Heroes and feats

Rank: Captain. _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ My grandfather, Starukhin Nikolai Trofimovich, lived in the remote Siberian outback in the village Malaya Kada of the Irkutsk Region and was a hereditary hunter. _x000D_ Once he showed me "Memories and Reflections" by G.K. Zhukov and said that these military memoirs mention an episode of a combat on the river Ugra and the name of his Commander, Captain I.G. Starchak. _x000D_ From the stories of my grandfather, I learned that he was a paratrooper, but at the beginning of the war he fought in the trenches in a Separate Joined Airborne Brigade. He rose to the rank of Captain of the Red Army. After the death of N.T. Starukhin, I found the memoirs of I.G. Starchak, where, apparently, my grandfather is also mentioned, however, with a slightly distorted surname. At the same time I.G. Strachak says that during the war many soldiers and officers passed before him, and many names were erased from memory. _x000D_ The detachment of I.G. Starchak not far from Yukhnov defended by a bridge over the Ugra river, blocked the way for the Nazis, thereby giving time for the withdrawal of the Red Army and for the construction of new defensive lines. Now there is a monument to the detachment of I.G. Starchak in the form of a cannon during the Great Patriotic War. _x000D_ My grandfather N.T. Starukhin was wounded several times. He had military awards, orders and medals. He finished the war in the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). After the flooding of the village of Malaya Kada by the Bratsk reservoir, my grandfather and his family moved to the village of Kaltuk, Bratsk district. _x000D_ After the war N.T. Starukhin worked as a construction foreman at the Bratsky sovkhoz. Many construction projects were built under his leadership. In the village everyone respected grandfather. He always went to School on the eve of Victory Day on May 9 and told his students about how and where he fought. At a local rally, he always stood in the ranks of veterans at the monument to the fallen fellow villagers.

Rank: Red Army Soldier._x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Tyagunov Semyon Fedotovich was born in the village of Volkhonshchino, Tambov Region on September 27, 1926. Mom was Alexandra Danilovna, dad was Fedot Dmitrievich (disappeared in the war in 1941), brother was Alexander (most of the photos are signed "In good memory to brother Shura from brother Senya"), sisters were Marusya and Tonya. He studied in the village of Sokolovo, finished 7 classes. At the beginning of the war he studied, was a cadet of the 15th Department. Motorcycle Training Regiment. In October 1944, he was sent to the front as a motorcyclist of the 421st Guards Heavy Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment from the 66th Guards Self-Propelled Artillery Brigade. _x000D_ On the website Memorial, information was found that the grandfather was listed as missing, but they sorted out the confusion, although, as far as is known, this terrible notice was sent to his mother, Alexandra Danilovna. After the end of the war, he served in Poland as a driver of the 678th motor Transport Battalion (October 1945—October 1946), 253rd Division Motorcycle Battalion (October 1946—March 1950). _x000D_ He married on May 9, 1950 to Tyagunova (Satina) Alexandra Ivanovna (labor veteran), who worked as a Teacher of History and German; she is now retired. They lived in the village of Vyachka, Kirsanov District, Tambov Region. Grandpa worked as a chauffeur. _x000D_ Grandpa had never mentioned anything about the war, and I didn't ask. And now I would very much like to listen to his stories, but too late now. I remember he loved to reread the book by Nikolai Yakovlev "Marshal Zhukov", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Victory.

Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 4th Guards Airborne Ovruch Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. _x000D_ Semenchuk Konstantin Ivanovich (mother's grandfather) was born in September 1911 in Ukraine. The family lived in poverty. He went to the war in boots with a torn off sole. Grandfather tied it with a rag, and went to the recruiting office. The next day, my grandmother went to town and found this sole. Grandfather was 30 years old at the time. My mother says that my grandfather had various awards, but, they, the children, played with them, so they got lost. _x000D_ Great-grandfather, Kushnerchuk Ignatius, helped partisans in the Belarusian forests (Polesie). Saburov's detachment was at that time in those forests. Jan Nalepko (Repkin), Czechoslovak,was a partisan from this detachment. There was a battle for the city of Ovruch, for the railway station. At the crossroads of Frunze and Vokzalnaya streets, Yan passed away. There is a monument at this place. _x000D_ In 1968, a monument to the Liberator of Ovruch was opened in the city park. The monument is located among chestnuts. _x000D_ “Father and mother came to the opening. They were already old then. The whole city was packed with people, it was impossible to pass through” - recalls my mother, an eyewitness to this event, Natalya Konstantinovna Buraykina (Semenchuk). But I found this information about this event on the site “News of Zhitomir” (Ukraine): “_x000D_ From the very first days of the war, partisan detachments and underground organizations were created in the Region. The underground organization under the leadership of I. Redchits (Captain Krylov) was especially active. This unit carried out a number of important operations. In July 1942, the brave Commander passed away during a battle with punitive forces. The group was headed by A. S. Maloletnev ("Ivan Pisarenko"). To be able to legally meet with the underground, Maloletnev got a job as the Director of the Ovruch cinema. Having made a supply of explosives, the underground workers were going to blow up the cinema when Hitler's officers visited it. But the operation failed - the Nazis brutally dealt with the underground: 45 people were shot. But nothing could intimidate the Ovruch underground workers. Anti-fascist leaflets began to appear on the territory of the district, enemy trains with manpower and military equipment rolled downhill. _x000D_ In the summer of 1943, the partisan unit of the Hero of the Soviet Union A.N.Saburov came to the village of Selezovka. There the partisan general met with the Slovak warrior-internationalist Captain Jan Nalepkoy (Repkin) and his transfer to the partisans. From there, the glorious combat path of the Slovak detachment began as part of a partisan formation. _x000D_ On November 16, 1943, the operation to liberate Ovruch began. Detachments were thrown into battle by them. Voroshilov, them. Zhukov, them. Budyonny and the Czechoslovak detachment. After a 20-hour battle, the enemy's resistance was broken. Soon, the People's Avengers met with the advance units of the 13th Army's 4th Airborne Division. _x000D_ In the battle for Ovruch, many Nazis were destroyed, a warehouse with ammunition and fuel was captured. Liberating Ovruch, Yan Nalepka (Repkin) gave his life, who was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A street and a School are named after him, and a monument is erected to him. _x000D_ For the liberation of Ovruch, 168 partisans of A. N. Saburov's formation were awarded orders and medals, and the title of Ovrutskaya was awarded to the fourth Guards Airborne Division. Materials from the personal archives of Natalya Konstantinovna Buraykina (Semenchuk), the "People's feat" site Natalya Gennadievna Polikarpova (Buraykina, Semenchuk).

