Heroes and feats

Sandzhieva (Kolechits) Leocadia ALeksandrovna Leokadia Alexandrovna was born on January 22, 1925 in the village of Bobrovka in Dzerzhinsk district of Minsk region in Belarus. Her maiden name was Kolechits. The family was ordinary, from an early age she had to do hard peasant labor. Before the war, she studied at school in Vitebsk, where she lived with a family of her relatives. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the entire territory of the Belarusian SSR was occupied by German troops. The invaders also came to the village of Kolodishchi in Minsk region, where the family of Leokadia Alexandrovna lived at that time. She had to go through a lot then – bombing, hunger, cold and all the hardships of the German occupation. Fleeing from the Germans and from being hijacked to Germany, people went to the partisan detachments as whole families. So, Leokadia Alexandrovna, along with her parents and younger brother, got into the partisan detachment "Hurricane", which was part of the partisan brigade "For Soviet Belarus" and operated on the territory of the Minsk region until June 1944. Now in these places there is the international airport "Minsk". She was 17 years old at the time. The young partisan was a partisan liaison, went to the occupied villages, thanks to a good knowledge of the German language had to be a translator, miraculously managed to escape from the dungeons of the Gestapo. For her exploits during the war, L. A. Sanjieva was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second class and several medals. After the end of the war, Leokadia participated in the restoration of Minsk, which had been destroyed by the Nazis, in 1945. She entered preparatory courses of the Belarusian State University and graduated from the faculty of Philology of BSU in 1952. Since 1951, she worked as a teacher of the Belarusian language and literature at the Kolodishchenskaya secondary school in the Minsk region, and since 1954 - at the Minsk higher engineering anti-aircraft missile school. In Minsk, she met Nikita Amoldanovich Sanjiev, who was then working and studying there, married him, and in 1959 moved with him to Elista. While living in Kalmykia, from 1963 to 1969 she worked as an editor of the music broadcasting of the Kalmyk radio Committee. In November 1969, Leokadia Alexandrovna came to work at the Kalmyk state pedagogical Institute. She started as a laboratory assistant at the Department of pedagogy and psychology, gave a course of lectures at the faculty of Philology, for several years was the Executive Secretary of the admissions Committee, and in the mid-70s moved to the library of KSU, where she worked until retirement. In her memoirs, Bukina E. E., who worked in the 60-70s, is the head of the Department. of pedagogy and psychology, says that Leokadia Alexandrovna made a significant contribution to the work of the Department and always showed a sincere interest in its work. This is a rare kindness and responsiveness person. Nowadays she lives in Moscow. Before us there is an image of a kind and sympathetic woman. She looked like a very delicate, fragile creature who needed protection, but in those terrible war years, she had to defend her Homeland to save the lives of future generations. War is not a woman's business, but it largely determined the fate of Leokadia Alexandrovna, as well as many thousands of other girls. Again and again we repeat their names and say: "Thank you for Winning!"

Sirin Nikolay Ivanovich Title: Red army soldier Type of troops: Artillery Division: 44th Guards Rifle Baranovichi order of Lenin red banner order of Suvorov division I would like to tell you about Sirin Nikolai Ivanovich. This is my great-grandmother's cousin, my great-great-grandfather. When I was 7 years old, the whole family went to Khanty-Mansiysk. And the most vivid impression of this trip was that on a small alley dad showed me a bust of a man. On the column on which the bust was fixed, it was written "Sirin Nikolai Ivanovich 1922-1943". Later, my dad told me who my great-grandfather was. It seemed to me that it was destined, because Nikolai Ivanovich's birthday is May 9! During the great Patriotic war: Nikolai Ivanovich Sirinwas a rifleman of the 130th Guards Rifle Regiment, the Red Army soldier. He was born in the village of Berdyugina Yalutorovsk district of the Tyumen region in a peasant family. When his father died, he was 8 years old. The mother had 9 children to take care about. In 1931, Nikolai Sirin came with his uncle to the village of Keushki in the Oktyabrsky district. Here he graduated from 6 classes and started working. In 1934, the Sirens moved to the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, where Nikolai worked in the canteen of a fish cooperative, then as a senior foreman of the city bakery. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic war, Nicholas was baptized near Moscow as part of the Siberian division. Then, in the battles, Nikolai Ivanovich showed bravery and courage, for which he was later awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. That's all I learned from my relatives. But when I got on the Internet, I found a story about how my great-grandfather died:"The troops of the South-Western front with heavy fighting advanced to the West, pushing the fascist invaders. In the area of Krasnovka station in the Rostov region, the Nazis built a high rampart out of straw and snow, poured water on it and called it an "impregnable fortress". At dawn on January 15, 1943, the company of Lieutenant Likunov's guards, in which Nikolai Sirin served, went to attack the rampart. It was high and slippery, and there was nothing to hold on to. Soldiers cut their way through the ice with bayonets. The enemy started throwing grenades at the daredevils. This did not stop the advance of the guards. As a result, the shaft was taken, but at a very high price. Only 13 men were alive from the company. The guards took up a defensive position in three houses nearby and responded to each enemy attack with friendly fire. The fighters held these houses for a day. The Germans repeatedly offered to surrender, but the brave men replied: "the Guards do not surrender!» - and poured lead on the enemy. Then the fascists launched tanks at the brave men. Under the cover of armored vehicles was a company of submachine gunners. But the 13th guards stood, grenades repulsed the attack. The Nazis rolled up a machine gun and opened fire on the buildings at point-blank range. The guards suppressed the enemy's machine gun with a salvo. But two soldiers were killed in the attack. The Nazis set fire to the houses at the cost of heavy losses. But no one came out of the burning houses. The battle lasted as long as our soldiers did not come to an end of ammo. Then the daredevils tried to break through the encirclement with bayonets. Nikolai Sirin and Ivan Likunov jumped out of the burning houses first, shot the last bullets at the enemy from machine guns and rushed hand-to-hand. However, the forces were unequal, and the entire group died a brave death."He was buried in a mass grave at Krasnovka station. The bust of the Hero is installed in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk on the "Walk of fame", in Victory Park.* In Khanty-Mansiysk, a street is named after N. I. Sirin. Also in the city, his name was given to the school No. 6. , a street in the city of Yalutorovsk, Tyumen region, is also named after N. I. Sirin. Memorial plaque of the Hero, installed in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk, on Sirina street (No. 43), on the house where Nikolai Ivanovich lived. The Central Museum of the Armed Forces in Moscow has a stand "13 heroes of Krasnovka".· In the Rostov region, where Nikolai Ivanovich Sirin was buried in a mass grave at Krasnovka station, a monument to 13 Heroes was erected at the station platform. In the village school, a museum was opened in their honor.

