Shchetinina Anna Ivanovna - captain-mentor of the Far Eastern Shipping Company of the USSR Ministry of the Navy, the world's first female captain long voyage.
She was born on February 26, 1908 at the Okeanskaya station near the city of Vladivostok, now the center of the Primorsky Territory, into a working-class family. Russian. In 1925, she graduated from 8 classes at the unified labor school at Sedanka station. In the same year, she entered the navigation department of the Vladivostok Maritime College. While studying at the technical school, she worked as a nurse and cleaner in a dental office, sailed as a student and as a sailor.
After graduating from college, she was sent to the Joint-Stock Kamchatka Shipping Company, where she went from sailor to captain in just 6 years, and at the age of 24 she received a navigator’s diploma. In 1935, at the age of 27, she became captain of the Chinook steamship. The first voyage as a captain attracted the attention of the world press. In June, Shchetinina accepted the cargo steamer Hohenfels, purchased in Germany, which received the new name Chinook. A month later, on July 16, 1935, a ship with 2800 tons of cargo, among which was equipment for a ship repair shipyard being built in Petropavlovsk, left Odessa for Kamchatka. The route from the Black Sea to Kamchatka via polar seas took fifty-eight days.
In 1936, she was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and not for the fact that she was the first female captain, but for the difficult, truly “male” voyages across the Sea of Okhotsk, from which, thanks to her professionalism and perseverance, she always emerged victorious. So, in February 1936, the ship was covered in ice for eleven days. During the forced drift, food supply came to an end. Fresh water for boilers and drinking water was also running out. The entire crew and passengers were mobilized to prepare snow. Throughout the entire day of ice captivity, Captain Shchetinina did not leave the captain’s bridge, steering the ship with her own hands, choosing the right moment to take her out of the ice. She commanded the Chinook until 1938.
In March 1938, A.I. Shchetinina was appointed head of the fishing port in Vladivostok. In the same year she entered the Leningrad Institute water transport to the navigating department. Having the right to freely attend lectures, after two and a half years I completed 4 courses. The war prevented me from finishing my studies.
In the first days of the war, she was assigned to the Baltic Shipping Company. In the summer of 1941, she sailed on the steamship Saul, carrying out assignments from the military command in Gulf of Finland. In August 1941, under severe shelling from the Nazis, she sailed a ship loaded with food and weapons from Tallinn to Leningrad.
In the fall of 1941, together with a group of sailors, she was sent to Vladivostok at the disposal of the Far Eastern Shipping Company, where she worked on the ships “Karl Liebknecht”, “Rodina”, and in 1943 she received the steamer “Jean Jaurès” (Liberty type) into the USA. During the war years she made 17 flights with military cargo through Pacific Ocean. In August 1945, she took part in the transfer of the 264th rifle division to southern Sakhalin.
After the end of the war with Japan, she submitted a request to be released to Leningrad to finish her studies at the institute. Until 1949, he worked in the Baltic Shipping Company as captain of the ships “Dniester”, “Pskov”, “Askold”, “Beloostrov”, “Baskunchak”. In 1947, the steamship Dmitry Mendeleev, commanded by Shchetinina, delivered to Leningrad statues stolen by the Nazis from Petrodvorets during the occupation.
From 1949 to teaching work. First, at the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School - as an assistant and at the same time completing the 5th year of the navigation faculty in absentia. Since 1951 - senior teacher, and then dean of the school's navigation department. In 1956, Anna Shchetinina was awarded the title of associate professor.
In 1960, at her own request, the Vladivostok Higher Marine Engineering School was transferred (now the Marine State University named after Admiral G.I. Nevelsky). She was appointed to the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Maritime Affairs. Gave lectures on the courses “Meteorology and Oceanography”, “Naval Affairs”, “Navigation and Pilotship”, supervised theses, wrote several teaching aids and books. While working at the department, she went to sea several times as a captain on the ships “Orsha”, “Orekhov” and “Okhotsk”. She worked at the institute for 17 years and became dean.
In 1968, the film “Anna Ivanovna”, shot at the Daltelefilm studio, was released across the country. For the 60th anniversary, documents were being prepared to award the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. But then they didn’t let me into the Central Committee in Moscow. In the late 1970s, A.I. Shchetinina received an invitation from the head of the Far Eastern Shipping Company to the position of captain-mentor.
By Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR dated February 24, 1978 for great merit in development maritime transport, training of highly qualified personnel and in connection with the 70th anniversary Shchetinina Anna Ivanovna awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Hammer and Sickle Gold Medal.
Anna Ivanovna's interests were not limited only to the sea and ships; in 1963, she became chairman of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR. She wrote two books that went through several editions: “On the seas and beyond the seas...” and “On different sea roads”, and became a member of the Russian Writers' Union.
Honorary worker Navy, Honorable Sir Vladivostok, Honorary Member of the Geographical Society of the USSR, active member of the Soviet Women's Committee, Honorary Member of the Far Eastern Association of Sea Captains in London.
Lived in the city of Vladivostok. She died on September 25, 1999. She was buried at the Marine Cemetery in Vladivostok.
Awarded two orders of Lenin, orders Patriotic War 2nd degree, Red Star, Red Banner of Labor, medals.
In October 2006, the name of Shchetinina was given to the cape of the Shkota Peninsula on the coast of the Amur Bay Sea of Japan(43 N 131 E) In October 2007 in Vladivostok, on the building of school No. 16, from which Anna Shchetinina graduated in 1925, a Memorial plaque. In the same school there is a museum dedicated to Anna Shchetinina.
Chairman of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society. Member of the Russian Writers' Union.
Anna Shchetinina was born on February 26, 1908 at Okeanskaya station, Primorsky Krai. Father, Ivan Ivanovich, worked as a switchman, forester, worker and employee in the fisheries. Mother, Maria Filosofovna from Kemerovo region. Brother Vladimir Ivanovich, born in Vladivostok, worked as a workshop foreman at an aircraft factory at the Varfolomeevka station in the Primorsky Territory.
In 1919, the girl began studying at an elementary school in Sadgorod. After the entry of the Red Army into Vladivostok, schools were reorganized, and from 1922 Anya studied at a unified labor school at Sedanka station, where in 1925 she graduated from eight classes. In the same year, she entered the navigation department of the Vladivostok Maritime College.
After graduating from technical school, she worked in Kamchatka, where she worked her way up from a simple sailor to a captain. At the age of twenty-four, Anna received a navigator's diploma, and at twenty-seven she became the world's first female sea captain. On her first voyage in 1935, she became famous throughout the world, sailing the cargo ship “Chinook” from Hamburg through Odessa and Singapore to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
On March 20, 1938, Anna Ivanovna was appointed the first head of the fishing port of the city of Vladivostok. Anna met the war in the Baltic, where she evacuated the population of Tallinn under bombing and transported strategic cargo.
After the war, Shchetinina was the captain of the ships “Askold”, “Baskunchak”, “Beloostrov”, “Dniester”, “Pskov”, “Mendeleev” in the Baltic Shipping Company. Since 1949 she worked at the State Maritime Academy. Two years later she became a senior teacher, and then the dean of the school’s navigating department. In 1956, Anna Ivanovna was awarded the title of associate professor. In 1960 she was transferred to the Maritime State University named after Admiral Gennady Nevelsky to the position of associate professor in the Department of Maritime Affairs.
In 1963, she became chairman of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR. Also, during this period she wrote the book “On the Seas and Beyond the Seas...”.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on February 24, 1978, Shcherbinina was awarded the title of Hero Socialist Labor.
Anna Ivanovna Shcherbinina died on September 25, 1999. A monument was erected to her at the Vladivostok Marine Cemetery.
Awards and Recognition of Anna Shchetinina
Hero of Socialist Labor (1978)
Two Orders of Lenin
Two Orders of the Patriotic War, II degree (29.9.1945; 23.12.1985)
Order of the Red Star (1942)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1936)
Honorary Citizen of Vladivostok (1978)
Honorary Worker of the Navy
Honorary member of the Geographical Society of the USSR, the Far Eastern Association of Sea Captains (FEAMK) and the International Federation of Captains Associations (MEFAK, English IFSMA),
Member of the Russian Writers' Union
In memory of Anna Shchetinina
A monument was erected to her at the Vladivostok Marine Cemetery.
School No. 16 of the city of Vladivostok has been named after A. I. Shchetinina since 2008.
In 2010, one of the new streets of Vladivostok in the Snegovaya Pad microdistrict was named after Anna Shchetinina.
On October 21, 2013, after a major reconstruction, a park was solemnly opened on Krygina Street in Vladivostok, and a monument to A. I. Shchetinina was erected.
The image of A. I. Shchetinina is immortalized on the bas-relief of the stele “City of Military Glory”.
