The faces of WWII Heroes

Suleimanov Askhat Nigmatulovich was born on June 1, 1923 in the village of Azovo, Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR. He was called to the front of the Arkhangelsk Military Comissariat of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on September 17, 1941. He had been part of the combats in the Great Patriotic War since December 18, 1943. He was a Senior Lieutenant, Commander of a mortar platoon of 2nd Mortar Company of 47th Rifle Gdansk Red Banner Regiment of 15th Rifle Sivash-Stettinskaya twice Red Banner Order of Lenin, the Orders of Suvorov and the Red Banner of Labor of the Ukrainian SSR Division. He had been a Communist party member since 1944 (party card No. 6314191). Awards: 1. Medal "For Courage" on October 7, 1944. Quote from the award list: "In offensive hostilities in the area of the Zofyuvka farm in the Hungarian district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on March 19, 1944, while firing at thecombat formations and the enemy's fire system, he personally smashed 2 German machine-gun points and destroyed 15 Nazis. In extremely fierce combats for the railway in the area of the settlement of Ozhelek, on August 22, 1944, he pinned down the enemy's actions with well-aimed mortar raids. Continuously participating in combats since the beginning of the breakthrough of the enemy's defense on June 24, 1944, with mortar fire from his platoon, he inflicted the following losses on the enemy: 6 firing points destroyed, 37 infantry. 2. Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree March 30, 1945. Quote from the award list: "In the regiment's offensive hostilities, which began by breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses in the area near the Pokshivnitsa settlement of the Pultu district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on January 14, 1945, relentlessly moving with the infantry with the fire of the mortars of his platoon, he helped the infantry. When breaking through the defense, destroyed 2 machine-gun points with their crews. Pursuing the retreating enemy, he shot down the fire cover left by the Germans. He successfully passed more than 250 kilometers of combat. On January 26, 1945 reached the Vistula River, where on the East Bank in a two-hourcombat the last cover in front of the river was knocked down. When crossing the Vistula River, he crossed it with the infantry, and the enemy stronghold Gross Westpalen was taken on the west bank on January 27, 1945. The enemy undertook offensive actions 4 times attacked our units, trying to eliminate the foothold we had created on the west the bank of the Visla, in the morning of January 27, 1945. The attacks were unsuccessful. Officer Suleimanov's platoon destroyed up to 30 Nazis, and Suleimanov was wounded. He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". After demobilization as a result of a second wound, Askhat Nigmatulovich worked as Chairman of the Tereklinsky village council of the Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR, he retired in 1983. On April 6, 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree in honor of 40th anniversary of Victory Died on April 27, 1985. He was buried in the cemetery of the Azovo village.

Participant of the Great Patriotic War Morozov Ivan Stepanovich. _x000D_ He was born on October 15, 1926 in the village of Sosnovka in the Sorokinsky District of the Altai Territory in a peasant family. His father, Stepan Ivanovich died in combats for Ukraine in 1943, was buried in the Kharkov region. On November 8, 1943, at the age of 17, he was called up for military service. After completing the course, training at the Achinsk military school, he was assigned for further service in the Special Forces Regiment in the Kremlin. In 1944, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, a symbol of military honor, valor and glory. _x000D_ From the end of May 1944, the duration of service in the squad was changed from 2 -day shift, to 4- dayshift duty as before the war. The special-purpose Regiment, like all other subunits and units of the Moscow Kremlin garrison, completed all important combat missions to protect and defend the Kremlin, important facilities and support measures of national importance. _x000D_ During his service, I.S. Morozov filed a report on his transfer to the front. To which he received the answer that the importance of the missions in the Kremlin is no less than at the front. On June 24, 1945, a significant part of the personnel of the Kremlin garrison was involved in providing measures for the protection of the Victory Parade and exemplary order on Red Square. I.S. Morozov became its participant. I. S. Morozov was demobilized in 1950, given 7 years in the ranks of the Soviet Army. On July 7, 1951 he married, wife of Morozov (Kokshina) Olga Mironovna, an active participant in the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ He had been part of the law enforcement agencies since 1950. Since 1954 he served in the traffic police department of the city of Moscow. He was directly involved in ensuring the safety of the highest political and state leadership of the USSR, as well as events of national importance. He conducted work to educate and improve the professional level of the young generation of traffic police officers. _x000D_ He was repeatedly elected Chairman of the Court of Officers' Honor. He graduated from service in 1980 as a Senior inspector of 7th GAI on the special route of the UGAI in Moscow with the rank of police Major with the subsequent assignment of the rank of police Lieutenant colonel ... _x000D_ He received the following state awards: Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Medal "Veteran of Labor"; and many honorary and anniversary awards. _x000D_ After retirement, he actively participated in public life: he was a member of the Strelets fund for social support of employees and veterans of federal state security bodies. He had three daughters, Nina, born in 1953. Vera born 1957 and Galina born in 1963, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family honors the hero and pays tribute to the memory of those who have departed and fallen in the struggle for the freedom of the Motherland.

