Heroes and feats

He was born on May 10, 1919 in the Bryansk Region, Starodubsky district, and until his death lived there with his family in the village of Krugloye. In 1940 he was drafted into the Red Army. During the terrible years of the Great Patriotic War, he was a recon all the time, fought in Karelia. From 1941 to June 1944, my grandfather was on the Karelian front. During the time he was at the front, he was awarded 3 Orders of Glory, 1,2 and 3 degrees. _x000D_ Here are two front line episodes told by my grandfather. _x000D_ Episode one. On their sector of defense, the command set the combat mission to take the "prisoner tongue". The grandfather's department was instructed to prepare this operation. Carefully observing the enemy garrison, it was established that it was heavily guarded at night. During the day, many posts are removed. The enemy believed that at this time there was nothing to fear. As if reconnaissance in force, ambushes and other operations were carried out by Soviet troops only at night. And then grandfather and his squad decided to take a prisoner in the afternoon, when the enemy's vigilance weakened. By 15 o'clock, the capture group, which was commanded by my grandfather, approached the barbed wire and waited for a prearranged signal. The Nazis did not even have time to jump out of the dugout, where they were hiding from the fire of the artillerymen and mortars. Two enemy soldiers were taken prisoners, and 18 were destroyed in a short battle. Not a single person was lost from our side. For this battle, my grandfather was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. _x000D_ Episode two. In June 1944, the command of the Division ordered to take a "prisoner tongue" from Lysaya Gora. This is in the Kandalaksha direction, about 90 kilometers from the Kirov Railway, which connects Murmansk with Leningrad (St. Petersburg). Grandfather's group went to the foot of the hill and began to observe the enemy defense. For about five days, they monitored the movement of the enemy, studied the fire system. We found out at what time the soldiers change and number of them in a patrol. _x000D_ And so with a group of 7 people, my grandfather went on a mission on the morning of June 7. They crawled to the rear of the enemy, went down into the trench and along it came close to the sentries. Then, with a lightning throw, they tied up two fascist soldiers. When leaving, my grandfather was wounded in the leg. The situation developed in such a way that grandfather had to lie in a no-man's land until 2 am. Then he crawled to his own. He was sent to the hospital, where he stayed until December 1944. My grandfather returned home without a leg. For the capture of "tongues" on Lysaya Gora he was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree._x000D_ In addition to the Orders of Glory of all three degrees, he was awarded the Medal For Courage. While at the front from September 23, 1941 to June 7, 1944, grandfather went to reconnaissance patrol 180 times. He personally captured 7 enemy soldiers and a petty officer, together with his comrades brought 12 "tongues". He killed over 80 enemy soldiers and officers. As war trophies, he delivered to his unit 2 easel, 3 light machine guns, 6 machine guns, a stereoscopic tube and valuable documents of the enemy. _x000D_ All awards and medals of my grandfather are now kept in the Bryansk Museum. _x000D_ In his homeland, in the city of Starodub, on the main square, there is a memorial alley to the heroes and there is a portrait of his grandfather. In 1977, they wrote about him in the book "Three times Glorified". Recently a monument to the Heroes of the Soviet Union has been unveiled in Moscow on Poklonnaya Gora where the name of our grandfather is written. _x000D_ The Teslin family is one of the most respected in the village. The villagers valued my grandfather most of all for his exceptional honesty and directness. It was not in vain that for eighteen years he worked as Chairman for the Audit Commission at the Kommunar kolkhoz, and since 1959 at the enlarged Bolshevik kolkhoz. _x000D_ On the job, grandfather graduated with honors from correspondence Moscow accounting and auditing courses. In 1966, he was appointed a foreman of the field-crop Brigade of the Kommunar kolkhoz. For his achievements, grandfather was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor. For many years he was the Chairman of the comrades' court and headed the group of people's control on his kolkhoz. Grandfather passed away on January 31, 1979. We are proud of our grandfather!

Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 10th Guards Rifle Pechenga, twice Red Banner Orders of Alexander Nevsky and Red Star Division. _x000D_ Every inhabitant of our multinational Russia cherishes the memory of the Great Patriotic War, of relatives and friends who laid down their heads on the battlefields. How much blood of innocent people was shed. All this was deposited in our souls with wounds. My great-grandmother, Titova Varvara Stepanovna, a native of the Belomorsk Region, lost her son, Titov Vasily Prokopyevich. Until her death, my little, fragile great-grandmother kept the death notification under a tablecloth on the table and did not believe, and WAITED. She had been waiting almost until her death. Year after year, there was less and less hope remained, but she never left her at all. _x000D_ In the archives we managed to find information that V.P. Titov fought bravely in the Murmansk direction of the Karelian Front, in the direction of the 2nd Belorussian Front. He showed unprecedented courage, performed heroic deeds. He was awarded the Medal For Courage, the Order of Glory III Degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II Degree, and the Order of the Red Star. From the place of conscription in the Red Army in 1942, he went from Karelia to Germany, where he died from wounds on May 7, 1945. _x000D_ A dashing and courageous soldier was able to take command over, raise soldiers to mortal combat despite the enemy's numerical superiority. He took the Nazis prisoner, disarmed, destroyed both the enemy and his weapons. How brightly he could live his life and how much beautiful and useful he could do. _x000D_ Low bow and eternal memory to the heroes of the Second World War. Thank you for the victory and the peaceful sky over your head.

Rank: Sergeant _x000D_ When the war started, my grandfather was 15 years old. After graduating from the 7th grade of the Grigorievskaya Secondary School, before being drafted into the Soviet army, he worked as a tractor driver on a T-2g gas generator in the Grigorievskaya MTS. On November 13, 1943, grandfather was drafted into service and he was in a training Regiment in the Tyumen Region in an anti-tank Battalion. After graduating from the training Regiment, my grandfather was awarded the title "Sergeant of the Soviet Army". _x000D_ After completing his studies, he was transferred to the city of Kazan, stayed there for 2 months in the western Regiment, and was sent to the marching company to the front on July 27, 1944, where there were battles for the liberation of Belarus and Baltic states. Having traveled nineteen days in echelon, he was delivered to the city of Bialystok and was taken to the city of Bialystok and was enlisted in an anti-tank platoon of the anti-tank defense of the 3rd Battalion of the 669th Infantry Regiment of the 212nd Krichevskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov, Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree Division, 80 corps 61 Army, attached to the 1st Belorussian Front. _x000D_ He entered the front line on August 15, 1944, in Latvia and participated in the offensive from the city of Pskov to the city of Riga. There, repelling enemy tank counterattacks, the gunner of the 45-mm gun Sergeant Sludyanin fought heroically. For the destroyed tanks and self-propelled guns, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" and the gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Comrade Stalin. _x000D_ Then he participated in the destruction of the German grouping on the Kurland Peninsula near the town of Libava "Lipeya". Then he was transferred to Poland near the city of Warsaw on the foot strong of the Vistula river. He went with offensive battles from January 12, 1945 through Poland to Germany. He fought from the Vistula to the Oder River. _x000D_ Near the city of Seidenberg, 8 kilometers away from the Oder River on the east side, during a tank attack, he was wounded on February 10, 1945 by a shell burst in the neck and knee of his right leg. It was unlucky, because Berlin was only 70 km away. For those battles, my grandfather was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. _x000D_ After being wounded, the grandfather was taken to the medical company of his regiment from there to the Medical Battalion onward to the army hospital in the city of Seidenberg. After he was taken to the city of Lodz, to the front-line hospital, where on March 2, 1945, an operation was performed in the knee joint of the right leg and a plaster cast was applied to it. On April 7, 1945, he was sent to Russia and taken to the hospital in Chapaevsk Kuibyshev Region.

