Order of the Red Star

HISTORY:_x000D_ Vadim Miler was born on October 24, 1923 in Chita._x000D_ In July 1941, he received two certificates at the same time: one of a High School graduation, the other of the Chita Air Club. He got the rank of a reserve pilot. He went to work as a worker in a tannery._x000D_ In March 1942, he became a cadet at the school of aircraft mechanics in Irkutsk. But he did not manage to finish school: in September of the same year, as the commander of the submachine gun squad in the 43rd Mechanized Brigade, he already fought with the Nazis on the Kalinin Front, in the Velikie Luki Region, and then in the same military unit - on the Voronezh and Central Fronts._x000D_ In the summer of 1943, the mechanized brigade participated in the battles on the Orel-Kursk bulge. Together with other military units, it knocked out the enemy from the most important railway station Zmiyevka and the surrounding villages. In one of the battles in the Oryol Region, Milier was wounded in the neck. He was treated in the city of Yelets for a month ._x000D_ After recovery, he was assigned to the 79th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment as an Air gun operator on IL-2. A dream came true. He was finally in aviation! An air assault regiment of the 16th Air Army bombed railway stations occupied by the enemy, river crossings, and enemy strongholds._x000D_ Planes were also sent for investigation. For example, in December 1943, two IL-2s, one of which had a Milier, had to confirm the presence of German trains at the railway station. The assault planes were covered by three of our fighters. As Vadim recalls, both IL-2s reached the target safely. They photographed the station and found that it was packed with military personnel and military equipment. The station was protected by anti-aircraft installations and fighters. Anti-aircraft guns opened feverish fire. The leading IL-2 was hit. It went to the ground in a corkscrew and crashed. The entire crew was killed. Two German fighters appeared in the air. They had the second assault plane in a vise on both sides. Milier was there. The battle began - two Hitler's Focke-Wulf-190 fighters against one IL-2. The Russian plane fiercely fired back and shot down one enemy fighter approaching from the right side. The latter, leaving a black plume behind, fell like a stone. Soviet plane was also hit: Milier's machine gun turret was smashed by a shell. The shooter himself was shot through the left shoulder. The aircraft commander Nemtinov's dashboard was smashed to smithereens. It was not known what would have ended this duel, if the commander of the IL-2 did not sharply throw the plane down and low-level flight did not bring it out of the fire._x000D_ In the late summer of 1944, the 79th Assault Regiment was based near the Warsaw suburb of Prague. Petty Officer Milier was now flying with captain S. Drozdov._x000D_ The squadron helped units of the 8th Army of General V. Chuikov to gain a foothold on this patch of land. On September 30, there was another flight. An enemy anti-aircraft shell penetrated the gas tank. Captain Drozdov managed to pull the plane to the Eastern Bank of the river and landed near the town of Zatsizhe, in the location of the Polish army. The poles who run up to the burning attack aircraft barely managed to pull the wounded pilot and shooter out of the machine, as it exploded and burned down. Drozdov died of multiple burns on the operating table in the Polish infirmary. Vadim was in danger of losing both legs. The Polish surgeon had to amputate his broken left leg, but managed to save the right one. Later Milier was treated in Moscow. He was able to walk only after eight months._x000D_ Vadim Milier participated in 55 combat missions in the assault aviation regiment. And each sortie is a possible encounter with enemy fighters, anti-aircraft guns, the probability of an emergency landing on enemy territory, his nerves at the limit, constant concentration, endurance and the desire to come out victorious in a fight with the enemy._x000D_ All that was now behind him. Vadim had to overcome his sores, learn to walk on a single injured leg and not only adapt to life, but also become useful to people. Former air gunner overcame all of this._x000D_ In the squadron, and in the hospital, he was called "Communard" because his great-grandfather, the Frenchman Jules (Julius) Georg Milier and his brother Jean-Baptiste Milier took part in the resistance to the Bonapartist coup in December 1851. Jules Milier immigrated to Russia, reached Irkutsk. He met the Decembrist Sergei Volkonskiy and his wife Maria. He married a Russian girl Tatyana. Maria Volkonskaya became the godmother of their son Viktor._x000D_ The fate of Milier Jean Baptiste was tragic. He was elected to the National Assembly in 1871. During the Paris Commune, he collaborated in the newspaper "Commune". He was captured by the Versailles troops and shot without trial._x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, a descendant of French revolutionaries Vadim Milier bravely fought the Nazis. There are four military orders on his chest - two of the Patriotic War and two of the Red Star, the medal For Bravery, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and numerous commemorative, in peacetime - Veteran of labor._x000D_ Vadim Miler died in 2015.

