Order of the Red Star

Mironov Veniamin Borisovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 12/29/1912 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 08/20/1980 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Veniamin Borisovich Mironov, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel. _x000D_ He was born on December 29, 1912 in the village of Konstantinovka (now - Romodanovsky district of Mordovia) in the family of a priest. In 1929, after the successful completion of his studies at the Saransk secondary school of the 2nd stage with a pedagogical bias, his grandfather volunteered to work in Siberia, an activist of the voluntary society Osoviakhim, a member of the society "Down with illiteracy". He began his career as a teacher in secondary school No. 14 in Tomsk. In 1934 he voluntarily entered the artillery school. In 1936 he was sent to study at the Military Academy named after V.M. Frunze. He was lucky to study together with S.M.Budyonny. In June 1941 he received a diploma. From June 1941 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ The combat path of Veniamin Borisovich was truly impressive: in the first months of the war he heroically defended Kiev, in 1942 he fought in street battles in Stalingrad, including in its hottest spots, such as the Tractor Plant and the Barricades plant, then on the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper in 43rd, in 44th liberated Belarus and Poland, took Berlin in May 45th. _x000D_ On May 31, 1945 "for exemplary performance of combat missions ... and the heroism and courage shown at the same time" the Guard Lieutenant Colonel VB Mironov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 7369). On June 24, 1945 Mironov V.B. commanded a column of heroes of Berlin Capture at the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. _x000D_ After the war, he continued to serve in the army. After retiring to the reserve in 1955, Veniamin Borisovich settled in Saransk, where he worked as a military commander in secondary school No. 20 (today it is the Gymnasium named after Hero of the Soviet Union V.B. Mironov). _x000D_ Until his death in 1980, Veniamin Mironov was engaged in the military-patriotic education of the younger generation. There is a memorial plaque on the house where he lived. His memory is also honored at the St. Petersburg Military Institute of Physical Culture, in the museum of which there is his bust. By the decision of the Saransk City Council of April 30, 1986, one of the new streets in Saransk was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Mironov. People like Veniamin Borisovich Mironov are truly our gold fund. I am very proud of my grandfather.

Menovshchikov Vladimir Ignatievich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/23/1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/26/1999 _x000D_ _x000D_ Fragment of a letter from my grandfather to the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda": _x000D_ «Dear editors of the newspaper "Krasnaya Zvezda", I am a participant in the Patriotic War of 1925 year of birth. I started a war on the Dnieper and reached the Oder. I can't writewell, and I didn't know where to write about my pain and the memory of those harsh days. And yet, 45 years later, I am writing to you about what I could not share for so long. I came to my platoon in replenishment from Siberia, Achinsk. I was a young soldier who had not yet been under fire admiring my commander, the Lieutenant Loktev. We were moving forward, villages, foothold of the right bank of Dnieper. But the last days of the lieutenant's life and his cruel or terrible death, always remained in me. Even now, I still remember a small cherry garden, potatoes had already been harvested. The alley in the gardens is fenced as in Siberia. This is where my lieutenant Ivan Loktev, 1917, was killed. _x000D_ We exchanged the overcoats by his request, he gave me his new green overcoat, I gave him mine grey one with a small speck on the right field. _x000D_ We were fighting for a farm, and the farm was passed from one hand to another, but there was an officail announcement on Sovinformburo that the farm was ours! Well, we went ahead and took it again. I jumped into the garden, and on the right there was a pile of old straw, and there I found a piece of a green overcoat with an oily speck may be the size of 2 dimes. - "My greatcoat". And then I found the lieutenant and only the bottom of the body along the trouser belt. New diagonal blue trousers, new tarpaulin boots. Why new? Yes, yesterday we were honoring the lieutenant with the high award of the Hero of the Soviet Union. And at night we returned to our place and he did not change his clothes (as if he knew). We were looking for the remains in the little garden, but we didn’t find much, put the remains in a raincoat and buried him right there where I found it. _x000D_ The battalion commander wrote a paper about him and gave it the owner: "We will go ahead, father, but the Hero of the Soviet Union is buried in your garden, a monument may be erected here, or perhaps on a mass grave." _x000D_ My Leiutenant died from a direct shot from a cannon of a German armored car. I still don’t know if there is a monument to my lieutenant in that site.

