The Great Patriotic War

Alexander Nikolaevich Ragushin_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 1st artillery division RGK. Alexander Nikolaevich Ragushin Guard Lieutenant Colonel 06.20.1913 – 05.21.1986 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather of my mother's side was born in the hero-city of Leningrad. He spent all his childhood in his hometown, where he graduated from school, received a higher technical education. In 1939 he was called up for special. recruiting into the Red Army to participate in the Soviet-Finnish war. _x000D_ _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, he fought as part of the troops of the Leningrad, Stalingrad, Central and 1st Ukrainian frontlines. As part of the artillery troops, as well as as part of the 3rd Guards Light Artillery Brigade of the 1st Guards Artillery Division of the “RGK” 60 Army, 316 Guards Kiev Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment of the 50 Infantry Division of the 52 Army, he took a direct part in the defense of Leningrad, for which he was awarded with a Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", took a direct part in the defense of Stalingrad, for which he was awarded with the Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad", was a direct participant in the heroic assault and liberation of Warsaw from 14-17 January 1945, for which he was awarded with the Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ He had two wounds. For his display of valor, courage and bravery in battles, he was awarded with two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd grade, and was awarded with the Medal "For Military Merit". _x000D_ After the end of the war, he continued his military service in the ranks of the Soviet army in Austria, Czechoslovakia and Germany. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ He was married and had two children: daughter Irina (my grandmother) and son – Yuri. In 1954, for length of service in the ranks of the Red Army, he was awarded with the next The Red Star Order, and in 1985, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded with another Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd grade for military service in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. In besieged Leningrad, his grandfather lost his entire family, so after retiring, he under no circumstances wanted to return to his hometown of Leningrad, where everything would remind him of his dead relatives. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Together with my great-grandmother Maria Alekseevna Ragushina (also a native of Leningrad who survived the blockade of the City), they chose the Belgorod for their further living in 1959, having traveled around many cities. So my ancestors got to the Belgorod region. Grandfather worked as a chief mechanic in the Belgorod regional executive committee until his retirement.

Peter Emelyanovich Rogozhnikov_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, “NKVD” troops, border troops. Subdivision: 34th Guards Rifle Enakievskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Peter Yemelyanovich Rogozhnikov (1917-2003), being a radio operator of the 32nd Air Division, being part of the 7th Capital Airborne Corps near Moscow, was wounded in the leg during a landing in the rear of the Germans. Wounded, he was decommissioned from aviation and sent to the Smolensk Military-Political School for propaganda courses. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ After the end of the course, he was enlisted in the 34th Guards Rifle Division, participated in the battles for Stalingrad, where he was wounded again, and 20 days after returning from the hospital, he was shell-shocked. _x000D_ _x000D_ For six months he was treated in an evacuation hospital in the city of Astrakhan, and then again to the Frontline. 4th Ukrainian Frontline: from July 1943 to March 1945 – Komsomol organizer of the battalion, 2nd Belorussian Frontline: from March 1945 to May 1945 – Party organizer of the battalion. Peter Yemelyanovich is a holder of the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd grade, medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For Victory over Germany” and many others. _x000D_ _x000D_ Peter Yemelyanovich performed all the tasks of the command exactly and on time, showed himself to be an honest officer. The war was ended by the Guard Captain Rogozhnikov in Berlin and, like many others, signed the walls of the Reichstag. After the Victory, he spent a whole year in Germany as part of a limited contingent of the Red Army group of forces. He was Demobilized in July 1946.

