Order of the Patriotic war

Hecheev Bembya Mandzhievich, was born in the village of Zeta, Svetloyarsk district, Volgograd region. In autumn 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in Mongolia. He showed himself in the army from the best side, so he was offered to study at the regimental school of commanders. After graduation, the guard lieutenant, the commander of the saber platoon of the 11th Guards Cavalry Sedletsk Red Banner Order of the Alexander Nevsky Regiment, goes to the front. He traveled many military roads, fought on the South, North Caucasian, Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. On April 30, 1945, Hecheev's unit was the first to cross the Hafallenditer Grosser-Haupt Canal, and from a small bridgehead skillfully ensured the crossing of the main forces of the regiment. Khecheev, at the head of his platoon, fearlessly advanced to the enemy's trenches and, by personal example, raised the fighters in a swift attack and was the first to break into the settlement, thereby managing to capture the enemy's stronghold covering the approaches to the city of Frizak. During these battles, the platoon of the guard of Lieutenant Khecheev destroyed up to 60 soldiers and officers, suppressed 10 firing points and took 13 enemy soldiers and officers prisoner. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Bemba Mandzhievich Khecheev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Demobilized from the army, he came to his relatives in the Kosikhinsky district, Altai Territory and returned to peaceful work. In the Republic of Kalmykia, the streets of cities and towns are named after Bambi Mandzhievich Khecheev. In the Gorodovikovsky district in the village of Chapaevskoye, a monument to him was erected at the school.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Subdivision: 323rd Rifle Bryansk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. My grandfather, Khatyushin Vladimir Ivanovich was born in the village of Khochutino, Meshchevsky District, Kaluga Region. February 17, 1924 in a large peasant family. His father was a carpenter and often went to work in big cities. And the mother with all the children remained on the farm. Although it was difficult, everyone went to school and learned to read and write, and in the summer, during the holidays, Volodya worked with the village guys on the collective farm. In 1941, when the Great Patriotic War began, he just finished 9th grade. Many at that time thought that the war would cost "little blood" and would end in a couple of months. But in October 1941, fascist tanks rumbled under their native village. And in February 1942, as soon as my grandfather turned 18, he went to fight almost from the threshold of his home. Young literate guys were attached to the 205th regiment of the 10th army, which held the defense of Moscow. Military science training proceeded right on the spot at an accelerated pace - only a month and a half. The science of dying and winning was mastered not only in theory, but also in practice - the enemy was striving for Moscow. After training, Sergeant Vladimir Khatyushin was assigned to the 330th Infantry Division, which was located in the Bryansk forests. There passed the line of defense of Moscow, there my grandfather, in the position of assistant platoon commander, took his first battle. Vladimir Ivanovich received his first award, the Medal For Courage, for the battles near Bryansk, when a bullet struck the platoon commander and he took over command, having managed to overcome the fear of the advancing armada of tanks and lead the soldiers into the attack. The young platoon commander was hot and the first to rise from the trench when the attack began. There he was wounded, near Bryansk. The old soldier who carried him from the battlefield said: “Don't get excited. A bullet is the easiest to hit. You try to survive and defeat the enemy. " My grandfather remembered this advice for a long time and then always followed it. After the hospital, he ended up in the 29th Guards Tank Shock Brigade of the 323rd Bryansk Red Banner Rifle Division. The brigade was thrown into different places, where it was most difficult, where it was necessary to make a decisive blow - to stop the enemy's advance. That's what she and the shock brigade. In one of these battles, the tank on which Vladimir Ivanovich was riding was hit by an enemy shell. The car immediately caught fire. Almost everyone who sat at the top of the tank burned out on the battlefield with a candle. My grandfather survived but was wounded. With this shock tank brigade, he reached Berlin itself, passing through Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany in battles. The second award - the Medal for Military Merit - was received for the distinction in the battle during the crossing of the Sozh River near Gomel. The first Order of the Red Star - for the battles near the Belarusian cities of Rogachev and Zhlobin. The second Red Star is beyond the Vistula. Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree - for battles on the Seelow Heights. Medals "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin" speak for themselves. But among them all the same the most expensive remained the very first - the medal "For Courage" - the highest distinction of soldier's valor. In 4 years he learned how to fight and always remembered the advice of the old soldier: not only to complete a combat mission, but also to save the people who are under your command. In 1946, having demobilized, he returned to his native village. He worked as a foreman of a tractor brigade, a mechanic on a collective farm. He married my grandmother. She pushed him to the idea of ​​getting a higher education. For more than 20 years he worked as the head teacher of industrial training in his native school, engaged in labor education of schoolchildren. Outbuildings, a school garden, a monument to graduates who died in the war - all this is connected with the name of my grandfather, because it began on his initiative. Vladimir Ivanovich passed away on May 19, 2003 at the age of 75. I am proud to bear his name.

