Home front during the war

Shukova Ekaterina Savelyevna (worker in the rear, widow of a WWII participant) was born on November 25, 1928 in the village of Kordon in the Ural region. Until the age of 12, she believed that "there is no happier family in the world", and then the war began, the world of the little girl faced a harsh reality. Ekaterina Savelyevna also remembers the terrible hunger of 1933 and the lack of money, but she recalls the time spent with her parents with special warmth. “In December 1943, my father was taken to the front. He was 50 years old, and since there was no one to fight, he also became a soldier. In February 1944 my mother died and I was left without adult care. And on July 22, I became an orphan, having received a funeral for my father”-the veteran recalls with bitterness. Ekaterina Savelievna entered the technical college to learn how to handle tools, at the same time she worked in the field. “ Studies finished together with the war end and she graduated from college with perfect results, receiving the speciality "car mechanic". I decided not to go according to the state distribution - I didn't want to leave my native places. I got a job as a student at a tractor plant, but was forced to leave, since they did not give a place in the hostel, and there was nowhere else to live. Later I returned to the village, got a job on a collective farm in a subsidiary farm” - she tells about his post-war life.

Chibisova Anna Andreevna (worker in the rear) was born on August 5, 1919, in the village of Maly Kushum, Balakovo District, Saratov Region. Here the girl graduated from 4 classes of elementary school, from the 5th to the 7th grade she studied at the school in the village of Malaya Bykovka. After finishing the seven-year period, she entered the Ivanovo Agricultural College. In 1941, after graduation, Anna Andreevna returned to her native village, where she worked as an agronomist and helped on the farm. At the beginning of 1943, the girl was sent to the Voronezh region. After the end of the war she continued to work as an agronomist and got married. Fifteen years later, she returned to her native village of Maly Kushum, to her parents. Later, Anna left for Balakovo, worked as a livestock technician at a poultry farm. After the closure of the enterprise, she got a job at the production association "Khimvolokno" named after Lenin, as a worker and received a flat from the factory. After retirement, Anna Andreevna moved to live with her sister in the village of Ivanovka. She helped with the housework, took care of the garden. Last year, the veteran celebrated her100th anniversary. She was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

Chaus Anastasia Kirillovna Chaus Anastasia Kirillovna was born in 1916 in the village of Semenovka, Lipovo-Dolinovsky district, Sumy region. Before the war she worked at one of the factories of Simferopol, which in October 1941 was evacuated to Sevastopol. From the beginning of the defense of Sevastopol, she worked as a stamp-maker at the special plant No. 1. On November 2, 1941, during a raid by the fascist aviation, Anastasia was seriously wounded and lost her left arm. After treatment, she refused to evacuate and continued to work at the stamping machine, bringing the production rate to 200-230%. For her labor feat on February 23, 1942, she was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the postwar years she lived in the city of Mstislavl, Mogilev region of Belarus.

Chudinovskikh Andriyan Vasilievich (1905) Chudinovskikh Andriyan Vasilievich (1905) was born in 1905 in the village of Verkhovino, Yuryansky District, Kirov Region. In 1929 he graduated from the Verkhovyna school. In 1932, after graduating from a pedagogical school, Andriyan Vasilyevich began work as the director of the school in the village of Buyaki, Yuryansk district, Kirov region. Due to the lack of premises A.Chudinovskikh organized fellow villagers for the construction of a new school, and actively participated in the construction himself. In 1939 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Kirov. The work of the rural teacher-agitator was highly appreciated by the Motherland. Back in 1944, the People's Commissar of Agriculture of the USSR awarded him the badge "Excellence in Socialist Agriculture". Later, Andriyan Vasilievich was awarded medals "For Labor Valor" (1950) and "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the Order of the Badge of Honor (1953).

