Heroes and feats

Type of troops: Aviation Subdivision: 206th Fighter Aviation Division Nikolai Ivanovich Grigorov, born in 1914 in the village Dolbino of the Belgorod region. In 1934 he taught at a public school. He entered the institute on the Komsomol call, left the institute and went to study as a technician for aircraft weapons. From 1935 to 1938, cadet of the 2nd Leningrad Military Aviation Technical School named after V.I. Lenin Komsomol. In the ranks of the Red Army since 1935. 1939 - The Finnish War. The Great Patriotic War took place from June 22, 1941 to May 14, 1945. All the years of the war he was at the front line, servicing the combat missions of the famous planes of the Great Patriotic War, night bombers U-2 (Po-2). In just 70 days (in the period from 02.14.1942 to 04.24.1942), he personally prepared 548 combat night sorties of aircraft, suspended 54,800 kg of bombs. U-2VS - light night bomber, developed under the leadership of N.N. Polikarpov on the basis of the U-2 initial training aircraft. At the beginning of the war, there were no established structures for hanging and dropping bombs from these aircraft. There was a lot of invention, a lot of solutions suggested by practice. It was at this time that Nikolai Ivanovich proposed an improved design for dropping bombs from an aircraft. In 1942, in the most difficult year of the war, he received his first award - the Medal For Courage, of which he was very proud. He repaired aircraft and aircraft armaments located at forward airfields under enemy fire, trained the Red Army soldiers transferred to his aid. It was not his fault that there was a refusal to take off or a delay in the plane, or the failure of the materiel to work. He started the Great Patriotic War near Bryansk and Orel. As part of the 31st army, he participated in defensive battles in the Smolensk and Kalinin areas and near Moscow. Participated in the counteroffensive near Moscow, in Kalininskaya, Sychevo-Vyazemskaya, Rzhevskaya, Rzhevo-Sychevskaya, Rzhevo-Vyazemskaya, Spas-Demenskaya, Smolensk offensive operations. -Orshansk, Minsk, Vilnius, Kaunas, Gumbinnensk, Insterburg-Königsber, East-Prussian offensive operations, as well as in the destruction of the East Prussian enemy grouping south-west of Königsberg and in the Prague offensive operation. After the war, the groupings of German troops were destroyed for another 3 days. He finished the war near Riga, then served in Sigulda, Polesk, Chernyakhovsk in the 206th Guards Division. Awarded with medals "FOR Courage (No. 103519", "FOR COMBAT SERVICES (No. 3137784)", "FOR THE TAKING OF KENIGSBERG (No. 040324)" "FOR VICTORY OVER GERMANY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945 (No. 0315720); RED STAR, 2 Orders of the PATRIOTIC WAR II degree (No. 263323, 3497767), the Red Battle Banner (No. 529081), as well as medals - 20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945; 30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War War of 1941-1945; 40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945; 50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, 25 years of victory in the war of 1941-1945, as well as medals “30 years Soviet Army and Navy "," 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," 70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," Veteran of the War "," For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "And" Veteran of Labor ".

Gorbatenko Fedor Mitrofanovich, a native of the city of Saki, Crimean region, born in 1923. Mother - Irina Panteleevna Kanibas; Father - Mitrofan Andreevich Gorbatenko. With the outbreak of World War II, the Saki chemical plant was evacuated to Krasnokamsk, Molotov region, and the family was also evacuated. Fyodor Mitrofanovich was drafted by the Krasnokamsky GVT of the Molotov region in the Red Army on 09.12.1941 and sent to study at the Molotov School. He took the oath on 01/01/1942. After 9 months of training, he was sent to the Kalinin Front as part of the 1170 rifle regiment of the 348th division. He was appointed gunner of the PTR company. As part of the 348th infantry division of Bobruisk F.M. Gorbatenko. From July 1943 he fought for the liberation of Belarus on the Bryansk front. 15.08.1943 he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for being in battles from 12.07.43. until 05.08.43 suppressed one firing point, which saved many human lives. In the battles near the village, Kozlovichi showed an example of courage. Being in the department in the combat guard, he repelled the attack of the Germans. Even when he was alone with his comrade, he continued to fight until reinforcements arrived. For this feat Fyodor Mitrofanovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree.On 06/29/1944 fierce battles took place. The heavily fortified enemy defenses on the western bank of the river were broken through Drut’. Forcing the Berezina River, the settlements of Topol and Gorodishche were liberated. PTR platoon squad leader sergeant F.M. Gorbatenko since the breakthrough of the enemy defense on the western bank of the river Drut 'skillfully organized the seizure of a large knot of Nazi resistance, showing courage and valor. ... Especially distinguished himself in battle since 1944 when a German company was defeated on the Mogelev-Minsk highway near the city of Cherven. As soon as the column of fascists appeared on the highway Gorbatenko F.M. shouting "Hurray !!" raised the squad to attack and burst into the thick of the column. In this battle, the squad captured 14 fascists and destroyed up to 30 fascists. This feat was noted by the command, and Fyodor Mitrofanovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree. In this battle he was wounded. After being wounded in December 1944, he was already in the ranks of the 86th Infantry Regiment of the 330th Infantry Division. The regiment was sent to the 2nd Belorussian Front, where Belarus was liberated in prolonged heavy battles. In March 1945, he was wounded for the second time. After being wounded, he continued to serve in the 326th rifle division of the 1097th rifle regiment. He met the victory at Keniksberg. Then he served in the 9-0th company of the ATP as the head of the repair section in the regimental army bakery. Demobilized on 03.03.1947. At home in the city of Saki, he worked at a chemical plant. In recent years, he worked in the Evpatoria SMU resorts as a plasterer. Fyodor Mitrofanovich lived a difficult and short life. He died in 1968, 1 month before his 45th birthday.

