Tank troops

CITY: Tambov region., Inzhavinsky district, with. Pavlovka DATE OF BIRTH: 04/12/1914 DATE OF DEATH: 11/07/1999 HISTORY: Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky was born on April 12, 1914 in the village of Pavlovka, Kirsanovsky district, Tambov province (now Inzhavinsky district, Tambov region). Before the start of World War II, he lived in the village of Khadyzhensky (now the city of Khadyzhensk, Apsheronsky District), Krasnodar Territory. Drafted into the Red Army by the Neftegorsk Regional MilitaryCommissariat of the Krasnodar Territory on July 22, 1941, sent to the Omsk Tank School. After graduating from college, after being awarded the rank of lieutenant, he was sent to the Stalingrad region. He was the commander of a tank platoon, then a tank company. He ended the war with the rank of captain. He was awarded medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces. In 1946, he took his family from the city of Khadyzhensk and left for the command of the tank unit of the Volga Military District, stationed in the city of Syzran, Kuibyshevsk (Samara) region. In 1947 he was transferred to the service at the Kazan Tank School. In 1953 he was sent to continue serving in the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, in the city of Eberswalde. In the post-war years, he was awarded the Medal for Military Merit (in 1951) and the Order of the Red Star (in 1956). He retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1963. After leaving the ranks of the Soviet Army, he returned to the city of Kazan, worked in the tram and trolleybus depot. In 1974 he was sent to work in the city of Almetyevsk, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, to the position of head of the trolleybus fleet. Under the leadership of Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky in the city of Almetyevsk, the construction of a trolleybus depot building and new trolleybus lines was organized, and in 1976 a full-fledged trolleybus service was opened. In 1981, at the XXVI Congress of the CPSU, the Almetyevsk trolleybus depot was noted as the best in the USSR. After retirement, Vasily Dmitrievich Aladinsky returned to Kazan. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He died on November 7, 1999, after a serious long illness.

HISTORY: Sergey Osipovich Lityaykin was born in 1918. Drafted into the Soviet Army in 1939. Private. Sergei Osipovich is one of those soldiers who, on the western border of our Motherland, took upon themselves the first bombing strikes of the Nazis. Already before dawn on June 22, 1941, he stood up to defend his Fatherland, arms in hand. Kept the defense. Later, as part of fourteen Komsomol fighters and a commander, he fought behind German lines. He fought with enemies at Stalingrad, on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge, liberated Donbass, Moldavia, Poland from the Nazis. He was a driver, signalman, infantryman, tanker. He trained as a tanker right on the front line. He mastered the business of a radio operator-gunner, a driver-mechanic, a gunner. On one of the sectors of the front, near the village of Chirkov, in the Ukraine, tankmen of two vehicles were ordered to reconnoiter the enemy's defenses. It was December. It was cold. Early in the morning the tanks moved off to carry out a combat mission. One by one, they found the enemy's objects. On the same day, the offensive of our troops began. Sergey Osipovich also took part in it. Later he fought as part of his crew in the battles for Donbass. The Nazis fought desperately for this mining town, they concentrated large forces there and the battles were fierce. The fighting went on for three days. One of them almost became fatal for Sergei Osipovich. In the confusion of the shooting, a bullet pierced his leg, wounded in the chest and neck. The Komsomol card, which Sergei Osipovich carefully kept after the war, along with the Order of Glory of the third degree and military medals as the most expensive relic, was doused with blood. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st, 2nd degree, the medal "For the Defense of Kiev". Demobilized in 1943 due to multiple wounds. From June 22, 1941 to August 24, 1944 he fought in the 23rd tank breakthrough division. After returning to his homeland, he worked as bursar at Raiselkhoztechnik.

Burov Ippolit Firsovich was born on January 11, 1920 in the city of Verkh-Neivinsky, Sverdlovsk region. In 1939, he graduated from the Sverdlovsk electro-mechanical technical school. On September 13, 1939, he was drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR. Participated in the Great Patriotic war from September 1941 to May 1945. Ippolit participated in battles at the South-Western front from September 1941 to July 1942 (tower shooter). At the Stalingrad front - from July 1942 to January 1943 (tower shooter). 3rd Belorussian front - from January 1943 to May 1945 (radio operator). Awarded the rank of a Guardsman on December 26, 1942. Sergeant Burov began his service in the tank forces as a gunner-radio operator. He received his baptism of fire in November 1941 near Taganrog. There were fights for Rostov, for the city of Izyum, fights near Poltava. One of the crew's tanks burned down, and the soldiers had to break out of the encirclement on foot. They fought on the South-Western front, then were transferred to the Voronezh front. After losing another tank, Sergeant Burov had to fight within the infantry regiment for some time. Later on - after a tank was delivered - soldiers moved to the Don front. In December 1942 their 24th Tank corps, having broken through from North to South, took part in the operation, the purpose of which was to wedge between the fascist group surrounded in Stalingrad and the enemy units coming to its aid from the West. After the strategic victory in the village of Tatsinskaya, the 24th Tank corps was transformed into the "2nd guards Tatsinsky", and the crew of the Burov tank was entrusted to accept the guards banner of their tank brigade. In July 1943, the armoured corps fought at the Kursk-Oryol arc. In the autumn of 1943 - on the 3rd Belorussian front. Then the corps was engaged in the liberation of Orsha, Vitebsk, and Minsk. And after that – supported the crossing of the Neman river and liberation of Konigsberg. But the war did not end for the Guard Sergeant Burov. He took part in battles against nationalist gangs in Poland. Burov was awarded with the order of the Patriotic War II degree, order of the Red Star, medals "For Defense of Stalingrad", "For Capture of Koenigsberg", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945 years." And then the Victory came! Guard Sergeant Burov participated in the Victory parade.

