- Well, granddaughter, the flight is normal! Photo from the personal archive of Maria Koltakova

DO NOT MOAN, DO NOT COMPLAINT

Maria Denisovna Koltakova was born near Penza on January 14, 1922. When the girl turned one and a half, the family decided to move to Siberia. While crossing the Yenisei, a baby wrapped like a doll was accidentally dropped into cold water. Saved by her father, who rushed after her. After this incident, my mother, holding back her tears, joked: “Now she definitely won’t drown in the water.”

After school, Masha entered the nurse. The war began - I had to take an accelerated course. In 1942 - to the front. Started the war in the 303rd Siberian Volunteer Division. In the first battle, she showed herself as a hero. A 20-year-old fragile girl pulled 27 wounded out of the fire. Immediately they gave the first award - the medal "For Courage".

How many lives saved - did not count. Just over three hundred. She didn't complain, she didn't feel sorry for herself. She just did what was in her power. And a little more.

My credo is not to moan, not to complain, but to rejoice in every day given by fate and won by our Red Army and the Soviet people. I would like people to appreciate this fragile world and remember at what cost we got it, - Maria Denisovna admits.

Maria Denisovna visited the inferno of the Battle of Kursk, liberated Auschwitz. She survived and pulled out the wounded from the other world. With a sanitary battalion she walked to Prague - there she met Pobeda.

On her front tunic there are many honorary awards, in addition to the very first one - the medal "For Military Merit", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree and others.
In civilian life, she continued to work as a nurse. All her life she was super active and went in for sports. And as a member of DOSAAF, she promoted it among young people.

IN BERLIN70 YEARS LATER

Maria Koltakova did not leave the dream of getting to the Reichstag. She was destined to come true a few years ago. Caring people threw a cry on the Internet and collected the amount for the front-line soldier for the trip. After 70 years, the "iron grandmother" signed on the banner of Victory brought with her at the Reichstag.

And shortly before that, in 2015, Maria Denisovna visited Belarus - the Brest Fortress and Belovezhskaya Pushcha. There, in the residence of Santa Claus, she whispered to the wizard the cherished desire of childhood - to make a parachute jump. And it was fulfilled in the same autumn!

The “iron grandmother” made her first jump from heaven to earth in the Crimea, on Mount Klementyev. Siganula in tandem with an instructor from a height of three thousand meters! She dedicated this fearless and a little reckless (according to her daughter) act to her brother, parachutist Yevgeny Shamaev. He died on the Kuril Islands after the Great Victory, on August 18, 1945. But in the Far East, hostilities with Japan were still going on ...

Zhenya was five years older than me. Before the war, he was engaged in parachuting. In December 1937 he was drafted into the army. How and where he is buried, we still do not know. So all my life I thought about making a jump in memory of him, - shared Maria Denisovna.

BATTLE GIRLFRIEND

But it would not be Maria Denisovna if she stopped at one jump. Last year, the Belgorod front-line soldier was included in the Russian national team for parachuting among the disabled in tandem and invited to the 2nd International Parachuting Dance Festival in Minsk. The event is big and beautiful. Athletes from Russia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine and European countries came together. French Ambassador to Belarus Didier Caness arrived to support his countrymen. He insisted on getting to know Maria Koltakova personally and said that even in France he had heard a lot about her. And the President of the French Parachuting Federation, Marie-Claude Feydeau, invited her to visit Paris. Maria Denisovna immediately agreed - she is easy-going!

The participants of the festival took to the skies from the DOSAAF Borovaya airfield. And our “iron grandmother” jumped from a height of 2.5 thousand meters in tandem with instructor Boris Nebreev. This time, Maria Denisovna dedicated her brave act to her fighting friend from Polotsk, Hero of the Soviet Union Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenko.

The grandfather from Belovezhskaya Pushcha kept his word. Photo from the personal archive of Maria Koltakova

Doesn't get old in spirit

She is often asked about her age. She just shrugs.

I don't feel it at all! How old you are depends on the state of your soul, not on your passport. Nobody knows how much is given to anyone. You can get tired of life, feeling like an old man at twenty or forty. And at seventy, in general, most of them lie on the couch and think what to lie in the coffin in. And after all, at 95 you can dream about the sky, travel! Everything in this life is possible, everything is achievable. The main thing is to want it very much and go towards your dream! - Maria Denisovna inspires.

