Order of the Red Banner

Kharitonov Valentin Pavlovich Kharitonov Valentin Pavlovich (1896-1941), 1941-1942 - Captain, battalion commander of the 7th Marine Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet. Killed in action on 12/20/1941. Posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Kosteev Peter Illarionovich was born on 12.07.1918 in Staro-Tyaberdino village of Tatar ASSR. In 1930 together with his dispossessed parents he was sent to Magnitogorsk city of Chelyabinsk region. From there he was drafted into the ranks of the CA on 04.06.1941. In the active army since 22.06.1941. He fought at the North-Western (from 2.1942), 2nd Baltic (from 11.1943) and Leningrad (from 6.1944) fronts. He was slightly wounded three times. He was twice awarded the breastplate "Excellent Engineer". From February 1942 he was a sapper in 223rd minzhba. Lance corporal. He was a member of the Komsomol. While providing combat operations 370 Sd (8.1943) under machine-gun and mortar fire, he participated in the concentration of transfer vehicles. When the instructor of the company was wounded, he began to carry out his duties: he provided medical assistance and takin the wounded from the battlefield. The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel K.V. Sokolov, was presented (21.8.1943) and was awarded the Medal "For Courage" ( № 43 of 6.9.1943, 370cd of the North-Western Front). While conducting engineering reconnaissance of the enemy's front edge for the presence of mine fences, a group of sappers was found by the enemy sentry, who raised the alarm and opened automatic fire. He gave the command to the group to retreat, hiding behind the fire from the assault rifles, he and the Lance Corporal V.A. Soldatov secretly crawled aside and continued the task. The battalion commander, Major I.I. Pyshchev, awarded him (7.2.1944) the medal "For Courage" and was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd Article (Prospect № 43 of 17.2.1944, 22A). Reconnaissance engineer 223 minzhba. To prevent the forcing of the Great River by breaking the ice in the 33cd band, the enemy set up blasts (16.3.1944), which were detected by Kosteyev's group at night (17.31944). Having received the task to save the ice from the destruction Kosteyev with a group (6 people) neutralized and brought to their shore 60 blasts. The enemy, finding the loss, the next night set 30 blasts, which were also sent to their shore by the sappers. The ice was saved before it was forced. Vrio battalion commander Major A.D. Samoylyuk awarded him (28.3.1944) the Order of Glory of the 2nd century, also he was awarded the medal "For Merit in Combat" (Prospect № 70 of 5.4.1944 22A). Reconnaissance engineer of 17 separate motorized reconnaissance company 17 shisbr. While conducting reconnaissance by combat (9.6.1944) he fulfilled the task of drawing up a scheme of the enemy defense behind the second trench. Under the fire of the enemy, running through the trenches, he put fire points and fences on the scheme of the trench. The company commander, Senior Lieutenant I.M. Dryakhlushin was awarded (10.6.1944) the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (Ave. № 95/n dated 2.7.1944, 21A). 1944 – he was sent to the Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov Institute of Oriental Studies in Kostroma. Cadet of 8th company. Sergeant 22.5.1945 – he graduated from the Zhdanov Leningrad A.A. Zhdanov Institute of Oriental Studies. Junior lieutenant. After the end of WWII, he served in the Kaliningrad region of the Lithuanian SSR. He worked in the Sverdlovsk region of the town of Talitsa in administrative positions. He lived from 1969 to 1984 in the village of Preobrazhenskoye, Krasnogvardeisky district, Krasnodar region. In recent years he lived in Talitsa. There he died and was buried in 1986. His children are Mikhail and Vitaly.

