Order of the Red Star

Michael Ivanovich Podosinov, GPW veteran Michael Ivanovich Podosinov, Guard Senior Lieutenant

Michael Ivanovich Podosinov, GPW veteran Michael Ivanovich Podosinov, Guard Senior Lieutenant Medal "For the Capture of Konigsberg"|Order of the Patriotic War II degree|Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"|Medal "For the Victory over Japan"|Order of the Red Star

Berlin 1945

My great-grandfather, Ivan Savovich Yavtushenko, was born on 02/23/24 in Poltava.He went to the front on 03/26/1943, served as a corporal, senior telephone operator in the platoon of the Artillery Commander of the Second Ukrainian Front of the 41st Red Banner Infantry Division of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class. For his bravery, dedication, contempt for danger and perseverance in carrying out tasks in battles from the Oder, the Elbe to Berlin, he was awarded government awards - two Orders of the Red Star and the Order of Glory of the III degree, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Budapest", "For the Liberation of Prague" and "For the capture of Berlin"

Ryzhkov Ilya Safonovich

Ryzhkov Ilya Safonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 253rd rifle division (1st formation). He voluntarily went to the front in Chernyanka, enlisted in the 176th reserve infantry regiment. In 1942, they reached the Volga river in 14 days and nights through the Voronezh region and the don river. They disbanded and sent to study in Astrakhan as a gunner. November 1942-front near Stalingrad, February 1943-liberated Stalingrad, wounded in the left leg, hospital Uralsk. Then G. Chkalov, 13th training brigade, received the specialty of chemical instructor, was awarded the rank of Junior Sergeant. Further through Moscow, in the Kalinin region, he was enlisted in the 1st Ukrainian front, 253rd division, 292nd separate company of chemical protections. Front near Staraya Russa. From there, through Moscow to the Kursk-Oryol arc, did not have time for a day. Released the city of Lebedyn, and then the direction to the Dnieper. Near the Dnieper, Pereyaslav, we meet slowly going "Willis". The Lieutenant waves: “Make way!” They were carrying a wounded General of the army Vatutin. They crossed the Dnieper, after the direction of Kiev to Zhitomir. The division was transferred from the 1st Ukrainian front to the 1st Belorussian front. Through the city of Chernigov, Polotsk, Baranovichi, Minsk. Our division is sent to break through, where it is difficult for our front. And here we are again on the 1st Ukrainian front, the 3rd guard’s army. Direction to Lviv, Lutsk, Western bug river. Lviv-Sandomierz operation. Poland, the population joyfully greeted – "Liberators are coming!” The Vistula river, crossed it, took up the defense, ordered to liberate the city of Sandomierz. In front of the city in one village we make a halt, there is another part, I look-my father is sitting, he did not recognize me, did not see me for 4 years, we said “hello”, talked and dispersed. There is only one front, only my division, the 253rd, and his, the 316th. Behind Sandomierz, Glogau, on the left Bank of the Oder river, wounded in the left arm, and captured the enemy. Germany. The population was intimidated, everyone left. One woman treated us to cigarettes, a local, originally from Leningrad, and married there. In one village, a German made an air raid, I was wounded in the right leg. Hamburg hospital. Again, I got to my division, Guben repulsed the attack on Berlin. Berlin would have been taken earlier, but the delay is far to carry ammunition from the Urals and the railway is narrow there. Guns, tanks, and ammunition were delivered to the Oder river. Our 3rd Guards Army will go to the right of Berlin under the command of Marshal Konev, the other under the command of Rokossovsky will go to the left. They also brought floodlights. They surrounded Berlin. On the night of May 7, 1945, they shone searchlights and beat the city for two hours, the German surrendered. And hoisted the Soviet flag of Victory! Czechoslovakia, the Nazis fled there, we went to Dresden, it was already defeated. Then he liberated Prague. The Czechs are all shouting: "Zlata Prague is Free, the Russian soldiers have freed!” They bring us bouquets, cigarettes and treats. This ended the war. We are left in Czechoslovakia, Ceske Budejovice, I was a gunner, then the entire battery was transferred to Austria, to the Danube river. In April 1947, from Austria via Hungary, Romania, Bessarabia to Kharkiv and home to Belgorod. All the time on the front line, passed 75 cities and thousands of villages. He was wounded 3 times.

