Heroes and feats

Rank: Lieutenant General Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 129th Infantry Division (1st formation). Avksentiy Mikhailovich Gorodnyansky in the Russian army since 1915, senior non-commissioned officer. Member of the First World War on the Western and Romanian fronts, platoon commander. In the Red Army since 1918, he graduated from the Oryol infantry courses (1919), the Shooting-tactical advanced training courses for the command staff of the Red Army "Shot" them. Comintern (1924). During the Civil War A. M. Gorodnyansky fought on the Southern and Eastern fronts, the commander of a partisan detachment, company, rifle regiment. In the interwar period A. M. Gorodnyansky - company commander, assistant to the head of the school, head and political instructor of the regimental school, assistant to the regiment commander for economic and combat units, battalion, regiment commander, 101st Kamchatka Rifle Division. From October 1940 A.M. Gorodnyansky was the commander of the 129th Infantry Division of the 2nd Red Banner Army of the Far Eastern Front. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the division as part of the 19th Army was in the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters. In early July 1941 the army was transferred to the Western Front and took part in defensive battles in the Vitebsk direction. At the end of July, the division was transferred to the 16th Army of this front and participated in the Smolensk battle. Since the end of August, A.M. Gorodnyansky, commander of the 13th Army of the Bryansk Front, in which he fought defensive battles at the mouth of the river. Gum. In the Oryol-Bryansk defensive operation, which was an integral part of the battle near Moscow, the 2nd tank group of the enemy broke through the front of the 13th army east of Shostka and, developing an offensive to the north and northeast, surrounded it and the troops of the 3rd army in area of Trubchevsk. The fascist German command to eliminate the encircled Soviet troops threw four of the five corps of this group. However, the enemy failed to complete this task. Troops of the 13th Army under the command of A.M. Gorodnyansky in an organized manner left the encirclement at night, in the direction indicated by the front command. For a breakthrough from the encirclement, A. M. Gorodnyansky created a shock group of rifle divisions and a rearguard up to one rifle division. By October 23, the troops of the 3rd and 13th armies broke through from the encirclement and withdrew to the Belev, Mtsensk, Fatezh, Lgov line. In November, the 13th Army was transferred to the Southwestern Front, fought defensive battles in the Voronezh direction and by December 5 withdrew to the line southeast of the city of Efremov, east of Yelets, Volovo. In these defensive battles, the troops of the army under the command of A.M. Gorodnyansky showed the greatest resilience and activity. With the beginning of the counteroffensive near Moscow, the army took part in the Yelets offensive operation. According to the decision of the front command, the operational group of General F. Ya. Kostenko was to deliver the main attack south of Yelets in the general direction to Livny, and the 13th Army - an auxiliary strike bypassing Yelets and north-west to Lamskoye. A.M. Gorodnyansky created a shock group consisting of one rifle and one cavalry divisions, rifle and tank brigades, which on December 6 went over to the offensive, fettered the enemy with their attacks and diverted his attention from the direction of the main attack of the front. In this operation, A. M. Gorodnyansky displayed high military skill and firmness in commanding army formations. Army troops liberated the town of Yelets and, developing the offensive, advanced 80-100 km, ensuring the success of the troops of the right wing of the front. 13 December 1941 A.M. Gorodnyansky was appointed commander of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front, which took part in Barvenkovo-Lozovskaya offensive operation. In this operation, the army operated in the direction of the main attack of the adjacent wings of the Southwestern and Southern fronts, together with the 57th and 37th armies in the direction of the city of Zaporozhye. The operation was carried out with the aim of encircling and routing the enemy's Donbass grouping. A. M. Gorodnyansky concentrated the main forces of the army on the right flank of the operational formation. With the beginning of the operation, the army broke through the enemy's defenses and, having introduced the 1st Cavalry Corps into the battle, developed an offensive in the direction of Plesovaya. In the first four days of the operation, the army, in cooperation with the 57th Army, advanced to a depth of 30 km, ensuring the capture of the city of Barvenkovo by the troops of the Southern Front. However, the enemy stubbornly held the areas of the years. Balakleya and Slavyansk, preventing the expansion of the breakthrough to the sides of the flanks. In the course of subsequent hostilities, the army under the command of A. M. Gorodnyansky took part in the Kharkov battle (May 1942). The offensive of the troops of the Southwestern Front in this operation was carried out in order to defeat the Kharkov enemy grouping, liberate the city and create conditions for an offensive on the city of Dnepropetrovsk. The offensive of the front troops began on May 12. For 3 days the southern strike group of the front, consisting of the 6th Army and the operational group of Major General LV Bobkin, advanced 25-50 km. Favorable conditions were created for the introduction of mobile units into battle in order to develop success.However, the front command, misled by information about the concentration of a large enemy tank grouping in the area of Zmiev (Gottwald), delayed the entry of six tank corps. This played a fatal role in the heavy defeat of our troops near the city of Kharkov. At the same time, it should be noted the high military art shown by the German command, which struck with the forces of the 51st Army Corps from the north in the direction of Balakleya, Petrovsky, and the army group of General Kleist as part of the 1st Tank and 17th Armies from the south in the general direction to Petrovskoe. Both groups united south of Balakleya. The troops of the 6th and 57th armies, two tank and one cavalry corps were surrounded. Soviet troops under the command of A. M. Gorodnyansky fought heroically, trying to break out of the enemy ring. Thus, the incorrect assessment by the command of the Southwestern and Southern Fronts of the operational-strategic situation, poorly organized reconnaissance and interaction of troops, the lack of foreseeing the course of hostilities, the belated introduction of tank corps into battle led to large losses of our troops in manpower and equipment. The troops of the 6th and 57th armies and the army task force of General L.V. Bobkin were defeated, and A. M. Gorodnyansky, when leaving the encirclement, died in battle on May 27, 1942 at the Barvenkovo bridgehead. He was buried by the Germans on the khutor Orlinoyarsk, Petrovsky district, Kharkiv region, after the liberation of the Kharkiv region, reburied in Kharkov at the Pushkin cemetery.

