Dmitrieva Raisa Grigorievna_x000D_ _x000D_ Dmitrieva( Kovrigina) Raisa Grigoryevna was born in the Stalingrad region in the village of Aksay, Oktyabrsky district. She recalled " in April 1942, the girls of Stalingrad were mobilized, including me... on may 14, 1942, they took the military oath and began to serve in combat. I didn't know then that I would have to defend my hometown." At the same time, the girls were trained in military specialties, and Raisa Grigoryevna became an artillery scout - observer. "I recall an episode when our anti-aircraft battery had to engage in battle with superior enemy forces: on August 24, 1942, the Nazis came close to the city. The situation was critical, continuous German air raids began, bombed several times a day, fired from mortars...five bombs hit the battery directly.. Everything around was engulfed in flames and smoke, it seemed that no one and nothing could survive in this hell. My comrades were dying before my eyes. The battle that day lasted until sunset... Our battery shot down 24 enemy aircraft." Once the enemy detected the battery's radio station when Raisa Grigoryevna was reporting data about enemy aircraft in the air. The mine exploded between the operational unit and the trench, from where Raya continued to signal an air battle. Raisa was covered with earth, she was considered dead, but, fortunately, they dug her up, and she was not even injured. The defense of Stalingrad continued for 125 days, and on February 2, 1943, the enemy was defeated. After the defense of Stalingrad, Raisa Grigoryevna continued her combat career and met Victory day as a corporal in an anti-aircraft artillery regiment in Austria, she was demobilized in 1945 from the territory of Hungary. Awarded the medals "for the defense of Stalingrad", "for the victory over Nazi Germany", the badge" excellent air defense", Commendations of the commander-in-Chief Of the armed forces of the USSR. After the war ended, in 1946, she married Ivan Petrovich Dmitriev and they came to live in Chusovaya. She worked as a kindergarten teacher, Deputy Director of the economic part of school No. 6, in trade. She was a regular participant in meetings with schoolchildren and city military-Patriotic events. The Dmitrievs raised four children, the eldest son, Vladimir Ivanovich, was a career military officer, finished his service in the General Staff of the air Force of the country, with the rank of Colonel, Honored military Navigator of the Russian Federation. Two sons, Nikolai Ivanovich and Mikhail Ivanovich, served in the Army and, following their father, worked in the locomotive depot as a driver and assistant driver. Daughter Tatyana Ivanovna is an Honorary citizen of the city of Chusovoy, was the Deputy Governor of the Perm region and the first Commissioner for human rights in the Perm region.