Order of the Red Star

Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 10th Guards Rifle Pechenga, twice Red Banner Orders of Alexander Nevsky and Red Star Division. _x000D_ Every inhabitant of our multinational Russia cherishes the memory of the Great Patriotic War, of relatives and friends who laid down their heads on the battlefields. How much blood of innocent people was shed. All this was deposited in our souls with wounds. My great-grandmother, Titova Varvara Stepanovna, a native of the Belomorsk Region, lost her son, Titov Vasily Prokopyevich. Until her death, my little, fragile great-grandmother kept the death notification under a tablecloth on the table and did not believe, and WAITED. She had been waiting almost until her death. Year after year, there was less and less hope remained, but she never left her at all. _x000D_ In the archives we managed to find information that V.P. Titov fought bravely in the Murmansk direction of the Karelian Front, in the direction of the 2nd Belorussian Front. He showed unprecedented courage, performed heroic deeds. He was awarded the Medal For Courage, the Order of Glory III Degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II Degree, and the Order of the Red Star. From the place of conscription in the Red Army in 1942, he went from Karelia to Germany, where he died from wounds on May 7, 1945. _x000D_ A dashing and courageous soldier was able to take command over, raise soldiers to mortal combat despite the enemy's numerical superiority. He took the Nazis prisoner, disarmed, destroyed both the enemy and his weapons. How brightly he could live his life and how much beautiful and useful he could do. _x000D_ Low bow and eternal memory to the heroes of the Second World War. Thank you for the victory and the peaceful sky over your head.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, troops People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, border troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 1st Guards Artillery Order of Lenin Glukhov Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdanuzov, Khutanuzov Reserve of the Supreme Command. _x000D_ In 1941 he graduated from medical assistant courses and as a nineteen-year-old boy went to the front. He served in the rank of Senior Lieutenant, organized the work of the Battalion's Sanitary Medical Service, accompanied convoys under fire and bombardment, carried out the wounded from the battlefield, organized defense and participated in repelling enemy attacks, and treated the Red Army soldiers. _x000D_ Here is a quote from the award list: "In the battles near the city of Neisse ... came under the bombing of aviation ... Comrade Sokolov, risking his life, carried out the wounded driver, provided assistance and sent him to the medical unit." This is so short, dry in military documents about the daily feat of my great-grandfather, about the many lives he saved, about the days of the hardest trials for our people. _x000D_ Officer, Senior Lieutenant Valerian Ivanovich Sokolov, for personal courage and courage shown in defending the Fatherland and performing military duty, was awarded the Medal "For Courage", the Medal "For Liberation of Prague", the Medal "For Capture of Berlin", the Medal "For Victory over Germany WWII 1941-1945 ", in 1947 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his great services in the defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in wartime.

Rank: Captain _x000D_ Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 149th Infantry Novograd-Volynskaya Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Since October 1940, after being drafted into military service, the young soldier Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich was in the 169th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Far Eastern Front. At the beginning of 1942, the divisions of the Far East were transferred to Stalingrad. On November 19, the Division broke through the enemy defenses and, together with other formations of the 21st Army, participated in the encirclement and defeat of the 3rd Romanian army in the area of the Bazkovsky farm and the village of Raspopinskaya. They repulsed the attempts of the Germans to break out of the encirclement, broke through the Nazi defenses in the Novy Rogachik area, the Hospital and smashed the invaders in the city itself. _x000D_ At the end of 1941, the command, assessing organizational skills, fearlessness, the ability to realistically assess the course of battles and to find the right solution and a way out of the situations that had arisen, sent a young soldier, Saifetdinov Inayat, to the courses for Junior Leiutenants, which he graduated in March 1942. _x000D_ The young commander was sent to the 42nd Separate Rifle Brigade of the Central Front. All Far Eastern formations took part in the counteroffensive. Particularly distinguished was