Artillery

Rank: Major Type of military forces: The artillery. I will not to forget what is remembered by the grandfather. The grandfather wrote for the first grandson – my older brother Andrey the invaluable volume. According to the family chronicle which I read, history of the country was made by families, certain people and events, encouraging people on acts which are difficult to imagine today. Survive to protect. Luka Gavrilovich Kolesnik was born on December 12, 1918 in the village of Ryasnoye of Krasnopolsky district of the Sumy region in the family of a peasant. The large family lived in poverty therefore the younger son since early childhood looked after the geese, helped with the garden. In hungry 1934 the father died. Luka with mother ate only soup (water with beet leaves which the boy earned on weeding of sugar beet, moreover 50 g. of bread per day). He looked baby birds of rooks in the nests and cooked soup to support life in mother who in the spring of 1934 nevertheless died. Luka was taken in the house by one of elder sisters, he went to school, nursed nephews, took care of the garden. In 1937 he was admitted to Komsomol, he was engaged in elimination of illiteracy among the senior generation. In 1938 he finished 10 classes and came to the Kharkiv military college of communication. On December 25, 1939 Luka Gavrilovich ahead of schedule was entitled the lieutenant and left to the Finnish front. He participated in defensive actions near the village Markayarvi as a part of the 256th detached battalion of communication of the Karelian front. He was involved in developing attack and defense of the Kandalaksha direction. This page of history was remembered to the grandfather by snipers - "cuckoos", excellent ski training of the Finnish troops and how fast the professionalism of the Soviet Army was growing. Upon termination of battles the headquarters of the front was located in the destroyed city of Kuolayarvi, and the grandfather on an equal basis with all built barracks, stables, houses for officers, stone strengthenings. He even "won" the room for radio class where he provided training for the soldiers. At the end of 1940 in Murmansk he got acquainted with his future wife. They got married on June 19, 1941, and on June 22 he sent Zhenya to evacuation to her parents to Barnaul. That air always be clean, the wire – safe and sound. According to the memoirs of the grandfather the first days of June 41st fascists made only reconnaissance flights, occasionally bombed. - Then defense break attempts began, the German planes didn’t meet the opponent in the sky and got impudent, - Luka Gavrilovich remembered. - We then laughed that fascists will soon walk on our heads. As a result of mutual shellings there were big losses in manpower from Germans, but not on our side – we managed to become stronger and adjust blindages. On July 8 Germans broke through defense, and we got encircled, out of which we quickly got out. Here I saw how important is communication and coherence of actions between divisions. In June, 1942 Luka Gavrilovich was appointed the second-in-command of a company of communication of the 715th shooting regiment of 21 rifle divisions. He checked shifts of radio operators and operators, took measures for elimination of damages on communication lines, coded and decoded radiograms, lived in a blindage together with soldiers. From March, 1943 to July, 1944 he carried out the duties of the chief of RSB radio station in a separate company VNOS (air surveillance, notification, communication). Here observation of airspace, transfer on RC of messages about the purpose by phone radio became the main task, and from there the data went to antiaircraft parts, troops at the front and in the back. - Active battles began in June-July, 1944 when the Leningrad and Karelian fronts took the offensive, - Luka Kolesnik wrote home. - We accomplished the task of protection of the railroad Murmansk-Moscow with credit, a lot of cargo on a lend-lease from America and England passed on this road. On June 26, 1944 he was appointed to the position of the chief of communication by 1216 case artillery regiments of 19 army. Our regiment as a part of 21 rifle divisions began to participate in offensive operations. Here I saw artillery preparation of "Katyushas" for the first time, because of which fascists paniced. At the Kayralsky boundary during the battle under the opponent's fire I repeatedly reestablished the damaged communication for which I was awarded the order "the Red Star". The corps stood in Karelia till December, 1944, then the staff was shipped in echelons and directed towards Ukraine, from there to the front through Romania to Hungary. On March 24, 1945 L.G. Kolesnik received Stalin's official message of gratitude for participation in defeat of tank group to the southwest of Budapest as a part of 11 tank divisions and taking the cities of Sekeshfeshervar, Mor, Zirez, Veszprem, Ening, etc. Since April 5 the fighting travel of the grandfather on the lands of Austria began. He learned news about the victory in a fighting campaign. On May 11 near the village Gave he participated in disarmament of the German column and met Americans. After the Victory he remained in Europe as a part of occupational army near the city of Shandorfalva as a part of the 9th Guards army of the Central group of troops. Luka Gavrilovich returned home in September, 1945, to the area of Totsky camps, the first holiday he received in April, 1946. In January, 1951 he decreased for service to Germany as the chief of communication of a separate artillery division in Keninsbryuke near Dresden. In 1957 he returned to the Soviet Union and was given assignment at first to Stalinabad, then Termez. On May 15, 1959 in a rank of Major he was transferred to the reserve due to health reasons, having served in the army in total 20 years. Ten more years he worked as the accountant in Altaypromstroy trust, the economist of planning department of trust. Since July, 1969 he is retired. My grandfather considers himself the lucky one, because during both wars Luka Gavrilovich wasn't wounded, contused, he was awarded with two battle awards. He still remembers the colleagues by their names, kept in contact with many for a long time long time. Every year there remain less and less of them, heroes of the Great Patriotic War. But everything that my grandfather remembered, will never be erased from my memory, will remain also in the memory of my son. And this is what it is worth living for. Ekaterina Viktorovna Chetoshnikova, granddaughter.

