Order of the Patriotic war

Fuat Galeevich Murzagulov_x000D_ Fuat Murzagulov was born on February 22, 1922. Before the war, he studied at the Sterlitamak Oil technical school, but in September 1941, as a 19-year-old boy, he went to the war. On November 20, 1941 he was sent to the Western front, in the area of Volokolamsk-Mozhaisk, near Moscow, where he fought against the Germans in a reconnaissance company. In particular, he went on a reconnaissance mission to find out the enemy's firing points. _x000D_ Here is how he recalls war days in his notes: _x000D_ "I arrived at the front when the Germans were attacking Moscow, there were retreats, and then offensives. That's when I saw with my own eyes all the horrors of war. I could not even imagine how a person can abuse someone so much, when I saw soldiers doused in gasoline and burned alive, stabbed with bayonets through the chest into the ground, burned villages, people swinging on gibbets. That's when I and all the others understood: whoever was a German, he was a fascist._x000D_ " On January 04, 1942, he was wounded for the first time in a recon mission near the city of Ruza. After recovery, he was sent to the Southwestern front as the commander of a pontoon platoon. With his platoon in the first company, which was commanded by his front-line comrade and friend, Milekhin Alexander Grigoryevich, went through the war to the end. _x000D_ In one of the letters Alexander Grigoryevich recalled: "We gathered quite different people, we had different characters, different views, different educations and even different nationalities. We had a Bashkir, a Kazakh, and a Russian, and for all that diversity, we lived very well. No one interfered with each other, there were no arguments, no quarrels. We respected each other, respected the human dignity in each and did not laugh at the shortcomings." _x000D_ He participated in the crossing of the Dnieper, Dniester, Vistula, Buk, Desna, Neman, Oder rivers…There were large and small water barriers. They built bridges on stilts, built underwater and surface ferry crossings across rivers, mined and de-mined roads and structures. In 1944, when crossing the Desna river in Moldova, he was awarded the "order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree", and for his participation in crossing the Neman river near the city of Jurburg, in Lithuania, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". He also has awards "for the Defense of Moscow" and "For Capture of Koningsberg". _x000D_ For the capture of Gdansk in Poland he was awarded the Polish medal "For the Oder, Nyssa and Baltic", where he received a second bullet wound on March 31, 1945. During the war, he traveled from the shores of the Black sea to the Baltic sea, from Moscow to Berlin. He liberated not only the Russian Land, but also Moldavia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and Germany. _x000D_ After the war, he graduated from the Ishimbai Oil technical school and worked for 40 years as a foreman in the Assembly shop. For his labor achievements, he was repeatedly awarded honorary diplomas and badges. He married at 35 years old, quite late by old tradition, on Akhmetshina Venus Biktimirovna. They lived happily married for almost 40 years and raised five children.

