Heroes and feats

Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko is a Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1940), twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1940, 1965), Chevalier of the Order "Victory" (1945), People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (May 1940 - July 1941), member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1938-1940), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1939-1952), member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (1938-1940), deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR of 1st convocation (1938-1947), Candidate member of the Communist Central Committee (1952-1970). _x000D_ He was considered the most competent Commander and military theorist at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War and was the Chairman of the Headquarters of the High Command in Moscow from June 23 to July 19, 1941. _x000D_ He was born on February 6 (18), 1895 in the village of Orman, Akkerman district, Bessarabian province (now Furmanovka, Kiliya district, Odessa region of Ukraine), in the family of a peasant Konstantin Gavrilovich Timoshenko (died in 1925). He is Ukrainian by nationality. He worked as a farm laborer. He graduated from a rural school. In December 1914 he was drafted into the army. In 1915 he graduated from the Regimental machine gun school and received the rank of Sergeant-Major. He participated in the First World War, was a machine gunner in 4th Cavalry Division on the Southwestern and Western Fronts. He was awarded for valor with St. George's Crosses of three degrees. He was arrested after hitting an officer and put on trial. He ended the war with the rank of ensign. _x000D_ He had been to the Red Army since 1918. He commanded a platoon since April 1918, a squadron since June 1918. In August 1918 he was the head of a Cavalry Regiment, he took part in the defense of the city of Tsaritsyn, where he met Joseph Stalin. _x000D_ Since November 1918 he was the Commander of a Cavalry Brigade, (since June 1919 he was in the corps of S.M.Budyonny). Member of the Communist Party since 1919. From November 1919 to August 1920 he is a Commander of 6th Cavalry Division, from August 1920 to October 1921 he was a Commander of 4thCavalry Division of 1st Cavalry Army. He was wounded five times, but did not leave the formation. _x000D_ For military exploits during the Civil War, he was awarded three Orders of the Red Banner and an Honorary Revolutionary Weapon. He received revolutionary weapons in November 1920 for combats on the Polish front, in particular, for withdrawing 1st Cavalry Army from the encirclement in Belarus. He graduated from the Higher Military Academic Courses in 1922 and 1927, and the courses for the one-man Commanders at the N.G. Tolmachev Military-Political Academy in 1930. He commanded 3rd and 6th cavalry corps. Since August 1933 he was a Deputy Commander of the Belorussian Military District, since September 1935 he was appointed to the Kiev Military District. From June 1937 he was Commander of the North Caucasian Military Districts, and from September 1937 worked in Kharkov Military Districts. On February 8, 1939, he was appointed Commander of the Kiev military district with the assignment of the military rank of Army Commander of 1st rank. _x000D_ During the Polish campaign of the Red Army in 1939, from September 17 to October 2, he commanded the Ukrainian Front, which was established on September 11, 1939. Successfully completed a combat mission to capture the city of Lvov. In the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940, from January 7, 1940, he commanded the North-Western Front, whose troops carried out a breakthrough of the "Mannerheim Line". After the previous failure of this operation by the People's Commissar of Defense Kliment Voroshilov, who was removed from the post of Commander on the same January 7, Tymoshenko immediately set specific operational missions and their solution. As a result, from February 1940, when the preparation was completed, the assault on the line began and its breakthrough, the city of Vyborg was taken. Thanks to the successful command of Timoshenko, on March 13, 1940, the USSR signed peace with Finland on its own terms. _x000D_ The title of Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 241) with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal to Army Commander 1st Rank Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was awarded on March 21, 1940 for "exemplary performance of command combat missions and displayed courage and heroism." On May 7, 1940 he was appointed to the post of People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR with the assignment of the highest military rank, Marshal of the Soviet Union. June 28 - July 2, after the occupation of Bessarabia by the troops of the Southern Front (Commander G.K. Zhukov) during the operation against Romania, in 1940, Tymoshenko for the first time since 1914 visited his small homeland, the village of Orman (now Furmanovka) in the Ukrainian Bessarabia, from where he was still a young man and went to the front of the First World War. In his native Furmanovka, the marshal received an enthusiastic welcome from fellow villagers. He had to speak at an impromptu meeting directly from the peasant cart. Tymoshenko spent the rest of the day and all night in contact with numerous relatives. _x000D_ In 1940-1941 Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR (replaced KE Voroshilov in this post). At the post of the People's Commissar of Defense, he carried out a lot of work to improve the combat training of troops, their reorganization, technical re-equipment, training new personnel (required due to a significant increase in the size of the army), which was not fully completed due to the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Under his leadership, the combat experience of using the Armed Forces gained in the Soviet-Finnish war was generalized and began to be introduced into the practice of training troops and staffs. Decisions were made to form mechanized corps, replace outdated tank and artillery fleets, aviation equipment, mobilize resources, improve the organization and coherence in the work of headquarters, strengthen military discipline, and improve the combat training of troops. Immediately after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, on June 23, 1941, he was appointed Chairman of the Headquarters of the High Command. _x000D_ On July 2, 1941, in connection with the catastrophic development of events in the central sector of the Soviet-German front, Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko was appointed Commander of the Western Front. On July 10, 1941, he simultaneously headed the High