Artillery

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ I was born in Moscow into a working class family and studied in high school. In 1938 I joined the Komsomol, but in December 1939 I had to leave school (in 9th grade) due to the hard financial situation in the family. Since December 1939 I began working in the Sokolniki branch of the Mosgorbank, from where I voluntarily left for the active army. _x000D_ On 20th of March 1942, I arrived at the Field Army Artillery Depot No. 1404 of the Kalininsky, then North-Western, 1st Baltic fronts, where I was engaged in ammunition accounting, secret office work and acted as a typist. The Field Army Artillery Depot was part of 4th Shock Army. With this military unit I moved along the roads of war of the Kalinin, Smolensk regions, Belarus, the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania). Our army liberated many cities and towns: Toropets, Staraya Toropa, Peno, Ostashkov, Torzhok, Pochinok, Velizh, Nevel, Polotsk, participated in the destruction of the German group at Libava (Liepaja). _x000D_ Victory Day was celebrated in Darbenai of the Lithuanian SSR. In May 1944, I was accepted as a member of the Communist Party. The mission of our unit was to prevent the enemy from discovering our territory and timely deliver ammunition and weapons to the front line of 4 Shock Army. _x000D_ At the end of the war, we left the Baltic States only in September 1945 after trophies were collected and all property was shipped inland, and our warehouse was sent to the disposal of the TukVO headquarters. In June 1946, the warehouse was disbanded. _x000D_ From December 1950 to October 1952 I worked as an accountant, and then Chief Accountant for the Arys garrison. In December 1952, I left with my family for Moscow, as my husband was transferred to the disposal of a group of Soviet troops in Germany. In March 1954, I also went to GDR, where I was until September 1958, when my husband (Aleksei Aleksandrovich Polovodov) retired due to illness, and my family and I moved to Nyazepetrovsk. _x000D_ In Nyazepetrovsk I worked in the House of Pioneers, Secondary School No. 1 and for 13 years worked in the District committee of the Communist Party as an assistant to 1st secretary, then Head of the general department of the District committee of the Communist Party. _x000D_ I retired in November 1979. As a retired woman, I worked at the State Human Resources Department as a personnel inspector, and since December 1983 as the executive secretary of the organization of the Society “Znanie”. During this time, I carried out various party and public assignments, was elected Chairman of the women's council of a unit, city, secretary of a party organization, a member of the District committee of the Communist Party. For 13 years I had been elected Chairman of the District committee and a member of the regional committee of the Trade Union for cultural workers, for which I was awarded the honorary badge “For active work in trade unions.” _x000D_ Awards: “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, "Twenty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", sign “25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ”, "For valiant labor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin" "Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", commemorative breastplate of the Veteran of 4th Shock Army, "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "Veteran of labour". _x000D_ The fact that I had been in the active army ( Field Army Artillery Depot No. 1404 of military unit 28777), 4 Shock Army made the corresponding entries in the labour record book and I was awarded a medal as a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Recorded by Nina Stepanovna Polovodova.

Title: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Unit: 19th Vienna Artillery Order of Kutuzov Breakthrough Division. _x000D_ My uncle, Vasily Nikitovich Penkov, a participant in the Great Patriotic war, was born in the village of Sukmanovka, Zherdevsky District, Tambov region, on February 25, 1917, in a large peasant family with 9 brothers and one sister. All the brothers fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic war. Four of them never returned from the war. My uncle was conscripted into the Red Army by the Radchinsky Comissariat of the Voronezh region in 1939. _x000D_ In June 1941, he went to the war front. He was enlisted in the 19th Guards Artillery Regiment, which was part of the Bryansk front, an artillery reserve of the Supreme Command for the quantitative and qualitative strengthening of artillery groups in the direction of the main blow. He was Sergeant, Deputy Political Commissar, a Commander of the Regiment's Department. He took part in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad strategic defensive operation as part of the Bryansk front, which was formed in August 1941. _x000D_ The fate of the 1st Bryansk front was generally tragic. The front could not stop the advancing forces of German Wehrmacht and was surrounded. In the end, having suffered a crushing defeat, the partially encircled 1st Bryansk front was liquidated in November 1941. The 2nd Bryansk front was formed a month after in December of the cold and terrible year for the Soviet people in 1941. The front participated in the defense of Moscow, in terrific and hard battles near Voronezh, in the offensive operation on Kharkov. _x000D_ My uncle did not like to think about the deadly battles near Voronezh. We didn't know anything about them. “It was the second Stalingrad,” we sometimes heard him saying. It turns out that the enemy's offensive on Voronezh was a surprise for our command. It was assumed that the enemy would again launch an offensive in the Moscow direction. But it was the other way around. The Germans