Faces of war

Alexey Zakharov was born on April 15, 1923 in the village of Otyassy, ​​Sosnovsky District, Tambov Region. As a young guy, Alexey wrote a statement asking him to send him to the front as a volunteer. Private Zakharov Alexey Arkhipovich was enlisted in the 78th Guards Engineer Battalion. From the first days of the front, Alexei Arkhipovich proved himself to be a brave fighter and a loyal comrade. He received his first baptism of fire in August 1942 on the Don River. A resourceful fighter in the defense of Stalingrad showed himself heroically. Alexey Arkhipovich from the first days of the war was held in high esteem and respect by the command of the unit. At home, in his native village, his parents, three sisters and two brothers were waiting for news from Alexei. In one of his letters, Alexei wrote the following words: “You write why I don’t feel sorry for myself? But they beat cowards more than brave ones. I am always ready to give my life for the Motherland! " After Stalingrad there was the Dnieper. The enemy was firmly established on the right bank, creating a powerful defense there. The Red Army men were tasked with crossing the river, seizing a bridgehead and developing an offensive. Guard Private Alexei Zakharov, under heavy machine gun and mortar fire, made 18 boat trips, ferrying more than 200 soldiers and officers. On the way back he took the wounded. Alexey Arkhipovich showed great ingenuity, courage and courage. But he was then 20 years old. By his example, he drew other Red Army soldiers along with him. They forced the Dnieper and began to beat the enemy further. The government highly appreciated his military achievements. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 10, 1944, Komsomol member Alexei Arkhipovich Zakharov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. The war continued. Soldier Zakharov Alexey Arkhipovich in February 1944 receives an important assignment. It was necessary to penetrate into the rear of the enemy, to clarify the forces of the enemy. Returning with the completed assignment, Alexey decided to go to the village of Skitsy, Lipovetsky district, Vinnytsia region, to the house of a local teacher, warm up and take food for his fighters. The teacher's neighbor was a policeman. He quickly informed the Germans about the guest. The Nazis seized the Red Army man and shot him in the moat.

Zyabtsev Alexander Petrovich, was born on August 21, 1925 in the village of Korovino, Semenovsky village council, Vichugsky district, Ivanovo region. In 1940, Alexander Petrovich graduated from a 7-year school in the city of Vichuga, Ivanovo region. After leaving school, in the pre-war period, he worked as a turner at the Vichugsky machine-building plant. On March 23, 1943, at the age of 17, A.P. Zyabtsev was drafted into active military service and sent to the 2nd mortar regiment, located in the area of ​​the city of Gorokhovets, Gorky region, where he served as a radio operator. From July to December 1943, Alexander Petrovich was a cadet of the 47th Reserve Artillery Regiment. In December 1943, he was sent to the front in the 122nd Rifle Corps as the commander of the radio department, where he served until the end of the Great Patriotic War. During the hostilities, Alexander Petrovich was directly involved in the liberation of the blockade of the city of Leningrad, as well as other cities of the Soviet Union and Europe from the Nazi invaders. For participation in hostilities Zyabtsev A.P. was awarded with combat medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", as well as the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree, jubilee medals and badges. After the end of the war Zyabtsev A.P. continued to serve in the Soviet army as a radio department commander in the 610th artillery brigade in the city of Omsk and military unit 67777 in the city of Novosibirsk. On March 22, 1950 he was demobilized. Returning to his small homeland, he got a job at the Vichugskaya Spinning and Weaving Factory named after N.R. Shagov, where he worked in various positions: weaving assistant to the foreman, commodity manager of the supply department, head of the sales department, head of the transport department. In 1965 Zyabtsev A.P. graduated from the Vichugsky evening textile technical school, specializing in weaving. He worked at a textile enterprise until his well-deserved retirement, was an exemplary family man. Alexander Petrovich has always been a true patriot of his homeland, he infinitely loved his large family, Russian nature, hunting and passed this love on to his children and grandchildren. Zyabtsev A.P. passed away on June 25, 2012 at the age of 86.

Alexander Mikhailovich Zlobin was born on September 1, 1922 in Moscow on Krasnaya Presnya in the family of a housewife and a working printing house. In 1940 he graduated from ten classes. In September he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He served in Mongolia, received the specialty of a signalman. On June 21, 1941, an order was received to send him to the Higher Military Artillery School in the city of Kemerovo. And on June 22, the Great Patriotic War began. On February 3, 1942, he was sent to the active army. He took part in the battle for Voronezh, was wounded and was discharged. He was awarded the Order of Glory.

