Faces of war

My great-grandfather, Yegor Ignatiev, was born on December 9, 1917 in the village Milukhino Bezhanitsky Velikoluksky district. At the age of 10, he and his family moved to the village. Novonikolskoe, Dzerzhinsky district, Krasnoyarsk Territory. After finishing school in grade 7, great-grandfather goes to work in a rural grocery store. When the war began, he called all the men in the village and told them: "Take everything you need in the store!" And since July 1941, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Red Army. The war found him as a grown man, 24 years old. He was sent to military unit №66476 by the foreman of the medical service. The combat path of the great-great-grandfather began on 08/30/1941. Egor Kondratyevich traveled the hard glorious path from Moscow to Konigsberg. And all the time he was at the front, in battles with the German invaders. He was badly wounded three times and awarded four government awards. Working as a senior clerk of the company, during the offensive on the Konigsberg direction in conditions of a constant mobile unit, he ensured the strictest accounting and safety of food and all property of the unit, as a result of which the slightest losses and theft of trophy and army valuables were prevented. He remembered many battles. But he especially remembered the battle at Yelnya. Collapse of Operation Typhoon. “Tears come out in my eyes, a lump rolls up my throat when I think about the late autumn of 1941. The bitterness of defeat, experienced in the days when a brown plague was approaching the capital along the roads of the Smolensk region, the Kalinin land, the Moscow region broken by the wheels of caterpillars. Black crosses on the turrets of tanks and the sides of cars, white skulls on the sleeves of uniforms. The time is anxious and formidable. After all, the enemy threatened our capital. It was then that I, a young Siberian boy, who had worked as a salesman in a rural store before military service, received my baptism of fire. The unit fought defensive battles along Yelnya. Here the Nazis felt what the steadfastness of a Russian soldier was, they felt the strength of our bayonet. But the forces were still unequal ... The sky was covered with smoke, black-brown clouds covered the sun. Fields, roadsides - all in craters. Mournfully rustle in the wind, as if mourning the fallen, birches and aspens. The enemy did not spare anyone - neither women, nor children, nor old people. Shoulder to shoulder with us fought the soldiers who came out of the encirclement. They told more than once about the horrors they experienced. And we took revenge. Batteries of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns stood in the way of the enemy's armored armadas. They beat them with direct fire to hit the enemy for sure, to delay him. Where there were no guns, mobile detachments of tank destroyers appeared. Demolitions and sappers. They will drive up in a lorry, or even on ordinary horse-drawn carts, set mines, hedgehogs. And often brave Red Army men, armed only with grenades or Molotov cocktails, entered into single combat with the “tigers”. They did not spare themselves, did not take care, if only the enemy did not come up. Until the last bullet, to the last drop of blood, they fought on the outskirts of the capital. In one of the battles I was wounded. After returning from the hospital, I took part in the release of Klin. Words cannot convey that joy. After all, we drove the enemy to the west. So the ominous operation codenamed Typhoon was thwarted. Acting according to this plan, the Nazis tried to seize Moscow, but suffered a severe defeat. With a sense of pride, I now remember my fellow soldiers, participants in the Battle of Moscow, one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. ... We again walked on the Smolensk land, familiar from the autumn of 1941. Now to the west. " E. Ignatiev Great-grandfather was awarded 4 government awards. Among them is the most honorable medal "For Courage". Great-grandfather was also awarded medals "For the Defense of Moscow", "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the war, he was awarded jubilee medals and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. After the war, on October 31, 1945, he returned to his home, where his mother, father and family greeted him. And in November 1945 he married Ekaterina Vasilievna Ignatieva. They lived their whole lives together. Graduated from evening school. He worked as a seller, was the director of a food processing plant, organized agricultural supplies, then he was transferred to the regional party committee as an instructor. Yegor Kondratyevich died on 15.01. 2002.

Born in the Maly Bakhtai ulus, Alarsky district of Irkutsk region. Drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in October 1940. He served in the east in the cavalry. He graduated from the regimental school. In January 1942, as part of a newly formed volunteer regiment, he arrived near Moscow to replenish the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps. As part of the Corps, he reached the town of Sukhinichi, Kaluga Region, where he was wounded and ended up in a field hospital in the town of Aleksin, Tula Region. In December 1942 he was sent to the Novocherkassk Cavalry School (Podolsk). In January 1944 he graduated from college with the rank of junior lieutenant. Shoulder straps were presented by Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny. In February 1944 he was sent to the 15th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Guards Cavalry Division of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps. He passed as part of the Corps, in the position of commander of a saber platoon, through the Pinsk swamps, through Poland, to Germany. In April 1945, they met with American troops on the Elbe River. And in May 1945 they met the long-awaited Victory. Awards: Three Orders of the Red Star, Order of the Battle Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; Medals: "For military services", "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.", In peacetime was awarded the medal "Veteran of Labor". Received the Order of the Red Banner for the feat accomplished in the battles for the city of Bromberg, then he personally destroyed 10 German soldiers and took three prisoners. Under the city of Feneburg, under his leadership, an enemy observation post was destroyed. He killed up to 20 Germans with a platoon near the village of Mirenzey and took 4 prisoners. He received the Order of the Red Star for a feat: he burst into the enemy's location, captured one prisoner with valuable documents and personally destroyed four German soldiers from his weapons. In the battles for the village, Noy, with his platoon, destroyed 3 enemy firing points and 10 German soldiers. At the village, Bredikov repelled 2 enemy counterattacks, destroying up to 30 soldiers, personally annihilated one officer and 5 enemy soldiers. After the end of the war, he served in mechanized, tank and motorized rifle units in the town of Gvardeysk, Kaliningrad Region. In July 1960 he was dismissed from the ranks of the Soviet Army with the rank of captain. Since September 1960 he lived in the mountains. Angarsk, Irkutsk region. He worked at the production association "Angarsknefteorgsintez". In 1971 he retired, but continued to work at the SRSU. He died on April 21, 2009. Buried in the cemetery of Angarsk.

