were being prepared to restore the largest industrial enterprises, including the gomel agricultural machine building plant principle, such measures were prepared for each sector and included significant volumes of restoration work, but the reality turned out to be much more tragic , the scale of destruction was incomparable with any calculations that were laid down in the decisions of the country's leadership. in november 1943 , an impressive landing of specialists, heads of sectoral departments, headed by the chairman of the supreme council of the bssr hope and greek, arrived in the liberated gomel, the first regional center of the republic, from moscow to assess the damage to the city and the liberated region. but it turned out to be difficult to do so. gomel lay in ruins. from memories of hope greek cold horror embraced from what he saw, the buildings of all industrial and municipal enterprises were destroyed and burned , the health care trade network was completely destroyed, all schools were looted and destroyed, all historical monuments were almost completely destroyed housing stock. there was no wa