Heroes and feats

Turchin Dmitry Afanasevich was born in 1924 in the village of Novo-Khatunichi, Shkotovsky District, Primorsky Territory. Member of the Great Patriotic War, scientist and lawyer, professor, Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Worker of Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Labor Veteran, Honorary Veteran of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation - a legendary and unique person who lives and works next to us. A man of a difficult and heroic fate, along which the twentieth century rolled with all its weight. The harsh time after the Civil War, the years of the formation of the Soviet state, political repressions did not pass by his family either. A hungry, homeless childhood, he often lived with distant relatives and complete strangers, at one time he was even hidden under another name. However, no hardships and troubles broke young Dmitry, and in 1942 he graduated from the only ten-year school number 1 in the city of Artem. Among other graduates, hiding his 17-year-old age from the military commissar, he zealously tries to get to the front as a volunteer, and this practically works, but at the last moment, in some incomprehensible way to him, these circumstances are clarified and he is incapacitated already ready for departure to the front of a military unit. By the summer of 1942, the situation on all fronts was difficult and hard. All the guys rushing to the front were registered by the military registration and enlistment office and, if necessary, taking into account their education, called to war. In the end, Turchin was involved in technical work in the military registration and enlistment office as a clerical worker. His duties included keeping records of the economic property of enterprises and organizations. Observing how every night the military registration and enlistment office sent two or three cars of recruits, Dmitry turned to the commissioner every day about sending them to the army, but to no avail. In early September 1942, Turchin ran into the commissar's office, demanding to be immediately sent to the front with the first car. For which the commissioner said to him: “I am planning to send you to the school. But I see, foolishly, you will still run away. Therefore, hell with you, take your documents and go! " So, on September 4, 1942, service began in the Marine Corps of the 915th separate battery of the regimental artillery of the Pacific Fleet on Russky Island in the position held as "gun number" of the Red Army soldier Turchin. As he writes in his memoirs, "... three full years in a row in anticipation of the battle ...". During this time, what military specialties did not have to be mastered. He was a cavalryman and artilleryman, driver, scout and radio operator. Finally, in August 1945, the long-awaited hour came! By this time, D. A. Turchin received the rank of corporal and was already a member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU. “… Life in a war consists of a series of moments. And this was confirmed by the appearance of the command platoon commander. He said that the landing command needed at least two more good radio operators with a radio station. Looking into my eyes, he smiled. “Go! - he said. - While the battalion commander is not visible. And corporal Turchin went ... Off the coast of Korea, jumping into the sea while landing from a ship in full gear with a heavy radio on his shoulders, he sank headlong into the water ... To swim out alive, you could drop the radio, but losing the radio in combat conditions meant that same inevitable death, and D.A.Turchin made another choice, he walked along the seabed towards the coast and walked until he came out ... As part of the 354th separate battalion of the marines of the 915th separate artillery battery of the Pacific Fleet, he participated in the liberation of two cities in North Korea. On the way to the city, Yuuki came under heavy artillery fire, 12 people survived from their company. From the memoirs of DA Turchin: “…. Part of the soldiers died from artillery salvos. But this provision only added anger and rage to the personnel. On one of the flanks, a Japanese battery fired so much that it slowed down the advance of our units. The command ordered to paralyze the activity of the enemy battery. One of the companies of the 354th battalion of the marines, despite the losses, literally burst into the position of the battery, the guards of which were destroyed, and the gunners fled. Fighter Akimov, seeing that the battery's guns were in combat readiness, together with his comrades, under dense small arms fire, turned the guns towards the enemy and opened continuous fire on the enemy from his own guns with direct fire. The enemy was stunned and chose to retreat. For his feat, resourcefulness, courage and ingenuity in battle, Akimov was awarded the Order of Lenin ... ". By order No. 372 of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, dated August 23, 1945, corporal D. A. Turchin, among the distinguished Red Navy men, foremen and officers of ships and units of the Pacific Fleet, was grateful for excellent military operations in battles with the Japanese in the Far East. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09/30/1945 for participation in hostilities against the Japanese imperialists, D.A. Turchin was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan".From the memoirs of DA Turchin: “The demobilization came only in 1947. Four and a half years of my youth were swallowed up by the war…. In the aspect of the past, I cannot but say about Vladivostok. After all, the city was located at the front line and was closely connected with it. And now, after demobilization, many people told me that once a small ship was standing at the oil depot. At this time, a Japanese suicide bomber appeared over the bay. He headed for the ship. But, obviously, he decided to hit a more important object - a tank farm, began to unfold. At that moment, a sailor, who was on duty on the deck of the ship, killed a suicide bomber from a machine-gun mount. The plane fell into the bay near the oil depot. It is interesting to know if it actually happened. If there was, then maybe to find it in order to confirm the Japanese attacks on the peaceful city. " After demobilization from the ranks of the armed forces in March 1947, D. A. Turchin works as a reporter at the editorial office of the Shakhtar newspaper in the city of Artyom and, through the party line, goes to study at the Khabarovsk law school, which he graduates with honors in 1949, and then to 1955 - All-Union Correspondence Law Institute (VYUZI). Since 1949, D.A. Turchin served in the prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory, successively occupying the positions of assistant to the prosecutor of the city of Artem, prosecutor of the department for supervision of places of detention, senior investigator of the regional prosecutor's office. In December 1953, he was appointed prosecutor of the Shmakovsky district (now the Kirovsky district of the Primorsky Territory), in 1957 - the prosecutor of the city of Lesozavodsk. In 1959, he was transferred to the post of prosecutor of the general supervision department of the prosecutor's office of the Primorsky Territory.

