Heroes and feats

Since his childhood, he dreamed to be a military man. Prepared for it. Already in the 8th grade he received GTO and Voroshilov shooter badges. In March 1941, he joined Komsomol. Since the beginning of the occupation during the was, he collected various weapons and ammunition in the fields and hid them. His sister joined an underground organization and recruited a brother. He was assigned to collect weapons. Later they joined the partisan unit “Petrel”. Rostislav was assigned to conduct intelligence and transmit information to the headquarters. The unit was active in the regions. Participated in the "rail" war in 1943 near Kursk. Rostislav received a Partisan ticket. In March 1944, the unit joined the red army. On may 27, Bityanov received a summons to the army. He fought on the first Belorussian front, in the reconnaissance and sabotage platoon, in the 89th Taman red banner division. He fought in Poland, participated in the liberation of Majdanek camp, where he received the order of the red Star. The soldiers and officers of the unit, in which Rostislav Dmitrievich served, became the first in Europe witnesses of the terrible crimes of the fascists in Majdanek. Then he participated in the liberation of Warsaw. Lodzi, Germany. He participated in Berlin operation from the first to the last day. Fights for every street, house, entrance, floor overcame the enemy's resistance. From April 30, 1945, together with other units, they fought fierce battles in The Reichstag. Victory! Betanov signed on the walls of The Reichstag building "Stalingrad — Berlin. Bityanovy". So he fulfilled the order of his father, who fought in Stalingrad and was wounded there. Rostislav Dmitrievich met with the allies on Elbe. After the war, he graduated from the Academy, served on the border, and worke as a teacher in the Academy. After retirement, he devotes a lot of efforts to the Patriotic education of the younger generation. Rostislav Dmitrievich is a member of the district Council of veterans. On November 5, 2019, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora hosted the campaign "I signed the The Reichstag". In the presence and with the active participation of cadets of schools №1161 and №2009, school leaders, the Council of veterans of the district, Rostislav Dmitrievich repeated his painting made on the Reichstag walls in 1945. Moscow media -press and television highlighted this event. Rostislav Dmitrievich wrote a book of memories, which is now in all museums of the region.

Bogachev Fyodor Antonovich Bogachev Fyodor Antonovich was born in an ordinary village family with four children. When he, at the age of 19, just graduated from the Susaninsky RKSH and headed the veterinary station at Kuznetsovsky collective farm, the war started. A young and talented veterinarian was called at the very beginning of the war up. Fyodor Bogachev was assigned to the 5th airborne corps of the red army. For his inquisitive mind, for his zeal for study, he was sent to the Sergeant courses in Ramensk, near Moscow. By nature, he was a very charismatic guy, for which all the guys respected him, even the commanders. On March 5, 1942, the 39th rifle guards division was formed on the basis of the 5th airborne corps under the command of Lieutenant Colonel N. Leshchinin. Exactly this division received its baptism of fire at Stalingrad. They, all the young guys, had the most difficult and responsible task- to defense Stalingrad. The young guard Sergeant Fyodor Bogachev was sent to the very Inferno. Fyodor Bogachev wrote about his feelings and experiences on a piece of paper to send it to his homeland. His article about fighting in Stalingrad was published in a local newspaper. But, unfortunately, the newspaper, along with letters from the front, was destroyed during the fire in the old dilapidated wooden house, and archival searches for a duplicate were not successful. On October 29, 1942, during the defense of Krasny Oktyabr factory, after the death of the commander Fyodor Bogachev was killed during a crossfire. The message about his death came in a letter from Alexey Provorov, his fellow villager. The funeral was a month later. Alexey went through the entire war, and when he returned home, he told Fyodor's mother, Anastasia Ivanovna, how her son died. From the memories of Alexey Provorov, his fellow villager: "We held the defense in the shop of Krasny Oktyabr factory. Small groups of Germans moved around the factory, skirmishes occurred in various areas and communication with other units of the division was completely absent. The commander was seriously wounded, so Fyodor, as the senior officer, was ordered to take command. Another bombardment began from all sides, and then, as if for evil, bombs fell from the sky like a snow. The commander led us to cover. He saved all of us, but he didn't have enough time to hide. He covered all of us and was the last to leave. The blast wave moved him 200 meters far away. When it started to be more calm around, we went to look for the commander. We saw some boots sticking out of the ground, dug up, and found ...Fedor. We buried out commander nearby." That's how the life of Fyodor Antonovich Bogachev, a talented 20-year-old veterinarian, ended. He found his rest far from home on Mamayev Kurgan in Volgograd. And our whole family remembers and honors the memory of our hero.

