Nina Sokolova biography

Born in Cherepovets in a large family. After the family moved to the village of Domozhirovo, Leningrad Region, in connection with the appointment of a father to the post of director of the timber industry farm, a girl was left alone in Cherepovets to complete her studies. Later, recalling childhood and youth, N. Sokolova noted that these years were the best in her life.

In the city of Sokolova under construction of the embankment of the river. Nina graduated from school and left for Leningrad, where at first she was cleaning apartments, then she worked as a faculty at the 2nd Leningrad State Himfarms. In the same year, she began to work as an engineer-hydraulic engineer of the design and survey bureaus "Sevzzectstroywood". In November, one of the first tasks of N.

Sokolova was the construction of wave -lazy walls and bottom waves in the area of ​​Sochi, where the construction of the port was underway. This required immersion of the supply. Since at that time the work of women was not provided for by divers, the authorities asked for allowing a young engineer to teach a diving cause to the very chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M.

The permission was obtained. Sokolova listened to the course of diving business and made practical descents, having received the right to make “underwater descents up to 10 m. However, there was a problem with the equipment. A fragile woman with growth of cm and weighing 50 kg did not fit men's “equipment” - a suit for her had to be made by a special order. The equipment was heavy, about 80 kg - only a helmet weighed 12 kg, and diving boots - 24 kg.

Sokolova participated in the construction of the oil pipeline from the island of Sakhalin to the mainland. During the blockade of Leningrad, the divers of the detachment of the emergency rescue service under the leadership of N. Sokolova was saved by cars that had failed in wormwood on the “road of life” on Lake Ladoga; They raised food from a barge sank on Ladog; carried out repair work at facilities and structures damaged by enemy aircraft; Delivered ammunition, weapons and food; They provided a laying along the bottom of the Neva of the track for towing under water of tanks and artillery.

When in the fall of G. at that time Leningrad was without communication with Moscow, and the command of the Leningrad Front-with the General Staff of the Red Army, since the enemy destroyed all the lines of telephone and telegraphic communication, the radio communications were used limited due to the small number of radio stations. The detachment of N. Sokolova was instructed to lay a telephone cable to restore telephone communication along the bottom of Lake Ladoga.

Before the divers began to lay the cable, N. Sokolova herself went along the bottom, choosing the place of his gasket. In just ten days, 45 km of a particularly strong armored cable were laid. In winter, G. without fuel industrial enterprises of the city that worked for defense, and military equipment would have stopped.

Sokolova offered to lay a gas pipeline along the bottom of Lake Ladoga. The idea of ​​a young military engineer was approved by the State Defense Committee. The gas pipeline project was prepared in a short time. Such gas pipelines - a total length of 35 km of them 27 km under water in the country have not yet been built. Construction was complicated by the proximity of the front line and the National Aviation Aviation.

Only 50 days were allotted on him! Once again, N. Sokolova showed herself not only as a competent hydraulic engineer, but also a good organizer and leader. She took the most difficult and important task of examining the bottom. During the work, various kinds of technical problems arose, which she managed to brilliantly solve. At the end of the laying, divers, headed by N.

Sokolova, once again examined the lake part of the gas pipeline, and also fixed the pipes with the help of cargo every 50 - m. The Germans did not find out about a unique operation - in no military intelligence document the gas pipeline was not mentioned. For 41 days! He successfully worked for 20 months, delivering daily to Leningrad under the nose of the Germans of fuel, diesel fuel, and car gasoline.

Since June, thanks to N. Sokolova, Leningrad was saved. For the “brilliant proposal” and participation in the laying of the gas pipeline N. Sokolov was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. Under the leadership of N. Sokolova, the detachment of the emergency rescue service also participated in the construction of the most complex section of the power line of Leningrad, which passed along the Lake Ladoga, 21 km of a high-voltage cable was laid along the bottom of the lake, and only at night.

During the work, she was seriously injured in her leg. Entering the line allowed to interrupt the energy blockade of the city. In the "Professional List" N. Sokolova also work to restore the underwater part of the “American bridge” through the Don in Rostov-on-Don from December 20 after the end of the war-participation in the clearance and restoration of hijid-industrial structures not only in the Leningrad region, but also in Tallinn, Riga, Rostov-on-Don.

For his colleagues, Muzhchin N. Sokolov was an example of courage and professionalism. And like all of us, went down to great depths. We were proud that the first woman-vodolaz was next to us, ”her first assistant L. wrote about N. Sokolova.On the account of a brave woman, an hour spent under water, or 27 days. Since May, Sokolova was engaged in teaching activities-she read courses on the hydromechanics at the Leningrad Naval School named after M.

in March G. worked as an engineer for operation and construction in various organizations of Leningrad. Sokolova was awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree of November 6 and the II degree of September 17, two orders of the Red Star on August 15; April 30, the Order of the "Person of Honor" on March 7, medals "For Military Merit" on November 15 and "For the Defense of Leningrad" on December 22; Presented for awarding the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus." The name of N.

Sokolova is listed in the Golden Book of St. Petersburg. At the house in St. Petersburg at ul. Lenin, 48, in which the legendary woman lived, on January 19 of Sokolova films: “Nina Sokolova”: a documentary from the cycle “Army Legends”. Theory is impossible. " Borozdina Nina Alekseevna. Borozdin Nina. Vologda region. Savin Andrey. Photo: Cherinfo.