The Great Patriotic War

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ SubDivision: 77th Infantry Simferopol Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze _x000D_ Artyom grew up and was brought up in Stalin's family along with other children, was a close friend of his son Vasily. In 1938, Artem Sergeev graduated from the 10th grade, from the 2nd Moscow Special Artillery School and voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. _x000D_ From October 1938 to September 1940 he was cadet, Junior Commander (Sergeant), starshina of the battery of 2nd Leningrad Artillery School (formerly Mikhailovsky). In 1940 he joined the Communist party and in October of the same year with the rank of Lieutenant he was appointed platoon Commander of 13th Artillery Regiment of 1st Rifle Division. He met the war on the western borders as a platoon Commander of 152-mm M-10 howitzers. _x000D_ It happened on June 26, 1941 in Belarus. Already on July 1-2, 1941, Sergeev took part in a fierce defensive combat for the city of Borisov and the crossing of the Berezina River. His artillery battery was destroyed, and the young Lieutenant took over the command of a Rifle company that covered the regiment's retreat. On July 13, the Germans took Sergeev's company into a trap in the area of the town of Gorki and captured him. He was in a prison in the city of Orsha, they planned to shoot him, but on July 23 he managed to escape with several comrades. The group formed the nucleus of the future partisan detachment, to which the soldiers and Commanders of the Red Army began to join. _x000D_ Fighting as part of a partisan detachment, Artyom was wounded for the first time, but by no means the last time. After being cured in a hospital in December 1941, he returned to his 13th Artillery Regiment, which became the 35th Guards. He was the Chief of Reconnaissance of a Division, a Battery Commander, then a Division Commander. _x000D_ On February 18, near Yukhnov, he was again wounded, after the hospital he returned to the Regiment, but in June 1942 he got a new wound. All together, Sergeev A.F. had nine wounds, two of which were very serious. Doctors miraculously saved his left hand, and later he was on the verge of death being hit with a bayonet in the stomach. On June 3, 1942, not completely recovered, he returned to his 35th Guards Artillery Regiment as Battalion Commander, but after 2 weeks he was wounded again and was sent away from the Regiment for follow-up treatment for 3 months. _x000D_ In December 1942, after training at the Higher Officers' Artillery School, he was appointed Chief of Staff of 266th Army Artillery Regiment. After the end of the Stalingrad operation in February, the Regiment from 62nd Army left for the North-Western Front in 68th Army. _x000D_ In April Sergeev was appointed deputy Regiment Commander. In June, the Regiment was transformed into 211st Guards Army Artillery Regiment. _x000D_ From December 1943 to April 1944 Sergeev was the Commander of 554th Army Artillery Rogachevsky Red Banner Regiment. In April he was wounded again. From July to October 1944 he was Commander of 156th Guards Artillery Regiment of 77th Guards Rifle Division. In January 1945, he was Deputy Commander of 140th Army Cannon Artillery Brigade. _x000D_ He took part in combats in the Baltics, East Prussia, Silesia, Saxony, Czechoslovakia. He ended the war on May 12, 1945 as a Lieutenant Colonel._x000D_ After the war he served as a Regiment Commander in Hungary. In August 1945 he was sent to Moscow to the Artillery Academy. After completing his studies in 1951, he commanded 34th Cannon Artillery Brigade of the Carpathian Military District. Then he entered the Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, from which he graduated in 1954. After graduating from the academy, he served in command positions. _x000D_ He retired in 1981 with the rank of Major General of Artillery. In 2006 he published a collection of stories-memoirs about the war "Stories of an artilleryman" and, in co-authorship with Yekaterina Glushik, the book "Conversations about Stalin." Became a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was a member of the Donbass community in Moscow. He passed away on January 15, 2008.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ When the war began, my father Terentyev Gavriil Yegorovich lived in the village of Kolomino, Chainsky district, Tomsk region. A sixteen-year-old owner stayed with a young sister in his arms, his mother died in 1940, his father is in prison, his older brother is at the front. He worked on the subsidiary farm of the Kolpashevsky regional consumer union. _x000D_ In August 1942, at the age of 17, he was drafted into the army, sent to an artillery training in the Chelyabinsk region, where gunners were trained. He finished his studies until October 1942 and went to the front in 1436th Guards Self-Propelled Regiment as a 122mm gunner, and from January 1943 he was at 3rd Guards Tank Corps. