Faces of war

CITY: the village of Yanaul (Novoamirovo), Buzdyaksky district of the Bashkir ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 07/01/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 02/18/2013 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 10th Guards Airborne Kryvyi Rih Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Akhtyamov Khadi Khaidarovich was born on July 1, 1922 in a peasant family in the village of Novoamirovo, Buzdyaksky district of the BASSR. He graduated from the 4th grade of school and from an early age was accustomed to work. From his youth he worked in the field with adults, then he worked alone on the extraction of natural stone and the construction of a road. In the summer of 1940. at the age of 18, their family in an organized resettlement of peoples moved from the Buzdyaksky district to the Uchalinsky district of the BASSR. Not having yet to settle in a new place as on October 9, 1941 he was drafted into the army. After passing the KMB, he immediately finds himself on the Leningrad front. He serves as an ordinary soldier in the 10th Guards Airborne Unit. Then there were the cities of Bryansk, Pskov, Voronezh, Oryol, but the most important battle of his life was still ahead. This is the Battle of Kursk in 1943, in which on August 18, 21-year-old Khadi Khaidarovich is seriously injured three times. In both legs and in the chest, he spends 8 months in the hospital for treatment with a bullet for flight. Wounds do not allow him to return to duty and he is demobilized. This is how the war ends for him. After recovering and getting stronger, he begins to work in his native collective farm, in the rear, for Victory, for which he was later awarded the medal For Valiant Labor in the Second World War. While working on a collective farm, he met Valitova Rabiga Haydargalievna (born 1923) and after the end of the war in 1945 they got married. In 1947 he was awarded a medal for the Victory over Germany 1941-1945, and after that many Jubilee medals. And in 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Together Rabiga Khaidargalievna lived for 67 years and raised and raised five children - Naira (1946), Nail (1948), Rail (1949), Leora (1954), Guzel (1955). He worked on a collective farm all his life in various positions - an accountant, an accountant, the head of the ITF, the head of the OTF, the chairman of the village council, a foreman for almost 20 years, and at a gas station, from where he retired. For long and conscientious work in 1982 he was awarded the Veteran of Labor medal. In the 67th year of the Great Victory at the age of 90, his health deteriorated sharply, and on February 18, 2013, as a person who had survived such terrible wounds, he died. Buried in the village of Akhunovo, Uchalinsky district of Bashkortostan. During his happy life, having lived 90 years, he raised five children, went through various difficulties in life, participated in the bloodiest war and came from there wounded, but still alive, worked on a collective farm for the good of the country and people! LIVED A WORTHY and LONG LIFE !!!

Aglotkov Fedor Nikolaevich Aglotkov Fedor Nikolaevich (1907-1944), in 1944 - Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain of the guard, navigator of detachment 82. naval reconnaissance aviation squadron of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force. Killed 08.21.1944 in an air battle.

Every Soviet family was affected by the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. And my family was not spared. My grandfather, he was 14 years old in June, was vacationing in the summer at a dacha in the town of Okulovka, Novgorod region. His mom and dad stayed in Leningrad. Separated from his parents, he worked in the rear and helped the front. In February 1942, my parents died of starvation in besieged Leningrad; a guest of the city stole food cards. He went to the front in 1943, returned to Leningrad to defend the southern border and hold the defense of the city. To chase the fascist invaders, in the city of Schweidnitz (now Swinica), Poland received a shrapnel wound in the neck. The wounded soldiers were lying on the ground, some on spruce branches, some on raincoats along the railway tracks, on which the carriages of a mobile medical unit stood. Morning round of the wounded by the surgeon, some were closed and carried away, some were helped. My grandfather was lying in delirium repeating the Leningrad saying: "How can you believe the empty words of a ballerina?" Only a native Leningrader knows how to decipher these words. Five streets in the city center: Ruzovskaya, Mozhaiskaya, Vereiskaya, Podolskaya, Serpukhovskaya, Bronnitskaya. The surgeon, originally from Leningrad, asked: "Countryman, what street are you from?" In a hoarse voice, the wounded soldier replied: "With Bronnitskaya." The surgeon exclaimed: "And I'm with Vereiskaya, urgently for an operation." Due to a wound in the neck, he could not swallow food, so he mainly drank plain water and fish oil. Such a simple phrase saved the life of a soldier. Every Leningrader knows and remembers it. And she is especially memorable to me, thanks to her, my grandfather survived and returned home in 1949. After the war he helped rebuild Poland. Several fragments remained in his left hand, and the grandfather sometimes allowed them to be touched. “The Dawns Here Are Quiet” is a post-war film that reminded of the war, the grandfather always watched alone so that no one saw his tears in his eyes. We knew this and never interfered with him. Every Leningrad family has two books and a Memory Book postcard: "The Road of Life" by Nison Aleksandrovich Hodza and "Nine Hundred Days of Courage" by Valery Voskoboinikov. Alive, be worthy of the lost!

