Heroes and feats

Golubev-Kritzer Yakov Grigoryevich was born in the village of Aleshki of the Kherson region. Name of the military enlistment office: Moscow. Date of conscription: July of 1941. Grade title: a colonel. Name of the military unit: the 272nd rifle division. Date of decommissioning: the 1st of June, 1973. He was in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since April 1919. He graduated from the Vutsik Kharkiv school of chervonny (red) commanding officers (1926), the department of physical education at the Leningrad higher military pedagogical school named after V. I. Lenin (1929), the intelligence department of the Red Army Intelligence Directorate in Moscow (1937), and the M. V. Frunze Military Academy (1941), faculty of correspondence studies of this Academy (1952). Before the service in the army Y. G. Golubev-Kritzer worked in a bakery of the city of Kherson. In the Civil war on the 15th of April, 1919, there in Kherson, he voluntarily joined the Red Army in the 3rd International rifle regiment and participated with it in the battles against the troops of general A. I. Denikin near Kherson and Nikolaev. From August to December 1919 due to a serious illness he was in the hospital. After recovery from March 1920 he served in the commandant's office of the city of Nikolaev. From August 1920 he fought with the white poles on the western front as part of the 90th rifle regiment of the 30th brigade of the 10th rifle division. He participated in the Warsaw offensive and in the defensive battles near Pinsk and in November 1920 fought with the armed detachments of general S. N.Bulak-Balakhovich near Mozyr. After the war from January 1921 he served as a red army soldier in the political department of the 6th army of the Southern front, then in the 151st rifle regiment of the 51st rifle division in the city of Odessa. From September 1923 he studied at the Kharkiv school of red commanding officers. After its completion from September 1926 he commanded a platoon in the 300th rifle regiment of the 100th rifle division in the city of Berdichev. From November 1928 to August 1929 he studied at the department of physical education at the Leningrad higher military pedagogical school named after V. I. Lenin. Upon returning to the regiment he took command of a rifle platoon, then a platoon of the regimental school and a rifle troop. From June 1933 he served as a physical training instructor of the 90th rifle division in the city of Zhytomyr and from March 1935 he was assistant chief of staff of the 286th rifle regiment of the same division. From March to November 1937 he attended the advanced training course for intelligence officers at the Intelligence Directorate of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in Moscow, after which he was appointed chief of staff of the 287th rifle regiment. From June 1939 he attended the Military Academy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army named after M. V. Frunze. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic war in July 1941 major Ya. G. Golubev-Kritzer was released from the Academy and appointed chief of staff of the 272nd rifle division formed in the Tikhvin district. On the 4th of August the division arrived at the Northern front in the 7th army and fought in the Petrozavodsk direction. Since October a part of the division used to fight in the Onega-Svir sector, and another part - near Tikhvin. From March 1942 lieutenant colonel Ya. G. Golubev-Kritzer served as chief of staff of the 114th rifle division in the 7th separate army. He “personally worked on strengthening the line of defense, gave timely instructions and eliminated shortcomings in the work of the headquarters of the units and their operational activities” during the defensive and offensive battles along the Svir river to the west from the settlement of Oshta. In September 1942 he was appointed chief of staff of the 4th rifle corps (from February 1944 - as part of the Karelian front) which led defensive battles on the Svir river line on a front up to 350 km. In the summer of 1944 he participated with it in the Svir-Petrozavodsk operation. From the 12th of November till the 30th of December, 1944, Golubev-Kritzer temporarily commanded this corps which was at that time in the reserve of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief headquarters, and then as part of the Belomorsky military district. In January 1945 he assumed the duties of chief of staff of the corps. After the war colonel Ya. G. Golubev-Kritzer continued to serve in the same corps. On the 11th of July, 1946, he was appointed chief of operations – deputy chief of staff of the 79th guard rifle corps of Stalin's Siberian corps. In September of the same year he was seconded to the Frunze Military Academy for use in teaching. Since October he served as a teacher of operational and tactical training –the tactical head of the 2nd year, since October 1949 – a senior teacher of the department of general tactics. On the 14th of October, 1955, he was dismissed to the reserve. Awarded the order of Lenin, three orders of the Red Banner and medals.

