Order of the Red Star

Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, NKVD border troops. Division: 284th rifle division (1st formation). Vladlen Egorovich Kvashnin is a Hero of War. My great-grandfather id a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, infantryman, knight of the order of Glory of the III degree, of the order of the Red Star, of the order of the Patriotic War of II degree, order of Patriotic War of the I degree. Despite all the difficulties and hardships that had to be endured during the war of 1941-1945, great-grandfather considers himself a happy person. He had to fight four times as part of the 284-79 guards’ order-bearing Zaporozhye division, which being part of the 62-8 guards’ army of V. I. Chuikov, fought its way from Stalingrad to Berlin. The division was formed in Tomsk in 1941 from Komsomol members and the youth of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, and the Altai territory. After its formation, it left for the Bryansk frontline. After intense combat at Kostornaya station, the division was withdrawn to Krasnoufimsk for reformation. Here, the sailors of the Pacific fleet joined the division. In September 1942, the division recaptured Mamayev Kurgan from the Nazis and defended this important mount until the end of the battle of Stalingrad. My great-grandfather recalls: "The view of the city on this night has been ingrained into my memory for a lifetime. The entire wide channel of the Volga river was engulfed in bright flames: oil, diesel fuel, and gasoline, which seeped from the oil storage as a result of bombing and shelling, was burning. The signalmen and part of the sapper battalion were the first to cross. The rest of the units followed, under heavy artillery and mortar fire. Immediately, we entered the battle for the Red October Factory, captured by the Germans. Then the division received Chuikov's order to storm Mamaev Kurgan, which in the operational maps was called height 102 and was important in the battles for Stalingrad. The enemy placed its air guidance stations, artillery and mortar observation posts on Mamayev Kurgan and, from this height, adjusted their fire. The slightest movement of our troops was immediately suppressed by fire. The enemy was attacking incessantly, but the Siberians were as immovable as a mountain. Stalin's order No. 227 - "Not a step back!" - was executed. The battle of Stalingrad ended. For another month, the division where my great-grandfather served stayed on its line. After the battle of Stalingrad, the division became known as the 79th guards’ Red Banner, after a short break and reinforcement, on June 19, 1943, it made an offensive. On September 13, 1943, the division liberated the city of Zaporozhye, for which it received the honorary name "Zaporozhye". Vladlen Yegorovich also participated in the battle of Kursk, liberated Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. After the war, he worked as a foreman of a field team, developing virgin lands. He does a lot of work on the military and patriotic education of young people, often visits schoolchildren. Author: Anton Tishchenko, 11 years old, MKOU Yarkovskaya SOSH, Novosibirsk region, Dovolensky district.

Mikhail Bubnov, a Red Army soldier, was born on October 17, 1908, and was drafted into the Red Army by the Rostov Military Comissiriat of the Yaroslavl region on November 10, 1941. He took part in the Great Patriotic War since January 1, 1942 as a telephone operator of the platoon of the Control Commander of artillery 234 S.D. In the combat operations conducted by this division, the telephone operator Mikhail Sergeevich Bubnov proved himself to be a loyal, persistent, disciplined fighter, fairly and conscientiously performing all the tasks of the command office. During the offensive conducted by the division in August 1943, he showed courage, perseverance, and fearlessness, while ensuring telephone communications. Under heavy artillery and mortar fire, he quickly and skillfully restored the damaged telephone line, both during day and night, thereby ensuring continuous communication of the Commander of the Division of Artillery enabling the command over artillery fire. In September 1943, for the courage and bravery shown during the battles, the Red Army soldier Mikhail Sergeevich Bubnov was awarded the medal "For Bravery". In December 1943, Mikhail Bubnov, a telephone operator of the KAD-234 control platoon of the Lomonosov rifle division, served as the head of the communications center supervisor in the battles for the village of Dvorishche, Sirotinsky district, Vitebsk region, servicing the communications center of the Commander of the Division of Artillery with the APP group. Bravely, all by himself, he repaired the damage under continuous fire from enemy batteries, ensuring the flawless functioning of the communication center. In January 1944, the Red Army soldier Mikhail Sergeevich Bubnov was presented with the government award the order of the Red Star. He took part in combat operations on the Kalinin, Baltic, and 1st Belorussian fronts. In the battle for the capture of a fortified area of the enemy in Neu Stralenberg (Germany) during the period between February 7-9, 1945, Senior telephone operator Mikhail Sergeevich Bubnov, providing telephone communication of the Commander of the Division of Artillery with the APP 1350 group, repaired 25 communication line tears under enemy fire, while he was lightly contused. In February 1945, Junior Sergeant Mikhail Sergeevich Bubnov was presented with the order of the Red Star for his bravery in battle, the senior telephone operator of the platoon of the Artillery Commander of the 234th Lomonosov-Prague division. He died due to wounds on January 24, 1948, and was buried in the city of Rostov, Yaroslavl region in "Mass graves".

