The faces of WWII Heroes

Leonid Lazarevich was born on 01 (02). 12.1907 in the city of Nikolaev, district Golaya Pristan’ in a simple family. His father was a craftsman and his mother was a housewife. The family was large, Leonid was 11 children (the youngest). Leonid Lazarevich worked at the plant as a mechanic, before being drafted into the army. He got to serve in the Navy, in the Baltic. He served as a turbine driver on a warship in Kronstadt. After completing his military service, Leonid went to work on about. Sakhalin and worked there on the construction of the Okha - Komsomolsk-on-Amur oil pipeline in an engineering position, for which he was awarded the badge of the People's Commissar of the Fuel Industry "Excellence in Socialist Competition". Upon completion of construction, he was sent to the ministry to receive a referral to a new job. So he ended up in the Primorsky Territory and worked as a deputy manager of the Artemugol trust of the Primorskugol Combine system. At the beginning of the war, he had a reservation from mobilization into the active army and continued to work in the trust until early 1942. He went to the front as a volunteer. Leonid Lazarevich fought on the 1st Belorussian Front with the rank of junior lieutenant commander of the SU-76 1888 self-propelled artillery regiment of the 17th Guards Tank Oryol Red Banner Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Don Red Banner Order of Suvorov Corps. Participated in his unit in the Kalinkovichi-Mozyr operation in the Nizhnie Kozlovichi-Turovichi sector. For these battles, Junior Lieutenant Haykis Leonid Lazarevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Quote from the award list: “Entering the battle as the commander of the gun, comrade. Haykis from 01/11/1944 to 01/14/1944, in cooperation with the 17th tank brigade in the Nizhnie Kozlovichi sector, Turovichi showed courage and courage. Comrade Haykis was the first to break into enemy defenses in his self-propelled gun, and when the battery commander was killed in battle, Haykis immediately assumed command of the battery. His battery destroyed three dugouts with soldiers, two light machine guns, destroyed a self-propelled gun and up to 50 soldiers and officers. For skillful leadership in battle, for decisiveness, courage and courage, he is presented with a government award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. The commander of the 17th Guards Tank Oryol Red Banner Brigade issued a resolution: “I am awarding a government award - the Order of the Red Star.” 15, in the fact that her husband, the commander of the SU-76 battery of the 1888 self-propelled artillery Valkavsky regiment, Junior Lieutenant Haykis Leonid Lazarevich, in the battles for the socialist Motherland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage, died on February 08, 1944. Buried with surrender military honors of the BSSR, Parich region, forest to the south of 1 km, Terebulin. "

Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 172nd Infantry Division (1st Formation). On the radio, Pavlo's grandfather learned about the attack by the German army on the Soviet Union. He was called up to the front by mobilization of the Kamensk Military Commissariat of the Moldavian ASSR on April 17, 1944, as a recruit he was enrolled in the 172 rifle division. I learned that not only young men were called recruits, but even elderly people who had just started military activities ... Studying the chronology of military operations in the spring of 1944, I learned that Pavel Ivanovich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army on the day when Umansko ended - Botoshan operation, as a result of which the right-bank Ukraine and part of Moldova, including our Transnistria, were liberated. After the end of the Uman-Botoshan operation, the front troops carried out measures to consolidate the liberated territory and bring the troops in order: staffing, repairing military equipment and weapons, organizing a rear service, but on May 14, the 34th Guards Corps began to break through the enemy's defenses in the area between Dubossary and Grigoriopol ... It was in these battles that grandfather Pavlo took part. On the right bank of the Dniester there was the Sherpeni bridgehead, it occupied a plot of land 7-8 km along the front, about 3-4 km deep. The bridgehead was dug up and down with trenches and communication trenches, dug-outs, shelters for horses, firing positions of artillery pieces and mortars. There were trenches ten paces from the coast - the third line of defense. The Germans created a defense around the bridgehead. By July, the rifle corps took up defensive positions in the area of ​​the villages of Shibki and Butor. To repel the attacks of German tanks, a large number of guns were put forward. The enemy troops were defeated. For the first time, my grandfather faced terrible events: injuries of other people, death, the whistle of bullets and the bursting of shells, with exploits and betrayal, here he was seriously wounded in July 1944. Grandfather Pavlo told his children that he did not remember the very moment of the injury. He woke up in the 3807 hospital and was treated there until March 1945. He was treated in the city of Rybnitsa. For the mother, the injury of her son was a terrible pain. And then, having found out where her son was being treated, she walked on foot from the village of Valyadynka to the city of Rybnitsa. Studying the hostilities in the spring of 1944, on the territory of Moldova, I learned that on March 24 Kamenka was liberated from the Nazis, on March 30 - Rybnitsa, on April 12 - Dubossary, Grigoriopol, Tiraspol. By mid-April all Transnistria was liberated from the enemy. After a long treatment, grandfather Pavlo was again in the ranks of the 147th rifle regiment. He participated in the battles during the liberation of Hungary, a few days before the end of the war, the old wound made itself felt and on May 5, 1945, Private Kharhalup again ended up in the 4439 evacuation hospital, where he was treated until August 1945. Grandfather Pavlo met the victorious May 1945 in the hospital. It was a long-awaited and joyful event for all soldiers. And then the long way home, the joy of meeting. Grandfather returned from the war alive, and he devoted his whole life to his family, children and the restoration of the Republic, the Motherland for which he shed blood. All relatives are proud of their hero. Participation in the Great Patriotic War, I think, is already heroism. In peacetime, Kharkhalup Pavel Ivanovich, worked on a collective farm, raised the farm. Together with his wife, Kharhalup Irina Ivanovna, they raised four children: Mikhail, Maria, Peter and Anna. Kharkhalup Pavel Ivanovich died in 2009

