My great-grandmother during the war. Start in science

My great-grandmother, Pichugina (nee Lipina) Maria Fedorovna, was born on November 2, 1918, in the village of Saya, Perm region. She lived with her parents and brother.

In 1937 she entered nursing school. She graduated in 1939 and got a job as a nurse at the Berezovsky district hospital.

At four o'clock in the morning on June 22, 1941, the radio spread terrible news across the country: fascist hordes had invaded our land. War! This day radically changed the life of the entire country. A huge stream of people rushed to the military registration and enlistment offices, which worked day and night. In the very first days of the war, most of the doctors and nurses left for the active army. Great-grandmother also went to the front - as a surgical nurse. On July 4, she left for a triage evacuation hospital.

The hospital was located in the building former school. There was no need to look around for a long time and get used to the new place of work. June and August passed like a fever. It was a difficult time in the first, sorrowful period of the war. A stream of wounded literally poured in one after another.

Doctors, nurses and medical staff could barely cope with washing, changing clothes, changing bandages and quickly evacuating further to the rear.

Most of the doctors were fresh from their student days, even from 4-5 years medical institutes. Many had no intention of devoting themselves to surgery. But the war changed people's plans.

In the 40s, anesthesia was primitive: ether and alcohol. If there was no alcohol, then such a remedy is a stick in the teeth and endure it. Antibiotics were invented in last years war, and this became a salvation for the wounded: many soldiers were saved from complications, recovered and returned to duty. My great-grandmother saw firsthand how high the spirit of patriotism of our people was. There was also a shortage of medicines and dressings. Used bandages were washed, boiled and used again and again. But despite the difficulties, assistance was provided in full.

My great-grandmother, Maria Fedorovna, talked more about her colleagues, about the sufferings and exploits of the wounded, than about herself.

She recalled with pride that she had the opportunity to assist the chief surgeon of the Red Army, neurosurgeon, Professor Nikolai Nilovich Burdenko.

My grandmother ended the war in Vienna in August 1946. Returning home, stopping in cities, our doctors treated the wounded. It would seem that the nightmare of war was left behind. But the great-grandmother admitted that she involuntarily returned to the past. I remembered the sleepless nights spent at the operating table: mutilated bodies, the endless roar of guns, the countless front roads that had to be overcome during these terrible years. But sad news awaited her at home: the death of her father, her missing brother. She could hardly recognize her mother in the graying and aged woman. According to distribution, my great-grandmother and mother went to live in Chelyabinsk -40 (that’s what Ozersk was called then). Maria Fedorovna worked at the factory clinic of PA "MAYAK" as a head nurse. She got married and gave birth to two daughters. The eldest daughter Nadya is my grandmother, she followed in her mother’s footsteps and became a doctor. My great-grandmother was paralyzed early. Of course, inhuman labor took its toll in the most difficult situation of the Great Patriotic War: constant fear of death, hunger, cold, unbearable pain at the sight of human suffering from the inability to help everyone. Maria Fedorovna died on June 18, 1992.

Unfortunately, I didn’t have a chance to see her and ask her about the terrible trials that befell her, but in the family we keep her memory alive. My mother told me about this.

I am proud of my great-grandmother and her heroic past. I admire the courage and perseverance with which she managed to go through that heroic and joyless path. I will always remember this and tell my descendants.

Our school museum contains an album about my great-grandmother and a model of a field hospital made by my own hands.

Project and creative activities of students.

Research

"My great-grandmother's childhood

during the Great Patriotic War"

Supervisor:

Introduction page 2
Chapter 1. pp. 3-4

2.1. Independent thinking.

2.2. Reading books.

Chapter 2. pp.5-6

Interview with great-grandmother - main and reliable

source of information about great-grandmother's childhood.

Conclusion p.7
List of sources and literature used p.8

Applications pp.9-12

Introduction

Relevance

On the eve of the upcoming holiday "55th anniversary of our city", which is celebrated on May 9, Victory Day, the theme of my research work very relevant. The history of our city and the Great Patriotic War are closely connected with the life of my great-grandmother.