Gusov Vladimir Semenovich Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Participant of 3 wars, WWII Veteran, Labor Veteran. Gusov Vladimir Semenovich was born in the city of Ordzhonikidze in 1913 in the family of an employee - teacher Gusov Semyon Petrovich. In 1930 he graduated from high school. He left for Moscow to study, graduated from the Central Institute of Labor, worked in the Stalmost trust in Moscow, the Ordzhonikidze VRZ plant. In 1935 he entered the Institute of Mineral Resources in Moscow. In 1937 he was drafted into the Soviet Army using a special kit. In the Red Army, he graduated from the Military-Political School - became the political instructor of the battery in the Searchlight Regiment of the Air Defense. In 1939 he was sent to the Finnish front. After the Finnish war, retraining and service in the 6th Guards Red Banner Army. Vladimir Semenovich Gusov was at the forefront for almost the entire war, starting with the artillery of a 120 m / m battery and tank units, with which one of the first burst into the approaches to Prague Square, suppressing the desperate resistance of the Nazis. For courage and valor shown in the battles for the liberation and capture of the cities of Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, etc., he was awarded orders and medals. Here is what the Council of War Veterans of the 6th Guards Red Banner Tank Army writes on June 14, 1963: “You, Vladimir Semyonovich, a soldier of the Soviet Armed Forces since 1937, have worthily passed the glorious labor and combat path of a soldier of the Soviet Army from a soldier to a political instructor of a battery, battalion , the commander of a tank company. Years of service in the famous Soviet Armed Forces, participation in battles on the North-Western, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Ukrainian and Trans-Baikal fronts were for you a wonderful school of life, military and ideological-political training, readiness for defense our Socialist Fatherland. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, you courageously defended our Motherland from the German fascist invaders. You are worthily distinguished by our Leninist Party and the Soviet government with high military awards: 22nd Guards. Port Arthur, Red Banner, orders of Kutuzov, Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky, tank brigade of the 5th Guards, Stalingrad-Kiev Order of Lenin, tank corps of the former 6th Red Banner Tank Army. You were and are an example of militancy and passion in work and friendship with front-line comrades. " After the Victory over German fascism, the war for Vladimir Semenovich Gusov, as well as for many other soldiers of the Soviet Army, did not end. As part of a mechanized cavalry group under the command of I.A. Pliev, he participated in the defeat of Japanese militarism in Manchuria, where V.S. Gusov set an example of courage and heroism. So the war for Vladimir Semenovich ended on September 2, 1945 after the defeat of militarist Japan. For which he also deservedly received the Mongolian award. Demobilized in 1948. Arrived in Ordzhonikidze and worked in the Road Construction Department in various positions. After retirement he continued to engage in social work. Gusov Vladimir Semenovich was awarded many military and labor awards, gratitude and diplomas. Marital status - Spouse Zinaida Danilovna. Children - daughter Diana, sons Ruslan and Taimuraz. Granddaughters Vera, Natalia and Dzerassa. Great-granddaughter Sofia.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 233rd Infantry Division (1st Formation). My great-grandfather Iosif Semenovich Gorelov was born on 09/21/1916 in the village Malo-Bobrovo, Dmitrovsky District, Kursk Region, in a peasant family. In 1933 he graduated from the 7th grade and went to work in the collective farm "Wings of the Soviets". From 1937 to 1940 he was in the Kharkiv military district (aviation driver of the 24th air brigade). In 1939 he joined the Komsomol. From 1940 to 1942 - commander of the militarized guard section of the Moscow-Volga canal. 1942 - 1943 – intelligence officer of the 684th artillery regiment of the 233rd rifle division of the Moscow military district, Don Front. In November 1943, the party committee of the 233rd Kremenchug rifle division received I.S. Gorelov to the party. 1943-1947 – intelligence officer 684 artillery regiment of the second steppe Ukrainian front. In 1947 he returned to his native village and continued his labor activity on the collective farm "Wings of the Soviets". Gorelov I.S. gratitude was announced from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, for excellent military operations in the implementation of a breakthrough and participation in the battles for Zvenigorodka, Shpola, Smila, Boguslav and Kanev. Awarded: the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, the medal “For the capture of Budapest”, the medal “For the capture of Vienna”, the medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, the medal “For courage ", Medal" For conscientious work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ", the medal" Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", the medal" Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", the medal" Forty years of Victory in the Great World War 1941-1945 ", medal" Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", Medal" Sixty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", medal" Seventy Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ". Joseph Semenovich Gorelov died on 04/06/1998. My family is good for our Hero!It was told by Diana Morozova, the great-granddaughter of Joseph Semenovich

Rank: Petty Officer. Type of Troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops. Division: 25th Panzer Division. I want to tell about my grandfather on my mother Glukhov Alexey Fedorovich, who was born in the village of Lavrentievka, on March 11, 2017 he would have turned 101 years old. According to the stories of my elder aunt Makarova (Glukhova) Nadezhda Aleksandrovna, to whom, in turn, my grandmother Glukhova (Nagornova) Maria Yegorovna (mother of many children) told this, my grandfather was drafted to war in the fall of 1941, while he lived in the territory of the Ukrainian SSR , in the Voroshilovograd region (currently Lugansk), in the Starobelsk district, where he served as a tanker in the Red Army. After completing the service, he stayed there and got married. When the war began, he sent his wife to Lavrentievka to her parents. The very same grandfather Alexei on November 6, 1941, the Starobelsky Military Commissariat sent to the 25th tank brigade, which left Rovenka and was heading to the Moscow direction (Western Front) in an echelon, the brigade took part in the defense of Moscow, in the liberation of Orel, participated in the battle of Kursk and others battle, one newspaper is not enough if you trace the entire path of the brigade. Grandfather fought in the 2nd tank battalion of the 25th tank Kirovograd twice Red Banner Order of the Suvorov brigade, in June 1943 he was slightly wounded, since June 1944 he fought in the brigade on the 3rd Belorussian Front, liberated Belarus, for which he was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree , from September 1944 he fought on the 1st Baltic Front, liberated the Baltic States, there he was awarded two Orders of the Red Star. Aunt Nadia says that my grandfather had all his chest in orders and medals for the capture of different cities, he was very careful about them, after the grandfather was gone, the children all the awards “played” somewhere, I found only the above listed ones through the website of the Ministry of Defense orders, with award sheets and orders. The brigade in which the grandfather fought ended the war by advancing on Berlin. After the war, my grandfather returned to Lavrentievka, his wife did not want to stay in the village and went home to Ukraine. My grandfather did not go after her, he went to work at the Kostinskaya MTS as a mechanic, according to the stories of Maria Mikhailovna's grandmother, there they met with grandfather Alexei Ivanovich. In 1950, grandfather Alexei Fedorovich met with grandmother Masha, her husband Alexander died in the war, she raised two daughters, in the same year they got married. Grandfather moved to live in Sergeevka, they first lived outside the village, in the so-called "Samovolievka", worked as a machine operator on a collective farm, was in good standing, he was given a new tractor as a good worker and participant in the war. For 12 years of their life together, she and her grandmother had two boys and two girls. Soon we moved to a new house in the village, which the collective farm allocated to my grandfather, I still remember it, the house is lined with red brick, and they still live in it. During that difficult post-war period, there were some "personalities" in Sergeevka who did not allow the new front-line soldier to work normally, spoiled new equipment, and threatened. Grandfather tried to persuade grandmother to move to Lavrentievka, but did not have time, in the summer of 1962 he died tragically, leaving his grandmother with six children. She punished herself very much for not listening to him at that time. This is how the life of a front-line soldier who went through the whole war, burned in a tank more than once, survived, returned home, began to live and build a new peaceful life, was suddenly cut off, but they were not allowed to finish building.

Title: Division Military doctor Type of Troops: Military medical personnel Unit: 107th Infantry Kremenets Order of Suvorov Division .My mother was orphaned at the age of seven when her father died. The stepmother moved from Omsk to Frunze, and there she gave her mother to a children's receiver, which later became the famous orphanage named after I. Krupskaya. The years that my mother lived in the orphanage were the best in her childhood life. Mom studied very well, participated in amateur performances. The orphanage had professional teachers who taught children music, ballet, and had its own theater studio. In addition, girls were taught to sew, cook, boys mastered carpentry, plumbing. After school, my mother entered the Tashkent Medical Institute at the medical faculty. Of course, the orphanage helped her with money and clothes. For the summer she was registered as a junior teacher, and during the school year she worked as a laboratory assistant at the Department of Pharmacology. But the war began and everything changed. The scholarships were canceled and they had to rely only on the salary of a laboratory assistant. We lived from hand to mouth and studied without days off and vacations. In August 1942, my mother graduated from college and was drafted into the army. Although the institute left her in graduate school, she is a Komsomol member, did not consider it possible to be in the rear when the war was going on. Throughout the war, my mother passed with her 247 medical battalion of the 107th Infantry Division, 69th Army. Throughout the war she treated the wounded under shelling and bombs. From Voronezh to Prague, my mother walked, exactly passed, they took only the wounded and equipment, together with the doctors and sisters of 247 medical battalions. Of all her awards, and she was awarded orders and medals in peacetime, the most appreciated was the Medal For Courage, which was personally presented to her by the division commander Bezhko. She graduated from the war with the rank of captain of the medical service. After the war, mom and dad, Karikh Anisim Petrovich, political commander of the 522 joint venture of the 107th Infantry Division, first served in Germany and Poland, and then were sent to Kharkov at the dad's place of service. Mom worked in her specialty, first as a doctor in a polyclinic, then as a deputy chief physician of the 25th Clinical Hospital. She was repeatedly elected as a deputy of the district and city councils. She was awarded with jubilee medals and the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1971. Excellence in Public Health of the USSR.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Division: 205th Motorized Division. Lieutenant Colonel Gusev Boris Alekseevich was born in 1916 in the village Korsakovo, Vadsky district, Nizhny Novgorod province in the family of a blacksmith. After graduating from school in 1933, he studied at the Sormovskiy Mechanical Engineering College, the Railway Technical School in Petrozavodsk. Since September 1935 he has been working as an assistant driver, then as a foreman at the depot of station Masel of the Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In September 1937 he was enlisted as a cadet in the school of military pilots in the Kharkov military district. A year later, for health reasons, he was transferred to the Ulyanovsk Armored School, which he graduated from in December 1939. After graduating from the school until May 1941, he served as a platoon commander, then as a training platoon commander of the 69th autobatalion 75th Rifle division 1 SK 8A LenVO, participated in the Soviet - Finnish war ... In May 1941, he was appointed senior adjutant (i.e., chief of staff) of the tank battalion 127 tp 205 motorized division 14 MekhK 4 A ZapOVO. On June 22, 1941, the division had only 56 T-26 tanks, 5 T-37/38 tanks and 25 BA-10 and BA-20 armored vehicles. In this regiment, Boris Alekseevich participated in heavy battles of the initial period of the war at the forefront of the main attack of the fascist group "Center". During the Bialystok-Minsk border battle, the Soviet 4 A was hit by the 2nd tank group (commanded by Colonel General Heinz Guderian). The regiment was stationed in the village of Bronna - Gora, located sowing. Varshavskoe highway near Brest. It was raised on alert in the first minutes of 5:00 am on June 22, 1941. Bringing to combat readiness took place under enemy air pressure in places of permanent deployment. By the end of June 22, 205 motorized division took up defenses along the river. Mukhavets from Pruzhany to the Dam; foot divisions of the division and a corps sapper battalion were preparing the defense of the Bereza region. But already at 8 o'clock in the morning on June 23, the regiment takes part in a counterattack of the second echelon of 14 MekhK. In the middle of the day, the motorized rifle and tank regiments of 205 md, operating in the zone of the 28th rifle