Khludenyov Mikhail Vladimirovich was born on December 4, 1917. In 1935-1939. studied at the Kuibyshev Planning and Economic Institute in Kuibyshev (now Samara). An economist-planner by education. Member of the CPSU (b). In November 1939 he was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He began his service as a Red Army soldier in the 47th mechanized regiment. Participated in the liberation of Bessarabia from the Romanians in 1940. He was trained in the regimental school for the preparation of junior political instructors. Since November 1940 - deputy. political leader of the company. He guarded the pipeline in the area of ​​Bender. Participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 as deputy political commander of a company, 47 mechanized regiment, 15 motorized divisions, 2 motorized corps, 9 army, Southern Front. He fought in defensive battles on the river. Dniester, staunchly repelling the strikes of the superior forces of the German fascist and Romanian troops of the Army Group South. In July 1941, the 15th mechanized division was transferred to the Uman sector as part of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front. Khludenyov M.V. falls into the encirclement near Uman, where the division is actually destroyed, some of the division fighters left the encirclement until the beginning of September 1941. Near Uman Khludenev MV was wounded by a shell fragment in the leg, was captured. Contained along with other prisoners in a huge pit near Uman. Escapes from captivity. He fights against the Nazis until August 8, 1942, when he is taken prisoner again. IHewent through a chain of concentration camps. He escaped several times, including with the help of French prisoners of war, but was captured and returned to the camp. Liberated by the advancing Red Army in the spring of 1945. Having passed the filtration check, since April 15, 1945 - a private soldier of the 287th Guards Silesian Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment of the 95th Guards Rifle Division of the 1st Ukrainian Front. As part of a tank landing, he liberated Prague on May 9, 1945. He was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany". After demobilization in 1946 he returned to Orenburg. He married Shmoilova Anna Romanovna. He gave birth to and raised two daughters - Vera and Tamara. He built his house on the street. Akulova (the so-called "Arenda" or "Renda" area). He worked at the Orenburg knitwear factory as a chief economist-planner. He was not reinstated in the party, he re-joined the CPSU in the early 1960s. He was a member of the regional party committee. He retired in the second half of the 1970s. In 1985, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War. He died on June 2, 1997, and was buried in Orenburg.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: artillery Unit: 112th Cavalry Bashkir Division. The Notepad contains sincere and slightly naive judgments of an ordinary soldier of the Great Patriotic War. “My grandchildren Andrei and Sasha gave me the notebook on Victory Day 1982,” writes Khalidar Muksinovich. - I start it with my military biography, so that my children and grandchildren know who I served, in which units I fought. My "piece of time", where I brought my thoughts during the war years, has already fallen apart, so I have to rewrite them in this diary. " The 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division, where he ended up as a private, began military operations near Voronezh. Then part of them was transferred to Stalingrad. Wounded in November 1942, Khasanov, after being hospitalized in the 224th Infantry Division, continued to fight in the Donbass. After a second wound as a member of the artillery regiment of the 203rd Infantry Division, he reached Czechoslovakia, where he met the end of the Great Patriotic War. In the fall of 1945, he took part in the defeat of Japanese troops in Mongolia and China. He was demobilized with the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War and two medals "For Military Merit" on his chest. In Ufa, where he came from the front, he met his betrothed - Markhaba Abdrakhmanovna, who was also a front-line soldier. They got married in 1948 and had ten children. Everyone was raised, taught, raised, made into people. Khalidar Muksinovich died two years ago, leaving to posterity a large number of his invaluable notes. I offer a small piece of text from Khasanov's "piece of time", which describes the last days of the Great Patriotic War. March 24. Received the fourth "toy" (gun). Six people joined the replenishment - Neshalsky, Voginchuk, Ronnov and others. March, 25. During the crossing of the Hron River, Tretyakov, Bychkov, Lukyanchuk and Zaitsev were killed. Sobchenko disappeared without a trace. 26 March. Today Stepanov was wounded at the rate of Lomonosov. April 10th. When we were standing on the outskirts of Senitsa, I met a fellow countryman, senior sergeant Khamidullin from the Buzdyak district. He serves in the 610th joint venture regimental battery as the commander of the "goodbye homeland" ("magpie"). April 11th. Lapeta died today, Akiliev, the driver, was wounded. My gun was also "wounded", so we went to the army workshop. April 12th. Today, having collected some trophies, I sent home a package. April 13. Returning from the army workshop, he received an order to suppress a machine-gun point that interferes with the movement of infantry. Having deployed the cannon, with direct fire, he smashed the house in which the German machine gunner was. 14th of April. Voginchuk died while fighting enemy tanks on a forest road. April 19. Night battle at height 325. Nesterenko, Konev and others were wounded. Many horses died. 20 April. We got into trouble. Lomonosov's cannon is broken again. I left to take it. April 22. Lomonosov brought a new cannon. 26 April. Today they occupied a rather large settlement of Koberzyce, where Lezenko was wounded (for the second time). Our battery fired at the town well, but fortunately there were no casualties. The people in Caberjica were wonderful. The women brought hot food in the evening, helped to bandage the wounded, and the men sat next to us at night in defense with weapons in their hands. April 27. Moldovan Pistol died today. May 2. The Germans smoked us out of Nemchitsa, launching 18 tanks into the attack. The guns of Lomonosov and Kutsenko are broken. Baretsky died. 5 May. At night we were replaced by a Romanian division. When we drove about four kilometers, a machine-gun burst came from the neighboring forest - either the Germans or the Vlasovites. From my calculation old man Seleznev was wounded. For my soldiers, this was the last victim of the war. And the column continued moving without stopping. May 8. At two o'clock in the afternoon the news of the end of the war was received by radio. May 9. Before dawn our artillery regiment concentrated in a pine forest. Here the regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Kalinin, having built us up, announced the surrender of Germany. But we went in pursuit of the retreating enemy. May 12, 1945. We stopped in the city of Stemberg on the banks of the Zasava River, set up our tents and rested, as in peacetime.