On February 11, 2017, by order of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, the name of the world's first female sea captain Anna Shchetinina was assigned to one of the nameless islands of the Kuril ridge.
In 1935, she became famous throughout the world by guiding the Chinook ship through polar ice to the Far East. On March 20, 1938, Anna Ivanovna was appointed the first head of the fishing port of the city of Vladivostok. Anna met the war in the Baltic, where she evacuated the population of Tallinn under bombing and transported strategic cargo.
Anna Ivanovna was born at Okeanskaya station near Vladivostok. In 1925 she entered the navigation department of the Vladivostok Maritime College. After graduating from technical school, she worked in Kamchatka, where she worked her way up from a simple sailor to a captain. At the age of 24, Anna received a navigator's diploma, and at 27 she became the world's first female sea captain. In 1935 she became famous throughout the world,
guiding the Chinook ship through the polar ice to the Far East. On March 20, 1938, Anna Ivanovna was appointed the first head of the fishing port of the city of Vladivostok. Anna met the war in the Baltic, where she evacuated the population of Tallinn under bombing and transported strategic cargo.
After the war, Anna Shchetinina was the captain of the ships “Askold”, “Baskunchak”, “Beloostrov”, “Dniester”, “Pskov”, “Mendeleev” in
Baltic Shipping Company. Since 1949, she worked at the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School, and since 1951, she was a senior teacher, and then the dean of the school’s navigating department. In 1956, Anna Shchetinina was awarded the title of associate professor. In 1960, she was transferred to VVIMU to the position of associate professor in the Department of Maritime Affairs.
Memory
At the Marine Cemetery in Vla
A monument was erected to her in East East.
Awards and Titles
Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina - Hero of Socialist Labor (1978), Honorary Worker of the Navy, Honorary Citizen of Vladivostok, Member of the Writers' Union of Russia, Honorary Member of DVAMK and MEFAC, awarded with many government and international awards
105 years have passed since the birth of Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina, the world’s first female sea captain, Hero of Socialist Labor, graduate of the Vladivostok Maritime College, associate professor, and then head of the department of “Ship Control” at FEVIMU named after. adm. G.I. Nevelsky.
Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina was born on February 26, 1908 at Okeanskaya station near Vladivostok. IN primary school Anna went to Lyanchikhe station (Sadgorod area) at the age of eleven. Civil War was in full swing, schools were closed every now and then. The Shchetinins lived in Sedanka in those years; there was no money for travel, and the girl had to get there on foot. And this is seven kilometers there and seven kilometers back. In winter - skate along the river to the bay, and then on the ice of the Amur Bay. After the entry of the Red Army into Vladivostok, schools were reorganized, and from 1922 Anna Shchetinina entered the united school. labor school at Sedanka station. She was actively catching up. She graduated from eight-year school in six years and submitted documents to the Vladivostok Marine College.
Decades later, she will tell in the book “On Different Sea Roads”: “I wrote a letter to the head of the technical school. This was both a modest request and an assurance of one’s readiness for all difficulties. Not a letter, but a whole poem." With a sinking heart, she lowered the envelope into the box and began to wait for an answer. Finally I received an invitation to “appear in person” to the boss...
Do you want to go to the sea? - he asked. - Tell me, why did you suddenly want this?
Tell me, are you prohibited from accepting girls? - I asked.
No, it’s not prohibited,” the boss winced in annoyance. - But I’m three times older than you and pure heart I want to warn you. Well, tell me, what makes you choose to become a navigator? Have you read enough novels? Does romance appeal?
Job. Interesting job.
Job? You don't know this work at all. From the first days you will be treated not more leniently, but more strictly than others. You will have to spend twice as much time and effort on work as your comrades. If a guy makes a mistake and can’t do something, it will be just a mistake. And if you make a mistake, they will say: woman, what can they take from her? It may be unfair and offensive, but it will happen. And all your successes will be attributed to imaginary concessions that were supposedly made to you, as a girl. After all, we have a lot of people of the old stock. If you end up with some old boatswain, he will shake the soul out of you... My guys often run away from practice, and you go there too!
I won’t hold back, rest assured.”
In 1925, Anna Shchetinina entered the navigation department of the Vladivostok Maritime College. Just one episode in the fate of the future captain, one stroke in her character: to earn a living, she worked at night as a loader in the port along with her classmates. Anna did not receive a scholarship at the technical school: despite excellent grades, she was denied as a “unpromising student.” And in the port she did not give herself any concessions, trying to be like everyone else. She walked in circles, gritting her teeth from pride and fatigue: she had to carry thirty to forty kilograms on her shoulders. The money earned for such work was enough for five days.
