Heroes and feats

Rank: Private Branch of Service: Ground Troops, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard Services, NKVD Troops, Border Troops. Unit: 371st Rifle Division, Vitebsk, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov. Alexander was born in the city of Gorky into a respected family of the head of the Nizhny Novgorod Criminal Investigation Department. After finishing school, he immediately started working at the railway depot as a fitter-mechanic. When World War II broke out, he volunteered for the front. However, at the start of the war, his regiment fell into encirclement, and the Germans captured him and other soldiers. Together with a group of comrades, Alexander escaped. Later, after wandering briefly through the woods, their small band of surviving soldiers encountered a military unit. That's how Barokin A.I. joined regular army ranks again. Alexander successfully fought in Belarus until 1943, when once again he and his fellow soldiers fell into German encirclement and captivity. Yet another successful escape ensued. After fleeing the camp, Alexander met Belarusian partisans in the forest and stayed with them to fight against the Nazis, setting ambushes on German transport, sabotaging railways, and burning houses where sleeping Germans resided. In 1944, when Belarus was fully liberated from German invaders, Alexander rejoined the regular army. His final letter to his mother dates back to 1945 (Eastern Prussia). Alexander Ivanovich was very brave and fearless. Apparently, a German bullet caught up with him and fatally wounded the Russian soldier-liberator. He is listed as missing in action to this day.

My cousin, Inna Bruk, was born in Kharkov in 1925. Her mother, my aunt, Serafima Menshikova, was from the Chelyabinsk Region. Being the daughter of a White army officer who died in the Civil War and fleeing from the red terror, Serafima moved from the Urals to the Ukrainian SSR before Inna was born. She was followed there by her three younger sisters, including my mother. Initially, Serafima lived in Kharkov, where Inna was born, and then the mother and daughter went to Kiev. After the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Inna moved with her mother from German-occupied Kiev to a small village in the Kiev Region. There, her mother constantly baked bread for Soviet partisans, which was delivered to the local partisan camp with the help of messengers. Inna Bruk was captured and shot by German invaders in a village near Kiev, along with her mother, on March 18, 1943, on the denunciation of the Ukrainian village head, a traitor and Nazi accomplice. Before the execution, the mother asked not to kill Inna, who was only 17 years old at the time. But Inna ordered her mother not to humiliate herself before the enemy. She let down her luxuriant long hair in front of the executioner and was killed by a German officer with a pistol shot in the head in front of her mother, who was then shot with a machine gun. The Germans drove the whole village to watch the execution. Among the witnesses was one of their sisters, who moved after Inna's mother from the Urals to Kiev, and then to this village. It was she who reported these terrible events to us later. She turned gray that day.

Rank: corporal. Branch of SErvice: Military Medical Staff. My great-grandmother Butina (Anufrieva) Anna is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. She was born on January 28, 1921 in the village of Mikhaylovka, Yaroslavl Region. She was brought up in the usual for those times poor village family. The family consisted of five people: a father, mother, two older brothers and her. When she was four, her mother died. By the age of seven, her mother was replaced by a stepmother who gave all the warmth and affection that the little and only girl in the family lacked at that time. After graduatio from 7 classes in 1935, she entered Yaroslavl Medical School #9. After graduating with honors, she was sent to work in the city of Saransk, Mordovia Region, and 3 months later was sent to Poland. There she worked as a paramedic until the beginning of the war, when she was called to the front. There she was caught in the thick of the battle. She immediately started working in the hospital, because there were a lot of wounded and not enough medical staff. They worked without going to bed for two or three days in a row. Their field hospital retreated daily under the onslaught of the Nazis. In 1943, their battalion was moved to the outskirts of Kursk, on the eve of the great Battle of Kursk. There the grandmother under explosions of shells saved soldiers on the battlefield. She was wounded in the left eye by a fragment from the mine which burst nearby. Fortunately, the eye was not lost, and vision was restored. Their unit was transferred to the Belorussian Front in November 1943, where she also was a paramedic. The hospital was evacuated back to Poland in 1944, where my great-grandmother met Victory Day!!! On August 9, 1945, the entire division was sent to Far East. War again... Within 5 days, the division had been loaded on railway trains (people, weapons, equipment) and moved to the Far East. Yes! This was the beginning of the war with Japan. The journey was long, due to the Railways destroyed during the war and heavy traffic. Upon arrival in Khabarovsk, they were greeted with good news. Japan has capitulated! This was the end of a long, hard and terrible war in my great-grandmother's life. I am very grateful to her, my great-grandmother, and our Victory! On 04.05.2005, at the age of 84, she died suddenly in the village Zaigraevo of Zaigraevsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, where she was buried.

Branch of service: Artillery. Rank: Red Army Soldier. Born on January 14, 1917 in the village of Chaltyr, Myasnikovsky District, Rostov Region. In 1931, he graduated from Chaltyr High School and entered the Armenian Pedagogical College in Nakhichevan. Since 1933, in the ranks of the Komsomol, he was a member of the Komsomol Committee. After graduating from the pedagogical technical school, he worked as a geography teacher in grades 5-7 and head of the educational part of the school #13 named after KIM of Leninavansky Village Council Myasnikovsky District, Rostov-on-Don Region. He was elected to the Chaltyrsky Council of workers', peasants' and red army deputies of the Myasnikovsky District, North Caucasus Region. In 1937, he entered the Rostov-on-Don State University named after V. Molotov to study geography (correspondence Department). He was called up for active military service in the Red Army and enlisted as a cadet in an artillery regiment in the Leningrad region in 1939. He was transferred to the border regiment that took part in the Soviet-Finnish war in 1939-1940 in 1940. In a letter dated March 18, 1940, he wrote: "on March 9, more than 1,000 people went on a campaign in full military uniforms. They took guns with them. Some moved on foot, others on skis, others on horseback. I was skiing. Every day we walked 20-25 km. We spent the night in the villages we passed through. As a result, we reached a mountainous area and a dense forest with large trees. In the forest, the snow was higher than my head. Guns were fired from this spot. The shells flew far away and exploded there. In total, they covered about 220 km there and the same distance back. It's amazing that I've never skied before, but I've covered such a distance calmly. When we were on the campaign, many were sent to Finland and all of our Armenians including Termolyan Asvatur. Another unit of our regiment is now in Finland. Bahagiyan Ruben is there too. I received two letters from him. They say that another unit will be sent there on the 29th. Maybe I'll get there, too. While I'm here, only the Russian guys, my good friends, have already left. After the hike, I read your letters, previously written and Galusta, too. He writes that he is in a very difficult situation. Now the war is over, but I don't know where he is. I sent a telegram to the old address, but there is no response. I don't know how he is now, but he was in the most difficult conditions. Maybe he'll write to me, or if you get a letter from him, let me know." After the end of the Soviet-Finnish war, he served on the border with Finland. In a letter dated 13.06.1940 wrote: "I am now on the land where my brother fought for more than a month in a terrible fire. On the land where our brothers and thousands of soldiers fought, shed blood and acquired these lands so that our great city of Leningrad could be located beyond the border. Now we have come to protect these lands, our new Union borders, to protect our homeland. Our border regiment is located 12 km from the border and 20 km from the city of Vyborg." In 1941, after the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he fought against the Germans on the Finnish front. In a letter dated 26.07.1941, he wrote: "...there are often difficult moments. Suddenly, the shelling begins and all around, shells fall on all four sides, bullets whistle... starting from the 14th, we are in the thick of the war. What will you do in the line of duty. Don't worry too much about us, live your life, and what will happen to us will happen. If there is at least a piece of luck, we will remain alive, if not, then ... " in a letter dated 28.07.1941 (the last letter) wrote: "I don't have any Armenians with me, and the Russian guys are not the ones I served with before. When the war started, I was sent further North. Shells often fall here, they bomb and machine-gun us from planes. In between, there is no fear. Shells fall, we lie down, after the explosion we rise, of course, we must be careful. We don't think too much about it. For example, we go by truck, I play the mandolin (found here), and shells explode from four sides… Now I'm sitting in the trench, writing this letter and looking ahead. In front of us at a distance of about 1 km two villages and a little further other villages are burning covered with extensive flames. Write a lot of letters to let me know about you. As long as I live, I will try to write as much as possible."

