The date of farewell to the veteran, who collected 4.5 million rubles for doctors, became known.

Farewell to the St. Petersburg pensioner Zinaida Korneva, who collected more than 4.5 million rubles during the pandemic. in support of doctors working with COVID-19 , will be held on October 16. This was reported to RBC by a relative of Korneva Dmitry Panov.

The farewell ceremony, according to him, will begin at 12:00 in the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker on Metallistov Avenue in St. Petersburg . Where Korneva will be buried, he did not specify.

Zinaida Korneva died on October 12. She was 99 years old. “The reason is age. Grandma got worse in the last week. This is not COVID, she was vaccinated, ”Panov told RBC at the time.

Korneva is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. In 1941-1945, she was an anti-aircraft gunner and went through the entire war - from Stalingrad to Berlin. The woman gained fame last year after, inspired by the example of the British veteran Tom Moore, who collected money in his own yard to help doctors during the pandemic, she decided to open a collection for the same purpose through YouTube.