Heroes and feats

Grigory Leontyevich has been living in our village for a long time. For many years he worked in the fields of his native collective farm. It seems that this person is not remarkable in any way, but if you start talking to him, you get the feeling that you have known Grigory Leontyevich for a very long time, that you know his whole life, lived in his own way, heroically. During the Great Patriotic War, Svistelnikov was an ordinary soldier; a soldier who defended our sacred land with his chest. The war lasted more than a thousand days. But Grigory Leontyevich especially remembered the day of January 15, 1942. The events that will be discussed took place on the Karelian front. “Early in the morning of January 15, we were ordered to cross the lake,” says Svistelnikov. - All the fighters lined up and prepared to carry out the order. Behind me stood a very young guy, Ukrainian, and looked at everyone with frightened eyes. I asked, "What's the matter? What happened?" The guy replied that in childhood, an incident happened to him that he would never forget. He played with his peers on the bank of the river, someone pushed this boy into the water, and he began to sink. The guys thought he was joking and did not pay any attention to the "joker". Fortunately, the forester was nearby, it was he who saved the boy. So, and now the guy was afraid of water, but this psychological barrier, this disease had to be overcome. When we started to move along the lake (the water in it was frozen), this boy started muttering something to himself, and I heard: "I'm not afraid! I shouldn't be afraid, because I'm a soldier." And I walked and thought: "Yes, this lad's childhood was interrupted too early. So, in order for our children and grandchildren not to have such a childhood, we must definitely win!" At a halt, I went up to the boy (his name was Vasily) and saw that he was all beaming: "You see, comrade Grisha, I overcame my weakness. This is forever." Later I learned that this boy was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, he died in the battles for the city of Bucharest. I really remember this Vasilek, I often remember him, so I told you about him. "

Saprykin Ilya Ivanovich, born in 1911 (Oryol region, Russko-Brodsky district, Konshensky s / s, village Stanovoe), was drafted by the Russian-Brodsky RVK of the Oryol region on April 30, 1941 to the 18th rifle regiment as a telephone operator (from IV / 1941 to VI / 1941). From VI.1941 to V.1942 - senior telephone operator of the 474th rifle regiment. From V. 1942 to XI. 1945 senior telephone operator of the 1160th artillery regiment. Demobilized on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.25.1945. Awarded: Medal "For Military Merit" (Order No. 1786882), Order of the Red Star (Order No. 1958193), Medal for the capture of Konigsberg (09.06.1945) , Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." Awarded with a badge of 25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War for valor and courage. By order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Stalin I.V. on October 23, 1944, he was expressed gratitude for the excellent military operations in breaking through the long-term deep-layered defense of the Germans covering the borders of East Prussia and the invasion of East Prussia, as well as for the capture of the cities of Eidtkunen, Stallupenen and other settlements. By Order 231 of January 19, 1945, he was given gratitude for the excellent combat operations in breaking through the long-term, deeply echeloned German defense in East Prussia. Order 247 of January 23, 1945 declared gratitude for the excellent military operations during the crossing of the Pregel and Daime rivers and the capture of the cities of Labiau, Velau, Darkemen, Benkheim and Troiburg. Order 267 of January 31, 1945 awarded him gratitude for the excellent military operations during the capture of the cities of Heilsberg and Friedland. Order 272 of February 10, 1945 declared gratitude for the excellent military operations in the capture of the city of Preussisch Aylau. Order 317 of March 29, 1945 declared gratitude for the excellent military operations in the defeat of the East Prussian group of German forces southwest of Konigsberg. The compound was named "Gumbinnenskoe" and it was awarded the Order of Suvorov II degree. By Order 333 of April 9, 1945, he was given gratitude for the excellent military operations in the defeat of the Konigsberg group of German troops and the capture of the fortress and the main city of East Prussia - Konigsberg. By order 343 of April 25, 1945, he was given gratitude for the excellent military operations in the capture of the last stronghold of the Germans' defense on the Zemland peninsula - the city and fortress of Pillau. He died on December 15, 1981.