Rank: Corporal Branch of Service: Artillery Unit: 245 Volynska Ruzicka Red Banner Rifle Division Kuzma (according to award documents - Konstantin) was the head of the bakery shop in the village of Borovoe, Novousmansky District, Voronezh Region. He was a member of the CPSU(b). The beginning of the war found him in Voronezh, where he was with his wife visiting his brother Sergey, an employee of the aircraft Factory #18. On the same day, he and his brother volunteered for the front. Having passed training, Kuzma was assigned to the 245th Rifle Division on February 18, 1942. There, he immediately proved to be an intelligent Red Army soldier, for which he was enlisted as a scout-observer in the 770th Separate Artillery Reconnaissance Regiment. With an attempt to completely the blockade the German troops in the Demyansk pocket, his battle path began. Operating in the close rear of the enemy, the scouts-observers paved the way for the division forward. Swamps of the Baltic States, industrial areas of Silesia, wooded Sudetenland-Kuzma Grigoryevich's long road to victory. In the area of Staraya Russa in August 1943 he receives his first award-the medal "for military merit". Then, together with the division, it participated in the offensive on Riga in the summer and autumn of 1944 and the elimination of the Kurland group of German troops until January 1945. Heavy combat conditions of the scout observer: multi-day sorties to the rear of the enemy, waiting lying in the water and snow, could not have a positive effect on the health of Kuzma Grigoryevich. In one sortie, his intelligence unit was ambushed. The Germans kept prisoners in a damp cellar, from where corporal Berdnikov managed to escape and return to the location of the unit. Hiding the fact of captivity from his superiors, he kept his reputation, but earned tuberculosis of the lungs, an incurable disease at that time. Since the beginning of 1945 Kuzma Grigoryevich is being transferred to a Separate anti-aircraft machine gun company, where his glorious path to victory continues. During the Sandomierz-Silesian offensive, he participates in the famous special intelligence operation to prevent the explosion of a mined Cracow, for which he receives a certificate of honor. Later, in 1967, Julian Semyonov would write the novel Major Whirlwind about these events. In the lower Silesian offensive, corporal Berdnikov earned the medal of honor for Bravery and received a certificate of honor for the capture of Oppeln. Victory met in Czechoslovakia, accepting the surrender of the German army group "Center". Corporal Berdnikov arrived home only in 1946, where he received a group I disability due to tuberculosis and died 2 years later. He is survived by his wife and daughter, who was born in February 1942. The father was shot by the invaders in his own home in Voronezh, and the mother survived the shooting in the Sandy Log and survived her son.

Rank: Lieutenant Commander Branch of Service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 349th Rifle Division Ivan Badanin was born on June 2, 1918 in the family of Grigory Badanin in the village of Poshutyata in the Vokhomsky District of the Kostroma Region. At school, he received a general seven-year education, and then applied to the Veliky-Ustyug River Transportation Technical School. He graduated in 1938 as a specialty-shipmaster technician of the river fleet. He was called to the front by the Ust-Usinsk District Military Commissariat of the Komi ASSR. He took the military oath on September 20, 1942. He served in the Armed Forces of the USSR from August 13, 1942 to December 20, 1945. From the red army book (from October 11, 1945): Rank and position: Sergeant, Senior Accountant. Unit: 112th Military Construction Detachment of the Main Directorate of Signal Detachments of the Red Army. The name of the unit: The Staff of the 1173rd Rifle Regiment from October 25, 1942 to January 23, 1943 111th Red Army Guards Rifle Regiment from 1.04.43 to 1.01.44, Sergeant Hospital #8052 from 23.01.43 to 1.04.43 Sergeant Evacuation Hospital #3261 from 1.01.44 to 12.03.44 Sergeant 21st UVNS from 12.02.44 to 12.04.44 Sergeant 112th Military Construction Detachment from 12.04.44 Sergeant, Senior Accountant Demobilized on the basis of a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from 25.09.45 as a graduate of technical school. During the Great Patriotic War, he took part in combat operations on the Stalingrad front from November 1942 to April 1943 as rifleman. He fought on the 4th Ukrainian Front from April 1943 to July 17, 1943 as a squad leader. Military ID # VK 079828 issued on January 9, 1968 by the Nenets District Military Commissariat of the Arkhangelsk Region (personal number G-599724). He received the rank of Lieutenant Commander on May 15, 1959 by order of the Ministry of defense of the USSR #453. Political Officer. Reserve - 2nd degree. He passed the 90 day training camps at the military unit #20 240 as an instructor in the organization of party work in 1963. The certificate to the participant in the war was issued on 25.09. (Zh 255 044). Registered on February 11, 1955. Nenets DMC of the Arkhangelsk Region.

