In June 1941, she entered nursing courses to go to the front. One day she was sent with her friends to guard a warehouse, and on the very first night several pairs of felt boots disappeared from there. The girls were convicted and taken to the Urals. She carried water on a supply line, pushed a trolley in a hot shop, worked at a logging site, and dug vegetable gardens. In 1945, she had to work in the logging camps with Germans interned from eastern Europe. They were not prisoners of war - by order of the Soviet government at the end of the war, the German civilian population of Romania, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland was taken beyond the Urals for hard forced labor. These events, hushed up for many years, subsequently formed the basis of her wonderful novel “The Germans.” The writer tried more than once to publish it, but she was invariably told that such a topic does not and cannot exist in Soviet literature. The novel was published only after her death in new Russia (2002).