From 2015 to 2017, the name of Maria Koltakova appeared seven times (!) in the Russian Book of Records. She managed to fly a hang-glider, a balloon, a glider, drive a car, dive under water with scuba gear (at the same time, she was terribly afraid of water - remember that incident with crossing the river in her childhood?). And she did all this for the first time in her age group.

In November last year, she was invited as a heroine to the show "Older than All" with Maxim Galkin- the ether came out, as they say now, fire! And in March of this year, the record holder again visited Moscow for the Field of Miracles program. Of course, I took a selfie on Red Square. They are waiting for her both on the “Fashionable Sentence” and on the talk show “The Fate of a Man”.
Returning to Belgorod, without thinking twice, she made her eighth Russian record, becoming the oldest woman to fly in a wind tunnel. The air flow speed is under 200 kilometers per hour. But who is afraid of such loads?

I didn’t even know what kind of pipe it was, but today they showed it, and I really, really liked it! - Maria Denisovna admitted after the jump. - I even asked for a second time - taller and longer. Fabulous! Although, honestly, it doesn't compare to free fall.

The plans of the famous grandmother to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Belgorod in August ... already with a ten-time record shift. What these records will be, she has not yet decided. But ready for any adventure.

The Belgorod House of Officers celebrated the 95th anniversary of Maria Denisovna Koltakova, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War who set Russian records three times. Members of the government of the Belgorod region, deputies of the City Council, friends and acquaintances came to congratulate Maria Denisovna on her birthday.

Photo postcardsfromrussia.com

- There are people who are called legends. I think that everyone present in this hall will agree that Maria Denisovna is a legendary person, a legendary woman. At all stages of life, Maria Denisovna was a role model, showing how to live with dignity, showing how to love your country, how to love your family, - said the Deputy Head of the Belgorod Administration for Internal and Personnel Policy Olga Medvedeva.

At the beginning of the war, Maria Denisovna signed up as a volunteer, and then, after completing medical courses, she went to the front. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, she entered the medical institute, but then she had to abandon this undertaking in order to pay due attention to the family. She worked as a nurse, head of a kindergarten, headed the personnel department of a geological exploration expedition, worked in the pension department of the Oktyabrsky district executive committee, and after retirement, at a vitamin plant.

Maria Denisovna was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, the Order of the Patriotic War I degree, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Kyiv", "For the Liberation of Prague", commemorative signs "Defender of the city of Voronezh" and "For services to the city of Belgorod". For her work for the good of the Motherland, she was awarded the title of labor veteran.

Maria Koltakova, photo by Yulia Timofeenko

In 2015, she fulfilled her old dream - for the first time, in the same year she did, and in 2016 she already set her third record, having flown at an altitude of 608 meters on a hot air balloon in the Prokhorovsky district.

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Maria Denisovna plans to jump with a parachute again, but this time from a height of 5 kilometers.

If everyone were in the city like Maria Denisovna, there would be no unsolvable tasks for our city, - the deputy chairman of the council of deputies quoted the mayor of Belgorod Larisa Goncharova.

The hero of the day was congratulated by creative teams - ensembles BGIIK, secondary school No. 19, Nezhegol. One of the highlights of the evening was the performance of the Shebekin sailors' choir "Albatross", which performed "By the Black Sea" and "Serve Russia" under the direction of Mikhail Ardagin.

The participants of the event have repeatedly noted the courage and determination of the veteran, wished her success and victories. The Lantern editors join in the congratulations and, in turn, also wish Maria Denisovna health, happiness and good luck in new endeavors.

Belgorod resident Maria Koltakova is preparing to jump with a parachute. This will be her first jump. She also dreams of visiting Prague. In this city, on May 9, 1945, the foreman of the medical service Koltakova met Pobeda.

“A trip to the Czech Republic is expensive, I, unfortunately, don’t have that kind of money,” Maria Denisovna sighs. “But I will definitely jump with a parachute.”

And it will jump. Last year, Maria Denisovna already flew a hang glider.

Goodbye beloved city

Outside the window of a small kitchen of a nine-story panel building, peaceful life is noisy with the wheels of imported cars. The kettle groans on the stove. Maria Denisovna, stroking the clean tablecloth of the kitchen table with her wrinkled hand, recalls her life.