Born on September 10, 1925 in the village of Ust-Menza, now Krasnochikoyskiy District of the Trans-Baikal territory in the family of an office workers. Russian. Member of the CPSU (b)/CPSU since 1945. In 1933, he moved with his parents to the city of Verkhneudinsk (since 1934 - Ulan-Ude). Here, in 1943, he graduated from the 8th grade of school #2._x000D_ He was drafted into the Red Army in January 1943 and after a short service in Irkutsk was enrolled in the Trans-Baikal Military Infantry School. In May 1944, after completing an accelerated course of training, he left for the front._x000D_ In June 1944, he enlisted in the 176th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 59th Guards Rifle Division and was appointed commander of a machine-gun platoon. Two months later, in August 1944, the division, which was being reorganized, left for the front and took up defense along the banks of the Dniester River. As a member of the guard division, Lieutenant Moskalev participated in the Iassyi-Kishinev operation, liberated Bendery, Belgorod-Dniester, and crossed the Danube River._x000D_ The commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 176th Guards Rifle Regiment (59th Guards Rifle Division, 46th Army, 2nd Ukrainian Front), Komsomol member Guards Lieutenant Georgiy Moskalev distinguished himself on December 4, 1944 when crossing the Danube River near the city of Erci (Hungary). Guards Lieutenant Moskalev with his machine-gunners crossed on the vanguard boat. The platoon's fire forced the enemy to retreat with heavy losses. Having occupied a small bridgehead, the soldiers firmly hold it, ensuring the crossing of the regiment's units. In the battle to hold and expand the bridgehead, he took command of the company, replacing the fallen commander. On the night of December 7, a company under his command captured the dominant height, and at dawn, pursuing the retreating enemy, cut the Budapest-Szekesfehervar road._x000D_ In one of the battles on the outskirts of the capital of Austria, Vienna, he was seriously wounded. In a hospital in Budapest, he learned about the high award._x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945, for Exemplary performance of combat tasks of the command at the front in the fight against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown, Guards Lieutenant Georgiy Moskalev was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal._x000D_ After the Victory, he continued to serve in the army, on the territory of the Odessa Region. Since 1946, Captain G. Moskalev was the reserve._x000D_ After demobilization, he entered the Irkutsk Art School, and in 1951 became a student of the painting Department of the V. Surikov Moscow Art Institute. However, he could not graduate from the faculty for health reasons. He completed his studies in the workshop of B. Dekhtyarev._x000D_ Since 1957, he lived in the capital of Buryatia - Ulan-Ude. Became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. The main subject of his works was the Great Patriotic War. G. Moskalev was the author of the paintings "Battle for the Danube", "Breakthrough", "Dawn", "One on one" and others. In 1975, he received the title of People's Artist of the Buryat ASSR. He was a laureate of the State Prize of the Buryat ASSR in the field of literature and art._x000D_ He died on March 3, 2011.

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

History:_x000D_ Mikhail Mikheev was born on May 1, 1920 in the village of Voetskoye, Baryshsky Ddistrict, Ulyanovsk Region._x000D_ Participant of the Great Patriotic War. Tanker. The Captain of the reserve. Awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, 18 medals._x000D_ Representative of the legendary dynasty of Soviet tankers – nine Mikheev brothers: Viktor, Pavel, Fedor, Vladimir, Ivan, Alexander, Mikhail, Semen and Peter. On the eve of the war, five of them graduated from the Ulyanovsk Tank School, with the permission of the People's Commissar of Defense, the Mikheev tank company was created, in which six older brothers served. Viktor became the company commander, Vladimir became the Deputy, and Pavel, Fyodor, and Ivan were appointed platoon commanders. Alexander was a driver in this company. From the very first days of the war with Nazi Germany, the company of the Mikheev brothers smashed the enemy. They were more than once distinguished by their courage and bravery in battles. The platoon commander Ivan Mikheev was killed, then another brother, a mechanic-driver Alexander. The four Mikheevs continued to fight the German invaders. Viktor became the commander of the heavy tank battalion, and Pavel became his Deputy. For their skilful combat actions, Vladimir and Viktor were appointed company commanders. The Mikheev brothers fought bravely in the summer of 1942 near Barvenkovo and Kharkov. In these battles, Viktor was seriously wounded, and Vladimir was shell-shocked. Then, the tank brothers fought on different fronts of the Great Patriotic War. And Vladimir Mikheev, having already become the commander of the 36th Guards Tank Regiment, participated in the Battle on Berlin. And made the inscription on the wall of the defeated Reichstag on behalf of his family: "The end of fascism. Mikheevs in Berlin. Long live Victory!"_x000D_ The battle tradition of the seniors was continued by a tank crew consisting of the younger Mikheevs. Michael, Simon and Peter fought bravely in the battles with the Japanese militarists. Their tank, which was commanded by my father Mikhail Mikheev, went over eight hundred kilometers almost all of Manchuria on the road, through mountain passes, smashing the mountain formations of the Kwantung army. As part of the troops of the 259th Separate Tank Brigade, the 25th Army, and the 1st Far Eastern Front, the tank crew of the younger Mikheev brothers participated in the liberation of several cities. They met the end of the war on the Pacific coast. For courage and bravery in the battles to defeat Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan, nine brothers Mikheev were awarded a total of 85 military orders and medals._x000D_ Mikhail Mikheev died on September 23, 2003.

