Heroes and feats

Rank: Senior lieutenant. Branch of service: Artillery. Born on November 19, 1916 in d. Panaskina Belaya Kalitva district of Rostov region. Graduated From mining technical school in Shakhty. He was drafted into the red Army by the Shakhty city military Commissariat of the Rostov region In October 1939 (he was a cadet of the regimental school 363 of the art regiment of the 130th rifle division). In 1940-1941, he studied at the Leningrad military political school.Engels, after which in April 1941 he was sent to serve in Brest-Litovsk. He was the political Commissar of battery 100 of the artillery regiment of the 22nd tank compound, which was located in the southern town (in everyday use - in the chemical Town), 5 km from Brest. This is where the war started for my grandfather. Grandfather did not like to remember all the horrors of the first minutes, hours, and days of the war. And you could understand who would want to remember how the first Nazi shells killed his roommate, how they had to jump out of the second floor, because everyone who tried to run out of the barracks through the front door was killed, how the first weapon in the first minutes of the war was a sapper's shovel, how they had to use it for the first time as a weapon, how his comrades and friends died. P. I. Buryakov fought on the Central, Western, and Kalinin fronts. The last place of service was the 303rd fighter anti-tank artillery regiment of the RGC, where he was a battery commander. Buryakov P. I. he was repeatedly wounded and concussed. He was seriously wounded near Moscow in 1941, and also in March 1943. Due to the severity of the last wound, after recovering in August 1943, my grandfather continued to serve in the red Army at the Pushkin Tank school as a teacher of topography. In August 1944, for health reasons, he was commissioned from the red Army with the rank of senior Lieutenant. The rest of his life was connected with teaching. He graduated from the Pedagogical University in Moscow and spent more than 30 years working as a drawing and drawing teacher and military instructor in schools in Moscow. Zvenigorod and the village of Yershovo in the Moscow region. P. I. Buryakov died on January 22, 1998 at the age of 82 after a long illness.

Rank: Second Lieutenant. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Division: 120th rifle Gatchina red banner division. Musa baymukhanov was born in 1910 in the Menatep district of the Guryev region in the family of an oil worker. Kazakh. At the age of 15, he started working as an apprentice and then as a drilling worker in the Dossor field. From 1928 to 1931, M. Baimukhanov studied at the faculty of labor at the Alma-ATA mining and metallurgical Institute. Since 1932, he is back on Dossor. He was drafted into the army in June 1941 and sent to a military school. After his graduation, second Lieutenant M. B. Baimukhanov was sent as the commander of a rifle platoon of the 538th rifle regiment of the 120th rifle Gatchina red banner division to the Leningrad front. The battle path of the glorious son of the Kazakh people Musa Baimukhanov began at the walls of Leningrad, and ended in Germany. The peak of the Communist Baimukhanov's military glory is his feat during the crossing of the Oder. At the beginning of January 1945, Soviet troops, having liberated Poland, entered the territory of Germany with battles. Oder. The Germans fortified its banks, tightened reserves, set up countless pillboxes, bunkers, set up wire fences, minefields in the hope of stopping the mighty avalanche of Soviet troops. But the attempts of the fascists were in vain. Units of the 120th Gatchina red banner rifle division overcame enemy obstacles relatively easily and quickly crossed the Oder. Junior Lieutenant Musa baymukhanov was one of the first to skillfully organize the crossing of his guard soldiers. On thin ice, under heavy enemy artillery fire, without losses, his platoon crossed to the left Bank of the river, threw grenades at the bunker, destroying an easel machine gun and three Hitlerites. With their successful actions, baymukhanov's soldiers contributed to the rapid passage of our other units across the Oder river. To hold the bridgehead, Baimukhanov and his platoon engaged in a bayonet battle with the Nazis and emerged victorious, bayoneting several Krauts. During the attack on the locality of Oderfeld, baymukhanov's platoon was the first to break into it and began to liberate one house after another from the enemy. Despite the fierce resistance and repeated counterattacks of the Nazis, baymukhanov's platoon continued to clear the village. M. baymukhanov, being ahead of his fighters, carried them away to combat exploits. Only in this battle, the platoon destroyed 25 Hitlerite soldiers and officers, and baymukhanov personally destroyed 9 fascists. For his bravery and heroism in the battles during the crossing of the Oder in January 1945, the command of the unit presented Musa baymukhanov to the highest award-the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. But the Soviet hero did not have time to receive the award. The Communist Musa Baimukhanov died a brave death on March 18, 1945 and was buried near Biala (Poland). By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on April 10, 1945, Baimukhanov Musa was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his courage in crossing the Oder. In the village of Makat, Atyrau region, in the homeland of the hero, a bust of M. baymukhanov is installed.