Rank: Colonel Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 63rd Infantry Division (1st formation) Before the war, from 1939 to 1941, he worked as a military engineer in the Far East; airfields in 41 built coastal batteries on the island of Osmusuar. In the fall of 41 he was evacuated to Kronstadt and until May 45. He fought in the 63rd Guards Division of the Leningrad Front. He ended the war as the commander of the 192nd Guards Regiment with the rank of colonel. In 46 he entered the General Staff Academy and worked at the district headquarters. Demobilized for health reasons. Then he worked as the head. Military Department Moscow Aviation Institute. The last 20 years of his life he worked as head. Educational part of Moscow State Automobile and Road Technical University. He died on May 9, 1981. Major Grigory Silantievich Kholoshnya commanded the 192nd regiment, replacing Yakov Ivanovich Kozhevnikov. Simonyak remembered him from August 1941, when our sailors brought the garrison of Osmusaar Island to Hanko. Lieutenant Kholoshnya was among the commanders. He did not look like a cadre. Introducing himself to the brigade commander, he raised his hand to the cap, sticking out his fingers awkwardly. The tunic hung like a sack over his shoulders. Glittering glasses covered his eyes. Simonyak then was surprised to learn that the youthful lieutenant had already graduated from the institute and was building fortifications on Osmusaar. Kholoshnya was sent to Kozhevnikov. Before our very eyes, he turned into a collected, strong-willed officer. He was transferred to the battalion headquarters, from there to the regiment headquarters. When Kozhevnikov was taken to the division, he said to Simonyak: - There is no need to look for a better person to command the regiment than Holoshnia. Big he is clever! In a difficult battle near Narva, Kholoshnya justified this assessment. And the regiment was well prepared for the upcoming operation. But just before the attack - such a nuisance. “Encourage him,” the corps commander said to Shcheglov. - Dyachenko has already gone there. The front edge of the hull was twelve to seventeen kilometers from the Sestra River. The river whimsically meandered through the hollows, among the dense forests. It is not very good, but it is difficult to cross: the banks are steep, the approaches are under fire. From the very beginning of the battle, when the corps troops rushed forward and in twenty minutes left behind four lines of enemy trenches, Simonyak's gaze, sliding across the map, more and more often stopped on the blue ribbon of the river. The corps commander mused today to step behind Sister, to seize the bridge, the village of Yappilya - that would be like a guard! Two divisions of the corps were advancing - the 45th and 63rd. 64th was in the second echelon. Cheerful reports came from Putilov and Shcheglov. The enemy is stunned, crushed by the blows of our artillery and aviation, by the friendly onslaught of the guards. The front commander called and inquired about how things were going. - Good. The Finns have not come to their senses yet. The regiments have already advanced four kilometers in places. "Don't our planes bomb you anymore?" - No. Fortunately, they scared more than they hurt. The red arrows on the corps commander's map were moving away from the former leading edge every hour. In the forests, near the lake defiles, at the crossroads, fleeting fights and sometimes violent battles took place. Guardsmen overturned enemy screens and rushed forward. Their actions were influenced by the great school of war, the experience gained in the battles of breaking through the multi-lane defense. Of the divisions, they only reported on the lines reached, occupied by the regiments of strong points. But what was behind the mean words of encrypted messages? The radio wave brought the commander of the 192nd regiment the broken voice of the battalion commander Petrov: - I am at the height - Do not linger. I follow. Kholoshnya, adjusting his glasses, named the place of his new command post - Zabolotye. The village with this name was occupied by the company of Captain Lvov. After being seriously wounded near Pulkovo, Alexei Lvov spent a long time in the hospital. He returned to the regiment before the battles. And again he led his submachine gunners forward. The company overtook the rifle lines, rounded the Zabolotye in the forest, attacked the Finns from the flank. Petty Officer Ivan Isaichev, a veteran of the regiment, a Khank sniper, suddenly appeared in their rear with his platoon. The hostile garrison was almost completely destroyed. The submachine gunners captured three heavy guns. - What to do with the prisoners? - Lvov asked. - Hold, I'll be there soon, - the regiment commander answered. Kholoshnya did not stay long in Zabolotye. I looked at the first prisoners and found out which division they were from. Finnish soldiers glanced sideways at the Soviet soldiers and officers, they had not yet come to their senses from the experience, as one of them said, - Send to the division headquarters, - Kholoshnya ordered the company commander to Lvov. -Come forward to the Sister! Overtake Petrov. Streshinsky MP "General Simonyak"

