Heroes and feats

Kondratieva Olga Pavlovna (December 2, 1926-early 90's). Kondratieva Olga Pavlovna was born on December 2, 1926 in Zhdanov, Stalin region in Ukraine (now Mariupol, Donetsk region), later the family moved to the Kursk region. When the war began, Olga studied in the seventh grade, without hesitation, the girl, adding a few years, decided to go to the front as a volunteer. In August 1941, she was assigned to the 470 howitzer regiment of the 13th army, which was stationed in Dmitriev, covering the retreat of the Red Army units. In Kursk, the regiment was disbanded, and Olga Pavlovna was transferred to the 277th rifle division, 870th rifle regiment. She joined Komsomol in the trench, and in December 1941 she took part in the liberation of Yelets. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star for her courage in rescuing and helping wounded soldiers and commanders. At the end of February 1943, she was seriously wounded in the spine and right leg, was treated for a long time in various hospitals in the country, the wound did not heal, and the right foot had to be amputated. She was discharged in February 1943 with the rank of senior Sergeant. In 1944, Olga Pavlovna returned to Mikhailovsky (later Zheleznogorsk) district, graduated from the Fatezh Teachers' Training College, from October 1945 worked at the Kursk Party School, in April 1947 she was sent to the village of Soldatskoye, where she worked as an elementary school teacher in a 4-year school until 1961. In 1956, she joined the CPSU.1961-1962- a teacher of the Zheleznogorsk 8-year school. In 1962-1964 – she taught at Zheleznogorsk secondary school No. 2. For 13 years (from January 13, 1964 – 1977), she worked at Zheleznogorsk school No. 4 as a librarian, primary school teacher, and history teacher in grades 5-6. In Zheleznogorsk, she lived at the address: 21 Partsezda street, 11a, apt. 25. Orders: Order of the Patriotic War I degree, Order of the Red Star, medal "for the victory over Germany", anniversary medals in honor of the Victory over Germany, anniversary medals ff the Armed Forces of the USSR, Zhukov Medal, medal"Veteran of labor".

Rank: corporal. Troops: Communication Troops. Division: 194th Rifle Division of the Rechitsa Red Banner Division. My great-grandfather, Vladimir Maksimovich Korolev, was born in 1924. He was born in Solopiano village, Kaluga region Yukhnovskogo district. At the end of the summer of 1941, two fascists on a motorcycle came to the village of Solopikhino to replenish food supplies. They broke into my great-grandfather's house, where his mother was at the time. The fascists demanded food: milk, eggs and bread. My great-grandfather jumped out of the window and ran to gather the village children. When the supplies were replenished, the Krauts got on the motorcycle and went back. The road ran through the forest. There my seventeen-year-old great-grandfather and the village boys ambushed the Krauts. Having dealt with the Germans, the guys tied them up and took them on a motorcycle to the city of Yukhnov. They were thanked there. Then the children were sent to study at the artillery school. After graduating from school, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Red Army, in the 194 rifle division. Throughout the war, my great-grandfather served in a rifle division and provided communications for artillery commanders, which made it easy to direct artillery fire. In 1943, when my great-grandfather was only 19 years old, being a Red Army soldier, he received the medal "For Courage”. In 1943, on August 26, my great-grandfather was wounded. In 1944, on January 25, being in the rank of corporal as a signalman of a platoon, and managing the command of division-194, my great-grandfather was awarded the order of the Red Star. On April 4, 1986, on the 40th anniversary of the victory, he was awarded the order of the "Patriotic War 2 degree".

