Rail roads

Dudarev Ivan Grigoryevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: lance-Corporal military Branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards My grandfather, Ivan Grigoryevich Dudarev, was born on June 11, 1913. Before the war, he lived with his family in C.Yasnaya Polyana Uzunkolsky district of Kustanay region of the Kazakh SSR. Worked as a weigher. He left for the front in January 1942. As part of a division of the railway troops, he participated in the battle of Stalingrad. In this bloody battle, railway soldiers, in addition to their direct duties to restore and protect railway lines, were often used in battles as fighters of ordinary rifle formations. After Stalingrad, my grandfather continued to serve in the 106 restoration railway battalion of the 45th railway (later the order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky) brigade. Behind the Stalingrad front-don, southern, 1 Belarusian, 1 Ukrainian. Kharkiv, Lviv. They restored and laid railway roads in off-road conditions, regardless of bad weather, under bombing, being blown up by mines, sometimes working for 18-20 hours a day. Sometimes they engaged in combat with enemy saboteurs. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Germany (up to Berlin). The last objects were bridges over the Neisse river at Forst and over the spree river at Berlin. Fighting continued in the city. After the victory, in August 1945, the unit returned to its homeland and conducted restoration work on the territory of our country. On November 18, 1946, my grandfather was discharged. He was awarded the medals "for the defense of Stalingrad","for bravery","for military merit","for the victory over Germany in the second world war 1941-1945". Had an injury. In 1967, my grandfather and his family moved to the city of Kokchetav.The family was big: my grandmother-Antonina Stepanovna, sons-Viktor, Vladimir (tragically died at different times, during the life of my grandfather), Nikolai and Anatoly, daughter Zinaida (my mother). My grandfather worked at a local factory as an OTC foreman. On July 19, 1983, he died. He was buried in the city cemetery in Kokchetav. Low bow and eternal memory!!!

Vityuk Gavriil Efimovich_x000D_ _x000D_ The kind of troops: the Troops of the NKVD and NKGB (except the border) Division: 3rd rifle division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway structures (1st formation) My grandfather is Vityuk Gavriil Efimovich. He was born in Kamianets-Podilsky district of Ukraine in 1906. During the Stolypin agrarian reform, he, along with his parents, moved to live in the far East in the Amur region. I grew up, got married, and worked on the TRANS-Siberian railway. He was called up for the Great Patriotic War from the village of SITA in the Khabarovsk territory, being a family man with three children. During the great Patriotic war, the TRANS-Siberian railway was the most intense, the most pulsating railway. On the TRANS‑Siberian railway in December 1941, Siberian divisions went into battle near Moscow, carrying tanks, planes,and ammunition. During the great Patriotic war, my grandfather served in the railway troops, which were part of the people's Commissariat of internal Affairs of the USSR along with the border troops, carrying out both protection and defense of objects. During the war, the railway troops of the NKVD guarded about 3,600 objects on the Railways of the USSR. The guard troops accompanied the train with valuable military and peaceful goods. My grandfather was one of them. Unfortunately, the family was able to save only one photo and a certificate for excellent service, which at the end of the second world war was presented to him by the head of the internal troops Of the Ukrainian district of the NKVD, major General S. M. Fadeev. After all, it is only thanks to his feat that the life of our family continues. My grandfather returned and in 1947 my mother was born with her twin sister. Unfortunately, my grandfather died in 1948 from a serious illness. My grandfather was a worthy man, and I am proud of him!

