Heroes and feats

Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Guards Senior Sergeant Meshcheryakov Vasily Petrovich was born in 1924, in the village of Tatanovo, Tambov region. He began the war in August 1942. In regular units of the active army he had been since March 1943 in 854th Rifle Regiment of 277th Rifle Division. _x000D_ He was twice wounded: September 9, 1943 and August 26, 1944. After recovery he continued to serve in 612th Rifle Regiment of 144th Rifle Division. He took part in the liberation of Belarus and Lithuania, as well as in the combat on the territory of East Prussia. He was awarded three orders of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic war I degree, medals "for Military Merit", "for Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Japan", various commemorative medals and awards. _x000D_ Letters from the front or stories about the war in the family did not survive, my grandfather did not like to remember those terrible events. _x000D_ After 75 years, according to archival documents, I partially restored the combat path of my ancestor. Dedicated to my grandfather... (a poem in Russian by Dmitry Klyuchevsky, grandson).

Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan Galeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather, Mukhamedzyanov Mukhamedkhan was born in May 1920, in the village of Yangildino, Kozlovsky district of the Chuvash ASSR. My grandfather was 21 years old when he went to the city of Irkutsk, where the military engineering school. In the winter of 1942, my grandfather graduated from high school and together with the same young lieutenants, in fact, still boys born in 1920-1922, left in an echelon to the West, to the front line to Kalinin. _x000D_ He arrived in the city of Kalinin (Tver). The city had just been liberated from the Nazis. My grandfather often remembered Kalinin, the city where the war had begun for him, and where, after a few weeks as an Assistant Commandant, he had directed the young recruits to their destination and waited impatiently to be sent himself. _x000D_ Finally, the direction to the front was received: Gzhatsk-Sychevka-Rzhev. Being a military miner, a pontooner, he was able to put mines, read mine plans, reveal the systems of installing mines._x000D_ Once, while performing a combat mission, my grandfather, as part of a group of soldiers, found himself in a minefield. _x000D_ My grandfather told me: "I gave a command Lie Down! It was night, dark, snowdrifts, and a cold wind, I was full of fear and resentment that we might die so stupidly. I was lying on my back, pressed tightly to the ground. There's something hard under my shoulder blades… I put my hands carefully under my back, feeling the ground inch by inch on both sides, my mind racing: is there a mine under me? Why didn't it explode? I change my body position slightly. Again checking every inch of ground. And it was dark, nothing to see, just the overcast sky and the wind. Finally, his hand found something solid. More, more, my fingers hurt. Wait! I have a knife with me. Now it's easier!" Indeed, my grandfather was lying on a landmine. He managed to defuse it, find three more mines and defuse them. Tthen he figured out the scheme of the minefield, so that together with his comrades they made a passage to their own location. They only returned in the morning. Everyone was excited by the feeling of happiness in life. _x000D_ And then my grandfather is suddenly told: "Shake off the snow on your temple." But this "snow" came and remained on his temples for the rest of his days. Snow that could only be shaved off. Gray hair in 22 years! _x000D_ Everything first is all unusual and memorable for a long time. The first order is the order of the Red Star. It was given to a young Misha Mukhamedzyanov, also at the age of 22. Senior comrades demanded to wash it out according to a military tradition. This meant placing the order in a soldier's mug, filling it to the brim with alcohol and drinking so that he could take out the washed order with his teeth. _x000D_ "I did everything right. I drank, I took my breath away, I was still holding on when the holes were made in my tunic, and then I don't remember anything. The first order, the first Cup of alcohol! " - my grandfather recalled. _x000D_ My grandfather recalled: "I was accepted as a candidate of the Communist party at Rzhev, when there were heavy combats in a row. Oh, it was difficult! We did not feel the change of day and night.We left and occupied localities, then left again and occupied them again. The ranks thinned and filled up and thinned again. _x000D_ In the newly liberated village, when the smell of burning, mixed with the sweetly disgusting smell of torn flesh, this smell of war still lingered over this village, a Communist party meeting was held in the last hut. At this meeting, I was accepted as a candidate for membership of the party. And then I went back into combat. It was 1942." _x000D_ My grandfather went through the entire war, was twice wounded. Victory day was celebrated in East Prussia. He finished the war with the rank of Captain, as a Engineer of 1229th Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment of 371st Rifle Vitebsk Rifle Red Banner Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ He was awarded orders of the Red Star, Patriotic war I and II degree, medals "For Capture of Konigsberg" and "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945". He was demobilized after the war with the rank of Major. He died on March 11, 1975.