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was wounded somewhere near Kharkov, the self-propelled gun was knocked out, it caught fire, not all survived. There came the first death notofication for my father. He lay with a concussion and burns in a hospital in Voronezh, the hospital was then transferred to the Somovo station, Voronezh was often bombed. They treated him for a month, after the concussion he heard poorly in his right ear. _x000D_ Near Akhtyrka, the self-propelled gun was set on fire again, the hair on his head burned out and his left hand was badly burned, and he temporarily lost his sight. The survivors were taken prisoners, and whether someone else survived or not he did not know because he was not able to see. He jumped out of the hatch directly into the hands of the Germans. _x000D_ So came the second death notofication, "notice-duplicate": "I inform you that your son, Red Army soldier Gavriil Yegorovich Terentyev, was killed on August 20, 1943 in the combat for the socialist homeland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage. Buried: Kolkhoz "Udarnik", Sumy region. Basis: case number 10, page 34, Kolpashevsky civil enlistment office, Lieutenant Colonel Merker. The crew of that car: mechanic driver Bondarenko from the Kuban, Pykhtin from Moscow, forgot the name and surname of Uzbek._x000D_ They were taken prisoners, taken to the river, to a hospital for prisoners. Then they were sent by train to Slavuty in the Vinnitsa region, then to East Prussia in the city of Homerstein, attempts to escape, tightening the regime ... _x000D_ On April 16, 1945, the allies liberated the British prisoners of war and those who were taken to Germany to work, formed a Regiment. He went through interrogations in a special department, was issued new documents, a little distorted data, lost awards. But this is not so important, the main thing was – he is still alive. He was sent to 40th self-propelled Regiment as the Commander of the 57 mm anti-tank gun. He was demobilized in February 1947.

My grandfather was born on July 10, 1929 in the village of Novoselovo, Oryol region. A little later, he and his parents, brothers Sasha, Kolya and sister Maria moved to Orel. In 1941 he was 12 years old. On the very first day of the war, the entire Oryol region was transferred to martial law. _x000D_ Little Petya, together with his friend, the same kid, fled to the front, but was caught and returned to his mother. But by nature little Petya was a very stubborn and brave boy and did not leave the thought of fighting the enemy. Oryol was captured on October 3, 1941. An underground was organized in the city. The partisan detachments stationed in the occupied territory of the Oryol region behind enemy lines were numerous and they had to hide in the forests. For orientation on the terrain, the partisans needed a local guide, someone who could walk the streets without hindrance and would be inconspicuous to the enemy. These guides were my grandfather, 12-year-old Petya Tizanov and his friend Tolik Kretov. The boys, disguised as wandering through the streets of the city, conducted reconnaissance of the enemy's military installations and transmitted information to the partisans. These small but brave children fearlessly made sabotage forays into the food warehouses of the Nazis and delivered provisions for the partisans. _x000D_ After the counter-offensive on July 12, 1943 on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge, Soviet troops began to rapidly advance towards Orel. And then my grandfather, then a child at all, did not stand aside. When the first reconnaissance detachment of the Red Army approached the city, on their way, by some chance, the boy Petya Tizanov met, who told in all the details how to get into the city unnoticed, drew a detailed plan of where the strategically important objects of the enemy are located, spoke about the number of German troops and about where, how much and what kind of military equipment the Nazis have. _x000D_ On the night of July 26, 1943, Soviet long-range aircraft bombed Oryol. The German command decided to leave the Oryol foothold. The Germans began to evacuate the city. The eagle was declared a war zone. This is how the liberation of Oryol began. Even then, very young, Petya Tizanov, looking at the torment of the wounded, dreamed of becoming a military doctor and when he turned 18, the war was over for two years already, he entered the Odessa Naval Medical School and made his dream come true , became a military doctor. According to the distribution, he was sent to serve in the Baltic States, Klaipeda. There, as part of diving groups, he was engaged in lifting the ships sunk during the Great Patriotic War. Once, while participating in an operation to rescue the crew of a sunken submarine, my grandfather Pyotr Afanasyevich Tizanov gave his scuba gear to a sailor of the submarine's crew for lifting from the bottom of the sea, and he himself emerged without a scuba gear and received a serious barotrauma, a ruptured lung. He didn’t feel sorry for himself, but saved the life of a man. _x000D_ After the end of the service, my grandfather moved to live and work in the Kiev region, he devoted his whole life to saving the life and health of people. He was married to the only and beloved Tizanova (Voronova) Lina Vasilievna. He raised a daughter and a son, had three grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. He passed away at the age of 87, a month and a half after the death of his wife, 04/07/2016. _x000D_ P.S. My dear, beloved Grandfather-Daddy Petya .. That is how I called my grandfather in childhood .. I love you so much .. You are no longer with us, but you are alive in our hearts, in our children and you will live in our grandchildren and great-grandchildren .. Your loving granddaughter Anechka ..