corps in the Shipovichi, Mazichi, Kobrin sector, were withdrawn from the battle and sent to the 30th tank division to Pruzhany. Already at 19:30, the enemy's forward detachments reached the Yaselda River, where they were detained by separate units of 205 md and the 67th engineer battalion of the 14th mechanized corps. By the end of June 23, 205 Mechanized division was divided into several detachments, the largest of which, led by the division commander, Colonel F. F. Kudyurov (about four thousand people), on the night of June 24, withdrew from the Mukhavets canal to the Yaselda River. At 8 o'clock in the morning on June 24, small motorized units of 205 Mechanized division entered into battle with the enemy in the Ivantsevichi area. The 120th howitzer regiment of the RGK, consisting of 24 guns, approached them from Kossovo. These units with difficulty restraining the enemy retreated to Domanovo. At 9 o'clock on June 24, the commander issues a new order N05, according to which the remnants of 205 Mechanized division on the Shchara River were replaced by a fresh 55th rifle division. By the end of June 24, the main forces of 205 md (up to four thousand people), led by the division commander, Colonel F. F. Kudyurov, continued to occupy the line of the Yaselda River near the town of Selets. On the morning of June 25, who had no connection with the higher command, the commander of 205 Mechanized division, given that the front had already rolled back far to the east, at 9 o'clock in the afternoon decided to leave the line of the Yaselda River and retreat to Slonim to join the main army forces. By noon, the head regiment of the division approached the highway 3 kilometers south of Ruzhany, where it found motorized enemy columns moving towards Baranovichi. The Slonim direction of withdrawal had to be abandoned and the units were turned to Kossovo. At seven o'clock in the evening, the joint actions of Soviet troops in the area (up to six thousand people with several tanks), a German motorized battalion with five tanks was driven out of the town of Kossovo. On June 26, a significant part of the 14th Mechanized Corps, as before, operated in the operational rear of the 2nd German Panzer Group. In the morning the remnants of the division set out from the Kossovo area in the direction of Masilovichi - Khirovitsa. The units were constantly replenished with fighters and volunteers who had fought back from their units. Soon, Soviet troops were discovered by the enemy and were subjected to airstrikes and heavy attacks by German infantry. Suffering heavy losses, they broke into the forest 10-12 kilometers south-west of the Byten state farm. Here the mass of Soviet troops was divided into several independent detachments: about 800 people made up the detachment of Colonel Ostashenko, 600 people led by Pimenov, 600 people led by Colonel Berkov, 400 people led by Major Dmitriev from the headquarters of the 28th corps. Later, these detachments with weapons went to the areas of Pinsk, Luninets in the area of operations of the 75th rifle division and were sent by rail to assembly points for reorganization.From the assembly point, Boris Alekseevich in July 1941 was sent to the 2nd Kharkov Tank School as a senior adjutant of the battalion. Together with the school he was evacuated to Chirchik, where in July 1943 he became a tactics teacher. Since March 1944 he has been a student of the Higher Officers' School of the Soviet Army's BTiMV. After graduation in 1945, he was appointed a tactics teacher at the 1st and 2nd Kharkov Tank School.

Guseva Raissa Kirillovna was born on September 13, 1929 in the village of Malaya Usa. Their family had eight children. Mom - Ekaterina Merezhnikova. Father - Kirill Merezhnikov. They lived poorly, but amicably, everyone helped each other and took care of each other. They worked on a collective farm, USSR - Dawn. Times were hard, difficult ... Education grade 4. Immediately after school, little Raya went to sow, plow, harrow. - "It was very hard ... girl, 11 years old, thin arms and legs trembled under the weight of the plow ... And try not to go to work, you will immediately get a belt. Together with brothers and sisters they collected rotten potatoes so that in the evening there was something to eat, threw hay, for cattle "- shared her memories Raissa Kirillovna. "- During the war years, they shared a piece of bread for the family ... each one a piece, and the elder brother once stole my bread, I was left hungry. Nobody felt sorry for me, because they themselves were hungry." (Raissa Kirillovna recalls smiling). Raissa Kirillovna is a woman with a capital letter! The villagers said that you will never hear a bad word, she will always help. About family – in 1958 Raissa Kirillovna gave birth to a daughter, Nina. After 8 years, Nina died of hypothermia. - In 1965, the son Sasha was born. She raised him alone. All her life Raissa Kirillovna devoted herself to work, her family, raising her granddaughters. The expanse of the steppe, the bitter taste of wormwood, And in the skies of the birds, cheerful trills. A bush burns in crimson near the canal, In a gilded solar font. Every yard here comes to life in the morning, Cackling is heard of the poultry. And the sun floods the whole space with Its warmth and golden radiance. You, old-timers, always remember Half-starved and angry hard times, When trouble fell on their shoulders, Bagryants, who marked the century. Exploding bombs, hungry orphans mouths, Frozen potatoes as a reward. Wounded soldiers, cotton wool and bandages And backbreaking work, and the word "MUST!" All youth is poisoned by the war losses are all immeasurable. And by performing the feat of labor, you proved that you are invincible. Taking the funeral - right on the fields, With tears, they watered our land, And feet - in blood, and hands - in blisters, And the slime on the road is a terrible porridge. Memories of a dark ridge, Victory history remained. For a long time you will remember the trouble, In a bloody line in the centuries fit. But shaking off the fragments, the ashes of the war, With tears, then watering the earth, Worked, raising the spirit of the country, Giving it big harvests.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Subdivision: 260th Infantry Kovel Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Drafted into the Red Army by the Elatomsky Military Commissariat in 1940. Mother, Pelageya Ivanovna Gryaznova. Home address: Ryazan Region, Elatomsky District, Yelatma Village, Karl Marx Square, Building 1. Submachine gunner of the 1028th Infantry Regiment of the 260th Infantry Division of the 4th Infantry Company, awarded the medal "For Courage" for being in battles for the settlements of Skulin and Belin, Kovelskoy district, Volyn region 03/16/17/1944 with the fire of his machine gun destroyed 7 German soldiers. 