Rank: Captain military Branch: Armored and mechanized troops Division: Nina Ilyinichna Shiryaeva (Bondar) (August 15, 1922-April 13, 2013) was a Soviet tank officer who participated in the great Patriotic war. During the war — commander of the T-34 tank of the 237th tank brigade, captain. Born on August 15, 1922 in Vladivostok in a military family. When transferring his father from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk, he died in a train accident. A familiar family of military personnel called their mother to move to the city of Biysk (Altai territory), where they remained to live. Finish school. Since childhood, according to her own words ,she was" sick " of aviation, graduated from the Biysk Aero club, and flew on a Po-2 plane. With the beginning of the great Patriotic war (July 1941), she volunteered for the Biysk military enlistment office, which, after retraining in Omsk, sent her to the Moscow air defense units. During one reconnaissance flight on Po-2, she was seriously injured in both legs and was taken to the hospital. According to the doctors - complete unsuitability for aviation. However, Nina was not going to leave for the rear and refused offers to enter medical school and work as a traffic controller. Her friends in the reserve wrote a Patriotic letter to I. V. Stalin, enclosing a list of those who wanted to study at the tank school. This list also included N. I. Bondar, who, probably because of the Ukrainian name, managed to get into the direction signed by Stalin and Voroshilov. After graduating from the Saratov tank school in the spring of 1942, Lieutenant N. I. Bondar was sent as the commander of the T-34 tank of the 2nd tank battalion to the 237th tank brigade (1st tank army). Took part in the battles on the Kursk bulge near the village of Prokhorovka, Korsun-Shevchenko operation. It liberated Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Especially distinguished in the battles for the Dukla pass (Czechoslovakia) during the Carpathian - Dukla operation (part of the East Carpathian operation). In September 1944, her tank (radio operator-machine gunner L. V. Perevozchikov), consisting of three cars of the platoon commander Lieutenant Fedorov, was on reconnaissance and was the first to break into the pass. Three tank crews cleared five localities (Pastviska, Rudavka, Rymanovska, Tarnuvka and Shklyar) in a rapid rush, ensuring the advance of the main forces of the brigade. When the company commander was out of action, in a difficult situation, she took command of the company and organized a 4-hour battle. Despite being wounded in the right arm, she remained in the ranks until the order came to withdraw the entire battalion from the battle. In further battles, the crew of N. I. Bondar was the first to break into the city of Moravska Ostrava. In total, during the fighting on the pass, Lieutenant N. I. Bondar and her crew destroyed 4 guns, 3 machine-gun points and up to 80 enemy soldiers and officers. For fighting on the pass, she was awarded the order of the Patriotic war I degree (September 30, 1944). In January-February 1945, she also repeatedly led her tank in reconnaissance in the area of the Prussian cities of Ostrow, gross-Strelitz (now Strzelce-Opolskie, Poland), Hindenburg (now Zabrze). For distinction in battles awarded the order of the red banner (March 11, 1945). When attacking enemy positions in Hindenburg as part of a tank platoon, she forced the enemy to leave the city by a roundabout maneuver from the flank. The first to cross the Oder river, as part of a platoon, broke into the villages of Rosenthal and Losii. During the battle, she was wounded in the head, but did not leave the tank until the main forces of the 3rd tank battalion arrived. In total, during the period from January 15 to February 7, 1945, her crew recorded 3 destroyed guns, two mortars, an ammunition depot, two motorcycles, and other enemy equipment and manpower. For this episode, she was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree (February 19, 1945). Then she stormed Berlin, and met the victory in Prague. The last shell was fired on the Elbe. During the war, she was seriously wounded four times, and burned twice in a tank. In particular, I didn't take off my helmet for about a year because my hair was burnt out. Participant of the Victory Parade in June 1945 in Moscow. In 1946, she was demobilized, lived in Biysk, worked in the design Bureau at the boiler plant, a Veteran of labor. Graduated from the heat and power engineering Institute in Tomsk (now the Power engineering Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University). In the 1950s, she married a colleague whom she met by chance during the war on the Vistula. She