Heroes and feats

Division: 339th rifle Rostov-Taman Brandenburg Red Banner division of the Suvorov order. Gulsum served in the 339th rifle Taman Red Banner division. For several days without sleep and rest, she provided assistance to the wounded who were participating in the liberation of Kuban from the fascist "demons", for which she was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". "A disciplined, efficient surgeon, who was energetic and indefatigable while providing qualified assistance..." – this is how the twenty-seven-year-old Gulsum was described in the award list of September 24, 1943. In 1944, during the division's landing on the Kerch Peninsula, my great-grandmother was in the front group. Under enemy artillery and mortar fire, she provided surgical assistance. During the division's liberation of Crimea, Gulsum saved the lives of three thousand wounded soldiers. For this feat, she was awarded the order of the Red Star. More than once, Gulsum's life was at risk, but she had never abandoned her position of a military surgeon. So she remained during the crossing of the Oder river, when she provided surgical assistance under open fire. "Comrade Kostrova proved to be an experienced specialist and a calm, undaunted worker," and saved the lives of 190 Red Army soldiers. So it was on the night of January 13-14, 1945, when enemy artillery fire hit the location of the medical unit. The roof of the tent, where my great-grandmother was performing surgery, was riddled with shards. But Gulsum was not frightened and continued to help the wounded soldiers. "With her exemplary efficiency, comrade Kostrova inspired the team, contributing to high-quality treatment of the wounded." Gulsum Suleymanovna was awarded a valiant award - the order of the Patriotic War of the II degree for her fearlessness, courage, and maternal care for the wounded soldiers. And in the victorious May of 1945, she was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus" by the Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards’ Commander of the 339th rifle division of Taman, Major General Gavriil Tarasovich Vasilenko.

Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, NKVD border troops. Division: 284th rifle division (1st formation). Vladlen Egorovich Kvashnin is a Hero of War. My great-grandfather id a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, infantryman, knight of the order of Glory of the III degree, of the order of the Red Star, of the order of the Patriotic War of II degree, order of Patriotic War of the I degree. Despite all the difficulties and hardships that had to be endured during the war of 1941-1945, great-grandfather considers himself a happy person. He had to fight four times as part of the 284-79 guards’ order-bearing Zaporozhye division, which being part of the 62-8 guards’ army of V. I. Chuikov, fought its way from Stalingrad to Berlin. The division was formed in Tomsk in 1941 from Komsomol members and the youth of Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo regions, and the Altai territory. After its formation, it left for the Bryansk frontline. After intense combat at Kostornaya station, the division was withdrawn to Krasnoufimsk for reformation. Here, the sailors of the Pacific fleet joined the division. In September 1942, the division recaptured Mamayev Kurgan from the Nazis and defended this important mount until the end of the battle of Stalingrad. My great-grandfather recalls: "The view of the city on this night has been ingrained into my memory for a lifetime. The entire wide channel of the Volga river was engulfed in bright flames: oil, diesel fuel, and gasoline, which seeped from the oil storage as a result of bombing and shelling, was burning. The signalmen and part of the sapper battalion were the first to cross. The rest of the units followed, under heavy artillery and mortar fire. Immediately, we entered the battle for the Red October Factory, captured by the Germans. Then the division received Chuikov's order to storm Mamaev Kurgan, which in the operational maps was called height 102 and was important in the battles for Stalingrad. The enemy placed its air guidance stations, artillery and mortar observation posts on Mamayev Kurgan and, from this height, adjusted their fire. The slightest movement of our troops was immediately suppressed by fire. The enemy was attacking incessantly, but the Siberians were as immovable as a mountain. Stalin's order No. 227 - "Not a step back!" - was executed. The battle of Stalingrad ended. For another month, the division where my great-grandfather served stayed on its line. After the battle of Stalingrad, the division became known as the 79th guards’ Red Banner, after a short break and reinforcement, on June 19, 1943, it made an offensive. On September 13, 1943, the division liberated the city of Zaporozhye, for which it received the honorary name "Zaporozhye". Vladlen Yegorovich also participated in the battle of Kursk, liberated Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria. After the war, he worked as a foreman of a field team, developing virgin lands. He does a lot of work on the military and patriotic education of young people, often visits schoolchildren. Author: Anton Tishchenko, 11 years old, MKOU Yarkovskaya SOSH, Novosibirsk region, Dovolensky district.

