Heroes and feats

Rank: Starshina _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 132nd Rifle Bakhmach-Warsaw. Division Twice Red Banner Order of Suvorov _x000D_ I, Samarin Fedor Tikhonovich, was born on May 29, 1926 in the village of Olkhi, Mozharsky District, Ryazan Region, into a family of peasants. My parents are Samarin Tikhon Vasilievich and mother Samarina Evdokia Mikhailovna. In 1936, I went to study at the Olkhovsk National Assembly School and graduated from the 7th grade. In the summer of 1940, a system of labor reserves was organized, at that time I left for Moscow to the 14th vocational School at the Kolibr plant, where I had studied until the fall of 1941. _x000D_ In 1941, our School was evacuated to the Urals in the city of Nizhny Tagil to the 15th vocational School, where I finished my studies. Later, in 1943, I moved back to Moscow to the management of labor reserves, from where I was redirected to the 31st vocational School of the Navy, where I worked as a master of industrial training until February 1944. _x000D_ In February, I was sent from the School to the Rostokinsky district military enlistment office in Moscow. In the regional military registration and enlistment office, I was sent to the depot . We were sent to the city of Narva, where we were engaged in timber harvesting and laying various routes. Then we were sent to Leningrad, from there to Molotov in the Urals, to the Naval Aviation Technical School. _x000D_ Due to the low level of education it was hard to study, I was expelled and sent to the Molotov depot, and from the depot I was sent to one of the combat units to the front as an anti-tank gunner, where I was wounded in the left side. " _x000D_ In his autobiography, he wrote only about one wound, but there was also a shell shock. He also did not write about his participation in the battle for Warsaw, after which he was given gratitude by order of Stalin (January 17, 1945). I found proof that he fought with the same 47th Army: “The Soviet 47th Army, having gone over to the offensive on January 16, crossed the Vistula on the move north of Warsaw.” _x000D_ “... From the hospital I was enrolled in the second Tank Brigade in the Department (special), where I was an orderly for the head of the Department, at the same time was an assistant to the platoon Commander at the Department. From the Brigade I was sent to the hospital, and from the hospital to the Reserve Regiment. From the Reserve Regiment I was enrolled in the 425th Art Regiment. In 1945, the 47th Army left Germany for the USSR, and I was transferred to the 8th Guards Army of the 76th Separate Workers' Battalion, where I served as Commander of an administrative platoon. Then I was sent to the garrison officers' house of the 8th Army in Voimur in Germany as a supply agent, where I worked until March 1947. _x000D_ In March 1947, I was demobilized and registered for long-term service in the Mozharsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Ryazan Region. From November 1958 to the present, I have been working as a Company Starshina”. _x000D_ At the end of his service, he worked as a carpenter in the unit. He met his future wife in the same unit, she worked there as a cook.

Rank: Red Army Soldier _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 316th Infantry Temryuk Twice Red Banner Division _x000D_ _x000D_ Tonkovich Alexey Maksimovich was born in Chizhevichi village (Vileisky district of Minsk Region, Belarus), worked as a servant in St. Petersburg for the entrepreneur Anatoly Evgrafovich Molchanov (1856-1921) and the actress Maria Gavrilovna Savina (1854-1915). _x000D_ After the revolution, he was a farm laborer at an Orthodox priest and a lord in Western Belarus. In the 1920 he served in the Polish army (85th Vilna Rifle Regiment, the 19th Infantry Division, stationed in Novovileyka, on the outskirts of Vilna). In 1930 he went to work at the Anzen mine (Compagnie des mines d'Anzin) in France. Poles, Czechs, Belarusians, Yugoslavs worked together with him. It was time of the Great Depression, he recalled how the coffee was thrown from barges and destroyed, the strikes of French workers who hated migrants from Eastern Europe replacing them. _x000D_ Participant of the Great Patriotic War from July 19 (October 12, military operations) 1944 to March 3, 1945 (2nd Ukrainian Front). He served in the 316th Temryuk Rifle Division in the 1075th Rifle Regiment (rifleman of the 6th company). He was wounded in the arm by an explosive bullet by a sniper during the liberation of Budapest (Hungary) on February 3, 1945. _x000D_ In the battle for Budapest on February 5, 1945, while repelling a German counterattack, he killed 7 German soldiers and presented the medal “For Courage”. After being wounded, he was undergoing treatment in the evacuation hospital No. 3754, No. 3321, No. 3314, No. 6033 (since March 22, 1945, a certificate of injury was issued on May 15, 1945). _x000D_ Awards: medal “For Capture of Budapest” (February 13, 1945), medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, medal “For Courage” (November 20, 1945, No. 3210333), medal “For Military Merit” (no number), medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." (November 25, 1965), medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (March 10, 1976), medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (June 25, 1969), "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (November 15, 1978). _x000D_ He was a disabled of the 2nd group. Since 1946 he had worked as a store manager (salary—210 rubles a month, pension—178 rubles a month for 1956, for 1972—47.73 rubles). He passed away in 1984.

Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. _x000D_ He was born in 1923. Shortly before that, due to the persecution of priests, his father was forced to leave for the village of Krasnoe and change the priesthood to a Teacher of the Russian language, worked as a Director of a School and an orphanage. Vladimir continued the dynasty of teachers, following the example of his father and brothers, from the age of 16 he began teaching history at a School in the village of Shabanovo. He wrote good poetry, before the war he was published in a collection of Siberian poets, began to write a story about the civil war. At the age of 17 he wrote an article for the "Uchitelskaya Gazeta" "What a rural Teacher should be like". The main values of this article are still relevant today, understandable to our generation and future successors. _x000D_ Vladimir went to the front at the age of 18. He underwent military training in the city of Berdsk. On November 7, 1941, he took a military oath. From December 1941 he fought in the 28th Guards Division. Then he fought in the 30th Siberian Ski Battalion. He served as a tanker, Komsomol organizer of the 226th Tank Regiment, Chief of the Regiment's Tank Brigade. In October 1942, in battles of Separate Ski Battalion he was seriously wounded. While in the hospital, he wrote poetry, read them to raise the morale of wounded soldiers and nurses. A nurse wrote mentioned this fact in a letter after his death. _x000D_ After the hospital he went to the front again. In August he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He was seriously wounded in battle, died from burns in hospital No. 218 of the OMSB 178 SD near Smolensk on September 7, 1943. _x000D_ His name is carved on the Obelisk of Glory in the village of Shabanovo, where he lived and worked, and in the town of Dukhovshchina, where he was reburied from the place of death (Shchelkino village). Materials about the Tatarnikov family are kept in the School museum of the village of Shabanovo, in a memorial room. My father was named after the hero Tatarnikov Vladimir Alexandrovich.

Title: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ “I, Serovatov Matvey Dmitrievich, was born on November 26, 1925 in the Chkalovsk Region. Perevolotsky district, Donetsk. When I turned 17 years and 2 months old, I volunteered for the front, decided that I must defend my homeland and my people. In 1943, on January 20, I was sent to the front, where I underwent training. _x000D_ At first I served in Koltubanovka, then we were transferred to Bashkiria, to Alkino, where I was enrolled as a machine gunner. I finished my studies with excellent marks and I was awarded the rank of Senior Sergeant. At the end of the year we were sent to the front, we ended up in the Poltava Region. There they gave me an easel machine gun, I was number 1. _x000D_ Then we were sent to the front line, where we defended our Motherland, here shots and explosions were already heard. When we crossed the Dnieper, it was already forced. Here we received the first baptism of fire, came under the bombing. The battle continued throughout the night. Many of my comrades were killed in that battle, this was our first battle. By morning we were not far from the Germans, their Reconnaissance bypassed our defenses, and we were surrounded. Suddenly 17 German tanks appeared, our regiment had been crushed almost completely, miraculously, several people remained alive, including myself... It was scary, even now its scary to remember, we had to go through horror. A whole book is not enough to describe everything. _x000D_ I went my way from the Dnieper to Berlin. In these battles I was slightly wounded, both legs were frostbitten. As a result, I was taken to the hospital, after treatment I ended up in the 173rd Tank Brigade, where I received a Degtyarev machine gun, and fought there. From the front line we were taken to form in Kharkov. We walked 70 kilometers to the village. Robin. Here we already received American equipment, our unit became known as the 6th Separate Motorcycle Reconnaissance Regiment. I was given a heavy machine gun. Our machine-gun company consisted of 110 people. Fighting, I went through the cities of Lodz, Warsaw, Regenwald, Berlin. After the capture of Berlin and the celebration of Victory Day, the service began for me in Dresden, where I served for 6 years and 2 months._x000D_ After demobilization, I returned to my hometown, to the Orenburg station, got married, got a job at the station. I worked for 30 years and 4 months, then retired and took up farming, I am satisfied with my life. In 2000, the veterans of our city were invited to Germany, where we stayed for 6 days. We were received just fine, I and my fellow soldiers were very pleased. First of all, we visited the cemeteries where our friends are buried, they have 317 monuments and 528 graves with our soldiers, cleanliness and order, a sea of flowers. People treat our heroes with respect, take care, honor. All this will always remain in my memory. " _x000D_ On January 11, 2006, our beloved grandfather passed away. We we miss him very much. He was a very good, cheerful, good-natured and sympathetic person. We loved him very much. We will never forget him. Thanks to him and to all the heroes, living and fallen, for our bright future, for this wonderful World, a deep bow for everything that they have done for us.

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 15th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division _x000D_ "I must live my life for my brothers, and, if possible, happily ..." _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov is one of the few survivors who had to go through the entire war from the first to the last day. Before the war, Muhangali lived in the village of Balykshi, Guryev Region. In 1939, at the age of 19, he was drafted into the Red Army. He began his service in Kharkov. As an excellent student in military service, Muhangali was sent to study at an anti-aircraft regimental School. And then the war started. _x000D_ The cadets were put into echelons and sent to the front. The mood was cheerful: everyone was sure that they would quickly defeat the Germans and return home with victory. They could not even imagine that a heavy, bloody war would stretch for four long years ... _x000D_ From the Turmagambetov family, Muhangali was the first to join the army. Then his brothers Kurman and Uzakkali became soldiers, a little later it was the turn to go to the front for the third brother Kuben. Once, instead of the long-awaited "brother triangle", a death notification came, brother Kurman was killed. A year later, the hero Uzakkali died, and the seriously wounded Kuben lay in the hospital for a long time. Soon he also died from wounds ... _x000D_ On July 17, in Belarus near Bobruisk, Muhangali took part in his first combat. He had to fight first in the infantry, since the anti-aircraft units were not provided with military equipment. It was scary. The Red Army turned out to be unprepared for a war with a well-armed enemy. The losses were huge, no one counted them, the death squads simply buried the dead._x000D_ At the beginning of November 1941, Sergeant M. Turmagambetov's anti-aircraft battery was stationed near Moscow. And he had a chance to participate in the historic military parade on Red Square on November 7, 1941, when the fascist troops approached Moscow dangerously close, and right from the parade he went to the front. A few days later, Muhangali was wounded and hospitalized. As soon as things got better, he returned to his anti-aircraft Artillery. _x000D_ Near the town of Izyum on the Seversky Donets River in March 1942, he shot down his first enemy plane. And then there was Stalingrad. On the defensive lines, rare moments