“Tosya Berezina, Shura Shalamova, Shura Akimova, Liza Markova, Nina Vlasova, Masha Zaplatkina, Mila Zyuzikova and Anya Rybnikova came to the district military enlistment office with me. And I returned from the war alone ... "

Stops talking. And he continues his story only after I awkwardly coughed.

“That Sunday, June 22, relatives came to visit us. There was a feast, music was playing from the loudspeaker, and suddenly it was interrupted. Molotov announced that the war had begun. The next day, we went to the military registration and enlistment office as a whole class.

In 1941, Maria and her classmates were not taken to the front, but they were registered. For a whole year, the girls studied at the nursing school, and in the 42nd they were enrolled in a sanitary platoon.

“In April, we were loaded into freight cars and sent to war,” recalls Maria Denisovna. - The composition moved, and we sang "Farewell, beloved city." It was not only the pain of separation from the native Kemerovo, but also a farewell to the life left behind the wheels of the departing train.

For a month, replenishment was carried to the southern front of the country. The train was bombed several times.

“The German comes in from the sky, and we jump out of the cars and scatter. Some under the tree, some under the wagon, and some in the field, in the grass. In the end, we arrived in Lipetsk. We were told that Stalingrad was in danger and that in order to stop the German offensive, Voronezh had to be liberated.”

From Lipetsk to Voronezh, the replenishment went on for three days. On foot.

“We fell off our feet. To rest for a couple of days, but there was an order to storm the city from the march. We did not even have time to deploy a field hospital. So the wounded were piled right in the field, in funnels. And the field was scarlet from bloodied bandages.

For a week, the Red Army fought for the Voronezh Botanical Garden, the Agricultural Institute and the regional hospital.

“Our guys drove the Germans onto the roof of the hospital, and at that time I was bandaging the wounded on the first floor, under the stairs.”

- Was it terrible?

“There was no fear,” Maria Denisovna answers after a short pause. - There was anger, pain from the fact that a friend was dying nearby, and I could not help. That was painful. And there was no fear. And then I was not afraid of death. If we were afraid of death, we would not have won, probably. After all, we fought for Voronezh, so that it would be easier for our guys near Stalingrad.

Wrong funeral

In the division where Koltakova served, there were 258 girls, and after the Voronezh battles she was left alone.

“And I was once buried,” continues Maria Denisovna. - I went to reconnaissance, and the Germans began mortar shelling. I remember an explosion, fire, earth in my face. I woke up in some kind of funnel, it's dark and I don't feel my hand. She crawled towards hers. But it turned out that the commander had already sent a funeral to my parents. It was October 19, 1942."

Did you save the funeral?

- Not. After the war, it was torn to shreds. Instead, there was an award - the medal "For Courage", which was presented to me by the commander of the 60th Army, Ivan Chernyakhovsky.

- Was it awarded for intelligence?

- For 25 soldiers taken from the battlefield along with weapons. And the second award - the Order of Glory - I received in the Czech Republic. Then I dragged 57 fighters to the hospital ... Would you like me to show you the photos?

Victory

Maria Denisovna gets up heavily from the table.

“It’s hard for me to walk already,” she complains. “Age and wounds are taking their toll. Legs do not obey.

She slowly reaches the front door, takes the crutch and goes into the only room. After a while, three plump photo albums appear on the kitchen table.

“This is me in 1943,” says Maria Koltakova, carefully pulling out one of the many photographs. Black and white.

In the yellowed picture, a long-haired girl with a sanitary bag smiles slyly into the camera.

“And this is me in Prague. Then the girls and I went to the hairdresser's and for the first time in the whole war we got curls. And these are my fellow soldiers. While everyone was alive, we met every year on May 9th. Now there’s no one left,” Maria Denisovna sighed. “I’m just still living.”

In 1944, Maria Denisovna was seriously wounded and shell-shocked. And another misfortune happened: she almost had her arm amputated due to the onset of gangrene. Upon learning of the upcoming operation, she fled from the medical unit to the regiment. Familiar doctors came out of the girl, saved her hand.

Koltakova met the victory in Prague.

