Artillery

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ When the war began, my father Terentyev Gavriil Yegorovich lived in the village of Kolomino, Chainsky district, Tomsk region. A sixteen-year-old owner stayed with a young sister in his arms, his mother died in 1940, his father is in prison, his older brother is at the front. He worked on the subsidiary farm of the Kolpashevsky regional consumer union. _x000D_ In August 1942, at the age of 17, he was drafted into the army, sent to an artillery training in the Chelyabinsk region, where gunners were trained. He finished his studies until October 1942 and went to the front in 1436th Guards Self-Propelled Regiment as a 122mm gunner, and from January 1943 he was at 3rd Guards Tank Corps. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was wounded somewhere near Kharkov, the self-propelled gun was knocked out, it caught fire, not all survived. There came the first death notofication for my father. He lay with a concussion and burns in a hospital in Voronezh, the hospital was then transferred to the Somovo station, Voronezh was often bombed. They treated him for a month, after the concussion he heard poorly in his right ear. _x000D_ Near Akhtyrka, the self-propelled gun was set on fire again, the hair on his head burned out and his left hand was badly burned, and he temporarily lost his sight. The survivors were taken prisoners, and whether someone else survived or not he did not know because he was not able to see. He jumped out of the hatch directly into the hands of the Germans. _x000D_ So came the second death notofication, "notice-duplicate": "I inform you that your son, Red Army soldier Gavriil Yegorovich Terentyev, was killed on August 20, 1943 in the combat for the socialist homeland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage. Buried: Kolkhoz "Udarnik", Sumy region. Basis: case number 10, page 34, Kolpashevsky civil enlistment office, Lieutenant Colonel Merker. The crew of that car: mechanic driver Bondarenko from the Kuban, Pykhtin from Moscow, forgot the name and surname of Uzbek._x000D_ They were taken prisoners, taken to the river, to a hospital for prisoners. Then they were sent by train to Slavuty in the Vinnitsa region, then to East Prussia in the city of Homerstein, attempts to escape, tightening the regime ... _x000D_ On April 16, 1945, the allies liberated the British prisoners of war and those who were taken to Germany to work, formed a Regiment. He went through interrogations in a special department, was issued new documents, a little distorted data, lost awards. But this is not so important, the main thing was – he is still alive. He was sent to 40th self-propelled Regiment as the Commander of the 57 mm anti-tank gun. He was demobilized in February 1947.

Rank: Captain _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_ My grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, was born in 1904 in the village of Molochkovo, Ilyinsky district, Ivanovo region. After the war, he lived and worked in the city of Ivanovo, Ivanovo region, in a managerial position at a factory. Ivan Alexandrovich died in 1949 and was buried in the cemetery in the town of Sosnevo in the city of Ivanovo. His family had seven children (Yuri, Boris, Victor, Vladimir, Valery, Galina and Nikolai), his wife's name was Anna Georgievna. _x000D_ In 1927, my grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, graduated from the Regimental School of 1st Moscow Rifle Regiment and was awarded the rank of Junior Commander of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He fought in the Finnish War. He was drafted to the Great Patriotic War in June 1941 by the Oktyabrskiy Military Comissariat of the Ivanovo Region and went through the whole war until the very end, first in parts of the Moscow Air Defense Front, then in parts of 3rd Corps of the Eastern Front of Air Defense. _x000D_ He served as a captain and commanded a platoon. He was a Senior Communist and the Secretary of the party commission of 784th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. He conducted patriotic work with soldiers, helped young soldiers incombat. According to the Military Council of the Eastern Front of the Air Defense, the state of party political work in the Regiment was recognized as the best of all parts of the Corps. With his diligence and responsiveness to the needs of the Red Army, my grandfather has earned sincere respect and authority among the personnel of the Regiment. _x000D_ During the period of the raids on the city of Gorky, he was constantly in the most critical areas, on batteries that were subjected to bomb attacks. Personal fearlessness and composure ensured efficient work of personnel and high morale. _x000D_ For his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as other medals and distinctions. _x000D_ Our family is proud of our soldier Ivan Aleksandrovich Titov. According to my aunt's recollections, their father was kind and fair. He was a courageous man and told the children how, under open enemy fire, together with other soldiers, he fired back. Not fearing death, he went on the attack, raising everyone behind him. Of course, it was very scary in the war. It was hard for his children, at that time there were six of them, all of them had to be fed and taught.