Heroes and feats

Sataev, Mukhamedzhan_x000D_ Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Sataev Mukhamedzhan was born in 1922 in the city of Omsk, Pavlograd district, village of Kaidaul, then moved to Zhanatan. Before leaving for the war, he attended mortar courses. On May 1, 1942 he was drafted to the Volkhov front. He survived the Leningrad Siege. From 1944 to 1946 he served as deputy Commander of a mortar, gunner of 504th Mortar Regiment. From June to November 1946, he was a deputy Commander of the mortar of 135th Artillery Regiment, he went to Czechoslovakia to destroy a large group of enemy. _x000D_ He was awarded: Medal "For Courage", Medal "For Defense of Leningrad", Medal "For Liberation of Prague", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" , medal "For military Merit", Medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War ", Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree._x000D_ On November 13, 1946 he was transferred to the reserve with the rank of Junior Sergeant. After the war he helped the state in the development of agriculture. He received among the first veterans, a VAZ 2101 car, a ticket to VDNKh. _x000D_ He was recognized for labor in peacetime, awarded the title "Veteran of Labor" and awarded the medal "For Labor Valor of the USSR", the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin." _x000D_ He was married to Sataeva, Kuken, who was awarded the Maternity Medal for raising 5 children. In the village of Mikhailovka, Omsk, Kormilovsky district, there is a sign of the Order of the Patriotic War on the house where he lived.

Participant of the Great Patriotic War Morozov Ivan Stepanovich. _x000D_ He was born on October 15, 1926 in the village of Sosnovka in the Sorokinsky District of the Altai Territory in a peasant family. His father, Stepan Ivanovich died in combats for Ukraine in 1943, was buried in the Kharkov region. On November 8, 1943, at the age of 17, he was called up for military service. After completing the course, training at the Achinsk military school, he was assigned for further service in the Special Forces Regiment in the Kremlin. In 1944, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Regiment was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, a symbol of military honor, valor and glory. _x000D_ From the end of May 1944, the duration of service in the squad was changed from 2 -day shift, to 4- dayshift duty as before the war. The special-purpose Regiment, like all other subunits and units of the Moscow Kremlin garrison, completed all important combat missions to protect and defend the Kremlin, important facilities and support measures of national importance. _x000D_ During his service, I.S. Morozov filed a report on his transfer to the front. To which he received the answer that the importance of the missions in the Kremlin is no less than at the front. On June 24, 1945, a significant part of the personnel of the Kremlin garrison was involved in providing measures for the protection of the Victory Parade and exemplary order on Red Square. I.S. Morozov became its participant. I. S. Morozov was demobilized in 1950, given 7 years in the ranks of the Soviet Army. On July 7, 1951 he married, wife of Morozov (Kokshina) Olga Mironovna, an active participant in the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ He had been part of the law enforcement agencies since 1950. Since 1954 he served in the traffic police department of the city of Moscow. He was directly involved in ensuring the safety of the highest political and state leadership of the USSR, as well as events of national importance. He conducted work to educate and improve the professional level of the young generation of traffic police officers. _x000D_ He was repeatedly elected Chairman of the Court of Officers' Honor. He graduated from service in 1980 as a Senior inspector of 7th GAI on the special route of the UGAI in Moscow with the rank of police Major with the subsequent assignment of the rank of police Lieutenant colonel ... _x000D_ He received the following state awards: Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; Medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Medal "Veteran of Labor"; and many honorary and anniversary awards. _x000D_ After retirement, he actively participated in public life: he was a member of the Strelets fund for social support of employees and veterans of federal state security bodies. He had three daughters, Nina, born in 1953. Vera born 1957 and Galina born in 1963, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The family honors the hero and pays tribute to the memory of those who have departed and fallen in the struggle for the freedom of the Motherland.

