The Great Patriotic War

Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 02/23/1921 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/04/1963 _x000D_ _x000D_ Mavlyutov Sharafeddin Khalyafeddinovich was born on February 23, 1921 in the village of Karaguzino of the Kubeliatsky volost of the Verkhneuralsky district of the Orenburg province (now it is the territory of the Karaguzinsky village council of the Sarktash region), Orenburg region. He was drafted into the Red Army on October 4, 1940 by the Gavrilov Military Commissariat of the Chkalovsk (Orenburg) region. _x000D_ He became a Shooter-sniper, served in 165th Rifle Regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR to protect especially important industrial enterprises. He was part of all 900 days of the Leningrad Siege. _x000D_ He was awarded with medals: "For Military Merit" (Order No. 0602 / n December 28, 1942). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat formations of the 10th and 92nd RKKA rifle divisions on the Karelian Isthmus as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage and courage. Exterminated 32 Hitlerites "; - "For Courage" (Order No. 01800 / n October 18, 1943). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat of the Red Army on the Leningrad front as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage. Exterminated 71 Nazis "); "For Defense of Leningrad" (Order No. 12239 August 15, 1943); - "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (order No. 0128360 March 2, 1946). _x000D_ From 1945 to 1946, Sergeant Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich is listed as a weapons master of machine-gun armament of the rear department. In 1946 he left for the service at 3rd naval school, in the city of Oranienbaum (information on service at the naval school is still in search). After completing his service and demobilization, he graduated from the Kuvandyk Veterinary School on November 1, 1949, with a certificate of qualification of a Junior Veterinary Feldsher. Family after the war: wife - Mavlyutova Khobizhzhamal Iskhakovna, first son - Mavlyutov Rauf Sharafaddinovich, second son - Mavlyutov Gilmaddin Sharafeddinovich, third son - Mavlyutov Mudarris Sharafaddinovich, fourth son - Mavlyutov Sharafadinovich Sharafaddinovich._x000D_ The date of the tragic death of a war veteran, (he was hit at the workplace by a tractor) is May 4, 1963.

Mironov Leonid Sergeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 06/16/1915 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 10/10/1991 _x000D_ _x000D_ Leonid Mironov was born on June 16, 1915 in the village of Petrushino (now - Skopinsky district of Ryazan region). Since 1925, he lived in the village of Lyapino, Yaroslavl District, Yaroslavl Region, graduated from seven classes of school and a school of factory apprenticeship. He lived and worked in Kharkov, Chelyabinsk. In June 1934, Mironov was called up to serve in the USSR Navy. In 1938 he graduated from the Leningrad Naval School named after M. V. Frunze. He participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War in the Northern Fleet. _x000D_ He took part in the battles of the Soviet-Japanese war, being the commander of the frigate "EK-2", 1st brigade of patrol ships of the Pacific Fleet. On August 14, 1945, Mironov's frigate with an advanced landing detachment entered the bay of the city of Seisin (now Chongjin, North Korea) and successfully landed troops, which contributed to the successful capture of the city. Mironov personally directed the fire of his frigate, contributing to a large extent to the success of the paratroopers' actions._x000D_ On August 15, the frigate landed a second echelon of paratroopers, and then delivered a large group of wounded to Vladivostok. Thanks to the constant maneuvering, the frigate did not suffer at all. _x000D_ On August 22-23, 1945, Mironov's frigate delivered an amphibious detachment to the southern tip of Sakhalin, which contributed to the capture of the port of Maoka (now Kholmsk). _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 14, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Leonid Mironov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for "courage and heroism shown in the fight against Japanese militarists". _x000D_ After the end of the war, Mironov continued to serve in the USSR Navy. He graduated from special courses for officers and the Naval Academy. In June 1960, with the rank of captain of the first rank, Mironov was transferred to the reserve. He lived and worked in Riga. _x000D_ He died on October 10, 1991, and was buried at Mikel's cemetery in Riga. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star, and other medals.

Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan Galeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan was born in May 1920, in the village of Yangildino, Kozlovsky district of the Chuvash ASSR. My grandfather was 21 years old when he went to the city of Irkutsk, where the military engineering school. In the winter of 1942, my grandfather graduated from high school and together with the same young lieutenants, in fact, still boys born in 1920-1922, left in an echelon to the West, to the front line to Kalinin. _x000D_ He arrived in the city of Kalinin (Tver). The city had just been liberated from the Nazis. My grandfather often remembered Kalinin, the city where the war had begun for him, and where, after a few weeks as an Assistant Commandant, he had directed the young recruits to their destination and waited impatiently to be sent himself. _x000D_ Finally, the direction to the front was received: Gzhatsk-Sychevka-Rzhev. Being a military miner, a pontooner, he was able to put mines, read mine plans, reveal the systems of installing mines._x000D_ Once, while performing a combat mission, my grandfather, as part of a group of soldiers, found himself in a minefield. _x000D_ My grandfather told me: "I gave a command Lie Down! It was night, dark, snowdrifts, and a cold wind, I was full of fear and resentment that we might die so stupidly. I was lying on my back, pressed tightly to the ground. There's something hard under my shoulder blades… I put my hands carefully under my back, feeling the ground inch by inch on both sides, my mind racing: is there a mine under me? Why didn't it explode? I change my body position slightly. Again checking every inch of ground. And it was dark, nothing to see, just the overcast sky and the wind. Finally, his hand found something solid. More, more, my fingers hurt. Wait! I have a knife with me. Now it's easier!" Indeed, my grandfather was lying on a landmine. He managed to defuse it, find three more mines and defuse them. Tthen he figured out the scheme of the minefield, so that together with his comrades they made a passage to their own location. They only returned in the morning. Everyone was excited by the feeling of happiness in life. _x000D_ And then my grandfather is suddenly told: "Shake off the snow on your temple." But this "snow" came and remained on his temples for the rest of his days. Snow that could only be shaved off. Gray hair in 22 years! _x000D_ Everything first is all unusual and memorable for a long time. The first order is the order of the Red Star. It was given to a young Misha Mukhamedzyanov, also at the age of 22. Senior comrades demanded to wash it out according to a military tradition. This meant placing the order in a soldier's mug, filling it to the brim with alcohol and drinking so that he could take out the washed order with his teeth. _x000D_ "I did everything right. I drank, I took my breath away, I was still holding on when the holes were made in my tunic, and then I don't remember anything. The first order, the first Cup of alcohol! " - my grandfather recalled. _x000D_ My grandfather recalled: "I was accepted as a candidate of the Communist party at Rzhev, when there were heavy combats in a row. Oh, it was difficult! We did not feel the change of day and night.We left and occupied localities, then left again and occupied them again. The ranks thinned and filled up and thinned again. _x000D_ In the newly liberated village, when the smell of burning, mixed with the sweetly disgusting smell of torn flesh, this smell of war still lingered over this village, a Communist party meeting was held in the last hut. At this meeting, I was accepted as a candidate for membership of the party. And then I went back into combat. It was 1942." _x000D_ My grandfather went through the entire war, was twice wounded. Victory day was celebrated in East Prussia. He finished the war with the rank of Captain, as a Engineer of 1229th Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment of 371st Rifle Vitebsk Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ He was awarded orders of the Red Star, Patriotic war I and II degree, medals "For Capture of Konigsberg" and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". He was demobilized after the war with the rank of Major. He died on March 11, 1975.

Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Guards Senior Sergeant Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich was born in 1924, in the village of Tatanovo, Tambov region. He began the war in August 1942. In regular units of the active army he had been since March 1943 in 854th Rifle Regiment of 277th Rifle Division. _x000D_ He was twice wounded: September 9, 1943 and August 26, 1944. After recovery he continued to serve in 612th Rifle Regiment of 144th Rifle Division. He took part in the liberation of Belarus and Lithuania, as well as in the combat on the territory of East Prussia. He was awarded three orders of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic war I degree, medals "for Military Merit", "for Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Japan", various commemorative medals and awards. _x000D_ Letters from the front or stories about the war in the family did not survive, my grandfather did not like to remember those terrible events. _x000D_ After 75 years, according to archival documents, I partially restored the combat path of my ancestor. Dedicated to my grandfather... (a poem in Russian by Dmitry Klyuchevsky, grandson).