Koren Ivan Vakulovich began his military career in the red Army during the Civil war in 1920-1922. In the great Patriotic war, from June 1941 to August 1943, he fought with the Nazis on the territory of Ukraine as part of a partisan detachment. During the liberation of Chernigov region by the red Army in August 1943, he was drafted Bobrovitskiy RVC and later fought on Voronezh front as a guard soldier of the 1st infantry battalion of the 41st infantry regiment of 75th Bakhmach infantry division. In the battles in Kiev direction, advancing in the first ranks with rifle fire and in hand-to-hand combat, he destroyed 5 Hitlerites. For this feat, he was awarded a medal "for bravery" on 28.10.1943. On November 3, 1943, he was wounded. After retraining, he was appointed as a sapper in the mine engineering roth of the 19th red banner mechanized brigade named after the order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the II degree. On April 17, 1944, during the defense of the area of Ostrino, being a part of the group of five men on the front line, he personally set 26 anti-tank mines under heavy mortar and machine-gun fire, and on April 19, 1944, under the fire of suitable enemy tanks with a group of sappers, he blew up a bridge in Torgovitsy village and this action helped to prevent crossing the river by enemy tanks. For this feat, on may 24, 1944, he was awarded the second medal "for bravery". From July 30 to August 3, 1944, during the offensive, when our troops crossed Vistula river, he ferried 30 red army soldiers by boa and took an active part in ferry crossing of the 67th tank regiment. For this feat, on August 15, 1944, he was awarded the third medal "for bravery". On January 21, 1945, when crossing the Warta river near Slavek village, , he repeatedly threw himself into the icy water under enemy fire in order to search for a ford across the river for the tanks’ corps. For this feat, he was awarded the order of the Red Star on February 22, 1945. In street battles in Berlin, being a commander of a squad of sappers in an assault group, he ensured the advance of Soviet tanks. At the intersection of Bulowstrasse and Motzstrasse, under heavy enemy fire, he blew up a fortified barricade with firing points. In this battle he was seriously wounded. For this feat, he was awarded the order of the Patriotic war of the II degree. In 1946, he was awarded the medal "for victory over Germany", and in 1947 - awarded the medal "for capture of Berlin".

After the graduation from the high school, Nikolai was sent to study in the Melitopol aviation school. He graduated it with honors and was left there as a Navigator-instructor. The war found him there. On August 10, 1941, the headquarters of the reserve army of the Southern front, commanded by Lieutenant General N. E. Chibisov, received a message that several tanks and motorized divisions from Von Kleist's first Panzer army were concentrated in the area of Krivoy Rog and Pyatikhatka, waiting for fuel for a further rush to the East... This morning, no one in the aviation school did not assume that at these hours the head of the Melitopol aviation school, Lieutenant Colonel T. L. Ryabchenko, received an order to urgently form an aviation division. He had create it on the basis of the Melitopol and Pavlograd aviation schools under the command of Colonel V. I. Chaikin, the commander of the reserve army air force. Only 18 hours passed from the the command "Alarm!» till the the first combat flights of young cadets. The division was named "SHAD" (School aviation division), which was armed with 76 obsolete aircraft. There were not enough cars for all the crews, but the pilots and technicians managed to repair eight damaged cars that were already in the aircraft cemetery. The front command set the task to the "SHAD" combat task: destroy the echelons and columns of fuel tanks on the way to Panzer divisions of von Kleist. The southern front command decided to disrupt the German tank units offensive in the direction of Dnepropetrovsk, Donbass, and Rostov-on-don. On August 12, SHAD dropped its first bomb on the tanks and fuel tanks in Kryvoy Rog area. The fascist command immediately took measures to cover its tank units, columns and fuel trains. Many aircrafts in "SHAD" combat wer vulnerable to "messershmitt-109". By August 15, "SHAD” had suffered heavy losses, and on August 20, after only 10 days, it was disbanded. But it contributed to the defeat of enemy tank units and enemy columns with fuel at Krivoy Rog and Apostolovo station. The feat of cadets from the School aviation division was given at a high price - 166 young men gave their lives to fulfill their duty to the Motherland. The August days of 1941 opened a new page in the life of Nikolai Koshelev, and there was a long war ahead. During the period of combat operations, Nikolai made: 661 combat flights at night, 32 combat flights during the day. Total: 693 sorties flying, 1073 hours and 45 minutes. In 1946 Nikolai Koshelev was discharged from the army and in 1947 entered the mechanical faculty of the Moscow state technical University named after Gubkin. Nikolai was older than many of his fellow students. A veteran of the great Patriotic war, he enjoyed a well-deserved reputation among students and teachers of the Institute. He went to classes in an officer's tunic (he simply did not have civilian clothes) with a flight tablet instead of a briefcase. He was still a student, when he was elected as a Chairman of the trade Union Committee of the Institute. There was active study and a lot of social work. After graduation from the Institute, Nikolai Koshelev was left in postgraduate school, and from 1955 he began his teaching experience-assistant, senior teacher, associate Professor, Professor. Since 1959 he was appointed Dean of the evening faculty, and in 1963 - Dean of the mechanical faculty of the I. M. Gubkin Minhigp. He served as Dean until 1973. In 1973, N. N. Koshelev was elected as a Head of Department of production of gas-petrochemical equipment and hot metal processing, where under the leadership of the former head E. M. Kuzmak, he began his scientific activities. He worked in this Department until the last day of his life.

