Dubograi Alexander Prokopievna_x000D_ Rank: Red army Branch of military: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast guard, NKVD troops, border guards. On October 14, 1924, Alexandra Kalacheva was born into a large working-class family in Moscow. In 1939, his father died, and soon after a long illness, his mother died. At the age of fifteen, she was left an orphan, lived in her apartment on Kaluzhskaya Zastava, studied in the eighth grade and, as best she could, helped her younger brother and sisters, who were assigned to different orphanages. After finishing school "well", my great-grandmother entered a financial College, studied for six months. Unfortunately, she did not have time to finish it, the Great Patriotic war began. The enemy bombed Moscow day and night. When only firebrands remained from their house, the Komsomol member Kalacheva went to work at the mine on the Komsomol ticket, and on December 4, 1942, at her insistent request, she was taken to the front as a cook. It fell into the 239 red banner division, which included an anti-tank battery of 45 mm guns, on the I Baltic front. It was very difficult, the young chef had to deliver food day and night to the front line. In the combat characteristics, which is stored in the personal archive of Alexandra Prokopyevna, it is said: "during her stay in the regiment ... comrade Kalacheva proved to be a disciplined fighter. She carried out all the commander's orders honestly. Working as a cook, she promptly prepared and delivered food to the soldiers under mortar and machine-gun fire of the enemy. She was wounded, but feeling responsible, she made a dressing and delivered food to the soldiers...". Alexandra Kalacheva was awarded the medals "for military merit", "for the defense of Leningrad", "for the victory over Germany", as well as The "order of the Patriotic war" and has many commemorative medals.There at the front, she met her love, the foreman of a battery of Grigory Evseevich Dubogray. They went with him until the end of the war. Alexandra prokopyevna met the great Victory in Germany, in Lower Silesia. After demobilization she went after Grigory Evseevich in Siberia, in the village of Pavlograd district Novokubanka. Alexandra Prokopyevna died on October 25, 2015.