Heroes and feats

Rank: Petty officer Branch: Artillery And spring again… The air is filled with the sweet aroma of blooming lilacs and lilies of the valley; the sky is strikingly blue, and the dazzling bright sun caresses the earth with its rays. It seems that a new life is beginning. It is at this time that we all have a well-known holiday – May 9, Victory Day. My family has a special attitude towards this holiday. We keep in mind the events of the Great Patriotic War, which my great-grandfather had a chance to experience. He, like You, slowly but surely went to Victory, fought for the bright future of his descendants. My great-grandfather, Fyodor Kiyutin, was born on September 23, 1916. in Kursk region. In 1937, he was drafted into the army and, after serving for 2 years, remained on long-term service. In 1939, my great-grandfather participated in the battle of Khalkhin-Gol. At dawn on June 22, 1941, without declaring war, the German army fell with all its might on Soviet soil. Thousands of artillery guns opened fire on Soviet territory. Aviation attacked airfields, military garrisons, communication centers, command posts of the Red Army, the largest industrial facilities in Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic States. The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people began. On the same day, the general mobilization of those liable for military duty was announced, martial law was introduced in the country's regions. My great-grandfather was transferred with military echelons to the Leningrad front. One of the most heroic and tragic pages of the wartime was the defense of Leningrad. Hitler's command attached special importance to taking this city. The early winter brought a severe test to the defenders of the city-a terrible cold. The defenders were able to withstand it only thanks to their unparalleled courage. In the battles near Leningrad, on the Pulkovo heights, great-grandfather Fyodor was wounded in the leg and sent to thospital. After the battle, nurse Nina found him among the wounded and carried him out of the battlefield. In memory of his saved lfe, he named his daughter Nina. After treatment in 1943, he was sent to the Ukrainian front. In mid-September, an unprecedented battle for the Dnieper began. On its steep right bank, the Germans built a system of fortifications ("Eastern wall"), which made it, in their opinion, impregnable. Hitler said with pathos that " the Dnieper will flow back rather than the Russians will overcome it." However, the Soviet soldier could not be stopped by the "Eastern wall" - on November 6, Kiev was liberated, and the Dnieper was crossed in most directions. My great-grandfather Fyodor Demyanovich fought on the Dnieper in heavy artillery. He took part in crossing of the Dnieper. During the battle for the Dnieper, 38 thousand settlements were liberated. With the capture of strategic bridgeheads on the Dnieper, conditions have been created for future offensives. In 1944, he was transferred to the Baltic front. By this year, Germany had suffered significant losses, but was still a strong opponent. Almost 2/3 of its divisions (up to 5 million man) were kept on the Soviet-German front. In the Baltic States, my great-grandfather fought a fierce battle for the city of Shauliai. He also participated in battles at the height where the "Kostel" was located. The soldiers of our army, along with my great-grandfather, retreated several times, then went on the offensive. As a result, the soldiers of the Soviet army won, but there were many losses. In 1945, he fought on the Belorussian front. The most powerful attack was in the central direction, where the enemy did not expect an attack due to the abundance of lakes and swamps. Not only the whole of Soviet Belarus was liberated from the enemy, but also a significant part of Lithuania and Eastern Poland. As a platoon commander, he participated in battles in Romania, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Forty kilometers from Berlin in the city of Mannerheim, he learned about the victory of Soviet troops over the Nazi invaders. In 1945, he reached Berlin and remained until 1946 to restore the destruction and maintain order. My great-grandfather Kijutin Fedor Demjanovich was awarded:- Medal "For fighting merits" - 1942 - Medal "For bravery" - 1944 - Medal "For bravery" - Order of Glory of the 3d degree. - 1944 - Medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg" - 1947 - Medal "For the victory over Germany" - 1946 - "Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree". In 1947 he returned home. He worked as a foreman, warehouse Manager, farm Manager, Chairman of the audit Commission. In peacetime, he was awarded commemorative medals and certificates of honor. He died in 1987.