On April 26, 1942, he was drafted into the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army by the Plesetsk District Military Commissariat of the Arkhangelsk Region of the Plesetsk District to serve as a senior sergeant in the 38th Guards Tank Regiment on a T-34 tank as a radio operator - gunner. Volkhov front from June 1942 to March 1943. 3rd Ukrainian Front from September 1943 to December 1943. 4th Ukrainian Front from December 1943 to February 1944. On October 17, 1943, in battles with the enemy in the vicinity of the farm Bezymianny field camp, in the rank of radio operator-gunner of the T-34 tank of the 1st platoon commander, he ensured the execution of a combat order - he destroyed 20 Nazis from his machine gun. On October 27, 1943, on behalf of the President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, on behalf of the President of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded the medal “For Courage” for the exemplary performance of military missions of the command on the front against the German invaders and for the “valor and courage” shown at the same time. Signature: Commander of the 38th Guards Tank Regiment, Guards Major - Konstantinov Chief of Staff of the 38th Guards Tank Regiment - Spirin. Then, in the rank of junior lieutenant of the guard, as the commander of the self-propelled unit -SU-76 498 of a separate self-propelled artillery division, working on this machine with the crossing of the State border in difficult conditions: in a mountain-wooded-swampy area in a combat situation, he made a march without a single breakdown and accident ... In a battle during an attack by a sabotage group with a battalion in the middle of an ambush patrol with the rank of junior lieutenant, he organized an all-round defense by his crew members and at night on August 21, 1945 fired to destroy the enemy. Making a march in difficult conditions, driving a car in a guide column under fire, clearing its path from enemy mines, without delaying the advance of the column, timely completed the assigned task and arrived at the appointed area at the appointed time - by doing this he made reconnaissance of the path: at the same time he showed himself courageous , decisive and resourceful. For such a feat, by order of August 29, 1945, the 159th Vitebsk Infantry Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division on behalf of the President of the USSR Supreme Soviet for exemplary fulfillment of command assignments on the front of the struggle against the Japanese imperialists and the valor and courage shown at the same time to be awarded the Order of the Red Star. Signed: Commander of the 159th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division, Major General Kalinin. Porshneva Alexandra Nikolaevna: “I believe that my uncle“ Hero ”, after all, he was a very young boy at that time, however, he was brave, decisive, resourceful in the fight against the enemy, he defended all of us from enemies, he is a real defender of our Motherland ! "

Rank: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 107th Infantry Division (1st formation) Nationality - Circassian, education of 7 classes. Graduated from the "School of Communist Youth" in 1935. At the beginning of World War II, on July 1, 1941, he was mobilized by the Circassian District Military Commissariat of the Circassian Autonomous Region in the 150th Cavalry Regiment of the 38th Separate Cavalry Division, which participated in fierce battles in the area of Styla, Stalin, Rudnik, Chukovsky, Khartsyzsk, Zugress, Skosyrskaya, Angry, Loose, Stalin's (Donetsk) region. In the battles for the city Zugres was wounded and on October 27, 1941 he was sent to the hospital. In May 1942, the 38th Cavalry Division was killed in encirclement, the remaining units of the division were disbanded on July 15, 1942, and at the same time he was enlisted as a mortarman in the 516th Infantry Regiment of the 107th Infantry Division, which took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. In 1943, the 516th rifle regiment as part of the 107th rifle division took part in fierce battles for the liberation of the Voronezh region: Ostrogozhsk, Uryv, Oryol, Devetsa, Korotoyak, Berezovo, Kolpino, Ternovka, Guborevka, Veretie. On July 15, 1943, the 516th rifle regiment, defending the lines against the breakthrough of the enemy's tank in the city of Korocha, Belgorod region, repelling two attacks of enemy tanks and going over to counter-offensives liberated the settlements: Kazachye, B. Olshanets, Znamenka. During fierce battles on July 22, 1943 in the village of Znamenka, he was seriously wounded and taken to a hospital in the city of Voronezh, where he underwent treatment until November 1943. After a long treatment in the hospital, by the decision of the commission, he was commissioned as fit for non-combatant service, according to article 44, by order of the NCO No. 33-42 of November 21, 43 and returned to his native village. He married Bzhunaeva Kula Ilyasovna, they raised 4 sons and 2 daughters. The Soviet command highly appreciated the military merits of Khadzhibekir Tsuovich and he has military awards: "For courage", "For the defense of Stalingrad", "For victory over Germany." From 1944 to 1947 he worked as chairman of the Besleneevsky village council. From 1947 to 1957 he was the chairman of the Kaganovich collective farm. From 1957 to 1962 he was the head of the economic department of the state farm "Besleneevsky". From 1962 to 1967 he was the head of the pedigree animal base of the Besleneevsky state farm. He retired in 1967. After a long illness due to wounds received in battles, he died at the age of 61.