My grandfather Vasily Nikitovich Kochedykov took part in the Great Patriotic War. He was born on March 31, 1912 in a family of peasants in the village of Puzyrev, Zavivalovsky district, Penza region. My grandfather studied to become a livestock specialist, completing two years of the Omsk Agricultural Institute. In 1942, he graduated from the commander's course at the Frunze Military and Political School. From June 1942 to April 1945, he participated in the battles against the Nazi invaders. He finished the war as a deputy division commander of the political department of the 7th guards’ airborne artillery regiment of the 9th guards airborne Poltava Red Banner order of Suvorov division with the rank of guard captain. During the war, my grandfather received commendations from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet Union I. V. Stalin for his excellent combat against the German-fascist troops: 1. for the elimination of the summer offensive in the Belgorod direction; 2. for the capture of the city of Belgorod; 3.for the capture of the city of Kharkiv; 4. for the capture of the city of Poltava; 5. for the capture of the city of Kremenchug. My grandfather participated in one of the big and important battles on the Kursk bulge, directly participated in the largest tank battle in the whole war at the Prokhorovka station in the Kursk region. In this battle, under the leadership of my grandfather, seven enemy tanks were destroyed, for which he received the order of the Red Star. I remember the battle on the Kursk Bulge from my grandfather's stories; he told me about it several times. He said that the soldiers had a very difficult time, talked about how they died. How they saved him by digging a hole in the ground. I did not find out about how he, himself, shot down two tanks with direct fire until many years later. He took part in the battles to cross the Oder, Dniester, and Vistula rivers. During the war, my grandfather was also awarded orders for military services: of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, the order of the Red Star, the military order of the Red Banner, the medal "For the Victory over Germany", and other medals. My grandfather ended his service in the war on March 16, 1945, as he was seriously wounded in the right Shin on the 1st Ukrainian front near the Neisse river, just 60 km from Berlin. Afterwards, came a hospital in the city of Lviv, a commission and dismissal from the army. It was there that Vasily Nikitovich met Budyonniy, who was then in charge of the horse breeding industry in the country. The marshal approved the appointment of yesterday's officer as director of the state stable in Lviv. Afterwards, my grandfather worked in the Rivne state procurement stable. He was director of the state stable, chairman of the collective farm "Progress" of the Nolinsky (Molotov) district of the Kirov region, created the Nolinsky poultry farm from the ground up. My grandfather was personally acquainted with Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonniy, fellow Nolinchanite Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov - both acquaintances seriously affected the economy of the district at one time or another. For the sake of the common cause, Vasily Nikitovich went to Moscow to seek an appointment with Molotov. And he got it! After their meeting, a power plant, a car, and a sawmill were delivered to the address of the “Progress” collective farm.

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".

Born in 1911, far from the southern Urals. Place of birth – city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Region. Before the military service, he worked as a turner, and graduated from school in grades seven. Date of conscription - still a peaceful time in the USSR - February 21, 1940. He went through the war from beginning to the end, and endured many ordeals – harsh battles, partisan struggle, the horrors of the first concentration camp, and unjust exile. During his service, he received the rank of Lieutenant and served in the 457th combat regiment. During the war, Mikhail was the Political Officer of a company of the Vorobyov Partisan Detachment and in November 1942 went missing. He went to Dachau – one of the first concentration camps in Germany. All his hands and feet were scarred – because he had escaped from the camp twice, but the Nazis sent dogs on his trail, which tore him alive and dragged him back. This horror lasted for three years, until April 1945, when US soldiers broke into the camp and libirated the prisoners. For another month, he sat on the territory of the camp and waited for the documents to be made for him, so that he could finally return home. But it was not that simple. After all, if one was in a concentration camp, he could give up all his secrets and betray his homeland. Before the war, he was married, but to protect himself, his wife refused him. He walked to the Krasnodar Region, in a ragged robe, weighed only 45 kg. Only then did he learn that he no longer had a wife, and that his own sister was forbidden to talk to him. After three days, he was sent to exile in Chelyabinsk. For a half of his life he tried to prov that he was not an enemy of the people and that he was taken prisoner unconscious. In Chelyabinsk, he met his second wife. His story ended well – he had two daughters and several grandchildren. He finaly was rehabilitated. All his awards and titles were returned, for example, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Died from the effects of the war. One of Dachau's favorite tortures was the vacuum. Its purpose was to study the strains that German pilots could face at high altitudes or when landing with an unexpected drop in pressure and a decrease in oxygen content. Mikhail was paralyzed for the third and last time on October 19, 1986.