“I remember our scouts running and shouting: “Victory! Fritz capitulated! Oh what happened then! Everyone rejoiced, danced, sang. Our soldiers even staged a salute. And I sat down on the sidelines and burst into tears.

- From happiness?

- Not. I was bitter and hurt for those who did not live to see the Victory. For my girlfriends, fellow soldiers. So, everyone rejoices, and I sit and sob ... Well, okay, - she returns to today. “Do you want dumplings?”

I refused dumplings, and drank tea.

After the war

Maria Koltakova was demobilized in August 1945: the girls were the first to go home. She went home to the Kemerovo region, but did not stay there for long. She says she could not tune in to a peaceful life and returned to the army. She continued to serve as a civilian nurse in one of the military units in western Ukraine. Then she worked in the supply department, in a store, at a potash plant in the personnel department. She lived in Central Asia, and in 1972 she came to Belgorod.

“I freed him, and my girlfriend lived here,” she explains. - So I came here. She worked in the social security, and in 1977 she retired. In part, by the way, in Ukraine, I met my future husband Alexander Vasilyevich. But she got married a little later. I remember he came to my parents and told me to pack my things. He is going to marry me."

– How did you react?

– What was I to do? There were few grooms. She got married and got married. So they lived together for 25 years. You will probably laugh, - my interlocutor suddenly says, - but I flew a hang glider last year. Such is the fighting old woman. Now I'm trying to fulfill my desires.

- How many wishes do you have? I'm interested.

- There are two left. Now I'm getting ready to skydive, and I would also like to visit Prague. Look at the city that was liberated.

We finish our tea and finish studying the photo album. Time to say good-bye.

“I’ll definitely jump with a parachute,” says Maria Denisovna, seeing me off. “I will try to do it on May 9th.”

I didn't wait for the elevator and went down the stairs. On the third floor, a schoolboy met me. He soon jumped over several steps and loudly, without hesitation, sang: “Victory Day, how far it was from us ...”

Evgeny Filippov

An amazing woman Maria Denisovna Koltakova lives in Belgorod. Her life was extremely eventful - there was a place for exploits and a quiet life. But the most amazing thing began to happen to my grandmother after 93 years. It was then that she entered the Russian Book of Records for the first (but not the last) time - despite her advanced age, she jumped with a parachute.

Maria Denisovna Koltakova was born on the Old New Year - January 14, 1922. During the war, she was a nurse and was part of the 121st Rylsko-Kyiv Rifle Division from Voronezh to Prague. She endured the wounded on the Kursk Bulge, participated in fierce battles in Voronezh, in the liberation of Kharkov, Sumy, Kyiv. Maria Denisovna has many awards on her account, and the war has definitely become a landmark event for a woman, but far from the last, on which she had to show her courage.

The first time newspapers talked about Maria Koltakova three years ago. Then my grandmother - and she was then 93 years old - jumped with a parachute in tandem with an instructor. Maria dedicated this jump to the memory of her brother, who died during the Kuril landing operation in 1945.

Zhenya [brother] was five years older than me, - says Maria Denisovna, - Before the war, he was engaged in parachuting. December 25, 1937 he was drafted into the army. He served in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. And with the outbreak of war with Japan, he was sent to the Kuril Islands.

During the war, Maria's mother received two funerals - both for Maria and for her brother. When Maria crossed the front line with scouts, she was wounded, and the girl was left to wait for her comrades in a certain place. But the bombing began, and Maria had to hide, so the returning colleagues did not find her and sent a message to the headquarters about her death. Two days later, the girl found her. But what exactly happened to Zhenya, her brother, no one knew whether he was buried or not, how he died and where exactly. “The thought of making a jump in memory of him haunted me,” says Maria Denisovna.

“I’m not afraid of anything anymore,” the grandmother comments on her risky decision, “But I’ve never been afraid either.” Then, in 2014, Maria Denisovna remembered her desire to jump with a parachute and visit Prague again. And that same summer, the Council of Veterans of the Kirovsky District and the Para-Krym sports club helped her realize her dream. And next spring, on Victory Day, Maria Denisovna was already in Prague and Berlin.

Another dream of Maria Denisovna was to walk through the battlefields, along which she walked along with her division. And this dream also became a reality for her - together with the military-patriotic club "Red Carnation", she began to study this path. “Maria does not miss the events that we hold in Kursk. She is a regular guest of all our rallies and congresses,” comments the head of the club.

