Heroes and feats

Rank: Senior Sergeant Branch of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 380 Infantry Oryol Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. Born on May 11, 1925 in the Moscow region and lived there until 1942. On September 15, 1942, he was drafted by the Voroshilov District Military Commissariat of the city of Saratov to serve in the ranks of the Red Army. From November 1, 1942, he took part in the Patriotic War as a sub machine gunner of a company of machine gunners of the 1260 Rifle Regiment of the 380 Rifle Red Banner Oryol division, went through the entire war from Moscow to Berlin. During the war, he was wounded and wounded twice in the legs. In March 1944, he was wounded a second time in the leg in an offensive battle for the Kvadratnaya grove near the village of Krasnitsa, Bykhovsky district, Mogilev region, after which he was nominated for the Red Star order. Extract from the award list: “Comrade Sineev Vladimir Sergeevich in the offensive battles since March 26, 1944 for the Kvadratnaya grove near the village of Krasnitsa, Bykhov district, Mogilev region, acted boldly and decisively. One of the first to break into the enemy's trenches and skillfully acting with his personal weapon, he silenced the enemy's machine-gun point, which hindered the advance of our infantry. Comrade V.S. Sineev in that battle he personally destroyed six German soldiers, was lightly wounded, but did not leave the battlefield, continuing to smash the sworn enemy. Comrade V.S. Sineev worthy of the state award of the Order of the Red Star. He went through the entire war and in the spring of 1945 he met Victory Day in Berlin, where he was left by the command to serve until demobilization (delivered secret mail). Three years later he was demobilized as a Senior Sergeant and returned to his hometown. Then fate decreed that he came to live in the Caucasus. Where he met his wife, with whom they lived for 41 years. He died on May 30, 2001. He had many awards, some of which were: the medal "For Courage", the medal "For the capture of Berlin", and was also awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree.

Rank: Major Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops Tolmachev Mikhail Ivanovich was born in 1912 in the village Pupki of the Ranenburg district of the Ryazan province (now the Chaplyginsky district, Lipetsk region). At the age of 14, he left with his father to Moscow to work, from July 1929 to April 1930 he worked as a carpenter on the Construction of the Velozavod, then another year at the Dynamo plant, until 1934 as a Technician - rate setter at various plants. In 1934 (at the age of 22) he entered to study in the city of Kronstadt as a cadet - Radio Operator of an Electronic School, then he was a Senior Radio Operator for a long time. Until 1943 he had been Starshina, Super-conscript Radio Operator at the disposal of the department of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army. From 1944 to 1946 he had been a Technician - Lieutenant of the 4th Regiment of the Pacific Fleet. From September 1946 to July 1948 he graduated from the Navy courses in Leningrad (special radio courses). From July 1948 to October 1948 he had been Senior officer, 2nd group, UBF. From December 1947 until his retirement he was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of V.S. (order 0461 GU), with the rank of Captain, then Major. According to his wife Anna, it is known that after completing the Kronstadt courses, he was sent to Japan (Tokyo) to work at the embassy, where he was with his family before the war. It was during his watch that the famous R. Sorge conveyed information about the beginning of the Second World War to the embassy. He was awarded in the period from 1941 to 1946 the Order of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Red Star, the Medal for Military Merit, in 1946 the Medal for Victory over Japan and then eight more jubilee medals. There is also "Kortik" No. 05562 dated 1947. Due to the confidentiality of Mikhail Ivanovich's service, the family still does not have detailed information for which military services he was awarded high government awards. From the memoirs of his daughter (my grandmother) it is known that the location of his military service was the Far East (Russky Island, St. Helena Island), and in the post-war years - the embassy in Romania, Riga (Latvia), Tallinn (Estonia).