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 17th Kiev-Zhytomyr Artillery Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Breakthrough Division. Shakhruzat was born in the family of collective farmers Musayevs, who worked in the Lenin agricultural cartel of the Sergokalinsky district. In 1940, after finishing seven years, she went to study in Baku for a six-month course in hydrometeorology. After graduating from the courses, she began to work at the Sergokalinsk weather station. And now the war. Shakhruzat was on the front line with all her heart, where her peers fought for the Motherland, where her beloved elder brother Rasul was. Therefore, when at the Komsomol meeting the secretary of the district committee began to say that women were also needed at the front, Shakhruzat without hesitation wrote a statement asking to send her as a volunteer. Once in East Prussia, the regiment, where Shahruzat was a radio operator, was surrounded. For six days the Soviet soldiers were in the ring of the enemy. Many died. Fifteen people survived. Food ran out, there were few cartridges. On the night of the seventh day, the commander says to Shakhruzat: "Well, Shurochka (that was the name of the young Dagestani fellow soldiers), get in touch with ours." The soldiers carefully wrapped Shahruzat in quilted jackets so that the enemies would not hear the transmission. The girl began: - Wave! Wave! I am the Hawk. Can you hear me? There are 15 of us left. Let me leave the encirclement! “Volna” replied: - Hold on, comrades, so that the enemy does not understand that you are not enough. We'll let you know when the path is clear. The next morning, artillery fire began. A shrapnel wounded Shakhruzat in the leg. The leg is swollen. My head was spinning from malnutrition and fatigue. But when, on the eighth night, "Volna" announced the best way to get out of the encirclement, the girl gathered the last of her strength and got up. It was difficult to walk. Shakhruzat's partner Vanyusha took the radio. But she, of course, kept the machine gun with her ... After being wounded, Shakhruzat ended up in the medical unit. While she was being treated, her comrades went far ahead. The girl was sent to the Volkhov front, to the artillery regiment of the 17th artillery division of the reserve of the High Command, to a platoon, where the commander was the Dagestani Biigishi Ibragimov. Biigishi was from the village of Verkhnee Kazanishche. The war began as a pilot of the fifth separate air squadron of the Central Front. In July 1941, he was seriously wounded and was in the hospital. After being wounded, he was forbidden to fly, and he fell into the artillery. Shahruzat was under his command until the end of the battle against fascism. The whole war is near. Together they stormed Berlin and liberated Prague. Front-line friendship has grown into true great love. The young people decided - we will stay alive - we will return to our homeland after demobilization and get married. And now the long-awaited victory. Shahruzat has three medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For Victory over Germany." And Biigishi - the same, and even "For Courage" and two orders - the Red Star and the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. After a while, Shahruzat was demobilized, and Biigishi received leave. Together they go home. 20 days of travel - 20 days of thinking about life, about happiness, memories and hopes. We arrived in Makhachkala at one in the morning. Biigishi put Shakhruzat on a train that was supposed to take her to Inchkhe (from there she was going to get home by a passing car). In parting he shouted to his beloved: “Wait! I'll be there soon!". It would seem that everything is clear: Shahruzat will be a good friend to him. Feeling tested and checked. They shouldn't part. But when Biigishi came to his aul and told his family about his intentions, his father and all his relatives were indignant: “How is that? We don't want a girl from another area. We have prepared a bride for you here. You won't go anywhere! " But Biygishi decided firmly: I will not back down from my word. And he went to his beloved. In Buinaksk he met a friend of his childhood, demobilized Magomed Chegemov (then he was a veterinarian of the Buinaksk state stables, now he works in Makhachkala as the head of the Dagestan republican administration for the procurement and processing of milk). I told him about my misfortune. “Don't worry,” he promised, “I'm taking over negotiations with my family. On the way, the friends met a senior lieutenant - a sergokalin, also a vacationer. He turned out to be Chegemov's study friend and was on his way to see his relatives. In Sergokal, they stayed at the house of the Ramazanovs, the lieutenant's relatives. Biigishi was impatient to see his beloved. They sent for Shahruzat. When the girl entered the house, her eyes lit up with joy: "I have arrived!" And she did not even suspect that such a surprise awaits her here. Then Biigishi and his friends found the girl's father. He worked at a mill three kilometers from the village. Old Kurbanali somehow immediately became imbued with confidence in young people in military uniform. Having listened to Biigishi's story, he said: - Well, I don't mind. The main thing is that you love each other.

