Zhuldybina Elena Fedorovna was born in 1922 in Kirov region, Uninsky district. She participated in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the title - Red Army soldier. She was conscripted to the Red Army from the RVC of Yashkinsky District. A telephonist from the communications platoon of the brigade, she was seriously injured at the crossing of the Neman River. Information about Yelena Zhuldybina was obtained from Uraniy Ivanovich Zenkovich's book "From the Dnieper to the Neman" - "Notes of the Front Operator on the Strategic Offensive Operation “Bagration” to Free Belarus". "I was ordered to keep in constant contact with the crossing, although telephone operators Vasya Sokovets, Misha Timokhin and Sasha Kadeikin had already stretched a telephone cable from the brigade's headquarters and simultaneously connected two devices. One of them had a Siberian woman on duty from the village, Lena Zhuldybina, and the other had a Don Cossack Degtyaryov.... "Building a bridge across the Neman River at Druskenikov's was the number one task for the Brigade that day. The army command was rushing to Pronevich's brigade, and he ordered the brigade's chief of staff, Alexei Tikhomirov, to take charge of the construction. Although a telephone connection was established at the command post of the bridge under construction, and the radio station of Perenkov and Zayakin worked on the bridge itself, Tikhomirov decided to have his own radio station at hand and ordered me to go with him. Five or seven minutes later we left “villis” on the bank of the Neman River. Tikhomirov and his orderly went down to the trench prepared for them, where Lena Zhuldybina was already on duty on her phone. Tikhomirov ordered me to dig a hole near the trench: "It is possible to bomb the trench, but God is careful, Mother Earth has saved many lives. I will negotiate on the phone, and you keep the radio on alert, son. In case of break of Zhuldybina’s communication, you will replace it with radio communication. My RB-M was a duplicate communication..." "Suddenly, a terrible rumble was heard nearby, some weight fell on me, for a while I lost consciousness, and when I woke up, I realized that the blast wave moved the mass of sand, and I was covered with it up to my chest. There was a pine that had been damaged by the blast. I started to turn and move my arms and dug out my stomach, legs and radio. There was a splinter sticking out in the bend of my right hand, I was bleeding. I bandaged my hand with a bandage and started to check the radio station. It worked in the reception mode. I switched it to the transmission and told Vanya Litovchenko about the bombing of the crossing - I did not know more ...". "And the reality turned out to be unpleasant: a stretcher carried unconscious, with the dead and pale face, Colonel Tikhomirov - he was wounded in the stomach. The Siberian telephone operator Lena Zhuldybina was carried on the next stretcher. Her left mammary gland was cut by a shard, and the second shard perforated her buttock. Returning from the hospital, Lena joked: "I will be proud of the wound to the chest all my life, but how to explain the wound to the buttock? Unfortunately, Lena's life was short - she died at the age of 36. The war still caught up with her. Although she left four children in the world..." On the photo: Zhuldybina Elena with her son and brother Pavel - an engineer of Yurginskiy Machine Building Plant.