The Great Patriotic War

Boriskin Petr Moiseevich, senior lieutenant. Born in 1913 in the village of Zaitsevo, Belevsky District, Tula Region. In the Red Army since 1935. Awards: Order of the Red Star, medals: "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany".

Alexey Semyonovich Gavrikov, captain, was born in 1912 in the village of Davydovo, Belevsky district, Tula region. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals: "For the capture of Budapest", "For military services", "For victory over Germany."

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

Rank: Junior sergeant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Born in the Chernigov region (Ukraine). In 1925, the parents moved to the Urals, where they lived until 1932. In 1932 they left for the Novosibirsk region, Suzdal district, village Bitki where he finished 4th grade. In 1938, the parents moved to the Altai Territory, Blagoveshchensk District, the village of Kormovishche. Where he finished 6 classes. In 1941, in May, he was sent to study at the Factory and workshop education, where he received the specialty of a tractor driver. There he studied for 6 months. From 1942 he worked at MTS. In April 1942 he received a notice that his father Kiriyenko Andrey Evstafievich had died a heroic death. In August 1942 he was drafted into the army and sent to the school of junior commanders, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Klyukvennaya station. At the end of which he was awarded the rank of junior sergeant and he was sent to the city of Kansk for further service, where he remained until September 1943. In September 1943 he was sent west. In the city of Omsk, his detachment was reorganized and sent to the front. From the city of Velikiye Luki (Moscow region), as part of the 84th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 11th Guards Army, he reached the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) through Belarus. He was first wounded in Belarus in February 1944, on March 24 he was sent to the hospital. The second wound is also in Belarus near the city of Orma. The third, last, in the city of Konigsberg on April 9, 1945. After recovering, he was sent to the military hospital No. 672 where he worked as a radio technician. In 1955 he was sent on a Komsomol ticket to Northern Kazakhstan for the development of virgin lands, where he worked until 1986.

Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 378th Infantry Novgorod Red Banner Division. 03/20/1942 Krapivin Semyon Mikhailovich was drafted by the Maslyansky Military Commissariat of the Omsk region of the Maslyansky district. But he does not go to the front, but to the so-called "labor army" in Omsk. ... Conditions in the "labor army" were inhuman. Hard physical work of loading and unloading trains, terrible food and damp, cold barracks, in which the hair froze to the pillow overnight. All these factors influenced the fact that after 1.5 months Semyon Krapivin wrote a statement that he would be taken to the front as a volunteer. And now my great-grandfather is already a Red Army soldier. He ended up on the Leningrad Front, in the location of the 378th Infantry Division, which had just emerged from the encirclement in the notorious Myasny Bor and was being re-formed. Semyon Mikhailovich gets into a reconnaissance company. And then there was a "school of intelligence officers", where recruits were taught hand-to-hand combat techniques, the German language, and great attention was paid to physical training. And there were in the biography of the great-grandfather and captured "tongues" and reconnaissance in force, and removed under enemy fire mines. With particular excitement I hold in my hands a copy of the Award sheet. "On December 11, 1943, Comrade Krapivin, participating in the reconnaissance for the capture of a control prisoner in the area of ​​the village of Tereim, Novgorod District, Leningrad Region and being in a barrage group, Comrade Krapivin, against enemy fire, made a passage through the enemy's minefield five meters wide, filmed at the same time 8 mines on the left flank of the object of the attack. After that he joined the covering group, where he killed three Germans. For personal courage and courage displayed in the performance of a combat mission, Comrade Krapivin deserves to be awarded the medal "For Courage." 03/06/1944 great-grandfather was seriously wounded, after long-term treatment in the hospital he was discharged and returned home.