He was born in 1906 on the 2nd of December in Ukraine, the Dnepropetrovsk region, the Dzerzhinsk district, the village of Krinichok. The family ran its own farm, the family had 5 children, he was the youngest. My grandparents' ancestry comes from Ukraine. In 1920-1939 there was a policy of Ukrainization, it was very difficult and tough, the prodrazverstka (surplus appropriation system) began and at this time the economy of Semyon Galaguz and Elena Kharitonovna collapsed, the economy fell into decline. In the period from 1921 to 1923 one million people died of starvation, and this was the reason for the mass relocation of people to other regions. In 1921 the prodrazverstka was abolished and they introduced a tax in kind - this was when a family was to pay the tax not the whole but partially. In 1920 on the 28th of December the decree on the Union of Ukraine and the SSR was signed. In 1925 the family moved to Kurmansay, the Chkalov region, the Dombarovsky district. The wagons of the settlers went in units, rode on oxen, along the way there were good and bad people who sympathized, who gave food and water, but there were also bad people. In the city Elena Kharitonovna's bulls were stolen. In the fall of 1925 they came to Kurmansay, built dugouts and began to live. There were no animals, they were engaged in gardening. In Kurmansay my great-grandfather got married to another refugee from the Ukraine, Maria Pudovna. They had seven children in 1941. After some time the children began to work on a collective farm, Andrey worked on a tractor, then as a foreman of a tractor team. In 1939 he was elected chairman of the collective farm "May 1". On the 30th of July, 1941, he was taken to the front. When Andrew was taken, his father was no longer alive and his mother Elena Haritonovna remained in the family of the son and moved with them to Ashebutak. She helped raise her grandchildren, collected hemp, made butter from it, collected corn and made flour from it, mixed corn flour with hemp cake and baked griddle cakes. Grandmother Lena taught her granddaughters to knit socks and mittens in the evenings and then they sent the products to the front, and during the day the girls worked on the collective farm in the field. The eldest daughter worked as a combine harvester. The grandmother worked in the field from the age of 11, their mother Maria Pudovna worked as a coal heaver at a mine working for bread rations. So women and children accelerated the Victory by their labor. (Military life) He was called up in the Dombarovsky regional military commissariat of the Chkalovsky region, the Dombarovsky district, and served on the 3rd Belorussky front in the military unit 31A. His combat path began on the Volga river near the city of Yuryatino and was finished it Prague. He went through the war as an ordinary sapper. During the fighting he participated in such operations as the defensive battle of Moscow. From the 2nd of October till the 5th of December, 1941, - the Kalinin defensive operation. From the 9th of October till the 4th of December, 1941 - the counteroffensive of the Soviet troops near Moscow. From the 5th of December, 1941, - the Kalinin offensive operation. From the 5th of December, 1941, till the 8th of January, 1942, - the Sychevo-Vyazma offensive operation. Frim the 8th of January till the 30th of January, 1942, - the Rzhevskaya offensive operation. From the 3rd of March till the 24th of April, 1942, - the Rzhev-Sychevskaya offensive operation. From the 30th of July till the 6th of September, 1942, - the Rzhev-Sychevskaya offensive operation. From the 25th of November till the 20th of December, 1942, - Rzhev-Vyazma offensive operation. From the 2nd of March till the 1st of April, 1943, - Spas-Demensk offensive operation. From the 7th of August till the 20th of August, 1943, - the offensive operation in the Yelnya area. From the 28th of August till the 5th of September, 1943, - the Smolensk offensive operation. From the 15th of September till the 2nd of October, 1943, - the offensive operation in the Orsha direction. From the 12th of October till the 2nd of December, 1943, - the 5th strike, the defeat of the Germans in Belarus. In June and July 1944 - the Vitebsk-Orsha offensive operation. From the 23rd of June till the 28th of June, 1944, - (the operation of the 5th strike) the Minsk offensive operation. From the 29th of June till the 4th of July, 1944, - (the operation of the 5th strike) the Vilnius offensive operation. From the 5th of July till the 20th of July, 1944, - (the operation of the 5th strike) the Kaunas offensive operation. From the 28th of July till the 20th of August, 1944, - (the operation of the 5th strike) the Gumbinnen offensive operation. From the 16th of October till the 27th of October, 1944, - the Insterburg-Konigsberg offensive operation. From the 13th of January till the 27th of January, 1945, - the East Prussian offensive operation of the 3rd and 2nd Belorussian fronts. From the 13th of January till the 25th of April, 1945, - the destruction of the East Prussian enemy group to the south-west of the city of Koenigsberg. From the 13th of March till the 29th of March, 1945, - the Prague offensive operation. From the 6th of May till the 11th of May, 1945. For this fighting path he was awarded: the order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the Order of the Red Star, the order of Glory of the third degrees, the badge “Excellent Sapper’, the medal “For the Victory over Germany, the medal “20 years of the Victory”. From his stories about the war: “The battle subsided and Andrey and his friends sat down for a smoke. Andrey found a dirty lump of sugar in his pocket, put it in his mouth and began to suck it. Suddenly his friend on the left fell, a moment later his friend on the right fell. Andrey thought that it was his turn but this did not happen and he remained alive. He said that before each battle, before each work on mine clearance, they said goodbye to their comrades since the work of a sapper was accompanied with great risk. (Post-war life) In 1945 Andrey's family moved to the village of and Kurmansai was attached to Aschebutak, the Stalin collective farm at that time. And he returned from the war in 1946, worked in a blacksmith shop, on a tractor, at that time grain was taken home to dry, they also brought it to their house to dry, the whole hall was covered in grain. According to my grandmother's stories, I know that my great-grandfather was a kind man, respected in the village, everyone respected him. He was an excellent host, he and his wife had a very beautiful garden, always grew very beautiful flowers. My grandmother told me how my great-grandfather took her fishing, how my grandmother dug worms. How they caught crayfish together. I also learned from the stories that he was very fond of his grandchildren, he had 13 of them. In 1968 he was ill for a long time and then died. Ashebutak (from Kirghiz) - a sour and bitter branch. In 1918 Musa Jalil came to the village and lived for some time. He taught illiterate people, took them to the Komsomol and led an educational program.

The biography of the legendary participant of the Great Patriotic War Grigory Gorbach who was awarded two orders of the Red Star, four orders of the Patriotic War of the first and second degrees, the order of the Red Banner, the order of Alexander Nevsky and eleven battle medals. This was a brave defender of the Motherland who drove the enemy from Moscow to his fascist lair. Grigory was born in 1914 in the village of Staraya Sysoevka, the Primorsky region. In 1929 he left for active military service and became a career soldier. In 1936 he graduated from the Omsk military school named after Frunze and was sent to the location of the Transbaikalian military district. His baptism of fire was in 1939. He participated in the battles on Khalkhin Gol with Japanese militarists for which he was awarded the order of the Red Star. After being wounded he continued to serve in the Transbaikalian military district. In December 1939 the unit was alerted and sent to the Karelian isthmus. The skier company commander Gorbach fought with the white Finns until the end of the Finnish campaign, for which he was awarded the second order of the Red Star and the medal “For Bravery”. Later the army road returned Grigory to Transbaikalia where he continued military service until February 1941. Then he was sent to the Polish border near the town of Rava-Russian where he met the first volleys of the Great Patriotic War. In the museum of history of the Great Patriotic War and labor glory of the “Askold” plant of the leading enterprise of the Primorsky regional branch of the Union of machine builders of Russia, there is a book that includes stories of war veterans about the military roads passed, including the memories of Grigory Gorbach: “Stalingrad. Tractor plant. And now I see it in my dreams almost every day. There are twelve men left from our tank battalion. Almost all of them were injured. No tanks — burned down. Now we are machine gunners. We fight for every meter. We're bleeding but we're holding on. For the ninth time in a day the fascists numbering about a battalion again go on the attack. This one was also repulsed but only eight of our fighters are still alive. Almost no ammo or grenades. Fascist planes appeared in the sky and started bombing. When the reinforcements arrived, only three of our guard tank battalion were left alive.” Grigory Sergeevich participated in the defeat of the Germans near Moscow, in the battle of Stalingrad. As part of the Western front he commanded the second infantry battalion of the 31st guard division, reached the city of Mogilev, then as assistant chief of staff of the regiment fought in the third Belorussian front. For participation in the breakthrough near the city of Orsha he was awarded a commendation signed by Stalin. In October 1944 following the retreating enemy Soviet troops crossed the border near the city of Kaldad, where Goring's dacha was located. “Night. German planes strike blindly. The commander's order was executed. We are going back to our headquarters. Next to me are captain Lisitsin and lieutenant Petrov. Suddenly, in the dark, just two or three steps away from me there are silhouettes of human figures. A command is issued in German. I shoot a gun. The front Fritz falls. His companions are shooting at me. I grabbed the machine gun of the dead German, opened fire in short bursts. In this battle lieutenant Petrov was killed and captain Lisitsin was seriously wounded. Later it turned out that we had met with German intelligence. Four Germans were killed, the rest retreated.” In January 1945 Gregory participated in the capture of Konigsberg, then with his unit fighting their way to Danzig went to the bank of the Elbe river. Here he was injured and hospitalized. “The days of the storming of the main fascist base in East Prussia will not be erased from memory. The attack of our tankers was rapid. My tank caught fire and I was seriously injured. At dawn they were brought to the medical unit and placed in the basement of one of the farm buildings. I have eleven other people with me. The fascists went on the attack. Our people retreated. Through a narrow embrasure I see a tank approaching the building. A cross on the armor. Stopped. Well, I guess, it's over. I struggled up on my elbow and crawled to the landing. Behind me the wounded are groaning. Two fascists appeared in the stairwell. I don't remember how many shots I fired with my gun. The Krauts fell, followed by two others. And these did not escape the bullets. I looked through the embrasure at the tank. The Germans open the hatch. There are three of them. I only have three rounds left in my gun. Shot at point-blank range. Another German got out of the tank. My grenade hit the open hatch. The explosion, the flame was the last thing that remained in my mind. Two hours later, our units decisively drove the Germans out of the farm. All the wounded were saved.” In peacetime from 1946 till 1949 Gorbach continued to serve in the Soviet army on the territory of the GDR, then he was dismissed for health reasons. A retired guard captain in peacetime, from 1961 to 1973, he worked in the paramilitary security service of the “Askold” machine-building plant. His daughter Vera Grigoryevna remembers well the stories of her father about that wartime hard times: how often the death followed him but the fate protected him and at the last moment led him away from certain death. Grigory Gorbach will forever remain in the memory of not only his family and friends, but also in the memory of all factory workers. He, like thousands of other soldiers and officers, did the main thing - protected the world from fascism, gave us peace, freedom and a great long-awaited Victory.