Anna completed her internship as a deck apprentice on the steamship "Simferopol" and the sailing security vessel "Bryukhanov", and then as a sailor on the steamship "First Crab". Only she alone knew how many offensive jokes, neglect and outright gloating she had to endure from individual crew members during practice. The boatswain turned out exactly as the head of the technical school predicted. Gave the dirtiest and hard work: remove rust, clean the bilge, wash paint cans. She did everything she was ordered, suffering from bouts of seasickness. Many years later she admitted: “I understood that if I refused, I would never stand on an equal footing with the sailors, I would always be a passenger for them.”
Anna Shchetinina graduated from the Marine College in 1929. When she entered, the competition was four people per place. Of the forty-two guys who were accepted with her, eighteen reached the diploma.
After graduating from college, Anna Shchetinina was sent to the Joint-Stock Kamchatka Shipping Company. She did not have enough swimming qualifications to obtain a navigator's diploma. I had to sail for several months as a student or sailor. No one would believe that this girl is six years old will go the way from sailor to captain. At the same time, without skipping a single step: port fleet sailor, navigator's student, first class sailor, third navigator, second, senior... Isn't that why they sound so weighty in the book? simple words: “I went through the entire difficult journey of a sailor from beginning to end. And if I am now the captain of a large ocean ship, then each of my subordinates knows that I did not come from the foam of the sea”?
At the age of 27, Anna Shchetinina ascended to the captain's bridge. Her first voyage as a captain was in 1935, ferrying the steamer "Chinook" from Hamburg to Kamchatka.
“In the spring of '35, I spent my vacation in Moscow,” Anna Ivanovna recalled. - I planned to watch new performances in theaters, run around exhibitions and go south with a ticket in my pocket. But instead of the desired rest, I received a work order! Yes what! Captain of a ship purchased by the Soviet government in Germany.
From the first day, Hamburg unpleasantly struck me with the deathly emptiness of the streets, the abundance of flags with swastikas and the measured clatter of forged boots of stormtroopers walking along the pavement. But work is work. I will forever remember the moment when the boat stopped at the pier. Here we are climbing floating dock and go to the ship. They give way to me: the captain must board the ship first. We are greeted. But I'm not looking at anyone yet. As soon as I cross the gangplank, I touch the gunwale of the ship with my hand and whisper a greeting to him so that no one notices. Then I extend my hand to the captain and greet him in German. He immediately introduces me to a man in a gray civilian suit: it turns out that this is a representative of the Hansa company, authorized to formalize the transfer of a group of ships Soviet Union. I understand that I should say hello to this representative first, but I deliberately do not want to understand this. For me, the main thing now is the captain. And only having said everything that I considered necessary for the captain, I greeted the representative of “Hansa”.
She created a sensation abroad. There was a bet among sailors all over the world: could the “lady captain” bring her ship from Hamburg to the shores of the Far East? The whole world closely watched the progress of the ship, expecting a disaster. But Anna Shchetinina did not live up to the skeptics’ predictions, successfully completing the most difficult voyage. Her fame overtook the ship, and as soon as the Chinook dropped anchor in Singapore, Anna was invited to an elite English maritime club. It was crowded: gentlemen came especially to look at the “lady captain”. In a respectful, surprised whisper behind her, she caught general meaning: the gentlemen expected to see “at least a brown bear from the Siberian forests...”.
And the sea, testing the unusual captain’s strength, struck her with blows immediately after taking office...
“During the ship’s passage from Hamburg to Odessa, the Chinook fell into a strip of continuous lingering fog. Each of us had to wake up in the dark and find a way out of the room by touch. But the only price you pay for losing your bearings in the house is bruises and bumps. What if the ship loses its bearings?.. After all, the navigation equipment of ships in those years was not the same as now, when navigators were armed with a gyrocompass, radio direction finders, radars... And then there were only magnetic compass, a log with a turntable, and lots - mechanical and manual.”
