The Great Patriotic War

Rank: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ Division: 328th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ I know very little about my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich. All that the grandmother had time to tell was that he went to the war very quickly. A 26-year-old boy left to fight for his wife and daughter. We come from the Voronezh region of Semiluki, which stands on the right bank of the Don. It was from there that his combat path began. I don’t know the details of my grandfather’s service, my grandmother didn’t tell, the letters from the front also didn’t survive, I was just waiting for him all my life. We, all the relatives, just knew that my grandfather was missing. _x000D_ I am his grandson, Malykhin Alexander Ivanovich, for the last 2 years I have been collecting grains of everything that can be found in archives and websites, my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich served in the rank of Senior Sergeant in 328 Rifle Division under the command of Major General Peter Antonovich Eremin. His position was squad leader. The Division was stationed near Staraya Russa not far from Lake Ilmen, his combat path began from there. Then the Division was transferred to the Tula region near Bogoroditsk. There, the Division took part in the combats with the armored forces of Guderian as part of the Western Front. Then the Division of the ball was transferred to the Kaluga region in the Sukhinichi area. He took part in the combats near Kozelsk. Then he fought from Sochi to Krymsk, and in August 1943 they were transferred to Ukraine in Lugansk. Through Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, the 328 Rifle Rifle, which included my grandfather, goes to Kiev, and participates in combats near Kiev in the area of the settlement of Belgorodok. _x000D_ It all what was possible to find out after studying the combat reports of the 328th Rifle Division. The last news from him was received from the Zhytomyr region, Lutovsky district. _x000D_ There was a state notification that Tkachev I.D. born in 1915, missed in military action.

Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel_x000D_ _x000D_ May 9 is always an important and revered holiday for me. I want to tell you about my great-great-grandmother: Soboleva (Permyakova) Anastasia Efimovna was born in 1912 on July 12 in the village. Kupryakovo, Shelopuginsky district, Chita region. She passed away in 2010 at the 98th year of her life in the village of Semiozerny, Mogochinsky district. She was the youngest, the eighth child. As in any peasant family, the girl was taught to work from an early age. At the age of 6, Nastena knew how to work in the garden, help around the house. Life opened new pages every day. The carefree childhood ended quickly. There was the Civil War, revolutions, repressions of the 30s, endless change of power ... but she was lucky enough to finish 4 classes. Then hunger and poverty reigned, they ate frozen potatoes, nettles, and quinoa. She collected wild onions on the banks of the river Shilka. _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War became an ordeal for her. When she learned about the German attack, she volunteered for the front and was assigned as a nurse at the Red Cross. The husband also went to the front, and the children were taken to their grandmother. All these 5 long years she worked in a hospital or was often on the road on ambulance trains. She washed the wounded, made bandages, wore the wounded from the combatfield, saved people. _x000D_ At the end of the war, she returned home, at that time in the city of Sretensk. Soon the sad news came that her beloved was killed ... She remarried and went to work in kolkhoz. She raised ten children. _x000D_ But, unfortunately, no documents, photographs, awards have survived. Everything burned down during a fire in the house, all the archives cannot be restored, and there are almost no witnesses of those years ... Now it is difficult to even imagine how much grief, horror, and tears my ancestress had suffered.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Kudaibergen Suraganov was born on May 25, 1921 in the village of Suluagash (now - Kachirsky district of Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan). After graduating from the Pavlodar pedagogical school, he worked as a teacher. In 1940, Suraganov was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941, he graduated from the courses for Junior Leiutenants. Since 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. By April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov commanded the battery control platoon of 142nd Cannon Artillery Brigade of t33rd Army of 1st Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself during the Capture of Berlin. _x000D_ On April 16-23, 1945, Suraganov's platoon successfully adjusted the fire of its battery at German firing points, which helped the infantry break through to the Oder-Spree canal. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Golden Star "number 9074. _x000D_ He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree and two Orders of the Red Star, a number of medals. In March 1947, Suraganov was transferred to the reserve. He lived in Alma-Ata. After graduating from the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute, he remained to teach there. He was Candidate of Science (Engineering). He died on February 14, 2008, was buried in Alma-Ata.