My grandfather was born in 1918 in the village of Filippovka, Utevsky district, Kuibyshev Region in a peasant family. He loved to study, was a competent specialist. Before the army he worked as a kolkhoz Accountant, head of the village club and secretary of the village council. In January 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army. The place of service was 209 Corps Artillery Regiment, the headquarters of the 3rd Division, where Tolstov Valentin acted as a Senior Clerk, having the rank of Sergeant. The Regiment was in the village Shklo, Yavorsky district of Lviv Region, near the border with Poland. The regiment was armed with 122-mm and 152-mm howitzers, had double staff, 1999 personnel. At first, the guns were only horse-drawn, but then diesel ChTZ and GAZ vehicles arrived. The regiment had 4 divisions, each with four four-gun batteries. 209 Artillery Regiment until 06/22/1941 was part of the 6th SK (Rifle Corps) of the 6th Army of the Ukrainian Military District; from 06/22/1941 as part of the 6th SK (Rifle Corps) of the 6th Army of the South-Western Front. Factually, during all of 1940, there was practically no military and political preparation, as there was simply no time for this. On this site, the construction of military camps and a fortified area began. _x000D_ The defensive line stretched for almost 50 km. Construction was carried out very intensively and all available forces were involved. In the midst of construction work, the Division was visited by the People's Commissar of Defense Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko, who checked and assessed military and political training without any discounts for employment in construction. Combat training had to be done in an emergency, so as not to lose face. Since the spring of 1941, the 41st Division was already in better conditions. The divisional camp was basically built and equipped, which ensured the normal deployment of troops and the deployment of combat training. In addition to the ongoing arrangement and construction, there were other difficulties. _x000D_ The situation in Western Ukraine was very tense. There were cases when the Red Army soldiers disappeared or servicemen were killed at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists. The commanding staff were allowed to move only accompanied by orderlies. Towards the beginning of the war, the area was increasingly saturated with various saboteurs and spies. _x000D_ With the beginning of the summer of 1941, rumors began to circulate about the imminent start of the war. The Germans, not really hiding, concentrated serious forces near the borders. Intelligence was carried out constantly. Small aircraft of the "Shtorkh" type in the open appeared over the area of the Division, and then deepened in the direction of Lvov. The corps and Division commanders received strict instructions from above, which basically boiled down to not causing any inappropriate actions to conflict on the border located not far from the border, live-fire exercises in order to avoid accidental shots towards the Germans. _x000D_ Moreover, it was forbidden to open fire on planes with German identification marks, even if they violate the state border and appear in the airspace over our territory. The Regiment had its share of military repressions. In the spring of 1941, the Commander of the Regiment, Major Koryakin, and the commissar of the Regiment, Major Bilakhodze, were repressed on a false denunciation. _x000D_ At the beginning of June 1941, my grandfather's regiment left the camps for an artillery training session. _x000D_ As you know, on June 14, 1941, a week before the war, the well-known TASS report was published, denying the possibility of a German attack on the Soviet Union. The main forces were at training camps and training grounds. Despite it, two days before the war, the Division Commander, Major General N.G. Mikushev ordered the unit commanders to return all personnel from special training camps and training grounds, as well as from work on the defensive line and completely concentrate in the camps. _x000D_ This decision, in the future, allowed not only to save many lives, material and technical base, but also to hold the fortified area for a relatively long time. Whether this decision was a personal initiative or not, we will never know, so General Mikushev died near Kiev in the same year._x000D_ On June 22, the Division's forces managed to occupy pillboxes, including those that were not completed. On the same day, the 209 cap entered the order of the 41st Division and took up a firing position near Rava-Russkaya. It was this circumstance that greatly contributed to the success of the division. _x000D_ After a while, my grandfather became the gunner of a 152-mm howitzer and took on his first battle. The 209th Artillery Regiment, was the only one of 28 Artillery regiments of the RGK located in our border district, which managed to fully turn around for battle. According to grandfather's recollections, the first battle took place near the village of Shklo. He was assigned as the 152mm howitzer gunner. According to the General Staff's plan, the 41st Infantry Division of the 6th Army KOVO, together with the 209 cap, was located southeast of Sedlisk and defended the legendary Rava-Russian fortified area. This fortified area was held for a long time and only by June 29 the front of the 6th Army retreated to the western outskirts of Lvov. The state of the main forces of the army was deplorable. There was almost no support from the aviation, there were problems with supplies, and the evacuation of the wounded. Losses in manpower and equipment were very large. On the night of June 29-30, the enemy captured Lvov and the 6th Army as a whole and the 41st SD retreated towards Dubno White church. (July 1941). _x000D_ Since July 1941, the 6th Army's main problem was the threat of encirclement. By the morning of 5.7.41, the forces of the 6th Army were to withdraw to the Ostrug, Cape Lanovce, Volochisk line with the combat mission of occupying and firmly defending Izyaslavsky and Starokonstantinovsky fortified areas. Thus, the 6th Army continued its retreat to the east. Enemy forces tried to drive a wedge into the 6th Army and encircle the Soviet forces. The fighting was fierce. There is no information about 41 SD and about the 6th SC for this period. _x000D_ On July 10, the main forces of the 6th Army fought for Berdichev. On July 15, the enemy occupied Belaya Tserkov. It is known that on 12.07 it was withdrawn to the reserve and replenished in the area of Belaya Tserkov, and from 14.07 they began combat actions in the area of Belaya Tserkov. In battles for town Belaya Tserkov Valentin Tolstov was wounded and shell-shocked, but later returned to service. The 6th Army was part of the South Front. From 28.07.41. 