Rank: Junior Sergeant. Force Type: coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. My grandmother, Vera Kazakova, was born in 1923 in the village Verkhny Mamon in the Werchnemamonski district of Voronezh region. In large family. The father died early and the children experienced poverty and hunger. After finishing 8 classes, she entered the Bogucharsk Pedagogical School. There was no money, she went to Boguchar on foot, her suit was made of canvas, but the desire for knowledge was always very strong in the family. On 21 June 1941 the graduation ceremony of the primary school teachers took place. My grandmother never received her high school diploma because during the war a bomb landed in the school's archive building. My grandmother was called to the front, but many of her peers volunteered with her. Military speciality: anti-aircraft artillery scout, head of the control post. Years of service: 1942-1945. Place of employment: Commissariat of B-Mamonskiy district in Voronezh region. Conscripted: 10.04.1942. Combat unit: 2nd division of the battalion of the 4th VNOS regiment. Completion of the combat unit: July 1945. Participation: Battle of Kursk, Voronezh liberation operation. April 1942-November 1943 4th VNOS Regiment, military rank - observer. November 1943-July 1945 2nd division of the battalion of the 4th VNOS Regiment - head of the VNOS post. Memoirs: "In the summer of 1946 a young girl in a tunic arranged to meet a young and very drunk soldier. Unlike him, she recognized her classmate. But, nevertheless, she came to the cinema with a friend. So 10 days later my grandmother married my grandfather, Vasily Petrovich Kalinin. The young family moved to the village. Chernozemny, where a position for a primary school teacher became available. In 1959, Grandpa was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Village Council, now - the village. Kalacheevsky and the family moved to the Kalacheevsky state farm. Granny has worked as a primary school teacher all her life and has earned many awards. Among others from the Ministry of Education of Soviet Union. Before she retired she worked as the head of a boarding school, but in 1979 she retired early because I was born. Grandmother died on January 7, 2016, but my memory returns to her every day. Many people say kind words about her when they meet, because she learned more than one generation in our village. The memory of her is forever in our hearts!