Order of the Red Banner

Sozyriko Tomaev's youth ended early enough. As a young guy, he went to war. Having received serious injuries in the first two years of hostilities, he, nevertheless, barely recovered, rushed back to the front. In 1942, being a machine gunner of the 41st Squad of the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 4th Rifle Division, during the battles in the M-Belozerka-Tumashevka area of the Zaporozhye Region, Tomaev shot down an enemy aircraft with fierce machine gun fire. For his accomplished efforts, Sozyriko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ And in the summer of 1943, he was sent to the disposal of the Leningrad Headquarters of the partisan movement. Now he had to test his strength by participating in a partisan war. Arriving at the 6th Partisan Brigade, Tomaev was assigned to command a platoon of the 4th Company. The partisans operating in the Pskov Region became a powerful threatening force for the invaders. Sudden, bold raids haunted the Nazis. The population strongly supported them. Some villages were actually under their complete control. When a native of the village of Nart, Ardon Region of our republic, began his service in the Brigade, the partisans settled in the village of Zelensk. He was instructed to organize the defense of this village. _x000D_ Under his leadership, the partisans dug trenches, zigzag passages, and equipped bunkers. The village was surrounded by a solid defensive ring. In mid-August, the Germans sent large forces against them. On August 17, a large detachment of the Nazis began to attack the village, six to seven times larger than the partisan forces. But the defenders of the village boldly accepted the combat and not only withstood it, but also thoroughly battered the fascists. _x000D_ Having stumbled upon such stubborn and organized resistance, the Nazis retreated from the village and themselves went on the defensive. So the first baptism of fire of Sozyriko in the partisan war passed successfully. _x000D_ Soon, Tomaev was instructed to mine the railway between Serebryanka and Plyussa stations. Along this line, the invaders delivered ammunition and manpower to the front, and exported stolen goods to Germany. The worthy son of Ossetia went on a mission with the partisans Spiridonov and Ermolaev. Leaving them in ambush, he proceeded to mine the railroad tracks. The road was heavily guarded. From time to time the Germans fired machine-gun fire through the forest. Choosing the moment when the sentries moved away from the canvas, Tomaev quickly set mines and began to wait. Finally, the train formation appeared. Moments later, a violent explosion shook the air. Flame and black smoke engulfed a steam locomotive and carriages with exploding ammunition ... A week later, Tomaev's platoon dismantled a section of the road between Plyussa and Krasnye Strugi stations. As a result, the Plyussky railway junction was permanently out of order. Later, the command of the 6th Partisan Brigade decided to liquidate a large German garrison in the village of Lyubochary. Having made a hard night crossing through forests and swamps, the partisans unexpectedly attacked the fascist garrison and destroyed it. In this combat, Sozyriko showed himself as a brave and skillful warrior. His friends in the detachment more than once recalled how skillfully he threw grenades into the windows of houses where the Germans were hiding. The partisans mowed down the surviving invaders in bursts. _x000D_ In September 1943, comrade Tomaev was instructed to carry out a new sabotage on the railway. People from other platoons were selected at his disposal. Tomaev carefully thought out the operation, conducted preliminary reconnaissance patrol. It was decided to make explosions north of the Mshinskaya station. According to the plan, the partisans approached the station from the northeast and occupied the approaches to it, standing two or three meters apart. Having stretched out a chain for a long distance, they began to mine the road. At this time, the Nazis who discovered the partisans opened fire. But the partisans staunchly defended themselves. Sozyriko jerked to the enemy bunker and threw grenades at it. The partisans killed all the guards. Tomaev went on his next combat mission alone. _x000D_ In the afternoon, he made his way onto the railway between the stations of Luta and Tolmachevo. Neatly disguised in the forest, he watched the movement of trains. After waiting for darkness, he planted mines, and again hid in the forest. A couple of hours later, the enemy train took off into the air._x000D_ _x000D_ In October, the Nazis, frightened by the incessant sabotage, pulled together large forces to guard the road. The partisans were instructed to attack the Mshinskaya station and clear it of the invaders. It was a hard and dangerous operation. The Company set out for its execution at night. We walked through the forest, through a hard-to-pass swamp, knee-deep in water. They approached the station quietly and opened machine-gun fire on command. The partisans broke through to the station and inflicted fierce losses on the Nazis. But the resistance of the enemies was stubborn. Many people's avengers fell in the combat, the Company Commander was also mortally wounded, as a result of which the command passed to Sozyriko Tomaev. And soon the partisans made a bold raid at the Plyussa station, inflicting an unexpected blow on the Nazis and forcing them to retreat. The carriages of the trains headed towards the besieged Leningrad flew downhill. In the same operation, Sozyriko Tomaev was wounded again, but continued to fight and lead the combat. _x000D_ Sozyriko Mikhailovich Tomaev participated in the operations of the 6th Partisan Brigade until March 1944, when, after the disbandment of partisan detachments, he was again sent to the Soviet Army. Until the very end of the Great Patriotic War, he was at the front. _x000D_ And having demobilized, he returned to his native Ossetia. He returned with several orders and 14 medals. Already at home, he learned with sadness and pain that his younger brother Zanchora, who is still considered missing, had not returned from the battlefield. In peacetime, as well as in wartime, Sozyriko Mikhailovich remained a modest and hardworking person. For many years he worked in forestry in the Kurtatinsky gorge. He was always in the midst of public life. _x000D_ He was elected a Deputy of the Fiagdon village council. Later, the award of the Labor Veteran was added to his military awards. The former partisan was versatile in any job. In the late 60s, he built a wonderful house with his own hands in the village of Khidikus, in which he lived with his family, wife Zinaida and daughter Tamara. _x000D_ By the way, I would like to say a few words about Zinaida Tomaeva (Kretova). Arriving in Ossetia from the Kalinin Region, she learned the Ossetian language in a short time, and throughout her life she observed all local customs. She was especially good at making traditional Ossetian dishes. Zinaida Fyodorovna highly appreciated the name of the Tomaevs, and they, in turn, loved her. _x000D_ The last years of his busy life, Sozyriko Tomaev spent in his native village of Nart. He had many plans and ideas, but the severe wounds received on the battlefields did not pass without leaving a trace. In 1988 he passed away, but I want to believe that the lives of such people do not pass just like that. I would like to believe that they are alive, as long as they are, at least, remembered.