Medvedev Alexander Nikiforovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 12/15/1923 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 06/24/1986 _x000D_ _x000D_ Alexander Nikiforovich Medvedev was a private, recon of 343rd Separate Reconnaissance Company (273rd Infantry Bezhitskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd class Division, 6th army, 1st Ukrainian front). He became a Full Knight of the Order of Glory. Medvedev Alexander Nikiforovich was born on December 15, 1923, in the village of Varvarinka of the Orenburg district of the Orenburg province (now the Tyulgansky district of the Orenburg region), into a peasant family. In 1935 he graduated from elementary school. He worked in kolkhoz. He was drafted into the Red Army by the Troitsk district military registration and enlistment office of the Chkalovsk (now Orenburg) region on April 27, 1942. He served in 13th Reserve Rifle Brigade. He had participated in the Great Patriotic War since July 25, 1942. He fought in 36th Infantry Regiment on the Southern and Southwestern Fronts. _x000D_ He was a participant in the combat of Stalingrad, but only for one month: in the combat on August 27, 1942, near the village of Kletskaya, Stalingrad Region, he was seriously wounded. After long-term treatment in evacuation hospital No. 4409, in November 1942 he was sent as a shooter to 14th reserve rifle brigade (Chuvash ASSR). _x000D_ From August 1943 he is again in the army, fought in 343rd Separate Reconnaissance Company of 273rd rifle division on the Bryansk, 2nd Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times. Participated in the Bryansk offensive operation and the combat for the Dnieper. In August 1943 he was wounded again. _x000D_ Subsequently, Alexander Medvedev took part in the Gomel-Rechitsa and Lvov-Sandomierz strategic offensive operations, in combats for the defense and expansion of the Sandomierz foothold, in the Vistula-Oder operation. By order of 273rd division of February 23, 1944, for courage and heroism in combats against the Nazi invaders and participation in the capture of a "control" prisoner near the village of Aleksandrovka, Polesskaya Oblast, on February 21-22, Red Army soldier Medvedev was awarded the medal "For Courage." _x000D_ On the night of June 6-7, 1944, the Red Army soldier Medvedev, as part of a reconnaissance group, was part of a group to capture a "control" prisoner in the area of the village of Torchin. He actively supported the group with machine gun fire, disarmed the sentry in a throw and warned the group against the consequences and possible losses. By order of 273rd Infantry Division of June 17, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. During the pursuit of the enemy in the area of the settlement of Sukhodoly in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland, the Red Army soldier Medvedev, bypassing the enemy column, attacked it and captured 2 soldiers and one non-commissioned officer. He, personally thrown by him grenades, destroyed 3 enemy soldiers and captured one soldier and a non-commissioned officer. Medvedev was nominated for the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ By order of 273rd Infantry Division, he was re-awarded the Order of Glory III degree. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 20, 1951, he was rewarded with the Order of Glory, I degree. _x000D_ On November 22, 1944, during the next reconnaissance exit, Alexander Medvedev discovered and destroyed the enemy firing point, ensuring the completion of the mission. When, upon returning through the no-man's land, a heavy mortar fire was opened on the reconnaissance group, at the risk of his own life, he carried on himself, one after the other, two seriously wounded comrades. _x000D_ He was presented for the Order of the Red Star, but at the headquarters of the division, the award was replaced with a second medal "For Courage". _x000D_ On the night of April 1, 1945, the Red Army soldier Medvedev was part of a capture group near the German city of Breslau (now the city of Wroclaw in Poland), to capture a "control" prisoner. Reaching the trench, Medvedev discovered the enemy's dugout. Having removed the sentry, he threw an anti-tank grenade at the door of the dugout, in which there were 15 enemy soldiers, and destroyed the dugout. The captured prisoner gave valuable information about the enemy. _x000D_ Alexander Medvedev was nominated for the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ By order of 6th Army dated May 8, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, II degree. _x000D_ In November 1945, the Red Army soldier Alexander Dmitrievich Medvedev was demobilized. He lived in the village of Tyulgan, then in the village of Troitskoye, Orenburg region. He worked in kolkhoz again. _x000D_ To commemorate 40th anniversary of Victory in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He died on June 24, 1986.

Mustafin Hasan Mustafich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 03/20/1899 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 01/21/1989_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mustafin Hasan Mustafich, was born and raised in the Blagoveshchensk region of the republic Bashkiria. As a young boy, he was drafted back in 1919 into the ranks of the Red Army, served in a separate brigade of the Bashkir division, was stationed from Novgorod to Batumi. He was demobilized in 1922. _x000D_ 19 years later, in December 1941, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army to fight against Nazi Germany at 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He served in 716th Infantry Regiment, 157th Infantry Division on the western front. In February 1943 he was seriously wounded. After recovering, he returned to his rifle unit and took part in capture of Königsberg, on 09/04/10/04-11/04 1945. _x000D_ “After the battle, I was instructed to arrange a mass grave in the middle of the city of Konigsberg, near the church (church),” said my grandfather. “Gathering those killed during the assault approximately 90 people were buried in one mass-grave. "_x000D_ In the combat for the settlements of Zaskredze-Lyakhovo, Longhmnsky district of Poland on 23/01/24/01 1945 and Maitynen Ovayden, East Prussia on 26/01 1945, he perfectly organized the personnel of the company to perform combat missions. The skillful deployment of personnel and the correct choice of firing positions ensured the successful performance of the rifle companies, precisely adjusting the fire of the company mortars, suppressed up to six enemy firing points and up to an infantry platoon. _x000D_ After the end of the war, he left the territory of Germany for Russia. He was deployed to the Chernigov region in the town of Gorodnya, from where he was demobilized in 1946 with the rank of Senior Lieutenant in the reserve. _x000D_ In the post-war peacetime he worked in the national economy. From January 1953 to August 1961, he worked as Chairman of the kolkhoz named after I. Karl Marx in Nurimanovsky district. Being born in 1899, he continued working until 1975. A village boy with 4 grade education had grown to a Senior Lieutenant. _x000D_ 1/03 1945 was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He was also awarded the medal "For the Victory over Germany" and "For Capture of Konigsberg". _x000D_ He raised five children, three sons and two daughters. The eldest son, Mustafin Ihsan Hasanovich, took part in the Great Patriotic War, was a signalman. He told how they established communication, regardless of the enemy's fire. Now our family lives in different regions of Russia and we remember and are proud of the feat of our grandfather! Written by Muftieva Rida, granddaughter.

