The Great Patriotic War

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/10/1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 03/11/1944 _x000D_ Title: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ SubDivision: 119th Infantry Division (1st formation ) _x000D_ Popov Alexander Grigorievich went to the front in 1943. He was drafted by the Tobolsk Military Comissariat of the Omsk region. First, he was at a training center in the city of Kuibyshev, and at the end of 1943 he went to the Baltic Front. He received the rank of a Sergeant. _x000D_ He was killed 03/11/1944 in combat during the assault on height 173.1. in the village of Gora, Sebezhsky district, Pskov region at the age of 19. _x000D_ We had taken this height twice. There are still many remains of our soldiers on the plowed field. And on the hill itself, where the Germans were sitting, there is an underground passage dug by the Germans to send reinforcements to the height during the assault. _x000D_ During the combat, when our forces knocked the Germans out of their positions, German reinforcements had secretly arrived at the height along this underground passage and dropped our shock groups from there. The remains of this passage, coming from a nearby height, can be seen today. The walls of this passage, fortified with boards, have been preserved. Its length is about 300 meters. Alexander Grigorievich was nominated for the II degree Order of the Patriotic War (posthumously). Here is an excerpt from the award list: “... Junior Sergeant Popov Alexander Grigorievich in the combat near the village of Gora for the height of 173.1 showed fearlessness and courage. While repelling the enemy's counterattack under heavy artillery mortar fire, regardless of the danger to life, with accurate heavy machine gun fire, they cut off the enemy infantry from the tanks and shot the brutalized Nazis point-blank, thanks to which the counterattack was repulsed with large losses for the enemy. _x000D_ In this unequalcombat, Junior Sergeant Popov A.G. was mortally wounded and died on the combatfield behind his heavy machine gun." Signed by the Commander of 421st Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Mozakovsky. Popov A.G. was buried in the Pskov region, Sebezhsky district, in the center of the village of Chaika.

My story about my grandmother, Prikazchikova Lydia Matveevna (06/05/1927 - 12/31/2009). Unfortunately, she is no longer alive, but what she told about her life during the war, our family will remember. _x000D_ When the war began, she was only 16 years old. She lived in the village "Nekhaevka", Veydelevsky district. Her grandfather Matvey went to the front. And she, her brother, and mother stayed in their native village. The Germans and Magyars settled in the village and forced them to dig trenches in the Rovensky region and the Victoropol region. Airpcrafts flew overhead, bullets whistled, my young grandmother fell face down in the ground with fear and covered her ears with her hands, and then again began to dig trenches. _x000D_ The Magyars behaved cruelly towards the inhabitants of the village, they forced them to bury the killed Germans in the "Badger Forest". Winter was approaching, and they forced to take off clothes and, most importantly, shoes from the dead bodies. _x000D_ There was nothing to eat, and the villagers ate potato peels, acorns, the children were swollen with hunger. My grandmother's brother Kolya was a little boy at that time. He and several other guys found a grenade and played with it like a toy and threw it into a pole. From such "fun", Kolya's grandfather miraculously survived, but lost one eye. After the war, my grandmother was looking for her dad, wrote to various newspapers, turned to the radio and other authorities, but one answer came: "... not to be listed among the dead, is considered missing." _x000D_ Nature will soon hide the traces of war, the bloody black trail will be washed away by the rains. But your feat, Soviet heroes, wil not be forgotten!

Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he lived in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, worked in a mine. At the beginning of the war he received a reservation. Rescuing children from the occupation, he moved to the Kirovograd region of the Ukrainian SSR, but ended up in the occupied territory. In 1944 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He fought in 267th Guards Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner. When forcing the river. The spree suppressed the firing points of the fascists, which helped our units to cross the river, grandfather was the first to break into the mint and destroyed up to 25 fascists, which gave our units the opportunity to seize the mint building. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Other awards "For Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany". _x000D_ As the man who went through the war, my grandfather did not like to talk about the war. Only once did he tell me about the reconnaissance in force by their recon unit. They were given the combat mission to cross a small river in order to clarify the enemy's firing positions. 98 people entered the combat with the Nazis, and only two survived, including my grandfather. _x000D_ My granddad said: "The Nazis opened such fire on us that only rags remained of our clothes." A very small fragment from many days of that terrible war, but it says a lot. Grandfather graduated from the war with the rank of Sergeant.