Rank: Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces_x000D_ Subdivision: 125th Infantry Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ I want to tell you about the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Pyotr Yakovlevich Sychev, who was the grandfather of a friend of our family. Pyotr Yakovlevich was born on July 12, 1918 in the village of Svoino, Suvorovsky district, Tula Region. He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army by the Zagorsk District Military Commissariat, Moscow Region on 06/23/1941, and two days later he was sent to the front. _x000D_ From June 1941 to March 1942 served in the 87th Infantry Regiment of the 55th Army on the Leningrad Front. Excellent training and discipline quickly rose him to the rank of Starshina. Pyotr Yakovlevich received his first award, a medal "For Courage" for the battle at the Pesochnya station. From award list No. 204/54: "The enemy threw all his forces to take possession of the station, and then the Finlyandsky railway station of Leningrad. Being in ambush with a handful of fighters, Sychev repulsed attacks until dawn, when help came. In this battle, he received a shell shock." _x000D_ _x000D_ Leaving the hospital, he took part in the defense of the Ust-Izhora plant. _x000D_ Pyotr Yakovlevich participated three times with his platoon in night attacks to liberate the sovkhoz "Krasny Bor", which we captured. In the last attack, Pyotr Yakovlevich was seriously wounded by shrapnel in his left leg and lost part of his lower leg. For the liberation of the sovkhoz, he was awarded the Order of Glory III degree. _x000D_ In May 1942, Pyotr Yakovlevich was dismissed from the army as a disabled person of the II group and returned to the Tula Region. He worked as a Senior Accountant at Plavsky MTS. Later he graduated from the courses of employees of the prosecutor's office and was elected people's judge of the 2nd section of the Aleksin district of the Tula Region. _x000D_ After the war he worked as a prosecutor in the city of Barnaul. In October 1947, for family reasons, he returned to Tula, where he worked as a judge on the territory of the Mendeleevsky village. After the liquidation of the court site, he worked in the plant management of the Podzemgaz station. _x000D_ Written by Prokudin Daniil, Cadet of the Pervomaiskaya Cadet School of the Tula Region, Shchyokinsky district 7 "D" class.

Rank: Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 93rd Guards Rifle Kharkiv twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov _x000D_ Sokolnikov Afanasy Iosifovich, was drafted into the army in 1942 by the North-Baikal Commissariat. At that time, the guy from Lake Baikal was 19 years old. He was sent to serve in the Far East, where he received news of the death at the front of his father, Joseph Petrovich Sokolnikov. Wanting to avenge his father, he wanted to be sent to the war front. _x000D_ As a result, he was sent to the active army and fell under Stalingrad. As part of a group of foot reconnaissance, he participated in the battles at the Kursk Bulge, near Prokhorovka, Kharkov, liberated Ukraine, Poland, Germany. With a victory, he had reached Berlin. He was wounded four times. _x000D_ He was awarded orders and medals for his heroic efforts. From the recently opened archival documents, we found out the datails of these high front-line awards. _x000D_ In 1943, a Reconnaissance platoon of foot Reconnaissance of the 285th Guards Rifle Regiment, Sokolnikov A.I. was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the area of the village of Znamenka, a group of recons under the command of my grandfather made their way to the rear of the enemy and attacked the outpost of the Germans. Senior group Sokolnikov A.I. captured a machine gun and began to fire at the retreating Germans. As a result of the military operation, 5 Germans were taken prisoner and several units of captured weapons were captured. In 1945, the platoon Commander of the 156th Separate Reconnaissance company of the 134th Infantry Division A.I. Sokolnikov. was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1 degree. _x000D_ During the offensive from the Vistula to the Oder, he repeatedly performed combat missions of the command to capture prisoners of the "tongues". On February 1, 1945, in the area of the village of Baryanshi, the Guard Lieutenant Sokolnikov with his group destroyed the enemy bunker in one throw and captured 8 fascists. In pursuit of the enemy, the recons organized an ambush behind enemy lines and destroyed a platoon of German infantry. Over the entire period of the offensive, Sokolnikov's Reconnaissance group captured 29 "tongues", and killed 115 soldiers and officers. _x000D_ One of the most valuable awards of my grandfather is the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the junior order among the captainship awards. _x000D_ Such orders were awarded to officers in the position of Platoon, Company, Battalion Commander. Junior Lieutenant Sokolnikov was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky for completing a combat mission to capture a control prisoner near the village of Shlyakhtinsky Lyas. This happened on the night of September 23-24, 1944. After 3 days of observation, his reconnaissance