Suleimanov Askhat Nigmatulovich was born on June 1, 1923 in the village of Azovo, Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR. He was called to the front of the Arkhangelsk Military Comissariat of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic on September 17, 1941. He had been part of the combats in the Great Patriotic War since December 18, 1943. He was a Senior Lieutenant, Commander of a mortar platoon of 2nd Mortar Company of 47th Rifle Gdansk Red Banner Regiment of 15th Rifle Sivash-Stettinskaya twice Red Banner Order of Lenin, the Orders of Suvorov and the Red Banner of Labor of the Ukrainian SSR Division. He had been a Communist party member since 1944 (party card No. 6314191). Awards: 1. Medal "For Courage" on October 7, 1944. Quote from the award list: "In offensive hostilities in the area of the Zofyuvka farm in the Hungarian district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on March 19, 1944, while firing at thecombat formations and the enemy's fire system, he personally smashed 2 German machine-gun points and destroyed 15 Nazis. In extremely fierce combats for the railway in the area of the settlement of Ozhelek, on August 22, 1944, he pinned down the enemy's actions with well-aimed mortar raids. Continuously participating in combats since the beginning of the breakthrough of the enemy's defense on June 24, 1944, with mortar fire from his platoon, he inflicted the following losses on the enemy: 6 firing points destroyed, 37 infantry. 2. Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree March 30, 1945. Quote from the award list: "In the regiment's offensive hostilities, which began by breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses in the area near the Pokshivnitsa settlement of the Pultu district of the Warsaw Voivodeship on January 14, 1945, relentlessly moving with the infantry with the fire of the mortars of his platoon, he helped the infantry. When breaking through the defense, destroyed 2 machine-gun points with their crews. Pursuing the retreating enemy, he shot down the fire cover left by the Germans. He successfully passed more than 250 kilometers of combat. On January 26, 1945 reached the Vistula River, where on the East Bank in a two-hourcombat the last cover in front of the river was knocked down. When crossing the Vistula River, he crossed it with the infantry, and the enemy stronghold Gross Westpalen was taken on the west bank on January 27, 1945. The enemy undertook offensive actions 4 times attacked our units, trying to eliminate the foothold we had created on the west the bank of the Visla, in the morning of January 27, 1945. The attacks were unsuccessful. Officer Suleimanov's platoon destroyed up to 30 Nazis, and Suleimanov was wounded. He was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". After demobilization as a result of a second wound, Askhat Nigmatulovich worked as Chairman of the Tereklinsky village council of the Arkhangelsk region of the Bashkir ASSR, he retired in 1983. On April 6, 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree in honor of 40th anniversary of Victory Died on April 27, 1985. He was buried in the cemetery of the Azovo village.

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Yakov volunteered for the war. In the very first month of his service, he got into fierce combats on Ukraine. The grandmother, his wife, received a notice that he was missing. Some time later, his friend, a colleague, with whom he volunteered and served his last days, returned and informed his wife that Yakov was seen wounded, not killed. My grandmother had received «killed in action” notice, and a little time later she was given a small message written from her husband: "Wounded, but alive, do not worry. Your Jacob." Neither the date nor the place where the news came from was specified. They only reported that the note was written by a wounded soldier from the evacuation hospital. _x000D_ They lived in Krasnodon. One of the neighbors reported that the grandmother was the wife of a Communist. Nazis, who had already occupied Krasnodon, were looking for the grandmother and promised to carve a red star on her back. The grandmother entrusted her five children to neighbors, asked them to come and check on their mother-in-law (from a neighboring village), and went to look for her husband. For several months, my grandmother went to the front-line hospitals, looking for her husband or at least some information about him. All searches yielded no results. When she returned to the children, two younger ones had starved. _x000D_ The war ended, years passed, and now my grandmother is gone. But until her last days she believed that grandfather was alive. She said: "Until I see his grave, he is alive!"

