Heroes and feats

Rank: Lieutenant. Military branch: Land forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast service, the NKVD troops, Border Guards. My father's family had many children. There were four brothers( Vasily, Fyodor, Pavel, Ivan) and three sisters (Aksyuta, Daria. Anastasia). During the war, the following people were killed: Fyodor (was executed in a Nazi concentration camp), Vasily (died near Minsk in 1943), Aksyuta and Darya's husbands, and Anastasia (went missing during the siege of Leningrad). Pavel was enlisted in 1943, was wounded and survived. My father participated in the battles for Smolensk. His division was renamed into the 7th Guards Division for participation in these battles. He took part in the battles for Moscow (near the cities of Narofominsk and Serpukhov), where he was seriously wounded. One episode from my father's front-line stories stuck in my memory sibce my childhood. I have never seen in any films or historical stories that the Germans attacked Moscow together with dogs that tore wounded soldiers to shreds. When they took up a position at the front line, there was a terrible dog barking. Every fighter, hearing this, felt the horror of the upcoming attack, when in case of injury, he would be torn apart by dogs. Shells whistled above his head, and a wall of fire appeared in front of him. Then the volley was repeated. Shells began to burst closer to the soldiers. Their first thought was: ""If the salvo is repeated, we will certainly be covered."" That's how my father first found out what was ""Katyusha. But the third salvo was fired at the village, where Germans with dogs and civilians stayed. Everything was mixed up: the barking of dogs, the screams of the wounded and dying, Russian and German speech. The attack of the Germans with dogs was stopped by the burning of this village (along with the civilian population)."

In March 1942, Hismatulla became a cadet at the 1st Moscow military machine Gun school, where he studied for six months. He served in the Red Army from August 10, 1942, He was a wiry, heavily built boy and turned out to be an excellent racon. He went for the ""informers"" more than once, performed other tasks of the command behind enemy lines. Once Gaifullin and four of his comrades-in-arms crept up unnoticed in a village captured by the Nazis, where they silently removed the sentries and, like ghosts, appeared in front of the astonished Germans. Later he delivered them to the Soviet side. Khismat was awarded the medal ""For courage"" for this operation. Gaifullin was the only survivor in the battle for station Lozova in Kharkiv region when the whole division was knocked out. A well-aimed shot of Gaifullin knocked out a tank that was going to smash Soviet positions. The second tank ""hesitated"" to act, and the third one turned back. The Commander of the 45-mm anti-tank gun Hismat Gaifullin got the Order the Red Star . In November 1943, when Soviet troops were liberating Kiev, a brave gunner was seriously wounded in the head. A shell that exploded nearby plunged him into oblivion, and he could not escape from it for several months. He was in hospitals in Voronezh, Saratov, Kazan, and underwent several severe operations. Only in the fifth month he began to feel the world around him. At the end of 1944, the crippled soldier returned to his native Old Tuymazy. Rewards: the Medal ""For labor valor"", the Medal ""100 years since the birth of V. I. Lenin"", the Medal ""Honored worker of culture of the BASSR"" and others. There are 11 awards in total."

Rank: Red Army soldier. Type of service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), the Coast Guard, the NKVD troops, the Border guards. Unit: 38th Tank Division. Geroev Mahmoud Goroevich was born in 1890 in the village of Batlic, Khunzakh district. He was an active participant in the civil war of 1918-1920. During the encirclement of the fortress by the white guards, he was in the Samursky detachment, which was rushing to the aid of the partisans who were in the fortress. After the release of the surrounded Red Army soldiers, Mahmud went to the village of Kidir, where the family of the counter-revolutionary Zhatul Magomed and his sons were captured. Mahmud was captured in the battle for the village of Echedo. Each prisoner was given to separate master, and Mahmoud had to graze the temporary master's sheep only for a small meal. Mahmoud was released when the Bolshevics came to Tsumada. Mahmoud was wounded several times. After returning home, he worked on a collective farm, first as a herder, and then as a shepherd. After the organization of the collective farm, in the 1930s, Mahmud worked as the head of it. In March 1942, he went to the front and his four children and wife stayed home. He was enlisted by the Khunzakh military enlistment office. The family received their last message from Makhmud Goroev on June 26, 1942. He wrote that his division was going to defend Stalingrad. There were no more letters from him. There was only a notice ""Missing"" on May 20, 1945. His youngest son Gadjidad only survived, he is now 76 years old. He told us that the arrival of our local historians in his house was a blessing for him. We found the burial place of our compatriots: Goraev Mahmoud and Magomed Hajiyev. We informed the family and children of Goraev about this and invited them to Republic of Dagestan. From the archives we learned that Goroev M. was captured in Kantemirovka. On April 8, 1942, J.Stalin ordered to move against the Gotto and Paulus groups, so that they could not come from the rear. The South-Western front was not able to detain the enemy alone in the direction of Kantemirovka. In the evening of July 9, General Moskolenko, due to the threat of encirclement, without having any connection with the higher command, made an independent decision to withdraw the division of the 38th Army to the East. But the Germans got there first and Swanenburgh tanks passed Kantemirovka rapidly from the East. The operation in the Voronezh direction was successfully carried out by the Germans. They gave a strong blow to the troops of the South-Western front, the Germans captured 50,000 soldiers and officers. Garaev was taken prisoner here, he was wounded in the leg under tank shells."

