The faces of WWII Heroes

Demchenko (Okuncov) Antonina Yakovlevna_x000D_ _x000D_ Branch of the armed forces: Military medical staff. Before the war, Antonina graduated from the eighth grade in Leningrad, immediately got to the labor front-helped dig ditches in the city. Then, after moving to her parents in the village of Zhiletovo, she worked on the construction of a military airfield near Kaluga. After three difficult months of the occupation worked in the harvesting of timber for military purposes. In the fall of 1942, Antonina takes the oath of office and becomes a nurse in the operating Department of the hospital. A few months later - enrollment in accelerated auto courses near Moscow and three months later-combat training with a military driver. And then - independent work: Antonina in the column brings ammunition to the front and evacuates the wounded. For a while, she becomes the Komsomol Secretary of the autobatallion. For participation in carrying out a column with ammunition to the front, which was in dire need of shells, she received the medal "for military merit". Antonina ended the war in Romania. During the war, Antonina's brother Anatoly Yakovlevich Okuntsov was killed at the front. And in 1946, after returning from the front, his second brother, Alexey Yakovlevich Okuntsov, died of war wounds (before the war he worked as an architect in Kaluga). My parents have only one daughter left: Catherine, Antonina, Nadezhda (Vera died during the war from tuberculosis). In the postwar years Okuncov Antonina Yakovlevna worked on the car, and later as a typist. She lived in Ukraine and the North Caucasus. 20.01.1953 year married Demchenko Nikolai Fedorovich (military pilot) (their Union is registered near Zhytomyr). She gave birth to two daughters. The third daughter was born in Kaluga. And again, hard work on a cargo scooter at the Kaluga plant of automotive electrical equipment, then-delivered products to kindergartens. And in the second half of the 60s Antonina gets a job as a taxi driver. People in difficult situations, whom she met on her life's path, always tried to help with shelter, food, advice, everything she could. In retirement, she helped raise five granddaughters, one grandchild, and later a great-granddaughter and great-grandchildren. She always fed the little ones and the older ones berries, vegetables and fruits from her dacha plot. When asked about my health, I always answered: "I Don't let myself dry up!" Always an optimist and a kind and sympathetic person! Eternal memory to the generation of winners! We remember! We love it! We take an example from you!

Dobatkin Valentin Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant. Branch of service: Artillery. Colonel of justice V. I. Dobatkin, honored lawyer of Russia. Valentin Ivanovich Dobatkin was born on December 8, 1923 in the village of Betino in the Kasimovsky district of the Ryazan region in the family of the Director of a rural school. He finished the 10th grade in Moscow in 1941, from where he was called to the front soon after graduation. He first fought in the rank of private, was sent to Stalingrad. At the end of the battle of Stalingrad, commander of the 62nd army of the Stalingrad front V. I. Chuikov summoned Valentin Dobatkin and two other soldiers - the only ones left alive out of the thousands of men who were first recruited into their brigade - and said that he had no moral right to send them to the West to continue fighting, and that the best reward for them would be a referral to study at the guards mortar and artillery school. Valentin Dobatkin finished the war with the rank of second Lieutenant, was awarded numerous orders, medals and distinctions, including the medals "for military merit", "for the defense of Stalingrad", "for the victory over Germany", the order of the great Patriotic War of the 1st degree", the order of the red star. After the war, V. I. Dobatkin entered the Military Law Academy in Moscow, where he graduated with a gold medal and then served for many years in the military Prosecutor's office. Honored lawyer of Russia, Honorary worker of justice of Russia Colonel Valentin Ivanovich Dobatkin retired from the post of Moscow city military Prosecutor, head of the military Prosecutor's office of the Moscow garrison. The war hero died after a long illness - a consequence of the wounds of the battle of Stalingrad - on February 25, 2008. The memory of him is alive among his students, colleagues and relatives.

