Faces of war

Branch of Service: Military Medical Staff _x000D_ She got married on June 21, 1941, when they were returning home in the morning after the wedding, she learned that the war had begun._x000D_ On June 23, she was mobilized and taken as a nurse to the ambulance train. In the war, the wounded called her Nadezhda (Hope), in the faith of salvation. While loading the wounded into the train, she was hit by a bomb and a shell fragment torу out her gall bladder. After the hospital, she was transferred to Armavir (REP-31), where she had access to particularly important documents. When the Germans attacked, the city was evacuated, and she was instructed to return and find the missing safe box of the Military District Medical Department in order to take very important secret documents from it. Thanks to the citizens who helped my grandmother, she took out the documents from Armavir on her own._x000D_ Upon returning, the Chief of the Political Department of REP-31, Major Petrov, took off his breas the Order of the Red Star and handed it to her for completing this task._x000D_ But he did not have time to reissue the documents, because he was killed in the bombing. On the same day, she learned that her husband had died. She managed to get 200 wounded soldiers out of the encirclement, loaded them into a passing ambulance train, and after 6 hours on the road, a ton bomb hit the train and my grandmother received a severe concussion. 5 days she moved in a suspended grid, all that was left of the car. The train brought my grandmother to Baku, where she was sheltered by the Aliyev family. After the hospital, she was sent to the rear, to Central Asia. After the war, she worked as a pediatrician, was active in literature, and wrote poetry, stories, fables, was the head of the literary salon "Lira" in Tolyatti. She wrote a novel about the war, but did not have time to publish it.

Vasily Zamyatin was born in 1916, was called up to the front by the Krasnoslobodsky District Military Commissariate in 1941. In the armed forces of the Don Front - in 1942. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad as a Specialist and gunner of the 979th Artillery Regiment of the 173rd Rifle Division._x000D_ In the armed forces of the Belorussian Front - in 1943. He was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree as a Gards Sergeant and gun commander of the 2nd Battery of the 156th Guards Artillery Regiment._x000D_ Died 13.02.1945._x000D_ In 1945, in the armed forces of the 1st Belorussian front with the rank of Guard Sergeant Major, as a gun commander of the 2nd battery of the 156th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 77th Guards Chernihiv Order of Lenin of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov Rifle Division, V. Zamyatin was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree._x000D_ He was buried in Poland, 1.8 km South of Frankfurt am Oder (Germany). Type of burial: mass grave, Gejowskie Voivodeship, the city of Sochi, street of the Polish Army. Thanks to data from websites about veterans, the family learned about the burial site. From the archives of the Ministry of Defence, it became known about all the awards and a description of the military merits of Vasily._x000D_ Vasily's siblings, Stepan (born in 1913) and Semyon (born in 1922), returned from the front and have military awards.

Rank: Specialist_x000D_ Branch of service: Coastal Defense Artillery and Air Defense, Coastal Guard, Air Force, NKVD troops, Border Guard_x000D_ My great-grandmother Tamara Klevtsova (Dyukova) was born in 1923 in the village of Treskino, Inzhavinskiy District, Tambov Region. Her youth was spent in the villageof Injavino, where she graduated from school in 1941. All the girl's dreams were connected with entering the Theater Institute to become an actress. This had everything for that: she sang well, danced, rode horses like a real circus performer, jumped into the water from trees and bridge railings, swam well,and shot. But the dreams were not to be fulfilled: on June 22, 1941, when things were already packed in suitcases, the news came – the war. Together with her friends, Tamara went to the military enlistment office, but they, eighteen-year-old girls, of course, were not taken to the war, but sent to work for a collective farm. There she worked as a bookkeeper, but regularly went to the draft Board and she succeeded: together with her best friend, Anna (they were friends all their lives) sent to the labor front: to build defensive positions