209 regiment was part of the 26th Army of the SWF. Defense of the Dnieper. _x000D_ Since August 1941, 209 Artillery Regiment (as part of the 26th Army) defended the river Dnieper near the city of Kanev. Directly the 3rd Division of 209 Artillery Regiment was located near the station Zolotonoshi. Throughout the month, the forces of the 26th army fought hard defensive battles to protect the Kiev fortified area in the Kanev Region.The enemy was preparing a breakthrough in the Kremenchug area and to the north (between Kiev and Chernigov) of the Kanev foot strong. According to the memoirs of V.V. Tolstoy : “It was calm for five days, and then the fighting began. The few guns of the 209 Artillery Regiment were already hitting the east ... "._x000D_ Most likely, what is described can be dated to the beginning of September Kiev entrapment (end of August—September 1941). It is known that from the middle of August reconnaissance operations took place on this foot strong, no large-scale hostilities were conducted. The enemy was preparing a breakthrough in the Kremenchug area and to the north (between Kiev and Chernigov) of the Kanev footstrong. There is no exact information about the second half of August and the beginning of September, but it is known that from September 10 to 26, the process of encircling and destroying the forces of the 26th Army in the "Kiev Cauldron" took place. 26th Army fought fierce battles and tried first to hold the foot strong, and later to break out of the encirclement. _x000D_ From September 16 to September 20, the troops of the 26th Army were dismembered into Separate centers. 209 Artillery Regiment, apparently, was 20-30 km from Zolotonosha. From September 17, according to the order, the forces of the 26th Army concentrated their attack in the Lubna area. According to some documents, the forces of 209 Artillery Regiment tried to break through in the Orzhitsy area. _x000D_ According to the memoirs of V.V. Tolstoy : “209 Artillery Regiment was completely surrounded and tried to break out of the encirclement for 3 days. On the third day, an order followed: to blow up the guns, to burn the materiel. " Most likely, these events took place in the first half of September. _x000D_ _x000D_ When leaving the encirclement near the station Lubny Valentin Tolstov was wounded in the arm and taken prisoner. The most probable date of the capture is September 23-24. A more accurate place of capture is near the village of Denisovka (not far from Lubna). It is known that 209 Artillery Regiment was completely destroyed in the Kiev entrapment in the structure of the 26th Army and on 10/28/41 was excluded from the lists of the Red Army._x000D_ Before reaching Kremenchug Valentin Tolstov fled from a column of prisoners of war. He was hiding in the village of Domantovo, Zolotonosha district, Kiev Region, in the Pashchenko family (Alexey Vasilyevich, Maria Petrovna and their daughter Vera). Local policeman, Austrian Valyukh, discovered V.V. Tolstov. and handed him over to the Germans. Tolstov was sent to the station Zolotonosha, but again fled from the column to the village of Domantovo in the family to Pashchenko. On the way to Domantovo Valentin fell ill with croupous pneumonia. The Pashchenko family diligently nursed V.V. Tolstov. hiding at home, but the same policeman discovered a Soviet soldier. The policeman was going to shoot V.V. Tolstov. in Pashchenko's house, but Maria Petrovna Pashchenko persuaded not to do it for a bottle of vodka. Alexey Vasilievich Paschenko gave a receipt stating that V.V. Tolstov having recovered will not "run away". _x000D_ After 2 months of illness Tolstov V.V. was sent to the station Zolotonosha and from there on a train with prisoners of war to Germany. _x000D_ Concentration camp. There he was placed first in a concentration camp near Essen (the exact name of the camp is unknown), then near Dusseldorf (Stalag 326 (VI-K). According to V.V. Tolstov's memoirs, he was in the infirmary camp, where besides the Soviet prisoners of war, there were British, Americans and Germans in the camp. _x000D_ In the camp, VV Tolstov made rings, bracelets, which he exchanged with other prisoners for bread. According to his recollections, the bracelet "cost" 3-4 loaves, a ring—2 loaves. Tolstov V.V. recalled that his surname he was "rescued" because of his last name associated with the Great Noble Russian writer Leo Tolstoy. So in Dusseldorf one of the guards took him to the city to repair his apartment. There he said that the camp authorities and guards knew him not only "as a master jeweler ", but they also believe that he has a" distant belonging "to the" offspring of Count Tolstoy. "Perhaps this fact saved Tolstov V.V.'s life though his last name had nothing with the Count Tolstoy. _x000D_ In April 1945, a mutiny was raised in the camp. Some of the guards had chosen a side of prisoners and arrested the Commandant. Some hours later after the self-liberation of the camp, regular units of the allied American army arrived. _x000D_ Return. All Soviet prisoners of war from the camps around Dusseldorf were grouped and repatriated to the location of Soviet troops stationed along the banks of the Elbe River. _x000D_ In Regiment No. 326 Tolstov V.V. passed a medical examination and interrogation by the NKVD. For health reasons Tolstov V.V. was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army with deregistration. (certificate of exemption from military service No. 100, which indicates that V.V. Tolstov was examined by a commission at 326 assembly and dispatch depot on November 14, 1945). _x000D_ After the war he worked in the agricultural management structures of the Stavropol district of the Kuibyshev Region as an economist and Accountant. Tolstov V.V. passed away on April 23, 1984 in the city of Togliatti.

