Belskaya Nina Semyonovna is a great example of female wartime heroes. Nina Semyonovna was born on February 15, 1923 in the village of Medukhovo, Breytovsky district, Yaroslavl region. My father was the chairman of a collective farm. My mother was responsible for raising the children and running the household. The family had 10 children, so from childhood little Nina was taught to work and take care of her brothers and sisters. She was a straight-A student, the best student in school. She was also an activist and was fond of sports. Gennady Semenovich Bielsko recounts that after successful completion of grade 10 at the age of 16, the leadership of Breytovo area invited Nina Semyonovna to work as a teacher in a school in the village Ulianich. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, she was only 18 years old. On April 10, 1942, she was drafted into the Red Army. In her memoirs, Lydia Semyonovna wrote that in the process of passing combat training in the homefront, she was sent to take special sniper courses, and, according to her relatives, she had a sniper instructor certificate. According to a copy of the list of conscripts in the Soviet Army, the family book of sergeants and soldiers, as well as wartime photos, it turned out that Nina Semyonovna was assigned to the air defense forces of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment on the Kalinin front. There, she took training courses in shooting from a small-caliber anti-aircraft gun. At that time, those who completed a strict test of knowledge with distinction and showed commanding abilities during training were simultaneously awarded the military rank of Sergeant. In one of the photos, you could see a badge with the writing "Excellent gunner" attached to her uniform, which she was awarded with for " ... ability to hold any position in an artillery-servicing platoon, and competent, high-quality masking of guns...". After a few months of active participation in the fighting, Nina Semyonovna was appointed commander of an anti-aircraft gun. Her main goal was to shoot down planes. A downed plane meant not one, but many accurate hits. Moreover, the gunner had to discern the inscriptions on the planes. After enemy air raids - and there could be 14 of them a day - the women fell asleep on the cold ground next to their guns. During the lulls in fighting, Nina Semyonovna performed designated tasks as a sniper. After one of the enemy raids, the women were buried under the walls of the dugout and tried to get to the surface for about 4 days, digging the ground and sorting through the rubble with their hands. They managed to escape and afterwards celebrated that day as their second birthday. During the war, N. S. Belskaya also had the honor of protecting her beloved Leningrad from advancing German soldiers, and then go through the entire war with the division. Antonina Semyonovna was awarded medals and orders of various degrees. According to a copy of the pass certificate and a copy of the list of those demobilized from the Soviet Army, it turned out that N. S. Belskaya arrived at the military Commissariat of the Breitovsky district in July 1945. According to information provided by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Yaroslavl region, after returning home, Nina Semyonovna moved to Leningrad. She was offered a job in the Federal Department of the criminal law service in the main Department on Liteyny Prospect, as well as a position of a shooting instructor at a military school. According to Gennady Semyonovich and Lydia Semyonovna, long ambushes (2-3 days each) in snowdrifts, and on trees, and prolonged lack of sleep had major consequences on Nina Semyonovna's health. Her frostbitten feet hurt badly; and her joints did not bend well. She had no husband or children. Her entire life was spent caring for the families of her brothers and sisters. Nina Semyonovna had been living in Rybinsk for the last 4 years of her life. In her last months, she was very ill and was in the hospital. The doctors’ diagnoses were not optimistic, but Nina Semyonovna was holding on as strongly, as in 1945, waiting for Victory Day and the words of gratitude from the president that were so important to her. On May 10, 1998, she died, never complaining about her fate and looking at the children, rejoiced in their carefree laughter and mischief. Belskaya Nina Semyonovna is buried in the city cemetery "Yuzhnoye".