Faces of war

Pyrkov Yuri Ivanovich Pyrkov Yuri Ivanovich, born in 1923, in 1944 - Guards Lieutenant, pilot of the 134th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Division of the 8th Air Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front. Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

Raspopova Nina Maksimovna Raspopova Nina Maksimovna, born in 1913, in 1944 - Senior Lieutenant of the Guards, flight commander of the 46th Guards Night Bombers of the 2nd Guards Night Bombers of the Air Division of the 8th Air Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front. Hero of the Soviet Union (1946).

Revkov Ivan Ivanovich Revkov Ivan Ivanovich, born in 1922, in 1944 - a guard Lieutenant, commander of a Tank Platoon of the 22nd Separate Tank Regiment of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front. Hero of the Soviet Union (1945).

Rank: Major Troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops Division: 210th Infantry Khingan Division. Arsalan Zhambalovich Zhambalov (Zhambalon) 28.05.1924 - 17.02.2011. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Honored Worker of Culture of the RSFSR Honorary Citizen of Chita region, People's Poet of the Republic of Buryatia. In 1941, Arsalan Zhambalov, as the winner of the regional competition of young artists (paintings "At the harvest" and "Landscape" took first place), was enrolled in the Moscow secondary art school. But the war with Hitler's Germany began... As he had not reached the draft age, he, together with his peers, was sent on the line of the military commissariat for accelerated service in Chita school of factory - factory training (FZO). In August 1942, Arsalan Zhambalov left the town of Shilka for service in the army. The first months of army service were spent in the training mortar battalion at Malta station in Irkutsk region. Six months later, in February 1943, the battalion was alerted, the soldiers were put in freight cars and brought to the south-eastern border of the Homeland. The youth did not sulk in the face of difficulties. Arsalan Zhambalov, having a minute free of combat and political training, took notes in his small notebook, which he always carried in the breast pocket of a shirt. As a result, during 1944-1945 he managed to write more than ten stories and two dozen poems on military theme. He sent them to the editorial offices of the newspapers “Agyn Nen” and “Buryad-Mongoloy Nen”, which published the soldier's works and sent him newspaper issues with them. All of his division's fellow countrymen gathered in free hours and organized collective readings of Buryat newspapers. In addition, Arsalan Zhambalov was a war correspondent for the editorial office of the Transbaikal Military District 'At Combat Post' and wrote notes on the combat and political training of soldiers and sergeants. In early August 1945, the Red Army had to eliminate the threat from the east - to defeat the Kwantung Army of Japan in Manchuria. At that time, Arsalan Zhambalov was studying at the Transbaikal Military and Infantry School of Junior Commanders and was recalled to his unit. The 210th Infantry Division was given the name "Khinganskaya" for successfully overcoming the Great Khingan. All personnel were given a commendation. So, the war with Japan began with lightning speed and ended in a short time. By coordinated in time, place and target troops strikes of The Zabaikalsky, 1st and 2nd Far Eastern Fronts, the Pacific Fleet and the Amur military flotilla the Kwantung Army was completely defeated , which decided the fate of that terrible war. Arsalan Zhambalovich Zhambalov (Zhambalon) was awarded many government awards for his military and valorous work: the Order of Great Patriotic War II degree and the Order of Friendship of Peoples, 4 badges of honor, 16 medals for victory in the Great Patriotic War and labor services, as well as many certificates of honor. Arsalan Zhambalovich (Zhambalon) was awarded the titles "Veteran of Labor", "Honored Pensioner", "Honored Cultural Worker of the RSFSR", "Honorary Citizen of Chita region", "People's Poet of the Republic of Buryatia".

