Morozova Maria Ivanovna
Morozova Maria Ivanovna_x000D_
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DATE OF DEATH: 08.08.1999_x000D_
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Maria Ivanovna Morozova, was born on February 9, 1917, in the Kalinin region, Loknyansky district, Kladovitsy village, in a peasant family. Maria graduated from a seven-year school, a factory school (FZU), completed flight and glider training. She supervised the work of the pioneer leaders. She worked in the Komsomol Comitee and Osoviakhim. _x000D_
Only her mother (Goryunova Daria Semyonovna) was evacuated to Krasny Kholm. The rest of the family: Maria Ivanovna, her father (Goryunov Ivan Yakovlevich), two brothers (Mikhail and Nikolai) and two sisters (Alexandra and Evdokia), all, were in the army. First there was the North-Western Front (90th Separate BAO-60 RAB), then 3rd Baltic Front, the Moscow Military District, 2nd Belorussian Front, and the Northern Group of Forces. Maria Ivanovna, participated in the capture of Konigsberg, then there was Poland. She became a Communist in April 1940. At the front, she met her future husband, the Captain of Medical Service, Mikhail Vasilyevich Morozov. _x000D_
Comrade Morozova was awarded nine medals and an order, including the medals "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Maria received a special merut pension with the presentation of the sign "50 years of stay in the Communist Party." _x000D_
All the war years, being at forward airfields, she participated in the provision and maintenance of combat aircraft flights. For example, in 1943, at the Vypolzovo airfield, during massive enemy air raids (from 19-00 to 5-00 in the morning), all medical personnel were killed during the bombing and she had to provide medical assistance to the wounded. _x000D_
Regardless of the busy days at an open airfiled, at night she had to stuff cartridges into the links for machine guns and cannons installed on combat aircraft in a cold dugout with lamps made from a cartridge case. _x000D_
All her brothers and sisters, as well as her father, being communists, went through the entire war and survived. In peacetime, after retiring with her husband, since 1960 she lived in the city of Rossosh, worked at the Rossosh pedagogical school, and raised her daughter Tamara.