Order of the Red Star

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: Junior Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Vikenty Vasilievich Smolin, was born on October 26, 1918 in the Vologda region, Chebsar district, village Sholomovo. His parents Smolin Vasily and Zelenkova Alexandra Konstantinovna had 5 children. His father returned from the army sick, his boots were frozen to his feet. When dad was 3 years old, grandfather died of pneumonia. His mother was left a widow at 32 with children: Nikolai, who was missed in the war, Lydia, Nina, Maria / died in infancy / and the younger Vincent. My grandmother worked in an artel, weaved beautiful Vologda lace, which was sold abroad, including to England. _x000D_ In addition, he had to manage the house and run the entire household, take care of the cattle in order to raise and feed the children. Approximately in 1939, dad left for Arkhangelsk. On 09/20/1939 he was added to the reserve. And then the war began. _x000D_ On 18/12/1942 my father was called up for active military service in Artillery Regiment. From January 1943 to May 1946 he served as the Commander of the reconnaissance department of an artillery and mortar unit. As a Junior Sergeant, he participated in military campaigns from 01/27/1943 to 05/09/1945. _x000D_ On 23/08/1943 for military operations he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". On 30/03/1944 was wounded when with a friend carried out of the combatfield the Commander, for this action he was awarded 09/01/1944 the Order of the Red Star. For participation in fierce combats on the Leningrad Front 03/05/1945 he awarded the Order of Glory III degree. The very hard combats that my father recalled were near Luga, Staraya Russa. He spent the entire war on the front line, having experienced all the difficulties of military service during the war. He served in artillery reconnaissance, had to go for a German prisoner at any time of the year and in any weather, lie for hours in the cold in the snow, in the summer in the hot sun. With pain he recalled a case when shells of the wrong caliber were brought to the gun, howitzer, and with delight about the Katyusha that had appeared at the end of the war. _x000D_ For Liberation of Soviet Latvia he earned the gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin. _x000D_ On 13/10/1944 at 4 o'clock in the morning, our soldiers were the first to walk along the deserted streets of Riga. My father was one of them. In the Baltics, the war ended for my father. They learned about the Victory 08/05/1945. Everyone was happy, hugging, kissing each other, firing weapons. Then, on May 9, 1945, the victory was officially announced. _x000D_ But despite the fact that the war was over, my father had to serve for another year. _x000D_ After demobilization in May 1946, my father came to Murmansk, got a job at the Murmansk seaport, worked as a loader and crane operator. On 02/22/1948 he married Sidorovskaya Anna Kuzminichna, and they had three children: me, Nadezhda, and my brother Nikolay. _x000D_ Then the whole family left for the Arkhangelsk region, Konosha district, the Krasnoye village, but Murmansk pulled back and we returned. He worked at Murmanskmorstroy. Wherever he was,whether he fought or worked, his merits were celebrated everywhere. For his excellent work, he was repeatedly awarded and acknowledged. _x000D_ Then he became a grandfather, he loved very much his grandchildren. This is how the life of one modest man had passed, difficult and peaceful, quiet and inconspicuous. On 04/04/1983 my dad passed away. _x000D_ Many times, at the invitation, he went to schools and told children about the war. I am very sorry that I, being his daughter, had little interest in the war period of his life, and because of his modesty he spoke so little about it himself. Only when he was drank did he like to sing the song "Fire is beating in a cramped dugout" and cried when they performed "Victory Day" and "Holy War", remembering their fellow soldiers and the harsh war days.