Faces of war

CITY: s. Vasilevo, Bronnitsky district, Moscow province DATE OF BIRTH: 10/21/1893 DATE OF DEATH: 02/09/1975 HISTORY: Since the first days of the war, Aborin S.V., holding the post of chairman of the Lotoshinsky District Council of Working People's Deputies, was engaged in the selection of places and equipping base camps for the partisan underground. Since September 1941 - by evacuation of people, pedigree livestock and material values. Since October 14, 1941 - a member of the headquarters of the Lotoshinsky partisan detachment. The detachment was stationed in a large forest in the northern part of the Lotoshinsky district and in the southern part of the Turginovsky district, now the Tver region. The partisans collected information about the deployment of the Germans in Lotoshino and Lotoshinsky district and transferred it to the 30th Army. Most of the combat operations of the partisan detachment took place on the Lotoshino-Mikulino road, because this road was of strategic importance for the Germans, in the Kalinin direction. According to the reports of the platoon commanders, the partisan detachment in 68 days destroyed more than 250 German soldiers and officers, 21 vehicles with ammunition, 4 buses with "manpower", 1 aircraft, 2 cars, 1 motorcycle. The bridge and 2 sheds with ammunition were blown up, about 500 m of the telephone cable was cut. Since February 17, 1942, Aborin Sergey Vasilyevich, as chairman of the Lotoshinsky District Council of Working People's Deputies, restored the Lotoshinsky District after the occupation. He got the most difficult period of post-war reconstruction of the area. Already in 1943, all the central services of the region moved to Lotoshino. Awards: - Order of the "Badge of Honor" of the Patriotic War, second degree. 1942 year. - Medal "For the Defense of Moscow". 1944 year. - Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. 1945 year. - medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." 1945 - medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." 1945 year. - Medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" of the second degree. 1947 year. - Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow". 1948 year. - Jubilee medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." 1965 year. - Order of the Red Star. 1967 year. - Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". 1967 year. - Jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. " 1970 year.

CITY: s. Kaintsas of the Sedelnikovsky district of the Omsk region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/07/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 06/12/2011 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 105th Infantry Division. Born on January 7, 1925 in the village of Kayentsas, Sedelnikovsky District, Omsk Region. Russian. Education - 4 classes. Drafted on January 20, 1943 by the Sedelnikovskiy Military Commissariat. After completing a 6-month machine gun school in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, with the rank of sergeant, he was sent to the 105th Infantry Division of the 1st Belorussian Front near the city of Pskov. He took part in the battles of Vitebsk, Mogilev, defended Lithuania, Latvia, went through East Prussia, participated in the assault on Konigsberg. Was wounded twice. He met victory in the hospital, healing the wounds received during the crossing of the Neman River. Demobilized from the army on October 22, 1945 with the rank of sergeant. Awards: Order of the Red Star, Order of the Great Patriotic War, 1st class, medal for the 100th anniversary of Marshal Zhukov, medal Veteran of Labor, anniversary medals. It was hard to establish post-war life. But life took its toll. In 1946, Vasily Ilyich met and fell in love with a young girl from his village, the beautiful Lukerya, who became his wife. We worked on a collective farm, lived hard, but amicably. In 1951, Vasily Ilyich went to work as a tractor driver. They arrived in Kazakhstan in 1965. We immediately settled in the Birliksky state farm. All the labor activity of Vasily Ilyich was associated with this village, where for many years, right up to retirement, he worked as a machine operator, making his contribution to the formation of a virgin loaf. For his work he has numerous thanks and certificates of honor. His name is included in the State Farm Labor Glory Book. His children, grandchildren and great-granddaughter were born and live here.

