Order of the Red Star

Title: Senior Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops_x000D_ Alexander Popov was a part of the heroic and terrible combat at the Kursk Bulge. He graduated from the Ulyanovsk Ordzhonikidze Military School. In 1942 he was sent as a Junior Lieutenant to the Kostenevsky tank camp near Moscow and was appointed Commander of a command platoon. Their 64th Tank Regiment was sent to the Leningrad Front, to the Staraya Russa Region, where the Regiment joined the 3rd Mechanized Corps, commanded by General Katukov at the time when the Nazis besieged Leningrad. _x000D_ According to my grandfather, the enemy covered them with artillery fire, bombed them from the air. It was hard for the tankers. Swamps and forests are everywhere. In January 1943 they broke through the siege of Leningrad. _x000D_ After the combat of Stalingrad, Popov A.A. was transferred to the 3rd Guards Stalingrad Mechanized Corps as Platoon Commander. They were stationed in the town of Oboyan, which is near Belgorod. Here the enemy inflicted a powerful tank strike with seven hundred tanks of selected tank divisions. On 5 June, a fierce tank combat broke out. The Nazis launched an offensive at dawn. Hundreds, hundreds of new heavy "tigers", "panthers", self-propelled guns "Ferdinand" were thrown against the Soviet troops. Our medium tanks against these colossus, dying in flames without hesitation, without a doubt in their hearts, rammed these colossus. In that combat, our artillery ground the enemy with “Katyusha”. But the Nazis concentrated huge forces there, the battlefield was covered with smoke of conflagrations. _x000D_ My grandfather was part of the most fierce combat near Prokhorovka of the same the 3rd Stalingrad Mechanized Corps. 1200 tanks fought on both sides. They knocked out and rammed each other, converged "armor on armor". Many kilometers were burning with the stench of burnt human flesh. The enemy did not pass, German wermacht had lost the combat on the Kursk Bulge. _x000D_ In that combat on the Kursk Bulge, the corps was left practically without tanks. In this combat, Alexander Afanasyevich earned the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree. The second Order was for capture of the city Belgorod, when his corps captured 22 German "tigers" and turned them against the Nazis. Having received reinforcements from the rear: the columns "Stalingrad kolkhoznik" and "Azerbaijani kolkhoznik", set off further, clearing Gadyach, Akhtyrka, Zolotonosha. Having reached the river Dnieper, Alexander Aanasyevich, in the first boat crossed the river and laid a connection to coordinate the fire. A mention of this military action is described in the book "From the Volga to the Baltic" by A.M. Samsonov. _x000D_ The boat was covered by the enemy’s fire at the very shore. Division Commander, watching the forcing through binoculars, saw human body parts flying after the explosion. Нe nominated Alexander Popov for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. But suddenly the connection was restored, and, after all, the grandfather remained alive. Somehow in the fire of war his military action was forgotten, but my grandfather did not fight for the title after all. In the ranks of this Guards Mechanized Corps, Alexander Afanasyevich walked along many military roads and ended the war in China with three orders of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star, numerous medals and posthumously not awarded title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

CITY: Kirov Region Kotelnichsky District, village Petukhovy _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/20/1919 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 09/26/1987 _x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops_x000D_ Petukhov Pyotr Grigorievich was born in the Kirov Region (then Vyatka province) into a simple peasant family. He began to work early, helping his parents with the housework, graduated from a seven-year school and a worker’s school. He was drafted into the Red Army in the fall of 1939 by the Kotelnichsky District military enlistment office of the Kirov Region. In 1940-1941 he worked his way up from an ordinary Red Army soldier to the Commander of a Chemical department. Graduated from the Kuibyshev Military Infantry School in 1942. _x000D_ He had been a participant of the Great Patriotic War since August 1943. He fought in the 1st Mechanized Krasnograd Red Banner Corps, which was part of the 53rd and 37th Armies of the Steppe, since October 1943 of 2nd Ukrainian Front. He took an active part in the liberation of the Belgorod Region, the cities of Kharkov and Poltava, Kremenchug, the crossing of the Dnieper. _x000D_ In the late autumn of 1943, he was seriously wounded. He underwent treatment in the hospital, however, many years later we learned that from the hospital, my grandfather and his friend escaped without finishing treatment not to stay behind their military unit. Since June 1944, Lieutenant Petukhov, had been a Head of the Chemical service of a Company, then of the 3rd Motorized Rifle Battalion of 37th Mechanized Brigade of 1st Mechanized Corps. _x000D_ He took an active part in the operation "Bagration" for Liberation of Belarus. The cities of Slutsk, Slonim, Brest, hundreds of villages and villages, these are the milestones of the combat path of Peter Grigorievich across the Belarusian land. The corps, in which my grandfather fought, was part of the Mechanized Cavalry Group of General I.A. Pliev, then 28th Army of General A.A.Luchinsky, and since the fall of 1944, he had been part of 2nd Guards Tank Army of S.I. Bogdanov. _x000D_ For the distinction in the liberation of the city of Slutsk, 37th Mechanized Brigade was awarded the honorary title "Slutsk". Further, the corps went for Poland, the battles to cross the Vistula and the assault on the Warsaw suburb of Prague. In January 1945, Pyotr Grigorievich's combat path ran through the Polish capital Warsaw, the cities of Sochaczew, Skierniewice, Lowicz and Bydgoszcz. He took part in the liberation of these cities, for which he was distinguished with the Commendation of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. In February 1945, Pyotr Grigorievich was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his successful reconnaissance behind enemy lines.

