Volunteers

"Volunteer militiamen from the Moscow Tool Factory are heading to the assembly point."ITAR-TASS, Moscow, June 1941.

Consequences of the fighting in Soledar. Russia. DPR. Soledar. A Wagner PMC fighter on a city street near houses destroyed as a result of the fighting. Russian troops completed the liberation of the city of Soledar from units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the evening of January 12.

Fighter of self-defense group of one of the households of the Frunzensky district of Leningrad, E. P. Epishina on duty

Partisans of the North Caucasus make their way along the mountain trail

Partisans in ambush

Digging of anti-tank trenches near Moscow. 1941

On the construction of a fortified line

Moscow militia

Volunteer of militias. Leningrad. June, 1941

Two partisans

A. Skorobogatko is a Komsomol member, student of the Zooveterinary University, fighter of a fighter battalion, died in 1942 while defending Voronezh (portrait). GAOPIVO, F.9306.Op.1.D.127

Georgy Semenovich Karabutov was born on May 5, 1911 in Kotlyarevskaya station, now Maisky city. After leaving school he worked as a mechanic in Kotlyarevsky scutching plant. He headed the Komsomol organization of the plant. In 1931 he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and was sent to a cavalry regiment in Tbilisi. In 1932 Georgy Semenovich Karabutov, at his request, went to the city of Yeysk in the school to work as a teacher.

Boris Grigorievich Yezersky was born on December 25, 1911 in Maysky village. In 1930 he graduated high school, and in 1931 he volunteered for the Red Army. He had a dream to fly in his early childhood. In 1932, Yezersky became a cadet at the Yeisk Military Aviation School of Naval Pilots. After graduation he served in the TB-3 heavy bombers brigade of the Baltic Fleet near Leningrad in Gatchina. In 1939-1940 Boris Grigorievich participated in Finland war. He was awarded of the Order of the Red Banner of the Battle. He began the Great Patriotic War as a lieutenant.

Shevtsova Pelageya Semenovna, born in 1926. In 1942 she left voluntarily for the front. Donskoy front, South-Western, 176th Army Reserve Rifle Regiment. She was a telephone operator and a laundress. 58 Motor transport battalion, telephone operator, clerk. Donskoy Voronezh front - cook. Title Efreightor, Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and medals.

Tsarev Igor Fyodorovich (1925-2001) was born in Sergach. In 1942 he went as a volunteer to the front. He served as an aviation mechanic. He took part in the battles for Königsberg. He was awarded the medal of Zhukov, the Order of Patriotic War II degree.