Tyurin Sergey Vasilievich was born on October 14, 1923 in the village of Asovitsa, Komarichsky district, Bryansk region. In 1941, he graduated from high school in Moscow (10 classes) and in October 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army, where he served until February 1945. In December 1941, he graduated from the Leningrad courses of political personnel (which at that time were in the city of Melekess, Ulyanovsk region) - and then, as a deputy political instructor of a company of machine gunners of the 335th rifle regiment of the 58th rifle division, participated in battles on the Western Front, during February -April 1942. In April 1942, he was seriously wounded for the first time and was undergoing treatment in the hospital for a long time. In May 1944 he graduated from the 2nd Moscow Infantry School and then, in June-November 1944, fought in the 158th Infantry Division on the 3rd Belorussian and 1st Baltic fronts - as a divisional reconnaissance platoon commander. Participated in Operation Bagration, in the liberation of Belarus and the Baltic States. In November 1944 he was seriously wounded for the second time and, after being cured in the hospital, in February 1945 he was demobilized as an invalid of the Patriotic War. In 1950 he graduated from the evening department of the Moscow Law Institute. He served in the prosecutor's office for 42 years, of which 40 years in the central apparatus of the USSR Prosecutor's Office. He began work in the prosecutor's office in April 1950 as a senior investigator of the prosecutor's office of the WHITLK of the Moscow region. From December 1951 to January 1992 he worked in the USSR Prosecutor's Office, first as a prosecutor of various departments and departments, then, for 8 years - from 1967 to 1974, as deputy head of the investigation department, and from 1974 as head of the statistics department. Later he was the head of the information and analytical department - senior assistant to the Prosecutor General of the USSR. In total, he served in the prosecutor's office for 42 years, including 40 years in the central office of the Prosecutor's Office of the USSR. He was a member of the regional public organization "Union of Investigation Veterans". State Counselor of Justice of the 2nd class, Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR, Honorary Worker of the Prosecutor's Office. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Red Star, the Order of Honor, medals For Labor Valor, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, as well as the Veteran of the Prosecutor's Office medal, the distinction loyalty to the law ”I degree and other medals. Died in 2108. From the memoirs of Sergei Vasilyevich Tyurin: "On June 21, 1941, in our 660th Moscow secondary school, then located in Granatny Lane (which is right behind the mansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Spiridonovka Street), a graduation party took place. We celebrated the end of secondary school - 10 classes .We all, students and teachers, had fun, rejoiced at the end of our first youthful period of life and prepared to enter a big life. We thanked our teachers (and our teachers were really good and were like family to us) - and the teachers, in turn, praised us and wished success in life. We were full of plans for the future, were inspired by the opportunities opening up before us. Someone dreamed of becoming a pilot, someone a polar explorer, someone an artist. I remember Fedya Listvoy. He dreamed of becoming an artist and already lived in some character. And we believed him and were convinced that he would fulfill his dream. All night we walked around Moscow, went to Red Square. In the morning, already at dawn, I returned home.at that time we lived on Patriarch's Ponds. I didn't want to go home and, filled with feelings of joy and hope, I sat down on a bench on the Patriarch's Ponds and admired the surrounding beauty for some time and dreamed. Finally, I went up to my house and went to bed. I fell asleep and slept like a dead man. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon my father woke me up and said: "Get up, son, your time has come to go to war." At this time, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov spoke on the radio. He spoke of Germany's treacherous attack on the Soviet Union. This is how all our plans and dreams ended. And Fyodor Listvoy, my friend, died in the war, never realizing his dream of becoming an artist (and he could have become - and, probably, not bad). On July 19, 1941, my father absurdly died, falling under the car of a military convoy on the Garden Ring. The bombing of Moscow soon began. We began guarding the courtyards and rooftops, dropping incendiary bombs into a box of sand. But then a mass evacuation of the population from Moscow began - and we also ended up in Kuibyshev (now Samara). The district committee of the Komsomol of the Kuibyshev region sent me to work as an accountant at a state farm near Kuibyshev. And in October 1941 I received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office and an invitation from the district committee of the Komsomol. There I was offered a referral to the Leningrad police officers' courses, which at that time were located in the city of Melekess, Ulyanovsk region (now it is the city of Dmitrovgrad). So I became a cadet in the course of the political staff. After three months of intensive military training, we were awarded the rank of deputy political commander of the company and sent to combat units (the deputy political commander of the company was roughly equal to the rank of the company sergeant major with four triangles on the buttonholes and an asterisk on the sleeve). I was sent to the 58th Rifle Division, which was forming in the forest near Melekess. I remember walking there at night. I found the dugout of the commander of the 335th regiment, in which I was assigned. It turned out to be Major Tatarinov. He was alone in the dugout. I reported to him and was amazed at the reception he gave me. He met me as a son, left me in his dugout for the night, gave me tea and put me to bed, saying that tomorrow he would send me to a company of submachine gunners. I will remember this fatherly reception for the rest of my life. The division was re-formed and underwent intensive and reinforced training. And that meant three more months of such preparation for me. In March 1942, the division was loaded into wagons and we headed to the Western Front. By this time, the Moscow counter-offensive of the Red Army had just ended, as a result of which the enemy was driven back from Moscow at a great distance. We drove to the Sukhinichi. All around was destroyed, burnt houses, villages, chimneys of burnt houses stuck out. In front of Sukhinichi, our echelon was attacked by two German aircraft. Calmly and with impunity, they shot our train, shot the locomotive and just as calmly flew away. We felt our defenselessness. At night another steam locomotive came from Sukhinichy and we were taken to our destination. And then there was night unloading - and we went on foot to the front line, which was 100 kilometers from Sukhninichy. March. Melting snow, country roads were blown away, and at night, across ruined terrain, without any food supply, hungry and cold, we moved to the front. And at the same time, an endless line of wounded soldiers was moving towards us. And everyone said that they were coming from Zaitseva Gora. Our division was also thrown on this "Zaitseva Gora" in the area of ​​Meshchevsk-Mosalsk. There were heavy battles, the enemy was entrenched in an advantageous position after the retreat from Moscow. Endless attempts to knock him down from these positions ended in vain, especially since our offensives took place without any preparation. Neither artillery nor aircraft supported the offensive, and our tanks, which were stationed in the grove of the river floodplain, could not move along the swampy soil of this floodplain, and only themselves were subjected to frantic bombing by German aircraft. In one of our next attacks, I was seriously wounded. And it happened like this. At night, our unit made a march to another section of the front line. On our way there was unexpectedly a wide ditch filled with seething spring water. Some not very reliable pole was thrown across the ditch. We had no choice but to cross this pole. I went first (after all, I am the company's deputy political instructor). A PPSh submachine gun was hanging around my neck. In the middle of the ditch, I lost my balance, fell off the pole and fell into the ditch, sinking up to my throat into the water. Climbing out of the ditch, I poured the water out of my boots, tried to wring out my overcoat. But none of this helped. It was already early morning. It began to freeze. The overcoat stuck on me. In this state, me, with the unit, reached the front line and, drowning in the swampy soil of the river floodplain, went on the attack on the very "Zaitseva Gora" where I was wounded. The second time I went to the front was in May 1944, after graduating from the 2nd Moscow Infantry School. At first it was the 3rd Belorussian Front, Operation Bagration and the liberation of Belarus, then the 1st Baltic Front and the liberation of the Baltic. Me, in the 158th Infantry Division, as the commander of a divisional reconnaissance platoon, participated in battles and in November 1944 was seriously wounded for the second time. This time, in February 1945, I was discharged from the hospital as an invalid of the Patriotic War and demobilized from the army. Victory Day - May 9, 1945, I met on the streets of Moscow with my friends from the hospital, already demobilized. "