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ SubDivision: 77th Infantry Simferopol Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze _x000D_ Artyom grew up and was brought up in Stalin's family along with other children, was a close friend of his son Vasily. In 1938, Artem Sergeev graduated from the 10th grade, from the 2nd Moscow Special Artillery School and voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. _x000D_ From October 1938 to September 1940 he was cadet, Junior Commander (Sergeant), starshina of the battery of 2nd Leningrad Artillery School (formerly Mikhailovsky). In 1940 he joined the Communist party and in October of the same year with the rank of Lieutenant he was appointed platoon Commander of 13th Artillery Regiment of 1st Rifle Division. He met the war on the western borders as a platoon Commander of 152-mm M-10 howitzers. _x000D_ It happened on June 26, 1941 in Belarus. Already on July 1-2, 1941, Sergeev took part in a fierce defensive combat for the city of Borisov and the crossing of the Berezina River. His artillery battery was destroyed, and the young Lieutenant took over the command of a Rifle company that covered the regiment's retreat. On July 13, the Germans took Sergeev's company into a trap in the area of the town of Gorki and captured him. He was in a prison in the city of Orsha, they planned to shoot him, but on July 23 he managed to escape with several comrades. The group formed the nucleus of the future partisan detachment, to which the soldiers and Commanders of the Red Army began to join. _x000D_ Fighting as part of a partisan detachment, Artyom was wounded for the first time, but by no means the last time. After being cured in a hospital in December 1941, he returned to his 13th Artillery Regiment, which became the 35th Guards. He was the Chief of Reconnaissance of a Division, a Battery Commander, then a Division Commander. _x000D_ On February 18, near Yukhnov, he was again wounded, after the hospital he returned to the Regiment, but in June 1942 he got a new wound. All together, Sergeev A.F. had nine wounds, two of which were very serious. Doctors miraculously saved his left hand, and later he was on the verge of death being hit with a bayonet in the stomach. On June 3, 1942, not completely recovered, he returned to his 35th Guards Artillery Regiment as Battalion Commander, but after 2 weeks he was wounded again and was sent away from the Regiment for follow-up treatment for 3 months. _x000D_ In December 1942, after training at the Higher Officers' Artillery School, he was appointed Chief of Staff of 266th Army Artillery Regiment. After the end of the Stalingrad operation in February, the Regiment from 62nd Army left for the North-Western Front in 68th Army. _x000D_ In April Sergeev was appointed deputy Regiment Commander. In June, the Regiment was transformed into 211st Guards Army Artillery Regiment. _x000D_ From December 1943 to April 1944 Sergeev was the Commander of 554th Army Artillery Rogachevsky Red Banner Regiment. In April he was wounded again. From July to October 1944 he was Commander of 156th Guards Artillery Regiment of 77th Guards Rifle Division. In January 1945, he was Deputy Commander of 140th Army Cannon Artillery Brigade. _x000D_ He took part in combats in the Baltics, East Prussia, Silesia, Saxony, Czechoslovakia. He ended the war on May 12, 1945 as a Lieutenant Colonel._x000D_ After the war he served as a Regiment Commander in Hungary. In August 1945 he was sent to Moscow to the Artillery Academy. After completing his studies in 1951, he commanded 34th Cannon Artillery Brigade of the Carpathian Military District. Then he entered the Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, from which he graduated in 1954. After graduating from the academy, he served in command positions. _x000D_ He retired in 1981 with the rank of Major General of Artillery. In 2006 he published a collection of stories-memoirs about the war "Stories of an artilleryman" and, in co-authorship with Yekaterina Glushik, the book "Conversations about Stalin." Became a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was a member of the Donbass community in Moscow. He passed away on January 15, 2008.