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolai Sorokin was born on August 9, 1924 in the village of Shizhgutovo, now the Rodnikovsky district. He met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War with the students of the Rodnikovsky vocational school. After graduation, he worked as a turner at a factory in the city of Furmanov. In May 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. In a howitzer reserve Regiment, he successfully mastered the military specialty of a topographer-computer. He held the test of courage in the first combats on the Volkhov and Bryansk fronts. In July 1943, already as a gunner, he took part in the combat of Kursk. By the spring of 1944, he fought as part of 1432 Light Artillery Regiment of 317th Artillery Breakthrough Division, was a gunner, then a gun Commander. As part of this Regiment, he went to Victory. _x000D_ In 1944 he joined the Communist Party. On March 27 in the area Kuyava he shot the counter-attacking enemy with point-blank fire, knocked out a tank and destroyed an infantry platoon. For this combat he received his first military award, the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On 16/0744, 4 tanks and up to 2 infantry platoons moved to Sorokin's gun. Letting the tanks and infantry of the enemy at a distance of 300-400 meters, Sorokin entered into single combat with them. As a result of an unequal and fierce combat, 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. Firing at the retreating infantry, he destroyed 40 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ On 17.07.44 the enemy again counterattacked the Regiment's positions. The battery, where Sorokin was the gun Commander, had 18 tanks and up to an infantry Battalion. Having let the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, Sorokin opened fire from his gun. The lead tank was hit by the second round. At the moment when the crew went out of order, Private Sorokin stands at the panorama of the gun and personally knocks out the second tank himself. The enemy tanks and infantry turned back. In an unequal combat, Private Sorokin emerged victorious. For 2 days of fighting, he knocked out 4 tanks with his cannon and destroyed 110 enemy soldiers and officers, repelling 4 counterattacks. As a result, the occupied line was held, our infantry moved forward. _x000D_ "By the order of the Commander of the artillery of 60th Army, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The enemy's mortar battery was suppressed, 2 bunkers were destroyed, an armored personnel carrier with infantry was knocked out by direct fire. Having been wounded in this combat, Sorokin did not leave the gun and after rendering assistance remained in the ranks. The award for the combat was the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Sergeant Sorokin distinguished himself again in May 1945. On May 1, near the village of Got, fighting in an encirclement, he fired until the last shell, after which, by order of the Battalion Commander, he removed his guns from encirclement. For this combat he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" on the territory of Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ In 1947 he was demobilized. He returned to his homeland. He worked in Rodniki as head of the trade department. In 1956 he moved l to the city of Kaliningrad. He worked at 2nd pulp and paper mill as a loader, barker, turner. When he was entrusted to head the transport department of the enterprise, his organizational skills of the head were revealed. He retired in 1984 from the position of the head of the personnel department. He lived in the city of Kaliningrad (regional). He died on July 6, 2001. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree (15.09.1944), the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree (11.03.1985), the Red Star (05.02.1945), the Order of Glory of 3rd degree (15.04.1944), medals.

Suldin Philip Efremovich, my grandfather, was born in 1922 and went to the front at the age of 19. He was a platoon Commander of 123rd Guards artillery Riga Regiment of 53rd Guards Rifle Tartu Red Banner motto. He had been part of 3 Leningrad, 1 and 2 Baltic fronts from 1941 to 1945, ended the war in Riga. He was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree for courage and fearlessness, for skillful fire control of the battery and ensuring the accelerated advancement of a supported Rifle Battalion in combats when breaking through defenses in the Petermuiža, Krimunas, Putnu-Zhids area on December 23-26, 1944. _x000D_ Being all the time in combat formations of the advancing infantry 157 GVSP, he adjusted the fire of his battery at enemy firing points. According to its correction, 5 heavy and light machine guns, 2 guns of 105 mm were destroyed, scattered and partly destroyed before an infantry platoon. He personally took part in three attacks of our infantry and on 12/25/1944 was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and shot two Nazis with his personal weapons. In eachcombat he acted decisively, skillfully and courageously, inspiring the soldiers of his platoon to complete any assigned combat mission. Being in the combat formations of the infantry, he repeatedly participated in attacks with her, twice replaced the out-of-order Commanders of Rifle companies in combats and led them to perform combat missions. Thus, in the combats of February 20-23, 1945, in the area of Priekule, he was also in the infantry combat formations, skillfully leading reconnaissance and adjusting the fire of his battery. On the night of February 21-22, when the enemy in a large group, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, tried to break out of the encirclement, Philip Efremovich, together with his recons and platoon signalmen, courageously fought off the advancing enemy. _x000D_ At the same time, 12 Hitlerites were destroyed by his soldiers and by him personally from service weapons. In a combat with the enemy that night, he was wounded, but did not leave the combatfield, but continued to lead the repulsion of the enemy counterattack and personally exterminate the Nazis. In the combats of February 22-23, he replaced the killed battery Commander and, adjusting the fire of his guns, knocked out a self-propelled gun, destroyed two machine-gun points, suppressed the fire of a separate enemy gun standing on direct fire, scattered and partially destroyed 2 enemy infantry groups up to a company each, preparing for counterattack. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He died in January 1960 from an illness in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region.