the 204th Infantry Division, which broke through the German defenses in Stalingrad. _x000D_ Her soldiers liberated the Workers 'and Peasants', Kozlovskaya, Kalinin, Leningradskaya, Pushkinskaya, Krasnopiterskaya and Moskovskaya streets and at 9 o'clock on January 31, 1943, they met with the soldiers of the 62nd Army on the streets of Solnechnaya, Tambovskaya and the Square on January 9. In the six-month battles for Stalingrad, this Division destroyed thousands of enemy soldiers and officers, 227 tanks, and captured 6,028 Nazis. By order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 104 of March 1, 1943, she was awarded the title of 78th Guards. A medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" was issued for the participants in this battle. _x000D_ Further combat took place as part of the 60th Combined Arms Army, which took part in the Battle of Kursk. Front troops in February-March 1943 took part in the offensive in the Oryol-Bryansk direction. During the defensive battles near Kursk in July 1943, the front's troops stopped the enemy's advance for 5-6 days and themselves launched a counteroffensive. In the course of the further offensive, the front troops reached the Dnieper, Pripyat and Sozh, seized bridgeheads on their western banks, created favorable conditions for the development of the offensive in Belarus and Right-Bank Ukraine. For the accomplished comabet efforts, my grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Then many days of fighting began. The captain's group repulsed seven counterattacks and expanded the foot strong, holding it until the entire battalion had crossed there at night. And only then Saifetdinov, seriously wounded in one of the last battles, agreed to be sent to the hospital. _x000D_ In July 1944, Captain Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich served as Chief of Staff of the Battalion of the 149th Rifle Novgorod-Volyn Division. He was at the forefront most of the time. And so the Vistula River, on July 30, 1944, four landing boats sailed to the western bank of the Vistula. They had 100 people from the assault groups. Captain Sayfetdinov was in one of the boats as Commander. Under heavy fire, the boats still landed on the shore. From January 24 to February 17, 1944, the Korsun - Shevchenko operation took place, carried out by the troops of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. Captain Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich also took part in it. _x000D_ For heroic efforts and courage shown in battles, 23 units and formations were given the honorary names "Korsunskie", 6 formations were given the name "Zvenigorodskie". He was also among the awardees. The homeland highly appreciated his exploits, having awarded him the Order of the Patriotic War. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 23, 1944, Captain Inayat Ramazanovich Saifetdinov was awarded the Order of Lenin. This was his third military order of a brave officer.

Rank: Major_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Tok Vladimir Karlovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1905 into a working class family. In 1928 he married Valentina Ivanovna Golubeva, had four children. In 1934 he graduated from the Leningrad Industrial Institute, and by 1941 he became a Senior engineer in the new engine design group at the Research Diesel Institute. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, he volunteered for the Leningrad army of the people's militia, received the title of Military Engineer of the 3rd rank, was enlisted in the 277th Separate Machine-gun and Artillery Battalion. He was responsible for the operation and repair of the Battalion's vehicles. In August-September 1941, the Battalion took up defensive positions on the Strelna - Ropsha highway near the village of Razbegayevo, where it fought fierce battles with the advancing enemy. In mid-September, under the onslaught of the enemy, the Battalion retreated to the Oranienbaum foot strong, where it occupied a new line of defense. _x000D_ At the beginning of 1942, Vladimir Karlovich was recalled from the front and sent to Moscow. At first he served in the repair and maintenance service of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, then in the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army. _x000D_ Vladimir Karlovich was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Defense of Leningrad" and "For Victory over Germany." _x000D_ He was demobilized in 1948. At the beginning of the war, his wife and four children were in Leningrad, from where they were evacuated in the summer of 1942 along the Road of Life, having survived the most terrible months of the blockade in the besieged city. His wife and youngest son passed away, and after the war, Vladimir Karlovich raised three children alone. He worked at various enterprises in Leningrad, passed away in 1977.