Rank: Red Army Soldier Subdivision: 262nd Infantry Demidov-Khingan Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division Sergienko Grigory Andreevich was an uncle and godfather of my dad Anatoly Semenovich Sergienko. The brother of my grandmother Maria Andreevna Sergienko. Born in 1925 in h. Kursk, Millerovsky district, Rostov region, in the family of Andrian Romanovich Sergienko and Kharitina Pavlovna. There is very little information. When he was drafted into the Red Army is not known yet. He fought as a Red Army Soldier in the 262nd Infantry Demidov Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. The division was formed in the period from July 9 to July 20, 1941 in Vladimir by order of the Headquarters of the High Command of June 29, 1941 under No. 00100 "On the formation of Rifle and mechanized divisions from the personnel of the NKVD troops." In the active army during the Great Patriotic War - from July 30, 1941 to July 19, 1942, from September 30, 1942 to May 1, 1945 and from August 9, 1945 to September 3, 1945. He was repeatedly wounded. From the information of the battles of the 262nd Rifle Division: Arrived on May 3, 1943 under Demidov. On the night of May 10, 1943, in the area of defense between Lake Baklanovskoye - Lake Rytoye, on the approaches to Demidov, it replaced units of the 9th Guards Rifle Division with the mission of firmly holding the defensive zone, preventing the breakthrough of enemy mechanized infantry and tanks in the northern and northeastern directions, and until September 16, 1943, it occupies positional defense there. From September 16, 1943, he moved in the army reserve behind the 306th Rifle Division along the route: Zaroevka, Khokhonskoye farm, Gorokhovo farm, Bedenki, Gonousovo. On September 18, 1943, it entered the battle on the Zalnevo, Korevo, Mazurovka line, captured the Vorobyi farm, destroying up to two enemy companies and taking trophies. On September 19-20, 1943, continuing the fighting, it advanced 18-20 kilometers, occupying 20 settlements and came close to Demidov from the northeast and east. September 21, 1943 storms the city and by the end of the day occupies its eastern part along the Kaspla and Gobza rivers. After the liberation of Demidov it continued the offensive, until the beginning of October 1943 it was conducting heavy battles in the Rudnyansky district (the villages of Zyatevka, Khozhan, Zubaki, Saptsy), reached the border of Belarus. After being wounded, he was in a hospital in Kazan since January 1, 1944. Hospital No. 2780 in Kazan: 1) House of the Red Army, Pushkin str., 24; 2) the hostel of the Kazan Financial and Economic Institute, Dzerzhinsky str., 22; 3) GIDUV dermatoveneric hospital 1.8.1941 - 20.5.1944 700 (9.1942) Levin; 2nd rank Military Doctor D.I. Gorshenin; Military Doctor of the 3rd rank, Borodin; Guard Leiutenant Colonel of the Medical Service, Silin. A document was found , which indicated that a private of the 262th Rifle Division Sergienko Grigory Andreevich from October 20 to October 30, 1944 under ref. No. 01780 dated 01.11.1944 was included in the killed in aaction. It turned out that Sergienko was not killed, but was seriously wounded and evacuated from the battlefield by a neighboring unit. (The document is attached). From the information of the battles of the 262nd Rifle Division: Since October 17, 1944, he again goes on the offensive, forcing the Sheshupe River, breaking through fortified positions. The troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front advanced 30 kilometers into the depths of East Prussia in a strip along the front of 140 kilometers, but with a powerful counterattack, the division as part of the front was thrown back to the original and even further. At the same time, on October 23, 1944, a salute was already fired in honor of the front troops. Since October 27, 1944, the division has been defending approximately along the state border south of Jurbarkas. There is no information about what happened after the treatment of the Red Army Soldier GA Sergienko. His division again goes over to the offensive on January 13, 1945 during the East Prussian operation, advancing in the general front of Tilsit together (since January 18) with the 1st tank corps). On January 20, 1945, Tilsit was liberated by the forces of the 43rd Army, and the division, before reaching Tilsit, turned south-west, by January 26, 1945, having overcome a powerful defensive line on the Deime River, reached the approaches to Koenigsberg, and on January 27, 1945 years started fighting on the outskirts of the city, but had no success. In this regard, the division was sent to bypass Königsberg from the north-west and its surroundings with the mission of cutting the Königsberg-Pillau railway, crossing the water channel along the Frischess-Huff Bay. In February 1945, Metgetten, a suburb of Königsberg, was stormed, having surrounded the city, and since February 19, 1945, it repels the enemy's offensive aimed at connecting with Pillau, developing in the general front of Seerappen. It turned out to be in the place of the main attack of the German troops in the 5th tank (more than 70 tanks), 561st and 548th infantry divisions and attached units in the Metgeten area. With the support of the 139th cannon brigade and the 1st anti-tank brigade, it leads the hardest battles, suffering very heavy losses, under pressure from the enemy, it left its positions in the suburbs, from February 21, 1945 it occupies a line in the Schuditten, Powayenne area. On April 6, 1945, the division stormed Koenigsberg from the south-west, on April 9, 1945, the city was taken, and from April 13, 1945, the division went on the offensive during the Zemland operation, fought towards Fischhausen and on April 17, part of its forces participated in the capture of the city. after which she finished her combat path in the west. In June 1945 it was transferred to Mongolia, to Ulan Bator. It marched through the Gobi Desert, overcame the Big Khingan mountain range and fought into the Manchurian Valley. The first battle during the campaign leads for the Boltai station, then liberates the city of Tanan, passed Mukden and Harbin, at the end of the path, reaching Port Arthur, overcoming more than 2000 kilometers. The division was disbanded in 1947. From the stories of my grandmother, it remains in my memory that, having come from the front, her brother Sergienko Grigory Andreevich was all wounded and sick, and was often treated in hospitals. He got married. His son Anatoly Grigorievich was born in 1945, who lived in Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk) with his wife and son Alexander. Grigory Andreevich died in his early thirties from wounds in the 1950s. (exact date unknown).

Rank: Red Army Soldier Sadykov Galetdin Mukhammed Sadykovich is my grandfather from my mother's side. 12.12.1917-17.01.1998 (Sadykov Galyautdin (Galaatdin) Sadykovich according to military card indexes). He was called on 08/14/1941 North-Nurlatsky Commissariat, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, North Nurlatsky district as a private. At the time of the call, he was married. Amin Sadykov's wife remained pregnant in the village of Tat. Islamovo and in November 1941 gave birth to a son. She worked as a teacher in a village School, built a house. Further from the memories of my grandfather. On August 20, 1941, as part of their combat regiment, they began to fight under the command of Marshal Timoshenko. The battle was fought in the front of Leningrad. At the moment of approaching Leningrad, cartridges ran out, the battle was fought practically with bare hands, with bayonets. Near the city of Novgorod, near the Desna River, on September 2, they were surrounded by the Germans and were taken prisoners. For several days they spent the night without food in the rain on the ground. They took the prisoners to Belarus to the city of Minsk, where they lived in a very large camp in barracks until October. The entire barrack was strewn with fleas, which fell from the wooden ceiling like pouring rain. They started to get sick with typhus, 200-300 people died a day. There was nothing to eat, they ate no more than 100 grams of sawdust gruel a day. Once at 12 in the night the barrack caught fire and the Germans did not allow the prisoners to leave it, many people died. Further, the Germans lined up the remaining prisoners and, having set the dogs, led to the railway station, who, exhausted, could not walk, the Germans pierced the heart with a bayonet. At the station, all the prisoners, like a fish in a barrel, were loaded into a freight car. In pitch darkness, we rode each other for 2 days to Germany. There were also many dead prisoners in the carriage. Upon arrival in Germany, he was sent to a concentration camp. All were sent to the bathhouse, dressed in prisoners' clothes, on which in all places there were inscriptions: Russian prisoners. The prisoners were divided into 20-30 people and sent to hard work. My grandfather, among 30 people, was sent to Austria in the city of Abtenau. There they worked hard work, on the railroad, by the spring of 1942 out of 30 people died 10. The work was very hard, the prisoners were practically not fed. They worked here until February 1945. Then he was sent to a concentration camp near the city of Rostock. The city was there after the bombing by American aircrafts, they were cleaning it from debris and stones. The work was unbearably hard. In April 1945, their Soviet soldiers were released from captivity. Galetdin was an educated person who graduated from School and accounting courses (and at that time it was a rarity), and was also a member of the CPSU (b). Then the freed soldiers were sent to serve in the Far Eastern Front. And the commander left Galetdin in Germany as an Accountant in military warehouses. The grandfather served very well. Upon completion of the service, the grandfather was given an apartment in the city of Lvov, Ukraine. Galetdin returned home, wanted to transfer his family there, but since his relatives were against it, they stayed in their village. The last place of service 332 Rifle Division 1 arm (392 Rifle Division 73 divisional division) (498 Rifle Division, 132 division division). He was captured according to documents-09/11/1941 in the city of Bryansk-Novgorod-Seversky. Rank: Red Army. He was in Leningrad, Poland, Ukraine, Austria, Germany. In April 1945 he was released from captivity by Soviet troops. He did another 3 years after his release in military service in Germany as an Accountant in military depots. He had wounds and concussion, was in the hospital legion. He had many medals and orders.

