Volunteers

Partisans on the street of the liberated city (Belarus)

Kireeva (Karmysova) During the Great Patriotic War, Maria Ivanovna worked in the 552 division of the airfield service battalion from June 03, 1944 to May 31, 1945 (order No. 34 of 3.06.44) as a cook. The 552 division of airfield service battalion was part of the active army from 01.06.44 to 08.06.45. She volunteered for the War on June 22, 1943, but it is not known who she worked for. Called up from the Oryol region. Ended the War in Poland in Warsaw. I didn't like to talk about the war, so very little information has been preserved. In 1946, she went to the far East, Primorsky Krai, town Tobago, North Suchan. Worked in the first Department on the labor supply (ORS) of Galactorrhea. In 1947, Maria Ivanovna moved to Artem, Primorsky Krai, where she got married. Maria Ivanovna's first daughter, Svetlana Dmitrievna, was born in Artem. Who worked is not known. Then the family moves to the village of Lipovtsy, Primorsky Krai, where the second daughter, Natalia Dmitrievna, is born. Maria Ivanovna worked as a commandant in the hostel for a long time. In the 70s, they left to develop Sakhalin, because the island was being developed and there were good earnings here. Moved to the city of Poronaysk in Sakhalin region. The first to go to Sakhalin was Maria Ivanovna's husband, Dmitry Antonovich. Then he took his wife and younger daughter, and then the older daughter and her husband. In Poronaisk, Maria Ivanovna first worked as a freight forwarder at the Poronaisk meat processing plant, and then as a foreman at the timber acceptance and release at the Dock-woodworking plant. And in 2000, Maria Ivanovna returned to the village again. Lipovtsy of Primorsky Krai. She passed away on July 20, 2007, and was buried in the cemetery of the village. Lipovtsy, Oktyabrsky district, Primorsky Krai. Recalls Marina Viktorovna Kanyukova, granddaughter, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. "My grandmother was the most ordinary grandmother on the planet. Married, had children, raised. All my life I worked, I was not afraid of work. She also knew about agriculture and construction. She always had answers to questions, seemed to know everything. She sewed very well. And knitting as, a sight to behold. Cobwebs (shawls) were knitted to argue with the sisters who was thinner. Measured the thickness through the wedding ring. She could spin the yarn. In addition to pies, I cooked delicious homemade noodles with chicken!" Bolgova remembers Natalia, the youngest daughter, the city of Poronaysk. "You can talk about your mother endlessly. She loved us very much, took care of us, helped us both in word and deed! My mother loved to sing. The mother's name was put on a memorial plaque, which is installed on the Central square of Poronaysk (Sakhalin region)." Recalls Irina Kanyukova, great-granddaughter, Vladivostok. "My grandmother participated in the Victory parade every year, and she had a special costume for the parade. When I was little, she always took me to the parade and asked me to sing for veterans on the bus). Grandma baked the most delicious pies in the world!!!" Recalls Tatyana Koltsova, granddaughter, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. "My grandmother never complained about life, she accepted everything with gratitude. She found a way out of any life situation. She was optimistic, very cheerful and cheerful."

Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of military: Army, Air forces (except marine aviation), Coast Guards, the troops of the NKVD, Border Guards. Division: 252nd rifle Kharkiv-Bratislava Red Banner order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division. Father Karthigesu Mikhail Vasilyevich, mother Kurtisheva Evdokia Pavlovna. He was born in the village of Berezovaya Griva, Novosibirsk region (now Kemerovo region, Osinniki). He graduated from the 7th grade of lower secondary school in Myski in 1932. Lawyer by profession. In 1935, he was repressed and served his sentence in Pechora on an oil rig as a foreman. Returned in 1940, rehabilitated, worked at the mine in the city of Osinniki. During the accident, he was injured, injured his spine, and was given a disability. During the War, there were not enough men and he was offered a job as Chairman of the collective farm Berezovaya Griva, but after working for several months, Nikita went to the front as a volunteer. It was already May 1944, the older brother was killed at the front and the younger one was missing. Our troops were already driving the Germans West and liberating the countries of Eastern Europe. Nikita liberated Romania, Hungary, Austria, and fought near the city of Budapest. A submachine gunner of the 252nd rifle division there was seriously wounded and sent to the hospital. By mistake, he was considered dead and a funeral was sent home. In July, Nikita sent a letter from evako-hospital No. 1135, he did not know that his family received a funeral, said that he was seriously injured. In the hospital, he spent from February to April 1945. After discharge, Nikita fought in the 124th rifle division as a submachine gunner until September 8, 1945. In September 1945, Nikita returned home wounded and ill. His father died in January 1946, at the age of 60, of pneumonia. After the War, Nikita Mikhailovich worked at the school of the youth of DPT No. 17 mentor on the mine "Osinnikovskaya" gasamerica underground, mine foreman, assistant section chief. Wife Kurtisheva Ekaterina Ilyinichna. He raised two children (son Valery and daughter Valentina), raised five grandchildren (Ivan, Olga, Natalia, Ekaterina, Artem), and even saw a great-granddaughter Valentina. Maintained good relations with the sisters Ahana and Vasilisa. He died on February 23, 1993 from a stroke, he was 81 years old. He was buried in Osinniki.

Alexey Gerasimovich Borovskikh was born on February 18, 1918 in a family of village workers. They lived in the town of Stalinsk, Trinity district in the village Gornovoe. His father Gerasim Danilovich Borovskikh was born in 1889 and was engaged on his own farm, bekeeping. In 1917, he fought as a soldier during the October Revolution in St. Petersburg. After the establishment of Soviet Power, he was sent as a blacksmith to restore the village Horovoe. During World War II, he worked in a mine. He brought to life 14 children and raised them to be hard workers. He lived to be 95 years. His mother Agafya Matveevna Borovskikh (Kostyakova), born in 1893, was a Russian housewife. A simple hard-working woman who raised 14 children. Based on the Red Army book, as well as stories told by his children, we recount the following about the life of Alexey Gerasimovich Borovsky. In August 1940, a year before the war, Alexey Gerasimovich started pilot school as a cadet. At this school, they were taught to fly AIR-model airplanes. This knowledge would help him in the future, in the Second World War. In the first wave of volunteers, together with his friends, Alexey Gerasimovich went to the frontlines. However, for unknown reasons, he missed the train. Later it turned out that all his friends who left on that train had died. In July 1941, at the age of 23, Junior Sergeant Alexey left for the war as part of unit No. 187, as a squad commander. Alexey Gerasimovich’s main task was to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the locations of the fascists. Before the start of the battles, or even during them, he had to fly his aircraft very close to the fortifications of the Germans and note the location of soldiers, military fortifications, and military equipment. This was associated with a huge risk, since the plane had to be flown very close to the ground and close to the front. In May 1942, Alexey Gerasimovich was transferred to No. 803 separate reconnaissance artillery division and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. In this division, Alexey Gerasimovich served throughougt the entire war until May 1945. Alexey Gerasimovich Borovsky was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for bravery, fortitude and courage shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders. There were many other awards, which unfortunately have not reached our time. Immediately after the war with the German invaders, Alexey Gerasimovich continued to defend his homeland as part of unit No. 215 of the independent machine gun and artillery battalion in the rank of senior sergeant. This unit was urgently transferred to the Eastern front for the war with Japan. Troops of the 1st Far Eastern front under the command of Marshal MERETSKOV of the Soviet Union crossed the Ussuri river, broke through Gutowski, Michonski, Pogranichniki, and Daninsky fortified areas of the Japanese, went through remote mountain taiga terrain, advanced 500 miles, and captured cities like Mishan, Jilin, Yanji, Harbin. For exceeding combat, senior Sergeant Alexey Borovskikh Gerasimovich was awarded a COMMENDATION by order of the Supreme Commander of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, comrade Stalin (from comrade Stalin's order No. 372 of August 23, 1945). A month later, on September 30, 1945, Alexey Gerasimovich was awarded the medal for the victory over Japan. In November 1945, Alexey Gerasimovich was transferred to the 241 independent reconnaissance artillery division as a field commander, where he served until 1947. After returning from the war, Alexey Gerasimovich got a job as an electric in the city of Stalinsk. In 1948, he met his life partner Maria Matveevna Vasilyeva. The Second World War started on the day of Maria Matveevna’s 18th birthday, since her birthday was on June 22, 1922. Throughout the war, she worked for the good of her homeland for which she was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". During their life together, they had three children: two sons and one daughter. Alexey Gerasimovich lived to be 74 years (05.01.1993) surrounded by loving children and grandchildren. I am proud of my grandfather, thanks to whom I was born and can tell about his heroism.

