The faces of WWII Heroes

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Subdivision: 323rd Rifle Bryansk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. My grandfather, Khatyushin Vladimir Ivanovich was born in the village of Khochutino, Meshchevsky District, Kaluga Region. February 17, 1924 in a large peasant family. His father was a carpenter and often went to work in big cities. And the mother with all the children remained on the farm. Although it was difficult, everyone went to school and learned to read and write, and in the summer, during the holidays, Volodya worked with the village guys on the collective farm. In 1941, when the Great Patriotic War began, he just finished 9th grade. Many at that time thought that the war would cost "little blood" and would end in a couple of months. But in October 1941, fascist tanks rumbled under their native village. And in February 1942, as soon as my grandfather turned 18, he went to fight almost from the threshold of his home. Young literate guys were attached to the 205th regiment of the 10th army, which held the defense of Moscow. Military science training proceeded right on the spot at an accelerated pace - only a month and a half. The science of dying and winning was mastered not only in theory, but also in practice - the enemy was striving for Moscow. After training, Sergeant Vladimir Khatyushin was assigned to the 330th Infantry Division, which was located in the Bryansk forests. There passed the line of defense of Moscow, there my grandfather, in the position of assistant platoon commander, took his first battle. Vladimir Ivanovich received his first award, the Medal For Courage, for the battles near Bryansk, when a bullet struck the platoon commander and he took over command, having managed to overcome the fear of the advancing armada of tanks and lead the soldiers into the attack. The young platoon commander was hot and the first to rise from the trench when the attack began. There he was wounded, near Bryansk. The old soldier who carried him from the battlefield said: “Don't get excited. A bullet is the easiest to hit. You try to survive and defeat the enemy. " My grandfather remembered this advice for a long time and then always followed it. After the hospital, he ended up in the 29th Guards Tank Shock Brigade of the 323rd Bryansk Red Banner Rifle Division. The brigade was thrown into different places, where it was most difficult, where it was necessary to make a decisive blow - to stop the enemy's advance. That's what she and the shock brigade. In one of these battles, the tank on which Vladimir Ivanovich was riding was hit by an enemy shell. The car immediately caught fire. Almost everyone who sat at the top of the tank burned out on the battlefield with a candle. My grandfather survived but was wounded. With this shock tank brigade, he reached Berlin itself, passing through Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany in battles. The second award - the Medal for Military Merit - was received for the distinction in the battle during the crossing of the Sozh River near Gomel. The first Order of the Red Star - for the battles near the Belarusian cities of Rogachev and Zhlobin. The second Red Star is beyond the Vistula. Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree - for battles on the Seelow Heights. Medals "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin" speak for themselves. But among them all the same the most expensive remained the very first - the medal "For Courage" - the highest distinction of soldier's valor. In 4 years he learned how to fight and always remembered the advice of the old soldier: not only to complete a combat mission, but also to save the people who are under your command. In 1946, having demobilized, he returned to his native village. He worked as a foreman of a tractor brigade, a mechanic on a collective farm. He married my grandmother. She pushed him to the idea of ​​getting a higher education. For more than 20 years he worked as the head teacher of industrial training in his native school, engaged in labor education of schoolchildren. Outbuildings, a school garden, a monument to graduates who died in the war - all this is connected with the name of my grandfather, because it began on his initiative. Vladimir Ivanovich passed away on May 19, 2003 at the age of 75. I am proud to bear his name.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of Troops: Coastal Defense and Air Defense Artillery, Coastal Units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops My father Hondo Ilya Solomonovich was born on March 10, 1914 in the small Crimean town of Karasubazar, now - Belogorsk. In 1935 he graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, worked as a physics teacher, school director. During active service in 1938 he received a military education in the field of radio engineering and was certified with the rank of junior lieutenant in the reserve. He participated in the Second World War in communication units of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force from the first days of the war, was the commander of a radio company, a communication company of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force, providing radio communications for flight units at the airfields of the Crimea and the Caucasus. From the scanty lines of the surviving award lists, I learned that my father was in charge of the combat work of the signalmen: "in the conditions of fierce