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was won by the Soviet people in the name of peace and life on earth. The war touched every family. Not only those liable for military service went to the front, but also teenagers who had not yet finished school. Boys and girls tried to do everything to help in the fight against the invaders. All the people of the country stood up to defend the Motherland. Among them is my grandmother's brother Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev. Grandfather Misha was born on November 21, 1926 in the village of Chernorechenskaya in the family of rural workers Khorosheva Maria Emilyanovna and Khoroshev Alexander Borisovich. He grew up as an ordinary child, went to school, went fishing, helped his parents with the housework. He loved to joke. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was 15 years old. There were no Germans in the village of Chernorechenskaya, but they settled in the neighboring village of Gofitskoye. The German headquarters was located there. In 1942, in November, a policeman came to the house of my great-grandmother and, at gunpoint, took a 15-year-old teenager across the Laba River to the village of Gofitskoye. Grandpa Misha and other children were forced to look after German horses under threat of execution. The stable is clean and quiet, sparkling with frost on the bolts, along the walls, up to the doors of the boards, the shadow of a bayonet walks behind me. In the winter of 1942, the retreat of the Germans began. Grandfather fled barefoot to Chernorechenskaya, and in 1943 Mikhail Alexandrovich was drafted to the front. He fought in Western Ukraine. In letters home he wrote: "I'm studying to be a radio operator, studying Morse code, I am not far from the front line." My great-grandmother received a few letters from the front from her son. In August 1944, a funeral came from the front: "Your son, Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev, died a heroic death in the village of Tisovitsa, Drohobychevsky district, Lviv region." From that day on, the great-grandmother did not remove the black mourning scarf from her head. Khoroshev Mikhail Aleksandrovich was buried in the mass grave of the village of Strelki, Starosamborsky district, Lviv region. The name of Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev is carved on a memorial plaque, installed in the village of Chernorechenskaya in honor of those who died during the Great Patriotic War. My grandfather died for our happy life, and it is my civic duty to know the past of my family. On May 9, I took part in the Immortal Regiment, carrying a portrait of my grandfather. And I had the feeling that he was walking next to me.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 4th Artillery Division. I am immensely proud that there was a Hero in my family too - my great-grandfather Khanov Galimyan Nigamatianovich. From the words of my grandmother and his daughter, Ramazanova Milyausha Galimyanovna, my great-grandfather learned from childhood all the hardships of a difficult peasant life. To feed his family, his father went to work in neighboring villages, and he remained an indispensable helper for his mother and sisters, looked after cattle, collected firewood, etc. Great-grandfather finished his studies only until the 7th grade, started working early so that a large family could at least somehow make ends meet. After completing the courses in 1936, he worked as a secretary in the Bolshekyzylbaevsky village council. In 1940, my great-grandfather went to war with the White Finns. He could not do otherwise, because he was a communist, defender, patriot of his homeland. In 1941, his great-grandfather fought on the Leningrad front, was the commander of the 412th separate machine-gun and artillery battalion, was wounded. After defeating the Nazis, he continued to fight in the Japanese War and returned only in 1946 to his native collective farm and until 1950 worked as chairman of the Abdulla village council. These years were difficult - the country was recovering from the war. Each person counted, it was also a battle - a labor battle. No one spared any effort or time to help the country get back on its feet. They built houses, erected outbuildings, sowed, plowed, harvested. There was little equipment, but a lot of work. I had to do everything by hand, the old fashioned way. But even here our people survived and won! My great-grandfather was also in the ranks, worked hard, taught young communists. Together with everyone I was at construction sites, fields. He was awarded the Order of Glory III degree (1944), the Veteran of Labor medal (1976), the Order of the Red Star, the Medal for Courage, and the Medal for Victory over Japan. Together with their great-grandmother Kubra Akmalovna, they raised six children. Now they have 13 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren. My great-grandfather died at the age of 69. Until the end of his days, it was hard for him to remember those terrible times of his life. I will remember him, be proud and tell my future children about his deeds in the name of the Motherland, an honest and open life. Low bow for peace and a saved land to all the soldiers who bravely fought for Victory! Honor and glory to you!