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko is a Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1940), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1940, 1965), Chevalier of the Order "Victory" (1945), People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (May 1940 - July 1941), member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1938-1940), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1939-1952), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1938-1940), deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR of 1st convocation (1938-1947), Candidate member of the Communist Central Committee (1952-1970). _x000D_ He was considered the most competent Commander and military theorist at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and was the Chairman of the Headquarters of the High Command in Moscow from June 23 to July 19, 1941. _x000D_ He was born on February 6 (18), 1895 in the village of Orman, Akkerman district, Bessarabian province (now Furmanovka, Kiliya district, Odessa region of Ukraine), in the family of a peasant Konstantin Gavrilovich Timoshenko (died in 1925). He is Ukrainian by nationality. He worked as a farm laborer. He graduated from a rural school. In December 1914 he was drafted into the army. In 1915 he graduated from the Regimental machine gun school and received the rank of Sergeant-Major. He participated in the First World War, was a machine gunner in 4th Cavalry Division on the Southwestern and Western Fronts. He was awarded for valor with St. George's Crosses of three degrees. He was arrested after hitting an officer and put on trial. He ended the war with the rank of ensign. _x000D_ He had been to the Red Army since 1918. He commanded a platoon since April 1918, a squadron since June 1918. In August 1918 he was the head of a Cavalry Regiment, he took part in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn, where he met Joseph Stalin. _x000D_ Since November 1918 he was the Commander of a Cavalry Brigade, (since June 1919 he was in the corps of S.M.Budyonny). Member of the Communist Party since 1919. From November 1919 to August 1920 he is a Commander of 6th Cavalry Division, from August 1920 to October 1921 he was a Commander of 4thCavalry Division of 1st Cavalry Army. He was wounded five times, but did not leave the formation. _x000D_ For military exploits during the Civil War, he was awarded three Orders of the Red Banner and an Honorary Revolutionary Weapon. He received revolutionary weapons in November 1920 for combats on the Polish front, in particular, for withdrawing 1st Cavalry Army from the encirclement in Belarus. He graduated from the Higher Military Academic Courses in 1922 and 1927, and the courses for the one-man Commanders at the N.G. Tolmachev Military-Political Academy in 1930. He commanded 3rd and 6th cavalry corps. Since August 1933 he was a Deputy Commander of the Belorussian Military District, since September 1935 he was appointed to the Kiev Military District. From June 1937 he was Commander of the North Caucasian Military Districts, and from September 1937 worked in Kharkov Military Districts. On February 8, 1939, he was appointed Commander of the Kiev military district with the assignment of the military rank of Army Commander of 1st rank. _x000D_ During the Polish campaign of the Red Army in 1939, from September 17 to October 2, he commanded the Ukrainian Front, which was established on September 11, 1939. Successfully completed a combat mission to capture the city of Lvov. In the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, from January 7, 1940, he commanded the North-Western Front, whose troops carried out a breakthrough of the "Mannerheim Line". After the previous failure of this operation by the People's Commissar of Defense Kliment Voroshilov, who was removed from the post of Commander on the same January 7, Tymoshenko immediately set specific operational missions and their solution. As a result, from February 1940, when the preparation was completed, the assault on the line began and its breakthrough, the city of Vyborg was taken. Thanks to the successful command of Timoshenko, on March 13, 1940, the USSR signed peace with Finland on its own terms. _x000D_ The title of Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 241) with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal to Army Commander 1st Rank Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was awarded on March 21, 1940 for "exemplary performance of command combat missions and displayed courage and heroism." On May 7, 1940 he was appointed to the post of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR with the assignment of the highest military rank, Marshal of the Soviet Union. June 28 - July 2, after the occupation of Bessarabia by the troops of the Southern Front (Commander G.K. Zhukov) during the operation against Romania, in 1940, Tymoshenko for the first time since 1914 visited his small homeland, the village of Orman (now Furmanovka) in the Ukrainian Bessarabia, from where he was still a young man and went to the front of the First World War. In his native Furmanovka, the marshal received an enthusiastic welcome from fellow villagers. He had to speak at an impromptu meeting directly from the peasant cart. Tymoshenko spent the rest of the day and all night in contact with numerous relatives. _x000D_ In 1940-1941 Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (replaced KE Voroshilov in this post). At the post of the People's Commissar of Defense, he carried out a lot of work to improve the combat training of troops, their reorganization, technical re-equipment, training new personnel (required due to a significant increase in the size of the army), which was not fully completed due to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Under his leadership, the combat experience of using the Armed Forces gained in the Soviet-Finnish war was generalized and began to be introduced into the practice of training troops and staffs. Decisions were made to form mechanized corps, replace outdated tank and artillery fleets, aviation equipment, mobilize resources, improve the organization and coherence in the work of headquarters, strengthen military discipline, and improve the combat training of troops. Immediately after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, on June 23, 1941, he was appointed Chairman of the Headquarters of the High Command. _x000D_ On July 2, 1941, in connection with the catastrophic development of events in the central sector of the Soviet-German front, Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was appointed Commander of the Western Front. On July 10, 1941, he simultaneously headed the High Command of the Western Direction Forces (remained Commander-in-chief until the abolition of the High Command on September 10, 1941). During the combat for Kiev, on September 13, 1941, S. K. Timoshenko was appointed Commander-in-chief of the troops of the South-West direction. On September 30, 1941, Timoshenko headed the reconstituted Southwestern Front, which defended on the southern flank of the Soviet-German front. At the end of November 1941, Timoshenko commanded the Soviet counteroffensive near Rostov-on-Don. On November 28, the city was taken, which was one of the first victories of the Red Army in 