Rank: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 186th Polar Infantry Division celebrated Victory Day in Denmark. In September 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He became a signalman of the 186 rifle division of the 71st artillery regiment. He met the Great Patriotic War at the forefront as part of the First Murmansk and then Karelo-Finnish fronts. Here, not far from Kandalaksha, as part of the 205 rifle division under the command of Colonel Boguslavsky, they held the defense. Said Davlyatshinovich remembers the swampy places in the Topozero region. The Germans put forward tanks. They fired powerful artillery fire. On May 15, 1942, Said Izmailov recalls, fleeing from the Nazis in the swamps, they managed to bypass the lake from the northern side. We withstood a terrible attack. They fought in difficult conditions - everywhere there were swamps. the uniform does not dry out. the products ran out. for three days we were on the defensive. We split up in small units and retreated to Louhi station. Four days fought their way ..... Gathering forces went on the offensive. At the Loukhi station, for the liberation of the village, the signalman Said Izmailov received his first military award - the medal "For Courage". Many roads still lay ahead of the soldier. I remember a 10-day hike deep into Finland to the city of Kuusamo. “Believe me,” says Said Davlyatshinovich, “I still remember how my friends and I, the signalmen, rubbed bloody calluses on our backs: after all, the ammunition of the signalmen is not an easy burden. But they endured everything. The liberation of Poland was ahead. 2 of the Ukrainian 3 Belorussian fronts. May 2, 1945 received an order to destroy the German garrison in the city of Rennes on the island of Bornholm in Denmark near the border with Sweden. The task was completed. In Denmark we met the news of the victory of our army and people over Nazi Germany. But for a long time (Said Izmailov demobilized in May 1946) it was necessary to destroy floating mines in the Baltic Sea.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: Artillery. My father was born in the village of Mormyshi into a strong peasant family. In 1919, in May, he was drafted into Kolchak's army, but he fled from Barnaul to Novosibirsk, and then reached the Red Army units in the Urals by rail. And already in August he was enlisted in the Turkestan artillery division, a year later he switched to horse reconnaissance. Taking part in the battles, he reached the Crimea, forced Sevash. Miraculously survived after typhus and was terribly exhausted in December 1922, returned home. Got a family and until 1941 worked as a tractor driver on the collective farm "Memory of Lenin". In 1941 he was mobilized into the 236th Cavalry Regiment as a mortarman. Volkhov Front, Myasnoy Bor, here, within the framework of the unblocking of Leningrad, it was possible to break through the German defense, the soldiers of the Second Shock Army moved into the gap formed and began to rapidly advance in the direction of Lyuban. For the formed corridor, only 3-4 km wide, and sometimes even 300 meters, fierce battles unfolded. And even after many years, dad could not calmly recall that "meat grinder of war", later called "Valley of Death". He could not talk about it, tears did not allow to speak, he waved his hand in despair. And the memory was the medal "For Courage". In February 1942, during a transfer to another line, he was wounded by a direct hit to the wagon by a shell. Frightened horses carried him half-dead from the shelling. He was found by a local resident and sent to the medical battalion. His trachea was interrupted, his ribs were broken. Doctors wondered how he survived. In June, he was discharged from the Izhevsk evacuation hospital. Returning to the orphaned village, he took over the leadership of the collective farm. A telegram dated November 6, 1946, "To the chairman of the collective farm comrade P, F. Igonin. Congratulations to you and your collective farmers on the Great holiday of the 29th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. We express our full confidence in the fulfillment of the festive task of grain-giving." After 1949, dad worked at the Guseletovskaya MTS, and then in the carpentry. Labor awards were added to the military awards. He died in 1993.