Suleimanov Askhat Nigmatulovich was born on June 1, 1923 in the village of Azovo, Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR. He was called to the front of the Arkhangelsk Military Comissariat of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on September 17, 1941. He had been part of the combats in the Great Patriotic War since December 18, 1943. He was a Senior Lieutenant, Commander of a mortar platoon of 2nd Mortar Company of 47th Rifle Gdansk Red Banner Regiment of 15th Rifle Sivash-Stettinskaya twice Red Banner Order of Lenin, the Orders of Suvorov and the Red Banner of Labor of the Ukrainian SSR Division. He had been a Communist party member since 1944 (party card No. 6314191). Awards: 1. Medal "For Courage" on October 7, 1944. Quote from the award list: "In offensive hostilities in the area of the Zofyuvka farm in the Hungarian district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on March 19, 1944, while firing at thecombat formations and the enemy's fire system, he personally smashed 2 German machine-gun points and destroyed 15 Nazis. In extremely fierce combats for the railway in the area of the settlement of Ozhelek, on August 22, 1944, he pinned down the enemy's actions with well-aimed mortar raids. Continuously participating in combats since the beginning of the breakthrough of the enemy's defense on June 24, 1944, with mortar fire from his platoon, he inflicted the following losses on the enemy: 6 firing points destroyed, 37 infantry. 2. Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree March 30, 1945. Quote from the award list: "In the regiment's offensive hostilities, which began by breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses in the area near the Pokshivnitsa settlement of the Pultu district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on January 14, 1945, relentlessly moving with the infantry with the fire of the mortars of his platoon, he helped the infantry. When breaking through the defense, destroyed 2 machine-gun points with their crews. Pursuing the retreating enemy, he shot down the fire cover left by the Germans. He successfully passed more than 250 kilometers of combat. On January 26, 1945 reached the Vistula River, where on the East Bank in a two-hourcombat the last cover in front of the river was knocked down. When crossing the Vistula River, he crossed it with the infantry, and the enemy stronghold Gross Westpalen was taken on the west bank on January 27, 1945. The enemy undertook offensive actions 4 times attacked our units, trying to eliminate the foothold we had created on the west the bank of the Visla, in the morning of January 27, 1945. The attacks were unsuccessful. Officer Suleimanov's platoon destroyed up to 30 Nazis, and Suleimanov was wounded. He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". After demobilization as a result of a second wound, Askhat Nigmatulovich worked as Chairman of the Tereklinsky village council of the Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR, he retired in 1983. On April 6, 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree in honor of 40th anniversary of Victory Died on April 27, 1985. He was buried in the cemetery of the Azovo village.

Sataev, Mukhamedzhan_x000D_ Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Sataev Mukhamedzhan was born in 1922 in the city of Omsk, Pavlograd district, village of Kaidaul, then moved to Zhanatan. Before leaving for the war, he attended mortar courses. On May 1, 1942 he was drafted to the Volkhov front. He survived the Leningrad Siege. From 1944 to 1946 he served as deputy Commander of a mortar, gunner of 504th Mortar Regiment. From June to November 1946, he was a deputy Commander of the mortar of 135th Artillery Regiment, he went to Czechoslovakia to destroy a large group of enemy. _x000D_ He was awarded: Medal "For Courage", Medal "For Defense of Leningrad", Medal "For Liberation of Prague", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" , medal "For military Merit", Medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree._x000D_ On November 13, 1946 he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of Junior Sergeant. After the war he helped the state in the development of agriculture. He received among the first veterans, a VAZ 2101 car, a ticket to VDNKh. _x000D_ He was recognized for labor in peacetime, awarded the title "Veteran of Labor" and awarded the medal "For Labor Valor of the USSR", the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin." _x000D_ He was married to Sataeva, Kuken, who was awarded the Maternity Medal for raising 5 children. In the village of Mikhailovka, Omsk, Kormilovsky district, there is a sign of the Order of the Patriotic War on the house where he lived.