Dragunov Viktor Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 21st guards rifle nevelskaya division. My great-grandfather, Viktor Dragunov, was born on 27.02.1911 in the village of Brasovo, Bryansk region. In a peasant family, my great-grandfather was one of seven children. He was used to hard work from childhood. After school, my great-grandfather graduated from Cherepovets mechanical technical school. Then he worked at the Stalingrad tractor plant and later as a mechanic at a Sawmill in Navla (Bryansk region). In 1941, with the rank of Lieutenant of communications (great-grandfather graduated from military training courses for Junior officers in Central Asia), he went to the front. He was the commander of a Telegraph and cable platoon, and then the commander of a communications company. My great-grandfather received his first award, the order of the red Star, in October 1943, for fighting in the area East of Kotelva. From the award list of the 122 separate guards communications battalion: Dragoons, commanding a platoon, showed himself to be a bold, brave, initiative and resolute commander, his platoon providing communication between the command post of the corps Commander and the Commander of the 69th Rifle division… In difficult conditions of battle and at crucial moments under continuous artillery and mortar fire of the enemy, tov. Dragunov himself personally went to the line. They personally eliminated 6 injuries, which made it possible to smoothly manage the troops and timely transfer of orders and orders. Great-grandfather participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Hungary from the Nazi invaders and ended the war in the Austrian capital of Vienna, with the rank of captain of the 21st Guards. Rifle corps of the Fourth Army. After the war, my great-grandfather moved to live in the Tula region. Odoev, where he worked as a mechanic at the Odoevsky cannery. From my grandfather's stories, I learned that my great-grandfather had a great sense of humor, was always very athletic, fit and hardworking. Cadet of the may day cadet school of the Tula region, Shchekinsky district of the 7th " D " class, Anton Dragunov.

Dorovskikh Sergey Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Sergey Ivanovich dorovskikh was born in 1913, in the village of Dorovskaya More-Shurminskaya volost of Urzhumsky uyezd of Vyatka province (now it is the territory of Shurminsky rural settlement of Urzhumsky district of Kirov region). Participated in the Soviet-Finnish war (from December 1939 to March 1940). After demobilization, he worked in the Krasnoyarsk territory. He left for the Great Patriotic war in August 1941 and was called up by the Yartsevsky RVC of the Krasnoyarsk territory. As Sergey Ivanovich himself recalled: "A barge was going along the Yenisei river-from the village of Yartsevo to the city of Kazachinsk, they collected all those who were liable for military service along the way and took them to Krasnoyarsk. They were taken from Krasnoyarsk to Murmansk. From there, they were already sent to the Karelian front, to the border with Norway and Finland." Sergey Ivanovich told how hard it was at the beginning of the war: "We were given one rifle for five people, and after the cartridges ran out, the rifle was used as a stick." In a battle on April 14, 1942, he was wounded in the leg. After treatment in the hospital, he served as a scout Rifleman in the 148th separate reconnaissance company in the 114th Svir rifle division. On August 12, 1944, he was awarded the order of Glory of the III degree — for saving the wounded Deputy commander of the battalion in the political unit during the battle (the award found him only in 1996). He was also awarded the medal "for the defense of the Soviet Arctic "and the medal" for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". as Sergey Ivanovich said, many submissions for awards were lost, as the commander was often killed before he submitted award documents for soldiers. He returned home at the end of may 1945. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree. He died in 1998.