Branch of Service: Artillery. Sergeant Major._x000D_ D. Sloyan served in the Red Army since 1939, a participant of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. Later served in Odessa. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he was at the front. Sloyan participated in the defense of the Kerch Peninsula._x000D_ In May 1942, spent three days on a raft in an open sea. On May 16, he was picked up and taken to Taman. After this incident, he was in anti-aircraft and then anti-tank artillery units. In the difficult year of 1941 – Dzhmo Sloyan became a candidate, and in 1943 - a member of the Communist Party._x000D_ During the period of fighting from March 21 to March 30, 1943, when our units attacked the village of Kamenka, Sergeant Major Sloyan, under heavy machine-gun and artillery fire, rolled out a gun to an open firing position 300-400 meters and destroyed one anti-tank gun, 5 machine-gun points and 2 enemy bunkers, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ In the battle for the village of Boborykhin Hill on September 17, 1943, as the commander of a battery of 45-mm guns, Sergeant Major D. Sloyan with a group of fighters destroyed 5 machine guns, up to two platoons of enemy infantry, and successfully repelled a counterattack by enemy infantry and tanks._x000D_ The brave battery commander was awarded the medal For Bravery, and on December 7, 1943 – the second Order of the Red Star._x000D_ In the battles near the village of Zastenok Yurev of the Dubrovinskiy District of the Vitebsk Region on November 25, 1943, D. Sloyan commanded a platoon that destroyed 14 machine guns, destroyed 8 enemy dugouts, and ensured the advance of our infantry. He was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree._x000D_ In heavy fighting, D. Sloyan was seriously wounded on December 25, 1943. After recovering, he continued to serve in the Red Army and was discharged in 1946. He worked for a collective farm, and from 1961 he worked for state farm #38 in the Ashtarak District. In 1992 he moved to Kharkov Region, Chuguev District, village of Vvedenka, St. Barova, 2. Died on October 20, 1998, was buried there.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel_x000D_ Branch of Service: Military Veterinary Staff_x000D_ My great-grandfather Alexander Savchenkov was born on October 20, 1902 in a poor peasant family. At birth, he was given the name Artemiy, which his great-grandfather changed to Alexander in 1932. After graduating from Divasovskaya 4-year school, my grandfather realized that he did not want to wear bast shoes all his life and decided to master shoemaking. At first, the self-taught shoemaker's shoes were "laughter and sin". My grandfather learned the tricks of shoemaking in a Shoemaking workshop in the 69th Army._x000D_ In 1929, he passed the external exams for 9 classes and entered the Military Veterinary Paramedic School, then graduated from the Military Veterinary Faculty at the Moscow Veterinary Institute. He was sent to Khabarovsk as a veterinarian, and then as the Chief of the Medical Department of the Khabarovsk infirmary._x000D_ The war caught our great-grandfather in the Far East, in Blagoveshchensk, where he served on the border as the chief of the veterinary infirmary. Two weeks before the beginning of the war, great-grandfather received an urgent assignment in Bialystok (order of 07.06.1941 on the appointment of the Chief of the Bialystok Garrison Veterinary Infirmary), on the Polish border, where the invasion of Nazi troops began...where no one survived. By the will of fate, the family was delayed - it was necessary to collect things, sell the farm, because they were leaving forever. The whole family was "sitting on their suitcases" and was going to stop in Smolensk on the way to visit all their relatives. I'm afraid to think what would have happened if my great-grandfather and his family had reached Bialystok earlier than June 22._x000D_ To get a new appointment, great-grandfather and his family went to Moscow. The road was very difficult: the train constantly had to let go trains with troops going to the front. Somewhere in the Urals, people began to talk about the horrors that occur at the front._x000D_ In Moscow, my great-grandfather was assigned to Tula as the Chief of the Military Veterinary Infirmary. This was the beginning of the military path, and then there was the city of Skopin-Marshansk, Shilovo - again Tula-Rzhev-Bryansk-Poland-Narva (Estonia) - Berlin. He participated in the battles of the Western, Bryansk and 1st Belorussian Fronts._x000D_ Great-grandfather was born in the village and since childhood was engaged with horses, so he put his heart and soul into his work. He told our grandmother Zina (his daughter) that horses are very smart animals. When the fighting started, one could hear the roar of explosions, the horses were very nervous, even crying. I had to calm everyone down. There were few vehicles, so horses were the main means of transport in those years. They were the ones who transported heavy weapons and people._x000D_ Without a horse, you can't feed a soldier — after all that were the horses that delivered food carts and field kitchens to the positions. Every a rifle regiment was supposed to have three hundred and fifty horses. And how many wounded men owe their lives to these humble war workers! After all, most of the infirmaries and medical units were also "horse-drawn". It often happened that the infantry went to the positions not on trucks, but on horse carts. Well, the movement of partisan detachments without this type of transport is impossible to imagine._x000D_ Our great-grandfather Sasha was awarded the Order of the Red Star for saving the cavalry in the battles of the Bug and Vistula._x000D_ And the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree great-grandfather received for preparing the cavalry for the capture of Berlin!_x000D_ After the war, my great-grandfather lived with his family for some time in Narva (Estonia), and then received a transfer to the Moscow Region and retired. Unfortunately, he lived only 13 years after the war. My great-grandmother Asya, his wife, lived until the age of 96 (until 1998) and told us everything in detail._x000D_ Our family honors the memory of those who participated in the great Patriotic War. It is dear to our hearts! We remember our HEROES!!!