Rank: Sergeant Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 193rd Infantry Dnieper Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. My grandfather Alexey Filippovich Krutilin was born on March 30, 1909 in the village. Pletnevka, Volsky district, Saratov region. Called up by the Volsky GVK, Volsk, Saratov region. Sergeant Krutilin Alexey Filippovich began to fight in January 1943. During his stay in the division, he works on communication between the rear of the division and the higher headquarters. During offensive battles, when headquarters quickly move from one place to another, Comrade. Krutilin quickly searches for a new location for the high headquarters and there was no case that he did not deliver operational documents to the high headquarters on time. The riding horse attached to it at the fronts and army reviews received a good rating. During offensive operations, the horse attached to it retained its combat capability. Alexey Filippovich was nominated for a government award - the medal "For Military Merit". He was also awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945." After the end of the war, grandfather returned home alive. I did not find my grandfather, because I was born after his death. From the memoirs of Galina's daughter, Alexey Filippovich worked in the village of Shikhany-2. According to her, her father was a strict, fair and responsible person. Aleksey Filippovich Krutilin died on February 1, 1958. He was buried in the cemetery in the village of Shikhany-2, Volsky District, Saratov Region.

Rank: Captain. Nikolai Aleksandrovich Katkov was born on December 10, 1926 in Novouzensk, in a large family of 7 people. As a teenager, for 12-15 hours, and sometimes for days, I had to work at mill No. 36, to do hard work beyond my years. He also went through the crucible of the Great Patriotic War. The combat path of Nikolai Katkov began in 1943 (among 60 Novozenets), when on November 9 he was drafted into the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces, where he served in a training regiment with the rank of junior sergeant. Did he think that his army life would continue for 15 years. In August 1944, he arrived in the 763rd Sevastopol Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment, where he continued his service already with the rank of senior sergeant. From February 20, 1945 to May 9, 1945, as part of the 763 Sevastopol artillery regiment on the 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts, he was a rangefinder. Here is one of Nikolai Alexandrovich's recollections: “At the front, the battery, where I was a range finder and then a deputy gun commander, was on direct fire many times, we reflected attacks from enemy ground and air targets. April 24, 1945. Was injured. Moving forward with battles, we crossed many rivers. I also took part in the battles during the capture of Berlin and the liberation of Prague, for which I have a Gratitude from the command. " 1950-1952 cadet of the combined arms military school in Ufa. Since 1952 - Lieutenant. Since 1954 - senior lieutenant. Commander of a separate platoon of the naval base in Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. Since 1971 - captain. On the combat account of the regiment, in which N.A. Katkov served, 79 downed fascist aircraft, dozens of destroyed enemy firing points, hundreds of neutralized enemy soldiers and officers. Nikolai Katkov was awarded: - Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and medals: - "For the liberation of Prague" - "For the capture of Berlin" - "For valor", etc. The total length of service in the USSR Armed Forces is 16 years. Nikolai Alexandrovich died on November 30, 2016.

