CITY: Novgorod region, Zaluchsky district, Lyakhovichi village council, village Gorki Pinaevy DATE OF BIRTH: 12.12.1924 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Junior military technician Type of troops: Technical troops (Chemical, Railway, Auxiliary, Radio-radar, topographic) Summer 1941 year, after graduating from the first year of the pedagogical school in Leningrad Andreeva (Alekseeva) A.I. , went on vacation to her village Gorki Pinaevy, located in the Zaluchsky district of the Novgorod region. Leaving the train in Staraya Russa, she got bombed. She got to the village, but the Germans soon occupied it. Was in occupation. In the winter of 1941-42, an offensive operation of the Red Army troops began near Moscow. Not everyone knows, but in the Novgorod region our troops also had success and liberated part of the region's districts. The Germans herded able-bodied residents to build ditches in the floodplain of the Lovat River. Anna Ivanovna fled from these forced labor back to the village. Entering it, she saw that German soldiers set fire to houses before their retreat. All residential buildings were burned down. The remaining population moved to the baths, which were not touched. Immediately after entering the village, the soldiers of the Red Army she went to sign up as a volunteer, adding several months to her real age. She ended up in the railway troops. The task of these troops was to restore and lay railway tracks to replace those damaged by the Nazis during their retreat. The importance of these renovations was clear. The success of the offensive operations of our troops directly depended on the serviceability of communications, and, above all, railways. Work was carried out near the front edge, near the front line. Shelling and bombing were the usual backdrop for such work. Moving behind the leading edge, Anna Ivanovna passed through East Prussia, Poland and came to Berlin.