Rank: Red Army soldier. Troops: Army, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Division: 332nd Rifle Division of the Ivanovo-Polotsk Volunteer Rifle Division, twice Red Banner Division of the Order of Suvorov. Korchagin I. A. is my paternal grandfather. A member of the civil war, cavalryman, 1st Cavalry army. He left for the front in January 1942 as part of 332 buld. div. He sent a letter home to his wife and children in March 1942 .It was the only letter. He was killed in the first battle. This was told to my grandmother by a fellow countryman who returned from the front after being wounded, he lived in a neighboring village. Here's what he said:"We went into attack, there was heavy machine-gun fire. A lot of people died. After the fight, snow fell and I couldn't find Vanya. He did not return from the battle." Personally, I myself made a request to the archive of the Ministry of Defense, and the answer came from there that in 1941-42, due to the tense situation at the front, there was often confusion and the place of the battle was not exactly known. I even turned to the writer who described the battles on the Kalinin front, because the name of Lieutenant Paskhin, commander of the unit, coincided with the name of the commander of the unit in which Ivan Alekseevich fought. But the chief editor of the publishing house / it seems to be "Soviet Russia" sent a response that the author of the book unfortunately died, warmly sympathized with me and wished me success in the search. Still, we found our veteran. The veteran's daughter Lyubov Ivanovna Agafonova made a request to search organizations in Smolensk region and they found a mass grave 7 kilometers away from the city of Gagarin, in the village of Ivanovka, where the soldiers of 332 Ivanovo-Polotsk build. div. were buried. We thank them very much.

Drafted into the army in October 1939. He was sent to the tank troops, mastered the specialty of a mechanic-driver. Twice – on November 7, 1940 and May 1, 1941, the crew of his KV, including him, took part in parades on Red Square. This honor was given to the best of the best. And after these parades, he was among those who were invited to a reception in the Kremlin and were expressed gratitude. The third time he visited the Kremlin was in the summer of 1941. The order of the Red Star was then awarded to him by Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin himself. According to the award list, the battle for which he was presented with the first high award was on the Striga river. He, being a driver-mechanic, perfectly prepared the material, drove it perfectly, ensuring the smooth operation of the crew. When the tank commander died heroically, he took his place and continued to fire from the damaged tank. Their 14th Tank division then held up the enemy. A special page in the biography of Borisov Ya.D. was the battle of Novorossiysk in September 1943. At that time, he was already commanding a platoon of heavy tanks of the 6th guards tank regiment. Novorossiysk was one of the most fortified areas on the so - called "Blue line" - the defense system on the Taman Peninsula. On September 10, 1943, the Novorossiysk offensive operation began. The main blow was delivered by the 18th army. By order of the North Caucasus Front's headquarters, a group of heavy tanks, based on the vehicles of the 6th Guards Regiment, was handed over to it. According to my grandfather's memoirs, the assault began on the morning of September 11, 1943. His platoon went through the Kamishovaya bulge. The bridge over which it could be crossed was destroyed by the enemy. Under fire, the sappers built a narrow tree-earth lintel. Heavy tanks were to pass along that road under the fire of the Nazi batteries. The first attempt to force the beam ended in failure - two tanks were hit. Only the next day, an obstacle was overcome under the smoke screen. The first tank that broke through to Novorossiysk was the KV, whose crew was commanded by Borisov Ya.D. aAfter that, the tanks entered the battle. He remembered it in smallest details. In the newspaper "Banner of the Motherland " from 16.09.1943 Borisov said: "Our tanks, interacting with the infantry, clearing their way, stormed into the streets of Novorossiysk. My tank was ordered to clear one street. The task is difficult. There were solid concrete pillboxes in the basements of the buildings. There were also many fire points set up in the gaps and destroyed walls of houses… But we had good cooperation with the infantry. They covered the car from the enemy's anti-tank weapons, did not let the Nazis to throw bottles of fuel mixture at us. The infantrymen helped us to quickly find targets by pointing missiles at them with tracer bullets. Following the direction of the missiles ' flight, we shot at enemy points at point-blank range. Senior mechanic-driver Gorev skillfully maneuvered, allowing the tank crew to fire quickly and accurately. Sixty shells were fired at the enemy. Stunned by the powerful artillery attack, the fascists abandoned their lairs and fled without looking back. Then they were shot with a machine gun by the guard's radio operator, senior Sergeant Motrechko. The tank completed its combat mission without receiving any damage.”. For that battle, Borisov Ya.D. was awarded the order of the Patriotic War I degree. According to the award list, the platoon destroyed 40 Hitlerites, 15 firing points and secured the capture of 4 blocks by infantry. Despite the severe wounds received in battle, Borisov Ya. D. went through the entire war until the Victory. At the end of the war, he commanded a company and participated in operations in East Prussia. There, in the area of Konigsberg, he saw May 1945. The family still has a photo taken in 1945 immediately after the Victory (attached). For military exploits, he had six orders and many medals. After the end of the war, he lived in the city of Ivanovo, married, and raised two children – a son and a daughter. He died at the age of 70 on November 25, 1988.

