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Russian woman Maria Ogiyenko Celebrates her 110th birthday

Maria Ogiyenko, a resident of Khabarovsk, Russia, celebrated her 110th birthday on 29 November. Her birthday was first reported by the Khabarovsk News.

Ogiyenko was born in Krasnodar Krai, Russia (then Russian Empire), on 29 November 1914. She spent her childhood and youth in the village of Kanelovskaya. Her father passed away during the Russian Civil War (1917–1922), and shortly afterward, her mother also died. From a young age, she began working in agriculture.

By the time the Great Patriotic War began, she was already married and the mother of three daughters. When Maria’s husband was sent to the front, she was left alone to care for their children. She described this as an incredibly challenging period—her children were often hungry, and tragically, her youngest daughter died of starvation. To provide for her family, Maria worked tirelessly.

Her husband was presumed lost at the front during World War II. It was only a few years after the war ended, in 1953, that he returned, revealing that he had been captured, labeled a traitor, and imprisoned in Yakutia. In 1955, the family relocated to Vorkuta in the Komi Republic to be near him and continued to live there even after his rehabilitation. During their time in Vorkuta, she worked in a mine. In 1965, they moved to Khabarovsk to be closer to their daughter Tamara, who had enrolled in a railway technical school. The family settled there permanently.