Heroes and feats

Greshnov Andrey Andreyevich (the 11th of June, 1924 – the 28th of January, 2013) was born in the village of Malaya Gryaznukha (now the village of Zarechnoye) in the Balashovsky district of the Saratov region. In 1932 the entire family and their children were illegally repressed and all their property was confiscated. In 1942 Andrey Andreevich was called up into the Red Army and sent to the front. From 1942 to 1945 he marched from Leningrad to Berlin as a scout in the Volkhov, Leningrad, third Baltic and first Belorussian fronts. In November 1942 he was called up into the army of the Molotovobad regional military commissariat of the Tajik SSR and enlisted in the 76th reserve artillery regiment where he took the oath. In November and December 1942 he was transferred to the 315th separate artillery division, marching to the Leningrad front via Kirsanovka station. In January - June 1943 he participated in breaking the siege of Leningrad in the 315th separate artillery division. In June 1943 he was transferred from the 315th separate artillery division to the 20th artillery brigade of the 262nd artillery regiment where he was from March or April 1945 (in 1944 he was accepted as a member of the All-Union Communist Party. In the battles for the besieged Leningrad he was accepted as a member of the All-Union Communist Party. With a party card, a machine gun in his hands, grenades in his bosom, cartridges in his pockets, he walked the roads of death in continuous battles from Leningrad to Berlin, fulfilling his constitutional duty and oath of allegiance to the Motherland. Rewards: 1. The order of “Patriotic War of the second degree”; 2. Zhukov Medal; 3. Medal “For the liberation of Warsaw”; 4. Medal “For Victory over Germany”; 5. Medal “50 years of armed forces of USSR”; 6. Medal “60 years of the USSR Armed forces”; 7. Medal “70 years of the USSR Armed forces”; 8. Medal “20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”; 9. Medal “30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”; 10. Medal “40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”; 11. Medal “50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” 12. Medal “60 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”; 13. Medal “65 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”; 14. Medal “Veteran of labor’; 15. Badge “Front-line soldier 1941-1945”; 16. Badge “25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War” and others.

__.__.1905 the village of Safrontsevo, the Ivanovo district, the Ivanovo region. He died on the 7th of May, 1945, Latvia. At the time of death he was a squad leader of the 191st rifle regiment of the 201st rifle division, a junior sergeant. He was born in 1905 in the village of Safrontsevo, now of the Kulikovo rural settlement of the Ivanovo district of the Ivanovo region, in a peasant family. Russian. In June 1941 he was called up into the Red Army by the Kochomsky district military commissariat. Since the August of the same year he participated in battles with the Nazi invaders. In 1942 he joined the All-Union Communist Party. By the end of 1944 he had 5 injuries: 4 light on the 6th September,the 10th of October, 1942, the 16th of June 16, 1943, and the 21st of February, 1944, and heavy on the 16th of October, 1943. By the beginning of 1945 junior sergeant Golovanov was fighting as a division commander of a rifle company of the 1248th rifle regiment of the 376th rifle division. In February 1944 the division fought with the Kurland group of the enemy in the direction of the city of Tukums (Latvia). In these battles junior sergeant Golovanov earned the first military award - the order of Glory of the 3rd degree. From the award list: “...participating in the reconnaissance battle, skillfully and fearlessly commanded his squad, dragging the squad, quickly broke into the enemy's trenches and personally destroyed 2 of his soldiers. Reflecting seven counterattacks of the enemy, he took a light machine gun and shot the Germans at point-blank range. On the 16th of February, 1945, junior sergeant Golovanov, acting boldly and fearlessly, participated in the capture of 14 prisoners. When the platoon commander was out of action, junior sergeant Golovanov took command of the platoon and successfully coped with his duties.” This order was not awarded when the order was signed junior sergeant Golovanov was in the hospital, he was wounded on the 17th of February. After recovery he was enlisted as a commander of the rifle division in the 191st rifle regiment of the 201st rifle division of the Leningrad front. In April 1945 as an excellent student of military and political training and having 6 wounds, he was awarded the medal “For Bravery” (the order of Glory is not mentioned in the award documents). In the spring of 1945 the division fought to destroy the Kurland group of the Nazis, fighting continued even after the fall of Berlin. On the 7th of May, 1945, junior sergeant Golovanov was killed in a battle near the village of Snapyimuizha (Tukum County, Latvia). He was buried at the site of the battle. After the war he was reburied at the military mass cemetery near the village of Irlava in the Tukum region of Latvia. He was awarded the order of Glory of the 3rd degree (on the 19th of February, 1945), the medal “For Bravery” (on the 24th of April, 1945).