of silence were the harbingers of new fierce attacks. They, replacing each other, rolled in a continuous succession, battle after battle. In Kalach-on-Don, near Stalingrad, the gunners held the defensive for a week, following the order: "Not a step back!" German planes raided the city every day. The battery of the gun Commander M. Turmagambetov guarded the pontoon bridge 4 kilometers long. The Germans bombed day and night. And the anti-aircraft gunners had to take care of the shells. Then they built a raft, put a cannon on it and began to fire at the German tanks with direct fire with anti-aircraft guns. In the battles for Stalingrad, Muhangali Turmagambetov shot down two enemy aircraft, destroyed three tanks, not allowing the enemy to pass through his positions. For these bloody combats, he received the Order of the Red Star, and the entire combat crew was awarded medals. _x000D_ After the Battle of Stalingrad, they became part of the third Simferopol Artillery Division. The liberation battles in the western direction were no less hard and bloody, but the realization that the enemy was retreating, and they were liberating cities and peoples one by one, helped greatly and gave new strength to the soldiers. _x000D_ Muhangali Turmagambetov fought Bessarabia, Romania, Hungary, Carpathians. The anti-aircraft gunner shot down his last plane on April 13, the day of the liberation of the Austrian capital, Vienna. The war for him ended on May 13, 1945 in Czechoslovakia, northeast of Prague, where Field Marshal Scherner's group resisted. He received the Order of Glory, 3rd degree, which he was very proud of as the main soldier's order. _x000D_ On June 24, 1945, Mukhangali Turmagambetov took part in the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow. He got into this anti-aircraft Regiment, having passed a tough selection from almost ten thousand people! The requirements were really strict: height had to be 1 meter 70 centimeters, good bearing, at least three state awards on the chest. _x000D_ After the parade, he returned to his unit, which was stationed in Budapest. Forty years after these events, in 1985, at the parade dedicated to the 40th anniversary of Victory Day, Mukhangali Yesenovich Turmagambetov again had a chance to march on Red Square. He got there as a participant in the 1945 Victory Parade. _x000D_ In Moscow, in the Museum of the Armed Forces, there is an anti-aircraft gun on which it is written: “The gun of Senior Sergeant Mukhangali Turmagambetov of the 15th anti-aircraft Artillery Battalion of the 6th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, of which 16 aircraft were shot down in battles with the Nazis, a record number during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ Mukhangali Yessenovich Turmagambetov is a man of unusual destiny. A guy from a village lost in the Kazakh steppes, miraculously survived and marched three times on Red Square, taking part in three Victory Parades. After the end of the war, anti-aircraft gunner M. Turmagambetov abruptly changed his life. Even before the war, he graduated from a fish technical School. After the war he decided that he should study further. In 1946 M. Turmagambetov entered the Moscow Institute of Fisheries. As it turned out, he was the first Kazakh who graduated from this institute and worked for over 20 years in the fishing industry of Kazakhstan.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Armored and mechanized troops _x000D_ My great-grandfather Nikolai Andreevich Sirotenko is a native Crimean. Born in 1918 in the city of Karasubazar (now Belogorsk). In the same year, the Red Army Soldier Andrei Sirotenko, his father, was killed during the Civil War in Russia. Mother Feodosia Romanovna, by the way, the grand-niece grand-niece of the legendary revolutionary Zhelyabov, raised three children herself, and my great-grandfather Nikolai became the support of the family as a teenager. After finishing the seven-year School, Kolya Sirotenko got a job in the Pobeda shop, which made equipment (crowbars, picks, shovels, carts) for the builders of the Taigan reservoir. _x000D_ Most of the people worked at the construction site were prisoners of GULAG. Nikolai saw the hands of these people, which were worn to blood, and therefore tried to plant a smoother hand on a shovel or an axe. In this he had no equal in the shop. His surname decorated the Hall of Fame. The outbreak of the war completely canceled everything. _x000D_ Nikolai Andreevich began his six-year frontline journey back in 1939, during the Finnish campaign. In his car ZIS-5, he transported wounded soldiers of the Red Army from the front line to the rear. Under the fire of Finnish snipers, he deftly maneuvered in a car between trenches and craters, each time delivering the wounded, as they say, without loss, to a medical Battalion or hospital. Sirotenko's car number 4477 had been famous throughout the front line. From the memoirs of my great-grandfather: _x000D_ “After the Finnish war, I served in the garrison of the Brest Fortress. And on June 22, 1941, the Germans unleashed on Brest all the might of their offensive strike. Heavy Artillery fire, raids by bomber aircraft turned the peaceful border town into an absolute hell. We defended ourselves as best we could. I was a fuel truck driver and delivered fuel to the hottest spots. God had mercy: the enemy never hit my car either from the air or from the ground. " _x000D_ With the retreating units in the summer and autumn of 1941, Nikolai reached Moscow and from there began his military journey to the West. He carried ammunition and medicines, weapons and foodstuffs, shells and mines, and had a chance to carry unit commanders. In Austria, he came under shelling, was seriously wounded. But he got out. _x000D_ After the hospital they wanted to commission him, but he asked to go to the front line. My great-grandfather recalled the following incident: _x000D_ “It was in Hungary. For one of the settlements near Lake Balaton, we clashed not with the Germans, but with the Magyars. Evil, fearless brutes, I tell you. Of course, they did not have German organization and discipline. But they had more than enough anger and rage. Then I drove the Chief of Artillery of the Division, Colonel Ivan Timofeevich Tochilin. The Magyars surrounded my "jeep" (by the way, a good car), pouring fire on it. Tochilin and I were shooting back. And then I remembered about the wooden box with grenades, which I always carried with me. I threw four pieces one after the other, and managed to break through. In the morning I looked at the car: Mother of God! All in holes, the wheels are also punctured. And how did they survive?"_x000D_ In 1946, the front-line driver Nikolai returned to his native Belogorsk. He immediately became a driver of the city Fire Brigade. At home, my great-grandmother Akulina Denisovna was waiting for him, whom he married back in 1938. By the way, in 1988 my great-grandfather and great-grandmother played a golden wedding, which was attended by half the city.“I have lived a long life,”my great-grandfather said in 2007 in an interview for the newspaper“Krymskaya Pravda”,“and I consider every day I have lived to be happy. I have no anger for God and fate: I lived as my mind advised me. And I will die with a pure heart. Do you know what darkens my life in my declining years? A feeling of annoyance that the mighty Soviet Union was destroyed by the narrow-minded politicians. I am a Russian person and I am proud of it. I am not a nationalist, but I am insulted when the current Ukrainian government slanders great Russia, when it tries to make heroes out of Bandera, when it leaves the majority of the population of Ukraine below the poverty line. I want everyone to live happy...” Written by Larisa Ternopolova.

Rank: Lieutenant_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops_x000D_ Subdivision: 67th Guards Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. _x000D_ My uncle, Guard Lieutenant Nikolai Nikolayevich Skugar, was born in Taganrog on May 11, 1923. He worked at an aircraft plant in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He went to the front as a volunteer in 1942. Place of service: 6th Guards Army 199th Guards Rifle Regiment of 67th Guards Rifle Division. _x000D_ 67th Guards Division was a part of the 23rd Guards Rifle Corps of the 6th Guards Army from May 1943 until the end of the war. The Division took part in the Battle of Kursk Bulge, took up defenses on the southern face of the Kursk salient. In the course of the Belgorod-Kharkov offensive operation, the Division in combat operations contributed to the liberation of Belgorod and Kharkov. _x000D_ From October 1943, the Division was part of the Baltic Front, and from October 20 was at the 2nd Baltic Front. It fought in the area of the city of Nevel, took up defenses north-west of the city until early January 1944, and then took part in the defeat of the enemy's Nevel group. _x000D_ Guards Lieutenant Skugar Nikolai Nikolayevich died from a head wound on 01/01/1944 in the surgical field-field hospital No. 2329 (HPPG No. 2329). Primary burial place is the Kalinin Region, Velikoluksky district, village Vorokhoby, to the north, forest edge, mass grave No. 10. Voronezh Region Borisoglebsk city, city cemetery, mass grave, No. 919 was reburied. A total of 1280 buried.

Rank: Corporal_x000D_ The last military rank is a retired Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops_x000D_ Subdivision: 14th Guards Cavalry Mozyr Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was born on January 7, 1924 in the village Chundzha of the Uygur Region of the Almaty Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan (at that time the Alma-Ata Region of the Kazakh SSR). He was the eldest child and the only son in a large peasant family. In 1939 he graduated from the 7th grade and began to work in the kolkhoz helping his family. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, the head of the family, Mikhail Pavlovich, went to the front and Ignat Mikhailovich remained in charge, but on August 20, 1942, he was drafted by the Panfilov Comissariat of the Alma-Ata Region into the Red Army, and mother Evgenia Gavrilovna was left with four daughters—Tonya, Rita, Lilya and recently born Katya. The eldest daughter Zoya worked in the mines of the city of Karaganda on the call to the Labor Army, in the so-called. "Labor Reserves"._x000D_ From June 1943 he took part in the battles against the German fascist invaders. From the first days at the front, Ignat Starikov showed to be a brave, proactive warrior, he became a recon for a foot Reconnaissance platoon. He fought on the Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts as part of the 14th Guards Cavalry Division. _x000D_ On the night of July 25, 1944, Private Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich, as part of a group of the 50th Guards Cavalry Regiment, participated in reconnaissance of the enemy defense in the area of the city of Lublin (Poland). In the village of Zembezhitsa, the recons encountered a group of enemy soldiers. Undeterred, Private Starikov entered into an unequal combat and destroyed two Hitlerites with machine gun fire, and took four prisoners. At the headquarters of the Regiment, the "tongues" gave valuable information about the location of their units. By order of August 17, 1944, the Red Army Soldier Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree (No. 89362). _x000D_ On January 27, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov, as part of a Reconnaissance group, was in a combat mission in the area of the city of Zielona Gora (Poland). The guardsmen engaged a group of machine gunners in two armored personnel carriers and were the first to open fire. _x000D_ In this battle, Starikov personally knocked out an enemy armored personnel carrier with an anti-tank grenade and destroyed more than 10 Nazi soldiers with machine gun fire. By order of March 12, 1945, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree (No. 16111). March 10, 1945, in the combat on the river Oder (south-west of Berwalde, Germany), during reconnaissance patrol of the enemy defense in the forest area, which is three kilometers west of the place of Kletkov, Starikov with two recons came across an enemy ambush. Suddenly opening fire, the Germans killed Starikov's comrades in arms. The Corporal was left alone. Frequently changing position, he fired from a machine gun, approaching the enemy. The enemy decided that reinforcements approached the daredevil and retreated, leaving five dead and a light machine gun on the field. For this battle, the Guard Corporal Starikov was presented with a new award. _x000D_ By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 15, 1946, for exceptional courage and fearlessness shown at the final stage of WWII in battles with the Nazi invaders, the Guard Corporal Starikov Ignat Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree (No. 1406) and became a full cavalier Order of Glory. _x000D_ In 1947 I.M. Starikov was demobilized. After the war he lived and worked at the Kandagach station (Aktobe Region of the Republic of Kazakhstan). Later he moved to Altai capital, city of Barnaul (80th Guards Division Street, 30). He worked as a mechanic at the Transmash plant. He was married, raised two of his children and one adopted. He passed away on November 11, 1991. He was buried in Barnaul at the Mikhailovsky cemetery. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Star, the Orders of Glory of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd degrees, and medals. The name of the Hero is given to a street in his native village of Chundzha, Uygur district, Alma-Ata (now Almaty) Region. Memorial plaques were installed on the house in Chundzha, where Starikov I.M. lived before he had been drafted into the Red Army and in Barnaul, where he lived his last years,.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant, Pilot, Twice Hero of the Soviet Union_x000D_ _x000D_ Senior Lieutenant Vasily Vasilyevich Siroshtan, was one of the fighter pilots of the 512th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Warriors who gave their lives for the bright future of our Motherland will forever remain in the memory of the people. Vasily Siroshtan was born in 1918 in the village Malye Khutora (Small Farmsteads) of Vinnitsa Region in a large and friendly working class family. Before serving in the army, he graduated from the School of factory training (FZU), worked as a mechanic at an auto repair plant. At the front he had been since June 22, 1941. _x000D_ In a small letter at the beginning of the war, he wrote home that he had received a fighter and was eager to meet the enemy as soon as possible. He was married. His wife was called, like his mother, Anna. He had two daughters, Zina, born in 1938 and Valya, born in 1940. Co-workers said about Siroshtan that he had the soul of a poet. True, he did not write poetry, but he loved it very much and knew many poems, especially by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko. In the village of Malye Khutora in Vinnytsia, where he was born, they appreciated a good word and a sincere folk song. There Vasily first heard Svetlov's "Grenada", which amazed the teenager. He knew it by heart and often read: "We rode at a pace, we raced in battles and held the song" Yablochko" in our teeth. Ah, this song is still kept by young grass of steppe malachite. " _x000D_ Vasily Siroshtan, being a Squadron Commander, knew how to organize work on the ground so that it would be easier to defeat the enemy in the air. He had excellent organizational skills and skillfully combined them with combat work, showing daily concern for his subordinates. For the entire period of work on the front of the Patriotic War, Siroshtan showed himself to be a fearless and decisive pilot, skillfully applying all military cunning in air combat. He flew 421 sorties. He flew I-16, Lagg-3 and Yak-1. He participated in 97 air battles, as a result of which he personally shot down 8 enemy aircraft and 6 in a group. He conducted 17 assault sorties along enemy columns and airfields (Poltava, Kharkov, Chuguev, Rogan), while personally lighting 2 enemy aircraft on the ground, destroyed or damaged 2 tanks, 14 vehicles with troops and cargo, 3 anti-aircraft guns, scattered or destroyed up to companies of enemy soldiers. He had made 103 sorties to escort attack aircraft, 22 to cover his troops and crossings, 58 Reconnaissance missions, of which 4 were special missions from the front command. He was a distinguished Soviet ace after two rams of enemy fighters. _x000D_ On September 1, 1941, the flight Commander, Lieutenant Siroshtan, flew to the I-16 to escort SB bombers heading to bomb a river crossing in the Kremenchug Region. Suddenly, a group of Me-109 appeared from behind the clouds. An air battle ensued. During the battle, Siroshtan came under fire from one Messerschmitt. The machine gun fire damaged the tail of his aircraft. Then he rushed down and cut off the Me-109 plane with the wing of his plane. Tumbling, he went to the ground on August 1, 1942, near Novoalekseevka, shot down another Me-109 enemy plane with a ramming strike and again remained alive. _x000D_ Siroshtan continuously taught young pilots how to fight the enemy and emerge victorious from the battle. The air battle was skillful and competent. With his fearlessness, courage and military exploits, he always inspired the entire personnel of the Regiment to destroy the fascist vultures. _x000D_ On 08/24/1942, heading the shock group for escorting attack aircraft, Art. Lieutenant Vasily Vasilievich. Siroshtan together with the young pilot led by Sergeant Nikolai V. Milovanov in the Davydovka area near Stalingrad entered into an unequal air battle with 12 enemy ME-109 aircraft. Covering the young pilot, the Commander bravely repelled the frantic attacks of German fighters. The air battle lasted about an hour, and even after the death of Nikolai Milovanov, the fearless falcon, without leaving the battlefield, continued to fight himself until an enemy bullet hit him in the head. “On this day, Vasily Siroshtan and the young pilot Nikolai Milovanov did not return to their airfield. At the head of the group, the Squadron Commander accompanied the Soviet Il-aircrafts.“Twelve Messerschmitts appeared,”he said on the radio at the command depot. The receiver caught the command: “I will take over the fight, the rest follow the course of the attack aircraft.”Then the abrupt: "Kolya, four to the left ..." "Attack, cover." "Like this". And again: "Closer to me ...", "Beat! ..", "Well done, Nikolai ..."_x000D_ For the courage and heroism shown in the battles with the Nazi invaders, the command of the 512th Fighter Aviation Regiment V.V. Siroshtan was twice presented to the highest state award with the title “Hero of the Soviet Union” (in 1941 and 1942). He was awarded two Orders of the Red Banner and the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree (posthumously).

Rank: Major_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 209th motorized Division. _x000D_ After graduating from the Smolensk Military-Political School, with the rank of Junior Political Instructor, he was sent to Western Belarus as the Secretary of the newspaper of the 209th Motorized Rifle Division, where he was caught by the war. After August 1941 he was sent to the 64th Infantry Division, which was stationed in Smolensk before the war. For successful battles in the defense of Minsk and in the Yartsevo area, the divisions were awarded the title of 7th Guards. _x000D_ In June 1942, Stadnyuk I.F. was transferred to the newspaper "Courage" of the 27th Army, with which he went all the way to Victory. Until 1958 he served in the army, held various positions in the military press. Member of the USSR JV since 1954. Member of the board of the RSFSR JV (since 1965) and the USSR JV (since 1971). _x000D_ He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Ogonyok magazine in 1965-1972. In the 1980s, he was a member of the editorial board of the heroic-patriotic literary and artistic almanac "Podvig". He was the secretary of the Moscow Writers' Organization. _x000D_ Works written by IF Stadnyuk: novels "People are not angels", "War" (in 1983 the novel was awarded the State Prize of the USSR), "Moscow 41st", memoirs "Confessions of a Stalinist", the story "A Man Does Not Give Up", script of the film "Maxim Perepelitsa", the drama "Bitter Bread of Truth" (was in the repertoire of the Academic Theater of the Soviet Army), "Keys from Heaven". He passed away on April 29, 1994. _x000D_ Awards: twice the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Patriotic war of the 2nd degree, twice the Red Star, the Labor Red Banner, "Badge of Honor", the October Revolution, Lenin; medals: “For Capture of Budapest”,“For Capture of Vienna”,“For Defense of Moscow”,“For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”,“For Military Merit”.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 143rd Infantry Konotop-Korosten Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division._x000D_ _x000D_ Our grandfather Teterin Georgy Methodievich was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army by the Kirensk military enlistment office on August 23, 1941. A lot of them gathered there, patriots of the Motherland, ready to give their lives for its salvation. After Irkutsk, the whole group of young guys was sent to Chita, to Antipikha, where the fighters were for exactly 17 days !!! received the first basics of combat training. _x000D_ On September 11, a group of recons who had not yet fired on were transferred to the front near Kharkov, and therefore, probably in the very first battle, my grandfather was wounded and ended up in a hospital. While George is in the hospital, his comrades in arms went far away. He was catching up with them already on the North Caucasian front. _x000D_ Grandfather has many orders and medals, but there are also the most valuable ones, reminiscent of many terrible events... Holding the medal“For Courage”in his hands, grandfather recalled: _x000D_ “Our detachment halted at a deep river, the combat mission was set to ferry mines to the opposite bank, but the enemy's massive fire did not make it possible to do this by boats or other floating means. We touched the water, it was ice cold. And then the Commander asked: "Are there Siberians among you?" ... Grandfather said: "Yes! I am a Siberian ”- and stepped forward. Several more people stepped forward with him. The daredevils were given rubber backpacks with the same mines inside. Nine times under enemy fire and with a load of mines on his shoulders he had to swim to the opposite bank ... George survived in a dangerous crossing, but was wounded again ... And again a hospital, and again a hospital bed. But the soldier returns to his comrades in arms to the front line, in the heat of hell. _x000D_ After the hospital, there came a Battle of Stalingrad under the command of V.I. Chuikov, who later became Marshal of the Soviet Union. It was hard for my grandfather to remember that battle, but as he used to say: "Reconnaissance is always ahead." And already the rest follow them: infantry, Artillery ... As a reminder of that battle he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ The comman did not have enough information for tactical conduct of the battle at Stalingrad, so their reconnaissance detachment was ordered to get the "prisoner tongue" by any means possible. And now recons in camouflage coats deep moved forward at night in the rear of the enemy. The Nazis are asleep and do not know about the approaching danger ... Only the sentry did not sleep at the depot, but was professionally carried off without a single cry. Friendly snoring blocked the order: "Hande Hoсh!" In this operation, seventeen "prisoner tongues" were taken, including the Commander. For his participation in this special operation, Georgy Methodievich was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And all the same, despite the tactical and strategic efforts of the commanders, many of his comrades from the legendary 62-8th Guards Army were killed on that battlefield, in that bloody meat grinder! And he not only survived, but also went on to fight for freedom ... Next, Berlin was ahead! And unexpected and long-awaited the Victory had come !!! Grandfather recalled: _x000D_ Our troops are approaching Berlin. Suddenly drowning out the rest of the voices, a loud baritone is heard on the radio in the street: “Citizens, the Brandenburg Gate is open! The way to Berlin is FREE! " We waited, we knew, but all the same we were dumbfounded: “Victory? - No, it can not be?! Why, this is VICTORY! " _x000D_ And we, the descendants of our courageous soldier, are proud that among the records on the Brandenburg Gate there is also his record, that he fought, survived and reached, that they WIN! After Berlin was a link-up with the Americans on the Elbe, and then our soldier drove home for two years ... Two years !!! Because before arriving home, he took part in the re-evacuation of factories and the demagnetization of mines on ships in the Gulf of Finland. _x000D_ And only on August 1, 1947, two years after the war, on his birthday, Georgy Methodievich Teterin returned home! He returned wounded and shell-shocked, but alive and got freedom and a peaceful sky overhead! My grandfather passed away in 1997. _x000D_ A few days before the 70th anniversary, the heart of our veteran halted ... But the memory of him and his efforts lives not only in photo albums, but in the hearts and memory of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren ... We remember! We are proud! Thank the grandfather for the Victory!

Rank: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of troops: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Division: 55th Cavalry Division. _x000D_ Не was born on August 5, 1922 in the village of Rynok, Ikryaninsky District, Stalingrad Region. On December 8, 1942, he volunteered for the war front, due to illness he was not called up. He was sent to fight in the cavalry near Stalingrad, in the area of Kotelnikovo. Being in the 8th Cavalry Corps, the 55th Cavalry Division in January 1943 he liberated the city and the Morozovsk railway station with a swift attack. Then moving forward, the Tatsinskaya station, Belaya Kalitva were liberated with stubborn battles._x000D_ In early February 1943, having broken through the Nazi defenses, the 55th cavalry Division entered the Donbass raid along the rear of the German troops south of Voroshilovgrad. Liberating the left-bank Ukraine, the village of Typichev, Gorodnyansky district of the Chernigov Region, Sergeant Sumenkin Boris Fedorovich was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the accomplished efforts of the Guard. The report reads: _x000D_ "For the fact that during the offensive on Tupichev on September 23, 1943, under rifle fire, he disabled the enemy's crew and heavy machine gun. He helped the adjoining platoon move forward and capture the enemy's firing depot." _x000D_ Having liberated the city of Chernigov, the cavalry crossed the river Dnieper on the move and seized a foot strong on its western bank in the Dymarka and Nedanchichi Region. _x000D_ Since January 1944, liberating Belarus from the Nazi invaders, he had taken part in the Mozyr operation, where he was wounded. After being cured, he was declared unfit for military service. On April 6, 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Rank: Quartermaster Technician of the 1st rank _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military-administrative and administrative structure_x000D_ Unfortunately, my great-grandfather, Sergei Ilyich Smiryagin, was not able to leave us memories. He did not return from the front. Great-grandfather was a military officer. The officer went through the 1st World War, a campaign in Western Belarus and the Finnish War. He was called to the Great Patriotic War on July 1, 1941 by the Red Army Commissariat of Smolensk. According to my grandmother's recollections, the Director of Prombank, (where he was the Deputy Director) sent him to the front as his replacement. And he had already been 48 years old in 1941. He had the rank of 1st rank Quartermaster Technician (approximately equal to the Captain). He officially went missing in November 1941. However, most likely, it is not entirely true. Or not at all. He was in the 133rd front-line field office of the State Bank of the Western Front. And this is the last thing that is reliably known about him. _x000D_ During the entire war, there was not a single letter from him. And there was nowhere to write. Great-grandmother left Smolensk on July 5th, and on the 16th the Nazis already broke into the city. Great-grandfather had no chance to find out her address in the evacuation in the city of Shadrinsk, Kurgan Region. _x000D_ Through unofficial channels, Sergei Ilyich served as an Accountant at the 365th field cash desk of the State Bank. The 365th field cash office of the State Bank is listed as formed on July 9, 1941 and broken on July 14, 1941. Moreover, both colleagues of the great-grandfather, and the PKG consisted of 3 people: the cashier Vladyko and the cashier Kantorovich had survived the war. Sergei Ilyich no longer appears on the lists of the 133rd FPKG. Perhaps he was transferred to another front (along with his army), but then it is a pure assumption. The only thing that can be asserted quite confidently is that he was not in captivity, since his great-grandmother received a pension for him. That is, somewhere there were documents for him, as for the deceased. Unfortunately, despite the fact that in recent years many archival records have been posted, specialists of the civilian people's commissariats under the Red Army (depot office, banks, etc.) do not get into them. _x000D_ And since the State Bank is a super-closed institution, the data on its employees who passed away in the war are extremely hard to access for research. So, most likely, the data on the great-grandfather is stored in the departmental archive of the field institutions of the State Bank, access to which has a very limited circle of people. But the search continues ...

Rank: Sergeant. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Division: 80th Cavalry Division. _x000D_ From the diary of my hero-grandfather:_x000D_ _x000D_ “Even though our Division carried out many combat missions successfully, the war was like a war, there were some casualties. We lost many fighters, and many people faced a dramatic outcome. I will give an example of our unsuccessful completion of the operation. It was at the beginning of 1944 ... _x000D_ After a mission we were given some rest, but the rest was short-term. The command hastily assigned a new mission. This time there was no front breakthrough. We were in a forest area of Ukraine, not far from the city of Dubno. We were told to pack up quickly and advance. Evening came. We were on horseback, and ammunition, mortars and other necessary things on a cart drove into the forest. It was only our 29th Cavalry Regiment. We moved forward along the forest roads without noise, like ghosts, but with great speed. We moved all night, moving along narrow country roads, forward and forward. _x000D_ By morning we came out into a clearing, and in front of us we could see some buildings, either a village or a city, it was not clear yet. Suddenly, a shell flew and exploded behind our column. Then a second round flew by, making a gap in the front. So we hit the "fork"! And according to all the laws of military theory, the third shell must explode in the middle of the column. Therefore, we quickly took action: dismantled the mortars, took the horses away, the squadrons went forward in a chain, and we set up mortars and began shelling. _x000D_ The Germans went on the offensive. About an hour passed, and our squadrons gradually moved forward, and we, mortar-men, fired at. So we reached the outskirts of the city (it was the city of Dubno) and occupied one street. Suddenly the shooting halted, but not for long. Soon, the Germans went on the offensive again. It was evident that the Germans had more forces and reinforcements, and we had to retreat. We occupied a nearby cemetery, creating defenses there and repelling German attacks. Sometimes the Germans came so close that they approached the outskirts of the cemetery. But we continued to fight successfully, because the whole day passed in an unequal battle. By the evening, our ammunition was almost gone. The Germans destroyed all our stocks with cartridges and mines in the forest. Both people and horses were killed. We held out with great difficulty for another day, many were killed and wounded. There was no one even to provide medical assistance. The mines were practically over, and many mortars were simply out of order. _x000D_ I heard that the Regiment Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Simbukhovsky, was killed by an enemy bullet. The situation was turning critical. The Germans continuously attacked and strenuously attacked. Five meters from our mortar, a mortar was destroyed by a direct hit from a mine or a shell, and the entire crew perished. There were fewer and fewer of us ... Many killed and wounded lay