Rank: Red Army. Military biography. On the basis of the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, my father Khrenov Ivan Prokhorovich was awarded the Order "RED STAR". In addition to this award, he has other high awards - Orders and Medals. Unfortunately, they are lost. My sister and I are looking for lost awards. Our father was a scout, was surrounded on the Kursk Bulge, carried out the task of destroying the German machine gunners who surrounded the Soviet scouts. In addition to the Kursk Bulge, he was directly involved in other hostilities. He did not really like to remember and talk about the war because was a very humble person. We, his daughters, asked to tell how dad fought, how he was seriously wounded, but he answered us: "I don’t want you to know about the horrors that I experienced." Dad took care of us ... And he himself experienced these horrors as a young 17-year-old boy. To go to the front and defend his homeland, he added one additional year to himself. According to the documents, he went to the front at 18, but in fact, at 17 ... During the day he tried not to talk about the war, and at night in his sleep he continued to fight. My sister and I, from some of the phrases we heard, guessed that in troubled dreams he returned to military operations, carried out commands, went on the attack. Very rarely, he did talk about the war. We know that he had a severe wound in the arm. The bone on the arm was completely shattered. Two large shards protruded from two opposite sides of the arm. At this time, the medical battalion was bombed and it was not possible to do anesthesia. The doctor said, "If you want to live, be patient." They operated without anesthesia ... They only gave me a glass of alcohol ... But the worst thing was ahead, when he was blown up by a mine and saw his leg in a boot in the sky - his foot was torn off. A crack formed in the bone and it was necessary to saw off a part of the leg higher ... After the operation, a crack formed again and again the leg was sawed even higher. And this went on many times ... This is the kind of pain he endured ... By this time he was only 19 years old ... He returned from the front without a leg, on crutches. Despite his disability and severe injuries, returning to a peaceful life, dad continued to work as far as possible. The wounds received during the war made themselves felt. Often wounds opened in the cult, they bleed, ached. He again bravely endured the pain. From time to time, when the wounds opened up to the bone, dad was treated at the hospital for disabled people of the Second World War in Ulyanovsk - this was necessary in order to at least slightly reduce the pain and maintain health. Then a terrible illness overtook him, accompanied by unbearable pain. And again he bravely endured. Even the doctor was surprised at his patience and said, “A front-line soldier is a front-line soldier.” On March 15, 1982, my dad passed away.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 109th Infantry Leningrad Red Banner Division. Leningrad strategic defensive operation (1941). By the beginning of the operation, the 8th Army was entrusted with the task of defending the line from the Baltic Sea to Lake Peipsi with a length of up to 225 kilometers, and in addition, 250 kilometers of the coast and islands of the Moonsund archipelago. The army had only six rifle divisions and one rifle brigade that had suffered losses in previous battles. From the area south of Türi and a little short of the coast of the Baltic Sea, the positions were occupied by the remnants of the 10th rifle corps in the form of the 10th rifle division and the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD. In the coastal strip north of Pärnu, 30-40 kilometers wide, there were no troops at all, except for the border units that had withdrawn from Pärnu and small detachments of the militia. Further to the southeast along the Emajõgi River from Inesuu to Weybri the remnants of the 125th Infantry Division occupied positions, from Weybri to the shore of Lake Peipsi - the remnants of the 48th Infantry Division. The German command clearly underestimated the capabilities of the 8th Army to resist and launched an offensive with only two divisions (61st and 217th), as well as part of the forces of the 1st Army Corps. On July 8, 1941, German troops tried to break through the army's defenses on the Emajõgi line in the 11th Rifle Corps' zone, but the attack was repulsed. On the same day, German troops launched an offensive on Viljandi, broke through the defense of army units and occupied the city, but could not advance further. The breakthrough was stopped 17 kilometers north of the city by the forces of the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD and the reserve 11th rifle division without one regiment, but the most difficult situation in the army zone was north of Pärnu. The advance units of the 217th Infantry Division broke through the fragile defense of the army and began to develop an offensive against Audru, Tallinn and Türi, by the evening of July 9, 1941, having covered half the distance from Pärnu to Tallinn. The 8th Army organized a counterattack with the last reserves, in which the remnants of the 10th Infantry Division, the fresh 16th Infantry Division, border guards and detachments of the people's militia took part. From July 9 to 15, 1941, the army fights at the breakthrough site, in the Maryamaa area, as a result of which the German troops were thrown back 30 kilometers. After that, the front line relatively stabilized for some time. On July 15, 1941, the 61st Infantry Division attempted to strike at the junction of the 10th and 11th Infantry Corps in the direction of Põltsamaa, but had no success. On July 14, the army was transferred to the Northern Front. On July 18, 1941, the German offensive was suspended. For the purpose of capturing Estonia, three divisions (291st, 93rd and 207th security divisions) were transferred to the 8th Army's zone of operations; control of the 42nd Army Corps. German troops again launched an offensive on parts of the 8th Army on July 22, 1941. The blow was delivered in the Põltsamaa - Türi sector at the junction of the Soviet 10th and 11th rifle corps and developed in two directions: towards the Gulf of Finland through Türi and on Mustvee. The main blow was aimed at cutting the 8th Army with the isolation of Tallinn, the second blow was aimed at reaching the northwestern coast of Lake Peipsi, cutting off the 11th rifle corps. On July 25, 1941, German troops completed the task of an auxiliary strike, cutting off and pressing the 11th rifle corps to the shore of Lake Peipsi. The 8th Army, with the forces of two regiments of the 16th Infantry Division, tried to launch a counterattack on Mustvee, which was unsuccessful. The 11th Rifle Corps, after a few (about 3000 demoralized fighters who left the encirclement), was destroyed. Its remnants and units of the 8th Army that retreated to the east subsequently organized defense from Lake Peipsi in the Mustvee area to the Gulf of Finland slightly east of Kunda In the direction of the main attack (the 61st Infantry Division took Tyuri on July 24, 1941, which was repulsed by a counterattack by the 98th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division, 22nd Motorized Rifle Division of the NKVD, and the 1st Latvian Workers' Regiment and again abandoned Türi on July 25, 1941. German troops regrouped, shifting their efforts to the northeast. On July 31, 1941, German units broke through to Tamsalu station, moving on Rakvere.On August 4, 1941, the enemy took Tapa, cutting off the Tallinn-Leningrad highway, on August 6, 1941, went to Kadrina, on August 7, 1941, captured Rakvere and broke through to Kunda to the Gulf of Finland, thereby cutting off Estonia. 