Shukova Ekaterina Savelyevna (worker in the rear, widow of a WWII participant) was born on November 25, 1928 in the village of Kordon in the Ural region. Until the age of 12, she believed that "there is no happier family in the world", and then the war began, the world of the little girl faced a harsh reality. Ekaterina Savelyevna also remembers the terrible hunger of 1933 and the lack of money, but she recalls the time spent with her parents with special warmth. “In December 1943, my father was taken to the front. He was 50 years old, and since there was no one to fight, he also became a soldier. In February 1944 my mother died and I was left without adult care. And on July 22, I became an orphan, having received a funeral for my father”-the veteran recalls with bitterness. Ekaterina Savelievna entered the technical college to learn how to handle tools, at the same time she worked in the field. “ Studies finished together with the war end and she graduated from college with perfect results, receiving the speciality "car mechanic". I decided not to go according to the state distribution - I didn't want to leave my native places. I got a job as a student at a tractor plant, but was forced to leave, since they did not give a place in the hostel, and there was nowhere else to live. Later I returned to the village, got a job on a collective farm in a subsidiary farm” - she tells about his post-war life.