Title: Red Army man. Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Division: 150th Infantry Division of the Idritz-Berlin Kutuzov Order. Viktor G. Karbulov lived in the village of Uryum, Tetyusha district, Republic of Tatarstan, participant of the Great Patriotic War, holder of the Order of the Red Banner - this very important military award. He was a Red Army soldier, rifleman of 756th rifle regiment of 150th rifle division of Idritsk. V.G. Karbulov recalls "...I was conscripted into the army in June 44 and enrolled in a special combat battalion. Why only in 1944? I wasn’t tall, they didn’t want me in the beginning, then they needed me, the war required human reserves. Then I was trained for 2.5 months to become a paratrooper. But when the time came to use me in practice, I was expelled - I did not have enough weight. I got into the marching company. And immediately on the front line. Our troops were actively attacking. We liberated Poland. There were fierce battles on the approaches to Warsaw. Each house was like a fortress here. In one of the hard battles, which even hurts to remember, we were surrounded. From 68 people of our company only 15 survived by a miracle. Among them was I. When our troops broke through the ring of entourage, the Germans, retreating, destroyed everything on their way. And, of course, were ruthless to us, the soldiers. In the battle for Kunersdorf under strong fire of the enemy Karbulov was the first to cross the water border. He broke into the heavily fortified point of the enemy and destroyed 10 Hitlerites. When the ammo ran out, he opened fire from a trophy machine gun and provided the crossing for his unit. In the battle the squad leader was seriously injured and Karbulov took command, broke through with his department in the German trench, crushed the machine-gun point with grenades and set a red flag at a height. Karbulov held back furious German attacks for 10 hours until the unit approached. For this fight, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and has an award sheet for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

My great-grandfather along my father's line, Mikhail Nikolaevich Kruglov (1905 - 1966 years of life). Place of birth: the city of Leningrad. In the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since November 1927. Place of call: Rzhevsky GVK, Kalininskaya Oblast (today Tver Oblast), city of Rzhev. Title: Lieutenant Colonel. Participant in the Soviet-Japanese War. Awarded the following awards: 1) "Order of the Red Star" (2); 2) "Order of the Red Banner"; 3) Medal "For the victory over Japan"; 4) "Order of Lenin"; 5) Jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; 6) Jubilee medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy". "Comrade Kruglov, working as an agitator of the political department of the Army, showed himself on the positive side. He treats his work in good faith. During the battles against Japanese imperialism, Comrade Kruglov worked a lot in units, delivered informative lectures and speeches to the personnel, explained Comrade Stalin's demands, combat operations on the fronts, the strength and power of our state and the Red Army. He cultivated hatred to Japanese imperialism among the personnel. In addition, he did a lot of work with the wounded in hospitals, answering their questions," for which he was awarded the "Order of the Red Star" 27 / n 30.09.1945. (From the award order and accompanying documents from http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/ [ http://podvignaroda.mil.ru/ ] ). He married my great-grandmother Kruglova Elizaveta and had 3 children: 2 sons and 1 daughter. Later his grandson was named after his grandfather, Mikhail Nikolaevich. Despite the fact that my great-grandfather was not directly involved in the Great Patriotic War, he made a significant contribution to the defense of our homeland during the Second World War. I did not see my great-grandfather in life, but I am very proud of his feat and that of all our people! Your feat is immortal! REMEMBER! LOVE! PROUD! The information is provided by great-granddaughter Kruglova Julia. Hear me from the depths of time, You are my native, my legendary great grandfather! And from a height, looking at the the world, Find yourself among other names. I am proud to stand in the Immortal Regiment, because the memory of you is sacred to the heart, and to remember the feat of each soldier for the great-grandsons of Victory is the highest duty! Let the people of my country stand in formation, let them remember the villages, towns, villages of their heroes, righteous faces, full of great dignity. May their glory survive for centuries, May our children remember it, May they know the price of that holy Victory, May they stand in the ranks of the Immortal Regiment!