The story of my grandfather – Gilmutdinov Mirhatip of Khairetdinovich. “I circled death three times around my finger,” - my grandfather used to say shaking his hand, which, oddly enough, was just missing three fingers. He lost them when he was a child, during children's games. My grandfather was born and raised in the village of Suermetovo, the Ermekeevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan. My grandfather grew up without a father. His mother, driven to desperation by extreme poverty, sent him to an orphanage. From where he escaped after a while, and this saved his life – the next morning all the children were hospitalized with severe poisoning (poisoned at breakfast with canned food); most of them did not survive. Just before that fateful morning my grandfather had made his escape. He returned home and lived with his mother again. At the age of 11 he was already an orphan. Again death crept up on him. This time he was almost killed for a piece of land that belonged to him. “It was common to take a man's life for the sake of the land. Especially if you are a child and you have no father, no protection... - my grandfather recalled. “...I hid under the bridge of a small river where there was a hidden place. I could hear their boots rattling and I could hear their conversations. They were right above me.” But they didn't find him. And he again makes an escape, this time from his native village. So begins the story of his wanderings. He walked all over the entire Soviet Union, working as he had to. Despite missing three fingers he was a Jack-of-all-trades. Still it prevented him from going to the front when the war started. “More than once asked but they refused. You can't do it without fingers on your right hand, they say” There was plenty of work in the rear, too. As part of the labor army, my grandfather worked at the Ural Aluminum plant (UAZ), in Kamensk-Uralsky: during the war and three years after – for seven years (from 1941 to 1948). He worked as a locksmith on furnaces for smelting aluminum from ore. “Seven years we breathed smoke and soot”. There he earned consumption (tuberculosis). “This disease has claimed almost all of my comrades... One doctor told me that if you want to prolong your days, move to a place where there are forests and clean air. As far away from industrial cities as possible. You won't last long.” After the dismissal Mirhatip Khairutdinovich settled at his friend’s in the village of Kamyshevo, the Dyurtyulinsky district. After building a house, he got married. He and his wife had lived a good, good life together. My grandfather died at the age of 81.

Gorshenin Alexander Timofeevich was born in the village of Krasnogorsk on the 4th of December, 1922 ( to give him documents for the front, the year was corrected to 1921). In 1941 on the 22nd of June at four o'clock in the morning the war began. In 1941 my grandfather was wounded in battle. Their group was bombed. There was an order: “Everyone out of the way!” They scattered and took up positions on the side of the road. With a whoosh, fragments of bombs flew in different directions as German military planes “Junkers” appeared above them, which bombed the road, carts with the wounded. Then there was a rumble as tanks appeared followed closely by German submachine gunners. Soon the battalion was ordered to retreat. They were fighting in a narrow isthmus of swamps. They fought to the last bullet. When the Nazis realized that they could not be defeated just like that, they fired mortars. In this battle the grandfather was captured in a shell-shocked state. The Krauts put them in a field camp surrounded by barbed wire. There my grandfather saw enough of everything, experienced camp life for himself. They were driven into a cold swamp, up to their waists, and they stood there. My grandfather didn't tell his children about the captivity. Only after 1968 when he last visited the district military commissariat. The major, clarifying the testimony, drew up a report, and then said: “Now you can sleep in peace, comrade private!” Grandfather endured all the hardships of this cruel time with dignity. On the 8th of May, 1945, the German government signed the act of unconditional surrender. And the Banner of Victory was hoisted over the Reichstag. The war in Europe was over. The 9th of May, 1945, was declared Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. In 1946 he returned to his native village and got a job as a tractor driver. In 1948 he married to Maria Andreyevna Ryabinina (my great-grandmother). She worked in a cartel and then at school as a technician. They had 4 children (Anna, Nikolai, Petr, Nadezhda - my grandmother), all were given a good education and raised to good people. Then they built a power plant and he continued to work there – he drove light for the village. In 1954 he raised virgin land for which he was awarded a medal. Then in 1960 he began working as a school caretaker and taught crafts until his retirement. In general he had 6 medals. A bright soul and a clear conscience were not tainted by anything bad in a lifetime. No matter how much life broke him, he didn't give up. Fate shook him, he did not bow down, and even when an insidious disease bedridden him - asthma. He became seriously ill and passed away on the 2nd of December, 1985.