Command of the Western Direction Forces (remained Commander-in-chief until the abolition of the High Command on September 10, 1941). During the combat for Kiev, on September 13, 1941, S. K. Timoshenko was appointed Commander-in-chief of the troops of the South-West direction. On September 30, 1941, Timoshenko headed the reconstituted Southwestern Front, which defended on the southern flank of the Soviet-German front. At the end of November 1941, Timoshenko commanded the Soviet counteroffensive near Rostov-on-Don. On November 28, the city was taken, which was one of the first victories of the Red Army in 1941. In May 1942, Timoshenko led the Kharkov operation, as a result of which a large group of the Red Army suffered a crushing defeat. As a result of the encirclement near Kharkov, more than 200 thousand soldiers and officers of the Red Army were taken prisoner, which was one of the reasons for the future difficult situation near Stalingrad and in the Caucasus. Tymoshenko himself survived and escaped captivity. In July 1942, Timoshenko was appointed Commander of the Stalingrad Front. Since October 1942 he commanded the troops of the North-Western Front. In this position, he conducted two offensive operations during the implementation of the "Polar Star" plan, the Demyansk offensive and the Old Russian operation. _x000D_ On March 13, Marshal Tymoshenko was removed from his post as Commander of the North-Western Front. From March 1943 until the end of the war, he was a representative of the Supreme Command Headquarters and coordinated the actions of a number of fronts, took part in the development and conduct of certain operations. During the operation to withdraw Romania from the war, as an ally of Germany and taking control of the Romanian oil (Yassko-Chisinau), Tymoshenko was the coordinator of the actions of 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. The Soviet offensive in Bessarabia and Romania began on August 20, 1944, and four days later the operational encirclement of the Kishinev group of Germans and Romanians was completed. On the night of August 24, 1944, when the pro-German government of Ion Antonescu was overthrown in Bucharest, Romania ceased to be an ally of Germany. _x000D_ After the liberation of Chisinau on August 25, Semyon Konstantinovich telegraphed to JV Stalin: “The first main combat mission you set for 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian fronts has been completed. The German-Romanian troops were defeated, their remnants flee in disarray across the Siret River. The main German Chisinau group is surrounded and destroyed. Observing the skillful leadership of troops on a large scale by Malinovsky and Tolbukhin, I consider it my duty to ask ... for the assignment of the military rank "Marshal of the Soviet Union" to Army Generals Malinovsky and Tolbukhin. " Soon this request from Tymoshenko was granted. _x000D_ At the same time, Tymoshenko visited his native village for the first time since the summer of 1940. Later, S. K. Timoshenko coordinated the actions of the fronts in Hungary and Austria. On the night of September 16, 1944, he received an order from the Supreme Command Headquarters to begin coordinating the actions of 2nd and 4th Ukrainian fronts during the combats for southern Hungary and, later, to the capture of the Hungarian capital Budapest. From July 1941 to February 1945 he was a member of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. On June 4, 1945, the Commander received the highest award in the Great Patriotic War, the Order of Victory for the planning of combat operations and coordination of front operations. _x000D_ After the war he commanded the troops of Baranovichi (from March 1946 - Belarusian), from June 1946 - South Ural, from March 1949 - Belarusian military districts. Since April 1960 he had been in the Group of Inspectors General of the USSR Ministry of Defense. Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) in 1939-1952, candidate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party in 1952-1970. Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of several convocations. Member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in 1938-1940. In 1962-1970 he was Chairman of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans. He refused to write his memoirs, stating that no one would publish the truth, and that there was someone to lie to without him. _x000D_ On February 18, 1965, in the year of the twentieth anniversary of the Victory over the German Nazism of the Soviet peoples, by the decree of the Supreme Presidium of the USSR S.K. Timoshenko was awarded the second Golden Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 46), on the day of his 70th birthday: before the Motherland and the Armed Forces of the USSR ". Died 31March 1970. He was buried on April 3 on Red Square in the Kremlin Wall. _x000D_ Awards of the Russian Empire: St. George Cross, 4th degree; No. 38346. Corporal of the 304th Infantry Novgorod-Seversky Regiment Semyon Timoshenko. Awarded in recognition of the merits of the lower ranks of the garrison of the Osovets fortress, who distinguished themselves during the bombing from 13th to 16.09.1914. 16 and 28 Art. 67 of the St. George Statute. St. George cross, 3rd degree; St. George cross, 2nd degree. _x000D_ USSR awards: Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (03/21/1940, 02/18/1965). Order "Victory" (No. 11, 4.06.1945), five Orders of Lenin (22.02.1938, 21.03.1940, 21.02.1945, 18.02.1965, 18.02.1970), Order of the October Revolution (22.02.1968), five Orders of the Red Banner (25.07 .1920, 05/11/1921, 02/22/1930, 11/3/1944, 11/6/1947), three orders of Suvorov 1st degree (10/9/1943, 09/12/1944, 04/27/1945), an honorary revolutionary weapon, a personal checker with the Order of the Red Banner ( 11/28/1920), honorary checker with a gold image of the State Emblem of the USSR (02/22/1968), _x000D_ Medal "For Defense of Leningrad", Medal "For Defense of Stalingrad", Medal "For Defense of Kiev", Medal "For Defense of the Caucasus", Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. " (1945) Jubilee medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (1965) medal “For the victory over Japan” (1945) medal “For Capture of Budapest” medal “For Capture of Vienna” medal “For Liberation of Belgrade”; jubilee medal "XX years of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army" (22.02. 