Rank: Captain. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ My grandfather, Starukhin Nikolai Trofimovich, lived in the remote Siberian outback in the village Malaya Kada of the Irkutsk Region and was a hereditary hunter. _x000D_ Once he showed me "Memories and Reflections" by G.K. Zhukov and said that these military memoirs mention an episode of a combat on the river Ugra and the name of his Commander, Captain I.G. Starchak. _x000D_ From the stories of my grandfather, I learned that he was a paratrooper, but at the beginning of the war he fought in the trenches in a Separate Joined Airborne Brigade. He rose to the rank of Captain of the Red Army. After the death of N.T. Starukhin, I found the memoirs of I.G. Starchak, where, apparently, my grandfather is also mentioned, however, with a slightly distorted surname. At the same time I.G. Strachak says that during the war many soldiers and officers passed before him, and many names were erased from memory. _x000D_ The detachment of I.G. Starchak not far from Yukhnov defended by a bridge over the Ugra river, blocked the way for the Nazis, thereby giving time for the withdrawal of the Red Army and for the construction of new defensive lines. Now there is a monument to the detachment of I.G. Starchak in the form of a cannon during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ My grandfather N.T. Starukhin was wounded several times. He had military awards, orders and medals. He finished the war in the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). After the flooding of the village of Malaya Kada by the Bratsk reservoir, my grandfather and his family moved to the village of Kaltuk, Bratsk district. _x000D_ After the war N.T. Starukhin worked as a construction foreman at the Bratsky sovkhoz. Many construction projects were built under his leadership. In the village everyone respected grandfather. He always went to School on the eve of Victory Day on May 9 and told his students about how and where he fought. At a local rally, he always stood in the ranks of veterans at the monument to the fallen fellow villagers.

Branch of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 399th Infantry Novozybkovskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Semyonov, as part of the regimental reconnaissance of the 1345th Infantry Regiment of the 399th Infantry Division, fought on the Central Front. He defended Moscow, took part in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge, beat the Nazis on the land of Belarus. For his heroism and courage, he was more than once presented to state awards. _x000D_ Today the family of Ivan Lvovich carefully preserves his medals and orders: medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. _x000D_ He mentioned about hardships for the infantrymen, especially women, during the war. In particular, in the 16th Lithuanian Division, 60% were women. For example, they carried a 60 kg of a machine gun. We helped them as best we could. Then Stalin issued an order to leave women to serve as communication technicians, in medical battalions, at work in headquarters. _x000D_ Once our troops broke through the enemy's defenses and went on the offensive 80 km to the west. Artillery and provisions were carried on horseback. It was winter, the horses were getting stuck in the snowdrifts. The carts fell behind, we went ahead. There was no food, for 2-3 days the fighters did not receive anything. Then they delivered us flour, 200 grams per person, but there was no salt. We made cakes, rubbish, but without salt, within a week the soldiers began to get sick and fall. _x000D_ On October 13, 1943, Ivan was wounded in the head. A heavy eleven-gram bullet interrupted his right optic nerve and was stuck 2.5 mm from the cerebral cortex, threatening his life every minute. After a year of treatment in hospitals, Ivan returned home to the village of Rybnoye. Only 20% of vision remained. _x000D_ Returning home, Ivan studied to be an Accountant-economist, and before retiring worked at the Constriction Bureau in Uyara. Together with his wife Nina Ilyinichna, they raised children. Son Vitaly devoted himself to education. Alexander became a miner. Lyudmila devoted herself to trade and her youngest daughter Galina was an assistant to her father. At the request of the Chairman of the All-Russian Society of the Blind, he headed the Uyarsk Blind Society and subsequently was its Chairman. He passed away on October 16, 1995. He was buried in Uyar.

Rank: Red Army. _x000D_ Smaglyuk Dmitry Silovich walked along the roads of war from the first to the last day. He was born in 1915 into a peasant family in the village of Blagoveshchenka, Kurdai district, Dzhambul Region, Kazakhstan. In 1930 he joined the kolkhoz named after Budyonny, and from that time he began his labor activity. After graduating from the courses of tractor drivers in 1930, he began to engage in the most peaceful business to grow grains. But the war broke out, and Dmitry Silovich went to the front. _x000D_ On December 18, 1942, the chauffeur of the combat vehicle of the 2nd battery of the 228th Separate Guards Mortar Division, the Red Army Soldier Smaglyuk Dmitry Silovich, was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for his courage and dedication in the fight against the German invaders. _x000D_ For participation in the offensive operation of Soviet units from 2 to 5 January 1944 in the direction Novosokolskoye (from the Staraya Russa Region to the Nevel Region) Smaglyuk Dmitry Silovich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ After the end of the war, Dmitry Silovich returned to his native Kazakhstan, where he continued his labor heroic path. In 1947, the tractor Brigade under the leadership of Dmitry Smaglyuk fulfilled the plan by 150%, saving 2.5 tons of fuel. In the same year, the Brigade worked on an area of 189 hectares, on which 22.2 centners of grain were collected from each hectare. For this valiant work, he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in 1948. _x000D_ In 2010, by the decision of the rural district of the village of Kainar (Blagoveshchensk), one of the streets of the village was named in honor of Dmitry Silovich Smaglyuk.