Born on November 16, 1916 in the village of Iske Kesher in the territory of the modern Sarmanovsky district of Tatarstan. Having behind him a seven-year school and work experience on a collective farm, in 1935 he moved to Kazan, where, earning his living by working as a digger, a year later he successfully passed the exams at the technical school of Soviet trade. Here he showed himself as a public activist - he took part in literary and musical evenings, went in for sports, was the head of a circle of shooters. After graduating from the technical school, Zinnat Khasanov began working as a commodity expert in Kirov. Three months later he was drafted into the army and sent to courses for junior command personnel. In July 1941, with the rank of lieutenant, he was sent to the front. Commanding a company in the battles near Moscow, Zinnat Khasanov was captured. In the summer of 1942, in the Demblin camp, he met and became friends with Gaynan Kurmashev, and through him with Musa Jalil. In the Idel-Ural legion, Zinnat Khasanov, on the instructions of the underground workers, distributed propaganda leaflets. Later he became a liaison between Jedlin and Berlin. Together with other Jalilovites, he was arrested in August 1943 for underground activities in the Idel-Ural legion. In February 1944, the Second Imperial Court of Germany sentenced Zinnat Khasanov to death. The verdict was carried out in the Pletzensee prison on the guillotine on August 25, 1944 at 12:30. By the decree of the President of the USSR of May 5, 1990, Zinnat Khasanov was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree - for courage and heroism, active underground activity against the German fascist invaders.

Mustakim Salakhievich Ibragimov was born on September 10, 1924. Ibragimov Mustakim Salakhievich was drafted into the workers 'and peasants' Red Army since 1943 from the Kzyl-Yulduz District Military Commissariat of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Rybno-Slobodsky District) and was assigned to the 81st Apabr (cannon artillery brigade). For participation in the battles to capture the city of Narva (06/27/1944); to break through the enemy defense northwest of the city of Tartu (09/20/1944); the capture of the city of Tallinn (09.22.1944); to break through the enemy defense north-west of the city of Pultazh (01/18/1945); the capture of the city of Marienburg (01/26/1945); on the capture of the city of Graudenz (06.03.1945); the capture of the city of Aylau (03/12/1945); on the mastery of the cities: Grayvoron, Rotenberg, Griva, etc. (04/30/1945); for the mastery of the city of Svinemunde (01.05.1945) Mustakim Salakhievich was awarded the following main awards: - Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; - Medal "For Courage" - the date of the feat 03/18/1945-19.03.1945 (document location: cabinet 35b, box 8) Archive - TsAMO; recorded as "Ibragimov Miftah Salafeevich". In the award list for the medal "For Courage" his feat is described as follows: "Comrade M. Ibragimov. in battles with the German fascist invaders on the fronts of the Patriotic War, he showed himself to be a staunch, courageous, proactive and disciplined fighter. Working in the gun crew as an installer, Comrade Ibragimov, with his precise and precise work, all the time contributed to the successful fulfillment of the combat mission by his gun and platoon. Comrade Ibragimov took part in many battles, in which, despite the difficulties and dangers, he always performed all tasks quickly and accurately, firing, destroying the enemy's manpower and equipment. In the battles for the city of Gdansk on the approaches to it on March 18-19, 1945, Comrade Ibragimov, with his crew, destroyed 2-75 m / m direct-fire guns and / 3-gun 105 m / m enemy battery with crews that hindered the advance of our infantry. With the participation of Comrade Ibragimov, a number of enemy counterattacks were repulsed and many enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed. Comrade Ibragimov Miftah Salafeevich is quite worthy of the government award - the medal For Courage. "

Rank: Red Army. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 97th Infantry Division (1st formation) Ilyin Georgy Ilyich was born on May 17, 1918 in the village. Ikhonkino of the Morgaush district of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the family of a peasant farmer. He received his primary education at the Chemeevskaya elementary school, a seven-year education in the village of Toraevo, and secondary education at the Yadrinsk Pedagogical College. In 1937 he graduated from the Yadrinskoe pedagogical school and began working in the village of Chemeevo of the Chuvash ASSR as an elementary school teacher, later as a head. In 1939, after passing the exams by correspondence for the first year of the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Cheboksary, he was transferred to the Kildishev secondary school