bombing, he ensured the uninterrupted operation of radio facilities, without loss of personnel and equipment, he organized relocation to the Caucasus. Having extensive experience in training communications specialists, he formed a communications company and managed in a short period of time to train more than a hundred qualified signalmen, who, until the last day of the defense of Sevastopol, served the flight units. During the period of the most active operation of enemy aviation in Novorossiysk and Anapa, he personally went to the communication line for direct command of the personnel.In August 1942, during the defense of Novorossiysk, when the electric line communication of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force operational group and the command post of the 62nd Air Division with airfields was systematically disrupted , excellently provided radio communication and at the same time found underground telephone cables through Novorossiysk, thereby ensuring continuous stable communication with the Cape Khako, Gaiduk and others airfields. At the Gelendzhik airfield, he provided excellent communications for the combat missions of the 13th Red Banner Guards Aviation Regiment to destroy enemy ships during the liberation of the Crimea and Sevastopol from the Nazi invaders. "

Rank: Colonel Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 63rd Infantry Division (1st formation) Before the war, from 1939 to 1941, he worked as a military engineer in the Far East; airfields in 41 built coastal batteries on the island of Osmusuar. In the fall of 41 he was evacuated to Kronstadt and until May 45. He fought in the 63rd Guards Division of the Leningrad Front. He ended the war as the commander of the 192nd Guards Regiment with the rank of colonel. In 46 he entered the General Staff Academy and worked at the district headquarters. Demobilized for health reasons. Then he worked as the head. Military Department Moscow Aviation Institute. The last 20 years of his life he worked as head. Educational part of Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University. He died on May 9, 1981. Major Grigory Silantievich Kholoshnya commanded the 192nd regiment, replacing Yakov Ivanovich Kozhevnikov. Simonyak remembered him from August 1941, when our sailors brought the garrison of Osmusaar Island to Hanko. Lieutenant Kholoshnya was among the commanders. He did not look like a cadre. Introducing himself to the brigade commander, he raised his hand to the cap, sticking out his fingers awkwardly. The tunic hung like a sack over his shoulders. Glittering glasses covered his eyes. Simonyak then was surprised to learn that the youthful lieutenant had already graduated from the institute and was building fortifications on Osmusaar. Kholoshnya was sent to Kozhevnikov. Before our very eyes, he turned into a collected, strong-willed officer. He was transferred to the battalion headquarters, from there to the regiment headquarters. When Kozhevnikov was taken to the division, he said to Simonyak: - There is no need to look for a better person to command the regiment than Holoshnia. Big he is clever! In a difficult battle near Narva, Kholoshnya justified this assessment. And the regiment was well prepared for the upcoming operation. But just before the attack - such a nuisance. “Encourage him,” the corps commander said to Shcheglov. - Dyachenko has already gone there. The front edge of the hull was twelve to seventeen kilometers from the Sestra River. The river whimsically meandered through the hollows, among the dense forests. It is not very good, but it is difficult to cross: the banks are steep, the approaches are under fire. From the very beginning of the battle, when the corps troops rushed forward and in twenty minutes left behind four lines of enemy trenches, Simonyak's gaze, sliding across the map, more and more often stopped on the blue ribbon of the river. The corps commander mused today to step behind Sister, to seize the bridge, the village of Yappilya - that would be like a guard! Two divisions of the corps were advancing - the 45th and 63rd. 64th was in the second echelon. Cheerful reports came from Putilov and Shcheglov. The enemy is stunned, crushed by the blows of our artillery and aviation, by the friendly onslaught of the guards. The front commander called and inquired about how things were going. - Good. The Finns have not come to their senses yet. The regiments have already advanced four kilometers in places. "Don't our planes bomb you anymore?" - No. Fortunately, they scared more than they hurt. The red arrows on the corps commander's map were moving away from the former leading edge every hour. In the forests, near the lake defiles, at the crossroads, fleeting fights and sometimes violent battles took place. Guardsmen overturned enemy screens and rushed forward. Their actions were influenced by the great school of war, the experience gained in the battles of breaking through the multi-lane defense. Of the divisions, they only reported on the lines reached, occupied by the regiments of strong points. But what was behind the mean words of encrypted messages? The radio wave brought the commander of the 192nd regiment the broken voice of the battalion commander Petrov: - I am at the height - Do not linger. I follow. Kholoshnya, adjusting his glasses, named the place of his new command post - Zabolotye. The village with this name was occupied by the company of Captain Lvov. After being seriously wounded near