Shamova Maria Alexandrovna. Was born on November 25, 1929 in the village of Olshanka. In 1937, she went to the Olshansk eight-year school. In 1944, she finished 7 classes. “From the radio message we learned that the war had started, the screams of women spread throughout the village. People were crying and screaming. My father was taken to the military registration and enlistment office right from the field on the first day of the war. He died in 1942 near Smolensk. Mom had three daughters left, she worked all the time on the collective farm in various jobs. We also took part in the work both in the field and in the warehouses. I had to work not only on holiday, I was released from school to help during sowing and harvesting. What kind of work did the schoolchildren take part in? We created guard posts for bread protection, carried out raids on readiness checks on collective farms for field work, collected ears, fertilizers, cut the tops of potato tubers for planting, looked after young growth on livestock farms, made shields for snow retention. The main rear occupation for children and adults during the war years was labour, hard and painstaking, which made it possible to provide those living in the rear with some kind of food and provide all possible assistance to the front. In the beginning, women and children had to learn to do everything without men, with their own hands. All those women and children managed to survive ”- says Maria Alexandrovna.

Khromchenko Valentin Khromchenko Valentin, 1941-1942 - Master of the Sevmorzavod.

Tsybikov Bazarsado Tsybikovich (1912 - 1973) - Honored zootechnician of the RSFSR. He worked on the breeding of the Trans-Baikal fine-wool breed of sheep. Participated in the creation of the breeding farm of the collective farm "Communism", the first in the Aginsky district of the collective farm laboratory of wool, typical sheepfolds, the collective farm museum. Author of 49 articles and scientific works, 4 brochures on sheep breeding. Excellence in agriculture of the USSR and the RSFSR. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and medals. Born in 1912 in the village of Usharbay. From 1924 to 1931 he studied at the Mogoytui elementary school, the Aginsky incomplete secondary school and the Aginsky pedagogical college. One of the first Komsomol members of the Mogoytuysky region. Since 1926 - one of the organizers of the pioneer movement in the ulus, was elected secretary of the Komsomol organization of the collective farm. In 1927 Bazarsado joined the Ajalchin collective farm. From 1933 to 1934 - assistant chief of the Komsomol and cultural activist among national minorities at the Komsomolets collective farm in the Chernyshevsky region. From 1936 to 1939 he worked as a warehouse manager, deputy chairman of a collective farm for animal husbandry, and at the same time a propagandist for the Aginsky district committee of the Komsomol. During the Great Patriotic War, he was in the ranks of the reserve soldiers of the 3rd category of the Military Specialty of the Red Army and helped the army as part of the Trans-Baikal Front. From July 1941 to February 1942 he was a veterinary instructor. Then, until September 1944, he was appointed a rifleman in the 386th reserve rifle regiment, which was part of the 41st reserve rifle brigade of the Trans-Baikal Front, stationed in the Chita region. Probable mailing address: pp 40, 386 zsp. From September 1944 to February 1946, he worked as a party organizer at the 8th horse depot of the Trans-Baikal Front. Demobilized on February 19, 1946. For service to the front he received medals "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "For Victory over Japan", "For Labor Distinction." After the war, he continued to work in his native collective farm "Communism" in the Mogoytu region. Bazarsado Tsybikov worked on the collective farm for more than forty years as an ordinary member, foreman-livestock breeder, zootechnician, chief zootechnician-breeder, for more than 14 years he headed the party organization of the collective farm on a voluntary basis. Many years of persistent, persistent work and skillful application of the methodology of Academician Ivanov M.F., combined with subtle analysis, allowed the breeder to create a unique herd of Transbaikal sheep and become its co-author and a member of the Board of the Breeding Commission. Five-time participant of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibitions (All-Union Agricultural Exhibitions and VDNKh) in the period from 1954 to 1957 in Moscow, for his successes in socialist agriculture he has a "Big Silver Medal" and four bronze medals of exhibitions. In 1956 he was awarded the badge "Excellence in Socialist Agriculture of the USSR". In 1970 he received a medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. " In 1971 he was educated at the Buryat Agricultural Institute on the job. He was also the creator and director of the local museum. Bazar Tsybikov has 49 published scientific papers on sheep breeding, published in Chita and Moscow. Bazarsado Tsybikov was awarded the title "Honored Livestock Technician of the RSFSR" on June 10, 1963 for his great services in the development of Trans-Baikal sheep breeding. For fruitful and conscientious work, for high production indicators, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor No. 391808 on December 14, 1957, the Order of Lenin No. 365971 on March 22, 1966.