Mironov Leonid Sergeevich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 06/16/1915 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 10/10/1991 _x000D_ _x000D_ Leonid Mironov was born on June 16, 1915 in the village of Petrushino (now - Skopinsky district of Ryazan region). Since 1925, he lived in the village of Lyapino, Yaroslavl District, Yaroslavl Region, graduated from seven classes of school and a school of factory apprenticeship. He lived and worked in Kharkov, Chelyabinsk. In June 1934, Mironov was called up to serve in the USSR Navy. In 1938 he graduated from the Leningrad Naval School named after M. V. Frunze. He participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War in the Northern Fleet. _x000D_ He took part in the battles of the Soviet-Japanese war, being the commander of the frigate "EK-2", 1st brigade of patrol ships of the Pacific Fleet. On August 14, 1945, Mironov's frigate with an advanced landing detachment entered the bay of the city of Seisin (now Chongjin, North Korea) and successfully landed troops, which contributed to the successful capture of the city. Mironov personally directed the fire of his frigate, contributing to a large extent to the success of the paratroopers' actions._x000D_ On August 15, the frigate landed a second echelon of paratroopers, and then delivered a large group of wounded to Vladivostok. Thanks to the constant maneuvering, the frigate did not suffer at all. _x000D_ On August 22-23, 1945, Mironov's frigate delivered an amphibious detachment to the southern tip of Sakhalin, which contributed to the capture of the port of Maoka (now Kholmsk). _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 14, 1945, Lieutenant-Commander Leonid Mironov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal for "courage and heroism shown in the fight against Japanese militarists". _x000D_ After the end of the war, Mironov continued to serve in the USSR Navy. He graduated from special courses for officers and the Naval Academy. In June 1960, with the rank of captain of the first rank, Mironov was transferred to the reserve. He lived and worked in Riga. _x000D_ He died on October 10, 1991, and was buried at Mikel's cemetery in Riga. He was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree and the Red Star, and other medals.

Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich_x000D_ _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 02/23/1921 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 05/04/1963 _x000D_ _x000D_ Mavlyutov Sharafeddin Khalyafeddinovich was born on February 23, 1921 in the village of Karaguzino of the Kubeliatsky volost of the Verkhneuralsky district of the Orenburg province (now it is the territory of the Karaguzinsky village council of the Sarktash region), Orenburg region. He was drafted into the Red Army on October 4, 1940 by the Gavrilov Military Commissariat of the Chkalovsk (Orenburg) region. _x000D_ He became a Shooter-sniper, served in 165th Rifle Regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR to protect especially important industrial enterprises. He was part of all 900 days of the Leningrad Siege. _x000D_ He was awarded with medals: "For Military Merit" (Order No. 0602 / n December 28, 1942). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat formations of the 10th and 92nd RKKA rifle divisions on the Karelian Isthmus as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage and courage. Exterminated 32 Hitlerites "; - "For Courage" (Order No. 01800 / n October 18, 1943). Description of the feat: “Acting in the combat of the Red Army on the Leningrad front as a sniper-fighter, he showed courage. Exterminated 71 Nazis "); "For Defense of Leningrad" (Order No. 12239 August 15, 1943); - "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (order No. 0128360 March 2, 1946). _x000D_ From 1945 to 1946, Sergeant Mavlyutov Sharafaddin Khalyafeddinovich is listed as a weapons master of machine-gun armament of the rear department. In 1946 he left for the service at 3rd naval school, in the city of Oranienbaum (information on service at the naval school is still in search). After completing his service and demobilization, he graduated from the Kuvandyk Veterinary School on November 1, 1949, with a certificate of qualification of a Junior Veterinary Feldsher. Family after the war: wife - Mavlyutova Khobizhzhamal Iskhakovna, first son - Mavlyutov Rauf Sharafaddinovich, second son - Mavlyutov Gilmaddin Sharafeddinovich, third son - Mavlyutov Mudarris Sharafaddinovich, fourth son - Mavlyutov Sharafadinovich Sharafaddinovich._x000D_ The date of the tragic death of a war veteran, (he was hit at the workplace by a tractor) is May 4, 1963.