George Fedorovich Dunaev Rank: Corporal branch of service: army corps of engineers, My mother, Belyayeva (Dunaeva) Vera Georgievna says: "My father, George F. Dunaev, was born on 21.08.1914. (in some documents is 1915) in the village of Otrok Idrinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk territory. The family had four sisters and two brothers. In 1939, he was called up by the Idrinsky RVC to join the red army, where he became a participant in the Finnish war. From the Finnish war, he immediately found himself on the front of the great Patriotic war. He did not like to talk about the war, but on Victory Day he always remembered his friends, fellow soldiers, and even cried. In my childhood memory, I remember some moments from his stories. So, he met the war in Western Ukraine, somewhere in the Lviv region. He had a friend, a Ukrainian by the name of Women. One day they were ambushed and ran with him across a small river, followed by German tanks. One gun was firing at the tanks. When they got to it, they found that the girl had fired direct fire. They began to bring shells. Then all three of them ran. And suddenly the girl ran back, but did not have time to shoot. It was crushed by a tank and a gun. At this time the German shot from the pistol and hit him in the chest Community. His chest was torn open, and for the first time in his life, his father saw his heart beating. A friend died before his eyes, and he himself escaped in the forest. My father served in an engineering battalion. It was terrible at the crossings, when enemy planes flew by, people seemed to lose their minds. He was struck by one incident: a young dead woman was lying, and a baby was crawling on her, people were rushing around. And you have to take this pain away and run to do your job-to direct the pontoon.At the beginning of the war – the first wound, the first award-the medal "for bravery", which he greatly appreciated. The train with the wounded was taken towards the Caucasus, but under the White Church was bombed. The paramedics dropped his stretcher, and he hit himself and came to. I crawled as best I could, fighting the pain. It saved his life. The hospital, and then Stalingrad. It was hell. It seemed that the earth and sky were mixed, the Volga was burning (oil spilled over it). Enemy planes bombed incessantly, especially the crossings. The city lay in ruins. Once we received an order: a few kilograms of tal for each of us and crawl to the buildings where the Germans were holed up. And there is a steppe, everything is at a glance. The commander was well aware that this was a senseless loss of life (platoon). He canceled the order and was taken away 40 minutes later. My father always said that the order "Not a step back, there is no land for us beyond the Volga" was relevant. And for some reason, he believed that Stalin was right to quickly expel the ethnic Germans of the Volga region. Even my Siberian father had a hard time that winter, because the uniforms were out of season. When the attack and closure of the boiler, they connected with other parts in the area of the Kalach station. When the German prisoners were taken out, it was terrible to look at them. They were frostbitten, ragged people who looked like some kind of rabble, but not the warriors who were in the beginning. Then there was the Kursk bulge. Here he noted that for the first time during the war there was a large number of our equipment. If at the beginning of the fighters watched in the sky single battles of our "hawks", which were unspeakably happy, then here the planes went in batches to bomb each other's positions. There was a powerful artillery preparation. There were two fighters who were brothers, they met for the first time, only had time to hug and went on the attack. Their further fate is unknown. There was also a curious case when crossing the don (at night). The boat was smashed by the explosion, and my father was in the water. He caught hold of a log, and it was very slippery. In the flash, I saw that it was a fish. He had never seen such a fish in Siberia, and was amazed. As I later found out, it was a catfish. My father ended the war in East Prussia, and was wounded at the capture of Konigsberg. These were bloody battles. There were few survivors of the regiment. He met Victory day in the hospital. A leg wound always bothered him. At the front, he joined the party. My father was not a coward, but he always said that war is scary, just don't have time to think about it. For him, the worst thing was when they bombed. An unpleasant feeling from the howl of a falling bomb, it seemed that it was flying straight at you. Has awards. But it is difficult to describe in detail now, because after 23 years of marriage, my parents separated, and my father left. But our family always honored and remembered this page of my father's life. He is the real George the victorious.

Leonid Yakovlevich Drapkin_x000D_ _x000D_ Veteran of the great Patriotic war, Honorary employee of the Prosecutor's office, doctor of law, Professor, honored scientist of the Russian Federation. Awarded: order of the "Patriotic war" I degree, medals "for the liberation of Warsaw", "for the capture of Budapest", "for the capture of Berlin" and many others. He joined the army as a volunteer in June 1942, when he was only 17 years old. Initially, he served in the Chelyabinsk military aviation school of mechanics, from which he graduated in early 1943. Already in March 1943, he fought as part of the 20th guards Sevastopol long-range bomber regiment. He was a mechanic, then an aircraft technician, served the IL-4 bomber aircraft. His regiment bombarded German fortifications along the Dnieper, near Kiev, in Budapest, and attacked Konigsberg, Berlin, and other German strongholds. Drapkin was demobilized only in 1949, after which he received a law degree and in 1956 joined the Prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region. Leonid Yakovlevich worked in the investigative bodies of the Prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region from 1956 to 1967. Consistently occupied posts of the investigator of Prosecutor's office of Zheleznodorozhny district of the city of Sverdlovsk, then the senior investigator of Prosecutor's office of Sverdlovsk region, the Prosecutor-criminalist Prosecutor's office in Sverdlovsk region. In 1967, in connection with his election as a senior lecturer at the Sverdlovsk law Institute, he devoted himself to the science of criminology, becoming a Professor at the Department of criminology of the Ural state law University and achieving recognition of his scientific achievements at the international level. This is confirmed, in particular, by the award of the UN silver medal "for outstanding services to the development of criminalistics and forensic expertise" and the Highest award of the Ministry of justice of the Russian Federation – the A. F. Koni medal. He was also awarded the medal of the Investigative Committee of Russia "Valor and bravery". In the last years of his life, Leonid Drapkin took part, among other things, in the work of the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region, generously shared his rich experience with employees, participated in various events. Leonid Yakovlevich brought up many highly qualified specialists who still successfully work in law enforcement agencies in various positions, always remembering their Teacher with gratitude. Leonid Yakovlevich died in his native city of Yekaterinburg on August 11, 2019 at the age of 95. Currently, L. ya.Drapkin's grandson, Alexander Shuklin, is serving as a senior expert of the criminalistics Department of the investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the Sverdlovsk region.

Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier Type of troops: Engineering troops My father Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich was born on March 21, 1923 in d.Katlanovo, Belevsky district,Tula region. In January 1942, after graduating from the sapper school, he was called up to the front by the Belevsky district military Commissariat, Tula region. From January to may 1942, he participated in the combat operations of the Bryansk front for the liberation of the Oryol region in the direction from Belev to Bolkhov and Orel as a sapper. By the beginning of January 1942, the troops of the Bryansk front, pursuing the enemy and knocking down his barriers, reached the border: Belev, Mtsensk, The Upper Part, Antiquated. After the end of the counteroffensive near Moscow, the Stavka instructed our troops to launch a General offensive in the Western strategic direction. The troops of the Bryansk front were assigned the task of conducting an offensive in the Belev, Livny strip in the Bolkhovsky and Oryol directions. Fulfilling this Task, the troops of the 61st army in the first half of January went on the offensive in the Bolkhov direction and advanced several tens of kilometers. The front troops went on the defensive and did not conduct active combat operations until the summer of 1942. In may 1942, the Stalinist corps was formed in Moscow, where a group of sappers was sent.Since June 1942, until the departure to the front, the scientific process was activated. Classes were held on a 3-month combat training program .After graduating, A. p. Danilkin got to a transfer point in Moscow. Further, the front-line path of Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich took place as part of the 8th Estonian corps. From November 1942 to January 1943, he participated in the combat operations of the Kalinin front as a sapper of the 28th separate sapper battalion in the 8th Estonian corps. On October 21, 1942, parts of the corps loaded into echelons and went to the front. Along the way, the trains were subjected to air raids, shelling and bombing. So the corps suffered the first combat losses in personnel and military equipment-21 people were killed and the same number was wounded.The battle of Velikiye Luki was the corps ' baptism of fire. The fighting in the city blocks, equipped by the Germans as long-term fortifications, was fierce and bloody. 75 % of the corps personnel were knocked out of action (wounded, killed, missing) Particularly fierce fighting broke out at the railway station,where German military engineers managed to create a strongly fortified system of bunkers and pillboxes, each of which had to be stormed by independent mobile groups. The railway station was taken on January 13, 1943. A feature of the fighting in January 1943 was the active actions of mobile, small and effective assault groups, staffed by sappers and gunners. January 10, 1943 During the liberation of the railway station, my father A. p. Danilkin was seriously wounded in the head and legs on the roof of the railway station. Lost consciousness, lay unconscious in the cold for a long time, miraculously survived, he was picked up. A leg was amputated in a hospital in Chita. The monuments on the mass graves of the Estonian corps soldiers on the high Bank of the lovati river near Velikiye Luki preserve the eternal memory of these battles. I consider my dad a real hero who contributed to the Great Victory at the cost of his health.After the war, he worked as a teacher for 35 years. For services to the Fatherland, Alexey Danilkin was awarded the Order of glory of the III-degree, the order of the Patriotic war of the I degree, the medal "for courage" and other medals.

Domanov Vladimir Vasilyevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant. Branch of service: Artillery. Division: 238th rifle Karachevsky red banner order of Suvorov and Kutuzov division. Vladimir Vasilyevich was called up for war on August 25, 1942 by the Kurkinsky district military enlistment office in the 693rd Artillery regiment of the 238th red banner Order of Suvorov division, formed in the city of Arzamas as a radio operator. From September 1, 1942 to March 31, 1943, he participated in combat operations on the Kalinin front. From April 1, 1943 to October 20, 1943, he participated in the fighting of the Bryansk front, and from October 20, 1943 to April 24, 1944 in the first formation of the Belarusian front, and from April 24, 1944 in the second formation of the Belarusian front. In the battles with the German invaders in the winter of 1945, Vladimir Vasilyevich showed courage and ability to fight. March 26, 1945 with the destruction of the Danzig enemy, replacing the incapacitated telephone operator, in a severe artillery fire, eliminated six gusts lines of communication across the Dead Vistula, thereby ensuring seamless connection of the battery commander with the infantry and firing positions. For skilful fighting and courage, he was awarded the order of the Red star. In the battle for the city of Danzig on March 31, 1945, while in the infantry battle formations, under heavy enemy fire, he continuously kept in touch with firing positions. In this battle, he was wounded by a shell fragment, despite the wound, he continued to maintain radio contact, not leaving the battlefield until our infantry reached the Baltic sea. For excellent combat actions, he was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. After the war ended, Vladimir Vasilyevich served in Germany for two years. He was also awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree, medals for the capture of Konigsberg and for the victory over Germany, as well as other awards.

Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich began to fight in 1939. and passed the Finnish war. He began the great Patriotic War as an ordinary red army soldier in July 1941, then became a squad commander. From the first days he was on the front line, often went on the attack, received many injuries, miraculously survived. Here are some of the memories of that difficult and terrible time ,written from his words: One of the most terrible memories is when you sit in a trench and nothing depends on you - German planes dive down on you with a howl, shoot and throw bombs, the ground shakes, explosions, roar, a pile of soaring earth. During the German air RAID, he was in a trench, when another shell burst, his grandfather was completely covered with earth, and only thanks to a soldier who survived nearby, who knew that there was a man next to him, his grandfather was dug up and brought to life half-dead; he was already unconscious and almost suffocated under the ground. He told how at the beginning of the war, all the soldiers did not have enough rifles and picked up their weapons from the dead soldiers. Being wounded in the swamp surrounded by no strength and food, when there was nowhere to run and hide, my grandfather, seeing the Germans, pretended to be dead. The Germans were marching in a chain and shooting dead and wounded Russian soldiers. We were lucky that we passed by my grandfather and didn't shoot him. Surrounded by the grandfather and a small group of soldiers came across a village and went to the house of the headman. At night, the headman wanted to run away to the Germans and tell them about the Russian soldiers in his house, but according to the story of his grandfather, they did not let him do it and killed him. While in the trench and repelling a German tank attack,our shooter, who was shooting from an anti-tank (PTR) rifle, was killed near my grandfather. The grandfather took the PTR and fired at the approaching German tank, the tank began to smoke and stop, the Germans began to jump out of it. My grandfather shot at them with a rifle, then says they didn't get up again. During the attack at Stalingrad, my grandfather tore off the index finger on his right hand, in the heat of the attack, I noticed this only when I had to shoot a rifle, pressing the trigger with my finger. The hand then did not heal for a long time, there was a possibility of gangrene and the doctors wanted to amputate the hand, but the grandfather did not give consent. He said that the hand was very rotten and even in the injured hand got worms. There was a wound in the thigh with many fragments, which then for many years periodically came out of the leg when steaming in the bath. There was a wound in the foot when I ran to attack, the bullet entered near the thumb and left through the heel. There was a head wound. At the beginning of the war, my grandfather had a conflict with an officer. The grandfather with a serious wound lay in hospital and the officer forced the wounded to carry heavy logs, the grandfather for this called him a fool. The officer got into a fight and got a shovel on the head from his grandfather. The officer wrote a report-complaint and without any special proceedings, the grandfather was transferred to the penal company. But it was not possible to fight there. Soon my grandfather was called to investigate by a special officer who turned out to be a good person, dealt with the incident impartially, did not give the case a go, and my grandfather was transferred back to his unit. Thus, the special agent saved his grandfather, or they could have shot him indiscriminately. On the front line, when my grandfather was on guard, he managed to capture a German gun in no man's land, escorted it under escort to the rear, where he handed it over to other soldiers, who took it to headquarters. For this, my grandfather wanted to be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. But since he passed the captured trophy to other soldiers, the case of appropriation was lost and did not take shape. Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich was a participant in the tank battle on the Kursk Bulge near Prokhorovka and fought in the battle of Stalingrad.

Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich began to fight in 1939. and passed the Finnish war. He began the great Patriotic War as an ordinary red army soldier in July 1941, then became a squad commander. From the first days he was on the front line, often went on the attack, received many injuries, miraculously survived. Here are some of the memories of that difficult and terrible time ,written from his words: One of the most terrible memories is when you sit in a trench and nothing depends on you - German planes dive down on you with a howl, shoot and throw bombs, the ground shakes, explosions, roar, a pile of soaring earth. During the German air RAID, he was in a trench, when another shell burst, his grandfather was completely covered with earth, and only thanks to a soldier who survived nearby, who knew that there was a man next to him, his grandfather was dug up and brought to life half-dead; he was already unconscious and almost suffocated under the ground. He told how at the beginning of the war, all the soldiers did not have enough rifles and picked up their weapons from the dead soldiers. Being wounded in the swamp surrounded by no strength and food, when there was nowhere to run and hide, my grandfather, seeing the Germans, pretended to be dead. The Germans were marching in a chain and shooting dead and wounded Russian soldiers. We were lucky that we passed by my grandfather and didn't shoot him. Surrounded by the grandfather and a small group of soldiers came across a village and went to the house of the headman. At night, the headman wanted to run away to the Germans and tell them about the Russian soldiers in his house, but according to the story of his grandfather, they did not let him do it and killed him. While in the trench and repelling a German tank attack,our shooter, who was shooting from an anti-tank (PTR) rifle, was killed near my grandfather. The grandfather took the PTR and fired at the approaching German tank, the tank began to smoke and stop, the Germans began to jump out of it. My grandfather shot at them with a rifle, then says they didn't get up again. During the attack at Stalingrad, my grandfather tore off the index finger on his right hand, in the heat of the attack, I noticed this only when I had to shoot a rifle, pressing the trigger with my finger. The hand then did not heal for a long time, there was a possibility of gangrene and the doctors wanted to amputate the hand, but the grandfather did not give consent. He said that the hand was very rotten and even in the injured hand got worms. There was a wound in the thigh with many fragments, which then for many years periodically came out of the leg when steaming in the bath. There was a wound in the foot when I ran to attack, the bullet entered near the thumb and left through the heel. There was a head wound. At the beginning of the war, my grandfather had a conflict with an officer. The grandfather with a serious wound lay in hospital and the officer forced the wounded to carry heavy logs, the grandfather for this called him a fool. The officer got into a fight and got a shovel on the head from his grandfather. The officer wrote a report-complaint and without any special proceedings, the grandfather was transferred to the penal company. But it was not possible to fight there. Soon my grandfather was called to investigate by a special officer who turned out to be a good person, dealt with the incident impartially, did not give the case a go, and my grandfather was transferred back to his unit. Thus, the special agent saved his grandfather, or they could have shot him indiscriminately. On the front line, when my grandfather was on guard, he managed to capture a German gun in no man's land, escorted it under escort to the rear, where he handed it over to other soldiers, who took it to headquarters. For this, my grandfather wanted to be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. But since he passed the captured trophy to other soldiers, the case of appropriation was lost and did not take shape. Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich was a participant in the tank battle on the Kursk Bulge near Prokhorovka and fought in the battle of Stalingrad.

Dadian Tigran Michailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant GB Kind of troops: the Troops of the NKVD and NKGB (except the border) My father Dadian Tigran M., a member of the great Patriotic war.. Dadiyan T. M. was called up on 10.09.1942 in Tbilisi in the 48th OBS of the 58th army-arrived for replenishment after the fighting near Rostov for 10 days in Tbilisi. Next - the 7th , 16th, 3rd regiments of the MGB communications, the 16th separate Budapest order of Alexander Nevsky brigade of the NKVD government communications, the 1st MGB communications regiment. T. M. dadiyan provided a permanent cable-pole connection to the headquarters of the 2nd Ukrainian front with the headquarters of the Supreme high command. Front-line route: Makhachkala-Khasavyurt-Grozny-Mozdok-Min-Vody (winter 1943) Kilovodsk-Luhansk (1943 Voroshilovograd MGB reserve regiment SK front) Kharkiv (MGB) - Moldova-Romania (Yassa) - Hungary-Czechoslovakia – Austria (Vienna) - returned to Czechoslovakia – Bratislava (may 9 - Victory Day) Hungary (Miskolci 1946) railway station Pitsunda-20th warehouse of the Ministry of internal Affairs in Tbilisi-Mtskheta (1947) Zestafoni (1947) Stalingrad (railway) - Voronezh-Tbilisi (discharged in 1949). Participant of the Iasi-Kishinev operation August 1944 . Awards: Medals: - for participation in the heroic assault and capture of Budapest on 13.02.45. A - # 351376 by decree of the Presidium of the USSR armed forces of 9.06.1945, the medal was awarded in 1947- "for the Victory over Germany 1941-1945" - M #-0353965-Decree of the Presidium of the armed forces of 9.05.1945, ml. Sergeant, awarded 15/03 / 1946 - "for impeccable Service of the II degree" - org. State. Safety. from 2.12.1959 G. foreman-no. UD. 058347-order of the KGB under the USSR CM no. 0258 of 2.12.1959 - - "Zhukov Medal", B no. 0862718 decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 19.02.1996 - "Order of the Patriotic War II degree" - order no. 4718588 certificate number-G No. 305930 Decree. Presidium of the USSR armed forces 11.03.1985 G. My father had 3 other brothers, two Of whom dadiyan Lev Mikhailovich and Dadiyan Artem Mikhailovich also participated in the great Patriotic war. My mother's father, my grandfather, Tateos Grigoryan, was also a participant in the great Patriotic war. I am proud of my parents and relatives who contributed to the great VICTORY.

