Artillery

Rank: Red Army Soldier _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 74th Guards Rifle Lower Dnieper Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnytsky Shchors Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Thirteen years have passed since my father, Ivan Savelievich Svyatogor, died, a man of rare kindness, sincerity and great love of life, a veteran World War II, an eternal worker who lived a decent life and left only good and warm memories of himself. His fate was not easy, he had to go through a lot, but my father was always an example for others. _x000D_ Immediately after leaving the High School, he went to the front, fought in the 62nd Army under the command of General Chuikov, walked from Stalingrad to Berlin. _x000D_ It was very hard, sometimes they went hungry for several days, they fell off their feet from fatigue and fell asleep right on the cold ground. Fate kept his father, for all the years he was only shell-shocked, but the war left a mark on his heart for all his life, because very many comrades remained on the battlefield. The two brothers did not return from the war. _x000D_ After the end of the war, my father graduated from the pedagogical institute and devoted his whole life, almost 40 years, to teaching, heading the Peretinskaya School. He taught physics and mathematics at School. In addition, he did a lot of social work, was an excellent organizer, handyman and painted well. _x000D_ My father never sat idle: he built a new house, landscaped it, loved to be in the forest, fish with a rod, loved working with wood. It so happened that at the age of 45 he was left alone, his mother unexpectedly died, and the family had 5 children. _x000D_ Lord does not give trials that cannot be endured. With his second wife, Evdokia Andreevna, they raised and brought up all worthy people. At that time I was 4 years old, and, as the youngest, I got more love, care and attention. The oldest sister, Lyubov, lives in Transbaikalia in the Chita region, already retired, is engaged in housekeeping, brings up grandchildren. Valentina is in Ukraine, she is also a pensioner, but she leads an active lifestyle, works a lot, does not sit still. Sister Tamara and brother Alexander live in Bryansk, work, raise children, help raise grandchildren. _x000D_ We have a wonderful family, friendly and cheerful, we never fight, because there is simply no reason. Like fingers on one hand, we hold tightly to each other, and this is probably the great merit of our parents.

Rank: Corporal _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Sonin Vasily Maksimovich, was born on June 16, 1923 in the village of Melguny, Mordovian district, Tambov region. He graduated only from the 4th grade of School, then he helped two brothers and parents in the farm. He was drafted to the front from the village of Shulgino, Mordovian district, Tambov region on October 28, 1941, as a very young eighteen-year-old boy. He began his military career in the 729th Infantry Regiment, from June 1942 until the end of the war he served as a recon. He participated in the defense of Leningrad. In 1942 he took part in the Kharkov operation. During this operation he was wounded in the leg and was taken by horse-drawn carriage to the hospital. _x000D_ As a true recon, he did not talk about his efforts during his lifetime. _x000D_ After the war, in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree for his fortitude and courage shown in the war. What effort he was awarded the Order of the Red Star during the war, our family did not know. But I managed to find archival documents describing the efforts of the hero of our family, V.M. Sonin. _x000D_ So we learned that in the offensive battles in the spring of 1945, Vasily Maksimovich Sonin showed himself to be a bold and resourceful recon. He personally reconnoitered 4 heavy and light machine guns, 2 enemy direct-fire guns, which were later destroyed by our mortar fire. Together with the infantry, he was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and destroyed 4 Nazis with the fire of his machine gun, and when the Germans launched a counterattack, he was the first to rise with a machine gun and shout "Hurray" led his infantry fighters to repel the counterattack, where he personally killed 5 more Hitlerites. For this effort he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ He made another effort in the combat on September 18, 1944, and destroyed 4 enemy soldiers with automatic fire at the entrance to the village of Vir. Also he discovered 2 fascist machine guns, which were later destroyed by the fire of our mortars. By this he contributed to the offensive of their infantry. For which he was awarded the medal "For Courage". _x000D_ The family album contains several photographs brought after the war, where he was captured with his comrades in arms while serving in Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. In the victorious 1945 he took part in the liberation of Prague from German troops. He was awarded the medal "For Liberation of Prague", as well as the medal "For Victory over Germany". _x000D_ After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve in Ukraine. In 1947 he was transferred to the reserve. Returning to his homeland he worked as a mechanic at a sugar factory. Already in peacetime he was awarded jubilee medals. November 7, 2016 Sonin V.M. in the village of Shulgino, Mordovsky District, Tambov Region, a memorial was opened dedicated to the