Tamara Alekseevna Savelieva was in Kerch when the war broke out. During the Great Patriotic War, Tamara Alekseevna worked in the cafeteria. The Germans were approaching Kerch, and the raids of fascist aviation were becoming more and more frequent. One day, while preparing lunch, the girl heard an extremely powerful explosion, the military hospital was blown up.
The Soviet troops were retreating. Taman, Anapa, Krasnodar, Novorossiysk were left behind, all the transport of the food warehouse No. 230, together with the cook Tamara Alekseevna, was approaching Gelendzhik.
Every act, every movement in the war was a feat. The work of the young cook Tamara Alekseevna, who moved along the front roads with the field kitchen, was also a feat.
Awards: medal "For Courage", medal "For the Victory over Germany" and others