1941. In May 1942, Timoshenko led the Kharkov operation, as a result of which a large group of the Red Army suffered a crushing defeat. As a result of the encirclement near Kharkov, more than 200 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were taken prisoner, which was one of the reasons for the future difficult situation near Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. Tymoshenko himself survived and escaped captivity. In July 1942, Timoshenko was appointed Commander of the Stalingrad Front. Since October 1942 he commanded the troops of the North-Western Front. In this position, he conducted two offensive operations during the implementation of the "Polar Star" plan, the Demyansk offensive and the Old Russian operation. _x000D_ On March 13, Marshal Tymoshenko was removed from his post as Commander of the North-Western Front. From March 1943 until the end of the war, he was a representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters and coordinated the actions of a number of fronts, took part in the development and conduct of certain operations. During the operation to withdraw Romania from the war, as an ally of Germany and taking control of the Romanian oil (Yassko-Chisinau), Tymoshenko was the coordinator of the actions of 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. The Soviet offensive in Bessarabia and Romania began on August 20, 1944, and four days later the operational encirclement of the Kishinev group of Germans and Romanians was completed. On the night of August 24, 1944, when the pro-German government of Ion Antonescu was overthrown in Bucharest, Romania ceased to be an ally of Germany. _x000D_ After the liberation of Chisinau on August 25, Semyon Konstantinovich telegraphed to JV Stalin: “The first main combat mission you set for 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts has been completed. The German-Romanian troops were defeated, their remnants flee in disarray across the Siret River. The main German Chisinau group is surrounded and destroyed. Observing the skillful leadership of troops on a large scale by Malinovsky and Tolbukhin, I consider it my duty to ask ... for the assignment of the military rank "Marshal of the Soviet Union" to Army Generals Malinovsky and Tolbukhin. " Soon this request from Tymoshenko was granted. _x000D_ At the same time, Tymoshenko visited his native village for the first time since the summer of 1940. Later, S. K. Timoshenko coordinated the actions of the fronts in Hungary and Austria. On the night of September 16, 1944, he received an order from the Supreme Command Headquarters to begin coordinating the actions of 2nd and 4th Ukrainian fronts during the combats for southern Hungary and, later, to the capture of the Hungarian capital Budapest. From July 1941 to February 1945 he was a member of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. On June 4, 1945, the Commander received the highest award in the Great Patriotic War, the Order of Victory for the planning of combat operations and coordination of front operations. _x000D_ After the war he commanded the troops of Baranovichi (from March 1946 - Belarusian), from June 1946 - South Ural, from March 1949 - Belarusian military districts. Since April 1960 he had been in the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) in 1939-1952, candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1952-1970. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of several convocations. Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1938-1940. In 1962-1970 he was Chairman of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans. He refused to write his memoirs, stating that no one would publish the truth, and that there was someone to lie to without him. _x000D_ On February 18, 1965, in the year of the twentieth anniversary of the Victory over the German Nazism of the Soviet peoples, by the decree of the Supreme Presidium of the USSR S.K. Timoshenko was awarded the second Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 46), on the day of his 70th birthday: before the Motherland and the Armed Forces of the USSR ". Died 31March 1970. He was buried on April 3 on Red Square in the Kremlin Wall. _x000D_ Awards of the Russian Empire: St. George Cross, 4th degree; No. 38346. Corporal of the 304th Infantry Novgorod-Seversky Regiment Semyon Timoshenko. Awarded in recognition of the merits of the lower ranks of the garrison of the Osovets fortress, who distinguished themselves during the bombing from 13th to 16.09.1914. 16 and 28 Art. 67 of the St. George Statute. St. George cross, 3rd degree; St. George cross, 2nd degree. _x000D_ USSR awards: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (03/21/1940, 02/18/1965). Order "Victory" (No. 11, 4.06.1945), five Orders of Lenin (22.02.1938, 21.03.1940, 21.02.1945, 18.02.1965, 18.02.1970), Order of the October Revolution (22.02.1968), five Orders of the Red Banner (25.07 .1920, 05/11/1921, 02/22/1930, 11/3/1944, 11/6/1947), three orders of Suvorov 1st degree (10/9/1943, 09/12/1944, 04/27/1945), an honorary revolutionary weapon, a personal checker with the Order of the Red Banner ( 11/28/1920), honorary checker with a gold image of the State Emblem of the USSR (02/22/1968), _x000D_ Medal "For Defense of Leningrad", Medal "For Defense of Stalingrad", Medal "For Defense of Kiev", Medal "For Defense of the Caucasus", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. " (1945) Jubilee medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (1965) medal “For the victory over Japan” (1945) medal “For Capture of Budapest” medal “For Capture of Vienna” medal “For Liberation of Belgrade”; jubilee medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army" (22.02. 1938) jubilee medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (1948) jubilee medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1958) jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1968) medal "In Commemoration of 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1947) Medal "In Commemoration of 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" _x000D_ Foreign awards: Order of Tudor Vladimirescu 1st degree (SRR) Order of the White Lion "For Victory" (Czechoslovakia) Gold Order of the Partisan Stars (SFRY) medal "30 years of Khalkhin-Golskaya Victory" (Mongolian People's Republic) Memory: A bronze bust was installed at home - in the village of Furmanovka, Odessa region. In 2017, a monument was unveiled on the territory of the Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops and Engineering Troops named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko in Kostroma. _x000D_ A memorial plaque on the headquarters of the Belarusian Military District and streets in St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Kiev, Izmail, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don. _x000D_ Marshal Timoshenko Street in Moscow: Memorial plaques were installed on houses No. 4 and No. 40. _x000D_ At present, the board has been installed at house number 46. The anti-submarine ship was named after him. According to a report on the official website of the Colombian Air Force, FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri uses the pseudonym Timochenko in honor of Tymoshenko. In the USSR and Kyrgyzstan, postage stamps dedicated to Tymoshenko were issued.