Rank: Major My father, Aleksey Grigorievich Stupak, was born on April 20, 1922 in the village of Lazorki, Poltava region, in a peasant family. He graduated from the 7th grade of Secondary School, then worked in a kolkhoz. He faced the Great Patriotic War in the Baltic States in the city of Tartu as part of the 625th light Artillery Regiment of the 182th division on June 22, 1941. At 16:00 PM, the territory of the division's deployment was bombed, so the war started in a terrible mess and retreat. At first there wer no ammunition, no shells, then the horses were killed. They retreated in combats, in the morning they were in the area of Staraya Russa, on the banks of the Velikaya River. Then he was wounded in the leg, fortunately he managed to get on the ship "25 Let Oktyabrya" and underwent treatment in an evacuation hospital in Cheboksary. At the end of 1941 he was sent to the active unit, fought on the Kursk Bulge as a gunner of an artillery battery. As part of a Separate Communications Battalion, he crossed the river Pripyat, Desna, liberated cities from the Nazis: Chernobyl, Zhitomir, Ternopil as part of the Central, 1st Ukrainian, 4th Ukrainian, 2nd Belorussian fronts. The news of the surrender of Nazi Germany caught him in the Czech city of Olomouc. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Krakow", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." After the end of the war, he continued to serve in a Separate Regiment of the KGB State Communications under the USSR Council of Ministers. He retired with the rank of Major. His soul called him home, he managed to move to the Poltava region of Ukraine. He did not sit idle, he worked to the best of his ability. He did not lose optimism even in extreme old age, he loved folk songs. He was distinguished by his honesty, modesty and decency. Until the last days of his long life, and he died in December 2013, he retained a clear memory and a sober mind. So fate decreed that his last days fell on the time of the notorious Kiev Maidan, when a portrait of S. Bandera hung on the building of the Kiev Rada. He no longer knew about the “fraternization” of UPA soldiers and veterans of the Great Patriotic War, organized by the President of Ukraine on May 9, 2015, about equalizing their rights, about the fact that Moskovsky Prospect in Kiev is now S. Bandera Avenue, about the desecration by the Nazis monument to General Vatutin, who liberated the city of Kiev from the Nazis. I would like to believe that the common forces in Ukraine will not give up the common past and the historical memory of the joint struggle against fascism will be restored! Shkuropatskaya Valentina Alekseevna, daughter.

Rank: Colonel Branch of troops: Artillery He was graduated from the 1st Moscow Artillery Special School at Krasnaya Presnya. It was the first Special School established before the war, of which there is a memory. The admission competition was huge. They accepted only Muscovites, excellent students , seventh grade graduates with good physical fitness and good health. When the war started, the specialists were evacuated to Anzhero-Sudzhensk in the Novosibirsk (now Kemerovo) region, then to Tomsk. By an accelerated course, the boys officers were sent to the front. Dad easily told that the artillery was horse-drawn, about the first Belorussian front, about the liberation of Poland, the capture of Berlin ... From his glance, I understood what dad was silent about ... He said that he lit his first cigarette while sitting in a trench in a temporary lull when he received a death notice for an older brother. That death notice had not survived. Another one written to my mother (my grandmother) has survived, a letter is still kept. Dad took out a small yellowed sheet, folded in four, and began to read (I quote verbatim): NOTICE "Your son, Junior Leiutenant Ivan Nikolayevich Kontorshchikov, in the battle for the Socialist homeland, faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage, was wounded and died of wounds on 04/09/44. He buried in a mass grave on a forest edge near a ravine, the village of Karamids, Vitebsk region and district, on the first kilometer of South Bolshak, Smolensk - Vitebsk. ... WARRIOR LETTER Sender's address: 43 935 S. Makarov "Hello dear Mother! I inform you that I have received your letter to my son Vanya, but dear mother, no matter how unpleasant it is to tell such news, it is better to immediately know the truth. He was seriously wounded, one leg below the knees was completely torn off and the other was broken. He felt good, talked, never even gasped. On April 10, he died in a Medical Battalion. Be courageous to endure this great grief for you, we will avenge his death damned Germans. Your son was one of the most exemplary young officers, he was a brave warrior. Accept my and my comrades my sincere condolences and sympathy for your grief. With warm greetings, your son's Comrade Sergei Makarov. 18.04.44. " Dad also fell silent at such moments. Ivan was older than dad, only two years. I did not think then about the difference in surnames. I knew that my grandfather returned from the war disabled and was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, that my father was wounded and carried a splinter, and not only military awards on his chest. I thought of the war with hatred. With his future wife, Galina Mikhailovna, dad met in Leningrad, her hometown. Mom told me what the child could know. I knew that she was born on March 7, 1932, at the age of nine she survived the Leningrad Siege, dropped incendiary bombs from the rooftops, that she had turned gray even then and at the age of eleven she was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad". Mom didn’t like to talk about hunger and death, she didn’t like to talk about the war, but I remember the dried bread that was kept in the house in rag bags. Colonel, Titov Viktor Nikolaevich, over the years of work in leading positions in the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, did not buy a car, did not build a dacha with the hands of soldiers. He was an officer of Honor, a true defender of his Fatherland and an example for his children. The memory of our parents, of the millions of soldiers who died during the war, we carry in our hearts. We pass this memory from generation to generation. My brother - Titov Vladimir Viktorovich - Colonel, military officer. His son - Titov Viktor Vladimirovich - Major. My grandson, Artyom Sergeevich Goncharov, is a first-class graduate of the Tagansky Cadet Corps in Moscow. Blessed Memory of the departed, good health to those few who returned alive from the war and have survived to this day. We remember you. Zhmachinskaya Elena Viktorovna (Titova) poet, member of the Writers' Union of Russia.