CITY: Serovka village, Kursk Region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 07/04/1988 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. Branch of the service: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 12th Guards Cavalry Don Korsun Cossack Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. Drafted to the front by the Kursk military registration and enlistment office in 1941, after an accelerated release from a military school. He came to the front with the rank of junior lieutenant in the 47th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 12th Guards Cavalry Division of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. He took part in the battles for Aga Batyr, he personally exterminated seven fascists and was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". It was there that on December 18 he was wounded and captured, but on the same day he managed to escape. He talked about how in the late afternoon a column of prisoners was stopped on the outskirts of a village near a well. As evening approached, the Nazis were in a hurry to take the prisoners away from the front line. Azeev and several other soldiers were near the haystack. They hid there. The Germans checked the stack with bayonets and left, fearing the approaching darkness. After waiting some more time, those who were hiding got out. It turned out that only two of the four survived. The second Red Army soldier left towards the front, and Azeev, after a severe concussion, felt very bad: his head was splitting from severe pain, and there was a continuous hum in his ears. He decided to sit out the night and look for his own in the morning. After some time, an elderly woman approached the well. Seeing the soldier, she said that there were no Germans in the village, and promised to return and pick him up. Soon she came with a wheelbarrow, put him there, covered him with brushwood and brought him home. She wanted to help the fighter, because all her relatives were at the front. A few days later he felt better, thanked the hostess and went to the front line. After this incident, in the lists of the unit, he was listed as missing, and a funeral came home to the Kursk region, in which the parents were informed that Azeev A. Ya. 1920, lieutenant of the 12th Guards Cavalry Division, died on 12/18/1942, was buried in the Ordzhonikidze region, Kursk region, Dydymkin farm. He returned to his unit, participated in the Soviet offensive in the North Caucasus, his division made an invaluable contribution to the liberation of Stavropol, Kuban and Don. The 12th Guards Cossack Cavalry Division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Alexander Yakovlevich, guard lieutenant, engineer platoon commander was presented for the award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for the battles near the village of Valyava, where with his platoon he repulsed the enemy counterattack and destroyed up to 30 Germans, and in the Novo-Buda region he repulsed the enemy counterattack and 60 fascists, near the village of Pochapintsy, together with a platoon, destroyed 150 enemies and personally killed 9 fascists. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. A very important event in his life is associated with this order. In January-February 1944, they smashed a strong enemy grouping surrounded by our troops in the Korsun-Shevchenkovsky area. The corps took part in the Jassy-Kishinev operation of 1944, surrounded and liquidated in the Chisinau region of 22 enemy divisions. There, performing a combat mission, the guard senior lieutenant Azeev A.Ya. went into reconnaissance. Having successfully completed the mission, the scouts returned to the location of their unit, but came under fire. On June 7, 1944, Azeev received a multi-splinter wound of his hand, was being treated in evacuation hospital No. 2470 in the city of Baku, and was declared unfit for military service. The left hand could not be saved. Numerous fragments shattered the bone and had to be amputated.

CITY: Buinaksk DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 02/11/1972 HISTORY: Title: Captain. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Division: 109th Panzer Division. Akhmed-Pasha Abdusalamovich Abdulaev. Akhmedpasha was born in Temir-khan-Shura (the current name of Buinaksk) in 1915 in the family of a teacher. In 1938 he was drafted into the army, and he ended up serving in the 2nd separate Far Eastern army. Here, after completing the course of a young soldier, he was appointed commander of the 35th rifle squad, 12th rifle division. He was very fond of the service, especially field shooting, crosses. He always tried to keep his squad among the best in a company or battalion. But two intense and intense years of service passed, and in January 1940 Akhmed Pasha was transferred to the reserve from the city of Blagoveshchensk. Three days later, after arriving home, he began his studies at the Dagestan Pedagogical Institute, from where he joined the army in April 1938. After a year and a half, the war began. Among the thousands and thousands of young people who besieged the military registration and enlistment offices of their cities, there was also Ahmed Pasha. The institute decided to give graduates the opportunity to pass exams ahead of schedule. A graduate of the Pedagogical Institute, Abdulaev Akhmed-Pasha, was called up and sent to the Stalingrad region as a cadet of the Kamyshin Tank School. After graduating from college, in September 1942, he was appointed commander, who had already managed to demonstrate his excellent tactical and technical qualities of the famous T-34 tank 109 tank brigade of the 16th tank corps of the Stalingrad front. In the autumn-winter period of 1942, there were very heavy defensive battles near Stalingrad, where our fellow countryman Akhmed-Pasha Abdulaev with all the defenders courageously and bravely led his tank to the enemy's position. The Germans also stubbornly moved forward, they were not stopped by their own large losses in manpower and equipment. In one of the battles, in the area of ​​the Vertyachy farm, on November 24, 1942, A. Abdulaev's tank was hit and began to burn, then the commander ordered the crew to leave the car. Helping each other, the tankers got out of the burning tank, but they failed to save the driver - he died, and the commander was concussed, he ended up in EG No. 1676 in Saratov. After being discharged from the hospital in January 1943, for health reasons, he was appointed commander of the commandant tank platoon of the 114th tank battalion. As part of his battalion, he took an active part in many battles, as well as in the famous tank battle near Prokhorovka on the Kursk Bulge. In October 1943, senior lieutenant A. Abdulaev was appointed chief of staff of a tank-repair battalion. Often, his rembat had to not only "treat" tanks, but also to participate in hostilities. With battles, our tankers advanced to the West, inflicting damage on the enemy and paving the way for our infantrymen. Heavy and intense battles were fought in Germany. Paving the way for themselves and the infantry with fire and caterpillars, they approached the outskirts of Berlin. It was not easy here for the tank rembat Abdulaev A. On April 28, 1945, a few days before the victory, Akhmed-Pasha was seriously wounded. But after treatment, he still had to serve in the army for some time as a senior adjutant of the 114th separate tank battalion of the first Ukrainian front. Akhmed-Pasha Abdusalamovich Abdulaev demobilized on September 6, 1946. The captain's chest was decorated with the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and the Order of the Red Star; medals "For Courage", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany"; his combat path was marked by many thanks of the Supreme Command Comrade. I. Stalin. Akhmed-Pasha Abdusalamovich Abdulaev worked at the Buinak Pedagogical School until February 11, 1972, when his heart suddenly stopped right at the workplace. Everyone who worked with him respected him as an excellent, fair and demanding teacher. He was a strong mathematician and strove to give his students as much knowledge as possible. The veteran was buried in his native Buinaksk. You can see the detailed military path on the Memory of the People website: https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/podvig-chelovek_kartoteka1009384437/.