1938) jubilee medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" (1948) jubilee medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1958) jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1968) medal "In Commemoration of 800th Anniversary of Moscow" (1947) Medal "In Commemoration of 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" _x000D_ Foreign awards: Order of Tudor Vladimirescu 1st degree (SRR) Order of the White Lion "For Victory" (Czechoslovakia) Gold Order of the Partisan Stars (SFRY) medal "30 years of Khalkhin-Golskaya Victory" (Mongolian People's Republic) Memory: A bronze bust was installed at home - in the village of Furmanovka, Odessa region. In 2017, a monument was unveiled on the territory of the Military Academy of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Troops and Engineering Troops named after Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko in Kostroma. _x000D_ A memorial plaque on the headquarters of the Belarusian Military District and streets in St. Petersburg, Voronezh, Kiev, Izmail, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don. _x000D_ Marshal Timoshenko Street in Moscow: Memorial plaques were installed on houses No. 4 and No. 40. _x000D_ At present, the board has been installed at house number 46. The anti-submarine ship was named after him. According to a report on the official website of the Colombian Air Force, FARC leader Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri uses the pseudonym Timochenko in honor of Tymoshenko. In the USSR and Kyrgyzstan, postage stamps dedicated to Tymoshenko were issued.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ Kudaibergen Suraganov was born on May 25, 1921 in the village of Suluagash (now - Kachirsky district of Pavlodar region of Kazakhstan). After graduating from the Pavlodar pedagogical school, he worked as a teacher. In 1940, Suraganov was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941, he graduated from the courses for Junior Leiutenants. Since 1942 he had been on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. By April 1945, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov commanded the battery control platoon of 142nd Cannon Artillery Brigade of t33rd Army of 1st Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself during the Capture of Berlin. _x000D_ On April 16-23, 1945, Suraganov's platoon successfully adjusted the fire of its battery at German firing points, which helped the infantry break through to the Oder-Spree canal. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Senior Lieutenant Kudaibergen Suraganov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Golden Star "number 9074. _x000D_ He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1st degree and two Orders of the Red Star, a number of medals. In March 1947, Suraganov was transferred to the reserve. He lived in Alma-Ata. After graduating from the Kazakh Pedagogical Institute, he remained to teach there. He was Candidate of Science (Engineering). He died on February 14, 2008, was buried in Alma-Ata.

Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel_x000D_ _x000D_ May 9 is always an important and revered holiday for me. I want to tell you about my great-great-grandmother: Soboleva (Permyakova) Anastasia Efimovna was born in 1912 on July 12 in the village. Kupryakovo, Shelopuginsky district, Chita region. She passed away in 2010 at the 98th year of her life in the village of Semiozerny, Mogochinsky district. She was the youngest, the eighth child. As in any peasant family, the girl was taught to work from an early age. At the age of 6, Nastena knew how to work in the garden, help around the house. Life opened new pages every day. The carefree childhood ended quickly. There was the Civil War, revolutions, repressions of the 30s, endless change of power ... but she was lucky enough to finish 4 classes. Then hunger and poverty reigned, they ate frozen potatoes, nettles, and quinoa. She collected wild onions on the banks of the river Shilka. _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War became an ordeal for her. When she learned about the German attack, she volunteered for the front and was assigned as a nurse at the Red Cross. The husband also went to the front, and the children were taken to their grandmother. All these 5 long years she worked in a hospital or was often on the road on ambulance trains. She washed the wounded, made bandages, wore the wounded from the combatfield, saved people. _x000D_ At the end of the war, she returned home, at that time in the city of Sretensk. Soon the sad news came that her beloved was killed ... She remarried and went to work in kolkhoz. She raised ten children. _x000D_ But, unfortunately, no documents, photographs, awards have survived. Everything burned down during a fire in the house, all the archives cannot be restored, and there are almost no witnesses of those years ... Now it is difficult to even imagine how much grief, horror, and tears my ancestress had suffered.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ Division: 328th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ I know very little about my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich. All that the grandmother had time to tell was that he went to the war very quickly. A 26-year-old boy left to fight for his wife and daughter. We come from the Voronezh region of Semiluki, which stands on the right bank of the Don. It was from there that his combat path began. I don’t know the details of my grandfather’s service, my grandmother didn’t tell, the letters from the front also didn’t survive, I was just waiting for him all my life. We, all the relatives, just knew that my grandfather was missing. _x000D_ I am his grandson, Malykhin Alexander Ivanovich, for the last 2 years I have been collecting grains of everything that can be found in archives and websites, my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich served in the rank of Senior Sergeant in 328 Rifle Division under the command of Major General Peter Antonovich Eremin. His position was squad leader. The Division was stationed near Staraya Russa not far from Lake Ilmen, his combat path began from there. Then the Division was transferred to the Tula region near Bogoroditsk. There, the Division took part in the combats with the armored forces of Guderian as part of the Western Front. Then the Division of the ball was transferred to the Kaluga region in the Sukhinichi area. He took part in the combats near Kozelsk. Then he fought from Sochi to Krymsk, and in August 1943 they were transferred to Ukraine in Lugansk. Through Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, the 328 Rifle Rifle, which included my grandfather, goes to Kiev, and participates in combats near Kiev in the area of the settlement of Belgorodok. _x000D_ It all what was possible to find out after studying the combat reports of the 328th Rifle Division. The last news from him was received from the Zhytomyr region, Lutovsky district. _x000D_ There was a state notification that Tkachev I.D. born in 1915, missed in military action.