in the Bryansk and Smolensk. She had to endure a lot during the year of digging trenches: hunger, cold, shelling. But the girls did not leave thoughts of the front, and finally, in July 1943, they were called up to serve in the 26th Separate Division of the Balloon Barrier, first as telephone operators, and then as ballon personell. The division was located in Arkhangelsk. The balloon was lifted into the sky both day and night. It carried an invisible iron cable with bombs attached to it 2 - 4.5 km up. It was enough to stumble on such a cable, as a helpless German plane fell to the ground. Fragile girls had to drive bulky, elephant-like, hydrogen-filled gas baloons in pairs for tens of kilometers, on foot, in any weather, in a downpour, frost. The balloons were filled with 125 cubic meters of gas and needed to be recharged every day because the hydrogen seeped out. Her hands were numb, and the ropes tore the skin from her palms. Of course, it was not easy for my great-grandmother, but she did not give up, she believed in victory. And it helped her strength, dexterity and amazing endurance, brought up by many years of sports training. And Specialist Dyukova spent two whole years carrying balloons on her shoulders that could escape from her hands at any moment. In 1943, at the front, she met her younger brother Boris, who had fought in the Baltic Fleet in an escort for allied ships. After the end of the war, Tamara was demobilized from the army by order of July 13, 1945 and came to the city of Kirsanov. Here she married Vladimir Klevtsov, who returned from the war, with whom she studied at school together and kept in touch throughout the war. In Kirsanov, she graduated from an external pedagogical school and worked at a railway school, first as a pioneer leader, then as a primary school teacher. Pupils gratefully remember the glorious deeds of the pioneer squad: hiking in their native land, pioneer bonfires, amateur art shows, physical culture holidays. Tamara worked at school for 11 years, but for health reasons she had to leave – the hardships of wartime affected her. But she could not stay at home and in 1961 came to work in the library of the Kirsanov technical school of mechanization and electrification of agriculture, where she worked until retirement. My great-grandmother Tamara has many thanks and awards, but the most important award is the memory of her students, workmates, everyone who knew this tireless worker: the organizer of amateur performances, the head of the reading circle, the organizer and participant of the theater club. And all this hand in hand with her life partner, loyal friend and husband Vladimir Klevtsov, with whom they lived 48 bright happy years, raised two children and three grandchildren.

Title: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of service: Artillery_x000D_ Hello there!!I don't know much about my grandfather Vasily Kolbyashkin, December 31, 1917 - date of birth! He was drafted into the Red Army by Dubovsky District Military Commissariat of the Stalingrad Region on October 13, 1938 in the 24th Rifle Regiment where he served as a driver in 1938-1939. He participated in the Finnish war. After he served in 532nd Motor Transport Regiment from 1939-1942. These were already the difficult first years of the Great Patriotic War. Further, he served in the 15th Rifle Regiment as a gun commander from October 1942 to November 1943, and was also in the 105th Rifle Regiment from 1943 to 1944 as a gun Commander of the 85mm gun. He ended the war in the 8th Automobile Regiment as Commander of the drivers detachment in 1944-1946. I am Very proud of my grandfather and all the great feat of the Russian people, the Russian soul! I imitated my grandfather in many ways, even though I did not see him. He did not live until I was born. He was wounded more than once, lost ribs on one side. After he came home, he was a first-class driver and just a strong, honest and kind person for the rest of his life. The Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War was the main holiday for him. Such heroes as our grandfathers made the feat that for many centuries people on the planet should not forget, honor, and cherish it. One should learn to love his homeland, patriotism, strong faith in his country and people! Be true to your heart and Russian soul1 AND WE, RELATIVES AND CLOSE ONES ARE PROUD OF OUR GRANDFATHER AND WILL CARRY THE MEMORY OF HIM TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN! ETERNAL MEMORY TO THE HEROES! RUSSIA!

Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Korobeinikov Afanasy Guryanovich 01/27/1898 - 11/12/1972 Hero of the Soviet Union Dates of decrees 1. 03/24/1945 Medal No. 5007 Korobeynikov Afanasy Guryanovich - gun commander of the 1239th rifle regiment (373rd Mirgorodskaya Red Banner Orders and Kutuzov 2nd degree infantry division, 52nd army, 2nd Ukrainian front), senior sergeant. Born on January 27, 1898 in the village of Kiyasovo, Kiyasovsky District, Udmurt Republic, in a peasant family. Russian. Primary education. Adopted as a member of the CPSU (b) / KPSS in 1944. At the age of 12, left without a father, he moved to the city of Sarapul to work. During the civil war in 1918 - 1920 he fought in the Red Army - was the gun commander of the armored train "Free Russia". He fought on the Eastern and Southern Fronts. In the years preceding the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the consumer cooperation system. On April 28, 1942, he was drafted into the army by the Kiyasov district military enlistment office. In the army since September 9, 1943. He fought on the Voronezh, 2nd and 1st Ukrainian fronts in the 373rd rifle division. Participated in the 52nd Army in the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine, the crossing of the Dnieper, the expansion of the bridgehead on its right bank and the liberation of the city of Cherkassy (December 14, 1943). In January-February 1944 he took part in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, the destruction of the surrounded enemy grouping in the area of ​​the settlements of Shenderovka, Steblev, Khilki. From March 5 to April 17 he took part in the Uman-Botoshan offensive operation. During the operation, his division liberated the city of Uman (March 10, 1944), crossed the Southern Bug River, liberated the city of Yampol in the Vinnitsa region (Ukraine), and crossed the Dniester River. On the territory of Moldova, she liberated the cities of Soroca, Balti, Floreshty, and other settlements. She was one of the first to reach the state border of the USSR. Senior sergeant A.G. Korobeinikov distinguished himself in this operation from 8 to 10 March 1944 in battles on the outskirts of the city of Uman (Cherkasy region, Ukraine) and in its liberation. In the vicinity of the villages of Popovka, Ryzhovka and near the city of Uman, moving in the battle formations of the attacking infantry with his own gun, he fired direct fire at the enemy's manpower and equipment. In three days of fighting, he destroyed one tank, one 75-millimeter cannon, four machine-gun points with their calculations, more than 50 infantry. In the period from March 14 to March 19, he was among the first to cross the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers on improvised means, destroyed one tank, three guns, more than a platoon of the Nazis with the fire of his gun. Together with the advance group, he held the bridgehead until the main forces of the regiment approached. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, senior sergeant Korobeinikov Afanasy Guryanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 5007). From August 20 to September 5, 1944, as part of the 52nd Army, he participated in the Jassy-Kishinev operation of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. From 21 to 28 October 1944, his division made a 220-kilometer march across Poland. On the night of December 23, 1944, the division crossed the Vistula and entered the Sandomierz bridgehead. In January-February 1945 A.G. Korobeinikov, as part of the division, took part in the Sandomierz-Silesian offensive, in the crossing of the Oder River. From 8 to 14 February 1945, as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, he took part in the Lower Silesian offensive operation. From April 16 to May 2, 1945, as part of the 52nd Army, he participated in the Berlin operation of the 1st Ukrainian Front, during which on May 8, 1945, advancing from the Nieder-Bielau region, the 373rd rifle division took the city of Görlitz. However, the German troops operating in front of the 52nd Army did not lay down their arms, but began to hastily retreat to Czechoslovakia in Prague. The division was ordered to pursue the enemy. Only on May 13, 1945 for the 373rd Infantry Division and for A.G. Korobeinikov, the fighting ended. Demobilized after the war. Lived and worked in the village of Kiyasovo. He died on November 12, 1972. Buried in the village of Kiyasovo. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Glory of the 2nd and 3rd degrees, three medals.

HISTORY: My mother, Valentina Mikhailovna Kolesnikova (Bolshakova) was born on November 25, 1926 at the Nizhne-Baskinsk station in the Shamarsky district of the Sverdlovsk region. In those years, my mother's father worked as a foreman on the railway and they had to constantly change their place of residence. Therefore, almost all children were born at different stations. In the family of my mother's parents there were seven children, she was the sixth. As my mother said, it was also difficult to live because there was no permanent place of residence. However, despite the difficulties, she finished school (7 classes), and in 1943, at the age of 17, she was admitted to the factory №825 in the workshop №7 by a wrapper. It was the TTK plant. I met victory in the Great Patriotic War at the plant. On this day (in her words) all loudspeakers were turned on, sirens, locomotive horns, etc. were buzzing. People were crying with joy. There was some misunderstanding of the situation. And it was a victory. A peaceful life began. And in 1948 my mother met my father and got married. In 1950, his son Anatoly was born, and then in 1952 - Victor, in 1954 - Nadezhda, in 1955 - Vera, in 1958 - Galina, in 1962 - Mikhail, in 1964 - Marina. In total, there were seven of us in the family just like our mother's parents - seven. While the children were growing up, my mother did not work anywhere, she was engaged in education. And when we grew up, I went to work again. The first award given to my mother was the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." July 10, 1946. Then commemorative medals for the 40th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. And she also had awards for the birth of us, seven children. She was awarded the "Medal of Motherhood" on 02.07.1959, the second "Medal of Motherhood" from 23.10.1963 and the Order of Maternal Glory, III degree from 23.12.1965. Dad and Mom gave us all a good upbringing and education. We have different types of professions in our family. And we are proud of our parents and our large and very friendly family. Our mother passed away on August 13, 2009, at the age of 83. (From the memoirs of her daughter, Vera Ivanovna Chesnokova).

