The faces of WWII Heroes

Peter Ivanovich Davydov_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant. Pyotr Ivanovich Davydov (1920-1941) - my great-uncle. Peter's younger brother, Nikolay Ivanovich Davydov , is my grandfather, who devoted his entire life to finding his brother. The Davydov family lived in the village of Terebenki, yegoryevsky municipal district of the Moscow region. His father, Ivan Illarionovich, fought on the German front in the First world war. Brothers Peter, Pavel and Nikolai were born in the barracks of the factory "Leader of the proletariat". Then the family moved to the city of Yegoryevsk on the street. Bow 26/1 to your own home. Soon after, my mother died of a cold. In 1938, his older brother Peter graduated from school No. 10. According to his classmates, he was a cheerful guy, liked to read, drew well, and participated in Amateur performances. However, he dreamed of becoming an officer, and therefore immediately entered the Minsk military school (MVU). In 1940, twenty-year-old Lieutenant Pyotr Davydov and his wife angelina arrived at the Brest garrison and took up the post of commander of the 3rd machine-gun platoon of the 125th rifle regiment of the 6th Oryol red banner rifle division. And on June 22, 1941, the traces of this family ended. A message came to Yegoryevsk: "Missing...". In November 1944, the seventeen-year-old younger brother Nikolai was drafted into the army. He was sent to a training battalion in Belarus, and then to a radio operator school in Moscow. There he found Victory. After the war, he studied, became a history teacher, and went to work in Siberia. The fate of the missing older brother did not give rest to Nikolai Ivanovich, and in 1957 he began searching for his traces. Nikolai Ivanovich began to send requests to the archives, to Komsomolskaya Pravda, and tried to find his brother's colleagues. Raisa Abakumova, a former paramedic of the 125th rifle regiment, was the first to respond from Oryol. She knew Lieutenant Davydov well, but before the war she was transferred to an army hospital and on June 22, 1941, she did not see or hear from Peter. At the same time, R. Abakumova gave N. I. Davydov the address of the former senior military doctor of the 125th regiment M. N. Gavrilkin – he, it turns out, lived near Yegoryevsk, in the village. Ryazanovsky. There was an exchange of emails, but there is almost no new data. According to M. N. Gavrilkin, Lieutenant Davydov and his wife did not live in the fortress, but outside its territory, in the houses of the command staff. During the storming of Brest, the Germans immediately cut our garrison into parts, between which there was practically no connection... in the Summer of 1967, N. I. Davydov, who had already returned to the yegoryevsky district and worked in d. Kolychevo, with a group of teachers went on an excursion to Brest. There, he turned to the Museum for information about his brother. And suddenly it turned out that Lieutenant p. I. Davydov was listed among the dead defenders of the fortress! However, there were no details about this. But the Museum staff found the address of S. S. Shikanov, who in 1941 was the commander of a machine-gun company of the 125th rifle regiment and was the direct military commander of Peter Davydov, as well as his fellow student at the Moscow military school. Nikolai Ivanovich sent a letter to S. S. Shikanov. In a reply message, he reported that in the last days before the war, their unit was in a field camp, where they were firing machine guns. On the evening of June 21, Saturday, Lieutenant Davydov asked to go home until morning. More fellow not seen: 4 hours began bombing and shelling, the Germans crossed the border - a month Later the partisans, where I was able to get from Brest family of six commanders, including the wife of Petr Ivanovich Davydov – angelina Iosifovna, – said in his letter, Sergey Shikanov. – She told us how her husband and other fighters from the first minutes of the war joined the battle, how they held the defense and died. Angelina Davydova herself became actively involved in the partisan movement, was later transferred to the "mainland", and then returned to her homeland – to Minsk. Then her tracks were lost. It would seem that N. I. Davydov could complete his search. The fate of the older brother was found out. His heroic death was confirmed by an official letter from the management of the Brest fortress defense Museum. The Republican newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussia and the media of the yegoryevsky district told about Lieutenant Davydov… But Nikolai Ivanovich also wanted to find Pyotr Ivanovich's wife, angelina Iosifovna. And perseverance was crowned with success. As N. I. Davydov recalled, a teacher of one of the Minsk universities P. M. Kiryushin accidentally found out about this story. Repairs of our area and decided to help fellow countrymen. Through his efforts, Minsk television showed a photo of P. I. Davydov and his wife on February 6, 1968. And angelina Iosifovna herself responded to the program! A month and a half later, A. I. Davydova appeared on Minsk television and told about her husband's feat and her future fate. The program was recorded on tape and sent to the yegoryevsky Museum of local lore. Relatives who had never seen each other before and knew almost nothing about each other began to correspond. So Nikolai Ivanovich literally learned firsthand about how his older brother died. "It is impossible to describe the terrible night when the war began," angelina Iosifovna said in her letter. – We had not yet fallen asleep when the Nazis began to bomb the fortress… Peter immediately ran to the regimental headquarters. On their site, they organized a defense with Commissioner Derbenev. Peter fought hotly, courageously, having only personal weapons… During the day, he was shot in the shoulder. They made a dressing, and he again with even greater hatred smashed the fascists… Peter was wounded a second time by the end of the day, badly. When I got to him, he was dead." In the letter, A. I. Davydova also told about her fate. Thus ended this long epic. All photos, letters and other documents related to the case, N. I. Davydov carefully collected in an album and called it "the History of one search (1957-1968)". And in 1972, angelina Iosifovna came to Yegoryevsk. Here she met her husband's family for the first time – her own family. June 22, 1941-Lieutenant Pyotr Ivanovich Davydov heroically died in the Western Fort of the Kobrin fortification of the Brest fortress. The memorial complex in Brest, opened in 1971, bears the names of many defenders of the fortress. Lieutenant Pyotr Ivanovich Davydov, the first yegoryevite who fell 77 years ago at the forefront of the great Patriotic war, is also immortalized there.