Morozova Maria Ivanovna_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 08.08.1999_x000D_ _x000D_ Maria Ivanovna Morozova, was born on February 9, 1917, in the Kalinin region, Loknyansky district, Kladovitsy village, in a peasant family. Maria graduated from a seven-year school, a factory school (FZU), completed flight and glider training. She supervised the work of the pioneer leaders. She worked in the Komsomol Comitee and Osoviakhim. _x000D_ Only her mother (Goryunova Daria Semyonovna) was evacuated to Krasny Kholm. The rest of the family: Maria Ivanovna, her father (Goryunov Ivan Yakovlevich), two brothers (Mikhail and Nikolai) and two sisters (Alexandra and Evdokia), all, were in the army. First there was the North-Western Front (90th Separate BAO-60 RAB), then 3rd Baltic Front, the Moscow Military District, 2nd Belorussian Front, and the Northern Group of Forces. Maria Ivanovna, participated in the capture of Konigsberg, then there was Poland. She became a Communist in April 1940. At the front, she met her future husband, the Captain of Medical Service, Mikhail Vasilyevich Morozov. _x000D_ Comrade Morozova was awarded nine medals and an order, including the medals "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Maria received a special merut pension with the presentation of the sign "50 years of stay in the Communist Party." _x000D_ All the war years, being at forward airfields, she participated in the provision and maintenance of combat aircraft flights. For example, in 1943, at the Vypolzovo airfield, during massive enemy air raids (from 19-00 to 5-00 in the morning), all medical personnel were killed during the bombing and she had to provide medical assistance to the wounded. _x000D_ Regardless of the busy days at an open airfiled, at night she had to stuff cartridges into the links for machine guns and cannons installed on combat aircraft in a cold dugout with lamps made from a cartridge case. _x000D_ All her brothers and sisters, as well as her father, being communists, went through the entire war and survived. In peacetime, after retiring with her husband, since 1960 she lived in the city of Rossosh, worked at the Rossosh pedagogical school, and raised her daughter Tamara.

Makhonin Pavel Ermolaevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Pavel Ermolaevich Makhonin was born in 1915, in the village of Tekino, Sampur district, Tambov region. He was drafted to the front on December 19, 1941 as a Lieutenant, platoon leader in 44th Infantry Regiment of 42nd Infantry Division. He fought on the Western Front, took part in the Spas-Demensk offensive operation. He was wounded twice. _x000D_ After being wounded on March 20, 1943, he served in 208th Reserve Rifle Regiment of 3rd Belorussian Front, as commander of a rifle platoon and rifle company in a training battalion. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the capture of Konigsberg" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." _x000D_ After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR. Awarded with the Medal for Military Merit (in 1955). Transferred to the reserve in 1955, with the rank of captain. _x000D_ Lines from the award list (on the presentation of Senior Lieutenant Pavel Yermolaevich Makhonin for the award of the Order of the Red Star: _x000D_ "Comrade Makhonin, participating in battles against the Nazi invaders on May 15, 1942, received a combat mission to conduct reconnaissance in the enemy's area west of Yukhnovo - khutor Krasny Comrade Makhonin with a group of recons swam across the Ressa River and took a fight with the enemy, in which 4 Soviet soldiers were wounded. He took the wounded from the battlefield and ferried back to his side. On March 16, 1943, while performing a mission, he discovered enemy reconnaissance of 4 people. He managed to kill three, and captured the wounded non-commissioned officer and took him to the division headquarters._x000D_ On March 20, 1943, east of Spas-Demensk - the village of Luky, during the enemy attack, he was seriously wounded by a shrapnel and despite to be wounded, he continued combat, which lasted 6 hours and only with a secondary bullet wound was evacuated to the hospital. Lieutenant Makhonin worked in the and the commander of a rifle platoon from 08.21.1943 in a training battalion, released 130 sergeants. The platoon commanded by Comrade Makhonin occupied the first place in the battalion for combat training and political training throughout the entire period. Not a single cadet sergeant had a poor academic record. Paternally takes care of the material support of the platoon. As the best commander-educator, he was appointed commander of a rifle company, trained 260 soldiers from the newly mobilized into the Red Army. When training replenishment, he gave all his strength and energy in order to give the active units of the front replenishment, able to operate in modern combat conditions. Comrade Makhonin received a state award, the Order of the Red Star.

