The faces of WWII Heroes

participant in the Great Patriotic War

Of the Staff Headquarters of the 590th Transport Regiment of the Supreme Command (Sergeant N.M. Serdyukov, 6th left in the second row), Rivne region, Ukraine, 1944. Photo was handed over to the museum by the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Serdyukov N.M.

Gaidarzhi Nikolay Rodionovich - veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Colonel F.N. Ivashkin, military governor of Kyiv, expresses gratitude to Kyiv schoolboy Kostya Kravchuk who preserved the banners of two Red Army rifle regiments that perished during the encirclement of Kyiv in autumn 1941.

IN THE CENTRE, MY FATHER, VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH, AND HIS CREW. THEY WENT THROUGH PROKHOROVKA, POLAND AND THE EASTERN PRUSSIA, STORMED BERLIN AND LIBERATED PRAGUE. THEY DECIDED TO HAVE A HAIRCUT, AND YOUNG HAIRDRESSERS OF THE BARBER SHOP WANTED TO TREAT THEM WITH BLOWDRY. THIS IS THE ONLY PHOTO, WHERE MY FATHER HAS CURLY HAIR.

Resident of Baygildino village, Nurimanovsky district

Andrey Filippovich Khristenko (1926-1989) is an ordinary man.

Nikolay V. Shishkin, born 1911, Ulyotovsky District, team 601, 25.07.1941. Demobilised 28.05.1946. Foreman. 1732 warehouse, 24th Motorized Rifle Regiment. Far Eastern, Transbaikal fronts. Order of Glory III degree № 499867, Medal "For the victory over Japan". Place of residence: Ulyoty village.

Semyon Ustinovich Yablonskikh, Senior Lieutenant. Order of the Red Star.

Yurin Nikolay Andreyevich, Senior Sergeant. Awarded: Order of Glory of the 3rd class and the Medal for Courage.

Shevkoplyas Nikolay Afanasievich Order of the Red Star, Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, Medal "For Courage", "For Combat Services", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany".

Alexei Kuzmich Chessov (1st from the right). Medal "For the Victory over Japan" and jubilee medals.

Shapeev Minelbai Shapeevich, common soldier. Drafted in August 1942. Fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. In 1944 he was wounded in Bessarabia. In 1944, during the liberation of Hungary he was wounded again. In 1945, he was again wounded in Budapest. He was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany".

Junior Sergeant Khusnullin G.Ya. 1925-1988. Participant in the Kursk Bulge and the Battle of Stalingrad. Awarded with the Order of the Great Patriotic War.

Shamukaev Atnabai Shamukaevich, common soldier. Was a driver at the front, the driver of "Katyusha". Carried frood across Lake Ladoga on ice in winter to the city of Leningrad surrounded by fascists, and from there children, women, the wounded and the sick.