Pulkovo, Alexei Lvov spent a long time in the hospital. He returned to the regiment before the battles. And again he led his submachine gunners forward. The company overtook the rifle lines, rounded the Zabolotye in the forest, attacked the Finns from the flank. Petty Officer Ivan Isaichev, a veteran of the regiment, a Khank sniper, suddenly appeared in their rear with his platoon. The hostile garrison was almost completely destroyed. The submachine gunners captured three heavy guns. - What to do with the prisoners? - Lvov asked. - Hold, I'll be there soon, - the regiment commander answered. Kholoshnya did not stay long in Zabolotye. I looked at the first prisoners and found out which division they were from. Finnish soldiers glanced sideways at the Soviet soldiers and officers, they had not yet come to their senses from the experience, as one of them said, - Send to the division headquarters, - Kholoshnya ordered the company commander to Lvov. -Come forward to the Sister! Overtake Petrov. Streshinsky MP "General Simonyak"

“This story does not describe heroic deeds, but I think there are a lot of such in our country. Branch of the service: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Khafizov M.Z. is my great-grandfather, he went to the front, wrote several letters, and disappeared in 1942. There was no information about him to this day, but thanks to the Memorial WBS we managed to find out that he fought and was taken prisoner on 07/09/1942 near the village of Kantimirovka, then sent to the transit camp Stalag VI K (326) , and later - to the work camp Stalag XI-B Fallingbostel, where he died on 02/23/1943. His wife, Hafizova Hafiz, died, but all her life she did not believe in his death and tried to find him. But here is his daughter, Akhmetshina (Khafizova) Gulsum Miniakhmetovna (my grandmother), in good health, and there was no limit to her joy from the news she received - any news, albeit sad, still “warms the soul”. An interesting fact is that my grandmother was the last person who saw, remembered my father alive, since she, with her younger brother, ran furtively before being sent to the front to the place of gathering of soldiers, to the school of junior sergeants, my father went out to them, talked, showed the rifle youngest son. And decades later, she became the only one who received the news of his death (the wife and son had died by this time). And, thanks to the pedantry of the Germans, we also have a photograph of the grandfather from his prisoner of war card, the date of his birth (no one remembered it anymore), the date of death and the place of burial. Now, on February 23, we celebrate not only the Day of Defenders of the Fatherland, but also honor the memory of our great-grandfather, grandfather, father - Private Khafizov Miniahmed Zaripovich, who gave his life for our Motherland. " Remember and Proud !!!

My father went to war on the very first day, leaving my mother with four children. The smallest was only two months old. Miraculously survived and never told us children about the horrors through which he went. But once the film "The Fate of a Man" was brought to our village. After watching it, my daddy with tears in his eyes told that he had experienced everything about what was shown in the film on himself! Once at the front at the very beginning, they, the soldiers, for some reason did not have enough weapons, there was practically nothing to defend themselves with, and therefore the Nazis captured them and loaded them into wagons. He and a friend made a hole and jumped off on the move, but unfortunately unsuccessfully, broke his collarbone and lost consciousness. The Nazis found them in the forest, beat them very much, beat his comrade to death. So he again ended up in captivity, where for a week people were not given either water or food. When they were driven to another camp, and there were puddles on the road after the rain, many fell to drink and could no longer get up, they were immediately shot by the Nazis, and my ass only moistened my mouth with water, because I understood that if I fell into a puddle, then I would not will rise. So he ended up in captivity in Germany, I don't remember in which concentration camp. Since he was young and strong, the local Germans took him to auxiliary work, thanks to which he survived. Once the Germans drank and decided to make fun of him, poured him a full glass of vodka and said drink, he refused the snack, they also drank a second glass for him and again refused a snack, they drank him a third and again, and again refused a snack. The Germans tell him Stalin is kaput, and my daddy tells them "nicht Hitler kaput!" Of course, if these were not ordinary Germans, he would have been shot right there. He says that there was so much hatred in his entire body that he did not take any hops, and at the same time he really believed in our VICTORY not for a second did not doubt! He returned home with poor health, but like all that generation, he worked tirelessly on a collective farm for a workday which, in fact, cost nothing, that is, everything was aimed at restoring our Motherland. Together with my mom, they kept a household to feed their five children. When the war began, dad was 30 years old, and mom was 29, but despite the horrors they had to endure during the war, they endured all the hardships of the post-war period. They did not harden, but instilled in us, their children, a sense of responsibility, hard work, benevolence, purposefulness, decency.