Branch of troops: Aviation. _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Victor Alexandrovich Sidorochev, born in 1922, always dreamed of being a pilot, studied well at school, went in for sports, played musical instruments domra and balalaika. He was very tall (over 180 cm) and for this they did not want to take him to the flight school, as they were afraid that he would not fit into the aircraft. However, the desire and persistence of his grandfather helped him to enter the flight school on June 9, 1941, as he studied well. And on June 22, 1941, the war began. I know that my grandfather was a radio operator in 6th Guards Long-range Aviation Division, consisting of the 17th Guards Long-range Air Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A.E. Matrosov. He was armed with Il-4 aircraft. The regiment began its combat activities from the Monino airfield on 05/27/43, making its first sortie to bomb the Mogilev railway junction. This was followed by successful combat missions of the regiment to bombard enemy manpower and equipment at railway junctions and airfields in the area of cities: Mogilev, Vitebsk, Kiev, Orel, Belgorod, Bryansk, Pskov, Orsha, Unecha, Smolensk, Bobruisk, Roslavl, Nizhin, Bakhmach, Kremenchug, Poltava, Ponyri and others. _x000D_ Since the beginning of July 1943, the Regiment of 6 GAP DD received a combat mission to act in the interests of the troops of the fronts located on the northern and southern faces of the Kursk Bulge. At Kursk, the Regiment made 263 flights, dropping 383 tons of bombs on the enemy. _x000D_ After the combat of Kursk, operating from the "jump" airfields during a short summer night, the Regiment's crews made 2-3 flights to defeat the Nazi troops in the area of the cities of Smolensk and Roslavl. _x000D_ Being on a combat mission on 08.24.1943, my grandfather with all his crew did not return, they were shot down by German invaders in the Diminichsky district of the Kaluga region, where the entire crew V.M. Deulin, V.A. is buried in a mass grave in the village of Vysokoe.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Sedov was born on December 11, 1913 on the Shurupovsky farm (now the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region). After finishing four years of school, he worked at a machine-tractor station. In 1937-1939 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, graduated from the courses of Junior military technicians. _x000D_ In August 1941, Sedov was recruited into the army and sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War. From 23 to 24 November 1942, he was Commander of the tank of 310th Tank Battalion of 109th Tank Brigade. Lieutenant Sedov, with his crew took part in three attacks in the area of the Vertyachy farm. Skillfully maneuvering on the combatfield, adjusting to the terrain, he went ahead of the group of tanks and by radio he adjusted the fire of the remaining tanks on the combatfield, being in the tank for more than 20 hours. By the end of the day on November 24, 1942, he reached the milestone, which is half a kilometer north-west of Vertyachiy. In three attacks, 7 guns, 5 machine guns, 2 bunkers, 90 soldiers and officers were destroyed. _x000D_ By order of the Don Front troops of November 16, 1942, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the Command on the front against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. Senior Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov, by order of 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of 08/06/1944 No. 021 / N, was awarded the Order of the First Degree of Patriotic War. _x000D_ From the award list, the following is known about the feat: _x000D_ «...in a combat with the German invaders on July 26, 1944, while performing a combat mission to capture the village of P-Gora, withdrawing tanks, he showed courage and heroism. Performing the function of a tank Commander at the same time, Sedov suppressed, bursting into the village, 4 enemy medium-caliber guns, 1 anti-aircraft gun, one passenger car, up to 30 carts with horses, and also destroyed up to 40 Nazis.When he took possession of the village of P-Gora, Comrade Sedov, despite the fact that no one helped him, kept the whole day S-Mountain in his hands, despite repeated enemy counterattacks Sedov for his skillful leadership of the tank, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy: defeated the enemy's train, destroyed 12 guns and over 100 Hitlerites.»_x000D_ By October 1944, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov commanded a company 250- 1st Tank Regiment, 13th Guards Cavalry Division, 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Hungary. 24 October In 1944, Sedov's company, during the combat for the Hungarian city of Nagkallo, took acombat with 20 enemy tanks, knocking out 6 of them and forcing the rest to withdraw. In that combat, Sedov died. _x000D_ He was buried in a square in the Hungarian city of Balkani. From the response to a request from the Frolovsky military registration and enlistment office to the Hungarian Red Cross, it is known that after the war, the remains of Soviet soldiers buried in the village of Balkan were reburied at the Soviet military cemetery in the city of Nyiregyhaza. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 28, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Patriotic War of 1st degree.

