CITY: Somovo village, Shablykinsky district, Oryol region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/21/1917 DATE OF DEATH: 12/06/1975 HISTORY: Type of troops: Technical troops (Chemical, Railway, Auxiliary, Radio-radar, topographic). In the ranks of the Red Army Aksyukhin F.I. drafted in 1938 (place of call - Shablykinskiy Military Commissariat, Shablykinskiy district, Oryol region). He did his military service in the Far East in the railway troops. He was building a tunnel under the Amur River while in a high pressure tunnel. In the service he received the rank of junior sergeant. In the spring of 1941 Aksyukhin F.I. returned to his native village of Somovo, Shablykinsky district, where he worked as a tractor driver. With the outbreak of war in June 1941, together with other tractor drivers, he drove a column of tractors from Somovo to the town of Livny, Oryol region. He was taken to the front on July 15, 1941. He fought in the Oryol region as a squad commander of the 33rd battalion of mechanization of railway works of the Bryansk front. At the end of November 1941, the Germans occupied the town of Yelets (then the Oryol region), while the Red Army suffered heavy losses near Yelets. A week later, Yelets was freed by Soviet soldiers, among them F.I. Aksyukhin. He recalled that in the city there was a huge number of dead Soviet soldiers, whose corpses remained on the streets and in the doorways during the week of the occupation. On December 6, 1941, during the liberation of Yelets, his brigade had to restore the bridge over the Sosna River. During the repair of the railway lines under enemy bullets, his brigade managed to restore the railway communication with Livny. During work on the bridge Aksyukhin F.I. received multiple shrapnel wounds to his left arm. Some of the fragments were later removed, but some remained in the tendons, since after removing them, the hand would have been completely immobilized. Later, for the restoration of the bridge across the Sosna River near Yelets, Fyodor Ivanovich was awarded (by order of 06/28/1942) the medal "For Military Merit". A Soviet armored train was moving from Yelets through Livny to the Upper River. His advancement was provided by F.I. Aksyukhin's brigade. He took part in the battles near Novosil and Upper. He recalls that at the Verkhovye station, a train with recruits, who were being taken to the front, fell under bombing. Several carriages were completely destroyed. When the killed soldiers were carried out of the broken wagons, one of the fighters, who was considered dead, all covered in blood, jumped off the stretcher and began to run and scream (due to a severe concussion). Later, according to the documents he had, it turned out that he was Aksyukhin's fellow countryman from the village of Muravelnik, Shablykinsky district. His name was Andryusha. Since according to official documents he was considered killed, Fyodor Aksyukhin took him into his platoon and took care of him in every possible way. Andryusha served in Aksyukhin's platoon until the end of the war, but every time he heard the noise of an approaching plane, he covered his ears with his hands, hid his head between his knees and did not move. After the war, Aksyukhin often visited Andryusha, who worked in Muravelnik as a watchman for a collective farm orchard. In the Oryol region Aksyukhin F.I. As part of the troops of the Bryansk Front, he liberated the city of Novosil, the village of Verkhovye, the village of Khotynets, the city of Karachev (then the Oryol region). After the liberation of Karachev in mid-August 1943, he asked for 2 days off to visit his relatives in the village of Somovo (30 km. From Karachev). But he was refused, since the front line passed in close proximity to his native village on the border of the Oryol and Bryansk regions. It was at this time that the wife of sergeant Aksyukhin, Aksyukhina Maria Alekseevna, was driven into slavery by the Germans along with other residents of the village of Somovo. From August 1943 to January 1944, she stayed in a labor camp in Belarus (felling wood near the town of Borisov), and then was driven to Germany, where she lived and worked in the stockyard of a German farmer in the town of Friedrichshof until January 1945. when Soviet troops occupied the area on the border with Poland. In February 1945 she returned home. In March 1945, already senior sergeant Aksyukhin F.I. took part in the battles for the liberation of Vienna, for which he was awarded the medal "For the capture of Vienna." From Austria in mid-April 1945, his battalion was transferred to the Far East, where he took part in the war with Japan, and then continued to serve until 1948. In 1948 he returned to the village of Somovo, where he worked as chairman of the village council. Died Aksyukhin F.I. in 1975 on the day he was discharged from the hospital in Oryol from anaphylactic shock caused by an injection of penicillin. He was buried at the village cemetery in Somovo, Shablykinsky district, Oryol region. Another interesting case occurred with F.I. Aksyukhin's cousin. and his neighbor in the Aksyukhinsky courtyards of the village of Somovo - Aksyukhin Terenty Semenovich. At midnight on May 8, 1945, on the outskirts of Berlin Karlshorst, a native of the Oryol region, senior sergeant Terenty Semenovich Aksyukhin witnessed the signing of an act of unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Field Marshal Keitel was nervous. He took a pen to sign the act and pressed too hard on the nib. It broke.Aksyukhin, who was standing behind, took his pen out of his pocket and handed it to the Hitlerite commander. The next day, many front-line newspapers wrote: "The world is signed by the pen of a Soviet soldier." Senior Sergeant Terenty Semyonovich Aksyukhin, squad leader of anti-tank rifle platoon of the maneuvering group of the 105th border regiment, by Order No. 198n of June 19, 1945, was awarded a medal "For military merit" for carrying out work to restore revolutionary order in the city of Berlin on 05/02/1945, for the detention and disarmament of 25 German soldiers and officers by the department, for clearing the metro from enemy troops and personally detaining 5 people of a criminal element. When signing the act of complete surrender of Germany, Comrade Aksyukhin served well and vigilantly. The grave of Terenty Semenovich Aksyukhin is located next to the grave of Fyodor Ivanovich Aksyukhin.