Alexander Dmitrievich Rumyantsev_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant General. Subdivision: 4th Guards Airborne Ovruch Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. Military Service – Civil War. In February 1918, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, after which he served as a Red Army soldier in the Novoderevensky detachment, then in the 5th Latvian Regiment and took part in hostilities on the Southern Frontline against the troops under the command of General A.I. Denikin. In October 1919, he was wounded and was being treated in a hospital, after which he fought on the Petrograd Frontline against the troops under the command of General N. N. Yudenich, as a Red Army soldier, Senior scout, Junior commander, platoon commander. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ In August 1920, he was appointed platoon commander of the 4th Latvian Regiment of the Latvian Infantry Division, after which he took part in hostilities on the Southern Frontline against the troops under the command of General P.N. Wrangel. In 1920 he joined the ranks of the RCP. Between wartime. In March 1921 he was sent to study at the Higher Tactical Shooting School of the Command Staff of the Red Army named after V. III Comintern, at the end of which from September 1922 he served in the 25th rifle division as platoon commander of the 73rd and 75th rifle regiments, assistant chief and temporary head of the machine-gun team of the 75th rifle regiment. From December 1923 he served in the 21st Rifle Regiment (7th Rifle Division) as an assistant to the chief of a machine-gun command, platoon, company, and battalion commander. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ In September 1932, he was sent to study at the M.V. Frunze Military Academy, after which in November 1936 he was appointed commander of a battalion of cadets at the United Military School named after the All-Russian Central Executive Committee in Moscow, in November 1937 – to the post of head of the Tambov infantry school, and in August 1938 – for the post of head of the 1st department of the Office for the command and command personnel of the Red Army. He took part in hostilities during the Soviet-Finnish war, for which he was awarded with the Order of the Red Banner. In August 1940, he was appointed to the post of deputy chief, and in December – to the post of head of the personnel department of the Red Army. The Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, Alexander Dmitrievich Rumyantsev was in his previous position. At the same time, from May 4, 1942 to April 1943, he was Deputy Nation's Commissar of Defense of the USSR for personnel. _x000D_ _x000D_ On April 19, 1943, he was appointed commander of the 4th Guards Airborne Division, which during the Battle of Kursk fought defensive battles in the area of the city of Ponyri, and then participated in the Chernigov-Pripyat offensive operation and the liberation of the city of Priluki, after which it went to Dnipro. On October 11, 1943, for the skillful crossing of the Dnieper River, Major General Rumyantsev was introduced by the commander of the 18th Guards Rifle Corps, Major General I.M. Afonin to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union, however, the commander of the 60th Army, Lieutenant General I.D. Chernyakhovsky downgraded the status of the award to the Order of Suvorov, 2nd grade. Soon the division took part in the Kiev, Zhitomir-Berdichev, Umansko-Botoshansk and Yassko-Chisinau offensive operations. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Rumyantsev was wounded on September 25, 1944, and after that he was sent to a hospital for treatment. After treatment, on October 25, 1944, he was appointed commander of the 51st Rifle Corps, which took part in the Debrecen, Budapest, Bratislava-Brnov and Prague offensive operations, as well as in the liberation of the cities of Satu-Mare, Nyiregyhaza, Zvolen, Banska-Bystrica , Kremnica and Previdza. _x000D_ _x000D_ Post-war career. In July 1945, the 51st Rifle Corps was disbanded. In September, Major General Alexander Dmitrievich Rumyantsev was appointed commander of the 35th, and in May 1946 – the commander of the 128th rifle corps. In June 1948, he was sent to study at the higher academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, after which in June 1949 he was appointed commander of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps. Since December 1950, he was at the disposal of the 10th department of the 2nd Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. In January 1953, he was appointed to the post of assistant commander – head of the combat training department of the 38th Army (Carpathian Military District), in August 1955 – to the post of 1st deputy commander of this army, and in June 1957 – to the post of assistant commander by the troops of the Baltic Military District for military educational institutions.

