Tratsevskaya, Alexandra Alexandrovna
She was born in Moscow on the Arbat, in the famous maternity Grauerman hospital. From 1916 to 1917 she lived in Moscow on Prechistenka street. In 1918, she and her parents moved to Odessa. Father died in 1918, mother in 1919. After the death of her parents, her relatives transported her back to Moscow, where since 1920 she was brought up in a colony named after I. Lunacharsky, from 1927 until finishing school in 1931 she was brought up in the orphanage number 11 FONO ("Pioneer"), in Khlebny lane in Moscow. From 1931 to 1935 she studied at the Technical School at the Dynamo plant at the full-time department. _x000D_
During the Great Patriotic War, she manufactured shells and rotary mechanisms for tanks. All her life (from 1935 to 1974) she worked at the Dynamo plant named after V.I. CM. Kirov, first as a designer, since 1950 as a Head of the standardization and normalization bureau, and since 1960 as a Head of the Chief designer's bureau. In October 1941, together with the plant, she was evacuated beyond the Urals to the city of Chelyabinsk, where she manufactured shells and rotary mechanisms for tanks. In 1943 she returned to Moscow. _x000D_
In peacetime, together with colleagues from the design bureau, she developed electric motors for metro cars and electric locomotives. She was married to Siluanov Boris Vasilyevich on July 6, 1941, who voluntarily joined the people's militia. On September 30, 1941, the 9th Kirov Division of the people's militia took an advanced position near the village of Leonovo in the Yelnya Region. From 1 to 3 October, fierce battles were fought, but the Division was surrounded by the enemy. The encirclement continued until mid-October 1941. Siluanov Boris Vasilievich went missing in October 1941.