Siberians are truly heroic Soviet warriors, great patriots of our homeland, loyal to their country. In the places where Siberians worked, I could always be sure that they would perform the task assigned to them with honor and military valor. So it was, throughout the great Patriotic War. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov - what do you think these words mean? You must have imagined a soldier in bloodstained clothes, with a machine gun in his hands. But what about those who worked away from the action making weapons necessary to attack the enemy? What about the young girls who treated the wounded, who saw blood for the first time in their lives? What about the little boys who worked tirelessly in factories? The war came to every home, stole thousands of lives, sparing no one ... Yes, from every home a son, a father, a husband went to war... I want to tell you how the war came to our home. In 1941, my great-great-grandfather, Pavel Fedorovich Zolotukhin, left the village of Shcherbak in the Tyumen region for the frontlines. The whole family was grieving. But my great-grandmother, Olga Pavlovna Kozlova (Zolotukhina), strong-willed. This seventeen-year-old girl decided to help her homeland and be closer to her father. She decided and did so! At the age of 18, she went to Tyumen to medical school. In 1942, she graduated and became a nurse. There is always a need for nurses during war because the number of victims was huge! The doctors were not enough. She was sent to a hospital in Omsk. The young girl's heart was ripped to pieces by the suffering and pain of other people, but despite this, she continued to fulfill her duty to her motherland. My great-grandmother served in the hospital for two years, saving the wounded. In 1944, she was called up for service in the Far East, where there was a war with Japan. My great-grandmother was 21 years old. The 2nd division consisted mostly of military aviation. My great-grandmother was an ordinary soldier. Together with other fragile girls, she carried heavy ammunition and shells, and hung bombs onto military planes. My great-grandmother would recount: "The climate in the Far East is very harsh, there was not enough warm clothes. The food was poor: soup made on water and a piece of bread. In winter, our hands would freeze to the iron ammunition. Sometimes we were able to sleep only 3 hours a day… Despite this, no one complained… Everyone did everything they could to not just survive but win!" At the frontlines, my great-grandmother, a real Siberian, met my great-grandfather soldier Ivan Illarionovich Kozlov. In 1945, when the war ended, they returned from the front as one family. My great-grandmother devoted many more years of her life to medicine, helping people. For her fearlessness and selflessness, for her courage and bravery, my great-grandmother has the following awards: the medals "For the Victory over Germany" and "For the Victory over Japan". Unfortunately, my great-grandmother died in 2010, at the age of 87. We miss her. Heroes could be very different. In our family – the hero was a young, but very brave, selfless girl - Olga. How many soldiers did she save?.. I am proud that my family contributed to the Victory, to the history of my country!