When Maria was 95 years old, she again took to the skies - this time on a non-powered plane. Together with the pilot, she felt for herself what it is like to be on the plane during the execution of a spin, a loop and a coup. After the flight, when asked if she was scared, Maria Denisovna said that “It’s fine. Didn't flinch, didn't stutter."

And this year, for the first time in her life, my grandmother drove on the map. She completed five laps of 400m each. To do this, she had to put on a gear (“Like a superhero,” Grandma commented) and then drive at high speed around the karting track. Before that, my grandmother flew in a balloon, hang glider and dived into the pool with scuba gear.

It is also worth remembering the Japanese pensioner who, after his retirement, fulfilled his old dream - he learned to draw on a computer, and now he creates in Excel spreadsheets

You can talk about our heroine endlessly. Events in her life would be enough for ten. And sometimes you can’t even believe that this miniature woman was able to overcome so much.

Maria Denisovna Koltakova, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, a participant in the Battle of Kursk, is visiting the project “Live in Belgorod”. Last year, she was listed in the Russian Book of Records: at the age of 93, she jumped with a parachute, fulfilling an old dream. On the eve of Victory Day, we are talking about the main thing.

I am 94 years old, there is no secret. You need to live the right life: do not drink, do not smoke, do not steal, play sports, pour cold water on yourself, do gymnastics. Spring is here, you can walk, measure kilometers. That's the whole secret.

- Where did the war find you?

In Siberia. I remember how on June 22 in the afternoon everyone gathered for tea, and then we heard Molotov’s address on the loudspeaker that Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war ... Our tenth grade held a meeting, and we submitted applications to the Komsomol city committee and the military enlistment office. We were enrolled in the 303rd Siberian Volunteer Division, which was formed on the territory of Kuzbass. We graduated from nursing courses and went to war.

- Remember your first fight?

I will never forget him. In Lipetsk, they received an order from Stalin and the front headquarters that our division be sent to Voronezh. So we marched for three days and three nights in full combat readiness. We were the first to reach the front line, and hand-to-hand combat began. Without artillery preparation. We lost up to forty percent of our manpower there. Well, when the technique came up, the German was given heat. On January 25, 1943, we liberated Voronezh.

- Was the war very scary?

I don't know, I wasn't afraid. We knew that this was a war, that we were needed, and we tried to run to the groan in order to bandage, to pull out each soldier.

- Tell us about the awards, there are many. What was the first?

The first is the medal "For Courage". In 1942, in December, on the battlefield, it was handed to me by the commander of the 60th Army Ivan Danilovich Chernyakhovsky himself. This was the first award for 27 wounded pulled from the battlefield.

- And the Order of Glory?

This is Czechoslovakia, there were big battles, we lost a lot of people. There I restored the connection between the regiments and the headquarters of the battalion, and at the same time served as a medical instructor. Carried out 50 wounded, this is how it is written in the award list.

- I read that during the war years you saved more than three hundred soldiers.

Yes it's true. Even more.

- Do you remember anyone who was saved? Has anyone made a special impression on you?

I remember the one and only company commander. There were big battles near Kursk, the shell hit where the battalion headquarters was located. The wounded company commander jumped out, his hand hanging on the tip of the skin. He says to me: “Masha, cut it off for me, it bothers me, blood flows.” I answer: “What are you, Andryusha, what will I cut off, I will make sure that after the war you will ride me on a motorcycle.” I applied a tourniquet, bandaged it, wrote down the time so that other doctors would know when ... He was looking for me for 30 years after the war. And when he found it, he invited me to Timashevsk, in the Krasnodar Territory. Four days riding a motorcycle! And he wrote gratitude on the photo: "Thank you for saving my life on March 15, 1943."

- Do you often remember the war?

Every night.

- Are these nightmares?

No, this is pain for those who did not survive. They left for me young, loved, close. Everyone was friends. I remember many by name, I remember who was buried where, who was killed where. I remember everyone.

Maria Denisovna, the way veterans are honored in Russia today, what kind of respect they show, is that enough? Do you feel your importance, need, demand?