Rank: KGB Captain_x000D_ Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. _x000D_ Pavel Fedorovich had served in the army since 1932, he met the beginning of the war in Molotovsk. During the war, he served as an operative of the counterintelligence department of the Northern Fleet "SMERSH" on Novaya Zemlya. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, Molotovsk and Arkhangelsk were among the country's seaports, which received lend-lease cargo from allied countries. To protect them, bases and airfields were built on Novaya Zemlya, Pavel Fedorovich Postoev took an active part in this in the polar winter, for which in 1943 he was awarded the medal "For Courage". When the territory of our country was liberated from the Nazis, the struggle did not end for Pavel, he continued to fight against armed nationalist formations in Western Ukraine (“Banderites”) and in Latvia (“forest brothers”). _x000D_ In addition, Pavel Fedorovich also had medals "For Military Merit", "For Defense of the Soviet Polar Region", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star and the Red Banner. _x000D_ Pavel Fedorovich lived with his family in the city of Orel in the post-war years, where he passed away in 1986.

DATE OF BIRTH: 03/15/1919 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 11/17/2007 _x000D_ Title: Major _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops_x000D_ Division: 101st Tank Division_x000D_ Pronkin Semyon Petrovich had been in the Red Army since September 1939. He began his military service in peacetime by studying at the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Infantry School and continued his studies at the Borisov Tank School. After graduating from a military school, he fought in command positions in tank units. _x000D_ Pronkin S.P. took an active part in hostilities as part of the Western Front from October 1942 to February 1943, as part of the Central Front from April 1943 to July 1943, as part of the Southern Front and the Ukrainian Front from October 1943. As part of the 432 Tank Battalion, he fought to liberate the settlements of Zaporozhye and the Luhansk Region from the enemy. The settlements of Chekhograd, Novo-Aleksandrovka, Darmstadt, Gutertal, Nizhnie Serogozy were liberated. _x000D_ During October 28, 1943, in the area of the lower reaches of the Dnieper, the troops had advanced in some areas from 5 to 20 km and captured the regional center Nizhnie Serogozy, and also occupied more than 30 other settlements, including Zlatopol, Krasovich, Gogolevka, Novo-Aleksandrovka, Verkhniye Serogozy, etc. Captain Pronkin took part in active hostilities of his tank brigade in the liberation of Crimea in 1944. _x000D_ For the feats accomplished on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, Captain Pronkin Semyon Petrovich received state awards: the Order of the Red Star (07.29.1943), the Order of the Patriotic War 2 degree. (06.11.1943), the Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree (30.04.1944).

Vasily Grigorievich Popov, Lieutenant, Lviv, 1945.

DATE OF BIRTH: 04/29/1912 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 04/20/1984 _x000D_ Title: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 202nd Korsun Rifle Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Red Army soldier Pichugin Afanasy Ivanovich (born on April 29, 1912, dшув on April 20, 1984), is a native of the Verkhneuralsk Region, Estonian settlement. He had been a member of three wars: Finnish, Mongolian and WWII. He was a very brave man. He was wounded near the Kursk Bulge, was in a hospital in Leningrad. He went through all the wars: the Finnish, Mongolian, World War II, was a signalman-telephone operator of 581 Separate Battalion, 77th communications company, 202 Infantry Division of the Korsun Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and Suvorov division, pulled wires on the territory of the enemy army, thereby maintaining continuous communication with our command. He finished the WWII near the city of Berlin, 40 km, then was sent by an echelon to the Japanese war, but in October 1945 he was returned home. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and Medals, a gratitude from Comrade Stalin for excellent military service: for liquidation of the Korsun group of Germans on 10/18/1944; for Capture of the city of Uman and Khristovka on 03/10/1944; for capture of the city of Vapnyarka on March 16, 1944, for capture of the city of Mogilev-Podolsky on 08/20/1944; for reaching the state border with Romania on 09/28/1944; for crossing the Prut River on 04/08/1944; for capture of the city of Roman, Baheo, Byrlad, Khushi on 24.08.44 in Hungary; for capture of the city of Fokshtany and Rymzhitul, Sarat on August 27, 1944; for capture of the city of Cluj on 10/11/1944; for capture of the city of Satu Maare and Kars and liberation of Transylvania; for liberation of the city of Miskolc on 12/03/1944; for the breakthrough of the defense of northern Miskolc and liberation of the cities of Czechoslovakia Rotnava and Netlshava on 01.24.1945; for repelling the German attacks of 11 tank divisions and their defeat, for capture of the city of Vesprom on 03.24.1945; for capture of the city of Zalaegerszeg 03/30/1945; for capture of the city of Kerment 31.04. 1945 of the year. _x000D_ At the end of the war, he worked as a feldsher. He had bred pedigree horses and was awarded a diploma of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, participating in this exhibition with his followers in Moscow.

