Women at war

Gayfa Galyautdinova, flax processing plant worker, works 4 weaving machines. Awarded the medal “For labor distinction”

Students of Ayshinskaya secondary school of Udinsky region in the fields of the kolkhoz “Avangard”. 1941-1945. Tatar Soviet Republic

Shevtsova Pelageya Semenovna, born in 1926. In 1942 she left voluntarily for the front. Donskoy front, South-Western, 176th Army Reserve Rifle Regiment. She was a telephone operator and a laundress. 58 Motor transport battalion, telephone operator, clerk. Donskoy Voronezh front - cook. Title Efreightor, Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and medals.

Мухамадеева Сайма Ганиевна родилась 1 октября 1920 году в д. Алмаметьево (Моркинского района Республики Марий Эл). В декабре 1942 года была призвана на фронт и отправлена в блокадный Ленинград.Воевала в Ленинградской 14-й оборонной части, которая была ответственна за прожекторы. Женщины-бойцы их наводили на вражеские самолёты, чтобы легче было их сбить. Война для Саймы Мухамадеевой закончилась только в сентябре 1945 года. Вплоть до демобилизации она была в Ленинграде. Домой вернулась 1 октября 1945 года. Точную дату снимка я не знаю, но она говорила, что после Победы.

Galina Nikitichna Tsymbalova left for the front when she turned 17. She worked in a dressing room, has a medal "For Courage", and was awarded the Order of the Red Star for securing a crossing to Zaporozhye.

On the photo - Nina Chicherina, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a resident of Seversk. Called up for service in the spring of 1942 and sent to the Far East, in the 150th Separate Artillery Detachment, which guarded the Mongolian capital. Served in air defense units. She was discharged in October 1945. In 1952, she joined the Siberian chemical plant, where She worked as an accountant in the General Accounting Department of the Siberian Chemical Plant from 1952 to 1979. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the medal For the Victory over Japan and jubilee medals.

On the photo - Nina Chicherina, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a resident of Seversk. Called up for service in the spring of 1942 and sent to the Far East, in the 150th Separate Artillery Detachment, which guarded the Mongolian capital. Served in air defense units. She was discharged in October 1945. In 1952, she joined the Siberian chemical plant, where She worked as an accountant in the General Accounting Department of the Siberian Chemical Plant from 1952 to 1979. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the medal For the Victory over Japan and jubilee medals.

Lidiya Georgiyevna Khokhlova (1920-1990) took part in battles in the Kalinin front, evacuation hospital No. 1513, in the defense of Moscow and the liberation of Kalinin.

T.P. Brodskaya was a cadet at the Central Women's Sniper School. She received numerous awards including medals such as "For Courage," "For Liberation of Belarus," "For Labor Valor," the Zhukov Medal, the Order of the Patriotic War Second Class, and the Order of the Red Star.

Alexandra Vladimirovna Shchetinina

Girl with flowers (South-Western front)

Girl (South-Western front)

Soviet volunteer wartime nurses pose for a photo on a city street during the Siege of Leningrad. September, 1941

Soviet traffic controller on the square at the Brandenburg gate after the end of the Berlin Offensive

Sniper Maria Lelkhova of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak Infantry Brigade of the 1st Separate Czechoslovak infantry battalion, 1943. Photo by Alexander Arhipov/TASS