Razumov Stepan Severianovich

Razumov Stepan Seviryanovich_x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 164th rifle division (1st formation). Stepan Seviryanovich Razumov, originally from the Vologda region, did not know when he joined the army in 1940 that the fascists would start a war in exactly one year. He was called up in Kalinin (now Tver) in May 1941 to the front line in the 164th rifle regiment. Stepan Severianovich recalled that in the fight then there was no thought about whether there will be someone alive tomorrow, it was too great hatred for the invaders. During the German offensive, comrade Razumov was given the task of detaining the advancing Germans for the organized withdrawal of our units. The platoon commander gave orders to comrade Razumov and another machine gunner to hold up the enemy company advancing on the defense of the Soviet platoon with two machine guns. For 4 hours, the soldiers held back the German company's offensive and destroyed up to 50 people of the Nazis. During this time, the Soviet units withdrew, after which the machine gunners received orders to withdraw to the next line of defense. In this unequal battle, Stepan Seviryanovich was seriously wounded in the leg, after which he was sent to the hospital, where he was treated for another six months - the bones on his ankle were crushed, and doctors fought to save his leg. He fought for only 3 months, and saw so much that he returned to the village as a gray-haired invalid of group 1-home, where he continued his work and work as an accountant on the collective farm "Katroma". And for his heroism and endurance, loyalty to the Motherland and fearlessness, Stepan Seviryanovich was awarded the Order of the red Star.

Radka Pyotr Markovich

Rumyantsev Vasily Petrovich

Rumyantsev Vasily Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant Military branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard Unit: 143rd rifle Konotopsko-Korostenskaya red banner order of Suvorov division. After graduating from school, he studied in Kolomna, in the Federal law school of the Kolomna tractor plant, received the specialty of a Turner. At the beginning of the war, he was not yet 18 years old, so he worked as a Turner at the same factory. In 1942, he entered the Moscow red banner infantry school. The Supreme Council (now the Moscow highest military command the Orders of Lenin and October Revolution red banner school (MWCO). He graduated from the school in 1943 and was immediately sent to the front. He was platoon commander 800 SP 143 SD, Central front. In one of the battles, he was wounded in the shoulder. After treatment, he was sent to the 2nd Baltic front. He was a platoon commander of 594 SP207 SD before being wounded in November 1944. The wound is shrapnel, a shell fragment hit the kneecap. In connection with this injury, he was declared fit for non-combat duty and sent to serve in the Ministry of internal affairs. He served in the Ministry of internal affairs as a commanding officer until July 1970. From 1948 to 1970, he served in the Magadan region. In 1970, he was elected Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Susuman city Council of workers' deputies. Worked in this position for 9 years. In the post-war period, he was awarded the order of the Red Star, the medals "for military merit", "for impeccable service" 1 St, "for valiant labor" and some other orders and medals. He was repeatedly awarded diplomas, valuable gifts and commemorative signs. After retirement, he moved from the Magadan region to Moldova for permanent residence. He worked there for several more years as a Deputy. HR and regime Director - head of Department 1 at the Orion production Association. Died December 30, 2011 He was buried in his Native land, in the Moscow region.

Revazova Vera Aleksandrovna

Revazova Vera Aleksandrovna_x000D_ _x000D_ Her name, the wounded soldiers repeated even in delirium. The name is probably given to a person for a reason. And the nurse Vera revazova, indeed, was in a hurry to help at the first call, pulling the wounded from the battlefield. A guardian angel with a medical bag at her side, she will forever remain in the memory of those whom she saved, to whom she gave her blood. Vera Revazova was born and raised in a simple peasant family with many children, in the village of Krasnogor, Ardon district. After finishing seven years, she entered medical school. I didn't study for long. The girl, who had just learned to provide first aid, had to "finish her training" at the front, where she got to after correcting the year of birth in the Komsomol ticket. She was eager to go to war, where her five brothers had gone before her, and she wanted to be useful to the Motherland. In Zmeyskaya village, in his native Ossetia, began her military journey. Vera received her baptism of fire near Mozdok on the night of December 31, 1942 to January 1, 1943. And the war ended for the brave nurse in Berlin and Prague, after which she had a chance to fight in Japan. From Zmeiskaya to Drohobych, Vera Alexandrovna fought as part of the 314th medical battalion of the 271st rifle division, and then, as a major in the medical service, in aviation, as part of the 13th medical battalion of the 2nd guards airborne division. Vera Revazova, a participant in the battles on the southern, North Caucasus, 1st and 4th Ukrainian fronts, holder of the order of the Patriotic war II degree, red Star, awarded many medals, honorary donor, Since 1946 worked in various medical institutions of Vladikavkaz, engaged in Patriotic education of young people.