Seydametov, Iskander_x000D_ Rank: Starshina Branch: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 125th Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Infantry Division of the Order of Kutuzov _x000D_ “I distinctly remember the first post-war year in Samarkand, where by the will of fate I ended up with my parents and brother. Our yard was a one-story house with six two-room apartments, each with a porch at the entrance and a glazed veranda. Along the courtyard facade of the house there is a common passage for the entire courtyard: an oblong strip of land about 4 meters wide, and behind it, opposite each apartment, a personal garden plot with an area of probably about two acres. A passageway between the porches and garden plots led to two common wooden ”objects" at the end of the courtyard, a large dust bin on the left and a latrine on the right. The Seydametov family, as it later turned out, Crimean Tatars, all female, from children to a very old grandmother, settled in the place of the dust bin and with homeless dogs and cats. _x000D_ We did not have the slightest idea about nationalities in the Soviet Union. We never discussed it, and for many years I did not know about the nationality of my neighbors, just like my classmates, having entered school and studied for ten years. (Having gathered after 30 years of graduation, we looked at each other in surprise, finding in the classroom Russians, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Jews, Armenians and five Crimean Tatars. Naturally, in our childhood we never had a slightest idea about nationality, residing at the international Uzbek land.) _x000D_ A new family fiddled around in the corner of the yard, made some kind of adobe housing and a fence, moving the dust bin to the front of the yard, in a nook behind the gate. The new neighbors caused some irritation among the old-timers, but then, thanks to their humble disposition and quiet, imperceptible behavior in the new habitat, everything settled down. _x000D_ Some neighbors, first of all, our mother, have established warm relations with the Seydametovs. It was she who convinced me and the other neighbors to treat these women with Christian tolerance and compassion. _x000D_ And then one day, when used to study on the porch, getting ready for classes on the second shift and relaxing after long standing in line for bread, then a fit man with brilliant orders and medals on his chest followed the kerosene past me with an energetic step and proceeded straight to the corner of the Seydametovs' settlement. This was Iskander, the main character of my story. _x000D_ Further, I only mentioned the impressions of mine, my sister and mother, but mainly from his memories during our meeting many years later. This man made a great impression on me, his fate seemed interesting to me, and for a long time I was going to tell about him … _x000D_ Iskander, like many of his relatives and fellow tribesmen, lived in Yalta before World War II. In 1941, he immediately went to the front as a boy. He fought honestly and fearlessly, but also skillfully, thanks to which, having no education and military training, already in the 1942nd he became a Platoon Commander and was awarded officer's shoulder straps, replacing the killed officers. His natural leadership qualities in the face of harsh circumstances made him an authoritative, recognized and respected Commander by soldiers. He did not hide behind the backs of his soldiers, he took responsibility for himself, was ahead, made decisions quickly. _x000D_ God had mercy: he went through the whole war, ended up as a Captain, returned in orders and medals. Orders, I remember, were both of the Patriotic War of two degrees, and the Red Banner, and probably the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and a few more, and many medals. After all, he put them on the chest only once, when he proudly walked through the yard, where at the end he would meet his family. _x000D_ The joy of returning after four years of military separation was overshadowed by the unexpected news that the family was exiled and found nowhere. _x000D_ Before the war, Iskander married Dilyra, a thin, kind, constantly spinning woman, always in incessant worries and worries about Iskander's family, where she entered and immediately remained alone with his mother, sisters, nieces, well, it seems, only the female were there in this family . Under the most complicated circumstances, while her beloved Iskander was fighting for the Motherland, she supported her family as best she could, with the last bit of strength, until an unexpected misfortune came: the forcible resettlement of the Crimean Tatars to the eastern regions of the empire as punishment for the betrayal of some of their representatives. _x000D_ I think the truth was hiding from the Tatar front-line soldiers, and therefore, when Iskander was demobilized and found out that the family was nowhere, he began to look for them first in Kazakhstan, then in Uzbekistan in different places where the families of the Crimean Tatars were scattered. He was looking for several months, if not more, and finally he found them in the corner of the Samarkand courtyard. This was a moment I saw: a front-line soldier energetically passing by me. I did not have the slightest idea of repression, about the fate of this person and his family, in general about the nationality of the “Crimean Tatars”, not only at that time, but years later, when I was already finishing the High School. _x000D_ The only thing I had witnessed for ten years, together with all the neighbors, and we were surprised at this, is Iskender's indomitable energy and will to live and create. He raised his family out of poverty, built a brick house in this nook behind a clay fence, gave birth to three daughters one after another, whom his pre-war bride, faithful, silent and desperately thin Dilyara, brought him. _x000D_ The girls ran around the yard with my post-war sister, and I regularly photographed them from a German trophy camera that opens like harmonica, bought by my parents cheap at a flea market for my older brother and me. Then I finished school and left my parental home for an independent life in Tashkent, then to Rostov-on-Don, and by this time my parents returned to their native Krasnodar, where they lived 15 years of their happy youth before the war. _x000D_ Years have passed, scattered and erased in memory the faces and destinies of many people, including neighbors in the yard, among whom was the Iskander family ... But life, as you know, sometimes throws up unexpected meetings ... Arriving at the wedding of my beloved younger sister, I, to my considerable surprise, saw Iskander there with his Dilyara, who had come from Samarkand to Krasnodar for a wedding! _x000D_ How could I not be surprised if people, remembering the close relations between neighbors and the friendship of their eldest daughter Zarema with my sister, spent so much time, not to mention travel expenses, to come to see my parents and congratulate my sister. _x000D_ Indeed, at that time, (now it is hard to imagine), it was possible to get to Krasnodar only with a train change in Moscow. But the train from Samarkand went to Moscow for five days, and then from Moscow to Krasnodar another two days. _x000D_ So, in fact, considering time that Iskander spent his entire three-week vacation on this trip alone for the travel and guest visits! And here I come to the main point of the story, meeting and talking with Iskander after almost 20 years of separation. We talked with him in dad's office, breaking away from the bustle of pre-wedding chores that noisily filled the rest of the apartment. Dilyara also took part, but only in fits and starts, although she wanted to listen to more. We were clearly glad to see each other, as people, separated not only by the era, but also by the years of our own growth and formation. _x000D_ I became an engineer who worked at different construction sites and who had already seen a lot, was the father of two sons. Now, having become mature I perceived Iskander differently, learned more about him and felt his personality. _x000D_ At first I told about myself, my life by that time, and the first thing I wanted to tell them two, Iskander and Dilyara together, is that now I am aware the fate of their people and guess about their family fate, that I support the desire of the Crimean Tatars to receive full rehabilitation and be restored in all rights, that I support the struggle of General Grigorenko for the rights of the Crimean Tatars._x000D_ I am