Yuri Alexandrovich Gorodnichev was born in Kaluga on May 4, 1924. In may 1942, eighteen-year-old Yura Gorodnichev enlisted in the 108th separate tank brigade, which was at the disposal of the 50th army. With the rank of Sergeant, he was a recon for the control company of the 108 tank brigade of the 9th tank corps. The first military award – the medal "for bravery" - Yuri Alexandrovich received in the summer of 1943 near Kursk. Despite heavy mortar fire, he personally destroyed 8 enemy soldiers personally by his gun, and promptly found a Tiger tank buried in the ground, which allowed it to be destroyed. From 10 to 14 September 1943 In the battles for Uborok village with a group of recons and 5 tanks broke through and went to the North-Western outskirts of the village, where he took up the defense: three enemy counterattacks were repulsed. Personally by Sergeant Yu. A. Gorodnichev destroyed five 5 enemies by his machine gun, two were taken prisoners. He delivered aluable documents about the enemy to headquarters of the unit. And on 11/22/1943 he was awarded the Order of Red Star for that. In battles, which lasted from 06/24/1944 to 08/04/1944 he broke through the enemy's defenses in the area of the Drut river (Belarussia) and provided accurate information about the enemy, which contributed to the implementation of the combat mission. On June 27, 1944 Yu. A. Gorodnichev together with a group of sappers of the Department built the crossing of over the river Dobysna and held it. He was slightly wounded, but did not leave the battlefield, gave himself first aid, and continued to perform the task. For these actions Yu. A. Gorodnichev was awarded the Order of glory of the III degree. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 05/09/1945, he was awarded the medal "for the Victory over Germany".

Sergey Andreevich Galkin (1917-30.06.1999) Galkin Sergey Andreevich was born on June 1, 1917 in the family of a worker in the town of Kus, Chelyabinsk region. He finished seven grades of school and entered the Zlatoust industrial college named after Anosov in September 1934. In 1938, he graduated with honors from the college and on July 10, 1938, he started working as an engineer at the Kusinsky machine-building plant in the Department of the chief mechanic of the plant. On August 31, 1938, he left the factory for conscription into the Soviet Army. September 1938 - December 1939-Military school. From December 1939 to March 13, 1940, he fought on the Karelian isthmus. It was the war with Finland. He was awarded the title: Military technician of 2nd rank. Since June 22, 1941 on the fronts of the Great Patriotic war: the southern front, the South-Western front, the 1st, 2nd, 4th fronts. He was wounded twice during the war. Firstly, wounded in 1941 on July 26 near Tiraspol (in the stomach, right leg, right arm, severely contused). He was in hospitals. On May 18, 1942, he was seriously wounded in the left arm. He was in hospitals. And again he came back to fight after injuries. In 1943, he was promoted to senior Lieutenant. For military services, he was awarded orders: “Red star”, order of the Patriotic war of I degree, Order of the Red banner", Order of "Patriotic war of I degree." Medals: "For military services", " for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945. From December,10, 1947 to October, 10, 1948 he was a student of the Higher officer school. He served in the Armed forces until October, 13, 1958. He served in Odessa, in Nizhyn of Chernihov region, in the village of Yelizovo on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the city of Kaunas in Lithuania. He was discharged with the rank of major, because of his illness related to the injuries received in the Great Patriotic war. In 1958, he came to Kusa with his family. On October, 21, 1960, he was employed at the machine-building plant as an instrument engineer. Then he worked as a warehouse Manager. Retired from the factory on June, 8, 1972 From 1975 to 1980 he worked as a duty officer in the District military enlistment office. He was the Chairman of the Military-Patriotic section of the Council of veterans, a member of the DOSAAF district Committee. Awarded medals: Veteran of labor, 20 years of Victory, 30 years of Victory, 40 years of Victory, 30 years of the Soviet Army, 40 years of the Soviet Army, 50 years of the Armed Forces, 60 years of the Armed Forces, 70 years of the Armed Forces, 100 years since the birth of G. K. Zhukov, Veteran of the 1st guards. Armies. Awarded with the following Badges: Graduation Badge of the Tula Weapons and technical school, Badge "25 years of victory", Badge "35 years of victory", Badge "25 years of the Soviet Veterans Committee", Badge "Veteran of the 62nd guards division", Badge "Veteran of the Chelyabinsk region". Sergey Galkin is a veteran of 2 wars, a veteran of the 62nd guards division, a veteran of the 1st guards Army, a labor veteran, a veteran of the Chelyabinsk region, a Disabled person of II group of the World war. On June 30, 1999, he passed away.

