Faces of war

Zhivtsov Ivan Dorofeyevich was born in 1911, in the village of Knyazhiy (now Mirzachul district of Djizzak region of Uzbekistan). He was called to the front by Kansk RVC of Krasnoyarsk region. Lieutenant of the Guards, served as a platoon commander in the 87th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 29th Guards Rifle Division, after being wounded and treated in hospital, he was appointed company commander of the 656th Rifle Regiment of the 116th Rifle Division. He was killed in action on August 15, 1942, near the village of Afanasyevka, Gzhatsky (now Gagarinsky) District, Smolenskaya Oblast. He was buried in the Memorial Mass Grave № 2 on the eastern outskirts of the city of Gagarin, Smolensk region (according to other data - in the mass grave at 136th kilometer of the highway Moscow-Minsk, in Mozhaisk district, Moscow region). ------------------------------------------------ My father, Ivan Dorofeyevich Zhivtsov was born on December 26, 1911 in the village of Knyazhiy (now Mirzachulsky District, Dzhizak Region, Republic of Uzbekistan). In 1930 he was voluntarily conscripted to the Red Army by Mirzachul District Military Committee and was sent to service in Transbaikalia. In the rank of lieutenant, he commanded a platoon in the military unit 4027-p/-21. On June 22, 1941 the Great Patriotic War began. They were not sent to the front as they had a reserve in case of Japanese attack. In autumn 1941, a difficult situation developed near Moscow, the Germans came to Moscow. Dad wrote a report about his transfer to the army. The report was satisfied, and Daddy was sent to the front office of the Kansk District Military Committee in Krasnoyarsk region. On the front line, he was appointed commander of the rifle company. In the battles for the approach to Moscow, his company destroyed more than a dozen Germans and various military equipment. In January 1942, my father was seriously injured and treated in a hospital in Mytischi, Moscow region. From the hospital he sent his mother a photo, where my mother was photographed with my older brother. On the back side of the photo he wrote: "My dear wife and friend Dusichka and my favorite sons Zhenechka and Tolechka. If I die in the battle, then only with honor for your Motherland, for your present and future happy life. I will fight with the damned fascists as long as I have enough strength. This record of me will be a memento for you. Ivan Dorofeyevich Zhivtsov. The city of Mytischi, hospital, July 24, 1942". After the hospital he went again to the front line, where he died. My mother received a notice: "Your husband, Lieutenant Commander of the Rifle Company of the 656th Rifle Regiment of the 116th Rifle Division, I. D. Zhivtsov, in the battle for the Socialist Motherland, faithful to his oath, showing heroism and courage, was killed on August 15, 1942 near the village of Afanasyevka, Gzhatsky district, Smolensk region (in 1968 the city of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin). His surname is recorded in a memorable album under serial number 5589. My family regularly visits the mass grave in the town of Gagarin. In memory of our dear and beloved frontliner we lay flowers, light a memory candle. On one of the plates it is written: "Red Army Guards, the third in order Zhivtsov I. D.". Mom kept the name of her father until the last days of her life. After Dad's death, Mom and her children moved to the city of Serdobsk, Penza region, where she worked as a nurse in the evacuation hospital № 1690. From mom's memories: "A surgeon approached me, saying that a soldier was dying and he urgently needed donor blood. My mother's blood type was the same and she agreed to a direct transfusion. This is how she saved a soldier's life. My mother regularly received commemorative medals in honor of the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, and greeting cards from the Russian president and the governor of the region. I was proud of my victorious soldiers, I am and will be proud of them! (The author of the essay is A. I. Zhivtsov, the son of a front-line soldier, the veteran of labor, the master of sports of the USSR, the holder of the medal "Children of War". Penza region, the city of Serdobsk).

