DATE OF BIRTH: 05/14/1904 DATE OF DEATH: 09/08/1958 HISTORY: Type of troops: Signal troops Great-grandfather. Arkhipov Leonid Alekseevich, railway worker, leader of an underground group, was born on May 14, 1904 in the village of Seytler (Nizhnegorsky). In 1941, the war with Germany begins and in October 1941 he was drafted into the army, according to the military card he served in the 481st rifle regiment as a telephone operator. The Germans are on the way to the Crimea. He carried out the tasks of the head of the regional underground, Ivan Dyachenko, whom he had known since childhood (we went to the village school together). On the orders of I. Dyachenko, he returns to Seitler, receives German documents, and gets a job at the same place - on the railway. Now the German "piece of iron" has our "eyes and ears". The movement of military echelons along the Dzhankoy - Kerch railway line was transmitted to the partisan center, and then to the mainland, which later played a role in the battles for Kerch in 1943-1944. The Seytler group of underground workers was headed by Leonid Alekseevich Arkhipov. Extract from the book of memory of the Republic of Crimea “The Seytler group was headed by L.А. Arkhipov. The underground workers switched to sabotage actions. On September 28, 1943, at the Seitler station, a mine was planted under a train with ammunition from 56 cars by underground workers. The shells exploded for 16 hours. Their explosion set on fire a train with food standing nearby. At the same time the building of the railway commandant's office was destroyed ”. The explosion was so strong that the fragments reached Uvarovka, and a village resident was injured in Novoivanovka. In 1944, after the arrival of the Red Army in the Crimea, Leonid Arkhipov joins its ranks, serves in the army of the 364 reserve rifle regiment, and then in the 414 mortar regiment as a telephone operator. Walking along military front lines, my great-grandfather liberates Ukraine, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria. He was shell-shocked. Therefore, he was ill and died early at the age of 54, on September 8, 1958. For excellent military operations, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin Decrared Thanks to the Red Army soldier Leonid Alekseevich Arkhipov: For breaking through the defense in the mountains of Verteshhedsheg and capturing the cities of Estergom, Nesmeychel Galla, Tata. For the capture of the cities of Gyor and Komar. For the capture of the cities of Magyarovar, Kremnica Malacki, Brook, Previdza and Banovca. For the capture of the cities of Nitra and Gala, Nta, on the territory of Czechoslovakia the city of BRNO (Brune) - an important junction of roads and a powerful stronghold of the defense of the Germans. N Awarded with medals: "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War", "For the capture of Vienna", "For military services." Nominated for the medal "For Military Merit", for the battle on May 2, 1945 in the Rachishche region (Czechoslovakia), during the art. the enemy's raid on the firing positions of the 6th battery took out 4 wounded Red Army soldiers from the shelling, provided them with first aid, which saved their lives.