Metelyagin Alexander Zakharovich_x000D_ _x000D_ CITY: Kirov region, Nemsky district, the village of Maloye Cherepanovo_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 11/22/1923 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/21/1997 _x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Metelyagin Alexander Zakharovich, was born on November 22, 1923 in the Kirov region, Nemsky district, the village of Maloe Cherepanovo. In 1929, the family moved to Izhevsk, where he entered school and graduated in 1941. After school, he worked at a motorcycle factory as a milling machine operator from August 1941 to September 1942. He was called up to serve in the Soviet Army and sent to 2nd reserve airborne regiment. As part of 13th Guards Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division, he participated in the combat near Staraya Russa. _x000D_ On August 7, 1943, he received a minor shrapnel wound in his thigh with a slight concussion. After treatment in a hospital in the city of Vyshny Volochek and completing courses for junior lieutenants, my father in May 1944 was sent as a platoon commander to 1st Baltic Front, to 6th Guards Army, 51st Guards Division, 156th Guards Rifle Regiment. Participated in combat near the city of Vitebsk. On June 23, 1944, after an artillery preparation, the regiment began to attack the headquarters of the fascist regiment in the village of Filatovo. The platoon commanded by my father destroyed 2 teams of German anti-tank guns and 3 enemy machine-gun points in this battle. During a further offensive near Sirotino station, calling on his soldiers to attack, he was seriously wounded in the leg by a German sniper who fired explosive dum-dum bullets. He lost a lot of blood. My father was taken from the front line in a cradle, which was suspended under the wing of a small Po-2 "corncob" plane. _x000D_ For these merits comrade Metelyagin was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In a hospital in the city of Vyazniki, he underwent a surgery, lay for a long time, "saved" his leg, but my father began to limp and walk with a cane. After the hospital, he was given a disability and sent on long-term leave to improve his health. _x000D_ He never got back to the front, returned to Izhevsk and in 1945 entered an industrial technical school. He graduated with honors and in 1948 began to study further at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute (now the DF Ustinov Baltic State Technical University "Voenmech"), where he received a higher education and a diploma with honors. _x000D_ In civilian life, for a long time he successfully worked as the head of the design department for the Order of Lenin at the Zlatoust machine-building plant in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region. Made a significant contribution to the development of non-standard equipment for testing products of special equipment; took part in the design and development of samples of new technology, technological equipment; the introduction of advanced technologies for the manufacture of prototypes and serial samples of products, weapons production, production of household electric stoves and various equipment of the plant's shops. Has copyright certificates and patents for invention. AZ Metelyagin Honored Labor Veteran. Listed in the Encyclopedia of the Chelyabinsk Region. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the First Class of the Patriotic War, Friendship of Peoples, medals "For Victory over Germany", "For Labor Distinction", "For Valorous Labor", a small "Silver Medal of VDNKh" and others. _x000D_ The material was prepared by Vladimir A. Metelyagin. Links to the encyclopedia: http://chel-portal.ru/enc/Metelyagin_Alexander_Zakharovich or http://chel-portal.ru/encyclopedia/Metelyagin/t/10

