Heroes and feats

Branch of troops: Aviation. _x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather Victor Alexandrovich Sidorochev, born in 1922, always dreamed of being a pilot, studied well at school, went in for sports, played musical instruments domra and balalaika. He was very tall (over 180 cm) and for this they did not want to take him to the flight school, as they were afraid that he would not fit into the aircraft. However, the desire and persistence of his grandfather helped him to enter the flight school on June 9, 1941, as he studied well. And on June 22, 1941, the war began. I know that my grandfather was a radio operator in 6th Guards Long-range Aviation Division, consisting of the 17th Guards Long-range Air Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel A.E. Matrosov. He was armed with Il-4 aircraft. The regiment began its combat activities from the Monino airfield on 05/27/43, making its first sortie to bomb the Mogilev railway junction. This was followed by successful combat missions of the regiment to bombard enemy manpower and equipment at railway junctions and airfields in the area of cities: Mogilev, Vitebsk, Kiev, Orel, Belgorod, Bryansk, Pskov, Orsha, Unecha, Smolensk, Bobruisk, Roslavl, Nizhin, Bakhmach, Kremenchug, Poltava, Ponyri and others. _x000D_ Since the beginning of July 1943, the Regiment of 6 GAP DD received a combat mission to act in the interests of the troops of the fronts located on the northern and southern faces of the Kursk Bulge. At Kursk, the Regiment made 263 flights, dropping 383 tons of bombs on the enemy. _x000D_ After the combat of Kursk, operating from the "jump" airfields during a short summer night, the Regiment's crews made 2-3 flights to defeat the Nazi troops in the area of the cities of Smolensk and Roslavl. _x000D_ Being on a combat mission on 08.24.1943, my grandfather with all his crew did not return, they were shot down by German invaders in the Diminichsky district of the Kaluga region, where the entire crew V.M. Deulin, V.A. is buried in a mass grave in the village of Vysokoe.

My grandfather was born on July 10, 1929 in the village of Novoselovo, Oryol region. A little later, he and his parents, brothers Sasha, Kolya and sister Maria moved to Orel. In 1941 he was 12 years old. On the very first day of the war, the entire Oryol region was transferred to martial law. _x000D_ Little Petya, together with his friend, the same kid, fled to the front, but was caught and returned to his mother. But by nature little Petya was a very stubborn and brave boy and did not leave the thought of fighting the enemy. Oryol was captured on October 3, 1941. An underground was organized in the city. The partisan detachments stationed in the occupied territory of the Oryol region behind enemy lines were numerous and they had to hide in the forests. For orientation on the terrain, the partisans needed a local guide, someone who could walk the streets without hindrance and would be inconspicuous to the enemy. These guides were my grandfather, 12-year-old Petya Tizanov and his friend Tolik Kretov. The boys, disguised as wandering through the streets of the city, conducted reconnaissance of the enemy's military installations and transmitted information to the partisans. These small but brave children fearlessly made sabotage forays into the food warehouses of the Nazis and delivered provisions for the partisans. _x000D_ After the counter-offensive on July 12, 1943 on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge, Soviet troops began to rapidly advance towards Orel. And then my grandfather, then a child at all, did not stand aside. When the first reconnaissance detachment of the Red Army approached the city, on their way, by some chance, the boy Petya Tizanov met, who told in all the details how to get into the city unnoticed, drew a detailed plan of where the strategically important objects of the enemy are located, spoke about the number of German troops and about where, how much and what kind of military equipment the Nazis have. _x000D_ On the night of July 26, 1943, Soviet long-range aircraft bombed Oryol. The German command decided to leave the Oryol foothold. The Germans began to evacuate the city. The eagle was declared a war zone. This is how the liberation of Oryol began. Even then, very young, Petya Tizanov, looking at the torment of the wounded, dreamed of becoming a military doctor and when he turned 18, the war was over for two years already, he entered the Odessa Naval Medical School and made his dream come true , became a military doctor. According to the distribution, he was sent to serve in the Baltic States, Klaipeda. There, as part of diving groups, he was engaged in lifting the ships sunk during the Great Patriotic War. Once, while participating in an operation to rescue the crew of a sunken submarine, my grandfather Pyotr Afanasyevich Tizanov gave his scuba gear to a sailor of the submarine's crew for lifting from the bottom of the sea, and he himself emerged without a scuba gear and received a serious barotrauma, a ruptured lung. He didn’t feel sorry for himself, but saved the life of a man. _x000D_ After the end of the service, my grandfather moved to live and work in the Kiev region, he devoted his whole life to saving the life and health of people. He was married to the only and beloved Tizanova (Voronova) Lina Vasilievna. He raised a daughter and a son, had three grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. He passed away at the age of 87, a month and a half after the death of his wife, 04/07/2016. _x000D_ P.S. My dear, beloved Grandfather-Daddy Petya .. That is how I called my grandfather in childhood .. I love you so much .. You are no longer with us, but you are alive in our hearts, in our children and you will live in our grandchildren and great-grandchildren .. Your loving granddaughter Anechka ..

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ _x000D_ When the war began, my father Terentyev Gavriil Yegorovich lived in the village of Kolomino, Chainsky district, Tomsk region. A sixteen-year-old owner stayed with a young sister in his arms, his mother died in 1940, his father is in prison, his older brother is at the front. He worked on the subsidiary farm of the Kolpashevsky regional consumer union. _x000D_ In August 1942, at the age of 17, he was drafted into the army, sent to an artillery training in the Chelyabinsk region, where gunners were trained. He finished his studies until October 1942 and went to the front in 1436th Guards Self-Propelled Regiment as a 122mm gunner, and from January 1943 he was at 3rd Guards Tank Corps. _x000D_ In March 1943, he was wounded somewhere near Kharkov, the self-propelled gun was knocked out, it caught fire, not all survived. There came the first death notofication for my father. He lay with a concussion and burns in a hospital in Voronezh, the hospital was then transferred to the Somovo station, Voronezh was often bombed. They treated him for a month, after the concussion he heard poorly in his right ear. _x000D_ Near Akhtyrka, the self-propelled gun was set on fire again, the hair on his head burned out and his left hand was badly burned, and he temporarily lost his sight. The survivors were taken prisoners, and whether someone else survived or not he did not know because he was not able to see. He jumped out of the hatch directly into the hands of the Germans. _x000D_ So came the second death notofication, "notice-duplicate": "I inform you that your son, Red Army soldier Gavriil Yegorovich Terentyev, was killed on August 20, 1943 in the combat for the socialist homeland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage. Buried: Kolkhoz "Udarnik", Sumy region. Basis: case number 10, page 34, Kolpashevsky civil enlistment office, Lieutenant Colonel Merker. The crew of that car: mechanic driver Bondarenko from the Kuban, Pykhtin from Moscow, forgot the name and surname of Uzbek._x000D_ They were taken prisoners, taken to the river, to a hospital for prisoners. Then they were sent by train to Slavuty in the Vinnitsa region, then to East Prussia in the city of Homerstein, attempts to escape, tightening the regime ... _x000D_ On April 16, 1945, the allies liberated the British prisoners of war and those who were taken to Germany to work, formed a Regiment. He went through interrogations in a special department, was issued new documents, a little distorted data, lost awards. But this is not so important, the main thing was – he is still alive. He was sent to 40th self-propelled Regiment as the Commander of the 57 mm anti-tank gun. He was demobilized in February 1947.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ SubDivision: 77th Infantry Simferopol Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze _x000D_ Artyom grew up and was brought up in Stalin's family along with other children, was a close friend of his son Vasily. In 1938, Artem Sergeev graduated from the 10th grade, from the 2nd Moscow Special Artillery School and voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army. _x000D_ From October 1938 to September 1940 he was cadet, Junior Commander (Sergeant), starshina of the battery of 2nd Leningrad Artillery School (formerly Mikhailovsky). In 1940 he joined the Communist party and in October of the same year with the rank of Lieutenant he was appointed platoon Commander of 13th Artillery Regiment of 1st Rifle Division. He met the war on the western borders as a platoon Commander of 152-mm M-10 howitzers. _x000D_ It happened on June 26, 1941 in Belarus. Already on July 1-2, 1941, Sergeev took part in a fierce defensive combat for the city of Borisov and the crossing of the Berezina River. His artillery battery was destroyed, and the young Lieutenant took over the command of a Rifle company that covered the regiment's retreat. On July 13, the Germans took Sergeev's company into a trap in the area of the town of Gorki and captured him. He was in a prison in the city of Orsha, they planned to shoot him, but on July 23 he managed to escape with several comrades. The group formed the nucleus of the future partisan detachment, to which the soldiers and Commanders of the Red Army began to join. _x000D_ Fighting as part of a partisan detachment, Artyom was wounded for the first time, but by no means the last time. After being cured in a hospital in December 1941, he returned to his 13th Artillery Regiment, which became the 35th Guards. He was the Chief of Reconnaissance of a Division, a Battery Commander, then a Division Commander. _x000D_ On February 18, near Yukhnov, he was again wounded, after the hospital he returned to the Regiment, but in June 1942 he got a new wound. All together, Sergeev A.F. had nine wounds, two of which were very serious. Doctors miraculously saved his left hand, and later he was on the verge of death being hit with a bayonet in the stomach. On June 3, 1942, not completely recovered, he returned to his 35th Guards Artillery Regiment as Battalion Commander, but after 2 weeks he was wounded again and was sent away from the Regiment for follow-up treatment for 3 months. _x000D_ In December 1942, after training at the Higher Officers' Artillery School, he was appointed Chief of Staff of 266th Army Artillery Regiment. After the end of the Stalingrad operation in February, the Regiment from 62nd Army left for the North-Western Front in 68th Army. _x000D_ In April Sergeev was appointed deputy Regiment Commander. In June, the Regiment was transformed into 211st Guards Army Artillery Regiment. _x000D_ From December 1943 to April 1944 Sergeev was the Commander of 554th Army Artillery Rogachevsky Red Banner Regiment. In April he was wounded again. From July to October 1944 he was Commander of 156th Guards Artillery Regiment of 77th Guards Rifle Division. In January 1945, he was Deputy Commander of 140th Army Cannon Artillery Brigade. _x000D_ He took part in combats in the Baltics, East Prussia, Silesia, Saxony, Czechoslovakia. He ended the war on May 12, 1945 as a Lieutenant Colonel._x000D_ After the war he served as a Regiment Commander in Hungary. In August 1945 he was sent to Moscow to the Artillery Academy. After completing his studies in 1951, he commanded 34th Cannon Artillery Brigade of the Carpathian Military District. Then he entered the Military Academy named after K.E. Voroshilov, from which he graduated in 1954. After graduating from the academy, he served in command positions. _x000D_ He retired in 1981 with the rank of Major General of Artillery. In 2006 he published a collection of stories-memoirs about the war "Stories of an artilleryman" and, in co-authorship with Yekaterina Glushik, the book "Conversations about Stalin." Became a member of the Writers' Union of Russia. He was a member of the Donbass community in Moscow. He passed away on January 15, 2008.

Rank: Junior Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Vikenty Vasilievich Smolin, was born on October 26, 1918 in the Vologda region, Chebsar district, village Sholomovo. His parents Smolin Vasily and Zelenkova Alexandra Konstantinovna had 5 children. His father returned from the army sick, his boots were frozen to his feet. When dad was 3 years old, grandfather died of pneumonia. His mother was left a widow at 32 with children: Nikolai, who was missed in the war, Lydia, Nina, Maria / died in infancy / and the younger Vincent. My grandmother worked in an artel, weaved beautiful Vologda lace, which was sold abroad, including to England. _x000D_ In addition, he had to manage the house and run the entire household, take care of the cattle in order to raise and feed the children. Approximately in 1939, dad left for Arkhangelsk. On 09/20/1939 he was added to the reserve. And then the war began. _x000D_ On 18/12/1942 my father was called up for active military service in Artillery Regiment. From January 1943 to May 1946 he served as the Commander of the reconnaissance department of an artillery and mortar unit. As a Junior Sergeant, he participated in military campaigns from 01/27/1943 to 05/09/1945. _x000D_ On 23/08/1943 for military operations he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". On 30/03/1944 was wounded when with a friend carried out of the combatfield the Commander, for this action he was awarded 09/01/1944 the Order of the Red Star. For participation in fierce combats on the Leningrad Front 03/05/1945 he awarded the Order of Glory III degree. The very hard combats that my father recalled were near Luga, Staraya Russa. He spent the entire war on the front line, having experienced all the difficulties of military service during the war. He served in artillery reconnaissance, had to go for a German prisoner at any time of the year and in any weather, lie for hours in the cold in the snow, in the summer in the hot sun. With pain he recalled a case when shells of the wrong caliber were brought to the gun, howitzer, and with delight about the Katyusha that had appeared at the end of the war. _x000D_ For Liberation of Soviet Latvia he earned the gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin. _x000D_ On 13/10/1944 at 4 o'clock in the morning, our soldiers were the first to walk along the deserted streets of Riga. My father was one of them. In the Baltics, the war ended for my father. They learned about the Victory 08/05/1945. Everyone was happy, hugging, kissing each other, firing weapons. Then, on May 9, 1945, the victory was officially announced. _x000D_ But despite the fact that the war was over, my father had to serve for another year. _x000D_ After demobilization in May 1946, my father came to Murmansk, got a job at the Murmansk seaport, worked as a loader and crane operator. On 02/22/1948 he married Sidorovskaya Anna Kuzminichna, and they had three children: me, Nadezhda, and my brother Nikolay. _x000D_ Then the whole family left for the Arkhangelsk region, Konosha district, the Krasnoye village, but Murmansk pulled back and we returned. He worked at Murmanskmorstroy. Wherever he was,whether he fought or worked, his merits were celebrated everywhere. For his excellent work, he was repeatedly awarded and acknowledged. _x000D_ Then he became a grandfather, he loved very much his grandchildren. This is how the life of one modest man had passed, difficult and peaceful, quiet and inconspicuous. On 04/04/1983 my dad passed away. _x000D_ Many times, at the invitation, he went to schools and told children about the war. I am very sorry that I, being his daughter, had little interest in the war period of his life, and because of his modesty he spoke so little about it himself. Only when he was drank did he like to sing the song "Fire is beating in a cramped dugout" and cried when they performed "Victory Day" and "Holy War", remembering their fellow soldiers and the harsh war days.

Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. _x000D_ Не was born on October 1, 1921 in the village of Tatary, Kotelnichsky District, Kirov Region. In 1940 he graduated from the Cooperative College in the city of Sarapul with a degree in Accounting. Не was called up by the draft board of the Kotelnichsky District of the Kirov Region. In 1940 he studied at an Artillery School, after an injury he was expelled and was assigned to the Naval Base in the city of Novorossiysk. On January 3, 1941 he arrived to 89th mine party of the Black Sea Fleet in the city of Novorossiysk, military specialty Junior Miner. A mine party is a full-time team of miners, which maintains the mine stock in warehouses, arsenals and sets mines from ships. _x000D_ He participated in the Second World War as a miner at the Destroyer Formation Base. He took the oath on March 6, 1941. 89 mine party according to the list of Control bodies, formations, ships, units and institutions took part in active hostilities in the period from 06/22/1941 to 03/30/1943. He was wounded by a bomb fragment in the lower part of the Head. He met the Victory Day on May 9, 1941 at the location of the unit in the city of Batumi. _x000D_ During the war, he was awarded the medals “For Defense of the Caucasus” and “For Victory over Germany” on April 24, 1947, demobilized to the reserve on the basis of the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 4, 1947. _x000D_ After the war, he worked in the city of Nizhny Tagil of the Sverdlovsk Region at the Ural Carriage Works (UVZ) as an accountant (department 17). He retired in October 1981. He passed away on February 13, 2012 at the age of 90.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ My grandfather Tarasov Leonid Alexandrovich was born on December 6, 1913 in the village Khokhorsk, Bokhansk District, Irkutsk Region, in a poor family, finished 7 classes at a school for working youth. In October 1935 he was drafted into the ranks of the Workers’and Peasants' Red Army and sent to the Buryat Kaalerian Regiment at the Divisional station, where he served as a cavalryman. In November 1939 he began his studies at the courses of Junior Officers, which he graduated in March 1940 and received the rank of Junior Lieutenant. In August 1940 he was sent to Bain-Tumen, now Choybolsan, Mongolian People's Republic in 27th Artillery Regiment, 17th army of the Trans-Baikal Front. _x000D_ The Artillery Regiment was armed with anti-aircraft guns and covered the troops from the Japanese aviation. The Regiment entered the war against the Japanese troops on August 9, 1945. For excellent military operations against the Japanese aggressors, forcing the Great Khingan mountain range, overcoming the waterless Mongolian steppe, the grandfather was commended by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Generalissimo Comrade Stalin I.V. dated August 23, 195 # 372. _x000D_ On this war trip, my grandfather was wounded. The Regiment marched through northeast China. He liberated such large cities as Chang-Chun and Harbin. The Regiment finished fighting on 03.09.1945.In 1947, the Artillery Regiment was transferred to the Soviet Union, in Ulan-Ude. He was released in 1957 with the rank of Major, served in the ranks of the Red Army, and then in the Soviet Army for 22 years. _x000D_ Awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Banner of the combat, the Order of the Red Star and 10 medals, including "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany", "For Victory over Japan", medal of the MPR "Bugdnayramdah” (translated as We will win). He passed away on June 10, 1994 at the age of 81, buried in Ulan-Ude.

Branch of troops: Artillery_x000D_ I want to tell you about my grandfather Pyotr Fomich Tyukin, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was beaten by the ordeal of the war, and not just once. His life path was hard, but he withstood everything with valor. Pyotr Fomich was born on November 23 in 1917 into a large family with three sons and a daughter, Anna. His post-revolutionary childhood was not easy. He was the eldest of the children, and since the age of six he had already helped his father to work the land. He hardly studied at school and finished only four classes. At the age of fifteen, he had already worked in kolkhoz as a hand. In 1937 he graduated from the courses of tractor drivers in the neighboring village of Vetlyanka. And the next year he was drafted into the Red Army. Then there was Khalkhin-Gol, the Great Patriotic War and the war with Japan. _x000D_ Since September 1938, Pyotr Fomich had served in the Red Army in 5588th Tank Regiment in Siberia at the Olovyanaya station. In 1939 he received his first baptism of fire on Khalkhin-Gol. The Japanese militarists launched large-scale military operations against the friendly Mongolian People's Republic in order to seize territory and prepare a foothold for a further offensive against the USSR. The Soviet offensive was successful, and the plans of the Japanese aggressors were thwarted. He returned home in November 1940, began to work as a trackman at the Tirazh railway station. _x000D_ The treacherous and sudden attack of Nazi Germany without declaring war on the USSR on June 22, 1941 showed the whole world the true face of fascism. German troops outnumbered the Soviet in both manpower and equipment. The Germans rushed to the Volga in order to cut off supplies: grains, oil and fuels and lubricants. The main target on this path was the city of Stalingrad. A general mobilization was announced. Pyotr Fomich was drafted in August 1941. Military training took place in Aktyubinsk, the time for training was limited, because the enemy occupied a significant territory of the country. Pyotr Fomich was enlisted in 129th Mortar Regiment. They received weapons, ammunition and the command "To defend Stalingrad!" By train they went along the Ural railway to the station Polotnyanaya, and then on horseback, carts, to the station Kletnaya. This is where it all started. The air hummed, the Nazis bombed non-stop, even the ground groaned with screams and horror. Not everyone made it to the place of deployment. His Regiment entered the Don Front, where Konstantin Rokossovsky was the Commander. Red Army defended Stalingrad without spare no pains. It was hot. Even those who did not believe in God prayed to survive. They fought for every street, for every house. Rumble, explosions, shooting. There was not enough ammunition and grubs, but the louse gnawed mercilessly. _x000D_ Private Tyukin Pyotr Fomich was appointed the Chef of the Division. It would seem an easy mission to feed the soldiers. But try to do this, crossing the Dnieper River, under continuous artillery fire. For courage shown in battles with the German invaders, Pyotr Fomich was awarded in 1943 the medal "For Courage" and "For Defense of Stalingrad". Received the rank of Corporal. _x000D_ In the summer of 1943, he was part of 1st Ukrainian Front. He fought across the Ukrainian land, liberating the cities of Shevchenko, Molodechno. Burnt-out villages, only the stoves stood like candles, reminded that there had been houses here, and people once lived. And everywhere they were greeted by deadly tired old men, women, children. Then they liberated Latvia and Estonia. In July 1944 he was awarded the Order of Glory III degree for courage, fearlessness and resourcefulness. _x000D_ In the battles for Lithuania near the city of Shauliai, enemy aircraft set fire to a car with a kitchen. Not paying attention to the shelling, under the explosive burning shells, Pyotr Fomich removed the slopes from the nearby burning car, and quickly moved it to his own. As a result of his actions, hot food was delivered to the firing positions on time. They drove the fascists all the way to Germany. Here is the long-awaited Victory! _x000D_ They dreamed of a home, of meeting their relatives, but they were transferred to Novosibirsk, in the direction of the Far Eastern Territory. Some were assigned to the Japanese front, and they began to prepare for a new war against the Kwantung Army. _x000D_ Since August, rains have charged, mountain streams and rivers overflowed, off-road. They experienced again shells, explosions and death of comrades. _x000D_ Pyotr Fomich was wounded and was sent to the military medical unit in the town of Sposke, then transferred to a hospital. Only in 1946 did he return home. For military operations he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." _x000D_ The post-war period was not easy either. "Everything for the front, everything For Victory!" All resources were pulled out of the village for the needs of the front. Despite the labor heroism of the peasants, agriculture had suffered heavy losses during the war. The number of able workers in kolkhoz had decreased, and the material and technical base was undermined. The vast majority of equipment available in agriculture was worn out. In kolkhoz, young girls worked on tractors, all the hardships of wartime fell on their shoulders. The lack of equipment and workers affected the area under crops and the number of livestock. The cultivated area has declined from 3.6 million hectares in 1940 to 2.2 million hectares in 1945. Agricultural workers had to restore the potential lost during the war years, rebuild a peaceful life._x000D_ After arriving home in May 1946, Pyotr Fomich continued to work in kolkhoz. For his labor success he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He married Varvara Vasilievna, raised two daughters and three sons, bringing up in them respect and love for the Motherland. But the events of those years left an indelible mark on his soul. More than once, Pyotr Fomich met with his war veterans, remembering the dead comrades.

Samodurov Viktor Ivanovich worked at the Aircraft Plant number 240, in Moscow, had an exemption from active duty. The family was evacuated during the war and they got lost. They had met only in the late 50s. Now his daughter lives in Kazakhstan with her family. _x000D_ On March 7, 1916 (old style) in Moscow, Ivan Mikhailovich Samodurov and his wife Anna Dmitrievna had a daughter, Alexandra. In the same year, her father, Ivan Mikhailovich Samodurov, was taken to 1st World War. It was hard to live in Moscow with five children, and his wife decided to return home to the village of Novo-Krasnoe, Sapozhkovsky District, Ryazan Region. When my father returned from the war, they decided to stay in the village. They worked hard, lived well, my mother often recalled: _x000D_ “All the young people go for a walk in the evening to the outskirts, and the father does not let us, because we start working with the first roosters, and if you do not get enough sleep, you can not work well. " _x000D_ According to the new political strategy, twice kolkhoz had tried to dispossess their property as kulaks, but they never had hired workers, they did everything with their own hands, so this initiative had no support at the village meeting." _x000D_ But this politics had consequences on the fate of my brother. In 1932, when he served in the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Army for a year of military service, a letter came from the village of Novo-Krasnoe to the military unit, in which it was written that the kolkhoz meeting had decided: “...the son of a wealthy, unconscious peasant cannot serve in Workers 'and Peasants' Army". And my brother was expelled, but he dreamed to be a military man. _x000D_ From the first days of the war, he was at the front and was killed at the crossing of the Dnieper. Two more of my brothers went through the roads of war and returned alive with awards.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Division: 166th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ Smetanin Akaki Akakievich was born in 1914 on November 23 in the village of Kedva in the Ukhta Region of the Komi ASSR in the family of a middle peasant. My father was engaged in agriculture. In 1924 he entered a rural school and graduated in 1930. From 1930 to 1933 he worked in the production of logging as a worker. The family joined the kolkhoz in 1933. From 1933 to 1936 he worked there as a foreman. In 1936 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. In 1938 he entered the courses for Junior Lieutenants and graduated from them in May 1939, received the rank of Junior Lieutenant. _x000D_ Since May 1939 he was appointed Platoon Commander of 9720 unit in Kirovsk, where he served until September 1939. From September 1939, together with a unit, he left for the Finnish border. He took part in the war with the Finns as Commander of a machine gun platoon in April 1940, he was appointed Company Commander of a Separate Machine-Gun Batillion in 14th Rifle Division of 14th army. In October 1940, he was appointed Commander of the platoon of the regimental school of the 242nd Rifle Regiment by the headquarters of 14th Army. 104th Suvorov Division, where he served until the beginning of the Patriotic War. _x000D_ On June 23, 1941 he was appointed Deputy Commander of a Separate Reconnaissance Detachment, where he served until August 10, 1941. From August 10, 1941 he became a Chief of staff of a Separate Reconnaissance Battalion at 5th Rifle Brigade of 9th Army, where he served until he was wounded on October 28, 1941 and was treated in hospital No. 2537 in the Asbest town on January 8, 1942. From January 1942 to July 1942 he was the Commander of a machine-gun company in 423rd Rifle Regiment. From July 7, 1942 to November 20, 1942 he was on the courses of the Commander of a machine-gun company, was released from the course by the Deputy of Battalion Commander. _x000D_ From November 20, 1942 he was at the post of Deputy Battalion Commander of 423rd Rifle Regiment 166 s.p. At the front on August 3, 1943, on August 3, 1943, he was wounded and was treated in the hospital until November 20, 1943.From December 1943 to March 21, 1944, he was the Commander of a training machine-gun company of 7th Brigade in Kungur. From March 31, 1944 to May 8, 1944, 11th poll in Sverdlovsk was in reserve. From May 8, 1944 to November 1944 he was a Senior Instructor of 4th unit of the District military enlistment office in Malmyzh. From November 1944 to April 1945 he was in reserve. From April 5 to April 25, 1945 he studied at the Reconnaissance courses of the Liegnitz Regiment. From April 27, 1945 to August 30, 1946 he was a recon of the Regiment of 292th Guards Regiment, 97 Guards Suvorov Division. On August 30, 1946 he was demobilized from the Red Army. _x000D_ From December 10, 1946 he worked as a Deputy Director of the school FZO №5 in Balti until April 1947. From May 29, 1947 to January 10, 1949 he was the Chairman of the “Red Border Guard” Martel. From January 10, 1949 to March 14, 1951, he was a Head of oil depot in Bolotinskaya Machinery & Tractor Station (MTS). _x000D_ He was a Member of the Communist Party. He fought in Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria. He has medals "For Victory over Hitler Germany", "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For Liberation of Prague", "For Capture of Vienna", the Order of the Patriotic War and many others at the war and after the war. He was wounded three times and once shell-shocked. _x000D_ After the war he worked at a construction site in Kazakhstan, Moldova, in the city of Volzhsky. In 1954 he came with his family (wife and 3 children) to Volzhsky. He built houses, also built hydroelectric power plants, then worked at the Abrasive Plant, then retired. After the was he was a Senior Lieutenant in Reserve. He passed away on 02.04.1999 in the city of Volzhsky, where he was buried.

Nikolai Alekseevich Sulimenko was born on June 22, 1923 in the Krasnodar Territory, Abinsky District, Vorobiev farm. Before the war, the family moved to the village of Dinskaya. In 1940 he graduated from 8 classes. The main civilian specialty was an electrical fitter. He was drafted into active military service on December 10, 1941. In December 1941-March 1942 he was Cadet of the Vladivostok Military Infantry School. He took the oath on February 23, 1942. He was Senior Seargeant Mortar Commander of Mortar 82 mm and 120 mm mortars. -Нe had been a participant of the Second World War since 1942: Central Front. Belorussian front, 1st Ukrainian Front. _x000D_ March 1942 - October 1943: 248 Separate Cadet Rifle Brigade, Commander of 82 mm mortar crew. _x000D_ October 1943 - March 1944: hospital, wounded on 09/14/1943, Central Front. March 1944 - January 1945: 747th Infantry Regiment. 172nd Pavlograd Red Banner Order of Suvorov Infantry Division, squad leader of a Reconnaissance Platoon. _x000D_ January 1945 - August 1945: hospital, seriously wounded on 01/12/1945._x000D_ August 1945 - October 1945: 23rd Infantry Regiment, Commander of the sub-machine gunner squad. _x000D_ He was demobilized on October 29, 1945 by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.25.1945. He had been a member of the Communist Party since April 1943. _x000D_ Awards (combat): Medal "For Courage" No. 200012; Medal "For Courage" No. 1261896; Order of Glory the 3rd degree No. 569499; Order of Glory 2nd degree No. 45589; Medal "For Victory over Germany"; Badge "Guard of the USSR". AWARDS (labor): Medal "For Distinction in Labor"; Veteran of Labor Medal; Order of the Badge of Honor; Medal "For Conscientious Labor" to the 100th anniversary of V. I. Lenin; Badge "Excellence in Communist Competition". _x000D_ Jubilee Awards: Medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Medal "30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Medal "40 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; Army Veteran badge. _x000D_ After the war, he worked in the mines of Donbass as a miner at the call of the Communist party. He was married to Sulimenko (Ryapolova) Alexandra Mitrofanovna. He had 3 sons, 5 grandchildren and 2 granddaughters. He passed away on April 7, 1991 from silicosis. He was buried in the cemetery in the village of Dinskaya.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel _x000D_ Nilolay Tarakanov had been a member of the Communist Party since 1945. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1939 in the city of Sursk, Gorodishchensky District, Penza Region. Нe was demobilized in the city of Klyazma, Buryat ASSR in 1960. He began service in the rifle forces, but since 1950 had been in the USSR Air Force. He was also awarded a medal "For impeccable service in the Armed Forces of the USSR" and six jubilee medals. After demobilization, he worked at the VEM plant in the city of Penza as a department Head. He had labor awards, medals "For Valiant Labor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin", "Veteran of Labor", badges "Winner of Socialist Competition in 1973 and 1975". _x000D_ From the words of the veteran: "After graduating from the military school, throughout the Great Patriotic War, I served in the military Kemerovo Infantry School as a combat officer, where officers were trained for the front. According to the order of the Supreme Commander, Comrade Stalin, the staff officers of military schools were not sent еще the war front. We trained platoon commanders: rifle, machine-gun and mortar. I was engaged in the education and training of platoon commanders of 82 mm mortars. We taught cadets to be able to use mortars and all types of small arms in service with the troops, as well as enemy weapons, skillfully control a mortar platoon in all types of combat at any time of the day or year, in conditions close to combat. During the preparation period, marches were made with overcoming various terrain obstacles and overcoming water obstacles. Marches were made on foot, and in winter on skis in full gear as part of units up to 25 km with the completion of live fire and the attack of a conditional enemy. The training, as a rule, ended with field exercises, in which the cadets spent 10 days in field conditions far from settlements, improving the actions of the platoon Commander in various types of combat close to the active combat missions. It was especially hard if such exercises were carried out in Siberian winter frosts at a temperature of minus 35 degrees Celsius. The training was carried out for 6 months, after the exams the military rank the officers received the rank of Junior Lieutenant and were sent to the war front. _x000D_ Personally, I had to accompany officers to the front just once in 1943. _x000D_ In 1950 I was to the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany at the newly formed military educational institution of the Air Force to organize and conduct training for Junior Aviation Professionals. "

Suzdaltsev Mikhail Romanovich was born on November 20, 1915 in a simple peasant family, where the foundations of decency, kindness, respect for the older generations, for women were honored. He carried all these qualities through his entire life, passing them on to his children and grandchildren. _x000D_ At war he was lucky twice. The first time he escaped death near Moscow in 1941, when a bomb explosion threw him many meters from the trench, stunning and burying him in the ground. He was strong, he got out, he didn't go for first-aid treatment to the Medical Battalion, there was no time - the Germans were advancing. _x000D_ The eardrum in the left ear had burst. Over the years, the second ear also stopped hearing. After Stalin's order "Not a step back!" in 4 years of the war, Mikhail Romanovich reached East Prussia in grueling combats. He had the highest soldier's military rank, Starshina. He was respected in the regiment by friends, comrades, and commanders. _x000D_ The second time he got lucky when he fell ill with meningitis in 1943. There were 32 of them in the hospital; two survived, Mikhail and another soldier. Then he got a vacation, came home for a visit. He was very thin, with sunken eyes, recovered a little at home; and back to the front to finish off the fascists. _x000D_ After the war, he worked all his life in the fields and farms on the Michurin kolkhoz in the Tokarevsky District. Mikhail was always sent to the most challenging areas of kolkhoz work: for example, to feed livestock. Tall and strong man, all in frozen clothes, clogged with snow, he brought hay, straw, feed the cows on the farm; or pumped out 250 buckets of water from an artesian well to water livestock. Mikhail Romanovich fully fulfilled the behest of his ancestors: he built a house after the war, raised three children, planted and raised a beautiful garden; and did other many big and small things! He passed away on November 8, 2004.