Title: Red Army man. Troops: Artillery. Sergei Ivanovich Kurilov - a man with a beautiful soul. He was born on September 23, 1918 in the village Terebreno Grayvoron County, Kursk Province. In the family, he was the eldest child, and so from a young age he helped his parents: grazed livestock and looked after six younger brothers and sisters, studied at elementary school. When Seryozha turned 12, he entered the factory seven-year-long school in Krasnaya Yarug. He studied better than others, for which he was awarded the badge "For excellent study and good behavior”. After school, he began his working life. Seryozha was hired as a salesman at a kiosk, and he dreamed to study further. When he turned 15, he entered the Orlov Industrial College, where he met Rybalkin D.D., who became his lifelong friend. Studying was easy, but the possibilities of an able student, his love of mathematics remained unfulfilled, and Sergey began to look across the street at the beautiful building of the Pedagogical Institute, where there was a Work Faculty. Sergei left his classes at the technical school and entered the Work Faculty. He received a secondary education in one year and was enrolled in the Pedagogical Institute. It was difficult to study, out of 141 rubles of the scholarship it was necessary to save money to help the family, which was experiencing difficult days at that time. Years went by. In 1937, a new teacher came to work in Ilek-Kosharskaya seven-year-long school, where he taught mathematics and was a class teacher. 1939 was rich in important events in the life of Sergei Ivanovich: he was accepted as a candidate for the CPSU and met his fate - Evdokia Ivanovna. He went hand in hand with her all his life. And in the same 1939, together with his young wife, Sergei Ivanovich was sent to work at Elm High School as a director. His experience as a director at the Vyazovskaya school was not long - by that time the government had issued a decree abolishing conscription benefits and in the autumn of 1939 Sergei Ivanovich joined the Red Army. The young math teacher, who already had experience as a school director, served in the air defense troops of the Kiev Military District. He hoped to return home soon. But life ruled in its own way and on June 22, 1941, on the border, where Sergey served, he was captured by the war. His service to his homeland continued, but now he was on the front roads. Sergei Ivanovich served for 7 years, 4 of which were at war with fascist occupiers. His front biography began on the South-Western front in the 307th separate anti-aircraft artillery division on the border with Poland in the Jaworskiye forests. He fought at the Stalingrad, Central and 1st Byelorussian fronts. The war ended for him on May 2, 1945. Until now, his acute memory stores a four-year period of endless bloody battles. Sergei Ivanovich recalls the beginning of the war as follows: "In 1941 I served in Proskurov, Vinnitsa region. It was summer. Our unit was transferred to a summer camp. There were usual days. The crew was located in Yavorovo, where they conducted exercises. At that time I was the commander of the instrument room. We were standing in the forest, without any signs, and there was a peaceful training work. On Saturday, June 21, we went to the bathhouse, by midnight we came to the unit and everything was quiet. Somewhere in the beginning of the fifth in the morning of June 22 sounded the alarm, everybody ran to the testing ground and some tension was felt. About 15 minutes later the commander came and said "Guys, war!” German planes with black crosses started to fly over our range. They began to bomb our positions, in the first battle three planes were shot down. It was difficult, because the planes had to be hit with guns. The retreat began, two batteries were destroyed, there was not enough ammunition... We started moving towards Lviv, and the battles were already in full swing. We were often surrounded. I especially remember the battle near Sumy, when the enemy tanks were destroyed.” Later, Sergei Ivanovich took part in the defense of the Ukrainian city of Sumy, a major railway hub in Kupyansk. In March 1942, Sergei Ivanovich guarded the Burluk station. It was with bitterness that he had to retreat when Kharkiv's liberation in 1942 failed. The division was disbanded. Sergei Ivanovich got into the reserve of the General Command. I was greatly impressed by Sergei Ivanovich's story about the defense of Stalingrad. On October 19, 1942, the crew was ferried north of the city. The weather was rainy. In order to escape from the Germans' shelling, one had to dig a trench and bury himself and his guns. The soldiers had almost no rest: during the day, planes were shot down, and at night, trenches were dug. The memories of the battles of Stalingrad were especially acute. "Cruel battles," recalls Sergei Ivanovich , "went on the crossing of the Don River. A lot of our fighters were left in that land. It was a terrible price, but still, despite the numerous losses, we reached Stalingrad. It was not just difficult, but impossible: at night the trenches were dug, but only at dawn, a continuous fire rained down on us. Our military unit was awarded the title of the Guards for courage and bravery. It became known as the 13th Guards Mortar Division of the Russian State Mining Company. At the end of the war, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Star. For