Mednikov Ivan Fedorovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 10/14/1920 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 02/13/1996_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mednikov Ivan Fedorovich was born on October 14, 1920 in the village of Molotitsy, Novokotlitsk volost, Murom district (now it is the territory of Borisoglebsk rural settlement, Murom district, Vladimir region). He was drafted into the Red Army in 1940 by the Murom Comissariat of the Gorky region. From October 14, 1940 to June 15, 1941 he was a cadet of the school of junior commanders, from June 15, 1941 to January 15, 1942 he was a gun commander of the artillery battalion of the Barabash fortified region of the Leningrad Military District. _x000D_ From January 15, 1942, he served on the Western Front in the mortar battalion of 121st Separate Rifle Brigade as commander of the mortar squad. From November 30, 1942 to September 15, 1945 he was a commander of the ammunition platoon of 681st Infantry Regiment of 133rd Infantry Division in the Western and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. _x000D_ On February 12, 1943, by Order 09 / n, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". The award list states: "during offensive operations on December 17, 1942, under heavy enemy mortar fire, delivered shells to the battery and ensured the uninterrupted operation of the guns." _x000D_ By order 018 / n of May 6, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The award list states: "for the period of offensive battles from March 10 to March 30, 1944, he uninterruptedly provided the battery with ammunition, despite the impassable roads and spring thaw. During the formation of the Dniester River, when combat units were being ferried and it was impossible for transport to cross, Comrade Mednikov found a way out, drove 3 km down and managed to cross with his wagon train and catch up with the battery. 03/27/1944 participated in repelling the enemy counterattack, trying to surround the village Medvezhye, and he killed 17 German soldiers with machine gun fire and captured 3 Germans. " _x000D_ By order 01 / n of January 11, 1945, he was presented to the Order of the Red Star. The award list reads: "On 12/01/1944, in the battle for the village of Onga on the outskirts of the town of Miskolc, he contributed to the timely firing, as a result of the battery fire destroyed 2 enemy firing points." By order No. 9 of January 10, 1946, he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of April 8, 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Here is a short biography of my grandfather. Behind each award is an act that brings Victory even a little closer. I'm proud of him. His concepts of honor and duty make me take responsibility for my actions.

Makarova Nadezhda Ivanovna_x000D_ _x000D_ I was born in 1922 in the Kuibyshev region, in the village of Natalyevka. Childhood was good and poor, there were friendly parents in the family of 4 children. I lived and studied in kolkhoz and finished 4 classes. I remember a hut about 30 meters in the village where we lived until I was 12 years old. There is a closet near the Russian stove, where my mother was preparing dinner. Dad grinded grain, mom baked delicious bread, pies, and even for the kolkhoz. _x000D_ But in 1932 there was a famine, the harvest was gone. Many left the village and we did as well. We put our belongings in the sleigh, covered with Dad's sheepskin coat. We arrived to another kolkhoz. First time we went to the village, my dad and I changed my mother’s sweater skirts and her hussars, in which she probably got married. We lived in one room with another family, there were three of them and six of us. And when I was 13, I went to work, sorting potatoes in the basement, and other children were like that too. We come home from work and we saw firewood with my dad. This is my childhood. In the summer I worked with my mother on weeding and sorting in the barn. Mom poured grain into the sorting machine for me, and I took turns doing the light work for her, raking off the grain. _x000D_ At the age of 18, I went to my grandmother in Chelyabinsk, where I found a job by recruiting on the sandy plant "Stankomash", where I worked until 1943, then went to the front with a friend. I was taken into the Artillery Regiment No. 1865, where I was a gunner on an 85 mm cannon. There were few men, only girls. I was in the hospital where I met for the Victory Day on May 9. The war is over and the cannons were silent, we celebrate Victory Day, the best day of the year. Glory to the lost friends and commanders. After the war I went to the plant "Stankomash" again, worked in workshop No. 1. _x000D_ I have awards: a medal "For Victory over Germany", the Order of the Patriotic War and 7 anniversary awards.