Rasskazov Philipp Mikhailovich

Rasskazov Philipp Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain. Branch of the armed forces: aviation Division: 15th guards fighter aviation Stalingrad red banner order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky division. Stories Philipp M. was born in the Village of High Cherikovski parish Pronsky district of the Ryazan province (now Visokoye, Skopinskiy R-on, Ryazanskaya obl.) in 1915 into a family of farmers Mikhail and Aksinya Rasskazova. He had two brothers: Andrey and Semyon, who would later be killed in the war. Philip disaccustomed at Vysokovsky elementary school for 4 years and after 4 years in Vysokovskiy 8-year-old school. In 1933, Philipp Mikhailovich was drafted into the army, where he served in an aviation regiment, in Stupino, and learned to fly an airplane. His first "iron horse" was the I-16, or as the soldiers called it "Donkey", on which he flew as a simple soldier, and having already passed the officer's school in 1935-1936, with the rank of Lieutenant. In 1936, he went on a long vacation to his homeland, where he married his first love Yudina Claudia Yakovlevna. And in 1937, he returned to the armed forces, in Stupino, but with his wife. Approximately in 1939-1940 he received the rank of captain. And already in 1941, the Great Patriotic war begins, which forced Philipp to go to the front, and Claudia to return to Visokoye. In July 1941, on the basis of the Stupino aviation school, the 56th fighter battalion was formed, in which Philipp Mikhailovich served on the basis of stories. On June 19, 1941, the 6th Fighter Aviation corps, which includes 11 fighter regiments, was formed to defend the capital of our Motherland, Moscow. Including 171, in which Philipp Rasskazov served as a squadron Commissar and had the position of political Commissar. At this time, Philipp Mikhailovich participates in the battle of Moscow (for which 30.04.45 will be awarded a medal, but will not receive it due to death.). After the battle of Moscow, 171 IAP was transferred to the Tula district, where Philipp Mikhailovich received the order of the Red Star and the medal for military merit for his active work among the Junior staff. Already in 1944, F. M. Rasskazov was sent to the Bryansk front. Philipp Mikhailovich was transferred to the 181st guard’s fighter regiment, where he served in the 10th air assault Stalingrad corps of the order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky. Closer to 1945, 181 ISU relocated to the Western regions. Due to the lack of average command staff, officers were strictly forbidden to perform long combat flights. But Philipp was eager to fight, but waited for Victory! He wrote to his wife in his last letter that the war would soon end and they would meet again. But on March 17, Philipp Mikhailovich received an important combat mission, from which he did not return on March 19, 1945! His plane was shot down by a German fighter near the Carpathian Mountains from the Czech Republic. By the end of April, wife received a funeral and a letter from a friend. And 10 days later, the whole country was celebrating the Victory!