Igor Nikolaevich Zakharenko was born on January 2, 1922 in the village of Litovsk, Bryansk region. In 1940, Igor graduated from Minsk Military School and was appointed platoon commander in one of the military units of the Western Military District. The tent camp of their unit, located two kilometers from the Soviet border, was among the first to take over the tears of German shells. - The morning of June 22, 1941, - recalls Igor Nikolaevich, - was the most terrible morning of my life. The day before was a day off, many of the soldiers went dancing in the village club and were sleeping soundly. At four o'clock in the morning, there was a rumble of crashing shells, followed by screams of wounded men. Our first comrades were killed, and the families of the border guards went to the rear from the border. I still dream about the burning tents of our camp, and in the pre-dawn sky - the rumble of thousands of enemy planes flying to bomb Soviet cities ... After several days of intense defensive battles, the 64th Rifle Division, in which I. N. Zakharenko fought, began to retreat to the east, towards Minsk. It was here, in the Belarusian part of the Western Front, that the formidable volleys of the famous "Katyusha" sounded for the first time, terrifying the enemy. For the mass heroism of soldiers during the counterattack at Yelnia on September 19, 1941, the division was among the first to be awarded the title of Guards Division and transformed into the 7th Guards Rifle Division. By the end of the same year, units of the division fought near the village of Kryukovo, then in Khimki. On December 5, 1941 Igor Nikolaevich, already the company commander, raised soldiers to attack during the first counteroffensive of our troops near Moscow. In January 1942 he was wounded and sent to the military hospital of Kuibyshev for treatment. After recovery, he was ordered to be sent to the Southern Front and in February 1943 took part in the famous landing on the Small Land near the city of Novorossiysk as part of the 176th Infantry Division. After the regrouping, the division was moved to the Steppe Front, where parts of the division defeated the enemy at the Kursk Bulge, fought in the battles for the liberation of Kursk, Oriol, Belgorod. After the expulsion of Hitler's invaders from the Soviet land further combat path of the division, in which Igor Nikolaevich fought, went from Warsaw to Berlin. The veteran's family kept a lot of commendations from the command. Among them the dearest - from May 2, 1945 at number 359 and the signature of the commander of a unit of the Guard of Major-General M.M. Zaikin, in which on behalf of the Supreme Commander of the Guard to Major Igor Nikolaevich was announced gratitude for participation in the battles for the capture of Berlin. Like many Soviet soldiers and officers, he also left his proud signature of the winner on the wall of the defeated enemy’s Reichstag. The veteran's costume is decorated with the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Great Patriotic War I and the Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree, two Orders of the Red Star, medals "For Combat Services", "For the Defence of Moscow", "For the Defence of Leningrad", "For the Defence of the Caucasus", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". " and more than 22 commemorative jubilee medals. Igor Nikolaevich suffered three injuries, including one serious one, but did not part with the army: after the war he entered the Frunze Military Academy and graduated from it, received the rank of colonel and continued to serve until 1957, when he was dismissed to the reserve from the post of chief of operational staff of the corps, located in the city of Krasnodar. During his service, Igor graduated from the Krasnodar branch of the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Law, which allowed him, after his retirement, to take up the post of assistant prosecutor of the Pervomaisky district of the regional center (now Central District of Krasnodar), replacing the military tunic with a prosecutor's uniform and opening a new page of his biography. From October 1976 to December 1986, Igor Nikolaevich worked as deputy public prosecutor of the same district. After receiving the right to a well-deserved rest, in 1990 he returned to work in the Prosecutor's Office and worked initially in temporary positions, and from 1994 he worked in the Krasnodar Krai Prosecutor's Office as a prosecutor of the department for supervision over the implementation of federal security laws. He was dismissed from the Krasnodar Krai Prosecutor's Office in June 1996 in connection with his retirement, having devoted more than 22 years of service to the Prosecutor's Office. Despite the lived years and walked war roads, the veteran continues to actively participate in public life of the team and military-patriotic education of young people. For his many years of work and for the development of the veteran movement, Igor Nikolaevich has received many well-deserved awards, the most important of which are congratulations and personalized watches from the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin, congratulations on Victory Day from the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Y. V. Chaika. Decree of the President of the Russian Federation № 410 of April 22, 2013 Igor Zakharenko was among the first to be awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation".

BACKGROUND: Valentin Zalegin was born in 1924 in the village of Babaikhe, Krasnopolyansk district, Moscow region. In April 1942, Valentin Georgievich was drafted into the Red Army. By the autumn of 1943, he was already the commander of the mortar division of the 415th rifle division of the 61st Army as a part of the Central Front (from the end of October 1943, it was renamed first into the Belorussian, and then into the 1st Belorussian). In October 1943, the division forced the Dnieper River. On October 22, 1943 the most valuable soldier medal "For Courage" was awarded to the Red Army soldier V.G. Zalegin, who with his department was among the first to cross the right bank and cover the main forces with smoke screens. From the award sheet: "As the commander of the mortar department during the placing of the smoke screen on the right bank of the Dnieper, Comrade Zalegin showed courage, bravery and determination. During the whole time he skillfully managed his department, as well as himself, in spite of the continuous hurricane gun and mortar fire, brought the smoke to the hearths of the chimney. Thanks to his discipline and ability to work, he fulfilled his task with his department. Tov. Zalegin is worthy of the government award of the Medal "For Courage". He never talked about the war. However, one day, in 1985, he couldn't get away from his annoying grandson, who had just watched the film "Battalions Ask for Fire", learned that his grandfather received his medal for forcing the Dnieper, and he wondered what boats or rafts they sailed on across such a river. It turned out that there were no boats or rafts, so they forced “on Germans’ shoulders”. Some with logs, some with firewood, some with something else. How many floated out that was how many floated out, and all this under fire. And when he was asked how many of them remained, he could not say anything, the knot in his throat did not let him, but he showed with his fingers. One hand was enough. In November 1943, the division took part in the Narovlyanskaya operation, forced the Pripyat River, and in January 1944 was given the honorary name Mozyrskaya for its participation in the Kalinkovichi-Mozyr operation in Belarus. Victory at this stage of the war always remained with us, but at what price! For example, in this very operation, the losses of our troops were 56,157 people, of which 12,350 were irrevocable. The Germans lost 1079 soldiers (killed) and 4347 wounded. In the summer of 1944, the division, where served as a Red Army officer Zalegin, liberated Brest, in 1945 participated in the Warsaw-Poznań operation, forced Alte Oder, at the final stage of the war took part in the Berlin operation. It welcomed the end of the war on the Elbe. Valentin Zalegin served two more years in the occupation troops in Berlin, Potsdam, and upon returning home in 1947, went to study law, after which he worked his entire life in the prosecution of the Moscow region. He served in the prosecutor's office of Krasnaya Polyana, was a prosecutor in Rogachevo, in Klin, and retired as first deputy prosecutor of the Moscow region. Many of his students worked or even still work in the prosecutor's office, in the investigation agencies and are grateful to him and all Veterans not just for the school of life, but for the very opportunity to live. Many years after his death, I accidentally managed to communicate with people who worked for him as investigators. This is what they told me. V.G. Zalegin was already a deputy prosecutor of the Moscow region, and a criminal case was brought against the collective farm chairman for a bribe, it seems, and what a bribe - a cart full of dung! Those who are older do not need to explain anything - socialist property, farm chairman, party member, bribe, etc., etc. It doesn't look serious now, but then... Valentin Georgievich looked at the case, blushed with rage and strained: "This man is a front-line soldier, I fought too, and the criminal case on bribe with S..T I will not sign! And not only he did not sign, but also, decorating his speech with Russian folk expressions, closed the criminal case. Now not many people would dare to do something similar, comparable (only, of course, already in modern interpretation).