Polyanskaya M. F

Rank: The Red Army Soldier. He died of wounds in January 1944. He was buried in the village of Sambatovo, Poddorsky district, Leningrad region. From a letter to fellow villagers. Hello dear totalise farmers, workers and employees! Two years have passed since I left the collective farm fields to join the Red Army. The order given to me at parting at the meeting of my native collective farm "Collectivist", I carry out the high rank of a red army soldier. When I was in the infantry school, I put all my strength and effort into arming infantry units. The war with the savage fascist hordes broke out. After graduating early from school, I received the rank of Lieutenant. This is a big event in my life. The party and the people have shown me great confidence – I am a company commander and I will use all my strength, knowledge and abilities to justify this high title of commander of the red army. There is no place for fascist reptiles on our land! For all their atrocities, for the blood and torment of our people, for the destroyed cities and villages, we will pay them with their dirty blood! Happiness to live in our country! I am young, I love life, I love my native land, I love our beautiful Kuban nature. We are free people of a great country. Everyone chooses life according to their own taste, profession, wish, friend, to the heart. The whole country is our native land. In every house, comrades and friends, I want to live a long, long time. But I don't agree to every life. It is better to die than to become a slave of the fascists. Brutal gangs of German fascism are coming to our land, they want to break the friendship of our people, trample on a happy life. In the battle for your happiness and freedom, I am ready to give my life. There, ahead, is our Victory. Through blood, torment and suffering, through the filth and horrors of the war imposed on us, we will come to it, to our complete and final Victory. For this, we are fighting a terrible battle to the death. A few days ago, I was in a hot battle with the Germans, my unit. The fascists got a great hit. For this, I have the great honor of being presented with a government award. The reward is the most valuable thing in my life and I will do everything to justify it and fight my enemies with even more energy. When you need to give your life for the right cause of the people, for the cause of the Lenin-Stalin party. Your countryman, a native of the village of Sergievskaya Baseev Vasily Andreevich

Tatyana Abramovna Birlew was born in 1916 in the town of Snow the Stalin region. Ukrainian SSR, in the family of a miner. Member of the Komsomol since 1934, Russian, secondary medical education. After graduating from the Chistyakovskaya medical school, she worked as a nurse at the Paibud hospital. She studied well, was the Secretary of the Komsomol organization of the medical school, in the hospital she was also elected Komsomol leader. She was also elected as a Deputy of the Krasnaya Zvezda district Council. In 1942, she became a member of an underground organization (partisan). While on the territory temporarily occupied by the Germans, Tanya took an active part in the work of an underground organization. It was she who organized the escape of prisoners of war from a concentration camp located in the village of Shakhty, not far from her home. It was she who crossed the front line twice, delivered to the red Army command 27 thousand rubles collected from the population of the village in the defense Fund, and passed on valuable information about the location of enemy forces. And how cleverly Tanya Birlea and I. Zhuravlev prepared escape of Soviet POWs from Nazi camps! Recalls M. Zhuravlev: "Prisoners of war came to our yard accompanied by Germans to take water. To distract the fascists, Tanya took a guitar and sang funny ditties. Meanwhile, my father was talking to prisoners of war. When the conversation ended, Tanya announced an interval of one and a half to two hours. So, others will come, and you need to have the same conversation with them. So the prisoners were told how best to get to the forest, where to find clothes to change and how to safely cross the front line." Dozens of prisoners of war were saved by underground workers. On June 12, 1942, during the next crossing of the front line, she was intercepted by the Nazis near the village of Dmitrievka and was taken to the military field commandant's office. She was found with several thousand rubles contributed to the defense Fund by the population of Chistyakovo, and a secret report that she did not have time to destroy. Despite the sophisticated torture, the Nazis did not get any information from her. On June 25, 1942, Tanya was shot by the Nazis. The name Tanya Berlevag is one of the streets of Torez (DND).