Purpose of the research work:

find out how children lived during the Great Patriotic War and compare it with how my great-grandmother spent her childhood

collect material about children during the Great Patriotic War;

find out where my great-grandmother lived, what she did during the war, how she helped our Motherland bring VICTORY closer during the Great Patriotic War

Object of study:

The Great Patriotic War

Subject of study:

Activities of the great-grandmother during the Great Patriotic War

Hypothesis:

During the Great Patriotic War, life was very difficult for children, but they, along with adults, not only sought to preserve their lives and the lives of those who were close to them, but also brought victory closer with all their might. My great-grandmother’s childhood fell during these difficult years. This means that she did not remain aloof from the general misfortune.

The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time this topic is considered in relation to one specific person, but how many people are there who survived all the horrors of the war, but remained kind, modest, hardworking people. The work describes the memories of one specific person, which tells how they lived during the war years far from the front, what difficulties they faced during the war.

At the end of the research work, it was concluded that even in the village remote from the front, during the war, life was difficult for children; they never knew a truly happy childhood. This work is of a practical nature:

materials can be used in history lessons, local history lessons;

· published in the regional newspaper “Gaiskaya Nov”;

· in demand by the archive, the Council, and the school museum.

1. Independent thinking.

There was a war in our country from 1941 to 1945. In order to win this brutal war, it is necessary for every resident of the country to make a contribution that could bring victory closer. All residents of our country helped the front in every way they could. Probably the children were not left out either.

2. Reading books.

On that distant summer day in 1941, people were doing their usual things. Schoolchildren were preparing for their prom. The children played, they did not even suspect that all this would soon end and there would be only one word on their lips - war. An entire generation born between 1928 and 1945 had their childhood stolen from them. “Children of the Great Patriotic War” is what today’s 75-82 year old people are called. And it's not just about the date of birth. They were raised by war.

The war taught these children to cry. Left in destroyed cities and villages, they became homeless, doomed to starvation. It was scary and difficult for them in enemy-occupied territory. Children could be sent to a concentration camp, taken to work in Germany, turned into slaves, or made donors for German soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands of boys and girls went to war during the Great Patriotic War, gained a year or two more and left to defend their Motherland, many died for it. Children of war often suffered no less from it than the soldiers at the front. Children fought along with adults both in the active army and in partisan detachments. These were mainly children who had lost their parents, in most cases killed or driven away by the Germans to Germany.

Children left behind during the war began their careers at an early age. They studied in the winter, but they didn’t have to study for long, they had to help their mothers feed themselves and their younger brothers and sisters, they learned peasant labor early, they knew how to harness a horse and an ox and milk a cow. And all this at 8-13 years old. “Everything for the front, Everything for Victory”: they were so eager to bring Victory over the enemy closer, they helped as much as they could. Raised by labor and valor, they grew up early, replacing the dead parents of their brothers and sisters.

During the war, children in cities restored destroyed households. Twelve-year-old boys and girls released early from

vocational schools, came to factories and factories. Many of them

stood on stands to reach the levers of their machines. The teenagers worked in unbearable conditions. Hungry, exhausted, they did not leave the frozen workshops for 12-14 hours and contributed to the defeat of the enemy.

Despite wartime, children continued to study. Some residential buildings also became places of study. Even in such terrible conditions, the children learned. It was a feat. The path to school is dangerous and difficult. Shells often exploded in the streets. It was so cold in the schools and bomb shelters where classes were held that ink froze. The students sat in coats, hats, and mittens. My hands were numb, and the chalk was slipping from my fingers. The disciples were staggering from hunger. They all had a common disease - dystrophy. And scurvy was added to it. My gums were bleeding. Teeth swayed. Students died not only at home, on the street, on the way to school, but it also happened right in the classroom.

War-torn childhood, suffering, hunger, death made the children adults early, instilling in them childlike fortitude, courage, the ability to self-sacrifice, to feat in the name of the Motherland, in the name of Victory.

2. Questioning of 5th grade students.

What I learned about the lives of children during the Great Patriotic War shocked me, and I decided to find out whether modern children know about this terrible time. For this purpose, a survey was conducted among 5th grade students.

The years of my great-grandmother’s childhood coincided with the period of the Great Patriotic War, so I interviewed her.

3.Interview with great-grandmother.

My great-grandmother, (Dmitrieva as a child), was born in 1933 in the village of Akyar. In 1937, the whole family moved to Mednogorsk, which was just beginning to be built. Her father recruited people to build a new city. When the Great Patriotic War began on June 22, 1941, my great-grandmother was barely 8 years old. In July, her father was called to the front. A family of 4 children and a fragile woman was left without support. Four months later, a boy was born into the Dmitriev family who would never see his father.