Rank: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Andreevich Potapov was born into a peasant family. His father died tragically when Ivan was 6 weeks old. The elder brother Pavel left for the Army in 1913 and further linked his life with military affairs, rising to the rank of Major General. Brother Peter and sister Maria had their families and left for Moscow. _x000D_ On January 21, 1924, Ivan Andreevich married Maria Ivanovna Chigina, who came to the village Kurovo from St. Petersburg. In marriage, they had 8 children: 4 sons and 4 daughters. Unfortunately, the girl Tonya died in infancy. The youngest son was born in October 1941 already without a father and was named Ivan in his honor. The eldest son Nikolai fought with the Nazis and died on January 24, 1945 in Hungary from a serious injury and a great loss of blood in the hands of his comrade. He informed his relatives in a letter about Nikolai's death. The second son of Ivan Andreevich,Konstantin, was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1944 and served in it for 7 years. _x000D_ Before the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Andreevich worked at the mill. During the period of the organization of kolkhoz, I.A. Potapov was one of the first to donate a horse to a kolkhoz. He was a decent and honest man, hardworking. _x000D_ The cellar made by his hands has survived to this day, in good condition and suitable for use. The name of Ivan Andreevich is immortalized on the monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers. "Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten."

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Division: 306th Ribshevskaya Rifle Red Banner Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Subbotin Mikhail Alekseevich was born in the village of Repnikha, Varnavinsky district, Kostroma region in 1903. He was the eldest son in a large peasant family. Since childhood he had worked hard: looked after the younger ones and helped his parents. He graduated from school in Varnavino, then worked in kolkhoz in his native Repnikha. _x000D_ From the first days of the war, he was in the army. Earlier, Mikhail carefully studied the machine gun. More than once he showed his skill in combats, was considered an excellent machine gunner. With well-aimed fire, Mikhail Alekseevich helped his comrades to carry out important missions. _x000D_ In the initial period of the war, our army retreated. The enemy was strong. In 1943, 306th Rifle Division, where Mikhail served, fought fierce combats in Belarus near the town of Surazh, Vitebsk region. The Germans approached from all sides. The situation was critical. To save the Regiment, someone had to stop the enemies. _x000D_ The commander ordered Mikhail Alekseevich to stay and cover the regiment's retreat with machine gun fire. And this order was carried out with dignity. Many enemies found death there. Saving his comrades, he died. Mikhail fulfilled the order of the great Commander Suvorov: "Die yourself, but help your comrade." _x000D_ Subbotin Mikhail Alekseevich was buried in mass grave No. 35 near the village of Kotovo, Surazh district, Vitebsk region. The whole family is proud of the feat of Mikhail Alekseevich, and I try to be worthy of his memory.

Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather's name was Alexander Fyodorovich Popushkov, born in 1921. He began his service in the Red Army at the end of 1940. He was drafted from the Vologda region and ended up in a unit that was located in Karelia, in beautiful, but cold and harsh places. He had to work as a driver on an old truck that often broke down. The military specialty of the Red Army soldier Popushkov was an electrician-signalman, but basically he had to transport cargo and ammunition along the front roads. When the Finnish war ended, everyone was already waiting for demobilization and meeting with relatives, but it did not come true. _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War began. Great-grandfather spent all six years of his service until the beginning of 1947 on the Kola Peninsula. All places were familiar, but it was impossible to get used to air raids on the road or shelling. Long, cold winters, the hard work of the driver and the constant danger of being injured or killed by bombing raids are not easy. _x000D_ The experience of the first Finnish war helped him protect himself from shrapnel and bullets, he knew the area very well, noticed in advance the places where it was possible to hide the car and survive the shelling himself, and even repair the truck when damage occurred. _x000D_ For one such case, he received a medal "For Military Merit." _x000D_ Great-grandfather Sasha did not like to remember the days of the war, he lost many of his front-line friends and Commanders. At that difficult time, they did not try to be proud of their merits, did not flaunt it. _x000D_ All his life, great-grandfather, a war veteran, worked as a tractor driver on a state farm, raised six children, and then looked after his sick wife and passed away almost immediately after her, leaving his grandchildren a good memory.