Semeniuk Rodion Senofontovich In November 1940, R. S. Semenyuk was called up for active service. Rodion Ksenofontovich, Junior Sergeant, head of the ammunition depot of the 393rd Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery Division, fought in the Eastern Fort of the Kobrin fortification. At the end of March 1941, the division where Semenyuk served moved to the Brest fortress and was located in the Eastern Fort. The division had 12 76 mm guns and one four-barrel anti-aircraft machine gun. From 20 to 21 June 1941, the 2nd and 3rd batteries were sent to tactical training, while the 1st battery remained on guard. In the first minute of the war, a sentry guarding the warehouse was killed. They were still asleep when the guard ran into the room and shouted: "Battle alet!” Everyone ran out of the barracks, while explosions were already rumbling and the ground was shaking. With great difficulty, having lost many soldiers, the soldiers got to the guns and began to fire at enemy aircraft. Later, their firing point was opened and they were hit by a barrage of fire. they had to leave their guns for a while and take up defensive positions. At first there were about fifty of them, but after the bombing, many were missing. Gradually, there were infantrymen, border guards, and commanders from other units. Lieutenant Kolomiets organized the defense, Semenyuk opened a warehouse of ammunition. All commanders and soldiers were given ammunition, grenades, TT pistols and gas masks. Rodion reported to Kolomiyets that there was an anti-aircraft submachine gun in the warehouse. They pulled it out with a rope and set it up in the courtyard barracks. The soldiers quickly filled the tape, loaded, tested a twin-engine fascist plane, which was shot down. So they opened a battle account. One border guard shot from a quadruple machine gun, then, replacing each other, infantrymen and gunners. A single-barrelled anti-aircraft machine gun was scribbling from a small trench inside the ring yard. Two machine guns were also installed on the second floor of the barracks. Their battery commander, Senior Lieutenant Sergei Feodosievich Shramko, lived in the city. On the morning of the first day of the war, in full uniform, he arrived from the city from the East gate. Under his leadership, trenches were dug on the high rampart and the defense was taken up. On the night of June 24-25, Shramko received orders to mine the gates to our Fort. At this time, an artillery barrage began with such force that everything around trembled. Semenyuk and another fighter were wounded in the head, and Zaitsev was wounded in the face. Senior Lieutenant Shramko was killed. Their commander was buried in one of the passageways of the Eastern Fort. After a while, the comrades reported that tanks were moving towards the Fort. Several cars were blown up by our mines. The major thanked them for their skilful mining. The soldiers were assigned the task of removing enemy submachine gunners. As the soldiers crawled closer, the senior Lieutenant waved his hand, and everyone simultaneously threw eight grenades. As a result, four fascist soldiers (three corporal and one non-commissioned officer) were killed. The soldiers threw their corpses out of the trenches, and the trophies (four long-barreled light machine guns and boxes of ammunition) were tied to a telephone cable and dragged to their homes. For a long time, the soldiers mastered the device of German machine guns, but they still learned to shoot from them. The situation was getting worse. Especially tormented by the lack of water. The defenders repeatedly tried to dig wells in the casemates, but the water collected in them was not suitable for drinking, since there were stables nearby. In the first days there was still ice in the warehouse, but then it ran out, and it was very difficult to get water. Each sortie cost a lot of casualties, many soldiers never came back from these trips. They ate oats and various concentrates. Therefore, the forces of the defenders noticeably melted. On June 30, the Nazis launched an active offensive and soon broke into the casemates. At this time, Semeniuk, along with the villager Ivan Polarcom and marine Tarasov were in the casemate of the outer shaft. Folvarkov demanded to burn the banner of our unit, which Rodion, on the orders of Shramko, took out of the guard tent on the first day of the war. After a dispute with him, they decided to keep it after all. The banner was wrapped in a cover, placed in a canvas bucket, and lowered into a hole that had been dug. Then they closed it with a zinc bucket and leveled the hole, sprinkling it with garbage. As soon as this was done, the fascists jumped into the casemate; our soldiers took shelter in the gap, and they did not notice them. When the Germans, after a hasty search of the Fort, left, Major Gavrilov gave instructions that the remaining soldiers should take up the defense again. They managed to hold out for a few more days. But my strength ran out. Ammunition was running low, and there was no food. The soldiers decided to get out of the trap. It was necessary to cross the river Mukhavets. They looked last time in the direction, where the banner is hidden, and crawled. The Nazis, noticing them, opened fire. Shell-shocked, Rodion Ksenofontovich was captured. He made three unsuccessful escapes. He last escaped on January 25, 1945. Rodion Semenyuk was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. 2133 names of metallurgists who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic war are stamped on the cast-iron plates of the Memorial of military and labor glory of the Kuznetsk metallurgists, located on Victory square. The memorial has an exhibition "They were the first", dedicated to the metallurgical border guards, who in June 1941 were the first to take on the terrible blow of the enemy. Here is stored the front-line tunic of Rodion Semenyuk, under which then, in the Brest fortress, he hid the banner of his native division. There are two signs on the clothes - "Guardsman" and "Honorary border guard". Rodion Ksenofontovich Semenyuk gave more than a dozen years to the Kuznetsk metallurgical combine. From here I went on a well-deserved rest. Rodion Ksenofontovich - "Honorary Metallurgist". In 1992, after the death of his wife and later his only son, his relatives invited him to live in Leningrad.