Rank: Major General. Branch of the army: Land forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Service, the NKVD troops, Border guard. Unit: 250th Rifle Bobruisk Red Banner order of Suvorov Division. Gorbachev Ivan Sergeevich was born in the village of Strechanovo, Tyuninskaya region, Roslavl district, Smolensk province (the present-day Rognedinsky district of the Bryansk region) in the peasant family. His father and family moved to Ukraine after the 1905 revolution due to a very hard situation. Since January 1924, the fate of I.Gorbachev was connected with service in the ranks of the Red Army. In 1926, he graduated from the Ivanovo-Voznesensk infantry school named after M. V. Frunze. In 1937, he graduated from the Frunze Military Academy. Ivan Gorbachev was awarded the order of the ""Red Star"" in February 1941 on the date of the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Border troops. With the beginning of the great Patriotic war, I.Gorbachev commanded the 250th Rifle Division of the 30th Army. He got a Colonel rank. He was awarded the rank of major General in July,1941, but he did not have to wear a General uniform. The division was intended for the defense of large industrial facilities from possible enemy air attacks. The total initial strength of the division was 15,000 soldiers. The place of 250th Rifle Division formation was chosen near Vladimir. It happened on July 2-16, 1941. The situation at the front required urgent decisions and the division was sent rapidly to the area of Rzhev. Later it made a 109-km crossing along the Belsky highway near Bely, Kalinin region, where on July 22, 1941, It is located. included in the battle of Smolensk (1941) as part of the 30th army of the Western front. The task assigned to the division was to counterattack the enemy in the direction of Dukhovshchina and stop its advance. German troops managed to capture Dukhovshchina, they rushed along the road to the northeast with the intention of capturing the city of Bely on the move, with the further intention of advancing on Olenino and Rzhev. They managed to overturn the weak barrier of the Soviet troops, and they moved forward. The task of the 250th Rifle Division was to meet the enemy as quickly as possible and stop them far from the city. The commander-in-chief, Major General Gorbachev gave orders In an extremely tense situation. He encouraged the soldiers for the upcoming battle with the enemy. The General did not have time to get a new General's uniform, so he was in a Colonel's jacket. On July 22, 1941, the division under the command of Major General I.Gorbachev entered the first battle and stopped the enemy in the area of the village of Tsyguna (South-West of Bely, Tver region).Later they moved forward and captured the settlements: Cygany, Cicata, Krasnohorodka, Suites, fedorivka, Demachi (the Tver region), Baturino (Smolensk region). They had persistent battles with the enemy near Okolitsa and Krasnogorodka. War General Gorbachev was able to stop the enemy East from the settlements reflecting the numerous attacks of the enemy. Difficult situation happened in the village Demachi. General Gorbachev and the Commissioner Nikolay Ivanovich Aces met there. They were both interested in a specific combat situation and provided practical assistance to Junior commanders. At the entrance to the village of Demyakhi , General Gorbachev got out of the car and went to the next battalion of the regiment to check personally its condition and clarify the necessary data. At this moment, an enemy shell exploded nearby, Major General I.Gorbachev, was seriously wounded in the stomach. He died on July 25, 1941. The Major General Gorbachev was buried with all military honors in the ""fraternal cemetery near Olenino"". There is a memorial plaque in the village between Tver and Smolensk with the words: ""The soldiers of the 250th Rifle Division were stopped by the German-fascist troops at the turn of the Black Stream, Krasnogorodka-Losmino in July 1941."" At the turn of the Black Stream, Krasnogorodka-Losmino in July 1941.Several soldiers of his division were buried together with General. The next street was named for General Gorbachev, the entire area the locals call Gorbachevoj. Gorbachev Ivan Sergeevich left a daughter-Galina Ivanovna and sons-Peter Ivanovich and Vladimir Ivanovich. Vladimir Ivanovich lives in Irkutsk. Pyotr Ivanovich Gorbachev was a veteran of the great Patriotic war. He was wounded in the battle of Stalingrad."