To survive the war, at that time already a mother of 5 children, she moved everyone to the Boevoy state farm, now Priuralsky. We lived with relatives for two weeks. Strangers gave them a dugout for housing, in which livestock had previously lived. It had a dirt floor and one tiny window. My great-grandmother and her mother built the stove themselves from bricks that they made themselves. There was a 1.5 meter distance between the stove and the wall, in which they made a couch where the family slept. The family had no belongings or dishes (luggage was lost during the move). My grandmother graduated from first grade before the war, and she went to second grade for several days (the school was very far away). These were the most hungry and difficult years.

They ate grass, berries, mushrooms, and cooked butter (water and flour). Every day you had to walk several kilometers to get 500 grams of bread (it had added bran and often sawdust), but if there was no firewood and the bread was not baked, they gave you a piece of dough. The bread was divided equally among everyone, but the mother divided her piece into two halves to feed her little son. The little girl Zina had to work in the fields.

On May 9, 1945, the great-grandmother once again went to buy bread, where she learned that the war was over. She told about this in her village. People's reactions to the good news were different: some cried, some laughed.

Not everyone was destined to return from the war. Great-grandmother's father died. The family returned to Mednogorsk.

At the age of 12, my great-grandmother went to. The large school was turned into a hospital, and the students had to study in a small room in which one teacher taught three classes at once. In 1947, my grandmother turned 14 years old. She was accepted into a vocational school, but continued to study in the 5th grade at evening school. In 1949, my great-grandmother graduated from college and went to work at a factory, continuing her studies at evening school. This is how my beloved great-grandmother spent her childhood. She worked for 42 years, not including working as a child during the war.

My great-grandmother will be 81 years old, but even now she does not sit idle, she is constantly engaged in feasible work. Every Saturday she and great-grandfather gather us all together in their cozy home, and we happily communicate with them.

My hypothesis was confirmed. After reading literature about the Great Patriotic War, talking with my great-grandmother, I learned that life was difficult for the children, but they helped with all their might, bringing the glorious Victory Day closer with their selfless work. At the same time, they did not become embittered and were able to rebuild the country from ruins in the post-war period. And in our time they live by helping others.

Conclusion.

Now the grandparents are already old, but even now they do not sit idle, they are constantly engaged in feasible labor. Having survived the war at a young age, they know the value of a piece of bread. I am proud of my grandparents and love them. The main feat of the young residents of the city was study. Thirty-nine Leningrad schools worked without interruption even on the most difficult winter days. It was incredibly difficult due to frost and hunger. This is what was written in the report of one of these schools - 251st Oktyabrsky district: - “Of the two hundred and twenty students who came to school on the third of November, 55 systematically continued their studies. This is one fourth. Lack of nutrition affected everyone. In December - January "Eleven boys died. The rest of the boys were in bed and could not attend school. Only girls remained, but even they could barely walk."

Annex 1.
2.2. Analysis of research results

Questioning.

40 students in grades 3-5 took part in the survey.

The respondents were given a questionnaire.

1. When did the Great Patriotic War begin?

2. What heroes of the Great Patriotic War do you know?

3. Which commanders of the Great Patriotic War do you know?

4.What pioneer heroes do you know?

5. What battles of the Great Patriotic War do you know?

6. Which city was blockaded during the Great Patriotic War?

8. Do you know your relatives whose lives are connected with the Great Patriotic War?

Conclusions from the survey results

The results of the survey show how little today’s schoolchildren know about the Great Patriotic War.

We believe that modern schoolchildren need to read more about the Great Patriotic War, meet veterans, visit WWII museums,
watch movies and never forget about the price at which victory was won.