Fyodor Dmitrievich Glukhov was born in 1906. At the end of September 1943, the troops of the Steppe Front began to reach the Dnieper. In all units, a collection of improvised ferry means along the Vorskla and Orel rivers was organized in advance. On carts and cars moving towards the Dnieper, one could see empty barrels, old boats, logs, boards, boxes of nails, ropes and even doors from destroyed houses. A small fishing boat was carried on a cart by the commander of the machine-gun crew, Fedor Glukhov. He bought it in the village of Kobelyaki in the Poltava region. The old owner said then: "Take my boat, sonny, it will come in handy. And for now I can do without it. Just drive the damned fiends out of our Ukrainian land as quickly as possible." Glukhov gave the peasant a trophy horse. The regiment reached the Dnieper at the end of the day on September 29. The large village of Derievka was visible across the river. Our scouts managed to visit this village last night and collect detailed information about the enemy's defense. The command decided to start the crossing. Glukhov was the party organizer of the machine-gun company. In the evening, when they received the order to force, he gathered the communists. The conversation was short. The Party organizer said that the battalion was being crossed first, that at first there would be no tanks and divisional artillery on the bridgehead, so the main burden when repelling enemy counterattacks would fall on the machine gunners. He called on the communists to set an example in battle, to explain to the soldiers the enormous importance of the task ahead. An hour and a half before dawn, the companies began to cross the Dnieper. Enemy artillery intensively shelled the left bank and the mirror of the river, but the battalion crossed almost without losses and attacked the enemy on the move. Glukhov advanced to the coastal height, destroyed the enemy machine gun with hand grenades and installed his "maxim" in its place. The Nazis, in the roar of the battle, did not yet know about this and moved in the rear of their positions without any precautions. From the height of Glukhov, all this was clearly visible, and he began to shoot in long bursts along the trenches in which the Nazis had accumulated. The fire was devastating. The Nazis, having lost more than 60 of their soldiers and officers, could not withstand the lead downpour from the flank and the onslaught of rifle companies from the front and began to retreat to the village. Glukhov continued to mow down the fleeing enemies with fire. Soon the first three trenches were seized. There was a short pause. Now that dawn had dawned, the Germans understood the situation and launched counterattacks, which, with short breaks, continued for many days in a row. They were especially fierce on 6 October. In the sector of a battalion that had thinned out in battles, the enemy threw 23 tanks with machine gunners into battle. Cutting off the infantry from the tanks, Glukhov exterminated two platoons of machine gunners from his machine gun. After repelling the onslaught of the enemy, the battalion launched an attack and captured the tactically important height 122.7. In the battles for the height, Glukhov destroyed an armored vehicle and three machine guns. In this battle, the brave guardsman was killed. Glukhov F.D. died on October 6, 1943.

Rank: Colonel. Type of troops: aviation. Division: 13th Bomber Aviation Division. The career soldier Ivan Fedorovich Gorokhov began the war on June 22 in Bobruisk. He headed the engineering service of the 13th Bomber Aviation Division, which was part of the Air Force of the Western Special Military District, which was the main target of the Germans. From the commander's recollections: "On the first day of the war, the Germans flew into the airfield three times. A big war began, and so it was unfortunate for us. On the very first day we lost dozens of bombers so absurdly. . They were supposed to be driven further, but for some reason they were detained. They stood on the outskirts of the airfield so as not to interfere with the flights. In the commotion we forgot about them and remembered only now. After all, there are about thirty of them. All new. Taxi and take off. And then I caught myself thinking: who should taxi? After all, neither I nor other pilots are familiar with this machine. " It turned out that the only person who knew how to fly the Pe-2 was I.F.Gorokhov. He was instructed to select the most experienced pilots and navigators and begin to master this machine with them. The study of the new aircraft took place under frequent enemy bombing. Enemy bombers will appear - pilots and navigators will immediately run for cover. The danger has passed - back. And yet, more than 20 aircraft were saved by June 27. On June 28, 1941, Bobruisk was commissioned. The retreat began. After the night crossing, the headquarters stopped near a small village in the forest. Several liaison aircraft landed in a clearing nearby. Ivan Fedorovich was instructed to personally check whether they forgot to evacuate in a hurry from the nearest airfields. And along the way to see on which roads and in which direction the tankers are moving. He took an engineer with him. They sat down in a triple Po-2 and went up into the sky. From the story of Ivan Fedorovich: "Somewhere over the Bryansk forests, a Me-110 attacked a small plane. The Nazis then snooped in all directions, haunted us day or night. Our pilot turned the plane abruptly and left the chase into the clouds. -that time he descended and landed in a forest clearing. I and the engineer helped the pilot hide the car under the crowns of trees. Twenty minutes passed. The German did not appear in the sky. Then Po-2 took off again, and (it must happen) emerged from the clouds The same Me-110. Having dived, he went into the tail of our plane and slashed at it with a long burst of machine-gun. The plane burst into flames. The pilot sent the car down and landed on the first landing site. I don't remember whether I was thrown out of the cockpit when I hit the ground, or, having gathered strength, he fell out himself. I only feel that I am burning. I started rolling on the grass to knock down the flames. I see the engineer running, blazing like a fire, and screaming wildly. He was apparently doused with gasoline. I confess: it was scary to look at this one is alive th torch. So he tripped over something, fell and froze. Burned out alive. Burned out, not having time to jump out of the cockpit, and the pilot. Consciousness left me. I woke up in the carriage. It turns out that someone, who was burned, picked me up, took me to the nearest station and put me on a passing ambulance train. "The division commander found a badly burned Ivan Fedorovich in Tambov, in a hospital. there, many months later, he got to his feet and continued his service.

