Infantry

Andrei Gavrilovich Patsura was born in 1900. He was a participant in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. _x000D_ Rank: Red Army soldiers _x000D_ Division: 195th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ The order for the Rifle Regiment N035 from 18.07.1944 says: _x000D_ "I am awarding the medal "For Courage "to the shooter of 7th Rifle company of the Red Army Regiment Andrei Gavrilovich Patsura, who had been an active participant in the combats with the German invaders since May 1943. He received 2 wounds. In the combat for the city of Balaklava on April 23, 1944, commanding a 45 mm cannon, he was wounded, but did not leave the combat field until the end of the combat operation». _x000D_ The award list for the order to the units of 195th Rifle Division N115 dated 07.11.1944 says: _x000D_ «Patsurra Andrei Gavrilovich, the shooter of 7th Rifle company of 604th Rifle Regiment, was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. On August 24-25, 1944, he repelled continuous attacks of the Germans, destroyed 13 German soldiers. In addition, it took out 15 rubles from the combatfield. anonymous Commanders and soldiers. Wounded during the combat, he did not leave the field, but continued to fight the enemy and only after a secondary wound left to the hospital”.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/10/1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 03/11/1944 _x000D_ Title: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ SubDivision: 119th Infantry Division (1st formation ) _x000D_ Popov Alexander Grigorievich went to the front in 1943. He was drafted by the Tobolsk Military Comissariat of the Omsk region. First, he was at a training center in the city of Kuibyshev, and at the end of 1943 he went to the Baltic Front. He received the rank of a Sergeant. _x000D_ He was killed 03/11/1944 in combat during the assault on height 173.1. in the village of Gora, Sebezhsky district, Pskov region at the age of 19. _x000D_ We had taken this height twice. There are still many remains of our soldiers on the plowed field. And on the hill itself, where the Germans were sitting, there is an underground passage dug by the Germans to send reinforcements to the height during the assault. _x000D_ During the combat, when our forces knocked the Germans out of their positions, German reinforcements had secretly arrived at the height along this underground passage and dropped our shock groups from there. The remains of this passage, coming from a nearby height, can be seen today. The walls of this passage, fortified with boards, have been preserved. Its length is about 300 meters. Alexander Grigorievich was nominated for the II degree Order of the Patriotic War (posthumously). Here is an excerpt from the award list: “... Junior Sergeant Popov Alexander Grigorievich in the combat near the village of Gora for the height of 173.1 showed fearlessness and courage. While repelling the enemy's counterattack under heavy artillery mortar fire, regardless of the danger to life, with accurate heavy machine gun fire, they cut off the enemy infantry from the tanks and shot the brutalized Nazis point-blank, thanks to which the counterattack was repulsed with large losses for the enemy. _x000D_ In this unequalcombat, Junior Sergeant Popov A.G. was mortally wounded and died on the combatfield behind his heavy machine gun." Signed by the Commander of 421st Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Mozakovsky. Popov A.G. was buried in the Pskov region, Sebezhsky district, in the center of the village of Chaika.

Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he lived in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, worked in a mine. At the beginning of the war he received a reservation. Rescuing children from the occupation, he moved to the Kirovograd region of the Ukrainian SSR, but ended up in the occupied territory. In 1944 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He fought in 267th Guards Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner. When forcing the river. The spree suppressed the firing points of the fascists, which helped our units to cross the river, grandfather was the first to break into the mint and destroyed up to 25 fascists, which gave our units the opportunity to seize the mint building. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Other awards "For Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany". _x000D_ As the man who went through the war, my grandfather did not like to talk about the war. Only once did he tell me about the reconnaissance in force by their recon unit. They were given the combat mission to cross a small river in order to clarify the enemy's firing positions. 98 people entered the combat with the Nazis, and only two survived, including my grandfather. _x000D_ My granddad said: "The Nazis opened such fire on us that only rags remained of our clothes." A very small fragment from many days of that terrible war, but it says a lot. Grandfather graduated from the war with the rank of Sergeant.

