Infantry

CITY: Antipovka village, Belo-Kholunitsky district, Kirov region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/06/1909 DATE OF DEATH: 01/05/1996 HISTORY: Luppov Feodot Yakovlevich was born in Antipovka village, Belo-Kholunitskiy district, Kirov region June 6, 1909. In 1941, he and his family: his wife Elena Afanasyevna and two sons Leonid, Vitaly (my great-grandfather) and their little daughter Anya, who was born exactly one year before the start of the war. June 22, 1940 - he lived in the village of Mokhovsky, Zaevsky village council, Nagorsk district, Kirov region and worked on a collective farm, that is, he was an ordinary peasant. In June 1941, my great-great-grandfather was 32 years old, and he was immediately called up to the front. He was an ordinary Red Army soldier in the infantry troops. In the spring of 1943, on the Volkhov front, where Theodot Yakovlevich fought, our troops went on the offensive. German aircraft bombed the attackers. Many died or were seriously injured in this battle. Among them was my great-great-grandfather. He was seriously wounded in the head and arm, and was also wounded. Great-great-grandfather was covered with earth. The sanitary dog ​​found him, dug him up and thereby saved his life. With severe wounds, the hero was sent to the hospital. After treatment, he became disabled and was discharged. Luppov returned home to his family. He has several awards for his participation in the war, but, unfortunately, they are lost. Due to the complex and unusual name (which is indicated differently in different documents), they could not be restored in the archives. My great-grandfather's family life was happy; after the war, he and his wife had two more daughters - Nina and Galina. All his life until retirement he worked on a collective farm. Feodot Yakovlevich died on January 5 in 1996 at the age of 86. I am proud of my hero and very grateful to him for his contribution to the Victory

CITY: Belgorod region, Rovenkovsky district, x. Martyntsy DATE OF BIRTH: 05/21/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 02/19/1985 HISTORY: By Dmitry Olshansky, Rovenki village. “My great-grandfather, Lozovoy Ivan Lavrentievich, was born on May 21, 1921 on the Martyntsy farm of the Rovensky district of the Belgorod region. They had four children in the family. Their father died early. After finishing five classes, Ivan went to work to support his family. He was the eldest male in the family. Received the profession of a tractor driver. 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He went to the front as a foreman, a conscript. The military unit is the 459th Infantry Regiment. He was wounded on May 21, 1943 by a shrapnel in the area of ​​the left shin. In the evacuation hospital No. 1229, the stump of the left leg was amputated. He miraculously survived; at home was told that he was missing. For more than three months he was in the hospital.By the Hospital Disability Evaluation Board Ivan Lavrent'evich was declared unfit for military service with exclusion from the account. In the conclusion it was written that he could not follow on foot. Conclusion: invalid of the Patriotic War. A participant in the defense of Moscow, Ivan Lavrent'evich Lozovoy, his feats of arms were awarded seven military medals and the Order of the Patriotic War. The second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, was awarded to him on April 6, 1985. Until that time, he no longer lived. Ivan Lavrentievich died on February 19, 1985. After many years this order was awarded to the daughter of Lozovoy, Ivan Lavrentievich. He also has many commemorative medals. Even in peacetime, having a disability, he continued to work on his native collective farm for the good of our Motherland, moving on a prosthesis, and the "Veteran of Labor" medal was added to his military awards. He worked in his native collective farm as the head of a pig-breeding complex. Upon retirement, his native collective farm entrusted him with managing a large, beautiful apple orchard. We love, remember and honor our dad, grandfather and great-grandfather Lozovoy Ivan Lavrentievich. Eternal memory to him. Eternal memory to all Defenders of our Motherland ”.

CITY: Lopoukhi village, Ivanovo region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/27/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/2003 HISTORY: Subdivision: 235th Infantry Division (1st formation) Lebedev Ivan Demidovich was born in 1910 in the village of Lopouhi, Pestyakovsky District, Ivanovo Region. He was married to Klavdia Ivanovna Lebedeva, had 2 daughters before the war, after the war a son was born (my dad). Was drafted into the 235th rifle division (Gorokhovetskie camps) in April-May 1941. Was in the 806th rifle regiment. When the war began, they were sent to the city of Pskov, participated in the battles, then their regiment covered the retreat of the main forces. Themselves were surrounded. The supply of ammunition and food in the encirclement was meager. My grandfather said little about this. They were going to leave the encirclement in the town of Pushkin. But Ivan Demidovich did not reach him, in August 1941. was taken prisoner, he also did not like to talk about it. He was in captivity in Koningsberg, worked at the Kossa paper mill, lived in barracks, had numbers on his clothes (From memoirs). With the advance of Soviet troops, the camp was evacuated to the west. They were freed by American troops. After checking by the KGB services, Ivan Demidovich was sent to the town of Kungur (camp) for logging. He returned home to Verhny Landeh in February 1948. He worked in the fire department. He was very fond of the forest, hunting, fishing. He was a tailor by profession, he knew how to process skins, sew outerwear. By the way, this profession helped him and while he was in captivity, sometimes instead of hard work, he was sent to repair the clothes of prisoners of war. And once, according to the stories of Ivan Demidovich, he sewed a coat for a German woman, the wife of one of the officers who guarded them in the camp. Ivan Demidovich died in 2003.