My grandfather, Tyutenkov Sergey Ivanovich, a native of the village of Kazanka, Sladkovsky district, Tyumen region, was born on August 10, 1918. In 1939 he was drafted into the army, his wife Praskovya Petrovna and little son Yuri stayed at home. In 1941, when the war began, he was 22 years old. He fought in Belarus. The first days were the hardest. The fascist attacked with terrible force. Attack after attack, the Red Army was holding on to the last bullet. He fought with his fellow countryman Evgeny Vasilievich Vasiliev. They were stuck together. After the bloody combat, they both cried and rejoiced that they remained alive. Day after day there was a damned war, the German was advancing, and the order was received from the headquarters to retreat. They were leaving village after village to the enemy, retreated with combats through the forests, through the Belarusian swamps. _x000D_ At the end of September 1941, retreating, they came to the village at night. There was a hut on the edge of the village, where they knocked. Old woman came out and said that there were no Germans, and let them into the house. There were several of them, among them was a commanding officer. They asked to stay until dawn. _x000D_ The Russian bath was heated, they washed, ate and lay down to rest. This old woman quietly got up, went out of the hut and brought the Germans. The Germans in cars with machine guns and dogs surrounded the hut and took them all out into the street. My grandfather asks our soldier who understood German: "Will they shoot us?"And he quietly whispered to him that thyw would be taken prisoners. The old woman pointed to the Commander to the Germans. The Germans seized him and took him away, and so his grandfather never saw him again. My grandfather had been in a concentration camp in Germany. In 1945, Soviet troops liberated him, and he continued to fight. _x000D_ He participated in the capture of Koenigsberg. And at home all this time his wife Praskovya was waiting, she worked in the rear and every day she was waiting for letters from him. During all this time there was not a single letter from him. Praskovya wrote to Moscow, an answer was received that he was missing in action. A loving heart waited and felt that he was alive. _x000D_ My grandfather lived a long life, after the war he worked as a starshina on a livestock farm in his native kolkhoz. He did not like to talk about the war and remember those terrible days of his youth. My grandfather was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree, the medal "For Courage" and other awards.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Nikolai Sirotin, a brave recon of the Rostovets partisan detachment, was born on May 24, 1924 in the village of Bykovo, Stalingrad region, Pushkin Street, 33. In the first year of the war, his father and two brothers, Alexander and Zakhar, went to the war. Only my father returned from the war. _x000D_ He was also eager to join the fight against the Nazis. They did not take him into the army, as a minor, and the seventeen-year-old boy decided to get into a reconnaissance school. _x000D_ In the fall of 1942, during heavy fighting near Stalingrad, Nikolai Sirotin achieved his dream. He was sent to the school of Partisan Reconaissance officers, the formation point was in Leninsk. Later he was sent to the Moscow Reconaissance school. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was thrown with a group of comrades into the territory of Donbass occupied by the enemy. A small group of recons began to carry out the combat missions of the command. For a long time, the detachment collected and transmitted to the Soviet command valuable information about the deployment of enemy units, established contacts with local partisan groups, derailed enemy trains, and blew up commandant's offices. Soviet aircrafts had bombed German locations on a tip from partisans. Throughout his service, Nikolai Sirotin won the attention of the headquarters leadership with his military actions behind enemy lines. He quickly advanced in the service, he was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. Sirotin was an incredibly brave young man. From a letter from a member of the reconnaissance detachment of the surviving Sofia Belugina, from the village of Verkhniy Balykley, Stalingrad Region. Nikolai's mother:_x000D_ "Hello, Aunt Tanya! Everything that you conveyed, I handed over to Nikolai. I will write in more detail about him. We are in the same unit from the first days. Almost all the time he is on the front line ... (crossed out in bold, apparently by military caesura) ... honestly and conscientiously carries out everything that is entrusted to him. He rarely comes to us. There is no mail where he is, and if he writes, the letter will still be in his pocket. He asks you not to worry that he does not write. Please, send the front-line address of his brother Sasha and his father, I will write them. After the war he will tell you a lot of interesting details. Greetings from him to fighting brother Yurochka, and to all his comrades. Don't worry about Nikolai. Sonya Belugina. " _x000D_ In May 1943, the Nazis nevertheless went on the trail of recons. Twenty-two people, including Vera Listopad, Roza Dzhalilova from the village of Savinka, Pallasovsky district, Maria Orekhova, Maria Krasnoshchekova from Kislovo, Natalya Shpileva, Nikolai Sirotin, Dusya Bogatyreva and others, were arrested. Here is what his friend and companion in partisan struggle Grigory Efimovich Galushko wrote about these dramatic events to Nikolai's