My grandfather, Ilya Bychkov, born in the Zaoksky district of the Tula region in the village of Shegostovo, was illiterate. In 1940, he was called up for military service. He returned from the war in 1947. Afterwards, he married Alexandra Andreyevna Dmitrieva, born in 1919. They had 2 daughters (born in 1952 and 1953), but since 1963 they had to be raised only by their father: their grandmother died. In the post-war years, he briefly worked as the chairman of the collective farm, later went to serve in the paramilitary guard on the railway, where he worked until retirement. He fought in a tractor factory in Stalingrad and did not like to talk about the war. He was a fair decent man, serving as an example for us, his grandchildren. He died in 1984 in Tula and is buried in the city cemetery. He was nominated for an award, but, alas, was not awarded it. Ilya Andreevich Bychkov, as of the summer-autumn of 1942 , was the commander of the 3rd rifle company of the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises of the 19th rifle division of the NKVD of the USSR, a sergeant. Born in 1920 in the village Migaetovo (Shegostovo) Zaoksky district of the Tula region. He was Russian, working-class, member of the Komsomol. He was single. His relatives, as of the fall of 1942, included only Bychkov's mother, Ksenia Varfolomeevna, who lived at the place of birth of her son. His primary education was limited; he was "illiterate". He was drafted into the army in 1940 by the Zaoksky Military Comissiriat of the Tula region and sent to the NKVD of the USSR. By July 1942, he was the commander of the department of the 3rd rifle company of the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises of the 19th rifle division of the NKVD troops of the USSR in the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the military rank of a junior sergeant. By order 19 240 of the Commander of the Division of July 10, 1942, made public, in turn, by order of the regiment 178,209 of July 28, 1942, he was awarded the next military rank of "Sergeant" (Source RGVA: f. 38415, op. 1, d. 11, l. 29. ) He had been an active participant in the Great Patriotic war from August 23, 1942, in the epicenter of battles for the defense of the city of Stalingrad, at the same time, from September 17 to September 23, 1942, participated in street battles in the defense zone of the 13th guards rifle (later Poltava order of Lenin, twice red banner orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov) division of the 62nd army of the South-Eastern front as part of a consolidated company under the command of Lieutenant K. S. Tsvetkov and Junior Political Officer S. L. Kisilenko. On November 9, 1942, the commander of the 3rd rifle company, Lieutenant K. S. Tsvetkov, was presented to the regiment's command as a candidate for an award (Source RGVA: f. 38115, op. 1, d. 11, l. 5). On December 21, 1942, he was presented with the medal "for military merit" by Lieutenant Colonel A. I. Kuznetsov of the 178 regiment "for the period of participation of the company in street battles [in] the mountains. Stalingrad, comrade BYCHKOV, as the commander of the department, demonstrated perseverance, courage, and skillful management of the department during battles of 18.9.1942 [correction: 20 September 1942] in this [same] department comrade Bychkov was assigned the task of destroying a group of submachine gunners who were holed up in one of the destroyed houses. Bychkov skillfully surrounded the building where the German machine gunners were locate and with a rapid attack cleared the building, destroying 15 fascist machine gunners. This enabled the company to occupy new frontiers. For his steadfastness, courage, and bravery in the battles with the German invaders during the defense of Stalingrad, he is worthy of the government [correction: state] award, the medal "For Military Merit" (Source RGVA: f. 38415, op. 1, d. 11, l. 30). For some reason, this document was not implemented by the command of the NKVD troops for the protection of the South-Western front (II formation). Retired from the 178th rifle regiment of the NKVD troops of the USSR for the protection of particularly important industrial enterprises no later than January 1943. His further fate is unknown.

Stepan Stepanovich Korolev was born on May 17, 1917 in a strong peasant family in the North of Russia, in the Arkhangelsk region near Plesetsk, where the cosmodrome stands today. Stepan had many brothers and sisters. They all went to school, helped their parents grow rye in the fields and potatoes and onions in the garden, mowed hay, and grazed cows and horses. Stepan was a member of the Komsomol. When the Great Patriotic War began, five brothers went to the frontlines. Stepan had already been serving in the army since 1938, where he joined the communist party and was a paratrooper. Since the beginning of the war, Stepan Korolev had been deputy political officer, then political officer of the company, secretary of the party bureau of the 214th paratrooper brigade of the Belarusian military district. Since December 1941, he took up the position of the executive secretary of the party bureau of the special purpose detachment. He fought on the Western front near Moscow. Later, the special purpose brigade was transferred to help the Bryansk partisans near Dyatkovo, where Stepan participated in combat operations to defeat the enemy garrison at the Rzhanitsa station, in the liberation of the city of Dyatkovo. He, along with his friends, parachuted into the rearward of the enemy lines. Trying to be unnoticed, paratroopers blew up fascist trains with weapons, destroyed fire batteries, fought battles with the enemy, causing panic in its ranks. In one of his battles, Stepan Korolev was wounded. When he, along with other wounded soldiers, was being sent to the "mainland", the Nazis bombed their signal fires, and their plane could not land. Stepan Korolev got to the hospital too late. His leg was amputated. The combat officer started living with a prosthetic leg and started walking with a walking stick. He was only 25 years old... Stepan Stepanovich Korolev was awarded the order of the Red Star and Red Banner, the order of the Patriotic War of the I degree, and 13 medals. Several books on the history of the Plesetsk district were written about him and his brothers. After being wounded, Stepan Stepanovich Korolev continued to serve in the army, in the rearward. When he returned home after the Victory, he worked in the district party committee, then as an editor of the district newspaper. He gave lectures and talked to students, young officers, and soldiers about the war. He considered Victory Day - May 9 -to be the main holiday of his life. He died on December 6, 1995, leaving four adult children and six grandchildren. Now, he has eight great-grandchildren

