The faces of WWII Heroes

Born in 1922 in the village of Volokonovka, Volokonovsky district, Kursk region (on the territory of the former Voronezh province) in a peasant family. Father - Nikolai Nikolaevich, mother - Praskovya Vasilievna. The family had 5 children. (4 boys: Ivan, Vladimir - born in 1924, Dmitry - born in 1927, Boris - born in 1930, and 1 girl: Nadezhda - born in 1921). At the beginning of the war, two of the sons went to the front (Vladimir and Ivan), and my grandfather, Dmitry, went on a civilian ship - transporting a load on the Lend-Lease. Only Ivan did not return from the war. Ivan Nikolaevich entered school in 1929. In 1931 he moved to the DVK. From 1933 to 1939 he lived in Vladivostok. In the latter, he studied in the first high school from 5th to 10th grade. In 1937 he joined the ranks of the Komsomol. At school, he conducted defense work (he was an instructor of the YUVS, an instructor of the PVHO, the head of a self-defense group). In 1939 he graduated from high school, receiving a certificate of graduation from the latter. The father comes from a peasant family. He did not serve in the tsarist army. During the civil war he was a volunteer in the Red Army. After the defeat of Wrangel, my father worked to restore the destroyed economy. In 1930 he left for the DVK. On September 1, 1939, Ivan Nikolaevich was enrolled in the electromechanical faculty of the LII (Specialty: "Electrical machines"). Order No. 490 of 31 / VIII - 1939. He graduated from 2 courses. In July 1941, he volunteered for the people's militia (3SP 3D LANO). (Dismissed on July 2, 1941 in connection with leaving the Red Army, order No. 531 of 27 / VIII-41) Killed at the front in 1941. According to the Memory Book of Primorsky Krai.

Balabin Nikifor Petrovich, was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1922 and as part of the 1st Cavalry Army of Budyonny fought in Central Asia (Turkmenistan), "drove" Basmachi. Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a tree feller in a logging brigade. With the beginning of the Second World War on 06/05/1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army at the age of 40. He fought in the 32nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division, in the rank of Guard Private of the 39th Separate Guards Communications Battalion, a communications operator. He took part in battles during the defense of the North Caucasus (battles in the area of ​​the Shaumyanovsky Pass, defense of the Tuapse direction), the liberation of Crimea (battles for Sapun Gora and the city of Sevastopol), battles for the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). By the order of the regiment dated 10/18/1943 No. 40 / n, he was awarded the medal "For military services". As stated in the order: "Comrade Balabin, working from May 1942 to the present and having passed the combat path in difficult mountain conditions and despite the difficulties, he carried out the command assignments in a timely manner, to deliver mail and combat orders." By order of the regiment of 17.07.1944 No. 45 / n, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". As indicated in the order: “Guard Red Army soldier Balabin, working as a cavalryman, showed himself to be brave and capable of performing any combat mission. On the night of May 8-9, 1944, in the Sapun Gora area, delivering an urgent combat order to the division commander in 82 Guards. regiment, came under heavy air bombardment from the air and enemy shelling, despite this combat order delivered on time. On May 10, 1944, in the area of ​​the city of Sevastopol, twice delivered combat orders of the division commander to the commander of the 82nd Guards.Rifle regiment, came under heavy artillery fire of the enemy, risking his life, combat orders were delivered on time. " He was wounded during the bombing, but refused hospitalization. He had a fragment of a mine in his body until the end of his days, and the ligaments of the little finger were also damaged. By Act No. 2 for the division, in accordance with the Decree of 05/01/1944, the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" was awarded. After the war he worked as a carpenter, raised his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Bukarenko Nikolai Vasilyevich was born on November 20, 1923 in the village of Gerasimovka, Urazovsky District, Kursk Region (now Belgorod Region). After graduating from the Gerasimov school, Nikolai Vasilyevich went to study at the FZO school in the city of Ordzhonikidze, Stalin's region (now the city of Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region). The young man was hired as a locksmith on duty at the 6th Yenakiyevo Coking Plant. In July 1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. On the Komsomol call, he was sent to Kharkiv to the school of radiotelegraphists. The year of 1942, a young signalman met defending the city of Debaltsevo as part of the 6th light artillery regiment. The whole year was spent in defensive battles. In February 1943, among 900 soldiers, Bukarenko was parachuted to Malaya Zemlya near Novorossiysk. Here in battles Nikolai Vasilievich was wounded. After the liberation of the Caucasus, N.V. Bukarenko was transferred to Kiev, where there were fierce battles. Nikolai Vasilyevich ended the war 40 km from Prague as a signalman of the 299th Guards Artillery Red Banner Regiment of the 129th Guards Rifle Zhytomyr Red Banner Division with the rank of junior sergeant. After the war, he remained in the army for two more years as a senior weaponsmith. For his courage and he was awarded three medals "For Courage", a medal "For Military Merit", a medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus", a medal "For the Liberation of Ukraine", a medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War", the Order of Glory, III degree , Order of the Patriotic War II degree, jubilee awards. Has 12 commendations for taking various strategic points from Zhitomir to the Polish city of Prezhev. In March 1947 he returned to his native village of Gerasimovka, Valuisky District, Belgorod Region. Prior to retirement, he worked as a team leader and foreman on a collective farm. Has awards "For Labor Valor" and "For Labor Distinction". After retiring from 1954 to 1986, he was in charge of the collective farm current. In 2005, he was awarded a Certificate of Honor for many years of work. Photo of N.V. Bukarenko in 2005 she was listed on the Hall of Fame with. Gerasimovka. He died on May 3, 2006.

Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov (March 29, 1915 - October 16, 2000) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of the USSR Air Force, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Russian Federation (1998). Born on March 29, 1915 in the village of Tesaly, Gorodok district, Vitebsk province (now the village of Gurki, Mekhovsky district, Vitebsk region, Republic of Belarus). In 1929 he graduated from seven classes of school, soon moved to Leningrad. After graduating from the workers' school, he worked at the Krasny Oktyabr plant. He began his studies at the aviation school of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR in Tambov, graduated in 1936. He stayed at the school as an instructor pilot. In 1938 he became the commander of a ship (Moscow Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR), was a member of the crews of ambulance and passenger aircraft. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. He served in the air ambulance aviation, showed courage, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the Red Army since 1941, a participant in the Great Patriotic War from the first days. He became a member of the Moscow Special Purpose Group of the Civil Air Fleet. In September 1941, he became deputy squadron commander of a special squadron for supplying besieged Leningrad. By the end of the year, he made about 120 flights to the besieged city. Lieutenant Semyonkov did an excellent job with the tasks - during the work of the group, he delivered 81 tons of cargo to Leningrad and removed about 650 people from it. As of January 16, 1942, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov flew 223 sorties, 12 sorties for airborne drops. On May 25, 1942, the head of the GUGVF, Lieutenant-General Astakhov, Senior Lieutenant Semenkov was presented for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He was a squadron and regiment commander. Participated in the operation to force the Dnieper, the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. In total, during the entire war, he made more than 500 sorties. On the night of May 9, 1945, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was instructed to deliver to Moscow a Soviet copy of the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender. After Victory - again in the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, he was appointed commander of a separate air group of international air communications, then held other positions. In 1953 he became the head of one of the departments of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, later became the head of the State Aviation Inspectorate. In 1957, he was the first in the USSR to fly a transatlantic flight from Moscow to New York on a Tu-104 aircraft. Since 1970 - First Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation. In 1975 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. He lived in Moscow, worked in one of the Moscow military registration and enlistment offices. By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 83 of January 26, 1998, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism in the struggle against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War. He died on November 16, 2000 in Moscow. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. Awards and honorary titles: Hero of the Russian Federation (January 26, 1998) Gold Star Medal Two Orders of Lenin Order of the October Revolution.