Ryabtsev Vladimir Tarasovich

Ryabtsev Vladimir Tarasovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Senior Sergeant. Ryabtsev Vladimir Tarasovich was born on November 7, 1924 in the city of Yelets in the former Oryol region. Ryabtsev Vladimir Tarasovich participated in the great Patriotic war from 1942 to 1945. In the war with Japan - from August 9 to September 3, 1945. On March 7, 1942, he was called up and enlisted as a cadet in the 161st reserve rifle regiment of the 13th Army. Thus, at the age of 17, Vladimir Tarasovich Ryabtsev began his military career. Then in December 1942, he was sent to the 37th rifle division as an easel machine gunner. From February 1943 to May 1945, he served as a line supervisor in the 11th separate government communications brigade. In the Tranks-Baikal front, participated in the crossing mountain range of the greater Hinggan, overcoming the waterless steppes of Mongolia, to break the Manchu-Jalainur and Halon of Orshanskogo fortified Japanese and the possession of the cities of Changchun, Mukden, Port Arthur, the name of Stalin has awards, certificates and medal for the victory over Japan. For courage, vitality courage manifested during the great Patriotic war awarded with the orders "red star" " Patriotic war of II degree," medals "for victory over Germany 1941-1945", "For military merit", "For victory over Japan" "For liberation of Warsaw", "XXX years of Soviet Army and Navy", "20 years of victory in great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "30 years of Victory in great Patriotic war 1941-1945" ,"60 years of Armed forces USSR", "40 years of Victory in great Patriotic war", "Veteran of labour", "70 years of Armed forces USSR", "50 years of Victory in great Patriotic war", medal of Zhukov , the sign "veteran 1941-1945", "60 years of the battle of Kursk 1943-2003"._x000D_ .

Romanov Pyotr Akimovich

Romanov Pyotr Akimovich_x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Pyotr Akimovich Romanov, born in 1918, is a Belarusian. He was drafted into the red army in January 1940. Private, driver of the motorized battalion of submachine gunners of the 111th tank Novograd-Volyn red banner order of Suvorov brigade. In July 1941, he took part in the fighting to protect the USSR on the Western front, in July 1943 on the Bryansk front, then on the 1st Ukrainian front. A bold, brave and experienced driver. During the entire period of combat operations, the battalion reliably delivered ammunition and food to the front line. Due to the attentive attitude to the car - his car was constantly on the move, on a combat mission and despite the off-road, mud and bad weather-the assigned task was always performed accurately and on time. Regardless of time, as well as the situation of the advanced parts of the battalion-always fully complied with the combat order. Worked without accidents, his car had the largest mileage. In May 1944, he was awarded the government medal "for military merit", in April 1944 the Medal "for bravery". He is a brave and courageous driver of a war machine. Despite the enemy's fire, boldly rolled out the gun to the firing position, not far away disguised the car and with a machine gun in his hands destroyed the Nazis. On account of his there was 17 destroyed by the Germans. In the battle in the Lenten area on 28.04.1945, under enemy fire, he brought 12 wounded and three broken guns from the battlefield. During the period of fighting from 12.01.1945, he captured 2 serviceable vehicles. The photo shows a car with the inscription GLORY to the GREAT STALIN - one of the captured German cars, which was constantly hunted by the Nazis. He was awarded the order of the Red star by the government. Has two injuries. He reached Berlin! Dad, we were and always will be proud of you! To all those who defended our Homeland during the great Patriotic War - a low bow!

Radaev Ivan Semyonovich

Radaev Ivan Semyonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant Unit: 107th rifle division (1st formation) Our grandfather Radaev Ivan Semyonovich, early left without a mother Agafya Alexandrovna and at the age of 12, he already worked part-time on private farmsteads, did all sorts of work on the farm, then unlearned as a tractor driver, and worked in MTS. Soon he went to military service in the Red Army, then got married and in 1935 the first child was born, just before the war they had three children with our grandmother, in 1939 he went to the Finnish war as part of the 56th SD. 184 JV passed all three months of the war, soon the Great Patriotic War broke out, on June 26, 1941, as an echelon of the 107th SD. 630 JV, grandfather fell under Moscow under the village of Mitino, Smolensk region, after fighting for a month on August 14, machine gunner Radaev was wounded in the hospital EG-2913, after treatment on October 5, sent to Kalinin in 185 SD 257 SP, there in hot battles already during the counteroffensive of our army received a second severe shrapnel wound on December 16, 1941, under the village of Turginovo, Tver region, 155 medical battalion, then the hospital in Moscow in Timiryazevka. Then, on follow-up care sent to the EG-388 of the city of Barnaul in the end of February, the 42nd recognized noncombatant, and until December 1942 he served in the district of Voroshilovgrad, accurate information about this period of his military destiny, it is only known that they were there secretly at the Volga on barges by night floated down to the hold with cabbage, in the defense of Stalingrad, he had risked his life, bringing lunch to his unit with field kitchen, and came under enemy air force, where he received his third wound, a contusion, and in December 1942 the reserve home, from the front, further work in the fields, raise his six kids, foreman of tractor drivers, awarded the medal for the development of virgin land", as well as for military exploits of the order of the Red Star, order of the Patriotic war, 1st class, and other awards.

