Rank: Senior lieutenant Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 302nd Ternopil Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Rifle Division Lieutenant Barashkov admissions to service - June 1942. At this time, the division was again sent for re-formation. Since that time, it has ceased to be "Stalingrad" in its composition. It received replenishment from different regions of the country. Convalescents from hospitals and soldiers from disbanded units joined it. But it continued to maintain contact with the workers of the Stalingrad Region until the end of the war. The division was moved to Rostov-on-Don in July 1942, where it took up defense at the line of Bataysk, Kuleshovka, Azov, and Kagalniki. Then, on July 20, it was relocated first to station Zimovniki, from where by trucks – in the district of Morozov. Upon arrival, the division immediately engaged the enemy. Units of the division as part of the 51st Army fought fierce defensive battles in the districts of Morozov, Bolshovskaya, Kholodny, and Martynovka during August. Due to the threat of encirclement and heavy losses, the division was relocated to the Khanata district, Hargota on August 14-16, where it became part of the Stalingrad Front along with 51st Army. After being replenished with personnel and weapons, the division fought offensive battles against the Romanian troops at station Sodovaya from September 25, 1942, and then its units again retreated to the original line of the Swell, Prishib, where they took up defense. The 302nd Rifle Division as part of the 51st Army went on the offensive on November 20, 1942. On the first day, its units broke through the defense of the Romanian troops in the Semkin District (between the lakes of Tsatsa and Prishib) and went 20 km deep on December 12. The 4th Tank Army of Gotha suddenly launched an offensive from the Kotelnikovo area, in order to unblock the Paulus army encircled in Stalingrad. The main blow of the enemy's 6th, 23rd Panzer and the 18th Romanian Infantry Divisions was received by the 302nd Rifle Division at the Gremyachy station. The enemy's superiority was overwhelming. But at the cost of huge losses, these days the division lost about 900 people missing, it managed to prevent the enemy from breaking through. The steadfastness and self-sacrifice of its soldiers allowed the command of the Stalingrad front to transfer the 87th Rifle Division, 13th Tank Corps, 235th Flamethrower Tank Brigade and later parts of 2nd Guards Army. The enemy's offensive was thwarted. The division fought fierce offensive battles in January 1943, participating in the Kotelnikovskaya, North Caucasus, and Rostov offensive operations. Its units captured the city and the Zimovniki station on January 8. In these battles, on January 12, the division commander, Colonel E. Makarchuk, was killed. At the end of January, the division was withdrawn to the 2nd echelon, in March its units fought on the Mius River. From August 24 to August 27, it was relocated to the area of the station Rovenki, where it became part of the Southern Front and participated in the Donbass and Melitopol offensive operations. The division as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front fought in the Korsun-Shevchenko area in 1944. In March, it became part of 60th Army and participated in the Proskurov-Chernovtsy offensive operation, in the liberation of Ternopil. It participated in the Lvov-Sandomierz offensive from July 1944, fought to destroy the encircled enemy group in the Brody District and advanced in the Lvov direction. The division participated in the Vistula-Oder, Sandomierz-Silesian, lower Silesian, upper Silesian, Moravian-Ostrava offensive operations. The division took part in the Prague offensive, in the liberation of Prague, and in the battle of Olomouc in may 1945. For exemplary performance of tasks of the command and the valor and courage shown at the same time, the division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner (10.8.1944), the Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree (26.4.1945), it was awarded the honorary name "Ternopil". After the war, Vitaly Barashkov worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Nerekhtsky District until retirement.