soldiers who did not return from the war, as well as to the immortal efforts of 13 thousand residents of the Mordovsky District of the Tambov Region, fallen in the combats during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ Besides, his brothers and sister were also fighting in the Great Patriotic War,: Sonin Mikhail Maksimovich (1919-1984), Sonin Pyotr Maksimovich (1912-1988), Sonina Alexandra Maksimovna (born in 1927). Currently, their names are included in the book of memory "They returned with victory" about the soldiers-fellow countrymen who returned from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Rank: Senior Leiutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 6th Guards Artillery Riga-Khingan Breakthrough Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikita Dmitrievich Tikhonov was born on April 1, 1917 in the village of Chepkas-Nikolskoye, Shemurshinsky District of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. He began his service on October 25, 1938 as a conscript. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was drafted into the active army. He served as commander of the traction squad, driver of the command battery of the 119th Howitzer Artillery Brigade of high power of the active army on the Western and Second Baltic fronts. He participated in the defense of Moscow, liberation of the Smolensk, Belorussian regions and the Baltic states. _x000D_ For courage, N.D. Tikhonov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals “For Courage”, “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. " During the hostilities of the brigade of 3rd Shock and 42 armies in the areas of 79, 100, 101 Rifle Corps in the area of Dramsti, Teteni, Graverti, Venena, Suntazhi, Ozolmuizha, N.D. Tikhonov quickly mastered the management of a foreign car. Working as a driver, he delivered the personnel of the reconnaissance group to the areas of the infantry battle formations. When performing a mission to clarify the front edge of the enemy's defense, N.D. Tikhonov with a reconnaissance group moved through heavily mined terrain, showed initiative, courage, personal resourcefulness, which contributed to clarifying the situation and identifying the enemy's engineering structures. As a result of this activity, on October 21, 1944, he was also awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ _x000D_ After the end of the war, N.D. Tikhonov continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1945, he studied at the courses for Junior Lieutenants of Artillery of the Baltic Military District, then worked as a commander of a park platoon and a vehicle division of the 556th Klaipeda Mortar Regiment, 272th Artillery Brigade, 43rd Latvian Guards Rifle Division of Riga, as well as on Sakhalin Island. On July 25, 1953, he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of Senior Technician Leiutenant. _x000D_ Returning to Chuvashia, he worked as a freight forwarder at the Chuvashkabel plant and a confectionery factory in Cheboksary. December 31, 1969 Nikolay Tikhonov died from a heart attack.

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 2nd Infantry Division (2nd formation)_x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Iosif Ivanovich Subbotovsky, was born in 1909 in the Novosibirsk region. Mariinsky district, village Raevka in a family of exiled Poles. Almost all of his relatives, parents, sisters and brothers, were repressed in GULAG camps. _x000D_ As his wife mentioned, Emelyanova Anastasia Kuzminichna is my great-grandmother, "Yuzik" was a very kind, sympathetic and respected person, a Soviet officer. He also took part in the Finnish war. After in 1941 he was called to the front, communication with him was lost. My great-grandmother was looking for him for a long time, he was reported missing, but then she received the second death notification: _x000D_ Subbotovsky Joseph Ivanovich of the Guard Jr. Leiutenant, commander of a Rifle platoon, 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 2 Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, killed in action 08/03/1942, Kalinin region. Rzhev district, village Galakhovo, north-east the outskirts, the forest ... _x000D_ Dry words, a short summary, and a whole life was cut off, even two lives, because my great-grandmother never married again and did not even allow such a thought, she kept living only with memories. She could not betray the memory of her husband and father to her only daughter. She could not betray the daughter who didn't even remember his face, his voice. _x000D_ My great-grandfather was killed near Rzhev, judging by the date, at the notorious for its grandiose losses of the Combat for city of Rzhev, in the first Rzhev-Sychevsk operation (July 30-October 1, 1942) of the Kalinin under the Commander I. S. Konev and Western under the Commander and leader of the entire operation, G.K. Zhukov fronts with the aim of defeating the German 9th Army under the Ccommander, Colonel General V. Model, which was defending in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky ledge. _x000D_ The total losses of Soviet troops in the operation amounted to about 300,000 people, or 60% of the size of the Red Army grouping at the beginning of the operation. Incomplete losses in tanks amounted to about 1085 people. Direct losses of the 30th Army amounted to 99,820 people. My great-grandfather ended the war as the Commander of a Rifle Platoon of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division.

