Heroes and feats

Sedov Nikolay Gerasimovich Branch of service: Land Forces, Air Forces (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the NKVD border troops. My father, Nikolai Gerasimovich Sedov, was born on may 24, 1925 in the village of Efimovka, Volovsky district, Kursk region (now Lipetsk). The family had 10 children, two of whom died in early childhood. At the age of 11, my father became the oldest peasantman in his family, in the village. By this time, the two older brothers, after school, had already left to study and work. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic war, my father had completed eight forms of high school. After the rapid advance of the German army on the Soviet Union, in order not to be in the occupied territory, in late summer and early autumn, the whole family, with my mother, with my older and younger sisters, had to leave the front line to the East. After they settled in a new place, they had to survive. In the autumn of 1942, my father went back to school, in the 9th form, but did not have a chance to finish it. In December of 1942, at the age of 17, he received a summons to the front. After passing the training unit, in June of 1943, he got to serve in the 7th Separate Guards Airborne Brigade. As part of his unit, with the rank of solier, he participated in the liberation of the occupied territory of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Participated in the liberation of Vienna. From May 5 to May 11 1945, as part of the troops of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, he took part in the Prague offensive. He heard about the end of the war on May 12, 1945. He rarely talked about the war. During the war, he did not have a single wound, was shell-shocked, as a result of which in the 60s he was almost deaf. Medicine helped to restore hearing, but not completely. After the war, he served in military service until 1948. From 1948 to 1950, he studied at the artillery school in Engels, Saratov region. He graduated with the rank of lieutenant. At the same time, he graduated from a high school. After graduation, he was sent to serve in China. From 1950 to 1955, he served in the People's Republic of China. After the Soviet withdrawal from China, in 1955-1956 he served in Belomorsk and Kandalaksha. In 1956, he entered the Leningrad Academy. Fell under the" Khrushchev " reduction in the rank of captain. After the army, he graduated from the Kursk Agricultural Institute in Absentia. Lived and worked in Kursk. Raised two children.

Sergeyev Spiridon Evstafievich Sergeyev Spiridon evstafievich, was born in 1906 in the village of Tishino, Novoduginsky district, Smolensk region. He was called up by the Borovsky RVC, Moscow region, Borovsky district in 1942. Participated in many operations, the first of which was the Rzhev-Sychevskaya offensive operation 30.07-06.09.1942. Counterattack of the left wing of the Western front in the area of Sukhinichi and Kozelsk 22.08-29.08.1942. Rzhev-Sychevskaya offensive operation 25.11-20.12.1942 Rzhev - Vyazemskaya offensive operation 02.03-01.04.1943 battle of Kursk. 05.07-23.08.1943 Orel offensive operation 12.07-18.08.1943 Soviet counteroffensive in the battle of Kursk. 12.07-23.08.1943 Spas-Demensk offensive operation 07.08-20.08.1943 Offensive in the district of El'nya 28.08-05.09.1943 The Smolensk offensive operation. 15.09-02.10.1943 Offensive operation in the Orsha direction 12.10-02.12.43 Vitebsk offensive operation 03.02-13.03.1944 (Offensive operation of the 5th strike) Defeat of the Germans in Belarus June-July 1944 Vitebsk-Orsha (Offensive operation of the 5th strike) 23.06-28.06.1944 ("Operation of the 5th strike") Minsk offensive operation 29.06-04.07.1944 ("Operation of the 5th strike") The Vilnius offensive operation 05.07-20.07.1944 ("the Operation of the 5th strike") Kaunas offensive operation 28.07-20.08.1944 ("Operation of the 5th strike") Memel offensive operation 05.10-12.10.1944 ("Operation of the 8th strike") Gumbinnen offensive operation 16.10-27.10.1944 Insterburg-Konigsberg offensive operation 13.01-27.01.1945 East Prussian offensive operation of the 3rd and 2nd Belorussian Fronts. 13.01-25.04.1945. The destruction of the East Prussian enemy grouping southwest of the city of Konigsberg 13.03-29.03.1945 Konigsberg offensive operation 06.04-09.04.1945 Destruction of the German Zemland group 13.04-25.04.1945. He was wounded three times. December 30, 1943, was seriously wounded near Vitebsk. After the hospital, he was assigned as an electrician to the station serving the garrison of the rear Management, during which time he showed maximum diligence and restored 5 captured engines. Was presented to the award the Order of the Red Star.

Rank: Lieutenant Commander. Branch of service: Artillery. Pyotr Solovyov (June 5, 1909-may 18, 1984) was born in Kharkiv at the beginning of the 20th century. In Kharkiv, in a large paternal house (14 Plekhanovskaya street), the father of the family Semyon Filimonovich had three sons: Vladimir (the elder), Peter (the middle) and Dmitry (the younger). Dmitry fought in the Anti-aircraft Forces during the Great Patriotic war and after the war was the chairman of kholhoz in the village of Krugloe, Svatovsky district, Luhansk region. There were three daughters as well – Polina (her husband died in the war, and her daughter went to Vladivostok), Evdokia and Daria. Pyotr Semyonovich really wanted to become an artist and had the ability to do so, but did not enter the Academy of arts on the basis of class, as he was from a family of former merchants. Therefore, he remained an amateur artist, although he painted a lot of paintings to order. In the 1930s, Solovyov Pyotr Semyonovich was drafted into the army and served as an artillery officer – Senior Lieutenant in three wars: the Japanese, the Finnish and the Great Patriotic war. He fought on the Kursk bulge near the city of Novy Oskol in the Kursk (now Belgorod) region. He participated in the Voronezh-Kastorien offensive operation of the Voronezh Front troops on January 24 - February 2, 1943. As a result of the fighting, the 40th Army units liberated the Eastern part of the territory of the Belgorod region. In the battle for Novy Oskol, soldiers and commanders of the 183rd Rifle Division, commanded by Major General A. S. Kostitsin, were killed. Pyotr Semyonovich's relatives, the parents of his wife Anna Maksimovna Maximova (it had been her family name before she got married), also died there. His wife Anna managed to hide their daughter and grandchildren in the basement of the house. On the birth certificate of Pyotr Semyonovich's son, two-year-old Nikolai, the blood of his grandmother remained forever. Soldiers and residents were buried in a mass grave in a square located in the center of the city. Solovyov Pyotr Semyonovich was awarded the medals "For bravery", "For the capture of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star (awarded by Rokossovsky), the Order of the Patriotic War II class.

