Three Defenders of the Fatherland were awarded the title of Honorary Citizen Yalta

Held a meeting of the commission on preliminary consideration of materials on the assignment of the title. The candidates of our three veterans were supported unanimously. In the year of the defender of the Fatherland and on the eve of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory, we pay maximum attention to our heroic participants in the hostilities, which gave us a peaceful sky,-said the head of the municipality of the city district of Yalta-chairman of the Yalta city council Konstantin Shimanovsky.

All candidates are honored who have passed through the front and deprivation of the war years.

On the account of Antonina Fedorovna thousands of saved lives. Being a nurse of the evacuation hospital, she participated in the battles in the Caucasus, in Czechoslovakia, Poland. In the victorious 45th she moved to Yalta. Maria Adamovna dreamed of becoming a pilot, but after the Nazis occupied her native Belogorsk, became a coherent in the partisan detachment. I fought until the liberation of Crimea. Tamara Fedorovna was also a participant in the hostilities. Each of these women is a real example of courage, heroism and love for the homeland! Low bow and good health of each, — notes the head of the administration of Yalta Yanin Pavlenko.

Recall that the title of “Honorary Citizen” is assigned to all veterans of the Great Patriotic War at the suggestion of the Ministry of Defense. The initiative was supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Source: Information Policy Department of the Yalta Administration