Type of troops: Troops of the NKVD and NKGB (except for the border). Koval Zhorzh Abramovich - Soviet intelligence officer, teacher at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D.I. Mendeleev. Georges Koval was born on December 25, 1913 (old style) in the American town of Sue City, Iowa, into a family of Jewish emigrants from Western Belarus. He graduated from an American school and two years of chemistry college. When in 1932, during the crisis in the United States, everyone lost their jobs, the Kovalei family decided to leave for the Soviet Union. At the age of nineteen, Georgy Koval entered the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. Mendeleev, who graduated with honors. During his studies, Koval attracted the attention of the Main Intelligence Directorate: a talented chemist with knowledge of American realities could be very useful to the Soviet Union at this difficult time. After special training at the GRU, Koval began his work in the United States in 1940 under the operational pseudonym Delmar. When work began on the Manhattan Project (the creation of the atomic bomb), Georges Coval managed to get into the atomic center in Oak Ridge. He was assigned to the health safety department - his job was to ensure that radiation did not harm employees. Thanks to this, Koval had wide access to all objects of the huge nuclear complex. Climbing the career ladder, he gained access to more and more valuable information, which he transmitted to the USSR. Initially, Koval, under an assumed name, collected information about new toxins that could be used in chemical weapons. Thanks to Koval, information about the production of nuclear materials - plutonium, polonium and others - was collected and sent to Moscow. And the secret data received from him in December 1945 - February 1946 prompted Soviet scientists an idea and confirmed the correct way to solve the problem associated with the neutron fuse. When the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945, a Soviet defector informed the US authorities that the Soviet Union knew details about the Manhattan Project. Two years later, Koval had to flee the country: the American counterintelligence caught the eye of Soviet literature, which told about the Kovalei family, in the photo was Georgy Abramovich himself - patriots and happy emigrants from Iowa. Two months before the test of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Georges Abramovich resigned from the GRU, not reaching the officer rank, and got a job at his native Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman. At Baumanka he taught until retirement and dealt with the problems of chemical technology and the automation of chemical production. Koval Zh.A. enthusiastically engaged in science, prepared and published about a hundred serious scientific works, which were recognized in scientific circles. He took an active part in the work of scientific conferences, made presentations and reports, and for many years of work at the institute he was able to create a whole scientific heritage, which is still used by students of the D.I. Mendeleev. He lived in Moscow, where he died on January 31, 2006. He was awarded a medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", jubilee medals, a badge of honor "For service in military intelligence." On October 22, 2007, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree conferring the title of Hero of Russia to intelligence officer Georges Koval - in the official statement he was named the only Soviet intelligence officer who managed to infiltrate the secret facilities of the project. His work, the statement said, enabled the Soviet Union to accelerate the creation of its own atomic bomb. Many details of the activities of this remarkable intelligence officer are still hidden under the heading "top secret".

Kotovsky Ivan Konstantinovich was born on January 1, 1914 on the Mashinsky farm of the Oblivsky district of the Rostov region. Before the war he worked on a collective farm. In July 1941 he went to the front. In the summer of 1941, the great-grandfather took part in the battles near Smolensk, in July - September 1942 - in the defensive operation in the Voronezh direction as part of the 835 rifle regiment of the 237th rifle division (2 formations), in January 1943 - in the Ostrogozhsko - Rossoshan offensive operation, which included in history under the name "Stalingrad on the Upper Don", as part of the 830 artillery regiment of the 305th rifle division (2 formations). Rank: Senior Sergeant. He was wounded three times: in the battle near Smolensk (summer 1941), during the liberation of the village of Olkhovatki in the Voronezh region (September 1942), in the battles near the town of Stary Oskol (February 1, 1943) Twice he was undergoing treatment at GLR No. 1135 (Bobrov, Voronezh region) and in evacuation hospital No. 1706 (Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In 1943, after a severe injury, he was demobilized for health reasons. In 1985, for the courage, stamina and courage shown in the fight against the German fascist invaders, and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Ivan Konstantinovich Kotovsky was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. His great-grandfather was also awarded the Zhukov medal (1995), the honorary badge "Front-line soldier 1941-1945" (2000 year) and commemorative medals (1967, 1985, 1988, 1995, 2005, 2010). Died October 11, 2010.