Zhikhar Vladimir Vasilyevich was born on January 10, 1922 in the village of Badeni, Myadelsky district in a family of peasants. He received his primary education at the Polish elementary school in the village of Badeni, where he finished 4th grade. In 1939, when the western territories of Belarus were returned to the Soviet Union, he finished the 4th-5th grade of the Russian school in the village of Badeni. The war started and at the age of 19 he became a partisan of the Kirov detachment of the Korotkin brigade (commander Kuznetsov, commissar Kozlov) on the eastern territory of Belarus (Ushachsky district). The guerrillas' main task was to investigate the exact location of the enemy's troops and headquarters. The Germans in appointed a Soltus (headman) in each village, his duties were to provide nearby garrisons of the occupiers with food. In one of the days when the soltus had to deliver food to the garrison of Meadel, to him in the "assistants" was appointed a partisan scout Zhihar VV. His task was to: visually remember the location of troops in the garrison, warehouses and fortifications. During the reconnaissance he was spotted by the enemy patrol and sent to the Gestapo. After long torture, he did not give out any information about anyone. But the German officer, suspecting Vladimir Vasilyevich in connection with the guerrillas, ordered to whip him with twenty blows of shompole. After the execution of the sentence, they threw him out, bleeding, to die. He was brought to the village headman by cart. According to witnesses - "back and legs cut open to meat" - there was no untouched place. By a miracle, he was still alive. In 1944, not far from the village of Danilovichi, three soldiers, including Zhihar V.V., were returning from reconnaissance. On the forest road, they met a huge solid column of German units and military equipment. They spent about two hours in ambush and after waiting for the end of the convoy, having a machine gun and two automatic rifles, they destroyed three cars with fascists. Our hero destroyed one enemy car and killed 17 Germans. For this operation Vladimir Vasilyevich was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Great Patriotic War 1st degree" (at that time the medal was equal to the medal "Hero of the Soviet Union", but the partisan was not give the title "hero"). In May 1944, the fascists removed 7 divisions from the frontline and surrounded the guerrilla brigades, with a total of 180,000 men (including carts with women and children). There was nowhere to retreat – there was an impassable swamp behind them. The Command (Labanok, Rodionov and others) decided to suddenly attack the enemy and break out of the encirclement ring. On a dark, rainy night, before the morning punitive operation, the volunteers (including V.V. Zhikhar) snuck through the enemy's trenches, went around the rear of the surrounding partisan detachment of fascists, and at the appointed hour simultaneously with the partisans' attack hit the enemies with machine guns. They broke through the enemy ring, came out of the encirclement and took many prisoners. During interrogation the prisoners said: the attack was very prompt and sudden, and the blow from the rear seemed to them as if the partisan reinforcements from the neighboring detachment came, which was difficult to resist. For this operation, Vladimir Vasilyevich received two memorable gifts for the rest of his life: the Order of the Red Star and shrapnel wounds (in combat, he was seriously wounded in the arm and shoulder). As a result, the Korotkin brigade made its way to the Braslav region. The garrison in Braslav was blocked before the Soviet troops arrived. After his wound, Vladimir Vasilyevich was assigned to the reserve regiment and then was taken to the emergency infirmary where the wounded horses were treated. He was also responsible for removing wounded horses from the front line, and returning the healthy ones back to the front line. After that he served in the headquarters of one of the regiments of the 6th Guards Army, under the command of Govorov - as a liaison. He got this position unexpectedly, but deservedly: the whole unit was preparing for the general's arrival, and with his arrival everyone stood at the stand "still", and Vladimir Vasilyevich was treating the wounded horse's leg without raising his head. Thinking that such impudent behavior would be punished, he appeared by order to the general, but the general noted his dedication, caring attitude to the animals, independence and courage. After that, he ordered the cooks to feed the soldier and appoint him a liaison staff. In the summer of 1945, as part of a group of Soviet troops Zhihar was sent to the Far East, but was not involved in combat operations in the war with Japan, due to the fact that the Americans dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. And Zhihar V.V. as part of NKVD units was sent to Lithuania to destroy the remains of bandits. In January 1946 he was demobilized.

