Vera Korolyova, a resident of Beketovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia, is celebrating her 111th birthday today, according to Regions.ru.
Vera Nikolaevna Korolyova (Вера Николаевна Королёва) was born in the village of Timonino in the Klinsky District of Moscow Oblast, Russia (then Russian Empire), on 30 September 1914. Her family was large and relatively well-off. In 1932, she married and began working as a field laborer at “Timolray,” the first organized collective farm in the district. She had two children, a son and a daughter.
During the early stages of the Great Patriotic War, as the front approached the Moscow region, she was mobilized to the labor front. Her task was to procure fuel for the city spinning and weaving factory in Vysokovsk. Alongside her mobilized companions, she worked to secure fuel for the factory, which had been 80% destroyed. After the liberation of the Klin region, she resumed work on the collective farm and was appointed foreman of the field crew at the Kalinin collective farm, overseeing a team of 30 workers.
On 19 February 1948, by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, she was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Until 1961, she worked on the Vysokovsky State Farm, which had been reorganized from a collective farm. After retiring in the same year, she became the chairperson of the Masyuginsky Village Council (renamed Shipulinsky in March 1995) in the Klinsky district. She also served as a deputy in the Moscow Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies in 1954 and received several medals for her contributions.
LongeviQuest extends warm congratulations to Vera Korolyova on her 111th birthday.
