Pioneers

Rank: Red Army soldier. _x000D_ Sviridov Alexey Danilovich was a sapper of 95th Border Detachment of the NKVD troops of the USSR of the Directorate of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR of the Lithuanian District. _x000D_ According to the Book of Memory of the Border Troops (vol. 3, p. 36), he died in combat on October 18, 1944 in the town of Taurage, the district center of the former Lithuanian SSR. The burial place is unknown. _x000D_ "On October 17, 1944, on the basis of order No. 01128 issued two days earlier by the head of the district of 95th Border Order of Lenin, a detachment of troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the first time after the start of the Great Patriotic War began to protect the State Border of the USSR. The border commandant's office had been just liberated by Soviet troops with the Memel region of East Prussia along the line of the former border of the Lithuanian SSR with Germany: Aukshtupe settlement; 4th border commandant's office - Eish settlement; 5th border commandant's office - Yurburg settlement. _x000D_ Service groups every day engaged in combat with small groups of fascists and saboteurs. This led to inevitable losses in the ranks of the border guards. _x000D_ On October 18, 1944, a Red Army sapper Aleksey Danilovich Sviridov was killed. Alexei had a family, a wife and four young daughters.His wife tried to find out information about the burial place of her husband and some details, but everything was classified, only after many years did she manage to find out something through a search on the Internet.

Olga Stepchenkova

Olga Stepchenkova was born on June 11, 1923 in the Urals city of Alapaevsk. From the age of 18, she worked as an assistant accountant on a collective farm. In 1942, she received a summons to the front. But the Chairman of the collective farm did not let her go. In 1943, a second summons came, and Olga voluntarily went to the front._x000D_ All conscripts from Alapaevsk were brought by freight train to Leningrad. There, a young girl Olya became a minesweeper. The first time she was doing all the work that had accumulated in the city. Later, on assignment, she went closer to the shores of the Gulf of Finland and was engaged in bomb clearance there. It was a very dangerous business, and the Chief of the unit forbade doing it manually._x000D_ Olga together with other girls had to sort out the destroyed houses, any buildings. One of the important tasks was to destroy the documents of the destroyed enterprises._x000D_ After the end of the war in 1945, she returned to her native Alapaevsk with awards. She started to work there as a senior accountant. Here Olga met her future husband. He was also a military man, three years older than Olga. After living together for 20 years, they had to move because of their husband's health condition_x000D_ They moved to the village Chernoerkovskoye in Kuban Region to their relatives. Later, they bought an apartment in Slavyansk-on-Kuban with their earned money and moved there. By that time, Olga's husband was already retired, and she still worked for three years as a chief accountant_x000D_ From the "Book of Memory" collected by students of the Lyceum #4 in Slavyansk-on-Kuban, as part of the "Blue handkerchief", "My countrymen – heroes of the Russian Land" campaigns for the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Dedkov Sergey Ivanovich

Dedkov Sergey Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Dedkov Sergey Ivanovich, my father's father. Born on 14.01.1920 in the village of Chernizhovo, Unechsky district, Bryansk region. On 20.10.1940, he was called up for military service in the 116th rifle regiment of the 21st red banner rifle division, stationed in the far East. From there he went to war. On 11.09.1941, the division began moving to the Northern section of the Karelian front. He fought on the Leningrad, Karelian and 1st Belorussian fronts. Awarded the order of the red star, medals: "For the defense of Leningrad"," for the defense of the Soviet Arctic"," for the liberation of Warsaw"," for the capture of Berlin","for the victory over Germany". He has 8 commendations from comrade Stalin, including for the liberation of Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) and the capture of Berlin. Three times wounded. In the 116th rifle regiment of the 21st red banner rifle division, he fought until October 1943. He was a sapper, went on reconnaissance. From October 1943 to October 1945, he fought in the 59th guards mortar regiment as the commander of the Katyusha gun. Participated in the "searchlight attack" under the command of Marshal Zhukov on the Seelow heights in the Berlin offensive on April 16-19, 1945. While liberating one of the concentration camps, presumably on the territory of Poland, I met my fellow countryman from the village of Chernizhovo among the prisoners. He finished his front-line career in may 1946 with the rank of Sergeant as a gun commander in the 22nd guards mortar brigade. Participated in the Soviet-Japanese war. From the award list: "November 8 and 9, 1942 in the battle for the height" Camel" Podporozhsky district of the Leningrad region t. Men acted with intelligence in a group of obstacle clearing. Skilfully providing passage to the enemy's wire fence, he was the first to break into the trenches and shoot at point-blank range, fleeing in a panic belofinov. One burst of machine gun destroyed 4 of the white bandits. Participating in the repulse of 27 enemy counterattacks tov. Dedkov destroyed 10 white Finnish soldiers and officers. Comrade Dedkov is worthy of the government award of the order of the red Star."