My great-grandfather Nikolai Filippovich Pogrebnoy fought. Everyone in our family remembers and loves him, his photograph stands in the most prominent place at his grandmother's house. Great-grandfather was a wonderful person, he worked in kolkhoz, his profession is very noble, he was a beekeeper. By the time the war began, my great-grandfather was 32 years old, and he already had two young sons. But, despite this, he was the first from the village to volunteer for the war. _x000D_ In the midst of the war, my grandfather got a bullet right in the heart, but he survived! And an ordinary tin spoon saved his life. There was a fierce firefight near Lublin and one of the bullets flew right into the great-grandfather's heart, but was rebuffed by a tin spoon, which always lay in his breast pocket. Only the dent remained on the spoon, and the great-grandfather miraculously survived. _x000D_ On the website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in the section "Feat of the People", I found records of the feat of my great-grandfather in the battles near Lublin. He, a private guard, during the offensive of the fascist battalion captured 12 German prisoners and was awarded Order of the Red Star. My great-grandfather reached Berlin and was personally present at presentation of the Soviet flag over the Reichstag. _x000D_ Great-grandfather was awarded high awards: "Order of the Red Star", Medal "For Courage", Medal "For Military Merit", Medal "For Capture of Konigsberg", Medal "For Capture of Berlin." _x000D_ After the end of the war, my great-grandfather returned to his village, to his family. He also worked as a beekeeper in kolkhoz, he had three more daughters, and they and my great-grandmother raised five worthy children, one of whom is my beloved grandmother. The war did not at all harden my great-grandfather’s heart. Grandmother says that he was a great soul, very kind and sympathetic. They always turned to him for help and he never refused anyone. He enjoyed great respect among his colleagues, they called him exclusively by name and patronymic. At home he was just a beloved and good husband "Nikolochka" and the best "dad" in the world. _x000D_ My great-grandfather passed away at the age of 72. When he was buried, his awards were carried on a red satin pillow in front of the procession, and the pioneers threw live tulips in front of him all the way from home to the cemetery. Together with my grandfather, they buried the very spoon that saved his life in the war, it was grandfather's “testament”. _x000D_ Now there is a Museum of Military Glory in the Yagotynsky District, where all the military awards of my great-grandfather are presented, which his children passed on as a heritage for generations, and the guide of this museum tells about my great-grandfather, a hero of the Great Patriotic War. The memory of my great-grandfather lives on in the hearts of our entire family, and the story about him is passed down from generation to generation.

Pankratov Alexander Grigorievich was born on February 16, 1914 in the village of Kurilovka, Novouzensky District, in the family of a pharmacist. He was the only child in the family. Alexander graduated from the Kurilovka 7-year Middle School, where he assembled the first radio receiver being in the 7th grade. Later he graduated from the Novouzensk Pedagogical College, which was located in the former building of a Boarding School. From 1933 to 1936 he served in the army, then worked at the Kurilov Machine-Tractor Station, and in 1938 he entered the Kuibyshev (Samara) Higher Political Aviation School. _x000D_ He went through the whole War, participated in the capture of Konigsberg, was wounded and contused. He was a brave man: more than once he had crossed the front line to get a “prisoner tongue”, flew to the partisan detachments, and was piloting an aircraft. _x000D_ After the war he served in Riga, then in Uralsk and in the Kazakh SSR. In Kazakhstan, he took part in the development and guarding of virgin lands, transportation and storage of grain and equipment. In 1959 he went into the reserve with the rank of Major of State Security. After retiring, in 1959, together with his family, he moved closer to his native place, to the city of Novouzensk, where he began working in Secondary School No. 8 as an auto business instructor and entered the Saratov Pedagogical Institute (by correspondence), which he graduated at 54. While working at School, he led some vocational circles: aircraft modeling, shooting, and rocketry. The members of the circles regularly became winners and prize-winners of various competitions, both at school and regional level. Often he used to have air gun shooting lessons at his place. He attached the targets to his felt boots, and the guys shot at the targets from an air gun, so the felt boots were covered in small holes. _x000D_ Alexander often met with young people and told them about the efforts of his friends at the front, about front-line life, brotherhood, and friendship. He talked about what a man should be as a defender of his Motherland, his family. He took his sons to the places of the battles in which he participated, and to Riga, to a meeting with his front-line friend, the Latvian Lujans Janis. _x000D_ Pankratov A.G. was a versatile person: he drew well, knew how to play various musical instruments, from balalaika to piano, was well versed in literature, politics and economics, was an excellent lecturer in international affairs and propagandist, knew how to arrange holidays for his children, was a good friend and a great father. But the consequences of combat wounds and contusions led to a serious illness. Alexander passed away on 02/05/1971 at the age of 57.

