Tank troops

Japanese planes and tanks seized by Soviet troops at Mukden airfield

Graves of tank-crews of Perekopsky Red-banner tank corps who perished in battle of Crimea

Monument to major general of armored troops B.S.Bakharov, recepient of three orders, in a park in Bobruisk

Memorial to the tank crews who perished for liberation of village Gnivan' of Tyvrov district from the German invaders

Memorial tank on a square of Korolev, installed as a memento of the Great Patriotic War

A tank installed in 1966 in the memory of the defenders of Smolensk during the Great Patriotic War

KV-1 tanks go to the front along Palace bridge at the beginning of the war

From a letter written to us, to his grandchildren: "I met the war in the city of Alytus of the Lithuanian SSR in the 5th tank division. On June 17, our unit went to the border for" exercises "and on June 22 entered the battle. Since the superiority was at that time on the side fascists, we were forced to retreat.At a time when there were few tanks and there were not enough trained tank crews (it takes 5-6 months to train tankers), we left without cars were sent for cars. The same happened with the pilots. I ended up in the 12th reserve tank regiment in Naro-Fominsk. Since the beginning of October, at the formation in the 23rd tank brigade in Kubinka, near Moscow. With this tank brigade, as a reconnaissance on a tank, on a motorcycle I participated in the Moscow battle. Our 23rd tank brigade fought with the 16th army under the command of Marshal K. K. Rokosovsky in the region of Istra. Then some parts of the army and our brigade were transferred to Sukhinichi and further to the Zhizdra river. We fought there until March 1943. In the region of Bryansk forests and in the battles for the village ... We have lost some good comrades. I remember one of them - Pavel Tikhov, he was buried in these places. In the spring of 1943, I was sent to a military school, another comrade was supposed to go, but he was wounded when we were conducting reconnaissance in an armored personnel carrier. In this regard, they sent me to the school. I studied at the 2nd Saratov, and then a self-propelled school, which I graduated in December 1944. In February 1945 we went to the front in the Baltics in the 1047th self-propelled artillery regiment. We fought until the end of the war, we held the fascists in Kuremaa until their surrender. He participated in the reconnaissance searches for the Nazis to bring "languages" who know well about their troops., Fired from a tank cannon and machine guns while defending the bridge over the Neman in Alytus, helped the command of the tank brigade find out where the enemy was. "After the war, he remained in the Baltic States, married Nina Petrovna Kugurakova (born on January 14, 1923), graduated from a pedagogical school and worked at the Tapas school (town of Tapa, Rakvere district of the Estonian SSR) as a mathematics teacher and military commander.Died on October 3, 2005 and was buried here, in Tapa.

CITY: der. Staronya Pskov region DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1913 DATE OF DEATH: 01.04.1944 HISTORY: Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops .My great-grandfather Andreev Ivan Klimentievich, born in 1913, a native of the village of Staronya, Karamyshevsky district of the Pskov region, until 1941 was just husband and father of four girls, one of whom was my grandmother Romanova (Andreeva) Nina Ivanovna. In the first days of the 1941 war, Ivan Klimentyevich was called upon to defend his homeland, he was sent to the Leningrad front. He served as a tanker, defended the approaches to Leningrad. In 1943, Ivan Klimentievich went to his sister and asked to give his photograph (which we have preserved) to his wife and children. "We went into battle" were his last words. After that, there was no news from him. Already in 1946, great-grandmother Marusa received a notice: "Your husband, Private Andreev Ivan Klimentyevich, born in 1913, a native of the village of Staronya, Karamyshevsky district of the Pskov region, while at the front of the fight against the German invaders, disappeared in April 1944". Great-grandfather was from a large family. Their family had 7 children (4 brothers and 3 sisters) - Alexey, Vasily, Ivan, Eugene, Pelageya, Galina and the younger Petya. His father Andreev Klimenty Andreevich lived in Leningrad with his youngest son, where they lived during the blockade. Peter died during the war and is buried in Leningrad. Then their father also died, and it is not known where he was buried (it was not found in all documents). Only one of the brothers, Vasily, returned from the war, without a leg, but alive, but he did not live long. The war brought so much pain, bitterness and death to every family of our vast Motherland, but we have always remained and must remain a united people. Even in those difficult years, people were united by a single impulse against a common enemy. When, without any call, not only men, but also old people, children and women took up arms. When any woman knew that she was fighting for a calm motherhood, the well-being of children, for peace for a new person.