Isakov Oleg Andreevich - my grandfather Born on July 25, 1925 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR. By the beginning of the war, my grandfather was 16 years old - this was not a draft age. The elder brother went to the front and disappeared without a trace. The Isakovs' grandfather's family (parents, brothers and sister) lived in Kazakhstan. In those years it was Kaz SSR, Karaganda region, Dolinka village. Was called up for military service in 1943, Karaganda Military Commissariat. Graduated from the Krasnodar Artillery and Mortar School, Kushka. He fought during the war, consisting of: 298 mines 35 minbr 31 Aerodrom Control RGK 60 A. (Ukrainian Front - Poland - Germany - Czechoslovakia - Hungary). 01/12/1945 accomplished a feat, for which he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Then he was in the rank of ml. lieutenant. According to the documents: on January 12, 1945, during the actions of the forward reconnaissance battalion, being in the front lines of the infantry, by his skillful action in controlling the battery fire, he ensured the capture of the front lines of the enemy trenches. He showed courage and courage. Being twice wounded, he did not leave the battlefield, he continued to control the fire of his battery. Grandfather was awarded medals. Unfortunately, all awards have been stolen. There were about 15 medals, except for the Order of Nevsky and a dagger. The dagger survived in the family. In the postwar years, my grandfather continued to serve in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 1943 to 1972 - served in the Soviet Army and the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops for retirement, by length of service, with the right to wear military uniforms, reserve lieutenant colonel, 3rd grade. The last position was deputy commander of unit 6505 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Member of the CPSU No. 07371784 since 1948. In retirement, for several more years, he continued to work in the branch of the CPSU, on a voluntary basis. Grandfather in life was a very kind, sincere, pleasant person. In 1950 in Dolinka, my grandfather met his grandmother Belova Nina Vasilievna. They got married and gave birth to two sons - Alexander and Alexei. We moved to the city of Karaganda, where they lived all their lives. They lived very amicably. Grandpa was an avid fisherman and hunter. The whole region knew him. Throughout my life, I have not heard from him not one swearing or rude word. He was very much loved and respected not only by his friends and colleagues, but also by his subordinates and local residents. With Kazakh elders, grandfather was on friendly terms. In the villages he was greeted cordially, treated as a particularly respected person. Grandfather Oleg died: 05/18/1989. A lot of people came to the funeral, about 200 people.

There is a lot of information about the Great Patriotic War in our family, all my great-great-grandfathers were in one way or another its participants. My great-great-grandfather, Grigory Sergeevich Ishkin, took a direct part in it. My great-great-grandfather was called to the ranks of the Red Army on October 26, 1941, having received the rank of a Red Army soldier, served as a driver of a separate company of the Directorate of the 15th Engineer-Mine Brigade of the RGK. At the time of the call, the great-great-grandfather already had a family: two sons and a daughter, who were in the rear throughout the war (beyond the Volga River in the Yaroslavl Region) and were looking forward to the return of their father, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships that befell the family. According to my mother, grandfather Nikolai, the son of Grisha's great-great-grandfather, told her that the grandfather's family often starved, there were difficulties in everything, and beyond the river the rumble of exploding bombs and shells was still constantly heard. But nothing broke them. From February 24, 1942. Until September 14, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the Western Front. In March 1943, the great-great-grandfather was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the excellent performance of the command's combat missions for the delivery of mines to the engineering units of the 3rd Guards Army operating on the front line. The great-great-grandfather's car fell into the zone of enemy machine-gun fire, but thanks to the patience and resourcefulness of the grandfather, the cargo and personnel were delivered to the place at the specified time without loss. From November 3, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the South-Western Front. During an enemy air raid on March 27, 1944 in the city of Rivne, the great-great-grandfather took his car from the damaged place with a valuable cargo to a safe place, unloading the car, quickly arrived at the scene of the fire and continued to evacuate the injured comrades from the bombing site under the bombardment. At the same time, there were no accidents and breakdowns of military equipment, as well as losses among the fighters. For this, on April 30, 1944, his great-great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. As the great-great-grandfather Grisha himself told his granddaughter, my grandmother Sveta, during the war he took part in the delivery of goods to besieged Leningrad along Ladoga, drove some general across the melting ice and so that the general did not doubt his professionalism, the grandfather nailed him his driver's door of the "lorry" GAZ-MM, making it clear that he would definitely take the general. For corporal Grigory Sergeevich, the war ended in Czechoslovakia without a single wound, after which he returned to his family in the Yaroslavl region, where he lived for many more years. The story is told by great-great-grandson, Leonid Afanasiev .