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Unit: 96th Infantry Division (2nd formation) _x000D_ _x000D_ In June 1938, for the first time in the rules of conscription into the Army, I was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army for personnel service and ended up in the border troops, in the Bakhtinsky Red Banner Border Cavalry detachment. It is about 200 km from the Ayaguz railway station in the Almaty region - to the Chinese border, where I had to serve for three years. The end of my service life, we began to get ready home, but at that time the Patriotic War began and I was sent to Kharkov to the Kharkov Cavalry Frontier School. But soon a German began to approach Kharkov,all of us at the school began to evacuate to the rear. We got to some station, it seems "Balanda" (but not exactly), where two or three days later the freight cars were brought and we were taken to Tashkent. Of course, we didn't know it right away. _x000D_ Then we realized that we were driving along our own highway and with my Aktobe comrade at one station gave my mother a telegram home, but she received it a month after my passage. When we arrived in Aktyubinsk, there was a severe frost, I lifted the flaps of my overcoat and without rest ran to our hut, went into the hut and did not sit down, only said where our train was. They were in time, i.e. Mom and sisters came, it was deep night, we saw each other ... _x000D_ In Tashkent, after graduating from college, I was awarded the title of Junior. Lieutenant and sent to the border town of Jarkent, now Panfilov. There was a border detachment and I ended up at the Baskunchi border outpost as an assistant to the head of the outpost. At the end of April 1942, the chief of staff of the detachment came to our outpost and sent me to the border at night at 10 o'clock. This was the time of increased border protection. After spending the night by the river, I fell ill, a subcutaneous abscess appeared in my throat. I lay for several days at the outpost, I did not feel better, then they took me to Jarkent to the medical unit, and from there to the city hospital, where they made an autopsy of this abscess. _x000D_ Here, in this hospital, I met a young nurse in a blue gas kerchief. On July 20, 1942, this young nurse called me at the Zastava and arrived in a car with a movie-making machine and became my wife, Anna Panteleevna, your mother and grandmother. We lived with her at the Baskunchi outpost for four months and on November 23, 1942, we left for Dzharkent, from where I went to the front. Our Commander of the Alma-Ata district decided to form a Division from border guards, he was allowed, but he was not allowed to go to the front. I arrived in Sverdlovsk for the formation, and from there I arrived at the Rogolevo farm, where I received a platoon of soldiers and conducted courses on training Junior Leiutenants. On April 2, 1943, they left this farm, on April 27 they arrived in Kursk and reached the village of Krasnaya Polyana, here they stopped in the steppe and on May 13, 1943 cadets were graduated. I was left in a reserve Regiment and defensive work was carried out near the town of Fatezh (Kursk Region). _x000D_ On June 10, 1943, I was awarded the rank of Lieutenant, and on June 16, I was appointed to the position of Battalion Adjutant. Due to illness, I ended up in the hospital with his hands, recovered, ended up in the personnel department of the 48th Army, from where he was sent to the barrage detachment by the platoon Commander of the border outpost. _x000D_ On November 23, 1943, they arrived in Rechitsa (Belarus). On the day of the 26th anniversary of the Red Army, February 23, 1944. I was given the rank of Senior Lieutenant. On June 26, 1944, they entered the city of Zhlobin (Belarus). On July 2, 1944, they entered the city of Bobruisk (Belarus). On August 3, 1944, they entered the city of Belsk (Poland). On November 9, 1944, I left the barrage detachment, there was no need for their existence, and on November 27, 1944, I ended up in 96th Infantry Division. _x000D_ On January 25, 1945, I was wounded in the right elbow joint near the town of Wormditt (East Prussia). After recovery, I went to the front, and on April 6, 1945, I was again seriously wounded in the right leg and side by shell fragments, when removed, the total cut of the body was 78 centimeters. _x000D_ Until now (until the end of life), there are two small metal fragments in the right lung and one or two in the leg. It was on the spit beyond the city of Danzig (Poland, now Gdansk), in the second shock army of 2nd Belarusian Front. With this wound I ended up in a hospital in the city of Dzerzhinsk, not far from the city of Gorky. For military combats I was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit", the Orders "Red Star" and "Patriotic War II Art." (Later dad was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany.) Victory Day found me in a hospital in Dzezhrinsk. I still did not get up from my bed, I could not. And I celebrated this holiday lying on my bed. Discharged from the hospital on July 17 1945, arrived in Moscow, and from there I was sent to the Nekouz district military enlistment office of the Yaroslavl region for further service._x000D_ In brief: from 24.11.1942 to 20.02.1944 - the Western 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon; 02/20/1944 to 10/15/1944 - 2nd Belorussian Front in the position of Senior Adjutant; from 10/15/1944 to 04/09/1945 - 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon, Commander of a Rifle company. From 04/09/1945 - on recovery after a severe injury; 02/17/1946 — demobilized.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Kudaibergen Suraganov was born on May 25, 1921 in the village of Suluagash (now - Kachirsky district of Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan). After graduating from the Pavlodar pedagogical school, he worked as a teacher. In 1940, Suraganov was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941, he graduated from the courses for Junior Leiutenants. Since 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. By April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov commanded the battery control platoon of 142nd Cannon Artillery Brigade of t33rd Army of 1st Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself during the Capture of Berlin. _x000D_ On April 16-23, 1945, Suraganov's platoon successfully adjusted the fire of its battery at German firing points, which helped the infantry break through to the Oder-Spree canal. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Golden Star "number 9074. _x000D_ He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree and two Orders of the Red Star, a number of medals. In March 1947, Suraganov was transferred to the reserve. He lived in Alma-Ata. After graduating from the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute, he remained to teach there. He was Candidate of Science (Engineering). He died on February 14, 2008, was buried in Alma-Ata.