Spirin Alexey Petrovich Born in 1925 in Abakan. He went to the front in 1942. After the first wound (he started the war as a driver of "polutorki"), he was assigned to the infantry, on the submachine gun "Maxim" and his partner was Volodya Kaplan. He remembered this story because my father had never met a man so incompatible with the war and so eager to fight the fascists. The fact is that Volodya, despite his young age, was already a champion in 100-cell checkers and chess, the Nazis shot his relatives, so by hook or by crook he got to the front. In one battle, their firing point was on a sloping field, and when the flanks retreated they could not be warned in time and were caught in the crossfire from the flanks. Then they noticed that they were being waved away from the forest. But it was not easy for Volodya to crawl like a Plastun on the hard stubble. His tender skin bled immediately, and he tried to move on all fours. He was shot in the back by submachine-gun fire. And my father took turns dragging the submachine gun and Volodya across the field. Volodya was sent to the hospital, and his father, after the reformation of the unit, was transferred as a driver to the Katyusha. And my father, sometimes remembering this episode, said it would be interesting to know news about Volodya. Once his son in Crimea in the mid-80's going on a hike, went to the kiosk to buy some newspapers for the fire. He was offered the “Komsomolskoye znamya” and he took about 10 newspapers. On the bus, he decided to look through it and, to his surprise, he found a large article on the page-memoirs of Vladimir Kaplan. There, he recalls the war and regrets that he can't find traces of his Savior Alyosha Spirin, mentioning that battle. The son sent his father several copies of the newspaper and advised him to write to the editorial office. So they were found after 40 years. Vladimir Kaplan lived in New York, in Brooklyn he had a chess school, a lot of books, he invited Alexey Petrovich to visit, but communication remained by correspondence, so both were already under 70 and both were injured.

Selezneva(Zhigulina) Anna Gavrilovna Anna Gavrilovna Zhigulina was born in 1920. She was a participant of the Great Patriotic war, served in the Artillery with the rank of Sergeant. On April 29, 1942, there was a mass conscription of girls for service, and great-grandmother Anya received a summons. Everyone at home was shocked and upset, but there was a war going on, and it was necessary to protect the motherland. My great-grandmother took a three-month course of signalmen in Nalchik, passed the exams, and, as often happened at that time, because of the student bench, 13 of the best girls were sent to the front. Among them were 4 residents of the city: my great-grandmother Zhigulina Anna Gavrilovna, Ivanova Nina Iosifovna, Lapina Valentina (she died in one of the first battles) and Maria (No one could remember her last name after the war. She died heroically in the battle for the tractor plant in Stalingrad). Great-grandmother Anya was immediately appointed senior radio and Telegraph operator of the regiment, she had good diction and hearing, and besides, she was the oldest of all the signalmen. "No words can convey the fear experienced from the first bombing," recalled Anna Gavrilovna, the explosions claimed the lives of three of her fellow graduates at once. It was a very heavy fighting for Stalingrad. The regiment approached the city from the North, participated in the battles at the “Barricady” factory, as well as in the assault on Mamayev Kurgan. It was also there, at "hill 102", where the communications company was located, where they were continuously bombed for two days, where only 200 out of 1200 people remained. The battle was so fierce that even the shape of the hill changed. Its slopes were plowed with bombs, shells, and mines. The soil mixed with shards of metal, and in winter the mound became mottled black, charred. But soon Anna got used to both bombing and military life. In January 1943 The red Army went on the offensive and liberated Stalingrad. After heavy fighting the regiment was sent for relocation in the city of Voronezh. Replenishment was recruited from residents of the South and the Stalingrad region and after a short rest was sent to the front. It is impossible to overestimate the importance of communication in the modern world, not like in war! Communication is like the human nervous system, which transmits orders from the brain to all parts of the body. Anya's grandmother had the call sign "Diamond", but she knew that to hear the order on the air, to transmit it in time, is more important than any precious stones.

Tkacheva ( Yakovleva) Anna (Nina) Nikiforovna My great-grandmother Tkacheva (Yakovleva) Nina Nikiforovna was born on 28.11.1923 in the village of Belaya Glina in the Beloglinsky district of Krasnodar Region, where she spent all her childhood and school years. After finishing 7 classes in 1939, she entered the civil registry office of the Beloglinsky district, where she met messages about the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. My grandmother repeatedly applied for voluntary enlistment in the active army and Navy, where three older brothers Ivan, Alexander, and Lavrenty were currently serving in the Red army (Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army), and my elder sister Anna was in the Navy. However, it was all to no avail, she was enlisted only in the local fighter battalion as a fighter. During the day time my great-grandmother worked in the national economy like all others, and at night with other girls and old men studied military science, weapons and ordinances, was on duty for critical and important facilities to prevent sabotage. In may 1942, on the Komsomol special draft, she was drafted into the Red army. Among 25 girls of the district she served in the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Searchlight Regiment of the Baku Air Defense Army, the Transcaucasian front, which was stationed near the city of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. In August 1944, my grandmother, like many other military personnel, joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and received a party ticket. During the battle for the Caucasus, parts of the Baku army repelled all attempts to break through the German – fascist aviation to break through to the "black gold" city of Baku and the oil industry facilities of the Absheron Peninsula from air raids. In March of 1945, when there were persistent battles on the outskirts of the lair of fascism in Berlin, her regiment was alerted at night and transferred by rail to the Far East . Where she took part in the war against militaristic Japan , where she met and celebrated the Victory Day over Nazi Germany (May 9, 1945), and soon the Victory Day over militaristic Japan in September 1945. From September 1945, she was a candidate for membership in the CPSU, and from January 1948 to August 1991, she was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union . In peacetime, she worked at the enterprises of the Maykop district and the district party Committee of the Maykop district. She retired in 1978, but continued to work until the age of 70. He was awarded orders and medals ; "For Valiant labor in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", "For Victory over Germany in World War II 1941-1945", "For Victory over Japan, 1945", "For defense of Caucasus", in time of peace commemorative medals ,order of the Patriotic war II class, and also in 1980 for many years of diligent work on behalf of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR medal "Veteran of Labor» . She was a veteran of the great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and a labor veteran.

