Heroes and feats

Rank: Colonel Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 399th Infantry Novozybkovskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. At the end of the autumn of the first war year, the country experienced the most dramatic moment - the enemy was already under the walls of the capital and was preparing for the decisive thrust. More and more men went to the front. At this alarming time, the summons was brought to him. Although he officially had a reservation, he went to the military registration and enlistment office. He became a cadet in the training unit of signalmen and was trained to be a radio-telegraph operator, but the cadets were often used as sappers for laying communications, they hollowed out the frozen ground with blunt crowbars and pickaxes. At the end of the training course, the guys arrived in Stalingrad, in the 337th Howitzer Regiment of the Reserves of the High Command. And when they were almost close to the front line, the legendary order of Stalin was read in front of the formation: "Not a step back!" And it was true - no one could take a step back, because the barrage detachments were located there. Everyone needed just one victory. Then long battles with the advancing enemy began. The dead laid down up to the horizon, there was no land visible under them. Scary. But he was a signalman, which means constantly risking himself in the line of fire, splicing wires under the barrage of bullets and shells. When Vladimir rushed to restore the connection again, he received a splinter in his leg. The wounded soldier was transported to the nearest village, to a field hospital. Operations were performed inside the building, and the rest were folded under the open sky near the fence. The surgeons worked for three days without sleep. Finally, it was Vladimir’s turn. The splinter was taken out and presented as a keepsake. On an overcrowded steamer he was sent to Volsk, and then by train to Zlatoust. The train passed by Samara. While they were standing on the platform, Berelkovsky persuaded the compassionate woman to run after his father (he went to front in the early days, but then was discharged). Before the train departed, they had time to talk at least a little. Vladimir arrived to the assembly point again after treatment. This time he was sent to Central front, south of Tula. It was the beginning of the 1943, the losses were still huge, in a few days there was hardly a platoon left from the rifle companies. Radio operators of Belorussia with scouts successfully “played a radio game” with the Germans and set them off on a false trail - the enemy bared sectors of the front at Bobruisk, where they made a breakthrough. Then they moved to East Prussia and Pomerania. They closed the group in Pilau, blocked Königsberg. Finally, the long-awaited victory came.

Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 57th Guards Rifle Novobugskaya Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. Born on February 23, 1922 in the village of Chermoshnianka, Kirov state farm, Kokchetav region. He became an orphan at the age of 12. He worked on the collective farm“ Industriya” in 1934. K.Babkin was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in November 1941 by the Soviet RVC, Kazakh SSR, North Kazakhstan area, Soviet region. During the Great Patriotic War he liberated the town of Izyum, was wounded there, spent more than 9 months in a hospital, became a war invalid. He graduated from the Agricultural Institute in Kurgan. From September 1944 to August 1950 K.Babkin worked as a teacher of military training course for students of the Kirov secondary school in the Soviet district of the North Kazakhstan region. From 1950 to 1954 he worked as the secretary of the party organization of the Kiyalinsky state farm of the Soviet district of the North Kazakhstan region. From January 1954 to August 1955 he was elected and worked as the secretary of the district party committee for the Presnovskaya MTS Zone. From August 1955 to February 1957, he worked as chairman of the collective farm named after N. Khrushchev and developed it (Kladbinka village, Presnovsky district of the North Kazakhstan region). From February 1957 to December 1974 he worked as the director of the Mirolyubovsk state farm in the Presnovsky district of the North Kazakhstan region. From December 1974 to February 1985 he worked as the chief state inspector for the purchasing and quality of agricultural products in the Sokolovsk district of the North Kazakhstan region. From 1955 to 1974 he lived in Kladbinka village, Presnovsky district, later (from 1974 to 1994) stayed in Sokolovka village, Northern Kazakhstan. K.Babkin has three Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the “Badge of Honour”. He died on May 16, 1994. He was buried in Northern Kazakhstan, the village of Sokolovka.