The newspaper "Znamya Oktyabrya" No. 29 (9712) dated April 15, 2015 reported: "The future Hero was born in the village of Syrtinsky, Kizil district in 1918. Soon the family moved to the Kochkarskie goldworks, where Mikhail Tashkin spent his childhood and youth. A graduate of Plast School No. 9 Tashkin was drafted into the Red Army in 1940. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was already a career military man: a cadet in the artillery school of junior commanders. The cadets, along with the guns, were included in the artillery division of the 31st Mountain Rifle Brigade, which was defending the Karelian city of Kandalaksha. On the fifth day of the war, he receives the rank of junior sergeant. Three days later, he was appointed as the gunner of the 76-mm mountain gun. At the end of the second month of fighting, he becomes the commander of the gun crew. And in this capacity, he will go through almost the entire war, reaching the heights of artillery skill. In the Arctic, the gun commander Tashkin fought for three years, was wounded twice, but did not leave the battery, refusing treatment in the hospital. His military orders show how he fought, which are almost impossible to be earned by an ordinary sergeant - the Order of the Battle Red Banner and the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. In the summer of 1944, Finland, against which the Karelian front fought, withdrew from the war, and hostilities ceased. Front troops began to be transferred to other fronts. So the 31st brigade was included in the composition of the 4th Ukrainian Front. On March 24, 1945, during the attack, one of the brigade's battalions came under heavy machine-gun fire. German firing points were in brick buildings, and they could only be destroyed by artillery fire - direct fire. Tashkin decided on a desperate act. The cannon was carried by a horse team. Mikhail gave a signal to the rider, and the horses with a cannon rushed towards the Nazis. At 200 meters from the enemy positions, the horses were deployed, the cannon was unhooked and opened fire. To destroy the machine guns, Tashkin needed four shells. A few days later (April 2), the advanced units of the brigade crossed the Oder River and captured the bridgehead. The Nazis, bringing up tanks and self-propelled guns, began to counterattack in order to eliminate the bridgehead. The Soviet infantry with small arms required artillery support. It was necessary to transport at least one cannon from the east bank of the river to the west. The choice fell on the crew of senior sergeant Tashkin. Under German fire, the gunners dragged logs to the shore and built a raft. The Nazis concentrated all their fire on the crossing. But fate often gives the brave a chance - the weapon has been ferried! For ten days, the infantry with the crew of Tashkin held the bridgehead. With the personal participation of senior sergeant M.A. Tashkin's entire battery crossed the Oder. In these battles, Tashkin's gun destroyed three tanks, 15 machine guns, no less than a company of Hitler's infantry, and helped the Soviet infantry to repulse more than thirty German attacks. The Order of Glory III degree and the Order of the Red Star have been added to the two orders! The senior sergeant Tashkin did not fight at all until the Victory - on April 30, 1945, a fragment of an enemy shell cut his life off. The Hero was buried in the mass grave of the Soviet soldiers' cemetery in a Czech town near the town of Ostrava. On May 15, 1945, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, Senior Sergeant M.A. Tashkin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Posthumously". A street in the town of Plast, Chelyabinsk Region, is named after him. From the description of the feat: “During his stay in the battery from April 1942, Comrade Tashkin showed himself to be a capable junior commander. With his tireless work, he achieved good combat coordination in his crew, good discipline in it, despite the fact that the personnel of the crew changed several times. During this period, he trained 4 gunners and one of them is currently working as a gun commander. Comrade Tashkin repeatedly participated in battles with the German fascist invaders, where he showed personal courage, and endurance and the ability to lead his subordinates well. So, in the battle on July 27, 1942, being wounded, he did not leave his place in the crew and was in the ranks until the end of the battle, despite the massive artillery shelling of firing positions from the enemy and the raid of German aircraft. Five times he participated in combat exits to the rear and to the deep flanks of the enemy. In a combat operation from 13 to 19 July 1943, he was ordered to deliver ammunition and 2 guns to the area where the battery was located. During the day, the convoy under his leadership made a 60-kilometer march in difficult terrain and the task was completed successfully. In battles from June 15 to June 19 and from June 25 to June 29, 1944, Comrade Tashkin, working as a gun commander, ensured timely delivery of the gun to the battle area (to Lake Shulgul-Yavr, Bolshoy Karikvaivish and 264.2 heights), clear command execution of his crew, timely opening and accurate firing. At the time of the shelling of firing positions by enemy artillery, Comrade Tashkin, with an example of personal courage, inspired the crew and batteries and his gun, without stopping, fired at the enemy.In these battles, the battery, which also included the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin, destroyed up to 30 German enemy soldiers and officers. Battery fire disrupted the enemy's organized withdrawal from the battle area. Comrade Tashkin works tirelessly to improve his military knowledge. His calculation has excellent performance in shooting. As a junior commander and party organizer of the battery, Comrade Tashkin enjoys business authority among the personnel. Worthy of the government award - the Order of the Red Star. " From the description of the feat: “During his stay in the battery, Comrade Tashkin showed himself to be a disciplined, executive junior commander who knew his special job. Repeatedly participated in combat missions to the rear of the enemy, where he was twice wounded. For successful military operations, comrade Takshin was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In a battle at a road fork, deep behind enemy lines, Comrade Tashkin successfully delivered his gun to the battle area and was the first to open fire on the enemy, supporting a rifle subunit. Wounded, Comrade Tashkin did not leave his place, continuing to repulse the enemy's counterattacks to the last round. In this battle, the gun destroyed up to 40 Germans and 5 enemy firing points. " He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. From the description of the feat: “For excellent escort by fire, during a campaign behind enemy lines, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the period from 6 to 10/30/1944, the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin operated as part of the vanguard of the brigade, passed a distance of up to 600 kilometers through swamps and highly rugged terrain, destroyed up to 220 Nazis and 6 heavy machine guns. 10/10/1944, reaching a fork in the road deep into the rear of the enemy, senior sergeant Tashkin set his cannon on the move on an open firing position and began to shoot the enemy convoy moving along the road with direct fire. The suddenness and well-aimed fire of his guns confused the Germans, which allowed the rifle units to quickly occupy a road fork and firmly gain a foothold on it. Within two days, the enemy fiercely launched 11 counterattacks in order to return the road fork at any cost. In this battle, Tashkin, firing direct fire, saving ammunition, struck the advancing Nazis with each shot, throwing them back to their original position. 