When he was young, he came to the village of Beket in the Yaysky district of the Kemerovo region and lived there all his life. Only once did he have to leave his native village for five years, and even then not of his own free will. In 1942, as an eighteen-year-old boy, he was drafted into the army and sent to the East, where it was restless. The Japanese, who captured part of Sakhalin island in 1905 and launched a war with China in 1938 and 1939, constantly threatened the Soviet Union. They were allies of Germany. Nicholay was in the marine corps, the troops of the coast guard. First he served in Vladivostok, then in Sovgavan, in the port of Vanino. Nikolai Vasilyevich was a good marksman. The command noticed this and sent him to study at the sniper school. On the Western front, Everything was moving towards victory, and in the East, the Japanese began to prepare for war. It was here that the war caught him in 1945, and he met it on southern Sakhalin. On Sakhalin, my grandfather, as a sniper, guarded and protected important military facilities that were attacked by the Japanese. Every day our soldiers were shelled and often died, but Nikolai Borovtsov was lucky to be alive, although his health was compromised. Together with his comrades, he took 17 Japanese prisoners. According to the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin No. 372 of August 23, 1945, among the distinguished Red Fleet, Sergeants and officers of ships and units of the Pacific Fleet, for excellent combat operations with the Japanese in the Far East, corporal Borovtsov Nikolay Vasilyevich was declared gratitude. He told how the Japanese tortured our prisoners very cruelly: "Two hungry rats were put in a bucket and tied to the naked stomach of a prisoner who was dying in severe torment.” All the soldiers were afraid of being captured. He also told how all the soldiers got sick with scurvy, their gums ached and their teeth fell out, and they were saved by introducing sauerkraut into their diet. In 1947, after being discharged from the army, Nikolai Vasilyevich returned to his native village. His chest was decorated with medals "for the Victory over Japan", the badge "Best sniper", the order of the Patriotic War. My grandfather has 15 medals and orders. After the war, he worked at the Rodina collective farm as a tractor driver, then as a foreman of animal husbandry and field breeding. For conscientious work, he has many certificates and medals.

Vasily Dmitrievich Balashov (February 10, 1921-April 11, 1985) was a Soviet military pilot, participant in the Great Patriotic War, deputy squadron commander of the 8th Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment of the 8th Air Army of the Stalingrad Front, captain. Hero of the Soviet Union (24.08.1943), colonel of the reserve since 1967. He was born on February 10, 1921 on the farm Dor Rzhevsky district of Tver province (now Rzhevsky district of Tver region). By nationality-Russian. He graduated from Junior high school. Until 1938, he worked as a locksmith at the car repair station Rzhev-I. Since 1938, he was in the ranks of the Red Army. In 1940, he graduated from the Voroshilovgrad military aviation school of pilots. He was in the active army during the Great Patriotic War since 1941. In the battle for Stalingrad, he showed unparalleled courage and bravery. His skilful actions repeatedly aroused the admiration of the command and subordinates. Many times he participated in conducting aerial reconnaissance during the day and night to identify the accumulation of troops, defensive structures and movement of enemy echelons. Repeatedly, despite serious damage to the aircraft, returned to his airfield. By May 1943, captain Balashov had made 210 successful combat missions to reconnoiter enemy troops and communications. In the battle of Stalingrad, he made 45 combat sorties, photographing the territory with a total area of 14.5 thousand square kilometers. According to the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of August 24, 1943, Vasily Balashov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown in it. (№ 1137).After the war, he worked in the DOSAAF system. In 1967, Colonel V. D. Balashov retired to the reserve. He lived in the city of Krasnodar. He died on April 11, 1985. Awards: Gold Star Medal Of The Hero Of The Soviet Union (No. 1137) Order of Lenin Three orders of the Red Banner, Order of Alexander Nevsky, two orders of the Patriotic War I degree, Order of the Red Star. Medals, including: Medal "for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945 "jubilee medal" Twenty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945 "jubilee medal" Thirty years of Victory in the great Patriotic war 1941-1945»

