Essay about a wonderful woman leader. Let's talk about a good man

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It is no secret that many beautiful and unique women live in our native and ancient Yuryevets. This is what the employees of the Ryabinka MKDOU said about one of these women.

- The other day The anniversary is celebrated by our manager Lyudmila Alekseevna Alekseeva, who recently retired. On the eve of her birthday I want to say a lot about her kind words, - this is how the teachers who worked with their head for decades began their story.

– Lyudmila Alekseevna was born in the village. Giblitsy Kasimovsky district Ryazan region. She began her career immediately after graduating from school in 1967. Arriving in Ivanovo, I started working as a nurse at the 1st clinic. She completed nursing courses at the Ivanovo regional health care center and was sent as nurse nursery groups to us, in the city of Yuryevets at the Mir nursery. Then she entered the Kineshma Pedagogical College in absentia, from which she graduated in 1974, receiving the specialty of a kindergarten teacher. In August of the same year, she began working as a teacher in kindergarten No. 5. From December 1985 until her retirement, she worked as the head of MKDOU kindergarten No. 5 “Ryabinka”.

While working as a manager, Lyudmila Alekseevna showed herself to be a responsible, competent leader. She has always been distinguished by the clear organization of her activities and professionalism when working with teachers, children and parents. She has the ability to ensure the functioning and development of the kindergarten in accordance with the requirements public policy in the field of preschool education.

For Lyudmila Alekseevna, a manager is not just a position, but a way of life. As a leader, she did everything to ensure that the kindergarten flourished, the employees worked comfortably, and parents trusted their children without any problems. She is a professional in her field, an initiative, experienced leader who directs the team’s activities towards the realization of creative abilities, the development individual qualities the personality of each employee, so that everyone who at first glance seemed unprepossessing, stereotypical, suddenly revealed an interesting side.

In her preschool institution, she was a real mistress, she knew every corner, all the problems and needs, and they Lately it got bigger and bigger. Lyudmila Alekseevna found both the strength and time to solve them, without sparing herself.

And if there was a problem with a lack of staff, she worked for the nurse, and for the caretaker, and for the teacher. Along with all the employees, she cleaned the territory, dug flower beds and planted flowers, participated in the repair of groups and premises of the kindergarten, and even knocked icicles off the roofs herself. Where it is difficult, where there is a problem, there is the owner of the garden. She did everything possible and impossible to ensure that the life of the kindergarten proceeded in a calm and peaceful direction.

Lyudmila Alekseevna has such qualities as: modesty, simplicity, decency, hard work, dedication to her work. Many young colleagues strive to be like her in everything.

“This is a kind-hearted person with whom it is very easy and pleasant to communicate. This is the person about whom they say that “people are drawn to him.” She treats everyone around her with respect, be it an adult or a child. Any conversation begins with the words: “Hello. How are you?" This is not a stock phrase, but a manifestation of interest and care for every close and familiar person. He always listens carefully, encourages, advises, helps with deeds and advice.”

Lyudmila Alekseevna worked well with people. She is from that category of people who control themselves in critical situations and can anticipate and prevent possible conflicts. He can understand and support at any moment, so employees come to work with pleasure, knowing that they are always expected, understood, treated well, valued and respected. As a leader, she combined business activity with the ability to seek pleasure in work, and, together with her subordinates, rejoice at successes and be upset at failures. Supported justified risks when implementing innovations, highlighted the main thing in own work and the activities of the team she leads. She quickly adapted to the changing modern conditions reforming the education system.

“She is a very bright person with an open soul. It’s hard to imagine Lyudmila Alekseevna gloomy, she always smiles and creates good mood to those with whom he communicates.”

She was a frequent guest in groups, children ran up, shared their secrets with her, and she paid attention to everyone. She is distinguished by her boundless love for children. Lyudmila Alekseevna knew every child in the kindergarten, and there were more than a hundred of them.

She still remembers all her students by name. She has always been able to find an individual approach to each child and never remains indifferent to the problems of children and their parents. Children and their parents come to kindergarten with pleasure. Kindergarten graduates are frequent guests, recalling the bright moments of their preschool life.

Teachers and students of preschool educational institutions actively participated in municipal creative exhibitions, competitions, sports events and were awarded numerous diplomas, letters of gratitude.