outraged at the injustice towards their fellow tribesmen. At that time, the government of the USSR did not decide on its position on the problem of the Crimean Tatars, although actions and laws on rehabilitation were adopted in relation to other people. _x000D_ The trouble was that each of the repressed peoples received rehabilitation in different ways. Iskander and Dilyara were pleased to hear such a confession from me. Then Iskander started talking..._x000D_ Actually, the further part of my story is devoted to retelling his story, which I convey without the slightest changes in the facts and the essence of what I heard, from his words. Actually, the conversation was not about the past, moreover, not at all about politics. He talked about the last years of his ordeals, which concerned the return to his native Yalta. I remind you that this is not the 90s, but the mid-70s. _x000D_ “You see, they actually rehabilitated us, the time had come, they figured out how we fought, there were Heroes of the Soviet Union and twice Heroes among us ... But people ”Crimean Tatars" have not been recognized officially. Authorities began to make a line in the passport as "Crimean" (the line of nationality was in the Soviet passport)._x000D_ And you can go to the Crimea, but not to live permanently. And I so want to buy a house in Yalta, I wanted it all my life how to return. There were and are many opportunities to move to Russia, to any place, but no city can replace Yalta. I have already retired and am in a hurry to buy a house, so I went to Yalta last summer to take a closer look. I think maybe the permit will come out, so I’ll be ready, I need to take my time to look at the options, ask the price more precisely, the area is right ... _x000D_ So I arrived in Yalta, immediately went to the Rental Bureau kiosk, and I said to a woman in the window: “Give me the address of an apartment to rent in the center. Just mind, do not offer bullshit - I know the city like the back of my hand! ”_x000D_ The answer is silence. I was surprised, I wanted to turn around, when suddenly, door opens on the back of the kiosk, I hear a noise, an elderly woman runs out and shouts out loud: “Iskander, son, here, I waited for you!” And crying loudly, and hugs me, and wails. Passing by people halt in surprise. What happened? And she: “So, if I had seen you on the street, I would not recognize you, but your voice has not changed!” _x000D_ “It turned out ...” - this is a phrase added by Iskander from time to time. Like a passionate storyteller he used it to surprise listeners with something exiting. Remembering the important, he, as if turning the plot, unexpectedly inserts this - “It turned out!” _x000D_ And the listener expects something extraordinary. I also expected anything, but not what I heard... _x000D_ During the Leningrad Siege, in 1942, his military unit was thrown to the outskirts of the city, in confrontation against the Germans, who were not far away, but did not advance. The platoon, which was already commanded by a recent soldier Iskander, who had just received the Junior Lieutenant's shoulder straps, had to conduct a passive defense, awaiting an order for an offensive, which was not yet possible. Iskander attributes his appointment as Platoon Commander exclusively to a situation when other officers of the unit were killed one after another, and the unit itself was narrowed to the size of a platoon. However, one can feel leadership qualities even in manner of storytelling, that it was understandable: only he could lead a platoon and lead people. Every morning and evening, Iskander sent soldiers for recon patrol to find out information in surroundings. _x000D_ Once a soldier came running and says: in the dead zone between ours and the Germans, there was a house, standing alone, in the midst of complete destruction around. Previously, there was fog, it was impossible to make out, but there were no signs of life, but then the soldier noticed something and decided to check. And although it was dangerous, the area was periodically fired upon, the soldier established: a woman in a house alone with three children—little is less! The soldier worried out of sympathy … _x000D_ The family was hungry and cold in the hut, the firewood ran out. Sympathizing, the soldier wanted to help, although he knew that the command was set to keep his head down. Iskander immediately ordered to collect possible provisions, chop wood, and with two soldiers went to an abandoned house, where without any hope, hugging each other, wrapped in rags, sat a woman, two girls and a very small boy. _x000D_ Iskander with soldiers put things in order in an abandoned house, fired the stove, warmed up, fed and bathed children. Then, choosing the moments, more often at night, every day Iskander sent a soldier to help the woman who was preparing to die. This lasted for two weeks, after which the fighting began, then the shootout, then the redeployment. _x000D_ In the kaleidoscope of events of the terrible war, unthinkable in severity and tragedy, the episode with the woman was erased in my memory. Well, Commander Iskander acted, as his conscience prompted him at that moment. He helped, however, at great risk. So that's it. It was this woman who cried out in Yalta 25 years later, recognizing her savior by the voice. _x000D_ Everything in her life then happened: God had mercy, although her husband died, and the children are all alive, she raised everyone, retired, exchanged the Leningrad apartment for Yalta, where she lives here with her son and two grandchildren in his family, daughters are fine too, in other cities ... This story made an impression on me, and continuing the conversation, I could not resist and asked: “Iskander, how did you manage to make enough money for living of such a large family and save to buy a house in Yalta? ” I did not know anything about his jobs. _x000D_ And I was not mistaken with the question: he revived again and began to talk, as usual, with burning eyes and passion. How I regretted later that I had not recorded the conversation right away! Later, many details were forgotten, which cannot be restored. It turned out that he worked in supply, at large vegetable bases. An unexpected import of hundreds of tons of potatoes, onions, cucumbers, apples came to Uzbekistan. There were always not enough storage facilities, but here two of the largest bases in the republic collapsed! And all the food is being imported is dumped on the ground. But summer is over, it will soon be rains and cold weather. Catastrophe! What to do? People from the Ministry of Trading of the Republic turned to him: save us! _x000D_ Important commentary: Iskander was not even the head of one storage facility, he was a worker, but he had repeatedly shown the talent of an organizer, an engine in a spontaneous situation. However, this time the organizational talent would not have been enough. Iskander outdid himself. Knowledge of the properties of different fruits and vegetables led to unexpected solutions. Here, I regret not writing it down, I might make mistakes. But the picture remained in the memory: three tiers of using the missing storage volumes. Below are potatoes, folded on planks from disassembled boxes, not in bulk, but in pyramidal cones of a small volume, in order to ventilate from the side windows, slightly ajar, did not allow rotting to take place; at the top, under the overlap, on boards rarely nailed to the lower belts of farms, bags with another vegetable or fruit, I'm afraid to lie which one. And between them, nets with onions and garlic tied to the ceiling on ropes, which contributed to the preservation of both the underlying potatoes and the product spread above on temporarily nailed boards. Thus, not only the storage capacity has increased, but the storage conditions for the product with various properties, the combination of which has led to a manifold reduction in losses from spoilage. It was about thousands of tons of preserved vegetables and fruits in the republic. _x000D_ And the result is as follows: the Minister of Trade of Uzbekistan personally came to him to present him with a prize: a six-month salary and a gift, a passenger car, which Iskander sold, having no interest in technology, and he needed money. I told only about one case, and he described several of them, different and very interesting. And then an incident happened: I unexpectedly got into a mess. Delighted with the story about the many intricacies of the technology and organization of the processes of storing vegetables and fruits, I exclaimed in