Telephone operator of the line communications battalion Shapkina Tatiana Ivanovna During the war, Tatiana Ivanovna Shapkina went from the South Caucasus to Vienna, liberated Ukraine, forced the Dnieper, and liberated Romania and Hungary. On May 5, 1945, a German sniper seriously injured near Vienna, the bullet was in the cervical vertebrae until 1961. After the war, T.I. Shapkina worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at a school of working youth of the settlement, and then the city of Vidnoe. She brought up two sons.