Our father, grandfather, great-grandfather Spirichev Veniamin Petrovich, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, served in the Far East in military unit No. 19919 ... The war with Japan was short, but fierce. The Soviet army fought against the elite Kwantung Army. Veniamin Petrovich was born on November 21, 1926 in the village of Ivankovo, Sholsky district. After finishing 7th grade, he worked at a sleeper factory in Konevo. In October 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the Far East in the Dubovoye borough near the border. He served in the 3 Crimean division of the 8th rifle regiment of the 6th company as a private. Then he was transferred to the 88th separate communications company as a telephone operator, and later as a telegraph operator. “When they declared war with Japan, on the night of August 9-10 they crossed the Amur River and entered the Manchurian land. Here began the baptism of fire to destroy the Kwantung Army of Japan. The fortification was very strong, it was located in the hills, where no equipment would enter. Our division suffered heavy losses. Not without losses among us, communications workers. I will describe only one memorable incident. When our division fought fierce battles to capture the fortified area in the hills, our separate communications company provided communications between the division headquarters and the regiment. Communication with the division headquarters was cut off. Me and two other signalmen were urgently sent to restore the telephone line. The area was fired upon by Japanese suicide bombers. Around the hills and a short, human-sized oak tree. We walked one after another at an interval. Suddenly we were fired upon. All three of us immediately fell and crawled away in different directions. After a while, the second and third shots followed. One of the comrades was mortally wounded. Not far from this place, a squad of reconnaissance soldiers was ambushed. They heard shots and went to meet them. A firefight began. My friend and I went further to fulfill our task. Soon the damage was repaired, the connection was restored. A detachment of reconnaissance soldiers,tied to a tree, as we learned later, was destroyed by Japanese suicide bombers . When we went back, we decided to shorten the distance. From the hill on which we were, we could see our own unit and the front line, where battles were going on to destroy the fortified area. When we went down from the hill into the hollow, went out onto the road, carts with wounded soldiers came to meet us. The seriously wounded lay on the carts, but easily walked behind the carts. I saw a wounded friend from Konev, Nikolai Ivanovich Afanasyev, walking by. After a short conversation, we moved on, but lost our bearings. We were at the forefront. We turned back. Then we approached the barbed wire fence and were ambushed. Later we learned that there were soldiers in the ambush. And it turned out like this. Our troops, having liberated a part of the fortified area, which was surrounded by a wire fence, left several soldiers disguised in weeds at each bunker. And so, when we drew level with these pillboxes, we heard: “Stop who is coming!”. We answered: "Ours". And it could have been different, if they would not have shouted at us, but would have opened an automatic fire. I have awards: the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, the medal “For the victory over Japan. After seven years of service he was demobilized in October 1950 ”- from the memoirs of Veniamin Petrovich Spirichev. Dad was awarded medals: "For the victory over Japan", "30 years of the Soviet Army and the Navy", "25 years of victory over Germany."

In the village of Novikovo, Staro-Yuryevsky district, Tambov region, son Ivan was born in a large family of middle peasant Tikhomirov Ignat Vasilyevich and Anisia Ilyinichna on May 30, 1912. Ivan Tikhomirov was an active person, striving for knowledge. In 1931. in his village he graduated from the School of Peasant Youth (school of peasant youth), joined the Komsomol (All-Union Lenin Communist Youth Union) and honestly served the working people all his life. He continued his education at the industrial pedagogical technical school in the city of Losinoostrovsk, Moscow region, after graduating from which he worked as a mathematics teacher in the village of Borovok, Novo-Derevensky district, Ryazan region. In August 1936 he married, soon children were born - Galya and Volodya (in 1938 and 1940). The young family moved to the Moscow region, Ivan worked as the head of the Krasno-Pahorskiy RONO (regional department of public education), his wife studied at the Moscow IFLI (Institute of History, Philosophy and Literature). The world was already restless, a military threat was brewing. In 1940 he was sent to study at the Military-Political School named after Frunze of the Moscow Military District, in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). In April 1941. assignment - to the Northwestern Military District. Military rank - junior political instructor. From the first day of the war until December 1944 Ivan Tikhomirov was in the army. In September 1941 junior political instructor Ivan Tikhomirov was sent to the North-Western Front in the 163rd Infantry Division, appointed commissar of the 1st battery, then deputy commissar of the 1st division, then - party organizer of the 365th artillery regiment. After the war, he corresponded with fellow soldiers, received invitations from the Council of Veterans of the 163 divisions, traveled to Moscow for meetings, brought group photographs of comrades in arms, returned rejuvenated and enlightened. And he was very fond of humming "March of the Gunners". Ivan Ignatievich did not talk about the war, he avoided memories. For many years after the war, he shouted at night: “Forward! For the Motherland! " Rare front-line photographs with his comrades in arms have been preserved. On one of them there is an officer on the breastwork of a trench, on the back there is an inscription: “To the fighting friend Tikhomyrych. Looking at the photo, remember the "fun" days of our "peaceful" life. I hope that after the end of the war we will find an opportunity and conditions for a meeting so that we can remember the past days with a good glass. February 6, 1944 from. Kluki, Kiev region. Signature (illegible) ". In May 1944. Mikhail Kalinin, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet, presented awards to military officers. Major Tikhomirov was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Tikhomirov I.I. in the column "Government and other awards" there are: 1. Medal "For Military Merit". For military distinction 2. Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. For military distinction. 3. Order of the Red Star. For military distinctions. 4. Order of the Red Star. For military distinctions. 5. Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." 6. Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy" 7. Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" 8. Medal "20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 -1945" 9. Medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" In the spring of 1944. after being awarded the order, he received a short vacation, visited his family and gave life to his daughter. His wife wrote to the front: "Vanya, I'm pregnant!" And he replied: “So many people have died! Give birth, Sashko, maybe this is our happiness! " And so it happened - daughter Tatyana was born in February 1945, Ivan was already recalled from the front to study, he was never even wounded. Fate ... To children, Ivan Ignatievich told that once during a bombing, nurse Masha pushed him into a trench, covered him with her body, saved him, and she herself was seriously wounded. He could not find her after the war, and bequeathed to his children to remember about Masha. At the beginning of 1945. Major Tikhomirov became a cadet at the military academy. When the school year ended, he brought his family to Moscow. They did not give a residence permit, which means there are no ration cards either. We lived in the office of some kind boss. The cadet rations were divided into five. Hope for the best. But one day the wife saw a rat on her youngest daughter, who was sleeping for lack of another place in a galvanized trough. The family is more expensive, he filed a report on expulsion from the academy. Transferred to the Saratov military school as a teacher, moved with the whole family. He simultaneously began to study, graduated in 1946 artillery faculty of the Higher All-Army Military-Political Courses in Moscow. My wife worked in the library of the Saratov School. The family was not assembled for long, Ivan received a new assignment - three years of service in East Germany as part of a group of Soviet troops. Without family. And again my wife waited ... In the spring of 1950. already in the rank of lieutenant colonel I.I. Tikhomirov was sent to serve in the north, in the city of Arkhangelsk. This time he is traveling with his family. The work was connected with frequent business trips, traveling, in the room there was always a "emergency case" at the ready in case of an alarm or an emergency call. They lived in a two-story barrack for 18 officer families, a common long corridor, a common kitchen with a huge wood-burning stove. We lived openly and amicably. All went through wars,men- at the front, women - at the rear. Neighbor aunt Dasha survived the Leningrad blockade. In the spring of 1958. there was a sharp reduction in the size of the Army, many front-line soldiers resigned, including Ivan Ignatievich. The military service ended, a new stage of life began. The wives returned to their homeland in the Novo-Derevensky district of the Ryazan region. The new academic year 1958 began at the Al.-Nevskaya secondary school: Ivan was a military teacher, his wife was a teacher of home economics, and later - of history. It was difficult after the city in the village without light, with a kerosene lamp, but gradually we got used to it. They built their own house, rejoiced in the garden and flower garden, friends appeared, they were well received at school. Tikhomirov I.I., a communist with 20 years of experience, began to conduct active public work, was repeatedly awarded with certificates of honor of the district party committee as a propagandist and agitator, he was respected in the team for responsibility, honesty, adherence to principles and exactingness, - the military tempering affected. The war has undermined health. Ivan Ignatievich Tikhomirov died on May 17, 1970. Memories of the daughter of Tatyana.