Malofeev Konstantin Stepanovich _x000D_ _x000D_ CITY: Ulyanovsk region, Sursky district, S. Kazuha _x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 01.02.1925 _x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: - _x000D_ HISTORY: _x000D_ _x000D_ The story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" is dedicated to his great-uncle, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev, who was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and went to Berlin. During the war, my uncle was wounded several times, but he still returned to the front after the hospital to his friends-fellow soldiers. That was the strength of will to win. The story is based on the recollections of my uncle. From the author. The Great Patriotic War is an epic of unprecedented heroism of our people. And no matter how many generations pass, people will return again and again to the Victory that the Russian soldier had brought to the world. Our people got this victory at a high price, millions of people died, and many returned with severe wounds that bother their hearts and were not able to heal. For the younger generation, war is history, a sacred memory of those who died on the battlefields. This is our pain, our hope… Years will pass, but the immortal exploits of our brave, steadfast soldiers who wrote the glorious pages of Victory in the heroic chronicle of the Great Patriotic War will never disappear from the memory of our people. I especially want to tell you about the exploits of my close relatives, who bore all the hardships of that brutal war on their shoulders. And my great-niece wanted to tell me about her great-uncle, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev. I will not only tell you about my uncle in this story, but more than one event was held for the younger generation. I'm proud of my uncle, and may he rest in peace. He will always live in my heart and I will tell my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about him. And as long as we keep, transmit and remember those who gave them to us. We will be able to overcome everything. They corresponded with their uncle until the last days of his death. So let's not forget about the greatest feat that the Russian people have accomplished! After all, they are all defenders who were not afraid to shed their blood in the name of the Motherland! In the name of the future life! With the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" she took part in the all - Russian literary contest "Heroes of the great Victory-2016" and received a certificate of participation and a semi-finalist Diploma for the story. Also with the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" I took part in a competition for writing librarians, and my story was included in the literary, artistic, historical and local lore magazine "Vesi" special issue-2017 ("Libraries of Russia" part -2). The fate of an ordinary soldier Constantine. In a peasant family, Polina and Stepan Malofeyev in the village of Knyazhukha, Sursky district, Ulyanovsk region, the long-awaited firstborn was born, and they named him Konstantin. The Malofeyev family had many children, and they had three more sons – heroes: Victor, Eugene, and Anatoly. Constantine was the oldest of the brothers. He grew up a very curious and intelligent son. And so passed a carefree and cheerful childhood, and Konstantin went to school. But, however, the war disrupted all his plans, did not give him the opportunity to continue studying further after the end of the seven-year period. A treacherous enemy has suddenly attacked our Homeland, and the entire nation is in grave danger. All the men in the village were conscripted into the Soviet Army. There were only women, old people and children left in the village. The head of the Malofeyev family, Stepan, was also called to the front, and Konstantin remained in charge of the house, and was an assistant for his mother and for his brothers. The war made everyone grow up at once. And before the draft to the front, Kostya worked on a collective farm, ploughed, sowed, harvested crops, it was not easy, but he managed, because he had responsibility for his younger brothers and his beloved mother, Polina. The war was in full swing. The house Malofeeva it's bad news, came to funerals, that Stephen died in battle against the enemy. And after this news, Constantine decided that he would avenge his father's death on his enemies. Kostya told his mother and brothers that now it was time for him to stand up for the Motherland and his family. At the end of 1942, Konstantin finally received a summons from the military Commissariat. When my mother found out that her assistant Kostya would soon leave his father's house and go to war with the enemy. She would not survive if he died, because Pauline had already lost her husband and did not want to lose her son. Polina saw off her beloved son Kostya to the war. She was very worried and worried about her son. Polina made the sign of the cross over him and placed the living animals to her heart, so that they would protect and keep him from destruction. After being conscripted into the Soviet Army, before being sent to the front, Konstantin was sent to a sniper school in Inzu, Ulyanovsk region. It was difficult to learn, since the training of snipers was accelerated, but Kostya passed the training successfully. The year 1943 came, after completing accelerated courses in the sniper school, private Konstantin was sent to the second Ukrainian front in the 278th guards rifle regiment, which was formed near Kharkiv. And from that moment, he began his frontline workdays. Their regiment took part in the attack on Kirovograd, the battle was deadly, the regiment was thinning every day, there were no replacements and there were fewer and fewer soldiers left. And now there were only seven men left of their regiment, who had fought the enemy to the last. Near the village of Novgorodki, the fighter Kostya Malofeev and his comrades faced the Germans closely, and in this deadly battle private Konstantin was wounded, but thanks to the scout, he was taken from the battlefield, as he could not move himself. In a field hospital, he underwent two complex operations, but the operations did not help, and Kostya was upset that he would be commis-sioned and sent home, and he did not want to go home, he wanted to return to the ranks of the Soviet Army and continue to fight, and save his Homeland from the invaders. The doctors send Kostya to the deep rear, to the town of Buzuluk in the Orenburg region, where he again goes to the operating table, and endures several more operations after which he lay in the hospital for another four months away from his comrades. But he did not give up hope, fighting with his illness to return to the front again. Kostya told his wounded comrades what had happened to him before he was wounded. Here is one episode of military operations that private Constantine told his fellow soldiers: "they were making their way to the designated place and suddenly out of nowhere, an enemy plane appeared, a German vulture, came in three times and circled over our heads, raked with a machine gun, wanted to destroy us, and we remained alive and unharmed, the enemy failed to overcome us, Russian snipers. We were saved by a miracle and our guardian angels." And so, finally, the treatment ended and Kostya was sent to Sverdlovsk in the 39th tank training regiment. After completing his training there, Konstantin receives an appointment and becomes a commander of a gun, and goes to the front. They were brought to the Sandomierz bridgehead of the first Ukrainian front in the third tank army, commanded by General Rybalko. From here again, Kosti began fighting and the liberation of Polish cities such as Kielce, Wloszczowa, Lubliniec, częstochowa. Then freed the coast with his fellow soldiers city of Silesia, Opole, Wroslaw, bolesławiec, Forst. Kostya and his companions did not seem to have gone far in the fight against the enemy, but it was difficult. As Konstantin himself recalls: "Our soldiers fought to the death, only 600 thousand of our comrades died during the liberation of Poland." Personally, Kostya himself was in mortal danger several times, but death retreated from him, you can just say lucky, and he was also protected by his mother's prayers, which she put to his heart. And so Konstantin received a secret mission from the command, for which task he was well prepared. That night there was heavy rain and terrible darkness, and because of the bad weather Constantine lost his way and attacked a German ambush. But he was not confused and the task command performed. The next combat mission took place, when crossing the Oder, their tank had to break up a German column. Ahead was a railway with a high embankment and the tank could not immediately overcome the railway track. At this time, Konstantin was already a tank commander. When the tank cleared the railway track, the tank commander poked his head out of the hatch to see if they had arrived in the right direction. Suddenly, he saw several German soldiers ahead of him behind the embankment, who were lying down and did not think of retreating. Konstantin immediately jumped out of the tank and found himself alone among the Germans, and in his hand he had only a revolver, which contained only seven rounds. The Germans started firing, but he did not give up and fired at them with his revolver. Part of the Germans were destroyed, and the rest they suppressed with a tank. The task was done again. The command for the performance of this task awarded Konstantin the order of the "red star" for combat actions and the defeat of the enemy column. But after such a fight, Kostya was hit by a German bomb and was covered with earth's soil. He was shell-shocked and speechless. Thanks to my comrades, Konstantin recalled, who found me and dug me up. Fellow soldiers_x000D_ thought that he had died and wanted to bury him in a mass grave. But then, Konstantin began to come to himself. His comrades, he did not hear what they were asking him about. After a few hours, his hearing began to return, and he heard the sound of his tank's engine. Our troops were moving closer and closer to Germany. And now Berlin is not far away. Near Berlin, Konstantin's tank and another were on an ambush mission. The Germans made a psychic attack, but our troops stood to the death and our troops won the battle. The Germans who remained alive began to retreat. From April 16 to may 2, our soldiers stormed Berlin. On one of the streets it was necessary to conduct a reconnaissance and the honor fell to the crew of Constantine. During this operation, the tank was hit, burned, and the crew itself miraculously survived. A few days later, Kostya and his crew received another tank and continued to fight further. For his actions in the liberation of Berlin, Konstantin was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree and the medal for the"Capture of Berlin". Our soldiers liberated the German cities one by one: Cottbus, Lubens, Riza, and others. On may 2, we left Berlin, it was necessary to take Dresden and liberate Prague, Czechoslovakia. For the liberation of Prague, Konstantin was awarded another medal. he already has three orders and 14 medals on his chest. The war ended, our people liberated the Motherland from its enemies, but it was a shame that our soldiers continued to die. They continued to fight the Ukrainian internationalists, fought for about a year near the Carpathians. We were fighting in Lviv, and again Konstantin almost died in a fight with the internationalists in one of the battles, he was fired at by a machine gun, he miraculously survived. After the war, Konstantin served in the army for almost 8 years and was demobilized in 1950. He returned to his native village Kazuha, where he met his only love. He married and together with his beloved wife Anechka moved to the city of Kanash, where they lived together in a happy marriage for 55 years and raised three children Alexander, Antonina and Yuri. My great-uncle Konstantin Stepanovich lived his life with dignity. His life was full of numerous trials directly related to the Great Patriotic War. He was able to bear the full weight of the war on his shoulders, no matter what the victims. For bravery, fortitude and courage Konstantin Stepanovich was awarded the order of Patriotic war II degree, order of red star, medals "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "For liberation of Prague", "For taking of Berlin" medal of Zhukov and many commemorative medals. I am very proud of my uncle, who is no longer with us, and his services to the Fatherland. I will never forget it, and I will always remember it. It lives in my heart, in the family album. _x000D_ I don't remember the date of death. Malofeeva, S. A. Fate of the Private Constantine / S. A. Malofeeva. Ulyanovsk, 2018, 8 p.: illustrations (Samizdat) _x000D_ Great-niece of Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeeva Svetlana Aleksandrovna