Branch: Signal Corps When he was still a child, the family moved to Moscow. In the first grade, he went to the Tushino school on Vishnevaya street, where he graduated from 7 classes. When the war began he was 16 years old. Together with his friend Alexander Chugukov, he fled to the front on August 20, 1941. Both comrades were enrolled in the school of communications. In 1942, Vasily Grigorievich turned 17 and at such a young age he took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. He received his baptism of fire as part of the 62nd Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov. In the battle of Stalingrad, history happened to him. In the dugout, he was assigned an important task. But when he returned, instead of a dugout, he found a huge crater. The commander, having sent Vasily Grigorievich on a mission, thereby saved his life. In this battle, he was wounded and lost his close friend. Subsequently, Vasily Grigorievich was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad". After the Battle of Stalingrad, he took part in the operation "Barration" for the liberation of Belarus, during which the German group "Center" was defeated. Then Vasily Grigorievich, as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front, advanced on Konigsberg from the east. From 6 to 9 April, the troops of the front conducted the Konigsberg operation, as a result of which they captured the fortress city of Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad). For participation in this operation, he was awarded the medal "For the capture of Konigsberg". A little later, the medal "For the victory over Germany and the Order of the Red Star." He graduated from the war with the rank of sergeant, in the military accounting specialty - a specialist in field cable lines and as a squad leader. On December 6, 1948, Vasily Grigorievich married Anna Petrovna Kartamysheva. Subsequently, they had 2 daughters: Ilyukhina Galina Vasilievna (01/07/1951) and Ilyukhina Lyudmila Vasilievna (10/05/1953). After the war, people went to work, to rebuild their country. Vasily Grigorievich worked at the Tushino plant of the Molniya Scientific and Production Association. He was a milling cutter (his civilian specialty). Participated in the creation of the spacecraft "Buran" and was awarded the Order of Labor Glory. Buran made its first and only space flight on November 15, 1988, but Vasily Grigorievich did not find out about it. He passed away on April 2, 1983.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Division: 38th Infantry Division (2nd Formation). During the Great Patriotic War, Ilchenko F.M. was a gunner, assistant chief of the operational department of the headquarters of a rifle division, an army liaison officer, chief of staff of a brigade. Ilchenko Fyodor Mikhailovich took part in battles on the Crimean, Stalingrad, South-East, Don and other fronts. During the Battle of Stalingrad, he was only 22 years old, and he was a senior lieutenant, deputy chief of staff of the 38th separate motorized rifle brigade, which initially had more than five thousand people. After the battle on the Mamayev Kurgan, only 138 of them remained. He went down in history as a man who played an outstanding role in the capture of the headquarters of the 6th German field army and its commander, Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus. The capture of Paulus, according to his grandfather, was pure coincidence. It happens in war. This is the story he told us. Once they took a polyglot-tongue. Once, in one of the cellars, grandfather Fedya and his soldiers covered an enemy infirmary. It turned out that there were officers among the wounded. The captive polyglot-tongue knew many of them by sight. It was from them that we learned that all orders to the German group came from the ruins of a department store behind the "beautiful square" (as the Germans called the Square of the Fallen Fighters in Stalingrad). In the dark on January 31, 1943, Senior Lieutenant Ilchenko, Captain Gritsenko and Lieutenant Mezhirko (two of these officers later died), accompanied by a German parliamentary officer, got into the basement, where there used to be a warehouse for children's toys. It was from this basement, before capitulating, that the field marshal gave Hitler the last radiogram: "My Fuhrer, the Russians are at the door!" A snub-nosed senior lieutenant Ilchenko was waiting for him outside the door. There were few rooms in the basement. In one there is a kind of Paulus's office. There was neatness all around, in the middle there was a table covered with a green cloth, on which a soldier's lamp-smokehouse, made from a shell cartridge, burned. On the bed was an aging, unshaven man in a sweater of an incomprehensible color (in 1943 Paulus was 53 years old). The uniform hung on a chair. There was a cool accordion on the couch nearby. The 40-year-old German general Rosske, who was accompanying his grandfather, quietly said to that peasant only one thing: "The Russian has come!" Paulus got out of bed and squeezed out through force: "This is the final!" The field marshal of the German army surrenders to the Red Army. “So, the final!” - instead of greeting the grandfather said. And the gloomy field marshal nodded his head. By the end of the day, my grandfather accepted the surrender of the commander-in-chief of the fascist group, Field Marshal Paulus himself. Ilchenko F.M. was wounded four times in the war. The wounds were very serious: he lost an eye and for the rest of his life he was reminded of himself by a splinter of a German grenade, which the doctors could not get out of his head. After the war, Fedor Mikhailovich Ilchenko and his family settled in Kiev. The bright memory of Fyodor Mikhailovich will forever remain in our hearts.

