Order of the Patriotic war

Rank: Second Lieutenant. Division: 104th guards’ rifle division of the order of Kutuzov. Alexander Kirillovich KUKUSHKIN, born on June 21, 1914 in the village of Konino Borisovo, Sudsky district of the Vologda region. From September 15, 1936 to December 30, 1940, he served as a junior commander in the 3rd border guard (Petrozavodsk) of the NKVD border troops and during the period from November 1939 to March 1940, as part of the 4th border regiment of the NKVD troops, he participated in combat operations in the war with the White Finns. On March 1, 1940, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR "For military exploits in the defeat of the White Finns", he was awarded the medal "For Bravery". From June 22, 1941 to August 25, 1941, he served as a platoon commander of the 217th regiment of the Northern front. He participated in the defense of Murmansk and Kandalaksha. On August 25, 1941, Senior Sergeant A. K. Kukushkin was wounded, and with a diagnosis of "a through bullet wound of the upper 1/3 of the shoulder of the right hand with a broken bone" was treated in the evacuation hospital 3747 from September 29, 1941 to December 24, 1941. He was recognized as unfit for action by a medical council under article 53, III group list of diseases by the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 184 of 1940 with a mandatory re-examination in one year. On January 12, 1942, he was registered in the Borisovo-Sudsky Military Comissiriat. For military services on the frontlines of the Great Patriotic War he was awarded the order of the "Patriotic War" of the II degree, the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45". From October 15, 1943 to June 22, 1947, he served in the state security agencies in the Ministry of State Security of the USSR in the Vologda region, and took part in military operations to eliminate nationalist gangs in the North Caucasus, Crimea, Belarus, and Lithuania. In 1947, he was dismissed from the Ministry of State Security. Since 1947, he had lived with his family in the village of Borisovo-Sudskoye, Babaevsky district, Vologda region. He worked in various managerial and economic positions and raised four daughters. Alexander Kirillovich Kukushkin died on July 11, 1969 at the age of 55. He is buried in the cemetery of the village of Borisovo-Sudskoe.

Dmitry Vasilievich Bekin was born on November 8, 1921 in the village of Lykoshino, Sorokinsky district, Tyumen region. He was the eleventh child in the family. From an early age, Dmitry Vasilyevich helped his parents maintain the farm: grazed geese, helped with mowing by carrying the piles of hay to the haystack on a horse. Like his fellow peers, he worked on a collective farm: harrowing, plowing, helping with the harvest, herding the calves. By 1935, he finished four years, leaving the rural school, and continued working on the collective farm. In 1940, he graduated from tractor driving courses at Sorokinskaya MTS. After graduation, he worked as a tractor driver. On June 22, 1941, he got news that the war broke out. On June twenty-fifth, 1941, almost all the men, including his brother Prokhor, were called up from the village where Dmitry Vasilyevich lived. On February 2, 1942, he received a summons calling him to the military enlistment office for conscription into the Red Army. He was enlisted in the construction troops. Dmitry Vasilyevich was sent to the city of Novosibirsk to build a military plant focused on shell and mine production. He served in the construction forces until January 1, 1944, when he was sent to study in a tank school. He received the military specialty "loader" and the rank of sergeant. He was enlisted in a tank regiment formed in the city of Sverdlovsk. After receiving the self-propelled guns, the regiment was sent to the city of Zagorsk, where, after being reformed, it received an ordinal number and was named the 1024th self-propelled artillery regiment. In June 1944, the regiment was sent to the 1st Ukrainian front. Upon arrival in the Kiev region, the 1024th self-propelled artillery regiment joined in the battles for the liberation of Western Ukraine from the Nazis (including the cities of Lviv, Drohobych, Ternopil) and fought their way to the Vistula river. Dmitry Vasilyevich Bekin was awarded the medal "For Bravery" for his courage and heroism during the liberation of Poland. This was his first battle award. In October 1944, the regiment was sent to the Carpathians, to liberate the land of Carpathian Ukraine. The offensive of the 1st Ukrainian front was scheduled to be on November 1, 1944. In this offensive, Dmitry Vasilyevich was wounded, contused, and sent to the hospital in the city of Sandomierz. On January 25, 1945, after finishing treatment, he was sent to the reserve regiment of the 1st Ukrainian front. In February 1945, Dmitry Vasilyevich participated, yet again, in the attack on the German city of Lauban (now the city of Luban in Poland), in April 1945, in the attack on Berlin. He was shot in the head. He was discharged in 1946. He was awarded the order of the Red Star, medals "For Bravery", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For the Liberation of Prague", and jubilee medals. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of II degree. He died on October 20, 1922.

