The Great Patriotic War

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 188th Infantry Nizhnedneprovsk Red Banner Division _x000D_ My father, Alexander Samsonov, was born on 05/17/1919 in the village of Solovyovka, Ugransky District, Smolensk Region. On July 25, 1941 he volunteered for the Red Army being a student of the last year of the Moscow Credit and Economic Institute of the State Bank of the USSR. After a month and a half of study at the Lenin Military-Political School in the Kubinka of the Moscow Region he was awarded the military rank of Junior Political Instructor. After taking an oath on August 15, 1941, he was sent to the North-Western Front. He was a battery Commissar, a topographer-calculator in a topographic platoon (234 Artillery Regiment, 5th battery, 188 Rifle Division), later a Political Instructor of the 3rd Battalion. He fought on the North-Western Front from September 1941 to August 1943, then on the Steppe Front, later renamed 2nd Ukrainian Front, then on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. Ht participated in the liberation of Krivoy Rog, many mines and settlements on the Dnieper. For liberation of the city of Krivoy Rog he had two thanks from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin (orders of February 6 and February 22, 1944). _x000D_ By order of 37th Army dated March 9, 1944, he was awarded the medal “For Courage”. In April 1944 he took part in the liberation of Tiraspol, Chisinau, in the defeat of the Jassy-Kishinev group of the Nazis. _x000D_ By order of November 23, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. At the end of 1944, from Bulgaria he was sent to study in Leningrad, to the Higher Officers' Artillery School, where he celebrated the Act of Surrender of Nazi Germany. He graduated from the war with the rank of Guard Senior Lieutenant. The photo was taken in May 1945 at the Higher Officers' Artillery School. After the war, he graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute and the Academy of Foreign Trade. _x000D_ For the last 25 years before retirement, he was the Head of the Financial Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. In the postwar years he was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, and the Badge of Honor. He was listed in the Book of Honor of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. For many years my father was a member of the Veterans Council of the 188th Infantry Division. In 1977 he was awarded the "Honorary Badge of the SEC" (Soviet Committee of War Veterans) and the SEC Commemorative Medal. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the victory over fascism in 1985, he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He passed away in Moscow on April 17, 2010. He was a bright, open, honest and amazingly kind person.

Rank: Red Army soldier's_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ He was born on May 7, 1926 in the village of Saki in the Crimea, where he lived until 1998. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1944. He participated in the battles of the Western Front in the liberation of Belarus, Bobruisk-Vitebsk operations under the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Chernyakhovsky. He also took part in the liberation of the Baltic States from the Nazi invaders in East Prussia. Where, after the tragic death of Chernyakhovsky, Commander-in-Chief Bagromyan took over the control of the Army. He was repeatedly awarded medals and orders. In 1946-1947 he took part in military parades in Moscow. He had served in the Army until 1952. In Saki, his Name and Surname are carved at the Obelisk of the Eternal Fire. _x000D_ There is also my uncle, Mikhail Gavrilovich Sosnov, participant of WWII, who was killed and buried in the city of Orel. _x000D_ My grandfather, Sosnov Mikhail Terentievich is also a participant in hostilities, was born in 1900, passed away in 1966. He was an artilleryman, he did not tell much about himself, but according to the stories of his grandmother, Sosnova Maria Sergeevna, my grandfather participated in the Russian Championship in 1926 in freestyle wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling, French and Russian, he had diplomas. There is also a cousin of my father—Klochkov Vladimir Sergeevich 1925-1997 years of life. A participant in hostilities, according to memoirs, he participated in hostilities against Japan. I am proud of my family, who gave birth to us, gave birth to us. Eternal memory to them and may the earth rest in peace. The memoirs are compiled from the words of Valery Alexandrovich Sosnov.

Rank: Military Doctor of the 3rd rank Branch of troops: Military veterinary staff Division: 151st Infantry Division (1st Formation) Simonyan Yeranos Sarkisovich was born in 1896 in the village of Mrgavan, Artashat Region of the Armenian SSR. In 1914 he graduated from a Russian school and was mobilized into the Imperial Russian army. There he entered the garrison Veterinary School. In 1918-20 he served in the Armed Forces in the 1st Independent Republic of Armenia. In 1920-25 he served in the Red Army as a military feldsher. In 1931-36 he graduated from the All-Union Zooveterinary Institute. From 1926 to 1936 he worked as the Head of the security of the quarantine point. In 1936-41 he worked as a Chief Veterinarian in three regions of the Armenian SSR at once. On 06/23/1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in 503 PVL as the Head of the surgical department of the 45th, and then the 26th army. From March 1942 to March 1943 he was the Head of the Veterinary of the 151st Rifle Division of 44th army. From March 1943, he was a veterinarian of the OGTR of 44th Army, and then to December 1945, a veterinarian of the 299 OGTR of 28th Army. He had the military rank of Captain. Brief concrete description of a personal military feat from the award list: “Comrade Simonyan had been a participant in the Patriotic War from the first days of its beginning. Thanks to the great care and energy in his work, being in the Polesie area unfavorable for infectious anemia of horses, comrade Simonyan kept the horse stock and prevented the disease of infectious anemia. He received the Order of Red Star”. In the civil service in 1961 he received the honorary title Honored Veterinarian of the Armenian SSR. He received the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He passed away on October 19, 1986 in at the age of 90. He was buried in the cemetery of his native village Mrgavan, Ararat province Republic of Armenia.