Rank: Starshina of 1st Article Branch of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD Border Troops Telitsyn Mikhey Yakovlevich was born on August 14, 1919 in the village of Olenitsa, Tersk district, Murmansk region. He began his independent labor activity in December 1935 as an apprentice accountant, and then as an accountant. From February to December 1938 he attended accounting courses in Rostov-on-Don, after which he worked as an accountant at the Chkalov kolkhoz in the village of Sosnovka until he was drafted into the Navy, i.e. until November 1939. From December 7, 1939 to February 1940, he passed combat training in the training company of the Northern Fleet in Vaenga. From March 1940 to August 1942 he served in the 7th department of the Northern Fleet headquarters as a clerk. From August to December 1942 he was in a training company awaiting admission to encryption work. From January to October 1943 he was in 1St Artillery Division, but already as a communications specialist. From April to July 1945 he was at the headquarters of the Kola Naval Defense Region, from where at the end of July 1945 he was transferred to the Emergency and Rescue Department of the Northern Fleet in the village of Arovyanye. Mikhey Yakovlevich faced the war at the headquarters of the fleet, where he served as a clerk. He immediately filed a report on his transfer to the ship. They refused. People were needed everywhere. There were no secondary objects then. Everyone worked to win. But the desire to get on the ship and participate in military campaigns did not disappear. He filed report after report. Finally, he was assigned to a submarine brigade. Mikhey Yakovlevich arrived at his new duty station at a sad time. Then four boats did not return from the campaign at once. All went gloomy and angry. And doubts tormented the warrior: how he would endure the first campaign, whether he would not let his comrades down. After all, they are already battle-hardened, but he served in the artillery and has never been in battle. And here is the first trip. Immediately caught in a ten-point storm. Even seasoned sailors could hardly bear it. But Mikhey Yakovlevich did not succumb to weakness, courageously endured difficulties. Telitsyn visited eight campaigns. He especially remembered one. He then served on the M-200 submarine. On the high seas, their boat met an enemy caravan. Three transports of 5-6 thousand tons of displacement were guarded by 27 ships. The boat went on the attack, although the submariners knew a priori that the battle would be unequal. They fired a volley with two torpedoes and began to maneuver. There were explosions and something unimaginable began. The escort ships unleashed their forces on the daring boat. The submarine commander wanted, as usual, to break through and hide in the open sea. But that was not the case: the enemy blocked the way. Bombs fell on the boat. The sailors counted more than two hundred explosions. The light went out, the gyrocompass was out of order. Then the commander undertook a new maneuver. The boat turned quietly and went to the shore. The gaps began to disappear. It never occurred to the enemies to look for a boat under the shore. Soon the submariners reported to the headquarters about the sinking of the enemy transport and received permission to return to the base. But there were still two torpedoes on board. I did not want to return with them, and the commander decided to stay in position for another two days. The boat circled stubbornly in its square, but the enemy did not appear. Mikhey Yakovlevich received two Orders of the Red Star and seven medals for his military work. After the war, Severomorets became a career soldier. In January 1955 he was demobilized. After the war Mikhey Yakovlevich took an active part in the military-patriotic education of young people, often spoke to the soldiers of the North Sea and schoolchildren. Mikhay Yakovlevich died on the Nizhny Novgorod land in the city of chemists Dzerzhinsk at the age of 72, he was buried there, but the memory of him will be in the hearts of his loved ones and relatives.

60 Sentyurin, Vladimir Ivanovich Rank: Leiutenant General, Hero of the Soviet Union Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Troops Subdivision: 62nd Guards Rifle Zvenigorod-Budapest Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division Sentyurin Vladimir Ivanovich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, son of close friends of my family. His father, Ivan Mikhailovich Sentyurin, was the director of the “ 20 Let Oktyabrya” sovkhoz. The life of Vladimir Ivanovich: Vladimir Ivanovich Sentyurin (1918-1997) was a Leiutenant General of the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). Vladimir Sentyurin was born on January 20, 1918 in Pavlodar. After graduating from High School, he worked as a driver at a sovkhoz. In November 1938 Sentyurin was drafted into the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941 he graduated from the Tambov Infantry School. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he was on its fronts. He was wounded twice in battles. By September 1943, Guards Major Vladimir Sentyurin commanded a Battalion of the 182nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 62nd Guards Rifle Division of the 37th Army of the Steppe Front. He distinguished himself during the battle for the Dnieper. On September 28, 1943, Sentyurin's Battalion crossed the Dnieper near the village of Kutsevolovka, Onufrievsky District, Kirovograd Region, Ukrainian SSR, and captured a foot strong on its western bank, after which it successfully held it, repelling seven German counterattacks. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 20, 1943, for "courage and heroism shown in the fight against the German invaders", Guards Major Vladimir Sentyurin was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal numbered 3527. After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1951, Sentyurin graduated from the Military Institute of the USSR Ministry of State Security, in 1961 - from the Military Academy of the General Staff. In June 1979, with the rank of Leiutenant General Sentyurin was transferred to the reserve. He lived in Moscow. He died on August 5, 1997, was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. He was an Honored Worker of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was also awarded the Orders of the Red Banner and the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Red Star and a number of medals.

Serov Ivan Ivanovich Ivan Serov was born in the village of Nikolskaya, Yaroslavl Region. After finishing seven grades of school, he moved to Aleksandrov, where he studied railway power engineering and started working at a local power plant. 19-year-old Ivan wanted to try himself in the military service, he was recruited and sent to Arkhangelsk. He was assigned to service the electric power equipment of the military district. In Arkhangelsk, Ivan met Valentina, a girl from the town of Kotlas. She had graduated from a medical school and then volunteered for military service. Having good hearing and excellent memory, she was quickly registered as a radio operator. The friendship of the young people did not last long. The attack of the fascist troops scattered them in different directions. Ivan was sent to the city of Kandalaksha on the Karelian Front, where there were battles with the Finnish army. The approach of the enemy to Moscow forced the command to transfer additional forces to defend the capital. So Ivan Serov was in the ranks of the defenders of Moscow. Together with his fellow soldiers he repelled enemy night raids, extinguished numerous fires, and ran along the roofs of buildings, clearing them of dropped land mines and bombs. After the defeat of the German troops near Moscow Ivan remained in the capital. He was sent to the 1st Red Banner Military Aviation school of Communications. After graduation he was promoted to second Lieutenant and sent to the 2nd Belorussian Front. Ivan was appointed head of the radio station in the 4th air army. The main task was to maintain communication with all aircrafts of the air forces. Air battles were won by Soviet aircrafts often. Thus Belarus was liberated and the expulsion of the fascist troops from Poland began. New employees appeared in the staff of Ivan Serov's subordinates. Among them there was a girl Valya from the city of Kotlas. It ended with a wedding that was played in a small German city. Ivan met the end of the war 100 km away from Berlin. In September of 1945 Ivan was given a vacation, he came with his wife Valentina to the city of Kotlas, where he received an offer to get a job on the railway. He stayed in Kotlas and spent 40 years working for the railway. He worked as the head of power supply. Valentina devoted herself to pedagogy and worked as a head of kindergartens for many years. Ivan Ivanovich Serov died in 2014, he was 92 years old. He has three children, 5 grandchildren, and 9 great-grandchildren.