Boris Isaakovich Balter (1919-1974) — Russian Soviet writer, translator and screenwriter. He is best known as the author of the autobiographical novel "Goodbye, boys!" (1962). Boris Isaakovich Balter was born on July 6, 1919 in the city of Samarkand in the Samarkand region of the Turkestan ASSR (now the territory of the Samarkand region of the Republic of Uzbekistan), where his Jewish family moved from Kiev to escape the riots. His grandfather was a tzaddik, a very revered and respected person in the Jewish community. His father was a knight of St. George, a hero of the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905. While still a schoolboy, he moved to Crimea with his mother. He graduated from high school in Yevpatoria. In 1936, he entered the Leningrad military school, and in 1938 was transferred to the military school in Kiev. After completing his training and becoming an officer, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war. He was on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from the first days. Captain, served as the head of intelligence of the 357th rifle division. Participated in the battle of Novorzhev, was seriously wounded. In February 1942, he joined the CPSU (b). After undergoing treatment in the hospital, in 1943, captain Boris Balter was appointed chief of staff of the 139th reserve rifle regiment of the 36th reserve rifle brigade. He finished the war with the rank of Major. He was awarded the Order of Badge of Honor, medals "For defense of Moscow" and "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". In 1945-1946 he was a student of the Frunze Military Academy, but was forced to abandon his military career because of anti-Semitism among the commanders of the Soviet Army (formally discharged on account of illness). From 1948 to 1953, he studied at the Literary Institute, where he was engaged, in particular, in the seminar of Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky (with whom he always retained friendly relations). Boris Balter was the author of the “Tarus pages” collection, published by Konstantin Paustovsky in 1961. Even before graduation, in 1952, the literary almanac "Vladimir" published the first story of Boris Balter "First days" about the beginning of the war. In 1953, this story was included in a separate collection of writer’s prose. Since 1953, Boris Balter for several years headed the literary Department of the Khakass research Institute of language, literature and history in Abakan, and also translated fairy tales from the Khakass language. The result of this work were the books " Khakass folk tales "and two collections of historical stories about the past of the Khakass people —" Steppe mounds "and"what the stones are silent about". All three books were published in translation, literary processing and with a foreword by Boris Isaakovich Balter. The main work of Boris Balter is to a large extent an autobiographical story "Three from one city"(1961), later reworked into the story "Goodbye, boys!" (1962), the name of which he took from the song of his friend Bulat Okudzhava. In 1964, Boris Balter wrote a play based on the story, and then a film script. In October 1965, in the 10th issue of the magazine "Youth" a story “The passage” by Boris Isaakovich Balter was published. This was the last lifetime publication of the writer in a popular Soviet magazine. Almost a quarter of a century later, in 1989, the magazine "Yunost" posthumously published his unfinished novel "Samarkand". In 1968, Boris Balter, who lived in Moscow, was expelled from the CPSU after signing a letter in defense of dissident writers Yuri Galanskov and Alexander Ginzburg. Until the end of his life, he was engaged in translations from Uzbek and Tajik. He died on June 8, 1974, from a heart attack, after two heart attacks, in the village of Vertoshino, Ruzsky district, Moscow region (where he lived in his own house). He was buried in the cemetery in the village of Staraya Ruza.