my hearts: “Iskander, this is a finished dissertation! Why don't you do this? ” _x000D_ Iskander laughed loudly and for a long time, then, choking with laughter, said: Alik, dear, I'm uneducated, I have seven grades of school! I sat down, stunned. Then I thought: when could Iskander get an education? Indeed, he could not. There was no time: first the parents had to be fed and rescued, then the war, then to raise the wife and children. But he gave a higher education to all three girls. This was his dream. He was very happy and proud that it had come true._x000D_ Several more years passed, and the restless Iskander died without fulfilling of another dream, probably the most important and cherished after the well-being and education of daughters—to move to live in city of Yalta in Crimea ... _x000D_ At this point I was going to finish my story about an interesting person with an interesting fate. But life made adjustments again. _x000D_ More than 35 years have passed since the events described above, Iskander's story at my sister's wedding. It has happened when I went to Krasnodar with my sister, and I asked about her Samarkand friend, the eldest daughter of Iskander, Zarema, not hoping that some connections might still be preserved. And what? “It turned out ...”: Zarema, a doctor by training, mother of two sons, now also a grandmother, lives in Yalta! The next day, through the efforts of an advanced daughter-in-law, you can imagine, I spoke with Zarema, whom I had not seen for more than half a century, since I left my parental home to study in Tashkent - via Skype !!! _x000D_ Yes, you can't think of this anymore. Iskander's dream came true. His grandson made up his mind and, overcoming the difficulties and vicissitudes of any events, he moved to Yalta, to his mother Zarema. I do not know the fate of her son, with whom she lives, or, especially grandchildren, that is, Iskander's great-grandchildren. Nothing can be foreseen in this life. I just really want good people to feel good.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 188th Infantry Nizhnedneprovsk Red Banner Division _x000D_ My father, Alexander Samsonov, was born on 05/17/1919 in the village of Solovyovka, Ugransky District, Smolensk Region. On July 25, 1941 he volunteered for the Red Army being a student of the last year of the Moscow Credit and Economic Institute of the State Bank of the USSR. After a month and a half of study at the Lenin Military-Political School in the Kubinka of the Moscow Region he was awarded the military rank of Junior Political Instructor. After taking an oath on August 15, 1941, he was sent to the North-Western Front. He was a battery Commissar, a topographer-calculator in a topographic platoon (234 Artillery Regiment, 5th battery, 188 Rifle Division), later a Political Instructor of the 3rd Battalion. He fought on the North-Western Front from September 1941 to August 1943, then on the Steppe Front, later renamed 2nd Ukrainian Front, then on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. Ht participated in the liberation of Krivoy Rog, many mines and settlements on the Dnieper. For liberation of the city of Krivoy Rog he had two thanks from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin (orders of February 6 and February 22, 1944). _x000D_ By order of 37th Army dated March 9, 1944, he was awarded the medal “For Courage”. In April 1944 he took part in the liberation of Tiraspol, Chisinau, in the defeat of the Jassy-Kishinev group of the Nazis. _x000D_ By order of November 23, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. At the end of 1944, from Bulgaria he was sent to study in Leningrad, to the Higher Officers' Artillery School, where he celebrated the Act of Surrender of Nazi Germany. He graduated from the war with the rank of Guard Senior Lieutenant. The photo was taken in May 1945 at the Higher Officers' Artillery School. After the war, he graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute and the Academy of Foreign Trade. _x000D_ For the last 25 years before retirement, he was the Head of the Financial Department of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. In the postwar years he was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Friendship of Peoples, and the Badge of Honor. He was listed in the Book of Honor of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade. For many years my father was a member of the Veterans Council of the 188th Infantry Division. In 1977 he was awarded the "Honorary Badge of the SEC" (Soviet Committee of War Veterans) and the SEC Commemorative Medal. In honor of the 40th anniversary of the victory over fascism in 1985, he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He passed away in Moscow on April 17, 2010. He was a bright, open, honest and amazingly kind person.

Rank: Military Doctor of the 3rd rank Branch of troops: Military veterinary staff Division: 151st Infantry Division (1st Formation) Simonyan Yeranos Sarkisovich was born in 1896 in the village of Mrgavan, Artashat Region of the Armenian SSR. In 1914 he graduated from a Russian school and was mobilized into the Imperial Russian army. There he entered the garrison Veterinary School. In 1918-20 he served in the Armed Forces in the 1st Independent Republic of Armenia. In 1920-25 he served in the Red Army as a military feldsher. In 1931-36 he graduated from the All-Union Zooveterinary Institute. From 1926 to 1936 he worked as the Head of the security of the quarantine point. In 1936-41 he worked as a Chief Veterinarian in three regions of the Armenian SSR at once. On 06/23/1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in 503 PVL as the Head of the surgical department of the 45th, and then the 26th army. From March 1942 to March 1943 he was the Head of the Veterinary of the 151st Rifle Division of 44th army. From March 1943, he was a veterinarian of the OGTR of 44th Army, and then to December 1945, a veterinarian of the 299 OGTR of 28th Army. He had the military rank of Captain. Brief concrete description of a personal military feat from the award list: “Comrade Simonyan had been a participant in the Patriotic War from the first days of its beginning. Thanks to the great care and energy in his work, being in the Polesie area unfavorable for infectious anemia of horses, comrade Simonyan kept the horse stock and prevented the disease of infectious anemia. He received the Order of Red Star”. In the civil service in 1961 he received the honorary title Honored Veterinarian of the Armenian SSR. He received the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He passed away on October 19, 1986 in at the age of 90. He was buried in the cemetery of his native village Mrgavan, Ararat province Republic of Armenia.

Rank: Junior Seargeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces _x000D_ Subdivision: Kalinin 48th Ropsha Ropsha Red Banner Division _x000D_ Sobyanin Gavriil Epifanovich was participant of the WWI and the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Hero of the Soviet Union. Gavriil Epifanovich Sobyanin was born in the village of Shaitanovka, Cherdyn District, Perm Region. In 1914-1916 Gavriil Epifanovich took part in the First World War. In 1918, his family moved to the Berezovsky District for permanent residence. When the Great Patriotic War began, in August 1942 he volunteered for the front. He served as a sniper rifleman of the 301st Infantry Regiment of the 48th Ropsha Red Banner Division named after M.I. Kalinin of 2nd Baltic Front. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, medals "For Courage" and "For Military Merit." He passed away on December 23, 1944 in the combat for the stronghold of Garozas in the Libava District of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic. _x000D_ For courage and devotion to the oath on June 29, 1945, Sobyanin Gavriil Epifanovich was posthumously awarded the title of “Hero of the Soviet Union” with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In September 2009, the archival department of the administration of the Berezovsky District invited the general educational institutions of the district to take part in the search and research action “Places of military glory of our fellow countrymen during the Great Patriotic War”, dedicated to 65th anniversary of Victory. The activists of the local club under the leadership of Lydia Volkova have found the burial place of the Hero of the Soviet Union Gabriel Epifanovich Sobyanin. It is located in Latvia in the village of Kursishi, Saldus Region, at the Kursishi brotherly military cemetery.

