CITY: Lug, Leningrad Region DATE OF BIRTH: 12/10/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 12/17/1997 HISTORY: Born on December 10, 1910 in Luga, Leningrad Region, in a large peasant family. In 1926 she came to Leningrad to work. She worked as a nanny in the Nepman family, and then as a worker at industrial enterprises in Leningrad. Since 1935 she sailed on ships of the merchant fleet of the Soviet Union. I have visited many countries of the world. In the first days of the war, the ship's crew was in Tallinn. She took part in the tragic Tallinn crossing. From the very beginning of the war, she worked at the Leningrad Defense Plant. She survived the blockade of Leningrad. In 1943 she was drafted to the front. She fought in combat units of the Red Banner Baltic Front. She was an anti-aircraft gunner. She fought at the Oranienbaum patch and in Kronstadt. As part of the advanced units of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, she reached Konigsberg, took part in the hardest battles for this impregnable German fortress. In 1944 she returned to Leningrad and again, before retirement, worked as a highly qualified drill operator at a defense industry enterprise. She was actively involved in social work: she was a member of the trade union committee of the plant, a brigade leader of a communist labor brigade, a member of the comrades' court of the shop. Repeatedly won the socialist competition at her native plant. She proudly bore the high title of "Drummer of Communist Labor". I was very proud of all this. For participation in the Great Patriotic War and military services she was awarded many front-line awards - the Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree and medals, including - "For the Defense of Leningrad" and "For the capture of Konigsberg." Evgenia Antonovna lived a difficult, but bright and interesting life. She dearly loved our Motherland, deservedly was proud of the high title of the Participant of the Great Patriotic War. May 9, on Victory Day, she always wore military awards. Evgenia Antonovna was a very strong and strong-willed person. Neither the 900 most difficult and terrible days of the Leningrad blockade, nor the hardships and privations that fell to her at the front, nor the difficulties of the first post-war years, broke her. Personal life was also not easy. In the most difficult periods of her life, she remained calm, confident in her abilities, the conviction that kindness, caring attitude to those close to her and those around her, disinterestedness, willingness to help a person in a difficult life situation, optimism and faith in a good human principle is the natural state of a person. Such an understanding of human existence has always helped her and filled her difficult life with deep human content, meaning and dignity. Yevgenia Antonovna until the end of her days was in the thick of the events surrounding her, led, as far as possible, an active lifestyle. She loved to visit theaters, film premieres, concerts, she was very fond of ballet and classical music. Until the last days of her life, courageously overcoming a serious illness, she was interested in everything that was happening around. Until the very last days of her life, Evgenia Antonovna remained a caring and gentle mother. Evgenia Antonovna died on December 17, 1997 and was buried in the Yuzhnoye cemetery of Leningrad.