group was supposed to take the "prisoner tongue". The recons neutralized the sentry and moved along the trench. _x000D_ My grandfather was the first to see two Germans standing at the machine gun and rushed at them. In hand-to-hand combat, he killed one of them and wounded the other. He himself was wounded in the head, but continued to lead the operation. As a result, the wounded prisoner was taken to the headquarters, where he voluntarily told valuable information. And then they saw each other at the hospital. The German was very frightened by this meeting, and his grandfather told him: “Don't be afraid. Nobody will touch an unarmed man, ”and offered to smoke. And while the German prisoner was at the hospital, he was called "Sokolnikov's godson". _x000D_ In March 1947 he was mobilized and returned to his native land. And in the fall of 1947, he met his Annushka, who became his faithful companion for life. Together they came to the legendary construction site of the Bratsk hydroelectric power station and remained loyal to this city. Together they raised five beautiful daughters in Bratsk. Together they rejoiced at the birth of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. But his health undermined at the front did not allow grandfather to live longer. He passed away in 1994._x000D_ Talaev, Ivan Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Talaev Ivan Petrovich from December 9, 1939 to March 1940 was a participant in the Finnish Campaign as a driver in the 884th Motor Transport Battalion. From June 1941 to November 1943, as part of the 9th Guards Separate Anti-Aircraft Division, he fought on the Leningrad Front. In 1941 he walked in the First Column of the "Road of Life" to Leningrad on the ice of Lake Ladoga, driving a lorry, and was later awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Then he took part in the battles near Leningrad. He was 2 times surrounded. _x000D_ Grandmother received 2 funerals, but luckily he survived. Leaving the encirclement as part of the unit, according to the order of the commander, everyone buried their military papers. Subsequently on February 11, 1943, my grandfather was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his sentence was changed and sent to a Disciplinary Battalion. There he fought heroically and was seriously wounded on November 7 in the stomach and head. He was in a military hospital for treatment from November 1943 to April 1944. Then he fought in the 61st Separate Automobile Battalion of the Baltic Front as a driver, was a squad leader. _x000D_ He was the member of the East Prussian operation. Somewhere near Konigsberg he was seriously wounded and was sent to a military hospital in Moscow for treatment. He had served until October 15, 1945. They offered to stay to work as a mechanic in the capital, but he decided to return to his native north. He was demobilized. In the depot-war period, he worked as a Senior Mechanic in the military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nyandoma, Arkhangelsk Region. Of the awards he was very dear to the badge "Veteran of the Karelian Front 1941-1945". In 1980 he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He lived a happy life, had 5 children! He passed away of a heart attack on September 29, 1985.

Rank: Starshina_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Talaev Ivan Petrovich from December 9, 1939 to March 1940 was a participant in the Finnish Campaign as a driver in the 884th Motor Transport Battalion. From June 1941 to November 1943, as part of the 9th Guards Separate Anti-Aircraft Division, he fought on the Leningrad Front. In 1941 he walked in the First Column of the "Road of Life" to Leningrad on the ice of Lake Ladoga, driving a lorry, and was later awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Then he took part in the battles near Leningrad. He was 2 times surrounded. _x000D_ Grandmother received 2 funerals, but luckily he survived. Leaving the encirclement as part of the unit, according to the order of the commander, everyone buried their military papers. Subsequently on February 11, 1943, my grandfather was sentenced to 10 years in prison, but his sentence was changed and sent to a Disciplinary Battalion. There he fought heroically and was seriously wounded on November 7 in the stomach and head. He was in a military hospital for treatment from November 1943 to April 1944. Then he fought in the 61st Separate Automobile Battalion of the Baltic Front as a driver, was a squad leader. _x000D_ He was the member of the East Prussian operation. Somewhere near Konigsberg he was seriously wounded and was sent to a military hospital in Moscow for treatment. He had served until October 15, 1945. They offered to stay to work as a mechanic in the capital, but he decided to return to his native north. He was demobilized. In the depot-war period, he worked as a Senior Mechanic in the military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nyandoma, Arkhangelsk Region. Of the awards he was very dear to the badge "Veteran of the Karelian Front 1941-1945". In 1980 he was awarded the second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He lived a happy life, had 5 children! He passed away of a heart attack on September 29, 1985.