Fuat Galeevich Murzagulov_x000D_ Fuat Murzagulov was born on February 22, 1922. Before the war, he studied at the Sterlitamak Oil technical school, but in September 1941, as a 19-year-old boy, he went to the war. On November 20, 1941 he was sent to the Western front, in the area of Volokolamsk-Mozhaisk, near Moscow, where he fought against the Germans in a reconnaissance company. In particular, he went on a reconnaissance mission to find out the enemy's firing points. _x000D_ Here is how he recalls war days in his notes: _x000D_ "I arrived at the front when the Germans were attacking Moscow, there were retreats, and then offensives. That's when I saw with my own eyes all the horrors of war. I could not even imagine how a person can abuse someone so much, when I saw soldiers doused in gasoline and burned alive, stabbed with bayonets through the chest into the ground, burned villages, people swinging on gibbets. That's when I and all the others understood: whoever was a German, he was a fascist._x000D_ " On January 04, 1942, he was wounded for the first time in a recon mission near the city of Ruza. After recovery, he was sent to the Southwestern front as the commander of a pontoon platoon. With his platoon in the first company, which was commanded by his front-line comrade and friend, Milekhin Alexander Grigoryevich, went through the war to the end. _x000D_ In one of the letters Alexander Grigoryevich recalled: "We gathered quite different people, we had different characters, different views, different educations and even different nationalities. We had a Bashkir, a Kazakh, and a Russian, and for all that diversity, we lived very well. No one interfered with each other, there were no arguments, no quarrels. We respected each other, respected the human dignity in each and did not laugh at the shortcomings." _x000D_ He participated in the crossing of the Dnieper, Dniester, Vistula, Buk, Desna, Neman, Oder rivers…There were large and small water barriers. They built bridges on stilts, built underwater and surface ferry crossings across rivers, mined and de-mined roads and structures. In 1944, when crossing the Desna river in Moldova, he was awarded the "order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree", and for his participation in crossing the Neman river near the city of Jurburg, in Lithuania, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". He also has awards "for the Defense of Moscow" and "For Capture of Koningsberg". _x000D_ For the capture of Gdansk in Poland he was awarded the Polish medal "For the Oder, Nyssa and Baltic", where he received a second bullet wound on March 31, 1945. During the war, he traveled from the shores of the Black sea to the Baltic sea, from Moscow to Berlin. He liberated not only the Russian Land, but also Moldavia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Poland and Germany. _x000D_ After the war, he graduated from the Ishimbai Oil technical school and worked for 40 years as a foreman in the Assembly shop. For his labor achievements, he was repeatedly awarded honorary diplomas and badges. He married at 35 years old, quite late by old tradition, on Akhmetshina Venus Biktimirovna. They lived happily married for almost 40 years and raised five children.