Tyutlyaeva Eugeniya Sergeevna Rank: Corporal. Type of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops. At the end of 1943 Tyutlyaeva was just 17 years old. She was sent from Pereslavl district to culinary courses. In fact, she and 4 other girls were taken to the Kosterev military camps that trained antiaircrafters for antiaircraft armored trains. At the beginning of 1944, all five girls from Pereslavl district got on the 86th antiaircraft armored train, formed in Mytishchi. The armored train belonged the 2nd Belorussian Front. One of the most horrible memories of the war was the liberation of Belarus. While retreating, the Nazis destroyed everything on their way. They burnt villages and railway stations and poisoned water in wells. Hungry, dirty children ran up to the armored train and asked for bread. Soldiers gave them the last crumbs of bread. In Tyutlyaeva’s combat team there were three people: commander Kasarova Alexandra, antiaircraft gunner Tyutlyaeva Eugeniya (both girls were just eighteen years old) and loading Belarusian boy Nizovtsev Vladimir (he was just 16). When shelling started, the loader had to drag boxes with shells to the gun. But the boxs were so heavy that he did not have the strength to move them often, so girls, who were only a few years older than the loader, had to help. Then there was the liberation of Poland. Near Poznań the armored train was surrounded but, fortunately, Russian tanks approached the city from the North and broke through the encirclement. After Poland, they came to Germany. The armored train came very close to Berlin (further railway tracks were destroyed), the Reichstag was well visible. The victory was announced on May 8, but fights still continued. Only at the end of the summer they were let go back to their motherland. They got home on freight trains (the armored train and some of the officers remained in Germany) with great difficulties. It was very scaring. Tracks were undermined often, trains were attacked by Bandera’s bandits. They kept doors of their car opend, so they could jump out of the car any moment. When the train crossed the border between Poland and the USSR, the horn sounded. Soldiers jumped out of cars and kissed their nativeland.

Storozhenko Pavel Ilyich In March jf 1942 Pavel Ilyich Storozhenko volunteered for the Red Army. He was sent to the Military infantry school No. 3 in Ordzhonikidze (Vladikavkaz) in North Ossetia. The school trained future Lieutenant platoon commanders. Pavel Ilyich managed to study for only three months. In August, the entire issue was alerted and sent to the Stalingrad Front, where the situation was very difficult. "At first we were thrown to strengthen the defense," Pavel Ilyich said, and three days later we were all sent to the Rostov-on-don region. The first battle took place 30 kilometers from the city… It remains in the memory of every soldier for the rest of his life. In General, the fighting was very persistent, it was very difficult, but both soldiers and officers heroically held back the onslaught of the enemy." Pavel Ilyich continued his story: "I Remember this episode: here, near Rostov, we were first surrounded by the Germans, and yet several of our vehicles with people, or rather two, managed to escape from the encirclement, two companies remained in the ring. The next night the commander calls me to his office and gives me a combat mission: find our arby unit. I took a raincoat-tent, some food, a machine gun and a rifle and went to carry out the order. One day, quite unexpectedly, right on the road I almost fell into the hands of the Germans. A German soldier, hearing a rustle in the dark, listened and shouted: "Hende Hoch!» that is - "Hands up!" in English… I crawled back quickly… I crawled for a long time, almost all night, only at dawn I saw our cars… I went out on the road, raised my hand with a machine gun, one car passed by, the second stopped. I got to the headquarters, where I reported on the plight of the encircled ... The Next night, we went to their rescue: our comrades were saved." A few months later, Pavel Ilyich was wounded, so he did not have a chance to participate in the battles for Stalingrad, he was being treated in a military hospital in the city of Petrovsk, Saratov region. On November 13, 1942, he was declared unfit for active duty. And in February 1943, here, in Petrovsk, a new military unit was being formed, called the Separate Submachine-gun Battalion. After completing the formation procedure, the battalion was sent to the Leningrad Front. They crossed lake Ladoga directly into the so-called "blockade ring" and engaged Finnish troops. The soldier remembered how the road across lake Ladoga was built, it was unbearably difficult, it took a lot of people and equipment. But all that was required was done. In the heavy fighting of the red Army in 1943, they finally managed to break through the encirclement of the heroic city of Lenin. Pavel Ilyich Storozhenko was left to work in a repair shop, where minor repairs were made to machine guns, machine guns and other small arms. He worked in it until the end of the war. In November of 1946 Pavel Ilyich came home to his native village of Loboykovo, where he lived until the end of his days, worked in kolkhoz "Memory of Lenin", got married, built a house and raised a daughter. And here, in the village graveyard he found my rest. (Memoirs recorded by students of the Loboykovsky school in 1975) Veteran's Awards : Order of the Patriotic war II class (06.04.1985); medals: "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "20 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "30 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "40 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "50 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945", "Zhukov Medal" (1996), "60 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic war 1941-1945", 50 years to the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1968), "60 years to the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1978), "70 years to the Armed Forces of the USSR" (1988).