BACKGROUND: The 577th Rifle Regiment, 205th Division, in which my grandfather, junior sergeant, mortar squad leader, Peter Zosimov, fought during the Battle of Stalingrad, died almost completely... From the memoirs of my grandfather: "We, as much as we could, held our positions, hit the Nazi tanks, went into attack, but the enemies, though with great difficulty, managed to surround us. The fight continued. In the next attack, something hit my leg hard, I took a few steps and fell down from a sharp pain. When I woke up, I tried to understand what had happened to me and why I could not hear the shootings. My leg was whining increadibly, I could not move it. I tried to look around a bit and saw a tank slowly approaching in my direction. The muzzle of the tank was lowered as much as possible and turned from side to side, apparently looking for the survivors. Several German soldiers were walking next to the tank and shot the survivors. I closed my eyes and prepared for the worst. It was very painful, but my body was so tight that I probably could not move even if I wanted to. It seems that the fascists took me for dead and passed by. But the worst thing was that the tank on its way with its caterpillars pressed the dead soldiers. It has passed very near to me. I do not know how much time has passed: an hour, two, maybe more. Two soldiers approached me... Our soldiers leaned over me, one quietly told someone: "Alive! Get here!” I was put either on a cape or overcoat and quickly dragged on the ground, my leg seemed to come off... At the hospital I was told that the bone on my leg above my knee was punctured and broken. Later I learned that very few guys survived in that battle, sixty people. They were the ones who managed to escape from the surroundings by storm. Only a few of the wounded survived, they were rescued by those military orderlies who dragged me from the battlefield, practically, under the enemy's nose.” My grandfather was no longer taken to the combat front, as his left leg had become several centimeters shorter, but he was one of the first at the labor front!!

BACKGROUND: Between January 30, 1942 and June 9, 1945, Staff Sergeant Aleksei Vasilyevich Zyabrev, as a senior cook, took part in the battles and passed a long and glorious way from Venev (Tula region) to Pardubice (Czech Republic). Staff Sergeant Zyabrev A. V., working in The Ferret Scout Car Squadron as a senior chef from the first days showed himself as a disciplined, knowledgeable chef. He always prepared a delicious and hearty lunch in exceptional conditions. The enemy's artillery repeatedly fired at the location of the company, but the kitchen knew its business, Zyabrev cooked lunch without disrupting the daily feeding schedule. For his courage, bravery and endurance during the Great Patriotic War, Staff Sergeant Zyabrv Alexei Vasilyevich was awarded the Medal of Courage and the Medal of Merit. During the final stages of the Great Patriotic War, the division took an active part in the Vistula-Oder offensive, during which it liberated Krakow and Auschwitz, fought at the Oder bridgehead, stormed the fortress city of Ratibor, and then entered the territory of Czechoslovakia: part of Hitler's troops still did not put down their weapons. The way it happened is well known to our friends and enemies. On the Czechoslovak land, the soldiers and commanders of the 322nd Infantry Division beat the enemy mercilessly. Having fulfilled their noble mission with valor and glory, they rescued Czechs and Slovaks from fascist captivity. All who served in the 322nd Zhytomyr Red Banner Division, Order of Suvorov Rifle Division, will never forget how they were saying goodbye to their regimental banners. Carried through the fiery battles from the Volga to the Vltava, they embodied the military honor and combat traditions of the unit, symbolized the inviolable loyalty of soldiers to the party and the people. How many times soldiers and officers went in attacks under these banners! How many times looked up to them in a formation during holidays and victorious celebrations! The proud call "For our Soviet Homeland!" written on scarlet banners gave people faith in the triumph of the holy and righteous cause. That is why the Soviet warriors' shoulders trembled when they knelt down for the last time in front of their regiment's banner and kissed the edge of its canvas. That is why many of its officers and soldiers could not resist tears, saying goodbye forever to what was becoming history...

