Children and war

Minsk pioneers put up propaganda posters at one of the city streets

From the stock of State Archive of Penza region

Evdokia Pavlovna Drozdova, my grandmother, was born on 03/07/1926. During Great Patriotic War she lived with her parents and sisters in the village of Krysovshchina, in Kirov region. In 1941 she turned 15 years old. She worked along with adults in the collective farm, helping the front from the rear. She was awarded "Participant of Labor Front".

Local children Nikolai, Anna and Taisiya Tsukanovy at the ruins of their burnt house in the village of Oktyabrskoye, Kursk Region, 1943

Beloborodovo village school, Tomsk region

Schoolchildren and pioneers bring warm clothes for children evacuated from the front line

The boy was executed in Roslavl as a member of the partisan family.

Creche of Kazan aviation factory #22: Group of kids with toys. Tatar Soviet Republic. 1941-1945

Pioneers and schoolchildren of Kazan harvest. Kazan. 1941-1945

Teenager Ivan Cheredilin mastered Turner specialty. Kazan. 1941-1945

Pioneers at subbotnik. 1941-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic

Students of Ayshinskaya secondary school of Udinsky region in the fields of the kolkhoz “Avangard”. 1941-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic

During army classes in factory school #24. 1938-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic

Pioneer camp of Kazan Synthetic caoutchouc plant. Tatar Soviet Republic. 1941

Юрий Подтыкайлов, первый сын полка спецразведроты 40-й армии. Вместе с группой солдат выходил из окружения, бежал из фашистского плена, переходил линию фронта с важными сведениями о расположении противника. Был ранен в 1941 г. Награжден орденом Отечественной войны 2-й степени, медалями "За отвагу", "За победу над Германией", "За доблестный труд в годы Великой Отечественной", 8 юбилейными медалями