Rank: Red Army Soldier._x000D_ Branch of service: Artillery._x000D_ Duty station: 222nd Smolensk-Brandenburg Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division._x000D_ Born on October 7, 1922 in the village of Bolshaya Vocharma, Kosolapovskaya volost, Sernurskiy Canton (now Mari-Tureksky District) in a peasant family._x000D_ His father Roman - an active supporter of the Soviet government, the first Chairman of the Greater — Vocharminsky Village Council, one of the organizers and the first accountant of the collective farm "Saska" ("Fruit") - died in 1930 due to complications from a wound received in the First world war. The family had five children, Sergey was the eldest. Sergei went to the first class of More-Vecherinki primary school in 1930. Later he studied in Bolshoy-Royalskiyl 7-year School, where he was among the best students. He was instructed to make after classes a wall Newspapers, posters, signs. After finishing school, he entered the Marie-Belomorskiy Pedagogical College. In addition to studying, here he was also engaged in public Affairs: he joined the Komsomol, participated in sports competitions and received sports badges Ready for Work and Defense, Ready for Sanitary defense, Air and Chemical Defense, Voroshilovskiy Shooter_x000D_ S. Suvorov was drafted into the army on August 12, 1941. On July 12, 1942, a platoon of the 774th Rifle Regiment conducted a reconnaissance battle of the front edge of the enemy's defense near the village of Agafino (Khopilovo?). The soldiers, led by the platoon commander, Second Lieutenant Shandrikov, Political Officer Lapshin, overcame two lines of wire barriers and entered the battle. A group of submachine gunners, which included Suvorov, pursuing the retreating enemy, broke forward and was cut off from their unit by a barrage of mortar fire. The group leader and other soldiers were killed. Suvorov left alone and wounded, led an unequal battle all day until the evening. During the first two hours, repelling the onslaught of the enemy, he destroyed 10 German soldiers and wounded many. The enemy opened heavy mortar and machine-gun fire on the Soviet soldier's position. Then, believing him dead, they went forward, but were again met with sub-machine gun fire. It was only at night that the paramedics pulled him out from under enemy fire. 22 corpses of German soldiers laid near the trench, and there were seven wounds on the body of a soviet soldier._x000D_ In fourth day, on July 17, Red Army soldier Suvorov died from wounds in the hospital of the 391st Separate Medical Sanitary Battalion of the 222nd Rifle Division. The primary burial place was the Musino cemetery. Subsequently, he was reburied in the village of Iznoski, Iznoskovskiy District of Kaluga Region in a mass grave, where a Park is now laid out and a monument to the hero stands._x000D_ By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 31, 1943, for courage and heroism shown in the battles with the Nazi invaders, the Red Army soldier Sergey Suvorov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin (posthumously).

Branch of Service: Artillery. Sergeant Major._x000D_ D. Sloyan served in the Red Army since 1939, a participant of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Later served in Odessa. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he was at the front. Sloyan participated in the defense of the Kerch Peninsula._x000D_ In May 1942, spent three days on a raft in an open sea. On May 16, he was picked up and taken to Taman. After this incident, he was in anti-aircraft and then anti-tank artillery units. In the difficult year of 1941 – Dzhmo Sloyan became a candidate, and in 1943 - a member of the Communist Party._x000D_ During the period of fighting from March 21 to March 30, 1943, when our units attacked the village of Kamenka, Sergeant Major Sloyan, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, rolled out a gun to an open firing position 300-400 meters and destroyed one anti-tank gun, 5 machine-gun points and 2 enemy bunkers, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ In the battle for the village of Boborykhin Hill on September 17, 1943, as the commander of a battery of 45-mm guns, Sergeant Major D. Sloyan with a group of fighters destroyed 5 machine guns, up to two platoons of enemy infantry, and successfully repelled a counterattack by enemy infantry and tanks._x000D_ The brave battery commander was awarded the medal For Bravery, and on December 7, 1943 – the second Order of the Red Star._x000D_ In the battles near the village of Zastenok Yurev of the Dubrovinskiy District of the Vitebsk Region on November 25, 1943, D. Sloyan commanded a platoon that destroyed 14 machine guns, destroyed 8 enemy dugouts, and ensured the advance of our infantry. He was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree._x000D_ In heavy fighting, D. Sloyan was seriously wounded on December 25, 1943. After recovering, he continued to serve in the Red Army and was discharged in 1946. He worked for a collective farm, and from 1961 he worked for state farm #38 in the Ashtarak District. In 1992 he moved to Kharkov Region, Chuguev District, village of Vvedenka, St. Barova, 2. Died on October 20, 1998, was buried there.