Born in 1920 in the village of Nizhni Apochki, the Gorshechensky district, the Kursk region. When he was seven years old his mother died. Some time later the father married a second time. Immediately after the end of seven years school my grandfather went to work. First, he worked on recruitment for six months, then he went to Moscow, where he spent two years building the Palace of Soviets. In 1940 he was called up into the army. He got to the Far East. The 140th separate coast guard rifle regiment in which he served was located in the Olga Bay. At the time the leadership believed that the country was about to be attacked by Japan. Therefore, the recruits were heavily engaged in strengthening the areas that were considered most likely for the landing of Japanese troops. When the news came that the country was attacked by the Nazis, almost everyone immediately wrote a statement asking to be sent to the front. But the commander said: “Guys, take your time, this war is enough for everyone.” And indeed, at the end of 1942 he was already at the Kubinka station near Moscow, where the 172nd rifle division was being formed. In the Far East my grandfather was trained as a radio operator, so he was assigned to the 222nd communications troop. Soon the division was sent to the Voronezh front. They found themselves in a hot place-near the Donets river - just at one of the bases of the famous Kursk salient. It was in this direction that the Germans repeatedly tried to break through our defenses and encircle the troops that had advanced far ahead. No more than ten of his thirty colleagues were still alive. My grandfather said that he was lucky in the war: no matter how many dangerous cases there were, it seemed that some unknown force led away from the dangerous place… But once he was still wounded. Already in Western Ukraine, in Rivne. A splinter caught his leg. It happened in the winter, so he also got frostbite. He spent three months in hospital in Zhytomyr and then returned to his division. Some of them did not reach Berlin quite a bit. They reached the Neisse river and then turned to Prague. On the way there they came across Russians in German uniforms - Vlasovites. They marched with white flags and surrendered. On the Elbe, in the city of Chemnitz, the part stood for ten days. Dmitry Fedotovich said that he saw Americans there for the first time but not white, but black – African-Americans. They drove around the city in jeeps. He also met with English pilots. Their plane was shot down and they lived with the Russians until the Soviets joined the allies. For the capture of the city of Belokurakino my grandfather was awarded the order of the Red Star. The order of the Patriotic War of the second degree also was received at the front, and of the first degree – already in peacetime. There are also many medals. The grandfather returned home, to Nizhnije Apochki, in 8 years, after construction in Moscow, military service and the war. Then he married. A daughter was born. For fifteen years he worked on a logging machine in geological exploration, looking for iron ore. Then he worked as an accountant on a farm in the collective farm “Mayak” of the Znamensky village council. He didn't like to talk about the war. He remembered mostly funny and curious cases. And always said: “There is nothing heroic in defending the Fatherland which is in mortal danger. This is the sacred duty of everyone who loves their Homeland.” He died in 2004.

The youngest daughter of the Red Army soldier Gilyazidinov Sharif Khairulimovich - Abzalilova Roziya Sharipovna tells. “Dad was born in 1900 (the exact date of birth is not known), in Ufa (Republic of Bashkortostan), lost his parents early and since we knew almost nothing about his life, we asked my mother to tell us about him. Talking about his life, my mother always cried (their fates are very similar, my mother was also left without parents early, she had a very difficult childhood), so we were afraid to ask her again, if only she would not cry. Mom said that when the war began, dad could not sit quietly at his desk, working as the director of an industrial complex, went to the region and asked to go to the front to defend the Motherland. But due to the fact that he had a leading position, he was not young, he did not manage to get to the front right away. " From the award list it follows that “the former private rifleman of the 251st Guards front regiment of the 85th Red Banner Riga Rifle Division Gilyazidinov Sharif Khairulimovich fought on the front against the German invaders from July 24, 1944 to December 5, 1944 on the 2nd Baltic Front as part of the 251st Guards front regiment of the 85th Red Banner Riga Infantry Division. During the offensive against the German defenses in the region of Lake Riga, he was seriously wounded on December 5, 1944 in the legs by a mine fragment. Due to severe injury, the right leg is not suitable for action and (Gilyazidinov Sh.G.) is an invalid of the Patriotic War of the 2nd group. " “During this period, mom was both a father and a mother for us. During the day she worked on a collective farm, and in the evenings she sewed sheepskin coats for the front at the industrial complex. My father died on April 1, 1947, when I was less than 4 months old, my mother had 5 children, and when he was presented for the award - November 6, 1947, my mother could not go to the region, leaving us alone. Our dear mother raised us five alone (my older brother was only 14 years old at that time) and we can say that we had neither childhood nor youth, we tried to help our mother, studied, and worked. So we lived ... You can write a book about our difficult life ... "