Malofeev Konstantin Stepanovich _x000D_ _x000D_ CITY: Ulyanovsk region, Sursky district, S. Kazuha _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 01.02.1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: - _x000D_ HISTORY: _x000D_ _x000D_ The story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" is dedicated to his great-uncle, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev, who was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and went to Berlin. During the war, my uncle was wounded several times, but he still returned to the front after the hospital to his friends-fellow soldiers. That was the strength of will to win. The story is based on the recollections of my uncle. From the author. The Great Patriotic War is an epic of unprecedented heroism of our people. And no matter how many generations pass, people will return again and again to the Victory that the Russian soldier had brought to the world. Our people got this victory at a high price, millions of people died, and many returned with severe wounds that bother their hearts and were not able to heal. For the younger generation, war is history, a sacred memory of those who died on the battlefields. This is our pain, our hope… Years will pass, but the immortal exploits of our brave, steadfast soldiers who wrote the glorious pages of Victory in the heroic chronicle of the Great Patriotic War will never disappear from the memory of our people. I especially want to tell you about the exploits of my close relatives, who bore all the hardships of that brutal war on their shoulders. And my great-niece wanted to tell me about her great-uncle, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev. I will not only tell you about my uncle in this story, but more than one event was held for the younger generation. I'm proud of my uncle, and may he rest in peace. He will always live in my heart and I will tell my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about him. And as long as we keep, transmit and remember those who gave them to us. We will be able to overcome everything. They corresponded with their uncle until the last days of his death. So let's not forget about the greatest feat that the Russian people have accomplished! After all, they are all defenders who were not afraid to shed their blood in the name of the Motherland! In the name of the future life! With the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" she took part in the all - Russian literary contest "Heroes of the great Victory-2016" and received a certificate of participation and a semi-finalist Diploma for the story. Also with the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" I took part in a competition for writing librarians, and my story was included in the literary, artistic, historical and local lore magazine "Vesi" special issue-2017 ("Libraries of Russia" part -2). The fate of an ordinary soldier Constantine. In a peasant family, Polina and Stepan Malofeyev in the village of Knyazhukha, Sursky district, Ulyanovsk region, the long-awaited firstborn was born, and they named him Konstantin. The Malofeyev family had many children, and they had three more sons – heroes: Victor, Eugene, and Anatoly. Constantine was the oldest of the brothers. He grew up a very curious and intelligent son. And so passed a carefree and cheerful childhood, and Konstantin went to school. But, however, the war disrupted all his plans, did not give him the opportunity to continue studying further after the end of the seven-year period. A treacherous enemy has suddenly attacked our Homeland, and the entire nation is in grave danger. All the men in the village were conscripted into the Soviet Army. There were only women, old people and children left in the village. The head of the Malofeyev family, Stepan, was also called to the front, and Konstantin remained in charge of the house, and was an assistant for his mother and for his brothers. The war made everyone grow up at once. And before the draft to the front, Kostya worked on a collective farm, ploughed, sowed, harvested crops, it was not easy, but he managed, because he had responsibility for his younger brothers and his beloved mother, Polina. The war was in full swing. The house Malofeeva it's bad news, came to funerals, that Stephen died in battle against the enemy. And after this news, Constantine decided that he would avenge his father's death on his enemies. Kostya told his mother and brothers that now it was time for him to stand up for the Motherland and his family. At the end of 1942, Konstantin finally received a summons from the military Commissariat. When my mother found out that her assistant Kostya would soon leave his father's house and go to war with the enemy. She would not survive if he died, because Pauline had already lost her husband and did not want to lose her son. Polina saw off her beloved son Kostya to the war. She was very worried and worried about her son. Polina made the sign of the cross over him and placed the living animals to her heart, so that they would protect and keep him from destruction. After being conscripted into the Soviet Army, before being sent to the front, Konstantin was sent to a sniper school in Inzu, Ulyanovsk region. It was difficult to learn, since the training of snipers was accelerated, but Kostya passed the training successfully. The year 1943 came, after completing accelerated courses in the sniper school, private Konstantin was sent to the second Ukrainian front in the 278th guards rifle regiment, which was formed near Kharkiv. And from that moment, he began his frontline workdays. Their regiment took part in the attack on Kirovograd, the battle was deadly, the regiment was thinning every day, there were no replacements and there were fewer and fewer soldiers left. And now there were only seven men left of their regiment, who had fought the enemy to the last. Near the village of Novgorodki, the fighter Kostya Malofeev and his comrades faced the Germans closely, and in this deadly battle private Konstantin was wounded, but thanks to the scout, he was taken from the battlefield, as he could not move himself. In a field hospital, he underwent two complex operations, but the operations did not help, and Kostya was upset that he would be commis-sioned and sent home, and he did not want to go home, he wanted to return to the ranks of the Soviet Army and continue to fight, and save his Homeland from the invaders. The doctors send Kostya to the deep rear, to the town of Buzuluk in the Orenburg region, where he again goes to the operating table, and endures several more operations after which he lay in the hospital for another four months away from his comrades. But he did not give up hope, fighting with his illness to return to the front again. Kostya told his wounded comrades what had happened to him before he was wounded. Here is one episode of military operations that private Constantine told his fellow soldiers: "they were making their way to the designated place and suddenly out of nowhere, an enemy plane appeared, a German vulture, came in three times and circled over our heads, raked with a machine gun, wanted to destroy us, and we remained alive and unharmed, the enemy failed to overcome us, Russian snipers. We were saved by a miracle and our guardian angels." And so, finally, the treatment ended and Kostya was sent to Sverdlovsk in the 39th tank training regiment. After completing his training there, Konstantin receives an appointment and becomes a commander of a gun, and goes to the front. They were brought to the Sandomierz bridgehead of the first Ukrainian front in the third tank army, commanded by General Rybalko. From here again, Kosti began fighting and the liberation of Polish cities such as Kielce, Wloszczowa, Lubliniec, częstochowa. Then freed the coast with his fellow soldiers city of Silesia, Opole, Wroslaw, bolesławiec, Forst. Kostya and his companions did not seem to have gone far in the fight against the enemy, but it was difficult. As Konstantin himself recalls: "Our soldiers fought to the death, only 600 thousand of our comrades died during the liberation of Poland." Personally, Kostya himself was in mortal danger several times, but death retreated from him, you can just say lucky, and he was also protected by his mother's prayers, which she put to his heart. And so Konstantin received a secret mission from the command, for which task he was well prepared. That night there was heavy rain and terrible darkness, and because of the bad weather Constantine lost his way and attacked a German ambush. But he was not confused and the task command performed. The next combat mission took place, when crossing the Oder, their tank had to break up a German column. Ahead was a railway with a high embankment and the tank could not immediately overcome the railway track. At this time, Konstantin was already a tank commander. When the tank cleared the railway track, the tank commander poked his head out of the hatch to see if they had arrived in the right direction. Suddenly, he saw several German soldiers ahead of him behind the embankment, who were lying down and did not think of retreating. Konstantin immediately jumped out of the tank and found himself alone among the Germans, and in his hand he had only a revolver, which contained only seven rounds. The Germans started firing, but he did not give up and fired at them with his revolver. Part of the Germans were destroyed, and the rest they suppressed with a tank. The task was done again. The command for the performance of this task awarded Konstantin the order of the "red star" for combat actions and the defeat of the enemy column. But after such a fight, Kostya was hit by a German bomb and was covered with earth's soil. He was shell-shocked and speechless. Thanks to my comrades, Konstantin recalled, who found me and dug me up. Fellow soldiers_x000D_ thought that he had died and wanted to bury him in a mass grave. But then, Konstantin began to come to himself. His comrades, he did not hear what they were asking him about. After a few hours, his hearing began to return, and he heard the sound of his tank's engine. Our troops were moving closer and closer to Germany. And now Berlin is not far away. Near Berlin, Konstantin's tank and another were on an ambush mission. The Germans made a psychic attack, but our troops stood to the death and our troops won the battle. The Germans who remained alive began to retreat. From April 16 to may 2, our soldiers stormed Berlin. On one of the streets it was necessary to conduct a reconnaissance and the honor fell to the crew of Constantine. During this operation, the tank was hit, burned, and the crew itself miraculously survived. A few days later, Kostya and his crew received another tank and continued to fight further. For his actions in the liberation of Berlin, Konstantin was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree and the medal for the"Capture of Berlin". Our soldiers liberated the German cities one by one: Cottbus, Lubens, Riza, and others. On may 2, we left Berlin, it was necessary to take Dresden and liberate Prague, Czechoslovakia. For the liberation of Prague, Konstantin was awarded another medal. he already has three orders and 14 medals on his chest. The war ended, our people liberated the Motherland from its enemies, but it was a shame that our soldiers continued to die. They continued to fight the Ukrainian internationalists, fought for about a year near the Carpathians. We were fighting in Lviv, and again Konstantin almost died in a fight with the internationalists in one of the battles, he was fired at by a machine gun, he miraculously survived. After the war, Konstantin served in the army for almost 8 years and was demobilized in 1950. He returned to his native village Kazuha, where he met his only love. He married and together with his beloved wife Anechka moved to the city of Kanash, where they lived together in a happy marriage for 55 years and raised three children Alexander, Antonina and Yuri. My great-uncle Konstantin Stepanovich lived his life with dignity. His life was full of numerous trials directly related to the Great Patriotic War. He was able to bear the full weight of the war on his shoulders, no matter what the victims. For bravery, fortitude and courage Konstantin Stepanovich was awarded the order of Patriotic war II degree, order of red star, medals "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "For liberation of Prague", "For taking of Berlin" medal of Zhukov and many commemorative medals. I am very proud of my uncle, who is no longer with us, and his services to the Fatherland. I will never forget it, and I will always remember it. It lives in my heart, in the family album. _x000D_ I don't remember the date of death. Malofeeva, S. A. Fate of the Private Constantine / S. A. Malofeeva. Ulyanovsk, 2018, 8 p.: illustrations (Samizdat) _x000D_ Great-niece of Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeeva Svetlana Aleksandrovna