CITY: village Radilovo, Kimrsky district, Kalinin (Tver) region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/23/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 02/01/1941 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 245th Valginsko-Rezhitskaya Rifle Red Banner Division My grandfather Lisitsyn Sergei Mikhailovich was drafted into the army at the very beginning of the war. He went to the front in the area of ​​Staraya Russa, Novgorod region. He fought in the 901 rifle regiment, 245 rifle division. I managed to write only a couple of letters. He had the most terrible days of the war - its very beginning, when the soldiers, at the cost of their lives, made it possible for the command to assess the military situation, carry out mass mobilization, rebuild industry, and regroup forces for the subsequent heroic path to Victory. These days there was confusion, loss of command and control of troops, mass capture of Soviet soldiers. My grandfather was captured near Staraya Russa on July 20, 1941. After that he was sent to Stalag XD (310). The camp was a fenced-in field near the village of Witzendorf in the military district of Hamburg in Germany. The prisoners of war were starving. The Germans still had no idea what to do with so many prisoners, there was no food supply for them, there were no barracks built. The prisoners of war huddled in dugouts dug by their own forces. When winter came, the prisoners began to die of hunger, cold and typhus. In February, my grandfather died in the camp. And even if he did not know about the Victory, they then with all their hearts believed in its inevitability. They paid with their lives for our peaceful sky. My grandmother never got married, she was waiting for her Seryozha, because he was listed as missing. The grandmother never found out the circumstances of his grandfather's death. Only in the 2000s, thanks to the movement to find veterans, did we find out how my grandfather died. Grandfather Seryozha, whom I never saw, according to my grandmother, was a first-class shoemaker and an excellent storyteller for children. Many rural women of fashion sported in boots made by my grandfather. My mother remembered my father precisely as a storyteller who loved children very much. When he died, he was only 34 years old.

PLACE OF BIRTH: the village of Deligerka (Kura), Lagansky ulus. DATE OF BIRTH: 23.02.1922. DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Rank: Red Army Soldier. Unit: 159th Rifle Division (1st Formation). Many people from Lagani (Republic of Kalmykia) know and remember the veteran of war and labor Timofey Djanaevich Lidgi-Goryaev. He was born in the Caspian region, in the village of Deligero (Kura), Lagansky ulus on February 23, 1922. At the age of fifteen, before the war, he began working at a fish cannery as an accountant. Then the war came began. Most of the male population of Lagani went to the front. Timofey Dzhanaevich was sent to build a railway along the line of the military enlistment office. Together with many fellow countrymen, he built the Kizlyar-Astrakhan railway. They worked tirelessly day and night. The work was very hard: they were hammering the frozen ground, carried clay on stretchers, but everyone was thinking about the victory that was still so far away. With this faith they overcame all adversity. August 1942. Military operations unfolded on the territory of Kalmykia. In September 1942 Timofey Dzhanaevich was drafted into the army by the Lagansky district military commissariat. So he was recalled from the construction of the railway. He was assigned to the 3rd company of the 1st Battalion of the 159th Separate Rifle Brigade of the 28th Army. In just 2 months, he learned how to shoot a gun. The very first battle was at Hulhuta (Republuc of Kalmykia). Then he released Elista. During the most difficult days of the battle for Stalingrad, the he defended tractor factory. After the liberation of Stalingrad, he participated in the battles for Rostov-on-Don, Taganrog, Donbass, fought for the Crimea, stormed the "Turkish wall". In one of the battles, he was wounded, he was treated in a hospital in Krasnoarmeysk. After recovering, he was sent to the 4th Ukrainian front. Red army soldier Lidgi-Goryaev T. D. served in the unit No. 10984-a, which liberated the land of Ukraine. Siberia... Deportation in 1943. This is one of the tragic events in the life of the Kalmyk people. But they had to live and survive to prove that the people of Kalmykia are loyal to their Homeland. Before the war, my grandfather, working at a fish processing plant, mastered the profession of an accountant. In Muynak, where he was during the deportation, he worked as an accountant at a fish canning plant. Timofey Dzhanaevich had a lot of awards: "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Valorous Labor", “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war"," 30 years of Victory in the Second World War"," Medal of Zhukov", Order of the Patriotic War 2nd Class" and others. Despite on his war wounds, after returning to his Homeland Timofey actively began to restore the economy of the Republic, worked as a senior accountant at the Krasny Moryak collective farm, at the Lagansky fish factory. In 1993 when he retired he was appointed member of the Council of Elders of the city Lagan, helped to find out the names of soldiers who died during the war, missed or died in Siberia and put their names in the Memorial Book. He collaborated with the newspaper "Primorskie izvestiya" and wrote about the veterans. Having been widowed early, Timofey Dzhanaevich showed his father's heroism-he devoted his whole life to brought up five children, giving them an education. In 2000, he died of old war wounds. The memory of Lidgi-Goryaev Timofey Djanaevich will live forever.