Gury Nikolaevich Gordeev was born in 1923 in Voskresenskaya Salovka village, Ruzaevsky district, Mordovian ASSR. On April,23, 1943 G. N. Gordeev was drafted by Ruzaevsky military Commisariate for military service and sent to the 491st separate machine-gun artillery battalion of the 159th Dniester Red banner, 2nd degree B. Khmelnitsky order Fortified Area of the 40th Army of 2nd Ukrainian front. Rank: Junior Sergeant. Branch of service: artillery. The 159th fortified Area fought as part of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts (from December,13, 1943 to January,01, 1945). Having received sufficient combat experience, Junior Sergeant Gordeev was appointed to the position of commander of the 76 mm gun of the artillery division. On April 9, 1944, the gun of Junior Sergeant G. N. Gordeev destroyed 2 light machine guns under heavy enemy fire and as part of the battery suppressed the enemy's mortar battery, which contributed to the assault and occupation of Vama city (Romania ). For the accomplished feat, Junior Sergeant Gury Nikolaevich Gordeev was awarded the state award of the Red Star Order" (On November, 1944). On April, 30, 1945 in the battle for Chabun town, putting their guns in the battle formations of the infantry, Junior Sergeant Gordeev destroyed 2 machine guns and up to 15 Nazis by direct fire from his gun, thus he contributed to the success of the advancing our infantry. For the accomplished feat, Junior Sergeant Gury Nikolaevich Gordeev was awarded the state award “the order of Glory of the 3rd degree”. For the accomplished feats in the frontlines of Great Patriotic War, Junior Sergeant Gordeev Gury Nikolaevich was awarded the order of "Great Patriotic war of 2nd degree" (April, 6, 1985)

My great-grandfather, Nikolai Mikhailovich Gushchin, was born in 1911 on the Bogucharovo sovkhoz (state farm) in the Leninsky district. He finished two classes of primary school. In 1933, he was drafted into the army in the 110th artillery regiment as a telephone operator. On August 12, 1933, he was dismissed to the reserve. Title: Senior sergeant. Type of service: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - the coast guard, troops of the NKVD, - the border guards. He left for the front on June 28, 1941 (at that time he was 30 years old). My great-grandfather was sent to the Leningrad front. From June 1941 to March 1942, he was a Rifleman, and from March 1942 to March 1945 he was a signalman and soon became the head of the telephone exchange and senior Sergeant of the three-hundredth guards rifle regiment of the third battalion. On December 22, 1942, while defending Leningrad, he and his fellow soldiers came under fire, and in order to hide from the enemy, they lay in a swamp for 3 days and ate moss and forest berries. Nikolay Mikhailovich Guschin was awarded: the medal "For defense of Leningrad" because in the battle for Malaya Boudikha village on February,13, 1944, he contributed smooth management of the fight, restoring the connection between the command posts of the regiment and the battalion under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire that - 30.07.1945 (third Baltic front) He was awarded the medal "for bravery" for the fact that in the battle of July 25, 1944 on the outskirts of Voroshilino village, he eliminated nine breakthroughs in the telephone line despite the deadly danger, under heavy enemy fire, and did not allow even 1-minute break in communication between the companies - 16.02.1945 (second Ukrainian front) awarded the "Red Star Order" for his work as the head of the Central telephone exchange in the offensive battle from January 24 to January 28, 1945 on the outskirts of Beuten town in difficult combat conditions, when the enemy had a strong combat impact, my grandfather promptly deployed the connection center and promptly provided telephone lines to the battalions, which led the battle. Despite frequent cuts of the connection line by enemy fire, more than 12 cuts were personally eliminated, which contributed to the successful outcome of the battle. In the battle of February 7, 1945 for Kefendorf town, my grandfather provided continuous telephone connection with the units, which led the battle for 12 hours in open terrain and heavy enemy fire. At the end of the war, Nikolai Mikhaylovich Gushchin received a commendation from Stalin. Only two men of the entire regiment survived. Soldiers of the Soviet army thought that they were deserters and took them prisoner. My grandfather was held captive for three days, then released after realizing that he had saved the guard flag. All his life he worked as a tractor driver. He retired only when he was 82 years old. My great-grandfather went through the war almost without injuries and received many awards. He finished his way in Budapest. I am proud of my great-grandfather and grateful to him for peaceful sky above my head.

