Vodolazhchenko, Olga Gavrilovna

Olga Gavrilovna Vodolazhchenko was born on May 28, 1888 in the family of an officer of the Russian tsarist army. In 1095 she graduated from the Sevastopol girls' gymnasium. In 1912 she graduated from the historical department of the historical and philological faculty of Kharkov University and received a direction in Karasubazar .

In 1909 she married a student-technologist Trofim Tikhonovich Vodolazhchenko, gave birth to two sons - Yuri and Vsevolod.

Olga Vodolazhchenko taught Russian language and history at the gymnasium, where she also created a circle of high school students. She also conducted social work within the framework of which she organized the Karasubazar garden workers union, entered the board, and also worked in the executive committee, where she was a member of the food committee. In 1917 she was elected to the City Duma.

In 1914, after continuing her studies, she received another diploma in pedagogy. Since November 1917, she moved back to Kharkov . In Kharkov, she graduated from the course of Ukrainian studies and began working as a teacher of the Russian language, Ukrainian, and history at the First Real School. At the same time, worked as deputy director of the 8th Kharkov elementary school. Since 1919, Olga Vodolazhchenko also works in the archival section of the Kharkov Provincial Committee for the Protection of Monuments of Art and Antiquities.

In 1927 she graduated from graduate school and since 1936 she became an assistant professor at the Kharkov Institute of Railway Engineers .

On August 2, 1937 ^[2] Olga Vodolazhchenko was arrested with charges of allegedly "active participation in the anti-Soviet Ukrainian rebel organization." Then her husband, who died in prison, is also arrested. This was not the only death in the family. One of the sons of Vsevolod, after accusing his parents as “enemies of the people” commits suicide, and his daughter Galina leaves far away from her native places in the Far East. Vodolazhchenko receives five years of exile. Three months before the start of World War II, in March 1941, Olga Vodolazhchenko got a job as an accountant in the village of Karmakchi, Orenburg Region. Since 1942, she got a job in high school, where she taught Russian, literature, history and English.

In 1954 she moved to Nikolaev , to her younger sister. Here I worked in the Nikolaev regional scientific library. In 1964 she was rehabilitated, but received no compensation from the USSR for false accusation and lost years.

Died October 30, 1972 in Nikolaev.

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