BACKGROUND: Zakorkin, Nikolai Stepanovich. Nikolai Stepanovich Zakorkin (1917 - October 8, 1944) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, senior sergeant, member of the CPSU. Hero of the Soviet Union (24.03.1945 posthumously). Date of birth: February 22, 1917. Place of Birth: Strunkino, Russian Empire. Date of death: October 8, 1944 (27 years old). Place of death: Murmansk region, RSFSR, USSR. Belonging to the USSR. Troops: infantry. Years of service: 1941-1943. Title: Senior Sergeant. Battles/wars: the Great Patriotic War. Awards and prizes. Nikolay Zakorkin was born in 1917 in Strunkino village (now Sladkovsky district of Tyumen region) in a peasant family. He grew up without a father, having finished four grades of school, from the age of 13 he worked at the collective farm, helping his mother to raise three sisters. After his mother remarried, he moved with his family to Novoandreyevka (also in Sladkovsky Area). In 1934, while working with his stepfather, Fyodor Pivovarov, in "Zagotzern", Nikolai met his future wife Maria Metelitsa. They got married two years later. In 1938 he was called up for active service in the Red Army. He served in the Siberian Military District, and was dismissed for the reserve in 1940. In 1941, he got a job as a road worker on the Omsk railway. His wife Maria gave birth to their son and by the beginning of the war was pregnant with a daughter. In June 1941, he was conscripted into the army again by Maslyansk District Military Committee of the Omsk Region. After graduating from high school of sergeants was sent to the front, took part in hostilities since February 1942 at the Volkhov, and then at the Karelian front. By July 1943, he had the rank of senior sergeant and was appointed assistant platoon commander of the 2nd Independent Ski Battalion of the 2nd Independent Ski Brigade of the Karelian Front, which held the defense along the northeast coast of Segozero. By October of the same year, he had successfully visited the enemy's rear 15 times, several times captured prisoners, and on November 4, 1943, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In July In 1944, as part of the 33rd Ski Brigade, at the height of the battle Zakorkin replaced the dead platoon commander, led the men of the platoon and broke into the enemy trenches; on August 25, 1944 he was awarded the Order of Patriotic War, 1st degree, and on August 30 - the second Order of the Red Star. After the 33rd Ski Brigade was disbanded, most of its personnel, including Staff Sergeant Zakorkin, were sent to reinforce the 65th Rifle Division of the Novgorod Red Banner Division. Zakorkin joined the 3rd Rifle Company of the 60th Rifle Regiment and took part in the Svirsk-Petrozavodsk and Petsamo-Kirkenes operations with it. On the first day of the last one, on October 7, 1944, his regiment was to take the height of Big Karikvajvish - the main stronghold of the enemy's first line of defense. Zakorkin and his detachment, secretly approaching the enemy's dzot, destroyed with a bunch of grenades enemy’s machine guns, then personally suppressed the second point of fire with a grenade, allowing their fighters to continue the offensive, and hoisted a red flag at the top of the height. K.F. Kalashnikov, a partyworker, wrote in his memoirs: Zakorkin and his department were in the first chain from the very beginning of the attack. The road was blocked by fire from the enemy dzot. Having ordered his subordinates to shoot at the embrasure, Zakorkin crawled around, crawled through a wire fence and threw anti-tank grenades at the dzot. But before we could get rid of this firing point, the neighboring one came to life, again pressing our company to the ground. Even this time Zorkin managed to approach the enemy unnoticeably and threw the grenade into the embrasure. The company rushed forward and started a hand-to-hand fight in the enemy trench. Thus, overcoming one obstacle after another, the senior sergeant paved the way to the top of the mountain without parting with the scarlet flag on a short pole. Before the fight, the sergeant told his subordinates: if he doesn’t reach it, let the one who is close to him accept the flag. But the flag must be carried by all means! In the course of further combat operations, the platoon commander was seriously wounded, and the sergeant took command of the platoon. The enemy, having lost the bearing height of Karikayvich, retreated behind the Titovka River, blowing up the bridge behind. However, the rifle platoon under Zakorkin command under enemy fire crossed the river, secured itself on the bridgehead on its west bank and provided a quick crossing of the rest of the regiment and the encirclement of German units. During this battle, on October 8, 1944, senior sergeant Nikolay Zakorkin was killed. On March 24, 1945 he was posthumously conferred the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was buried in a common grave at the 29th kilometer of the road Liinahamari-Nikel (Pechenga district of Murmansk region). He left behind his wife Maria, son Anatoly and daughter Nadezhda. Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Star. The street was named after Nikolay Zorkin in his homeland, in the village Sladkovo, Tyumen region. His name was given to the house of culture at the Novoandreyevskaya station in Sladkovo District, Tyumen Region. A large freezing trawler of the Murmansk port is also named after Nikolai Zakorkin.

BACKGROUND: Semyon Andreyevich Zvezdilin was called up on February 6, 1942 by Khrenovsky RVC. He fought at the 1st Ukrainian Front. From the award sheet: "Performing the post of automatic rifleman 49 rd 33rd army in the battles at Smolensk direction in the forest on August 13, 1942, was lightly wounded by a shrapnel of a mine in his right forearm and went to hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter of 695 rd in the battles for the village of Lipovets, Vinnitsa region, on March 12, 1943, was lightly wounded by a shell fragment in his right arm and went to hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter 49 rd in the battles for the city of Donetsk, Voroshilovograd region on March 11, 1944 was seriously wounded by a shrapnel in both legs and went to the hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter 454 rd 221 rd 69th Army 1 The Ukrainian Front on July 20, 1944 in the battles for the town of Zlochevo was seriously wounded by a mine fragment in both legs and the right hand and went to hospital for treatment. The wound resulted in the absence of a thumb and reduction of 2 and 3 fingers on the right hand. He was found unfit for service after the treatment. Fired from the RKKA as a disabled person of the 3rd group". Semyon Andreyevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Great Patriotic War of I degree. Semyon always felt which bullet will fly by and which one will hit him. During the war, he constantly read a prayer to Mikhail Archangel. Sometimes a bullet flew past, taking just the earflap from the hat. Because of injuries in hospitals, he was a frequent visitor, but never returned home, always to his unit. He told very little about the war to his relatives, he did not like it. We only knew that he was a scout for some time. From the front he wrote letters to Maria Zenina (his first wife), one of them she remembered the most: 'Instead of a line only dots, guess what it means yourself'. After the war, Semyon Andreyevich worked at a collective farm. His military pension was only 9 rubles. No matter how much my great-grandfather tried to forget about the war, it constantly reminded of itself: his combat wounds made themselves known. His jaw was shattered, his tongue was dangling, and his leg had to be cut off. He died on August 26, 1990, he was buried in the village Parusnoe, Novousemansky district.

