Biography of Maria Shcherbak

Maria Mikhailovna Shcherbak was one of those girls, on the fragile shoulders of which the weight of hardships, disasters, and grief of the war years laid. Masha Yasinskaya was born in Krasnoyarsk on November 22 G. Masha was very curious and already at the age of six she asked for school and studied along with her older guys. She graduated from the tenth grade, entered the Krasnoyarsk Institute for the improvement of teachers with a specialty "Lecturer of History".

The calm life of a young student, like many other Soviet people, was interrupted by war. After the first year, the extermin passed exams for the second year. In peacetime, it was necessary to study 3 years, the girls were trained in 10 months. The study was very difficult, I had to sleep for an hour. Masha was awarded the title of sergeant and she received an appointment to the front in the Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment.

So Maria Mikhailovna served in the communications troops, reached the borders of Berlin. It’s hard to tell how much to survive the young girl. And not without reason, Maria Mikhailovna was awarded the medal “For Military Merit”, the Order “For Courage” and “Patriotic War”, has 15 anniversary medals. Her rewards speak for themselves, although it is very difficult to imagine a fragile and tender Masha on the battlefield, among constantly tearing bombs and shells.

The victorious year has come. There, in the regiment, Masha met her love. Sergey Mikhailovich Shcherbak saw a young girl and “drowned” in her blue, radiant eyes. And since then, hand in hand, for 53 years they walked together through life. They raised their children, son and daughter, wiped through the garrisons, because Sergey Mikhailovich was a professional military man.

Once Sergey Mikhailovich was appointed to Kerch.

He was demobilized in the year, and stayed here with his family. The husband served, and Maria Mikhailovna was always there. She worked as a teacher in kindergarten, but did not forget that she was a historian. She participated in the formation of the Kerch excursion bureau, she worked as a guide. Maria Mikhailovna Shcherbak handed over high professionalism, work experience, working as a senior instructor-a methodologist, and a little later in the Kerch historical and archaeological museum guide and methodology.

In the year, the Museum of the History of the Defense of Adjimushki Kamenolomen was opened, the husband of Maria Mikhailovna became the first head of this museum. And as always, next to him was his dear Masha. She worked in the museum with a dispatcher, a guide, conducted about a thousand excursions. Now Maria Mikhailovna is retired. But so far everyone recalls a sweet, charming woman, and when meeting with her, they are surprised at her young enthusiasm, a bright smile and wise beauty.

On the anniversary of you, dear Maria Mikhailovna! We wish you happiness, prosperity, the best, brighter, let only joyful events take place in your life and the most cherished desires are being implemented.