Maria Ivanovna Bobkova was born on January 19, 1925 in the village of Moshenovo, Khotynetsky district, Oryol region. On the station Pogreby, there lives a very caring, modest woman, a home-front worker, Maria Ivanovna Bobkova. She was born in a large family, graduated from 6 years of school. She had to help her parents with everything, thus her career as a collective farmer at the local collective farm began. Working on a collective farm, Maria Ivanovna dreamed of going to the city and getting a degree. Before her family could get back on their feet, the Great Patriotic War began. The Germans occupied the Orel region in September 1941. The Germans took cattle, food, and warm clothes from the people. Old people were forced to work for them, and young people were transported to Germany. But not all Germans committed atrocities, some gave food and even candy. After the liberation of Bryansk, Maria Ivanovna left the collective farm and was enrolled at the railway station to study the profession of a conductor. After completing accelerated training courses for conductors, Maria Ivanovna started working as a conductor on October 11, 1943, and was immediately sent on a business trip to the frontline, to Brest-Litovsk. The trains which Maria Ivanovna worked on were repeatedly bombed by German planes. Being near the frontlines, Maria Ivanovna courageously endured all military hardships. Her carriage was always clean, warm, and comfortable, despite the harsh years and the lack of food, water, and fuel. As best as she could, she motivated the soldiers going to the front. Maria Ivanovna accompanied military convoys until the day of Victory. She never complained about difficulties, considered it her duty to help the Motherland, to work conscientiously, to help bring the Victory to life. Maria Ivanovna prefers not to recall the wartime: she was forced to see and experience too much grief. Nowadays, there are very few survivors of the war who could tell the younger generation the whole truth about the Great Patriotic War. Therefore, they need to be honored, surrounded with care and attention. We need to learn a lot from the years they have lived. The rest of Maria Ivanovna’s life was also connected with the railway. Until 1953, she served as a conductor, she married a bridge master, gave birth to four children, two of whom followed in their parents' footsteps, becoming railway workers. Her daughter Lyubov Nikolaevna became the conductor of international trains, daughter Tatyana Nikolaevna became the head of the station Pogreby. Maria Ivanovna Bobkova has six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Our grandmother Masha still stays busy.

Mukhtar Adilevich Beden was born on 18.09.1921 in Kjart-Jurt. There were 11 people in his family. Education: he graduated from high school. In 1937, he was enrolled at a pedagogical school in the city of Mikoyan (Karachaevsk). At the beginning of his 3rd year there, he completed military training at the Beshtau military camp. On August 10, 1940, after graduating from the school, he received a diploma. In 1940, he started his 1st year of a pedagogical university in the faculty of history (remotely). At the same time, he was working at a school as a primary school teacher and military instructor. On November 21, 1940, at the age of 17, he volunteered for service in the Soviet Army in Western Ukraine, Lviv. He was selected along with his older brother into a training company for 1 year to train for the rank of commander. He served in the 3rd platoon. When the war began, on June 21, 1941, he was in the Augustovsky forest in a summer camp. He was shot in the left leg and concussed; the bullet hit his helmet. On a medical train, he was transported from the station Koziatyna to Zaporozhiye, to the Western State Institute, where the wounded were housed. Then, he was transferred to a hospital in Novocherkassk. After the hospital, he was sent to Krasnodar Krai, to the 2nd reserve division. 15 days later, he went to the frontlines for the second time, in the Cherkasy region, where he was captured by the Germans. After escaping from there, he was captured yet again in Melitopol, then transferred to 3rd captive camp in Kherson. He escaped from Kherson. Later he was captured and sent to the prison "Catherine Central on the Dnieper". Then he was sent to a camp in Germany. In the winter of 1943, he was sent to a prisoner war camp in Saloniki, Greece. Once again, he escaped and joined the Greek partisans. After the liberation of Greece in April 1945, he was sent to Bulgaria, where he became a prisoner of the KGB. Later, in 1946, he was disbanded in Kirsanov. He worked as an accountant and then as a clerk. After learning that his family was exiled to Kazakhstan, he was discharged and left for Kazakhstan. There, he worked as a teacher. In January 1948, he got married. In 1949, as a former prisoner, he was arrested by the KGB. About 9-10 months after his arrest, he was sent to Kolyma in Magadan and given a sentence of 25 years and 5 years of imprisonment in open prisons. After Stalin's death, after 6 years of imprisonment, he was released and returned to Kazakhstan. After that, with his family - sisters, wife and two sons - he returned to Karachay to his father's house in Kjart-Jurt. There, he worked as a high school teacher. In 1962, he moved with his family to Maly Karachay, Pervomayskoe village. In 1972, he got a job in the military enlistment office, as the head of the economic department. Later he retired, having received a disability of the 2nd degree as a result of military injuries. He died on 04.01.2013 surrounded by a large family. He was a very competent, tenacious, and strong-willed person. He was buried in the village of Pervomaisk.