Sataev, Mukhamedzhan_x000D_ Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Sataev Mukhamedzhan was born in 1922 in the city of Omsk, Pavlograd district, village of Kaidaul, then moved to Zhanatan. Before leaving for the war, he attended mortar courses. On May 1, 1942 he was drafted to the Volkhov front. He survived the Leningrad Siege. From 1944 to 1946 he served as deputy Commander of a mortar, gunner of 504th Mortar Regiment. From June to November 1946, he was a deputy Commander of the mortar of 135th Artillery Regiment, he went to Czechoslovakia to destroy a large group of enemy. _x000D_ He was awarded: Medal "For Courage", Medal "For Defense of Leningrad", Medal "For Liberation of Prague", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" , medal "For military Merit", Medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree._x000D_ On November 13, 1946 he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of Junior Sergeant. After the war he helped the state in the development of agriculture. He received among the first veterans, a VAZ 2101 car, a ticket to VDNKh. _x000D_ He was recognized for labor in peacetime, awarded the title "Veteran of Labor" and awarded the medal "For Labor Valor of the USSR", the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin." _x000D_ He was married to Sataeva, Kuken, who was awarded the Maternity Medal for raising 5 children. In the village of Mikhailovka, Omsk, Kormilovsky district, there is a sign of the Order of the Patriotic War on the house where he lived.

Alexander Matveyevich Medvedev was born in 1923 in the village of Novy Burets, Vyatskopolyansky District, Kirov Region. After graduating 7 classes of the school, in 1939 he entered the feldsher-obstetric school. On September 11, 1941, as an 18-year-old boy, he was called to the war front. The combat path of the Lieutenant of Medical Service A.M. Medvedev began in 334th Infantry Division of the Kalinin Front with the combat for Moscow, as part of the combat units of 43rd Army of 1st Baltic, and then 3rd Belorussian fronts._x000D_ He liberated the Smolensk region, Belarus, the Baltic states, participated in the capture of Konigsberg. For the displayed valor and courage he was awarded: the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War of 1st degree, medals "For Defense of Moscow", "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ". _x000D_ The lines from the grandfather's award sheets are striking. So, in 1943, in 3 days of the offensive, Alexander Matveyevich assisted 90 wounded soldiers, 12 of whom, together with their personal weapons, carried them from the combat under enemy fire, skillfully directed the actions of the orderlies. The Commanders note his courage and fearlessness, because he not only saved the lives of hundreds of wounded, but also participated n combat personally with weapons in his hands, repelled enemy attacks and went on the offensive. _x000D_ After the end of the war, my grandfather was in Poland with our troops, was the military commandant of one of the Polish towns. At the beginning of 1947, after demobilization, he returned to his native land, worked as a medical assistant in the villages of the Vyatka-Polyansky district, married a fellow villager Elizabeth, they had a daughter, Nina, my mother. However, the peaceful life did not last long. From May 1952 to the end of 1955, in connection with the war on the Korean Peninsula, he was again drafted into the army, served in military hospitals in Ulyanovsk and on Sakhalin Island. _x000D_ After demobilization, together with his family, he returned to his homeland, where he worked in an ambulance, and then for more than a quarter of a century as a doctor in the office of the district hospital.

