Lidia Emelyanova Biography

The family lived on Vasilyevsky Island. Many family members died in a blockade. The little brother of Lidia Petrovna, who was not even a year old, died of dysentery, his mother’s brother died of hunger, he was buried in a mass grave, his grandmother died. A tragic case occurred with the grandmother. Once she came to the store, made bread cards for the whole family, and when she went out into the street, a stranger attacked her and began to beat, trying to take away bread.

Grandmother received serious injuries, but saved bread for the family. After this incident, she was sick for a long time and her body exhausted by hunger could not recover from injuries. She died. Another tragic case almost happened to the little Lida. Mom and Lida stood in line for bread. Mom conversated with a neighbor in turn, Lida played nearby.

While her mother was distracted, the outsider grabbed a little Lida, and smelling her coat, tried to take her away, apparently, in order to eat. Lidochka pulled out and her mother, noticing something was amiss, caught on in time and took her daughter at the thief. According to the memoirs of Lydia Petrovna’s mother, so many people died in Leningrad in the winter of the year that they did not have time to bury them.

The corpses were folded in the premises of the so -called “glass market”, which was located on the corner of Middle Avenue and Shevchenko Street. Sometimes, the rooms were filled to the ceiling. Subsequently, in the spring, when the frozen earth thawed, the dead people were buried in mass graves on the Vasilyevsky Island. At the end of October, a mother with a little Lida and her older sister in the last three barges that erupted along the road of life went into evacuation.

On the way, before their eyes, one barge was shot down by the Nazis, but they were lucky, and the barge on which they sailed survived. The family was sent to the Komi-Permyatsky district. In the village where they were brought, residents almost did not speak Russian. Two evacuated families settled in the same house. There they were also starving. They ate potato cleaning, grass, cooked a jelly jelly.

Immediately after the removal of the blockade, Lidia Petrovna and her mother and sister returned from evacuation to Leningrad. The older sister went to study at school. Since there was no paper, the students wrote on newspapers. Lydia Petrovna’s father served the whole war with a midshipman on torpedo boats that protected Leningrad from the enemy. Was wounded. Aunt Lena, Elena Alekseevna Snatova, mother’s sister, also served in the fleet a sailor-machine gunner.

Another sister’s mother - Dydkovskaya Anna Alekseevna served as a driver at the headquarters of the Leningrad Military District, was at the front, and remained working at the headquarters after the end of the war, from there and retired.

Levina, J. Mayakovsky, Red Army book Dydkovskaya Anna Alekseevna. Information about the awards recorded in the Red Army Book. Records in the work book of Dydkovskaya A. Office characteristic for the senior driver of the headquarters of the deputy. Photo to memory of joint work on the days of the Patriotic War. Elena Alekseevna Udatova Aunt Lidia Petrovna in the photo - the second is on the right.