Heroes of the Soviet Union

Fak Fedor Kuzmich (1913-1974) Second lieutenant. Born in Dubovsky hamlet. By January 1942, he participates in 204 flights (101 of them at night), destroyed 39 tanks, 97 vehicles, several enemy depots, and a large number of enemy manpower with bomb strikes. He died in 1974 in Putivl, Sumskiy region.

In the Red Army since 1939; In the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was company political instructor of the 42nd Motor Rifle Regiment, 42nd Rifle Division; by the end of the war he was a battalion commander of the 920th Rifle Regiment of the 247th Rifle Division, major; participant in the battle of the defense of Moscow, battles for the cities Klin, Rzhev, Kovel, crossing Eatern Bug river, liberation of Warsaw; Vistula-Oder operation; awarded of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (Feb. 1945) for crossing Vistula river and battles to expand the bridgehead. After the war he served as military commissar of the Abinsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, Deputy Chairman of the Absheron Regional Executive Committee, forester of the Abinsky forestry enterprise ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")

Shevelev Sergey Nikolayevich. Born on June 25, 1909 in Zhovtnevo village, Oktyabrsky District, Odessa Region, Ukrainian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic). In 1926 Sergey Nikolayevich finished 7 grades of school in Kattakurgan town, Uzbek SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic). From 1926 to 1929 he worked at the Zeravshan Experimental Agricultural Station of the Uzbek SSR as an apprentice in a forge (blacksmith's shop), then as a tractor driver and meteorological observer. From 1929 to 1930 he was an agricultural technician in Kattaming village of the Paishanba District (Kattakurgan District) of the Uzbek SSR. From November 1930 to 1931 Sergey Nikolayevich worked as an agricultural technician at the Machine Tractor Station of the Bagʻdod District of the Uzbek SSR. On September 28, 1931 Shevelev S. N. was called up for military service in the Soviet Army.

Pilot. Senior Lieutenant. Native of Krasnaya Pustyn village, Sergach District. Fought in the Baltics."

The Hero of the Soviet Union Major Kobyakov with citizens, Moscow

6-Shvernik (Hero of the Soviet Union) 1945

Lieutenant, commander of a company of machine gunners of the 737th rifle regiment of the 206th rifle division of the 47th Army of the Voronezh Front. He was awarded the Gold Star medal, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star.

Squadron Commander of the 1st Guards Mine Torpedo Aviation Regiment of Klaipeda. He took part in the defense of Leningrad, the defeat of enemy forces in the Baltic Sea. He was awarded the Gold Star medal, the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner and the medal For the Defense of Leningrad. Died 03.26.1944.

Khomenkov Nikolai Nikiforovich, (1923-1944), guard private of the first rifle company of the N unit. Hero of the Soviet Union (03.24.1945). He showed an exceptional personal example of heroism and courage in the performance of a combat mission - to break through the heavily fortified, deeply echeloned, with a developed system of trenches, the enemy's defense in the Vitebsk region, inspired his comrades by personal example, raising the fighters to attack. The Hero's grave is located in the Tropin village of the Shumilinsky district of the Vitebsk region.

Hero of the Soviet Union Khalzov Viktor Stepanovich (1921-1985), senior pilot of an assault aviation regiment.

Shapkin Nikolai Vasilievich (1923-1945), a native of the village of Krasnaya Pustyn, Sergach district. Guard senior lieutenant, pilot. Hero of the Soviet Union, the best air reconnaissance in the Baltic. He died on March 5, 1945 near the Polish city of Gdynia. Buried in Poland.

Mikhail Dmitrievich Cheprasov fought from March 1943 to July 1944 at the Steppe, 2nd Belorussian Front, and participated in the liberation of Belorussia. On July 21, 1944, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for bravery and courage displayed during the forcing of the Dnieper, capture and retention of the bridgehead on the western bank of the river. He was seriously wounded.

Shilov Peter Nikiforovich (16 December 1918, Maloirmenka village, Altai Province - 9 October 1944, Vekshniai, Lithuanian SSR) - Senior Sergeant of the Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945, posthumously). Commander of the Reconnaissance Department of the Staff Battery of the 349th Artillery Regiment, 119th Rifle Division, 83rd Rifle Corps, 4th Shock Army, 1st Baltic Front.

Chernykh Matvey Mitrofanovich - Commander of the Battery Reconnaissance Division of the 940th Artillery Regiment (370-th Rifle Division, 69th Army, 1st Belorussian Front), Petty Officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded the Order of Glory 1st degree.

The photo was taken on the territory of the Oryol (now Bryansk region). Dmitry Vasilyevich Emlyutin - one of the organizers of the partisan movement in the territory of the Bryansk region, Chekist, Hero of the Soviet Union.