died on April 13, 2013 in Biysk. Rank: Captain military Branch: Armored and mechanized troops Division: Nina Ilyinichna Shiryaeva (Bondar) (August 15, 1922-April 13, 2013) was a Soviet tank officer who participated in the great Patriotic war. During the war — commander of the T-34 tank of the 237th tank brigade, captain. Born on August 15, 1922 in Vladivostok in a military family. When transferring his father from Vladivostok to Novosibirsk, he died in a train accident. A familiar family of military personnel called their mother to move to the city of Biysk (Altai territory), where they remained to live. Finish school. Since childhood, according to her own words ,she was" sick " of aviation, graduated from the Biysk Aero club, and flew on a Po-2 plane. With the beginning of the great Patriotic war (July 1941), she volunteered for the Biysk military enlistment office, which, after retraining in Omsk, sent her to the Moscow air defense units. During one reconnaissance flight on Po-2, she was seriously injured in both legs and was taken to the hospital. According to the doctors - complete unsuitability for aviation. However, Nina was not going to leave for the rear and refused offers to enter medical school and work as a traffic controller. Her friends in the reserve wrote a Patriotic letter to I. V. Stalin, enclosing a list of those who wanted to study at the tank school. This list also included N. I. Bondar, who, probably because of the Ukrainian name, managed to get into the direction signed by Stalin and Voroshilov. After graduating from the Saratov tank school in the spring of 1942, Lieutenant N. I. Bondar was sent as the commander of the T-34 tank of the 2nd tank battalion to the 237th tank brigade (1st tank army). Took part in the battles on the Kursk bulge near the village of Prokhorovka, Korsun-Shevchenko operation. It liberated Ukraine, Poland, and Czechoslovakia. Especially distinguished in the battles for the Dukla pass (Czechoslovakia) during the Carpathian - Dukla operation (part of the East Carpathian operation). In September 1944, her tank (radio operator-machine gunner L. V. Perevozchikov), consisting of three cars of the platoon commander Lieutenant Fedorov, was on reconnaissance and was the first to break into the pass. Three tank crews cleared five localities (Pastviska, Rudavka, Rymanovska, Tarnuvka and Shklyar) in a rapid rush, ensuring the advance of the main forces of the brigade. When the company commander was out of action, in a difficult situation, she took command of the company and organized a 4-hour battle. Despite being wounded in the right arm, she remained in the ranks until the order came to withdraw the entire battalion from the battle. In further battles, the crew of N. I. Bondar was the first to break into the city of Moravska Ostrava. In total, during the fighting on the pass, Lieutenant N. I. Bondar and her crew destroyed 4 guns, 3 machine-gun points and up to 80 enemy soldiers and officers. For fighting on the pass, she was awarded the order of the Patriotic war I degree (September 30, 1944). In January-February 1945, she also repeatedly led her tank in reconnaissance in the area of the Prussian cities of Ostrow, gross-Strelitz (now Strzelce-Opolskie, Poland), Hindenburg (now Zabrze). For distinction in battles awarded the order of the red banner (March 11, 1945). When attacking enemy positions in Hindenburg as part of a tank platoon, she forced the enemy to leave the city by a roundabout maneuver from the flank. The first to cross the Oder river, as part of a platoon, broke into the villages of Rosenthal and Losii. During the battle, she was wounded in the head, but did not leave the tank until the main forces of the 3rd tank battalion arrived. In total, during the period from January 15 to February 7, 1945, her crew recorded 3 destroyed guns, two mortars, an ammunition depot, two motorcycles, and other enemy equipment and manpower. For this episode, she was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree (February 19, 1945). Then she stormed Berlin, and met the victory in Prague. The last shell was fired on the Elbe. During the war, she was seriously wounded four times, and burned twice in a tank. In particular, I didn't take off my helmet for about a year because my hair was burnt out. Participant of the Victory Parade in June 1945 in Moscow. In 1946, she was demobilized, lived in Biysk, worked in the design Bureau at the boiler plant, a Veteran of labor. Graduated from the heat and power engineering Institute in Tomsk (now the Power engineering Institute of Tomsk Polytechnic University). In the 1950s, she married a colleague whom she met by chance during the war on the Vistula. She died on April 13, 2013 in Biysk.