Rank: Senior sailor _x000D_ Branch of troops: Coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops. _x000D_ _x000D_ Pavel Grigorievich Tikhonov was born on 17.12.1920 in Moscow Region._x000D_ He served from 10/25/1939 as a gunsmith in the 71st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force (item 1071). The 71st Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force was formed in September 1940 (Subsequent renaming: from May 31, 1943 by Order of the People's Commissar of the Navy No. 190, the 10th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force). As part of the active army during the Second World War from June 22, 1941 to May 31, 1943. On June 22, 1941, it is based at the airfields near Tallinn: Lagsberg (56 I-153) and Ülemiste (3 MiG-3, 8 Yak-1, 3 I-15 bis, 2 UT-1, 1 UT-2, 3 U- 2). Since the beginning of the war, it has been covering Tallinn and the islands of the Moonsund archipelago from the air. _x000D_ In August 1941, the Regiment was mainly involved in strikes and cover strikes against enemy columns that were advancing towards Tallinn, operates in the area of Narva, Kingisepp, Volosovo, and also covers convoys of ships that were evacuated from Tallinn. _x000D_ At the end of August 1941, the remnants of the Regiment flew to Leningrad. Tikhonov Pavel Grigorievich was captured on October 5, 1941 near Riga, died in January 1942 in the Stalag XD camp (310) Witzendorf. Record number 300102490. Camp number 43920. He was killed in captivity. Burial place: Witzendorf.

Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery S_x000D_ ubdivision: 113th Infantry Division (1st formation) _x000D_ He was born on January 19, 1925 in the town of Kimry, Tver Region. Before receiving a diploma of graduation from a veterinary technical School, there were several months before conscription into the army. By that time, the Troitsky family was already living in the North Kazakhstan Region, in the village of Yavlinka. According to the distribution from the military registration and enlistment office, Viloria was sent to the Almaty Infantry School. _x000D_ In a hurry, two companies were organized from young conscripts and sent to the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the 29th Sniper Regiment. _x000D_ After training, Viloria Troitsky was awarded the rank of Junior Sergeant, and in the road again to the Reserve Regiment in the Moscow Region, in Orekhovo-Zuevo. And then he was sent to the war front, the 38th Guards Lozovskaya Rifle Division. They were to fight on the Belorussian front. _x000D_ They moved to the place of battles at night. All the equipment was dragged for about 300 kilometers. Vilory Alekseevich took his first battle in the Region of Brest. He fought in the 113th Guards Regiment as a Commander of machine gunners, in the 48th Rifle Regiment as a Reconnaissance officer of artillery and mortar units. He was first wounded and concussed in Poland. On the approaches to Warsaw V.A. Troitsky received a second serious wound, after which he got to Austria with the 3rd Ukrainian Front, where he celebrated the news of the end of the war. _x000D_ He was demobilized in March 1952. He came to Saran in 1954. For 21 years he worked at mine No. 107 as an underground electric locksmith. In 1975 he retired. Vilory Alekseevich was awarded the Orders of Glory of the III degree and the Patriotic War, the medal of Marshal G.K. Zhukov, the anniversary medals of Victory, the medal "60 years of the Liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders."