Tereshkin Sergei Nikitovich Title: My maternal great-grandfather TERESHKIN SERGEY NIKITOVICH (25/10/191829/12/1992) participated in the Great Patriotic war in 1942 on the South-Western, 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian Fronts. He was orn on October 25, 1918. Place of birth: Mordovskaya ASSR, Temnikovsky R-n, d. Ivanovka. Graduated after the 4th form. Before the war, he worked in Moscow in the NCO plant No. 358. In the He joined the Red in 1942. Place of call: Kuntsevo RVC. Rank: GV. private. Unit, division, position: 1) Unit #35, Air Defense platoon, gunner (December 1941-April 1942); 2) 101st Guards Rifle Regiment of the 35th Guards Rifle Division, gunner (April 1942-October 1945); 3) 63rd branch of the 26th SMERSH Rifle Company of the 8th Guards Army, gunner (October 1945 - may 1946). AWARDS: 6 medals, of which 2 - "For BRAVERY", 2 - "For MILITARY MERIT", 1- "For the VICTORY OVER GERMANY in the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR of 1941-1945", 1 - "For the LIBERATION of WARSAW"; "Order of the PATRIOTIC WAR II CLASS"; "ORDER of the RED STAR", as well as numerous commemorative medals, including: "20 YEARS of VICTORY IN the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945", "25 YEARS of VICTORY IN the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR", "30 YEARS of VICTORY IN the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945", "40 YEARS of VICTORY IN the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945", "60 YEARS of the USSR ARMED FORCES", "70 years of the ARMED FORCES of the USSR". During the war, there was one bullet wound through the left arm. Awarded thanks: 1) COMMENDATION by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin, dated 31.01.1945. No. 266 to the participant of the German border crossing and the invasion of the branderbur province; 2) GRATITUDE by order of the Supreme Commander-in-chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin of 23.04.1945 No. 339 for breaking through the heavily fortified, deeply echeloned enemy defenses, capturing the cities of Frankfurt am Oder, Vandlin, Oranienburg, Birkenwerder, Hennigsdorf, Pankov, Friedrichsfelde, Karlshorst, kepenik and invading the German capital Berlin 3) gratitude by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin, dated 02.05.1945, No. 359 For mastering the city of Berlin. Of orders on rewarding and supporting documents hereto 1) No. 18/n from: 30.09.1943 Published: 101 Guards Rifle Regiment 35 Lozova Guards Red Banner Rifle Division 6 army of the South-Western Front Medal "FOR MILITARY MERIT" "Liaison of the 5th infantry company of the 2nd infantry battalion of the guard of the red army Tereshkin Sergei Nikitovich for maintaining the uninterrupted communication of the commander with the battalion commander and the regiment under gun and submachine-gun fire and bombing by enemy aircraft, ensuring the orderly management of the fight for human settlements: Vinino, Braganca, Nastasyevka" (was wounded); 2) No. 53/n from: 11.09.1944 Issued: 101 Guards Rifle Regiment 35 Guards Rifle Lozovskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division 8 Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian front medal "for BRAVERY" "Tereshkin Sergei Nikitovich for the fact that he when crossing the Radomka river and capturing the village of mark shooting from personal weapons destroyed 2 German soldiers and 1 officer, and in during the attack on enemy positions suppressed enemy machine gun fire"; 3) No. 67/n from: 27.02.1945 issued: 101 Guards Rifle Regiment 35 Guards Rifle Lozovskaya Red Banner orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division 8 Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front medal "for BRAVERY" "For the fact that he was in the battle for the village of Bzhuza 15.01.45, breaking out among the first in the village, destroyed 3 German soldiers"; 4) No. 176/n from: 20.05.1945 published: 35th Guards Rifle Division "Order of the Red Star""28.04.45 given in battle during the storming of one of the strongly fortified houses of the 112 quarter of Berlin.Tereshkin, breaking into the house with grenades, destroyed the enemy's light submachine gun with its crew. 3 German soldiers and 6 Hitlerites were captured, which contributed to the successful capture of the house and the further advance of the company." Also on 10.01.1977 he was awarded the badge "WINNER of the SOCIALIST COMPETITION IN 1976". After the war, he worked as a loader, bricklayer, and carpenter at the Zlatoust metallurgical plant named after Stalin, a carpenter for the construction of houses for teachers, a bricklayer at Semiozerny SMU. Married to my great-grandmother Anastasia Tereshkina, they had 7 children: 2 sons and 5 daughters. So, my great-grandparents have 14 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren today. My great-grandfather died on 29.12.1992 at the age of 74. DESPITE THE FACT THAT I DID NOT FIND MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER DURING HIS LIFETIME, I AM VERY PROUD OF HIS FEAT AND THE FEAT OF ALL OUR PEOPLE! YOUR FEAT IS IMMORTAL! REMEMBER! LOVE! PROUD! Information provided by great-granddaughter Yulia Kruglova. Hear me from the depths of time, you are my native, my legendary great-grandfather! And from above, looking at the saved world, find yourself among other names. I am proud to join the Immortal regiment, because the memory of you is sacred to my heart, and to remember the feat of every soldier for the great-grandchildren of Victory is the highest duty! Let the people of my country stand in line, let the villages, cities, villages of their heroes remember their righteous faces, full of great dignity. So that their glory will survive the centuries, so that our children remember this, so that they know the price of that Holy Victory, join the ranks of the Immortal regiment!