Myakshin Ilya Grigoryevich_x000D_ My great-grandfather, Ilya Grigoryevich Myakshin, was born on August 2, 1910, in the village of Mikhailovskaya of the Chadromsky rural Council of the Arkhangelsk region. From June 1941, he fought on the Northern front, and from November 9, 1941, he fought as a hand machine gunner on the North-Western front in 56th separate barrage detachment of 27th Army with the rank of Corporal. _x000D_ During the war, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, was wounded three times, one of which was very severe, and a shell fragment remained in his body, next to the spine, for the rest of his life. Ilya Grigoryevich finished his military career in Romania and returned home in the summer of 1945 with the rank of Sergeant. _x000D_ From February 24, 1943 to February 28, 1943, Myakshin Ilya Grigoryevich was part of the support group of 127 Separate Rifle Brigade. He moved forward in front of the combat lines with a hand machine gun and blew up two enemy machine guns. On March 4 and 5, 1943, in the combats near the city of Penno, he destroyed up to 15 enemy soldiers with a hand-held machine gun fire. He forced the enemy to lie down and thwarted its attempt to attack the platoon's combat lines. _x000D_ "By his brave actions, Ilya Myakshin contributed to the fulfillment of the combat mission of the Lenin – Stalin party." _x000D_ The biography of my great-grandfather fits only on half a page of printed text. I thought about his story for a very long time, imagining what great-grandfather Ilya had to go through. He he saw death of his comrades, bombing and fires of the Russian Land, pain, blood, horror, and grief! Low bow to the ground and eternal memory to our heroes! _x000D_ Written by the great-granddaughter of the hero Ulyana Myakshina, a student of class 6A OSOSH No. 1.

Muzhichenko Gregory Mironovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Grigory Mironovich Muzhichenko was born on January 23, 1913 in the village of Kolobovka, Leninsky district, Stalingrad region. Muzhichenko Grigory Mironovich was drafted into the Red Army on April 7, 1941 by the Staroproyslov Comissariat of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War until its end, he was fighting the German-fascist invaders in various divisions. Since June 1941, Grigory Mironovich was a private in 28th Separate Sapper Battalion, 14th Sapper Brigade of the Western front until February 1942. _x000D_ From February 1942 to April 1942, he was a private in the 100th Western Rifle Regiment. From April 1942 to January 1943 , he was a private in 836th Rifle Regiment of 240th Rifle Division of the Voronezh front. On 16.09.1942 he was lightly wounded in the arm. On 10.1942 he was lightly wounded in the arm, again. On 01.1943 he was severely wounded in the chest. _x000D_ From January 1943 to may 1943, Grigory Mironovich was treated in a hospital in the city of Leipzig. From may 1943 to September 1944, he was a Commander of a Reconnaissance Platoon in 204th Rifle Division of the Central front. From September 1944 to December 1944, he was a cadet in the political staff of 1st Baltic front. From December 1944 to December 1945 he was a Communist leader of the battalion in 265th separate sapper battalion of 156th Rifle Division of the Leningrad front. _x000D_ During the great Patriotic war, G. M. Muzhichenko was awarded orders and medals. The order of the Red Star was awarded on 11.10.1943._x000D_ "On 01.10.1943 Senior Sergeant Muzhichenko G. M. with a group of 10 recons was ordered: in the area of the village of Shatilova, Smolensk region, to estimate enemy forces and get a prisoner. Due to the perfect placement of a recon group, the recon mission was performed brilliantly. As a result, the group destroyed the enemy's machine gun with the servants. Muzhichenko machine-gun fire destroyed 7 Germans and captured an Ober-lance corporal, who gave valuable information about the enemy." _x000D_ The Order of the Red Banner was awarded on November 20, 1944. _x000D_ "18.07.1944 in the combat for the village Duokishkis, being in the infantry lines and encouraging the soldiers to perform combat mission and leading the attack, stabbed four enemy soldiers with a dagger in hand-to-hand combat and killed a fleeing officer with a machine gun." _x000D_ 22.07.1944 year in the combat for the village Kovalyai replaced the platoon commander, repulsed four enemy counterattacks numbering up to 150 soldiers. At the same time, he destroyed more than 50 Germans with his platoon. Personally comrade Muzhichenko destroyed 10 German invaders. with a machine gun" _x000D_ He started the war as a private and finished as a Seniour Lieutenant. In December 1945, Grigory Mironovich, who was discharged from the reserve, raised the country after the devastation. Together with his wife Ksenia, they raised four children.