May I tell you about the surgeon? Here we celebrated the anniversary of the battle of Prokhorov, invited Putin to visit. I should have been there too. But it so happened that the day before I fell, broke my finger. I went to the traumatology to put a plaster on me. I go to the surgeon, I ask: “Can I see you?”. He told me: "No, wait half an hour." I say: “I don’t have to wait, just tell me what to do, I’ll go to the nurse.” He told me: "I told you, come out!". I didn’t go out and said: “Firstly, I am a nurse, then I am a disabled person of the first group and I have every right to come to you without a queue.” And he is so rude: "All the invalids of the war have already died, and you are walking around here." And I answered: "Don't wait!".

- Forgive us, Maria Denisovna... You were twice wounded and shell-shocked.

Yes, I even had a funeral. On the territory of the Voronezh region, we went on reconnaissance with a group of fighters to take "language". At this time, the Germans began shelling, I was wounded by shrapnel. The guys gave first aid and left to carry out a combat mission. I was told to wait for their return, but the shelling was so strong that I decided to crawl to my own as far as I could. When the scouts returned, of course, I was no longer there, only shell craters. So they considered dead, reported to the commander.

When I arrived home, my mother had two funerals on the table: mine and that of my brother Evgeny, who died on the Kuril Islands on August 18, 1945.

- Is this the brother you skydived for?

Yes, he worked as a teacher and went in for parachuting. And when we had a holiday - 85 years of the Airborne Forces, there was still the commander-in-chief Shamanov, I watched the young people jump with a parachute, how they make a landing. I got infected with this and said: I won’t if I don’t know what it is. And I made the jump! Thanks to our guys: Olga Vladimirovna Severina, Mikhail Kulabukhov.

- Maria Denisovna, and if the heart stopped, was there really no fear?

Yes, I didn’t even have time to cross myself before the jump, to say to myself “save and save”, as I was already in the abyss! They did a somersault, rolled over and hung for one second. Then a parachutist flew up, took a picture, gave me his hands, we flew. And that's it.

- What was the feeling of flying like?

And this is how a bird flies in the air, and below there were white-white clouds. And here is the feeling that I walked on this white carpet. I still wanted to fly, but they told me: enough, granny.

Maria Denisovna, I looked at the photos taken in 2015, you are standing at the Reichstag in Berlin. How did it happen?

We had a goal, a huge desire - to go through places of military glory. There were three girls: Nagaeva Ekaterina Petrovna, Mishneva Anna Mikhailovna and me. And so they gave us such a gift, they took us to Prague, Dresden, Karlovy Vary, Berlin. When we approached the Reichstag, there were a million people from all over the planet. We were told: sign up for the 18th. But we left on the 16th. There, a boy spoke Russian, such a handsome man, we began to ask him, he replied that he could not skip the queue. Then I took off my jacket. As he looked at my medals, he immediately went to negotiate with the administrator. He took me around the Reichstag, through the museum, he told me everything. And then I didn't even want to let go. We had the banner of Victory, and we took pictures.

- And what were your feelings when you walked around Berlin?

Remember what fights were. We looked at what cities are now, compared. We visited the cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Prague, each monument has flowers, well-groomed. Tourists took a lot of pictures of us. They were treated very well.

- How was Victory Day on the 45th for you?

Prague was liberated on May 9th. Troops and our cannons were stationed in the forest. And we were already aiming to shoot. And suddenly the scout shouts: “Hurrah! Victory!" And all the caps began to throw up and shouted "Victory!". Who was tearful, wept. I didn't cry. Never. And now I don't cry.

- Have you ever wanted to write a book of memoirs? Haven't tried?

I have three dreams. Ride on a ball - they gave a certificate. Collect memories, arrange and write a book. And once again I want to jump with a parachute.

- What would you like to say to the current generation of youth? The most important thing.

Love Motherland. Our generation won only because we loved the Motherland.

- Our project is called "Live in Belgorod". How do you live in Belgorod, do you like this city?

He has changed so much, I don’t recognize the streets anymore, such beauty. I also did a lot for him, my entire work book is filled out, 55 years of experience.

Maria Denisovna, please accept our congratulations on the holiday. Thank you. We wish you many, many years to come. We really need you, live a hundred and fifty years and even two hundred! Would you like to?

I can tell you that I really want to live long. But how much God will measure is the question. Life is so interesting!

Interviewed by Elena TRISCHENKO

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