My grandfather, Yuri Nikolaevich Kharchev, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Was born in 1919 in the city of Velikiye Luki. In 1941 he graduated from the first Leningrad Artillery School (LAO) with the rank of lieutenant. From the first days of the war he commanded a company of intelligence officers on the Leningrad front. Once, having occupied a height on the Nevsky patch, his company corrected the fire of our artillery and was surrounded. Yuri Nikolaevich, with minimal losses, took people and equipment out of the environment, for which he would be awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and he himself was seriously wounded. Extract from the order: “Comrade Kharchev, being the platoon commander of the headquarters battery, carried out his reconnaissance to enemy territory six times, always obtaining important information about the enemy and showing great composure, courage, valor and skillfully directed the actions of the entire reconnaissance group ... always after receiving the order to withdraw the battery, he was the last to leave the battle, covering the entire group. In one of the reconnaissance, Comrade Kharchev with the Red Army soldier Gavrilov, covering the battery withdrawal, held back a strong enemy attack together, while killing eleven soldiers. The next time Kharchev, going deep into enemy territory with a telephone set, adjusted the fire of our artillery. The enemy not only opened weapons and machine-gun fire, but also launched mortars, mines exploded nearby, covering Kharchev with earth, but he continued to adjust the artillery fire. For bravery, courage and useful data obtained in intelligence, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In 1937, Ivan Mikhailovich was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces. He was sent to Saratov at the Red Banner Command Tank School. At the beginning of June 1941 he graduated from college and was sent for further service to the city of Vilnius in Lithuania. He arrived at the unit on June 18, and already on June 20, their tank unit was standing on the western border and was waiting for something. There was already talk that there would be a war. On June 22, 1941, at 4:00 am, shooting began, German reconnaissance aircraft circled in the air. Here they already learned that they would fight the Germans. The western group of troops was surrounded, many soldiers were captured. Ivan Mikhailovich was shell-shocked, but did not lie in the hospital, as he simply was not there. Only at the end of August 1941, they managed to get out of the encirclement with battles in the area of ​​Bryansk. Here he received a direction to leave for Voronezh, and from there to Stalingrad. His regiment took part in the defense of Stalingrad, for which all participants were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and a commemorative badge. The Battle of Stalingrad for many of its participants was a school of courage and courage. After the defeat of the Germans, the regiment was sent to the city of Kurgan to train tank crews for the front. Ivan Mikhailovich fought on the BT-7 tank and taught young specialists to manage it. The war went on, the equipment changed, the T-34 tanks began to be produced. To teach people, you had to retrain yourself. In 1944 he was sent to Leningrad to an armored school, from which he graduated in May 1945. There he met the joyful news of the long-awaited victory. Few people survived the war, returned without injuries and wounds. Ivan Mikhailovich burned twice in the tank and was shell-shocked. After the war, he served in Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, was demobilized with the rank of major. He returned to his homeland, worked as chairman of the village council in Baldeyka, then the regional party committee sent him to Gybdan as director of the timber industry enterprise. In 1962, he transferred to the Kizner military unit and worked as the head of security. From here I went on a well-deserved rest. Ivan Mikhailovich lived a long and heroic life, together with his wife they raised and raised four daughters. He died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 85. Awarded with medals: "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree.

Ivanov Vladimir Alekseevich, senior sergeant. Born in 1919 in the city of Belev, Tula region. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, and medals.

Emelyanov Vasily Sergeevich, was born on September 25, 1919, in Kirovograd. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1939 from the city of Kharkiv, served in the Odessa military district, in a tank unit as a t-34 driver. Participated in military operations to liberate Bessarabia from the Romanian occupation. The beginning of the War in 1941 found him in the city of Nikolaev. The tank unit where he served held the defense, but was defeated by the enemy. The unit was returned to Kharkiv for re-formation, where it was equipped with equipment and created 2 tank brigades for the defense of the city of Kharkiv. On the other front line were 4 German Panzer divisions. There were heavy battles, the city of Kharkiv changed hands twice, and as a result, our tank units were defeated. He continued to fight in the infantry division. In 1942, he was wounded, and on his return from the hospital to the army, he fought near Voronezh on the Steppe front. Since August 1943, he again serves in a tank unit, takes part in the liberation of his native Kharkiv. After difficult battles for the city, the unit moves further to Kiev. At the end of December 1943, as part of the 1st Ukrainian front under the command of army General Nikolai Fedorovich Vatutin, he participated in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. In the battle, his tank was hit again, and again wounded. After treatment, the red army man is transferred to ZIS-5 and entrusted to carry the guard of General Vatutin. In 1944, again in a tank division, he participated in the liberation of the Polish cities of Lublin and Radom, for which his division was awarded the title of Guards Radom. In these battles, the tank is hit again, again in the infantry and again wounded, hospital and again to the front. In May 1945, he reached Berlin on a tank, signed on the Brandenburg gate "We are from Kharkiv!". After the Victory day, he was sent to continue his service in the garrison, which was stationed on the island of rügen, Germany, where he was on combat duty to detain saboteurs from German submarines still cruising in Baltic waters until 1946. He finished his service in 1947 in Konigsberg, in the song and dance ensemble of the Baltic military district. Passing the stages of the combat path, he received 4 injuries, 2 of which were severe. For participation in combat operations has awards: "Order of Glory" III degree and II degree, "Order of the red banner", "Order of the red Star", medals" for bravery "and "for military merit". In January 1970 he was awarded jubilee medals: "Twenty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He died on September 19, 1981 and was buried in the city of Yenakievo.

Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of military: Air Forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, the troops of the NKVD, Border Guards. Division: 99th rifle division (1st formation). Born on 29 (17) 05.1916 in Yaroslavl. Alexey Nikolaevich Kuvyrkin - photographer of the Association "Yaroblfoto", honorary citizen of Yaroslavl in the 20th century, excellent service life, master of the highest class. He was the first photographer of the region to be awarded this high and honorary title. He started to study photography as a child, in the photo club named after the III international. He built his first camera with his own hands from plywood and a magnifying glass based on diagrams from the newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda when he was ten years old. The Soviet industry did not produce them yet, and it was not affordable to buy imported ones. At the age of 14, Alyosha Kuvyrkin was considered so experienced that he was accepted to work in a company serving the drama theater named after F. G. Volkov. In 1937, Alexey Kuvyrkin was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in the 297th rifle regiment from October 1937 to June 1940. And in the army, he never parted with a camera. The camera was his faithful friend during the training courses of political instructors, which he took from June 1940 to October 1940. He was discharged in the reserve in October 1940 And on June 22, 1941 was mobilized by the Przemysl RVC of the Stanislavsky region. The War for him did not start on the first day – in the first minute of it. From 22.06.1941 to July 1941 he served in the 1st rifle regiment as a Deputy commander of a rifle company, from July 1941 to August 1941 in the political Department of the 99th rifle division as an instructor. He was captured and released in 1945. August 23-September 3, 1945 he was in the 232 verification and filtration point of the NKVD of the USSR in Zygon, Germany. Ended service in the army two and a half years after Victory Day. Travel documents were already issued to Yaroslavl, as he was urgently called to the authorities:- "We can't give orders, but we ask you to understand that it is very necessary to perform a responsible task. In Your specialty. "The Nuremberg trials, the trials of German war criminals, were approaching. It was necessary to present evidence of their atrocities. Alexey Kuvyrkin traveled around Germany, shooting terrible pictures in Sachsenhausen, huge boxes full of gold teeth knocked out of prisoners. He shot Hitler's bunker in Berlin and the funnel where the Fuhrer's remains were found (later the DEF film Studio used these images in a special film). In the post-war years, the main theme of Alexey Kuvyrkin's photographs was architecture. Alexey Nikolaevich collaborated with the restoration workshop. During the Soviet years, many books were illustrated with his photographs. This is a lot of guidebooks, album-monograph "Frescoes of Yaroslavl", collections "Monuments of the Volga region", "Palekh miracle". And for the illustrations to the book "Stone tales", their author was awarded a diploma of the all-Russian exhibition of book art. His photographs of historical and cultural monuments in the last century were known to each specialist, they were considered a model, a standard among professionals. Alexey Nikolaevich Kuvyrkin during his career brought up several dozen followers, who also later became masters of their craft. For his contribution to the development of photography. Kuvyrkin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

In 1937, Ivan Mikhailovich was drafted into the Armed forces. He was sent to Saratov to the Red Banner collective tank school. In early June 1941, he graduated from the school and was sent for further service to the city of Vilnius in Lithuania. He arrived at the unit on June 18, and on June 20, their tank unit was already standing on the Western border and waiting for something. There was already talk that there would be a war. On June 22, 1941, at 4 o'clock in the morning, shooting began, German reconnaissance planes circled in the air. At this moment, they knew that they would fight the Germans. The Western troops were surrounded, many soldiers were captured. Ivan Mikhailovich was contused, but he was not taken to the hospital, as there was simply no hospital. Only at the end of August 1941, they managed to fight their way out of the encirclement around Bryansk. There he was received an order to go to Voronezh, and from there, to Stalingrad. His regiment participated in the defense of Stalingrad, for which all the participants were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and a commemorative badge. The battle of Stalingrad taught many of its participants courage and bravery. After the defeat of the Germans, the regiment was sent to the city of Kurgan to train tank crews for the frontlines. Ivan Mikhailovich fought on the BT-7 tank and trained young specialists to operate it. The war was going on, the equipment was changing, and T-34 tanks were being produced. To teach people, you had to retrain yourself. In 1944, he was sent to Leningrad to the panzer school, from which he graduated in May 1945. There he got the joyful news of the long-awaited victory. Few people survived the war and returned without injuries. Ivan Mikhailovich burned twice in the tank and suffered a concussion. After the war, he served in Germany, Belarus, and Ukraine, and was discharged with the rank of major. He returned home, worked as a Chairman of the Village Council in Baldat, then the district committee sent him to Gubden as the director of forestry. In 1962, he transferred to the Kizner military unit and worked as a security chief. There, he, finally, went on his well-deserved retirement. Ivan Mikhailovich lived a long and heroic life, together with his wife they raised and supported four daughters. He died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 85. He was awarded with medals: "For bravery", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"," Order of the Red Star"," Order of Lenin"," Order of the Red Banner", "Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree".