CITY: Borisovo village, Valuisky district of Voronezh province DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1906 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant. Awards: commemorative medals - "20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.", "40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; medal - "One hundred years since the birth of V. I. Lenin"; medal - "Veteran of Labor". By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 11, 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. He took part in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany on the Voronezh, Bryansk and second Ukrainian fronts. From an early age he began to help his father with the housework. In 1917 he graduated from a rural elementary school, after which he began working with his father in his household. In 1920 the family became a member of the Krasnaya Zvezda agricultural commune; in this agricultural commune, and later agricultural artel, he worked as an ordinary worker until 1925. From January 1923 to June 1925, Arseny Fedorovich worked as the secretary of the Nasonovskaya rural cell, first of the Russian Ypung Communist League, and from 1924, after the renaming of the Komsomol organization - Komsomol. From January 1930 to July 1935 A.F. Avilov was a student at the Moscow Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture. After the distribution, A.F. Avilov worked as a senior mechanic at the Veidelevskaya MTS of the Voronezh Region, then was transferred to work as the director of the Rzhaksy interdistrict overhaul workshop, where he worked until October 1937. On October 3, 1937, he was arrested and charged under Article 58, paragraphs 7 and 11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. Was under investigation in the Voronezh prison for 2 years, 2 months and 6 days. On December 9, 1939, at the court session of the Voronezh regional collegium of the court, he was acquitted by the court and released from custody. The Tambov regional party committee restored his rights as a member of the CPSU. After returning to his family, A.F. Avilov worked as a physics teacher at the Budennovsk secondary school and a teacher at the Budennovsk agricultural college. On July 14, 1942, he was seriously wounded at the front near Voronezh. He was treated in a military hospital in the city of Ranenbaum, Ryazan region until October 1, 1942. After recovering, he was again sent to the front. Being retired, A.F. Avilov took an active part in the social life of the village, for many years he was the chairman of the village comrades' court and was repeatedly elected a people's assessor of the Krasnogvardeisky district court. He died in June 1988.

CITY: ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 08/17/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 05/03/1987 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. Harutyunyan Senik Srapovich was born in 1910 in Armenia. In a peasant family of 8 people. Senik was the middle son. Educated 6 classes. After the revolution, he began to work on a collective farm, was a Komsomol member, and took part in collectivization. When the Second World War began, all the sons were called to the front. Great-grandfather fought on the southern front in the Crimea. In 1942 in March he was captured in the camp of the city of Zhitomir. In September 1942 he organized an escape from the camp. 8 people escaped with him. Having organized an escape from the German camp, my great-grandfather Senik Srapovich fought in the detachment named after Chapaev as part of the partisan unit of Yu.I. Melnikov, who operated on the territory of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. A group of 5 partisans, operating on the Novgorod-Volynsk-Zhitomir highway, destroyed 1 and captured 2 German cars. And on the night of March 1944, partisans attacked a railway bridge, killing 50 enemy soldiers. Returning to the partisan base, the saboteurs mined the railroad bed, as a result of which the train with the enemy's manpower derailed. The partisan detachment of my great-grandfather had a connection with the patrol organization led by G.S. Protosevich. Thanks to the underground, a printing house appeared in the partisan detachment. The leaflets contained messages from the Soviet Information Bureau and poems by Soviet poets. Together with the underground workers, the Chapaev partisan detachment carried out a very large sabotage, - recalls the great-grandfather. In the spring of 1943, at the Stanishevka station, a group of partisans set fire to tanks with gasoline and made a collision of 2 enemy echelons. 14 wagons with ammunition and 2 steam locomotives were destroyed. The movement was restored only after a week. On another occasion, the partisans learned that the Zhitomir commissar general Leizer issued an order dated April 17, 1943 on "Total mobilization", that is, on the hijacking of labor to Germany from Zhitomir. The partisans carried out a very daring operation and saved 7,800 people from theft. In late 1943 - early 1944, the Red Army started fighting in Zhitomir, and the Nazis were soon driven out. Her actions were greatly facilitated by the struggle of the partisans. At the call of the Motherland, at the behest of conscience, the partisans rose to mortal combat with the invaders and made a worthy contribution to the achievement of the great Victory. Until 1944, Senik remained in the partisan detachment, until Ukraine was liberated from the Nazi invaders. Since 1944 he served in the field army "First Ukrainian Front". My great-grandfather came to Berlin. In 1945 he was demobilized. Upon arrival home, he continued to work on the collective farm. Military awards, medals, photos and documents of that time are carefully kept in the family archive. Harutyunyan Senik Srapovich was awarded: - "Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree"; - Medal "For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945"; The victorious spring of 1945 was brought by our soldiers, such as my great-grandfathers!