8 Thus, after reaching the gulf, the enemy deployed its units in opposite directions: leaving the regiment of the 207th security division for coastal defense, 26 The 1st Army Corps deployed to operate against part of the 8th Army towards Narva, and the 42nd Army Corps against another part of the 8th Army towards Tallinn. On August 8, 1941, units of the 8th Army inflict counterattacks from two sides: from the east and west, in order to combine their units, encircle and destroy the enemy units that had broken through to the gulf. The 156th Rifle Regiment of the 16th Rifle Division, the Latvian Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division and units of the 22nd NKVD Motorized Rifle Division, which were advancing from the west, supported by two gunboats, a battery of 130-mm guns and Air Force aircraft, advanced from 12 to 22 kilometers, and advanced units even further. However, the 291st and 93rd Infantry Divisions attacked east of Kunda on the morning of 8 August 1941. Soviet troops were forced to leave Jõhvi and start retreating along the railway to Narva. The gap between the units of the 8th Army increased to 80 kilometers and the counterattack was stopped. Eternal Glory and Memory to the heroes who broke the "backbone" of the Nazis.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Born into the family of a middle peasant in the Oryol region with. Krasnaya Gora st. Kuibysheva, 78. Father - Semyon Korneevich Khandozhko - born in 1879. Mother - Khandozhko Sanklida Vasilievna - born in 1876. Parents were engaged in agriculture, and in 1934 they joined the collective farm. In 1929 he entered elementary school, which he graduated in 1933 with the subsequent transfer to a junior high school. In 1936 he graduated from the junior high school and entered the high school in the village Krasnaya Gora, which he graduated in 1939. After graduating from high school in order to continue his studies, he entered the Novozybkov Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. On September 27, 1939, he dropped out and was drafted into the army, but was left until further notice. On February 14, 1940 he was sent to the unit by the Krasnogorsk District Military Commissariat. On February 24, 1940 he arrived in Baku in the 32nd Light Artillery Regiment (LAP), where he served as a Red Army gunner. In September 1940, as part of the 3rd division of the 32nd LAP, he was transferred to the 129th howitzer artillery regiment (GAP), where in the same month he was awarded the rank of sergeant with the appointment of a gun commander. On June 22, 1941, as part of the 129th GAP, he left to cover the Turkish border, where he stayed until October 1941. On October 14, 1941 he arrived at the front in the Taganrog region. After fierce battles for the city of Taganrog, the 129th GAP was defeated. He was transferred to the 32nd LAP, in which he participated in the defense of the city of Rostov. On November 5, 1941, the battalion in which it was located was surrounded near the village of Bolshe-Krepinsky in the Rostov region. He stayed surrounded until November 12. They left the encirclement alone ... After that, the 32nd LAP was re-formed and sent to defend the city of Rostov. After the withdrawal in the summer of 1942 from the city of Rostov, the 32nd regiment was again defeated, the remaining battery was poured into the 3rd Guards Corps and left to defend the city of Armavir. Departing from the city of Armavir, they were cut off by the Germans near the city of Mikoyan-Shahan and surrounded. After several days of fighting, having broken through the ring of the Germans, they joined up with their troops near the city of Nalchik. He was sent to the 423rd Guards Artillery Regiment, where he served as the commander of the battalion's combat supply section. In fierce battles near the city of Nalchik, our 37th Army was surrounded on November 5, 1942 and was pushed to the mountains. All escape routes were cut off. We were in the mountains near the city of Ordzhonikidze. When radio communication with the main forces of the Caucasian Front was restored, reinforcements were sent to us on planes. On December 31, 1942, we went on the offensive, and under the blows of the Red Army, the Germans began to withdraw from the Caucasus. After the liberation of Krasnodar on February 25, 1943, for excellent military operations, he was sent by the command of the 423rd Guards Artillery Regiment to the Ryazan Artillery School, where he arrived on March 20, 1943, where he worked as an assistant commander of the 31st training platoon. On February 1, 1945, he graduated from the school, and was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant by order of the Commander of the Red Army Artillery No. 63 dated 02/01/1945. From the school he was sent to the 41st reserve officer regiment, where he stayed until April 20, 1945, after which he left for the 4th Ukrainian front in the 991st howitzer artillery regiment, from where he was demobilized by order of the Commander of the Carpathian military district on September 13, 1946 ... From August 1941 to October 1943, the parents were in the territory occupied by the Germans. There was no connection with them. After the release, the connection was restored through letters. The elder brother served in the army in the Far East with the rank of major. The two middle brothers were at the front. The sisters lived with their parents. In 1947 he left to study in the city of Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, at an agricultural institute. On February 21, 1951, in Chisinau, he married Taisa Andreevna Pluzhko, born in 1925 (Verkhnee Lisichansk district, Luhansk region, Ukraine). On July 01, 1952, he was admitted to the Vadului-Vodsky Raisselhoz Department for the post of head of the Russian Trade Union of workers of Chemical Industries. Dismissed from office on August 26, 1952 of his own free will. On September 09, 1952, he was appointed winemaker-technologist of the Sirashensky z / management of the Champagne Combine of the MSSR. On April 25, 1953, a daughter was born - Alla Semyonovna Khandozhko. On September 13, 1956, he was appointed process engineer of the production technical department of Moldglavvino MNIT MSSR. On October 19, 1957, he was transferred to the position of a production engineer of the production technical department of Moldvinprom SNKh MSSR. He worked in the production and technical department of the Moldvinprom SNKh MSSR until April 01, 1972. He left as the head of the department. On January 25, 1987, a grandson was born - Aleksey Valerievich Blinov. He worked in Chisinau, MSSR until April 25, 1989. Fired due to reaching retirement age. In 1992 he moved with his family to the city of Severodonetsk, Lugansk region, Ukraine.