Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast gGuard, NKVD troops, Border Guard 30th Guards Kuban Cossack Cavalry Regiment. Tatyana Bakir about her husband Nikodim: "Before the war, he worked as a freight forwarder, then as a foreman of the Leninets collective farm. Built Tsitska reservoir. He was called up to the front in August 1941. Served in the cavalry. He wrote a lot. However, at that time the letters were stingy in content. Alive, well, bored, while the bullets are bypassed. I hug and kiss you and the children… But most importantly, it was an expensive message… He is alive and, thank God!... The last letter arrived belatedly from Hungary. "All the time in fights. We are surrounded, but we will break through…” His countrymen Demchenko and Beletsky wrote home in Platnirovskaya about his last day … "The sappers prepared the crossing and the regiment began crossing the river… Nikodim on the ammunition cart was barely holding back his three horses on the raft… Soon the coast, but then the German planes flew and began to bomb the crossing, making one pass after another… We buried all the dead in a mass grave not far from the Hungarian village…” I was invited to the Village Council In 1945 and was given his documents… I was walking home on my own. The tears did not dry up either at night or during the day at work, which started from early in the morning… With my cow, I harrowed, sowed, threshed, and carried grain… The norm for a cow was to plow 0.20 hectares – then I would earn a workday… The cow didn't want to go in the furrow and pull the plow… If you could see how at from it eyes tears flowed, and I forced it to work a bit more... until the poor fellow did not fall on the front legs. And I would sit next to it and cry... I was so hopeful that my husband would come back from the front alive, but my whole hope collapsed… So, was my destiny…" Bakir Nikodim awarded: The Medal For MiIitary Merit “The Guards Cossack Nikodim Bakir, coachman of supply platoon for the fact that during the fighting of the regiment from 31.07.42 to 10.03.43, he worked as a coachman for the delivery of food and ammunition to the front line always honestly, accurately and on time fulfilled the orders of the command (Order #04/n of 18.10.1943, 47th Guards Cavalry Regiment). The Medal For Bravery “For the fact that in the battles for the localities of Valyava 06.02.1944 and N-Buda 15.02.1944 showed bravery under strong artillery and mortar fire took out 10 wounded Cossacks and officers from the front line.