My grandfather Alexander Pavlovich Smirnov was born on August 23, 1922 in the village of Petrino, Cherepovets district of the Vologda Region. In 1938, he graduated from the 9th grade of the Ergolsk rural School (now the village of Voskresenskoye) and went to work as an Accountant at a creamery in the village of Petrino. In 1941 he was drafted into military service by the Petrinevsky Commissariat of the Vologda Region. He fought on the Leningrad front. He was a sub-machine gunner of a company of machine gunners of the 197th Guards Rifle Order of the Kutuzov Regiment, 64th Guards Rifle Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Division. He was wounded a few times. _x000D_ Combat awards: Medal "For Courage" 08/15/1944, order No. 029-N (for combat on 07/03/44 "….. when repelling an enemy counterattack, he was wounded, but did not leave the field battle… _x000D_ "Medal" For Courage "10/16/1944, order No. 035-N (for combat on 25.10.44 “… on the SYRVE peninsula he was the first to break into the enemy's trench and personally killed 3 German soldiers from a machine gun.. ", _x000D_ Medal" For Courage "03/09/1945, order No. 07-N,"… the Commander of the sub-machine gun company of the Guard, the Senior Sergeant for being in battle 24.2.45, in the area of the river VARTAYA, while repelling the counterattacks of infiltrated German sub-machine gunners, destroyed 4 German sub-machine gunners with machine gun fire and grenades… "_x000D_ Order" Red Star "05/21/1945, order No. 041-N,"… for combat in the area of the Vartaya River on 02/23/1945, when attacking the enemy trenches, he was the first to break into the trenches and destroy 7 German soldiers with machine gun fire, in the same battle, when the platoon commander came out of action, he boldly took over command, and a platoon under his command successfully completed the combat mission of forcing the river, where he destroyed the crew of a heavy machine gun and captured 2 enemy light machine guns. "_x000D_ Medal" For Courage "06/14/1945, order No. 021-N (for combat in the area of the river Vartai, Latvian SSR, 28.2.45, "… while repelling the enemy's counterattack with machine gun fire and grenades, he destroyed 4 German soldiers, was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield before completing the combat mission…". _x000D_ He was supposed to take part in the parade on Red Square in Moscow in June 1945, but was not able to attend due to illness. _x000D_ After the war, my grandfather worked as an Accountant at a dairy (village Petrino), then as a Chief Accountant at a creamery (Ustyuzhna, Molochnoe, Vologda Oblast). From 1951 until his retirement he was the Chief Accountant of the Kaliningrad regional production association of the dairy industry. Awards: medal "For Valiant Labor"; badge "Drummer of the 9th Five-Year Plan"; medal "Veteran of Labor". He loved reading a free time. He advised his granddaughters to read A Tale of the True Man. He loved Russian folk songs. He appreciated honesty in people. He hated lies, bragging, and insolence. He passed away on October 13, 1992 in Kaliningrad.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Communications Troops_x000D_ Division: 135th Infantry Division (1st Formation)_x000D_ _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War became a hardship for our people. We have won through the hard work of many millions of people. One of these war workers was my great-grandfather—Tuishev Khusyain Akhmedzhanovich (March 7, 1916—September 13, 1986). He was born in the village of Ust-Uza. He worked for several years at the Krasnaya Zvezda kolkhoz of the Shemysheysky district of the Penza Region. Unforgettable was the day when the first Fordson tractor and the first car were brought to the kolkhoz._x000D_ There were many who wanted to drive, but only great-grandfather was sent to the courses. My great-grandfather left for the military service in a kolkhoz car. He served on the Finnish border, took part in hostilities. He returned home in 1940 and immediately began to work in his own kolkhoz. But the war soon started. _x000D_ Chauffeur in the communications troops was the name of his military work. The first war trials began for him near Moscow. The battles were fierce here. The basic rule that the communication technician followed was: "Communication must work." _x000D_ Near Moscow, my great-grandfather came under fire and was wounded. He spent a whole month in the hospital, and then was sent to a Mechanized Regiment on the Kalinin front. Together with the First Ukrainian Front, my great-grandfather fought on the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper, liberated Ukraine and Poland. _x000D_ The Commander of his automobile unit 92431 writes in his characteristic: _x000D_ Comrade Tuishev was distinguished to be a good chauffeur who is veru much fond of cars. Comrade Tuishev knows the material part very well, his car is always kept ready for transportation and maintenance ". For exemplary performance of the command assignments, the great-grandfather was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit", the badge "Excellent Driver". Great-grandfather celebrated the victory in Berlin. He returned home in 1946. _x000D_ He came to his native village as a hero with awards: two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, Medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", entered in the Book of Honor of the Shemysheysky District, awarded with a Certificate of Appreciation signed by Marshal Konev, in which it is written: "Many thanks for the excellent service." I am proud and remember!