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Pavel Romanovich Bartosh was born in 1924. Participant of the Second World War. Grade title: a second lieutenant. Branch of service: Artillery. Subunit: the 195th Red Banner rifle division of Novomoskovsk. He fell in battle in the February of 1944. On the 24th of September, 1942, Pavlik was called up into the Red Army by the Atbasar district military Commissariat and sent to the city of Chardzhou (Uzbekistan) to attend the accelerated officer courses at a snipe school. His sister Anna Romanovna, who turned 89 in 2015, recalls that when Pavlik was leaving the village on a cart he was looking back until his native places passed out of sight. On the 13th of January, 1944, Pavel Romanovich Bartosh in the rank of second lieutenant was appointed commander of the machine-gun platoon of the 604th rifle regiment of the 195th Red Banner rifle division of Novomoskovsk of the 3rd Ukrainian front which were fighting that time in the native country of his parents. Just at that time the division was preparing for an offensive. Troops and sometimes even battalions took turns to be withdrawn to the neighbor home front for training and exercises, which were held around the clock, often at night, in all weather conditions. Commanders sought for cohesion of units. According to the plan of General Rodion Malinovsky, the commander of the 3rd Ukrainian front, the army were to make the main attack in the direction of the city of Apostolovo; the offensive front was to merge into a single powerful stream with the offensive of the 4th Ukrainian front, to bring down the entrenched defense of the 6th German Army and to result ultimately in the liberation of all of the southern Ukraine with the large industrial centers of Nikopol and Krivoy Rog. The fighting activities of the two fronts were named the Nikopol-Kryvorozhsky operation. The 195th rifle division was to advance from the Petrov Dolina and Sofiyevka lines towards the settlements of Novo-Khortytsia and Zeleny Kut. In the early morning of the 31st of January, 1944, the offensive began. The fightings went on day and night. Here is an extract from the award list dated the 7th of February, 1944: "On the 1st and 2nd of February, 1944, in the battles for the village of Alekseyevka and for the farm of Novo-Khortytsia, second lieutenant Bartosh showed courage and bravery commanding a machine-gun platoon which was in the infantry battle formations and helping the infantry to move forward. By skillfull advance of the machine guns onto the flanks he managed to suppress two enemy machine guns with detachments and therefore contributed to the capture of the villages of Alekseevka and Novo-Khortytsia and to the success of the unit combat mission. He deserves the government award of Medal for Bravery. Commander of the 604th rifle regiment, major Kerimov." The offensive continued, there were fierce battles. On the 8th of February, 1944, Pavel was killed, and on the 9th of February there came order No.010/n for the parts of the 195th Red Banner rifle division of Novomoskovsk of the 3rd Ukrainian front: "on behalf of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the exemplary performance of fighting tasks of the Command at the front of struggle with German invaders and for the valor and courage displayed: “Medal for Bravery” is awarded to second lieutenant Pavel Romanovich Bartosh, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 604th rifle regiment. Guards colonel Suchkov, commander of the 195th Red Banner rifle division of Novomoskovsk." And Pavel was not even twenty years old at that time. There a death notice came home, the Komsomol membership card pierced by a bullet was delivered that was later sent to the regional museum. There were only letters left - from Uzbekistan about what beautiful mountains, amazing trees and fruits there were; most often he wrote about how he missed home and family, the endless grasslands and the Zhabayka river. And also that "not a single fascist I see will remain alive." It is known from the archives that he was buried in the territory of the Dnepropetrovsk region, Sofiyevsky district, Lensky village. Pavel's parents lived a long life and his photo always stood in the red corner on an embroidered towel next to the icon. The village of Poltavka carefully preserves the memory of those who were killed during the Great Patriotic War. In 1970 a monument to fellow countrymen who died in the fight against fascism was opened on the Central square.

Grade title: sergeant-major. Branch of service: land forces, military air forces (except for naval aviation), coast service, troops of the People's commissariat of internal affairs, border troops. My dad, when he was twelve years old, was actually left an orphan with a younger sister in his arms. They lived with different relatives. He did well at school, was very athletic and active. Engaged in self-education. In general, he was a real member of the Komsomol of his time. He graduated from school in May of 1943 and on the 7th of November, 1943, was called up into the army. As a seventeen-year-old boy, he went to the front (born in 1926 were the last to be called up to the front). The good academic performance at school did its part. He was selected for the radio regiment. He started the war as a cadet of the 62nd separate radio regiment. In July of 1944 he was sent to the front as a radio operator in the 103rd tank brigade of the 3rd Belorussian front. He finished fighting in June of 1945. On the 17th of March, 1945, he received his first wound in the right hand. According to my father's story, during the shootout he didn't notice it at first. Then, he saw that the quilted jacket on the left side was turned upside down - a fragment flew between the arm and side and tore both the arm and side. He quickly recovered and went back into the battle! The second wound was caused in the right thigh on the 17th of April, 1945, (one month later exactly). And the small fragment remained under the knee reminding of itself all his life. After going through all the horrors of the war at a very young age, dad did not like to talk about the war. And if he did, it was less scary stories, just episodes when he was lucky to stay alive. The experienced lieutenant tried to protect him like a son. During the next offensive he ordered to check the communication line, thereby actually saving my dad. And, perhaps, the funniest case. I remember it from my childhood. Story from the first person: - “We are driving once at night down a forest road and literally come accross with German cars head-on. Everyone jumped out of the cars and into the ditch. We are on one side, the Germans on the other, and all started to shoot in the dark. In short, the Germans were repulsed from their cars, none of our people were injured. The Krauts did not especially resist toward the end. Well, we climbed into their trucks and there was canned food and chocolate. I can't tell you how much we ate that day. In a word - children! That day I also found an officer's hanger but when I was demobilized they took it away”. When the war ended, dad remained in service until 1951. He came to the city of Zhukovsky in the Moscow region and worked at the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute until the age of 63. I always wondered that having passed such a difficult life path my father was such a real intellectual, a lover of life. He played sports, did not drink, did not smoke, and was professionally engaged in photography. A wonderful, honest, kind and sympathetic person with a capital P! Back home in the city of Ozery there is an exhibition about my dad in the local history museum. Countrymen honor the memory of their veterans! Let our fathers’ heroic deeds live through the ages!