Maria Alekseevna Barantaeva (Sulukova), a rear worker. Maria Alekseyevna was born on September 20, 1927 in the village of Kuyum, Shebalinsky district, Gorno-Altay Autonomous region (now Chemalsky district of the Altai Republic). She began her teaching career on October 1, 1944 at the Elikmanar seven-year school as a primary school teacher, where she was invited after finishing the ninth grade of the Oyrot pedagogical school. During the war and post-war years, the young teacher had a hard time when the children did not have notebooks, textbooks, clean paper, but she found a way out. The issued party magazines were drawn for each student for writing and arithmetic lessons. It's hard to imagine now, but many people did it in those years. "Bread was given by cards," recalls Maria Alekseevna. Every day, after leaving the boarding school, we looked at the bakery that was located on the other side of the river. If the smoke is coming from the chimney – there will be bread today, if not-then no. They believed that the lucky one was he who had potatoes in the first dish along with cabbage. The boys often went to the villagers to chop wood to earn a bucket of potatoes. The school and boarding school had stove heating. Every day we were given six pieces of wood for a room. We selected one of them for splinters. They were dried, and in the evenings, when there was no or not enough kerosene, the one on duty burned a splinter, the others at the table did their homework. There wasn't enough wood. So the boys sometimes walked around the village at night and took their hats off the posts of the wooden sidewalks. By spring, we were so weak that we could barely climb up to the second floor. We were going to have another test in the spring: the rabfak had a subsidiary farm where vegetables were grown for the dining room. The site was located behind the village in a small field, not out of the blue. Here everyone was assigned a hundred sq.metres of land, which we had to dig by hand. Employees and teachers were involved in this work.» After the war, Maria worked as a primary school teacher in Verkhny-Anosin primary school, and as a Russian language teacher in the regional national and Maimin secondary schools. Maria Alekseevna says: "I am a happy person, because from the very beginning I was surrounded by teachers from God. They taught me to truly love this profession, to see the future of every child..." Maria Alexeevna is an Honored Teacher of the school of the RSFSR, an excellent example of public educationer, a holder of the Order of the Republic of Altai "Tan Cholmon" ("Morning Star"), a veteran of pedagogical work, the author of programs, textbooks, teaching aids in the Altai language for primary classes.

"The family was large and friendly, no one could even imagine that our peaceful life would be destroyed by the war," my grandmother recalled. Before the war, they lived in Belarus, lived poorly, and in 1940 came to the village of Jerzy, Pervomaisky district, for recruitment. Yevgenia Semyonovna had 4 brothers and 3 sisters, according to her, as soon as war was declared, three brothers Stepan, Ivan, and Volodya Kasutskie went to the front. It is hard to remember those terrible days, many things are erased from memory, so my grandmother remembers only that her brothers died the death of the brave in the first years of the war, that they were only a little over twenty, that their parents cried very much when they received the funeral notices. I learned from the Book of Memory that all three brothers were called up by the Pyshkino-Troitsky RVC. Vladimir, born in 1923, went missing in August 1943. Ivan, born in 1922, was killed in action on July 11, 1944 in the Kaliningrad region in the village of Dukhnovo, and Stepan, the eldest brother, was killed in action in August 1944." From the first days of the war, many teenagers started working. My grandmother was only 12 years old ... in summer she worked on a collective farm, in the fields. "I was both a cook and a trailer driver, and I harvested wheat," my grandmother recalled, "I worked the same way as adult women, I was ashamed to lag behind them, so we tried our best." In winter, both in cold and bad weather, she worked at logging sites, cutting branches. "It was scary in the forest, it was difficult to hold an axe in your hands, and you also had to cut off the twigs from the logs," says the grandmother,"but, holding back tears, we helped our mothers." Yevgenia Semyonovna said that in those terrible years it was very difficult, and not only because they did hard men's work, but also because there was very little food, sometimes they ate what they could, sometimes they even starved. So they did, sometimes unbearable work for children for 6 years. And we lived the dreams, dreams that the war would soon end, our brothers would return from the front, and we, still very young, would just run and just play children's games. "We learned about the victory at 4 am. Of course, we were not asleep anymore. I jumped, we kissed and cried. And we sang and danced, " - this is what Yevgenia Semyonovna told about the long-awaited day, not hiding her tears. For her hard work during the war for the benefit of the Motherland, she was awarded the medal ""For Valorous Work during the Great Patriotic War”. She has many awards: "Veteran of Labor ", "Winner of socialist competitions", "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "55 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"."60 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", she was solemnly awarded a medal "65 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War". She didn’t live to see the 75th anniversary of victory.