The story will be about the labor feat of a veteran of labor and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Nina Galanova, who turned 91 on the 4th of December, 2019. Nina Ivanovna was born in the village of Rozhdestveno in the Staritsky district of the Kalinin (now Tver) region. The family had seven children. She was the second child. Her parents worked on a collective farm. When Nina finished the 4th grade, mom and dad left her to stay at home with her little brothers and sisters. When the war started Nina was 12 years old. Her father did not have time to come from the Finnish war, as the Great Patriotic War began. He was called up back into the army. And in October 1941 the Germans came to the village of Rozhdestveno. According to Nina Ivanovna, they did not commit atrocities but forced children to work for them: sawing, chopping wood, peeling potatoes. On New year's eve Soviet soldiers liberated the village from the Germans. It was a real gift! Joy! Until 1943 Nina Ivanovna worked in her native village. It was necessary to feed the front: “Everything for the front! Everything for Victory!” Children, old men and women dug, harrowed, planted potatoes and sowed rye. And all by hand — there were no horses, no equipment. In 1943 Nina was sent to the village of Pokrovskoye in the Lukovnikovsky district of the Kalinin region for logging. And again, hard physical, quite unchildish work. They worked and lived half-starved - and so on until the end of the war. The Victory day found Nina Ivanovna in a field that was being harrowed on oxen. There was no radio in the village, the people were called to the meeting by beating the old rail. Great happiness, great joy was experienced at that moment by people who were tired of hard, exhausting work. There were also tears in the eyes of those who lost loved ones. After the war Nina Ivanovna worked on the collective farm of her native village as a foreman. It was necessary to restore the economy and to work hard. In 1953 she got married. She gave birth to four children. From 1955 to 1985 she worked as a milkmaid for 30 years. In 1984 Nina Ivanovna was awarded the “Veteran of labor” medal for the long-term conscientious work. In 1985 she retired but did not stop helping her native collective farm and never refused requests. In 2004 Nina Ivanovna Galanova was issued a certificate of a Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Wherever Nina Ivanovna was, she was always drawn to her native fields and forests, to her native home. Throughout her long life she carried the love of her small homeland. This love also gave strength to overcome life's difficulties.

Alexey Gololobov (captain of the guards) was born on the 17th of March, 1915, in the city of Omsk. After graduating from the railway Polytechnic in 1932 he volunteered to explore new areas of the Far East. He worked in various construction and railway organizations. In 1937 he was called up for active military service, completed officer courses and received the rank of lieutenant. He served in the Transbaikalian military district. As part of the 93rd rifle division he took part in the fight against the Japanese invaders on Khalkhin Gol. The dad also took part in the war with Finland where Siberian military units were transferred. He spoke with particular bitterness about this period of his military service where many of his comrades died in heavy battles. Throughout the Great Patriotic War from 1941 he served in the active army, fought in various places, including in SMERSH units – first as a senior lieutenant and then as a captain in the guards. According to surviving documents, he fought in the 20th Guards rifle division, the 37th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian front. He was seriously wounded twice and was concussed near Vienna where he was in the hospital. The fragments in his body remained until the last days of his life. After the war he worked in Vienna. Dad didn't like to think about his most difficult experiences and events related to participation in battles, with the loss of friends. Only very rarely did he admit what a terrible loss he had to endure when, in fact, in the first year of the war his older brother, Alexander, died. Sometimes, in response to persistent questions and requests from relatives he was more willing to tell not the terrible everyday life of the war but all sorts of curious cases from his front-line life. By nature he was always very strong-willed and optimistic, a bright and kind person who sought to see only the best features in everyone. But at the same time he was characterized by courage, and often reckless courage. His surviving combat characteristics of those times tell how he personally raised the soldiers to attack when leaving a possible encirclement or liberating localities on the territory of Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and Austria. He was awarded two orders of the Red Star, the order of the Patriotic War, and many medals. The end of the war found my dad in Austria where he continued to serve in the Central group of our troops. After demobilization he first returned to Lviv where he lived before the war and then went to Novosibirsk where he was appointed deputy chairman of the Zaeltsovsky district Executive Committee. Subsequently he worked in the Novosibirsk and Omsk councils of national economy, deputy director of one of the largest enterprises in Novosibirsk - the plant "Tyazhstankogidropress" named after Efremov, then in a special design bureau in Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk. He took part in the creation of enterprises and technologies for military and space purposes. Being a veteran and disabled person of the Great Patriotic War, he worked until the last day of his life on the 6th of November, 1985.