Dmitriev Boris Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Boris Dmitriev - commander of the sabotage group of the 211st partisan detachment named after K. K. Rokossovsky in the temporarily occupied territory of the Mogilev region of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic.Born on June 11, 1924 in Moscow in the family of an employee. Russian. In 1941, he graduated from the 9th grade of the school. Participant of the great Patriotic war. In 1942, he graduated from the special school of demolition miners, after which in July 1942 he was sent to the partisan group Of G. N. Borozny (from January 1943-the 211st partisan detachment named after K. K. Rokossovsky), which operated in the Osipovichi district of the Mogilev region temporarily occupied by the German-fascist troops of the territory of the Belarusian SSR.Komsomol member Boris Dmitriev was the commander of the sabotage group. He personally participated in the bombing of eighteen enemy echelons, which resulted in the destruction of one thousand two hundred and sixty Hitlerites, eight tanks, thirty-two cars, eleven guns, one hundred and fifty-four tons of fuel.Boris Dmitriev trained fourteen partisan bombers. The sabotage groups that he led blew up one thousand four hundred railway tracks, eleven railway and thirty-two highway bridges, twenty-two cars and three enemy tanks.Brave 19-year-old partisan bomber B. M. Dmitriev died a brave death in battle on February 23, 1944 in the village of Kamenichi, Osipovichi district, Mogilev region. He was buried in the town of Osipovichi in the Mogilev region of Belarus. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated August 15, 1944 for exemplary performance of fighting tasks of command at the front struggle with German-fascist invaders and displaying courage and heroism Dmitriev Boris was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Awarded the order of Lenin, the medal "partisan of the Patriotic war" of the 1st degree. The street and school No. 1 in the city of Osipovichi are named after the Hero."In may 1941, Boris Dmitriev, a student of the 243rd Moscow school, graduated from the ninth grade. He studied well, but success was not easy for him. He was distinguished by perseverance, hard work, and self-discipline. Teachers noted Dmitriev's directness, honesty, and integrity in large and small matters. Such character traits are usually attractive. It was no accident that Boris was always surrounded by friends, loved, and listened to. Concentration and childhood were strangely combined in this young man: an independent study of Marx's capital And games of "Cossack robbers" with yard boys, an elaborate system of self-education and a touching love for animals…And yet, who would have thought then that in a year Boris, who just turns 18, will become the commander of the partisan demolition squad; participating in combat operations, will die before four months before his 20th birthday, and will be posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. Boris did not have time to see "adult" life peaceful. Those incomplete 3 years that he lived in the war were difficult and dangerous. They made his name and deeds immortal. Just like hundreds of other Komsomol members, his peers, he besieged the Komsomol district Committee in the first days of the war, begging and even demanding to send it to fight the enemy. Soon he became a cadet in a special school. The days of study passed quickly. Boris has mastered the specialty of demolition. Now he had the work for which he had been striving and preparing, which was fraught with many unknown and dangerous things - fighting behind enemy lines. In the hot June days of 1942 Dmitriev with a group of friends crossed the front line, and in August, when we left behind about 600 miles, was a guerrilla commando group G. N. Borozna, acting on the territory of Osipovichi district of Mogilev region (later, the group has increased 211 guerrilla group. K. K. Rokossovsky). When a certain combat experience was accumulated, he began to train students himself. In the combat characteristics of Boris, signed by the commander of the Osipovichi military task force (VOG), Hero of the Soviet Union N. F. Korolev, it is noted that he trained 14 bombers. Many of them later became mine-demolition instructors or commanders of demolition groups. The same characteristic marks other achievements of B. Dmitriev: "Led 4 operations to destroy the enemy's railway guard. Participated in 7 ambushes and 3 open battles."In the summer of 1943, during one of the operations to destroy the enemy garrison in the Osipovichi district, Boris was in the assault group. At the signal of the green rocket, the partisans rose to the attack, but suddenly an enemy machine gun began to fire from a camouflaged bunker. The partisans pressed themselves to the ground. An unexpected delay could disrupt the operation. And suddenly a small figure detached itself from the ranks of the partisans and quickly crawled forward. It was Boris Dmitriev. Risking his life, he crawled to the bunker and threw grenades at it. The machine gun immediately stopped, and then Boris, who had risen to his full height, drew his comrades into the attack. For this battle, he was awarded the Medal "partisan of the Patriotic war" I degree. In his spare moments, Boris always made something, perfected partisan subversive means, invented intricate mines - "surprises". Once the punishers surrounded the partisan camp and the command decided to leave it, break out of the ring. Then Boris at the last minute so skillfully mined all the approaches to the camp and some dugouts that the Nazis did not suspect anything until they ran into the mines. The lines of the award list succinctly record the military Affairs of B. Dmitriev: "I personally destroyed 10 trains (8 locomotives, and 87 cars with enemy manpower and equipment), 11 cars, 1 tankette and 1 gun, 2 bridges on the railway and 11 highway bridges. As part of the group, he participated in the bombing of 7 echelons and in ambush battles...". Veterans of the Osipovichi VOG often recall the daring operation that Boris carried out on the Osipovichi - Tatarka railway line. In the afternoon, literally under the noses of the Nazis, he mined a railway bridge. As a result of the explosion, an enemy train derailed, in which about 200 officers were sent to the front. As the days passed... Boris often thought about his father fighting at the front, about his mother and sister Katyusha, who had remained in distant Moscow. In March 1943, his family received a message from him. Boris wrote: "Don't worry about me. I'm healthy and I feel good... I have many, many comrades-in-arms, and their ranks are increasing. I have already been on many combat operations... The partisans know that the Red Army is moving forward. It will soon liberate Belarus, and then we will see each other. In the meantime, we need to expel the fascists...". they did not have to See each other... Boris fought fearlessly in the Belarusian forests for almost a whole year. It was a time when, anticipating an approaching catastrophe, the occupiers intensified their repression of the civilian population and punitive actions against the partisans. February 23, 1944 the Nazis with large forces suddenly attacked the Outpost of the 211st detachment in the village of Kamenichi, Osipovichi district. The enemy battalion was opposed by 12 partisans, including B. Dmitriev. After sending a messenger to headquarters, they decided to hold out until the last possible moment. The partisan forces were gradually melting away. After the death of the group commander, the wounded Boris took command. As best he could, he encouraged his comrades with the hope that help would soon come. Unfortunately, she came too late. 11 partisans fell to the death of the brave. Comrades of the young Muscovite buried with honors on the Belarusian land. In the post-war years, a reburial took place, and now he rests in a mass grave in Osipovichi. In this city, a street and a school are named after him. Six months after that battle, Boris Mikhailovich Dmitriev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. Hero of the Soviet Union B. Dmitriev remained in the memory of his military friends, and the Belarusian land remembers him, for which he did not hesitate to give his life." Author I. VORONKOVA Yu. - Minsk: "Polymya", 1990 (Belarusian state Museum of the history of the great Patriotic war). Links: www.narodsopr.ucoz.ru www.molodgurd.ru [ http://www.molodgurd.ru ] www.warheroes.ru [ http://www.warheroes.ru ] www.smena-onlain.ru.