Mironov Leonid Sergeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 06/16/1915 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 10/10/1991 _x000D_ _x000D_ Leonid Mironov was born on June 16, 1915 in the village of Petrushino (now - Skopinsky district of Ryazan region). Since 1925, he lived in the village of Lyapino, Yaroslavl District, Yaroslavl Region, graduated from seven classes of school and a school of factory apprenticeship. He lived and worked in Kharkov, Chelyabinsk. In June 1934, Mironov was called up to serve in the USSR Navy. In 1938 he graduated from the Leningrad Naval School named after M. V. Frunze. He participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War in the Northern Fleet. _x000D_ He took part in the battles of the Soviet-Japanese war, being the commander of the frigate "EK-2", 1st brigade of patrol ships of the Pacific Fleet. On August 14, 1945, Mironov's frigate with an advanced landing detachment entered the bay of the city of Seisin (now Chongjin, North Korea) and successfully landed troops, which contributed to the successful capture of the city. Mironov personally directed the fire of his frigate, contributing to a large extent to the success of the paratroopers' actions._x000D_ On August 15, the frigate landed a second echelon of paratroopers, and then delivered a large group of wounded to Vladivostok. Thanks to the constant maneuvering, the frigate did not suffer at all. _x000D_ On August 22-23, 1945, Mironov's frigate delivered an amphibious detachment to the southern tip of Sakhalin, which contributed to the capture of the port of Maoka (now Kholmsk). _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 14, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Leonid Mironov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for "courage and heroism shown in the fight against Japanese militarists". _x000D_ After the end of the war, Mironov continued to serve in the USSR Navy. He graduated from special courses for officers and the Naval Academy. In June 1960, with the rank of captain of the first rank, Mironov was transferred to the reserve. He lived and worked in Riga. _x000D_ He died on October 10, 1991, and was buried at Mikel's cemetery in Riga. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star, and other medals.

Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan Galeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan was born in May 1920, in the village of Yangildino, Kozlovsky district of the Chuvash ASSR. My grandfather was 21 years old when he went to the city of Irkutsk, where the military engineering school. In the winter of 1942, my grandfather graduated from high school and together with the same young lieutenants, in fact, still boys born in 1920-1922, left in an echelon to the West, to the front line to Kalinin. _x000D_ He arrived in the city of Kalinin (Tver). The city had just been liberated from the Nazis. My grandfather often remembered Kalinin, the city where the war had begun for him, and where, after a few weeks as an Assistant Commandant, he had directed the young recruits to their destination and waited impatiently to be sent himself. _x000D_ Finally, the direction to the front was received: Gzhatsk-Sychevka-Rzhev. Being a military miner, a pontooner, he was able to put mines, read mine plans, reveal the systems of installing mines._x000D_ Once, while performing a combat mission, my grandfather, as part of a group of soldiers, found himself in a minefield. _x000D_ My grandfather told me: "I gave a command Lie Down! It was night, dark, snowdrifts, and a cold wind, I was full of fear and resentment that we might die so stupidly. I was lying on my back, pressed tightly to the ground. There's something hard under my shoulder blades… I put my hands carefully under my back, feeling the ground inch by inch on both sides, my mind racing: is there a mine under me? Why didn't it explode? I change my body position slightly. Again checking every inch of ground. And it was dark, nothing to see, just the overcast sky and the wind. Finally, his hand found something solid. More, more, my fingers hurt. Wait! I have a knife with me. Now it's easier!" Indeed, my grandfather was lying on a landmine. He managed to defuse it, find three more mines and defuse them. Tthen he figured out the scheme of the minefield, so that together with his comrades they made a passage to their own location. They only returned in the morning. Everyone was excited by the feeling of happiness in life. _x000D_ And then my grandfather is suddenly told: "Shake off the snow on your temple." But this "snow" came and remained on his temples for the rest of his days. Snow that could only be shaved off. Gray hair in 22 years! _x000D_ Everything first is all unusual and memorable for a long time. The first order is the order of the Red Star. It was given to a young Misha Mukhamedzyanov, also at the age of 22. Senior comrades demanded to wash it out according to a military tradition. This meant placing the order in a soldier's mug, filling it to the brim with alcohol and drinking so that he could take out the washed order with his teeth. _x000D_ "I did everything right. I drank, I took my breath away, I was still holding on when the holes were made in my tunic, and then I don't remember anything. The first order, the first Cup of alcohol! " - my grandfather recalled. _x000D_ My grandfather recalled: "I was accepted as a candidate of the Communist party at Rzhev, when there were heavy combats in a row. Oh, it was difficult! We did not feel the change of day and night.We left and occupied localities, then left again and occupied them again. The ranks thinned and filled up and thinned again. _x000D_ In the newly liberated village, when the smell of burning, mixed with the sweetly disgusting smell of torn flesh, this smell of war still lingered over this village, a Communist party meeting was held in the last hut. At this meeting, I was accepted as a candidate for membership of the party. And then I went back into combat. It was 1942." _x000D_ My grandfather went through the entire war, was twice wounded. Victory day was celebrated in East Prussia. He finished the war with the rank of Captain, as a Engineer of 1229th Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment of 371st Rifle Vitebsk Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ He was awarded orders of the Red Star, Patriotic war I and II degree, medals "For Capture of Konigsberg" and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". He was demobilized after the war with the rank of Major. He died on March 11, 1975.

Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Guards Senior Sergeant Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich was born in 1924, in the village of Tatanovo, Tambov region. He began the war in August 1942. In regular units of the active army he had been since March 1943 in 854th Rifle Regiment of 277th Rifle Division. _x000D_ He was twice wounded: September 9, 1943 and August 26, 1944. After recovery he continued to serve in 612th Rifle Regiment of 144th Rifle Division. He took part in the liberation of Belarus and Lithuania, as well as in the combat on the territory of East Prussia. He was awarded three orders of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic war I degree, medals "for Military Merit", "for Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Japan", various commemorative medals and awards. _x000D_ Letters from the front or stories about the war in the family did not survive, my grandfather did not like to remember those terrible events. _x000D_ After 75 years, according to archival documents, I partially restored the combat path of my ancestor. Dedicated to my grandfather... (a poem in Russian by Dmitry Klyuchevsky, grandson).

Medvedev Alexander Nikiforovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 12/15/1923 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 06/24/1986 _x000D_ _x000D_ Alexander Nikiforovich Medvedev was a private, recon of 343rd Separate Reconnaissance Company (273rd Infantry Bezhitskaya Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 2nd class Division, 6th army, 1st Ukrainian front). He became a Full Knight of the Order of Glory. Medvedev Alexander Nikiforovich was born on December 15, 1923, in the village of Varvarinka of the Orenburg district of the Orenburg province (now the Tyulgansky district of the Orenburg region), into a peasant family. In 1935 he graduated from elementary school. He worked in kolkhoz. He was drafted into the Red Army by the Troitsk district military registration and enlistment office of the Chkalovsk (now Orenburg) region on April 27, 1942. He served in 13th Reserve Rifle Brigade. He had participated in the Great Patriotic War since July 25, 1942. He fought in 36th Infantry Regiment on the Southern and Southwestern Fronts. _x000D_ He was a participant in the combat of Stalingrad, but only for one month: in the combat on August 27, 1942, near the village of Kletskaya, Stalingrad Region, he was seriously wounded. After long-term treatment in evacuation hospital No. 4409, in November 1942 he was sent as a shooter to 14th reserve rifle brigade (Chuvash ASSR). _x000D_ From August 1943 he is again in the army, fought in 343rd Separate Reconnaissance Company of 273rd rifle division on the Bryansk, 2nd Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts. He was wounded and shell-shocked three times. Participated in the Bryansk offensive operation and the combat for the Dnieper. In August 1943 he was wounded again. _x000D_ Subsequently, Alexander Medvedev took part in the Gomel-Rechitsa and Lvov-Sandomierz strategic offensive operations, in combats for the defense and expansion of the Sandomierz foothold, in the Vistula-Oder operation. By order of 273rd division of February 23, 1944, for courage and heroism in combats against the Nazi invaders and participation in the capture of a "control" prisoner near the village of Aleksandrovka, Polesskaya Oblast, on February 21-22, Red Army soldier Medvedev was awarded the medal "For Courage." _x000D_ On the night of June 6-7, 1944, the Red Army soldier Medvedev, as part of a reconnaissance group, was part of a group to capture a "control" prisoner in the area of the village of Torchin. He actively supported the group with machine gun fire, disarmed the sentry in a throw and warned the group against the consequences and possible losses. By order of 273rd Infantry Division of June 17, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. During the pursuit of the enemy in the area of the settlement of Sukhodoly in the Lublin Voivodeship of Poland, the Red Army soldier Medvedev, bypassing the enemy column, attacked it and captured 2 soldiers and one non-commissioned officer. He, personally thrown by him grenades, destroyed 3 enemy soldiers and captured one soldier and a non-commissioned officer. Medvedev was nominated for the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ By order of 273rd Infantry Division, he was re-awarded the Order of Glory III degree. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 20, 1951, he was rewarded with the Order of Glory, I degree. _x000D_ On November 22, 1944, during the next reconnaissance exit, Alexander Medvedev discovered and destroyed the enemy firing point, ensuring the completion of the mission. When, upon returning through the no-man's land, a heavy mortar fire was opened on the reconnaissance group, at the risk of his own life, he carried on himself, one after the other, two seriously wounded comrades. _x000D_ He was presented for the Order of the Red Star, but at the headquarters of the division, the award was replaced with a second medal "For Courage". _x000D_ On the night of April 1, 1945, the Red Army soldier Medvedev was part of a capture group near the German city of Breslau (now the city of Wroclaw in Poland), to capture a "control" prisoner. Reaching the trench, Medvedev discovered the enemy's dugout. Having removed the sentry, he threw an anti-tank grenade at the door of the dugout, in which there were 15 enemy soldiers, and destroyed the dugout. The captured prisoner gave valuable information about the enemy. _x000D_ Alexander Medvedev was nominated for the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ By order of 6th Army dated May 8, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, II degree. _x000D_ In November 1945, the Red Army soldier Alexander Dmitrievich Medvedev was demobilized. He lived in the village of Tyulgan, then in the village of Troitskoye, Orenburg region. He worked in kolkhoz again. _x000D_ To commemorate 40th anniversary of Victory in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He died on June 24, 1986.