The branch of the military is a military medical staff. The military unit is the 185th Infantry Pankratov-Prague Order of the Suvorov Division. Our mother and grandmother, Rufina Ivanovna Georgievskaya, was born on December 3, 1922. As an 18-year-old girl, she was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the 185th Infantry Division, the 155th Separate Medical and Sanitary Battalion (155 OMB). She was the senior operating nurse. From her memoirs about the war: “I had to experience a lot on the roads of war - retreats that hurt the soul, encirclements, long bloody battles. Medical workers were close to death all the time. I had to work in difficult field conditions. The medical battalion continuously followed the advancing troops and was constantly exposed to air and artillery attacks. We were stationed 3-7 km from the forward edge. The operating room had to be deployed in tents, dugouts, in ruined rooms, under continuous shelling and bombing. For 4-5 days without sleep or rest, under the illumination of kerosene lamps, they performed the most complex intracavitary operations to wounded soldiers and commanders. The struggle for life did not stop for an hour. From fatigue and sleepless nights, eyes were sticking together, legs poured like a leaden weight, then we broke ampoules with caffeine, drank it, and fatigue and sleep left us for a while. The battles were heavy, sometimes they had to hold the defense with a machine gun in their hands. " During the war, my grandmother donated about five liters of blood. The flow of the wounded was huge, especially near Moscow, in the Karacharovo region, where grandmother Rufa received her first baptism of fire. On March 9, 1943, she was seriously wounded near Smolensk. After treatment, she returned to her unit, where she was before demobilization. My grandmother said that she remembered the Berlin offensive operation on April 16, 1945 for the rest of her life ... “Early in the morning before dawn, a glow came from the volleys of 42,000 guns and mortars. They announced the beginning of the Berlin operation. The earth was buzzing with the rumble of guns. " Many of her comrades died before they reached Victory. Among them was the commander of the medical battalion Lev Davidovich Krupnikov. “He was a good commander, a wonderful doctor and comrade. He died one day before the Victory ... ”Rufina Ivanovna was demobilized from the army on March 22, 1946.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. My grandfather - Makar Evmenovich Goncharenko - died in 1943. He was left with a widow - my grandmother Martha Afanasyevna - and three very young sons (two more died in childhood). Neither my father, born in 1939, nor his younger brother, who was born shortly before the war, remembered his father. In memory of my grandfather, only a few front-line photographs and a couple of letters - "triangles", densely blotted out by the censor, have survived. But after the death of my grandmother, these letters were also lost. According to the family legend, my grandfather had front-line awards, but we, grandchildren, did not see them. During the war years, my grandmother had to travel with small children around the country, it seems that they disappeared during these journeys. And my uncle Fedya, at that time a boy of about ten, burned the “death notice” for my grandfather in the stove. “I didn't understand what I was doing,” Fyodor Makarovich laments now. - I only noticed that the mother, as she reads this piece of paper, so then everything cries and fills, and decided to destroy it so that she would not cry anymore ... "In general, we, his grandchildren, knew very little about grandfather, but, of course, we wanted to know more. Father and uncle sent inquiries to the military archive, but received no response. Quite by accident, I stumbled across the Internet on a publicly available electronic document bank "People's feat". On this resource, the Russian Ministry of Defense posted documents on the progress and results of the main military operations, exploits and awards of all soldiers of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The sources of information are the funds of the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (CA MO). I learned that on this resource there is an opportunity to find information on almost every front-line soldier who was awarded during the Great Patriotic War. I typed the name and surname of my deceased grandfather - and found it! In May 1942 he was awarded the Medal of Courage. It turned out that he was a platoon commander in the famous Panfilov division and participated in the battles for the village of Koblyaki near the town of Kholm (now the Novgorod region). It was embarrassing, however, that in the award list the patronymic of the grandfather - Yumeleevich was incorrectly listed. Apparently, the military office got it wrong by writing down the rare patronymic Evmenovich by ear. All other data coincided completely - the year of birth, and the place, and the time of the call, and the rank of sergeant. Here is what was written on the site: “In the battles for Koblyaki, the platoon of com. Goncharenko M.Yu. in 15 people repeatedly repulsed enemy attacks, went ahead during offensive operations as part of a company. In these battles, a platoon of comrade. Goncharenko killed up to 120 fascists. With fire from his machine gun and grenades, he personally destroyed 29 enemy soldiers and officers. " To say that our family was delighted to find this record is to say nothing. The stingy lines of the description of the feat for which the grandfather was presented for the award excited each of his grandsons and great-grandsons. As if through the thickness of decades such a long-awaited hello came to us from him! After all, we knew practically nothing about my grandfather: where and how he fought, how he died. And from the lines in the order, describing only one of the stages of his front-line biography, it follows that our grandfather is a brave and brave warrior who did not hide behind the backs of fellow soldiers in battle, and we have the right to be proud of him. Now this record is stored in our family archive, and we do not give up hope of getting more complete information about the feat of arms of Makar Evmenovich.

Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, troops People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, border troops Subdivision: 107th Guards Rifle May Day Red Banner Order of Suvorov.Called into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in June 1944. From June 1944 to September 1944, the 39th reserve rifle division, the 119th reserve rifle regiment, was trained in the Omsk region. From September 1944 to February 1945 - 8th Guards Airborne Pervomaiskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd degree division. 25 airborne rifle brigade, 82 mm mortar gun. The division was in the city of Kirzhach, Vladimir region, in constant combat readiness as an airborne assault on the territory of East Prussia in the Konigsberg region. However, on December 27, 1944, by the decision of the State Defense Committee, the division was reorganized into the 107th Guards Rifle Division, and the 25th brigade - into the 348th Guards Rifle Regiment. The 107th Guards Rifle Division became part of the 39th Guards Rifle Corps, the 9th Guards Army. The combat period from February 21, 1945 to May 11, 1945, the 107th Guards Rifle Division fought in Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia. Participated in the Vienna and Prague offensive operations. Guzhikhin A.V. Awarded: Order of Glory, 3rd degree, Medal "For Courage", Medal "For the capture of Vienna", Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". Gratitude is declared: for the capture of the city of Keseg, Sharvar, Devecher, Papa. After the end of hostilities, the division was redeployed to Hungary, where it was until June 1946. Then it was transferred to the Ukraine in Bila Tserkva. They served at a military base in Poltava. Service Guzhikhin A.V. lasted until January 13, 1948. In the post-war period, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, jubilee medals to commemorate the Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. Guzhikhin A.V. For 26 years he worked as a forester in the Parabel forestry enterprise of the Tomsk region. For his conscientious attitude to work, he was awarded: the Veteran of Labor medal, the badge “For long-term and impeccable service in the state forest guard of the USSR”, the badge “XX years of service in the state forest guard of the USSR”. Guzhikhin A.V. died at the age of 79 in 2004 in the village of Zavodskoy, Parabelsky District, Tomsk Region.