Born on November 16, 1916 in the village of Iske Kesher in the territory of the modern Sarmanovsky district of Tatarstan. Having behind him a seven-year school and work experience on a collective farm, in 1935 he moved to Kazan, where, earning his living by working as a digger, a year later he successfully passed the exams at the technical school of Soviet trade. Here he showed himself as a public activist - he took part in literary and musical evenings, went in for sports, was the head of a circle of shooters. After graduating from the technical school, Zinnat Khasanov began working as a commodity expert in Kirov. Three months later he was drafted into the army and sent to courses for junior command personnel. In July 1941, with the rank of lieutenant, he was sent to the front. Commanding a company in the battles near Moscow, Zinnat Khasanov was captured. In the summer of 1942, in the Demblin camp, he met and became friends with Gaynan Kurmashev, and through him with Musa Jalil. In the Idel-Ural legion, Zinnat Khasanov, on the instructions of the underground workers, distributed propaganda leaflets. Later he became a liaison between Jedlin and Berlin. Together with other Jalilovites, he was arrested in August 1943 for underground activities in the Idel-Ural legion. In February 1944, the Second Imperial Court of Germany sentenced Zinnat Khasanov to death. The verdict was carried out in the Pletzensee prison on the guillotine on August 25, 1944 at 12:30. By the decree of the President of the USSR of May 5, 1990, Zinnat Khasanov was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree - for courage and heroism, active underground activity against the German fascist invaders.

Shalandin Valdemar Sergeevich - platoon commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, 1st Guards Tank Army, Guard Lieutenant. During the Battle of Kursk on July 6, 1943, he made a tank ram near the village of Yakovlevo, Belgorod Region. Killed with crew. In this battle, V. Shalandin's crew destroyed 3 enemy tanks. Posthumously nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

CITY: the city of Engels, Saratov Region DATE OF BIRTH: 07/30/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Bogdan Bogdanovich Leonhardt was born on July 30, 1919 into a peasant family in the village. Alt-Urbakh, Krasnoyarsk District, Saratov Region. Since 1927. to 1934 he studied. From 1934 to 1937 he worked as an accountant at the Spartak collective farm village Alt - Urbakh of the Krasnoyarsk region of ASSRNP, where he studied from 1937 to 1938. in the school Factory and workshop education plant "Communist" town Marksstadt, Saratov region for a metal turner. From 1938 to 1939 worked as a metal turner in the regional MTS of the Krasnoyarsk region of ASSRNP in incomplete secondary, where he graduated from the seven-year. From 1939 to 1940 studied at the courses of political workers. On August 8, 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He served in the city of Gorky. In October 1940 he was sent to Moscow in a special Kav. brigade to study for an instructor of owls. blacksmiths. After completing the courses, he returned to the unit in the city of Gorky, where he served in this specialty until June 29, 1941. From June 29, 1941 to July 18, 1941, he fought at the front. On July 18, the division was dispersed, and Bogdan Bogdanovich was sent to a formation point in the district town of Kirovsk. In Kirovsk, a platoon was organized to protect the commander of the 43rd Army, Comrade Zhukov G.K. He served there until September 29, 1941. On September 29, 1941, he was removed from the front and sent to serve in Magnitogorsk (from October 14, 1941 to May 1942). In May 1942 he was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army and mobilized into the labor army. From May 1942 to May 1943 he worked in Chelyabinsk at the TsEMM as a turner, then he was transferred to the Korkinskoye ShU at mines 7-10, 17-20. From May 1943 to May 1945 he worked as a mechanic. From June 1945 he was transferred as a mechanic at mine 17-20 until January 18, 1949, then until 1958 he worked at mine No. 19 in Korkino, an underground electrician, a mechanic. From 1958 to 1969 he worked at the Oktyabrskaya mine (formerly the 3rd Kalachevskaya mine) as an electrical fitter at the HST (intra-mine transport) section. In 1969 he was injured at the mine and became disabled. He was repeatedly elected chairman of the mine committee, and also several times was elected a deputy of the city and regional Councils of Deputies. Miner's experience of 27 years. Awards: medal "For Valor and Courage", the jubilee medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the jubilee medal" Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the jubilee medal "50 years of the armed forces of the USSR ", two degrees" Miner's Glory ", the title of" Honorary Miner ".