nearby, we barely held back the German attack. It was already going towards evening, then we decided to collect all the surviving machine guns, get together and create a small detachment. Some soldiers were ordered to delay the attackers until their last breath, and the rest were ordered to run to the lake, which was behind us at a distance of 300-400 meters. We quickly moved to the lake and entered it. And the remaining group with their machine guns showed desperate resistance to the Germans. We slowly began to move along the lake, the water first reached to the waist, then to the chest. _x000D_ At this time, the Germans had already broken through our barrier and began to shoot at us from machine guns and machine guns from the shore of the lake. Mines began to fall and explode. Just now, with difficulty, soldiers were walking on the water, and a minute later many were gone. It was already dark and the surviving soldiers could hardly move forward. I don't know how long we walked, we lost track of time. Finally the German shooting halted. They probably thought that everything was over with us. _x000D_ Exhausted, drenched, barely keeping our feet, we reached the opposite bank. We scrambled together. The Lieutenant, the commander of our platoon, Malyugo, had survived. He counted us, 32 fighters were around, besides him. It was the remainder of the entire regiment ... (there were at least 1500-1600 people in the regiment). It was a complete crushing defeat, the death of our glorious 29th Regiment. _x000D_ While still in the lake, we heard the roar of shells exploding and machine gun fire in the east, where we had been two days ago. Later it was explained to us that while we were fighting in the rear of the Germans near the city of Dubno, a big Soviet offensive had started. Being in the rear of the enemy, our regiment distracted them, and our comrades, starting an offensive from the front, "pressed" the Germans, and they were forced to retreat. So the death of the 29th Regiment helped our troops to capture the city of Dubno and move on. _x000D_ After reorganization, when our Ddvision was revived, we had to participate in similar operations several times. Many raids of our division behind enemy lines ended successfully, and the command highly appreciated our actions. The surviving soldiers were awarded orders. And I was awarded the Order of Glory. There were some not very successful campaigns to the rear of the enemy, but they were not very serious. _x000D_ Our Division had to carry out an operation to destroy the Banderaites. The front line had already gone far, there were combats on the territory of Poland and Romania. And in the rear, in Western Ukraine, militants of the so-called Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) raged. It was a large gang led by a Commander named Bandera. This gang robbed the population, killed representatives of the Soviet regime, and smashed the family of the Red Army soldiers. Their combat mission was to declare Ukraine an independent republic, establishing a bourgeois order. _x000D_ And so we were sent to the rear for 400 kilometers. Our combat mission was to defeat this army of bandits. For a whole week we stormed forests and villages, catching militants who were well disguised. The main parts of the UPA were destroyed, the rest were hiding. The threat of an attack on us from the rear was eliminated. _x000D_ As part of my 80th Division, I had passed Poland, Romania, Hungary. We entered the territory of Czechoslovakia. And so, on May 8, not far from the capital of Czechoslovakia, Prague, in the forest, the end of this great war was announced. After several days of rest, we made a long campaign, on horseback we went through the territory of Czechoslovakia, Poland and arrived in the city of Rovno. We stood there until the end of the year. Demobilization had gradually started. First, fighters of the older generation (born in 1905) went home, and at the beginning of December 1945 it was the turn of the teachers. Along with others, I was demobilized ... "

Rank: Junior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Military Medical Personnel. _x000D_ When the Great Patriotic war started, Anya Tyuneva was 17 years old. A year before it started, she graduated from a nursing School in the town of Opochka, Pskov (at that time, Kalinin) Region and worked as a nurse in a district clinic in the town of Opochka. In the summer of 1941, the Tyunev family was evacuated to the town of Maksatikha in the Kalinin (Tver) Region. From there, Anna's father and older brother went to the front. They both died at war. _x000D_ Anna Tyuneva was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in January 1942 by the Maksatikhinsky Commissariat and sent to the city of Vyshny Volochok. The formation of hospitals took place here. So a very young girl, almost a girl, became a nurse of a special surgical mobile hospital No. 4382, related to her full front-line destiny. In 1942 and early 1943, a hospital as part of the 11th Army was deployed on the North-Western Front in the area of Parfino, Novgorod Region. _x000D_ There were heavy, bloody battles. The hospital specialized in neurosurgery. Anna Markovna all her life recalled a great number of many wounded were admitted to the hospital, she cried every day when the dead were buried in mass grave. Years later, she visited this mass grave military cemetery to worship the memory of the soldiers. _x000D_ The Battle of Kursk Bulge was ahead. In the summer of 1943, the hospital was transferred to the Bryansk front. They unfolded in the forest. The sounds of battle were heard continuously. The hospital, designed for 200 people, in those days received 5 times more wounded, about 1000 people. There were not enough tents, they built sheds, which were covered with tree bark to protect from rain. This work was done by everyone who was currently free from duty. Anna Markovna said later that they felt neither fear nor fatigue. The only thing you can't get used to is the death of the wounded. Sometimes you do everything to save a person, you look for signs of improvement, and you take over and see: the bed is already empty. _x000D_ After the Battle of Kursk, our troops began an offensive to the west. Hospital No. 4382 as part of the 48th Army was part of the 1st, then 2nd Belorussian Front. Here Anna Tyuneva was presented a rank of a Junior Lieutenant of the Medical Service. And in May 1945, the long-awaited news of the Victory arrived at the town of Elbing in East Prussia. The first feeling of disbelief was replaced by general jubilation. They treated the wounded and waited to return home. _x000D_ In June, the hospital embarked on a troop train heading east. And only when the train crossed the Volga, they realized that the war hostilities had not yet finished. The hospital had arrived in the Far East, it a war with Japan was declared. _x000D_ After that war, she continued to serve in the administration of the prisoner of war camp No. 13 in Vladivostok as a medic of the central infirmary. _x000D_ In June 1946, a young but experienced girl returned home. In the first minute, her mother did not recognize her. They hugged and burst into tears. _x000D_ After the war, Anna changed her profession: she graduated from a pedagogical institute and taught Russian language and literature at School for 35 years. She married the front-line soldier Gnedov Nikolai Petrovich, they had a son, and a year later a daughter. Parents did not like to talk about the war, but in the last years of her life, my mother more and more often recalled her front-line youth.