Evdokia Petrovna Selyutina (February 19, 1914 - August 12, 1997) is one of the First Builders of the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur , who has worked as a machine operator in a sawmill all her life. Honorary citizen of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (1967, one of the first - the second after Yuri Gagarin ), holder of the Order of Lenin.
| Evdokia Petrovna Selyutina | |
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 Evdokia Selyutin at the memorial stone on the laying of the city, photo in 1968 | |
| Date of Birth | February 19, 1914 |
| Date of death | August 12, 1997 (83 years old) |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
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Biography
Born in 1914 in the village of Kugulta, Stavropol Territory. During the Civil War, remained an orphan.
In 1929-1930 she studied at the school for the illiterate at the First nine-year school of Stavropol.
At seventeen, in 1932, among twenty-two girls, she came to Amur to build a new city. Among the three thousand people of builders then there were only 30 girls. She worked as a cook.
We dreamed about how our city will be. They dreamed in huts, dugouts, around bonfires, over which clothes were dried. And here he is, our Komsomolsk! .. He is more beautiful than he was in his dreams ...
- Evdokia Petrovna Selyutina, 1962
Here she met and married Ivan Sidorenko - on his initiative, the city was called Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
When her husband went missing in the war in 1942 near Stalingrad, she was left alone with four children aged one to eight years.
All my life I worked as a machine operator at the Amurstalstroy trust woodworking plant.
In 1958, she was awarded the Order of Lenin for many years of work.
In 1967, she was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Komsomolsk-on-Amur - in the year of the establishment of this title, among the first three citizens awarded this title, together with cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and doctor Vladimir Pendrie .
Sources
- N. I. Dubinina - Far Easterners in struggle and labor: Historical outline. 1917-1941. - Khabarovsk: Book publishing house, 1982—176 p.
- Nadir Safiev - Coast of bonfires // Around the World Magazine, June 1, 1982
- Victor Levashov - Our distant, our eternally close // Smena Magazine No. 843, July 1962