Morozova Maria Ivanovna_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 08.08.1999_x000D_ _x000D_ Maria Ivanovna Morozova, was born on February 9, 1917, in the Kalinin region, Loknyansky district, Kladovitsy village, in a peasant family. Maria graduated from a seven-year school, a factory school (FZU), completed flight and glider training. She supervised the work of the pioneer leaders. She worked in the Komsomol Comitee and Osoviakhim. _x000D_ Only her mother (Goryunova Daria Semyonovna) was evacuated to Krasny Kholm. The rest of the family: Maria Ivanovna, her father (Goryunov Ivan Yakovlevich), two brothers (Mikhail and Nikolai) and two sisters (Alexandra and Evdokia), all, were in the army. First there was the North-Western Front (90th Separate BAO-60 RAB), then 3rd Baltic Front, the Moscow Military District, 2nd Belorussian Front, and the Northern Group of Forces. Maria Ivanovna, participated in the capture of Konigsberg, then there was Poland. She became a Communist in April 1940. At the front, she met her future husband, the Captain of Medical Service, Mikhail Vasilyevich Morozov. _x000D_ Comrade Morozova was awarded nine medals and an order, including the medals "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Maria received a special merut pension with the presentation of the sign "50 years of stay in the Communist Party." _x000D_ All the war years, being at forward airfields, she participated in the provision and maintenance of combat aircraft flights. For example, in 1943, at the Vypolzovo airfield, during massive enemy air raids (from 19-00 to 5-00 in the morning), all medical personnel were killed during the bombing and she had to provide medical assistance to the wounded. _x000D_ Regardless of the busy days at an open airfiled, at night she had to stuff cartridges into the links for machine guns and cannons installed on combat aircraft in a cold dugout with lamps made from a cartridge case. _x000D_ All her brothers and sisters, as well as her father, being communists, went through the entire war and survived. In peacetime, after retiring with her husband, since 1960 she lived in the city of Rossosh, worked at the Rossosh pedagogical school, and raised her daughter Tamara.

Metelyagin Alexander Zakharovich_x000D_ _x000D_ CITY: Kirov region, Nemsky district, the village of Maloye Cherepanovo_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 11/22/1923 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/21/1997 _x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Metelyagin Alexander Zakharovich, was born on November 22, 1923 in the Kirov region, Nemsky district, the village of Maloe Cherepanovo. In 1929, the family moved to Izhevsk, where he entered school and graduated in 1941. After school, he worked at a motorcycle factory as a milling machine operator from August 1941 to September 1942. He was called up to serve in the Soviet Army and sent to 2nd reserve airborne regiment. As part of 13th Guards Regiment of the 1st Airborne Division, he participated in the combat near Staraya Russa. _x000D_ On August 7, 1943, he received a minor shrapnel wound in his thigh with a slight concussion. After treatment in a hospital in the city of Vyshny Volochek and completing courses for junior lieutenants, my father in May 1944 was sent as a platoon commander to 1st Baltic Front, to 6th Guards Army, 51st Guards Division, 156th Guards Rifle Regiment. Participated in combat near the city of Vitebsk. On June 23, 1944, after an artillery preparation, the regiment began to attack the headquarters of the fascist regiment in the village of Filatovo. The platoon commanded by my father destroyed 2 teams of German anti-tank guns and 3 enemy machine-gun points in this battle. During a further offensive near Sirotino station, calling on his soldiers to attack, he was seriously wounded in the leg by a German sniper who fired explosive dum-dum bullets. He lost a lot of blood. My father was taken from the front line in a cradle, which was suspended under the wing of a small Po-2 "corncob" plane. _x000D_ For these merits comrade Metelyagin was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In a hospital in the city of Vyazniki, he underwent a surgery, lay for a long time, "saved" his leg, but my father began to limp and walk with a cane. After the hospital, he was given a disability and sent on long-term leave to improve his health. _x000D_ He never got back to the front, returned to Izhevsk and in 1945 entered an industrial technical school. He graduated with honors and in 1948 began to study further at the Leningrad Military Mechanical Institute (now the DF Ustinov Baltic State Technical University "Voenmech"), where he received a higher education and a diploma with honors. _x000D_ In civilian life, for a long time he successfully worked as the head of the design department for the Order of Lenin at the Zlatoust machine-building plant in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region. Made a significant contribution to the development of non-standard equipment for testing products of special equipment; took part in the design and development of samples of new technology, technological equipment; the introduction of advanced technologies for the manufacture of prototypes and serial samples of products, weapons production, production of household electric stoves and various equipment of the plant's shops. Has copyright certificates and patents for invention. AZ Metelyagin Honored Labor Veteran. Listed in the Encyclopedia of the Chelyabinsk Region. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the First Class of the Patriotic War, Friendship of Peoples, medals "For Victory over Germany", "For Labor Distinction", "For Valorous Labor", a small "Silver Medal of VDNKh" and others. _x000D_ The material was prepared by Vladimir A. Metelyagin. Links to the encyclopedia: http://chel-portal.ru/enc/Metelyagin_Alexander_Zakharovich or http://chel-portal.ru/encyclopedia/Metelyagin/t/10