Rank: Second Lieutenant. Branch of military: Army, Air Forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, troops of the NKVD, Border Guards. Guard Junior Lieutenant. Commander of a machine-gun platoon. He was called up by the Serpukhov RVC of the Moscow region in 1942, at the age of 18. Military units: - 2nd Rifle battalion 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment 13th Guards order of Lenin and red banner Rifle Division. - 216th Rifle Regiment 76th Rifle Division I-th Belorussian front. - 3rd Rifle battalion 69th Rifle Regiment 97th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division of the 5th Army. Rewards: By 1945, four orders of the red Star: - 1943 fighting near Belgorod in the period 12-14. 07. 1943 under the town of Melovaya commanding a machine-gun platoon, being surrounded, for 6 hours he fought with superior enemy forces, after which he withdrew his unit from the encirclement with small losses, as well as 17 soldiers of another unit of his unit. 14.07. being wounded, he continued to command a platoon until the enemy's ring broke through, after which he was sent to the hospital. - 1944 Kovel, 1st Belorussian - severe shrapnel wound to the left forearm during the attack on Kovel. Awarded as "courageous, persistent and skillful officer" (from the award list). - 1944 East Prussia-in the battles to break through the enemy's defenses in East Prussia, he showed himself a model of courage and bravery, leading the fire of machine guns, inspiring his fighters. Especially notable 26.10.1944 in the capture (unfortunately, the name is illegible) and repelling the enemy's counterattack. - 1945 East Prussia-in the offensive battles to break through the German defense in East Prussia, he perfectly fulfilled the task assigned to his platoon-he skillfully supported the offensive of a rifle company and suppressed several enemy firing points with his fire. 27.01.1945 year was seriously wounded... "- Later was awarded the order of the "Patriotic War I degree". Injuries: - 14.07.1943-Belgorod. - 27.04.1944-Kovel (severe shrapnel wound). - 27.01.1945 of the year - East Prussia (severely wounded).

Military rank is Petty Officer (Starshina). Branch of troops is Ground troops. Subdivision: 102nd Rifle Far East Novgorod-Severskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Nikolay Klemenov was born in 1921, in the village Staroklenskoy of Pervomaisky district of the Tambov region. His childhood was difficult, because in the first years after the October Revolution and the Civil war, his father, like many others, was dispossessed and took away things and wheat. Since he was considered to be well-off at that time, because he had a stone house, earned it all by his work, serving in the military Navy in tsarist times. My great-grandfather's father served in the Navy on the gunboat “Koreets”, and was a participant in the battle of Port-Arthur in the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905. In this area the cruiser "Varyag" together with the gunboat" Koreets" took their last battle against the Japanese squadron. In this battle the sailors showed a great heroism, knowing that everyone would die. On the appeal to them of the Japanese about the surrender of ships and captivity, they decided to leave the port and take the fight. The cruiser "Varyag", which has got many shell-holes, has died. After numerous holes and destructions received in the battle with the Japanese squadron, the crew of the gunboat "Korean" decided to blow it up to prevent the ship from falling to the enemy. After the loss of the boat, foreign ships that were watching the battle picked up the remaining crew at sea, so that was a way how my great grandpa remained alive. Upon the Russian-Japanese war ending, the surviving crews of the ships “Varyag” and “Koreets” were invited to the Winter Palace for their bravery in the battle of Port-Arthur, and all the lower ranks were presented with awards and gifts, a kitchen kit, on behalf of the Tsar. The fate of the father was difficult, after the war, he again continued to serve in the military Navy, participated in the Revolution of 1917, and was an anarchist, like many sailors of that time. Great-grandfather's father did not take part in the Civil war. After dispossetion of kulaks, he was arrested, as he was well-off for that time. He was brought to Michurinsk after arresting, where he met a sailor friend who worked in the Cheka (full name was the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution, Speculation, and Sabotage). After interrogation, he has released him. He remembered when he was a little boy there was a severe famine, he and his father took a horse from the collective farm and went to city of Chaplygin. His father kept 10 British pounds and when they arrived at the Bank and handed them over, they were given some document. Afterwards they went to the warehouse, where they were given food that was enough for the family to live all year. Drafted into the army in 1939, he got to serve in the Far East. According to his stories, the soldiers were poorly fed and were plump from hunger. Since he had seven classes of education, he was appointed a company Sergeant. When the Great Patriotic War began, the Germans reached Moscow, and his division was moved under Moscow. According to his memories, the fighting under Moscow was very heavy, there were heavy losses; sometimes it reached the point that our trenches and the German ones were close each other, the machine guns were clogged with sand and only grenades were repulsed. He received the first Order of the Red Banner for destroying the German headquarters during reconnaissance. My great-grandfather was first slightly wounded in the leg in winter of 1942. After treatment with the health support battalion, he returned to the front again. According to his story, during the winter offensive, they had to pass through a field where General Belov's Cavalry corps passed