Subdivision: 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Stepan Yakovlevich Svyatenko was born on December 17, 1918 in the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev Region, Babanovsky district, the village of Olshanskaya Sloboda. In military service since 1038, place of conscription: Stalinist Comissariat, Georgian SSR, Tbilisi, Stalin district. _x000D_ From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, from June 22, 1941, Stepan Yakovlevich took part in combat operations as a Sergeant Radio Operator on PE-2 aircraft as part of the 33rd Aviation Regiment of the 19th Aviation Division of the Southwestern Front. Defensive operation in Western Ukraine. 22.6-11.7.41, perhaps the most hard time for our then not so experienced soldiers (unlike the Germans). _x000D_ On July 7, 1941 the PE-2 aircraft, as part of the crew of which was already performing its 4th combat departure that day, Sergeant Svyatenko, was attacked by 4 fascist fighters Messerschmitts ME-109. In an unequal battle with 4 enemy fighters, the fire of the gunner-radio operator Svyatenko knocked out one of the messengers, but our plane was set on fire by the 3 remaining vultures. The plane and the crew were on fire. The navigator was killed, the pilot and radio operator escaped by parachute, miraculously surviving. Stepan Yakovlevich's face and hands were badly burned, the scars from these burns after many years I saw myself, they remained with him as well as the memory of past battles for life. _x000D_ Being sent to the hospital, Sergeant Svyatenko was discharged ahead of schedule and returned to the unit, he was eager to fight every day, despite his serious injury. According to the results of this combat operation, for the fascist Messerschmitt ME-109 personally shot down in an unequal battle, for special courage, dedication and courage, the gunner-radio operator Svyatenko was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. _x000D_ Defense in Korostensky and Kiev fortified areas. 11.7-9.9.41, the withdrawal of the troops of the South-Western Front from the Kiev area. 10.9-29.9.41, defensive operation in the Voronezh direction. 30.10-6.12.41, Yelets offensive operation. 6.12-16.12.41, Kursk-Oboyan offensive operation. 3.1-26.1.42, Barvenkovo-Lozovskaya offensive operation. 18.1-31.1.42, the offensive operation in the Kharkov direction and the counter-attack of the Germans. 12.5-29.5.42, Defensive operations in the Volchansk and Kupyansk areas. 10.6-26.6.42, defensive operation in the Voronezh and Valuisko-Rossosh directions. 28.6-16.8.42, the November offensive operation to encircle the 4th tank and 6th German armies at Stalingrad. 19.11-30.11.42, Soviet army counteroffensive at Stalingrad. 19.11-30.12.42, The defeat of the Italian-German troops in the Middle Don. 16.12-30.12.42, January and February offensive operations. 1.1-22.2.43, Ostrogozh-Rossoshan offensive operation. 12.1-24.1.43, defensive battle of the left wing of the Voronezh front and the right wing of the South-Western front in the Kharkov direction. 22.2-23.3.43, Offensive operation in the Izyum-Barvenkovo direction. 17.7-27.7.43, Liberation of Donbass. 18.8-22.9.43, Liquidation of the Zaporozhye footstrong of the Germans. 10.10-14.10.43, the Melitopol operation. 23.10-5.11.43, Nikopol-Kryvyi Rih operation. 30.1-29.2.44, Crimean operation. _x000D_ April 8-12.5.44, as a result of which a number of previous military operations of the Guard Senior Sergeant Svyatenko, a gunner-radio operator as part of the 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Kiev Regiment of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov of the 8th Division Air Army of the Ukrainian Front for successful aerial photo reconnaissance, destruction of enemy ground targets and the performance of a number of combat missions on 11/05/1942, 11/16/1942, 05/11/1943, 06/06/1943, 08/31/1943 - 09/01/1943, 09/07/1943-08.09.1943, 20/12 .1943, 04/09/1944, as well as for special bravery, dedication and courage was awarded the Order of the Red Star._x000D_ Belarusian operation "Bagration". 23.6-29.8.44, Vitebsk-Orsha operation. 23.6-28.6.44, Minsk operation. 29.6-4.7.44, Vilnius operation. 5.7-20.7.44, Kaunas operation. 28.7-28.8.44, Gumbinnen operation. 16.10-27.10.44, East Prussian operation. 13.1-25.4.45, during which for the successful completion of a number of combat missions 01/15/1945, 01/27/1945, 02/22/1945, 03/18/1945, special courage, dedication and courage, as well as for personal merits in battles Great Patriotic War, Guard Sergeant Major Svyatenko, a radio operator in the 10th Guards Bomber Aviation Kiev Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment of the 6th Guards Bomber Aviation Taganrog Red Banner Order of Suvorov and the Order of Kutuzov of the 3rd Order of the Belorussian Army of the 1st Order of the Belorussian Army Glory III degree. _x000D_ Insterburg-Königsberg operation. 13.1-27.1.45, Königsberg operation. 6.4-9.4.45, the Zemland operation. 13.4-25.4.45, completed by the complete defeat of the operational group of the German-fascist troops "Zemland", in which 25 divisions and three brigades were defeated and destroyed. Stepan Yakovlevich celebrated Victory Day in East Prussia (now the Kaliningrad Region).

Rank: Major_x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery. _x000D_ Tok Vladimir Karlovich was born in St. Petersburg in 1905 into a working class family. In 1928 he married Valentina Ivanovna Golubeva, had four children. In 1934 he graduated from the Leningrad Industrial Institute, and by 1941 he became a Senior engineer in the new engine design group at the Research Diesel Institute. _x000D_ At the beginning of the war, he volunteered for the Leningrad army of the people's militia, received the title of Military Engineer of the 3rd rank, was enlisted in the 277th Separate Machine-gun and Artillery Battalion. He was responsible for the operation and repair of the Battalion's vehicles. In August-September 1941, the Battalion took up defensive positions on the Strelna - Ropsha highway near the village of Razbegayevo, where it fought fierce battles with the advancing enemy. In mid-September, under the onslaught of the enemy, the Battalion retreated to the Oranienbaum foot strong, where it occupied a new line of defense. _x000D_ At the beginning of 1942, Vladimir Karlovich was recalled from the front and sent to Moscow. At first he served in the repair and maintenance service of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, then in the Main Artillery Directorate of the Red Army. _x000D_ Vladimir Karlovich was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Defense of Leningrad" and "For Victory over Germany." _x000D_ He was demobilized in 1948. At the beginning of the war, his wife and four children were in Leningrad, from where they were evacuated in the summer of 1942 along the Road of Life, having survived the most terrible months of the blockade in the besieged city. His wife and youngest son passed away, and after the war, Vladimir Karlovich raised three children alone. He worked at various enterprises in Leningrad, passed away in 1977.

