The Great Patriotic War

Title: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ “I, Serovatov Matvey Dmitrievich, was born on November 26, 1925 in the Chkalovsk Region. Perevolotsky district, Donetsk. When I turned 17 years and 2 months old, I volunteered for the front, decided that I must defend my homeland and my people. In 1943, on January 20, I was sent to the front, where I underwent training. _x000D_ At first I served in Koltubanovka, then we were transferred to Bashkiria, to Alkino, where I was enrolled as a machine gunner. I finished my studies with excellent marks and I was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. At the end of the year we were sent to the front, we ended up in the Poltava Region. There they gave me an easel machine gun, I was number 1. _x000D_ Then we were sent to the front line, where we defended our Motherland, here shots and explosions were already heard. When we crossed the Dnieper, it was already forced. Here we received the first baptism of fire, came under the bombing. The battle continued throughout the night. Many of my comrades were killed in that battle, this was our first battle. By morning we were not far from the Germans, their Reconnaissance bypassed our defenses, and we were surrounded. Suddenly 17 German tanks appeared, our regiment had been crushed almost completely, miraculously, several people remained alive, including myself... It was scary, even now its scary to remember, we had to go through horror. A whole book is not enough to describe everything. _x000D_ I went my way from the Dnieper to Berlin. In these battles I was slightly wounded, both legs were frostbitten. As a result, I was taken to the hospital, after treatment I ended up in the 173rd Tank Brigade, where I received a Degtyarev machine gun, and fought there. From the front line we were taken to form in Kharkov. We walked 70 kilometers to the village. Robin. Here we already received American equipment, our unit became known as the 6th Separate Motorcycle Reconnaissance Regiment. I was given a heavy machine gun. Our machine-gun company consisted of 110 people. Fighting, I went through the cities of Lodz, Warsaw, Regenwald, Berlin. After the capture of Berlin and the celebration of Victory Day, the service began for me in Dresden, where I served for 6 years and 2 months._x000D_ After demobilization, I returned to my hometown, to the Orenburg station, got married, got a job at the station. I worked for 30 years and 4 months, then retired and took up farming, I am satisfied with my life. In 2000, the veterans of our city were invited to Germany, where we stayed for 6 days. We were received just fine, I and my fellow soldiers were very pleased. First of all, we visited the cemeteries where our friends are buried, they have 317 monuments and 528 graves with our soldiers, cleanliness and order, a sea of flowers. People treat our heroes with respect, take care, honor. All this will always remain in my memory. " _x000D_ On January 11, 2006, our beloved grandfather passed away. We we miss him very much. He was a very good, cheerful, good-natured and sympathetic person. We loved him very much. We will never forget him. Thanks to him and to all the heroes, living and fallen, for our bright future, for this wonderful World, a deep bow for everything that they have done for us.

Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ He was born in 1923. Shortly before that, due to the persecution of priests, his father was forced to leave for the village of Krasnoe and change the priesthood to a Teacher of the Russian language, worked as a Director of a School and an orphanage. Vladimir continued the dynasty of teachers, following the example of his father and brothers, from the age of 16 he began teaching history at a School in the village of Shabanovo. He wrote good poetry, before the war he was published in a collection of Siberian poets, began to write a story about the civil war. At the age of 17 he wrote an article for the "Uchitelskaya Gazeta" "What a rural Teacher should be like". The main values of this article are still relevant today, understandable to our generation and future successors. _x000D_ Vladimir went to the front at the age of 18. He underwent military training in the city of Berdsk. On November 7, 1941, he took a military oath. From December 1941 he fought in the 28th Guards Division. Then he fought in the 30th Siberian Ski Battalion. He served as a tanker, Komsomol organizer of the 226th Tank Regiment, Chief of the Regiment's Tank Brigade. In October 1942, in battles of Separate Ski Battalion he was seriously wounded. While in the hospital, he wrote poetry, read them to raise the morale of wounded soldiers and nurses. A nurse wrote mentioned this fact in a letter after his death. _x000D_ After the hospital he went to the front again. In August he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He was seriously wounded in battle, died from burns in hospital No. 218 of the OMSB 178 SD near Smolensk on September 7, 1943. _x000D_ His name is carved on the Obelisk of Glory in the village of Shabanovo, where he lived and worked, and in the town of Dukhovshchina, where he was reburied from the place of death (Shchelkino village). Materials about the Tatarnikov family are kept in the School museum of the village of Shabanovo, in a memorial room. My father was named after the hero Tatarnikov Vladimir Alexandrovich.