Rank: Major_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Tok Vladimir Karlovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1905 into a working class family. In 1928 he married Valentina Ivanovna Golubeva, had four children. In 1934 he graduated from the Leningrad Industrial Institute, and by 1941 he became a Senior engineer in the new engine design group at the Research Diesel Institute. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, he volunteered for the Leningrad army of the people's militia, received the title of Military Engineer of the 3rd rank, was enlisted in the 277th Separate Machine-gun and Artillery Battalion. He was responsible for the operation and repair of the Battalion's vehicles. In August-September 1941, the Battalion took up defensive positions on the Strelna - Ropsha highway near the village of Razbegayevo, where it fought fierce battles with the advancing enemy. In mid-September, under the onslaught of the enemy, the Battalion retreated to the Oranienbaum foot strong, where it occupied a new line of defense. _x000D_ At the beginning of 1942, Vladimir Karlovich was recalled from the front and sent to Moscow. At first he served in the repair and maintenance service of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, then in the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army. _x000D_ Vladimir Karlovich was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Defense of Leningrad" and "For Victory over Germany." _x000D_ He was demobilized in 1948. At the beginning of the war, his wife and four children were in Leningrad, from where they were evacuated in the summer of 1942 along the Road of Life, having survived the most terrible months of the blockade in the besieged city. His wife and youngest son passed away, and after the war, Vladimir Karlovich raised three children alone. He worked at various enterprises in Leningrad, passed away in 1977.

Rank: Red Army Soldier._x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Tyagunov Semyon Fedotovich was born in the village of Volkhonshchino, Tambov Region on September 27, 1926. Mom was Alexandra Danilovna, dad was Fedot Dmitrievich (disappeared in the war in 1941), brother was Alexander (most of the photos are signed "In good memory to brother Shura from brother Senya"), sisters were Marusya and Tonya. He studied in the village of Sokolovo, finished 7 classes. At the beginning of the war he studied, was a cadet of the 15th Department. Motorcycle Training Regiment. In October 1944, he was sent to the front as a motorcyclist of the 421st Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from the 66th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade. _x000D_ On the website Memorial, information was found that the grandfather was listed as missing, but they sorted out the confusion, although, as far as is known, this terrible notice was sent to his mother, Alexandra Danilovna. After the end of the war, he served in Poland as a driver of the 678th motor Transport Battalion (October 1945—October 1946), 253rd Division Motorcycle Battalion (October 1946—March 1950). _x000D_ He married on May 9, 1950 to Tyagunova (Satina) Alexandra Ivanovna (labor veteran), who worked as a Teacher of History and German; she is now retired. They lived in the village of Vyachka, Kirsanov District, Tambov Region. Grandpa worked as a chauffeur. _x000D_ Grandpa had never mentioned anything about the war, and I didn't ask. And now I would very much like to listen to his stories, but too late now. I remember he loved to reread the book by Nikolai Yakovlev "Marshal Zhukov", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Victory.

Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Smagin Vasily Titovich (04/12/1911 - 02/23/1991). Vasily Titovich was born and raised in the village of Konstantinovskoye, Petrovsky district, Stavropol Territory. He is buried here, too. _x000D_ He was drafted to the front in the summer of 1942. He served in the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment as the first gunner on an anti-aircraft gun. As my grandfather said, he was a gunner of the 2nd battery of military unit 1339 ZAII-GIZA. Vasily Titovich took part in the Vitebsk offensive operation (February-March 1944). _x000D_ For the liberation of Vitebsk in Belarus, he received the gratitude of the supreme Commander-in-Chief for the liberation of Vitebsk, (this letter was handed to grandfather personally by Zhukov and it was signed by Stalin) and the medal "For Courage". _x000D_ Vasily Titovich participated in the East Prussian operation and the crossing of the Neman River (1945). He said: _x000D_ At the crossings over the Oder and Neman rivers in East Prussia there was such a fierce battle that it was hard to see, where was the sky, where was the ground. The water was boiling, the ground was burning from bombs. The planes circled in the sky like locusts. People and horses and equipment went under the water. For participation in this battle, he received a medal "For Military Merit" and gratitude for crossing the Neman river. _x000D_ Vasily Titovich took part in the assault on Konigsberg (April-May 1945). During a combat for Konigsberg my grandfather was wounded and ended up in a medical unit. Immediately after the treatment, he went back еще the war. _x000D_ Vasily Titovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Also his awards: a medal “For Capture of Berlin”, a medal “For Victory over Germany”, and 14 Jubilee medals. Vasily Titovich celebrated the Victory Day in Berlin. He has 6 children, 9 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and a friendly family is growing.