PLACE OF BIRTH: Panetaevka village, Panetaevsky district, Gorky region. DATE OF BIRTH: 23.12.1925. DATE of DEATH: 26.11.2014. HISTORY: Rank: Corporal. Corps: Armored and Mechanized troops. My father, Boris Loginov, was born in the Gorky region in 1925 in a village. His father and mother were typical Soviet people. They had six children, but they rushed to work schools to study in order to push five-year plans forward…My grandfather headed a state farm, then a timber yard for exporting wood abroad. Everything for the country, nothing for yourself. He lived his entire life in Bryukhovetskaya, where he worked at a fish factory. His son, my father Boris, also spent his youth here. He, unlike his parents, did not want to study for a long time. Together with his uncle Zhenya, who was a year older than him, and Volodya, the son of the Director of the fish factory, he went not to school, but to the river, where they had their own boat. At night, they cought fish and crayfish, by the way, my father loved fishing until his old age, sat by the fire, dreaming of traveling. Who could have known that the peaceful life of bryukhovets dreamers would end so quickly and terribly? As soon as they entered the driver's course, the war began. My father couldn't finish the course. His uncle Zhenya was taken to the front, and soon he was killed. During the evacuation of the fish factory, Boris and Vladimir, two newly drivers (there had certificates of training...) had to drive the old "lorry" to the "safe place". Then they handed over the lorry to the military in Tuapse, got a cart… Then they wandered around Central Asia, working at a military factory. And finally my father was drafted to the front. Loginov Boris Vasilyevich was in the 281st Rifle Regiment attached to the 60th Tank Army during the offensive after crossing the Dnieper river. For two and a half months the regiment did not leave the battle. And the youngest soldier of the fourth platoon in the reconnaissance company almost got used to what a person can't get used to – war. For two and a half months they did not know what a bed, a bed, their life-jackets were frozen to the ground at night, when the intelligence men lay for hours in front of the German positions, looking for a passage in them. And there was a night when my father's entire company was killed, only two of them were left…He did not yet know that this was so, the intelligence men retreated to the ravine together, lay down in front of him in the dark, fired back. And at dawn, when Boris Loginov raised his head, he saw that there were only corpses around him. But German soldiers did not know that there were a dozen of our soldiers left in the ravine They went on tanks with crosses on the armor and began to beat the blocks along the ravine. It's a terrible sound, to hear them squeal, armor-piercing blocks, among the trees, spinning on the frozen snow, knocking everything down. "That's where I was killed in the snow. Me and my comrades were killed. " He "held" the defense, fired a rifle, not knowing that he was holding it. But the Germans are still stumbled, they thied to kill already a dead company. And they lingered, losing hours. In these hours, even minutes, there was our great Victory. And then there was another fight, a shrapnel wound in the head, a bullet broke the grandfather's spine, and when a friend carried him out of the fire, an explosive bullet hit in his shoulder…And then he had painful operations in hospitals. Of course, everyone who fought in the war sees the events of those years in their own way. Memories of Marshal differ from the memories of an infantryman… And in this way, the evidences of every witness and participant of the war are unique. The Marshal did not know, did not feel, what his soldier was doing. That is why the great Marshal Zhukov, often strict in the requirements for officers of any rank, was so attentive to the soldier and asked him a lot on occasion, as if he wanted to learn something…

Rank: Private First Class. Corps: aviation Division: 54th bombing aviation of Oryol division. Ivan Yesikov was drafted into the Red Army in 1939 at the age of 22. He left his wife and little daughter at home. He participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940). In 1941, he was registered in the 714th Airfield Service battalion, as a driver. From 1945 to 1947, he served in the military unit: 146th Separate Aviation technical battalion, as head of the oxygen station. He participated in many military operations, was awarded of medals, and participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Hungary. He returned home in 1947, where his wife and daughter were waiting for him. After that, my grandparents had three more daughters. Difficult conditions during the war, lack of sleep, rest, food had a bad effect on the health of my grandfather, he was very ill and passed away very early. He was only 46 years old. It is impossible to imagine combat flights of aircraft without the work that was performed by the personnel of the airfield service battalions in providing combat missions for the glorious pilots of the long-range aviation. Airfield Service battalion worked with a huge mass of ammunition, mostly bombs from fifty kilograms to one ton. Ammunition was delivered by several dozen wagons a day. They had to be unloaded, put in proper order, and brought to the aircraft parking places with three or four rounds of ammunition each. During the battles for Voronezh, Stalingrad, the Kursk bulge, and the Leningrad front, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers were literally physically exhausted, without sleep or rest, and provided combat sorties for ships in any weather. Ships that returned from their first sortie were refueled at the start and bombs were hung there. Vehicles, because of the deep snow, brought ammunition only to the sides of the airfield, they could not go further. The bombs were unloaded directly on the snow, from where the soldiers carried one two hundred-and-fifty kilogram bomb to the planes on sledges or skis in the deep and loose snow. There were not enough people, the volume was not controlled, and then the pilots, throwing off their overalls, also helped soldiers. Their work was not in vain. During this period, the first of ten Stalinist strikes was carried out… During the battle of the Kursk bulge, the Airfield Service battalion soldiers did not have enough 24 hours a day. During the day, they prepared planes, and at night they went to the combat guard. At night, the Germans bombed the airfield, scattered mines, these mines could blow up planes returning from a combat mission, and before they arrived, it was necessary to clear the runway of mines and fill in the craters. This was done again by soldiers and officers of the Airfield Service battalion. 1944-1945. The Airfield Service battalion No.714 served two air regiments at the same time on airfields: "Stronibaby "(Lviv) and "Melets " (Rzeszow) air hubs, in addition, provided significant assistance to other units in servicing the air regiments of the 4th Air Corps.