Rank: Red Army Soldier _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 316th Infantry Temryuk Twice Red Banner Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Tonkovich Alexey Maksimovich was born in Chizhevichi village (Vileisky district of Minsk Region, Belarus), worked as a servant in St. Petersburg for the entrepreneur Anatoly Evgrafovich Molchanov (1856-1921) and the actress Maria Gavrilovna Savina (1854-1915). _x000D_ After the revolution, he was a farm laborer at an Orthodox priest and a lord in Western Belarus. In the 1920 he served in the Polish army (85th Vilna Rifle Regiment, the 19th Infantry Division, stationed in Novovileyka, on the outskirts of Vilna). In 1930 he went to work at the Anzen mine (Compagnie des mines d'Anzin) in France. Poles, Czechs, Belarusians, Yugoslavs worked together with him. It was time of the Great Depression, he recalled how the coffee was thrown from barges and destroyed, the strikes of French workers who hated migrants from Eastern Europe replacing them. _x000D_ Participant of the Great Patriotic War from July 19 (October 12, military operations) 1944 to March 3, 1945 (2nd Ukrainian Front). He served in the 316th Temryuk Rifle Division in the 1075th Rifle Regiment (rifleman of the 6th company). He was wounded in the arm by an explosive bullet by a sniper during the liberation of Budapest (Hungary) on February 3, 1945. _x000D_ In the battle for Budapest on February 5, 1945, while repelling a German counterattack, he killed 7 German soldiers and presented the medal “For Courage”. After being wounded, he was undergoing treatment in the evacuation hospital No. 3754, No. 3321, No. 3314, No. 6033 (since March 22, 1945, a certificate of injury was issued on May 15, 1945). _x000D_ Awards: medal “For Capture of Budapest” (February 13, 1945), medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, medal “For Courage” (November 20, 1945, No. 3210333), medal “For Military Merit” (no number), medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (November 25, 1965), medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (March 10, 1976), medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (June 25, 1969), "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (November 15, 1978). _x000D_ He was a disabled of the 2nd group. Since 1946 he had worked as a store manager (salary—210 rubles a month, pension—178 rubles a month for 1956, for 1972—47.73 rubles). He passed away in 1984.

Rank: Starshina _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 132nd Rifle Bakhmach-Warsaw. Division Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov _x000D_ I, Samarin Fedor Tikhonovich, was born on May 29, 1926 in the village of Olkhi, Mozharsky District, Ryazan Region, into a family of peasants. My parents are Samarin Tikhon Vasilievich and mother Samarina Evdokia Mikhailovna. In 1936, I went to study at the Olkhovsk National Assembly School and graduated from the 7th grade. In the summer of 1940, a system of labor reserves was organized, at that time I left for Moscow to the 14th vocational School at the Kolibr plant, where I had studied until the fall of 1941. _x000D_ In 1941, our School was evacuated to the Urals in the city of Nizhny Tagil to the 15th vocational School, where I finished my studies. Later, in 1943, I moved back to Moscow to the management of labor reserves, from where I was redirected to the 31st vocational School of the Navy, where I worked as a master of industrial training until February 1944. _x000D_ In February, I was sent from the School to the Rostokinsky district military enlistment office in Moscow. In the regional military registration and enlistment office, I was sent to the depot . We were sent to the city of Narva, where we were engaged in timber harvesting and laying various routes. Then we were sent to Leningrad, from there to Molotov in the Urals, to the Naval Aviation Technical School. _x000D_ Due to the low level of education it was hard to study, I was expelled and sent to the Molotov depot, and from the depot I was sent to one of the combat units to