Order of the Patriotic war

Date of birth: 14.03.1921_x000D_ Date of death: 03.02.2016_x000D_ History:_x000D_ Anatoly was born on March 14, 1921 in the city of Mogilev-Podolsky, Vinnytsia Region._x000D_ In 1939, he graduated from the 10th grade of Vinnytsia High School and in the same year entered the Bezhitsky Institute of Transport Engineering._x000D_ In September 1941, together with the Institute, he was evacuated from Bryansk to Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region, where he continued his studies for the third year._x000D_ In March 1942, he was drafted in the Red Army and sent to the Sretenskiy Infantry School of the Trans-Baikal Military District. From March to October 1942 - cadet of the infantry school. In October 1942, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense, he received a military rank of Lieutenant._x000D_ In the active army, he was from October 28, 1942 to May 9, 1945 in the 568th Rifle Regiment of the 149th Rifle Division in the following positions: Commander of a machine-gun platoon, Commander of a rifle company, Translator of the regimental headquarters, Intelligence officer of the regiment._x000D_ He fought on the Western, Central and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He participated in the battle of Kursk, in the liberation of the city Dmitrovsk-Orlovskiy and the crossing of the river Desna, Sozh and the Dnieper, in the liberation of the city Novohrad-Volynskiy and Zdolbunov, in the liberation of the cities and towns of Poland, crossed the Vistula river, participated in the fighting on the Annapolisa bridgehead, and then in the breakthrough of the enemy defence near Sandomierz. In Germany, he participated in the battles during the capture of Forst and Guben, the crossing of the Oder River, and the Battle of Berlin. Participated in the liberation of the Czechoslovak capital Prague._x000D_ After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served in the 287th Regiment of the 95th Rifle Division, the 46th Regiment of the 13th Guards Mechanized Division of the Central Group of occupation forces in Austria, then from May 1951 to October 1953 - in the 18th Guards Tank Regiment of the 3rd Guards Tank Division of the Belarusian Military District._x000D_ In October 1953, he was dismissed from the army to the reserve at his own request, moved to Bryansk, where he became a teacher at a vocational school and continued his studies interrupted by the war at the evening Department of the Bryansk Machine-Building Institute, from which he graduated in 1957._x000D_ After graduation, he went to work as a teacher at the Bryansk Technical School, and then at the Bryansk Automobile Plant, where he worked for 32 years in various engineering positions._x000D_ After retirement, he was an active public figure, paid great attention to the patriotic education of young people, and actively participated in the veteran movement._x000D_ Awarded the Order of Friendship, two Orders of Patriotic War 1st degree, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, Order of the Red Star, medals For Bravery, For Military Merit, For the Capture of Berlin, For the Liberation of Prague etc. He was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Novograd-Volynskiy District._x000D_ He did a lot of work on the organization of the veteran movement in the Bryansk Region, on patriotic education of young people. A. Menes had a great friendship with Dubrovskaya Secondary School #1.

HISTORY: Petr Fedotovich Minaev was born on January 27, 1920 in the Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District, in the village of Yurovo. He graduated from the 7th grade of the Yurov School in 1937. He was excellent student. He entered a Medical College in Bryansk and graduated with excellent and good grades in 1940. In the period from 1940 to 1941, he worked as a Feldsher in the vicinity of the village and the village Radotina Blight. n the first months of the war, our grandfather was sent to study in the Urals at the Artillery School. While he was a cadet from 8.09.1941 to 9.09.1942, the war had reached Stalingrad. The School was closed. My grandfather was sent to the Stalingrad Front (1942-1943) as a front-line medic. _x000D_ He remembered the city of Stalingrad as the battered Volga banks, the water boiling from the explosion of shells, and the city in flames of conflagrations. The Volga, where the water is mixed with blood, was boiling from the explosion of shells. To cross the river, one had to push corpses away, so many soldiers were killed. In 1943 he was a feldsher of the Division of the Rifle Battalion on the Voronezh, then he was a feldsher of Medical Company at the Steppe front, later 2nd Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ From September 1943 to May 1945 he had been a Head of Medical Company Pharmacy. He participated in the liberation of Prague and celebrated Victory there on May 9, 1945. But the fighting continued in Prague even after May 9, 1945. _x000D_ In October 1946, he joined the Communist party of the Soviet Union with a pride and honor of that time. _x000D_ On November 22, 1946, our grandfather married Miria Stepanovna Grinkova and went with his wife, Minaeva Maria Stepanovna, to Cahul, Moldova, where he had been working as the Head of Medical Company Pharmacy until 1948. _x000D_ My grandfather had 14 state awards: 1) Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree as of March 11, 1985 2) Order of the Red Star, as of 1944 3) Medal "For Military Merit" 4) Medal "For Defense of Stalingrad" 5) Medal "For Liberation of Prague" 6) Medal "For Victory over Germany", 7) Medal “20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 8) Medal “30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War” 9) Medal “40 years of victory in in the Great Patriotic War” 10) Medal “30 years Soviet Army and Navy” 11) Medal “50 years of the Armed Forces of USSR” 12) Medal “60 years of the Armed Forces USSR” 13) Medal "Veteran of Labor" as of 22 July, 1982 14) Pioneer of Excellent Health of the USSR as of 18 April 1961, 7 commendatory certificates, 6 anniversary awards. My grandfather's military rank is Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service. _x000D_ On September 22, 1948, our grandfather was demobilized and placed in the reserve. Upon returning home our family arrived in the village of Yurovo. Peaceful postwar life started. During 1948-1974 he had been working as Feldsher of the Yurov Medical Center (Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District). Working as a feldsher, he was an eye doctor, a children's doctor, a General practitioner, a gynecologist, and a surgeon, who applied 12 stitches each, working alone with a patient, when there was no other doctor to submit the necessary sutures. _x000D_ For his impeccable and fruitful work, our grandfather was an excellent student of the USSR Health Service, a Veteran of Labor, and a Feldsher of the 1st category. The motto of our grandfather's life: the life and health of a person is the meaning of my life and happiness. In the foreground there was always a struggle for human health and life. _x000D_ He was retired in Bryansk on February 1, 1980. In 1983, from August 20 to 24, grandparents were in Kharkov at a meeting of veterans-fellow soldiers of the 93rd Guards Kharkov, Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division ( 40 years of liberation of Kharkov from the Nazi invaders 1943-1983), where they remembered the Kursk Bulge. Pyotr Minaev was a wonderful man, son, husband, father, and a grandfather. Our dear man passed away on December 13, 1992.