Born on June 15, 1913 in Velikiye Luki, Pskov region. In 1930, he arrived in Klintsy, Bryansk region, where his older brother lived. He worked at a fine-cloth weaving factory as a Komsomol member. Here, at the factory, he met Alexandra Denisenko and married in 1933. In 1936, their first daughter, Elena, was born. Soon Daniil Lipovich joined the party. The district party Committee sent him to study at the Higher party school in Minsk. After returning, he is appointed Deputy Prosecutor of the city. He worked in this position until the beginning of the great Patriotic war. August 19, 1941 drafted into the Red Army and sent to the position of political instructor of the company of the 1100th rifle regiment of the 327th rifle division of the 2nd Shock Army of the Leningrad Front. On October 1, 1941, he was promoted to the position of Deputy company commander for the political part of the same regiment. Participated in the defense of the cities of Stalingrad and Leningrad. But on January 13, 1942, in the battles at the Chudovo station, Volkhov direction in offensive battles, he was wounded in the right shoulder by four explosive bullets. After the hospital, he returned to the Belgorod front as a Deputy battalion commander. In August 1943 he was sent to the Voronezh school of communication as a cadet. On September 16, 1943, he was discharged from the reserve due to illness and later worked as the head of the OVS hospital. For military services, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the 1st degree, the medal "for bravery", the medal" for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war " and others. After returning from the war, he was sent to Leningrad for a course of Directors and after graduation was appointed Director of the city's food processing plant, where he worked for many years. Then he worked as Director of the Voentorg(Army surplus) industrial base, Director of the vegetable base. I left this job for a well-deserved rest. And in retirement, he worked as a security guard at an oil depot. He lived a decent, long and happy life. He raised three daughters and five grandchildren, and celebrated a Golden wedding with his wife. He died on February 5, 1989. he was buried with military honors and a salute.

Petr Andreevich was drafted in February 1940 for the Finnish War. Then he was transferred to Ukraine. By this time he was already married and had three children. He began the Great Patriotic War at the age of 36. The first battle took place on June 23 in the Lviv region. There he was surrounded. Coming out of it, he retreated towards Odessa. Coming out of the encirclement, he took part in the defense of Odessa. He left Odessa with the last boat. When the boat was about 300 meters away, the Germans came ashore. Within a month, after the evacuation from Odessa, he participated in the defense of Sevastopol. There he was wounded and sent to a hospital in Novorossiysk. In a short time, having healed his wound in the hospital, he was included in the Kerch-Feodosia landing. On the night of December 29, a landing of the 44th army, which he was part of, landed in Feodosia. In April 1942, in the battles for the Kerch Peninsula, he was wounded and sent to a hospital in Tuapse. After the hospital at the end of June, he ended up under Rostov. At the end of July, he retreated from Rostov through Tikhoretsk, Kropotkin, Armavir, Nevinnomyssk, Mineralnye Vody to the Cross Pass. He defended the Krestovy Pereval until the end of 1942. At the beginning of 1943, as part of the Soviet troops, he went on the offensive along the same route as he was retreating. He advanced through the south of Ukraine in the spring of 1943 through Taganrog to Mariupol and Kherson. At the beginning of 1944 he attacked Odessa. In the area of the Razdelnaya station in March 1944, he was seriously wounded, and spent a long time in the hospital. In the summer of 1944, he returned to service after a hospital and was transferred to northern Ukraine to the location of the 1st Ukrainian Front. In the rank of foreman, he was appointed deputy commander of the reconnaissance platoon. In the fall of 1944 he fought in southern Poland. On January 12, 1945, he crossed the Vistula River in the Sandamir region. On April 25, 1945, units of the 1st Ukrainian Front reached the banks of the Elbe River north of Meissen. The first was the regimental reconnaissance, of which he was a member. On advancing, he was wounded by a shrapnel in his left leg. He was sent to the hospital, from where he returned home in September 1945. After the war he worked as a worker at the Inozemtsevsky wine factory.