Mavzyutov Gazis Zagrukovich _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Gazis Zagrukovich Mavzyutov was born on November 24, 1924 in the village of Abdulovo, Cherdaklinsky district. He lost his father early, who perished in the GULAG camps. As a child, he mastered several professions to feed his sick mother, younger sister and himself - a schoolboy. Immediately after the Day of Farewell Bell at school on 22nd of June, he went to the military registration and enlistment office. He was sent to the Moscow region, where a new tank corps was being formed. Gazis became the gunner of the T-34 tank gun of 213rd Tank Brigade, later renamed 15th Guards Tank Brigade of 1st Guards Don Tank Corps. He was baptized under fire on November 19, 1942 in the Stalingrad direction. The brigade had been in continuous combat until February 2, 1943. Having lost many tanks and people in the combat, the brigade was withdrawn from combats and sent to Tula. There they received a replenishment of personnel and new machines. The 1st Guards Don Tank Corps was preparing for combat on the Kursk Bulge ... Mavzyutov burned in a tank, was wounded many times, but survived. _x000D_ Being a disabled WWII veteran, he became a successful leader who won honor and respect among several generations of residents of the Ulyanovsk region. He began his career in the village of Abdulovo, where he worked in the Malo-Kandala Communist Department as a propagandist and deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the district party committee. Since 1950 (at the age of 26) he worked as the first secretary of the Staro-Kulatkinsky Communist Department. In November 1955, he became the head of the regional newspaper Znamya Lenina. After a while the energetic leader was recommended as the first secretary of the Novomalyklinsky district committee. From January 1965 to March 1982 he became the first secretary of the Melekess Communist Department (up to retirement due to disability). _x000D_ “Under his leadership, the Melekess district achieved great success in the economy, agriculture, social sphere, and cultural life. In the morning it was impossible to find him in his office, he went to the fields, to the farms or shops. All managers and many specialists He remembered birthdays of all his managers and specialists, was aware of their everyday problems, knew about their children. " From March 1982 to 1998 he was a Director of the Melekess Agricultural College. Author of a book on the development of agriculture._x000D_ "After retiring, he began to work at the Melekessky agricultural technical school, was director, taught political economy, led the section of agriculture. He showed the particularaties of agronomy in his garden. Gazis Mavzyutov began construction of a new building of the technical school. Under his leadership, trees, bushes, flowers were planted here." _x000D_ The memorial plaque on the house of Gazis Mavzyutov was opened on April 21, 2012 in Dimitrovgrad on the Angarskaya street. Gazis Zagrukovich Mavzyutov was buried at the Muslim Muslim cemetery. _x000D_ Awards: G.Z. Mavzyutov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad." Labor achivements of Gazis Zagrukovich were marked with two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin", two gold, two silver medals of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, numerous certificates and badges. _x000D_ He was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the Ulyanovsk Region" and entered in the Golden Book of Honor of the Ulyanovsk Region in 2000. He was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Melekess District" and entered the Book of Honor of the Melekess District in 2003.

Malyshev Petr Ivanovich_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 01/13/1916 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 06/17/2000 _x000D_ Title: Sergeant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Subdivision: 31st Guards Rifle Vitebsk Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ In 1938 Petr Malyshev was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. The service took place in the Far East in Sovetskaya Gavan in the maritime coast guard. During the service, he was trained to use a machine gun, mortar, heavy machine gun. After serving two years, he remained a civil servant. They guarded the settlements "Pervaya Rechka", "Vtoraya Rechka", which are closer to Khabarovsk. When the war began, he, like many others, was sent to the front from the town of Krasnaya Glinka, from the Otpor station. The train's route passed through his native land, the city of Inzu, past the native station of Kuzovatovo. In Inza, their echelon was reformed and continued its journey now to the city of Vitebsk, in 3rd Belarusian front. On the way, they were bombed, and he was wounded in the leg. From the hospital he went to the front. He passed the courses of the command squad, became the commander of the sapper squad of four. They employed mines and cleared the passages behind enemy lines. They cleared up roads for the Red Army from mines. _x000D_ He had reached the city of Konigsberg and was wounded at its capture. In 1947, during the Japanese aggression, he was discharged. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and the Zhukov Medal. _x000D_ From the history of the award of the Order of the Red Star. Description of the feat: _x000D_ "Comrade Malyshev, while securing the division at the achieved lines with his squad, worked at the front line under heavy enemy fire. He set more than 200 mines. On 9.03.1945 Comrade Malyshev kept the passage in the mine field for the advancing infantry units. They had passed through them without hindrance. On 23.3.45 Comrade Malyshev accompanied the divisional reconnaissance through the enemy's obstacle, coped with the mission in a perfect manner. "_x000D_ After war he worked as a mechanic at the kolkhoz "Fighter for Peace", Kuzovatovsky district, on a tracked tractor DT-75. The total work experience is more than fifty years. He raised six children.