Rank: Lieutenant. Military branch: Land forces. From the memoirs of Vasily Ivanovich: "Our base was located on the outskirts of the city of Sevastopol. All this time, German planes were making raids. They were flying from the sea. At first, you could only recognize them by the hum of the engines, and then the reconnaissance planes themselves appeared in the sky. Such a plane will spin around for a while and fly away. It was forbidden to shoot, since the Non-aggression Pact was signed with Germany the day before. Our unit was not in an open area, but in a forest belt. An owl settled nearby. As it started crying, we shoud have waited for the German plane. Recnnaissance of the area was conducted by the enemy. And so, early in the morning on June 22, an owl began to cry, and an amplified hum was heard, which was not particularly reacted to, the unit was not in combat readiness. Planes appeared on the horizon of the sea, and more than one. Everything happened suddenly and unexpectedly, they flew one after the other, and as soon as they were level with the shore, the bombing began. The city and suburbs where the air force bases were located, including our base, were bombed all over the Bay. This is how the Great Patriotic war began for me." In June 1943, Vasily was transferred to Smolensk region, where the 3rd Belorussian Front was held. From his memoirs : "It was June 22, 1944, near the village of Krasnoe, Smolensk region. The 25-man reconnaissance group, where I was the Senior Officer, went out at 6 a.m. to investigate the battle. Our goal was to call out enemy fire to reveal the location of firing points that were previously unknown. There was a battle, from which not everyone returned, but they coped with the combat misson. The next day, joining the main troops, we went to break through the enemy's defenses. In the battle, I was wounded in the right thigh, arm and head, and was shell-shocked." From June to August 1944, Vasily was treated in hospital No. 3039. Then he was a Red Army soldier in the 208th Reserve Drill Regiment. From October 1944 to November 1945, he was a cadet at the Kazan tank school No. 9. His Position was a commander of a tank platoon. He was in reserve. The end of the Great Patriotic war he celebrated in Kazan. He died in 1995.

My great-grandfather, Nikolai Smagin, was born in 1913 in the village of Kashirino in the Oryol region. Little is known about his youth, but until 1938 he was the chairman of the Tsvetyn village Council, worked as a school teacher, and was a member of the Communist party. In 1938, he was drafted into the red army, on September 13, 1939, as part of the 6th Oryol Red Banner Rifle Division, he was transferred to Belarus, and from September 17 to September 28, 1939, he participated in the Polish campaign as part of the division. From October 4 to October 14, 1939, the division moves 150 km away to the eastern bank of the river Boog on the demarcation line to the places of permanent deployment and stayes on winter apartments in the area of Brest-Litovsk and adjacent areas near the Mukhavets river, taking the garrison service in Brest. In 1940, he was appointed commandant of the regiment's headquarters. According to D. Lozovsky, member of the academic Council of the Brest fortress defense Museum: "At the dawn of the memorable June morning of 1941, the fascist command brought down a huge blow on the fortress city and the forts surrounding it. A barrage of artillery fire from hundreds of guns and mortars, and bomb attacks from dozens of planes shook the ground, wreaking death and destruction. The Howitzer Artillery Regiment (204), in which Nikolai Smagin served, of the Red Banner Rifle Division was located in the barracks of the old fort. They were the first to meet the attackers. The commandant of the headquarters, Lieutenant Smagin, could not leave the empty premises of the headquarters until all the documents were destroyed. He burned plans for the fortress and communications, strategic documents, and anything that might be useful to the enemy. Accompanied by two Red Army men, he once again went around all the rooms, checked if there was anything else of value. They did not have time to report to the commander about the combat mission completion. There was the rapidly increasing noise of a column of motorbikes moving along the highway. Ordering the soldiers to guard the door, he rushed to the phone. It was necessary to report this to the division headquarters, which were in the city. But the connection was no longer working... Throwing back grenades and firing back from the windows, they tried their best to contain the Germans, but they soon realized that only a few people were against them. They cordoned off the headquarters building and opened heavy submachine-gun fire on the windows and doors. The Red Army soldiers guarding the headquarters destroyed more than a dozen fascists, but they were mortally wounded themselves. As a result, the Nazis managed to get into the building and climb to the second floor. After the last grenade, there was a whole clip left in the pistol of Nikolai Smagin. Fighting back to the last bullet, he died in hand-to-hand combat on the first day of the war." The Brest Museum has material and an exhibition about the feat of my grandfather, and there is a burial place on the territory of the fortress.