Bychkov Yegor Sidorovich was born in 1915 or 1917 in the village of V.-Yashinka, Yeltsovsky district of Altai Territory. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, on July 12, 1942, he volunteered for the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and was sent to the front by the Kuzedeevsky regional military enlistment office of the West Siberian Military District. On July 23, 1942, at the Yurga station of the Novosibirsk (now Kemerovo) region, the formation of the 150th rifle division of Siberian volunteers took place. On the morning of September 14, 1942, the division's transfer by rail to the west began. From 23 to 30 September 1942, the Siberian Volunteer Division was in camps near Moscow. Here it was replenished with military equipment, vehicles and partly with weapons. After checking the combat readiness of the units, the division was transferred by rail to the unloading points - the Selizharovo and Shuvaevo stations. From here the Siberian Volunteer Division made a 170-kilometer march under the city of Bely. On November 16, 1942, the 150th Infantry Division in the 41st Army began to prepare for hostilities. From November 24, 1942 to January 20, 1943, units of the division fought fierce battles with the enemy in the area of ​​the city of Bely. The active actions of our troops in this sector of the Kalinin Front forced the German command to urgently transfer 12 new divisions to the "Rzhevsky salient" area and thereby significantly weaken their forces already moving towards Stalingrad. At the cost of enormous losses, the Siberian volunteers for several months constrained the actions of the selected Nazi troops of the Center group. The success of the Battle of Stalingrad, a turning point in the course of the Great Patriotic War, was largely ensured by the bloody battles on the Kalinin (Tver) land. The feat of the Siberians became a vivid evidence of their high patriotism and unparalleled courage.

From the small village of Stalinaul (now Atlanaul, Buinaksky district of the Republic of Dagestan), located on the Kumyk plain, 139 residents went to fight the fierce enemy. 66 aul residents did not return from the battlefields with the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. Six Sungurov - brothers: Abduragim (born in 1898), Basir (born in 1903), Abdulkadyr (born in 1909), Magomedsaid (born in 1913), Ziyavutdin (born in 1915), as well as Basir's son Sungur (born 01.01.1925) went to the front at the call of their hearts. Sungur corrected his date of birth - he added himself exactly one year, and volunteered. And in 1920, Basir Sungurovich, being a 17-year-old youth, as part of the II Cavalry Regiment named after Makhach Dakhadayev, fought as a volunteer against gangs in the Tersk region. He served in this regiment until 1921, until he was demobilized due to his young age. Most likely, the third of them, Sungurov Abdulla Sungurovich, born in 1906, would have gone to the front together with the brothers. But, unfortunately, in 1936, before going to the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy in Moscow, he died suddenly. By that time, he was not only a comrade-in-arms of a participant in two All-Union Congresses of Shock Workers-Collective Farmers, chairman of the Stalin Daibov collective farm Jamalutdin, but also a famous foreman, an innovator and organizer of collective agricultural production. In the pre-war peaceful life, each of the Sungurovs was busy with his own business, loved and useful to his family and society. Before the formation of an agricultural artel in the village, and later a collective farm, the brothers worked with their father in workshops, in personal subsidiary plots. And they worked fruitfully in various positions both on the collective farm and in the village. Sungurov Ziyav (Ziyavutdin) Sungurovich (1915 (1919) - 10/07/1995), according to the recollections of his youngest son Gichchikhan, began his labor activity from early adolescence as a cabman in a vegetable brigade of the Stalin collective farm. In 1938 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He was awarded the military rank - sergeant. After demobilization from military service, not having time to start civilian life, he was called up again, but this time to the front. From June 1941 to May 1942, he was the commander of the rifle squad of the 131st rifle regiment of the 1st Guards rifle division of the Smolensk front. On January 17, 1942, in fierce battles near the city of Smolensk, he was seriously wounded by an explosive bullet. Later he was declared unfit for further military service. Residents of Atlanaul remember how Hamid Halimbekov, fellow villager and fellow soldier Ziyav Sungurov, while he was alive, spoke with gratitude about how Ziyav saved him from death. In one of the bloody battles with the German invaders, Hamid was seriously wounded. Under the bullets, Ziyav pulled him from the battlefield and dragged him to the medical unit. Upon returning home, he continued to work on the collective farm. Stalin. For his organizational skills, first at the collective farm, and then at the Atlanaulsky state farm and until his retirement, he was appointed Odaman (senior shepherd) of a sheep