Title: Colonel _x000D_ _x000D_ Gavriil Pozdnyakov was born on March 26, 1900 in the village of Lavrovo, Orlov District, Oryol Region, into a family of peasants. He had 5 classes of a rural school. He had been a Communist party member since 1918. From the age of 18 he was a Red Army soldier at the railway Regiment in Oryol. During 1919 -1920 he was at cadet machine gun infantry courses. In 1920-1924 he was platoon Commander in a Rifle Regiment. From 1924 to 1926, he graduated the course of commanders of the military-political courses in Moscow. From 1936 to 1928 platoon Commander of the 10th separate infantry Battalion in Rybinsk. _x000D_ From 1928 to 1932 he was an audience listener to military-political courses and courses "Shot". From 1932 to 1937 he was a Battalion Commander of 16th Rifle Regiment in Oryol. From 1937 to 1939 he was Senior Adjutant in the commandant's office in Moscow. From 1939 to 1940 he was Regiment Commander of 747th Regiment of 172nd Separate Rifle Division of the Moscow Military District. _x000D_ In 1941 to 1942 he was Regiment Commander of 1101 Rifle Regiment of 326 Rifle Division Western Front. After being wounded, he was treated in a hospital in Krasnodar. After being discharged from the hospital, by order of the military council of the South Ural Military District, he formed a unit. _x000D_ From 1942 to 1944 he was Commander of 52nd Western Rifle Regiment. _x000D_ From 1944 to 1945 he was Deputy Regiment Commander 101 Reserve Infantry Regiment of 16 Reserve Rifle Division ORVO. _x000D_ In 1946 he was the Commander of a Rifle Regiment. In 1946 he was transferred to the reserve due to illness. _x000D_ Awards: Medal of the XX years of the RKK (decree of 02.22.38); Order of the Patriotic War II degree; Order of the Red Banner; The order of Lenin; medal For Defense of Moscow; medal For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945. _x000D_ He worked in the city Council of Veterans, corresponded with fellow soldiers, had an active life position until the last days of his life. He died in 1977.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops_x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Ivanovich Dust was born on August 11, 1920 in the village of Striguny, Borisov district, Kursk region. In 1940 he was called up for military service. He began his service as an anti-aircraft gunner. He met the war in Latvia, near Libava. He fought surrounded on Lake Ilmen, then as part of the troops of the Bryansk Front. In 1943 he received an officer's rank and transferred to the armored forces. _x000D_ He participated in Operation Bagration as part of 2nd Belorussian Front. In 1945 he took part in the storming of Königsberg, in a historic link-up with the Allies on the Elbe. He ended the war with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. _x000D_ During the hostilities, he received four wounds, in the shoulder, in the eye, twice in the leg. He was awarded the military orders of Alexander Nevsky, the First Class of the Patriotic War, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Konigsberg", the Polish medal "Victory and Freedom". During the war with Vasily Ivanovich, there were many remarkable episodes. _x000D_ He had to fight as a sniper, fight off a German with a porridge bowler after getting out of a wrecked tank, fall into the tank under the ice during a crossing, shake off German soldiers trying to capture a stalled tank from the armor. But the most notable episode in the life of Vasily Ivanovich was in January 1945 in Poland. At that moment, Vasily Ivanovich commanded a SU-85 battery or a company of T-34 tanks (the memories of the front-line soldier himself and the data indicated in the award documents differ). _x000D_ At 7 o'clock in the morning, the offensive of the front troops was scheduled, the Commanders of the armored units were ordered to move to their starting positions and disguise the equipment. However, half an hour before the appointed time, German aircraft made a massive raid on the positions of the Soviet troops. The troops suffered losses, communications were disrupted. The vehicles of Senior Lieutenant Dust were not damaged, as they were well camouflaged. _x000D_ By the appointed hour of the offensive, Vasily Ivanovich still did not have communication with the headquarters, but made an independent decision to launch the attack. Seeing that one of the units began to attack, other units followed, and the offensive began. _x000D_ The front Commander, Marshal Rokossovsky, who was at that moment at the observation post of the Regiment, had not yet made a decision on whether to start or postpone the start of the offensive, but saw that after one of the tank subunits, the troops moved forward. The offensive was successful, the enemy was driven back. _x000D_ After thecombat, Marshal Rokossovsky summoned Senior Lieutenant Dust to the front headquarters. When the officer announced his arrival, the marshal replied: “What dust you are! You are hero!". With these words, he personally awarded Vasily Ivanovich the Order of Alexander Nevsky. _x000D_ After the war, Vasily Ivanovich continued his service in the Red Army, served in Germany as a Soviet military adviser, then on the territory of the USSR. He was discharged in 1960 with the rank of Major. After completing military service, he moved to Belgorod. He passed away in 2004.