Strekalovsky I. G. was called up for military service in 1939 and sent to the Far East to a tank unit, where he studied at the Junior command school. In March 1941, the tank unit of the 328th Separate Red Banner Battalion, where he served, was urgently transferred to the West in Belarus to a place called "Belaya Tserkov’ (the White church)", where he met the war. His unit was surrounded and fought its way through to join other Russian units, but they couldn't. In the winter of 1942, the Kotovsky partisan detachment was created from scattered groups of fighters who were surrounded, and it was constantly replenished. Later, Strekalovsky I. G. fought in the Voroshilov Partisan Detachment, Dzerzhinskiy brigade, as a platoon commander under the pseudonym Strelkovsky Nikolai Nikolaevich. Later, after the war, fellow soldiers in correspondence with Ivan Gerasimovich recalled many combat episodes. They wrote that for his fearless actions Strelkovsky was very well known to the Germans and traitors. A large monetary reward was set for his head by the fascists. They considered it a "precious trophy" and ambushed it. Many books have been written about the partisans who fought in Belarus. In the story of Dryagin D. Ya. "Genka's accordion" there is a character Strelkovsky Nikolai, the prototype of which was Strekalovsky I. G. The Author described his courage and bravery in battles with vlasovtsy and fascists, and also wrote that in rare moments of rest, he joked a lot, was an open and cheerful person, under Genka's accordion could dance so that he infected others with his optimism and fatigue as if removed. Here is one of the episodes of this story: "The retreating German divisions were on the highway Novogrudok-Liubcha. The partisans of the Dzerzhinsky Brigade were preparing to meet enemis. They were rearming, putting in order the equipment taken from the Germans. The Kotovsky detachment, in which Gena was, took up defensive positions West of Lubki in the former landowner manor Voynovo. Technical platoon commander Vartan was preparing for a hot battle. Pozharov's assault group kept in touch with the brigade. There were four detachments in the city. The offensive began in the early morning. German Junkers flew over the city. But immediately our Soviet fighters sailed towards them. The Junkers didn't have time to drop their bombs. The battle lasted more than 8 hours. The partisans did not allow a single German to enter the city. But by evening, more and more German troops were flocking to the city, retreating from the East. Gena was the first to see a huge black spot in the distance. The squad leader Leoshko looked through his binoculars and said: "The crows come to the feast." They were riders in black uniforms. Commissar Chentsov explained that this was a black pack of traitors who had sold out to the Germans, led by General Vlasov. They raised a sword against their brothers, so there will be no mercy for them! A black cloud approached the group. At the same moment, everything was mixed up: the shouting of people, the neighing of horses, the crackle of machine guns and automatic shooting. The horses shied from side to side, crushing each other and people. And the partisans poured and poured machine-gun fire on the enemies. The Vlasov formation thinned, and many of them ran away. Those on foot who had lost their horses tried to ride away together on the same horse, and some managed to grab the horse's tail to escape the partisan fire. Strelkovsky and his platoon crashed into the thick of the Vlasovites. He cut them right and left, not letting them recover. But one of the Vlasovites hit him on the head with a saber. His cap flew off, and blood ran down his face, but he continued to fight with even greater ferocity. Suddenly there were dark circles before my eyes, the sun faded, silence enveloped me, my head became heavy. He wanted to shout, but he didn't have strength, his lips wouldn't obey. Nikolai slowly slid off his horse and fell to the ground, losing consciousness. An order came from the command headquarters of the 1st Belorussian Front to leave the city of lyubcha and withdraw the entire population. The partisans decided to retreat to Nalibotskaya Pushcha through the Neman. The wounded and shell-shocked Strelkovsky was carried on a cart. He didn't regain consciousness for a long time. He was sent to the hospital and never returned to the squad. Nothing is known about his future fate." N. Grebenkin, with whom he fought together on Belarusian soil, wrote a book about that time, which is called "Sign of the hour" (it’s a pity, it is in Belarusian). It was published in 1984 in Belarus in the newspaper "Novaya zitse". N. Grebenkin sent a newspaper subscription with this story to Ivan Gerasimovich. After the war in Belarus, the village of Chereshlya of Novogrudok district was created a Museum of partisan glory. Since, in one of the battles with vlasovtsy N. Strelkovsky was very seriously wounded and sent to the hospital, the partisans considered him dead and in the Museum he was listed for a long time in the lists of the dead. In one of his letters to Strekalovsky I. G. from 03.02.1983, N. Grebenkin writes: "Hello, Ivan Gerasimovich. I am immensely glad that Lenya Shestyan found you. I'm glad you're alive and well. I don't know what your post-war life was like,what your health is like, because a lot of time has passed, a lot of water has flowed, but I think that you are doing well. It is a pity that you were found with some delay, because last year Novogrudok celebrated the 40th anniversary of our partisan detachment. About 100 people were present. I hope that Lenya Shestyan wrote to you about this or will tell you when you meet. He is planning such a meeting (for you and Philip Pozhar). Believe me, I've missed you. Remember that I have your photos, they are in the museums of every school in Novogrudok, but you were not there. I hope you will visit me. I must inform you that I have started writing a book about our partisan unit. I've been working hard on it for 2 weeks now, and it's already started. And while we meet, write to me who was involved in the ambush on the police commander, in what place it was. There was Vasya Morozov, I remember that. What do you know about Morozov, Perkov, Polyakov? Who were you with when you caught a police officer Yanchuk from Nizovtsev? I think Shchegortsov was with you. After whom were you the commander of the intelligence unit? What do you remember about Tchaikovsky?. You lived with him in Polinkah strong friends. Did he tell you anything about himself? What do you remember about the Rubezhevichi fight? Morozov and Linevsky were wounded there. I'm retired, which is why I took up the book. Before that, my materials were published in Newspapers and magazines. I bombarded you with questions, I hope you remember all this? Waiting for an answer. Write about everything, because no one has heard about you, and you yourself did not write. I kiss and hug you, Nikolai." His fighting friends: Fire Philip V., Grebenkin Nikolai Ivanovich, Sestan Leonid, Leoshko Alexander Nikitovich (the commander Kotovsky), Bushmich Nicodemus Stepanovich Dumbuser Constantine Khristianovich, Belyaev, Matthew F., Chentsov N. (Commissioner team), Vasiliy Morozov, Tchaikovsky, Ilica Sergei Mitrofanovich (the company commander, Lieutenant), Glushkov, Rodico, eagles, poles, Bags, Egortsev, Onishchenko I., Linevskiy Michael Sevastyanovich, Bespalov, Perks, Poles, etc. After the liberation of Belarus, Strekalovsky I. G. he continued to fight heroically in the active army, still under the pseudonym as Strelkovsky N. N., with fights reached Berlin and signed on the building of the defeated Reichstag. The saved letters of appreciation, awarded Strelkovsky N. N (Strekalovsky, I. G)., as: 1) the paticipant of the fighting for the liberation of Gomel; 2) a paticipant of the breakthrough of the Germans in Danzig-Gdanskas enemy, culminating in the access to the Baltic sea; 3) a paticipant r of the breakthrough of the German defense on the Western Bank of the Narew river North of Warsaw; 4) the paticipant of the fighting for the Novogeorgievsk (fortress Madeline); 5) the paticipant of the fighting for Bytów (Bytow); 6) participant mastery of the city and port of Gdynia; 7) the paticipant of crossing the river East and West of the Oder; 8) the paticipant of fighting for the conquest of the cities of Prenzlau and Angermünde; 9) participant mastery of Stralsund, Grimmen, Demmin, Malchin, Waren, Wesenberg; 10)a member of mastering by cities Bart, bad Doberan, Neubukow, Wittenberg. His awards: 1) Order of the Red Star (#1750781), Order of the Patriotic War 1 art. (#2173454), Badge "Guard". 2) Medals:For bravery (#2201780), Georgy Zhukov (#205). 3) Anniversary medals "For the Victory in the Second World War" for the 20th, 30th, 40th, 50th anniversary; also anniversary medals for the 50th, 60th, 70th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR; 4) Badge "Front-line Soldier"; 5) post-war medals:" For the development of virgin and fallow lands "and "Veteran of labor". After 40 years, the remaining partisans found Strelkovsky N. N. (Strekalovsky I. G.). From then until his death, he corresponded with his comrades and went to a meeting in Kazakhstan (Kustanai), where one of the partisans gathered his fellow soldiers. The conversation is saved. it contains a lot of interesting things about the fate of partisan friends. After the war, Ivan Gerasimovich returned in June 1946 to his native village of Kargapolye, Kurgan region, where he worked as a mechanic-driver in the Autorot, participated in the development of virgin lands. Since 1960, he worked in the district fire Department, where he was the Secretary of the primary party organization. Before the war in 1938, Ivan Strekalovsky married a young pretty girl Vakhova Taisya Viktorovna. And from 1939, when he was drafted into the army, to June 1946 (almost 8 years) she had waited faithfully for his return, first from the army, then from the war. When the notification came about him as a missing person(when after the encirclement he fought in the partisans), I did not lose hope for a minute that he would return. Letters began to arrive after the liberation of Belarus. The joy was great, but it was still far from the end of the war... Two brothers of Ivan Gerasimovich Strekalovsky died in the war: Ivan Gerasimovich Strekalovsky, born in 1922 (in his family his name was Malushko, because he was christened Ivan, like his older brother), died on March 23, 1943 near the village of Vtoriye Ponyri, Ponyrsky district, Kursk region, and was buried there; Pyotr Gerasimovich Strekalovsky, born in 1925, died on November 11, 1943 in Ukraine near Konstantinovka, where he was buried. Eternal glory to our fathers and mothers, to all who had to go through this!

Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: Land forces, Air Forces (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards, When my grandfather was 18 years old, there was a war. He was drafted into the army. In April 1943, he was sent to the active army of the 18th Tank Corps of the 32nd Motorized RifleBbrigade. My grandfather, Vasily Sasaev, recalls: on July 6, 1943, there was a strong battle in the village of Prokhorovka. Planes flew like rooks in the sky. We had to run across the line of fire. A six-barrelled mortar was fired in a staggered pattern. Bombs were falling from the sky. Running across the line of fire, grandfather thought: "Thank God-I managed to", and then saw in the sky: "bomb" thought flashed - I won't have time. Fall to earth. The bomb exploded nearby, the grandfather was covered with everything and again the thought-thank God is alive and not injured. And again in battle. House-by-house liberation has begun. It was absolute hell! The heat was +40 degrees. The train has landed and you see the train is no longer there." And on July 11, my grandfather was wounded.After my grandfather was discharged, he was sent to the active army in the 16th Tank Corps of the 107th Tank Brigade and walked to the reserve regiment. And that was a lot of kilometers. From the reserve regiment, the troops were transferred to the Bryansk forests, where they lived in dugouts. In the dugouts there was also a dining room, in the dugouts there was also a bath. Before the new year on December 30, 1943, we went to Kiev. The New Year was celebrated on the train. It was snowing. The soldiers came out on the platform and began to run themselves in the snow. They unloaded tanks at Belaya Tserkva, went into battle, and were immediately surrounded. There were 8-9 tanks, and 4 tanks left the battle. The next day, these 4 tanks were also burned. The attacks started. The Germans expected to restore the defense of the Dnieper river, and the Korsun-Shevchenko salient was a convenient springboard from which to strike at the flanks of the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian fronts.The enemy was rushing to the Korsun-Shevchenko salient. Repulsed the attack in one place-the enemy broke through in another place. Day repulsed the attack, intelligence brought information where the enemy broke through. At night, they moved troops to that place. We slept on the move. Go in formation on the "machine" and sleep. If suddenly the first row stopped-fell directly to the ground in a puddle, and also if the first row started to go-all the others went on "automatic". (When the fight started, they woke up right away, grandpa jokes). Water spilled and went constantly to the water, the battle was in the water, in the dugouts water. Wet all the time, it's cold outside, and it's freezing at night. In this mode, the battle went on from February 6, and on March 6, my grandfather was wounded while crossing the river. 5 wounded were carried under the bridge - so they lay there, and the battle continued. When the fight stopped, everyone was pulled out and carried to wherever they were.» My grandfather was put in a house with no windows and no doors. The house was large and spacious, but it was cold. So, the grandfather lay there all night, and in the morning the orderly came and asked: - Didn’s they take you take away? And the grandfather said: - Who will take away?! They put him on the tank. They drived a short way and stop. They lit a fire and warmed themselves. So they got to sanbat, and there it was warm as in Paradise! They washed, warmed and then went to the hospital. They put the wounded man on a horseback and lead the horse, and the grandfather was supported so that he din’t not fall. They took him to the narrow-gauge railway, put him on it,s and hin them to the junction station, and then to the hospital .And after recovery - again to the front. In total, the grandfather was injured three times. After the last wound, he was discharged due to the 2nd disability group. He returned home on two crutches. Military awards - the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the "Patriotic war of the 1st class", the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1955" And many other medals. On April 13, 2018, at the age of 94, my grandfather passed away.

