Biography Sofya Petrovna

There were nine children in the family, Sophia the eighth child. The geologist was constantly on business trips. Sophia's mother dies early. Her older brother raised her. He brought up in his own way, in her way. Not the girl's passion for weapons was understandable. The border region, military training is almost the main subject in school. Sophia was an excellent student in the shooting of a machine gun.

At the age of 14, she became a teacher at a locksmith, reached a locksmith of the 6th category. In the beginning of the x, she entered the courses of the driver. Worked as a driver. On frosty tracks, I drove trucks along the Never -Aldan route. Amazingly, boyish addictions got along with Sophia with a passionate love of the theater.

In her free time, she visited and played at the working youth theater on the working mines. It was here that the girl’s creative talent appeared. Avericheva first reached the stage, playing a role in Proletultovsky, as they said then, in the play "Girl out of the seventeenth." Note: Proletult - proletarian culture. Then there were many theaters, among them - Rostov the Great, on the stage of which Sofya Avericheva played a hole in Ibsen’s play, and after a successful show at the festival, the young actress was invited to Volkovsky.

It was the end of x. Soon she became the prima of the Volkovsky scene for a year. The war found her during the rehearsal of the role of Nina in the Lermontov Masquerade. In their free time, artists master a rifle and a machine gun. The Germans could take Yaroslavl. In this case, they prepared an underground group, turnouts, and conspiratorial apartments. They prepared bases with weapons and food.

Sophia is prepared to work in the city underground. She intensively studies German with a teacher specially attached to her. In Yaroslavl, the Yaroslavl rifle division is formed, which will then become the Yaroslavl Communist Division, and later - the Rifle Lomonosov -Prazhskie Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division. Contrary to the prohibitions and persuasion, Sofya Petrovna went to the front as a volunteer on June 14.

The girl showed herself as a brave brave warrior. Was a scout. Starting from the year, he keeps a diary, which will later become a famous book, a historical monument and will be published under the name "Diary of a scout." The diary wrote in dugouts, dugouts, huts, where they stopped for a while. Photo by V. Yurasov to a friend of the youth of Sofia Avericheva was the poet Mark Lisyansky, a front -line soldier, author of the legendary song “My Moscow”, which became the anthem of the capital.

The words of the song by Mark Lisyansky - “And the enemy will never achieve your head bending Mark Lisyansky belongs to the idea of ​​creating the book“ Diary of a scout ”. When Mark saw and looked at the battered notebooks and notebooks of Sophia, which passed the whole war with her, he proposed to create a book on the basis of documentary front -line entries. And he became its literary editor.

For one of the military operations, Sofya Avericheva was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. On the night of May 1, Sonya Avericheva was injured. But, wounded, she pulled her comrade from the battlefield with an even more severe wound. They operated on Sophia under local anesthesia. Something metal flies into the basin. The first edition of the book is a year. The “Diary of the Scout” describes the combat path, the attitude of colleagues and commanders, military operations, the sorrow of loss, and of course, military friends, with whom the warmest and most difficult times are associated.

By the anniversary of the Victory, the “Scout Diary” was reprinted for the third time. This book is a storehouse of knowledge and events for the younger generation, told by a living person who has gone the whole military path. Such people as Sofya Avericheva usually say “Legend Man” about people. She is perhaps the only actress in the history of our country, who became a fighter of military intelligence.

During the war years, she was awarded eighteen combat awards, including the Order of the Red Banner, Red Star, Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals “For Courage”, “For Military Merit”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For the Capture of Berlin” after the end of the war in the year, Sofya Avericheva returned to the Volkovsky Theater. Over the years of work in the theater, she played about a hundred roles.

She starred in two films “People like the River Sofya Petrovna Avericheva died in the year of life in Yaroslavl on Sunday, May 10. Having met the flight of victory, the actress went to bed and did not wake up in the morning. The great woman and the great actress, who, with her labor and perseverance, reached the heights, and showed everyone what the real patriot of the homeland should be.

A museum dedicated to Sofya Petrovna was opened in the theater.