Khodakovskaya (Shemyakina) Maria Andreevna was born on February 6, 1922 in the city of Yaloturovsk, Tyumen region. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, home front worker. From 1941 to December 1945, she worked at the Tyumen distance of the LM Kaganovich railway track - a repair worker and a foreman of a track measuring trolley. It was a truly titanic work to restore the railway and railway bridges after the explosions and during the hostilities. Maria Andreevna's works were marked with awards and gratitude, including cash prizes - for the skillful use of internal resources and the use of non-standard working methods. She was awarded several medals, including the “Defender of the Fatherland” medal. During the war, she lost her husband and two sons. The first husband was killed, died at the front. Two of her young sons died of pneumonia - there was not enough medicine, all medicines went to the front. In 1944, she met Nikolai Pavlovich Khodakovsky, her future second husband - to whom she was faithful and devoted to the end of her life, even after his death, and from whom she gave birth to 4 children (three daughters and a son). He was sent from the city of Chita to the Tyumen region as a mechanic and a hammer to restore the railway, steam locomotives and carriages. We worked together in the same field for the sake of common Victory. In August 1945, their eldest daughter was born. In 1946 they were transferred to Chita. Since 1948, Maria Andreevna lived with her family in the city of Korosten, Zhytomyr region, in Ukraine. In the Korosten depot she worked on the railroad as a switchman, and also worked at a confectionery factory. In addition, there was a needlewoman - with her own hands, with her little daughters, she made artificial flowers, boutonnieres, wedding (and not only) wreaths, which were sold even in Leningrad. Throughout her life she helped people and even cured diseases. Maria Andreevna was an incredible person with a strong spirit. She died on December 19, 2013, having lived for almost 92 years. She was buried in her historical homeland, in the city of Yalutorovsk, Tyumen region.

CITY: V-Bartym, Perm region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/13/1930 DATE OF DEATH: 10/04/2002 HISTORY: Andriyanov Nikolay Afanasyevich (01/13/1930-4.10.2002) During the war he worked on a collective farm at the age of 11-15 in the village of V-Bartym Perm region Has a medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, 1973. Born into a large family with 6 children. He was the eldest. The boys had to work on the collective farm like adults, all the men were in the war. All his life, after graduating from a vocational school, he worked on the construction of power plants in the Uralenergomontazh trust. "Shock worker of communist labor", "Excellence in power engineering and electrification of the USSR", "Winner of socialist competition." Awarded with many certificates of honor, jubilee medals. Most of his life he worked in the Troitsky assembly area. Brigadier of the Komsomol youth brigade. He brought up a large number of working youth, who later became experienced assemblers, foremen and foremen. In parallel, he worked in the trade union committee of the site. Has many rationalization proposals. Andriyanov N.A. participated in the installation of turbines with a capacity of 100 thousand kilowatts, power units of 300 thousand kilowatts and a power unit of 500 thousand kilowatts. Power unit No. 4 with 300 thousand kilowatts was the first in the Urals, and power unit No. 8,500 thousand kilowatts was the first in the Soviet Union. Nikolai Afanasyevich Andriyanov made a great contribution to ensuring the early commissioning of the 500 thousand kilowatt unit. The Andriyanov family dynasty was created. 2 more brothers came to the editing. Petr Afanasevich graduated from the Troitsk Power Engineering College and worked at the Troitskaya GRES(Regional Power Station), in subsequent years - at the Dobryanskaya GRES. Viktor Afanasyevich worked at Troitsa GRES and in subsequent years at Sredneuralskaya GRES. For his success in fulfilling and overfulfilling the plans of 1973 and adopted by the social. obligations By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Andriyanov Nikolai Afanasyevich, foreman of locksmiths at the Troitsk assembly site of the Uralenergomontazh trust, and Vitaly Vatslavovich Barkovsky, head of the Troitsk assembly site of the Uralenergomontazh trust, were awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.

