Tyutlyaeva Eugeniya Sergeevna Rank: Corporal. Type of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops. At the end of 1943 Tyutlyaeva was just 17 years old. She was sent from Pereslavl district to culinary courses. In fact, she and 4 other girls were taken to the Kosterev military camps that trained antiaircrafters for antiaircraft armored trains. At the beginning of 1944, all five girls from Pereslavl district got on the 86th antiaircraft armored train, formed in Mytishchi. The armored train belonged the 2nd Belorussian Front. One of the most horrible memories of the war was the liberation of Belarus. While retreating, the Nazis destroyed everything on their way. They burnt villages and railway stations and poisoned water in wells. Hungry, dirty children ran up to the armored train and asked for bread. Soldiers gave them the last crumbs of bread. In Tyutlyaeva’s combat team there were three people: commander Kasarova Alexandra, antiaircraft gunner Tyutlyaeva Eugeniya (both girls were just eighteen years old) and loading Belarusian boy Nizovtsev Vladimir (he was just 16). When shelling started, the loader had to drag boxes with shells to the gun. But the boxs were so heavy that he did not have the strength to move them often, so girls, who were only a few years older than the loader, had to help. Then there was the liberation of Poland. Near Poznań the armored train was surrounded but, fortunately, Russian tanks approached the city from the North and broke through the encirclement. After Poland, they came to Germany. The armored train came very close to Berlin (further railway tracks were destroyed), the Reichstag was well visible. The victory was announced on May 8, but fights still continued. Only at the end of the summer they were let go back to their motherland. They got home on freight trains (the armored train and some of the officers remained in Germany) with great difficulties. It was very scaring. Tracks were undermined often, trains were attacked by Bandera’s bandits. They kept doors of their car opend, so they could jump out of the car any moment. When the train crossed the border between Poland and the USSR, the horn sounded. Soldiers jumped out of cars and kissed their nativeland.