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Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of service: land forces, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD, border troops. Division: 338th rifle division (1st formation). WINNER: "When they say that the Great Patriotic war went through every family,this is not an exaggeration. My grandfather, grandmother, three great-grandfathers, and their brothers fought in my family. One great-grandfather and one of his sons were killed, all the others, fortunately, returned home. My grandfather, Nikolai Sergeevich Golubev, a native of the village of Ivanisovo in the Pereslavl district, went to the front in 1942, when he reached military age. He served in a reconnaissance company, twice brought the enemy, twice was wounded in the back and arm and was in a military hospital. One spring, he had to spend a whole day in a swamp up to his waist in cold water, where they were driven by the Germans. During the war, my grandfather corresponded with his wife-my grandmother-Maria Dmitrievna. They fought on different fronts, they often lost each other and then found each. Their fate connected them, as they say, from their early years - they were classmates, then fellow students, and were able to get married only after the war in 1950. My grandmother went to the war on the Komsomol ticket from the second year of pedagogical school. She fiished a three-month course on radio operator and served in Yaroslavl as a corporal in the air defense forces of the North-Western front as a radiotelegraph operator. She transmitted reports of enemy aircraft to command posts and anti-aircraft units. She was wounded and awarded the medal for Military merit. Immediately after the end of the war, my grandfather entered the Moscow military school named after the Supreme Soviet, and after graduation he was appointed as an officer to serve in Germany. After coming back from Germany, he served in a unit that built military airfields. Unfortunately, I didn't find my grandfather alive, and I didn't have a chance to ask him about everything. My parents said that he was a captain, a company commander. He, as a veteran of the great Patriotic war, was lucky to participate twice in the parade on Red square. In 1969, , he died at the age of 45 after a serious illness. My grandfather is buried at the war memorial cemetery in the center of Kursk. This city happened to be the last place of his service and the place of my birth – my small homeland. I often look at the photos of my grandmother, her medals, and remember that as a child I heard from her about the war… One of the photos was taken in Germany in 1945 with the inscription on the back: "To Marusya for memory from Nicholay on his return from vacation." The picture shows a very young man, with a jaunty hat on his head. There is pride In all his appearance! A real winner! My dear grandmother is no longer here. And there are so many things I would like to ask her! How often we don't appreciate what we have and start to appreciate it when we lose it. My mother and I often visited my grandfather's older brother, Vasily Sergeevich. He went through the whole war, he was a pilot. After the war, he mastered the civil profession and lived to an old age. What a storyteller he was! Every visit to his house was a special day for me. Vasily Sergeyevich sat on the sofa and started telling stories about how he flew to the forest to the partisans: “Night, flying over the forest to the partisans. I see bonfires below, it means I need to land. But the bonfires could have been lit by the Germans, and it is not clear whom you will land to... I make a circle, fly over the fires again, but I still have to land. What happiness!our guys!" And now imagine my state when recently I read on the website" Feat of the people” in the link about award documents: “On behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet to award Golubev Vasily Sergeevich the medal "for bravery" for a bold night flight. Despite the fire of anti-aircraft artillery, delivered to the target six paratroopers-bombers." I also found about my grandfather: "Scout platoon of foot reconnaissance regiment of Red army Golubev Nikolai Sergeevich award the medal “for bravery" for the fact that during the offensive battles under heavy enemy fire continuously provided communication with the right neighbor and carried the wounded commander from the battlefield." It is no accident that my great-grandfather Sergey Akimovich was proud of his sons and their exploits. One son defended the Motherland on earth, the other-in the sky. Now it is our duty to remember the feat of our ancestors, the feat of our people. I remember, I'm proud!

Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov was born on May 16, 1924 in Ukraine, in the village of Alexandrovka, Chernigov region, in the family of Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna Tretyakov. Then the family moved to the Amur Region for resettlement and settled in the town of Kivnet, Bureya District (a railway station, now part of the village of Bureya). Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna had nine children. Alexey was the eldest of the children, so the war fell to his lot. At the beginning of 1943, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Red Army. First - to Khabarovsk, to the school of junior commanders, and six months later he was sent to the Western Front. There he ended up in a reconnaissance company. According to his stories, they often went behind the front line for "tongues" - and not without success. In one of these sorties, his commander was seriously wounded - and he was dragging him out by crawling, in a box from under shells across the front line. They crawled more than three kilometers. The commander survived, he was wounded in the neck. After the war, my grandfather met with the commander. It was somewhere in the seventies. When they met, they hugged and could not speak for a long time, only cried. They left behind the front line and with sabotage missions (they hunted food from the Germans, shot German officers from sniper rifles). One day, returning from another assignment, they saw a German officer walking on horseback. They removed him from the horse, tied him up and, together with the stallion, brought him to their positions. The stallion was then given the nickname "trophy" and was presented to the regiment commander, whose service horse had died the day before. My grandfather said that this stallion carried out commands only in German. Near Kursk he was seriously wounded. They came from reconnaissance and settled in the trench for lunch - and at that time the mortar shelling began. The first mine fell far ahead of the trench, the second from behind. The third mine hit the breastwork of the trench - and he remembered nothing else ... He woke up already in the hospital, when the nurse was washing the dirt and blood from his head. Shrapnel from a mine hit the head, shoulder, leg and chest. He survived. After the war, when X-rays were taken, he was always asked: “Have you been to the war? Does the shard bother you? Well, then a soldier - go with him, it is very dangerous to remove him, it is close to your heart. " His children often put a magnet on his leg and head - and it stuck to the body, since there were metal fragments inside. Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree "found" him after the war, somewhere in the 80s. He was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office, where the award was solemnly presented. Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov died in 1988.

Rank: Corporal _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Sonin Vasily Maksimovich, was born on June 16, 1923 in the village of Melguny, Mordovian district, Tambov region. He graduated only from the 4th grade of School, then he helped two brothers and parents in the farm. He was drafted to the front from the village of Shulgino, Mordovian district, Tambov region on October 28, 1941, as a very young eighteen-year-old boy. He began his military career in the 729th Infantry Regiment, from June 1942 until the end of the war he served as a recon. He participated in the defense of Leningrad. In 1942 he took part in the Kharkov operation. During this operation he was wounded in the leg and was taken by horse-drawn carriage to the hospital. _x000D_ As a true recon, he did not talk about his efforts during his lifetime. _x000D_ After the war, in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree for his fortitude and courage shown in the war. What effort he was awarded the Order of the Red Star during the war, our family did not know. But I managed to find archival documents describing the efforts of the hero of our family, V.M. Sonin. _x000D_ So we learned that in the offensive battles in the spring of 1945, Vasily Maksimovich Sonin showed himself to be a bold and resourceful recon. He personally reconnoitered 4 heavy and light machine guns, 2 enemy direct-fire guns, which were later destroyed by our mortar fire. Together with the infantry, he was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and destroyed 4 Nazis with the fire of his machine gun, and when the Germans launched a counterattack, he was the first to rise with a machine gun and shout "Hurray" led his infantry fighters to repel the counterattack, where he personally killed 5 more Hitlerites. For this effort he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ He made another effort in the combat on September 18, 1944, and destroyed 4 enemy soldiers with automatic fire at the entrance to the village of Vir. Also he discovered 2 fascist machine guns, which were later destroyed by the fire of our mortars. By this he contributed to the offensive of their infantry. For which he was awarded the medal "For Courage". _x000D_ The family album contains several photographs brought after the war, where he was captured with his comrades in arms while serving in Czechoslovakia and Ukraine. In the victorious 1945 he took part in the liberation of Prague from German troops. He was awarded the medal "For Liberation of Prague", as well as the medal "For Victory over Germany". _x000D_ After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve in Ukraine. In 1947 he was transferred to the reserve. Returning to his homeland he worked as a mechanic at a sugar factory. Already in peacetime he was awarded jubilee medals. November 7, 2016 Sonin V.M. in the village of Shulgino, Mordovsky District, Tambov Region, a memorial was opened dedicated to the soldiers who did not return from the war, as well as to the immortal efforts of 13 thousand residents of the Mordovsky District of the Tambov Region, fallen in the combats during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ Besides, his brothers and sister were also fighting in the Great Patriotic War,: Sonin Mikhail Maksimovich (1919-1984), Sonin Pyotr Maksimovich (1912-1988), Sonina Alexandra Maksimovna (born in 1927). Currently, their names are included in the book of memory "They returned with victory" about the soldiers-fellow countrymen who returned from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces _x000D_ _x000D_ Konstantin Ivanovich Smirnov was born on October 14, 1903 in Astrakhan into a merchant family. When the Great Patriotic War began, he had the right to be exempted from the active duty, but in September 1941 he went to fight voluntarily. In December he was sent to the front, into the army. _x000D_ He served in the 349th Infantry Division, received the rank of Sergeant, becoming the commander of a recon squad of a Separate Reconnaissance Company. From the first days of its arrival at the front, the 349th Infantry Division had been fighting bloody battles, defending the cities of Ukraine. It was baptized by fire in the Kramatorsk region. It broke through the enemy's defense line and occupied a number of settlements near Kramatorsk. On the left was Slavyansk, on the right was Izium. Here the division held its defenses until mid-May 1942. _x000D_ When the Nazi troops launched a counteroffensive, the 349th Rifle Division was thrown in to cover the frontal gap that had formed south of Izyum and was surrounded. _x000D_ Konstantin Smirnov got his first wound in heavy combats. He used to have jet-black hair ... However, when he returned alone of the entire reconnaissance group carrying out a mission behind enemy lines, he was seriously wounded and his hair turned completely gray... _x000D_ After being treated in the hospital, he returned to his division. Then, at the beginning of July 1942, there were short days of rest, when the almost completely destroyed division was withdrawn for reorganization to the area of Krasny Luch, Luhansk Region. _x000D_ On July 17, it was deployed to defend the southern borders of Stalingrad. Here, in July-September 1942, my grandfather went missing in a regular reconnaissance raid behind enemy lines.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Troops. Subdivision: 201st Gatchina Rifle Red Banner Division._x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Vasily Ivanovich Smirnov (January 14, 1927 - October 26, 1982), a native of the village. Malo-Mitkino, Kalachinsky district, Omsk region, disabled of the II group of the Great Patriotic War, awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. He went to the front at the age of 16. _x000D_ In 1943, after the family received a notice of the death of his father (Ivan Sosipatrovich Smirnov, who died at the front - Kostyukovichi, Mogilev region), he did not wait for his draft year, and together with his comrades born in 1926, he appeared at the recruiting station and was enrolled as a cadet 17th district School of snipers of the Siberian Military District. He graduated from the School of snipers with the assignment of the military rank of Corporal. _x000D_ In June 1944 he served in the Gorokhovets military camps in the Ivanovo region. From July 1944 he served in the 7th Rifle company of the 3rd Rifle Battalion of the 446th Rifle Pinsk Order of the Alexander Nevsky Regiment. With the 446th Rifle Regiment he marched from Baranovichi to Bialystok and beyond. At the beginning of August 1944 he became a recon of the reconnaissance platoon of the 59th Infantry Regiment of the Second Baltic Front. He took part in the liberation of Võru, Valka, Valmiera, Cesis ... _x000D_ In September 1944 he was wounded and went to the hospital. After the hospital, he was sent to the regimental reconnaissance, and a month later he was appointed commander of a division of a Rifle company located in Courland (Latvia), between Tukums and Libava. The last time he went on the attack on February 16, 1945. On that day, during the attack, he was wounded in the head and lost an eye. He was treated in hospitals in Riga and Mitava. In May 1945, he graduated from medical training courses, but did not have to fight again, the war ended. In 1946 he was demobilized as a disabled II group of the Second World War. _x000D_ He returned to his homeland, to the village of Malo-Mitkino. He graduated from the regional School of cultural and educational workers. He worked as the head of the culture department of the Maryanovsk regional executive committee of the Omsk region and studied at the correspondence Omsk teacher's institute named after M. Gorky. Since 1951 he worked in schools of the Omsk region (history teacher, School director). We remember and are proud of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Eternal glory!

