Litvinenko, Adele Nikolaevna

Born November 7, 1926 in a working class family in Kiev. Since June 1941, she participated in the Great Patriotic War. She went to the front as a volunteer. She served as a sanitary instructor, intelligence officer and commander of the foot reconnaissance platoon department of the 1159th Infantry Regiment of the 351st Infantry Division of the 9th Army on the South-Western and North Caucasus Fronts. She was a connected partisan detachment, fought in the territory of Donbass and the Rostov region, defended the Caucasus. In 1942, she joined the Komsomol at the front. Three times she was wounded and shell-shocked. In 1944, after a serious injury and prolonged treatment at the hospital, she was dismissed for health reasons with the rank of senior sergeant. In 1945, she graduated from Kiev Secondary School No. 45 and, on a ticket to the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Ukraine, was sent to work to restore the Donbass.

Since 1945 - apprentice welder at the Druzhkovsky plant of metal products of the Stalin region. Since 1946 - 2nd Secretary of the Druzhkovsky City Committee of the LKSMU of the Stalin Region. Two years was almost motionless after paralysis. After improving her health, she moved to Makeevka, where for three years she worked as a teacher at a vocational school.

Since 1950 - electric machine operator, operator of the rolling mill of the rolling mill No. 2 of the Makeevka Metallurgical Plant named after Kirov of the Stalin Region. Worked as a rolling mill operator for over 30 years. In 1951 she joined the CPSU.

In 1966 she was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor "for outstanding successes achieved in the development of ferrous metallurgy."

She was elected a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR of 8 - 9 convocations, a delegate to the XXIV Congress of the CPSU and the XXIII Congress of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

After retiring, lives in Makeevka, Donetsk region.

• Hero of Socialist Labor - Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 22, 1966
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Red Star (thrice)
• Order of the Red Star (1943)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (1971)
• Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree (1985)
• Honorary resident of Makeevka

Litvinenko, Adele Nikolaevna (Russian) . The site " Heroes of the country ."

• In Makeevka congratulated on the Day of Defender of the Fatherland World War II veteran Adel Litvinenko
• I live in memories. And I have something to remember , Makeevsky worker, No. 124 (18118) of November 9, 2011
• Date through the years. The story of Adele Litvinenko from the book "Hero Children"
• Adele Nikolaevna Litvinenko - Hero of the Razdorskaya Crossing
• Site "Memory of the people"
• “I HAPPY THAT I knew how I could overcome everything” , Memoirs
• 100 interviews with Soviet women (inaccessible link)
• "Our land." Adele Litvinenko, 2018 interview