Revenko Pavel Nikitovich

Revenko Pavel Nikitovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Major military Branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. He was born in the village of Chizhovka, former Kiev, current Cherkasy region. As a 14-year-old boy, he worked in the Stoker's mine in Gorlovka. He graduated from the Leningrad school of communications of Lensoveta (1936-1939). He fought on the Karelian isthmus in 1940. On June 22, 1941, it was part of the South-Western front: the 6th army, the 8th Panzer division, and the 8th reconnaissance battalion. The army waged a defensive battle North-West of the city. He was coming out of the encirclement near Uman. He was injured. As a company commander, he fought on the Stalingrad front: 64th army (May 1, 1943, 64th army was transformed into the 7th guard’s army). At the end of November 1942, when the troops of the Stalingrad front went on the offensive, he was very seriously wounded. He was treated for six months. On June 25, 1943, he was appointed chief of staff of the 688th separate communications battalion of the 54th rifle corps. In this battalion and corps, in the same position remained until the end of the war. Only the names of the corps and fronts changed: 25.06.1943 – 1.10.1943 – 688 separate communications battalion 54 rifle corps, 51 army, Southern front (second formation). During the winter offensive of the Red Army in 1943, my father participated in the Rostov operation, as a result of which the front troops advanced 300-500 km, liberated Rostov and reached the Mius river. He took part in the Donbass strategic operation in 1943. then the front troops conducted the Melitopol operation, liberated the Donbass, and broke through the southern section of the enemy's Eastern rampart on the river Molochnaya, went to the lower reaches of the Dnieper and the Crimean isthmus, captured a bridgehead on the southern Bank of the Sivash and blocked the Crimean enemy group from the land. On October 20, 1943, the front was renamed the 4th Ukranian front based on the Directive of the Stavka of the VGK of October 16, 1943. During the offensive in October - November 1943, the front troops reached the lower reaches of the Dnieper, the Perekop isthmus. In February 1944, the front's formations in cooperation with the 3rd Ukrainian front eliminated the enemy's Nikopol bridgehead on the Dnieper. In April - May 1944, the front's troops, in cooperation with the separate Primorye army, the Black sea fleet and the Azov military flotilla, liberated Crimea. 1.06.1944 – 25.03.1945 – 688 in February-March 1944, the 1st Baltic front troops, in cooperation with the Western front troops, launched an offensive near Vitebsk and, having broken through the enemy's defenses, improved their position in the Vitebsk direction. On 23 June, in cooperation with the troops of the 3rd Belorussian front, they defeated the left wing of the German army group Center in the khodeviteb-Orsha operation, reached the approaches to Polotsk and, developing success, conducted the Polotsk operation without an operational pause. After defeating the Polotsk group of German troops, they advanced 120-160 km with their left wing and created favorable conditions for the development of the offensive on Daugavpils and Siauliai. In July the troops of the front during the Siauliai operation defeated panebianco-šiauliai grouping. At Siauliai, the battalion headquarters was surrounded. They fought their way through. In January-February 1945, the front part of the forces participated in the East Prussian strategic operation, helping the 3rd Belorussian front in the defeat of the enemy's Tilsit group. At the same time, in late January, the 4th shock army, in cooperation with the marine corps, artillery and aviation units of the Baltic fleet, eliminated the enemy's Memel bridgehead and liberated Memel on January 28. In early February 1945 the front's troops, together with the 3rd Belorussian front, were assigned the task of eliminating the enemy's East Prussian grouping pressed to the sea on the Zemland Peninsula and in the area of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). On February 24, 1945, based on the Directive of the Stavka of the VGK of February 21, 1945, the front was abolished, and its troops, transformed into the Zemland operational group of troops, were included in the 3rd Belorussian front. 25.03.1945 - 25.04.1945 – 688 otd. communications battalion 54 p. KONIGSBERG corps, 51 army, 3rd BELORUSSIAN front in cooperation with the 2nd Belorussian front, they broke through the deep-echeloned defense, advanced to a depth of 70-130 km, reached the approaches to Konigsberg and blocked the East Prussian enemy group, and then (March 13-29) eliminated it and reached The frisches Haff Bay. From 6 to 9 April, the front troops conducted the Konigsberg operation, as a result of which they captured the fortress and the city of Konigsberg. On April 25, having completed the elimination of the zemland group of enemy troops, they captured the port and the city of Pillau (Baltiysk). On August 15, 1945, the front was disbanded on the basis of the order of the NKO of the USSR of July 9, 1945.