Type of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 299th Infantry Division (1st formation). Babasin Nikolay Fedorovich, was born on February 4, 1923 in the village of Stemassy, Alatyr region. He finished 7 years in local school and entered the Secondary School No. 9 in Alatyr to continue his studies. He managed to finish the school in June 1941. Then the war began. He was drafted to the Army in January 1942. He studied at the infantry school for secondary commanders until March 1942. As part of the 157th cadet Rifle Brigade, he was sent to the front. He fought near Leningrad and Staraya Russa. In July 1942 he joined the Komsomol organization and was sent to Stalingrad as part of the 956th Rifle Regiment of the 299th Division. N.Babasin was seriously wounded in both arms and was shell-shocked In October 1942. He had to stay in a hospital till March 1943, later he was declared unfit for military service. Alatyr city military registration and enlistment office sent him to work in the Alatyr NKVD Headquarters, where he took various positions until 1955. At first, he was a local policeman in Ivankovo-Lenino, serving also for the villages beyond Sura: Kuvakino, Solovyevsky. At that time, many deserters were hiding in the forests, killed and robbed the local population. So he had to fight on the “local front”. N.Babasin was accepted as a candidate for membership in the Bolshevik Communist party on the recommendation of the Primary Party Organization at the Alatyr NKVD department(January 1945). In July 1946 he became an active party member. He graduated from the Kuibyshev’s officers school of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, in absentia after the war, received a secondary legal education. Until 1955, he worked in various positions: as a police chief in Vurnary, later- in the city of Sumerla. In 1953-1955 he worked as a senior investigator in the criminal investigation department in Alatyr. In the period from 1951 to 1955, he studied at the Kanash Teachers' Institute in absentia and got the diploma of a teacher of Russian language and literature. Then, from 1965 to 1969, he graduated from the Chuvash Pedagogical Institute named after I.Yakovlev in absentia in the same speciality. From 1955 until the end of his life he worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature at a school for working youth in Alatyr. The family carefully keeps his awards: the Order of the “Patriotic War of the 2nd class”, the Order of “Glory of the 3d class”, the Medal for” Victory over Germany”, and commemorative medals.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Type of troops: Armoured and mechanized troops. Boris Fedorovich Bokov was born on April 10, 1923 in the village of Sitovka, Lipetsk district of Voronezh (now Lipetsk) region in a peasant family. His father, Bokov Fedor Nikolaevich, died from Botkin's disease (Hepatitis A) in 1932, and 9-year-old Boris remained the only man in the family. His family consisted of Boris, his mother and two younger sisters. In September 1938, B.Bokov, after finishing the 7th grade, was admitted to the school of FZU (now Professional technical school) of the Lipetsk Metallurgical Plant "Svobodny Sokol" as a student-driver of an electric crane. I would like to note that the family of B.Bokov lived very poor. That was proved by the fact that in the fall of 1938, his grandmother presented 15-year-old Boris new rubbers, so he could go to study in the city in a bad weather. The rubbers were an unimaginable luxury for him (he used to wear the lapti - bast shoes through all his life). Boris was so happy, that almost bowed to his grandmother at the feet for the gift. B.Bokov tried to get a job at the Lipetsk Metallurgical Plant "Svobodny Sokol" after 2 years of studies in FZU, but he couldn’t be admitted there because of the young age. From May 1940 to February 1941 - B.Bokov worked as a labourer at the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army named after J. Stalin. On February 20, 1941, B.Bokov was nevertheless hired by the Lipetsk Metallurgical Plant "Svobodny Sokol" as an electrician in a blast furnace shop. Very soon, already in October 1941, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army to fight the enemy. For the period from 1941 to 1943. B.Bokov showed himself as a very brave man, a true patriot of his Motherland. He appeared in the most critical and difficult sectors of the battle, inspiring the personnel with his presence and fearlessness. In 1942, Bokov's great uncle, Bokov Dmitry Nikolaevich, died on the war fronts. Upon learning of this, B.Bokov vowed to be the first in all battles and mercilessly take revenge on the Nazis for the death of his uncle. To take revenge until the fascist army is completely defeated. By 1944, B.Bokov had the rank of Guard Senior Lieutenant and was the commander of a company of machine gunners, a motorized battalion of machine gunners of the 40th Guards Tank Red Banner Chertkov Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the Red Star Brigade. But B.Bokov most vividly showed his ability to lead a company in battles from July to August 1944 on the territory of Poland. On July 18, 1944, his company was the first to cross the Western Bug river. On the next day, Bokov's company was the first to break into the village of Baratin. Comrade B.Bokov himself showed a personal example and, with soft pressure and energy, led the soldiers of his company along with him. B.Bokov's company showed resilience and tenacity during the battles for the village of Ostrow and expansion of the bridgehead on the left bank of the Son River. When the Germans launched a counterattack in the area of the city of Radomna, despite the superior strength of the enemy, Bokov's company did not retreat a single step from the held territory, repulsed the Germans' counterattack and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy. B.Bokov's company defended the intersection of the highways between the cities of Tornobrzeg and Kopsevnica in August 1944 during the battles for holding the bridgehead on the left bank of the Vistula River. The Germans came close to the company of B.Bokov in a counterattack having superior strength with the aim to reach the river crossing. His fighters, inspired by their fearless commander, stood to their death and hold the line, inflicting heavy losses on the Nazis. For the entire period of battles from July 17, 1944 to August 12, 1944, in the smoke and fire, everyone could see the young slender figure of Boris. There were 170 German soldiers killed and about 10 light and tank machine guns destroyed on his company’s combat account. A fragment of an enemy shell interrupted young, ebullient life of Boris in fierce battles on August 22, 1944. This is how my great-grandfather died in the battle for the Socialist Motherland, being faithful to the military oath, showing heroism and courage. B.Bokov was buried with military honours in a solitary grave in the village of Gurki, Klimontuv area in Poland. The Motherland highly appreciated his merits and gave him with a high government award for the shown courage and bravery. The Guards Senior Lieutenant Boris Fedorovich Bokov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st class by of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 09/19/1944, for the exemplary performance of the Command’s combat missions at the front of the fight against the German invaders, for the valour and courage shown. Also in his homeland, local authorities erected a monument at the cemetery of the village of Ilyino in 1979. It had the names of all residents of the villages. Sitovka, Vvedenka, Ilyino and Nikolskoye, who died during the war. The name of Boris Fedorovich Bokov is among them.