Roman Prokofievich Davydkin

Roman Prokofievich Davydkin_x000D_ _x000D_ Roman Prokofievich Davydkin 14.10.1906-11.11.1980 early Sunday morning on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked our country, my great-grandfather was 35 years old at that time. He enlisted in the red Army and went to the front as a private. My great-grandfather was a miner of the engineering and mining company of the 37th mechanical brigade. On the site "MEMORY of the PEOPLE" we found materials on his military path, as well as award lists with the exploits of Roman's great-grandfather. I would like to tell you about them briefly: 1.) the First feat: "on the night of September 20, 1943, under enemy fire, comrade Davydkin worked with an axe to build a bridge over the river. Thanks to the dedicated work of comrade Davydkin, the tanks were transported across the river on time, which did not allow the enemy to gain a foothold on the opposite Bank. Worthy of the government award of the medal "for bravery!" 2.) SECOND FEAT: "on DECEMBER 18, 1943, RISKING his LIFE, he SET a MINEFIELD 250 METERS FROM the ENEMY. During the German attack on this field, a T4 tank and two armored personnel carriers with infantry were blown up. The enemy's attack was thwarted! On the combat account of comrade Davydkin there are 45 personally defused enemy mines. Worthy of the government award of the order of the Red Star. 3.) the THIRD FEAT: "on August 7, 1944, under heavy enemy fire, I removed 13 surprise mines in the forest, which made it possible for a column of our vehicles to get out of the fire. At the same time, comrade Davydkin was seriously injured, but continued to work (clear mines) until he cleared the road. It was in this combat operation that the great-great-grandfather lost his leg (torn off from a mine at the knee). Worthy of the government award Of the order of Glory of the 3rd degree. Was awarded the medal "For courage!» After the Victory in the great Patriotic war on may 9, 1945, great-grandfather returned home. He was given a car from the state "Zaporozhets" with special equipment and he (despite the fact that he did not have one leg) drove it! He had three children: sons Ivan and Nikolai and a daughter Anna (this is my grandmother, who is now 83 years old (30.10.1936) and lives in the city of Korolev). My great-grandfather died in 1980. I didn't find him alive. But when I go to the village in the summer, I visit the cemetery where he is buried. Roman Prokofievich Davydkin-a Participant in the fighting of the great Patriotic war. In 1943, he participated in the battle of R. Dnipro in the Dnepropetrovsk offensive operation. In battle, he lost a leg (miner) and was sent home To the Ryazan region. Rank-private red army soldier, corporal. He was awarded the Order for the victory over Nazi Germany, the Order of the red Star and the medals "for Bravery". Eternal memory!

Denisenko Ilya Nikitovich

Denisenko Ilya Nikitovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Ilya Nikitovich Denisenko was born in 1900 in a family with four other brothers. When the First world war began, his brothers went to the front. Two of them died, and two returned to their native Siberian village and died some time later. Ilya Nikitovich, the youngest of all the brothers, was almost mobilized in February 1919. But fate decreed otherwise. He, along with recruits led by Danil Opanovich, a resident of a neighboring village, met the Kolchak soldiers in battle. Word of the partisans quickly spread through the villages. The squad grew rapidly. By spring, it had already numbered 200 people's Avengers. A year later, they joined forces with shchetinkin's partisan detachment, which operated near Krasnoyarsk. Ilya Denisenko met the end of the war in Vladivostok. Ilya N. has not joined the Komsomol. During the partisan struggle, the defeat of Kolchak, the expulsion of the Japanese interventionists, there was no time to think about it, and then the age was not the same. But he was in the ranks of the Bolsheviks from the age of eighteen. In 1938, Ilya Nikitovich graduated from a military school, then was demobilized, and then returned to his native village. After the creation of the collective farm, he was elected Chairman. On August 16, 1941, he went to the front. He was a platoon commander. First he commanded a platoon of bombers, and then a group of flamethrowers. Ilya Nikitovich took part in the battles on the Leningrad front for the liberation of the cities of Pskov, Luga and Tikhvin, for which he was awarded three medals: "For the defense of Leningrad", "for military merit","for bravery". He was wounded twice. Due to a severe concussion that he received during the liberation of Pskov in January 1944, he went home. For eight years he worked as the head of a dairy farm in the village of Pchelniki. For this work, he was awarded the order of the Badge of honor. When Ilya Nikitovich was 68 years old, he headed the Central farm of the Pobeda collective farm. Ilya Nikitovich had to go through a lot during his difficult life, but he never gave up. He performed his civic duty with dignity, for which he deserves honor and respect.