My grandfather-Mukhlis Gasimov, born in 1920, was drafted into the army in the fall of 1940. He served as a Junior Sergeant in an artillery regiment of the Soviet army. While serving, he met the war… Almost at Moscow, near Vyazma, in the early morning they were preparing to attack, but the Germans hit first with all the power of their artillery and split the ranks of our fighters. Suddenly the leg was burned, it turned out that the bullet was stuck in the thigh, and grandfather leaned against the gun, where he was standing as an artilleryman. Many of my grandfather's comrades died. Only a few people were left alive, and they ran into the forest, where they were overtaken by German machine gunners. So my grandfather was captured by the Germans in the autumn of 1941… Then they were driven along the road for a long time. It was very hard to walk, his leg hurt, he wanted to drink and eat, but he hobbled with all his strength,those who fell to the ground- was shot… October, cold, and all in summer uniforms,there was no strength from cold and hunger , for three days, thousands of people were driven on muddy roads. Finally, they were driven to Roslavl, given balands, and then sent to work. One day the prisoners were sent to pick cabbage, and grandfather decided to run away at all costs, although he knew that with a wounded leg it would not be easy. Hobbled to the woods and ran! He wandered through the forest for a long time, came across a Forester's house, he helped him - gave him a bed and fed him. Then he went to the village, people helped, who will feed, who will give drink. It was very difficult to break through unnoticed among the Germans, so one day he was captured again. The winter of 1941-1942 was harsh, and hundreds of prisoners died. My grandfather had a valuable pair of wooden-soled shoes, which he wrapped in rags to protect his feet from frostbite. Then he got to Poland, worked at a sugar factory, of course, life with" sugar " became more fun. Once he managed to escape from there as well. The warden had a daughter, his age, a Polish woman who did not understand Russian, but often communicated surreptitiously with her grandfather and even gave him a photo of herself. She helped him to escape! But at the train station, he was overtaken by a military patrol. In 1943, he was sent to Vienna as a prisoner of war. The city was constantly bombed, and the food was still very poor. In general, you can talk about his camp life for a long time, because it lasted from the beginning of the war until the spring of 1945, when they were released by the Americans . And their homeland did not meet them kindly. After all, Stalin said: "we have no prisoners, we have traitors." And again they were driven on foot, only their own. Then again, the NKVD camp, humiliating interrogations and checks. Finally, in the summer of 1946, he returned to his native land, safe and sound – it was a miracle! My grandfather did not like to remember the hard years of the war... And our family, honors the memory of my grandfather and his history during the war, we pass it by word of mouth. Grandfather lived a long life, not everything was easy, he worked hard and was a respected man, raised 3 daughters, and how many grandchildren and great-grandchildren now its hard to count. He died in 1996, at the age of 76. Our family carefully keeps his medals, orders, a note about our hero in the newspaper and the very photo of the Polish woman who helped him escape from captivity, because thanks to such people, even in the most difficult times, there is always hope and faith for the best!

It is the duty of the descendants of people who survived the Great Patriotic War to tell about the stories they heard and the horrors of wartime they experienced. Thus, we honor the memory of our ancestors, pay tribute to the path traveled and fulfill their main complaint: "Remember this!" Eager to fulfill the covenant of the participants in the War, I want to tell you about my great-grandfather - Yegor Matveyevich Grinin and about the sacrifices that were given to us by the truly Great Victory of 1945. Everything written below is compiled on the basis of family memories and archival documents found so far. Egor Matveyevich Grinin was born in 1920 in the village of Koshibeevo, near Sasov in the Ryazan region. Like many of his generation, at the age of 21 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet army at the Sasov military registration and enlistment office. His mother, being an Orthodox woman, sewed into his tunic a belt with the prayer "Living in Help" and a pectoral cross. Throughout the war, Yegor Matveyevich was a tanker (the tank's crew consisted of four people). The young soldier immediately got into the hottest fighting near Smolensk and witnessed the horrors. He took part in the liberation of occupied Nalchik (1942), in the battles of Rostov-on-Don (1943) and eventually reached Budapest and Austria. Once near Budapest, Egor Grinin faced very close to death: during a short halt at the front line, the enemy unexpectedly attacked the detachment, and a bullet shot through the clothes of a young soldier. Then there was greater horror - the same bullet killed his comrade to death right in front of his eyes ... Later, telling this incident, he said with all confidence that the shrine sewn into a Soviet tunic saved his life. Nevertheless, the hostilities near Budapest proved fatal for him. During the next attack, Egor Matveyevich was seriously wounded. Recalling this battle, he said that there really was a very brutal firefight. He lay wounded on the battlefield for a long time. And only after a long period of time he was found, picked up and brought to the hospital. In the hospital, waking up from anesthesia, the soldier could not find his left leg. According to the documents found, the amputation took place in December 1944. Doctors came and offered to amputate the other leg as well, but he categorically refused, saying: “I don’t want to live with a samovar”. In December of the same year, Egor Matveyevich was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". The war continued. The loss of a leg was not a hindrance, and after the hospital Egor Matveyevich immediately joined his own and went, as already mentioned, to Austria. The struggle for the Motherland and the unquenchable hope of meeting his chosen one Vera gave him strength in the war. After the war, Yegor Matveyevich did not immediately return to his wife. He doubted that she would accept him without a leg - a cripple and sent his brother Vasily to his house. When Vasily went to see Vera Evdokimovna, one phrase was enough - “Egor is back. He is now at his father's house. Are you ready to accept it? " Upon learning of this news, there was no response. She immediately ran to her husband's father's house to meet with the one who had been waiting for all these four terrible years of war. And it didn't matter how he was - healthy or crippled. Egor Matveyevich, thanks to his faithful wife Vera, has kept his cheerful spirit. After the war, he started working as a tractor driver. Of course it was difficult. The head of the collective farm understood this and offered to unlearn as a beekeeper in Rybny, Ryazan region, to which he agreed. After that, Yegor Matveyevich began to breed bees, and Vera Evdokimovna continued to work on the same collective farm as a milkmaid. And what is surprising, in their entire life they have never quarreled! Yegor Matveyevich died on September 21, 1982 and was buried in the old city cemetery in the city of Sasovo.