10/13/1944, continuing the offensive, the gun of senior sergeant Tashkin covered the open flank. Setting the cannon to an open position, he opened accurate fire on the counterattacking groups of Germans. The enemy, having found a cannon, opened a concentrated 105-mm battery artillery fire on it. A direct hit of a projectile knocked out the entire crew of the gun, Comrade Tashkin was wounded in the head. Left alone, overcoming pain, Comrade Tashkin, working for the entire crew, beat off attacks until the last shell. In this battle, with the fire of his guns and in hand-to-hand combat, senior sergeant Tashkin destroyed 75 fascists, and ensured the battalion had a solid hold on its positions. He continued the fight despite being wounded, requiring evacuation to the hospital. Senior Sergeant Tashkin insisted on leaving the ranks. He made a 300-kilometer off-road march into the deep rear of the enemy and took part in the battle for the road fork, where he again heroically fought in the battle formation of a rifle company, pursuing the retreating enemy. " He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. From the description of the feat: “03/24/45, at the edge of the forest, 2 enemy machine guns were installed in two houses. Comrade Tashkin, with his gun crew, rolled out the gun for direct fire and destroyed them from the first shots, thereby enabling the infantry to advance 2 kilometers forward. With his gun, he was all the time in the battle formations of the infantry, clearing the way for it to attack. On 03/30/45, the battery commander was killed and senior sergeant Tashkin took over command of the battery, organized the people and on the night of the same date with artillery and machine gun fire helped our infantry repel 2 enemy attacks, destroying 10 German soldiers and officers. In battle, he proved himself to be a capable and managerial commander, worthy of the title of a Soviet officer. On 1.4.45, together with the infantry and 1 gun, he escaped to the Oder River, suppressed 3 machine-gun points with artillery fire, provided the infantry could cross to the western bank of the river. Using improvised means, under heavy mortar fire, Senior Sergeant Tashkin ferried two guns of his battery to the opposite bank of the river, helped the infantry to gain a foothold on the occupied bridgehead, together with it, repulsed 2 enemy counterattacks, supported by tanks and a self-propelled gun. In battle he behaved boldly and decisively. " Mikhail Alexandrovich Tashkin was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. From the description of the feat: “03/21/45, during the breakthrough of the German defense in the area of ​​Zorau, with his gun, he advanced in battle formations and came under cross machine-gun fire, which the Germans were firing from their homes. The battalion was caught by this fire in an open area and lay down. There was no convenient firing position for the gun.Senior sergeant Tashkin with a gun, under machine-gun fire, jumped out at a gallop at a distance of 200 meters from the enemy machine guns and, leading the gun into battle, with 4 shells broke 2 enemy machine-gun points. The enemy's fire ceased and the battalion rose to attack. They quickly took possession of the settlement. In this battle, the gun shield was pierced in many places, and the wounded appeared in the crew. At the same time, the platoon commander and the battery commander were wounded. Senior Sergeant Tashkin took over command. The courage and effectiveness of the fire of Tashkin's battery aroused the admiration of the attackers. 2.4.45, a small group of our soldiers and officers, reaching the Oder, crossed the river in a narrow section. The enemy, using tanks and self-propelled guns, began to violently counterattack. Nevertheless, Comrade Tashkin decided to immediately cross over to the left bank of the Oder. Having overcome from a kilometer of an open area, fired by artillery and machine-gun fire, he ferried a gun and ammunition. For the set up of the raft comrade Tashkin with his crew carried logs under fire. The place of the crossing was visible from a distance of 190 meters, and was fired upon from a machine gun. Despite this, the gun was ferried across the river. On this day, 3 fierce enemy counterattacks were repulsed. Lacking sub-caliber shells, Tashkin entered the battle with tanks and set fire to 3 German tanks. Under extremely difficult conditions, with the participation of Comrade Tashkin, the entire battery was ferried across the river. It was possible to expand the bridgehead. 2.4.45 to 12.4.45 T. Tashkin, with his crew, repelled 2-3 enemy counterattacks every day. At the same time, Comrade Tashkin destroyed up to 200 Nazis, burned 3 enemy tanks and by his actions ensured the expansion of the bridgehead beyond the Oder. For exceptional courage, dedication and high combat skill, Comrade Tashkin deserves a government award - the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union." Posthumously.

Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov (March 29, 1915 - October 16, 2000) - Soviet military leader, Lieutenant General of the USSR Air Force, participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Russian Federation (1998). Born on March 29, 1915 in the village of Tesaly, Gorodok district, Vitebsk province (now the village of Gurki, Mekhovsky district, Vitebsk region, Republic of Belarus). In 1929 he graduated from seven classes of school, soon moved to Leningrad. After graduating from the workers' school, he worked at the Krasny Oktyabr plant. He began his studies at the aviation school of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR in Tambov, graduated in 1936. He stayed at the school as an instructor pilot. In 1938 he became the commander of a ship (Moscow Directorate of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR), was a member of the crews of ambulance and passenger aircraft. Member of the Soviet-Finnish war. He served in the air ambulance aviation, showed courage, was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the Red Army since 1941, a participant in the Great Patriotic War from the first days. He became a member of the Moscow Special Purpose Group of the Civil Air Fleet. In September 1941, he became deputy squadron commander of a special squadron for supplying besieged Leningrad. By the end of the year, he made about 120 flights to the besieged city. Lieutenant Semyonkov did an excellent job with the tasks - during the work of the group, he delivered 81 tons of cargo to Leningrad and removed about 650 people from it. As of January 16, 1942, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov flew 223 sorties, 12 sorties for airborne drops. On May 25, 1942, the head of the GUGVF, Lieutenant-General Astakhov, Senior Lieutenant Semenkov was presented for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. He was a squadron and regiment commander. Participated in the operation to force the Dnieper, the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. In total, during the entire war, he made more than 500 sorties. On the night of May 9, 1945, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was instructed to deliver to Moscow a Soviet copy of the Act of Germany's unconditional surrender. After Victory - again in the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, he was appointed commander of a separate air group of international air communications, then held other positions. In 1953 he became the head of one of the departments of the Civil Air Fleet of the USSR, later became the head of the State Aviation Inspectorate. In 1957, he was the first in the USSR to fly a transatlantic flight from Moscow to New York on a Tu-104 aircraft. Since 1970 - First Deputy Minister of Civil Aviation. In 1975 he retired with the rank of lieutenant general. He lived in Moscow, worked in one of the Moscow military registration and enlistment offices. By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation No. 83 of January 26, 1998, Alexei Ivanovich Semenkov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for his courage and heroism in the struggle against the Nazi invaders in the Great Patriotic War. He died on November 16, 2000 in Moscow. He was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. Awards and honorary titles: Hero of the Russian Federation (January 26, 1998) Gold Star Medal Two Orders of Lenin Order of the October Revolution.

Bukarenko Nikolai Vasilyevich was born on November 20, 1923 in the village of Gerasimovka, Urazovsky District, Kursk Region (now Belgorod Region). After graduating from the Gerasimov school, Nikolai Vasilyevich went to study at the FZO school in the city of Ordzhonikidze, Stalin's region (now the city of Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region). The young man was hired as a locksmith on duty at the 6th Yenakiyevo Coking Plant. In July 1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. On the Komsomol call, he was sent to Kharkiv to the school of radiotelegraphists. The year of 1942, a young signalman met defending the city of Debaltsevo as part of the 6th light artillery regiment. The whole year was spent in defensive battles. In February 1943, among 900 soldiers, Bukarenko was parachuted to Malaya Zemlya near Novorossiysk. Here in battles Nikolai Vasilievich was wounded. After the liberation of the Caucasus, N.V. Bukarenko was transferred to Kiev, where there were fierce battles. Nikolai Vasilyevich ended the war 40 km from Prague as a signalman of the 299th Guards Artillery Red Banner Regiment of the 129th Guards Rifle Zhytomyr Red Banner Division with the rank of junior sergeant. After the war, he remained in the army for two more years as a senior weaponsmith. For his courage and he was awarded three medals "For Courage", a medal "For Military Merit", a medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus", a medal "For the Liberation of Ukraine", a medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War", the Order of Glory, III degree , Order of the Patriotic War II degree, jubilee awards. Has 12 commendations for taking various strategic points from Zhitomir to the Polish city of Prezhev. In March 1947 he returned to his native village of Gerasimovka, Valuisky District, Belgorod Region. Prior to retirement, he worked as a team leader and foreman on a collective farm. Has awards "For Labor Valor" and "For Labor Distinction". After retiring from 1954 to 1986, he was in charge of the collective farm current. In 2005, he was awarded a Certificate of Honor for many years of work. Photo of N.V. Bukarenko in 2005 she was listed on the Hall of Fame with. Gerasimovka. He died on May 3, 2006.