Zernin Sergey Matveyevich (10/17/1912 - 01/25/1989) Hero of the Soviet Union. Born on October 30, 1912 in the village of Voznesenka. He graduated from four classes of a rural school. He worked as a tractor driver at the Uisk state farm. From the mid-1930s he lived in the village of Kryzhanovka, where he worked as a tractor driver and combine operator on the collective farm "May Day" of the Larinsky village council of the Uisk district (until 1932). In 1932-1935 he worked at the Zlatoust Machine-Building Plant in the steel workshop. After completing the combine harvester courses in Verkhneuralsk (1936), he was an assistant foreman. In the Red Army since July 1941, in the active army since November 1941. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1943. The gun commander of the 227th artillery regiment (70th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 3rd Belorussian Front) Sergeant Sergei Zernin in the battles for Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) with the calculation of his own gun, on April 5-9, 1945, destroyed 3 guns, 4 easel and light machine guns with crews, 2 observation posts, 2 vehicles with military cargo, up to two companies of enemy infantry, which contributed to the successful advancement of rifle units. On April 9, the enemy counterattacked the artillery positions. The gun crew was out of action, and the commander was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield. Standing at the gun, he fired until a counterattack was repelled. After the war he was demobilized, returned to his homeland and lived in the village of Kryzhanovka. He worked as a gamekeeper, was elected chairman of the village council, was the party organizer of the branch of the state farm "Kundravinsky". He died on January 18, 1989, and was buried in the village of Kryzhanovka, Chebarkul District, Chelyabinsk Region The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on April 19, 1945. Awarded: the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and medals: "For Courage" and "For the Defense of Moscow".

Zaitseva Anna Fedorovna was born on November 14, 1903, in the village of Yurasovo, Glushkovsky district, Kursk region. Previously, there were more than 200 households in this village, but now there is almost no one left there - the village actually does not exist. Earlier in the village of Yurasovo there was the central estate of the Iskra collective farm, in which Anna Fedorovna Zaitseva has worked since the day of its foundation. During the Great Patriotic War, she, like hundreds of her fellow villagers, worked in a field-crop brigade and cultivated fields with sugar beets, grew grain crops - moreover, the front line was next to the village, passed along the Seim River. For some time, part of the Glushkovsky district was occupied by the Nazi troops - and the inhabitants of the village of Yurasovo helped the partisans as much as they could. The collective farmers who managed to evacuate worked in the fields in the unoccupied part of the Kursk region. Almost all of the harvest went to the needs of the front, the collective farmers had only a small portion for food, presented as "workdays". And after the end of the Great Patriotic War, it was not easy, Anna Fedorovna, together with her fellow countrymen, worked from morning till night, helping to restore the national economy destroyed by the war. Later, in the 50s, when the country had already recovered from the consequences of the war, it became easier on the collective farm, it was not necessary to work from dawn to dawn, almost without days off and holidays. Anna Fedorovna worked at the Iskra collective farm until her retirement in 1972, after retiring to a well-deserved rest, devoting herself to her family and raising her grandchildren. Anna Fyodorovna Zaitseva died on July 2, 1986, at the age of 83 - and the fate of this modest, hardworking, kind and selfless woman, like thousands of her fellow countrymen, ordinary rural workers, is an example of everyday labor feat ...

Served in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union from October 1939 to September 1945. He served as a private and sergeant (sergeant-mechanic traffic controller). Dismissed from injury due to being at the front in the military rank of Senior Engineer Lieutenant. The war for Nikolai began with the Soviet-Finnish war in 1939 (called up by the Dzerzhinsky District Military Commissariat of Leningrad on October 5, 1939) During World War II, as part of a reserve rifle regiment, he defended his native besieged city of Leningrad, in which he left his mother and little brother. I tried to pass my ration to my relatives at every opportunity. After the defense of besieged Leningrad, there was a long road to Vienna, Berlin as part of a tank division. For participation in the heroic assault and capture of Vienna N.V. Zamotorin by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR was awarded the medal "For the capture of Vienna." Its main task was to maintain the combat readiness of a tank division. Under fire, he carried on himself the necessary parts from tanks that were not repairable and, with his mobile repair brigade, put into operation the damaged Soviet tanks in the shortest possible time. For the heroism shown during the liberation of Europe from fascism, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star - the highest award for special merits in the defense of the USSR. He was repeatedly seriously injured. On July 20, 1945, he was recognized as fit for non-combatant service with a diagnosis of "restriction of movement in the left ankle joint, closed fractures of both bones of the left leg." Became a disabled person of the second group. After the war, he continued his studies at the Leningrad Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture. He took part in the restoration of agriculture in the Leningrad region, later transferred to Moscow. Nikolai Vladimirovich completed his career as Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the USSR State Committee for Production and Technical Support of Agriculture.