Branch of Service: Artillery._x000D_ The military history of my father, Oleg Smirnov, begins in 1940. After completing the 10th grade of Irbit High School, he was called up to the Pacific Fleet for active military service. From the training unit on the island of Russian father was assigned to the submarine in the position of helmsman. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, my father was eager to go to the front in the area of military actions. After repeatedly submitting reports, he was seconded as a volunteer to the marine brigade._x000D_ In the winter of 1941-42, as member of brigade, my father took part in the offensive near Moscow, on the Kalinin front. In 1942, my father was sent to the 2nd Guards Omsk Artillery and Mortar School, and graduated with the rank of Lieutenant in March 1943._x000D_ From the spring of 1943 to the beginning of 1945, he fought on the Leningrad Front in a rank of Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, commanded the installation of Guards mortars (the famous "Katyusha"), and later commanded a battery of such mortars. Soldiers and officers of the front gave half of their meager food rations to be sent along the "Road of life" to those residents of Leningrad who remained in the city. Until the end of his life, my father could not calmly watch if food was thrown away, and even more so bread._x000D_ After the siege of Leningrad was lifted, the 2nd Guards Mortar Brigade of the 5th Artillery Division of RSC, which included my father's battery, participated in the liberation of the Baltic States from the Nazis, in particular Estonia and Tallinn. With the 1st Belorussian Front, he took part in the liberation of Warsaw from the Nazis._x000D_ My father, Oleg Smirnov, Guards First Lieutenant, commander of the Katyush battery, took part in the battle of Berlin, and then the exit to the Oder-spree canal, where his unit was stationed until 1947._x000D_ My father was wounded in battle. He was discharged in March 1947._x000D_ Awarded Orders of the Red Star, Patriotic War, medals For the Defense of Moscow, For the Defense of Leningrad, and the Liberation of Warsaw, For Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945, various jubilee medals and awards._x000D_ After returning from the front, he graduated from the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of People’s Economy. Worked for GOSPLAN of USSR and GOSPLAN of RSFSR. After retiring in 1982, he took an active part in the work of the Council of veterans of the Great Patriotic War._x000D_ He died in July 1986. He was buried at the Vagankovo cemetery.

Date of birth: 24.07.1912_x000D_ Date of death: 24.09.1988_x000D_ History: _x000D_ Alexander Matveev was born on July 24, 1912. Career artillery officer. Served in the Far East._x000D_ He met the Great Patriotic War in the Primorsky territory, in the Ussuri District._x000D_ He began fighting in the 3rd Guards Army on the South-Western Front during the Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad from 19.11.1942._x000D_ He took part in the liberation of Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Berdichev, the liquidation of the Korsun - Shevchenko group (January-February 1944), then Zhytomyr, Novograd-Volynskiy, Rovne, Dubno, Lutsk, Torchin, the Lvov Offensive (Zamostie - Russkie Peski - Sandomirz on the Vistula)._x000D_ January 1945 – a break in the district of Opatów (Poland), the entry on German soil. Approaching the Oder River, the capture of Glogau, of Frankfurt on the Oder, the access to Berlin._x000D_ Participant of the meeting of allies in World War II on the Elbe River._x000D_ On April 30, 1945, an order was given to cross the Elbe River near Riza._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, there was a meeting on the Elbe River with allied troops._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, the order was given to capture the city of Dresden and, on the night of May 1, 1945 British planes (more than 1000 pieces) raided Dresden, which was left in ruins from that raid._x000D_ After our troops fought counter-battles, the Germans concentrated their troops on the defense of Berlin._x000D_ In the South, the Vlasovites remained on the defensive, moving into Czechoslovakia through the Tatra Mountains (the ridge separating Germany and Czechoslovakia)._x000D_ On May 9, our unit approached the city of Prague, and then until May 12, 1945, they smashed the Vlasovites in the area of Benezhev._x000D_ On May 12, 1945 was the Great Victory Day, the celebration of our troops and the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague._x000D_ Chief of technical department of the howitzer artillery regiment of RTK and then the Deputy Chief of technical department._x000D_ Was awarded:_x000D_ two Orders of the Red Banner_x000D_ - Order of the Patriotic War,_x000D_ - Medal For the Capture of Berlin,_x000D_ - Medal For the Liberation of Prague,_x000D_ various medals._x000D_ At the end of the Great Patriotic War, on 31.05.1945, he was sent to the city of Mozdok for further military service._x000D_ Later, he served in the city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), Vinnytsia, and Uryupinsk._x000D_ He finished his military service in Uryupinsk in 1959 with a rank of Major._x000D_ He died on September 24, 1988.

