The Great Patriotic War

CITY: Melandovo village, Yemetsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 07/27/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 07/16/1943 HISTORY: My great-grandfather Ivan Ivanovich Lokhov was born on 07/28/1907 in the village of Melandovo, Yemetsky area in a large large family. He was the eldest son. In 1935, my grandfather came to work for Bakaritsa at the fourth sawmill, where he met my great-grandmother Natalya Isakovna Podosenova. In 1935 they got married, and in May of the same year they came to the village of Mechkostroy to build a pulp and paper mill. They were the very first inhabitants of our city and started the construction of the plant! Grandfather Vanya was very skilled, he was valued as a worker, the brigade of the Stakhanovite Lokhov Ivan Ivanovich was among the foremost. At the age of 35, in the winter of 1942, Ivan Ivanovich was called up to war. By that time, grandparents already had 2 daughters, Galya and Vera, and grandmother Natasha was pregnant with the third child, a boy named Vitya, whom the grandfather never saw. Hard times came for both grandfather and grandmother. For some time after being drafted into the war, grandfather's unit lodged on Lesnaya Rechka, he came home several times from there on foot. His daughter (my grandmother) Galya remembers her dad sitting in front of them, all overgrown, tearing up an overcoat - "Mom will sew you something ... ..". They were not destined to see each other again ... ... then there were only letters ... ... ... In letters, grandfather writes about his worries about the family, about the house that could not be completed, about goats that need to prepare food, about firewood, about beloved children, about how they grow. In his letters, there was always a belief in a bright, happy future. He was very worried in letters that the children did not write to him. And they were very young and could not write. Then grandmother Natasha wrote letters on their behalf herself, and in response dad wrote a letter to everyone. In letters, my grandmother addressed him only as "my dear Vanyushka", and he wrote to her "dear Talya." Grandfather's unit was transferred to the Leningrad / Volkhov front, he fought as a private, died - blown up by a mine on July 16, 1943 , in the same forest he was buried. During the war, grandfather always carried two photographs with him: little Viti and his wife and daughters. These photos were returned to the grandmother by fellow soldiers after the death of the grandfather. Grandpa Vanya died, but his memory is still alive. Before the war, great-grandfather Vanya managed to start building a house in a village within the boundaries of our city of Novodvinsk; after the war, my great-grandmother Natalya Isakovna finished the construction. Now the house is looked after and taken care by the children and grandchildren of Ivan Ivanovich. The house, as a memory of ancestors, and today with love is already receiving the fifth generation of the family.

CITY: Lopoukhi village, Ivanovo region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/27/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/2003 HISTORY: Subdivision: 235th Infantry Division (1st formation) Lebedev Ivan Demidovich was born in 1910 in the village of Lopouhi, Pestyakovsky District, Ivanovo Region. He was married to Klavdia Ivanovna Lebedeva, had 2 daughters before the war, after the war a son was born (my dad). Was drafted into the 235th rifle division (Gorokhovetskie camps) in April-May 1941. Was in the 806th rifle regiment. When the war began, they were sent to the city of Pskov, participated in the battles, then their regiment covered the retreat of the main forces. Themselves were surrounded. The supply of ammunition and food in the encirclement was meager. My grandfather said little about this. They were going to leave the encirclement in the town of Pushkin. But Ivan Demidovich did not reach him, in August 1941. was taken prisoner, he also did not like to talk about it. He was in captivity in Koningsberg, worked at the Kossa paper mill, lived in barracks, had numbers on his clothes (From memoirs). With the advance of Soviet troops, the camp was evacuated to the west. They were freed by American troops. After checking by the KGB services, Ivan Demidovich was sent to the town of Kungur (camp) for logging. He returned home to Verhny Landeh in February 1948. He worked in the fire department. He was very fond of the forest, hunting, fishing. He was a tailor by profession, he knew how to process skins, sew outerwear. By the way, this profession helped him and while he was in captivity, sometimes instead of hard work, he was sent to repair the clothes of prisoners of war. And once, according to the stories of Ivan Demidovich, he sewed a coat for a German woman, the wife of one of the officers who guarded them in the camp. Ivan Demidovich died in 2003.