Lyudmila Alekseevna is efficient in solving a variety of issues, precise in presenting her thoughts, creatively and deeply approaches the implementation of numerous tasks, which has allowed the kindergarten under her leadership to take first place in the ranking among preschool institutions cities.

Needless to say, every subordinate dreams of such a leader: calm, tactful, smart, respectful, ready to help at any moment. The doors of her office were always open, any child could look in and see a smile or hear a kind word.

“Lyudmila Alekseevna gave her entire life to work in our kindergarten, having worked for more than forty years. Here she earned gratitude, certificates, the title “Veteran of Labor,” and most importantly, the enormous respect of colleagues, parents and children who attended the kindergarten.”

Behind high professionalism, innovation and pedagogical skill, Lyudmila Alekseevna was repeatedly awarded with diplomas from the education department, the head of the administration of the Yuryevetsky municipal district. In 2001 she was awarded a diploma of honor from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation.

“She is a very decent and honest person. You can trust her with everything and not for a minute doubt her sincerity.”

We, the kindergarten team, with all our hearts and from all our grateful hearts congratulate Lyudmila Alekseevna on her anniversary. We wish that she would be surrounded by people as kind and bright as herself.

Prepared by M. Krainov

My glorious criminal investigation!
The ranks have been replenished again,
And you are still just as young again,
And so are you with crime on YOU!

Fate decreed that from 1974 to 1993 I worked in the criminal investigation department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Tambov Region as an investigator for the search for criminals and missing citizens. She worked her way up from junior lieutenant to police lieutenant colonel. I was always proud that I worked with real men who knew their business, were completely dedicated to difficult work, detectives from God. Many of them died early, but the memory lives on. I dedicate my essays to them and all employees of the criminal investigation department.

In this essay I want to talk about the famous, respected resident of Tambov, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Gornostaev. For many, many people he remains a model of intelligence,
integrity, extraordinary spiritual kindness. He worked for 30 years in internal affairs bodies, was the head of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs, and deputy head of the regional criminal investigation department. And wherever he worked, he was always a model for his subordinates - in every respect. They learned professionalism, restraint, and tact from him. Everyone who happened to go through Gornostaev’s school acquired an elusive resemblance to the boss - they also scrupulously understood the smallest details crimes, carefully calculated options so that innocent people would not inadvertently be harmed during operational actions.

Different situations arose. In the summer of 1974, police sergeant Mursalov, returning from duty at night, entered into single combat with hooligans. They stopped a Zaporozhets on the road, driven by a Great Patriotic War veteran. Patriotic War, broke the windows and tried to turn the car over. The sergeant rushed to help the elderly man. During the fight, one of the thugs stabbed the policeman in the back. The wound turned out to be fatal. It became a matter of honor for the head of the Leninsky District Department of Internal Affairs V. Gornostaev to solve the crime and punish those responsible for the death of a colleague. The operatives got down to business. It turned out that the killer was hiding in Uvarovo. V. Gornostaev, V. Tolmachev (then the head of the police department on duty) with criminal investigation officers went to arrest. When we entered the right house, the criminal was sleeping. Without disturbing him, the police took out two knives from under the pillow, and then woke up the killer. Seeing the operatives, he immediately put his hand under the pillow and howled...

Vyacheslav Mikhailovich did not leave the family of the deceased sergeant in trouble. Soon his wife Lida Mursalova put on a police uniform and came to work in the same department where her husband served.

Another trait of our boss captivated us - he never hid behind other people’s backs, he always took responsibility for himself. That's why we tried not to let him down.

Many Tambov residents remember 1978, when a real war broke out between hooligans and thieves. It began with the murder of a certain Rublev. The guy grew up in a good family (his mother was an Honored Teacher of the RSFSR), went in for sports, but became friends with thieves and often helped them pickpocket. Once, for a gambling debt, he beat up S., who was convicted of hooliganism. Soon, thieves and hooligans met in a pub near the Stedenets River. The brother of the offended S. called Rublev aside and inflicted several stab wounds on him, from which he died. This is how confrontation arose in the criminal environment. Hooligans and thieves in an irreconcilable battle multiplied the number of victims. Three people were killed, one was missing, and two were wounded. This count could have grown steadily if the criminal investigation officers had not intervened.
V. Gornostaev and V. Tolmachev (at that time the head of the regional criminal investigation department) became tacticians and strategists in restoring order in the city of Tambov. The participants in the bloody showdown were identified and their arrests began. We received information that one of the thieves was hiding in the village of Pushkari with a friend. He has a sawn-off shotgun and won’t just give up. Police officers conducted reconnaissance of the area. The house in which the criminal was hiding had two entrances and was located next to the first-aid post. Almost the entire village was visible from his windows. What should you do to ensure that people are not harmed during the arrest? Gornostaev proposed a plan, with which the management of the Internal Affairs Directorate agreed.