Before the war, Pavel Ivanovich Simonov worked as a bank manager in the town of Yuryevets, Ivanovo region, where he lived with his family. When the Great Patriotic War began, the family was waiting for the replenishment of the fifth child. On July 29, 1941, he was drafted by the Yuryevets RVK into the ranks of the Red Army. The time has come for severe trials. Pavel Ivanovich took part in fierce battles in the Moscow region, Belarus. The events of those heroic years are farther and farther away from us, almost no direct participants in the battles survived. To understand and present a complete picture of these events, documents come to the rescue. Extract from the award list for the 862 rifle regiment of the 197th rifle "Bryansk Red Banner" division: "I award the medal" For Military Merit "to the Sergeant Major of the 76 mm cannon battery, junior sergeant Pavel Ivanovich Simonov for uninterrupted and timely supply of the battery's fire platoons with ammunition and hot food. It had to be delivered "under hurricane fire" of the enemy and in swampy terrain, which helped in the success of the regiment's operation in the Dubrov area. " Terrain in the area of ​​Dubrov village, Svetlogorsk district, Gomel region is swampy, with bushes. In some places, there are small islands, which could accommodate up to 6 people in a chain. The 197th rifle "Bryansk Red Banner" division was advancing from the right flank, its task was to cut the "highway" Dubrava - Prityki, saddle it and prevent the enemy from transferring reserves. Much blood was shed in those fierce battles. The fighter Simonov P.I., who also distinguished himself in battles in Western Ukraine, liberating the city of Sambor, made a worthy contribution to the success of the operation. This is evidenced by the documents. Extract from the award list: “During the Second World War, Sergeant-Major Pavel Ivanovich Simonov showed himself to be a brave, demanding commander towards himself and his subordinates. In the battles for the city of Sambor on July 7, 1944, with his own crew, he suppressed 2 firing points with machine-gun fire from an 82 mm mortar, dispersed the enemy's counter-offensive and destroyed up to 12 enemy soldiers and officers. " July - August 1944 was marked by the Lvov-Sandomierz operation by the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front, during which the soldier Simonov P.I. was presented to the Order of Glory III degree. Extract from the award list: “In the battles for the“ nameless ”height on August 17, 1944, the commander of the crew Simonov showed himself to be a brave commander. When the enemy launched a counterattack, Comrade Simonov, with his crew, hit the advancing German infantry and forced it to lie down. With his mortar, he destroyed the enemy firing point: a heavy machine gun and 11 Fritzes. By his actions, Comrade Simonov contributed to the fulfillment of the battle order. Worthy of being awarded the Order of Glory III Degree. Then there was the East Carpathian strategic military operation. On November 23, 1944, in the battles for the liberation of Czechoslovakia, Pavel Ivanovich Simonov was seriously wounded, which resulted in the loss of his right eye and right arm, followed by long-term treatment and rehabilitation in Georgia. The last place of service of Pavel Ivanovich Simonov - 1000 rifle regiment, 305 rifle division, 38 army, 67 rifle corps, 1st Ukrainian front. Position - squad leader of the 6th rifle company of the 2nd rifle battalion. We bow our heads before the blessed memory of our soldiers, who defended the freedom and independence of the Fatherland in fierce battles, gave us the opportunity to live and work, raise children on the most beautiful land in the world!