Sologubov Pavel Ivanovich lived in the Krasnoarmeisky district of the city of Volgograd. He was born in 1924 in the village of Svinukha, Krasnoslobodsky District, Stalingrad Region, into a large peasant family. He had been enlisted iIn the ranks of the Red Army since 1942. He was called up by the Kirov district military enlistment office of the city of Stalingrad. He fought in the Western, South-Western, on 2nd, 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Guard Junior Leiutenant, Commander of a Rifle platoon of 2nd Battalion of 111th Guards Rifle Red Banner Regiment of 40th Guards Rifle Enakiev-Danube Red Banner Division. He was awarded for personal courage and heroism during the war, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree. _x000D_ He was wounded on December 13, 1942, October 22, 1943, March 1, 1944. He was seriously wounded on April 10, 1945 (part of his arm was torn off). At the end of the war, Lieutenant Sologubov received another state award, the Order of the Red Banner in Hungary. _x000D_ There were combats in the area of the settlement of Mertsalte. March 28, 1945 Junior Leiutenant P.I. Sologubov showed courage and resourcefulness during the combat, when his platoon covered the crossing of the Rab River by Battalion units. He skillfully organized fire, destroyed up to 30 enemy soldiers and officers with the soldiers. With the massive fire of all types of enemy weapons, his platoon managed to reach the eastern bank of the river, bypassing the enemy from the right flank, thereby leading him into confusion. In a fiercecombat, a group of enemy soldiers trapped was destroyed. And our units successfully crossed the river. This was the great merit of Jr. Lieutenant Sologubov.

Anna Mashletova was born in 1922 in the city of Ludinovo._x000D_ She finished ten classes at secondary school #3. It was called Obraztsovaya (The Best), where she received a paper of excellent student, dated May 31, 1935 "For excellent academic success and exemplary behavior worthy of a Soviet schoolgirl". After graduation from High School in 1940, Anna entered the Leningrad Forestry Academy. On September 8, 1941, Leningrad was surrounded by the Germans, and a long blockade began. The enemy used everything to create unbearable conditions for the population of the city. There was no food. In September, a fire-fighting company was formed from University students, which was part of the regiment of the fire service of the Leningrad air defense. The 6th platoon of the Vyborg company was stationed at the Forestry Academy. The guardhouse was located in the building where the girls lived. They slept in a large auditorium in the next building. There was a telephone post in the corridor, where people took turns on duty. A. Malletova joined the company. They all were called soldiers of the fire front. Young firefighters participated in extinguishing more than 2,200 fires, independently extinguished more than 400 fires, eliminated more than 5,000 incendiary bombs, took hundreds of people out of the fire, and saved valuables worth millions of rubles. Most importantly, they did not let the enemy turn the undefeated city into a giant flaming bonfire. In June 1942, the Leningrad Fire Department was awarded the Order of Lenin. This high award fully extended to the young soldiers of the regiment. Many of them were first-year students of Leningrad universities, they were 19 years old._x000D_ In 1946, A. Mashletova returned to the city of Ludinovo. For the first four years, she taught physics in Grades 7-10 at Secondary school #2. Working faithfully, she did her part to support education in the post-war years. Since 1950, she worked as a head teacher and physics teacher at the seven-year school #1. In 1956, she was transferred as a head teacher to the eight-year school #8. A. Mashletova devoted more than 30 years of life to her favorite work. A. Malletova was awarded Medals For the Defense of Leningrad, Veteran of Labor.

