She graduated from the school with a gold medal. In the same year, the war began, German troops were advancing on Moscow, so she and her brother Anatoly Ivanovich Akimov were evacuated. The train was heading South and came under fire on its way, separating brother and sister. Nadezhda Ivanovna continued her way in the same direction. The 16-year-old girl began to assist the doctor who had been engaged in dealing with the victims, beeing of practical help not only with small treatments as abrasions but at the complex surgical operations as well. Exact dates and places of their stay were not left in the war history archives. Nazi had encircled them next some swampy wet places, in thickets of reeds, there was nothing to eat, so they had to eat raw horse meat, lice started. She was wounded: the bullet hit a carriage for passengers and passing through it entered the arm above the elbow and left below the elbow, damaging the joint and tendons. The arm healed not correctly since it was in a bent position. Quite probably she would have such a disabled arm till her last day but she was lucky to meet a doctor who restored its proper functioning. He took the ball filled with sand and threw it into her hands. She was not ready for it and instinctively caught the ball. The effect of surprise and unawareness eased the pain in the injured arm and allowed the bones of her hand to grew together correctly so some time after that it was possible for her to work with both hands. After the war, Nadezhda Ivanovna found her brother - as it turned out, he returned home. Her parents starved to death during the war. She married and gave birth to a daughter, Olga Alekseyevna Grosheva, now Sapozhnikova. She lived at the Tabak farm of Krasnodar region. Later she divorced and moved to the Krasnodon farm of Rostov region Bagaevsky district. Brother's death in the spring of 1985 worsened her poor health. She passed away in the fall of the same year. There are no orders or medals, because at the beginning of the war she was a minor and was not listed anywhere.