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Unit: 348th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. My paternal grandfather was missing for a very long time. We had no idea that we would ever find out anything about him. From the village council with. Lomov, Ramonsky district, Voronezh region, requests were sent to search for people who had not returned from the war. But for a very long time there was no news. My dad Nikolai Maksimovich Kharin, now deceased (died at 58 years old, 09/11/1997), shortly before his death at least learned that his father had died in battle on December 14, 1943 and was buried in the village of Asaya (in some documents d. Osoe) Rogachevsky district, Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The coordinator of the People's Immortal Regiment advised me to go to the Memory of the People website. When I entered, I could not believe my eyes. Even the documents are presented on this site, lists of the dead and where the remains of those killed from nearby villages are now reburied. My grandfather was reburied in a mass grave in the village of Mayskoye, Zhlobin district, Gomel region, Republic of Belarus. Below is a document from the "Memory of the People" site. I also learned that he served in the 348 rifle division in the 1170 regiment and was actively involved in hostilities. I would like to know in more detail: about the geography of hostilities, in what battles, perhaps there are some awards that my granddaughter and my daughters, that is, already great-granddaughters, know nothing about. But we do not yet know how to approach this, where to start and to whom and how to write correctly, so that there really is a result. But we are already happy that we managed to find out at least a little bit. From the words of a relative, I learned that my grandfather had traveled to Ukraine to earn money before the war, seemingly to the Donbass in the mines. They met their future wife, my grandmother Tanya (she has been since 1907) when he came home from Ukraine for a while. They merried. Grandma was 18 years old and he was 25 years old. And my grandfather took her to Ukraine. But she came home to give birth to children. Lomovo. According to relatives, I found out that they were a very beautiful couple, and both were very hard-working. My grandmother died at 60. To die, she went to Minvody to her daughter. I was in 1st grade, I was 7 years old when she died. And of course, I had no time to learn anything from her herself, either about my grandfather or about her life before the war. Was too small for that. I only know from relatives that before the war they gave birth to 5 children, but only two survived: daughter Ekaterina, born in 1934. and my son Nikolai, my father (born on 03/05/1939). They are no longer alive either. Ekaterina died at the age of 80 in 2014 in the city of Minvody, Stavropol Territory in the Caucasus. She left 3 sons. The rest of the children of grandfather Maxim and grandmother Tanya died very young in infancy, even before the war. Of course, I remembered that my grandmother loved me very much and I loved her too. She said: "My Ununyushka's eyes are round, like a doll's." She came to visit us in Voronezh with sunflower and pumpkin seeds. I still remember how they were unusually clean and tasty. She cleaned them for me herself. We went somewhere with her to visit in winter, there was a lot of snow ... I remember how my dad and I were visiting her in the village. Lomovo. I even remember her little house on a high mountain with a stove (on which my dad slept) and white walls. And only one room. I remember her delicious pancakes, boiled homemade eggs and her vegetable garden. We were doing something in this garden ... and there was a horse ... Dad put me on it, but not for long. She seemed very big to me. I was probably little, 3-4-5 years old I think. And I remember a huge log next to the house ... all in flowers ... Very beautiful! Now there is nothing in that place.

Born in 1925 on March 14, the village of Koshankul, Kaztalovsky district of the Ural region (now the Republic of Kazakhstan). In 1938, the family moved to the village of Alexandrov - Gai, Saratov region (RSFSR), where he graduated from a seven-year school. When the Great Patriotic War began, Kadyr Satubaldievich was storing hay for the front. Drafted into the army on January 26, 1943, the 66th rifle regiment arrived in the city of Pugachev, Saratov region, stayed there until September 18, 1943. Then he got to the front in the 2nd Baltic Front, 1st active army, 115th rifle division, 292nd rifle regiment. He was wounded in the direction of Nevel near the Pustoshka station on November 24, 1943, and ended up in a hospital in the city of Kirov. After being wounded at the end of January 1944, the 2nd active army was sent to the 2nd Baltic Front, the 6th Guards Fighter Anti-Tank Brigade. He was wounded on March 16, 1944 on the Velikaya River near the village of Mikhailovskoye (the estate of A.S. Pushkin). He was admitted to the hospital in the city of Kirov, where he was until July 1944. After the hospital was sent to the 32nd Tank Training Regiment, artilleryman, sergeant, gun commander. After short-term training, he arrived at the 2nd Ukrainian Front, 7th Tank Corps, 1440 self-propelled artillery regiment. April 3, 1945 arrived in Czechoslovakia. Participated in the capture of the large industrial center of Czechoslovakia, Brno on April 26. On May 9, 1945, he took part in the battles for the liberation of Prague on self-propelled guns. In October 1945, a separate artillery division was redeployed to 613. It was located in the city of Proskurov (since 1954 Khmelnitsky) fought with Ukrainian nationalists (Bandera). In May 1946 he served in the 31st Tank Division, 100th Tank Regiment, where he served until demobilization. Demobilized in 1950. Government awards: Order of the Red Star, medals: "For the victory over Germany", "For the liberation of Prague", "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy", "For the development of virgin and fallow lands", "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945 years. "," 50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR. " For excellent combat and political training, he was awarded the "Excellent tankman" badge by the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, dated April 26, 1945. Died on February 18, 1976.