Pavel Selin was born in the village of Vozdvizhenka in the Ponomarevskiy District of the Chkalov Region on July 18, 1918. After completing seven classes, Pavel studied in Buguruslan at the school of agricultural machine operators, after which he worked on a collective farm in Vozdvizhenka on a harvester. In 1938, he was called up by the Ponomarevskiy District Military Enlistment Office to join the Red Army in the tank forces. But the peace service was disrupted by the war. Pavel received his first baptism of fire on the territory of Belarus near Minsk, as a mechanic-driver of a BT-7 tank. It was a shock division, and therefore Pavel Makarovich took part in the defense of Moscow and Stalingrad, where the fiercest battles took place. Received medals For the Defense of Moscow, For the Defense of Stalingrad. At Stalingrad, the tank crew, where Selin was the driver, destroyed three enemy tanks and five artillery pieces with their personnel and more than 200 Hitlerites. For his brave actions, Pavel was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic war of the 1st degree on 09.02.1943. Then the division was transferred to the Caucasus, where he was awarded the medal For the Defense of the Caucasus. At the end of 1943, Pavel participated in operation 140 TTTpp. Pursuing the enemy, his tank broke into the firing positions of German batteries. Eight guns with personnel were crushed by the tracks of the KV-85 tank, and 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. But in an unequal battle, the tank was hit, and the tank commander was also killed. However, Pavel continued the fight. Although he was seriously wounded, overcoming pain, repelled 2 enemy counterattacks, was shell-shocked, and only when the tank caught fire, jumped out of it. He was injured in both legs, and then in the hospital they were amputated to his knees. The command highly appreciated him and awarded Pavel for his unparalleled courage and heroism in the fight against the German invaders with the medals For Bravery (12.01.1943), For Military Merit, the Order of the Red Banner of Battle (20.02.1944) and the Order of Lenin (03.04.1944). Pavel did not fight any longer, and returned home disabled. For some time he worked as a clerk in the Personnel Department of Ponomarev Agricultural Machinery. Then he married Matrena Bazulina, built a house with his wife in the village of Vozdvizhenka, where he lived with his family and children - the eldest daughter Nadezhda, and son Sergey, born on March 22, 1961. He died on July 26, 1987. He was buried in the village of Vozdvizhenka of the Ponomarevsky District of the Orenburg Region.

Rank: Major General of Aviation _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ Ivan Karpovich Starostenkov (01/29/1900 - 08/07/1975) is a Soviet military leader, Major General of Aviation. _x000D_ The biography of Ivan Karpovich starts at the beginning of the 20th century, he was born in the small village of Vydritsa, Mstislavsky district, Mogilev province. Coming from a simple peasant family, his father Starostenkov Karp Kireevich, mother Glafira Yakovlevna. In June 1919, he was drafted by the Khislavichsky Commissariat of the Smolensk Region into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. During the Civil War, he fought on the Eastern Front, a Red Army Soldier of a stage company of the 49th stage Battalion, and in December 1920 he was appointed assistant platoon Commander of the 46th Rifle Regiment. In May 1921, he was appointed Commander of an administrative platoon of a training and personnel sapper company stationed in Mtsensk. From December of the same year, he consistently studied at the Military Railway School, from December 1922 he was at the Yegoryevsk Theoretical Aviation School, from March 1924 he was at the 2nd Borisoglebsk Military Pilot School, and from June 1926 he was at the Shooting and Bombing School, stationed in Serpukhov. _x000D_ After graduation in February 1929, he was appointed to the position of a Junior Pilot of the 16th Reconnaissance Air Squadron, in October was transferred to the position of Flight Commander of the 15th fighter Air Squadron, in February 1933 occupied to the position of detachment Commander of the 7th cruising Air Squadron, and in February 1937 he was the Commander of the 1st Fighter Squadron. In June 1938, Starostenkov was appointed Commander of the 6th Fighter Squadron of Special Aviation, in