The newspaper "Znamya Oktyabrya" No. 29 (9712) dated April 15, 2015 reported: "The future Hero was born in the village of Syrtinsky, Kizil district in 1918. Soon the family moved to the Kochkarskie goldworks, where Mikhail Tashkin spent his childhood and youth. A graduate of Plast School No. 9 Tashkin was drafted into the Red Army in 1940. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was already a career military man: a cadet in the artillery school of junior commanders. The cadets, along with the guns, were included in the artillery division of the 31st Mountain Rifle Brigade, which was defending the Karelian city of Kandalaksha. On the fifth day of the war, he receives the rank of junior sergeant. Three days later, he was appointed as the gunner of the 76-mm mountain gun. At the end of the second month of fighting, he becomes the commander of the gun crew. And in this capacity, he will go through almost the entire war, reaching the heights of artillery skill. In the Arctic, the gun commander Tashkin fought for three years, was wounded twice, but did not leave the battery, refusing treatment in the hospital. His military orders show how he fought, which are almost impossible to be earned by an ordinary sergeant - the Order of the Battle Red Banner and the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. In the summer of 1944, Finland, against which the Karelian front fought, withdrew from the war, and hostilities ceased. Front troops began to be transferred to other fronts. So the 31st brigade was included in the composition of the 4th Ukrainian Front. On March 24, 1945, during the attack, one of the brigade's battalions came under heavy machine-gun fire. German firing points were in brick buildings, and they could only be destroyed by artillery fire - direct fire. Tashkin decided on a desperate act. The cannon was carried by a horse team. Mikhail gave a signal to the rider, and the horses with a cannon rushed towards the Nazis. At 200 meters from the enemy positions, the horses were deployed, the cannon was unhooked and opened fire. To destroy the machine guns, Tashkin needed four shells. A few days later (April 2), the advanced units of the brigade crossed the Oder River and captured the bridgehead. The Nazis, bringing up tanks and self-propelled guns, began to counterattack in order to eliminate the bridgehead. The Soviet infantry with small arms required artillery support. It was necessary to transport at least one cannon from the east bank of the river to the west. The choice fell on the crew of senior sergeant Tashkin. Under German fire, the gunners dragged logs to the shore and built a raft. The Nazis concentrated all their fire on the crossing. But fate often gives the brave a chance - the weapon has been ferried! For ten days, the infantry with the crew of Tashkin held the bridgehead. With the personal participation of senior sergeant M.A. Tashkin's entire battery crossed the Oder. In these battles, Tashkin's gun destroyed three tanks, 15 machine guns, no less than a company of Hitler's infantry, and helped the Soviet infantry to repulse more than thirty German attacks. The Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Red Star have been added to the two orders! The senior sergeant Tashkin did not fight at all until the Victory - on April 30, 1945, a fragment of an enemy shell cut his life off. The Hero was buried in the mass grave of the Soviet soldiers' cemetery in a Czech town near the town of Ostrava. On May 15, 1945, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Senior Sergeant M.A. Tashkin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Posthumously". A street in the town of Plast, Chelyabinsk Region, is named after him. From the description of the feat: “During his stay in the battery from April 1942, Comrade Tashkin showed himself to be a capable junior commander. With his tireless work, he achieved good combat coordination in his crew, good discipline in it, despite the fact that the personnel of the crew changed several times. During this period, he trained 4 gunners and one of them is currently working as a gun commander. Comrade Tashkin repeatedly participated in battles with the German fascist invaders, where he showed personal courage, and endurance and the ability to lead his subordinates well. So, in the battle on July 27, 1942, being wounded, he did not leave his place in the crew and was in the ranks until the end of the battle, despite the massive artillery shelling of firing positions from the enemy and the raid of German aircraft. Five times he participated in combat exits to the rear and to the deep flanks of the enemy. In a combat operation from 13 to 19 July 1943, he was ordered to deliver ammunition and 2 guns to the area where the battery was located. During the day, the convoy under his leadership made a 60-kilometer march in difficult terrain and the task was completed successfully. In battles from June 15 to June 19 and from June 25 to June 29, 1944, Comrade Tashkin, working as a gun commander, ensured timely delivery of the gun to the battle area (to Lake Shulgul-Yavr, Bolshoy Karikvaivish and 264.2 heights), clear command execution of his crew, timely opening and accurate firing. At the time of the shelling of firing positions by enemy artillery, Comrade Tashkin, with an example of personal courage, inspired the crew and batteries and his gun, without stopping, fired at the enemy.In these battles, the battery, which also included the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin, destroyed up to 30 German enemy soldiers and officers. Battery fire disrupted the enemy's organized withdrawal from the battle area. Comrade Tashkin works tirelessly to improve his military knowledge. His calculation has excellent performance in shooting. As a junior commander and party organizer of the battery, Comrade Tashkin enjoys business authority among the personnel. Worthy of the government award - the Order of the Red Star. " From the description of the feat: “During his stay in the battery, Comrade Tashkin showed himself to be a disciplined, executive junior commander who knew his special job. Repeatedly participated in combat missions to the rear of the enemy, where he was twice wounded. For successful military operations, comrade Takshin was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In a battle at a road fork, deep behind enemy lines, Comrade Tashkin successfully delivered his