He was born in 1918 in the village of Sushikha, where his family used to live for a short time. He returned to his native place after the war in 1946. _x000D_ There he had lived for 58 years with my wife, raised his sons, and worked selflessly. He retired in 1978. He went through the war from the first day to the last. In 1938, he was called up to serve in the Red Army, sent to the Far East on the border. In July-August 1938 near lake Khasan, in 1939 on the Territory of Mongolia, near the Khalkhin Gol participated in battles with units of the Kwantung army of the Japanese. _x000D_ In 1940, he was demobilized, later studied at Automobile School and was sent to the Jewish Autonomous Region of the Khabarovsk Territory, worked as a driver at a mine, lived in the forest in tents. Many could not stand the harsh conditions and left. He heard about the beginning of the war at work. A day or two later, he received a summons from the military recruitment office. He was called up in June 1941 from the Far East, from the city of Blagoveshchensk. At first, he guarded the border in the Far East. _x000D_ In October 1941, his military unit was transferred to the west near Moscow. Then he fought at Tula, Kharkov, Belgorod, Oryol, on the Kursk Bulge. _x000D_ He was three times wounded and concussed. At first, he was a driver, in 1942 he was bombed, the car caught fire, his comrades pulled him out concussed, he was in the hospital, his eardrum was damaged, and his ear ached until 1947. _x000D_ In 1942-1943, he fought in the 19th Tank Brigade as a Tank-man. In 1943, he was wounded in the right arm, and was hospitalized for 3 months. He was cured and returned to the front line, where a mine exploded nearby in one of the combats, and his entire back was riddled with shrapnel. Again the hospital, the fragments were removed surgically and with the help of a magnet, 3 months on the recovery and again to the front in early May, 1943. _x000D_ He participated in the historical tank battle of Kursk Bulge. He burned twice in a car, once in a tank. Twice he had to cross the Dnieper. It was one of the bloodiest and terrible battle of WWII. They crossed to the opposite bank whenever they had to. And both times they found themselves on a steep right bank of the river that hung over the water like a sheer wall. For these combats, he was awarded the orders of the Red Star and the Patriotic War, twice the medal For Courage. _x000D_ These were the dear awards for a veteran of all that he had. On March 12, 1944, he was wounded by a sniper's bullet in the cheek (the veteran still remembers this date and marks it as his second birth), the bullet went through, knocking out his teeth and grazing his tongue. It took six long months of treatment first in Moscow, then in Chelyabinsk. At first the doctors put a gag in the mouth at night to prevent the wound from drying, it was very hard. _x000D_ After the hospital, he became a member of the 2nd Ukrainian Front in 1944 in Romania near the city of Pitesti, liberating the capital of Austria, Vienna. He celebrated Victory in May 1945 in Austria, participated in the Prague operation as part of the 6th Guards Tank Army, took part in the destruction of the remaining group of Nazi troops in Czechoslovakia, from July 1945 until the demobilization in the city of Jihlava, Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ During the war years, he was an infantryman, tankman, and signalman. After the announcement of the German surrender and the end of the war, he did not return home immediately. He ended the war in Czechoslovakia in 1946. 50 years after the end of the war, he was awarded the order of the Red Star for the tank battle on the Kursk Bulge. He came home to Sushikha, went to work in the kolkhoz "Lenin's Victory", and on January 1, 1949, he was enrolled in the Ust-Lukovskaya MTS, which was responsible for kolkhoz equipment, as a tractor driver, where he worked on a DT-54 tractor. He received certificates, diplomas and valuable prizes for good performance for his work. _x000D_ He got married, in 1949 his son Vladimir was born. A year later, in 1950, his wife passed away and left him alone with a small child. After some time he married Shura Baklanova, gave birth to 3 more sons: the elder Nikolai drowned in childhood, Sergei and Anatoly live with their families in Ust-Lukovka and Sushikha. On July 1, 1958, in connection with the reorganization of MTS, he was transferred to work at the Lenin kolkhoz. In 1961, the Lukovsky Sovkhoz was established, which consisted of 4 villages: Lukovsky, Susica, Rogalevo and Tarpaulin with Central office in the village of Kersey. _x000D_ On February 21, 1961, Yakov Nesterovich joined the staff of the Lukovsky sovkhoz as a combine harvester. In 1963, there was a disorganization of the economy, as part of the Lukovsky, there remained 2 branches: Lukovskoe and Sushinskoe. Yakov Nesterovich worked for 18 years as a combine harvester, repeatedly received commendations, diplomas, was awarded a badge of honor, the medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands", the VDNH medal. He retired in July 1978.