Rank: Red Army_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Ivan Egorovich Turkenichev was born on October 12, 1924 in the village of Novy Liman, Voronezh Region. In 1933, his family moved to Kh. Parisian Rostov Region. After graduating from the 6th grade, he began to help his father, on an equal basis with adults, he collected potatoes in the field, carried water and grain on oxen. _x000D_ June 22, 1941 it was an ordinary day, everyone was working. And then they announced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In November of this year, the kolkhoz received a decree that all the cattle were evacuated across the Volga. And he, together with old men and women, drove cattle to the Elan station of the Saratov Region. _x000D_ When Ivan Yegorovich turned 18, he was sent as a recon to the 556th Rifle Regiment, which stood between Lake Chiganaki and the Don River. At the next offensive, in a hurry, he did not have time to wind up his foot bindings, but was crossing the river barefoot, the water was icy, he froze his leg. He had a fever, and when they stopped for a halt next to the shock where he was, a shell exploded and he was concussed. He lost his hearing, spoke poorly, stuttered. When we got to the medical unit, he was given the first aid and was sent to the hospital. There, without anesthesia, his left toes were amputated, he was held by five people. Then he was transferred to a hospital in the Penza Region, after treatment, the medical commission recognized him as disabled, and sent home. _x000D_ But already in November 1942 he was enlisted back into an active army. So Ivan Yegorovich ended up in besieged Leningrad. He served as a traffic cop in the 127th Separate Road Battalion on the Road of Life. He was there for a whole year and knew what 125 grams of bread for the whole day was for the civilian population, and 400 grams for soldiers, and even rotten cabbage. _x000D_ In Leningrad they lived in dugouts, there was no heat, no water, no light. They worked day and night, transporting construction materials to the "Road of Life" in an onboard vehicle. On January 18, 1944, the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts united, and the 900-day blockade of Leningrad was broken. _x000D_ In August 1944 he was transferred to Poland to the 317th Infantry Regiment. His regiment was liberating the city of Krakow. During the offensive near Breslavl in January 1945, he was wounded. And again the hospital, but there he did not stay. After some medical treatment, the soldier Turkenichev was sent to the military commandant's office in Beutkhen to protect civilians from the Banderaites. _x000D_ For good service, Ivan Yegorovich was presented with a bicycle, clothes, shoes. In a freight train, he reached the city of Voronezh. My grandfather returned from the war in August 1946.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 143rd Infantry Konotop-Korosten Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division._x000D_ _x000D_ Our grandfather Teterin Georgy Methodievich was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army by the Kirensk military enlistment office on August 23, 1941. A lot of them gathered there, patriots of the Motherland, ready to give their lives for its salvation. After Irkutsk, the whole group of young guys was sent to Chita, to Antipikha, where the fighters were for exactly 17 days !!! received the first basics of combat training. _x000D_ On September 11, a group of recons who had not yet fired on were transferred to the front near Kharkov, and therefore, probably in the very first battle, my grandfather was wounded and ended up in a hospital. While George is in the hospital, his comrades in arms went far away. He was catching up with them already on the North Caucasian front. _x000D_ Grandfather has many orders and medals, but there are also the most valuable ones, reminiscent of many terrible events... Holding the medal“For Courage”in his hands, grandfather recalled: _x000D_ “Our detachment halted at a deep river, the combat mission was set to ferry mines to the opposite bank, but the enemy's massive fire did not make it possible to do this by boats or other floating means. We touched the water, it was ice cold. And then the Commander asked: "Are there Siberians among you?" ... Grandfather said: "Yes! I am a Siberian ”- and stepped forward. Several more people stepped forward with him. The daredevils were given rubber backpacks with the same mines inside. Nine times under enemy fire and with a load of mines on his shoulders he had to swim to the opposite bank ... George survived in a dangerous crossing, but was wounded again ... And again a hospital, and again a hospital bed. But