Military medical service

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, troops People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, border troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 1st Guards Artillery Order of Lenin Glukhov Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdanuzov, Khutanuzov Reserve of the Supreme Command. _x000D_ In 1941 he graduated from medical assistant courses and as a nineteen-year-old boy went to the front. He served in the rank of Senior Lieutenant, organized the work of the Battalion's Sanitary Medical Service, accompanied convoys under fire and bombardment, carried out the wounded from the battlefield, organized defense and participated in repelling enemy attacks, and treated the Red Army soldiers. _x000D_ Here is a quote from the award list: "In the battles near the city of Neisse ... came under the bombing of aviation ... Comrade Sokolov, risking his life, carried out the wounded driver, provided assistance and sent him to the medical unit." This is so short, dry in military documents about the daily feat of my great-grandfather, about the many lives he saved, about the days of the hardest trials for our people. _x000D_ Officer, Senior Lieutenant Valerian Ivanovich Sokolov, for personal courage and courage shown in defending the Fatherland and performing military duty, was awarded the Medal "For Courage", the Medal "For Liberation of Prague", the Medal "For Capture of Berlin", the Medal "For Victory over Germany WWII 1941-1945 ", in 1947 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his great services in the defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in wartime.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel. _x000D_ When the Great Patriotic war started, Anya Tyuneva was 17 years old. A year before it started, she graduated from a nursing School in the town of Opochka, Pskov (at that time, Kalinin) Region and worked as a nurse in a district clinic in the town of Opochka. In the summer of 1941, the Tyunev family was evacuated to the town of Maksatikha in the Kalinin (Tver) Region. From there, Anna's father and older brother went to the front. They both died at war. _x000D_ Anna Tyuneva was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in January 1942 by the Maksatikhinsky Commissariat and sent to the city of Vyshny Volochok. The formation of hospitals took place here. So a very young girl, almost a girl, became a nurse of a special surgical mobile hospital No. 4382, related to her full front-line destiny. In 1942 and early 1943, a hospital as part of the 11th Army was deployed on the North-Western Front in the area of Parfino, Novgorod Region. _x000D_ There were heavy, bloody battles. The hospital specialized in neurosurgery. Anna Markovna all her life recalled a great number of many wounded were admitted to the hospital, she cried every day when the dead were buried in mass grave. Years later, she visited this mass grave military cemetery to worship the memory of the soldiers. _x000D_ The Battle of Kursk Bulge was ahead. In the summer of 1943, the hospital was transferred to the Bryansk front. They unfolded in the forest. The sounds of battle were heard continuously. The hospital, designed for 200 people, in those days received 5 times more wounded, about 1000 people. There were not enough tents, they built sheds, which were covered with tree bark to protect from rain. This work was done by everyone who was currently free from duty. Anna Markovna said later that they felt neither fear nor fatigue. The only thing you can't get used to is the death of the wounded. Sometimes you do everything to save a person, you look for signs of improvement, and you take over and see: the bed is already empty. _x000D_ After the Battle of Kursk, our troops began an offensive to the west. Hospital No. 4382 as part of the 48th Army was part of the 1st, then 2nd Belorussian Front. Here Anna Tyuneva was presented a rank of a Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service. And in May 1945, the long-awaited news of the Victory arrived at the town of Elbing in East Prussia. The first feeling of disbelief was replaced by general jubilation. They treated the wounded and waited to return home. _x000D_ In June, the hospital embarked on a troop train heading east. And only when the train crossed the Volga, they realized that the war hostilities had not yet finished. The hospital had arrived in the Far East, it a war with Japan was declared. _x000D_ After that war, she continued to serve in the administration of the prisoner of war camp No. 13 in Vladivostok as a medic of the central infirmary. _x000D_ In June 1946, a young but experienced girl returned home. In the first minute, her mother did not recognize her. They hugged and burst into tears. _x000D_ After the war, Anna changed her profession: she graduated from a pedagogical institute and taught Russian language and literature at School for 35 years. She married the front-line soldier Gnedov Nikolai Petrovich, they had a son, and a year later a daughter. Parents did not like to talk about the war, but in the last years of her life, my mother more and more often recalled her front-line youth.

Rank: Red Army _x000D_ Subdivision: 56th Moscow Red Banner Infantry Division _x000D_ Near the eternal flame there is a sculptural group of two soldiers, and a little further, in the depths of the square, there is a memorial architectural structure, where cast-iron plaques with the names of those who found death on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War are fixed on the columns. _x000D_ The monument to Daria Yegorovna Turubarova, a mother, a simple Russian woman, will forever be remembered. Among the heroes is her daughter Vera, a Komsomol member who voluntarily left for the front and passed away on the Smolensk land. She convincingly asked the Komsomol organization to recommend her as a fighter in the ranks of the Red Army. In the Reserve Regiment, the girls underwent medical training, got acquainted with small arms, and went to the front. The Motherland honored its daughter with a high award, the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ It was learned in more detail about an effort of the Komsomol member Vera Turubarova in late September and early August 1945. At the same time the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Dityatev told about the last effort of Vera Turubarova._x000D_ " .. In our guards unit everyone knows the Medical Instructor girl, the hero Vera Turubarova. She was an example for fighters, dozens of glorious stories can be told about her fighting life. This happened in the Smolensk Region, near the city of Krasny, in the very place where Napoleon's troops were defeated in the First Patriotic War of 1812. The unit in which Vera served was found in a hard position. The Nazis were consolidated at the height. They had to be knocked out. One of the battalions went on the attack several times, but unsuccessfully. Then Vera jumped out of the trench with a high-raised machine gun, with the words: “Forward, for the Motherland!” The soldiers rose behind her, and in a stubborn battle, the height was taken. A courageous girl was seriously wounded.” This story of the Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai ityatev was published in the newspaper “Bolshevik Call” No. 91 dated August 3, 1945.