HISTORY: My grandfather Metersky Yakov Borisovich was born on April 25, 1913 in Skobelev (Fergana, Uzbekistan). In early childhood, he was left without parents. He was raised in a family of relatives living in Tashkent. He studied at the Tashkent Dzerzhinsky School No. 29. In the mid-20s, he became a pioneer. In 1927, he joined the Komsomol. After graduating from High School in 1930, he worked and studied at the Institute, entering the state Institute of Supply (Samarkand) in the Department of food industry planning, specializing in planned Economics. After defending his thesis in 1935, he worked as a labor economist. From 1937 to 1941, he worked as the Head of the Planning Department of the Samarkand cannery. He joined the Communist Party in 1940. _x000D_ In July 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his military service as a Commissar of 67th Battery of the Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division, which was stationed in Ashgabat (Tajikistan). _x000D_ At the end of August 1941, Commissar Meterski participated in the fighting in Iran, when the 83rd Division took part in the military allied operation "Consent". On August 25, Soviet and British troops simultaneously crossed the border of Iran. On the third day of the operation, the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division began fighting in the mountainous regions of Iran. Iranian troops with two infantry divisions occupied the defensive lines in the mountainous regions of Mashhad and Gorgan. _x000D_ Despite the convenient defensive positions, the Iranian forces offered little resistance and on August 29, 1941, the Armed Forces of Iran laid down their arms to the British, and on August 30, to the Soviet troops. _x000D_ On September 8, 1941, an agreement was signed defining the location of allied troops in Iran. Iran was divided into two occupation zones: the British (Southern) and the Soviet (Northern). The allied operation “Consent” was the most fleeting and almost" bloodless " (40 people were killed). Thanks to its successful outcome, the southern transport corridor was protected, along which allied troops carried out lend-lease supplies for the Soviet Union, and Germany and its allies were denied access to the oil fields. _x000D_ The 83rd Turkestan Division as part of the group of Soviet troops was in Iran in the areas of Mashhad and Gorgan until November 1942, performing the protection of the southern borders of the USSR. In September 1941, Commissar Metersky was appointed Secretary of the Communist Party Bureau of the 67th Artillery Regiment of the 83rd Turkestan Mountain Rifle Division. In March 1942, he was transferred to the Political Department of the Division. From August 1942 to May 1943, Captain Meterski served in the 4th Separate Rifle Battalion of the 64th Separate Rifle Brigade (82nd Rifle Division of the 68th army). _x000D_ At the end of 1942, the Division fought 170 km North-East of Smolensk. In March 1943, it reached the Minsk shosse, was stopped by German troops, and at the beginning of April 1943, it was taken to the near rear for rest and manning. From May 1943 to June 1944 comrade Metersky participated in combat operations as part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion of the 192nd Rifle Division of the 68th Army. Near the city of Yelnya on August 9, he was seriously wounded in the head. After recovering, he returned to his military unit. As part of the 200th Separate Sapper Battalion, he reached the border of Russia and Belarus. _x000D_ Since June 1944, he fought as a member of the 46th Separate Anti-tank fighter Division (46 OIPD) of the 210th Rifle Division of the 31st Army on the 3rd Belorussian Front, in April-May, 1945 on the 1st Ukrainian Front. With the division, he went on a combat path from the city of Orsha to Prague. As part of the 46th Division, he participated in operations to break through the German defenses and capture the city of Orsha, in forcing the water barrier of the Berezina river, in the battles for the capture of Minsk. He took part in the fighting to eliminate the East Prussian grouping of German troops South-West of Konigsberg. _x000D_ Near the city of Grodno in July 1944 he was wounded a second time. For participation in the battles for the capture of the city and fortress of Grodno, he was awarded the order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ After the victory in the Great Patriotic War until July 1946, he served in Germany as a Deputy Commander of a Division in the 4th Artillery Brigade of the 7th Guards Army. During the war period, he was awarded orders and medals of the USSR: the order of the Red Banner (22.08.1944), the order of the Patriotic War I degree (17.03.1945), medals “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” on (09.05.1945), “For Capture of Konigsberg” (09.06.1945). In the postwar period he was awarded the order of Patriotic War I degree (11.03.1985); medals "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" "50 years Armed Forces of USSR", "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "60 years of Armed Forces USSR", "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "70 years of Armed Forces USSR", "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War". _x000D_ From 1946 to 1967 Metersky J. B. worked at the industrial enterprises of Uzbekistan and Moldova. In June 1967, he moved to live in Novokuznetsk. He worked as the Director of Novokuznetsk Shoe factory No. 4, Novokuznetsk Dry Cleaning Factory, General Director of the production Association "Kuznetskkhimchistka". He worked at the Novokuznetsk plant for repair of household machines and appliances. He retired with 53 years of work experience. For his labor merits, he was awarded the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor” in 1970 and the badge “Winner of the 1973 Socialist Competition” in 1985. He lived in Novokuznetsk for 34 years.