Rank: Red Army soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ _x000D_ He served in the Red Army in military unit 9722, 130 tank Regiment of 210 motorized Division of 20th Mechanized Corps. On June 19, 1941, the Division was in the settlement Osipovichi. Since July 1, 1941, the mechanized corps has been fighting in the Pukhovichi region with the combat mission of defending the eastern bank of the Berezina River. On July 8, the new Commander of 13th Army, Lieutenant General Remezov, ordered 20th mechanized corps to firmly hold the line along the eastern bank of the Drut 'River on the front of Krasnaya Sloboda, Semukachi, Brody. _x000D_ At dawn on July 9, enemy tank units broke through in the sector of 20th Mechanized Corps, flowing around its flanks in the directions of Kuta and Ugalya. The corps Commander decided to destroy the enemy that had broken through with strong detachments. Fulfilling this order, the corps units pretty much beat the SS Regiment, defeated the motor-pontoon Battalion and the communications Battalion. Subsequently, 20th Mechanized Corps was withdrawn from thecombat and concentrated in the Starinka area for resupply. _x000D_ On July 23, some parts of the corps were deployed to support the defense of the eastern sector of the ring around Mogilev. On the morning of July 26, at a meeting of the Commanders of the units and formations surrounded in Mogilev, which was attended by the corps Commander, Vedeneev, the Commanders of the Parkhomenko and Obukhov Divisions, it was decided to break through the encirclement ring. The remnants of 20th Mechanized Corps were assigned to the advance guard of the breakthrough. _x000D_ On the evening of July 27, units of 20th and 61st corps moved along three routes in the general direction of Chausy, Mstislavl, Roslavl. Southwest of Chaus, the Germans blocked the way for the retreating columns. The fighting lasted for two days, in the units there was a shortage of ammunition. _x000D_ General Bakunin ordered to destroy all the remaining equipment, vehicles, disperse the horses and break out of the encirclement in small groups of 100-200 people. He was captured on July 27, 1941 in the region of Smolensk.

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Unit: 96th Infantry Division (2nd formation) _x000D_ _x000D_ In June 1938, for the first time in the rules of conscription into the Army, I was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army for personnel service and ended up in the border troops, in the Bakhtinsky Red Banner Border Cavalry detachment. It is about 200 km from the Ayaguz railway station in the Almaty region - to the Chinese border, where I had to serve for three years. The end of my service life, we began to get ready home, but at that time the Patriotic War began and I was sent to Kharkov to the Kharkov Cavalry Frontier School. But soon a German began to approach Kharkov,all of us at the school began to evacuate to the rear. We got to some station, it seems "Balanda" (but not exactly), where two or three days later the freight cars were brought and we were taken to Tashkent. Of course, we didn't know it right away. _x000D_ Then we realized that we were driving along our own highway and with my Aktobe comrade at one station gave my mother a telegram home, but she received it a month after my passage. When we arrived in Aktyubinsk, there was a severe frost, I lifted the flaps of my overcoat and without rest ran to our hut, went into the hut and did not sit down, only said where our train was. They were in time, i.e. Mom and sisters came, it was deep night, we saw each other ... _x000D_ In Tashkent, after graduating from college, I was awarded the title of Junior. Lieutenant and sent to the border town of Jarkent, now Panfilov. There was a border detachment and I ended up at the Baskunchi border outpost as an assistant to the head of the outpost. At the end of April 1942, the chief of staff of the detachment came to our outpost and sent me to the border at night at 10 o'clock. This was the time of increased border protection. After spending the night by the river, I fell ill, a subcutaneous abscess appeared in my throat. I lay for several days at the outpost, I did not feel better, then they took me to Jarkent to the medical unit, and from there to the city hospital, where they made an autopsy of this abscess. _x000D_ Here, in this hospital, I met a young nurse in a blue gas kerchief. On July 20, 1942, this young nurse called me at the Zastava and arrived in a car with a movie-making machine and became my wife, Anna Panteleevna, your mother and grandmother. We lived with her at the Baskunchi outpost for four months and on November 23, 1942, we left for Dzharkent, from where I went to the front. Our Commander of the Alma-Ata district decided to form a Division from border guards, he was allowed, but he was not allowed to go to the front. I arrived in Sverdlovsk for the formation, and from there I arrived at the Rogolevo farm, where I received a platoon of soldiers and conducted courses on training Junior Leiutenants. On April 2, 1943, they left this farm, on April 27 they arrived in Kursk and reached the village of Krasnaya Polyana, here they stopped in the steppe and on May 13, 1943 cadets were graduated. I was left in a reserve Regiment and defensive work was carried out near the town of Fatezh (Kursk Region). _x000D_ On June 10, 1943, I was awarded the rank of Lieutenant, and on June 16, I was appointed to the position of Battalion Adjutant. Due to illness, I ended up in the hospital with his hands, recovered, ended up in the personnel department of the 48th