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

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 143rd Infantry Konotop-Korosten Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division._x000D_ _x000D_ Our grandfather Teterin Georgy Methodievich was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army by the Kirensk military enlistment office on August 23, 1941. A lot of them gathered there, patriots of the Motherland, ready to give their lives for its salvation. After Irkutsk, the whole group of young guys was sent to Chita, to Antipikha, where the fighters were for exactly 17 days !!! received the first basics of combat training. _x000D_ On September 11, a group of recons who had not yet fired on were transferred to the front near Kharkov, and therefore, probably in the very first battle, my grandfather was wounded and ended up in a hospital. While George is in the hospital, his comrades in arms went far away. He was catching up with them already on the North Caucasian front. _x000D_ Grandfather has many orders and medals, but there are also the most valuable ones, reminiscent of many terrible events... Holding the medal“For Courage”in his hands, grandfather recalled: _x000D_ “Our detachment halted at a deep river, the combat mission was set to ferry mines to the opposite bank, but the enemy's massive fire did not make it possible to do this by boats or other floating means. We touched the water, it was ice cold. And then the Commander asked: "Are there Siberians among you?" ... Grandfather said: "Yes! I am a Siberian ”- and stepped forward. Several more people stepped forward with him. The daredevils were given rubber backpacks with the same mines inside. Nine times under enemy fire and with a load of mines on his shoulders he had to swim to the opposite bank ... George survived in a dangerous crossing, but was wounded again ... And again a hospital, and again a hospital bed. But the soldier returns to his comrades in arms to the front line, in the heat of hell. _x000D_ After the hospital, there came a Battle of Stalingrad under the command of V.I. Chuikov, who later became Marshal of the Soviet Union. It was hard for my grandfather to remember that battle, but as he used to say: "Reconnaissance is always ahead." And already the rest follow them: infantry, Artillery ... As a reminder of that battle he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ The comman did not have enough information for tactical conduct of the battle at Stalingrad, so their reconnaissance detachment was ordered to get the "prisoner tongue" by any means possible. And now recons in camouflage coats deep moved forward at night in the rear of the enemy. The Nazis are asleep and do not know about the approaching danger ... Only the sentry did not sleep at the depot, but was professionally carried off without a single cry. Friendly snoring blocked the order: "Hande Hoсh!" In this operation, seventeen "prisoner tongues" were taken, including the Commander. For his participation in this special operation, Georgy Methodievich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And all the same, despite the tactical and strategic efforts of the commanders, many of his comrades from the legendary 62-8th Guards Army were killed on that battlefield, in that bloody meat grinder! And he not only survived, but also went on to fight for freedom ... Next, Berlin was ahead! And unexpected and long-awaited the Victory had come !!! Grandfather recalled: _x000D_ Our troops are approaching Berlin. Suddenly drowning out the rest of the voices, a loud baritone is heard on the radio in the street: “Citizens, the Brandenburg Gate is open! The way to Berlin is FREE! " We waited, we knew, but all the same we were dumbfounded: “Victory? - No, it can not be?! Why, this is VICTORY! " _x000D_ And we, the descendants of our courageous soldier, are proud that among the records on the Brandenburg Gate there is also his record, that he fought, survived and reached, that they WIN! After Berlin was a link-up with the Americans on the Elbe, and then our soldier drove home for two years ... Two years !!! Because before arriving home, he took part in the re-evacuation of factories and the demagnetization of mines on ships in the Gulf of Finland. _x000D_ And only on August 1, 1947, two years after the war, on his birthday, Georgy Methodievich Teterin returned home! He returned wounded and shell-shocked, but alive and got freedom and a peaceful sky overhead! My grandfather passed away in 1997. _x000D_ A few days before the 70th anniversary, the heart of our veteran halted ... But the memory of him and his efforts lives not only in photo albums, but in the hearts and memory of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren ... We remember! We are proud! Thank the grandfather for the Victory!