Rank: Captain _x000D_ Branch of troops: Coastal Defense and Air Defense Artillery, Coastal Units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops _x000D_ My grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, was born in 1904 in the village of Molochkovo, Ilyinsky district, Ivanovo region. After the war, he lived and worked in the city of Ivanovo, Ivanovo region, in a managerial position at a factory. Ivan Alexandrovich died in 1949 and was buried in the cemetery in the town of Sosnevo in the city of Ivanovo. His family had seven children (Yuri, Boris, Victor, Vladimir, Valery, Galina and Nikolai), his wife's name was Anna Georgievna. _x000D_ In 1927, my grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, graduated from the Regimental School of 1st Moscow Rifle Regiment and was awarded the rank of Junior Commander of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He fought in the Finnish War. He was drafted to the Great Patriotic War in June 1941 by the Oktyabrskiy Military Comissariat of the Ivanovo Region and went through the whole war until the very end, first in parts of the Moscow Air Defense Front, then in parts of 3rd Corps of the Eastern Front of Air Defense. _x000D_ He served as a captain and commanded a platoon. He was a Senior Communist and the Secretary of the party commission of 784th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. He conducted patriotic work with soldiers, helped young soldiers incombat. According to the Military Council of the Eastern Front of the Air Defense, the state of party political work in the Regiment was recognized as the best of all parts of the Corps. With his diligence and responsiveness to the needs of the Red Army, my grandfather has earned sincere respect and authority among the personnel of the Regiment. _x000D_ During the period of the raids on the city of Gorky, he was constantly in the most critical areas, on batteries that were subjected to bomb attacks. Personal fearlessness and composure ensured efficient work of personnel and high morale. _x000D_ For his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as other medals and distinctions. _x000D_ Our family is proud of our soldier Ivan Aleksandrovich Titov. According to my aunt's recollections, their father was kind and fair. He was a courageous man and told the children how, under open enemy fire, together with other soldiers, he fired back. Not fearing death, he went on the attack, raising everyone behind him. Of course, it was very scary in the war. It was hard for his children, at that time there were six of them, all of them had to be fed and taught.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolai Sorokin was born on August 9, 1924 in the village of Shizhgutovo, now the Rodnikovsky district. He met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War with the students of the Rodnikovsky vocational school. After graduation, he worked as a turner at a factory in the city of Furmanov. In May 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. In a howitzer reserve Regiment, he successfully mastered the military specialty of a topographer-computer. He held the test of courage in the first combats on the Volkhov and Bryansk fronts. In July 1943, already as a gunner, he took part in the combat of Kursk. By the spring of 1944, he fought as part of 1432 Light Artillery Regiment of 317th Artillery Breakthrough Division, was a gunner, then a gun Commander. As part of this Regiment, he went to Victory. _x000D_ In 1944 he joined the Communist Party. On March 27 in the area Kuyava he shot the counter-attacking enemy with point-blank fire, knocked out a tank and destroyed an infantry platoon. For this combat he received his first military award, the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On 16/0744, 4 tanks and up to 2 infantry platoons moved to Sorokin's gun. Letting the tanks and infantry of the enemy at a distance of 300-400 meters, Sorokin entered into single combat with them. As a result of an unequal and fierce combat, 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. Firing at the retreating infantry, he destroyed 40 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ On 17.07.44 the enemy again counterattacked the Regiment's positions. The battery, where Sorokin was the gun Commander, had 18 tanks and up to an infantry Battalion. Having let the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, Sorokin opened fire from his gun. The lead tank was hit by the second round. At the moment when the crew went out of order, Private Sorokin stands at the panorama of the gun and personally knocks out the second tank himself. The enemy tanks and infantry turned back. In an unequal combat, Private Sorokin emerged victorious. For 2 days of fighting, he knocked out 4 tanks with his cannon and destroyed 110 enemy soldiers and officers, repelling 4 counterattacks. As a result, the occupied line was held, our infantry moved forward. _x000D_ "By the order of the Commander of the artillery of 60th Army, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The enemy's mortar battery was suppressed, 2 bunkers were destroyed, an armored personnel carrier with infantry was knocked out by direct fire. Having been wounded in this combat, Sorokin did not leave the gun and after rendering assistance remained in the ranks. The award for the combat was the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Sergeant Sorokin distinguished himself again in May 1945. On May 1, near the village of Got, fighting in an encirclement, he fired until the last shell, after which, by order of the Battalion Commander, he removed his guns from encirclement. For this combat he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" on the territory of Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ In 1947 he was demobilized. He returned to his homeland. He worked in Rodniki as head of the trade department. In 1956 he moved l to the city of Kaliningrad. He worked at 2nd pulp and paper mill as a loader, barker, turner. When he was entrusted to head the transport department of the enterprise, his organizational skills of the head were revealed. He retired in 1984 from the position of the head of the personnel department. He lived in the city of Kaliningrad (regional). He died on July 6, 2001. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree (15.09.1944), the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree (11.03.1985), the Red Star (05.02.1945), the Order of Glory of 3rd degree (15.04.1944), medals.