Miruts Maria Andreevna_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain of Medical Service _x000D_ _x000D_ Subdivision: 250th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division 268 Separate Medical Battalion. _x000D_ _x000D_ Maria Andreevna Miruts was born on December 27, 1913 in Grodno. In 1938 she graduated from the Tomsk Medical Institute. She went to the war in June 1941 in 215th Medical Battalion of 166th Rifle Division as a surgeon-resident. Since May 1943 in 268th Medical Battalion of 250th Rifle Division of 3rd army as a surgeon, since September 1943 until the end of the war she was the commander of a hospital platoon. She graduated from the war with the rank of Captain of the Medical Service. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Berlin", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany" and others, seven thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. _x000D_ From the memoirs of M.A. Miruts 04/09/1986: "After completing 3-month advanced training courses for medical personnel (KUMS) in Ulyanovsk, I was sent through the Main Sanitary Directorate of Moscow with a group of doctors to the Lev Tolstoy station, where the medical department of 3rd army was located. From the sanitary department three feldshers and I were sent to 250th division, to 268th Medical Battalion, to the surgeon position. This was the Talitsa station. After a while the entire Medical Battalion moved to the village of Berezovka, where we settled in tents in the garden. It was May. It was very intensive preparation for a big offensive. It was the Orel-Kursk combat. We carried out work in the regiments and in the Medical Battalion, getting ready for military actions. _x000D_ And so it began. There was such a strong fire of artillery that everything was in motion. Our division went on the offensive. In this time we were ready to move forward behind the division. To be as close to the combat as possible in order to provide assistance as soon as possible from the moment of injury. _x000D_ We were shown camouflage security and driveways. We deployed a sorting room, where all the wounded were received. Then the urgent with tourniquets immediately went to the surgery room, people in shock went to the shock ward, lightly wounded went to the hospital through the evacuation department. The hospital platoon received the wounded in the abdomen, chest and with large amputations. Here everyone received the necessary care and treatment. They were simply nursed so that they could be evacuated further. Evacuation was agreed with the surgeon. _x000D_ In September, after the hospital platoon commander was put out, I was appointed to this position, where I worked until the end of the war. We went through Belarus, Poland, the Baltic states, attacked Berlin and ended the war on the river Elbe. _x000D_ Hospital platoon worked on two fronts. The Medical Battalion moves forward with the active army (division). The hospital platoon sends part of the forces to the forward group to receive post-surgery wounds. Some people are left behind with seriously wounded, not transportable people, then treats them, and prepares for evacuation to the hospital. _x000D_ Having sent everyone to the hospital, the group overtakes the Medical Battalion, and again part of the hospital platoon remains with the seriously wounded in the forest or in a village where there are no residents. _x000D_ War brings hardship for everyone in the war, but especially for women. Especially threatening were the moments when the front was uncontrollably moving forward. In the rear the groups of fascists escaping from the "cauldron" were wandering around. Our small medical groups, who remained with the wounded, were in danger. _x000D_ The invaluable nurses in caring for the wounded were my combat friends: Filippova Zhenya, Medvedeva-Okatova Shura, Vinogradova Lida and Sedyakina Tamara. I could completely rely on them in any setting, they were sincere, affectionate, responsive, real "sisters of mercy." They were not afraid of any difficulties, they were never lost in an any situation. I have never heard from them the words "I do not know", "I cannot". They knew how, in the harsh days of war and hardship, to create comfort in tents from the most primitive material at their disposal! _x000D_ I did not hear any complaints from the sisters and did not face non-fulfillment of appointments, though sometimes I had to give orders. _x000D_ After the war, I have always referred to their work as an example. And now, when we meet, we always remember the details of that difficult time. _x000D_ After the capture of Orel, the first artillery salute was held in Moscow. We were advancing behind our division. The advance units have just left. The Medical Battalion arrived at the Lokot station. They settled