Rank: Junior Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 384th Red Banner Infantry Division. Many years have passed since the victorious volleys of the war died away. Time "erases" the names of the heroes. They defended their loved ones, their homeland, our future. Who are they? One of them, I think, is my great-grandfather Ivan Polikarpovich Breslavtsev. His interesting, but very difficult life path made me respect him and be proud of being his relative. No wonder that I chose the words of V.I. Chuikov as an epigraph to my composition. I think those people who went through the war are heroes. If it were not for them, it would be no world in which we live now. Therefore, we must always remember about them. Ivan Polikarpovich Breslavtsev was born on December 3, 1923 in the village of Novomarkovka, Kantemirovsky District, Voronezh Region, in the family of a simple collective farmer. Parents Polikarp Mikhailovich and Marfa Dmitrovna worked in the collective farm named after S.Budyonny. My great-grandfather's childhood was very difficult. From the age of 7 he stayed without father (in the 1930s, his father was exiled from the village, and the family knew nothing more about him), that’s why after graduating from 4 classes in 1937, I.Breslavtsev had to go to work, since the family (his mother and younger sister Pasha) needed additional income. Of course, these events played a huge role in the formation of the personality of Ivan Polikarpovich. At an early age, he showed such qualities as courage, persistence and responsibility. He was sure that he had to help his mother and take care of his younger sister. In 1939, he joined a collective farm and before being drafted into the army, he worked the same hard as adults. Working selflessly, he was eager to go to the front to defend his Motherland. When the war began, he was seventeen years old. He could not fight yet, he was too young, so he decided to devote all his strength to military labour. War ... Much has changed in the two months of the beginning of the war: mothers grew old in an instant, and children matured early. And here is the first entry in the military card of the great-grandfather: “Fit for combat service. August 15, 1941”. Ivan was enrolled in the 16th Reserve Ski Regiment as a cable telephone operator. He served there until April 1942. During the war years, as it was necessary, the young took a machine gun and other weapons in their hands. It was a Separate Communications Company, which performed special tasks related not only to the integrity of the telephone line, but also to the delivery of secret packages to the Regiment Headquarters. According to the directive, Reserve Ski Regiments were staffed by politically proven, physically healthy and strong, ski-trained military personnel, aged 20 to 35 years. I.Breslavtsev was such a type of warrior. In January 1943, Ivan Polikarpovich was enlisted in the 384th Separate Artillery Regiment as a cable telephone operator. And again new tasks, in the heat and in the rain, in the frost and in the snow, the great-grandfather is always ready to carry out any command assignments in order to bring the victory closer. Together with his comrades in arms, he participated in the liberation of Belgorod and Kharkov. There were other military operations, but I don't know much about them, since my great-grandfather talked more about the battles in East Prussia. In April 1945, there were fierce battles near Königsberg. As my great-grandfather said, our soldiers suffered especially heavy losses from German snipers. The Germans kept the highway area under continuous fire. Coastal artillery fired from the northern shore of the bay. Fortress Divisions fired from the southern outskirts of Königsberg, from a distance of 6-7 kilometres. The losses were great. The Germans held a perimeter defence. On April 9, 1945, our troops took the impregnable fortress Königsberg in battle. In one of these battles, Ivan Polikarpovich received his first award - the Medal “For Courage”. There is a short, concrete statement of personal military feat, an extract from the award list: “Lance Corporal Breslavtsev I.P. is initiative and fearless in battles. He studied the material part of the equipment perfectly, he always keeps it in full combat readiness. During the capture of the village of Rostau, under heavy artillery and mortar fire of the enemy, he eliminated 10 gusts in 40/30 minutes, thereby providing clear, uninterrupted communication between the battalion commander and the 4th Company. " The medal was a pride and obliged to fight better, to liberate other territories from the hated invaders sooner. Ivan Polikarpovich has the following awards: the medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg", the medal "For the victory over Germany" and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, which he received in April 1985. He ended the war in Germany. "Serve the Fatherland!" -these are worthy words, they are full of greatness and strength. Our Motherland will be alive as long as there are defenders of Russia. The dawn is rising, bright and hot, and it will be so indestructible forever. Russia did not begin with a sword, and therefore it is invincible. Peaceful life has retuned. The great-grandfather was transferred from the active army to the 11th Aviation Regiment as a shooter. He served in the city of Königsberg until June 1948. Ivan Polikarpovich returns home in the rank of Junior Sergeant without a single combat wound. He entered the school of machine operators, worked for some time at the MTS, and then as a tractor driver at his own collective farm. In 1951, he married my great-grandmother - Galina Polikarpovna Eremchenko. She worked in the same collective farm like my great-grandfather. She was a professional milkmaid. Then the children Vladimir and Vera were born. From the memoirs of relatives, everyone respected and appreciated the great-grandfather. He treated every deal honestly and conscientiously, enjoyed the authority and respect of his fellow villagers and neighbours. He was interested in reading books, carpentry and, the most important, well-oiled technique. People often came to him for advice. He was kind, terse, was distinguished by his worldly wisdom. In October 2002, Ivan Polikarpovich Breslavtsev died in October 2002. I believe that the names of people like him should not be forgotten. People must remember about the high price of victory . The memory of him lives in the hearts of his loved ones, relatives, friends.