Rank: Colonel. Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized forces. Gladush Methodius Kuzmich was born on June 7, 1920 in the village of Mishurin-Rog, Verkhnedneprovsky district, Dnipropetrovsk region. In 1939, he entered the 1st Saratov panzer specialized school. After graduation in June 1941, he was sent for further military service in the 144th tank regiment of the 23rd tank division as a platoon commander of T-26 tanks. Gladush got to the regiment's location on June 17th, 1941. In June 1941, the division was stationed in Libava, with 350 T-26 tanks, 17 “Vickers” tanks, 2 tankettes, 9 flamethrower tanks, 3 t-26 tow trucks, 5 BA-10 armored vehicles, 15 BA-20 armored vehicles. Starting with June 19, the division secretly relocated from Libava and concentrated by June 22 to the north of Telshay in the Kurtuvena area. In June-July 1941 the division protected retreat of Soviet units through Riga towards Pskov. By July 4th, the division had 10 tanks and 150 men in its composition, and was located on the Ostrov-Pskov highway. On July 5th Gladush`s division was supposed to be withdrawn from the fighting, but on July 7, German units knocked back Soviet troops and rushed to the crossings on the Cheryokha river. The remnants of the division were detained and together with the 3rd motorized rifle regiment of the 3rd tank division and the rifle battalion of the 118th rifle division were put on the defense of the crossings. On the evening of July 7, the division's tanks moved into action with the tanks of the German 1st Panzer division. On the morning of July 8, German units crossed the river and reached the southern outskirts of Pskov, where the remnants of the division retreated and on the same day the division left the city through the Northern outskirts. Only two properly operating tanks remained in the division (in addition to 56 damaged and requiring repair). During the first 16 days of the war, 144 tanks were lost due to the enemy fire, 122-for a technical reasons, 9-transferred to other units. After Pskov battle, the remaining tank man of the division were sent to Novgorod to join 8th tank brigade under the command of the future chief Marshal of the armored forces, at that time Colonel, P. Rotmistrov. From September 1941 to Januanry 1942 Gladush participated in the defense of Moscow staying with the 8th tank brigade which was part of the North-Western, Kalinin and Western fronts and took part in the winter counteroffensive of Soviet troops near Moscow when he distinguished himself during liberation of the city of Klin. During the offensive, the brigade marched as far as Rzhev. On January 11th, 1942, the 8th tank brigade was transformed into the 3rd guards tank brigade for the mass heroism of its personnel. After liberation of the town of Kalinin, emblems were painted on the turrets of all tanks of the 3rd guards brigade - large white circles with the number "3" in the middle. Each tank was given a name, which was written in white paint on the tower. On June 26, 1942, the brigade was re-equipped with KV heavy tanks. On July 1, 1942, due to the threat of an enemy breakthrough near Voronezh, the brigade within the 7th tank corps was transferred to the Bryansk front in the Yelets area, where it became part of the 5th Tank Army. On August 24, 1942, the brigade within the 7th tank corps was transferred to the Stalingrad front and became part of the 1st guards army. In August-September 1942, as a part of the 3rd guards tank brigade took part in fierce battles to defend Stalingrad. On 18th of September 1942 after the battle for the hill “154.2” in the area of the junction exit 564, he was awarded with the medal "for bravery". The phrase "a battle for a forester's hut" became a symbol for the positional battles of the First World War. But during battles of WWII in the steppes close to Stalingrad there were no forests, nor foresters, nor huts. In the operational documents of the troops fighting North of the city, another local landmark is mentioned - a traffic light on the railway running from Kotlubani towards Stalingrad. It is amazing how this traffic light survived several fierce battles, was not destroyed by attacking tanks or blown to pieces by shells and aerial bombs. So this particular trafic light at the 564 km junction exit can much more claim to be a symbol of the battle of Stalingrad than the house of Sergeant Pavlov since it was in the center of events much more often and was mentioned in operational reports up to and including the front-line level. And much more soldiers perished next to this traffic light than around any single house in Stalingrad. Gladush participated in the November offensive that terminated by encircling of the 4th Panzer and 6th German armies at Stalingrad. During the Soviet army's counteroffensive at Stalingrad on 19.11-30.12.42, a new tank attack tactic was used during the battle for the Rychkovskaya railway station. Our troops were located on high ground, the positions of the German troops - in the lowlands. At night, with their lights on, but without gunfire or machine-gun fire, the tanks began to