Rashov Gregory Dmitrievich

Rashov Gregory Dmitrievich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Senior sergeant. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 120th guards rifle Rogachev red banner order of Suvorov and Kutuzov division. My father, Grigory Dmitrievich Rashov, born in 1920, was drafted into the red army on 26.09.1940, on the day of his birth, he turned 20 years old. Already on July 13, 1941, as part of the Western front, he entered his first battle, and on July 25, 1941, he was wounded, but remained in the ranks. For a month, the troops held back the onslaught of the enemy. August 15, 1941 a group of fighters, which included my father, was ordered to cover the withdrawal of units. In this battle, my father was shell-shocked, and he and those who survived were surrounded. It was not possible to break through to their own, the front was moving further and further away from the Bryansk region, so they remained behind enemy lines, organizing the battle group "LIN" - Love and hate. In May 1942, the LIN group joined the Suvorov partisan detachment. The detachment was led by the head of the NKVD of the Bryansk region, who had fallen into the blockade with the pseudonym Zhukov. No one knew his real last name. Having a connection with Moscow and the headquarters of the partisan movement, the detachment received weapons, clothing, food, and medicine. The task of the partisan detachment was intelligence and subversive activities. Once again, having been behind enemy lines on a combat mission, a group of partisans was forced to evade pursuit. According to the father, they were already saying goodbye to life, because the fascists were catching up with them, the dogs were already barking. And then it was decided to go into the swamp. The partisans were completely submerged in the water, covered with raised moss, breathing through tubes that protruded above the water. They remained in this position for some time, until the danger was over. One day, my father and 2 other partisans were assigned to steal the mayor. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the partisans entered the office, disarmed him and took him out of the village, safely reaching their deployment. The partisans gave the Nazis a lot of trouble, and they tried their best to find out their location. In 1943, the unit was infiltrated by a spy, the head of the pow camp. But it was not long before he had to transmit the plans of the partisans; a group of escaped prisoners of war identified him, and he was shot. The partisan detachment was repeatedly blockaded when the Nazis wanted to destroy it. In one of these battles, my father was wounded and sent to the rear for treatment. In October 1943, the Suvorov detachment joined the red Army. From October 2, 1943, my father was already fighting in the 336th rifle regiment of the 120th guards red banner rifle division in the Bryansk-Belorussian front. On February 23, 1944, the division crossed the Dnieper river, and on February 24, 1944, it successfully stormed one of the oldest Belarusian cities – Rogachev. I remember my father's story about how he was sent to the platoon of penal guards, the next morning it was necessary to take the height. And the penalty takers were all majors and colonels. And here is a Colonel and he says: "You, son, in the attack, go behind us, we still die, and you can still live. And we know what to do and how to do it ourselves, without you." The height was taken, the Colonel was wounded and rehabilitated, and the next day the adjutant of this Colonel arrived in the regiment with an offer to his father to go to serve in his regiment, but his father refused, he got used to his regiment, his guys. The 336th rifle regiment participated in the assault on the fortress city of ostrolenka, in the battles to expand the bridgehead on the West Bank of the Narew river, in the East Prussian operation (January-April 1945), and in the defeat of the enemy group southwest of Konigsberg. As a result of the fighting for the liberation of Konigsberg, my father was awarded the medal "for the capture of Konigsberg". As part of the 336th rifle regiment, he also participated in the Berlin offensive. North of Frankfurt an der Oder, they were sent to eliminate a large group of enemy troops that were trying to break through to Berlin to help its garrison. Extract from the award list: "... when advancing to the height of 68.6, which is South-West of 1.8 km of the village. Eisenberg 15.3.1945, Department of Rashov Grigory Dmitrievich rapid throw first broke into the enemy's trench. In this battle, they destroyed 4 enemy firing points and 22 enemy soldiers, 10 people were taken prisoner. At dawn on 16.3.45, the enemy launched a counterattack. His squad did not flinch and mercilessly exterminated the enemy infantry, where up to 30 soldiers and officers were destroyed. The counterattack was repulsed. Worthy of a government award: "Order Of The Red Star". After eliminating the encircled enemy troops South-East of Berlin, their division was ordered to move into the depths of Germany, destroying the wandering fascist detachments. Through Potsdam, Brandenburg, and other cities, they reached the Elbe river on May 5. He did not have to participate in the famous meeting with the American troops on the Elbe: their regiment, battered and battered in battle, was withdrawn, and soldiers arrived in their place, dressed, as my father said, "like a needle." Here, on the Elbe, and ended my father's fighting path on the roads of war. He was awarded the order of the Red Star, medals: "For Bravery", "for the capture of Konigsberg", "for the Victory over Germany 1941-1945". My father was demobilized only in 1946.