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

Rank: Corporal_x000D_ The last military rank is a retired Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops_x000D_ Subdivision: 14th Guards Cavalry Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was born on January 7, 1924 in the village Chundzha of the Uygur Region of the Almaty Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan (at that time the Alma-Ata Region of the Kazakh SSR). He was the eldest child and the only son in a large peasant family. In 1939 he graduated from the 7th grade and began to work in the kolkhoz helping his family. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, the head of the family, Mikhail Pavlovich, went to the front and Ignat Mikhailovich remained in charge, but on August 20, 1942, he was drafted by the Panfilov Comissariat of the Alma-Ata Region into the Red Army, and mother Evgenia Gavrilovna was left with four daughters—Tonya, Rita, Lilya and recently born Katya. The eldest daughter Zoya worked in the mines of the city of Karaganda on the call to the Labor Army, in the so-called. "Labor Reserves"._x000D_ From June 1943 he took part in the battles against the German fascist invaders. From the first days at the front, Ignat Starikov showed to be a brave, proactive warrior, he became a recon for a foot Reconnaissance platoon. He fought on the Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts as part of the 14th Guards Cavalry Division. _x000D_ On the night of July 25, 1944, Private Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich, as part of a group of the 50th Guards Cavalry Regiment, participated in reconnaissance of the enemy defense in the area of the city of Lublin (Poland). In the village of Zembezhitsa, the recons encountered a group of enemy soldiers. Undeterred, Private Starikov entered into an unequal combat and destroyed two Hitlerites with machine gun fire, and took four prisoners. At the headquarters of the Regiment, the "tongues" gave valuable information about the location of their units. By order of August 17, 1944, the Red Army Soldier Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree (No. 89362). _x000D_ On January 27, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov, as part of a Reconnaissance group, was in a combat mission in the area of the city of Zielona Gora (Poland). The guardsmen engaged a group of machine gunners in two armored personnel carriers and were the first to open fire. _x000D_ In this battle, Starikov personally knocked out an enemy armored personnel carrier with an anti-tank grenade and destroyed more than 10 Nazi soldiers with machine gun fire. By order of March 12, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree (No. 16111). March 10, 1945, in the combat on the river Oder (south-west of Berwalde, Germany), during reconnaissance patrol of the enemy defense in the forest area, which is three kilometers west of the place of Kletkov, Starikov with two recons came across an enemy ambush. Suddenly opening fire, the Germans killed Starikov's comrades in arms. The Corporal was left alone. Frequently changing position, he fired from a machine gun, approaching the enemy. The enemy decided that reinforcements approached the daredevil and retreated, leaving five dead and a light machine gun on the field. For this battle, the Guard Corporal Starikov was presented with a new award. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 15, 1946, for exceptional courage and fearlessness shown at the final stage of WWII in battles with the Nazi invaders, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree (No. 1406) and became a full cavalier Order of Glory. _x000D_ In 1947 I.M. Starikov was demobilized. After the war he lived and worked at the Kandagach station (Aktobe Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan). Later he moved to Altai capital, city of Barnaul (80th Guards Division Street, 30). He worked as a mechanic at the Transmash plant. He was married, raised two of his children and one adopted. He passed away on November 11, 1991. He was buried in Barnaul at the Mikhailovsky cemetery. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Star, the Orders of Glory of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd degrees, and medals. The name of the Hero is given to a street in his native village of Chundzha, Uygur district, Alma-Ata (now Almaty) Region. Memorial plaques were installed on the house in Chundzha, where Starikov I.M. lived before he had been drafted into the Red Army and in Barnaul, where he lived his last years,.

