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Vakhrushev Alexander Andreevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Alexander Vakhrushev was born on 12.09.1903, totemsky uyezd. Rank: major General of the tank forces. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. In September 1918, he volunteered for the 15th Yuriev rifle regiment of the Estonian division. As a red army soldier of the yuryevsky regiment, he participated in battles against the British and Miller's gangs. On January 20, 1919, he was wounded. After leaving the hospital, he again defended the country of the Soviets with weapons in his hands. In 1925 , he was a platoon commander of a separate cavalry squadron, the 36th TRANS-Baikal rifle division. He served in the Nerchinsk, Chita. In July 1929, a military conflict broke out in the far East. In order to eliminate it, a Special far Eastern army was created under the command of V. K. Blucher. In it, Alexander Andreevich was the political head of the squadron. At the end of 1939, reactionary circles in Finland organized an armed attack on the USSR. Working in extremely difficult conditions, the Red Army defeated belotinska troops. Vakhrushev at this time was the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, which was the first to storm the Mannerheim line. The great Patriotic war found him as commander of a tank regiment. In February 1942, Vakhrushev was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In August 1942, he was sent to the Kalinin front as Deputy commander of the 33rd army for armored and mechanized troops. He was awarded the second order of Lenin, and in April-the order of Suvorov II degree. He was awarded an American government award – the Legion of merit, officer's degree. He was awarded the rank of major General of the tank forces. He died on may 19, 1945 and is buried in Brest.

Vedeneev Nikolay Denisovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolay Denisovich Vedeneev-commander of the 9th guards’ tank Uman red banner order of Suvorov corps of the 2nd guards tank army. Guards Lieutenant General of the tank forces. In August 1915, he was called up for military service in the Russian Imperial army. In 1917, he fought on the South-Western front of the First world war as a platoon non-commissioned officer. In 1917, he joined the CPSU(b) and became a red guard. Member of the Civil war. After the Civil war, he served in command positions in the Red Army. In 1928, he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy of the red army. From the first days of the great Patriotic war, Vedeneev served at the front as part of the 13th army of the Western front. At Bobruisk, the corps was surrounded and split into parts. Vedeneev takes command of his group and takes it to his own for 2 months. In October 1941, he was appointed senior lecturer, and in June 1942 – head of the command faculty of the Military Academy of mechanization and motorization of the red army named after I. V. Stalin. He remained in this position until 1944. In April 1944, Vedeneyev was appointed Deputy commander of the 8th Guards tank corps in the 2nd tank army on the 1st Belorussian front. In this position, he joined in the operation "Bagration" on the liberation of Belarus. In August 1944, Vedeneyev became commander of the 3rd tank corps of the same army. For the success achieved on November 20, 1944, the corps became the 9th guards tank corps. On January 12, 1945, a new offensive began, called the Vistula-Oder operation. The 9th guards tank corps was put into action on the second day. In three weeks, up to 500 kilometers were covered with battles. In February 1945, the corps reached the Oder river and captured a very important bridgehead on the West Bank near the city of Kustrin. In this operation, General Vedeneyev's tankers destroyed 74 tanks, 348 guns, 34 aircraft and 3316 soldiers and officers, and captured 2907 prisoners. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 06.04.1945, for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders. Vedeneyev was awarded the Rank Hero of the Soviet Union with the order of Lenin and the gold Star medal (No. 5768). On April 23, breaking the enemy's resistance, the corps broke into the capital of Nazi Germany, Berlin. After the war, N. D. Vedeneev continued to serve in the armed Forces of the USSR. Died 16.11.1964. He was buried at Vvedenskoye cemetery. He was awarded three orders of Lenin, the order of the red banner, Kutuzov I degree, Suvorov II degree, medals, a foreign order and a medal. Honorary citizen of the city Suraj (Poland).