June 1939—as Commander of the 36th Aviation Regiment (36th Aviation Division), and in January 1941—as Commander of 27 1st Fighter Aviation Division (Transcaucasian Military District). _x000D_ With the outbreak of the war, Starostenkov was in his former position. The Division under his command covered the facilities of Baku and the oil-bearing area within the boundaries of the 3rd Air Defense Corps. With the transformation of the Division into the 8th Air Defense Corps by July, Starostenkov was appointed Commander of the 66th Fighter Aviation Division on July 9, which in August was included in the Southern Front. In November 1941, he was appointed Commander of the 144th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Division, formed in Rasskazovo, after graduation from which, by November 20, the management and part of the division were relocated to the Saratov Air Center, where they were included in the Saratov-Balashov Air Defense Divisional District. _x000D_ The division performed the combat missions of air defense of industrial facilities in Saratov and Balashov, railway bridges across the Volga at Saratov and through Khoper at Balashov, railway junctions and sections of the railway within the boundaries of the divisional air defense area, and also escorted especially important aircraft. _x000D_ In March 1943, Starostenkov was appointed Commander of the 148th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Division, which, as part of the Cherepovets-Vologda Air Defense Divisional Area, defended the cities and railway junctions of Cherepovets, Vologda, Kadui, Babaevo and Efimovskaya, and the Bolshoy Dvor railway stations from air attacks. , Lezha, Nyandoma and Gryazovets and objects of railway communications, and since May 1943, after opening the Sheksna and Sukhona rivers, as well as channels for navigation, additional combat missions of the Division were to cover ships in the water section Myaksa - Cherepovets - Sheksna - Kirillov - Kubenskoe Lake - Sokol - Shuiskoe - Selische - Totma. In July 1943, the Division was included in the Air Force of the Western Front of the Air Defense. In August 1943, Colonel Starostenkov Ivan Karpovich was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the award list says: “Disciplined, demanding of himself and his subordinates, a Commander with organizational skills. _x000D_ On October 10, 1942, during an enemy air attack on the city of Grozny, being the duty officer at the command depot, he promptly raised fighters to repel a raid and skillfully directed the attack of fighters on enemy aircraft, as a result of which there were 22 enemy aircraft in air battles. In November of the same year, the Division's Command was redeployed to Kursk, where it was included in the 9th Voronezh Fighter Air Defense Corps, after which the Division performed the combat missions of air cover for the railway junctions of Bakhmach, Konotop, Belopole, Lgov, Kursk, Voronezh and Liski. railway bridges across the Don in the Liski Region. _x000D_ In July 1944, Starostenkov was appointed Commander of the 8th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Corps, which was part of the Air Force of the Transcaucasian Air Defense Front and performed air defense missions within the borders of the Baku Air Defense Army. In the combat characteristics, it was noted: “... flies on all modern aircraft, both domestic and foreign brands. The flying technique is good. He understands quickly combat situations and makes the right decisions. Under the command of I. K. Starostenkov building for 1943-44 received and overtaken more than 1000 aircraft of foreign brands, which were also ferried from Iran to the USSR for the units of the Red Army Air Defense Agency. _x000D_ In August 1944 he was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner. After the end of the war, Starostenkov continued to command the corps, which was transformed into the Baku Air Defense Aviation Corps. In March 1950, he was appointed head of the combat training Department of higher educational institutions of the Air Force of the South Ural Military District, and in February 1952, he was appointed Deputy head of the Flight Service and Air Law Directorate of the Air Force General Staff. Major General Ivan Karpovich Starostenkov in June 1953 went into the reserve. He passed away on August 7, 1975 in Moscow. Awards: Order of Lenin; Four Orders of the Red Banner; medals.