farm, head of a dairy farm, senior security guard, foreman of various brigades. Those who worked under him note his organizational skills, leadership qualities, responsiveness. When carrying out public works, including during the liquidation of the consequences of the earthquakes of 1970 and 1975, as well as in collective work during the construction of residential buildings of fellow villagers, providing them with other assistance, he was one of the first who showed care and charged with optimism and hope, remained the initiator of good deeds. Sungurov Ziyav and his wife Patimat raised and brought up three sons and two daughters. In May 1945, the invalid of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st group, Sungurov Ziyav Sungurovich, was awarded the medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, in October 1954 - the medal “For Labor Valor”. Awarded the title of "Labor Veteran". In 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The family archive also carefully keeps Ziyav Sungurovich's jubilee medals, such as 20, 30, 40, 50 years "Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; 60 and 70 years of the "Armed Forces of the USSR" and others. It turns out that in November 1947 Z. Sungurov was awarded a medal "For Military Merit" for the feat he accomplished on January 17, 1942. And only in May 2020, relatives found out about this. 75 years of the Great Victory! They didn't live. But ... They fought not for awards, but for life! For the life of family and friends. For life in the native land. For the life and freedom of the Motherland!

My grandfather, Davyd Moiseevich Soloviev, was born on 19.08.1920. in Kiev. On Sunday 22 June 1941 they began to bomb Kiev, during this bombing not only my parents were killed, but almost all of my grandfather's relatives. As a volunteer in the first proletarian artillery regiment, he signed up on 07/15/1941. In Autumn of 1941 Private soldier Davyd Solovyov, a horse-drawn sled, is wounded, after which he was sent to Kyzyl-Orda, Kiev State University was evacuated there as well, where he was a student, which allowed the Red Army soldier Solovyov to complete his studies and receive a pedagogical education. A certified teacher is sent to the Ryazan Artillery School, after which he receives an officer's rank and is appointed first as a battery commander, and then as chief of staff of an artillery regiment. With this regiment, Davyd Moiseevich reached the Polish city of Poznan, in the battles for which he was seriously wounded three times. After a long recovery, grandfather returned to his colleagues, took part in the liberation of Gdansk, and later, after the war, received the status of an honorary citizen of Gdansk. Davyd met Victory Day on the Elbe. From the stories of my grandfather: "After the signing of the Non-Aggression Pact on the evening of May 8, 1945, the weather was warm, the sky was starry, on one bank the Soviet troops, on the other, the allies, celebrated the victory, swam." May 9, 1945 morning. began with a bombing from the air by German troops, everyone was asleep, no one expected an attack by enemy troops, a lot of people died. The war for my grandfather ended only at the end of June 1945. in Poland. During the liberation battles, my grandfather independently studied the Polish language, and therefore, after the war, he was instructed to take part in the formation of the Polish Army, translating Soviet regulations and instructions for combat training into Polish. In gratitude, the Poles awarded him the title of Captain of the Polish Army. In 1946. Davyd Moiseevich entered the classes as a teacher of mathematics, being at the same time a Soviet and Polish officer. These were classes first at the Kursk, then at the Ussuriysk and Kalinin Suvorov schools. Thousands of current generals and colonels remember the teacher Solovyov with gratitude, and Solovyov, a musician, poet and soloist of the choir of the Kalinin SVU - with delight and surprise: how many talents can one person be endowed with! In 1960, David Moiseevich, the first in the system of Suvorov schools, was awarded the title "Honored Teacher of the RSFSR". He retired in 1987. at the age of 67 and soon a new math teacher appeared in high school № 17. Davyd Moiseevich developed many methods for the Institute for the Improvement of Teachers, and was systematically invited to Moscow to give lectures on methods of teaching mathematics. And how many times he admired his students, in his mind "clicking" the most difficult problems sent from Moscow State University. Soloviev Davyd Moiseevich - Honored Teacher of Russia and four times Soros Prize laureate. In December 2002. great-grandfather was awarded a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree, and on January 27, 2003. he passed away at 83. He was seen off on his last journey with all military honors (with the national flag of Russia with a mourning ribbon, a guard of honor to the coffin, a military band, an artillery salute), and a civil funeral service was organized. The Alley of Glory in Dmitrovo-Cherkassy became the last refuge of my grandfather in Tver, in the grateful memory of those who proudly say: "I am a student of Solovyov."