gun to the battle area and was the first to open fire on the enemy, supporting a rifle subunit. Wounded, Comrade Tashkin did not leave his place, continuing to repulse the enemy's counterattacks to the last round. In this battle, the gun destroyed up to 40 Germans and 5 enemy firing points. " He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. From the description of the feat: “For excellent escort by fire, during a campaign behind enemy lines, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the period from 6 to 10/30/1944, the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin operated as part of the vanguard of the brigade, passed a distance of up to 600 kilometers through swamps and highly rugged terrain, destroyed up to 220 Nazis and 6 heavy machine guns. 10/10/1944, reaching a fork in the road deep into the rear of the enemy, senior sergeant Tashkin set his cannon on the move on an open firing position and began to shoot the enemy convoy moving along the road with direct fire. The suddenness and well-aimed fire of his guns confused the Germans, which allowed the rifle units to quickly occupy a road fork and firmly gain a foothold on it. Within two days, the enemy fiercely launched 11 counterattacks in order to return the road fork at any cost. In this battle, Tashkin, firing direct fire, saving ammunition, struck the advancing Nazis with each shot, throwing them back to their original position. 10/13/1944, continuing the offensive, the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin covered the open flank. Setting the cannon to an open position, he opened accurate fire on the counterattacking groups of Germans. The enemy, having found a cannon, opened a concentrated 105-mm battery artillery fire on it. A direct hit of a projectile knocked out the entire crew of the gun, Comrade Tashkin was wounded in the head. Left alone, overcoming pain, Comrade Tashkin, working for the entire crew, beat off attacks until the last shell. In this battle, with the fire of his guns and in hand-to-hand combat, senior sergeant Tashkin destroyed 75 fascists, and ensured the battalion had a solid hold on its positions. He continued the fight despite being wounded, requiring evacuation to the hospital. Senior Sergeant Tashkin insisted on leaving the ranks. He made a 300-kilometer off-road march into the deep rear of the enemy and took part in the battle for the road fork, where he again heroically fought in the battle formation of a rifle company, pursuing the retreating enemy. " He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. From the description of the feat: “03/24/45, at the edge of the forest, 2 enemy machine guns were installed in two houses. Comrade Tashkin, with his gun crew, rolled out the gun for direct fire and destroyed them from the first shots, thereby enabling the infantry to advance 2 kilometers forward. With his gun, he was all the time in the battle formations of the infantry, clearing the way for it to attack. On 03/30/45, the battery commander was killed and senior sergeant Tashkin took over command of the battery, organized the people and on the night of the same date with artillery and machine gun fire helped our infantry repel 2 enemy attacks, destroying 10 German soldiers and officers. In battle, he proved himself to be a capable and managerial commander, worthy of the title of a Soviet officer. On 1.4.45, together with the infantry and 1 gun, he escaped to the Oder River, suppressed 3 machine-gun points with artillery fire, provided the infantry could cross to the western bank of the river. Using improvised means, under heavy mortar fire, Senior Sergeant Tashkin ferried two guns of his battery to the opposite bank of the river, helped the infantry to gain a foothold on the occupied bridgehead, together with it, repulsed 2 enemy counterattacks, supported by tanks and a self-propelled gun. In battle he behaved boldly and decisively. " Mikhail Alexandrovich Tashkin was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. From the description of the feat: “03/21/45, during the breakthrough of the German defense in the area of ​​Zorau, with his gun, he advanced in battle formations and came under cross machine-gun fire, which the Germans were firing from their homes. The battalion was caught by this fire in an open area and lay down. There was no convenient firing position for the gun.Senior sergeant Tashkin with a gun, under machine-gun fire, jumped out at a gallop at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy machine guns and, leading the gun into battle, with 4 shells broke 2 enemy machine-gun points. The enemy's fire ceased and the battalion rose to attack. They quickly took possession of the settlement. In this battle, the gun shield was pierced in many places, and the wounded appeared in the crew. At the same time, the platoon commander and the battery commander were wounded. Senior Sergeant Tashkin took over command. The courage and effectiveness of the fire of Tashkin's battery aroused the admiration of the attackers. 2.4.45, a small group of our soldiers and officers, reaching the Oder, crossed the river in a narrow section. The enemy, using tanks and self-propelled guns, began to violently counterattack. Nevertheless, Comrade Tashkin decided to immediately cross over to the left bank of the Oder. Having overcome from a kilometer of an open area, fired by artillery and machine-gun fire, he ferried a gun and ammunition. For the set up of the raft comrade Tashkin with his crew carried logs under fire. The place of the crossing was visible from a distance of 190 meters, and was fired upon from a machine gun. Despite this, the gun was ferried across the river. On this day, 3 fierce enemy counterattacks were repulsed. Lacking sub-caliber shells, Tashkin entered the battle with tanks and set fire to 3 German tanks. Under extremely difficult conditions, with the participation of Comrade Tashkin, the entire battery was ferried across the river. It was possible to expand the bridgehead. 2.4.45 to 12.4.45 T. Tashkin, with his crew, repelled 2-3 enemy counterattacks every day. At the same time, Comrade Tashkin destroyed up to 200 Nazis, burned 3 enemy tanks and by his actions ensured the expansion of the bridgehead beyond the Oder. For exceptional courage, dedication and high combat skill, Comrade Tashkin deserves a government award - the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union." Posthumously.