through the German rear. He came out on a German tank column, the field looked terrible, and it was all littered with dead soldiers and horses, such a number of dead he noticed for the first time. The first city they liberated was Spas-Demensk in the Kaluga region. For the liberation of the city, he was awarded the Medal "For Courage". There was such a case in his life. In the summer of 1942, being on the defensive, where a stream flowed near the trenches below in the thickets, he went to the stream to collect drinking water in a thermos. Suddenly, a German soldier appeared not far from him, who also came for water taking. He froze with surprise, but after a while, recovering, he sat down near him and began to collect water. Having collected water, they parted in different directions. When he was asked why he didn’t shoot, he replied that we had come for water. This is what happened to him. During the German offensive, he was seriously wounded in the arm, heading to the rear with other wounded soldiers. A car was stuck near them. He and other soldiers began to push it, the car drove, and then he opened the door of the car and got into it. The officer sitting in front grabbed a gun and began to shout: "I'll shoot you, get out of the car." Suddenly another voice sounded: "Belay that, there is a place, let him stay." He looked at the officer, who was nearby, it was a General wounded in the head. So this case saved his life. Being already in the medical battalion, he learned that the German offensive was heavy, just few survived. After this incident, his mother received a notification from the unit that he was missing in actions. In 1943 after this severe wound and hospital treatment, he arrived home. In such a way the war ended for him.

My grandfather, Ilya Bychkov, born in the Zaoksky district of the Tula region in the village of Shegostovo, was illiterate. In 1940, he was called up for military service. He returned from the war in 1947. Afterwards, he married Alexandra Andreyevna Dmitrieva, born in 1919. They had 2 daughters (born in 1952 and 1953), but since 1963 they had to be raised only by their father: their grandmother died. In the post-war years, he briefly worked as the chairman of the collective farm, later went to serve in the paramilitary guard on the railway, where he worked until retirement. He fought in a tractor factory in Stalingrad and did not like to talk about the war. He was a fair decent man, serving as an example for us, his grandchildren. He died in 1984 in Tula and is buried in the city cemetery. He was nominated for an award, but, alas, was not awarded it. Ilya Andreevich Bychkov, as of the summer-autumn of 1942 , was the commander of the 3rd rifle company of the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises of the 19th rifle division of the NKVD of the USSR, a sergeant. Born in 1920 in the village Migaetovo (Shegostovo) Zaoksky district of the Tula region. He was Russian, working-class, member of the Komsomol. He was single. His relatives, as of the fall of 1942, included only Bychkov's mother, Ksenia Varfolomeevna, who lived at the place of birth of her son. His primary education was limited; he was "illiterate". He was drafted into the army in 1940 by the Zaoksky Military Comissiriat of the Tula region and sent to the NKVD of the USSR. By July 1942, he was the commander of the department of the 3rd rifle company of the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises of the 19th rifle division of the NKVD troops of the USSR in the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the military rank of a junior sergeant. By order 19 240 of the Commander of the Division of July 10, 1942, made public, in turn, by order of the regiment 178,209 of July 28, 1942, he was awarded the next military rank of "Sergeant" (Source RGVA: f. 38415, op. 1, d. 11, l. 29. ) He had been an active participant in the Great Patriotic war from August 23, 1942, in the epicenter of battles for the defense of the city of Stalingrad, at the same time, from September 17 to September 23, 1942, participated in street battles in the defense zone of the 13th guards rifle (later Poltava order of Lenin, twice red banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov) division of the 62nd army of the South-Eastern front as part of a consolidated company under the command of Lieutenant K. S. Tsvetkov and Junior Political Officer S. L. Kisilenko. On November 9, 1942, the commander of the 3rd rifle company, Lieutenant K. S. Tsvetkov, was presented to the regiment's command as a candidate for an award (Source RGVA: f. 38115, op. 1, d. 11, l. 5). On December 21, 1942, he was presented with the medal "for military merit" by Lieutenant Colonel A. I. Kuznetsov of the 178 regiment "for the period of participation of the company in street battles [in] the mountains. Stalingrad, comrade BYCHKOV, as the commander of the department, demonstrated perseverance, courage, and skillful management of the department during battles of 18.9.1942 [correction: 20 September 1942] in this [same] department comrade Bychkov was assigned the task of destroying a group of submachine gunners who were holed up in one of the destroyed houses. Bychkov skillfully surrounded the building where the German machine gunners were locate and with a rapid attack cleared the building, destroying 15 fascist machine gunners. This enabled the company to occupy new frontiers. For his steadfastness, courage, and bravery in the battles with the German invaders during the defense of Stalingrad, he is worthy of the government [correction: state] award, the medal "For Military Merit" (Source RGVA: f. 38415, op. 1, d. 11, l. 30). For some reason, this document was not implemented by the command of the NKVD troops for the protection of the South-Western front (II formation). Retired from the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises no later than January 1943. His further fate is unknown.