Troops: Troops of NKVD and NKGB (except for frontier troops) Division: 9th Motorized Rifle Division of Internal Troops of the USSR. My father, Grigory Ivanovich Korablev, was born on August 18, 1922 in the village of Popovo in the Pestovsky district of the Novgorod region. He joined the army from the 2nd year of the Leningrad medical Institute. From October 1940 to June 1945, he served in the 145th rifle regiment. In the second half of 1942, the 145th rifle regiment was incorporated into the 9th rifle division of the internal troops of the NKVD of the USSR. Since June, 1945 until August 1945 - 188th rifle regiment. Since August, 1945 till April 1946-952nd battalion (communications Department) - cadet of R / telegr. art. parts. From April 1946 to November 1946 - 2515th art. regiment radio-telegraphist art.parts'. On November 19, 1946, he was demobilized. Additional information: the 145th rifle regiment was part of the 9th rifle division of the internal troops of the NKVD of the USSR. From August 10, 1942 to March 18, 1943, the division was part of the Active Red Army. The division performed garrison duty in the North Caucasus and Western Ukraine, performed tasks at the place of deployment to protect internal law and order, the rear of the Active Red Army, took part in the elimination of political and criminal banditry, in the defense and liberation of the North Caucasus, in the elimination of Western Ukrainian armed detachments of the UPA - OUN, SB – OUN, and Polish armed detachments of the Army of Krajov. Examples of combat, operational and service activities of the division: from 01 to 11 November 1942, the Ordzhonikidze Defense Division destroyed and disabled over 2000 Hitlerites, 14 tanks, 32 vehicles, suppressed 2 artillery batteries, 12 mortar batteries, shot down 9 planes, hit 2 planes, captured 16 tanks. In the first half of 1943 the division units in Krasnodar region detained 289 traitors, 1025 bandits, 1741 deserters from the Red Army, forced 636 bandits to surrender voluntarily to the authorities.

Rank: Lieutenant Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. He was born in 1922 in the village of Elfimovo, Lukoyanovsky district, Nizhny Novgorod region. After seven of school he worked at the farm, was a secretary of the rural Komsomol organization. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was sent to short-term command courses. After graduation, Lieutenant Kineshov was appointed commander of the motor rifle company of the 3rd motor rifle battalion of the 11th motor rifle brigade. He participated in many defensive and offensive battles. He performed a feat near Kiev. On the night of September 23-24, 1943, under heavy enemy fire, Kineshov and his company crossed to the right bank of the Dnieper using improvised means, seized a bridgehead near the village of Monastyrki and held it until all the units of the motorized rifle battalion crossed the river. In a heavy battle on the bridgehead, Kineshov skillfully led and destroyed up to 40 enemy soldiers and officers. In this battle, he died. By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on January 10, 1944, Ivan Naumovich Kineshov was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The famous citizen of Nizhny Novgorod was buried in the village of Monastyrka in the Rzhishchevsky district of the Kiev region. Awards: Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (January 10, 1944, posthumously); Order of Lenin (January 10, 1944, posthumously). A monument is erected on his grave. The Lukoyanovsky folk Museum has a portrait of the Hero. In the village Elfimovo an obelisk was erected in his honor..

Rank: Captain. Troops: - Ground Forces, - Air Force (except marine aviation), - Coast Guard, - NKVD troops, - Border Guard. Division: 10th Guards Cavalry Kuban-Slutskaya Cossack Red Banner Division of the Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky. An intelligence case: Many interesting stories about the Great Patriotic War were told to my father by his grandfather - Fyodor Kudinov. My great-grandfather was a hero of the great war, which was fought by all Soviet people against fascist Germany. Fyodor Denisovich had the rank of captain during the war and fought in the 4th guards Kuban Cossack cavalry corps. One of the stories my grandfather told my dad especially impressed me: this event happened back in 1944 during the liberation of Soviet Ukraine from the German invaders. Cossack guards often crossed the front line on horseback to get information from the fascist rear. And in one of these raids to the rear of the enemy, in the early morning, a small detachment of 15 Cossacks broke into a small village near the city of Odessa on combat horses. My great-grandfather led the group on his battle horse Orlik. The German officers and soldiers were washing, shaving, cleaning their boots and preparing for breakfast not suspecting anything. The cook was setting a snow-white linen tablecloth on the wooden table for the officers. And at this very moment, the Cossacks rushed to the attack with checkers on the halo. My great-grandfather raised his sword and killed a German officer, then the second and the third. The attack was so unexpected that the fascists did not even have time to give an alarm to the rest of the garrison soldiers. This garrison, as it turned out later, outnumbered the great-grandfather's detachment by several dozen times. Having shown courage and bravery, as well as swiftness of action, my great-grandfather captured and brought a German officer to his headquarters. For this battle, he received a commendation from the command. During the attack, dozens of fascists were killed, and none of our Cossacks were injured. This captured officer with the rank of Major became a very important "tongue" for the Soviet command. A lot of interesting and useful information was received from him on the eve of the general offensive of the front forward to Berlin. Author: Kudinova Polina, 12 years old, MBOU gymnasium No. 8 in Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar territory.