Branch of Service: Artillery._x000D_ The military history of my father, Oleg Smirnov, begins in 1940. After completing the 10th grade of Irbit High School, he was called up to the Pacific Fleet for active military service. From the training unit on the island of Russian father was assigned to the submarine in the position of helmsman. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, my father was eager to go to the front in the area of military actions. After repeatedly submitting reports, he was seconded as a volunteer to the marine brigade._x000D_ In the winter of 1941-42, as member of brigade, my father took part in the offensive near Moscow, on the Kalinin front. In 1942, my father was sent to the 2nd Guards Omsk Artillery and Mortar School, and graduated with the rank of Lieutenant in March 1943._x000D_ From the spring of 1943 to the beginning of 1945, he fought on the Leningrad Front in a rank of Lieutenant and First Lieutenant, commanded the installation of Guards mortars (the famous "Katyusha"), and later commanded a battery of such mortars. Soldiers and officers of the front gave half of their meager food rations to be sent along the "Road of life" to those residents of Leningrad who remained in the city. Until the end of his life, my father could not calmly watch if food was thrown away, and even more so bread._x000D_ After the siege of Leningrad was lifted, the 2nd Guards Mortar Brigade of the 5th Artillery Division of RSC, which included my father's battery, participated in the liberation of the Baltic States from the Nazis, in particular Estonia and Tallinn. With the 1st Belorussian Front, he took part in the liberation of Warsaw from the Nazis._x000D_ My father, Oleg Smirnov, Guards First Lieutenant, commander of the Katyush battery, took part in the battle of Berlin, and then the exit to the Oder-spree canal, where his unit was stationed until 1947._x000D_ My father was wounded in battle. He was discharged in March 1947._x000D_ Awarded Orders of the Red Star, Patriotic War, medals For the Defense of Moscow, For the Defense of Leningrad, and the Liberation of Warsaw, For Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945, various jubilee medals and awards._x000D_ After returning from the front, he graduated from the Moscow Plekhanov Institute of People’s Economy. Worked for GOSPLAN of USSR and GOSPLAN of RSFSR. After retiring in 1982, he took an active part in the work of the Council of veterans of the Great Patriotic War._x000D_ He died in July 1986. He was buried at the Vagankovo cemetery.

Title: Red Army Soldier._x000D_ Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except Marine Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Troops._x000D_ Duty station: G. Kotovsky 5th Guards Cavalry Bessarabian-Tannenberg Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division._x000D_ Danil Sinyavtsev (1897-1989). From the memoirs of Sinyavtsev Nikolay._x000D_ "I'll start with the story about my father Danil Sinyavtsev. He was born in the XIX century on the farm Ermilov of Nikolaevskiy District of the Azov-Black Sea Region (the so-called territory that united the current Krasnodar territory, Rostov region, the Republic of Adygea and the former Northern region with the center in the city of Millerovo). Danil Sinyavtsev was a native don Cossack, a direct descendant of the first settlers who developed the land of the free don. Our family lived on the farm Belyansky, from there Danil went to war in 1941. My father was already 44 years old. Previously, he had participated in the Civil War. Taking into account the available combat experience, the Cossack was called up to the active army, because in the most difficult period of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, hardened, shelled soldiers were needed at the front like air. Danil Sinyavtsev was sent to the famous 5th Guards Cossack Red Banner Order of Lenin Cavalry Division named after G. Kotovskiy. Later, my father told me that the military unit in which he served was moved to Kharkov, where at that time fierce battles took place. Under the onslaught of the Nazis, our troops were forced to leave their positions. Retreating, they went through the endless steppes. It was a hot summer, and there was almost no water. The soldiers miraculously survived, sweltering with thirst… The front was rolling back to Stalingrad, and the combat Cossack Sinyavtsev, along with his comrades, fell to the lot to participate in the great Battle of the Volga. When the enemy was defeated at Stalingrad, one group of our troops was sent to Millerovo, and the other – towards Rostov-on-Don. In the battles for the liberation of Rostov region from the Nazis participated and Danil Sinyavtsev. Then, it was planned to transfer the cavalry unit to the Donbass, and on the eve of that my father was given a one day vacation. I remember well that snowy winter day when my father appeared on a horse under the Windows of our house. Smelling of gunpowder smoke, dressed in a cap and a Cossack burka - this is how I remember the closest and dearest person to me. We all ran out to meet him, and I, who was only a boy at that time, ran out into the yard shouting: "Dad, put me on a horse!” My father lifted me up in his strong arms and lifted me into the saddle… Those days passed like a flash, and my father again left for his military unit. His front way run through the Donbass and Belarus. Later, at the end of the war, the Cossack Sinyavtsev, taking into account his advanced age, was appointed a clerk (by the way, my father's handwriting was calligraphic). However, he did not stay too long at headquarters, and more than once he had to put down his fountain pen and take up arms again. This is confirmed by an extract from the award list, which we found recently. It became known that in the offensive battles for the liberation of Belarus, Danil Sinyavtsev, along with two fellow soldiers, engaged 15 Nazis and destroyed three enemy soldiers with targeted fire from a sniper rifle. Four more fascists were captured by the Cossacks and taken to the headquarters. The courage shown by my father in that battle was awarded with the Medal For Military Merit. Danil Sinyavtsev met the victory in Konigsberg (now the city of Kaliningrad). By the time the shirt of Cossack cavalry in addition to the mentioned awards was decorated with Orders of the Red Star and Patriotic War of 2nd degrees and medals For the Defense of Stalingrad, For the Capture of Konigsberg and For the Victory over Germany. After demobilization Daniel Sinyavtsev returned home to Rostov REgion. He worked restoring his native collective farm. Danil lived for 92 years”.