the front as an anti-tank gunner, where I was wounded in the left side. " _x000D_ In his autobiography, he wrote only about one wound, but there was also a shell shock. He also did not write about his participation in the battle for Warsaw, after which he was given gratitude by order of Stalin (January 17, 1945). I found proof that he fought with the same 47th Army: “The Soviet 47th Army, having gone over to the offensive on January 16, crossed the Vistula on the move north of Warsaw.” _x000D_ “... From the hospital I was enrolled in the second Tank Brigade in the Department (special), where I was an orderly for the head of the Department, at the same time was an assistant to the platoon Commander at the Department. From the Brigade I was sent to the hospital, and from the hospital to the Reserve Regiment. From the Reserve Regiment I was enrolled in the 425th Art Regiment. In 1945, the 47th Army left Germany for the USSR, and I was transferred to the 8th Guards Army of the 76th Separate Workers' Battalion, where I served as Commander of an administrative platoon. Then I was sent to the garrison officers' house of the 8th Army in Voimur in Germany as a supply agent, where I worked until March 1947. _x000D_ In March 1947, I was demobilized and registered for long-term service in the Mozharsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Ryazan Region. From November 1958 to the present, I have been working as a Company Starshina”. _x000D_ At the end of his service, he worked as a carpenter in the unit. He met his future wife in the same unit, she worked there as a cook.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops. Subdivision: Artillery Division of the Bryansk Front (Trophy Artillery Division)._x000D_ My great-grandfather Georgy Terentyevich Tikhov finished 7th grade School before the war and entered a technical School as an auto mechanic, graduated with honors. He could drive a tractor, drive a combine and other machines. _x000D_ It happened near Stalingrad, when my great-grandfather served as a communication technician. They received an order to urgently restore communication with the adjoining unit, which was located behind a forest strip, two kilometers from them. They gave me a coil of telephone wire and ordered to carry it out. It was necessary to crawl through the field, which was at gunpoint of the Germans. There were five technicians. They moved very slowly, constantly hiding in the snow, pressed faces to the ground, cursed the enemy and called all the saints. Bullets whistled overhead. For the last meters, great-grandfather was already pulling the cable alone, four soldiers were killed behind. The great-grandfather received the first gratitude from the Commander for the timely, well-established communication. And during his rest hours, he suddenly discovered that his greatcoat had been pierced in two places by bullets at chest level, in front and behind. _x000D_ My great-grandfather and great-grandmother fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front and passed through Ukraine, Crimea, Austria. They come from the same village, but they never knew each other. They met for the first time at the hospital. Great-grandfather was demobilized only in May 1946. On the way, he contracted typhus and the last fifty kilometers in front of the house, he was taken in the back of a lorry, already unconscious. He was unloaded together with a duffel bag in the hospital yard and assigned to a Separate infectious diseases ward. He woke up on the eleventh day when my great-grandmother was on duty. Georgy Terentyevich Tikhov opened his eyes and saw nurse Maria, delicate, blue-eyed and fair-haired. He looked at her and fell in love. _x000D_ After the war, my great-grandfather Georgy Terentyevich worked for a long time as a driver in the kolkhoz “Rodina”. He transported a wide variety of goods every day. If the sowing campaign began in the spring, the great-grandfathers had to transport the seeds to the fields, and if the grain was harvested in the summer, he transported the grain from the fields to the elevator.

Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Vasily Petrovich Skarga was a Commander of the Mortar Crew of the 24th Guards Cavalry Regiment (5th Guards Cavalry Division, 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Belorussian Front), Guard Senior Sergeant. Vasily Petrovich Skarga was born into a peasant family in the village of Alinovka [Rossoshanskiy district]], Voronezh Region. He graduated from the 6th grade of School, worked in kolkhoz. _x000D_ In July 1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army at the Mikhailovsky District Military Commissariat of the Voronezh Region. In the battles in the Grodno Region near the village of Yashchebna on July 20-25, 1944, the Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga with his crew destroyed 2 machine guns and a platoon of enemy soldiers, which ensured the Squadron's combat mission. By order of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps on August 6, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On January 31, 1945, during the offensive battles in the area of the town of Orneta, Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship, the Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga and his crew destroyed 3 enemy machine-gun points and over 10 soldiers. In the offensive battles on February 16, 1945 in the area of the town of Konitz (Chojnice in the Pomeranian Voivodeship), he, in command of his crew, destroyed 2 machine guns and over 10 enemy soldiers.By order of the 2nd Belorussian Front on March 6, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree. _x000D_ In a battle on the outskirts of the city of Hindenberg (Eastern Prignitz-Ruppin, Lindov (Mark)), Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga, personally finding out the location of the enemy's firepower, destroyed 3 firing points with his crew and a sub-machine gunners detachment, which made it possible to complete the combat mission for the Squadron. On the same day, his crew destroyed 2 firing points, scattered and struck many enemy soldiers in the area of the settlement of Tsekhov, 8 km west of Hindenberg, which allowed the vanguard of the Regiment to seize the airfield. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 29, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree. _x000D_ Guard Starshina Skarga was demobilized in December 1947. He graduated from the mechanization School in the city of Grozny, after which he was sent to the city of Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory. He worked as a minder in the Tikhoretsk road repair and construction Department. _x000D_ In 1985, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

Title: Captain _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military-political composition_x000D_ Subdivision: 273rd Rifle Bezhitskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. _x000D_ He was born on May 15 (28), 1907 in the village Burino, Burinsky volost, Shadrinsky district, Perm province (village Burino, Kunashaksky district, Chelyabinsk Region). From 1916 to 1921 he was working at a farm as shepherd (Burino, Yumagulovo, Mansurovo, and among the Kazakhs of the Tobol River). From 1922 to 1924 he was placed in orphanage (St. Argayash, Barnaul, Ufa). He had been a Communist Party member since March 1931. Party card number is 2724934. Length of service in the Komsomol is from 1924 to 1939. From 1937 to 1939 he was a student of the Sverdlov Higher School of Propagandists of the Central Committee of the AU CPB, Moscow. From 1939 to 1941 he was lecturer at the propaganda Department of the Regional Party Committee (Bashobkom). _x000D_ In August he was mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army, where he served as an officer until June 1946. _x000D_ In November 1941, he was a Senior instructor of the political Department of the 113th Bashkir Cavalry Division. In September 1942, he was appointed Commissar of a Separate Operational Telegraph Company and sent to the northwestern front. In June 1943, he was transferred to the Bryansk front and was appointed as a propagandist of the 173th Regiment of the Suvorov Division. On September 19, 1943, after the capture of Bezhitsy was seriously wounded and sent to the hospital. After the hospital, at the beginning of 1944, he was in Reserve and worked as Deputy Chief of the echelon for Political Affairs, Deputy Battalion Commander of a Rifle Regiment of the Reserve for Political Affairs. In June 1946, due to illness, he was demobilized. _x000D_ After demobilization, the he was appointed in Department of Personnel of the Council of Ministers of the BASSR. In 1947 he was appointed Director of the Glavunivermag, then sent to the head of the Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the BASSR. He worked in various positions (Ufa, Chishminsky district, Mechetlinsky district). In October 1968 he left his job for health reasons. He passed away on August 30, 1979.

Rank: Red Army _x000D_ Subdivision: 56th Moscow Red Banner Infantry Division _x000D_ Near the eternal flame there is a sculptural group of two soldiers, and a little further, in the depths of the square, there is a memorial architectural structure, where cast-iron plaques with the names of those who found death on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War are fixed on the columns. _x000D_ The monument to Daria Yegorovna Turubarova, a mother, a simple Russian woman, will forever be remembered. Among the heroes is her daughter Vera, a Komsomol member who voluntarily left for the front and passed away on the Smolensk land. She convincingly asked the Komsomol organization to recommend her as a fighter in the ranks of the Red Army. In the Reserve Regiment, the girls underwent medical training, got acquainted with small arms, and went to the front. The Motherland honored its daughter with a high award, the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ It was learned in more detail about an effort of the Komsomol member Vera Turubarova in late September and early August 1945. At the same time the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Dityatev told about the last effort of Vera Turubarova._x000D_ " .. In our guards unit everyone knows the Medical Instructor girl, the hero Vera Turubarova. She was an example for fighters, dozens of glorious stories can be told about her fighting life. This happened in the Smolensk Region, near the city of Krasny, in the very place where Napoleon's troops were defeated in the First Patriotic War of 1812. The unit in which Vera served was found in a hard position. The Nazis were consolidated at the height. They had to be knocked out. One of the battalions went on the attack several times, but unsuccessfully. Then Vera jumped out of the trench with a high-raised machine gun, with the words: “Forward, for the Motherland!” The soldiers rose behind her, and in a stubborn battle, the height was taken. A courageous girl was seriously wounded.” This story of the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai ityatev was published in the newspaper “Bolshevik Call” No. 91 dated August 3, 1945.

