Marfa Yakovlevna Meshcheryakova

Marfa Yakovlevna Meshcheryakova (Russian: Марфа Яковлевна Мещерякова; born 12 July 1907?) is a Russian supercentenarian whose claim is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography
Marfa claims to be born on 12 July 1907 in Alexandrovsky District, Stavropol Krai, Russian Empire (now Russia) in a large family of peasants. Her father worked on the collective farm and her mother was a housewife. Marfa is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. She helped the soldiers to dig trenches. After the war, for many years she worked on the collective farm.

In 1928, she married Mikhail Sergeyevich Meshcheryakov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Cople had eight children. They lived together for 60 years until her husband's death in 1988, after which Marfa moved to her daughter in the city of Stavropol.

On her 110th birthday, she was visited by Vladimir Vladimirovich Vladimirov, Governor of Stavropol Krai, along with the head of the city, Andrey Dzhatdoev. Then, she had 6 grandchildren (4 grandsons and 2 granddaughters), 7 great-grandchildren and 12 great-great-grandchildren.

Currently, she lives with one of the daughters, Alexandra Mikhailovna in Stavropol, Stavropol Krai, Russia at claimed age of.