Rakov Stepan Nikolaevich

Rakov Stepan Nikolaevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant-colonel. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Stepan Rakov was born on August 18, 1926 in the village of Dubrava in the Kotovskaya rural administration of the Ardatovsky district, located 14 km Northwest of the Ardatov river. The locality was classified as unpromising and has now been removed from the administrative register. Dubrava is connected by dirt country roads in the North-West with the village of Yuzhilin (3 km), in the East with the village of Izmailovka (6 km), in the South-East with the village of Novola (5 km). In the area of the village originates R. Melava. The village is surrounded by deciduous forests. The settlement was founded presumably after 1917, during a campaign to organize agricultural communes. In 1925, the Dubrava commune consisted of 92 inhabitants. She was part of Cavallasca rural parish Council Ardatov, Arzamas district. Stepan Nikolaevich was born in a large family of a paramedic Nikolay Sepanovich Rakov and a peasant woman Evdokia Pavlovna Shmeleva. He had three brothers: the elder Alexey, the middle Ivan, the younger Mikhail and 2 sisters Nyura (Anna) and Varvara (16.12.1933). On January 2, 1944, as a 17-year-old boy, Stepan joined the red army as a tank driver. In April 1944 the 1514th light self-propelled artillery regiment was created on the basis of the 1514th fighter-anti-tank artillery regiment. Stepan Rakov also got into it. And at home, his girlfriend Lida (my grandmother Lydia Vasilyevna) was waiting for him. From the award lists it is known that from 16.12.1944 he participated in the battles as part of the III-th Belorussian front, and from 15.02.1945 as part of the I-th Baltic front. Stepan Nikolaevich said little about the war. Every time he was asked about it, tears came to his eyes, his speech faltered, and he refused to remember it - he had seen too many deaths. From his stories, it is known that during the war, he operated a SU-76 self-propelled artillery unit and a T-34 tank. From order 12/n of 20.04.1945 on awarding the Order of the red Star of the 1st degree, it follows that Stepan Rakov was slightly wounded on 21.01.1945. And at the beginning of February 45, he received his first Order of the red Star, " working as a gun commander (gunner) in offensive battles in the area of the village of Hussenen (East Prussia). On 12.02.1945 he destroyed 3 machine-gun points, 2 mortars, 22 carts with military cargo and up to 70 German soldiers and officers of the enemy. On March 5, 1945, Junior Sergeant S. N. Rakov, the gun commander (Adjuster) of the SU-76, was awarded the medal "for Bravery". From the order: "When repelling an enemy counterattack near the village of Kaitsenblik, direct fire from his gun destroyed 7 machine-gun points and up to 35 enemy soldiers and officers." Presumably, the battle for which Stepan Rakov was awarded the medal "for Bravery" took place on February 15-20, 1945 in the suburbs of Konigsberg. By decree of the Presidium of the USSR armed forces of 19.02.1945, the 1514th light self-propelled artillery regiment was awarded the order of Kutuzov III degree for exemplary performance of command tasks in battles with the German invaders, for the capture of the cities of Tilsit, gross, Skaisgirren, Aulovenen, Gillen, Kuakemen and for showing valor and courage. Later, on April 20, 1945, Stepan Rakov was awarded the second award of the Order of the red Star. From premium sheet Order 012/n 28th Separate Guards Tank Brigade Liozno known that "in the battles for the Soviet Motherland during the breakthrough of defense in the area Registan 6.04.1945 and subsequent battles, ARL of Leiderer, and repelling enemy counterattacks from the station Saaranen, fire his machine gun he killed up to 10 soldiers and officers. As part of the crew, he destroyed 2 guns, a machine gun, 3 bunkers and up to 15 soldiers and officers. This time Stepan Rakov's fighting vehicle was a T-34 tank. Stepan Nikolaevich told that when taking Konigsberg on one of the narrow streets of the suburb, his crew was blown up by an enemy gun and caught fire. He was able to get out of the tank, and the rest of the crew were killed. Stepan received a shrapnel wound in the neck and numerous burns, and was taken to a military hospital in a shell-shocked state. That's how my grandfather, like thousands of our other soldiers, fought heroically for Victory. Thank you to my Grandfather for Winning! Subsequently, Stepan Nikolaevich very much regretted that his injury did not allow him to reach Berlin in 1945. Stepan Nikolaevich decided to devote himself to military service and rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He died in 1995 at the age of 70.