My dad, Sobachkin Vladimir Gavrilovich was born on February 24, 1918 in the village of Alexandriiskaya in the North Caucasus Territory. In 1933, the family moved to Moscow. In 1937 he was a student at a steam locomotive technical school. In November, they took their father, Sobachkin Gavriil Semenovich, who worked as the head of educational unit of one of the Moscow schools (shot in February 1938). Then they took their mother, Elizaveta Ivanovna Sobachkina, 8 years old in the camps. The younger brother was placed in an orphanage, and dad was sentenced on 24.06.38 as an a Public Enemy for 5 years from 29.12.1937.From December 1937 to December 1942 he was in the labor camps of the NKVD: Medvezhyegorsk camp, Karelo-Finnish SSR, Solikamsk camp, Perm region, with. Borovskoe, Solikamsk. Released on December 29, 1942, volunteered for the war. Was drafted to Solikamsk in February 1943. From March 1943 to September 1945 - served in the ranks of the army. Awarded: 1943 - Medal "For Courage", 1944 - Order of the Red Star, 1945 - Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw", Medal "For Victory over Germany". He fought - 2nd Belorussian Front, 118th Guards Red Banner Regiment, 37th Guards Rifle Division. Commander of the artillery control squad, guard senior sergeant. From the beginning of hostilities on the Kursk-Oryol Bulge and to the shores of the Baltic Sea (Rostock), he was always on the front line, worked as a senior reconnaissance officer in a 120-mm mortar battery, penal battalion. He was promoted to the post of commander of the command department For the courage shown during the breakthrough of the enemy's defense in the area of ​​N of the item. Kalinovichi was awarded the medal "For Courage". In the battles during the crossing of the Western Bug, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for personal heroism. When breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defense south-west of Zhlobin, he received gratitude from the commander of the 18th Red Banner Infantry Corps. Repeatedly received orders of thanks from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief: November 18, 1943 for the liberation of Rechitsa; the crossing of the Oder The Military Council of the Army announced gratitude; July 8, 1944 for the capture of the city of Baranovichi; from May 1, 1945 for the capture of the cities of Stralsund, Grimmen, Demmin, Malkhin, Waren, Wesenberg; of March 6, 1945 for the liberation of the town of Grudziandz (Graudenz); dated June 28, 1944 for the release of the railway. Osipovichi node; of March 7, 1945 for the liberation of the cities of Gnev and Starograd; of March 30, 1945 for the liberation of Gdansk (Danzig); of April 26, 1945 for the forcing of the eastern and western Oder and for the capture of the main city of Stettin in Pomerania. Three times he was wounded. He refused hospitalization. Demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army in November 1945 (Freiburg, Germany). Nowhere to go, no home, no family. It was not allowed to stay in big cities. They offered a choice of three cities, one of them - Dnepropetrovsk. The commander offered to go to Dnepropetrovsk, to the Southern Machine Building Plant. So I stayed there. Rehabilitated in April 1957. In peacetime, my father worked at various large factories in Dnepropetrovsk. The last place of work - the head of the Kharkov Institute "Ukrgipromash" in Dnepropetrovsk. As a war veteran, he was invited to school for lessons in Courage. He kept up a correspondence with the children from the orphanage in Volgograd, came to visit them, brought gifts. He died in 1980.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces _x000D_ _x000D_ Konstantin Ivanovich Smirnov was born on October 14, 1903 in Astrakhan into a merchant family. When the Great Patriotic War began, he had the right to be exempted from the active duty, but in September 1941 he went to fight voluntarily. In December he was sent to the front, into the army. _x000D_ He served in the 349th Infantry Division, received the rank of Sergeant, becoming the commander of a recon squad of a Separate Reconnaissance Company. From the first days of its arrival at the front, the 349th Infantry Division had been fighting bloody battles, defending the cities of Ukraine. It was baptized by fire in the Kramatorsk region. It broke through the enemy's defense line and occupied a number of settlements near Kramatorsk. On the left was Slavyansk, on the right was Izium. Here