Denisenko Sergey Ivanovich

Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich

Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier Type of troops: Engineering troops My father Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich was born on March 21, 1923 in d.Katlanovo, Belevsky district,Tula region. In January 1942, after graduating from the sapper school, he was called up to the front by the Belevsky district military Commissariat, Tula region. From January to may 1942, he participated in the combat operations of the Bryansk front for the liberation of the Oryol region in the direction from Belev to Bolkhov and Orel as a sapper. By the beginning of January 1942, the troops of the Bryansk front, pursuing the enemy and knocking down his barriers, reached the border: Belev, Mtsensk, The Upper Part, Antiquated. After the end of the counteroffensive near Moscow, the Stavka instructed our troops to launch a General offensive in the Western strategic direction. The troops of the Bryansk front were assigned the task of conducting an offensive in the Belev, Livny strip in the Bolkhovsky and Oryol directions. Fulfilling this Task, the troops of the 61st army in the first half of January went on the offensive in the Bolkhov direction and advanced several tens of kilometers. The front troops went on the defensive and did not conduct active combat operations until the summer of 1942. In may 1942, the Stalinist corps was formed in Moscow, where a group of sappers was sent.Since June 1942, until the departure to the front, the scientific process was activated. Classes were held on a 3-month combat training program .After graduating, A. p. Danilkin got to a transfer point in Moscow. Further, the front-line path of Danilkin Alexey Pavlovich took place as part of the 8th Estonian corps. From November 1942 to January 1943, he participated in the combat operations of the Kalinin front as a sapper of the 28th separate sapper battalion in the 8th Estonian corps. On October 21, 1942, parts of the corps loaded into echelons and went to the front. Along the way, the trains were subjected to air raids, shelling and bombing. So the corps suffered the first combat losses in personnel and military equipment-21 people were killed and the same number was wounded.The battle of Velikiye Luki was the corps ' baptism of fire. The fighting in the city blocks, equipped by the Germans as long-term fortifications, was fierce and bloody. 75 % of the corps personnel were knocked out of action (wounded, killed, missing) Particularly fierce fighting broke out at the railway station,where German military engineers managed to create a strongly fortified system of bunkers and pillboxes, each of which had to be stormed by independent mobile groups. The railway station was taken on January 13, 1943. A feature of the fighting in January 1943 was the active actions of mobile, small and effective assault groups, staffed by sappers and gunners. January 10, 1943 During the liberation of the railway station, my father A. p. Danilkin was seriously wounded in the head and legs on the roof of the railway station. Lost consciousness, lay unconscious in the cold for a long time, miraculously survived, he was picked up. A leg was amputated in a hospital in Chita. The monuments on the mass graves of the Estonian corps soldiers on the high Bank of the lovati river near Velikiye Luki preserve the eternal memory of these battles. I consider my dad a real hero who contributed to the Great Victory at the cost of his health.After the war, he worked as a teacher for 35 years. For services to the Fatherland, Alexey Danilkin was awarded the Order of glory of the III-degree, the order of the Patriotic war of the I degree, the medal "for courage" and other medals.

Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich

Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich began to fight in 1939. and passed the Finnish war. He began the great Patriotic War as an ordinary red army soldier in July 1941, then became a squad commander. From the first days he was on the front line, often went on the attack, received many injuries, miraculously survived. Here are some of the memories of that difficult and terrible time ,written from his words: One of the most terrible memories is when you sit in a trench and nothing depends on you - German planes dive down on you with a howl, shoot and throw bombs, the ground shakes, explosions, roar, a pile of soaring earth. During the German air RAID, he was in a trench, when another shell burst, his grandfather was completely covered with earth, and only thanks to a soldier who survived nearby, who knew that there was a man next to him, his grandfather was dug up and brought to life half-dead; he was already unconscious and almost suffocated under the ground. He told how at the beginning of the war, all the soldiers did not have enough rifles and picked up their weapons from the dead soldiers. Being wounded in the swamp surrounded by no strength and food, when there was nowhere to run and hide, my grandfather, seeing the Germans, pretended to be dead. The Germans were marching in a chain and shooting dead and wounded Russian soldiers. We were lucky that we passed by my grandfather and didn't shoot him. Surrounded by the grandfather and a small group of soldiers came across a village and went to the house of the headman. At night, the headman wanted to run away to the Germans and tell them about the Russian soldiers in his house, but according to the story of his grandfather, they did not let him do it and killed him. While in the trench and repelling a German tank attack,our shooter, who was shooting from an anti-tank (PTR) rifle, was killed near my grandfather. The grandfather took the PTR and fired at the approaching German tank, the tank began to smoke and stop, the Germans began to jump out of it. My grandfather shot at them with a rifle, then says they didn't get up again. During the attack at Stalingrad, my grandfather tore off the index finger on his right hand, in the heat of the attack, I noticed this only when I had to shoot a rifle, pressing the trigger with my finger. The hand then did not heal for a long time, there was a possibility of gangrene and the doctors wanted to amputate the hand, but the grandfather did not give consent. He said that the hand was very rotten and even in the injured hand got worms. There was a wound in the thigh with many fragments, which then for many years periodically came out of the leg when steaming in the bath. There was a wound in the foot when I ran to attack, the bullet entered near the thumb and left through the heel. There was a head wound. At the beginning of the war, my grandfather had a conflict with an officer. The grandfather with a serious wound lay in hospital and the officer forced the wounded to carry heavy logs, the grandfather for this called him a fool. The officer got into a fight and got a shovel on the head from his grandfather. The officer wrote a report-complaint and without any special proceedings, the grandfather was transferred to the penal company. But it was not possible to fight there. Soon my grandfather was called to investigate by a special officer who turned out to be a good person, dealt with the incident impartially, did not give the case a go, and my grandfather was transferred back to his unit. Thus, the special agent saved his grandfather, or they could have shot him indiscriminately. On the front line, when my grandfather was on guard, he managed to capture a German gun in no man's land, escorted it under escort to the rear, where he handed it over to other soldiers, who took it to headquarters. For this, my grandfather wanted to be awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union. But since he passed the captured trophy to other soldiers, the case of appropriation was lost and did not take shape. Davydenko Georgy Mikhailovich was a participant in the tank battle on the Kursk Bulge near Prokhorovka and fought in the battle of Stalingrad.

Dorozhkin Ivan Stepanovich

Dorozhkin Ivan Stepanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain military branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard Unit: 248th rifle Odessa red banner division My uncle, Ivan Dorozhkin, was born on September 4, 1922 in the village of Novopanskoe in the Mikhailovsky district of the then Moscow and now Ryazan region. In 1940, when he reached the age of eighteen, he was drafted into the red Army, where he met the beginning of the war. After completing the accelerated courses of the military school, having received the specialty of a sapper, with the rank of second Lieutenant, he was sent to the front on August 18, 1941. At the beginning of the war, he fought on the southern front, and then on the Ukrainian and Belarusian fronts .As part of 902s. p 248 p. d 5ud.And passed a glorious battle path: participated in the liberation of Warsaw, crossing the river. The Oder, the capture of Berlin. He was seriously wounded twice. Awarded two orders of the red banner, two orders of the red star, medals "for the liberation of Warsaw"; " for the capture of Berlin"; "For the victory over Germany" after demobilization, Ivan Stepanovich returned to his native village and after graduating from the pedagogical school began working as a teacher.During his long career, he raised more than one generation of students. I tried to instill in children and girls love for the Motherland, honesty, decency, respect for the older generation, all the qualities that are sometimes lacking in our time.Even after retiring, he did not remain without the attention of his students . On May 9, his Birthday, his house was always full of flowers and greetings.My uncle was always ready to help, to help not only with good advice but also with deeds.He has always been an example for us. In the year of the 70th anniversary of the great Victory, he died. The memory of dear uncle van will always remain in our hearts.