List of sources and literature used

ri friend from Volkhonka / There is a people's war: Stories. - M.: Children's literature, 1977 - P. 53-54. 57 immortals // For the defense of Stalingrad. – M.: Malysh, 1974. – P. 20-22. – (Grandfather’s medals). last parade: Tale\. Leaving childhood: Stories. – M.: Young Guard, 1983. – P.5-78. - (B-ka of youth). news about Zoya and Shura / Literary entry by F. Vigdorova. - Novosibirsk: Zap.-Sib. Book publishing house, 1983. - 2087 p. - (School library). news about a son / Literary edition by P. Gavrilov; Designed M. Borisova-Musatova. - M.: Children's literature, 1984. – 207 pp.: 8 sheets: ill. - (School b - ka). scarlet soldier /A. Platonov // Only Victory and Life!: Journalism. - M.: Children's literature, 1988. - P. 164 -168 - (School library). Letter from a 15-year-old girl K. Susanina from fascist hard labor. 1943 // Dead heroes speak: Suicide letters of fighters against the Nazi invaders (1941 -1945). ? 3rd ed., rev. and additional - M.: Politizdat, 1966. - P. 301-303. 16. eti / Only victory and life!: Journalism. – M.: Children's literature, 1988. – P. 69 - 75. – (School library). 17. Hoza save the children! / The road of life. - L.: Children's literature, 1984. - P. 17.

Appendix 2

Appendix 3.

Appendix 4.

Glossary

WAR w. (war, to fight, to beat, to fight, as probably, and, and or warlord), discord and military combat, international warfare. Offensive war, when an army is led against a foreign state; defensive, when they meet this army, to protect their own. An internecine war, strife, when one and the same people, divided into two in unrest, fight each other with weapons. War by land, sea, battle on the mainland, at sea. Underground war, various mines. childbirth, during a siege, on both sides. Small war, outpost service, occupations and duties of the guard unit of the army. Guerrilla warfare, the actions of individual, small units of the army, from the wings and from the rear of the enemy, to cut off funds and supply them. People's War, in which the whole people, out of sympathy for the discord, takes an active part

REVIVE or revive, revive something, give birth, produce, create again, again. restore, renew; - to be born again, to be renewed or to be regenerated. A caterpillar is reborn from a larva into a moth or into a moth, but a person can only be reborn in spirit. the property of everything that can be reborn. Revival cf. valid the one who revives and the state of the one who is revived, reborn. The rebirth of man is accomplished by the conquest of sensuality and the predominance of the spirit. Revivalist, revivalist m. -nitsa f. revolting against someone or something. Regenerative, capable of rebirth.

rear - the territory behind the front, behind the battle line

Example: Withdraw a company to a point. Get out and strike the enemy in that point.

rear - a person who serves, works in the rear.

6th grade students wrote an essay about relatives who took part in the Great Patriotic War. We present them to your attention.

They forged Victory in the rear!

My great-grandfather Vladimir Ilyich Laskin and great-grandmother Valentina Nikolaevna Laskin are home front workers. When the Great Patriotic War began, they were fourteen years old. They just finished seven classes.

In 1943, a bomb production plant began to be built in the city of Sterlitamak. Less than a year had passed since the laying of the first stone, and the factory workers were already producing shells and bombs that helped strike the Nazi invaders. While the plant was being built, my great-grandfather studied in the workshops to become a turner. Having learned lathe skills, he began to work. He processed body parts of bombs weighing up to eighty kilograms. It was very difficult. The workshop was not heated, there was hunger and cold. We worked seven days a week, fourteen hours a day. The entire burden of work fell on the shoulders of the boys and girls, who were then fourteen to seventeen years old.

My great-grandmother also worked in the same workshop. She was cleaning up the shavings. “Everything for the front, everything for Victory!” - this was the slogan during the war.

On May 9, 1945, my great-grandfather and great-grandmother went to work in the morning as always. It was warm and quiet on the street, and the people they met told them that the war was over, there was no need to go to work. No one worked that day. The plant director gathered all the workers and congratulated them on the Victory. Everyone cried and rejoiced.

Laskin Danil

Feat

My great-grandfather Stepan Ivanovich Morozov was born on December 11, 1911. On July 13, 1941, he was drafted into the war. He was a radio operator. My great-grandfather was wounded in the war, but he made it to Berlin.

After the announcement of Victory, he took part in the battles for Prague. He has a medal for the liberation of Prague and more than 12 other medals. Unfortunately, my great-grandfather Stepan died before I was born. I am very proud of my great-grandfather and his brother; Morozov Mikhail Ivanovich died in the battles near Volgograd.

Askhadullin Alexander

My great-grandparents

My great-grandfather Mikhail Alexandrovich Voshchikov was drafted into the war at the age of 18. He was a private. He was wounded in the right temporal region by a grenade fragment and was demobilized in 1944. Awarded the medal “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR.” Unfortunately, my great-grandfather did not like to talk about himself.

