Safronova (Alekseeva) Raisa Andreevna. Safronova (Alekseeva) Raisa Andreevna was born on April 7, 1928 in the village of Sinyavka. Her family also had a sister and 4 brothers. She studied at the Sinyavskaya school. Before the war, she managed to finish 4 classes. The Great Patriotic War began. Father and three brothers went to the front. Two older brothers: Peter and Ivan died. Father and brother Alexei returned home. Sister Masha was sent to the Urals to work at a factory. In wartime, Raisa Andreevna, like all children, worked on a collective farm. Teenagers worked 12 hours a day or more. Despite hunger and cold and such a hard life in general, people tried to celebrate the holidays. Raisa Andreevna recalls: “A holiday was held when all the bread was harvested and the threshing was over. We sang songs, danced, played different games. Both children and old people had fun. There were no drunks, everyone was sober. Most often, we were invited to different houses as no one had a lot of food. " After the war, Raisa Andreevna married. They had four children in their family. She worked as a handy woman on the collective farm until her retirement. Now lives with her husband Mikhail Stepanovich Safronov in the village of Polyakovo.