CITY: D. Wisla DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 09/14/1943 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. My husband's grandfather is Sergey Filippovich Lapshin, born in 1924. When the Great Patriotic War began, he lived in the village of Gasino. His father - Lapshin Philip Matveyevich was sent to the front in 1941, then Sergei was still 17 years old. He stayed at home, where his mother, three little brothers and two older sisters went through the war with him. A year later, the funeral came - my father died, went missing. As it turned out later, he was blown up by a mine in a field when the Germans were advancing. So trouble came to their house. In the summer of 1942, and he goes to war. While the training and preparation of young guys - future soldiers - was underway, he was in the Vistula village, not far from Kotelnich. There was hunger, they were fed very poorly, they ate frozen cabbage. Then his mother - Lapshina Anna Nikolaevna - collected the parcel. Everything that was edible in the house was decided to be sent to Sergei. In winter, his mother and fiancee set off in sandals for three hundred kilometers on foot, carrying a roll of food on a sled. The path was long and dangerous, I had to stop in the nearest villages for the night. But, fortunately, no one offended them, and they were able to deliver the package to Sergei and meet him. This was their last meeting. Soon he was sent to the front. He did not have to serve for long ... Red Army soldier Lapshin Sergei Filippovich died heroically. On September 14, 1943, on the battlefield, he carried his wounded comrade and himself received a severe wound from which he died. His friend survived. When the second death notice came to the house, his mother, who experienced severe mental pain, burned all the letters, even the death notice was thrown into the oven .. The exact place of his burial is unknown, we know he was just buried on the river bank. But which one? - now it is already unknown ... He was only 18 years old. There was nothing left but tiny photographs with their images and eternal memory and gratitude to them for their heroic deed and death for our future

CITY: village Radilovo, Kimrsky district, Kalinin (Tver) region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/23/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 02/01/1941 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 245th Valginsko-Rezhitskaya Rifle Red Banner Division My grandfather Lisitsyn Sergei Mikhailovich was drafted into the army at the very beginning of the war. He went to the front in the area of ​​Staraya Russa, Novgorod region. He fought in the 901 rifle regiment, 245 rifle division. I managed to write only a couple of letters. He had the most terrible days of the war - its very beginning, when the soldiers, at the cost of their lives, made it possible for the command to assess the military situation, carry out mass mobilization, rebuild industry, and regroup forces for the subsequent heroic path to Victory. These days there was confusion, loss of command and control of troops, mass capture of Soviet soldiers. My grandfather was captured near Staraya Russa on July 20, 1941. After that he was sent to Stalag XD (310). The camp was a fenced-in field near the village of Witzendorf in the military district of Hamburg in Germany. The prisoners of war were starving. The Germans still had no idea what to do with so many prisoners, there was no food supply for them, there were no barracks built. The prisoners of war huddled in dugouts dug by their own forces. When winter came, the prisoners began to die of hunger, cold and typhus. In February, my grandfather died in the camp. And even if he did not know about the Victory, they then with all their hearts believed in its inevitability. They paid with their lives for our peaceful sky. My grandmother never got married, she was waiting for her Seryozha, because he was listed as missing. The grandmother never found out the circumstances of his grandfather's death. Only in the 2000s, thanks to the movement to find veterans, did we find out how my grandfather died. Grandfather Seryozha, whom I never saw, according to my grandmother, was a first-class shoemaker and an excellent storyteller for children. Many rural women of fashion sported in boots made by my grandfather. My mother remembered my father precisely as a storyteller who loved children very much. When he died, he was only 34 years old.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1906 DATE OF DEATH: 01.24.1942 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Type of service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 332nd Rifle Volunteer Ivanovo-Polotsk twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Machine gunner 1119 rifle regiment in the 332 rifle division. The winter of 1941-1942 turned out to be very cold, and in mid-January the frost in the region was quite fierce. At the beginning of 1942, the village of Kanat was advanced, but by January 24 it was occupied. At this time, there was an offensive of the fourth shock army, 332 division, in which Vasily Ledyagin served. In winter, large formations of Germans moved across the Kanat - some in cars, some on motorcycles, and some on foot. In the evening, soldiers in white camouflage came to the house. As it turned out later from conversations, these were soldiers of the advanced reconnaissance detachment. They consisted of 20 people and settled in two huts. A sentry was put out on the street, but all night in frost "-35" he could not stand outside, so he periodically went into the house to warm up. In the morning, when the sentry once again left the house, he was noticed by the Germans, who were being led to the headman by a villager. A firefight began. A column of Germans turned to shoot from the road. There were many more of them than our soldiers. A fight ensued. Unfortunately, everyone who was in the sentry's house died. Some managed to survive from the second house. As a result, our intelligence officers in a very small composition were able to kill about 70 Germans. After the battle, on about January 25, 1942, our soldiers were buried near the river under birch trees and they were given crosses.