Glushkov Lev Ivanovich was born on December 8,1924, in the city of Saransk, Mordovia. On June 22, 1941, he and his friends went to the forest. Crossing the Central square of Kyshtym, he learned about the beginning of the war. The kids were just over 16, just starting 10th grade. All of them went to the military enlistment office. They were accepted and sent as apprentices of a Turner to a mechanical plant. In June 1942, he was sent to the Miass aviation technical school. However, it did not study foe longbecause the situation at the front became critical. In early January 1943, a Red Army soldier was wounded during bombing. He was a mortar man,a racon. He took part in Kursk battle. In February 1945, he was sent to the Black sea fleet, sub-fleet brigade in Gudauta. Grandfather, a newly minted sailor, was assigned as the commander of the motorists ' squad. They went in convoys, guarded transports, transported equipment and wounded soldiers, weapons and ammunition. Second half of April 1945 the crew was sent to the far East. It was clear that war with Japan was not far off. So they became protection convoys in Japanese ports: Seishin, Racine, Ginza and others. However, the war was fast. Midshipman-submariner Glushkov served in the Pacific fleet till 1951. He has the following awards: the Order of the ""Red Star"", the Medal ""For the victory over Germany"", the Medal ""For the victory over Japan"", the Medal ""For military merit""."

Rank: Red army soldier. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 30th Guards Rifle Riga Red banner Division. V.Gurin, served from 1932 to 1935 in the 16 separate Rifle attalion of Motorized Rifle troops, in Irkutsk region. He was mobilized into the red Army on July 24, 1941 and enlisted as a gun loder of the Separate Anti-aircraft Artillery battery of 217th Rifle Division (later it was renamed into the 238th Red Banner Rifle Division, then the 30th Guards Rifle Riga Red Banner division). From October 8, 1941 to May 6, 1942, he was fighting in the 395th Separate Artillery Division and 238th Rifle Division. From May 6, 1942 to March 8, 1943, he was fighting in the 217th Rifle Division. From March 8, 1943 to September 15, 1943, he served in the 2nd Battery of the 715th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 14th Anti-aircraft Artillery Division of the main command reserve. From September 15, 1943 to January 15, 1944, he served in the 2nd Baltic front. Participated in the battles in the defense of Moscow, on the Kursk bulge, liberated part of Western Belarus. On January 15, 1944, in the battle for the city of Novo-Sokolniki, he was seriously wounded by a shell fragment , and left the Armed Forces on October 24, 1944. Vasily Harlamovich was awarded by : the Order of the ""Red Star"" twice, the Order of Glory of all 3 classes, the Order of the ""Patriotic war of 1st and 2nd class"", the Medal ""For the defense of Moscow"", the Medal ""20 years of the Red Army"", the Medal ""For Bravery "", the Badge"" Excellent gunner"". After being dismissed to the reserve, despite his disability of group 2, Vasily Kharlamovich graduated from the courses of sewing and became a master of the upper men's coat, worked in the Krupskaya factory in Semipalatinsk as a master of the fifth category. During his lifetime, Vasily Kharlamovich did not like to talk about the war, especially with his grandchildren, but his elder son Nikolay remembers some of his father's stories. Here are some of them: ""During the battle of Kursk, Vasily Kharlamovich and his comrades burned German tanks with direct fire from anti-aircraft guns, since the anti-tank artillery was simply powerless against them. There were a lot of broken German and Soviet tanks on the battlefield, the bodies of the dead were lying around, the air was saturated not only with gunpowder and burning, but also with human blood."" Nikolay especially remembered his father's stories about the liberation of Western Belarus, and his impressions of how Nazis, as well as Polish and Ukrainian nationalists, burned out villages, destroyed cities, and the mutilated bodies of ordinary civilians, old men, women, and especially children. Gurin Nikolay Vasilyevich, the son of Vasily Kharlamovich, worked in the collective farm fields in the village of Krestyanka when he was only 10 and he was awarded the Medal ""For valiant labor in the great Patriotic War"". During the difficult years of the war, Vasily Kharlamovich's wife, Elizabeth Yakovlevna, raised two sons Nikolay and Gennady, as well as two nephews Alexey and Zinaida, who were left without a mother (she died before the war), and their father Stepan Zhbratov who was mobilized in July 1941 and served in the far East. Her niece Zinaida at the age of 14 worked on the railway in the city of Semipalatinsk, delivered food to the sidings and stations on a wagon-shop."