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division _x000D_ "I must live my life for my brothers, and, if possible, happily ..." _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov is one of the few survivors who had to go through the entire war from the first to the last day. Before the war, Muhangali lived in the village of Balykshi, Guryev Region. In 1939, at the age of 19, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his service in Kharkov. As an excellent student in military service, Muhangali was sent to study at an anti-aircraft regimental School. And then the war started. _x000D_ The cadets were put into echelons and sent to the front. The mood was cheerful: everyone was sure that they would quickly defeat the Germans and return home with victory. They could not even imagine that a heavy, bloody war would stretch for four long years ... _x000D_ From the Turmagambetov family, Muhangali was the first to join the army. Then his brothers Kurman and Uzakkali became soldiers, a little later it was the turn to go to the front for the third brother Kuben. Once, instead of the long-awaited "brother triangle", a death notification came, brother Kurman was killed. A year later, the hero Uzakkali died, and the seriously wounded Kuben lay in the hospital for a long time. Soon he also died from wounds ... _x000D_ On July 17, in Belarus near Bobruisk, Muhangali took part in his first combat. He had to fight first in the infantry, since the anti-aircraft units were not provided with military equipment. It was scary. The Red Army turned out to be unprepared for a war with a well-armed enemy. The losses were huge, no one counted them, the death squads simply buried the dead._x000D_ At the beginning of November 1941, Sergeant M. Turmagambetov's anti-aircraft battery was stationed near Moscow. And he had a chance to participate in the historic military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941, when the fascist troops approached Moscow dangerously close, and right from the parade he went to the front. A few days later, Muhangali was wounded and hospitalized. As soon as things got better, he returned to his anti-aircraft Artillery. _x000D_ Near the town of Izyum on the Seversky Donets River in March 1942, he shot down his first enemy plane. And then there was Stalingrad. On the defensive lines, rare moments of silence were the harbingers of new fierce attacks. They, replacing each other, rolled in a continuous succession, battle after battle. In Kalach-on-Don, near Stalingrad, the gunners held the defensive for a week, following the order: "Not a step back!" German planes raided the city every day. The battery of the gun Commander M. Turmagambetov guarded the pontoon bridge 4 kilometers long. The Germans bombed day and night. And the anti-aircraft gunners had to take care of the shells. Then they built a raft, put a cannon on it and began to fire at the German tanks with direct fire with anti-aircraft guns. In the battles for Stalingrad, Muhangali Turmagambetov shot down two enemy aircraft, destroyed three tanks, not allowing the enemy to pass through his positions. For these bloody combats, he received the Order of the Red Star, and the entire combat crew was awarded medals. _x000D_ After the Battle of Stalingrad, they became part of the third Simferopol Artillery Division. The liberation battles in the western direction were no less hard and bloody, but the realization that the enemy was retreating, and they were liberating cities and peoples one by one, helped greatly and gave new strength to the soldiers. _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov fought Bessarabia, Romania, Hungary, Carpathians. The anti-aircraft gunner shot down his last plane on April 13, the day of the liberation of the Austrian capital, Vienna. The war for him ended on May 13, 1945 in Czechoslovakia, northeast of Prague, where Field Marshal Scherner's group resisted. He received the Order of Glory, 3rd degree, which he was very proud of as the main soldier's order. _x000D_ On June 24, 1945, Mukhangali Turmagambetov took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. He got into this anti-aircraft Regiment, having passed a tough selection from almost ten thousand people! The requirements were really strict: height had to be 1 meter 70 centimeters, good bearing, at least three state awards on the chest. _x000D_ After the parade, he returned to his unit, which was stationed in Budapest. Forty years after these events, in 