Rank: Captain _x000D_ Branch of troops: Coastal Defense and Air Defense Artillery, Coastal Units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops _x000D_ My grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, was born in 1904 in the village of Molochkovo, Ilyinsky district, Ivanovo region. After the war, he lived and worked in the city of Ivanovo, Ivanovo region, in a managerial position at a factory. Ivan Alexandrovich died in 1949 and was buried in the cemetery in the town of Sosnevo in the city of Ivanovo. His family had seven children (Yuri, Boris, Victor, Vladimir, Valery, Galina and Nikolai), his wife's name was Anna Georgievna. _x000D_ In 1927, my grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, graduated from the Regimental School of 1st Moscow Rifle Regiment and was awarded the rank of Junior Commander of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He fought in the Finnish War. He was drafted to the Great Patriotic War in June 1941 by the Oktyabrskiy Military Comissariat of the Ivanovo Region and went through the whole war until the very end, first in parts of the Moscow Air Defense Front, then in parts of 3rd Corps of the Eastern Front of Air Defense. _x000D_ He served as a captain and commanded a platoon. He was a Senior Communist and the Secretary of the party commission of 784th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. He conducted patriotic work with soldiers, helped young soldiers incombat. According to the Military Council of the Eastern Front of the Air Defense, the state of party political work in the Regiment was recognized as the best of all parts of the Corps. With his diligence and responsiveness to the needs of the Red Army, my grandfather has earned sincere respect and authority among the personnel of the Regiment. _x000D_ During the period of the raids on the city of Gorky, he was constantly in the most critical areas, on batteries that were subjected to bomb attacks. Personal fearlessness and composure ensured efficient work of personnel and high morale. _x000D_ For his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as other medals and distinctions. _x000D_ Our family is proud of our soldier Ivan Aleksandrovich Titov. According to my aunt's recollections, their father was kind and fair. He was a courageous man and told the children how, under open enemy fire, together with other soldiers, he fired back. Not fearing death, he went on the attack, raising everyone behind him. Of course, it was very scary in the war. It was hard for his children, at that time there were six of them, all of them had to be fed and taught.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolai Sorokin was born on August 9, 1924 in the village of Shizhgutovo, now the Rodnikovsky district. He met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War with the students of the Rodnikovsky vocational school. After graduation, he worked as a turner at a factory in the city of Furmanov. In May 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. In a howitzer reserve Regiment, he successfully mastered the military specialty of a topographer-computer. He held the test of courage in the first combats on the Volkhov and Bryansk fronts. In July 1943, already as a gunner, he took part in the combat of Kursk. By the spring of 1944, he fought as part of 1432 Light Artillery Regiment of 317th Artillery Breakthrough Division, was a gunner, then a gun Commander. As part of this Regiment, he went to Victory. _x000D_ In 1944 he joined the Communist Party. On March 27 in the area Kuyava he shot the counter-attacking enemy with point-blank fire, knocked out a tank and destroyed an infantry platoon. For this combat he received his first military award, the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On 16/0744, 4 tanks and up to 2 infantry platoons moved to Sorokin's gun. Letting the tanks and infantry of the enemy at a distance of 300-400 meters, Sorokin entered into single combat with them. As a result of an unequal and fierce combat, 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. Firing at the retreating infantry, he destroyed 40 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ On 17.07.44 the enemy again counterattacked the Regiment's positions. The battery, where Sorokin was the gun Commander, had 18 tanks and up to an infantry Battalion. Having let the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, Sorokin opened fire from his gun. The lead tank was hit by the second round. At the