the division held its defenses until mid-May 1942. _x000D_ When the Nazi troops launched a counteroffensive, the 349th Rifle Division was thrown in to cover the frontal gap that had formed south of Izyum and was surrounded. _x000D_ Konstantin Smirnov got his first wound in heavy combats. He used to have jet-black hair ... However, when he returned alone of the entire reconnaissance group carrying out a mission behind enemy lines, he was seriously wounded and his hair turned completely gray... _x000D_ After being treated in the hospital, he returned to his division. Then, at the beginning of July 1942, there were short days of rest, when the almost completely destroyed division was withdrawn for reorganization to the area of Krasny Luch, Luhansk Region. _x000D_ On July 17, it was deployed to defend the southern borders of Stalingrad. Here, in July-September 1942, my grandfather went missing in a regular reconnaissance raid behind enemy lines.

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_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Subdivision: 7th Guards Cavalry Zhitomir Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. _x000D_ He was born in 1901 in the village of Presnogorkovskaya of the Siberian Cossack Host (1st military Department) in a Cossack family as his third son. In 1918 he was drafted into the Kolchak army, but together with a hundred went over to the side of the Red Army. He served in the cavalry Squadron of the Regiment commanded by V.I. Chuikov. He fought with whites in Siberia, the Urals and Transbaikalia. He joined the ranks of the Communist Party. After the Civil War, he organized an agricultural cartel in his native village, and then a kolkhoz. _x000D_ Before the start of the Great Patriotic War, he was the head of a dairy plant in a kolkhoz. For participation in the Civil War on the side of Kolchak, he came under investigation, was expelled from the party and removed from office. With the outbreak of the war, he voluntarily went to the front, where, together with his fellow-Cossacks and two brothers, he ended up in the 31st Cavalry Division near Voronezh. _x000D_ The Division took part in the battles For Defense of Moscow, in the counterattack near Moscow. For the liberation of Sukhinichi the Division was awarded the title of the Guards. Fyodor Mikhailovich was awarded the medal "For Courage", became a guardsman, he was reinstated in the party and was appointed party organizer of the Artillery Division of the Cavalry Regiment. He was an anti-tank gunner. The Division fought in the Donbass, took part in the defense of Stalingrad, and from February 1943 moved towards Kharkov. Fascist troops, preparing for the summer campaign near Kursk, transferred new tank divisions to Kharkov. 7th Guards Cavalry Division near Staryy Saltov came under attack from German tanks. The Cavalry Artillery Division was located near the village. Peremoga, where Fyodor Mikhailovich took his last battle ... _x000D_ Here is an excerpt from a letter to his wife Ekaterina Grigorievna to his native Presnogorkovka: _x000D_ “In March heavy fighting began, German tanks broke through from Kharkov. Our Regiment forcibly approached Old Saltov in order to stop the enemy. But the forces were too unequal. We were already well battered in previous battles and it so happened that in the village of Peremoga, right from the march, we got lost with German tanks ... _x000D_ Fyodor Mikhailovich, our communist leader, was a gun driver after being wounded, he was already old, over forty years old. To us, young soldiers, he seemed quite old, but we all respected him both as a comrade in arms and as a participant in the Civil War … The Germans jumped out suddenly, but the gun crew managed to take a position and set the tank on fire with the first shots. Fyodor Mikhailovich himself stood behind the gun's sight. He shot great, but here it was just hot. Another tank was knocked out, but there was no one left near the gun, everyone was killed. And then another fascist pounced on the gun with tracks … So our comrade was killed …”_x000D_ It happened on March 18, 1943. _x000D_ Now in the village of Peremoga near Kharkov there is a mass grave where Fyodor Mikhailovich Stepanov and his comrades are buried. Two sons and a daughter grew up in the Stepanov family,. Sons Alexander and Nikolai, also participants in the Great Patriotic War, became military men, retired colonels. Daughter Tamara became a Teacher. Eternal memory to the hero!