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Unit: 277th Infantry Roslavl Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Sergeantov Gerasim Zakharovich, Red Army soldier, 1903-1977. _x000D_ Place of birth: the village of Yamshchina, Insar region of the Mordovian ASSR. _x000D_ Place and date of conscription: June 1, 1942, Insar Military Comissariat of Insar region of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. _x000D_ Place of service: Ground Forces, Stalingrad Front, 734th Infantry Regiment, 277th Infantry Division. _x000D_ Gerasim Zakharovich was married to Olga Mikhailovna Ladanova, had four children: Mikhail, Vasily, Anna, Alexander. The combat path of Gerasim Sergeantov began in June 1942 with the defense of Stalingrad. On September 13, 1942, in the combat for the Grachi borough of the Stalingrad region, as a result of a wound in the left shin, the shooter of 734th Rifle Regiment of the 277th Rifle Division was taken to the Medical Battalion, where his leg was amputated. _x000D_ The Red Army soldier Sergeant was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Despite the amputation of his leg, Gerasim Zakharovich continued to fight. He and his comrades liberated Stary Oskol in May 1943, then Belgorod, Kremenchug, in 1944: Kirovograd, Znamenka, Rodnikovka, Vatutino, then his path went through Moldova to Romania-Orshova, Velika Planu, Selevats, Raikovats, Ripan, Sarhat, then through Croatia to Hungary - Bolman, Dravaszabolts, Adolyas, Sanyozro, Kastelosdombo, Horomoru, in 1945 Kislang, Deg, Ozora, Mesozilas, Pinskheli, Balatokarattia to Lower Austria - Aspang-Markt ...

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ Division: 17th Long-Range Aviation Division _x000D_ _x000D_ In the fall and winter in 1941, Sophia worked in the trenches beyond the city of Gorky. She walked in bast shoes, was freezing. They felled the forest. At the end of March she came home and in May, where got a job in workshop No. 2 at a factory. She was making wads for guns. She worked for twelve hours at the machine equipment. After work, I was sent to build a club. They dragged the sand. A beautiful club was built. _x000D_ She had worked for eight months and volunteered for the front. April 30 saw off. May 1 was in Gorky. They summoned the Komsomol district committee and began campaigning for the front. She was thinking, I am alone, there will be nobody to cry over me, my fatehr has another family. Although Sonya had aт exemption from active duty, she was taken at first to the naval fleet to berth No. 3. _x000D_ The captain came from Moscow, made a selection for the courses. We received a ration and, not knowing where, went in the direction of Moscow. He brought us to the Zvenigorod district to the Dubrovsky Estate. There were four stone houses. Two women battalions were formed to study to be cooks and junior commanders. Sonya ended up in 1st Battalion. The girls pitched tents on both sides of the alley in the Dubrovsky estate. The house was burned down. She studied for six months: combat, chemical preparation, shooting, quite good grades. _x000D_ She had passed the exams and was given given the rank Sergeant (three stripes). _x000D_ They sent her to the front through Moscow, and there was a salute. Sonya received food ration for five days. She was appointed to 17th Air Force. _x000D_ The Red Army had already driven the Germans to Ukraine. In the train to Kramatorsk when she came under bombing in the town of Valuyki. 4 pilots were traveling with them. It turned out they were going to the same army. The pilots said: «Jump, some into the forest, some under the bridge.»_x000D_ Sonya got under the car ... _x000D_ She spent the night in the woods in the woman’s hut. This woman could not wake them up and the next bombing slept like dead. The windows were broken, they heard nothing. They were not allowed to Kupinsk. They stopped the train and bombed again. The entire train burned down. Two carriages of soldiers were bombed, the heads and hands were found around. _x000D_ Only then Sonya got scared. She didn't know what to say or do. The pilots took them to the Commander. In the evening she continued with a different team. _x000D_ She had finally reached the 17th Air Force. We gave the papaers and were waiting. It was August. Then they were called in and distributed them to military units. I had mail number 64392-RAO-385. _x000D_ She arrived at 50 km from Kramatorsk to the Battalion headquarters. Sonya was left in the Battalion 10 km from the Headquarters. She left with the soldiers from the food base. Captain Ignatenko was at the headquarters. He appointed Sonya to the autocompany. The starshina gave a day of rest. She bathed in the river, washed, dried laundary on the branches of the trees. _x000D_ Suddenly, the starshina said: "They are taking you away from us. Beyond the river there is a separate unit, an airfield construction company." _x000D_ At tha time, Alexey Ivanovich Sharygin was leavng the headquarters. He came up and asked: "Are you coming to our company?" "Yes, to you." "Are you a Komsomol member?" "Yes, I am a Komsomol member." "Come to our headquarters and register." _x000D_ Later he became her husband. She served as a gunsmith, refueling aircraft machine guns. In 1945 she was demobilized.