«Take! You will not regret!» I heard a familiar voice. My former boss Major Kovalenko came from the next room. «She worked for me. She is a real miner! If all the women worked like her I would give all the lads the bum's rush and work only with bints!»
The opinion (weighty, although rude) of the head of the Coal Mine Department had its effect and the head of human resources Major Levin ordered to hire to the mine as an exception. So it happened that I was the only woman at 8 mines of Norilsk Group (at least in 1952).