Suleimanov Ibragim Bagomedovich was born in 1911, in the village of Urakhi, Darginsky District, Dagestan Region (now Sergokalinsky District of the Republic of Dagestan), into a peasant family. In 1937 he graduated from the Sergokala pedagogical school, after which he worked at the Urakhin Secondary School and the Gubden incomplete school. In the summer of 1941, he was drafted by the Karabudakhkent Military Commissariat of the Dagestan SSR. _x000D_ Since August 1941, he served as a line supervisor, and then as a Senior line supervisor of the cable-pole company of 14th Separate Motorized Rifle Communications Battalion as part of the 353rd Rifle Division of the 3rd rifle corps of the 56th army. From August to October 1941 he had been a participant in the defense of Odessa. For heroic deeds during battles and exemplary performance of command assignments, he was awarded two medals “For Courage” and a medal “For Military Merit”. From December 1941 to April 1942 he took part in the defense of Sevastopol. _x000D_ In January 1942 he was awarded the third medal “For Courage” for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command. Since July 1942 he participated in hostilities on the Main Caucasian ridge. For courage shown in the combat missions of the command by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 12, 1942, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. After successfully completing the mission, he was sent to Tuapse. Since December 1942, he took part in intense battles for Tuapse in the Region of the Kamenistaya, Dva Brata, Semashkho and Indyuk mountains, as well as in the Goytkh pass area. For courage shown in these battles, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ In September-November 1943 he took part in the Melitopol and Kerch-Eltigen offensive operations. In April 1944 he took part in hostilities in a number of Crimean cities. _x000D_ Also, from March to April 1944, he actively was taking part in the Odessa offensive operation. During the hostilities in the Odessa Region, he was blown up by a mine and lost his right leg. He barely managed to survive. _x000D_ For courage and heroism during the expulsion of the Nazi invaders from the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the guard Senior Seargeant Suleimanov Ibrahim Bagomedovich is awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree. _x000D_ In 1945 he was demobilized with the status of a disabled person of the Great Patriotic War of the first group. He returned to his homeland and for several years had been working at the sovkhoz named after Hamid Dalgat in the village of Urakhi. _x000D_ In 1964 he was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for labor achievements. He was an honored teacher of the Dagestan ASSR. In 1985 he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory. _x000D_ In 1993 he passed away of cardiac arrest at the age of 84. He was buried in his native village. _x000D_ Awards: Order of the Red Banner, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War I degree (twice) , Order of the Badge of Honor, Medal ‘For Courage” (three times), Medal ‘For Military Merit”, Medal ‘For Defense of the Caucasus”, Medal ‘For Defense of Odessa”, Medal ‘For Defense of Sevastopol”, Medal ‘For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” and other medals.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ A boy was born in a large and friendly peasant family on October 25, 1919 in the small mountain village of Urada, Shamil District. They named him Magomed. The boy was brought up in excellent Dagestan traditions: respect for elders, courage, love for his land, devotion to his people, reverent attitude towards women, towards mountain culture. _x000D_ Knowing that there is little fertile land in Dagestan, Magomed dreamed of turning the Gidatlinskaya valley into a blooming garden, to be an an agronomist. He plunged headlong into student life. In addition to studying, he fell in love with sports: volleyball, basketball, high jumping, was fond of shooting. In 1939 there was anxiety in the air, tension is felt, people talking about war in Spain, the Japanese aggression on Lake Khasol and Khalkhin Gol, the ideas of fascism about the Aryan nation. This atmosphere called for vigilance, for increased military training. Magomed changed his mind and firmly decided to become a military man. _x000D_ Being the third year of the Agricultural Institute, he transferred to the Krasnodar Military Infantry School. It was hard for a freedom-loving Dagestani to obey someone else's will! The Company Commander spent more than one hour convincing the young man that in the army it was necessary to follow the Commander's orders. The Commander's sincerity, his delicacy, was also remembered by the young man for life, for future military leader. _x000D_ Since the first days of the war, Tankaev had been at the front. He commanded a platoon, a company, a regiment. Everywhere he showed himself to be a competent, caring commander. This is confirmed by the lines from the award list: “... Magomed Tankaevich could be seen only where it was especially hard for his soldiers. Sombre by complexion, he was completely blackened by stress ... "_x000D_ Those regiments commanded by Magomed were highly awarded: 823 Red Banner Rifle Regiment for the assault and capture of the city of Debica and successful actions in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation were given the honorary name" Dembitsky "; the 460th Regiment was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky for valor and courage displayed during capture of Rybnik. _x000D_ The Victory Day on May 9, 1945 Magomed Tankaev had celebrated in the liberated Prague. But the war for Magomed Tankayevich on May 9 did not end. He still had to fight with a fierce retreat and defeat of the enemy. By the end of the war M. Tankaev was in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. For feats of arms during the Patriotic War, our countryman was awarded three Orders of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, many medals. _x000D_ After the war, Magomed Tankayevich decided to remain in the Armed Forces, to serve the Motherland with faith and truth. But since he was firmly convinced that knowledge was needed for military affairs, in 1948 he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy, and in 1960 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces. And both did with a gold medal.

Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ I want to tell you about my grandfather Pyotr Fomich Tyukin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was beaten by the ordeal of the war, and not just once. His life path was hard, but he withstood everything with valor. Pyotr Fomich was born on November 23 in 1917 into a large family with three sons and a daughter, Anna. His post-revolutionary childhood was not easy. He was the eldest of the children, and since the age of six he had already helped his father to work the land. He hardly studied at school and finished only four classes. At the age of fifteen, he had already worked in kolkhoz as a hand. In 1937 he graduated from the courses of tractor drivers in the neighboring village of Vetlyanka. And the next year he was drafted into the Red Army. Then there was Khalkhin-Gol, the Great Patriotic War and the war with Japan. _x000D_ Since September 1938, Pyotr Fomich had served in the Red Army in 5588th Tank Regiment in Siberia at the Olovyanaya station. In 1939 he received his first baptism of fire on Khalkhin-Gol. The Japanese militarists launched large-scale military operations against the friendly Mongolian People's Republic in order to seize territory and prepare a foothold for a further offensive against the USSR. The Soviet offensive was successful, and the plans of the Japanese aggressors were thwarted. He returned home in November 1940, began to work as a trackman at the Tirazh railway station. _x000D_ The treacherous and sudden attack of Nazi Germany without declaring war on the USSR on June 22, 1941 showed the whole world the true face of fascism. German troops outnumbered the Soviet in both manpower and equipment. The Germans rushed to the Volga in order to cut off supplies: grains, oil and fuels and lubricants. The main target on this path was the city of Stalingrad. A general mobilization was announced. Pyotr Fomich was drafted in August 1941. Military training took place in Aktyubinsk, the time for training was limited, because the enemy occupied a significant territory of the country. Pyotr Fomich was enlisted in 129th Mortar Regiment. They received weapons, ammunition and the command "To defend Stalingrad!" By train they went along the Ural railway to the station Polotnyanaya, and then on horseback, carts, to the station Kletnaya. This is where it all started. The air hummed, the Nazis bombed non-stop, even the ground groaned with screams and horror. Not everyone made it to the