Along one of the quiet streets, distant from the city center, an ambulance was moving towards Pushkari. There were men in white coats inside. Passers-by could not even guess who they were going to provide and what kind of help. The “medical workers” were wearing bulletproof vests and hidden pistols under their gowns. They were not in a hurry because of a call from a sick person.

In the car were “doctor” V. Gornostaev and “paramedic” - operative Sergei Nilov. Criminal investigation officers Semyon Slobin and Boris Posevkin were sprawled on the floor of the salon with machine guns in their hands. When the ambulance arrived at the first-aid post, the doctors with a bag got out of it, and the submachine gunners accompanying them, seizing the moment, quietly made their way into a nearby building to control the windows of the house under surveillance. Nilov gave a prearranged signal to Tolmachev and other employees who were in the car outside the outskirts.

In a matter of minutes, Gornostaev, Tolmachev, Grebennikov stood at the threshold of the house, at the other entrance - Protasov, Chikanaev and other operatives. The assault was lightning fast. The thief, who did not expect an attack, was so confused that he did not have time to grab his sawn-off shotgun. Handcuffs tightened around his wrists. So, thanks to the decisive actions of law enforcement officers, the bloodshed in the city stopped.

More than once or twice, V. Gornostaev participated in the detention of armed criminals. It happened when they shot at him. The task before the criminal investigation officers was tough: to achieve one hundred percent detection of murders and crimes involving serious bodily injury. And if they couldn’t do it without delay, they worked on them for years. So, in the late 70s, now already the last century, on the threshold of the store regional center unknown persons killed a 20-year-old guy. The response was great, but the investigation immediately encountered many difficulties. More than a year went into scrupulous work: they were looking for participants in the fight during which the young man died. It was established that one of them has the nickname “Grey-haired”.

The alibis of more than 200 people with the same nickname living in Tambov and its suburbs were checked. When the next suspect was brought to the department, V.M. Gornostaev organized a full verification of all the versions put forward by him in his defense. It took a day to refute them and completely expose the criminal. The boss was the last to leave the department that day, late at night.

It has become flesh and blood. Vyacheslav Mikhailovich understood everything down to the subtleties. IN difficult situations took the “fire” upon himself, stood up for the honor of his uniform, regardless of the ranks and positions of his opponents. I remember such a case. Two drivers of the regional executive committee were detained for hooliganism. “Your shoulder straps will be removed!” - they threatened the policemen. And yet they received 15 days of administrative arrest. But Gornostaev was called to the carpet. The police colonel responded simply to the claims made: “I have always believed that Soviet authority defends Soviet laws." On the same day, negligent drivers were brought to a special detention center work books– they were fired from their jobs.

Now, when you watch countless television series about the police, in which the chiefs, as a rule, are people of narrow minds, klutzes, you involuntarily remember Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Gornostaev. He remains our pride even now; we should make films and write books about such people, so that young people have someone to make a life of.

A word about the director.

This essay was written two years before publication on the site. The heroine of the essay, Alexandra Arsentievna Sterkhova, celebrated her 80th birthday on September 12, 2015. She retired in 2014, but the school still remembers and loves her.

First of September again. The first bell rings, and smart schoolchildren rush to take their places in bright classrooms, sparkling with fresh paint, decorated with greenery and new blinds. It is cozy and festive at the school, where everything is ready for the new school year: subject rooms equipped with modern office equipment, numerous aids; a beautiful library, welcoming its first visitors with solemn silence; a spacious dining room, with a thoughtful design, more like a cozy cafe. Everything is pleasing to the eye, everything is subordinated to the main goal: to create for high school students ideal conditions for study and recreation. They strived for this and invested a lot of effort and money and parents and teachers, and, to the best of their ability, the boys themselves. But the main inspirer of all the affairs of the school-gymnasium, the creative mentor of the team, its soul is the director of the Guards UVK Alexandra Arsentievna Sterkhova.