move towards the German positions. The enemy was surprised by this kind of attack, the tanks reached the enemy's fortifications without firing a single shot, broke through the defenses and reached the Bank of the Don river. On December 13th, during nazi airstrike his tank was hit by a thermite shell that killed practrically all the guards crew – master sergeant Zemlyakov, sergeant Borowski, senior Sergeant Volchkov. After the crew was buried on the battlefield, repairmen welded a hole from a shell hit with electric welding, and in the morning the tank was back in service, having distinguished itself in battle, paying tribute to the fallen comrades. After the defeat of enemy troops at Stalingrad, Gladush participated in the Rostov offensive operation on January 1 – February 18, 1943. In March 1943, he participated in the defense of Belgorod during the German counteroffensive. In the summer of 1943, he took part in the battle of Kursk. In August 1943, he was transferred to the newly formed 233rd separate tank regiment as a company commander of KV tanks. As part of the regiment, he fought at the 1st Belorussian front within the 50th Army. He was awarded the order of the Red Banner for his distinction in crossing the Pronya and Dnipro rivers and liberating the city of Mogilev. It was decreed on 10th of July, 1944 that 233rd Separate Tank Regiment was given the honorary name "Mogilev". For military valour during the battle for Pron river Gladush M. K. was awarded the order of the Red Star. Together with the regiment, he participated in the liberation of Belarus and Poland. In the summer of 1944, he was sent to serve in the Polish Army, as a tutor of the tank school of the Polish Army in the city of Khelm. All Soviet officers in this school wore the uniform of The Polish Army. In March 1945 Gladush participated in the suppression of the uprising of supporters of the Krayovy Army among the cadets of the school. He was awarded the Polish silver Cross of merit. In the post-War years, he was commissioned as a teacher to the Kazan tank school, but due to the discrepancy in rank and age, he was transferred to Anapa as a company commander of a tank battalion. After Kazan, Gladush worked for Kharkov tank school as a teacher of tactics. In 1958 Gladush graduated from the Military Red Banner Academy of the Armored Forces of the Order of Lenin and the October Revolution named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky- and after that served in various positions in the Baltic States, within the group of Soviet forces in Germany and in Crimea. In 1970, he went on a well-deserved rest. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 92.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. My father, Glukhov Vladimir Mikhailovich, on July 15, 1941 at 15 o'clock left Kargapolye station for the front. The Great Patriotic War was going on. Already without him, on July 22, 1941, a son was born - Glukhov Vladimir Vladimirovich. He fought in the armored forces as a tank driver in the Zhukov Army. He already had military experience - the war with the Japanese and the Finnish one was behind him. From November 13, 1935 to February 1938, he served in the Far East in Manchuria, fought on a wedge heel on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin-Gol River with the Japanese. From September 11, 1939 to August 1940, he took part in the battles in the Finnish War as a driver. He transported the shells there, and back - the wounded. In the Great Patriotic War, having such experience, it was easier to fight. At the end of 1943, he was slightly wounded and lost a tank. For a new tank he was sent to the city of Nizhny Tagil, Chelyabinsk region (almost home). On October 10, 1943, my mother took her son for the first time to show his father to Nizhny Tagil. Father was ordered to leave for 4 months to train young tankers at a training ground in Nizhny Tagil. They offered to remain an instructor. The father refused and filed a report on being sent to the front. On January 25, 1944, he came home for a visit for 5 days, after which he left for the front. In early May 1944, when crossing the Oder River, there was a direct bomb hit in Poland. The father was wounded (wounded in the head), two phalanges of the ring finger of his right hand were torn off and a wound in the knee. A radio operator, also wounded, pulled out of the burning tank. The paint from the burning tank bounced off and pierced his father's face. All over my face were such black and green beads. I touched them, rolled them under the skin and wondered why my dad had such a strange face. Over time, they all came out and the face became clean, just a little porous. After the hospital, my father was discharged from the tank forces. In the distributor, all (such) were lined up. The captain came out and examined. He went up to his father, ran his finger along his straight nose and asked: - Siberian? The father answered: - Siberian. - If there are still Siberians, get out of order and me. So my father left for a new place of service already as a driver. He was officially retired in February 1946.