Drabovich Ustin Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Drabovich Ustin Petrovich left for the front on June 24, 1942,and in early 1943 he received a funeral. It stated that U. p. Drabovich went missing in December 1942. He was only in the war for six months, and the last letter received from him in December 1942 was without a return address. In the Central archive of the defense Ministry, the document specifying losses (Annex 6) indicates that Drabovich Ustin p., private, nurse, member of the CPSU(b), 1906 birthday, without specifying the meta of birth, were missing, and also the name of the recipient funerals - his wife Drabovich Anna Pavlovna, staying in the Tomsk region, Pyshkina Trinity Ezhinskaya rural district Council Zarechny settlement. Drabovich U. P. was a member of the collective farm. Zhdanova since 1934, had 2 classes of education, was an economic person: built a house, had a household: a cow, a netel, pigs and sheep (from materials on the economic book of pre-war times). After receiving the funeral, his wife for a long time hoped and waited for her soldier, did not believe in his death. And along with her and his children: three daughters and a son Vladimir (my grandmother's father). But the miracle did not happen, she and her children were destined to live the rest of the military, and later peaceful life without him. The name of drabovich Ustin Petrovich is included in the book Of memory of tomichs who gave their lives in the defense of the Fatherland. (Thom.I Annex 8). Although the book shows an undocumented year of birth.

Dvukhsherstnov Vladimir Georgievich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Paramedic. Branch of the armed forces: Military medical staff. My grandfather, Vladimir Georgievich Dvukhsherstnov, was born in the village of Ulanovo in the Medynsky district of the Kaluga region. There were six children in the family – three brothers and three sisters. He was the eldest. Before the war, he graduated with honors from the Kaluga zootechnical technical school and worked as a zootechnician in Tarus. Then he was drafted into the army and sent to study at the Kiev military medical school, graduated in early July 1941, and was sent to Moscow as a military paramedic in the cavalry corps of General Dovator, who participated in the defeat of the Nazis near Moscow. For the courage and heroism shown by the cavalrymen near Moscow, the Dovator corps received the right to be called the guards. During the great Patriotic war, the cavalry corps made raids up to 100 km behind enemy lines, while it destroyed the fascists, their equipment, weapons and food depots, and deprived them of communication. The enemy panicked and retreated. My grandfather took part in horse scouting raids and told me how obedient the horses were. They were as quiet as humans. My grandfather said that they are very sensitive animals and great helpers to people. They had to hide in the scouting, and the horses and men lay quietly in the snow. It was cold, and the horses warmed the people. During heavy fighting, my grandfather not only fought, but also carried out the wounded from the battlefield, provided them with first aid, and worked in a field hospital. The guards cavalry corps, in which my great-grandfather served, traveled thousands of military kilometers from Moscow to Berlin. Great-grandfather was lucky in the war: in all the years of the war, he lost seven horses, and he was never wounded. For courage and bravery, my great-grandfather was awarded two orders of the red star, two medals "for military merit", medals" for the defense of Moscow"," for the liberation of Warsaw"," for the capture of Berlin","for the victory over Germany". After the war, my grandfather continued to serve in the Soviet Army, graduated from the Omsk military medical school and became a dentist. After the end of the service, he returned to Kaluga and until his last days worked in the clinic of the Kaluga turbine plant, where patients called him "our real Aibolit"for his kind heart and Golden hands.Everyone remembers him as a cheerful and hardworking person.