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Unit: 290th Rifle Mogilev Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Lyubov Semyonovna, wife of A.P. Stetsun, tells:_x000D_ «Alexander Stetsun had become a participant in the war since May 1943. There were behind two difficult years for the country. Young Stetsun watched and listened to the cannon fire in the direction of Taganrog, saw the glow of the conflagrations and bombing of Azov and Kagalnik. Alexander survived the occupation of the Azov region. _x000D_ Leaving for the front, Alexander understood that the front is a test not only of courage, but also of the ability to fight. Seven-year education enabled him, in a short time, in 374th Reserve Regiment, where he was sent, to master the military professions of a 120-mm gunner as a mortar and signalman. After completing training, Alexander Stetsun, a year later, as part of 878th Infantry Regiment of 290th Infantry Division of 49th Army, was preparing to participate in the famous military operation Bagration to liberate Belarus. _x000D_ The Regiment on the eve of the offensive was pulled up to the Dnieper River, which had to be overcome on improvised means: boats, rafts and even barrels tied together. Young, unfired soldiers were supposed to go to break through the Mogilev defensive line of the fascists at dawn. The rain, which began in the evening, poured all night. The soldiers' clothes became wet. On July 27, barely dawn, the signal was given to attack. In the pre-dawn darkness, with almost no casualties, the company where Stetsun served crossed the wide Dnieper; further, without stopping, the fighters followed the artillery barrage. _x000D_ Almost continuous marshes of Belarus had to be overcome in "wet shoes" as the locals call a semblance of skis woven from willow twigs and put on their feet. In the combats for the city of Mogilev, Private Stetsun A.P. he was promoted to the rank of Junior Sergeant and appointed to the post of squad leader. _x000D_ During the attack on Minsk, it became known that in the neighboring unit, a member of the tank landing of the Guard, Private Yuri Smirnov, seriously wounded, was captured by the Germans. When our troops broke into the location of the Nazis, in one of the dugouts they found the body of a young man nailed to an armchair.They found interrogation protocols in which there was not a single answer to the questions asked by the Nazis. Later Yu. V. Smirnov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Shocked by what they heard, the soldiers, with even greater hatred, went into the combat. _x000D_ _x000D_ The combats for Mogilev, Minsk, Grodno went relatively well for the mortarman Stetsun, but in East Prussia, in the area of Rastenburg, where Hitler's headquarters "Wolf's Pit" was located, he was not lucky. In a mortar duel with the enemy, he was seriously wounded in his right arm. It happened on February 25 of the victorious 1945. Once in the hospital, the young soldier did not complete his treatment and fled to his Regiment, and now he is back in the ranks, but already in the position of a signalman. _x000D_ A.P. Stetsun finished the war in 1945, but continued to serve, training personnel for the army: tank mechanics, communications electricians. His military service ended in 1951, after 8 years Alexander Petrovich returned home. _x000D_ Later he took part in the development of virgin lands. He worked for over 20 years at the SKB KO pilot plant. As a talented innovator and an excellent production worker, he added labor awards to military awards, orders and medals, about 50 notes of gratitude were made in his work book. _x000D_ It is not for nothing that in honor of the military and labor feat of such as A.P. Stetsun, the poet wrote: "... A medal for a combat, a medal for labor is poured from the same metal ..."

Rank: Military Assistant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel _x000D_ Division: 75th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Military feldsher Skitnevskaya Maria Fominichna was in 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion of 75th Division. She was born in 1910 in the town of Opochka, Pskov region. A participant in the Finnish War, in 1940 she was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In May 1941 she is a part of 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion, 75 Rifle Divisions. It was sent to the city of Mozyr, Belorussian SSR. On the morning of June 22, the location of the unit was subjected to massive shelling and bombing from the advancing German troops, military assistant Maria Skitnevskaya, along with other doctors began to provide assistance to the wounded Soviet soldiers. The superior forces of the enemy cut off a group of Soviet military medics, who remained with wounded soldiers, from the main forces of the Division. _x000D_ Attempts to break out of the encirclement were unsuccessful; as a result, a group of female military assistants with seriously wounded soldiers, left without combat commanders, was forced to hide in the surrounding forests. As food supplies were running low, they had to make forays into nearby villages. _x000D_ Once they ran into a German patrol and were captured by German captives. In captivity, Maria Skitnevskaya assisted Soviet prisoners of war in the hospital of the prisoner of war camp in Malorita. _x000D_ In June 1942, military assistant Maria Fominichna Skitnevskaya was shot by the Germans along with other doctors and prisoners of war of Jewish nationality. _x000D_ Eternal memory to Soviet military doctors who remained faithful to their duty and oath to the end!