Rank: Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ SubDivision: 6th Guards Assault Aviation Zaporizhzhya twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin was born on January 25, 1919 in Samara. In 1937 Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, according to a special set, was sent to the Chkalov (Orenburg) Aviation School of Pilots, which he graduated in 1941. After completing the courses at the Lipetsk Aviation Center, he was appointed as the Flight Commander. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been participating in hostilities on the Southwest, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th guards Assault Aviation Zaporozhye Division. _x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich from 1941 to 1943 had been a Flight Commander training attack pilots. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been a participant in hostilities on the South-Western, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th Guards Assault Aviation Division as a flight Commander , deputy squadron Commander, Commander of 1st air squadron of the Regiment. He participated in the combats of the Kursk-Belgorod operation, in liberation of the cities of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Sandomir, Lvov, Warsaw, Prague, the capture of Berlin. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, he flew 120 flights on the Il-2 aircraft, out of 105 flights he was the leader of a group of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 18 aircrafts. The last flight flew on May 8, 1945 to liberate Prague from the German invaders. Under the leadership of Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin, his squadron flew 555 combat missions. _x000D_ For personal bravery, courage and heroism shown in combat missions and command of an air squadron, Viktor Sidorin was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, medals "For Military Merit"," For Capture of Berlin "," For Liberation of Prague "," For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945»._x000D_ In 1945, shortly before the end of the Great Patriotic War, Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, was nominated for the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" by Major Yashanov, Commander of 109th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment._x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich participated in the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945.

Rank: Sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Division: 161st Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolay Turchenko was born on June 15, 1921 in the village of Kholmogorovka (now - Shagan Kerbulak district of Almaty region of Kazakhstan). After finishing six years of school he worked as a tractor driver. In 1940, Turchenko was called up to serve in the Red Army. Since July 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In combats he was seriously wounded. _x000D_ By September 1943, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko commanded a squad of 565th Rifle Regiment of 161st Rifle Division of 40th army of the Voronezh front. He distinguished himself during the combat for the Dnieper. _x000D_ As part of a reconnaissance group, Turchenko made his way into the village of Rymarovka, Gadyach district, Poltava region, Ukrainian SSR, personally capturing the "tongue", a German prisoner, and destroying 3 German soldiers. When the Soviet units reached the Dnieper, Turchenko was one of the first to cross it in the area of the village of Lukovitsa, Kanevsky district, Cherkasy region of the Ukrainian SSR, conducted reconnaissance of the German defense and took an active part in the combats to seize and hold the foothold. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 23, 1943, for “courage and heroism shown during the liberation of Ukraine and the crossing of the Dnieper”, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal numbered 2024. _x000D_ After the end of the war, Turchenko was demobilized. He lived and worked first in Ulyanovsk, then in Mineralnye Vody. He died on September 25, 1972, and was buried in the city cemetery of Mineralnye Vody.

Suldin Philip Efremovich, my grandfather, was born in 1922 and went to the front at the age of 19. He was a platoon Commander of 123rd Guards artillery Riga Regiment of 53rd Guards Rifle Tartu Red Banner motto. He had been part of 3 Leningrad, 1 and 2 Baltic fronts from 1941 to 1945, ended the war in Riga. He was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree for courage and fearlessness, for skillful fire control of the battery and ensuring the accelerated advancement of a supported Rifle Battalion in combats when breaking through defenses in the Petermuiža, Krimunas, Putnu-Zhids area on December 23-26, 1944. _x000D_ Being all the time in combat formations of the advancing infantry 157 GVSP, he adjusted the fire of his battery at enemy firing points. According to its correction, 5 heavy and light machine guns, 2 guns of 105 mm were destroyed, scattered and partly destroyed before an infantry platoon. He personally took part in three attacks of our infantry and on 12/25/1944 was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and shot two Nazis with his personal weapons. In eachcombat he acted decisively, skillfully and courageously, inspiring the soldiers of his platoon to complete any assigned combat mission. Being in the combat formations of the infantry, he repeatedly participated in attacks with her, twice replaced the out-of-order Commanders of Rifle companies in combats and led them to perform combat missions. Thus, in the combats of February 20-23, 1945, in the area of Priekule, he was also in the infantry combat formations, skillfully leading reconnaissance and adjusting the fire of his battery. On the night of February 21-22, when the enemy in a large group, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, tried to break out of the encirclement, Philip Efremovich, together with his recons and platoon signalmen, courageously fought off the advancing enemy. _x000D_ At the same time, 12 Hitlerites were destroyed by his soldiers and by him personally from service weapons. In a combat with the enemy that night, he was wounded, but did not leave the combatfield, but continued to lead the repulsion of the enemy counterattack and personally exterminate the Nazis. In the combats of February 22-23, he replaced the killed battery Commander and, adjusting the fire of his guns, knocked out a self-propelled gun, destroyed two machine-gun points, suppressed the fire of a separate enemy gun standing on direct fire, scattered and partially destroyed 2 enemy infantry groups up to a company each, preparing for counterattack. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He died in January 1960 from an illness in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region.