Petrishchev Vasiliy Ivanovich

Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich was born in February 6, 1921 in Kuchmozero village. The military rank is Sergeant. He was drafted into the army on October 7, 1940. He returned home in July 1946. Ivan Nikolayevich did his military service on Kildin Island in the Barents Sea. After the declaration of war on the official radio, he was enlisted in 329th Infantry Regiment of 114th Division. _x000D_ The Battalion Commander was Armenian Harutyunyan. _x000D_ “On July 13, 1941, we were heavily bombed at sea,” recalls Ivan Nikolaevich. - Two of our Battalions landed behind enemy lines. The road, along which the enemy vehicles were moving, went deep into our rear. Our combat mission was to cut it off in the town of Zapadnaya Litsa. The disembarkation of our Battalions was accompanied by 2 destroyers, 1 submarine, and a patrol boat. From the air we were supported by 3 fighters, 12 enemy bombers opposed them. We sailed on a transport ship. Under heavy enemy fire, we landed. We have not yet accepted a real combat, but have already lost many of our comrades. Of the two Battalions, only 2 platoons remained. Only on the third day we were able to approach the required height. We had to take the height. The place was open. 3 Messerschmidts were circling above us all the time. There was a small lake and a stream flowing, they wanted to cross the stream, but the enemy began to crossfire. _x000D_ I was the first number of a light machine gun. The combat was fierce. From many hours of continuous combat, the barrel of the machine gun glowed red-hot. Platoon Commander Antonenko was shooting back next to me. He also took part in the Finnish War. He was hurt hard, in the throat. This fight was my first baptism of fire. " _x000D_ Ivan Nikolaevich fought on the Karelian Front, then, as part of 2nd Belorussian Front, he liberated the Polish cities of Gdynia and Gdansk. In Poland he was wounded and he had already met the Victory in the hospital. And his guards unit ended the war in Berlin. I.N. Pavlov was awarded the sign "Veteran of the Karelian Front". Military merits of the war veteran were awarded with the orders of the Patriotic War II degree (No. 770805), the Red Star (No. 498279), the Red Star (2187358), medals "For Victory Over Germany", "For Liberation of the Soviet Arctic." Ivan Nikolaevich was also presented with thanks for his military work. _x000D_ Demobilized from the Red Army, he returned to his native village of Kuchmozero. He worked in agriculture, started a family. With his wife, Anna Mikhailovna, they raised 5 children and gave them an education. Ivan Nikolaevich passed away after a serious illness in March 1988.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/05/1914 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 01/29/2015 _x000D_ Title: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Division: 200th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ He was born in 1914 in Yekaterinoslav. That was the name of the city of Dnepropetrovsk at that time. And even the calendar was different then. Arkady Pevzner was born in 1913 according to the old style, at the turn of two eras, when the World War was replaced by the Civil War, where Yekaterinoslav passed now to whites, then to reds, or even to the Makhnovists. _x000D_ As a child, he went through years of devastation and hunger, a time of elation and high hopes. He chose a profession - to defend the Motherland. In 1936 he graduated from the Leningrad Artillery School. He met the Great Patriotic War in 1941 as a battery Commander in the newly formed 200th Infantry Division under the command of Colonel Ivan Lyudnikov. With heavy bloody combats, losing people, breaking out of the encirclement, the Division withdrew for the Dnieper and Desna. _x000D_ By September 10, 450 fighters remained in the Division, and after 10 days, almost all of them heroically fell, blocking the enemy's path. Arkady Pevzner is one of the few who had the fate not only to survive in the fiery summer and autumn of 1941, but also to go through the entire war to the end, until the Victory Day. And after the victorious May, he once again had to engage in combat, already in Manchuria, where the resistance of the almost one million Japanese Kwantung army was broken. _x000D_ For military exploits Arkady Pevzner was awarded high military awards: the Orders of the Patriotic War II degree and the Red Star, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit". _x000D_ After the war, he continued to serve in the Armed Forces, commanded an artillery Battalion, and retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. But the active character, the desire to be useful did not allow me to calm down. _x000D_ A.L. Pevzner found his second vocation in the civil sphere, in the wonderful world of documentary cinema. And he honestly served for more than three decades in the glory of the Central Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of the Documentary Film Studio (TSSDF). Starting as a dispatcher, continuing to work as a director of paintings, he later became the head of one of the two production and creative associations of the Central House of Artists. Filmmakers know that cinema is a collective creation, where the organizing principle is extremely important. Without coordination, administrative support, equipment and a clear work schedule, without taking care of people, the filming process is impossible. _x000D_ This was A.L. Pevzner, taking care of people so that they can focus on shooting without being distracted by household and unnecessary production chores. Kilometers of filmed film, dozens, hundreds of films and stories, diplomas and prizes of festivals and competitions are a worthy result of creative teams, achieved under the skillful leadership of A.L. Pevzner. But he did not forget the army, to which he gave half of his life. _x000D_ For his patronage work, the Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshal Andrei Grechko awarded A.L. Pevzner Certificate of Merit in connection with the 50th anniversary of the Armed Forces. A.L. Pevzner was born before the Soviet Union and survived it, a state that he faithfully served, which he defended, not sparing his life. He fulfilled his duty as a citizen to the end. _x000D_ And he deserved peace in his second homeland, Israel. _x000D_ Now the TSSDF studio is going through difficult times. But there are people who remember the best years, remember A.L. Pevzner and are grateful for his work, for the years devoted to documentary cinema. Thanks to A.L. Pevzner, three decades of the life of the USSR were captured on film and will forever be preserved in history.

Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ SubDivision: 68th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division_x000D_ _x000D_ Popov Anatoly Grigorievich, 1920 year of birth. Drafted for military service in the Red Army in 1940 after graduating from the physical education and pedagogical college in the city of Sverdlovsk. Place of recruitment is a military enlistment office of Tobolsk, Omsk region. He started fighting on August 25, 1941. _x000D_ In September 1941 he was wounded, then he returned to the front again. He went through almost the entire war. He fought on the Western, Bryansk, Belorussian fronts. He had the military rank of Lieutenant, Battery Commander of 173rd Guards Artillery Regiment of 6th Artillery Division, member of the Komsomol. He crossed the Dnieper, Bug, Vistula rivers, where there were very heavy combats. _x000D_ He was killed in military action on October 15, 1944. He was buried in Poland, in Warsaw at the Military Cemetery-Memorial to Soviet soldiers. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. _x000D_ Anatoly was an artilleryman and recon. He was very brave and cheerful, the soldiers loved him for his cheerful disposition. He also danced great, and everyone thought he was Ukrainian. Once he was sent to reconnaissance through a field mined by the Germans. There he was blown up by a mine. He lived for only 30 minutes. It happened on October 15, 1944. He was buried with military honors in Poland, near the village of Kobylki. A few years later, the Soviet soldiers were reburied in Warsaw, at the Warsaw Memorial Cemetery in a mass grave. _x000D_ Extracts from the award lists: “Acting as chief of the Division's reconnaissance, Lieutenant Anatoly Grigorievich Popov showed a lot of initiative in reconnaissance of the enemy's front line. Personally, being at the forefront of our infantry, not paying attention to strong fire, showed courage and valor, discovered and spotted many enemy firing points. Moving forward into the front lines with a radio, he transmitted coordinates for the destruction of firing points, as a result of which our infantry moved forward with almost no losses. In January 1944, in a combat near the village of Vishar, he learned from the infantrymen that a group of German machine gunners was entering the Battalion on the right. Lieutenant Popov, having attached his reconnaissance to the infantry squad, with this handful of brave men struck the flank of the German group and scattered it with rifle and machine-gun fire. "