Rank: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Troops of the NKVD and the NKGB (except for the border) Olga Nikiforovna served in the troops of the NKVD. In 1941, when the Nazis were inexorably moving east, and the scattered Russian units desperately resisted and died in the thousands in the meat grinder of the eastern front, the Abwehr's bloodhounds recruited hundreds of Soviet citizens in the frontline zone. At the same time, they did not hesitate to use adolescents as informants. The payment for such cooperation, despite the child's age, was too high. The war did not spare anyone. Usually, the detained teenagers ended up in prison, and those who were older were shot. One day in the autumn of 1941, while at the location of her hospital, Olga Nikiforovna heard from one of the officers that a boy named Dudkin Kronid was among the detainees. That was the name of Olga Nikiforovna's brother. One can only guess what Olga Nikiforvna experienced when she learned that Kronid was detained. According to her, only one thought was beating in my head - "for what?". She knew firsthand the methods of work of the Soviet counterintelligence and the doom of the fate of her young brother was beyond doubt. Then Olga Nikiforovna took a desperate step - she turned to the command of the NKVD regiment, stating that the detained Dudkin Kronid was her brother. The history of those years knows many cases when such attempts to save a person ended tragically for both. It was extremely rare in wartime to figure out who was a traitor and who was not. Each of the military commanders was pressed by the burden of danger to fall into a wolf's trap, so no one listened to the pleas of the young nurse. In this seemingly hopeless situation, Olga Nikiforovna was able to convince the command that her brother Kronid was not a traitor, but was detained in the front-line zone, since he wanted to get to the front and share the fate of other soldiers who fought against fascism. At that moment Kronid was a little over 14 years old and for obvious reasons he was denied the call. So Kronid decided to decide his own fate. They believed her and the boy was released. Olga Nikiforovna went through the entire war and carried dozens of soldiers and officers from the battlefield on her shoulders. Olga Nikiforovna died on November 13, 2012, but her feat should not be forgotten. Personal information: Erokhova (nee Dudkina) Olga Nikiforovna, later - Kurantova, served in the evacuation hospital No. 3818 from August 16, 1941 (order on l / s No. 15) to February 16, 1943 (order on l / s No. 47), then in the evacuation hospital No. 1882 from March 13, 1943 (order for l / s No. 7) to February 15, 1944 (order for l / s No. 46), then in the evacuation hospital No. 3076 from February 19, 1944 year (order on l / s No. 50) to April 24, 1945 (order on l / s No. 117) in the position of a freelance nurse. She was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, II degree (number of the award document 74 of 04/06/1985)

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 108th Guards Rifle Nikolayevskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Krasilnikov Nikolai Petrovich was born in the Tatar ASSR in 1922. Here he lived in the village of Klyaush, Takanysh district with his family. He began his military career in 1941. Krasilnikov N.P. He fought in the Transcaucasian Front, as a platoon commander of a separate 120 mm mortar division of the 10th Guards Red Banner Rifle Brigade. In December 1942, in just two weeks of fighting, his platoon destroyed 3 vehicles, 1 machine gun and 53 enemy soldiers. For this he was awarded the Medal For Courage. The war years passed. Krasilnikov N.P. managed to take part in battles as part of various fronts. These are the Second Ukrainian, Third Ukrainian and Fourth Ukrainian. By the fall of 1944, he became platoon commander of the headquarters of the artillery commander of the 108th Guards Nikolaevskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. In December of the same year, under heavy artillery fire, N.P. Krasilnikov. with a platoon of signalmen crossed the Danube River and established communication between the commander of the division's artillery and its subunits, thereby facilitating the successful offensive of the Soviet troops in this sector. For the courage shown by the guard, Lieutenant N. Krasilnikov was awarded the Order of the "Red Star". He also took part in the Balaton defensive operation, which was carried out from 6 to 15 March 1945 in the area of ​​Lake Balaton. During the battle, Soviet troops repelled the offensive of the German army. By the beginning of 1945, Hungary remained the only ally of Nazi Germany. During fierce battles on February 13, 1945, the capital of Hungary, the city of Budapest, was taken. He took part in this battle - Guard Lieutenant Krasilnikov N.P. He met the Great Victory already in the rank of Guard Senior Lieutenant in Hungary, where he was awarded the Medal for the capture of Budapest. After demobilization from the Soviet Army, already in peacetime, Krasilnikov N.P. for a long time he worked on the construction of new coal mines in the Tula region, where he was a truck crane driver. In the 80s of the last century he retired, but nevertheless continued to work and run a personal subsidiary farm. In 1994 he was gone. Close people remembered him as a cheerful, merry and purposeful person.