Rank: Captain_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 330th Rifle Mogilev Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division_x000D_ Nikolai Moiseevich Topeshkin was born on December 7, 1920 in the family of Moisey Nilovich and Lyubov Petrovna Topeshkins. In 1935 he graduated from the Novo-Sukhotinsky incomplete school of the Karaganda Region of the KASSR, completed his education at the Yasnaya Polyana Secondary School in the village of Yasnaya Polyana, Shchekinsky District, Moscow Region. _x000D_ Since 1939 he had worked as a Physics and Mathematics Teacher at the Sevastyanovsk incomplete Secondary School of the Sevastyanovsk village council of the Oktyabrsky District of the Velikie Luki Region. He was drafted to war on August 18, 1941 by the Nelidovsky District Military Commissariat. Initially he fought in the 922 Rifle Regiment (cn) of the 250 Rifle Division (Suvorov Division). At this time, the division fought fierce combats in the area of the city of Bely (forty kilometers from the city of Nelidov). _x000D_ On July 22, 1941, the division, approaching the village of Tsyguny (southwest of Bely, Tver Region), entered the first combat straight from the march, counterattacking the advancing enemy. Now a memorial plaque is installed with the words: “At the turn of the Black Stream, Krasnogorodka-Losmino in July 1941, the soldiers of the 250th Rifle Division stopped the Nazi troops” on the border of the Tver and Smolensk regions, on the territory of the Demyakhinsky village council of the Belsky District of the Tver Region,_x000D_ The soldiers fought bravely. However, the hastily put together division entered the combat suffered heavy losses. During the first two weeks of fighting, the division lost almost 50% of its personnel, the division Commander, Major General I.S. Gorbachev and the Commander of the 922th Rifle Division, Mr. D.I. Kuznetsov. On August 22, 1941, the division, with the exception of the 918th Rifle Division, was transferred to the 242nd RD, concentrating south of Baturino near the village of Pozhinki, Smolensk Region. _x000D_ In the following days, until 09/01/41, he fights for Pochinok 2, Churkino, the northern outskirts of the village of Shelepy. On August 27-29, the enemy withdraws its units from the Losmino, Okolitsa, Cherny Ruchey line and, pursued by the 918th Rifle Corps, consolidates at the Svinkovo, Shcheglovo, Sutoki line. _x000D_ On September 2, the 922th unit returns to the Bor, Cherny Ruchey, Okolitsa line, and remains in the army reserve in the Sukharevo, Vorobikha, Ponomari Region of the Smolensk Region, and the 918th unit is fighting for Kiryakino, Lake._x000D_ On September 5, the unit had planned to gain a foothold in the village Novaya Vorontsovo, Niva districts. Since mid-September, the 250th Rifle Division has been defending the line along the Rzhat River on the Chichata, Ostroluki, Malinovka, Koshelevo, Sutoki, Zyki frontlines, with the mission of preventing the enemy from breaking through to Bely. _x000D_ On September 17, 1941, Nikolai was wounded. In the lists of soldiers of the 250th Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov, II degree of the Rifle Division, he is listed as a Company Commander with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. _x000D_ “The division, having entered the combat for the city of Bely, consisting of 12,129 people in the battles for this city, lost: 693 people killed, 3426 wounded, 5 954 people missing, 758 people returned to the division ... After being wounded and discharged, he fought in the 1113th Rifle Regiment of the 330th Rifle Division._x000D_ He was seriously wounded twice more times on February 21 and December 12, 1942. _x000D_ Due to the desertion of two soldiers, Senior LieutenantTopeshkin was enlisted in the 11th Separate Disciplinary Battalion of the Western Front for the position of a shooter. _x000D_ Reference: _x000D_ According to some sources, 427,910 people had passed through disciplinary military units. It made approximately 1.24% from a total number of military forces. For example, in 1944 the total losses of the Red Army (killed, wounded, prisoners, sick) were 6 503 204 people; of these, 170 298 penalties. The average monthly losses of permanent and variable personnel of all penal units for the year amounted to 14 191 people, or 52% of their average monthly number (27 326 people). This is 3-6 times more than the total average monthly casualties of personnel in conventional forces in the same offensive operations in 1944. _x000D_ Order # 16 for the 11th Separate Penalty Battalion of the 10th Army of the Western Front on February 7, 1944 Paragraph 5: _x000D_ On February 5, 1944 according to ACT No. 2 of 30.01.44 (Fund 16, Oshb Inventory 63430, case 12 LD 7-8) Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Moiseevich Topeshkin was enlisted for all types of allowances since 5.02.44 in the 11th Separate Disciplinary Battalion. _x000D_ “On the night from 17 to 18 February 1944 in the area of the village Prilepovka of the Chaussky District of the Mogilev Region, carrying out guard duty on the front line, Topeshkin N.M. together with the shooter Salavatov G.K. detained two German saboteurs, dressed in the uniform of the soldiers of the Red Army and collecting information about the location of our troops._x000D_ By order No. 20 on 11th Separate Disciplinary Battalion of the 10th Army of the Western Front dated February 20, 1944, he was early released from 11th Separate Disciplinary Battalion and sent to 16 Separate Disciplinary Battalion to restore all the rights of an officer and continue serving in his unit. _x000D_ The Commander of 11th Special Brigade, Major Sadovnikov, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant Colonel Samoilov, introduced Nikolai Moiseevich to the Order of the Red Star, but the Commander of the 330th Rifle Division, Colonel Gusev, decided otherwise and, as a result, by order of 21.02.1944, Nikolai Moiseevich was awarded the medal “For Courage”. ("And if you don't catch a bullet in your chest, you will catch a medal For Courage on your chest. Song by V. Vysotsky)._x000D_ Nikolai Moiseevich Topeshkin, together with the 330 Rifle Division, participated in the Belarusian, East Prussian, East Pomeranian and Berlin offensive operations, liberated Ryazan, Tula, Kaluga and Bryansk regions (including the cities of Mikhailov, Stalinogorsk and Kirov), the territory of the Belarusian SSR, the northern regions of Poland and Germany (including the cities of Mogilev, Grodno, Danzig and Wittenberg). _x000D_ On February 7-8, 1945, being a Senior Adjutant of 2nd Rifle Battalion of the 1113th Red Banner Infantry Regiment of the 330th Red Banner Mogilev Infantry Division, when the enemy attempted to break through the encirclement Captain N.M. Topeshkin led the 6th Infantry Company of 2nd Infantry Battalion, personally raising the fighters to counterattack. _x000D_ The Commander of the 1113th Rifle Regiment, Nikolai Moiseevich for this feat was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree. _x000D_ On March 24, 1945, in the battles on the outskirts of the city of Danzig, Nikolai Moiseevich replaced the Battalion Commander who had been wounded. Under his command, the Battalion occupied the village of Hasenberg. 