Rank: Corporal. Position: Sniper. Unit: 232nd Rifle Division (1st formation). Nikolai Buyatov was born in the village of Verkhniye Yushady in the Menzelinsky District of the TASSR in 1923. Drafted into the Red Army: Menzelinsky District Military Commissariat of the TASSR in 1942. Participation in battles (where, when): - Southern Front, 60th Army, 232nd Rifle Division, 705 Regiment since July 1942; - Southern Front, 60th Army, 303rd Rifle Division, 705 Regiment from January 1943 to April 1943. Awards: - Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, - Medals - For the Victory over Germany, - For Military Merits, - Anniversary medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years, 60 years of Victory, - medal Georgy Zhukov, - medals 50 years, 60 years, 70 years of the armed forces of the USSR. Records from the Notepad-diary of Nicholay Buetov: “1. From April 1942, the Udmurt SSR trained as a machine gunner for 3 or 4 months. 2. since 1942, near Voronezh, station Mud, first combat. 3. end of October 1942, received a shrapnel wound in the arm with a broken bone (the arm was hanging). 4. January 1943, after the hospital sent to Voronezh in the division of the 62nd Army. 5. February 1943, there was heavy fighting. In the village of Kolpakovo, received a shrapnel wound in the leg and was treated in Khimki near Moscow. 6. Before beeing discharged from the hospital in Khimki, selected by a senior officer for the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (found out later), "my front-line road has changed". 7. 1944, on orders from above, the "unreliable" were deported to the East. 8. Capitulation of fascism and Victory Day on May 9 met in Bratislava. 9. 1946, sent to Potsdam near Berlin - Potsdam conference. 10. After returning to Moscow, the protection of public order, the fight against banditry. 11. 1947, sent to the Lithuanian SSR to maintain order during the elections of the Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR. 12. March 1948, discharged for health reasons. 13. Until 1951, worked for about 3 years in the Upper Yushads of the Menzelinsky District of the TASSR as a "procurement agent". 14. since July 1951, Perm (Molotov) chemical plant p/ya 100. 15. since 1973, retired, but continued to work until the age of 65."

Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Frce (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard I would like to leave in my memory those details and small fragments of memories about my great-grandfather, whom I never knew, about my mother's grandfather, whom she also did not know, about the father of my grandmother and four other daughters, who was taken from them at an early age by the fascist plague that dared to encroach on our lands, and on our huge country then. But about everything in order… Part of my "pedigree" is rooted in the village of Alexandrovka Voznesensky District, Nikolaev Region, in 1920-1930s. Two ordinary people Ivan and Maria met, fell in love and started a family. The family at that time was of average income – Ivan worked for the collective farm, sowing and harvesting on a machine; Maria, due to the alternate birth of five daughters, was engaged in household work and raising children. I will not go into details about the fact that at times it was not easy, that they went to school in the winter in turn because winter boots were one for two, that clean sheets and notebooks were worth their weight in gold ... Yes, there were many things missing, but this world did not converge in a wedge and an obstacle to peace and harmony in the family. Ivan from his youth was reputed to be a Joker and a buffoon, and Masha sometimes had to resort to his "upbringing". But all this family history was disrupted by the outbreak of war. Mobilization was announced. During the first draft, great-grandfather received a reservation until the end of the harvesting campaign. A couple of months after the start of the war. A car with orphaned children from the places where the fighting took place, where there was a front line arrived in the village. The children were brought for the resettlement in local families. My great-grandfather appeared in the evening on the doorstep of his house with three boys 11-13 years old. "Where there is room for five, there will be some for extra three," he said in response to a silent question from his great-grandmother. "Yes, and you will have some helpers, the girls are much smaller. I'm going to the front soon." And this "soon" came very quickly. On the eve of his departure, great-grandfather Ivan came home with a gift in the form of large juicy apples (from the memories of my grandmother Valentina) and distributed them among the children, hugged them tightly, there may have been other gifts, but this is what I remember. And then the train, the car, the war… Painful waiting for rare news, horror at the sight of the postman with death notices… He did not participate in battles for long, did not have time to receive large awards. In December 1942, a terrible letter came from the Uman prison camp, barrack #5. (spelling preserved) a Letter from the city of Uman. Hello dear parents and all relatives brothers and sisters. Father and mother and Masha, Katya, Nadya, Valya, Marusya and the smallest Lenochka. I am Your son and husband and father I am alive and well until some time in a camp of the city of Uman Barrack #5. Dear parents and Masha, if you get a letter, please just come to me now when you can and by train or cart you can see better than me. Take the papers from the office that I was mobilized, what year born and where lived. If there are four people guarantors then I can be allowed to go home. Go to D. Dalgaranga for advice than this will help. Dad I am with Nikita Miroshnik from the village Chubayrevka tell his relatives, let them also come. Masha please bring me to eat more fat and tobacco, because I was sick with typhoid, I'm very thin and feel bad. Masha find a good uncle and come only as soon as possible. I ask you all relatives to help me in any way you can because I have a bad case. Take this case in hand well and immediately not a single day, instantly, and still can send me further then it will be more difficult. With that, goodbye. With me are I. Benzar, Nikita Miroshnikov, Fedor Paley Fyodor let know their families. Hello to all my family and friends I am in the city of Uman captive lager Barrack #5 so goodbye I'm waiting for You as soon as possible and eat and smoke please bring your daughters' cards I really miss them Masha, Katya, Nadya, Valya, Marusya, Lenochka I'm your father Vanya. Who will receive the letter you can read and pass on and on to my family let them know that I am alive Ivan Benzar. 30.11.42. Maria did everything she could, collected things, food, money for ransom, I found a place, came there, searched, wrote notes, tied them to stones, threw them on the territory of the camp, received answers, but not from Ivan, but from another prisoner. Ivan had already been transferred to another place where no one knew. The man with whom the correspondence was conducted tearfully asked for help. "You still came with food and ransom, Ivan is not here, you can't pick him up, take me, help." And she helped, bailed him out. After all, just as someone could ask for help and her husband. Masha and a former prisoner of war left Uman together. All she had to do was wait for word from her husband, but there was no more news. Where and when his life ended is still unknown. In 1943, the last entry in archival Soviet magazines "Recognized as missing". All further searches of daughters (especially zealously engaged in this younger – Elena) did not lead to anything. The rescued man came to visit, remembered, thanked… After the war, he proposed marriage because a woman alone with five daughters could not survive in the post-war period. But she survived and raised her children and released them into the world. My great-grandmother never got married, she didn't get along with anyone – she couldn't imagine how her Vanya would come back, but she didn't wait. I collected bits and pieces of information from former fellow soldiers, from those with whom he was in captivity. It was found out that he was captured wounded. Together with other soldiers, they tried to get out of the encirclement. He was helped to move by his fellow soldiers, but when the Germans began to catch up with them, my great-grandfather asked to leave him in the forest, as he did not want to be a burden and let the others down. So he was captured. In the camp, He hoped to the last that he would be able to free himself. At the beginning of the war this was still practiced, the fascists were not yet completely brutalized. But this dream did not come true. P.S. The boys he brought before his departe lived in the family, but as they grew up in 1944-1945, they all joined the partisan movement. Whether all remained alive is unknown. After the war, a message to my great-grandmother came from one. I am very sorry that I did not know my great-grandfather, I am very sorry that I remember so little about him, but I am very proud that my great-grandfather, Ivan Bensar, became one of the pillars who managed to bring our Victory closer and make it a reality, even if they never found out about it. I greatly admire the resilience, strength and will of my great-grandmother, Maria Benzar. Eternal memory to them!