Date of birth: 14.03.1921_x000D_ Date of death: 03.02.2016_x000D_ History:_x000D_ Anatoly was born on March 14, 1921 in the city of Mogilev-Podolsky, Vinnytsia Region._x000D_ In 1939, he graduated from the 10th grade of Vinnytsia High School and in the same year entered the Bezhitsky Institute of Transport Engineering._x000D_ In September 1941, together with the Institute, he was evacuated from Bryansk to Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, where he continued his studies for the third year._x000D_ In March 1942, he was drafted in the Red Army and sent to the Sretenskiy Infantry School of the Trans-Baikal Military District. From March to October 1942 - cadet of the infantry school. In October 1942, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense, he received a military rank of Lieutenant._x000D_ In the active army, he was from October 28, 1942 to May 9, 1945 in the 568th Rifle Regiment of the 149th Rifle Division in the following positions: Commander of a machine-gun platoon, Commander of a rifle company, Translator of the regimental headquarters, Intelligence officer of the regiment._x000D_ He fought on the Western, Central and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He participated in the battle of Kursk, in the liberation of the city Dmitrovsk-Orlovskiy and the crossing of the river Desna, Sozh and the Dnieper, in the liberation of the city Novohrad-Volynskiy and Zdolbunov, in the liberation of the cities and towns of Poland, crossed the Vistula river, participated in the fighting on the Annapolisa bridgehead, and then in the breakthrough of the enemy defence near Sandomierz. In Germany, he participated in the battles during the capture of Forst and Guben, the crossing of the Oder River, and the Battle of Berlin. Participated in the liberation of the Czechoslovak capital Prague._x000D_ After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served in the 287th Regiment of the 95th Rifle Division, the 46th Regiment of the 13th Guards Mechanized Division of the Central Group of occupation forces in Austria, then from May 1951 to October 1953 - in the 18th Guards Tank Regiment of the 3rd Guards Tank Division of the Belarusian Military District._x000D_ In October 1953, he was dismissed from the army to the reserve at his own request, moved to Bryansk, where he became a teacher at a vocational school and continued his studies interrupted by the war at the evening Department of the Bryansk Machine-Building Institute, from which he graduated in 1957._x000D_ After graduation, he went to work as a teacher at the Bryansk Technical School, and then at the Bryansk Automobile Plant, where he worked for 32 years in various engineering positions._x000D_ After retirement, he was an active public figure, paid great attention to the patriotic education of young people, and actively participated in the veteran movement._x000D_ Awarded the Order of Friendship, two Orders of Patriotic War 1st degree, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, Order of the Red Star, medals For Bravery, For Military Merit, For the Capture of Berlin, For the Liberation of Prague etc. He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Novograd-Volynskiy District._x000D_ He did a lot of work on the organization of the veteran movement in the Bryansk Region, on patriotic education of young people. A. Menes had a great friendship with Dubrovskaya Secondary School #1.

Title: Red Army man. Military branch: Ground forces. Military unit: 329th Rifle Division (1st formation). Joseph Yakovlevich took part in many military battles. Throughout October 1943, there were fierce combats on the Dnieper. Our troops sought to hold and expand the captured footstrongs, the fascists wer going to throw the Soviet soldiers into the Dnieper. All branches of the Armed Forces took part in these combats. The blow was so strong that the enemy began to withdraw. The front was broken. On the night of November 6, the fighting unfolded in the Northern outskirts of Kiev and gradually began to move to the center of the city. Thousands of soldiers were awarded orders and medals. For his bravery and heroism, Joseph was awarded the medal For Courage. The battle for Kiev was the main link in the battle for the Dnieper and footstrongs on the right bank of Ukraine. _x000D_ Developing the offensive, the enemy was driven out of Zhytomyr on November 12. The enemy resisted fiercely. For the liberation of Zhytomyr, Joseph received a high award, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree. The Germans hastily began to take measures to rectify the situation on the front. In the area of Zhytomyr on the Eastern front they began to transfer forces, mainly tank formations. On November 15, the Hitlerites launched a counteroffensive. But nothing came of it. The counterattack of the enemy was repulsed. A huge foot-strong was formed for the liberation of the entire right-bank Ukraine. _x000D_ Joseph had already become a true recon. _x000D_ The most memorable was the battle for the Polish city of Sandomierz. During the whole August 1944, there were fierce combats here. From the recons and sappers, a combat group was selected, and the command set a mission: to capture the height from which the Hitlerites clearly viewed a vast area and fired in the area of the city of Sandomierz, since it was impossible to launch an attack, because of the heavy fire. Under the cover of night, the fighters went out on a combat mission. The battle didn't last long. The fascists were stunned by the suddenness and boldness of our soldiers. The height was taken. The way for an offensive was open. _x000D_ For his effort, Joseph was awarded the Order of the Red Star. When an offensive was planned, a brave recon always went to the enemy location for the "prisoner tongue". He had never failed, because his loyal Assistants in the hard military work showed courage, determination, ingenuity, dexterity, the ability to navigate around, make the right decisions in any situation and had faith in victory. He personally took 11 prisoners.