Vasily Vasilievich Reshetnikov_x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov (born December 23, 1919, Yekaterinoslav) – Soviet military pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943), Commander of Long-Range Aviation (1969-1980), Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force, Retired Aviation Colonel-General, Honored Military Pilot of the USSR (1965 ). _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov was born on December 23, 1919 in the city of Yekaterinoslav (Dnepro-Petrovsk). From a family of hereditary artists and icon painters (his uncle, the artist F.P. Reshetnikov, is best known). He graduated from the seven-year school number 13, then studied at the workers' faculty. In 1936, at the call "Komsomolets – on the plane!" was sent to the Red Army. Graduated from the Voroshilovgrad Military Aviation School named after the Proletariat of Donbass in 1938. He served in long-range aviation. Since 1941 – in the 751st separate night long-range bomber regiment of Major Tikhonov, designed to strike at targets in the enemy's deep rear. He flew on an IL-4 bomber (DB-3F). Member of the CPSU since 1942. At the end of May 1942, he took part in the bombing of the Hitlerite command post in Angerburg. Participated in the bombing of Berlin on the night of September 10, 1942. Then he took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ On July 27, 1943, Guard Captain, Squadron Commander of the 19th Guards Long-Range Aviation Regiment of the 8th Guards Long-Range Bomber Aviation Division of the 2nd Guards Long-Range Bomber Aviation Corps Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov was awarded with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (decree of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet July 27, 1943, medal "Gold Star" No. 1055). _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Reshetnikov's plane was shot down twice. The first time was in February 1942, near the front line, when he bombed the Balbasovo airfield near Orsha. Second, it took more than a week to get out of the enemy's rear. In 1943 he participated in the liberation of his hometown from German invaders. The last, 307th in a row, sortie on April 16, 1945. He ended the war as deputy regiment commander. Immediately after the war, he was sent to study and in 1946 he graduated from the accelerated course of the Air Force Academy in Monino. In the summer of 1946, he returned to his 19th Guards Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment and was appointed its commander (replaced A. Shaposhnikov as regiment commander, who in the early years of the war helped him master the skill of night flights). _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ He commanded the regiment for 8 years. In 1954, at his own request and with the support of the Commander of Long-Range Aviation, Chief Marshal of Aviation A. A. Novikov, he became a student of the Higher Military Academy named after K. E. Voroshilov. He graduated from the academy in 1956 and was appointed to the position of division commander. In the spring of 1959, together with General V. T. Taranov, he set a new unofficial world record for the flight range along a closed curve – 17,150 kilometers, surpassing the American record by 2,700 kilometers. Then he spent 20 hours at the helm. From 1968 – First Deputy Commander, and from January 20, 1969 to 1980 – Commander of Long-Range Aviation. In these posts, he headed several state armament commissions. From 1981 to 1986 – Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force. The last time a pilot took to the skies was in 2003, when he was 83 years old – at the Monino air show, he flew an American B-25 bomber, which was brought in from Austria by an Austrian pilot. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Currently he is a pensioner, living in the urban-type settlement of Monino (Moscow region). For more than 30 years he actively participated in the Council of Veterans of Long-Range Aviation, for 10 years he was the chairman of this Council, then he is its honorary chairman. Author of several books of memoirs. Today (May 2020) V.V. Reshetnikov is the last of the living Heroes of the Soviet Union who fought on the IL-4. Awards and services: Hero of the Soviet Union (1943, medal "Golden Star" No. 1055); Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV grade (12.22.1999); Order of Honor (04.12.2010); three Orders of Lenin (12.31.1942, 07.27.1943, 02.22.1955); Order of the October Revolution (01.08.1980); three Orders of the Red Banner (04.28.1944, 12.30.1956, 02.22.1968); Order of Alexander Nevsky (04.06.1945); Order of the Patriotic War, 1st grade (03.11.1985); two Orders of the Red Star (03.29.1942, 11.19.1951); Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" III grade (04.30.1975); various medals of Russia and the USSR; the honorary title "Honored Military Pilot of the USSR" (08.19.1965); Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation for significant contribution to the development of the Air Force (12.17.2012) – for the organization and management of the construction and development of the Air Force in the relevant command positions. One of the strategic bombers of the Russian Air Force "Tu-160" is named after Vasily Vasilyevich Reshetnikov.