mother, in the detachment his name was “Ded”: _x000D_ “Hello, Tatyana Andreevna! The unfamiliar Galushko Grigory Efimovich sends greetings to you. I am writing a letter to you at the request of Sonya Belugina. She asked me to write a letter about the latest whereabouts of Nikolai Sirotin. Nikolai Sirotin is my friend in conviction and in arms. I met him on March 20, 1943 at the recon group of the Headquarters of the partisan movement in the village of Lesogorka, Rostov region. From there we began to prepare to cross the front line to work behind enemy lines. On April 17, I and one of my comrades went across the front line. Nikolay with other comrades went across on April 18. We all crossed the front line, but in the enemy's rear, in the second turnout line in the Krasnoluchinsky district, we were all overfished. This misfortune was included in our calculation. We were detained in different places at a distance of 10 km. As "defectors" we were all gathered and sent to Chistyakovo to conduct an investigation ... ". _x000D_ From a letter dated August 28, 1944, it follows that some of the arrested managed to confirm the legend of the defectors, and some of the guys, including Nikolai Sirotin, subsequently suffered a martyr's death due to the fact that two traitors were in the ranks of the partisan group. On May 13, 1943, E.I. Bogatyreva, V.G. Listopad, N.M. Sirotin and others, 22 people after brutal torture were shot in Dronovskaya gully, three kilometers from the town of Chistyakovo. Eyewitnesses of those events said that when the young men and women were taken to execution, one of them sang: "Get up, the country is huge ...". _x000D_ Grigory Efimovich Galushko informed later that when the guys were going to be executed, not one of them, including Kolya Sirotin, who was the youngest in the group, did not betray him by word, look, or gesture. He managed to confirm himself the legend of the "deserter". All his life, Ded felt obliged to tell people about the heroic deeds of the partisan heroes. _x000D_ From the memoirs of an eyewitness to the execution of partisans-recons, local historian M.A. Krivoruchko: "In September 1943, in the Filippov gully, in the eastern part of the city of Chistyakovo, it was crowded. By the decision of the executive committee of the city council, three pits were opened where the corpses of the shot were laid. It was hard to look at the tortured, bloody bodies. People identified their husbands and sons. But among them there were unknown young faces of men and women. Who are they? Why are they twisted in pairs by the hands? Only the identification of Vera Listopad indicated that they were partisans from a special reconnaissance group._x000D_ “A few years later, the remains of the perished partisans were reburied in a mass grave in the center of Torez (mass grave No. 1 ZU380-05-389, intersection of Pionerskaya and Engels streets, square). An obelisk of marble has been installed. Their names will remain in the memory of descendants, as an example of courage and selfless devotion to their beloved Motherland. The name of Nikolai Sirotin bears one of the streets of Torez (DPR) and the village of Bykovo (Volgograd region). His name was added to the electronic book of memory of Ukraine ( Partisans of the Donetsk region).

My grandfather, Staritsky Ernest Ivanovich, was born on July 21, 1923, died in January 2003, lived a long and interesting life after the war. The Great Patriotic War became the main event of his life for him. And over the years, the memories only became brighter and did not lose importance. At the age of 17, he volunteered for the front (he was not yet 18) and went through almost the entire war as part of 116th Motorized Rifle Brigade. In 1944 he was seriously wounded and discharged. He was awarded an officer rank (if I am not mistaken, Lieutenant). Great-grandfather and great-grandmother survived the war in besieged Leningrad. My grandfather had 2 older brothers, Anatoly and Askold. Two of them, including their grandfather, returned from the war alive. "There is nothing more terrible than war," and "The war was completely different ..." Ernest Ivanovich sometimes said. He did not like modern films about the war. Grandpa talked a lot about what the war was like, about the life of people at the front, about the combats near Gorodishche, near Orel, when almost the entire Regiment (10,000 people) perished during the night combat. He also talked about curious moments (yes, there were some). _x000D_ The plot is about a soldier who, with a sudden fascist raid, jumped into a pit with human sheet, fleeing a bombing. And then the fighters laughed when their colleague jumped out of the pit . _x000D_ My babushka, Staritskaya Antonina Mikhailovna, was a child during the war and spent years in the fascist occupation in Staraya Russa. She did not like to remember the war. She talked a little about how she lived in the occupied city, in the same house with the Nazis. They ate lingonberry in the forest not to starve, and her tongue had cracks for life. _x000D_ After the war, my grandfather became a French teacher and director of one of the French schools in St. Petersburg, had been a teacher with 40 years of experience, an active member of the Peace Committee. He dreamed that we would never see a war. In 1970-80, Staritsky Ernest Ivanovich worked a lot with one of the schools in Orel (if I am not mistaken, school No. 5), helping to create a museum dedicated to 116th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, to recreate the memory of the combats in those places.

Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ "At the beginning of 1944, by order of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Kalmyks were expelled from all fronts and military districts, Sergeants and rank-and-file personnel, as well as cadets from military schools. They were enlisted in 6th Reserve Regiment, a Rifle Brigade, which was stationed at the Kungur station of the Perm railway, and then sent by teams to the construction of the Shirokov hydroelectric power station. About 4 thousand soldiers and cadets were recalled from the active army. These were mainly people of Kalmyk nationality. The frontline Kalmyks were recalled to the rear under the pretext of creating a Kalmyk national unit in the Urals. _x000D_ The servicemen greeted these explanations with satisfaction, but already on the road, and especially upon arrival at Shiroklag, they understood that they had been deceived ... There, somewhere in the Middle Urals, in the town of Shirokovo, the Kalmyks were turned into slaves, they were driven to work by deception in a forest concentration camp. _x000D_ Among those who ended up in Shiroklag was Sangadzhiev Badma Kokuevich. His name is listed in the lists of Kalmyk military personnel recalled from the fronts in 1944-1945. _x000D_ Badma Kokuevich was born in 1925 in Kalmykia, Privolzhsky ulus, Nitsyansky village, received 7 grade education, was a member of the Komsomol and was drafted by the Volga Comissariat in 1943. Sangadzhiev B.K. served in the active army from March 1943 to January 1944 in 85th Rifle Division, 167th Artillery Regiment, rank of private. _x000D_ The Book of Memory says that Sangadzhiev B.K. arrived in Shiroklag on 03/28/1944, demobilized on 03/06/1945, sent to the Krasnoyarsk Territory to the special commandant's office of the Kozul District of the NKVD. At the Kalmyk State University, Badma Kokuevich worked as a watchman. He was characterized by modesty and restraint. The war broke this man's life. _x000D_ Unfortunately, his memories of this time have not been preserved. We can only imagine what kind of inhuman torments, hardships, torments he had to endure in Shiroklag. But there are poems that convey the emotional pain of those who were unjustly sent to GULAG. The camp was new, with secret police, with a pack of dogs, slave labor, hard, worse than Shiroklag prison. The gate is wide, with an arch, There was a sentry on the tower. A sentinel with a learned shepherd dog was on duty at night sometimes. There the Kalmyks died like flies from various diseases ... The head watched the brigade labour and demanded to fulfill the plan ... Today we realize at what a huge price was paid for the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Among those who contributed was Badma Kokuevich Sangadzhiev. For his military services in 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree (No. of award document: 87; date of award document: 04/06/1985; entry No. 1519668401).

Rank: Red Army soldier. _x000D_ Sviridov Alexey Danilovich was a sapper of 95th Border Detachment of the NKVD troops of the USSR of the Directorate of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR of the Lithuanian District. _x000D_ According to the Book of Memory of the Border Troops (vol. 3, p. 36), he died in combat on October 18, 1944 in the town of Taurage, the district center of the former Lithuanian SSR. The burial place is unknown. _x000D_ "On October 17, 1944, on the basis of order No. 01128 issued two days earlier by the head of the district of 95th Border Order of Lenin, a detachment of troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the first time after the start of the Great Patriotic War began to protect the State Border of the USSR. The border commandant's office had been just liberated by Soviet troops with the Memel region of East Prussia along the line of the former border of the Lithuanian SSR with Germany: Aukshtupe settlement; 4th border commandant's office - Eish settlement; 5th border commandant's office - Yurburg settlement. _x000D_ Service groups every day engaged in combat with small groups of fascists and saboteurs. This led to inevitable losses in the ranks of the border guards. _x000D_ On October 18, 1944, a Red Army sapper Aleksey Danilovich Sviridov was killed. Alexei had a family, a wife and four young daughters.His wife tried to find out information about the burial place of her husband and some details, but everything was classified, only after many years did she manage to find out something through a search on the Internet.