"Chinook" literally walked along the North Sea, stuffed with ships, shoals and currents, tearing through the thick canvas of fog with its stem. The Sea of Japan, Okhotsk and Bering Seas accustomed Shchetinina to swimming in fog, but it was difficult to get used to Europe. The ship's whistle sounded continuously, at short intervals. For fear of not hearing a return signal, everyone on the ship avoided the noise. Those off duty gathered at the bow and looked ahead until their eyes hurt, so as not to miss the rapidly approaching silhouette of the oncoming ship. Multi-decks sailed past passenger liners, light fishing boats slipped by, warships walked sullenly, and so it was for a long, very long time...
In the winter of 1936, the Chinook was covered in ice. The steamer drifted for eleven days. During this time, all food supplies were depleted. The sailors were on hard rations: the crew was given 600 grams of bread a day, the command staff - 400. Fresh water for boilers and drinking was also running out. The entire crew and passengers were mobilized to prepare snow. It was collected from the ice floes, poured into the forepeak, and then melted with steam. During eleven days of ice captivity, Anna Ivanovna did not leave the captain’s bridge, steering the ship with her own hands and choosing the right moment to take the “Chinook” out of the ice.
Even in her books decades later, she did not admit how scared she was. This recognition came out only once, in 1997 at a meeting with fellow captains. Anna Ivanovna suddenly said: “I’m not that brave... Many times I felt scared. Especially when the deck of the Jean Jaurès burst..."
In December 1943, the steamship Jean Zhores, under the command of Anna Shchetinina, assisted the steamship Valery Chkalov in the Bering Sea, whose deck burst during a storm and it broke in two. In the most difficult storm conditions, with the second shot of the line gun, rescuers managed to place the towing line on the stern of the Valery Chkalov, which miraculously continued to stay afloat. The crew was saved. The captain of “Chkalov” Alexander Fedorovich Shantsberg, who began his captain’s career even before Shchetinina was born, respectfully said: “You are a cat and a dad, but you raped karasho!” This time, of course, she was not offended for the “woman.”
And on the next voyage, the Jean Jaurès got into trouble. This happened in the Gulf of Alaska, when the nearest Akutan Bay was 500 miles away. During a strong storm, the deck of the ship also burst. It was as if a cannon had fired, and from the bridge the watch saw a crack that barely reached the port side. The wide gap was “breathing”, and it seemed that the next push of the waves would break the ship. Everyone had the accident of “Valery Chkalov” fresh in their memory. Shchetinina decided not to give a distress signal. The center of the cyclone had passed, the weather could not have been worse, there was nowhere to wait for help, real and close, and the crack was localized by drilling holes at its ends. When three days later the ship approached Akutan and the commander of the military boat allowed the Russian ship to continue its journey, Anna Ivanovna invited the American to climb onto the deck of her barely alive ship.
The boat commander grabbed his head... They urgently brought the ship to the pier. Unloaded some of the flour. A floating workshop was called from the port of Dutch Harbor. They welded the crack and offered to return the ship to America for repairs. But in wartime, every day was worth its weight in gold. “I got to Akutan with such a crack in a storm, I’ll get to Petropavlovsk with the long-awaited bread, if I’m lucky with the weather,” Shchetinina decided. And they arrived...
During the Second World War, Anna Shchetinina, under fire from enemy aircraft, evacuated people and transported strategically important cargo. Throughout the war she worked on ships delivering food and equipment from America and Canada to Russia. In 1945 it provided landing operations during the war with Japan.
For the courage and skill of captain Shchetinina was awarded the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad” in 1941, the Order of the Red Star in 1942, and the Order of Lenin in 1945. After the war, in 1950, she completed her education at the Leningrad Higher Marine Engineering School, where she entered before the war. In September 1960, Anna Ivanovna returned to her native Vladivostok, having been appointed associate professor of the Department of Ship Management.
By this time, she had become not only a world celebrity, but also the author of several textbooks for future sailors. For many years her life was connected with the Far Eastern Higher Marine Engineering School. Sharing her experience with future navigators, she continued to remain on the captain’s bridge for a long time, going on voyages on the ships “Orsha”, “Orekhov”, “Okhotsk”, “Anton Chekhov”... Anna Ivanovna gave fifty years to the sea. She circumnavigated all the oceans of the world, was the captain of fifteen ships, and circumnavigated the world on the Okhotsk.
Anna Shchetinina led a huge social activities. She founded a section of navigation and oceanology in the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society of the USSR and headed it herself. And a few years later she became the chairman of the Primorsky branch of the Geographical Society. On her initiative, the Captains Club was created in Vladivostok, and the Far Eastern captains elected her as the first chairman of the club. She was a deputy of Primorsky regional council and a member of the Soviet Women's Committee, which was headed by Valentina Tereshkova, the world's first female cosmonaut.