Rank: Major General of technical troops. Type of troops: Technical troops (Railway, Air, Land, Vehicle, topographic Forces). Ivan Zakharovich Kolomiyets, was born on December 25, 1914 in Bogodukhov, Ukraine. Early on, he was left without a father, who died on the frontlines of the First World War. In 1933, he graduated from the Kharkiv Automobile and Mechanical Plant. And in 1934, according to the Komsomol recruitment list, he was drafted into the army and sent to the Far East to build roads as a military technician of the automobile company. The war got to him in his hometown, Bogodukhov. At first, by a turn of fate, he was a sapper: he commanded a sapper company. Afterwards, he served in his professional field, in the automobile troops until the end of the war and his military career. He held the position of deputy commander of the technical department of the automobile battalion, commander of an independent automobile repair battalion of the army of subordination, senior assistant to the chief of the army's department of automobile operations. He finished the war with the rank of major, as deputy commander of the automobile regiment of the reserve of the technical department of the Main Command, managing 6 battalions with 1200 cars. After the war, he commanded a district independent automobile battalion, graduated with honors from the Higher Automobile School in Leningrad, served in the automobile and tractor corps of the Main Inspection of the Ministry of Defense (as inspector, senior inspector, inspector general). In 1961, he was awarded the rank of major general of the technical forces. He was dismissed from the army due to injury during training. He was awarded two orders of the Red Star, 2 orders of the Patriotic War of the I degree, order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, order of the Red Banner, medals "For Military Merit", "For Defense of Caucasus", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "For Capture of Berlin", "Veteran of the Armed Forces", commemorative medals of 20, 30, 40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War, 30, 40, 50, 60,70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR, the medal "For Military Valor to Commemorate 100 years of Lenin's Birth", Chinese medal of "Chinese-Soviet Friendship", the medal "For the Oder, Neisse, Baltic". He died in Moscow in 1990 and is buried at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery.

My father Alexander Iolievich Berdyugin was born on September 5, 1921 in the Tyumen region, in the city of Yalutorovsk. After graduating from school in 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army and entered the Leningrad Military School of Instrumental Intelligence, from which he graduated on June 2, 1941, with the rank of lieutenant. My father participated in the battles for the defense of the Caucasus as a part of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment (as commander of the instrumental intelligence regiment) in the Transcaucasian front. Then he liberated Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, and Austria being part of the 4th and 3rd Ukrainian fronts (as commander of communications of the rifle battalion and the commander of the fire platoon of the machine-gun company). In the fall of 1945, my father was sent to a Panzer division as the secretary of the military tribunal. But he did not want to continue in the military path and retired to the reserve in 1947. In 1948, he was enrolled at the faculty of history in the department of art history in Moscow State University. He graduated from the university in 1953. During his years of study, he joined the ranks of the CPSU (b) in the year of 1951. After graduating from MSU, he worked as the head of editing department in the magazine "Art", and later the chief of organizational and creative department of the Art Fund of the USSR, He took the position of the executive secretary of the journal "Decorative Art"; since 1959, worked in the Moscow City Organization of the Art Fund of the RSFSR. Father was awarded 5 military and 9 peace medals: in November 1944, the medal "For Courage" (for advancing his platoon into attack) and the order "Red Star", in May 1944, a medal "For Defense of Caucasus", in May 1945, the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and the medal "For the Capture of Budapest"; his peace awards: 1965 - medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", 1967 - medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", 1970 - the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of 100-anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin", 1975 - the medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", 1978 - medal "60 Years of the USSR Armed Forces", 1985 - medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and the order "Patriotic War of the 2nd degree", 1988 - medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", previously awarded the medal "Veteran of Labor". My father died on November 4, 1990 of heart failure and never learned about the collapse of the country he had defended.