Voshchikova's great-grandmother Nadezhda Fedorovna served as a radio operator in Leningrad during the siege. She was awarded the medals “For the Defense of Leningrad”, “For Victory over Germany”, “For Valor and Courage in the Great Patriotic War”.

I am grateful to them for their feat during the war!

Chernoskutova Tanya

I'm proud of my ancestors

My great-grandmother Olga Stepanovna Osokina, born in 1910, lived in Chelyabinsk region in the village of Petukhovo. This territory was not captured by the enemy, but the entire population of the village took part in it. Great-grandmother worked on a collective farm. The entire collective farm grew grains and vegetables in the fields. The grain was sent to the front to feed horses and bake bread for soldiers. Great-grandmother had a cow. She made butter and sour cream from milk and all this was also sent to the front. She and her family were starving because they gave all their food to the soldiers.

My great-grandmother's brother Prokopyev Ivan Stepanovich, born in 1905, was a scout. He went on reconnaissance behind enemy lines and brought military information about enemy movements. One day he went on reconnaissance and never returned. He is considered missing.

I am proud of my ancestors because they bravely endured the suffering and hardships of wartime.

Volkova Polina

Stories of War

My grandmother told me about her dad. He went to war voluntarily and ended up in a reconnaissance battalion. One day his group went on a mission and was surrounded. The entire group died, and the great-grandfather was wounded. He spent a year in the hospital. Then again to the front, now as an ordinary soldier. During the defense of Rzhev, my great-grandfather and one of his comrades covered the retreat of our army and died.

Based on these stories from my grandmother, I got the following picture; great-grandfather was brave, courageous, strong and courageous. He is a patriot of his homeland. My grandmother and I don’t know where he is buried.

The grandmother herself worked in the rear; she was fourteen years old, i.e. she wasn't much older than me.

Lomaev Sergey

My great grandmother's story about the war

When the war began, my great-grandmother Appolinaria Nikolaevna Volkova was 9 years old. She lived in the village of Volkovo. She had six younger brothers and sisters. At the beginning of the war, my father was taken to the front, and my mother went to the farm early in the morning to feed the family. At the age of 9, my great-grandmother worked as a delivery boy at KUMZ. In the morning she ran from one end of the plant to the other, delivering letters from the front. In the evenings, she ran around empty fields to collect a glass of peas and cook stew for her brothers and sisters. During the war, her father went missing.

This is how my great-grandmother’s early years passed. Every time she remembers these events with tears in her eyes.

Obukhova Polina

The publication of essays will continue.

Shcherbina Vladimir, student of 3 "B" class MBOU Secondary School UIOP in the city of Zernograd, Rostov region
Supervisor: teacher primary classes MBOU Secondary School UIOP Kutsurenko Tatyana Anatolyevna
Target: collecting information about relatives who fought and preserving the memory of heroic deeds their ancestors in the Great Patriotic War;
Tasks:
develop interest in search activities;
expand your horizons, lexicon;
promote the development of a sense of patriotism.
Description of material: can be used as a material in classes extracurricular activities and during cool hours on a patriotic theme.

Hello, Jupiter!? I am Diamond!
I can hardly hear you at all...
We occupied the village with a fight,
And how are you? Hello! Hello!...

I would like to talk about a man who left us in 2013, this man is dear to my heart and my family. This is my great-grandmother - Shcherbina Tamara Prokofyevna. She was born on September 23, 1923 in the village of Vodyanaya Balka, Egorlyk district, Rostov region. Great-grandmother Tamara grew up in a large family, graduated from school and entered the Economic and Financial College in the city of Rostov-on-Don. In 1942 on the way fascist troops to Rostov they were evacuated to the city of Ordzhonikidze, in North Ossetia. From there they called for military service to the air defense forces (air defense).

Despite Tamara’s young age - 18 years old, she was entrusted with a female team of signalmen. My great-grandmother didn’t talk much about the years of her military glory, but I heard from my grandfather that once, when her detachment was making communications across the Danube River on one side of the bank (and the part with the command was on the opposite bank), an incident occurred: someone cut out about two hundred meters of cable. At that moment, great-grandmother Tamara was returning from command across the bridge, noticed that communication on the bridge was broken and was very afraid for the death of her squad. She urgently reported this to the regiment. Everything worked out well: the connection was restored and the problems were fixed.

