Scouts

Chernykh Matvey Mitrofanovich - Commander of the Battery Reconnaissance Division of the 940th Artillery Regiment (370-th Rifle Division, 69th Army, 1st Belorussian Front), Petty Officer, Hero of the Soviet Union, awarded the Order of Glory 1st degree.

Юрий Подтыкайлов, первый сын полка спецразведроты 40-й армии. Вместе с группой солдат выходил из окружения, бежал из фашистского плена, переходил линию фронта с важными сведениями о расположении противника. Был ранен в 1941 г. Награжден орденом Отечественной войны 2-й степени, медалями "За отвагу", "За победу над Германией", "За доблестный труд в годы Великой Отечественной", 8 юбилейными медалями

Lieutenant Viktor Kovalev's company, part of the Western front Special Forces detachment

Member of the Soviet partisan (guerilla) movement in the Caucasus, 1943. Photo by Mark Redkin/TASS

Scouts of Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain S. Kuznetsov detachment. Korea

Khomenko Vasily Sidorovich, born in 1925, in 1944 – red army soldier, scout of the 1003rd Rifle Regiment of the 279th Rifle Division of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian front. In may 1944, he was awarded two orders of Glory of the II and III degrees.

Tsygankov Nikolay Petrovich Tsygankov Nikolai Petrovich, born in 1917, 1941-1942 - Lieutenant, commander of the Reconnaissance Platoon of the 2nd Perekop Marine Regiment of the Black Sea Fleet.

The territory of Belarus was occupied by the Germans almost from the first days. Already on the seventh day of the war, June 28, 1941, Minsk and the whole Minsk region was occupied. In such a short period of time people did not manage to evacuate. Life began in German occupation. From the words of my mother, who was only 6 years old, those days remained "black" memories even in the childhood memory. Germans came into the houses, took away food and valuable things, healthy people were sent to Germany as slaves. For the slightest disobedience, entire villages were shot and burned together with its residents. By autumn 1941, guerrilla movement in the deep enemy's rear began to be organized in Minsk region. My mother distinctly remembers that in winter 1941 my grandfather was already in the guerrillas. However, unfortunately, there is no data on which partisan detachment and under whose command he fought. Immediately after the liberation of Belarus by the Soviet troops in July 1944, his grandfather was conscripted into the current army, and was promoted to the rank of Red Army officer. He served in the 5th Rifle Company, 2nd Rifle Battalion, 197th Army Reserve Rifle Regiment, 28th Army, and then was sent to the 160th Guards Rifle Regiment, 54th Guards Rifle Division, 3rd Guards Rifle Corps, 28th Army, 3rd Belorussian Front (v\ch p/p 18959). In autumn 1944, he entered the USSR state border northwest of the city of Brest with his fellow regiments. The division forced the Western Bug River on the move and entered the territory of Poland. In October, it took part in the breakthrough of the long-term defense of the enemy in the Gumbinn direction. In early 1945, he took part in the East Prussian operation. In March 1945, presumably on Polish territory, he went missing. He was only 42 years old! His relatives still do not know the place of his death and burial!