Rank: Sergeant. Branch of service: Artillery. Anatoly Maksimovich Karsaev came from an ordinary peasant family. He was born on January 04, 1924, in the village of Mokrovka, Saratov region. He had three brothers and a younger sister, and when they moved to the village of Borono-Mikhaylovka during the hungry year of 1933, his father married into a family with three more children. Thus, they lived: as a large family, indulged in labor and worries. To help the household, my grandfather added an extra year to his age to get a job. He started with the simplest work: collected sacks for sowing, then became a tractor refueller, and in the spring of 1941 my grandfather finished the tractor driver's course and mastered the "iron horse". In the spring of 1942, the Red Army soldier Karseev took up arms. He took up just one line in the red army book: "called up by the Makarov District Military Commissariat on April 28, 1942". My grandfather was sent from Balashov to Borisoglebsk, where the field school of sergeants was established. "About 400 guys were chosen - those who were younger. We lived in tents in the woods. We were trained to be commanders of machine-gun crews. Every day, from morning to evening, classes following a crash course." And again, he was in Balashov, from here on August 26, 1942, the newly minted machine-gun sergeants were sent to Stalingrad. We went on foot, at night time, and even carrying a machine gun on our backs – that was almost 70 kilograms of weight: the machine gun rack was 32 kg., the barrel was 26 kg., a box with bullets was 9 kg. My grandfather recalled: "On September 8, we were on the outskirts of Stalingrad. We did not even have time to get to the starting line when we were bombed. It was hell for us, eighteen-year-olds, who haven't been under fire. It made our hair stand on end." Anatoly Karseev, a sergeant in an independent machine-gun battalion of the Red Banner 99th guards’ division of the 66th army, fought as part of the Don frontline troops commanded by General Konstantin Rokossovsky. The frontline occupied a defensive line along the Don river to Yerzovka on the Volga. "When we entered Stalingrad at the end of January 1943, it was nothing but ruins." My grandfather survived these battles, having received only two scratches from bullets. But he was not as lucky in the summer of 1943, when a new offensive began: "The "Messer" spotted our servicing division and slammed us with shrapnel shells. The commander - a guy from the Zhytomyr region – died. Both my legs were broken. One of them was saved by medics. And the other was cut off. Afterwards, it was amputated knee-deep in a field hospital. " In the spring of 1944, Guard Sergeant Anatoly Karseev, with two military orders - of the Patriotic War and the Red Star - on his tunic, returned to his dear Borono-Mikhailovka. In May, he already got a job at the state farm as a driver on a powerplant. Here he met his soulmate, my grandmother, Valentina. At the time, she was 17 years old. A week before her birthday in July 1944, they got married. They lived together for 60 years, lived to see their “diamond” wedding. They created a big strong family: raised 5 children. There were twice as many grandchildren: 10. And 18 great-grandchildren! Despite the fact that my grandfather lost a leg during the war, he worked all his life both on the collective farm, and at home, where they had a large farm with cows, goats, sheep, chickens, geese, ducks. He had to swing a scythe, dig a vegetable garden, and there were many things to do in the yard as well. My grandfather had a very cheerful character, he was a master storyteller, played the balalaika. He was very fond of fishing. My grandfather died shortly before the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory. He died at the age of 81 in March 2005.