struck at the junction of two fronts – the Bryansk and Southwestern. The bloody battle for Voronezh began. _x000D_ On July 6, 1942, the Germans captured part of the city, while destroying it from the air. The city did not give up, there were combats for every house and street. Not only the soldiers, but also the generals were killed in the battles. More than 20 thousand soldiers and officers were captured. Among them was my uncle Vasily Nikitovich Penkov. But a miracle happened! _x000D_ A few days later, our troops released a group of captured fighters during the battle, among them was Sergeant Penkov. This happened on July 15, 1942. What happened next, we can only guess. We know for sure that these days of captivity made his life difficult later. He never spoke about his life at the war front. He forbade us even to ask questions on military matters. _x000D_ Addressing our soldiers and commanders who fought for Voronezh, the poet A. Bezymensky wrote: _x000D_ Drown the enemy in the Don, burn it with fire, drive it to the grave! A fighter saving the whole country, You must defend Voronezh! _x000D_ Voronezh was defended in January 1943. My uncle is also responsible for this victory. The battle lasted 212 days and nights. The city was completely destroyed. Here is buried the entire 2nd Hungarian Royal army, 320 thousandth grouping of Romanian, Italian, and German units. The city became a city of Military glory. The memory of its defenders still lives in the hearts of all the people today. _x000D_ My uncle survived that terrible war. He married and lived all his life not in his Homeland in the Tambov region, but in the city of Chelyabinsk. There he passed away in 2008, having lived to his 90th birthday.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Unit: 108th Infantry Bobruisk Order of Lenin Red Banner Division. _x000D_ Panteley Mikhailovich was born in the village of Chervone, Sitkovetsky District (now Nemirovsky), Vinnytsia Region on August 07, 1926. He was enlisted on 04.24.1944 by the Sitkovets military enlistment office. He took the oath on 05/29/1944. Since August 1944, he had been at 1st Belorussian Front, 84th mortar Battalion, mortar operator of a training company, 09/20/1944 he left for the marching company No. 17872. _x000D_ On September 23, 1944, he was a mortarman of the Motorized Rifle and Machine Gun Battalion of the 108th Tank Brigade. _x000D_ Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade I. Stalin, expressed gratitude for participation in the battles against the Nazi invaders: _x000D_ 1. For breaking through the German defense on the western bank of the Vistula. Order of the VG I. Stalin No. 221 of January 16, 1945; _x000D_ 2. For capture of the large industrial center of Poland, the city of Radom. Order of the VG I. Stalin No. 222 of January 16, 1945; _x000D_ 3. For capture of the largest industrial center in Poland, the city of Lodz and the cities of Kutno, Tomaszow (Tomashov), Gostynin and Leczyca, the important communication centers and strongholds of the Germans' defense. Order of the VG I. Stalin No. 223 of 01/19/1945; _x000D_ 4. By the end of January 23, they seized the city of Kalisz by attack, an important communications center and a strong stronghold for the German defense in the Breslav direction. Order of the VG I. Stalin No. 250 dated 01.24.1945; _x000D_ 5. For a successful offensive west and south-west of Poznan, crossing the German border, invading the Brandenburg province, capturing the cities of Landsberg, Meseritz, Schwibus and Züllichau, large communication centers and powerful German defense strongholds covering the approaches to Frankfurt on the Oder ... Order of VG I. Stalin No. 226 of 01/31/1945; _x000D_ 6. For breaking through the heavily fortified German defense east of the city of Stargard, moving forward in four days of offensive battles up to 100 kilometers and reaching the coast of the Baltic Sea near the city of Kohlberg. The capture of the cities of Berwalde, Tempelburg, Falkenburg, Dramburg, Wangerin, Labes, Freienwalde, Schiefelbein, Regenwalde and Kerlin, important communication centers and strong strongholds of the German defense in Pomerania. Order of VG I. Stalin No. 288 of 03/04/1945; _x000D_ 7. For capture of the cities of Stargard, Naugard, Poltsin, important communication centers and powerful strongholds of the German defense in the Stettin direction. Order of VG I. Stalin No. 290 dated 03/05/1945; _x000D_ 8. For capture of the cities of Gollnov, Stepenitz and Mass - important strongholds of the German defense on the outskirts of Stettin. Order of VG I. Stalin No. 295 of 03/05/1945; _x000D_ 9. For capture of the city of Altdam and liquidation of the heavily fortified German foothold on the right bank of the Oder River east of Stettin. Order of the VG I. Stalin No. 304 of 03/20/1945; _x000D_ 10. For an offensive from footholds on the western bank of the Oder, with the support of massive Artillery and air strikes, breaking through the heavily fortified, deeply echeloned German defense that covered Berlin from the east, moving forward from 60 to 100 kilometers. Capturing the cities of Frankfurt an der Oder, Wandlitz, Oranienburg, Birkenwerder, Hennigsdorf, Pankow, Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst, Köpenick and the entrance to the German capital Berlin. Order of VG I. Stalin No. 339 of 04/23/1945; _x000D_ 11. For the completion of the defeat of the Berlin group of German forces and on May 2, for the complete capture of the capital of Germany, the city of Berlin - the center of German imperialism and a hotbed of German aggression. Order of VG I. Stalin No. 359 of 05/02/1945; _x000D_ Pantelei Mikhailovich continued to serve in the city of Berlin until 1950. He was transferred from the Armed Forces of the USSR to the reserve on 01/28/1977.