Born in 1919 on October 19 in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Erbeysky District in the village of Golushka. He grew up in a large family and, like all boys, he loved to play war games. After graduating from school he entered the school as a radio mechanic. This profession was useful to him in the future. In September 14, 1939, in his twentieth year of life, he was drafted into the army of the Kamsky Military Commissariat of the Krasnodar Territory. Until the end of the service there was a little bit, but the war began. In the rank of petty officer, he continued to fight as the chief of the RSB radio station of the communications platoon of the Company of the Office of the 67th mechanized brigade. He took combat actions on the 2nd Ukrainian Front from 07.11. 1943 to 10.04.1944; on the 2nd Belorussian Front from 11/30/1944. Was awarded: Medal "For Courage" order No. 05 / N 25.12.1943; Order of the Red Star order 06 / H 01/29/1945 He was in the offensive battles of the brigade from 04/27/1945 to 05/05/1945. working as chief on the radio of the brigade headquarters and ensuring uninterrupted radio communication with the corps headquarters. For ten days with a shortage of radio operators - a shift. He showed courage and valor - he put all his strength and knowledge, despite the difficult conditions. Work of the long-distance separation of headquarters from units and subunits during the rapid advance of the brigade and the capture of cities: Noy, Shtrilitz, Likey, Templin, Kraits Krug, Stoin - Kefil and others. Despite the bombing, he continued to keep in touch without leaving the radio station. And therefore he was awarded the government award of the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree. During the period of hostilities on the 2nd Belorussian Front, he proved himself to be a disciplined, authoritative, knowledgeable, brave warrior. In the battles for the city of Konitz, when radio was the only means of communication over long distances, he spared no effort for 6 days in a row without rest and sleep, providing communication. In the battles near the settlement of Kvashin, under heavy artillery raid and machine-gun fire, attacking the command post of the German brigade, Comrade Isakov did not abandon the radio, but continued to keep in touch. For all the time he was in battles, he managed to organize the uninterrupted operation of the radio, which made it possible for the corps command and the brigade to continuously control the unit. Comrade Isakov was awarded the Order of Glory III degree on April 7, 1945. Sergeant Isakov personally took out radio power in all battle conditions and provided his walkie-talkies with in-feed. With his knowledge of the radio business, he found communication in the most difficult conditions, eliminated any malfunctions in the radios. In the battle near Alexandria, when all the battalions' radios stopped working, he provided radio communication of the brigade with the forward positions, calling in artillery fire on the advancing tanks and enemy infantry and transferring the situation to the brigade. By this, he ensured the repulsion of the enemy infantry and tanks counterattack. And for this the medal "For Courage" was awarded a government award. After the war, my father was sent to study for an officer's courses. But he did not want to continue his military career. I got a job as a warehouse manager and worked there until my retirement. He brought up two wonderful children. He died in 1993 at the age of 74.

Rank: Red Army soldier. Type of troops: Artillery. In the fall of 1943, German troops set up two defensive lines (Panther and Tannenberg) near the city of Narva. In early February 1944, Soviet troops reached the border of the Narva River, and only in the middle of summer, after fierce battles, was the Narva operation prepared, which provided for the crossing of this river and the capture of the city of Narva by storm. The Supreme Commander allotted two days to complete this task. A week before the crossing of the water barrier, the army headquarters urgently needed a "tongue" - a captured German officer. The command needed accurate information about the enemy's fortified area. In the deep night of July 20, two signal flares soared into the sky from the enemy side. Soviet and German troops were divided by the water belt of the Narva River. Our side accepted the prearranged signal and began to prepare its man for a special task. A day ago, a group of scouts, ferried by boat across the river, captured a German officer and, following the order, gave a prearranged signal. Sergeant Major Porfiriev lined up his company and asked which of the soldiers could swim. Of the few guys who responded, he opted for Fyodor Ionichev. The fighter was taller than others in stature, strong build. Before sending him for instructions to the commander's dugout, he asked: - Drowned at least once? - There was a case, comrade foreman. - Then everything is all right, you will come. You don't burn in fire, you don't drown in water! The regimental commander gave the last instructions to the young soldier: - You will cross in a boat to the enemy side, take a German on board and quickly return. The scouts will remain in place for another assignment. What they should do next is indicated in this package, give it to the group commander. The colonel gave his hand and as if casually asked: - Swim, if anything, can you at least know how? - I grew up on the Volga, comrade commander, - the soldier smiled. The boat on which the reconnaissance group was transported a day ago was launched. Pushing the package with the order into his bosom and tightening his waist belt tighter, Fyodor sat down on the bench and struck with the oars along the calm surface of the river. In the darkness of the night Fyodor was guided by the river current. Keeping the boat's course at a slight angle against the water rush, he had already begun to distinguish the outlines of the opposite bank when the enemy opened artillery fire. The shell dropped a few meters from the boat. A huge column of water instantly turned the small boat over, and the stunned fighter found himself in the water. The boat was carried away by the current, and Fedor, having lost all hope of her salvation, slowly swam to the shore. The scouts helped the soldier climb the steep bank, and everyone hid for a while in the coastal bushes. They were waiting for the end of the shelling. Passing a wet, but preserved package to the commander, Fyodor looked at the plump German Hauptmann. - We have been ordered to stay here, and you will have to swim with the "tongue", I see no other way out, - said the elder. We made a small raft. The material for this was the flexible twigs of coastal bushes. The dawn broke. The soldiers descended to the river and threw a fragile plexus into the water, more like an ordinary mattress than a reliable floating craft. The German was untied and loaded onto a raft. Fyodor pushed the raft away, and he swam alongside, directing the "tongue" towards the opposite shore. Almost in the middle of the river, a sharp pain suddenly gripped my left leg. He rested on the raft, which, unable to withstand the double weight, began to sink. Frightened for the life of a valuable "tongue", Fedor for a moment let go of the wicker structure, and it began to move away from the soldier downstream. If it were not for the leg, a few powerful hand strokes would have been enough to catch up with the missed raft, but the unbearable pain deprived of physical strength, and the helpless body pulled to the bottom of the river. - I fought back, and missed the "tongue". - Rus, rus, nein. The German was still shouting something in German and rowing desperately with both hands, trying to get closer to the drowning man. Swimming up to the drowning man and, grabbing him, he began to hold him afloat. Fyodor intensively massaged the calf of his leg with his hands, and the pain gradually eased. We sailed to the location of the Soviet troops when it was almost dawn. On the shore, they were met by soldiers led by a lieutenant. - Well done, what a good fellow! - patting the soldier on the wet shirt, the young commander was saying. - He, too, would not hurt to declare gratitude, - Fedor nodded towards Hauptman. For the first time in his life, having betrayed his principles, he shook an enemy soldier by the shoulder.