Grade title: senior sergeant. Our grandfather, Alexey Botov, born in 1912, participated in three wars. In 1934 he was called up for military service and as it is written in the military ticket served "in a crew of the Pacific fleet as a squad leader". In 1936 he was transferred to the reserve. In 1939 he was again mobilized in connection with the beginning of the Soviet-Finnish war and his combat life in the reconnaissance company of the naval infantry thus began. He had to go to the front line so that both to capture a prisoner and to perform sabotage work. He participated in breaking the siege of Leningrad, crossed the Svir river and participated in the liberation of cities on the Karelian front. Then he fought in the 4th Ukrainian front. After the end of the war with Germany Alexey together with his comrade-in-arms went on a train to the East and that moment he did not yet know why. After a long journey the train stopped at his home station, about three kilometers from home. He asked for a few hours off from the senior to see his family. After all, he already had four children before the war, my mother was the oldest. When he ran home he saw hungry, poorly dressed children and his wife. We can only imagine his feelings, but rather we can't imagine what was in his soul. And at that momemt they were broadcasting an announcement on the radio about the war with Japan. And he again ran back to the train to protect our homeland… He was discharged only in July 1946. So, Alexey Sergeevich honestly served in the army for nine years, most of which he fought. He has got awards: Bravery Medal, the order of the red Star, Medal For Battle Merit and medal “For the defense of the Soviet Arctic". After the war he and his wife had four more children. They raised everyone because they were hardworking, reliable and mandatory. My grandfather was of athletic build, and I always felt protected near him. My grandfather was skilful with his fingers, he could professionally repare a car, make a boat and he even used to make shoes for me, in clogs made by him I used to parade around the village. Their generation did not like to talk about the war but one thing is clear: they had a tough test and they passed it. And we need to remember what our grandfathers and fathers were like and to preserve the historical memory of their exploits!!! Low bow to them!

Grade title: major. Branch of service: aviation. Subunit: the 225th assault aviation Riga division. Alexander Ivanovich Bazuev was born on the 5th of August, 1922, his personal number no. is A-181393, Dudkino village, the Moscow region. In 1940 he finished the 10th form of high school, the Factory school and the Stalinogorsk aero club. He was enlisted in the armed forces of the USSR on the 27th of December, 1940, as a cadet of the Voroshilovograd Military Aviation school of pilots in Uralsk and graduated in December 1943. He served as a pilot until April 1944. On the 16th of April, 1944, he was enlisted in the 2nd Baltic front as a pilot, senior pilot, flight commander and served as the commander of the aviation squadron of the 825th assault aviation regiment of the 225th assault aviation Riga division of the 15th air army in the rank from a junior lieutenant to a senior lieutenant until April 1945. An extract from the award list dated the 4th of February, 1945: "during his service in the 825th AAR comrade Bazuev made 79 successful operational flights. 52 successful flights were made by him on IL-2 aircrafts. Comrade Bazuev was awarded two orders of the Red Banner and an order of the Red Star. Since the moment of awarding comrade Bazuev made 27 successful mission flights leading the group to attack the enemy's manpower and equipment. Performing a combat mission, his daring stormtrooper carried away his wingmen, instilling in them audacity, resourcefulness and fearlessness in battle. During four months Bazuev has been performing the duties of the air squadron commander, during this period his squadron made 799 successful military flights to attack enemy firing positions, equipment and manpower amd managed to destroy at the same time: 156 cars, 27 field artillery guns, 29 air defense artillery guns, 2 special vehicles, 117 carts with cargo, 2 warehouses, 5 railway cars, 1115 soldiers and officers. Comrade Bazuev brought up twenty pilots who smash the enemy with undisguised hatred and who are careless of their lives for the Motherland. Comrade Bazuev himself is a master of assault attacks and is ready to perform any combat mission at any moment." On the 1st of April, 1945, the 2nd Baltic front became part of the Leningrad front. My grandfather was transferred to the 810th assault aviation regiment of Rezhitsk of the 225th assault aviation Riga division of the 15th air army as a flight commander in the rank of a senior lieutenant until the 9th of May, 1945. An extract from the award list dated the 11th of May, 1945: "Since the moment of the award comrade Bazuev made 26 successful flights to attack enemy firing positions, equipment and manpower as a leader of the group. On the 7th of May, 1945, interacting with ground troops when breaking through enemy defenses in the area of the Grenchi, comrade Bazuev flew as deputy leader of the group comprised of 12 Il-2 aircrafts. Skilfully maneuvering in the zone of the enemy’s air-defense artillery comrade Bazuev chose targets and provided great assistance to the group leader in controlling the battlefield. In this battle he personally destroyed 1 gun of air-defense artillery, 1 cart