CITY: Tambov region Pichaevsky district with. Kutli DATE OF BIRTH: 03/26/1916 DATE OF DEATH: 07/23/1996 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 1st Separate Motorized Rifle Order of Lenin Red Banner Special Purpose Division. F.E.Dzerzhinsky. A direct participant in the hostilities of the Second World War was Lukin Ivan Ivanovich, a native of the village Kutli Pichaevsky district of the Tambov region. He was born in the family of the baker Lukin Ivan Yakovlevich and housewife Lukina Pelageya Fedorovna on March 26, 1916. After finishing 7 classes, Ivan Ivanovich went to work in Moscow where he worked from October 1933 to March 1934 as a mechanic at a gas plant. Nature rewarded Ivan Ivanovich with a high growth (190 cm) and a strong physique, which allowed him to perform the most difficult work. In those days, working conditions were very difficult, but Ivan Ivanovich was very efficient and hardworking, which allowed him to become a leader in production, and in the same year he was invited to work as a miner at the bridge construction trust. This trust built a metro in Moscow, in connection with which Ivan Ivanovich Lukin can be safely called a full-fledged metro builder. On May 26, 1937, Ivan Ivanovich Lukin completed his driving courses and successfully passed the exams for the right to drive trucks, continuing his career in Moscow but already as a driver of the road trust of the Kievsky district of Moscow. In August 1937, Ivan Ivanovich was drafted into the Soviet Red Army, to a military unit called "730 air base". The service took place in the town of Voroshilov, Primorsky Territory. In July 1940, Ivan Ivanovich Lukin, for his conscientious attitude towards his official duties, was appointed commander of the 730 squadron of the Red Army air base. It was in this call that Ivan Ivanovich had to find his first war, as historians call it, the clash on Lake Khasan, and in 1939 the battle on Khankhin Gol on the border of Mongolia and Manchukuo. After demobilization in August 1940, Ivan Ivanovich did not work for a long time as a driver in the 31st automobile-building trust in Moscow, and on June 22, 1941, he was mobilized by the Khimchensky Regional Military Commissariat of Moscow into the active red army in the 1st regiment of the Order of Lenin OMSDON of the NKVD troops. The most important event of the first year of the war for all Soviet people was the battle of Moscow, which lasted almost seven months - from September 30, 1941 to April 20, 1942. By the beginning of the "Battle of Moscow" the situation on the Soviet-German front was extremely difficult. Having seized a significant part of the European territory of Russia, blocking Leningrad, the enemy rushed to Moscow. The enemy troops occupied a favorable operational-strategic position and, as before, had superiority in manpower and equipment. The Soviet command was forced to keep significant forces on the border with Turkey and Japan, Germany's allies. The Nazi command linked the fate of the entire war against the USSR with the capture of Moscow. Unable to immediately capture Moscow, the Wehrmacht command prepared an operation codenamed Typhoon, which provided for the dismemberment of the defense of our troops by three powerful strikes of tank groups from the regions of Dukhovshchina, Roslavl and Shostka in the eastern and northeastern directions, the encirclement and destruction of the troops of the Western and Reserve fronts. In order to raise the morale of the Red Army as well as the entire Soviet people, on November 7, 1941, a parade of Soviet troops was held in Moscow, from where the servicemen went immediately to the front. Subsequently, the Wehrmacht's plans to capture Moscow were destroyed, and the Soviet troops threw the enemy back in different directions up to two hundred kilometers from Moscow. Participated in the protection and defense of Moscow, for which he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Moscow". Lukin Ivan Ivanovich finished the Great Patriotic War in Germany. After finishing the hostilities, the echelon with the soldiers was heading home, as Ivan Ivanovich thought, but he was wrong, the echelon headed past the house to the far east, where the war with Japan flared up. As a result, Ivan Ivanovich was demobilized only in 1946. After the war years, he began his career in 1948 as a driver of the Competition artel, where he worked until May 1952, and from May 1952 began working as a driver in the Interdistrict Department of Selhozsnab. For success in work and outstanding organizational talent, in January 1953 Ivan Ivanovich Lukin became the head of the Interdistrict Department "Selhozsnab", and in May 1961 he became the head of the section of the RO "Selkhoztekhnika" pesticides and agricultural machines. In Morshansk "Selkhoztekhnika" Ivan Ivanovich worked in various positions until 1984, from where he retired on a well-deserved pension. Lukin Ivan Ivanovich was a very sociable, kind and sympathetic person, unfortunately he did not survive to this day, but left behind a memory of his good deeds and deeds.