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of Service: Armored and Mechanized Troops_x000D_ Duty station: 164th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division_x000D_ Memories of grandfather Ivan Tokarev about the war in 1941-1945_x000D_ In 1939, I was drafted into the army and sent to Western Ukraine (in a place near the city of Lvov) in the 377th Separate Tank Battalion, in the regimental tank school. In 1940, he graduated from the regimental school and received the title of driver and tank commander. In 1940, G. Zhukov visited the unit. He made a strong impression on us with his self-control, smartness, tact, and care for soldiers. We were 30 meters away from him. He showed the recruits how to climb the rope, climbed up and went down using only his hands._x000D_ In 1941, on the night of June 21 to June 22, after the alarm we went to the Yanovskiy Forest, located 20 km from the border (the city of Przemysl). At 14 hours on June 22, we engaged the Germans. The Germans marched in a chain and mowed down everything in front of them with machine guns. Our tank division began to "iron" them and the Germans retreated. We occupied the town of Przemysl again. So six times, we retreated and six times occupied the town. Then the order came to withdraw._x000D_ During the day, we were on defense, covered the withdrawal of infantry, and at night retreated themselves. We fought near Lvov, Kiev, Zhytomyr and other places. Near Zhytomyr, I burned in a tank and got out through a manhole, my comrades helped me. My hands were burned. I had medical treatment right there in the unit._x000D_ In the summer of 1942, I was sent to a tank school, and graduated from it in 1943 with the rank of platoon commander, and sent to Orsha, where there were fierce battles. In some of the battles, our tanks and planes were suppressed. Then they gathered all of us (pilots, tankers and others) and gave us the order to go on the attack (hand-to-hand combat). In this attack, I was wounded in the right hand, but did not leave the battlefield. In this battle, the Germans retreated and we took our positions. After the battle, I was hospitalized for 1.5 months. The shard is still in my hand._x000D_ I was awarded the Order of the Red Star_x000D_ In March 1944, near Vitebsk, we went on an attack (hand-to-hand combat), it was necessary to level the position and cut the railway connecting Orsha with Vitebsk, along which the Germans supplied their troops. The fighting was terrible. There was a continuous hum. Soldiers who had their arms and legs torn off begged to be shot. But others encouraged them and were saying that they would avenge them, and if they returned, they would give them their blood, hand, and foot._x000D_ The soldiers were attacking in waves in six echelons. I was wounded in this attack. The bullet hit the groin and exited from behind in the thigh of the right leg. We came to the river, fixed on the right Bank, the German trenches were 20-30 meters away. After the battle, I was sent to the hospital._x000D_ Participated in tank battles on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Baltic Fronts. I took part in the liberation of the Baltic States, and ended the war in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad)._x000D_ The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, which was awarded during the war, I received only in 1993. In 1985, I was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree. I met Victory Day near Konigsberg. It was very joyful, we gave a salute from all types of weapons.

HISTORY:_x000D_ Mikhail Malyshev was born in 1921 in the village of Derbeden in the Aktash District of the Tatar ASSR._x000D_ As a very young, 20 year old boy, he was called to the front in September 1941 as a senior telephone operator of the 84th Artillery Regiment of the 34th Division of the 5th Shock Army of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts. In 1942, he was taken prisoner, but managed to escape and continued heroically liberate our homeland from the Nazi invaders._x000D_ On July 18, 1942, during an artillery bombardment, Sergeant M. Malyshev fixed four breaks in the telephone line, which ensured uninterrupted firing by the division when repelling a counterattack by enemy tanks and infantry. For that deed, he received the Medal For Bravery._x000D_ After, on March 9, 1943, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire of the enemy, he laid a telephone line from the observation post of the division commander to the forward observation post and during the day, despite mortar and machine-gun fire, fixed 37 telephone line splits, which ensured uninterrupted firing at detected targets and the retreating enemy. For this heroic feat M. Malyshev was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ He also participated in the liberation of Budapest and Vienna. Awarded: Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, Medals For the Capture of Vienna, For the Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945._x000D_ In May 1945, he was discharged. After the war, he got married and worked as a carpenter for the Bugulma Mechanical Plant. Relatives remember that when talking about the Great Patriotic War, he always tried to avoid questions, tears immediately welled up in his eyes. All those who went through the hell of the Great Patriotic War could not remember with a calm heart the terrible events that occurred in the life of our Motherland. Thanks to their heroic deeds, we can enjoy the sunrises and sunsets, the song of birds, and see this bright sky above our heads. Eternal memory to all those who participated in this terrible war, those who gave their lives to save our people…

