Rank: corporal. Branch of SErvice: Military Medical Staff. My great-grandmother Butina (Anufrieva) Anna is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. She was born on January 28, 1921 in the village of Mikhaylovka, Yaroslavl Region. She was brought up in the usual for those times poor village family. The family consisted of five people: a father, mother, two older brothers and her. When she was four, her mother died. By the age of seven, her mother was replaced by a stepmother who gave all the warmth and affection that the little and only girl in the family lacked at that time. After graduatio from 7 classes in 1935, she entered Yaroslavl Medical School #9. After graduating with honors, she was sent to work in the city of Saransk, Mordovia Region, and 3 months later was sent to Poland. There she worked as a paramedic until the beginning of the war, when she was called to the front. There she was caught in the thick of the battle. She immediately started working in the hospital, because there were a lot of wounded and not enough medical staff. They worked without going to bed for two or three days in a row. Their field hospital retreated daily under the onslaught of the Nazis. In 1943, their battalion was moved to the outskirts of Kursk, on the eve of the great Battle of Kursk. There the grandmother under explosions of shells saved soldiers on the battlefield. She was wounded in the left eye by a fragment from the mine which burst nearby. Fortunately, the eye was not lost, and vision was restored. Their unit was transferred to the Belorussian Front in November 1943, where she also was a paramedic. The hospital was evacuated back to Poland in 1944, where my great-grandmother met Victory Day!!! On August 9, 1945, the entire division was sent to Far East. War again... Within 5 days, the division had been loaded on railway trains (people, weapons, equipment) and moved to the Far East. Yes! This was the beginning of the war with Japan. The journey was long, due to the Railways destroyed during the war and heavy traffic. Upon arrival in Khabarovsk, they were greeted with good news. Japan has capitulated! This was the end of a long, hard and terrible war in my great-grandmother's life. I am very grateful to her, my great-grandmother, and our Victory! On 04.05.2005, at the age of 84, she died suddenly in the village Zaigraevo of Zaigraevsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, where she was buried.