Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Aviation. Her combat path began in May 1942 at the station. Bakaritsa of Arkhangelsk within 1.5-2 months. completed the course of a young soldier, then was sent to the Karelian Front as part of the 7th Air Army of the 101st battalion, where part of it built dugouts for flight personnel and airfields and landing sites to guard the Kirov railway. (Murmansk-Vologda), along which military supplies and food were transported. This road was continuously bombed by enemy aircraft, so it had to work under the bombing. After the liberation of the Soviet Arctic, part of it was transferred to the West in the mountains. Kaliningrad (Tver), to Belarus, to East Prussia, and she was demobilized in August 1945 from the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). She was awarded medals "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", For the liberation of the Soviet Arctic "," For the capture of Konigsberg. "The Veteran of Labor medal, jubilee medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1942-1945 year 20,30,40,50,60,70 years. She has already gone through a lot, this is what she wrote in her memoirs: "Oh, and the girl's lot was hard in the war. I was appointed a foreman. We built airfields and landing sites for planes, cleared of felling, uprooted stumps. We worked for 16-20 hours under bombing. "The food was not important: 650 g of bread, but a talker, whitewashed with flour. Yes, sauerkraut, which we prepared ourselves. That's the whole ration." after the war came to her village: Not a single man. Women plow on themselves and fell wood. "And our mother has 6 daughters." I am the eldest. The only brother Pavlik (Pavel Aleksandrovich Pirogov, born in 1918, died a heroic death on the Sinyavinskiye heights near Leningrad, died on 14/01/1943 in the rank of corporal of the 71st Rifle regiment was a liaison and a member of the Komsomol "). , village of Gontovaya Lipka, east of the road, "- information from the personal list of irrecoverable losses of the commanding staff of the 71st rifle division from January 13-20, 1943. She had to raise all her sisters. And they lived with their great-grandfather for 44 years. grandmother Valya (journalist) and her brother Alexander. He is a retired lieutenant colonel. On May 9, Mom and Dad will carry the portraits of my great-grandfathers in the columns of the Immortal Regiment.