Kamenskikh (Kostyuchina) Olga Vasilyevna was born in the village of Elizavetovka, of the Lozova district, Kharkiv region. When German troops occupied the village of Yelizovetovka, among other children and teenagers, she was taken to work in Germany at the age of 17. She was in captivity in a camp in the village of Plausnsin Kolberg. There they worked hard in the fields. They lived in cold barracks, had no warm clothes, made their own skirts out of old torn bags, and knitted their own socks with twine or strings that tied the bags. Instead of shoes, they were given wooden shoes or pads on their feet, and they were fed very sparsely. She was in the camp from May 01, 1943 (from the information: reference of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation No. 133551 case 12 sheet 12) and was released in March 1945 by the Red Army. The released young men were called to serve in the Red Army, and the girls, including Olga Vasilyevna, became a volunteer nurse on the military ambulance train 1029. She worked as a freelance nurse in 1029 VSP from 20.03.1945 to 06.07.1945. According to trip logs, train 1029 from 20.03.1945 to 09.05.1945 was within the rear borders of the acting general army fronts for 12 days, and during this period was part of the acting army (base: CAMO, op. A-8332 d.523 LD 043-70.p.2). Though officially Victory Day is considered to be May 09, the battles in Transcarpathia continued for a long time, the wounded Red Army soldiers were taken out all summer. At that time they not only had to be nurses, but also to stand guard, guarding the echelon. After the war, she returned to her native village, started working at a dairy farm, and got married in 1948.

Rank: Red Army soldier. The story of Kosygin's grandson Ilya Igorevich. Hardly anyone knows the name of Ivan Iosifovich Kolesnikov. As recorded in the red army book-Junior Sergeant, Rifleman of the 7th motorized rifle company of the 73rd part of the mechanical regiment. Why do I want to tell about him? It's very simple – he's my grandfather. Grandfather Vanya was born on November 4, 1923 in the Oryol region of the Chernavsky district, a collective farm – "Uspekh". He finished his seventh year and went to study as a boilermaker-assembler. By the beginning of the war, he was about 18 years old. My grandfather went through the entire war and was wounded. From my dad's story, I know that Junior Sergeant Kolesnikov was captured, though he was not there for long – he escaped. But the result of captivity was not unnoticed– he was demoted to private. Private Kolesnikov participated in the liberation of Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary. It was there that he heard the news that Germany had capitulated. But my grandfather's military service did not end there. Since he did not have time to serve in the army before the war, he had to do so after it. Ivan Iosifovich was discharged on February 4, 1947. My grandfather doesn't have many medals. The most valuable are the "Medal for Bravery", "For the Victory over Germany”. My grandfather didn't like to talk about the war. He may not have performed any special feats, but I believe that my grandfather is a real hero, because he honestly and completely fulfilled his sacred duty-the duty of the defender of his Fatherland!. I haven't seen my grandfather, he died before I was born, but I know him from my dad's stories. But the "war in my family" didn't end there. In 1986, my father, Igor Ivanovich Kosygin, was called up for active military service and in 1987 was sent to the Republic of Afghanistan. My father, like my grandfather, was awarded medals for performing his military duty. For me, my father and grandfather will always be an example of a true Russian Soldier!

