Duev Anatoly Vasilyevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Anatoly Vasilievich Duev-home front worker, chemical technician. He was born on August 18, 1922 in a peasant family in the village of Bykov Maidan in the Shatkovsky district of the Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) region, and had 2 brothers: Mikhail and Nikolai. Mikhail (born in 1919) - Junior Sergeant, participant of the great Patriotic war, who went missing in 1942. He studied at the Gorlovka school, where he met his future wife, Leontina Albertovna. after graduating from the school, they were evacuated with the plant to the city of Kemerovo at the beginning of the war. They had a good education for those years. After a few years of work, Anatoly was appointed head of the site, and Leontina-chief mechanic. In those years, they worked in the most difficult conditions, walked huge distances every day, worked hard at the factory, producing gunpowder for the front, did not get enough sleep and did not eat enough. Anatoly Vasilyevich was awarded the medals "for valiant labor in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" and "for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" and a number of commemorative awards. In 1944, they had their first child - son Volodya, in total they will have five children, for which Leontina will receive the medal of Motherhood II degree. Anatoly worked as a chemist for a very long time, could have retired much earlier, and his work was dangerous not only because of chemicals, because he worked in a secret shop for the production of gunpowder. I went on business trips with a service weapon and an escort "in plain clothes". And, after leaving the factory, he served as a collector until almost seventy. We've lived together all our lives. Anatoly died on January 24, 2005, and Leontina died on August 28, 2012.