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/23/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 01/09/2017 HISTORY: WWII veteran Azirashvili Sergo, despite his advanced age, was a very athletic person with an active lifestyle. I met him in 2016, when our organization, the Anti-Fascist Coalition of Multinational Georgia, of which I am president, was giving gifts to veterans of the Great Patriotic War. He immediately offered his help in any business, as he really liked the activities of our organization. After that, our paths crossed repeatedly and each time he offered his help. On June 19, 2016, our organization sent WWII veterans to the resort of Tskaltubo (Georgia) for health rehabilitation. Azirashvili Sergo went with his neighbor, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, 93-year-old Mariam Arzumanova. The veteran benefited from the rest at the resort - his energy increased and his health improved. On January 7, 2017, within the framework of the annual action "Days of Mercy", which takes place from January 2 to January 14, 2017, our organization and the "National Congress of Slavic Peoples of Georgia", represented by the President of the Congress Lika Zakharova, invited the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and gave them gifts and medicines. Sergo Azirashvili was also present at this action. On that day, he was full of energy and was going to meet with representatives of the ruling party in the near future and make his proposals to improve the living standards of WWII veterans. He was full of emotions and ideas ... On January 10, the relatives of Azirashvili Sergo contacted us and said that our veteran on January 9, in the evening, went out for a walk and buy himself the necessary medicines. When crossing the road, he got into an accident - he was hit by a trailer. The trailer driver did not notice Sergo crossing the road and knocked him down at full speed. Our veteran did not die immediately. His physical condition gave him the strength to get into the ambulance himself, which took him to the nearest hospital. But the blow was so strong that our veteran died from a profuse internal hemorrhage, not having reached a few hundred meters to the hospital. This is how the life of one of the few remaining veterans of the Second World War ended (according to the information of the Department of Veterans) in Georgia ...

Rank: Red Navy. Type of troops: signal troops. Northern Fleet communications service radio operator. In June 1942, she volunteered for the signal troops of the Northern Fleet. Place of service: 516 communications center of the Northern Fleet. From the well-known dates of the formation of the Northern Military Flotilla: June 1, 1933 and the arrival of the first detachment of ships in the Arctic Circle - August 5, 1933, the events for the equipment of the Kola coast took place with amazing enthusiasm, characteristic of all our people - the creator of the 30s. May 19, 1933 is considered the day of creation of the Northern Fleet Communication Service. During the year, the first stage of observation and communication posts was deployed on the Kola coast, a communication center for the flotilla and the Kola region of the Observation and Communication Service (SNiS) was equipped. The number of naval personnel and coastal troops grew rapidly, the geography of their basing and use expanded, and the tasks of the Northern Flotilla became more complicated. In 1937, the flotilla was reorganized into the Northern Fleet, within which, in the summer of 1938, an observation and communications department was created under the leadership of Nikolai Ivanovich Tsvetkov. In the pre-war years, its other leaders made a great contribution to the creation and development of SNiS SF: V. Shchennikov, B. Krasnoselsky, N. Leontiev. Thanks to the selfless labor of the fleet's signalmen, by 1941 the SNIS service of the fleet was able to solve not only training, but also combat missions to ensure command and control of forces and troops. Vera Anatolyevna, a radio operator, came to the Northern Fleet as a young girl. She and other girls were taught in a training group in Solovki, then in the city of Kem. Subsequently, a detachment of radio operators (8 girls) worked in Olenyaya Guba and in the city of Polyarny. In 1943 they were transferred to the fishing village of Mishukovo. The radio operator Rukhlova (Khabarova) still remembers his comrades - V. Zabuldashkin, Kimolton, A. Dmitriev. During the Great Patriotic War, signalmen provided control of submarines, surface ships and aircraft in combat operations to disrupt enemy transport operations, to protect their communications, when escorting allied convoys, in organizing amphibious and antiamphibious operations on the Kola coast. The largest final event in the Northern Fleet's combat activities was the Petsamo-Kirkineskaya operation (Operation West), during which the forces of the fleet together with the troops of the Karelian Front in October 1944 liberated the Soviet Arctic from the Nazi invaders. For the successful conduct of the operation, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief IV Stalin, the communications officers of the Northern Fleet were commended. Currently, Vera Anatolyevna lives with her husband, Sergey Andreevich Khabarov, in Moscow.

Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Artillery I would like to tell a little about my stepfather's grandfather, Alexei Antonovich Khavalkin, born on March 30, 1917. He was born and lived in Tula. He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in September 1938 and ended up in the 12th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (stationed in the city of Kalinin, now the city of Tver), as a forging blacksmith. At that time, the army widely used horses as a draft force, and howitzers in artillery regiments were transported by horses. The duties of Alexei Antonovich included horseshoeing and repairing artillery equipment. He did not manage to demobilize at the end of his military service, the war began. And their regiment in July 1941 was transferred to Belarus on the border. The Germans advanced quickly, despite fierce resistance, and soon some were bombed, and the remaining soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. During the war, Alexey Antonovich visited three Prisoners of war camps on the territory of Belarus. Several times he and his comrades tried to escape, but they were caught up with the dogs, beaten and returned back to the camp. When our troops launched an offensive in Belarus, the prisoners were taken to Norway on the island of Spitsbergen. With the offensive of the allied forces, the Germans, before retreating, destroyed the prisoners, taking them out to sea on barges - they drowned them. Alexei Antonovich was lucky, they were rescued by an English assault landing on the island. Alexey Antonovich stayed in the "death camps" from July 1941 to May 1945. Then my grandfather was kept in a check-up camp for former prisoners of war near Kaluga, and later in the town of Uzlov, Tula region. And only in 1948, after all the checks, he was unconvoyed and finally released. Cadet of the Pervomaiskaya cadet school of the Tula region, Shchyokinsky district 7 "G" class Timofeev Egor

Rank: Junior sergeant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Subdivision: 3rd Tank Red Banner Division Nikolai Pavlovich Kharlov, born on 04/09/1919, native of the village of Nizhnyaya Sinyachikha, Alapaevsky district, Sverdlovsk region. Drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, in the fall of 1940, by the Alapaevsk military enlistment office. The beginning of World War II Kharlov N.P., met in the military units of the South-Western Front, on the Polish border. Southwestern Front (formed on June 22, 1941 on the basis of the Kiev Special Military District). In January 1942, the South-Western Front, together with the troops of the Southern Front, carried out the Barvenkovsko-Lozovskaya operation of 1942, during which its troops, advancing 100 km, captured a major bridgehead on the right bank of the Seversky Donets. The 3rd Tank Army was formed in May 1942 in the Moscow Military District on the basis of the 58th Army, and was directly subordinate to the Supreme Command Headquarters. Further service of the Red Army soldier Kharlov N.P., continued in the anti-aircraft - machine gun company, 52nd Guards Tank Fastov Order of Lenin, twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Brigade. From the Lyutezhsky bridgehead, a tank brigade broke through to the rear of the enemy and cut the Kiev-Zhitomir road, creating a threat to encircle the Nazis in Kiev, occupies Fastov, which was one of the most important railway junctions on the Right Bank of Ukraine. In January 1945, the 3rd Guards Tank Army attacked the enemy in the direction of the Oder, forced it and transferred the hostilities to the territory of Germany. Kharlov N.P., after a long illness, died on March 11, 1992, and was buried in the cemetery of Alapaevsk.