Dendymarchenko (Shcherbina) Nadezhda Lukinichna_x000D_ _x000D_ Dendymarchenko (Shcherbina) Nadezhda Lukinichna was born in 1929. Member of the labor front during the great Patriotic War of 1941-45. the City of Gorlovka, Donetsk region was occupied by Nazi troops on November 2, 1941. During the occupation by German troops, the Gorlovka mines were flooded by retreating Soviet troops, and the equipment of the Kirov machine-building plant was evacuated to the Urals. On the territory of Gorlovka were located Romanian, Hungarian, Italian and German units. The war was a serious test of women's strength. Ahead were almost two years of occupation, bullying, executions and deportations to Germany, and hopes for an early release from Nazi captivity. The city was liberated on September 4, 1943 by the troops of the southern front during the Donbass operation. It is from this period that Nadezhda Lukinichna's career begins, at the age of 14. People of the older generation were destined to start their work early, survive the war years, give their Country a lot of strength and health, raising the country's economy during the Soviet period. It is the fragile female shoulders and arms that are most directly related to this time. There are many pitfalls in this story. You can nod at international laws (women in underground work-it's impossible!), and the Soviet habit of sticking something out and instantly forget when everything goes as if on a rolling track. In practice, we are dealing with the oblivion of our past. The history of the land of waste without recreating the memory of the selfless and heroic feat of miners in the 40s and 50s of the last century will be incomplete and not true. But the monument to those girls from many regions of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, who worked for 10-12 hours, did not eat, did not get enough sleep, and even raised children and looked after the elderly, the authorities — both under the omnipotence of the Communist system, and during the years of independence of Ukraine — were not vouchsafed to install. But they, these fragile girls, pumped out water, passed manually(!) hundreds of meters of excavation, put out the lava, he worked in the underground mine transport. And they brought their families 1 kg 200 g of bread a day, which saved their relatives and friends from starvation. For reference, workers and employees "on the surface" received only 400-500 grams of bread. Women wielded very ancient equipment: pillows, reclining, on their sides. Try to wave this weighty Balda. Butchery laid rock gob. They shoveled, again lying down, one norm, and this is six tons! The breed should lie tight, so that the matchbox does not fit. How did these fragile girls fulfill two, three, or even ten male norms? And there were no new mechanized complexes in the lava, they will appear much later… From 1943 to 1947, up to 80% of women worked in underground work in the mines of Donbass (this data is the fruit of the hard work of Vladimir Seleznev, a journalist of the Rabochaya Gazeta, who shoveled through the files of the Socialist Donbass newspaper of that time). Women were finally removed from underground work in 1966. According to careful calculations by Vladimir Seleznev and ex-Minister of the Ministry of coal industry of Ukraine Nikolay Surgay, from 200 to 250 thousand women worked in underground works in the war and post-war years, respectively. The feat of women and girls, because at that time many were 14 years old, began to be forgotten (they did not talk about it much, except in the first, still war years), only small notes were occasionally published in the local press. Our heartfelt gratitude and deep respect to all veterans of the great Patriotic war and participants of the labor front!

Drafilkov Ivan Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army. Branch of military: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards My own uncle Ivan drafilkov is a cadet, Deputy political instructor of the Novo-Peterhof military and Political school of the NKVD named after K. E. Voroshilov . He is originally from the city of Rostov-on-don. My grandmother was looking for her son from 1941 to 1965. From the military enlistment offices reported: "missing." And in 1965, the military enlistment office sent a notice that Drafilkov Ivan Mikhailovich was killed in battle near the village of Bolshye Bornitsy. On the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Victory on the Internet, I saw the memorial "Bornitsky frontier" in the village of B-Bornitsy, where his name is. Maybe someone has photos in the school or heard something about it from the stories of veterans, because many came to the opening of the memorial in 1990 and to meetings in Gatchina. In 1941, Drafilkov Ivan Mikhailovich was listed in the 2nd battalion, in the 5th company, under the command of captain Zolotarev A. A. I learned about the heroic feat of cadets from the Internet and the book by V. M. Felisova-Tsareva "Stood to the death". She was a nurse in the 1st battalion and wrote 2 books about the feat of cadets. Due to the complication of the situation on the approaches to Leningrad on August 17, 1941, according to the order of the commander of the Northern front, the battalions of cadets of the Novo-Peterhof military and political school of the NKVD named after K. E. Voroshilov were assigned the task of holding the defense in the most important strategic direction, covering the immediate approaches to Leningrad. The cadets ' weapons consisted of rifles, several light machine guns and grenades, and two training guns. The main blow of the enemy fell on the left flank of the defense, in the place where the 2nd cadet battalion took the fight. During the period from 18 to 23 August, the enemy conducted intensified attacks on the units of the 2nd battalion, trying to break through to Krasnogvardeysk. However, the persistent struggle of the entire personnel of the 2nd battalion was so strong that all attempts to break through the battalion's defense line were unsuccessful, and the enemy was forced to abandon the breakthrough. By the end of August 23,1941, a difficult situation was created for the battalion, anti-tank weapons-grenades and bottles-ran out, the battalion was for three or four days without food and water, and as a result of mortar and artillery fire suffered heavy losses in wounded and killed. A fierce battle continued until late in the evening. The cadets repeatedly launched counterattacks and drove the enemy back. Border guards destroyed seven enemy tanks, many soldiers and officers, one General, seized weapons and important documents.Of the entire 2nd battalion, which at the time of the March to the front consisted of four companies in the number of 579 people, there were 2 companies - 208 people. The leaders of the Leningrad defense gave a high assessment of the actions of the cadets of the school. The feat of cadets-security officers is difficult to overestimate. By delaying the German advance, they allowed the retreating red Army units to regroup their forces and prepare for defense on new, more profitable lines." At a time when every hour of delay of the enemy rushing to Leningrad was especially expensive, the cadets forced the Nazis to stand still for fourteen days, and this happened in one of the main directions. That is why it is said about them so responsibly and authoritatively: "The feat of cadets-security officers is difficult to overestimate."For fifty days the cadets were in continuous combat, defending the approaches to Leningrad. Their heroism was marked by a high state award – the order of the red banner. The feat of the cadets is described in detail in the history of the Golitsyn border Institute of the FSB of Russia.