At the age of four he was left without parents and alternately lived with different relatives. During the famine of the first half of the 30s he was forced to forage in the forests. From school he knew German well, the teacher was German. These circumstances largely determined the future fate of Clavdy Ivanovich during the war. At the very beginning of 1924 he was called up into the Red Army and at the end of his training he was assigned to the guards. The war began for the hero from the very inferno - his regiment was sent to the defense of Stalingrad, on the very narrow strip of land beyond which was the Volga. In the first battle just 4 men remained from the regiment. Then there was a sign that if a soldier survived three battles in a row, it was likely to survive in the rest. Grachev, a red army guardsman, was just one of them. Little is known about how events in the battle of Stalingrad developed for him in the future and he did not like to talk about the war. However, it is known for sure that in the summer of 1943 he was on the Kursk bulge as a scout and translator, extracted prisoners because of just useful knowledge of the German language. One of the captured Germans even noted that the hero had an excellent Berlin accent and, at first, even took it for his own. Later there were battles as part of the 198th artillery regiment of the 93rd guards rifle division of the 2nd Ukrainian front for the liberation of Ukraine, the capture of Bucharest, Budapest. Clavdy Ivanovich met the news of the Victory in Potsdam, Germany. He went through the war without injuries, there was only a concussion, but he did not escape his bullet. After the war as part of the NKVD units Clavdy Ivanovich took part in the fight against Lithuanian nationalists and in those battles he received two bullet wounds. Like many other soldiers of the Soviet Army our hero had nowhere to return after the Victory and the army became his home for many years in which he served until 1973 as a political instructor, retired with the rank of a major. After the army he taught at an institute for 10 years. After retirement he was actively engaged in educational activities until the end of his life. He died at the age of 86.

Golikov Peter Grigoryevich was born on the 19th of October, 1904, in the village of Kiselev of the Krasnogvardeysky district, the Rostov region. Bbefore the war he worked as the chairman of the Kiselevsky village council. My grandfather was called up to the front in 1941 by the Krasnogvardeysky regional military commissariat. At home he left his wife Golikova Maria Trofimovna and four sons, Ilya born in 1928, Ivan born in 1930, Vladimir born in 1934 and Viktor born in 1938. At the beginning of the war my grandfather, with the rank of a senior lieutenant, fought as a party organizer of the 1st rifle battalion of the 262nd rifle regiment of the 184th Dukhovshchinsky rifle division. During the war my grandfather fought on the Central, South-Western, Voronezh front, Kalinin front, Baltic front, Western front, Belarusian front. My grandfather finished the war with the rank of a captain as deputy commander of the 3rd rifle battalion in the political unit of the 262nd of the Neman rifle regiment of the Dukhovshchinsky Red Banner division in East Prussia. During the war my grandfather was wounded and shell-shocked several times. In September 1941 grandfather was shell-shocked in the fighting on the Central front, grandfather received the first serious injury on the 19th of September, 1942, during the fighting on the South-Western front, then there was a slight wound in February 1942. On the Voronezh front, slightly wounded in March 1944 on the Belorussian front. For his courage and heroism my grandfather was awarded four orders and the medal "For Bravery". List of awards: 1. 114/ n dated the 18th of September, 1943 Order of the Red Star. The extract from the order of awarding Golikov Petr Grigoryevich: “From the 14th till the 17th September, 1943, when breaking through the enemy's defenses in the area of the village of Ukolovo and Shevyaki of the Dukhovshchinsky district of the Smolensk region, the situation of the battle required his personal participation. He picked up the men and led them into the attack. As a result the enemy was knocked out of the occupied lines. In this battle he personally destroyed 7 enemy soldiers, captured 1 enemy machine gun. He is worthy of the government award of the order of the Red Star. Commander of the regiment captain Krymsky.” 2. 237/n dated the 24th of July, 1944, medal “For bravery”. The extract from the order of awarding Golikov Petr Grigoryevich: “During the fighting to encircle and destroy the enemy group near the village of Tsarkovschinyu of the Bogushevsky district of the Smolensk region on the 27th of June, 1944, the lieutenant organized party and political work by his personal example and skill, mobilized communists and Komsomol members to successfully complete the combat order, as a result of which the task was successfully completed by the battalion units. He is worthy of the governmental award - the medal “For courage”. The regiment commander, major Sharaevsky”. 3. 370/n dated the 17th of September, 1944, order of the Patriotic War of the second degree. The extract from the order of awarding Golikov Petr Grigoryevich: “During the fighting on the approaches to the state border he carried out a lot of party and political work among the fighters. When breaking through the defense in the Sloboda-Liehnaitsve area on the 15th of August, 1944, the battalion broke through the enemy's defenses with a high offensive rush and, despite fierce counterattacks by enemy tanks and infantry, forced them to retreat, leaving more than 200 corpses of soldiers, 10 tanks, a battery of guns, a battery of mortars, 2 armored personnel carriers and other trophies on the battlefield. For his selfless work among the soldiers and the success achieved as a result he deserves to be awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the second degree. Commander of the 262nd Neman rifle regiment of the Guards, lieutenant colonel Yurkov.” 4. 498/n dated the 29th of November, 1944, the order of the Patriotic War of the firtst degree. The extract from the order of awarding Golikov Petr Grigoryevich: “Captain Golikov skillfully organized party and political work during the preparation period before the attacks. He mobilized personnel to perform a combat mission. The communists showed mass heroism in the battles. Golikov was always in battle formations, when the rifle company lay down, he personally raised the company and led it into battle to storm the bunker, the company successfully completed its combat task. In battles he continuously organized the growth of party ranks. For skilful organization of party and political work in battle, for personal bravery and courage in battle, he is worthy of the government award of the order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. Commander of the 262nd Neman rifle regiment of the guards, lieutenant colonel Yurkov.” 5. 520/n dated the 16th of March, 1945, the order of the Red Banner. The extract from the order of awarding Golikov Petr Grigoryevich: “In the battles during the breakthrough of the strongly fortified German defenses in East Prussia, comrade Golikov showed courage and bravery. Since the 13th of January, 1945, he continuously participated in offensive battles. During the battles for the capture of the village of Uzdechek he was directly in the battle lines and encouraged the soldiers to perform a combat task by personal example. When he came to the battle lines, he called on everyone to follow him and all the fighters, as one, followed him to the attack. As a result of this attack, more than 60 German soldiers and officers were killed, more than 70 rifles, 4 machine guns, hundreds of grenades and a lot of ammunition were captured as a trophy. On the 17th of January, 1945, breaking into the first trench of the Germans with three red army comrades Golikov killed 15 German soldiers and an officer. For skilful conduct of party and political work in battle and for fierce bravery, captain Golikov is worthy of the government award of the order of the Red Banner. Commander of the 262nd Neman rifle regiment, major Ryabukhin.” At the end of the war front-line soldiers began to return home. And our grandfather again headed the Kiselevsky village council. In 1947 he and his wife had a fifth son, Gennady. In 1951 Golikov Petr Grigoryevich was appointed chairman of the Sokolovo-Kundryuchensky village council and moved with his family to the village of Sokolovo-Kundryuchensky. My grandfather served as chairman of the village council until his retirement. We grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren remember our grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather and are proud of him.

