were being prepared to restore the largest industrial enterprises, including the gomel agricultural machine building plant principle, such measures were prepared for each industry and provided for significant amounts of restoration work, but the reality turned out to be much more tragic, the scale of destruction was incomparable with any calculations that were included in the decisions the leadership of the country. in november 1943, an impressive landing force 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 the memories of hope, greek cold horror seized from what he saw, the buildings of all industrial and municipal enterprises were completely destroyed and burned. the health care network was destroyed by trade; all schools were looted and destroyed throughout . historical monuments were almost completely destroyed by the