My great-grandfather, Konovalov Fyodor Vasilyevich, was born on July 05, 1918 in the village Shiroky Buerak, now - Volsky district of Saratov region, and on 01.01.1938 was called up to the Red Army as a border guard in the town of Peremyshl, where he served as a conscript in the NKVD (92 POGO NKVD 6A SZF). Today, Peremyshl is a Polish town Przemysl, near the border with Ukraine. The city was then divided by the border in the middle - along the channel of the river San. The eastern part belonged to the USSR, the western part - to the enemy, was part of the Governorate General (former Polish territories occupied by the Germans). My great-grandfather was supposed to be demobilized (complete his military service) in May and early June 1941, but ... he served as a machine-tool engineer - he knew how to set up and shoot weapons, including machine guns, there was no one to replace him at that time, and he was asked to wait for a month for his demobilisation. This month resulted in five years, six injuries and a long, long combat journey ... to Berlin. During Operation Barbarossa, the 17th Wehrmacht Army was to quickly seize (30 minutes) the bridges over the San River, occupy Peremyshl and move to Lviv and Kyiv. Our defense was based on Peremyshl fortification, the position of the 99th Rifle Division and the 92nd Border Guard Unit (where served my great-grandfather). Soldiers of the 92nd Frontier Division were the first to engage with the Nazi invaders. At 4:10 a.m. on June 22, 1941, German troops broke through the border with the USSR near Peremyshl. After art. training, they began forcing the San River on rafts and rubber boats. But as soon as the Germans entered the bridge across the river and reached its middle, the border guards opened fire. The German advance troops tried to bypass the bridge from upstream and downstream, but the border guards would not let them do so. According to eyewitnesses, the Germans were washing themselves in their own blood. The Soviet fighters and commanders fought to the last breath. Nechaev, the Deputy Chief of the Border Guard, fought back from enemies to the last moment, and then, left alone, blew up both himself and approaching fascists with a grenade, stepping into immortality. And my great-grandfather with his easel machine gun "in the battle for the Motherland at 151 in the Medik area for two days (22-23-24.06.41) held back the onslaught of the fascists, with his courage inspiring the fighters. He was left alone with an easel machine gun, securing a new position with units of the Red Army, and when leaving the battle under heavy gun fire, he carried an easel machine gun” Weight of the Degtyarev machine gun, then in service - 14.3 kg empty, box with a belt for 200/250 rounds of 8/9.4 kg, for which was presented on June 24, 1941 to the Order of the Red Star. But the Germans still seized the Peremyshl... Though on June 23rd the Red Army repulsed it! It was the first town to be liberated by the Red Army, just on the second day after the war. It alone would have been enough for eternal pride for my ancestor, but...he went through the whole war, serving in the intelligence service. He graduated from the Higher Border School in 1943 (of course, there were no others during the Great Patriotic War) and welcomed the Victory in the title of captain in Berlin by signing the Reichstag. Behind his back at the end of the war there were six wounds (three light and three heavy) and three funeral notices. Now in Russia and Germany there is his surname on the mass graves... When we were in Berlin, my mother and I specifically came to the Reichstag walls to worship the memory of our grandfather and great-grandfather. My great-grandfather lived a good, honest, though not very long life - 65 years (apparently, the war wounds made themselves known), raised good children. And all his life he was sincerely proud of his Homeland and there was no holiday more important and sacred for him than Victory Day. We will never forget about his feat!

Shkurichev Sergey Ivanovich, Shkurichev Sergei Ivanovich, 1941-1942 - 1st rank Petty Officer, Assistant Commander of the Reconnaissance Company of the 514th Rifle Regiment of the 172nd Rifle Division of Independent Coastal Army.

Alexey Kirillovich Ilyin was born in 1926 in the village of Domanovo, Iznoskovsky district. He met the war in Leningrad as a student of a vocational school. Together with this great city, he survived the blockade and at the beginning of March 42, he returned to his native village, as he was very much exhausted and sick. After a little medical treatment, he worked at the Shcherbakov collective farm, and in December 1943 he was drafted into the army. A.K. Ilyin fought in the infantry troops on the 3rd Baltic Front. On August 9, 1944, near Šiauliai in Lithuania, a scout squad, which included Aleksey Kirillovich, was discovered and fired upon during the mission. 2 powerful shells that exploded over the heads of the soldiers hit everyone: someone was killed, someone was wounded. A.K. Ilyin was wounded in the right leg. “At first it seemed as if a stick had been hit hard on the leg, but I didn’t pay much attention: I was bandaging those who suffered more. And then I saw - blood from the leg, like from a samovar, ”the veteran later said. After the hospital he was sent to the Saransk Artillery School, where he became a calculator-spotter, from there he was sent to a separate mortar regiment. So until the end of the war he served in the artillery, although he was almost always on the front line, along with the infantry. I met the victory in the Austrian Alps. Has two medals "For Courage". The first was received at Siauliai, and the second for participation in an offensive operation in the Alps. He still recalls how 18 soldiers were dragging a cannon uphill in their arms to block the road to the Nazis. On April 26, 1945, the regiment in which Aleksei Kirillovich served was disbanded, and he was sent to retrain in the landing troops. A soldier is always a soldier: wherever he is sent, he is needed there. Sergeant Ilyin made 30 night parachute jumps with full gear already near Ussuriisk. Wherever I've been. And he returned home only in October 1950 ...

CITY: Oshi village, Orichevsky district, Kirov region DATE OF BIRTH: 05/28/1922 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 52nd Infantry Division (1st Formation) My great-grandfather Nikolai Vasilievich Lobastov was born on May 28, 1922 in the village of Oshi, Orichevsky District, Kirov Region, into a family of peasants. After graduating from school, he graduated from combiner courses. When the war began, my great-grandfather was 19 years old. In September 1941, my great-grandfather was drafted into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) and sent to study. He studied in Aktyubinsk in the educational unit as a scout. After finishing "training" he was sent to the front. He fought on the Ukrainian front as part of the 52nd Infantry Division. Great-grandfather with his comrades went on missions behind enemy lines, they took prisoners - they were also called "tongues". The captured Germans talked about the location of military equipment and the number of soldiers, about German plans. This information helped the Soviet army in planning military operations and in achieving victories. On June 23, 1943, during a night search in the area of ​​Belgorod, a German soldier was taken prisoner by the great-grandfather, while returning from the mission, the great-grandfather was wounded, but despite the injury he was able to deliver the prisoner. He was treated in an evacuation hospital 3922. After recovery, he was declared unfit for military service and sent to the rear. In those difficult years, there were not enough men in the rear, everyone went to the front. Therefore, after returning from the front, my great-grandfather was appointed chairman of the collective farm, after the enlargement of the collective farm, he returned to work in the field as a combine operator. Great-grandfather was repeatedly awarded, including the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Patriotic War I degree.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1906 DATE OF DEATH: 01.24.1942 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Type of service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 332nd Rifle Volunteer Ivanovo-Polotsk twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Machine gunner 1119 rifle regiment in the 332 rifle division. The winter of 1941-1942 turned out to be very cold, and in mid-January the frost in the region was quite fierce. At the beginning of 1942, the village of Kanat was advanced, but by January 24 it was occupied. At this time, there was an offensive of the fourth shock army, 332 division, in which Vasily Ledyagin served. In winter, large formations of Germans moved across the Kanat - some in cars, some on motorcycles, and some on foot. In the evening, soldiers in white camouflage came to the house. As it turned out later from conversations, these were soldiers of the advanced reconnaissance detachment. They consisted of 20 people and settled in two huts. A sentry was put out on the street, but all night in frost "-35" he could not stand outside, so he periodically went into the house to warm up. In the morning, when the sentry once again left the house, he was noticed by the Germans, who were being led to the headman by a villager. A firefight began. A column of Germans turned to shoot from the road. There were many more of them than our soldiers. A fight ensued. Unfortunately, everyone who was in the sentry's house died. Some managed to survive from the second house. As a result, our intelligence officers in a very small composition were able to kill about 70 Germans. After the battle, on about January 25, 1942, our soldiers were buried near the river under birch trees and they were given crosses.

DATE OF BIRTH: 12/09/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 12/17/1992 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Division: 381st Rifle Leningrad Red Banner Division. Nikolai Ivanovich was born in 1923 on December 9 in the city of Tula. When his mother died in him, he was very young, and his father took him to his homeland in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the Ilanskiy district. When he reached the age of eight, his father dies of illness, and he is brought up in a foster family until the age of seventeen. At the age of seventeen and a half , Nikolai Ivanovich Ilanskiy Regional Military Commissariat calls into the ranks of the Red Army. After a short military training, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to the Kalinin Front, in military unit 1263 Specialist subunit 381 rifle division. Minesweeper, scout. He was presented for a government award with the Order of the Red Star. In 1943, he participated in the regimental reconnaissance with an attack on the garrison near the village of Zaslonino, together with other sappers made a 100-meter pass through wire and mine obstacles. A lot of night searches and reconnaissance were carried out as part of the regimental and battalion reconnaissance. As a result of one of these intelligence services, the "tongue" was taken. In 1944, Nikolai Ivanovich was seriously wounded in the leg, his heel was amputated. I met Victory Day in the hospital. After the hospital he returned to the Krasnoyarsk Territory, trained as a skipper and worked in river navigation. In the early sixties, Nikolai Ivanovich married a second time to Ekaterina Ivanovna. She was then on a Komsomol ticket in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In the mid-sixties, Nikolai Ivanovich left with his wife to her homeland in the Belgorod region. Borisov district with. Georgian. They have five sons in a joint marriage. In 1983, a splinter came out of my hand, and my wife dedicated a poem to it. Forty years ago as the war ended, and the fragments in my body suddenly rang on the table. The son looks at these pieces of iron in surprise: - Dad, forty years ago were you soldiers? -Yes, my dear boy, Peaceful day overhead, Victory Day we got here is the price. 1992 December 17 Nikolai Ivanovich dies.