Petr Filippovich Gavrilov was born on October 14, 1914 in the village of Pesochnodubrovka (now Kozhevnikovsky district of the Tomsk region) in a peasant family. Russian by nationality. He graduated from Junior high school, then accounting courses and Economics courses, after which he worked in various Tomsk enterprises. In 1936-1938, he served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army and graduated from the Junior commanders ' school. In July 1942, Gavrilov was re-drafted into the army by the Tomsk district military Commissariat of the Novosibirsk region. Since December of the same year – on the fronts of the great Patriotic war. He fought as a platoon commander of the 52nd tank battalion of the 52nd tank brigade. January 10, 1943 Gavrilov on his tank "T-34" broke into the enemy's location near the city of Mineralnye Vody Ordzhonikidze (now – Stavropol) region and opened fire on it hurricane, causing the enemy heavy losses and causing panic in its ranks. In that battle, its crew destroyed 3 tanks, 8 vehicles, 1 machine-gun point, and up to 70 soldiers and officers. For these distinctions, Gavrilov was presented with his first military award – the order of the red banner. By the summer of 1944, guards senior Lieutenant Gavrilov commanded a company of medium tanks of the 1st tank battalion of the 34th separate guards tank brigade of the 6th guards army of the 1st Baltic front. On June 23, 1944, he was the first to break into the depth of enemy defenses near the village of Sirotino in the shumilinsky district of the Vitebsk region of the Byelorussian SSR, dragging the rest of the company's tankers with him. Developing success and pursuing the retreating enemy, Gavrilov's crew destroyed 2 anti-tank batteries, 5 vehicles with ammunition and suppressed 3 machine-gun points. On June 24, 1944, on the approaches to the village of Ulla in the Vitebsk region, Gavrilov and his comrades destroyed the enemy with fire and tracks, reaching the Western Dvina and gaining a foothold on its Bank, after which they held the defense until the approach of infantry and artillery. On June 27, 1944, the commander of the 1st tank battalion of the guards, captain M. A. Maksimov, presented him with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the end of the war, Gavrilov continued to serve in the Soviet Army. In 1951, he graduated From the higher officer school of armored and mechanized forces. In 1956, with the rank of major, Gavrilov was dismissed to the reserve. He lived in Sverdlovsk, worked as a senior engineer of the Sverdlovsk automobile Department, then as a Deputy head of the cargo transportation Department of the Sverdlovsk city automobile trust. He died on July 15, 1968, and was buried at the Shirokorechenskoye cemetery in Yekaterinburg. Awards: Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the order of Lenin and the gold Star medal number 4080 (22.07.1944, "for exemplary performance of combat tasks of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and displayed bravery and heroism"); Order of the Red banner (27.02.1943);