Pavel Efimovich Bagraev, was born in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. His father, Efim Semyonovich Bagraev, was an economist in the Stalin Railway Management. He wrote many works on economics. From 1913 to 1920, Pavel Efimovich studied at the Railway School No. 2 in Dnepropetrovsk. From 1921 to 1922, he worked on the 8th section of the track service of the Ekaterinoslav railway as a repair worker. From 1925 to 1928, he studied at the workers’ faculty of the Ship Construction Technical School in Nikolaev. From 1928 to 1931, he studied at the 1st Moscow State Lomonosov University in the faculty of literature. At the university, he actively participated in social and political life, was a deputy chairman of the trade union, chairman of the students on the dean faculty, secretary of the party group of the course, participated in the examination of cinema production facilities of Moscow of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, on graduating university, he got offered to join the party to obtain a job in Yakutia, under the Yakut Regional Party Committee. The death of V.V.Mayakovsky in 1930 shocked Pavel Efimovich: he would often come to his performances. And coming to his funeral with his future wife, he saw a huge number of people who came to bid him goodbye. In 1931, he married Nina Zinovievna Kuimova. She was working at the university when they met. Then, she worked as a nursery teacher. After marriage, they had a son, Valentin, in 1932, and daughters, Alexandra, in 1927, Nelya, in 1937, and Ekaterina, in 1942. Pavel Efimovich named the last girl himself, in honor of our new weapon of the rocket artillery combat vehicle, "Katyusha". AS he was going away, to the frontline, he said to his wife: "Leave the child and call her Katyusha. It will be a sign that I will return. My talisman!" From 1931 to 1933, he worked as an editor of the newspaper "Autonomous Yakutia". In 1932, he became head of the party department "Social Yakutia". From 1933 to 1934, was employed by the People’s Commissariat of the Forest Industry and the Trade Union of the Forest Industry as a correspondent of Rostov-on-Don. From 1934 to 1935, he was employed in the book center of Rostov-on-Don. In 1935, he was the region head of the district in the village Razvilnoe, in the Rostov area. From 1935 to 1941, he worked as an editor in the political department of the food industry, in the political department of the newspaper at the plant "Smychka". From June 1941 to September 1941, he worked as the operational commissioner in the NKVD of the city of Rostov-on-Don. From September 1941 to March 1942, he was the operational commander of the OONKVD 10 sapper army. From March 1942 to October 1942, he was the operational commander of OONKVD 8 sapper army. From October 1942 to December 1942, he was the operational commissioner of the 9 rifle corps in the Northern group of the Transcaucasian front. From December 1942 to February 1944, he served in the 427 independent communications battalion in the “SMERSH” counterintelligence department of the 4th Ukrainian front in the rank of captain. In February 1944, he received a through bullet wound in the middle third of the right thigh with a shattered fracture of the femur. He was in the hospital from February 1944 to January 1945. He refused the disabled status and the free apartment, due to the difficult economic situation in the country. All his life, he lived with his wife and 4 children in a one-room apartment. From January 1945 to September 1945, he served in the 51149 division. From October 1945 to March 195, he worked in the Rostov Regional Radio Committee as the head of the editing department. From 1951 to 1953, he worked as a RCCPS train instructor in Rostov-on-Don. From March 1953 to September 1954, he served in the artel of November 29, 1941 as deputy head of the organization of mass work, as the secretary of the party organization. From September 1954, worked in the "Elektroinstrument" factory as a dispatcher, controller, head of the supply department. After being dismissed from the factory, until 1972, he took part in all economic and political activities of the party, went on trips on behalf of the party to other districts to explain the decisions of the party and the government, participated in the RK CPSU commissions to check the junior party organizations. For more than 20 years, he worked on the preparation and holding of elections to the Supreme Council of the USSR, the RFSR, and local authorities as the head of campaign offices at polling stations. For several years, he was the chairman of the campaign site of the microdistrict serviced by the party organization of the factory, in addition, he worked as an editor for the factory. He received the following government awards: order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals "For the Liberation of the Caucasus", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" "50 Years Armed Forces of USSR", "60 Years of Armed Forces USSR", "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of 100-anniversary of Birth of V. I. Lenin", award badges for 50 years of stay in the CPSU, for political and patriotic education of young people, the badge for 60 years with the name of Lenin, awarded by the Central Committee of the Komsomol. He was a personal pensioner of Union significance number 97669. Pavel Efimovich was always on the frontline, and his call: "Communists forward" was always heard. He served as an example for young soldiers who did not witness the horror of war. My grandfather loved life very much, loved to sing songs, especially Ukrainian ones, loved the country, was always the first to get involved anywhere, volunteered among 25 thousand people in Yakutia, strengthened the Soviet power, helped form collective farms in remote areas of the country. He raised a worthy generation of 4 children, 6 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren and 3 great-great-grandchildren: all his children and grandchildren have higher education!

Umar Zaalievich Bogatyrev was born in 1913 (1917) in the village of Surkhakhi, Nazran district, where he lived with his wife and daughter before being drafted into the army. He joined the army three days before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. All recruits from the village of Surkhakhi were taken to the city of Grozny for further relocation. That is where the conscripts learned about the beginning of the war, and the next morning they were all sent to the city of Kamensk, Rostov region. Thus, the battle path of Bogatyrev Umar began from the first day of the war. At the end of 1941, after completing artillery courses, he was transferred to Ukraine. Later, he fought as part of the 1st Ukrainian front in the 53rd army under the command of Konev. In 1943, after completing junior command courses in the city of Sumy, he was appointed commander of a mortar platoon, then, his military path led him to the Kursk Bulge. The most trying test for the soldiers and officers of the Red Army was the battle of Kursk, which lasted from July 5 to August 23, 1943. In terms of scale, the forces and means involved, the intensity, results, and military-political consequences it became one of the key battles of the Great Patriotic War. About two million people, six thousand tanks, and four thousand planes participated in the battle of Kursk. Of the 13 Red Army artillery batteries on the Kursk bulge, one was commanded by U. Bogatyrev. In these bloody battles, the troops under the command of General I. Konev distinguished themselves during the offensive in the Belgorod-Kharkiv direction. Umar Bogatyrev would recall this experience. The old soldier, also, remembered the meeting with Marshal Zhukov. One day after the capture of Budapest, he approached the soldiers and, addressing Umar, asked: "Do you, Umar Salievich, think we will take Berlin?", to which he replied: "We will definitely take it, comrade Marshal!» Then Bogatyrev's platoon was transferred to Belgorod. At the end of 1944, he participated in the liberation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. In May 1945, being part of the 241st rifle division, an artillery battery commanded by Bogatyrev entered Berlin. In one of the 11 banner groups that hoisted the banner of Victory over the Reichstag was the Ingush Umar Zaalievich Bogatyrev. For his heroism and courage during the capture of the city of Berlin, Umar Bogatyrev was presented the order of the RED STAR! This order was awarded to him immediately after the capture of the city. Umar Zaalievich is one of the few Ingush soldiers who reached Berlin, despite the fact that the entire Ingush people were repressed in 1944.