Rank: Chief Petty Officer, Starshina _x000D_ SubDivision: 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division _x000D_ He was born in 1906 in the village of Taldyki (Ukrainian Taldiki), Kiev province. He lived in the village of Burlin, Ural region. He worked as a salesman in a general store, then as a baker. He was arrested on October 29, 1929 by the Ural OGPU, convicted by the OGPU troika on January 3, 1930 under Articles 58-7, 58-8, 58-10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code to exile for 3 years. _x000D_ He was rehabilitated on June 10, 1989 by the WKO prosecutor's office by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated January 16, 1989. _x000D_ He had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since July 25, 1941. He fought in 234th and 259th Rifle Regiments of 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. He mastered the sniper business. He often went out on a "hunt" together with the legendary sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union, Kvachantiradze Vasily Shalvovich. _x000D_ On August 11, 1942 he was wounded. On April 18, 1943, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, Kalinin Front) Corporal KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the first award for the destruction of 82 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 40 of May 11, 1943, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for 43rd Army. On October 18, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant K. D. Smolensky was presented by the unit command to a new award for distinction in combats for the Misa station on September 18, 1944. _x000D_ By the Order No. 54 of October 27, 1944 of the 179th Infantry Division he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. On December 13, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Vitebsk Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the Order of Lenin for the destruction of 404 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 3 of January 14, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree for 43rd Army. He ended the war with the rank of starshina, destroying 414 fascists and becoming one of the best snipers of the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he worked as a metalworker at the machine-building plant, in the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR. He raised two daughters and two sons, one of whom was an adopted orphan who lost his parents during the war. He helped to raise grandchildren. He died on November 25, 1971. He was buried in Bishkek, at the "Old Cemetery", near the «Leather Factory».

Rank: Red Army soldier. _x000D_ Sviridov Alexey Danilovich was a sapper of 95th Border Detachment of the NKVD troops of the USSR of the Directorate of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR of the Lithuanian District. _x000D_ According to the Book of Memory of the Border Troops (vol. 3, p. 36), he died in combat on October 18, 1944 in the town of Taurage, the district center of the former Lithuanian SSR. The burial place is unknown. _x000D_ "On October 17, 1944, on the basis of order No. 01128 issued two days earlier by the head of the district of 95th Border Order of Lenin, a detachment of troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the first time after the start of the Great Patriotic War began to protect the State Border of the USSR. The border commandant's office had been just liberated by Soviet troops with the Memel region of East Prussia along the line of the former border of the Lithuanian SSR with Germany: Aukshtupe settlement; 4th border commandant's office - Eish settlement; 5th border commandant's office - Yurburg settlement. _x000D_ Service groups every day engaged in combat with small groups of fascists and saboteurs. This led to inevitable losses in the ranks of the border guards. _x000D_ On October 18, 1944, a Red Army sapper Aleksey Danilovich Sviridov was killed. Alexei had a family, a wife and four young daughters.His wife tried to find out information about the burial place of her husband and some details, but everything was classified, only after many years did she manage to find out something through a search on the Internet.

Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ "At the beginning of 1944, by order of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Kalmyks were expelled from all fronts and military districts, Sergeants and rank-and-file personnel, as well as cadets from military schools. They were enlisted in 6th Reserve Regiment, a Rifle Brigade, which was stationed at the Kungur station of the Perm railway, and then sent by teams to the construction of the Shirokov hydroelectric power station. About 4 thousand soldiers and cadets were recalled from the active army. These were mainly people of Kalmyk nationality. The frontline Kalmyks were recalled to the rear under the pretext of creating a Kalmyk national unit in the Urals. _x000D_ The servicemen greeted these explanations with satisfaction, but already on the road, and especially upon arrival at Shiroklag, they understood that they had been deceived ... There, somewhere in the Middle Urals, in the town of Shirokovo, the Kalmyks were turned into slaves, they were driven to work by deception in a forest concentration camp. _x000D_ Among those who ended up in Shiroklag was Sangadzhiev Badma Kokuevich. His name is listed in the lists of Kalmyk military personnel recalled from the fronts in 1944-1945. _x000D_ Badma Kokuevich was born in 1925 in Kalmykia, Privolzhsky ulus, Nitsyansky village, received 7 grade education, was a member of the Komsomol and was drafted by the Volga Comissariat in 1943. Sangadzhiev B.K. served in the active army from March 1943 to January 1944 in 85th Rifle Division, 167th Artillery Regiment, rank of private. _x000D_ The Book of Memory says that Sangadzhiev B.K. arrived in Shiroklag on 03/28/1944, demobilized on 03/06/1945, sent to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the special commandant's office of the Kozul District of the NKVD. At the Kalmyk State University, Badma Kokuevich worked as a watchman. He was characterized by modesty and restraint. The war broke this man's life. _x000D_ Unfortunately, his memories of this time have not been preserved. We can only imagine what kind of inhuman torments, hardships, torments he had to endure in Shiroklag. But there are poems that convey the emotional pain of those who were unjustly sent to GULAG. The camp was new, with secret police, with a pack of dogs, slave labor, hard, worse than Shiroklag prison. The gate is wide, with an arch, There was a sentry on the tower. A sentinel with a learned shepherd dog was on duty at night sometimes. There the Kalmyks died like flies from various diseases ... The head watched the brigade labour and demanded to fulfill the plan ... Today we realize at what a huge price was paid for the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Among those who contributed was Badma Kokuevich Sangadzhiev. For his military services in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (No. of award document: 87; date of award document: 04/06/1985; entry No. 1519668401).