Tyurin Sergey Vasilievich was born on October 14, 1923 in the village of Asovitsa, Komarichsky district, Bryansk region. In 1941, he graduated from high school in Moscow (10 classes) and in October 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army, where he served until February 1945. In December 1941, he graduated from the Leningrad courses of political personnel (which at that time were in the city of Melekess, Ulyanovsk region) - and then, as a deputy political instructor of a company of machine gunners of the 335th rifle regiment of the 58th rifle division, participated in battles on the Western Front, during February -April 1942. In April 1942, he was seriously wounded for the first time and was undergoing treatment in the hospital for a long time. In May 1944 he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Infantry School and then, in June-November 1944, fought in the 158th Infantry Division on the 3rd Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts - as a divisional reconnaissance platoon commander. Participated in Operation Bagration, in the liberation of Belarus and the Baltic States. In November 1944 he was seriously wounded for the second time and, after being cured in the hospital, in February 1945 he was demobilized as an invalid of the Patriotic War. In 1950 he graduated from the evening department of the Moscow Law Institute. He served in the prosecutor's office for 42 years, of which 40 years in the central apparatus of the USSR Prosecutor's Office. He began work in the prosecutor's office in April 1950 as a senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of the WHITLK of the Moscow region. From December 1951 to January 1992 he worked in the USSR Prosecutor's Office, first as a prosecutor of various departments and departments, then, for 8 years - from 1967 to 1974, as deputy head of the investigation department, and from 1974 as head of the statistics department. Later he was the head of the information and analytical department - senior assistant to the Prosecutor General of the USSR. In total, he served in the prosecutor's office for 42 years, including 40 years in the central office of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR. He was a member of the regional public organization "Union of Investigation Veterans". State Counselor of Justice of the 2nd class, Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR, Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Red Star, the Order of Honor, medals For Labor Valor, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as the Veteran of the Prosecutor's Office medal, the distinction loyalty to the law ”I degree and other medals. Died in 2108. From the memoirs of Sergei Vasilyevich Tyurin: "On June 21, 1941, in our 660th Moscow secondary school, then located in Granatny Lane (which is right behind the mansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Spiridonovka Street), a graduation party took place. We celebrated the end of secondary school - 10 classes .We all, students and teachers, had fun, rejoiced at the end of our first youthful period of life and prepared to enter a big life. We thanked our teachers (and our teachers were really good and were like family to us) - and the teachers, in turn, praised us and wished success in life. We were full of plans for the future, were inspired by the opportunities opening up before us. Someone dreamed of becoming a pilot, someone a polar explorer, someone an artist. I remember Fedya Listvoy. He dreamed of becoming an artist and already lived in some character. And we believed him and were convinced that he would fulfill his dream. All night we walked around Moscow, went to Red Square. In the morning, already at dawn, I returned home.at that time we lived on Patriarch's Ponds. I didn't want to go home and, filled with feelings of joy and hope, I sat down on a bench on the Patriarch's Ponds and admired the surrounding beauty for some time and dreamed. Finally, I went up to my house and went to bed. I fell asleep and slept like a dead man. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon my father woke me up and said: "Get up, son, your time has come to go to war." At this time, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov spoke on the radio. He spoke of Germany's treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. This is how all our plans and dreams ended. And Fyodor Listvoy, my friend, died in the war, never realizing his dream of becoming an artist (and he could have become - and, probably, not bad). On July 19, 1941, my father absurdly died, falling under the car of a military convoy on the Garden Ring. The bombing of Moscow soon began. We began guarding the courtyards and rooftops, dropping incendiary bombs into a box of sand. But then a mass evacuation of the population from Moscow began - and we also ended up in Kuibyshev (now Samara). The district committee of the Komsomol of the Kuibyshev region sent me to work as an accountant at a state farm near Kuibyshev. And in October 1941 I received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office and an invitation from the district committee of the Komsomol. There I was offered a referral to the Leningrad police officers' courses, which at that time were located in the city of Melekess, Ulyanovsk region (now it is the city of Dmitrovgrad). So I became a cadet in the course of the political staff. After three months of intensive military training, we were awarded the rank of deputy political commander of the company and sent to combat units (the deputy political commander of the company was roughly equal to the rank of the company sergeant major with four triangles on the buttonholes and an asterisk on the sleeve). I was sent to the 58th Rifle Division, which was forming in the forest near Melekess. I remember walking there at night. I found the dugout of the commander of the 335th regiment, in which I was assigned. It turned out to be Major Tatarinov. He was alone in the dugout. I reported to him and was amazed at the reception he gave me. He met me as a son, left me in his dugout for the night, gave me tea and put me to bed, saying that tomorrow he would send me to a company of submachine gunners. I will remember this fatherly reception for the rest of my life. The division was re-formed and underwent intensive and reinforced training. And that meant three more months of such preparation for me. In March 1942, the division was loaded into wagons and we headed to the Western Front. By this time, the Moscow counter-offensive of the Red Army had just ended, as a result of which the enemy was driven back from Moscow at a great distance. We drove to the Sukhinichi. All around was destroyed, burnt houses, villages, chimneys of burnt houses stuck out. In front of Sukhinichi, our echelon was attacked by two German aircraft. Calmly and with impunity, they shot our train, shot the locomotive and just as calmly flew away. We felt our defenselessness. At night another steam locomotive came from Sukhinichy and we were taken to our destination. And then there was night unloading - and we went on foot to the front line, which was 100 kilometers from Sukhninichy. March. Melting snow, country roads were blown away, and at night, across ruined terrain, without any food supply, hungry and cold, we moved to the front. And at the same time, an endless line of wounded soldiers was moving towards us. And everyone said that they were coming from Zaitseva Gora. Our division was also thrown on this "Zaitseva Gora" in the area of ​​Meshchevsk-Mosalsk. There were heavy battles, the enemy was entrenched in an advantageous position after the retreat from Moscow. Endless attempts to knock him down from these positions ended in vain, especially since our offensives took place without any preparation. Neither artillery nor aircraft supported the offensive, and our tanks, which were stationed in the grove of the river floodplain, could not move along the swampy soil of this floodplain, and only themselves were subjected to frantic bombing by German aircraft. In one of our next attacks, I was seriously wounded. And it happened like this. At night, our unit made a march to another section of the front line. On our way there was unexpectedly a wide ditch filled with seething spring water. Some not very reliable pole was thrown across the ditch. We had no choice but to cross this pole. I went first (after all, I am the company's deputy political instructor). A PPSh submachine gun was hanging around my neck. In the middle of the ditch, I lost my balance, fell off the pole and fell into the ditch, sinking up to my throat into the water. Climbing out of the ditch, I poured the water out of my boots, tried to wring out my overcoat. But none of this helped. It was already early morning. It began to freeze. The overcoat stuck on me. In this state, me, with the unit, reached the front line and, drowning in the swampy soil of the river floodplain, went on the attack on the very "Zaitseva Gora" where I was wounded. The second time I went to the front was in May 1944, after graduating from the 2nd Moscow Infantry School. At first it was the 3rd Belorussian Front, Operation Bagration and the liberation of Belarus, then the 1st Baltic Front and the liberation of the Baltic. Me, in the 158th Infantry Division, as the commander of a divisional reconnaissance platoon, participated in battles and in November 1944 was seriously wounded for the second time. This time, in February 1945, I was discharged from the hospital as an invalid of the Patriotic War and demobilized from the army. Victory Day - May 9, 1945, I met on the streets of Moscow with my friends from the hospital, already demobilized. "