of the Yadrinsky district of the Chuvash ASSR as a history teacher in grades 5-7. In September 1939 he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in military service from 09/15/1939 to 08/08/1942, including as part of the active army from 06/22/1941 to 04/01/1942 as part of the 136th rifle regiment. Rank - Red Army soldier, deputy political instructor, machine gunner. As part of the 97th rifle division of the Kiev military district, he began to fight from the first day of the war on the border with Poland. For him, the war began with an active army, near the San River in the Lviv region. On June 22, at 5-6 o'clock in the morning, they encountered the Germans. The commander of the machine-gun company Pritula ordered him to defend the road to the village of Lyashki, where the commanders and members of their families lived. He writes that on the very first day they helped the wives and children of the commanders to evacuate. Already on June 27 he was shell-shocked, then he was partially deaf, but continued to fight. He fought until March 20, 1942, on that day he was wounded by a mine fragment in his right knee. For four months he was treated in evacuation hospitals in the city of Stalingrad No. 1582 from 21.04.1942 and in Nalchik No. 2442 from 14.06.1942. After treatment, he was sent home to his homeland. So he became an invalid of the Second World War. He was awarded a large number of orders and medals, among them: “For Victory over Germany”, “For Courage”, “Zhukov's Medal”, “Order of the Great Patriotic War, I degree”. After the war, since 1943, he worked in various government agencies. He was the chairman of the Society for the Deaf in Novocheboksarsk. He worked as an accountant, was in charge of a shop, was a forester, gardener, shepherd. From 1960 to 1962 he worked at the Kukshum eight-year school. From 1963 to 1965 he worked at the "Sower" collective farm in the Morgaush district of the Chuvash ASSR, was a gardener. He was very fond of nature, his native land. He planted and raised two collective farm gardens in his lifetime, was an amateur gardener. And in his home garden, lovingly grown by him, there are a lot of apple trees, pears, plums, still yield a harvest. Even under his leadership, members of his family and schoolchildren planted an alley of different trees. Grateful villagers always remember this alley, which leads from the central road directly to their village. Every year we, children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, on Victory Day, gather in our parents' house, hold a clean-up day. We try to keep the parental house clean and tidy, we prune trees in our grandfather's garden. After work, all relatives visit his grave. No matter how difficult it was in this war, he found time for front-line notes, on the basis of which he wrote poems about war, life and love. In the early 90s, he retired three small collections of poetry in his native language. Since 1966 he was engaged in creative work, wrote plays, novels poems, was published in many newspapers and magazines. He traveled a lot to battle places to meet with veterans. In September 1980, the first meeting with fellow soldiers took place in the town of Kanev, Cherkasy region. Museums of the military glory of the 97th division were set up in twenty schools in Ukraine, there were also lessons of courage, where he told schoolchildren about the exploits during the war. He traveled a lot throughout the Soviet Union. He traveled to Ukraine many times to meet with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, visited many cities, including Kiev, Kanev, Lvov, Cherkassy, ​​etc. He loved to travel, was in Murmansk, Leningrad, Vyatka, Izhevsk, Perm, Sverdlovsk, Tashkent, Ashgabat, Baku, Nalchik, Kislovodsk, Sochi, Gelendzhik, Rostov-on-Don, Stalingrad, Kuibyshev, Kazan, in Gorky, Kineshma, Ivanov. Georgy Ilyich lived a long, happy life with Ilyina Elizaveta Ivanovna. They have 5 children, 14 grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren. In 1997, they celebrated their golden wedding. His wife, Elizaveta Ivanovna, a home front worker, a veteran of the Second World War, lives to this day, she is 92 years old. Unfortunately, the injuries received during the war made themselves felt.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 360th Infantry Nevelskaya Twice Red Banner Division My father, Ivanov Semyon Vladimirovich, a man of great soul, passed away on cold February 2007 , a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Demobilized, he came to his native village and for more than 30 years. From November 16, 1946 to May 1981, he worked continuously as the head of the Andreevsky FAP in the village of Andreevka, Sakmarsky district. Served the neighboring villages of Pyatiozerka, Novo-Dmitrievka, Ryaplovo, actively participated in the social life of his native village. I remember the "duty suitcase", which always contained syringes and medicines to provide the first aid. At the first call, in any weather: frost, rain, blizzard, autumn or spring thaw, he hurried to the patient. For