Danchenkov Fedor Semyonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Colonel Fedor Semyonovich Danchenkov was born on November 6, 1914 in the village of Zhukovo, Orel province (now Dubrovsky district, Bryansk region). In addition to him, the family had three younger brothers. Ancestors Danchenkova was from the don Cossacks. In 1934, Fedor entered the Kiev artillery military school. After graduation, he was sent to serve in the small Ukrainian town of Fastov. There Lieutenant Danchenkov met a girl Tamara with the unusual surname Senator. She was Polish and became his lifelong friend. Fyodor Danchenkov received his baptism of fire in 1940 during the Soviet-Finnish war. For his courage and heroism, he was awarded the medal "for bravery". The Great Patriotic war began. Heavy bloody battles, huge losses, retreat… In September 1941, Fedor Danchenkov was surrounded. Dirty, overgrown, wounded in the thigh he arrived in German-occupied Dubrovka, where lived his cousin Michael Bravely. Gradually, Danchenkov began to create a partisan detachment, recruit cadres to fight in the deep underground, send his people to work in the local authorities created by the Nazis (village elders, district Council, police). In the spring of 1942, Danchenkov took his detachment to the Bocharovsky forest, to the base already established there by the commander of another partisan detachment, Nikolai Ustinovich Borodynkin. In April, the first Association of several small detachments took place in a large one, which took the name of the legendary civil war hero Chapaev. Captain F. S. Danchenkov became the commander of the Chapaev United partisan detachment. In October 1942, by order of the commander-in-Chief of the partisan movement K. E. Voroshilov, the partisan brigades of the Kletnyansky forest were created. Captain F. S. Danchenkov was appointed commander of the First Kletnyansky partisan brigade, and political Commissar I. K. Gaidukov became Commissar. By the fall of 1943, the brigade had already United more than 3 thousand partisans. Fedor Danchenkov's mother and younger brother, Mikhail, fought in the brigade. The partisan movement provided significant assistance to the red army in expelling the enemy. After the liberation of the Bryansk region, brigade commander Danchenkov with most of his forest Avengers went to the front and as part of the 324th upper Dnepr red banner rifle division of the 50th army and smashed the enemy to complete victory. After the war, F. S. Danchenkov served in the Group of Soviet troops in the GDR. Despite the workload, it maintained close liaison with the guerrillas-"dancetime" and was always ready to come to their aid. After retiring, Danchenkov lived in Kiev. Until recently, he was actively working on Patriotic education of young people. In his spare time, Fyodor Semyonovich liked to work and relax in the country. He died on May 8, 1989, just one day short of another great Victory Day. In Dubrovka, the memory of the legendary brigade commander F. S. Danchenkov and I. K. Gaidukov is revered. They were the first in the history of the village to be awarded the title of honorary citizens of Dubrovka. The monument, which was erected on a mass grave in the partisan capital - the village of Bochary, has a memorial plaque dedicated to the brigade commander. It is fortified in the place where the earth from his Kiev grave is buried. One of the streets of Dubrovka is named after brigade commander Danchenkov.

Denisov Nikolai Fedorovich_x000D_ Nikolai Fedorovich Denisov is my maternal grandfather. When I was little, my grandmother and mother told me about it. My grandmother was illiterate and didn't tell me much. My mother was a ten-year-old girl when the war started. So, she didn't remember much about her father, either. But she always said that she looked like her father, and that he loved her very much. By the beginning of the war, their family lived in Cherkessk. My grandfather worked in "Zagotskot", often went on business trips, on the road, went to the Caucasus, harvested cattle. My mother said that from the outer clothing he had a greatcoat and a budennovka. And when he returned from business trips in the winter, he was always cold and coughed violently. He was called up for war in 1941 by The Circassian OVK of the Stavropol territory of the Circassian Autonomous region. Rank: red army soldier. Unfortunately, I have no information about where he fought and was wounded. But I remember my grandmother's words about his death. She said that a colleague sent her a letter. He wrote that the grandfather was wounded not during the battle, but by a stray bullet. He was sent to the hospital. When the Germans attacked, the hospital was evacuated to the ship. The ship was sunk during the bombardment. He has been missing since February 1942. That, unfortunately, is all the information I know. My mother already in adulthood wrote requests about my father, wanted to know about the place of death, but there was no information. Recently, I found a document from the TSAMO on the memorial website, but the information is scarce. Despite the fact that my grandfather was at the front for several months and went missing, his contribution to the victory, like many millions of Soviet soldiers, is also there. The war also affected our family. My grandmother was left without a husband, as she said - " lived all my life as a widow." My mother and her sister grew up without a father, lived in poverty, and worked since childhood. My mother had a certificate of a home front worker. For my family now, my grandfather is our humble hero of that terrible war.

