Full name: Pankin Andrey Vasilyevich last NAME: Pankin FIRST name: Andrey PATRONYMIC: Vasilyevich CITY: Mordovia ASSR, Torbeyevsky district, Staraya Pechimorga VILLAGE date of BIRTH: 14.12.1919 DATE of DEATH: 14.06.1999 HISTORY: "We had 135 radio operators, and only 6 reached the Dnieper near Cherkassy. In a month and a half, we lost 129 people," he wrote in his front-line notes. The remaining 6 radio operators were transferred to the 5 Cavalry division of the Cossack corps (later 9 Guards Kuban Cossack CAV. divisions), since they did not have such radio operators. They gave me a radio station. 609 Rifle regiment crossed the river. Dnipro, and was sent for re-formation and replenishment. And the remaining 6 radio operators, along with a new unit, went into battle 6 days later. The first medal "for military merit" was received at the end of December 42 for uninterrupted radio communication. In September 43, he was awarded the order of the red Star. Despite the attacks, he was on duty 20 hours a day while the fighting for Taganrog was going on. The third award-the order of Glory of the 3rd degree - in August of the 44th year for the battles for the liberation of the Crimea near the city of Perekop. Under the bombing, I dismantled the engine of the radio station and passed the correspondence. In hand-to-hand combat, he was seriously wounded in the arm, and spent 4 months in a hospital in Derbent, where he corresponded with colleagues and the command of his unit. After the hospital, despite the recognition of his unfit for combat service, he decided to return to the front, wrote off with his command about returning to the front, and then "gasanul" in Tuapse, to his unit, from where they "went" to liberate Belarus. In January, 45, he received the order of the Patriotic war, 2nd class, for the capture of Budapest. I didn't leave my duty, I passed on my correspondence. Saved the radio station. I met the long-awaited victory in Prague. By the end of the war, only one of the 135 radio operators of his company remained alive - Pankin A.V. From the post-war memoirs of a veteran: "by June 22, 1945, the selection of soldiers for the Victory Parade began. I was called to headquarters and told: "The command of the military unit took into account that you started the war from the first day to the Victory, may 9, 1945, and have 4 government orders. We recommend you to participate in the Victory Parade", this concludes the record of Pankin A.V. about the war.