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 173rd Rifle Orsha Red Banner Division. Once in my childhood I found a document written by my dad. I really liked his handwriting. The text told about his labor activity. I was surprised by the fact that in his ninth grade, his father was teaching Russian to a fifth-grader in his school due to a lack of teachers. Literacy helped him enroll in short-term officer courses during the Great Patriotic War. In three months the kishlak boy turned into a lieutenant and went to look death in the eye. On his shoulders lay the responsibility for several hundred Uzbek fellow countrymen, yesterday's farmers-peasants, who never left their villages. They not only did not know Russian and did not know how to write, many of them had not even seen a rifle before. During the battle, they were given one rifle for two, due to the lack of weapons in the first months of the war. My father was a Komsomol organizer of the battalion, at the same time a translator. In the course of one of the battles, an experienced commander was killed, and all this horde of "not shot soldiers" went to him. After being seriously wounded in the city of Suwalki (Poland), he was not suitable for the formation and he was sent to the rear, to his homeland, to restore the country's economy. In 1977, after his death, his front-line friend told me that when they learned in Besharyk that his father was returning from the front, many came to meet him at the station. Before he got out of the carriage, he was surrounded on all sides, and everyone began to ask about their relatives at the front. The father got on the locomotive and began to tell how their fathers and brothers heroically fight the enemy. There was complete silence, and it was already impossible to stop him, even the train had to be delayed. When he finished his speech, everyone began to cry. Women, children, men ... The whole station. My father had several military awards. After the war, his mother wore these combat medals on the ends of her hair, on her pigtails. Such a fashion was in Besharyk. Then they got lost. Only the Order of the Red Star has survived. My father did not like to talk about the war. When he was in a good mood, he would tell something about his fellow soldiers, but about himself he spoke very sparingly.

HISTORY: My great-grandfather, Ivanushkin Alexander Petrovich, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Born on February 22, 1908, in the village of Protasovo (Kolpnyansky District, Oryol Region). In 1939, at 31, he was drafted to the front. Great-grandfather came as a soldier, ended the war with the rank of lieutenant. At the front, Alexander Petrovich was a brave soldier and a reliable friend. He has a lot of photographs sent by his comrades as a keepsake. Great-grandfather left the Oryol region and went all the way to Germany and the capture of the Reichstag. He also had two brothers: Ivanushkin Nikolai Petrovich - a colonel, who came from the Oryol region to Eastern Europe and Ivanushkin Ivan Petrovich - a pilot. Participated in: - in breaking through the German defense in the eastern city of Stattgard and reaching the coast of the Baltic Sea in the area of ​​Kolberg (Gratitude of 03/04/1945 No. 288); - in the seizure of the cities of Western Pomerania: Belgrade, Treptow, Greifenberg, Cummin, Gultsov and Plata (Certificate of 03/06/1945 No. 292); - a breakthrough in the German defense and an offensive on Berlin (thanks 23.04.1945, No. 339); - in the seizure of the district and the main building of the Reichstag (Gratitude of 04/30/1945, No. 6); - in the mastery of Berlin (Gratitude from 05/02/1945, No. 359). - participated in the storming of the Reichstag as part of the 150 Idritsky rifle division. And they witnessed how Yegorov and Kantarii hoisted the banner of victory over the Reichstag. Great-grandfather has more than 15 medals. After this Great Victory, the great-grandfather was awarded numerous medals. From the front, my great-grandfather's wife Maria Petrovna and 3 children were waiting at home: - my grandfather Leonid Alexandrovich, who was 10 years old at that time, - my sister Evgenia - 9 years old, - brother Vladislav - 16 years old. Later, my grandfather moved them to live in Moscow, as my grandmother was seriously ill and grandfather needed help. My grandfather had a son in 1966 on September 19 - my dad and great-grandfather's grandson. Also, my great-grandfather saw me - his great-granddaughter, I was born in 1987 on December 12. In 1991, on April 10, my great-grandfather died. He was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. Now we are looking after his grave: grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren. I regret that little information was preserved and my great-grandfather did not particularly want to share difficult memories, and my grandfather does not remember much anymore - he is 80 this year. But I'm incredibly proud that I have such a great-grandfather. He is a real man, fearless, courageous ... We will always Remember, Thank, Honor our great-grandfather and all the front-line soldiers who gave us victory and a bright sky overhead.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 17th Kiev-Zhytomyr Artillery Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Breakthrough Division. Biigishi Ibragimov graduated from the Aviation School named after. Chkalov. He graduated well, education and general development, and most importantly, diligence allowed him to graduate from school among the best. The command decided to keep the capable pilot as the school's aviation instructor. So from January 1940 until the very beginning of the war, he flew and trained future pilots. On June 22 - Sunday - the pilots planned to hold football and volleyball matches with the recruits ... But the plans were not destined to come true. On the second day of the outbreak of the war, pilot Biigishi Ibragimov was sent as a pilot of the 5th separate air squadron of the Central Front. The young pilots still had a lot to learn, but the war itself became the teacher. Almost none of the pilots of the 5th Separate Aviation Squadron had combat missions. When our young, untrained pilots rose into the air, Goering's "aces of diamonds" came out to them. Considering this, the command, as soon as the pilots arrived near Kharkov, made it possible for several units to take off for free hunting. Biigishi took his plane into the air a couple of times, but did not meet a single German plane. But a day later, when our two flights took off, a long-awaited meeting with the enemy took place. The Germans damaged several of our planes and one even burned down, but, fortunately, the pilot managed to jump out of the burning plane. The command thanked our pilots for the first and very successful battle. For newcomers to take a battle with experienced German pilots and return, having lost only one car, is already a success, especially by the morning of the next day our ground troops informed the pilots that as a result of this battle they saw several burning and falling German planes. Within one week Biigishi took part in aerial reconnaissance four times, including two military clashes with German pilots. In the fourth combat sortie ours were attacked with great numerical superiority by German aircraft. The battle was hard, several enemy planes burned down, but ours also got it pretty. In this group battle, one of the downed enemy planes was credited to Ibragimov's account, but he found out about it lying on a stretcher, when our orderlies picked him up, after he fell out of a burning plane. As a result of being wounded in this air battle, he had to be treated for seven months in an evacuation hospital in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region. After his recovery, he was assigned to the ground forces, where Biigishi fought until the end of the war as platoon commander of 1251 park artillery regiment of the 17th Bryansk and 1 Ukrainian fronts. The Motherland noted the pilot's military merits with the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, as well as military medals: "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany", as well as many other awards ... The veteran died in the city of Buinaksk, was buried in his native village of Verkhnee - Kazanishche.