Ksenia Timchenko, a veteran of the Great Patriotic war, was born in 1923 and was awarded the medal "For the defense of the Caucasus". At the beginning of the Great Patriotic war, 17-year-old Ksenia Timchenko went to an evening school for warking young people and worked as a nurse in the first city clinic in Sukhum. "When the war started, we moved on to the military situation. We were on duty for days, we were trained to handle the wounded. The front was approaching Abkhazia, and they started bombing Sukhum, " - the veteran recalls. In April 1942, Ksenia Timchenko was drafted into the army and sent to the 33rd Separate Searchlight Battalion in Batumi. "Our unit was in the mountains. When the German planes flew in, we turned on the searchlights," - the veteran says excitedly. After 40 days of training, Ksenia Timchenko wass accepted into the Air Surveillance and Warning Communications Battalion, where she served until the end of the war. "After training, we were assigned to posts. The first post I was in a Gale, and then we were transferred to Tkuarchal. We stood on towers, if there was no wooden tower, then we removed roofs from houses and watched the planes. We had to determine from what course the German plane took off and at what course it was flying, at what altitude, loaded or not. We passed this information to the battalion, and they were already anti-aircraft gunners who were standing in the mountains. After the front became quieter, all our posts were collected in Sukhum and distributed around the city. Our battalion was scattered from Batumi to Gagra," says Timchenko. The veteran notes that the goal of the German fascists was the Sukhumi pier. "The goal of the Nazis was to bomb the pier so that ships could not approach our shore. One bomb fell in Stalin Park, there were many evacuees, another bomb hit the house of culture on Frunze street, another bomb fell in the Komsomol city Committee on Mira Avenue, " Timchenko shares his memories of the bombing of Sukhum. In February 1943, Ksenia Timchenko's battalion was sent through Dagestan to Mineralnye Vody, where they came under heavy bombardment by German aircraft. "The bombing started when we were in the cars. We were ordered to get off the train and lie down on the ground. It was very cold, we all got into the mud and waited for the bombing to end. Then we were told that the Germans tried to destroy a nearby bakery, " the veteran says with a heavy sigh. Ksenia Timchenko's battalion arrived in Krasnodar by train, but the Red Army had liberated the city by that time, and then the soldiers reached Rostov on foot. "We were advised to go on the sleepers, not on the paved road, as they could get lost. We walked 43 kilometers, " says Timchenko. Ksenia Timchenko's battalion went to the second Ukrainian Front, then the second Belarusian Front. "There was a strong German air raid in Vitebsk and Velikiye Luki. The front was moving West, and the Germans were trying to stop the Soviet troops, " says the veteran. After the liberation of Belarus, Ksenia Timchenko's military career continued in Poland, and then in Latvia. In Latvia, the veteran was until the end of the war. For her heroism in the great Patriotic war, Ksenia Timchenko was awarded the medal "For the defense of the Caucasus". More than 55 thousand residents of Abkhazia fought on the fronts of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945, of which more than 17 thousand did not return from the battlefields, 22 residents of the Republic were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

My great-great-grandfather's name was Alexander Alekseyevich Tikhomirov. He went to the front in the first days of the war in June 1941, and in December 1942 he was listed as a missing person. My great-grandmother Claudia died 20 years ago, but in our family we remember her story about the great-great-grandfather and proud of him. Alexander Tikhomirov was born in 1915 in the village of Novoye Uglicheskoye of Yaroslavl province (now Bolsheselsky district of Yaroslavl region). His father was a clergyman, and his mother was a simple peasant. He had two brothers, Nikolai and Alexey. In Novoye Selo, Alexander Tikhomirov studied, worked, and then married Klavdia Limonova. In 1937, their daughter Valentina was born. In 1938, Alexander fought in Finland, then in Poland. On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, but according to documents, Alexander's great-great-grandfather was called up to the front as a soldier on June 21, 1941. Although his great-great-grandmother said that he was a political instructor, he wrote to his wife that some of them were located in the area of the city of Kingisepp. There were fierce battles against the Nazis. The Germans were furiously rushing to Leningrad, and our troops heroically held the defense. There was a war. Great-great-grandmother Klava lived in the village with her four-year-old daughter Valentina and was waiting for the birth of her second child. They lived in poverty. While her mother was working in the fields, little Valya went around the village with a decanter and asked the neighbors for some milk, because their cow had to be slaughtered. Letters to my great-great-grandmother from her husband did not come. One day a neighbor came running to Klava and told her to run to Novoye village, because there is a guy in the tea shop who wants to tell her something about her husband Alexander. Klava grabbed her little daughter and, happy, ran through the forest for five kilometers. In the tea shop, she saw a guy she knew from their village. He was on leave for an injury. This guy said that he fought with Alexander Tikhomirov in the same unit. In the area of Staraya Russa, they had a heavy battle, they were attacked by Nazi tanks, and they had nothing to defend themselves with, since there was only one rifle for ten people. Our troops were retreating. The guy said that when he ran across the field, he saw Sasha, wounded in the leg. "Sasha asked me for help and said: "Take me, we're from the same village." But I did not take hin, because there was an order: "do not take the wounded!" This field was occupied by the Germans. And the next day, our soldiers came to help and our people occupied this area. I ran through the place where Sasha was staying, looking for him, but I didn't find him. The whole field was covered with shells. There was mud, blood, and dead soldiers everywhere. It is unlikely that he survived there." After listening to the story, great-great-grandmother Klava no longer ran back through the forest with her daughter, but barely went home, heartbroken. All the way she was crying, feeling sorry for Sasha. She imagined how he suffered there, and did not know how to live with her little daughter and the baby who was about to be born.