Rank: Petty Officer. Gusev Vasily Ivanovich went to war on June 22, 1941 from the Khimki Military Commissariat, Moscow Region. On July 15, 1941, 31 operational military formation (Army) was formed in the Moscow Military District, in which he was enrolled. The task of the 31st Army was to create a defensive line along the Ostashkov - Selizharovo - Rzhev line. The army received the baptism of fire on October 2, 1941, when German troops launched an offensive in the direction of Rzhev. From October 19 to October 22, the army fought an enemy group that broke through to the Mednoye area, and on October 22, an order was received to go on the offensive together with the 29th and 30th armies - to liberate the city of Kalinin (now Tver). On December 5, the Kalinin offensive operation began with the forces of the Kalinin Front. Overcoming the stubborn resistance of the enemy, who repeatedly went over to counterattacks, by the end of December 15, the forces of the 29th and 31st Armies had captured both flanks of the enemy's Kalinin grouping, and the city of Kalinin was liberated on December 16. The 92nd separate tank brigade was formed in the period from February 21 to June 25, 1942. In the 300th tank battalion of the 92nd tank brigade, V.I. served from March 1942 as a senior fitter. A brief history of the brigade is as follows: 1. June 25, 1942 - Kalinin Front. Once formed, it was subordinated to the 31st Army. 2.July 26, 1942 - Western Front. As part of the 31st Army: From July 23, 1942, the army became part of the Western Front and participated in the Rzhev-Sychevsk offensive operation from July 30 to August 23. Rzhev-Sychevskaya strategic offensive operation (July 30 - October 1, 1942) - combat operations of the Kalinin and Western fronts with the aim of defeating the German 9th Army and Army Group Center, which was defending in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky ledge. On August 23, the 31st Army liberated the city of Zubtsov. 3. November 25, 1942 - withdrawn in the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters in Gorky for formation. 4. February 13, 1943 - Transcaucasian Front. Reassigned to the 56th Army. 5.March 2, 1943 - North Caucasian Front. Reassigned to the 46th Army. 6.March 16, 1943 - North Caucasian Front. Submitted to the 56th Army. 7.March 31, 1943 - North Caucasian Front. Subordinated to the 46th Army. 8.April 16, 1943 - North Caucasian Front. Included in the 56th Army. The troops of the front conducted a number of offensive operations, as a result of which the North Caucasian group of the enemy was pushed back to the Taman Peninsula, the bridgehead at Novorossiysk was expanded, the Novorossiysk defensive region was disbanded on April 12, 1943, and during the autumn offensive the enemy was completely pushed out of the North Caucasus. 9. June 2, 1943 - withdrawn to the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters in the Moscow Military District. Smolensk offensive operation. On August 7, the offensive of army troops began during Operation Suvorov. The offensive in the sector of the 31st Army resumed on 30 August. By the evening of the next day, the troops liberated 90 settlements. On September 26, Smolensk was taken. 10. October 1, 1943 - Kalinin Front. 11.October 15, 1943 - Second Baltic Front. Formed as a result of the renaming of the Baltic Front. Since November 1 - as part of the 22nd Guards Konigsberg Red Banner Army of the 2nd Baltic Front. From November 1 to November 21, 1943, she defended herself on the Lovat River in the Kholm, Velikiye Luki sector, participated in the Leningrad-Novgorod, Starorussko-Novorzhevsk, Rezhitsko-Dvinsk and Riga offensive operations. 12. January 1, 1944 - transferred to the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters in Narofominsk TVL. 272 Separate Motorized Special Purpose Battalion 1. September 1, 1944 - First Baltic Front. 2. October 1, 1944 - 5th Guards Tank Army as part of the First Baltic Front. 3.8 January 1945 - 5th Guards Tank Army as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front. 4. April 24, 1945 - 5th Guards Tank Army as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front. In January-April 1945, the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front took part in the East Prussian strategic operation, during which on January 13-21 they carried out the Insterburg-Königsberg operation. In cooperation with the 2nd Belorussian Front, they broke through the deeply echeloned defense, advanced to a depth of 70-130 km, reached the approaches to Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) and blocked the enemy's East Prussian grouping, and then (March 13-29) eliminated it and withdrew to Frisches Huff Bay. From 6 to 9 April, the front troops carried out the Königsberg operation, as a result of which they captured the fortress and the city of Königsberg. On April 25, having completed the elimination of the Zemland grouping of enemy forces, they captured the port and city of Pillau (Baltiysk).May 1945 Gusev V.I. met in the city of Konigsberg. The 5th Guards Tank Army, which included his battalion, was assigned to the reserve of the Supreme Command headquarters. On August 5, 1945, the 5th Panzer Army became part of the 1st Far Eastern Front. On August 9, the troops of the Trans-Baikal, 1st and 2nd Far Eastern fronts, in cooperation with the Pacific Navy and the Amur River Flotilla, began military operations against Japanese troops on a front of more than 4 thousand kilometers. From August 9 to September 2, 1945, the front participated in the strategic Manchurian operation in the Harbin-Girin direction. The troops of the 1st Far Eastern Front, in cooperation with the Trans-Baikal, 2nd Far Eastern Fronts and the Pacific Fleet, broke through the fortified zone in mountain taiga conditions and defeated the troops of the Japanese 1st and 17th fronts of the Kwantung Army. We took several eastern regions of Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula. As part of the 5th Guards Tank Army of the 1st Far Eastern Front in Manchuria, Gusev V.I. met the end of World War II. On October 1, 1945, the front was disbanded. Gusev V.I. returned home to Moscow.