Pavlov Ivan Nikolaevich was born in February 6, 1921 in Kuchmozero village. The military rank is Sergeant. He was drafted into the army on October 7, 1940. He returned home in July 1946. Ivan Nikolayevich did his military service on Kildin Island in the Barents Sea. After the declaration of war on the official radio, he was enlisted in 329th Infantry Regiment of 114th Division. _x000D_ The Battalion Commander was Armenian Harutyunyan. _x000D_ “On July 13, 1941, we were heavily bombed at sea,” recalls Ivan Nikolaevich. - Two of our Battalions landed behind enemy lines. The road, along which the enemy vehicles were moving, went deep into our rear. Our combat mission was to cut it off in the town of Zapadnaya Litsa. The disembarkation of our Battalions was accompanied by 2 destroyers, 1 submarine, and a patrol boat. From the air we were supported by 3 fighters, 12 enemy bombers opposed them. We sailed on a transport ship. Under heavy enemy fire, we landed. We have not yet accepted a real combat, but have already lost many of our comrades. Of the two Battalions, only 2 platoons remained. Only on the third day we were able to approach the required height. We had to take the height. The place was open. 3 Messerschmidts were circling above us all the time. There was a small lake and a stream flowing, they wanted to cross the stream, but the enemy began to crossfire. _x000D_ I was the first number of a light machine gun. The combat was fierce. From many hours of continuous combat, the barrel of the machine gun glowed red-hot. Platoon Commander Antonenko was shooting back next to me. He also took part in the Finnish War. He was hurt hard, in the throat. This fight was my first baptism of fire. " _x000D_ Ivan Nikolaevich fought on the Karelian Front, then, as part of 2nd Belorussian Front, he liberated the Polish cities of Gdynia and Gdansk. In Poland he was wounded and he had already met the Victory in the hospital. And his guards unit ended the war in Berlin. I.N. Pavlov was awarded the sign "Veteran of the Karelian Front". Military merits of the war veteran were awarded with the orders of the Patriotic War II degree (No. 770805), the Red Star (No. 498279), the Red Star (2187358), medals "For Victory Over Germany", "For Liberation of the Soviet Arctic." Ivan Nikolaevich was also presented with thanks for his military work. _x000D_ Demobilized from the Red Army, he returned to his native village of Kuchmozero. He worked in agriculture, started a family. With his wife, Anna Mikhailovna, they raised 5 children and gave them an education. Ivan Nikolaevich passed away after a serious illness in March 1988.

Title: Red Army soldier. _x000D_ My uncle Nikolai Ivanovich Plotnikov was born on April 17, 1916 in the village. Novye Burasy, Novoburasky district, Saratov region. Plotnikov Nikolai Ivanovich, Red Army soldier, non-partisan, had been in the Red Army since October 1937. He was called up by the Bazaar-Karabulak Military Comissariat, Saratov region. From June 22, 1941 to August 31, 1941, he was a part of 134th Separate Autobatalion of 21st Army in the area of Mogilev, Rogachev, Gomel, Minsk. Since August 31, 1941, he served in the protection of the rear of the Active Red Army, South-Western Front, now 3rd Ukrainian Front, as part of 91st Belgrade Red Banner Border Regiment of the NKVD troops. _x000D_ Nikolai Ivanovich was seriously wounded, a shrapnel wound to the limb of his left leg on August 31, 1941. Being the driver of an armored personnel carrier of 134 Separate Autobatalion of 21st Army, he repeatedly participated in combats against the Nazi troops in the region of Minsk, Mogilev, Rogachev, Gomel in June, July and August 1941. 12 times he drove machine gunners in an armored personnel carrier to reconnaissance behind enemy lines. He personally killed 7 German soldiers incombat. With a direct hit on the transporter, he was seriously wounded on August 31, 1941. When leaving the enemy's encirclement in the area of st. Krasny Kolodez, Oryol Oblast, he personally killed one traitor who betrayed communists and wounded Red Army soldiers to the Germans. _x000D_ From 6 to 18 October 1944, with the destruction of the German group in the area with. Salash (Yugoslavia) and the liberation of Belgrade under artillery and mortar fire, being a driver of a passenger car, he delivered reports to the command in a timely manner, thereby providing timely operational leadership. For the display of courage in combats against the German fascist invaders and impeccable service in the position held by Comrade Plotnikov Nikolay Ivanovich was awarded the state award the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945", medals "20 years of Victory in the 1941-1945 war", "30 years of Victory in the 1941-1945 war" _x000D_ After the war, Nikolai Ivanovich Plotnikov returned home alive. He worked as a driver in the Bazaar Karabulak. As a child, every summer I came to my uncle on vacation. He was kind, sympathetic, loved children very much, and often took me to work with him. Nikolai Ivanovich Plotnikov died on January 27, 1985. He was buried in the cemetery of Bazaar Karabulak.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Unit: 42nd Infantry Division (1st formation) _x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Grigory Dmitrievich Podurets, was born in the Kirovograd region, Novomirgorodsky district, in the village Kamenka on December 5, 1902. In June 1941, he went to the front. I was 5 years old then. Our family did not have time to evacuate, we lived under Nazi occupation. We had never received any news from our father, we did not know whether he was alive. _x000D_ We received a missing in action notice after the end of the war. _x000D_ It was only many years later that we learned from the military archives that my father was killed in the Rzhev-Sychevsk combat, in the Smolensk region, Karmanovsky district, near the village of Vorobino on August 11, 1942. _x000D_ Unfortunately, no details are known to this day. I am already 80 years old, I live in Moscow, a poet, I wrote 10 books, each of which contains many poems dedicated to the war and my father. These poems are set to music and performed by children in music schools.