Rank: Major, Hero of the Soviet Union _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 100th Infantry Division of the Order of Lenin. _x000D_ Egemkul Tasanbaevich Tasanbayev was born on February 23, 1917 in a peasant family in the village of Kazygurt, South Kazakhstan Region ... From December 1941 to January 1947 he participated in the Great Patriotic War and hostilities on the Far Eastern Front. From July to December 1941 he passed training at the Tashkent Military Tank School and was sent to Almaty, where, along with other officers, he took up the formation of the 100th Separate Infantry Brigades. _x000D_ In 1942, while holding the position of assistant to the Political Department for the Komsomol of the 100th Separate Rifle Brigade of the 39th army of the Kalinin Front, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star with the rank of Captain. He started the war on the distant outskirts of Moscow, near the ancient Russian city of Western Rzhev. _x000D_ On November 25, 1942, in the area of the Molodoy Tut River of Western Rzhev, fierce battles were fought with the fascist invaders. The Germans stubbornly resisted, trying to repel the offensive of the Soviet troops. The 100th Rifle Brigade, together with other units, repulsed the attacks of the fascists. And in 5 days they liberated 13 villages with the regional center Young Tut. _x000D_ In one of the combats in the village of Bochkovo, the Nazis counterattacked, the units put up stubborn resistance. German snipers hunted the officers, trying to incapacitate them. Here Tasanbaev Egemkul was overtaken by a sniper bullet, hitting a pistol hidden under his clothes. Ricocheting, it only slightly injured her arm. As a result of two wounds, he lost a lot of blood and was in serious condition. The surgeon of the medical and sanitary unit Nigmatulin provided him with medical assistance. To support the weakened body, doctors decided on a blood transfusion. _x000D_ Later, Tasanbaev Yegemkul learned that his fellow soldiers, two officers and Manshuk Mametova, whom he, being a Political Instructor, presented with a party card before the battle, had become his donors. Then the future Hero of the Soviet Union performed his first effort. Egemkul Tasanbaev with his fighting friends finished off the powerful Kurland group of fascists in the Baltic states. The war for Egemkul Tasanbayev ended in the Far East. _x000D_ After the surrender of Japan, he got into an Artillery Brigade and was demobilized from the army only in 1947 with the rank of Major. He was awarded the Order of Lenin (08.06.1957), three Orders of the Red Banner of Labor (01.03.1965, 10.12.1973, 22.02.1982), the Order of the October Revolution (27.08.1971), the Order of the Red Star (03.12.1942. ), Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree (03/11/1985), medals "For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945", "For Victory over Japan", "For Valiant Labor", "For Courage", "In commemoration of 100 anniversary of the birth of V.I. Lenin ". He passed away on August 18, 2006 at the age of 89.

Rank: Major_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 209th motorized Division. _x000D_ After graduating from the Smolensk Military-Political School, with the rank of Junior Political Instructor, he was sent to Western Belarus as the Secretary of the newspaper of the 209th Motorized Rifle Division, where he was caught by the war. After August 1941 he was sent to the 64th Infantry Division, which was stationed in Smolensk before the war. For successful battles in the defense of Minsk and in the Yartsevo area, the divisions were awarded the title of 7th Guards. _x000D_ In June 1942, Stadnyuk I.F. was transferred to the newspaper "Courage" of the 27th Army, with which he went all the way to Victory. Until 1958 he served in the army, held various positions in the military press. Member of the USSR JV since 1954. Member of the board of the RSFSR JV (since 1965) and the USSR JV (since 1971). _x000D_ He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ogonyok magazine in 1965-1972. In the 1980s, he was a member of the editorial board of the heroic-patriotic literary and artistic almanac "Podvig". He was the secretary of the Moscow Writers' Organization. _x000D_ Works written by IF Stadnyuk: novels "People are not angels", "War" (in 1983 the novel was awarded the State Prize of the USSR), "Moscow 41st", memoirs "Confessions of a Stalinist", the story "A Man Does Not Give Up", script of the film "Maxim Perepelitsa", the drama "Bitter Bread of Truth" (was in the repertoire of the Academic Theater of the Soviet Army), "Keys from Heaven". He passed away on April 29, 1994. _x000D_ Awards: twice the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Patriotic war of the 2nd degree, twice the Red Star, the Labor Red Banner, "Badge of Honor", the October Revolution, Lenin; medals: “For Capture of Budapest”,“For Capture of Vienna”,“For Defense of Moscow”,“For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”,“For Military Merit”.