Heroes and feats

Rank: Sergeant. Branch of troops: Communications troops. _x000D_ Ekaterina was born in 1918 on October 28 in the village of Elkhovka, Totsky District, Orenburg Region. At the age of seven she went to School, finished seven classes. After school she entered the Pedagogical Technical School in Buzuluk, she graduated in 1938. For four years she worked as a teacher in the village of Medvedka, then in the village of Pogromny. In April 1942, she and 40 young women were drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army by the Totsky military registration and enlistment office and sent to the training center of the Air Defense Forces in the city of Kamyshin, Stalingrad Region. After training, the girls were sent to Stalingrad to defend the airspace over Stalingrad. _x000D_ Ekaterina Vasilievna served in the 103rd Separate Battalion. She went through the cities of Oryol, Bryansk and ended the war in Frankfurt on the Oder in August 1945. She recalls her combat path: _x000D_ “Near Stalingrad, while on duty at the post, I was under carpet bombing at the Rudnya station. I was scared to death, I had my first gray hair at that day. Near Bryansk, on the orders of the Commander, she followed the telephone cable, miraculously did not get captured as prisoner. Three soldiers helped. After redeployment in the Frolov town, together with her fellow soldier Polina, she received an order to deliver the package to the unit. They walked at night, without a compass, got lost and went the other way, ended up in a village. An old man sheltered them and cured their frostbitten legs. Nevertheless, the package was delivered to the unit. For this I was awarded the rank of “Senior Sergeant” and was appointed the Commander of the post of Air Defense Forces." At the end of August 1945 she returned to the Pogromnoye station of the Totsk Region. Then she worked at the elevator for 10 years. In 1955 she moved to the village of Platovka, Novosergievsky District, Orenburg Region, and until 1963 had been working as a telephone operator. In 1963, together with her son Gena, she moved to the Karakuduk settlement of the Akbulak Region and until retirement worked at a switchboard. _x000D_ For her work she was repeatedly awarded with certificates and valuable gifts. For her military services, Ekaterina Vasilievna was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, the medal “For Victory over Germany”, the "Zhukov" medal and jubilee medals.

Seydametov, Iskander_x000D_ Rank: Starshina Branch: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 125th Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Infantry Division of the Order of Kutuzov _x000D_ “I distinctly remember the first post-war year in Samarkand, where by the will of fate I ended up with my parents and brother. Our yard was a one-story house with six two-room apartments, each with a porch at the entrance and a glazed veranda. Along the courtyard facade of the house there is a common passage for the entire courtyard: an oblong strip of land about 4 meters wide, and behind it, opposite each apartment, a personal garden plot with an area of probably about two acres. A passageway between the porches and garden plots led to two common wooden ”objects" at the end of the courtyard, a large dust bin on the left and a latrine on the right. The Seydametov family, as it later turned out, Crimean Tatars, all female, from children to a very old grandmother, settled in the place of the dust bin and with homeless dogs and cats. _x000D_ We did not have the slightest idea about nationalities in the Soviet Union. We never discussed it, and for many years I did not know about the nationality of my neighbors, just like my classmates, having entered school and studied for ten years. (Having gathered after 30 years of graduation, we looked at each other in surprise, finding in the classroom Russians, Uzbeks, Tajiks, Jews, Armenians and five Crimean Tatars. Naturally, in our childhood we never had a slightest idea about nationality, residing at the international Uzbek land.) _x000D_ A new family fiddled around in the corner of the yard, made some kind of adobe housing and a fence, moving the dust bin to the front of the yard, in a nook behind the gate. The new neighbors caused some irritation among the old-timers, but then, thanks to their humble disposition and quiet, imperceptible behavior in the new habitat, everything settled down. _x000D_ Some neighbors, first of all, our mother, have established warm relations with the Seydametovs. It was she who convinced me and the other neighbors to treat these women with Christian tolerance and compassion. _x000D_ And then one day, when used to study on the porch, getting ready for classes on the second shift and relaxing after long standing in line for bread, then a fit man with brilliant orders and medals on his chest followed the kerosene past me with an energetic step and proceeded straight to the corner of the Seydametovs' settlement. This was Iskander, the main character of my story. _x000D_ Further, I only mentioned the impressions of mine, my sister and mother, but mainly from his memories during our meeting many years later. This man made a great impression on me, his fate seemed interesting to me, and for a long time I was going to tell about him … _x000D_ Iskander, like many of his relatives and fellow tribesmen, lived in Yalta before World War II. In 1941, he immediately went to the front as a boy. He fought honestly and fearlessly, but also skillfully, thanks to which, having no education and military training, already in the 1942nd he became a Platoon Commander and was awarded officer's shoulder straps, replacing the killed officers. His natural leadership qualities in the face of harsh circumstances made him an authoritative, recognized and respected Commander by soldiers. He did not hide behind the backs of his soldiers, he took responsibility for himself, was ahead, made decisions quickly. _x000D_ God had mercy: he went through the whole war, ended up as a Captain, returned in orders and medals. Orders, I remember, were both of the Patriotic War of two degrees, and the Red Banner, and probably the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and a few more, and many medals. After all, he put them on the chest only once, when he proudly walked through the yard, where at the end he would meet his family. _x000D_ The joy of returning after four years of military separation was overshadowed by the unexpected news that the family was exiled and found nowhere. _x000D_ Before the war, Iskander married Dilyra, a thin, kind, constantly spinning woman, always in incessant worries and worries about Iskander's family, where she entered and immediately remained alone with his mother, sisters, nieces, well, it seems, only the female were there in this family . Under the most complicated circumstances, while her beloved Iskander was fighting for the Motherland, she supported her family as best she could, with the last bit of strength, until an unexpected misfortune came: the