many years of conscientious work, my father was awarded with certificates of honor, on August 12, 1981. - Medal "Veteran of Labor". During the war years, a young graduate of the Chkalovsk medical school was a desperate military assistant, the commander of a medical company, ready to go with scouts, carry out the wounded under bullets from the battlefield ... His military awards speak of his courage, strength and courage. For his military affairs, dad was awarded the Order of the Red Star (No. 250477), Orders of the Patriotic War 1 (2424582) and 2 (No. 147976) degrees, medals "For Courage" (No. 186067), "For the Defense of Moscow" (No. 002420), " For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945 "(No. 0064674), Zhukov's medal, and, like all participants in the Second World War, with anniversary medals. Father knew a lot and knew a lot. Village boys always danced around him, fellow villagers followed for advice and help. For all his busyness, dad found time for everyone. He loved to wander along the surrounding woods with a gun, sit with a fishing rod on a river or on lakes. He often took me with him. He raised five daughters and, probably, he lacked a son next to him. Therefore, in my character there is a lot of masculinity, from my dad. He taught me how to drive a car and a motorcycle, shoot a gun and a rifle, taught me to see the beautiful around: in the forest and in the field. And most importantly, my parents taught me Goodness and Humanity.

Division: 86th Guards Rifle Nikolaev Red Banner Division Ivanov Yakov Pavlovich was born in 1895. He died in 1983. Lived for 88 years. Ivanov Yakov Pavlovich participated in two wars: the Soviet-Finnish and the Great Patriotic War, but he was drafted into the army at a time when our country was considered the Russian Empire, when Russia was ruled by Emperor Nicholas II. In 1916 (at the age of 21) he was drafted into the tsarist army in the ground forces for 4 years near St. Petersburg. At this time, the First World War was going on. But at the front he almost did not have to be, as he was trained for further military service. But in 1917, two revolutions took place: the February and the October, which changed not only our Russia, but also the world and, of course, the fate of private Ivanov Yakov. Like most of the soldiers at the time, Yakov was on the side of the revolutionary events, i.e. accepted Soviet power. He even happened to guard the royal family before they were sent to Tobolsk. He told how he stood on guard and the Empress was often carried by him in a carriage, Nicholas II passed, he saw Tsarevich Alexei and the Grand Duchesses. After the royal family was sent into exile, the soldiers were dismissed to their homes. At that time, there was a civil war in Russia. By the time of his return to Siberia, Kolchak's army was already there at that time. The supreme commander-in-chief of the Russian army, General Kolchak, settled in Omsk and began to call himself "the supreme ruler of Russia." In Omsk, he organized a new capital. Here was his headquarters. To replenish the ranks of his army, Kolchak began to recruit soldiers from local residents. The Siberians at first refused to fulfill duties, taxes, did not appear on the call to the army of Kolchak, and then went on to partisan struggle. Our grandfather was lucky, he escaped mobilization into the army of Kolchak and went to the partisans. In November 1919, Omsk was liberated by the Red Army. Life gradually improved, daughters grew up, a strong household appeared. They lived in peace until a new disaster struck: in 1939 a war with the Finns began and he was again drafted into the army. Ivanov Yakov Pavlovich fought in the 91st rifle division. On March 12, 1940, the war ended, he returned home with the combat award "Excellent Worker of the Red Army", which was given for fortitude and bravery in hostilities. But the peace was broken again. Fascist Germany treacherously attacked our country. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 began. And again he was drafted into the army. Guard Private Ivanov Yakov Pavlovich as part of the 19th Army of the Western Front took part in hostilities. Participated in the capture of Budapest (Hungary), in the Swamp-Hungarian operation, in which the way was opened for the liberation of Austria and its capital Vienna. Was awarded with awards: Medal "For Military Merit", received the badge "Guardsman", Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the Capture of Budapest", Medal "For Victory over Germany" and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He was wounded, received a serious concussion in one of the battles and was sent for treatment to a military hospital in Leningrad. Fate again brought him to this city. After the war, he worked as the head of the household in the regional hospital. Awards: Order of the Patriotic War, Military award "Excellent Worker of the Red Army", Medal "For Military Merit", Badge "Guardsman", Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the Capture of Budapest", Medal "For Victory over Germany".

Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 79th Guards Rifle Zaporozhye Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. My dad Evgeny Viktorovich Ignatiev was born in Bryansk on September 22, 1925. When the war began, Zhenya was 15.5 years old, just finished 8th grade. Recalling, he said: "I took the beginning of the war without any particular shock. With boyish spontaneity I believed in the strength and might of the Red Army, in its quick victory." But the war "hung" over the city. German reconnaissance aircraft began to appear more and more often, at the end of June they bombed the railway. The evacuation of enterprises and institutions began. A fighter battalion was organized under the leadership of D. E. Kravtsov, where children of pre-conscription age were admitted. Zhenya enrolled in a fighter battalion. There they studied military affairs, patrolled the streets, guarded some objects, went to places where saboteurs might be dropped. On October 6, our troops left the city, the Nazis entered. The Germans rounded up the youth and took them to Germany. Zhenya and her younger sister Natasha were hiding in a destroyed, burnt-out house, which was already overgrown with weeds, and so that the dogs would not track them down, they sprinkled the traces with snuff given to them by their mother. The chance helped Zhenya take the path of fighting the Germans. Once, after several days of occupation, he met his school friend Vasya Semyonov. He had already managed to visit the rear of the enemy, managed to get to the Germans and escape from them. In the evening, they started talking, and he made it clear that there was an underground in the city. Zhenya was included in the top five, the eldest of which was Nikolai Lisovsky (Honored Artist of Russia, actor of the Bryansk Drama Theater). In the underground, information about the enemy was obtained, several times it turned out to mine German vehicles. One of the most audacious actions was to steal a map from the commandant's office. The points of the location of the anti-aircraft defense of the Germans, headquarters, barracks, commandant's offices were plotted on the map. This card was handed over to the partisans. A week later, our aircraft bombed all targets that were mapped. In 1943, on September 17, our troops liberated Bryansk. On September 20, Zhenya was sent to a reserve regiment. It prepared marching companies to be sent to active units at the front. Here they learned to carry out army regulations, lived like soldiers in dugouts on the Mamonov field. From the reserve regiment he was sent to the Belorussian Front, commanded by Rokossovsky. Very fierce battles were fought in Belarus. On December 15, near Zhlobin, Zhenya was seriously wounded. When he began to crawl out of the trench to attack, he heard a mine whistle, and he seemed to be struck from behind, he lost consciousness. This splinter hit the back of the neck, passed a few millimeters from the carotid artery and stopped near the spine, hitting a nerve. When he woke up, the soldiers went ahead, only the dead were lying around. So he lay almost until the evening, then losing consciousness, then coming to himself. And in the evening, once again regaining consciousness, I heard that people were walking nearby. It was the funeral team that gathered the dead. Zhenya tried to call them: "Brothers, brothers ...". They saw that he was alive and sent him to the medical battalion. Since the splinter touched a nerve near the spine, Zhenya stopped talking. The wound was very serious and Zhenya was sent on an ambulance train to the rear. I rode on the train for several days, from the shaking the splinter moved away from the spine and he felt that the speech returned. Zhenya called a nurse, she was a doctor, and they pulled out a splinter with forceps. It was a complete surprise when he found himself in the Bryansk hospital. While they were passing the sanitary inspection, I saw an acquaintance who worked in the hospital as a plumber, and through him conveyed the news home that he was here. An acquaintance, whose name was Nikifor, conducted the wiring and heard his name, came up and, of course, did not immediately recognize him, Zhenya lay all tied up like a doll. Nikifor immediately ran home to Zhenya, it was at Christmas, at which time his mother was baking buns. Relatives came running despite the time (it was five o'clock in the morning). The head of the hospital gave my mother a permanent pass so that she could stay next to her son. An operation was performed in the hospital, after which he recovered and began to come home. I spent 4 months in the hospital. The convalescent team went to the reserve regiment. In the reserve regiment, Zhenya ended up in the regimental school for junior commanders, after which he was awarded the rank of sergeant, commander of a heavy machine gun crew. From here he was sent to the 227th Guards Regiment of the 8th Army of General Chuikov, which was already fighting in Poland. In early February, the regiment crossed the Oder (south of Kustrin) and the fighters captured the bridgehead, after which they fought to expand the bridgehead. On April 16, late at night in Berlin, 140 searchlights were simultaneously turned on, and at the same time artillery preparation was made from thousands of guns and mortars. The gunners' fire was so dense that Zhenya's infantry took the first position almost