Title: Red Army soldier I remember how dad went to the front. (Memories of Verstakova's daughter Anna Sergeevna). Our memory is arranged in an interesting way. I am 80 years old, I can not remember what happened two days ago, but I remember the day when my father went to war to the smallest detail. I was 7 years old. That day changed my whole life. Dad did not return from the war and I still miss him. War is the most terrible human sorrow. We lived in the village. Sabanakovo, Kilemarsky district of the Mari ASSR. My dad, Sergey Andreevich Kartunov, worked as the head of the forest area. The place is very beautiful. Near the river Kokshaga. The forest and the river were our breadwinners. They lived poorly, but happily because love reigned in the house. Our parents loved us very much and treated each other with great love. Mom did not call dad any other than Serezhenka, but he called her - Arisha. Their love has been tested. In their youth, they lived in the Gorky region. On that terrible day in early August 1941, my mother went into the forest in the morning for raspberries and by noon she came with a full bucket of sweet berries. We surrounded the bucket in a merry crowd and began to feast on raspberries. And dad was sitting by the window sad. Mom asked: - "Seryozhenka, what happened?" He replied that he had been handed a summons to the front and tomorrow at 8 am he should be on the Red Bridge. People are being gathered there to be sent to the front. ... In the evening my mother put us to bed. I couldn't sleep at night. Mom cried all night. In the morning, mom asked dad if it was necessary to wake up the children to say goodbye. He said: “Don't, Arisha, let them sleep. Take care of them. The war will end soon, I'll be back in two or three months. I heard everything through a dream, but I did not get up to say goodbye, I did not understand yet, because of my age, everything that had fallen on us. In the evening, mom comes barefoot and covered in dust. She hugged us and cried. And she began to tell how she saw off her father. They began to wait for news from dad. The first triangle of the letter comes, where he says that he is fighting in the battles for Moscow. Letters were rare. Every time we were glad that dad was alive. And one day a postcard came from the hospital. He wrote that he was wounded in the shoulder. Dad was cured and sent back into battle. For a long time there was nothing and again a postcard from the hospital, where dad wrote that he was wounded in both legs and left shoulder, it was not dangerous, that when he recovered, he would write. Recently my daughter found information about her father on the Internet on the Memorial website. It lists all of his wounds, which were fatal. They brought us a funeral, where it is written that dad died of wounds on 12.1142, cremated, buried near the walls of the Kremlin. At that time, they probably wrote to everyone like that. The battles were terrible for Moscow, many of our soldiers died. We also found the exact address of the burial of the ashes on the Memorial website. My generation went through a terrible war, rebuilding a destroyed country. Yes, we were left without fathers, there was no support. I had to rely only on myself. My husband's father, too, died from front-line wounds. From the age of 12, my husband plowed the land on bulls (all the horses were sent to the front) on the collective farm. He was the eldest in the family. It was necessary to raise 5 brothers and sisters. We started our lives with one suitcase and a pillow. They wandered in rented apartments and barracks, and received a separate apartment when the children were already big. Well, we have such a fate. There is no need to regret it. There was youth, there were many happy moments. We achieved everything ourselves, raised wonderful children. I only regret one thing that I did not say goodbye to my dad then, on that terrible day in August 1941.

CITY: Tambov region., Inzhavinsky district, with. Pavlovka DATE OF BIRTH: 04/12/1914 DATE OF DEATH: 11/07/1999 HISTORY: Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky was born on April 12, 1914 in the village of Pavlovka, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province (now Inzhavinsky district, Tambov region). Before the start of World War II, he lived in the village of Khadyzhensky (now the city of Khadyzhensk, Apsheronsky District), Krasnodar Territory. Drafted into the Red Army by the Neftegorsk Regional MilitaryCommissariat of the Krasnodar Territory on July 22, 1941, sent to the Omsk Tank School. After graduating from college, after being awarded the rank of lieutenant, he was sent to the Stalingrad region. He was the commander of a tank platoon, then a tank company. He ended the war with the rank of captain. He was awarded medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces. In 1946, he took his family from the city of Khadyzhensk and left for the command of the tank unit of the Volga Military District, stationed in the city of Syzran, Kuibyshevsk (Samara) region. In 1947 he was transferred to the service at the Kazan Tank School. In 1953 he was sent to continue serving in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, in the city of Eberswalde. In the post-war years, he was awarded the Medal for Military Merit (in 1951) and the Order of the Red Star (in 1956). He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1963. After leaving the ranks of the Soviet Army, he returned to the city of Kazan, worked in the tram and trolleybus depot. In 1974 he was sent to work in the city of Almetyevsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, to the position of head of the trolleybus fleet. Under the leadership of Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky in the city of Almetyevsk, the construction of a trolleybus depot building and new trolleybus lines was organized, and in 1976 a full-fledged trolleybus service was opened. In 1981, at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, the Almetyevsk trolleybus depot was noted as the best in the USSR. After retirement, Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky returned to Kazan. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He died on November 7, 1999, after a serious long illness.