There is no more honored person in the Simferopol region than our director. 55 years she gave to pedagogy! The teaching career for Alexandra Arsentievna is not just a job, it is a truly great Service to the noble cause of educating new generations. Hundreds of graduates reverently pronounce the name of their beloved Director. Alexandra Arsentievna dedicated the Guards School more than forty years.On the basis of a small garrison school, she created a new multidisciplinary educational complex, year after year graduating great life comprehensively prepared students, distinguished by strong knowledge. 269 gold and silver medalists are the pride of UVK and, of course, Alexandra Arsentievna. Up to 80% of graduates enter higher educational institutions every year. 24 candidates and doctors of science were educated by the Second Guards under the leadership of director A.A. Sterkhova. The competitiveness of UVK is largely due to the high qualifications of teachers, to which Alexandra Arsentievna pays special attention: the methodological growth of the teacher, in her opinion, is the main task of the school management. The director painstakingly and skillfully guides the studies and development of each member of the team. He gives a lot of strength and energy She works with young teachers, subtly and wisely corrects the activities of experienced mentors.

A special feature of Alexandra Arsentievna is a heightened sense of the new. The most advanced pedagogical discoveries and methodological innovations are reflected in the practice of the Gvardeysky UVK. Creation of the “School of Health”, participation in the program “ Open world", the use of innovative computer technology in teaching - all this is introduced and mastered in the school-gymnasium on the initiative or with the assistance of the director.

It’s no secret how difficult it is to strengthen the material base of a school in a crisis. The role of the director in this process is decisive. Alexandra Arsentievna tirelessly searches for new opportunities, establishes connections with sponsors, and finds response and support from parents. Thanks to her dedicated activities, she flourishes Guards UVK.Equipped the latest technology informational and methodological center, classrooms, two computer classes. The school's classrooms and recreation areas are beautiful and cozy, the gym has been updated. The well-groomed school grounds delight with a variety of plants and lush decoration of the flower beds.

Forty years of school leadership! Is it a lot or a little? For children this figure is eternity, for UVK it is a formative stage, for the director it is life.

Life... Was it happy? Certainly! Since childhood, Sasha dreamed of becoming a teacher. Even in difficult times school years In war-wounded Simferopol, Sashenka helped her friends learn their homework and started games for “school.” And receded into the background, drowned out constant feeling hunger, common to all the children of that terrible time...

She graduated from eight classes with honors and, together with her friend, went to enter a pedagogical school in Kaliningrad. She will never forget that happy June day when the school director presented her with her first diploma. “You were truly born in a teacher’s shirt,” his words sounded like a school bell!

And here is the first school! Near Kaliningrad, in the Chkalovsk garrison, it began big way teacher There Alexander met her destiny as a woman. A young black-browed navigator with intolerantly blue eyes managed to win the heart of a young teacher. His name was Herman. Smart, serious, attentive - maybe this is what she dreamed about while wandering with her friends through the narrow streets of the old city, filled with the smell of blooming lilacs? The wedding was held modestly, among friends. So she found a new profession - the wife of an officer, a faithful friend and companion in the harsh military service. Son Igorok was born in Kaliningrad, and a year later German was sent to the Higher Officer Courses in Riga. New assignments - new moves, new military camps.

Far East. The Mongokhto garrison is a romantic's dream: the nearest town, Vanino, is 20 kilometers away, surrounded by a sea of ​​taiga and hills, hills... Such places remain forever in the heart... An unknown comedian named the only street of the garrison Teatralnaya. In their free time from flying, pilots and their families gathered at the Officers' House, organized unforgettable evenings, and played chess. But our favorite holiday was in nature: we picked lingonberries and mushrooms among the pines and ferns, and sang songs with a guitar. Friendship of those distant years remain faithful forever. There, in Mongokhto, Alexandra Arsentievna went through a real school of life, formation - both in the family and in the profession. Igor grew up there and German Pavlovich perfected his skills. There Sashenka first became a teacher primary classes, and then, after graduating from the Pedagogical Institute in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, he became a head teacher and director. The gratitude and respect of others is the main reward for a young director. And the love of children - schoolchildren, especially the dearest ones, whom Alexandra Arsentievna led from the first to the eighth grade, until her husband was transferred. The children have scattered all over the country, but even now, forty years later, they send their beloved teacher news about themselves and their gratitude for her huge role in educating them. best qualities. Igor Kochalovsky, already a retired captain of the 1st rank, declares his love in poetry to a person dear to him - his first teacher, and Galina Krylova, the director of a school in St. Petersburg, calls thousands of kilometers away to hear the voice of her beloved mentor that has become familiar.