and 3 enemy soldiers, which is confirmed by captain Shcherbachenko, major Chernyavsky. On the 8th of May, 1945, comrade Bazuev made 3 flights as the leader of groups of 6-8 aircrafts. When making the third combat flight to attack the retreating enemy troops and equipment in the area of Kandava comrade Bazuev found a cluster of enemy vehicles and horse-drawn vehicles. Skilfully leading the group, comrade Bazuev destroyed a lot of equipment and manpower of the enemy, in this battle he personally destroyed: 2 cars and 5 enemy soldiers, which was confirmed by junior lieutenant Voronkov, junior lieutenant Stryukov." For the courage and bravery shown on the battlefield and skilful leadership of the group comrade Bazuev is worthy of the Government award of the order of the Red Banner. Commander of the 810th aviation assault Riga division lieutenant colonel Yermolaev. For the period of stay in the front of the Patriotic war since the 16th of April, 1944, comrade Bazuev flew 105 combat missions. For 79 combat missions he was awarded the orders of the Red Star, Alexander Nevsky, three orders of the Red Banner and many medals. He personally destroyed: 55 cars, 8 field artillery guns, 16 air-defense artillery guns, 66 carts with cargo, 7 bunkers, 383 enemy soldiers and officers. My grandfather participated in the main Victory Parade in Moscow. After the Second World War my grandfather continued to serve in the squadron in the following positions: senior pilot from June 1946 till July 1949; flight commander from July 1949 till March 1952; deputy squadron commander from March 1952 till December 1958; squadron commander from December 1958 till the 11th of August, 1960. On the 1st of September, 1959, he was awarded the military rank of major of the military air forces of the Soviet army. On the 1st of May, 1951, his son Valery Bazuev was born; on the 8th of November, 1955, his daughter Natalia Bazueva was born. On the 29th of December, 1972, his grandson Bazuev Dmitry Valeryevich was born; on the 21st of September, 1976, his granddaughter Belyakova Elena Sergeevna was born; on the 9th of August, 1991, his granddaughter Kokina Alexandra Nikolaevna was born; on the 8th of November, 1995, his great-granddaughter Bazueva Anastasia Dmitrievna was born; on the 15th of July, 2004, his great-grandson Bazuev Maxim Dmitrievich was born.

Grade title: captain lieutenant; branch of service: the Navy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the Naval forces of border guards of the People's Commissariat of internal affairs. He was called up by the Nekrasovsky district military Commissariat on the 7th of July, 1941, and sent to the Northern Fleet where he took courses on accelerated training of command staff, after which in June 1942 he was awarded the rank of second lieutenant. In August 1942 second lieutenant Bystrov N. I. as part of the 1st White Sea battalion of marine infantry was sent to protect the city of Stalingrad. Here the battalion of seamen was transferred to the 42nd Siberian separate brigade. Bystrov N. I. was appointed commander of the flamethrower brigade of the 4th separate rifle battalion. Next I will give an extract from the award list of Bystrov N. I. presenting him to the order of the Patriotic War: "On the 8th of September, 1942, the part of Bystrov N. I. fought in main line of defense and Bystrov personally led his tropp into a night battle, repelled the enemy’s attacks and held the line occupied by the troop. Being wounded, lieutenant Bystrov continued to fight to the last of his strength." He was carried out of the battlefield by his comrades and taken to the consolidated evacuation hospital. After the hospital (since the 20th of November, 1942) he continued to serve in the Northern Fleet as part of a sea convoy guarding allied transport ships going to the ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk, served in the chemical department of the Navy and in the department of combat training of ships of the Northern shipping company as a chemist of the department. In 1945 lieutenant (the rank of lieutenant was awarded in 1944) Bystrov N. I. was sent to the Pacific Fleet where the war with Japan began. Bystrov's service continued after the end of the both wars. In December 1947, already senior lieutenant, he was sent to the Black Sea fleet where he served in the division of sea minesweepers, who used to catch unexploded mines in all the seas of the USSR. He finished his service in Sevastopol at the end of 1948. He was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of second degree, medals "For defense of Soviet Arctic", "For defense of Stalingrad", "For military merits", "For the Victory over Germany", "For the Victory over Japan" and all commemorative medals. During the peaceful years Nikolay Bystrov worked at the Nekrasov machine-building plant as head of the technical control department. He raised two daughters. He was buried in the cemetery in the village of Nekrasovskoye. Bystrov N.I. had three brothers and all of them served the Motherland. Bystrov's elder brother Anatoly Ivanovich was killed at the front in 1942. Bystrov's middle brother Mikhail Ivanovich spent the entire Great Patriotic War working in the city of Gorky at a defense factory that produced tanks. Bystrov's younger brother Alexander Ivanovich participated in the battle of the Kursk bulge where he was seriously wounded and after a long treatment in hospital he was commissioned and also in peacetime he worked for the defense industry in the city of Leningrad.