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division _x000D_ "I must live my life for my brothers, and, if possible, happily ..." _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov is one of the few survivors who had to go through the entire war from the first to the last day. Before the war, Muhangali lived in the village of Balykshi, Guryev Region. In 1939, at the age of 19, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his service in Kharkov. As an excellent student in military service, Muhangali was sent to study at an anti-aircraft regimental School. And then the war started. _x000D_ The cadets were put into echelons and sent to the front. The mood was cheerful: everyone was sure that they would quickly defeat the Germans and return home with victory. They could not even imagine that a heavy, bloody war would stretch for four long years ... _x000D_ From the Turmagambetov family, Muhangali was the first to join the army. Then his brothers Kurman and Uzakkali became soldiers, a little later it was the turn to go to the front for the third brother Kuben. Once, instead of the long-awaited "brother triangle", a death notification came, brother Kurman was killed. A year later, the hero Uzakkali died, and the seriously wounded Kuben lay in the hospital for a long time. Soon he also died from wounds ... _x000D_ On July 17, in Belarus near Bobruisk, Muhangali took part in his first combat. He had to fight first in the infantry, since the anti-aircraft units were not provided with military equipment. It was scary. The Red Army turned out to be unprepared for a war with a well-armed enemy. The losses were huge, no one counted them, the death squads simply buried the dead._x000D_ At the beginning of November 1941, Sergeant M. Turmagambetov's anti-aircraft battery was stationed near Moscow. And he had a chance to participate in the historic military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941, when the fascist troops approached Moscow dangerously close, and right from the parade he went to the front. A few days later, Muhangali was wounded and hospitalized. As soon as things got better, he returned to his anti-aircraft Artillery. _x000D_ Near the town of Izyum on the Seversky Donets River in March 1942, he shot down his first enemy plane. And then there was Stalingrad. On the defensive lines, rare moments of silence were the harbingers of new fierce attacks. They, replacing each other, rolled in a continuous succession, battle after battle. In Kalach-on-Don, near Stalingrad, the gunners held the defensive for a week, following the order: "Not a step back!" German planes raided the city every day. The battery of the gun Commander M. Turmagambetov guarded the pontoon bridge 4 kilometers long. The Germans bombed day and night. And the anti-aircraft gunners had to take care of the shells. Then they built a raft, put a cannon on it and began to fire at the German tanks with direct fire with anti-aircraft guns. In the battles for Stalingrad, Muhangali Turmagambetov shot down two enemy aircraft, destroyed three tanks, not allowing the enemy to pass through his positions. For these bloody combats, he received the Order of the Red Star, and the entire combat crew was awarded medals. _x000D_ After the Battle of Stalingrad, they became part of the third Simferopol Artillery Division. The liberation battles in the western direction were no less hard and bloody, but the realization that the enemy was retreating, and they were liberating cities and peoples one by one, helped greatly and gave new strength to the soldiers. _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov fought Bessarabia, Romania, Hungary, Carpathians. The anti-aircraft gunner shot down his last plane on April 13, the day of the liberation of the Austrian capital, Vienna. The war for him ended on May 13, 1945 in Czechoslovakia, northeast of Prague, where Field Marshal Scherner's group resisted. He received the Order of Glory, 3rd degree, which he was very proud of as the main soldier's order. _x000D_ On June 24, 1945, Mukhangali Turmagambetov took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. He got into this anti-aircraft Regiment, having passed a tough selection from almost ten thousand people! The requirements were really strict: height had to be 1 meter 70 centimeters, good bearing, at least three state awards on the chest. _x000D_ After the parade, he returned to his unit, which was stationed in Budapest. Forty years after these events, in 1985, at the parade dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Victory Day, Mukhangali Yesenovich Turmagambetov again had a chance to march on Red Square. He got there as a participant in the 1945 Victory Parade. _x000D_ In Moscow, in the Museum of the Armed Forces, there is an anti-aircraft gun on which it is written: “The gun of Senior Sergeant Mukhangali Turmagambetov of the 15th anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion of the 6th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, of which 16 aircraft were shot down in battles with the Nazis, a record number during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ Mukhangali Yessenovich Turmagambetov is a man of unusual destiny. A guy from a village lost in the Kazakh steppes, miraculously survived and marched three times on Red Square, taking part in three Victory Parades. After the end of the war, anti-aircraft gunner M. Turmagambetov abruptly changed his life. Even before the war, he graduated from a fish technical School. After the war he decided that he should study further. In 1946 M. Turmagambetov entered the Moscow Institute of Fisheries. As it turned out, he was the first Kazakh who graduated from this institute and worked for over 20 years in the fishing industry of Kazakhstan.