Rank: Lieutenant. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards._x000D_ Valey Sadykov was enlisted in the army in 1938 in cavalry unit. He served in the Far East (Voroshilov)._x000D_ At first, he was a veterinary assistant in the 163rd Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Far Eastern Cavalry Division, according to his specialty. Then he studied at the school of Junior commanders in the city of Ussuriisk and was appointed a platoon commander. For success in combat training, he received the rank of Second Lieutenant, and then Lieutenant. He was supposed to be sent to a military school._x000D_ But in 1941, the war began and the troops of the Primorskaya Army were put on high alert and in October 1941, the order came to send them to the front. In November they were on the Western front, as part of the 6th Cavalry Corps (Commander Major General Sokolov). Valey took part in the defense of Moscow and the counteroffensive, received a severe chest wound. There were very heavy fights and for his bravery, he was nicknamed "the furious Bashkir"._x000D_ After six months of treatment in the hospital, he manages to return to his regiment already on the Bryansk front. There were defensive battles. In 1943, the division was transferred to the Steppe Front (reserve front of the Supreme Command), for the battles near Kursk, commander of cavalry squadron Sadykov received the Medal For Bravery, which was equated to an Order._x000D_ With the transformation of the front into the 2nd Ukrainian (I. Konev remained a Commander), the 6th Guards Cavalry Division began crossing the Dnieper River South of Kremenchug. The end of October, icy water, but the squadron managed to cross to the right Bank and gain a foothold. Sadykov and his men held the bridgehead for 3 days until the main forces crossed. There were five survivors, but wounded. For this feat, division commander P. Khrustalev presented Sadykov to the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. The frontline newspaper wrote about this._x000D_ But in war as in war. The division headquarters were bombed, and some of the documents were destroyed. Next comes the liberation of the South of the Right-Bank Ukraine, then Moldova. In these battles, Sadykov was awarded two consecutive Orders of the Red Star. The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree he received for the battles in Hungary. For Vienna, where he was again wounded in the chest, he received the Order of the Red Banner._x000D_ In total, Sadykov received eight military awards for his military exploits: four orders and five medals. After the war, he was also awarded one order and many commemorative medals (somewhere up to 15). He was glad to see them, but he liked to wear only military awards and always raised a toast to those front-line friends who died on the battlefield._x000D_ After the end of the war, he got married. He served first in the Western Ukraine, and then in the Belarusian Military District (Borisov). His son Yuri was born there, he was named after Valey’s fallen comrade._x000D_ In 1947, military command wanted to send him to study in Moscow, but he, at the request of his beloved wife, refused and went to his native Bashkiria. He worksed as the Chairman of the collective farm and a foreman. Later he received forestry education and devoted his life to forestry.

HISTORY:_x000D_ Ivan Murzin was born in 1903 in the village of Diveevo, Gorky Region, and lost his parents very early. He had five sisters left on his shoulders. During these difficult years, fate brought him together with a full member of the Soviet Academy of Science Prokhorov. He had finished the same 4 years school in the village of Diveevo. He found out about my grandfather's exceptional abilities, and offered him a better education on full state support. Unfortunately, my grandfather could not take advantage of this valuable offer and leave his younger sisters._x000D_ The war began, and he was called to the front in July 1941 by the Diveyevskiy District Military Commissariat of the Gorkiy Region. From the Internet, I learned that my grandfather was a private of the sanitary company of the 10890th Lvov Red Banner Rifle Regiment. He fought on the Central, Western, and First Ukrainian Fronts._x000D_ During the war, he was an orderly. He took out dozens of wounded soldiers from the battlefield, treated wounds, bandaged them and applied splints. In January 1943, wounded in the arm, continued to save people, and later got into the medical unit. He fought until May 1945. On the website we found the original orders for awarding the grandfather and a description of his exploits._x000D_ He received the first Order of the Red Star on August 19, 1944. “During the breakthrough of the enemy defense in fierce battles, comrade I. Murzin, being in the infantry battle formations, provided first aid to 38 wounded soldiers and officers and evacuated them from the battlefield with their weapons. Later, while working at the field medical facility, he applied 45 splints to seriously wounded soldiers and officers.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He received the second Order of the Rred Star on February 16, 1945. “Comrade I. Murzin I. works as an excellent orderly, permanently at the regimental medical station since the beginning of the division's formation. In the last battles of 1945 in just 3 days, he applied 86 splints, more than 100 bandages, regardless of time and fatigue. He provided first aid to more than 40 seriously wounded people on the battlefield. For two days of fighting, being himself wounded, he did not leave his post. While being treated at the medical company, he continued his work. Worthy of the government award of the Order of the Red Star.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Medal for Bravery, and the Medal for Military Merit.