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ This is one of my grandfathers—Viktor Grigorievich Tikhonov. _x000D_ From the first days of the war, he was at the forefront in the city of Leningrad. From November 1942 he served in the Battalion as a Platoon Commander. His platoon, located in a combat facility, was three hundred meters from the enemy. Despite the continuous shelling, Grandfather and his platoon particularly distinguished in improving the area defense and turned it into an impregnable fortress by installing additional engineering obstacles. “Tracking down the enemy every day, comrade Tikhonov and his platoon destroyed up to 58 Finnish soldiers. He has 15 exterminated Finns on his personal account.” His garrison was one of the best garrisons in the Battalion. _x000D_ In the battles for the Motherland, the first time he was seriously wounded near Tikhvin. As a result, he ended up in the hospital. By the great conduct of the Lord, he fell into the hands of the surgeon Tikhonov Grigory Semyonovich, his own father and my great-grandfather. Who personally gave life to grandfather Victor for the second time! But for a real hero, this would be too simple an ending to the story. Further it was even more interesting. _x000D_ After recovering from his injury, Grandfather continued his liberation campaign. He went all the way to Berlin. And in victorious battles from the second to the fourth of February 1945 near the village of Greifenstein, Grandfather replaced the machine-gun company Commander, left the ranks. He skillfully organized the company and proved to be a bold, brave and courageous Commander. In the battle near Greifenstein with the soldiers of their company, they destroyed up to 200 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ On 02/03/1945 in the Steinau area, when the enemy attacked our battle formations with forces of up to two infantry battalions supported by sixteen tanks, he personally organized the defense of the left flank of the Steinau village. And personally, in close combat with a machine gun in his hands, he destroyed 10 Germans. And also made anti-tank barricades in the street to block the path of enemy tanks. Enemy tanks were forced to pass along the flank, where they were knocked out (four of them) by our gunners. For this effort, Grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star! _x000D_ There is also another effort to commemorate: he, together with his friend, ensured the advancement of two battalions, destroying seven enemy bunkers ... Only two of them did that!!! _x000D_ In the photo, you can really see a twinkle in the eyes. My grandfather came home and continue his life with dignity, raising children and grandchildren. Viktor Grigorievich passed away old from battle wounds, at home. Eternal Glory!

Mikhail Soloviev (1923-1944), Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in the village of Klyuchiki of Cherkassy uyezd (now Volsky district).

Rank: Corporal. Branch of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. A biography of our father and grandfather can fit into several paragraphs. But behind them is a whole human life and the life of his generation, with its joys and troubles. He was born in the village of Koken, Zhanasemeysky District, he did not remember his parents, since he had lost them early and was brought up by his grandfather. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, Zhumagali Serkbolov studied at a Geological Prospecting College. After completing the 2nd year, he completed an internship at the Karsakpay field under the guidance of the famous scientist Kanysh Satpayev. When the war started, he was 22 years old. At the end of the 3rd course, in May 1940, Zhumagali Serikbolov was drafted into the army, and then to the front. He went through the whole war. _x000D_ Since August 1941, he fought as part of the troops of the Western Front and as a squad leader, and after graduating from the accelerated Courses of the Penza Artillery and Mortar School as a Platoon Commander on the 3rd Belorussian Front. In April 1945 he was awarded the medal “For Capture of Konigsberg”, where he was injured. _x000D_ He returned home in 1946 with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two medals "For Courage", a letter of commendation from Stalin. He got a job as a journalist in a regional newspaper, and this was the only job for life. An eternal ascetic, he traveled all the farms and villages of the Semipalatinsk Region, he knew the land and the peasants who worked on. Keeping abreast of events, my father had a huge, unique mind with tons of information. _x000D_ Before retirement, he worked in the information and letters department. The readers knew their journalist well and turned to him with requests. He tried to help everyone, always responding to calls. The Museum of the History of the Geological Prospecting College in Semey stores documents and personal belongings of 71 veteran graduates, including documents and awards of the front-line soldier Zhumagali Serkbolov.

Subdivision: 1st Guards Cavalry Stavropol Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division named after M.F. Blinova._x000D_ Stepanov Yegor Ilyich was born in 1916 in the village of Bagorodsk, Voznesensky District, Gorky Region in 1916. He was drafted into the Red Army Voznesensky Comissariat, Gorky Region, Voznesensky District in 1939. He served in the 1st Guards Cavalry Stavropol Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division named after M.F. Blinov at the 1st Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ His military unit participated in the following operations: Bukrin offensive operation 10/12/1943-10/24/1943. Kiev offensive operation 3.11.43-13.11.43 Defensive operation in the Kiev front. _x000D_ From November 13 to December 23, 1943 Zhitomir-Berdichev offensive operation. 12.24.43 to 15.1.44 Korsun-Shevchenko offensive operation. From January 24 to February 17, 1944 (Operation 2nd Strike). Defeat on the right-bank Ukraine. February-March 1944 Proskurovo-Zhmerinskaya offensive operation. From March 4 to April 17, 1944. (Operation of the 2nd impact). 6th strike. Defeat of the Germans in Western Ukraine. July-August 1944 Lvov-Sandomierz offensive operation. From July 13 to August 30, 1944 (Operation 6th Strike). Fighting on the Sandomierz foot strong. 30.8.44-12.1.1945 Sandomierz-Silesian offensive operation (January offensive of the 1st Ukrainian Front). 12.1-28.1.1945 Lower Silesian offensive operation. From February 8 to February 28, 1945, the March offensive of the left wing of the 1st Ukrainian Front (Oppelnaya operation). 15.3-31.3.1945. Berlin offensive operation. 16.4-8.5.1945. _x000D_ Having defeated the Stettin grouping of the enemy, the front's troops ensured the offensive of the 1st Belorussian Front's strike grouping to Berlin from the north and by 6.5.1945 reached the Stralsund line, Wismar, east of Schwerin, Grabov, the eastern bank of the river Elbe to Wittenberg, moving up to 200 km. _x000D_ The troops of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts, defeating and destroying the main forces of 9 A and 4 TA of the enemy, on 2.5.45 captured the capital of Germany, the city of Berlin. With the capture of Berlin and the defeat of the entire German army on 8.5.45 Germany surrendered. _x000D_ During the operation, Soviet troops advanced up to 180 km. _x000D_ His efforts: on 04/20/1945 in the area of Niski, during a counterattack of the enemy Comrade Stepanov from under artillery and mortar fire, carried out two seriously wounded Polish soldiers and provided them with first aid. He was awarded the medal "For Courage". _x000D_ On April 28, 1945, in the area of the village of Nauvalde, a group of Germans was discovered. Comrade Stepanov destroyed two Germans and captured one German prisoner. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Several years after the end of the war, he moved with his family to the Irkutsk Region, the city of Angarsk, the village of Yugo-Vostochny, 3-9-3. _x000D_ He raised five sons. Egor Ilyich Stepanov passed away in 1998.

Rank: Sergeant Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 257th Infantry Sivash Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Sergeant Vasily Nikolayevich Tolyanin was a Commander of the Rifle Squad of the 943rd Infantry Regiment of the 943 Infantry Red Banner Regiment of the 257th Infantry Sivash Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree of the Division of the 92nd Arrow Corps of the 4th Shock Army of the 2nd Baltic Front. He had been a Member of the Communist Party since 1942. He was born in 1911, a native of the Yuzhsky District of the Ivanovo Region of the RSFSR. In the Red Army since June 20, 1941, he was drafted by the Yuzhsky Comissariat of the Ivanovo Region of the RSFSR. In the Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 on the North-Western Front, from September 8, 1942 on the Transcaucasian Front. He was wounded on August 22, 1941 near the city of Staraya Russa. _x000D_ On June 28, 1943, by Order No. 023 / n on the 60th Red Banner Separate Rifle Brigade of the North Caucasian Front, Sergeant V. N. Tolyanin, Senior Chef of the 1st Separate Rifle Battalion, was awarded with the medal “For Courage” for the fact that: “He had been at war from the first days, participated in combats. Working after being wounded as a Senior Chef from December 1, 1941 in the immediate vicinity of the front line, he showed devotion to the Communist party. In cold weather and bad weather, throughout his service, he provided fighters and commanders with hot food, being an example of discipline and courage. Repeatedly, Comrade Tolyanin cooked under the enemy's artillery fire, but even in these cases the work was carried out by him on time.” _x000D_ On May 27, 1944, by Order No. 14 / n on the 943rd Infantry Regiment of the 257th Sivash Red Banner Infantry Division of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Sergeant V.N. Tolyanin, Senior chef of the Communications Company, was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for the fact that: "... in the battles for Sevastopol from 8 to 12 May 1944, despite the intense mortar fire always delivered deliciously cooked hot food in a timely manner to the combat formations of the company. " On December 4, 1944 Act No. 38 of the Commander of the 257th Infantry Sivash Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree Division Guards Colonel Safronov Fedor Andreevich, awarded Sergeant V.N. Tolyanin, a telephone operator of the 943rd Regiment, with the medal “For the Defense of Moscow”. He was killed on February 7, 1945 in battles for the defense of the foot strong on the northern bank of the river. The body remained on the battlefield in the area of Village Pulti, Bart Territory, Grobia Region.

Rank: Captain of the 1st rank. Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. My grandfather Sofronov Yuri Mikhailovich, was born on November 26, 1912 in the village of Zolotye Priyski (Gold Mines) of the Perm Territory. Childhood and youth were spent in the Urals. He was drafted into the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces from the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). After completing his command Courses in November 1936 and being awarded the rank of “Lieutenant”, he was sent to serve in the Amur Flotilla, then continued serving in the Pacific Fleet, where he met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The grandfather did not have to take a direct part in the hostilities, the authorities refused to numerous reports about his transfer to the Baltic or the North. However, he contributed to the victory over fascism. In 1941, the US Congress adopted the state program "Lend-Lease Law", according to which ammunition, various military equipment and ammunition were transferred to the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. The safest route was the Pacific route. My grandfather Yuri Sofronov became a direct participant in this. He was directly involved in the formation of convoys, manning the crews of ships received under Lend-Lease for further dispatch by the Northern Sea Route to the Northern Fleet. In June 1942, the EON-18 Special Purpose Expedition was formed from the warships of the Pacific Fleet, the leader of "Baku", the destroyers "Reasonable", "Furious" and "Zealous" to replenish the surface forces of the Northern Fleet. To replenish the submarine forces of the Northern Fleet for relocation from the Pacific Fleet to the North, 6 submarines were prepared - "L-15", "L-16", "S-51", "S-54", "S-55", "S- 56 ". Two of them, "S-51" and "S-56", became Red Banners, and in 1945 "S-56" was awarded the title of the Guards. Fascist Germany was defeated, but in the east, near the borders of the USSR, a million-strong Kwantung army was concentrated, Japanese warships impeded navigation, it was necessary to finally end fascism. _x000D_ The General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces planned an offensive operation to defeat the Kwantung Army located in Manchuria, with the direct participation of the Pacific Fleet. To strengthen the naval grouping of forces, in the period from April to June 1945 of the year, it was necessary to accept and staff 250 ships transferred to the United States under Lend-Lease. _x000D_ For the transfer of the data of ships to the USSR in Alaska in the Cold Bay, a naval base was equipped. We worked for days, without sleep or rest, and the mission was completed on time. For exemplary fulfillment of State Defense Committee missions for manning, training crews, accepting ships from the United States and transferring them to the ports of the USSR, Sofronov, like a large group of personnel of the Pacific Fleet, who directly took part in this operation, was awarded 4 orders and 4 medals. After the end of the war, Comrade Sofronov continued to serve in the Caspian Flotilla and the Baltic Fleet. In 1964, he was transferred to the reserve from the post of Deputy Chief of the ammunition of mass destruction of the Twice Red Banner Baltic Fleet. _x000D_ After the end of the service my grandfather, Yuri Sofronov returned to the city of Sverdlovsk, but after retiring, his active life did not end, he headed the DOSAAF Naval School, where he continued to train personnel for the Navy. Later, he took a direct part in the creation of the Sverdlovsk section of war veterans of the Soviet committee of war veterans._x000D_ As part of the initiative group of Ural veterans, a Hospital for War Veterans was built in Yekaterinburg, and a Memorial to the Ural soldiers was opened. Until the last days of his life, Yu. M. Sofronov took an active part in the fate of veterans, in the patriotic education of youth.