forcible resettlement of the Crimean Tatars to the eastern regions of the empire as punishment for the betrayal of some of their representatives. _x000D_ I think the truth was hiding from the Tatar front-line soldiers, and therefore, when Iskander was demobilized and found out that the family was nowhere, he began to look for them first in Kazakhstan, then in Uzbekistan in different places where the families of the Crimean Tatars were scattered. He was looking for several months, if not more, and finally he found them in the corner of the Samarkand courtyard. This was a moment I saw: a front-line soldier energetically passing by me. I did not have the slightest idea of repression, about the fate of this person and his family, in general about the nationality of the “Crimean Tatars”, not only at that time, but years later, when I was already finishing the High School. _x000D_ The only thing I had witnessed for ten years, together with all the neighbors, and we were surprised at this, is Iskender's indomitable energy and will to live and create. He raised his family out of poverty, built a brick house in this nook behind a clay fence, gave birth to three daughters one after another, whom his pre-war bride, faithful, silent and desperately thin Dilyara, brought him. _x000D_ The girls ran around the yard with my post-war sister, and I regularly photographed them from a German trophy camera that opens like harmonica, bought by my parents cheap at a flea market for my older brother and me. Then I finished school and left my parental home for an independent life in Tashkent, then to Rostov-on-Don, and by this time my parents returned to their native Krasnodar, where they lived 15 years of their happy youth before the war. _x000D_ Years have passed, scattered and erased in memory the faces and destinies of many people, including neighbors in the yard, among whom was the Iskander family ... But life, as you know, sometimes throws up unexpected meetings ... Arriving at the wedding of my beloved younger sister, I, to my considerable surprise, saw Iskander there with his Dilyara, who had come from Samarkand to Krasnodar for a wedding! _x000D_ How could I not be surprised if people, remembering the close relations between neighbors and the friendship of their eldest daughter Zarema with my sister, spent so much time, not to mention travel expenses, to come to see my parents and congratulate my sister. _x000D_ Indeed, at that time, (now it is hard to imagine), it was possible to get to Krasnodar only with a train change in Moscow. But the train from Samarkand went to Moscow for five days, and then from Moscow to Krasnodar another two days. _x000D_ So, in fact, considering time that Iskander spent his entire three-week vacation on this trip alone for the travel and guest visits! And here I come to the main point of the story, meeting and talking with Iskander after almost 20 years of separation. We talked with him in dad's office, breaking away from the bustle of pre-wedding chores that noisily filled the rest of the apartment. Dilyara also took part, but only in fits and starts, although she wanted to listen to more. We were clearly glad to see each other, as people, separated not only by the era, but also by the years of our own growth and formation. _x000D_ I became an engineer who worked at different construction sites and who had already seen a lot, was the father of two sons. Now, having become mature I perceived Iskander differently, learned more about him and felt his personality. _x000D_ At first I told about myself, my life by that time, and the first thing I wanted to tell them two, Iskander and Dilyara together, is that now I am aware the fate of their people and guess about their family fate, that I support the desire of the Crimean Tatars to receive full rehabilitation and be restored in all rights, that I support the struggle of General Grigorenko for the rights of the Crimean Tatars._x000D_ I am outraged at the injustice towards their fellow tribesmen. At that time, the government of the USSR did not decide on its position on the problem of the Crimean Tatars, although actions and laws on rehabilitation were adopted in relation to other people. _x000D_ The trouble was that each of the repressed peoples received rehabilitation in different ways. Iskander and Dilyara were pleased to hear such a confession from me. Then Iskander started talking..._x000D_ Actually, the further part of my story is devoted to retelling his story, which I convey without the slightest changes in the facts and the essence of what I heard, from his words. Actually, the conversation was not about the past, moreover, not at all about politics. He talked about the last years of his ordeals, which concerned the return to his native Yalta. I remind you that this is not the 90s, but the mid-70s. _x000D_ “You see, they actually rehabilitated us, the time had come, they figured out how we fought, there were Heroes of the Soviet Union and twice Heroes among us ... But people ”Crimean Tatars" have not been recognized officially. Authorities began to make a line in the passport as "Crimean" (the line of nationality was in the Soviet passport)._x000D_ And you can go to the Crimea, but not to live permanently. And I so want to buy a house in Yalta, I wanted it all my life how to return. There were and are many opportunities to move to Russia, to any place, but no city can replace Yalta. I have already retired and am in a hurry to buy a house, so I went to Yalta last summer to take a closer look. I think maybe the permit will come out, so I’ll be ready, I need to take my time to look at the options, ask the price more precisely, the area is right ... _x000D_ So I arrived in Yalta, immediately went to the Rental Bureau kiosk, and I said to a woman in the window: “Give me the address of an apartment to rent in the center. Just mind, do not offer bullshit - I know the city like the back of my hand! ”_x000D_ The answer is silence. I was surprised, I wanted to turn around, when suddenly, door opens on the back of the kiosk, I hear a noise, an elderly woman runs out and shouts out loud: “Iskander, son, here, I waited for you!” And crying loudly, and hugs me, and wails. Passing by people halt in surprise. What happened? And she: “So, if I had seen you on the street, I would not recognize you, but your voice has not changed!” _x000D_ “It turned out ...” - this is a phrase added by Iskander from time to time. Like a passionate storyteller he used it to surprise listeners with something exiting. Remembering the important, he, as if turning the plot, unexpectedly inserts this - “It turned out!” _x000D_ And the listener expects something extraordinary. I also expected anything, but not what I heard... _x000D_ During the Leningrad Siege, in 1942, his military unit was thrown to the outskirts of the city, in confrontation against the Germans, who were not far away, but did not advance. The platoon, which was already commanded by a recent soldier Iskander, who had just received the Junior Lieutenant's shoulder