Rank: Red Army _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. _x000D_ Unit: 2nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Alexey Vasilievich Sariev, is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Born in 1924 in the village of Beshtash, Tsalka Region, Georgian SSR. He came to Pyatigorsk at the age of 16. In the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army had been since 08/04/1942. He was called to the front in the Pyatigorsk city military Commissariat of the Stavropol Territory. He went to the front as a Private., a Red Army Soldier. _x000D_ In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, my great-grandfather Alexey Vasilievich Sariev was wounded three times. As part of the 2nd Guards Rifle Division of the 875th Regiment near the village of Krymskaya (Troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front) on 05/02/1943, he was wounded for the first time. The second wound was received in the 64th Separate working Battalion near Novorossiysk on 08/15/1943. As part of the 78th Zaporizhzhya Infantry Division of the 244th Regiment near Kirovograd, on 05.01.44, he was wounded for the third time. _x000D_ In archival documents they wrote about him: "Being in a Separate Guard Battalion, he carried out Guard duty well, disciplined and vigilant, kept his weapons clean." For participation in battles from 1942 to 1945 on behalf of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown in this case, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, a medal "For Courage", the Medal "For Military Merit", the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. _x000D_ We should be proud of our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers who saved the world from the Nazi yoke, defended the independence of our Motherland. We must remember the cost for the Victory.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops _x000D_ Subdivision: 12th Guards Rifle Pinsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. _x000D_ My grandfather is Safiullin Galimzyan Mukhemetovich. He is a participant, disabled of the Great Patriotic War. He was born on November 17, 1924 in the village of Baltachevo, Agryz district. In 1942 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. _x000D_ In the city of Petropavlovsk, the Kazakh Republic, he graduated from the courses for Junior Commanders with the rank of Sergeant. After completing the courses, he was sent to the city of Namangan of the Uzbek Republic. There, as a squad leader, he taught military draftees and sent them to the front. _x000D_ In 1943 he was sent to the Ashgabat Infantry School. In 1944, at the age of 20, with the rank of Junior Lieutenant, he was sent to the 1st Belorussian Front as part of the 61st Army and was appointed Commander of a machine-gun platoon. In October 1944, they crossed the Vistula River near the city of Warsaw in Poland. According to the stories of my grandfather, many of our soldiers died crossing the river, the river was red from blood. They took a foot-strong and held the defenses until the main forces of the Soviet Army were ferried. Then the Regiment was transferred to the Baltic front in the direction of Konigsberg, (now Kaliningrad). _x000D_ In March 1945, during fierce battles near Konigsberg, while crossing the motorway, he received a severe bullet wound in the chest. He was sent to the hospital in Pozdam. He celebrated the Great Victory in the hospital. After the Victory, he was sent to Russia to the city of Ruzayevka, Ryazan Region, to heal his wounds. _x000D_ After his recovery, grandfather was sent as an officer to a Reserve Regiment in the city of Saratov. Then he served in the Koshkinsky military registration and enlistment office of the Ulyanovsk Region. In June 1946 he was transferred to the Reserve. In the battle for the village. Augustzwalde 03/07/1945 with the fire of his heavy machine guns destroyed up to 15 Germans and suppressed the fire of 3 machine guns. Worthy of being awarded the Medal For Courage. My grandfather knew about the award, but never received it until his death ... _x000D_ The bureaucratic machine did its job, depriving him of the opportunity to see the well-deserved award. He lived with my grandmother for 61 years. My grandfather passed away in 2014 at the 91st year. He really wanted to live until the 70th anniversary of the Victory.

Rank: Senior sailor _x000D_ Branch of troops: Coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, Aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops. _x000D_ _x000D_ Pavel Grigorievich Tikhonov was born on 17.12.1920 in Moscow Region._x000D_ He served from 10/25/1939 as a gunsmith in the 71st Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force (item 1071). The 71st Red Banner Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force was formed in September 1940 (Subsequent renaming: from May 31, 1943 by Order of the People's Commissar of the Navy No. 190, the 10th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force). As part of the active army during the Second World War from June 22, 1941 to May 31, 1943. On June 22, 1941, it is based at the airfields near Tallinn: Lagsberg (56 I-153) and Ülemiste (3 MiG-3, 8 Yak-1, 3 I-15 bis, 2 UT-1, 1 UT-2, 3 U- 2). Since the beginning of the war, it has been covering Tallinn and the islands of the Moonsund archipelago from the air. _x000D_ In August 1941, the Regiment was mainly involved in strikes and cover strikes against enemy columns that were advancing towards Tallinn, operates in the area of Narva, Kingisepp, Volosovo, and also covers convoys of ships that were evacuated from Tallinn. _x000D_ At the end of August 1941, the remnants of the Regiment flew to Leningrad. Tikhonov Pavel Grigorievich was captured on October 5, 1941 near Riga, died in January 1942 in the Stalag XD camp (310) Witzendorf. Record number 300102490. Camp number 43920. He was killed in captivity. Burial place: Witzendorf.