HISTORY: My grandfather Metersky Yakov Borisovich was born on April 25, 1913 in Skobelev (Fergana, Uzbekistan). In early childhood, he was left without parents. He was raised in a family of relatives living in Tashkent. He studied at the Tashkent Dzerzhinsky School No. 29. In the mid-20s, he became a pioneer. In 1927, he joined the Komsomol. After graduating from High School in 1930, he worked and studied at the Institute, entering the state Institute of Supply (Samarkand) in the Department of food industry planning, specializing in planned Economics. After defending his thesis in 1935, he worked as a labor economist. From 1937 to 1941, he worked as the Head of the Planning Department of the Samarkand cannery. He joined the Communist Party in 1940. _x000D_ In July 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his military service as a Commissar of 67th Battery of the Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division, which was stationed in Ashgabat (Tajikistan). _x000D_ At the end of August 1941, Commissar Meterski participated in the fighting in Iran, when the 83rd Division took part in the military allied operation "Consent". On August 25, Soviet and British troops simultaneously crossed the border of Iran. On the third day of the operation, the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division began fighting in the mountainous regions of Iran. Iranian troops with two infantry divisions occupied the defensive lines in the mountainous regions of Mashhad and Gorgan. _x000D_ Despite the convenient defensive positions, the Iranian forces offered little resistance and on August 29, 1941, the Armed Forces of Iran laid down their arms to the British, and on August 30, to the Soviet troops. _x000D_ On September 8, 1941, an agreement was signed defining the location of allied troops in Iran. Iran was divided into two occupation zones: the British (Southern) and the Soviet (Northern). The allied operation “Consent” was the most fleeting and almost" bloodless " (40 people were killed). Thanks to its successful outcome, the southern transport corridor was protected, along which allied troops carried out lend-lease supplies for the Soviet Union, and Germany and its allies were denied access to the oil fields. _x000D_ The 83rd Turkestan Division as part of the group of Soviet troops was in Iran in the areas of Mashhad and Gorgan until November 1942, performing the protection of the southern borders of the USSR. In September 1941, Commissar Metersky was appointed Secretary of the Communist Party Bureau of the 67th Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division. In March 1942, he was transferred to the Political Department of the Division. From August 1942 to May 1943, Captain Meterski served in the 4th Separate Rifle Battalion of the 64th Separate Rifle Brigade (82nd Rifle Division of the 68th army). _x000D_ At the end of 1942, the Division fought 170 km North-East of Smolensk. In March 1943, it reached the Minsk shosse, was stopped by German troops, and at the beginning of April 1943, it was taken to the near rear for rest and manning. From May 1943 to June 1944 comrade Metersky participated in combat operations as part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion of the 192nd Rifle Division of the 68th Army. Near the city of Yelnya on August 9, he was seriously wounded in the head. After recovering, he returned to his military unit. As part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion, he reached the border of Russia and Belarus. _x000D_ Since June 1944, he fought as a member of the 46th Separate Anti-tank fighter Division (46 OIPD) of the 210th Rifle Division of the 31st Army on the 3rd Belorussian Front, in April-May, 1945 on the 1st Ukrainian Front. With the division, he went on a combat path from the city of Orsha to Prague. As part of the 46th Division, he participated in operations to break through the German defenses and capture the city of Orsha, in forcing the water barrier of the Berezina river, in the battles for the capture of Minsk. He took part in the fighting to eliminate the East Prussian grouping of German troops South-West of Konigsberg. _x000D_ Near the city of Grodno in July 1944 he was wounded a second time. For participation in the battles for the capture of the city and fortress of Grodno, he was awarded the order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ After the victory in the Great Patriotic War until July 1946, he served in Germany as a Deputy Commander of a Division in the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 7th Guards Army. During the war period, he was awarded orders and medals of the USSR: the order of the Red Banner (22.08.1944), the order of the Patriotic War I degree (17.03.1945), medals “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” on (09.05.1945), “For Capture of Konigsberg” (09.06.1945). In the postwar period he was awarded the order of Patriotic War I degree (11.03.1985); medals "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" "50 years Armed Forces of USSR", "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "60 years of Armed Forces USSR", "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "70 years of Armed Forces USSR", "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War". _x000D_ From 1946 to 1967 Metersky J. B. worked at the industrial enterprises of Uzbekistan and Moldova. In June 1967, he moved to live in Novokuznetsk. He worked as the Director of Novokuznetsk Shoe factory No. 4, Novokuznetsk Dry Cleaning Factory, General Director of the production Association "Kuznetskkhimchistka". He worked at the Novokuznetsk plant for repair of household machines and appliances. He retired with 53 years of work experience. For his labor merits, he was awarded the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor” in 1970 and the badge “Winner of the 1973 Socialist Competition” in 1985. He lived in Novokuznetsk for 34 years.