the soldier returns to his comrades in arms to the front line, in the heat of hell. _x000D_ After the hospital, there came a Battle of Stalingrad under the command of V.I. Chuikov, who later became Marshal of the Soviet Union. It was hard for my grandfather to remember that battle, but as he used to say: "Reconnaissance is always ahead." And already the rest follow them: infantry, Artillery ... As a reminder of that battle he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ The comman did not have enough information for tactical conduct of the battle at Stalingrad, so their reconnaissance detachment was ordered to get the "prisoner tongue" by any means possible. And now recons in camouflage coats deep moved forward at night in the rear of the enemy. The Nazis are asleep and do not know about the approaching danger ... Only the sentry did not sleep at the depot, but was professionally carried off without a single cry. Friendly snoring blocked the order: "Hande Hoсh!" In this operation, seventeen "prisoner tongues" were taken, including the Commander. For his participation in this special operation, Georgy Methodievich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And all the same, despite the tactical and strategic efforts of the commanders, many of his comrades from the legendary 62-8th Guards Army were killed on that battlefield, in that bloody meat grinder! And he not only survived, but also went on to fight for freedom ... Next, Berlin was ahead! And unexpected and long-awaited the Victory had come !!! Grandfather recalled: _x000D_ Our troops are approaching Berlin. Suddenly drowning out the rest of the voices, a loud baritone is heard on the radio in the street: “Citizens, the Brandenburg Gate is open! The way to Berlin is FREE! " We waited, we knew, but all the same we were dumbfounded: “Victory? - No, it can not be?! Why, this is VICTORY! " _x000D_ And we, the descendants of our courageous soldier, are proud that among the records on the Brandenburg Gate there is also his record, that he fought, survived and reached, that they WIN! After Berlin was a link-up with the Americans on the Elbe, and then our soldier drove home for two years ... Two years !!! Because before arriving home, he took part in the re-evacuation of factories and the demagnetization of mines on ships in the Gulf of Finland. _x000D_ And only on August 1, 1947, two years after the war, on his birthday, Georgy Methodievich Teterin returned home! He returned wounded and shell-shocked, but alive and got freedom and a peaceful sky overhead! My grandfather passed away in 1997. _x000D_ A few days before the 70th anniversary, the heart of our veteran halted ... But the memory of him and his efforts lives not only in photo albums, but in the hearts and memory of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren ... We remember! We are proud! Thank the grandfather for the Victory!

Subdivision: 242nd Taman Mountain Rifle Red Banner Order of Kutuzov_x000D_ Tribunsky Nikolay Tarasovich was born on October, 25 1923 in the village Salnikovo (now Pervomaisky District of Altai Territory) in a peasant family. He had been enlisted to the Red Army since October 1941, participated in war combats since December 1941. He was a recon of the 690th Brigade Regiment (126th Brigade, 2nd Guards Army, 4th Ukrainian Front)._x000D_ On 12.4.1944 as part of reconnaissance group he destroyed 5 Nazis and captured several prisoners in Sevastopol (Crimea, Ukraine). On 05/31/1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory, (242nd Alpine Division, the 3rd Alpine Corps, 1st Guards Army, 4th Ukrainian front). _x000D_ Senior Sergeant made several raids deep into the rear of the enemy, captured and personally exterminated more than 15 Nazis 17.12.44-4.01.45. On On 4.01.45 one of the first in a group of recons broke into the enemy location in the area of Bardejov (Slovakia), struck 3 sub-machine gunners with point-blank fire, and captured 1 prisoner. On 05.02.45 Tribunsky awarded the Order of Glory of 3 degree, on 24.10.66 he was re-awarded the Order of Glory of 1st degree. Commanding a capture group, on the night of 05.02.45 at the station Gucisko (southern city of Rabka, Poland) killed 4 Nazis and took 1 prisoner. On the night of 20.02.45 in the area of Nowy Sacz (Poland), covering the retreat of the capture group with the “tongue”, he struck 5 infantry. On 24.3.45 Tribunsky was awarded the Order of Glory of 2nd degree. _x000D_ In January 1946 he was demobilized. In 1956 he graduated from the Barnaul Accounting and Credit College and worked as a Chief Accountant of the Altai Regional Committee of the Communist Party. He lived in the city of Barnaul. He passed away on June 25, 1996.