Rank: Marshal of The Soviet Union. Branch of Service: NKVD and NKGB troops (except border guards). Lavrentiy Beria - Hero of the Socialist Labor (#80 of September 30, 1943). Rank: General Commissar of State Security (from 1941 to 1945), Marshal of the Soviet Union (from 1945 to 1953). Commanded: Chief of the Chief Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR (1938), People's Commissar of the USSR Interior Ministry (1938-1945), Member of the GKO (1941-1944). Awarded with a Personal weapon - the Browning pistol and a watch with a monogram. Wife - Nina (Nino) Gegechkori (1905-1991). Son - Sergo (1924-2000). During the Great Patriotic War, from June 30, 1941, L. Beria was a member of the State Defense Committee (GKO). GKO decree of February 4, 1942 on the allocation of responsibilities among the members of GKO L. Beria was responsible for monitoring the implementation of the decisions of the GKO for the production of aircraft, engines, weapons and mortars, as well as for control over execution of decisions of the GKO on the work of the Red Army air force. L. Beria was appointed a member of GKO Operational Bureau by the GKO resolution of December 8, 1942. By the same decree, L. Beria was additionally assigned the duties of monitoring and supervising the work of the people's Commissariat of the Coal Industry and the People's Commissariat of Railways. Beria was appointed Deputy Chairman of the GKO and Chairman of the Operational Bureau in May 1944. The tasks of the Operational Bureau included, in particular, monitoring the work of all the people's commissariats of the defense industry, railway and water transport, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy, coal, oil, chemical, rubber, paper and pulp, electrical industry, and power plants. Beria also served as a permanent adviser to the Headquarters of the Main Command of the armed forces of the USSR. During the war, he carried out responsible assignments of the country's leadership and the ruling party, both related to the management of the national economy and at the front. Oversaw the production of aircraft and rocket technology.

Title: Red Army Soldier. Branch of service: Artillery. Duty station: 169th Kiev-Rogachev Order of Suvorov and Kutuzov Rifle Division Date of birth__.__.1910 Place of birth: Stalino Region, Artemovsky District Date and place of conscription: Artemovsky District Military Commissariate, Ukrainian SSR, Stalino Region, Artemovsky District. Last duty station: 169 Rifle Division. Date of disposal: 22.05.1942. Reason for departure: missing. Place of disposal: the Ukrainian SSR, Kharkov Region, Lipetsk District, Veseloe village. Source of information: TSAMO. Number of the historical information Fund: 58. Inventory and information number: 818883. Case number and information: 843. This person is my grandfather (my mother's father). Before the war, Savely worked in the mine, was tall and strong man. In the copy of the page from the report on losses from the site "Memory of the People", my grandfather's last Name is at the very end of the document. It should be noted, that most of the statements about the death of a person in this report contain the words: "went missing". Aerial bombs, mortar and tank shells literally leveled the Soviet positions to the ground. But still it should be noted that the Soviet soldiers fought bravely, destroying dozens of enemy tanks! Later, the 169 Rifle Division retreated in the direction of the Don and Volga rivers, and after being re-formed, it participated in the battle of Stalingrad.