Rank: Major. Branch of the service: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 138th Infantry Carpathian Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Born December 4, 1919 in st. Krasnogorsk, Ust-Dzhegutinsky District, Stavropol Territory in a peasant family. In August 1939 he was called up for active military service in the ranks of the Red Banner Baltic Navy in Leningrad. He had successfully passed the entrance exams in the same 1939 and was enrolled as a cadet at the Engels Naval Political School in Leningrad. In May 1940 he was admitted to the Communist Party. _x000D_ On the first day of the war, the Junior Political Instructor was released from the school ahead of schedule and sent to the active army on the island of Koivisto in the Gulf of Finland. He was appointed Political Instructor of the Machine-gun Company of the 51st Separate Marine Battalion of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. In November 1941, the Battalion was transferred to the city of Oranienbaum, where it was included in the 527th Infantry Regiment of the 48th Kalinin Rifle Division in a Separate Primorsky Army. In this Division, he served as Commander of a Machine-gun Company, Military Commissar of a Battalion, Deputy Battalion Commander for combat units. _x000D_ So he ended up near sieged Leningrad at the Oranienbaum foot strong. He stayed in the blockade until May 1943. In October 1943 he was awarded the military rank "Major". In January 1944 he completed the shooting course with honors and was sent to the personnel department of the 2nd Ukrainian Front and was appointed Deputy Commander of the 344th Rifle Regiment for the combat unit of the 138th Rifle Division. When entering the Carpathians, the 138th Rifle Division was transferred to the 18th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Fleet. He was wounded twice during an offensive in the Carpathians. In March 1945, by order of the Commander of the 18th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, he was appointed Commander of the 768th Rifle Regiment of the 138th Rifle Division. In this position he served until the day the Division was disbanded. He participated in the liberation of Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

