Galina Setova was born in 1922. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Galina was eighteen years old, she worked as a medical assistant, country doctor. Immediately after graduating from medical school, she was sent to work in a remote village near Vologda, where there were people who did not even know what a thermometer was. On the first day of the war, as a conscript, she put on a military uniform and was sent along with the hospital where she worked to the Leningrad Front. Almost the entire staff of that hospital that was from Vologda. The hospital was located near Luga. When the hospital was surrounded, Galina was given an evacuation list and sent to Leningrad with a group of walking wounded. The trip itself turned out to be very difficult, which she remembered later all her life. Seventeen days passed. They moved mostly at night. "The heat is terrible. The wounds are rotting. There are no bandages or medications. There was no food, and the Germans were moving on the roads already. We didn't even make fires," Galina recalled. When they were in Leningrad, they couldn't take off their boots, so had to cut them open, because their feet were so swollen. The hospital was located on the bypass canal. Galina served there until the evacuation in January 1943. In the spring of 1942, she, together with all the people of Leningrad, cleared the city. Galina Sedova graduated from the Medical Assistant College with a red diploma, which gave her the right to enter the Institute without exams. But first the plight of the family, then the war, marriage and children served as insurmountable obstacles for entering the Institute. But she was a very good medic. First, she was able to apply her knowledge, which she multiplied all her life in countless courses; second, she had empathy for patients, and third, she had a trait inherent in most good women - the desire to save lives. There were many saved lives of Leningrad residents and wounded soldiers by the staff of the hospital and by Galina personally. Only in January 1943, when there was a partial break in the siege of Leningrad, Galina was able to go to Vologda. This information was provided by the veteran's granddaughter, Chief of the Public Relations Department of the Investigation Committee of Russia S. Petrenko.