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops_x000D_ Subdivision: 67th Guards Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. _x000D_ My uncle, Guard Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Skugar, was born in Taganrog on May 11, 1923. He worked at an aircraft plant in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He went to the front as a volunteer in 1942. Place of service: 6th Guards Army 199th Guards Rifle Regiment of 67th Guards Rifle Division. _x000D_ 67th Guards Division was a part of the 23rd Guards Rifle Corps of the 6th Guards Army from May 1943 until the end of the war. The Division took part in the Battle of Kursk Bulge, took up defenses on the southern face of the Kursk salient. In the course of the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operation, the Division in combat operations contributed to the liberation of Belgorod and Kharkov. _x000D_ From October 1943, the Division was part of the Baltic Front, and from October 20 was at the 2nd Baltic Front. It fought in the area of the city of Nevel, took up defenses north-west of the city until early January 1944, and then took part in the defeat of the enemy's Nevel group. _x000D_ Guards Lieutenant Skugar Nikolai Nikolayevich died from a head wound on 01/01/1944 in the surgical field-field hospital No. 2329 (HPPG No. 2329). Primary burial place is the Kalinin Region, Velikoluksky district, village Vorokhoby, to the north, forest edge, mass grave No. 10. Voronezh Region Borisoglebsk city, city cemetery, mass grave, No. 919 was reburied. A total of 1280 buried.

Title: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ “I, Serovatov Matvey Dmitrievich, was born on November 26, 1925 in the Chkalovsk Region. Perevolotsky district, Donetsk. When I turned 17 years and 2 months old, I volunteered for the front, decided that I must defend my homeland and my people. In 1943, on January 20, I was sent to the front, where I underwent training. _x000D_ At first I served in Koltubanovka, then we were transferred to Bashkiria, to Alkino, where I was enrolled as a machine gunner. I finished my studies with excellent marks and I was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. At the end of the year we were sent to the front, we ended up in the Poltava Region. There they gave me an easel machine gun, I was number 1. _x000D_ Then we were sent to the front line, where we defended our Motherland, here shots and explosions were already heard. When we crossed the Dnieper, it was already forced. Here we received the first baptism of fire, came under the bombing. The battle continued throughout the night. Many of my comrades were killed in that battle, this was our first battle. By morning we were not far from the Germans, their Reconnaissance bypassed our defenses, and we were surrounded. Suddenly 17 German tanks appeared, our regiment had been crushed almost completely, miraculously, several people remained alive, including myself... It was scary, even now its scary to remember, we had to go through horror. A whole book is not enough to describe everything. _x000D_ I went my way from the Dnieper to Berlin. In these battles I was slightly wounded, both legs were frostbitten. As a result, I was taken to the hospital, after treatment I ended up in the 173rd Tank Brigade, where I received a Degtyarev machine gun, and fought there. From the front line we were taken to form in Kharkov. We walked 70 kilometers to the village. Robin. Here we already received American equipment, our unit became known as the 6th Separate Motorcycle Reconnaissance Regiment. I was given a heavy machine gun. Our machine-gun company consisted of 110 people. Fighting, I went through the cities of Lodz, Warsaw, Regenwald, Berlin. After the capture of Berlin and the celebration of Victory Day, the service began for me in Dresden, where I served for 6 years and 2 months._x000D_ After demobilization, I returned to my hometown, to the Orenburg station, got married, got a job at the station. I worked for 30 years and 4 months, then retired and took up farming, I am satisfied with my life. In 2000, the veterans of our city were invited to Germany, where we stayed for 6 days. We were received just fine, I and my fellow soldiers were very pleased. First of all, we visited the cemeteries where our friends are buried, they have 317 monuments and 528 graves with our soldiers, cleanliness and order, a sea of flowers. People treat our heroes with respect, take care, honor. All this will always remain in my memory. " _x000D_ On January 11, 2006, our beloved grandfather passed away. We we miss him very much. He was a very good, cheerful, good-natured and sympathetic person. We loved him very much. We will never forget him. Thanks to him and to all the heroes, living and fallen, for our bright future, for this wonderful World, a deep bow for everything that they have done for us.