without firing.During one of the attacks, he was wounded in the leg and while he was dragged from the battlefield to the medical battalion and received medical assistance, his part went ahead. Having escaped from the medical battalion, he caught up with her only after 3 days. During this time, in the confusion that arose, the clerk put him on the list of the dead. The "funeral" went home, and his name appeared on the list of a fraternal burial in the settlement Wrightwein, Frankfurt / Oder district, Seelow district, foot of Wrightwein hill. (information about the place of burial of his granddaughter was found on the website of the WBS Memorial in 2015 during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory). His sister Natasha received the "funeral" and did not show it to anyone, even to her mother, not knowing how to tell her about it. And after a while, a postcard came from Eugene, written after the date of "death" and Natasha realized that her brother was alive! He reached Tergarhen. On May 9 we learned that we had VICTORY. During the war, Eugene received three wounds: one heavy, and two light - in the leg and arm. One small splinter remained in his back for life, and a splinter of a fascist mine, which he got from a wound after a severe wound in the neck, is kept in our family, a small, heavy, metal piece of death. During the hostilities Ignatiev Yevgeny Viktorovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, the medal "For Courage", the medal "For the liberation of Warsaw", the medal "For the capture of Berlin" and the medal "For the victory over Germany". For the 40th anniversary of the Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, they were awarded to those front-line soldiers who had military orders.

Ivan Ivantsov took the military oath in August 1941 as an 18-year-old boy after completing courses for driver mechanics. It was then that he felt like a real soldier. 7th Guards Tank Brigade ... For five long years it became the family and home of a young soldier. The bubbling maelstrom of war carried him to one of the most cruel and bloody areas - the Leningrad Front. Here he received his first baptism of fire. The tragedy and feat of Leningrad is terrible to remember even now, after so many years. Leningrad was an impregnable stronghold. Tankers repelled enemy attacks several times a day. Sometimes the temperature in the tank reached 60 degrees, and the swampy terrain with ravines and bumps demanded extreme stress from the driver. Here, near Leningrad, Ivantsov's tank came under fire: a German Faust cartridge smashed the left side of the vehicle. Wounded, half-blind tankers tried to leave it. But from the second shell, the tank caught fire and flared up like a match. Choking smoke filled the insides, the car lost its maneuverability. The Nazis immediately began to surround him. They walked calmly, confidently, impudently, hoping to take the crew alive. He looked at the approaching Fritzes through broken triplexes, and a single thought was beating in his head like an alarming alarm bell: “Really, everything? Is it a prisoner? " In the next second, in front of the astonished Nazis' eyes, a 35-ton steel colossus with a huge flaming torch rushed through the enemy's advancing human chain to its positions. For this battle, Senior Sergeant Ivantsov was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And the front roads led the tanker Ivantsov further, to the west. The enemy was still strong. But he no longer had the main thing - confidence in his victory. And the rumble of the approaching Soviet guns echoed for him with a terrible echo. After the liberation of Novgorod, the tank battalion of Ivan Ivantsov was transferred to Nizhny Tagil. Here, deep in the rear, a victory over the enemy was forged. At the tank factory, right from the conveyor line, the soldiers received brand-new T-34s smelling of fresh paint, loaded them onto platforms, and military echelons rushed them through the night and fog into the very lair of the enemy - to Berlin. And so the soldier's roads brought him to Germany. Here, in a foreign land, in hot battles, tanker Ivantsov burned twice in a tank in the spring of 1945. The storming of Berlin. This assault was attended by three Soviet fronts, over two million people, six thousand tanks. And among these tanks was the famous "thirty-four" of the guard of senior sergeant Ivan Ivantsov. He burst into Berlin on it and raced through its streets and squares as a liberator and hero - a modest Russian soldier from distant Bashkiria. For the Berlin operation on his chest, two orders of the Patriotic War, 1 and 11 degrees, shone. After the war, in 1946, he returned to his native land, married a simple girl, also a front-line soldier, the beautiful Zoechka. In 1976, the Council of Veterans of the Leningrad Front invited the Ivantsovs' husband to a meeting of veterans of the 58th Army. They traveled to Novgorod, walked through the places of past battles, laid wreaths on the graves of their military friends who died here. And in 1978 the same meeting of fellow soldiers took place in Leningrad ... I like to be in their modest cozy apartment. They are always glad to have guests. Ivan Fyodorovich opens the front-line album, gets military awards, and the memory of a disturbing bird again returns him to his distant fighting youth. Tatiana Masyagutova, member of the writing organization of Kumertau.