Type of troops: Military-legal structure .Ineshin Konstantin Vasilyevich from a young age dreamed of devoting himself to legal work .In 1935 he graduated from the East Siberian Regional Law School in Irkutsk and was appointed People's Investigator of the District Prosecutor's Office in Kirensk, Irkutsk Region. Further, the call to the Red Army regimental school and again work in the Kirensk district prosecutor's office in 1939. Ineshin K.V. was appointed assistant. Prosecutor of the Kirensk District Prosecutor's Office. The war began in 1941, he was appointed the prosecutor of the Kirensky district. As an experienced investigator, Moscow sends K.V. Ineshina. in September 1943, in the Stavropol Territory, he was assigned the rank of Junior Counselor of Justice to the staff of the regional criminal and judicial department by the prosecutor. Here his front became on the former occupied territory of the Stavropol Territory, the fight against any undead evil spirits began: traitors, bandits, looters, speculators of all stripes. In conditions of devastation, speculation, want and hunger, it was necessary to restore law and order with arms. The war is over and as a soldier who has proved himself as a competent, impeccable worker, he is awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." In 1947 K.V. Ineshin As the best promising worker, he goes to Moscow for advanced training courses under the General Prosecutor of the USSR and successfully completes them in 1948. In September of the same year, he was appointed transport prosecutor of the Kirensky section of the Lena basin. Painstaking work in the cities and villages of the Upper Lena to disclose and suppress crimes. In August 1953, a ridiculous death from botulism interrupted his life on takeoff at 39 years old.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 78th Rifle Zaporozhye Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Ivanov Nikolai Alexandrovich was born on August 2, 1925 in the village of Bolshaya Krutaya, Tyumen region. When the war began, Nikolai was only 15 years old and he was not taken to the front. He worked on a collective farm. Like all the boys of that time, he was eager to go to war, to defend his homeland. Only in January 1943, at the age of 17, he was enrolled in the Astrakhan military school. Since June 1943, Nikolai Aleksandrovich became a private of the 28th Airborne Regiment of the 9th Guards Airborne Poltava Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. He took part in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. During the Battle, his platoon was captured by the Germans. But the fighters managed to escape from captivity. During the escape, Ivanov was seriously wounded and was evacuated to the hospital. After a difficult operation, he was sent to courses for junior lieutenants at the 2nd Ukrainian Front. In May 1944, he was appointed Commander of a rifle platoon of the 27th Army of the Ukrainian Front. He took part in all battles on the Steppe and Ukrainian fronts. As part of the 27th Army of the Ukrainian Front, he drove the Germans all the way to Berlin. In April - May 1945 he took part in the Battle of Berlin, for which he was awarded the medal "For the capture of Berlin". After the victory in the Great Patriotic War Ivanov N.A. was redeployed to the Far East to protect the eastern borders of the homeland. Only in May 1946 he was transferred to the reserve. In the postwar years Ivanov N.A. worked at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil. At that time, the whole country was rampant with banditry and crime. In 1958, Ivanov Nikolai Alexandrovich tragically died from a bullet wound, returning home from work. His life was cut short at 33.

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!