Raisky Konstantin Mikhailovich

Raiskiy Konstantin Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Raiskiy Konstantin Mikhailovich was born on December 5, 1915 in Tambov in the family of a railway worker. Since 1932, he worked as a teacher of physics and mathematics in a junior secondary school in the Sampurskiy district of the Tambov region. In June 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army and served until the end of August 1946. The Great Patriotic War found him on the western border, near the town of Lomzha, North-West of Bialystok. There, as head of the automobile electric station (NPP-3) of the 203rd separate sapper battalion of the 55th rifle division, he participated in the construction of reinforced concrete firing points. Under the powerful attack of the German-fascist troops, our troops had to retreat with heavy fighting. The division in which he served retreated with heavy fighting in the direction of the city of Baranovichi (Western front). The defense here did not have time to prepare in time, and therefore the Nazis could not be kept on this line. The remnants of the 203rd separate sapper battalion were ordered to withdraw along with equipment in the direction of Bobruisk-Mogilev-Orsha. In Orsha, the battalion was replenished with personnel, and began mining roads and possible routes of the German offensive on Vitebsk. Soon the sapper battalion was subordinated to the engineering Department of the Western front, which held the defense near the city of Dorogobuzh for almost a month and a half. On September 28, the Germans again went on the offensive, breaking through our defenses. Our units were forced to withdraw to Vyazma. On October 3-4, 1941, German aircraft launched massive bombing attacks on the headquarters of the Western front. The battalion suffered serious losses. I received an order to destroy the remaining material part. There were still cars, but there was no fuel, so they left only the most necessary things. I had to make my way through the forest roads, up to the village of Klimentevo, which is about 20 km from Mozhaisk. The exit turned out to be extremely difficult, we moved only at night. For 2 weeks, the soldiers ate almost nothing, froze – autumn came early. On October 20, vehicles were sent for the remaining personnel. On the basis of the sapper battalion, the 64th separate pontoon-bridge battalion was formed, where K. M. Rayskiy served as the head of the technical unit. He was then transferred to the newly formed 88th separate pontoon bridge battalion. In the future, the battalion provided a crossing on the Ugra river near the city of Przemysl. From March 1943 to February 1944, K. M. Raiskiy studied at the officer training courses. After that, he was sent to the 48th officer regiment, where he served as a senior teacher of military topography until June 1944. On June 15, he was assigned to the 3-d guards Stalingrad mechanized corps as a rifle company commander. On June 23, as chief of staff of the 3-d rifle battalion of the 9th guards mechanized brigade, he took part in the offensive near the Rudnya station. As a result of successful actions, the Soviet troops liberated the cities of Borisov, Minsk, Molodechnoe, Vilnius, and Shaulay… The Supreme commander-in-Chief K. M. Raiskiy was thanked. From September 1944 until the end of the war with Germany, he participated in the battles to hold the Kurland group of German troops in the Baltic States. This largely prevented the German command from using additional reserves in the battles for Konigsberg and Berlin. The war with Nazi Germany ended victoriously. For fighting in the Western, 3rd Belorussian, 1st Baltic and Leningrad fronts, K. M. Raiskiy was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, order of the Red Banner, Medals "For Bravery" and others. After a three-month rest and re-formation, he was transferred to the Trans-Baikal Front to participate in the war with militaristic Japan. On September 3, 1945, the Kwantung Army surrendered. After the end of the war with Japan, he served in the 54th heavy tank-self-propelled regiment as chief of staff of the submachine gun battalion. He was discharged from the army on August 29, 1946. From September 11, 1946 until July 1977, he worked as a mathematics teacher at the 129th school of working youth in the Taganskiy district of Moscow." He died on 28.06.2010._x000D_ .

Military photos

Nefedov Sergey Egorovich, Sosnovka village, Tambov region, 1916 The sapper.He went through the whole war, reached Konigsberg. He ended the war in Port Arthur in the Far East.

