Last NAME: Polyakov first NAME: Nikolay PATRONYMIC: Mikhailovich CITY: Valuyki, Voronezh province DATE of BIRTH: 01.08.1909 DATE of DEATH: 29.01.1975 HISTORY: Rank: Major. Branch of service: Artillery. Nikolay Mikhailovich Polyakov, born in 1909, was called up for war on June 22 with the rank of Lieutenant from the city of Grozny. He graduated from the Grozny oil Institute, petrochemical faculty, where he met his future wife Ermolenko Lyudmila Petrovna (later Polyakova). At the time of the call to war, they had already had three children. Senior-Vladimir, middle-Lyudmila, Junior (my mother) - Olga was born on 21.01.1941. From 1941 to 1945, he served on the Crimean, Rostov, South-Eastern, Kharkiv, and Stalingrad fronts. He fought in an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, was the commander of an anti-aircraft battery (unfortunately, I can't give any more precise data). After the fighting at Stalingrad, on the orders of the NKO, he was sent to academic courses for improving the command staff, after which he was sent to parts of the far Eastern Soviet Army. August to September 1945 he fought in the Manchurian sector of the front (war with Japan), where he held the position of chief of the chemical service of the regiment. In September 1945, after the victory over Japan, he was discharged from the Soviet Army. Nikolay Mikhailovich was called up to the front as a Lieutenant, and was discharged with the rank of "major". He was awarded many medals, but I can definitely name three awards-the order of the red Star, the medal "for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the medal"for the victory over Japan". Nikolay Mikhailovich was wounded three times and three times his family received "funerals"for him. The first one came after the Kerch operation. According to his comrade-in-arms, he was on a barge that was ferrying guns across the Kerch Strait and before his eyes a shell hit the barge. As he put it - grandfather "spun into the metal." After that, he was considered dead. But by some miracle, Nikolay Mikhailovich floated out. Wounded and shell-shocked, he swam across the Kerch Strait and got ashore. My grandmother received the second "funeral" after the battle of Stalingrad, where she was told that her husband had died heroically, and the third message about his death she received after the end of the Russian-Japanese war. Returning home, he did not know that he was considered dead. After demobilization, Nikolay Mikhailovich was left by the Regional Committee of the CPSU to work in the Primorsky territory, where he served as Deputy Chairman of the regional Executive Committee for industry. Later, he was sent to Bashkiria to build a GRES, and then, at his request (due to the illness of his younger daughter), he was sent to the Crimea, Sevastopol, as Deputy.the Director of Sevastopol TPP. So our family stayed in Sevastopol. Me and our whole family, we are very proud of our father, grandfather, great-grandfather! He was a real hero and a wonderful person! The memory of him is alive not only in our family, but also in those people whom he helped during his lifetime. He did not leave anyone without attention, responded to any request. The war and the difficult post-war years did not harden his heart! LOVE! REMEMBER! I really want no one to ever forget about the great Patriotic War, its exploits and heroes! So that no one will ever dare to denigrate the exploits and heroes with their dirty tongues! Thank you all who participated in the creation of the Immortal regiment!