Tyryshkin Alexander Nikandrovich Rank: Lieutenant. Branch of service: Land Forces, Air Forces (except for Marine Aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD, border troops. Unit: 126th rifle division (of the 1st formation). The article "One day of war "was published in the newspaper" Star of Altai " on April 5, 1975, from the words of my grandfather Alexander Tyryshkin Nikandrovich: June of 1944. Mogilyov area. Coming out swamp our battalion stopped for a rest. Some soldiers befixing their weapons, some smoked, many people struggled against drowsiness after a sleepless night. Suddenly, automatic rifle fire rose behind a nearby hillock. Everyone jumpt to his feet. A strange soldier in a colorful camouflage coat ran up to us holding a machine gun. He reported to the battalion commander: "A divisional recon group has been attacked. Not many of us survived. The Germans are sending reinforcements. We can't do it alone." The battalion commander ordered me, the commander of a platoon of submachine gunners, to help the recons. We went down the ravine, then saw a strip of rye and the Nazis behind it. We formed a line and charged on ahead. The recons jont us. The stunned fascists ran away. But only two managed to escape alive. Submachine gunner Tsygankov even gritted his teeth in annoyance: «Bad shooting!» We picked up the spoils and returned to the battalion's location. The battalion commander thanked the soldiers for their courage. And again we started on our way – to Mogilev. The sun was already at its Zenith. The villages of Bolshiye and Maliye Vasilky appeared ahead. They were located on the hills. Between them there was a hollow. There was a small shed in it and a willow bush nearby. Nothing else. The rest of the area was well viewed. Commander captain Bogoslovsky gave the order to conduct reconnaissance. But the Germans opened machine-gun and mortar fire as soon as they saw us. The platoon lay down and immediately rushed forward again. In the middle of the valley we lay again under heavy enemy’s fire. The platoon's chain thinned noticeably. Only one of three machine-gunners Tsygankov fired. Then our bombers appeared in the sky, turned around and began to bomb the front line of the enemy's defense, which was near gardens. Our artillery also started firing. In the roar of explosions the village went up in flames. The Germans were rushing around it not knowing where to hide. From the direction of Maliye Vasilki came four our tanks “T-34”. The artillery moved fire deep into the enemy's defense, and at the signal of the red rocket we rushed to the attack. Suddenly an enemy mine exploded in front of me. One of the fragments broke the helmet and wounded my head. I fell unconscious. I regained consciousness in the evening. Nearby, in a crater, lay a familiar recon – one of those whom we rescued in the morning. He smiled with difficulty: "I have bandaged you. Revenue for revenue". And he can't even move his hand – he was exhausted. Field hospital. A soldier entered the room. He was from a nearby company. He was the one who told how the fight for the Bolshiye Vasilky ended. Submachine gunner Tsygankov distinguished again. After I was wounded he took command. True, there were only twelve men left in the platoon, but they, like everyone else, continued to attack. Tsygankov and his submachine gunners ran towards a large house on the outskirts of the village, while running they fired their light submachine guns. Tsygankov ran out of ammo and took the machine gun slung on his back. He noticed three fascists running towards the bushes that were visible behind the village. One of them was carrying a long bundle. This seemed very suspicious to Tsygankov. And he took aim and fired a long burst at them. All three fell down. But the one with the bundle was alive. Tsygankov jumped up to him, kicked out the machine gun, and tore the bundle. However, the Hitlerite was not weak. A struggle ensued. Other soldiers could noot help Tsygankov – the machine gunners were fighting the house with a fight. Then Tsygankov snatched the captured gun that the battalion commander had left for him as a gift in the morning, and killed the fascist. The bundle turned out to be a German banner. So, on the 23rd of July 23 in 1944 another regiment of the Hitler army ceased to exist. A few days later, many of my comrades-in-arms were awarded government awards for their fight. Tsygankov received the Order of the Red Banner. I don't know what happened later to my close friends – the submachine gunners – Tsygankov, Sanin, Krylov, Filippov and others. But the memory of them will live on in my heart. (Alexander Tyryshkin, former commander of a platoon of submachine gunners).

Savinov Ivan Vasilyevich Rank: Lieutenant. Branch of service: Land Forces, Air Forces (except for Marine Aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD, border troops. Ivan Vasilyevich considered himself to be a lucky man. To confirm that he usually recalled an incident from his youth. Ivan Vasilyevich graduated from a high school in 1941. On June 21 the graduation party was held, and the next day the war began. The boys ran to the military enlistment office to sign up for the front. An echelon of volunteers was formed. Savinov was not accepted into this echelon. They told him: «Wait for the next one!» Vanya was embarrassed, but belived that the military Commissar knew better. That train, in which he was supposed to go, the Germans bombed. Almost all the "passengers" were killed. Savinov had a mystical feeling: "God saved! him» He was lucky. He did not fall into the fiery military Inferno immediately , but into the school of communications of the Central Asian military district, based in Tashkent. Ivan Vasilyevich was drafted into the Red Army in November of 1941, served in the 552nd airfield service battalion, in the communications company as head of the military Telegraph station in the Central Asian military district, and from June of 1943 to May of 1945 participated in battles as part of the Central and 1st Belorussian Fronts. He studied and received the rank of Lieutenant. Being the commander of a communications company he got to the front in 1943, when the liberation of Belarus had already begun. As head of the Telegraph station, Ivan Vasilyevich participated in the battles of Minsk, Warsaw, and Berlin. In 1945, for a personal feat, the head of the Telegraph station of the 552nd airfield service battalion, Senior Sergeant of the technical service Savinov Ivan Vasilyevich, was awarded the medal "For military merit": "At first, the service of combat air regiments, the Telegraph station, despite its workload under the leadership of comrade Savinova and his personal duty as a Telegraph operator, coped with the work perfectly. Despite bad weather or his fatigue, he personally eliminated the Telegraph line burst twice, once at a distance of 800 meters in 5 minutes, and another time at a distance of 1.5 km in 10 minutes. The Telegraph service at the Kreising airfield was not activated, comrade Savinov, on his own initiative, without waiting for the order of the commander, began to direct the Telegraph lines. At the same time, comrade Savinov showed skill, perseverance and endurance. For lack of means of traction comrade Savinov personally brought the cable, unwound it 10-11 kg a day. As the result, the staff pf the 552nd BAO had a smooth and timely telephone communication with headquarters, which allowed a clear and rapid work management of staff leadership". After the end of the war, he served in the Northern group of troops in Poland, in the Belarusian and Volga military districts. In February of 1948 he was discharged from the army. Awarded the following medals: " For military merit».