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Pilot, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Senior Lieutenant Vasily Vasilyevich Siroshtan, was one of the fighter pilots of the 512th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Warriors who gave their lives for the bright future of our Motherland will forever remain in the memory of the people. Vasily Siroshtan was born in 1918 in the village Malye Khutora (Small Farmsteads) of Vinnitsa Region in a large and friendly working class family. Before serving in the army, he graduated from the School of factory training (FZU), worked as a mechanic at an auto repair plant. At the front he had been since June 22, 1941. _x000D_ In a small letter at the beginning of the war, he wrote home that he had received a fighter and was eager to meet the enemy as soon as possible. He was married. His wife was called, like his mother, Anna. He had two daughters, Zina, born in 1938 and Valya, born in 1940. Co-workers said about Siroshtan that he had the soul of a poet. True, he did not write poetry, but he loved it very much and knew many poems, especially by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. In the village of Malye Khutora in Vinnytsia, where he was born, they appreciated a good word and a sincere folk song. There Vasily first heard Svetlov's "Grenada", which amazed the teenager. He knew it by heart and often read: "We rode at a pace, we raced in battles and held the song" Yablochko" in our teeth. Ah, this song is still kept by young grass of steppe malachite. " _x000D_ Vasily Siroshtan, being a Squadron Commander, knew how to organize work on the ground so that it would be easier to defeat the enemy in the air. He had excellent organizational skills and skillfully combined them with combat work, showing daily concern for his subordinates. For the entire period of work on the front of the Patriotic War, Siroshtan showed himself to be a fearless and decisive pilot, skillfully applying all military cunning in air combat. He flew 421 sorties. He flew I-16, Lagg-3 and Yak-1. He participated in 97 air battles, as a result of which he personally shot down 8 enemy aircraft and 6 in a group. He conducted 17 assault sorties along enemy columns and airfields (Poltava, Kharkov, Chuguev, Rogan), while personally lighting 2 enemy aircraft on the ground, destroyed or damaged 2 tanks, 14 vehicles with troops and cargo, 3 anti-aircraft guns, scattered or destroyed up to companies of enemy soldiers. He had made 103 sorties to escort attack aircraft, 22 to cover his troops and crossings, 58 Reconnaissance missions, of which 4 were special missions from the front command. He was a distinguished Soviet ace after two rams of enemy fighters. _x000D_ On September 1, 1941, the flight Commander, Lieutenant Siroshtan, flew to the I-16 to escort SB bombers heading to bomb a river crossing in the Kremenchug Region. Suddenly, a group of Me-109 appeared from behind the clouds. An air battle ensued. During the battle, Siroshtan came under fire from one Messerschmitt. The machine gun fire damaged the tail of his aircraft. Then he rushed down and cut off the Me-109 plane with the wing of his plane. Tumbling, he went to the ground on August 1, 1942, near Novoalekseevka, shot down another Me-109 enemy plane with a ramming strike and again remained alive. _x000D_ Siroshtan continuously taught young pilots how to fight the enemy and emerge victorious from the battle. The air battle was skillful and competent. With his fearlessness, courage and military exploits, he always inspired the entire personnel of the Regiment to destroy the fascist vultures. _x000D_ On 08/24/1942, heading the shock group for escorting attack aircraft, Art. Lieutenant Vasily Vasilievich. Siroshtan together with the young pilot led by Sergeant Nikolai V. Milovanov in the Davydovka area near Stalingrad entered into an unequal air battle with 12 enemy ME-109 aircraft. Covering the young pilot, the Commander bravely repelled the frantic attacks of German fighters. The air battle lasted about an hour, and even after the death of Nikolai Milovanov, the fearless falcon, without leaving the battlefield, continued to fight himself until an enemy bullet hit him in the head. “On this day, Vasily Siroshtan and the young pilot Nikolai Milovanov did not return to their airfield. At the head of the group, the Squadron Commander accompanied the Soviet Il-aircrafts.“Twelve Messerschmitts appeared,”he said on the radio at the command depot. The receiver caught the command: “I will take over the fight, the rest follow the course of the attack aircraft.”Then the abrupt: "Kolya, four to the left ..." "Attack, cover." "Like this". And again: "Closer to me ...", "Beat! ..", "Well done, Nikolai ..."_x000D_ For the courage and heroism shown in the battles with the Nazi invaders, the command of the 512th Fighter Aviation Regiment V.V. Siroshtan was twice presented to the highest state award with the title “Hero of the Soviet Union” (in 1941 and 1942). He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree (posthumously).