Dorozhkin Ivan Stepanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain military branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard Unit: 248th rifle Odessa red banner division My uncle, Ivan Dorozhkin, was born on September 4, 1922 in the village of Novopanskoe in the Mikhailovsky district of the then Moscow and now Ryazan region. In 1940, when he reached the age of eighteen, he was drafted into the red Army, where he met the beginning of the war. After completing the accelerated courses of the military school, having received the specialty of a sapper, with the rank of second Lieutenant, he was sent to the front on August 18, 1941. At the beginning of the war, he fought on the southern front, and then on the Ukrainian and Belarusian fronts .As part of 902s. p 248 p. d 5ud.And passed a glorious battle path: participated in the liberation of Warsaw, crossing the river. The Oder, the capture of Berlin. He was seriously wounded twice. Awarded two orders of the red banner, two orders of the red star, medals "for the liberation of Warsaw"; " for the capture of Berlin"; "For the victory over Germany" after demobilization, Ivan Stepanovich returned to his native village and after graduating from the pedagogical school began working as a teacher.During his long career, he raised more than one generation of students. I tried to instill in children and girls love for the Motherland, honesty, decency, respect for the older generation, all the qualities that are sometimes lacking in our time.Even after retiring, he did not remain without the attention of his students . On May 9, his Birthday, his house was always full of flowers and greetings.My uncle was always ready to help, to help not only with good advice but also with deeds.He has always been an example for us. In the year of the 70th anniversary of the great Victory, he died. The memory of dear uncle van will always remain in our hearts.

Dolgopolov Alexander Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier. Division: 310th Novgorod rifle order of Lenin red banner division. Alexander Ivanovich Dolgopolov was born in the village of Troitskaya, Krasnodar territory, on February 13, 1917. In the 30s, he was exiled to Siberia, where he was among the first to found the village of Sibirsky. He left for the war in August 1942 and went to the Volkhov front, where he was a machine gunner. The authorities immediately noticed a capable soldier, a born hunter-tracker, and identified him as a scout. Soon the scout Dolgopolov went on his first search-to identify enemy firing points. How many successful and unsuccessful searches there were later! Sometimes, after several incredibly difficult days, they did not deliver the "language" that was urgently needed at the headquarters, but brought their wounded or killed comrade. At this time, the Wehrmacht troops closed the ring around Leningrad and tried to capture it as soon as possible. The fascists attacked continuously. My grandfather said that the artillery preparation was replaced by the roar of tank engines, the hum of dive planes, but he did not know then how the next brutal battle ended, the wound forced him to go to the medical unit. And he had four injuries: on March 16, 1943, a light shoulder wound, on January 16, 1944, a light head wound, and on may 10, 1944, a chest wound. He liberated Novgorod, the Leningrad and Pskov regions, and Latvia After the last fourth, a wound received on June 31, 1944 in Latvia, his grandfather was treated for a long time in the Omsk hospital. After recovering, in March 1945, he entered the Vladimir tank school with the rank of Sergeant. He graduated as a mechanic driver of the T-34 tank. He ended the war in the Baltic States. May 9, 1945! For my grandfather, this was a particularly memorable day — he was to be discharged as having received "three or more wounds". And now the wheels of the echelon are rattling, taking grandfather Sasha, "an Excellent scout,"home. "Excellent machine gunner", on his tunic - the order of Glory of the III degree, medals: "for bravery", "for the victory over Germany". Later he was awarded many jubilee medals. He returned to Sibirsky, was a foreman of the vegetable growing brigade, a senior agronomist. Old residents of the village still remember its huge cabbages. For more than a quarter of a century, he worked honestly and conscientiously on the state farm. Already in 1972, when my grandfather was going to leave for a well-deserved rest, he got a job at the X-Mansi fish factory as a fisherman. In eleven years, I caught about a hundred tons of fish. To combat awards were added labor: the order of the red banner of Labor and the jubilee medal for the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin. In addition, more than a dozen certificates of honor were awarded at various times. The name of my grandfather is listed in the Book of Honor of Sibrevkoma and Labor glory of the Ministry of fisheries of the Russian Federation. Central Committee of the trade Union of food industry workers, he was awarded the title "five-year Guardsman". Together with his wife Lukerya Prokopyevna, who worked all her life on a state farm, Alexander Ivanovich raised and raised eight children. After retiring, his worries did not decrease-the economy, granddaughters… Although I have never seen my great-grandfather, I can be proud of him, because during his difficult life, he fulfilled his duty to the Motherland, the people and his family.

