The faces of WWII Heroes

Yumaev Hamed Zyainetdinovich - born in 1908. Time of joining the service 22.07.1941. Red Army soldier, awarded the medal "For Military Merit". Date of accomplishment of the feat 01.01.1945-28.02.1945. After the service he returned to his native village Mansurovka. Description of the feat. During his stay in the 256th separate battalion of government communications from December 1943 to the present, comrade Yumaev proved to be the best carriage driver of the battalion. Thanks to proper care and use the horses attached to him,, have covered more than 18,000 km. and were in excellent condition. At any time of the day or night comrade Yumaev performed well combat missions.

Shapkin Nikolai Vasilievich (1923-1945), a native of the village of Krasnaya Pustyn, Sergach district. Guard senior lieutenant, pilot. Hero of the Soviet Union, the best air reconnaissance in the Baltic. He died on March 5, 1945 near the Polish city of Gdynia. Buried in Poland.

Kharchenko Vasily Terentyevich - senior lieutenant, fire platoon commander of a 120-mm battery mortars of the 909 Brandenburg Order of the B. Khmelnitsky Rifle Regiment, 247 of the Roslav Rifle Division of the 69 Army. Was born in 1922. Drafted to the front in 1942. He took part in the battle for Moscow. Liberated Belarus, Poland. Participant in the storming of Berlin. Awarded with the Orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, Patriotic War, I degree.

Yakov Ivanovich Kuzmin was an anti-aircraft gunner of an air regiment, they guarded the airfield.

The photo shows the tank's crew commanded by senior lieutenant Vasily Andreevich Tretyakov (the photo was sent in 1944 from the city of Pushkino). On January 14, 1945, the entire crew was killed in a fierce battle in Poland.

Cherkunov Evgeny Ivanovich (born November 30, 1924) - Guards Sergeant, awarded the medals "For Courage", "For the capture of Berlin", awarded the Order of the Red Star

Shikhaleev Fedor Alekseevich (8.02.1898 - 27.08.1978). Participant of the Second World War. He was a communications operator in the anti-aircraft artillery regiment No. 297, 1 battery. He took part in the struggle for the defense of Stalingrad, liberated Warsaw and with his regiment reached Berlin. There he met with his son, who, at the age of 16, followed his father to the front. He served as a tanker.

Czechoslovakia, Slany. The photo was taken in memory of the joint workers and friends of the war of 1941-1945.

The crew of military pilots who died during a combat mission on November 20, 1942 on the territory of Kolyma. Deputy squadron commander, captain Ivan Alekseevich Kovylin, born in 1912, navigator, captain Dmitry Vasilievich Mikhasev, born in 1913, radio operator sergeant Nikolai Dmitrievich Boriskin, born in 1917. Photo courtesy of the library of the Susuman urban district.

“Lake Karachi” evacuation hospital No. 2468 in the Chanov district of the Novosibirsk Region. Political information in the hospital ward

Emergency Hospital No. 2468 at the Lake Karachi Resort in the Chanov district of the Novosibirsk Region. Training to walk the wounded soldier

Mikhail Dmitrievich Cheprasov fought from March 1943 to July 1944 at the Steppe, 2nd Belorussian Front, and participated in the liberation of Belorussia. On July 21, 1944, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery and courage displayed during the forcing of the Dnieper, capture and retention of the bridgehead on the western bank of the river. He was seriously wounded.

Prokofiev V. Я. - participant Of the WWII. Born June 21, 1921 in the village of Shishlovo, Ostrovsky district, Pskov region. Called to the USSR Supreme Soviet on October 12, 1939 by the Vasileostrov Regional Military Commissariat of Leningrad. From October 12, 1939 to June 1940 - a cadet of the Krechevitsky School of Junior Air Specialists of the Leningrad Region. From September 1941 to July 1946, he was an air gunner and radio operator of 63rd night bomber artillery regiment of the 132nd artillery division, Transcaucasian Front, Independent Coastal Army, 4th Ukrainian Front, 1st and 2nd Belarusian Fronts. During this time of WWII has made 312 successful flights. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Great Patriotic War 2 articles, the Order of the Red Star, the Medals "For Courage", "For the Defence of the Caucasus", etc.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Sharov

Khlebnikov Yegor Semyonovich. Born in 1913 in the village of Ruika, Khlebnikov village council, Mari-Turek district of Mari Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Died in 1980.