Kondakova (Avakina) Zoya Mikhailovna was born in 1926, after 7 grades of junior secondary school No. 2 in Sasovo she graduated from the Rokovsky nursing courses and from April 17, 1943 to June 1945 fought on the front line of the 3rd Belorussian Front as a sancheminstructor with a battery of 1389 air defense artillery regiment of 34 air defense artillery division. She participated in the liberation of Belorussia. Her father, Mikhail Samoshkin, fought and died 90 km from her regiment. He was buried at the military cemetery in Vitebsk region, Polotsk district, v. Vladimirovka. Zoya Mikhailovna participated in the taking of Koenigsberg, for which she was awarded a medal. Her task on the front line was to provide medical care to the wounded, check water and food for suitability for consumption, as the Nazis often tried to poison everything during the retreat. Several times, she got into encirclement. On March 4, 1944, under the strong artillery fire of the enemy senior sergeant Kondakova showed firmness and courage. Despising death, she provided medical care to the wounded battery fighters, for which she was awarded the Medal of Merit. Zoya Mikhailovna was dismissed on demobilization on the basis of the Law of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR from June 23, 1945. She was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of II degree, jubilee medals. She finished her working career in Sasovo in 1983. Her husband, Alexey Petrovich Avakin, born in 1928, during the war worked at the wagon depot of the Sasovskaya railroad. He was awarded the medal "For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". The spouses brought up a son and daughter..