Rank: petty officer. Troops: - Ground Forces, - Air Force (except marine aviation), - Coast Guard, - NKVD troops, - Border Guard. Kadetov Grigory Nikolaevich was born in 1914, in the village of Shemarino, Teplostansky district, Gorky region. Candidate of the CPSU(b) since 1942. He was a village teacher. In 1935, by special recruitment, he was enrolled in the Military school of pilots and observers of naval and land aviation named after Stalin in Yeysk, from which he graduated in 1937. He lived in Moscow and worked at the 192nd military factory. He was called up to the Red Army by the Kalinin RVC of the Moscow region on October 20, 1941, with the rank of petty officer, as a branch commander. He was wounded twice in 1942 and 1943. Then, he was transferred to the Tula Military Transshipment and Point. He arrived at the unit on 27.10.1943 as a member of 1350 rifle regiment 234 of the Lomonosov-Prague Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky rifle division of 83 rifle corps of the Kalinin Front with the rank of petty officer. From November 23 to December 31, 1943, the 234th Lomonosov rifle division fought as part of the 83rd rifle corps of the 11th guards army of the 1st Baltic front, and took part in the Gorodok offensive operation (December 13 - 31, 1943). As a result of the operation, the front troops advanced 60 km, defeated 6 infantry and one tank divisions of the enemy, eliminated the Gorodok ledge and created conditions for an offensive near the city of Vitebsk of the BSSR. By the end of 1943, the 234th rifle division reached the area north-west of the city of Vitebsk, where it went into defense. Until the beginning of February 1944, the division defended the occupied lines as part of the 83rd rifle corps of the 4th shock army of the 1st Baltic front. On February 3, 1944, the 234th rifle division was withdrawn to the reserve of the VGK Headquarters and reformed at the Likhoslavl station in the Kalinin (now Tver) region. From March 8 to March 18, 1944, the division was relocated to the area of Kovel, Volyn region of the Ukrainian SSR. Upon arrival in Western Ukraine to the station Rafalovka in Vladimiretskiy district, Rovne region division, breaking a ten-day March, concentrated in the vicinity of the village Mysovo - river Vyzhva Starovyzhivskiy district of Volyn region. On March 28, 1944, the 234th Lomonosov rifle division became part of the 77th rifle corps of the 47th army of the 2nd Belorussian front. Taking up a defensive position on the right bank of the Vyzhva river, the division stood in the way of the enemy, who was furiously rushing to their group, surrounded by Soviet troops in the city of Kovel. In the conditions of early spring, it was necessary to close the highway and Brest-Kovel. Serious interruptions in the supply of fuel and ammunition seriously affected the position of the division and complicated the task assigned to it. From the first day, the battles became fierce. On March 29, 1944, the enemy launched a decisive offensive, trying to cross the Vyzhva river. To strengthen its attacks, it threw more and more forces. To deter the onslaught of superior enemy forces, the soldiers of the division had to show exceptional resilience and strength of will. Kadetov G. N. was killed on April 1, 1944 in a battle near the village of Cherkassy, Kovel district, Volyn region. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Zalessky, Volyn region. He was reburied in a mass grave at the village cemetery at the entrance to the village Lukov, Turiysky district, Volyn region. His widow, Klavdia Stepanovna Samodelova (1921-2011), and three children remained in Moscow. Samodelova K. S. was a rear worker and worked at a military factory until retirement.

Georgy Iosifovich Kozarenko was born in 1919 in Kuban, in the village of Udobnaya, Otradnensky district, to a Cossack family. In 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army and was sent to study at the MPKU (Moscow Infantry Red Banner School named after the RSFSR Supreme Soviet). In October 1941, a Separate cadet regiment was formed from the cadets of the school, headed by commander-Colonel S. I. Mladentsev, Hero of the Soviet Union, and sent to protect the Volokolamsk direction. Next to the cadet regiment, the soldiers of the 316th division of Major-General I. Panfilov and the 2nd cavalry corps of Major-General L. Dovator defended Moscow. On October 29, 1941, the cadets counterattacked the enemy near the villages of Alferovo, Gusevo and Suvorovo, driving them across the Lama river. On this day, Zhora Kozarenko distinguished himself. According to the award sheet (presented to the Order of the Red Banner, awarded the Order of the Red Star by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR in January 1942), near the village of Suvorovo, Zhora, firing from a nahd machine gun, destroyed the enemy's machine-gun crew and in the created situation allowed his unit to withdraw, covering this retreat with machine gun fire. He himself was the last to move to a new position. Further, Georgy Kozarenko participated in the battles for the city of Kalinin. All last-year cadets from a Separate cadet regiment were given the rank of Lieutenant ahead of schedule by the order of the USSR Commissariat of Defense. On 17 August 1943 during the Smolensk offensive operation captain Georgy Iosifovich Kozarenko, the commander of the 9th company of the 885 th KSP 290th SD 10th A Western front, was killed in the battle for the liberation of the village Malakhovka of the Kirov district of Smolensk region and was buried there. Georgy Iosifovich Kozarenko was posthumously awarded the order of the Patriotic War II degree.