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Aviation. Subdivision: 3rd Long-Range Aviation Division. In 1939 I graduated from the Kachin Aviation School. The war with Germany found us in Spassk-Dalny. We moved to Monino and got brand new DB-ZF (IL-4). We bombed tank and mechanized troops in the areas of Dmitrov-Orlovsky, Chepilovo-Yukhnov, Novgorod-Seversky, Medyn, Drakino, Staritsa-Kalinin. They bombed and destroyed bridges and crossings on the Ugra and Izverya rivers, pontoon, highway and railway bridges across the Volga river, destroyed aircraft and destroyed airfields in Smolensk, Bobruisk, Mogilev, Dvoevka, Gzhatsk, made night raids on railway junctions in Orel, Vitebsk , Kaluga, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk, Rzhev, Gzhatsk. But even more difficult were the flights with the landing at the "partisan airfields". It took exceptional skill to land a heavy C-47 on a small platform in a forest clearing or a hummock meadow, and then lift it into the air, loaded as much as possible with wounded partisans and children ... Already in April of the 45th, battle-hardened regiment veterans were sitting at the controls and confidently led their planes to Berlin ... For everyone who burned down in this war, for everyone who died on the gallows and died under the torture of Hitler's executioners, for the barbarously shot, tortured women, children, old people, for our burned down cities, burned out village, for the death and blood of our comrades, we destroyed the den of the fascist beast. And again to the Far East on the transport and landing C-47A. Here I know all the mountains, hills and airfields. After the victory over Germany, we had such a passion that Japan would be defeated in the shortest possible time. And already on September 2, 1945, the act of Japan's unconditional surrender was signed. The Second World War is over. Kushnirenko Vasily Kuzmich, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, made 2626 sorties, of which 287 were combat, incl. 243 nightlife. The following aircraft were mastered: R-5; Po-2; P-6; I-16; Sat; IL-4; B-25; S-47; LI-2; IL-12. When performing combat missions, he flew a total of 700 thousand kilometers, incl. 160 thousand kilometers - over the territory of the enemy. He dropped over 200 tons of bombs on various military and industrial facilities. During his service, he flew 3767 flights.

I, Alexey Vasilyevich Zyatkov, was drafted into the Soviet army in October 1940 and ended up serving in the city of Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. After completing the course of a young soldier, he was sent to a regimental school. The school taught what a person is capable of and his capabilities, everyone had to have twice the strength of a soldier. War was declared at the school, the cadets were awarded titles according to the knowledge gained at the school, and were distributed in parts. I was awarded the title of deputy political commander of a rifle company and given the green light to the front. Before reaching Orsha, the railway line was bombed, and we had to walk day and night to the front line. In one of the morning dawns, reconnaissance reported that the Germans were ahead. The command was given to the first battalion, without having breakfast, to defeat the German landing, and then to have breakfast. Half an hour later, the second battalion was raised, and then the third. It was not a landing, but regular units. As a political officer, I knew the situation better than the rank and file. There were no neighbors on the left or on the right. The regiment entered the battle. All our attacks were repulsed. This is how the war began for me. In this battle, I was wounded and went to the hospital. After my recovery, I was sent to the sapper courses, after the completion of the short-term courses I was assigned to units. In March 1942, when the First Panzer Army was organized, I, as a junior commander, was sent to the First Panzer Army under the command of General Katukov. In a hurry, I was appointed junior commander in the 19th mech. a brigade, a communications platoon. On the shoulders a coil of wire, a telephone set, a gas mask and a carbine were then replaced with an automatic machine. Communication is the nerve of the army. Without communication, the army is incapable of combat. At the beginning of the war, the main communication was wired, there was little radio, but the commanders were afraid of them: so that the Germans would not track them. The tanks stopped, the infantry lay down, the connection was broken, and now the signalman, where by dashes, where crawling with a full load, is looking for a breakthrough, connects the wires, without disconnecting from the line again a gust. Around the pitch hell, shells, mines burst, bullets whistle the infantry dig in, and the signalman, crawling on his stomach, eliminates the breakthroughs. The first battles began on the Kalinin Front. Our brigade rushed first to break through, then to plug the gaps made by the Germans. We were not kept in one place for a long time. We were in motion all the time. After completing the task, they are transferred to another area. At first they tried to keep us thrown over at night, and when our planes began to appear, threatening areas were thrown over during the day. Our First Panzer took part on all fronts, from the Kalinin Front and southward to the Carpathians. On the Kalinin Front, Bogoroditskoye, Kholm, Ostashkovo were liberated. From there they were transferred to Kursk, Oboyan. I saw a tank battle near Prokhorovka. It is difficult for the human mind to imagine what the battle of tanks was. Burnt, turned upside down by caterpillars, torn apart from the inside. They are standing