Tyushnyakova (Sibiryakova), Nadezhda Timofeevna_x000D_ Rank: Senior Sergeant._x000D_ Branch of the service: Ground Forces._x000D_ Division: 367th Red Banner Infantry Division. _x000D_ There are no people in the world that are not interesting. Their destinies are like the history of the planets, each has everything special, its own. And there are no similar planets. _x000D_ If you used to think about the meaning of the word “woman” in the 19th Century, then the following phrases come to mind: “weaker sex”, “fragile female shoulders.” However, в uring the war time huge burden of labor fell to the shoulders of women, and they proved that they can be as strong as their men who went to the front. _x000D_ We were talking in a spacious kitchen with a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Nadezhda Timofeevna Tyushnyakova (Sibiryakova), who is taken care by her daughter, a therapist, Honored Doctor of Russia, Irina Leonidovna Medvedchikova. _x000D_ The house is located on the outskirts of the Regional Center Mokrousovo. Nadezhda knows about the war firsthand. _x000D_ «In recent years, my health had been failing, - she showed her scars on her arm, - a shrapnel wound does not allow sleep at night, everything hurts, she began to forget the people she knew (grandmother is 93 years old). But I can't forget the war years ...»_x000D_ Before the start of the war, she received an honorary title and a badge of Voroshilov Sharpshooter, which played an important role in her further destiny. Nadya Tyushnyakova entered the Shadrinsk Pedagogical Institute. _x000D_ She was very bright at her twenty. Besides the teacher’s Institute, she simultaneously attended Courses for Reserve Medical Instructors in 1941. Medical practice consisted of unloading trains with wounded coming from the front-line. In the hospital, wounds were treated, bandaged, and soldiers were prepared for surgery. _x000D_ She was not scared of blood compared to many other young girls who were not able to get used to it. When they saw blood, they left the room or closed their eyes. In 1942 Nadezhda was sent to Dmitrievskaya, then to the Staropershinskaya School of the Mokrousovsky District as a Teacher. A medical diploma and a teacher's certificate were about her. _x000D_ There was a famine in the village, a tax in kind, which depleted the last supplies of the villagers. It was cold, people heated stoves with "driftwood" and dry deadwood, taken out by women with children late in the evening or at night from the forest. _x000D_ Her soul was eager to go to the front line, but numerous requests for active duty were not satisfied. _x000D_ “However, in 1943, apparently due to a shortage of medical instructors, I was granted my requests and drafted into the army as a volunteer,” the heroine of my story quietly recalls ... _x000D_ Young Nadia Tyushnyakova was in the midst of the fighting. She happened to be a cook, a sniper, and a typist to print documents. But most importantly, she remained a soldier. “On the front line, she did not disdain any work: she dug trenches, dug trenches, hunted down and killed the Germans with a sniper; carried the dead from the battlefield and helped to bandage the wounded, cooked and delivered food to the soldiers, taught the recruits to sniper,” this is how Ira's granddaughter wrote about her grandmother in one of her School essays. _x000D_ Baptism of fire happened near Vitebsk, on the very first mission she violated the Commander's order, she shot at the Nazi who brazenly crawled out of hiding without an order, for which she was subsequently punished. In war, discipline comes first. Self-righteousness is unacceptable. _x000D_ A young sniper Nadia Tyushnyakova officially killed 12 Germans on the West Belarusian Front. In the early autumn of 194I he was wounded by shell fragments in the combat in Lithuania, in the town of Grossenvasee. _x000D_ And her endless ordeals started: first she was sent to the Kaunas hospital, where she underwent surgery. And on October 18, her birthday, Captain Malenkov, a Senior Sniper Instructor, and her comrades came to visit Nadia. As a gift, the soldiers brought a bottle of cologne and a bar of laundry soap, which was considered a rarity at that time. _x000D_ _x000D_ N.T. Sibiryakova recalled: _x000D_ “The Captain was my friend, mentor, teacher, second father, a true man. His visit touched me so much that, being in serious condition, I asked in the evening to light a seven-line lamp, and, overcoming the pain, wrote a sincere poem dedicated to the guest: _x000D_ There is no more wonderful day than today, _x000D_ There is no happier person in the world than me, _x000D_ Though she is wounded, but as expected, the front-line family came to visit.”_x000D_ The whitened gray-haired woman talks about her fellow soldiers, remembering almost everyone by name. It is interesting that she does not remember the events that happened a week or a month ago, but what happened many years ago is still alive in her memory. Nadia made friends with many people at war. Most of the comrades did not return home, while the other somehow got lost by itself in the post-war period in the space of our vast country, disappeared without a trace. But they did not vanish from Nadia's memory. Probably, front-line friendship arises subconsciously between all soldiers, regardless of whether they know each other, what nationality and faith they are. _x000D_ Brothers and sisters in thoughts, in feelings, in desires and fate. Zhenya Mosyagina became such a front-line sister for Nadezhda. Later, she was wounded, and her trace was lost in hospitals, and they never see each other again. _x000D_ Another tragic episode of that terrible war is the death of the most dear person to Nadya in her hands. If there was no war, it is likely that they would have got married, but ... The pain of the loss is so great that after 72 years, Nadezhda Timofeevna, with tears in her eyes and trembling voice, tells about the past. Yes, such deep wounds do not heal, do not leave scars and scars in human memory, but they bleed for the rest of their lives. _x000D_ “The Generation of War 1941-1945 survived, suffered a hundred times more than it could have. And all this so that the generations to come would have another, a better life. They dreamed about it in damp trenches under whistles of bullets…”_x000D_ Until 1946, due to injury, Nadezhda Timofeevna worked as a typist in the political department. Together with the troops, she moved along the front closer to the border. She took part in the battles for the liberation of Konigsberg, received a shell shock in one of the combats ... _x000D_ She was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, medals "For Courage" and "For Capture of Konigsberg." _x000D_ The most precious thing taken away by the war was her health. Nadezhda Timofeevna became a disabled person of the 2nd group. For a whole year, while working as a Teacher of Russian Language and Literature, was instructing lessons in a whisper in the classroom, and did not hear well. But the post-war children respected and appreciated her, they never played pranks in class, did not laugh at her. To this day, they remember their teacher, a front-line soldier, who laid the foundations of the best in them: kindness, duty, justice and honor. _x000D_ “Much of what my mother and my uncle Dima achieved in their life has been achieved thanks to our grandmother. Behind her shoulders is a long, a hard, heroic life, and at the same time very rich fate: study, war, huge work experience, a broken family, raising her children, and later, us, grandchildren.”(from the composition of the granddaughter of N.T. Sibiryakova Irina Putintseva). _x000D_ If not for the war ... But history cannot be changed. The generations that took part in the battles, stood at the machines and worked in the fields and farms in those years are already passing away. _x000D_ On the fingers you can count women who "never dreamed of paradise, but were baptized with iron and fire. All my life I was at the forefront, and I would like to die on it." Yulia Drunina. These lines from a poem by another front-line soldier became the motto for N.T. Sibiryakova.