Solomatov Alexander Vasilyevich was born on March 8, 1924, in the city of Khem-Beldyr, Tannu-Tuva People's Republic (now it is the city of Kyzyl of the Tyva Republic). He began his career at the age of 16 in the Tuva Regional Council of Trade Unions, as a sorter of furs. On May 25, 1943, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army - and after graduating from a tank regimental school in December 1943, as a 19-year-old junior technician-lieutenant, he went to the front as part of the 56th Guards Tank Brigade of the 3rd Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. After the end of World War II, he was sent to the Far East as part of the 77th Army Self-Propelled Heavy Tank Regiment. He took part in the Soviet-Japanese war, was seriously wounded. By order of 06.09.1946, No. 0496, he was dismissed from the USSR Armed Forces due to injury. After demobilization, he devoted his life to serving the law and fighting crime. He worked where combat training was required, his life experience and dedication to the profession, duty and honor - having given service in the prosecutor's office for more than 30 years. In 1970, Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University, received a higher legal education. He served as an intern in the investigation department of the Tuva regional prosecutor's office, later as an investigator and senior investigator of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kyzyl, later as an assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl, then as a prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl and prosecutor of the Ulug-Khem region of the Tuva ASSR. Subsequently, he served as a prosecutor and senior prosecutor of the investigation department of the prosecutor's office of the Tuva ASSR. He worked in the judiciary for over 10 years, was a people's judge of the Piy-Khem region. For about two years he worked in the elective position of deputy chairman of the executive committee of people's deputies. For his personal and professional qualities, the residents of the districts elected him a deputy of the district Council of People's Deputies and a people's judge - but he again returned to the prosecutor's office, to the most difficult and responsible area of ​​the fight against crime. Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov was fluent in the Tuvan language. His competence in the history of Tuva, knowledge of the traditions and customs of the local population, combined with his goodwill and respect for people, adherence to principles and exactingness in upholding the rights and freedoms of citizens contributed to raising the authority of the law among the population - and Alexander Timofeevich himself was an example for all employees of the prosecutor's office Tuvinian ASSR. In the conditions of a transitional period and the departure of many specialists from the prosecutor's office, the aggravation of the crime situation and interethnic relations, despite his age - Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov in December 1992 readily responded to the request of the leadership of the republican prosecutor's office to help young workers in organizing the investigation of serious crimes, supervision of preliminary investigation and operational-search activities in the internal affairs bodies. Every third criminal case of premeditated murder passed through his hands, according to which they were given instructions and advice on organizing the investigation. In particularly complex criminal cases, he himself took a direct part in the production of investigative actions carried out by young investigators, regardless of personal time. Continuing to remain in the team, he gave lectures and talks in front of various audiences, passed on his many years of experience to the new generation, being an example of loyalty to the profession and duty to the law. In 1996, he retired from the prosecutor's office and on October 8, 1996, after a serious illness, he died. For many years and conscientious work in the prosecutor's office he received state and departmental awards. His labor services to the people are marked by orders: - Order of the Red Star; - Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree; - Order of Friendship; medals: - "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." - Jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "; - Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War";

On that July morning, all the inhabitants of the village of Namakonovo, as usual, got up with the first roosters. There was a lot of work on the collective farm and one have to do everything in a day, but... at six o'clock in the morning on the radio came the terrible news - the war… In the military enlistment office, the doors were not closed around the clock. One by one, my father and his brothers went to the front. At that time, Nikolay was just sixteen. With hope, he entered the military enlistment office. The military Commissar, having looked at the documents, said how he cut it off: "Young, we need them in the rear," and went about his business as if no one was in the room but him and his papers. "Young" was a word Nikolay had heard for almost a year, But his persistence was crowned with success. He received a summons. At the beginning of 1942, Nikolay got near Irkutsk to the Malta station, where a regiment was being formed to be sent to the front. The regiment was lined up in the evening. The list that the chief of staff read out included Nikolay and his brother, so they found themselves in the Ulyanovsk Tank School. They studied hard, because all the cadets had a dream to get to the front as soon as possible. In April 1944, they graduated from the school. Nikolai became a Second Lieutenant, and later a Deputy Company Commander. The division, where Second