Rank: Chief Petty Officer, Starshina _x000D_ SubDivision: 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division _x000D_ He was born in 1906 in the village of Taldyki (Ukrainian Taldiki), Kiev province. He lived in the village of Burlin, Ural region. He worked as a salesman in a general store, then as a baker. He was arrested on October 29, 1929 by the Ural OGPU, convicted by the OGPU troika on January 3, 1930 under Articles 58-7, 58-8, 58-10 of the RSFSR Criminal Code to exile for 3 years. _x000D_ He was rehabilitated on June 10, 1989 by the WKO prosecutor's office by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the USSR dated January 16, 1989. _x000D_ He had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since July 25, 1941. He fought in 234th and 259th Rifle Regiments of 179th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. He mastered the sniper business. He often went out on a "hunt" together with the legendary sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union, Kvachantiradze Vasily Shalvovich. _x000D_ On August 11, 1942 he was wounded. On April 18, 1943, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, Kalinin Front) Corporal KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the first award for the destruction of 82 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 40 of May 11, 1943, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for 43rd Army. On October 18, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant K. D. Smolensky was presented by the unit command to a new award for distinction in combats for the Misa station on September 18, 1944. _x000D_ By the Order No. 54 of October 27, 1944 of the 179th Infantry Division he was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. On December 13, 1944, a sniper of 259th Infantry Regiment (179th Vitebsk Infantry Division, 43rd Army, 1st Baltic Front) Senior Sergeant KD Smolensky was presented by the unit command to the Order of Lenin for the destruction of 404 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ By order No. 3 of January 14, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree for 43rd Army. He ended the war with the rank of starshina, destroying 414 fascists and becoming one of the best snipers of the Great Patriotic War. After the war, he worked as a metalworker at the machine-building plant, in the city of Frunze, Kirghiz SSR. He raised two daughters and two sons, one of whom was an adopted orphan who lost his parents during the war. He helped to raise grandchildren. He died on November 25, 1971. He was buried in Bishkek, at the "Old Cemetery", near the «Leather Factory».

Suldin Philip Efremovich, my grandfather, was born in 1922 and went to the front at the age of 19. He was a platoon Commander of 123rd Guards artillery Riga Regiment of 53rd Guards Rifle Tartu Red Banner motto. He had been part of 3 Leningrad, 1 and 2 Baltic fronts from 1941 to 1945, ended the war in Riga. He was presented to the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree for courage and fearlessness, for skillful fire control of the battery and ensuring the accelerated advancement of a supported Rifle Battalion in combats when breaking through defenses in the Petermuiža, Krimunas, Putnu-Zhids area on December 23-26, 1944. _x000D_ Being all the time in combat formations of the advancing infantry 157 GVSP, he adjusted the fire of his battery at enemy firing points. According to its correction, 5 heavy and light machine guns, 2 guns of 105 mm were destroyed, scattered and partly destroyed before an infantry platoon. He personally took part in three attacks of our infantry and on 12/25/1944 was the first to break into the enemy's trenches and shot two Nazis with his personal weapons. In eachcombat he acted decisively, skillfully and courageously, inspiring the soldiers of his platoon to complete any assigned combat mission. Being in the combat formations of the infantry, he repeatedly participated in attacks with her, twice replaced the out-of-order Commanders of Rifle companies in combats and led them to perform combat missions. Thus, in the combats of February 20-23, 1945, in the area of Priekule, he was also in the infantry combat formations, skillfully leading reconnaissance and adjusting the fire of his battery. On the night of February 21-22, when the enemy in a large group, supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, tried to break out of the encirclement, Philip Efremovich, together with his recons and platoon signalmen, courageously fought off the advancing enemy. _x000D_ At the same time, 12 Hitlerites were destroyed by his soldiers and by him personally from service weapons. In a combat with the enemy that night, he was wounded, but did not leave the combatfield, but continued to lead the repulsion of the enemy counterattack and personally exterminate the Nazis. In the combats of February 22-23, he replaced the killed battery Commander and, adjusting the fire of his guns, knocked out a self-propelled gun, destroyed two machine-gun points, suppressed the fire of a separate enemy gun standing on direct fire, scattered and partially destroyed 2 enemy infantry groups up to a company each, preparing for counterattack. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He died in January 1960 from an illness in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region.