Alexey Afanasyevich Kekalo was born on November 30, 1931 in the Slavyansky district of the Krasnodar territory in the village of Petrovskaya. Mother Kekalo (Lakiza) Maria Andreyevna-Kuban Cossack, father Kekalo Afanasy Sergeevich worked in the blacksmith shop of the Stalingrad tractor plant during the war. The family had five children. In 1937, together with his family, he moved from Slavyansk-on-Kuban to Stalingrad. In 1941, the war began. Alexey Afanasyevich was 12 years old, he, like many children, was taken to the factory to work. From July 4, 1944, he worked in the blacksmith shop of the Stalingrad tractor plant, testing pumps for tanks. I was very tired, so I slept near the machine, because I didn't have the strength to go home. The children didn't finish their meal. From food, they gave a little bread for the whole working day, and worked for 12 hours. He lived with his parents in a dugout. The city was rebuilt from the ruins for many years. In 1950, my grandfather was drafted into the army and served on Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands. In 1954, he was demobilized and worked on the construction of the Volga hydroelectric power station. Participated in the construction of Mamayev Kurgan. While working, he studied at the music school in Stalingrad. In 1955, he married. Since 1960, he worked as a music teacher at the school. Created in Volgograd an orchestra of folk instruments, a boys ' choir of 100 people. He performed to the accompaniment of the Bayan orchestra. He was a Director and conductor. In 1996, he moved with his family to a permanent place of residence in Slavyansk-on-Kuban. Before retiring, he worked as a music teacher at school No. 8. Even in retirement, he loved to play the accordion and was engaged in growing grapes. Labor veteran. He died at his home on January 14, 2011, at the age of 79. From The "book of Memory" collected by students of the MBOU Lyceum No. 4 in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, as part of the "Blue handkerchief", "My countrymen – heroes of the Russian Land" campaign for the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.

During the War and until 1946, Lyubov Pavlovna lived in the village of Metrofanovka (Mitrofanovka) in the New Prague district of the Kirovograd region. In the winter of 1943, together with her friend Shura Divichenko, she went to the field for beets. Four kilometers from the village, the girls saw that on the road, along the landing, German signalmen were pulling a coil with red wires, realized that the Germans were stretching the telephone connection, and decided to damage the wire. They cut down several meters of wire with shovels, and then hid in the landing until dark, afraid to return home, because the Germans forbade leaving the village. When the friends came home late at night with a coil of wire, they learned from their relatives that the Germans were looking for partisans in the village, who broke the connection and took 10 men hostage. If the partisans are not handed over, the hostages will be shot and the village will be burned. The uncle with whom Lyuba lived, having found out where the girls got the wire, said that he would give them to the Germans to save the village and the lives of the villagers. Friends cried all night, it was terrible to die at 14 years old. The next morning, my uncle told me that the Germans had caught an old man coming from another village, accused him of destroying communications, and shot him. No one ever found out what really happened. In the summer of 1945 in the village came another uncle, Podgorny, Fedor Ivanovich (the nephew of Podgorny Nikolai Viktorovich, who later became Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR), which told how the guerrillas, taking out their cattle from three villages received a message that they should bomb the Nazis, telephony runs on the airfield. But people crossed into the forest without interference, there was no bombing because someone cut the wires and thus saved people from death. When the uncle found out who had damaged the telephone connection, he suggested that Lyuba go to the military enlistment office and tell about it, but the girl was too shy to go barefoot, and there were no shoes. Shura had left the village by that time, and she doesn't even know how many people and livestock her friends saved from destruction. My mother Lyubov Pavlovna lived a long working life. She built the city of Temirtau on virgin land in the Karaganda region in Kazakhstan. She told us a lot about the war and the heroism of our people. I'm proud of my mom.