in the surviving houses. Houses were burning all around, some civilians were still moving and were rescued. More children came to our hospital platoon. They were as thin, small as old people. We put them two on the same bed (in the position of a "jack" in the cards). I will remember it for a lifetime. Children told how they were taken to the forest, where the command was given "Lie Down", and those lying were shot from machine guns. Boy Styopa lay with a shot in the shoulder and lower leg. They were brought to the forest and ordered to lie down, while his sister, 3 years old, did not lie down and was crying. This boy Styopa and a girl of 19 years old, completely gray were brought to us. _x000D_ In the Bryansk forests, many partisans joined us, a whole unit. There were many sick and wounded. When they were all examined, Doctor V.A.Lugina and I took them to hospitals in cars. While I was driving, I had seven or eight cars behind me, I heard screams, shooting in the bushes not far away. The drivers rushed there with their guns. _x000D_ We drove further along the Mogilev shosse, so the modern road hardly reminds one in September 1943. All roadsides were littered with wrecked vehicles and guns. We found a hospital, handed over the wounded, but patients with suspected infection were not admitted. Evening has come, what should I do? Fortunately, I met a representative of the medical and sanitary service of 3rd army, who ordered to take all the sick. Following the order, they immediately deployed a tent. I had a sense of accomplishment and returned to Zhenya, but my heart was restless. We drove in complete darkness and almost crashed into a column of German prisoners led by our escorts. A monotonous incomprehensible speech and the heavy shuffling steps of hundreds of Nazis were heard. _x000D_ I realized that the enemy was disarmed, but still it was terrifying to drive along a living enemy corridor. This circumstance further increased my concern for Zhenya and the wounded. And so all the way I was not at peace. But I was happy to see that everything was in place. _x000D_ The next day, the wounded were taken to the nearest hospital, and we returned to the Medical Battalion to start all over again. I often had to stay in a forest or in a village where no one was living. We were always bothered by the worst thoughts. _x000D_ There was such an accident in the Bryansk forests. There were left many wounded about 18 people in a divisional tent. We stayed with Lida Vinogradova, an orderly and a cook, since there were many wounded in the abdomen. The night passed quietly. During the day we made all the appointments, and on the second night we heard shooting not far from us, grenade explosions, the wounded became worried, we calmed them down as best we could. Although we did not understand what was happening. _x000D_ By morning, everything became quiet. We were picked up early in the morning. There were many cars to get everyone up at once. Later learned that not far from us, the Nazis destroyed the entire Medical Battalion. Many unfinished fascists were hiding in the Bryansk forest. _x000D_ When our Medical Battalion had to lag behind his division, since the fuel was not delivered, the mortar men also lagged behind came to us near the village of Zabolotye. We heard shooting in the village, the messenger reported that the Germans were in the village. We quickly loaded everything onto cars, drove off a short distance and, together with the mortar men, took up defensive positions. They held defense until our units had arrived. _x000D_ After Minsk, Ostrolenka, our direction was to East Prussia. After the combats for Melzak, our division took part in the liquidation of a group of enemy forces in the Pillau area. The entire coast was covered with the corpses of horses, people and cars. The Germans intended to leave this bank by water and air. But they almost failed. After that our direction was to Berlin. When Berlin was captured, we, a large group of doctors, were taken to see this citadel. We examined the Imperial Chancellery, bunkers, visited the Reichstag, like everyone else, tried to leave our signatures as high as possible. _x000D_ Our division ended the war on the river Elbe. For some time we lived in Gentin, and then moved to Borisov (Belarus). The Medical Battalion was disbanded, and we, then young doctors, were assigned to the regiments. I worked for another year in 918th Rifle Regiment until the end of June 1946, when the division was disbanded. _x000D_ Based on materials from the published literary collection "I am writing to you from the war ..." series "From the history of the land of Tomsk (1941-1945). State Archives of the Tomsk region, Tomsk, 2001. Council of Veterans of the 250 Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree Rifle Division.