My grandfather, unfortunately, died young-he was not even 30 years old. My grandfather went to war at the age of 20, leaving a young wife (my grandmother) and two young daughters-two-year-old Lyubasha and eight-month-old Tamara. My grandmother always remembered with warmth and gratitude her father-in-law (Ivan Pavlovich) and mother-in-law (Alexandra), who supported her and helped raise her children. My grandfather returned home in 1944 after numerous injuries, including a severe one to the lungs, on crutches, with an open wound on his back. He was treated with natural remedies, and splinters came out for a long time. My grandfather worked as a chief accountant at a dairy factory, even when the consequences of his injuries confined him to bed, he still continued to work at home, receiving and checking accounting reports. In 1945, my mother was born, and in 1949, another daughter (my aunt) was born. When my grandfather passed away, my mother was only five and a half years old, my mother's elder sister was 12 years old, and the youngest was 1.5 years old. My mother says, that no one had ever loved her as much as her father did, and I knew from childhoodthat iI have lot the best grandfather during the war. My grandfather died very young, when there was no special record of war veterans. My grandfather's awards were not preserved either. I am prowd of my grandfather, his contribution to the Victory in the great Patriotic war, admire his courage. Despite the fact that I didn't know my grandfather personally, I always felt his presence in our lives. My mother and her sisters often speak about their father, and my grandmother used to talk about him. I am also glad that my son (grandfather's great-grandson) is not indifferent to the family's history.On the eve of Victory Day, we talk a lot about the war, and about how strong and courageous our ancestors were. This year, my grandfather will definitely join the ranks of ""fellow soldiers"" in ""Immortal Batalloin"". It is an eternal memory to my grandfather and all those who gaveus the opportunity to live, to love, to raise children and dream about the future."

Rank: Captain. Military branch: Land forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Service, the NKVD troops, Border Guards. Vasily Golovin was born on February 27, 1904 in the village of Ermolino (now-Lyskovsky district of Nizhny Novgorod region) in a peasant family. Graduated from five classes of a rural school, worked on a collective farm. In 1926-1927, he served in the Workers 'and peasants' Red Army, where he graduated from the regimental school of Junior commanders. After demobilization, he lived in Nizhny Novgorod, worked as a riveter at the Krasnoe Sormovo factory. In 1933, he graduated from the evening art school, in 1939 he advanced training courses for reserve commanders. By the beginning of the war, Golovin was already working as an assistant to the head of the food Department at the Krasnoe Sormovo plant. In July 1941, he was re-drafted into the Army. From August 1941, he studied at the courses of political workers at the Gorky anti-aircraft artillery school, and from December of the same year he was a cadet at the military-political school. Since March 1944 he was fighting on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He participated in the Odessa offensive, the liberation of Tiraspol, the Iasi-Kishinev operation, and the liberation of Romania. Since September 1944, the Captain Vasily Golovin was the Deputy commander of the 2nd battalion in the political unit of the 1052nd Rifle Regiment of the 301st Rifle Division of the 5th Shock Army; in this position he fought on the 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He distinguished himself during the fighting on the bridgehead Magnuszewski.On January 14, 1945, in the first hours of the offensive, Golovin's battalion captured two lines of trenches and the village of Vyboruv to the West of Magnushev. In those battles, Golovin led the fighters into the attack and destroyed 12 enemy soldiers. During the day, the battalion advanced 12 kilometers, capturing the locality of Lehanice, capturing large ammunition and weapons depots. Anchored on the heights North of Lehanice, the battalion fought off German counterattacks all day on January 15. During two days of fighting, the battalion destroyed 185 and captured 79 more enemy soldiers and officers, as well as suppressed 30 firing points. On February 19, 1945, Golovin was seriously wounded, and died on February 28 in the hospital of the field evacuation center No. 161.By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 24, 1945, Captain Vasily Golovin was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union for ""exemplary performance of command tasks and courage and heroism in breaking through the defense on the Pilitsa river and fighting on the bridgehead"". He was also awarded the order of Lenin and the ""Red Star"", and a medal."