Rank: Military Doctor of the 3rd rank Branch of troops: Military veterinary staff Division: 151st Infantry Division (1st Formation) Simonyan Yeranos Sarkisovich was born in 1896 in the village of Mrgavan, Artashat Region of the Armenian SSR. In 1914 he graduated from a Russian school and was mobilized into the Imperial Russian army. There he entered the garrison Veterinary School. In 1918-20 he served in the Armed Forces in the 1st Independent Republic of Armenia. In 1920-25 he served in the Red Army as a military feldsher. In 1931-36 he graduated from the All-Union Zooveterinary Institute. From 1926 to 1936 he worked as the Head of the security of the quarantine point. In 1936-41 he worked as a Chief Veterinarian in three regions of the Armenian SSR at once. On 06/23/1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in 503 PVL as the Head of the surgical department of the 45th, and then the 26th army. From March 1942 to March 1943 he was the Head of the Veterinary of the 151st Rifle Division of 44th army. From March 1943, he was a veterinarian of the OGTR of 44th Army, and then to December 1945, a veterinarian of the 299 OGTR of 28th Army. He had the military rank of Captain. Brief concrete description of a personal military feat from the award list: “Comrade Simonyan had been a participant in the Patriotic War from the first days of its beginning. Thanks to the great care and energy in his work, being in the Polesie area unfavorable for infectious anemia of horses, comrade Simonyan kept the horse stock and prevented the disease of infectious anemia. He received the Order of Red Star”. In the civil service in 1961 he received the honorary title Honored Veterinarian of the Armenian SSR. He received the Order of the Badge of Honor and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He passed away on October 19, 1986 in at the age of 90. He was buried in the cemetery of his native village Mrgavan, Ararat province Republic of Armenia.

Rank: Military Assistant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel _x000D_ Division: 75th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Military feldsher Skitnevskaya Maria Fominichna was in 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion of 75th Division. She was born in 1910 in the town of Opochka, Pskov region. A participant in the Finnish War, in 1940 she was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In May 1941 she is a part of 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion, 75 Rifle Divisions. It was sent to the city of Mozyr, Belorussian SSR. On the morning of June 22, the location of the unit was subjected to massive shelling and bombing from the advancing German troops, military assistant Maria Skitnevskaya, along with other doctors began to provide assistance to the wounded Soviet soldiers. The superior forces of the enemy cut off a group of Soviet military medics, who remained with wounded soldiers, from the main forces of the Division. _x000D_ Attempts to break out of the encirclement were unsuccessful; as a result, a group of female military assistants with seriously wounded soldiers, left without combat commanders, was forced to hide in the surrounding forests. As food supplies were running low, they had to make forays into nearby villages. _x000D_ Once they ran into a German patrol and were captured by German captives. In captivity, Maria Skitnevskaya assisted Soviet prisoners of war in the hospital of the prisoner of war camp in Malorita. _x000D_ In June 1942, military assistant Maria Fominichna Skitnevskaya was shot by the Germans along with other doctors and prisoners of war of Jewish nationality. _x000D_ Eternal memory to Soviet military doctors who remained faithful to their duty and oath to the end!

Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel_x000D_ _x000D_ May 9 is always an important and revered holiday for me. I want to tell you about my great-great-grandmother: Soboleva (Permyakova) Anastasia Efimovna was born in 1912 on July 12 in the village. Kupryakovo, Shelopuginsky district, Chita region. She passed away in 2010 at the 98th year of her life in the village of Semiozerny, Mogochinsky district. She was the youngest, the eighth child. As in any peasant family, the girl was taught to work from an early age. At the age of 6, Nastena knew how to work in the garden, help around the house. Life opened new pages every day. The carefree childhood ended quickly. There was the Civil War, revolutions, repressions of the 30s, endless change of power ... but she was lucky enough to finish 4 classes. Then hunger and poverty reigned, they ate frozen potatoes, nettles, and quinoa. She collected wild onions on the banks of the river Shilka. _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War became an ordeal for her. When she learned about the German attack, she volunteered for the front and was assigned as a nurse at the Red Cross. The husband also went to the front, and the children were taken to their grandmother. All these 5 long years she worked in a hospital or was often on the road on ambulance trains. She washed the wounded, made bandages, wore the wounded from the combatfield, saved people. _x000D_ At the end of the war, she returned home, at that time in the city of Sretensk. Soon the sad news came that her beloved was killed ... She remarried and went to work in kolkhoz. She raised ten children. _x000D_ But, unfortunately, no documents, photographs, awards have survived. Everything burned down during a fire in the house, all the archives cannot be restored, and there are almost no witnesses of those years ... Now it is difficult to even imagine how much grief, horror, and tears my ancestress had suffered.

