Logvinova, Vera Vasilyevna

Born December 29, 1919 in Avdeevsky district of Donetsk province.

In 1935, her father died and her mother remained with ten children in her arms. Vera, having finished six classes, went to Stalino to look for work.

She settled on mine number 8 ("Vetka"). At first she wore in the face of the lamp. After graduating from the locomotive driver courses and evening school, she began to work on the rise. In 1941 she went to Kharkov to the courses of radio telegraphs. There she found the Great Patriotic War .

Vera first came to cavalry troops under the command of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, and then served as an armored radio operator. At Stalingrad her contused and wounded. Left the hospital continued to fight: liberated the Carpathians, Berlin, Prague. She returned home as a sergeant ^[1] December 29, 1945 - on her 26th birthday.

She continued to work at the mine, first a loader under the lava, then she was a machinist of the ascent — first underground, and then on the surface. After the mine number 8 ("Vetka") was closed, she went to the mine Zasyadko, and from there - to retire. She continued to engage in public work: she was the chairman of the mine's women's council, and held the same position in the city council.

Family

With her husband Leonid Grigorievich (already dead) - Vera Vasilyevna lived almost 60 years. She could not have children after front wounds. Now for Vera Vasilyevna look out relatives and incoming woman.

• Hero of Socialist Labor ( 1960 ).
• Awarded more than thirty awards: the Order of Lenin, World War I and II degree, the Red Star, the sign "Miner's valor" medals.

• Old Donetsk Hero was forgotten, the new one continues the fight