Title: Major _x000D_ Branch of troops: Technical troops (KhV, ZhDV, AV, RTV, DV, topographic) _x000D_ _x000D_ Participant of the Civil War and Labor Front during the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Chevalier of the Order of the "Red Banner of Labor", has the medals "For Labor Distinction", "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 191-1945", "For Victory over Japan" and other awards. He was born on July 6 (June 23, old style), 1901. He was an illegitimate child. In his birth certificate entry dated June 26, 1901: mother - Pavlova Maria Arkadyevna, father - (dash). He was baptized in the Nicholas Cathedral in Verkhneuralsk. Receivers (godparents) were Pavlov Pavel Stepanovich and Pavlova Anastasia Arkadyevna. The patronymic is given by the name of the mother's relative, who was the godfather. _x000D_ Mother was Pavlova Maria Arkadyevna, presumably born in 1883. She died in St. Petersburg in 1919 at the age of 36. _x000D_ From 1905 to 1917, Vladimir lived and was brought up in the family of an artillery officer Pokrovsky A.A at first in the city of Bela, Sedletskaya province (now Poland), and since March 1910 in the city of Khabarovsk. _x000D_ In the spring of 1905, during a trip to Warsaw, Vladimir's mother, being in a difficult financial circumstances, handed the 4-year-old boy at the railway station of the city of Brest-Litovsk to a relative, the wife of an artillery officer Elena Ivanovna Pokrovskaya. Her husband is Pokrovsky Alexander Alekseevich, born on July 1, 1853, from 1899 to 1910 he was the Commander of 2nd Artillery Brigade (city of Bela); from 1910 to 1912 he was the Commander of 2nd Division of the Siberian Rifle Artillery Brigade (the city of Khabarovsk). In 1912, Pokrovsky A.A. retired and worked in civilian structures. He did not serve in the troops and institutions of the White Army. _x000D_ In February 1917, Vladimir and the Pokrovsky family moved to Petrograd. In March, he met with his mother, who made it clear that she did not want to live with her son. Since March 1917, Vladimir left the Pokrovsky family and began an independent life. _x000D_ From May 1919 to 1924 he served in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, the Soviet Army. From 1924 to 1929 he worked in various organizations as a technician, engineer. _x000D_ From 1929 to 1937 (with a break from January 1934 to April 1936) he studied at the Leningrad Mining Institute. _x000D_ From 1935 to 1961, he worked on the survey of railways in the Far East and the Far North in the positions of a Senior Geological Engineer, head of a geological party and chief geologist of the expedition. He was one of the pioneers of the Baikal-Amur Railway (BAM). He participated directly in the exploration expeditions of the Baikal-Amur railway under the Railway Project, Gipropromtransstroy of the Ministry of Transport Construction worked from May 1939 to April 1958. _x000D_ In December 1951 he was promoted to the rank of Engineer-Major of track and construction. About this period of life and Vladimir Pavlovich himself can be read in the books and essays of his colleague, the famous geologist-prospector Pobozhiy Alexander Alexandrovich ("Through the northern wilderness. Notes of the prospector", "The path of the prospector", etc.). In 1961, he retired by age. In 1965-1967 he worked as a geology instructor at a secondary school and a Mechanical Engineering College. _x000D_ Awards: Order of the Red Banner of Labor No. 105470 (1948); Medal "For Labor Distinction" No. 29902 (1944); Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War" No. 245948 (1945); - Medal "For Victory over Japan" No. 056118 (1946); Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1969); jubilee medal "30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (1976); Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1979); - jubilee medal "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (1985); Medal "For Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline" (1987).

Village of Maksimovo, Melenkovsky District_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 14.08.1913_x000D_ Panin Stepan was born on August 1, old style (August 14, new) in 1913 in the village of Maksimovo, Melenkovsky District._x000D_ He worked on for the Mezinovskiy factory "Izoplit" as a press operator untilo 31.10.1941 . Then he was sent to the front as a private. from 1.02.1941 to 2.01.1942 he served in the 8th detachment of the bridge railway battalion. During this period, his battalion performed tasks protecting railway structures on the South-Western Railway in Ukraine. He took part in the fight against sabotage and reconnaissance groups of the enemy. _x000D_ He was sent to the 4th detachment of the bridge railway regiment of the Moscow Military District from 2.01.1942 to 2.08.1942.The task of the battalion was to restore bridges that were destroyed by the enemy, many bridges were mined and they had to clear them. When Stalingrad was liberated, the Nazis retreated and began to destroy bridges along the entire front. It was necessary to restore them as soon as possible. Their detachment was bombed several times._x000D_ Private Panin was transferred to the 9th Separate Bridge Railway Battalion, the 2nd Baltic Front on August 2, 1942. After the blockade, the battalion built a new railway Shlisselburg-Polyana, by f which the first train arrived in Leningrad on February 7, 1943, after blockade was lifted. He and some other soldiers were transferred to the 41st Rifle Regiment of the 219th Rifle Division of the 2nd Baltic Front on April 24, 1944. My grandfather was wunded in the arm on June 23 and sent to the hospital. He was there until July 11, 1944. The 219th Division was awarded the honorary title “Idritskaya" on July 13, 1944 for its successful actions in the Idritskaya Operation._x000D_ The division entered the territory of Latvia on 17.07.1944. He receives a second wound in the head 14.08.1944. This bullet remained with him forever._x000D_ After the hospital on 2.11.1944, he returns to his division and took part in the Riga operation. Due to a shortage of officers, he was sent to the Second Lieutenant course in December 1944, for six months. After completing the course, he was sent to the 196th Rifle Division as a Platoon Commander. His platoon took part in the battles in the area of the Gulf of Riga and the city of Tukums, the disarmament of the Kurland Group of German army._x000D_ Although May 9 was declared a Victory Day, the Nazis were still on our land and the division continued to destroy and capture the Germans. My grandfather returned home on May 21, 1946.

Train with artillery pieces, heading to the front, at one of the railway stations

Train with fuel at the station in Grozny before going to the front

Crew members of the armored train "Zheleznyakov" in gas masks during combat training