On the third day of the war, universal fitter of local telephone exchange, father of two children, Dmitry Vasilyevich Goreslavets were mobilized to Worker-Peasant Red Army by Priishim military Commissariat of North Kazakhstan Region to defend the Fatherland. He took an accelerated course of training for artillery and mortar operators in the training camp. From July 1941 He commanded a mortar crew at the front, as part of the 162nd rifle division of the 501st regiment, with the rank of Sergeant. From 1941 to January, 9, 1943, the regiment participated in battles as part of the South-Western front in the Kharkov direction, Izyum, Barvenkovo, Novo-Mikhailovsk, and fought in the North Caucasus. In the first months of the war, ensuring the withdrawal of our units, mortar battery by command and under the threat of encirclement has moved to the front of the defense, and by their fire held back the advance of the Nazis. Having fulfilled the order, the mortar men found themselves in the "temporarily occupied territory", and they had to reach the dislocations of their troops by their own. Those who left the encirclement were sent for re-formation after a mandatory check. Since the summer of 1943, after inspections and re-formation of the personnel of the "encircled", he continued to fight as part of the 155 Army Cannon Artillery Novorossiysk-Sevastopol Red banner 2nd degree Suvorov order Brigade (abbreviated APABR) as a motorcycle recon. On October 24, 1944, the commander of the 155th APABR awarded Dmitry Vasilyevich the medal "for the defense of the Caucasus". In 1944, as part of the 1st Ukrainian front during the period of fighting to destroy the encircled enemy group in the area of Zolochiv in Ukraine, in the battles to expand and hold the bridgehead at the Vistula river in Poland. On October 12, 1944, By order of the commander, he was awarded the order of the Red Star. The 155th APABR as part of the 1st Ukrainian front fought its way to the liberation of Europe: Poland, German Silesia, Dresden, Prague, and ended the war in the Austrian city of Amstetten. In July 1945, Dmitry Vasilyevich was awarded a" Certificate of Gratitude "from the commander of the 1st Ukrainian front, Marshal of the Soviet Union Ivan Stepanovich Konev, medals" for the liberation of Prague","for the victory over Germany". Demobilized in November 1945.

Rank: Sergeant. Branch of troops: Artillery. Division: 15th guards Kharkiv-Prague twice Red banner rifle division of the Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov. BOLOTSKY PYOTR MIKHAILOVICH was born in 1920 in the village of Verkhne-Kundryuchenskaya in the Razdorsky district of the Rostov region in a family of peasants. In 1939, he received a full secondary education and entered the Rostov state University at the faculty of physics and mathematics, but in the same year he was drafted into the Red Army, in the ranks of which he was until 1946. From 1941 to 1945 Bolotsky participated in military operations of the Great Patriotic war. Beeing positioned as a commander of the communications Department, he took part in combat operations on the Western and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of the 341st howitzer artillery regiment, 347th automobile company of the 5th guards army, 47th rifle regiment of the 15th rifle division of the 155th army cannon and artillery brigade. In August 1944, he was wounded near Sandomierz (Poland). He was awarded with the medals "for Military Merit", "for Bravery", "for the Liberation of Prague", "for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". From the award list: " Bolotsky Pyotr Mikhailovich, Sergeant, topographer of the 155th Novorossiysk-Sevastopol artillery Army brigade adorned with Suvorov`s order. Bolotsky, working as a topographer for the brigade management during the fighting on the Oder bridgehead under enemy artillery fire, tied 12 firing positions, which enabled the divisions to conduct accurate shooting, as a result of which only near the city of Olau were destroyed up to 30 soldiers and officers, 7 wagons with cargo were broken. Later, after being wounded, Bolotsky, working at the brigade headquarters as a senior clerk, proved to be conscientious, reproduces combat documents, thereby giving more time to the brigade divisions to prepare and plan combat operations." Worthy of the order of the Red Star. May 28, 1945. In 1946, he was demobilized and entered the Rostov financial and economic University, from which he graduated in 1950. In the same year, he entered graduate school at the Department of statistics of the Rostov financial and economic University, from which he graduated in 1953 and was sent to the Kharkiv Institute of Soviet trade, where he worked as a senior lecturer at the Department of statistics and mathematics. In 1956, he defended his PhD thesis for the degree of candidate of economic Sciences. Since 1960-associate Professor, head of the Department of statistics, Dean of the faculty of trade and Economics of the Donetsk Institute of Soviet trade. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 13.06.1966 awarded the order "Badge of Honor" for many years of scientific and methodological, educational and educational work.