Yakov Nikitovich was drafted into the Red Army on 09/19/1939 by the Ukhtomsky RVK of the Moscow Region. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from 06/26/1941. Served with the rank of Guard Senior Sergeant in the 64th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 31st Guards Rifle Vitebsk Order of Lenin, Red Banner Order of Suvorov, Division of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Being the driver of the 2nd division of the regiment, reliably and in a timely manner, regardless of the enemy's fire effect, he ensured the transportation of artillery and the supply of ammunition to the regiment's field guns. He was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the fact that on July 16, 1944 he participated in the crossing of the Neman River by a vehicle with a gun and ammunition under heavy enemy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, successfully completed the assigned combat missions, which contributed to the rapid deployment of the battalion and the success in holding a springboard against the German invaders. The breakthroughs of the Red Army in 1944 were so rapid that individual units and formations penetrated deeply into the enemy's defenses, while their rear and communications were threatened by the retreating, but not yet defeated enemy. In such conditions, the work of supply columns of military units became especially dangerous, the paths of which could be cut by the infantry and motorized units of the Wehrmacht, which emerged from the "fog of war". Such an incident occurred in the autumn battles of 1944 in East Prussia with the guard senior sergeant Ya.N. Isaev. While on a voyage with ammunition, the vehicles were attacked by a group of eight German infantrymen. An experienced guard senior sergeant vigorously took the battle and personally destroyed two infantrymen with fire from a carbine, and then crushed two more with a car. On that day, the ammunition arrived safely and on time at the firing position of the artillery battery. For the shown steadfastness, courage, personal courage and valor, Ya.N. Isaev 18.11.1944 was awarded the Order of the Red Star. The famous guards division, in which Yakov Nikitovich served, completed its combat path in East Prussia, seizing Konigsberg and Pillau (now Kaliningrad and Baltiysk, Russia) by storm, where it met the day on May 9, 1945

In the fall of 1941, like many of his peers and fellow villagers, Dmitry Iosifovich Izotov volunteered for the front. The military commissariat was sent to the Tambov Military Cavalry Red Banner School named after the 1st Cavalry Army for training on accelerated officer courses - the front needed young command personnel. Grandfather received the rank of lieutenant of the Red Army at the end of November 1942 and was immediately sent to the active army. He often recalled this day - it was frosty, it was snowing thickly, all the cadets of the school were gathered on the parade ground, and the head of the school, reading out the names of the cadets in a commanding voice, handed them new officer shoulder straps and announced the place of departure. Each anxiously awaited his name, and now it sounds: IZOTOV - Stalingrad Front. As you know, it was in this direction that one of the most fierce battles of the Great Patriotic War unfolded. Grandfather commanded a cavalry platoon of the 227th Cavalry Regiment of the 81st Cavalry Division, which was part of the 4th Cavalry Corps. The battle of Kotelnikovo (December 1942) became his baptism of fire for him. On December 4, the enemy began heavy artillery fire, 150 tanks of the Nazis attacked the 81st cavalry division in the Pokhlebin area. By the middle of the day, the division was completely surrounded, a "cauldron" was formed. The cavalrymen fought throughout the day and with the onset of darkness began to break through the encirclement. The division commander and chief of staff were killed. At Kotelnikovo, my grandfather was wounded and contused. For participation in the Battle of Stalingrad he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War and the Order of the Red Star. After treatment in a hospital (city of Azov, Rostov region), he returned to the front, where, as a commander of a saber platoon, he trained officers and equestrian personnel for the Red Army. The award list prepared by the commander of the 6th reserve cavalry regiment for awarding the grandfather with the medal "For Military Merit" says: "leith. During his stay in the unit, IZOTOV prepared and sent five marching platoons to the active army, the horse platoon is in excellent condition. " The grandfather treated the horses on which he spent the entire war with special love. Here is just one fact - during the long railway crossing, during which he commanded a troop transporting horses for the front from Kalmykia, not a single horse fell; moreover, according to the results of control weighing, they also gained weight. Grandfather always said: "You can be undernourished, but the horse must always be watered and fed."