Dolgin Benjamin Grigorievich_x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of military: Artillery. Division: 52nd rifle division (1st formation). On the OUTSKIRTS of MOSCOW Author - Dolgin Benjamin Grigoryevich (1916-2009), Diplomat, 1st Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee of the 1st class "My generation has experienced years of turbulent events, wars, revolutions, fundamental changes in the state structure, rapid development of science, culture, art. Those were the fighting, anxious and tragic years of our youth. Our 52nd rifle division entered the war in early September 1941 at the battle of Yelnya. Then the German troops were pushed back, 8 fascist divisions were defeated, and one of the first victories in this war was won, which later became known as the Yelninsky operation. It was part of a broad red Army operation that resulted in the failure of Hitler's "lightning war" plan in 1941. After the battle of Yelnya, they received orders to March on Smolensk. In a heated battle, the town passed from hand to hand and was almost completely destroyed. We were transferred to the city of Yartsevo, but in fierce battles the division was defeated, many of our soldiers were captured. They were selected from the environment in small groups. I happened to be a machine gunner. In the swampy forest, where my machine-gun crew was holding back the enemy's onslaught, we were hit by one of many mortar attacks. My partner was killed, and I was shell-shocked and lost consciousness. But, being physically healthy and strong, with athletic training, I soon recovered and began to move, and at this moment I came across the German machine gunners combing the forest. I heard (at school and technical school I studied German) as one of the machine gunners said: "He's breathing," and fired a round at my head. The helmet saved him from the first bullet, and the second one pierced the upper jaw, shot through the tongue and lower jaw. I lost consciousness again. I came to in the late afternoon. My face is covered in a pool of blood, my head is foggy, my right eye can't see anything. And my thoughts are moving: "I'm going to rot in the swamp here, we need to get out." I felt in my pocket for an individual package, somehow bandaged the right side of my face, put on my cap, and put my helmet in my duffel bag. Where to go? I went towards the glow of the battle. "So there are some of our people there." I entered a farmstead. On the street near the houses of women, children, old people, looking in the direction of the glow, waiting for the end of the fight. When they saw me with my head bandaged, wearing a cap and a raincoat, they realized that I was a red army soldier, wounded and looking for shelter. They did not dare to let them into the hut - and suddenly the Germans would come. One woman says: "There's a hayloft, there's already a wounded red army soldier there. Wait until morning, and then we'll see." And so, I did. His partner was agreeable. In the morning we hear Russian speech at the barn. Went out - and there are our signalmen. My friend asked: "How do I find a sanbat? » They say: "That's on our wires go."Through the edge of the forest they came to an open clearing overgrown with tall, thick grasses. It was about 70 meters to the opposite side. As soon as we stepped into the clearing, we were hit by heavy fire. Partner suggested: - come on their bellies. But I lost a lot of blood, I was shell-shocked, and I couldn't move around like a plastoon. Not thinking straight, I picked up the wire and went under the bullets. By a miracle, I got to the next edge of the forest, where our people were. Sanbat's truck was parked nearby. The soldiers who were helping to load the wounded noticed my raincoat-tent-my back was all torn and cut by bullets. But not a single bullet grazed the body. Among the soldiers helping to load the wounded, I saw a soldier Ilyichev from our company. He could not speak and wrote on a piece of paper: "I am Dolgin, and where is Volodya Koval? » Looking at my face, Ilyichev could not recognize me, but said that the battalion had suffered heavy losses and was recalled for replenishment. "Koval is right there. And you, brother, have probably already won back." A truck full of wounded men took us to the field hospital, which was set up in an ordinary shed. I was professionally bandaged and bandaged by the doctor. Then I was loaded back on the truck and sent to Vyazma, to the evacuation hospital. Lost consciousness on the way. I woke up on the surgeon's Desk. At this time, the Germans were bombing Vyazma, and the doctor decided to urgently send me to the rear on a U-2 plane along with a Colonel who was wounded in the spine. Since I could sit and the Colonel had to lie down, I was placed in a corner of the plane and we flew over the forest. Suddenly we were attacked by the Messerschmidt. But our pilot was experienced and did not let himself be shot down. Our "Duck" speed is only about 200 km, and the "Messer" - 450. Our pilot only swerves over the forest, and the diving fascist smears. So he used up his ammunition and flew away. A "Duck" quietly flew to Kalinin. So in the course of almost one day I escaped death three times…"

Deinega Alexei Tikhonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Alexei Tikhonovich Deynega was born on March 15 (March 2, old style), 1914 in the village of Motrino, Kremenchug district, Poltava province of the Russian Empire (now Kobelyaksky district, Poltava region of Ukraine) in a peasant family. Ukrainian. At the end of seven classes of rural school, he worked on the collective farm "Red partisan", then in the Motrin village Council. In 1936-1938, he served in the military. After demobilization, Junior commander A. T. Deynega returned to his native village. Before the war, he worked as a Secretary of the Motrin village Council. In the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' red Army Deynega was called up on August 14, 1943 by the Kishenkovsky district military Commissariat of the Poltava region of the Ukrainian SSR. In battles with the German-fascist invaders, Junior Sergeant A. T. Deynega from August 1943 as part of a separate motorized reconnaissance company of the 43rd engineer-sapper brigade of the 27th army of the Voronezh front (from October 20, 1943-the 1st Ukrainian front). Participated In the battle of the Dnepr on the Bukrinsky bridgehead, in the Kiev offensive operation and in the Kiev defensive operation, liberated the right-Bank Ukraine, participating in the Zhytomyr-Berdichev operation, then as part of the 2nd Ukrainian front in the Uman-Botoshansky operation, crossed the southern bug, Dniester, Prut and Siret rivers. Went from Junior Sergeant to senior Sergeant. Alexei Tikhonovich and his men repeatedly performed tasks of the command for reconnaissance and sabotage work in the deep rear of the enemy, the capture of "languages". So, during the Iasi-Kishinev operation, a group of scouts under the command of senior Sergeant A. T. Deynegi passed through the deep rear of the enemy for about 200 kilometers, collecting data on water barriers, enemy defenses, its engineering communications and troop concentrations. The intelligence obtained by A. T. Deinegi's groups also contributed to the successful actions of the 27th army during the Debrecen and Budapest operations. In February 1945, Alexei Tikhonovich participated in the capture of the city of Budapest. During the liquidation of the enemy group surrounded in the city with four soldiers of his Department, Alexei Tikhonovich repelled an attempt to break through the Germans in his area, destroying about 120 soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht, and another 342 German and Hungarian soldiers surrendered. In total, during their participation in combat operations, reconnaissance and sabotage groups under the command of A. T. Deinegi blew up 11 bridges in the enemy's rear, 9 German warehouses, destroyed 4 enemy headquarters, and took 11 "languages", including four officers. Alexei Tikhonovich ended the war as part of the 3rd Ukrainian front on may 10, 1945 on the Mur river in Austria during the Vienna offensive. On June 29, 1945, senior Sergeant Alexei Tikhonovich Deinega was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. After demobilization in 1945, Alexei Tikhonovich settled in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk, Dnipropetrovsk region of the Ukrainian SSR. He worked as a Deputy Chairman of the Dneprodzerzhinsk district Executive Committee. From 1947 to 1968, he managed the city's consumer service plant. Alexei Tikhonovich died on September 20, 1988. He was buried in the city of Dneprodzerzhinsk.