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 338th Infantry Division (1st Formation). Gayvoron Nikolai Trifonovich was born in Kiev on December 14, 1910 in the family of an employee - laboratory assistant Professor Slezkin at Kiev University. After the revolution he was forced to move to the town of Yagotin, near Kiev, because the family had 6 children and had nowhere to work. His mother died when he was not 2 years old. They lived very poorly, they lived on what they grew on their own land of 1.5 hectares. He had to work since childhood, because of this, he went to school three years later than his peers. He took it as an external student of the 3rd grade, so that later he was enrolled in the 4th. After graduating from the seven-year school, he entered the Pyriatinsky Industrial College, the department of "Cold metal working". Graduated from technical school in 1933. For a short time he worked as a mechanic and technician at the Pereyaslavskaya MTS (machine and tractor station). In the fall of 1933, he was called up to serve in the 6th Andijan Rifle Regiment, where he was sent to a regimental school, to a machine gun platoon. In 1933, after graduating with honors from the regimental school, he received the rank and was appointed to the post of foreman of the same school. After completing military service in the spring of 1936, he remained on long service. In the fall of 1936, the regiment received a schedule for studying at the Moscow Military School named after the All-Union Central Executive Committee (All-Union Central Executive Committee), then it was also called "School No. 1". Later, this school was renamed the school named after the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, only super-conscripts with secondary education were recruited there. During his studies, he participated in parades on Red Square twelve times. In connection with the events on Khalkin-Gol, graduation was ahead of schedule, without final exams in 1939. After graduation, he was left in this school as a cadet platoon commander, where he served until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In July 1941, he was sent to the forming 8th division of the People's Militia of the Krasnopresnensky District of Moscow as battalion commander of the 23rd Infantry Regiment. As part of the division, he participated in the defense of Moscow in the positions of battalion commander, chief of staff of a regiment, chief of the operational department of a division headquarters. As the chief of the operational department of the headquarters of the 338th Infantry Division of the 49th Army of the Western Front (commanders Timoshenko and Zhukov), in 1943 he participated in breaking through the enemy's defenses in the Yukhnovo area. After this breakthrough, he was recalled to the Headquarters Reserve of the Supreme Commander. At this time, in connection with the large losses of the junior and middle command personnel of the infantry forces, it was decided to train these commanders right at the front from among those who had already fought. Courses were organized, and he was appointed first as a teacher, and later - as a senior teacher, deputy head of courses. He taught firearms training and tactics. After the end of the war in 1946 and 1947, as a senior lecturer on courses in Lviv, he participated in operations to eliminate Bandera, where students of these courses were involved in the implementation of major operations, since they consisted of military officers who had gone through the war. Demobilized in January 1957 with the rank of colonel. Wounded three times. He was awarded medals "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Victory over Germany", Orders of the Red Banner of Battle, Red Star, and the Patriotic War. He died in Simferopol on March 28, 1999.

Rank: Corporal Subdivision: 185th Infantry Pankratov-Prague Order of Suvorov Division My uncle Alexander Nikolaevich Gonchenko began to fight against the enemy long before he put on his soldier's uniform. The Germans entered his native village in November 1941. In Artemovsk, after its occupation by German troops, the presence of partisans became noticeable, who not only attacked individual German soldiers, but even a few days after the division of the city set fire to the theater and the library. Uncle Sasha was 16. He was not a partisan, but he was strong and nimble, and the Germans liked it. In their opinion, he was an excellent candidate for the hard work in Germany. During the twenty-two months of the occupation, the Germans drove 200 thousand residents of the Donetsk region to forced labor in Germany. New trains regularly came, where physically strong young men and women were immersed and, under heavy guard, were taken to Germany. They took Sasha twice, twice he managed to escape. For the third time, with the next recruitment, he decided to hide. Then the senior policeman suggested that his father put on a police bandage too: in return, the son would be left alone. The mother forbade her husband to become a traitor even for the sake of her son. Nothing, she said, ran away twice, and the third time will run away. And so it happened. Uncle Sasha fled, so as not to risk any more, he made his way to Stalingrad itself, where he was found already exhausted and barely alive. In the hospital, he got stronger and was sent to a month's training. It was 1943. Together with the army, Uncle Sasha reached Berlin. He had only two minor wounds, despite his dangerous service as a reconnaissance engineer. For his courage, dexterity and bravery corporal Alexander Gonchenko was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Orders of Glory of the Third and Second Degrees. By the command, he was also presented to the Order of Glory, First Class, but, unfortunately, there was a well-wisher who presented the flight from the Germans by voluntary recruitment to Germany. Uncle Sasha considered it beneath his dignity to prove that this was slander. He rarely talked about the war and never talked about his exploits. The family and parents learned about their hero from letters from the command. Regional newspapers wrote about him and the pioneers were invited to visit, although he did not like it. We remember Uncle Sasha as honest and hardworking; we remember his beautiful garden and vineyard, amazing in terms of variety of species and taste.