Rank: Junior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Artillery S_x000D_ ubdivision: 113th Infantry Division (1st formation) _x000D_ He was born on January 19, 1925 in the town of Kimry, Tver Region. Before receiving a diploma of graduation from a veterinary technical School, there were several months before conscription into the army. By that time, the Troitsky family was already living in the North Kazakhstan Region, in the village of Yavlinka. According to the distribution from the military registration and enlistment office, Viloria was sent to the Almaty Infantry School. _x000D_ In a hurry, two companies were organized from young conscripts and sent to the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the 29th Sniper Regiment. _x000D_ After training, Viloria Troitsky was awarded the rank of Junior Sergeant, and in the road again to the Reserve Regiment in the Moscow Region, in Orekhovo-Zuevo. And then he was sent to the war front, the 38th Guards Lozovskaya Rifle Division. They were to fight on the Belorussian front. _x000D_ They moved to the place of battles at night. All the equipment was dragged for about 300 kilometers. Vilory Alekseevich took his first battle in the Region of Brest. He fought in the 113th Guards Regiment as a Commander of machine gunners, in the 48th Rifle Regiment as a Reconnaissance officer of artillery and mortar units. He was first wounded and concussed in Poland. On the approaches to Warsaw V.A. Troitsky received a second serious wound, after which he got to Austria with the 3rd Ukrainian Front, where he celebrated the news of the end of the war. _x000D_ He was demobilized in March 1952. He came to Saran in 1954. For 21 years he worked at mine No. 107 as an underground electric locksmith. In 1975 he retired. Vilory Alekseevich was awarded the Orders of Glory of the III degree and the Patriotic War, the medal of Marshal G.K. Zhukov, the anniversary medals of Victory, the medal "60 years of the Liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders."

Rank: Colonel _x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation_x000D_ Division: 3rd Fighter Aviation Division _x000D_ Vasily Iosifovich Stalin commanded the 32nd Guards Fighter Division (02/16/1943 - 05/26/1943); 3rd Guards Fighter Division (06/02/1944 - 02/1945); 286th Guards Fighter Division of the 16th VA Air Regiment (02/25/1945 - 07/18/1946); 1st Guards Fighter Division of the16th Air Regiment (07.1946-07.1947); Air Force Moscow Military District (1948-1952). _x000D_ Military ranks: in 1942 he was awarded the rank of Colonel, in 1946—Major General of aviation, in 1949—Lieutenant General of Aviation. _x000D_ He was born on 03.24.1920 in the family of the professional revolutionary Stalin I.V. (Dzhugashvili I.V.). From 1921 to 1938 he lived with his parents and studied. In 1938, after graduating from the 9th grade of Secondary School, he entered the Kachin Red Banner Military Pilot School, which he graduated from in 1940 and was appointed a pilot in the 16th Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 24thGuards Fighter Division, in which he served until September 1940. In September 1940, he entered the command faculty of the Air Force Academy, where he studied until December 1940. In January 1941 he was sent to the Lipetsk Aviation Advanced Training Courses for Squadron Commanders, which he graduated in May 1941. _x000D_ In June 1941 he was appointed to the position of an Instructor-Pilot of the Air Force Directorate. In this position he served until September 1941, after which until January 1943 he served as Chief of the Inspection of the Air Force. _x000D_ In January 1943, he was appointed Commander of the 32nd Guards Fighter Division where he served until December 1943. In January 1944, he was appointed Commander of the 3rd Guards Fighter Aviation Bryansk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division, and from February 1945 he was appointed Commander of the 286 1st Fighter Aviation Nizhyn Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ During the Second World War, he flew 26 sorties, personally shot down 2 enemy Focke-Wulf-190 aircraft in battle. During his stay on the fronts of the Patriotic War, he had no injuries or contusions. He was not captured and surrounded. He had been a member of the Communist Party since 1940. _x000D_ Wife: Burdonskaya Galina Aleksandrovna, children: son Alexander and daughter Nadezhda._x000D_ Since 1946, the Commander of the 1st Guards Air Corps, awarded the rank of Major General. Since 1947, Deputy Commander of the Air Force of the Moscow District, awarded the rank of Lieutenant General. From 1948 to 1952, Commander of the Air Force of the Moscow Military District. From 1952, he was a student at the Academy of the General Staff. _x000D_ After the death of his father, Stalin I.V., he was persecuted by Khrushchev. In April 1953, he was arrested and was under investigation until September 1955. On September 2, 1955, by the Military Collegiate of the Supreme Court of the USSR, Vasily Iosifovich was sentenced to 8 years in prison, he had served his sentence in full in the Vladimir prison. On April 28, 1961, he was released from prison in connection with serving his sentence. After his release, he lived in the city of Kazan. _x000D_ He passed away on March 19, 1962. He was buried at the Arsk cemetery in Kazan without giving military honors. In 1999, the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office dropped all charges against Vasily Iosifovich by the Military Collegiate of the Supreme Court in September 1955. He was reburied at the Troekurovo cemetery in Moscow in 2002.