Grade title: a Red army soldier; branch of service: artillery. Petr Fedorovich was in the Red Army since April 1943, the position of the riding battery of the 810th artillery regiment. This is the feat for which Petr Fyodorovich received the government award of the order of the Red Star. In the battles when the enemy's defenses were broke through in the North-West, the city of Shaulai, when crossing the Venta river near the village of Gribniki on the 5th of October, 1944, Petr Fedorovich performed the work of a driver of a battery that was on direct fire. All the time of the battle Petr Borisenko was on the battery. The battery was under the enemy’s fire and often changed battle formations; in each individual case, Petr Fedorovich provided proper shelter for the horses. He was the first to cross the Venta river without losses and in a timely manner, which provided a proper support for the infantry with fire and wheels. In the battle of breaking through the enemy's defenses on the 27th of October, 1944, the battery was constantly under the enemy’s fire, often changing battle formations and ensuring the destruction of the enemy’s firing points and thus allowing our infantry to advance. In the area of Arecules the enemy launched a counterattack with large forces of infantry and tanks; Petr Fedorovich put the horses in cover and he was directly at the guns. When the gun commander and gunner failed, comrade Borisenko stood as the gunner and opened massive fire on the enemy. In this battle he managed to hit one tank, to destroy four machine-gun points, one weapon (anti-tank defense) and up to twenty infantry soldiers of the enemy. Petr Fedorovich was also awarded two medals "For Bravery". On the 30th of August, 1943, at the height of 237.2 (Smolensk region), as part of the fighters and junior commanders (twelve people), they repelled two enemy’s counterattacks of up to forty people, of which up to thirty Krauts were killed. The date of the feat: the 13th – 18th of August, 1943. Red Army soldier Borisenko Petr Fedorovich carried twenty wounded soldiers and commanders with their weapons from the battlefield in the period from the 13th to the 18th of August, 1943, the village of Ivonino, Smolensk region. Petr Borisenko was awarded the medal "For Military Merits". For the fact that during the fighting since the 12th of September, 1943, under the heavy artillery and mortar fire of the enemy, he always delivered food to the observation post and ammunition to the firing positions and kept his horses in excellent condition, which contributed to the performance of the unit's combat tasks. We remember and honor and are proud of our heroic great – grandfather - Petr Fedorovich!

Brance of service: technical troops (chemical troops, railway troops, avia troops, radio-radar troops, road troops, topographic). Bondarev Vasily Fedotovich was born on the 25th of July, 1922, in the city of Yenakiyevo, Donetsk region, in a family of workers. He finished school. After school he used to work in a mine, extracting coal. On the 20th of August, 1941, he was called up into the Soviet Army. He was sent to the city of Sevastopol to complete the course of basic military training. Before serving in the army he completed courses for tractor drivers and the army organized courses for drivers. Vasily Fedotovich was sent to the courses and he successfully completed them. He took the military oath on the 7th of November, 1941, at the naval half-crew of the Black Sea fleet in the city of Sevastopol. In Sevastopol he was injured after which he was taken to Novorossiysk where he remained on therapy in the hospital. After that he was sent to the city of Sukhumi where he graduated from aviation courses and was assigned to the 707th air base in the 30th reconnaissance aviation regiment as a car mechanic. Later the regiment was renamed the Red Banner Sevastopol reconnaissance regiment. In 1942 he took part in the defense of the Caucasus and was awarded the order "For the defense of the Caucasus". After that his regiment was sent via Novorossiysk to Malaya Zemlya where at that time intelligence operations were being conducted in the Crimea. When the liberation of the Crimea began the regiment was sent with all the equipment and technical devices to the Crimea. Vasily Fedotovich drove the field repair shop car from Malaya Zemlya to Yevpatoria. They arrived in Yevpatoria on the 1st of May, 1944. From Yevpatoria the reconnaissance regiment conducted intelligence-gathering operations to Sevastopol, Romania and Turkey. When the meeting of Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill took place in Livadia, he was sent there to repair equipment and as an observer. They stayed there for one month but the representatives of England and America all arrived with their mechanics. Therefore, our technicians were used only as observers of the airfield. He served in the reconnaissance aviation regiment until 1947 and then moved to serve in the aviation squadron. In 1952 he completed his military service in the rank of a sergeant. Called up into the army on the 20th of August, 1941, he graduated on the 22nd of December, 1952, on the basis of the order of the commander of the military unit no. 316 date the 22nd of December, 1952, at the end of the extended service period. Vasily Fedotovich passed active military service: 1. Naval half of the crew of the Black Sea fleet – a drill - August – November 1941; 2. The transportation division of the Black Sea fleet – a driver – November 1941 – February 1942; 3. The 38th workshop of the air forces of the Black Sea fleet – a mechanic – February 1942 – May 1943; 4. The 20th air force base of the air forces of the Black Sea fleet – a mechanic – May 1943 – April 1944; 5. The 707th separate mechanical-transport battalion of the Taurian military district (SMTB of TMD) – a foreman - April 1944 – October 1945; 6. The 707th separate mechanical-transport battalion (SMTB of TMD) – a coppersmith – October 1945 – September 1946; 7. The 707th separate mechanical-transport battalion (SMTB of TMD) – a tinsmith – September 1946 – October 1947; 8. military unit no. 62206 – an electrical equipment mechanic – October 1947 – December 1952.