DATE OF BIRTH: 12/09/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 12/17/1992 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Division: 381st Rifle Leningrad Red Banner Division. Nikolai Ivanovich was born in 1923 on December 9 in the city of Tula. When his mother died in him, he was very young, and his father took him to his homeland in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Ilanskiy district. When he reached the age of eight, his father dies of illness, and he is brought up in a foster family until the age of seventeen. At the age of seventeen and a half , Nikolai Ivanovich Ilanskiy Regional Military Commissariat calls into the ranks of the Red Army. After a short military training, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to the Kalinin Front, in military unit 1263 Specialist subunit 381 rifle division. Minesweeper, scout. He was presented for a government award with the Order of the Red Star. In 1943, he participated in the regimental reconnaissance with an attack on the garrison near the village of Zaslonino, together with other sappers made a 100-meter pass through wire and mine obstacles. A lot of night searches and reconnaissance were carried out as part of the regimental and battalion reconnaissance. As a result of one of these intelligence services, the "tongue" was taken. In 1944, Nikolai Ivanovich was seriously wounded in the leg, his heel was amputated. I met Victory Day in the hospital. After the hospital he returned to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, trained as a skipper and worked in river navigation. In the early sixties, Nikolai Ivanovich married a second time to Ekaterina Ivanovna. She was then on a Komsomol ticket in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In the mid-sixties, Nikolai Ivanovich left with his wife to her homeland in the Belgorod region. Borisov district with. Georgian. They have five sons in a joint marriage. In 1983, a splinter came out of my hand, and my wife dedicated a poem to it. Forty years ago as the war ended, and the fragments in my body suddenly rang on the table. The son looks at these pieces of iron in surprise: - Dad, forty years ago were you soldiers? -Yes, my dear boy, Peaceful day overhead, Victory Day we got here is the price. 1992 December 17 Nikolai Ivanovich dies.

CITY: s. Kievka, Andropov district, Ordzhonikidze (Stavropol) region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/09/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 02/15/1945 HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 287th rifle Novograd-Volynskaya twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division My great-grandfather - Landar (Landyr) Pyotr Fedorovich, born on 09.06.1907, was born in the village Kievka, Apanasenkovsky district, Ordzhonikidze (now Stavropol) region, lived in the village Bolshaya Dzhalga, Ipatovsky District, Ordzhonikidze (now Stavropol) Territory, was married, had four children - three sons and a daughter, at 35 he was called the Ipatovsky Regional Military Commissariat (02.22.1942). From 22.02.1942 he fought on the Bryansk front, from 10.10.1943 he fought on the Belorussian front, from 21.12.1943 he fought on the 1st Ukrainian front in the 287th rifle Novograd-Volynskaya twice red banner, the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky division of the riding gun 2nd battery 352 separate anti-tank fighter battalion. By order of the unit dated 05/31/1944 No. 22 / N was awarded the government award Medal "For Military Merit" and a certificate of commendation for the careful and sensitive attitude and care for the horses and weapons assigned to him and for courage and courage in battles. 02/15/1945 was killed in Germany, Rangrsdorf, western edge of the forest, near the river Beaver, 20 m from the Rangrsdorf-Gladisgorp road, was first planted there. I would like to find his last burial place. Perhaps in Leipzig in the eastern cemetery, but this is not known for sure. Although I saw my great-grandfather only in this preserved photo and heard from the stories of my relatives, I am very proud of him and will keep remembering him. It is a pity that he did not live long enough to see the great Victory!