My grandfather, Staritsky Ernest Ivanovich, was born on July 21, 1923, died in January 2003, lived a long and interesting life after the war. The Great Patriotic War became the main event of his life for him. And over the years, the memories only became brighter and did not lose importance. At the age of 17, he volunteered for the front (he was not yet 18) and went through almost the entire war as part of 116th Motorized Rifle Brigade. In 1944 he was seriously wounded and discharged. He was awarded an officer rank (if I am not mistaken, Lieutenant). Great-grandfather and great-grandmother survived the war in besieged Leningrad. My grandfather had 2 older brothers, Anatoly and Askold. Two of them, including their grandfather, returned from the war alive. "There is nothing more terrible than war," and "The war was completely different ..." Ernest Ivanovich sometimes said. He did not like modern films about the war. Grandpa talked a lot about what the war was like, about the life of people at the front, about the combats near Gorodishche, near Orel, when almost the entire Regiment (10,000 people) perished during the night combat. He also talked about curious moments (yes, there were some). _x000D_ The plot is about a soldier who, with a sudden fascist raid, jumped into a pit with human sheet, fleeing a bombing. And then the fighters laughed when their colleague jumped out of the pit . _x000D_ My babushka, Staritskaya Antonina Mikhailovna, was a child during the war and spent years in the fascist occupation in Staraya Russa. She did not like to remember the war. She talked a little about how she lived in the occupied city, in the same house with the Nazis. They ate lingonberry in the forest not to starve, and her tongue had cracks for life. _x000D_ After the war, my grandfather became a French teacher and director of one of the French schools in St. Petersburg, had been a teacher with 40 years of experience, an active member of the Peace Committee. He dreamed that we would never see a war. In 1970-80, Staritsky Ernest Ivanovich worked a lot with one of the schools in Orel (if I am not mistaken, school No. 5), helping to create a museum dedicated to 116th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, to recreate the memory of the combats in those places.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Nikolai Sirotin, a brave recon of the Rostovets partisan detachment, was born on May 24, 1924 in the village of Bykovo, Stalingrad region, Pushkin Street, 33. In the first year of the war, his father and two brothers, Alexander and Zakhar, went to the war. Only my father returned from the war. _x000D_ He was also eager to join the fight against the Nazis. They did not take him into the army, as a minor, and the seventeen-year-old boy decided to get into a reconnaissance school. _x000D_ In the fall of 1942, during heavy fighting near Stalingrad, Nikolai Sirotin achieved his dream. He was sent to the school of Partisan Reconaissance officers, the formation point was in Leninsk. Later he was sent to the Moscow Reconaissance school. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was thrown with a group of comrades into the territory of Donbass occupied by the enemy. A small group of recons began to carry out the combat missions of the command. For a long time, the detachment collected and transmitted to the Soviet command valuable information about the deployment of enemy units, established contacts with local partisan groups, derailed enemy trains, and blew up commandant's offices. Soviet aircrafts had bombed German locations on a tip from partisans. Throughout his service, Nikolai Sirotin won the attention of the headquarters leadership with his military actions behind enemy lines. He quickly advanced in the service, he was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. Sirotin was an incredibly brave young man. From a letter from a member of the reconnaissance detachment of the surviving Sofia Belugina, from the village of Verkhniy Balykley, Stalingrad Region. Nikolai's mother:_x000D_ "Hello, Aunt Tanya! Everything that you conveyed, I handed over to Nikolai. I will write in more detail about him. We are in the same unit from the first days. Almost all the time he is on the front line ... (crossed out in bold, apparently by military caesura) ... honestly and conscientiously carries out everything that is entrusted to him. He rarely comes to us. There is no mail where he is, and if he writes, the letter will still be in his pocket. He asks you not to worry that he does not write. Please, send the front-line address of his brother Sasha and his father, I will write them. After the war he will tell you a lot of interesting details. Greetings from him to fighting brother Yurochka, and to all his comrades. Don't worry about Nikolai. Sonya Belugina. " _x000D_ In May 1943, the Nazis nevertheless went on the trail of recons. Twenty-two people, including Vera Listopad, Roza Dzhalilova from the village of Savinka, Pallasovsky district, Maria Orekhova, Maria Krasnoshchekova from Kislovo, Natalya Shpileva, Nikolai Sirotin, Dusya Bogatyreva and others, were arrested. Here is what his friend and companion in partisan struggle Grigory Efimovich Galushko wrote about these dramatic events to Nikolai's mother, in the detachment his name was “Ded”: _x000D_ “Hello, Tatyana Andreevna! The unfamiliar Galushko Grigory Efimovich sends greetings to you. I am writing a letter to you at the request of Sonya Belugina. She asked me to write a letter about the latest whereabouts of Nikolai Sirotin. Nikolai