the defense of Stalingrad, S.I. Kurilov received the first, the most difficult and, therefore, probably the most expensive medal "For Military Merit”. For his participation in the battles near Kursk, he was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, and at the end of the war he received another such order. He has medals: "For the Defence of Stalingrad", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". In 1944 S.I. Kurilov was sent to the courses of junior lieutenants, after which he received a platoon under his command. The war ended, but Sergei Ivanovich was demobilized only in November 1946 and immediately returned home. He returned home again to his favorite job at school. After the end of the school year, during which he worked in Terebreno as a head teacher, Sergei Ivanovich, a young, energetic, intelligent, talented teacher, was invited by the head of the department of education and offered to choose the school that he would like to head. He chose the Grafov School and started a new page of his interesting and difficult life. On August 15, 1947, Sergei Ivanovich became the head of the Grafov School. He immediately plunged into hard teacher's work. It was necessary to think not only about the lessons, but also about teachers and their arrangement. The school was occupied in two shifts - pupils from 10 villages came here. S.I. Kurilov worked tirelessly on all school problems, especially on staffing the school with professional staff. In 1954, his tireless work was marked with the badge "Excellent Educator of the RSFSR". And in 1959 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on December 8, 1959 he was awarded the title "Honored Teacher of Schools of the RSFSR”. Year after year, pedagogical experience was accumulated and the most seemingly impossible dreams of creating an existing school model - a cultural center in the village - were realized. In the 70s, Sergey was engaged in the construction of a new school in the village of Grafovka. The old school ceased to meet the growing needs of the village, and on S.I. Kurilov's initiative, construction of a new school began in 1972. Sergei Ivanovich went into all the details of the school construction so that the quality of construction was at the highest level. At the very beginning of the construction he found a loose ground at the very corner of the foundation, where blocks were already laid. The builders had to deepen the foundation by almost a meter. The workers and builders called Sergey Ivanovich "Honored Builder" for that. Both pupils and villagers helped to build the school. After all, everyone understood that without a school the village had no future. From the side of Kurilov Sergei Ivanovich there was a constant daily control. The construction was finished in 1974. The same year, in November, it opened. Now we also study at this great school, which Sergei Ivanovich headed until 1986. His efforts in the field of education were again marked by a high award - in 1979, S. I. Kurilov was awarded the badge "Excellent Educator of the USSR". Numerous letters of commendation, the medal "For Valorous Work" marked the tremendous work of Sergei Ivanovich on the training and education of the younger generation. In 2009 Adian celebrated his 91st birthday. And although, undoubtedly, the years take their toll, he still serves us as an example of a man who lived an interesting and useful life, with the help of iron self-discipline achieving the highest goals. S.I.Kurilov even now has an active life position and leads a healthy lifestyle. At present, S.I.Kurilov lives in Belgorod with his relatives.

Title: Sergeant. Troops: Artillery. He went to the front on August 19, 1942. He fought as an electrician bomber on “Vanyusha” mortars. From 1942 he went to the Leningrad front. Participated in the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad. In 1945 he liberated Warsaw. He was wounded... Konstantin Vasilkovsky and Pavel Yudin were his fighting friends - members of the same regiment, with whom he became friends even after the war. His childhood friend Georgiy Sokolov came back from the front as a disabled man. His friends Valentin Oskin (tank driver), Semyon Moiseyevich Rudoy, Yuri Yegunov, his sister's (Nadezhda Nikolaevna) husband Sitnikov Vladimir Nikiforovich were the front-runners. Biography after the war. Before the front, he graduated from technical college as an electrician and after the war worked as an electrician. He graduated from MPEI in absentia, having qualified as an engineer. He worked in the Ministry of Electrical Industry of the USSR, participated in the construction of the Aswan HPP in Egypt as a representative of the HPP in 1967-71. And he married soon after demobilization in December 1945 to his former classmate Zoya Afanasyevna Vinogradova (who became Komissarova). Together they lived in love and harmony, never having quarreled for almost half a century, having raised a son and a daughter, and having waited for two grandchildren and two granddaughters, all of whom received good education and became worthy people. His family is continued by his great-grandson Nikita Grigorievich Komissarov, and on the line of his daughter - two great-granddaughters Anastasia and Victoria Dmitrievni Bulychevi. Alexey Nikolaevich Komissarov is buried at Kalitnikovsky, "family" cemetery of Moscow near his father.