DATE OF BIRTH: 10/17/1917 DATE OF DEATH: 09/28/1981 HISTORY: Title: Junior Lieutenant. Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision:13th Guards Rifle Poltava Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division Biography. Yakov Pavlov was born in the village of Malaya Krestovaya, now the Valdai District of the Novgorod Region, graduated from Elementary School, worked in agriculture. In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He faced the war in combat units in the Kovel Region, as part of the troops of the South-Western Front. In 1942, Pavlov was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev. He took part in defensive combats on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya. F. Pavlov’s military unit was reorganized in Kamyshin, where he was appointed a machine-gun platoon commander of the 7th Company. In September 1942 he participated in the battles for Stalingrad on reconnaissance missions. _x000D_ In the evening of September 27, 1942, Pavlov received a combat mission from the Company Commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in a four-story building overlooking the central square of Stalingrad, “the 9th January Squre” This house occupied an important tactical position. He and three soldiers (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Aleksandrov) knocked the Germans out of the house and completely captured it. Soon, the group received reinforcements, ammunition and telephone communications. Together with the platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders increased to 24 people. _x000D_ It was not immediately possible to evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house. The Nazis constantly attacked the building with artillery fire and aerial bombs. But Afanasyev avoided fierce losses and for almost two months did not allow the enemy to break through to the Volga. On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front launched a counteroffensive “Operation Uranus”. On November 25, during the attack, Pavlov was wounded in the leg, lay in the hospital, then was the gunner and the Commander of the reconnaissance department in the Artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts, in which he reached Stettin. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. On June 17, 1945, Junior Lieutenant Yakov Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (medal No. 6775). Pavlov was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946. After demobilization, he worked in the city of Valdai, Novgorod Region, was the First Secretary of the District committee, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Three times he was elected a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod Region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution. He repeatedly came to Stalingrad (now Volgograd), met with the inhabitants of the city who survived the war and restored it from the ruins. In 1980, Ya. F. Pavlov was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd." In Great Novgorod, at his boarding School named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is a Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsy microdistrict, Beregovaya street, house 44). Pavlov was buried in the Alley of Heroes of the Western Cemetery of Veliky Novgorod. Viktor Mavrinsky, a pupil of the Kolos radio club named after Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Pavlov, wrote, “In September 1942 in Stalingrad street combats were especially fierce in the city center, on the sector of the 13th Guards Division of A. I. Rodimtsev. _x000D_ By the evening of September 25, the situation sharply deteriorated, most of the buildings adjacent to the January 9 square were in the hands of the enemy. But one house at number 61 was in doubt. The Guards Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his comrades Aleksandrov, Chernogolov and Shapovalov were sent to reconnoiter this building. Julius Chepurin, a front line correspondent for the 62nd Army, described all subsequent events in the essay ”Pavlov's House". “If we manage to catch on to it and turn the house into a strong stronghold, then we can keep the area under control. As it turned out, there were civilians in the house: women, children, as well as wounded soldiers of the 13th Guards Division, led by Medical Orderly Kalinin. But a large group of German machine gunners were already approaching the building. The combat for the house had started. Pavlov sent Medical Orderly Kalinin to the Regiment Headquarters at the expense of help, and he came led by a Guards Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev, a communist who was appointed Chief of the garrison. And at the Headquarters of the Regiment, Colonel Elin waited all night for reports from Pavlov's house, as he ”If we manage to catch on to it and turn the house into a strong stronghold, then we can keep the area under control. _x000D_ As it turned out, there were civilians in the house: women, children, as well as wounded soldiers of the 13th Guards Division, led by Medical Orderly Kalinin. But a large group of German machine gunners were already approaching the building. The combat for the house had started. Pavlov sent Medical Orderly Kalinin to the Regiment Headquarters at the expense of help, and he came led by a Guards Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev, a communist who was appointed Chief of the garrison. And at the Headquarters of the Regiment, Colonel Elin waited all night for reports from Pavlov's house, as he named it, not suspecting that under this name he would go down in history and become known to the whole world. Lieutenant Afanasyev knew that a modest soldier Pavlov was the soul of the defense. The fact that Pavlov was the first to break into this house and was able to defend with his fighters on the first night surrounded the personality of Yakov Pavlov with such a bright aura of soldier's glory, which turned out to be stronger than the provisions of the Infantry Fighting Regulations. That is why, the communist Ivan Afanasyev, organizing the defense of the house, tactfully stepped into the shadows, assigning the first role in this combat operation to the Guards Sergeant Yakov Pavlov.” The enemy's attacks intensified and when hand grenades were used, a miracle happened: the Katyusha Regiment fired a volley at the congregations of fascists around Pavlov's house. The newspaper “Pravda” for November 19, 1942 told for the first time about the hero-fighters of the 13th Guards Division in “Pavlov's House”. A few days before the end of the defense of the famous fortress house, the wounded Lieutenant Afanasyev was transported to the hospital. Нe was distinguished later. The command was taken over by Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, who remained in history forever. Yakov Pavlov, being wounded, did not leave the house until the very end of his defense. The defense of the house continued for 58 days and nights. Yakov himself learned about the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in April 1945. Guards Lieutenant Ivan Filippovich Afanasyev was awarded the Order of Lenin, his memoirs formed the basis of the book "House of Soldiers' Glory". The daughter of the legendary General A. I. Rodimtsev, Natalya Matyukhina met with two defenders of the Pavlov's House, whose names are carved on the wall of the house: Ilya Voronov (machine gunner) and Kamaljan Turgunov. Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov himself repeatedly visited the hero-city of Volgograd. _x000D_ The Kolos radio club (headed by Valery Vasilyevich Poltavets) bears Pavlov’s name, it had brought up many athletes. It was Yakov Pavlov who in 1980 gave the idea of a search to Valery Poltavets: to find on the air radio operators and participants in the Battle of Stalingrad, which grew into an International Search Radio Expedition, called the Victory Memorial. The Pavlov's House, the House of Soldiers' Glory stands as an unbending monument to the courage of Soviet soldiers. The defeat of the main forces of the German armies at Stalingrad predetermined the defeat of Nazi Germany and became a turning point in the Second World War. Here, at the walls of Stalingrad, the fate of our Fatherland, the freedom and independence of our Motherland was determined. _x000D_ Around this common four-story Stalingrad building “Pavlov's House” are still circulating stories. _x000D_ For example, there is a legend that Pavlov did not pass away in 1981, but took monastic vows and became Archimandrite Kirill. In fact, the hero is buried in his native Novgorod. And the aforementioned elder Kirill, according to the panorama museum, had also the common Russian last name Pavlov in the world. And he was also a Hero of the Soviet Union. Only he was awarded this title not for Stalingrad, but for the battles on the Sandomierz foot strong. There were true grounds for confusion. Both were sergeants during the battle on the Volga, both ended the war as Junior Lieutenants. _x000D_ At the end of September, the first replenishment, almost a thousand fighters, had arrived in Rodimtsev's Division. It became easier for the guardsmen, and on the initiative of the Stalingrad city committee of the Komsomol, a volunteer detachment of about five hundred soldiers was formed, who were to replenish the ranks of the 13th Division. They were boys of seventeen-eighteen years old. _x000D_ Fierce battles unfolded for the mill, the State Bank building, the Railway Worker's House and other buildings. For battles in the city, the Division needed a strong point. The attention of General Rodimtsev was attracted by a small four-story house, facing the square of the Ninth of January. This square has long become the epicenter of the struggle between the two warring parties. The buildings surrounding it served as powerful strongholds, real pillboxes. And now, when the division had moved to active defense, the fight for the city center has turned into a fight for every house. Sergeant Pavlov received an order to conduct Reconnaissance of this house. Pavlov with three fighters managed to gain a foothold in this building and took up defense. _x000D_ Civilians were hiding in the basement of the building. Each of the recons received a combat position, but more than one, the defense had to be held from three sides. Pavlov's fighters fought off attack after attack for two days, and then a replenishment led by Lieutenant Afanasyev came. For defense, ammunition was needed, wounded appeared, a regular communication with the regiment was needed. The guardsmen began to dig the communication route to the mill, the residents of the house helped them. Five days later, the passage along which one could walk to the mill in full growth was ready. By this time, telephone communication was established from the Battalion Headquarters. In the basement, beds were installed for the rest of the soldiers and commanders, everything was provided for a long and successful defense. The house kept all the adjacent streets under fire from its machine guns, from where the Nazis tried to counterattack. Moreover, there was a mill nearby, where the division's observation post was located. _x000D_ One night General Rodimtsev came to Pavlov's house to support the guardsmen. Of course, they knew that the divisional Commander was not a timid dozen, he was not hiding in the dugouts, but to come straight to the front line was a very big risk. And they immediately added that the general is fair, and if someone lies, do not expect mercy. He won’t scream, he won’t stomp his feet and, he won’t frighten with a tribunal or execution. But if you are guilty, he will punish severely, without further ado. Rodimtsev believed in victory, his soldiers fought heroically near Kharkov, Kremenchug, on the Kursk Bulge. On the Sandomierz foot strong beyond the Vistula, the Nazis threw seven divisions against Rodimtsev's corps, including four tank divisions. The guardsmen drove the enemy to the Oder. Then there were bloody battles in Germany itself. On the Elbe, the guards linked-up with the Americans. Then Rodimtsev led his divisions to help those fighting in Prague. General Rodimtsev walked more than eight thousand kilometers along the roads of the war. _x000D_ A documentary was shot about Ya.F. Pavlov: Yakov Pavlov is a Sergeant of the Rodimtsev Division (biography and photo): For what they gave the Hero of the Soviet Union (Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal) to Ya.F. Pavlov.