He was born in 1925. He was drafted into the Red Army by the Bolkhovsky RVC. At the front - from January 18, 1942. Guard Junior Sergeant. He fought at the Western, Bryansk, Belorussian and 1 Ukrainian fronts. The gunner of the 7th battery, 313th Guards Artillery Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky regiment, 121st Guards Riflemen Order of Gomel Red Banner Division, Suvorov Division. Hero of the Soviet Union. He was awarded the Gold Star Medal, the Orders of Lenin, the Order of Glory of the III degree and the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the I degree, two medals "For Combat Merit". On July 24, 1943 in the battle for the village of Savenkov, Orlov region, being in an open firing position, as part of the gun crew, he hit 1 self-propelled gun, 1 car, destroyed 3 machine guns and 70 Germans, which helped to complete the combat mission" (order for the 912 artillery regiment). From the award sheet to the Order of Glory, III degree: "When repulsing strong enemy counterattacks from 19 to 21 April 1945 in the area of Neu-Petershain, Gross-Luy and Gross-Bukov under heavy enemy artillery fire, acting with his gun direct fire, destroyed 11 machine-gun points, 8 German cars, 12 carts with ammunition and over 80 enemy soldiers and officers." From the award list to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union: "on January 27, 1945, under heavy air bombing, comrade Estin ferried his gun along with the crew to the western bank of the Oder river and immediately opened fire on the counterattacking enemy. Despite the numerical superiority of the enemy forces, comrade Estin courageously and steadfastly shot at point-blank range the attacking Nazis, repulsed 3 enemy counterattacks, held a small bridgehead, destroying 1 tank, 2 armored personnel carriers, 5 machine-gun points and over 40 enemy soldiers and officers. When he ran out of the shells and the enemy again resumed the counterattack, comrade Estin with his personal example, inspiring his crew to the feat, in hand-to-hand combat with a bayonet and butt destroyed 6 soldiers and 1 officer, while capturing a light machine gun, 3 rifles and a pistol, thereby helping to repel the enemy's counterattack." He died in 2006.

Anna Panteleimonovna was born on July 26, 1924 in the village of Ilinka, Alekseyevsky district, Belgorod region. Her parents worked at a collective farm. Anna graduated from seventh grade and enrolled in nursing courses, after which she was assigned to work in the Alekseevskaya District Hospital as a nurse in the Infectious Diseases Department. In March 1943, she was drafted into the Red Army and sent to serve in the front-line evacuation hospital No. 1189. The hospital followed the leading units of the Red Army everywhere. Anna Panteleimonovna Elistratova-participant of the battle of Kursk and the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. From the Kursk bulge, she marched through Romania and Hungary, the cities of Bucharest, Ploiesti, Debrecen, Eger, Miskolts, where she welcomed Victory Day on May 9, 1945. During the Great Patriotic War she was awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the medal of Zhukov, the Order of Patriotic War II degree, jubilee medals, the badge "400 years of Tomsk". Over 30 years after the war, she worked in medical institutions in Tomsk. She has many gratitude certificates from the administration and patients. She passed away in 2017. From the memoirs of A. P. Elistratova: "the first and most terrible baptism of fire was the battle of Kursk. July 1943 was very hot and the battles were fierce. There were a lot of wounded, some were carried, those who could move - walked. It will never be forgotten, I remember it with deep pain and fear. In August 1943, the troops of the Second Ukrainian front (I was part of it until the end of the war) moved to the Ukraine, the hospital followed the front to the Dnieper. The battles were fierce. We stopped in Kremenchug close to the front line – our troops on one side of the Dnieper, the fascists were on the other. The enemy bombed and fired from guns, preventing our troops from crossing. After winning, we moved to the Iasi-Kishinev operation. At the end of 1943, we joined the front in Romania and Hungary. In Hungary, in the city of Debrecen, we stood in reserve, then went on to the city of Eger, where we deployed a hospital to receive the wounded. And again, the order was to move on. Arriving in Mishkolts, we deployed in a few hours and immediately began to receive the wounded. There were a lot of wounded, there were fights for Budapest and on lake Balaton. We were on duty in the dressing room for days, and also worked in case the enemy used chemical gases. And I met Victory day on May 9, 1945 here. And although the war was over, the hospital was disbanded only in September 1945-the wounded were being treated. Then I was sent to hospital 3484 for the wounded with amputations of arms and legs. In March 1946, I was dismissed and came home. After the war, I worked in my specialty, got married in 1947, and raised two children with my husband."

