Parda Valentina Fominichna Valentina Fominichna Parada, born in 1923. My great grandmother was born in Siberia. During the difficult years of the Great Patriotic War, the general tragedy of our people did not pass the Kuban. Our region fully shared the pain, suffering and hardship with the entire country. The war caught my great-grandmother's family in the village of Kushchevskaya in the Krasnodar Region. During the war, Valentina Fominichna worked at a collective farm on field work, namely: she was a trailer on a tractor-sowing machine. Before the Germans attacked the Caucasus, she dug anti-tank trenches together with other residents of the Kubanskaya village. For her selfless work on the home front, she was awarded the status of 'Home Front Worker', and after the war she was awarded the honorary title of 'Labour Veteran' on the basis of her extensive uninterrupted experience. Valentina Fominichna's main occupation is teaching Russian language and literature. She worked continuously in the same school until her retirement. She was actively engaged in public work. Now my great-grandmother Parada Valentina Fominichna is 96 years old. I love her very much and am immensely proud of her feat in life. Her husband, my great-grandfather, was a participant in the Great Patriotic War.