CITY: Korguba village, Rugozersky district of the KFSSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 07/31/1944 HISTORY: Title: Captain Troops: Artillery Yakov Petrovich Aksentyev was born in 1922 in the village of Korguba, Rugozersky district, Karelo-Finnish SSR. He was the first of the "Korgubchan" to receive secondary education, completing a ten-year course in the village of Rugozero. After completing the teacher's courses, he was sent to work as a teacher in the village of Chelmozero. And then the war. Many Korgub residents were evacuated to the Arkhangelsk region in the village of Kleshchevo. Among them are his mother Anna Yegorovna, sister Nastya and niece Valya. Yakov was called to war from this area. Here are the lines from Yakov Petrovich Aksentyev's award sheets: “In the battle for the height of 143.0 on February 7, 1944, he replaced the out-of-order division commander and the division continued to perform the combat mission. In these battles of the guard, Captain Aksentyev fought off 3 enemy counterattacks with battalion fire, timely detected a cluster for a counterattack to the enemy infantry battalion. The enemy's counter-attack was thwarted by battalion fire. I represent the Guard of Captain Aksentyev to the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. February 10, 1944 Guards Regiment Commander Major Timoshenko “Quickly and accurately covered his battery of the advancing enemy with quick and accurate fire, as a result the Hitlerites' attack failed. But the enemies did not calm down. Having gathered their forces for the second time, they went on the attack, then Comrade. Aksentyev with repeated massed fire from his battery aptly covered the advancing enemy. At the same time, up to 40 Nazis were destroyed, the rest fled. The enemy attack was repulsed. On the same day, Comrade Aksentyev with battery fire destroyed a heavy machine gun with a servant and smashed a dugout with enemy ammunition. For the shown heroism, courage and courage, I apply for the award of the Order of the "Red Star". June 11, 1943 The unit commander, Lieutenant Colonel S. Shcherbov “In the battle for the crossing of the Berezina river near the village of Svislach, with a group of scouts under heavy enemy machine-gun fire, he swam to the western bank and, correcting the division's fire, destroyed up to an enemy infantry company, 4 heavy machine gun, anti-tank gun, repelled a counterattack to the enemy infantry battalion, which prevented the enemy from gaining a foothold on the right bank of the Berezina river. For personal courage, bravery and commanding skill, I present to the Guards Captain Aksentyev for the government award, the Order of Alexander Nevsky.