Rank: Corporal. Born on may 26, 1921 in the village of Klyancheevo, Kam-Ustinsky district of Tatarstan Republic. From an early age, he helped his parents to run the farm. Soon the family was dispossessed and exiled to the construction of the Magnitogorsk plant. The young man was called to the front with the beginning of the war. He was fighting on the North-Western and 1st Belorussian Fronts, as the part of the 138th Separate Motorized Pontoon-bridge Battalion, participated in the crossing of the Oder, Vistula, Elbe rivers, the liberation of Warsaw and other cities, the capture of Berlin. He was wounded, awarded the Order of the ""Red Star"", the Order of ""Patriotic War"", the Medal ""For bravery"", the Medal ""For the liberation of Warsaw"", the Medal ""For the capture of Berlin"", the Medal ""For the victory over Germany"". The war did not end for him On May 9, 1945, and for about a year he participated in the restoration of destroyed cities. Fate saved the soldier and saved his life. He continued working at the plant after returning home in 1946. He married,raised a son and later two grandchildren. For honest and conscientious work, he was awarded the Medal ""Veteran of labor"", numerous certificates and memorable gifts. My grandfather did not like to talk about the war, he told me about halts and lull times, how valuable peace and time between battles was. He could not spend time uselessly, we constantly did something with him in the garden, took care of the plants, built something. Once my grandfather planted a birch tree on the site, my grandmother said that this is a useless tree and it should be removed. ""When I die, then cut it down,"" my grandfather used to say... Now it is a tall and large tree... Time is merciless - on February 29, 2000, Abrar Karimovich passed away. He was a kind, honest, hard-working, and the most nnoble man I kntw! The memory of him will always be cherished in our hearts, and military orders and awards will sparkle brightly in the rays of the sun. I am very proud of my grandfather and I love him. He is always with me! Many Thanks To The Heroism Of The Soldier!"

Rank: Petty Officer of 1 article. Military branch: the Soviet Navy and Naval forces of the NKVD border troops. Taukhit Amirovich Gumerov, was born in 1922. Gumerov Amir Shakirovich was his father. Gumerova Gaziza Sarapulova was his mother. He was born in the village of Kirghiz-Miyaki, Bashkir ASSR. This is the dialog betweem small Taukhit and his father.""Father! I also want to start an independent life like my brother Akhat. I will go to build the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur ""- Taukhit addressed his father. ""But you are only 14 years old"" - said his father Amir-Atay. ""By the time I grow up, they will have built a city without me"" -the son was begging . ""When you grow up, you'll leave,"" the father snapped. ""I'll go anyway""-Taukhit thought stubbornly, and went to his friend. They prepared their escape quickly and in 1936 they ran away to the Aksenovo station. But the friends did not manage to escape: they were returned home. The boy was punished by his father, but the dream of a distant city on the banks of the Amur river and the famous Komsomol construction site remained. Finally he left home and changed the name to Anatolyi for easier pronounciation. The last name was misspelled. So they wrote in the documents ""Gumirov Anatoly Amirovich"". It is not known for sure where he worked - at the shipyard or at the factory. Usual plants were destroyed by the war. On may 14, 1942, Taukhit (Anatoly) was enlisted to the Pacific fleet from Komsomolsk-on-Amur. He served from May 14,1942 to November 7, 1942 in the training unit of the Pacific fleet, where received a specialty of a signalman. From November 12, 1943 to May 10, 1944 he was in the Special Command of the Northern fleet. He took part in the acceptance of ships for the Pacific fleet from the British allies. From may 10 to may 20, 1944, on the destroyer ""hard"" of the Baltic fleet. From May 20, 1944 to July 10, 1945 he served in the Special Command of the Pacific fleet. There he participated in the acceptance of ships for lendlease in Col Bay (USA). From July 10, 1945 to June 8, 1949 he served on the big hunter ship, BO-325 (received on lend-lease). From June 8, 1949 to May 20, 1950 he served on BO-322. The ships were designed tofind and destroy submarines. They guarded vehicles and carried out patrol duty. Petty officer of the 1 article A.Gumirov dismissed to the reserve on May 20,1950. In 1950, he was mobilized in to Tatar ASSR, then returned to his native village of Kirghiz-Miyaki, but again left for the construction of the Pavlovsk hydroelectric power station. Soon he became seriously ill and was injured. He was treated in a military hospital in Ufa, but the disease turned out to be serious, and the wounds received in the war made resulted on the health. In 1954, at the age of 30, uncle Taukhit died and was buried in Ufa. Such a short and eventful life… Participation in the great Komsomol construction project, combat trips on Navy ships during the great Patriotic war – this is a worthy path for everyone. That generationwere true patriots of their homeland. These people worked tirelessly and did not spare their lives, they did not fight for material values, they just believed that they were doing it for the sake of the future of the country and future generations. My uncle left a son, Gennady, born in 1948, who lived with his mother after his father's death and nothing more is known about them."