Romanov George Vasilievich

Romanov George Vasilievich _x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant branch of service: Artillery. Unit: 27th artillery Ruzicka. Order of Suvorov division. Georgy V. Romanov was born on April 17, 1917 (the date of birth is indicated in the passport on November 25, 1917) in the village of Byurgany in the Buinsky district of the Tatar ASSR. At the age of 3, he lost his mother, grew up with a stepmother who replaced his mother. On July 20, 1931, the entire Romanov family, along with their children, were sent to the Chelyabinsk region to build the city of Magnitogorsk by the sentence of the Buinsky RIK (kulak). According to the Ministry of internal affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, Georgy Romanov was rehabilitated on December 24, 1992. I started working at the age of 13. He dug ditches, then trained as a Mason-refractor, worked on the construction of a metallurgical plant, attended evening school, graduated from the school of masters, worked in housing construction. On May 04, 1941, he was drafted into the red army. Place of call: Magnitogorsk GVK, Chelyabinsk region, Magnitogorsk. Served as senior evaluator 589-th light artillery regiment 78th light artillery brigade of the 27th Reiichi artillery division breakthrough 10-th guards army of the 2nd Baltic front. He went through the entire war, was awarded the Medal "for bravery "(record number 23686062), the Medal "for military merit" (record number 26426787), the order of the Patriotic war II degree (award document number: 89, date of award document: 06.04.1985; records: 1519347999). "Due to a severe wound (September 24, 1942) and concussion (May 08, 1942), according to the Commission's conclusion, he was unfit for combat service, but despite this he was in a combat unit at his personal request" (from the "Award list" of Sergeant G. V. Romanov, who presented him to the Order of the Red star). In the 50s, he graduated from Magnitogorsk construction College. All his work is connected with the trust "Magnetostroy": he worked as a foreman, foreman, head of the site until his retirement, work experience in the trust for 40 years. In 1946, he married Kuzmina Praskovya Ivanovna, born on December 21, 1916, a native of the village of Byurgany in the Buinsky district of the Tatar ASSR. Praskovya Ivanovna from the age of 14 worked on the construction of Magnitogorsk, where she was sent along with her parents, brother and four young sisters. Praskovya Ivanovna's father died, and her mother was left alone with six children. They lived in dugouts and barracks. Since the children were still young, Praskovya Ivanovna's mother could not work and the only breadwinner in the family was 14-year-old Praskovya. During the great Patriotic war, she worked for the needs of the front. She has the Rank of home front Worker. Awarded the medal of motherhood, medals for Victory. After the war, she worked in housing construction as a plasterer-painter. The marriage gave birth to six children: son Alexander born in 1947, died in 7 months, daughter, Larisa, born in 1949, daughter Lyudmila born in 1950, son Eugene born in 1952, daughter of Love — born in 1953, daughter of Margaret - 1958.Until the end of the life of George Vasilyevich was his faithful and devoted companion. Date of death: Romanov Georgy Vasilyevich 04 August 1998, Romanova Praskovya Ivanovna 04 July 2005.