My grandfather Vasily Nikitovich Kochedykov took part in the Great Patriotic War. He was born on March 31, 1912 in a family of peasants in the village of Puzyrev, Zavivalovsky district, Penza region. My grandfather studied to become a livestock specialist, completing two years of the Omsk Agricultural Institute. In 1942, he graduated from the commander's course at the Frunze Military and Political School. From June 1942 to April 1945, he participated in the battles against the Nazi invaders. He finished the war as a deputy division commander of the political department of the 7th guards’ airborne artillery regiment of the 9th guards airborne Poltava Red Banner order of Suvorov division with the rank of guard captain. During the war, my grandfather received commendations from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet Union I. V. Stalin for his excellent combat against the German-fascist troops: 1. for the elimination of the summer offensive in the Belgorod direction; 2. for the capture of the city of Belgorod; 3.for the capture of the city of Kharkiv; 4. for the capture of the city of Poltava; 5. for the capture of the city of Kremenchug. My grandfather participated in one of the big and important battles on the Kursk bulge, directly participated in the largest tank battle in the whole war at the Prokhorovka station in the Kursk region. In this battle, under the leadership of my grandfather, seven enemy tanks were destroyed, for which he received the order of the Red Star. I remember the battle on the Kursk Bulge from my grandfather's stories; he told me about it several times. He said that the soldiers had a very difficult time, talked about how they died. How they saved him by digging a hole in the ground. I did not find out about how he, himself, shot down two tanks with direct fire until many years later. He took part in the battles to cross the Oder, Dniester, and Vistula rivers. During the war, my grandfather was also awarded orders for military services: of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, the order of the Red Star, the military order of the Red Banner, the medal "For the Victory over Germany", and other medals. My grandfather ended his service in the war on March 16, 1945, as he was seriously wounded in the right Shin on the 1st Ukrainian front near the Neisse river, just 60 km from Berlin. Afterwards, came a hospital in the city of Lviv, a commission and dismissal from the army. It was there that Vasily Nikitovich met Budyonniy, who was then in charge of the horse breeding industry in the country. The marshal approved the appointment of yesterday's officer as director of the state stable in Lviv. Afterwards, my grandfather worked in the Rivne state procurement stable. He was director of the state stable, chairman of the collective farm "Progress" of the Nolinsky (Molotov) district of the Kirov region, created the Nolinsky poultry farm from the ground up. My grandfather was personally acquainted with Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonniy, fellow Nolinchanite Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov - both acquaintances seriously affected the economy of the district at one time or another. For the sake of the common cause, Vasily Nikitovich went to Moscow to seek an appointment with Molotov. And he got it! After their meeting, a power plant, a car, and a sawmill were delivered to the address of the “Progress” collective farm.

In 1937, Ivan Mikhailovich was drafted into the Armed forces. He was sent to Saratov to the Red Banner collective tank school. In early June 1941, he graduated from the school and was sent for further service to the city of Vilnius in Lithuania. He arrived at the unit on June 18, and on June 20, their tank unit was already standing on the Western border and waiting for something. There was already talk that there would be a war. On June 22, 1941, at 4 o'clock in the morning, shooting began, German reconnaissance planes circled in the air. At this moment, they knew that they would fight the Germans. The Western troops were surrounded, many soldiers were captured. Ivan Mikhailovich was contused, but he was not taken to the hospital, as there was simply no hospital. Only at the end of August 1941, they managed to fight their way out of the encirclement around Bryansk. There he was received an order to go to Voronezh, and from there, to Stalingrad. His regiment participated in the defense of Stalingrad, for which all the participants were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and a commemorative badge. The battle of Stalingrad taught many of its participants courage and bravery. After the defeat of the Germans, the regiment was sent to the city of Kurgan to train tank crews for the frontlines. Ivan Mikhailovich fought on the BT-7 tank and trained young specialists to operate it. The war was going on, the equipment was changing, and T-34 tanks were being produced. To teach people, you had to retrain yourself. In 1944, he was sent to Leningrad to the panzer school, from which he graduated in May 1945. There he got the joyful news of the long-awaited victory. Few people survived the war and returned without injuries. Ivan Mikhailovich burned twice in the tank and suffered a concussion. After the war, he served in Germany, Belarus, and Ukraine, and was discharged with the rank of major. He returned home, worked as a Chairman of the Village Council in Baldat, then the district committee sent him to Gubden as the director of forestry. In 1962, he transferred to the Kizner military unit and worked as a security chief. There, he, finally, went on his well-deserved retirement. Ivan Mikhailovich lived a long and heroic life, together with his wife they raised and supported four daughters. He died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 85. He was awarded with medals: "For bravery", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"," Order of the Red Star"," Order of Lenin"," Order of the Red Banner", "Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree".