In 1940, Durdy Berkeliev was drafted into the army. He was sent to the war with the Finns. After the end of the Finnish campaign, they were transferred to Murmansk, then to the Western Front with the Germans. Berkeliev Durdy with weapons in hands defended our Homeland. When asked about the war, he always answered unequivocally: "I Don't want to tell, I want to forget, and you forget, this is not a good thing – the war!" It was difficult to persuade him to tell anything about the war. Durdy Berkeliev was excellent shooter, for well-aimed hit the target was rated as the "Voroshilov Sharpshooter". Once at leisure, he told us about his injury: "It was necessary to take the height. But there was a German sniper on it. We all lay down, afraid to raise our heads. They would have been shot immediately. It so happened that the squad leader was next to me. He knew that I was a good shooter and asked me to "remove" the sniper from the height. I took the request as an order. I shot the German sniper. My bullet "removed" the sniper from the path, and the German's bullet hit my helmet, bounced off, and cut through my shoulder. My comrades sprang to their feet and charged; the road was cleared, the Germans captured. The squad leader asked me: "Are you alive?" to which I replied: "No, I'm lost!" I still have a very deep scar on my shoulder." Durdy Berkeliev was taken to a hospital in Vologda. He returned to the unit after a final recovery. He was awarded the rank of a Guards Sergeant. D. Berkeliev served in intelligence, was a Squad Commander on the 1st Belorussian Front. Together with his unit, he took part in the battles for the city of Berlin . Durdy Berkeliev returned home in 1946. Bright memory to those who did not return from the battlefield and those who passed away after the war. For their courage in the fight against the Nazi invaders, Durdy Berkeliev was awarded the Order of Glory and the Order of the Patriotic War and medals For Courage, For the Defense of Soviet Arctic, For the Capture of Berlin, For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, had the gratitude of his command For the Capture of Berlin, For the Breakthrough of the German Defense and Attack on Berlin. After returning from the war, Durdy Berkeliev finally saw his six-year-old son for the first time. Subsequently, he had 5 more sons and four daughters. For a year, he worked as a history teacher. Former Communist. Then he was appointed Chairman of the collective farm.

Branch of Service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards. This story is about my own grandfather from a simple Soviet family, whose members defended our Homeland during the Great Patriotic War. Pavel Baryshev, was born in 1896, participated in three wars: the First World War in 1914, the Civil War in 1918, and the Great Patriotic War, in which he fought from 1941 to 1945. In the Priestensky District, cattle were driven away from the front line to safe places in order to preserve the livestock at the beginning of the war. Pavel was assigned to drive cattle in the direction of the village of Ukolovo in the Belgorod Region, but not far from Rossosha, Pavel was sent to the front along with his fellow villagers. He could not say goodbye to his home and family — the war was rushing him. Military unit where he had got into, was sent to Stalingrad. Pavel was a stable boy in the wagon trains all the war, but his rifle was always ready to repel the enemy. He witnessed the capture of Paulus' army at Stalingrad. After the war, he often talked about it. Sometimes he remembered that when he was traveling with the train at Stalingrad, they were photographed by photojournalists, and after the war these shots could be seen in the newsreel "The Battle of Stalingrad". In this battle he was seriously wounded. After the battle, they could not find him, and at home, they received a death notice, where he was still considered missing. Although his grave is located in the cemetery of the village of Troitsky in a well-groomed condition. My mother (wife of Gennady's son Tamara) takes care of it. Pavel accidentally, barely alive, was found in a deep groun hole by a friend, a fellow villager Yegor (nicknamed "Zheryak"). After he was sent to the hospital, and at home at this time they were already reading an ominous notice. In fact, it was different. Pavel after recovery, wrote a letter home from the hospital that he was wounded, but, thank God, alive. After recovering, Pavel returned to his unit, which continued the offensive in the Kursk region. And when there was a battle near Prokhorovka, in our village of Troitsky, one could see the searchlights and the glow from Prokhorovka, like a thunderstorm. We were all very worried about my father, because we knew that he was there. After the war, my father told us that the chimney from the hut was visible, but he could not reach it. "Together the unit of the Soviet Army, Pavel Baryshev reached Berlin. He returned home with a Victory and a letter of thanks signed by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I. Stalin. Until 1951, he worked for the collective farm in his village as a stable man. He raised four sons and four daughters, and was very fond of his wife Darya. At home, he often was singing his favorite "Katyusha". However, the splinters in the lungs made themselves felt. Pavel did not have to enjoy a peaceful life and home warmth for a long time.... He passed away in 1951. At the time when the head of the family was fighting on the war fronts, Darya, his wife, worked as a milkmaid for the collective farm. All the men went to the front, and the heavy men's work fell on the women's shoulders. The Chairman of the collective farm Sergey Smolnikov also went to war, and Darya was appointed in his place as a hardworking and responsible woman. He had to work in the field (plowed on cows), and on the farm, but the women believed in Victory and tried to help the front: they grew bread, collected parcels with food and warm things. Darya was a great worker, and she taught her children not to be afraid of the difficulties of life. The children of Pavel and Darya also made a significant contribution to the Victory over the Nazis. Their eldest daughter Olga Barysheva went to Moscow to study accounting, where she was caught by the war.Olga joined the militia. As part of this group, she dropped unexploded mines and shells from houses roofs, and participated in extinguishing fires. After the war, she married, stayed in Moscow, raised two daughters. She worked as an accountant for the rest of her life, and did not forget to visit her dear parents and siblings who lived in the village. The second daughter of Pavel Zinaida, born in 1923, graduated from the Kursk Medical School (1941). Immediately all graduates of the school were sent to the army, and only two weeks later they were allowed to go home to say goodbye to their relatives. Zinaida worked as a senior nurse in the evacuation hospital #2704 from June 27, 1941 to November 1945. She participated in the siege of Leningrad. She reached Poland with the Soviet Army after the blockade. The third daughter of the Baryshev family, Lidia, born in 1927, took an active part in clearing roads from snow during the second world war for the passage of Soviet military equipment: tanks, cars, guns. Lydia Pavlovna transported the wounded from s. Prilepy to the village volodymyrivka or Verhnelenskoe to the hospital, which was temporarily located in school.In 1945, Lidia Pavlovna entered the Kursk pedagogical school. After graduating from pedagogical school, she worked at her native school as a primary school teacher, and then as a Director of this school. The other five children of Pavel Yakovlevich Baryshev helped their parents at home, in the fields, and on the collective farm. There was enough work for everyone. All the sons of the Baryshev family served in the Soviet Army. All eight children received education and professions to their liking.This is the fate of an inconspicuous but unprecedented feat of service to the Motherland of an ordinary Verkhneploskovskaya family, which continued the great traditions of our heroic people in a dashing years.

