Students were allowed only what they could carry, no excesses, and traveled in freight cars, while the instructors were in the passenger section of the transport trains.
It took over a month for the students to reach the Tashkent Institute, where they slept underneath the desks at which they studied during the day.
After the Battle of Stalingrad, when it was clear that victory would defeat Nazi Germany, the students began returning home.
[4] She most often worked with Alexander Voinov (Belarusian: Александром Воиновым)[3] and together, they worked on such projects as the Minsk Youth Theatre, the Palace of Pioneers and the building of the regional committee of the PBC (now Minsk Commonwealth of Independent States Executive Secretariat building).
[2] In 1989, Usava was inducted into the Minsk Project Institute's Book of Honor[2] and she retired in 1990 after 43 years of service.