Volkhin Arkady Andreevich
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Volkhin Arkady Andreevich (1925-1945) lived with his father Andrey Lazarevich, brother Gennady, and sisters Yevgenia and Sofia in Tyumen on 105, Novaya (Profsoyuznaya) street. His mother Anna Nikolaevna died in 1938, affected by frequent relocations after the family was dispossessed and expelled from Pozory village of the Perm region. Their father, Andrey Lazarevich, a participant of the First World War (1894-1942), raised the children. Given the soldier's experience, strength, and health, at the age of 47, he was called to the front. Andrey Lazarevich, a red army rifleman of 26 A 171 subdivision of engineer road construction battalion (Karelian front) was killed during the shelling from the air, and buried in a mass grave just off highway Lauhi - Kesten'ga. Arkady Andreyevich was drafted into the Red Army and sent to study at a Tank school located in the Molotov region (Perm), where he received a military occupation as a breechblock operator and self-propelled artillery gun charger, and was sent to the active army to the first Ukrainian front in March 1944. The guard private fought with the Nazi invaders as part of the second battery of the Artillery division of the 29th Guards Unech motor rifle brigade of the 10th Guards Ural Volunteer tank corps. In the battle for the city of Kamenets-Podolsk (Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine) he performed his first personal feat and was presented with the award, a Medal for Bravery, for repulsing two enemy counterattacks, knocking out an enemy tank, simultaneously eliminating the malfunction of the lock in the gun, and also destroying more than 10 German soldiers with rifle fire. Standing on the defensive in an open area as part of the calculation repulsed four German counterattacks. 21.07. 1944 during the liberation of L’viv (Western Ukraine), the tank was shot down, guard Sergeant Volkhin AA did not die, as stated in the commander's report on irretrievable losses (Ukrainian SSR, Lviv region, Lviv, 23 Kokhanovskaya street, centre, near the road, opposite the forester's house). Guard Sergeant Volkhin A. A. continued the battle path. It was March 1945, and the end of the war was less than two months away... In the battle of 11.03.1945 in the area of Ryben (Poland), being in the advanced detachment and being in the crew of a self-propelled mount, Volkhin A. A. was the first to fight the enemy, showing immortal courage and bravery. The crew received an order to enter the enemy's flank and destroy the anti-aircraft battery, which prevented the advance of the red Army units with fire. Operating in difficult mountainous and wooded terrain, the self-propelled mount attacked the enemy from the move, destroying three guns. In this fierce battle, A. A. Volkhin was killed. For courage and bravery, he was presented with an award, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd grade. Many years later, the family of his younger brother Gennady (1928-2009, a member of the labour front, a 15-year-old teenager who got up to the lathe at the 639 defence plant, which produced torpedo boats for the front) got a letter from the tank commander A. Kotov, who, while in the hospital, told how Arkady, his "wonderful, modest, cheerful, comrade who did not know sadness", fought and died. The letter was addressed to his sister Eugene, who volunteered for the front in the aviation unit. Arkady wrote in a letter that he had tried apples, plums, and pears in Poland; for a guy from a small Siberian town they were delicious and amazing fruits; he wrote that he became quite an adult, even grew up and put on some weight... In the photo of 1944, he is 19 years old, and at the age of 20, he died... The commander buried him there, by the road near the village, the name of which he did not know...