Ivan Dmitrievich Medvedkov was born on June 29, 1914 in the village of Putyatino, Putyatinskaya volost, Sapozhkovsky District of the Ryazan Province. During the Great Patriotic War, he was conscripted by the Putyatinsky Regional Military Committee of the Ryazan Region on July 5, 1942 and enlisted as a Rifleman in the 3rd Separate Anti-tank Fighter Brigade of the reserve of the main command in the company of machine gunners. He received his first baptism of fire in the battle for the Kursk Bulge, where there were fierce battles with the German-fascist invaders. The battle was unequal, but despite the obvious superiority of the enemy in combat equipment and manpower, the enemy did not break through our defense. On July 1-2, 1943, acting as a Sergeant of a Company of machine gunners, he participated in the battles to liberate the village of Teploye in the Kursk Region. In two days, the Company knocked out 8 tanks and destroyed a large number of Germans. Personally, comrade Medvedkov destroyed about 7 sub-machine guns. For these combats, he was awarded the medal For Courage. From 5 to 9 July 1943, he participated in the battles in the area of the station Ponyri of the Kursk Region. In this area, up to 300 enemy tanks were concentrated against the 3rd Fighter Brigade, supported by artillery and mortar fire. A company of machine gunners was shot down over 20 tanks and destroyed a lot of enemy manpower. Personally, I. D. Medvedkov was destroyed by more than 10 sub-machine guns and hit one tank with an anti-tank grenade, at the same time he was heavily concussed. For these efforts, he was awarded the order of the Red Star. _x000D_ After recovering, he returned to his military unit and continued to participate in the combats to liberate the cities and villages of this country from the German-fascist invaders. _x000D_ In 1944, he participated in the battles for Belarus, participated in the liberation of the cities of Pruzhany, Bobruisk, Minsk, Brest, acting as a Platoon Commander. Ivan was again awarded the order of the Red Star for the destruction of a platoon of 12 enemy tanks and more than 60 sub-machine guns. He received the third order of the Red Star for the liberation of the city of Warsaw in 1945, where their platoon destroyed 11 tanks and more than 70 sub-machine guns. Personally, he destroyed 14 German sub-machine guns. He was awarded the order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree on June 9, 1945 for ensuring timely preparation of operational staff documents in hard combat conditions under continuous artillery fire and uninterrupted bombing from the air, which did not affect the successful completion of the combat mission of the High Command For Capture of Berlin. _x000D_ Particularly fierce and bloody battles took place in the city of Berlin, where the Nazis fought desperately for every house, room and basement. In these combats, the soldiers and commanders of the military unit heroically fought and repelled several times a day attacks by tanks and infantry, destroying 15-20 tanks and a lot of enemy manpower. _x000D_ Ivan Medvedkov finished his military service as the Head of the Staff's Records Department with the rank of Guards Sergeant Major. He was discharged from the army on February 16, 1946. Since August 1946, he had worked as Chief Accountant of the Putyatinsky branch of the State Bank. He passed away on May 30, 1987.

