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During the war, she had sold everything: the house, the cattle, and things came to the village council with a bag of money with the words "Get the money plane. My sons are at war, we must help



It is a monument to a resident of the village Bub (Permoskogo edge) Yakovleva Matryona Ivanovna.



A simple peasant woman and her husband lived in a good house and kept a strong economy: cows, telenkok, sheep, pigs. Both worked on the farm, and when the war broke out, the husband of Marya went to the front. In 1943, the newspaper wrote about the brutal battle of Stalingrad, and the woman was worried: Is not there her husband because of him so long ago there was no news.
Her heart ached for her husband's feelings for his homeland. Sit back and she could not have made a bold decision: laid on the market and sold all that he had in the house, - seven cattle, scarce in war oil, honey, muku- and rescued 100 thousand rubles. A huge sum in those days! Money folded in a canvas bag and brought to the local branch of the State Bank.



 - Here you go, - has given it stunned employees. - I was told that the plane should be sufficient.
Every cent Matrona transferred to the Defense Fund for the purchase of combat aircraft. Were he bought, history is silent, but the story of the deed in the village Bub Matrona passed from generation to generation.
Her husband, Sergey S., returned from the front, but the wounded - a German bullet in the chest and died a few years later. A hard worker Matryona Ivanovna lived a long life - she died in 1995 at the age of 101 years. Until recently, she worked in the garden and kept cattle.
The money for the monument - required more than one million rubles - was collected by all the inhabitants of the Perm region. And by June 22, he decorated the main square of the village Bub. On the opening day, local continuously carried him flowers. The monument is a modestly dressed woman. It Marya Ivanovna. On the neck a knot tied handkerchief, hands folded in her lap, and in the background - the plane, the one to which all her money went.
 - Marya Ivanovna was really very hardworking - says it odnoselchanka Prokofievna Anna Yudina. - I've known her since childhood - an amazing woman. She never sat around all the time in care. His children have not been, and she and her husband took the boy's upbringing. Unfortunately, he, too, was dead.