Emelyan Gavrilovich Gavrilov was born on August 9, 1922 in the village of Dudkino in the Ilyinsky volost of Velizh district of Vitebsk province (now the territory of the Ilyinsky rural settlement of Zapadnodvinsky district of Smolensk region). Immediately after the beginning of the great Patriotic war, Emelyan Gavrilov enlisted as a volunteer and was sent to the Leningrad front. As an private Red army soldier, as an artillery gunnery officer, he took part in the defense of Leningrad from July 1941 to July 1942. After participating in the battles on the Leningrad front, he was sent to study at Leningrad artillery school. From March 1943-Lieutenant, commander of a fire platoon. Then he was sent to the 3rd Ukrainian front, where he fought as part of the 191st guards artillery regiment of the 86th guards rifle division-until the end of the war, until Victory! Awarded the order of Patriotic war of I and II degree, order of Red Star, medals "For defense of Leningrad", "For capture of Budapest", "For capture of Vienna", "For liberation of Belgrade". Extract from the award list of the order of the Patriotic war of II degree (description of the feat): "Working as a fire platoon commander, he always clearly and relentlessly fulfilled his duties to destroy the German invaders. His platoon from 08/18/1943 to 09/02/43 destroyed 4 vehicles, 1 observation post, dispersed and partially destroyed up to a company of infantry. In the battle for Fokino village on 08/31/1943 his platoon was placed in an open firing position. During the artillery and mortar bombardment and aerial bombardment, he fired at the advancing enemy tanks. In this battle, his platoon burned 2 and hit 3 German tanks. Lieutenant Gavrilov, being slightly wounded, decided not to take a step back from the occupied positions — and he did not leave, he was carried away, seriously wounded for the second time, by his own soldiers. The enemy did not pass beyond the line occupied by Gavrilov. Tanks and infantry of the enemy turned back. " after the end of the war, he lived in Leningrad, worked as Cahirman in factory shop. Actively participated in events to celebrate Victory Day, repeatedly met with his fellow soldiers. He passed away in 1997.

Our father, Andrey Tarasovich Golovko, was born in 1925 in Bolshaya Dzhalga village, Stavropol area, in a peasant family. His father, our grandfather, worked on the land, and when the Civil war began, he fought on the side of the Reds. Having the skills of a medic, he helped the wounded and sick. During collectivization, he joined a kolkhoz, had authority among the villagers, was elected as Chairman of the audit Commission, but, despite this, was arrested as an enemy of people and sent to a camp. However, thanks to the efforts of fellow soldiers, former red partisans, and our grandmother Vasilisa Stepanovna, an illiterate woman who got an appointment with Kalinin, after 1.5 years he was acquitted and returned home. All this we know from my father, my father's parents died during the war. My father's family was large and friendly, but only four survived. Parents taught their children to work, instilled love of knowledge. Senior children received special education: senior sister worked as a teacher before the war, brother was a student in a College, but the war started and he went on to study in military school and fought as an officer and returned from the war disabled. Andrey Tarasovich fought for the cavalry as a mortar, was wounded, shell-shocked, awarded military awards: two medals "for Bravery", two medals "for Military Merit", "for the capture of Konigsberg", "for the Victory over Germany". On the website of the Ministry of defense, you can read "Andrey Tarasovich Golovko in the battle for the village of Tsyulen on 05.01.1945 continuously delivered mines to an open firing position under heavy rifle and machine gun fire of the enemy. When his horses were killed, he delivered mines on himself." Then there was a meeting with the Americans on the Elbe, there was Victory. But my father returned home only in 1948, he had to serve conscription in Western Ukraine. After demobilization, he served in the anti-banditry unit in Grozny, at that time there were many more gangs in the mountains. Then he studied at the police school in the city of Kostroma and served in the police in Grozny, Achikulak, Zaterechny, Neftekumsk. Then there was party work in neftekumsky state farm, then work in NGDU. After retiring, he was constantly engaged in public work, was the Chairman of the Council of Veterans, and enjoyed authority among the population.

Grachev Viktor Vladimirovich (01/19/1924-10/26/2012) - veteran of the great Patriotic war, guard corporal, gunner of the company of machine gunners. He was born and lived all his life in Sadovoe village (formerly Golodaevka) Novospassky district of Ulyanovsk region. During the Great Patriotic war in August 1942, at the age of eighteen, he was drafted into the army. First, he was sent to Morshansk town, Penza region, to the machine-gun and mortar school for the course of a young fighter. When the exercises were held, he was sent to Voronezh region, where the 4th Shock army was being formed. In May 1943, my grandfather, as part of the 202nd rifle regiment of the 68th guards division, was sent to Kursk. In July 1943, additional army forces were needed on the Kursk Bulge, and their regiment was transferred there. After the defeat of the Germans on the Kursk Bulge, Red army drove German troops to the Dnieper. He received his first baptism in fire on August 25, 1943 in Mikhaylovka village, Poltava region. In September 1943, he was awarded the medal "for bravery" for exemplary performance of combat tasks on the front in the fight against the German invaders, and for the valor and courage shown in this case. Then he took part in the crossing of the Dnieper. On October 12, 1943. He was wounded in this difficult battle near Bolshaya Shchuchenka village, Kiev region, and he was treated in a hospital until January 1944. After that, he was sent to Tambov infantry school, where he was appointed as the head of the ammunition depot. In Tambov, my grandfather met the long-awaited Victory. He continued to serve in the army until October 1945. He returned to his native village and worked as a math teacher at Sadovskaya school in Novospassky district of Ulyanovsk region for 40 years. My Grandfather willingly told about historical events of wartime, remembered all the dates, where and when, in what military operations he participated, but did not like to talk about the experienced emotions and impressions, about his exploits and awards. And only once, on the last victory Day of His life, he said that those who say that war is not terrible do not know anything about war.