BACKGROUND: Our family remembers and carefully keeps the only photo of our grandfather Grigory Evseevich Zolotarev, born in 1909, a native of Kursk region now (Belgorod), Tomarovskiy district, village Streletskoye. Since 1922 he lived in Novoalexandrovka farm with his parents Evsey, Ekaterina and sister Olga. In 1929 he married a blue-eyed girl Natalia. In 1930 the firstborn son Andrey was born, and in 1934 Nikolay was born. Grandmother did not like to remember those terrible days of the war, but all her life she hoped and waited that her husband would return. During the first days of the war, my grandfather was drafted to the front by Tomarovskiy RBK, Kursk region, into 923 rifle regiments. On the "Memorial" website, from the documents specifying the losses, the case number of the source of information 464, it is printed that the Red Army soldier G.E. Zolotarev left on 05.1943 and went missing. According to another version, according to his colleague, he died in 1941 near Smolensk. The place of burial is unknown.

BACKGROUND: Zatynaiko Antonina was born on April 25, 1921 in Samoilovka village of Saratov region in a large family of a poor peasant. Since 1930, her father worked as a lineman at the station Tri Ostrova S-E railway (Saratov region). After graduating from school, Antonina entered the Balashov Teachers' Institute, which she graduated from in 1940 as a teacher of natural sciences. By distribution she goes to work in Chardzhou city of Turkmen SSR in seven-year-long school № 8, where she teaches biology, chemistry and German language. In 1941 A.V. Zatynayko moved to Samarkand. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War changes a calm and measured way of life. As a true patriot of her country, she could not stay away from the tragic events. In June 1941, she was sent by the Samarkand Regional Military Committee to work in the evacuation hospital № 3966 as a clerk of the Internal Affairs Department, where she worked until November 1944. A.V. Zatynayko's honest and responsible work in the evacuation hospital was marked by numerous commendations: - "for the great work carried out in inhanced rhythm, on the recounting of all hard and soft inventory and property with a variety of books of account as of 1.06" (5.06.1942); - "for exemplary work in the service of wound patients who are cured in the hospital" (7. 11.1942); - "for good work in the service of wound patients, contributing to their quickest recovery" (23.02.1943); - "for excellent work in the reception of patients" (8.04.1943); - "for an exemplary attitude to the performance of their duties" (6.11.1943). In 1943 in Samarkand Antonina V. Zatynayko got acquainted with her future husband - captain of the Soviet Army Kirill Aleksandrovich Bodrenkov, who at that time was appointed deputy chief of hospital on political part in evacuation hospital № 3966. On 6.08.1945 they had a son Oleg. Antonina V. Zatynaiko went through a difficult life path from a student of the Teacher's Institute (in pre-war years), through the hard time of wartime, and later (after the demobilization of her husband in 1946) numerous journeys from town to town at the place of appointment of her husband Bodrenkov Kirill Aleksandrovich (Ashgabat, Voronezh, Izhevsk, Sarapul of Udmurtia ASSR, Glazov, Murom, Kursk). Striving to be closer to the interests of Kirill Aleksandrovich Bodrenkov (Candidate of Historical Sciences - 1952, and later - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor - 1981), Antonina Vasilyevna enters and finishes the Faculty of History of the Udmurt State Pedagogical Institute (1954), works as a teacher in a secondary school, college, technical college, pedagogical institute. In 1960, by order of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, her husband was transferred to work at the Kursk State Pedagogical Institute. And from February 1961 to 1977, A.V. Bodrenkova worked at the Kursk Music College as a teacher of history, social science, pedagogy and psychology. Antonina was always distinguished by a high level of culture, intellectuality and education. Her conscientious work, fruitful pedagogical and active public work, active participation in military-patriotic education of students, impeccable work on aesthetic education of the younger generation are marked by numerous letters of commendation, Honorary Diplomas of the Administration of the Kursk Music College, Leninsky District Committee, executive committees of the City and Regional Council of Workers' Deputies. Kursk. Antonina Vasilyevna has the following government awards: - Jubilee medal "For Valorous Labor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Lenin "(1970); - Medal "Veteran of Labor" for long-term conscientious work (1976); - Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Kursk Regional Council of Workers' Deputies and the Presidium of the Regional Council of Trade Unions was awarded the sign" Winner of the socialist competition in 1975. Documents prepared by the daughter of Zatynayko-Bodrenkova Antonina - Skubko Natalia Kirillovna (born in 1954).

