Heroes and feats

Rank: lieutenant. Troop type: Armored and mechanized troops. Unit: 7th Armored Division. My grandfather, Mikhail Filippovich Kushlak, was born into a peasant family on 25 March 1921. His childhood was not an easy one, from an early age he had to work with his father in a collective farm. At the age of 17 he was sent to study at the Minsk tank school. After he finished school in 1941 he immediately went to the front. He could not go home, the Germans were on the advance. His branch moved via Mariupol in the direction of North Caucasus. The T-34 tanks were not improved compared to the German "Tigers". My great-grandfather in the rank of a lieutenant was a high-ranking driver in the 7th Tank Division and was responsible for all problems with the tank, because he knew every detail. In 1942 they reached Stalingrad. It was a hard fight, a real "meat grinder". They came to the rescue when the soldiers stood until death, did not move forward, but did not let the Germans pass. "Moscow is behind us", said the soldiers, "we will stand to the last." During the first offensive many tanks were destroyed, one of them was the tank of a great-grandfather. Great-grandfather had a grenade explosion, and when he got out of the burning tank through the lower hatch, his legs were badly broken and he was seriously injured. These injured were transported to the rear, and the great-grandfather was transferred to the hospital of Ashgabat, where he was operated on. He lost a lot of blood, needed a transfusion, and the blood of the first group was given to him by a nurse working there - a hostess named Fenya. When he was discharged, he was desperate to go to the front, but the doctors concluded: "Fit for not fighting". Since he had nowhere to go, my great-grandfather stayed in Ashgabat. He married the same mistress named Fenya, and they lived together for more than 50 years. Great-grandfather received many awards: "For bravery", bravery and courage in the fight against the fascist invaders, for the heroic defense of Stalingrad - the Order of the Patriotic War, the "Medal of Bravery" and other awards. At the front he received shrapnel wounds in the soft tissues of the right thigh, shrapnel wounds in the left shin.

Confessions of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, soldier Kutkov Ilya Semyonovich: "- I have started my career in the Far East in 1941, on the Komsomol ticket, as a miner's apprentice in Rudnik colliery. - What do you remember from the first day of the war? - The day was cloudy despite the peak of summer, clouds were rolling in the sky, which a weak breeze could not drive away. But we did not know that fascism had been drawing bloody clouds over our homeland for almost four years since that Sunday. In the summer of 1942 we, young 17-18 year old miners, were loaded into wagons and taken to Khabarovsk under guard (so as not to walk home). But on the way there I deserted from the work front according to the laws of wartime. I was homesick and hungry... My parents lived in the Novozayimsky district of the Tyumen Regionobla, 17 kilometers from the center of the district, in the village of Kolesnikovo. I stayed at home for four days, but my heart was restless, my parents were worried. On the fifth day I appeared before the eyes of the military commissar, to whom I confessed who I was and what I had done. A few hours later a messenger arrived, and on the second day I was in Cheryomushki, where I took the military oath. A month and a half later, in the autumn of 1942, I was a part of the 252nd rifle division in Stalingrad - which, as part of the 65th and then the 21st army of the Don Front, had surrounded Paul's army. I was awarded with the medal " for the defense of Stalingrad ". - For what did you receive the Medal for Military Merit? - I fought like everyone else. For crossing the Dnieper - crossing the Dnieper was not easy, we suffered heavy losses, but we reached the shore and started to build the bridgehead. After the battle of Stalingrad I, soldier Ilya Kutkov, liberated Moldova, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Yugoslavia. Ended the war in Czechoslovakia. - Why did you receive the Order of Glory in the third degree? "Our company received orders to prepare for the encounter with the Germans on the north side. Of course we dug trenches and prepared for battle, but the fascists appeared from the south side - but we were not confused, we repulsed the attack with heavy fire, and we ourselves retreated into the woods. Soon a general came to us and for some reason did not believe our commanders that the enemy was coming at us from the other side. The general addressed the soldiers with a request: "Who wants to visit the field where more than two dozen dead German soldiers are lying and present their documents as material evidence? Two sergeants and I, a corporal, volunteered. As I did not get 150 meters, the NCOs ordered me to crawl to the bodies as if we were giving you cover. I tried to object, "Why should I crawl to the dead?" But I had to obey, because my superiors ordered me to. "Was there any danger?" - The danger was that among the bodies was a wounded German who could shoot, but thank God everything went well. In 1946 I, Sergeant Kutkov, returned to my home village in the district of Novozaimsky (now Omutninsky) in the Tyumen Region. Here is one of my many stories at the front, from 1942 to 1945 " a small confession, and how many experiences there were and when - that is what he told. Everlasting memory of our father, grandfather, great-grandfather! NO ONE IS FORGOTTEN AND NOTHING IS FORGOTTEN- HAPPY VICTORY DAY, DEAR VETERANS !!!!