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

Rank: Red Army Soldiers Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 8th Guards Rezhitskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division named after I. Panfilov. Yakov Bondarenko (1905-1941) – rifleman ofthe 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion, the 1075th Rifle Regiment, the 316th Rifle Division, the 16th Army on the Western Front, Red Army, Hero of the Soviet Union. He was born in a peasant family in the village of Millerovo (present-day Rostov Region). Ukrainian. Education incomplete secondary. Before the Great Patriotic war, he worked for a collective farm. He was drafted into the Red Army in July 1941, and sent to the front. He participated in repelling numerous enemy attacks at the Dubosekovo junction of the Volokolamsk District of the Moscow Region, as member of a group of tank destroyers during November 16, 1941. They destroyed 18 enemy tanks then. This feat went down in history as the feat of 28 Panfilov Heroes. Yakov Bondarenko died a brave death in that battle. However, according to the data of the OBD Memorial, a soldier of the 4th Company of the 2nd Battalion, the 1075 Rifle Regiment, the 316th Rifle Division Yakov Bondarenko was wounded on 5.12.1941 and died of wounds on 6.12.1941, and was buried at the Vagankovsky Cemetery in Moscow. Yakov Bondarenko was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on July 21, 1942, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for his exemplary performance of the command's combat tasks at the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and for his courage and heroism.

Sypko Vasily Petrovich was born on February 4, 1924 in the village of Troitskoye, Tatar District, Novosibirsk Region. Drafted to the front on August 17, 1942 by the Shmakovsky RVK of the Ussuri region. He fought in the active army since September 1942. Sergeant, senior telegraph operator in the 114th separate communications battalion of the 194th rifle division of the Rechitsa Red Banner. He fought on the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts, took part in the Battle of Kursk. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals "For the capture of Konigsberg" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." Until now, the memory of the long kilometers of war, traversed by the former sergeant (squad leader) of the 194th Infantry Division of the Rechitsa Red Banner Division, Vasily Petrovich Sypko, and the heroic deeds he performed, is still alive. From the memoirs of Vasily Petrovich Sypko: “The gala evening dedicated to the graduates of secondary school No. 1 in the city of Lesozavodsk, held at the end of May 1941, is still remembered. There were 25 of us in the 10th "B" class. They had fun at the evening, dreamed of further education. I dreamed of entering the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of the city of Vladivostok at the turbine-building faculty of the mechanical engineering department, where I soon sent my documents. But the war broke out ... Everything changed dramatically. A card system was introduced. Instead of studying, he went to work as an inspector at the Shmakovskaya Inspectorate of the Central Statistical Administration (Narkhozuchet) in the city of Lesozavodsk. In August 1942, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to a training regiment stationed in the village of Knyaze-Volkonka of the Khabarovsk Military District - from where, instead of studying as part of a platoon, he was sent to the village of Poyarkovo, Amur Region, to procure agricultural products for our unit, where he stayed until November ... In the middle of December 1942, some of the soldiers, including myself, were uniform (short fur coats, felt boots, caps with earflaps, fur mittens) - and were sent to the front from the railway station in Khabarovsk. At the station Alkino-2 (Bashkiria), during an inspector's check, part of the soldiers, as unprepared for hostilities, were removed from the echelon - and we, dressed in category 5 overcoats, were sent to a training camp (dugouts) for military training, where we stayed until March 1943. Then we were again sent to the Central Front (Kursk-Oryol Bulge) by echelon. There I, in the 460th Infantry Regiment of the 194th Infantry Division with the rank of sergeant (squad commander), fought heavy battles in the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He liberated Belarus and Poland, took part in the hardest battle on the Kursk-Oryol Buldge, in the forcing of the rivers: Berezina, Sozh, Dnieper; in the defeat of the fascist troops in the Bobruisk entrapment; in the liberation of the city of Rechitsa, the assault and capture of Konigsberg and the forcing of the Frisch Ghar Bay in the Baltic Sea - where on the Frisch Nerung Spit in the morning of May 9, 1945, the war ended for us. The fascists threw out the white flag. " In battles, Vasily Petrovich was twice wounded, several times he was covered with earth from the explosion of bombs and shells. He took part in hand-to-hand combat and fights. In April-May 1947 he was demobilized and came to his mother in the city of Lesozavodsk, where in August 1947 he entered the Khabarovsk two-year law school, after which, by order of the then prosecutor of the Primorsky Territory, Boldyrev, he was appointed people's investigator of the Terneisky district prosecutor's office. In 1952-1953 he studied at the all-Union courses of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kharkov, and then was appointed prosecutor in various cities and districts of the Primorsky Territory: first in Chernigov, Spassky and Oktyabrsky districts, later in the cities of Arsenyev (1963-1973) and Lesozavodsk (1973 –1975), later - in the Anuchinsky region (1975–1984). Vasily Petrovich has devoted more than 34 years to work in the prosecutor's office. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He was also awarded with many jubilee medals. In honor of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus, he was awarded the medal "For the liberation of Belarus". In 2008, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation awarded Vasily Petrovich the medal "Veteran of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation". Vasily Petrovich Sypko died in 2017.