Kruglov Nikolay Vasilyevich was born on 23.12.1926, in Maryevka, Bogdashkinsky district (now Tsilninsky district), Ulyanovsk region. In 1943, when he was a seventeen-year-old boy, Nikolai Vasilyevich went to the front as a volunteer. After short-term courses at a sniper school located in Inza, Nikolai Kruglov was enlisted in the 1st Baltic front. Participated in the liberation of Belarus, the Baltic republics, and East Prussia. In the fighting, Nikolai Vasilyevich received several wounds. The first was shrapnel-in the head and in the leg, which he received in October 1944 on the territory of Lithuania. His comrades carried him out of the battlefield. The treatment was delayed for a month and a half. After the restoration, Nikolai Vasilyevich managed to catch up and fought as a member of the 1st Baltic front until the next wound, which was heavier than the first one. The explosive bullet damaged the hip joint, which led Nikolai Vasilyevich to disability for life. In April 1945, there were long battles. The Germans were pushed to the Baltic sea, which was only a few kilometers away. The command ordered to clarify the location of the enemy's military units in order to deliver a fatal blow to the German group entrenched on this bridgehead. On April 23, 1945, a group of scouts from five fighters left to complete the task in the rear of the Nazis. The group included Nikolai Kruglov and his countryman Alexey Tselovalnikov. The task could not be completed until the end: the group was ambushed. Three soldiers were killed on the spot, fellow countryman Nikolai Vasilyevich was seriously wounded in the chest. N. V. Kruglov took him into the safe place and bandaged his wound. On the radio, they asked for support. The gunners came to the rescue. But Nikolai Vasilyevich was also wounded there. He, as well as a friend, bleeding, was carried out by fellow soldiers who arrived in time and delivered them to the hospital. Later, Nikolai Vasilyevich was transported to to Murom in Vladimir region, where he met the hour of Victory. Nikolai Vasilyevich was discharged from the hospital only in 1946. He was declared, disabled and unfit for service. For bravery in battle Kruglov Nikolay Vasilyevich awarded the Order of Patriotic war of the I degree, medal of Zhukov, medal for Victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945, the medal "For valor and Victory in world war II", mark "Veteran". After the war, despite the fact that Nikolai limped all his life, he was one of the best workers. He worked as an accountant, farm Manager, warehouse Manager. N. V. Kruglov retired from the position of Manager of the Kashinsky Department of Tsilninsky special farm. He was a veteran of labor, an Honored collective farmer, a Deputy of Tsilninsky village Council, the winner of the soviet competitions. Nikolai Kruglov died at the age of 91 on 17.09.2018.

Leonid Kudryashov was born on may 23, 1916 in Mologa, Yaroslavl province (now this territory is flooded by Rybinsk reservoir). Until 1942, his biography is almost unknown. From 03.1942 to 05.1945 he was a member of the 58th rifle division of the 170th rifle regiment (this information was obtained from the military enlistment office in Rybinsk (letter from 10.09.2019, No. 4/2/1395). Leonid Kudryashov finished the Great Patriotic war with the rank of petty officer. After the end of the war, Leonid Kudryashov got married. On October 25, 1946, his son, Alexander Leonidovich Kudryashov, was born. From the end of 1945 to 1953, nothing is known about the fate of Leonid Kudryashov. In 1953, he returned to Rybinsk, to his family. From 1953 to 1958, Leonid Kudryashov worked at the printing machine factory in Rybinsk. From 1958 to 1962, he went to Kazakhstan to develop virgin lands with the family. In 1962, he returned to Rybinsk, worked at the engine-building plant almost to his death, on August 4, 1981. In civilian life, he was awarded the medal "veteran of labor". 2. Information about the battles: Leonid Kudryashov fought in the Active army in the period from 03.1942 to 05.1945, as a member of the 58th rifle division of the 170th rifle regiment (this information was obtained from the military enlistment office of Rybinsk (letter from 10.09.2019, No. 4/2/1395). Leonid Kudryashov finished the Great Patriotic war with the rank of petty officer. He fought under the command of Marshal Ivan Konev until the end of the war. As part of the 1st Ukrainian front, he participated in the liberation of Smolensk, Kiev, Volyn, Lviv regions; in Korsun-Shevchenko operation. He liberated Poland and took part in Berlin and Prague operations. I met Victory day in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia. Leonid Kudryashov ended the great Patriotic war in may 1945, after the operation in Prague. 3. information about awards: during the great Patriotic war, Leonid Kudryashov was awarded the order of the red Star, the order of Glory of the III degree, and two medals "for bravery". He was also awarded the medals "for the liberation of Warsaw", "for the liberation of Prague", "for the capture of Berlin". The 58th division's battle route did not pass through Leningrad, but he had a medal "for the defense of Leningrad". Leonid Kudryashov had a commemorative medal for the 30th anniversary of Khalkhin-Gol victory. Also Alexander Kudryashov, the son of Leonid Kudryashov, heard the story of his father's participation in this operation.