Smirnov Pavel Pavlovich was born in 1913 in the village of Pestovo, Tver province, Staritsk District of the Darskaya volost (now the village of Pestovo, Torzhok District, Tver Region). Smirnov P.P. drafted to the front in June 1941 by the Vysokovskiy District Military Commissariat of the Kalinin Region. Before, Smirnov P.P. actually lived in the village of Bukontovo, Torzhok District, Kalinin Region. _x000D_ Smirnov Pavel went missing in March 1943. Memories of a soldier. Some words about him are written by his son Viktor Pavlovich Smirnov: “Before the war, my father worked in a kolkhoz, herding horses, looking after an apiary, did some carpentry work. He was a master in carpentry. He was drafted to the front in the first days of the war. Until 1933, our family lived on the Abukhovo farm near the village of Tesmino. After the liquidation of the farmsteads, we moved to the Bukontovo village of the Torzhok District of the Tver Region, where there were twenty-five households. Our family was given a separate house. Mother worked on a pig farm, but also managed to do everything around the house . And the farmstead was considerable: a cow, a pig, chickens and a horse. There were four children in the family. The eldest daughter was the mother's main assistant. The kolkhoz ”thundered" before the war. Received high yields. The calves were kept for fattening. There were two apple orchards. Even the earned workdays were “bought” with fruits. And no one then could have guessed that on one sunny summer day everything would collapse. I learned about the Nazi attack from my father. Before leaving for the front, he hugged us all tightly. Mom cried, looking at the children. Father, as he could, reassured everyone. The whole family went to see our folder off. Many people gathered around the church. There are tears in my eyes and barely audible sobs. The men were taken on carts into the unknown. The villagers ran after them for a long time. Father managed to shout to us to take care of mother, help and obey her in everything. At that time, we somehow grew up immediately. And our children's shoulders have laid the burdens of life. They worked in the field along with the adults, earning workdays. The front was approaching rapidly. _x000D_ The village of Stanishino, which was located seven kilometers from the village of Bukontovo, was already bombed. Residents were evacuated to the village of Troitskoye. But on the way we got bombed. I had to go back. The Germans were everywhere. Our house burned down. Then our neighbor old man Guryan let us in. The Germans slaughtered pigs, took away warm clothes. Fortunately, they did not manage for long. _x000D_ On the night of Christmas, from 24 to 25 December 1941, from the front of Stanishino and Sreznevo, two ski battalions of the Red Army went into the rear of the German garrison. As a result of the night combat, our village was liberated. After the expulsion of the fascists, people gradually came to their senses. It was hard for everyone. We worked seven days a week. And we remembered father's order to help mother. A misfortune happened to her, froze bit her hand, she was rescued by doctors from the Medical Battalion, which was in the village of Dudorovo. We ate very poorly. The mother used to make cakes from clover heads. We ate frozen potatoes. Berries and mushrooms helped out. Soon our family was overtaken by the first grief, my brother and older sister died. In 1943 my mother, I and my younger brother moved to the village of Zhilkino. There, in the kolkhoz, I began working in a blacksmith as an assistant to a hammer. The death notice came for the father, bringing a new grief. Mom sat down on a chair and was silent for a long time, looking somewhere into the distance. And then she began to cry. I am very sad that my father never returned home. And my mother died in 1984. Life flows fast like a river. And how I want to slow down her run. So I already have great-grandchildren and grandchildren. I want them to live peacefully, love their homeland, for which my father died.