In 1937, voluntarily, through the Shakhty city military commissariat, he entered the Tambov cavalry school, graduating in 1939. 1939 -1941 – he was a platoon commander of a regimental school of the 155th cavalry regiment of the 6th cavalry brigade and the 22nd cavalry division Yugojiri-Khid (Mongolia) and the station of Hadabolak Transbaikal military district. From January 1941 to May 1941 he served as a commander of a reconnaissance platoon of the Sretensk Transbaikal military district. From May 1941 to June 1942 he was a senior adjutant of the construction battalion and assistant to chief of staff of the 152nd rifle regiment of the 94th rifle division of the Transbaikal military district, the station of Matsievskaya. From June 1942 to March 1944 assistant to chief of operations staff of the 36th army of the Western frong, the Borzya railway station. From March 1944 to June 1944 - the Academy named after Frunze of Moscow. From June 1944 to April 1945 - commander of the 93rd separate penal troop of the 33rd army of the 3rd and the 1st Belorussian fronts. From April 1945 to May 1945 - hospital no. 7775 for injuries in the town of Lodz (Poland). From June 1945 to July 1947 he was chief of staff of the 137th separate battalion of the Soviet military administration in Germany (Berlin). From July 1947 to November 1948 he was an officer assigned to the Secretariat of the commander-in-Chief of the Soviet military administration in Germany (Berlin). Description of the feat. “My grandfather received his main award, the order of the Red Banner, for the events of the 5th of February, 1945, in the area of Furstenberg, in Lower Saxony, where, commanding the 93rd separate army penal troop, he crossed the Oder river in the most difficult conditions. On that difficult day despite the fragile, sinking ice, with no boats or ferry, the troop managed to reach the western bank of the river with a bold throw. The enemy put up an extremely fierce resistance using all types of firepower and secured themselves on the dam. However, the grandfather, showing personal courage and bravery that inspires the fighters, managed to quickly pull up the means of reinforcement and drove the enemy from the dam with a decisive attack. Developing further success, relentlessly pursuing and destroying the enemy, he broke into the village of Vogelsang and gained a foothold in it. Numerous German counterattacks with the support of tanks and self-propelled guns were skillfully repelled by my grandfather, who was wounded at that time, but led the battle until reinforcements arrived, and the settlement was held. In the battle to capture and expand the bridgehead, the troop destroyed more than 10 firing points, 8 snipers and destroyed more than 400 Nazis, and the troop commander showed personal courage and bravery.

From the autobiography “I was born on the 1st of July, 1923, in the village of Mon-Sungur in the Novospassky district of the Kuibyshev region (now Ulyanovsk). Father, Gundarev Stepan Grigoryevich, devoted his entire life to counting work. Mother, Sevastyanova Anastasia Ivanovna, is a housewife. I have a brother and a sister. I graduated from the seventh grade in 1940 and worked with my father at the accounting department. In 1941 on the 25th of June I went voluntarily to the military enlistment office and was sent to the Kuibyshev military infantry school where I studied until August 1941. In August after passing the military commission, I was enrolled in the military landing school where I studied until the 1st of November, 1941. On the 1st of November, 1941, by order, I was sent to the military camps of the city of Inza as commander of a tank destroyer squad. In early December of 1941 I was sent with a marching troop to the western front. Until the 12th of July, 1943, we were on the defensive near the city of Oryol and fought local battles. I served as commander of the intelligence department of the regimental battery of the 1018th rifle regiment of the 269th rifle division of the western front. On the 12th of July, 1943, we went on the offensive. On the 24th of July, 1943, near the city of Orsk, I was wounded. After being cured in the hospital, I returned to my unit. In February 1944 I was sent to the training and retraining courses for political staff, in May 1944 I graduated from the courses and was sent by the battalion commander with the rank of second lieutenant of the First Belorussian front. On the 4th of September, 1944, I was severely concussed near the city of Warsaw and was sent for treatment to a hospital, where I remained until the 15th of February, 1945.” Pyotr Stepanovich met the Victory day near Berlin in units of the 47th army of the reserve of the First Belorussian front. For further service he was sent to the Novosibirsk military district, to the city of Omsk, and from there to the city of Yalutorovsk. P.S Gundarev was discharged in November 1945. On the 23th of October, 1946, he joined secondary school no. 1 as a librarian, where he worked for 22 years. In 1967 he joined the district communications center where he worked for 12 years as a special communications forwarder. In the personal file of P.S.Gundarev you can see his memories of the war years and letters from the front in the form of a triangle, an envelope. There is nothing more exciting than reading these letters addressed to mother, family, dated the 12th of February, 1943, the 27th of January, 1943, the 28th of February, 1943, the 4th of March, 1944. The postcards say “Death to the German occupiers”. The young soldier wrote then that the service was going well, that his health was excellent, and that he was also well fed and clothed, but he could not write much because there was no more time. And the memory of P. S.Gundarev keeps the image of soldiers and the battle in a burning wheat field and the death of a wounded commander, when a German shell accurately hit the raincoat that covered him. He used to say often: “Remember the old soldiers. We must fight with all our might for the cause of peace.” His fellow soldiers often wrote him letters and sent him memorials. For his military and peaceful work, Petr Stepanovich was awarded the order of the Red Star, of the Great Patriotic War of the first degree, medals “For Bravery”, “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945”, all jubilee medals of the Victory, commemorative medals of the armed forces of the USSR, the medal of G. K. Zhukov, the badge “Veteran of the 47th army”, the jubilee medal “For valiant labor”, “In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin”, the sign “Winner of the social competitions”, his name was entered in the Book of Honor of the regional department of special communications on the 4th of November, 1971, he also was rewarded with many certificates of honor at various levels.