Kresova Efrosinya Antonovna, nee Grishina, was born in 1907 in the village of Novaya Romanovka in the Mglinsky district of the Bryansk region. She had 1 class of education. She married Peter Fedorovich Kresov (born in 1907), who was a very beautiful and intelligent man (had 4 classes of education). By 1941, she and her husband were 34 years old and had 5 children: Ekaterina (born in 1928), Ivan (born in 1930), Yakov (born in 1932), Mikhail (born in 1937), Anastasia (born in 1940). The family was large and friendly, everyone had their responsibilities, the children went to school, the older ones took care of the younger ones and helped their parents. At that time, the family was viewed as a separate labor team, and almost all families had 5 or more children. A large family would be able to cultivate more land, mow more hay for livestock, prepare more feed, etc. Nothing foreshadowed trouble, but for the first time during the War, my great-great-grandfather, like other villagers, all men and teenagers from 16 were taken to the front. Many of them were never to return. In the village there were only old people, women and children who accompanied everyone to the front with tears and joy. From dawn to dawn, all the women had to work on the collective farm. It was hungry, everything went to the front. And in order to somehow survive, all families tried to run a household. The oldest child in the family, my great-grandmother Catherine was 13 years old at the time, she finished the 5th grade. Looking ahead, I want to say that this is the end of her childhood and school life. All the children had to drop out of school because they had to help adults. According to her stories, it was very difficult during the War, they had to work a lot without rest and sleep, they were malnourished, and many children fainted from hunger right in the fields. There were big problems with food, and bread was baked from the grain that was given in the collective farm at home. Everyone got a piece a day. But, of course, this was not enough, because this piece of bread should be stretched out for the whole day. Everyone was hungry, people were dying of hunger right on the street. And in order not to starve, people ate tortillas from the roots of some plants. They were dug out, washed, cleaned, calcined in a hot stove, then pounded in a cast-iron mortar to get flour. This flour was used to bake tortillas and eat them. Great-grandmother Katya, along with her brothers, went to the field and collected these roots. They also collected frozen and rotten potatoes that were left in the fields after harvesting. It was also eaten and called this dish – "nausea". But it was difficult not only for my family, it was difficult for all the people, the whole country. The first heavy loss for her was the death of her youngest daughter Anastasia. But it was necessary to live, no matter what, because she had four young children on her hands, who were supposed to grow up healthy and happy. And I really wanted them to live in a free country under a clear and clear sky. At that time, it was very difficult to live in the village, since the collective farm worked for workdays, that is, for free. There was no money at all, so there was nothing to buy. There were very few letters from the front. Her husband rarely wrote to her, and tried not to tell her anything about the front, asking more about the house and the children. I didn't want to worry, because he also understood how difficult it was for them there. In 1943, Efrosinya Antonovna received notifications from the front – " ... in a fierce battle, Peter Fedorovich Kresov died a brave death....". what was happening at that moment in the soul of the great-great-grandmother is difficult to describe. Great-great-grandfather was a very brave soldier, as evidenced by his awards. But this also had to be endured, and with even greater strength and zeal to work for the benefit of their children and the front. Every year life became more and more difficult, and with the help of their mother, all the children began to work with her on the collective farm. It seems that everyone, from young to old, is working – but life has not become easier. The working day in all of them began at four in the morning and ended late in the evening, while it was necessary to do something at home to survive: plant your vegetable garden, feed your cattle. All the work was manual, as all the equipment and good horses were taken to the front. There were only lame horses left in the village, so strong women were harnessed to the plow. At the same time, the entire crop was grown under the slogan " Everything for the front! Everything for victory!" was taken to the cities, and the villagers were left with nothing. But even in winter, no one was left idle: you had to go to the forest and prepare firewood for heating your homes and collective farm premises. The War ended – not many returned home. And those who came were crippled with severe injuries. Still, it wasn't much easier for women and children. After all, all the hardships of restoring villages and villages fell on the shoulders of women and children. My great-great-grandmother Efrosinya Antonovna had to go through a lot, but she was able to raise and raise four children. All of them received commendations while studying at school, and during their work they were awarded medals and orders. It was difficult for all people during the great Patriotic War. A lot of grief fell to a lot of all women. They suffered many losses, and their hearts were torn for everyone: their own and others', young and old. But the happiness of any mother is to raise and raise worthy children. My great-grandmother was able to raise four children during this difficult time. She died in 1982 at the age of 75, a happy woman. She had children and grandchildren who loved her, the respect of colleagues and neighbors, and most importantly-a peaceful sky above the head!!! And during all the holidays she had only one wish for everyone: "...Let no one ever know what the war is!»