CITY: Art. Lomovatka, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/26/1902 DATE OF DEATH: 01/08/1995 HISTORY: Title: Colonel Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Born October 26, 1902 in the village. Lomovatka, Yekaterinoslavskaya province, Yelenovskaya volost, Slavyanoserbsk district (Lomovatka station, Kadievsky district, Lugansk region) - Donbass. Father Andreev Ivan Nikitich from the townspeople of Kasimov, Ryazan province. He worked at the Annensky mine, first as a worker, then as an employee. Andreeva's mother Marta Andreevna is a native of the Saratov province from among workers, a housewife. He began his studies at the mining school at the Annensky mine, where he graduated from the 2nd grade, then studied at the Taganrog Commercial School, where he graduated from the 3rd grade. In 1918, during the occupation of Ukraine and Donbass by the German occupation forces, he left home and, having reached the city of Tambov, entered the service in the Tambov provincial Cheka. He entered the Red Army voluntarily in June 1918, was enlisted as a Red Army soldier in the Gubchek detachment, then in the 1st Lugansk Communist Regiment and the 3rd Lugansk International Regiment as the secretary of the political committee, and in the 532 Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner, head of a machine gun. At the end of 1919, he was appointed commander of a pulverizer platoon and was sent to study at the machine-gun courses "Shot", which he graduated in May 1920. Upon completion of the courses, he was sent to the tank department of the Higher Automotive Armor School, which he graduated from in October 1920 staff positions mainly in tank units. In 1926 he graduated from an external secondary school, a school of mechanical traction in Leningrad and in 1935 academic courses at the Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army. He served in a separate tank division in Kharkov, 9 and 2 tank detachments, armored train number 36 in Tiflis, in the 3rd tank regiment in Moscow, in the mechanized detachment of the Moscow proletarian division and in the 3rd auto-armored division. In 1932 he was appointed to the command directorate of the Red Army, where he served until 1938 in the positions of assistant chief of a sector, assistant chief of a department, and deputy chief of a department. In 1938 he was appointed chief of a department, and then chief of the personnel department of the Main Armored Directorate where he served until 1941. After that he was appointed deputy chief of Minsk and then 2, 4 Ulyanovsk tank schools. In May 1942 he left for the front - he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 5th Tank Army, and after the 5th Tank Army was disbanded he was appointed head of the personnel department of the 12th Army. At the end of 1943, after the disbandment of the 12 armies, he was transferred to the head of the personnel department of the 46th Army. In the fall of 1944, he was appointed head of the personnel department of the Main Automobile Directorate.In the Patriotic War he took part in battles on the Bryansk, Southern and 3 Ukrainian fronts, as part of the 5th Tank, 12th and 46th Army. In the Finnish campaign, he performed a special assignment of the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense for personnel.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops 79th cadet naval rifle brigade was formed in September-December 1941 in the city of Novorosiysk. The brigade commander is Colonel Alexei Stepanovich Potapov. Military Commissar - Regimental Commissar Slesarev Ivan Andreevich. Chief of Staff - Major Morozov The ground forces were headed by the commander of the Primorsky Army, Major General Petrov I.E.By the beginning of June 1942, these forces consisted of seven rifle divisions, four brigades of marines, two regiments of marines, two tank battalions (38 tanks T -26) and one armored train. Ivanov A.R. was the commander of a tank company. On December 17, 1941, the Germans launched the second assault on Sevastopol. Arriving in the midst of the fighting for Sevastopol in December 21st of 1941, the 79th cadet naval rifle brigade was thrown into the decisive sector of the defense - in the Mekenziev mountains. Together with the 345th Rifle Brigade, it played an exceptional role in repelling the second enemy offensive. It occupied positions in the area of ​​the Mekenzia farm. Capturing Sevastopol cost the enemy dearly. For eight months of fighting near Sevastopol, the enemy lost up to 300 thousand soldiers and officers killed and wounded, as well as a large amount of equipment. The defensive defense of Sevastopol, which lasted from autumn 1941 to July 1942, chained significant enemy forces to itself, which contributed to the improvement The situation for our troops on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front. After the failure in November of the first and in December 1941 of the second German offensive against Sevastopol, the Nazi command undertook a new, third offensive in June 1942. Taking this offensive, the enemy expected to seize Sevastopol in the shortest possible time in order to free up his 11th Army for operations on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front. In the June battles for Sevastopol, the brigade fought with the same selflessness. For three days of the June fighting, it lost up to 50% of all personnel. Ivanov A.R. was injured and hospitalized. The brigade actually ceased to exist, its remnants were reduced to a two-company battalion, which fought as part of other formations until the last day of defense. The heroic eight-month defense of Sevastopol went down in the history of the Great Patriotic War as an unsurpassed example of long-term and stubborn defense, as an example of mass heroism and dedication of the Soviet troops.