BACKGROUND: Writer, thinker, logic, artist, poet. The participant of the Great Patriotic War. Guards junior lieutenant. Cavalier, tanker, assault pilot (more than 18 combat sorties). Awarded the Order of the Red Star, and numerous medals. "On the day of his 18th birthday, Alexander Zinoviev voluntarily arrived at the recruiting station and was assigned to the cavalry regiment of the Special Far Eastern Red Army. On the disbandment of the Red Army in the spring of 1941 part of Zinoviev was moved to the western border. After the beginning of the war, Zinoviev participated in battles, was wounded and sent as a cadet to the Ulyanovsk Military Aviation School for pilots, where in 1942-43 he wrote "Ballad of the Aviation Cadet", which was a success in the oral performance of the author, a model for it was the poem "Vasily Turkin" by A.T. Tvardovsky. After training, Zinoviev became a pilot on an IL-2 attack aircraft; he repeatedly participated in air battles. During the war, Zinoviev wrote a significant number of poems and prose, which, for fear of search, he took with him on the flights. In 1946 Zinoviev was demobilized with the rank of captain. Zinoviev returned from the army with a suitcase of manuscripts, the most harmless of which - "The Tale of Betrayal" - was destroyed in 1946 on the advice of K.M. Simonov to avoid arrest. "Russian literature of the twentieth century. Prose writers, poets, playwriters" // Biobibliographical dictionary: Institute of Russian Literature RAS (Pushkin House). Alexander Zinoviev: "In the war won the Soviet tenth-grader". Alexander Zinoviev - "The Confession of the Scapegoat" (1998): "The plane I flew (IL-2) was amazing in many ways. I consider it the most brilliant invention for the purposes of war. Once I was thoroughly dissolved. One projectile fell into a box for machine-gun bands, the other - into the engine. Several cylinders were out of order. But still I got to the nearest airfield, where the other regiment was "sitting" and landed. The engineers who inspected my car said that in this condition the plane could not theoretically fly. But I still flew. Alexander Zinoviev (2006): "I was not afraid of death. I learned to overcome the fear of death as a child. I was wounded (at war). If the bullet had passed a little lower, death would have come. Then I fought in the assault aircraft, where the mortality rate was very high. Stormtroopers worked at low altitudes, and our objects were bridges, railway stations, tanks. The attack aircrafts were always under heavy anti-aircraft fire and Messer attacks. The risk was therefore very high. And although the IL-2 was armored in the most important places, almost every flight could be described as being a hair's breadth from death. After the war, Alexander Zinoviev was an Academician of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts of Bavaria, the Academy of Social Sciences and others. He is a laureate of international scientific and literary awards, including the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize (sociology), the Tevere Prize (literature), the Medici Etrange Prize (literature), and others. Author of more than 40 scientific and literary works translated into 26 languages of the world. He is an Honorary Citizen of Orange (France), Avignon (France), Ravenna (Italy), Kostroma (Russia). He spent 21 years of forced emigration (1978-1999) in Munich, Germany. He was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. In memory of Alexander Alexandrovich, there is a memorial plaque at Moscow Humanities University and a monument in the city of Kostroma. A.A. Zinoviev's biography (author Pavel Fokin) was published in the series "ZHZL". In 2014 in Odessa was staged the ballet "Scream" based on his novel "Go to Golgotha". About 20 films about the life and work of A.A. Zinoviev were shot

HISTORY: When the war started, his father, Trofim Zaitsev, went to the front. Vasiliy also asked to be sent, but his specialty as an engine fitter was scarce. However, the stubborn guy continued to write a statement after statement, so that the reservation would be removed from him. In 1942, when the order to evacuate the plant came, Vasiliy refused to go to a new place. He was threatened by a court martial for this daring act, but the young man felt sorry for by the plant management. He was allowed to go to the troops. On the Eastern Front, Vasiliy Zaitsev rushed to the German front, to the front line, and instead found himself in the Far East in the Siberian division, which stood at the border waiting for the Japanese to attack. Here, he had to serve until the spring of 1943. After the Battle of Stalingrad, the frontier units were reshaped. Vasiliy was offered to stay in the Far East - 'You be the newsbringer, as before. You're a young guy, don't be a fool - why do you need battles?'. But soldier Zaitsev did not listen to "good advice". With great joy he accepted the assignment to the German front - to the Kursk Bulge. After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler decided to take revenge in the summer campaign. It was the Kursk Bulge that was chosen by the German command to strike the main blow. Soviet commanders also pulled all forces and reserves near Kursk. In the spring of 1943, Vasiliy Zaitsev was riding in one of the echelons. By that time he had already mastered the new army "specialty": artillery intelligence. Zaitsev's first battle took place near Prokhorovka, part of the 93rd Guards Howitzer Brigade of the 20th Artillery Division. On the night of July 5, a group of scouts with Vasiliy Zaitsev moved into position. They found a suitable place, chose a trench and disguised themselves. At dawn, German tanks appeared, which were firing. Visibility was zero. But Vasiliy was able to find a suitable birch and from its top began to correct the shooting of our artillery. Now, the shells of our battery were accurately hitting the target. The Germans guessed that the spotter of the Russians hid on top of one of the trees and began to hit all the high places. The birch also got the hatch, but it's an amazing fact! - Zaitsev did not even get hurt. When the fight ended, it turned out that all who were in his reconnaissance group, were killed - except Vasiliy! Although on top of the birch, the risk of being killed was much higher than in the trench. Zaitsev was awarded the Medal "For Combat Merit" for his ingenuity. Vasiliy Zaitsev's first fight ended with a reward, but there were still many battles ahead. 20th Artillery Division was thrown on all fronts, sent to the heat. Vasiliy Zaitsev managed to visit the 2nd and 3rd Baltic, Bryansk, Belorussian, Ukrainian and Leningrad fronts. He participated in the hardest battles for Siauliai and Orsha. He finished the war by taking Koenigsberg. An "invisible" warrior. The most surprising thing is that, just like on the birch near Prohorovka, in the hottest battles Vasiliy Zaitsev did not get a single wound during the war. And this is despite the fact that only three of his division survived until May 9. His friends even nicknamed Vasiliy - for invulnerability! - "the invisible artillerist”. By the end of the war, division intelligence officer Zaitsev was awarded the Medals of Merit, the Order of Courage and the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War. As a combat veteran with numerous awards, Vasily Zaitsev was included in the Victory Parade. After several months of training in Yasnaya Polyana, the combined regiment of the 1st Baltic and Leningrad fronts marched victoriously across Red Square. After the parade, Vasily Zaitsev was sent to the unit in Leningrad - with the prospect of obtaining the officer rank. But the foreman had already fought enough - he had seen a lot of blood, he wanted to go to his homeland, to Jendovishche. Moreover, in Leningrad, Vasiliy met his future wife Nina. In 1945 they got married, and a year later his eldest son was born. When the young family returned to Semiluki, Vasiliy Zaitsev found a job as a locksmith at a refractory plant. He managed to work as both a foreman and a master. He worked like everyone else, and few of his colleagues knew that Vasiliy Trofimovich was a man with an extraordinary fate. Vasiliy Zaitsev's son Gennadiy, a student of the Nakhimov College, also took part in the parade in honor of the great victory - he walked through the Red Square, minted a step, like his father 30 years before...