Purkaev Maksim Alekseevich

Name: SURNAME: Peter and Paul first NAME: Paul middle name: Nikandrovich CITY: village of Mari-Yernur (Veliko Polje) date of BIRTH: 01.01.1899 date of DEATH: 20.03.1953 HISTORY: Rank: major General of artillery Type of troops: Artillery From the Autobiography of my grandfather's brother: He was born on October 24, 1899 in the village of Mari-Yernur in the present-day Veliko-Polsky selsoviet of the Orsha district of the Mari ASSR. Father Nikander Vasilyevich Petropavlovsk, due to the low power of agriculture and his father's large family, had to look for a living on the side. He worked in the volost boards as a scribe-assistant to the district clerk. In 1915, he became a school clerk. Until 1922, he worked as a Secretary of the Executive Committee. In 1922, he returned to der. Mari-Yernur, and was engaged in agriculture. In 1929, he joined the collective farm. He died in 1931. Mother Maria Vasilyevna Petropavlovsk was a housewife until 1922. In 1922, she joined the CPSU/b and worked as a narsudya and a member of the Board of defenders at the regional Court of Yoshkar-Ola, Mari ASSR. My independent life began early, at the age of 13. He worked as a laborer in the depot of art. Bologoe of the Oktyabrskaya railway and a farmhand for the merchant Turkin. In the spring of 1917, at my mother's request, I joined my father's family and worked as a messenger in the parish. General education-rural school. In the fall of 1917, he moved to Yoshkar-Ola, where he participated in the October revolution in the elections to the U/Executive Committee, and was elected a member. He joined the CPSU/b in 1918. He voluntarily joined the red army in 1918-a red army soldier of the I St. regiment (Krasnokokshaysky uyezd-auth.) participated in the civil war in the battles on the Eastern, Western, Northern and southern fronts." Profession-to protect the Homeland and in the next decade and a half of peaceful years Pavel nikandrovich did not take off his military uniform. He was educated at several military artillery institutions, the last of them being the Frunze Military Academy. And then again, the battle years. First the Finnish war, then the Great Patriotic War, in 1945-the war with Japan. He commanded the artillery of regiments and divisions, and later armies. And no matter what post he was in, he never hid behind anyone's back. With six orders and battle medals, the Motherland celebrated the contribution of major General Pavel Petropavlovsk to the victory. And thanks to his family, we still remember and are proud of our countryman.

Title: Major General _x000D_ Division: 69th Rifle Sevskaya, twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Peter Prokofievich was born in the village of Trudy, Verkhovsky District, Oryol Region on August 20, 1918, into a family of peasants, Russian by nationality. In 1935 he graduated from 9 classes of the Verkhovskaya Secondary School in parallel, he studied in absentia at the Oryol Financial and Economic College. On October 10, 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the city of Blagoveshchensk to serve in 12th Rifle Division of 214th Rifle Regiment with the rank of Private. In 1940 he was enlisted as a Cadet at the Khabarovsk Infantry School. He graduated from the school with the second grade and was immediately sent to the Volga Military District as Commander of a machine-gun company 1152 Rifle Regiment of 344 Rifle Division. In December 1941, he was appointed Commander of the 3rd Rifle Battalion 1152 Suvorov Regiment 344 Suvorov Division. The division joined the Western Front, where for the first time on 10/01/1942, Pyotr Prokofievich fought with a Battalion. He commanded the Battalion until May 1942, and during this time he was twice wounded and awarded the Order of the Red Banner for "excellent and skillful repulsing of massive attacks by enemy tanks and infantry", and was also appointed Commander of the Tarining Battalion 344 Suvorov Division. In October 1942, Pyotr Prokofievich was appointed Deputy Commander 1152 Suvorov Regiment. 344 Suvorov Division, and in the last days of December 1942 he was appointed Commander of 303 Suvorov Regiment 69 Suvorov Division. In September 1944, due to a severe injury, Pyotr Prokofievich left for the hospital for treatment in the city of Chkalov, where he lay until December 1944. After recovery, he was sent to 65th Army and until March 1945 he commanded 95th formation of 193 Suvorov Division. In March 1945 he was appointed Commander of 130th Guards Suvorov Regiment of 44th Guards Suvorov Division. _x000D_ Pyotr Prokofievich finished the war in the area of the city of Rostock. In December 1945 he was appointed Deputy Commander of 75 Guards Suvorov Regiment 26 Guards Suvorov Division. Subsequently, Pyotr continued to serve in the ranks of the Armed Forces. USSR, and in 1961 he was appointed to the post of Military Commissioner of the Crimea, which he had held until his retirement in 1977 with the rank of Major General.