Economist, honorary oilman, laureate of the USSR State Prize (1944), Doctor of Economics (1948), professor (1958). The main stages of labor activity: Dean of the field-mechanical faculty of the Moscow Oil Institute named after I.M.Gubkin; Deputy Director of MNI (since 1931); Director of the Grozny Oil Institute (1932-1933); and acting Director of the MNI named after I.F. Gubkin (1933-1934); authorized by Glavneft at Amtorg (USA) (1934-1937); head of capital construction of Glavneft, dean of the oilfield faculty of the Moscow Research Institute named after I.F. Gubkin (1937-1939). In the period from 1939-1944 he worked at the fields of the Second Baku. He was the head of the technical department of the Bashneft trust, the director of the drilling office, the chief engineer of the Bashneft trust (Ishimbay), the chief engineer of the Bashneftekombinat (Ufa). Then - the head of the group and department of the oil industry of the USSR Council of People's Commissars, pedagogical work at the Moscow Research Institute of named after Gubkin (1944-1951); Director of the Institute of Oil of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1951-1958); Deputy Director of the Institute of Geology and Development of Fossil Fuels (1958-1966); Deputy Director of the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Drilling Technology (VNIIBT), professor at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin (1966-1975); professor-consultant VNIIBT (1975-1986). Scientific and production achievements: Author of more than 145 published scientific works, including 1 textbook, 16 monographs; 22 inventions. Among the monographs - "Electrochemical method of fixing unstable rocks" (1959); Isolation of absorbing horizons while drilling wells (1960); "Separation of reservoirs in oil and gas wells" (1973), etc. He trained 60 candidates of science. Participation in public life: Member of the Bureau of the Scientific Council of the State Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR for Science and Technology; deputy Chairman of the Central Board of NTO Oil and Gas Industry and Chairman of the Moscow Board; member of the editorial board of the journal "Oil Industry", academic councils of the Moscow Research Institute named after Gubkin and a number of research institutes for the defense of dissertations. State and industry awards: Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR - for the development and introduction into production of an integrated method of processing oil wells, providing a significant increase in oil production (1944); Honored Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR (1964); awarded the Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, medals. Honorary Oilman (1974).

Tikhobaeva (Berendyugina) Anastasia Yegorovna was born in 1924, in the village of Devotskoye, Suzemsky district, Bryansk region. After the occupation of the territory of the Bryansk region by the Nazi troops, she joined the partisan detachment named after the 25th anniversary of the Red Army under the command of Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov. She fought as an ordinary soldier, as part of a machine-gun crew in the period from August 22, 1942 to August 25, 1944. Demobilized in the fall of 1944, she returned to her homeland, to the Bryansk region. She was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Memories of the war days 1941-1944 of partisan Tikhobaeva Anastasia Yegorovna. "I was born and lived in the Bryansk region. Before the war I was 16 years old. I will not describe the whole severity of my childhood, the family was large with 7 children. In 1937, during the period of Stalinist repressions, our father was taken away without trial. We had to work, to work on a collective farm - both juniors and seniors, in order to somehow survive. Participated in the raid of a partisan unit under the command of A. N. Saburov on the occupied territory of the Ukrainian SSR. And in 1941 the war began. Already in the fall of 1941 Germans came to our small village and began to establish their own order, some were shot, hanged, burned, etc. In connection with such cruelty of the Germans, people with weapons in their hands began to appear in our forests and began to attack the Germans.In the spring of 1942, many partisans appeared who beat Germans from all sides. And then the Germans sent punitive detachments to destroy civilians and partisans. They began to burn villagery, and drive civilians to concentration camps, and then they were taken to Germany, some were killed on the spot. Our village was set on fire and the civilians were gathered, led under escort to send them to concentration camps. Our village was burning. Mother with small children went into the unknown. We seized a moment when the punishers hesitated. My sister and I slipped into the thick grass, where there was a lot of nettle. Since there was a continuous cloud of smoke in the village, we were not noticed. Relatives were taken away and we were left alone in the forest. We went to look for people to whom we could ask for help, everyone hoped that the parents would return. Time passed and no one helped us. And then I decided to find one of the detachments of the formation of Alexander Nikolaevich Saburov, who was at that time in our forests. They found out and talked to me, found out that I was left alone without parents, I was accepted into the detachment. Kochetkov P. was enrolled in the machine-gun crew of the 1st company. It took a little time and in October 1942, our connection with the addition of small detachments, left the Bryansk forests and went into a distant raid across the steppes of Ukraine, making their way to the rear of the enemies. Small towns were liberated, garrisons were smashed. Following the orders of the High Command, we go further, forcing rivers with battles, they surround us, drown us in the Pinsk swamps, planes bomb from morning to evening, there is not enough weapons. Broken and hungry, we get in touch with Moscow and they deliver weapons to us with difficulty, they break through, planes fly to us. We went forward again. We occupied our large regional center, and suddenly our museum is there now. When we were in the regions of Kovel-Brest-Pinsk, it was 1944 in the spring, we were then gathered to march to the Carpathians, where Sidor Artyomovich Kovpak fought fierce battles with the Nazis. We didn't have to reunite with Kovpak. Some of the boats crossed to the other side, not all. The order came to go back where they were. Since Kovel, Lutsk, Pinsk were done, we joined with the Red Army. The army moved on, and we were sent to Kiev, to the village of Svyatoshino. There was a construction of an air town, we were there before demobilization and paperwork. In November 1944, I returned to my homeland, to the Bryansk forests. In the ashes where people started a new life. "