Rank: Junior Sergeant. Military branch: Aviation. My father, Vyacheslav Matveyevich Gerasimov, was born on March 10, 1921 in the village of Pavlovskoye, Rognedinsky district, Bryansk region. He was drafted into the Army on October 10, 1940. From November 1941, he was fighting in the 5th Air regiment on the Karelian Front. At first, he was a motorist, and then until December 1944, he flew as a Gunner-Bombardier. Their regiment performed dangerous missions to bomb enemy military installations, performed aerial reconnaissance, landed troops behind enemy lines, and flew to the partisans. The 5th Air Regiment liberated Petrozavodsk and Arkhangelsk and V.Gerasimov was awarded the Medal ""For the liberation of the Arctic"". Also, my father was awarded the Order of the ""Red Star"" in 1944, for successfull bombing enemy trains with equipment. In 1945, he was awarded the Medal ""For the Victory over Germany"", and in 1985 received the Order of the ""Patriotic war of 2nd class"". My father devoted his entire life to aviation. After the war, he entered the Kurgan pilot school, graduated from it and became a Civil aviation instructor pilot. Almost the rest of his life, he worked at the Ulyanovsk school of higher flight training of Civil aviation as a commander of the Il-14, Tu-134, and trained many specialists in our country and the COMECON countries. Dad loved his job very much and, therefore, after retiring in 1972, he began working as an instructor pilot on the Tu-154 simulator and worked there until 1995. The grandchildren took his interest, and now one of them flies in Aeroflot as a ship commander, the other works as an air traffic controller in the air traffic control Center of the Moscow air zone, and the younger one became an aviation lifeguard. We are all very proud of our father and grandfather, and we always love and remember him."

Rank: Senior sergeant. Branch of service: Artillery. Division: 310th Novgorod Rifle order of Lenin Red Banner Division. ""Tukhvatulla Zagitovich Gubaidullin taught in our village many children. He was born in 1897 in the village of Novo-Yurty, Omsk region (present- day Parfenovo). His parents died early, and he was brought up by his relatives. In the summer, he fished for floating wood on the Tura river, that was his earning. He went to study at madrassas in winter. In 1915, he went to the fields of the First World War after the revolution, later he participated in the Civil War and only in 1920 returned home, graduated from the pedagogical school. In 1922, Tukhvatulla started working as a teacher in the Salairka village, and since 1935 in his native village. For his ability to find an encouraging word and approach to each student, he was respected not only by children, but also by the adults. In 1942, he left the peaceful work of a teacher and went to war, participated in numerous battles, received several injuries, and returned to his teaching position as a disabled person of the 2nd group of disabitity in 1945. For his military work, Tukhvatulla was awarded the Order of the ""Patriotic war of the 1st class"" and several medals. In 1947-48 he was a teacher in the Lower Tarmans village.Since 1965, he lived in Tyumen and worked as a district inspector for many years. He was a well-balanced, well-educated teacher, who could, if necessary, calm a raging student with a glance and a calm word. Tukhvatulla passed away in 1976, at the age of 78"""