Type of troops: Engineering troops. Subdivision: 32nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. I want to tell you about my grandfather Ignatov Ivan Petrovich, who was born in 1911 in the village of Karaul, Inzhavinsky district, Tambov region. When the war began in 1941, my grandfather was 30 years old. He was married and lived in Ukraine. And his wife, my grandmother Raisa Titovna, with three children was evacuated from Ukraine. During the crossing of the Volga River on a ferry, they were bombed by the Germans. My father Valery Ivanovich was born in 1941 right on the Volga during the bombing of the Battle of Stalingrad. They went through a lot. But people then helped each other in difficult times. They also helped my grandmother with three children. Meanwhile, my grandfather Ivan Petrovich was already fighting the Germans. He fought the entire war on different fronts: - from 1939 to October 1941. cadet and commander of a sapper platoon of the 389th Infantry Regiment, Odessa Military District; - from 1941 to 1942 deputy the commander of the sapper company of the 2nd squad of the sapper battalion of the 26th rifle brigade, North Caucasian front; - from 1942 to 1943 engineer squadron commander, chief of engineering service of the 9th Kuban Cossack division, Southern Front; - since 1943 commander of a separate battalion of an infantry division. He was a sapper officer. Was injured. At the front he joined the CPSU. My grandfather went to Konigsberg, where he ended the war. My dad used to say that for my grandfather, the war was the main event in his life. He could talk about the war for hours, recollect various frontline incidents, recollect his fighters-comrades. I saw photographs of Ivan Petrovich. All his chest was in orders and medals: Order of the Red Star No. 448156, Order of the Patriotic War I degree No. 56627, Order of the October Revolution No. 13022, Order of the Patriotic War No. 1921951, Order of Alexander Nevsky No. 22140; medals - "For Courage" No. 256929, "For the Defense of the Caucasus" No. 049488, "For the capture of Konigsberg" No. 236224, "For Victory over Germany" No. 0216634; 5 Jubilee medals, "For Valiant Labor", "Veteran of Labor". He was constantly invited to speak to schoolchildren and workers. May 9th was the main holiday. Grandfather put on a ceremonial uniform with orders and medals and went to the parade. He had the rank of retired major. Until his very last days, he was vigorous, fit, true to his ideals. Many people were killed during the war. They fought for their homeland, for their loved ones. It is a pity that now there are not many veterans left alive. My grandfather also died in 1998. I would like the younger generation to remember their history, to love their Motherland - Russia. Honored their heroes. Known and unknown. And I want to end with the words of the front-line poet Alexander Tvardovsky: I know, it’s not my fault that others didn’t come from the war. The fact that they - who are older, who are younger - Remained there and not about the same speech, That I could, but could not save them, It's not about that, but still, nevertheless, nevertheless ....

