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When war began, Nina Grigoryevna Kovalyova took examinations in literature in evening technical school. Being the training officer, itself taught Stakhanov methods of work, held exams at young bakers. And in August, 1941 at the call of Komsomol already mastered military specialty in Rostov-on-Don.

Having finished intensive courses of radio telegraphists with honors, the girl was defined for service in a regiment of communication of the 8th air army. Under bombardments, day and night, in a distance from fighting orders of the opponent and on a front line the radio operator provided a reliable communication with military divisions and aircraft. Commanders in due time received battle-orders, the coded intelligence information which were reported by pilots on communication channels.

As a part of the 8th air army participated in fierce fight for Stalingrad. As Nina Grigoryevna remembers, many young, inexperienced pilots died here. Troops prepared for a resolute change during this battle with the enemy. Our army received replenishment of very young pilots. Somehow on airfield Vasily Stalin's plane landed. Several days it gave to pilots lessons of piloting, conducting air fights with the opponent and bombardments. It is necessary to tell that after that fighting flight skill of pilots considerably increased. Very many of them became Heroes and twice Heroes of the Soviet Union subsequently.
Nina Grigoryevna Kovalyova passed thousands of kilometers of front roads from Stalingrad to Austria. The eighth air army participated in release from fascists of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany. The radio operator Kovalyovoy was fated to move with troops across the territory of the North Caucasus, the Crimea, Belarus, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria. The radio operator met a victory over fascist Germany near the capital of Austria of Vienna. For military valor and courage it is awarded war decorations.

Severe tests of war did not harden Nina Kovalyovoy's heart. It kept female charm, diligence. Having returned to Rostov-on-Don in November, 1945, in 1946 married the veteran Ivan Kovalyov. Nina Grigoryevna's dream to become the woman-pilot was embodied by the son Mikhail who ordered in Kobrin a squadron. Now Nina Grigoryevna is pleased by grandsons and great-grandsons.

Pyanko, And. Front roads / Alexey Pyanko//Kobrynski vesnik. – 2005. – May 7. – C.3. Nina Grigoryevna Kovalyova, the operator of the 8th air army, passed thousands of kilometers of front roads from Stalingrad to Austria.



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