Musalitin Pyotr Semenovich_x000D_ DATE OF BIRTH: 25.07.1913_x000D_ DATE OF DEATH: 10.07.1979 _x000D_ Pyotr Semyonovich Musalitin was born on July 25, 1913 in the town of Irmino, Voroshilovgrad region of the Ukrainian SSR. Musalitin Pyotr Semyonovich was a Sergeant in the reserve of the first category of the VUS No. 121. _x000D_ Pyotr Semyonovich (my grandfather), worked on the railway as an assistant locomotive driver in the locomotive depot of the station Kirovo-Ukrainskaya, Odessa railway. When the war came, he was called up for mobilization by the Kirovograd GVK-06.1941. He served on the railroad all his life at first on conscription of military service and after the war as a civilian. He was a medical orderly and assistant engineer. He was part of 80 Chemical Regiment as a medical orderly with the Garrison hospital of the city of Stalingrad for the period 06.1941 for 12.1941. From 12.1941 to 04.1942 20 he was wounded and treated in hospital. From 04.1942 to 10.1942 he was a motorcycle rifle brigade orderly medic._x000D_ He was dismissed to the reserve 14.10.1942 basis of the GKO resolution No. 1765 _x000D_ From 31.10.1942 to 22.07.1944 he was an Assistant locomotive driverin the Locomotive depot of Saratov, Ryazan-Ural railway. Since 02.09.1944 he had been hired as an assistant locomotive driverin the locomotive depot of the station Kirovo-Ukrainskoe, Odessa railway._x000D_ My grandfather was a Communist. He was awarded various prizes, diplomas, trips to sanatoriums. He was respected and loved by his colleagues and friends. He had 5 children. _x000D_ Pyotr Semyonovich died at the age of 65, in 1979. We remember him and love him! _x000D_ AWARDS: Medal: "For Defense of Stalingrad"; Medal: "For Labor Distinction"; Medal: " For Valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."; Jubilee medal: "Twenty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Jubilee medal: "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" awarded in 1967; Jubilee medal: "For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Lenin." in 1970; Sign: "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic war»; Jubilee medal: "Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" for 1975; _x000D_ State awards (recorded in the certificate of exemption from military duty): Medal: "For Valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 01.03.1946; Medal: "For Victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945".

Moiseenko Nikolay Platonovich_x000D_ Moiseenko Nikolay Platonovich was born on January 2, 1910 in Radzivilki, Shavelsky district, Kovno Gubernia in the Russian Empire. Father of Platon Semyonovich (born in 1872 in the Gomel region) worked on the Libavo-Romenskaya , Moscow-Kazan and Belorussian Railways as driver and depot commander from 1891-1937. His father had been a Communist since 1925. _x000D_ In 1929, he volunteered to serve in the Navy. He served on the destroyer Uritsky (1929-1932), had been a Communist since 1932. He graduated from the Frunze Milirary School ( 11.32-06.36), the first issue of submariners ' navigators. He was a commander of the steering group SHCH-307 1BPL KBF (07. -12.36), BCH-1 (navigators) SHCH-310 2BPL KBF ( 12.36 — 07.38)._x000D_ He was dismissed from the Red Army to the reserve under article 43, since his father had been under investigation in the Homel prison on false charges since February 1938. Since the father died (tortured) in October, 1938 under investigation (three articles of execution) and was not sentenced (case 31, February 1938, Archive of the State Committee of internal Affairs, KGB), Nikolay managed to return to the fleet. _x000D_ In April 1939, he was appointed commander of the BCH-1 (navigators) again on the Shch-310 ( 05.39-05.40). He participated in the Finnish war, fighting in the Gulf of Bothnia as the commander of the BCH-1 (navigators) K-21 KBF, SF ( 05.40-02.42 g.). He managed to descend from the legendary K-21 in its first and second combat campaign. He was an assistant commander of the boat M-121 (07.42 - death of the boat, 7.11 -- 14.11.42). The second combat campaign of the was the last for the M-121. In the afternoon of November 7, the submarine left the polar base patrolling the area of position 6 in Varanger fjord. The submarine did not communicate and did not return to the base; on November 14, 1942 it did not respond to the order to return. On 24.11. 42 the period of autonomy had expired. Probably, the submarine was lost on the mine barrage Sperre-V in Varanger fjord, or on the barrage Bantos-A north of the coast of the Rybachy Peninsula. 21 people parished on the M-121. The boat was considered missing even in 2016. There are no exact data on the time and place of death.