Runov Pavel Andreevich

Runov Pavel Andreevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Our grandfather's name was Pavel Andreevich Runov, he was born on January 28, 1924 in the village of Maryinskoe, Ivanovo region, in a family of ordinary workers. In the army, my grandfather was called to Kronstadt, where he received the rank of Sergeant, and from there went to the front in Leningrad. My grandfather told me that during the defense of Leningrad, he was a driver. On September 8, warehouses where the city's main food supplies were stored were bombed. A fire broke out, completely destroying these warehouses; as a result, famine soon set in. Products, mainly bread, were issued strictly by cards. All the pigeons, cats, dogs, and even rats were eaten in the city. People walked the streets as thin as skeletons, died in the workplace, on the streets. Leningrad ran out of food, and only one road connected the besieged city with the Mainland. This road ran on water. Along this route came the first barges with food, and so on until late autumn. Each of their flights was a feat-enemy aircraft constantly made their raids, weather conditions were often also not in the hands of the sailors-the barges continued their flights even in late autumn, until the ice appeared. Road workers daily measured the thickness of the ice on the entire lake, but were unable to accelerate its growth. On November 20, the ice thickness reached 180 mm. Horse-drawn wagons came out on the ice, and then trucks with food. The ice was very thin, despite the fact that the truck was carrying only 2-3 bags of food, the ice broke, and there were frequent cases when trucks sank. At the risk of their lives, drivers continued their deadly flights until the spring. Military highway No. 101, as this route was called, allowed to increase the bread ration and evacuate a large number of people. The Germans constantly tried to break this thread that connects the besieged city with the country, but thanks to the courage and strength of the spirit of the Leningrad people, the "Road of Life" lived itself and gave life to the great city. The significance of the Ladoga highway is huge, it saved thousands of lives. My grandfather also recalled that the soldiers were exhausted, hungry, and dirty. In winter, at 40 degrees below zero, they were forced to melt snow, warm water, and wash to avoid lice. After that, many soldiers died of pneumonia. The siege of Leningrad lasted 900 days. After Leningrad was liberated, it was necessary to clear the area around the city, which the Germans had mined during the retreat. And my grandfather trained as a sapper and stayed in Leningrad until the end of the war to clear the city. After the war, my grandfather was awarded the medal for the defense of Leningrad and commemorative awards. He was also awarded the order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class.

Ryzhov Vasily Kuzmich

Ryzhov Vasily Kuzmich _x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red army soldier. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 383rd Feodosiya-Brandenburg red banner division of the order of Suvorov. Vasily Ryzhov was born on May 16, 1924 in the village of Kavkazskaya (now-Kavkazsky district of Krasnodar Krai). After finishing seven grades of school, he worked on a collective farm. In 1943, Ryzhov was called up to serve in the Workers' and peasants' Red Army. Since the same year-on the fronts of the great Patriotic war. By December 1943, red army soldier Vasily Ryzhov was a sapper of the 684th separate sapper battalion of the 383rd rifle division of the Primorsky army. He participated in the battles in the Kuban, Taman and Kerch peninsulas. He fought bravely and courageously, for which he was awarded a number of military awards. He distinguished himself during the Kerch-Eltigen operation. On the night of December 3 to 4, 1943, Ryzhov participated in battles near the localities of aji-Mushkai and Balganak on the Kerch Peninsula. Operating in the barrage group of the 696th rifle regiment, Ryzhov came under fire from machine guns and company mortars of the enemy. The area was open, constantly illuminated by rockets. Ryzhov did not flinch in this dangerous situation, he stubbornly crawled to the wire fence of the Nazis, having a charge of explosives weighing 10 kilograms. That's the goal. Ryzhov waited for the moment when the missiles went out, and laid a charge in the slingshot barrier. He lit the incendiary pipe and crawled away. An explosion rang out, creating a 12-meter-wide passageway. Then he crawled to the trench, where there were several Nazi machine-gunners, and threw grenades at them, then returned to his unit. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 16, 1944, red army soldier Vasily Ryzhov was awarded the high Rank of Hero of the Soviet Union with the order of Lenin and the gold Star medal. In 1947, Ryzhov was discharged with the rank of petty officer. He lived in the village of Oktyabrsky, Seversky district, Krasnodar territory, and worked in mechanical workshops. He died on November 2, 1980. He was also awarded the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, and a number of medals. A street in Kavkazskaya is named after Ryzhov.