BACKGROUND: Rank: Senior Sergeant Troops: Military Medicine Valentina Ivanovna Zhuravleva (Vladislava Ivanovna Labunskaya) was born on December 21, 1922 in Ukraine in Kamenets-Podolsk region. (now Khmelnitsky region) Starokonstantinovsky district, village Maly Chernyatin. In the family of a mid-range peasant. By nationality, Polish. She entered the Maly Chernyatinskaya elementary school in 1930. After completing four years, she studied at a secondary school in the village of Bolshoi Chernyatin. In 1938, her father - Ivan Pavlovich Labunsky was repressed (rehabilitated in 1956 by a decree of the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian SSR). In 1939, after finishing 8th grade of school, entered the Staro-Konstantinovsky 2-year College of nurses. On June 22, 1941 a disaster came - fascists attacked our country. On June 30, 1941 all examinations had to be passed in one day. A young girl volunteered to join the ranks of the Red Army. She began her service in 4 separate construction railway brigade, in 69th railway construction track battalion. From the very first days she found herself in the thick of the events of the beginning of the war, heavy defensive battles in Ukraine, retreats, breakthroughs from the surroundings, on the fragile shoulders of the girl immediately fell the hardships of war and hard work to help the wounded, saving the lives of our soldiers. As part of the sanitary platoon of the 69th Railway Construction Track Battalion, she took part in the defensive battles for Ukraine, in the north - in the battle for Karelia, in the battles near Moscow, Kalinin Front, Western Front, Smolensk, Belarus. In 1943, during the organization of the Polish divisions by nationality was seconded from the unit, but due to the fact that she did not know Polish, was not drafted into the Polish army and was sent to the 202 reserve regiment, from which she was sent to the 3rd Assault Engineering and Spatial Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree Neman brigade of the Reserve of the Supreme Command (3 SHISB RVGK), as a nurse of a separate medical sanitary platoon. On June 28, due to the dissolution of the platoon's medical staff, was transferred to the 15th Independent Kovnoe Mechanical Engineer Battalion (oshisb)3 SHISB RVGK. As part of the brigade, she fought first on the 3rdBelarusian front, and later on the 2ndBelarusian front. She fought in Lithuania, Poland and Germany. There she met her future husband Boris Semionovich Zhuravlev. Valentina Ivanovna marched a fighting way from Starokonstantinov almost to Berlin the town of Templin. Was awarded fighting awards "For military merits", the Order of the Red star. In her presentation to the medal “For Military Merits” was noted that she, as a devoted nurse, gives all her efforts and experience to restore the health of wounded and sick soldiers and officers. Up to 3,000 wounded and sick people passed through her hands, all of whom received proper help and care. In addition to her basic work, she also had to work in a dressing room where she provided direct care for the wounded. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star for her sacrifice, energy and initiative in saving the life of Brigade Commander Colonel Nemirovsky. After the war, she became an officer's wife and lived with her husband in Kaliningrad (formerly Koenigsberg), Tver, Moscow and Katava-Ivanovs in the Chelyabinsk region. She worked in the Katava-Ivanovo Medical Association. Raised two sons. For many years she regularly came to Moscow to meet her frontline friends at the Bolshoi Theater. She died on 9.06.1989. She was awarded: Medal "For Combat Services", Order of the Red Star, Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, Medal "For the Defense of Kiev", Medal "For the seizure of Koenigsberg", Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", Medal "Twenty years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", a sign" 25 years of a victory in the Great Patriotic War ", a medal" 50 years of armed forces of the USSR ", a sign" the Veteran of Karelian front 1941-1945 ", an anniversary medal" for conscientious work in commemoration of the 100 anniversary of V.I.Lenin's birth. Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", Medal "Veteran of Labor", Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". Memories: When Germany attacked our country, I was 18 years old. I was finishing medical school in Starokonstantinov. Four girls were studying from our village Maly Chernyatin. We had a therapy exam scheduled for June 22, but since the teacher was a military doctor, he was urgently called on alarm and our exam failed. The next day other doctors were already taking exams. In one day we passed three exams without preparation. The first time our city was bombed on June 22 at night. They bombed us very badly, and on the ninth day the Germans were already at the approaches to the city, twelve kilometers away, just where my homeland is. Everything burned everywhere. We, four girls: Anya, Lida, Lena and I, decided that we have no way home, voluntarily went to the military committee and said: "Send us to the front, we are nurses.” The city was evacuated, the military registration and enlistment office was already on wheels ... documents were loaded into cars, the telephone connection was not working. The military officer looked at us with pity, said with a sigh: "Go to the station and ask the commandant of the station. Pass the word about your enrollment in the part. Say that I sent you, and act there.” At the station by the railway part evacuation work was carried out. The 69th Independent Railway Construction Battalion, arriving from the Far East during the first days of the war, was performing a mission in the West, when our troops were retreating, the battalion was blowing up the railway, bridges and preventing the enemy from advancing. We came to the commandant, Captain Georgy Mikhailovich Molozhavy, who was also commander of the 4th Company, 69th Battalion. The commandant handed us over to the paramedic: "Here, take the replenishment... give them everything they need for work and set the task. Get down to the task.” This is how we joined the ranks of defenders of the Motherland. Our combat weapons - medical bags with a red cross, in the bag "ammunition": bandages, cotton, hems, harnesses and other necessary things to provide first aid in case of injury and bandages. After a short briefing, we began to work independently to help the wounded soldiers and officers. There were a lot of wounded at the station. Everyone was waiting for help and sending to the rear hospital. All you could hear was: "Sis, bandage me, put the dressing on". I answer: "Now, dear, now dear, be patient a little...". And my hands trembled with fear, bandages without a habit flew off, and there is no one to tell me how to do it right. The first day of our "battles". From somewhere, both ingenuity and courage came. And the Germans hit with long-range guns, every three or four hours planes came and bombed. The wounded are arriving and arriving, if possible, they come by themselves, are dragged - just have the time to bandage. But we coped with our work. All the wounded were bandaged, loaded into the echelon and sent. There was a lot of work to do, it was difficult, no time to ask, and there was no one to tell, the conditions were terrible. I remember one of my first bandages. The soldier was shot in the head with a shrapnel. He was a pretty boy, a curly blond. I cut the hair on the wound, put pillows from the bag and started bandaging. I finish, and the bandage slips off, three times bandaged him with shaking hands, and it still falls off. This is all because - I was thinking - his hair is golden and soft ... And the soldier calms me down: - Do not worry sister. Everything is fine. Once a soldier came to the medical station - the commissar's contact was just scratched a little, we need to urgently apply a bandage. I come - the commissioner seems to be forty years old, on the loops there were two sticks, the finger is broken and dangling on the bandage (some kind of bandage), the wound is fresh - blood oozes through a bandage. At first, I was confused at the sight of such a large boss, but quickly coped with the excitement .I do not know how, but in my hands I had “zelyonka”. I quickly applied it on the wounded finger, bandaged it, and put a splint on it. That was it. On the next bandage, he went to the chief of the sanitary service. Then the doctor told me that I should not use herbs with such wounds on Commissioner. There many wounded. And bandages had to be applied after the bombings. We were bombed very often, several times a day. The bombing lasted eight to nine hours, a moment of silence, and then we started bandaging. We start in the first light and end in the dark; we had to bandage almost all night until morning. At the station, there were trains with ammunition going to the front, trains with the wounded and equipment for evacuation. And daily bombing for many hours. The horror was what was happening. Our Railway Battalion was on a mission to destroy or restore railway tracks and railway bridges to provide a way to advance trains and block the way to prevent the movement of enemy trains. Our squadron was not large - 8 cars. The cars had everything necessary to carry out the work. Day and night we had to restore and destroy the tracks. FASHISTIC PLANES - SPIES flew in all the time. After them, the bombers arrived. We would go 1 km away. Stopped. Soldiers of the subversive team blew up the station and the railway track. We moved on. And the Germans were right behind us. We blew up the stations and the tracks, prevented the Germans to move on. So kilometer by kilometer we drove them a hundred fifty - a hundred sixty. On the fifth day of our trip near the station Monastery - Christinovka, the Germans cut our way, our train began to be bombarded... We are on a hill, and the Germans were in a hollow, not letting us move on. Our train - eight cars and three locomotives, two in front and one in the tail. The cars had equipment for railroads and bridges, food... The moment we went to the crossing, the Germans would start firing at the train... We went back. At this crossing we fought for two days and could not pass. We lost two front locomotives. On the third day at five o'clock in the morning we decided to slip through this unfortunate crossing. We could not. The last steam locomotive failed. Our echelon remained standing, on fire. Two steam locomotives were out of order. We were cut off the way to retreat. It was a group of fascist parachutists. We were ordered to go to the left side into a hollow, to the nearest forest by ditches and take up defense. And in this forest we fought for two days without food, without a piece of bread - everything remained in the burnt-out echelon. These days, we lost three fighters and a driver, who was heavily scalded. There were twelve wounded, including our company commander Captain Molozhavy and my friend Lida. By the end of the day, another group of our soldiers joined our group and we captured almost all of this German landing party. Only then we got out of this trap. We got out on a freeway somewhere else. The seriously wounded and some of the wounded, including Captain Molozhavy, were sent to hospital in trains to the rear. They were accompanied by one of my friends, Lida. And so just three of us girls, were left. We, the girls, were sent to the forest. There were two trains with wounded people who could not be sent to the rear, because the road was cut off by the Germans. Some of our soldiers made their way as far forward as they could into their units. We stayed here with three nurses, one doctor and two paramedics and with wounded in the echelon. From morning till night we walked along the wagons providing first aid. But the trains here in the woods stood for three days without hot meals, the soldiers were fed with dry rations of crackers and canned food, many wounded people needed a bandage, garter. On the third day in the afternoon, there was a way for the train with the wounded to be sent to the next station only by car. The way was forty kilometers long. My friends and I agreed to meet at the destination station. With the first portion of the wounded Lena went, with the other - Anya, I went with the third part only at the end of the day. . I came with the wounded already in the evening, after dark. While the wounded were being unloaded, it became completely dark. Of course, I walked along the station, along the echelons, went to the commandant, asked "did the girls come" ... That's how we lost each other. This day there was a raid of German bombers three times. A train with ammunition stood at the station and was bombed. There was a strong explosion and fire at the station. In the afternoon, I went to the military commandant to be assigned to some unit. Fortunately, I met the commander of one of the platoons of the unit where the girls and I were in the first days, Lieutenant Kovalev with a group of eight soldiers. They were also braking through to their unit, but they could not find its location. They gave us an order – get to the battalion any way you can, its somewhere ahead. The Komendant explained to us that we have to go to Poltava, to the Zolotonosha station, where our unit is being formed. We got a dry ration of food and went on our way. Somewhere we drove by car, somewhere by train, somewhere we walked. So on the third day of the way we arrived to Zolotonosha in our part. . At Zolotonosha station our battalion was preparing to move to the North. Again the train consisting of 8 cars. We moved to the North. The squadron was bombed every day, several times at each crossing. In August, they stood on the Dnieper. Guards of the famous Kanevsky bridge, where every minute, every hour they were subjected to artillery fire and bombing. Many people were injured and killed. We had to work day and night. Under the pressure of enemy power, we had to retreat. At that time one of my colleagues was wounded in the chest, forty minutes later she died. We stood on this bridge for a long time, but we also had to blow up this bridge. Finally, we arrived in Petrozavodsk (Karelian front), then Medvezhegorsk, Belomorsk, Kandalaksha. Battalion began its duties .Again every day… bombing. I was a sanitary instructor in late December 1941. We were transferred from the North to Moscow - Volokolamsk direction – here for the first time I saw several people who were tortured by fascists. We were looking, looking to remember it. I saw the stone faces of Soviet soldiers, saying only one word: "revenge". Then there were the Kalinin Front, the Western Front ... In February 1942 I took the oath of allegiance before the formation, before the banner of the unit. In August in the forest in a dugout in a combat situation, I was given a Komsomol ticket. .The head of the political department said: - You are not only a soldier, you are a Komsomol. I swore an oath to my Homeland. We didn’t of becoming heroes, but the circumstances forced us. One day, a soldier blew up on a mine and needed urgent medical aid. And I ran, forgetting about any danger. There were shout behind me: Where are you running? There are mines! " But then I forgot about the fear and ran to help a man. I remember: 4th Railway Brigade, 69th Battalion. The battalion's commander, Major Markov; the chief of staff, Captain Alexandrovsky; later, Captain Letyagin; Commissar Major Maksimov; Company commander, Captain Shlokhin; Company commander, 4th Company, Senior Leutenant Zukerman (from Leningrad); and Lt Serbo. My girlfriend, the dentist of the battalion Efimova Ekaterina Sergeyevna (from Karelia), now lives in the village of Shunga, Medvezhegorskiy district. ABOUT FRIENDS I met my friends after the war, when I was on vacation in my homeland. We shared our impressions and remembered our adventures during the first days of the war. Our frontline biographies differed from one another. One of my friends was wounded and sent to hospital, where she worked until the end of the war, which she welcomed in Estonia. The other one was taken to the evacuation hospital in Uralsk, where she worked during the war. The third girlfriend ended up in a partisan detachment in Belorussia. I fought in the combat unit of the Railway Troops in the 69th Battalion platoon, and then from the end of 1943, in the Assault Engineering-Demining unit, as a company sanitary technician...