Rank: Red Army _x000D_ Subdivision: 56th Moscow Red Banner Infantry Division _x000D_ Near the eternal flame there is a sculptural group of two soldiers, and a little further, in the depths of the square, there is a memorial architectural structure, where cast-iron plaques with the names of those who found death on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War are fixed on the columns. _x000D_ The monument to Daria Yegorovna Turubarova, a mother, a simple Russian woman, will forever be remembered. Among the heroes is her daughter Vera, a Komsomol member who voluntarily left for the front and passed away on the Smolensk land. She convincingly asked the Komsomol organization to recommend her as a fighter in the ranks of the Red Army. In the Reserve Regiment, the girls underwent medical training, got acquainted with small arms, and went to the front. The Motherland honored its daughter with a high award, the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ It was learned in more detail about an effort of the Komsomol member Vera Turubarova in late September and early August 1945. At the same time the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Dityatev told about the last effort of Vera Turubarova._x000D_ " .. In our guards unit everyone knows the Medical Instructor girl, the hero Vera Turubarova. She was an example for fighters, dozens of glorious stories can be told about her fighting life. This happened in the Smolensk Region, near the city of Krasny, in the very place where Napoleon's troops were defeated in the First Patriotic War of 1812. The unit in which Vera served was found in a hard position. The Nazis were consolidated at the height. They had to be knocked out. One of the battalions went on the attack several times, but unsuccessfully. Then Vera jumped out of the trench with a high-raised machine gun, with the words: “Forward, for the Motherland!” The soldiers rose behind her, and in a stubborn battle, the height was taken. A courageous girl was seriously wounded.” This story of the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai ityatev was published in the newspaper “Bolshevik Call” No. 91 dated August 3, 1945.

Branch of troops: Aviation. Claudia Timofeevna Serova graduated with honors from the Saratov Pedagogical School in June 1941. She knew how to shoot well, and when the Great Patriotic War started, at the age of 19 she volunteered for the front. She got into the troops called "VNOS" (air observation, warning, and communications). They were located almost on the front line in the forests, where by ear, by the sound of flying aircraft, they had to recognize their types and transmit them to anti-aircraft gunners via communication, and they, in turn, with the help of guns, shot down enemy aircraft. _x000D_ Claudia fought in different territories of the Soviet Union: she was in Belarus, Russia, and Western Ukraine. More than once she came under enemy fire. But the first time they bombed the echelon in which they were traveling to the front, she recalled that it was very scary. Everything was on fire around, no one knew where to run and where to hide. At that moment, it was necessary first of all to overcome fear, then to help the wounded, and after the bombing, move on to the front line, and she did it. _x000D_ Claudia was appointed Platoon Commander, under her command there were the same young girls, like herself, who had hardships, but they endured these trials with honor, defending their homeland of its civilians, old people and children from the enemy invaders. For military merits, Claudia received awards. _x000D_ At the end of the war, she returned to her peaceful profession in Primary School as a Teacher, got married, gave birth to 3 daughters. On July 15, 1989, Claudia Timofeevna passed away, but she remained in the memory of her family (7 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren).