Lubyantsev Vladimir Timofeevich CITY: Loboykovo village, Danilovsky district, Volgograd region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1926 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Taisiya Vasilyevna Lubyantseva has carefully kept the letters of her beloved from the front, yellowed from time, for seventy years. I listen to the text and am amazed: a nineteen-year-old boy, who is in the midst of the horrors of war and who survived the death of his comrades, writes about his feelings during the break between heavy battles, leads a lyrical description of the spring Danube. He also talks about the front-line brotherhood, when the crew of a combat vehicle becomes a real family, and about cases of betrayal, when whole battalions of defectors are fighting on the side of the enemy. And in each of his words there is a thirst for life and hope: "Thaya, wait for me. Maybe by waiting you will save me ..." Two brothers and one fate Nikolai Lubyantsev, having received an APC at Kubinka station, got into the 5th mechanized corps under the command of General M.V. Volkov, in the reconnaissance company of the 2nd mechanized brigade. When they took part in heavy battles in Ukraine, during a strong spring flood, it was impossible to either pass or drive to the other side. The reconnaissance group, wandering waist-deep in the icy March water, put marks for the passage of equipment, and then put information on the map. For the successful course of the operation, the scouts received gratitude from the commander of the 6th Tank Army, General A.G. Kravchenko. Later Nikolai took part in major military operations. He met Victory Day in Prague. For courage and valor, the driver of the armored personnel carrier of the reconnaissance company of the Lubyantsev brigade Nikolai was awarded military awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two orders of the Red Star, five military medals, the Badge "Excellent intelligemce officer" and 22 thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin. Simultaneously with Nikolai, his younger brother Vladimir passed his combat path. Despite the two-year age difference, the brothers grew up like twins, studying in the same class, all ten years sitting at the same desk, playing sports, music together, growing up together. And three months after the call to the front, Nicholas voluntarily with a group of Komsomol members went to defend the Motherland and sixteen-year-old Volodya. And also, like an older brother, he was sent to study tanking in the village of Tsarevo. MOTHER'S FEAT The first wound in the head was received by tanker Vladimir Lubyantsev during the battles near the Ukrainian city of Stalino (now Donetsk). He, who was wounded in the head, was ordered by the commander to leave the car through the emergency exit. As soon as the fighter had time to crawl away a little, another shell hit the tank. He saw how the tank caught fire, how the hatch opened and a familiar figure emerged from it. But at that moment there was an explosion. He, with pain digging his hands into the ground, shouted from his powerlessness to fix something. Vladimir was the only one of the crew who survived. The second serious wound was also received in Ukraine, near the city of Nikolaev. Then the connection was broken, and the first fighters sent to fix the problem could not reach the goal. Vladimir and a friend were sent second. The comrade died, and Lubyantsev, having completed the task, was returning back when he was overtaken by two sniper bullets, which pierced two ribs and lodged in the lung. Having received a letter from a nurse from a Rostov hospital about the serious injury of her son, Ulyana Evdokimovna went to save him. There were many hospitals in Rostov at that time, and an unknown woman who was traveling with her on the train volunteered to help in the search for her son. A young woman sheltered a soldier's mother at home, although she herself lived with three children and her mother in the basement of a bombed house. The kind family helped her as much as it could. Only on the third day was it possible to find out that Vladimir Lubyantsev was in a hospital in Nakhichevan. For seven days she looked after Volodya, fed him, and he was on the mend, but still could not get out of bed. And then at night the hospital was urgently evacuated in an unknown direction. The mother returned home and for a long time did not receive any news about her son. For about seven months, Vladimir was treated in hospitals before his mother found out about his location. And again, having issued a pass in the police and the military registration and enlistment office, she went in search of him in the distant Krasnoyarsk Territory. I got to Kuibyshev safely, and the trains to Siberia were overcrowded. Ulyana Evdokimovna was in despair. But here, too, kind people came to the rescue. A group of military men, having learned about the purpose of the trip of an unfamiliar woman, dragged her into the carriage through the window. She brought her son home by November 7, 1944, sick and weak. And in the spring of 1945 he took to his bed. And again the mother began to nurture him, to raise him to his feet. The miracle happened thanks to the professionalism of Dr. B.N. Ageev and nurse Zhenya Volkova, as well as the great maternal love and selflessness. Our correspondent "Danilovskie Vesti" April 2, 2015