JSC "Mogilev Meat Processing Plant" on the eve of the Victory Day congratulated Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kravchenko

Today, unfortunately, it is rare to meet a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Fewer and fewer of them remain among us.

77 years have passed since the halls of the victory salute died down in that great war of the Soviet people against the Nazi invaders. But history and people cherish the memory of the Great Victory of a great people. And the witnesses of those terrible events are still alive-witnesses of courage and perseverance, devotion and sacrifice.
We want to tell you about such a witness, a fragile woman at first glance.
Nadezhda Nikolaevna Kravchenko, a resident of A. G. Buinichi, Mogilev district.
When the war began, Nadenka was not even 5 years old.

By the birthday there were only a few days left when the news of the beginning of the war came. Her mother died in the 38th and the girl was preparing to celebrate her first small anniversary with her aunt–Anna Ivanovna Kirilova, with whom she lived at that time. Her aunt took her to her when she realized how difficult it would be for her father to raise two-year-old Nadenka alone.
And on September 8, 1941, it was announced over the loudspeaker that the city had been taken into the "ring", so the endless and tragic 872 days of the siege of Leningrad began.

Nadezhda Nikolaevna speaks with tears about those events. Despite such a young age, my memory has preserved everything. She remembers how cold and hungry it was, how Aunt Nyusha gave her her portion of bread. Every day someone died. So Aunt Nyusha died, quietly, in her sleep, on a May morning in 1942, saving the life of little Nadia at the cost of her life. And Nadenka, when she realized that her aunt would not wake up anymore, went to look for people, she had to continue living.

Nadezhda Nikolaevna, along with other children, was sent to Ivanovo, where an orphanage for children of besieged Leningrad was organized. It was there that Sophia Fedorovna and Vasily Petrovich found her, the worst, with severe headaches -people gave the girl love and family.
"We all wanted a family, we all wanted a mom. Everyone hoped that they would take him away," Nadezhda Nikolaevna recalls and tells how with her mother, they baked pancakes from starch water and how happy she was to go to the cinema when her father gave 10 kopecks.
After graduating from the seven-year-old, she went to study at a technical school, and in 1955 she was sent to practice in the Belarusian Mogilev. She worked at the artificial fiber factory named after V. V. Kuibyshev. It was in Mogilev that she met her husband, Andrey Ivanovich Kravchenko. In 1959 they got married and lived soul to soul for almost 60 years: a quiet, modest girl Nadia and a cheerful joker Andrey.

Nadezhda Nikolaevna speaks with great warmth about her husband and it seems that now the door will open and she will happily get up to meet him.
You can listen to it indefinitely. This is a bright woman and a very positive person.After seeing us off, she continued to tell us about her difficult, but so rich and real life for a long time, standing at the gate.
Looking at this no longer young woman, you realize that nothing can break her. All the strength is in her, such a simple Russian woman, and no matter how many years have passed, her memory will surely preserve all the memories.

And today, on the eve of the May 9 holiday, we wish Nadezhda Nikolaevna good health and long life, happiness and peace, love and kindness!