Turchin Dmitry Afanasevich was born in 1924 in the village of Novo-Khatunichi, Shkotovsky District, Primorsky Territory. Member of the Great Patriotic War, scientist and lawyer, professor, Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Labor Veteran, Honorary Veteran of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation - a legendary and unique person who lives and works next to us. A man of a difficult and heroic fate, along which the twentieth century rolled with all its weight. The harsh time after the Civil War, the years of the formation of the Soviet state, political repressions did not pass by his family either. A hungry, homeless childhood, he often lived with distant relatives and complete strangers, at one time he was even hidden under another name. However, no hardships and troubles broke young Dmitry, and in 1942 he graduated from the only ten-year school number 1 in the city of Artem. Among other graduates, hiding his 17-year-old age from the military commissar, he zealously tries to get to the front as a volunteer, and this practically works, but at the last moment, in some incomprehensible way to him, these circumstances are clarified and he is incapacitated already ready for departure to the front of a military unit. By the summer of 1942, the situation on all fronts was difficult and hard. All the guys rushing to the front were registered by the military registration and enlistment office and, if necessary, taking into account their education, called to war. In the end, Turchin was involved in technical work in the military registration and enlistment office as a clerical worker. His duties included keeping records of the economic property of enterprises and organizations. Observing how every night the military registration and enlistment office sent two or three cars of recruits, Dmitry turned to the commissioner every day about sending them to the army, but to no avail. In early September 1942, Turchin ran into the commissar's office, demanding to be immediately sent to the front with the first car. For which the commissioner said to him: “I am planning to send you to the school. But I see, foolishly, you will still run away. Therefore, hell with you, take your documents and go! " So, on September 4, 1942, service began in the Marine Corps of the 915th separate battery of the regimental artillery of the Pacific Fleet on Russky Island in the position held as "gun number" of the Red Army soldier Turchin. As he writes in his memoirs, "... three full years in a row in anticipation of the battle ...". During this time, what military specialties did not have to be mastered. He was a cavalryman and artilleryman, driver, scout and radio operator. Finally, in August 1945, the long-awaited hour came! By this time, D. A. Turchin received the rank of corporal and was already a member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU. “… Life in a war consists of a series of moments. And this was confirmed by the appearance of the command platoon commander. He said that the landing command needed at least two more good radio operators with a radio station. Looking into my eyes, he smiled. “Go! - he said. - While the battalion commander is not visible. And corporal Turchin went ... Off the coast of Korea, jumping into the sea while landing from a ship in full gear with a heavy radio on his shoulders, he sank headlong into the water ... To swim out alive, you could drop the radio, but losing the radio in combat conditions meant that same inevitable death, and D.A.Turchin made another choice, he walked along the seabed towards the coast and walked until he came out ... As part of the 354th separate battalion of the marines of the 915th separate artillery battery of the Pacific Fleet, he participated in the liberation of two cities in North Korea. On the way to the city, Yuuki came under heavy artillery fire, 12 people survived from their company. From the memoirs of DA Turchin: “…. Part of the soldiers died from artillery salvos. But this provision only added anger and rage to the personnel. On one of the flanks, a Japanese battery fired so much that it slowed down the advance of our units. The command ordered to paralyze the activity of the enemy battery. One of the companies of the 354th battalion of the marines, despite the losses, literally burst into the position of the battery, the guards of which were destroyed, and the gunners fled. Fighter Akimov, seeing that the battery's guns were in combat readiness, together with his comrades, under dense small arms fire, turned the guns towards the enemy and opened continuous fire on the enemy from his own guns with direct fire. The enemy was stunned and chose to retreat. For his feat, resourcefulness, courage and ingenuity in battle, Akimov was awarded the Order of Lenin ... ". By order No. 372 of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, dated August 23, 1945, corporal D. A. Turchin, among the distinguished Red Navy men, foremen and officers of ships and units of the Pacific Fleet, was grateful for excellent military operations in battles with the Japanese in the Far East. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09/30/1945 for participation in hostilities against the Japanese imperialists, D.A. Turchin was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan".From the memoirs of DA Turchin: “The demobilization came only in 1947. Four and a half years of my youth were swallowed up by the war…. In the aspect of the past, I cannot but say about Vladivostok. After all, the city was located at the front line and was closely connected with it. And now, after demobilization, many people told me that once a small ship was standing at the oil depot. At this time, a Japanese suicide bomber appeared over the bay. He headed for the ship. But, obviously, he decided to hit a more important object - a tank farm, began to unfold. At that moment, a sailor, who was on duty on the deck of the ship, killed a suicide bomber from a machine-gun mount. The plane fell into the bay near the oil depot. It is interesting to know if it actually happened. If there was, then maybe to find it in order to confirm the Japanese attacks on the peaceful city. " After demobilization from the ranks of the armed forces in March 1947, D. A. Turchin works as a reporter at the editorial office of the Shakhtar newspaper in the city of Artyom and, through the party line, goes to study at the Khabarovsk law school, which he graduates with honors in 1949, and then to 1955 - All-Union Correspondence Law Institute (VYUZI). Since 1949, D.A. Turchin served in the prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory, successively occupying the positions of assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Artem, prosecutor of the department for supervision of places of detention, senior investigator of the regional prosecutor's office. In December 1953, he was appointed prosecutor of the Shmakovsky district (now the Kirovsky district of the Primorsky Territory), in 1957 - the prosecutor of the city of Lesozavodsk. In 1959, he was transferred to the post of prosecutor of the general supervision department of the prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory.

"I am Tkachuk Alexey Isakovich, was born on February 14, 1921 in the family of a middle peasant, in the village of Norinsk, Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1928 I entered the Norinsk secondary school, which I graduated from in 1938 - and went to work in Zhelonsk incomplete secondary school of the Ovruch district of the Zhytomyr region, where he worked until 1939. In 1939 he graduated from the advanced training courses for teachers and was appointed a teacher at the Skrebelich primary school of the Ovruch district of the Zhytomyr region, where he worked before being drafted into the Red Army. On September 18, 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army and on October 22, 1939, he arrived in the 504th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division of the Siberian Military District, in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, where he was enrolled as a cadet in the regimental school of this regiment.In October 1940, he graduated from the regimental school with the rank of junior sergeant and was appointed for the position of commander of the radio unit of the 7th battery of the 3rd division of the 510th howitzer artillery regiment. In July 1941, as part of the regiment, he was sent to the Western Front, then to the Kalinin Front. The 510th Howitzer Artillery Regiment was transferred to the Reserve of the High Command, where it remained until October 1942. In the fall of 1942, by order of the Military Council of the 29th Army, the 510th Howitzer Artillery Regiment began to replace the material part worn out in battles. Since January 1, 1943, by order of the People's Commissariat of Defense, the regiment has been part of the 1st Howitzer Brigade of the 3rd Artillery Division of the Reserve of the High Command, where, as a radio unit commander, he participated in battles on the Western Front until August 3, 1943. On August 3, 1943, he was seriously wounded and sent to evacuation hospital No. 1236 at the Luza station of the Kirov region, where he lay until December 1943. In December, he was discharged from the hospital and sent to the 36th reserve artillery regiment of the 2nd reserve rifle division, at the Chebarkul station of the Chelyabinsk region, where he worked as a senior radiotelephone master of the regiment until March 1944. In March 1944, he was sent to the Frunze Gorky Red Banner Political School, which he graduated in February 1945. On February 2, 1944, he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant. From February to May 1945 he was in the reserve regiment of political personnel in the city of Gorky. In May 1945 he was sent to the 1st Belorussian Front, where he was in the reserve of the political administration of the 1st Belorussian Front until June 1945. In June 1945, he was appointed to the post of Komsomol organizer of the 930th separate anti-aircraft artillery division of the 35th Guards Rifle Division of the 4th Guards Corps of the 8th Guards Army, where he worked until November 1945. In November 1945, due to the reduction of the liberated Komsomol agents, he was appointed to the post of Komsomol organizer of the 40th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment of the 377th Guards Artillery Brigade of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps of the 7th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, where he worked until June 1946. In June, due to the disbanding of the unit, he was appointed head of the library of the 399th Guards Artillery Brigade of the 82nd Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, where he worked in this position until April 1947. Due to the fact that the unit was disbanded, in April 1947, he was appointed head of the library of the 128th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1947, he completed a one-month course for library directors at the Political Directorate of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In the 128th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment he worked until December 1949 - and in December 1949 he was transferred to the Leningrad Military District and was appointed head of the club of the 335th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade. The rank of lieutenant was awarded in March 1950. He was in the Komsomol from 1934 to 1943. In May 1943 he became a member of the All-Union Communist party (b). "PS This autobiography was written by him. After the Great Patriotic War, he held leading positions. He finished service in 1956, in the city of Pavlovsk, Leningrad region, with the rank of senior lieutenant. Was dismissed from Army Forces for health reasons, died on October 25, 2005. Buried in the village of Norinsk, Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, he was a modest, honest, principled and respected person, never enjoyed any privileges.

Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov was born on May 16, 1924 in Ukraine, in the village of Alexandrovka, Chernigov region, in the family of Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna Tretyakov. Then the family moved to the Amur Region for resettlement and settled in the town of Kivnet, Bureya District (a railway station, now part of the village of Bureya). Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna had nine children. Alexey was the eldest of the children, so the war fell to his lot. At the beginning of 1943, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Red Army. First - to Khabarovsk, to the school of junior commanders, and six months later he was sent to the Western Front. There he ended up in a reconnaissance company. According to his stories, they often went behind the front line for "tongues" - and not without success. In one of these sorties, his commander was seriously wounded - and he was dragging him out by crawling, in a box from under shells across the front line. They crawled more than three kilometers. The commander survived, he was wounded in the neck. After the war, my grandfather met with the commander. It was somewhere in the seventies. When they met, they hugged and could not speak for a long time, only cried. They left behind the front line and with sabotage missions (they hunted food from the Germans, shot German officers from sniper rifles). One day, returning from another assignment, they saw a German officer walking on horseback. They removed him from the horse, tied him up and, together with the stallion, brought him to their positions. The stallion was then given the nickname "trophy" and was presented to the regiment commander, whose service horse had died the day before. My grandfather said that this stallion carried out commands only in German. Near Kursk he was seriously wounded. They came from reconnaissance and settled in the trench for lunch - and at that time the mortar shelling began. The first mine fell far ahead of the trench, the second from behind. The third mine hit the breastwork of the trench - and he remembered nothing else ... He woke up already in the hospital, when the nurse was washing the dirt and blood from his head. Shrapnel from a mine hit the head, shoulder, leg and chest. He survived. After the war, when X-rays were taken, he was always asked: “Have you been to the war? Does the shard bother you? Well, then a soldier - go with him, it is very dangerous to remove him, it is close to your heart. " His children often put a magnet on his leg and head - and it stuck to the body, since there were metal fragments inside. Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree "found" him after the war, somewhere in the 80s. He was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office, where the award was solemnly presented. Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov died in 1988.

Vasily Sidorkin was born in the village of Stanovka, Bolsheuksky District, Omsk Region in 1906. He took part in the Great Patriotic War as a squad commander of the 1214th Infantry Regiment of the 364th Infantry Division, formed in the Siberian Military District. The division was included on March 1, 1942 in the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front. According to the report on irrecoverable losses dated April 28, 1942 No. 5906 of the headquarters of the 364th rifle division, Sergeant V.D.Sidorkin died on March 25, 1942. He was buried in the village of Sokolovo, Leningrad Region (reburied in a military grave in the village of Baikovo, Starorussky District, Novgorod Region). In the report of August 9, 1942, No. 18993, another date of his death is indicated - July 18, 1942. A colleague who returned from the front said that they , together with V.D.Sidorkin were wounded in battle on March 25, 1942 . It took more than a week to get to ours, my grandfather dragged him. By this time, they were considered dead. During this period, heavy battles were going on near Staraya Russa: “Having concentrated significant forces in the area of ​​Staraya Russa of the Leningrad region, the enemy launched an offensive in the direction of Demyansk in March 1942 to join the forces of the 16th Army, which was surrounded. The main blow was delivered in the Sokolovo-Podsepochye, Velikoye Selo-Ozhedevo sector by the 1st strike group of enemy forces consisting of the 8th Infantry Division, 329th Infantry Division, an officer's school and a number of other special forces acting as infantry. With the breakthrough of the front line by the 1st Shock Army in the Utkino-Syroeshkino sector, the division, by order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army from the Ustye-Bolshiye Yasny area, was transferred to the Sokolovo-Podsepochye, Selo-Ozhedevo 1st sector with the task of stopping and disrupting the enemy's offensive ... From March 22 to April 10, 1942, the division fought stubborn battles on the Velikoye Selo – Sokolovo front, with a total length of 11 kilometers, taking on the blow of the 8th Infantry Division, 329th Infantry Division, officer school and a number of other special forces of the enemy. During this period, units of the division were continuously subjected to systematic bombing and shelling of enemy aircraft from 20 to 100 aircraft simultaneously during the day, after which raids were repulsed by numerous enemy attacks. ... The division completed the task. The enemy was stopped at the indicated lines. ... Sidorkin Vasily Dmitrievich died. Subsequently, the division was repeatedly reorganized, took part in breaking the blockade of Leningrad, liberating Soviet Latvia, ended its journey at the Alt-Lubitz-Hassendorf (Germany) line. ”According to the stories of the search engines, such fierce battles were fought near the village of Sokolovo that almost every square meter of land contains the remains of the soldiers and their military equipment. In the museum of the North-Western Front in the city of Staraya Russa, eyewitnesses of those years (local residents) recalled that they saw huge crowds of our soldiers walking to the front line, and almost no one returned back.