Sirotin is my friend in conviction and in arms. I met him on March 20, 1943 at the recon group of the Headquarters of the partisan movement in the village of Lesogorka, Rostov region. From there we began to prepare to cross the front line to work behind enemy lines. On April 17, I and one of my comrades went across the front line. Nikolay with other comrades went across on April 18. We all crossed the front line, but in the enemy's rear, in the second turnout line in the Krasnoluchinsky district, we were all overfished. This misfortune was included in our calculation. We were detained in different places at a distance of 10 km. As "defectors" we were all gathered and sent to Chistyakovo to conduct an investigation ... ". _x000D_ From a letter dated August 28, 1944, it follows that some of the arrested managed to confirm the legend of the defectors, and some of the guys, including Nikolai Sirotin, subsequently suffered a martyr's death due to the fact that two traitors were in the ranks of the partisan group. On May 13, 1943, E.I. Bogatyreva, V.G. Listopad, N.M. Sirotin and others, 22 people after brutal torture were shot in Dronovskaya gully, three kilometers from the town of Chistyakovo. Eyewitnesses of those events said that when the young men and women were taken to execution, one of them sang: "Get up, the country is huge ...". _x000D_ Grigory Efimovich Galushko informed later that when the guys were going to be executed, not one of them, including Kolya Sirotin, who was the youngest in the group, did not betray him by word, look, or gesture. He managed to confirm himself the legend of the "deserter". All his life, Ded felt obliged to tell people about the heroic deeds of the partisan heroes. _x000D_ From the memoirs of an eyewitness to the execution of partisans-recons, local historian M.A. Krivoruchko: "In September 1943, in the Filippov gully, in the eastern part of the city of Chistyakovo, it was crowded. By the decision of the executive committee of the city council, three pits were opened where the corpses of the shot were laid. It was hard to look at the tortured, bloody bodies. People identified their husbands and sons. But among them there were unknown young faces of men and women. Who are they? Why are they twisted in pairs by the hands? Only the identification of Vera Listopad indicated that they were partisans from a special reconnaissance group._x000D_ “A few years later, the remains of the perished partisans were reburied in a mass grave in the center of Torez (mass grave No. 1 ZU380-05-389, intersection of Pionerskaya and Engels streets, square). An obelisk of marble has been installed. Their names will remain in the memory of descendants, as an example of courage and selfless devotion to their beloved Motherland. The name of Nikolai Sirotin bears one of the streets of Torez (DPR) and the village of Bykovo (Volgograd region). His name was added to the electronic book of memory of Ukraine ( Partisans of the Donetsk region).

My grandfather, Tyutenkov Sergey Ivanovich, a native of the village of Kazanka, Sladkovsky district, Tyumen region, was born on August 10, 1918. In 1939 he was drafted into the army, his wife Praskovya Petrovna and little son Yuri stayed at home. In 1941, when the war began, he was 22 years old. He fought in Belarus. The first days were the hardest. The fascist attacked with terrible force. Attack after attack, the Red Army was holding on to the last bullet. He fought with his fellow countryman Evgeny Vasilievich Vasiliev. They were stuck together. After the bloody combat, they both cried and rejoiced that they remained alive. Day after day there was a damned war, the German was advancing, and the order was received from the headquarters to retreat. They were leaving village after village to the enemy, retreated with combats through the forests, through the Belarusian swamps. _x000D_ At the end of September 1941, retreating, they came to the village at night. There was a hut on the edge of the village, where they knocked. Old woman came out and said that there were no Germans, and let them into the house. There were several of them, among them was a commanding officer. They asked to stay until dawn. _x000D_ The Russian bath was heated, they washed, ate and lay down to rest. This old woman quietly got up, went out of the hut and brought the Germans. The Germans in cars with machine guns and dogs surrounded the hut and took them all out into the street. My grandfather asks our soldier who understood German: "Will they shoot us?"And he quietly whispered to him that thyw would be taken prisoners. The old woman pointed to the Commander to the Germans. The Germans seized him and took him away, and so his grandfather never saw him again. My grandfather had been in a concentration camp in Germany. In 1945, Soviet troops liberated him, and he continued to fight. _x000D_ He participated in the capture of Koenigsberg. And at home all this time his wife Praskovya was waiting, she worked in the rear and every day she was waiting for letters from him. During all this time there was not a single letter from him. Praskovya wrote to Moscow, an answer was received that he was missing in action. A loving heart waited and felt that he was alive. _x000D_ My grandfather lived a long life, after the war he worked as a starshina on a livestock farm in his native kolkhoz. He did not like to talk about the war and remember those terrible days of his youth. My grandfather was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree, the medal "For Courage" and other awards.