Rank: Senior Sergeant _x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Troops. Subdivision: 201st Gatchina Rifle Red Banner Division._x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Vasily Ivanovich Smirnov (January 14, 1927 - October 26, 1982), a native of the village. Malo-Mitkino, Kalachinsky district, Omsk region, disabled of the II group of the Great Patriotic War, awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. He went to the front at the age of 16. _x000D_ In 1943, after the family received a notice of the death of his father (Ivan Sosipatrovich Smirnov, who died at the front - Kostyukovichi, Mogilev region), he did not wait for his draft year, and together with his comrades born in 1926, he appeared at the recruiting station and was enrolled as a cadet 17th district School of snipers of the Siberian Military District. He graduated from the School of snipers with the assignment of the military rank of Corporal. _x000D_ In June 1944 he served in the Gorokhovets military camps in the Ivanovo region. From July 1944 he served in the 7th Rifle company of the 3rd Rifle Battalion of the 446th Rifle Pinsk Order of the Alexander Nevsky Regiment. With the 446th Rifle Regiment he marched from Baranovichi to Bialystok and beyond. At the beginning of August 1944 he became a recon of the reconnaissance platoon of the 59th Infantry Regiment of the Second Baltic Front. He took part in the liberation of Võru, Valka, Valmiera, Cesis ... _x000D_ In September 1944 he was wounded and went to the hospital. After the hospital, he was sent to the regimental reconnaissance, and a month later he was appointed commander of a division of a Rifle company located in Courland (Latvia), between Tukums and Libava. The last time he went on the attack on February 16, 1945. On that day, during the attack, he was wounded in the head and lost an eye. He was treated in hospitals in Riga and Mitava. In May 1945, he graduated from medical training courses, but did not have to fight again, the war ended. In 1946 he was demobilized as a disabled II group of the Second World War. _x000D_ He returned to his homeland, to the village of Malo-Mitkino. He graduated from the regional School of cultural and educational workers. He worked as the head of the culture department of the Maryanovsk regional executive committee of the Omsk region and studied at the correspondence Omsk teacher's institute named after M. Gorky. Since 1951 he worked in schools of the Omsk region (history teacher, School director). We remember and are proud of our father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Eternal glory!

Branch of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, troops of the NKVD, Border Troops_x000D_ _x000D_ The story of my family: The victory in the Great Patriotic War came at a high cost to the Russian people. In our time, people should not forget that war brings suffering and death of tens of millions of people. Oblivion would be a crime against the warriors who gave their lives for peace so that we can live happily today. Remembering the war, about the heroism and courage of people, to fight for peace is the duty of all living on earth ... My generation knows very little about war. It is even hard to imagine how unbearably hard it was for our soldiers to cope with the fascist evil spirits. The Great Patriotic War left its mark on every Soviet family. _x000D_ My grandfather was from Moldova, Slyusar Vasily Kirillovich, was born on January 14, 1909. According to the stories of my grandmother, he did not like to remember the war, about his wounds, about his awards, he just frowned, and then he was silent for a long time and held on to his heart. It was hard for him to remember what they had gone through. But sometimes he still indulged in the memories of the war. _x000D_ Vasily Kirillovich was drafted into the army from Mogilev-Podolsky in March 1944. My grandmother recalls that, going to the front, he carried her, his little daughter, in his arms to the very recruiting station. _x000D_ My grandfather,Vasily Kirillovich, fought on the 2nd Belorussian Front, the commander-in-chief of which was Rokossovsky, he participated in the liberation of Poland, Germany, cities of Konigsberg, Danzig and Poznan. The Oder River remained the last major water border on the way to Berlin. _x000D_ In January 1945, Vasily Kirillovich was one of the participants in the crossing of the Oder River. After the battle in the Kustrin area, my great-grandfather went on reconnaissance. The reconnaissance group reached a group of 6 Germans. He threw a grenade, but its fragments wounded him. Vasily Kirilovich was in serious condition and miraculously survived. In a hospital in Germany, a German doctor saved his life. _x000D_ The hospital was overflowing with wounded. There were not enough beds, people were lying and even sitting in the corridors. When the great-grandfather was already recovering, he looked for broken furniture around the board and made wooden loungers, after all, he was from the village and knew how to do everything with his own hands. The Head Physician of the German hospital, in gratitude, presented the grandfather with a tablecloth, which was kept for a long time in memory of this event. Grandfather Vasily served in the infantry and went as far as Berlin, was awarded many medals for his courage in battle. _x000D_ After the war, by May 9, he received anniversary medals for Victory Day. Vasily Kirillovich had been dead now for 14 years, but my family never forgets that he and millions of other soldiers who fought during the Great Patriotic War saved the whole world from fascism so that we could live under a peaceful sky. We, the children of the century, thank all the veterans for our happy peaceful life!

Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 2nd Infantry Division (2nd formation)_x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Iosif Ivanovich Subbotovsky, was born in 1909 in the Novosibirsk region. Mariinsky district, village Raevka in a family of exiled Poles. Almost all of his relatives, parents, sisters and brothers, were repressed in GULAG camps. _x000D_ As his wife mentioned, Emelyanova Anastasia Kuzminichna is my great-grandmother, "Yuzik" was a very kind, sympathetic and respected person, a Soviet officer. He also took part in the Finnish war. After in 1941 he was called to the front, communication with him was lost. My great-grandmother was looking for him for a long time, he was reported missing, but then she received the second death notification: _x000D_ Subbotovsky Joseph Ivanovich of the Guard Jr. Leiutenant, commander of a Rifle platoon, 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 2 Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, killed in action 08/03/1942, Kalinin region. Rzhev district, village Galakhovo, north-east the outskirts, the forest ... _x000D_ Dry words, a short summary, and a whole life was cut off, even two lives, because my great-grandmother never married again and did not even allow such a thought, she kept living only with memories. She could not betray the memory of her husband and father to her only daughter. She could not betray the daughter who didn't even remember his face, his voice. _x000D_ My great-grandfather was killed near Rzhev, judging by the date, at the notorious for its grandiose losses of the Combat for city of Rzhev, in the first Rzhev-Sychevsk operation (July 30-October 1, 1942) of the Kalinin under the Commander I. S. Konev and Western under the Commander and leader of the entire operation, G.K. Zhukov fronts with the aim of defeating the German 9th Army under the Ccommander, Colonel General V. Model, which was defending in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky ledge. _x000D_ The total losses of Soviet troops in the operation amounted to about 300,000 people, or 60% of the size of the Red Army grouping at the beginning of the operation. Incomplete losses in tanks amounted to about 1085 people. Direct losses of the 30th Army amounted to 99,820 people. My great-grandfather ended the war as the Commander of a Rifle Platoon of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division.

Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, troops of the NKVD, Border Troops_x000D_ _x000D_ From 1939 he served in the NKVD Cavalry Regiment(border Guards), which was located in the Babushkinsky district of the Moscow region. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War (July 1941), he was sent to an Recconaissance School, which was located in a railway echelon plying the Moscow-Novosibirsk route. Cadets were housed in Separate heating houses, in others, war horses and fodder. During the day, the train moved along the route, and the cadets slept, and the horses rested. With the onset of darkness, the train halted and combat training began, which lasted all night. The echelon continued to move. So the study lasted for several months. _x000D_ In February 1942 Tarasov was on the front line as the commander of an army reconnaissance group as part of the Western Front. With his reconnaissance group, he repeatedly went on reconnaissance across the front line to the location of enemy troops for the "prisoner tongues" This was the name of the captured Nazis, who were transported for interrogation to obtain important information about enemy units and their plans. For courage and bravery he was awarded: the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit" and others. _x000D_ In the area of Lake Ilmen, near Staraya Russa, during the combat to destroy the fascist command post and capture an important "prisoner tongues", he was seriously wounded. The recon comrades did not leave him in enemy territory and carried him across the no-man's land. _x000D_ At the crossing of the neutral zone, the alarmed Hitlerites were firing the retreating group of recons from machine guns, so the whole body of Konstantin Tarasov until the last days of his life was stuffed with shrapnel. The thigh of his left leg, shattered by a machine-gun burst, was replaced by a 30-centimeter tube. A bleeding trophic ulcer formed on the shin burned by a fragment of a thermite shell he bandaged all his life. _x000D_ Then it was a hospital in the ambulance train. As hopeless for recovery, he was given to an old nurse who, having received a summons about the death of her last son, they got off at her station. She (unfortunately, did not remember the name) atook care of him. On one of the warm sunny day, the recovering warrior was able to crawl out into the street, the elderly woman-savior said goodbye to him:“Now you get over by yourself...”.Then she went into the hut, lay down and fell asleep in eternal sleep ... He buried her in the yard. .. I made myself a carriage (I couldn’t walk on my feet yet) and trudged home to my village, so his war ended ... _x000D_ After the war, Konstantin Tarasov worked in a School as a biology teacher in his village. He married, had three children, two sons became soldiers. Then he and his family moved to Uzbekistan, to the Tashkent region, the city of Chirchik. Lived there and worked at a local School. Despite the lack of special education, he taught very successfully, interestingly, was very much loved by his students. He died in 1991 and was buried in Chirchik.