Taurin Timofey Alekseevich Born in 1901. Drafted in Ruzaevsky RVC. Red army soldier-shooter of the 45th division of the ski brigade. Was lost in a battle near village Glinino of Slobodsky district of Smolensk region. Buried: Ruzaevsky district, village Arch-Golitsino, civil cemetery. For 70 long years, the family of Timofey Alekseyevich Taurin from the Ruzaevsky district did not know anything about the his fate. All these years, he was considered to be missing, as they were informed in 1943. Timofey's wife, Ekaterina Taurina, did not believe until her death that her husband was missing without leaving any news. She kept hoping that one day the door would open and her beloved husband, the father of her four children, would enter the house. In November 2012, the search team of Demidovsky district of Smolensk region, conducting search operations on the site of the abandoned village of Glinino, found the remains of two Red army soldiers lying almost on the surface of the earth-at a depth of only 10 centimeters. The soldiers lay so close to each other that it was impossible to separate them . Under one of the soldiers, search engines found a death medallion, which was poorly preserved, but still had readable inscriptions. Having deciphered them, search engines found out that the remains of one of the soldiers belong to a Red army soldier from Mordovia, a native of the village of Zinovka (now it doesn’t exist) Ruzaevsky district Timofey Alekseevich Taurin, born in 1901. Smolensk search engines contacted colleagues from Mordovia. According to the memorial archive database, the Red army soldier Taurin served in the 2nd Separate Army Rifle Battalion of the 4th shock Army of the Kalinin front. He went missing on July 28, 1942 in a battle, liberating the village of Glinino in the Smolensk region. Members of the archive search group "Armor" found the soldier's relatives. It turned out that his three daughters have been still alive, two of them continued living in their native area, there have been 7 grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and the soldier's great-great-grandchildren have already been born. No much information about Timothy's life has been preserved to this day. It is known that he was born in the village of Zimovka of Ruzaevskiy district in a large family that had seven children. His parents worked all their lives on the land, Timofey himself worked as a stable boy. He was illiterate. He was called to the front in 1942. Before being sent to war, he was allowed to go home for a few hours to see his wife, three daughters, and one-year-old son Viktor. On the same last day that he spent with his family, the only photo that has survived to this day was taken, in which he is sitting surrounded by his wife, sister and children. On July 15, 2013, the remains of a Soviet soldier Timofey Alekseyevich Taurin, who went missing 70 years ago, were buried in the village of Arkh-Golitsyno in the Ruzaevsky district.

Serebryakov Nikolai Gennadievich Type of troops: coastal defense and air defense Artillery, coastal units, Aviation of the Red Army and Marine Forces of the NKVD border troops. Born in 1897 near Kostroma. In 1915, he was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army. He supported the October revolution and in February of 1918 was enlisted in the Red Army. In 1919 he volunteered for the 1st partisan detachment of the 1st Ukrainian Insurgent Regiment named after Hetman Ivan Bogun, fighting first with German interventionists, and then with the White Army. Under the command of another Bogun-commander of the 4th Air Defense division N. A. Bogun he was to serve at the beginning of the Great Patriotic war. Since 1925 he was a member of the Communist party. In 1925-1927 he attended the Kiev Higher Combined school of commanders of the Red Army named after S. S. Kamenev (later-the Kiev Higher Combined Arms Command twice Red Sanner school named after M. V. Frunze). After completing the course he was appointed a platoon commander of the light artillery regiment of the 1st Caucasian Rifle Division in Kutaisi. In the following years he served in various positions in the artillery and air defense. In 1938 Captain Serebryakov was awarded the medal "XX years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" - the first medal established in the USSR. He met the war at the age of 44 with the rank of Major. He participated in the defense of Moscow in December 1941 and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. In 1942 he was the chief of artillery of the 4th Air Defense Division on the Stalingrad front. He was appointed commander of all ground-based air defense systems in the city of Kalach-on-Don in the outskirts of Stalingrad. In total, during the period from March 31 to August 8, 1942, units of the 4th division shot down 68 and hit 17 enemy aircrafts in battles. He served under the commander of the Soviet Air Defense Forces Mikhail Stepanovich Gromadin, with whom he studied at the Kiev Higher School of Commanders. In December 1943, Lieutenant Colonel Serebryakov was appointed commander of the 1569th anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 84th Division, and was wounded in 1944. Six-month air defense courses for recruits of the 1569th regiment were organized in Astrakhan. The regiment was a part of the active Army until July 31, 1944, and then was stationed in the forests of Belarus. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 1, 1944 Nikolai G. Serebryakov was awarded the medal "For defense of Caucasus", by the decree of 9 may 1945 - the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". For military distinction and impeccable service in the Soviet Army awarded the Order of Lenin and Order of the Red Banner. After the war, he headed the Air Defense Range in Vladimir region. In 1949 he moved to the Urals and worked at the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute. He died in 1958 and was buried in Chelyabinsk.