Army, from where he was sent to the barrage detachment by the platoon Commander of the border outpost. _x000D_ On November 23, 1943, they arrived in Rechitsa (Belarus). On the day of the 26th anniversary of the Red Army, February 23, 1944. I was given the rank of Senior Lieutenant. On June 26, 1944, they entered the city of Zhlobin (Belarus). On July 2, 1944, they entered the city of Bobruisk (Belarus). On August 3, 1944, they entered the city of Belsk (Poland). On November 9, 1944, I left the barrage detachment, there was no need for their existence, and on November 27, 1944, I ended up in 96th Infantry Division. _x000D_ On January 25, 1945, I was wounded in the right elbow joint near the town of Wormditt (East Prussia). After recovery, I went to the front, and on April 6, 1945, I was again seriously wounded in the right leg and side by shell fragments, when removed, the total cut of the body was 78 centimeters. _x000D_ Until now (until the end of life), there are two small metal fragments in the right lung and one or two in the leg. It was on the spit beyond the city of Danzig (Poland, now Gdansk), in the second shock army of 2nd Belarusian Front. With this wound I ended up in a hospital in the city of Dzerzhinsk, not far from the city of Gorky. For military combats I was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit", the Orders "Red Star" and "Patriotic War II Art." (Later dad was also awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany.) Victory Day found me in a hospital in Dzezhrinsk. I still did not get up from my bed, I could not. And I celebrated this holiday lying on my bed. Discharged from the hospital on July 17 1945, arrived in Moscow, and from there I was sent to the Nekouz district military enlistment office of the Yaroslavl region for further service._x000D_ In brief: from 24.11.1942 to 20.02.1944 - the Western 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon; 02/20/1944 to 10/15/1944 - 2nd Belorussian Front in the position of Senior Adjutant; from 10/15/1944 to 04/09/1945 - 2nd Belorussian Front as Commander of a Rifle platoon, Commander of a Rifle company. From 04/09/1945 - on recovery after a severe injury; 02/17/1946 — demobilized.

Rank: Red Army soldier _x000D_ SubDivision: 238th Infantry Karachevskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division Sviridov Nikolay was fighting since March 1942 as a mortarman in 6th, 843rd, 2nd Battalion Infantry Regiment, 238 Rifle Division (Karachevskaya), 22 army. Most likely, he took part in Operation Mars in 1942. Their regiment and division left the encirclement with heavy fighting in the Rzhev area. During the breakthrough, the Division suffered heavy combat losses and losses from hunger and disease. The Division broke through in the autumn of 1942 through the swamps and dense forests of Smolensk and Rzhev. _x000D_ After leaving the encirclement, it was reorganized near Moscow, and sent to the region of Rzhev and the city of Bely, Smolensk region (now Tverskaya). At the end of 1942 and the beginning of 1943, the Division and the Regiment participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemsk offensive operation, directly to liberate the cities of Rzhev and Bely. _x000D_ Nikolai Fyodorovich Sviridov was killed in an attack in March 1943, in a combat for the villages of Gribovo and Zabolotye, Belsky District. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Zabolotye (1119 people, 14 of which are unknown). _x000D_ The burial has survived to this day, although the villages have been abandoned since 2007. In 2014, slabs with the names and initials of all the fallen were installed on the grave. According to updated data in 2014, 1227 soldiers and Commanders of the Red Army are buried in the mass grave. Among them is Dmitry Ignatievich Kuznetsov, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Rank: Military Assistant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel _x000D_ Division: 75th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ Military feldsher Skitnevskaya Maria Fominichna was in 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion of 75th Division. She was born in 1910 in the town of Opochka, Pskov region. A participant in the Finnish War, in 1940 she was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In May 1941 she is a part of 110 Medical Sanitary Battalion, 75 Rifle Divisions. It was sent to the city of Mozyr, Belorussian SSR. On the morning of June 22, the location of the unit was subjected to massive shelling and bombing from the advancing German troops, military assistant Maria Skitnevskaya, along with other doctors began to provide assistance to the wounded Soviet soldiers. The superior forces of the enemy cut off a group of Soviet military medics, who remained with wounded soldiers, from the main forces of the Division. _x000D_ Attempts to break out of the encirclement were unsuccessful; as a result, a group of female military assistants with seriously wounded soldiers, left without combat commanders, was forced to hide in the surrounding forests. As food supplies were running low, they had to make forays into nearby villages. _x000D_ Once they ran into a German patrol and were captured by German captives. In captivity, Maria Skitnevskaya assisted Soviet prisoners of war in the hospital of the prisoner of war camp in Malorita. _x000D_ In June 1942, military assistant Maria Fominichna Skitnevskaya was shot by the Germans along with other doctors and prisoners of war of Jewish nationality. _x000D_ Eternal memory to Soviet military doctors who remained faithful to their duty and oath to the end!