I. M. Gromozon was born on 09/11/1913, in Zhguli village Nolinsky uyezd, Vyatka province. In 1935, he was drafted to Red army for military service. After service in 1938, he worked in the kolkhoz "Dvigatel". During the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940), he was drafted for military training, and trained recruits in Kirov. In 1939, he married Ekaterina Petrovna Sheshegova, and in 1940, their son Vasily was born. The war destroyed peaceful life. I. M. Gromozov defended the Homeland from the first days of the war, and finished the war in Berlin. After the war, Ivan Mikhailovich continued working in the kolkhoz "Engine". Since 1946 he worked as the head of a livestock farm. Ivan Mikhailovich Gromozov was an honest and conscientious worker. Thanks to his work, the farm of the kolkhoz grew stronger every year. Kolkhozniks gave Ivan Mikhailovich great authority. In may 1950, the collective farms were enlarged, and the kolkhoz “Dvigatel” became a part of the kolkhoz, named after Kirov, which united five villages. Therefore, since 1950 I. M. Gromozov was as the Deputy Chairman of the kolkhoz named after Kirov, and as the head of the farm. The kolkhoz repeatedly changed its name: "Industria", "Named after I. V. Stalin", "Rassvet", one thing was unchanged - the honest and conscientious work of I. M. Gromozov. For military services, he was awarded the medals "for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", "for the capture of Berlin". In April 1985, on the 40th anniversary of the Victory, Gromozov Ivan Mikhailovich was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of II degree, although he was no longer alive. He was buried in Ilinskoe village. He died early, like all front-line soldiers, at the age of 70. The war never prolong life

Peter Michailovich Gromozov was born on September, 11, 1918 in Zhguli village, Nemsky district of Kirov region. In 1939, he was drafted into Red army and served in the Far East. Then the war strated, since 1941 he was at the front. He was Commander of transport Department, tank Department, rifle platoon, and after passing the command courses, - commander of a platoon of submachine gunners with the rank of second Lieutenant. Moscow, Tula, Kaluga, Konigsberg, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Germany – this is the battle path of P. M. Gromozov. He was repeatedly wounded and shell-shocked., When crossing the Dnieper river, he received a small piece of lead, remained forever in his body, because surgeons were afraid to remove it. On 09/09/1943 in the battles for Lyutenka village, Poltava region, Ukraine, P. M. Gromozov repelled the counterattacks of the Nazis several times from his machine gun, destroyed 15 Nazis and ensured the advance of his unit. After the war, he participated in the liquidation of an armed bandit underground in Western Ukraine. For personal courage and bravery P. M. Gromozov awarded: twice the medal "for bravery", "for the defense of Moscow", the order of the Patriotic war of the 1st degree, the Zhukov medal and many commemorative medals. Coming back home in 1946, P. M. Gromozov worked in a kolkhoz. He was respected and appreciated for his hard work, diligence, simplicity and sincerity. Fate had dealt him a terrible blow. Son Sasha, commander of the paratrooper squad, died in Afghanistan in 1980. But my father-in-law did not become bitter, until a very old age he never remained idle and loved his relatives. He died at the age of 92, and was buried in Ilinskoe village.