Rank: Sergeant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Division: 161st Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolay Turchenko was born on June 15, 1921 in the village of Kholmogorovka (now - Shagan Kerbulak district of Almaty region of Kazakhstan). After finishing six years of school he worked as a tractor driver. In 1940, Turchenko was called up to serve in the Red Army. Since July 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. In combats he was seriously wounded. _x000D_ By September 1943, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko commanded a squad of 565th Rifle Regiment of 161st Rifle Division of 40th army of the Voronezh front. He distinguished himself during the combat for the Dnieper. _x000D_ As part of a reconnaissance group, Turchenko made his way into the village of Rymarovka, Gadyach district, Poltava region, Ukrainian SSR, personally capturing the "tongue", a German prisoner, and destroying 3 German soldiers. When the Soviet units reached the Dnieper, Turchenko was one of the first to cross it in the area of the village of Lukovitsa, Kanevsky district, Cherkasy region of the Ukrainian SSR, conducted reconnaissance of the German defense and took an active part in the combats to seize and hold the foothold. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 23, 1943, for “courage and heroism shown during the liberation of Ukraine and the crossing of the Dnieper”, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Turchenko was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal numbered 2024. _x000D_ After the end of the war, Turchenko was demobilized. He lived and worked first in Ulyanovsk, then in Mineralnye Vody. He died on September 25, 1972, and was buried in the city cemetery of Mineralnye Vody.

Rank: Colonel, Hero of the Soviet Union _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ SubDivision: 6th Guards Assault Aviation Zaporizhzhya twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin was born on January 25, 1919 in Samara. In 1937 Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, according to a special set, was sent to the Chkalov (Orenburg) Aviation School of Pilots, which he graduated in 1941. After completing the courses at the Lipetsk Aviation Center, he was appointed as the Flight Commander. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been participating in hostilities on the Southwest, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th guards Assault Aviation Zaporozhye Division. _x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich from 1941 to 1943 had been a Flight Commander training attack pilots. _x000D_ Since April 1943 he had been a participant in hostilities on the South-Western, 3rd and 1st Ukrainian fronts as part of 109th Assault Aviation Regiment of 6th Guards Assault Aviation Division as a flight Commander , deputy squadron Commander, Commander of 1st air squadron of the Regiment. He participated in the combats of the Kursk-Belgorod operation, in liberation of the cities of Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Sandomir, Lvov, Warsaw, Prague, the capture of Berlin. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, he flew 120 flights on the Il-2 aircraft, out of 105 flights he was the leader of a group of 4, 6, 8, 12 and 18 aircrafts. The last flight flew on May 8, 1945 to liberate Prague from the German invaders. Under the leadership of Viktor Ivanovich Sidorin, his squadron flew 555 combat missions. _x000D_ For personal bravery, courage and heroism shown in combat missions and command of an air squadron, Viktor Sidorin was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, medals "For Military Merit"," For Capture of Berlin "," For Liberation of Prague "," For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945»._x000D_ In 1945, shortly before the end of the Great Patriotic War, Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich, was nominated for the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" by Major Yashanov, Commander of 109th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment._x000D_ Sidorin Viktor Ivanovich participated in the Victory Parade on Red Square on June 24, 1945.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Nikolai Sorokin was born on August 9, 1924 in the village of Shizhgutovo, now the Rodnikovsky district. He met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War with the students of the Rodnikovsky vocational school. After graduation, he worked as a turner at a factory in the city of Furmanov. In May 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. In a howitzer reserve Regiment, he successfully mastered the military specialty of a topographer-computer. He held the test of courage in the first combats on the Volkhov and Bryansk fronts. In July 1943, already as a gunner, he took part in the combat of Kursk. By the spring of 1944, he fought as part of 1432 Light Artillery Regiment of 317th Artillery Breakthrough Division, was a gunner, then a gun Commander. As part of this Regiment, he went to Victory. _x000D_ In 1944 he joined the Communist Party. On March 27 in the area Kuyava he shot the counter-attacking enemy with point-blank fire, knocked out a tank and destroyed an infantry platoon. For this combat he received his first military