Alexander Matveyevich Medvedev was born in 1923 in the village of Novy Burets, Vyatskopolyansky District, Kirov Region. After graduating 7 classes of the school, in 1939 he entered the feldsher-obstetric school. On September 11, 1941, as an 18-year-old boy, he was called to the war front. The combat path of the Lieutenant of Medical Service A.M. Medvedev began in 334th Infantry Division of the Kalinin Front with the combat for Moscow, as part of the combat units of 43rd Army of 1st Baltic, and then 3rd Belorussian fronts._x000D_ He liberated the Smolensk region, Belarus, the Baltic states, participated in the capture of Konigsberg. For the displayed valor and courage he was awarded: the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War of 1st degree, medals "For Defense of Moscow", "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ". _x000D_ The lines from the grandfather's award sheets are striking. So, in 1943, in 3 days of the offensive, Alexander Matveyevich assisted 90 wounded soldiers, 12 of whom, together with their personal weapons, carried them from the combat under enemy fire, skillfully directed the actions of the orderlies. The Commanders note his courage and fearlessness, because he not only saved the lives of hundreds of wounded, but also participated n combat personally with weapons in his hands, repelled enemy attacks and went on the offensive. _x000D_ After the end of the war, my grandfather was in Poland with our troops, was the military commandant of one of the Polish towns. At the beginning of 1947, after demobilization, he returned to his native land, worked as a medical assistant in the villages of the Vyatka-Polyansky district, married a fellow villager Elizabeth, they had a daughter, Nina, my mother. However, the peaceful life did not last long. From May 1952 to the end of 1955, in connection with the war on the Korean Peninsula, he was again drafted into the army, served in military hospitals in Ulyanovsk and on Sakhalin Island. _x000D_ After demobilization, together with his family, he returned to his homeland, where he worked in an ambulance, and then for more than a quarter of a century as a doctor in the office of the district hospital.

Rank: Lieutenant. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards._x000D_ Valey Sadykov was enlisted in the army in 1938 in cavalry unit. He served in the Far East (Voroshilov)._x000D_ At first, he was a veterinary assistant in the 163rd Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Far Eastern Cavalry Division, according to his specialty. Then he studied at the school of Junior commanders in the city of Ussuriisk and was appointed a platoon commander. For success in combat training, he received the rank of Second Lieutenant, and then Lieutenant. He was supposed to be sent to a military school._x000D_ But in 1941, the war began and the troops of the Primorskaya Army were put on high alert and in October 1941, the order came to send them to the front. In November they were on the Western front, as part of the 6th Cavalry Corps (Commander Major General Sokolov). Valey took part in the defense of Moscow and the counteroffensive, received a severe chest wound. There were very heavy fights and for his bravery, he was nicknamed "the furious Bashkir"._x000D_ After six months of treatment in the hospital, he manages to return to his regiment already on the Bryansk front. There were defensive battles. In 1943, the division was transferred to the Steppe Front (reserve front of the Supreme Command), for the battles near Kursk, commander of cavalry squadron Sadykov received the Medal For Bravery, which was equated to an Order._x000D_ With the transformation of the front into the 2nd Ukrainian (I. Konev remained a Commander), the 6th Guards Cavalry Division began crossing the Dnieper River South of Kremenchug. The end of October, icy water, but the squadron managed to cross to the right Bank and gain a foothold. Sadykov and his men held the bridgehead for 3 days until the main forces crossed. There were five survivors, but wounded. For this feat, division commander P. Khrustalev presented Sadykov to the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. The frontline newspaper wrote about this._x000D_ But in war as in war. The division headquarters were bombed, and some of the documents were destroyed. Next comes the liberation of the South of the Right-Bank Ukraine, then Moldova. In these battles, Sadykov was awarded two consecutive Orders of the Red Star. The Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree he received for the battles in Hungary. For Vienna, where he was again wounded in the chest, he received the Order of the Red Banner._x000D_ In total, Sadykov received eight military awards for his military exploits: four orders and five medals. After the war, he was also awarded one order and many commemorative medals (somewhere up to 15). He was glad to see them, but he liked to wear only military awards and always raised a toast to those front-line friends who died on the battlefield._x000D_ After the end of the war, he got married. He served first in the Western Ukraine, and then in the Belarusian Military District (Borisov). His son Yuri was born there, he was named after Valey’s fallen comrade._x000D_ In 1947, military command wanted to send him to study in Moscow, but he, at the request of his beloved wife, refused and went to his native Bashkiria. He worksed as the Chairman of the collective farm and a foreman. Later he received forestry education and devoted his life to forestry.