47th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. Order dated 04/04/1944. - On May 3, 1942, a 1028 rifle regiment was formed from a separate battalion of the 55th rifle brigade in the town of Kolomna. Regiment commander st. Lieutenant Yakhin, Commissioner-Art. political instructor Kolobov. - September 4, 1942, the regiment arrived at the station. Ramon of the Voronezh region and made a 56-kilometer march to the area of the Zhivotino station. - On September 16, 1942, the regiment disembarked in the area of the Ilovnya station of the Stalingrad region. During the unloading, the regiment came under the bombing of 9 fascist aircraft. - On September 18, 1942, after the march, the regiment arrived at the Kotluban station, located 38 kilometers north-east of Stalingrad, in which fierce battles were raging. - On September 20, 1942, the regiment received its baptism of fire. The regiment was tasked with taking the height 154.2 and reaching the Borodkin farm. The regiment was not fired upon. The command staff had no experience and therefore, after two days of fighting, the regiment lost its main command staff and up to 65% of the rank and file and non-commissioned officers. But the morale of the regiment was not broken! - September 23, 1942, having overcome the fierce resistance of a well-armed and experienced enemy, the regiment captured the height of 143.8. Large losses in the regiment. - On September 24 and 25, the enemy repelled the attacks of the regiment. German aviation hung over our battle formations and bombed us continuously. Strong mortar fire and small arms cut everything in its path. Despite the losses and infernal fire of the enemy, the regiment conducted active hostilities until November 9, 1942, holding down significant enemy forces, preventing them from being transferred to the main direction, where the fate of the Stalingrad operation was being decided. - On November 9, 1942, the regiment was transferred to the defense of the Anna Ioannovna rampart, a spur of the Konnaya gully, Rooks. He held the defense there until December 9, 1942. Then he was transferred to the command reserve. - On January 19, 1943, the regiment, together with the division, went on the offensive. The task is to defeat the enemy grouping. The following settlements were liberated: Borotkin, Novaya Nadezhda, Uvarovka ... Having liberated 12 settlements, he took the direction to the Krasny Oktyabr plant. On the night of February 2, 1942, the regimental reconnaissance, led by Senior Lieutenant Trashkov, captured the headquarters of the 60th Grenadier Division of the enemy, capturing the command and 12 staff officers. In the headquarters dugout, the Red Banner of an unknown Soviet military unit was found. And on the afternoon of February 2, the regiment, together with other parts of the division, liberated the village of Barrikady and cleared the village of the Stalingrad Tractor Plant from the enemy. At 14 o'clock on February 2, 1943, the regiment, by order of the command, ceased hostilities. - On April 17, the regiment arrived at the Prisady station of the Tula region. Placed in the settlements: Sergievskoe, Kamenka and Vyevka. Here the regiment was replenished and conducted systematic exercises according to a two-month program. - from May 27 to June 2, 1943, the regiment was on the march (30-40 km per day), continuing combat training, in Yegoryevskoe, Kaluga, Tula region. - from June 15 to July 6, 1943, he carried out engineering and defensive work in the Nelyubovo area of the Kozelsky district of the Oryol region (this was associated with the Kursk-Oryol arc). - July 14, 1943. The period of formation and combat training of the regiment is over. Now the regiment had 157 officers, 437 sergeants, 1278 privates, 235 horses. Ammunition for one ammunition, fuel - for three refueling. - From July 14, 1943, the regiment fought offensive battles in the Oryol region. The enemy continuously counterattacked with infantry and tanks. Despite the fierce resistance of the enemy, the regiment successfully moved forward, liberating the settlements: Tupik, Sugar field, Debriki, Pavlovka. He crossed the Ogor River. - On September 12, together with other parts of the division, he liberated the village of Cementnoe (now the city of Fokino) and on September 15 reached the Bolva River. - On September 14, the regiment crossed the Bolva River, liberating the settlements: Darkovichi, Krasnovichi. He crossed the Kolpita River, liberating the settlements: Kosichi and Dubrovka on October 2, 1943, he reached the village of Guda Osipovskaya, Belorussian SSR. - From October 25 to November 1, the regiment marched to the village of Zhgunka Buda (20 kilometers east of the city of Gomel). - From 3 to 7 November, the regiment made the transition to the Roslavl district of the Smolensk region for formation.After graduating from the formation, the regiment took part in hostilities from November 10, 1943 in the area of Rudnya. He forced the river Sozh, liberated the Old Village, the Golden Horn, Budennovskoe. - From November 27 to December 2, pursuing the retreating enemy, the regiment liberated the settlements: Koshelevo, Buda Koshelevskaya, Potapovka, Demino, Zababie, Khmelnoe. - On December 5, the regiment captured the stronghold of the village. Quarter, but had no success in the battle for the height of 125.5. - From December 27 to January 23, the regiment was on the defensive in the Gomel region (settlements: Kolybovka, Edakovo pole, Proskurin, Zaton). - On January 29, 1944, the regiment arrived on a march to Koshelevo, Gomel region. Then he was transferred to Kyurasovo, Kursk region, for training and rest. After that, he arrived in Rerbche Belke, Rivne region, having a strength of 171 officers, 379 sergeants, 1252 privates. The regiment numbered horses: 15 riding, 70 artillery, 127 transport. And also 552 rifles, 54 sniper rifles, 328 carbines, 416 ppsh. Machine guns: 72 manual and 27 easel. Mortars: 13-50mm, 17-82mm, 6-120mm. Guns: 12 - 45 mm, 4 - 75 mm. Required ammunition. Until March 15, 1944, the regiment was in the reserve of the division. - From March 15, 1944 to the first days of April, the regiment fought offensive battles in the Volyn region, liberating: Cheremyshno, Skulin, Belin, Stebl, Kolodnitsa. They went to the north-eastern outskirts of the city of Kovel, a large railway junction. Near Kovel, the regiment was in a fierce defense until July 5. Reconnaissance, reconnaissance in force, identification of enemy fire weapons were carried out. - On July 5, 1944, the city of Kovel and the village of Old Koshary were liberated. - From July 14 to July 20, the regiment was in the second echelon. - From July 21, 1944, the regiment, crossing the river. Western Bug, led hostilities to clear the Polish land from the Nazis. The following were released: Zabuzhie, Osova, Zhukarny, Starino, Sukhovo, Lyuban, Lipuvko, Vygalov, Pakhola, Kalin, Kolyano, Kolushin, Klush, Rodzimin, Zelenka, Charna Struga, Minsk Mozovetsky, Stanislavov, Marki, Rembertuv, Rembelshchinzna , Kolebyaki, Olshevnica stara, Olshevnica Nova. - On January 16, 1945, the regiment crossed the river. Vistula, liberating the village of Lomna, flour mill. - January 25, 1945 liberated Bromberg (Vygdosch). - On January 27, 1945, the regiment crossed the Polish-German border, capturing the cities: Schneidemühl, Zabov, Gisental, Glin, Kolov ... - From March 22 to April 14, 1945, the regiment was on replenishment and rest. - April 14, 1945 crossed the Oder River. - On April 16, the Oder offensive began. The cities of Britzen, Ketzin, Bradenburg, Berlin were taken.

Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Signal troops Subdivision: 34th Guards Rifle Enakievskaya Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division .My great-grandfather was born into a large family with four children. The Great Patriotic War began when he was 16 years old. In 1942, when he was 17, he volunteered for the front (adding one year to himself). Upon arrival at the front, he was sent as a signalman to the 34th Guards Division of the 107th Guards Regiment. With his division, he made a long way from Salsk to Budapest. My great-grandmother talked a lot about the difficulties that they had to endure during the war - she talked about the cold and hunger that did not leave them for a minute, about the constant bombing and trenches. In 1944, my great-grandfather and his regiment reached Hungary and stopped in the city of Budapest. In Budapest, they met with fierce enemy resistance. Soviet soldiers showed staunchness, courage and military skill. Thus, a unit of the 107th Guards Regiment of the 34th Guards Rifle Division in the amount of 28 fighters, including my great-grandfather, led by Lieutenant I.I.Panin, was surrounded at a small railway station near Banhida. The guardsmen were entrenched in a two-story brick building, turning it into a stronghold. In the first minutes of the battle, Lieutenant Panin died a heroic death. The command was taken over by his assistant, the party organizer of the seventh company, senior sergeant M.S.Starikov. The Nazis opened heavy machine-gun and mortar fire at the house. To support their infantry, they deployed four tanks and several armored personnel carriers. For five days the Nazis stormed the house, but they could not break the will and fortitude of the guards. A handful of brave warriors repulsed 40 attacks, destroyed up to 70 soldiers, a tank and three armored personnel carriers. Three days later, from only 34 regiment, several people survived, among whom was my great-grandfather. Being completely surrounded by the enemy, they did not surrender and continued to defend the railway station. After a while, only my great-grandfather survived. Realizing the hopelessness of his situation, he hid himself under a knocked-out German tank and called the battery fire on himself by radio. He realized that he was going to certain death, but for the sake of saving his homeland and his compatriots, he was ready to sacrifice himself. The battery destroyed three tanks, two armored vehicles and several enemy detachments. For this feat, he was awarded the following awards: "Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree" and "Medal of Courage". After the bombing, my great-grandfather miraculously survived, but was contused, badly burned and injured his leg, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he met my great-grandmother Gritsai Praskovya Ivanovna. During the war, my great-grandmother Gritsai Praskovya Ivanovna was a simple nurse in a military hospital and helped wounded soldiers. One of these soldiers was my great-grandfather. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. The doctors believed that he would not live a day, but my great-grandmother did not give up and tried to save his life to the last. So they met. After recovering, despite the excuses of doctors and family, my great-grandfather again went to the front and continued to fight, not alone, but with his wife, Gritsai Praskovya Ivanovna. Towards the end of 1944, due to the pregnancy of my great-grandmother, they decided to stay in Budapest for a while. My grandmother Tamara Ivanovna Gritsai was born there. After the war, in 1948, they returned to their homeland.

Rank: Major Subdivision: 8th Guards Rifle Rezhitskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after IV Panfilov Captions on the photo: "Guards Major Al. Gorodnov at the parade among divisional scouts." "The word in reply and the oath" that we will beat the hated enemy even stronger "- the commander of the 8th Guards Panfilovskaya division, Guards Colonel Lomov at the presentation of the third order of the division" Suvorov II degree "for the liberation of Riga Army Colonel-General Kazakov attaches to the divisional banner of the 8th Guards Panfilov Division the third order "Suvorov II degree" won in the liberation of Latvia and Riga. " / Photo by Al.Makletsov / Before the war, he worked on the party line in the city of Penza. Graduated from the Academy named after N.K. Krupskaya in Leningrad. In 1941 he voluntarily went to the front through the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, leaving a large family at home: his wife Evdokia, daughters Anastasia and Maria and son Vladimir, my father. Guard Major Aleksey Fedorovich Gorodnov, head of the counterintelligence department SMERSH, as part of the 8th Guards Rifle Division, participated in the liberation of the Baltic. In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In 1945 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. From the award list: "Personally Comrade Gorodnov exposed and arrested a German intelligence agent in December and January." In 1950 he was directed to the construction of the Kuibyshevskaya (Zhigulevskaya) hydroelectric power station. He worked as the head of the department of workers' supply (ORS) of Kuibyshevgidrostroy. He witnessed the resettlement and flooding of his native village Uslady. Soon the whole family moved to the Port village, built for the workers of the hydroelectric power station. Unfortunately, I did not have to hear my grandfather's stories about the war, I was born in 1958, shortly before his death. And he told little, since his entire service was classified as "secret." My grandfather named me Marina after an intelligence officer who died during the war. I don't know what she was like, how she died. One thing I know for sure: she, like my grandfather, was one of those who selflessly and courageously fought for the Motherland. I am proud of my grandfather and I want his grandchildren and great-grandchildren to remember those who did not spare their lives for their happy future. Low bow and eternal memory to the participants of the Great Patriotic War!

Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops of the Great Patriotic War ... How far the events of those years are from us - the 21st century generation ... But the lessons of the past cannot be forgotten. We must honor the memory of all soldiers who died during the war. One of these soldiers was my great-grandfather Galukhin Vasily Alexandrovich. Galukhin Vasily Aleksandrovich was born in the village of Vedrovo, Yurievetsky district. In 1930 he received land for the construction of houses in the village of Pochinok (Yurievetsky district). There he met his future wife. Everything was good for them: they started a family, built a house, had children. Vasily Alexandrovich worked as a foreman at the Udarnik chemical plant located in a neighboring village. He was a very caring father and husband: neighbors recalled how he himself put his children to bed and sang lullabies to them. In 1941, all men of military age were taken to military field camps, where they were to receive the basics of military training. Vasily Alexandrovich was also taken away in May. Leaving "for just a month" (as he assumed), the great-grandfather made plans for the future: he was going to mow hay for the cow himself and dreamed of how he would lead his eldest son to first grade in the fall. But these dreams were not destined to come true. On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. Vasily Alexandrovich, together with a unit, was urgently sent to the front, where he fought until October 1941. The last battle (according to the stories of one of the soldiers who returned to the village), he took on the Dniester River. Replacing the deceased commander, he covered the crossing over the bridge of the soldiers of his unit. There, on the bridge, a fellow villager saw him for the last time. Then an explosion thundered and the bridge collapsed ... Then there was a retreat and in a hurry and confusion they did not begin to find out whether he died or not. A notification came to his native village: he was missing. Relatives wrote requests, but they remained unanswered. The name of my great-grandfather is written on the obelisk of memory in the village of Vedrovo. This obelisk was erected by fellow villagers after the war. Thanks to our great-grandfathers and grandfathers for the peaceful sky overhead. I consider my great-grandfather a hero, although he did not have orders and medals, he is still a hero. After all, the hero is not only the one who has titles and awards, but also the one who has completely given his debt to the Motherland.

Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Subdivision: 250th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. He did not return from the battle ... These words are from the song, as if about him - about Gornostaev Dmitry Ananievich, my grandfather. Although I never saw him, I heard a lot about him from my grandmother, read and reread the letter, which miraculously survived. I looked at his photo and was proud of him, because he defended at the front his homeland, his family, his children, his son, whom he never saw. In 1943, a notification came that he had gone missing in December 1942. Many times trying to find information about him, in 2011, the search engine showed the place of his service: 922 Infantry Regiment 250 Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov II degree Infantry Division. Information about him was also indicated there: Gornostaev Dmitry Ananievich; lieutenant; commander; 922; Novosibirsk; Kyshtovsky; 1917; 12.42; bv; order; Leninsk-Kuznetsky GVK (Kemerovsky) Kemerovskaya; 06/29/41; kp / Recorded in the memory book, compiled from the generalized data bank Memorial and the base of the Interregional Information Retrieval Center. It has 15772 people (1463 officers and 14309 privates and sergeants). The memory of him will always live in our hearts, in our memory. To all the missing on the battlefields, and to all the wives who believed and waited, I dedicated this poem: She was waiting for him from the war ... The vague silhouette of a family's face has already begun to forget, Such a very dear heart, that you went to the front to see off ... His wife was not long, and he did not have time to play with his daughter to his heart's content. I sobbed bitterly into my pillow at night, it remains only to pray and humbly wait. And every time she met the postman, her soul froze in alarm. And then, holding the triangle to her heart, she, laughing and crying, did not hide her happiness. In a letter he wrote: "Save your children, dear! Believe me, I just live by meeting you. By Stalin's order, I, defending Moscow, I will not die, I will not die, I will come to you alive!" In the crib, smiling, the children were sleeping And they dreamed that they were sitting in their father's arms, And there is no war in the world ... Four more long years before its end. She wrote every day in the hope that he could get at least one thing. Dreamed he would return , everything will be as before, We will live peacefully, raise our children. A postman walks by, looks away guiltily. Well, how long can you wait, everyone around her keeps repeating. My love, I know, will save him from the bullets of Enemies, shells, death - He disappeared without a trace in the distant forty-first, Fighting for the Fatherland, for his family. All wives, loved to the end, faithful To meet them in paradise, Lord, I pray!

Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Unit: 51st Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division Nikolai Gnedov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1938 by the Volosovsky Military Commissariat of the Leningrad Region. He was sent to the regimental school of the 85th anti-aircraft artillery regiment. Upon its completion, from 1939 to 1942, he served first in the named regiment, then in the 408th separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion of the Trans-Baikal Military District as the commander of an artillery gun. In June - September 1939 he took part in battles in the area of the Khalkhin-Gol River. In 1942 he took an accelerated course of study at the military-political school in Irkutsk. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War he fought since January 1943 as part of the 257th mortar regiment of the 22nd artillery division on the North-Western Front as deputy battery commander for political affairs, since April 1944 as part of the 154th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 51st Infantry Division 6- 1st Guards Army as commander of a mortar platoon, then a mortar company. In July 1944, Lieutenant Gnedov was awarded the Order of the Red Star for bravery in offensive battles. He received the second Order of the Red Star for his participation in the battles for the city of Polotsk. In November 1944, he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky for his participation in breaking through the defense line in the area of the Venta River (Lithuania), for skillful command of a mortar platoon and personal courage. Nikolai Petrovich received another Order of the Red Star in December 1944 for bravery and courage in battles on the territory of Latvia. In 1946, Nikolai Petrovich Gnedov was demobilized. He lived in the town of Opochka, Pskov region, worked in the district committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, then took part in the movement of thirty thousand people and headed the collective farm "Red Order". He started a family with a girl who also returned from the fronts of the Great Patriotic War - Anna Tyuneva. Together they lived in peace and harmony for 17 years until the death of Nikolai Petrovich. I am their daughter, I was 5 years old when my father passed away. Mom carefully kept the memory of him. But I didn’t have a chance to hear my father’s front-line stories. My older brother tried to question him, but my father always made fun of him. People who knew Nikolai Petrovich remember him as a very kind, attentive person, who could be approached with any problem. He never refused to help anyone, even in his own time.

My great-grandfather, Nikolai Afanasevich Garusov, was born in 1926 in a small Belarusian village. When the war began, he was 14 years old. For the first time, the Nazis occupied the territory of Belarus. The older brothers were taken to Germany. Great-grandfather managed to hide. And, for 3 long years, he lived with his mother and younger sister in a dugout, because the village was burned down by the Nazis. From the stories of my great-grandfather, I know what a terrible time it was: hunger, devastation, shelling, fires. As a boy, my great-grandfather saw terrible pictures of executions, saw how partisans were hanged and tortured. And he himself was on the verge of death several times. In 1944, Soviet troops liberated Belarus. At the age of 18, my great-grandfather was taken into the army. In 1945 he entered the active army. The hostilities took place in Japan. In heavy battles with the Japanese, my great-grandfather was wounded, and was awarded medals for bravery and courage. The Japanese started this war to divert the forces of the Soviet army from the fight against the Nazis. But the courage and valor of the Soviet soldiers did not allow these plans to come true. 71 years separate us from that great victory day in 1945. But even today my great-grandfather remembers that distant time and his deceased comrades with tears in his eyes. Served: 16th separate order of the Red star moto-sapper battalion. The beginning of hostilities in China near the Great Khingan Mountain. The first battle is the Salun station. The battalion commander, Lieutenant Colonel Polishchuk. Before the offensive, the battalion's task was to clear mined areas for the offensive of the main Soviet troops.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Division: 10th Panzer Division. My great-grandfather, Dmitry Petrovich Grigoriev, was born on January 5, 1920 in the village of Vymets (now it does not exist, was on the territory of the Dukhovshchinsky district of the Smolensk region) in a peasant family. Since 1927 he lived in the city of Yartsevo. He graduated from seven classes of school, after which he worked as a laboratory assistant at a control and seed station. In 1939, Grigoriev graduated from the Nikolo-Pogorelovsky Agricultural College. In 1940 he was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. In 1941, Grigoriev graduated from a tank technical school in Kiev, with the rank of lieutenant he served in the 10th tank division stationed in the Lithuanian SSR. From the first day of the Great Patriotic War, on its fronts, on June 22, 1941, he took part in a battle with German troops on the Neman River. Grigoriev's tank platoon fought 20 enemy tanks. Grigoriev personally destroyed one of the tanks, but his tank was also knocked out. With battles, he retreated to the east, took part in defensive battles for Vilnius, Molodechno, Minsk, Orsha, the Battle of Smolensk, battles at the Solovyov Ferry. In the fall of 1941, Lieutenant Dmitry Grigoriev, who underwent special training, was thrown into the enemy's rear at the head of a sabotage and reconnaissance group. A month later, the group turned into a partisan detachment named after Furmanov, which committed a large number of sabotage actions in the Dukhovshchinsky, Prechistensky and Baturinsky districts of the Smolensk region. In March 1943, Grigoriev's detachment merged with the Red Army. In the autumn of the same year, he graduated from advanced training courses for the officers of the Western Front, after which, with the rank of captain, he was appointed commander of a company of machine gunners of the 250th rifle regiment of the 82nd rifle division of the 3rd army of the 1st Belorussian Front. He distinguished himself during the liberation of the Byelorussian SSR. In June 1944, Grigoriev led an airborne group from his platoon and 20 76-mm self-propelled guns. At the beginning of the Soviet offensive during Operation Bagration, the group broke away from the division's subunits and went into a raid on the enemy rear in order to capture the bridge across the Berezina. On the way to the bridge, the group defeated 18 German garrisons. The bridge, located near the city of Bobruisk, Mogilev region, was successfully captured on June 29, and was held by Grigoriev's group for 32 hours. In the battles for the bridge, the group repelled several fierce enemy counterattacks, destroying 420 enemy soldiers and officers, 65 motorcycles, 3 tankettes, 12 machine guns. For this operation, Grigoriev was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. On July 2, without an order from the command, Grigoriev with a group made a rush to Minsk and seized the freight station of the railway, freeing a large number of Soviet citizens who were being hijacked to work in Germany, and held this station until the approach of Soviet troops. For this throw, Grigoriev received a reprimand from the command, as he acted without his knowledge. In the future, Grigoriev took part in the liberation of Poland, forcing the Western Bug, Vistula and Oder. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945 for "exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and displayed courage and heroism in battles against the German invaders" Captain Dmitry Grigoriev was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal numbered 8057 Took part in the capture of Berlin. He left his painting on the wall of the Reichstag. In 1946, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, Grigoriev was transferred to the reserve. He lived in the city of Yartsevo, Smolensk region, worked as director of the Yartsevo bakery, then director of a nursing home. In 1950 he joined the CPSU (b). Participated in social work. He died on January 3, 1985, and was buried at the Khatyn cemetery in Yartsevo. He was also awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Alexander Nevsky, the First Class of the Patriotic War, as well as a number of medals.