CITY: Pavlovka village, Chuguevsky district, Primorsky Territory DATE OF BIRTH: 04/19/1913 DATE OF DEATH: 07/07/1984 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Type of troops: Signal troops Subdivision: 190th Fighter Aviation Division Polotsk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Graduated from 5 classes of secondary school in the village Chuguevka in 1925, on April 20, 1934, married Ivanenko Maria Fedorovna (born in 1917, the village of Antonovka, Chuguevsky district of Primorsky Territory, a home front worker). Drafted into active service on September 20, 1934, in the Spassky Regional Military Commissariat of Primorsky Krai. Called for mobilization on 09/07/1941 by the Chuguevsky Regional Military Commissariat of the Primorsky Territory. He took the oath of office on 07.11.1941 at the 90th separate communications battalion. From September 1941 to November 1942 he served as a line supervisor in the 90th separate communications battalion with the rank of sergeant. From November 1942 to April 1946 he served as a line supervisor in the 90th air base area. From April to June 1946 he served (worked) at the 2932 field postal station (190 fighter aviation division) as a senior inspector. Demobilized on 06/18/1946. From 02/05/1949 to 01/16/1967 he worked in the Ulakhinsky Timber Industry Enterprise at the Kamenka forest area as an accountant, technician, head of the forest area. From 16.02.1967 Until January 14, 1969, he worked at the Fujin Timber Industry Enterprise as the head of the Setiukhe timber station. From 01/27/1969 to 07/27/1970 he worked in the Yakovlevsky SMU of the Spasskcemenstroy trust in the SU-2 as a normalizer. Since 11/16/1970 he worked in Yakovlevsky Building and Construction department "Primorkraiselstroy" in SU-2 as a normalizer (on 08/22/1972 the enterprise was transformed into PMK-1001). Once at the resort he met Krikman Yan Petrovich, a Soviet military officer, an employee of the Minsk State Political Directorate, who in 1924, in Operation Syndicate, was responsible for the “window” on the border. They became very good friends. Nikolai Averyanovich visited Yan Krikman in Moscow more than once with his family. They became very good friends. We wrote letters to each other.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Inza. DATE OF BIRTH: 19.12.1922. DATE OF DEATH: 27.02.2016 HISTORY: Captain. Artillery troops. Levin Nikolay Andreevich was born in 19.12.22 in Inza, Ulyanovsk region of the Russian Federation. Education – 10 classes. He graduated from the Chkalov anti-aircraft artillery school (1942. accelerated course) and with the rank of Lieutenant was sent to the 1078th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Stalingrad Air Defense Corps as a fire platoon commander. He participated in combat operations to protect Stalingrad and its facilities from air raids, including the Stalingrad tractor plant and the Volga river crossings. In December 1942, after the reformation of the troops, he was sent to the 82nd Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division as the commander of a Fire Platoon of a Medium-Caliber Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battery. After the defeat of the German troops at Stalingrad, he moved with the advanced units of the troops of the Western and Southern fronts and participated in combat operations to cover soviet troops from air raids and destroy broken tanks. He liberated Donbass and Crimea. For shooting down a German heavy bomber "U-88" in the area of Dzhankoy station he was awarded of the Order of the Red Star. He liberated Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. He ended the war in May 1945 in Hungary (Budapest, Debrecen) He was awarded of 2 Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War and 19 medals and badges. In 1945, in accordance with the program of dislocation of troops, Nikolay Levin was sent to the 430th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the 7th Air Defense Corps in Zhytomyr. Since September, 1945 until July 1946, he commanded a platoon and a battery. From July 1946 to November 1948 he served as a senior officer of the 1572th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 41st Air Defense Division. Since November 1948 until September 1949, he attended the Higher Air Defense Officer school. Since September 1949 until December 1950 he was a commander of the 1572nd battery of the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 84th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division in Kiev. From December 1950 to August 1956 he served in a group of the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany as a Deputy chief of staff for intelligence, major of the 1173rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 13th Rogachev Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. Since August 1956 until May 1957 he was a Deputy chief of staff of the 245th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 56th Air Defense Artillery Division of the Airfield Service battalion. Since May 1957 until December 1960, he was a division commander of the 53rd Rogachev Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade of the KBVO. On December 30, 1960, by order of the Commander-in-Chief No. 01762, he was dismissed to the reserve under article 59 p. "B", with the right to wear military uniforms (with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel at the age of 38). From April 1961 to February 1968 he worked in the tank repair factory KBVO as a plant-power engineer. Since February 1968 until January 1972 he worked as a senior power engineer. Since January 1972 until October 1975 he worked as a design engineer of the first category. Since October 1975 until October 1983 – head of the design Bureau in military base No. 63760 KBVO. Since October 1983 until December 1998. - power and mechanical department, group of capital construction of "Repair Plant No.140" (formerly military base No. 63760). In December 1998 he retired due to the expiration of the contract, paragraph 2, article 29 of the labor code, at the age of 76. He worked at the plant for 42 years. On June 26, 2001, by order of the GKVS RB No. 1, he was awarded of the military rank of Colonel.