Balabin Nikifor Petrovich, was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1922 and as part of the 1st Cavalry Army of Budyonny fought in Central Asia (Turkmenistan), "drove" Basmachi. Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he worked as a tree feller in a logging brigade. With the beginning of the Second World War on 06/05/1942, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army at the age of 40. He fought in the 32nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division, in the rank of Guard Private of the 39th Separate Guards Communications Battalion, a communications operator. He took part in battles during the defense of the North Caucasus (battles in the area of ​​the Shaumyanovsky Pass, defense of the Tuapse direction), the liberation of Crimea (battles for Sapun Gora and the city of Sevastopol), battles for the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). By the order of the regiment dated 10/18/1943 No. 40 / n, he was awarded the medal "For military services". As stated in the order: "Comrade Balabin, working from May 1942 to the present and having passed the combat path in difficult mountain conditions and despite the difficulties, he carried out the command assignments in a timely manner, to deliver mail and combat orders." By order of the regiment of 17.07.1944 No. 45 / n, he was awarded the medal "For Courage". As indicated in the order: “Guard Red Army soldier Balabin, working as a cavalryman, showed himself to be brave and capable of performing any combat mission. On the night of May 8-9, 1944, in the Sapun Gora area, delivering an urgent combat order to the division commander in 82 Guards. regiment, came under heavy air bombardment from the air and enemy shelling, despite this combat order delivered on time. On May 10, 1944, in the area of ​​the city of Sevastopol, twice delivered combat orders of the division commander to the commander of the 82nd Guards.Rifle regiment, came under heavy artillery fire of the enemy, risking his life, combat orders were delivered on time. " He was wounded during the bombing, but refused hospitalization. He had a fragment of a mine in his body until the end of his days, and the ligaments of the little finger were also damaged. By Act No. 2 for the division, in accordance with the Decree of 05/01/1944, the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" was awarded. After the war he worked as a carpenter, raised his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Born in 1922 in the village of Volokonovka, Volokonovsky district, Kursk region (on the territory of the former Voronezh province) in a peasant family. Father - Nikolai Nikolaevich, mother - Praskovya Vasilievna. The family had 5 children. (4 boys: Ivan, Vladimir - born in 1924, Dmitry - born in 1927, Boris - born in 1930, and 1 girl: Nadezhda - born in 1921). At the beginning of the war, two of the sons went to the front (Vladimir and Ivan), and my grandfather, Dmitry, went on a civilian ship - transporting a load on the Lend-Lease. Only Ivan did not return from the war. Ivan Nikolaevich entered school in 1929. In 1931 he moved to the DVK. From 1933 to 1939 he lived in Vladivostok. In the latter, he studied in the first high school from 5th to 10th grade. In 1937 he joined the ranks of the Komsomol. At school, he conducted defense work (he was an instructor of the YUVS, an instructor of the PVHO, the head of a self-defense group). In 1939 he graduated from high school, receiving a certificate of graduation from the latter. The father comes from a peasant family. He did not serve in the tsarist army. During the civil war he was a volunteer in the Red Army. After the defeat of Wrangel, my father worked to restore the destroyed economy. In 1930 he left for the DVK. On September 1, 1939, Ivan Nikolaevich was enrolled in the electromechanical faculty of the LII (Specialty: "Electrical machines"). Order No. 490 of 31 / VIII - 1939. He graduated from 2 courses. In July 1941, he volunteered for the people's militia (3SP 3D LANO). (Dismissed on July 2, 1941 in connection with leaving the Red Army, order No. 531 of 27 / VIII-41) Killed at the front in 1941. According to the Memory Book of Primorsky Krai.

In June 1940 he was drafted into the army, a Red Army soldier of the 268th Infantry Regiment. He fought on the Leningrad front. From March 1943 to March 1944 he was a cadet of the courses of junior lieutenants on the Leningrad Front, upon graduation he received the rank of junior lieutenant. From March 1944 to April 1944 he was commander of the 743 rifle regiment of the 131st rifle division. In April 1944 he was wounded and was being recovered in hospital No. 1539 until July 1944. From July to October 1944, he was in the reserve of the 9th archive officer regiment. From October to November he commanded a rifle platoon of the 256th rifle division of the 934th rifle regiment, in November Nikolai Semyonovich was wounded a second time, and he was undergoing treatment in hospital No. 1146 until December 1944. After the hospital was in reserve 421 officer regiment (December 1944 - January 1945) January - April 1945 - commander of the 934th rifle regiment of the 256th rifle division. From April to August 1945 - the commander of a rifle regiment of the 7th Guards Rifle Division. August - September 1945 - student at the advanced training courses for officers. From September to November 1945 - was in reserve. Discharged to the reserve on November 13, 1945 with the rank of guard lieutenant. Has awards: Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd degree (1945), Order of the Red Star (1944). Medals “For Courage” (1942), “For the Defense of Leningrad”, “For Victory over Germany” (dated May 9, 1945). After the war, he worked as chairman of the Krasnaya Derevnya collective farm in the Zherdevsky district. Nikolai Semenovich had 10 children.