Fedor Alexandrovich Rovchak_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Artillery Born on September 17, 1921 in the village of Peski-Radkovskie, Borovsky District, Kharkov Region. He died on August 14, 2002 in Lubny, Poltava region. Participant of the Great Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 to May 12, 1945 in the West, in battles against the German Nazi, and from August 8, 1945 to September 2, 1945 in battles in the East, against the Japanese Kwantung Army. He fought a total of 1306 days and nights in battles and 136 days and nights he was a wounded patient in various hospitals. The length of service is 28 years and 8 months. June 1941 to July 1941 – Western Frontline. _x000D_ _x000D_ Pinsk military flotilla. Chief of the group of radio operators. July 1941 to 17 August 1941 Southwestern Frontline 37th Army. Separate battalion of the Marine Corps of the operational group of General Pigarevich (defense of Kiev) – the commander of a machine-gun platoon. _x000D_ _x000D_ He was in a hospital in Kharkov from August 17, 1941 to January 1, 1942, and then Evakogospital in Krasnokamsk, Perm region. After three minor wounds received during the defense of Kiev, he did not evacuate from the battlefield, like many defenders of the city. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ January 1942 to June 1942 – Volga Military Flotilla (under the operational control of the Stalingrad Frontline). 31 separate marine battalion. Machine-gun platoon commander. June 1942 to July 1944 (alternately) in the Onega military flotilla of the Karelian Frontline and the 7th Separate Army – 368th division of the Leningrad Frontline. 31 “OBMP”, machine-gun platoon commander. July – November 1944 Karelian Frontline Liberation of the Karelian-Finnish Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and the Murmansk Region (Polar region). 31 Separate Petrozavodsk Marine Corps Battalion, 3rd Pechenga Mountain Rifle Brigade, 127 LGSK, 14 Army. Machine-gun platoon commander, machine-gun company commander. November 1944 to January 1945 – additional formation and combat training in the city of Gryazovets, Vologda region. Commander of a machine-gun company, assistant chief of staff of the 31st OPBMP. January to May 11, 1945 4th Ukrainian Frontline. 31st OPBMP, 3rd PNSBr. Liberation of Poland and Czechoslovakia. Assistant to the battalion chief of staff and chief of staff. From May 11 to July 25, 1945 as part of the 4th Ukrainian Frontline – stay in Czechoslovakia and return home. From July 25, 1945, in 72 “OGSBr” of the 1st Far Eastern Frontline, as assistant chief of the brigade's operations department in battles against the Japanese Kwantung Army. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ From the moment the Soviet Union declared war against Japan, he participated in the brigade in battles on the territory of China against Japanese troops. The fighting against the Japanese actually ended on September 9, 1945. He was demobilized in February 1956 for health reasons and due to injuries. The last position in the division. VI Chapaeva, the city of Lubny, Poltava region – deputy chief of staff of the regiment.