Boyko Luka Fedoseevich was born in 1898 in the Kiev province, Zvenigorod district, Gusakov township, the village of Rossokhovatki. Luka Fedoseevich started his career in 1912. From 1912 to 1916 he worked at the Samara-Zlatoust railway. From 1916, he was drafted into the tsarist army and trained in the 3rd reserve artillery brigade in Samara, from where he left for the Romanian front as a common soldier. In 1917, he was dismissed for injury. From July 1918 to 1946, he served in the Red Army continuously as a platoon commander, company commander, battalion commander, assistant regimental commander, Deputy Brigade commander, Division supply chief, Head of the front Department, Deputy division commander, Assistant chief of the infantry school in Leninsk - Kuznetsk. Total service in the army was 28 years. In June 1941, when Nazi Germany treacherously attacked our Homeland, Boyko was at the station of Manzovka, Ussuri territory, in a military town, 69 motorized rifle division. After the war began, together with the division he went to the front line, and in 1942, the 69th division was renamed the 2nd Guards motorized rifle division for its military valor. In March of 1944, he was seconded to the 4th Shock Army and was appointed Deputy commander of the 47th division in the rear. From July to August 1944, he was in the reserve of the Baltic front. From August 1944 to October 1945, he was appointed Deputy chief of the 3rd Guards Rifle division in the rear. During the great Patriotic war, together with combat units, he conducted combat operations on the territory of Nazi Germany in East Prussia. During the Great Patriotic war he had a concussion and was injuried two times. From December 1945, he was appointed as the deputy head of the Leninsk-Kuznetsk military infantry school in the West Siberian military district. On September 9, 1946, by order of the chief of the rear of the armed forces of the USSR, he was dismissed to the reserve due to the age. In 1946, together with his family, he moved from Leninsk - Kuznetsk to Tobolsk. In March 1947, he was appointed as the director of the Tobolsk city auction. In October 1950, he was appointed as the director of the Tobolsk bakery. In 1952 he retired for health reasons.

Rank: Lieutenant Branch of troops: land forces, air forces (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Division: 182nd Dnov rifle division. Native of the Ukrainian SSR, Voroshilovograd region, Svatovsky district, the village of Pervomaysky. His father - Borisenko Nikolai Artemyevitch, lived in the village of Shenchuga Konosha district of the Arkhangelsk region. Member of the CPSU(b). Drafted in 1942 by Konoshskiy RVC; Lieutenant, platoon commander of 45 mm cannons 171 infantry regiment within 182 Dnovskiy infantry division of artillery at 2nd Baltic front. On December 9, 1943, he was awarded the order of the Red Star - during his military servive within the battery comrade Borisenko showed himself to be disciplined, demanding of himself and his subordinates. He works hard to improve his military knowledge and skillfully passes it on to his subordinates. The platoon's military equipment is always kept in perfect order and combat readiness. Borisenko daily deals with the personnel of the platoon, improving military equipment and training the soldiers. Borisenko participated in the offensive battles at Penna and Goroshkov. While on the defensive, the platoon of comrade Borisenko smashed 7 Bunkers, 3 residential dugouts, 1 observation post, up to 30 meters of rubble and more than 10 enemy soldiers with direct fire. During 4-day training courses comrade Borysenko has shown excellent results for shooting. On January 7, 1944, he was awarded the order of Bravery; on December 9, 1943, the order of the Red Star; on April 14, 1944 – by the order of the Patriotic War II degree. During the battles against nazi invaders for the village of Seredkino-Slepni, he was advancing with the infantry platoon and by the direct fire of his platoon that was on for 4 days of fighting destroyed 5 enemy machine guns, broke a stone wall and killed up to 20 German soldiers and officers of the enemy. Together with the infantry and with his guns, he broke into the village, which ensured the consolidation of the front line. During all offensive battles of the regiment, the platoon of comrade Borisenko acted well, destroying by its direct fire enemy's manpower and equipment, breaking its defenses. He passed away on August 27, 1944, and was buried in the Latvian SSR, at the village of Mezhakas, Saunaka region, Daugavpils district.