My grandfather was born on July 10, 1929 in the village of Novoselovo, Oryol region. A little later, he and his parents, brothers Sasha, Kolya and sister Maria moved to Orel. In 1941 he was 12 years old. On the very first day of the war, the entire Oryol region was transferred to martial law. _x000D_ Little Petya, together with his friend, the same kid, fled to the front, but was caught and returned to his mother. But by nature little Petya was a very stubborn and brave boy and did not leave the thought of fighting the enemy. Oryol was captured on October 3, 1941. An underground was organized in the city. The partisan detachments stationed in the occupied territory of the Oryol region behind enemy lines were numerous and they had to hide in the forests. For orientation on the terrain, the partisans needed a local guide, someone who could walk the streets without hindrance and would be inconspicuous to the enemy. These guides were my grandfather, 12-year-old Petya Tizanov and his friend Tolik Kretov. The boys, disguised as wandering through the streets of the city, conducted reconnaissance of the enemy's military installations and transmitted information to the partisans. These small but brave children fearlessly made sabotage forays into the food warehouses of the Nazis and delivered provisions for the partisans. _x000D_ After the counter-offensive on July 12, 1943 on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge, Soviet troops began to rapidly advance towards Orel. And then my grandfather, then a child at all, did not stand aside. When the first reconnaissance detachment of the Red Army approached the city, on their way, by some chance, the boy Petya Tizanov met, who told in all the details how to get into the city unnoticed, drew a detailed plan of where the strategically important objects of the enemy are located, spoke about the number of German troops and about where, how much and what kind of military equipment the Nazis have. _x000D_ On the night of July 26, 1943, Soviet long-range aircraft bombed Oryol. The German command decided to leave the Oryol foothold. The Germans began to evacuate the city. The eagle was declared a war zone. This is how the liberation of Oryol began. Even then, very young, Petya Tizanov, looking at the torment of the wounded, dreamed of becoming a military doctor and when he turned 18, the war was over for two years already, he entered the Odessa Naval Medical School and made his dream come true , became a military doctor. According to the distribution, he was sent to serve in the Baltic States, Klaipeda. There, as part of diving groups, he was engaged in lifting the ships sunk during the Great Patriotic War. Once, while participating in an operation to rescue the crew of a sunken submarine, my grandfather Pyotr Afanasyevich Tizanov gave his scuba gear to a sailor of the submarine's crew for lifting from the bottom of the sea, and he himself emerged without a scuba gear and received a serious barotrauma, a ruptured lung. He didn’t feel sorry for himself, but saved the life of a man. _x000D_ After the end of the service, my grandfather moved to live and work in the Kiev region, he devoted his whole life to saving the life and health of people. He was married to the only and beloved Tizanova (Voronova) Lina Vasilievna. He raised a daughter and a son, had three grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. He passed away at the age of 87, a month and a half after the death of his wife, 04/07/2016. _x000D_ P.S. My dear, beloved Grandfather-Daddy Petya .. That is how I called my grandfather in childhood .. I love you so much .. You are no longer with us, but you are alive in our hearts, in our children and you will live in our grandchildren and great-grandchildren .. Your loving granddaughter Anechka ..