CITY: der. Staronya Pskov region DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1913 DATE OF DEATH: 01.04.1944 HISTORY: Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops .My great-grandfather Andreev Ivan Klimentievich, born in 1913, a native of the village of Staronya, Karamyshevsky district of the Pskov region, until 1941 was just husband and father of four girls, one of whom was my grandmother Romanova (Andreeva) Nina Ivanovna. In the first days of the 1941 war, Ivan Klimentyevich was called upon to defend his homeland, he was sent to the Leningrad front. He served as a tanker, defended the approaches to Leningrad. In 1943, Ivan Klimentievich went to his sister and asked to give his photograph (which we have preserved) to his wife and children. "We went into battle" were his last words. After that, there was no news from him. Already in 1946, great-grandmother Marusa received a notice: "Your husband, Private Andreev Ivan Klimentyevich, born in 1913, a native of the village of Staronya, Karamyshevsky district of the Pskov region, while at the front of the fight against the German invaders, disappeared in April 1944". Great-grandfather was from a large family. Their family had 7 children (4 brothers and 3 sisters) - Alexey, Vasily, Ivan, Eugene, Pelageya, Galina and the younger Petya. His father Andreev Klimenty Andreevich lived in Leningrad with his youngest son, where they lived during the blockade. Peter died during the war and is buried in Leningrad. Then their father also died, and it is not known where he was buried (it was not found in all documents). Only one of the brothers, Vasily, returned from the war, without a leg, but alive, but he did not live long. The war brought so much pain, bitterness and death to every family of our vast Motherland, but we have always remained and must remain a united people. Even in those difficult years, people were united by a single impulse against a common enemy. When, without any call, not only men, but also old people, children and women took up arms. When any woman knew that she was fighting for a calm motherhood, the well-being of children, for peace for a new person.

CITY: Art. Lomovatka, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/26/1902 DATE OF DEATH: 01/08/1995 HISTORY: Title: Colonel Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Born October 26, 1902 in the village. Lomovatka, Yekaterinoslavskaya province, Yelenovskaya volost, Slavyanoserbsk district (Lomovatka station, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region) - Donbass. Father Andreev Ivan Nikitich from the townspeople of Kasimov, Ryazan province. He worked at the Annensky mine, first as a worker, then as an employee. Andreeva's mother Marta Andreevna is a native of the Saratov province from among workers, a housewife. He began his studies at the mining school at the Annensky mine, where he graduated from the 2nd grade, then studied at the Taganrog Commercial School, where he graduated from the 3rd grade. In 1918, during the occupation of Ukraine and Donbass by the German occupation forces, he left home and, having reached the city of Tambov, entered the service in the Tambov provincial Cheka. He entered the Red Army voluntarily in June 1918, was enlisted as a Red Army soldier in the Gubchek detachment, then in the 1st Lugansk Communist Regiment and the 3rd Lugansk International Regiment as the secretary of the political committee, and in the 532 Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner, head of a machine gun. At the end of 1919, he was appointed commander of a pulverizer platoon and was sent to study at the machine-gun courses "Shot", which he graduated in May 1920. Upon completion of the courses, he was sent to the tank department of the Higher Automotive Armor School, which he graduated from in October 1920 staff positions mainly in tank units. In 1926 he graduated from an external secondary school, a school of mechanical traction in Leningrad and in 1935 academic courses at the Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army. He served in a separate tank division in Kharkov, 9 and 2 tank detachments, armored train number 36 in Tiflis, in the 3rd tank regiment in Moscow, in the mechanized detachment of the Moscow proletarian division and in the 3rd auto-armored division. In 1932 he was appointed to the command directorate of the Red Army, where he served until 1938 in the positions of assistant chief of a sector, assistant chief of a department, and deputy chief of a department. In 1938 he was appointed chief of a department, and then chief of the personnel department of the Main Armored Directorate where he served until 1941. After that he was appointed deputy chief of Minsk and then 2, 4 Ulyanovsk tank schools. In May 1942 he left for the front - he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 5th Tank Army, and after the 5th Tank Army was disbanded he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 12th Army. At the end of 1943, after the disbandment of the 12 armies, he was transferred to the head of the personnel department of the 46th Army. In the fall of 1944, he was appointed head of the personnel department of the Main Automobile Directorate.In the Patriotic War he took part in battles on the Bryansk, Southern and 3 Ukrainian fronts, as part of the 5th Tank, 12th and 46th Army. In the Finnish campaign, he performed a special assignment of the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense for personnel.