Title: Red Army soldier. The kind of troops: artillery. Born in a small Latvian town Krustpils, located on the bank of the Daugava River near Riga. In summer 1941, the Nazis invaded Latvia and began to surround Riga. The Soviet military unit, located near Krustpils, had to leave the encirclement through the huge Krustpils forests. The commander of this unit began looking for people who knew them well. Chaim Yakovlevich was a great nature lover, spent a lot of time in the forests and, knowing them up and down, volunteered to be a guide. For a whole week, they made their way through the woods and finally came out to the front line of the Red Army. After that, the commander invited Chaim to join his military unit. So Chaim became a Red Army soldier. Then, the military unit was sent to Gorokhovets camps in Gorokov region for reformation and training, where he learned to be a gunner of long-range artillery, combining this position with a riding post (at that time, the guns were transported from position to position on horses, and horses were in his care). After training, he was sent as part of the Artillery Regiment to the front line near the city of Naro-Fominsk, Moscow region, where there was a very active Nazi offensive in Moscow. Gradually, the Soviet troops began to pull the Nazis away from Moscow, and the batteries of heavy guns, including Chaim's gun, began to move forward along with the front line, providing artillery training and fire cover for the infantry. Chaim's six-man gun crew, led by the gun commander, arrived at the new firing position. At this time it was raining heavily, and the whole crew took refuge in a dugout found at the point, and Chaim, despite the rain, went to take care of the horses (straighten, fence, set the stern). And when he straightened the horses and led them into the forest to shelter them from the rain, a mine flew to their position and got directly into the dugout, and all who were there, died. Haim was the onlt survivor. He was saved by the care he took of the horses. For several days, he was alone with his gun, helping horses to get him out of the mud, he was trying to get to his people and succeeded, but his health was undermined - he went to the hospital and could not fight anymore. He was sent to Gorky to work in the rear of the defense plant. After the war, Chaim was awarded the medal "For Victory in the Great Patriotic War. His brother, Max Yakovlevich Karlin, died in the fall of 1941 in the battle of Naro-Fominsk, defending the approaches to Moscow. His father, mother, sister and three small nephews, as well as many other Jews in the Riga ghetto, were shot by the Nazis in 1941.

Troops: Artillery. Vasily Nikolaevich was born on March 28, 1925 in the village of Pogromets, Volokonovsky district, Belgorod region in a large peasant family with 13 children. After graduating from 6 grade, he went to work, because he had to help his parents. In June 1941, Volokonov District Executive Committee sent him to Leningrad to the plant Krasny Vyborzhets, where he worked on a mechanical hammer, digging anti-tank ditches. In August 1941 he returned to the village Pogromets. He got to the front in 1943 when he was 18 years old. Together with inexperienced peers, who had no military training, he was abandoned to pursue the enemy. Near Kharkov, Vasily Nikolaevich was wounded and was taken to hospital. He was then sent to the first Baltic front. Kravtsov Vasily Nikolaevich - a member of the defense of Leningrad, participated in the battles on the outskirts of the city of Pskov, liberated Belarus and Latvia. He received the second wound at Ladoga. After the hospital - the Second Baltic Front. In March 1945, on the outskirts of the city of Liepaja, he was seriously wounded. He was treated in Riga, and then sent to the Leningrad hospital, where he welcomed Victory. In October 1945, Vasiliy Nikolaevich was demobilized and returned to his native village Pogromec. Here he continued his labor activity. He restored his native collective farm "Krasny Put", worked as a private servant, electrician, from 1966 to 1997 - as a storekeeper. The total working experience of Vasily Nikolaevich is 54 years. He left for a well-deserved rest at 73. With his wife, Anna Grigorievna, he lived in peace and harmony for 57 years. Vasily Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of II degree, Zhukov medal, "For military merits", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", anniversary medals and in a peaceful time "For labor valor", "Veteran of work". Kravtsov V.N. takes an active part in public life of the rural district, is engaged in patriotic education of youth. He is a frequent guest in high school, rural House of Culture.

2nd Antiaircraft Battery of the 2nd Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment of the air defense of Independent Coastal Army in combat readiness. Fire platoon commander Lieutenant P.T. Osipovsky gives guidelines for shooting\firing stake (battery commander - Senior Lieutenant A.N. Budishevsky).

A salvo from the Katyusha guards mortar launchers in the area of the Zolotaya Balka valley.