Rank: Red Army soldier _x000D_ SubDivision: 238th Infantry Karachevskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division Sviridov Nikolay was fighting since March 1942 as a mortarman in 6th, 843rd, 2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment, 238 Rifle Division (Karachevskaya), 22 army. Most likely, he took part in Operation Mars in 1942. Their regiment and division left the encirclement with heavy fighting in the Rzhev area. During the breakthrough, the Division suffered heavy combat losses and losses from hunger and disease. The Division broke through in the autumn of 1942 through the swamps and dense forests of Smolensk and Rzhev. _x000D_ After leaving the encirclement, it was reorganized near Moscow, and sent to the region of Rzhev and the city of Bely, Smolensk region (now Tverskaya). At the end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, the Division and the Regiment participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemsk offensive operation, directly to liberate the cities of Rzhev and Bely. _x000D_ Nikolai Fyodorovich Sviridov was killed in an attack in March 1943, in a combat for the villages of Gribovo and Zabolotye, Belsky District. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Zabolotye (1119 people, 14 of which are unknown). _x000D_ The burial has survived to this day, although the villages have been abandoned since 2007. In 2014, slabs with the names and initials of all the fallen were installed on the grave. According to updated data in 2014, 1227 soldiers and Commanders of the Red Army are buried in the mass grave. Among them is Dmitry Ignatievich Kuznetsov, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Unit: 96th Infantry Division (2nd formation) _x000D_ _x000D_ In June 1938, for the first time in the rules of conscription into the Army, I was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army for personnel service and ended up in the border troops, in the Bakhtinsky Red Banner Border Cavalry detachment. It is about 200 km from the Ayaguz railway station in the Almaty region - to the Chinese border, where I had to serve for three years. The end of my service life, we began to get ready home, but at that time the Patriotic War began and I was sent to Kharkov to the Kharkov Cavalry Frontier School. But soon a German began to approach Kharkov,all of us at the school began to evacuate to the rear. We got to some station, it seems "Balanda" (but not exactly), where two or three days later the freight cars were brought and we were taken to Tashkent. Of course, we didn't know it right away. _x000D_ Then we realized that we were driving along our own highway and with my Aktobe comrade at one station gave my mother a telegram home, but she received it a month after my passage. When we arrived in Aktyubinsk, there was a severe frost, I lifted the flaps of my overcoat and without rest ran to our hut, went into the hut and did not sit down, only said where our train was. They were in time, i.e. Mom and sisters came, it was deep night, we saw each other ... _x000D_ In Tashkent, after graduating from college, I was awarded the title of Junior. Lieutenant and sent to the border town of Jarkent, now Panfilov. There was a border detachment and I ended up at the Baskunchi border outpost as an assistant to the head of the outpost. At the end of April 1942, the chief of staff of the detachment came to our outpost and sent me to the border at night at 10 o'clock. This was the time of increased border protection. After spending the night by the river, I fell ill, a subcutaneous abscess appeared in my throat. I lay for several days at the outpost, I did not feel better, then they took me to Jarkent to the medical unit, and from there to the city hospital, where they made an autopsy of this abscess. _x000D_ Here, in this hospital, I met a young nurse in a blue gas kerchief. On July 20, 1942, this young nurse called me at the Zastava and arrived in a car with a movie-making machine and became my wife, Anna Panteleevna, your mother and grandmother. We lived with her at the Baskunchi outpost for four months and on November 23, 1942, we left for Dzharkent, from where I went to the front. Our Commander of the Alma-Ata district decided to form a Division from border guards, he was allowed, but he was not allowed to go to the front. I arrived in Sverdlovsk for the formation, and from there I arrived at the Rogolevo farm, where I received a platoon of soldiers and conducted courses on training Junior Leiutenants. On April 2, 1943, they left this farm, on April 27 they arrived in Kursk and reached the village of Krasnaya Polyana, here they stopped in the steppe and on May 13, 1943 cadets were graduated. I was left in