Nikolai Kuzmich Korshunov was born in 1922. Brief military autobiography. At the beginning of the war, I served in the Caspian flotilla, but when the enemy approached the capital of our homeland, Moscow, and there was a threat for Moscow, a 75th naval brigade was formed from the sailors of the Caspian fleet and transferred to protect the city. On November 20, 1941, our troops launched an offensive on the Western Kalinin front, and our brigade led an offensive to Mozhaisk. Our fighting impulse was so high that the Germans could not hold back our onslaught. I fought as an ordinary sailor in a company of submachine gunners. The Germans suffered huge losses, but our losses were also significant. After the liberation of Mozhaisk, our brigade was transferred to the Kalinin front, liberated Kalinin, Bologoe, and continued the offensive in the North-West direction to Kholm. During the fights, I was promoted to the rank of senior Sergeant and appointed to the position of a platoon commander. Under the city of Holm there were very fierce battles, the locality of Tarakanovka passed three times in one day to the Germans, then to us. By the end of the day, we had to leave the village, where only 7 houses left, and only 9 people left from the battalion. For 6 months of combat operations, we were awarded the guards rank and the brigade became known as the "Third guards marine brigade". At the beginning of may 1942, we were taken to rest, where on the basis of the brigade the 27th division was formed, and in July we were transferred to defense Stalingrad. They took up the area of Kotluban state farm and fought fierce battles for every meter of land. I had to fight three or four attacks per day off. At that time I was in command of a machine-gun platoon and was supporting a company that was defending a small height with fire. The Germans launched numerous attacks, and every time we were repulsed with heavy losses for them. During the defensive battles, we did not retreat a single meter. For these battles, I was awarded the rank of officer and the order of the red star. On November 19, 1942, our troops went to the attack, the enemy was surrounded, suffering huge losses in manpower and equipment. On February 2, 1943, the encircled army surrendered. In March 1943, we were transferred to the Central front, to Kursk bulge, near Sevsk, where we were preparing for the upcoming battles. I was appointed Deputy company commander, but did not stay there for a long, just until July 1943, and did not participate in the Grand battle. I was sent to the airborne troops, to a special group. Three months of training and then twice thrown behind the front line. In March 1944, after completing the task, when the group returned to the location of its troops, we were raided by German aircraft. I was shell-shocked. After the hospital, I did not return to the paratroopers and was sent to the second Belorussian front in the 78th anti-aircraft artillery division of the 34th anti-aircraft machine gun regiment, where remained until the end of the war. I ended the war in Poland, in the city of Gdansk.

We remember. We are proud! There are no families in Russia whose ancestors did not fight in the great Patriotic war, did not survive all this horror, all the grief of losses and fear. Every family carefully preserves the memories of loved ones and about the price of the Victory. The memory of the high price paid with the blood and lives of previous generations will remain in the hearts of future generations forever. My great-grandfather, Alexey Krivolapov, born in 1915, was one of those who fought for the Motherland. He was called up in September 1943 to serve in the 1091 rifle regiment of the 324th rifle division of the 2nd Belorussian Front. My great-grandfather didn't like to share memories of the war. But one of the military episodes of his life still remained in the memory of his relatives. The East Prussian offensive in which my great-grandfather participated was, in his words, "a living hell": an avalanche of fire, the ground "reared up", fierce battles for every locality. Here is what he said about the battle for the village of Reichenberg, which happened on February 3, 1945: "Cold, snow, twenty-five degrees of frost. Every degree is felt: the frost "bites" the face, fingers and toes get cold. Artillery strikes continuously. A moment, then another, and the soldiers were out of the trench. Cheers rang out all over the field. And at that moment, communication with the headquarters was interrupted. It is the telephone operator's duty to correct the impulse, that is, mine. Without communication in battle – "as without hands". You go on a mission, and shells are exploding around you, bullets are whistling. You go and think, whether the shell damaged the wire, or the fascist specifically cut it. If the latter, then he will be definitely waiting somewhere near the machine gun. Therefore, you go carefully, as in intelligence: you must complete the task, and for this, first of all, you must remain alive. In this battle, the connection had to be restored six times. During the sixth sortie, I was shell-shocked, but I completed the task: I managed to connect the wires, holding them tightly in my hand. "For completing this task, my great-grandfather was awarded the medal for bravery. There were more fights ahead: Konigsberg and others. In one of them, my great-grandfather was seriously injured. A shell fragment after this injury, he carried for the rest of his life. Every spring, the shard began to "move". "Echo of war" made me remember that "bloody meat grinder" over and over again. In these moments he told us: "If it wasn't for my family, I wouldn't have survived. It was the thought of having a wife and son at home that made me more strong." After the war, my great-grandfather returned home, recovered at the pedagogical Institute, graduated from it and worked until retirement as a geography teacher. Unfortunately, my great-grandfather is no longer with us. He died on February 9, 2002: the "echo of war" still reached the heart. He was buried in Razdolnoe… Even if all the archives, all the literary works about the war are burned, the memories of those to whom we owe our lives will still remain in the memory of every family. Low bow to them for this! We remember. We are proud!