When the Great Patriotic War began, Bazhenova Rufina Nikolaevna was 12 years old. In their trans-Ural village Krysie, Makushinsky district, Kurgan region, a hospital was organized. And for the children of the wartime, the hospital became a favorite place. Boys and girls used to go there. They read poetry, sang, even danced, showed who could do something. It was a holiday for the wounded when the children came. They asked the children about everything, they themselves told a lot, argued among themselves about how to hit the fascists in order to smash them with one blow. Children grew up early in wartime. And my grandmother not only raised the morale of the wounded soldiers, but also helped the medical workers, washed bloody bandages, dried them, rolled them into a roller. The household also fell on the shoulders of the teenagers, they bought bread, kerosene, and other meager goods by ration cards, cooked a meager dinner from sorrel, nettle, plantain, spiced with a pinch of cereal . Hosted while adults were at work and came home after dark. In summer it was easier, in summer you can find food everywhere, pick mushrooms, berries, fish on the lake. Bread, most often baked with grass, from quinoa and clover. They collected the grass ahead of time, dried it in bunches in the entryway on perches, then dried it in the oven, spreading a canopy, pounded the grass in a mortar - dust rose. This dust was grass flour. It was shaken off the canvas and black cakes were baked interspersed with the remnants of rye flour. My grandmother was the eldest in the family, so she also took care of the younger brothers. Her mother, Maria Grigorievna Bazhenova, my great-grandmother worked on a collective farm, my father, my great-grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich Bazhenov, went to the front in the first months of the war. At first he wrote letters from the training school, and then from the front, served in p / p 2143, was wounded, but after the hospital he was back in operation. In the village, during the war, there was one person who was the most desirable and at the same time the most unwanted for everyone. This is the postman. They expected letters from her, expected news, which she learned in the village council and in the mail. The soldiers' letters were without envelopes, in the form of triangles, but these were the most dear news to the heart. Several of these soldiers' triangles, which have turned yellow from time to time, are carefully kept by my grandmother. It is a living testimony of that time, written in pencil lines: “How are you living? I'm fine, little has been written about military affairs, more and more questions about the life of the family. But the postman could also bring sad news. Death notice is a terrible word. They were not expected. And they were waiting for the soldiers' letters. Dated in February 1943, the sad news of the "missing" private soldier Bazhenov N.I. was the last mention of the combat path of my great-grandfather. Presumably, he died in the battles near Rzhev, it was from there that the last letters were sent. Information about my great-grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich, I also found on the "Memory of the People" portal. Battle of Rzhev 1941-1943 - the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. And the most hushed up by historians. On the Rzhevsky bridgehead there were 2/3 divisions of the "Center" army for the attack on Moscow. The losses of Soviet troops in the battles near Rzhev amounted to more than 2 million people, twice the losses in the Battle of Stalingrad. The 29th Army was killed in the forests near Rzhev. The city itself has been turned into a lunar landscape. Only 248 people survived of the city's 40,000 population. After a fierce 15-month battle, Rzhev was never taken - the Germans themselves withdrew to prepared positions. War is a terrible word, there should never be war again. I want to live in peace. And so that everyone on our land live peacefully. We must keep the peace and be proud of our ancestors who gave it to us. My grandmother is a home front worker, she has jubilee awards in connection with the celebration of the Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. I hope that we will preserve her stories about the war childhood and the post-war period of our history, passing it on to each other. The only thing that we can and should do today is to preserve the memory of both the military and labor affairs of our ancestors. The household also fell on the shoulders of the teenagers, they bought bread, kerosene, and other meager goods by ration cards, cooked a meager dinner from sorrel, nettle, plantain, spiced with a pinch of cereal . Hosted while adults were at work and came home after dark. In summer it was easier, in summer you can find food everywhere, pick mushrooms, berries, fish on the lake. Bread, most often baked with grass, from quinoa and clover. They collected the grass ahead of time, dried it in bunches in the entryway on perches, then dried it in the oven, spreading a canopy, pounded the grass in a mortar - dust rose. This dust was grass flour. It was shaken off the canvas and black cakes were baked interspersed with the remnants of rye flour. My grandmother was the eldest in the family, so she also took care of the younger brothers. Her mother, Maria Grigorievna Bazhenova, my great-grandmother worked on a collective farm, my father, my great-grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich Bazhenov, went to the front in the first months of the war. At first he wrote letters from the training school, and then from the front, served in p / p 2143, was wounded, but after the hospital he was back in operation.In the village, during the war, there was one person who was the most desirable and at the same time the most unwanted for everyone. This is the postman. They expected letters from her, expected news, which she learned in the village council and in the mail. The soldiers' letters were without envelopes, in the form of triangles, but these were the most dear news to the heart. Several of these soldiers' triangles, which have turned yellow from time to time, are carefully kept by my grandmother. It is a living testimony of that time, written in pencil lines: “How are you living? I'm fine, "little has been written about military affairs, more and more questions about the life of the family. But the postman could also bring sad news. Funeral is a terrible word. They were not expected. And they were waiting for the soldiers' letters. Dated in February 1943, the sad news of the "missing" private soldier Bazhenov N.I. was the last mention of the combat path of my great-grandfather. Presumably, he died in the battles near Rzhev, it was from there that the last letters were sent. Information about my great-grandfather, Nikolai Ivanovich, I also found on the "Memory of the People" portal. Battle of Rzhev 1941-1943 - the bloodiest battle in the history of mankind. And the most hushed up by historians. On the Rzhevsky bridgehead there were 2/3 divisions of the "Center" army for the attack on Moscow. The losses of Soviet troops in the battles near Rzhev amounted to more than 2 million people, twice the losses in the Battle of Stalingrad. The 29th Army was killed in the forests near Rzhev. The city itself has been turned into a lunar landscape. Only 248 people survived of the city's 40,000 population. After a fierce 15-month battle, Rzhev was never taken - the Germans themselves withdrew to prepared positions. War is a terrible word, there should never be war again. I want to live in peace. And so that everyone on our land live peacefully. We must keep the peace and be proud of our ancestors who gave it to us. My grandmother is a home front worker, she has jubilee awards in connection with the celebration of the Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. I hope that we will preserve her stories about the war childhood and the post-war period of our history, passing it on to each other. The only thing that we can and should do today is to preserve the memory of both the military and labor affairs of our ancestors.

Butsev Fedor Semenovich Butsev Fyodor Semenovich. The Belovsky RVK of the Smolensk Region was drafted into the Red Army on October 27, 1939, a Red Army soldier of the 148th Light Artillery Regiment in the North Caucasian Military District, since January 1941 - a cadet of the Odessa Military Aviation School of Pilots. The beginning of the war on June 22, 1941 was met by a cadet of the Odessa Military Aviation Pilot School. In August 1941, the aviation school was relocated to Stalingrad, and in November to Frunze. In the fall of 1942, for health reasons, he was discharged from flight work. He wrote a report and asked the command to send to the front in the active army. But in November 1942, as part of a large group of former cadets from the flight school, he was sent to the Frunze Military Infantry School as a cadet in a rifle battalion. Commander of a squadron of anti-tank rifles of the 444th Rifle Regiment of the 108th Rifle Division with the rank of senior sergeant, since March 1943 he participated in defensive and offensive battles in the area of ​​the Zhizdra River in the Kaluga Region, and in the summer of 1943 - in battles on the Kursk Bulge on Bolkhov direction, north of the city of Orel (Western and Bryansk fronts). In August 1943, he was appointed Komsomol organizer of the 444th Infantry Regiment, in October he was awarded the military rank of junior lieutenant. In January 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. In March 1945, as a Komsomol organizer of the regiment with the rank of captain, he took part in the battles for the liberation of Danzig and the liberation of Poland (1st and 2nd Belorussian fronts), was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. In 1950 he graduated from the Higher Military Pedagogical Institute named after M.I. Kalinin. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR in the Siberian and Leningrad Military District. Period from 1962 to 1976 - lecturer, and then senior lecturer at the Department of the Military Academy of Communications. Candidate of Historical Sciences (1972), Associate Professor (1973). Dismissed by age from the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR on August 3, 1976 with the rank of colonel. He was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, three Orders of the Red Star and many medals, including: "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Odessa", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. . "," For the liberation of Warsaw "; three medals of foreign states (Poland, Mongolia and Belarus).