Alexandra Arsentievna has been living and working in Gvardeyskoye for forty years. Here her beloved son Igor graduated from school, from here he left to study and became, like his father, a military pilot. They were surprisingly similar - father and son: stately, beautiful, blue-eyed. Tenderness and respect from dear people is the main component of the success of director A.A. Sterkhova. The understanding, support of her husband, the care of Tatyana’s son and daughter-in-law, the love of her grandchildren and great-granddaughter are a woman’s great happiness, her support in life. Even now, when German Pavlovich is not around, she is surrounded by his paintings, written in last years life, and their warmth helps Alexandra Arsentievna remember only the brightest things in life.

Here she is standing on the ceremonial line at school - beautiful, slender, well-groomed, confident. An extraordinary, courageous and beautiful woman! With her intelligence, high culture and noble simplicity, she managed to create around herself an atmosphere of mutual understanding, creativity, and search. For many years of fruitful activity A.A. Sterkhova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Of course, this is not the limit! We sincerely wish the director new victories, achievements and worthy appreciation of her work. Good luck to you, dear Alexandra Arsentievna!

A.A. Fischuk, teacher of Russian language and literature

LIGHTING THE LIGHT IN CHILDREN'S HEARTS

My memories of school are episodic. Just like on a film film damaged from long storage, missing fragments interfere with the full perception of the “film”, but do not harm the overall impression.

So, I remember a large bookcase in our 23rd room on the third floor of school No. 10, which we, newly minted fifth-graders, at the suggestion of our class teacher Siyana Magomedovna Mamaeva , forced me to bring books and toys from home. I remember the endless “we write one - two in mind” - Siyana Magomedovna’s patient attempts to teach us, capable and incapable of exact sciences, at least the basics of mathematics. I remember how the whole class went to visit our school mother at home, and she was embarrassed by such loud manifestations of care and love. In all memories - Siyana Magomedovna, and with what tenderness and warmth her name warms the memory.

Our parents (my mother and the mothers of the other seventeen classmates) always believed that Siyana Magomedovna was too soft a leader for our noisy “A” class. In fact, it was impossible to catch this wonderful, bright woman in bad mood, irritated and angry, bringing to class a load of her household worries and problems. It was impossible to irritate her by hanging at the board for a long time, looking for the right way to solve a problem or equation when it was very close. And even periodic shirking from doing homework in high school did not become the very last point before a breakdown. Only a disappointed, quiet “Shameless!”, after which I wanted to hide under my desk, never to meet the reproachful, stern gaze of the teacher again.

All I wanted was not to disappoint her, not to let her down, and the best assessment and incentive to work on myself was praise class teacher at parent meetings. Sensitive at heart, sympathetic, empathetic, understanding and forgiving, she tried to keep our parents away from our school troubles as much as possible, to the extent that her gentleness and kindness allowed her to cope with them herself. How often now, when we have grown out of our 15-16 years, we miss this gentle voice of our beloved teacher, from which our souls warm and it becomes clear: everything will work out.

“Your classmate is Siyana Magomedovna? You're lucky! – we have heard more than once from graduates different years, who forever remembered her mathematics lessons. Even to the most incurable humanists, like me, algebra and geometry did not seem like God's punishment. Partly due to the fact that Siyana Magomedovna always had stories and examples in stock, after which even the most complex topics were perceived easier and more interesting. And on classroom hours more than once she became for us a judge whose verdict determined who had conflicting rights and who should apologize. Everything was decided by this calm voice and wise look - the only examples of tolerance I have encountered in my life.