a reserve Regiment and defensive work was carried out near the town of Fatezh (Kursk Region). _x000D_ On June 10, 1943, I was awarded the rank of Lieutenant, and on June 16, I was appointed to the position of Battalion Adjutant. Due to illness, I ended up in the hospital with his hands, recovered, ended up in the personnel department of the 48th Army, from where he was sent to the barrage detachment by the platoon Commander of the border outpost. _x000D_ On November 23, 1943, they arrived in Rechitsa (Belarus). On the day of the 26th anniversary of the Red Army, February 23, 1944. I was given the rank of Senior Lieutenant. On June 26, 1944, they entered the city of Zhlobin (Belarus). On July 2, 1944, they entered the city of Bobruisk (Belarus). On August 3, 1944, they entered the city of Belsk (Poland). On November 9, 1944, I left the barrage detachment, there was no need for their existence, and on November 27, 1944, I ended up in 96th Infantry Division. _x000D_ On January 25, 1945, I was wounded in the right elbow joint near the town of Wormditt (East Prussia). After recovery, I went to the front, and on April 6, 1945, I was again seriously wounded in the right leg and side by shell fragments, when removed, the total cut of the body was 78 centimeters. _x000D_ Until now (until the end of life), there are two small metal fragments in the right lung and one or two in the leg. It was on the spit beyond the city of Danzig (Poland, now Gdansk), in the second shock army of 2nd Belarusian Front. With this wound I ended up in a hospital in the city of Dzerzhinsk, not far from the city of Gorky. For military combats I was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit", the Orders "Red Star" and "Patriotic War II Art." (Later dad was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany.) Victory Day found me in a hospital in Dzezhrinsk. I still did not get up from my bed, I could not. And I celebrated this holiday lying on my bed. Discharged from the hospital on July 17 1945, arrived in Moscow, and from there I was sent to the Nekouz district military enlistment office of the Yaroslavl region for further service._x000D_ In brief: from 24.11.1942 to 20.02.1944 - the Western 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon; 02/20/1944 to 10/15/1944 - 2nd Belorussian Front in the position of Senior Adjutant; from 10/15/1944 to 04/09/1945 - 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon, Commander of a Rifle company. From 04/09/1945 - on recovery after a severe injury; 02/17/1946 — demobilized.

Rank: Red Army soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ _x000D_ He served in the Red Army in military unit 9722, 130 tank Regiment of 210 motorized Division of 20th Mechanized Corps. On June 19, 1941, the Division was in the settlement Osipovichi. Since July 1, 1941, the mechanized corps has been fighting in the Pukhovichi region with the combat mission of defending the eastern bank of the Berezina River. On July 8, the new Commander of 13th Army, Lieutenant General Remezov, ordered 20th mechanized corps to firmly hold the line along the eastern bank of the Drut 'River on the front of Krasnaya Sloboda, Semukachi, Brody. _x000D_ At dawn on July 9, enemy tank units broke through in the sector of 20th Mechanized Corps, flowing around its flanks in the directions of Kuta and Ugalya. The corps Commander decided to destroy the enemy that had broken through with strong detachments. Fulfilling this order, the corps units pretty much beat the SS Regiment, defeated the motor-pontoon Battalion and the communications Battalion. Subsequently, 20th Mechanized Corps was withdrawn from thecombat and concentrated in the Starinka area for resupply. _x000D_ On July 23, some parts of the corps were deployed to support the defense of the eastern sector of the ring around Mogilev. On the morning of July 26, at a meeting of the Commanders of the units and formations surrounded in Mogilev, which was attended by the corps Commander, Vedeneev, the Commanders of the Parkhomenko and Obukhov Divisions, it was decided to break through the encirclement ring. The remnants of 20th Mechanized Corps were assigned to the advance guard of the breakthrough. _x000D_ On the evening of July 27, units of 20th and 61st corps moved along three routes in the general direction of Chausy, Mstislavl, Roslavl. Southwest of Chaus, the Germans blocked the way for the retreating columns. The fighting lasted for two days, in the units there was a shortage of ammunition. _x000D_ General Bakunin ordered to destroy all the remaining equipment, vehicles, disperse the horses and break out of the encirclement in small groups of 100-200 people. He was captured on July 27, 1941 in the region of Smolensk.