Title: Red Army man. Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Born July 2, 1921 in the village of Moiseevka, Krasnoturansky district of Krasnoyarsk Krai,. Graduated from 6th grade. He worked at a collective farm. In 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army Krasnoturansk District Military Committee and was sent to the 449th Rifle Division, which was being formed in Abakan. In July 1942, as part of the division, which received another number - 309, went to the front. His battle way he began as a signalman in the 842nd Artillery Regiment. In 1943 he was wounded, after the hospital he was sent to the reserve regiment in the town of Chkalov. Since February 1944, he fought in the 10th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Division. On July 18, 1944, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was the first of the regiment to cross the Western Bug River. Near the settlement, he got into the enemy's trench and destroyed the machine gun, which interfered with the advance of our troops. On July 29, in the vicinity of the town of Sedlce, with a group of scouts, he hit a truckload of ammunition and several enemy soldiers and an officer. By order of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Division of August 9, 1944 the Red Army soldier Zhorov Andrei Andreevich was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd degree. January 21, 1945 near the town of Thorn, the Red Army soldier Zhorov, being in the search party, under enemy fire took out of the battlefield a killed comrade. On February 1, near the village of Vengrov, he shot down several enemy soldiers with an automatic rifle and took one as prisoner. He was wounded, but continued his combat mission. According to the order of the 1st Byelorussian Front on March 12, 1945, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree. On April 26, 1945, in the northeast of Fürstenwald, the Red Army soldier Zhorov, as part of the reconnaissance group, was the first to break into the enemy trench and put out of action a machine-gun point and several enemy soldiers with precision fire. In the battle for the village of Krylle, he suppressed 2 machine-gun points and exterminated 5 soldiers and 1 officer. In one of the next raids, the scouts found the concentration camp, attacked the guards, killing 18 opponents, and released more than one and a half thousand prisoners. The scout Zhorov finished the war on the Elbe River. In 1946, he was demobilized. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree for bravery and heroism shown in the battle with the German invaders in the Great Patriotic War. He became a full knight of the Order of Glory. He returned to his Homeland. He worked as a foreman of a field brigade. He was awarded the Order of Lenin for his high-performance work in the postwar period. Since 1958, he worked as a communications and radio communications installer at a communications hub. He was a member of the CPSU since 1969. He lived in the village of Krasnoturansk, Krasnoyarsk region. He died on March 8, 2004. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, medals. In the village of Krasnoturansk, on the house where the veteran lived, a memorial plaque was opened.