CITY: Chuvash Republic, Batyrevsky district, village Kzyl-Chishma DATE OF BIRTH: 02/15/1921 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Zeynulla Gainullovich Abitov, born on February 15, 1921. Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 11th Kirovograd Artillery Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. Among the people who protected billions of people from fascism in 1941-1945 is my maternal great-grandfather. This is my mother's own grandfather. His name is Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich. We lived with him in the same village - in the village of Kzyl-Chishma. They lived on different streets, but visited them often. I know that he also bravely fought for the Motherland against the German invaders, participated in the Great Patriotic War as part of the active army from October 1942 to February 1945. Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich was born on February 15, 1921 in the village of Kzyl-Chishma. On the evening of June 22, 1941, all the youth of the village were at a party. She danced, sang, played. My great-grandfather also had fun, played the accordion. Suddenly, the chairman of the collective farm, the director of the school and the secretary of the party cell entered the house where the party was taking place. They brought the terrible news: "The war has begun!" Soon all the young people gathered in the club. My great-grandfather at that time was the secretary of the Komsomol organization. He really wanted to defend his homeland. The dream has come true! The next day he was already mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army. In October 1941, Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich was sent to study at the Omsk military school. Good cadres and good officers were needed to conduct the war. Great-grandfather studied for one year. After graduating from college in October 1942, the young lieutenant was sent to the Stalingrad front, where terrible battles were fought. Lieutenant Abitov was appointed platoon leader in the 95th artillery regiment of the 11th artillery division. It was at Stalingrad that his character was tempered, he learned to fight. It was here, quite by chance, that my great-grandfather met Minnebana, his fellow villager and friend Tagirov, in the trench. They managed to communicate quite a bit. Soon my relative found out that his friend, the shooter, had died. Great-grandfather often recalled those difficult times, with tears he recalled his friend, whom he saw only for a minute in the trench. Hitler was aimed east, towards the Volga and Stalingrad. The capture of Stalingrad was very important to him for several reasons. It was the main industrial city on the banks of the Volga, a vital transport route between the Caspian Sea and northern Russia. The capture of Stalingrad would ensure the safety of the German armies advancing into the Caucasus on the left flank. Finally, the fact that the city bore the name of Stalin, Hitler's main enemy, made the capture of the city a winning move. The word Stalingrad reminds of a battle that surpassed all armed clashes of the past in terms of scope, tension and consequences. On July 17, the troops of the Stalingrad Front received their first baptism of fire. In a large bend of the Don, at the border of the Chir and Tsymla rivers, the forward detachments of the armies entered into battle with the vanguards of the German army divisions. It is here that the greatest epic of the Second World War, the Battle of Stalingrad, begins. In November 1942, after three months of bloody massacre, the Germans reached the banks of the river, almost completely capturing the destroyed city. Unusually merciless was the battle on the Mamayev Kurgan, a height soaked in blood, towering over the city. The height passed from hand to hand several times. During one of the Soviet counterattacks on Mamayev Kurgan in order to intercept it, the Soviet troops lost an entire division of 10 thousand people in one day. They suffered losses, but not a single unit was completely destroyed. Many fighters considered it a shame to be absent from the battlefield due to minor injury. They stayed because they did not want to leave their comrades. After the battles on the Mamayev Kurgan, the Kurgan itself seemed to be poured out of metal. It was all riddled with fragments of bombs and shells. Now on the Mamayev Kurgan there is a monument worthy of this battle. But the day came - November 19, 1942, when the troops of the fronts operating at Stalingrad went on the offensive. By December 19, over 300 German tanks had already participated in the offensive. But thanks to the courage and resilience of the Soviet troops, the offensive was stopped and then thrown back 200 kilometers from Stalingrad. Thanks to this victory, the fate of the war as a whole was finally decided. In early January, an operation began to eliminate the encircled group. On February 1, 1943, after a crushing blow from our artillery, the northern part also surrendered. On February 2, 1943, at 16 o'clock, the Battle of Stalingrad ended. At Stalingrad, our army won the first great victory over the Nazis. In one of the battles, my great-grandfather was wounded in the leg and was taken to the hospital. After the hospital, he took courses for officers. Then he was transferred to the 3rd Ukrainian Front, appointed company commander. Then he participated in the 1st Belorussian Front in the liberation of the cities of Belarus. By that time he was promoted to senior lieutenant.Later, my great-grandfather took part in the battles for the Right-Bank Ukraine, in the crossing of the Dnieper. In Germany, not far from the Oder River, he, unfortunately, was very seriously wounded in the leg, so he had to meet Victory Day in the hospital. When I learned about the Victory, I experienced a great feeling of joy. Great-grandfather recalled: “When we learned that the war was over, we jumped out of bed and jumped for joy. Everyone was screaming and crying. It is impossible to convey what a joy it was for us. It turns out that my wound opened, blood began to flow, but I did not feel it. There was so much happiness, joy from the Victory, from the fact that they remained alive, so much grief that not everyone will return. " Great-grandfather returned home in November 1945. Was transferred to the reserve with the rank of senior lieutenant. For military merits, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner of the Battle, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal for the defense of Stalingrad, etc. In addition, recently, in 2010, he was given a car and an apartment. They wanted to leave my great-grandfather to study at the military academy, but he really wanted to return to his native village. He really missed his family. His mother and 4 sisters remained in the village. And he returned home. After returning, my great-grandfather continued to work on the collective farm. I got married. In 1946 he was elected chairman of his native collective farm. He served as the head of the collective farm for 5 years. He has achieved very great success in his work. For his hard work, soon in 1951, he was appointed director of the Chkalovsk creamery, where he worked for 5 years. From 1957 until his retirement, his great-grandfather worked as an accountant on his native collective farm. Together with his wife, they raised 3 children. In 1986 he was awarded the rank of captain. Remembering Stalingrad, my great-grandfather said: “Asphalt turned into sand, houses collapsed before our eyes, blood, horror. After fierce fighting, little of the city remained. It seemed that no one would survive. But we defended Stalingrad. The Germans who had surrendered shouted: “Hitler is kaput. ..Hitler kaput ... "My grandfather always repeated these words:" Let the children grow up peacefully, not being afraid of bomb explosions. I wish there were no such harsh days as they were during the war. We fought for the future of the country, for a peaceful sky overhead. You should enjoy every peaceful day, study and work honestly. There are such good opportunities for all this! " 279 people left my village for the war. 116 fellow villagers forever remained in the memory of relatives and friends as young, they died. 163 people returned home alive. There are not many veterans left in the village today. There are only 2 of them left ... It’s a pity that people I knew are leaving. I wish the veterans health. As a child, my mother often left me with my great-grandfather. When he played the accordion, I loved to dance and sing. He was always cheerful, until his last days he loved to play his harmonica, remember his youth. In recent years, although he was old, he behaved like a real officer, always clean and tidy. I say thank you very much for the peaceful sky, for the gentle sun. After all, he was only 19 years old when he went to war, he was a lieutenant, led a platoon, a company. I am very proud of him, of his courage, because he fought for the Motherland, defended the country. I love my great-grandfather very much! We can undoubtedly call him a HERO!