HISTORY:_x000D_ Ivan Murzin was born in 1903 in the village of Diveevo, Gorky Region, and lost his parents very early. He had five sisters left on his shoulders. During these difficult years, fate brought him together with a full member of the Soviet Academy of Science Prokhorov. He had finished the same 4 years school in the village of Diveevo. He found out about my grandfather's exceptional abilities, and offered him a better education on full state support. Unfortunately, my grandfather could not take advantage of this valuable offer and leave his younger sisters._x000D_ The war began, and he was called to the front in July 1941 by the Diveyevskiy District Military Commissariat of the Gorkiy Region. From the Internet, I learned that my grandfather was a private of the sanitary company of the 10890th Lvov Red Banner Rifle Regiment. He fought on the Central, Western, and First Ukrainian Fronts._x000D_ During the war, he was an orderly. He took out dozens of wounded soldiers from the battlefield, treated wounds, bandaged them and applied splints. In January 1943, wounded in the arm, continued to save people, and later got into the medical unit. He fought until May 1945. On the website we found the original orders for awarding the grandfather and a description of his exploits._x000D_ He received the first Order of the Red Star on August 19, 1944. “During the breakthrough of the enemy defense in fierce battles, comrade I. Murzin, being in the infantry battle formations, provided first aid to 38 wounded soldiers and officers and evacuated them from the battlefield with their weapons. Later, while working at the field medical facility, he applied 45 splints to seriously wounded soldiers and officers.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He received the second Order of the Rred Star on February 16, 1945. “Comrade I. Murzin I. works as an excellent orderly, permanently at the regimental medical station since the beginning of the division's formation. In the last battles of 1945 in just 3 days, he applied 86 splints, more than 100 bandages, regardless of time and fatigue. He provided first aid to more than 40 seriously wounded people on the battlefield. For two days of fighting, being himself wounded, he did not leave his post. While being treated at the medical company, he continued his work. Worthy of the government award of the Order of the Red Star.” This is a description of his feat from the award list._x000D_ He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Medal for Bravery, and the Medal for Military Merit.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel_x000D_ Branch of Service: Military Veterinary Staff_x000D_ My great-grandfather Alexander Savchenkov was born on October 20, 1902 in a poor peasant family. At birth, he was given the name Artemiy, which his great-grandfather changed to Alexander in 1932. After graduating from Divasovskaya 4-year school, my grandfather realized that he did not want to wear bast shoes all his life and decided to master shoemaking. At first, the self-taught shoemaker's shoes were "laughter and sin". My grandfather learned the tricks of shoemaking in a Shoemaking workshop in the 69th Army._x000D_ In 1929, he passed the external exams for 9 classes and entered the Military Veterinary Paramedic School, then graduated from the Military Veterinary Faculty at the Moscow Veterinary Institute. He was sent to Khabarovsk as a veterinarian, and then as the Chief of the Medical Department of the Khabarovsk infirmary._x000D_ The war caught our great-grandfather in the Far East, in Blagoveshchensk, where he served on the border as the chief of the veterinary infirmary. Two weeks before the beginning of the war, great-grandfather received an urgent assignment in Bialystok (order of 07.06.1941 on the appointment of the Chief of the Bialystok Garrison Veterinary Infirmary), on the Polish border, where the invasion of Nazi troops began...where no one survived. By the will of fate, the family was delayed - it was necessary to collect things, sell the farm, because they were leaving forever. The whole family was "sitting on their suitcases" and was going to stop in Smolensk on the way to visit all their relatives. I'm afraid to think what would have happened if my great-grandfather and his family had reached Bialystok earlier than June 22._x000D_ To get a new appointment, great-grandfather and his family went to Moscow. The road was very difficult: the train constantly had to let go trains with troops going to the front. Somewhere in the Urals, people began to talk about the horrors that occur at the front._x000D_ In Moscow, my great-grandfather was assigned to Tula as the Chief of the Military Veterinary Infirmary. This was the beginning of the military path, and then there was the city of Skopin-Marshansk, Shilovo - again Tula-Rzhev-Bryansk-Poland-Narva (Estonia) - Berlin. He participated in the battles of the Western, Bryansk and 1st Belorussian Fronts._x000D_ Great-grandfather was born in the village and since childhood was engaged with horses, so he put his heart and soul into his work. He told our grandmother Zina (his daughter) that horses are very smart animals. When the fighting started, one could hear the roar of explosions, the horses were very nervous, even crying. I had to calm everyone down. There were few vehicles, so horses were the main means of transport in those years. They were the ones who transported heavy weapons and people._x000D_ Without a horse, you can't feed a soldier — after all that were the horses that delivered food carts and field kitchens to the positions. Every a rifle regiment was supposed to have three hundred and fifty horses. And how many wounded men owe their lives to these humble war workers! After all, most of the infirmaries and medical units were also "horse-drawn". It often happened that the infantry went to the positions not on trucks, but on horse carts. Well, the movement of partisan detachments without this type of transport is impossible to imagine._x000D_ Our great-grandfather Sasha was awarded the Order of the Red Star for saving the cavalry in the battles of the Bug and Vistula._x000D_ And the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree great-grandfather received for preparing the cavalry for the capture of Berlin!_x000D_ After the war, my great-grandfather lived with his family for some time in Narva (Estonia), and then received a transfer to the Moscow Region and retired. Unfortunately, he lived only 13 years after the war. My great-grandmother Asya, his wife, lived until the age of 96 (until 1998) and told us everything in detail._x000D_ Our family honors the memory of those who participated in the great Patriotic War. It is dear to our hearts! We remember our HEROES!!!