moment when the crew went out of order, Private Sorokin stands at the panorama of the gun and personally knocks out the second tank himself. The enemy tanks and infantry turned back. In an unequal combat, Private Sorokin emerged victorious. For 2 days of fighting, he knocked out 4 tanks with his cannon and destroyed 110 enemy soldiers and officers, repelling 4 counterattacks. As a result, the occupied line was held, our infantry moved forward. _x000D_ "By the order of the Commander of the artillery of 60th Army, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The enemy's mortar battery was suppressed, 2 bunkers were destroyed, an armored personnel carrier with infantry was knocked out by direct fire. Having been wounded in this combat, Sorokin did not leave the gun and after rendering assistance remained in the ranks. The award for the combat was the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Sergeant Sorokin distinguished himself again in May 1945. On May 1, near the village of Got, fighting in an encirclement, he fired until the last shell, after which, by order of the Battalion Commander, he removed his guns from encirclement. For this combat he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" on the territory of Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ In 1947 he was demobilized. He returned to his homeland. He worked in Rodniki as head of the trade department. In 1956 he moved l to the city of Kaliningrad. He worked at 2nd pulp and paper mill as a loader, barker, turner. When he was entrusted to head the transport department of the enterprise, his organizational skills of the head were revealed. He retired in 1984 from the position of the head of the personnel department. He lived in the city of Kaliningrad (regional). He died on July 6, 2001. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree (15.09.1944), the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree (11.03.1985), the Red Star (05.02.1945), the Order of Glory of 3rd degree (15.04.1944), medals.

Rank: Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ SubDivision: 6th Guards Assault Aviation Zaporizhzhya twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin was born on January 25, 1919 in Samara. In 1937 Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, according to a special set, was sent to the Chkalov (Orenburg) Aviation School of Pilots, which he graduated in 1941. After completing the courses at the Lipetsk Aviation Center, he was appointed as the Flight Commander. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been participating in hostilities on the Southwest, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th guards Assault Aviation Zaporozhye Division. _x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich from 1941 to 1943 had been a Flight Commander training attack pilots. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been a participant in hostilities on the South-Western, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th Guards Assault Aviation Division as a flight Commander , deputy squadron Commander, Commander of 1st air squadron of the Regiment. He participated in the combats of the Kursk-Belgorod operation, in liberation of the cities of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Sandomir, Lvov, Warsaw, Prague, the capture of Berlin. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, he flew 120 flights on the Il-2 aircraft, out of 105 flights he was the leader of a group of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 18 aircrafts. The last flight flew on May 8, 1945 to liberate Prague from the German invaders. Under the leadership of Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin, his squadron flew 555 combat missions. _x000D_ For personal bravery, courage and heroism shown in combat missions and command of an air squadron, Viktor Sidorin was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, medals "For Military Merit"," For Capture of Berlin "," For Liberation of Prague "," For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945»._x000D_ In 1945, shortly before the end of the Great Patriotic War, Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, was nominated for the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" by Major Yashanov, Commander of 109th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment._x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich participated in the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945.