Rank: Sergeant Dmitry Baryshev was born on November 6, 1925 in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region. He was a participant of the Great Patriotic War from July 1943. In the battle near Surozh, Orel region, he was seriously wounded by a mine fragment in the thigh of his left leg with damage to the sciatic nerve. Later received disability. Awarded the Medal For Bravery. In the battle, he was wounded in the leg, and when the German soldiers went around after the battle to check if anyone was still alive, they came up to him. The soldier kicked him hard in the wounded leg with his boot. Where did the 17-year-old boy find the strength not only not to scream, but not to show signs of life. Then a girl nurse found him. After the injury, he limped all his life. Another fragment remained on the bridge of the nose near the eye, it was impossible to operate there. After the war, he worked in Magnitogorsk in a POW camp until this camp was disbanded. After that, he was transferred to work as a duty officer at the Magnitogorsk railway station. At that time, they began to build a continuation of the branch to Sibai and he, as a highly initiative and responsible person, was transferred to work in Sibai. Worked in the Human Resources Department. He was in the leadership of the Trade Union. His inexhaustible life energy and will constantly moved everything he was connected with, both at work and in the family. He was very cheerful, the "soul" of any company, very fond of jokes. He was interested in everything, any equipment, any new products, collected models of cameras, transistors, radios, and then with pleasure gave them to friends and relatives. Very fond of children, very fond of life. After a short vacation in the Crimea, he got together with his family in a week and moved to the Crimea near Simferopol in August 1974, where he lived for a very short time - 2 years. One thing that always upset him was that he could not get an education because of the war, so he did everything to ensure that his children studied. He wanted his son to become a military man. His son realized his dream, but after his death.