Ivan Ivanovich Ryndin_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Autobiography._x000D_ Me, Ivan Ivanovich Ryndin, was born in 1916 on January 12 in the village of Proskoveya, Budennovsky District, Stavropol Territory in the family of a poor peasant. My parents were Russian by nationality: my father – Ivan Ivanovich Ryndin was born in 1877, my mother – Angelina Anifatyevna Ryndina was born in 1876._x000D_ _x000D_ My parents were engaged in agriculture before and after the October Revolution of 1917. They lived in the village of Proskoveya, Budennovsky District, Stavropol Territory from the time of the Russian Empire until the time when they end up on my dependent._x000D_ _x000D_ Me, Ivan Ivanovich Ryndin, graduated from the seven grade school in 1933. I entered the Factory discipleship school in Grozny in 1934 and graduated in 1935. I received the specialty of a turner. I started working independently from July 1935 to September 1937 as a turner and then as a mechanic at the Proskoveyskaya “MTS” of the Budennovsky District, Stavropol Territory._x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ I was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1937 by the Budennovsky District Military Commissariat of the Stavropol Territory and was sent to the 107th artillery regiment of the 87th self-propelled division. I was sent to the second Rostov Artillery School in June 1941, from which I graduated in September 1941 in Rostov on an accelerated program. I was sent to 22 “VDB” 9 “VDK” in Kirzhach after graduating from college as a commander of a mine company._x000D_ _x000D_ The 22nd Airborne Forces was reorganized into the 108th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 36th Guards “S.D.” in August 1942. As part of this division, I was sent to the Stalingrad Frontline as commander of a mine company. After the Stalingrad Frontline, I was transferred as part of 36 “S.D.” (rifle division) to the Voronezh Frontline in 1943. I was recalled to the 11th Airborne Division of the Airborne Forces of the Lyubertsy city (the village of Kapotnya) as commander of a mine company in June 1943. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ I participated in the 3rd Ukrainian frontline as a mine company commander from January 1945 to April 1945, as part of 346 “GV SP” 104 “SD”. I was slightly wounded in April 1945 and was sent in hospital no.701 in Baden (Austria)._x000D_ _x000D_ I was sent to his regiment 346 as the commander of a mine company after recovery. I was sent to study at the higher officer courses in the city of Rybinsk in 1947, and after graduation I was sent to the 21st Airborne Division of the 104th regiment as the commander of a mine company. _x000D_ _x000D_ I was not surrounded or captured. _x000D_ I awarded with: "The Red Star Order", "Patriotic War Order 1st grade", "Patriotic War 2nd grade", "October Revolution Order", Medal "For Military Merit", Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Second World War", Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy", Medal "For the capture of Vienna." _x000D_ I was also awarded with jubilee medals: "Twenty years of victory in GPW 1941-1945", "Thirty years of victory in GPW 1941-1945", "Forty years of victory in GPW 1941-1945", "50 years of the armed forces of the USSR"._x000D_ I was awarded with the "Veteran of Labor” on June 23, 1977 and with the "60 years of the armed forces of the USSR" on 12 December 1978._x000D_ I was accepted as a member of the Komsomol in 1930, and in 1944 I became a candidate member of the “VKP (b)” and was accepted by the political department of “VDB” in 1945. I received a severe reprimand for the loss of a photograph of my party card, which was removed in 1946 by the party commission of the Moscow military district. _x000D_ _x000D_ I am the Member of the “VKP (b)”since August 1947._x000D_ _x000D_ I was married in September 1946. My wife, a former citizen Anna Gavrilovna Polupanova, is Russian by nationality. My wife's mother is Pelogeya Ilinishna Palupanova. Her father is Gavril Ivanovich Polupanov, the blacksmith, died in 1936. _x000D_ _x000D_ The wife's mother worked on a collective farm, lived in the village Proskaveya of the Budennovsky district, Stavropol Region. After the marriage, his wife changed her name to Ryndina Anna Gavrilovna, she is the member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks since 1942, marriage No. 70 was issued by the Proskovey village council._x000D_ _x000D_ Vera Ivanovna Ryndina 1948 d.b. is my daughter. _x000D_ _x000D_ My parents and my real wife were under German occupation in 1943 for three months before marriage. My wife worked as a teacher before the occupation, but she did not work during the occupation, and hid from the Germans. But later she was sent to prison and was released with the arrival of the Red Army. I myself was abroad as part of the active army. I was part of the 9th Army being abroad (Army Commander of the Guards, Colonel General Glagolev). _x000D_ _x000D_ As the commander of the third mine company of the third combat battalion of the 346th Guards of the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the combat regiment of the 104th Guards of the Order of Kutuzov of the 2nd grade of the rifle division of the 38th Guards Corps and participating in battles with the German invaders from 16.03 to 08.05 1945 in the territory of Hungary and Austria, I received the Honor from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Comrade Stalin for the capture of cities: 1) For breaking through the defense of the southwest. Budapest order No. 300 of 03.24.1945. 2) For the city of Papu, order No. 301 of 03.26.1945. 3) For the city of St. Pölten, order No. 330 dated 04.15.1945. 4) For the city of Znaimo, order No. 367 dated 05.08.1945. _x000D_ _x000D_ Date of death of I.I. Ryndin September 11, 1987

Georgy Polikarpovich Ponomarev (at the right) with his adjutant Nicholas Kozhin. He was awarded with the French Order of the Military Cross with a Bronze Star.

Vasily Mikhailovich Mekhannikov, Junior Lieutenant.

Andrey Mikhailovich Karmanov, Lieutenant.

Ivan Georgievich Pozdnukhov, Senior Lieutenant. He was born in 1907 in the town of Belev, Tula region. He was at the frontline since May 1942. He was awarded with medals: "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "Of Honor".

Vasily Ivanovich Pilyukov, Lieutenant Colonel. He was born in 1918 in the village of Sergeevka, Belevsky district, Tula region. He served in the Red Army since 1939. His awards: The Red Star Order, medals: "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Japan".

Vasily Nikolaevich Pankov, Lieutenant. He was born in 1916 in the village of Gorodna, Belevsky district, Tula region. He was drafted into the army by the Belevsky District military commissariat in 1939. He was awarded with The Red Star Order and the Medal "For Victory over Germany".

Fedor Iosifovich Dezhurny. Medal "Of Honor", Medal "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany."

Alexander Frolovich Samusev, Senior Sergeant. Two Orders of the Red Star.

Irina Viktorovna Kovaleva, Junior Sergeant.