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and hardships to thousands of people. But women suffered

from war hardships most of all.

role of women during the World War II, to

tell about their will and ability to participate in the war and to remind people about respect and honor to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

The object of our study – historical documents, history books about real events, recollections, old family albums and documentaries.

The subject of the research – women who joined the fight and kept pace with men to defend their country from fascism.

The tasks:
- to keep track of the women’s participating in the war;
- to investigate the biography of Tihomirova A.I.;
- to search historical documents;
- try to answer the question why Soviet women helped to fight against fascists;
- to prove that women’s contribution to the war was definitely significant
Importance of the research
The generations change each other, the number of war veterans is decreasing, their children are in a retirement age. Unfortunately, we think about those heroes only on the Victory Day. It is very important especially for the younger generation as we should reverence the memory of our relatives who has taken part in World War and preserve everything they have done for us deeply in our hearts.

United Kingdom and the USA played the main role

in the struggle against Germany.
In all these countries women did their best to work for the victory.

to call up women, to take part in war

work. Some became mechanics and engineers; some drove tanks or built ships. Typical WVS contributions included organizing evacuations, shelters, clothing exchanges and mobile canteens.

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war after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Many

women became nurses, about 74.000 women served in the American Army and Navy Nurse Corps, more than 1,000 women served as pilots in the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

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who served in the Soviet Armed Forces during the

war, which is roughly 3 percent of total military personnel. Women played a great part in most of the armed forces of the Second World War. The Soviet Union deployed women as snipers. The most famous snipers during the war were Lyudmila Pavlichenko and Roza Shanina. Tatyana Nikolayevna Baramzina  was a Soviet sniper in the Great Patriotic War credited with a minimum of 36 kills.

and navigator. Fascists were extremely afraid of women –

the members of the bomber squadron, they called them “Night Witches”.

of the women were in medical units. Of the

medical personnel in the Red Army, 40 % of paramedics, 43 % of surgeons, 46 % of doctors, 57 % of medical assistants, and 200 % of nurses were women. Vera Sergeyevna Kashcheyeva was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and in 1973 became one of the first women to be awarded the Red Cross Florence Nightingale Medal.

big blood and huge losses. In 1941-1945 doctors, nurses

and medical assistants saved more than 17 million soldiers and officers of the Red Army – 72.3% of the wounded were returned to the front. And every soldier and officer in the battle felt that a nurse was near them, that she would give first aid, would hide from bombs and would carry them from the battle field.
One of these nurses of mercy was Antonina Ivanovna Tihomirova. On the 5 of May in 1942 after turning eighteen a young girl enlisted in the army and served in the ammunition dump. In January 1943 she entered military nursing courses and in March Antonina joined the Red Army after graduating from her brief medical training

Division, 249th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army of

the Baltic front as a medical instructor. She came a great way of a nurse of mercy from Klin to Latvia. She fought on the Smolensk, Pskov, Orsha, Rzev  and  Moscow fronts, she showed the utmost courage and heroism and shared the hardships of the soldiers and commanders. She evacuated wounded soldiers from the battlefield. Facing heavy enemy fire she would carry the wounded to safety

village in Smolensk region in November 1943 she was

awarded the Medal "For Battle Merit" and the Medal “For Courage”. The Order of the Patriotic War she got after rescuing 38 wounded soldiers in the Battle of Vayzma. In a terrible battle near the river of  Velikaya not far from Pskov in April 1944 she carried 47 wounded soldiers, officers, and their weapons from the battlefield and was awarded the Order of the Red Star

soldiers she has carried from the battle field; maybe

300 maybe 500. Antonina Ivanovna says; “If I knew I would stay alive I would have written a diary but at that time we thought only about saving our soldiers”.

was walking the field trying to find the survived.

Suddenly the girl heard a groan and a cry for help. When Antonina found the wounded soldier he had been completely frozen because it was terribly cold. His name was Aleksey Surzikov from the 1-st Shock Army. She couldn’t forget him and tried to find him after the war. Only in 1984 they met in Gorky Park on the Victory Day. Since that time Antonina Ivanovna became a dear guest in the Surzikovs’ house.

discharged from military service. She worked as a shop

assistant for 25 years and in 1994 went on a retire. But she continued to take an active part in bringing up the youth.

she often holds the lessons of courage at schools

and tells students about her war way.

survived the war – and, indeed, is still apparently

living today, at the age of 96. I would like to say that Antonina Ivanovna is an outstanding woman. There is no doubt that this woman is worthy of admiration, homage and adoration.

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have a woman’s face”. But all the hardships of

the war lay on the fragile women’s shoulders. Every year we more and more grasp the immortal heroic deed of women in the war, their great victim sacrificed on the altar of the victory. We should worship the women who covered the rear, saved children and defended the motherland with men.

Ред. М. М. Козлова. М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1985 г.
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