Since 1942, she had been working at the Lyubertsy plant of agricultural machinery named after A.V. Ukhtomsky as a assembly worker. During the war, the "Plant im. Ukhtomsky "was a good support for our defense. From purely peaceful products the plant quickly switched to the production of ammunition - mines for the front. In incredibly hard conditions, the staff of the plant during the war years manufactured and delivered to the front 20 million mines and other military orders, which were carried out by women and teenagers. This is a record! For this contribution and labor efforts in 1942 the plant was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor and in 1945 - the Order of Lenin. And Samodurova Antonina Ivanovna was awarded the medal “For good work in the years of the Great Patriotic War”. Here is what her sister Dubrovina (Samodurova) Alexandra Ivanovna tells. “Antonina Samodurova was born on March 7 (old style) 1916 in Moscow. Her parents were Ivan Mikhailovich Samodurov and his wife Anna Dmitrievna. In the same year, her father, Ivan Mikhailovich Samodurov, was taken to the 1st World War. It was hard to live in Moscow with five children, and his wife decided to return home to the village of Novo-Krasnoe, Sapozhkovsky district, Ryazan region. Upon his father's return from the war, they decided to stay in the village. We worked a lot, lived well. Twice they tried to dispossess them, but they never had hired workers, they did everything with their own hands, so this initiative had no support at the village meeting. From the first days of the war one brother of Antonina was at the front and died during the crossing of the Dnieper. The other two brothers went through the roads of war and returned alive with awards. And her sister worked as an assembler at an engineering plant during the war”.