CITY: s. Romanovka, Grodno region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1912 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1974 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Colonel Type of troops: Aviation Abramchuk N.I. was born on 20.11.1912 in the village Romanovka of Grodno region in a peasant family. After graduation, he worked at the shipyard named K. Marx in the city of Astrakhan. He graduated from the FZU school, studied at the workers' faculty of the Institute of Water Transport Engineers. In the Soviet Army - since 1932. On the ticket of the Central Committee of the Komsomol in 1933, he was sent to the Engels military aviation school. In 1936 he was assigned to the Far East, served in Primorye. At the front - since June 1941. He fought on the Southwest, Stalingrad, 1st Ukrainian fronts. He made sorties to attack enemy personnel and equipment, provided cover and escort for his bombers and attack aircraft. 08/01/1942 Captain Abramchuk guarded the Stalingrad railway station and, while repelling an attack by a group of enemy aircraft, personally shot down two Ju-88 aircraft. One of the crew members was taken prisoner. Squadron commander of the 894th Fighter Aviation Regiment (101st Air Defense Fighter Air Division of the country's territory) Captain Abramchuk by June 1943 made 239 successful combat missions. Personally shot down 11 enemy aircraft. For the heroism and fearlessness shown in the battles against the German fascist invaders. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.10.1943, Captain N. I. Abramchuk was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, 2 Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, and medals. After the war, N.I. Abramchuk served in jet aviation. Since 1954, Lieutenant Colonel Abramchuk is in reserve. He lived in Kiev. He died in 1974.

CITY: s. Sukhaya Bugurna, Simbirsk district, Simbirsk province DATE OF BIRTH: 21.08.1908 DATE OF DEATH: 08.12.1998 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 121st Rylsko-Kievskaya Rifle Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. My grandfather was mobilized into the army in January 1942 by the Bogdashinsky district military enlistment office and sent to the 25th Guards Training Battalion. From February to August 1943, he studied at the courses for junior lieutenants of the Voronezh Front, after which he was assigned to the active army. As commander of the mortar and rifle platoons of the 574th rifle regiment of the 121st rifle division, he fought on the Voronezh, 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts. He took part in the Proskurovsko-Chernivtsi, Lvov-Sandomierz, West Carpathian offensive operations, the liberation of Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia, the cities of Ostropol, Zborov, Lvov and many other small and large settlements. Was wounded twice. In February 1944, for courage and heroism shown in battles during the Kiev operation, Junior Lieutenant Albutov was awarded the first military award - the Order of the Red Star. A few months later, the command again presented him for the award, noting the following merits: “When breaking through the enemy defense in the Zhitnitsa-Severni sector on 03/04/1944, a platoon under the command of Comrade Albutov destroyed up to 1 platoon of the Nazis and suppressed 2 heavy machine guns. In the battle of 03/09/1944 near the town of Letichev, Comrade Albutov,for a whole day, having moved forward with a mortar platoon, held back under the hurricane tank and machine-gun fire of the counter-attacking enemy, and destroyed up to 50 Nazis, suppressed two enemy firing points. For stamina and decisiveness in battle, comrade Albutov was awarded a government award of the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. " The commander of the 574th Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Sparrow. On May 19, 1944, by order of the commander of the 38th Army, Junior Lieutenant Albutov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Continuing to participate in the battles, Lieutenant Albutov took command of one of the rifle platoons as part of his regiment. Once again he distinguished himself during the battles on the territory of Poland during the liberation of the town of Nowy Sacz: “When breaking through the enemy's defense on January 15, 1945 and in subsequent battles, Comrade Albutov showed examples of courage and valor. In the battle for the town of Gribow, a platoon of comrade Albutov was the first to overcome the enemy's defenses and put the enemy to flight. In this battle, the platoon destroyed: 1 easel and 2 light machine guns and destroyed 11 Nazis. In subsequent battles, Comrade Albutov captured 2 prisoners and 1 enemy light machine gun. For these actions, Comrade Albutov is worthy of a government award - the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. The commander of the 574th Lviv Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Vorobei. On January 30, 1945, however, the level of the award for this submission was subsequently significantly increased, as a result of which, by order of the commander of the 38th Army No. 012 / n dated February 22, 1945, the commander of the rifle platoon of the 574th Lvov rifle regiment of the 121st rifle Rylsko -Kiev Red Banner Division Lieutenant Albutov V.D. was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky No. 27643. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, in November 1945 he was transferred to the reserve. He returned to his homeland, to the Ulyanovsk region. In the village of Krotovka, Isheevsky district, he worked as the chairman of the local village council. Lieutenant Albutov V.D. - Chevalier of the Orders of Alexander Nevsky, Patriotic War II, I degree and the Red Star. He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and several commemorative medals.