HISTORY: Petr Fedotovich Minaev was born on January 27, 1920 in the Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District, in the village of Yurovo. He graduated from the 7th grade of the Yurov School in 1937. He was excellent student. He entered a Medical College in Bryansk and graduated with excellent and good grades in 1940. In the period from 1940 to 1941, he worked as a Feldsher in the vicinity of the village and the village Radotina Blight. n the first months of the war, our grandfather was sent to study in the Urals at the Artillery School. While he was a cadet from 8.09.1941 to 9.09.1942, the war had reached Stalingrad. The School was closed. My grandfather was sent to the Stalingrad Front (1942-1943) as a front-line medic. _x000D_ He remembered the city of Stalingrad as the battered Volga banks, the water boiling from the explosion of shells, and the city in flames of conflagrations. The Volga, where the water is mixed with blood, was boiling from the explosion of shells. To cross the river, one had to push corpses away, so many soldiers were killed. In 1943 he was a feldsher of the Division of the Rifle Battalion on the Voronezh, then he was a feldsher of Medical Company at the Steppe front, later 2nd Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ From September 1943 to May 1945 he had been a Head of Medical Company Pharmacy. He participated in the liberation of Prague and celebrated Victory there on May 9, 1945. But the fighting continued in Prague even after May 9, 1945. _x000D_ In October 1946, he joined the Communist party of the Soviet Union with a pride and honor of that time. _x000D_ On November 22, 1946, our grandfather married Miria Stepanovna Grinkova and went with his wife, Minaeva Maria Stepanovna, to Cahul, Moldova, where he had been working as the Head of Medical Company Pharmacy until 1948. _x000D_ My grandfather had 14 state awards: 1) Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree as of March 11, 1985 2) Order of the Red Star, as of 1944 3) Medal "For Military Merit" 4) Medal "For Defense of Stalingrad" 5) Medal "For Liberation of Prague" 6) Medal "For Victory over Germany", 7) Medal “20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 8) Medal “30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War” 9) Medal “40 years of victory in in the Great Patriotic War” 10) Medal “30 years Soviet Army and Navy” 11) Medal “50 years of the Armed Forces of USSR” 12) Medal “60 years of the Armed Forces USSR” 13) Medal "Veteran of Labor" as of 22 July, 1982 14) Pioneer of Excellent Health of the USSR as of 18 April 1961, 7 commendatory certificates, 6 anniversary awards. My grandfather's military rank is Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service. _x000D_ On September 22, 1948, our grandfather was demobilized and placed in the reserve. Upon returning home our family arrived in the village of Yurovo. Peaceful postwar life started. During 1948-1974 he had been working as Feldsher of the Yurov Medical Center (Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District). Working as a feldsher, he was an eye doctor, a children's doctor, a General practitioner, a gynecologist, and a surgeon, who applied 12 stitches each, working alone with a patient, when there was no other doctor to submit the necessary sutures. _x000D_ For his impeccable and fruitful work, our grandfather was an excellent student of the USSR Health Service, a Veteran of Labor, and a Feldsher of the 1st category. The motto of our grandfather's life: the life and health of a person is the meaning of my life and happiness. In the foreground there was always a struggle for human health and life. _x000D_ He was retired in Bryansk on February 1, 1980. In 1983, from August 20 to 24, grandparents were in Kharkov at a meeting of veterans-fellow soldiers of the 93rd Guards Kharkov, Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division ( 40 years of liberation of Kharkov from the Nazi invaders 1943-1983), where they remembered the Kursk Bulge. Pyotr Minaev was a wonderful man, son, husband, father, and a grandfather. Our dear man passed away on December 13, 1992.

He was born in 1918 in the village of Sushikha, where his family used to live for a short time. He returned to his native place after the war in 1946. _x000D_ There he had lived for 58 years with my wife, raised his sons, and worked selflessly. He retired in 1978. He went through the war from the first day to the last. In 1938, he was called up to serve in the Red Army, sent to the Far East on the border. In July-August 1938 near lake Khasan, in 1939 on the Territory of Mongolia, near the Khalkhin Gol participated in battles with units of the Kwantung army of the Japanese. _x000D_ In 1940, he was demobilized, later studied at Automobile School and was sent to the Jewish Autonomous Region of the Khabarovsk Territory, worked as a driver at a mine, lived in the forest in tents. Many could not stand the harsh conditions and left. He heard about the beginning of the war at work. A day or two later, he received a summons from the military recruitment office. He was called up in June 1941 from the Far East, from the city of Blagoveshchensk. At first, he guarded the border in the Far East. _x000D_ In October 1941, his military unit was transferred to the west near Moscow. Then he fought at Tula, Kharkov, Belgorod, Oryol, on the Kursk Bulge. _x000D_ He was three times wounded and concussed. At first, he was a driver, in 1942 he was bombed, the car caught fire, his comrades pulled him out concussed, he was in the hospital, his eardrum was damaged, and his ear ached until 1947. _x000D_ In 1942-1943, he fought in the 19th Tank Brigade as a Tank-man. In 1943, he was wounded in the right arm, and was hospitalized for 3 months. He was cured and returned to the front line, where a mine exploded nearby in one of the combats, and his entire back was riddled with shrapnel. Again the hospital, the fragments were removed surgically and with the help of a magnet, 3 months on the recovery and again to the front in early May, 1943. _x000D_ He participated in the historical tank battle of Kursk Bulge. He burned twice in a car, once in a tank. Twice he had to cross the Dnieper. It was one of the bloodiest and terrible battle of WWII. They crossed to the opposite bank whenever they had to. And both times they found themselves on a steep right bank of the river that hung over the water like a sheer wall. For these combats, he was awarded the orders of the Red Star and the Patriotic War, twice the medal For Courage. _x000D_ These were the dear awards for a veteran of all that he had. On March 12, 1944, he was wounded by a sniper's bullet in the cheek (the veteran still remembers this date and marks it as his second birth), the bullet went through, knocking out his teeth and grazing his tongue. It took six long months of treatment first in Moscow, then in Chelyabinsk. At first the doctors put a gag in the mouth at night to prevent the wound from drying, it was very hard. _x000D_ After the hospital, he became a member of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in 1944 in Romania near the city of Pitesti, liberating the capital of Austria, Vienna. He celebrated Victory in May 1945 in Austria, participated in the Prague operation as part of the 6th Guards Tank Army, took part in the destruction of the remaining group of Nazi troops in Czechoslovakia, from July 1945 until the demobilization in the city of Jihlava, Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ During the war years, he was an infantryman, tankman, and signalman. After the announcement of the German surrender and the end of the war, he did not return home immediately. He ended the war in Czechoslovakia in 1946. 50 years after the end of the war, he was awarded the order of the Red Star for the tank battle on the Kursk Bulge. He came home to Sushikha, went to work in the kolkhoz "Lenin's Victory", and on January 1, 1949, he was enrolled in the Ust-Lukovskaya MTS, which was responsible for kolkhoz equipment, as a tractor driver, where he worked on a DT-54 tractor. He received certificates, diplomas and valuable prizes for good performance for his work. _x000D_ He got married, in 1949 his son Vladimir was born. A year later, in 1950, his wife passed away and left him alone with a small child. After some time he married Shura Baklanova, gave birth to 3 more sons: the elder Nikolai drowned in childhood, Sergei and Anatoly live with their families in Ust-Lukovka and Sushikha. On July 1, 1958, in connection with the reorganization of MTS, he was transferred to work at the Lenin kolkhoz. In 1961, the Lukovsky Sovkhoz was established, which consisted of 4 villages: Lukovsky, Susica, Rogalevo and Tarpaulin with Central office in the village of Kersey. _x000D_ On February 21, 1961, Yakov Nesterovich joined the staff of the Lukovsky sovkhoz as a combine harvester. In 1963, there was a disorganization of the economy, as part of the Lukovsky, there remained 2 branches: Lukovskoe and Sushinskoe. Yakov Nesterovich worked for 18 years as a combine harvester, repeatedly received commendations, diplomas, was awarded a badge of honor, the medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", the VDNH medal. He retired in July 1978.