30 German soldiers were killed, 9 prisoners were taken and 200 cars were captured at the railway station adjacent to the village of Hasenberg. _x000D_ Nikolai Moiseevich was the first to break into the trench, destroying up to 25 enemy soldiers. Building on the success of the offensive, the Battalion under the command of Captain Topeshkin, who correctly organized interaction with neighbors and reinforcement means, went to the area of the village of Freudenthal, destroying up to 60 enemy soldiers and officers and taking 6 prisoners. _x000D_ The Commander of the 1113th Rifle Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Kartashov, petitioned for the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree presented to Captain N.M. Topeshkin. _x000D_ The Commander of the 330th Rifle Division, Major General Gusev, and the Commander of the 70th rifle corps, Lieutenant General Terentyev, considered him worthy of being awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. As a result, by order of the Commander of the troops of the 49th Army of 2nd Belorussian Front, Colonel-General Grishin, and a member of the Military Council of the Army, Lieutenant-General Sychev of April 29, 1945, Captain Topeshkin N. M. was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree. _x000D_ At the end of the Great Patriotic War, the 330th Infantry Division became part of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. By the directive of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command of May 29, 1945, the division was disbanded on the spot and turned to replenish the troops. _x000D_ On September 26, 1945, Captain Nikolai Moiseevich Topeshkin, Senior Adjutant of a Separate Training Battalion of the 265th Rifle Division of the Vyborg Division of the 3rd Shock Army, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, was awarded the medal “For Victory over Germany in Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” by order of the Division Commander, Hero of the Soviet Union, Major General Shulga._x000D_ In 1951, Nikolai Moiseevich Topeshkin graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute and worked in the mining industry. He passed away on May 26, 1990 in the village of Kukuevo, Nelidovsky District, Tver Region, and was buried in the family cemetery next to his parents.

Title: Junior Seargeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: Panfilov 8th Guards Rifle Rezhitskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division _x000D_ Junior Sergeant Pyotr Dmitrievich Stemasov is the first Hero of the Soviet Union of the 316th Rifle Division. The Commander of the Radio Department of the 289th anti-tank Artillery Regiment of the 316th Rifle Division, Junior Sergeant Pyotr Stemasov in the battles near Moscow, provided radio communication of the battery with firing positions on October 25, 1941, replaced the out-of-order gunner and, together with the artillerymen, knocked out nine enemy tanks ... _x000D_ In the sector of the 1073rd Regiment of 316 Suvorov Division, the Nazi units broke through the defenses and made their way to join the tankers in Ostashevo. All the guns were already on alert. At two in the morning on October 25, the entire personnel of the 289th Regiment was raised to their feet. For half a day, the Spas-Ryukhov anti-tank area was grinding the fascist tanks. _x000D_ The fifth battery of Senior Lieutenant Belyakov, which discovered the enemy earlier than others, knocked out 11 tanks, Kapatsin's battery seventeen and the remaining batteries eighteen tanks. The battlefield was covered with smoke. Visibility has deteriorated. At the Kapatsyn battery, one gun was silent in the midst of hostilities. Kapatsyn sene Junior Seargeant Stemasov to clarify a combat situation. The gun carriage was covered with ground, and only the tractor driver Chobotov and the gunner Nerov survived. _x000D_ Stemasov, Chobotov and Neronov quickly dug up the gun carriage. The panorama was broken on the gun and the gunner ran to the spare. But the tanks were approaching, and they had to aim through the barrel. _x000D_ The first shot to test was fired at a haystack. The second time Stemasov aimed at the approaching tank, together with Chobotov, he again loaded the gun. A shot followed, “the tank shuddered, stopped and burst into flames.” _x000D_ Neronov returned with a spare panorama, the gun became fully operational. In a short time, the three of them knocked out seven tanks, but did not notice how a large group of enemy tanks from the side entered the rear. But even at these critical moments, Stemasov and his comrades were not at a loss. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 9, 1941, for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German enemy invaders, and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Junior Sergeant Peter Dmitrievich Stemasov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and a medal " Golden Star". In 1945 he graduated from 2nd year of the Military Academy named after F.E.Dzerzhinsky, in 1948 from the Higher Officer Artillery School, and in 1954 from the courses for officers. _x000D_ Since 1960, Major P.D.Stemasov had been in reserve. He lived in the city of Vitebsk. Before leaving for a well-deserved retirement, he worked at a factory of electrical measuring instruments. Retired Colonel P.D. Stemasov passed away on November 18, 2000. Buried in Vitebsk. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree, the Red Star, "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" of the 3rd degree, and medals. _x000D_ In the city of Vitebsk, a memorial plaque is installed on the house where the Hero lived.