Alexander Vasilyevich Ilyin, just in the year of the Olympics in Moscow in 1980, became the head of the Moscow-passenger-Kievskaya station. He had not only to prepare his facility for receiving guests, but to reconstruct the Kievsky railway station - the main railway gate of the Olympic capital. But if everything was clear with the interiors and the painting of the halls, then the reconstruction of the huge arched landing stage became a real challenge for all participants. Only a few months remained before the start of the sports games, and from the passenger platform of the station overhead one could see the thin steel bindings of the arches, and then the clear sky. The landing stage did not have a roof. And any of the commissions that checked the progress of construction work could be the last in the career of the station chief. Alexander Vasilyevich experienced such a nagging anxiety at the sight of a clear sky only in his distant childhood. During the Great Patriotic War, Sasha Ilyin remembered every day of the month when his native Maloyaroslavets was occupied by the Germans. The occupants who settled in their house did not particularly annoy - they sat at the same table, and the Germans treated the boy to chocolates. But every minute he knew why they were here - there was a Wehrmacht anti-aircraft unit in the village. As soon as a small plane with red stars appeared over their houses - a snub-nosed I-16 fighter or a beautiful but clumsy LaGG-3 - the Germans opened fire and almost always got hit. With tears, residents watched the burning airplanes. When our attack aircraft or bombers arrived, my heart sank again. Now they will give heat - the Germans will get it, and theirs too. He also remembered the constant hunger. Therefore, the boy had no other dream than to enter the railway technical school after the 7th grade. They were fed there. Ilyin graduated from the Moscow technical school with a degree in railway operation, and in 1948 he went to the Kuzbass for distribution. He worked as a duty, shunting dispatcher at the station Usyaty (now Prokopyevsk). The miners' region sent coal in a stream to the blast furnaces of Magnitka, Nizhny Tagil. It was shipped up to 1000 wagons per day. And after graduating from the Novosibirsk Institute of Railway Transport, he, already an experienced mover, nevertheless asked for a transfer closer to his father's house and ended up first in his native Aprelevka, and then at the Vnukovo station. Here, in front of the watchman on duty in 1956-1957, a change of railway eras took place. The last steam locomotives in suburban traffic replaced the first trains on the Kiev direction. Then he worked at the station Moscow-sorting-Kievskaya and as deputy head of the road department. But a real, big deal awaited him when he returned to his native section of the railway. He, the head of the Moscow-passenger-Kievskaya station, had to implement all the plans for the reconstruction of the station for the Olympics. For two months we worked together, with passion. The construction headquarters was located in the office of the station chief, and operational information also flocked there. And suddenly in April there was silence - a day, two, a week ... there are no cars with shields from Ivano-Frankivsk. Editing stopped, the news of the state of emergency quickly reached Secretary General Leonid Brezhnev. It turned out that glass ran out in Dzerzhinsk due to the fault of big politics. The plant rolled plexiglass sheet from raw materials supplied by West Germany. It was it that fell under the economic sanctions against the USSR after the introduction of its troops into Afghanistan. While our specialists were looking for a recipe for their own coating, Ilyin, at his own peril and risk, decided to put on a batch of red shields obtained as prototypes. There were 400 of them in total. Alexander Vasilyevich was the first to sign the changes in the project. The red shields were enough to cover the center and two side lines. When a new coating appeared in time - cloudy, yellowish, with bubbles, they began to put it on. In May-June, the work was completed, but then an article suddenly appeared in Komsomolskaya Pravda, and then the city newspapers echoed: "Ruby Faces of the Landing Cage". After the unanimous assessment of the press that the concept with the lines of red glass was great, the initiators breathed a sigh of relief. Alexander Ilyin remembered the date of the beginning and closing of the 1980 Olympics for the rest of his life - these were the days of the highest tension. “Political and sports commentators have repeatedly repeated the number of participating countries and sports delegations who have arrived in Moscow,” he says. “But I remember the number 52 - so many delegations from different countries passed through the Kievsky railway station”. They arrived through the western borders of the USSR, most of the athletes from African countries came to our country through Odessa, and then by train to Moscow. “Our carriage sections worked around the clock,” says Alexander Vasilyevich. - The meeting of delegations was worked out to the smallest detail, and the preparation of rolling stock for these transportation was organized. None of the station's staff, which is 1200 people, did not need to be forced to work with full dedication. “The mood we lived in at that time,” says Alexander Vasilievich, “can be called calm confidence in the correctness of what we are doing.And the reviews about the work of the railway workers were only positive. " Among the memorial signs of that time for Alexander Vasilyevich, one of the main ones was “To the Honorary Railwayman”. When we talk about Olympic athletes, we do not hesitate to say the words "sports feat". Those who prepared the Olympics were also ready for a feat, albeit not so noticeable.

