Valesina Vera Michailovna_x000D_ _x000D_ Branch of the armed forces: signal Troops. Vera Mikhailovna was born on October 5, 1923 in Logoisk, Minsk region. Orphaned early. She lived with her older sister in Osipovichi. In 1940, she married Ivan Timofeevich Valeshin. War found the young family in the town of Brest. On the first day of the war, Vera Mikhailovna was in the hospital with her newborn son. Her husband, Ivan Timofeyevich, was guarding military warehouses and could not take her away. With the baby in her arms, she left the encirclement along with the retreating units of the red Army. It was dangerous to be on the territory of the military camp where they lived. Exhausted, frightened, hungry, an eighteen-year-old girl with a child in her arms wandered through the Belarusian forests with people just like her, terrified. The milk was gone and the boy died. She dug a hole with her hands and buried it. Vera Mikhailovna was able to get out only thanks to the soldier-driver, who picked her up, already completely exhausted, and took her to his own. The Germans advanced and occupied Belarus. Vera went from this horror to the interior of the country. As a military wife, she joined the special communications group of the black sea fleet in June 1942. She took the oath and received the military rank of " sailor "and the specialty"telephone operator". The service noticed her abilities and, despite the difficult time, determined to continue her studies. Planning and economic Institute. By the end of the war, she had completed the 2nd year of the Institute. During her studies, she had the state of food rations, military uniforms, a stipend and accommodation in the hostel. I didn't know anything about my husband during the war. I thought that if he was alive and would not look for her, then she did not complain, because she had a perspective and goal in life: to graduate from the Institute and remain in the military service. And Ivan Timofeyevich was discharged and began to search for her. Vera Mikhailovna by that time contacted her sisters (there were four of them) through letters. The older sister lived in Osipovichi. Ivan Timofeyevich wrote to her. That's how they knew they were both alive. Ivan Timofeyevich was already at home, in the village of Divnoye. He called his wife to him, and on November 1, 1945 Vera Mikhailovna retired to the reserve and in early 1946 came to her husband with a suitcase in her hands. All the rest of Vera Mikhailovna's life depended on Ivan Timofeevich's place of work, and he, exhausted by the camp, captivity, and uncertainty about his family, could not get along in one place – Divnoye, Raguli, state farm 107, Kievka. And no matter who he worked for, she was always there. In 1948, she became a Communist and received a party ticket. She worked as a milk lab assistant before retirement and for another 11 years after that. She was awarded with medals: "For the victory over Germany in the second world war 1941-1945"," for the defense of the Caucasus", commemorative medals dedicated to the anniversaries of the Victory in the great Patriotic war and the formation of the Soviet Army and Navy. Vera Mikhailovna died in 2000.