Alexander Pavlovich Miklyaev was born on December 20, 1921 in Michurinsk, Tambov Region. Graduated from 8 classes. He was called up on 06.07.1940 by Michurinsky Military Commissariat of the Tambov Region in the rank of Sergeant of the position of mechanic driver. He served in the 144th Brigade, a Division of the 448th Battalion, 3rd Company. _x000D_ He had been participant of the Great Patriotic War since June 1942 on the Western, Kalinin, Steppe and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. He took part in the battle of Kursk 05.07.1943-23.08.1943, liberated Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic from the enemy. He finished the war near Prague on 11.05.1945. On August 20, 1944, during the breakthrough of the heavily fortified enemy defenses in the area of Height 177. _x000D_ The crew of the T-34 tank destroyed 1 cannon, 1 bunker and 25 enemy soldiers and officers. For exemplary performance of combat missions on the front against the German invaders and for the courage and bravery shown in this case, Comrade A. P. Miklyaev was awarded the state award of the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ Comrade Miklyaev especially distinguished himself in the battles for the liberation of the city of Truda. Under enemy artillery fire on the battlefield 8.10.1944 he eliminated damage to the tank engine and continued the pursuit. His tank was the first to break into the village of Touren on 11.10.1944, where the tracks of his tank crushed a gun, a machine gun and 12 enemy soldiers. In the battles for Cluj, comrade Miklyaev obeyed the orders of the command in an exemplary manner, and was among the first to break into Cluj on 11.10.1944 and continue his constant pursuit. In the battles for the possession of Abon, comrade Miklyaev acted exceptionally boldly and bravely, overcame marshy places on the approaches to Abon. On 5.11.1944 he was among the first to cut the railway and shosse Abon-Salnok. As part of the crew, he destroyed: 2 cannons, 3 machine guns, a mortar and 20 enemy infantry men. _x000D_ For this feat, comrade Miklyaev was awarded the state award of the order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. During participation in combat operations, he was twice wounded. Awards: Order of Glory, 3rd degree; Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medal “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”._x000D_ He was discharged from the reserve on November 20, 1945, with the rank of Guards Senior Sergeant. After demobilization, he worked on the Michurinsk railway until his retirement in 1980. He was married and had two daughters and three grandchildren. He passed away in November 1998.

He had been a participant of three wars. My grandfather on my father's side, Senior Lieutenant Mikhail Mishustin, went through more than one war and, fortunately, returned home. Even before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, in 1939 he graduated from the Ordzhonikidze Military School of Frontier and Internal troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the USSR named after S. M. Kirov. As one of the most responsible and prepared graduates, he was sent to the Soviet-Finnish war, where dexterity and proficiency in professional skills were needed. So Mikhail went to his first war. _x000D_ There was not only war in the air, but also hope for its speedy end and a peaceful life, there were families and a strong desire to win and return. A year earlier, my grandfather met my grandmother Olga, whom he married in early 1938. In fact, their birthday was on the same day, month and year, July 20. After the Soviet-Finnish war, my grandfather returned in June 1941, as it turned out later on a short-term vacation, because the Great Patriotic War had started… Leaving my grandmother his photo, which is dated June 27, 1941, he again went to defend his Homeland, now against the Nazis. This was his second war. _x000D_ Throughout the Great Patriotic War, Mikhail served in military reconnaissance on the front line, as part of the 696th Separate Communication Battalion of the 9th Tank Brigade, participated in many operations to liberate cities, fierce battles, crossing rivers and obstacles. His crew went through all the battles unscathed. But at the very end of the war, in May 1945, in Berlin, during the storming of the Reichstag, a shell hit my grandfather's tank and, bursting inside, wounded him in the neck, barely missing his spine. The rest of the crew were killed. _x000D_ By chance, my grandfather was rescued by the Marines and sent to the hospital. For courage and bravery repeatedly shown during combat missions to liberate the cities from the German invaders, the capture of Berlin and the storming of the Reichstag, that in spite of the hard combat situation and under the enemy’s fire heroically ensured the continuous operation of stations and vehicles, lighting, and radio communications command post of the Tank Corps with units and higher staffs, grandpa was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic War 2nd degrees, medals and letters of thanks. _x000D_ Mikhail celebrated Victory in the hospital. Immediately after his discharge, he was sent to serve in the NKVD (Security Service), where his third war started, while peace was already established in the Soviet Union. My grandfather caught Nazi spies and “non-descendants” on the territory of Europe and the USSR, declassified cunning schemes for transmitting information to the enemies of the Soviet Union. Thus, the military operations for my grandfather lasted for more than 10 years and ended only in 1949… _x000D_ Despite severe injuries, my grandfather had continued to fulfill his duty until 1954. He served in the Ministry of state security of the USSR as a Senior Operative Commissioner for the East Kazakhstan Region, worked with the Agency, tracked down and detained political criminals, spies and saboteurs, mostly German, and again often was away from his beloved wife. _x000D_ All these years, my grandparents were in different parts of the country, but they believed in a speedy end of the war and the long-awaited meeting. They were very fond of each other. Several times during the period of the Great Patriotic War my grandfather came home on leave to the grandmother. Their encounter was long-awaited and brief. After one of these short vacations, my uncle Anatoly was born, and after the second, my father Vladimir was born. _x000D_ It was very hard for my grandparents to go through a long separation, but they overcame everything and later worked together in the same school. My grandfather was a handicraft teacher, and my grandmother was a teacher of Russian Language and Literature.