Solovykh Pyotr Ivanovich Born in the Oryol region, Bolhovsky district, Zaretsky village. Participant of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Rank: Sergeant. Branch of service: Artillery. Division: 94th Guards Rifle Zvenigorod-Berlin division of the Order of Suvorov. My great – GRANDFATHER — the knight of TWO ORDERS of GLORY. He lived the glorious life. My great-grandfather, Peter Ivanovich Solovykh. We owe our lives and happiness to warriors like him, true heroes. The greatest soldier's feat during the Great Patriotic War was awarded three Orders of Glory. My great-grandfather was a knight of two Orders of Glory. Unfortunately, I didn't have much contact with Pyotr Ivanovich. But I know about this heroic man from my grandfather and my parents. I am absolutely sure that my children will know this family history and will be proud of their ancestor. Pyotr Ivanovich Solovykh was born on January 19, 1918 in the village of Zaretskoye, Bolkhovsky district, Oryol region. For me, there is nothing more interesting than his memories, on the basis of which I will build my story. Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic war in 1938, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Red Army, served in the Far East in the 129th Special Rifle Division of the NKVD in the railway battalion. In the spring of 1941, the division was transferred to Belarus on the border with Poland. My great-grandfather was present at the front of the Great Patriotic war from the very first day - from June 22, 1941. He was the commander of the anti-tank rifle squadn. "I remember June 22, 1941. Our military unit was located in Lida, in Western Belarus. It was a Sunday afternoon, suddenly there was an alarm. In a hurry, they received additional ammunition and took up the defense. Most did not believe that the war had started, they thoughthtere were usual training sessions. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, planes appeared in the air, they flew in our direction. Some soldiers said they were ours, while others said they were enemy's. But when 24 planes with swastikas on Board, having reached our location, began dropping bombs and low-level scribbling from heavy machine guns, it became clear to everyone that, indeed, the war had begun." The enemy had a great superiority, both in the number of troops, and in the level of technical and material support. The order to retreat was received. Pyotr Ivanovich and his comrades had to leave Minsk. Then my great-grandfather was sent to the city of Sverdlovsk to restore the evacuated factories, then in the spring of 1942 he was enrolled in the Kamyshlov infantry school, and in August a 24-year-old young soldier was sent to replenish a special rifle brigade. He participated in one of the greatest and most fateful battles – the battle of Stalingrad. "In September 1942, our brigade arrived at Stalingrad. We immediately entered the battle. The earth and sky seemed to burn, shuddering from the endless blows of the guns. Huge tanks with crosses on their armor were moving towards us, and the breath of death was felt everywhere. But there was an order to stand to the death, and we stood! Everyone had only one word in his head: "Not a step back – there is no land beyond the Volga! So many times the enemy attacked our defense, trying to overturn the Volga, but nothing happened. There was no limit to the patriotism of our soldiers and officers and hatred of the enemy. The wounded did not leave the battlefield, fighting to the last strength. After some time, our ranks were replenished, and we began the offensive." In the early morning of November 19, 1942, Soviet troops launched a General offensive as the part of the operation «Uranus». "The artillery thundered, «Katyushas’s shells fl»ew, tanks moved, and aircraft operated well. On February 2, 1943, the Stalingrad group of Germans capitulated. 330,000 of them surrendered, it was a joyous day. The prisoners were already marching in columns. I saw how the commander of the 6th army, field Marshal Paulus, and his staff were transported in 3 cars. I did not console myself with the hope that death would pass me by in the future. And Berlin was still 828 days away. My comrades and I still saw death in the face at Belgorod, at the Kursk bulge, at Kharkov, when crossing the Dnieper, Dniester, Vistula, Oder, and Elbe. But on February 2, 1943, in Stalingrad, we were already filled with the smell of victorious silence." My great-grandfather was awarded the medal for the defense of Stalingrad for his courage and heroism in the battle of Stalingrad. After the battle of Stalingrad, Peter Ivanovich had a chance to participate in the battles on the Orel-Kursk bulge. "Our unit was transferred from Stalingrad to Stary Oskol in the Kursk region. There we received new weapons, replenishment. I was appointed commander of a 122 mm howitzer." "I will always remember the night of the 5th of July, 1943," he remembered. "They put us on alert. The task was to close the way for the Nazis in the defense zone of the village Sevryukovo-height 206.9-the village Myasoedovo. The distance was only a few kilometers, but, as it turned out, the density of fire was almost the most dangerous part of the first days of the battle on the Fire Arc. In the evening our battery was moved to reserve positions. They had just turned around when the German tank attack began. On our battery was the Deputy commander of the regiment, major Oryabinsky. I remember, he said, "Well, Stalingrad soldiers, don't let us down". In this attack, the Germans missed 6 tanks and disappeared into woods. We lost a whole team of 7 people, a gun and a tractor. On the battlefield were left mutilated, torches burning Nazi tanks. A few days later, there were so many of them that they made it difficult to fire direct fire. On the first day of the battle of Oryol-Kursk, my gun knocked out three German tanks, for which I was awarded the Order of the Red Star and accepted into the Communist party in the dugout." The award list, signed by the commander of the guards regiment, Captain Yemelyanikov, stated that "Solovykh, during the battle in the Belgorod direction of the village of Myasoedovo from July 7 to July 14, 1943, as a part of the calculation, repulsed two tank attacks... As a result, 20 vehicles, 4 tanks and up to a company of enemy infantry were destroyed." "On the shield of my gun appeared 3 red stars, indicating the number of damaged tanks." Pyotr Ivanovich took part in the liberation of Belgorod. He remembered how on the evening of August 5, 1943, in the destroyed Belgorod, the soldiers listened to the order Of the Supreme commander-in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet Union I. V. Stalin, congratulations and thanks for the defeat of the Germans on the Kursk bulge and the liberation of the city of Belgorod. His further front-line path lay through the Ukraine. Pyotr Ivanovich was awarded the medal "For the liberation of Kharkiv". After liberating the Eastern regions of the Ukraine, Soviet troops approached the Dnieper. Pyotr Ivanov was in a variety of situations that required the utmost mobilization of volitional and physical efforts. We also had to visit the surrounding area: "Our 94th division continued its way through the Right-Bank Ukraine. I remember that in the area of Zvenigorodka, Kiev region, the division broke through the German defense, rushed forward, without receiving the support of the neighboring division, and we were surrounded. The situation was difficult. The enemy pressed in from all sides. There was little ammunition left. The command gathered us, the asset, and proposed an exit plan. In the darkness, units began to break out of the encirclement. Under enemys’ fire, they came out of the fire bag." My great-grandfather also participated in the defeat of the Korsun-Shevchenko group. In this battle, the Germans lost tens of thousands of soldiers and officers killed and captured. According to his memoirs , "all roads were cluttered with abandoned equipment." In the spring of 1944, Peter Ivanovich, along with his comrades in the calculation of the guns, crossed the Dniester, and secured a foothold on the Right Bank. And the war was slowly but steadily rolling back to the West. In August 1944, the 199th Guards Artillery Regiment fought on the outskirts of Chisinau. By 23 hours on August 23, the fighting was already in the center of the city, and by the morning of August 24, 1944, the city was taken. "The first shot at Kishinev was fired from our cannon," my great - grandfather proudly recalled. "I remember entering Kishinev in the early morning of August. Moldovans threw flowers at us, treated us to wine and fruit, and hugged us." For the liberation of Kishenev guards senior Sergeant Solovov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd class. In the award list, signed by the commander of the 199th Guards Artillery Regiment of the guards, Lieutenant Colonel Zherebtsov, it was noted: "On the 23rd of August, 1944, Solovov was the first to roll out his gun on direct fire, set it at a distance of 400 meters from the enemy infantry and opened fire on the enemy. As a result, two machine-gun points were destroyed, the fire of an artillery battery was suppressed, and 20 Hitlerites were destroyed. This made it possible for our infantry to break into the city of Kishenev." In November 1944, Peter Ivanovich and his comrades were transferred to the Vistula. Developing the offensive, the division's regiments reached the tributary of the Vistula — the Pilica. Senior Sergeant Pyotr Ivanovich was awarded the second order of Glory of the guard for his exploits committed in January 1945 in Poland. On January 14, 1945, when the enemy's heavily fortified defenses broke through at the Magnuszeski bridgehead near the village of Grabuv Pilica, " ... his gun destroyed a submachine gun and up to two enemy infantry squads. From the Eastern Bank of the Pilitsa river, direct fire supported the crossing of the river, while one enemy submachine gun was destroyed and two armored personnel carriers were suppressed as part of other guns. By his actions, Solovykh contributed to the seizure of a bridgehead on the Western Bank of the river Pilica". Pyotr Ivanovich also said that while attacking the Nazis outside the territory of the USSR, the tactics of fighting changed. "At night, the guns were pulled up to the closest distance on their hands. Each gun was assigned one or two targets, and in the morning, unexpectedly for the enemy, direct fire smashed its defenses to pieces." So Peter Ivanovich participated in the liberation of Warsaw. "In February 1945, our division approached the Oder, immediately crossed this navigable large river and secured a foothold near the city of Kustrin. Crossing the Oder was very difficult. Under heavy enemy fire, soldiers laid planks on the ice, rolled guns on their hands, and brought shells to the soldiers in bags. Across the Oder, Soviet sappers were building crossings, building bridges with the expectation of passing heavy guns and tanks-the last blow to the lair of fascism was being prepared." On February 3, 1945, the 199th Guards Artillery Regiment, in which Peter Ivanovich served, crossed the Oder. The rest of the way lay to Berlin. On April 19, 1945, in the area of the German city of Neudorf, the Nazis did everything to gain a foothold on the third line of defense of their capital, Berlin. In the afternoon, the SS broke through the location of the Soviet troops on the right flank. "We immediately occupied the first trench. The enemy unleashed a barrage of fire on us. The whole earth seemed to be boiling, but we were rushing forward. And then I was wounded." The Victory day found Pyotr Ivanovich in a hospital in the city of Lansberg, which was located near Berlin. He said often that he was very sorry that he did not enter Berlin with our troops, and met the Victory in the hospital: "That night there was indiscriminate shooting – our soldiers saluted with all types of weapons in honor of the great Victory over fascism. We thought: "The hospital was attacked by the Germans." Crawled out, as we could, to try to defendoccupy… And this war was over… The long-awaited Victory." After recovering, Pyotr Ivanovich found his military unit in Berlin. He learned that his gun with 7 red stars on the shield, destroyed the enemys’ shell, which landed right in the calculation and took the lives of four of his comrades. The Great Patriotic war of the soldier Peter Solovykh counted kilometers in the battles of Stalingrad and Kursk, lay under a hail of bullets in Ukraine, Moldova and Poland, clung to every inch of land when crossing the Oder and was shot through on the outskirts of Berlin. My great-grandfather fought like a true hero. During the war, he was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, Orders of Glory of II and III classes, the Great Patriotic War of I class, medals "For the defense of Stalingrad", "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany" and other awards. Peter Ivanovich was discharged in 1945. After the war, he lived in Bolkhov. Worked as a carpenter in the construction and installation Department, senior inspector of the state fire supervision in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Bolkhovsky". Speaking at a meeting in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory on may 9, 1985, Pyotr Ivanovich remembered: "I walked the roads of war from the first day to the last day. As a part of the legendary 5th Army under the command of General Berzarin, I crossed the Vistula river and liberated Warsaw. With fights passed Pomerania, crossed the Oder, in heavy battles with the enemy held a bridgehead under the city of Kustrin, from where Berlin was only 60 kilometers away. At the very beginning of the assault on Berlin, I was wounded and sent to the hospital, where I found the joyful news of our Victory." I also remember my great-grandfather saying that people ask him often about the most memorable day of the war. "Which day was it? When? It's not hard for me to choose. Yes, I say, I know this day. This is the day of the great Stalingrad victory! - February 2, 1943. Stalingrad is our pride and glory!" My great-grandfather had many awards, he valued each one, but the most expensive front-line award for him was the medal "For the defense of Stalingrad". Pyotr Ivanovich died on October 4, 2012, at the age of 94. On September 11, 2013, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where P. I. solovykh lived in Bolkhov. My great-grandfather's fate is similar to that of thousands of his contemporaries, and we all owe them an irrevocable debt for the Victory won at the cost of irreparable losses. My great-grandfather's name, along with the names of other orlovtsy, is mentioned in the books of local historians dedicated to the holders of the Orders of Glory. I'm proud of my great-grandfather! If I have a son in the future, I will call him Peter. Kirill Korgin, grade 6, 12 years old Municipal budget educational institution-Lyceum No. 18, Orel