Each of us had our own Siyana Magomedovna. She invariably appeared when one of her school children was ill, or there was a misfortune in the family, or when it was necessary to resolve issues that the teacher's sensitivity did not allow to discuss in front of everyone. For me, my school mother has always been a model of femininity and gentleness, a symbol home comfort and warmth. This warmth washed over you from the very threshold when you happened to drop by to visit her, and you embraced her dearly in her arms so tightly that it seemed that you had come home, where they had been waiting for you for a long time.

Dear Siyana Magomedovna! Five years have passed since you released us, your last issue, on a long voyage. The best thing that school could give us was your lessons, the value of which you understand more and more the older you get. My deepest bow to you for this inhuman work - to light the light in children's hearts, to teach girls and boys to be adults, endlessly forgiving them for mistakes and blunders along the way. Let the warmth you radiate return to you a hundredfold every day. We love you very much - everyone who has ever been lucky enough to be your student! Happy Teacher's Day!

Muminat MAGOMEDOV.

A woman in the village... She is both a worker and a housewife, she very often mother of many children. She does not seek recognition, does not expect high awards. Rural woman modest and very hardworking, because peasant farming does not tolerate lazy people. Keep up with everything: get up at the first rooster, manage the housework, get the kids ready for school, and run to work yourself. So, without the city noise and bustle, in difficult rural conditions, in the absence of mechanization and automation, having shouldered a heavy load of household and industrial worries, the life of a village woman passes unnoticed year after year. There are over twenty million of them in Russia. And about one of these rural workers with wonderful name I would like to tell Nadezhda on the pages of Vperedovka.

"I am a country girl"

Daktuy resident Nadezhda Volkova, nee Lakhina, is a native Amur resident, born in the military 41st. She speaks about her homeland, Ushumun, with special warmth and tenderness... She spent her childhood, adolescence, and youth there. She has something to remember, something to talk about. He speaks with reluctance about his war and post-war childhood: “... Life was hard for everyone, what can I say.” And she talks with a smile about how in 1958, after graduating from school, she went to study and work, first as a baker’s assistant, then as a kindergarten teacher.

You can’t call my life carefree, I had to work so hard,” Nadezhda Yakovlevna recalls. - Life forced me to be independent. My parents had four of us, and when I turned 18, my father died. Therefore, I always relied only on myself: both when I studied to be a baker at the Sverdlovsk school, and when I graduated from the Khabarovsk Pedagogical College. Village hardening helped. There were always animals in the flock, and more than one: cows, chickens, pigs. Since childhood, I knew how to manage the household. And she didn’t contradict her parents’ word, she respected and revered her elders, because in their lifetime old people have seen a lot of things in life and understood a lot. They won't give you bad advice. We villagers were always taught to obey our parents, that’s how I raised our children, and I tell my grandchildren about this.

Not a minute of idleness

In Nadezhda Yakovlevna’s house there is always order, cleanliness, comfort and some kind of special hospitable atmosphere. And homemade cakes will certainly be waiting for her dear guests on the table.

No matter what time of day, whether during the day or in the morning, you go to Nadezhda Yakovlevna, there are always hot pies, cheesecakes, and buns on the table,” village librarian Tatyana Shershneva praises her fellow villager. - And half the village can tell you how delicious they are! If you bake it, there will be enough for half the village, and if he plants seedlings, there will be enough for his own garden and a dozen neighboring ones. She is such a person - “golden hands”. And when her grandchildren come to her village for the whole summer, the hospitable grandmother has no equal!

But in addition to her culinary abilities, grandma can sew and knit. All her grandchildren were knitted with all kinds of booties and socks by her tireless hands. Blouses, soft pullovers - everything can happen. One of the granddaughters also took after her grandmother-handicraftsman - she was named after her grandmother, Nadezhda.

But Nadezhda Yakovlevna is not only a great housewife. These skills were most useful in the profession when she, a young mother of three children, was invited to teach works at a rural school.

Teaching at school is not an easy and responsible task, the woman says. - Well, if your task is to teach a child to work: sewing, cutting, cooking - it’s quite a troublesome task. The labor teacher needs to be able to convince the children that work brings joy to a person. Therefore, he himself must be able to receive this joy from work. Only this way, and no other way.