place of deployment. His Regiment entered the Don Front, where Konstantin Rokossovsky was the Commander. Red Army defended Stalingrad without spare no pains. It was hot. Even those who did not believe in God prayed to survive. They fought for every street, for every house. Rumble, explosions, shooting. There was not enough ammunition and grubs, but the louse gnawed mercilessly. _x000D_ Private Tyukin Pyotr Fomich was appointed the Chef of the Division. It would seem an easy mission to feed the soldiers. But try to do this, crossing the Dnieper River, under continuous artillery fire. For courage shown in battles with the German invaders, Pyotr Fomich was awarded in 1943 the medal "For Courage" and "For Defense of Stalingrad". Received the rank of Corporal. _x000D_ In the summer of 1943, he was part of 1st Ukrainian Front. He fought across the Ukrainian land, liberating the cities of Shevchenko, Molodechno. Burnt-out villages, only the stoves stood like candles, reminded that there had been houses here, and people once lived. And everywhere they were greeted by deadly tired old men, women, children. Then they liberated Latvia and Estonia. In July 1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory III degree for courage, fearlessness and resourcefulness. _x000D_ In the battles for Lithuania near the city of Shauliai, enemy aircraft set fire to a car with a kitchen. Not paying attention to the shelling, under the explosive burning shells, Pyotr Fomich removed the slopes from the nearby burning car, and quickly moved it to his own. As a result of his actions, hot food was delivered to the firing positions on time. They drove the fascists all the way to Germany. Here is the long-awaited Victory! _x000D_ They dreamed of a home, of meeting their relatives, but they were transferred to Novosibirsk, in the direction of the Far Eastern Territory. Some were assigned to the Japanese front, and they began to prepare for a new war against the Kwantung Army. _x000D_ Since August, rains have charged, mountain streams and rivers overflowed, off-road. They experienced again shells, explosions and death of comrades. _x000D_ Pyotr Fomich was wounded and was sent to the military medical unit in the town of Sposke, then transferred to a hospital. Only in 1946 did he return home. For military operations he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." _x000D_ The post-war period was not easy either. "Everything for the front, everything For Victory!" All resources were pulled out of the village for the needs of the front. Despite the labor heroism of the peasants, agriculture had suffered heavy losses during the war. The number of able workers in kolkhoz had decreased, and the material and technical base was undermined. The vast majority of equipment available in agriculture was worn out. In kolkhoz, young girls worked on tractors, all the hardships of wartime fell on their shoulders. The lack of equipment and workers affected the area under crops and the number of livestock. The cultivated area has declined from 3.6 million hectares in 1940 to 2.2 million hectares in 1945. Agricultural workers had to restore the potential lost during the war years, rebuild a peaceful life._x000D_ After arriving home in May 1946, Pyotr Fomich continued to work in kolkhoz. For his labor success he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He married Varvara Vasilievna, raised two daughters and three sons, bringing up in them respect and love for the Motherland. But the events of those years left an indelible mark on his soul. More than once, Pyotr Fomich met with his war veterans, remembering the dead comrades.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ My grandfather Tarasov Leonid Alexandrovich was born on December 6, 1913 in the village Khokhorsk, Bokhansk District, Irkutsk Region, in a poor family, finished 7 classes at a school for working youth. In October 1935 he was drafted into the ranks of the Workers’and Peasants' Red Army and sent to the Buryat Kaalerian Regiment at the Divisional station, where he served as a cavalryman. In November 1939 he began his studies at the courses of Junior Officers, which he graduated in March 1940 and received the rank of Junior Lieutenant. In August 1940 he was sent to Bain-Tumen, now Choybolsan, Mongolian People's Republic in 27th Artillery Regiment, 17th army of the Trans-Baikal Front. _x000D_ The Artillery Regiment was armed with anti-aircraft guns and covered the troops from the Japanese aviation. The Regiment entered the war against the Japanese troops on August 9, 1945. For excellent military operations against the Japanese aggressors, forcing the Great Khingan mountain range, overcoming the waterless Mongolian steppe, the grandfather was commended by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Generalissimo Comrade Stalin I.V. dated August 23, 195 # 372. _x000D_ On this war trip, my grandfather was wounded. The Regiment marched through northeast China. He liberated such large cities as Chang-Chun and Harbin. The Regiment finished fighting on 03.09.1945.In 1947, the Artillery Regiment was transferred to the Soviet Union, in Ulan-Ude. He was released in 1957 with the rank of Major, served in the ranks of the Red Army, and then in the Soviet Army for 22 years. _x000D_ Awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Banner of the combat, the Order of the Red Star and 10 medals, including "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany", "For Victory over Japan", medal of the MPR "Bugdnayramdah” (translated as We will win). He passed away on June 10, 1994 at the age of 81, buried in Ulan-Ude.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Sedov was born on December 11, 1913 on the Shurupovsky farm (now the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region). After finishing four years of school, he worked at a machine-tractor station. In 1937-1939 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, graduated from the courses of Junior military technicians. _x000D_ In August 1941, Sedov was recruited into the army and sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War. From 23 to 24 November 1942, he was Commander of the tank of 310th Tank Battalion of 109th Tank Brigade. Lieutenant Sedov, with his crew took part in three attacks in the area of the Vertyachy farm. Skillfully maneuvering on the combatfield, adjusting to the terrain, he went ahead of the group of tanks and by radio he adjusted the fire of the remaining tanks on the combatfield, being in the tank for more than 20 hours. By the end of the day on November 24, 1942, he reached the milestone, which is half a kilometer north-west of Vertyachiy. In three attacks, 7 guns, 5 machine guns, 2 bunkers, 90 soldiers and officers were destroyed. _x000D_ By order of the Don Front troops of November 16, 1942, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the Command on the front against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. Senior Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov, by order of 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of 08/06/1944 No. 021 / N, was awarded the Order of the First Degree of Patriotic War. _x000D_ From the award list, the following is known about the feat: _x000D_ «...in a combat with the German invaders on July 26, 1944, while performing a combat mission to capture the village of P-Gora, withdrawing tanks, he showed courage and heroism. Performing the function of a tank Commander at the same time, Sedov suppressed, bursting into the village, 4 enemy medium-caliber guns, 1 anti-aircraft gun, one passenger car, up to 30 carts with horses, and also destroyed up to 40 Nazis.When he took possession of the village of P-Gora, Comrade Sedov, despite the fact that no one helped him, kept the whole day S-Mountain in his hands, despite repeated enemy counterattacks Sedov for his skillful leadership of the tank, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy: defeated the enemy's train, destroyed 12 guns and over 100 Hitlerites.»_x000D_ By October 1944, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov commanded a company 250- 1st Tank Regiment, 13th Guards Cavalry Division, 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Hungary. 24 October In 1944, Sedov's company, during the combat for the Hungarian city of Nagkallo, took acombat with 20 enemy tanks, knocking out 6 of them and forcing the rest to withdraw. In that combat, Sedov died. _x000D_ He was buried in a square in the Hungarian city of Balkani. From the response to a request from the Frolovsky military registration and enlistment office to the Hungarian Red Cross, it is known that after the war, the remains of Soviet soldiers buried in the village of Balkan were reburied at the Soviet military cemetery in the city of Nyiregyhaza. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 28, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Patriotic War of 1st degree.

