Ryabova Alexandra Kirillovna (worker in the rear) was born on February 25, 1931 in the village of Kunya Sarma, Krasnopartizansky District, Saratov Region. She studied at a local school for 4 classes. During the war, at the age of ten, she went to work. The girl worked in the field - she planted vegetables, tobacco. She survived during hunger, and now recalls that often, in order not to die of hunger, she had to eat grass. After the war, when she was fifteen, she got a job as an accountant in a tractor brigade. Five years later, Alexandra Kirillovna was elected a deputy to the local village council, then she began to work as a secretary in the same village council. After getting married, she gave birth to a child and took up his upbringing. Later she worked as an accountant of an irrigated area. From her native village she moved with her family to the city of Balakovo, where she worked as an accountant at various enterprises of the city, until her retirement. She was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."