Rank: General of the Army, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Pliev Issa Aleksandrovich is a Soviet military leader, General of the army, Commander of the North Caucasian Military District, 1958-1968 Twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of the Mongolian People's Republic,_x000D_ Issa Pliev was born on November 12 (25), 1903 in the village of Old Batako of the Tersk Region, now the Right-Bank Region of the Republic of North Ossetia, into a large family of a poor peasant Alexander Pliev. He had been to the army since March 1922. He served as a Red Army soldier in a special detachment under the special department of the Separate Caucasian Army. In June 1923 he was transferred to the reserve. In August he was again drafted into the army and sent to the Leningrad Cavalry School, from which he graduated in 1926. From October 1940 he studied at the Military Academy of the General Staff, which he graduated ahead of schedule in June 1941. _x000D_ At the beginning of World War II, the Commander of the 50th Separate Cavalry Division, which participated in the combat of Smolensk and the defense of Moscow as part of the Western Front, twice raided the rear of the German Army Group Center in the Smolensk Region and in the Moscow Region. _x000D_ In September 1941, Pliev was promoted to the rank of Major General, and the division was soon reorganized into the 3rd Guards Cavalry. _x000D_ Since December 1941 he had been a Commander of 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps, which, as part of the 16th and 20th armies of the Western Front, took part in the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow. Since April 1942, he was the Commander of 5th Cavalry Corps, which, as part of the troops of the Southern Front in May-June, fought heavy defensive battles south of the city of Izium in Ukraine. _x000D_ Since July 1942 he had been the Commander of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps, which fought in the Stalingrad, Don and Southwestern Fronts. Participated in the combat of Stalingrad. In February - May 1943 he was an Acting Deputy Commander of 5th Guards Tank Army on the Voronezh Front, since May 1943 - Acting Deputy Commander of the Steppe Military District (since July 1943 - Steppe Front). He participated in the combat of Kursk and the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine. _x000D_ In October 1943 he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant General. In November 1943—November 1944 he had been Commander of 4th Guards Cavalry Corps, part of the Mechanized Cavalry group of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, and Issa Pliev was appointed its Commander. _x000D_ He had been a participant of the Soviet-Japanese War of 1945. He commanded a Mechanized Cavalry group of the Trans-Baikal Front during the Khingano-Mukden offensive operation. For skilful leadership of units and personal courage and heroism shown in battles, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 8, 1945, he was awarded the second Gold Star medal. Soviet decorations: 6 Orders of Lenin, October Revolution, 3 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of Suvorov 1st class, Order of Kutuzov 1st class; _x000D_ Foreign decorations: Mongolian People's Republic—3 Orders of Sukhe-Bator, Red Banner, Polar Star; Poland—Renaissance of Poland 4th century, Virtuti Militari 5th century, USA—Legion of honor 2nd century, Czechoslovakia—Red Banner He had been a Candidate to the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1961-1966. The monument and the bronze bust are installed in Vladikavkaz, the monument is in his native village. A square and a street in Vladikavkaz, streets in the cities of Nazran, Beslan and Novoshakhtinsk (Rostov Region), the village of Pashkovsky (within the boundaries of Krasnodar) and many settlements of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, a side street in Rostov-on-Don bear his name.