Meshcheryakov Vasily Dmitrievich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/06/1921 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 03/04/1994 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was born on August 6, 1921 in the village of Khonevo, Mokshansk District, Penza Region, into a peasant family. Graduated from 7 classes. In 1931, the family was deported to Kazakhstan. In October 1940, Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and ended up serving in 152nd separate tank battalion, which was part of 36th light tank brigade, stationed in the city of Vladimir-Volynsky (Western Ukraine), 10-15 km from the border USSR with German-occupied Poland. In March 1941, the formation of 22nd Mechanized Corps began in the Kiev Special Military District. The corps was supposed to include 41st Panzer Division, which was formed on the basis of the staffs of 36th and 38th Kiev Military District Light Tank Brigades. On June 22, 1941, according to the mobilization plan, the division left Vladimir-Volynsky for the Kovel area. But on the way, tanks were not able to overcome a swamp and suffered heavy losses from air strikes and artillery fire enemy._x000D_ In the chaos and confusion of the first days of the war, by June 25, 41st Panzer Division was split into small parts and attached to infantry units, and lost its penetrating power of the "strike fist". Until the beginning of July, part of the division was in the Kovel area, covering the Brest direction. Part of the division's forces, having 16 KB and 106 T-26 tanks, participated in the famous tank counterattack near Dubno against the 14th German Panzer Division, which failed, but was able to delay the German offensive for sometime. After retreating to the east, the remnants of the division from July 10 to July 14 participated in a counterattack in the Novograd-Volynsk direction against the German 13th Panzer and 25th Motorized Divisions, as well as the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler motorized brigade that supported them. On July 18, they began to retreat to the northeast. In late July - early August, the remnants of the division fought in the Korostensky fortified area in Ukraine. By August 19, only one tank remained in the staff of the tank division. At the end of August, the infantry unit actually defended itself on the Dnieper River in the Chernobyl region, which is north of Kiev. On September 9, the division was disbanded._x000D_ At this tragic time, almost the entire South-Western Front fell into a gigantic encirclement in the Kiev region. Few were be able to get out of the Kiev entrapment. Someone continued to fight in the Red Army, and someone, like Vasily Meshcheryakov, joined partisans. _x000D_ Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov for more than two years struck in the rear of the German fascist invaders. At the end of November 1943, the Chapaev partisan detachment, where Vasily Meshcheryakov fought, united with the advancing units of the Red Army in Belarus, near the city of Khoiniki, Gomel region. So for the second time Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov joined the ranks of the Red Army. _x000D_ He became a machine gunner of 218th Guards Rifle Regiment of 77th Guards Rifle Chernigov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Further combat path of the guard sergeant Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov and his participation in the division in combat operations: liberation of Belarus - Gomel-Rechitsa offensive operation (from November 10, 1943 to March 1944); liberation of Ukraine and Poland - defensive combat in the area of Kovel (from April 20 to July 17, 1944); Brest-Lublin offensive operation (from July 18 to July 29, 1944); forcing the Vistula River, capturing and expanding footholds (from July 29 to November 1944); Vistula-Oder offensive operation as part of the shock group of the 1st Belorussian Front, reaching the Oder River and seizing the foothold (from January 14 to February 2, 1945); Capture of Berlin operation as part of the shock group of 1st Belorussian Front from the Küstrin foothold, access to the Elbe River in the Magdeburg region; February-April 1945 foothold combats, from April 16 to May 8, 1945 an offensive on Berlin. _x000D_ Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov especially was distinguished in combat on the territory of Poland and Germany, as evidenced by his military awards. _x000D_ Guard senior sergeant V. D. Meshcheryakov is a full holder of the Order of Glory of all 3 degrees, also awarded the Order of the Red Star, two medals "For Courage", medals "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 years. " _x000D_ In 1946, the guard Starshina Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was demobilized and returned home. After the war, he lived in Penza and worked at the Stroydetal # 1 plant as a carpenter, joiner, locksmith, foreman. _x000D_ In 1985, in honor of 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. _x000D_ My grandfather had golden hands. He made furniture, sewed and repaired shoes, even made toys for his grandchildren from wood. Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov died on March 4, 1994. We will keep the memory of our heroic grandfather.

Mironov Veniamin Borisovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 12/29/1912 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 08/20/1980 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Veniamin Borisovich Mironov, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel. _x000D_ He was born on December 29, 1912 in the village of Konstantinovka (now - Romodanovsky district of Mordovia) in the family of a priest. In 1929, after the successful completion of his studies at the Saransk secondary school of the 2nd stage with a pedagogical bias, his grandfather volunteered to work in Siberia, an activist of the voluntary society Osoviakhim, a member of the society "Down with illiteracy". He began his career as a teacher in secondary school No. 14 in Tomsk. In 1934 he voluntarily entered the artillery school. In 1936 he was sent to study at the Military Academy named after V.M. Frunze. He was lucky to study together with S.M.Budyonny. In June 1941 he received a diploma. From June 1941 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ The combat path of Veniamin Borisovich was truly impressive: in the first months of the war he heroically defended Kiev, in 1942 he fought in street battles in Stalingrad, including in its hottest spots, such as the Tractor Plant and the Barricades plant, then on the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper in 43rd, in 44th liberated Belarus and Poland, took Berlin in May 45th. _x000D_ On May 31, 1945 "for exemplary performance of combat missions ... and the heroism and courage shown at the same time" the Guard Lieutenant Colonel VB Mironov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 7369). On June 24, 1945 Mironov V.B. commanded a column of heroes of Berlin Capture at the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. _x000D_ After the war, he continued to serve in the army. After retiring to the reserve in 1955, Veniamin Borisovich settled in Saransk, where he worked as a military commander in secondary school No. 20 (today it is the Gymnasium named after Hero of the Soviet Union V.B. Mironov). _x000D_ Until his death in 1980, Veniamin Mironov was engaged in the military-patriotic education of the younger generation. There is a memorial plaque on the house where he lived. His memory is also honored at the St. Petersburg Military Institute of Physical Culture, in the museum of which there is his bust. By the decision of the Saransk City Council of April 30, 1986, one of the new streets in Saransk was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Mironov. People like Veniamin Borisovich Mironov are truly our gold fund. I am very proud of my grandfather.