From the memories of a great-grandmother “...During air attacks it was very scary, and, despite our fear, we tried to cheer each other up with a song or a joke. And when we returned home, we kissed each other, rejoiced and cried that we were alive, we won...”
Tamara Prokofyevna was a very responsible, brave and strong-willed person, she passionately loved her Motherland and valued life. She was very beautiful.
My great-grandmother finished her military journey in 1945 in the city of Budapest. During her years of service she was awarded medals: “For Courage”

"For the capture of Budapest"

"For victory over Germany"

AND
"Order of the Great Patriotic War, II degree"

I will cherish the memory of my great-grandmother and proudly tell my children and grandchildren about her.

Composition

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Students of class 7 "A"

GBOU secondary school No. 769

Dubovitskaya Olga

MY GREAT-GRANDMOTHER IS A VETERAN OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

My mother’s grandmother, Leontyeva (Polyantseva) Pelageya Ivanovna, was born on November 6, 1924 in the village of Esakovo, Ryazan region. Now she is no longer alive. She died in 2001, just one week shy of my second birthday. Therefore, I practically don’t remember her, I don’t remember how she played with me, how she walked with me in the last years of her life. Therefore, I know everything about my great-grandmother only from my mother’s stories and I will forever remember the story of her young years, which are directly related to the Great Patriotic War.

In the cold and hungry year of 1942, when the German fascists were already very close to Moscow, there were numerous losses on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. There were not enough weapons, ammunition, and men. Therefore, women began to be called up to the front. First volunteers, and then by legal conscription. Then it was the turn of my great-grandmother’s family. Her father died back in 1941, and the only male left in their family was her younger brother, who, without waiting for his eighteenth birthday, also went to the front. Only the sisters remained. The older ones were unable to go to the front. Therefore, great-grandmother Pelageya, a very young girl, she had just turned eighteen, went to the front as a volunteer.

This is how, in the cold winter of 1942, the frontline journey of a young fighter of the anti-aircraft forces of the first Ukrainian Front began, Pelageya Ivanovna Polyantseva.

My great-grandmother suffered a lot during the war years. She had to be without food and without sleep for several days, serving at anti-aircraft installations. And if I had to sleep, it was only on cold ground covered with an overcoat. But being in such difficult conditions, the great-grandmother was able, together with her front-line comrades, to shoot down many enemy planes. It was thanks to the feat of our anti-aircraft gunners that German troops were unable to advance to Moscow. The enemy suffered many losses during the harsh years of the Great Patriotic War.

Once, in 1943, a marshal arrived at the location of a unit of anti-aircraft troops on the territory of Ukraine, where Private Leontyeva (Polyantseva) Pelageya Ivanovna served. Soviet Union Vasilevsky to inspect the readiness of the troops. The great-grandmother was just at that time near her anti-aircraft gun. At this moment another raid by enemy bombers occurred. The great-grandmother managed to react in time and hit three enemy aircraft at once, and saved her entire battery from death, as well as command staff led by the marshal himself. The news of this immediately spread throughout the entire battery. Therefore, Marshal Vasilevsky demanded that my great-grandmother be summoned and told her in the presence of the battery commander: “An excellent soldier, if only there were more of them in Soviet army! But when he found out that his great-grandmother was just a simple ordinary soldier, he immediately ordered her to be awarded the rank of corporal.

Corporal Leontyeva (Polyantseva) accomplished many other feats during the war years. She told how she had to crawl on the ground for 24 hours under heavy fire from the Nazis, carrying two shells weighing eighty kilograms each under her armpits, how once, while on duty with other soldiers (this already happened in 1944, almost on the border of our homeland), only she one survived an enemy bomb explosion. By luck, the blast wave did not hit her.

Luck accompanied the great-grandmother throughout her entire life. battle path. She did not receive a single injury and reached Berlin itself. Great-grandmother Pelageya was among those soldiers who took part in the storming of the Reichstag.

Another significant incident from the front-line history of Polyantseva Pelageya Ivanovna is connected with the fact that in 1944, during the military operations of our troops on the territory of Poland, she met her brother Sasha at the front, who, like her, reached Berlin. News of this spread throughout the Western Front.

For military services to the Motherland, Leontyeva (Polyantseva) Pelageya Ivanovna was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Therefore, my great-grandmother kept many medals and orders for services to the Fatherland.

I will keep the bright memory of my great-grandmother in my heart for a long time.

ORDER OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1ST DEGREE