The time has come to tell a story about my grandfather's brother, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, the heroically deceased Ivan Akimovich Tikhonov. Tikhonov Ivan Akimovich was born in November 1924 into a peasant family who lived at that time in the village of Maryevka, Nikolsky district, Penza region. Since 1931, the family had lived in Poshatovo, Arzamas District, Gorky Region. In 1939 Ivan graduated from the 7th grade of the Chernukhinsky Secondary School and entered the Gorky Forestry Technical School. _x000D_ In August 1942, from the third year of the Technical School, he was drafted into the army and studied for two months at the Arzamas Military School. In October 1942, he sent the only letter that he was going to where there were strong battles. There were no more letters. In March 1943, a death notice came that the guard soldier Ivan Akimovich Tikhonov died heroically and was buried in a mass grave in the village of Donskaya, Tarasovsky district, Rostov region. Unfortunately, this death notification has been lost. _x000D_ In 2015, his own younger brother, Alexander Akimovich Tikhonov, together with his children and grandchildren, erected a monument at the village cemetery in Poshatovo, Arzamas district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, next to his father's grave. Now the hero has finally found peace with his loved ones. _x000D_ The story of Ivan Akimovich Tikhonov is similar to the millions of stories of other dead soldiers of the Soviet army. But for each family, its own story is the most valuable and important! And as long as we remember these stories, as long as we remember their heroism, as long as we pass this history from generation to generation, we will exist as a nation, as a people who have not been broken. I am happy that I was able to tell and honor the memory of a simple Russian guy, a simple Russian hero.

Rank: Red Army Soldier_x000D_ Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Troops _x000D_ _x000D_ Sukharev V.A. participated in the Finnish War in the Quartermaster Regiment to provide the Red Army with food and uniforms. Vasily Andreevich Sukharev began the Great Patriotic War in 1941 on the Luga front. He served as a machine gunner (machine gun "Maxim"). In one of the battles he was wounded in the head by a shell fragment. After the hospital Sukharev V.A. ended up on the Leningrad front. He took part in the defense of Leningrad near Oranienbaum. There Vasily Andreevich received a new wound. A mine exploded, and both his legs were broken. In the left leg, the knee was completely crushed, the right leg, fortunately, suffered less damage. He lay in a hospital in besieged Leningrad. He underwent several operations. They did not dare to amputate the left leg due to the lack of donor blood in starving Leningrad. _x000D_ When the Road of Life across Ladoga opened, Vasily Andreevich was sent the first echelon to the mainland in Sverdlovsk. He never returned to the front due to his disability. The left leg did not bend for the rest of his life. In 1943, Vasily Andreevich Sukharev returned to his homeland in the village of Novoselitsy, Borovichi district. As a front-line soldier, he was appointed Chairman of a kolkhoz in the village of Glinentsy in the same region. Then he returned back to Novoselitsy, where he worked on the kolkhoz "Russia" in Borovichi district until the end of his life. _x000D_ Sukharev Vasily Andreevich was awarded the medal "For Courage", as well as many medals in connection with the anniversary dates of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Awarded with the "Labor Veteran" medal for labor achievements. Sukhareva Tatiana Aleksandrovna (1906 - 1993), his wife, worked all her life on the kolkhoz "Russia" in the Borovichi region. She was awarded medals “For Valiant Labor during the War and the Post-War Period”, “Veteran of Labor” and other commemorative medals. They raised three children. And now there are six grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.