My father, Irkhin Fedor Anisimovich, born in 1915, was a participant and invalid of the Great Patriotic War. In his youth, he worked as a tractor driver in his native collective farm, married in 1936, and in 1937 left to serve for 3 years in the Red Army, at home with his mother, their first-born son Nikolai was born, in the same year. Coming from the army, he again worked as a tractor driver. When the war began, he went to the front at the very beginning of the war. In November 1941, a daughter, Nadezhda, was born, whom her father did not see until his return from the war in 1943. He fought in a defensive operation near Odessa, was wounded and lost a leg, was in the hospital, where his right leg was amputated to the knee. After being discharged from the hospital, he was sent for rehabilitation to Azerbaijan to his older brother Lukyan Anisimovich, who worked as some kind of chief at the Adji-Kabul railway station. After rehabilitation, he returned home to the Krasnodar Territory, the Srednyaya Chuburka farm in the Kushchevsky district, where he worked on the Oktyabr collective farm, having studied at livestock breeders' courses, since he could no longer work as a tractor driver on a prosthesis. He worked conscientiously, was a member of the collective farm board, a deputy of the village council, he was respected in his own collective farm. After returning from the war, they had 2 more daughters with their mother - Valentina (that's me) in 1944 and Raisa in 1949. We all grew up and received a secondary education, and then some - a higher, some a secondary technical. Father loved all of us very much and really took care of the family, was always interested in our affairs and helped in everything. He worked as a senior livestock breeder, a clerk and a manager of a sheep farm, devoting himself entirely to work and even retired at 55 for fear that it would take a long time to look for documents to confirm his status. I never used any benefits, since the first benefits for the 30th anniversary of the Victory came out only when he, already terminally ill, was in a hospital in Rostov-on-Don, and did not live six months before his old-age pension. We, his children, are very sorry that at a time when the real participants and invalids of the war were working conscientiously, no one honored them as the present remaining veterans. Therefore, we are glad that such an event as the immortal regiment revives the memory of everyone who is no longer with us, but they are alive in our memory and worthy of the best memories! And let no one dare to rewrite the history of our country and the history of the Great Patriotic War, in which our grandfathers and fathers defended our right to a peaceful life under a clear sky. Glory to all veterans and health to those who are alive, and to those who died and died, honor and respect. We always remember them. Eternal memory to all defenders and veterans!

Mikhail Ivanov was drafted into the Red Army in September 1940. He served in the tank forces as a driver and mechanic. During the war, he was also an artilleryman. He met the end of the war in the Baltic States. He continued to serve in the Red Army until 1947, preparing tank crews. Awarded: Order of Glory 3rd degree Order of the Red Star Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree Medal For the Defense of Moscow Medal For Bravery Medal for Military Merit Medal for the Victory over Germany Zhukov Medal

Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Everyone knew my grandfather in the village of Kargashino. Yes, and how could it be otherwise, if the veteran of war and labor Sergei Grigorievich Kupriyanov for 43 years worked as a blacksmith on a local collective farm? And even earlier, drafted into the army in 1939, he went through the entire war. Only these two entries were in his work book. Kupriyanov Sergei Grigorievich was born on September 4, 1919 in the village of Kargashino, Zubovo-Polyansky district of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The childhood and youth of Sergei Grigorievich fell on the difficult twenties and thirties. A large peasant family could hardly make ends meet. Therefore, he did not have to study much: he barely finished four classes - he began to help his father, worked in the field. This is how his life went until he was drafted into the Army in 1939. He first served in Belarus, in the then forming 25th Tank Brigade. Here I received the profession of a tank driver and the rank of sergeant. When the war began, my grandfather, along with other driver-mechanics, was sent to Kharkov, to the factory for new tanks. But it so happened that they did not have time to receive the tanks - the plant had to be urgently evacuated to the rear. And the tankers who came for them were sent to Kazan, to a tank school, to study domestic and foreign combat vehicles, including German ones. After completing their training, they were sent to Baku, where the formation of the 25th tank brigade continued. Sergei Grigorievich received his first baptism of fire in the North Caucasus. By that time, new T-34s came to the brigade and our troops went on the offensive. Sergei Grigorievich remembered well the cities that they liberated: Armavir, Kropotkin, Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar ... Then they went to Novorossiysk. 1943 The battles for this one were fierce. In this battle Sergei Grigorievich, in addition to being burned, was also wounded. He was sent to the hospital. Having recovered, he fought again, this time as part of a rifle division. Was at Stalingrad, then at Rzhev. He fought in neighboring Finland, liberated our Arctic, Murmansk, and reached Norway, where he celebrated on November 7, 1944. At the beginning of 1945, our powerful offensive began - and here it is, the German border. They advanced along the coast of the Baltic Sea and reached the Oder. Here, near the Oder, the soldiers from Kargashin met the Victory Day. Many men in the village, including Sergei Grigorievich's father, died at the front, mostly women worked on the collective farm. Then my grandfather went to talk to the chairman of the collective farm and decide where to start. It turned out that the village most of all needed building materials, especially brick, which was nowhere to be found at that time, so he and his friend Fyodor Yakurin decided to set up their own production of bricks on the collective farm. And they did it! The brick was excellent! In 1950, the farm, which is called desperately, needed a blacksmith. Kupriyanov took up this position and worked there until the end of his career. Sergei Grigorievich was buried in the village of Kargashino on 09.12.1993. In 2014, the military commissariat of the Zubovo-Polyansky district erected a monument to Sergei Grigorievich Kupriyanov as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Shalandin Valdemar Sergeevich - platoon commander of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, 1st Guards Tank Army, Guard Lieutenant. During the Battle of Kursk on July 6, 1943, he made a tank ram near the village of Yakovlevo, Belgorod Region. Killed with crew. In this battle, V. Shalandin's crew destroyed 3 enemy tanks. Posthumously nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.