Rank: petty officer. Type of troops: armored and mechanized troops. He began his combat career in September of the forty-first year in the city of Alabino near Moscow, where he mastered a new multi-shot weapon, which was later named "Katyusha". After completing his training, he was sent to the 32nd separate guards mortar division, which was part of the Western front under the command of G. K. Zhukov. My great-grandfather was directly involved in the battles of Vyazma and the battle of Moscow. For this, he was awarded the medal "for the defense of Moscow". In the forty-second year, he took part in the battles on the outskirts of the besieged Leningrad. My grandfather had very bad memories of the defense of Stalingrad, where he was the commander of the intelligence branch. He told how hard it was to find places of shelter for "Katyusha" in the steppe. The soldiers had to make underground shelters, drive the guns there and take them out during the shots, and then put them back underground. The battle of Stalingrad was not over yet, and my grandfather was being sent to study in the Urals. He met the victorious may of the forty-fifth year in the far East as a squad leader of a self-propelled artillery regiment. For participating in the defeat of the Kwantung army, he was awarded the order of the Red Star, which was added to his military awards. Ivan Alekseyevich finished his military career as a Lieutenant in August 1946 in Port Arthur, Japan. Every year, on May 9, my great-grandfather took part in the celebrations that were held in his hometown. In 2000, he was one of the participants in the Victory Parade on Red Square. His name is forever recorded in the Book of Memory of participants of the Great Patriotic War in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district of the Moscow region.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized Troops. He was born in the Tambov region, Morshansk district, village Serpovoe.At the age of 15 he entered the Moscow Crafts School. On November 7, 1941, he took part in a military parade on Red Square as a student of the Crafts school. On 15 June 1942 he was recruited by the Morshansky district Commissariat. From June 1942 he was a machine gunner in the 67th rifle regiment, from March 1943 he was a cadet in the 11th brigade, from January 1944 he was a squad leader in the 95th tank brigade of the Belorussian front, and on June 28, 1944 he was wounded. He was leading captured Germans, suddenly a German tank blocked the road and fired at them with direct fire, he managed to jump back, crawled, but was covered with automatic fire, resulting in a severe wound to the pancreas and lung. He was treated in Georgia. Then, until the end of the war, he served as a clerk due to health reasons. He remembered how in hand-to-hand combat he killed a German with a knife, as both of them ran out of ammunition. He was awarded the Medal of Courage, the Medal of Merit, the Order of the 1st Class Patriotic War, and other medals. He was discharged in 1947 with the rank of senior Sergeant. He joined the fire Department at the Krasnodar Oil Refinery, graduated from evening school and entered the all-Union Distant Learning Polytechnic Institute, specializing in chemical technology. For 3 years he worked at the Trade Unions Regional Committee as Deputy Chairman for Oil and Chemical Industry. He graduated from The University Of Marxism-Leninism. He was married with 2 children, a son and a daughter. Retired as Deputy Director of an Oil Refinery in Krasnodar. He died on June 24, 2010 as a result of cardiac arrest

Major of the medical service Maria Alekseyevna Kudrina was born in Verkhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk region, on April 13, 1920. After graduating from high school in 1938, she entered the Sverdlovsk state medical Institute and received a doctor's degree in September 1942. In January 1943, she was drafted into the active army as a military doctor. She fought in the 3rd Guards army of the South-Western, 4th Ukrainian, and 1st Ukrainian fronts. She was the head of the sanitary service, then a surgeon in a field hospital, head of the surgical Department. In close proximity to the front, the doctors of the field hospital rescued wounded soldiers, returned them to the ranks, and the seriously wounded were sent to the rear after being provided emergency medical care. In the field, the hospital was located in tents or in minimally suitable premises. More than once they were bombed and shelled by the enemy, and at the cost of their own lives, first of all they tried to save the wounded. They participated in the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Germany, and Czechoslovakia. News of the Victory came when the hospital where the military doctor M. A. Kudrina served was located near the city of Prague. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star, medals "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the victory over Germany. She was demobilized in October 1945. After the Victory, she was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd degree, many anniversary medals and commemorative signs. In peacetime, for more than 50 years, she worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist in Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region, helped thousands of children to be born, and preserved the health of many women. She moved to Moscow in 2006 to live with her daughter and grandchildren. She died on December 19, 2010 at the age of 91. She is buried in Moscow at the Central Khovansky Cemetery.