Surnin Georgy Ivanovich Born on January 6, 1918 in the village of Voskresenovka, now the Skovorodinsky District of the Amur Region, in a peasant family. Russian. Graduated from 4th grade. He worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Skovorodinsky district military enlistment office. In the spring of 1941 he was demobilized and returned home. With the outbreak of war, he was again drafted into the army. Already in 1941, the family received the first death notice, but the soldier continued to fight. By the summer of 1943, he was the commander of the DShK machine gun(heavy machine gun of Degtyarev-Shpagin) crew of the 188th Argun Infantry Regiment of the 106th Transbaikal Infantry Division. In the battles on the Kursk Bulge, the crew of senior sergeant Surnin shot down 2 fighters and a bomber, for which the crew commander was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Later, as part of the regiment, he participated in the battles for the liberation of the left-bank Ukraine. When crossing the Dnieper River, he commanded a squad. On October 15, 1943, Sergeant Major Surnin was the first with his squad to cross the Dnieper River near the village of Loev (Gomel region of Belarus) and knocked the enemy out of the trench. On October 16, in the battle for the village of Loev, he replaced the out-of-order company commander. Skillful actions, together with other units, drove the Nazis from the occupied line and occupied Loev, more than 60 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed. On October 17, a group of fighters under the command of Surnin repulsed a counterattack of the Nazis and moved forward. In this battle, Sergeant Major Surnin was seriously wounded, and the next death notice went home. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 30, 1943, for the successful crossing of the Dnieper River, the firm consolidation of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper River and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Sergeant Major Surnin Georgy Ivanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ... After the hospital was sent to another unit. At the beginning of 1944 he served as a foreman of a rifle company in the 963rd rifle regiment of the 274th rifle division. Participated in the battles for the liberation of Belarus, was awarded the medal "For Courage". He ended the war in Hungary. In 1945 he graduated from courses at the Gorky Tank School. Since 1946, junior lieutenant G.I. Surnin is in reserve. He returned to his homeland. He worked as the head of the team of the paramilitary security detachment of the Trans-Baikal Railway. Only in 1947 the front-line soldier was awarded high awards of the Motherland - the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. Member of the CPSU since 1965. He lived in the city of Skovorodino, Amur Region. Died on January 18, 1991. Buried at the cemetery of the city of Skovorodino

The flames of war blazed for 1418 days and nights. The victory achieved by the Soviet people was won by the combined efforts of the Armed Forces, the workers' rear, the peasantry and the intelligentsia. For the first time the Nazis were stopped near Moscow, the Nazis for the first time were forced to turn back their main forces. The victory at Moscow opened the beginning of a radical turning point in the war. This victory thwarted Hitler's plan for a "blitzkrieg" and dispelled the myth of the invincible German fascist army. During the war years Moscow was the center of the anti-fascist struggle, the standard of courage, heroism and courage. In the Moscow direction, the invaders rallied their main efforts, trying to capture and destroy the Soviet capital along with its population as soon as possible. The fight against fascism was intense and difficult. The inhabitants of Moscow and the Moscow region did not lose heart, did not bow their heads before a strong and insidious enemy. They rallied closely and bravely endured all ordeals. The home front workers made a huge contribution to the victory of our soldiers near Moscow. Among the rear workers was my grandmother, Nina Nikolaevna Semyonova. During the war, she worked at the Moscow Radio Engineering Plant (MRTZ). In the war years, this plant was called "Patron" and produced large-caliber cartridges for aviation. After a very short time, the grandmother was already working independently at the machines and grinding parts according to drawings. My grandmother did not fight on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, where the fate of the whole world was decided. She worked selflessly in the rear. The Great Patriotic War was going on, everyone was hard and hungry. For the whole very long working day, my grandmother received only 500 grams of bread. She was one of the best workers in the factory. Her photo was constantly hung on the stand of the best workers. She has many certificates, gratitude and medals for excellent work. She is a Labor Veteran. Full work experience with my grandmother is 48 years. Together with my grandfather, my grandmother raised her daughter - my mother, who inherited from them a conscientious attitude to work. She has a grandson and a granddaughter. And we all love her very much! My grandmother is the best, I love her very much and am proud of her! Today Moscow is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Its beauty is eternal, like life itself, like the very desire of a person for Peace and Good. And this is part of my grandmother's merit.