Mednikov Ivan Fedorovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 10/14/1920 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 02/13/1996_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mednikov Ivan Fedorovich was born on October 14, 1920 in the village of Molotitsy, Novokotlitsk volost, Murom district (now it is the territory of Borisoglebsk rural settlement, Murom district, Vladimir region). He was drafted into the Red Army in 1940 by the Murom Comissariat of the Gorky region. From October 14, 1940 to June 15, 1941 he was a cadet of the school of junior commanders, from June 15, 1941 to January 15, 1942 he was a gun commander of the artillery battalion of the Barabash fortified region of the Leningrad Military District. _x000D_ From January 15, 1942, he served on the Western Front in the mortar battalion of 121st Separate Rifle Brigade as commander of the mortar squad. From November 30, 1942 to September 15, 1945 he was a commander of the ammunition platoon of 681st Infantry Regiment of 133rd Infantry Division in the Western and 2nd Ukrainian Fronts. _x000D_ On February 12, 1943, by Order 09 / n, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". The award list states: "during offensive operations on December 17, 1942, under heavy enemy mortar fire, delivered shells to the battery and ensured the uninterrupted operation of the guns." _x000D_ By order 018 / n of May 6, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The award list states: "for the period of offensive battles from March 10 to March 30, 1944, he uninterruptedly provided the battery with ammunition, despite the impassable roads and spring thaw. During the formation of the Dniester River, when combat units were being ferried and it was impossible for transport to cross, Comrade Mednikov found a way out, drove 3 km down and managed to cross with his wagon train and catch up with the battery. 03/27/1944 participated in repelling the enemy counterattack, trying to surround the village Medvezhye, and he killed 17 German soldiers with machine gun fire and captured 3 Germans. " _x000D_ By order 01 / n of January 11, 1945, he was presented to the Order of the Red Star. The award list reads: "On 12/01/1944, in the battle for the village of Onga on the outskirts of the town of Miskolc, he contributed to the timely firing, as a result of the battery fire destroyed 2 enemy firing points." By order No. 9 of January 10, 1946, he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of April 8, 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Here is a short biography of my grandfather. Behind each award is an act that brings Victory even a little closer. I'm proud of him. His concepts of honor and duty make me take responsibility for my actions.

Makarova Nadezhda Ivanovna_x000D_ _x000D_ I was born in 1922 in the Kuibyshev region, in the village of Natalyevka. Childhood was good and poor, there were friendly parents in the family of 4 children. I lived and studied in kolkhoz and finished 4 classes. I remember a hut about 30 meters in the village where we lived until I was 12 years old. There is a closet near the Russian stove, where my mother was preparing dinner. Dad grinded grain, mom baked delicious bread, pies, and even for the kolkhoz. _x000D_ But in 1932 there was a famine, the harvest was gone. Many left the village and we did as well. We put our belongings in the sleigh, covered with Dad's sheepskin coat. We arrived to another kolkhoz. First time we went to the village, my dad and I changed my mother’s sweater skirts and her hussars, in which she probably got married. We lived in one room with another family, there were three of them and six of us. And when I was 13, I went to work, sorting potatoes in the basement, and other children were like that too. We come home from work and we saw firewood with my dad. This is my childhood. In the summer I worked with my mother on weeding and sorting in the barn. Mom poured grain into the sorting machine for me, and I took turns doing the light work for her, raking off the grain. _x000D_ At the age of 18, I went to my grandmother in Chelyabinsk, where I found a job by recruiting on the sandy plant "Stankomash", where I worked until 1943, then went to the front with a friend. I was taken into the Artillery Regiment No. 1865, where I was a gunner on an 85 mm cannon. There were few men, only girls. I was in the hospital where I met for the Victory Day on May 9. The war is over and the cannons were silent, we celebrate Victory Day, the best day of the year. Glory to the lost friends and commanders. After the war I went to the plant "Stankomash" again, worked in workshop No. 1. _x000D_ I have awards: a medal "For Victory over Germany", the Order of the Patriotic War and 7 anniversary awards.

Meshcheryakov Vasily Dmitrievich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 08/06/1921 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 03/04/1994 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was born on August 6, 1921 in the village of Khonevo, Mokshansk District, Penza Region, into a peasant family. Graduated from 7 classes. In 1931, the family was deported to Kazakhstan. In October 1940, Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and ended up serving in 152nd separate tank battalion, which was part of 36th light tank brigade, stationed in the city of Vladimir-Volynsky (Western Ukraine), 10-15 km from the border USSR with German-occupied Poland. In March 1941, the formation of 22nd Mechanized Corps began in the Kiev Special Military District. The corps was supposed to include 41st Panzer Division, which was formed on the basis of the staffs of 36th and 38th Kiev Military District Light Tank Brigades. On June 22, 1941, according to the mobilization plan, the division left Vladimir-Volynsky for the Kovel area. But on the way, tanks were not able to overcome a swamp and suffered heavy losses from air strikes and artillery fire enemy._x000D_ In the chaos and confusion of the first days of the war, by June 25, 41st Panzer Division was split into small parts and attached to infantry units, and lost its penetrating power of the "strike fist". Until the beginning of July, part of the division was in the Kovel area, covering the Brest direction. Part of the division's forces, having 16 KB and 106 T-26 tanks, participated in the famous tank counterattack near Dubno against the 14th German Panzer Division, which failed, but was able to delay the German offensive for sometime. After retreating to the east, the remnants of the division from July 10 to July 14 participated in a counterattack in the Novograd-Volynsk direction against the German 13th Panzer and 25th Motorized Divisions, as well as the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler motorized brigade that supported them. On July 18, they began to retreat to the northeast. In late July - early August, the remnants of the division fought in the Korostensky fortified area in Ukraine. By August 19, only one tank remained in the staff of the tank division. At the end of August, the infantry unit actually defended itself on the Dnieper River in the Chernobyl region, which is north of Kiev. On September 9, the division was disbanded._x000D_ At this tragic time, almost the entire South-Western Front fell into a gigantic encirclement in the Kiev region. Few were be able to get out of the Kiev entrapment. Someone continued to fight in the Red Army, and someone, like Vasily Meshcheryakov, joined partisans. _x000D_ Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov for more than two years struck in the rear of the German fascist invaders. At the end of November 1943, the Chapaev partisan detachment, where Vasily Meshcheryakov fought, united with the advancing units of the Red Army in Belarus, near the city of Khoiniki, Gomel region. So for the second time Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov joined the ranks of the Red Army. _x000D_ He became a machine gunner of 218th Guards Rifle Regiment of 77th Guards Rifle Chernigov Order of Lenin of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Further combat path of the guard sergeant Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov and his participation in the division in combat operations: liberation of Belarus - Gomel-Rechitsa offensive operation (from November 10, 1943 to March 1944); liberation of Ukraine and Poland - defensive combat in the area of Kovel (from April 20 to July 17, 1944); Brest-Lublin offensive operation (from July 18 to July 29, 1944); forcing the Vistula River, capturing and expanding footholds (from July 29 to November 1944); Vistula-Oder offensive operation as part of the shock group of the 1st Belorussian Front, reaching the Oder River and seizing the foothold (from January 14 to February 2, 1945); Capture of Berlin operation as part of the shock group of 1st Belorussian Front from the Küstrin foothold, access to the Elbe River in the Magdeburg region; February-April 1945 foothold combats, from April 16 to May 8, 1945 an offensive on Berlin. _x000D_ Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov especially was distinguished in combat on the territory of Poland and Germany, as evidenced by his military awards. _x000D_ Guard senior sergeant V. D. Meshcheryakov is a full holder of the Order of Glory of all 3 degrees, also awarded the Order of the Red Star, two medals "For Courage", medals "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 years. " _x000D_ In 1946, the guard Starshina Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov was demobilized and returned home. After the war, he lived in Penza and worked at the Stroydetal # 1 plant as a carpenter, joiner, locksmith, foreman. _x000D_ In 1985, in honor of 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. _x000D_ My grandfather had golden hands. He made furniture, sewed and repaired shoes, even made toys for his grandchildren from wood. Vasily Dmitrievich Meshcheryakov died on March 4, 1994. We will keep the memory of our heroic grandfather.

Mironov Veniamin Borisovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 12/29/1912 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 08/20/1980 _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Veniamin Borisovich Mironov, Hero of the Soviet Union, colonel. _x000D_ He was born on December 29, 1912 in the village of Konstantinovka (now - Romodanovsky district of Mordovia) in the family of a priest. In 1929, after the successful completion of his studies at the Saransk secondary school of the 2nd stage with a pedagogical bias, his grandfather volunteered to work in Siberia, an activist of the voluntary society Osoviakhim, a member of the society "Down with illiteracy". He began his career as a teacher in secondary school No. 14 in Tomsk. In 1934 he voluntarily entered the artillery school. In 1936 he was sent to study at the Military Academy named after V.M. Frunze. He was lucky to study together with S.M.Budyonny. In June 1941 he received a diploma. From June 1941 he was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ The combat path of Veniamin Borisovich was truly impressive: in the first months of the war he heroically defended Kiev, in 1942 he fought in street battles in Stalingrad, including in its hottest spots, such as the Tractor Plant and the Barricades plant, then on the Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper in 43rd, in 44th liberated Belarus and Poland, took Berlin in May 45th. _x000D_ On May 31, 1945 "for exemplary performance of combat missions ... and the heroism and courage shown at the same time" the Guard Lieutenant Colonel VB Mironov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 7369). On June 24, 1945 Mironov V.B. commanded a column of heroes of Berlin Capture at the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. _x000D_ After the war, he continued to serve in the army. After retiring to the reserve in 1955, Veniamin Borisovich settled in Saransk, where he worked as a military commander in secondary school No. 20 (today it is the Gymnasium named after Hero of the Soviet Union V.B. Mironov). _x000D_ Until his death in 1980, Veniamin Mironov was engaged in the military-patriotic education of the younger generation. There is a memorial plaque on the house where he lived. His memory is also honored at the St. Petersburg Military Institute of Physical Culture, in the museum of which there is his bust. By the decision of the Saransk City Council of April 30, 1986, one of the new streets in Saransk was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Mironov. People like Veniamin Borisovich Mironov are truly our gold fund. I am very proud of my grandfather.