Title: Sergeant _x000D_ Subdivision: 205th Infantry Division of the Gdynia Order of Suvorov _x000D_ Grigory Tarasovich Platonenkov was born on October 21, 1907 in the village of Shkoreki, Porechsky District, Smolensk province (now the Demidovsky District of the Smolensk Region) in the peasant family of Taras Efimovich and Stepanida Ilyinichna Platonenkovs. He was the second child of six children. He graduated from the 3rd grade of primary school and started working early as a shepherd. Upon reaching the age of 18, he was sent to serve in the Red Army. After finishing his service he moved to Smolensk and got a job in the militia. After the death of his parents in the mid-30s, together with his younger sister Maria, he moved to Siberia, where he continued to serve in the militia. _x000D_ From the very beginning of the war, he requested to be sent to the front, since he had an exemption from active duty as a good worker. He enters the Karelian Front in February 1942. He fought as Squad Commander of 1st platoon of 293rd Separate Reconnaissance Company of 205th Rifle Division. He was wounded four times in battles: on August 5, 1942, July 2, 1943, August 31, 1943, December 27, 1943. _x000D_ He went out on reconnaissance sorties behind enemy lines many times. By November 1943, he had made 25 night patrol sweeps. In February-April 1943, Platonenkov entered the German trenches several times and fought a grenade combat. On July 2, 1943 he joined combat with an enemy ambush and defeated it, but was wounded at the same time. On March 17, 1945, Platonenkov was one of the first in the company to rise to the attack and burst into the enemy's location, helping to eliminate the threat of a breakthrough of the Soviet defensive lines. _x000D_ He ended the war on Bornholm Island, Denmark, in May 1945. Upon returning to Smolensk, he continued to work in the Soviet Militia. He worked as a sentry, precinct, and also guarded important state facilities. _x000D_ After retirement, he was engaged in raising grandchildren (3 grandchildren and 1 granddaughter). He saw the birth of his great-grandson. He passed away on November 27, 2003 at the age of 96. He was buried at the New, or Novodevichy cemetery in the city of Smolensk, located at 7 km of the Roslavl shosse.

Rank: Red Army _x000D_ Subdivision: 7th Guards Airborne Cherkasy Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division _x000D_ When the war began, my grandfather turned 16 years old. But his desire to protect his homeland from the fascist invaders was very strong. When in July 1943 he turned 17, he did not hesitate to come to the military registration and enlistment office to get to the war. Having attributed to himself an extra year, he went to defend the Motherland. _x000D_ He served in 7th Guards Airborne Cherkasy Red Banner Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky as a scout. A fragment from his memoirs:_x000D_ “It happened in Ukraine, our reconnaissance group came to a village. We were greeted there like the heroes, were fed, bathed and put to sleep. We knew from local residents that there were no fascists in the village, but we had examined vicinities before we went to rest. And suddenly in the middle of the night we heard noise outside. We were betrayed by someone. In front of me my friends were killed, only few had miraculously survived.” _x000D_ My grandfather received the “Medal for Courage”. On March 27, 1943, during the German counterattack in the village of Kolbasnaya, despite the retreat of his right neighbor, he fearlessly fired at the advancing enemy, pinned them to the ground and destroyed several dozen Germans. _x000D_ When my grandfather passed away I was very little and did not have time to learn about his years of service. I know he was wounded and treated in hospital, that one shell fragment had never been taken out of him. _x000D_ My grandfather was very modest, it seems to me even shy, he never complained about anything, knew how to endure pain, worked a lot for his family, tried first for the children, and then for the grandchildren. That was my grandfather, a War Hero, a Hero of my family, a real example for my sons.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1908 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 07/06/1953 _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ My grandfather, Putz Konstantin Ivanovich, was born in 1908. He had been in the Red Army since 03August 1941, he was drafted by the Frunze Comissariat in the city of Frunze of the Kirghiz SSR. On January 14, 1942 he was wounded. _x000D_ Since September 1942 he was fighting on the Stalingrad Front, Red Army soldier, scout of the 70th Separate Motorized Rifle Reconnaissance Company of 38th Rifle Division. _x000D_ In February 1943, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" (order No. 15 / n of February 13, 1943). From the order: _x000D_ “Fulfilling the Commander's combat order, the brave scout Puts was the first, unnoticed by the enemy, to get to the dugouts on the railway. In the area of height 149.0, he clarified the location of the enemy and informed the Commander in a timely manner, which made it possible for the company in a short time and with small losses to occupy the enemy's dugouts, where he wanted to gain a foothold. In combat, Comrade Putz showed himself as the best recon … ”. _x000D_ He was awarded the medal “For Defense of Stalingrad”. On May 11, 1943, he was wounded. In October 1943, a Red Army soldier, a rifleman of the 2nd Rifle Company of the 284th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 95th Guards Poltava Rifle Division, was awarded the medal "For Courage" (order No. 017 / n dated 07.10.1943) ... _x000D_ Then there were combats for the city of Poltava, the crossing of the Vorskla River. From the order: “In the battles for the city of Poltava, he was distinguished as an