Title: Starshina Branch of troops: Ground Forces military unit: 7th Guards Airborne Cherkassy Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. He was born on March 20, 1916 in the village of Kirillo-Annovka, Zenkovsky District of the Poltava Region of Ukraine,. Ukrainian. When the war started, he volunteered at the military recruitment office. After long training he was appointed to the Reconnaissance Headquarters Battery of the 10th Guards Airborne Artillery Regiment 7th Guards Airborne Division, which he fought to end the war. At the front since September 1943. On February 17, 1944, in the battles to destroy the encircled enemy group North of the city of Zvenigorodka, a Reconnaissance observer of the Headquarters battery of the guard, Red Army Soldier Telyukov, while at an observation post, timely discovered the enemy approaching the observation post. In the ensuing battle from personal ammunition destroyed 9 opponents, took 3 prisoners. By order of February 25, 1944, Red Army Soldier Telyukov Vasily Andreevich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. By order of February 12, 1945 of the guard, Senior Sergeant Telyukov Vasily Andreevich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, for exceptional courage, bravery and fearlessness in fighting with enemy invaders, Sergeant Telyukov Vasily Andreevich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree. He became a full knight of the Order of Glory. In May 1946, he was demobilized. He died on July 5, 1998. He was awarded orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Glory of the 3rd degree, and medals.

Serganov Sergey Sergeevich_x000D_ Rank: Colonel_x000D_ Type of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Guard Colonel Serganov Sergei Sergeevich was born in the Bryansk region in a family of workers. After completing 7 classes at school, S. S. Serganov continued his studies at the technical school of the Bryansk locomotive building plant "Krasny Profintern". Then he worked as a senior designer of a copper-Nickel shop and had an exemption from service in the army. _x000D_ From the very first days of the war, the plant began to operate under the wartime regime, and on July 3, 1941, an order was received to evacuate the plant to the rear of the country beyond the Urals to the city of Krasnoyarsk. In December 1941 Bryansk machine builders began to send grenades and mortars to the front, later wagons and locomotives. In Kovrov, at the machine gun factory, factory employees participated in the production of Degtyaryov hand-held machine gun , ShVAK aviation cannons, and sub-machine guns. Disturbing news had reached the rear, the enemy was at Moscow, and the situation was serious. _x000D_ Serganov, having abandoned his exemption from active duty, voluntarily came to the regional military Commissariat in November 1941 with a request to send him to the front. Given his education, life experience and ability to lead people, he was sent to study at the Kirov (1st) Red Banner Artillery School in Krasnoyarsk. After completing 6 months of training, on May 2, 1942, Sergey Serganov received the military rank Lieutenant and went to the Bryansk front as Deputy chief of Staff of the Artillery Division. However, the situation at the front quickly changed and in June 1943, Serganov became the commander of the control platoon of the 2nd Artillery Division 152-mm guns of the Shuisky 602th Gun and Artillery regiment, where he proved to be a skilled artillery officer, and after 2 months became Deputy commander of the 4th battery of the 2nd Artillery Division of the regiment. _x000D_ In the presentation for the award of the order for Patriotic war I degree No. 20304036 from 10.07.1943, Senior Lieutenant S. S. Serganov in battles with the German invaders showed courage and bravery. _x000D_ «05.08.43 year Serganov received the mission to destroy the bunker, which occupied a dominant position in the area of Height 203, 3; to counterattack with fire the intersection of the roads and the section of road from Height 203, 3 to Lipovaya Balka. This bunker was used as an observation station. On the night of 5/6 July 1943, comrade Serganov rolled out a gun to the very front edge in the area of 6-I Kurganov, 2 km west from Novo-Sergeyevka, and in the morning during the artillery preparation with direct fire, despite the heavy shelling of the enemy guns from mortars and machine guns, destroyed the bunker with 4 accurate hits. Destroyed: machine gun, stereo tube and 6 Germans, including 3 officers. For his brave actions and good shooting, he received a commendation from the commander of the 40th Army's Artillery. Senior Lieutenant Serganov is a brave and strong-willed battery commander, who always performs the missions assigned to him with honor."_x000D_ "At the end of 1944," recalls Sergei Sergeevich, " we were 100 km from Berlin. The Germans stubbornly resisted, feeling that their days were numbered. There I received a through wound in the leg, but was treated at the local medical center. I also remember an artillery duel with the Germans during the storming of the fortress of Glogau in the spring of 1945, when two guns fired direct fire against each other. Our crew had a better qualifications and with the first shot we hit the enemy cannon. _x000D_ I met Victory day in Prague, and before that, on May 7 - 8, we listened to the Sovinformburo reports to ceasefire and capitulation of Nazi Germany on the radio. The fraternal Czechoslovak people were jubilant, we were given a living corridor when we met, people stood with flowers and shouted in Czech "Nazdar! Nazdar!" (Hello, Hello!). Then, in the war, we lived as one family, all the Nations, there were brothers-Slavs. We fought together against a common enemy, and our Victory was shared.»

Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Red Army Man _x000D_ Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich came from village of Shilovo, Smolensk region, and had been a participant in 3 wars: the Finnish, Japanese and Great Patriotic war. He was called up for war by the military Commissariat of the Smolensk region. He served on the Belorussian front as a private, then as a commander of an artillery gun. _x000D_ Once, he was captured by the Germans in the Smolensk area, but he escaped successfully with a fellow countryman from the village of Lyubavichi. He attributed his luck to the fact that his countryman understand some German. They found out about a rest break on the road and a change of guards. The hustle during the change of the guard helped them to disappear. Then he went to the military enlistment office again to join his regiment. _x000D_ Another story of his lick happened during the attack, when his gray soldier’s overcoat was shot through by a German machine gun. Ar first, he did not pay attention to this and continued to run at the enemy along with everyone else. Later the platoon commander looked at him and said: "This is not an overcoat, but a sieve of some kind. And not a single wound! You are a lucky man, Andrey! So you will go through the war and stay alive. There is such a soldier's sign." My grandfather didn't really believe in superstition back then, but the soldier's sign worked in his case. _x000D_ In the post-war years, he often recalled that incident and told this story the children in his native village school when he was invited to the Victory Day. He was shot twice. At the end of the war, he was wounded in the leg and received a severe concussion. He was sent to a Leningrad hospital for long-term treatment and was discharged in 1946. He regretted that he had not not participated in the capture of Berlin because of his injury. Sinitsa AF was personally acquainted with Sergeant M. Yegorov, (they were fellow countrymen and lived 25 km from each other), who planted the Banner of Victory over the Reichstag together with M. Kantaria. _x000D_ Sinitsa Andrey Filippovich was awarded the order of the "Patriotic war", the medal "For Military Merit", "For Courage" and jubilee medals. After the war he returned to his native village to join his family, where five children were already growing up. He worked at a kolkhoz stable and was buried in the local village cemetery.

Tleulin Tulegen_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Unit: 196th Rifle Gatchina Red Banner Division_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Tleulin Tulegen, was born on may 23, 1913 in the Orenburg region of the Adamov district in the village of Kumak. When the war began, he was sent to the machine gun school in Leninsk-Kuznetsk. In December 1941, according to the Directive of the headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and on the basis of the State Committee of Defense resolution of November 22, 1941, in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg (then Chkalovskaya) region, the 424th Rifle Division began to be formed in the South Ural military district, which then in early January 1942 was renamed the 196th Rifle Division. From April 26, 1942 to June 9, 1942, the division was relocated to Stalingrad. _x000D_ The division was formed from residents of the Chkalov (now Orenburg) region of the RSFSR, as well as Aktobe, Guriev, West Kazakhstan and some other regions of Kazakhstan. The vast majority of the division's soldiers (some units up to 80%) were ethnic Kazakhs. After studying at the school in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsk as part of the 196th Rifle Division, he fought in the battle of Stalingrad. In August 1942, he received a shrapnel wound and was taken to a hospital in Orsk. After the victory at Stalingrad, humanity gained hope for victory over fascism, and the division, which was left with about 500 men, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for bravery, selflessness and courage. _x000D_ Tleulin Tulegen was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad". In 1943, he fought in the battle of Kursk Bulge, the largest tank battle in history, which became an example of the heroism of Soviet soldiers, after which no one had any doubts about the victory in the Great Patriotic war. Tleulin Tulegen was awarded the order of Patriotic War of 1st degree for bravery, perseverance and courage shown in the battles for the Motherland. _x000D_ My grandfather had 11 children, including my mother. Now children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren live in Russia and abroad. We remember and are proud of our grandfather!

Sobkalov Daniel Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ Military Unit: 42nd Cavalry Division_x000D_ _x000D_ The fascist command concentrated large military forces on the Stalingrad direction. Heavy fighting unfolded along the entire southern front. There was an immediate threat of a breakthrough of the fascist troops to Stalingrad and the North Caucasus. Just at this difficult time, the battle path of Daniel Sobkalov, who fought as part of the Caucasian cavalry corps in the 42nd Caucasian regiment, began. He was in command of a platoon. Daniel Ivanovich often recalled how fierce the battle turned out. The enemy sought to cross the Kuban river, capture the high ground in the area of Maykop and Armavir, and then go to the passes of the Main Caucasus range and through them to Transcaucasia._x000D_ In these critical days, the troops were read out order No. 227, which said: "the Fighting is taking place in the area of Voronezh, on the Don, in the South of the North Caucasus, to retreat further means to destroy ourselves and at the same time our Homeland." The platoon members commanded by Sobkalov, Daniil Ivanovich, were both Russian and Chechen. They stood to die to prevent the enemy from capturing the Caucasus. By the end of September and the beginning of October 1942, the front had stabilized everywhere in the North Caucasus. The enemy did not get rich sources of Caucasian oil. And our countryman Daniil Ivanovich Sobkalov also contributed to this victory .For heroism, for skillful command in battle, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the 2nd degree. But the main award was still ahead. Taking part in the liberation of our country from the German invaders in 1943, he was awarded the order of Alexander Nevsky.

