tried to joke. I say: Alexander, you need to take painkillers. He says: where?
I joked that it was in the eye. He agreed to this procedure with a serious face.Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
He returned two months later with words of gratitude. And my status seemed to rise.
Then Albert did not yet suspect that the harsh everyday life of war would repeat itself in his life. Much later, after thirty years of intensive work in the ambulance as a paramedic. In a different location and, as they say, at your own request.
In August 2023, a respected physician, family man, father of two children volunteered for a special operation zone. He ended up in a volunteer battalion: first as an attack aircraft, and later headed the medical service:
Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
The evacuation and transportation of the wounded could be delayed due to shelling and bombing. We had to maintain them in a stable state in the place where they were. It could be a week or four days.
Often, medical surgical procedures were required, and then paramedic Kseydinov contacted the head of his native third ambulance substation, Dr. Zolotarev.
The council provided insurance in the most difficult cases, and in just seven front-line months, Albert helped two thousand wounded!
Largely thanks to humanitarian assistance from colleagues:
Denis ZOLOTAREV
MANAGER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK
He wrote to us specific things that were difficult for him to get there. Some medications, they are quite specific, are not very common. It was with our substation that I attracted friends, we collected what he specifically needed.Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
-And the bullet didn’t miss you either?
-No, not a bullet, it was a shrapnel. Mining blast injury to the femur.Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
I first got to Lugansk and was delivered by transport. Then I was sent by helicopter to Rostov-on-Don, where recovery was already underway.
And literally a month ago he returned to his original place – Ulyanovsk:
Albert KSEIDINOV
FEDERAL SHER OF THE THIRD AMBULANCE SUBSTATION OF ULYANOVSK, PARTICIPANT OF THE SVO
On the day of my arrival early in the morning, it so happened that I had just arrived, Denis Aleksandrovich was at work – and I was right there to see him!
Tatyana Damadanova, Maxim Arkhipov – Reporter 73
