Evdokia Bobyleva

On 18 August 1919, Bobyleva was born into a peasant family in the village of Anastasovo [ce; ru], Odoyevsky District, Tula Oblast.

[4] She and her husband relocated to Riga in 1939,[1] and served as a volunteer fighter in the Great Patrotic War, using Anti-aircraft warfare.

[4] Following her demobilisation in 1944, Bobyleva went back to the Tusa Oblast and enrolled at Tula State Pedagogical University [ba; fa; ru].

[6] During her tenure at the school, children received certificates to drive tractors, operate as mechanics-adjusters and machine milking masters; the experience of training agricultural personnel was adopted in other Oblasts.

[9] A book on Bobyleva, «Евдокия свет Фёдоровна», was authored by one of her pupils, Vladimir Uspensky [ru].

"[4] In 2014, Bobyleva received the For a Special Contribution to the Development of the Tula Region [ru] "as a citizen whose activities brought significant results for the region in the state, political, economic, research, public and other spheres, which received wide public fame and recognition.