Senin Ivan Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Title: Political Officer. _x000D_ Branch of the military: Military-political Command. _x000D_ Military Unit: 267th Rifle Division (1st formation). _x000D_ Senin Ivan Mikhailovich was conscripted into the Soviet Army in June 1942. At first he graduated from 3-monthly courses of political personnel in Cavernous in the Gorky region, and then to the end of the war had been at the front as the first political Commissar of a company on the Western front, then Deputy of the Battalion Commander for Political Affairs and the Communist Leader of a battalion of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. In the battle on April 5, 1945, during the offensive on the Height 220 Senin I. M. explained the combat mission and in the chain of fighters rushed to storm the height, thereby inspiring the personal example of the company's personnel. As a result, they broke into the Height and gained a foothold. _x000D_ In the battle of 8-10 April 1945 in the area of the factory in Vienna, the battalion was given the task of knocking out the enemy from a large building and reaching the junction of three Railways. Senin Ivan Mikhailovich, being in the companies, explained the combat mission to the personnel who rushed forward. However, the enemy on the left flank fiercely resisted, leading a heavy fire and trying to counterattack our units. Confusion was spreading among our fighters. Senin I. M. restored the situation and himself, being in combat chains, went on the offensive. The enemy couldn't stand it and stepped back. The mission was accomplished. Despite the fierce fighting, I. M. Senin systematically engaged in the education of personnel, involving the best, distinguished in battle fighters in the ranks of Communist Party. During the offensive battles of March 16 to April 12, 1945, he recruited 16 people. Educational work and personal example he had shown have always contributed to the implementation of the assigned combat missions.

Merkushev, Ivan Ivanovich_x000D_ Merkushev Ivan Ivanovich is a Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). He was born on July 23, 1923 in the village of Verkhnyaya Senda, (now Mari-Tureksky district of Mari El). After finishing High School, he studied in the Agricultural Technical School. In February 1942, Merkushev was drafted to the Red Army. In 1943, he graduated from the Krasnodar Machine gun and Mortar School. Since August, 1943 he was fighting at war. By April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Merkushev was temporarily acting as the Commander of the 120-mm Mortar Division of the 106th Mortar Regiment of the 1st Mortar Brigade of the 5th Artillery Division of the 4th Artillery Corps of the breakthrough of the 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. He was distinguished at the storm of Berlin. At the end of April 1945, in the area of the Schönhausen-Allee metro station, when Merkushev's observation post was surrounded by the enemy, he did not leave his post, but continued to direct the military actions of the division, calling fire on his battery. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 31 of May 1945 for "exemplary performance of command combat missions at the front against the German invaders and displaying courage and heroism" Lieutenant Ivan Merkushev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the order of Lenin and Gold Star medal No. 6762. After the end of the war, Merkushev continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1956, he graduated from the advanced officer training course. In 1977, Merkushev was dismissed as a Colonel. He lived and worked first in Donetsk, then in the city of Alchevsk, Luhansk region of Ukraine. He died on November 26, 1999, and was buried in Alchevsk. He was also awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, the Red Star, and a number of medals. A memorial plaque in memory of Merkushev is installed by the Russian Military-Historical Society on the building of the Mari-Bilamorsk Secondary School of the Mari-Tureksky district, where he used to go to school.

Merkushev, Alexander Maksimovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Hero of the Soviet Union, Major, participant of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ He was born on November 14, 1918 in the city of Kazan in the Russian family of a worker. Since 1921, he lived in the city of Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region, where he graduated from 5th grade and the Federal Law school. He worked in a ship repair plant. He had been in the Red Army since 1938. Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev took part in the combats of the Great Patriotic war in August 1942. He had been a Communist since 1944. _x000D_ The company commander 457 th Infantry Regiment (1st Belorussian front), Senior Lieutenant A. M. Merkushev in combat 28.6.1944 — 29.6.1944 in the village Sitkovo (Bobruisk district, Mogilev region) and on the shosse Bobruisk—Minsk fought off 13 enemy attacks, trying to escape from the encirclement. For this feat, Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on March 24, 1945. _x000D_ Rewards: Gold Star Medal, Order of Lenin, Order of Alexander Nevsky, two orders of the Patriotic war of the 1st degree, three orders of the Red Star, medals, including: "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", medal "For Military Merit", medal "For Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" , medal "For Capture of Konigsberg", medal "For Capture of Berlin", medal "For Faultless Service" 1st degree. _x000D_ Memory: Honorary citizen of Kotlas (1987). In honor of the Hero's feat, three commemorative plaques have been installed in Kotlas: on the buildings of Lyceum No. 3 and Kotlas technical school of trade and public catering, as well as on the memorial wall in the city Park. _x000D_ On July 05, 2015, a bust of Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev was installed in the territory of the state educational institution of the Arkhangelsk region "Kotlas technical school of trade and public catering" (Arkhangelsk region, city of Kotlas) _x000D_ In 2016 Kotlas College of trade and public catering renamed to Kotlas College service named after A. M. Merkushev, also near the bust comes with 2 steles with the names of soldiers, former employees of the College.