Fyodor Andreevich Evdokimov was born on June 3, 1919 in the village of Yarok, Michurinsky district, Tambov region. He was the eldest of seven children in a peasant family. While serving in the railway forces in the far East, he participated in the construction of steel highways, and when Nazi Germany treacherously attacked the Soviet Union, his unit was urgently transferred to the defense of Moscow. Fyodor Evdokimov also participated in the liberation of Belarus, Ukraine and Poland, and fought in East Prussia. He welcomed the Victory day in a foreign land, but on June 24, together with his platoon, he participated in the historic Victory parade on Red Square. "When passing by the Mausoleum, everyone turned their heads as if on command towards the tribune, where the top officials were," Fyodor Andreevich always recalled. Fyodor Andreyevich was awarded many military awards: the Order of Patriotic War II degree, medals "For bravery", "For the defense of Moscow", "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", an anniversary medal "65 years of liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders. In 1944, Fyodor Andreevich was presented to the Order of Glory of the III degree – however, the award Department told him that he would receive the order at the place of residence. As a result, the award never found its owner. He was to receive it for a successful operation to capture a large group of Germans. From the memoirs of Fyodor Andreevich: "On the territory of Belarus, we went with one soldier to investigate. We are walking through the field bordering the forest. Suddenly we see-at the edge of the forest stands a large tent, next it was a German on watch with a machine gun. We quietly neutralized him and went into the tent, and there were thirty Krauts sleeping side by side. We quickly collected their weapons, shook the drunken soldiers and brought them to our unit." He also had to mine the railway tracks, which were used by trains with manpower and military equipment of the enemy. In 1944, on the territory of Belarus, Fyodor Evdokimov derailed a train with Nazi tanks. Once Fyodor Andreevich captured a "Fritz" and led him to the location of his unit. Suddenly the German rushed at his guard and tried to snatch the rifle from him. A struggle began, during which Fyodor Andreevich won, and the German was shot. After the war, Fyodor Andreevich was not immediately released home and was involved in the liberation of the territory of Ukraine from deadly charges. Explosives were removed from road and railway bridges. There was a lot of such work in the city of Chernigov. There, in Chernigov, Fyodor Andreevich met his future wife Tatyana, who gave birth to a son and a daughter. After completing the dangerous work of clearing the territory and objects in Ukraine, in 1948 he returned to his native village and learned that his brother Vasily had died near Kursk, and his brother Alexey had died from severe wounds received during the liberation of Kiev from the Nazi occupiers. Fyodor Andreevich Evdokimov died on July 6, 2017 at the age of 98. He was buried in the city cemetery of Michurinsk, Tambov region.

Ermizov Vasily Ivanovich Rank: Red Army soldier. He was in the Red Army since 02.1943 Place of conscription: Terter RVC, Azerbaijan SSR, Terter district. He was born in May 1924. In the Russian village of Borisy in the Mir-Bashir district of the AZSSR (in Azerbaijan). He was drafted into the Soviet army in 1943 (he said when he was drafted that the war had already been going on for almost two years). At the front, he was sent to the penal battalion for not wearing a hook on the collar of his tunic. Then penalty men were very necessary and for the slightest violation they were recruited in this way. In the beginning, they were driven into battle unarmed, almost with their bare hands – one rifle, five rounds of ammunition and one grenade for three of them, i.e. certain death. The NKVD chased them from behind, and the fascists advanced on them in the front. There was almost no chance of survival, in any case, they would kill him wherever he moved, but he miraculously survived. He said that if he had been immediately taken to the front, he definitely would not have survived. Awards for liberation: Novorossiysk, Anapa, Kerch. My dad was a volunteer, he asked to go to the front (even signed himself two years older) as soon as the war started, but he was rejected because he was the only breadwinner in the family (he had a younger brother and sister). Our grandmother and grandfather were listed as missing since 1938. But after two years of war, he was taken to the front. He really started fighting from Novorossiysk, Anapa, Kerch through the whole Crimea. There was a fierce battle for Sevastopol, Balaklava, Sapun Mountain, Malakhov Kurgan. In the Golden valley, almost all, with whom he came there, were killed. An obelisk was erected in memory of his division. He was wounded while liberating Sevastopol. He ran away from the hospital and caught up with his division. They entered Ukraine from Crimea, where they were re-formed and received the name of the First Ukrainian front. They liberated Ukraine and entered Poland, liberating the Auschwitz concentration camp. So they reached Germany, where they were turned around and sent to the Japanese war. By the time they got there, the war was over and he volunteered to serve three more years in Kamchatka in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