Serganov Sergey Sergeevich_x000D_ Rank: Colonel_x000D_ Type of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Guard Colonel Serganov Sergei Sergeevich was born in the Bryansk region in a family of workers. After completing 7 classes at school, S. S. Serganov continued his studies at the technical school of the Bryansk locomotive building plant "Krasny Profintern". Then he worked as a senior designer of a copper-Nickel shop and had an exemption from service in the army. _x000D_ From the very first days of the war, the plant began to operate under the wartime regime, and on July 3, 1941, an order was received to evacuate the plant to the rear of the country beyond the Urals to the city of Krasnoyarsk. In December 1941 Bryansk machine builders began to send grenades and mortars to the front, later wagons and locomotives. In Kovrov, at the machine gun factory, factory employees participated in the production of Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun , ShVAK aviation cannons, and sub-machine guns. Disturbing news had reached the rear, the enemy was at Moscow, and the situation was serious. _x000D_ Serganov, having abandoned his exemption from active duty, voluntarily came to the regional military Commissariat in November 1941 with a request to send him to the front. Given his education, life experience and ability to lead people, he was sent to study at the Kirov (1st) Red Banner Artillery School in Krasnoyarsk. After completing 6 months of training, on May 2, 1942, Sergey Serganov received the military rank Lieutenant and went to the Bryansk front as Deputy chief of Staff of the Artillery Division. However, the situation at the front quickly changed and in June 1943, Serganov became the commander of the control platoon of the 2nd Artillery Division 152-mm guns of the Shuisky 602th Gun and Artillery regiment, where he proved to be a skilled artillery officer, and after 2 months became Deputy commander of the 4th battery of the 2nd Artillery Division of the regiment. _x000D_ In the presentation for the award of the order for Patriotic war I degree No. 20304036 from 10.07.1943, Senior Lieutenant S. S. Serganov in battles with the German invaders showed courage and bravery. _x000D_ «05.08.43 year Serganov received the mission to destroy the bunker, which occupied a dominant position in the area of Height 203, 3; to counterattack with fire the intersection of the roads and the section of road from Height 203, 3 to Lipovaya Balka. This bunker was used as an observation station. On the night of 5/6 July 1943, comrade Serganov rolled out a gun to the very front edge in the area of 6-I Kurganov, 2 km west from Novo-Sergeyevka, and in the morning during the artillery preparation with direct fire, despite the heavy shelling of the enemy guns from mortars and machine guns, destroyed the bunker with 4 accurate hits. Destroyed: machine gun, stereo tube and 6 Germans, including 3 officers. For his brave actions and good shooting, he received a commendation from the commander of the 40th Army's Artillery. Senior Lieutenant Serganov is a brave and strong-willed battery commander, who always performs the missions assigned to him with honor."_x000D_ "At the end of 1944," recalls Sergei Sergeevich, " we were 100 km from Berlin. The Germans stubbornly resisted, feeling that their days were numbered. There I received a through wound in the leg, but was treated at the local medical center. I also remember an artillery duel with the Germans during the storming of the fortress of Glogau in the spring of 1945, when two guns fired direct fire against each other. Our crew had a better qualifications and with the first shot we hit the enemy cannon. _x000D_ I met Victory day in Prague, and before that, on May 7 - 8, we listened to the Sovinformburo reports to ceasefire and capitulation of Nazi Germany on the radio. The fraternal Czechoslovak people were jubilant, we were given a living corridor when we met, people stood with flowers and shouted in Czech "Nazdar! Nazdar!" (Hello, Hello!). Then, in the war, we lived as one family, all the Nations, there were brothers-Slavs. We fought together against a common enemy, and our Victory was shared.»

Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Red Army Man _x000D_ Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich came from village of Shilovo, Smolensk region, and had been a participant in 3 wars: the Finnish, Japanese and Great Patriotic war. He was called up for war by the military Commissariat of the Smolensk region. He served on the Belorussian front as a private, then as a commander of an artillery gun. _x000D_ Once, he was captured by the Germans in the Smolensk area, but he escaped successfully with a fellow countryman from the village of Lyubavichi. He attributed his luck to the fact that his countryman understand some German. They found out about a rest break on the road and a change of guards. The hustle during the change of the guard helped them to disappear. Then he went to the military enlistment office again to join his regiment. _x000D_ Another story of his lick happened during the attack, when his gray soldier’s overcoat was shot through by a German machine gun. Ar first, he did not pay attention to this and continued to run at the enemy along with everyone else. Later the platoon commander looked at him and said: "This is not an overcoat, but a sieve of some kind. And not a single wound! You are a lucky man, Andrey! So you will go through the war and stay alive. There is such a soldier's sign." My grandfather didn't really believe in superstition back then, but the soldier's sign worked in his case. _x000D_ In the post-war years, he often recalled that incident and told this story the children in his native village school when he was invited to the Victory Day. He was shot twice. At the end of the war, he was wounded in the leg and received a severe concussion. He was sent to a Leningrad hospital for long-term treatment and was discharged in 1946. He regretted that he had not not participated in the capture of Berlin because of his injury. Sinitsa AF was personally acquainted with Sergeant M. Yegorov, (they were fellow countrymen and lived 25 km from each other), who planted the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag together with M. Kantaria. _x000D_ Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich was awarded the order of the "Patriotic war", the medal "For Military Merit", "For Courage" and jubilee medals. After the war he returned to his native village to join his family, where five children were already growing up. He worked at a kolkhoz stable and was buried in the local village cemetery.