Grigory Bakhtiyarov Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Branch of service: Artillery Grigory Bakhtiyarov was drafted into the Red Army by the Nalchik City Military Commissariat in 1935 and sent to a military school. He retired as a Lieutenant. He was again called up for service in the Red Army in March 1941. From June 22, 1941, he fought on the Southern Front, where he was wounded on January 10, 1942. After the hospital, he served on the Bryansk front and then on the Central Front, which in July 1943 took part in the battle of Kursk. He was the Chief of Staff of the 20th Separate Anti-tank Artillery Brigade of the Reserve Command in June-July 1944. Major Bakhtiyarov on the 1st Belorussian Front participated in the liberation of Belarus and the breakthrough through the city of Kovel on the polish territory, near Lublin. At the beginning of September 1944, Major Bakhtiyarov, as an officer of the 20th Separate Fighter-anti-tank Artillery Brigade, was fighting near Prague, a suburb of Warsaw, on the right Bank of the Vistula river. The brigade was sent to help the troops of the 65th Army, which had been holding a bridgehead on the right Bank of the Narev River since September 5. In early 1945, Lieutenant Colonel Bakhtiyarov of 20-th Separate Anti-tank Artillery Brigade of the Reserve Command was at the Puławy bridgehead on the Western Bank of the Vistula River, South of Warsaw. On January 14, during the Warsaw-Poznań operation, the brigade, along with other troops of the 1st Belorussian Front, launched an offensive to liberate Warsaw and break through to the Oder river. The combat career of the Deputy Commander of the artillery brigade Grigory Bakhtiyarov ended in May 1945 in Germany, near Berlin.

Branch of service: Artillery Batmanov Afanasy (1912-1982) was called up in August 1941 and immediately sent to the front, since before the war, he served three years in the Red Army and knew military Affairs well. His wife and two children stayed at home. He served in the artillery division. He fought for Stalingrad, Serafimovich, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary. He crossed Austria on military roads. Afanasy keeps award lists from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, from the Marshal of the Soviet Union. For the bravery shown in the battles for Krivoy Rog, for crossing the Dniester River in the vicinity of the Moldovan town of Bendery, for the capital of Hungary – Budapest, for the battle for the capital of Austria – Vienna, Batmanov Afanasy received a "Thank You" from Joseph Stalin. Was seriously wounded, but after recovering from his injury, he went back to the front and continued to fight. "Once the fascist scouts found out about the location of our division, it was necessary to quickly change the location and take the Nazis by surprise. Afanasy and another soldier volunteered to stay where they were and confuse their enemy. In an instant, his vision went dark and the ground disappeared from under his feet. He woke up in the white room of the hospital and asked the nurse: am I alive? He began to think about how he got here and realized that he had miraculously survived. His Victory in the war is visible on orders, medals and award lists, and the younger brothers of Afanasy also went through the roads of war. In a letter to Afanasy his brother Constantine wrote: "Our Vasya is fighting in Latvia, Alexander is liberating Germany from fascism, Misha is seriously wounded, his arm is amputated."

Rank: Petty Officer Branch Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards Duty station: 336th Rifle Division (1st formation) Ivan Balakaev worked as a police officer before the war and was released from conscription. He was 34 years old at the time, but he went to the military enlistment office and asked to be sent to the front. He served in the 336th Rifle Division. It was formed in the city of Melekess (now Dimitrovograd) Ulyanovsk Region in August-November 1941. After completing the Army Second Lieutenant Courses, he received the rank a Sergeant. In December 1941, the 336th Rifle Division arrived on the Western front and participated in the battle of Moscow. Conducted defensive battles south and southwest of Belev, covering the Kaluga and Tula areas. It periodically conducted small offensive operations. Ivan Balakaev was appointed a platoon commander in early 1942. He repeatedly personally partisipated in the attacks on enemy positions. A platoon under his command held a stubborn defense of the village of Gornushka in the Belevsky district of the Tula Region in February 1942. For the Germans, the city of Belev was an important strategic object, and the failure to capture Tula and Moscow forced the enemy to urgently create powerful defensive structures in their rear. The order of the German army emphasized the need to delay the Red Army's offensive by the all means available. In order to somehow preserve their group, which was stationed in the area of Belev, the enemy urgently began to create strong nodes of resistance in all localities. In Belev and in the villages around, all brick houses, churches, and bell towers were adapted for defence. Belev was turned into a strong fortified, defensive region, with a well-developed system of barriers, it was saturated with a large number of artillery, mortars and machine guns. In some areas, the approaches to the city were mined. 14 people repelled the attacks of a company of Germans. Bullets whistled over his head. Volleys of guns thundered. The ground was burning with incessant explosions. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, the platoon defended the village to the last cartridge, forcing the Nazis to retreat. With shouts of "For the Motherland! For Stalin!" the platoon began to pursue the enemy. Suddenly, the ground shook under the feet of the brave commander, great-grandfather was wounded by a fragment of a mine. Nearby was a nurse who pulled the wounded, unconscious soldier from the battlefield. Then, treatment in the hospital. After medica treatment, Ivan Balakaev again rushed to defend his Homeland. He was wounded a second time by an explosive bullet in the arm and chest while destroying the enemy near the village of Maryevskie Vyselki on April 4, 1942. He did not have a chance to return to the front after another treatment in the hospital, as he was commissioned. Fate kept my great-grandfather: wounded, but alive, he returned home, where his wife and children were waiting for him. For his exploits, Ivan Balakaev was awarded the Medal For Bravery. My great-grandfather fought bravely and honestly, like all Soviet soldiers. The consequences of the wound affected - in September 1945, a bullet fragment stuck in the lung took the life of my grandfather.