In 1978, Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor and the title of Honorary Resident of the city of Vladivostok. She lived great life, her 90th birthday was celebrated by the whole country. And the whole city accompanied her to last way in 1999.
A cape on the coast of the Amur Bay, a square on the Shkota Peninsula, and a street in the Snegovaya Pad microdistrict are named after this wonderful woman. School No. 16 in Vladivostok bears her name. For the best cadets Maritime Academy A scholarship named after Anna Shchetinina is awarded annually.
I would like to believe that in the future the name of the famous captain Shchetinina will appear on board a modern ocean-going vessel. And a monument to her will definitely be erected on one of the streets of our city. It is no coincidence that the phrase was born: “Shchetinina is for Vladivostok, like Gagarin is for Russia.”
Galina Yakunina,
She was then 27 years old, but according to engineer Lomnitsky, our representative in Hamburg, she looked at least 5 years younger.
Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina was born in Vladivostok in 1908. at Okeanskaya station. The sea splashed not far from her home and beckoned her since childhood, but in order to fulfill her dream and achieve something in the harsh male world of sailors, she had to become not just the best, but an order of magnitude better. And she became the best.
After graduating from the navigating department of the maritime technical school, she was sent to Kamchatka, where she began her labor activity a simple sailor, at 24 she is a navigator, at 27 she is a captain, in just 6 years of work.
She commanded the "Chinook" until 1938. In the harsh stormy waters of the Sea of Okhotsk. She managed to become famous again when in 1936 the ship was captured by heavy ice.
Only thanks to the resourcefulness of the captain, who did not leave the captain’s bridge during the entire time of ice captivity, and coordinated work team, they were able to get out of it without damaging the ship. This was done at the cost of titanic efforts, while they almost ran out of food and water. And in 1938, she was tasked with creating the Vladivostok fishing port practically from scratch. This is at 30 years old. She also coped with this task brilliantly, in just six months. At the same time, she entered the Institute of Water Transport in Leningrad, successfully completed 4 courses in 2.5 years, and then the war began.
She was sent to Baltic Fleet, where she, under fierce shelling and continuous bombing, evacuated the population of Tallinn, transported food and weapons for the army, cruising the Gulf of Finland.
Then again Far Eastern Shipping Company and a new task - trips across the Pacific Ocean to the shores of Canada and the USA. During the war, ships under her command sailed across the ocean 17 times, and she also had a chance to participate in the rescue of the steamship "Valery Chkalov." Anna Ivanovna Shchetinina has many glorious deeds to her name, she commanded large Oken liners and taught first in Leningrad at the Higher Engineering and Naval School, then she was the dean of the faculty of navigators at DVVIMU - Far Eastern Higher Marine Engineering School named after. Adm. Nevelsky in Vladivostok.
Now it is the Maritime State University named after. adm. Nevelsky.
She was the organizer of the “captains club” in Vladivostok and the chairman of the jury at tourist song festivals, which grew, with her active participation, into a famous Far East festival of author's songs "Seaside Strings", she wrote books about the sea and textbooks for cadets.
Her merits were highly appreciated by captains abroad; for her sake, the famous Australian club of captains, the Rotary Club, changed the centuries-old tradition and not only invited a woman to their club, but also gave her the floor at the captains’ forum.
And during the celebration of Anna Ivanovna’s 90th birthday, she was presented with congratulations on behalf of the captains of Europe and America.
Anna Shetinina - Hero of Socialist Labor, Honorary Resident of Vladivostok, Honorary worker Marine Fleet, member of the Russian Writers' Union, Honorary Member Geographical Society USSR, committee member Soviet women, Honorary member of the Far Eastern Captains Association in London, etc., the irrepressible energy of this woman, her heroism were highly appreciated in her homeland - 2 Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the Red Banner, the Red Banner of Labor and many medals. She passed away. Anna Ivanovna was 91 years old and was buried in the Vladivostok naval cemetery. The city has not forgotten this amazing woman.
IN Maritime University, where she taught, a museum in her memory was created, a cape on the Shkota Peninsula was named after her, not far from the house where she lived, a park was built in her name, etc.
Then other female captains came, but she was the first.
She said about herself:
“I went through the whole difficult journey of a sailor from beginning to end. And if I am now the captain of a large ocean ship, then each of my subordinates knows that I did not come from the foam of the sea!”