My great-grandfather, Mikhail Gubin was born on December 17, 1916 in the village of Dubrova, Tarnogsky district, Vologda region. This is the father of my grandmother Nekrasova Vera Mikhailovna. When the Great Patriotic war began, my great-grandfather served in the Soviet Army in Siberia in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk, in the 570th rifle regiment. He was 25 years old at the time. Young soldiers were immediately sent to the front. My great-grandfather was an private soldier who served in the 527th mortar regiment in the Kalinin direction. He was shell-shocked and seriously wounded in the leg In one of the battles near the city of Velikiye Luki,. For a whole year, he was treated in a hospital in the city of Karaganda. He was commissioned, but in March 1943 was again drafted to the Soviet Army. He took driver courses. He was sent to be a driver in the Stalingrad Red banner Kutuzov order and Suvorov order division., he brought ammunition by a ZIS-5 trгck to the front line of the front. He was awarded the badge "Excellent driver". Participated in the Iasi-Kishinev operation, then liberated the city of Bucharest in Romania, and the cities of Belgorod, Varna, Burgas, and Yambol in Bulgaria. Awarded the medal "for the liberation of Belgorod". He celebrated Victory Day in Hungary in the city of Budapest. Awarded with medals: "For valour", "For military merit", "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", the Order of the Patriotic war of 1st degree (March 11, 1985), for bravery, fortitude and courage displayed in the struggle with German-fascist invaders and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the victory of Soviet people in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945, commemorative medals. Grandmother Vera carefully keeps all her great-grandfather's awards. Mikhail Gubin died on December 23, 1994, and was buried in the Potsky Churchyard of Verkhovsky rural settlement of Tarnogsky district, Vologda region.

Sergey Andreevich Galkin (1917-30.06.1999) Galkin Sergey Andreevich was born on June 1, 1917 in the family of a worker in the town of Kus, Chelyabinsk region. He finished seven grades of school and entered the Zlatoust industrial college named after Anosov in September 1934. In 1938, he graduated with honors from the college and on July 10, 1938, he started working as an engineer at the Kusinsky machine-building plant in the Department of the chief mechanic of the plant. On August 31, 1938, he left the factory for conscription into the Soviet Army. September 1938 - December 1939-Military school. From December 1939 to March 13, 1940, he fought on the Karelian isthmus. It was the war with Finland. He was awarded the title: Military technician of 2nd rank. Since June 22, 1941 on the fronts of the Great Patriotic war: the southern front, the South-Western front, the 1st, 2nd, 4th fronts. He was wounded twice during the war. Firstly, wounded in 1941 on July 26 near Tiraspol (in the stomach, right leg, right arm, severely contused). He was in hospitals. On May 18, 1942, he was seriously wounded in the left arm. He was in hospitals. And again he came back to fight after injuries. In 1943, he was promoted to senior Lieutenant. For military services, he was awarded orders: “Red star”, order of the Patriotic war of I degree, Order of the Red banner", Order of "Patriotic war of I degree." Medals: "For military services", " for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945. From December,10, 1947 to October, 10, 1948 he was a student of the Higher officer school. He served in the Armed forces until October, 13, 1958. He served in Odessa, in Nizhyn of Chernihov region, in the village of Yelizovo on the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the city of Kaunas in Lithuania. He was discharged with the rank of major, because of his illness related to the injuries received in the Great Patriotic war. In 1958, he came to Kusa with his family. On October, 21, 1960, he was employed at the machine-building plant as an instrument engineer. Then he worked as a warehouse Manager. Retired from the factory on June, 8, 1972 From 1975 to 1980 he worked as a duty officer in the District military enlistment office. He was the Chairman of the Military-Patriotic section of the Council of veterans, a member of the DOSAAF district Committee. Awarded medals: Veteran of labor, 20 years of Victory, 30 years of Victory, 40 years of Victory, 30 years of the Soviet Army, 40 years of the Soviet Army, 50 years of the Armed Forces, 60 years of the Armed Forces, 70 years of the Armed Forces, 100 years since the birth of G. K. Zhukov, Veteran of the 1st guards. Armies. Awarded with the following Badges: Graduation Badge of the Tula Weapons and technical school, Badge "25 years of victory", Badge "35 years of victory", Badge "25 years of the Soviet Veterans Committee", Badge "Veteran of the 62nd guards division", Badge "Veteran of the Chelyabinsk region". Sergey Galkin is a veteran of 2 wars, a veteran of the 62nd guards division, a veteran of the 1st guards Army, a labor veteran, a veteran of the Chelyabinsk region, a Disabled person of II group of the World war. On June 30, 1999, he passed away.

