Pankov Alexey Alexeevich
Full name: Pankov Alexey Alexeevich_x000D_
SURNAME: Pankov first NAME: Alexey PATRONYMIC: Alekseyevich CITY: village of Bakrylovo, Ust-Kubinsky district, Vologda region date of BIRTH: 15.10.1919 DATE of DEATH: 14.12.1998 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Division: 66th rifle order of Kutuzov division Pankov Alexey Alekseevich, was born in the village of Bakrylovo, Ust-Kubinsky district of the Vologda region in the family of Pankov Alexey Fedorovich, a sailor who was at home only on trips, called up for 25 years, and Euphrosyne Fedorovna, a peasant woman who gave birth and raised 5 children. Alex graduated class 4 Bagrinovskii school, then seven years in the village Hill, a mile from home, on the high Bank of Kubani. Since childhood, he loved technology, had a beautiful handwriting, wanted to know a lot and see the world, like his father. They did not live very well, and at the age of 14, he went to study with his grandfather Sergei in Vologda, who worked as a shoemaker. He taught me how to survive in difficult times, they talked about them with a friend: "real punks", became an apprentice at a horn factory in Vologda, worked in a comb shop. He perfectly mastered the specialty and was sent as a specialist to Velikiye Luki, where he taught the profession himself. It was the Veliko Luki district military Commissariat that called him up for military service on October 15, 1939 and enlisted as a cadet in a separate electrical engineering company of the 9th Army. However, the unit in which Pankov A. A. served, having arrived at the front, was relocated to the Western borders, entered the fighting in June 1941, at a time when the Soviet army was suffering heavy losses, leaving the border abroad, retreating to the East. My great-grandfather served as a Rifleman in an artillery unit and was among those who were taken prisoner of war wounded in July 1941. We have received documents from the Central Archive of the Ministry of defence, he was captivated not later than 25 July 1941 and sent to a pow camp Dornesti in the city of Calafat in Romania and was a prisoner until August 1944 when was released 46 Army, what are the Control entry rear 46 of the Army of the liberated from captivity in the city of Sochi. Also, this information is confirmed by the Lists of prisoners of war who were in the camp hospital, the French Department of the red cross. After his release, his great-grandfather was sent to the 235th reserve rifle regiment with the rank of private, where he stayed for a month. In cases with released prisoners of war that did not require detailed verification, the filtration case was not even started, only a card was drawn up, and the soldier was usually sent to the army reserve rifle regiment, and these are the vast majority.Already in September 1944, Alexey Alekseevich returned to the front line, he was returned to the rank of Sergeant, appointed commander of the Department of the 108 rifle regiment, 66 rifle division of the 35th army. On November 14, 1944, he was "slightly wounded in the left leg", but was treated until April 1945 in army hospital 3711, and the fragments in his leg remained for life.From April 1945 to June fought in the 206 infantry regiment, in its composition have met the Victory, he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany" by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from March 20, 1946, discharged, as evidenced by records in the military card. When my grandfather returned to his homeland, he married and had two sons. For several years he worked on a collective farm, and in 1952 he was sent to the Kaduy school of mechanization, graduated from the Department of training tractor drivers, received a certificate and worked as a tractor driver. In 1969, the family moved to Vologda, where the great-grandfather works at the Vologda factory of apprentice products as a repairman. He retired in 1979 and was awarded the Veteran of labor medal, but continued to work until 1992. My grandfather died on December 14, 1998, and was buried at the Poshekhonsky cemetery in Vologda.