Rank: Military Paramedic. Branch of Service: Military Medical Staff._x000D_ My mother, Stanislava Saprykina (Byaletskaya) was born on August 3, 1921 in the city of Astrakhan in the family of an office worker. Father Byaletskiy Antonin - an accountant by profession, a mother ¬- Byaletskaya Elizaveta - a housewife._x000D_ In 1938, after graduating with a certificate of merit from the school, she entered and in August 1940 graduated with honors from the two-year "School of Nurses" at the 2nd Clinical Hospital in Astrakhan. On assignment, she went to work in the Chechen ASSR in the village of Vedeno as surgical nurse. The war found her there._x000D_ On July 4, 1941, Stanislava was transferred to the city of Grozny to hospital #1622, where she worked until the end of 1941. And on January 1, 1942, she was called up to the active service in the ranks of the Red Army (as it was written in the work book) as a military paramedic, as evidenced by the well-preserved commander's Duffel book (a military paramedic at that time was an officer level position)._x000D_ I don't know much about my mother's military service. Because my mother couldn't talk about the war - she started crying. It is clear that what she had to go through, it is impossible to tell without tears. I only know that she participated in the battles of the Ukrainian front. Was surrounded, was in captivity, escaped from captivity, local Ukrainian residents helped. They gave her civilian clothes. Then she joined partisans, and then returned to her unit._x000D_ She was in the army for 2 years and 3 months, and on April 12, 1944, by the decision of the Garrison military medical Commission, she was discharged from the ranks of the Red Army under article 98 because of "High degree of myopia", as stated in a medical certificate which has been preserved._x000D_ Upon return to Astrakhan she went through the medical treatment. Then my mother entered in October 1944 and in June 1946 graduated with honors from the Obstetric and Paramedic School at the Regional Clinical Hospital, receiving the title of "Paramedic-obstetrician". She combined her studies with her work._x000D_ At that time, there were many wounded soldiers, and after treatment in hospitals, they were visited at home by so-called "nursing sisters". They gave injections, bandaged and washed the wounds, etc. This is how my mother met my father, Konstantin Saprykin, a disabled soldier, who lived with his brother's family in Astrakhan after being wounded and hospitalized. My mother treated him, took care of him, and then they got married. After the birth of their son, they decided to move to live in the village where the father was from. The decision to move matured in that hard hungry post-war time to survive (it was better with food in the village)._x000D_ So on April 20, 1948 they moved to a small village Trehizbenka of Kamyzyakskiy District of the Astrakhan Region, where Stanislava was appointed a head of a medical and obstetric office, where she worked until September 1975. Over the years, three children were born and raised (a son and two daughters). In the village my mother Stanislava aSaprykin (Bialetskaya) enjoyed great prestige and respect among the villagers._x000D_ For many years, she was a permanent Deputy of the village Council (as evidenced by the preserved certificate). And in this small village for many years of her life and dedicated work, people were born on her hands. She was the most honored guest at weddings and christenings. In family quarrels, she, as a Deputy, divorced and divided property or reconciled and united families. When people were sick, she treated them, and if they died, it was also on her hands._x000D_ For 28 years, the Saprykin family lived in this village, leaving a good memory among the villagers. And when, in 1975, my father, as a disabled soldier, was given an apartment with in Kamyzyak, they were seen off by the whole village and the whole village cried, and Stanislava herself cried the most._x000D_ Upon arrival in Kamyzyak, she was transferred to work in the sanitary-epidemiological Station, where she worked as a medical assistant until 1986. The most sacred holiday with my parents was a Day of Victory! And we, the children and grandchildren of front-line soldiers, will never forget what great sacrifices our people made to win the World for us!_x000D_ My mother Saprykina (Byaletskaya) Stanislava had awards: 1973 "Drummer of Communist Labor", 1985 Medal "Veteran of Labor", 1995 jubilee medal "50 years of the Victory in the Second World War", 1996 Zhukov medal._x000D_ Stanislava Saprykina died on March 23, 1998 and was buried in the Kamyzyak cemetery.

HISTORY: Petr Fedotovich Minaev was born on January 27, 1920 in the Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District, in the village of Yurovo. He graduated from the 7th grade of the Yurov School in 1937. He was excellent student. He entered a Medical College in Bryansk and graduated with excellent and good grades in 1940. In the period from 1940 to 1941, he worked as a Feldsher in the vicinity of the village and the village Radotina Blight. n the first months of the war, our grandfather was sent to study in the Urals at the Artillery School. While he was a cadet from 8.09.1941 to 9.09.1942, the war had reached Stalingrad. The School was closed. My grandfather was sent to the Stalingrad Front (1942-1943) as a front-line medic. _x000D_ He remembered the city of Stalingrad as the battered Volga banks, the water boiling from the explosion of shells, and the city in flames of conflagrations. The Volga, where the water is mixed with blood, was boiling from the explosion of shells. To cross the river, one had to push corpses away, so many soldiers were killed. In 1943 he was a feldsher of the Division of the Rifle Battalion on the Voronezh, then he was a feldsher of Medical Company at the Steppe front, later 2nd Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ From September 1943 to May 1945 he had been a Head of Medical Company Pharmacy. He participated in the liberation of Prague and celebrated Victory there on May 9, 1945. But the fighting continued in Prague even after May 9, 1945. _x000D_ In October 1946, he joined the Communist party of the Soviet Union with a pride and honor of that time. _x000D_ On November 22, 1946, our grandfather married Miria Stepanovna Grinkova and went with his wife, Minaeva Maria Stepanovna, to Cahul, Moldova, where he had been working as the Head of Medical Company Pharmacy until 1948. _x000D_ My grandfather had 14 state awards: 1) Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree as of March 11, 1985 2) Order of the Red Star, as of 1944 3) Medal "For Military Merit" 4) Medal "For Defense of Stalingrad" 5) Medal "For Liberation of Prague" 6) Medal "For Victory over Germany", 7) Medal “20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 8) Medal “30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War” 9) Medal “40 years of victory in in the Great Patriotic War” 10) Medal “30 years Soviet Army and Navy” 11) Medal “50 years of the Armed Forces of USSR” 12) Medal “60 years of the Armed Forces USSR” 13) Medal "Veteran of Labor" as of 22 July, 1982 14) Pioneer of Excellent Health of the USSR as of 18 April 1961, 7 commendatory certificates, 6 anniversary awards. My grandfather's military rank is Senior Lieutenant of the Medical Service. _x000D_ On September 22, 1948, our grandfather was demobilized and placed in the reserve. Upon returning home our family arrived in the village of Yurovo. Peaceful postwar life started. During 1948-1974 he had been working as Feldsher of the Yurov Medical Center (Bryansk Region, Trubchevsky District). Working as a feldsher, he was an eye doctor, a children's doctor, a General practitioner, a gynecologist, and a surgeon, who applied 12 stitches each, working alone with a patient, when there was no other doctor to submit the necessary sutures. _x000D_ For his impeccable and fruitful work, our grandfather was an excellent student of the USSR Health Service, a Veteran of Labor, and a Feldsher of the 1st category. The motto of our grandfather's life: the life and health of a person is the meaning of my life and happiness. In the foreground there was always a struggle for human health and life. _x000D_ He was retired in Bryansk on February 1, 1980. In 1983, from August 20 to 24, grandparents were in Kharkov at a meeting of veterans-fellow soldiers of the 93rd Guards Kharkov, Twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division ( 40 years of liberation of Kharkov from the Nazi invaders 1943-1983), where they remembered the Kursk Bulge. Pyotr Minaev was a wonderful man, son, husband, father, and a grandfather. Our dear man passed away on December 13, 1992.