My great-grandfather Zhukov Fedosiy Efimovich was born on December 16, 1919 in the village Blagoveshchenyka Kakhovsky district of Kherson region in a peasant family. In the 30s during the period of collectivization my great-grandfather's family was dispossessed and exiled to the Urals. They were carried in commodity wagons. Many were dying of cold, hunger and diseases. In spring, when the snow melted, they reached the nearest village, it was the state farm of Alexandrovsky, Perm region, where they stopped for permanent residence. The Great Patriotic War abruptly turned the whole country's life around. At the beginning of the war, Grigory Yefimovich Zhukov, the brother of my great-grandfather, went to the front. The great-grandfather already had a family – a wife and a daughter. He himself worked at a defense enterprise, so his numerous requests to send him to the front were refused. In 1944 my great-grandfather managed to get him sent to the front. He fought in the 15th Army in the 166th Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner. He liberated Ukraine, Byelorussia, Poland from Nazi invaders and reached Germany. He was wounded 2 times in the battles, once in fierce battles for Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). My great-grandfather did not like to tell about the war, but a few episodes of his stories are preserved in the memory of his daughter (my grandmother). The Nazis tried to keep the fortress city of Koenigsberg at all costs. This was evidenced by their appeals written in large letters on the walls of houses: "We will win - God is with us!", "From now on we are mad!", "We will fight with fanatical madness! And the positions of the Soviet troops were constantly targeted and accurately fired at by the Nazis. And then they found the fire adjuster. It was an old German woman, who was passing on information about the location of Soviet troops. Our troops opened heavy artillery fire at blocks and objects held by the enemy. Air strikes were fired at them from the air. Some groups of German troops in different parts of the city began to surrender not withstanding the pressure. Soon, the process became massive. On April 9, 1944 in the concrete casemate of the bomb shelter act of unconditional surrender of the garrison was signed by the commandant of the fortress, General Otto Lash. The Soviet flag swooped over the Derdona Fort. My great-grandfather's merits were marked by the government awards - the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree; medals "For bravery"; Zhukov medal. Jubilee medals. After the war Fedosiy Yefimovich returned home, but his wife and daughter were not there, and no one knew where they were. His brother also came back alive from the front. Not every family had such happiness at that time. The great-grandfather looked for his wife and daughter for a long time, but the search did not give anything. Ten years after the war, he married for the 2nd time. His wife was a nurse from the hospital, where he had a surgery. My great-grandfather never saw his daughter from his first marriage. 6 years ago she found us through the Internet.

Troops: USSR Navy and Naval Forces Border Guards NKVD. I was born in peaceful time. I heard about the war on TV and read in books. In a conversation with my mother, by chance, it turned out that my grandfather, my mother's father, participated in the Great Patriotic War. Grandfather Vanya was born in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-fourth year in the village Kvasovo Uritsky district, and at the beginning of the war he was only fifteen years old. The fascists very quickly seized the village where he lived. Life during the occupation was very hard. It was very hungry and scary, he had to live in dugouts. It was necessary to hide from fascists and policemen, because young people were hijacked to work in Germany. Grandfather was saved from the hijacking by an accident, the tractor ran over his leg. There was a complicated fracture, and the leg wouldn’t come together for a long time. In the forty-third year, the Soviet troops liberated his village. Grandfather Vanya was immediately drafted into the army. He fought in the Baltic Fleet in the Marines. He took part in many combat operations. Grandfather freed the Baltics from the Nazis. He was wounded twice. After treatment in hospitals, he returned to his home unit and continued fighting. He finished the war in Koenigsberg. My grandfather fought with dignity, for which he was awarded two medals, but unfortunately, they have not been preserved. My mother said that my grandfather did not like to talk about the war. She showed me a photo, where my grandfather was in military uniform. This is the only photo from the war. My grandfather was demobilized in the forty-seventh year, and soon married my grandmother. I am proud of my grandfather. He had to endure a lot: to survive the military rush, to defend his Homeland with dignity, and then to establish life in his native collective farm. My grandfather worked hard and died young, and the military wounds - shrapnel in his arm and back - affected him. I will never forget that I had a grandfather who fought for our peaceful life and the blue sky above our heads.