My father Tashpulatov Nazir was from the city of Kokand in the Ferghana region of the Republic of Uzbekistan (formerly the Uzbek SSR), he was a wonderful and kind person. He went to the front as a volunteer to defend the motherland (the Soviet Union), to destroy the Nazis. To joim the army he changed his age in the earlier, specially lost the original birth document, receiving in return the duplicate certificate with changed date of birth on 10 Feb 1924. My father did not like to remember and talk about the war, he always showed us a smile on his face, showing us that we should always live like this, enjoy every peaceful day, and also do interesting things, know them and work usefully for the benefit of the family and the country. I only know about my father, what his friends at work said, that he was strong and seasoned, went with a combat mission to catcha prosoner for interrogation. My father did not come to Berlin, he was seriously injured and was treated in a hospital for a long time, but in what year and where, I do not know. Every year, as I remember, he went to Kiev (Ukrainian SSR) in the Great and Important for them and all of us living on the Occasion of the Victory Day May 9 for a meeting with fellow soldiers, thanks to which, and killed, their courage and patriotism, faith in goodness and justice, the peoples of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics defeated Nazi fascism not only on their land, but also saved the peoples of Europe from Nazi occupation. At that time, our victors, the Soviet red Army, were opposed not only to Hitler's supporters from Germany, but more to the whole of Europe. those countries where their leaders (politicians) and their Nazis joined Hitler's fascist coalition. It is important to remember this not for the sake of resentment, but for the sake of preventing such treachery in the future. Perhaps, my father was treated in a hospital in Ukraine, and probably in the hospital he fell in love with Ukrainian songs, dances, and proverbs, could perform them well, often use joking quotes or words in Ukrainian in conversation. However, I have long wondered why in Kiev he met with fellow soldiers, maybe he continued to serve there: either to destroy the gangs of Bandera or other" forest " evil Nazi or to work as a military man to provide the front; and only my father knows about this, i.e. the real truth and I blame myself for the fact that during his life I did not find time to talk about this and other things about the war with my father. In 1950, after the war, he married in In Tashkent, Uzbek SSR to the prettiest girl, and our mom is such a beautiful, cheerful and hardworking woman, nothing pitying, for us children in my heart and my most trusted companion in life, spouse, and in memory of my sons and hope that this memory of his father and mother will be saved and celebrated my descendants. Unfortunately, in December 1987, my mother left this world. My father had many post-war medals and orders, but the only Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd class was awarded to him on February 11, 1985. Unfortunately, my father did not find out about it, he died in January 1985. And this order (28924/8) and the document (#786218) on it, as well as his skullcap (Uzbek headdress), the most valuable from my father, is still kept by me, and I believe that in due time it will be passed on with the story of my father and mother to my sons, and they to their children and further descendants. Our common duty is not to forget the common Victory in the great Patriotic War over Hitler's fascism, not to forget the unselfish friendship between the peoples of the USSR, we need to live life honestly and fairly, to inform our children and descendants about the war and Victory the full truth, and most importantly not to allow "corrupt" pseudo-propagandists and pseudo-historians to write the wrong in the East, the sages said : "Only by knowing your past, you can know yourself and not let it happen again."

My grandfather Fyodor Suldyaykin was born on February 12, 1918 in the village of Sabayevo in Kochkurovsky district of the Republic of Mordovia. He finshed the 2nd form of the Sabaev school. He started working early. He handled horses well. In horse riding, he was not inferior even to adults. His parents valued him very much for his independence. After the older brothers created their own families, Fyodor became the main support for his parents on the farm. In 1936, at the age of 18, he got married. His wife was Maria Romanovna. They raised eight children. In November 1939, Fyodor Sergeevich was called up for active military service. He began his service in the 6th Artillery Regiment. He received a military specialty as an artilleryman of 76-mm, 82-mm guns of 122-mm and 152-mm howitzers. In 1939-1940, he participated in the Finnish Military Company. From June 23, 1941 to May 9, 1945, he participated in fights of the Great Patriotic war as part of the South-Western, Voronezh and 1st Ukrainian Fronts. Until August 1942, the combat path of gunner F. S. Suldyaykin took place in the 6th Artillery Regiment as a rider. He was a participant in the battle of Kursk. August 1, 1942, in the area of C. Ekaterinovka, Rostov region in battle, when enemy aircraft bombed the positions of the 6th regiment, his gun was destroyed, and he was seriously wounded by a bomb fragment. In the report of the command about the loss of personnel, he was among the dead. Home, his relatives were mistakenly sent a "funeral". After being wounded, he was treated in a hospital in the Caucasus. When the treatment was coming to an end, the hospital was bombed by German aircrafts. All those who remained alive and could move independently were sent home to be treated. After a short treatment at home, Fyodor Sergeyevich was again sent to the front. He continued his service as a member of the 136th Artillery Regiment as a commander of the 76-mm gun. From March 1943, he fought in the 12th Guards Shepetovskaya Red Banner Tank Brigade of the order of Suvorov and Kutuzovas as a gunner. In 1944, he took part in the Lviv-Sandomierz operation. He was wounded again. In 1945, he participated in the Vistula-Oder military operation. After the end of the war and until his discharge from the reserve, he served in the 131 Artillery Regiment as a gun commander. Demobilized in June 1946 with the rank of guard Sergeant. He has military awards: the Order of the Red Star, medals "For military merit", "For the Victory over Germany", "For the Liberation of Prague", several commemorative medals. After transfer to the reserve Soldatkin F. S. worked on the farm. Before merging the villages of Murani and Krasnaya Zorka Vidman into one collective farm, he worked for some time as the Chairman of the collective farm in Krasnaya Zorka. Then he worked as a collective farm foreman for about 15 years. He worked as a shepherd for many years. Before retirement, he worked as a watchman. He played balalaika very well. In the company of family and friends, he liked to sing his favorite songs "Ogonyok" and "Fire Beats in a small stove". He died on February 1, 1981, at the age of 63. In the memory of his fellow villagers, he remained a respected, exceptionally decent person. Eternal memory to him.