Sushinsky Alexey Petrovich was born on March 7, 1921, in the Kalinin Region, Bezhetsk District, the village of Vydumer. After graduating from high school, in 1939 he entered 2nd Leningrad Red Banner Artillery School, after which in June 1941 he was awarded the rank of Lieutenant. Then he was sent to the Odessa Military District and was appointed Commander of the measuring and sighting platoon of the headquarters battery of the 265th Corps Artillery Regiment. _x000D_ Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he participated in the defense of Odessa as part of the Regiment. Then the Regiment was evacuated to the Crimea, where it took part in the defense of Sevastopol. During the defense of Sevastopol, Alexei Petrovich was awarded the rank of Senior Lieutenant, and in March 1942, he was appointed adjutant of the Regiment Commander. In April 1942, the Regiment was renamed 18th Guards Red Banner Artillery Regiment. _x000D_ Alexey Petrovich took part in the defense of the city until July 3, 1942. On this day, he was wounded, and the next day on July 4, 1942, he was captured near the Chersonesos lighthouse. He remained in captivity until August 28, 1942, and on the night of August 28-29, during transportation by rail, he escaped from a carriage near the Znamenka station of the Kirovograd Region. Then he tried to get to the front line and go out to the Soviet troops. Through the occupied territory he reached the Krasnodar Territory, where at a farm had found the Russian troops. After that, he was reviewed in a special counterintelligence department. Later he was appointed Commander of a control platoon of 773 Artillery Regiment of 317th Rifle Division (2nd formation). Then, in September 1943, he was appointed battery Commander of the same Regiment. As part of the unit, he took part in the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, the liberation of Uzhgorod, the overcoming of the Carpathians, in the breakthrough of the defense in the mountains of Värteshegy, the capture of the cities of Brno, Gyor, Magyarovar. For participation in these operations, the troops received gratitude from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin. _x000D_ Alexey Petrovich was a participant in the combat for the Caucasus, the liberation of the Kuban, a participant in the storming of Budapest and Vienna. He had a celebration of Victory in Czechoslovakia. _x000D_ Further, as part of the unit, he was transferred to the Far East, where he took part in the war with Japan. In the summer of 1946, he retired from the Armed Forces with the rank of Captain and returned home after 7 years of absence. In addition to the wound received near Sevastopol, he was wounded 2 more times: during the liberation of the Taman Peninsula and during the assault on Budapest. _x000D_ After the war he worked as a teacher in a rural school. He passed away in 1998. _x000D_ Awards: the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree was received in 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory. _x000D_ Medals: For Defense of Odessa, For Defense of Sevastopol, For Defense of the Caucasus, For Capture of Budapest, For Capture of Vienna, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, For Victory Over Japan and many jubilee medals.

Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 264th Rifle Ussuri Division. _x000D_ My grandfather, Sorokin Alexander Alekseevich was born on 12/08/1923 in the village of Chernotrog of the Agapovsky District of the Chelyabinsk Region. It was 1942, a hard war year. He was not yet the full 18 years old when he was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces and sent to the border with China occupied by Japan. He learned the basics of military science in the Ussuri taiga, Japanese recons looked for gaps in order to penetrate Soviet territory ... .._x000D_ In 1943 he was sent to one of the replenishment points of the active army, and from there to 25th Tank Regiment. At first he was a radio operator, then a machine gunner. He received his baptism of fire near a small Viennese town. Then there were many fights and the path to the Victory Day in Berlin was paved by young healthy lifes of the Soviet soldiers. _x000D_ The crossing of the Danube became one of the examples of courage of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers. In the combat for Budapest, the tank was knocked out, two guys were killed, grandfather Alexander Alekseevich received a shell shock, but survived ... _x000D_ Further on the path of the young tanker was Czechoslovakia. There, Soviet troops linked up with American troops. Great-grandfather learned the good news about the end of the war while in the Czechoslovak village of Golubitsa. Everyone was happy about the victory. _x000D_ A week later, the units were transferred to Prague. Passing through the city, everywhere they met cheering Czechs, they threw flowers, smiled, shouted: "The liberators are coming!" _x000D_ With the declaration of Germany's surrender, the military service for the great-grandfather, like for many thousands of Soviet soldiers, did not end. In September A.A. Sorokina with fellow soldiers were sent to Romania, where there were many hiding fascists and not very calm. Only in December 1945 he was discharged. He returned home at the beginning of 1946 ... .. Alexander Alekseevich left as a boy, and returned as an adult man, matured, handsome, stately, black-eyed, on his chest there were medal "For Courage" "For Capture of Budapest" "For Liberation of Vienna" and other awards ... ..