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Unit: 290th Rifle Mogilev Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Lyubov Semyonovna, wife of A.P. Stetsun, tells:_x000D_ «Alexander Stetsun had become a participant in the war since May 1943. There were behind two difficult years for the country. Young Stetsun watched and listened to the cannon fire in the direction of Taganrog, saw the glow of the conflagrations and bombing of Azov and Kagalnik. Alexander survived the occupation of the Azov region. _x000D_ Leaving for the front, Alexander understood that the front is a test not only of courage, but also of the ability to fight. Seven-year education enabled him, in a short time, in 374th Reserve Regiment, where he was sent, to master the military professions of a 120-mm gunner as a mortar and signalman. After completing training, Alexander Stetsun, a year later, as part of 878th Infantry Regiment of 290th Infantry Division of 49th Army, was preparing to participate in the famous military operation Bagration to liberate Belarus. _x000D_ The Regiment on the eve of the offensive was pulled up to the Dnieper River, which had to be overcome on improvised means: boats, rafts and even barrels tied together. Young, unfired soldiers were supposed to go to break through the Mogilev defensive line of the fascists at dawn. The rain, which began in the evening, poured all night. The soldiers' clothes became wet. On July 27, barely dawn, the signal was given to attack. In the pre-dawn darkness, with almost no casualties, the company where Stetsun served crossed the wide Dnieper; further, without stopping, the fighters followed the artillery barrage. _x000D_ Almost continuous marshes of Belarus had to be overcome in "wet shoes" as the locals call a semblance of skis woven from willow twigs and put on their feet. In the combats for the city of Mogilev, Private Stetsun A.P. he was promoted to the rank of Junior Sergeant and appointed to the post of squad leader. _x000D_ During the attack on Minsk, it became known that in the neighboring unit, a member of the tank landing of the Guard, Private Yuri Smirnov, seriously wounded, was captured by the Germans. When our troops broke into the location of the Nazis, in one of the dugouts they found the body of a young man nailed to an armchair.They found interrogation protocols in which there was not a single answer to the questions asked by the Nazis. Later Yu. V. Smirnov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Shocked by what they heard, the soldiers, with even greater hatred, went into the combat. _x000D_ _x000D_ The combats for Mogilev, Minsk, Grodno went relatively well for the mortarman Stetsun, but in East Prussia, in the area of Rastenburg, where Hitler's headquarters "Wolf's Pit" was located, he was not lucky. In a mortar duel with the enemy, he was seriously wounded in his right arm. It happened on February 25 of the victorious 1945. Once in the hospital, the young soldier did not complete his treatment and fled to his Regiment, and now he is back in the ranks, but already in the position of a signalman. _x000D_ A.P. Stetsun finished the war in 1945, but continued to serve, training personnel for the army: tank mechanics, communications electricians. His military service ended in 1951, after 8 years Alexander Petrovich returned home. _x000D_ Later he took part in the development of virgin lands. He worked for over 20 years at the SKB KO pilot plant. As a talented innovator and an excellent production worker, he added labor awards to military awards, orders and medals, about 50 notes of gratitude were made in his work book. _x000D_ It is not for nothing that in honor of the military and labor feat of such as A.P. Stetsun, the poet wrote: "... A medal for a combat, a medal for labor is poured from the same metal ..."

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation _x000D_ Division: 17th Long-Range Aviation Division _x000D_ _x000D_ In the fall and winter in 1941, Sophia worked in the trenches beyond the city of Gorky. She walked in bast shoes, was freezing. They felled the forest. At the end of March she came home and in May, where got a job in workshop No. 2 at a factory. She was making wads for guns. She worked for twelve hours at the machine equipment. After work, I was sent to build a club. They dragged the sand. A beautiful club was built. _x000D_ She had worked for eight months and volunteered for the front. April 30 saw off. May 1 was in Gorky. They summoned the Komsomol district committee and began campaigning for the front. She was thinking, I am alone, there will be nobody to cry over me, my fatehr has another family. Although Sonya had aт exemption from active duty, she was taken at first to the naval fleet to berth No. 3. _x000D_ The captain came from Moscow, made a selection for the courses. We received a ration and, not knowing where, went in the direction of Moscow. He brought us to the Zvenigorod district to the Dubrovsky Estate. There were four stone houses. Two women battalions were formed to study to be cooks and junior commanders. Sonya ended up in 1st Battalion. The girls pitched tents on both sides of the alley in the Dubrovsky estate. The house was burned down. She studied for six months: combat, chemical preparation, shooting, quite good grades. _x000D_ She had passed the exams and was given given the rank Sergeant (three stripes). _x000D_ They sent her to the front through Moscow, and there was a salute. Sonya received food ration for five days. She was appointed to 17th Air Force. _x000D_ The Red Army had already driven the Germans to Ukraine. In the train to Kramatorsk when she came under bombing in the town of Valuyki. 