My great-grandfather Mikhail Slukhayenko was born on October 12, 1924 in the village of Dmitrievka in the Novoaydarsky district of the Luhansk region of the Ukrainian SSR. In October 1942, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Armed Forces of the USSR. During his service, he was promoted to the rank of Junior Sergeant. Ihe was in the Red Army since August 1, 1944. On October 13, 1944, he was awarded the medal «For bravery» for "exemplary performance of the command's combat tasks on the front of the fight against the German invaders". And on October 14, he was wounded, received a shrapnel wound to the right shoulder with bone damage. After the hospital, my grandfather returned to his comrades and continued to drive the fascists from our motherland. Since 1944, the Soviet Army began liberation actions in Europe against the German invaders. My grandfather was involved in breaking through the German defenses on the West Bank of the Narew river, North of Warsaw. And in this regard, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin, on January 17, 1945, gratitude was declared for excellent combat actions. In February 1945, gratitude was declared for the capture of the town and fortress of Torun. On the approaches to Germany, they crossed the East and West Oder rivers, broke through the strongly fortified German defenses on the West Bank of the Oder, captured the main city of Pomerania and the large port of Stettin. For this, gratitude was expressed to the grandfather and all the personnel of their unit. Thanks were also given for the capture of the cities of Rostock and Warnemunde - major ports and important German naval bases on the Baltic sea, for the capture of important road junctions and strong German defense strongholds. By the order of the regiment commander of the 70th Army dated April 23, 1945, "for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders", he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. On May 24, 1945, by order of the 165th Rifle Sedletskaya Red Nanner Ddivision of the order of Kutuzov , Junior Sergeant Mikhail Slushayenko was awarded the Order of the Red Atar. After the war ended, my great-grandfather returned home and began rebuilding the country. He worked as a driver on MAZ. He got married and had a son - my grandfather Yura. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, my great-grandfather Mikhail Slushayenko was awarded the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and all jubilee medals Of the armed forces of the USSR. My great-grandfather died on April 13, 1985.

My great-grandfather Danila was born in the Ukraine, in the village of Osich, baturinsky (now Bakhmachsky) district, Chernihiv region. In the pre-war period, he worked as a forester on a kholhoz. On July 12, 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the front. In one of the battles, he was surrounded and captured. The group of prisoners in which he was held was transferred to the Crimean Peninsula in a German concentration camp. All the time I was in the concentration camp, my great-grandfather was looking for ways to escape. The first attempt was unsuccessful. The fugitives were detained. For trying to escape, my great-grandfather was transferred to strict control methods in a concentration camp. In the concentration camp, my great-grandfather was with his fellow villager, who offered to escape from the concentration camp again, but he refused, fearing for his life. The second attempt to escape was successful, and my great-grandfather was released. He wanted to get to the Russian troops, but he knew that he was in the deep German rear. Getting to the front line would be very difficult. Therefore, he developed a plan of action - hiding in the woods during the day to avoid falling into the hands of the Germans, and at night making his way towards the front line. During his journey he asked villagers for help, they helped with food, clothing, and what they could. About two months later, at night, he crossed the front line and went to the location of the Red Army. Due to the fact that he did not have any documents, he independently crossed the front line. He told SMERSH employees that he was in German captivity. He was sent to the camp to check and clarify the data. And then, after checking the information about him and signing a paper that he was ready to fight and atone for his guilt with blood, he was sent to the penal battalion. My great-grandfather Daniil Alexandrovich was wounded twice after returning to the front – on November 18, 1943 and February 20, 1944. After the first wound, he was transferred from the penal company to the position of a submachine gunner of the 130th Guards Rifle twice Red Banner Regiment of the Baranovich Red Banner Division of the order of Suvorov . For participation in military operations: expansion of the bridgehead on the Vistula river, for participation in the defeat of the German group near Danzig (destroyed 7 Germans with personal weapons and captured 4) he was presented with the Order of the Red Star.