Born in 1919 in the village of Lukino, Velikie Luki region. First he graduated from seven classes of the Belsk secondary school, then the city pedagogical college. He read a lot and gradually collected a good library of fiction at home. On several self-made shelves, one could find poetry and prose, as well as various dictionaries and reference books. He loved to draw, compose poetry, compose and solve crosswords, rebuses. He was very fond of messing with children, easily found a common language with them. I dreamed of becoming a teacher. After graduating from the technical school, having passed all the exams, he was admitted to study at the Moscow Pedagogical Institute named after N.K. Krupskaya at the Faculty of History. He studied successfully, was enthusiastically engaged in scientific work. I learned about the short and tragic fate of my uncle Ivan Semyonovich Butsev during the dashing war years from my father Fyodor Semyonovich and his younger brother Pyotr Semyonovich. My grandfather Semyon Konstantinovich, a participant in the battles of the First World War, and then the Civil War, throughout his long life carefully kept documentary evidence of that heroic time - the war letters of his four beloved sons Ivan, Fyodor, Nikolai and Peter. Two sons Ivan and Nikolay remained young forever ... Only 12 letters and postcards from Ivan to his father have survived. In 1941, these are three letters: June 30, October 5 and 10. The rest of the letters refer to 1942: June 16 and 26; July 4, 18, 23 and 29; August 3, 15 and 19. From these letters, bit by bit, information about my uncle Ivan Semenovich Butsev began to be collected. It turned out that on June 26, 1941, he passed the last exam of the summer session for the third year at "good" and was sent to work as a sportsman in the pioneer camp No. 3 near Moscow in the area of ​​the railway station Pravda Severnaya ZhD. At the end of the summer (or autumn) of 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army by the Frunzensky district military registration and enlistment office in Moscow and sent to a military unit in the city of Arzamas, and in October, along with other former students, to study at a military infantry school in Vladimir. Already on May 2, 1942, an accelerated graduation of young officers took place. I.S. Butsev was assigned to the Western Front in the 12th Guards Rifle Division. Guard Lieutenant I.S. Butsev was appointed commander of the 2nd mortar company in the 29th Guards Rifle Regiment. Location in the area of ​​the city of Kozelsk, Kaluga region. On the front line since June 30, 1942. In a letter to his father dated July 4, he writes: "A few meters away is the enemy's front line." In a letter dated August 15: “Good afternoon, dear dad and Cockerel! I send you my heartfelt greetings! I received your letter, but I was a little late in answering it. For three days now we have been fighting the Germans. Yesterday we fought off four counterattacks. The enemy suffered heavy losses in men and equipment. The prisoners were taken. We firmly hold our borders. This morning there has been a lull, which I took advantage of to write to you. Yesterday I was slightly wounded by mine fragments in my arms, leg and neck. All the fragments, except one, were immediately removed by the medical instructor. One has not yet been removed, it sits deep in the neck, quite small. I repeat, the wound was completely insignificant, I didn’t even go to the first-aid post, I was helped on the spot. In general, everything is in order. "

Belousov Vladimir Makarovich, born on October 25, 1919, a native of the village of Parfenkovo, Dubrovensky district, Vitebsk region, BSSR, invalid of II group of the Great Patriotic War, a communist with a capital letter. Was called up for active military service in October 1939 into the ranks of the armed forces of the USSR. Since September 1941 appointed commander of the 592 artillery regiment of the Volga Military District. He was repeatedly wounded and received a concussion. He was treated in hospitals in Grozny and Stalinir, Georgian SSR. He fought on the South, Transcaucasian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He reached Berlin as part of a group of Soviet troops in Germany. He left his painting at the Reichstag. Senior sergeant V.M. Belousov was demobilized. 07/15/1946 from the anti-aircraft artillery regiment, 89th Guards Rifle Division. For bravery, stamina and courage shown in the struggle against the German fascist invaders, he was awarded medals: "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Capture of Konigsberg", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Thanks were announced from I. V. Stalin and G. K. Zhukov. When he was asked to tell about the war, he talked reluctantly and quietly, with pain in his eyes, sparing the psyche of his children, omitting terrible moments - then he could not sleep for a long time, walked around the house, shrapnel wounds ached, did not let him forget about those terrible days. It was evident how hard memories were given to him, and those close to him tried not to remind him of the war once again. He always said that he was ready to eat one bread and water, if only this hell would not be repeated on earth. When asked what helped to survive in the war, he replied: - "Dream! In between battles, lying in a trench, dreamed of a big friendly family, a big house, dreamed of meeting with relatives: mother, sister and three brothers. For the sake of them i had to live . I am the eldest and have to raise a family, since my father died at the front. " His dream came true: he returned from the war wounded, but alive, built a big house, got married, but the most important thing in his dream is the children - together with their wife, they gave birth and raised eight children. Life is measured not by the years lived, but by what a person has done good for people and relatives, which mark he left on the earth. Vladimir Makarovich has always been an honest, decent and hardworking person, never left anyone in trouble, always helped everything he could, always was an example for the family and other people: he defended and took care of his homeland like the apple of his eye, and in peacetime he worked tirelessly - he worked as a foreman at a state farm and always took his team to the first place, people loved and respected him, listened to his advice and requests. For valiant work, ideological commitment and dedication, he was awarded the following signs: "Winner of the Socialist Competition of 1977", "Drummer of the Ninth Five-Year Plan", the "Veteran of Labor" medal, and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. The fact that the road was paved in the village and tap water was installed is his merit. Unfortunately, now there are very few such ideologically strong-minded people who would care about the people around them and the environment, who cares about what will happen next with their relatives, and the fate of strangers would not be indifferent to them, who are used to giving away, and not consume those who are used to being responsible, for whom honor and courage would not be empty words, but those concepts for which you can give your life. Vladimir Makarovich was just such a person, and his family and friends are proud of him and always remember him with trepidation, love and aching sadness in their hearts.

Rank: Colonel. Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard. Unit: 212th Motorized Division. Vasily Bardadin was born in 1897. He served in the tsarist army, participated in the battles of the First World War, and rose to the rank of minor non-commissioned officer. Bardadin joined the Workers and peasants Red Army in 1918. He participated in the Civil war as the chief of the cavalry intelligence of the 3rd Soviet Detachment, then as a machine-gunner instructor of the reserve in Samara Regiment, and as an assistant platoon commander of a separate cavalry regiment. He actively participated in the battles with Basmach formations in Central Asia, especially distinguished himself during the battle of the village of Durman on July 23, 1922. By order of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Republic #147 of October 4, 1923, Squadron Commander of the 4th Cavalry Regiment of the 2nd Separate Cavalry Brigade Vasily Bardadin was awarded the Order of Rhe Red Banner of the RSFSR. After the war, he continued to serve in the Red Army. In 1925, he completed the cavalry advanced training course for command staff, after which he held various command positions in cavalry units. He participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War, asa First Deputy Commander, and then Commander of the 212th Motorized Division. Later, he commanded the 91st Cavalry Dvision, was Deputy Commander of the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps, Commander of the 67th Cavalry and 300th Rifle Divisions, and Deputy Commander of the 59th Rifle Corps. Bardadin was dismissed to the reserve with the rank of Colonel in 1946. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, three Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner of the Khorezm SSR (5.10.1925) and a number of medals.

