The Great Patriotic War

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Maltseva Anna Petrovna (center), June 20, 1941. Graduates of the Kiselevsky medical school. Called up to the front on June 23, 1941

Assault on Sapun-Gory, Crimea, May 1944 Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Zatonsky Savely Yakovlevich, my great-grandfather, the commander of a cavalry platoon, was born in 1913. He went to the front in June 1941. Missed in action in July 1943

Shidakova Nina Maksimovna. 21.08.1929-25.04.2019. Home front worker

Bormotov Maxim Fedorovich. Died 08.21.1944. Awarded of the Order of the Red Star posthumously.

Red Army soldier

Red Army soldier.

Zakharov Polikarp Alekseevich

Reshetilov Leonty Nikitovich was born in 1911 in Altukhov village, Blagodarnensky district, Stavropol Territory. The family has five children. He was drafted into the Army in August 1941. He fought in Sevastopol, Odessa and Malaya Zemlya. He finished the war in 1945. He was awarded of orders and medals for the liberation of Crimea.

Abrosimov Ivan Aleksandrovich (1922-1989), Hero of the Soviet Union. Commander of the control platoon of the 320th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (25th howitzer artillery Svirskaya brigade, 7th artillery Zaporozhye Order of Suvorov, breakthrough division of the High Command Reserve, 46th army, 2nd Ukrainian Front), Second lieutenant

Support by fire Machine gunners I. Zemskov and E. Dorofeev support by fire the actions of their war comrades - infantrymen, 1944.

Group fire on enemy aircrafts The rifle squad of senior sergeant Yu. Goryunov is conducting group fire on enemy aircrafts, 1943.

Karachakov Vasily Danilovich was born in 1927. Drafted in 1945 by the Saralinsky District Military Commissariat. He fought as a private, anti-aircraft gunner of the Trans-Baikal Front, 1279 reserve artillery regiment. He was awarded of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, the medal "For Victory over Japan." Demobilized in 1945. He worked as a tractor driver at the Chulym state farm. Died in 1983

Arkanov Efim Yakovlevich was born in 1906. Drafted by the Shirinsky District Military Commissariat in 1941. He fought as a corporal of the 263rd engineering regiment of the 27th army on the Stepnoy Front. Demobilized in 1945. He was awarded of the Order of Glory 3rd class, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, the medals “For Combat Service”, “For Victory over Germany”. He worked as a worker in the Kongarovsky general store. Died in 1985.