Suldin Philip Efremovich, my grandfather, was born in 1922 and went to the front at the age of 19. He was a platoon Commander of 123rd Guards artillery Riga Regiment of 53rd Guards Rifle Tartu Red Banner motto. He had been part of 3 Leningrad, 1 and 2 Baltic fronts from 1941 to 1945, ended the war in Riga. He was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree for courage and fearlessness, for skillful fire control of the battery and ensuring the accelerated advancement of a supported Rifle Battalion in combats when breaking through defenses in the Petermuiža, Krimunas, Putnu-Zhids area on December 23-26, 1944. _x000D_ Being all the time in combat formations of the advancing infantry 157 GVSP, he adjusted the fire of his battery at enemy firing points. According to its correction, 5 heavy and light machine guns, 2 guns of 105 mm were destroyed, scattered and partly destroyed before an infantry platoon. He personally took part in three attacks of our infantry and on 12/25/1944 was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and shot two Nazis with his personal weapons. In eachcombat he acted decisively, skillfully and courageously, inspiring the soldiers of his platoon to complete any assigned combat mission. Being in the combat formations of the infantry, he repeatedly participated in attacks with her, twice replaced the out-of-order Commanders of Rifle companies in combats and led them to perform combat missions. Thus, in the combats of February 20-23, 1945, in the area of Priekule, he was also in the infantry combat formations, skillfully leading reconnaissance and adjusting the fire of his battery. On the night of February 21-22, when the enemy in a large group, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, tried to break out of the encirclement, Philip Efremovich, together with his recons and platoon signalmen, courageously fought off the advancing enemy. _x000D_ At the same time, 12 Hitlerites were destroyed by his soldiers and by him personally from service weapons. In a combat with the enemy that night, he was wounded, but did not leave the combatfield, but continued to lead the repulsion of the enemy counterattack and personally exterminate the Nazis. In the combats of February 22-23, he replaced the killed battery Commander and, adjusting the fire of his guns, knocked out a self-propelled gun, destroyed two machine-gun points, suppressed the fire of a separate enemy gun standing on direct fire, scattered and partially destroyed 2 enemy infantry groups up to a company each, preparing for counterattack. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He died in January 1960 from an illness in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region.

Alexander Matveyevich Medvedev was born in 1923 in the village of Novy Burets, Vyatskopolyansky District, Kirov Region. After graduating 7 classes of the school, in 1939 he entered the feldsher-obstetric school. On September 11, 1941, as an 18-year-old boy, he was called to the war front. The combat path of the Lieutenant of Medical Service A.M. Medvedev began in 334th Infantry Division of the Kalinin Front with the combat for Moscow, as part of the combat units of 43rd Army of 1st Baltic, and then 3rd Belorussian fronts._x000D_ He liberated the Smolensk region, Belarus, the Baltic states, participated in the capture of Konigsberg. For the displayed valor and courage he was awarded: the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War of 1st degree, medals "For Defense of Moscow", "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ". _x000D_ The lines from the grandfather's award sheets are striking. So, in 1943, in 3 days of the offensive, Alexander Matveyevich assisted 90 wounded soldiers, 12 of whom, together with their personal weapons, carried them from the combat under enemy fire, skillfully directed the actions of the orderlies. The Commanders note his courage and fearlessness, because he not only saved the lives of hundreds of wounded, but also participated n combat personally with weapons in his hands, repelled enemy attacks and went on the offensive. _x000D_ After the end of the war, my grandfather was in Poland with our troops, was the military commandant of one of the Polish towns. At the beginning of 1947, after demobilization, he returned to his native land, worked as a medical assistant in the villages of the Vyatka-Polyansky district, married a fellow villager Elizabeth, they had a daughter, Nina, my mother. However, the peaceful life did not last long. From May 1952 to the end of 1955, in connection with the war on the Korean Peninsula, he was again drafted into the army, served in military hospitals in Ulyanovsk and on Sakhalin Island. _x000D_ After demobilization, together with his family, he returned to his homeland, where he worked in an ambulance, and then for more than a quarter of a century as a doctor in the office of the district hospital.