Lieutenant Sivov arrived, was sent to the front immediately after formation. Upon arrival in the regiment, Nikolay's comrades came to the regiment commander, where the division commander, General A. Krasnov, was present at the time, with the only request that their tank be commanded by Nikolay Sivov… After listening carefully to the young guys, talking to Nikolay, and looking closely, the division commander appointed him a tank commander. When our troops were finishing off the enemy in his own lair, the 371st Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division, in which Nikolay served, was transferred to the far East to fight the Japanese enemies in April 1945. They arrived at the city of Mudanzas. It was heavily fortified on one side and the other side was covered by a wide river Mudanzas. There was a reinforced concrete bridge across the river. The enemy used it to deliver military supplies and food to the city. The bridge played a very important role for the division, as every soldier understood. The road running along the river to the place was clearly visible and therefore was under fire from a rock that sagged over the river. The infantry could not pass this section of three or four kilometers long. Only tanks could pass through here. General A. Krasnov called to his tank commanders and asked: "Do you want to go to the head patrol to the bridge and hold out there until the rest of the forces arrive? It is a responsible task with a high risk”. Everyone was willing to go! The commander of the regiment, after some considerations, decided to send Second Lieutenant N. Sivov and Second Lieutenant D. Makarov to the patrol. The crews were supplied with additional ammunition. Nikolay Sivov was appointed a leader. The guys agreed that the tanks should not lag behind each other and could skip this segment at maximum speed. They got through… They fired from all types of weapons. Now the had to wait for the arrival of the rest of the forces. Hold on… These were difficult hours of battle for both crews. Communication with the regiment commander was not stable. Nikolay reported that the battle continued and they were waiting for reinforcements, but they did not arrive soon. After two of our tanks got through, the enemy blew up the rock and it cut off the path to the bridge. Nikolay understood this perfectly, and the connection with the regimental commander was cut off abruptly. They were running out of ammunition, but had to hold on. They were already shooting from machine guns. Twas no communication. All guys made a decision at the end of ammunition to blow up themselves and tanks, but not to surrender! They did not have to do that. Having cleared the road, the regiment made it in time. The bridge was intact. The city was completely liberated. For this feat, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the crews of Second Lieutenant N. Sivov and D. Makarov were awarded the Orders of the Red Star. A day later, the radio brought good news about the end of the war. During the war, Nikolay Sivov was awarded Orders of the Red Star, Patriotic War of 1st degree and the Great Patriotic war 2nd degree , the Medals of Marshal Zhukov, For Military Merit, For the Victory over Japan, a number of other medals, and a sign Veteran of 1941-1945. Captain N. Sivov continued to perform difficult but honorable service as a tank officer after the war. Injuries at the front, sleepless nights, attacks - all this did not pass without a trace. In 1958, Major N. Sivov retired from the Soviet army.

Hero of The Soviet Union Nikolay Sergeev was born on May 9, 1913 in the village of Vylomovo near the town of Lysva. He studied at the school of the village of Mehryakovo in the Lysvensky District and then at secondary school #2. After graduating from the Lysvensky technical school, he worked as a laboratory chemist in the laboratory of the enamelware shop of the metallurgical plant. In 1933, he was drafted into the Red Army. In 1936, he graduated from the Ulyanovsk Red Banner Armored School named after V. Lenin with the rank of Lieutenant. Participated in the defeat of the Japanese aggressors. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he participated in battles. He especially distinguished himself in the fierce battles at Stalingrad. In the battles of 9-11 August 1942, the 2nd Tank Battalion of the 133rd Tank Brigade under the command of Major Sergeev destroyed 20 German tanks. The commander with his crew personally destroyed three enemy tanks and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. By December 1942, Major Sergeyev was in command of the 20th Guards Tank Regiment. On December 16-17, 1942, the regiment of N. Sergeev performed tasks of the command to break through the German defense in the area of the Astakhov farm in the Stalingrad Region. Sergeyev personally led his regiment into battle. In the first attack, the tankers destroyed two artillery batteries, six anti-tank guns and about a battalion of Nazi infantry. In that battle, Sergeyev's tank was hit, but the Major, despite receiving burns to his legs, moved to another tank and led the second attack. In the midst of the battle, Sergeev's tank was hit, and the crew fought until it exploded. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 31, 1943, Major Nikolai Sergeev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Awarded the Orders of Lenin, Red banner. He was buried in a mass grave on the Pronin farm in the Volgograd Region. In the city of Lysva, memorial plaques were installed in memory of the hero at school #2, technical school (College), and the building of the LMZ enamel ware shop. There is a bust on the Alley of Heroes of the memorial of Glory. In 2006, the Russian post issued an artistic stamped envelope in honor of N. Sergeev with a circulation of 500 thousand copies.