Rank: Red Army_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Division: 89th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ My paternal grandfather, Vasily Konstantinovich Sergeev, was born in 1908 in the village of Shcherbinino, Orekhovo-Zuevsky District, Moscow Region. In 1919 he graduated from the 3rd grade of the Primary School in Orekhovo-Zuev. He had never been a Komsomol member or a party member. He had a civilian specialty as a lubricator. _x000D_ Fortunately, Vasily Konstantinovich's military ID was preserved, according to which I tried to restore the combat path of my grandfather. Military ID No. 794125 was issued on March 25, 1948._x000D_ In October 1930, at the age of 22, he was drafted by the Orekhovo-Zuevsky city military registration and enlistment office into the ranks of the Red Army for urgent military service. In the army, he served as an ordinary soldier of 1st military registration specialty (riflemen, machine gunners) as a shooter. _x000D_ It is noteworthy that before the beginning of the Second World War, he was mobilized by the Orekhovo-Zuevsky city military registration and enlistment office on April 4, 1941, in the 89th Rifle Regiment, under which he took the oath on the first day of the war on June 22 and as part of which he fought until February 28, 1942. _x000D_ Surprisingly, how the numbers in the family echo: I, his granddaughter, have a birthday on February 28th. Perhaps it was on this day in 1942 that grandfather Vasily was wounded in combat. _x000D_ From April 28, 1942 to June 1942, Vasily Konstantinovich was recovering from his wounds in evacuation hospital No. 1658 in Orenburg. During the WWII in the period from July 11, 1941 to January 1, 1946, the hospital was located in two buildings: in 4th building of the Orenburg State Pedagogical University at st. Pushkinskaya, 18 and School number 30 on the street. Sovetskaya, d. 24. Having recovered, the grandfather again went to the front. From June 1942 he fought in 37th Infantry Regiment, until he was again wounded on January 4, 1944. _x000D_ This time, the wound led to disability: a blind bullet wound in the left thigh with damage to the femur bone and sciatic nerve. And again evacuation hospital No. 1798 in Gorky from January 14, 1944 to April 29, 1944. The therapeutic department of the sorting evacuation hospital No. 1798 was deployed on the basis of city hospital No. 30 of the Kanavinsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, in the building of the former labor exchange. An important role in the development of the hospital was played by the organization on its basis of the Department of Faculty Therapy of the Gorky Medical Institute, which functioned from 1937 to 1941, i.e. before the start of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ On April 29, 1944, Vasily Konstantinovich was declared unfit for military service. On May 30, 1946, Vasily Konstantinovich was awarded the medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”. _x000D_ After the war he returned to his native town of Orekhovo-Zuevo and met my grandmother, Elena Egorovna Atlanova, born in 1905. Where and how my grandfather Vasily ended his life, I do not know.

Rank: Junior Seargeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces _x000D_ Subdivision: Kalinin 48th Ropsha Ropsha Red Banner Division _x000D_ Sobyanin Gavriil Epifanovich was participant of the WWI and the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Hero of the Soviet Union. Gavriil Epifanovich Sobyanin was born in the village of Shaitanovka, Cherdyn District, Perm Region. In 1914-1916 Gavriil Epifanovich took part in the First World War. In 1918, his family moved to the Berezovsky District for permanent residence. When the Great Patriotic War began, in August 1942 he volunteered for the front. He served as a sniper rifleman of the 301st Infantry Regiment of the 48th Ropsha Red Banner Division named after M.I. Kalinin of 2nd Baltic Front. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit." He passed away on December 23, 1944 in the combat for the stronghold of Garozas in the Libava District of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. _x000D_ For courage and devotion to the oath on June 29, 1945, Sobyanin Gavriil Epifanovich was posthumously awarded the title of “Hero of the Soviet Union” with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In September 2009, the archival department of the administration of the Berezovsky District invited the general educational institutions of the district to take part in the search and research action “Places of military glory of our fellow countrymen during the Great Patriotic War”, dedicated to 65th anniversary of Victory. The activists of the local club under the leadership of Lydia Volkova have found the burial place of the Hero of the Soviet Union Gabriel Epifanovich Sobyanin. It is located in Latvia in the village of Kursishi, Saldus Region, at the Kursishi brotherly military cemetery.