Rank: Specialist. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards._x000D_ Since childhood, she worked as a poultry woman. In the time of the Great Patriotic War, she went to the front. She was the commander of an anti-aircraft gun, and had the rank of Specialist. From the memoirs of Sinyavtsev Nikolai: "17 year old Matryona Sinyavtseva went to the front voluntarily. The girl served in the air defense forces, commanded an anti-aircraft unit. It is necessary to make a reservation that my father, while at the front, somehow found out which division my sister was in, and sent a written request to the military unit. The commander's response was preserved in our family archive. The letter reads in part as follows: "Matryona Sinyavtseva a is in my unit. Currently alive and well. During the period of service in the unit, comrade Sinyavtseva with her hard work perfectly mastered the military specialty and is now one of the best in the unit. With her high consciousness and excellent behavior, your daughter has won high authority among her fellow soldiers and the trust of the command. Your daughter honestly fulfills her duty to the Motherland, shows an indomitable desire to improve her combat skills in order to better fight the German scoundrels. In life and in work she shows high patriotism. For honest service to the Motherland, Your daughter was awarded the military rank of Corporal and a number of commendations were announced by order of the unit commander. All of the above gives me the right to report to You, that Your daughter honestly fulfills the mandate of the Motherland and Your mandate, with a great desire to master military speciality and goes to the forefront of Soviet patriots who defend our glorious Homeland. Allow me to express my deep gratitude for Your just demands in the letter addressed to me. I promise you to fulfill them completely. The Commander of the unit Major Sobolev. 19.05.1944 G."_x000D_ It was not without injuries. Matryona was shell-shocked, laid in the hospital and returned to service. The war ended for her in Czechoslovakia, and then the long-awaited return home. If you look at the employment record of M. Sinyavtseva, you wouldl see the entry: October 20, 1947. She was hired as a Director of a library in Belyansky of Nikilaevskiy District. There she worked until August 5, 1960._x000D_ Matryona worked for 13 years. She collected books, formed the post-war library Fund, and organized various events in the library. In 1968 she returned to work at the library, working until June 5, 1971. Her health was failing, and she could no longer work. On May 8, 2000, M. Sinyavtseva died.

Vasiliy Sobakov joined the Red Army as a volunteer on October 2nd, 1941. As a private of the 2nd Maneuver Airborne Brigade, he was sent to the front in the area of Staraya Russa._x000D_ The Brigade, reinforced by the 54th Separate Ski Battalion, was to clear the area near the Knevitsy-Lychkovo railway from the enemy and hold it. It would allow this road to be used for supplying and maneuvering troops._x000D_ The operation began in February 1942. The paratroopers landed in the area of the Neviy Mokh swamp, in the rear of the Germans. It was assumed that the light equipment of the soldiers would provide maneuverability, stealth and surprise. Weapons - submachine guns, self-loading rifles, knives, grenades. The paratroopers had no heavy weapons at all. They had winter uniform, and felt boots on their feet. The only mean of transportation - skis._x000D_ The brigade tried to recapture the city of Valdai and Staraya Russa from the enemy, but due to poor supplies and weak organization of the operation, the brigade was unable to do this and retreated with heavy losses. The Germans quickly established the location of the Soviet soldiers and subjected the area of their concentration to bombing. As a result, the brigade suffered heavy losses, many paratroopers were taken prisoner._x000D_ The brigade was in dire need of ammunition and food, starvation began, and the sick and frostbitten appeared. The question was simply about the survival of people. It came to the point that soldiers dug out from under the snow horses that died in the fall of 41, and ate their meat._x000D_ On March 17, 1942, another artillery bombardment of the paratroopers' location killed about 100 of them. This was followed by an attack of paratroopers on the territory occupied by the enemy - a railway station and after a successful counterattack, the fascists defeated the Soviet brigade._x000D_ Soviet soldiers, being without food and uniforms, were not able to resist the enemy. Felt boots on the feet of soldiers in the daytime during the thaw were soaked, at night the temperature dropped to -25C. Of the total number of fighters, the number of frostbitten was 349. Many of them already had frostbites, leading to gangrene. Among them was V. Sobakov. He was evacuated to the hospital #2542 with frostbite on both feet on April 19, 1942._x000D_ After the amputation of the foot, he was pronounced unfit for military service and sent home. After returning, he graduated from the Saratov Trade School and worked first in the district consumer Union, and then as the Chairman of the District Planning Office.