CITY: Petrovenki village (Ukrainian SSR, Lugansk region, Kryndychevsky district) DATE OF BIRTH: 08.16.1921 DATE OF DEATH: 04/02/2000 HISTORY: Title: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Aviation. Ageev Leonid Timofeevich was born on August 16, 1921 in the village of Petrovenki (Ukrainian SSR, Lugansk region, Kryndychevsky district) in the family of an engineer-inventor. At the age of 18 he was drafted by the Tagansky Military Commissariat of Moscow into the ranks of the Soviet Army, and from 1940 to 1972 he was an officer in the Soviet Army. He graduated from the Vasilkovsky Aviation Technical School, as well as the Orsk Machine-Building Technical School. Member of the Great Patriotic War. He fought on the Kalinin and Voronezh fronts. On August 5, 1943, he received a severe shrapnel wound in the back during the Kursk-Belgorod operation. On August 18, 1943, the turning point came when it became clear that he would live. He called this day his second birthday. The order book was issued on June 17, 1948. He was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, II degree, the Order of the Red Star, two medals for Military Merit and 15 medals and insignia received during military service in peacetime. In 1947 he got married. He has two daughters. In 1972, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he retired from the ranks of the Soviet army, thus serving for 33 years. In the same year he came to the city of Pushkino, Moscow Region. From 1975 to 1992, he worked as Lead Flight Test Engineer in the Flight Service Directorate of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. Over the years, he has carried out a lot of work on engineering and aviation support for test flights of experimental aviation. He also took exams for test pilots. In 1994, having given 53 years of aviation, he headed the Pushkin Council of Veterans. Under him, the work of the council was noticeably revitalized. The first memorial in Pushkino, erected in memory of the inhabitants of the Pushkin District who died in battle, was erected under his direct leadership and with his active participation.

CITY: village Krasny Kholm (now Zubtsovsky district, Tver region, Russia) DATE OF BIRTH: 06/02/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 01/30/1945 HISTORY: Alexey Ivanovich Andreshov (June 2, 1925 - January 30, 1945) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, assistant commander of a rifle platoon of the 898th rifle regiment of the 245th rifle division of the 59th army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union (04/10/1945, posthumously). Rank: Junior Sergeant. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Subdivision: 245th Valginsko-Rezhitskaya Rifle Red Banner Division. Born on June 2, 1925 in the village of Krasny Kholm (now the Zubtsovsky district of the Tver region) in a peasant family. Russian. Primary education. He worked on a collective farm. When the front approached his home in the fall of 1941, the collective farm board entrusted Alexei, along with other drovers, to evacuate the public herd. The herdsmen took the herd away, led a nomadic life. After the bombing and shelling, they collected the scared cows and moved on. And then - a restless life in the evacuation, concern for the preservation of the public herd. In February 1942, the village of Krasny Kholm was liberated from the German invaders, and at the beginning of summer Aleksey, together with his herd, returned to his native collective farm. Together with women and old people he restored the economy. On April 10, 1943, when he was not yet eighteen, he was drafted as a volunteer for active military service by the Pogorelsky District Military Commissariat of the Kalinin Region. In a training regiment in the Ivanovo region, he received the specialty of a mortarman. In the summer of 1943 he was in the army. He fought on the Kalinin, 1st Baltic and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He fought in the battles for Pskov and Riga. In February 1944 he was wounded and spent several months in a hospital in Leningrad. Returning to the front, he fought in the 898th Infantry Regiment of the 245th Infantry Division. In June 1944, he was awarded the Medal For Courage. Particularly distinguished himself during the liberation of Poland and the crossing of the Dnieper River. In January 1945, the 59th Army, introduced into the battle on the Nida River, launched an offensive in the direction of Krakow - Soskovets - Kozel. Its advanced units reached Oder by January 30, 1945. Forcing began. When the platoon commander, where A.I. Andreshov served, went out of order, he took over the command. Junior Sergeant, shouting "Follow me!" - led the fighters to overcome the water barrier. The platoon crossed over and went out to the flank of the defending Germans. AI Andreshov knew from experience that it was impossible to hesitate, and gave the command: "For the Motherland, forward!" He ran in front, and the comrades followed his example. Having occupied the enemy's trenches, the platoon ensured the crossing of the entire battalion. The bridgehead was conquered. Fighting broke out for the city of Kozel, now Kendzezhin-Kozle in Poland. Here, during the assault on one of the outskirts, junior sergeant Alexei Ivanovich Andreshov, who commanded a platoon, heroically fell in the attack. He was buried at the site of the last battle in the city of Kendzezhin-Kozle. Later he was reburied at the Kutuzov Memorial - a military cemetery in the village of Bolevlavice, near the town of Boleslavets, next to the remains of Field Marshal Kutuzov. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 10, 1945, Junior Sergeant Alexei Ivanovich Andreshov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the courage and heroism shown during the crossing of the Oder and holding the bridgehead on its western bank.