Borodin Georgy Nikiforovich was born in 1903 in a family of Ural Cossacks. At the age of 8 years he was left without a mother, and in 1917 his father died in the civil war defending the fatherland. At the age of 14 Borodin G. N. was left an orphan. The guardian of the great-grandfather is the uncle - the brother of the father Borodin Georgy Dmitrievich. These were difficult years for the family and the country. In 1941 the Great Patriotic War began. Georgy Nikiforovich was one of the first to receive a summons to the front and was sent to the front from the Orenburg region in the Buranny district of the village of Izobilnoye. His wife and four children stayed at home. The first field postcard from the front arrives in August 1941, with the letter saying: "I am alive and well, I am at the front. My dear family is always before my eyes. Dear children, listen to your mother, help her, it is very difficult for her now, God willing, the war will end, we will return with a victory. I kiss my dear wife and my beloved children countless times'. After receiving a letter (field map), the whole family was happy that their father was still alive, and at that time 3 calls came to the village about the death of the villagers. Maria Alekseevna started knitting warm socks and gloves and the children started nibbling pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds to send clean seeds in a parcel. They just sent the parcel, calmed down. And here you are, the callout - missing. How unpleasant cases of scam began to manifest themselves. On March 12th, 1942, it was very cold, the wind, in the middle of the night, there was a strong knock on the window. The windows were locked with shutters, the doors were locked with all the locks. Maria, wife of George Nikiforovich, wakes up alarmed and asks through the window: "Who is there?" Suddenly she hears the voice of her husband, and in panic and in disbelief, she reads a prayer aloud and raises the children. George Nikiforovich, concerned about the door, asked them to let him into the house. And only with their youngest son Mikhail, who was 5 years old, they opened the door to the house with a prayer. There was so much fear, so many different voices, tears of happiness because husband, the father of four children, returned from the front. After the call - "Missing", it is difficult to say, and even more difficult to describe the encounter of the front soldier with his family. Georgy Nikiforovich returned from the front with a white ticket, which was written off as unfit for war due to loss of sight. He took part in the fighting near Moscow, with the troops being transferred to Stalingrad, where he was given the assignment. After he was wounded at the front, he started to work in the hinterland, but there was enough work. He left himself 7 hours a day to rest. The village also lived in the hard work of the rear and reports from the fronts. They continued to send calls for the dead villagers, and occasionally there were wounded or mutilated people. The front was constantly being filled up with additional recruits, and they began to take in both the old and the wounded. In August 1942 George Nikiforovich was brought to the front for the second time. And in December 1942 a villager, a neighbor, Rakhminin Yefim, returned from the front after being wounded. He said that he and George Nikiforovich were in the same unit in Stalingrad. There was a terrible battle, there was a strong frost, in the military unit in which they participated, almost everyone was killed, several people were left. Georgy Nikiforovich, according to him, remained on the battlefield when Yefim was picked up wounded. After such news the family was very worried, day and night they waited for news from the front. Only in March 1943 a letter from the front arrived. Georgy Nikiforovich reported that he was alive and well, all the time he did not receive any letters from home. He was at the front. The letter addresses his love to his wife and children and asks the children to listen to their mother and help her in everything. What a great joy it was for the family who received the news from the front that their front soldier is alive and well and continues to fight for the fatherland with an uninvited enemy. So happy was the Borodin family, who were in a hurry to send the parcel to the front. Filling out the parcel was obligatory: warm socks and gloves, a warm jacket and some food and pumpkin, sunflower seeds. They sent a parcel with a letter inside, and the heart of the family warmed up. But the parcel did not reach the recipient. It is understandable that during heavy fighting near Stalingrad, whole military units were killed and the survivors were transferred to other units. There was no time to understand, and the family receives a repeated notification on the package - "Missing". For a long time the family mourned George Nikiforovich, but in their hearts they all hoped that God would save him. And here came the long awaited news. The family could not wait for George Nikiforovich or his letter. At the end of May 1945 he was put on the wanted list. And a notification came to the request, addressed to Borodina Maria Alekseevna living in the village Izobilnoye: Your husband, Borodin Georgy Nikiforovich died in the fight for the socialist homeland, loyal to the military oath, heroic and courageous, on March 3, 1945. Buried with saluting military honors of the southwestern district, the village of the Deschutes from the highway Braitberg Thalnsdorf, East Prussia. Authenticated. George Nikiforovich went through the war from June 1941 to March 1945. He was always on the front line and did not receive a letter from his home during the whole war.