Rank: Starshina _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 132nd Rifle Bakhmach-Warsaw. Division Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov _x000D_ I, Samarin Fedor Tikhonovich, was born on May 29, 1926 in the village of Olkhi, Mozharsky District, Ryazan Region, into a family of peasants. My parents are Samarin Tikhon Vasilievich and mother Samarina Evdokia Mikhailovna. In 1936, I went to study at the Olkhovsk National Assembly School and graduated from the 7th grade. In the summer of 1940, a system of labor reserves was organized, at that time I left for Moscow to the 14th vocational School at the Kolibr plant, where I had studied until the fall of 1941. _x000D_ In 1941, our School was evacuated to the Urals in the city of Nizhny Tagil to the 15th vocational School, where I finished my studies. Later, in 1943, I moved back to Moscow to the management of labor reserves, from where I was redirected to the 31st vocational School of the Navy, where I worked as a master of industrial training until February 1944. _x000D_ In February, I was sent from the School to the Rostokinsky district military enlistment office in Moscow. In the regional military registration and enlistment office, I was sent to the depot . We were sent to the city of Narva, where we were engaged in timber harvesting and laying various routes. Then we were sent to Leningrad, from there to Molotov in the Urals, to the Naval Aviation Technical School. _x000D_ Due to the low level of education it was hard to study, I was expelled and sent to the Molotov depot, and from the depot I was sent to one of the combat units to the front as an anti-tank gunner, where I was wounded in the left side. " _x000D_ In his autobiography, he wrote only about one wound, but there was also a shell shock. He also did not write about his participation in the battle for Warsaw, after which he was given gratitude by order of Stalin (January 17, 1945). I found proof that he fought with the same 47th Army: “The Soviet 47th Army, having gone over to the offensive on January 16, crossed the Vistula on the move north of Warsaw.” _x000D_ “... From the hospital I was enrolled in the second Tank Brigade in the Department (special), where I was an orderly for the head of the Department, at the same time was an assistant to the platoon Commander at the Department. From the Brigade I was sent to the hospital, and from the hospital to the Reserve Regiment. From the Reserve Regiment I was enrolled in the 425th Art Regiment. In 1945, the 47th Army left Germany for the USSR, and I was transferred to the 8th Guards Army of the 76th Separate Workers' Battalion, where I served as Commander of an administrative platoon. Then I was sent to the garrison officers' house of the 8th Army in Voimur in Germany as a supply agent, where I worked until March 1947. _x000D_ In March 1947, I was demobilized and registered for long-term service in the Mozharsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Ryazan Region. From November 1958 to the present, I have been working as a Company Starshina”. _x000D_ At the end of his service, he worked as a carpenter in the unit. He met his future wife in the same unit, she worked there as a cook.

Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Vasily Petrovich Skarga was a Commander of the Mortar Crew of the 24th Guards Cavalry Regiment (5th Guards Cavalry Division, 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Belorussian Front), Guard Senior Sergeant. Vasily Petrovich Skarga was born into a peasant family in the village of Alinovka [Rossoshanskiy district]], Voronezh Region. He graduated from the 6th grade of School, worked in kolkhoz. _x000D_ In July 1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army at the Mikhailovsky District Military Commissariat of the Voronezh Region. In the battles in the Grodno Region near the village of Yashchebna on July 20-25, 1944, the Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga with his crew destroyed 2 machine guns and a platoon of enemy soldiers, which ensured the Squadron's combat mission. By order of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps on August 6, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On January 31, 1945, during the offensive battles in the area of the town of Orneta, Warmia and Mazury Voivodeship, the Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga and his crew destroyed 3 enemy machine-gun points and over 10 soldiers. In the offensive battles on February 16, 1945 in the area of the town of Konitz (Chojnice in the Pomeranian Voivodeship), he, in command of his crew, destroyed 2 machine guns and over 10 enemy soldiers.By order of the 2nd Belorussian Front on March 6, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree. _x000D_ In a battle on the outskirts of the city of Hindenberg (Eastern Prignitz-Ruppin, Lindov (Mark)), Guard Senior Sergeant Skarga, personally finding out the location of the enemy's firepower, destroyed 3 firing points with his crew and a sub-machine gunners detachment, which made it possible to complete the combat mission for the Squadron. On the same day, his crew destroyed 2 firing points, scattered and struck many enemy soldiers in the area of the settlement of Tsekhov, 8 km west of Hindenberg, which allowed the vanguard of the Regiment to seize the airfield. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 29, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree. _x000D_ Guard Starshina Skarga was demobilized in December 1947. He graduated from the mechanization School in the city of Grozny, after which he was sent to the city of Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory. He worked as a minder in the Tikhoretsk road repair and construction Department. _x000D_ In 1985, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

Rank: Corporal. Branch of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. A biography of our father and grandfather can fit into several paragraphs. But behind them is a whole human life and the life of his generation, with its joys and troubles. He was born in the village of Koken, Zhanasemeysky District, he did not remember his parents, since he had lost them early and was brought up by his grandfather. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, Zhumagali Serkbolov studied at a Geological Prospecting College. After completing the 2nd year, he completed an internship at the Karsakpay field under the guidance of the famous scientist Kanysh Satpayev. When the war started, he was 22 years old. At the end of the 3rd course, in May 1940, Zhumagali Serikbolov was drafted into the army, and then to the front. He went through the whole war. _x000D_ Since August 1941, he fought as part of the troops of the Western Front and as a squad leader, and after graduating from the accelerated Courses of the Penza Artillery and Mortar School as a Platoon Commander on the 3rd Belorussian Front. In April 1945 he was awarded the medal “For Capture of Konigsberg”, where he was injured. _x000D_ He returned home in 1946 with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two medals "For Courage", a letter of commendation from Stalin. He got a job as a journalist in a regional newspaper, and this was the only job for life. An eternal ascetic, he traveled all the farms and villages of the Semipalatinsk Region, he knew the land and the peasants who worked on. Keeping abreast of events, my father had a huge, unique mind with tons of information. _x000D_ Before retirement, he worked in the information and letters department. The readers knew their journalist well and turned to him with requests. He tried to help everyone, always responding to calls. The Museum of the History of the Geological Prospecting College in Semey stores documents and personal belongings of 71 veteran graduates, including documents and awards of the front-line soldier Zhumagali Serkbolov.