Rank: Red Army. My great-grandfather is Dmitry Ivanovich Gorbunov, born on 02.04.1902, a native of the village of Okatovo, Nikologorsky (now Vyaznikovsky) district of the Vladimir region. On August 29, 1941, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, fought on the Southern Front, took part in the Kharkov operation in May 1942, and disappeared without a trace in 1942. For many years, our family did not know anything about his fate, but we believed and hoped that he would definitely be found. Last year, on May 9, in TsAMO, we finally found our great-grandfather, grandfather and father and learned about his difficult fate. My grandmother saw her dad again, whom she had not seen for 75 years, from the very minute he went to the front ... she was then only 4 years old. This photo from a German concentration camp is his only photo. Here's what we learned: in May 1942, during the battle for Kharkov, our troops went over to the offensive, but after the counter-offensive of the Wehrmacht troops by May 23, a significant part of the troops of the Red Army's shock group was surrounded in the Merefa-Lozovaya-Balakleya triangle. Two days later, the encircled units launched incessant mass infantry attacks eastward to break out of the encirclement. They suffered heavy losses, but could not escape. Attempts to break through the encirclement from the east continued until May 30. It was not possible to break through the German defenses, either from the inside or from the outside. Only every tenth of those surrounded could escape from the “Barvenkovo trap”. Soviet losses amounted to more than a quarter of a million people. My great-grandfather was captured on May 24, 1942. On May 4, 1944, he died in the German camp for Soviet prisoners of war Stalag VI K (326), never waiting for Victory. He was buried in a mass grave in the same camp in Bergen-Belsen. He left a wife and four children: Elizaveta, Yegor, Sergei and Nina - my grandmother (the elder Yegor was then also called to the front). When she was told that her dad was found, finally found !!! Granny cried, looked at the photo and cried, because she had not seen her father for 75 years! And now she herself is already a gray-haired old woman, she looks at an old photo taken in the camp by her father's tormentors (someone's ruthless indifferent hand in a German uniform holds a plate with flip-flops, and on it his camp number ...) and now we see in front of us is not an old woman ... not a grandmother ... but that four-year-old girl with blond curls, who, like millions of Soviet children, the war took the most precious thing: dad, and with him a happy carefree childhood ... # ImmortalPolkVladimirskaya

Corporal. Armored and mechanized troops. The 1941-1945 war entered people's hearts with fire. For 6 long years my father, Gryaznov Alexander Semenovich, Guard corporal of the 8th, and then the 3rd separate Guards motorcycle Galatian order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, II degree of the regiment, was a soldier. My father Gryaznov Alexander Semenovich is a participant of the Great Patriotic War, from its very first days. In 1940 he was called up to serve in the Red Army. The regiment on June 21, 1941 arrived from the Trans-Baikal District to the territory of the western border district of Ukraine, to the area of Berdichev, near Shepetovka. On the night of June 21-22, my father stood guard on the watchtower. At 4 o'clock the bombing began. On June 28, the regiment took the first battle in the Slavuta area, then the regiment was transferred to Orsha, then to Smolensk. During the Smolensk operation, for the first time in the history of World War II, the soldiers of the Red Army forced the German troops to go on the defensive. And here is what my father told about the Solovievskaya crossing: “they crossed at night, as best they could, and by swimming and on rafts - people, equipment, horses. The Germans fiercely bombed and fired; the crossing did not stop under this heavy fire. And in the river there was not water, all blood - people, horses. The shells were bursting overhead, and in order to escape and cross, one had to swim under this bloody water, next to the dead bodies of comrades. The breakthrough was carried out in early August, the regiment, leaving the encirclement (about 300 motorcyclists), destroyed a whole German landing near the village of Solovyovo. The regiment was badly damaged and surrounded. He personally saved the commander P.A. Belik. and brought him out of the environment. After heavy, fierce battles, the regiment was transferred to the Kalinin Front, then to Moscow. In the Defensive Battles for Moscow, the regiment fought to the death, went hand-to-hand. The Germans were not allowed, they blew up bridges, mined them. When they stood firmly on the Moscow-Minsk highway, the Germans bypassed it from one side or the other, and they already found themselves in the German rear, at night they had to leave this German rear again to their troops. Further Voronezh front, Stalingrad. The regiment became famous during the operation to defeat the German troops behind enemy lines at Stalingrad. My father said that they moved only at night, in unfamiliar terrain, off-road, almost by touch. For this operation, the regiment received the rank of the 3rd separate Guards motorcycle regiment. The order was signed by Stalin. He spent almost the entire war on the front line, in motor reconnaissance. I went first to many cities and villages, because first they went - motor reconnaissance, then the main parts. For two war winters, he never slept indoors. He was wounded several times, contused, shrapnel came out of his wounds after the war, but he did not have a single certificate from hospitals about the wound. He did not take them, ran away, caught up with his part. I know that during the war he possessed courage and heroism. He was called Sashka Chkalov in the regiment. Here is one of his stories about front-line friendship. Once they went deep into the rear of the enemy in complete isolation from the main units. They faced the Germans, there was a short battle, as a result of which the scouts had to retreat, but his friend Ivan Shershavin was captured. Then my father, and with him the submachine gunner, turned the motorcycle, with a firm decision to beat off his friend. The Germans had already taken Shershavin to the commandant's office, and they did not expect that one Russian motorcyclist with a submachine gunner would perform such actions. At a speed, he drove up and shouted: "Roly, jump." Ivan jumped into the carriage. They shot back, my father was wounded, but he saved a friend. They both celebrated Victory Day! After the decisive battles at Stalingrad, the 3rd Motorcycle Regiment, consisting of the Stalingrad, Steppe, Voronezh and 3rd Ukrainian Front, moved westward. Participated in the liberation of cities: Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Nikolaev; countries: Romania (Galati, Brailov. Izmail, Bucharest); Bulgaria (Shumen, Yambul, Sofia); Yugoslavia (Belgrade); Hungary (Budapest); Austria (Vienna) and many other small towns and villages, stations and farms. There were very heavy battles in Ukraine and Moldova. My father said that the regiment crossed the Dniester on the march, where it met organized resistance from the enemy. The exploding shells were as bright as day. And he accidentally survived this crossing. By order of Stalin dated 09.09.1944, the regiment, which distinguished itself in battles with the German invaders, was given the name "Galatsky" for the capture of the city of Galati. Military awards include the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Order of the Patriotic War II degree in 1985. Although my father's name was not known during the Great Patriotic War, but like any unknown warrior, he made his invaluable contribution to the cause of our Great Victory!