Sypko Vasily Petrovich was born on February 4, 1924 in the village of Troitskoye, Tatar District, Novosibirsk Region. Drafted to the front on August 17, 1942 by the Shmakovsky RVK of the Ussuri region. He fought in the active army since September 1942. Sergeant, senior telegraph operator in the 114th separate communications battalion of the 194th rifle division of the Rechitsa Red Banner. He fought on the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts, took part in the Battle of Kursk. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals "For the capture of Konigsberg" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." Until now, the memory of the long kilometers of war, traversed by the former sergeant (squad leader) of the 194th Infantry Division of the Rechitsa Red Banner Division, Vasily Petrovich Sypko, and the heroic deeds he performed, is still alive. From the memoirs of Vasily Petrovich Sypko: “The gala evening dedicated to the graduates of secondary school No. 1 in the city of Lesozavodsk, held at the end of May 1941, is still remembered. There were 25 of us in the 10th "B" class. They had fun at the evening, dreamed of further education. I dreamed of entering the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of the city of Vladivostok at the turbine-building faculty of the mechanical engineering department, where I soon sent my documents. But the war broke out ... Everything changed dramatically. A card system was introduced. Instead of studying, he went to work as an inspector at the Shmakovskaya Inspectorate of the Central Statistical Administration (Narkhozuchet) in the city of Lesozavodsk. In August 1942, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to a training regiment stationed in the village of Knyaze-Volkonka of the Khabarovsk Military District - from where, instead of studying as part of a platoon, he was sent to the village of Poyarkovo, Amur Region, to procure agricultural products for our unit, where he stayed until November ... In the middle of December 1942, some of the soldiers, including myself, were uniform (short fur coats, felt boots, caps with earflaps, fur mittens) - and were sent to the front from the railway station in Khabarovsk. At the station Alkino-2 (Bashkiria), during an inspector's check, part of the soldiers, as unprepared for hostilities, were removed from the echelon - and we, dressed in category 5 overcoats, were sent to a training camp (dugouts) for military training, where we stayed until March 1943. Then we were again sent to the Central Front (Kursk-Oryol Bulge) by echelon. There I, in the 460th Infantry Regiment of the 194th Infantry Division with the rank of sergeant (squad commander), fought heavy battles in the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He liberated Belarus and Poland, took part in the hardest battle on the Kursk-Oryol Buldge, in the forcing of the rivers: Berezina, Sozh, Dnieper; in the defeat of the fascist troops in the Bobruisk entrapment; in the liberation of the city of Rechitsa, the assault and capture of Konigsberg and the forcing of the Frisch Ghar Bay in the Baltic Sea - where on the Frisch Nerung Spit in the morning of May 9, 1945, the war ended for us. The fascists threw out the white flag. " In battles, Vasily Petrovich was twice wounded, several times he was covered with earth from the explosion of bombs and shells. He took part in hand-to-hand combat and fights. In April-May 1947 he was demobilized and came to his mother in the city of Lesozavodsk, where in August 1947 he entered the Khabarovsk two-year law school, after which, by order of the then prosecutor of the Primorsky Territory, Boldyrev, he was appointed people's investigator of the Terneisky district prosecutor's office. In 1952-1953 he studied at the all-Union courses of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kharkov, and then was appointed prosecutor in various cities and districts of the Primorsky Territory: first in Chernigov, Spassky and Oktyabrsky districts, later in the cities of Arsenyev (1963-1973) and Lesozavodsk (1973 –1975), later - in the Anuchinsky region (1975–1984). Vasily Petrovich has devoted more than 34 years to work in the prosecutor's office. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He was also awarded with many jubilee medals. In honor of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus, he was awarded the medal "For the liberation of Belarus". In 2008, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation awarded Vasily Petrovich the medal "Veteran of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation". Vasily Petrovich Sypko died in 2017.

Smolkova (Pryakhina) Maria Grigorievna was born in 1923 in the Penza region. Four of her brothers were taken to the war, she was taken to the war as the fifth in 1942, when an order was issued to mobilize women. In the war, 2 brothers Nikolai and Mikhail were killed, 2 other brothers Ivan and Fyodor returned from the war, my grandmother also reached Romania and returned. Her Red Army book from the times of the Great Patriotic War has been preserved. It states that she was a Red Army air defense observer. As she said, the task of her and her fellow soldiers was to detect the approach of German aircraft by sound and report this to the anti-aircraft gunners who destroyed enemy aircraft. They were taught this. She said that the sound of German aircraft was different from ours, it was scary, ominous for her, and the sound of our aircraft made her happy. She was on the front line, she said that the girls were afraid, because as she said: “The front line is not marked with a pencil, we do not know whether we are on our territory or on the territory of the enemy, where it is possible to meet eye to eye with the Nazis, but we go with coils with a telephone wire on the shoulder. " She said that she was very afraid to be left behind when the cars in which they were traveling stopped at the stations, and the girls took turns going to fetch water, so I remembered the number of my unit for life. During one of the halts, the girls found a samovar and decided to warm the water in it in order to wash their hair. When my grandmother went to fetch water, a German bomb fell in the place where the samovar was, and grandmother would have died if she had not gone to fetch water. She said: "So it was not destiny to die in the war." She spoke about the war with humor, said that the first time she ate fill was during the war. The village was constantly starving, and she had a large family. Her Red Army book has been preserved, where there are all the records of her conscription and her service. There are also war photographs, they are very well preserved, her notes have been preserved on the back of the photographs. One photograph shows her military unit, the reverse says "May 10, 1945 on Victory Day." She said that they learned about the victory on May 10 and thought that it was on that day that victory in the war came. At that time she was in Romania.