Rank: Sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Division: 161st Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolay Turchenko was born on June 15, 1921 in the village of Kholmogorovka (now - Shagan Kerbulak district of Almaty region of Kazakhstan). After finishing six years of school he worked as a tractor driver. In 1940, Turchenko was called up to serve in the Red Army. Since July 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In combats he was seriously wounded. _x000D_ By September 1943, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko commanded a squad of 565th Rifle Regiment of 161st Rifle Division of 40th army of the Voronezh front. He distinguished himself during the combat for the Dnieper. _x000D_ As part of a reconnaissance group, Turchenko made his way into the village of Rymarovka, Gadyach district, Poltava region, Ukrainian SSR, personally capturing the "tongue", a German prisoner, and destroying 3 German soldiers. When the Soviet units reached the Dnieper, Turchenko was one of the first to cross it in the area of the village of Lukovitsa, Kanevsky district, Cherkasy region of the Ukrainian SSR, conducted reconnaissance of the German defense and took an active part in the combats to seize and hold the foothold. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 23, 1943, for “courage and heroism shown during the liberation of Ukraine and the crossing of the Dnieper”, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal numbered 2024. _x000D_ After the end of the war, Turchenko was demobilized. He lived and worked first in Ulyanovsk, then in Mineralnye Vody. He died on September 25, 1972, and was buried in the city cemetery of Mineralnye Vody.

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

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

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

Mikhailov Ferapont Mikhailovich was born on December 27, 1918, in the Urmarsky district of the Chuvash Republic. Before the war he moved to the city of Kazan, the capital of the Tatar ASSR. Не was drafted into Red in the fall of 1939 by the Molotov Military Commissariat of the city of Kazan. He went through the Great Patriotic War from the first to the last day as a Senior Sergeant, Squad Commander of the Reconnaissance Platoon of the 115th Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Far Eastern Debrecen Division. For valor and courage he was awarded the Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree, the Red Star and the Patriotic War II degree, two medals "For Courage", the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." in the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, Mikhailov Ferapont Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He had many thanks from the Higher Command for participating in the capture of large regional centers, important strongholds of the Germans and railway junctions in Ukraine, Bessarabia, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ Everyone went through hardship at war, but reconnaissance survey was always ahead after all and felt it stronger. From the memoirs of Ferapont Mikhailovich: _x000D_ “The cavalry corps of General Sokolov entered the breakthrough. The 8th Cavalry Division was targeting the enemy rail and road junction of Modra. Our regiment went in vanguard under the Regiment Commander, a native of Kazan, Major Girfanov from the division of Major General P.A. Khrustalev. Reconnaissance survey on the 70-kilometer route of the regiment and on the outskirts of the city was entrusted to my recon squad. We worked accurately and used our experience. The execution of every order was associated with risk. _x000D_ However, there were some curious stories along the way. So, in one of the villages, where we entered in order to compare the map with the testimony of local residents, we stumbled upon 14 sleeping German officers in the house. Not at a loss, I shouted for them to surrender, since the village was allegedly occupied by the Russians. So we took them prisoners and sent half-naked from the village under the guard of only one soldier. _x000D_ In another village, right from under the nose of the Germans, we seized a staff carriage._x000D_ To deliver reports say: "the village is occupied by the Germans, the Germans are sleep", or "the street along the route is free", to the regiment, which followed a few kilometers behind the main group of recons. To turn around as quickly as possible through the same German-occupied village, to catch up and join the regiment, and be ready for the next immediate reconnaissance mission, this was possible only up to the very experienced soldiers. _x000D_ And this time, we carried out the order when approaching the city of Modra. The regiments captured the city with battle. For a successful operation, the squad was awarded orders, and the author of these lines was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky. _x000D_ In the history of the Great Patriotic War, cavalrymen showed glory and courage in the military missions. Just to remember the bloody battles during the pursuit of the enemy, especially near the city of Orsha, when Hitler ordered to destroy the "Russian locust cavalry". The horses went through extreme hardships, too. _x000D_ The picture of the terrible carnage near the Dubno station, where the "invincible" Germans found their end, remained in my memory. Here, our cavalrymen attacked the enemy in full-profile trenches as soon as the morning milky fog had cleared up. We did not expect the trenches at such a proximity as 15 metres from us, but our mortars were good fellows. They were the first to open fire. The Germans got what they deserved, and we got our share of losses, too. _x000D_ On the Victory Day May 9, 1945 upon returning from the mission, we met a group of soldiers and officers at the edge of the forest. They shouted hurray, threw up their caps, hugged, kissed in unrestrained joyful intoxication with joy. It was Victory! Unconditional Act of German Surrender to the Armed Forces of the Soviet Army! Our joy knew no bounds! However, the war is not over for us yet. _x000D_ _x000D_ Besides the German SS, there were also the Vlasovites, who did not recognize the Act of Surrender. To avoid provocation on their part, we were ordered to move urgently to Prague. But the Vlasovites were cowards, they did not show resistance. In the first village they greeted us with music, and their women and children, dressed up nicely ran towards the Reconnaissance Cavalrymen. _x000D_ My reconnaissance squad was ordered to follow 60 kilometers ahead and meet the regiment for further movement in the morning. Having passed more than half of the road, we found ourselves in the forest in the midst of retreating German motorized unit, stretching for more than 20 kilometers. _x000D_ I sent a report that the road was occuppied by wermacht, and the regiment had to move along a different route. _x000D_ As for us, we went straight through this German unit. Hundreds of guns of all types and calibers, directed in our direction, were silent. A thousand cars bunched up close in 4-5 rows, running into each other. _x000D_ And we, the four reconnaissance cavalrymen, had managed to squeeze between the cars that stood close to each other, bypass them and pass under the anti-aircraft guns pointed at the sky, under the gloomy glances of sworn enemies. It was like a terrible dream. It was hard to believe that we were peacefully moving among the Germans, though under a great nervous tension, who fired at you yesterday and brought innumerable calamities to our people. But it was for real. Having traveled 80 kilometers that day to the indicated area of the meeting with our regiment, we, exhausted, fell deeply asleep about midnight. In an early sunny morning, woken by the singing of birds, we drove onto the shosse and met a vigorous cavalry regiment under the command of my fellow countryman Major Girfanov, who was aware of the story with the German unit. It was the second peaceful day of the long-awaited Victory, the Victory of the Russian people over German fascism, and for us reconnaissance officers it was doubly long-awaited, wonderful and unforgettable." _x000D_ _x000D_ Ferapont Mikhailov is a fine-art and graphic artist. The first work he created after the war in 1947 was called “The cavalry recons”. His linocuts are dedicated to military themes: "Before the battle", "Gathering of commanders", "For the Motherland!" other. Until the end of his life, he was the chairman of the Council of War Veterans of the Tatar branch of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Ferapont Mikhailov died on July 18, 1987. _x000D_ We are proud of him and will always remember him with love.

Skuridin Ivan Vasilyevich_x000D_ Skuridin Ivan Vasilyevich was born on July 4, 1922 in the Altai region, Biysk area, in the village of Novaya Chemrovka. In July 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army. As a cadet of Kemerovo military school in the end of November 1941 Sergeant Skuridin took part in defensive battles near Moscow in the suburbs of Dmitrov and Yakhroma. On December 5, 1941 he was wounded. After recovering in the end of January 1942 he was sent to Ryazan military school named after Voroshilov. In August 1942, he finished his training and, as a Lieutenant, fought at the Volkhov front, where for a long time during the defense of Novgorod he was a commander of intelligence. During the offensive battles in January 1944, during the liberation of Leningrad land and lifting of the Leningrad siege, he was the commander of a regimental reconnaissance of one of the rifle regiments of the 378th rifle division, in March 1944 - the commander of amachine gunners company during the offense at Narva. As part of his division, he continued to participate in liberation of Belarus, where in one of the battles in July 1944 he was wounded again. After recovering in the end of August 1944 he returned to his regiment as chief of staff of the rifle battalion. As part of the 1256 rifle regiment of his division, which later became the 90th guards Vitebsk-Novgorod twice red banner rifle division, he participated in the liberation of Lithuania, Latvia, Poland and ended the war in Germany at the Baltic sea coast in the seaport of Svinemunde. In 1946, guard senior Lieutenant Skuridin retired to the reserve and returned to his Homeland.