Title: Major _x000D_ Branch of troops: Technical troops (KhV, ZhDV, AV, RTV, DV, topographic) _x000D_ _x000D_ Participant of the Civil War and Labor Front during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Chevalier of the Order of the "Red Banner of Labor", has the medals "For Labor Distinction", "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 191-1945", "For Victory over Japan" and other awards. He was born on July 6 (June 23, old style), 1901. He was an illegitimate child. In his birth certificate entry dated June 26, 1901: mother - Pavlova Maria Arkadyevna, father - (dash). He was baptized in the Nicholas Cathedral in Verkhneuralsk. Receivers (godparents) were Pavlov Pavel Stepanovich and Pavlova Anastasia Arkadyevna. The patronymic is given by the name of the mother's relative, who was the godfather. _x000D_ Mother was Pavlova Maria Arkadyevna, presumably born in 1883. She died in St. Petersburg in 1919 at the age of 36. _x000D_ From 1905 to 1917, Vladimir lived and was brought up in the family of an artillery officer Pokrovsky A.A at first in the city of Bela, Sedletskaya province (now Poland), and since March 1910 in the city of Khabarovsk. _x000D_ In the spring of 1905, during a trip to Warsaw, Vladimir's mother, being in a difficult financial circumstances, handed the 4-year-old boy at the railway station of the city of Brest-Litovsk to a relative, the wife of an artillery officer Elena Ivanovna Pokrovskaya. Her husband is Pokrovsky Alexander Alekseevich, born on July 1, 1853, from 1899 to 1910 he was the Commander of 2nd Artillery Brigade (city of Bela); from 1910 to 1912 he was the Commander of 2nd Division of the Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (the city of Khabarovsk). In 1912, Pokrovsky A.A. retired and worked in civilian structures. He did not serve in the troops and institutions of the White Army. _x000D_ In February 1917, Vladimir and the Pokrovsky family moved to Petrograd. In March, he met with his mother, who made it clear that she did not want to live with her son. Since March 1917, Vladimir left the Pokrovsky family and began an independent life. _x000D_ From May 1919 to 1924 he served in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the Soviet Army. From 1924 to 1929 he worked in various organizations as a technician, engineer. _x000D_ From 1929 to 1937 (with a break from January 1934 to April 1936) he studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute. _x000D_ From 1935 to 1961, he worked on the survey of railways in the Far East and the Far North in the positions of a Senior Geological Engineer, head of a geological party and chief geologist of the expedition. He was one of the pioneers of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM). He participated directly in the exploration expeditions of the Baikal-Amur railway under the Railway Project, Gipropromtransstroy of the Ministry of Transport Construction worked from May 1939 to April 1958. _x000D_ In December 1951 he was promoted to the rank of Engineer-Major of track and construction. About this period of life and Vladimir Pavlovich himself can be read in the books and essays of his colleague, the famous geologist-prospector Pobozhiy Alexander Alexandrovich ("Through the northern wilderness. Notes of the prospector", "The path of the prospector", etc.). In 1961, he retired by age. In 1965-1967 he worked as a geology instructor at a secondary school and a Mechanical Engineering College. _x000D_ Awards: Order of the Red Banner of Labor No. 105470 (1948); Medal "For Labor Distinction" No. 29902 (1944); Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War" No. 245948 (1945); - Medal "For Victory over Japan" No. 056118 (1946); Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1969); jubilee medal "30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (1976); Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1979); - jubilee medal "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (1985); Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline" (1987).