Ivan Dmitrievich Medvedkov was born on June 29, 1914 in the village of Putyatino, Putyatinskaya volost, Sapozhkovsky District of the Ryazan Province. During the Great Patriotic War, he was conscripted by the Putyatinsky Regional Military Committee of the Ryazan Region on July 5, 1942 and enlisted as a Rifleman in the 3rd Separate Anti-tank Fighter Brigade of the reserve of the main command in the company of machine gunners. He received his first baptism of fire in the battle for the Kursk Bulge, where there were fierce battles with the German-fascist invaders. The battle was unequal, but despite the obvious superiority of the enemy in combat equipment and manpower, the enemy did not break through our defense. On July 1-2, 1943, acting as a Sergeant of a Company of machine gunners, he participated in the battles to liberate the village of Teploye in the Kursk Region. In two days, the Company knocked out 8 tanks and destroyed a large number of Germans. Personally, comrade Medvedkov destroyed about 7 sub-machine guns. For these combats, he was awarded the medal For Courage. From 5 to 9 July 1943, he participated in the battles in the area of the station Ponyri of the Kursk Region. In this area, up to 300 enemy tanks were concentrated against the 3rd Fighter Brigade, supported by artillery and mortar fire. A company of machine gunners was shot down over 20 tanks and destroyed a lot of enemy manpower. Personally, I. D. Medvedkov was destroyed by more than 10 sub-machine guns and hit one tank with an anti-tank grenade, at the same time he was heavily concussed. For these efforts, he was awarded the order of the Red Star. _x000D_ After recovering, he returned to his military unit and continued to participate in the combats to liberate the cities and villages of this country from the German-fascist invaders. _x000D_ In 1944, he participated in the battles for Belarus, participated in the liberation of the cities of Pruzhany, Bobruisk, Minsk, Brest, acting as a Platoon Commander. Ivan was again awarded the order of the Red Star for the destruction of a platoon of 12 enemy tanks and more than 60 sub-machine guns. He received the third order of the Red Star for the liberation of the city of Warsaw in 1945, where their platoon destroyed 11 tanks and more than 70 sub-machine guns. Personally, he destroyed 14 German sub-machine guns. He was awarded the order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree on June 9, 1945 for ensuring timely preparation of operational staff documents in hard combat conditions under continuous artillery fire and uninterrupted bombing from the air, which did not affect the successful completion of the combat mission of the High Command For Capture of Berlin. _x000D_ Particularly fierce and bloody battles took place in the city of Berlin, where the Nazis fought desperately for every house, room and basement. In these combats, the soldiers and commanders of the military unit heroically fought and repelled several times a day attacks by tanks and infantry, destroying 15-20 tanks and a lot of enemy manpower. _x000D_ Ivan Medvedkov finished his military service as the Head of the Staff's Records Department with the rank of Guards Sergeant Major. He was discharged from the army on February 16, 1946. Since August 1946, he had worked as Chief Accountant of the Putyatinsky branch of the State Bank. He passed away on May 30, 1987.