exceptionally brave and decisive defender of the Motherland. Following the order of his Commander, he was always the first to attack, skillfully using the terrain, dragging his comrades forward. During the crossing of the Vorskla River, he crawled on his belly to the river, tracked down 4 sub-machine gunners sitting on the other bank, destroyed them with the fire of his rifle and with a group of fighters swam to the other bank, where he gained a foothold and made it easier for the rest of the soldiers to cross. ”_x000D_ On October 20, 1943 he was wounded. In January 1944, a candidate member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Guard Senior Sergeant, Commander of the communications department of 1st Rifle Battalion of the 284th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 95th Guards Poltava Rifle Division, was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" (Order No. 01 / n from 01/20/1944). _x000D_ The next was the Kirovograd offensive operation, west of Kirovograd, in the Lelekovka village. From the order: _x000D_ “On January 15, 1944, in the midst of the combat, two telephone operators were wounded. Under continuous artillery and mortar fire of the enemy, the communication line was constantly torn. Comrade Putz, despite the heavy shelling, personally eliminated 12 gusts of the communication line, thereby ensuring uninterrupted communication with the battalion command post with the companies for the entire period of the combat.”_x000D_ In January 1945, a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Senior Sergeant, Commander of a branch of the Motorized submachine gun Battalion of the 237th tank Brigade of 5th Army of 1st Ukrainian Front, was awarded the Order of the Red Star (Order No. 04 / n from 01/30/1945). _x000D_ The war roads came to liberation of Poland, battles for Czestochowa and Breslau (Wroclaw), the road from Czestochowa to the station Ostrovy. (On January 23, 1945, 5th Army crossed the Oder River near the town of Olau (Olawa) and reached Breslau (Wroclaw) from the southeast. From the order: _x000D_ “In battles with the German invaders, on 01/19/1945 Senior Sergeant Putz bravely led the squad, fulfilled the assigned mission, saddling the railroad and roads from the city of Czestochowa to the station Ostrovy and held the approaches to the road until the arrival of reinforcements. He repulsed the enemy's attack of up to an infantry company. Being wounded, Comrade Putz did not leave the battlefield , but still commanded a squad and continued to destroy the Germans. In this combat, he killed 2 officers and 3 enemy soldiers …”_x000D_ There he was seriously wounded. While the wounded lay unconscious, he was robbed, all documents and all awards were stolen. He came disabled from the war, he was carried off the train on a stretcher. _x000D_ My grandfather was able to recover some of the stolen awards by a pure chance. His neighbors procured him a ticket to the Crimean sanatorium. While in Simferopol, grandfather told a story to a military man about his injury and theft. This military man turned out to be the Marshal of the USSR Clement Efremovich Voroshilov. With his help, the award documents were restored and presented. Unfortunately, the orders and medals themselves were no longer issued. The treatment extended the life of the grandfather for a very short time; he passed away on July 6, 1953.

DATE OF BIRTH: 04/29/1912 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 04/20/1984 _x000D_ Title: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 202nd Korsun Rifle Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Red Army soldier Pichugin Afanasy Ivanovich (born on April 29, 1912, dшув on April 20, 1984), is a native of the Verkhneuralsk Region, Estonian settlement. He had been a member of three wars: Finnish, Mongolian and WWII. He was a very brave man. He was wounded near the Kursk Bulge, was in a hospital in Leningrad. He went through all the wars: the Finnish, Mongolian, World War II, was a signalman-telephone operator of 581 Separate Battalion, 77th communications company, 202 Infantry Division of the Korsun Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov and Suvorov division, pulled wires on the territory of the enemy army, thereby maintaining continuous communication with our command. He finished the WWII near the city of Berlin, 40 km, then was sent by an echelon to the Japanese war, but in October 1945 he was returned home. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and Medals, a gratitude from Comrade Stalin for excellent military service: for liquidation of the Korsun group of Germans on 10/18/1944; for Capture of the city of Uman and Khristovka on 03/10/1944; for capture of the city of Vapnyarka on March 16, 1944, for capture of the city of Mogilev-Podolsky on 08/20/1944; for reaching the state border with Romania on 09/28/1944; for crossing the Prut River on 04/08/1944; for capture of the city of Roman, Baheo, Byrlad, Khushi on 24.08.44 in Hungary; for capture of the city of Fokshtany and Rymzhitul, Sarat on August 27, 1944; for capture of the city of Cluj on 10/11/1944; for capture of the city of Satu Maare and Kars and liberation of Transylvania; for liberation of the city of Miskolc on 12/03/1944; for the breakthrough of the defense of northern Miskolc and liberation of the cities of Czechoslovakia Rotnava and Netlshava on 01.24.1945; for repelling the German attacks of 11 tank divisions and their defeat, for capture of the city of Vesprom on 03.24.1945; for capture of the city of Zalaegerszeg 03/30/1945; for capture of the city of Kerment 31.04. 1945 of the year. _x000D_ At the end of the war, he worked as a feldsher. He had bred pedigree horses and was awarded a diploma of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements, participating in this exhibition with his followers in Moscow.