Poet, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lenin Prize laureate Musa Mustafovich Zalilov lived only 38 years (1906-1944). His biography is inseparable from the biography of the generation of the first half of the twentieth century. He is a student and Komsomol worker, journalist and public figure, during the years of military trials not only a poet, but also a soldier, and the cycle of his poems "Moabit Notebooks", created by the poet in fascist dungeons, became a kind of literary monument, a monument to the unparalleled courage of the Tatar poet-hero. Musa Jalil was born on February 2 (15), 1906 in the Tatar village of Mustafino of the Orenburg province (now the Sharlyk district of the Orenburg region). At the age of six, Musa began to study at a village school, and when the family moved to Orenburg, the future poet continued his education at the famous Tatar school, the Khusainiya madrasah. Musa got acquainted with the work of the Tatar poets Gabdulla Tukay, Dardmend, Sagit Ramiev and, under the impression of their work, began to write poetry himself. The poet Jalil began to publish in 1919. In 1922-1925 Musa Jalil worked in Kazan as a literary employee in the editorial office of the newspaper "Kyzyl Tatarstan", while studying at the workers' faculty at the Kazan Pedagogical Institute. Since 1927 M. Jalil's life is connected with Moscow - he is both a student and the editor of children's magazines "Kechkenk iptushlur" ("Little comrades"), "October balasy" ("Oktyabrenok"). In 1931 Musa graduated from the literary department of Moscow University with a degree in literary criticism. Later he became the head of the department of literature and art in the central newspaper Kommunist. Since 1935, the poet's life is associated with the Tatar opera art, he directs the literary part of the Tatar opera studio at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Since 1939, M. Jalil again in Kazan: he is the head of the literary department at the opera house, chairman of the Writers' Union, deputy of the city council. Here in Kazan he completed the libretto (begun in Moscow) for the opera "Altynchuch" ("Golden-haired"), the author of which was the composer Nazib Zhiganov. His libretto for the opera "Altynchuch" and the creation of a cycle of lyrical and patriotic poems are not only the pinnacle of creative activity, but also reflect the main life position of the author. The premiere of the opera took place in the early days of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Musa Jalil volunteers to go to the front. Before going to the front line, he studied at the courses of political workers in the small town of Menzelinsk. He ended up in the Second Shock Army, which fought on the Volkhov Front. Here he worked in the editorial office of the front-line newspaper "Otvaga". The wounded M. Jalil was taken prisoner in 1942. Being in fascist dungeons, he participates in the activities of an underground organization among prisoners of war, whose members led anti-fascist agitation in the Idel-Ural legion, for which in February 1944 the Second Imperial Court of Germany sentenced him, along with ten associates, to death. The verdict was carried out in Pletzensee prison on a guillotine on August 25, 1944, 12 hours 18 minutes. Being in captivity, “under the ax of a fascist ax,” Musa Jalil, condemned to death, managed to create a poetic cycle “Moabit Notebooks”, stunning in its poetic sound, which absorbed the centuries-old traditions of Tatar written literature, the influence of oriental poetry, motives of Tatar folklore, all world literature ... Musa Jalil fought against fascism, equating a feather to a bayonet.

Novozhilov Evgeny Vasilievich Novozhilov Evgeny Vasilievich (1922-1942), 1941-1942 - Chief Petty Officer, a graduate of the Black Sea Higher Naval Institute of Nakhimov. He disappeared without a trace in 1942.

Ozersky Israel Abramovich, Ozersky Israel Abramovich, born in 1904, in 1941-1942 - quartermaster of the 3rd rank, photojournalist of Independent Coastal Army.

Osintsev Petr Nikolaevich Osintsev Petr Nikolaevich, born in 1920, in 1941-1942 - Red Army soldier, rifleman from the 57th Artillery Regiment of the 95th Rifle Division of Independent Coastal Army.

Osipov Georgy Lukich Osipov Georgy Lukich (1922-1941), 1941-1942 - Chief Petty Officer of the Electromechanical School of the Training Detachment of the Black Sea Fleet. He died in December 1941 near Sevastopol.

Pavlikov Ivan Nikolaevich Pavlikov Ivan Nikolaevich, born in 1915, in 1941-1942 - Political instructor, political instructor of the Reconnaissance Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. For the December battles near Sevastopol he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Padalka Kirill Mikhailovich Padalka Kirill Mikhailovich, born in 1907, in 1941-1942 - Lieutenant, Platoon Commander of the 109th Rifle Division of Independent Coastal Army.

Petrenko Andrey Fedorovich Petrenko Andrey Fedorovich, born in 1921, 1941-1942 - Red Army soldier from the 1st Battalion of the 602nd Rifle Regiment 109 Rifle Division of Independent Coastal Army.

Petrenko Fedor Vasilievich Petrenko Fedor Vasilievich, 1941-1942 - Sergeant of the Motor Transport Company of the Motor Transport Units of Independent Coastal Army.