Pavel Selin was born in the village of Vozdvizhenka in the Ponomarevskiy District of the Chkalov Region on July 18, 1918. After completing seven classes, Pavel studied in Buguruslan at the school of agricultural machine operators, after which he worked on a collective farm in Vozdvizhenka on a harvester. In 1938, he was called up by the Ponomarevskiy District Military Enlistment Office to join the Red Army in the tank forces. But the peace service was disrupted by the war. Pavel received his first baptism of fire on the territory of Belarus near Minsk, as a mechanic-driver of a BT-7 tank. It was a shock division, and therefore Pavel Makarovich took part in the defense of Moscow and Stalingrad, where the fiercest battles took place. Received medals For the Defense of Moscow, For the Defense of Stalingrad. At Stalingrad, the tank crew, where Selin was the driver, destroyed three enemy tanks and five artillery pieces with their personnel and more than 200 Hitlerites. For his brave actions, Pavel was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic war of the 1st degree on 09.02.1943. Then the division was transferred to the Caucasus, where he was awarded the medal For the Defense of the Caucasus. At the end of 1943, Pavel participated in operation 140 TTTpp. Pursuing the enemy, his tank broke into the firing positions of German batteries. Eight guns with personnel were crushed by the tracks of the KV-85 tank, and 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. But in an unequal battle, the tank was hit, and the tank commander was also killed. However, Pavel continued the fight. Although he was seriously wounded, overcoming pain, repelled 2 enemy counterattacks, was shell-shocked, and only when the tank caught fire, jumped out of it. He was injured in both legs, and then in the hospital they were amputated to his knees. The command highly appreciated him and awarded Pavel for his unparalleled courage and heroism in the fight against the German invaders with the medals For Bravery (12.01.1943), For Military Merit, the Order of the Red Banner of Battle (20.02.1944) and the Order of Lenin (03.04.1944). Pavel did not fight any longer, and returned home disabled. For some time he worked as a clerk in the Personnel Department of Ponomarev Agricultural Machinery. Then he married Matrena Bazulina, built a house with his wife in the village of Vozdvizhenka, where he lived with his family and children - the eldest daughter Nadezhda, and son Sergey, born on March 22, 1961. He died on July 26, 1987. He was buried in the village of Vozdvizhenka of the Ponomarevsky District of the Orenburg Region.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ When the war started, my grandfather was 15 years old. After graduating from the 7th grade of the Grigorievskaya Secondary School, before being drafted into the Soviet army, he worked as a tractor driver on a T-2g gas generator in the Grigorievskaya MTS. On November 13, 1943, grandfather was drafted into service and he was in a training Regiment in the Tyumen Region in an anti-tank Battalion. After graduating from the training Regiment, my grandfather was awarded the title "Sergeant of the Soviet Army". _x000D_ After completing his studies, he was transferred to the city of Kazan, stayed there for 2 months in the western Regiment, and was sent to the marching company to the front on July 27, 1944, where there were battles for the liberation of Belarus and Baltic states. Having traveled nineteen days in echelon, he was delivered to the city of Bialystok and was taken to the city of Bialystok and was enlisted in an anti-tank platoon of the anti-tank defense of the 3rd Battalion of the 669th Infantry Regiment of the 212nd Krichevskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov, Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree Division, 80 corps 61 Army, attached to the 1st Belorussian Front. _x000D_ He entered the front line on August 15, 1944, in Latvia and participated in the offensive from the city of Pskov to the city of Riga. There, repelling enemy tank counterattacks, the gunner of the 45-mm gun Sergeant Sludyanin fought heroically. For the destroyed tanks and self-propelled guns, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" and the gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Comrade Stalin. _x000D_ Then he participated in the destruction of the German grouping on the Kurland Peninsula near the town of Libava "Lipeya". Then he was transferred to Poland near the city of Warsaw on the foot strong of the Vistula river. He went with offensive battles from January 12, 1945 through Poland to Germany. He fought from the Vistula to the Oder River. _x000D_ Near the city of Seidenberg, 8 kilometers away from the Oder River on the east side, during a tank attack, he was wounded on February 10, 1945 by a shell burst in the neck and knee of his right leg. It was unlucky, because Berlin was only 70 km away. For those battles, my grandfather was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. _x000D_ After being wounded, the grandfather was taken to the medical company of his regiment from there to the Medical Battalion onward to the army hospital in the city of Seidenberg. After he was taken to the city of Lodz, to the front-line hospital, where on March 2, 1945, an operation was performed in the knee joint of the right leg and a plaster cast was applied to it. On April 7, 1945, he was sent to Russia and taken to the hospital in Chapaevsk Kuibyshev Region.

Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ He was born in 1923. Shortly before that, due to the persecution of priests, his father was forced to leave for the village of Krasnoe and change the priesthood to a Teacher of the Russian language, worked as a Director of a School and an orphanage. Vladimir continued the dynasty of teachers, following the example of his father and brothers, from the age of 16 he began teaching history at a School in the village of Shabanovo. He wrote good poetry, before the war he was published in a collection of Siberian poets, began to write a story about the civil war. At the age of 17 he wrote an article for the "Uchitelskaya Gazeta" "What a rural Teacher should be like". The main values of this article are still relevant today, understandable to our generation and future successors. _x000D_ Vladimir went to the front at the age of 18. He underwent military training in the city of Berdsk. On November 7, 1941, he took a military oath. From December 1941 he fought in the 28th Guards Division. Then he fought in the 30th Siberian Ski Battalion. He served as a tanker, Komsomol organizer of the 226th Tank Regiment, Chief of the Regiment's Tank Brigade. In October 1942, in battles of Separate Ski Battalion he was seriously wounded. While in the hospital, he wrote poetry, read them to raise the morale of wounded soldiers and nurses. A nurse wrote mentioned this fact in a letter after his death. _x000D_ After the hospital he went to the front again. In August he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He was seriously wounded in battle, died from burns in hospital No. 218 of the OMSB 178 SD near Smolensk on September 7, 1943. _x000D_ His name is carved on the Obelisk of Glory in the village of Shabanovo, where he lived and worked, and in the town of Dukhovshchina, where he was reburied from the place of death (Shchelkino village). Materials about the Tatarnikov family are kept in the School museum of the village of Shabanovo, in a memorial room. My father was named after the hero Tatarnikov Vladimir Alexandrovich.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops. Subdivision: 1st Armored Moscow Proletarian Order of Lenin Red Banner Division. He was a disabled of the III group, participant of the Great Patriotic War, a member of the Communist Party since September 1944. He was drafted into the Soviet army on February 8, 1943 in the city of Penza and demobilized in November 1946. He was in the army from September 1943 to October 1944. He served as a Mortarman, Reconnaissance officer in the 1st Mortar Battery, 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Battalion, 1st Separate Guards Kalinkovic Motorized Rifle Brigade, 1st Don Tank Corps in Bryansk and 1st om the Belorussian fronts, with the rank of Guards Senior Sergeant. He was seriously wounded and shell-shocked. He took part in the liberation of the cities of Rechitsa, Kalinovichi. He took part in military operation “Bagration”: breaking through the enemy's defenses covering the Bobruisk area and in the liberation of the cities of Osinovichi, Bobruisk, Minsk, and Slonim. _x000D_ For excellent military operations, he received Commendations of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Comrade Stalin. He was also awarded medals: "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He worked at the VEM plant in the city of Penza, was awarded the medals “For Labor Distinction”, “For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin”, “Veteran of Labor”. In 1971 he received the title of an honorary veteran of the plant's labor. At the VEM plant he worked from July 1947 to November 28, 1983 as a dispatcher, foreman, shop manager, Deputy Director for social life, and Senior engineer. For health reasons, he resigned. On the job he graduated from the Penza Engineering College in 1954, the Penza factory VTUZ in 1977.

Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 264th Rifle Ussuri Division. _x000D_ My grandfather, Sorokin Alexander Alekseevich was born on 12/08/1923 in the village of Chernotrog of the Agapovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. It was 1942, a hard war year. He was not yet the full 18 years old when he was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces and sent to the border with China occupied by Japan. He learned the basics of military science in the Ussuri taiga, Japanese recons looked for gaps in order to penetrate Soviet territory ... .._x000D_ In 1943 he was sent to one of the replenishment points of the active army, and from there to 25th Tank Regiment. At first he was a radio operator, then a machine gunner. He received his baptism of fire near a small Viennese town. Then there were many fights and the path to the Victory Day in Berlin was paved by young healthy lifes of the Soviet soldiers. _x000D_ The crossing of the Danube became one of the examples of courage of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. In the combat for Budapest, the tank was knocked out, two guys were killed, grandfather Alexander Alekseevich received a shell shock, but survived ... _x000D_ Further on the path of the young tanker was Czechoslovakia. There, Soviet troops linked up with American troops. Great-grandfather learned the good news about the end of the war while in the Czechoslovak village of Golubitsa. Everyone was happy about the victory. _x000D_ A week later, the units were transferred to Prague. Passing through the city, everywhere they met cheering Czechs, they threw flowers, smiled, shouted: "The liberators are coming!" _x000D_ With the declaration of Germany's surrender, the military service for the great-grandfather, like for many thousands of Soviet soldiers, did not end. In September A.A. Sorokina with fellow soldiers were sent to Romania, where there were many hiding fascists and not very calm. Only in December 1945 he was discharged. He returned home at the beginning of 1946 ... .. Alexander Alekseevich left as a boy, and returned as an adult man, matured, handsome, stately, black-eyed, on his chest there were medal "For Courage" "For Capture of Budapest" "For Liberation of Vienna" and other awards ... ..

