Tag #124672 - Interview #78409 (Irina Voinova)

I went to enter vocational school in 1941. I was only 14, and they didn’t want to accept me because I was too young. But Anna Ivanovna was at the entrance examination and stuck up for me, saying that I was an orphan. Thanks to her I was accepted. It was the First Vocational School attached to a ship’s-mechanical factory. I specialized in studying to be an all-round turner.  At the vocational school we were fed well, and they gave us greatcoats, skirts, jackets, shirts, and soldier's blouses.