Burov Ippolit Firsovich was born on January 11, 1920 in the city of Verkh-Neivinsky, Sverdlovsk region. In 1939, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk electro-mechanical technical school. On September 13, 1939, he was drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR. Participated in the Great Patriotic war from September 1941 to May 1945. Ippolit participated in battles at the South-Western front from September 1941 to July 1942 (tower shooter). At the Stalingrad front - from July 1942 to January 1943 (tower shooter). 3rd Belorussian front - from January 1943 to May 1945 (radio operator). Awarded the rank of a Guardsman on December 26, 1942. Sergeant Burov began his service in the tank forces as a gunner-radio operator. He received his baptism of fire in November 1941 near Taganrog. There were fights for Rostov, for the city of Izyum, fights near Poltava. One of the crew's tanks burned down, and the soldiers had to break out of the encirclement on foot. They fought on the South-Western front, then were transferred to the Voronezh front. After losing another tank, Sergeant Burov had to fight within the infantry regiment for some time. Later on - after a tank was delivered - soldiers moved to the Don front. In December 1942 their 24th Tank corps, having broken through from North to South, took part in the operation, the purpose of which was to wedge between the fascist group surrounded in Stalingrad and the enemy units coming to its aid from the West. After the strategic victory in the village of Tatsinskaya, the 24th Tank corps was transformed into the "2nd guards Tatsinsky", and the crew of the Burov tank was entrusted to accept the guards banner of their tank brigade. In July 1943, the armoured corps fought at the Kursk-Oryol arc. In the autumn of 1943 - on the 3rd Belorussian front. Then the corps was engaged in the liberation of Orsha, Vitebsk, and Minsk. And after that – supported the crossing of the Neman river and liberation of Konigsberg. But the war did not end for the Guard Sergeant Burov. He took part in battles against nationalist gangs in Poland. Burov was awarded with the order of the Patriotic War II degree, order of the Red Star, medals "For Defense of Stalingrad", "For Capture of Koenigsberg", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945 years." And then the Victory came! Guard Sergeant Burov participated in the Victory parade.