Sologubov Pavel Ivanovich lived in the Krasnoarmeisky district of the city of Volgograd. He was born in 1924 in the village of Svinukha, Krasnoslobodsky District, Stalingrad Region, into a large peasant family. He had been enlisted iIn the ranks of the Red Army since 1942. He was called up by the Kirov district military enlistment office of the city of Stalingrad. He fought in the Western, South-Western, on 2nd, 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Guard Junior Leiutenant, Commander of a Rifle platoon of 2nd Battalion of 111th Guards Rifle Red Banner Regiment of 40th Guards Rifle Enakiev-Danube Red Banner Division. He was awarded for personal courage and heroism during the war, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree. _x000D_ He was wounded on December 13, 1942, October 22, 1943, March 1, 1944. He was seriously wounded on April 10, 1945 (part of his arm was torn off). At the end of the war, Lieutenant Sologubov received another state award, the Order of the Red Banner in Hungary. _x000D_ There were combats in the area of the settlement of Mertsalte. March 28, 1945 Junior Leiutenant P.I. Sologubov showed courage and resourcefulness during the combat, when his platoon covered the crossing of the Rab River by Battalion units. He skillfully organized fire, destroyed up to 30 enemy soldiers and officers with the soldiers. With the massive fire of all types of enemy weapons, his platoon managed to reach the eastern bank of the river, bypassing the enemy from the right flank, thereby leading him into confusion. In a fiercecombat, a group of enemy soldiers trapped was destroyed. And our units successfully crossed the river. This was the great merit of Jr. Lieutenant Sologubov.

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of Service: Armored and Mechanized Troops_x000D_ Duty station: 164th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division_x000D_ Memories of grandfather Ivan Tokarev about the war in 1941-1945_x000D_ In 1939, I was drafted into the army and sent to Western Ukraine (in a place near the city of Lvov) in the 377th Separate Tank Battalion, in the regimental tank school. In 1940, he graduated from the regimental school and received the title of driver and tank commander. In 1940, G. Zhukov visited the unit. He made a strong impression on us with his self-control, smartness, tact, and care for soldiers. We were 30 meters away from him. He showed the recruits how to climb the rope, climbed up and went down using only his hands._x000D_ In 1941, on the night of June 21 to June 22, after the alarm we went to the Yanovskiy Forest, located 20 km from the border (the city of Przemysl). At 14 hours on June 22, we engaged the Germans. The Germans marched in a chain and mowed down everything in front of them with machine guns. Our tank division began to "iron" them and the Germans retreated. We occupied the town of Przemysl again. So six times, we retreated and six times occupied the town. Then the order came to withdraw._x000D_ During the day, we were on defense, covered the withdrawal of infantry, and at night retreated themselves. We fought near Lvov, Kiev, Zhytomyr and other places. Near Zhytomyr, I burned in a tank and got out through a manhole, my comrades helped me. My hands were burned. I had medical treatment right there in the unit._x000D_ In the summer of 1942, I was sent to a tank school, and graduated from it in 1943 with the rank of platoon commander, and sent to Orsha, where there were fierce battles. In some of the battles, our tanks and planes were suppressed. Then they gathered all of us (pilots, tankers and others) and gave us the order to go on the attack (hand-to-hand combat). In this attack, I was wounded in the right hand, but did not leave the battlefield. In this battle, the Germans retreated and we took our positions. After the battle, I was hospitalized for 1.5 months. The shard is still in my hand._x000D_ I was awarded the Order of the Red Star_x000D_ In March 1944, near Vitebsk, we went on an attack (hand-to-hand combat), it was necessary to level the position and cut the railway connecting Orsha with Vitebsk, along which the Germans supplied their troops. The fighting was terrible. There was a continuous hum. Soldiers who had their arms and legs torn off begged to be shot. But others encouraged them and were saying that they would avenge them, and if they returned, they would give them their blood, hand, and foot._x000D_ The soldiers were attacking in waves in six echelons. I was wounded in this attack. The bullet hit the groin and exited from behind in the thigh of the right leg. We came to the river, fixed on the right Bank, the German trenches were 20-30 meters away. After the battle, I was sent to the hospital._x000D_ Participated in tank battles on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Baltic Fronts. I took part in the liberation of the Baltic States, and ended the war in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad)._x000D_ The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, which was awarded during the war, I received only in 1993. In 1985, I was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree. I met Victory Day near Konigsberg. It was very joyful, we gave a salute from all types of weapons.