Vavikov Victor Spiridonovich

Vavikov Victor Spiridonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Born on January 27, 1912 in the Belgorod region, Korochansky district. He was the commander of a sapper platoon in the 816th separate sapper battalion of the 36TH separate sapper brigade of the MVO; the commander of the 1st platoon of the 2nd company of the 592nd separate Stalin sapper battalion From July 22, 1941, he was called up for military service. Until September 1942, he was a cadet at the Michurinsky military engineering school, where he received the specialty of commander of a sapper platoon. He was the commander of a sapper platoon near Moscow in the 816th separate sapper battalion of the 36TH separate sapper brigade of the MVO from September to December 1942. In December 1942, he was transferred to the North Caucasus front, liberated cities and villages in the North Caucasus, and was awarded the medal "for the defense of the Caucasus". Then he fought on the southern front, 4 Ukrainian, 3 Ukrainian and 1 Belarusian fronts. He was the commander of the 1st platoon of the 2nd company 592 separate Stalin sapper battalion. Extract from the award list: "on December 3, 1943, under the height of 81.9, near the village of Ekaterinovka, Zaporozhye region, Lieutenant Vavikov with a group of soldiers of his platoon set 200 mines of the YAM-5 type in one night. Heavy enemy fire did not prevent Vavikov from completing the task, and proper organization and good camouflage saved the men of his platoon. On the night of November 18, 1943, in the area of the same height, Lieutenant Vavikov removed 150 YAM-5 mines under enemy fire. During the offensive to the height of 81.9 Vavikov with the men of his platoon under the devastating fire of the enemy, January 13, 1944, made four passes in the minefields to pass the infantry and artillery. Worthy of being awarded the order of the red Star." Extract from the Award list: "on April 27, 1945, Lieutenant Vavikov with a group of sappers discovered a minefield in The Berlin Park on Wilhelm Strasse and defused it under enemy machine-gun fire while removing 26 anti-tank mines. On April 29, Lieutenant Vavikov, under heavy enemy artillery and machine-gun fire, blew up two buildings along with a machine-gunner who was holed up and made three breaks in the stone walls. On may 1, 1945, he blew up the barricade and ensured the advance of our tanks and artillery. Worthy of being awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree. Participated in many defensive and offensive combat operations in the liberation from the enemies of the Russian land, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, in the assault on the last stronghold of Nazi Germany-Berlin. After the great Victory, my great-grandfather stayed in Germany for another year. His platoon was engaged in mine clearance and destruction of military supplies, and it was not until July 1946 that he was demobilized. I returned Home to Korochansky district, and since 1952 I worked as the chief accountant at the state farm "Plodoovoschnoy" of the Belgorod region, my mother was born in his house. Even in peacetime, he made a significant contribution to the development of the Belgorod region. He died on August 2, 2000.

Vysogorets Michael Nosovich

Vysogorets Mikhail Amsovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain military Branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Mikhail Amosovich was born on 02.12.1920 in d. Dukhovschina, now D. Strezevo Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus, in a peasant family, in addition to his family was brother Victor and sister Nina. In 1940, he graduated from the Vitebsk teachers ' Institute. In the red Army since 1941. In the same year, he graduated from the Moscow military engineering school. As part of the cadet companies, he had to take a baptism of fire, repelling the onslaught of the enemy on the outskirts of the capital. Cadets of the school fought near the cities of Yaroslavets, Yukhnov, Naro-Fominsk. He fought in the Primorye army, on the Voronezh, first Ukrainian, and first Belorussian fronts. Participated: - in performing special tasks to blow up important objects in the rear of enemy troops in the Kaluga region. In December 1941, he was sent as a commander of a sapper platoon to the first guards tank army. He had a chance to liberate the Northwestern cities of the Moscow region from the Nazis. At the front since 1942. The commander of the engineering company of the 13th guards separate motor engineering battalion (17th motor engineering brigade, 1st guards tank army, 1st Ukrainian front) of the guards, captain Vysogorets, in July-August 1944, when crossing the Western bug, San and Vistula rivers under enemy fire, supervised the construction of bridges, and by personal example inspired the soldiers to speed up all engineering work. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on 23.09.1944. After the war, he was dismissed to the reserve. Left for g. Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region, graduated from a construction College, worked as the head of the production and technical Department of the Mine construction Department No. 8 of the kuibyshevugol trust. Since 1974, he lived in the village of Shakhovskaya in the Shakhovsky district of the Moscow region. Before retiring, he worked as the head of the production and technical Department of PMK-287. Then, since 1982-Deputy chief physician of the Central district hospital. He died on 22.04.1996. Buried in d. Strezevo Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus.

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