Solomatov Alexander Vasilyevich was born on March 8, 1924, in the city of Khem-Beldyr, Tannu-Tuva People's Republic (now it is the city of Kyzyl of the Tyva Republic). He began his career at the age of 16 in the Tuva Regional Council of Trade Unions, as a sorter of furs. On May 25, 1943, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army - and after graduating from a tank regimental school in December 1943, as a 19-year-old junior technician-lieutenant, he went to the front as part of the 56th Guards Tank Brigade of the 3rd Tank Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. After the end of World War II, he was sent to the Far East as part of the 77th Army Self-Propelled Heavy Tank Regiment. He took part in the Soviet-Japanese war, was seriously wounded. By order of 06.09.1946, No. 0496, he was dismissed from the USSR Armed Forces due to injury. After demobilization, he devoted his life to serving the law and fighting crime. He worked where combat training was required, his life experience and dedication to the profession, duty and honor - having given service in the prosecutor's office for more than 30 years. In 1970, Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov graduated from Krasnoyarsk State University, received a higher legal education. He served as an intern in the investigation department of the Tuva regional prosecutor's office, later as an investigator and senior investigator of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kyzyl, later as an assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl, then as a prosecutor of the city of Kyzyl and prosecutor of the Ulug-Khem region of the Tuva ASSR. Subsequently, he served as a prosecutor and senior prosecutor of the investigation department of the prosecutor's office of the Tuva ASSR. He worked in the judiciary for over 10 years, was a people's judge of the Piy-Khem region. For about two years he worked in the elective position of deputy chairman of the executive committee of people's deputies. For his personal and professional qualities, the residents of the districts elected him a deputy of the district Council of People's Deputies and a people's judge - but he again returned to the prosecutor's office, to the most difficult and responsible area of ​​the fight against crime. Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov was fluent in the Tuvan language. His competence in the history of Tuva, knowledge of the traditions and customs of the local population, combined with his goodwill and respect for people, adherence to principles and exactingness in upholding the rights and freedoms of citizens contributed to raising the authority of the law among the population - and Alexander Timofeevich himself was an example for all employees of the prosecutor's office Tuvinian ASSR. In the conditions of a transitional period and the departure of many specialists from the prosecutor's office, the aggravation of the crime situation and interethnic relations, despite his age - Alexander Timofeevich Solomatov in December 1992 readily responded to the request of the leadership of the republican prosecutor's office to help young workers in organizing the investigation of serious crimes, supervision of preliminary investigation and operational-search activities in the internal affairs bodies. Every third criminal case of premeditated murder passed through his hands, according to which they were given instructions and advice on organizing the investigation. In particularly complex criminal cases, he himself took a direct part in the production of investigative actions carried out by young investigators, regardless of personal time. Continuing to remain in the team, he gave lectures and talks in front of various audiences, passed on his many years of experience to the new generation, being an example of loyalty to the profession and duty to the law. In 1996, he retired from the prosecutor's office and on October 8, 1996, after a serious illness, he died. For many years and conscientious work in the prosecutor's office he received state and departmental awards. His labor services to the people are marked by orders: - Order of the Red Star; - Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree; - Order of Friendship; medals: - "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." - Jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "; - Jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - Jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - Jubilee medal "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War";

Smolkova (Pryakhina) Maria Grigorievna was born in 1923 in the Penza region. Four of her brothers were taken to the war, she was taken to the war as the fifth in 1942, when an order was issued to mobilize women. In the war, 2 brothers Nikolai and Mikhail were killed, 2 other brothers Ivan and Fyodor returned from the war, my grandmother also reached Romania and returned. Her Red Army book from the times of the Great Patriotic War has been preserved. It states that she was a Red Army air defense observer. As she said, the task of her and her fellow soldiers was to detect the approach of German aircraft by sound and report this to the anti-aircraft gunners who destroyed enemy aircraft. They were taught this. She said that the sound of German aircraft was different from ours, it was scary, ominous for her, and the sound of our aircraft made her happy. She was on the front line, she said that the girls were afraid, because as she said: “The front line is not marked with a pencil, we do not know whether we are on our territory or on the territory of the enemy, where it is possible to meet eye to eye with the Nazis, but we go with coils with a telephone wire on the shoulder. " She said that she was very afraid to be left behind when the cars in which they were traveling stopped at the stations, and the girls took turns going to fetch water, so I remembered the number of my unit for life. During one of the halts, the girls found a samovar and decided to warm the water in it in order to wash their hair. When my grandmother went to fetch water, a German bomb fell in the place where the samovar was, and grandmother would have died if she had not gone to fetch water. She said: "So it was not destiny to die in the war." She spoke about the war with humor, said that the first time she ate fill was during the war. The village was constantly starving, and she had a large family. Her Red Army book has been preserved, where there are all the records of her conscription and her service. There are also war photographs, they are very well preserved, her notes have been preserved on the back of the photographs. One photograph shows her military unit, the reverse says "May 10, 1945 on Victory Day." She said that they learned about the victory on May 10 and thought that it was on that day that victory in the war came. At that time she was in Romania.