Shmelkov Ivan Fedorovich Shmelkov Ivan Fedorovich, 1941-1942 - Lieutenant Colonel, commander of the 134th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 172nd Rifle Division of Independent Coastal Army.

Yanshin Sergey Petrovich (1905-1942), 1941-1942 - Major, Chief of Staff of the Reserve Artillery Regiment of the Coastal Defence of the Main Base of the Black Sea Fleet. Went missing on 07/03/1942.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 109th Infantry Leningrad Red Banner Division. Leningrad strategic defensive operation (1941). By the beginning of the operation, the 8th Army was entrusted with the task of defending the line from the Baltic Sea to Lake Peipsi with a length of up to 225 kilometers, and in addition, 250 kilometers of the coast and islands of the Moonsund archipelago. The army had only six rifle divisions and one rifle brigade that had suffered losses in previous battles. From the area south of Türi and a little short of the coast of the Baltic Sea, the positions were occupied by the remnants of the 10th rifle corps in the form of the 10th rifle division and the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD. In the coastal strip north of Pärnu, 30-40 kilometers wide, there were no troops at all, except for the border units that had withdrawn from Pärnu and small detachments of the militia. Further to the southeast along the Emajõgi River from Inesuu to Weybri the remnants of the 125th Infantry Division occupied positions, from Weybri to the shore of Lake Peipsi - the remnants of the 48th Infantry Division. The German command clearly underestimated the capabilities of the 8th Army to resist and launched an offensive with only two divisions (61st and 217th), as well as part of the forces of the 1st Army Corps. On July 8, 1941, German troops tried to break through the army's defenses on the Emajõgi line in the 11th Rifle Corps' zone, but the attack was repulsed. On the same day, German troops launched an offensive on Viljandi, broke through the defense of army units and occupied the city, but could not advance further. The breakthrough was stopped 17 kilometers north of the city by the forces of the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD and the reserve 11th rifle division without one regiment, but the most difficult situation in the army zone was north of Pärnu. The advance units of the 217th Infantry Division broke through the fragile defense of the army and began to develop an offensive against Audru, Tallinn and Türi, by the evening of July 9, 1941, having covered half the distance from Pärnu to Tallinn. The 8th Army organized a counterattack with the last reserves, in which the remnants of the 10th Infantry Division, the fresh 16th Infantry Division, border guards and detachments of the people's militia took part. From July 9 to 15, 1941, the army fights at the breakthrough site, in the Maryamaa area, as a result of which the German troops were thrown back 30 kilometers. After that, the front line relatively stabilized for some time. On July 15, 1941, the 61st Infantry Division attempted to strike at the junction of the 10th and 11th Infantry Corps in the direction of Põltsamaa, but had no success. On July 14, the army was transferred to the Northern Front. On July 18, 1941, the German offensive was suspended. For the purpose of capturing Estonia, three divisions (291st, 93rd and 207th security divisions) were transferred to the 8th Army's zone of operations; control of the 42nd Army Corps. German troops again launched an offensive on parts of the 8th Army on July 22, 1941. The blow was delivered in the Põltsamaa - Türi sector at the junction of the Soviet 10th and 11th rifle corps and developed in two directions: towards the Gulf of Finland through Türi and on Mustvee. The main blow was aimed at cutting the 8th Army with the isolation of Tallinn, the second blow was aimed at reaching the northwestern coast of Lake Peipsi, cutting off the 11th rifle corps. On July 25, 1941, German troops completed the task of an auxiliary strike, cutting off and pressing the 11th rifle corps to the shore of Lake Peipsi. The 8th Army, with the forces of two regiments of the 16th Infantry Division, tried to launch a counterattack on Mustvee, which was unsuccessful. The 11th Rifle Corps, after a few (about 3000 demoralized fighters who left the encirclement), was destroyed. Its remnants and units of the 8th Army that retreated to the east subsequently organized defense from Lake Peipsi in the Mustvee area to the Gulf of Finland slightly east of Kunda In the direction of the main attack (the 61st Infantry Division took Tyuri on July 24, 1941, which was repulsed by a counterattack by the 98th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division, 22nd Motorized Rifle Division of the NKVD, and the 1st Latvian Workers' Regiment and again abandoned Türi on July 25, 1941. German troops regrouped, shifting their efforts to the northeast. On July 31, 1941, German units broke through to Tamsalu station, moving on Rakvere.On August 4, 1941, the enemy took Tapa, cutting off the Tallinn-Leningrad highway, on August 6, 1941, went to Kadrina, on August 7, 1941, captured Rakvere and broke through to Kunda to the Gulf of Finland, thereby cutting off Estonia. 