Makarova Nadezhda Ivanovna_x000D_ _x000D_ I was born in 1922 in the Kuibyshev region, in the village of Natalyevka. Childhood was good and poor, there were friendly parents in the family of 4 children. I lived and studied in kolkhoz and finished 4 classes. I remember a hut about 30 meters in the village where we lived until I was 12 years old. There is a closet near the Russian stove, where my mother was preparing dinner. Dad grinded grain, mom baked delicious bread, pies, and even for the kolkhoz. _x000D_ But in 1932 there was a famine, the harvest was gone. Many left the village and we did as well. We put our belongings in the sleigh, covered with Dad's sheepskin coat. We arrived to another kolkhoz. First time we went to the village, my dad and I changed my mother’s sweater skirts and her hussars, in which she probably got married. We lived in one room with another family, there were three of them and six of us. And when I was 13, I went to work, sorting potatoes in the basement, and other children were like that too. We come home from work and we saw firewood with my dad. This is my childhood. In the summer I worked with my mother on weeding and sorting in the barn. Mom poured grain into the sorting machine for me, and I took turns doing the light work for her, raking off the grain. _x000D_ At the age of 18, I went to my grandmother in Chelyabinsk, where I found a job by recruiting on the sandy plant "Stankomash", where I worked until 1943, then went to the front with a friend. I was taken into the Artillery Regiment No. 1865, where I was a gunner on an 85 mm cannon. There were few men, only girls. I was in the hospital where I met for the Victory Day on May 9. The war is over and the cannons were silent, we celebrate Victory Day, the best day of the year. Glory to the lost friends and commanders. After the war I went to the plant "Stankomash" again, worked in workshop No. 1. _x000D_ I have awards: a medal "For Victory over Germany", the Order of the Patriotic War and 7 anniversary awards.