Kugaevsky Philipp Tikhonovich
Bogdanov Nikolay Pavlovich
Kolodyazhny Nikolay Mikhailovich
Kraynev Nikolay Stepanovich
Balukhta Gennady Matveyevich
Kostanyan Khachik Yegorovich
Kalinin Mikhail Vasilyevich
Balabai Ivan Filippovich
Kurinov Ivan Petrovich
Kochurin Pavel Nikolaevich
Bazarov Gregory Sergeevich
Kostanyan Khachik Yegorovich

Kostanyan Khachik Yegorovich

Division: 13th Rifle Division of Dagestan. There is very little data about him. He went through the entire war all the way to Berlin. He came from a working-class family, grew up without a father. He was an only child in his family, since his sister died in infancy. From the first days of military operations, he was drafted into the Soviet army, he was a member of the partisan unit of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Major-General Mikhail Naumov. Then, he joined the Armenian division named after A. Mikoyan. He participated in the famous 65-day raid, which was almost 2,400 kilometers long across Ukraine to the Belarusian Polesie. He fought in the Bryansk region, participated in a partisan operation - the explosion of the "Blue bridge" in the Zhukovsky district. Together with the detachment, he carried out raids to the southern outskirts of the Sumy region, in the area of the Khinelsky and Bryansk forests. Eliminated the movement of enemy trains on sections of Sumy - Kharkov and Sumy - Konotop. He fought in the Ukraine, on the night of September 16-17, he participated in the defeat of the Potievsky garrison stronghold, fought in Warsaw, where in 1942 he was captured near Warsaw in Demblin, then he and five other prisoners managed to escape, one of them, who was wounded, he almost carried. From February 1 to May 1, 1943, the unit (under the command of M. I. Naumov) went through Sumy, Kursk, Sumy (for the second time), Poltava, Kirovograd, Odessa, Vinnytsia, Kiev and Zhytomyr regions, then through the Polesie region of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic. So, they passed 2400 km through the deep rear of the enemy. During that time, the unit had 47 battles and clashes with enemy forces. Then, he joined the partisan unit of the Armenian partisans "Pobeda", in the Caucasian brigade of M. I. Naumov-the detachment named after A. I. Mikoyan. He participated in the liberation of Prague, where he was wounded in December 1943. The certificate of injury says: exit bullet wound to the right hip. He was treated in a surgical military field hospital, has a certificate of a disabled person of the Patriotic War. After treatment, he continued his military journey to Berlin. He has a letter of gratitude from Joseph Stalin, awards and orders.

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