Popushkov Aleksandr Fyodorovich

Potapov Ivan Andreevich

Branch of troops: Aviation. _x000D_ _x000D_ Vasily Efimovich Petrushchenko was born in Ukraine in the village of Girino, Sumy region, Yampolsky district. He was drafted into the army in 1941 and sent to the Kazakhstan Flight School, from where he was urgently transferred to Stalingrad in the thick of war. In the combat for Stalingrad, he was wounded in the leg and sent to the hospital. By an incredible and terrible coincidence, as it turned out later, his father was killed in the same combat. _x000D_ After the hospital, Vasily Yefimovich was sent to the Normandie-Niemen Regiment as an aircraft mechanic. The Normandie Squadron, then the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, was a French national formation that fought on the side of the USSR. Until August 1943, the aircraft of 1st air squadron were serviced by Soviet technicians, including Vasily Efimovich. The French pilots fought honestly, displaying heroism with enthusiasm. Upon returning to the airfield, they enthusiastically showed the technicians the settlements on the map liberated by the Soviet troops, as if their cities and villages were being liberated. The result of the Regiment's combat activities for the first company in 1943 was as follows: 77 enemy aircraft were shot down, 18 aircraft were damaged. _x000D_ The engineering service of the unit was able to fully ensure the combat work of the Regiment in full combat readiness. For this, technicians had to constantly work without sleep and rest, repairing and restoring aircraft damaged incombat, eliminating defects that appeared, carrying out routine maintenance and preparing aircraft for air combat. _x000D_ On May 26, 1944, the Regiment was relocated to 3rd Belorussian Front, where it actively participated in the hostilities to liberate the cities of Vitebsk, Borisov, Minsk, Vilnius and many other settlements. In August 1944, the Regiment was re-equipped with the latest high-speed fighters Yak-3. This circumstance helped the French pilots to distinguish themselves in the first East Prussian operation. On just one day on 10/15/1944, the pilots shot down 29 enemy aircraft without suffering their own losses. _x000D_ The result of the Regiment's combat work in 1944 was 122 shot down enemy aircraft. Such high results were achieved thanks to the acquisition of combat experience by the pilots, their transition to group combat tactics, the high quality of Soviet weapons, Yak 3, and the selfless labor of the Regiment's technical personnel. The constant readiness for combat of aircraft is a matter of honor for Soviet technicians, each aircraft was worth its weight in gold! During the 4 years of the war, the technical personnel of the Regiment served 11,942 flights, of which 5,240 were combat ones. _x000D_ The technicians, seeing off the pilots into combat, tried to ensure the best for them in maitenance. They tried to maintain a fighting spirit and good mood, which was a guarantee of future victories. Vasily Efimovich went through the entire war and returned home. _x000D_ Petrushchenko V.E. was awarded: the Order of the Military Cross, French awards, 2 medals "For Military Merit", Medal "For Capture of Konigsberg", Medal "For Victory over Germany"._x000D_ In May 1980, Vasily Efimovich traveled to Moscow to meet the veterans of the Normandie-Niemen air Regiment. Vasily Efimovich was a participant and hero of the Great Patriotic War and the memory of his feat will forever be in the hearts of his descendants.

Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolai Fedorovich Pronkin was a soldier of 273rd Separate Battalion of 8th Tank Army of 1st Belorussian Front. He was born in the village of Vezovka, Penza region on December 22, 1925. When the war began, he volunteered for the front. In the unit where the sixteen-year-old boy got to, they took pity on him, left him as a front-line cook. _x000D_ In 1943, when he turned 18, they took Nikolai into a reconnaissance group, and then into an anti-tank platoon, issued an anti-tank rifle, and he was number one there. In the veteran's questionnaire, which is kept in the "Book of Memory" in the Savinsky Museum of Local Lore (Arkhangelsk Region), his hand recorded the facts of his military biography: the crossing of the western bank of the Vila, participation in the combats for Poznan and Lublin and terrible lines about the liberation of the Majdanek concentration camp on July 22, 1944, that is near Lublin (Poland). _x000D_ It was difficult with heavy fighting that the war rolled to the west, while crossing the Oder in 1945 in a terriblecombat, Private Pronkin was wounded in the leg and was sent as a medical train to Moscow. The injury turned out to be serious and the soldier lay in the hospital until the very Victory. _x000D_ There Nikolay met the guys from Kazakhstan and went with them to the geological party "Isaporovskoye". In the Kazakh steppes, the young hero met his betrothed, charming milling worker Nina, whom he later married. Nikolai Fedorovich worked as a driller in the Plesetsk exploration expedition, in the drilling crew until his retirement, until he was promoted to the title of "Veteran of Labor". _x000D_ Nikolai Fedorovich passed away on July 25, 1991.

Popov Arkadii Aleksandrovich