Faces of war

Shalamov Pyotr Andreevich. Was born in 1905 in Shalamovo village. Collective farm accountant. Drafted into the army in 1942, Kirovo. Private, shooter, 328 rifle regiment. He fought on the north of Stalingrad, on the Don river, in Donbass. On February 25, 1943 he was wounded. He was awarded of the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, the medal "For Victory over Germany".

SAMOKHIN PAVEL ALEXANDROVICH (1911-1971) Born in Baklanovskaya station. On April 19, 1944, a rifle company under the command of Guards Lieutenant Samokhin captured a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester near Varnitsa village (Moldova). In the battle, three enemy counterattacks were repulsed, more than 60 Nazis and several tanks were destroyed. He died on December 15, 1971, was buried in Rostov-on-Don.

SAMOKHIN PETR FILATOVICH (1911-1943) Captain. Born in Kudinov village. In the area of the village of Grachevka, Oryol region, having burst with a battalion into the enemy's defenses in hand-to-hand combat, he personally destroyed 13 Nazis and 2 machine-gun crews, personally raised his battalion into the attack 5 times. He ensured the fulfillment of the task. Killed in action while repelling an enemy counterattack in the battle for Reutovo village on July 29, 1943.

ANISIMOV VASILY KONDRATIEVICH (1912-1976) Born in 1912 in Dubovskoe village. He served on the fronts of the Patriotic War since February 1944. He fought on the 1st Belorussian Front. By January 1945, the tank crew of the guard first sergeant Anisimov knocked out over 20 guns, 7 tractors, 7 mortars, destroyed 12 machine-gun points, 9 steam locomotives, 150 carriages and 800 enemy soldiers and officers. He died on April 10, 1976 in Poltava.

Egorov Alexanser Petrovich (1910-1943) Commander of a destroyer anti-tank artillery battery. Born on May 16, 1910 in Korolyov village. He served on the Southwest, Stalingrad, Bryansk and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He died in the battle for the liberation of Chopovichi village. Egorov's battery blocked the path of 20 enemy tanks, destroying 16 of them. He was buried together with his comrades in a mass grave.

The photo shows my grandfather (second from the left in a hat), still young, 19 years old, but already a commander, with his squad. The photo was taken in 1944.

Ivanov Luka Antonovich. Second Sergeant. The photo was taken after the war.

Lukin Yakov Lukich. Died near Mozhaisk 01/20/1942

Nikolai Fedorovich Tselinsky drafted into the Red Army in August 1941. Nikolai was eighteen years old. Before the war, he graduated eight classes and entered the Ordzhonikidze technical school of communications. Drafted into the army. Firstly he served in the rear, and after completing the courses for junior command personnel, he got into the company of machine gunners of the 1116th rifle regiment, which was part of the 9-10th army. In May 1942 he participated in heavy battles near Kharkov on the Izyumo-Barvenkovo direction. Then there was a difficult path of retreat.

Tsybulin Stepan Petrovich, Captain, commander of the rifle battalion of the 124th Separate Rifle Brigade of the Stalingrad Front was born in 1913. A native of Maisky village, Kabardino-Balkaria. In the Red Army he served as a soldier since 1933. Since June 1941 he served as a battalion commander in rifle divisions. He was twice wounded and shell-shocked. In the August battles of 1942, the Tsybulin battalion was tasked to imitate reconnaissance in force and take the settlement, which was defended by superior enemy forces.

Soviet serviceman V.Kunitsyn is at an anti-tank gun, Kerch, April 1944. Photo by Max Alpert, Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Naval pilots of the 63rd Long-range Heavy Bomber Aviation Brigade under the command of Major Genreal, Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Tokarev have a meal on an airfield, 1943.

The "T-34" tank crew commander Vasily Sarafonov, Port Arthur Photo by The "T-34" tank crew commander Vasily Sarafonov, Port Arthur/TASS

Chudinov Alexander Vasilievich

E.F. Kramarev was a collective farmer of the Parizhskaya Kommuna agricultural cartel of the Kalacheyevsky District of the Voronezh Region, who bought a Red Army tank at his own expense (portrait with the crew of the S-172 tank). 1943