Demin Vasily Yakovlevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Yakovlevich Demin was born in 1925 in the village of Morevka, Bolsheignatovsky district of Mordovia.In the ranks of the red Army, a seventeen-year-old boy Vasily falls on March 2, 1942. Therefore, all archival documents and awards are registered to Vladimir Demin. After intense combat training in the Moscow region, the 73rd separate cavalry division, in which Vasily served, was sent to the Bryansk front on the afternoon of November 19, after a powerful artillery preparation and rapid actions of the advanced units, the division entered the breakthrough of the enemy defense and began fighting to liberate the village of Ust-Medvitskaya (Serafimovich city) from the invaders. January 6, 1943 On the night of January 19, units of the division, bypassing Belaya Kalitva from the South, broke into the city and, after a short street battle, drove the enemy over the Seversky Donets river. On September 15, 1943, the 15th guards cavalry division crossed the Desna river in the Rybotin-Zmetnev section, seized a bridgehead on the left Bank, broke the resistance of the fascist troops, and led an offensive to the West. Repulsing numerous enemy counterattacks, the 15th guards cavalry division, together with other formations, liberated the city of helm on July 22, for which it was awarded the order of the red banner (Decree of the Presidium of the USSR armed forces of 09.08.1944).For the courage and heroism shown in the battles, the young fighter Demin Vasily was awarded the medal "for bravery" by order of the commander of the 57th guards, cavalry red banner order of Kutuzov III degree of the Pomeranian regiment on August 8, 1944. I present Demin to the government award of the order of the Patriotic war of the first degree."In the battle for Nennhausen Demin Vasily Yakovlevich died before the age of the long-awaited victory for a few days. The order was awarded many years later to his younger brother Alexey Yakovlevich.

Tangatarov Omar Dinmuhambetovich_x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather participated in the great Patriotic war. I don't know all the details. In my opinion, a person who has passed through a fiery hell does not really want to tell even his relatives about it, apparently the heart begins to ache and the soul hurts. There are medals and decorations on the wall in front of me. These are the awards of my great-grandfather Dangatarov Omar Dinmukhambetovich. I didn't have a chance to meet him, but I love this man very much and I want to tell you about him. My great-grandfather Tangatarov Omar Dinmuhamedova was born 1916. I finished three classes. Before the war, he worked in his native village as a tractor driver. For the first time during the war, he went to the front. When my great-grandfather returned from the front, my grandfather was not there yet. He went to war like everyone else in 1941, and returned in 1945 when the war ended. According to the stories, he fought in Penza, and there in the war he lost his left arm - became an invalid. My great-grandfather had a close-knit strong family-4 daughters and 1 son, my grandfather. After the war, my great-grandfather did not work, as he was disabled. And when my grandfather was 39 and my father was 10, in 1988 my great-grandfather passed away. From the memoirs of my grandfather Tangatarova of Abdulhamit of Omarovich. My grandfather loves to talk about his father. He says: "I am proud of my father, proud of his orders and medals." He says that his great-grandfather was good with one hand. He even made a kitchen Cabinet for the house, and my uncle - sadykh Mechitovich, Director of MKOU SOSH No. 11, helped him in this. We still keep this kitchen Cabinet as a Museum relic. My great-grandfather's medals and decorations hang prominently on the wall of our house.