He was born in the city of Sevastopol on November 26, 1907. In September 1928 he entered the Kiev Artillery School as a cadet and graduated in 1931. From 1933 to 1935 he attended evening classes at the Kiev branch of the Combined Arms Academy. M. V. Frunze. From September 1931, he held command positions in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR. From September 1931 to September 1932 he was a platoon Commander of the Kiev Artillery School. From September 1932 to February 1935 he was an Assistant Commander of the battery at the Kiev Artillery School. From February 1935 to May 1937 he had been Commander of the training battery of the 100th Artillery Regiment of the 100th Rifle Division in the city of Berdichev. From May 1937 to September 1938 he had been battery Commander of the 46th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 100th Rifle Division of the Western Special Military District of the city of Minsk (Uruchye village). From September 1938 to May 1941 he had been Division Commander of the 46th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 100th Order of Lenin's Infantry Division of the Western Special Military District of Minsk. From May 1941 to July 1941 he had been Divisional Commander of the 713th Artillery Regiment of the 6th Anti-tank Artillery Brigade from the reserve of the High Command in the 10th Army of the Western Special Military District (Western Front), the area east of the city of Bialystok (Ruzhanstok). _x000D_ From July 1941 to September 1941 he had been Commander of the 39th Reserve Artillery Regiment of the Western Front, the village of Staraya Ruza. From September 1941 to December 1941 he had been Commander of the 39th corps (cannon) Artillery Regiment of the reserve of the Main Command of the Western Front. _x000D_ From December 1941 to December 1941 he was Head of the Reconnaissance Department of the Artillery Department of the 20th Army of the Western Front. From December 1941 to March 1942 he was Commander of the 896th Artillery Regiment of the 331st Infantry Division of the 20th Army of the Western Front. From March 1942 to April 1943 he was Commander of the 1020th High Power Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Moscow Military District, at the station Suslonger. From April 1943 to September 1947 he was Commander of the 102nd Order of Kutuzov of the High Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade as part of the 20th Orsha Artillery Breakthrough Division of the Reserve of the High Command, commanded a group of Artillery destruction at Bryansk, III-Belorussky, I-Baltic, II-Baltic fronts. _x000D_ He participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 21, 1941 to May 9, 1945. On December 25, 1941, he had a serious head injury at a combat near the village of Khvorostinovo, 1.5 km west of Volokolamsk, during a breakthrough of the enemy's defenses on the Lama River. In July 1943, he was wounded while breaking through the enemy's defenses near Orel. In June 1944, he was slightly wounded while breaking through the enemy's defenses near Orsha. _x000D_ He was awarded with the Order of the Red Banner in 1944 for skillful leadership and personal courage during the Orsha operation. In 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree for the skillful leadership of the Artillery Group of destruction in the Libau and Memel directions. In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. For the length of service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1943 he received the medal "For Defense of Moscow", in 1945, the medal "For Victory over Germany." During the Great Patriotic War, in the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, three letters of gratitude were personally announced for the skillful leadership of the troops in breaking through the enemy's heavily fortified defense zone near Orsha, Riga and Shaulai. In 1947, for health reasons, I was expelled from the ranks of the Soviet army with the rank of Colonel. In 1947 he started working as director of the Polotsk meat processing plant. In 1948 - 1950 he worked as director of the Polotsk city water pipeline. In 1950 - 1953 he worked as the head of the pier in the city of Polotsk.