the village of Emurtla. He died in 1989. From the memoirs: “I went to serve in the regular army in 1932. When he was leaving, my father told me: "If there is a war with Germany, then avenge for me, but don't surrender!" He fought in 1914. with German troops, was captured and spent 2 years there, and at the end of 1916 fled. I knew all the difficulties of being in captivity not by hearsay, so he told me so. He served in the Far East in the railway regiment in the city of Svobodny. After the service he lived in the village. Masali, worked as a driver on a collective farm. When the Great Patriotic War began, from the first day he got to the Far East in the Khabarovsk District. In 1942 ended up at the front near Kursk as part of the Ussuri division of the NKVD border troops. When we passed the city of Kursk, we saw a large ashes. Local residents who survived said that the Nazis drove women, old people, children into the barn, closed them, doused them with gasoline and burned them. We had to fight off many attacks. In 1943. During the battle, I was wounded in both legs and was treated in a hospital in the city of Bogoruslan, Kuibyshev region for more than three months. After the hospital he went to Bryansk, in the infantry. They liberated the cities of Bryansk, Gomel, Nezhensk. We reached Minsk, where the reorganization took place. I became a chauffeur. Their army was transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front. We arrived in Rovno, and from there we went to Poland. I worked in trucks at the division headquarters. " On the morning of July 11, 1944. I accompanied the division commander and the colonel in a truck with security and boxes with valuable documents. We drove around the divisions, and when they began to return, we got lost in the forest. We drove straight to the rear to the Nazis. The German infantry was asleep, and when they woke up, they rushed to run. Then they came to their senses and started shooting. There was a rye field nearby. The car with the commanders drove into the rye, and I remained in the clearing. I began to turn around, but the soldiers yelled at me to stop. They jumped up and ran into the rye. I had a reconnaissance major in my cockpit, he also jumped out. I was left alone and the Germans decided to take me prisoner. And then I remembered the words of my father: "Do not surrender alive!" I could not leave the car, because it contained secret documents. I took the machine gun, sat behind the wheel and started shooting back, then jumped into the car, and when it started, a bullet hit my shoulder. I could not go and fell out of the cab. I tried to get into the car again, but my head was so dizzy that I could not even get into it. I crawled to the nearest hollow, where our soldiers picked me up. I lost a lot of blood, I was out of memory. But he managed to warn that there were important documents in the car. After this incident, I went to the hospital, stayed there for 4 months, after which I was sent to the rear. I could no longer fight because of my injury, so I was sent to the Labor Army. The division in which I fought was not far away and I volunteered to return to duty. They gave me my old car again, it was all punctured. I fought on it in Poland, in Germany. He finished the war in Breslavl. I was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Courage. Received gratitude for the capture of the city of Breslavl and for the crossing of the Oder. " After the war he lived in the village of Yemurtlinsky, worked as a driver at the state farm "Yemurtlinsky". Buried in the village Emurtla.

Ivanov Evgeny Nilovich - Hero of the Soviet Union, squadron commander of the 999th assault aviation regiment of the 277th assault aviation division of the 13th air army of the Leningrad Front, captain. Born on February 26, 1921 in the village of Lysva in the Perm district of the Perm province (now the city of Lysva in the Perm region), in a working class family. He graduated from Lysvenskaya school № 1. After school in 1936 he entered the flight school, but did not go through age. In 1939 he graduated with honors from the Perm Medical Assistant and Obstetric School and completed a training course at the local flying club. In December 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. In 1940 he graduated from the Perm Military Pilot School and was assigned to the combat unit with the rank of junior lieutenant. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since May 1943. He fought as part of the 999th Assault Aviation Regiment on the Leningrad Front. He took part in the battles for the liberation of the Baltic States, fought in East Prussia. He went from an ordinary pilot to a navigator of the regiment. In one of the sorties in the summer of 1943, he was wounded, held out the downed Il-2 to his territory and landed. He woke up in the hospital and only after 4 months he returned to the regiment. In February 1944 he became squadron commander. Member of the CPSU since 1944. The squadron commander of the 999th assault aviation regiment, Captain Ivanov, from July 18, 1943 to September 22, 1944, flew 119 sorties, of which 102 were for ground attack and 17 for reconnaissance of the enemy. Destroyed and damaged about 150 field and anti-aircraft artillery guns, 59 cars, 14 steam locomotives, 18 railway cars, 5 aircraft, 14 bunkers, 5 heavy artillery guns that fired at Leningrad. Ivanov's squadron only from February 1 to September 22, 1944, flew 615 sorties to attack enemy troops and facilities. Presenting Captain Ivanov for the highest award in September 1944, the regiment commander wrote: “Ivanov's skillful assault actions are widely known to the troops of the Leningrad Front, whose offensive operations he perfectly covered from the air. They are also known to the inhabitants of the city of Leningrad, whose lives he saved in the harsh days of the blockade. " By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 23, 1945, Captain Ivanov Yevgeny Nilovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the exemplary performance of command assignments and for the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard. The hero did not have time to receive the well-deserved reward. On March 19, 1945, in the area of ​​the city of Wormditt (now the city of Orneta in Poland), the navigator of the regiment, Captain Ivanov, rammed, directing the burning plane to the enemy's mortar battery. Three days later, the city was occupied by Soviet troops. The remains of the Hero of the Soviet Union Yevgeny Ivanov and the gunner-radio operator Korolev were buried on the outskirts of the city of Vormditt (Ornet). Later he was reburied in the Polish town of Braniewo (Elblonska Street, Grave No. 9) in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, the Orders of Suvorov III degree, the Patriotic War I and II degrees, the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".