Branch of service: artillery. Memoirs of a Veteran: "One morning they announced: a concert is coming to our battery. At eleven o'clock, the entire regiment (1679 art.min.regiment, three cannon batteries and three mortars) gathered in a clearing in the forest, the soldiers were placed as best they could. A ZIS-5 car with its sides down pulled up. A woman, accompanied by two officers, came up the stairs to the car. A very beautiful woman with a blue handkerchief in her hand. She sang a song: "a blue humble handkerchief fell from the lowered shoulders." The boys gave a standing ovation. And so they stood until the end of the concert. She also sang a lot of good songs: "Valenki" and other songs. It was Lydia Andreyevna Ruslanova. How she sings, how beautiful she is! What a great impression she made on us, ordinary soldiers. That is how she is, our Motherland! "TEACHER AND WRITER IVAN KOVTUN. Ivan Ivanovich Kovtun wrote two books. One is a scientific one, about the cultivation of winter wheat using intensive technology, and the second is "Private soldiers of war", about his participation in the battle with the fascists. In June 1942, on the day of the last exam for the tenth grade, Ivan Kovtun and many graduates received summons demanding to come to the military enlistment office with warm clothes and food for ten days. Given the fact that they were not old enough for the front, they were sent to dig trenches in the Yashkul region of Kalmykia. Six weeks later, the North Caucasus was occupied by the Nazis. The youth, mobilized for the construction of the fortified area, remained fifty kilometers from the front line. In January 1943, the occupiers were driven out of Stavropol. In early March, a herd of untrained horses was brought to the field camp. Future cavalrymen officers ordered: "Catch horses, train, learn to manage, take care of them!" Ten days later, the formed cavalry regiment went on a campaign, through Divnoye and Stavropol reached Nevinnomyssk. The personnel and horses were loaded into the train and sent to the combat area, on the left bank of the Don. Ivan Kovtun was assigned to the 1679 artillery and mortar regiment of the 32nd cavalry division of the 3rd guards cavalry corps. He passed accelerated artillery courses. In the first months, he served as an assistant gunner of the ZIS-3 anti-tank gun, then as a gunner and gun commander. The cannon weighed about two tons and was transported by six heavy-duty horses. And in impassable places, 6 people of the combat crew were harnessed as well. I. Kovtun participated in the Smolensk offensive operation, liberated Belarus. He was wounded, but did not return to his regiment after returning from the hospital. He was assigned to the 262nd rifle regiment of the 184th Rifle division of the 5th Army. As part of the 3rd Belorussian front, their regiment entered East Prussia and drove the fascists out of Konigsberg. On May 7, 1945, the entire 5th Army was sent to the far Eastern front to fight the Japanese. I. Kovtun participated in Manzhurskaya operation. Five medals marked his soldier's feat: "For Merit in Action", "For Bravery", "For the capture of Koenigsberg", for the victory over Germany and Japan. He was discharged from the army in October 1946. The memory of the war left scars from four wounds, and seven shrapnel, deeply embedded in the body, which could not be removed by surgeons. The shards had bothered him all his life, especially in bad weather.

Konstantin Ivanovich Kazin was born on April 6, 1921 in the "Sovetskaya" hospital in Borovichi, Novgorod region. Father-Kazin Ivan Kuzmich, worked in Petrograd at the "Metal" factory. Mother, Kazina Maria Pavlovna, (maiden name – Krivtsova), a housewife, at this time, lived with her mother, Sofia Nikolaevna, at the address: Borovichi, street Nekrasovskaya, house number 53 (according to a relative - Yakov Merkuryev). From 1928 to 1935, he studied at the incomplete secondary school № 52 of Leningrad city and finished 7 grades. From October 1936, he studied at the Federal technical University as a locksmith and worked at factory No. 218 until February 1939. From April 1939 to October 1988, i.e. until his death, he worked at the "Printing Machines" plant as a 6th class locksmith in Shop No. 12, and then in the repair group of TSLIT. During the war, he worked (made machine guns) in the besieged Leningrad, being the only breadwinner in the family consisting of his father, mother and younger brother Boris of 14 years. His mother worked as a tram conductor from 1930, and trams did not run in besieged Leningrad until April 15, 1942. In January 1942, the disabled father died of starvation, in February-the grandfather, in March - the grandmother. During one of the bombings in February 1942, the house where the family lived was destroyed and caught fire. Father saved his weakened brother, mother, and grandmother from the fire. Orders: - By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR of December 22, 1942, he was awarded the medal "For the Defence of Leningrad". - By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR dated June 6, 1945 he was awarded a medal "For Durable Labor in the Great Patriotic War". - In 1958 he was awarded the medal "In Memory of 250 years of Leningrad". In 1961 he joined the ranks of the CPSU. - In 1970 he was awarded a medal "For DISTRICTED TRADEMARK FOR THE 100th Birthday Anniversary of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin". - In 1975 he was awarded the medal "30 YEARS of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". - In 1981 he was awarded the medal "VETERAN OF LABOR". - In 1985 he was awarded the jubilee medal “FORTY YEARS of VICTORY in the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR of 1941-1945". During the years of work at the plant, he proved to be a qualified, executive employee. He always treated the assigned task with a great sense of responsibility, and actively participated in the social life of the plant. He was constantly elected to the trade Union Committee and head of the trade unions, was a party member of the TSLIT and a subscriber to the periodical press for plant management. Exemplary worker of Communist labor, repeatedly awarded certificates of honor of the plant and the Ministry. In recent years, he was engaged in in microscope alignment