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Division: 303rd Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ Sanin Ivan Petrovich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, was born in the village of Sukmanovka, Tambov Region in 1896, into a peasant family. Before the war, by recruiting of his fellow villager, he and his wife Arina Sergeevna moved to Stalingrad to the village of Lesobaza, where a timber transshipment base had already been put into operation. He worked there as a carpenter for many years and returned after the war to this place. _x000D_ He was called to the front by the Kirov district military enlistment office of the city of Stalingrad in June 1941. He had been to the army since 1943. He ended up in the 845th Order of Suvorov Rifle Regiment / 4th Rifle Company / 303 of the Verkhnedneprovsk Red Banner Rifle Division of the 7th Guards Army (2nd Ukrainian Front). At the front he became a good shooter. He participated in the hardest battles near the city of Voronezh, Kharkov, Kirovograd, liberated Moldova, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic from the Nazis. _x000D_ The Division he got into was formed in the Kemerovo Region. In April 1942, it was transferred to the 2nd Reserve Army in Lipetsk, where they received arms, and in the summer of the same year he was sent to the Voronezh Front. The fighters of the Division immediately entered the battle with the superior forces of the enemy. This was the first baptism of fire of the Red Army Soldier Ivan Sanin. In the fourth company next to him were young 19-20-year-old riflemen, and he was already 46 years old. But there was no combat experience. And it was necessary to set an example for the young. And Ivan Petrovich tried to be an authority for the fighters. For 4 days, fierce battles went on, during which the enemy was thrown back several kilometers north of Voronezh, and the Division took up more advantageous positions, going on the defensive. _x000D_ For the first time the Red Army Soldier Sanin faced a horror of the war, which did not leave him for a long time. He prayed to God not to be killed in the first combat. He was saved and survived. Then he remembered this combat for a long time, the unsuccessful attempt of the enemy to break through the division's defenses. _x000D_ And ahead there were battles for Kharkov, Chisinau, Balti, Bratislava, the crossing of the Dniester River. He was wounded several times, he was stunned by a blast wave, for a long time he could not recover from the hardest combat near the city of Balti, where he was seriously wounded, ended up in a hospital, but survived and continued to smash the enemy. He had reached Hungary, Czech Republic. _x000D_ The award "For Courage" always reminded him of the combat in the area of the Height 237, east of the city of Prerov (Czech Republic), located on the banks of the Becva River. It was April 30, 1945. The war was coming to an end. But the fight was deadly and terrible. Many fellow soldiers were killed. How he himself managed to survive, he does not know. He fought bravely and courageously, thinking only about how to destroy the enemy. At some decisive moment, he was able to personally destroy the enemy's firing depot with a hand grenade, thereby successfully repelling the counterattack of the fascist unit. For this feat he was awarded the medal "For Courage". He told with interest how he sang with the soldiers during the rest hours the anthem song of the Verkhnedneprovskaya Red Banner 303 Rifle Division, which was composed by one of the soldiers. Here is one verse and chorus of this hymn: More than life loving the Fatherland, we fought, not knowing weary, the country gave us a glorious order, and Stalin noted us in the orders! Forward, forward, Upper Dnieper fighters! The Motherland calls us to heroic deeds. Let our banner hang higher. Forward, Red Banner, forward!

Rank: Red Army Soldier _x000D_ Branch of troops: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Division: 346th Infantry Debaltsevskaya Red Banner Division. _x000D_ This is my grandfather. He was born on October 8, 1914 in the village of Novo-Zakharkino of the then Lipovskaya volost of the Nikolaev district of the Samara province (now it is the village of Novo-Zakharkino of the Dukhovnitsky district of the Saratov Region). By birth, he was Yakov Alekseevich Bain. When he was 6 years old, his father passed away. His mother, Praskovya Maksimovna, remarried. Yakov was adopted by the new stepfather Mikhey Andriyanovich and became Solomatin Yakov Mikheevich. Before the war, he studied and worked in the Nadezhdinskaya MTS of the Pugachevsky district of the Saratov Region. Then he worked as a machine operator in the neighboring village of Krasnaya Rechka, Pugachevsky Region. He married Potapova Evdokia Pakhomovna and they began to live in Krasnaya Rechka. On October 4, 1936, their son Ivan was born (now he lives in the Pugachevsky sovkhoz of the Pugachevsky district of the Saratov Region). The second child died in infancy from a fever. _x000D_ In 1941 he was drafted by the Pugachev Commissariat. The 346th Debaltsevskaya Division was formed in the city of Volsk, Saratov Region. He fought as a trumpeter-signalman for the regimental band in the1166th Suvorov Regiment. _x000D_ My grandmother told that they had ridden horses (carts) to Volsk to their husbands 130 kilometers away. From our village, some people had been in this division: Efim Ivanovich Vlasov (diied) and Dmitry Petrovich Borisov (died). My grandfather said to my grandmother:_x000D_ "If I return alive from the war, I will definitely restore my last name Bain and patronymic Alekseevich ..." Saying goodbye, he cried, regretted that he would not see the birth of a third child. The grandmother carried the girl. Yakov was sent to the front, and a month later, on July 24, 1941, their daughter, my future mother was born, now she is Valentina Yakovlevna Udachina, lives in the village of Krasnaya Rechka, Pugachevsky district, Saratov Region, like me. _x000D_ In January 1942, a death notification came that my grandfather was killed on January 18, 1942. Now no one knows where he is buried, somewhere near Moscow ... Borisov Dmitry Petrovich, his fellow man, sent a letter and told that our grandfather died in his arms. There were severe frosts, he, wounded by shrapnel, was bleeding. They carried them for a long time on a raincoat, the Medical Battalion was too far away. They brought it, but it was too late. My grandmother lived alone all her life, never got married, raised two children, five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren. She passed away at the age of 91 on April 19, 2007.

Sukhorukov Ivan Vasilievich was born on November 25, 1908 in the Popovka settlement of the Kasharsky district of the Rostov Region. He graduated from School, worked as an Accountant on a kolkhoz, then moved to his brother in the Kalachevsky district of the Stalingrad Region, where he continued to work. _x000D_ On the advice of his brother, in 1935 he entered the Stalingrad Pedagogical School at the correspondence Department. He went to work in an Elementary School as a village Teacher. In 1938 he married Elizaveta Semyonovna Odinyova, who was invited to teach at the same School where Ivan Vasilievich worked. _x000D_ In 1941, on August 24, Ivan Vasilyevich Sukhorukov was summoned to the military enlistment office of the Kalachevsky district and sent to Stalingrad. The recruits were loaded into wagons and sent towards Ukraine, brought to Kiev. On the way, their echelonwas was repeatedly fired upon by the Germans. He served in the 261st Infantry Regiment, as a communications operator. The Regiment was transferred to Poland. From Poland - to the 3rd Belorussian Front, to East Prussia, then to Germany. _x000D_ Memories of Ivan Vasilyevich about the war: _x000D_ "From January 13 to April 26 there was one of the largest operations of the Great Patriotic War, German troops in East Prussia capitulated, the war was over for us." Ivan Vasilyevich Sukhorukov had the following awards: medal "For Courage", medal "For Capture of Konigsberg", medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." _x000D_ During demobilization, a fellow soldier advised Ivan Vasilyevich to go to the Kuban, saying that in the spring it was possible to survive there eating just grass. Therefore, in 1946, the family of Ivan Vasilyevich Sukhorukov from the Kalachevsky district of the Stalingrad Region moved to the village of Kievskoe in the Crimean district of the Krasnodar Territory. Ivan Vasilyevich continued to work in his specialty, headed an Elementary School in the village of Kiev. Before retirement, he led a musical string club at School, the children loved him very much. He raised four children: two sons and two daughters; planted a nice garden, a large number of different varieties of vineyards. _x000D_ Ivan Vasilievich was a wonderful father, husband, grandfather and great-grandfather. He managed to nurse his grandchildren: Alexander Nikolaevich Sukhorukov and Yulia Nikolaevna Sukhorukova, walked at their weddings and managed to hold his first great-grandchildren in his arms—Sukhorukova Evgenia Alexandrovna and Avramenko Dmitry Vladimirovich. In his spare time I.V. Sukhorukov was engaged in vineyards and beekeeping, was a social activist among the beekeepers of the village of Kiev. _x000D_ He was a very cheerful person, loved to read a lot, played the accordion, loved to sing. He passed away on September 13, 1988. He was buried in the village of Kievskoye, Krymsky district, Krasnodar Territory.

Rank: Captain _x000D_ Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 149th Infantry Novograd-Volynskaya Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ Since October 1940, after being drafted into military service, the young soldier Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich was in the 169th Separate Rifle Battalion of the Far Eastern Front. At the beginning of 1942, the divisions of the Far East were transferred to Stalingrad. On November 19, the Division broke through the enemy defenses and, together with other formations of the 21st Army, participated in the encirclement and defeat of the 3rd Romanian army in the area of the Bazkovsky farm and the village of Raspopinskaya. They repulsed the attempts of the Germans to break out of the encirclement, broke through the Nazi defenses in the Novy Rogachik area, the Hospital and smashed the invaders in the city itself. _x000D_ At the end of 1941, the command, assessing organizational skills, fearlessness, the ability to realistically assess the course of battles and to find the right solution and a way out of the situations that had arisen, sent a young soldier, Saifetdinov Inayat, to the courses for Junior Leiutenants, which he graduated in March 1942. _x000D_ The young commander was sent to the 42nd Separate Rifle Brigade of the Central Front. All Far Eastern formations took part in the counteroffensive. Particularly distinguished was the 204th Infantry Division, which broke through the German defenses in Stalingrad. _x000D_ Her soldiers liberated the Workers 'and Peasants', Kozlovskaya, Kalinin, Leningradskaya, Pushkinskaya, Krasnopiterskaya and Moskovskaya streets and at 9 o'clock on January 31, 1943, they met with the soldiers of the 62nd Army on the streets of Solnechnaya, Tambovskaya and the Square on January 9. In the six-month battles for Stalingrad, this Division destroyed thousands of enemy soldiers and officers, 227 tanks, and captured 6,028 Nazis. By order of the People's Commissar of Defense No. 104 of March 1, 1943, she was awarded the title of 78th Guards. A medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" was issued for the participants in this battle. _x000D_ Further combat took place as part of the 60th Combined Arms Army, which took part in the Battle of Kursk. Front troops in February-March 1943 took part in the offensive in the Oryol-Bryansk direction. During the defensive battles near Kursk in July 1943, the front's troops stopped the enemy's advance for 5-6 days and themselves launched a counteroffensive. In the course of the further offensive, the front troops reached the Dnieper, Pripyat and Sozh, seized bridgeheads on their western banks, created favorable conditions for the development of the offensive in Belarus and Right-Bank Ukraine. For the accomplished comabet efforts, my grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ Then many days of fighting began. The captain's group repulsed seven counterattacks and expanded the foot strong, holding it until the entire battalion had crossed there at night. And only then Saifetdinov, seriously wounded in one of the last battles, agreed to be sent to the hospital. _x000D_ In July 1944, Captain Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich served as Chief of Staff of the Battalion of the 149th Rifle Novgorod-Volyn Division. He was at the forefront most of the time. And so the Vistula River, on July 30, 1944, four landing boats sailed to the western bank of the Vistula. They had 100 people from the assault groups. Captain Sayfetdinov was in one of the boats as Commander. Under heavy fire, the boats still landed on the shore. From January 24 to February 17, 1944, the Korsun - Shevchenko operation took place, carried out by the troops of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts. Captain Sayfetdinov Inayat Ramazanovich also took part in it. _x000D_ For heroic efforts and courage shown in battles, 23 units and formations were given the honorary names "Korsunskie", 6 formations were given the name "Zvenigorodskie". He was also among the awardees. The homeland highly appreciated his exploits, having awarded him the Order of the Patriotic War. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 23, 1944, Captain Inayat Ramazanovich Saifetdinov was awarded the Order of Lenin. This was his third military order of a brave officer.

