History:_x000D_ Zinaida Mikheeva was born on October 29, 1924 in the village of Batalovshchina, Ostashkovsky District, Tver Region._x000D_ Zinaida worked for the Red Army in Headquarters of the 53rd Army as a civilian employee from August 1942 to May 28, 1945._x000D_ From the memoirs of Zinaida Mikheeva:_x000D_ "In the summer of 1942, the headquarters of the 53rd Army was located a kilometer from our village of Batalovshchina. I was 18 years old, and I was offered to serve in the 463rd Separate Cable and Pole Company as a Red Army telephone operator. 2 months later, a Major from the army's economic Department offered me a job as a waitress in the soldiers' canteen. I agreed. Then I was transferred to the officers' mess. And then I was sent as a waitress to the Commander of the 53rd Army, Lieutenant General I. Managarov._x000D_ Ivan Managarov was a kind, cheerful, cultured and polite man. He loved cheesecakes, cottage cheese, fish, and very much respected Ukrainian borscht. Every day after Breakfast, he went to the front line with his guards. A former cavalryman, when the road was impassable, he changed his "Willis" for a horse. He also liked to play the accordion, and played masterly._x000D_ Then there was a march to Belgorod. The 53rd Army fought near Belgorod and Kharkov. In the autumn of 1943, in Ukraine, a shell hit the staff dugout. Two senior officers were killed, and the Commander and another General were wounded. General Managarov spent two months in the hospital, and next to him was his staff, including me._x000D_ Poltava, Kremenchuk, Kirovohrad... Our army participated in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. I remember the impassable mud, which could only be overcome on a horseback. Iassy-Kishinev operation, entry into Bucharest._x000D_ Then there was Hungary, the liberation of Budapest._x000D_ I seemed to be on the sidelines of the fighting, but I got into difficult situations several times. Once, during the bombing of the army headquarters, a shrapnel mortally wounded an orderly of the commander, who was lying some centimeters away from me. Another time, during the offensive in Ukraine, when there was no solid front line, the General's entourage, including myself, came across a strong enemy group. Barricaded in a barnyard, we spent several hours shooting at the Germans around us. We were already running out of ammunition when units of our army came to our rescue._x000D_ Service at the army headquarters gave me the opportunity to see many prominent generals. I met I. Konev several times, fed him lunch and talked to Marshal S. Timoshenko, bandaged the wounded leg of General R. Malinovsky..._x000D_ I ended the War with the 53rd Army in Czechoslovakia. In the city of Slavkov, I. Managarov was already a Colonel General, Hero of the Soviet Union, had the Orders of Lenin, Suvorov, Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Red Banner, Red Star._x000D_ Our Army was to be transferred to the Far East. I told the commander that I would like to go home._x000D_ "Look, you know best," he said._x000D_ They corrected my documents and gave me an accompanying soldier. We got to Moscow, and then to our native Ostashkovsky District."_x000D_ Zinaida Mikheeva died on April 12, 2006. She was buried in Ostashkov.