Znamenskaya Antonina Nikolaevna

Genus. 02/24/1923 in the village of Obukhovo, Ustyuzhensky district, Vologda region. In May 1931, the family was dispossessed and deported to the West Siberian region. In exile in the village of Shaltyr. Since 1934 she lived in the village of Pestovo, Leningrad Region. In 1941 she graduated from school with honors. Not accepted into the 1st Medical Institute in Leningrad as a “daughter of a kulak.” She taught at an elementary school. In 1943 she entered the Sverdlovsk Medical Institute. In 1944 she transferred to the Leningrad Pediatric Institute. She got married in 1947, graduated from college in 1948, and worked in Kolpino. Candidate of Medical Sciences since 1955. Worked at the Institute of Physiology. Member of the Memorial Society since 1990, author of memoirs. She died in St. Petersburg on October 7, 2006.