Rank: Red Army Soldier. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard. Unit: 17th Gorkovskaya Red Banner Rifle Division. Ivan oytsov (1918, Minkino, RSFSR — February 27, 1940, Vyborg province, Finland) was a Red Army soldier of the 7th Company of the 278th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 17th Motor Rifle Division of the 13th Army. During the Winter war in February 1940, he participated in the assault on an enemy stronghold, was repeatedly wounded, but despite this, was the first to reach the pillbox and blown it out with grenades. During this attack, he died, and in the same year was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Ivan Boytsov was born in 1918 to a Russian peasant family in the village of Minkino, Novgorod province. After graduating from school, he worked for a collective farm. With the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish war in November 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in the 7th Company of the 278th Motor Rifle Regiment of the 17th Motor Rifle Division of the 13th Army. The soldiers received their baptism of fire in the offensive near the Punnus-Joki river capturing a fortified enemy strip, when under heavy machine-gun and mortar fire, his company was forced to lie down. Boytsov encouraged their comrades and raised them to attack, which forced the enemy to retreat. “We are strong in the righteousness of the cause and will crush the enemy. As for me, rest assured: for the sake of our victory, I will not spare myself, even if I want to live like the devil” – he wrote in one of the letters from the front. In the battle to break through and capture the fortified area on the Salmen-Kaita river on February 27, 1940, the 7th Company, in which Ivan served, was ordered to destroy a pillbox that hindered the battalion's progress. Having selected twenty fighters for the assault group, senior political officer Chernobrovin led them to the attack. Boytsov went to the attack in the first rows with a red flag fixed on a bayonet, and was wounded in the arm: despite this, he was the first to reach the firing point, set a red banner on it, was wounded a second time, but still threw grenades at the pillbox. While completing the task, he was killed. The feat of Boytsov inspired the soldiers of the 7th Company, they surrounded the pillbox and captured it. Ivan was buried in a mass grave near the village of Veshchevo in the Vyborg District of the Leningrad Region. The tombstone shows the wrong patronymic - Nikolaevich. For his feat, Ivan Boytsov was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union with the Gold Star Medal and the Order of Lenin on April 7, 1940. Joensuu village was renamed the village of the Boytsov. A street in Pestovo is named after I. Boytsov, and a bust of the hero is also installed in one of the city's squares. In the fall of 1942, residents of the Pestovsky District raised money for the creation of a tank column, called the "Leningrad Collective Farmer". One of the tanks was named after I. Boytsov. EXCERPTS FROM BAIR IRINCHEEV'S BOOK: «DEFAMED STALIN'S VICTORY. ASSAULT ON THE MANNERHEIM LINE." The 17th Motorized Rifle Division attacked the positions of the Finnish 5th and 6th regiments between lake Punnus-yarvi (Krasnoe) and Kirk-yarvi (Pravdinsky) from 11 to 15 February, and managed to advance 1-2 kilometers deep into the Finnish defense, but the Finnish front line still held. The advance was achieved at the cost of high losses in personnel, especially a lot of commanders were out of action. FIGHTING ON THE SALMENKAITA RIVER (DAMASK): BAPTISM OF GORKY CITY. When attacking Finnish positions, the 17th Motorized Rifle Division had to pass the fields on the southern Bank, cross the river by the ice, and then begin a direct assault on the pillbox. Soviet artillery began harassing the fortified area on the morning of February 20. Soviet artillery fire increased at 10.00, and the Finns prepared to repel the attack. By this time, the main forces of the 17th Motorized Rifle Division and the 50th Rifle Division had reached the areas South of the Salmenkaita river. The command of the 17th Division decided to strike the main blow in the center of the Finnish defense, in the fields of the village of Variksenkylya. Soviet units took up positions in the forest at heights one kilometer South of the river. On the left flank of the division was the 55th Motor Rifle Regiment, in the center-the 278th Motor Rifle Regiment, on the right flank the 271st Motor Rifle Regiment. To the right of the 271st Regiment, from pillboxes #3 and #4 to the Bank of the Vuoksa, the 359th and 2nd Regiments of the 50th Rifle Division were advancing. The regimental artillery of the 271st Motorized Rifle Regiment was firing at the fortified points and wire entanglements of the Finns. By evening, Soviet artillery fire marked the direction of the main attack of the 17th Motorized Rifle Division - shells fell mainly on the third battalion near the Hein-joki-Rautu highway in the center of the Finnish defense. The Finns noted that heavy guns appeared in the Soviet artillery group. Two old casemates on the shore were damaged by fire. Soviet artillery opened a hurricane of fire on the entire line of defense of the regiment on February 21, at 8.30 am. However, most of the Finnish Pillboxes had not yet been scouted, and the fire was mainly directed at squares. It should also be noted that the 17th Motorized Rifle Division had rather weak artillery and could not help its motorized infantry much. Soviet rifle units stormed the fortified area on the 3rd battalion's site at 12: 30. Motorized infantry of the 1st and 2nd battalions of the 278th regiment managed to cross the narrow Salmenkaita river, gained a foothold in front of the 9th company's positions, took cover behind armored shields and engaged in a fire battle with the Finnish infantry. Soviet infantry captured Cavicchioni (Birch Cape) to the North-West of the highway at 13.30 and forced single Finnish platoon to retreat. Additional forces managed to cross to the North Bank of the river at 16.15, and the fire battle in the area of the 9th Company's defense continued. The first battalion of the 278th Regiment continued the offensive, deploying in a chain in the field in front of pillboxes #15 and #36. Finnish machine gunners in the Pillbox let the battalion to the targeted wire fence and opened a hurricane of flanking fire. Caponier #15's machine guns were firing incessantly all day. The motorized infantry could not advance further than the wire fence. They managed, however, at 17.00 to take also the grove Lehtosaari North - East of the road bridge over Salmenkaita. On the Soviet right flank, the first battalion of the 271st Motorized Rifle regiment was stopped by fire at the wire and could not advance further. A Blizzard broke out in the afternoon, and the Soviet command decided to take advantage of this by going on the offensive along the entire front of the division. The 3rd Company and part of the 1st Company of the 278th Regiment under the command of political Commissar Senechkin again attacked the field at Pillboxes #15 and #36 and saddled pillbox #15 at dusk. However, this success could not be developed — due to heavy fire, other companies were unable to break through to the Pillbox. After suffering heavy losses in killed and wounded during the night, the 3rd Company was forced to retreat to the river. In total, on February 21, the first battalion of the 278th Regiment lost about 200 men killed and wounded. The 1st battalion of the neighboring 271st Regiment also tried to attack in the evening, but when trying to cut the wire, it lost the battalion Commissar — senior political officer Zotov was killed. A few hours later, battalion commander First Lieutenant Kazansky was also wounded. On the Soviet left flank, the 55th Regiment managed to cross the river and occupy the old casemate #9, but was driven to the southern Bank of the river by a Finnish counterattack. After artillery preparation, Major Krylov, commander of the 278th Motorized Rifle Regiment, threw the second battalion of the regiment into battle. The battalion sat down on tanks and managed to get to the river in this way, but the tankers did not go further, and the motorized infantry went further into battle on foot. They managed to occupy the Finnish lines of communication 150 meters from pillbox #15 and recapture Beryozovy Cape from the Finns. As a result, the commander of the 8th Finnish company fenrik of the Eloranta reserve decided to withdraw his company to pillbox #36, leaving fenrik Honkkil's machine gunners in Pillbox #15 alone. The soldiers of the 17th Division went on the offensive from the grove Lehtosaari to 14.15 saddled pilbox #16. It was not possible to destroy and hold the pillbox. The commander of the 6th Regiment ordered the Khakalakhti company to immediately move to the CP of the third battalion and go to the command of Kombat-3. He also requested the commander of the 5th separate battalion to urgently send one company to the area of the regiment's CP. In the afternoon, the 278th regiment continued its attacks on pillbox #15, and the Finns were forced to transfer all reserves to the third battalion's defense sector. In the evening, the commander of the Finnish 6th regiment had at its disposal one infantry battalion in reserve (captain Lepplax). On the Soviet left flank, the 55th Regiment launched an offensive against one company, which came under heavy Finnish machine-gun fire and was forced to retreat, suffering losses. On the afternoon of February 22, a thaw with sleet began, and all the soldiers were soaked through. On the morning of February 23, frosts hit up to -10 degrees with a sharp wind, and all the uniforms — overcoats, valenki, mittens-froze. Despite severe weather conditions, on February 23, the Soviet offensive continued along the entire front of the 17th division. On the Soviet left and right flanks, the Finns repulsed the attacks of the 55th and 271st regiments, and in the center a heavy battle broke out again for pillbox #15. At first, three tanks were thrown into the battle, but the Finns managed to knock out two of them. By evening, the Soviet assault group managed to ride the pillbox and blow it up with a powerful charge. On February 24, in the morning, Soviet artillery began artillery preparation, knocking down an armored dome from pillbox #13, and at 12:30 the 278th Regiment again went on the offensive with the support of six tanks, two of which were stuck in the holes. By 18:50, despite the stubborn Finnish resistance, the motorized infantry managed to recapture the destroyed pillbox #15 and the ruins of the Rantala farm. The Finns had to replace the 8th company and reinforce the 9th company with one platoon and launch another night counterattack. By 21.00, the Finns knocked out the Soviet motorized infantry from the remains of the farm Rantala, and by 04.00 on February 25-and the grove South-East of it. Both sides were severely exhausted after four days of continuous fighting. The 278th Regiment suffered heavy losses, while the Finns had fewer losses. On February 25, the 278th Rifle Regiment was withdrawn from the front line. Losses in the regiment amounted to more than 50 % of the personnel.