When the war started, my grandfather was 28 years old. He worked as a school principal and taught mathematics. On vacation at the sea, he met my grandmother. They spent two weeks at sea together, and then came June 22, 1941. My grandfather returned to Bezhitsa and immediately went to the military enlistment office. My grandmother was from Moscow, she also returned home, but they corresponded. My grandfather was not immediately sent to the front. He was trained as a mortar commander. When he was assigned to these training courses, his grandmother came to him there and lived with his parents. But the Germans quickly advanced, and soon my grandfather's school and parents and grandmother were evacuated to Krasnoyarsk. From there, my grandfather went to the front. And my grandmother was waiting for him, pregnant with my mother. My mother was born in August 1942. And in February 1943, my grandfather came from the front wounded. He was shell-shocked, lost hearing in one ear, and nearly lost a leg. It was covered with earth during the explosion, and he lay underground for a whole day. Then a nurse dug it up. How he survived is still unclear. The leg was so badly pinched by the weight of the earth that the doctor at the hospital wanted to amputate it. When my grandfather heard the doctors discussing amputation, he began to cry. The surgeon saw this and agreed to leave the leg, but warned that it would be sore and numb for the rest of his life. His leg really hurt all his life, the blood was not circulating well, but grandfather was still left with two legs. When he returned in June 1943, my mother was 10 months old. The food was very bad, my grandmother lost her milk, my mother was practically dying, and there was no money to buy food, milk. So, as soon as my grandfather returned, he immediately started caring for my mother and my grandmother. Then in 1944. they returned to Moscow, and then a second daughter was born. My grandfather worked as a math teacher all his life. Many of his students became scientists, taught at Universities themselves, and were engaged in science. Until the last days, his students constantly visited him, came on May 9, on his birthday, and just to chat. Grandfather was awarded the badge "excellent student of education" and "Veteran of labor". He devoted his entire life to children and school. He didn't like to talk about the war, and he always cried when remembered those days. Therefore, we know almost nothing about what battles he participated in and where he fought. I only remember one story, how their battalion was surrounded for a long time, and they got scurvy. And then the soldiers, at the risk of getting shot by a German sniper, crawled into the swamp and collected cranberries in helmets and bowler hats. And then they gave it to each other. Grandfather, too, was crawling over the cranberries. Thanks to this cranberry, they survived.

Rank: Sergeant. Subdivision: 3rd Guards Rifle Volnovakhskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Glushenko Ivan Vasilyevich, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, order bearer, labor veteran, honorary worker of the Volgograd shipyard was born in the Stalingrad region, in the village of Tsatsa, Svetloyarsk district, on October 15, 1925. Was drafted to the front on February 27, 1943. He fought on the 4th Ukrainian, 1st Baltic fronts. He received two wounds during the fighting in 1944 in East Prussia. Guard sergeant, assistant platoon commander of the 1st rifle company of the 5th guards rifle regiment of the 3rd guards rifle Volnovakha division, which received this name on September 18, 1941 (the 153rd rifle division was renamed the 3rd guards rifle division). September 10, 1943 - the division was given the honorary name Volnovakhskaya. The division was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for battles in the Crimea, the Order of Suvorov II degree for participating in the breakthrough of the enemy's powerful fortifications in East Prussia. In February 1944, the 3rd Guards Rifle Division was transferred to the area of the Perekop Isthmus and in April-May it took part in the Crimean strategic operation. Before the guardsmen there was a powerful defense of the Germans at Perekop behind the Turkish Wall and further on, the equally powerful Ishun defensive positions. On April 8, the division began the historic assault on Perekop. Four lines of enemy trenches were broken through in 20 minutes. In 34 hours, the guards reached the Ishun positions. Unable to withstand the rapid attacks, on April 12, 1944, the enemy left the Ishun defensive lines and, suffering heavy losses in manpower and equipment, began to retreat into the depths of the Crimean Peninsula. The soldiers of the division made a 90-kilometer march per day. Sergeant Glushenko was wounded during the fighting at Perekop. He got to the hospital, and a month later was back in the ranks. 07/08/1944, the division became part of the 1st Baltic Front. In September-October 1944, the troops of the Leningrad, 2nd and 1st Baltic Fronts, in cooperation with ships and aircraft of the Baltic Fleet, conducted a number of successful operations to liberate the territories of the Union republics: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The troops of the 1st Baltic Front, which included the 3rd Guards. The division, in which Sergeant Glushenko Ivan Vasilyevich fought, cut off the German group located in the Baltic States from East Prussia. In October 1944, the 3rd Guards Rifle Division entered the territory of East Prussia, heavy fighting began. For excellent military operations to break through the German defenses covering the borders of East Prussia, the division was commended. In East Prussia, the enemy had many defensive structures. But our units in a stubborn struggle took possession of them. The story of one wound and feat. It was in East Prussia (now the Kaliningrad region) on October 12, 1944. There were fierce battles. During the offensive operations of the regiment in the Kozhemekin Glushenko area, Ivan Vasilyevich, with his squad, was the first to cross the Kammon River and, gaining a foothold on the opposite bank, opened rifle and machine-gun fire on the enemy, allowing the entire company to cross the river without loss and move forward. In this battle he was wounded and evacuated to the medical battalion. For this feat he was awarded the Order of the "Battle Red Banner". The order was presented on December 31, 1944. Military awards remind Ivan Vasilyevich of the heroic days of the Great Patriotic War - these are the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Banner of Battle, the Order of the Red Star, medals For the capture of Koenigsberg, For Courage, For victory in the Great Patriotic War ”and 20 anniversary medals. Ivan Vasilyevich died at the age of 87, on June 7, 2012. He was buried in the hero-city of Volgograd, in the Krasnoarmeisky district.