Medvedev Vyacheslav Stepanovich

Martynov Igor Vladimirovich

Makhinov Stepan Andreevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red Army Man_x000D_ Branch of troops: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Division: 7th Guards Rifle Rezhitsk Red Banner Division_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather strenuously did not like to talk about the war, although we, grandchildren, pestered him with questions. He had a serious wound in the arm on September 26, 1942, leaving the encirclement, according to Evdokia, his eldest daughter, somewhere from under Staraya Rusa. Gangrene began and the hand was taken away. He returned home to his village after the hospital without a left arm as a Group II invalid. When he left for the war, he already had two children, a girl Evdokia, born in 1938 and son Nikolai, born in 1939. After he returned, in 1944 another daughter was born, my mother, Claudia, and son Ivan in 1950. Grandfather was very worried that he chad lost his arm. Although he did as much with one hand as the other man can't do with two. _x000D_ When my grandfather passed away in 1984, we realized how much he did for the family and could not understand how this was possible. _x000D_ Now I regret I know so little about the wartime moments in my grandfather's life. There is a decaying certificate that he served in 7th Guards Division in 26th Infantry Regiment and was in the evacuation hospital 3101 on recovery from 11/08/1942, and on 12/24/1942. The EG 3101 commission recognized him unfit for military service due to absence of the left hand. _x000D_ My grandfather loved the Victory Day holiday very much. He put on his jacket with the Order of the Red Star and medals and went to the regional center for the Festival. He always came happy and very satisfied. _x000D_ In the village grandfather was respected. He was kind and helpful person. But he was also a brave man. Being without an arm, he could rush into a fight, protecting the weakest. I was very much impressed by it when I was a 15-year-old girl. Even then I understood what my Grandfather is worth. For some reason, there is no information about him on the sites of memory. _x000D_ We tried to enter the number of the combat award (Order of the Red Star) in order to find information on the award. I would very much like to know the details of his combat path.