In 1942, she volunteered for the Chkalovsky regional Military Commissariat and joined the Red Army on application. She was assigned to the Navy and sent to the Ulyanovsk Fleet semi-crew. On July 11, she was sent to the active Stalingrad Army in the 2nd Separate Trawling Brigade of the Volga Military Flotilla. From July 1942 to May 1944 she served as a storekeeper of the coastal base's clothing warehouse. During the day she recorded, received, stored, and issued personal belongings to the personnel of the minesweepers of the Separate Trawling Brigade of the Volga Military Flotilla. In shifts, at night she was a fighter of the NIS post: she marked the coordinates of the place where the Nazi aviation mines were laid on the Volga river in the assigned area. After the victory in the battle of Stalingrad, in 1944, the Volga Military Flotilla, which completed all combat missions, was disbanded. In July 1944 she was sent for further service in the Northern Fleet. Since July 1944. until June 1945 she served in units of the Northern fleet: in the Department of training and manning of the coastal base of the Kolsk Flotilla for the protection of the water area in the village of Tyuva-Guba and the city of Polyarny. She finished the war as a senior sailor in 1945 in the city of Polarnyy. During her service in the Soviet Navy, the government of the Soviet Union awarded one order and eleven medals of the USSR. Her biography is included in the book of memory "The Great Patriotic War. Soldiers of the Victory" (Khamovniki district), published by the prefecture of the Central administrative district of Moscow in 2005. Orders: 1. Order of the "Patriotic war II class" No. 1061854 Medals: 1. "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic" 2." For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "3." 20 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "4." 40 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 " 5. "50 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "6." 60 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "7." 70 years of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "8. ADMIRAL KUZNETSOV" 9. Zhukov Medal 10. "300 years of the RUSSIAN NAVY" Badges and distinctions: 1. the Sign "25 years of the Victory in the War of 1941-1945" 2. The sign "Front-line soldier" Sokolova Praskovya Dmitrievna died in June 16, 1995

I want to write about the front-line roads of my great-grandfather, a front-line driver, a man of an interesting fate, who passed the entire war and remained a Real Person. And also, I want to write about my great-grandmother Ulyana, who did not fight, but she had too many sorrows and losses. It is impossible to keep silent about it. For my generation, the Great Patriotic War is just a story from the distant past. I was born in peaceful time, when there was no war, no concentration camps. I learned about the events of the Great Patriotic War from the stories of my grandparents, and they hd learned from their parents. My sister and I, with a sinking heart, always listen to the stories about our relatives and beloved great-grandparents. My essay I'll start with my grandparents Simunkova Peter Dmitrievich. I've never seen my great-great-grandfather, I don't know what color his eyes and hair were, I've never heard his voice, but I can say for sure that I'm proud of my great-grandfather for what he had done years before I was born. He was born on September 6, 1921 in the village of Spasskoye, Sorochinsky district. He graduated from only 7 classes and learned to be a driver. In June of 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, and my great-grandfather was one of the first to go to the front. He was not even twenty years old. Every soldier in the war had their main weapon. An infantryman has a rifle or submachine gun, a pilot has an airplane, and my grandfather's main weapon was his car. He spent the entire war as a driver, bringing ammunition to artillery positions. At first, he drove domestic trucks - "polutorkas" GAZ-AA and ZIS-5, then the Soviet Army started receiving American "Studebakers", "Fords", "Dodges", later had to use captured German "Bussing". In the most difficult conditions, risking their lives, my great-grandfather and his fellow drivers made several trips a day, delivering ammunition and fuel to the Katyushas and tanks. Cars moved with trailers-travois, which allowed for one trip to transport more cargo. These trips were fraught with constant danger of death, because enemy bombers were hovering above, and shells were exploding all around. Sometimes I had to stay up for several days. My grandmother told me that exhausted and tired drivers were afraid to fall asleep, and my grandfather, in order not to fall asleep on the road, hung a pot from the wall of the cab, which rattled and beat on the head. In 1943, my great-grandfather was given an American Studebaker. He said it was a very good car. It was light and maneuverable. It worked quietly, as our cars do now. All six wheels were driven, with hydraulic brakes at the front and rear. In this car, he transported various loads: shells, wounded, food. There was a case when the grandfather in the car made his way through a barrage of fire and his car caught fire. My grandfather was badly burned, but everything ended well, he was still alive. And once, when transporting cargo to the front line, their column of several cars was surrounded. My grandfather skillfully led the column out of the encirclement. For this feat, he was awarded a government award-the medal"for bravery". I was filled with joy and pain when I listened to my grandmother's story about how my great-grandfather Peter took the wounded out of the battle under heavy artillery fire. In this battle, he himself was wounded and lay in the hospital. He saw the wounded without arms or legs. He saw death. Listening to my grandmother, I thought about what the Great Patriotic war brought to people? Nothing good except the lessons. Millions of our country's civilians were killed: they were shot, starved to death in concentration camps, and killed. In April 1945, grandfather Peter participated in the storming of Berlin. During the assault, the capital of Nazi Germany was captured. The assault on Berlin lasted from late April to early may. And in June 1945, my grandfather, along with his colleagues, entered Prague. Then the Germans fled in panic to the borders of Czechoslovakia. The red army was following in the footsteps of the German troops. By mid-may, the remnants of the army were destroyed. For participating in the "Prague operation", my grandfather received the medal "for the liberation of Prague". Then some of them were sent to the far East, to the Mongol - Chinese border on the island of Khasan, and there my great-grandfather fought for another year. He returned home to his native village of Spasskoye only in March 1946 with the rank of Senior Sergeant. In the post-war period, he worked at the kolkhoz named after Lenin as a tractor driver, helping the country rise from the ruins. His health was undermined and all the post-war years, my grandfather was often and seriously ill. He died at the age of 52. My great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals – "For the Victory over Germany", "For bravery", "For military merit", "For the liberation of Prague", "For the capture of Berlin" and many commemorative medals. It is very difficult for me to express in words how much I respect my great-grandfather Petr and how proud I am to be his great-grandson. Every year on May 9, my father, mother and my sister and I go to the ranks of the "Immortal regiment". And my grandfather Petr is coming with us …