Title: Captain_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. _x000D_ Perevoznikov Nikolay Yakovlevich was born in 1923 in the Arkhangelsk Region, Cherevkovsky District, in village Grigorievskoe. He volunteered to the Red Amy in 1940 Leningrad. Last place of service: 623 Artillery Regiment, 183 Rifle Regiment. Date of death: 09/12/1944, killed in military action. Primary burial: Poland, Krakow Voiv., Pov. Krosnovsky, village Kobylany. Source of information: TsAMO. Fund number ist. Information: 33. Number of inventory ist. information: 11458. Case number ist. information 395. _x000D_ Commander of the 6th battery 623 Artillery\. regiment 183 rd. Participant in battles since July 1, 1941. On: Northwestern, Western, Kalinin and Voronezh fronts_x000D_ Perevoznikov Nikolay proved himself as a brave, fearless, strong-willed Commander. From 5 to 13 July 1943, in battles in the area of the Komsomolets kolkhoz in the Prokhorovsky Region, Kursk Region (Belgorod direction), the battery commanded by Senior Lieutenant Perevoznikov Nikolay burned 7 tanks, knocked out 6 tanks, burned 4 cars and broke 2 cars, burned 1 armored vehicle, destroyed and scattered to the enemy infantry company. The battery's success in the fight against the German fascist invaders is explained solely by the skill, resourcefulness, courage and fearlessness of the battery Commander, Senior Lieutenant N. Ya. Perevoznikov. He was wounded in December 1943, combat of 623th Artillery regiment of 183th Suvorov Division, (Central archive AMO RF). _x000D_ On January 24 at 8 am 25 minutes on a frosty foggy morning, at position of 623 Artillery Regiment, enemy launched a counterattack near kolkhoz "Massin" and village Vakhnovka (Vinnytsia Region) with a force of 1 Infantry Division, supported by up to 100 different guns, accompanied by 36 tanks, 33 dive bombers "Yu-87" and 50 fighters "ME-100". Having superiority in manpower and equipment, the enemy managed to achieve success in a narrow area. The Regiment, leading a heavy combat, suffered heavy losses. _x000D_ Captain Perevoznikov N. Ya., 1st division Commander, 623 Artillery Regiment of the 183rd Rifle of the Kharkov Red Banner division was presented to the Order of Lenin. _x000D_ On July 22, 1944, on a combat march, two guns of the 1st battery, led by Captain Nikolay Perevoznikov, met with a column of Germans. The fearless Captain quickly deployed his guns and opened fire on the Germans. The valiant artillerymen repulsed 14 attacks, destroying 85 enemy soldiers and officers with the fire of their guns, burned a German self-propelled gun, smashed 3 machine guns. Captain Perevoznikov personally fired from the gun himself, after the commander and gunner went out of action. _x000D_ On July 23, 1944, the division met the second German column. With crushing fire from their guns, the artillerymen burned a German tank, 2 transporters and destroyed 2 machine guns of the Germans, killed 68 fascists. Captain Nikolay Perevoznikov personally led his men into an attack on the enemy, as a result the gunners captured 56 enemy soldiers and officers. The German column was destroyed. _x000D_ In these battles, the Captain Perevoznikov showed examples of heroism, the ability to smash the enemies, and his personal example and heroism inspired the division's personnel to great deeds for the Motherland. _x000D_ State awards: the Order of Lenin on July 28, 1944, the Order of the Red Banner on August 24, 1944.

CITY: Yakunino village Kubeno-Ozersky District, Vologda Region _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/20/1920 _x000D_ Title: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Sergei Ivanovich Petukhov was born on August 20, 1920 in the village of Yakunino, Kubeno-Ozersky District, Vologda Region, into a peasant family. He graduated from the Nesvoiskaya 7-year school. He worked as a carpenter in a construction team. He graduated from the courses of tractor drivers. In October 1940 he was drafted into the army. He served in an Artillery Regiment as a driver-mechanic (tractor driver) on a V-2 tractor. _x000D_ He faced a war at 9 am on June 22, 1941 in the town of Yavoriv, Lvov Region, near the border with Poland, and brought 202-millimeter howitzers and shells to the main positions. Then there was a retreat, the defense of Kiev, and again a retreat. _x000D_ In November 1942 the regiment was thrown at Stalingrad. In hard battles he earned a medal "For Courage". In January 1943 he was seriously wounded. He was treated for a long time in a hospital in Kudymkar. He returned to service in June 1943, but already joined to infantry near Leningrad as a Senior Sergeant, Commander of a rifle platoon. After lifting the Siege of Leningrad, he took part in the liberation of Estonia and Latvia, then Poland. For the successful execution of one of the military operations near the city of Gdansk, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". In the same place, in one of the battles, he was seriously wounded in both legs and concussed in March 1945. He celebrated Victory Day in the hospital. _x000D_ After the hospital he served as a clerk for a long time, drawing up award documents for soldiers leaving home, since he had a calligraphic handwriting. Like all participants of the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.” _x000D_ He was demobilized only in September 1946. He arrived in Vologda, became a builder in the Vologdaselstroy trust. Since 1953 he was a foreman (construction master), built many residential buildings and institutions in Vologda and the Krasnaya Zvezda sovkhoz, including Maternity Hospital No. 2 on the Chernyshevsky street and the City Party Committee House on the Lenin street. _x000D_ In 1962 he was awarded the medal "For Defense of Kiev". He passed away in 1968 at the age of 48.

DATE OF BIRTH: 04/12/1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 02/20/2012 _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Alexandra Stepanovna was born on April 12, 1925 in the village of Gostishchevo, Belgorod Region. When she was one and a half years old, her father was sent to work in Donbass, in the city of Kramatorsk. She lived there until the beginning of the war. She entered a medical school, where she had been for 2 years. _x000D_ When the war began, the father was immediately taken to the front, the family members of the plant workers were evacuated. During the evacuation, the convoy, which included Sasha and his mother, came under fire near Kharkov. There were many victims, but they managed to survive. Alone, in a strange city, without shelter, without food. They decided to go to the Belgorod Region, where there were relatives. They walked along the railway tracks for a whole month, spent the night wherever, and ate what God would send. _x000D_ In 1941 Belgorod was occupied by the Germans, but there was nowhere else to go. For a year and a half Sasha was a messenger in a partisan detachment. At this time, the Nazis massively sent Russian people to Germany as free labor. They chose young, healthy and hardy girls. Sasha was 17 years old, she just met all the criteria. To stay home, Sasha treated her body with lapis, a substance that causes burns. The body was covered with spots and blisters, everything hurt wildly. But the Germans were afraid that she was sick and left her at home._x000D_ Later, after the war, Alexandra talked with her aunt, who ended up in Germany labor camps. In 1942 she was only 18 years old. They sent her and other girls in a boxcar, standing. They were forced to work in pigsties, where they spent the night, and fed them, too, along with the pigs. And all this continued until the liberation by our troops. Our young beautiful girls were treated like animals! _x000D_ Later after liberation of Belgorod, Alexandra moved to the village of Prokhorovka to dug trenches. Once she was walking with a friend for water. A soldier walked in the distance across the field. A friend told Sasha that the soldier looked like her father, whom Sasha had not seen for 2 years. Sasha did not believe it, but decided to shout: "Daddy!" He responded. They hugged each other and cried. _x000D_ My father served nearby. He began to take care of his daughter. Food then was very hard to find, and the father regularly brought something to Sasha, she shared with her friend. This went on for about two months. The girls knew that he came at about the same time. And one day at that time they heard the sound of a mine exploding in the field, and ran there. Sasha saw her father already on the cart without both legs. The last thing he said to her was: “Sweetie, now I am not able to bring you food.” _x000D_ He was taken to the hospital. It was on this day that the hospital was bombed. Sasha never saw her father. Many doctors and medical workers were also killed. The head of the hospital started looking for people who have at least some medical education. Sasha had 2 years of medical school behind him. So Sasha joined the Red Army. _x000D_ It was July 1943, the village of Prokhorovka was the very village that went down in history with the famous tank battle on the Kursk Bulge. _x000D_ From the stories of Alexandra Stepanovna: A huge field of ripening rye was growing like a golden sea with no shores. And on this field appeared tanks, a huge number of tanks. The nice summer glitter of morning sun rays turned to a sea of fire. There was nothing to breathe. A drunken fascist with a naked torso and a rifle in his hands, shooting right and left indiscriminately. Shouts of "Sister!" were heard from everywhere. And Sasha hurried to these screams, dragged the wounded on herself, provided first aid. She did not have time to be scared, it was hard work and desire to help those in pain and take revenge for the death of the father. _x000D_ Alexandra went through the whole war with a line from a song as a motto: “I want an instant death, and if I am wounded let it be small… ”_x000D_ And truly, there was only a single wound at the end of the war in Austria in 1945, on the border with Germany. Until 1945, Alexandra, as part of the 136th Artillery Brigade, went through Ukraine, Bessarabia, Romania, Yugoslavia, and Austria. _x000D_ In 1944, near Budapest, the Brigade was pressed by the Germans to the banks of the Danube. There was a catastrophic lack of resources, there were many lethalities. It was a matter of honor to save the Brigade banner. They built a raft. The banner was wrapped around Sasha. She did not know how to swim, they put an inflated tire on top as a circle. She was sent to the other side, accompanied by two soldiers. While they were crossing, a German aircraft began bombing. Sasha knew that she could not drown, because she must save the banner by all means. She lay down on the raft, grabbed hold of it with her hands. When exhausted, she went ashore, there was only one soldier with her. The second was wounded and carried away by the current. On the shore, they were met by our tank division, which drove the Germans 10 kilometers away. The banner was saved. _x000D_ Alexandra was about to reach Berlin. But she was wounded on April 16, 1945 on the border of Austria and Germany. She ran to the aid of a wounded soldier. The shell hit him directly. In front of her, it tore apart, and one of the fragments hit her right cheek. Sasha was concussed. Wounded, she was admitted to the hospital. When she began to recover, she was doing some work for the wounded. _x000D_ A colonel with severe burns lay in one of the chambers. 3 weeks before the Victory, a burning German aircraft fell on his car passing over the bridge. Miraculously, he managed to escape. He got out of the car and, covering his eyes with his hands, walked straight through the fire. He survived, but was very badly burned. Especially the hands. They even wanted to amputate them, if not for Sasha. She became very attached to this Colonel. Through a German woman who worked as a nurse, she learned that there was an Austrian professor in the city who specialized in treating burns. Sasha found a captain who spoke German and went with him to persuade the professor to help. He said that he could help, but did not know how to get to the hospital. Then Sasha and the Captain dressed the professor in Soviet uniforms and brought them to the Colonel. The treatment prescribed by him saved his hands, on which he promised to carry his Sasha all his life. _x000D_ He wrote a letter to her mother asking for her hand. Mom blessed them, despite the 15-year age difference. So they lived together all their life. They celebrated Victory Day in 1945 in the hospital. Everyone was crying with happiness. And then for many years they did not like the sound of fireworks. It reminded them a sound of the war.

Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ The memory of the war ... It cannot be erased over the years ... It is eternal. And while we remember those who have left us, they are near, they are with us. This means that the link between generations is alive. This means that Russia is alive. Perhaps there is not a single house in which the war would not ruthlessly rush. So in my family there are participants in the Great Patriotic War. This is my great-grandfather Petrenko Panteley Ivanovich. He is my mother's favorite grandfather, so she knows what he was like, how he lived, where he fought. Here is what my mother told about my great-grandfather: _x000D_ “Petrenko Panteley Ivanovich was born in 1914 in the village of Ilyinskaya, Grozny District of the Chechen Republic. He studied, finished school, became a carpenter. From November 1937 to 1939 he served in the army in 27th Separate Cavalry Squadron. He was transferred to the reserve in November 1939. He returned and began to work again. _x000D_ The was was announced like a bolt from the blue, out of a rural radio speaker. This misfortune burst into every home as an uninvited guest. So it came into Petrenko's house. _x000D_ Panteley Ivanovich was mobilized by the Grozny rural District military commissariat of the Grozny Region in June 1941. He was assigned to the 67th Separate Battalion as a scout from June 1941 to May 1942, and from May 1942 to May 1946 he served in the 571st Separate anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion as Deputy Gun Commander, with the rank of Junior Sergeant. He began to fight on the the Stavropol Territory, then participated in the Tikhoretsko - Stavropol and Armaviro - Maikop defensive operations. _x000D_ In 1943, he was transferred to Novorossiysk, the front command prepared a military action for paratroopers to attack the Germans and Romanians from Novorossiysk and Taman. In February, reinforcemen of 17 thousand soldiers were delivered to the Stanichka area, among them was Panteley Ivanovich. The German command prepared a counter attack "Neptune" to destroy the Red Army men from the Taman Peninsula. _x000D_ In April, the Germans struck a powerful blow to the foothold, but the defenders of Malaya Zemlya held out. Moreover, after fierce fighting that lasted 225 days, the Red Army drove the Germans out of Novorossiysk, and in October they finally expelled them from the North Caucasus. Grandpa cried when he talked about these terrible battles. _x000D_ The Germans drove the Russian soldiers into the sea, and they, standing waist-deep in water, fought in the open area to the last bullet, because they were protecting the paratroopers' advance. _x000D_ On April 18, 1945 Petrenko Panteley Ivanovich was awarded a medal “For Defense of the Caucasus”. He celebrated Victory Day in the Crimea. Everyone was ready to rebuild the destroyed country. _x000D_ But new trouble awaited the Soviet soldiers. By the decision of the Yalta Air Defense Conference, the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme Command was sent to Japan. The Soviet-Japanese war began, a part of the Second World War and the war in the Pacific. _x000D_ At dawn on August 9, 1945, Soviet troops began an intensive Artillery barrage from the sea and from land, followed by active ground hostilities in the Manchurian operation. My grandfather said that in these battles they took into account the experience of the war with the Germans. The fortified areas of the Japanese were bypassed by mobile units and blocked by infantry. In a number of areas in the depths of the defense, Soviet troops had to overcome fierce enemy resistance. The ground burned underfoot. The main hostilities on the continent lasted 12 days. But how terrible those days were! The war lasted until August 20. _x000D_ But there were isolated clashes until September 10, although the Act of Surrender of Japan was signed on September 2, 1945 aboard the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. For courage, perseverance, heroism, my great-grandfather was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." _x000D_ On July 15, 1946, a peaceful life begins for Panteley Ivanovich. He was sent to work in the Grozny and became a forester. He worked on a single job until September 1974, retired, but couldnot sit idle. _x000D_ In 1975 he gladly accepted an offer to work as a gamekeeper in the Staro-Sunzhensky Nature Reserve. My grandfather loved his native land, protected every bush, every tree, took care of animals. He was more than 70 years old, and he easily climbed the mountains. His work experience is 56 years, he was a gamekeeper until 1993. _x000D_ But then the Chechen war began. He experienced this event very hard. His grandfather was married to a Chechen woman, we have the Chechen blood in our family. And suddenly the war ... Grandfather received a medal "For Defense of the Caucasus", and now he was witnessing Jihad soldiers. Once they came to his house. My grandfather was proud of two collectible guns. To keep the family alive, grandfather gave them everything they wanted,, but later went to the oldest man in the village, told him about the incident. And three days later, the collectible guns were returned. _x000D_ The events taking place on his native land seriously crippled the grandfather. It was dangerous to stay at home. The family moved to the village of Levokumskoye and began to live with us. In 1996, Petrenko Panteley Ivanovich passed away and buried as a Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Written by Ekaterina Lyashova

Rank: Chief_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ Division: 129th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ My father began his military career in 1943 in the 381st Reserve Rifle Regiment as a cadet, then he fought in the 129 Mortar Regiment as the Sergeant Major of the 120 mm mortar battery. Throughout the war he went as a Mortarman, spoke very little about the hardships of the war and about wounds. I didn't like to discuss this war period of his life. But I know that he was shell-shocked, but continued to fight for the Motherland and my family. Our great-grandfather Poturaev Ignat Ivanovich fought in the First World War in the 41st Seleginsky Regiment. To defend this country from the enemies was in the blood of men of our kind. After the liberation of this country, he liberated Europe from the Nazis, but he had not reached the Berlin ... _x000D_ There were very strong battles in the Czech Republic and he ended the Second World War near Prague. After defeating Germany, he was transferred to fight in Japan. He recalled that after the Nazis, Japanese soldiers seemed like just children ... After the victory over Japan, he had served in the Armed Forces until 1947. Then he returned to a peaceful life and left to work at the manganese ore mines in the town of Ordzhonikidze, then worked as a driver of fierce dump trucks at the Mining and Processing Plant (MPP). He has many labor awards and is a Veteran of Labor. He did not watch films about the war, he did not like that. After 10 minutes, he usually said: "It is not true, it was not at all like that ..." and left. He was very fond of the songs "At Nameless Height" and "Cranes" performed by the Soviet singer Mark Bernes. Dad was very fond of mom and us, two daughters and our older brother. It was always very safe and warm with him. His disarming childish smile was with him until his last day! For us, he is the best dad in the world! Dad died on an early sunny morning on June 5, 1993 after a short illness ... Eternal glory and memory to dad and all the veterans, the winners in this terrible war! From the memoirs of Vasily Ignatievich Poturayev: "In the fall of 1944, there were fierce combats and terrible losses. A very young soldier from Moscow, just a boy, was sent to his battery ... He brought shells and was hit by a shrapnel. Dad dragged him into the trench, but he died. Dad remembered his hands, they were very beautiful and thin. He studied at the conservatory before the war. Dad talked about him so excitedly, very clearly remembered him. There were many lethalities to follow, but the death of this boy was left in his memory. _x000D_ My father’s hands were very strong and reliable! Dad fought with the husband of his sister Lena Mikhail Kravchenko, they went through the whole war together and both returned home. After the war he came to his brother-soldier Ivan Ivanovich Bout, where he met our mother Stadnik Maria Mironovna and they had a good marriage for 39 years!

Rank: Red Army Soldier. Branch of troops: Artillery. Popovetsky Ivan Nikitovich was born on November 19, 1919 in the Ukrainian village of Maidan-Golenishchevsky, Volkovinets District, Kamenets-Podolsk Region (now Letychivsky District, Khmelnitsky Region). Before the war, my great-grandfather worked as a blacksmith. He was drafted into the Red Army on October 15, 1939. His great-grandfather began his combat path in November 1939 in the 358th Mountain-Rifle Regiment of the 126th Rifle Division. On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War started, which found Ivan Nikitovich in the army. From the first days of her, he participated in battles. The 60th Rifle Division, in which the great-grandfather served, was transferred from the Southern Front in July 1941 to help the 12th Army, which was encircled by fascist troops in the area of the city of Vinnitsa. There were fierce defensive battles with superior enemy forces. In one of these battles near the town of Brailov, Vinnitsa Region, on July 19, 1941, Vanya's great-grandfather was wounded by a shrapnel in the face and chest. He underwent treatment in an evacuation hospital in the Urals of the Chebarkul District of the Chelyabinsk Region. Upon recovery, in the fall of 1941 he was sent to the active army in his regiment. From autumn 1941 to summer 1944 Ivan Nikitovich served in the 4th corps howitzer Artillery Regiment as a gun and mortar master. The Rifle Division, in which the great-grandfather served, which was first part of the Western Front, liberated Smolensk, Vyazma, Vitebsk, Mogilev from the invaders, participated in the Polesie operation, which was part of the Dnieper-Carpathian strategic operation. As part of the 2nd Belorussian Front in June-August 1944, the great-grandfather's Regiment took part in one of the largest strategic offensive operations "Bagration", which helped defeat the Nazi army "Center" in the area of the city of Minsk. _x000D_ In one of these battles near the city of Minsk on July 6, 1944, Vanya's great-grandfather was very seriously wounded by several shrapnel in the stomach and chest. One of the wounds was through. The first operation took place in a front-line hospital, then there was a long evacuation with hospitals to the rear. He had blood poisoning, his stomach was swollen. His condition was so serious that the doctors did not hope that he would survive. In the photo that great-grandfather Vanya sent to his family then, there were the following words: "Look, relatives, at the dead print and remember about a living soul." Only on September 10, almost 2 months later, my great-grandfather was taken to one of the Moscow hospitals, where he was undergoing treatment until the end of September 1944. After being wounded, it was not possible to return to his former unit: the front was moving westward, driving the Nazis away from this country. Ivan Nikitovich was first sent to the 306th Reserve Regiment as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front, and then to the 229th Mobile Tractor Repair Base, in which he served until the end of the war. For participation in the Minsk operation, my great-grandfather was awarded the medal "For Courage" in February 1945. The 2nd Belorussian Front continued its combat path, liberating city after city. Ivan Nikitovich took part in battles in Western Belarus, East Prussia and Poland. _x000D_ The 1945 winter offensive began. The front troops reached the Vistula River, then moved to the Baltic Sea coast, liberated the northern regions of Poland. In April 1945, the troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front crossed the Oder River and reached the German port city of Stettin, the Stettin-Rostock operation began (April 20-May 5), part of the Berlin offensive, in which my great-grandfather Vanya also participated. In this German city (which, according to the Potsdam conference in 1945, became Polish Szczecin), the Victory of Ivan Nikitovich Popovetsky, my great-grandfather, was found. 