Drafted into the army on November 7, 1941, he was enrolled in the courses of officers of the Gomel Infantry Command School in the city of Taldy Kurgan. On January 1, 1942, he took the military oath. In July 1942 he was released from the school with the rank of foreman. Admitted to the 93rd Infantry Regiment of the 76th Infantry Division of the 1st Belorussian Front. Since Nikolai knew the Kazakh language, he was appointed to command a platoon of Kazakhs. Once he was summoned to a special department of the NKVD: "We order you to learn Magyar, Romanian and German languages immediately." Nicholay was given texts and sent to the front line to agitate the enemy. For courage during campaigning he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". Has 2 severe and 1 light wounds. For the Kursk-Belgorod operation, in the battles for the liberation of the city of Kovel, he timely provided the company with food and ammunition, when it was on the right bank of the Turya River under enemy fire, which provided the offensive, was awarded the medal "For Courage" on July 10, 1944. In October 1944 year, was seriously wounded in the spine, he was taken by plane to a field hospital in the city of Lublin, after a month of treatment he was sent to a hospital in Moscow, to evacuation hospital 5020. At the end of December 1944, he was transported to Sochi, lay motionless for eight months. He met the end of the Second World War in the same place, was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany." In August 1945 he was dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army. Order of the Patriotic War II degree of 03/11/1985, Document No. 84. Forty years later, in honor of the anniversary date of the Victory in 1985, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR restored this award. The Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree was received by those veterans of the Great Patriotic War who, for various reasons, could not receive the first degree during the hostilities. Thanks to this, almost all the veterans who survived were awarded . Drafted into the army on November 7, 1941, was enrolled in the officers' course of the Gomel Infantry Command School in the city of Taldy Kurgan. On January 1, 1942, he took the military oath. In July 1942, he was released from the school with the rank of foreman. Admitted to the 93rd Infantry Regiment of the 76th Infantry Division of the 1st Belorussian Front of the Komsomol since 1942. Since Nikolai knew the Kazakh language, he was appointed to command a platoon of Kazakhs. Once he was summoned to the "Special Department of the NKVD" “Nikolai was given texts and sent to the front line to agitate the enemy. For courage during campaigning, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He had 2 severe and one light wounds. For the Kursk-Belgorod operation, in the battles for the liberation of the city of Kovel, he timely provided the company with food and ammunition when it was on the right bank of the Turya River near enemy fire, which provided the offensive. Awarded with the Medal "For Courage" on July 10, 1944. In October 1944, he was seriously wounded in the spine, he was taken by plane to a field hospital in the city of Lublin, after a month of treatment he was sent to a hospital in Moscow, to the eco-hospital 5020. At the end of December 1944 year was transported to Sochi, lay motionless for eight months. He met the end of the Second World War in the same place, was awarded the medal “For victory over Germany,” In August 1945 he was dismissed from the ranks of the Red Army. Order of the Patriotic War II degree from 03/11/1985. Document No. 84. Forty years later, in honor of the anniversary date of the Victory, in 1985, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR restored this award. The Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree was received by those veterans of the Great Patriotic War who, for various reasons, could not receive the first degree during the hostilities. Thanks to this, almost all the veterans who survived were awarded . After the end of the Second World War and treatment from a hospital in Sochi, he returned home to Kazakhstan, to Konstantinovka. In 1947, Solonsky Petr Filippovich went to his uncle in the village of Kolpak, Chkalovsk region. Comrade Shura worked as a tractor driver in Kherson, and during and after the war, there was sorely lack of tractor drivers. By hook or by crook, they lured tractor drivers to the collective farm. The chairman of the farm Grigory Filippovich Tsyganets and the foreman Nikolai Iosifovich Ivanchenko pestered Nikolai Semyonovich: why do you live in Kolpak in your uncle's family? Join our team, we have such a beauty that you won't find such a beauty in the Kolpak! Take the accordion and let us introduce you to her. We will ride there and back in the chairman's tarantas. Comrade Shura was persuaded: entice him to stay with us to work. You will be a groom, half of the lads from the war did not return. And comrade Shura liked the accordionist.

Rank: Senior Leiutenant _x000D_ Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval Aviation), Coastal Service, troops People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, Border Troops _x000D_ Unit: 345th Infantry Division (2 formations) _x000D_ _x000D_ Retired Colonel was born on June 17, 1923 in the village of Polom Kirov region. It was a harsh time, childhood and youth were very hard. His mother Alexandra Andreevna worked in the hospital as a nurse and paramedic. My father worked for hire, harvested charcoal, worked in a kolkhoz. On June 16, 1941, Arkady graduated from high School, and after 5 days the Great Patriotic War began. On July 3, he was drafted into the army and sent to the Aviation mechanics School, then in January 1943 - to the Podolsk infantry School. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was appointed platoon commander in the 52nd Motorcycle Regiment, and later as a company commander. The main missions of the regiment and the motorcyclists of the twenty-year-old company Leiutenant Sychev were actions behind enemy lines, capturing important strong points, routing headquarters, blowing up bridges, reconnaissance of the enemy, creating panic in his rear. Arkady Andreevich participated directly in hostilities for eighteen months. His company successfully operated in September - October 1943 in the Ukraine, in April - May 1944 in the Crimea, in July - October 1944 in Belarus, and later in the Baltic States. _x000D_ The most striking combat episodes with his participation were played out in the most hard conditions of bloody battles for the Left Bank Ukraine, for the left bank of the Dnieper. Since November 1943, the Regiment took part in the battles for the Nikopol foot strong. The Germans strengthened the foot strong and reinforced with troops in order to help their group in the Crimea. These were the hardest battles for A.A. Sychev's company. Only in January 1944 the foot strong was captured and the city of Nikopol was liberated. In the period from November 1943 to January 1944 alone, the company commander survived the death of five of his platoon commanders. _x000D_ As part of the motorcycle regiment A.A. Sychev participated with his company in the heroic assault on the famous Sapun Mountain near Sevastopol. The mountain was a natural barrier on the outskirts of Sevastopol. For several days, persistent efforts were made to take the heavily fortified Sapun Mountain. The main assault was undertaken on May 7, 1944. The fight was very hot. Sychev’s company participated in this assault from beginning to end. Led by their commander, the soldiers showed miracles of heroism. The impregnable Sapun Mountain was taken, which ensured the liberation of Sevastopol and the defeat of the Nazi group in the Crimea. _x000D_ More than once the brave company commander looked death in the face. Here is one of the combat episodes near Bobruisk in July 1944. Sychev’s company burst into the enemy trenches. With a pistol in hand and a cartridge in the chamber, the company commander runs through the trench. Several of his subordinates are behind him. The trench turns 90 degrees. Behind the bend he collides head-on with a German. He has a submachine gun on his chest. He turns the machine gun towards the company officer, who holds the pistol at chest level. The German was two or three meters away from him. Without aiming, Sychev A.A. pulls the trigger. The German falls. The rest of the Germans rushed to run away along the trench and were immediately destroyed by our soldiers. Such episodes occurred more than once or twice at the front. _x000D_ Arkady's military merits were deservedly awarded with many military orders and medals. One of the main events in his life he considers his participation in the historic Victory Parade on Red Square in June 1945. _x000D_ One of the main missions of his work, he considered to educate children, find out what each of them has in their souls, and instill in them love for their homeland. The result of his work was the advanced positions that his Suvorov platoon constantly occupied in study and discipline. He still believes that the most unforgettable and happy years of his service in the army were the time he worked as an educator at the Tambov Suvorov Military School. _x000D_ Despite his mature years, the front-line soldier is still in the ranks. He lives in the city of Korolev, takes an active part in the work of the Council of Veterans of the Tambov Suvorov Military School, the annual meetings of our graduates in Tambov, always calls on us to strengthen the cadet brotherhood. He constantly deals with issues of military-patriotic education of young people, and of the general population. In recent years, he has performed on a volunteer basis in dozens of schools, gymnasiums, boarding schools, work collectives. He teaches lessons in courage. He takes a class, a group, sometimes a whole hall, tells the truth about the war, about the heroism of our soldiers. Arkady Sychev believes that the main engine of longevity is to be in good spirit, be optimistic, keep smiling. Уoung people should be educated on the positive side, then they will be kind, respectful, and true people. _x000D_ Written by Council of Veterans of the Tambov Suvorov Military School.