Mavzyutov Gazis Zagrukovich _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Gazis Zagrukovich Mavzyutov was born on November 24, 1924 in the village of Abdulovo, Cherdaklinsky district. He lost his father early, who perished in the GULAG camps. As a child, he mastered several professions to feed his sick mother, younger sister and himself - a schoolboy. Immediately after the Day of Farewell Bell at school on 22nd of June, he went to the military registration and enlistment office. He was sent to the Moscow region, where a new tank corps was being formed. Gazis became the gunner of the T-34 tank gun of 213rd Tank Brigade, later renamed 15th Guards Tank Brigade of 1st Guards Don Tank Corps. He was baptized under fire on November 19, 1942 in the Stalingrad direction. The brigade had been in continuous combat until February 2, 1943. Having lost many tanks and people in the combat, the brigade was withdrawn from combats and sent to Tula. There they received a replenishment of personnel and new machines. The 1st Guards Don Tank Corps was preparing for combat on the Kursk Bulge ... Mavzyutov burned in a tank, was wounded many times, but survived. _x000D_ Being a disabled WWII veteran, he became a successful leader who won honor and respect among several generations of residents of the Ulyanovsk region. He began his career in the village of Abdulovo, where he worked in the Malo-Kandala Communist Department as a propagandist and deputy head of the propaganda and agitation department of the district party committee. Since 1950 (at the age of 26) he worked as the first secretary of the Staro-Kulatkinsky Communist Department. In November 1955, he became the head of the regional newspaper Znamya Lenina. After a while the energetic leader was recommended as the first secretary of the Novomalyklinsky district committee. From January 1965 to March 1982 he became the first secretary of the Melekess Communist Department (up to retirement due to disability). _x000D_ “Under his leadership, the Melekess district achieved great success in the economy, agriculture, social sphere, and cultural life. In the morning it was impossible to find him in his office, he went to the fields, to the farms or shops. All managers and many specialists He remembered birthdays of all his managers and specialists, was aware of their everyday problems, knew about their children. " From March 1982 to 1998 he was a Director of the Melekess Agricultural College. Author of a book on the development of agriculture._x000D_ "After retiring, he began to work at the Melekessky agricultural technical school, was director, taught political economy, led the section of agriculture. He showed the particularaties of agronomy in his garden. Gazis Mavzyutov began construction of a new building of the technical school. Under his leadership, trees, bushes, flowers were planted here." _x000D_ The memorial plaque on the house of Gazis Mavzyutov was opened on April 21, 2012 in Dimitrovgrad on the Angarskaya street. Gazis Zagrukovich Mavzyutov was buried at the Muslim Muslim cemetery. _x000D_ Awards: G.Z. Mavzyutov was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad." Labor achivements of Gazis Zagrukovich were marked with two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, the medal "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin", two gold, two silver medals of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, numerous certificates and badges. _x000D_ He was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of the Ulyanovsk Region" and entered in the Golden Book of Honor of the Ulyanovsk Region in 2000. He was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Melekess District" and entered the Book of Honor of the Melekess District in 2003.

Mandzhikov Fedor Chimidovich_x000D_ Rank: Senior Lieutenant_x000D_ _x000D_ Mandzhikov Fedor Chimidovich was born on May 15, 1912 in the village of Ilovaiskaya, Rostov region. He was the 13th and only surviving child of the poor Kalmyk family of Chimid and Nadvida Mandzhikov. Through the care of his parents he received his primary education. According to his recollections, especially his mother always directed her son's thoughts to getting an education. _x000D_ In 1931 he entered the workers' faculty, and a year later he entered the first year of the Saratov Automobile and Road Institute named after I. Molotov. After graduating from the institute in 1937, road engineer Fyodor Chimidovich Mandzhikov worked as the head of critical sections of the construction of the Kuibyshev hydroelectric complex, then at the Zhezkazgan copper smelter. These were the largest industrial facilities of their time. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, Lieutenant and then Senior Lieutenant Mandzhikov fought in 231st road construction battalion of 5th tank army of the Southwestern Front and 1st Ukrainian front. He launched and built bridges for the active army under combat conditions. In June 1944, like many Kalmyk front-line soldiers, he was recalled from the active army. First, he was sent to the city of Chkalov (now Orenburg), then to Kyrgyzstan as the head of the road maintenance section No. 955 of the Frunze-Osh road. In May 1949 Fyodor Chimidovich was demobilized as a Kalmyk, but stayed to live and work in Frunze, head of the "Kirgizpischestroy" trust, then director of the city industrial complex. _x000D_ In 1951, he moved with his family to Kuibyshev (now Samara), where he took part in the construction of the largest metallurgical plant in Kuibyshev in those years in the country and in Europe. In 1961, at the invitation of the Kalmyk Regional Committee of the CPSU, which was then headed by the Hero of the Soviet Union Basan Badminovich Gorodovikov, Fyodor Chimidovich returned to his homeland. His merits were marked with the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, and many medals. He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Kalmyk ASSR, his name is on the list of Honorary Citizens of Elista. Fyodor Chimidovich was the head of a large family, raised six children, to whom he was a good loving father. He always maintained optimism, breadth and generosity of soul, interest in life and people and willingness to help. He did a lot of good and useful things in life.

Malyshev Petr Ivanovich_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 01/13/1916 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 06/17/2000 _x000D_ Title: Sergeant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Subdivision: 31st Guards Rifle Vitebsk Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ In 1938 Petr Malyshev was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. The service took place in the Far East in Sovetskaya Gavan in the maritime coast guard. During the service, he was trained to use a machine gun, mortar, heavy machine gun. After serving two years, he remained a civil servant. They guarded the settlements "Pervaya Rechka", "Vtoraya Rechka", which are closer to Khabarovsk. When the war began, he, like many others, was sent to the front from the town of Krasnaya Glinka, from the Otpor station. The train's route passed through his native land, the city of Inzu, past the native station of Kuzovatovo. In Inza, their echelon was reformed and continued its journey now to the city of Vitebsk, in 3rd Belarusian front. On the way, they were bombed, and he was wounded in the leg. From the hospital he went to the front. He passed the courses of the command squad, became the commander of the sapper squad of four. They employed mines and cleared the passages behind enemy lines. They cleared up roads for the Red Army from mines. _x000D_ He had reached the city of Konigsberg and was wounded at its capture. In 1947, during the Japanese aggression, he was discharged. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and the Zhukov Medal. _x000D_ From the history of the award of the Order of the Red Star. Description of the feat: _x000D_ "Comrade Malyshev, while securing the division at the achieved lines with his squad, worked at the front line under heavy enemy fire. He set more than 200 mines. On 9.03.1945 Comrade Malyshev kept the passage in the mine field for the advancing infantry units. They had passed through them without hindrance. On 23.3.45 Comrade Malyshev accompanied the divisional reconnaissance through the enemy's obstacle, coped with the mission in a perfect manner. "_x000D_ After war he worked as a mechanic at the kolkhoz "Fighter for Peace", Kuzovatovsky district, on a tracked tractor DT-75. The total work experience is more than fifty years. He raised six children.