CITY: Voronezh DATE OF BIRTH: 03/09/1927 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 13th division of the NKVD convoy troops Son of the regiment. Alekseev Vyacheslav Gavrilovich. 03/09/1927 - 1946. Before the war, the mother's family lived at the corner of Sacco and Vanzetti and Malaya Smolenskaya streets in Voronezh. The house was destroyed during the war. There was a school next to the house, where Slava, my mother's brother (Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Alekseev, born March 9, 1927), studied before the war. The elder brother, Boris Alekseev, worked before the war at the plant. Dzerzhinsky, was drafted into the Red Army. Killed at the front. Mother's father fought, died in Belarus in 1944 (about him separately). In the city park of Voronezh, on the extreme slab of the common grave, the inscription "Son of the regiment, Alekseev Slava. 07.24.1942". But the inscription is not true. Slava did not die in July 1942 ... Grinko, in his essay "Little Chekist", describes in detail how junior lieutenant Arefiev (Arefiev's platoon was part of the 233rd NKVD regiment) received the task of taking up defenses on S. Razin and cover the approaches to the Chernavsky bridge. Just not far from the house where my mother's family lived (at the fork in S. Razin, Tsyurupa and Sacco and Vanzetti streets, just below Manezhnaya), soldiers took up defensive positions in one of the empty houses. Here Slava nailed to them, who, probably, seeing that his home was destroyed, thought that all his relatives had died. At that time, the boy graduated from 7 classes, he was 14 years old. So Slava remained in Arefiev's platoon, received a weapon and a soldier's certificate that since July 5, 1942 he has been in military service in the Red Army. Knowing well the area where he grew up, Slava helped the soldiers to occupy the most advantageous positions, reached with a platoon to the blown up Chernavsky bridge, where Arefiev's platoon took the last hand-to-hand combat. And Slava, along with a wounded soldier, was tasked with delivering a report to the headquarters of the 233rd NKVD regiment. Junior Lieutenant Alexei Stepanovich Arefiev, the commander of the 4th platoon of the 233rd NKVD regiment, died along with his soldiers in the battle at the Chernavsky bridge. He was buried in a mass grave in the Yunnatov park. And Slava Alekseev, together with a wounded soldier, found the headquarters in Otrozhka, reported to Major D. M. Yakubenko about the last heroic minutes of the battle of Arefiev's platoon. Slava Alekseev remained to fight in the 233rd regiment at the age of 14. So, in his memoirs, the former commander of the mortar company of the 233rd regiment K.A.Kokorev writes that in August the regiment, by order of the command, left the area of ​​the Agricultural Institute on the left bank of the river, during the crossing of the river, the regiment's son, Slava Alekseev, again distinguished himself. to go ford. By the end of the summer of 1942, the NKVD regiments were withdrawn from Voronezh. The 233rd regiment was sent to Stalingrad to escort the captured Germans and their allies. In the summer of 1944, the regiment, together with the Red Army, entered the liberated Lviv, where it was stationed earlier, before the start of the war, and settled in its barracks. The glory of the soldier reached Lviv together with the regiment. All this time, my mother and grandmother had no information about Slava, returned to Voronezh, and considered Slava dead. Accidentally on the street from a classmate Slava learned that he is alive, is in Lviv! The correspondence began (some letters were kept by my mother). And in 1944, Slava, having received a short-term vacation, himself visited his family, who at that time lived on the street. Socialist (home was destroyed). Slava himself personally told his mother and sister about his adventures. In 1946, the family received a funeral about the death of Vyacheslav Alekseev. We still do not know anything about the circumstances of the death or the place of burial. Our family has been trying for many years to find at least some information about this ... Today, the administration and students of school No. 36 in Otrozhka pay great attention to the memory of my uncle. Thanks to their efforts, a memorial plaque was erected on one of the buildings in Otrozhka, where in 1942-43 the headquarters of the combat area was located, leading the defense of the city. Special thanks to the military institute of the Armed Forces, which is considered the successor to the traditions of the 233rd NKVD regiment. A monument to the soldiers of this regiment was erected on the territory of the institute. If someone has any information about Alekseev Vyacheslav Gavrilovich on March 9, 1927, please contact by phone 8 920 452 04 30 Marina, 2420 119 Lyudmila Aleksandrovna. Our family will be very grateful for any information! Prepared based on the materials of Valery Kononov, ethnographer, associate professor of Voronezh State University - with great gratitude. In the photo - Slava Alekseev during a short-term vacation in Voronezh in 1944 and a fragment of a slab on a mass grave, where Slava is mistakenly listed as dead in 1942.