the 21-year-old medical instructor ended up in the twenty-fourth army under the command of konstantin rapuntinof one of the army units participated in the elninskaya operation. and in october of the same forty-first year, the vyazemsky cauldron was surrounded in the vyazma region - these are four soviet armies that were surrounded by an army group, the center of the wehrmacht operation in the moscow direction was called typhoon, the losses of the red army amounted to more than a million people 600,000, of which they fell antonina makarova, a medical instructor, was among them captured. in the camp for soviet prisoners of war, antonina met red army soldier sergei fitchuk, he managed to escape several months, they wandered through the forests, passed hundreds of kilometers, kept their way in the bryansk direction. as a result, they came to the native village of finchuk. red well. here their paths parted, makarova's companion went to the family. and tonya asked to stay with a local resident, but antonina did not stay long, she met the head of the police of the village of lokot, which was only 6 k