Sorokin Maxim Lukyanovich Our motherland lost many sons and daughters during the Great Patriotic war. This war is not just a period of history, it is an unhealed wound. My great-grandfather Maxim Sorokin was a participant in the war and gave his life for our country. I am very sorry that I, his great-granddaughter, know little or nothing about him. I was told about great-grandfather, by my grandmother Lyubov Maksimovna Shabalova (her maiden name was Sorokina). I found information about my great-grandfather in the 2nd volume of the Book of Memory. Saratov region. 1994 issue p. 137: Sorokin Maxim Lukyanovich, b. d. Dubovaya. The petty officer went missing in February 1942. This book of Memory, which I held in my hands, is dedicated to the saratovites who died in the defense of the fatherland. This book is a national memory, a love for the fatherland. It contains the names of the fallen and lists of age-free losses. Flipping through its pages now, 70 years after the end of the war, we learn how many saratovites lie on the battlefields, died in concentration camps, died of wounds, went missing. I think there are a few people who don't find a single familiar name on these pages. When I told my grandmother a few years ago, when I was still in the 5th form, that I had found her father's name in this wonderful book, she was surprised and happy. After all, when he was taken to the front, my grandmother Lyuba was only 5 years old. She remembers well how the whole family accompanied her father to the village Council. From there, he and other villagers were sent on carts to Arkadak to the Assembly point. This was at the end of 1941. He waved them off. So it remained in her memory. My great-grandfather did not know about the birth of his daughter Valentina, who was born on May 12, 1942. My grandmother remembers that they were waiting for letters from my father. But in 1942, they received a notification that my father was missing. All through the war, they waited and believed that their father was alive, that he simply could not give a message about himself. My great-grandmother, his wife, Antonina Timofeevna worked hard. Raised 4 girls and 2 sons. They lived like everyone else, poor, hungry, cold. The war was one for all, and the trouble was one for all, it United. Funerals were also mourned by the whole village. I really want to find photos of my great-grandfather in my family albums. The further the war years go from us, the more we should appreciate the merit of the defenders of our homeland and home front workers. We owe our lives to them.

Slepov Vasily Nikitovich Vasily Slepov was born in 1922 in the village of Bolshoy Vyas, Luninsky district, Penza region. In the hot forty-first Vasily turned 19 years old. A young boy, then still did not fully know what war was, what to experience ahead.... His cousin, Nikolai, wept bitterly before being sent to the front, and Vasily calmed him down: "Well, brother, we don't have wifes or children. What should we cry about?" «You don't know how difficult it is in war, Vasya.» (Nicholas did not return from the war). Rookie Basil Slepov arrived in Celexa (now the village of Kizhevatovo). Here was the distribution point. Soldiers there received military uniforms and were immediately sent to the front. Among thousands of strangers suddenly a familiar voice: "Vasily! Slepov!» This was his school teacher Sergey Dmitrievich Yershov (he worked as a clerk). "You are my disciple, and immediately in hell – this will not happen! You will go first to school, you will gain the skills of a soldier's life.» The train was carrying recruits to the Far East. There, too, it was restless, the Japanese raised their heads. The food was poor on the road, and the journey was so long. In Khabarovsk, Vasily was taught to Shoe horses, handle a radio and weapons. Six months passed. The time of war did not stand still. On the way back to Europe the train was already carrying experienced fighters. War doesn't choose a profession. Vasily had to fight as a signalman. He was supposed to repair the wire that had been torn apart by the explosions connecting the front line and the command post. Vasily often recalled individual episodes of life in the war. Once he was assigned to guard the point. There was no shift for two days, which means two days without food, water, or sleep. Then they sent a replacement. Once near Voronezh, near the village of Olkhovatka, Vasily was assigned to stretch the wire to the desired object. Then an enemy mortar struck. But we must run. Shells explode from the right, then from the left. Young Vasily-yesterday's boy, runs from the explosion on the field, rushes to the right, then to the left. He prayed: "Our Father! Help!". He knew that God is the Trinity and that there is such a prayer as "Our Father". - My mother taught him as a child. His mother Matryona Platonovna was a gentle, kind woman. The entire war praying for the son of the Vasya and Stepan. What's about Vasily out there on the field? Got it! Still alive! The reel is empty, the task is completed. Vasily Nikitovich Slepov, a red army soldier, was awarded the Medal for Bravery. For fixing eleven wire damages under enemy fire near Alva city, the UK, 24 August 1944. Vasily Nikitovich participated in the liberation of Leningrad from the blockade. Before the attack, they stood kneeled deep in the swamp. Then the Germans opened fire. They couldn’t lie down-it was wet, and they couldn’tt put their rifles down. They just stood there. The shell exploded suddenly very close. Saved the quagmire, reduced the shock wave. He was drenched in muddy swamp slush. Stunned. His ear was bleeding. He wiped it on his sleeve and went on the offensive. He didn't hear it for three days, then it came back. Another medal was for the capture of Konigsberg. Red Army men were melted down on barges at night. The attack started suddenly for the Germans. They didn't even resist. Simply run. Dropping the weapon. I met the victory in Czechoslovakia. After the victory, he did not immediately return home. He served in the army for two more years. He reached his house only at night. They didn't recognize him. Rejoiced. Then it was life after the war: work, home, children, troubles and joys. He raised three children, three grandchildren, and now he is happy with three great-grandchildren. He is now 95 years old. He couldn't hear at all. It was the result of that explosion.