He was born in the village of Nikolskoye, Mezhdurechensky District, Vologda Region. He began his career in 1938, as a livestock technician, after graduating from the Gryazovets Agricultural Technical school. In 1939 he was drafted into the border troops. He passed military service near Brest, where he faced the Nazis, with the rank of Starshina. He retreated with regular units to the Luga line, where, after being reorganized, he was sent to the regular army and began participating in the Leningrad defensive operation. _x000D_ During the Leningrad Siege, he took part not only in the defense of the city, but also in the construction of the “Road of Life”, across Lake Ladoga. Due to his serious health condition, he was evacuated to a hospital near Moscow. After recovering in 1943, he graduated from Artillery courses as a Commander of the Katyusha rocket launcher battery, with the rank of Lieutenant. t|e Took part in the liberation of Budapest, Vienna, Koenigsberg. _x000D_ At Konigsberg, as the Commander of the BM-13 division, he received a severe concussion and was sent to the hospital, where he celebrated Victory. _x000D_ After the end of the war, he was commissioned with the rank of Guard Captain and began work as an agronomist in the Vologda Region. In 1946 he graduated from the Vologda regional party school and until 1949 worked in the District party committee in the town of Kirillov in the Vologda Region, then in the apparatus of the Vologda party committee. He worked in party and people's control bodies. After retirement, he headed the regional Council for Nature Protection. He passed away in 1986 in Vologda. He was buried at the Poshekhonskoye cemetery.

I want to tell you about my great-grandfather Sinkov Alexander Yakovlevich, who went through the entire war from the beginning to the victorious end. Alexander was born in 1911 in the village of Alekseevka, Pochep District, Bryansk Region. From the first days of the war he was called up to the front. At home, my great-grandfather left a family: his wife Praskovya and three children. It was not easy for them to survive in the harsh wartime. Hunger, cold and death were everywhere. They wandered through the kolkhoz fields and picked frozen potatoes, which they called "nausea," and baked pancakes from them. During the bombing of Pochep, a shell fell on the house where the eldest son Alexander was. He was instantly killed. At this time, great-grandfather fought for Moscow in heavy bloody battles and could not protect his family. My grandmother, Sokolova Lyudmila Aleksandrovna, keeps a page of the Selskaya Nov 'newspaper with an article about her father, in which he gave an interview for the 40th anniversary of the combat for Moscow. Here is what my great-grandfather said about the combat for the capital. _x000D_ “It was very cold fall of 1941. We Russians, accustomed to frost, bore them relatively easily. But the Nazis were freezing even in sheepskin coats stolen from our peasants. Even Russian nature was at war with the hated enemy. The fighting was fierce. I was wounded, but I stayed in the ranks with my comrades, I could not leave the last line. There was nowhere to go, Moscow was behind us! We vowed to die, but not to step back. I remember a combat in the Volokolamsk area, when a machine gun mowed down the enemy until it was impossible to touch because of the heat. _x000D_ The Germans rolled back, suffering huge losses. Here I saw the captured enemies for the first time. Much happened for the first time just near Moscow … Here we witnessed rocket mortars, affectionately called ”Katyusha" by the soldiers. That fall I first had the opportunity to attend a military parade in Moscow. An unforgettable impression remained forever in my memory. Imagine what this parade meant for us in front-line Moscow…_x000D_ Then we realized that the enemy would never capture our capital. For the first time near Moscow I had to shoot from an anti-tank gun and walked with it many kilometers of military roads. We were approaching the Victory Day in the distant cold and stormy forty-first. _x000D_ Awards: medal "For Defense of Moscow" on February 27, 1945; gratitude for participation in the Victory parade of June 26, 1945; medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" on October 19, 1945; jubilee medal "Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" on May 9, 1975; jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" on January 15, 1979. _x000D_ But this is not the whole story about my hero. Our family archive contains the newspaper "Selskaya nov" dated February 14, 1970, No. 19, where a whole page is devoted to Sinkov Alexander Yakovlevich, my great-grandfather! Here's what I learned from reading the article. _x000D_ “When the last gunshots of the Great Patriotic War passed away down, announcing to the whole world about the Victory over the worst enemy of mankind - fascism, our soldiers began to return to peaceful labor. The front-line soldier Alexander Yakovlevich Sinkov also returned to his native lands. He took off his battered, dusty soldier's overcoat, changed into civilian clothes and went to look for a job. At that time, workers were needed literally in all areas of agricultural production destroyed by the enemy, and Alexander Yakovlevich was immediately offered the position of head of the warehouse of spare parts and materials for agricultural machines, as well as mineral fertilizers and pesticides. He always was an attentive and patient listener of who ever turns to him, If a sowing or harvesting campaign takes place on kolkhoz fields, then Alexander Yakovlevich, even on weekends and holidays, very rarely leaves his work. He knows that on such days the fate of the harvest is on the line, so all the machines in the fields work with great stress, at any hour a part may fail and require urgent replacement. He knew how to fight and work great. Unfortunately, a terrible tragedy happened in the life of the great-grandfather, having survived all the difficulties and horrors of war, already in peacetime, his wife Praskovya passed away, leaving two children. A few years later, my grandfather married again to the beauty of Pochep, Vera Filippovna Larionenko, my great-grandmother. _x000D_ The children of the great-grandfather from his first marriage had grown up by that time and left the parental home. In 1957 my grandmother, Lyudmila, was born. Only on May 9, with some incomprehensible feeling, he put on his jacket with the medals glittered, shimmering in the spring sun, and went to a link-up with those who understood him more than we did, and indulged in memories.