8 Thus, after reaching the gulf, the enemy deployed its units in opposite directions: leaving the regiment of the 207th security division for coastal defense, 26 The 1st Army Corps deployed to operate against part of the 8th Army towards Narva, and the 42nd Army Corps against another part of the 8th Army towards Tallinn. On August 8, 1941, units of the 8th Army inflict counterattacks from two sides: from the east and west, in order to combine their units, encircle and destroy the enemy units that had broken through to the gulf. The 156th Rifle Regiment of the 16th Rifle Division, the Latvian Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division and units of the 22nd NKVD Motorized Rifle Division, which were advancing from the west, supported by two gunboats, a battery of 130-mm guns and Air Force aircraft, advanced from 12 to 22 kilometers, and advanced units even further. However, the 291st and 93rd Infantry Divisions attacked east of Kunda on the morning of 8 August 1941. Soviet troops were forced to leave Jõhvi and start retreating along the railway to Narva. The gap between the units of the 8th Army increased to 80 kilometers and the counterattack was stopped. Eternal Glory and Memory to the heroes who broke the "backbone" of the Nazis.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 17th Kiev-Zhytomyr Artillery Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Breakthrough Division. Biigishi Ibragimov graduated from the Aviation School named after. Chkalov. He graduated well, education and general development, and most importantly, diligence allowed him to graduate from school among the best. The command decided to keep the capable pilot as the school's aviation instructor. So from January 1940 until the very beginning of the war, he flew and trained future pilots. On June 22 - Sunday - the pilots planned to hold football and volleyball matches with the recruits ... But the plans were not destined to come true. On the second day of the outbreak of the war, pilot Biigishi Ibragimov was sent as a pilot of the 5th separate air squadron of the Central Front. The young pilots still had a lot to learn, but the war itself became the teacher. Almost none of the pilots of the 5th Separate Aviation Squadron had combat missions. When our young, untrained pilots rose into the air, Goering's "aces of diamonds" came out to them. Considering this, the command, as soon as the pilots arrived near Kharkov, made it possible for several units to take off for free hunting. Biigishi took his plane into the air a couple of times, but did not meet a single German plane. But a day later, when our two flights took off, a long-awaited meeting with the enemy took place. The Germans damaged several of our planes and one even burned down, but, fortunately, the pilot managed to jump out of the burning plane. The command thanked our pilots for the first and very successful battle. For newcomers to take a battle with experienced German pilots and return, having lost only one car, is already a success, especially by the morning of the next day our ground troops informed the pilots that as a result of this battle they saw several burning and falling German planes. Within one week Biigishi took part in aerial reconnaissance four times, including two military clashes with German pilots. In the fourth combat sortie ours were attacked with great numerical superiority by German aircraft. The battle was hard, several enemy planes burned down, but ours also got it pretty. In this group battle, one of the downed enemy planes was credited to Ibragimov's account, but he found out about it lying on a stretcher, when our orderlies picked him up, after he fell out of a burning plane. As a result of being wounded in this air battle, he had to be treated for seven months in an evacuation hospital in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region. After his recovery, he was assigned to the ground forces, where Biigishi fought until the end of the war as platoon commander of 1251 park artillery regiment of the 17th Bryansk and 1 Ukrainian fronts. The Motherland noted the pilot's military merits with the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, as well as military medals: "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany", as well as many other awards ... The veteran died in the city of Buinaksk, was buried in his native village of Verkhnee - Kazanishche.

CITY: s. Sukhaya Bugurna, Simbirsk district, Simbirsk province DATE OF BIRTH: 21.08.1908 DATE OF DEATH: 08.12.1998 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 121st Rylsko-Kievskaya Rifle Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. My grandfather was mobilized into the army in January 1942 by the Bogdashinsky district military enlistment office and sent to the 25th Guards Training Battalion. From February to August 1943, he studied at the courses for junior lieutenants of the Voronezh Front, after which he was assigned to the active army. As commander of the mortar and rifle platoons of the 574th rifle regiment of the 121st rifle division, he fought on the Voronezh, 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts. He took part in the Proskurovsko-Chernivtsi, Lvov-Sandomierz, West Carpathian offensive operations, the liberation of Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia, the cities of Ostropol, Zborov, Lvov and many other small and large settlements. Was wounded twice. In February 1944, for courage and heroism shown in battles during the Kiev operation, Junior Lieutenant Albutov was awarded the first military award - the Order of the Red Star. A few months later, the command again presented him for the award, noting the following merits: “When breaking through the enemy defense in the Zhitnitsa-Severni sector on 03/04/1944, a platoon under the command of Comrade Albutov destroyed up to 1 platoon of the Nazis and suppressed 2 heavy machine guns. In the battle of 03/09/1944 near the town of Letichev, Comrade Albutov,for a whole day, having moved forward with a mortar platoon, held back under the hurricane tank and machine-gun fire of the counter-attacking