Rank: Colonel. Corps: Artillery. Division: 82nd Motorized Rifle Division. He was born on May 30, 1923 at the Vygonichi station in the Bryansk region. Nationality: Russian. Religion: Orthodox. Member of the CPSU since 1942. In 1940, he graduated from the 3rd Moscow special artillery school and was sent as an excellent student to the 3rd Leningrad artillery school. On June 22, 1941, he engaged in household work in summer camps in Luga. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the school was alerted. At the general design, the head of the school, Colonel Sanko, announced to cadets about the treacherous attack of the Nazis on the homeland. On June 26, 1941, the second division of the school was loaded into the echelon, and cadets moved along the route Pskov - Ostrov - Siauliai. Many cities were liberated. With fierce fighting, they took part in the encirclement and capture of Berlin from 30.04.1945 to 02.05.1945, and on May 9, 1945, the brigade under the command of Colonel Selivanchik was one of the first to approach prague, the capital of the Czechoslovak Republic, freeing it from the German invaders. On May 9, 1945, Emelianenko Vladimir finished the war as a battery commander with the military rank of Captain. He was awarded of medal "For Courage", “For the liberation of Vyazma” (12.03.1943). During the assault in one of the houses, Vladimir with the intelligence man Potylitsin captured two Germans with important documents. Vladimir was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, for participation in the battles on the Kursk bulge. He was awarded of the Order of the Red Star for participating in the battles for Lviv and Przemyslany, Order of the Patriotic war 1st class for the liberation of Petrakow in Poland, Order of Kutuzov 3rd degree No. 561 for crossing the Oder river, Medal "For combat service", Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic war 1st class in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Victory. He died in 2001 with the rank of Colonel (awarded of 3 orders, was wounded twice).

Rank: Corporal. Corps: Artillery. Unit: 1st Panzer Moscow Proletarian order of Lenin Red Banner Division. He was born in 1921 in the Krasnodar region. As a child, he actively played sports and dreamed of becoming a circus performer. As a young man, he joined a troupe of a circus touring the South of Russia and performed gymnastic routines for about a year. In 1940, he was called up for service in the Red Army by the Vannovsky regional military commissariat of the Krasnodar territory. He was a participant of the war since June 22, 1941 – Western front), from June 1942 – Bryansk front, from December 1942-Kalinin front, from June 1943-Voronezh front, from December 1943 – 1st Ukrainian front. Military post – Guard Private First Class, gunner of the anti-aircraft artillery division 1st Order Lenin Tank Brigade. He participated in the battles on the Kursk bulge, the battles near Prokhorovka, etc. Pavel Ennik was awarded of Order of the Patriotic war 2nd Class, two medals "For Courage" and others. Summary of personal combat feat: Order on awarding of the medal "For Courage" 06.01.44: "In the battles with the German invaders the soldier showed courage and fearlessness. Working as an anti-aircraft gunner, his gun during the great Patriotic war shot down 8 enemy aircraft. On January 2, 1944 over the battle lines of parts the plane PR-ka "X-III" appeared, which bombed and shelled the battle lines of our troops. Ennik first opened accurate and intense fire and shot it down." Order on awarding the medal "For Courage" 08.06.45: "the Gunner of the 1st battery, Private First Class Ennik Pavel Grigoryevich, for destroying 5 firing points, 2 mortars and destroying 18 Hitlerites in the battles for the liberation of the city of Ungersky Brod and Zlin." Ennik finished the war in Czechoslovakia. On April 21, 1945 in one of the battles, he was seriously wounded. He met the victory in the hospital. After the war, he graduated from the Ashgabat pedagogical school and special courses for speech and language therapists in Moscow. Most of his life he worked as a teacher and tutor in an orphanage in Krasnaya Polyana. He died on February 3, 2016.