Rank: Lieutenant. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards._x000D_ Valey Sadykov was enlisted in the army in 1938 in cavalry unit. He served in the Far East (Voroshilov)._x000D_ At first, he was a veterinary assistant in the 163rd Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Far Eastern Cavalry Division, according to his specialty. Then he studied at the school of Junior commanders in the city of Ussuriisk and was appointed a platoon commander. For success in combat training, he received the rank of Second Lieutenant, and then Lieutenant. He was supposed to be sent to a military school._x000D_ But in 1941, the war began and the troops of the Primorskaya Army were put on high alert and in October 1941, the order came to send them to the front. In November they were on the Western front, as part of the 6th Cavalry Corps (Commander Major General Sokolov). Valey took part in the defense of Moscow and the counteroffensive, received a severe chest wound. There were very heavy fights and for his bravery, he was nicknamed "the furious Bashkir"._x000D_ After six months of treatment in the hospital, he manages to return to his regiment already on the Bryansk front. There were defensive battles. In 1943, the division was transferred to the Steppe Front (reserve front of the Supreme Command), for the battles near Kursk, commander of cavalry squadron Sadykov received the Medal For Bravery, which was equated to an Order._x000D_ With the transformation of the front into the 2nd Ukrainian (I. Konev remained a Commander), the 6th Guards Cavalry Division began crossing the Dnieper River South of Kremenchug. The end of October, icy water, but the squadron managed to cross to the right Bank and gain a foothold. Sadykov and his men held the bridgehead for 3 days until the main forces crossed. There were five survivors, but wounded. For this feat, division commander P. Khrustalev presented Sadykov to the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. The frontline newspaper wrote about this._x000D_ But in war as in war. The division headquarters were bombed, and some of the documents were destroyed. Next comes the liberation of the South of the Right-Bank Ukraine, then Moldova. In these battles, Sadykov was awarded two consecutive Orders of the Red Star. The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree he received for the battles in Hungary. For Vienna, where he was again wounded in the chest, he received the Order of the Red Banner._x000D_ In total, Sadykov received eight military awards for his military exploits: four orders and five medals. After the war, he was also awarded one order and many commemorative medals (somewhere up to 15). He was glad to see them, but he liked to wear only military awards and always raised a toast to those front-line friends who died on the battlefield._x000D_ After the end of the war, he got married. He served first in the Western Ukraine, and then in the Belarusian Military District (Borisov). His son Yuri was born there, he was named after Valey’s fallen comrade._x000D_ In 1947, military command wanted to send him to study in Moscow, but he, at the request of his beloved wife, refused and went to his native Bashkiria. He worksed as the Chairman of the collective farm and a foreman. Later he received forestry education and devoted his life to forestry.

History:_x000D_ Fotiy Morozov (1919-1984) - Ace pilot, Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943)._x000D_ Fotiy Morozov was born on December 27, 1919 in the village of Sukhaya Orcha (now Rzhevsky District, Tver Region). Since 1925, together with his family, he lived in Moscow, where he graduated from eight classes of school and the school of factory apprenticeship, after which he worked as a fitter at a factory. In parallel with his work, he was engaged in an Air Club. In 1938, Morozov was called up to serve in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. In 1940, he graduated from the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School of Pilots. Since June 1941 - on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War._x000D_ By July 1943, Guards First Lieutenant Fotiy Morozov was Deputy squadron commander of the 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 6th Guards Fighter Air Division of the 8th Air Army of the Southern Front. By that time, he had made 432 sorties, participated in 52 air battles, shot down 9 enemy aircraft personally and 5 more in a group._x000D_ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 28 September 1943 for "Exemplary performance of command assignments at the front against the German invaders and displaying courage and heroism" Guard Lieutenant Fotiy Morozov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin and medal Gold Star #1139._x000D_ He was wounded seven times in combat, flew 857 sorties during the war, and conducted about 100 air battles, personally shot down 16 enemy aircraft and 5 in a group. In November 1944, he was demoted to the rank of private for committing a criminal offense, but was later restored to the rank._x000D_ After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1965, with the rank of Colonel, he was dismissed to the reserve. Lived and worked in Leningrad. He died on January 8, 1984, and was buried in the cemetery of the victims of January 9 in St. Petersburg._x000D_ He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star and a number of medals.

History:_x000D_ Graduated with honors first from the teachers' and then from the pedagogical Institute. Worked for the education system. Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to the Stanislavskiy, now Ivano-Frankivskiy Region of Ukraine to organize secondary and incomplete secondary schools. He was the Director of a School in Western Ukraine. From the very first day of the war, a purely civilian person found himself in its maelstrom._x000D_ He got under the first bombardment, was fighting as a volunteer with German paratroopers. Then, during the retreat in the difficult year of 1941, he was sent to Dnepropetrovsk, where his mother lived. There he was assigned to evacuate collective farms from Ukraine to Kazakhstan. He reached the evacuation center. In conditions of withdrawal and confusion, he was found by his older sister, whose husband was killed. The meeting was short-lived, and Andrey was soon conscripted into the army. He got to Baku with the evacuees, and then ended up in Derbent in Azerbaijan. Doctors at first recognized him as unfit for military service, so he worked as the School Director until December 1942. However, after a personal statement, Andrey was sent as a volunteer to the courses of political instructors, at the end of which he was appointed Deputy Company Commander for the Political Affairs. Repeatedly during the beginning of the offensive, Andrey was the first to rise to the attack, inspiring other soldiers. He was wounded twice, but remained in the ranks._x000D_ Then he was sent to Baku for retraining of commanders. From the cadets of the school, a brigade was formed that participated in fierce battles in the area of Mozdok and Vladikavkaz and suffered heavy losses. Andrey received his first award, the Medal For Military Merit, while commanding a machine-gun company. Personally killed and captured several Germans in battle, was surrounded and fought his way out of it. Then the unit was transferred to the Crimea, where after being wounded, he ended up in a hospital, and then in the reserve, from which he got to the Baltic front as an artillery commander at the head of an anti-tank battery in the Konigsberg area. The next assignment was to the Minsk Military District in the Guards detachment._x000D_ At the end of the war, Andrey, who was seriously wounded three times, was sent to work for the police of the Lvov Region. He was in charge of a children's colony and a men's Dragobych colony with 3,000 inmates, then worked in Siberia, Uzbekistan, and taught "special pedagogy" at the police school in Tashkent as a senior teacher. At the age of 50, he was demobilized, remained working in Uzbekistan as a Deputy Director, and then as a High School Director._x000D_ Here Andrey decided to do scientific work, worked with students and applicants. Heavy illnesses, a long treatment in the Caucasus fell on him. Then he continued to work in Bashkortostan. He was the Director of the Ufa City Park of Culture and Recreation, an instructor of the DOSAAF Republican Committee, engaged in pedagogical work with offenders, and was elected a people's assessor in court. Restlessness and indefatigability, an active life position, love for people and pedagogical talent made Andrey the soul of every team where he worked. He was also a freelance correspondent for the newspaper Vechernyaya Ufa and other papers, where he showed outstanding abilities._x000D_ The Guard Lieutenant Colonel was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War and 18 medals.