Anatoly Krasnov was born on April 22, 1917 in the village of Belkino, Gzhatsky uyezd, Smolensk region. Anatoly's parents were farmers who grew bread and apples. There were many apple trees in the manor. They soaked the apples and sold the surplus. In 1935 Anatoly Grigoryevich married Fedoseeva Klavdia Ivanovna. In 1936 a daughter, Nina, was born in the family, and in 1938 a daughter, Alexandra, was born. The young man was interested in technology, and from his youth he began to master the profession of a tractor driver. Worked in MTS Gzhatsk, the first tractor was the so-called "Kolesnik" with spikes on iron wheels. When the second world war began, Anatoly was harvesting in the fields of the district. In August 1941, when there was a threat of occupation, Anatoly volunteered for the front and was assigned to the 222nd artillery regiment. During the fighting, he was wounded in the left and right hands, and received shrapnel in the leg. In December 1941, Anatoly Grigoryevich went on the offensive near Moscow and was seriously wounded and shell-shocked, he was miraculously pulled out of the battlefield and sent to the Urals. He woke up in the hospital in the city of Krasnoufimsk. It turned out that on the way he was ill with typhoid, but survived. They treated him and sent him home for six months. His native village was occupied by the Nazis, and in the spring of 1942, he went to Orekhovo-Zuyevo to visit his sister. There his profession came in handy, and he again sat down at the tractor: plowed, sowed, harvested. In September 1942, he returned to the active army in the 150th rifle division as a Rifleman. From June 1943, he served as a chemist and chemical instructor in the 129th mortar regiment. Anatoly Grigoryevich met the end of the war in the victorious may of 1945 in Kaliningrad. He was preparing to return home, where there was devastation and famine and his wife, mother and two daughters were waiting for him, his father died during the occupation. But a new order was given and he was sent to the far East to fight the Japanese. We drove for a long time across the country, the trip lasted more than a month. Especially Anatolia was memorable for the magnificent lake Baikal. There was still a lot in Anatoly Grigoryevich's life during that war, but in July 1946 he returned home with the rank of Junior Sergeant. There was no time to rest, so he got back on the tractor. For 35 years, Anatoly Grigoryevich plowed, sowed, harvested, and transported wood for housing construction. For service and conscientious work, he was awarded the order of the Red Star and the Badge of honor, and medals: for military merit, for the victory over Germany, for the victory over Japan. In 1986, Anatoly Grigoryevich died, he was killed by a bandit in the courtyard of his house in the village of Belkino.

Alexey Nikolaevich Kurilov was born in December 1914 in the village of Ditenskaya in Kharovsky district of Vologda region. After finishing seven-years school, he worked as an accountant. Served in army. In Leningrad, he got married and had children. He was called up from Smykovo in Novotorzhsky district of Tver region, where he was on the vacation with his family in his wife's homeland. As soon as he heard about the start of the war, he immediately volunteered for a recruiting station in the village of Talozhnya in the same district. He was 26 years old. His pregnant wife with two small children stayed in the village. The family returned to Leningrad only after the war, and just a few of their property remained there. Kurilov A. N. fought on the Western, Central, Voronezh, 1 Ukrainian, 4 Ukrainian fronts. The front commanders were Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Vatutin, Konev. He served as a foreman, a calculator in top-calculating platoon, went to intelligence, made a map reference for artillery, also in severe natural conditions of Kursk magnetic anomaly. Alexey Nikolaevich walked along the military roads of Moscow, through the Kursk bulge, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia and Poland. Risking his life, he liberated Ukrainian villages and cities from the Nazi invaders: Chernobyl, Sychevka village (malinsky district of Zhytomyr region), Dymer - (Vyshgorod district of Kiev region), Tarnopol. From the characteristics of the senior management for the foreman of the 1st devision of 886 ATKOK regiment Kurilov A. N.: "01.10.1943 in the battles for Chernobyl a cluster of enemy tanks and armored vehicles, preparing for a counterattack, were found, so the guns on direct fire were exposed in dangerous direction." (He wrote that 8 of our tanks were hit and set on fire during the battle. The Germans took the remaining Soviet soldiers on an armored personnel carrier, including him. He jumped over the side into the ravine at the full speed, setting an example to other fighters. In the same way, 5 soldiers and commanders escaped capture and destruction). On 03.11.1943, breaking through the enemy's defenses near Sychevka, he arrived at night and by the light of firelight produced combat documentation, and before the start of the training revealed 1 min. battery and 2 machine-gun points of the enemy. On 06.11.1943, in the battles for Dymer he found and spotted the enemy, which was later suppressed. On 08.03.1944 under Tarnopol in front of the enemy and under heavy artillery fire he made topo-binding of the division and batteries and by extending its course to the side up to 1.5 km, he misled the enemy, who concentrated artillery fire on an empty place. Commander-in-chief I. V. Stalin announced 11 thanks to the 322 Rifle Zhytomyr red banner division named after Suvorov, including 886 Artillery Tarnopol red Banner regiment named after the order of Kutuzov and personally to Kurilov A. N. for the liberation of the Soviet cities of Zhytomyr, Yampol, Tarnopol, Zlochev, Lviv; for the liberation of the Polish cities of Dembice, Krakow; for the liberation of the Czechoslovak cities: Opava, Moravian-Ostrava, Olomouc and for the capture of the German city of Ratibor. His comrades are together with him in the military photos. Here are their surnames: Akentev, Ivanov, Denisov, Kolobkov, Zharkova, Orlik, Popov, Bibikov, Kushnarenko, Stulov, Yurchuk, Garbuzenko, Roslov, Novitsky, Belyaev. All the fighters were photographed by Mykola Polishchuk, who was also often photographed himself. Kurilov A. N. finished his service in September 1945 in Germany. He was awarded the Order and medals, certificates. Always modestly silent, and only on the holiday of may 9, when guests were present, he recalled the previous years of the war. In his stories, he always spoke with respect about other peoples, considering the Soviet Army exclusively liberating in relation to European countries.