Rank: Red Army Soldier. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast guard, NKVD troops, border guards. He was born in the family of the priest Yeremeyev Illarion Mironovich and his wife Paraskeva Grigoryevna. In the 30s his family was repressed and exiled to the Northern Urals. Mikhail Eremeev participated in the Civil war and the fight against basmachism in Turkestan, probably served in the Cheka, OGPU or NKVD, was twice wounded. He was drafted to the front by the Saratov regional military commissariat on June 14, 1943. He fought as an intelligence man of the 768th Rifle Regiment of the 138th Rifle Carpathian Red Banner Order of Suvorov division. On November 8, 1943, he was shell-shocked. He was awarded of the Medal "For Courage". On Desember 31, 1943, being in combat protection of the Tyasmin river in the area of Novoselitsa-Subbotovo, acting together with the partisan detachment he participated in repelling the enemy's attack, where he showed personal courage inspired the rest of the soldiers. The attack was repulsed. On February 3, 1944, being a mounted liaison of the regiment commander with the division commander in the area of Kavunovka under heavy machine-gun and gun fire from enemy tanks, neglecting his life, he timely delivered a report, so that the enemy was damaged in manpower and Red Army soldiers repulsed enemy attack. Mikhail Eremeev was awarded of the Order of the Glory, 3rd Class. On September 19, 1944 in the battles for overcoming the Carpathian Mountains, in difficult terrain, fearlessly and courageously performing individual tasks of the division commander, he scouted the area with a length of 15 km. and personally cleared the mined areas, which made it possible for the fastest connection of the 768th Rifle Regiment with the Division. Mikhail Eremeev was awarded of the Order of the Red Star. On October 17, 1944, being in intelligence at night he fearlessly completed a combat mission and broke into the Szigeti. On December 2, 1944 during the intelligence operation he noticed a group of Madyar soldiers, attacked them and captured 10 soldiers. After the war, he served as a Psalmist in the Church of St. George in Sloboda village, Pervouralsky district, Sverdlovsk region. He was buried in the parish cemetery.

Evgamukov Zalim Kamatovich was born on September 1, 1918, in the village of Loovsko-Kubansky of the North Caucasus Soviet Republic. Since 1939, after studying at a pedagogical school in Cherkessk, he lived in the village of Psyzh and worked as a primary school teacher at a local school. He was drafted into the Red Frmy nn October 20, 1941. At that time, everyone who went to the front was driven by a high sense of duty. Each of them took the oath, expressing their willingness to give their blood and lives for the Motherland, for its freedom, and to beat the fascists without sparing any effort. Zalim Kamatovich were sent on short courses in Mozdok and became a mortar man. While fighting on the bridgeheads with the superior forces of the Nazis, the private Yevgamukov was wounded in the head on June 5, 1942. Since January 1943, he was a gunner of the battalion mortar No.82 as part of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 777th rifle regiment of the 227th Temryuk rifle division of the North Caucasus front and participated in the battles to liberate the Krasnodar territory from the enemy. On the Taman Peninsula on September 9, 1943, when repelling an enemy landing, he was wounded in the leg and ended up in a hospital (Labinskaya station). Then, after the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, during the liberation of the city of Temryuk, Corporal Yevgamukov, as the commander of a division of a rifle company in the 339th rifle Taman division, participated in the sea-borne landing. In April 1944, he was awarded the order of the Red Star by the division command for his valor and bravery. In the same year, he participated in the battles for the liberation of Kerch. In May 1944, as part of the 339th rifle Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov division of the 16th rifle corps of the 56th army, the commander of the 45-mm guns, Corporal Yevgamukov, skillfully suppressed three enemy machine-gun points and smashed two enemy earth and timber bunkers in the battle for the city of Sevastopol. On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd Class for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the front command and for his combat skills. After the capture of Sapun Mountain and the liberation of Sevastopol, Yevgamukov's gun crew participated in the destruction of the enemy at Cape Chersonesos. Then he took part in the crossing of the Vistula and the liberation of Poland in January 1945 as the commander of the mortar company 1137 Rostov Rifle Regiment. Sergeant First Class Evgamukov Zalim Kamatovic as a part of the 339th Infantry Division of the Taman Red Banner order of Suvorov Division of the 16th rifle corps of the 33th army participated in the largest Warsaw-Poznan front offensive operation of the troops of the 1st Belorussian front (commander—Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. The operation was held on 14 January—3 February 1945, as a part of the strategic Vistula-Oder offensive operation). Starting a breakthrough in several sections with a total width of 34 km, the troops