CITY: Mykolaiv region, Voznesenskiy district DATE OF BIRTH: 06/04/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 06/07/2015 HISTORY: She wanted to go to the front. Fighting enemies, saving people, defending the Motherland, feeling the national unity ... When Elena Andreevna Arbuzova was fifteen, representatives of the Revolutionary Tribunal came to her village in the Voznesensky district of the Nikolaev region. True, they called the girls not to fight, but to work in their departmental canteen. In 1941, Elena became a waitress for a military trade organization. She fed the leadership, traveling with the military in cities and villages, but always wanted to go to the front ... The dedication of the seventeen-year-old girl was noticed. They decided to help her. Elena began to learn how to handle a rifle, a machine gun. Then she was sent to work as a turner at a military motor depot, where she took on any job. She worked at the machine, repaired military vehicles. A wish came true: Elena is at the front, her "military profession" is a checkpoint controller in the 110th separate road operational battalion. She is a military traffic controller, checking and directing the guard. “It was scary, of course,” she recalls. “But we are used to the fact that the enemy can attack from any direction. It was only years later that I realized how dangerous my work was.” Elena Andreevna was at the "workplace" when the Romanian dictator Antonescu, Hitler's ally, was brought to Moscow. Once at the checkpoint, she almost died, hit by a huge car: the fragile girl-traffic controller was simply not seen in the road dust. But it was also scary when you stood at night all alone at the post next to the forest and you know that the Germans are very close, and the village is far away ... Elena not only stood at the post, she already knew how to shoot and repair pontoon bridges!