Karaichev Vasily Nikolaevich Vasily Nikolaevich was born on October 17, 1924 in Titchikha in Davydovsky district of Voronezh region. In June 1941, he was 16 years old. By that time, he had completed 8 classes and worked in the collective farm as a foreman of the garden brigade. On June 23, 1941, he and his peers went to the military enlistment office to enlist as volunteers in the Red Army. They were returned home, explaining that they were rejected due to their young age. Then they went to the village Council with the intention to change the date of birth. They managed to convince the Secretary, and their request was excepted. A certificate, which confirmed that the year of their birth was 1923, was issued for the military enlistment office. On June 24, 1941, Davydovsky district military Commissariat of Voronezh region sent Vasily Nikolaevich Karaichev to Oryol infantry school. In October 1941, the infantry school (it was located at that time in Central Asia – Chardzhou) was partially transformed into the 36th cadet brigade and sent for the defense of Moscow. The defense was held as part of the 16th army in Rozhdestveno in Istra direction. In December, the Red army went to attack and on December 24, 1941, Vasily Nikolaevich injured the left shoulder with the bone damage by the blind shrapnel. With this injury, he was hospitalized in 104 PPG 4616, and later EG 1077, where he was treated until March 18, 1942. From April to August 1942 after leaving a hospital, Vasily Nikolaevich had been taking the courses of a Junior Lieutenant in the South Ural military district. He graduated them with the rank of Lieutenant and was appointed a commander of a rifle platoon. The next stage of participation in the great Patriotic War took place near Stalingrad from September to February 1942. During one of the battles, he was seriously injured his head. The result was a contusion and loss of the left eye. Then he appeared in Chardzhou again. But this time he was there in the emergency room. There he was cured until 1946. After each injury, he was considered dead and funeral letters were sent to his family. During fighting he was awarded the " order of the Patriotic War of the first degree and the medal "for the defense of Stalingrad". After the end of the war in 1946, Vasily entered the Khvorostanskoe pedagogical school, located in Davydovsky district of Voronezh region. He graduated with honors and was assigned to Chita region. There he was appointed a Director of the seven-years school of non-Vyatka Kalarsky district. Here he met Maria Feodorovna Pavlova. They were married in 1951. Four children were born: Sergey, Natalia, Svetlana and Tatiana. In 1958, he was appointed a Director of the secondary school of Darasun resort of TRANS-Baikal military district, and in 1960 he became a Director of Urulga orphanage of Kalarsky district of Chita region. He entered the Chita pedagogical Institute. In 1964, he and his family moved to the village of Lychentsy in Pereslavsky district of Yaroslavl region. In 1965, he graduated from the Yaroslavl pedagogical Institute named after Ushinsky. From 1964 to 1987 worked as a teacher in Licenskey eight-years school. For labor achievements, he was awarded the badge "excellent student of education", certificates of the Ministry of education and other certificates. He was an honored teacher of the USSR. Vasily Nikolaevich was actively engaged in public activities. For many years, he was elected as a Deputy of the village Council. He was an assessor in the people's court. He did a lot of work on Patriotic and cared of the physical education of the younger generation: he went hiking with students, initiated many regional sports meetings of the rural school students, and shared with them his memories of the great Patriotic War. He read lectures for adults through the "Knowledge" society. He died in 2012 at the age