Dobronravov Vasily Vasilievich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Colonel Branch of military: artillery Division: 24th rifle Samara-Ulyanovsk berdichevskaya three times red banner of the order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Iron division My grandfather, Colonel Vasily Dobronravov, participated in the fighting of four wars: world war I, Civil, Finnish and great Patriotic 1941-1945.g. His first awards-the Order of Lenin, the Order of the red Star and the medal "XX years of the red Army"-he received before the second world war, which he met with the rank of Colonel, as Deputy division Chief for Artillery. This was the famous motorized rifle Samara-Ulyanovsk Berdichev Iron three times red banner orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division, which was commanded by major General Galitsky. In June 1941, the division was in Belarus near Grodno and was one of the first to take on the enemy's attack. The soldiers and officers of the Iron fought with unparalleled bravery, but the division was surrounded, and at the military Council, the command decided to fight their way to their own, divided into three groups. The heavy weapons that my grandfather was responsible for were saved by two-thirds, and it was not cars that took them out and carried them on their shoulders, but people! These exciting episodes of the war days are beautifully described in the books of writers Belyaev (Never fade) and Polevoy (the Feat continues.). On the pages of these books, the chief of artillery, Colonel Dobronravov, is mentioned more than once. My grandfather went through the entire war, was both in the Caucasus and in Tehran, and after the war he was accepted for service in the General staff, but he asked to be sent to the troops. Not immediately, but the request was respected and at the end of the forties he was sent to Belarus, dear to his heart, as Deputy commander of the Belarusian military district for artillery. Remember, as a little girl came with her parents to visit her grandparents in Kolodishchi, where was located the landfill and grandpa's house, and how impossibly perfect, I saw my brave grandfather in a beautiful uniform! Thank you, dear, for these wonderful memories, for the clear sky above us, for our lives!!!

Durakov Arkady Anatolyevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Senior Sergeant Branch of military: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard Division: 9th guards rifle red banner division Arkady A. Durakov at the age of 28 was called up by the Irbit RVC of the Sverdlovsk region on 27.07.1941 in the red army. He was trained at the Riga military school, which was evacuated to the Sverdlovsk region. Took part in the parade on November 07, 1941. On the Central front from 27.11.1941 to 17.01.1942 Senior Sergeant A. A. Durakov being on the Central front as part of the 28th rifle brigade as a cadet, performing the task of the command in an offensive battle to capture the village of "katyushki" in the Moscow region, he was lightly wounded on 04.12.1941. During the transfer of the machine-gun squad through the village through the gardens, the cadet dragged a machine gun and disks and fell behind the squad leader. When he climbed over the next fence, he was seen by a German who came out of the house at that moment, who, without thinking twice, fired at him from a machine gun in a short burst, almost without aiming, because he was in a hurry to escape. This haste saved Arkady, who was slightly wounded in the right thigh. From 04.12.1942 to 26.12.1941 he was treated in the evacuation hospital. The hospital Commission recognized him as fit for military service and sent him to a military unit for further service. Participating in battles of 9 guards rifle division of the Central front, performing a combat mission command intelligence emplacements of the enemy, the commander of machine-gun branch of the separate reconnaissance Sergeant of Fools A. A. was seriously wounded in both legs 17.01.1942 g., the foot of the left leg torn off at once. He was treated in the evacuation hospital No. 1868 until 12.05.1942, where part of the left leg up to the knee was amputated. The Commission found him unfit for further service. He was presented to the Order of the red star on August 17, 1950, which was replaced by the order of glory of the 3rd degree on February 21, 1951, which was also replaced by the medal "for bravery".

Denega (Denegin) Mikhail Fedorovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier I want to tell you about my great - grandfather-Denegin Mikhail Fedorovich. He was born on February 14, 1910 in Pyatigorsk. His parents died, so he was raised by his own uncle. He studied, and at the age of 16 became the Chairman of the collective farm. In 1938, my great-grandfather worked as the Chairman of the collective farm. It was a terrible time! There was a lot of treachery and cruelty in the country, people were exiled and shot on false denunciations. The VGKCHP ordered my great-grandfather to make a list of "Traitors, Enemies of the People", but Mikhail Fyodorovich did not do this, he warned all these people at night and, taking his family, left the collective farm for Mineralnye Vody. By doing so, I saved the lives of these people and my family. All his life he hated meanness and betrayal! In the summer of 1941, he was taken to the front from the Smolensk region. 2 hard years great-grandfather fought, fighting for the Motherland. When he went to war, he had a wife and three children... But in 1941, he received news that the village where the family lived was burned by the Nazis, and no one was left alive. In August 1943, Mikhail Fedorovich was captured and ended up in the Koningsberg concentration camp in the city of Koningsberg, now the city of Kaliningrad. In 1945, shortly before the victory of our army, he managed to escape from captivity. After the war, his fate did not spoil. In 1948, he remarried and had four children, including my grandmother. But soon the great-grandfather found out that his children, who allegedly died, are alive! And they came to him! But after a while, his wife dies, and he had to raise seven children alone. But, despite all the difficulties, Mikhail Fedorovich did not leave them, and devoted his entire life to raising children. Great-grandfather brought up in them honesty, decency, love for one's neighbor, for the Motherland, taught them to lend a helping hand, and most importantly-to live for others, not for themselves. For me, my great-grandfather is a hero! His post-war life proved that he is A man with a capital letter. My great-grandfather has many medals and orders, including two orders of the red Star, for personal courage and bravery in battle. Having lived a difficult life, great-grandfather always remained worthy of respect. He died on March 23, 1993. I'm proud of my great-grandfather and I want to be like him!