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 321st Rifle Chudovsko-Dnovskaya Red Banner Division He lived before the war at the Podyuga station of the Konosha District of the Arkhangelsk Region. He was drafted to the front on July 26, 1941 by the Konosha District Military Commissariat. He studied at the Leningrad Communication School for four months in 1941. He graduated from the Courses for Junior Lieutenants of the Leningrad Front as a Rifle Platoon Commander. November-December 1941- Head of the radio station. December 1941 - January 1942 - treatment in hospital. January 1942—March 1942 - military Courses. March 1942 - June 1942 - Platoon Commander. June 1942 - January 18, 1943 - Platoon Commander, Deputy Company Commander. January 18, 1943 - February 1943 - treatment in hospital. February 1943 - June 1944 - Commander of an Assault Rifle Company. June 1944 - July 1944 - treatment in hospital. July 1944 - January 1945 - Commander of Rifle Company. October 9, 1944 - awarded the rank of Senior Lieutenant. January 26, 1945 - April 1945 - treatment in hospital.. August 7, 1945 - transferred to the reserve. _x000D_ He fought on the Leningrad Front from August 1941, on the 2nd Belorussian Front from October 13, 1944. Awarded with: the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", the medal "For the victory over Germany." Senior Lieutenant P. N. Parfeniev on the Korel Isthmus he commanded a Rifle Company. _x000D_ He conducted a contact reconnaissance for the height of 123.2 in the area of Lake Lembolovsky. The height was taken. The enemy decided to restore the situation and launched a counterattack. Under the leadership of Comrade Parfenyev, four counterattacks were repulsed. In this battle, Comrade Parfeniev personally killed five Finns from a machine gun. Eleven Finnish soldiers and one officer were taken prisoner. Senior Lieutenant Pavel Nikolayevich Parfeniev is a participant in numerous battles for the liberation of this country. He returned to the battlefield after a third severe wound and was distinguished by the Order of the Red Star. (From the military presentation to the awarding, Commander of the 74th Rifle Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Karpov).

There is hardly a single family in this country where the memory of the courage defenders is not kept. Our family is no exception. We are proud that my great-grandfather was a part of that war. Unfortunately, he died the same year I was born, so I didn't see him. The Great Patriotic War left its mark on every family. Someone did not return from the war, and someone returned wounded, shell-shocked, but he remained alive. _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Potienko Anatoly Andreevich, also returned home. He went through the whole war all the way to Berlin, got there and, fortunately, is alive. The war for him began on the North Caucasian front. He was a signalman with the ranks of Junior Lieutenant and Lieutenant. He served in the 1442nd Radio Platoon of the 414th Anapa Red Banner Infantry Division. On October 7, 1943, he was awarded for the support of radio communications throughout all hostilities. _x000D_ “He created a cohesive and well-trained team of radio operators. During the period of battles he showed excellent examples in providing communications for the Division. During intense hostilities, where wire communications were destroyed by fire enemy, radio communication worked smoothly, thanks to the selfless work of Comrade Potienko. In the area of height 88.1, the radio was damaged, but Potienko Anatoly Andreevich personally eliminated the damage under fire and achieved communication. ” For this, the Minister of Defense of the USSR awarded my great-grandfather the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ My great-grandfather took part in the hostilities for the liberation of the city of Sevastopol and on May 31, 1944 was awarded the second Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ At a challenging combat situation, he kept uninterrupted radio communication between the command post of the Corps, the command post of the Division and the command post of the regiments._x000D_ In addition to two orders, my great-grandfather also received the Medal “For the Defense of the Caucasus” and the Medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.” I am proud that my great-grandfather defended this country, that he and his peers did everything possible for me to be born in a free country. Thank you my great-grandfather!

Lieutenant Colonel, 269th Rifle Rogachevskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division A boy from the small steppe village of Pervomaisky, Ipatovsky District, from childhood dreamed to be a teacher. After finishing High School, he entered the Mozdok Pedagogical School, successfully graduated from it. And now he had a long-awaited teacher's diploma in his hands, and there was a bright future shining! But the June 1941 was already knocking on the window with a green birch branch. Mikhail was drafted into the army on June 9. Thirteen days later the Great Patriotic War started, which he went through from the first to the last day. _x000D_ There were many stories in his military biography. He commanded a platoon of sub machine gunners, was wounded. After the hospital, from March 43rd, he served as a Senior Sergeant, Commander of an Artillery section of a Division. According to the data in reconnaissance reports, the coordinates of targets for our guns were calculated. If the topographer is wrong, our shells will fly past the enemy. It was he, Mikhail Poberey, who marked targets on the wax beads before the famous Battle of Kursk. He waited for the offensive like everyone else, but on July 1, the Chief of Staff summoned him and announced: _x000D_ “You will make a good Commander. It was decided to send you to study at the Penza Artillery School ”. Already on the train, Senior Sergeant Poberei learned that a battle had started In the history of World War II this was one of the bloodiest and greatest battles. He also learned that all his colleagues were killed. His fate saved then. He diligently mastered military science for a year, and in September 44th he came back on the front line, in the 269th Vinnytsia Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Alexander Nevsky Anti-tank Destroyer Regiment. He commanded a platoon. _x000D_ He celebrated the victory in Prague. After serving 20 years, and all this time he was faithful to his native tank regiment, was demobilized as a Lieutenant Colonel. Finally his dreams came true: he taught history and was the Head teacher of Secondary School No. 25 in Stavropol, the School inspector. All the time he actively participated in social work. Since 1962, he headed the section of patriotic education of draft youth in the assistance committee of the regional military enlistment office. From 1985 to the present, Mikhail Dmitrievich has been working in the Council of Veterans: (1985-1995 in the Industrial District of Stavropol, from 1996-2014 in the Petrovsky District Council of Veterans). He skillfully attracted veterans to work on the patriotic education of students. Interacting with schools, Mikhail Dmitrievich organized the work of young correspondents with veterans of the Great Patriotic War at home, helping schools in to create the "Combat Glory" school museums with new relics, exhibits, documents, local names of heroes. Poberei Mikhail Dmitrievich has state awards: Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War II degree._x000D_ Medals: For Military Merit, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War, For Impeccable Service, I and II degrees, "For Valiant Labor", "Zhukov" and others. Numerous Diplomas, 15 of them are Russian and regional. In 2006 he was awarded the diploma of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II "For the secular education of the younger generation." _x000D_ In 2007 he was awarded the title of Laureate of the Russian Forum "Public Recognition".

Branch of troops: Communications troops. I want to tell you about my great-grandfather (mother's grandfather). My great-grandfather, Pavel Leontyevich Prozhirko, born in 1925, left for the war in June 1941, when he was not even 16 years old (he fled secretly from home). He was returned home. But he was persistent, ran away from home again and got on a freight train that went to the West. At one of the stations in the Odessa Region, he made his way onto the platform of an armored train. He hid and fell asleep, and woke up from a terrible roar: the guns were beating. Shells exploded. _x000D_ After the battle, the Red Army men examined the armored train and came across a boy. The boy said that he had no one, and begged the Commander to take him with him. So he found himself on an armored train and began to serve. In the fall, the armored train was bombed. My grandfather ended up in a battalion on a special mission: he blew up objects behind enemy lines. After several successful operations, he was enlisted in the battalion, here he took the oath and joined the Komsomol. _x000D_ Once a sabotage group of 16 people, my grandfather was among them, after completing the mission, was making its way through the front line. For a long time they could not get out of the encirclement. They took a passenger car off the Germans, but no one knew how to drive a car. Then my grandfather asked the Commander to let him drive the car, saying that his father was a driver. _x000D_ And they broke through to the Soviet troops. Under the shelling of the Nazis, my grandfather brought the car to the location of his unit. He celebrated Victory Day in Vienna. He was wounded four times. Has state awards: "For the Victory over Germany!", "For the capture of Budapest", "For the defense of the Caucasus!", "For military services", "For the capture of Vienna", "For the Liberation of Warsaw". Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ As a memory of the battles in Hungary, a silver cigarette case is kept in our family with an engraving: "To the Guards Corporal Prozhirko Pavel Leontyevich for excellent military operations to defeat the enemy's Budapest group from the Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. 23, February 1945. TOLBUKHIN," _x000D_ He had reached his native village on the eve of 1946. After the war, he was a miner and electric welder. He participated in the Construction of a road bridge across the Volga, in Mostootryad No. 8. He worked at the Communications Plant, from where he retired. But even in retirement, my great-grandfather could not sit idle. He became a public traffic police inspector. What I have just written, I learned from the stories of my mother and her aunt. He often told them about the war, how scary it was. And at what cost did they get the Victory. _x000D_ The most terrible thing was listening to stories about the crossing of the Dnieper. They wrote about my great-grandfather several times in the newspapers: Regional Communist dated August 16, 1984 in an article entitled "The boy went to war ..." newspaper "Communist" (city of Engels dated April 8, 1983 in the article "Traffic police inspector" and dated February 28, 1985 in the newspaper Communist "(city of Engels) in an article entitled "Demo-man" _x000D_ These newspapers are carefully kept in our family. I am very proud of my great-grandfather. Bow to all veterans and eternal memory to those who are no longer with us. Those who at the cost of their lives gave us a peaceful life and those whom was gone after the war There are no words to express all gratitude for what they did, so that we live now.