CITY: Antipovka village, Belo-Kholunitsky district, Kirov region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/06/1909 DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1996 HISTORY: Luppov Feodot Yakovlevich was born in Antipovka village, Belo-Kholunitskiy district, Kirov region June 6, 1909. In 1941, he and his family: his wife Elena Afanasyevna and two sons Leonid, Vitaly (my great-grandfather) and their little daughter Anya, who was born exactly one year before the start of the war. June 22, 1940 - he lived in the village of Mokhovsky, Zaevsky village council, Nagorsk district, Kirov region and worked on a collective farm, that is, he was an ordinary peasant. In June 1941, my great-great-grandfather was 32 years old, and he was immediately called up to the front. He was an ordinary Red Army soldier in the infantry troops. In the spring of 1943, on the Volkhov front, where Theodot Yakovlevich fought, our troops went on the offensive. German aircraft bombed the attackers. Many died or were seriously injured in this battle. Among them was my great-great-grandfather. He was seriously wounded in the head and arm, and was also wounded. Great-great-grandfather was covered with earth. The sanitary dog ​​found him, dug him up and thereby saved his life. With severe wounds, the hero was sent to the hospital. After treatment, he became disabled and was discharged. Luppov returned home to his family. He has several awards for his participation in the war, but, unfortunately, they are lost. Due to the complex and unusual name (which is indicated differently in different documents), they could not be restored in the archives. My great-grandfather's family life was happy; after the war, he and his wife had two more daughters - Nina and Galina. All his life until retirement he worked on a collective farm. Feodot Yakovlevich died on January 5 in 1996 at the age of 86. I am proud of my hero and very grateful to him for his contribution to the Victory

CITY: Belgorod region, Rovenkovsky district, x. Martyntsy DATE OF BIRTH: 05/21/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 02/19/1985 HISTORY: By Dmitry Olshansky, Rovenki village. “My great-grandfather, Lozovoy Ivan Lavrentievich, was born on May 21, 1921 on the Martyntsy farm of the Rovensky district of the Belgorod region. They had four children in the family. Their father died early. After finishing five classes, Ivan went to work to support his family. He was the eldest male in the family. Received the profession of a tractor driver. 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He went to the front as a foreman, a conscript. The military unit is the 459th Infantry Regiment. He was wounded on May 21, 1943 by a shrapnel in the area of ​​the left shin. In the evacuation hospital No. 1229, the stump of the left leg was amputated. He miraculously survived; at home was told that he was missing. For more than three months he was in the hospital.By the Hospital Disability Evaluation Board Ivan Lavrent'evich was declared unfit for military service with exclusion from the account. In the conclusion it was written that he could not follow on foot. Conclusion: invalid of the Patriotic War. A participant in the defense of Moscow, Ivan Lavrent'evich Lozovoy, his feats of arms were awarded seven military medals and the Order of the Patriotic War. The second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, was awarded to him on April 6, 1985. Until that time, he no longer lived. Ivan Lavrentievich died on February 19, 1985. After many years this order was awarded to the daughter of Lozovoy, Ivan Lavrentievich. He also has many commemorative medals. Even in peacetime, having a disability, he continued to work on his native collective farm for the good of our Motherland, moving on a prosthesis, and the "Veteran of Labor" medal was added to his military awards. He worked in his native collective farm as the head of a pig-breeding complex. Upon retirement, his native collective farm entrusted him with managing a large, beautiful apple orchard. We love, remember and honor our dad, grandfather and great-grandfather Lozovoy Ivan Lavrentievich. Eternal memory to him. Eternal memory to all Defenders of our Motherland ”.

CITY: Znamenskoye village, Oryol region HISTORY: Maria Efimovna Leonova was born in 1936. Mother worked on the collective farm tirelessly. Everything that was collected from the fields was sent to the front, leaving the very minimum for themselves. In the village of Znamenskoye, where Maria Efimovna lived, there were women and children, all the men were taken to the war. Later, an armless soldier returned from the front, and there were several old men. The children also had a hard time. In the morning they went to school, and after school they ran to help the adults. In winter, the children gathered around the village, mounted their horses and rode into the forest. They sawed, chopped firewood, collected brushwood. Many of them froze their hands and face during this harsh season. The frosts were strong. In the evenings, everyone gathered at home: knitted, sewed, and then they collected everything and sent their relatives to the front. They worked in the fields: they collected hay, straw; sheaves knitted, mothers threshed grain. Children's hands were swollen from overwork and thorny weeds. She recalls: “They took our fathers to the front, from someone they returned home, and someone received a funeral. We kept a cow - we had to give away butter, meat, planted potatoes - and we gave away starch, and we paid off with fresh potatoes, and the chopped noodles and dried ones were taken from us for the front. And spring will come, quinoa and nettles are ripening, and my brother will catch the fish. Flour was given in 5 kg for 10 days, but nothing was spared for the front. As I remember all this, tears run. " After the war she worked as a forester in the Bolotovsky forests. Now he lives 2 kilometers from the village of Novy Sinets in the village of Berezui. Everyone knows her and her name is Baba Masha. She is a local "healer", people come to her from different regions for treatment, that is, even now Maria Efimovna, being in old age, benefits people.