CITY: city of Astrakhan DATE OF BIRTH: 07/11/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 10/21/1995 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Aleksandrov Konstantin Yakovlevich was born in 1923 in Astrakhan. In addition to him, there were two more children in the family - the elder brother Ignat ( 1911) and sister Lydia (1926). Before the war, Konstantin finished 7 classes of high school, worked, like his older brother, at a construction site. When the war began, their father was no longer alive. In the fall of 1941 Ignat was called up. Konstantin worked in the rear for another year until he was 18 years old, and in the summer of 1942 he was also drafted by the Stalinist Military Commissariat, Astrakhan. At this time, the Battle of Stalingrad began, and young soldiers who were not fired were taught the basics of military science in their training fate, then they were sent to harvest in the fields, then again to training, and only after the end of the Stalingrad operation in the winter of 1943 they were sent to the front. Like Ignat, Konstantin became an artilleryman, only he served not in the cavalry, but in the motor artillery as a gunner of a 76-mm anti-tank gun as part of the 1250th Order of Lenin of the Sevastopol Fighter Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, the 35th Separate Fighter-Anti-Tank Artillery Sevastopol Brigade of the High Command Reserve Brigade. Konstantin fought from Krasnoperekopsk to Sevastopol, liberated the Crimea, liberated the Baltic states, took part in the battles for the capture of Konigsberg, participated in the defeat of the Japanese in Mongolia. According to order no .: 19 / n of November 18, 1944, Konstantin was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for the fact that "in a fierce battle near the village of Tolzo in Estonia, under the fire of the Nazis, he brought shells to a gun standing on direct fire, and this provided fulfillment of the assigned combat mission ". A month later, by order No. 20 / n of December 25, 1944, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the fact that "in the battle for the city of Valmiera in Latvia, he replaced the wounded gunner and destroyed 1 machine gun and two German infantry squads with direct fire." Two months later, on February 14, 1945, in heavy bloody battles for the Prussian city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) near the village of Maraunen Konstantin, "while repelling the enemy's counterattack, despite the strongest shelling of the Nazis, coolly pointed a gun and shot the advancing German infantry point-blank." As a result, the fire of his guns "destroyed 20 enemy soldiers and officers and repelled a counterattack. Continuing to fire," Junior Sergeant Aleksandrov helped our infantry move forward and occupy an advantageous line. For courage, courage and skillful actions in battle, he was presented with the Order of the Red Star, but in fact he was awarded the second medal For Courage (Order No. 3 / n of February 28, 1945). For military services, in addition to the above, Konstantin was also awarded medals "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For victory over Germany", "For victory over Japan" (order of June 09, 1945), the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (archive doc No. 89 of 04/06/1985, Order No. 3285750 - stolen, like one of the medals "For Courage"). The long-awaited Victory Day on May 9, 1945, Konstantin met in Konigsberg with the rank of sergeant, but was demobilized only in September 1947 in Mongolia. After the war, he returned to his sister and mother in Mariupol, in the fall of 1947. entered a worker at the Mariupol fish plant. He was sent to a 6-month course for marinade masters and fish processing masters, after which he became an assistant master in the Shirokino fish shop (Shirokino village, Novoazovsky district, Donetsk region). He married Nikolayenko Ekaterina Semyonovna. In 1954 he was sent for a year to study at the Riga Fish Technical School, specializing as a master technologist of the fishing industry. Lived and worked as a caviar master in the village of Shirokino. Three children: Ivan (born 1953), Olga (1955-1958), Elena (born 1959). He died in 1995, was buried in the village of Shirokino