Dlugach Pavel Abramovich_x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant Branch of military: Artillery My uncle, Dlugach Pavel Abramovich, according to the OBD memorial went missing 06.1942 Dlugach Pavel Abramovich was born in Moscow in 1918; place of conscription: Moscow-1937, last place of service: 278 AP, Lieutenant, platoon commander of the 278th artillery regiment; member of the Komsomol; in the red army since 1937; missing 06.1942; source of information: TSAMO, information source Fund no.: 33, information source inventory no.: 11458, information source case no.: 503. Received information: 278 light artillery regiment 137 rifle division 2.7.41-31.8.41 Disbanded 278 howitzer artillery regiment 63 howitzer artillery brigade 22 artillery division 6.11.43-9.5.45 Field post station #0085 Name: 137 SD Subordination: formed by MP-41 in Gorky by 01.07.41 C 28.04.1942 participates in the unsuccessful assault on Mtsensk. During 1942, it held the defense in the same area. From the available information, it can be assumed that Dlugach Pavel Abramovich died during the storming of Mtsensk. I won't give you any deeper information. The last letter from the front of my uncle, Lieutenant Pavel Dlugach Abramovich: "July 18, 1941 Dear mother! I am writing to you in extremely difficult circumstances. Dozens of other commanders are writing next to me, and none of them knows if this letter will reach their relatives. This is the third day we are surrounded, surrounded by the Germans. 3 days ago, we could still retreat, but did not want to give the enemy an inch of our land. For three days, starting from July 15, the entire grove in which we are located is bombarded by aircraft, guns and mortars. As soon as you stick your finger out of the trench, the machine guns start scribbling. But still we hold firm. Twice the enemy tried to attack us with tanks and infantry, and twice the attacks were repulsed with losses to the enemy. The enemy lost 8 tanks, hit by our division, and 140 men of infantry. Of course, we also had losses, but the enemy gets what they deserve. Today we decided to send one scout out of the encirclement ring at night for help, and at the same time he will send our letters. If they don't capture it, then you'll get my letter. I feel good, though I was hit in the arm by a mine fragment, but very lightly, and a bullet in the chest, which is also not hard. Today is the last fight. Hundreds of my friends and subordinates, showing miracles of bravery, gave their lives for the Russian land, for the Motherland, for Stalin. The enemy is strong with technology – we are strong with the will to win. Our will will prevail. Let me be killed today in the last break from the encirclement – I know that the country will not forget me. Mother! Go to the Bauman district military Commissariat. There you should be given 300 rubles a month, every month. which will be deducted from my salary. Well, that's it. I hope I will. I kiss you, dad, Borya, Musya, Tasya, Vitya. Greetings to Mara, ..., relatives. With front-line greetings.Write back, for I know that we will break through to our own. My address is: the actions of the Red Army. [Pos]tal station No. 85, letter 3. The Dlugach P. A. July 19! I didn't have time to send the letter – they broke out of the environment!Twice wounded, but still in the ranks. I kiss everyone. Write. Pavlik".

Dubograi Alexander Prokopievna_x000D_ Rank: Red army Branch of military: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast guard, NKVD troops, border guards. On October 14, 1924, Alexandra Kalacheva was born into a large working-class family in Moscow. In 1939, his father died, and soon after a long illness, his mother died. At the age of fifteen, she was left an orphan, lived in her apartment on Kaluzhskaya Zastava, studied in the eighth grade and, as best she could, helped her younger brother and sisters, who were assigned to different orphanages. After finishing school "well", my great-grandmother entered a financial College, studied for six months. Unfortunately, she did not have time to finish it, the Great Patriotic war began. The enemy bombed Moscow day and night. When only firebrands remained from their house, the Komsomol member Kalacheva went to work at the mine on the Komsomol ticket, and on December 4, 1942, at her insistent request, she was taken to the front as a cook. It fell into the 239 red banner division, which included an anti-tank battery of 45 mm guns, on the I Baltic front. It was very difficult, the young chef had to deliver food day and night to the front line. In the combat characteristics, which is stored in the personal archive of Alexandra Prokopyevna, it is said: "during her stay in the regiment ... comrade Kalacheva proved to be a disciplined fighter. She carried out all the commander's orders honestly. Working as a cook, she promptly prepared and delivered food to the soldiers under mortar and machine-gun fire of the enemy. She was wounded, but feeling responsible, she made a dressing and delivered food to the soldiers...". Alexandra Kalacheva was awarded the medals "for military merit", "for the defense of Leningrad", "for the victory over Germany", as well as The "order of the Patriotic war" and has many commemorative medals.There at the front, she met her love, the foreman of a battery of Grigory Evseevich Dubogray. They went with him until the end of the war. Alexandra prokopyevna met the great Victory in Germany, in Lower Silesia. After demobilization she went after Grigory Evseevich in Siberia, in the village of Pavlograd district Novokubanka. Alexandra Prokopyevna died on October 25, 2015.