He was born in the village of Velikopol'ye of the Ronginsky district, the Mari ASSR. He graduated from 9 classes; the 2nd artillery training regiment – a cadet (August 1941 -December 1942); the 233rd mortar regiment –a battery sergeant 120 mm (December 1942 –May 1943); the 209th mortar regiment – a battery sergeant 120 mm (March 1943 - April 1945); military food point no. 105 –a storekeeper (April 1945 - April 1947). He was the commander of the reconnaissance unit at the mortar regiment in the North-Western front from the 16th of February, 1943, till the 29th of March, 1943; the Bryansk front from the 29th of May, 1943; the Voronezh front from the 28th of July, 1943; the 4th Ukrainian front from the 10th of April, 1945. Wounds: 1 time wounded, 1 time concussed “During the fighting from the 16th of August, 1944, till the 19th of August, 1944, upon the encirclement and destruction of the enemy group in the area of Saydomir on the western bank of the river, in the offensive zone of the 58th guard rifle division of the 3rd guard army of the 1st Ukrainian front, Comrade Grebnev was at the forward observation post, scouted and reported on the observed targets, following all the time in the infantry battle formations. During the fighting he found: 3 easel and 2 light machine guns, an observation post. As a brave scout, he made his way forward despite the enemy's rifle and machine-gun fire up to a platoon of enemy submachine gunners,” - from the award list of the order of “Red Star” on the 19th of August,1944. “During the breakthrough of the enemy defense on the 15th of May, 1945, in the area of the village of Resnitz (Czechoslovakia), in the offensive zone of the 827th fifle regiment of the 302nd rifle division of the 60th army, the 4th Ukrainian front, comrade Grebnev standing at the observation post, detected 2 easel machine-guns, an observation post of the enemy, clot of enemies amounting up to two troops and a anti-tank gun, that all were destroyed by the division’s fire. During an enemy artillery raid he was seriously wounded at the observation post,” - from the award list of the order “Patriotic War of the second degree” dated the 8th of May, 1945. “During the battle on the 3rd of August, 1943, when breaking through the front edge of the enemy's defense in the Belgorod direction, near the farm Vesely, comrade Grebnev organized the work of communication so that during the battle there was a constant connection of the division with the batteries and infantry. Under artillery and mortar fire of the enemy he restored the broken connection 6 times” - from the order on awarding the medal “For Bravery”.

Petr Grigoryevich Gordeev was born on the 18th of June, 1916, in the village of Meteli in the Duvansky district of the Bashkir ASSR. As fate would have it, Petr Grigoryevich lost his mother early. At the age of 11 he went to live with his older brother in Kazan. There he was placed as a pupil in a military unit the headquarters of which was located in the Kazan Kremlin. So from a young age the fate linked him with the army. Before the war after serving in the army Petr Grigoryevich graduated from the Podolsk technological college. He worked at one of the enterprises of the city of Podolsk. He was called up to the front in June 1942. As part of the 55th separate rifle brigade of the Leningrad front, he was appointed commander of a reconnaissance platoon. Defending the besieged Leningrad, he showed courage and valor. He was awarded the order of the Red Star. In the award list the description of a personal feat says: “... at a critical moment, when the enemy got close to our trenches, comrade Gordeev saw the danger of one of the flanks of our defense, quickly rushed with a platoon to a dangerous place and repulsed the enemy's attack.” Among the military awards of P.G.Gordeev is the medal "For the defense of Leningrad". He finished the war in 1945 with the rank of a captain. The last combat missions were the clearance of peaceful objects in the Baltic States. He returned to Serpukhov where his beloved wife Gordeeva Klavdia Matveevna was waiting for him. In 1947 the eldest son Eugene was born, and in 1958 the youngest son Yuri. After the war Pyotr Grigoryevich graduated from the Higher Party school. In different years he worked in the City Committee of the Komsomol of Serpukhov, at the Solts plant, the “Condenser” plant. His last job was at the Gazprom USSR - Gas trunk pipeline Department (Serpukhov), where he held the position of chief engineer-dispatcher. He enjoyed a well-deserved reputation among employees, was a competent specialist and was repeatedly elected secretary of the party organization. His work friends called him “the commissioner." Petr Grigoryevich was a man of broad erudition, he lectured at the “Znanie” (knowledge) society, was an avid chess player and a Spartak fan. Pyotr Grigoryevich Gordeev is a war hero and a simple good man.

I want to tell about the heroism of my grandfather Gafarov Haban Ganievich. He was born in the village of Safakulevo of the Kurgan region in 1908 on the 8th of April. He was called up to the front in June 1941. Near Moscow the grandfather was wounded, the heel of his left foot and two fingers on his left hand were torn off. After recovering in the hospital he was given a vacation and came to his native village of Safakulevo where his wife and three children were waiting for him. Before being sent to the front he took courses in Nizhny Tagil on the development of new tanks. He had a chance to participate in the great tank battle near Kursk in the village of Prokhorovka. He recalled that after this battle they lay for a week as if shell-shocked, did not hear anything, there was a deafening noise in their ears. For his participation in the battle of Kursk he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. But perhaps the most dramatic year for him was 1944. It was the 30th of October, 1944. The winter of 1944. The Baltic front. Battered and bloodless fascist units were pinned to the Baltic sea. In the area of Konigsberg a large number of enemy personnel and equipment were concentrated. There was a hasty evacuation of parts by sea. It was necessary, at all costs, to cut off the escape routes of the German units. The 18th Minsk Red Banner guard tank battalion, where my grandfather fought, was also part of the Soviet units that carried out this command order. On the 24th of October the pre-dawn darkness was split open by volleys of long-range guns and at 6 am a two-hour artillery preparation began. Nothing seemed to survive the barrage of artillery fire. The tank crew he commanded waited tensely for their time. It was clear that the fight was not going to be easy. And then they heard the command to attack. The T-34 heavy fighting vehicles roared forward. Through the peephole the ground could be seen to swell and stand on end from the explosions. Our tank made several aimed shots at the enemy. It was necessary to fight to go over twenty kilometers. The tank wedge drove into the enemy's defense line, trying to break through it. Only by four o'clock in the evening it was possible to do this, having completed the encirclement of a large group of the enemy. The German escape routes were cut off by sea. But this was not the end of their task. It was necessary to expand the breakthrough. The battalion was turned to the northwest. “Six days later,” my grandfather recalls, “I received an order from the battalion commander to attack a unit of enemy submachine gunners who surrounded our rifle company. It happened like this. After the battle our marines stopped to rest in a brick barn on the farm. Exhausted by the battle the soldiers fell down and fell asleep immediately. Before dawn the Germans managed to outflank the farm and attack the infantry. Flamethrowers were used here. Only a few soldiers were able to resist. The room was on fire. And here we are at the site of an unequal battle. It is difficult to describe the state of the crew when we saw the horror of the battle with our own eyes. We managed to push back the enemy, but it did not go unpunished for us. A direct hit of an anti-tank shell in the turret part killed the shooter and the radio operator. I managed to open the hatch and jump out of the car. And after... I regained consciousness in the hospital. The doctors had to work with me a lot to get me out of the clutches of physical and spiritual death, I lost my right eye, arm, and leg. My face was badly burned. This is how this terrible war ended for me.” My grandfather returned home in 1946 after a long treatment, and there he already had two death notices. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the 6th of November, 1947, Khabyan Ganeevich Gafarov was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. But the award was found only in 1965 thanks to the Kaliningrad pathfinders.