Sorokin, Nikolay Stepanovich_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. He was born in the village of Tolsky Maidan on December 20, 1923. Before the war he studied at the Tolskoy Maidan Secondary School and worked in a kolkhoz. In the fall of 1941, he was sent to build fortifications near the city of Gorky, being the schoolboy of the last 10th grade. Upon arrival home, he was called up for military service and sent to the city of Kostroma to the 3rd Leningrad Artillery School. From February to August 1, 1942 he was a cadet, then a Junior Sergeant. From August to October 1942, he was a Sergeant and Commander of a Reconnaissance Department in 3 batteries of a Separate Artillery Division of the 92nd Rifle Brigade of the 62nd Army in the city of Stalingrad. He took part in the defense of Stalingrad. Once he and a group of soldiers defended a house in Stalingrad, which was destroyed during the combat and captured by German troops. _x000D_ And Nikolai Stepanovich was covered with the rubble and was left unconscious. Just two days later, the Russians recaptured this house and heard groans coming from under the rubble. They removed the wounded soldier and sent him to the hospital. _x000D_ After this combat, a death notice came to the village. It was declared that Sorokin N.S. was killed in action on October 16, 1942 during the defense of Stalingrad and was buried in Volgograd. (Such an entry is in the Book of Memory.) After leaving the hospital, from April 28, 1943 to July 6, 1946, he served in the 29th Cavalry Regiment. Then he was sent to Turkmenistan in the 27th Frontier Detachment to the Iranian border, where he served for three years. He was demobilized on March 31, 1949. _x000D_ During his service he was awarded with certificates of honor and medals. After demobilization, he studied and worked at the School until 1977. For health reasons, he moved to work in a kolkhoz as Chief Power Engineer. Nikolai Sorokin passed away and was buried in the Tolsky Maidan.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Branch of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 47th Infantry Nevelskaya Orders of Lenin and Suvorov Division. Panteley Lukyanovich was born on August 10, 1921 in the village of Novy Yegorlyk, Salsky District. After finishing the 7th grade, he worked in a kolkhoz, and in the fall of 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in the 546th corps Artillery Regiment. On June 22, 1941, at about 4 am, Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. From the first days of the war, my grandfather with the 546th corps Artillery Regiment held back the German offensive near the town of Zhlobin, where on July 6, 1941 in a fierce combat he was wounded and fell behind his unit. After treatment in hospital, he got to the military depot near the town of New Belitsa and was sent to the 137th Rifle Regiment. _x000D_ During the general offensive of our troops in December 1941, early 1942, Panteley Lukyanovich was on the Western Front. After the liberation of the city of Kozelsk, their military unit of the 47th Guards Division of the 137th Guards Rifle Regiment was transferred to the Southern Front in the areas of Station. Morozovka, Northern Donets, and then to the Mius river. Beginning in February 1943, from the Sea of Azov to the headwaters of the Mius River, the Nazis strengthened a powerful defensive line called “Mius Front”, accumulated manpower and equipment. _x000D_ As my great-grandfather told me, the Tomb of Saur, marked on the front maps as the Height 277.9 was of particular importance. It bound the entire defense of the Germans. On August 18, 1943, the troops of the Southern Front started an assault on the Mius Front. For almost two weeks, the fighting did not subside, and only on August 31 the height fell. _x000D_ On October 14, 1943, the troops began to prepare for the crossing of the Dnieper. The group headed by the Guards Senior Lieutenant Senchenko Panteley was chosen to remove the German Guards of the bridge across the river. The mission was completed. On November 26-29, 1943, our troops crossed the Dnieper River near Zaporozhye. For the successful implementation of this operation, over 40 soldiers were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. My grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star (No. 143970). _x000D_ During this operation, my great-grandfather was seriously wounded and was sent to a hospital in the city of Saratov, where he remained until April 25, 1944. After recovery, he returned to his unit, which was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front. _x000D_ One of the largest operations of the Great Patriotic War was Belarusian Offensive called "Bagration" began on June 23, 1944. The 1st Belorussian Front, where my grandfather fought stormed Hitler's "eastern shaft" in Polesie. During the general offensive in the area of the city of Kovel on July 19, 1944, my great-grandfather, Senchenko Panteley Lukyanovich, Guards Senior Lieutenant of the 47th Guards Rifle Division of the 137th Guards Regiment, was seriously wounded and concussed. Нe had treatment at the hospital №2040 in the city of Kislovodsk. This was the end of the war for him. Senchenko Panteley Lukyanovich was a disabled of the 1st group, had awards: Order of the Red Star, Two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Medal “For Victory over Germany”, jubilee medals.