4 pilots were traveling with them. It turned out they were going to the same army. The pilots said: «Jump, some into the forest, some under the bridge.»_x000D_ Sonya got under the car ... _x000D_ She spent the night in the woods in the woman’s hut. This woman could not wake them up and the next bombing slept like dead. The windows were broken, they heard nothing. They were not allowed to Kupinsk. They stopped the train and bombed again. The entire train burned down. Two carriages of soldiers were bombed, the heads and hands were found around. _x000D_ Only then Sonya got scared. She didn't know what to say or do. The pilots took them to the Commander. In the evening she continued with a different team. _x000D_ She had finally reached the 17th Air Force. We gave the papaers and were waiting. It was August. Then they were called in and distributed them to military units. I had mail number 64392-RAO-385. _x000D_ She arrived at 50 km from Kramatorsk to the Battalion headquarters. Sonya was left in the Battalion 10 km from the Headquarters. She left with the soldiers from the food base. Captain Ignatenko was at the headquarters. He appointed Sonya to the autocompany. The starshina gave a day of rest. She bathed in the river, washed, dried laundary on the branches of the trees. _x000D_ Suddenly, the starshina said: "They are taking you away from us. Beyond the river there is a separate unit, an airfield construction company." _x000D_ At tha time, Alexey Ivanovich Sharygin was leavng the headquarters. He came up and asked: "Are you coming to our company?" "Yes, to you." "Are you a Komsomol member?" "Yes, I am a Komsomol member." "Come to our headquarters and register." _x000D_ Later he became her husband. She served as a gunsmith, refueling aircraft machine guns. In 1945 she was demobilized.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Unit: 277th Infantry Roslavl Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Sergeantov Gerasim Zakharovich, Red Army soldier, 1903-1977. _x000D_ Place of birth: the village of Yamshchina, Insar region of the Mordovian ASSR. _x000D_ Place and date of conscription: June 1, 1942, Insar Military Comissariat of Insar region of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. _x000D_ Place of service: Ground Forces, Stalingrad Front, 734th Infantry Regiment, 277th Infantry Division. _x000D_ Gerasim Zakharovich was married to Olga Mikhailovna Ladanova, had four children: Mikhail, Vasily, Anna, Alexander. The combat path of Gerasim Sergeantov began in June 1942 with the defense of Stalingrad. On September 13, 1942, in the combat for the Grachi borough of the Stalingrad region, as a result of a wound in the left shin, the shooter of 734th Rifle Regiment of the 277th Rifle Division was taken to the Medical Battalion, where his leg was amputated. _x000D_ The Red Army soldier Sergeant was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Despite the amputation of his leg, Gerasim Zakharovich continued to fight. He and his comrades liberated Stary Oskol in May 1943, then Belgorod, Kremenchug, in 1944: Kirovograd, Znamenka, Rodnikovka, Vatutino, then his path went through Moldova to Romania-Orshova, Velika Planu, Selevats, Raikovats, Ripan, Sarhat, then through Croatia to Hungary - Bolman, Dravaszabolts, Adolyas, Sanyozro, Kastelosdombo, Horomoru, in 1945 Kislang, Deg, Ozora, Mesozilas, Pinskheli, Balatokarattia to Lower Austria - Aspang-Markt ...

Title: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather's name was Alexander Fyodorovich Popushkov, born in 1921. He began his service in the Red Army at the end of 1940. He was drafted from the Vologda region and ended up in a unit that was located in Karelia, in beautiful, but cold and harsh places. He had to work as a driver on an old truck that often broke down. The military specialty of the Red Army soldier Popushkov was an electrician-signalman, but basically he had to transport cargo and ammunition along the front roads. When the Finnish war ended, everyone was already waiting for demobilization and meeting with relatives, but it did not come true. _x000D_ The Great Patriotic War began. Great-grandfather spent all six years of his service until the beginning of 1947 on the Kola Peninsula. All places were familiar, but it was impossible to get used to air raids on the road or shelling. Long, cold winters, the hard work of the driver and the constant danger of being injured or killed by bombing raids are not easy. _x000D_ The experience of the first Finnish war helped him protect himself from shrapnel and bullets, he knew the area very well, noticed in advance the places where it was possible to hide the car and survive the shelling himself, and even repair the truck when damage occurred. _x000D_ For one such case, he received a medal "For Military Merit." _x000D_ Great-grandfather Sasha did not like to remember the days of the war, he lost many of his front-line friends and Commanders. At that difficult time, they did not try to be proud of their merits, did not flaunt it. _x000D_ All his life, great-grandfather, a war veteran, worked as a tractor driver on a state farm, raised six children, and then looked after his sick wife and passed away almost immediately after her, leaving his grandchildren a good memory.