Sukhoi Grigory Lavrentievich My great-grandfather Sukhoi Grigory Lavrentievich was born in a family of Cossacks. In 1943, he was drafted into the army by the Petrovsky RVC. Stavropol territory. He served in the 22nd Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 5th Division. From my great-grandmother's memories: "He didn't talk much about the war." So, I know for sure that it was a very scary time. Barefoot, cold, hungry, they went to fight, knowing that their homeland was behind them. My great-grandfather was a very brave, courageous and determined man. In 1944, in a battle, replacing the killed gunner of an anti-tank gun and personally destroyed the enemy's firing point and knocked out two transporters, while 7 German soldiers were killed and was worthy of the Government award of the Order of Glory of III class. In 1945, despite the threat to his personal life, he promptly provided ammunition and stuffing disks for submachine guns. In the same battle, he acted boldly and decisively at the same time destroyed 15 Hitlerites and suppressed the enemy's firing point. For this, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And I am proud and surprised by this feat. On February 28, 1945, my brave great-grandfather, risking his life and despite heavy enemy fire, crawled up to the German Bunker, threw grenades and completely destroyed the enemy. He was wounded several times, but after recovering, he returned to the regiment. I was very touched by the story of how he met his elder brother Lukyan Lavrentievich in the fight for the liberation of Konigsberg. There they decided that they would meet after the fight, but, unfortunately, it was their last meeting. Lukyan Lavrentievich was declared missing and till this day we haven’t known anything about him. My great-grandfather lived a very short life and died at the age of 56. It was a difficult but happy life. His family name is proudly borne by his sons and daughters. Great-grandchildren and grandchildren, thanks to the feat of soldiers, live happily. I am very happy and proud to have a piece of my great-grandfather in me. We will always be grateful to him for our freedom and peace. Our family has a tradition. Every year on May 9, we all gather at the monument to our grandfather to worship him for his heroism. Eternal memory to the heroes!