1985, at the parade dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Victory Day, Mukhangali Yesenovich Turmagambetov again had a chance to march on Red Square. He got there as a participant in the 1945 Victory Parade. _x000D_ In Moscow, in the Museum of the Armed Forces, there is an anti-aircraft gun on which it is written: “The gun of Senior Sergeant Mukhangali Turmagambetov of the 15th anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion of the 6th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, of which 16 aircraft were shot down in battles with the Nazis, a record number during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ Mukhangali Yessenovich Turmagambetov is a man of unusual destiny. A guy from a village lost in the Kazakh steppes, miraculously survived and marched three times on Red Square, taking part in three Victory Parades. After the end of the war, anti-aircraft gunner M. Turmagambetov abruptly changed his life. Even before the war, he graduated from a fish technical School. After the war he decided that he should study further. In 1946 M. Turmagambetov entered the Moscow Institute of Fisheries. As it turned out, he was the first Kazakh who graduated from this institute and worked for over 20 years in the fishing industry of Kazakhstan.

Rank: Starshina _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 132nd Rifle Bakhmach-Warsaw. Division Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov _x000D_ I, Samarin Fedor Tikhonovich, was born on May 29, 1926 in the village of Olkhi, Mozharsky District, Ryazan Region, into a family of peasants. My parents are Samarin Tikhon Vasilievich and mother Samarina Evdokia Mikhailovna. In 1936, I went to study at the Olkhovsk National Assembly School and graduated from the 7th grade. In the summer of 1940, a system of labor reserves was organized, at that time I left for Moscow to the 14th vocational School at the Kolibr plant, where I had studied until the fall of 1941. _x000D_ In 1941, our School was evacuated to the Urals in the city of Nizhny Tagil to the 15th vocational School, where I finished my studies. Later, in 1943, I moved back to Moscow to the management of labor reserves, from where I was redirected to the 31st vocational School of the Navy, where I worked as a master of industrial training until February 1944. _x000D_ In February, I was sent from the School to the Rostokinsky district military enlistment office in Moscow. In the regional military registration and enlistment office, I was sent to the depot . We were sent to the city of Narva, where we were engaged in timber harvesting and laying various routes. Then we were sent to Leningrad, from there to Molotov in the Urals, to the Naval Aviation Technical School. _x000D_ Due to the low level of education it was hard to study, I was expelled and sent to the Molotov depot, and from the depot I was sent to one of the combat units to the front as an anti-tank gunner, where I was wounded in the left side. " _x000D_ In his autobiography, he wrote only about one wound, but there was also a shell shock. He also did not write about his participation in the battle for Warsaw, after which he was given gratitude by order of Stalin (January 17, 1945). I found proof that he fought with the same 47th Army: “The Soviet 47th Army, having gone over to the offensive on January 16, crossed the Vistula on the move north of Warsaw.” _x000D_ “... From the hospital I was enrolled in the second Tank Brigade in the Department (special), where I was an orderly for the head of the Department, at the same time was an assistant to the platoon Commander at the Department. From the Brigade I was sent to the hospital, and from the hospital to the Reserve Regiment. From the Reserve Regiment I was enrolled in the 425th Art Regiment. In 1945, the 47th Army left Germany for the USSR, and I was transferred to the 8th Guards Army of the 76th Separate Workers' Battalion, where I served as Commander of an administrative platoon. Then I was sent to the garrison officers' house of the 8th Army in Voimur in Germany as a supply agent, where I worked until March 1947. _x000D_ In March 1947, I was demobilized and registered for long-term service in the Mozharsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Ryazan Region. From November 1958 to the present, I have been working as a Company Starshina”. _x000D_ At the end of his service, he worked as a carpenter in the unit. He met his future wife in the same unit, she worked there as a cook.