My great-grandmother was a participant in the war, her name was Barabash Raisa Alekseevna, she was born on November 2, 1923 in a large family. Granny has always been an example for our family and for her sisters. She graduated from the 7th grade and entered the Kushchevsky school as a veterinarian. But the war began, and her studies were interrupted, she had to return home, to Ekaterinovskaya (now Krylovskaya). Here she collected various information, reports in the trenches and transmitted to other villages and nearby farms. She carried all this information herself, on foot, sometimes the distances were several tens of kilometers! As a 19-year-old girl, my grandmother received a summon and was drafted into military service. In 1944, she was sent to Krasnodar, where a medical examination was passed. Then, to Novocherkassk for the courses of a young fighter. There, she and many other girls were taught to walk with a marching step, crawl on their bellies and handle weapons. Then she was sent to the Kharkov 90th anti-aircraft regiment. There she was already trained as an anti-aircraft gunner. The most vivid memory associated with this place is the parade, which was received by the regiment commander: the soldiers marched with a marching step with the song "Get up, the country is huge", and the grandmother was the lead singer. By the way, she was very fond of singing, even when disassembling weapons. And one spring she and her friends were walking along the Dnieper River with the song "Oh, Dnieper, Dnieper, you are wide, powerful" and fell through the ice. Fortunately, no one was hurt and nothing happened. My grandmother said that once the commander asked her: "You are probably from Poltava?" And she replied: "No, I am from the Kuban, I am Russian." So they began to call her "Russian". From Kharkov, with the rank of junior sergeant, my grandmother was sent to Kremenchug in 1870, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment, to battery number 2. She said: “There were a lot of us, girls from Penza, Novosibirsk, Krymsk, and I still remember all of them. It was not easy for us: we carried the tools on ourselves, lived in dugouts ... And in 44 the winter was very snowy, and there was water in our dugouts. We constantly had to carry a weapon with us, because from time to time Bendera's men attacked ... And soon there, in the Ukraine, we met victory. " The grandmother died in 2014, at the age of 92. She had many medals and orders, post-war photographs, and even had a whole box of letters and congratulations. She kept all this as a memory of the years gone by. Every year we went with her to a rally on May 9, where she held the honorary place of a war veteran. We were often visited by guests from the district administration, correspondents of the local newspaper. We still have all the newspapers at home where interviews, photographs and congratulations were printed. Now I take part in the Immortal Regiment action and proudly carry a portrait of my beloved grandmother.

Born on February 18, 1923 in the village of Vysokogorodetsk, Aban District, Krasnoyarsk Territory, into a peasant family. Parents died in 1937-1938. Victor studied first at an elementary school in the village of Vysokogorodetsk, then at a school in the village of Aban. He graduated from 8 classes of Aban secondary school in 1940. In the 9th grade, Bogutsky studied only until November 22, 1940. In October 1940, on a Komsomol ticket, he entered the Kansk Aero Club. After graduating with honors from the flying club on April 3, 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army by the Aban RVK of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and enrolled in the Omsk military aviation school of pilots. On December 9, 1942, after graduating from the aviation school, he was appointed a pilot of the 17th training aviation regiment of the 8th reserve aviation brigade in Kazan with the assignment of the military rank of sergeant. From June 10, 1943 - pilot of the 99th Guards Trans-Baikal Separate Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment. Already on July 20, 1943, by order of the regiment commander for the first 10 successful combat missions to reconnaissance of enemy troops, the Guard Sergeant Bogutsky was awarded the medal “For Courage”: “Fulfilling combat missions with strong opposition from anti-aircraft artillery and repeated attacks of enemy fighters, skillful maneuver and going into the clouds fully completed the tasks. He managed to reveal the movement of troops on highways, found 45 aircraft and 24 echelons at railway stations at enemy airfields. " On August 31, 1943, when a Pe-2 aircraft approached the assigned reconnaissance area Pochep-Unecha, Starodub one of the engines refused. The pilot had the right to go back. But he completed a combat mission, after which 210 km, conducting reconnaissance over enemy territory, walked on one engine, every minute at the risk of being shot down. On September 10, 1943, the Guard Junior Lieutenant Bogutsky was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In the spring of 1944, he flew 32 more reconnaissance missions for the movement of enemy troops in Latvia. He flew without cover for fighters at an altitude of 3000-4000 meters, during the execution of missions he was fired upon by anti-aircraft artillery 14 times and 9 times attacked by enemy fighters. In March, he carried out a special task of the reconnaissance department of the army headquarters for wide-angle aerial photography of large areas in the Soviet offensive zone. For the excellent performance of combat missions on April 30, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. For valuable intelligence on the movement of troops and the basing of aviation at enemy airfields, the guard senior lieutenant Bogutsky was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner on August 18, 1944. The fame of the fearless pilot thundered all over the front. Bogutsky was assigned the most difficult tasks. The attacks of large groups of bombers and attack aircraft were planned according to air reconnaissance data. In 1944, the pilot's intelligence was used in the preparation of the summer and autumn offensives of the troops of the 2nd Baltic Front. The crew of V.S.Bogutskiy photographed the entire system and power of the enemy's defense in areas with a total area of ​​1117 km2, and uncovered the defensive system in an area of ​​345 km2. All these data contributed to the successful breakthrough of the enemy's defenses and the development of the offensive success of our troops. On October 26, 1944, the Guard Senior Lieutenant Bogutsky was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. From the presentation for the award: “Taking part in the war since June 1943, he flew 120 successful combat missions to reconnoitre and photograph enemy troops and equipment. When conducting reconnaissance and photographing large defensive lines and areas 35 times he met the opposition of enemy fighters, but during air battles he always came out victorious, 46 times fired by anti-aircraft artillery, but with the right maneuver combined with cunning and fearlessness, he always performed the tasks perfectly. Meeting strong opposition from enemy fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft artillery at low and high altitudes, Comrade Bogutsky five times brought the Pe-2 aircraft on one engine to his airfield and, as a rule, with a fully completed combat mission. " Viktor Bogutsky did not have time to learn about the Hero's Golden Star and receive the second Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, to which he was presented on January 25, 1945. The order on awarding him was signed on the day of his death - February 23, 1945. On February 23, 1945, senior lieutenant Viktor Bogutsky of the Guard died while performing another combat mission. This was another sortie in the final operation to eliminate the enemy's Kurland grouping to photograph objects in the Konigsberg area. On the route, the scout was surrounded by fascist fighters. The plane was shot down, the crew was killed. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 18, 1945, Senior Lieutenant Viktor Stepanovich Bogutsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German fascist invaders and the courage, courage and heroism of the guards displayed at the same time. Only in 1972, the search group found the place of death of the crew of V.S.Bogutsky.The plane was shot down 10 km from the town of Pinkuli, Latvian SSR. The remains of three crew members were buried with military honors in a mass grave in Ainadi, 60 km from Liepaja. By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR V.S.Bogutsky was forever enlisted in the lists of the personnel of the military unit. On May 9, 1985, a bust of the Hero was installed in the village of Aban. Since 1963, one of the streets of the village of Aban, Krasnoyarsk Territory, has been named after the Hero. In 1968, the Museum of the Hero was established at school No. 4 in Aban, in 1979 the school was named after him. A memorial plaque was installed on the house in the village. Vysokogorodetsk of Abanskiy district, where he lived.