10.04.1918 - 23.02.2009_x000D_ Rank: Marshal of Air Force (introduced in January 1943)_x000D_ Branch of service: Air Force_x000D_ Biography Marshal of Air Force (April 29, 1975)._x000D_ Hero of the Soviet Union._x000D_ Born on April 10, 1918 in the village of Sukhopol, Inzerskiy Villadge Council, Arkhangelsk District of Bashkortostan. Belarusian.He studied at the school of peasant youth, and after moving to the capital of Bashkiria - the city of Ufa - in Ufa Secondary School # 3. In the Red Army since 1936. He graduated from the Engels Military Aviation School of Pilots in 1940, and was assigned to the 211st Bomber Aviation Regiment of the air force of the Odessa Military District. Lieutenant Ivan Pstygo met the beginning of the Great Patriotic war at the field airfield near the Dniester River as a flight commander. He flew his first combat mission on June 22, 1941, as part of a group of SU-2 bombers of the 211st Aviation Regiment. In total, he made 21 sorties on SU-2. After the fall of Kiev and Kharkov, when only 11 planes remained in the 211st Bomber Regiment, Lieutenant Ivan Pstygo, among other pilots, was sent to retrain in the city of Balashov at the aviation school, where they had to master the new IL-2 attack aircraft. In the following years, attack pilot Ivan Pstygo fought on the South-Western, Stalingrad, Bryansk, 1st and 2nd Baltic, 3rd Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian Fronts as a squadron commander, chief of the air rifle service of the assault aviation division and the aviation corps. He met Victory Day with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel as a Commander of the 893rd Assault Vitebsk Red Banner Aviation Regiment, who was finishing off the demoralized remnants of German troops from the air. In total, during the war, I. Pstygo made 96 sorties, personally shot down 2 enemy fighters in air battles (one of them in a frontal attack). After the war, he was sent to the higher officer courses of the air force in Lipetsk. And after their successful completion, he served in the Far East. Then he studied at the General Staff Academy, after which in 1957 he was appointed Deputy Commander of the air force of the Leningrad Military District. From 1958 – first Deputy, and a year later – Commander of the air force of the group of Soviet troops in Germany. Colonel-General I. Pstygo - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet air force for combat training since 1967. He was awarded the highest military rank of Marshal of Air Force in 1975. Ivan Pstygo was assigned to form the Central aviation safety Inspectorate of the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1977, which he later headed. Then he introduced the "formula of safety" as a sum of terms of the qualities of personall, rules of flight service, regularity, guidance, and flight control, reliability of aviation equipment. This "safety formula", built on experience of his entire life, is still effective. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 7, 1978 "for personal courage and bravery shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War, a great contribution to the training and improving the combat readiness of troops in the post-war period, the development of complex military equipment", Marshal of Air Force Ivan Pstygo was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal (#11300). Pstygo - in the Group of the General Inspection of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Mastered 52 types of aircraft, 42 years of flight experience. The Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 hosted a round table "The Battle of Kursk: a look through six decades" on July 25, 2003, where Marshal of Air Force, participant of the Battle of Kursk, Hero of the Soviet Union I. Pstygo made a report "In the Sky over the Kursk Bulge". On the same day, he was awarded the commemorative medal "60 years of the Battle of Kursk". Lived in the hero-city of Moscow. He worked as a consultant at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy. He died on February 23, 2009, at the age of 91. He was buried on February 26, 2009 at the Troyekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow. Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union #11300 (April 7, 1978), two Orders of Lenin (1955, 1978), Order of The October Revolution (1974), seven Orders of the Red Banner (August 1942, October 1942, 1945, 1953, 1956, 1968, 1969), Order oOf Alexander Nevsky (1944), two Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1943, 1985), two Orders of the Red Star (1951), Order For Service to the Motherland In the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd degree (1988), 14 battle medals, russian Order For services to the Fatherland 4th degree (2008), medal - winning military pilot of the USSR (1967), Honorary citizen of Volgograd (May 29, 2003)

Valerian Vladimirovich Volkov, Major General, participant of the Great Patriotic War, cavalier of the Order of Lenin and two Orders of Combat Red Banner.

General Bolesław Kieniewicz with a group of soldiers from the Polish Army and Red Army during an excursion in Berlin.

Командир Кабардино-Балкарского объединенного партизанского отряда Георгий Царяпин.

Майор Башир Хамдохов, уроженец с. Старый Черек Урванского района КБР, летчик морской авиации, командир авиаполка Северного флота.

Commander of the DPR army's "Somali" unit, Mikhail Tolstykh, call sign "Givi," on the territory of the destroyed airport

Member of the Military Council of the 1st Ukrainian front N.S.Khrushchev talking with a young citizen of Botashany

Members of the Military Council of the Voronezh Front Lieutenant General S. Ivanov (right) and N. Khrushchev during a conversation in the courtyard of the front headquarters

Member of the Military Council of the 2nd Guards Army, Major General V. Chereshnyuk, Commander of the 2nd Guards Army, Lieutenant General G. Zakharov, Commander of the Artillery of the 2nd Guards Army, Major General I. Strelbitsky