Rank: Chief Petty Officer Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Grandfather himself avoided talking about the war as much as he could, practically did not tell anything. Here is a letter on May 13, 2017, from the head teacher of the Devitskaya school and the teacher of Russian and literature Lyudmila Chernikova (Koptseva) to my mother: Hello, Svetlana. Here read the essay. Family duet As long as human memory is alive, time has no power over it! Years and decades pass, but the people of the Earth again and again return to the events of the Great Victory, which marked the triumph of life over death. Why do we remember the Great Patriotic War again and again? About her heroes? Because we are worried about the future. We must remember the past so that fascism does not repeat itself again. This is our duty to those who won the Victory. For this very purpose, our school decided to create a school museum. Examining the material for decorating stands about teachers of the war years, I find notes from the district newspaper, photographs from the school archive about the spouses of the Hodovs, who taught at the Devitskaya school since 1936. Grigory Grigorievich and Dina Konstantinovna Khodovs did not prepare themselves for teaching. In 1936, they graduated from the Usman political education college and received diplomas of district inspectors for political education. But not so many inspectors were required, and teachers, especially rural ones, were lacking at that time. The decision to work in the school of the village Devitsa young people was unanimous! In order to have the legal right to teach, the Chodovy passed exams as an external student and began to study in absentia at the teacher's institute. Then Dina Konstantinovna continued her studies at the Biological Faculty of the Voronezh University, and Grigory Grigorievich - at the Literary Faculty of the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. They really liked working at the school: the entire teaching staff supported the creative atmosphere. But life makes its own adjustments. In 1938, Grigory Grigorievich was drafted into the Army. Chodov had to serve the Red Army as a driver on the border with Poland, in Bialystok. On the eve of the war, he and his colleagues were seconded for cars. And when they drove a lorry to Bialystok, fascist tanks were already rushing towards them. The column was bombed, the chauffeur soldiers who survived were surrounded, looking for their own. Grigory Grigorievich fought, was wounded several times. I reached Berlin, where I met Victory. For military services and bravery shown in battles, there are awards "For Military Merit", "For the capture of Berlin", "For victory over Germany." And Dina Konstantinovna continued to work as a teacher during the war years. In this difficult time for the country, the requirements for teaching and educational work have changed. She was given a militant patriotic character. The topics and teaching methods of subjects such as literature, history, geography, physics, biology, chemistry were revised. Within the framework of the school curriculum, the teaching of these subjects began to be as practical as possible. The school introduced topics of a military - defense orientation in order to establish a closer connection between the school and life. The newspaper Pravda wrote in those days: “No matter how engrossed in the war we are, caring for children and their upbringing remains one of the main tasks ... the law on universal education remains unshakable in war conditions. We must take into account all children and take into account well, despite the complexity of wartime ... No references to the military situation. ”Teachers in those years tried to teach well, conscientiously, and the students studied well, because it was a shame to dishonestly fulfill their duties to those who who was on the battlefield. Each of the Hodovykh spouses at that time performed a feat: Grigory Grigorievich - at the front, with arms in hand, Dina Konstantinovna - in the rear, daily and hourly taking care of the rural children. After the war, they continued to work as teachers, not in the least disappointed in their second profession. The Hodovy family had two children: son Yuri and daughter Svetlana. Over the years, they have accumulated not only a large store of knowledge, but also a huge practical experience. In the issues of the regional newspaper "New Life" of different years I read reviews of the school director I.A. Bessmertnykh, teachers N. Kireeva, A. Pisareva that Dina Konstantinovna “was one of the first to restructure the teaching of biological disciplines in the light of new requirements. She conducts her lessons creatively, with the use of wide visibility and a variety of pedagogical techniques, which for many years she has been achieving one hundred percent academic success. But there is no judge for Dina Konstantinovna stricter than her own conscience. She has a highly developed sense of introspection and self-control, which helps her bit by bit to select the most successful teaching methods, it is interesting and exciting to conduct lessons, laboratory and practical work, to achieve solid knowledge of students. " And then from the notes of the district I learn how indispensable Grigory Grigorievich was in the teaching staff of the Devitskaya school. The title of "school craftsman" was firmly established behind him.He really is a jack of all trades! “Wherever you look, the fruits of his labor are visible everywhere: a model of the terrain on a geographical site, a cemented reservoir on a school site, a sanitary corner skillfully cut out of plywood with a jigsaw, chemistry instruments, numerous tables - all this was done by his hands, or by schoolchildren under his leadership. ”But the village teachers did not stop there either. Grigory Grigorievich always helped in the decoration of the village library and club. He was not only hardworking, but also a courageous person. Despite the physical illness (war, captivity, wounds did their job), he does not lose his composure. The awareness that he was needed and useful to people helped him to fight the disease. Every day, overcoming pain, he tries to build for the benefit of others. Isn't this a feat ?! And Dina Konstantinovna was also engaged in social activities. For several years she was a member of the commission on public education of the regional Council of Working People's Deputies. The family of the Hodovy teachers lived in great friendship and harmony. And in the village, when everyone was in full view of each other, fellow villagers often turned to them for advice, with a request, because they trusted them. Work for them was a natural necessity, without it they could not imagine their life and devoted themselves entirely to their favorite work. The memory of this family duet of teachers still lives in our village, because their students are still alive, and they tell their children and grandchildren about their teachers, and in the school museum there is a page dedicated to people.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Signal troops. Division: 38th Infantry Division (2nd Formation). In the fall of 1939, the brothers Husen and his twin brother Khasen were drafted into the army. They became Red Army soldiers. Participation in a short war with Finland went well for the Khamizovs, and the brothers continued to serve in the Red Army in good faith. The attack of Hitler's Germany on the Soviet Union found the Caucasians at the western border. Fate decreed that Khasen died in a fiery whirlwind of war somewhere near Stalingrad, and his brother Husen became a sergeant. Fate threw a brave competent signalman to different combat points of the country. Remaining as a signalman, Husen had to let the Nazis close at close range and shoot them with a machine gun to help the unit cross the river. Later, Husen was admitted to the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, was appointed chief of the company, and the communists of the company elected him party organizer. During the liberation of Ukraine, Khamizov was seriously wounded. After treatment in the hospital, he was demobilized for disability. Returning home, Husen was immediately appointed instructor of the Zolsk district party committee and plunged into work. The war continued, the front demanded weapons, ammunition, fuel, clothing, food. Although the collective farms were left without men, equipment and horses, the district exceeded the grain supply plan and sent thousands of clothing and footwear and hundreds of tons of food to the front. And this is a considerable merit of the workers of the district party committee, including the war-disabled communist Khusen Khamizov. Throughout his life, Husen Ismelovich was worried about issues not only of his work. So in the days of Khrushchev, a law was being prepared for the complete destruction of donkeys. Husen Ismelovich began the struggle to preserve these unpretentious four-legged workers, reliable assistants of the mountaineers. In a letter to Prime Minister Kosygin, Khusen Khamizov proved that without the help of donkeys that brought ammunition in the harsh conditions of the highlands, our army would not have held the passes, and the invaders would have broken through into the Transcaucasus. After receiving this letter, Kosygin ordered to end the campaign to destroy the donkey tribe.

Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Artillery He got to the front after Bryansk region was liberated in September 1943. Having suffered in Nazi captivity from the atrocities of the Nazis, the guys themselves came to the newly organized military registration and enlistment offices. He comes from the small village of Baikovo, near Karachev. He helped bring shells to the artillerymen when there were fierce battles for Karachev. In the army, he was assigned to a rifle unit. After two weeks of training, they sent a submachine gunner to the front with a marching company. In a respite between battles, when their part was taken to rest, the artillery commanders who came to them took away several people. So he became an artilleryman. He was short, but nimble, quick-witted, he caught military training on the fly. In the battles for Vitebsk, he was already appointed the gunner of the 76-mm gun. In the summer of 1944, their artillery regiment of the 30th rifle division was all the time in the combat formations of the infantry, supporting the advancing companies and battalions with fire. Especially fierce battles unfolded on the outskirts of the city of Borisov. The fascists in one of the sectors of our defense launched a counteroffensive. The rifle company was pushed aside. But further the gunners did not allow them to advance. The battery was at the forefront of the enemy attack. The explosions of shells and mines, the whistle of machine-gun bursts did not stop, did not pin down our gunners. Neglecting the danger, Khokhlov, with his crew, quickly rolled the gun out of cover in his hands and began to shoot the enemy infantry with direct fire, suppressed several machine-gun nests. The fascists could not stand such a friendly fire, Seeing the support of the artillerymen, our infantry rose in a swift attack. On that day, they drove the enemy for more than ten kilometers. He took part in the liberation of the Belarusian city of Molodechno, the Lithuanian city of Alytus, near the Pillau fortress on the Baltic coast. For several days, infantry, artillery, naval paratroopers destroyed the encircled group of Nazis on the narrow sandy spit of Frisch Nerung. Already when the battle subsided, a shell that exploded a few steps away heavily concussed Ivan Mikhailovich. He met Victory Day in one of the field hospitals. For this reason, he was early demobilized.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of troops: Aviation. Halimov Dzhimil Halimovich, was in the Red Army from 31.08.1935 Title: Senior technician-lieutenant. June 22, 1941 was in the Bialystok region of the BSSSR, the 13th AP of the Red Army Air Force of the BSSR. On the very first day of the war, the airfield was destroyed, an order was received to retreat, in case of being surrounded by the Germans, not to surrender. They were chosen in small groups, being completely unaware of their families and their fate. He was lucky, he met a grandma with a 2-year-old daughter at one of the crossings and even helped them get into one of the cars with refugees, giving them all his dry rations. Next time they will see each other only after 2 years. On July 22, 1941, Grandpa entered the order of 3 AE 118 MDRAKKP of the Northern Fleet Air Force, as a mechanic for the Pe-2 and Pe-3 aircraft. Provided more than 167 accident-free combat missions to bombing enemy troops and airfields. The crew served by my grandfather was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Red Banner. During the mission, 3 Pe-3 aircraft made an emergency landing, being knocked out by enemy fighters, and my grandfather with a group of technical personnel in difficult conditions in the front line in a short time restored the damaged aircraft. From December 1942, he worked in the 28th ORAE of the Northern Fleet Air Force as a flight mechanic on SB aircraft, during this time he served 6 night combat missions for bombarding enemy troops and airfields. Since March 1943, at 3 AE 118 RAP he has been working as a flight mechanic on the Hurricane aircraft. In August 1943, with his flight technical staff, he put into operation 3 Yak-9 aircraft and from October 1 to October 18, 1943, he served 58 daytime combat missions with his flight for reconnaissance of enemy ships and transports. The work in the Arctic was very difficult, especially during the winter.