Rank: Senior sergeant. Troops: Communication Troops. He was born in 1924 in the village of Ostashkovo, Orekhovo-Zuyevsky district, Moscow region. He was called up on August 20, 1942 in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky RVC, sent to a separate linear reserve communications regiment in Moscow and enlisted as a cadet. In October 1942, he was sent to the Stalingrad front near the city of Kalach, where he fought until December 1942. After completing the task, he served until March 1943 in the 324th separate communications battalion as a squad leader with the rank of Junior Sergeant. From Moscow he was transferred to the town of Orel. There he received the medal "For Merit in Combat". He took part in combat operations as part of the Steppe, Reserve, 1st and 2nd Belorussian fronts. At the end of 1944, the battalion crossed the state border and entered Polish land. In January 1945, as a platoon commander (senior Sergeant) participated in the breakthrough of a strong deep-echeloned German defense on the West Bank of the Vistula, South of Warsaw, where our troops captured the German defense strongholds in Varna, Grunets, Kozinice, Selec, Zvomyl, Bialobpsegi, Yedlina, Ilzha, for which he was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. He reached the Oder, where our troops began to prepare for the Berlin operation. From there, on April 5, 1945, he was sent to the city of Kiev for advanced training courses for officers of the Red Army. He was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Medal "For Courage", the Medal "For Combat Services", the Medal "For the Victory over Germany". He has gratitudes for the liberation of the cities of Unecha, Karachev, Bryansk, Oryol.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Troops: artillery. Division: 330th Rifle Division of Mogilev Red Banner Order of Suvorov. When the war began, Ivan was not even seventeen. He just finished 9th grade. In July 1942, he joined the special forces. Young and reckless chonovtsy made daring forays into the enemy's environment, cut the wires, breaking the connection; picked up weapons left by the enemy, firing at the fascists; knowing the area, led out of the encirclement the Soviet soldiers. In May 1942, Ivan Kondrashov was drafted into the army. After finishing mortar school in Kaluga, he was sent to the front. And after completing the Junior Lieutenant courses, he became the commander of a rifle platoon. He participated in the defense of Kirov. When the offensive began, he was ordered to block the dot. The firing point was destroyed, but almost the entire platoon was killed. Ivan was seriously wounded in both legs. On this day, August 12, 1943, he turned 19. His life was saved by a nurse, who agreed on a direct blood transfusion. She put a note with his name and address in the pocket of her tunic. The tunic was taken off at the hospital and disappeared along with the address. He had to be treated for a long time in hospitals in Kaluga, Moscow and Stalinsk. Miraculously he managed to avoid amputation of the legs. He returned home only in 1944 with his father, who was also commissioned after being wounded. After the war, Ivan spent a long time looking for his Savior Zinaida Kiseleva, the name he remembered. All in vain. He decided that she got married, changed her last name. He didn't want to think that she might not had come back from the war. Chance brought them together before May 9, the year of the 45th anniversary of the end of the war. Ivan rushed to Zinaida with hugs, she couldn't remember him — how many of such fighters passed through her hands! It was a joyous meeting. Ivan is my father. We, children and grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, are grateful to everyone who went through this war and fought for our lives and our country. We honor the memory of those who died in this war. Let there be Peace on Earth.