Bevzyuk Vasily Timofeevich was born on 24.12.1917 in the village of Osipovka, Frunzovsky district, Odessa region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1938, he was drafted into the Red Army. In 1939, he took part in the war with Finland. In one of the battles he was heavily concussed. In 1941 Vasily was called up from Tiraspol to the ranks of the active Red Army because of the beginning of the Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Place of military service: 69 separate air regiment based in Tiraspol. During WWII he served as the Commander of the Squad of drivers within 131st Battalion Airfield Services in the rank of Junior Sergeant at technical service. From the first days of the Patriotic War, he continuously worked on one BZ-35 machine. Due to his impeccable care and effective use of the special vehicle, Vasily achieved excellent results. During the 4 years of the war, he did not require a single repair of a car, despite the fact that it had a long combat path as part of the regiment. Thousands of refueled aircraft and hundreds of tons of gasoline transported over distances of thousands of kilometers led to the outstanding result of his combat work. From January to April of 1945, he made 5785 km behind the wheel, carrying 167 tons of gasoline and saving 141 kg of fuel. Throughout the combat work, he proved to be a disciplined, executive, strong-willed commander. Hero's battle path ran through the cities of Tiraspol, Nikolaev, Kherson ... from the Kalach station, a regiment with reinforcements is sent to protect Stalingrad. After nazi were defeated at Stalingrad, his regiment was relocated for Kerch liberation and then transferred to the 1st Belorussian front. Bevzyuk Vasily Timofeevich liberated Krasnodar, Belarus, Poland. On Victory day he was in Germany, in the city of Neubrandenburg. Awarded: - medal " for Military Merit "(order b/n of 22.05.1945); - order of the Patriotic War II degree; - order of Glory II-III degree; - medal "for the Victory over Germany"; - medal " for the Defense of the Caucasus" (order of 11.11.1944, entry 1530617954); - five anniversary medals. During the war, in the liberated Krasnodar, he met his future wife, Valentina Volkova, born on 27.07.1923, who studied at the radio operator courses. Until the end of the war, they were like a pen friends. At the end of the war, they met again in Shakhty, Rostov region. 2 years later, in 1947, they moved to Tiraspol. Vasily and Valentina raised two daughters: Tamara and Galina. More than 40 years behind the wheel, covered distance of about 3 million km. For the hard work in the post-war period, he was awarded the badge "Winner of the five-year plan" three times.

Vladimir Kornilovich Belomestnykh was born on July 14 (new style – 27), 1913 in the village of Bargaday (now-Ziminsky district of the Irkutsk region) in a peasant family. He graduated from Novo-Udinsk seven-year school. His parents had many children - besides Vladimir, there were 14 more. A large family lived in poverty, so even as a child, Vladimir had to go to work for hire. In 1935, he graduated from the Chita mining and metallurgical technical school and was sent to the Kirov mine of the Solovyevsky mine of the Dzheltulaksky (now – Tynda district). He worked as a foreman and the manager of mine No. 1. In 1937, he was conscripted to the army, and in 1939, after demobilization, he returned to the mine. Soon he got married. After nazi attack on the Homeland, Vladimir Kornilovich was called to the army. At the end of 1941 at the Skovorodino station Amur region 48th cavalry regiment of the NKVD was formed , and in 1942 the regiment was disbanded and sent to the front. The 106th Beyond-The-Baikal rifle division was formed from the local border guards. Vladimir Kornilovich served within the 12th sapper battalion in a platoon of miners. The experience of combat crossings was useful to him when crossing the Dnieper by our troops. Belomestnykh's boat was the third. The first two boats were machine-gunned by the Nazis. The men leaned desperately on their oars. But now it's time to land the troops. - Come on, follow me! the Sergeant-Major ordered, and was the first to plunge into the icy water. The fight on the beach was short and fierce. During this night and using its darkness as a cover Sergeant-Major Belomestny on his humble boat managed to transport 150 common soldiers under the hurricane fire of the enemy. He made 12 such routes till the morning light came. For almost a day, he was on the verge of death. In hand-to-hand combat, the group captured an enemy machine gun and two medium-caliber guns. Many of the fighters were killed, but the "fire bridgehead" was held. On the conquered bridgehead, Sergeant-Major V. K. Belomestny hoisted a flag indicating – “Dpieper belongs to us!”. For his courage and bravery during the crossing of the Dnieper, on October 30, 1943, he was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In January 1945, Belomestny was seriously wounded and concussed, frostbite on his feet, and narrowly escaped gas gangrene. The hero completed his front-line career on the Austrian soil. He was twice concussed and twice wounded, as a result of which he was deaf and dumb for 18 days. June 24, 1945 Hero of the Soviet Union V. K. Belomestny took part in the Victory parade on Moscow's Red square. He began to beat the enemy as a private, and ended the war in the reserve of junior commanders. The war claimed the lives of six of Vladimir's brothers. All nine sons of his mother Darya Fyodorovna were called up to the front line and she was waiting for them along with the victory, and could not sleep at night. But war takes its toll. Six brothers of Belomestny parished during the battles. Each funeral was a hard blow to the mother's heart. But the Siberian woman endured everything. Vladimir Kornilovich was discharged in 1946 and returned to Solovievsk - to the places that became his native land. He worked as the head of the mining sector, deputy chief engineer for safety, head of dredge No. 67 of the Solovyevsky mine. Then he went to Yakutia there he retired. After completing journalism courses, in 1965-1990 he worked as a tour guide at a local travel and sightseeing agency. He performed at schools and businesses. He is an honorary citizen of the Lazarevsky district of Sochi. He was awarded the memorial medal of the Krasnodar territory "for outstanding contribution to the development of the Kuban". Vladimir Belomestny passed away on August 08, 2009, and was buried in the cemetery of the village of Dagomys (Sochi).

