Antonina Aleksandrovna Selivyorstova (nee Knyazeva) was born on July 19, 1927 in the village of Kadat, Sharypovskaya Volost, Berezovsky District, Achinsk District, Siberian Territory (now part of the Sharypovsky District of Krasnoyarsk Territory is flooded by the reservoir of Berezovskaya GRES) She was the granddaughter of a village teacher and the daughter of a peasant Knyazev Alexander Vasilyevich. The father died early, the mother had three more small children - and Tonya lived with her aunt in Sharypovo, graduated from the "seven-year" school and began to work from the age of fifteen. It was a military year 1942. The years of adolescence fell on difficult war years, they worked on an equal basis with adults - and no one considered adolescents to be children. During the war they worked half-dressed and hungry: "everything for the front, everything for Victory." They drove cattle on foot to Achinsk to the meat processing plant, as Antonina Aleksandrovna told her children - they drove cattle in late autumn, in cold, slushy weather. We spent the night in the villages, having dried up and rested a little, walked on - this is how they forged Victory in the rear. Then she got a job in a seed laboratory, it was easier to work there, but she also had to walk a lot in the fields - they got to the collective farms on horseback, or even on foot. During the war, everyone went hungry - and work in the seed laboratory saved Tonya, because there it was possible to cook porridge from the already tested grain. Memories of Victory Day were bright - she said that everyone ran out into the street, hugged, rejoiced and cried. For her conscientious work during the war, Knyazeva Antonina Aleksandrovna was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", on the basis of this she was later awarded the title of veteran of the Great Patriotic War (St. No. 2553182, series BB). For many years, Antonina Aleksandrovna worked in the Sharypov communication center: first as a postman, and then as a telegraph operator - from there she retired. She was awarded the title of "Labor Veteran" of the Russian Federation. Antonina Aleksandrovna lived her life with dignity - she raised two daughters, worked all her life at work and at home. She lived for 78 years. We are proud of our great-grandmother!