Vasily Alexandrovich Bystrov was called to the front on August 20, 1941 immediately after the end of the seven-year period by the Chebsar RVC. He began serving in the 21st motorized rifle division of the NKVD, as part of the 2nd Shock Army. He went through the entire war, starting from the cadet rank and becoming a commander of a mortar platoon, was a scout. He fought on the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts. In the Lyuban offensive on January 25, 1942, the division where Vasily fought broke through the enemy's defenses at Myasnoy Bor near Leningrad but found itself isolated in a narrow frontline. The soldiers were left without provision, the ability to establish communication, to fight further. They starved, boiled leather belts in pots. Frozen bread was dropped to them from planes. This was all they ate... Their regiment managed to break through the German forces a few weeks later, and the soldiers from the neighboring unit were all captured. Among those captives was the famous poet Musa Jalil... The isolation of the 21st division lasted until February 12, 1942. Then the 111th rifle division together with the 22nd rifle brigade expanded the front line to 13 km and improved the condition of the unit that was trapped. Thus, the task of the combat operation of the 21st division of the NKVD was completed, the defense at Myasnoy Bor was broken, but the soldiers themselves were in a tough half-starved state for several weeks. In 1943, Vasily Bystrov was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". The 21st motorized rifle division of the NKVD, in July-August 1942 renamed into the 109th Red Banner rifle 602 regiment, where Vasily fought, bore the proud title of "The Red Banner Rifle Regiment of the Order of Alexander Nevsky". In the summer of 1942, the division, along with the 85th rifle brigade, led the enemy out of the heavily fortified point of Staro-Panovo. They advanced into the outskirts of the city of Uritsk. For several days there was relentless fighting, as a result of which the Germans suffered significant losses. Vasily Alexandrovich Bystrov was awarded the order of the Red Star in 1944 for the feat performed in the battle on March 8 near the town of Metsavakht near Narva in Estonia. Vasily commanded a mortar squad. He was seriously wounded, but continued to fight, replaced a disabled platoon commander. From the award list entry: "...Despising death, he single-handedly corrected the fire of his mortars under enemy fire. Repelling enemy attacks... destroyed three firing points and more than 20 Hitlerite soldiers. Being wounded, he continued to command the platoon until his strength left him. He is worthy of the government award, the order of the Red Star. Signed: Colonel Putyatin." In this battle, Vasily Bystrov was seriously wounded in the head; he continued to fight the enemy until he lost consciousness. He celebrated the victory in Estonia. After the war he was frequently called up for military training in Kusubu. He worked for many years at the Vologda machine-building plant in various positions: as a carpenter, then as a dispatcher in the PDO. He had been awarded the badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War", in 1971 he was awarded the title of captain of the reserve. With his wife Faina, he raised three children. Now, the memory of my grandfather is kept by 4 grandchildren, 9 great-grandchildren, 1 great-great-granddaughter. Vasily Aleksandrovich Bystrov was admitted to a hospital of the Leningrad region from 26.02.1942 to 22.04.1942 near Parakhino. He was admitted to hospitals in Leningrad: Evacuation Hospital No. 1250 from 18.09.1943 to 05.12.1943; hospital No. 1360 from 08.03.1944 to 05.06.1944. For the rest of his life, he had splinters in his cheek and under his shoulder blade, they could even be felt right under his skin.