Bakshutov Ivan Vasilyevich
Rank: Red army Unit: 359th rifle Yartsevskaya order of Lenin red banner division Bakshutov Ivan Vasilyevich (05.09.1911-24.11.1982). Grandfather was called to the front in November 1941, at the age of 30. He fought on the don, southern and 1st Ukrainian fronts as a private in the 443 separate sapper battalion, 359 Rifle Yartsevskaya division. On November 5, 1942, he was seriously wounded in the back near Stalingrad (near the tractor factory). After being wounded, he was taken to a hospital in Bereznyaki, Sverdlovsk region, and then returned to the front. Crossed the Dnieper, liberated Kiev and other cities and villages of Ukraine. 13 APR 1944 near the town ofTernopil again received a serious wound in the lower back. After the hospital, I went back to Stalingrad and from there I was on my way to liberate Eastern Europe from the Nazi invaders. He finished the war in Breslau (now Wroclaw), Poland. Twice during the war they met by chance with Their own brother bakshutov Stepan Vasilyevich, in 1942 at Stalingrad and in 1945 in Poland. The joy of the meeting was indescribable. My grandfather returned home to the village of Vysoky Kolok in October 1945. He was awarded the "order of the Patriotic war II degree", medals" for the defense of Stalingrad", "for the defense of Kiev". Immediately after the war, he worked as a foreman of the tractor brigade of the collective farm.Kalinina (POS Zinberg). Worked as a combine harvester, tractor driver, motorist on the current. All my life I was in the field, I was a grain farmer. He died in November 1982 and is buried in the village cemetery. My grandmother Maksutova (Baklashova) Anna Stepanovna (25.11.1915-21.07.2001), a home front worker, worked all the war and all her life on the collective farm "Ilyich's Way" on field work, on the farm. I've never been afraid of any work. After seeing my grandfather off to war, I raised two children. Like millions of Russian women in that terrible time, she lived by faith, hope and prayers for life for her relatives, for victory. After the war, my grandmother gave birth to five more children. They lived, worked, raised a collective farm, raised children, and nursed their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Despite all the hardships she endured, she kept her kind character, her affection and warmth for the rest of her life. She died in July 2001 at the age of 86, surrounded by her family and friends.