Vladimir Ivanovich was born on February 20, 1905 in Oryol in a family of hereditary nobles and priests. He studied at the 1st Male Gymnasium. In 1923, he entered the Kharkov Medical Institute, after graduation he worked as a village doctor in Saltyki, Kromsky District, and then returned to Oryol, where he was admitted to the infectious diseases hospital. On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. On October 3, 1941, the city of Oryol was occupied by the Germans. About 30 thousand inhabitants and thousands of wounded soldiers and officers remained in Oryol. The Germans occupied the best buildings in the city, including the military hospital at the corner of Komsomolskaya and Krasina streets. All the wounded were thrown into the street, legless, armless, and covered in bloody bandages. On the first day of the occupation, the Germans did not deal with documents, checks, or executions. It was night, the dreadful night of the third and fourth of October. The doctors, feldshers, and nurses of the hospital did not leave the wounded and sick. A mad and only correct decision was made to transfer them to the Infectious Diseases Department of the regional hospital, which was headed by Vladimir Ivanovich Turbin. On the morning of the next day, the entire courtyard was filled with moaning and dying Russian soldiers and officers. A German in uniform came and said to Turbin: “These are our prisoners of war. Tomorrow you must transport them to the pow collection point. If you don't do this, all the doctors will be shot in an hour.” The depot was the Central Prison, one of the eagle's most feared places. What would you do in the place of Vladimir Ivanovich Turbin, who had such a burden? Dr. Turbin became the first and main organizer of medical care for Soviet prisoners of war and civilians in occupied Oryol. In these harsh days, Vladimir Ivanovich not only performed a truly hard work of a doctor, but he did a lot to save as many of our soldiers as possible from German captivity. _x000D_ Doctors and nurses were rewriting and correcting medical records to fit the Department's profile, and the wounded were turned into the civilians. Communists, commanders, political workers, and Jews were recorded under false surnames, and their old medical records were destroyed. After a few days, all the medical records were in order, and the Germans treated the documents with respect. Everyone was assigned to wards, corridors, and utility rooms, and there was room for everyone. _x000D_ At the entrance to the Department hung a sign: Infektionabteilung (Infectious Disease Department). On the fence around the entire perimeter of the infectious town, “Typhus”, "Diphtheria", "Infection" were written in German. The Hitlerites were very much afraid of contagious diseases and shied away from the intimidating inscriptions. In fact, in the Infectious Diseases Department, under the very nose of the fascists, there was an underground hospital. This medical institution existed during the entire period of occupation under the name “Russian hospital”. The soldiers who were cured of their wounds were recorded as dead and transported back to the front line. The winter of 1941-1942 was very cold, severe frosts hit in November and lasted until spring. It was hungry and cold, and it was also necessary to avoid the spread of typhus and other infectious diseases in extremely crowded wards. The only infectious disease doctor V. I. Turbin did not leave the hospital for days at a time. By December, the typhoid fever had been overcome, and the work to rescue our prisoners of war continued. _x000D_ If the Gestapo found out that Turbin was hiding prisoners of war, Jews and those who were hiding them would be taken to the concentration camps in Germany, He and all the staff of the Russian hospital would be shot immediately. During the last month and a half before the liberation of the city, doctor Turbin did not leave his infectious "town". Tired, he stood on his feet for days, fulfilling not only the duties of a doctor, but also the duty of a Soviet citizen-patriot. Not counting civilians, the Russian hospital saved about a thousand soldiers and commanders of the Soviet Army. _x000D_ The work of doctors V. I. Turbin, S. P. Protopopov, V. A. Smirnov, B. N. Gusev, L. A. Tsvetkova and others was highly noted by the Chief Doctor of the Soviet Army, N. N. Burdenko: "... there was a true underground hospital here... This is a battle won!»

Miruts Maria Andreevna_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain of Medical Service _x000D_ _x000D_ Subdivision: 250th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division 268 Separate Medical Battalion. _x000D_ _x000D_ Maria Andreevna Miruts was born on December 27, 1913 in Grodno. In 1938 she graduated from the Tomsk Medical Institute. She went to the war in June 1941 in 215th Medical Battalion of 166th Rifle Division as a surgeon-resident. Since May 1943 in 268th Medical Battalion of 250th Rifle Division of 3rd army as a surgeon, since September 1943 until the end of the war she was the commander of a hospital platoon. She graduated from the war with the rank of Captain of the Medical Service. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For Capture of Berlin", "For Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany" and others, seven thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. _x000D_ From the memoirs of M.A. Miruts 04/09/1986: "After completing 3-month advanced training courses for medical personnel (KUMS) in Ulyanovsk, I was sent through the Main Sanitary Directorate of Moscow with a group of doctors to the Lev Tolstoy station, where the medical department of 3rd army was located. From the sanitary department three feldshers and I were sent to 250th division, to 268th Medical Battalion, to the surgeon position. This was the Talitsa station. After a while the entire Medical Battalion moved to the village of Berezovka, where we settled in tents in the garden. It was May. It was very intensive preparation for a big offensive. It was the Orel-Kursk combat. We carried out work in the regiments and in the Medical Battalion, getting ready for military actions. _x000D_ And so it began. There was such a strong fire of artillery that everything was in motion. Our division went on the offensive. In this time we were ready to move forward behind the division. To be as close to the combat as possible in order to provide assistance as soon as possible from the moment of injury. _x000D_ We were shown camouflage security and driveways. We deployed a sorting room, where all the wounded were received. Then the urgent with tourniquets immediately went to the surgery room, people in shock went to the shock ward, lightly wounded went to the hospital through the evacuation department. The hospital platoon received the wounded in the abdomen, chest and with large amputations. Here everyone received the necessary care and treatment. They were simply nursed so that they could be evacuated further. Evacuation was agreed with the