vertically, leaning against each other, and around the burned tankers. In two months we were transferred to Kursk. The troops trained to repel the tank armada of the Germans, and we won. Our unit was in Ukraine. Bakhmach, Chertkov, Kolomys were freed. On the central front, we were thrown to a breakthrough, and we occupied the fortifications prepared by the Germans - they had to repel our attacks without using the fortifications erected by them. Then our First Tank Army was sent to encircle Warsaw, for which I was awarded the medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". How many cases have been - you see that death flies at you. I especially remember the case - it was in the Kursk region. I was returning from headquarters to my unit. The steppe was bare, and suddenly I saw: a huge pit, several kilometers away, overgrown with trees below, and there was a mass of carts, cars, people, and suddenly I heard the hum of planes. I looked into the sky, and there were a dozen fascist planes. I lay down under the edge of the ravine, with me two more fighters. Panic began in the pit. The planes went to bomb this yar. I jumped up and ran into the steppe towards the planes. He ran until the bombs whistled. Then I fell. A bomb exploded fifty to sixty meters ahead. I was thrown up, clods of earth fell, and I became deaf, although I covered my ears. When the planes took off, I went to the yar. Where I and two fighters lay, the edge of the yar was mowed, the bushes that grew along the edge lay far below, and in the yar there was something terrible: people, horses were shouting, cars were burning. Everything was black. After a while, I went blind. They didn't send me anywhere. I was at the unit. After three or four days, vision was restored. Our unit fought for Neustadt, Küstrin, Berlin. The storming of Berlin was terrible. Not only the Germans, but also us, the Russians, were given huge searchlights. An order was given to remove the blackout from the headlights of cars and tanks. And suddenly everything lit up, rumbled, and the team was - forward! It was hell, the Germans were still responding with artillery. But everything moved forward. Awards For the capture of Berlin was awarded the medal "For the capture of Berlin". For bravery, perseverance and courage in the fight against the German invaders he was awarded: in 1942 Medal "For Courage" No. 284416.In 1943 Medal "For Courage" 610882 In 1944 Medal "For Courage" No. 995448 Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". For the capture of Berlin Order of the Red Star No. 1118046. Order of the Red Star. In 1971, he was awarded the Order of Lenin for his long and impeccable work.

Georgy Nikolaevich in 1942 - a 19-year-old lieutenant, deputy commander of the BM-13 "Katyusha" rocket launcher battalion, was withdrawing his unit from near Belgorod - four Katyusha installations, a fuel tanker, a commander's willys, about 50 fighters. There was no front, the Germans broke through it and our units retreated. Where were the Germans, where ours were nobody knew. They retreated at night, during the day they defended themselves in the groves. The Luftwaffe bombed any group of our troops that they found. There were practically no small arms, except for his pistol and one machine gun on a jeep. The reconnaissance on which road to go was carried out during the day. During one of the patrols, they stumbled upon the tail of the column, but in the dust they could not make out ours or the German. We stopped together with the column, listened - the speech was German. They quietly lagged behind and to their own. It became clear that a powerful mechanized enemy group was advancing along the same road with them. Clarified its composition - 4 tanks, ten trucks with infantry, a fuel tanker, command vehicles. The column stopped for the night in the village. It's time to make decisions. It is clear that the location of our column could become known to the Germans at any moment. Then the lid is nothing to defend with. Georgy Zemtsov decided to attack first. Attack against orders. Katyusha is a secret weapon and closer than 15 km rapprochement with the Germans was prohibited. We made an ambush on a hill overgrown with wood. The road from the village led to this hill then bends around it. Four installations were well camouflaged and, with negative trim, direct fire aimed at the road, conventionally dividing it into four parts. Aiming at the eye. When in the morning the German column at the exit from the village was drawn into this section of the road, they fired a volley from all four installations .... The shells did not have time to turn on the reactive part, on one starting powder charge they entered the midst of the Germans. The howl of shells, flames, explosions - everything was mixed in this volley. Nothing was visible, everything was covered with smoke .. George quickly took the Katyusha away after the volley, fearing the Luftwaffe who arrived after 10-15 minutes after the discovery of ours ... Another hour or two, there was something smoldering exploded. But here's the thing ... there was no one to call the aviation. The battalion of "Fritzes" and not having time to understand what had happened turned into ash ... True, the young lieutenant did not report this episode to the command, fearing the tribunal for formally violated the order. I wonder what the Germans thought at the headquarters? Where did the warhead go without even reporting the attack? It disappeared from the theater of operations. There was and now not. This is how it happens ...