He had been a participant of three wars. My grandfather on my father's side, Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Mishustin, went through more than one war and, fortunately, returned home. Even before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 1939 he graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Military School of Frontier and Internal troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR named after S. M. Kirov. As one of the most responsible and prepared graduates, he was sent to the Soviet-Finnish war, where dexterity and proficiency in professional skills were needed. So Mikhail went to his first war. _x000D_ There was not only war in the air, but also hope for its speedy end and a peaceful life, there were families and a strong desire to win and return. A year earlier, my grandfather met my grandmother Olga, whom he married in early 1938. In fact, their birthday was on the same day, month and year, July 20. After the Soviet-Finnish war, my grandfather returned in June 1941, as it turned out later on a short-term vacation, because the Great Patriotic War had started… Leaving my grandmother his photo, which is dated June 27, 1941, he again went to defend his Homeland, now against the Nazis. This was his second war. _x000D_ Throughout the Great Patriotic War, Mikhail served in military reconnaissance on the front line, as part of the 696th Separate Communication Battalion of the 9th Tank Brigade, participated in many operations to liberate cities, fierce battles, crossing rivers and obstacles. His crew went through all the battles unscathed. But at the very end of the war, in May 1945, in Berlin, during the storming of the Reichstag, a shell hit my grandfather's tank and, bursting inside, wounded him in the neck, barely missing his spine. The rest of the crew were killed. _x000D_ By chance, my grandfather was rescued by the Marines and sent to the hospital. For courage and bravery repeatedly shown during combat missions to liberate the cities from the German invaders, the capture of Berlin and the storming of the Reichstag, that in spite of the hard combat situation and under the enemy’s fire heroically ensured the continuous operation of stations and vehicles, lighting, and radio communications command post of the Tank Corps with units and higher staffs, grandpa was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic War 2nd degrees, medals and letters of thanks. _x000D_ Mikhail celebrated Victory in the hospital. Immediately after his discharge, he was sent to serve in the NKVD (Security Service), where his third war started, while peace was already established in the Soviet Union. My grandfather caught Nazi spies and “non-descendants” on the territory of Europe and the USSR, declassified cunning schemes for transmitting information to the enemies of the Soviet Union. Thus, the military operations for my grandfather lasted for more than 10 years and ended only in 1949… _x000D_ Despite severe injuries, my grandfather had continued to fulfill his duty until 1954. He served in the Ministry of state security of the USSR as a Senior Operative Commissioner for the East Kazakhstan Region, worked with the Agency, tracked down and detained political criminals, spies and saboteurs, mostly German, and again often was away from his beloved wife. _x000D_ All these years, my grandparents were in different parts of the country, but they believed in a speedy end of the war and the long-awaited meeting. They were very fond of each other. Several times during the period of the Great Patriotic War my grandfather came home on leave to the grandmother. Their encounter was long-awaited and brief. After one of these short vacations, my uncle Anatoly was born, and after the second, my father Vladimir was born. _x000D_ It was very hard for my grandparents to go through a long separation, but they overcame everything and later worked together in the same school. My grandfather was a handicraft teacher, and my grandmother was a teacher of Russian Language and Literature.

Serganov Sergey Sergeevich_x000D_ Rank: Colonel_x000D_ Type of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Guard Colonel Serganov Sergei Sergeevich was born in the Bryansk region in a family of workers. After completing 7 classes at school, S. S. Serganov continued his studies at the technical school of the Bryansk locomotive building plant "Krasny Profintern". Then he worked as a senior designer of a copper-Nickel shop and had an exemption from service in the army. _x000D_ From the very first days of the war, the plant began to operate under the wartime regime, and on July 3, 1941, an order was received to evacuate the plant to the rear of the country beyond the Urals to the city of Krasnoyarsk. In December 1941 Bryansk machine builders began to send grenades and mortars to the front, later wagons and locomotives. In Kovrov, at the machine gun factory, factory employees participated in the production of Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun , ShVAK aviation cannons, and sub-machine guns. Disturbing news had reached the rear, the enemy was at Moscow, and the situation was serious. _x000D_ Serganov, having abandoned his exemption from active duty, voluntarily came to the regional military Commissariat in November 1941 with a request to send him to the front. Given his education, life experience and ability to lead people, he was sent to study at the Kirov (1st) Red Banner Artillery School in Krasnoyarsk. After completing 6 months of training, on May 2, 1942, Sergey Serganov received the military rank Lieutenant and went to the Bryansk front as Deputy chief of Staff of the Artillery Division. However, the situation at the front quickly changed and in June 1943, Serganov became the commander of the control platoon of the 2nd Artillery Division 152-mm guns of the Shuisky 602th Gun and Artillery regiment, where he proved to be a skilled artillery officer, and after 2 months became Deputy commander of the 4th battery of the 2nd Artillery Division of the regiment. _x000D_ In the presentation for the award of the order for Patriotic war I degree No. 20304036 from 10.07.1943, Senior Lieutenant S. S. Serganov in battles with the German invaders showed courage and bravery. _x000D_ «05.08.43 year Serganov received the mission to destroy the bunker, which occupied a dominant position in the area of Height 203, 3; to counterattack with fire the intersection of the roads and the section of road from Height 203, 3 to Lipovaya Balka. This bunker was used as an observation station. On the night of 5/6 July 1943, comrade Serganov rolled out a gun to the very front edge in the area of 6-I Kurganov, 2 km west from Novo-Sergeyevka, and in the morning during the artillery preparation with direct fire, despite the heavy shelling of the enemy guns from mortars and machine guns, destroyed the bunker with 4 accurate hits. Destroyed: machine gun, stereo tube and 6 Germans, including 3 officers. For his brave actions and good shooting, he received a commendation from the commander of the 40th Army's Artillery. Senior Lieutenant Serganov is a brave and strong-willed battery commander, who always performs the missions assigned to him with honor."_x000D_ "At the end of 1944," recalls Sergei Sergeevich, " we were 100 km from Berlin. The Germans stubbornly resisted, feeling that their days were numbered. There I received a through wound in the leg, but was treated at the local medical center. I also remember an artillery duel with the Germans during the storming of the fortress of Glogau in the spring of 1945, when two guns fired direct fire against each other. Our crew had a better qualifications and with the first shot we hit the enemy cannon. _x000D_ I met Victory day in Prague, and before that, on May 7 - 8, we listened to the Sovinformburo reports to ceasefire and capitulation of Nazi Germany on the radio. The fraternal Czechoslovak people were jubilant, we were given a living corridor when we met, people stood with flowers and shouted in Czech "Nazdar! Nazdar!" (Hello, Hello!). Then, in the war, we lived as one family, all the Nations, there were brothers-Slavs. We fought together against a common enemy, and our Victory was shared.»