The faces of WWII Heroes

YURKOV ALEXANDER FEDOROVICH Private soldier. Was born in 1903 in the village of Krotovo, Suzunsky district, Novosibirsk region. Drafted by the Suzunsky Regional Millitary Commissariat on September 23, 1941. Disappeared in April 1942.

SHUSHAKOV VASILY ARTEMIEVICH Private soldier.Was born in 1921 in the village. Bobrovka, Suzunsky District, Novosibirsk Region Drafted by the Suzunsky Regional Millitary Commissariat in 1941.. Died on January 19, 1944. He was buried in the village of Rasova, Gomel Region, Belarus.

6-Shvernik (Hero of the Soviet Union) 1945

5-Semenov I.I., Kulikov P.N., Baghramyan I.Kh., Shafranov P.G.

4-Semenov I.I. (Order of Suvorov) 1943

Reconnaissance officer. He died during the liberation of the village of Cheremisinovo.

Meeting of soldiers and commanders of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts in Rabochy Poselok №1 (workers settlement) after breaking the Siege of Leningrad

Standard-bearers of the combined unit of the 2nd Belorussian Front during the Victory Parade on the Red Square. Moscow, June 1945

Lieutenant, commander of a company of machine gunners of the 737th rifle regiment of the 206th rifle division of the 47th Army of the Voronezh Front. He was awarded the Gold Star medal, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star.

Squadron Commander of the 1st Guards Mine Torpedo Aviation Regiment of Klaipeda. He took part in the defense of Leningrad, the defeat of enemy forces in the Baltic Sea. He was awarded the Gold Star medal, the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner and the medal For the Defense of Leningrad. Died 03.26.1944.

Viktor Yudin, (July 12, 1923-1985), senior lieutenant, commander of a rifle platoon of the 194th Tashkent Red Banner Infantry Regiment. Hero of the Soviet Union (06/29/1945). He showed heroism and courage, performing a combat mission: to force the Oder, capture a bridgehead on the western bank and hold it until other units cross. In the battle he was seriously wounded. After the war, the Hero took part in the restoration of the Dnepr Hydro-Electric Power Station

Khomenkov Nikolai Nikiforovich, (1923-1944), guard private of the first rifle company of the N unit. Hero of the Soviet Union (03.24.1945). He showed an exceptional personal example of heroism and courage in the performance of a combat mission - to break through the heavily fortified, deeply echeloned, with a developed system of trenches, the enemy's defense in the Vitebsk region, inspired his comrades by personal example, raising the fighters to attack. The Hero's grave is located in the Tropin village of the Shumilinsky district of the Vitebsk region.

Chikalo Mikhail Stepanovich. March 9, 1942 went to the front, worked at a mine and had a reservation. He fought in various places on the Crimean front, the North Caucasian front, the Ukrainian front. He ended the war as a result of a serious injury in July 1944 on the 1st Belorussian Front during the capture of the city of Kover.

On the photo, Dmitry Chubarov. Participant of the war with Japan. He fought in the 271st Artillery Regiment, as a radio-telegraph operator. He had a large peasant family of three generations: grandmother, father, mother, children - Nadezhda, Vasily, Dmitry, Zinaida, Alexandra, Galina, lived together in one hut in the village of Troitsky in the Altai Region. Men were called to the front in 1941. Dmitry was sent to the Far East. Served since 1941, participated in military operations, went into reserve only in 1952. After the war, he lived on Sakhalin. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree and the medal For the Victory over Japan.

Mokeev Yegor Yakovlevich, private first class, machine gun section commander