Rank: Colonel. Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized forces. Gladush Methodius Kuzmich was born on June 7, 1920 in the village of Mishurin-Rog, Verkhnedneprovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region. In 1939, he entered the 1st Saratov panzer specialized school. After graduation in June 1941, he was sent for further military service in the 144th tank regiment of the 23rd tank division as a platoon commander of T-26 tanks. Gladush got to the regiment's location on June 17th, 1941. In June 1941, the division was stationed in Libava, with 350 T-26 tanks, 17 “Vickers” tanks, 2 tankettes, 9 flamethrower tanks, 3 t-26 tow trucks, 5 BA-10 armored vehicles, 15 BA-20 armored vehicles. Starting with June 19, the division secretly relocated from Libava and concentrated by June 22 to the north of Telshay in the Kurtuvena area. In June-July 1941 the division protected retreat of Soviet units through Riga towards Pskov. By July 4th, the division had 10 tanks and 150 men in its composition, and was located on the Ostrov-Pskov highway. On July 5th Gladush`s division was supposed to be withdrawn from the fighting, but on July 7, German units knocked back Soviet troops and rushed to the crossings on the Cheryokha river. The remnants of the division were detained and together with the 3rd motorized rifle regiment of the 3rd tank division and the rifle battalion of the 118th rifle division were put on the defense of the crossings. On the evening of July 7, the division's tanks moved into action with the tanks of the German 1st Panzer division. On the morning of July 8, German units crossed the river and reached the southern outskirts of Pskov, where the remnants of the division retreated and on the same day the division left the city through the Northern outskirts. Only two properly operating tanks remained in the division (in addition to 56 damaged and requiring repair). During the first 16 days of the war, 144 tanks were lost due to the enemy fire, 122-for a technical reasons, 9-transferred to other units. After Pskov battle, the remaining tank man of the division were sent to Novgorod to join 8th tank brigade under the command of the future chief Marshal of the armored forces, at that time Colonel, P. Rotmistrov. From September 1941 to Januanry 1942 Gladush participated in the defense of Moscow staying with the 8th tank brigade which was part of the North-Western, Kalinin and Western fronts and took part in the winter counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow when he distinguished himself during liberation of the city of Klin. During the offensive, the brigade marched as far as Rzhev. On January 11th, 1942, the 8th tank brigade was transformed into the 3rd guards tank brigade for the mass heroism of its personnel. After liberation of the town of Kalinin, emblems were painted on the turrets of all tanks of the 3rd guards brigade - large white circles with the number "3" in the middle. Each tank was given a name, which was written in white paint on the tower. On June 26, 1942, the brigade was re-equipped with KV heavy tanks. On July 1, 1942, due to the threat of an enemy breakthrough near Voronezh, the brigade within the 7th tank corps was transferred to the Bryansk front in the Yelets area, where it became part of the 5th Tank Army. On August 24, 1942, the brigade within the 7th tank corps was transferred to the Stalingrad front and became part of the 1st guards army. In August-September 1942, as a part of the 3rd guards tank brigade took part in fierce battles to defend Stalingrad. On 18th of September 1942 after the battle for the hill “154.2” in the area of the junction exit 564, he was awarded with the medal "for bravery". The phrase "a battle for a forester's hut" became a symbol for the positional battles of the First World War. But during battles of WWII in the steppes close to Stalingrad there were no forests, nor foresters, nor huts. In the operational documents of the troops fighting North of the city, another local landmark is mentioned - a traffic light on the railway running from Kotlubani towards Stalingrad. It is amazing how this traffic light survived several fierce battles, was not destroyed by attacking tanks or blown to pieces by shells and aerial bombs. So this particular trafic light at the 564 km junction exit can much more claim to be a symbol of the battle of Stalingrad than the house of Sergeant Pavlov since it was in the center of events much more often and was mentioned in operational reports up to and including the front-line level. And much more soldiers perished next to this traffic light than around any single house in Stalingrad. Gladush participated in the November offensive that terminated by encircling of the 4th Panzer and 6th German armies at Stalingrad. During the Soviet army's counteroffensive at Stalingrad on 19.11-30.12.42, a new tank attack tactic was used during the battle for the Rychkovskaya railway station. Our troops were located on high ground, the positions of the German troops - in the lowlands. At night, with their lights on, but without gunfire or machine-gun fire, the tanks began to move towards the German positions. The enemy was surprised by this kind of attack, the tanks reached the enemy's fortifications without firing a single shot, broke through the defenses and reached the Bank of the Don river. On December 13th, during nazi airstrike his tank was hit by a thermite shell that killed practrically all the guards crew – master sergeant Zemlyakov, sergeant Borowski, senior Sergeant Volchkov. After the crew was buried on the battlefield, repairmen welded a hole from a shell hit with electric welding, and in the morning the tank was back in service, having distinguished itself in battle, paying tribute to the fallen comrades. After the defeat of enemy troops at Stalingrad, Gladush participated in the Rostov offensive operation on January 1 – February 18, 1943. In March 1943, he participated in the defense of Belgorod during the German counteroffensive. In the summer of 1943, he took part in the battle of Kursk. In August 1943, he was transferred to the newly formed 233rd separate tank regiment as a company commander of KV tanks. As part of the regiment, he fought at the 1st Belorussian front within the 50th Army. He was awarded the order of the Red Banner for his distinction in crossing the Pronya and Dnipro rivers and liberating the city of Mogilev. It was decreed on 10th of July, 1944 that 233rd Separate Tank Regiment was given the honorary name "Mogilev". For military valour during the battle for Pron river Gladush M. K. was awarded the order of the Red Star. Together with the regiment, he participated in the liberation of Belarus and Poland. In the summer of 1944, he was sent to serve in the Polish Army, as a tutor of the tank school of the Polish Army in the city of Khelm. All Soviet officers in this school wore the uniform of The Polish Army. In March 1945 Gladush participated in the suppression of the uprising of supporters of the Krayovy Army among the cadets of the school. He was awarded the Polish silver Cross of merit. In the post-War years, he was commissioned as a teacher to the Kazan tank school, but due to the discrepancy in rank and age, he was transferred to Anapa as a company commander of a tank battalion. After Kazan, Gladush worked for Kharkov tank school as a teacher of tactics. In 1958 Gladush graduated from the Military Red Banner Academy of the Armored Forces of the Order of Lenin and the October Revolution named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky- and after that served in various positions in the Baltic States, within the group of Soviet forces in Germany and in Crimea. In 1970, he went on a well-deserved rest. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 92.