Title: Senior Lieutenant Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard Division: 171st Rifle Division (1st formation) Alexey Evstegneevich Zhuravlev was born in 1905 in Rostov region, in the city of Taganrog. He was married, wife Zhuravleva Natalya Alekseevna. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Red Army since October 1936. After graduation from military school he served as commander of machine-gun company of 525th rifle regiment of 171st rifle division. 171st rifle regiment was deployed on September 18, 1939 on the basis of the 38th Don Mikoyan Rifle Division. Before the war, it was located in the North Caucasus Military District. It met the beginning of the war on the territory of the Kharkov Military District at the time of its relocation to the west. On July 12, the 27th Infantry Corps's division began concentrating in the Yasnogorodka area. By midday, the 15th, along with other units of the Corps, began to arrive at the Teterev-Mikulici station on the Kiev-Korosteny railroad and the next day engaged the infantry and tanks at the Nalivaikovka-Makarov border. On July 17, the Germans again tried to break through the division's positions in the Liptovka area, after which the division continued to fight for several days in that area. According to the information from the 525th RD combat route dated June 29, 1941, the commander of the machine-gun company of the 525th rifle regiment, Senior Lieutenant A.E. Zhuravlev, was killed on July 15, 1941, fighting with fascist invaders in the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev region, Makarov district, Andreyevka village.

Род войск: Бронетанковые и механизированные войска. Журавлев Алексей Федорович родился в 1912 году в Саратовской области в селе Языковка Жерновского района. Работал в колхозе. В 1932 году женился на Шапошниковой Евдокии Алексеевне(Журавлева), родившейся тоже в селе Языковка Жерновского района Саратовской области. В 1932 году у них родился сын Николай. В 1933 году они переезжают в город Баку и поселяются на острове «Артем» (в настоящее время о.Пираллахи). Поступает на работу на острове рабочим. В 1938 году у них рождается дочь Лидия. В 1940 году Журавлев Алексей Федорович заканчивает курсы и становится водителем газобалонных автомашин. В 1941 году идет на фронт. Сохранились с фронта два письма. Первое письмо от 1 декабря 1941 года, где отец сообщает, что были в Сталинграде, а затем их отправили в город Прохладный на ремонт танков (отец был танкистом). В письме он пишет: «…Вот сейчас пришел момент – злейшего врага, проклятого всем миром, Гитлера, зимой разобьем и весной домой, может, приеду». Второе письмо от 18 января 1945 года написано при выписке из госпиталя, а где находился он, в письме зачеркнуто, а лечился в госпитале в Югославии. Затем было получено извещение о том, что Журавлев Алексей Федорович погиб 1 февраля 1945 года и похоронен с отданием воинских почестей в 20 м северо-западнее церкви с. Геболь Яралик, Венгрия округ Эрд. Память о своем отце я храню всю свою жизнь (дочь Лидия) и гордость, что он совершил подвиг, освободив всех нас от фашистской чумы, и мы – его внуки и правнуки, которые знаем своего деда и прадеда по воспоминаниям бабушки (его жены) и нашей мамы – храним в сердце память о своем дедушке Алексее Федоровиче и говорим СПАСИБО тебе за ПОБЕДУ, за ЧИСТОЕ и СВЕТЛОЕ НЕБО НАД ГОЛОВОЙ. Дочь Лидия Алексеевна Трофимова (Журавлева).