Rank: Military Engineer. Corps: Engineering troops. Unit: 7th Panzer division. Kuzma Markovich Eroshin was born on October 29, 1912 in the village of Kushchapino in the Kadomsky district of the Ryazan region. Graduated from 5 classes, after finishing school he studied to be a driver. From November 1937, Kuzma Markovich worked as a foreman for the repair of automobile and military vehicles. A military ID card was issued to Eroshin by The Kadomsky district military Commissariat of the Ryazan region on December 26, 1947. On October 4, 1942, Kuzma took the military oath under the 7th tank battalion. Eroshin K. M. participated in the Patriotic war and subsequent military operations to protect the USSR as a member of the 141st tank division as a Brigadier for the repair of automobile and military vehicles from June 25, 1941. The 141st Panzer division was formed on September 1, 1941 in Rzhev on the basis of the 110th Panzer division. In early September, the brigade participated in the offensive operation in the Starodub direction in 20 km to the west from Trubchevsk as part of General Ermakov's mobile group. Then during September 1941 he participated in local counter-offensives on Shostka and Yampol. It was defeated during the Orel-Bryansk operation (September 30-October 23, 1941) and disbanded in December 1941. From August to September 2, 1945, Eroshin K. M. served in the mobile repair plant No. 1 as a foreman for the Assembly of tank engines. During his military service, he repaired many combat vehicles of the Soviet army. Often the repair of automobile and military equipment had to be done under enemy fire. Kuzma was awarded of many awards for his participation in the Great Patriotic war. Awards of my great-grandfather: - the Order of The Great Patriotic War 2nd Class" a medal "For Combat Service", medal "For Victory over Japan", medal "Twenty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945", medal "Thirty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945", medal "Forty years of victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945" medal "60 years of the armed forces of the USSR". In peacetime, Kuzma Markovich worked as a firefighter. In his spare time Eroshin K. M. spent time with the family and built a house. Often on weekends, he went hunting, and also liked to collect mushrooms and herbs, from which he later made various medicines. Kuzma Markovich Eroshin died in 1985

Rank: Colonel. Corps: Artillery. Division: 82nd Motorized Rifle Division. He was born on May 30, 1923 at the Vygonichi station in the Bryansk region. Nationality: Russian. Religion: Orthodox. Member of the CPSU since 1942. In 1940, he graduated from the 3rd Moscow special artillery school and was sent as an excellent student to the 3rd Leningrad artillery school. On June 22, 1941, he engaged in household work in summer camps in Luga. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the school was alerted. At the general design, the head of the school, Colonel Sanko, announced to cadets about the treacherous attack of the Nazis on the homeland. On June 26, 1941, the second division of the school was loaded into the echelon, and cadets moved along the route Pskov - Ostrov - Siauliai. Many cities were liberated. With fierce fighting, they took part in the encirclement and capture of Berlin from 30.04.1945 to 02.05.1945, and on May 9, 1945, the brigade under the command of Colonel Selivanchik was one of the first to approach prague, the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic, freeing it from the German invaders. On May 9, 1945, Emelianenko Vladimir finished the war as a battery commander with the military rank of Captain. He was awarded of medal "For Courage", “For the liberation of Vyazma” (12.03.1943). During the assault in one of the houses, Vladimir with the intelligence man Potylitsin captured two Germans with important documents. Vladimir was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, for participation in the battles on the Kursk bulge. He was awarded of the Order of the Red Star for participating in the battles for Lviv and Przemyslany, Order of the Patriotic war 1st class for the liberation of Petrakow in Poland, Order of Kutuzov 3rd degree No. 561 for crossing the Oder river, Medal "For combat service", Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic war 1st class in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Victory. He died in 2001 with the rank of Colonel (awarded of 3 orders, was wounded twice).