CITY: Almetyevsk region, TASSR, Kichuchatovo village DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 03/12/1998 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 13th motorized infantry division of the internal troops of the NKVD of the USSR I'll tell you everything that I remember and managed to recover from the documents about my grandfather Mukhamadeev Minevaley Akhmetzyanovich (in the Red Army book it is recorded as Valiy Akhmedyanov, why I don't remember this before, although my grandfather told me). She listed only those medals and orders for which certificates were preserved and recorded in the Red Army book, since none of them survived (after his death they were kept by his grandmother and were either handed over to his sons, or were stolen, some were lost). My grandfather was born in the village of Kichuchatovo of the Almetyevsk region of the Tatar ASSR in 1910, a Tatar by nationality. He graduated from 4th grade, before the war he worked as an accountant (as it is written in the documents). He was married to Mukhamadeeva Shamsenur Ibragimovna born on May 25, 1915 (Akhmedyanova Shamsenur). Was drafted on August 15, 1941. He served in the 13th MRP of the Internal Troops of the NKVD of the USSR, 2 battalions, 5th brigade in the position of shooters. He received a severe shrapnel wound in his back. He was awarded the Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" No. 34947 on June 13, 1943. Demobilized on 08 August 1946. After the war, the grandfather and grandmother had five sons, the very first died in infancy (according to the grandmother), the rest I will list in order of seniority: Akhmetzyanov Atlas Minevaleevich, Akhmetzyanov Anas Minevaleevich, Mukhamadeev Rasikh Minevaleevich, Mukhamadeev Rafik Minevaleevich (my father, who is also no longer alive). My grandfather also had brothers and sisters, I will list those whom I remember by name: Fakya, Fagil. He never liked to remember the war and his service, and if he did, then with tears in his eyes. He kept his medals and orders in a box and almost never got them himself. Despite everything that my grandfather had to endure during the war, as well as in the post-war period, I remember him as a cheerful, cheerful person, loving father and grandfather.

CITY: Belgorod region with. Streletskoye DATE OF BIRTH: 11/15/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 08/02/2004 HISTORY: Title: Captain Type of troops: Aviation My dad Yakov Yakovlevich Abramov on 06/26/1941 graduated from the Volsk aviation school of aviation mechanics and already from 07/03/1941 began the war on the southern front in the composition of 132 bomber aviation regiment as a mechanic. From 21.01.1942 to 23.02.1943 - the Stalingrad Front as part of the 40th air regiment of long-range reconnaissance officers of the main command of the Red Army. From 23.01.1943 to 02.1944 - the Western Front as part of the 48th Guards Aviation Regiment of long-range reconnaissance officers of the Red Army High Command. From February 1944 to 05/09/1945 - 2nd Ukrainian Front - 48 Guards. Lower Dniester Order of Suvorov, 3rd degree, of the air regiment of long-range reconnaissance officers of the High Command of the Red Army. Czechoslovakia met the victory in Bratislava. He fought Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. Probably, like all front-line soldiers, he could not talk about the war, but he did tell one case: there was a raid by German aircraft on the airfield during lunch. Everyone rushed into the dugout, and dad decided to finish his dinner (not to be lost). And it saved his life: a direct hit by a bomb in the dugout and no one alive. After the war, the regiment was deployed to Klaipeda Lithuania, where my father met my mother in 1947, where my mother came on a Komsomol ticket and where my sister and I were born. Father is a member of the CPSU (b) since March 1949. Discharged to the reserve under Art. 59 p. "B" with the right to wear a military uniform dated 07/11/1960 Dad lived a very decent life and we, his wife, daughters and grandson, remember him and necessarily on May 9 on Victory Day we come to him at the cemetery. For him, this day was sacred and he conveyed to us this attitude to the feat of the Soviet people. All information about dad is taken from his track record, personal number A-102441

CITY: NORTH OSSETIA ZILGI VILLAGE DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 02/15/1943 HISTORY: Title: Major Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 183rd Rifle Kharkov Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division Military unit 227 joint venture 183 rifle regiment 1 Ukr F. 183rd division, participant in the liberation of Klin from the Nazi invaders. E.B. Akhsarov was born on November 9 (24), 1915 in the village of Zilga in the Pravoberezhny District of North Ossetia into a large peasant family. At school, Enver was one of the best students. After the fifth grade, he began to work on a collective farm. In 1932 he received the qualification of a locksmith at the FZU in Dzaudzhikau, worked at the Beslan maize plant. Then he studied at the workers' faculty at the Krasnodar Civil Engineering Institute. In 1934, Enver entered the Krasnodar military cavalry school, in 1937 he graduated with honors from the Tbilisi military school. Lieutenant Akhsarov was sent to the position of platoon commander in a cavalry regiment. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since August 1941. Until September 1942, he participated in hostilities on the Kalinin and Western Fronts. On November 15, 1941, the 46th Cavalry Regiment (18th Cavalry Division of the 30th Army), in which Senior Lieutenant Akhsarov served, arrived in Moscow. From Moscow, the train proceeded to Klin. Akhsarov reported to the division headquarters that all the property was unloaded, the horses were shod, the regiment was put on alert. On the morning of November 17, the 18th Cavalry Division saddled the Moscow-Leningrad highway near the town of Zavidovo. The 46th Cavalry Regiment was preparing for a battle. Soon, German tanks and dense chains of machine gunners appeared. The dismounted horsemen beat the Nazis with machine guns and carbines, mowed down with grenades. The 46th Regiment held its ground firmly. After the death of the regiment commander Borodin, Akhsarov became the head of the regiment. For several days the 18th Cavalry Division fought stubborn defensive battles. Captain Enver Akhsarov showed himself to be a skillful organizer of battles of small and mobile groups with superior enemy forces. In the Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk offensive operation, from December 6, 1941, a mobile group of Colonel Georgy Ivanovich Khetagurov operated on the left flank of the 30th Army. The 18th Cavalry Division was part of the group. She was to advance in the direction of Rogachev, Klin. The day before, Khetagurov visited the horsemen of the 46th regiment, wishing Akhsarov's regiment to be the first to reach Klin. 46th Cavalry Regiment, like other units of the division, went into battle without artillery preparation. The Germans were taken by surprise. Pursuing the enemy, the regiment advanced 15 km by the evening of the first day of the offensive. After the liberation of Klin, the 46th Cavalry Regiment in the vanguard of the division fought incessant battles on the way from Vysokovsk to Rzhev. In July 1942, Enver Akhsarov parted with the cavalry. He was appointed commander of the 227th Infantry Regiment of the 183rd Division. “Cavalry is a good thing,” said Enver, “I love her and will love her all my life. In the Caucasus, every man is a horseman. But the decisive role in the war belongs to the infantry, it is not for nothing that they call it the queen of the fields. " In September 1942, the 183rd Infantry Division, which suffered heavy losses near Rzhev, was withdrawn to the rear for rest and replenishment in the city of Vysokovsk. Many residents of the Vysokovsky and Klinsky regions joined the ranks of the division. On the first anniversary of the liberation of Klin from the Nazi invaders, the Klin district party committee invited Major Akhsarov to a meeting of workers. Akhsarov arrived at the meeting with the Clinchans on his white horse during the entire cavalry parade. On the same day, the Vysokovskaya club hosted a divisional evening dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution. On February 15, 1943, the enemy with superior forces tried three times to attack the positions of the 227th regiment of the major, but all attacks were repulsed. In the third and most desperate battle, Major Akhsarov personally killed two Nazis point-blank and, in front of his fellow soldiers, died a hero's death from an enemy mine. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 10, 1944, Major Enver Bimbolatovich Akhsarov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the skillful leadership of the regiment's actions and the destruction of enemy manpower and equipment. Akhsarov was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Star, and medals. Buried Hero of the Soviet Union in Kharkov. Streets in Kharkov, Beslan, Vladikavkaz are named after him. A memorial plaque to Enver Bimbolatovich Akhsarov was installed in Kharkov at the end of house number 18 on Akhsarov Street. The bust of the Hero of the Soviet Union was installed in his native village.

CITY: Tut-Khaltuy village, Ononsky district, Chita region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/27/1898 DATE OF DEATH: 07/01/1943 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, Border Troops Subdivision: 96th Guards Rifle Ilovaisk Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Father's division I remember. But I remember in some isolated episodes, and not as a continuous series of life. Apparently, I was still not big enough when my father went to war in 1942, although I was already 10 years old. Or maybe life before that went evenly, without sharp shocks, with relative wealth, and the child's mind took all this for granted, which was not clearly memorized. Shocks and childish concerns began later, so everything that followed was captured clearly and remembered for a lifetime. Father was taken to the war when he was already 44 years old, this was the last reserve; the final draft age was 45. This age was supposed to serve in the rear units. But already in 1943 he found himself at the front, on the front lines. Father's life did not spoil either. In 1938, he came under a general purge and ended up in prison as an alleged former kulak. He spent ten months in the Chita prison and, as unexpectedly as he was arrested, was released from prison without much explanation. Later it turned out that a government commission headed by V.M. Molotov, a member of the Central Committee and a member of the government, arrived in Chita (in honor of this event, one of the streets in Chita was renamed to Molotov St.; now it is Leningradskaya St. ), in order to check the work of the NKVD (People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs), and all prisons were cleared of illegally arrested prisoners. Not having lived at home for a month, in June 1939, my father was taken to the Army by alarm, and on the 5th day he was in the trenches on Khalkhin Gol, in Mongolia, and fought against the Japanese. He returned from this war alive and well. He did not return from the Patriotic War. The father died in 1943. He fought in the 293rd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 96th Guards Rifle Division. At my request to the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO) and the military commissariat of the Donetsk region, it turned out that, in all likelihood, my father died in the summer of 1943 in the Minersky district of the Donetsk region near the village of Stepanovka. In this village there are burials of soldiers of the 293rd Guards Rifle Regiment. And whether our father is buried there, there is no such information. We all believe that he died and was buried in this area. (from the memoirs of Abrosimov Yuri Methodievich)