Subdivision: 242nd Taman Mountain Rifle Red Banner Order of Kutuzov_x000D_ Tribunsky Nikolay Tarasovich was born on October, 25 1923 in the village Salnikovo (now Pervomaisky District of Altai Territory) in a peasant family. He had been enlisted to the Red Army since October 1941, participated in war combats since December 1941. He was a recon of the 690th Brigade Regiment (126th Brigade, 2nd Guards Army, 4th Ukrainian Front)._x000D_ On 12.4.1944 as part of reconnaissance group he destroyed 5 Nazis and captured several prisoners in Sevastopol (Crimea, Ukraine). On 05/31/1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory, (242nd Alpine Division, the 3rd Alpine Corps, 1st Guards Army, 4th Ukrainian front). _x000D_ Senior Sergeant made several raids deep into the rear of the enemy, captured and personally exterminated more than 15 Nazis 17.12.44-4.01.45. On On 4.01.45 one of the first in a group of recons broke into the enemy location in the area of Bardejov (Slovakia), struck 3 sub-machine gunners with point-blank fire, and captured 1 prisoner. On 05.02.45 Tribunsky awarded the Order of Glory of 3 degree, on 24.10.66 he was re-awarded the Order of Glory of 1st degree. Commanding a capture group, on the night of 05.02.45 at the station Gucisko (southern city of Rabka, Poland) killed 4 Nazis and took 1 prisoner. On the night of 20.02.45 in the area of Nowy Sacz (Poland), covering the retreat of the capture group with the “tongue”, he struck 5 infantry. On 24.3.45 Tribunsky was awarded the Order of Glory of 2nd degree. _x000D_ In January 1946 he was demobilized. In 1956 he graduated from the Barnaul Accounting and Credit College and worked as a Chief Accountant of the Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party. He lived in the city of Barnaul. He passed away on June 25, 1996.

Rank: Military Technician of 2nd rank _x000D_ Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. _x000D_ My father, Ilya Mikhailovich Saveliev, was born on July 30, 1919 in the Tver Region of Russia. In 1933, after finishing 7 classes, he came to Leningrad and entered the Construction Technical School, which he graduated in 1937. Then he was called up for short courses at the Leningrad Naval Academy. After graduating from the academy, he briefly served at the base of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet in Tallinn. In 1940 he was sent to serve in Kiev, where in August 1941, at the age of 23, he began his front-line service as Chief of 1st supply fuel department of the Logistics Department of the Pinsk Military Flotilla. _x000D_ Once fighting with the Germans on land, Ilya Mikhailovich Savelyev was surrounded. At combat he was wounded and contused, his left arm was shot through, (despite the fact that he was left-handed), and a bullet was stuck in his thigh. Due to concussion and pain, he lost consciousness. At night, he woke up and crawled to the nearest village, where a local peasant woman provided him with first aid. When the wounds began to heal, he made his way through the territory occupied by the Germans to Kiev, where my mother, Menshikova Klavdia Dmitrievna, used to live. _x000D_ She hid him in a specially walled part of her apartment, so that the German patrol would not find him during a sudden check and nursed him until Kiev was liberated by the Red Army. When Kiev was liberated at the end of 1943, my father voluntarily came to the military commandant's office of the Red Army and again went to fight as part of the 180th Rifle Division (2nd formation) of the 2nd Ukrainian Front and 106th Rifle Division (3rd formation) of the 1st Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ But for the fact that he, being a Soviet officer and being surrounded, did not shoot himself, the officer's shoulder straps were torn from him in the commandant's office and he ended the war as a Private. _x000D_ After the victory, he was sent to special camps in the north of Russia. Such was the fate of the Soviet officers who were surrounded. After several months of camps, Ilya Savelyev returned to the construction profession and worked in Leningrad from 1946 to 1957 as a foreman and head of a workshop. In the summer of 1957, he returned to Kiev, and in the fall of 1957 he was officially rehabilitated. He got back his officer rank, given military awards and a monetary reward of 3,000 rubles. _x000D_ Since 1957, Ilya Savelyev had worked at the Kiev State Design Institute of Light Industry as a leading engineer and group leader. Не was sent from the institute to Mongolia and worked from 1961 to 1964 as the chief consultant of a tannery in Ulan Bator. He enjoyed the honor and respect. Due to a combat wound in his left hand, he learned to draw complex drawings with his right hand. He passed away in Kiev in June 1981 and was buried with military honors.