Magomayev Magomet Muslimovich

Myagkov Alexander Grigoryevich

Malkarov Ibragim Karsbievich

Mikhailov Alexander Mikhailovich

Mikhailov Ferapont Mikhailovich was born on December 27, 1918, in the Urmarsky district of the Chuvash Republic. Before the war he moved to the city of Kazan, the capital of the Tatar ASSR. Не was drafted into Red in the fall of 1939 by the Molotov Military Commissariat of the city of Kazan. He went through the Great Patriotic War from the first to the last day as a Senior Sergeant, Squad Commander of the Reconnaissance Platoon of the 115th Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Far Eastern Debrecen Division. For valor and courage he was awarded the Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree, the Red Star and the Patriotic War II degree, two medals "For Courage", the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." in the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, Mikhailov Ferapont Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He had many thanks from the Higher Command for participating in the capture of large regional centers, important strongholds of the Germans and railway junctions in Ukraine, Bessarabia, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ Everyone went through hardship at war, but reconnaissance survey was always ahead after all and felt it stronger. From the memoirs of Ferapont Mikhailovich: _x000D_ “The cavalry corps of General Sokolov entered the breakthrough. The 8th Cavalry Division was targeting the enemy rail and road junction of Modra. Our regiment went in vanguard under the Regiment Commander, a native of Kazan, Major Girfanov from the division of Major General P.A. Khrustalev. Reconnaissance survey on the 70-kilometer route of the regiment and on the outskirts of the city was entrusted to my recon squad. We worked accurately and used our experience. The execution of every order was associated with risk. _x000D_ However, there were some curious stories along the way. So, in one of the villages, where we entered in order to compare the map with the testimony of local residents, we stumbled upon 14 sleeping German officers in the house. Not at a loss, I shouted for them to surrender, since the village was allegedly occupied by the Russians. So we took them prisoners and sent half-naked from the village under the guard of only one soldier. _x000D_ In another village, right from under the nose of the Germans, we seized a staff carriage._x000D_ To deliver reports say: "the village is occupied by the Germans, the Germans are sleep", or "the street along the route is free", to the regiment, which followed a few kilometers behind the main group of recons. To turn around as quickly as possible through the same German-occupied village, to catch up and join the regiment, and be ready for the next immediate reconnaissance mission, this was possible only up to the very experienced soldiers. _x000D_ And this time, we carried out the order when approaching the city of Modra. The regiments captured the city with battle. For a successful operation, the squad was awarded orders, and the author of these lines was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky. _x000D_ In the history of the Great Patriotic War, cavalrymen showed glory and courage in the military missions. Just to remember the bloody battles during the pursuit of the enemy, especially near the city of Orsha, when Hitler ordered to destroy the "Russian locust cavalry". The horses went through extreme hardships, too. _x000D_ The picture of the terrible carnage near the Dubno station, where the "invincible" Germans found their end, remained in my memory. Here, our cavalrymen attacked the enemy in full-profile trenches as soon as the morning milky fog had cleared up. We did not expect the trenches at such a proximity as 15 metres from us, but our mortars were good fellows. They were the first to open fire. The Germans got what they deserved, and we got our share of losses, too. _x000D_ On the Victory Day May 9, 1945 upon returning from the mission, we met a group of soldiers and officers at the edge of the forest. They shouted hurray, threw up their caps, hugged, kissed in unrestrained joyful intoxication with joy. It was Victory! Unconditional Act of German Surrender to the Armed Forces of the Soviet Army! Our joy knew no bounds! However, the war is not over for us yet. _x000D_ _x000D_ Besides the German SS, there were also the Vlasovites, who did not recognize the Act of Surrender. To avoid provocation on their part, we were ordered to move urgently to Prague. But the Vlasovites were cowards, they did not show resistance. In the first village they greeted us with music, and their women and children, dressed up nicely ran towards the Reconnaissance Cavalrymen. _x000D_ My reconnaissance squad was ordered to follow 60 kilometers ahead and meet the regiment for further movement in the morning. Having passed more than half of the road, we found ourselves in the forest in the midst of retreating German motorized unit, stretching for more than 20 kilometers. _x000D_ I sent a report that the road was occuppied by wermacht, and the regiment had to move along a different route. _x000D_ As for us, we went straight through this German unit. Hundreds of guns of all types and calibers, directed in our direction, were silent. A thousand cars bunched up close in 4-5 rows, running into each other. _x000D_ And we, the four reconnaissance cavalrymen, had managed to squeeze between the cars that stood close to each other, bypass them and pass under the anti-aircraft guns pointed at the sky, under the gloomy glances of sworn enemies. It was like a terrible dream. It was hard to believe that we were peacefully moving among the Germans, though under a great nervous tension, who fired at you yesterday and brought innumerable calamities to our people. But it was for real. Having traveled 80 kilometers that day to the indicated area of the meeting with our regiment, we, exhausted, fell deeply asleep about midnight. In an early sunny morning, woken by the singing of birds, we drove onto the shosse and met a vigorous cavalry regiment under the command of my fellow countryman Major Girfanov, who was aware of the story with the German unit. It was the second peaceful day of the long-awaited Victory, the Victory of the Russian people over German fascism, and for us reconnaissance officers it was doubly long-awaited, wonderful and unforgettable." _x000D_ _x000D_ Ferapont Mikhailov is a fine-art and graphic artist. The first work he created after the war in 1947 was called “The cavalry recons”. His linocuts are dedicated to military themes: "Before the battle", "Gathering of commanders", "For the Motherland!" other. Until the end of his life, he was the chairman of the Council of War Veterans of the Tatar branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Ferapont Mikhailov died on July 18, 1987. _x000D_ We are proud of him and will always remember him with love.

Makhmutov Ibragim Ismagilovich

Martirosyan Arshak Mkrtychevich