enemy, and destroyed up to 50 Nazis, suppressed two enemy firing points. For stamina and decisiveness in battle, comrade Albutov was awarded a government award of the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. " The commander of the 574th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Sparrow. On May 19, 1944, by order of the commander of the 38th Army, Junior Lieutenant Albutov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Continuing to participate in the battles, Lieutenant Albutov took command of one of the rifle platoons as part of his regiment. Once again he distinguished himself during the battles on the territory of Poland during the liberation of the town of Nowy Sacz: “When breaking through the enemy's defense on January 15, 1945 and in subsequent battles, Comrade Albutov showed examples of courage and valor. In the battle for the town of Gribow, a platoon of comrade Albutov was the first to overcome the enemy's defenses and put the enemy to flight. In this battle, the platoon destroyed: 1 easel and 2 light machine guns and destroyed 11 Nazis. In subsequent battles, Comrade Albutov captured 2 prisoners and 1 enemy light machine gun. For these actions, Comrade Albutov is worthy of a government award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. The commander of the 574th Lviv Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Vorobei. On January 30, 1945, however, the level of the award for this submission was subsequently significantly increased, as a result of which, by order of the commander of the 38th Army No. 012 / n dated February 22, 1945, the commander of the rifle platoon of the 574th Lvov rifle regiment of the 121st rifle Rylsko -Kiev Red Banner Division Lieutenant Albutov V.D. was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky No. 27643. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, in November 1945 he was transferred to the reserve. He returned to his homeland, to the Ulyanovsk region. In the village of Krotovka, Isheevsky district, he worked as the chairman of the local village council. Lieutenant Albutov V.D. - Chevalier of the Orders of Alexander Nevsky, Patriotic War II, I degree and the Red Star. He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and several commemorative medals.

CITY: city of Astrakhan DATE OF BIRTH: 07/11/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 10/21/1995 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Aleksandrov Konstantin Yakovlevich was born in 1923 in Astrakhan. In addition to him, there were two more children in the family - the elder brother Ignat ( 1911) and sister Lydia (1926). Before the war, Konstantin finished 7 classes of high school, worked, like his older brother, at a construction site. When the war began, their father was no longer alive. In the fall of 1941 Ignat was called up. Konstantin worked in the rear for another year until he was 18 years old, and in the summer of 1942 he was also drafted by the Stalinist Military Commissariat, Astrakhan. At this time, the Battle of Stalingrad began, and young soldiers who were not fired were taught the basics of military science in their training fate, then they were sent to harvest in the fields, then again to training, and only after the end of the Stalingrad operation in the winter of 1943 they were sent to the front. Like Ignat, Konstantin became an artilleryman, only he served not in the cavalry, but in the motor artillery as a gunner of a 76-mm anti-tank gun as part of the 1250th Order of Lenin of the Sevastopol Fighter Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, the 35th Separate Fighter-Anti-Tank Artillery Sevastopol Brigade of the High Command Reserve Brigade. Konstantin fought from Krasnoperekopsk to Sevastopol, liberated the Crimea, liberated the Baltic states, took part in the battles for the capture of Konigsberg, participated in the defeat of the Japanese in Mongolia. According to order no .: 19 / n of November 18, 1944, Konstantin was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for the fact that "in a fierce battle near the village of Tolzo in Estonia, under the fire of the Nazis, he brought shells to a gun standing on direct fire, and this provided fulfillment of the assigned combat mission ". A month later, by order No. 20 / n of December 25, 1944, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the fact that "in the battle for the city of Valmiera in Latvia, he replaced the wounded gunner and destroyed 1 machine gun and two German infantry squads with direct fire." Two months later, on February 14, 1945, in heavy bloody battles for the Prussian city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) near the village of Maraunen Konstantin, "while repelling the enemy's counterattack, despite the strongest shelling of the Nazis, coolly pointed a gun and shot the advancing German infantry point-blank." As a result, the fire of his guns "destroyed 20 enemy soldiers and officers and repelled a counterattack. Continuing to fire," Junior Sergeant Aleksandrov helped our infantry move forward and occupy an advantageous line. For courage, courage and skillful actions in battle, he was presented with the Order of the Red Star, but in fact he was awarded the second medal For Courage (Order No. 3 / n of February 28, 1945). For military services, in addition to the above, Konstantin was also awarded medals "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For victory over Germany", "For victory over Japan" (order of June 09, 1945), the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (archive doc No. 89 of 04/06/1985, Order No. 3285750 - stolen, like one of the medals "For Courage"). The long-awaited Victory Day on May 9, 1945, Konstantin met in Konigsberg with the rank of sergeant, but was demobilized only in September 1947 in Mongolia. After the war, he returned to his sister and mother in Mariupol, in the fall of 1947. entered a worker at the Mariupol fish plant. He was sent to a 6-month course for marinade masters and fish processing masters, after which he became an assistant master in the Shirokino fish shop (Shirokino village, Novoazovsky district, Donetsk region). He married Nikolayenko Ekaterina Semyonovna. In 1954 he was sent for a year to study at the Riga Fish Technical School, specializing as a master technologist of the fishing industry. Lived and worked as a caviar master in the village of Shirokino. Three children: Ivan (born 1953), Olga (1955-1958), Elena (born 1959). He died in 1995, was buried in the village of Shirokino

Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Fought on the Western Front as part of the 20th army, 1170 artillery regiment. From April 1942 to March 1943 it was the gun number for 76 mm cannons. On February 23, 1943, together with his comrade, he restored the broken connection. Already on the way back he was wounded in the back, his friend carried him to the unit. Despite the fact that the military card says "severe wound to the spine", he was incredibly lucky, because the bullet went through almost the entire body, almost without affecting the vital organs. Entering the lower back from the right, she passed the spine, next to the heart, pierced a lung and exited at the left shoulder. Was presented to the Order of the Red Star. The medical personnel who carried him to the rear passed through Moscow, where he lived at the time. And Vasily Mikhailovich ran home to see his parents. At first they considered him a deserter and wanted to put him under a tribunal, but after understanding the situation, they simply sent him to the hospital, but he did not receive the Order of the Red Star. After treatment, art. regiment. From March 1943 to July 1945 he was a computer worker of the Separate Reconnaissance Division of the 1170th Artillery Regiment. After the war, Vasily Mikhailovich returned home to Moscow, entered the university, but could not graduate, because his father was seriously ill and soon died, he had to go to work. He worked at ZIL as a turner, and from August 1947 until his retirement at the Moscow Experimental Thermal Power Plant at the All-Union Thermal Engineering Institute (MoETS VTI), first as a normalizer, then as a senior foreman of a repair and construction department. First of all, he was a wonderful artist. As a boy, he studied at the Surikov School. He was a member of the Moscow Artists' Union. Several of his paintings are kept in the Kolomenskoye Museum. Vasily Mikhailovich loved his family very much. Passed away at the age of 80.

Rank: Corporal Type of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 1st Guards Mortar Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Division Imangulov Baysar Sharifullinovich was a leader in life. He began his working career as a military commander at a school in Buryat-Mongolia after being seriously wounded in his right shoulder, which he received in heavy battles near the city of Vitebsk on December 28, 1943. 19 km from the front, in unprecedented difficult conditions, three doctors performed 3 operations on the wounded right hand, pulled out the fragments, and saved his life. But until the end of his life, until the age of 88, he carried in his hand, small fragments that could not be pulled out. Before the operation, he was given 100 grams of vodka for anesthesia. After the operation, he was sent with other wounded to recover in the city of Velikiye Luki. After recovering on 05/20/1944, he went to his native village Chokady-Tamak to his girlfriend Hamdie, and she was already married without waiting for him. Baisar Imangulov's parents, Kamil's mother and Sharifull's father, at that moment lived on the shore of Lake Baikal, having left before the war, during the famine time of 38-40 years, to Lake Baikal, in search of food for the family, ate omul fish, berries, mushrooms. After his native village, Baisar went to his parents (at that time they were still temporarily living there with the other 4 children) to the place of mobilization in Buryat Mongolia, on the shore of Lake Baikal ... There he met a very beautiful curly-haired black-eyed girl By Khalisa Shaikhlislamovna Shaehova. She was sent from Tatarstan to Buryat-Mongolia, the city of Ulan-Ude, after graduating from a teacher's college, She left the family, as her stepmother had greatly offended her. Her local names were Liza and Baysar thought she was Russian. Mom told him to marry only a Muslim woman and he could not disobey her. Getting to know Lisa better, he found out that she was Tatar, and they got married on May 1, 1945. After that, the Imangulov family left for their small homeland in Bashkortostan, the village of Chokady-Tamak. Imangulov Baysar Sharifullinovich was an excellent student of public education, chairman of the first advanced collective farm named after Matrosov in Tuimazinsky district of the Bashkir ASSR (at the time of appointment there was a collective farm Irek) - 13 years. Then he was the secretary of the party committee of the Michurin collective farm, then he was a history teacher at a secondary school in the village of Karamaly-Gubeevo, tk. at the age of 50 he graduated from the Bashkir State University, specializing in history teacher. Imangulova Khalisa Shaikhlimovna was the director of an 8-year school in the village of Kadry-Kutuevo, Tuimazinsky district, an Honored teacher of Bashkiria. They raised 5 children (three sons and two daughters).