BACKGROUND: The word of the father. In this family, the family archive is cherished with reverence. Its zealous keeper Alevtina Bondareva, a retired teacher, willingly tells about her family tree, shows the letters, photos and documents. Here is a military man on the photo card. Courageous, beautiful face. Alevtina Aleksandrovna became silent and after an instant pause, almost whispered quietly: "And this is my dad," her voice trembled. I ask her to tell about her father. She put her hands on her knees, excitedly began to staighten the apron, as if automatically folding and straightening it. -I have already lived a long life," she said. I know the price of happiness and sadness. I spent my childhood surrounded by tender, caring, my dear mother and grandmother. I can say that my future life was quite successful. I worked at school for thirty years. I loved my husband and was loved. I am happy with my children and grandchildren. I have a lot to thank the fate for. But through my mother's and mine life, fate ploughed a terrible furrow. And it is not covered with either flowers or thistle. The war took away her beloved husband, and my father ... In 1932, my mother graduated from the Borisoglebsk Pedagogical School, worked two years in Buturlinovsky district and returned to her homeland. She was admitted to the Makashevskaya seven-year school as an elementary school teacher. The staff of the school was mostly young. Alexander Grigorievich Zhivotenko, a tall, slender, blue-eyed guy, was a Russian language teacher. He paid attention to a small swarthy girl. The young people were irresistibly attracted to each other. And not only appearance was the reason, but also kinship of souls, subtlety of feelings, human reliability. They got married. A year later, I was born. I want to tell a lot about my father. I know him only from the stories of my mother and relatives, letters from the front and photos. And the words from the song are very close to me: I would give anything to see Dear face alive just once. Many of us, many of us, who by the pictures know their fathers. When I was two years old, which was in 1939, they removed the reservation for army service from rural teachers and medical workers. My father also left to serve. He passed through the Finnish war and was awarded with an order. Continuing to serve, he wrote from Lvov that he would return soon. But the war roared. Father couldn't visit the family and come back for a day. He was very longing. How much sadness, love and tenderness was in his letters to his Sasha and little daughter. One day he sent a portrait of his mother, painted by him with a pencil from a small photo. On the back side of the picture is the word of the song: "You, my love, I know you are awake, And at the crib quietly, You are crying". And in every letter: "I love you, I miss you, I'll be back, take care of my daughter ...". I grew up, and my father and I started our own correspondence. He began to send letters written in large capital letters in my name. And my mother taught me the alphabet, reading these daddy's letters. Faith and love kept him from bullets. He had several months left until the end of the war, when in one of the battles he was seriously wounded in both legs. In September 1944, it was reported that Alexander Petrovich Zhivotenko died in a hospital in Iassi (Romania) and was buried in the garden of the seminary. Together with the funeral notice, we received my father's personal belongings: awards, documents and letters. In children's memory, this day was left black. In front of my eyes blackened with grief my mother ans somehow immediately got older. A friend of my father, Mikhail Stepanovich Gribanov, when he learned about his death wrote from the frontline: "Unbelievable, monstrously unbelievable it seems that he is no longer with us ...". And with this grief in her chest, her mother had to survive with the baby in her arms. More than once she was asked to marry. But the very thought that there might be another man in her life seemed to her to be a black betrayal. An honest and whole person, she kept faithful and holy memory about her husband, to whom she once gave her heart. I often reread letters, look through albums, and tell children and grandchildren about their grandfather and great-grandfather. And they are proud of him. She looked at me and somehow helplessly waved her hands: Only the little ones can't understand: "How do you, grandmother, love him, if you didn't know him at all? "Ah, like that... With my heart!"

Title: Politruk Troops: Military-Political Division: 2nd Rifle Division (2nd formation) My great-grandfather, Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich , did not like to remember the war, let alone talk about it. My grandfather always had tears in his eyes. So we: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, knew so little about him, our grandfather. What a pity and shame! My great-grandfather was born on March 8, 1921 in the village of Polyana, Ternovsky Raion, Voronezh Oblast, to a family with many children (three brothers and two sisters). Ivan was the youngest. In October 1940, my great-grandfather's parents: father Vasiliy Ivanovich and mother Natalia Abramovna escorted their youngest Vanyusha to serve in the Soviet Army. The service was held in the 100th Mountain Rifle Regiment. He became a sergeant and was appointed deputy political worker for his success in the service. It was there that he received the news of the beginning of the war. My great-grandfather and his fellow countrymen gathered at the Ternovo Military Committee of the Voronezh region, and they were assigned a training camp. My parents accompanied their son Ivan to the war; their eldest son vasiliy was already at the fronline. Therefore, parents wiped tears and hugged their son. The order "Get ready!" interrupted the farewell. The new recruits went to war. Our soldier fought bravely, received several light wounds, but did not go to the hospital, became a senior sergeant and served as a political worker. He was always at the front, leading the fighters with him. His 150th Independent Rifle Battalion held back the fierce attacks of the Nazis. But in early July 1942, the Germans took over Voronezh. And on August 7, 1942, Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich was seriously wounded in the right thigh and right knee. He got to the evacuation hospital № 3582 in Alma-Ata, where he was treated for a long time. February 12, 1943 he sent a photo to his parents. During the last fight, where he was seriously wounded, my great-grandfather Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the medal "For bravery", which his grandfather cherished very dearly, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for bravery, firmness and courage, shown in the fight against German - fascist invaders. And in March 1944, because of the gravity of his wounds, he was released from military duty.So for my great-grandfather, the war ended.