Rank: Junior Lieutenant Type of Troops: Aviation Subdivision: 42nd Long-Range Bomber Aviation Division Since 1941, our family has been trying to find out the fate of a son, brother ... Then it moved on to more distant relatives, I am the third generation and Vadim is my uncle, older father’s brother. There were many versions, many rumors, how many did not write and where: either unsubscribe, or simply there were no answers ... But every year it is more and more difficult to search ... Living witnesses of that stormy era are leaving and every year there are fewer and fewer of them. I was haunted by obscurity, my grandmother, his mother, bequeathed to know his fate. For more than 30 years I have been searching and now, finally, through the efforts of many strangers to me (thanks to the Internet!), Some of them under nicknames, I managed to put together, like a puzzle, that now distant thunderstorm July of 1941. True, the date of death differs: June 24, June 30, July 3, July 24 (in the death notice) "black" letter I am leaning closer to the recollections of the direct participant in that battle, Bogdanov N.G. - the commander of the crew, where Vadim flew .... On June 28, the commander of the 212 DABP 42 BAD, Colonel Golovanov, received an urgent radiogram, after reading it he said: "-Guderian's tank formations broke through to Bobruisk, captured it and began to cross the Berezina. “An hour later, ten links — thirty vehicles — took to the air and headed west, to the area of the city of Bobruisk, to bombard enemy tank and mechanized troops and across the Berezina. Several single aircraft flew off for reconnaissance. At Bobruisk and on the crossings, the enemy put up strong resistance. In the evening, following the last planes that returned to the airfield, a powerful thunderstorm swept from the west, and a downpour continued throughout the night. The airfield became limp and completely unusable. Therefore, on June 29, they did not fly on the mission. The day of June 30 was again a day of heavy losses for us - 11 aircraft, a big loss for one regiment. The planes of the squadron commander-1, Major Pochinok, did not return, Senior Lieutenant Yanitsky, Lieutenants Ishchenko, Chumachenko, Antonov, Klebanov, Osipov, Kovalchuk. Under anti-aircraft fire, the crews of I. Belokobylsky and the squadron commander-4 V. Vdovin were killed. By July 3, two out of 10 crews remained in our squadron. On that day, Yakov Mikheev and I were ordered to strike at the columns of an enemy tank formation that had broken through from Bobruisk to Rogachev. Beginning Headquarters Major Bogdanov told us directly that it depends only on us whether or not German tanks will break through to the Dnieper today. If they break through, they will seize a bridgehead on its right bank, and our troops have not yet managed to organize a defense there. And he promised that the fighters would cover us. My crew included navigator Junior Lieutenant Boris Khomchanovsky, radio operator Jr. Sergeant Alexander Zhuravsky and technician Junior Military technician (junior lieutenant) Vadim Grigoriev, who flew as a shooter at his own tail machine gun. Young, black-eyed, with a shock of black hair, of medium height, Grigoriev was mobile and energetic. He knew the aircraft and engines very well and prepared them for flight with exceptional conscientiousness. For all the time of our service with him, we did not have a single refusal of materiel in flight. When we were allowed to install a machine gun in the tail section, he was the first in the regiment to do so and did not yield to anyone the honor of flying as a shooter in his car. He has already made three sorties ... We, long-range bombers, had to strike targets thousands of kilometers away from each other in one day. All the events of the outbreak of war in our minds united into one whole - a monstrous fiery tornado rolling from west to east of our country and leaving behind burnt, smoking cities, huge black spots of burnt fields ... We were ready to spare no life to complete any task - just to stop the hated enemy .... Since our forces were small - only two planes, Mikheev and I decided that we needed to stay above the target as long as possible and hit it more accurately, and for this, each time we approached the target, we should drop only one bomb ... It was decided to start bombing from the head of the column in order to create traffic jams on the highway and beat the enemy for sure. After takeoff Mikheyev joined me on the right. In a dense formation of the pair, we unexpectedly appeared above a tank column, which was 10 km from Rogachev. At a slight angle to the highway from a height of 1200 meters, we dropped the first two bombs on the head of the convoy. Well done Khomchanovsky! The bombs hit the target accurately. And when we make another call, we can clearly see the burning tanks, which we use as reference points. So 30 minutes of the battle passes. We already believed that we had won this battle and the combat task was solved: burning tanks and vehicles blocked the highway tightly, when two pairs of Me-109 rushed at us from above. You cannot turn off the combat course, I continue to withstand the car strictly in a straight line ... The plane is shaking from long bursts of machine-gun ... The first attack of the Messers is repulsed. The last bombs have been dropped, we must leave.As if understanding my thoughts, Mikheev literally pressed his car to mine. The Messers, divided into two groups, attack us from different directions. We maneuver, covering each other with fire. One of the "messers" ran into the fiery tracks of Grigoriev and Zhuravsky, flared up and began to fall. But in the next attack, the Messerschmitts lit the plane of Yakov Mikheev, he went down in a gentle dive. We were left alone against three Me-109s. I constantly maneuvered, trying to put the car in a position convenient for the shooters ... Our machine guns fell silent. Zhuravsky and Grigoriev were killed. Realizing that they would not be rebuffed, the Germans, coming up close, began to shoot us point-blank. A lead shower hit our car. Khomchanovsky was killed, the entire dashboard was smashed, the canopy of my cockpit was riddled, and the pungent smell of sulfur from incendiary bullets and shells was choking. But the plane lives on ... One of the Germans is closely attached to my car on the right and threatens me with his fist, I see his gloating laughing face. From anger and