Kuligin Sergey Alexandrovich 15.03.1940 was called up for military service, which took place in the signal forces on Kola Peninsula. When the war began, he stood for the Motherland defence up. 10.06.1943 during one of the battles with the enemy in Leningrad, Sergei Alexandrovich was crushed his left leg-a wound. He was cured in a hospital in Leningrad, and his leg was saved finally. Sergey Alexandrovich went through a difficult time in the besieged city. In many battles, he fought with the enemy for the liberation of his homeland. 11.08.1944 in the battle to capture Permiskul-Saar island he proved to be a fearless signalman. When conducting a line across Narva river under enemy artillery mortar fire, he courageously unwound the telephone cable and loaded it to the bottom of the river. At that moment, an enemy shell exploded nearby, concussing Sergei Alexandrovich and breaking him through the side of the boat, which began to fill with water. Tearing his tunic, he plugged the hole, and not paying attention to the pain, continued to perform the task. His actions allowed to lay the line and save the property of communications and devices. For his courage and bravery, Sergey Alexandrovich was awarded the order of Glory of the III degree. So, step by step, he was able to reach Berlin and celebrate the Great victory. Sergei Alexandrovich did not return home immediately. After the war, he had to wait a long time when the railway tracks would be restored. Only after that he came to his father's house. Some time later, he married and had two children: a daughter and a son. So, until 1994, Sergey Alexandrovich lived with his beloved family, saw his granddaughters. And he didn't want to remember those terrible days. Sergey Kuligin was awarded several times: the medal "for the defense of Leningrad" - 10.09.1943; the medal "for bravery" - 26.01.1944; Order of Glory of the III degree-30.08.1944; Medal "for the victory over Germany" - 31.12.1945; order of the Patriotic war of the I degree-March 1985; as well as six anniversary medals. In addition, Sergey Alexandrovich was twice declared for excellent combat actions by the letter of commendation: on 11.06.1944 when breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses on Karelian isthmus and on 25.11.1944 in the battles for the liberation of Saaremaa (Ezel) island.

Junior Lieutenant Vladimir Antonovich Korovin was born in the family of teachers in the village of Novoalekseyevka, Zaporozhye region. He was the youngest, fourth son. He graduated from the ten-years school in Kremenchug. He was a cheerful and optimistic person. He loved music, played the accordion, violin and guitar well. But the main hobby was poetry. Before the war, he entered the University of Dnepropetrovsk, but soon was called up. The family did not know for a long time how Vladimir died. His older brother Yevgeny Antonovich Korovin, a military journalist, learned the circumstances of his death from a colleague of his brother. Colonel Nikolai Yegorovich Boranenkov, an employee of the Red Star party Department, a member of the Union of writers of the USSR, a front-line friend of Vladimir Korovin, with whom he served in the same regiment, told the circumstances of his death near Staraya Russa: "I remember a frosty January night in 1942. Ilmen lake, constrained by the ice, Lovat river Lovat, covered with the snow.. We, Kombat Velichko, a chief of the staff senior Lieutenant Shapovalenko, medical officer Sergeant Krolenkov, platoon commander Junior Lieutenant Korovin and I, political officer of the company of machine gunners, were in the column of the 188th rifle division. Suddenly Volodya touched my shoulder and said: "There is a new poem - "Letter to my son". Listen: “Night, trenches, bushes and trees, Moonlight over the expanse of plains. Somewhere in a remote seaside village, my little son is growing up. Without me, he grew up healthy, My dear writes in the letters That he is just like me, black-browed And just as mischievous as I am. And the other day, on the clean envelope, he Wrote with a child's hand: "Dear dad, smash all the fascists And come home soon." Dear son, we are going to attack, There is no time to tell everything. And we will definitely break the fascist carrion dog, son.” I knew that Volodya had no wife or son, but there had a bride. He wanted to return to his native village, but... We splitted into divisions up. Only later I got to know that the battalion in which Vladimir fought was surrounded in the night battle for Staraya Russa and almost all were killed. The Nazis of the Jaeger regiment burned in houses even the wounded people. Only Shapovalenko and Krolenkov escaped from the encirclement. They told about the fate of Vladimir Korovin. In the last minutes of the battle, battalion commander Velichko, trying to save the poet, ordered him to break through to his own. But a vile bullet mowed down Volodya." "Hello, dear Zhenya and Marusya! Happy new year, 1942! You are the only people I can write to right now. We met the last years differently. German shells are bursting somewhere nearby. Our room is noisy and fun... They write letters, play chess, checkers, and the balalaika rings. What are you doing now? Where is the family? A great anger is boiling in my chest. Vile monsters are rampaging on our land. But the time of reckoning is coming. Oh, it will be a wonderful time and let us die, perhaps in a deadly battle with the enemy, but I believe that others will continue our work and achieve complete victory ... I wish you health and happiness in the new year. Write and don't forget. In early January 1942, second Lieutenant Vladimir Antonovich Korovin wrote this letter and sent it to Vladivistok, for his brother Yevgeny Korovin, a naval journalist. He couldn't write at home. The village of Novoalekseyevka in the Zaporozhye region, where the father and mother lived, was under the heel of the invaders. This letter was his last one.

