Great Patriotic War veteran Tatiana Khvorova

A portrait of Great Patriotic War veteran Tatiana Khvorova dating to the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Tatiana Khvorova was born on February 15, 1919 in the village of Gundarovka in the Sergiyevsky District of the Kuibyshev Region. She graduated from a local medical nurses school shortly before the war and was later drafted into the army. When the Great Patriotic War began, she served as a nurse with the 120th Chapayev Brigade. For her, the war began on the Belarusian Front. She later served as an operating room nurse with the 124th Medical Sanitary Battalion of the Order of the Red Banner Bryansk Division. She fought in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge and took part in liberating Bryansk, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine and Poland, and she was also involved in the final invasion of Berlin. She had the rank of Senior Sergeant prior to her discharge from the Soviet Armed Forces in 1947. She received the medals For Berlin and For Prague, the Order of the Great Patriotic War Second Class, the Medal For Combat Merits and the Order of the Red Star. In 2019, Tatiana Khvorova celebrated her 100th birthday.