Letters to Mother

Monument to the fallen heroes in the Vitebsk region. Mass grave. Penza region. The village of Verhozim. House of A. D. Filyakina. Photo of Ivan Filyakin, a tank officer who died during the Great Patriotic War and was buried in a mass grave in the Vitebsk region. Mother of eleven children, mother-heroine Anastasia Dmitrievna Filyakina reads letters from her sons-officers. Klaipeda city. Officer Vasily Filyakin walks with his family along the city street. Moscow city. Students of the Military Academy Lieutenant Viktor Filyakin and Senior Lieutenant Vladimir Filyakin in the classroom, in the library, at sports training. Officer Alexander Filyakin in a train compartment goes to his place of service in Arkhangelsk. The rest of Anastasia Dmitrievna's children work in their native places. Valentina's daughter is in class at school, son Yuri works on a state farm. Boris - at a construction site in the city of Kuibyshev. Daughters Galya, Lyuba at work at a weaving factory in Verhozim. The younger Vera is a schoolgirl.

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1964