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Division: 306th Ribshevskaya Rifle Red Banner Division. _x000D_ _x000D_ Subbotin Mikhail Alekseevich was born in the village of Repnikha, Varnavinsky district, Kostroma region in 1903. He was the eldest son in a large peasant family. Since childhood he had worked hard: looked after the younger ones and helped his parents. He graduated from school in Varnavino, then worked in kolkhoz in his native Repnikha. _x000D_ From the first days of the war, he was in the army. Earlier, Mikhail carefully studied the machine gun. More than once he showed his skill in combats, was considered an excellent machine gunner. With well-aimed fire, Mikhail Alekseevich helped his comrades to carry out important missions. _x000D_ In the initial period of the war, our army retreated. The enemy was strong. In 1943, 306th Rifle Division, where Mikhail served, fought fierce combats in Belarus near the town of Surazh, Vitebsk region. The Germans approached from all sides. The situation was critical. To save the Regiment, someone had to stop the enemies. _x000D_ The commander ordered Mikhail Alekseevich to stay and cover the regiment's retreat with machine gun fire. And this order was carried out with dignity. Many enemies found death there. Saving his comrades, he died. Mikhail fulfilled the order of the great Commander Suvorov: "Die yourself, but help your comrade." _x000D_ Subbotin Mikhail Alekseevich was buried in mass grave No. 35 near the village of Kotovo, Surazh district, Vitebsk region. The whole family is proud of the feat of Mikhail Alekseevich, and I try to be worthy of his memory.

Rank: Red Army soldier _x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Andreevich Potapov was born into a peasant family. His father died tragically when Ivan was 6 weeks old. The elder brother Pavel left for the Army in 1913 and further linked his life with military affairs, rising to the rank of Major General. Brother Peter and sister Maria had their families and left for Moscow. _x000D_ On January 21, 1924, Ivan Andreevich married Maria Ivanovna Chigina, who came to the village Kurovo from St. Petersburg. In marriage, they had 8 children: 4 sons and 4 daughters. Unfortunately, the girl Tonya died in infancy. The youngest son was born in October 1941 already without a father and was named Ivan in his honor. The eldest son Nikolai fought with the Nazis and died on January 24, 1945 in Hungary from a serious injury and a great loss of blood in the hands of his comrade. He informed his relatives in a letter about Nikolai's death. The second son of Ivan Andreevich,Konstantin, was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1944 and served in it for 7 years. _x000D_ Before the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Andreevich worked at the mill. During the period of the organization of kolkhoz, I.A. Potapov was one of the first to donate a horse to a kolkhoz. He was a decent and honest man, hardworking. _x000D_ The cellar made by his hands has survived to this day, in good condition and suitable for use. The name of Ivan Andreevich is immortalized on the monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers. "Nobody is forgotten and nothing is forgotten."

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Ivan Sedov was born on December 11, 1913 on the Shurupovsky farm (now the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region). After finishing four years of school, he worked at a machine-tractor station. In 1937-1939 he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army, graduated from the courses of Junior military technicians. _x000D_ In August 1941, Sedov was recruited into the army and sent to the front of the Great Patriotic War. From 23 to 24 November 1942, he was Commander of the tank of 310th Tank Battalion of 109th Tank Brigade. Lieutenant Sedov, with his crew took part in three attacks in the area of the Vertyachy farm. Skillfully maneuvering on the combatfield, adjusting to the terrain, he went ahead of the group of tanks and by radio he adjusted the fire of the remaining tanks on the combatfield, being in the tank for more than 20 hours. By the end of the day on November 24, 1942, he reached the milestone, which is half a kilometer north-west of Vertyachiy. In three attacks, 7 guns, 5 machine guns, 2 bunkers, 90 soldiers and officers were destroyed. _x000D_ By order of the Don Front troops of November 16, 1942, on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the Command on the front against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. Senior Lieutenant Ivan Viktorovich Sedov, by order of 6th Guards Cavalry Corps of 08/06/1944 No. 021 / N, was awarded the Order of the First Degree of Patriotic War. _x000D_ From the award list, the following is known about the feat: _x000D_ «...in a combat with the German invaders on July 26, 1944, while performing a combat mission to capture the village of P-Gora, withdrawing tanks, he showed courage and heroism. Performing the function of a tank Commander at the same time, Sedov suppressed, bursting into the village, 4 enemy medium-caliber guns, 1 anti-aircraft gun, one passenger car, up to 30 carts with horses, and also destroyed up to 40 Nazis.When he took possession of the village of P-Gora, Comrade Sedov, despite the fact that no one helped him, kept the whole day S-Mountain in his hands, despite repeated enemy counterattacks Sedov for his skillful leadership of the tank, which inflicted heavy losses on the enemy: defeated the enemy's train, destroyed 12 guns and over 100 Hitlerites.»_x000D_ By October 1944, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov commanded a company 250- 1st Tank Regiment, 13th Guards Cavalry Division, 6th Guards Cavalry Corps, 2nd Ukrainian Front. Distinguished during the liberation of Hungary. 24 October In 1944, Sedov's company, during the combat for the Hungarian city of Nagkallo, took acombat with 20 enemy tanks, knocking out 6 of them and forcing the rest to withdraw. In that combat, Sedov died. _x000D_ He was buried in a square in the Hungarian city of Balkani. From the response to a request from the Frolovsky military registration and enlistment office to the Hungarian Red Cross, it is known that after the war, the remains of Soviet soldiers buried in the village of Balkan were reburied at the Soviet military cemetery in the city of Nyiregyhaza. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 28, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Ivan Sedov was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Patriotic War of 1st degree.