straps, had to conduct a passive defense, awaiting an order for an offensive, which was not yet possible. Iskander attributes his appointment as Platoon Commander exclusively to a situation when other officers of the unit were killed one after another, and the unit itself was narrowed to the size of a platoon. However, one can feel leadership qualities even in manner of storytelling, that it was understandable: only he could lead a platoon and lead people. Every morning and evening, Iskander sent soldiers for recon patrol to find out information in surroundings. _x000D_ Once a soldier came running and says: in the dead zone between ours and the Germans, there was a house, standing alone, in the midst of complete destruction around. Previously, there was fog, it was impossible to make out, but there were no signs of life, but then the soldier noticed something and decided to check. And although it was dangerous, the area was periodically fired upon, the soldier established: a woman in a house alone with three children—little is less! The soldier worried out of sympathy … _x000D_ The family was hungry and cold in the hut, the firewood ran out. Sympathizing, the soldier wanted to help, although he knew that the command was set to keep his head down. Iskander immediately ordered to collect possible provisions, chop wood, and with two soldiers went to an abandoned house, where without any hope, hugging each other, wrapped in rags, sat a woman, two girls and a very small boy. _x000D_ Iskander with soldiers put things in order in an abandoned house, fired the stove, warmed up, fed and bathed children. Then, choosing the moments, more often at night, every day Iskander sent a soldier to help the woman who was preparing to die. This lasted for two weeks, after which the fighting began, then the shootout, then the redeployment. _x000D_ In the kaleidoscope of events of the terrible war, unthinkable in severity and tragedy, the episode with the woman was erased in my memory. Well, Commander Iskander acted, as his conscience prompted him at that moment. He helped, however, at great risk. So that's it. It was this woman who cried out in Yalta 25 years later, recognizing her savior by the voice. _x000D_ Everything in her life then happened: God had mercy, although her husband died, and the children are all alive, she raised everyone, retired, exchanged the Leningrad apartment for Yalta, where she lives here with her son and two grandchildren in his family, daughters are fine too, in other cities ... This story made an impression on me, and continuing the conversation, I could not resist and asked: “Iskander, how did you manage to make enough money for living of such a large family and save to buy a house in Yalta? ” I did not know anything about his jobs. _x000D_ And I was not mistaken with the question: he revived again and began to talk, as usual, with burning eyes and passion. How I regretted later that I had not recorded the conversation right away! Later, many details were forgotten, which cannot be restored. It turned out that he worked in supply, at large vegetable bases. An unexpected import of hundreds of tons of potatoes, onions, cucumbers, apples came to Uzbekistan. There were always not enough storage facilities, but here two of the largest bases in the republic collapsed! And all the food is being imported is dumped on the ground. But summer is over, it will soon be rains and cold weather. Catastrophe! What to do? People from the Ministry of Trading of the Republic turned to him: save us! _x000D_ Important commentary: Iskander was not even the head of one storage facility, he was a worker, but he had repeatedly shown the talent of an organizer, an engine in a spontaneous situation. However, this time the organizational talent would not have been enough. Iskander outdid himself. Knowledge of the properties of different fruits and vegetables led to unexpected solutions. Here, I regret not writing it down, I might make mistakes. But the picture remained in the memory: three tiers of using the missing storage volumes. Below are potatoes, folded on planks from disassembled boxes, not in bulk, but in pyramidal cones of a small volume, in order to ventilate from the side windows, slightly ajar, did not allow rotting to take place; at the top, under the overlap, on boards rarely nailed to the lower belts of farms, bags with another vegetable or fruit, I'm afraid to lie which one. And between them, nets with onions and garlic tied to the ceiling on ropes, which contributed to the preservation of both the underlying potatoes and the product spread above on temporarily nailed boards. Thus, not only the storage capacity has increased, but the storage conditions for the product with various properties, the combination of which has led to a manifold reduction in losses from spoilage. It was about thousands of tons of preserved vegetables and fruits in the republic. _x000D_ And the result is as follows: the Minister of Trade of Uzbekistan personally came to him to present him with a prize: a six-month salary and a gift, a passenger car, which Iskander sold, having no interest in technology, and he needed money. I told only about one case, and he described several of them, different and very interesting. And then an incident happened: I unexpectedly got into a mess. Delighted with the story about the many intricacies of the technology and organization of the processes of storing vegetables and fruits, I exclaimed in my hearts: “Iskander, this is a finished dissertation! Why don't you do this? ” _x000D_ Iskander laughed loudly and for a long time, then, choking with laughter, said: Alik, dear, I'm uneducated, I have seven grades of school! I sat down, stunned. Then I thought: when could Iskander get an education? Indeed, he could not. There was no time: first the parents had to be fed and rescued, then the war, then to raise the wife and children. But he gave a higher education to all three girls. This was his dream. He was very happy and proud that it had come true._x000D_ Several more years passed, and the restless Iskander died without fulfilling of another dream, probably the most important and cherished after the well-being and education of daughters—to move to live in city of Yalta in Crimea ... _x000D_ At this point I was going to finish my story about an interesting person with an interesting fate. But life made adjustments again. _x000D_ More than 35 years have passed since the events described above, Iskander's story at my sister's wedding. It has happened when I went to Krasnodar with my sister, and I asked about her Samarkand friend, the eldest daughter of Iskander, Zarema, not hoping that some connections might still be preserved. And what? “It turned out ...”: Zarema, a doctor by training, mother of two sons, now also a grandmother, lives in Yalta! The next day, through the efforts of an advanced daughter-in-law, you can imagine, I spoke with Zarema, whom I had not seen for more than half a century, since I left my parental home to study in Tashkent - via Skype !!! _x000D_ Yes, you can't think of this anymore. Iskander's dream came true. His grandson made up his mind and, overcoming the difficulties and vicissitudes of any events, he moved to Yalta, to his mother Zarema. I do not know the fate of her son, with whom she lives, or, especially grandchildren, that is, Iskander's great-grandchildren. Nothing can be foreseen in this life. I just really want good people to feel good.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Branch of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 47th Infantry Nevelskaya Orders of Lenin and Suvorov Division. Panteley Lukyanovich was born on August 10, 1921 in the village of Novy Yegorlyk, Salsky District. After finishing the 7th grade, he worked in a kolkhoz, and in the fall of 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in the 546th corps Artillery Regiment. On June 22, 1941, at about 4 am, Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. From the first days of the war, my grandfather with the 546th corps Artillery Regiment held back the German offensive near the town of Zhlobin, where on July 6, 1941 in a fierce combat he was wounded and fell behind his unit. After treatment in hospital, he got to the military depot near the town of New Belitsa and was sent to the 137th Rifle Regiment. _x000D_ During the general offensive of our troops in December 1941, early 1942, Panteley Lukyanovich was on the Western Front. After the liberation of the city of Kozelsk, their military unit of the 47th Guards Division of the 137th Guards Rifle Regiment was transferred to the Southern Front in the areas of Station. Morozovka, Northern Donets, and then to the Mius river. Beginning in February 1943, from the Sea of Azov to the headwaters of the Mius River, the Nazis strengthened a powerful defensive line called “Mius Front”, accumulated manpower and equipment. _x000D_ As my great-grandfather told me, the Tomb of Saur, marked on the front maps as the Height 277.9 was of particular importance. It bound the entire defense of the Germans. On August 18, 1943, the troops of the Southern Front started an assault on the Mius Front. For almost two weeks, the fighting did not subside, and only on August 31 the height fell. _x000D_ On October 14, 1943, the troops began to prepare for the crossing of the Dnieper. The group headed by the Guards Senior Lieutenant Senchenko Panteley was chosen to remove the German Guards of the bridge across the river. The mission was completed. On November 26-29, 1943, our troops crossed the Dnieper River near Zaporozhye. For the successful implementation of this operation, over 40 soldiers were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. My grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star (No. 143970). _x000D_ During this operation, my great-grandfather was seriously wounded and was sent to a hospital in the city of Saratov, where he remained until April 25, 1944. After recovery, he returned to his unit, which was transferred to the 1st Belorussian Front. _x000D_ One of the largest operations of the Great Patriotic War was Belarusian Offensive called "Bagration" began on June 23, 1944. The 1st Belorussian Front, where my grandfather fought stormed Hitler's "eastern shaft" in Polesie. During the general offensive in the area of the city of Kovel on July 19, 1944, my great-grandfather, Senchenko Panteley Lukyanovich, Guards Senior Lieutenant of the 47th Guards Rifle Division of the 137th Guards Regiment, was seriously wounded and concussed. Нe had treatment at the hospital №2040 in the city of Kislovodsk. This was the end of the war for him. Senchenko Panteley Lukyanovich was a disabled of the 1st group, had awards: Order of the Red Star, Two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Medal “For Victory over Germany”, jubilee medals.

Rank: Corporal. Branch of troops: Artillery. Division: 138th Infantry Division (1st Formation). I want to tell you about a Russian soldier, my beloved grandfather. Studenikin Andrei Ivanovich, went through the whole war, took part in the defense of Moscow, liberated Belarus and the Baltic states, fought as far as East Prussia and Berlin. He was drafted into the army in the spring of 1940, a year remained before the Great Patriotic War. When the war started, he was 21 years old. He served as a signalman in the artillery. In the hardships of war, my grandfather and other communications technicians, showing examples of courage, reliably ensured communication in any situation. As many front-line soldiers, my grandfather did not want to discuss a war period, he didn't watch war movies, he could not. _x000D_ In life he was a very hardworking and responsible person, a leader in production, he worked as a supply manager for construction. He died on September 20, 1989, he was 69 years old. Many people came to his funeral. A tireless worker, a war hero, had passed away. I also thought, remembered what he was ... He was a Russian soldier! The work of a signalman in the war was considered necessary and responsible, and the success of the combat often depended on it. During the Great Patriotic War, the fate of our great Victory largely depended on the well-coordinated work of communications technicians. I remember when I was little and asked my grandfather about the war, he told me that the enemy thought that the Russians knew some secret magic word, “and we knew, kept this word in our hearts, we went up to die, won with it “For the Motherland!". My grandfather received Order of Red Star for the fact that “during the combat in March 1945, under fierce rifle-machine-gun and artillery-mortar shelling of the enemy, he laid a cable communication line, providing communication. During the day of the combat, he went out 13 times to repair communication line and connected more than 45 breakthroughs, which ensured the fulfillment of the combat mission ”(I read it with pride and bated breath on the website http://podvignaroda.ru). _x000D_ A simple guy turned out to be a true hero, a participant in bloody battles. He got a medal “For Courage” for the fact that he, during the period of offensive operations on the right bank of the Dnieper River, continuously maintained contact with the combat formations. _x000D_ On November 21, 1943, near the village of Olshevka, under fierce enemy Artillery and mortar fire, he restored 21 breakthroughs of the telephone line, which ensured the execution of a combat mission by the Battalion command to suppress the enemy battery. He had medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For the Capture of Berlin”, “For Victory over Germany”, “Order of the Patriotic War, II Degree”. _x000D_ I'm proud of you, grandpa! For me, grandfather will forever remain the ideal of a Man, Defender, Human. My grandfather is no longer with us, but the memory of him lives in my heart, the memory of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War. He fulfilled his duty to the Fatherland. _x000D_ And we are obliged to fulfill our duty of respect and memory to them, ordinary soldiers.

Sorokin, Nikolay Stepanovich_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. He was born in the village of Tolsky Maidan on December 20, 1923. Before the war he studied at the Tolskoy Maidan Secondary School and worked in a kolkhoz. In the fall of 1941, he was sent to build fortifications near the city of Gorky, being the schoolboy of the last 10th grade. Upon arrival home, he was called up for military service and sent to the city of Kostroma to the 3rd Leningrad Artillery School. From February to August 1, 1942 he was a cadet, then a Junior Sergeant. From August to October 1942, he was a Sergeant and Commander of a Reconnaissance Department in 3 batteries of a Separate Artillery Division of the 92nd Rifle Brigade of the 62nd Army in the city of Stalingrad. He took part in the defense of Stalingrad. Once he and a group of soldiers defended a house in Stalingrad, which was destroyed during the combat and captured by German troops. _x000D_ And Nikolai Stepanovich was covered with the rubble and was left unconscious. Just two days later, the Russians recaptured this house and heard groans coming from under the rubble. They removed the wounded soldier and sent him to the hospital. _x000D_ After this combat, a death notice came to the village. It was declared that Sorokin N.S. was killed in action on October 16, 1942 during the defense of Stalingrad and was buried in Volgograd. (Such an entry is in the Book of Memory.) After leaving the hospital, from April 28, 1943 to July 6, 1946, he served in the 29th Cavalry Regiment. Then he was sent to Turkmenistan in the 27th Frontier Detachment to the Iranian border, where he served for three years. He was demobilized on March 31, 1949. _x000D_ During his service he was awarded with certificates of honor and medals. After demobilization, he studied and worked at the School until 1977. For health reasons, he moved to work in a kolkhoz as Chief Power Engineer. Nikolai Sorokin passed away and was buried in the Tolsky Maidan.

Titenko, Vasily Mikhailovich

Rank: Junior Sergeant Subdivision: 23rd Guards Rifle Dnovsko-Berlin Red Banner Division. He was called to the front in January 1942. Аt first, we fought first on the North-Western Front. In June 1942 he was wounded during an offensive near the town of Staraya Russa. After that he was the gunner of the mortar of the 82nd Company of the Mortar Guards. In the battles in the Poddor'e Region, aimed fire from a mortar on 18.05.1944 he destroyed 2 enemy firing points. 24.05.1944 received a severe wound in the left forearm during the offensive. He was considered dead, and the death notice was sent to his relatives that: _x000D_ Seminsky M.I., Junior Sergeant, 1922. birth, killed in action on May 24, 1943. He was buried in the village of Borulino. But he survived, and was awarded the medal "For Courage" for his efforts. After his recovery, he was a fitter-assembler of motors of the 247th Separate Repair and Restoration Battalion. Working as a locksmith, he proved himself to be a good, exemplary and exemplary master of his craft. He devoted all his skill, strength and ability to his work, engine repair. There was no failure in his work. He fulfilled the production norms by 175%, despite the enormous fatigue. _x000D_ On 30.06.1945 by the order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time, he was awarded the second medal "For Courage". After the war, Mikhail Ivanovich lived in the city of Alapaevsk. He worked in the police, Head of the Criminal Department. On February 21, 1987 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Rank: Senior Sergeant Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 338th Infantry Neman Red Banner Division. My grandfather's name was Ivan Vasilievich Sibirev. He was born in 1921 in the village of Zhukovo, Brodokalmaksky District, Chelyabinsk Region. Grandfather was drafted into the army in September 1940. He fought with the rank of Sergeant. On June 22, 1941, when the war started, his troops were in the area of the city of Brest. My grandfather began his combat path as part of the 173 Air-Fighter Battalion, then he was the Commander of the machine-gun crew of the 1136 Rifle Regiment of the 338 Rifle Division of the 33rd army of the Western Front. He fought with the rank of Sergeant, and in 1942 he was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. Grandfather took part in battles near the cities of Kaluga, Minsk, Mogilev, Roslavl, Baranovichi, Belgorod, Orel, Przemysl, etc. He was wounded three times. The most severe head wound was in March 1943 during the liberation of the city of Yelnya. Then he was awarded the Medal for Military Merit. He had awards "For Courage", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, a medal "For the Defense of Moscow". _x000D_ All his life my grandfather lived with a shell fragment in his head. Grandfather died on January 24, 1997. Unfortunately, he did not like to talk about the war and we know little about his combat path. Two of his siblings, Aleksey and Alexander, were killed in the war. I am proud of my grandfather and I consider him a true hero! Thanks to my grandfather and all the participants of the Great Patriotic War for the Victory, for the peaceful sky overhead! We will never forget him!

Rank: Corporal Branch: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 330th Infantry Mogilev Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Telkov Vasily Danilovich was a man of great strength and courage. Vasily Danilovich was born in 1909 on the Alexandriysky sovkhoz, Uzlovsky District, Moscow (later Tula) Region. Information about his childhood and youth has not been preserved, it is only known that he was a candidate for the Communist Party. With the attack on the Soviet Union of Nazi Germany, the great-grandfather on September 19, 1941 was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. Vasily Danilovich ended up serving in the 1109 Rifle Regiment of the 330 Rifle Division formed in the Tula Region. As part of this Division, the great-grandfather liberated the city of Mikhailov and Stalinogorsk (now the city of Novomoskovsk, Tula Region), as well as the territory of the Kaluga Region. In 1943, as part of the 10th Army, the Division fought the enemy on the Western Front. It was during this period that my great-grandfather accomplished his first efforts. From the award list No. 034 / N on personnel: 08/10/1943 in a combat for the village of Bolshakh, Kirovsky District, Smolensk Region, the Red Army Soldier of the 6th Company Telkov Vasily Danilovich in hand-to-hand combat destroyed 9 Nazis, carried out a wounded machine gunner and an enemy fierce machine gun from the battlefield. _x000D_ For this efforts, my great-grandfather received the medal "For Courage". In the continuous battles of 1942-43, my great-grandfather was wounded three times. Later, at the beginning of 1944, my great-grandfather was awarded the military rank Corporal with the transfer to the Headquarters Company of the 324th Separate communications Battalion for the position of Telegraphist Morse. _x000D_ On September 3, 1944, the great-grandfather was on a mission from the Commander to transport communications property across the Vistula River (Poland) to an observation post. Despite the fact that the boat was pierced by a fragment of an enemy shell, thanks to the dedication of the great-grandfather, the communications property was delivered unharmed and on time. For the exemplary performance of this combat mission, Vasily Danilovich was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Rank: Starshina. Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 372nd Infantry Novgorod Red Banner Division. RUSSIAN SOLDIER OF THE POLISH ARMY. Pyotr Mikhailovich Tyustin was born on July 12, 1925 in the village of Kekur, Irbit District, Sverdlovsk Region. Once my grandfather Pyotr Mikhailovich talked about his memories, about that height near the village of Shainovo, where he lost his fellow countryman, a friend from a sniper School and a front-line Comrade Nikolai Pystin. He bandaged the wounded Nikolai himself, ordered him to go to the rear. But they started bombing the heights, and Nikolai remained forever near the Belarusian village. _x000D_ In 1941, right after the start of the war, Peter, like most teenagers, was offered to go to the Vocational Workers School. He graduated from it and became an electrician, was sent to work at the plant. In the fall of 1942, ahead of schedule, at the age of 17, he was called to the military registration and enlistment office and sent to a Sniper School: there was one in Kamyshlov. In March 1944, as part of the newly formed 372nd Division, Pyotr Mikhailovich went to the Leningrad Front. But “another order sounds,” and the train is urgently unloaded, the Division makes a 400-kilometer march to the Belorussian front. _x000D_ Here, in between battles, P. M. Tustin received combat missions as a sniper. Soon after the loss of a friend, in one of the combats he was concussed. After three days spent in the hospital of Sanitary Battalion, my hearing was restored, and I went into combat again. During the capture of Kovel, he was severely wounded in the leg. The hospital where they were treated came under bombardment. _x000D_ But apparently fate was to survive ... He survived, recovered and was sent to Poland, to a mixed Regiment of the Polish Army. Together with the Poles, he liberated Poland not only from the Germans, but also from numerous bandit formations trying to strengthen the fascist regime in the country. For brave and skillful military operations on the territory of Poland, the command of the Polish Army awarded Pyotr Mikhailovich with two bronze crosses and three medals: “For Warsaw”, “Kraiowa Rada Narodowa”, “Odre-Nyse-Baltyk”. The grandfather also has national awards: medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. After the liberation of Poland, he became Deputy commandant of the city of Pruszkow. Here he celebrated Victory! The war is over. _x000D_ But the paths of many soldiers, including grandfather, lay not yet home, but further to the West. Petra was waiting for the School of Junior Aviation specialists in one of the air units stationed in Germany. Here he was promoted to the Starshina of the Regiment, then the Starshina of the School. _x000D_ He began his civil life only in 1950. There was a factory and family, not a minute free. They raised three daughters with my wife (my grandmother). And now the grandchildren have grown up, and the great-grandchildren are growing up! Pyotr Mikhailovich did not have years in vain in his life. A loyal defender of the Motherland, an advanced worker, a reliable and loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather... My grandfather Pyotr Mikhailovich Tyustin lived to be 85 years old, he died on October 18, 2010. We remember! We are proud!

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops. Subdivision: 1st Armored Moscow Proletarian Order of Lenin Red Banner Division. He was a disabled of the III group, participant of the Great Patriotic War, a member of the Communist Party since September 1944. He was drafted into the Soviet army on February 8, 1943 in the city of Penza and demobilized in November 1946. He was in the army from September 1943 to October 1944. He served as a Mortarman, Reconnaissance officer in the 1st Mortar Battery, 1st Guards Motorized Rifle Battalion, 1st Separate Guards Kalinkovic Motorized Rifle Brigade, 1st Don Tank Corps in Bryansk and 1st om the Belorussian fronts, with the rank of Guards Senior Sergeant. He was seriously wounded and shell-shocked. He took part in the liberation of the cities of Rechitsa, Kalinovichi. He took part in military operation “Bagration”: breaking through the enemy's defenses covering the Bobruisk area and in the liberation of the cities of Osinovichi, Bobruisk, Minsk, and Slonim. _x000D_ For excellent military operations, he received Commendations of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Comrade Stalin. He was also awarded medals: "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He worked at the VEM plant in the city of Penza, was awarded the medals “For Labor Distinction”, “For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin”, “Veteran of Labor”. In 1971 he received the title of an honorary veteran of the plant's labor. At the VEM plant he worked from July 1947 to November 28, 1983 as a dispatcher, foreman, shop manager, Deputy Director for social life, and Senior engineer. For health reasons, he resigned. On the job he graduated from the Penza Engineering College in 1954, the Penza factory VTUZ in 1977.

Rank: Lieutenant Unit: 18th Guards Rifle Insterburgskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. He worked as an agronomist in the regional center, was a member of the Komsomol, so he was immediately sent to the front as part of the 133rd Rifle Division (521 Rifle Regiment) and was appointed Platoon Commander. _x000D_ On June 25, 1941, the Division had already been on its way to the front. On July 7, the soldiers were already disembarking in the area of ​​the city of Vyazma, Smolensk Region. At this time, the Smolensk defensive battle unfolded, during which German troops for the first time after the Second World War were forced not only to suspend the offensive, but also to retreat, leaving cities and towns. From February 20, 1942 to February 9, 1943, the unit fought fierce defensive battles with a length of 15 kilometers on the Sukovsky line, nicknamed "Little Sevastopol". For the high skill, courage shown by the personnel in battles with the invader, by order of the Commander-in-Chief dated March 17, 1943, the 133rd Infantry Division was transformed into the 18th Guards Infantry Division. In the area of ​​the villages of Novo-Sukovka and Sukovka, the Division stood for a long time, almost a year, so the postal service was well established here. Apparently, this is where he wrote his last letter: “... we cannot survive in such a meat grinder, so let our children live at least”. _x000D_ On February 1 0, 1943, the Division surrendered its defense sector and became part of the 16th Army for an offensive in the Bukan-Zhizdra front. The Division did not fulfill the assigned mission. After 12 days of bloody combats, having wedged into the enemy's defenses to a depth of 4 kilometers, it was detained by the enemy and went on the defensive, after which it was withdrawn to the reserve. But Solovyov Gury was no longer alive. He died on March 4 in battles for the village of Bukan near the town of Lyudinov, Kaluga Region.

She was born in Moscow on the Arbat, in the famous maternity Grauerman hospital. From 1916 to 1917 she lived in Moscow on Prechistenka street. In 1918, she and her parents moved to Odessa. Father died in 1918, mother in 1919. After the death of her parents, her relatives transported her back to Moscow, where since 1920 she was brought up in a colony named after I. Lunacharsky, from 1927 until finishing school in 1931 she was brought up in the orphanage number 11 FONO ("Pioneer"), in Khlebny lane in Moscow. From 1931 to 1935 she studied at the Technical School at the Dynamo plant at the full-time department. _x000D_ During the Great Patriotic War, she manufactured shells and rotary mechanisms for tanks. All her life (from 1935 to 1974) she worked at the Dynamo plant named after V.I. CM. Kirov, first as a designer, since 1950 as a Head of the standardization and normalization bureau, and since 1960 as a Head of the Chief designer's bureau. In October 1941, together with the plant, she was evacuated beyond the Urals to the city of Chelyabinsk, where she manufactured shells and rotary mechanisms for tanks. In 1943 she returned to Moscow. _x000D_ In peacetime, together with colleagues from the design bureau, she developed electric motors for metro cars and electric locomotives. She was married to Siluanov Boris Vasilyevich on July 6, 1941, who voluntarily joined the people's militia. On September 30, 1941, the 9th Kirov Division of the people's militia took an advanced position near the village of Leonovo in the Yelnya Region. From 1 to 3 October, fierce battles were fought, but the Division was surrounded by the enemy. The encirclement continued until mid-October 1941. Siluanov Boris Vasilievich went missing in October 1941.