CITY: Penza DATE OF BIRTH: 10/22/1909 DATE OF DEATH: 09/01/1980 HISTORY: Veniamin Petrovich Ladilov was born on October 22, 1909 in the town of Penza. Member of the Great Patriotic War. He took part as a soldier who served in the army. Drafted for mobilization by the Penza city military commissariat in August 1942 in the 493rd separate cable-pole communications company. Served as a communications line supervisor from August 1942 to December 1945. The 493rd cable-pole communications company was part of the troops of the 1st Baltic Front under the command of Army General Baghramyan. Veniamin Petrovich served with the rank of corporal. After the end of the war with Germany, Veniamin Petrovich took part in the war with Japan as part of the 483rd separate cable-pole communications company of the 2nd Far Eastern Front. Demobilized on December 15, 1945. He died on September 1, 1980. Ladilov Veniamin Petrovich was awarded the Order of Glory III degree "for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command at the front in the fight against the German invaders and the display of valor and courage in this case." Description of the feat: “On November 22, 1944, while providing communication via a cable-pole line from the army headquarters of the 4th shock KSK in the area of ​​Bazylovka, Krasnov and Polotsk. Approach paths with lines were heavily shelled not only by enemy artillery fire, but also by machine-gun fire. The area was heavily mined, comrade. Ladilov always walked in front, making passes through the minefields. For all the time, he made passes through 7 minefields and defused 185 minutes. On April 18, 1944, while building a pole line from the army headquarters of the 4th shock KSK, he was severely wounded in the head from a mine explosion. He refused to go to the hospital and dragged the fighters along with him. The task was completed 1 hour and 15 minutes ahead of schedule. Worthy of the Government award of the Order of Glory III degree ". Awards: Order of Glory III degree, medal" For the capture of Koenigsberg ", medal" For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ", medal" For victory over Japan ", badge "Excellent signalman", jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR".

CITY: Velikie Dvory village, Korchevsky district, Moscow region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/22/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 06/12/1994 HISTORY: Title: Senior political instructor Type of troops: Military-political composition political work. He was appointed political instructor for advanced training courses for the political composition of the reserve of the Odessa military district. The service took place in the cities of Tiraspol, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, where the war caught. From our courses a communist battalion was formed, where I was appointed commissar of the battalion. We took up defensive positions in the Dneproges area on the right bank. The first battle was taken on August 18, 1941 and held out for the whole day. They retreated with fierce battles. Then the battles for Pavlograd. They fought back to Stalingrad, 1942. They fought in the North Caucasus for the city of Nalchik. After the victory at Stalingrad, he was assigned to the 221st Infantry Division of the Southern, then the 4th Ukrainian Front, where he fought for the entire 43-44 years. Liberated Taganrog, Mariupol. The 221st Infantry Division was named Mariupol. For these battles he received the Order of the Red Star. Then 1 Ukrainian Front, Belaya Tserkov. Vinnytsia, Zhmerynka, Kamenets - Podolsky, Ternopil. Then the Karelian front, to the area of ​​the Volkhov hydroelectric power station. Then Vyborg. They took up defense on the Karelian Isthmus against the Finns. They occupied the defense until the truce with the Finns. Then the division was transferred to the 3rd Belorussian Front, moved to East Prussia. Heavy fighting for the city of Goldap (now part of Poland). In December 1944 he was recalled to the front headquarters and sent to study at the Military-Political Academy in Moscow. He was demobilized from the army in 1954. The front line ended with the unforgettable Victory Parade on June 24, 1945.

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