My grandfather, Kraysik Anton Antonovich, was born on may 20, 1897 in the village of Menshiye Mozhary in Sapozhsk district of Ryazan province in a middle-class family. He received basic education in a rural school, after he entered the Morshansk real school and finished it in may 1916. As a volunteer, he was drafted into the tsarist army and sent to the Alekseyev military school in May of the same year. After the graduation with the rank of ensign in February 1917, he was assigned to the 65th regiment as a platoon officer. In August, he was sent to the front of the 536 Yefremov regiment of the 10th army. During the February revolution he was demobilized and, after returning home, entered the military Commissariat as a General education instructor. So he began his service in the Red army. In 1921 he was sent to Moscow to the higher military chemical school and graduated from it in 1922. Since then, my grandfather's service has been associated with chemical protection. He quickly passed a way from the head of Chemical service of the regiment to the head of Chemical service of the corps, constantly improving the technical level. He worked as a military representative in factories. In 1938 he graduated from the Military Academy of the chemical protection of the red army named after Voroshilov, where he worked as a teacher until his retirement in 1954. During the great Patriotic war, he did not participate in combat operations because of his age. From 1941 to 1943 the Academy was evacuated in Uzbekistan. Krajcik A. A. taught the course of chemical protection in the military artillery Academy named after Dzerzhinsky, that he evacuated to Samarkand. After returning to Moscow in 1944, he was appointed a military representative to the Tula factory. In 1948, he returned as a teacher back to his native Academy. After leaving the reserve, he worked for many years as a teacher at the Mendeleev Institute of the chemical technologies. During many years of teaching, he has trained many specialists both for service in the chemical defense forces and for work in the chemical industry. For his work in the period from 1944-1946. Kreisik A. A. was awarded the order of Lenin, two orders of the red banner, the medal "for military merit" and other commemorative medals.

Anatoly Vasilievich Kokorin was born on March 5, 1921, in the city of Veliky Ustyug, Vologda region, in a large working-class family. In 1939, he graduated from the Ustyug school of the Federal law school, at the NATSFLOT plant, as a ship mechanic and was drafted into the Navy. Got to the Northern Fleet in Murmansk region. The Northern fleet was the youngest and smallest, but at the same time the most active operational unit of our Navy. The capture of the North-Eastern coast of Norway by German-fascist troops, which had idented coastline, made easier to use sea communications along this coast for the enemy. In addition, the proximity of Murmansk and Polyarny to the border with Norway, favored the actions of the fascist air force. During the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 the Northern fleet defended the coast, Sredny and Rybachy peninsulas, provided internal and external sea transportation against these bases and the base in Murmansk. The first air raids were carried out by the fascist aviation on the night of June 22, 1941. The war in the Arctic began with massive bombing of cities, settlements, industrial enterprises, border outposts and naval bases. Active military operations in the North of Kola Peninsula began on June 29, 1941. The main attacks of the enemy were in the direction of Murmansk. The port in Murmansk became a gateway through which tanks, planes, cars, locomotives and other materials, required by the country to fight fascism, were continuously delivered. The ship that Anatoly Vasilyevich with the rank of chief petty officer served on, carried tanks, planes, cars, locomotives and other materials necessary for the country to fight fascism. Escorted allied convoys from Arkhangelsk and Murmansk to Iceland. They deactivated sea mines and performed various tasks. The 14th army and the Northern fleet thwarted the plans of the German-fascist command to capture Murmansk and the entire Kola Peninsula, which was of great importance for the subsequent course of the war not only in Murmansk direction, but also on the entire Soviet-German front. Having defended the Soviet Arctic, the army and Navy strengthened the Northern flank of the Soviet-German front and preserved the shortest external sea communications of the Soviet Union with the countries of the anti-fascist coalition. Since 1942, the main task of the Northern fleet has been to protect sea communications between Britain and the Soviet Union, as well as internal communications between Kola Bay and the White sea, the Northern sea route in the Western sector of the Arctic. In addition, the fleet operated in the enemy's sea communications along the coast of Northern Norway, disrupting its transportation. Kokorin A.V. was awarded: - the order of the red star, - the medal "for the defense of the Soviet Arctic" and other medals. Unfortunately, I can't list all the awards of Anatoly Vasilyevich, because they were lost. After the war, he returned to his native city and graduated from the river school with a degree in electric welding. He worked at a shipyard. In 1960 he was transferred to work as an electric welder at the Zhatay ship repair plant in YASSR. Together with my grandmother, Rudometkin Valentina Pavlovna, he had six children, all of them became the decent citizens. My grandfather died at the age of 42, on June 13, 1962.