Potapova Olga Mikhailovna

Born in 1929 in the village of Novaya Sloboda, Lodeynopolsky District, Leningrad Region. In 1933, after the dispossession of the family and the arrest of her father, she was sent into exile with her mother, sister and brother to the city of Kirovsk, Murmansk Region. In 1938, she went with her mother to Medvezhegorsk to visit her father. Before the war, in 1941, she went to visit relatives in Sortavala and was evacuated to the Vologda Region. At that time, her mother and her brother and sister were exiled from the Murmansk Region to the Chelyabinsk Region, and she spent a year looking for them. In 1945, she returned to Sortavala, graduated from evening school, then accounting courses. From 1950 to 1957, she worked as an accountant, then as a chief accountant at the Voentorg in Sortavala. Rehabilitated by the conclusion of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region dated 23.08.1996.