Rank: Sergeant. Branch of Service: Army, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Troops. Duty station: 29th Yelninsky Red Banner Order of Suvorov Guards Rifle Division. Our family carefully keeps the medals For Bravery and For the Victory over Germany, because they are the memory of the exploits of a soldier who was my great-grandfather Vladimir Butylkin. He went to war when he was 18 years old. There are documents that great-grandfather a mortar man in the 29th Guards Rifle Division and participated in battles and military campaigns from September 1943 to May 1945, until Victory Day. According to my grandmother, his daughter, Sergeant Major V. Butylkin it was not only necessary to shoot a mortar at the enemy in battle, but also during military campaigns to carry a heavy mortar on yourself. From the history of the Great Patriotic War, it is known that the 29th Guards Rifle Division in 1943 took part in the Rzhev-Vyazma operation, liberated Gzhatsk. In the Yelninsky-dorogobuzhsky operation it liberated Yelnya. Vladimir took part in the Rezhitsko-Dvina offensive, during which the division liberated Opochka, Ludza, Rezekne and Daugavpils. During the Madona and Riga operations, his division was the first to break through the enemy's defenses and took part in the liberation of Riga. After the war, my great-grandfather often had a headaches, because he was twice concussed in 1943 and 1944. My great-grandfather died long before I was born. I would love to sit on his lap and listen to him talking about his brave deeds. Although it is unlikely that for such soldiers as my great-grandfather, these were feats, because they simply defended their Homeland. We are infinitely grateful and proud of our great-grandparents who gave us the world!

Branch of service: Artillery In our family we are proud of great-grandfather Khameden Bisemaliev and thank him for a Great Victory. His countrymen respected him for his honesty, kindness, and his help in difficult times. He started working early in life on a local collective farm. Soon he was appointed a Chairman of the Semibugorinsky Village Council, since he was a successful fisherman, endowed with a natural mind, sharpness and ability to organize people, a party member since 1937. Not indifferent to the fate of the country, when the Homeland was in mortal danger, Hameden could not stay in the rear and more than once applied to the military Commissariat to be sent to the front. Only at the end of November of 1941, his application was granted – and soon he found himself on the front in Stalingrad. After a heavy wound and a treatment in a hospital, Hamedan returns home. Despite his disability, having shown will and character, he maneged a crew of fishermen of the collective farm "Kzyl Kunchugus" of the Zastensky Village Council. At the height of the Great Patriotic War, a Patriotic movement widely developed among the country's workers, they were raising money for the defense Fund for the production of tanks, aircraft and other military equipment. Our great-grandfather Hamedan contributed to the Defense Fund of 110 000 rubles. His letter to Joseph Stalin was published in the regional newspaper on January 14, 1943 "Kolkhoznik Kaspiya”: “Moscow. Kremlin. To I. Stalin With a patriotic enthusiasm of the workers of the whole country and the love for the Motherland, wishing the speedy and final defeat of the worst enemy of all the peoples the German fascists, I, brigadier of river fishing collective farm "Kyzyl Nunchukus" Selenskogo Village Council of Kamyzyaksky District of the Stalingrad Region Hamedan Bisemaliev, keeping up with my four brothers fighting at the front of the Patriotic War, has made a donation of 110 000 rubles for the construction of combat aircraft. Please give it the name "Red East". I pledge my continued hard work in the rear to help the Red Army, to beat the fascist evil spirits with additional hundreds and thousands of pounds of fish. On 11 January 1943 Khameden Bisemaliev". Soon he received a government telegram from Moscow: "Comrade Khamedan Bisemaliev. Thank You for helping the Red Army. At Your request, Your funds will be used for the construction of the Krasny Vostok aircraft. Supreme Commander-in-Chief I. Stalin". It is difficult to say whether the loss of his only son affected him so much or whether the desire to take revenge on the fascists was boiling in his blood, and it was this desire that made him turn his blood and labor savings into weapons that smashed the hated enemy. Anyway, Hameden Bisemaliev wanted to quickly cleanse our sacred land from the fascist invaders, and make the country pecefull and prosperous. The fisherman fulfilled his promise to the Motherland with honor. Only in the fourth quarter of 1942, he and his crew completed the fish production plan by 670%. But the earthly path of the honest man and the citizen, a true patriot Khameden Bisemaliev was short. Affected by the severe injuries he received in the battle, and hard fishing work – he died in 1944, 39 years old, not having lived a few months before the bright day of the great Victory. A participant in the bloodiest battle on the Volga River, a selfless home front worker, a fisherman and a true patriot of our land, who donated his life savings to the construction of the Red Vostok combat aircraft. Such was, such remains he in the memory of grateful descendants. This is a real feat, worthy admiration and pride.