Branch of troops: Communications troops _x000D_ A short autobiography of grandfather and grandmother from a personal diary on March 1, 2004: _x000D_ “I, Ilya Ivanovich Tolstolutsky, was born on July 28, 1923, in a family of five children, in the village of Medvezhye, Melovatsky District. I graduated from 4th grades in Medvezhye, and then 7 grades at Yasenovskaya school. In 1938 I graduated from the FZO school (factory training at the plant named after Dzerzhinsky) for the repair of steam locomotives in the city of Voronezh. I worked as a fitter repairing fittings on steam locomotives. _x000D_ In September 1941 I was drafted into the active army. I served and fought in communications units (telephone communications), at first, at the Western front, and in 1942 I was transported to the Far East. In 1945 I took part in the war with Japan. After the end of the war with Japan, I was sent to the workers' battalion in Vladivostok. I worked on loading and unloading ships. In April 1947 I was demobilized. Thus, I returned to my native village Medvezhye only 6 years later. I worked in kolkhoz in various agricultural jobs. In 1948 I met a girl named Ulyana from the village of Yasenovka. _x000D_ Belovolova Ulyana Vasilievna was born on June 20, 1928. In November 1948 we got married. In 1950, our daughter Galya was born. Since 13 years old, Ulya had worked in the kolkhoz at all jobs: she grazed, fed and rode bulls, horses, was a milkmaid, a pig shepherd, a cook, a watchman, a loader in all agricultural work, graduated from 3 classes of school. _x000D_ We settled in the village of Yasenovka. I began to work in kolkhoz. I rode horses and bulls. I was a foreman of a field-crop team, head of a grain warehouse, head of a poultry farm, a foreman of a vegetable garden team. _x000D_ Since 1958 I have been working as an accountant of a tractor team until my retirement in 1983. For health reasons, Ulyana Vasilievna from 1976 until her retirement in 1983 worked at home, in a vegetable garden of 0.52 hectares, we grew all vegetables for themselves and sold the surplus to other villages and the city of Kalach. The farm had a cow, sheep, pigs, geese, chickens, ducks, goats. Ulyana's mother, Dunya, who was disabled, provided great help with the household chores. She nursed not only her granddaughter Galya, but also her great-grandchildren Seryozha and Tanya. She lived for 83 years. _x000D_ In 1959, our Tolstolutskys family dismantled their old house and built a new one, rebuilt a barn, a basement, made a kitchen of stone and clay, dug a well in the courtyard, led water into the courtyard and a vegetable garden. All work was done by hand. In the kolkhoz labor was paid poorly, and very little bread was given. We made extra from the garden, and went to the Rostov Region for grain. We baked plain black bread. There were high taxes, as well as mandatory surrender to the state of meat, eggs, milk, wool, animal skins, and everything for nothing. _x000D_ Until 1960, no money was paid for work at all, only workdays. Already retired, in 1986 we sold the house, moved to Kalach, bought a new house and installed gas pipes. _x000D_ “Perhaps this is all, if God prolongs life, then I will add something else ... ”_x000D_ For such labors, my whole life passed. In the kolkhoz, the Tolstolutsky family was respected, they were called godfathers, there were 12 gods and 46 godfathers. We lived in peace with Ulyana Vasilievna, 63 years old, who passed away in 2011. They raised their daughter Galya, grandchildren Seryozha and Tanya, and help raise six great-grandchildren. Family relationships are a model for grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Rank: Red Army Soldier _x000D_ Missing in action 00.12.1941. Document specifying losses: report No. 59494, type of report: reports of the post-war period, date of report 09/07/1946 Specified parts of 4th division. _x000D_ I am asking for help to find the missing person! I am looking for the brother of my grandmother Kolousova (Stolyarova) Vera Sergeevna (born May 6, 1931, a native of the Ulyanovsk Region, Inzensky District, the village of Shuvatovo). _x000D_ In the first days of the Second World War, my grandfather was called to the front. In which direction the train departed, there is no information from the military ID. My grandmother, while she was alive, was looking for information about him and took to the regional military registration and enlistment office the only photograph of her brother, which was lost in the archive. _x000D_ Previously, I wanted to find the original photo to the family archive, to fulfill the will of my grandmother. _x000D_ In the photo Alexander is 16 years old, he is in Chelyabinsk. The photo was sent by Kakleeva Nadezhda Ananyevna, the daughter of a participant in three wars. _x000D_ Alexander’s mother: Stolyarova Theodosya Evdokimovna (Davydovna) (09.09.1890-09.02.1952) passed away at 61 due to cardiovascular insufficiency. She rests on 5th block of the Mitrofanovskoye cemetery. _x000D_ Theodosya's children: Volodya, Alexander, Vera, Anna (passed away young). The only relative left is a niece, named Alexandra in honor of her uncle, Shura (Maiden Stolyarov) Gebel, is still alive, but she does not remember much. Search teams are informed and search throughout this country. _x000D_ The Earth reveals the long-awaited facts about the death of relatives and friends. The lost information may have appeared ... Please, help me find it! I would be glad to receive any information and ask you to inform me via email: gartungm@mail.ru Best regards, Maria Valerievna Hartung