"Serovsky Worker" from 03.06.1999 #101 (18134). "The Partisans Went on a Campaign." The small town of Klimovichi is lost in the forests and swamps of Belarus. Here, on a bright June day, school children's voices rang joyfully in schools: exams were over. Not just the school year was over, for many people school was over and they needed to get used to a new life, enter higher education institutions or High School or go to a Technical School. Or maybe-to a Vocational School, where one could get a profession. Zoya Rabkova, a pretty teenage girl, dreamed, like everyone else, of a bright and happy future. She grew up in a family of employees and thought about a good peaceful profession. Maybe follow her father's path and become a communications worker. Other professions were also attracted. There was still time to think. But the war destroyed the plans of adults and children. Belarus was under the boot of the German-fascist invaders. Part of the population of Klimovichi was evacuated. It became dangerous to live in the city: enemy planes bombed day and night. Family Rakovich, like many others, was forced to leave the city. Near one of the villages, they dug half-dugouts, half-digs, covered them with a roll of logs, covered them with turf-and so they lived. Somewhere in the middle of August, a heavy artillery cannonade began. Residents of dugouts, afraid of being crushed in their "homes", jumped into the open field. "Tanks, tanks!" someone shouted. Tanks were moving across the field, some of them displaying what appeared to be red flags. But the joy was premature: the refugees saw a fascist swastika on the flags. So came the terrible time of occupation. Yesterday's students could not understand: why did the fascists so quickly captured such large territories of their native country and continued to move rapidly to the East? But not only children and teenagers, but also adults could not quickly recover from the shock state. Only the fascists quickly clarified everything and helped the Soviet people understand what the "new order" brought them. Many years later Zoya recalled: "I remember one of the terrible days. Main street. To the right and left of the road on poles are the corpses of people hanged by the Nazis. Fascist executioners were rampant. Every day brings new massacres... But the first shock and confusion among people has already passed. With each new atrocity of the fascists, hatred for them grew and grew stronger." In the very first days of the Great Patriotic war, the heroic struggle of the Soviet people in the rear of the German fascist army began. The entire Belarusian land from Brest to Orsha was ablaze with partisan bonfires. Partisan detachments began to form and operate in the forests and swampy thickets, and underground organizations began to operate in cities. The core of this popular movement was the Communists and Komsomol members. And in Klimovichi in early 1942, a combat Komsomol group was created. Zoya became a member of this group. She was only 16 years old. But the Komsomol conscience did not allow her to sit at home. The group carried out a variety of work among the citizens: they reproduced and distributed reports of the Soviet Information Bureau, told residents about the situation at the front, collected information about the deployment of German troops, carried out sabotage at enterprises and Railways, and helped Jewish families escape from the city. The activities of underground groups and partisan detachments were united and coordinated by city and district centers. Only in Mogilev region 15 such centers were created. Klimovichi was one of them. Soviet patriots had to conduct underground work and partisan struggle in the context of a brutal occupation regime. As early as May 1941, in preparation for war with the Soviet Union, Hitler's command issued a Directive ordering the merciless extermination of partisans and suspicious individuals. It was explicitly stated: "Any resistance will be eliminated not by judicial punishment of the perpetrators, but by the spread of such fear and horror on the part of the occupation authorities that will discourage the population from any desire to resist...". Therefore, underground organizations were constantly under threat of destruction. Arrests also began in Klimovichi. The fascists conducted constant raids on the streets and bazaars. Several members of the underground group were captured. In such conditions, it became impossible to act, so it was decided to leave the city. For this purpose, armbands with the inscription "Policeman" were prepared for several older guys, and German rifles or submachine guns were handed to them. Under their "supervision" they left in groups of 3-5 people. They were met in the village a contact who was visited by partisan scouts. For a whole month they could not contact the partisans, as the detachment changed its base after the battle with the Germans. But in February 1943, young underground workers still got to the partisan detachment "For the Motherland!", which operated in the nearby forests. Its commander was a young Lieutenant Vladimir Markov. And in March, the young partisan Zoya took the oath of the Belarusian partisans. Together with her comrades, she swore: "I am, a citizen of the Great Soviet Union, a loyal daughter of the heroic Belarusian people, swear that I will not let go of my weapons until the last fascist bastard on our Belarusian land is destroyed." And the young partisans kept their vows firmly, even though it was difficult for them. This is what Zoya said: "it was not Easy for us, teenagers. In the winter they lived in dugouts, in the summer they set up tents, covered huts. Hidden trails in the swampy forest swamps - a whole science for the partisans, without which you can not do anything. It was especially difficult when the Germans were blockading the forest. Then for a week or more they could not light a fire to dry their clothes and warm themselves. But the enemy soon left - they were afraid of our forest, where every tree was fraught with danger for them. But the partisans remained..." Yes, the partisans remained. And for the sake of justice, it should be said that they were a great danger to the Germans. Here's what German officer Friedrich Bushel wrote home, which was later overtaken by partisans: "In the dreary wilderness, we joined on the tanks. Not a single person is around, but everywhere and everywhere, in the woods and swamps, the shadows of the Avengers are flying. These are partisans. Suddenly, as if growing out of the ground, they attack us, chop, cut, and disappear like devils, falling into the underworld. The Avengers are after us at every turn, and there is no escape from them. Damn it! I have never experienced anything like this anywhere in the war. I can't fight the ghosts of the woods. As I write my diary, I look anxiously at the setting sun. Better not to think. Night falls, and I feel the shadows creeping silently out of the darkness, and I am seized with a chilling horror." No wonder the fascists were seized with "chilling horror". The partisans were increasingly active. And in 1943, they declared a rail war on the Nazis. The group in which the young Zoya fought was actively involved in this war. Every partisan of the "For the Motherland!" detachment committed to blow up at least 12 meters of the railway track. An unwritten law was established among the partisans: "One is not a partisan if he did not blow up 12 meters of the rails." And the partisans fulfilled their obligations, although this was fraught with deadly danger. The fascists, taking into account the experience of fighting the partisans, took countermeasures. They cut down the forest near the railroad tracks, increased patrolling on the tracks, and combed nearby forests. But nothing worked. The guerrillas regularly conducted combat operations, destroyed a patrol, attacked a guard... And again, the enemy echelons were flying downhill! Great help to the partisans was provided by the local population. Zoya recalled: "Our contacts were everywhere. There was even a priest in one of the villages. Later, when he came to us in the squad, and walked in his cassock. Women baked our bread secretly, at night, so as not to fall under suspicion. For helping the partisans, they were shot, people knew about it, but they continued to help us." She gives an example full of the tragedy and courage of those days. Two fighters from the partisan detachment went on a scout mission. In one of the villages came across the punishers. As a result of the skirmish, one of the them was killed, the other managed to leave the village. The Germans guessed the close connection of the local population with the partisans. So they herded all the villagers to the square, hoping that someone would identify the deceased. The partisan's parents were also there. But no one identified him, no one gave away his family. The fascists miscalculated. For more than two years, the long-suffering Mogilev Region was under the fascist yoke. But the front was getting closer to the borders of Belarus. And at the end of July 1943, the troops of the Kalinin and Western Fronts began to prepare for the offensive. They were opposed by the army group "Center", whose soldiers were reliably protected by a powerful defense of 5-6 fortified bands. The offensive was also hampered by the conditions of the wooded and swampy area. Early in the morning of August 7, after a powerful artillery preparation, the offensive of the Red Army units began. To help the advancing troops, the Belarusian partisans conducted several bold operations, in which more than 13.5 thousand people participated. They threatened 46 railway sections and crossings withthei attacks, and blew up bridges on Railways and highways. In October alone, the partisans blew up and burned more than 2,000 vehicles and tanks and armored vehicles. In October, the partisan detachment "For the Motherland!" together with the Red Army units, he entered the native streets of the city of Klimovichi. The enemy was driven from the Fatherland. Peaceful life began. Zoya became a signalwoman, just like her father. She married Evoliy Bazhenov. The young family moved to Serov in 1951. Zoya, having two small children (Arkady and Galina), successfully graduated from the financial College and worked for many years in the city financial Department. Later, she worked for the canteens trust. Everywhere Zoya treated her work very responsibly, as evidenced by her numerous certificates of honor and diplomas. And one can write a separate story about this.

