Rank: Red Army soldie.r Branch of the army: Artillery. Unit: 1st Anti-aircraft Artillery Division. Popova Taisa Timofeevna was born in the village of Sukhaya Padina in the Mineralovodsky district of the Stavropol territory in a large family. In 1941 three of her elder brothers were mobilized to the front: Popov Philip Timofeevich (born in 1913) served in the Tank Forces (he died in 1942); Popov Vasily Timofeevich (born in 1917) went through the Great Patriotic war, was demobilized in 1946; the third brother Peter Timofeevich (born in 1920) served in the Infantry, took part in the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Berlin. He was shell-shocked and seriously wounded during the fighting in Berlin. He died shortly after the end of the war. Taisya Timofeevna was called to the front in February 1944 at the age of 18. She served in the first company of the 16th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. Taisya Timofeevna became a Senior Corrector for determining the coordinates of enemy aircraft. Their 31 stations were placed on the car that was standing on the front line. It was Taisya's duty to determine the coordinates of enemy aircraft by ear and transmit information to the anti-aircraft gunners so that they could shoot down enemy aircraft. In the modern army, this function is performed by radar stations. Such stations have not yet been created at that time. With heavy bloody battles, the 16th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment advanced through the southern territory of the Soviet Union, through Romania and Czechoslovakia. Many friends-fellows were killed. Taisya Timofeevna was wounded in the spine by a fragment of an enemy shell in February 1945. After a short treatment in the hospital, she continued her service in the 16th Regiment. She met the long-awaited Victory day in the Czechoslovak city of Koshitse. She was demobilized in July 1945. After the end of the war, she went through a glorious career."