Merkushev, Alexander Maksimovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Hero of the Soviet Union, Major, participant of the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ He was born on November 14, 1918 in the city of Kazan in the Russian family of a worker. Since 1921, he lived in the city of Kotlas, Arkhangelsk region, where he graduated from 5th grade and the Federal Law school. He worked in a ship repair plant. He had been in the Red Army since 1938. Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev took part in the combats of the Great Patriotic war in August 1942. He had been a Communist since 1944. _x000D_ The company commander 457 th Infantry Regiment (1st Belorussian front), Senior Lieutenant A. M. Merkushev in combat 28.6.1944 — 29.6.1944 in the village Sitkovo (Bobruisk district, Mogilev region) and on the shosse Bobruisk—Minsk fought off 13 enemy attacks, trying to escape from the encirclement. For this feat, Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union on March 24, 1945. _x000D_ Rewards: Gold Star Medal, Order of Lenin, Order of Alexander Nevsky, two orders of the Patriotic war of the 1st degree, three orders of the Red Star, medals, including: "In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", medal "For Military Merit", medal "For Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" , medal "For Capture of Konigsberg", medal "For Capture of Berlin", medal "For Faultless Service" 1st degree. _x000D_ Memory: Honorary citizen of Kotlas (1987). In honor of the Hero's feat, three commemorative plaques have been installed in Kotlas: on the buildings of Lyceum No. 3 and Kotlas technical school of trade and public catering, as well as on the memorial wall in the city Park. _x000D_ On July 05, 2015, a bust of Alexander Maksimovich Merkushev was installed in the territory of the state educational institution of the Arkhangelsk region "Kotlas technical school of trade and public catering" (Arkhangelsk region, city of Kotlas) _x000D_ In 2016 Kotlas College of trade and public catering renamed to Kotlas College service named after A. M. Merkushev, also near the bust comes with 2 steles with the names of soldiers, former employees of the College.

Merkushev, Ivan Ivanovich_x000D_ Merkushev Ivan Ivanovich is a Colonel of the Soviet Army, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). He was born on July 23, 1923 in the village of Verkhnyaya Senda, (now Mari-Tureksky district of Mari El). After finishing High School, he studied in the Agricultural Technical School. In February 1942, Merkushev was drafted to the Red Army. In 1943, he graduated from the Krasnodar Machine gun and Mortar School. Since August, 1943 he was fighting at war. By April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Merkushev was temporarily acting as the Commander of the 120-mm Mortar Division of the 106th Mortar Regiment of the 1st Mortar Brigade of the 5th Artillery Division of the 4th Artillery Corps of the breakthrough of the 3rd Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. He was distinguished at the storm of Berlin. At the end of April 1945, in the area of the Schönhausen-Allee metro station, when Merkushev's observation post was surrounded by the enemy, he did not leave his post, but continued to direct the military actions of the division, calling fire on his battery. Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 31 of May 1945 for "exemplary performance of command combat missions at the front against the German invaders and displaying courage and heroism" Lieutenant Ivan Merkushev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and the order of Lenin and Gold Star medal No. 6762. After the end of the war, Merkushev continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1956, he graduated from the advanced officer training course. In 1977, Merkushev was dismissed as a Colonel. He lived and worked first in Donetsk, then in the city of Alchevsk, Luhansk region of Ukraine. He died on November 26, 1999, and was buried in Alchevsk. He was also awarded the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, the Red Star, and a number of medals. A memorial plaque in memory of Merkushev is installed by the Russian Military-Historical Society on the building of the Mari-Bilamorsk Secondary School of the Mari-Tureksky district, where he used to go to school.

Subbotin Semyon Mikhailovich_x000D_ Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Type of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Unit: 30th Guards Rifle Division of Riga Red Banner Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Subbotin Semyon Mikhailovich lived a long and difficult life. Together with my grandmother, they raised three children (two sons and a daughter - my mother). My grandfather didn't talk much about the war, there was nothing interesting for him there. And if he did tell something sometimes, he often stopped talking and stared at a single point. Yes, he kept saying: "...God forbid we should go through this." Mostly, those were the stories from my grandmother. Now I share them with son. _x000D_ My grandfather was born and raised in the Tambov region in the village Kulevcha. The family had 9 children. His father died early, and his mother raised the children herself. To help her, my grandfather started working in the 5th grade. Then he graduated from military courses, served in Semipalatinsk. He went to the war in the very first days. He served in the 30th Guards Rifle Division of the Western front, then in the 2nd Ukrainian front. He participated in the liberation of Yasnaya Polyana, Leo Tolstoy estate. He was wounded three times. He was seriously injured in the head and arm. After the war, he settled with his family in Sumy, Ukraine. _x000D_ When I was a little girl, my grandfather used to take me to the parade. And I went with him in the column of veterans and was very proud! _x000D_ My grandfather passed away at 92. I remember him very kind, always ready to offer help. He liked to meet his old military comrades and recalled his early years. Except he didn't like to remember the war...