Rank: Specialist Unit: 330th Mogilev Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division He was born in 1907 in the village of Batyushkovo Dmitrov District of the Moscow Region. He married my grandmother Agrafena Bobkova in 1930. They had four children: three sons and one daughter, my mother. My grandfather worked as an accountant for a collective farm in the same village of Batyushkovo. As my mother told me, my grandfather was very competent and reasonable, everyone consulted him on any issues related to the collective farm and not only. Alexey Bobkov went to the front as a volunteer from the first days of the war. In the battles near Moscow in 1941, he was seriously wounded and stayed in a hospital in the city of Dmitrov, Moscow Region. As far as I know, my grandmother went there to visit him, and this was the last time they met. We still have my grandfather's last triangular letter from the front, which he wrote on May 31, 1943. Our grandfather reached the rank of Specialist, was a rifleman. His last place of service was the 3rd Rifle Regiment of the 330th Rifle Division. Alexey Bobkov was killed on November 30, 1943 at the edge of the forest at 800 meters South of the village Zagornoe Chauskiy District, Mogilev Region, Belarus. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Antonovka, Chauskiy District, Mogilev Region. There were reports that he was wounded and was traveling in an ambulance train when they were attacked by the Nazis, and in this battle our grandfather died. We, all his descendants - children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren are proud of him, honor his memory and always remember with great respect our grandfather and all those who died in the Great Patriotic War, giving us life, freedom and a peaceful sky above our heads!

Nikolai Beldy (may 2, 1929, Mukha village, Nanaysky District, Far Eastern region – December 21, 1993, Khabarovsk), better known as Kola Beldy — was a Soviet, Russian singer, popular pop artist of the 1950s-1980s, Honored artist of the RSFSR (1985), Honored artist of the Yakut ASSR, Honored artist of the Buryat ASSR. Chinese by nationality. Kola Beldy was born in the small village of Mukha in the Nanai District of the Khabarovsk territory, in the family of Ivan Beldy, a hunter. He had a hungry childhood. Orphaned early, Kola suffered a nervous breakdown and began to stutter. He grew up and was brought up in a boarding school, from where during the Great Patriotic war he escaped to the front, claiming two extra years, and became a cabin boy in the Pacific Fleet. Participated in combat operations in Korea. Performed in the song and dance ensemble of the Pacific Fleet. After graduation from an external music school, Kola Beldy continued his service as a diesel engine operator on a minesweeper of the Pacific Fleet. Awarded the Medal of Nakhimov, Medal For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 and For the Victory over Japan, the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree (1985), jubilee medals 30 Years of Soviet Army and Navy, 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR and 70 years of Armed Forces of the USSR and other jubilee medals (20, 30 and 40 years of Victory). He was also awarded the title Veteran of Labor (with a medal). After serving in the Navy, Kola Beldy entered the Saratov State Conservatory named after L. Sobinov. He combined his studies with work for the Saratov drama theater. For some time he worked in the song and dance ensemble of the Voronezh Military District, then in the Kalinin and Khabarovsk Philharmonic, and from 1959 continued to work in the All-Russian Concert and Touring Association (later reorganized into Mosconcert) — as a soloist and vocalist until 1990. In 1957, he became a laureate of the VI World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow. The young talent was noticed by cultural figures (Sergey Mikhalkov and others) and the Minister of Culture Ekaterina Furtseva. The artist was invited to work in Moscow. In 1960, Kola Beldy became the Winner of the All-Russian competition of pop artists. In the same year, the artist received his first episodical role as a student "shaman" in the feature film by Grigory Alexandrov "Russian Souvenir". For more than 30 years, Kola Beldy toured the country and abroad, performed in 46 countries of the world becoming as recognizable in Europe as in the USSR. This was evidenced by numerous interviews with journalists of Newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs, reviews of listeners and viewers about his unique voice, unique manner of performance and personal charm. In the first black-and-white TV clip, Kola Beldy performed the comic "song about deer" or, as it was more often called — "and deer are better!" with piano accompaniment. The lyricstext were written by Yakov Kostyukovsky and Vladlen Bakhnov, and the