Grade title: second lieutenant. Branch of service: army engineers. On the 6th of March, 1942, he was called up by the Stalinky regional military commissariat of Ufa into the Red Army (Workers' and peasants' Red Army)and sent to the South Ural military district, the 11th reserve engineer regiment which was in reserve from March 1942 till January 1943. During this time he graduated from the District courses of junior lieutenants in Blagoveshchensk. In June 1942 he was accepted as a candidate of the All-Union Communist Party (party commission of the 17th reserve rifle brigade of the South Ural military district). He was in the active army from January 1943 till July 1945- in the Central front, the 65th Army, the 14th Engineer Mine Brigade of the RMC (Reserve of the Main Command), the 170th engineer mine battalion, a company commander, junior lieutenant. On the 23th of April, 1943, Alexander Andreevich was accepted as a member of the All-Union Communist Party (protocol no. 10 dated the 23rd of April, 1943, of the party commission of the 14th engineer mine brigade of the RMC), party ticket no. 5349905. On the 30th of April, 1943, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of II degree (order no. 113/N dated the 30th of April, 1943). From the award list of the 15th of April, 1943: “Junior lieutenant comrade Bulgakov proved to be an intelligent and brave commander in a combat situation: as a deputy company commander he supervised the construction of a bridge and a ferry across the Sev river near the village of Novo-Yamskaya and, despite the systematic bombing from the air, managed to complete the construction of the bridge and the preparation of the crossing on time thus ensuring the timely passage of our troops. During the battle on the 20th of March, 1943, he took command of the company in view of the commander's illness and, skillfully placing forces, led the unit to attack for the village of Shvedchikovo. In difficult moments he inspired the fighters with his personal example. And in the end the village of Shvedchikovo was retaken from the Germans with a significant preservation of the personnel of the division. He took care of the soldiers during the battle, kept a sharp eye on the provision of assistance to the wounded. When he noticed a seriously wounded soldier he personally carried him out of the battlefield under crossfire. For skilful leadership of the battle, for the courage and perseverance shown, comrade Bulgakov is worthy of the government award of the order of the Red Star. On the 19th of August, 1943, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the first degree (order no. 126 / N dated the 19th of August, 1943). From the award list: “On the 7th of July, 1943, lieutenant Bulgakov made a reconnaissance of the front edge of the regiment, accurately mapped out the location of the trenches of firing points, observation posts of battalion commanders and the location of bunkers in the front line of defense of the 258th rifle devision under heavy bombing and rifle and machine-gun fire. The same night his platoon built constructed a command post for the battalion commander, connected the company's defensive areas with trenches and landed one bunker; despite the continuous shelling of mortars and artillery as well as despite the infiltrated Hitlerite machine gunners who moved in for the distance of 200 meters, the platoon arrived in the unit without losses. On the night of the 9th, the 10th and the 11th of July, 1943, they repeated the same thing. On the 15th of July, 1943, his platoon was assigned to the 224th rifle regiment with the task to ensure the offensive. Bulgakov was the first to break into the village of Teply with a group of his fighters where he made a reconnaissance about the presence of the enemy’s obstacles and thus indicated free ways for passing infantry and motochastes to the command of rifle regiments. Upon completing the combat mission he personally brought trophies - a company mortar and a machine gun. On the 23rd of July, 1943, the company was ordered to perform a continuous mine clearance along the front line of Grankino to ensure the offensive of the 211th rifle regiment. Bulgakov's platoon completed the combat mission in full and on time – they cleared up 6 minefields under continuous fire from the enemy’s mortars and artillery. His platoon removed 480 anti-tank mines and 600 anti-personnel mines during the time from 6 p.m. till 10 p.m. On the 17 of July, 1943, the company was ordered to build up 4 bridges, to begin with two bridges to be constructed within two hours in the village of Krasovka. The area was shelled with mortar and machine-gun fire and by a group of Hitlerite gunners as well. Bulgakov's platoon cleared up the damaged bridge, prepared timber and built up two new bridges with the length of eight linear meters each within two hours. This ensured the crossing of hundreds of tanks, artillery and other motorized units that suddenly wedged into the battle lines of the Nazis and had a good offensive success. From the 28th till the 30th of July, 1943, the company was assigned to the 15th rifle regiment to ensure the ground gaining of the advancing units. On the night of the 28th of July, 1943, lieutenant Bulgakov's platoon was given the task of making two passes through German minefields and mined wire barriers. Under Bulgakov's personal guidance two passes 30 meters wide were made in front of the battle lines 10-15 meters away from the Germans, under a shower of machine-gun bullets and under the continuous illumination of rockets; 26 German mines were removed, a wire fence (Bruno spiral) was cut and dragged to the side. After the work was completed, comrade Bulgakov familiarized the commanders of the rifle divisions with the locations of the passages and returned to the unit without losses. He was worthy of the government award of the order of the Red Star. He was seriously injured and was sent to a Moscow hospital for treatment. After the hospital he was in the army until August 1945. After the war he got married and worked as a senior engineer in the capital construction department of an aircraft factory in Moscow.

Lydia Georgievna Bystritskaya was born on the 20th of October, 1920 (according to other sources – on the 20th of February, 1921), in the city of Kherson in Ukraine, in a family of employees. After graduating from high school in 1937 she entered the Vinnytsia medical Institute at the faculty of medicine. As a 4th-year student, in July 1941, she went to the front as a volunteer and served as a doctor at the 212th mobile field hospital of the 12th Army of the South-Western front. In August 1941 she was wounded and was treated in the evacuation hospital in Krasnodar. After being discharged from the hospital the command sent her to the Krasnodar medical Institute to finish her studies. In August 1942, she was sent to the 11th special rifle division of the internal troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affaires of the North Caucasus front as a military doctor. In December 1942 she was assigned to the 351st rifle division in the 1159th rifle regiment as chief of the sanitary service where she served until May 1943. From May 1943 till December 1943 she was chief of the sanitary service of the 1157th rifle regiment. At the end of the fighting on the North Caucasus front in December 1943 the 351st rifle division was transferred to the 1st Ukrainian front. Then the division was disbanded and Lydia Bystritskaya was transferred to the 350th rifle division of the 1st Ukrainian front as chief of the sanitary service of the 1180th rifle regiment where she served until March 1944. During heavy fighting during the Korsun-Shevchenko operation near Zvenigorodka she was seriously wounded in the left lung and until July 1944 she was treated in the evacuation hospital no. 1106 in Kiev. After the end of treatment she was discharged for health reasons with the rank of a captain of the medical service (military doctor of the third rank). She was awarded the order of the Red Star and several medals. From October 1944 till September 1947 Lidia Georgievna worked as the head of the outpatient clinic in the village of Yurkovka, Shpikovsky district. In September 1947 she got married to Vasily Yerofeyevich Bratkovsky, a soldier, and went with him to South Sakhalin at his place of service. Since November 1947 she was hired as a battalion doctor of the 31st long-range aviation division in the village of Leonidovo in the Paronai district of the Sakhalin region. For health reasons in February 1948 she had to leave her job and went to her former place of residence in the Vinnytsia region. In May 1948 Lidia Georgievna Bystritskaya was appointed head of the Trostyanets district health department by the Vinnytsia regional health Department and worked until April 1950. In April 1950 she was transferred to the position of chief physician of the Teplik district hospital of the Vinnytsia region and worked until 1952. In connection with the restructuring of the antituberculous service in the region by the Vinnytsia regional health Department she was asked to head this service and in June 1952 she was transferred to the position of chief doctor of the Vinnytsia antituberculous dispensary where she worked until February 1954. In February 1954 due to poor health she was transferred to the southern coast of Crimea and appointed chief physician of the antituberculosis sanatorium "Red Mayak" in the village of Simeiz where she worked until August 1955. In August 1955 Bystritskaya Lydia Georgievna was transferred to the city of Simferopol and appointed temporary head of the department of methodology of the Crimean regional tuberculosis dispensary. In December 1955 she was elected Chairman of the Crimean regional Committee of the medical workers' Union and worked there until November 1962. In November 1962 she was transferred to the position of chief physician of the Crimean regional tuberculosis dispensary where she worked until her retirement in 1977. In 1977 she moved to the city of Yevpatoria and worked as a sanitary doctor at the pioneer camp-boarding house of the Southern railway. From may 1978 she worked as a dietitian at the children's sanatorium "Evpatoria" until February 1981. In February 1981 she returned to the city of Simferopol leaving for a well-deserved rest. In 1985 in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory she was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the first degree. She died on the 1st of June, 1998, and was buried in Simferopol.