Gilmanov Rail Nurovich was born on the 9th of April, 1933, in the village of Pachenka in the Nizhne-Tavdinsky district of the Omsk (now - Tyumen) region in a large family as the last, ninth child. Russian names were assigned to all children in this family in addition to Tatar (official) ones, for the convenience of communicating with Russians. Rail Nurovich's parents also had Russian names. Rail Nurovich's older brothers - Nikolai, born in 1909, Arkady, born in 1918, and Grigory, born in 1923 - participated in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. After graduating from the Tashkent cavalry school in 1925 Nikolai served on the border with Afghanistan in the city of Termez and participated in battles against Basmach gangs. In 1928 he was awarded the order of the Red Banner of Battle. He was awarded the second order of the Red Banner of Battle, the order of the Red Star, as well as the medal “For Bravery" and other medals during the Great Patriotic War. He ended the war in May 1945 in Prague. Arkady served from 1937 as a military sailor in Vladivostok and in 1943 was transferred to the Black Sea. He finished the war in May 1945 in Bucharest. He was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the second degree and medals. Grigory, who worked as a machine operator at a machine-tractor station (MTS) before the war, was a driver on military trucks throughout the war, and he has military awards. He finished the war in May 1945 in Vienna. Rail Nurovich himself, as a teenager, during the Great Patriotic War, worked in a stable yard and as a shepherd on a collective farm. Awarded the medal "For valiant labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". In the post-war years thanks to the help of his older sisters and brothers, and, above all, his brother Nikolai Nurovich, he managed to get not only general secondary, but also higher legal education. After graduating from the Sverdlovsk law Institute in 1956 he worked for a quarter of a century in the Prosecutor's office in the following positions: a senior investigator at the objects of the USSR defense industry in the Irkutsk, Sverdlovsk, Kaluga regions and Moscow; a prosecutor of the investigative department of the Prosecutor's office of the Karaganda region (1961-1965); a prosecutor of the Prosecutor's office of the USSR (1988-1992); a prosecutor, a senior prosecutor of the office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation (1992-1996). He retired in 1996 in the rank of a senior advisor of justice. In addition, over the years, he worked in the judicial authorities and courts in the positions of a senior consultant on personnel management of the second department of the Ministry of justice of the USSR (1971-1984), member of the Moscow city court (1984-1986), head of the Department for control and execution of judicial decisions of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR (1986-1988).

Leonty Petrovich Glushchenko (1914 - 1985) – Hero of the Soviet Union, guard lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Army, military navigator of the first class, participant of the Great Patriotic War, as well as the battles at lake Khasan and on the Khalkhin-Gol river. Participant of the Victory Parade in Red Square on the 24th of June, 1945. He was born on the 30th of October, 1914, on the farm of Smokovka of the Zhytomyr region, in a peasant family. In 1931 he graduated from high school, in 1933 – from Kiev construction faculty, in 1935 – from the first year of the Zhytomyr agricultural institute. He worked as an agricultural technician. In November 1936 he was called up into the Red Army. In 1937 he graduated from the Yeisk naval aviation school as an air gunner-bombardier. In 1938 -1939 he participated in battles with the Japanese invaders in the area of lake Hasan and on the Khalkhin-Gol river. In 1941 he graduated from the 2nd Ivanovo higher school of navigators of the air force. He participated in the battles of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. The crew of Glushchenko L.P. was assigned to lead detachments of long-range Il-4 bombers that flew out to perform particularly important combat tasks. Leonty Petrovich perfectly mastered all types of orientation, in difficult weather conditions of a dark night, learned to accurately find a target and accurately drop bombs on it. The command entrusted him with the most responsible tasks for scouting targets and destroying enemy personnel and equipment. The crew of Glushchenko L. P. became the best in the 10th guard Red Banner regiment of long-range aviation and in June 1943 the guard captain Glushchenko L.P. was appointed a senior instructor in radio navigation and deputy senior navigator for aircraft navigation of the 3rd guard long-range air division. For the courage and heroism shown in the battles with the German-fascist invaders by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated the 18th of September, 1943, Glushchenko Leonti Petrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the order of Lenin and the “Gold Star” medal (no. 1731). Glushchenko Leonty Petrovich went the path from a cadet of the Yeisk naval aviation school to the head of the combat training department, deputy chief of staff for combat training of the 139th guard heavy bomber air division of the 43rd long-range air army. He perfectly mastered navigation on all types of bombers of that time and was one of the first to become a military navigator of the first class. During the years of the Great Patriotic War, Glushchenko L.P. made more than 300 sorties to bomb military-industrial facilities in the deep rear of the enemy, 250 of them at night. In total he spent more than 3,500 hours in the sky. After the war he continued to serve in the Soviet air force. Since 1958 lieutenant colonel L.P. Glushchenko was in reserve. He lived in the city of Poltava. He was actively engaged in public activities and was a deputy of the Poltava city council of II, III and IV convocations. He died on the 25th of November, 1985. He was buried at the Central cemetery in Poltava on the Alley of Heroes. Awards: medal “Gold Star” with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, three orders of Lenin, order of the Red Banner, order of Alexander Nevsky, order of the Red Star, order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, medal “For Military Merits”, medal “For defence of Leningrad”, medal “For defense of Stalingrad”, medal “For defense of Moscow”, medal “For the capture of Budapest”, medal “For the capture of Berlin”, medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”, more than twenty post-war commemorative medals.