Senior sergeant. He served in the 167th twice Red banner Sumsko-Kiev rifle division. Nationality: ukrainian. He was born in a peasant family and got incomplete secondary education. Pavel worked as a foreman on a collective farm. Served in the Red Army from 1937 to 1941 within the 112th cavalry regiment in Proskurov. Took part in the Red Army's liberation campaign in Western Ukraine in 1939. Next time he started to serve in the Red Army in 1943, in September. He took part in the liberation of the Sumy region, crossing the Dnieper and Oder river, took part in the battles on the right bank of Ukraine, in the liberation of the cities of Stanislav, Drohobich, Prague. During the war Pavel Stepanovich was shell-shocked. During the night time on December 15-16, 1943, in the area of the state farm Ksaverovsky, Grebenkovsky district of the Kiev region, he acted as a part of the intelligence group when successfully capturing nazi informer right from the enemy positions, and was for such a successful act awarded with the order of the Red Star (order no.:1 / n from: 10.01.1944. Published: 167 KSD 47 SK 40 A 1 of the Ukrainian front). Being encircled in 1944, from January 14 till 25, at the area of Tikhonovka in the Lysinsky district of the Kiev region, he repeatedly went on reconnaissance. On January 21, 1944, in the area of the Alexander forest along with a group of soldiers during reconnaissance, he suddenly attacked a group of nazi soldiers. As a result of this counterattack, the group destroyed up to 10 nazi soldiers. At the same time, valuable documents were seized and delivered to the headquarters. On January 27, 1944, together with a group of scouts on the Lysyanka - Zvenigorodka road, while in an ambush, they hit three cars with enemy cargo with grenades, while destroying up to 15 enemy soldiers. By order of the commander of the 167th rifle division no.: 5/n from: 21.02.1944 he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree. On July 20, 1944, as an assistant to the commander of a platoon of horse intelligence of the 520th Drogobichsky rifle regiment, senior Sergeant Pavel Babchenko with a group of scouts in the depth of the enemy's defense near the village of Tifilovka South-West of the city of Stanislav, destroyed the guards, captured the headquarters and a car with valuable documents. By order of the commander of the 167th rifle division No. 042 / n of August 10, 1944, he was awarded the order of Glory of the 3rd degree for exemplary performance of command tasks in battles with the Nazi invaders. On September 18, 1944, as part of a reconnaissance group, he secretly reached the enemy trenches near the city of Sanok, as a result of which the enemy abandoned their positions. The soldiers defeated the enemy headquarters and captured the battalion commander. From September 18 to October 4, 1944, Pavel Babchenko personally exterminated up to 10 fascists, and took several prisoners. By order for the troops of the 1st guards army No. 061/n of October 29, 1944, he was awarded the order of Glory of the 2nd degree for exemplary performance of command tasks in battles with the Nazi invaders. During the liberation of the railway station Olza from 19 to 22 April 1945, he killed about 10 Nazis with a machine gun. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on may 15, 1946, he was awarded the order of Glory of the 1st degree for exemplary performance of command tasks in battles with the Nazi invaders, becoming a full knight of the order of Glory. In 1945, he was demobilized. He lived in his native village, worked as a storekeeper on the Lenin collective farm. Then he lived in the city of Lubotin, Kharkiv region. He passed away on June 15, 2001. Pavel Stepanovich was buried in the town of Lubotin.