Rank: Red Army Soldier Soldier's Story Vasily Vasiliy Braytsara was born on February 19, 1920 in the village of Alekseyevka, Kuibyshev District, Zaporozhye Region in the family of Trofim and Maria Braytsara. In 1930, the family moved to the Ukrainian farm, Oryol District, Rostov Region. Graduated from 4 classes of school. He worked for a collective farm as a trailer driver, then as a tractor driver. In 1940, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the Far East in the 2nd Red Banner Army. Participated in the Soviet-Japanese war of 1945, was one of the best fighters of his military unit. During the war, he was wounded in the hip, and subsequently received the 2nd group of disability in this regard. For exemplary performance of command assignments at the front against the Japanese invaders and displaying valor and courage he was awarded the Medal For Military Merit, and in the postwar period – the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree. Vasily was dismissed from the military service in 1947. Until 1956, he worked in Rostov-on-Don in the Dono-Kuban Basin Management, and then lived in the city of Gornyak, Donetsk Region. In 1951, he married Varvara Shokalo. In 1952, their son Alexander was born in Rostov-on-Don, and in 1959, their daughter Natalia was born in Gornyak. From 1956 to 1986, he worked as a fastener at the Kurakhovskaya Mine of the SelidovUgol Trust. Vasiliy Braytsara died on October 17, 1999, buried in the mining town. Children of a war veteran live in Rostov-on-Don. The combat way of a soldier Vasiliy Braytsara was called up to the Red Army in 1940 by the Oryol District Military Commissariate of the Rostov Region. By the time the Soviet-Japanese war began in 1945, he was serving in the Far East, in the 204th Separate Automobile Repair and Restoration Battalion, the 2nd Red Banner Army, and the 2nd Far Eastern Front as a locksmith. Until August 1945, the 2nd Red Banner Army performed tasks for the defense of the Far Eastern borders of the USSR. It was part of the Active army and participated in the Sungari operation of the Soviet troops from 09.08.1945 to 03.09.1945. The army, in cooperation with the Amur Military Flotilla on August 10, crossed the Amur and Ussuri rivers, broke through the long-term Japanese defense, overcame the Maly Khingan mountain range, and, together with the troops of the 1st Far Eastern front, captured the Northern and North-Eastern parts of Manchuria. The summer of 1945 turned out to be rainy, water overflowed the banks and flooded the area. This greatly complicated the offensive. The places designated for crossings were flooded and swampy, and the roads were washed out. The 204th Battalion performed combat missions in the second echelon of army repair and evacuation units, engaged in the evacuation of vehicles pulled out of swamps and rivers and their subsequent repair and restoration. At the same time, Vasily was one of the best soldiers of the battalion. Working on the restoration of vehicles, he completed daily production tasks by 370-400%. During the war with the Japanese invaders, his work helped to quickly defeat the Japanese, and on September 1, 1945, he was presented with the Order of the Badge of Honor. During the Sungari operation of our troops, he was wounded in the thigh, but remained in the ranks. For exemplary performance of command assignments at the front against the Japanese invaders and displaying valor and courage of the soldier of Vasiliy Braytsara was awarded the Medal For military merit on 29 September. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree in 1985. After the Victory over the Japanese invaders Vasiliy Braytsara continued to perform military service, and was discharged in 1947. Merits of a soldier From the award list… To award the Red Army soldier of the 204th Battalion Vasiliy Braytsara the Medal For Military Merit:"Comrade Braytsara is one of the best soldiers of a unit. Working on the restoration of motor vehicles comrade Braytsara performed production tasks for 370-400%. During the war with the Japanese invaders, his work helped to quickly defeat the Japanese samurai. Braytsara deserved government awards: Order of The Badge Of Honor. Commander of 204 Battalion Major Buynov, September 1, 1945. Memories of a soldier Says the daughter of Vasiliy Braytsara Natalya. "Dad was a very calm, reasonable and kind person. He rarely thought about the Soviet-Japanese war in 1945, like most former front-line soldiers. He told how, together with his fellow soldiers, he restored a truck from spare parts at night so that they could go to the front line to participate in battles. But they were not released. At the end of his life, he walked badly, affected by the wound received at the front. Together with our entire family, I am proud of my father and thank him for his contribution to the Victory over the Japanese invaders."

Rank: Lieutenant Branch of service: Armored and Mechanized Troops My grandfather, Bulychev Vladimir Guards First Lieutenant, was born in 1913, a native of the village of Sosnovka, Krapivinsky District, Kemerovo Degion. He is a hero of the Great Patriotic War. Below is the description of his personal feat in the Victorious wave of courage and heroism shown by the People in the fight against the German-fascist invaders. Order of the Red Star. Feat in the battles for the Motherland against the German invaders from 1942 to 1945 comrade Bulychev all the time participated in the battles , where he was wounded six times and remained in the ranks to perform a combat mission. In the battles from October 1944 to April 1945 in East Prussia, comrade Bulychev showed courage, bravery, fearlessness and the ability to clearly command the company, correctly performed the assigned combat tasks, which ensured the success of the regiment, reliably protected tanks in battle from enemy fighters and was personally with the company in the tank ranks. In the battle, the company's personnel showed courage, bravery, good skills and high morale. 80 of the company members were awarded. The commander of a company of submachine gunners, in an operation to break through a long-term deep-echeloned defense in East Prussia, proved to be an exceptionally brave and courageous officer. Bulychev skillfully leads a company of machine gunners, organizes the defense of tanks on the battlefield, collects information about the enemy through machine gunners and reports them to tank companies. Personally, comrade Bulychev in the Gumbinen operation repeatedly restored communication between tanks and Observation Point, maintained communication between the regiment commander and the infantry. The personnel of the company of submachine gunners, which is commanded by Lieutenant Bulychev throughout the operation flawlessly performed combat tasks, courageously and steadfastly fights with infantry and German tank destroyers. For exemplary performance of combat tasks of the command of the front, he is worthy of being awarded the Government award of the Order of the Red Star. Commander of the 81st Separate Guards Kholmsky Red Banner Heavy Tank Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Serdyuchenko. January 25, 1945. After returning from the war to the village of Muromtsevo, Omsk Region, my grandfather, Vladimir Bulychev worked as the Secretary of the District Party Committee for agriculture. In 1985 Bulychev Vladimir was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.