Rank: Red Army soldier. Unit: the 34th Reserve Infantry Division. I am looking for my great-grandfather Mikhail Fyodorovich Golovin (born in 1902), who was found missing probably near Smolensk (according to the memories of his brother's descendants).The place of birth: Kirov Region, Kirov Disctrict, Gubinskyi Area, Sunchikha village. He was drafted into the Army by Kirov enlistment department on May 6,1941 ( probably in 1942). He did not belong to any political party, and the last letter from him was sent from Rirov Region, town Slobodskoi in June, 1942. It is known that for 2 years he was serving in the 282th Reserve Infantry Division, which was really formed like a reserve, was poorly equiped, the soldiers had no uniform and were wearing civil clothers. They were nor given any warm coats in winter, and I hope that my great-grandfather could survive in such conditions. When he served in the 34th Reserve Infantry Devision summer of 1942), for the last time he sent letters back home. He was sent to the active Army in October, 1942. Since then there was no information about his location. His wife Golovina (Okuneva) Maria Semenovna worked on a farm and raised 5 children alone. She tried to look for any information abour her missing husband diring the war and for many years after."

Rank: Red Army soldie.r Branch of the army: Artillery. Unit: 1st Anti-aircraft Artillery Division. Popova Taisa Timofeevna was born in the village of Sukhaya Padina in the Mineralovodsky district of the Stavropol territory in a large family. In 1941 three of her elder brothers were mobilized to the front: Popov Philip Timofeevich (born in 1913) served in the Tank Forces (he died in 1942); Popov Vasily Timofeevich (born in 1917) went through the Great Patriotic war, was demobilized in 1946; the third brother Peter Timofeevich (born in 1920) served in the Infantry, took part in the battle of Stalingrad and the capture of Berlin. He was shell-shocked and seriously wounded during the fighting in Berlin. He died shortly after the end of the war. Taisya Timofeevna was called to the front in February 1944 at the age of 18. She served in the first company of the 16th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment of the Air Defense. Taisya Timofeevna became a Senior Corrector for determining the coordinates of enemy aircraft. Their 31 stations were placed on the car that was standing on the front line. It was Taisya's duty to determine the coordinates of enemy aircraft by ear and transmit information to the anti-aircraft gunners so that they could shoot down enemy aircraft. In the modern army, this function is performed by radar stations. Such stations have not yet been created at that time. With heavy bloody battles, the 16th Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment advanced through the southern territory of the Soviet Union, through Romania and Czechoslovakia. Many friends-fellows were killed. Taisya Timofeevna was wounded in the spine by a fragment of an enemy shell in February 1945. After a short treatment in the hospital, she continued her service in the 16th Regiment. She met the long-awaited Victory day in the Czechoslovak city of Koshitse. She was demobilized in July 1945. After the end of the war, she went through a glorious career."

Rank: Junior Sergeant. Military branch: Artillery. Galkin Ivan was drafted into the Army in May 1941. He began serving in the 295th Guards Machine-gun and Artillery Regiment, located in Western Ukraine, on the Polish border. In June 1941, as part of the Regiment, he took the first battle with the Nazis on the Ukrainian-Polish border as a radio operator (artillery fire spotter). The Regiment retreated towards Belarus, where it was surrounded and almost completely lost. With a small group of soldiers he came out of the encirclement of the Bryansk forests of Belarus.My grandfather told me how they starved in the encirclement but they did not surrender, even without any connection with others. There was a damaged tank In one Belarusian village occupied by the Germans .At night, risking their lives, they pulled out a radio from the tank. He took out the banner of the Regiment from the encirclement, for which he was later awarded the Order of the ""Red Star"".Thanks to the preserved banner, the Regiment was re-formed in the Krasnaya Polyana area. From this period, the Regiment fought from July 1941 to November 1946. He went from the Moscow region to Berlin, participated in the liberation of Belarus,Poland(Warsaw), participated in the battles for the capture of Berlin( there is also an inscription on the wall of the Reichstag). The 295th Guards Regiment fought as part of the 2nd Belorussian front. He participated in the battles for the capture of the bridgehead on the Vistula river, the Oder river, providing uninterrupted communication on the correction of the fire of his Artillery Regiment. He carried out communication across the river on an amphibious vehicle in the battles on the Oder river in Germany. The vehicle was hit by a shell, it almost sank and he had to stand on a battered car in waist-deep water, under enemy bullets and shells for many hours to keep in touch with the Regiment. He took part in the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.For participation in battles on the fronts of the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 he was awarded the Order of the ""Patriotic war of the 1st class"", the Order of the ""Red Star"",the Medal ""For Bravery"", the Medal ""For Military merit"",the Medal ""For the capture of Warsaw"",the Medal ""For the capture of Berlin"",the Medal ""For the Victory over Germany""."