Lyudmila Andreyevna survived the blockade. Her husband went to the front from Leningrad, leaving his wife and two young children there. When the blockade began, Lyudmila Andreyevna and her sister continued to work in the besieged city. Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children in a communal apartment. Life was hard. There was almost no food. When they went to work, parents left their children food for the whole day; of course, the children ate everything at once. People committed various crimes for food, people went crazy from hunger. There were looters and speculators. So the neighbor in the communal apartment where Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children, went mad from hunger. She followed Lyudmila Andreyevna around the apartment saying: "you know, Lyudochka, you can be eaten.» After these words, when leaving for work, Lyudmila Andreyevna asked the children to lock themselves in the room and not to open the door to the neighbor under any pretext. And during the bombing, children hid under the bed, as they could not quickly run out of the room to the bomb shelter. Lyudmila Andreyevna worked as a dishwasher in the military canteen. Maybe that's what kept her and her children alive. All the pots and cauldrons from under the food, were filled with water and rinsed. All this" fat " water was carefully collected by women, so that even the smell of food did not disappear, and carried to their homes – to theirs, neighbors, friends. This "fat" water was divided into glasses, so that everyone got at least a little. All cats, dogs, birds, rats, and leather goods were eaten in the city. It was from Lyudmila Andreyevna that I learned that people in the besieged city were eating each other, that corpses with soft body parts cut out were laying on the streets. For a whole year Lyudmila Andreyevna lived with her children in besieged Leningrad. Together with her sister Antonina Andreevna, they went to look for the body of their aunt, they had to look among the piles of dead bodies. After all, all the dead and killed were put in large piles. That's where they found her. Then Lyudmila Andreyevna and her children were evacuated from Leningrad to Siberia on the road of life through Ladoga. It was both the road of life and the road of death. When Lyudmila Andreyevna was driving in the car with her children, her children fell asleep from hunger and weakness, but she did not sleep. As she watched, the car behind them went under the ice, then another in front of them. And she sat and thought that if only the children would not wake up, so that if anything happened they would sleep and not understand anything. They were taken to Siberia. They lived there until the end of the war.

He was born in Apastovsky district, Tatar ASSR. The family had 13 children, only four survived. He was drafted into the army in 1942. At the front, during the battle, he was wounded in the elbow of his right hand, and was discharged due to the wound. He has awards as a participant of the Great Patriotic War. Before the war, he lived in the city of Kazan, studied at a military school (which - I do not know), fought near the city of Yelnya. Unfortunately, while he was fighting, our army was retreating. He was wounded on 5.09.1943, (he was 19! years old) by a shrapnel, but his arm did not bend or unbend until the very end of his life. He was a disabled person of group 2. There were awards. They remained in the previous family. But the brothers (his sons) did not find them (I asked). In peacetime, he did not like to watch films about the war, especially those where songs are sung. He said that war is blood and dirt, blood and dirt. I think there was a lot of stress. I have a copy of the certificate of illness (injury). There's some information there. Rank-Red Army Soldier. Military unit and its address: 93 p. regiment. Serves in the RSC since 1942. Place of permanent residence before service: Kazan, Bogulinskaya street, No. 3. Accepted into the Red Army by the Stalinist GVK of Moscow. Member of the Komsomol. Wounded at the front 5/9-43 shrapnel in the right elbow joint. There is no movement in the right elbow joint. Recognized: Unfit for military service with an exception from the register. The war invalid of 2 group. Approved by VVK MEP No. 41 on March 17, 1944-here is some information. And this is all from the documents. And from the stories a lot of things are different. He lived and was buried in the city of Yeniseysk, Krasnoyarsk region.