“…I was left alone in 9 years. At one point, went closest. In those tragic days for me were the people who saved my life. I was adopted. The document that I stored all the years, very rare. This certificate of adoption of a child in besieged Leningrad.
Horizons Sergey Nikolaevich – the man who called himself my dad worked at plant No. 7. Military title. Actually is a plant named after M. V. Frunze, located near the Finland station. Both the plant and the workers were under martial law, with all its consequences. Beds were directly in the shop, slept and worked in shifts, without leaving the production. Fed is also in the shops, which were then work, home and dining room: 250 grams of the siege of bread and chowder.
To confirm the “gravity” of those military days, I will show another way for me to document – statement of Claudia Timofeevna Gorizontova (wife of “uncle Serezha”), in which she requested leave for “…my account…”, because I was sick and greatly weakened. The document was forwarded through friends or acquaintances, the management company, where she worked.
to Walk to work (from home on the Vyborg side to Ligovka 195) after an illness was very hard. Ligovka is Ligovsky Prospekt, and the building was at the intersection with the Kursk street. Adoption (that is, in my case, adoption) in the siege of Leningrad is an act that characterizes the greatest courage adults. In wartime, in the besieged city, where everyone lived only by the principle: “Everything for the front! Everything for victory!”, when orphaned children were sent to orphanages or simply did not know, in the act, entailing the adoption into the family of dependent (sadly, but this status was besieged each child), could provide, at best – self-interest, at worst – scary to imagine. War! Blockade!
When people ask me: “How to live in the blockade?”, you can not easily answer – hard to remember, hard to think, hard times. But they say: “It is when you live on the third floor in the big house, where there is no electricity, no heat, no water, no sewer – only Windows, self-sealed, wood-burning stove with a pipe, taken through the window. There is nothing to drown and for the bread to rise early. Winter of 41 -, 42-years was fierce and bombed constantly.”
But I’ve lived, no matter what. It was not fear, as in the present time when we are all in a difficult position. Now think and say: Live! Throw away bad thoughts. You know, thoughts are material! Take care of yourself and loved ones…”
After the war, Zoya Sergeevna graduated energy College, he entered the faculty of geography of Leningrad state University. Student participated in the expedition of the all-Union geo��logicheskogo Institute for oil exploration in Western Siberia, went to the construction knyazhya Guba hydroelectric power plant. By the way, Zoya Semenovna she met her future husband Vitaly Nikolaevich Meshkov, a man who later became a true legend of the energy of the Arctic.
After the wedding, Zoe S. my husband and I moved to the village of Zelenoborskiy, led geography at the local boarding school, conducted classes in the groups. But in pedagogy Zoya Sergeevna left when her husband was transferred to Kirov TPP, she moved with him and settled in the Geophysical Institute of the Academy of Sciences, worked at Apatity seismic station. Also three years she worked at the seismic station in the village of rayakoski on the border with Norway. Then there was the move in Murmashi, work in Kolenergo in the technical Department.
even in retirement, Zoya Sergeevna moved to St. Petersburg, she now lives in Pushkin. Of course, he is sad sometimes in the Northern lights and the unique polar nature, but in St. Petersburg it’s available theaters and museums. Now, in the period of self-isolation, Zoya Sergeevna watching the cultural life of the city in an online format. Watching broadcast shows, virtual exhibitions, and monitors the news media and what is especially nice, regularly read “the Russian newspaper”.
“the Russian newspaper” congratulates Zoya Sergeevna with the Day of the great Victory and wishes her all the best. the congratulations, Zoe S.!
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