Rank: Corporal. Corps: Artillery. Unit: 1st Panzer Moscow Proletarian order of Lenin Red Banner Division. He was born in 1921 in the Krasnodar region. As a child, he actively played sports and dreamed of becoming a circus performer. As a young man, he joined a troupe of a circus touring the South of Russia and performed gymnastic routines for about a year. In 1940, he was called up for service in the Red Army by the Vannovsky regional military commissariat of the Krasnodar territory. He was a participant of the war since June 22, 1941 – Western front), from June 1942 – Bryansk front, from December 1942-Kalinin front, from June 1943-Voronezh front, from December 1943 – 1st Ukrainian front. Military post – Guard Private First Class, gunner of the anti-aircraft artillery division 1st Order Lenin Tank Brigade. He participated in the battles on the Kursk bulge, the battles near Prokhorovka, etc. Pavel Ennik was awarded of Order of the Patriotic war 2nd Class, two medals "For Courage" and others. Summary of personal combat feat: Order on awarding of the medal "For Courage" 06.01.44: "In the battles with the German invaders the soldier showed courage and fearlessness. Working as an anti-aircraft gunner, his gun during the great Patriotic war shot down 8 enemy aircraft. On January 2, 1944 over the battle lines of parts the plane PR-ka "X-III" appeared, which bombed and shelled the battle lines of our troops. Ennik first opened accurate and intense fire and shot it down." Order on awarding the medal "For Courage" 08.06.45: "the Gunner of the 1st battery, Private First Class Ennik Pavel Grigoryevich, for destroying 5 firing points, 2 mortars and destroying 18 Hitlerites in the battles for the liberation of the city of Ungersky Brod and Zlin." Ennik finished the war in Czechoslovakia. On April 21, 1945 in one of the battles, he was seriously wounded. He met the victory in the hospital. After the war, he graduated from the Ashgabat pedagogical school and special courses for speech and language therapists in Moscow. Most of his life he worked as a teacher and tutor in an orphanage in Krasnaya Polyana. He died on February 3, 2016.

Rank: Red Army Soldier. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast guard, NKVD troops, border guards. He was born in the family of the priest Yeremeyev Illarion Mironovich and his wife Paraskeva Grigoryevna. In the 30s his family was repressed and exiled to the Northern Urals. Mikhail Eremeev participated in the Civil war and the fight against basmachism in Turkestan, probably served in the Cheka, OGPU or NKVD, was twice wounded. He was drafted to the front by the Saratov regional military commissariat on June 14, 1943. He fought as an intelligence man of the 768th Rifle Regiment of the 138th Rifle Carpathian Red Banner Order of Suvorov division. On November 8, 1943, he was shell-shocked. He was awarded of the Medal "For Courage". On Desember 31, 1943, being in combat protection of the Tyasmin river in the area of Novoselitsa-Subbotovo, acting together with the partisan detachment he participated in repelling the enemy's attack, where he showed personal courage inspired the rest of the soldiers. The attack was repulsed. On February 3, 1944, being a mounted liaison of the regiment commander with the division commander in the area of Kavunovka under heavy machine-gun and gun fire from enemy tanks, neglecting his life, he timely delivered a report, so that the enemy was damaged in manpower and Red Army soldiers repulsed enemy attack. Mikhail Eremeev was awarded of the Order of the Glory, 3rd Class. On September 19, 1944 in the battles for overcoming the Carpathian Mountains, in difficult terrain, fearlessly and courageously performing individual tasks of the division commander, he scouted the area with a length of 15 km. and personally cleared the mined areas, which made it possible for the fastest connection of the 768th Rifle Regiment with the Division. Mikhail Eremeev was awarded of the Order of the Red Star. On October 17, 1944, being in intelligence at night he fearlessly completed a combat mission and broke into the Szigeti. On December 2, 1944 during the intelligence operation he noticed a group of Madyar soldiers, attacked them and captured 10 soldiers. After the war, he served as a Psalmist in the Church of St. George in Sloboda village, Pervouralsky district, Sverdlovsk region. He was buried in the parish cemetery.