surgeon. _x000D_ In September, after the hospital platoon commander was put out, I was appointed to this position, where I worked until the end of the war. We went through Belarus, Poland, the Baltic states, attacked Berlin and ended the war on the river Elbe. _x000D_ Hospital platoon worked on two fronts. The Medical Battalion moves forward with the active army (division). The hospital platoon sends part of the forces to the forward group to receive post-surgery wounds. Some people are left behind with seriously wounded, not transportable people, then treats them, and prepares for evacuation to the hospital. _x000D_ Having sent everyone to the hospital, the group overtakes the Medical Battalion, and again part of the hospital platoon remains with the seriously wounded in the forest or in a village where there are no residents. _x000D_ War brings hardship for everyone in the war, but especially for women. Especially threatening were the moments when the front was uncontrollably moving forward. In the rear the groups of fascists escaping from the "cauldron" were wandering around. Our small medical groups, who remained with the wounded, were in danger. _x000D_ The invaluable nurses in caring for the wounded were my combat friends: Filippova Zhenya, Medvedeva-Okatova Shura, Vinogradova Lida and Sedyakina Tamara. I could completely rely on them in any setting, they were sincere, affectionate, responsive, real "sisters of mercy." They were not afraid of any difficulties, they were never lost in an any situation. I have never heard from them the words "I do not know", "I cannot". They knew how, in the harsh days of war and hardship, to create comfort in tents from the most primitive material at their disposal! _x000D_ I did not hear any complaints from the sisters and did not face non-fulfillment of appointments, though sometimes I had to give orders. _x000D_ After the war, I have always referred to their work as an example. And now, when we meet, we always remember the details of that difficult time. _x000D_ After the capture of Orel, the first artillery salute was held in Moscow. We were advancing behind our division. The advance units have just left. The Medical Battalion arrived at the Lokot station. They settled in the surviving houses. Houses were burning all around, some civilians were still moving and were rescued. More children came to our hospital platoon. They were as thin, small as old people. We put them two on the same bed (in the position of a "jack" in the cards). I will remember it for a lifetime. Children told how they were taken to the forest, where the command was given "Lie Down", and those lying were shot from machine guns. Boy Styopa lay with a shot in the shoulder and lower leg. They were brought to the forest and ordered to lie down, while his sister, 3 years old, did not lie down and was crying. This boy Styopa and a girl of 19 years old, completely gray were brought to us. _x000D_ In the Bryansk forests, many partisans joined us, a whole unit. There were many sick and wounded. When they were all examined, Doctor V.A.Lugina and I took them to hospitals in cars. While I was driving, I had seven or eight cars behind me, I heard screams, shooting in the bushes not far away. The drivers rushed there with their guns. _x000D_ We drove further along the Mogilev shosse, so the modern road hardly reminds one in September 1943. All roadsides were littered with wrecked vehicles and guns. We found a hospital, handed over the wounded, but patients with suspected infection were not admitted. Evening has come, what should I do? Fortunately, I met a representative of the medical and sanitary service of 3rd army, who ordered to take all the sick. Following the order, they immediately deployed a tent. I had a sense of accomplishment and returned to Zhenya, but my heart was restless. We drove in complete darkness and almost crashed into a column of German prisoners led by our escorts. A monotonous incomprehensible speech and the heavy shuffling steps of hundreds of Nazis were heard. _x000D_ I realized that the enemy was disarmed, but still it was terrifying to drive along a living enemy corridor. This circumstance further increased my concern for Zhenya and the wounded. And so all the way I was not at peace. But I was happy to see that everything was in place. _x000D_ The next day, the wounded were taken to the nearest hospital, and we returned to the Medical Battalion to start all over again. I often had to stay in a forest or in a village where no one was living. We were always bothered by the worst thoughts. _x000D_ There was such an accident in the Bryansk forests. There were left many wounded about 18 people in a divisional tent. We stayed with Lida Vinogradova, an orderly and a cook, since there were many wounded in the abdomen. The night passed quietly. During the day we made all the appointments, and on the second night we heard shooting not far from us, grenade explosions, the wounded became worried, we calmed them down as best we could. Although we did not understand what was happening. _x000D_ By morning, everything became quiet. We were picked up early in the morning. There were many cars to get everyone up at once. Later learned that not far from us, the Nazis destroyed the entire Medical Battalion. Many unfinished fascists were hiding in the Bryansk forest. _x000D_ When our Medical Battalion had to lag behind his division, since the fuel was not delivered, the mortar men also lagged behind came to us near the village of Zabolotye. We heard shooting in the village, the messenger reported that the Germans were in the village. We quickly loaded everything onto cars, drove off a short distance and, together with the mortar men, took up defensive positions. They held defense until our units had arrived. _x000D_ After Minsk, Ostrolenka, our direction was to East Prussia. After the combats for Melzak, our division took part in the liquidation of a group of enemy forces in the Pillau area. The entire coast was covered with the corpses of horses, people and cars. The Germans intended to leave this bank by water and air. But they almost failed. After that our direction was to Berlin. When Berlin was captured, we, a large group of doctors, were taken to see this citadel. We examined the Imperial Chancellery, bunkers, visited the Reichstag, like everyone else, tried to leave our signatures as high as possible. _x000D_ Our division ended the war on the river Elbe. For some time we lived in Gentin, and then moved to Borisov (Belarus). The Medical Battalion was disbanded, and we, then young doctors, were assigned to the regiments. I worked for another year in 918th Rifle Regiment until the end of June 1946, when the division was disbanded. _x000D_ Based on materials from the published literary collection "I am writing to you from the war ..." series "From the history of the land of Tomsk (1941-1945). State Archives of the Tomsk region, Tomsk, 2001. Council of Veterans of the 250 Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree Rifle Division.