HISTORY:_x000D_ Mikhail Malyshev was born in 1921 in the village of Derbeden in the Aktash District of the Tatar ASSR._x000D_ As a very young, 20 year old boy, he was called to the front in September 1941 as a senior telephone operator of the 84th Artillery Regiment of the 34th Division of the 5th Shock Army of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts. In 1942, he was taken prisoner, but managed to escape and continued heroically liberate our homeland from the Nazi invaders._x000D_ On July 18, 1942, during an artillery bombardment, Sergeant M. Malyshev fixed four breaks in the telephone line, which ensured uninterrupted firing by the division when repelling a counterattack by enemy tanks and infantry. For that deed, he received the Medal For Bravery._x000D_ After, on March 9, 1943, under heavy artillery and machine-gun fire of the enemy, he laid a telephone line from the observation post of the division commander to the forward observation post and during the day, despite mortar and machine-gun fire, fixed 37 telephone line splits, which ensured uninterrupted firing at detected targets and the retreating enemy. For this heroic feat M. Malyshev was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ He also participated in the liberation of Budapest and Vienna. Awarded: Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, Medals For the Capture of Vienna, For the Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945._x000D_ In May 1945, he was discharged. After the war, he got married and worked as a carpenter for the Bugulma Mechanical Plant. Relatives remember that when talking about the Great Patriotic War, he always tried to avoid questions, tears immediately welled up in his eyes. All those who went through the hell of the Great Patriotic War could not remember with a calm heart the terrible events that occurred in the life of our Motherland. Thanks to their heroic deeds, we can enjoy the sunrises and sunsets, the song of birds, and see this bright sky above our heads. Eternal memory to all those who participated in this terrible war, those who gave their lives to save our people…

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_ Ivan Murzin was born in 1903 in the village of Diveevo, Gorky Region, and lost his parents very early. He had five sisters left on his shoulders. During these difficult years, fate brought him together with a full member of the Soviet Academy of Science Prokhorov. He had finished the same 4 years school in the village of Diveevo. He found out about my grandfather's exceptional abilities, and offered him a better education on full state support. Unfortunately, my grandfather could not take advantage of this valuable offer and leave his younger sisters._x000D_ The war began, and he was called to the front in July 1941 by the Diveyevskiy District Military Commissariat of the Gorkiy Region. From the Internet, I learned that my grandfather was a private of the sanitary company of the 10890th Lvov Red Banner Rifle Regiment. He fought on the Central, Western, and First Ukrainian Fronts._x000D_ During the war, he was an orderly. He took out dozens of wounded soldiers from the battlefield, treated wounds, bandaged them and applied splints. In January 1943, wounded in the arm, continued to save people, and later got into the medical unit. He fought until May 1945. On the website we found the original orders for awarding the grandfather and a description of his exploits._x000D_ He received the first Order of the Red Star on August 19, 1944. “During the breakthrough of the enemy defense in fierce battles, comrade I. Murzin, being in the infantry battle formations, provided first aid to 38 wounded soldiers and officers and evacuated them from the battlefield with their weapons. Later, while working at the field medical facility, he applied 45 splints to seriously wounded soldiers and officers.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He received the second Order of the Rred Star on February 16, 1945. “Comrade I. Murzin I. works as an excellent orderly, permanently at the regimental medical station since the beginning of the division's formation. In the last battles of 1945 in just 3 days, he applied 86 splints, more than 100 bandages, regardless of time and fatigue. He provided first aid to more than 40 seriously wounded people on the battlefield. For two days of fighting, being himself wounded, he did not leave his post. While being treated at the medical company, he continued his work. Worthy of the government award of the Order of the Red Star.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Medal for Bravery, and the Medal for Military Merit.