powerlessness, my eyes darkened, I abruptly banked the plane and threw it at the enemy. But he dived under me, went into the tail and, from a minimum distance, unloaded the cannon into a completely defenseless plane in a long burst. The plane burst into flames, tongues of flame flowed into the cockpit in streams, and a moment later, disobedient and already uncontrollable, it rolled over and began to fall .... After a sharp jolt when opening the parachute, I felt a burning pain in my right leg and then realized that I was wounded. alternately swept over me, firing machine guns. Fortunately for me, a couple of formidable Il-2s appeared over the tank column, the "messers" threw me and rushed to attack them ... That was the last battle in Vadim's life ... In August 1941 he would have turned 21 ... So , Grigoriev Vadim Vasilievich, born August 1920, after graduating from a flight school in Volsk, Saratov region in 1940, served in the 212nd long-range bomber aviation regiment of the 42nd Bomber Aviation Division, during 10 days of the war he had 3 combat sorties and one shot down Me -109. Killed in aerial combat on 03 July 1941, buried in the village. Lenino, Sychkovsky village, Bobruisk district, Mogilev region, burial No. 3191. Unfortunately, only 68 years later, his fate finally became known. And in this I was helped by distant, unfamiliar people who took my pain, my memory to heart ... A deep bow to them. Eternal memory to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Rank: Lieutenant General. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 184th Infantry Dukhovshchinskaya Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. From an autobiography (dated June 13, 1947): Born in the farm Mokraya Elmut, Proletarsky district of Rostov region. Father died in 1924, mother in 1927. Ex-brothers and sisters, 5 older than me and 5 younger than me, all died at different times. After the death of his father, he was dependent on Oka Ivanovich Gorodovikov's uncle, with his assistance and assistance he continued his studies at the age of nine until 1927, in the village of Proletarskaya. In 1924 he joined the pioneers, in 1925 - the Komsomol, in 1927, according to the regional committee of the Komsomol, after graduating from the 8th group of nine years, he was sent to the city of Krasnodar to the North Caucasian Mountain Nationalities Cavalry School. He graduated from school on April 30, 1930. In view of the fact that he graduated from school in the top ten, who had the right to choose a place of service, he was appointed to his stanitsa Proletarskaya as platoon commander of the 76th Cavalry Regiment of the 12th Cavalry Division. In June of the same year, he was transferred to the 30th Saratov Red Banner Cavalry Regiment of the 5th Blinovskaya Cavalry Division, where until the fall of 1931 he was a platoon commander and a regimental school, in the fall of 1931 in the same regiment, located in the city of Novocherkassk, he was appointed commander Cavalry squadron. In May 1932, the division was transferred to the city of Zhitomir, where he stayed in this division and in his previous position until May 1935. In May 1935, having successfully passed the exams, he was admitted to the Frunze Military Academy. After graduating from the Frunze Academy in 1938, he was appointed commander of the 115th Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division in the city of Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Territory. In 1940, from this position, by special recruitment, he was sent to study at the Air Force Academy in the city of Monino at the Faculty of Operations, where the students of this faculty were preparing for the position of the newly organized air divisions. In April 1941, as part of the entire faculty, he was sent to the Serpukhov Aviation School, which he graduated in June of the same year, with the title of pilot with aerobatics. With the declaration of war, in view of the fact that they did not manage to deploy the air division, he was summoned to Marshal Comrade Voroshilov and appointed to the newly formed separate 48th Cavalry Division as commander of the 71st Cavalry Regiment in the Poltava region. After the formation, the division was transferred to the Crimea, where it participated in battles from October 1941 in the Ishun positions and defended its sector until the enemy, by roundabout actions and landing, took Semfiropol and Feodosia. Attempts to break through to Kerch, and then to Sevastopol, were unsuccessful, eventually breaking through into the Crimean mountains. On the night of November 7, 1941, the Divisional Commander instructed me to lead the column, he himself with a group of fighters, without telling anyone, went through the mountains in the Sevastopol direction. With the division commissar, regimental commissar comrade Popov, and the division chief of staff, colonel comrade Lobovoy, the remnants of the division were withdrawn to the Crimean partisans, where he took command of the Red Army partisan detachment, and subsequently commanded the first partisan region of the partisan movement of Crimea. During the period of partisan actions, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and was awarded the next rank of Colonel. On June 15, 1942, he was evacuated from the position of commander of the partisan region for health reasons by plane on the orders of the Commander of the Crimean Front. After vacation on August 3, 1942, he was appointed deputy commander of the 251st Infantry Division for combat units. On August 8, 1942, after being removed from office as a division commander, he was appointed commander of the same division of the 20th Army of the Western Front. In June 1943, he was appointed Commander of the 85th Guards Rifle Division of the 10th Guards Army. In July 1944 he was transferred from the 2nd Baltic Front from the post of commander of the 85th Guards specialist subunit for the position of commander of the 184th Rifle division of the 5th Army of the Western Front, where he participated in the Vitebsk breakthrough until the end of the campaign in East Prussia. In April 1945, as part of the 5th Army, he was transferred with his division to the Far East to the Primorsky Front. In May 1945, he was appointed commander of the 63rd Rifle division, intended for operations in the main direction, and with this division reached the city of Jirin (Manchuria). In September 1945, from the city of Girin, he was recalled to