Evgamukov Zalim Kamatovich was born on September 1, 1918, in the village of Loovsko-Kubansky of the North Caucasus Soviet Republic. Since 1939, after studying at a pedagogical school in Cherkessk, he lived in the village of Psyzh and worked as a primary school teacher at a local school. He was drafted into the Red Frmy nn October 20, 1941. At that time, everyone who went to the front was driven by a high sense of duty. Each of them took the oath, expressing their willingness to give their blood and lives for the Motherland, for its freedom, and to beat the fascists without sparing any effort. Zalim Kamatovich were sent on short courses in Mozdok and became a mortar man. While fighting on the bridgeheads with the superior forces of the Nazis, the private Yevgamukov was wounded in the head on June 5, 1942. Since January 1943, he was a gunner of the battalion mortar No.82 as part of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 777th rifle regiment of the 227th Temryuk rifle division of the North Caucasus front and participated in the battles to liberate the Krasnodar territory from the enemy. On the Taman Peninsula on September 9, 1943, when repelling an enemy landing, he was wounded in the leg and ended up in a hospital (Labinskaya station). Then, after the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, during the liberation of the city of Temryuk, Corporal Yevgamukov, as the commander of a division of a rifle company in the 339th rifle Taman division, participated in the sea-borne landing. In April 1944, he was awarded the order of the Red Star by the division command for his valor and bravery. In the same year, he participated in the battles for the liberation of Kerch. In May 1944, as part of the 339th rifle Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov division of the 16th rifle corps of the 56th army, the commander of the 45-mm guns, Corporal Yevgamukov, skillfully suppressed three enemy machine-gun points and smashed two enemy earth and timber bunkers in the battle for the city of Sevastopol. On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd Class for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the front command and for his combat skills. After the capture of Sapun Mountain and the liberation of Sevastopol, Yevgamukov's gun crew participated in the destruction of the enemy at Cape Chersonesos. Then he took part in the crossing of the Vistula and the liberation of Poland in January 1945 as the commander of the mortar company 1137 Rostov Rifle Regiment. Sergeant First Class Evgamukov Zalim Kamatovic as a part of the 339th Infantry Division of the Taman Red Banner order of Suvorov Division of the 16th rifle corps of the 33th army participated in the largest Warsaw-Poznan front offensive operation of the troops of the 1st Belorussian front (commander—Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. The operation was held on 14 January—3 February 1945, as a part of the strategic Vistula-Oder offensive operation). Starting a breakthrough in several sections with a total width of 34 km, the troops of the 1st Belorussian front expanded it along the front to 500 km and advanced to a depth of 500 km by the end of the operation, liberating the entire Western part of Poland in their band. Early in the morning of January 14, 1945, by a surprise attack of advanced battalions from the Magnushevsky and Pulavsky bridgeheads on a front of over 100 km, the troops of the 1st Belorussian front went on the offensive, within an hour they advanced on 2-3 km. The mortar crew under the command of Z. K. Yevgamukov, together with the advancing infantry, participated in the battles at the Pulavsky bridgehead. The fascists fought fiercely. During the breakthrough of the German defense on the West Bank of the Vistula river, Sergeant First Class Yevgamukov destroyed two 81-mm mortars and an enemy machine gun, thereby ensuring the advance of the infantry. During the repulse of the counterattack, ignoring the danger, he moved to the battle lines of the battalion and destroyed 22 German soldiers and officers. The 33rd army, which then went on the offensive, broke through the enemy's defenses to a depth of 20 km. On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Yevgamukov was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the front command and for valor and courage shown in this operation. In that battle, Zalim Kamatovich received a second severe penetrating wound to the head and was sent to the evacuation hospital No. 3474 in Lublin. So, on January 14, 1945, the war was ended for the Sergeant First Class in Poland. While being treated in hospitals of the 2nd Belorussian front troops after injuries received in battles with the German invaders, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war, 1st Class. In November 1945, he was transferred to the Saratov special neurosurgical evacuation hospital No. 1056. with a diagnosis of "tangential shrapnel penetrating wound of the right occipital region of head with complications". He survived, thanks to experienced neurosurgeons, the care of nurse Alexandra (unfortunately, her data is not available in the photo and the search of it was unsuccessful). In the spring of 1947, accompanied by nurse Alexandra, Zalim returned to the North Caucasus. He had paralyzed left half of the body, unintelligible, slow speech and had no ability to move independently, (conclusion of the military medical Commission: "disabled person of group I"). So began the peaceful life of Zalim Kamatovich. Only personal courage, a huge will and a thirst for life, multiplied by daily hard work and high demands on himself allowed the 29-year-old soldier to "return to service".