BACKGROUND: Title: Senior Lieutenant. Troops: Army, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Newspaper "The Star of Pre-Irtyshye" August 23, 1965 ... The master of the workshop of the engineering plant Zhumadil Zhukubaev was called to the City Executive Committee. For the feat committed during the Great Patriotic War was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Defense. ...1942 the city on the Volga ...the positions of the 93rd rifle regiment redrawn the fields of the village Dubky and aimed at the famous tractor plant. Regiment commander Colonel Oleynikov summoned a soldier Zhukubaev and instructed him to get the "tongue" whatever it takes. For three days, scouts did not let go of the enemy's trenches. It was impossible to move in secret, the body wafted, and a wounded comrade moaned next to him with his teeth clenched. At the end, by the shots, the defense system was approximately located and the object of attack was selected. At night, a bold raid was made. The fascists came to their senses only when the scouts threw two bound occupants and a trophy machine gun into their trenches. -Congratulations to sergeant Zhukubaev with his award - a medal "For bravery" Valuable information was given by the "tongues". We will save many lives during the offensive. After Stalingrad, there was the Kursk Bulge. Near Belgorod, the Germans took a desperate step to take revenge on the Volga. They threw 300 tigers and panthers at our positions near Kazachy Log farm. Shards of shells on the ground were lying like sawdust," Zhumadil shows on the floor of the workshop. The losses were huge. Few of the commanders survived. Zhumadil will never forget, the last minutes of life of the commander of the machine gun platoon Loginov, who jumped on the tiger and continuously buttstocked on the armor in rage. When there was no longer any strength left, several men with grenades threw themselves under tanks. But there were many, many tanks. And the platoon began to retreat. Something terrible shouted then sergeant Zhukubaev, hit someone, threatened to shoot, but still kept the fighters from panic escape. Tanks passed through the trenches in which the soldiers took refuge. And when the German infantry approached, it was suddenly met with the powerful fire of the positions seemed to be erased into powder. Sergeant Zhukubaev, who replaced the killed officer, led the platoon on the offensive. And he led it all the way to the Dnieper. They forced the Dnieper on their improvised boats under continuous enemy fire. They kept the bridgehead on the right bank for seven days. For this battle, Lieutenant Zhukubaev was introduced to the Order of the Red Banner. But the award did not reach him. He was already in hospital. The award found him in Pavlodar 20 years later..... The Guards Regiment began the assault of Berlin. And here, as at the beginning of the combat way he had to go again to the reconnaissance. In one of the central sectors of the fascist capital, the advance of our troops encountered a serious defense. They had to take with assault not only every house, but also a floor and an apartment. The regimental commander learned that the headquarters of the 165th German Armored Division was located at the corner of Adolf Avenue and Spetselstrasse. Lieutenant Zhukubaev, who led the defense of this sector, went there to get the 'tongue'. They snuck into the house invisibly, through back passages and sewers. Six sentries were taken out. On the third floor, there was an oak door. The first lieutenant broke the door. It was dark. But suddenly, a bright light cut the darkness. Zhumadil slammed the door in lightning speed, but it was already too late. Fascists wounded him three times. He wasn't out of the game, and didn't even feel the terrible pain that would deprive him of sleep for many weeks later in the hospital. The "tongues" were taken. The gaping eyesocket of Lieutenant Khomenko was bandaged with an individual package by an orderly Khomenko of Kharkiv. Now, it is hard to imagine that, mortally wounded, he was taking a group of scouts out of the German defense center for over a day. During these uninterrupted battles, his combat ordinancer was killed by a mine. Here are some facts from Zhukubaev's characteristics: in winter, one had to go to the steppe to work on the construction of a pioneer camp. There were no volunteers. At that time, master Zhukubaev was the first to go up, and just as it was on the frontline, he led his whole crew with his example... Not many months later, the kids had a new pioneer camp.... It happened that one of the workers started drinking. They kept silent until he started to come to work tipsy...The work was treated with cold indifference...Master Zhukubaev intervened, did not allow to fire the person...what he talked to him about was improper to ask. But the peace was restored, and the enterprise kept a qualified good specialist.....

BACKGROUND: Major Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for maritime aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard Division: 73rd Rifle Division (2nd formation). Zhitkov Alexey Konstantinovich was born on September 29, 1919 in Simferopol. Then his parents returned to Moscow. In 1937, he graduated from the 8th grade of school. On June 21, 1941, he graduated from the Mossovet Electromechanical Technical School. He worked in Moscow streetcar. On October 15, 1941 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and left for the frontline. He fought on the western front in the Acting Army in the 130th Rifle Division as a private. After his wound in March 1942 he was hospitalized in Orekhovo-Zuyevo. In May 1942, he was sent to the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School in Aktyubinsk, where he studied from June to December 1942. After graduation, he was sent to the disposal of the Don Front, and then to the 21st Army, where he served as commander of the reserve company of officers from January to April 1943. In April 1943, he was appointed to the 71st Guards Rifle Division of the Voronezh Front, where he worked until March 1944 as commander of a machine-gun company and adjutant of the senior independent machine-gun battalion. Then, he worked as an adjutant of the battalion's 219th rifle regiment 2nd Baltic Front and as an assistant chief of staff for operations of the 4th Independent Ski Battalion 1st and 2nd Baltic Front. From March 1944 to July 1944 he was in hospital because of his wound. After the hospital in July 1944 from the OC 6 Guards Army was assigned to the post of commander of 171 penalty company of the 1st Baltic Front, where he remained until June 1945. In August 1945, after the dissolution of the company from the OC 6 Guards Army was assigned to 23 rifle corps, from the corps - 51 Gv. rifle division of the Baltic Military District to the post of commander of the rifle battalion. On October 10, 1945, he received the training battalion of the 51st Guards Rifle Division, where he worked until March 1946. From March 1946 to August 1946, he worked as commander of the 156th Guards Rifle Battalion. He was not in captivity or encirclement. He had 2 wounds in 1942 and 1944. He was awarded combat orders: "Patriotic War" 1st and 2nd degree, "Red Star", combat medals: "For the Defense of Moscow", "Defense of Stalingrad", "Victory over Germany. 22. 02.1945 he married Elizaveta Andreyevna Krasnoschekova. After the war until 1946, the family lived in Riga. In August 1946 he was demobilized. Then, together with his wife E.A. Zhitkova, he returned to Moscow to his mother Ekaterina Filippovna Zhitkova. He worked in UPTM, Glavmosgortrans as head of the Moscow Tramway Service until July 1979. In 1972, he graduated from VZISI. He was awarded medals: "20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "Fifty years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow", "Sixty years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He died on July 27, 1979 in Moscow at the age of 59. He was buried at the Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery in Moscow.