In our country, many people fought in the Great Patriotic War, one of them was my great-grandfather Ivan Vasilievich Illarionov. He was born on May 19, 1913 in the Stalingrad region, Kletsky district, the village of Borisovo. Great-grandfather grew up in a wealthy family, he was the second child. The family had 6 children in total. When he turned 18, his entire family was sent for resettlement to the Karaganda region due to the fact that his family was well-off in the village. Here my great-grandfather began to work in the MTS "Shock" as a tractor driver. After 3 years, having shown good work, he became an assistant foreman. At 23, my great-grandfather met with Markova Alexandra Semyonovna. A year later they signed and a year later their first son Vitya was born. Life went on in 1940, another son, Nikolai, was born. When the war began, my great-grandfather was not taken to the war, because he had two small children. But six months later, he went to war. Great-grandfather was drafted in January 1942 and immediately went to the Leningrad Front in an artillery regiment. The defense of Leningrad in 1941-1945 was one of the most tragic and heroic pages in the history of the Great Patriotic War. The battle for Leningrad was the longest in the entire war, it lasted 9000 days. On January 27, 1944, the city of Leningrad was liberated. The feat of the defenders of Leningrad, who defended the city in conditions of the most difficult trials, inspired the entire army and the country. In 1942, the Soviet government established a medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", it was awarded to about 1 million 470 thousand people. My great-grandfather survived the bombing, hunger, battles and other difficulties together with the city and survived and was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" After defending Leningrad, he fought in different places. He was in the villages and villages and in the early spring of 1945 he came to the Baltic States. In his spare time, when there were no battles, great-grandfather participated in the "Amateur artists" circle. He had a very beautiful voice, he sang songs and he also loved to play the harmonica. When the Baltic states were liberated, he moved on with his regiment. Great-grandfather met the victory near Poland. A year after the war, he returned home, where his wife and two sons were waiting for him. He returned to MTS Udarnaya and again began working as a tractor driver. In 1948, my great-grandfather and his family came to the Kuban. For one year they lived in the village of Privolnaya and there their daughter Maria was born. In 1949 they moved to the village of Staroderevyankovskaya and stayed here forever. Great-grandfather got a job in a workshop as a locksmith - toolmaker. Then three more children appeared. He had 6 children in total. Life went on. The children began to grow up, things were going well at work. After the war, my great-grandfather was awarded jubilee awards. In 1978 he was awarded the "Veteran of Labor" medal and in 1980 he was awarded the "Drummer of the Tenth Five-Year Plan" badge. In 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. Great-grandfather never complained about his life; on the contrary, he was glad that he had a lot in his life. He died on May 13, 2000 at the age of 87. We are proud of him! He will always be in our memory!

Ivanov Vladimir Alekseevich, senior sergeant. Born in 1919 in the city of Belev, Tula region. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, and medals.

Ignatov Fyodor Stepanovich, captain. Born in 1911 in the village of Khamkino, Belevsky District, Tula Region. At the front since June 1941. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany."

Kalabin Grigory Dmitrievich, lieutenant. Born in 1921 in the village of Shishkino, Belevsky District, Tula Region. Drafted into the army in November 1940. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, and medals.

Amelin Alexander Ivanovich, senior lieutenant. Born in 1922 in the village of Fatyanovo, Belevsky District, Tula Region. In the Red Army since October 1940. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, and medals.