music was composed by modest Tabachnikov. The greatest popularity occurred in 1972-1973. Kola Beldy with the song "I will take you to the tundra" reached the final of the festival "Song of the Year" in 1972. He received the second prize in the main competition of the international song Festival in Sopot (Poland) for the performance of the songs "Nature sings" and "I will take you to the tundra" on August 25, 1973. The result of the singer's creative activity was 4 vinyl discs released by the All-Union Record Company "Melody" — as well as numerous audio cassettes, video clips and several films that tell about the life and work of Kola Beldy. Kola Beldy's voice is a clear, pleasant timbre, a cross between a tenor and a lyrical baritone. Beldy singing has some features of Bel Canto: singing breath, alignment of timbre in the range, cantilena, but on the other hand it gives the impression of an Amateur, and the artist himself was a nugget. As a Nanai, Kola Beldy acted as if on behalf of all the small ethnic groups of the Far East, Siberia and the Far North. The theme of small ethnic groups of the USSR, living almost on a subsistence basis, belonged only to the Beldy stake. The heroes of his songs are Chukchi, Nanai, Udege, Nivkh, Orochi, Khanty, Komi and other representatives of the small ethnic groups of the North and Siberia. They are simple-minded and good-natured workers - fishermen, sailors, hunters, and reindeer herders. Kola Beldy sang about the beauty of the tundra and the Far North, and poetized the activities of that peoples. He sang about Chukotka, Naryan-Mar, Sakhalin, tundra and taiga. A separate motif in his work was reindeer and everything connected with them; the deer was the main breadwinner of such people. The popularity of Kola Beldy, along with the film "Chief of Chukotka" (1967), caused widespread jokes in the Soviet Union about naive and simple-minded Chukchi, about their lack of understanding of urban, and especially Moscow life. In 1990, the artist left the well-being and stability of Moscow life and decided to settle closer to the land of his Nanai ancestors, in Khabarovsk. He married a young woman named Olga, who worked as a doctor in a children's clinic. In early 1991, when he was 61 year old his daughter Elena was born. Kola Beldy died suddenly of a myocardial infarction on December 21, 1993. He was buried in Khabarovsk at the Central cemetery. After Kola's death, his wife, a doctor at a children's clinic, organized the Kola Beldy public Foundation — a public non-profit organization. Memory: The ship "Meteor" of the Amur River shipping company was named "Kola Beldy". In Khabarovsk, one of the new neighborhoods has a street named after Kola Belda. A Street in the administrative center of the Nanai district, the village of Troitsky, was also named in his honor.

Branch service: Military medical staff. Budylina Antonina was born on June 13, 1918 in the town of Bugulma in Tatarstan. Father - Joseph Budylin (worker) and mother - Anna Budylina (pharmacist). After graduating from school in February 1936, in February 1938, she was trained in the school of nursing in thetown of Belebei of Bashkir SSR and began to work as a nurse in Makarov hospital of the village of Makarovo, Bashkir SSR. From July 1941 to April 1942, she was a nurse at evacuation hospital #864, and from April 1942 to April 1945, she was a senior nurse at evacuation hospital #4019. Then, until December 1945, she worked as a nurse at the city polyclinic in Belibey. From April 1946 to July 1947 - Senior Planner of the 4th State Ship Factory in Kuibyshev; from June 1947 to January 1948 - Flight Register of the Regional Air Ambulance of the regional health Department in Kuibyshev; from January 1948 until April 1949, she was a nurse at the Mikushinsky children's home in the Isakli District of the Kuibyshev Region. From June 1949 to August 1950 - nurse of the Maksakov sanatorium in Belibey; from August 1950 to July 1952, a Nurse at the children's tuberculosis sanatorium of the Iglinsky District of Bashkir SSR; from July 1952 to November 1953 - a nurse at the Chekhov sanatorium of Bashkir SSR; Nov 1953 until June 1956 - Senior Preparator of the Serum Department of the Mechnikov Institute in Belebei, Bashkir SSR; since December 1956 until September 1959 - head of nursery #4 in Belibey, Bashkir SSR; from October 1959 to September 1962 -nurse of the tuberculosis dispanser of the Oktyabrsky District Bashkir SSR; from September 1962 to August 1964 - head of nursery #4 in the Oktyabrsky District of Bashkir SSR; since December 1964 until April 1973, she was a nurse at the Chartak sanatorium in the Yangi-Kurgan District of the Andijan Region of the UzSSR. She retired in April 1973. After retirement, she worked from November 1979 to may 1989 as a nurse in the Navoi City Health Department of the UzSSR. She died on May 27, 1995 in Navoi, UzSSR.