Sypko Vasily Petrovich was born on February 4, 1924 in the village of Troitskoye, Tatar District, Novosibirsk Region. Drafted to the front on August 17, 1942 by the Shmakovsky RVK of the Ussuri region. He fought in the active army since September 1942. Sergeant, senior telegraph operator in the 114th separate communications battalion of the 194th rifle division of the Rechitsa Red Banner. He fought on the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts, took part in the Battle of Kursk. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals "For the capture of Konigsberg" and "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." Until now, the memory of the long kilometers of war, traversed by the former sergeant (squad leader) of the 194th Infantry Division of the Rechitsa Red Banner Division, Vasily Petrovich Sypko, and the heroic deeds he performed, is still alive. From the memoirs of Vasily Petrovich Sypko: “The gala evening dedicated to the graduates of secondary school No. 1 in the city of Lesozavodsk, held at the end of May 1941, is still remembered. There were 25 of us in the 10th "B" class. They had fun at the evening, dreamed of further education. I dreamed of entering the Far Eastern Pedagogical Institute of the city of Vladivostok at the turbine-building faculty of the mechanical engineering department, where I soon sent my documents. But the war broke out ... Everything changed dramatically. A card system was introduced. Instead of studying, he went to work as an inspector at the Shmakovskaya Inspectorate of the Central Statistical Administration (Narkhozuchet) in the city of Lesozavodsk. In August 1942, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to a training regiment stationed in the village of Knyaze-Volkonka of the Khabarovsk Military District - from where, instead of studying as part of a platoon, he was sent to the village of Poyarkovo, Amur Region, to procure agricultural products for our unit, where he stayed until November ... In the middle of December 1942, some of the soldiers, including myself, were uniform (short fur coats, felt boots, caps with earflaps, fur mittens) - and were sent to the front from the railway station in Khabarovsk. At the station Alkino-2 (Bashkiria), during an inspector's check, part of the soldiers, as unprepared for hostilities, were removed from the echelon - and we, dressed in category 5 overcoats, were sent to a training camp (dugouts) for military training, where we stayed until March 1943. Then we were again sent to the Central Front (Kursk-Oryol Bulge) by echelon. There I, in the 460th Infantry Regiment of the 194th Infantry Division with the rank of sergeant (squad commander), fought heavy battles in the Central, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He liberated Belarus and Poland, took part in the hardest battle on the Kursk-Oryol Buldge, in the forcing of the rivers: Berezina, Sozh, Dnieper; in the defeat of the fascist troops in the Bobruisk entrapment; in the liberation of the city of Rechitsa, the assault and capture of Konigsberg and the forcing of the Frisch Ghar Bay in the Baltic Sea - where on the Frisch Nerung Spit in the morning of May 9, 1945, the war ended for us. The fascists threw out the white flag. " In battles, Vasily Petrovich was twice wounded, several times he was covered with earth from the explosion of bombs and shells. He took part in hand-to-hand combat and fights. In April-May 1947 he was demobilized and came to his mother in the city of Lesozavodsk, where in August 1947 he entered the Khabarovsk two-year law school, after which, by order of the then prosecutor of the Primorsky Territory, Boldyrev, he was appointed people's investigator of the Terneisky district prosecutor's office. In 1952-1953 he studied at the all-Union courses of the prosecutor's office in the city of Kharkov, and then was appointed prosecutor in various cities and districts of the Primorsky Territory: first in Chernigov, Spassky and Oktyabrsky districts, later in the cities of Arsenyev (1963-1973) and Lesozavodsk (1973 –1975), later - in the Anuchinsky region (1975–1984). Vasily Petrovich has devoted more than 34 years to work in the prosecutor's office. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. He was also awarded with many jubilee medals. In honor of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus, he was awarded the medal "For the liberation of Belarus". In 2008, the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation awarded Vasily Petrovich the medal "Veteran of the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation". Vasily Petrovich Sypko died in 2017.

Vasily Sidorkin was born in the village of Stanovka, Bolsheuksky District, Omsk Region in 1906. He took part in the Great Patriotic War as a squad commander of the 1214th Infantry Regiment of the 364th Infantry Division, formed in the Siberian Military District. The division was included on March 1, 1942 in the 1st Shock Army of the North-Western Front. According to the report on irrecoverable losses dated April 28, 1942 No. 5906 of the headquarters of the 364th rifle division, Sergeant V.D.Sidorkin died on March 25, 1942. He was buried in the village of Sokolovo, Leningrad Region (reburied in a military grave in the village of Baikovo, Starorussky District, Novgorod Region). In the report of August 9, 1942, No. 18993, another date of his death is indicated - July 18, 1942. A colleague who returned from the front said that they , together with V.D.Sidorkin were wounded in battle on March 25, 1942 . It took more than a week to get to ours, my grandfather dragged him. By this time, they were considered dead. During this period, heavy battles were going on near Staraya Russa: “Having concentrated significant forces in the area of ​​Staraya Russa of the Leningrad region, the enemy launched an offensive in the direction of Demyansk in March 1942 to join the forces of the 16th Army, which was surrounded. The main blow was delivered in the Sokolovo-Podsepochye, Velikoye Selo-Ozhedevo sector by the 1st strike group of enemy forces consisting of the 8th Infantry Division, 329th Infantry Division, an officer's school and a number of other special forces acting as infantry. With the breakthrough of the front line by the 1st Shock Army in the Utkino-Syroeshkino sector, the division, by order of the Military Council of the 1st Shock Army from the Ustye-Bolshiye Yasny area, was transferred to the Sokolovo-Podsepochye, Selo-Ozhedevo 1st sector with the task of stopping and disrupting the enemy's offensive ... From March 22 to April 10, 1942, the division fought stubborn battles on the Velikoye Selo – Sokolovo front, with a total length of 11 kilometers, taking on the blow of the 8th Infantry Division, 329th Infantry Division, officer school and a number of other special forces of the enemy. During this period, units of the division were continuously subjected to systematic bombing and shelling of enemy aircraft from 20 to 100 aircraft simultaneously during the day, after which raids were repulsed by numerous enemy attacks. ... The division completed the task. The enemy was stopped at the indicated lines. ... Sidorkin Vasily Dmitrievich died. Subsequently, the division was repeatedly reorganized, took part in breaking the blockade of Leningrad, liberating Soviet Latvia, ended its journey at the Alt-Lubitz-Hassendorf (Germany) line. ”According to the stories of the search engines, such fierce battles were fought near the village of Sokolovo that almost every square meter of land contains the remains of the soldiers and their military equipment. In the museum of the North-Western Front in the city of Staraya Russa, eyewitnesses of those years (local residents) recalled that they saw huge crowds of our soldiers walking to the front line, and almost no one returned back.

Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov was born on May 16, 1924 in Ukraine, in the village of Alexandrovka, Chernigov region, in the family of Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna Tretyakov. Then the family moved to the Amur Region for resettlement and settled in the town of Kivnet, Bureya District (a railway station, now part of the village of Bureya). Anton Artemovich and Maria Ivanovna had nine children. Alexey was the eldest of the children, so the war fell to his lot. At the beginning of 1943, at the age of 18, he was drafted into the Red Army. First - to Khabarovsk, to the school of junior commanders, and six months later he was sent to the Western Front. There he ended up in a reconnaissance company. According to his stories, they often went behind the front line for "tongues" - and not without success. In one of these sorties, his commander was seriously wounded - and he was dragging him out by crawling, in a box from under shells across the front line. They crawled more than three kilometers. The commander survived, he was wounded in the neck. After the war, my grandfather met with the commander. It was somewhere in the seventies. When they met, they hugged and could not speak for a long time, only cried. They left behind the front line and with sabotage missions (they hunted food from the Germans, shot German officers from sniper rifles). One day, returning from another assignment, they saw a German officer walking on horseback. They removed him from the horse, tied him up and, together with the stallion, brought him to their positions. The stallion was then given the nickname "trophy" and was presented to the regiment commander, whose service horse had died the day before. My grandfather said that this stallion carried out commands only in German. Near Kursk he was seriously wounded. They came from reconnaissance and settled in the trench for lunch - and at that time the mortar shelling began. The first mine fell far ahead of the trench, the second from behind. The third mine hit the breastwork of the trench - and he remembered nothing else ... He woke up already in the hospital, when the nurse was washing the dirt and blood from his head. Shrapnel from a mine hit the head, shoulder, leg and chest. He survived. After the war, when X-rays were taken, he was always asked: “Have you been to the war? Does the shard bother you? Well, then a soldier - go with him, it is very dangerous to remove him, it is close to your heart. " His children often put a magnet on his leg and head - and it stuck to the body, since there were metal fragments inside. Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree "found" him after the war, somewhere in the 80s. He was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office, where the award was solemnly presented. Alexey Antonovich Tretyakov died in 1988.

"I am Tkachuk Alexey Isakovich, was born on February 14, 1921 in the family of a middle peasant, in the village of Norinsk, Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1928 I entered the Norinsk secondary school, which I graduated from in 1938 - and went to work in Zhelonsk incomplete secondary school of the Ovruch district of the Zhytomyr region, where he worked until 1939. In 1939 he graduated from the advanced training courses for teachers and was appointed a teacher at the Skrebelich primary school of the Ovruch district of the Zhytomyr region, where he worked before being drafted into the Red Army. On September 18, 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army and on October 22, 1939, he arrived in the 504th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division of the Siberian Military District, in the city of Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, where he was enrolled as a cadet in the regimental school of this regiment.In October 1940, he graduated from the regimental school with the rank of junior sergeant and was appointed for the position of commander of the radio unit of the 7th battery of the 3rd division of the 510th howitzer artillery regiment. In July 1941, as part of the regiment, he was sent to the Western Front, then to the Kalinin Front. The 510th Howitzer Artillery Regiment was transferred to the Reserve of the High Command, where it remained until October 1942. In the fall of 1942, by order of the Military Council of the 29th Army, the 510th Howitzer Artillery Regiment began to replace the material part worn out in battles. Since January 1, 1943, by order of the People's Commissariat of Defense, the regiment has been part of the 1st Howitzer Brigade of the 3rd Artillery Division of the Reserve of the High Command, where, as a radio unit commander, he participated in battles on the Western Front until August 3, 1943. On August 3, 1943, he was seriously wounded and sent to evacuation hospital No. 1236 at the Luza station of the Kirov region, where he lay until December 1943. In December, he was discharged from the hospital and sent to the 36th reserve artillery regiment of the 2nd reserve rifle division, at the Chebarkul station of the Chelyabinsk region, where he worked as a senior radiotelephone master of the regiment until March 1944. In March 1944, he was sent to the Frunze Gorky Red Banner Political School, which he graduated in February 1945. On February 2, 1944, he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant. From February to May 1945 he was in the reserve regiment of political personnel in the city of Gorky. In May 1945 he was sent to the 1st Belorussian Front, where he was in the reserve of the political administration of the 1st Belorussian Front until June 1945. In June 1945, he was appointed to the post of Komsomol organizer of the 930th separate anti-aircraft artillery division of the 35th Guards Rifle Division of the 4th Guards Corps of the 8th Guards Army, where he worked until November 1945. In November 1945, due to the reduction of the liberated Komsomol agents, he was appointed to the post of Komsomol organizer of the 40th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment of the 377th Guards Artillery Brigade of the 4th Guards Rifle Corps of the 7th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany, where he worked until June 1946. In June, due to the disbanding of the unit, he was appointed head of the library of the 399th Guards Artillery Brigade of the 82nd Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany, where he worked in this position until April 1947. Due to the fact that the unit was disbanded, in April 1947, he was appointed head of the library of the 128th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In 1947, he completed a one-month course for library directors at the Political Directorate of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. In the 128th Guards Cannon Artillery Regiment he worked until December 1949 - and in December 1949 he was transferred to the Leningrad Military District and was appointed head of the club of the 335th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Brigade. The rank of lieutenant was awarded in March 1950. He was in the Komsomol from 1934 to 1943. In May 1943 he became a member of the All-Union Communist party (b). "PS This autobiography was written by him. After the Great Patriotic War, he held leading positions. He finished service in 1956, in the city of Pavlovsk, Leningrad region, with the rank of senior lieutenant. Was dismissed from Army Forces for health reasons, died on October 25, 2005. Buried in the village of Norinsk, Ovruch district, Zhytomyr region, Ukraine, he was a modest, honest, principled and respected person, never enjoyed any privileges.