Branch of Troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Division: 15 Guards Rifle Company Kharkov-Prague Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division _x000D_ He was a Department Commander; Assistant Commander of the platoon of machine gunners of the 10th Separate Motorized Reconnaissance Company of the Reconnaissance Department of the Headquarters of the 2nd Ukrainian front, Sergeant. He was born in a Ukrainian peasant family. He had been a Member of the all-Union Communist party (Bolsheviks) of the Soviet Union since 1945. _x000D_ At the age of five, he became an orphan. In 1937, he graduated from five classes of rural schools, then seven years in the city of Belebey. He received a Turner Qualification in the School of Agricultural Mechanization in the village of Davlekanovo. Since March 1942, he had worked as a specialist in the Belebeyevskaya machine-tractor station. He was drafted into the Red Army on September 5, 1942 by the Belebeyevsky District Military Commissariat of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and sent to the Riga Infantry School (working in evacuation in the city of Sterlitamak). _x000D_ In December 1942, he joined the active army, where he became a member of the 44th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 15th Guards Rifle Division. On August 12, 1943, he was wounded in the battle for the city of Kharkov. _x000D_ At the hospital, he was presented with his first award-the medal “For Courage”. After healing, he becomes an Army Recon. The Commander of the platoon of sub machine 10 Separate Motorized Reconnaissance Company of the Reconnaissance Department of the Headquarters of the 2nd Ukrainian front, Sergeant Gregory Poddenezhny in the Reconnaissance Group November 11, 1943, entered the rear of the enemy near the village of Tarasivka Pology District of Zaporozhye Region of Ukraine, struck down three enemy soldiers, brought valuable reconnaissance data. _x000D_ On January 7, 1944, as part of a group of recons near the city of Kirovograd (Ukraine), Sergeant Poddenezhny G. M. collected and transmitted data on the progress of tanks and enemy manpower. Covering the retreat of recons, the fearless warrior personally destroyed several Hitlerite sub-machine guns. For the courage and bravery shown in the battles, on October 31, 1944, Sergeant Poddenezhny Grigory was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree (No. 130281). _x000D_ Assistant Commander of the platoon of sub machine gunners of the 10th Separate Motorized Reconnaissance Company of the Reconnaissance Department of the Headquarters of the 2nd Ukrainian front, Sergeant Poddenezhny G. M. on August 30, 1944, at the Head of the squad, penetrated into the enemy's rear in the area of the Romanian city of Targu-Frumos. recons destroyed up to ten Hitlerite infantrymen, took the “prisoner tongue” and delivered to Headquarters valuable reconnaissance data on the enemy's defense system. For his bravery displayed in combat, on November 28, 1944, Grigory Poddenezhny was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (No. 6981). _x000D_ Sergeant Gregory Poddenezhny at the Head of a group of recons on the night of December 18, 1944, went to the rear of the enemy, crossed the Inpel river near the Hungarian settlement of Nadberensonyi. Once detected, the fighters engaged in a combat with superior enemy forces, and destroyed about ten enemy soldiers. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics of April 28, 1945 for exemplary performance of combat missions of command in the battles against the Nazi invaders Sergeant Poddenezhny Grigory was awarded the Order of Glory 1 degree (No. 131), becoming a full cavalier of the Order of Glory. _x000D_ Having fought from the Seversky Donets to Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria, Starshina Poddenezhny G. M., after completing the defeat of Hitler's Germany, participated in the battles in the far East against the Japanese militarists as an armored car Commander. After the war, G. M. Poddenezhny studied at the Leningrad Political School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, then served in the bodies of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since 1952, he served in the Soviet Army as a Deputy Commander of a Company for Political Affairs. Since October 1966, Captain Poddenezhny G. M. in the reserve, and then retired. He lived in the capital of Bashkortostan, in the city of Ufa. He worked as the Head of the paramilitary Security Detachment (VOHR) in the Association "Himprom". He was buried in Ufa at the Northern (Timashevsky) cemetery. He was awarded orders of the Patriotic war of the 1st degree, Glory of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd degrees, medals. On May 4, 2005 a memorial plaque was installed in the Kalininsky District of Ufa, on the facade of the house where the full cavalier of the Order of Glory G. M. Poddenezhny lived.

Rank: Major. Branch of the service: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 138th Infantry Carpathian Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Born December 4, 1919 in st. Krasnogorsk, Ust-Dzhegutinsky District, Stavropol Territory in a peasant family. In August 1939 he was called up for active military service in the ranks of the Red Banner Baltic Navy in Leningrad. He had successfully passed the entrance exams in the same 1939 and was enrolled as a cadet at the Engels Naval Political School in Leningrad. In May 1940 he was admitted to the Communist Party. _x000D_ On the first day of the war, the Junior Political Instructor was released from the school ahead of schedule and sent to the active army on the island of Koivisto in the Gulf of Finland. He was appointed Political Instructor of the Machine-gun Company of the 51st Separate Marine Battalion of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. In November 1941, the Battalion was transferred to the city of Oranienbaum, where it was included in the 527th Infantry Regiment of the 48th Kalinin Rifle Division in a Separate Primorsky Army. In this Division, he served as Commander of a Machine-gun Company, Military Commissar of a Battalion, Deputy Battalion Commander for combat units. _x000D_ So he ended up near sieged Leningrad at the Oranienbaum foot strong. He stayed in the blockade until May 1943. In October 1943 he was awarded the military rank "Major". In January 1944 he completed the shooting course with honors and was sent to the personnel department of the 2nd Ukrainian Front and was appointed Deputy Commander of the 344th Rifle Regiment for the combat unit of the 138th Rifle Division. When entering the Carpathians, the 138th Rifle Division was transferred to the 18th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Fleet. He was wounded twice during an offensive in the Carpathians. In March 1945, by order of the Commander of the 18th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, he was appointed Commander of the 768th Rifle Regiment of the 138th Rifle Division. In this position he served until the day the Division was disbanded. He participated in the liberation of Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

DATE OF BIRTH: 10/17/1917 DATE OF DEATH: 09/28/1981 HISTORY: Title: Junior Lieutenant. Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision:13th Guards Rifle Poltava Order of Lenin Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division Biography. Yakov Pavlov was born in the village of Malaya Krestovaya, now the Valdai District of the Novgorod Region, graduated from Elementary School, worked in agriculture. In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He faced the war in combat units in the Kovel Region, as part of the troops of the South-Western Front. In 1942, Pavlov was sent to the 42nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev. He took part in defensive combats on the outskirts of Stalingrad. In July-August 1942, Senior Sergeant Ya. F. Pavlov’s military unit was reorganized in Kamyshin, where he was appointed a machine-gun platoon commander of the 7th Company. In September 1942 he participated in the battles for Stalingrad on reconnaissance missions. _x000D_ In the evening of September 27, 1942, Pavlov received a combat mission from the Company Commander, Lieutenant Naumov, to reconnoiter the situation in a four-story building overlooking the central square of Stalingrad, “the 9th January Squre” This house occupied an important tactical position. He and three soldiers (Chernogolov, Glushchenko and Aleksandrov) knocked the Germans out of the house and completely captured it. Soon, the group received reinforcements, ammunition and telephone communications. Together with the platoon of Lieutenant I. Afanasyev, the number of defenders increased to 24 people. _x000D_ It was not immediately possible to evacuate civilians hiding in the basements of the house. The Nazis constantly attacked the building with artillery fire and aerial bombs. But Afanasyev avoided fierce losses and for almost two months did not allow the enemy to break through to the Volga. On November 19, 1942, the troops of the Stalingrad Front launched a counteroffensive “Operation Uranus”. On November 25, during the attack, Pavlov was wounded in the leg, lay in the hospital, then was the gunner and the Commander of the reconnaissance department in the Artillery units of the 3rd Ukrainian and 2nd Belorussian fronts, in which he reached Stettin. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star and many medals. On June 17, 1945, Junior Lieutenant Yakov Pavlov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (medal No. 6775). Pavlov was demobilized from the ranks of the Soviet Army in August 1946. After demobilization, he worked in the city of Valdai, Novgorod Region, was the First Secretary of the District committee, graduated from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the Communist Party. Three times he was elected a Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR from the Novgorod Region. After the war, he was also awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution. He repeatedly came to Stalingrad (now Volgograd), met with the inhabitants of the city who survived the war and restored it from the ruins. In 1980, Ya. F. Pavlov was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Volgograd." In Great Novgorod, at his boarding School named after him for orphans and children left without parental care, there is a Pavlov Museum (Derevyanitsy microdistrict, Beregovaya street, house 44). Pavlov was buried in the Alley of Heroes of the Western Cemetery of Veliky Novgorod. Viktor Mavrinsky, a pupil of the Kolos radio club named after Hero of the Soviet Union Yakov Pavlov, wrote, “In September 1942 in Stalingrad street combats were especially fierce in the city center, on the sector of the 13th Guards Division of A. I. Rodimtsev. _x000D_ By the evening of September 25, the situation sharply deteriorated, most of the buildings adjacent to the January 9 square were in the hands of the enemy. But one house at number 61 was in doubt. The Guards Sergeant Yakov Pavlov and his comrades Aleksandrov, Chernogolov and Shapovalov were sent to reconnoiter this building. Julius Chepurin, a front line correspondent for the 62nd Army, described all subsequent events in the essay ”Pavlov's House". “If we manage to catch on to it and turn the house into a strong stronghold, then we can keep the area under control. As it turned out, there were civilians in the house: women, children, as well as wounded soldiers of the 13th Guards Division, led by Medical Orderly Kalinin. But a large group of German machine gunners were already approaching the building. The combat for the house had started. Pavlov sent Medical Orderly Kalinin to the Regiment Headquarters at the expense of help, and he came led by a Guards Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev, a communist who was appointed Chief of the garrison. And at the Headquarters of the Regiment, Colonel Elin waited all night for reports from Pavlov's house, as he ”If we manage to catch on to it and turn the house into a strong stronghold, then we can keep the area under control. _x000D_ As it turned out, there were civilians in the house: women, children, as well as wounded soldiers of the 13th Guards Division, led by Medical Orderly Kalinin. But a large group of German machine gunners were already approaching the building. The combat for the house had started. Pavlov sent Medical Orderly Kalinin to the Regiment Headquarters at the expense of help, and he came led by a Guards Lieutenant Ivan Afanasyev, a communist who was appointed Chief of the garrison. And at the Headquarters of the Regiment, Colonel Elin waited all night for reports from Pavlov's house, as he named it, not suspecting that under this name he would go down in history and become known to the whole world. Lieutenant Afanasyev knew that a modest soldier Pavlov was the soul of the defense. The fact that Pavlov was the first to break into this house and was able to defend with his fighters on the first night surrounded the personality of Yakov Pavlov with such a bright aura of soldier's glory, which turned out to be stronger than the provisions of the Infantry Fighting Regulations. That is why, the communist Ivan Afanasyev, organizing the defense of the house, tactfully stepped into the shadows, assigning the first role in this combat operation to the Guards Sergeant Yakov Pavlov.” The enemy's attacks intensified and when hand grenades were used, a miracle happened: the Katyusha Regiment fired a volley at the congregations of fascists around Pavlov's house. The newspaper “Pravda” for November 19, 1942 told for the first time about the hero-fighters of the 13th Guards Division in “Pavlov's House”. A few days before the end of the defense of the famous fortress house, the wounded Lieutenant Afanasyev was transported to the hospital. Нe was distinguished later. The command was taken over by Sergeant Yakov Pavlov, who remained in history forever. Yakov Pavlov, being wounded, did not leave the house until the very end of his defense. The defense of the house continued for 58 days and nights. Yakov himself learned about the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in April 1945. Guards Lieutenant Ivan Filippovich Afanasyev was awarded the Order of Lenin, his memoirs formed the basis of the book "House of Soldiers' Glory". The daughter of the legendary General A. I. Rodimtsev, Natalya Matyukhina met with two defenders of the Pavlov's House, whose names are carved on the wall of the house: Ilya Voronov (machine gunner) and Kamaljan Turgunov. Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov himself repeatedly visited the hero-city of Volgograd. _x000D_ The Kolos radio club (headed by Valery Vasilyevich Poltavets) bears Pavlov’s name, it had brought up many athletes. It was Yakov Pavlov who in 1980 gave the idea of a search to Valery Poltavets: to find on the air radio operators and participants in the Battle of Stalingrad, which grew into an International Search Radio Expedition, called the Victory Memorial. The Pavlov's House, the House of Soldiers' Glory stands as an unbending monument to the courage of Soviet soldiers. The defeat of the main forces of the German armies at Stalingrad predetermined the defeat of Nazi Germany and became a turning point in the Second World War. Here, at the walls of Stalingrad, the fate of our Fatherland, the freedom and independence of our Motherland was determined. _x000D_ Around this common four-story Stalingrad building “Pavlov's House” are still circulating stories. _x000D_ For example, there is a legend that Pavlov did not pass away in 1981, but took monastic vows and became Archimandrite Kirill. In fact, the hero is buried in his native Novgorod. And the aforementioned elder Kirill, according to the panorama museum, had also the common Russian last name Pavlov in the world. And he was also a Hero of the Soviet Union. Only he was awarded this title not for Stalingrad, but for the battles on the Sandomierz foot strong. There were true grounds for confusion. Both were sergeants during the battle on the Volga, both ended the war as Junior Lieutenants. _x000D_ At the end of September, the first replenishment, almost a thousand fighters, had arrived in Rodimtsev's Division. It became easier for the guardsmen, and on the initiative of the Stalingrad city committee of the Komsomol, a volunteer detachment of about five hundred soldiers was formed, who were to replenish the ranks of the 13th Division. They were boys of seventeen-eighteen years old. _x000D_ Fierce battles unfolded for the mill, the State Bank building, the Railway Worker's House and other buildings. For battles in the city, the Division needed a strong point. The attention of General Rodimtsev was attracted by a small four-story house, facing the square of the Ninth of January. This square has long become the epicenter of the struggle between the two warring parties. The buildings surrounding it served as powerful strongholds, real pillboxes. And now, when the division had moved to active defense, the fight for the city center has turned into a fight for every house. Sergeant Pavlov received an order to conduct Reconnaissance of this house. Pavlov with three fighters managed to gain a foothold in this building and took up defense. _x000D_ Civilians were hiding in the basement of the building. Each of the recons received a combat position, but more than one, the defense had to be held from three sides. Pavlov's fighters fought off attack after attack for two days, and then a replenishment led by Lieutenant Afanasyev came. For defense, ammunition was needed, wounded appeared, a regular communication with the regiment was needed. The guardsmen began to dig the communication route to the mill, the residents of the house helped them. Five days later, the passage along which one could walk to the mill in full growth was ready. By this time, telephone communication was established from the Battalion Headquarters. In the basement, beds were installed for the rest of the soldiers and commanders, everything was provided for a long and successful defense. The house kept all the adjacent streets under fire from its machine guns, from where the Nazis tried to counterattack. Moreover, there was a mill nearby, where the division's observation post was located. _x000D_ One night General Rodimtsev came to Pavlov's house to support the guardsmen. Of course, they knew that the divisional Commander was not a timid dozen, he was not hiding in the dugouts, but to come straight to the front line was a very big risk. And they immediately added that the general is fair, and if someone lies, do not expect mercy. He won’t scream, he won’t stomp his feet and, he won’t frighten with a tribunal or execution. But if you are guilty, he will punish severely, without further ado. Rodimtsev believed in victory, his soldiers fought heroically near Kharkov, Kremenchug, on the Kursk Bulge. On the Sandomierz foot strong beyond the Vistula, the Nazis threw seven divisions against Rodimtsev's corps, including four tank divisions. The guardsmen drove the enemy to the Oder. Then there were bloody battles in Germany itself. On the Elbe, the guards linked-up with the Americans. Then Rodimtsev led his divisions to help those fighting in Prague. General Rodimtsev walked more than eight thousand kilometers along the roads of the war. _x000D_ A documentary was shot about Ya.F. Pavlov: Yakov Pavlov is a Sergeant of the Rodimtsev Division (biography and photo): For what they gave the Hero of the Soviet Union (Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal) to Ya.F. Pavlov.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Branch of the service: Ground Forces Unit: 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division. _x000D_ The hardships of the First World War fell to his shoulders. Straight from the imperialist trenches, he went to the Civilian war in Russia. There he was a common soldier, a Comissar, and a unit Commander. When he was demobilized from the Red Army, he held various leading economic positions. The Great Patriotic War found him in the position of Chief of the Central Board of one of the USSR people's commissariats. In October 1941, Pshenichny had the opportunity to be evacuated with the People's Commissariat. However, hearing about the call of the Moscow Bolsheviks' activists to defend the capital, he decided that his place was there, in the folk combat formation of people who fought with the Nazis, and voluntarily joined the Communist Battalion. During the formation of the 3rd Moscow Communist Division, he agreed to become the assistant Chief of Staff of the Regiment, then became the Commander of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. _x000D_ In January 1942 Pshenichny P. M. appointed Commander of the 664th Infantry Regiment, assessing his endurance, cold-blooded prudence and management, efficiency and, courage. His subordinates loved him very much. Pshenichny was one of those commanders who were always and everywhere at the forefront, in the midst of the soldiers. For example, reconnaissance group was organized to capture a "prisoner tongue" for interrogation, Pshenichny would come to the recons, talks with each of them, personally checks the plan of the operation, makes adjustments, together with the recons for several days studies the terrain, approaches to the enemy's trenches, etc. There is a fierce combat, people can not to torn off their head above the ground, Pshenichny suddenly appears and raises the fighters to attack. There were legends about the courage and say-devil actions of Pyotr. They said that he was bewitched by an enemy bullet. _x000D_ His comrades joked: “The skeletal old woman wielding a scythe is scared of Communist Comrade Pshenichny. And besides her, who dares to touch him?” Pshenichny, commanding regiment, led people into combats, raised them in attacks, and only once he was wounded in the arm. What a source of strength had he, even then, an elderly man, who able to lift up his wounded, bloody hand and lead the fighters forward? Anyone who saw this remembers to this day. The Order of Lenin marked his extraordinary feat. The Regiment Commander died on August 16, 1942 from a stray mine fragment after a a fierce combat. Someone claims that it was a sniper's bullet. Pyotr died a hero's death. The service of a commander is a daily burning at work, an everyday efforts. Every day and hour he bears an enormous responsibility before the people, before all those whom he leads into combat, before his own conscience. Many warm memories were left about the Commander, Pshenichny P.M. by his comrades in arms.

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 46th Rifle Division (2nd formation). Military ID: series L, N 35197, Infantry, VUS 1, Lieutenant, reserve, 3rd grade, Communist party since , party card N 4972502. Service: March 1941 - March 1942: Head of the Quaternary service, evacuation unit N 3044, Yaroslavl; March 1942 - November 1942: Private Separate Sapper Battalion of the 53rd Army; November 1942 - March 1943: cadet of the Military-Political School in Ivanovo, certificate series ХН-000001, No. 78202, awarded the rank of Lieutenant; March 1943 - October 1943 in the reserve of Gorky; October 1943 - January 1944 - Platoon Commander of the 698th Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division; November 1944 - October 1945: Head of the Quaternary maintenance unit, 321st Escort Regiment of the NKVD. Participation in the Great Patriotic War with Germany: March 1942 - November 1942: private, 11th Separate Engineer Battalion of the 53rd Army of the North-Western Front; October 1943 - April 1944: Platoon Commander, 698th Infantry Regiment, 46th Infantry Division, 2nd Baltic Front. On 10/10/1945 he was released with the rank of Lieutenant. Injuries: Pustoshka, Pskov Region: severe wound from a firearm in his right arm on January 9, 1944. Information about the wound: "In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 698th Rifle Regiment Comrade Ivan Davydovich Penkin was seriously wounded on January 18, 1944. Diagnosis: a through bullet wound of the right elbow joint and damage to the radius. Command unit 23841, Major of Medical Services, Lokshin. _x000D_ He was treated from 18.04.1944 to 27.05.1944. On 07/25/1944 a severe blind injury by a grenade fragment to the right hand with damage to the third finger and right elbow joint, No. 3044. Wound certificate: “In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 469th Rifle Regiment Comrade Penkin Ivan Davydovich was on July 25, 1944. seriously wounded: a grenade fragment of the right hand with damage to the third finger and the right elbow joint. Head of the evacuation hospital 3044. Nekrasovskoye village. He was undergoing treatment from August 6, 1944 to August 29, 1944 ”.