Innokenty Ilyich Tugarinov Rank: Corporal. Military Branch: Artillery. Innokenty Ilyich Tugarinov was born in February of 1920 (according to his passport 15.08.1920) in the village of Khuldat, Dzhidinsky district, in the family of a peasant. The family was large and friendly - 13 children. His childhood was difficult, the sweet delicacy, remembered from those distant times, was a cherry tree. There in Khuldat in 1931 he graduated from the school (2nd form). When Innokenty Ilyich was 11 years old, his father died, and the boy had to go to work in the city of Gorodok to earn food for his younger brothers and himself. In Zakamensk, he got a job as a stable boy at a base. He carried hay and wood for the construction of the city. In 1941, he was drafted into the army. He went to the Eastern Front in the 649th Rifle Regiment, where he served as a senior machine gunner. In the same year, he was transferred to the 138th Artillery Division. Later he became a senior telephone operator in the 25th Mechanized Brigade. From August to September 1945, he participated in the war against Japan. He was discharged in June 1946 from the 25th Rifle Regiment with the rank of corporal. He was awarded the medal "Veteran of labor", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd class, the medal" George Konstantinovich Zhukov", the medal “For theVictory over Japan", the order "Badge of honor". After the war, fellow soldier Kirillov Semyon called with him to Yakutia, but Innokenty returned home. At first, he worked as a prospector in an artel, and after passing exams, he began working as a driver. "I was lucky to get a new ZIL - 155 bus that took workers to Inkur," the veteran remembered. Back in 1946, he met his wife, Zinaida Georgievna Nazarova, who lived on Zarechnaya street, together with Innokenty Ilyich's mother. Here they had four children. And in 1957 they bought a house on Sportivnaya (Gorky) street. Until his retirement in 1970 and after, he worked as a driver of the 3rd class at the Dzhidinsky tungsten-molybdenum combine. He passed on his love for motor vehicles and cars to his sons, all three of whom work as drivers. And now the grandchildren have followed in their grandfather's footsteps. Innokenty Ilyich hopes that his great-grandchildren will not be able to do without the "iron horse"either. Innokenty Ilyich lived a difficult and interesting life. He lost his eldest son, Vladimir, and his beloved wife Zina, but he lived for his grandchildren and great-grandchildren (10 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren). At the age of 91, Innokenty Ilyich died (14.08.2011). Only one day he did not live to celebrate his birthday. We lost another witness of those hard times and a beloved father and grandfather. Many thanks to you, our heroes, for the fact that we live in a free and strong country, do not know and do not want war, for the fact that we enjoy every happy and peaceful day! Low bow to you and eternal memory!!!

Sayenko Maria Dmitrievna Maria Dmitrievna Saenko (02.02.1918-05.01.1977). Maria Dmitrievna was born on February 2, 1918 in the village of Uspenka in the Izhmorsky district of the West Siberian Territory (now Kemerovo region). During the collectivization of the 1930s, her family moved from Uspenka to the working village of Yaya. In 1936, Maria Dmitrievna got a job in the Yaysky District Office "Kuzbasslesprodtorg" for food and industrial supplies of the People's Commissariat of the Coal Industry of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a cook, then became an assistant cook, and in 1941 – head of production of canteen No. 1, where she worked until April 9, 1942. In 1938, she married Dmitry Maksimovich Saenko, and on February 4, 1939, she gave him a son, Yevgeny, and on October 28, 1941, a daughter, Raisa. With the beginning of the war, her husband was called to the front, so Maria Dmitrievna became a housewife. After the war, Maria Dmitrievna gave birth to three more daughters: Lydia was born on may 2, 1947; Tatiana was born on March 1, 1953; and Natalia was born on August 2, 1957. On January 15, 1959, she was awarded the "Motherhood medal ll class"by I.N. Zimin, the Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Maria Dmitrievna remained a housewife until 1970. In addition to housework, she did needlework, sewed clothes and knitted shawls for sale from down, which she specially went to Barabinsk (Novosibirsk region) and Liski (Rostov region). From December 30, 1970, she worked at the Yaysky Bakery first as a shop technician, then from may 1971 to February 1974 as a Baker. On January 3, 1974, at the age of 56, she retired due to old age. In November 1976, due to persistent headaches as a result of a bruise, an examination was conducted, during which doctors of the Kemerovo Regional hospital diagnosed a tumor in the head – after which an operation was performed to remove it. She died on January 5, 1977, at the age of 58. She was buried in the cemetery (near the railway station) in the working village of Yaya, Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation.

Andrey Andreevich Slukin Title: Red Army soldier. Branch of service: Land Forces, Air Forces (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the NKVD border troops. Division: 39th Guards Rifle Stalingrad-Barvenkovskaya ohfthe order of Lenin twice Red Banner of the order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky division. Andrey Slukin was born on September 22, 1925 in a peasant family in the village of Borinskoe. He went to the front as a volunteer at the age of 17, in October 1942. Participated in the Great Patriotic war from October 1942 to May 9, 1945. He served as a machine gunner. From July 1943 to December 1943 he defended his motherland in the 3rd Tank Chaplin-Budapest Red Banner brigade of the order of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky as a paratrooper. After being shot through the stomach on September 10, 1943, he was treated in a hospital in Alma-ATA until December 1943. After the hospital, from December 1943 to December 1944, he served in the 117th Rifle Regiment of the 39th Guards Rifle Division, formed from the 211st Airborne Brigade and the 1st Airborne Corps. The division from 20.01.1944 took part in the liberation of Ozarichi, 23.06.1944. in the offensive during the Bobruisk operation, advanced South of Bobruisk on Osipovichi, 27.06.1944 reached Osipovichi, participating in the consolidation of the encirclement ring around the Bobruisk enemy group, continued the offensive towards the Western border of the USSR, during the offensive participated in the liberation of Baranovichi (08.07.1944), Slonim (10.07.1944), Cheremkhi (20.07.1944). 05.09.1944, the division's advanced units crossed the river Narev, captured a bridgehead in the area of pultuska, fought on the bridgehead until January 1945. In these battles Slukin A. G. got a concussion and a blind bullet wound in the leg. After recovery, from December 1944 until the end of the war, he continued to serve in the 593rd Separate Sapper battalion of the 297th Rifle Slavic-Kirovograd Red Banner division of the order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. Andrey Slukin finished the war in Austria. As the party fighting for the conquest of the cities Hollabrunn and Stockerau – important communications centers and powerful strongholds of defense of the Germans (Austria) – order No. 367 from may 8, 1945 the Supreme Commander Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin connection, which served Slukin A. G., gratitude, and great fighting for the liberation of the named cities Slukin A. G. submitted to the state award – the Order of Glory III class. He was also awarded the medals "Hor the capture of Vienna"and" For the Victory over Germany". After the end of the war, Andrey Slukin spent the rest of his life working at the state farm "Borinsky" in various specialties from machine operator to Turner. For his valiant work, he was awarded regional certificates of commendation, medals and the Order of the Badge of Honor. A. G. Slukin died on November 10, 1996.