BACKGROUND: Zaitsev Vasily Ivanovich was born on May 7, 1927 in the village of Verkhnyaya Grunya, Korenevsky district, Kursk region. His parents were Ivan Alypovich Zaitsev and Alexandra Tikhonovna Zaitseva. Four children were brought up in the family. Father worked as a collective farm chairman from the moment of establishment of the collective farm until he was drafted to the front in June 1941. Father did not return from the war and died near Leningrad in 1943. The mother worked at the farm. The war began when Vasiliy was only 14 years old. He had to sow, plough and work like an adult. In 1941, in the autumn the Germans came to the village. Life immediately changed. The Nazis forced people to work for thems, robbed civilians, and mocked children and old people. The liberation of Upper Growne by Soviet troops on March 8, 1943 became a great joy. But the family had to evacuate, because a grand battle was being prepared in the area. The villagers were moved to the village of Dyakovka. They were there until the fall, when the Battle of Kursk ended. They went home by themselves, how ever they could. In 1944, an early draft was announced and 17-year-old Vasily Ivanovich was drafted into the army in the 42nd Artillery Reserve Regiment. In March, the reserve artillery regiment was sent to the front. They spent 27 days driving to the Far East. Zaitsev V.I. got into a separate reconnaissance artillery division. At night he was raised on the alarm and sent to Japan, in the direction of Sopka Camels. That was where Vasily Zaitsev served. On August 23, we declared war on Japan and then fierce battles began. Sopka Pyramid, the city of Mulin, the city of Mudojian... Japan surrendered. The young soldier served as an artillery soldier, he had to conduct and restore communication in the most difficult conditions. Then the regiment was transferred to his homeland, the Primorsky Krai, Hasansky district, Slavyanka village. Vasily Ivanovich gets to the sergeants' school. After graduating from school, he received the post of commander of the communications department. Vasily Ivanovich had to serve 3 years on early draft and 4 years on urgent draft. In 1949, he became the foreman of the economic unit until demobilization. After returning home, he had to work hard, it was necessary to restore the economy destroyed by the war.

BACKGROUND: Title: Lieutenant. Troops: Artillery. Division: 31st Vitebsk Guards Rifle Division of the Order of Lenin Red Banner of the Order of Suvorov. January 28, 2016 marked the 71st year since the death of my uncle Viktor Ivanovich Zolotin. Victor was drafted into the army after graduating from the first year of law school in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), in August 1942. For 6 months Viktor had been trained at the Artillery School in Irbit. After his training he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He fought at the First Byelorussian Front, 64th Guards Artillery Regiment, 31st Guards Rifle Division, 31st Vitebsk Rifle Division, Order of Lenin, Red Banner Division, Commander of the Artillery Battery. For many years we did not know about his burial place. Through the site prussia39.ru and the Memorial Society, we found medical documents and the grave of the deceased. In the medical document (magazine) under № 286 there is a record: Victor Ivanovich Zolotin, 1924 year of birth, place of service -64 Gv. SP, lieutenant, native of Sverdlovsk region. N-Serginsky district, Mikhailovsky z-d, called N-Serginsky RVC, Sverdlovsk region, died 28.01.1945, hospital 655 KPPG, Gross Lindenau, East Prussia mass cemetery, grave 22 (corrected to 7). Thanks to the site prussia39.ru it was found out that my uncle was buried in the mass cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Kaliningrad region, Gvardeysky district, the village of Ozerki (before 1947 Gross Lindenau). He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Thanks to the councel of the Governor of the Kaliningrad region to immortalize the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland and the administrator of the site prussia39, on the eve of the Great Victory Day we received a message that the name of the Guards Lieutenant Zolotin Victor was immortalized. We take pride and remember ! This is the last letter from Viktor from the front. 9.01.45. Hello my dear and beloved daddy, mom and Nura! I send you my warm greetings from the front and wish you all the best in your life, and most importantly - health. Yesterday I received at once letters of congratulations from my daddy and mom. I sincerely thank you for these letters, they have brought me much joy. I am very happy with my mother's letter - the most precious for me. But still, it was the second letter, and I didn't get the first one - apparently, the censor didn't let it go through. Well, at least I got this one. I'm also very glad about my dad's letter, you are the one who keeps regular correspondence with me. Thank you very much from the front man for that. Your letters are a great joy for me. But I didn't get anything from Nura by the new year - maybe she didn't have time, but she could have written a little. Letters from you, dear ones, came just in time. Soon we are going into battle - the last and decisive. And these letters for me were as if a blessing in the forthcoming fights. So I go into battle calmly. How I am is obvious - in a dugout. But it is still tolerable. Some people live right on the outside. It is much worse. Yesterday, I have to tell you, I received 7 letters in one go. It is just a miracle. There were your letters, Semkin’s, Karamysheva’s, Lebedev Igor (my schoolmate), Svischev Zhenya (also), Vladimir and others. It was a wonderful day for me. It is good that they do not forget. Now, you are writing that my mother is in poor health. So why don't you, mom, get treatment, don't you have enough money. If you really don't have enough, then write, I will help. Now I can help much more, my salary has doubled now, i.e. it is 2500r. We were allowed to send parcels - I will send what I have to send. So treat my mother so that her health remains good. Now my request and order – if Lelia Semkina comes, greet her better and warmer. You will do it not for her, but for my respect. That's all for now. I wish you all the best. And I'm going to the decisive Battle! Good bye. I kiss you. See you soon. Your Victor. It was the last letter!