Date of birth: 24.07.1912_x000D_ Date of death: 24.09.1988_x000D_ History: _x000D_ Alexander Matveev was born on July 24, 1912. Career artillery officer. Served in the Far East._x000D_ He met the Great Patriotic War in the Primorsky territory, in the Ussuri District._x000D_ He began fighting in the 3rd Guards Army on the South-Western Front during the Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad from 19.11.1942._x000D_ He took part in the liberation of Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Berdichev, the liquidation of the Korsun - Shevchenko group (January-February 1944), then Zhytomyr, Novograd-Volynskiy, Rovne, Dubno, Lutsk, Torchin, the Lvov Offensive (Zamostie - Russkie Peski - Sandomirz on the Vistula)._x000D_ January 1945 – a break in the district of Opatów (Poland), the entry on German soil. Approaching the Oder River, the capture of Glogau, of Frankfurt on the Oder, the access to Berlin._x000D_ Participant of the meeting of allies in World War II on the Elbe River._x000D_ On April 30, 1945, an order was given to cross the Elbe River near Riza._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, there was a meeting on the Elbe River with allied troops._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, the order was given to capture the city of Dresden and, on the night of May 1, 1945 British planes (more than 1000 pieces) raided Dresden, which was left in ruins from that raid._x000D_ After our troops fought counter-battles, the Germans concentrated their troops on the defense of Berlin._x000D_ In the South, the Vlasovites remained on the defensive, moving into Czechoslovakia through the Tatra Mountains (the ridge separating Germany and Czechoslovakia)._x000D_ On May 9, our unit approached the city of Prague, and then until May 12, 1945, they smashed the Vlasovites in the area of Benezhev._x000D_ On May 12, 1945 was the Great Victory Day, the celebration of our troops and the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague._x000D_ Chief of technical department of the howitzer artillery regiment of RTK and then the Deputy Chief of technical department._x000D_ Was awarded:_x000D_ two Orders of the Red Banner_x000D_ - Order of the Patriotic War,_x000D_ - Medal For the Capture of Berlin,_x000D_ - Medal For the Liberation of Prague,_x000D_ various medals._x000D_ At the end of the Great Patriotic War, on 31.05.1945, he was sent to the city of Mozdok for further military service._x000D_ Later, he served in the city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), Vinnytsia, and Uryupinsk._x000D_ He finished his military service in Uryupinsk in 1959 with a rank of Major._x000D_ He died on September 24, 1988.

HISTORY: My grandfather Metersky Yakov Borisovich was born on April 25, 1913 in Skobelev (Fergana, Uzbekistan). In early childhood, he was left without parents. He was raised in a family of relatives living in Tashkent. He studied at the Tashkent Dzerzhinsky School No. 29. In the mid-20s, he became a pioneer. In 1927, he joined the Komsomol. After graduating from High School in 1930, he worked and studied at the Institute, entering the state Institute of Supply (Samarkand) in the Department of food industry planning, specializing in planned Economics. After defending his thesis in 1935, he worked as a labor economist. From 1937 to 1941, he worked as the Head of the Planning Department of the Samarkand cannery. He joined the Communist Party in 1940. _x000D_ In July 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his military service as a Commissar of 67th Battery of the Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division, which was stationed in Ashgabat (Tajikistan). _x000D_ At the end of August 1941, Commissar Meterski participated in the fighting in Iran, when the 83rd Division took part in the military allied operation "Consent". On August 25, Soviet and British troops simultaneously crossed the border of Iran. On the third day of the operation, the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division began fighting in the mountainous regions of Iran. Iranian troops with two infantry divisions occupied the defensive lines in the mountainous regions of Mashhad and Gorgan. _x000D_ Despite the convenient defensive positions, the Iranian forces offered little resistance and on August 29, 1941, the Armed Forces of Iran laid down their arms to the British, and on August 30, to the Soviet troops. _x000D_ On September 8, 1941, an agreement was signed defining the location of allied troops in Iran. Iran was divided into two occupation zones: the British (Southern) and the Soviet (Northern). The allied operation “Consent” was the most fleeting and almost" bloodless " (40 people were killed). Thanks to its successful outcome, the southern transport corridor was protected, along which allied troops carried out lend-lease supplies for the Soviet Union, and Germany and its allies were denied access to the oil fields. _x000D_ The 83rd Turkestan Division as part of the group of Soviet troops was in Iran in the areas of Mashhad and Gorgan until November 1942, performing the protection of the southern borders of the USSR. In September 1941, Commissar Metersky was appointed Secretary of the Communist Party Bureau of the 67th Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division. In March 1942, he was transferred to the Political Department of the Division. From August 1942 to May 1943, Captain Meterski served in the 4th Separate Rifle Battalion of the 64th Separate Rifle Brigade (82nd Rifle Division of the 68th army). _x000D_ At the end of 1942, the Division fought 170 km North-East of Smolensk. In March 1943, it reached the Minsk shosse, was stopped by German troops, and at the beginning of April 1943, it was taken to the near rear for rest and manning. From May 1943 to June 1944 comrade Metersky participated in combat operations as part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion of the 192nd Rifle Division of the 68th Army. Near the city of Yelnya on August 9, he was seriously wounded in the head. After recovering, he returned to his military unit. As part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion, he reached the border of Russia and Belarus. _x000D_ Since June 1944, he fought as a member of the 46th Separate Anti-tank fighter Division (46 OIPD) of the 210th Rifle Division of the 31st Army on the 3rd Belorussian Front, in April-May, 1945 on the 1st Ukrainian Front. With the division, he went on a combat path from the city of Orsha to Prague. As part of the 46th Division, he participated in operations to break through the German defenses and capture the city of Orsha, in forcing the water barrier of the Berezina river, in the battles for the capture of Minsk. He took part in the fighting to eliminate the East Prussian grouping of German troops South-West of Konigsberg. _x000D_ Near the city of Grodno in July 1944 he was wounded a second time. For participation in the battles for the capture of the city and fortress of Grodno, he was awarded the order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ After the victory in the Great Patriotic War until July 1946, he served in Germany as a Deputy Commander of a Division in the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 7th Guards Army. During the war period, he was awarded orders and medals of the USSR: the order of the Red Banner (22.08.1944), the order of the Patriotic War I degree (17.03.1945), medals “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” on (09.05.1945), “For Capture of Konigsberg” (09.06.1945). In the postwar period he was awarded the order of Patriotic War I degree (11.03.1985); medals "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" "50 years Armed Forces of USSR", "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "60 years of Armed Forces USSR", "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "70 years of Armed Forces USSR", "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War". _x000D_ From 1946 to 1967 Metersky J. B. worked at the industrial enterprises of Uzbekistan and Moldova. In June 1967, he moved to live in Novokuznetsk. He worked as the Director of Novokuznetsk Shoe factory No. 4, Novokuznetsk Dry Cleaning Factory, General Director of the production Association "Kuznetskkhimchistka". He worked at the Novokuznetsk plant for repair of household machines and appliances. He retired with 53 years of work experience. For his labor merits, he was awarded the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor” in 1970 and the badge “Winner of the 1973 Socialist Competition” in 1985. He lived in Novokuznetsk for 34 years.