229 Mobile Tractor Repair Base went with the troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front until Victory. And after the war, it was necessary to restore the cities for a peaceful life. Great-grandfather Vanya remained in Germany until the autumn of 1946 in his unit, helping the German people to improve their lives. In February 1946, the great-grandfather of the ball was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany", and in March 1946 he was awarded the title of "Corporal". On August 15, 1946, Ivan Nikitovich was transferred to the reserve. _x000D_ Great-grandfather Vanya came from the war in the fall of 1946. After the war, Ivan Nikitovich worked in his native kolkhoz, for many years he was a foreman of construction brigades. For his work, great-grandfather Vanya was nominated for awards: medals "For Valiant Labor", "Veteran of Labor" and others. In 1985 my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. My great-grandfather, Popovetsky Ivan Nikitovich, died in 1994 at the age of 75.

My uncle, Grigory Karpovich Pozdeev was born in 1925, in the village of Verkhnetroitskoe, Belebeevsky canton of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now it is the territory of the Verkhnetroitsky rural council of the Tuimazinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan). He graduated from nine classes of Secondary School in the village of Nizhnetroitskoye. After studying for less than a month in the tenth grade, he was drafted to the front in September 1943 at the age of 17. A participant in the Battle of Kursk, which was part of the Artillery units of the 19th Red Banner Tank Corps and the 106th Infantry Division of the 27th Infantry Corps, with battles - along the roads of the Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw, took Berlin. Since 1945 he had been Lieutenant, Commander of the machine gun platoon of the 905th Rifle Regiment of the 248th Rifle Division. On April 25, 1945, during the capture of Berlin, in a combat in the Limberstrasse area, he was seriously wounded. For this battle he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, he celebrated Victory Day in the hospital. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served as a political worker in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. After serving more than a year after the war, he was demobilized with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. In 1947 he returned home to the village of Verkhnetroitskoye. Senior Lieutenant Grigory Pozdeev returned home not only with Victory, military medals and orders, but also with severe wounds to both legs. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals “For Military Merit”, "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Berlin" and "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." He graduated from the Oil Technical School in the city of Bugulma, where he studied as a driller. Working in the "Tuimazaburneft" trust, he worked his way up from a driller to a drilling foreman. Winner of the socialist competition of the Ministry of the Oil Industry in 1953. In 1958 he was sent on a business trip to the People's Socialist Republic of Albania to pass on his work experience. He returned to Bashkiria in 1961 and already in 1963 the management of the Tuimazaburneft trust sent him to the development of deposits in Western Siberia, to the city of Nefteyugansk. All his life wounds haunted him, but Grigory Karpovich did not give up, he worked in the oil industry for more than thirty years. He was always honest, had fair principles. He was retired in 1983. For his labor achievements he was awarded numerous awards: the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” in 1970, the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1975, as well as the medal “For the development of mineral resources and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia.” In addition, he was awarded the 50th Anniversary Medal of the USSR Armed Forces and other commemorative medals. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He died in 1989.

Self-Propelled Artillery Unit Heading Towards Berlin

Multiple rocket launcher unit of the DPR People's Militia firing at positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Donetsk region.

Situation in Lugansk region. Village Toshkovka. Artillery unit soldiers of the LPR People's Militia firing at retreating column of Ukrainian Armed Forces' vehicles leaving Toshkovka.

Combat operations of the 2S7M "Malka" self-propelled artillery system in the LPR. Russia. LPR. Combat operations of the 2S7M "Malka" self-propelled artillery system while performing fire missions to destroy Ukrainian Armed Forces (AFU) positions during the special military operation. In response to the appeal from the leaders of the Donbas republics for assistance, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are conducting a special military operation in Ukraine

The "Giatsint" artillery system during combat operations in the SMO zone. Russia. Zaporozhye Oblast. A serviceman operating the "Giatsint" artillery system in the special military operation zone