Suleimanov Ibragim Bagomedovich was born in 1911, in the village of Urakhi, Darginsky District, Dagestan Region (now Sergokalinsky District of the Republic of Dagestan), into a peasant family. In 1937 he graduated from the Sergokala pedagogical school, after which he worked at the Urakhin Secondary School and the Gubden incomplete school. In the summer of 1941, he was drafted by the Karabudakhkent Military Commissariat of the Dagestan SSR. _x000D_ Since August 1941, he served as a line supervisor, and then as a Senior line supervisor of the cable-pole company of 14th Separate Motorized Rifle Communications Battalion as part of the 353rd Rifle Division of the 3rd rifle corps of the 56th army. From August to October 1941 he had been a participant in the defense of Odessa. For heroic deeds during battles and exemplary performance of command assignments, he was awarded two medals “For Courage” and a medal “For Military Merit”. From December 1941 to April 1942 he took part in the defense of Sevastopol. _x000D_ In January 1942 he was awarded the third medal “For Courage” for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command. Since July 1942 he participated in hostilities on the Main Caucasian ridge. For courage shown in the combat missions of the command by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 12, 1942, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. After successfully completing the mission, he was sent to Tuapse. Since December 1942, he took part in intense battles for Tuapse in the Region of the Kamenistaya, Dva Brata, Semashkho and Indyuk mountains, as well as in the Goytkh pass area. For courage shown in these battles, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ In September-November 1943 he took part in the Melitopol and Kerch-Eltigen offensive operations. In April 1944 he took part in hostilities in a number of Crimean cities. _x000D_ Also, from March to April 1944, he actively was taking part in the Odessa offensive operation. During the hostilities in the Odessa Region, he was blown up by a mine and lost his right leg. He barely managed to survive. _x000D_ For courage and heroism during the expulsion of the Nazi invaders from the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the guard Senior Seargeant Suleimanov Ibrahim Bagomedovich is awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree. _x000D_ In 1945 he was demobilized with the status of a disabled person of the Great Patriotic War of the first group. He returned to his homeland and for several years had been working at the sovkhoz named after Hamid Dalgat in the village of Urakhi. _x000D_ In 1964 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for labor achievements. He was an honored teacher of the Dagestan ASSR. In 1985 he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory. _x000D_ In 1993 he passed away of cardiac arrest at the age of 84. He was buried in his native village. _x000D_ Awards: Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War I degree (twice) , Order of the Badge of Honor, Medal ‘For Courage” (three times), Medal ‘For Military Merit”, Medal ‘For Defense of the Caucasus”, Medal ‘For Defense of Odessa”, Medal ‘For Defense of Sevastopol”, Medal ‘For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” and other medals.

Rank: Red Army soldier _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 413th Infantry Brest Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, my Father had been a communication technician. He never said anything about the war. Apparently the memories were hard. But my father told me one story, which I remember and consider it heroic: _x000D_ “The communication line with the command was cut off. As far as I remember from the story, there were two attempts to connect the lines, but they were unsuccessful. The soldiers were killed. My father shocked and seriously wounded. He received a shrapnel wound in his right forearm with a fracture of the radius. The connection was restored.” _x000D_ Vladimir Maksimovich Soloviev was called up for active military service on August 3, 1941 and sent to the war. He participated in battles, military campaigns of the 1320th Infantry Regiment as a telephone operator for cable lines from July 1942 to March 1943. _x000D_ One of the key roles was assigned to the 50th Army, including 413 Rifle Division, in the defeat of the opposing enemy group in the area of height called Zaitseva Gora. Storming of Zaitseva Gora is one of the most tragic combats of the Great Patriotic War. People call Zaitseva Gora "the Height of Death." _x000D_ At the combat for Zaitseva GoraV.M. Soloviev was seriously wounded on March _x000D_ 14, 1943. Until August 20, 1943, he was undergoing treatment at evacuation hospital number 1244 in Leninsk-Kuznetsk, Kemerovo Region. He was recognized as fit for non-combatant service due to limitation of the right elbow joint and was transferred to the reserve. _x000D_ In January 1945 he was again drafted into the army as a telephone operator in the 641st Infantry Regiment, which continued on its way in Poland. After the successful East Pomeranian operation in March 1945, 165th Infantry Division was withdrawn to rest, and the 70th Army to the reserve. V.M. Soloviev was enlisted in other troops and continued his combat path in the battles for Konigsberg. _x000D_ V.M. Soloviev had participated in combats as part of the 997th Königsberg Infantry Order of Kutuzov the 3rd degree Regiment as a shooter in the rank of private since April 1945. He was wounded in the right thigh in East Prussia. Victory Day Soloviev V.M. I celebrated at the hospital. _x000D_ After treatment in a mobile field hospital p / p 40309 (704), after Victory Day, he continued to serve in the 997th Infantry Regiment of the 263rd Division of the 43rd Army in East Germany. In October 1945 he was demobilized into the reserve. _x000D_ Dad lived a good life after the war. All his long life he worked for prosperity of this country. Нe raised 8 children, aal of them are worthy members of our society. He left behind a large offspring of 19 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.