Solomatov Alexander Vasilyevich was born on March 8, 1924, in the city of Khem-Beldyr, Tannu-Tuva People's Republic (now it is the city of Kyzyl of the Tyva Republic). He began his career at the age of 16 in the Tuva Regional Council of Trade Unions, as a sorter of furs. On May 25, 1943, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army - and after graduating from a tank regimental school in December 1943, as a 19-year-old junior technician-lieutenant, he went to the front as part of the 56th Guards Tank Brigade of the 3rd Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. After the end of World War II, he was sent to the Far East as part of the 77th Army Self-Propelled Heavy Tank Regiment. He took part in the Soviet-Japanese war, was seriously wounded. By order of 06.09.1946, No. 0496, he was dismissed from the USSR Armed Forces due to injury. After demobilization, he devoted his life to serving the law and fighting crime. He worked where combat training was required, his life experience and dedication to the profession, duty and honor - having given service in the prosecutor's office for more than 30 years. In 1970, Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University, received a higher legal education. He served as an intern in the investigation department of the Tuva regional prosecutor's office, later as an investigator and senior investigator of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kyzyl, later as an assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl, then as a prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl and prosecutor of the Ulug-Khem region of the Tuva ASSR. Subsequently, he served as a prosecutor and senior prosecutor of the investigation department of the prosecutor's office of the Tuva ASSR. He worked in the judiciary for over 10 years, was a people's judge of the Piy-Khem region. For about two years he worked in the elective position of deputy chairman of the executive committee of people's deputies. For his personal and professional qualities, the residents of the districts elected him a deputy of the district Council of People's Deputies and a people's judge - but he again returned to the prosecutor's office, to the most difficult and responsible area of ​​the fight against crime. Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov was fluent in the Tuvan language. His competence in the history of Tuva, knowledge of the traditions and customs of the local population, combined with his goodwill and respect for people, adherence to principles and exactingness in upholding the rights and freedoms of citizens contributed to raising the authority of the law among the population - and Alexander Timofeevich himself was an example for all employees of the prosecutor's office Tuvinian ASSR. In the conditions of a transitional period and the departure of many specialists from the prosecutor's office, the aggravation of the crime situation and interethnic relations, despite his age - Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov in December 1992 readily responded to the request of the leadership of the republican prosecutor's office to help young workers in organizing the investigation of serious crimes, supervision of preliminary investigation and operational-search activities in the internal affairs bodies. Every third criminal case of premeditated murder passed through his hands, according to which they were given instructions and advice on organizing the investigation. In particularly complex criminal cases, he himself took a direct part in the production of investigative actions carried out by young investigators, regardless of personal time. Continuing to remain in the team, he gave lectures and talks in front of various audiences, passed on his many years of experience to the new generation, being an example of loyalty to the profession and duty to the law. In 1996, he retired from the prosecutor's office and on October 8, 1996, after a serious illness, he died. For many years and conscientious work in the prosecutor's office he received state and departmental awards. His labor services to the people are marked by orders: - Order of the Red Star; - Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree; - Order of Friendship; medals: - "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." - Jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "; - Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War";

Surnin Georgy Ivanovich Born on January 6, 1918 in the village of Voskresenovka, now the Skovorodinsky District of the Amur Region, in a peasant family. Russian. Graduated from 4th grade. He worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Skovorodinsky district military enlistment office. In the spring of 1941 he was demobilized and returned home. With the outbreak of war, he was again drafted into the army. Already in 1941, the family received the first death notice, but the soldier continued to fight. By the summer of 1943, he was the commander of the DShK machine gun(heavy machine gun of Degtyarev-Shpagin) crew of the 188th Argun Infantry Regiment of the 106th Transbaikal Infantry Division. In the battles on the Kursk Bulge, the crew of senior sergeant Surnin shot down 2 fighters and a bomber, for which the crew commander was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Later, as part of the regiment, he participated in the battles for the liberation of the left-bank Ukraine. When crossing the Dnieper River, he commanded a squad. On October 15, 1943, Sergeant Major Surnin was the first with his squad to cross the Dnieper River near the village of Loev (Gomel region of Belarus) and knocked the enemy out of the trench. On October 16, in the battle for the village of Loev, he replaced the out-of-order company commander. Skillful actions, together with other units, drove the Nazis from the occupied line and occupied Loev, more than 60 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed. On October 17, a group of fighters under the command of Surnin repulsed a counterattack of the Nazis and moved forward. In this battle, Sergeant Major Surnin was seriously wounded, and the next death notice went home. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 30, 1943, for the successful crossing of the Dnieper River, the firm consolidation of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Sergeant Major Surnin Georgy Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ... After the hospital was sent to another unit. At the beginning of 1944 he served as a foreman of a rifle company in the 963rd rifle regiment of the 274th rifle division. Participated in the battles for the liberation of Belarus, was awarded the medal "For Courage". He ended the war in Hungary. In 1945 he graduated from courses at the Gorky Tank School. Since 1946, junior lieutenant G.I. Surnin is in reserve. He returned to his homeland. He worked as the head of the team of the paramilitary security detachment of the Trans-Baikal Railway. Only in 1947 the front-line soldier was awarded high awards of the Motherland - the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. Member of the CPSU since 1965. He lived in the city of Skovorodino, Amur Region. Died on January 18, 1991. Buried at the cemetery of the city of Skovorodino

Tikhobaeva (Berendyugina) Anastasia Yegorovna was born in 1924, in the village of Devotskoye, Suzemsky district, Bryansk region. After the occupation of the territory of the Bryansk region by the Nazi troops, she joined the partisan detachment named after the 25th anniversary of the Red Army under the command of Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov. She fought as an ordinary soldier, as part of a machine-gun crew in the period from August 22, 1942 to August 25, 1944. Demobilized in the fall of 1944, she returned to her homeland, to the Bryansk region. She was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Memories of the war days 1941-1944 of partisan Tikhobaeva Anastasia Yegorovna. "I was born and lived in the Bryansk region. Before the war I was 16 years old. I will not describe the whole severity of my childhood, the family was large with 7 children. In 1937, during the period of Stalinist repressions, our father was taken away without trial. We had to work, to work on a collective farm - both juniors and seniors, in order to somehow survive. Participated in the raid of a partisan unit under the command of A. N. Saburov on the occupied territory of the Ukrainian SSR. And in 1941 the war began. Already in the fall of 1941 Germans came to our small village and began to establish their own order, some were shot, hanged, burned, etc. In connection with such cruelty of the Germans, people with weapons in their hands began to appear in our forests and began to attack the Germans.In the spring of 1942, many partisans appeared who beat Germans from all sides. And then the Germans sent punitive detachments to destroy civilians and partisans. They began to burn villagery, and drive civilians to concentration camps, and then they were taken to Germany, some were killed on the spot. Our village was set on fire and the civilians were gathered, led under escort to send them to concentration camps. Our village was burning. Mother with small children went into the unknown. We seized a moment when the punishers hesitated. My sister and I slipped into the thick grass, where there was a lot of nettle. Since there was a continuous cloud of smoke in the village, we were not noticed. Relatives were taken away and we were left alone in the forest. We went to look for people to whom we could ask for help, everyone hoped that the parents would return. Time passed and no one helped us. And then I decided to find one of the detachments of the formation of Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov, who was at that time in our forests. They found out and talked to me, found out that I was left alone without parents, I was accepted into the detachment. Kochetkov P. was enrolled in the machine-gun crew of the 1st company. It took a little time and in October 1942, our connection with the addition of small detachments, left the Bryansk forests and went into a distant raid across the steppes of Ukraine, making their way to the rear of the enemies. Small towns were liberated, garrisons were smashed. Following the orders of the High Command, we go further, forcing rivers with battles, they surround us, drown us in the Pinsk swamps, planes bomb from morning to evening, there is not enough weapons. Broken and hungry, we get in touch with Moscow and they deliver weapons to us with difficulty, they break through, planes fly to us. We went forward again. We occupied our large regional center, and suddenly our museum is there now. When we were in the regions of Kovel-Brest-Pinsk, it was 1944 in the spring, we were then gathered to march to the Carpathians, where Sidor Artyomovich Kovpak fought fierce battles with the Nazis. We didn't have to reunite with Kovpak. Some of the boats crossed to the other side, not all. The order came to go back where they were. Since Kovel, Lutsk, Pinsk were done, we joined with the Red Army. The army moved on, and we were sent to Kiev, to the village of Svyatoshino. There was a construction of an air town, we were there before demobilization and paperwork. In November 1944, I returned to my homeland, to the Bryansk forests. In the ashes where people started a new life. "