BACKGROUND: Junior Sergeant Rank of the Army: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for maritime aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Zakharov (in marriage Kurilo) Zinaida Alekseevna (7.11.1922 - 25.1.2005) was born in the village of Nachalovo, Astrakhan (now the Volga region) in the Astrakhan region, Russian, b/p, education - 7 grades of school. She worked as a worker at the Mikoyan Astrakhan Fish Cannery. In Astrakhan, she studied as a signalman. She was called up to the ranks of the Red Army Enotayevsky RVC 27.2.1942. She served in the 346th rifle regiment. In May-December 1942 she served in the 14th (19?) Separate Spare Communication Regiment, 324th Separate Bat-On Communications Company, staff company, station number 32. She served as a radio operator in the anti-aircraft unit (?). Military rank - junior sergeant. Position - com. division. She received a leg injury, was treated in the evacuation hospital № 1673 in Kazan. After that, 17.4.1943 by Kazan military - transit point was sent for further service in the 9th topographic detachment of Kukmor (Tatar ASSR) (military - topographic services created and updated topographic maps on vast territories. Girls - topographers were jokingly called "cartographers" by the soldiers). She returned from the war. 6.4.1985 The USSR Ministry of Defense was awarded the jubilee order of the 2nd degree (¹ 87) for bravery, firmness and courage, shown in the fight against German fascist invaders. In 2000 she was awarded the sign "FRONTOVIK 1941 - 1945". She was also marked with jubilee medals in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1996 she was awarded medal to the 100th anniversary of Georgiy Zhukov. In 2005 she was awarded the medal "60 years of Liberation of the Republic of Belarus". She worked in trade. In 1977 she was awarded the Veteran of Labor Medal for her long and diligent work. She was buried in the village of Nikolskoye, Yenotayevsky district, Astrakhan region. Parents: father - Alexey Kuzmich Zakharov (1897 - 1930), mother - born Evdokia Gavrilovna Shimbarova (30.8.1900 - 25.9.1979). Brothers: Georgiy (13.2.1924 - 10.10.1960), Victor (19.4.1926 - 17.12.1987). Sister: Elena (Tsymbalova, 25.5.1928 - 20.2.2016). Husband - Kurilo Nikolay Mikhailovich (20.10.1927 - 10.3.2007). Children: Galina (Lazareva, 2.9.1952 - 13.7.2012), Evgeniy (28.8.1960 - 19.4.2011).

Kondakova (Avakina) Zoya Mikhailovna was born in 1926, after 7 grades of junior secondary school No. 2 in Sasovo she graduated from the Rokovsky nursing courses and from April 17, 1943 to June 1945 fought on the front line of the 3rd Belorussian Front as a sancheminstructor with a battery of 1389 air defense artillery regiment of 34 air defense artillery division. She participated in the liberation of Belorussia. Her father, Mikhail Samoshkin, fought and died 90 km from her regiment. He was buried at the military cemetery in Vitebsk region, Polotsk district, v. Vladimirovka. Zoya Mikhailovna participated in the taking of Koenigsberg, for which she was awarded a medal. Her task on the front line was to provide medical care to the wounded, check water and food for suitability for consumption, as the Nazis often tried to poison everything during the retreat. Several times, she got into encirclement. On March 4, 1944, under the strong artillery fire of the enemy senior sergeant Kondakova showed firmness and courage. Despising death, she provided medical care to the wounded battery fighters, for which she was awarded the Medal of Merit. Zoya Mikhailovna was dismissed on demobilization on the basis of the Law of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR from June 23, 1945. She was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of II degree, jubilee medals. She finished her working career in Sasovo in 1983. Her husband, Alexey Petrovich Avakin, born in 1928, during the war worked at the wagon depot of the Sasovskaya railroad. He was awarded the medal "For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". The spouses brought up a son and daughter..