Saenko, Dmitry Maksimovich Dmitry Maksimovich Saenko was born on November 8, 1917, in the village of Novo-Nikolaevka in the Anzhero-Sudzhensky district of the West Siberian Territory. He worked served in the army in1927. Together with his younger brother Vasily he ran away from home to Lesopoval, where they began to live and work until 1930. At the same time, they graduated from the General Education school (primary school for working young people) in 1933. On July 5, he began working as a locomotive driver and ES (power plant) of the Azamovsky Fur forest Station until September 5, 1938. In September 1938, Dmitry was drafted into the Red Army (Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army) for active military service, from where he was demobilized in 1940 and returned to the working village of Yaya, Kemerovo region of the USSR. In 1940, on December 30, he was hired as a driver of a locomobile of Lespromkhoz No. 1 in The Department of the North Kuzbass correctional labor camp (ITL) of the MU (Sevkuzbasslag) in the village. Yaya (mailbox no. VG-391). In 1941, in September, he was called up to the front in connection with the beginning of the Second World War. In the period from 1941 to 1945, he fought on several fronts in the USSR and Europe. In 1942, in January, he was captured and sentenced to death in Babi Yar (a place in the North-Western part of Kiev, between the districts of Lukyanovka and Syrets). At the very last moment of execution, due to the sudden strong whistle of a shell that scared everyone, including the Germans, he managed to escape (after that, he could not stand the whistle all his life), but he did not manage to escape from the encirclement on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1943, after the liberation of Ukraine from fascist invaders by the Soviet Army continued to fight in 292 ASAD BOS RK CODF (Aeparate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the Coastal detachment Accompanying River Ships of the Red Banner Dnipro MilitaryFlotilla of the order of Ushakov of the 1st class) as a cook. In may 1945, he ended the war in Germany in the city of Furstenberg (Upper Havel district, Brandenburg). He was awarded orders and medals: Order of the Patriotic War II class (11.03.1985) medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Second World War (08.10.1945) Medal" For the liberation of Warsaw "January 17, 1945 (30.12.1945) medal" For the capture of Berlin " may 2, 1945 (30.12.1945), medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (21.02.1969), Medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (23.02.1979), medal "20 years of the Victory in the Second World War 1941-1945" (23.02.1979), medal "30 years of the Victory in the Second World War 1941-1945" (23.02.1979), medal "40 years of Victory in the Second World War 1941-1945" (5.05.1985), medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" (28.07.1988). On the 20th of July, 1946 he returned to work as a machinist in the locomobile forestry administration No. 1 labor camp Management. On the 20th of Dec 1954, transferred to the post of machinist Yaya garment factory in the Management of ITL. On September 1, 1958, he was transferred back to work at Lespromkhoz No. 1 in the management of the ITL, but was enlisted as a driver of a water pumping station, where in 1960 he was transferred to the position of a duty driver, which he worked until September 1962. 28 Sep 1962 accepted a job as a mechanic Yaya garment factory No. 81964, September 23, employed as a Stoker 2nd class steam economy Yaya lesoperevalochnaya station. 7 Jun 1965, transferred to mechanic 4 discharge power plant steam power agriculture, 1 March 1966, accepted a job as a mechanic at the Yaya Bakery. September 11, 1967 is employed as a fireman water boilers combine consumer services July 15, 1968, employed as a mechanic rank 1 tractor Yaya shop Central Repair-mechanical workshops, where in September 1968 he was promoted to the position of the coppersmith (welder) 1 discharge, and in December 1968 he began working as a mechanic 4th category, and in January 1969 coppersmith 4 digits of the engine compartment. On February 23, 1968, he was awarded a cash prize for good work. On June 3, 1971, he worked as a blacksmith and coppersmith of the 4th category (electric welder) SU-904 of the Tyumendorstroy Trust under the Glavdorstroy of the Ministry of Transport Construction of the USSR in Surgut. 28 March 1972 became a man (a welder) level 3 in Road-construction Department No. 1 Production Department of the Construction and operation of highways at the Council of Ministers Tuva, Kyzyl. On August 1, 1972, he became an electric welder of the 5th category at the motor Depot No. 92, Moscow. Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk national district, in October 1972 was transferred to the Repair and Mechanical Workshops by a hand-forged blacksmith of the 4th category, where in December he received the 6th category (highest). On May 9, 1972, he was awarded a valuable gift. On November 11, 1977, he retired upon reaching the retirement age (60 years) on June 3, 1978, he was employed as a machinist at the water pump station of the UN-1612/37 Department Of internal Affairs of the Executive Committee of the Kemerovo regional Council (Yaya village) 1978-1979-1980 from October to may (heating season), he worked as a Stoker at the Yaysky district combine. 1984-1988 every year from October to April, he worked as a Stoker of the Yaysky Heat Point (RTP)in 1986, on August 21, he was hired as a watchman at the Yaysky Grain receiving enterprise. Dmitry Maksimovich owned a motorcycle Ural IMZ-8.103.10 (with a sidecar), which he loved to go fishing (the Golden Kitat river) and to the forest to collect mushrooms, berries, pine cones (for winter preparations). Once I was in a serious accident when I hit a bus with my left foot. When the leg did not heal for a long time and began to rot, he went to Prokopyevsk, where he had an operation, putting one of the first devices of G. A. Ilizarov. Dmitry Maksimovich was also known for making the best felt boots in the region – white with a red pattern, they were called "chesanki", because the wool was scratched so that it became thin and soft after the rink. He died on June 25, 1990, at the age of 72 from a heart attack. He was buried in the cemetery (near the railway station) in the working village of Yaya, Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation.