Last night, November 26, the famous traffic controller of the Great Victory, Maria Limanskaya, died.
The Governor of the Saratov Region, Roman Busargin, informed about this on his Telegram channel.
It is known that the veteran of the Great Patriotic War was exactly one hundred years old.
This night, Maria Filippovna Limanskaya, the world-famous Brandenburg Madonna, passed away , the head of the region wrote.
An amazing man with a difficult fate
In his words, she was “an amazing person with a difficult but bright destiny.”
It is reported that Limanskaya went to the front at the age of 18.
Initially, she sewed clothes for the soldiers, then became a traffic controller (mostly women worked as traffic controllers, since the men were fighting).
Maria Filippovna’s baptism of fire took place near Bataysk in the Rostov region, the author of the post noted.
The girl, despite intense enemy fire, bravely carried out her job – regulating the movement of troops at the crossing of the Don.
In addition, she took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, the liberation of Simferopol, Belarus and Poland, and reached Berlin.
Photo
In the capital of Germany, a girl was photographed at the Brandenburg Gate while she was working – she was regulating traffic.
It was a week before the Victory. The photo that made Limanskaya famous all over the world was taken by war correspondent Yevgeny Khaldei.
The governor calls the famous photo “a symbol of the invincibility of the Soviet people.”
He expressed his condolences to Limanskaya’s family and friends, noting that her death was a great loss for “all of us.”
I am proud that I personally knew Maria Filippovna,” Busargin summed up.
For reference
Maria Filippovna Limanskaya (April 12, 1924, Staraya Poltavka - November 26, 2024, Zvonarevka) - Soviet military traffic controller, participant in the Great Patriotic War.