Vladimir Vasilyevich Bobin was born on 1 August 1926 in the Ivanovo region, Ilinsky district, Makarino village. The family had seven children. He was the youngest. When the general mobilization began, there were only women, old people and children left in the village. The child was allowed to be with the horses, working like everyone else: from darkness to darkness. And soon the call to the army came. They did not send him off to war right away. First an infantry school, a tank school, and after graduation he stayed to teach. But he could not stand it and asked to go to the front. He was enlisted in an artillery regiment. And by that time the war had already passed into foreign territory.It passed through Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary and Austria. The fighting was fierce. After the liberation of Vienna only seven soldiers remained from the regiment. Yes, the war put Vladimir Vasilyevich to a hard test, but he survived, withstood this bloody war. He received the medal "for military merits", the medal "for bravery", "for the victory over Germany", the order of the "Patriotic War 2 degrees". The day of victory found him on the way home - near Budapest, but there he fell ill with malaria and began the ordeal in hospitals. What a fate! No bullet at the front but 4 months he could not recover from the disease. But that was not the end of his military service; it took a long five years before he was demobilized. After the hospital, the former front-line soldier joined a reserve regiment stationed in Western Ukraine. The task was to destroy the Bandera hidden near the city of Kremenets. It was not easy to do this, but the task was accomplished. Then there was a church service in Tashkent. In 1946 he received his first home leave. As his elderly parents needed support, he was transferred to the engineering troops in Shuya as a pioneer and went to the Belgorod region to clear the fertile farmland of mines. He was released in September 1950. Once home, he got a job the next day, met his future wife. Fate threw a young family into the Vichug district. Vladimir Vasilyevich worked at the club Pogorelka, worked as a projectionist, then as an electrician in the weaving mill and worked there until his retirement. When he retired, he did not stay at home, but actively worked in the factory council of veterans. Everywhere he was revered and treated with love. He is a "Veteran of Labor", a War Veteran. Awarded with the Certificate of Merit of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, awarded with many jubilee medals, disabled of the 2nd group. We wish Vladimir Vasilyevich good health and all the best!

Rank: soldier. Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), the Coast Guard, the troops of the NKVD, border troops. My grandfather, Kuchin, Alexey Ivanovich was born on 8 October 1911 in the village Chmielewska, Vozhega district, Vologda region in a family of peasants: Kuchin Ivan Nikolaevich 1885 and Kuchina Maria Grigorievna 1883. In the family, except Alexei, were 3 sons: Arkady, Fyodor, Mikhail and daughter Lydia. Parents ran a large household and worked very hard. In 1932 the father, Ivan Nikolaevich was arrested because of his reluctance to join the collective farm and exiled to Solovetsky islands from where he never returned. Mother, Maria Grigoryevna and the eldest son Alexey Ivanovich were subjected to repression. In 1933 the case was dismissed, and Maria Grigorievna and Alexey Ivanovich were rehabilitated by the Department of Internal Affairs of the Vologda Region. Alexey Ivanovich went to work in the Arkhangelsk region, worked on constructions, on wooden rafts and tried to support his family in the village. In 1937 he married, and in 1938 the young family settled in Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk region, where they lived before the war. In June 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army, fought on the Karelian front as part of the 31st separate mountain rifle brigade with red banner and at the end of the war - on the 4th Ukrainian front. Was wounded, has combat awards. He met Victory Day in a hospital near Warsaw, where hr was treated after injury. He demobilized in autumn 1945. Brothers Arkady Ivanovich and Fyodor Ivanovich also fought in the fields of the Great Patriotic War. In 1946 Alexey Ivanovich moved with his family to the village of Yakshanga in the Kostroma region. He worked as a carpenter in the LPH Yakshang, built a house, raised three children and always had a household and cattle. He died at the age of 96, was buried in Ukraine in the Odessa region, where he lived with his youngest daughter for the last 4 years. The grateful memory of the Kuchin brothers: father, grandfather, great-grandfather Alexey Ivanovich, uncle Arkady Ivanovich, uncle Fyodor Ivanovich is kept by all our relatives with love and respect.

Subdivision: 55th Armored Division. My Grandfather, Kryuchkov Sergey Konstantinovich - a native of the village of Ermolovo (later merged with Ispolinovo and named Prokudino), Odoevsky district of the Tula region, entered the Moscow Dzerzhinsky Locomotive College in 1936 as a sixteen-year-old boy. He caused a stir among young people about the need to reinforce the army with regular military personnel and entered the Sevastopol Anti-Aircraft Artillery School with the "Chkalovsky Conscription", which he completed in 1939. In his memoirs he wrote: "At school we did many useful sports, hardened ourselves physically and mentally. Later, during the Great Patriotic War, the command and teaching staff led regiments and formations". After two years of service in the 132nd Rifle Division in Zaporizhia, Sergei Konstantinovich was transferred in May 1941 to the newly formed Panzer Division as a deputy commander of the 55th separate anti-aircraft artillery division. However, since the commander did not arrive at the unit's location, S. K. Kryuchkov was entrusted with the performance of his duties. With this military unit he was sent to the front. Front-line path. Their division under the command of the head of the Poltava tank school, General Badanov, was moved in different directions during the fighting, where a threatening situation arose. The soldiers fought with the enemies selflessly, not sparing their lives. As a result, the exhausted division was withdrawn until autumn 1941 for the new formation. Both the participants in the events and historians noted that the first period of the war was the most difficult, both at the front and in the hinterland. Then officer Kryuchkov, together with his soldiers, received the baptism of fire in battles on the South-Western Front, when Tula, Orel and Bryansk regions were liberated from the invaders. In June 1943, Sergei Kryuchkov, by that time appointed chief of staff of the 1284 separate anti-aircraft artillery regiment, took part in the Battle of Kursk. Life has repeatedly put our compatriot to the test. In June 1944 he needed the skills of an organizer when he formed a special regiment at the station Pavshino of the Moscow railway. Then there was the 2nd Baltic Front and participation in the liquidation of the Kurland group of Germans. Sergei Konstantinovich had no chance to free the people of Europe from the invasion but in the Far East he had to fight with the Kwantung Army of Japan. Military awards show the courage and fame of this man whose youth was spent on the battlefields and survived the ordeal of incredible difficulties. "I returned to my homeland..." The strains of the war years, injuries and bruises forced him to be demobilized and return to his homeland in September 1946. In January 1947, S. K. Kryuchkov was recruited by the Dubensky district party committee. But he did not work there for long. The reason was banal: since there was no free public housing fund in the village at that time, the Kryuchkov family started building a private house, which required both personal presence at the construction site and the use of manpower. Then Sergei Konstantinovich went to work at the Dubensky iron foundry, where he worked with two short breaks before retirement. Old-timers remember that in 1972 Sergei Konstantinovich headed the Dubenskoe District, and in 1983 he was sent by the District Party Committee to establish the activities of the inter-collective farm construction organization. As an international lecturer, Sergey Kryuchkov always spoke to the public and working collectives about the responsibility of the present generation towards the living and the dead. The veteran considered the patriotic education of young people as a task of utmost importance, sparing neither time nor energy for this noble cause.