Title: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 2nd Cavalry Division. _x000D_ I know about my great-grandfather Ivan Timofeevich Tikhonov from the words of my grandfather. Great-grandfather was born in 1905 in the village of Dedilovo, Dedilovsky district, Tula Region. He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army by the Dedilovsky District Military Commissariat, Tula Region in June 1941. At the beginning of his service, he was a driver, and then a telephone operator of the 2nd Guards Communications Division, 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps. He was proud of his first award, the “Excellent Signal Engineer” badge. The second was the medal "For Military Merit" received in March 1943. _x000D_ From the award list: “During combat operations, he worked to provide internal communications to the corps headquarters. Being in the artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire zone, he showed himself to be a bold and agile communication technician. He is characterized by clarity in work, composure and constant confidence in success and the feeling of fear in moments of danger is alien. Timely answer to the call and connection for negotiations are instilled in him and he honestly performs it. For others, it is an example in work and discipline.”_x000D_ Great-grandfather himself experienced all the hardships and horrors of the war. _x000D_ The Order of Glory, III degree, was awarded to Ivan Timofeevich in February 1945. Great-grandfather in life was a calm and very balanced person. After the war he worked hard to restore the national economy, raised two children (my grandmother Nelya and her brother Eugene), lived a decent life and passed away at the age of 90. Dad and mom often tell me about my ancestors. and I am very proud of them!

Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Studying at the Military-Political Academy. _x000D_ On the second day of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people, we, four workers of the Political Administration of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, arrived to study at the Lenin Military-Political Academy. We were enrolled as students of the Faculty of Ground Forces and a few days later were sent to the village of Kubinka, where the Academy's summer camp was located. For conspiracy purposes, Tserendorzh (later—Deputy Head of the Political Department of the Border and Internal Troops), Ochirov, Renzen (later—Head of the Department in the Society of Labor and Defense), Eristov, me—Robdanov, Kh. Dondova (later—Deputy Head of the Political Administration of the Army), the fifth was L. Toiv (he studied at a civilian university, later—Minister of Foreign Affairs), who became known as Vladimirov. _x000D_ Our training began in Kubinka and classes lasted 8-10 hours daily, and since it was a military time, much attention was paid to fire and tactical training, physical education, careful study of small arms. The Army Faculty consisted of platoons, companies, each student was armed with a TT pistol, a PPSh submachine gun, ammunition and four hand grenades, and after hours we watched the sky, carried out patrol duty. More than once we were raised on alarm for combing the forest, destroying sabotage, landing groups and parachutists of the enemy. Since August, students of the second and third years began to go to the front and instead of them civilians mobilized into the army began to come: party political workers, teachers of the humanities, and students of the academy, including us, were ordered to help them in the development of military affairs. _x000D_ With the complication of the situation at the front and after the Battle of Smolensk, the Academy was transferred to Moscow and included in the troops defending Moscow. If necessary, the academy was entrusted with the defense of the Leningrad highway. After receiving this order, we carefully studied the buildings and structures, streets and lanes along the Leningradskoye Highway, and at night we patrolled the streets, were on duty on the roofs of houses. _x000D_ At the end of October 1941, the enemy approached the Naro-Fominsk - Kubinka line and soon the academy received an order to evacuate. We learned about this order later, and then we got on the trams on alarm, arrived at the station and plunged into the train. Then the acting Commander of our platoon, Litvinov, told us that the enemy had come very close to Moscow and had received an order from the command to relocate the academy to a new location and warned us that conversations and communication with the civilian population were strictly prohibited on the way. _x000D_ Thus, the Faculty of Ground Forces was evacuated from Moscow in early November, while other faculties were evacuated earlier. When leaving Moscow, the commanders of companies and courses ordered everyone to be on full alert, instructed on actions in emergency situations, on repelling attacks by sabotage groups of the enemy. _x000D_ For several days we remained in the dark about where we were going, and during the passage of Murom, Saransk learned, that we are going southeast. We celebrated the 24th anniversary of the Great October Revolution on the way with a meeting and a parade during a short stop in the middle of a forest. In mid-November, we arrived in the city of Belebey in the Bashkir Soviet Autonomous Republic and our platoon was housed in a building where two-story bunks were installed. Classes resumed and lasted 12-14 hours a day: in the afternoon there were tactics, shooting classes, in the evening - theoretical classes. Among the listeners, party and Komsomol work was continuously carried out and the Mongolian listeners, on an equal basis with everyone, participated in party meetings, received and carried out party instructions. _x000D_ Before the beginning of the party meeting, the secretary of the party organization of the faculty comrade Nazarov reported that, in addition to the communists, 5 members of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party are participating in the meeting. In the summer of 1942, according to the accelerated program of the war period, we completed our studies at the Military-Political Academy and returned to our homeland. _x000D_ Almost all of the Soviet students who graduated with us were sent to the Stalingrad front. Looking back at the past years, I remember with gratitude and warmth my studies at the academy, my fellow students, the leaders of the academy, who in the hard war years paid great attention to our knowledge acquisition. Written in 1970.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, troops People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, border troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 1st Guards Artillery Order of Lenin Glukhov Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdanuzov, Khutanuzov Reserve of the Supreme Command. _x000D_ In 1941 he graduated from medical assistant courses and as a nineteen-year-old boy went to the front. He served in the rank of Senior Lieutenant, organized the work of the Battalion's Sanitary Medical Service, accompanied convoys under fire and bombardment, carried out the wounded from the battlefield, organized defense and participated in repelling enemy attacks, and treated the Red Army soldiers. _x000D_ Here is a quote from the award list: "In the battles near the city of Neisse ... came under the bombing of aviation ... Comrade Sokolov, risking his life, carried out the wounded driver, provided assistance and sent him to the medical unit." This is so short, dry in military documents about the daily feat of my great-grandfather, about the many lives he saved, about the days of the hardest trials for our people. _x000D_ Officer, Senior Lieutenant Valerian Ivanovich Sokolov, for personal courage and courage shown in defending the Fatherland and performing military duty, was awarded the Medal "For Courage", the Medal "For Liberation of Prague", the Medal "For Capture of Berlin", the Medal "For Victory over Germany WWII 1941-1945 ", in 1947 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his great services in the defense of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in wartime.