Victory Traffic Controller, for a whole century,
Maria Filippovna Limanskaya
She was a Victory Traffic Controller and lived for a whole century.
Yesterday, Maria Filippovna Limanskaya passed away. She was immortalized in a legendary photo by the classic of Soviet photography, Yevgeny Khaldey
immortalized in a legendary photo , by the classic of Soviet photography, Yevgeny Khaldey
Maria Filippovna Limanskaya
She was a Victory Traffic Controller and lived for a whole century.
Yesterday, Maria Filippovna Limanskaya passed away. She was immortalized in a legendary photo by the classic of Soviet photography, Yevgeny Khaldey
immortalized in a legendary photo , by the classic of Soviet photography, Yevgeny Khaldey
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00:00She was a victory traffic controller and lived for a whole century.
00:05Yesterday, Maria Filipovna Lemanskaya passed away.
00:10She was immortalized in a legendary photo by the Classic of Soviet Photography.
00:16Yevgeny Kaldi. Here she is, beautiful and young, in May 1945,
00:22against the backdrop of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin,
00:25which had just been liberated from the Nazis.
00:29It was this photo that people called the victory traffic controller,
00:33and also the Brandenburg Madonna, as a symbol of hope and peace for all peoples.
00:39After the war, Maria Filipovna worked as a nurse
00:43and then as a school librarian in the Volgograd region.
00:47Then she moved to her daughter in the village of Zavonarevka,
00:51Marksovsky District, Saratov region, where she ended her life.
00:57She was born in 1924 and died in 2024, having lived more than 100 years.