Pioneers

2nd Rank Military Engineer Grigory Yakovlevich Klyatis, Deputy Commander of 31st Sapper Brigade (in the center) with local children.

Guards Red Army soldiers L. Durnov and P. Korolkov, 1944

Sappers Sergeant V. Bulanov and Corporal A. Shishlov making a pass in defense wiring, September 1944

Sapper private P. Shakhov with a mine detector on a battlefield

Soviet sappers conduct mine clearing on one of the sections of the Western Front

Sapper P. Belokon during one of the battles, 1944

Red Army soldier with a mine detector on the city ruins

Piotr Morgunov, Major General of coastal troops, observing the removal of mines. Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Sappers 1942

A Red Army soldier conducts a mine clearing of a street in a Yugoslav city after its liberation during the Belgrade Operation

Soldiers of the sapper company of the 845th Infantry Regiment of the 303rd Infantry Division - participants in the defense of Voronezh from the Nazi troops (group portrait), 1942 GAOPIVO.F.9306.Op.1.D.1006

Soviet pontoniers build a bridge across the Prut River, Romania, 1944. Photo by Yevgeny Khaldei/TASS

Austria, St. Helten. Januszkiewicz V.M. – participant of WWII. Born June 12, 1925 in the village of Lenino, Kopyl district, Minsk region, Belarus. He was called to the USSR Supreme Soviet on January 6, 1943. From June 1943 to January 1945, he was a sapper bomber of the 2nd Guards Airborne Division, January 1945 to October 1946, a sapper of the 34th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 104th Airborne Division. He fought in the 3rd and 2nd Ukr. Fr. Was awarded the Order of Patriotic War 2 st., medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the capture of Vienna", "For the Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945. Fired in the reserve in 1950.

Soviet soldiers at the pillbox of Khamitogsky fortified region, blown up by pioneers of the 165th Rifle Regiment. Sakhalin

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.