award, the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ On 16/0744, 4 tanks and up to 2 infantry platoons moved to Sorokin's gun. Letting the tanks and infantry of the enemy at a distance of 300-400 meters, Sorokin entered into single combat with them. As a result of an unequal and fierce combat, 2 Tiger tanks were destroyed. Firing at the retreating infantry, he destroyed 40 enemy soldiers and officers. _x000D_ On 17.07.44 the enemy again counterattacked the Regiment's positions. The battery, where Sorokin was the gun Commander, had 18 tanks and up to an infantry Battalion. Having let the enemy at a distance of 300 meters, Sorokin opened fire from his gun. The lead tank was hit by the second round. At the moment when the crew went out of order, Private Sorokin stands at the panorama of the gun and personally knocks out the second tank himself. The enemy tanks and infantry turned back. In an unequal combat, Private Sorokin emerged victorious. For 2 days of fighting, he knocked out 4 tanks with his cannon and destroyed 110 enemy soldiers and officers, repelling 4 counterattacks. As a result, the occupied line was held, our infantry moved forward. _x000D_ "By the order of the Commander of the artillery of 60th Army, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The enemy's mortar battery was suppressed, 2 bunkers were destroyed, an armored personnel carrier with infantry was knocked out by direct fire. Having been wounded in this combat, Sorokin did not leave the gun and after rendering assistance remained in the ranks. The award for the combat was the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Sergeant Sorokin distinguished himself again in May 1945. On May 1, near the village of Got, fighting in an encirclement, he fired until the last shell, after which, by order of the Battalion Commander, he removed his guns from encirclement. For this combat he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" on the territory of Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ In 1947 he was demobilized. He returned to his homeland. He worked in Rodniki as head of the trade department. In 1956 he moved l to the city of Kaliningrad. He worked at 2nd pulp and paper mill as a loader, barker, turner. When he was entrusted to head the transport department of the enterprise, his organizational skills of the head were revealed. He retired in 1984 from the position of the head of the personnel department. He lived in the city of Kaliningrad (regional). He died on July 6, 2001. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree (15.09.1944), the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree (11.03.1985), the Red Star (05.02.1945), the Order of Glory of 3rd degree (15.04.1944), medals.

Rank: Captain _x000D_ Branch of troops: Coastal Defense and Air Defense Artillery, Coastal Units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops _x000D_ My grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, was born in 1904 in the village of Molochkovo, Ilyinsky district, Ivanovo region. After the war, he lived and worked in the city of Ivanovo, Ivanovo region, in a managerial position at a factory. Ivan Alexandrovich died in 1949 and was buried in the cemetery in the town of Sosnevo in the city of Ivanovo. His family had seven children (Yuri, Boris, Victor, Vladimir, Valery, Galina and Nikolai), his wife's name was Anna Georgievna. _x000D_ In 1927, my grandfather, Titov Ivan Alexandrovich, graduated from the Regimental School of 1st Moscow Rifle Regiment and was awarded the rank of Junior Commander of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He fought in the Finnish War. He was drafted to the Great Patriotic War in June 1941 by the Oktyabrskiy Military Comissariat of the Ivanovo Region and went through the whole war until the very end, first in parts of the Moscow Air Defense Front, then in parts of 3rd Corps of the Eastern Front of Air Defense. _x000D_ He served as a captain and commanded a platoon. He was a Senior Communist and the Secretary of the party commission of 784th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. He conducted patriotic work with soldiers, helped young soldiers incombat. According to the Military Council of the Eastern Front of the Air Defense, the state of party political work in the Regiment was recognized as the best of all parts of the Corps. With his diligence and responsiveness to the needs of the Red Army, my grandfather has earned sincere respect and authority among the personnel of the Regiment. _x000D_ During the period of the raids on the city of Gorky, he was constantly in the most critical areas, on batteries that were subjected to bomb attacks. Personal fearlessness and composure ensured efficient work of personnel and high morale. _x000D_ For his courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as other medals and distinctions. _x000D_ Our family is proud of our soldier Ivan Aleksandrovich Titov. According to my aunt's recollections, their father was kind and fair. He was a courageous man and told the children how, under open enemy fire, together with other soldiers, he fired back. Not fearing death, he went on the attack, raising everyone behind him. Of course, it was very scary in the war. It was hard for his children, at that time there were six of them, all of them had to be fed and taught.