Rank: Red Army soldier. Troop type: Military, economic and administrative personnel. He worked as driver in the regiment from February 1942. He delivered goods to active units of the front. Battle route in the composition: 2 Belf - Place of conscription: Chitovsky RVC, Penza region 01.01.1941 Fighting in the composition of the: 2 Belf 24.06.1941-27.06.1941 Medal "for military merit" 01.01.1944-14.07.1944 Fighting in the: 2 Belf 01.03.1944-31.03.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 01.03.1944-31.03.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 2 Belfried 22.04.1944-24.04.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 2 Belf 2 2 Belfry 26.05.1944 - 26.05.1944 5th strike. Defeat of the Germans in Belarus. June-July 1944 01.06.1944 - 31.07.1944 Combat operations in the composition: 2 belfries 03.06.1944-03.06.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfried 03.06.1944-03.06.1944 Fighting in the: 2 Belf 17.06.1944-17.06.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belf 17.06.1944-17.06.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belf 22.06.1944 - 22.06.1944 Mogilev offensive operation. 23.6-28.6.44 G. (Operation of the 5th strike) 23.06.1944-28.06.1944 Combat operations in: 2 Belf 22.06.1944 - 22.06.1944 Mogilev offensive operation: 2 Belf 23.06.1944 - 28.06.1944 Minsk offensive operation. 29.6-4.7.44 g. (Operation of the 5th strike) 29.06.1944-04.07.1944 Bialystok offensive operation. 19.7-27.7.44 G. (Operation of the 5th strike) 19.07.1944-27.07.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 21.07.1944-21.07.1944 Combat operations in: 2 Belf 21.07.1944-21.07.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 01.08.1944-05.08.1944 Osovets offensive operation. 6.8-14.8.44 06.08.1944-14.08.1944 Combat operations in: 2 Belf 2 Belf 08.08.1944-08.08.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfry 14.08.1944-14.08.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 2 Belfry 15.08.1944-15.08.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfry 2 Belfry 15.08.1944-15.08.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfry 2 Belfry 15.08.1944 2 Belfry 20.08.1944-20.08.1944 Offensive actions of the armies of the left wing of the 2nd belarusian front. 22.8-2.11.44 G. 22.08.1944-02.11.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfry 31.08.1944-31.08.1944 Combat operations in the: 2 Belf 31.08.1944-31.08.1944 Combat operations in: 2 Belf 2 Belfry 02.09.1944-02.09.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belfry 02.09.1944-02.09.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belfry 2 Belfry 02.09.1944 2 Belf 05.09.1944-05.09.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belfry 02.09.1944-02.09.1944 2 Belf 11.09.1944-11.09.1944 Fighting in the: 2 Belfried 2 Belfry 20.10.1944-27.10.1944 Fighting operations in the : 2 Belfry 20.10.1944-27.10.1944 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belf 2 Belfry 2 Belf 01.11.1944-30.11.1944 Fighting operations in: 2 Belfry 2 Belf 01.11.1944-30.11.1944 2 Belf 30.12.1944-30.12.1944 East Pomeranian Offensive operations. 10.2-31.3.3.45 g. 10.02.1945-31.03.1945 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfried 21.02.1945-21.02.1945 Combat operations in the: 2 Belfry 21.02.1945-21.02.1945 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belfry 2 Belfry 05.03.1945-05.03.1945 Fighting operations in the: 2 Belfry 2 belfry 05.03.1945-05.03.1945 Fighting in the: 2 belfry 2 belfry 13.04.1945 - 13.04.1945 Berlin offensive operation. 16.4-8.5.45 G. 16.04.1945 - 08.05.1945, In autumn 1945 he returned home from the war.