of the 1st Belorussian front expanded it along the front to 500 km and advanced to a depth of 500 km by the end of the operation, liberating the entire Western part of Poland in their band. Early in the morning of January 14, 1945, by a surprise attack of advanced battalions from the Magnushevsky and Pulavsky bridgeheads on a front of over 100 km, the troops of the 1st Belorussian front went on the offensive, within an hour they advanced on 2-3 km. The mortar crew under the command of Z. K. Yevgamukov, together with the advancing infantry, participated in the battles at the Pulavsky bridgehead. The fascists fought fiercely. During the breakthrough of the German defense on the West Bank of the Vistula river, Sergeant First Class Yevgamukov destroyed two 81-mm mortars and an enemy machine gun, thereby ensuring the advance of the infantry. During the repulse of the counterattack, ignoring the danger, he moved to the battle lines of the battalion and destroyed 22 German soldiers and officers. The 33rd army, which then went on the offensive, broke through the enemy's defenses to a depth of 20 km. On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Yevgamukov was awarded of the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the front command and for valor and courage shown in this operation. In that battle, Zalim Kamatovich received a second severe penetrating wound to the head and was sent to the evacuation hospital No. 3474 in Lublin. So, on January 14, 1945, the war was ended for the Sergeant First Class in Poland. While being treated in hospitals of the 2nd Belorussian front troops after injuries received in battles with the German invaders, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war, 1st Class. In November 1945, he was transferred to the Saratov special neurosurgical evacuation hospital No. 1056. with a diagnosis of "tangential shrapnel penetrating wound of the right occipital region of head with complications". He survived, thanks to experienced neurosurgeons, the care of nurse Alexandra (unfortunately, her data is not available in the photo and the search of it was unsuccessful). In the spring of 1947, accompanied by nurse Alexandra, Zalim returned to the North Caucasus. He had paralyzed left half of the body, unintelligible, slow speech and had no ability to move independently, (conclusion of the military medical Commission: "disabled person of group I"). So began the peaceful life of Zalim Kamatovich. Only personal courage, a huge will and a thirst for life, multiplied by daily hard work and high demands on himself allowed the 29-year-old soldier to "return to service".

Emelyanov Vasily Sergeevich, was born on September 25, 1919, in Kirovograd. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1939 from the city of Kharkiv, served in the Odessa military district, in a tank unit as a t-34 driver. Participated in military operations to liberate Bessarabia from the Romanian occupation. The beginning of the War in 1941 found him in the city of Nikolaev. The tank unit where he served held the defense, but was defeated by the enemy. The unit was returned to Kharkiv for re-formation, where it was equipped with equipment and created 2 tank brigades for the defense of the city of Kharkiv. On the other front line were 4 German Panzer divisions. There were heavy battles, the city of Kharkiv changed hands twice, and as a result, our tank units were defeated. He continued to fight in the infantry division. In 1942, he was wounded, and on his return from the hospital to the army, he fought near Voronezh on the Steppe front. Since August 1943, he again serves in a tank unit, takes part in the liberation of his native Kharkiv. After difficult battles for the city, the unit moves further to Kiev. At the end of December 1943, as part of the 1st Ukrainian front under the command of army General Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin, he participated in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. In the battle, his tank was hit again, and again wounded. After treatment, the red army man is transferred to ZIS-5 and entrusted to carry the guard of General Vatutin. In 1944, again in a tank division, he participated in the liberation of the Polish cities of Lublin and Radom, for which his division was awarded the title of Guards Radom. In these battles, the tank is hit again, again in the infantry and again wounded, hospital and again to the front. In May 1945, he reached Berlin on a tank, signed on the Brandenburg gate "We are from Kharkiv!". After the Victory day, he was sent to continue his service in the garrison, which was stationed on the island of rügen, Germany, where he was on combat duty to detain saboteurs from German submarines still cruising in Baltic waters until 1946. He finished his service in 1947 in Konigsberg, in the song and dance ensemble of the Baltic military district. Passing the stages of the combat path, he received 4 injuries, 2 of which were severe. For participation in combat operations has awards: "Order of Glory" III degree and II degree, "Order of the red banner", "Order of the red Star", medals" for bravery "and "for military merit". In January 1970 he was awarded jubilee medals: "Twenty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He died on September 19, 1981 and was buried in the city of Yenakievo.