Menovshchikov Vladimir Ignatievich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/23/1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/26/1999 _x000D_ _x000D_ Fragment of a letter from my grandfather to the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda": _x000D_ «Dear editors of the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", I am a participant in the Patriotic War of 1925 year of birth. I started a war on the Dnieper and reached the Oder. I can't writewell, and I didn't know where to write about my pain and the memory of those harsh days. And yet, 45 years later, I am writing to you about what I could not share for so long. I came to my platoon in replenishment from Siberia, Achinsk. I was a young soldier who had not yet been under fire admiring my commander, the Lieutenant Loktev. We were moving forward, villages, foothold of the right bank of Dnieper. But the last days of the lieutenant's life and his cruel or terrible death, always remained in me. Even now, I still remember a small cherry garden, potatoes had already been harvested. The alley in the gardens is fenced as in Siberia. This is where my lieutenant Ivan Loktev, 1917, was killed. _x000D_ We exchanged the overcoats by his request, he gave me his new green overcoat, I gave him mine grey one with a small speck on the right field. _x000D_ We were fighting for a farm, and the farm was passed from one hand to another, but there was an officail announcement on Sovinformburo that the farm was ours! Well, we went ahead and took it again. I jumped into the garden, and on the right there was a pile of old straw, and there I found a piece of a green overcoat with an oily speck may be the size of 2 dimes. - "My greatcoat". And then I found the lieutenant and only the bottom of the body along the trouser belt. New diagonal blue trousers, new tarpaulin boots. Why new? Yes, yesterday we were honoring the lieutenant with the high award of the Hero of the Soviet Union. And at night we returned to our place and he did not change his clothes (as if he knew). We were looking for the remains in the little garden, but we didn’t find much, put the remains in a raincoat and buried him right there where I found it. _x000D_ The battalion commander wrote a paper about him and gave it the owner: "We will go ahead, father, but the Hero of the Soviet Union is buried in your garden, a monument may be erected here, or perhaps on a mass grave." _x000D_ My Leiutenant died from a direct shot from a cannon of a German armored car. I still don’t know if there is a monument to my lieutenant in that site.

Mavzyutov Gazis Zagrukovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Adelsha Inayatovich Mansyrov was born in 1925, in the village of Akhmetley in the Syzran district of the Simbirsk province (now it is the territory of the Nikolaevsky district of the Ulyanov sk region). The combat biography of Adelsha Inayatovich Mansyrov began in 1942 as he turned 17 years old. But on May 23, 1944, he was transferred to the reserve. At war he was wounded in the left hand and forearm, and was twice in a military hospital. He fought in 227th mortar regiment as a recon and gunner in 1040th Rifle Regiment. _x000D_ The memoirs of the veteran says: “The story happened in the Kalinin region next to the Sokolnikov station. Our Red Army forces were located next to the stream run near by. For many days in a row we had been foghting for the village of Gvozdevka. Just as it it passed into our hands, the next day the enemy recaptured it. During the fighting lull, a chauffeur came up to our combat position and asked for help. Not knowing that the Germans had Gvozdevka, he and a friend drove to the village by car. The Germans knocked out this car, and his friend was seriously wounded. The driver barely escaped. We waited until it got dark and five of decided to take a risk, though our life was hanging on a thread. The enemy settled in the woods. The road to Gvozdevka ran along the edge of the forest. On the other side, a ravine ran parallel to it. We decided to use it to get to the car, but as soon as we opened the door of the wrecked car, a flurry of fire fell upon us. We carried the wounded man out and barely escaped ourselves. When we returned to our location safely, we got it hot and strong from the command for alarming the enemy. _x000D_ Another time, I can’t forgive myself for the mistake that caused me to be wounded. It happened at an observation post. One of the glasses in the binoculars broke through negligence, and visibility was poor. There was nothing near the post except a dilapidated house. So I decided to watch from the chimney of the house, but I was noticed. And as soon as I entered the house, there was an explosion. I was covered with ground and lost conscious for a day. Shell-shocked, I was sent to the hospital. And I was discharged home from the hospital in the city of Pushkin.»_x000D_ After the end of the war he worked as a sled шт the kolkhoz. He got married and had four children. My grandfather Mavzyutov Gazis Zagrukovich died in 1975.