MOSCOW, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Russia's oldest female resident, Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, passed away at the age of 114, said Mikhail Yevrayev, governor of the Yaroslavl region in central Russia.
Gadyuchkina, born on Dec. 5, 1910, lived through and witnessed key events of the country's history spanning two centuries, experiencing the Russian Revolution, two world wars, and the rise and transformation of the state firsthand, Yevrayev said.
She died on Nov. 29, a few days before her 115th birthday, according to media reports.
In October, the pensioner officially ranked among the top five oldest people on the planet by the global authority on maximum human longevity LongeviQuest, and according to it, she was able to handle daily housework even at the age of 107.
This year, Gadyuchkina was awarded the jubilee medal "80 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
At the age of 15, she got a job at the local textile mill and worked there for 52 years till she retired. The Russian woman was married and had five children; her husband died in 1956 from injuries sustained at a factory.
"She was living history, a person who lived more than a century, retaining a clear memory, wisdom, and an amazing attitude toward life," Yevrayev said. "Few people have such a journey, and only a handful are able to live it with dignity."
