Lyudmila Dmitrievna Petrakova (married to Fadeeva) (June 5, 1936, Ulyanovsk - November 29, 2016, ibid.) - a girl to whom her father wrote a letter from the front during the Great Patriotic War . This letter subsequently became a textbook. In 1980, a monument was erected for girl Mila in Volgograd [1] .
| Lyudmila Petrakova | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Lyudmila Dmitrievna Petrakova |
| Date of Birth | June 5, 1936 |
| Place of Birth | Ulyanovsk , USSR |
| Date of death | November 29, 2016 (aged 80) |
| A place of death | Ulyanovsk , Russia |
| Citizenship |  USSR →  Russia |
| Father | Dmitry Adrianovich Petrakov |
| Mother | Maria Mikhailovna Petrakova |
In 1957, Lyudmila Petrakova graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Water Transport . After graduation, she got a job in the Ulyanovsk river port , where she worked for about a year. All my life I worked at the institute GPI-10. In 1961, she married Mikhail Fadeev, and after almost a year they had a daughter, Natalya. In 1991, Lyudmila Petrakova-Fadeeva retired. She died on November 29, 2016 in Ulyanovsk at 81 years of age, after a long illness [2] .
Letter
Letter from political instructor Dmitry Petrakov to daughter Mile (09/18/1942):
“My black-eyed Mila! I am sending you a cornflower. Imagine: a battle is going on, enemy shells are torn, around a crater, and a flower grows here. And then another explosion, the cornflower is ripped off. I picked it up and put it in my gymnast’s pocket. The flower grew, reached for the sun, but it was ripped off by an explosive wave ... Mila! Papa Dima will fight with the Nazis to the last drop of blood, to the last breath, so that the Nazis do not treat you like this flower. What you don’t understand, Mom will explain. ”
This letter was written by Commissioner Dmitry Adrianovich Petrakov in 1942, in the interval between the battles near Stalingrad. Commissar Petrakov died in 1943 during an attack on the Orel. For courage and heroism in the Stalingrad battles he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad." The letter and other documents of Dmitry Petrakov were transferred by the Lyudmila family to the museum in Minsk [3] .
Monument
The monument to the girl Mila with a cornflower in his hand was sculpted in gypsum in the 1970s and covered with gilding. May 3, 1980, the official opening of the memorial "Soldier's Field", the sculpture found bronze plating. At her feet there is a triangular stone symbolizing a soldier’s letter, on which lines of the letter of Commissioner Petrakov are carved: “My black-eyed Mila ...”. In the winter of 2014, a vandal knocked down a monument and peeled off its surface, intending to surrender bronze as non-ferrous metal. The sculpture could not be restored, so I had to cast an exact copy of the work of the Volgograd sculptor Alexei Krivolapov. This was made possible thanks to the sculptor’s preserved widow of the plaster copy. April 30, 2014 the monument was completely cast in bronze and returned to its place [4] .