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Division: 303rd Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ Sanin Ivan Petrovich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, was born in the village of Sukmanovka, Tambov Region in 1896, into a peasant family. Before the war, by recruiting of his fellow villager, he and his wife Arina Sergeevna moved to Stalingrad to the village of Lesobaza, where a timber transshipment base had already been put into operation. He worked there as a carpenter for many years and returned after the war to this place. _x000D_ He was called to the front by the Kirov district military enlistment office of the city of Stalingrad in June 1941. He had been to the army since 1943. He ended up in the 845th Order of Suvorov Rifle Regiment / 4th Rifle Company / 303 of the Verkhnedneprovsk Red Banner Rifle Division of the 7th Guards Army (2nd Ukrainian Front). At the front he became a good shooter. He participated in the hardest battles near the city of Voronezh, Kharkov, Kirovograd, liberated Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from the Nazis. _x000D_ The Division he got into was formed in the Kemerovo Region. In April 1942, it was transferred to the 2nd Reserve Army in Lipetsk, where they received arms, and in the summer of the same year he was sent to the Voronezh Front. The fighters of the Division immediately entered the battle with the superior forces of the enemy. This was the first baptism of fire of the Red Army Soldier Ivan Sanin. In the fourth company next to him were young 19-20-year-old riflemen, and he was already 46 years old. But there was no combat experience. And it was necessary to set an example for the young. And Ivan Petrovich tried to be an authority for the fighters. For 4 days, fierce battles went on, during which the enemy was thrown back several kilometers north of Voronezh, and the Division took up more advantageous positions, going on the defensive. _x000D_ For the first time the Red Army Soldier Sanin faced a horror of the war, which did not leave him for a long time. He prayed to God not to be killed in the first combat. He was saved and survived. Then he remembered this combat for a long time, the unsuccessful attempt of the enemy to break through the division's defenses. _x000D_ And ahead there were battles for Kharkov, Chisinau, Balti, Bratislava, the crossing of the Dniester River. He was wounded several times, he was stunned by a blast wave, for a long time he could not recover from the hardest combat near the city of Balti, where he was seriously wounded, ended up in a hospital, but survived and continued to smash the enemy. He had reached Hungary, Czech Republic. _x000D_ The award "For Courage" always reminded him of the combat in the area of the Height 237, east of the city of Prerov (Czech Republic), located on the banks of the Becva River. It was April 30, 1945. The war was coming to an end. But the fight was deadly and terrible. Many fellow soldiers were killed. How he himself managed to survive, he does not know. He fought bravely and courageously, thinking only about how to destroy the enemy. At some decisive moment, he was able to personally destroy the enemy's firing depot with a hand grenade, thereby successfully repelling the counterattack of the fascist unit. For this feat he was awarded the medal "For Courage". He told with interest how he sang with the soldiers during the rest hours the anthem song of the Verkhnedneprovskaya Red Banner 303 Rifle Division, which was composed by one of the soldiers. Here is one verse and chorus of this hymn: More than life loving the Fatherland, we fought, not knowing weary, the country gave us a glorious order, and Stalin noted us in the orders! Forward, forward, Upper Dnieper fighters! The Motherland calls us to heroic deeds. Let our banner hang higher. Forward, Red Banner, forward!

My grandfather Alexander Pavlovich Smirnov was born on August 23, 1922 in the village of Petrino, Cherepovets district of the Vologda Region. In 1938, he graduated from the 9th grade of the Ergolsk rural School (now the village of Voskresenskoye) and went to work as an Accountant at a creamery in the village of Petrino. In 1941 he was drafted into military service by the Petrinevsky Commissariat of the Vologda Region. He fought on the Leningrad front. He was a sub-machine gunner of a company of machine gunners of the 197th Guards Rifle Order of the Kutuzov Regiment, 64th Guards Rifle Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Division. He was wounded a few times. _x000D_ Combat awards: Medal "For Courage" 08/15/1944, order No. 029-N (for combat on 07/03/44 "….. when repelling an enemy counterattack, he was wounded, but did not leave the field battle… _x000D_ "Medal" For Courage "10/16/1944, order No. 035-N (for combat on 25.10.44 “… on the SYRVE peninsula he was the first to break into the enemy's trench and personally killed 3 German soldiers from a machine gun.. ", _x000D_ Medal" For Courage "03/09/1945, order No. 07-N,"… the Commander of the sub-machine gun company of the Guard, the Senior Sergeant for being in battle 24.2.45, in the area of the river VARTAYA, while repelling the counterattacks of infiltrated German sub-machine gunners, destroyed 4 German sub-machine gunners with machine gun fire and grenades… "_x000D_ Order" Red Star "05/21/1945, order No. 041-N,"… for combat in the area of the Vartaya River on 02/23/1945, when attacking the enemy trenches, he was the first to break into the trenches and destroy 7 German soldiers with machine gun fire, in the same battle, when the platoon commander came out of action, he boldly took over command, and a platoon under his command successfully completed the combat mission of forcing the river, where he destroyed the crew of a heavy machine gun and captured 2 enemy light machine guns. "_x000D_ Medal" For Courage "06/14/1945, order No. 021-N (for combat in the area of the river Vartai, Latvian SSR, 28.2.45, "… while repelling the enemy's counterattack with machine gun fire and grenades, he destroyed 4 German soldiers, was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield before completing the combat mission…". _x000D_ He was supposed to take part in the parade on Red Square in Moscow in June 1945, but was not able to attend due to illness. _x000D_ After the war, my grandfather worked as an Accountant at a dairy (village Petrino), then as a Chief Accountant at a creamery (Ustyuzhna, Molochnoe, Vologda Oblast). From 1951 until his retirement he was the Chief Accountant of the Kaliningrad regional production association of the dairy industry. Awards: medal "For Valiant Labor"; badge "Drummer of the 9th Five-Year Plan"; medal "Veteran of Labor". He loved reading a free time. He advised his granddaughters to read A Tale of the True Man. He loved Russian folk songs. He appreciated honesty in people. He hated lies, bragging, and insolence. He passed away on October 13, 1992 in Kaliningrad.