Sergiyenko, Nikolai Fedotovich_x000D_ _x000D_ The stories about my great-grandfather Nikolay Fedotovich Sergiyenko I learned from my relatives, who carefully preserve memory of him. My mother keeps a manuscript of memories that my great-grandfather gave her for safekeeping at the end of his life. He dreamed that this manuscript would one day become a book… _x000D_ In 1940, after graduating from the Aviation club, my great-grandfather Nikolai was sent to study at the Kachin military aviation school of fighter pilots on a crash course. On July 10, 1941, by order of evacuation to Central Asia, cadet Nikolai Sergienko, together with his pilot-instructor, were in training "spark"on the way to their destination. He writes as follows: "in the area of the Sinyavka Station (near the city of Rostov-on-Don) we had to refuel. And then we were attacked, unarmed, by two Messers: a machine-gun burst went through the front cabin, where my instructor was. He was fatally shot in the head. I took over the controls and put the plane on an emergency landing. I landed the plane on a ploughed field, across ploughed furrows. The plane was violently shaken, and then it turned over. I lost consciousness from my injuries and came to myself in a Tbilisi hospital..." _x000D_ At that time, my great-grandfather was only 19 years old... After being discharged from the hospital, Nikolai returns to aviation again. At first, he flew on the PO-2, transporting the seriously wounded from the medical unit to hospitals. After some time, Nikolai was allowed to sit at the controls of a combat fighter I-16. From this moment on, he began his combat sorties to protect the coast from Sochi to Gelendzhik. Day after day, he entered into fierce air battles with the enemy, losing his comrades. Twice he had to leave the plane damaged in battle and jump with a parachute into the Black sea. He was rescued by border guards cruising on fast ships near the sea coast. _x000D_ _x000D_ Here is another of the episodes. My great grandfather writes: "My plane was severely damaged, the engine stopped working, and I had to plan in the Lazarev area. There was a low height, and I was not able to jump with a parachute, and I had to land in the mountains in woods and received severe injuries. A shepherd came to my rescue. He pulled me, unconscious, out of the wrecked plane and gave me first aid. When I regained consciousness, the shepherd's son took me to the Lazarev field hospital on an ass." _x000D_ _x000D_ In one of the air battles in the sky over Krasnodar, his best friend, wing-man Alexander Matchenko, was fatally wounded. His plane was shot down by a Messer. My great-grandfather was severely wounded by a shell fragment in this battle that exploded next to his cab. He remembers: "With great difficulty, losing consciousness, I went to an emergency landing in a field near Goryachy Klyuch. Our ground troops were there." _x000D_ After recovering, despite the conclusion of the medical Commission of the hospital that he was unfit for flight service, great-grandfather again returned to his avia unit on the Taman Peninsula. The Sivoiet assault on the Kerch Strait was being prepared. _x000D_ _x000D_ "At the end of November 1943, the offensive of all units of our troops began, we, the pilots, had destroyed the enemy's firing points with our machine-gun fire. The city of Kerch was liberated.»_x000D_ In the battles for the liberation of Zhytomyr, my great-grandfather was seriously wounded, again. After recovering, once again hiding the doctors ban on continuing flight service, he returns to his unit and sits at the controls of a combat fighter. "With my military friends, I liberated Western Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland."

Starostenko Georgiy Borisovich_x000D_ George Borisovich Starostenko was born on May 4, 1915 in a peasant family in the village of Yartsevo, Starodubsky district of the Bryansk region. When he was only 6 months old, his father Boris tragically died under a horse cart. His mother died when the boy was 4 years old. Georgiy was raised by 5 older sisters. He graduated from 6 classes of school. After that, he worked as a shoemaker. And throughout his life, he had never given up his professional craft. _x000D_ In 1935, Georgiy Borisovich was drafted into the army. On August 12, 1935, he married Lisogor Maria Lukyanovna. Maria at that time was 16 years old, and it was too early for an official registration according to the law. But the girl's father obtained a permission somehow, and the wedding took place. Maria gave George three sons and a daughter. In 1941, at the age of 30, he went to the front. _x000D_ Place of recruitment: Starodubsky Red Army Commissariat, Bryansk region, Starodubsky district _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant since May,1941. _x000D_ He participated in the battles of the 33rd army of the Western front as a Commander of the Rifle Division. He had been on the front from March 1941 to March 1943. On March 29, 1943, he was severely wounded: a through bullet wound to the left shoulder with bone damage, a through shrapnel wound to the soft tissues of the left hip and a through bullet wound to the soft tissues of the chest. _x000D_ My grandfather was awarded a few times, but so far we know accurately only about the Order of the Red Star. He was not captured or surrounded during the war. After hospital, he served in the 2nd Division as a loader. _x000D_ It is known that after the war Georgiy Borisovich worked as a brigadier in the Krupskaya kolkhoz in the Starodubsky district. In 1977, the Starostenko family moved to the village of Scriabino in the Vygonichsky district of the Bryansk region. On February 21, 2000, Georgiy Borisovich died.