Nadezhda Yakovlevna never once doubted her choice life path. Having crossed the threshold of school for the first time in 1972, she devoted 22 years of her life to teaching. Additionally, she led office work and a handicrafts group at the school. She worked as a laboratory assistant and secretary. Nadezhda Yakovlevna has been retired since 1997.

Among the residents of Daktuy, the pensioner enjoys well-deserved authority and support. More than once she was elected by her fellow villagers as a deputy of the local Council of People's Deputies and a member of the Women's Council, accepted Active participation in all activities of their school and village. She has been repeatedly awarded with certificates of honor and letters of gratitude. And yet, the most important thing in the life of an elderly woman today is her children and grandchildren, about whom a caring grandmother is ready to talk 24 hours a day.

Together for life

The family of Nadezhda and Peter Volkov has three children, three grandchildren, three granddaughters, a great-grandson and a great-granddaughter. Parents gave all children higher education. They have long since “flew away” from their native nest. Senior Andrey and younger Irina Today they live in Khabarovsk. Svetlana in Nakhodka. But every year they, together with their children, come to their parents’ house to visit their aged father and mother. And again they gather at the huge table big family Volkov and over a cup of fragrant village tea, devouring grandmother’s cheesecakes and pies, they remember past events and make plans for the future. For many years they live in perfect harmony: modestly, honestly, not for show. And it all started back in 1963.

It started spinning and spinning,” says Nadezhda Yakovlevna. - How Petya and I met in the spring at a friends’ wedding, he was then the groom’s groomsman, and since then we have never parted. Then he often came to Ushumun to look after me, and in November 1964 they celebrated their wedding. Petya is from Daktuy, that’s why we moved to Daktuy.

You know what Nadezhda and Peter are like? a beautiful couple there was a match for each other,” recalls Tatyana Shershneva. - Both are tall, stately, beautiful, and also good people: friendly, friendly.

For fifty years now, Pyotr Mikhailovich and Nadezhda Yakovlevna have been together. Both joys and sorrows - everything is in half. But for a long time now, the main burden of household chores has fallen on the shoulders of the wife. Thanks to her patience and love, Pyotr Mikhailovich was able to recover and quickly recover from the stroke. Nadezhda Yakovlevna’s endless care even today supports her sick husband and does not allow him to despair and mope. The neighbors call it a perpetual motion machine.

But where to go, because now you have to work for two,” Nadezhda Yakovlevna jokes about this.

But no one hears a word about what is difficult from the still strong, energetic woman. Since 1980, Nadezhda Yakovlevna and her husband have lived in a large, spacious house, and for more than seven years now, the woman has been independently maintaining order both in it and in the garden. She manages the mowing herself, and keeps the twenty-acre estate, a flowering garden and a vegetable garden rich in all sorts of vegetables, in order. In moments of relaxation, he reads newspapers, watches TV and is always aware of all events.

"I am happy"

Where does this tireless woman get her strength? How and when do you find time to relax? To this Nadezhda Yakovlevna, smiling, answers:

If I suddenly want to relax, to be alone, I sit in a chair and start knitting. This calms your nerves and gives you time to think about your own things. I also love to sew. And sometimes I go to the forest for “green oxygen therapy” and relax alone with nature.

Looking at this woman, you are surprised that neither worries nor worries in recent years have made her heart callous or forced her to withdraw. Always open, friendly, welcoming, “without a stone in her bosom,” she raised her children to be the same. Giving them love and tenderness without reserve, she receives from them in return the same share of attention and care. The children are very friendly and often visit their mother. Grandchildren and great-grandchildren love to visit their grandmother in the village.

A bright woman, a real rural worker, whose soul is open to people, and whose heart is responsive to the pain of others. Kindness and compassion are the main character traits of Nadezhda Yakovlevna, the Daktuy residents say about their fellow villager.

To answer the question: “What day of your life do you consider the happiest?” Nadezhda Yakovlevna couldn’t do it.

“I’m just happy,” Nadezhda Yakovlevna smiles. - Every day throughout my life, even if it was not joyful, made it clear that someone needed me. More than once my fellow villagers needed my help, and I was happy if I could help them with something. At one time, my students needed my knowledge and skills, and I happily taught them everything I could. My husband, children, grandchildren still need me. Isn't this happiness? I don't need more.

Maybe these words contain the recipe for a long and happy life?