In February 1943 was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the Moscow machine gun school. In July, on alert, the school was raised and sent to the front at the Oryol-Kursk Bulge. At first he was a machine gunner, took part in battles in the Bryansk direction in the region of Karachev. Then, with the organization of submachine gunners, he was transferred to a platoon of submachine gunners. Several times he went on reconnaissance, and in the battle on August 14, cutting the railway to Bryansk, he was wounded by a mine fragment. By this time, the battalion included 10-15 people. Then in 1944 he went back to the front, to the 1st Belorussian. This time he was in the active army for about six months. During this time, as part of a sapper brigade, he took part in the crossing of the Bugo-Narva River north of Warsaw. The river is 200-250 meters with a gentle bank on our side and with a steep, steep bank on the side of the Germans. The crossing on the pontoons was successful. Then he took part in the construction of a 1200m bridge across the Vistula. Moreover, the construction proceeded under frequent fire from enemy artillery. After that I was at the Magnushevsky bridgehead south of the Vistula. He took part in preparations for breaking through enemy defenses. At night, they made passes in minefields, and then participated in the assault on the approach to Lodz. He was wounded in the chest and lungs. He spent 4-5 months in various hospitals, then was demobilized from the army due to injury. Rank: Junior Lieutenant.

Born on January 31, 1926 in the village of Bakaly, Bakalinsky district of Bashkiria in a peasant family. Graduated from 8 classes. He worked in a collective farm village. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1944. He joined the ranks of the Red Army voluntarily in December 1942, having changed his year of birth in his passport from 1926 to 1925. On October 24, 1943, in a battle near the city of Krivoy Rog (Ukraine), he was wounded and hospitalized. After that he was sent to a reserve regiment, and then was appointed a gunner of an 82-mm mortar in one of the regiments of the 15th Guards Rifle Division. Later he became the commander of the crew. In late January - early February 1944, in the battles for the villages of Malo-Sofievka and Novo-Sergievka (Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine), he destroyed 15 Nazis and 5 soldiers from a machine gun with mortar fire. For this fight he received the first award - the medal "For Military Merit". At the end of February 1944, a mortar crew, in which Zotov was the gunner, crossed the Ingulets River together with the infantry. For this fight he received an award - a medal "For Courage". On April 6, 1944, in a battle three kilometers north of the village of Razdelnaya in the Odessa region of Ukraine, Sergeant Zotov, commanding the guards, exterminated over ten enemy soldiers and one officer from a mortar. In the summer of 1944, the 5th Guards Army was transferred from the 2nd Ukrainian Front to the 1st Ukrainian Front, whose troops were attacking in the Lvov, Rava-Russky and Stanislavsky directions. During the offensive, they liberated the city of Lvov, crossed the San River and entered Polish territory. On August 21, Sergeant Zotov, commanding a mortar crew, suppressed two enemy firing points, destroyed up to 20 Nazis. Was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the period from 24 to 27 January 1945, in the battles to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Oder River, north of the German city of Oppeln, now the Polish town of Opole, the mortar crew of the 47th Guards Rifle Regiment under the command of Guard Sergeant Zotov destroyed anti-aircraft weapons and two machine guns ... For the battle he received an award - the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. In 1947 he graduated from the Ivanovo military-political school. In the rank of lieutenant he served in the group of Soviet forces in Germany. In May 1951, he was transferred to a military unit located in the city of Kaliningrad, where he was elected secretary of the regiment's party bureau, and then appointed deputy political officer of the Yuri Smirnov battalion. In October 1956 he was transferred to the reserve. He returned to his homeland in Bashkiria. Since November 1960 - director of a school in the town of Oktyabrsky. In 1964 he graduated by correspondence from the Bashkir State University named after the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. In 1980 he moved to the city of Ufa. He worked as the director of school number 46 of the Leninsky district. He was awarded the title "Honored Teacher of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic". Died July 16, 1996. He was buried in Ufa at the Yuzhny cemetery.