Veterans of the forest industry: Ananyeva Anastasia Nikonovna
We continue the column “Veterans of the forest industry” as part of the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Today its heroine is Anastasia Nikonovna, a participant in the Great Patriotic War.
Anastasia Ananyeva was born on March 22, 1923 in the Radkovo village of Kharkov Region (Ukraine). As a child, she had to endure a lot of adversity - her mother died early, she had a chance to wander around orphanages until her father took her to a new family. After graduating from school, she went to study in FZU as a signal operator, successfully graduated from college and began to work.
On July 19, 1941 Anastasia Ananyeva was mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army, where she served in the communications department, communicating with military units at various levels. In December of the same year, she ended up with telegraph operators in Stalingrad and spent many months here defending and liberating this city on the Volga.
“Our headquarters was well protected, the Germans bombed the district, not knowing about us. So that they did not find any movement in this place at all, we changed each other at night, Anastasia Nikonovna recalls. - The rhythm of life was very stressful, we risked every day, because Stalingrad was constantly bombed. After the battle of Stalingrad we ended up in Astrakhan. Soon, our 6th separate regiment of communications in the 28th Shock Army launched an offensive through the Kalmyk steppe. It was especially difficult there. There was no housing, we worked in dilapidated nightmares, then in dugouts. But this was not the most difficult – we suffered without water. The Kalmyk epic ended when the troops liberated the city of Elista”.
According to the veteran, then there were Lithuania, Koenigsberg, Poland, Berlin ... For military distinctions in battles during the capture of the city of Berlin, the regiment in which she served was awarded the title of Berlin.
In the war, Anastasia Ananyeva met her intended man. In 1944, a young signal operator, a native of the Tetyushi town of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic Nikolai Georgievich Ananyev, arrived in the regiment where she served.
After the war, Anastasia Ananyeva arrived with her husband in Tetyushi, worked in the Tetyushsky mechanized forestry enterprise as a clerk. Together with Nikolai Georgievich, they lived a long and happy life. Unfortunately, he is no longer alive, like many other veterans of World War II.