Rank: Red Army Soldier Branch of troops: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 344th Infantry Roslavl Red Banner Division. My grandfather Ivan Fedorovich Sudenkov (__.__. 1909 - 08.08.1944) was born in v. Vydritsa, Khislavichsky District, Smolensk Region (formerly Mstislavsky District, Mogilev province). In May 1933, he married my grandmother Starostenkova, Alexandra Karpovna. According to her stories before marriage, they knew little of each other, but they lived happily. In February 1935, my mother Galina was born. They worked in a kolkhoz, grandfather built a house, and carried logs for future housing out of the forest. In the village he was known as a merry fellow and a joker. In July 1941, the territory of the Smolensk Region was occupied by German troops, grandfather had to hide from the Germans and policemen. _x000D_ In September 1943, the Khislavichsky District was liberated, together with his fellow villagers, the Khislavichsky Comissariat drafted a Red Army Soldier of the 1156 Rifle Regiment of the 344th Rifle Division. He was fighting with his brother Danil (died of wounds in February 1944), grandmother's brother Kirill Karpovich Starostenkov. _x000D_ One of the first formations of the Mogilev front, the 344th Division entered the Belorussian land. On September 28, 1943, the Division, acting in conjunction with the 196 Tank Brigade, liberated the city of Mstislavl, Mogilev Region of the BSSR. In the Mstislavl Region, the units moved westward and on September 30 cut the Orsha-Krichev railway in the area of the village of Shiroki. In the Goretsky District, on October 1, 1943, the Division liberated the village of Ryasno (the former regional center of the Mogilev Region) and reached the Pronya river south of the city of Dribin, Mogilev Region, where it was stopped. Then, passing 70 km to the north, the Division took the line east of the village of Lenino for joint hostilities with the first Polish Division named after Tadeusz Kosciuszko. After two weeks of fighting, the Polish Division on October 14, 1943 went into reserve, and the 344 Roslavl Division on October 14, 1943 took up defensive positions at the border of the villages of Lenino-Boevo, Goretsky District, Mogilev Region. _x000D_ Grandmother Alexandra Karpovna found out that her grandfather was in the town of Gorki, she dried the biscuits and with other residents of the village of Vydritsa went to visit her husband. Grandfather told her that in the first days of the draft it was hard, there was not enough uniforms and ammunition, but by the beginning of winter they gave out a warm uniform, felt boots. “Now I will definitely come back,” he said to his wife. During the end of 1943 and until the spring of 1944, as part of the 113th Infantry Corps of the 49th Army of the Western Front, the Division fought unsuccessful battles in the Orsha front. In the Byelorussian operation, the Division advances in the second echelon as part of the 62nd Rifle corps of the 33rd Army of the 2nd Byelorussian Front until mid-July 1944, then takes part in the Kaunas operation, on July 17, 1944, forces the Neman near the village of Balberiskis (near Prienai, Lithuania), developing the offensive on 08/02/1944, as part of the 62nd Rifle Corps of the 33rd Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, participates in the liberation of the city of Vilkaviskis (Lithuania). 08/08/1944 grandfather died of wounds, was buried in the village of Balchun (primary burial). _x000D_ I found such information on the website https://pamyat-naroda.ru/ (Name list No. 20 of irrecoverable losses of sergeants and privates of the 344 Roslavl Infantry Division 07/27/1943 to 08/09/1943 https://pamyat-naroda.ru/heroes/memorial-chelovek_donesenie54886043/). Studying the materials of the sites Memory of the People, Memorial, I did not find my grandfather's full namesakes, so I hope that his final burial will be at the memorial cemetery in Lithuania, Kamayiai village. (Source http://db.militaryheritage.eu/)

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Branch of troops: Ground Forces. The Great Patriotic War found Viktor Savin in the city of Berdichevo, Zhytomyr Region, where he served in active army since April 1941. A Separate Motorized Pontoon-bridge Battalion, in which pontooner Viktor Stepanovich Savin fought, was front-line subordination, and it was transferred from one front to another. The Battalion had to cross the rivers Seversky Donets, Vorskla, Dnieper, Dniester, Prut, Western Dvina, Vistula, Oder, Spree, etc. to direct and build, maintain ferry crossings under enemy fire. In the autumn and winter of 1942-1943. V.S. Savin worked on the Volga crossing as part of the 64th Army of the Stalingrad Front. He transported a huge amount of military supplies, equipment and soldiers who held the defenses south of Stalingrad. _x000D_ In the summer of 1943, as part of the 7th Guards Army (formerly 64th) V.S. Savin took part in the battles at the Kursk Bulge. When the offensive began, the Battalion had to cross the Seversky Donets and Vorskla rivers. Soviet troops steadily approached the Dnieper. On the night of September 28-29, 1943, the Battalion Commander received an order to begin a landing crossing across the Dnieper. The area of the crossing was near the village of Saloshino, Poltava Region. On a dark night, the paratroopers began to cross. The dispatched subunits captured a foot strong on the western bank of the Dnieper: 8 km in front width and 6 km in depth. This piece of land was shot through by the enemy. _x000D_ On the morning of September 29, the Nazis unleashed fire of all types of ammunition on the destruction of our soldiers who had occupied a foot strong on the right bank. There was nowhere to retreat, during the daytime the river could not be crossed due to the actions of the enemy's aviation and artillery, and until the evening without reinforcements it could not hold out. A hard situation arose. The warriors who were on the given foot strong were bleeding to death and suffered fierce losses. The order of the command was at any cost to transfer equipment and manpower to the foot strong and pick up the wounded in the daytime. But all attempts were unsuccessful, two ferries were sunk. Dusk soon fell. _x000D_ In the most hard conditions, under continuous enemy fire, V.S. Savin and his comrades made 16 voyages to the right bank of the Dnieper, ferrying manpower and equipment. On the seventeenth flight of V. S. Savin loaded 4 Anti-tank guns with crews into the landing pontoon. Already near the coast, the pontoon was damaged and began to sink. V. S. Savin jumped into the water and pulled the pontoon to the shore. When the guns were unloaded, he poured water, plugged the holes with his tunic and swam to the left bank again. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Viktor Stepanovich Savin, among others, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for crossing the Dnieper and firmly consolidating the foot strong on the western bank of the Dnieper. After the Dnieper V. S. Savin, together with his Battalion, reached Berlin.