HISTORY:_x000D_ Vadim Miler was born on October 24, 1923 in Chita._x000D_ In July 1941, he received two certificates at the same time: one of a High School graduation, the other of the Chita Air Club. He got the rank of a reserve pilot. He went to work as a worker in a tannery._x000D_ In March 1942, he became a cadet at the school of aircraft mechanics in Irkutsk. But he did not manage to finish school: in September of the same year, as the commander of the submachine gun squad in the 43rd Mechanized Brigade, he already fought with the Nazis on the Kalinin Front, in the Velikie Luki Region, and then in the same military unit - on the Voronezh and Central Fronts._x000D_ In the summer of 1943, the mechanized brigade participated in the battles on the Orel-Kursk bulge. Together with other military units, it knocked out the enemy from the most important railway station Zmiyevka and the surrounding villages. In one of the battles in the Oryol Region, Milier was wounded in the neck. He was treated in the city of Yelets for a month ._x000D_ After recovery, he was assigned to the 79th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment as an Air gun operator on IL-2. A dream came true. He was finally in aviation! An air assault regiment of the 16th Air Army bombed railway stations occupied by the enemy, river crossings, and enemy strongholds._x000D_ Planes were also sent for investigation. For example, in December 1943, two IL-2s, one of which had a Milier, had to confirm the presence of German trains at the railway station. The assault planes were covered by three of our fighters. As Vadim recalls, both IL-2s reached the target safely. They photographed the station and found that it was packed with military personnel and military equipment. The station was protected by anti-aircraft installations and fighters. Anti-aircraft guns opened feverish fire. The leading IL-2 was hit. It went to the ground in a corkscrew and crashed. The entire crew was killed. Two German fighters appeared in the air. They had the second assault plane in a vise on both sides. Milier was there. The battle began - two Hitler's Focke-Wulf-190 fighters against one IL-2. The Russian plane fiercely fired back and shot down one enemy fighter approaching from the right side. The latter, leaving a black plume behind, fell like a stone. Soviet plane was also hit: Milier's machine gun turret was smashed by a shell. The shooter himself was shot through the left shoulder. The aircraft commander Nemtinov's dashboard was smashed to smithereens. It was not known what would have ended this duel, if the commander of the IL-2 did not sharply throw the plane down and low-level flight did not bring it out of the fire._x000D_ In the late summer of 1944, the 79th Assault Regiment was based near the Warsaw suburb of Prague. Petty Officer Milier was now flying with captain S. Drozdov._x000D_ The squadron helped units of the 8th Army of General V. Chuikov to gain a foothold on this patch of land. On September 30, there was another flight. An enemy anti-aircraft shell penetrated the gas tank. Captain Drozdov managed to pull the plane to the Eastern Bank of the river and landed near the town of Zatsizhe, in the location of the Polish army. The poles who run up to the burning attack aircraft barely managed to pull the wounded pilot and shooter out of the machine, as it exploded and burned down. Drozdov died of multiple burns on the operating table in the Polish infirmary. Vadim was in danger of losing both legs. The Polish surgeon had to amputate his broken left leg, but managed to save the right one. Later Milier was treated in Moscow. He was able to walk only after eight months._x000D_ Vadim Milier participated in 55 combat missions in the assault aviation regiment. And each sortie is a possible encounter with enemy fighters, anti-aircraft guns, the probability of an emergency landing on enemy territory, his nerves at the limit, constant concentration, endurance and the desire to come out victorious in a fight with the enemy._x000D_ All that was now behind him. Vadim had to overcome his sores, learn to walk on a single injured leg and not only adapt to life, but also become useful to people. Former air gunner overcame all of this._x000D_ In the squadron, and in the hospital, he was called "Communard" because his great-grandfather, the Frenchman Jules (Julius) Georg Milier and his brother Jean-Baptiste Milier took part in the resistance to the Bonapartist coup in December 1851. Jules Milier immigrated to Russia, reached Irkutsk. He met the Decembrist Sergei Volkonskiy and his wife Maria. He married a Russian girl Tatyana. Maria Volkonskaya became the godmother of their son Viktor._x000D_ The fate of Milier Jean Baptiste was tragic. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1871. During the Paris Commune, he collaborated in the newspaper "Commune". He was captured by the Versailles troops and shot without trial._x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, a descendant of French revolutionaries Vadim Milier bravely fought the Nazis. There are four military orders on his chest - two of the Patriotic War and two of the Red Star, the medal For Bravery, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and numerous commemorative, in peacetime - Veteran of labor._x000D_ Vadim Miler died in 2015.