study in the city of Moscow at the Higher Attestation Commission of the Voroshilov Academy, from which he graduated on January 25, 1946. During the Patriotic War, he was wounded once seriously, four times lightly. On April 25, 1946, he was appointed commander of the 12th Guards Mechanized infantry. Member of the CPSU (b) since October 1939. I have no party penalties. I have no convictions and no convictions, as well as through my relatives and relatives of my wife. I was abroad only with troops. In the occupied territory, my closest relatives and my wife were not, and they were never deprived of voting rights. I have never been in captivity. I have not been to other parties and oppositions.I have no relatives abroad or through my wife. He was married once, was married in 1938 in the city of Moscow, had no other marriages. Family composition: wife Nona Sanji-Gariaevna Gorodovikova, born in 1917 from a family of workers of a fish factory of the village Kanukovo, Astrakhan region; daughter Zoya Basanovna Gorodovikova, born in 1937; daughter Omlta Basanovna Gorodovikova, born in 1939; daughter Bova Basanovna Gorodovikova, born in 1941; son Basan Basanovich Gorodovikov, born in 1945. From 1978 he lived in Moscow, where he died on August 17, 1983. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

Grishin Konstantin Vasilyevich was born in 1904, in the village of Kruglovo, Mukhtolovsky district, Gorky region. Was drafted into the army on 08/30/1941 by the Ardatovskiy Military Commissariat, Gorky region. Type of troops: Engineering troops. In April 1942 my grandmother received a notice that her husband, K.V. Grishin missing. In the Book of Memory of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the date of retirement is fixed - 02/20/1942. As it turned out, our grandfather did not die in 1942. In the archival data of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (TsAMO archive), we found an order for the troops of the 31st Army No. 049 dated April 15, 1944 on awarding the Red Army soldier K.V. Grishin. Order of the Patriotic War II degree. My grandfather, a sapper, was awarded for mining in December 1943 in the Dobromysl region (Baranovichi, Vitebsk region, Belarus). The award list of March 16, 1944 was signed by the Commander of the 113th OIMB (separate motorized engineering battalion) Liman. This order also states that K.V. Grishin was wounded three times - in December 1941, in February 1942, and in August 1942. Information about military unit 113 OIMB (in which my grandfather served) - the honorary name "Stanislavsky", since 06/30/1943 the battalion was part of the 6th IRFS. The Engineering Battalion was part of the 31st Army (July 15, 1941 - May 11, 1945). The 31st Army was created in the Moscow region, for the Ostashkovo-Selizharovo-Rzhev line. In December 1941 she took part in the battles for the city of Kalinin. January 1942 - Lotoshino, Rzhev. Since July 1942, the army became part of the Western Front. November-December 1942 - Operation Mars (Second Rzhev-Sychevskaya operation). 1943 - Smolensk and Rzhev-Vyazemskaya operations. Exit to the Dnieper, on March 20, 1943, the army crossed the river. 1944 - Vitebsk operation as part of the 3rd Belarusian Front. In August 1944, 31st Army reached the border with East Prussia - Operation Bagration. In March 1945, a military echelon passed through the Mukhtolovo railway station (where our grandmother lived). During the parking, the grandmother was found by a colleague of her grandfather, who told her that Grishin Konstantin Vasilyevich had died during mine clearing in the Kursk region.

HOW MANY WAYS I WALKED (according to the stories of my grandfather about the war) How hard are the memories of the war, when you went through it yourself - doubly. It was left to "our brother then", I would never wish the enemy! The battles went on, we had to retreat, How hard to admit defeat . There was a bloody battle near the Smolensk region. I am telling the story that happened with me. Volleys rang out, planes howl. I woke up: wounded, I feel: alive! Two frits are standing over me, And a machine gun is pointed at me. "Hen de hoch!" - well, come on. Well, I think, "dear goodbye!" So I was taken prisoner by the Germans, We were in the freight train, like from logs, they stuffed us, it’s better to carry cattle. Belly grumbled from hunger, Fever, chills ! It would be better to go straight to the coffin! And the wound aches, and blood oozes, I am apparently saved by love. Soldiers die almost every hour. For some reason the Lord saved me! I propose to run from the train, It is better to die for victory. In the floor we opened two boards, And on the move made jumps. We strayed for a long time, there was a Belgian forest, We were dragging Sashka forward. Where we were going, we did not understand, But our strength began to dry out. We fell asleep at night in that wilderness, Around the swamp, not a soul. Wild wolves heard a howl. A tear from my eyes that I’m alive! I woke up in the morning from a kick, And a Fritz had a foot in his boot, And the muzzle of a machine gun again, My eyes flooded with my blood. Again dogs, captivity, beatings, Above unarmed - heroes! I have no strength to watch all this, I managed to turn gray at thirty. Again escape, again forests, Instead of water there was dew. Chestnuts ate - the Lord gave! Chilly cold, gushing rain. So I got to the partisans, I fought in the Belgian forests. And how I wanted to go to my friends, I was sure that They blew up the rails, trains, put obstacles to fascism. Detachment "for the Motherland". At that time, the Germans were already giving a fight! Hurray! Victory! Screams! Screams! And joyful faces in a smile! It's time to go home! A family is waiting there, But I can't go there yet. Filters, long checks, Then to the Gulag and the camps. I'm a former prisoner, that's fate! But I have only one homeland! Relatives received a funeral, Before the images they asked for me, I went my front line, I used to look at my relatives with an eye. Here is Russia, here is the dear home. Dear, here I am, I stand alive! We met two little boys on the doorstep, They didn’t remember their father for a long time. And Pelageya hugs her daughter, Lip shakes, runs away. Then rushes to me: “What should I do now? Someone else's wife! ”God grant that there is no war. And my sons lived on earth for a long time, And the main thing is that there is silence in the sky, This, apparently, is my fate.