Timkov Roman Borisovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Ranл: Red Army Man_x000D_ Military branch: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Roman Timkov was born in 1904 in the village of Kavkazskoe, Krasnoyarsk region. He went to the war on August 16, 1941. He fought in 256th Rifle Division, in the gun crew of 312 Separate Fighter-Anti-Tank Division. He went through the war to the end and participated in the most bloody combat and survived. _x000D_ He fought for Kalinin (Tver); was among the remnants of the division that broke out of the encirclement at Rzhev; broke the Siege of Leningrad, storming the impregnable Sinyavino Heights, was surrounded at the Volkhov swamps; fought in Narva, beating the endless attacks on "Evereska foothold". He was liberating Riga and hitting tanks buried in the ground with direct fire; he finished off the fascists in the Baltics when Berlin had been captured. For him, the war did not end on May 9, 1945. _x000D_ After the Victory, he crushed the million-strong Kwantung army in Manchuria. Roman Borisovich Timkov died on May 9, 1978. He was wounded five times. He was awarded four medals “For Courage”_x000D_ "Comrade Timkov had been fighting at war since 16.08.41. During this time, he had four injuries, including three light and one severe. In the combat to the north-east of the station Ergli 14.09.1944 the enemy launched a counterattack. Comrade Timkov destroyed six enemy soldiers with automatic rifle fire and showed exceptional courage. For the valor shown in combat comrade Timkov is worthy of the state medal "For Courage"._x000D_ “Rifleman of 8th rifle company, Red Army soldier Timkov Roman Borisovich received a state medal “For Courage” for liberation of the Soviet homeland in Volkhov, Leningrad and 2 Baltic Fronts, he proved to be honorable and skilled soldier, was wounded five times.”_x000D_ "In the combat in the area of Mizeneki Latvian SSR from 17.03 to 23.03.45 comrade Timkov, being a gun driver, showed himself bold and decisive. Under the enemy’s fire, he took out his gun in a timely manner to an open firing position and provided ammunition on time. 21.03.45 the enemy launched a counterattack with the support of heavy artillery and mortar fire. In the very midst of the combat, the ammunition ran out. Timkov, under heavy enemy fire, delivered ammunition to the firing position in a timely manner, thereby contributing to the performance of the combat mission. For valor in combat, comrade Timkov received a state award, the medal “For Courage". _x000D_ "In the combat with the German invaders, comrade Timkov proved to be an honorable Red Army soldier. In the combat in the area of South Buttobi, Latvia comrade Timkov under enemy fire took his gun to an open firing position in a timely manner, showing courage and determination, thereby contributing to the performance of combat missions. For exemplary performance of combat missions comrade. Timkov received a state award, the medal “For Courage".

Toporkov Yegor Kirilovich_x000D_ Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Type of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Unit: 96th Rifle Division (2nd formation) _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Toporkov Yegor Kirillovich was born in 1922. He went to the front in February 1942 and participated in the war with Germany as part of the Don, Stalingrad and Ukrainian fronts. His first baptism of fire was in a battle near the Don river near the town of Serafimovich. The veteran remembers: _x000D_ "We were crossing the Don river by whatever means we could use. We, the gunners, have prepared rafts for transporting the guns. The Don was literally seething with exploding mines and shells. The fighters were floundering in the icy water, going to the bottom. The enemy fire was so strong that the crossing was choked. It was a terrible sight, people in their last seconds of life were making such inhuman screams that it was shivering on the skin. But gradually the enemy fire stopped, and I saw a small group of our fighters on the other side of the Bank. They took up a circular defense and repelled the attacks of the Hitlerites. We were given the command to take up firing positions and cover our fighters with artillery fire. So the foothold with a length of about one and a half kilometers on the other Bank of the Don was occupied. At night, the rest of the units had crossed over. The next day, the town of Serafimovich and several settlements were liberated. _x000D_ Yegor Kirillovich fought on the Kursk Bulge, took part in the destruction of various groups of fascists. He liberated Romania, Hungary, and Austria. He was twice seriously concussed, severely wounded, and had about eleven light wounds, twice surrounded. _x000D_ Sergeant Toporkov was awarded 14 commendations from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and many medals, including "For Bravery", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Capture of Budapest", "For the Capture of Vienna", "For the Victory over Germany".