Rank: Red Army Soldier._x000D_ Branch of service: Artillery._x000D_ Duty station: 222nd Smolensk-Brandenburg Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division._x000D_ Born on October 7, 1922 in the village of Bolshaya Vocharma, Kosolapovskaya volost, Sernurskiy Canton (now Mari-Tureksky District) in a peasant family._x000D_ His father Roman - an active supporter of the Soviet government, the first Chairman of the Greater — Vocharminsky Village Council, one of the organizers and the first accountant of the collective farm "Saska" ("Fruit") - died in 1930 due to complications from a wound received in the First world war. The family had five children, Sergey was the eldest. Sergei went to the first class of More-Vecherinki primary school in 1930. Later he studied in Bolshoy-Royalskiyl 7-year School, where he was among the best students. He was instructed to make after classes a wall Newspapers, posters, signs. After finishing school, he entered the Marie-Belomorskiy Pedagogical College. In addition to studying, here he was also engaged in public Affairs: he joined the Komsomol, participated in sports competitions and received sports badges Ready for Work and Defense, Ready for Sanitary defense, Air and Chemical Defense, Voroshilovskiy Shooter_x000D_ S. Suvorov was drafted into the army on August 12, 1941. On July 12, 1942, a platoon of the 774th Rifle Regiment conducted a reconnaissance battle of the front edge of the enemy's defense near the village of Agafino (Khopilovo?). The soldiers, led by the platoon commander, Second Lieutenant Shandrikov, Political Officer Lapshin, overcame two lines of wire barriers and entered the battle. A group of submachine gunners, which included Suvorov, pursuing the retreating enemy, broke forward and was cut off from their unit by a barrage of mortar fire. The group leader and other soldiers were killed. Suvorov left alone and wounded, led an unequal battle all day until the evening. During the first two hours, repelling the onslaught of the enemy, he destroyed 10 German soldiers and wounded many. The enemy opened heavy mortar and machine-gun fire on the Soviet soldier's position. Then, believing him dead, they went forward, but were again met with sub-machine gun fire. It was only at night that the paramedics pulled him out from under enemy fire. 22 corpses of German soldiers laid near the trench, and there were seven wounds on the body of a soviet soldier._x000D_ In fourth day, on July 17, Red Army soldier Suvorov died from wounds in the hospital of the 391st Separate Medical Sanitary Battalion of the 222nd Rifle Division. The primary burial place was the Musino cemetery. Subsequently, he was reburied in the village of Iznoski, Iznoskovskiy District of Kaluga Region in a mass grave, where a Park is now laid out and a monument to the hero stands._x000D_ By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 31, 1943, for courage and heroism shown in the battles with the Nazi invaders, the Red Army soldier Sergey Suvorov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin (posthumously).

Peter Masherov - veteran of the Great Patriotic War _x000D_ Born on January 31 [February 13], 1918 in the village of Shirki, Sennensky District, Mogilev Region, in a poor peasant family of Masherov Miron and Darya with many children. Peter graduated from Gribovskiy Elementary School with a certificate of honor. In 1934 in the village of Dvorishche, Rossonskiy District, he graduated from secondary school. After graduation from the Vitebsk Pedagogical School. In 1939, he graduated from the faculty of physics and mathematics of the S. M. Kirov Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute._x000D_ From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he volunteered to the Red Army, was a member of a fighter battalion. In August 1941, he was surrounded and captured near Nevel, but managed to escape. A few days later, he reached Rosson, where his mother stayed._x000D_ In August 1941, he created and headed the Komsomol youth underground resistance in Rosson. From December 1941 to March 1942, he worked as an accountant for the Rosson collective farm and as a schoolteacher. At the same time, he was engaged in organizing the Komsomol underground resistance and partisan movement in the Rossonskiy District._x000D_ From April 1942 - commander of the N. Shchors Partisan Detachment, which operated in the Rossonskiy, Drissenskiy, Osveyskiy Districts of Belarus and on the territory of neighboring regions of Russia and Latvia. In the first days, the detachment gathered men who agreed to fight in the surrounding villages, pretending to arrest them , so they hoped to avoid punishment for their relatives. In the first battle, Masherov was wounded, and for some time he hid in the Rosson, in the apartment of a former student, despite the objections of other partisans. From July 1942 — candidate, from the summer of 1943 - member of the CPSU (b). He was wounded twice._x000D_ The first organizer of the partisan movement in the Rossonskiy District of the Vitebsk Region, which later grew into a nationwide uprising and created a huge partisan region of 10 thousand square kilometers, completely throwing off the German yoke and restoring Soviet power. In 1944, he was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union._x000D_ Peter Masherov died on October 4, 1980 in a car accident.