Rank: Red Army soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ _x000D_ He served in the Red Army in military unit 9722, 130 tank Regiment of 210 motorized Division of 20th Mechanized Corps. On June 19, 1941, the Division was in the settlement Osipovichi. Since July 1, 1941, the mechanized corps has been fighting in the Pukhovichi region with the combat mission of defending the eastern bank of the Berezina River. On July 8, the new Commander of 13th Army, Lieutenant General Remezov, ordered 20th mechanized corps to firmly hold the line along the eastern bank of the Drut 'River on the front of Krasnaya Sloboda, Semukachi, Brody. _x000D_ At dawn on July 9, enemy tank units broke through in the sector of 20th Mechanized Corps, flowing around its flanks in the directions of Kuta and Ugalya. The corps Commander decided to destroy the enemy that had broken through with strong detachments. Fulfilling this order, the corps units pretty much beat the SS Regiment, defeated the motor-pontoon Battalion and the communications Battalion. Subsequently, 20th Mechanized Corps was withdrawn from thecombat and concentrated in the Starinka area for resupply. _x000D_ On July 23, some parts of the corps were deployed to support the defense of the eastern sector of the ring around Mogilev. On the morning of July 26, at a meeting of the Commanders of the units and formations surrounded in Mogilev, which was attended by the corps Commander, Vedeneev, the Commanders of the Parkhomenko and Obukhov Divisions, it was decided to break through the encirclement ring. The remnants of 20th Mechanized Corps were assigned to the advance guard of the breakthrough. _x000D_ On the evening of July 27, units of 20th and 61st corps moved along three routes in the general direction of Chausy, Mstislavl, Roslavl. Southwest of Chaus, the Germans blocked the way for the retreating columns. The fighting lasted for two days, in the units there was a shortage of ammunition. _x000D_ General Bakunin ordered to destroy all the remaining equipment, vehicles, disperse the horses and break out of the encirclement in small groups of 100-200 people. He was captured on July 27, 1941 in the region of Smolensk.

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of Service: Armored and Mechanized Troops_x000D_ Duty station: 164th Vitebsk Red Banner Rifle Division_x000D_ Memories of grandfather Ivan Tokarev about the war in 1941-1945_x000D_ In 1939, I was drafted into the army and sent to Western Ukraine (in a place near the city of Lvov) in the 377th Separate Tank Battalion, in the regimental tank school. In 1940, he graduated from the regimental school and received the title of driver and tank commander. In 1940, G. Zhukov visited the unit. He made a strong impression on us with his self-control, smartness, tact, and care for soldiers. We were 30 meters away from him. He showed the recruits how to climb the rope, climbed up and went down using only his hands._x000D_ In 1941, on the night of June 21 to June 22, after the alarm we went to the Yanovskiy Forest, located 20 km from the border (the city of Przemysl). At 14 hours on June 22, we engaged the Germans. The Germans marched in a chain and mowed down everything in front of them with machine guns. Our tank division began to "iron" them and the Germans retreated. We occupied the town of Przemysl again. So six times, we retreated and six times occupied the town. Then the order came to withdraw._x000D_ During the day, we were on defense, covered the withdrawal of infantry, and at night retreated themselves. We fought near Lvov, Kiev, Zhytomyr and other places. Near Zhytomyr, I burned in a tank and got out through a manhole, my comrades helped me. My hands were burned. I had medical treatment right there in the unit._x000D_ In the summer of 1942, I was sent to a tank school, and graduated from it in 1943 with the rank of platoon commander, and sent to Orsha, where there were fierce battles. In some of the battles, our tanks and planes were suppressed. Then they gathered all of us (pilots, tankers and others) and gave us the order to go on the attack (hand-to-hand combat). In this attack, I was wounded in the right hand, but did not leave the battlefield. In this battle, the Germans retreated and we took our positions. After the battle, I was hospitalized for 1.5 months. The shard is still in my hand._x000D_ I was awarded the Order of the Red Star_x000D_ In March 1944, near Vitebsk, we went on an attack (hand-to-hand combat), it was necessary to level the position and cut the railway connecting Orsha with Vitebsk, along which the Germans supplied their troops. The fighting was terrible. There was a continuous hum. Soldiers who had their arms and legs torn off begged to be shot. But others encouraged them and were saying that they would avenge them, and if they returned, they would give them their blood, hand, and foot._x000D_ The soldiers were attacking in waves in six echelons. I was wounded in this attack. The bullet hit the groin and exited from behind in the thigh of the right leg. We came to the river, fixed on the right Bank, the German trenches were 20-30 meters away. After the battle, I was sent to the hospital._x000D_ Participated in tank battles on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Baltic Fronts. I took part in the liberation of the Baltic States, and ended the war in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad)._x000D_ The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, which was awarded during the war, I received only in 1993. In 1985, I was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree. I met Victory Day near Konigsberg. It was very joyful, we gave a salute from all types of weapons.