Rank: Major-General. Branch of the Army: Land Forces, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 183rd Rifle Kharkiv command of Lenin red banner command of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. Kostitsyn Alexander Stepanovich – major- general. Date of birth __.1904. Place of birth: Chelyabinsk region, Poltava district, Mogut village. Call place - Svobodinskiy RVC, Kursk Region, Svobodinskiy district, military unit 183 48 SD SK 69. And the date of service __.__.1926 Who awarded by: Steppe Front Name of the Order of Conferral of the Patriotic War I degree. Date feat: 24.07.1943. Space of the ICT Fund of his. Information. 33 - the number of inventory his. Information. 682526 case number of his.information, 1458 archive TSAMO. Alexander Stepanovich was born in 1904 in the village of Molotovka, Chelyabinsk area. He completed 7 classes of secondary school. Before he was drafted into the army, he worked as a locomotive driver Stoker. In the Red Army in 1926 he graduated from the Military Academy named after M. V. Frunze, the participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was the commander of the famous 132nd separate battalion of convoy troops of the NKVD, whose soldiers fought bravely in the ranks of the defenders of the Brest Fortress from the very first minutes of the Great Patriotic War. The war got Captain Kostitsin A. S. on the way from Moscow to Brest (he was in training camps in Moscow). On 22 June 1941, around noon near the town of Kobrin, he joined the surviving soldiers of the battalion and took control. After he had defended himself near the bridge of the city of Kobrin, soldiers of the battalion together with soldiers of other parts and militias occupied the bridge, which resulted in the withdrawal of the main forces of the connections of the 4th Division. In Minsk, which was connected with the units of the 42nd separate convoy brigade, the 251st regiment of convoy troops of the NKVD was formed on the basis of the 132nd battalion (commander was appointed Captain Kostitsin A. S.). Major, Lieutenant Colonel KOSTITSIN A. S. . Since July 31, 1941, he commanded the 910th Rifle Regiment of the 243rd Rifle Division of the Western Front. EXTRACT FROM THE AWARD DOCUMENTS: "As Commander of the 910th Rifle Regiment since July 31, 1941. Throughout the duration of the military operations, Major KOSTITSYN proved to be a devoted son of our motherland, a capable, strong-willed commander. Again and again, through personal participation in the most difficult parts of the battle, he showed himself to be a courageous, brave commander who knows how to create a break and achieve success by his personal example. In the battles from September 15 to 19, 1941, the 910th rifle regiment advancing in the main direction with its determined actions achieved the task of defeating more than one battalion of the enemy and capturing prisoners and trophies. The regiment reached the Eastern Bank of the river WESTERN DVINA in time and quickly organized the defense of its section. Infantry firepower: mortars, machine guns and rifles were effectively used by the 910th Rifle Regiment in the battles of 15-19 September. Major KOSTITSYN skilfully led the regiment's combat operations and ensured that the task was accomplished". He deserves to be awarded the Order of RED BANNER. AWARDED THE ORDER FROM THE RED STAR. He took part in the fighting on the outskirts of Moscow. On the Kalinin Front, Lieutenant Colonel A. S. KOSTITSYN was wounded on 11 May 1942 and hit by shrapnel on 6 July 1942. From 19 March to 12 May 1942 and from 2 October 1942 to 24 July 1943, Colonel Major General KOSTITSYN A. S. commanded the 183rd Rifle Division. EXTRACT FROM THE PRIZE DOCUMENTS: "Comrade KOSTITSYN, who commanded the 183rd Rifle Division, showed tactical competence, energy and devotion to the cause of the party LENIN -STALIN and Socialist Motherland. The division under his direct leadership showed examples in fulfilling the tasks of the Military Council of the Army. Successful progress in destroying the enemy's manpower and equipment, especially in offensive battles for liberation of cities - BELGOROD, CHARKIV. As a result of skilful leadership of the units of the division the following trophies are occupied: locomotives-17, squadron-3, tractors-60, tanks-10, cars-45, airplanes-1, fuel-400 tons and many other military equipment". For the successful performance of the tasks assigned to the division, for the skilful organization of the cooperation of the units, for courage and bravery - I represent the comrade KOSTITSYN to the Government - the order of the RED BANNER. AWARDED THE ORDER FROM THE RED BANNER. He took part in the fights on the Kursk bulge (near Prokhorovka). He died in the battle of Belgorod on July 24, 1943 in the rank of major general. EXTRACT FROM THE PRIZE DOCUMENTS: "Major-General KOSTITSYN The skilful leadership of the division was able to ensure the execution of the combat tasks assigned to it during the defensive fights with the German-Fascist troops from July 6th to 14th this year. For 8 days the division fended off fierce attacks by superior enemy infantry, tanks and airplanes steadfastly and skilfully. In fierce battles, units of the division destroyed: up to 4,000 soldiers and officers, 94 tanks were knocked out and burned, and other enemy equipment was destroyed. The task assigned to the division was to prevent the enemy from entering the territory of PROKHOROVKA and to halt its further advance. The division fought heavy defensive battles, maintained its offensive power and, after moving to the counter-offensive, achieved significant successes. The success of the division was facilitated by the skilful and calm leadership of the units by the comrade himself. Personally Comrade KOSTITSYN is a courageous and determined commander, for whom he previously received the orders RED STAR and RED BANNER. Comrade KOSTITSYN, commander of the 183rd Infantry Division, was tactically competent, energetic and committed to the cause of the Lenin-Stalin party and Socialist Motherland. On July 24, 1943 he died a heroic death for the GREAT SOCIALISTS HOMELAND on the order of the High Command for the Further Development of the Offensive. "Comrade KOSTITSYN for the skilful leadership of the units of the division is worthy of the Government Prize: the Order of the "PATRIOTIC WAR of the 1st DEGREE" - PERMANENTLY. Awarded with the Order ORDER OF "PATRIOTIC WAR 1 DEGREE".

I was born into a military family. My father, Viktor Vasilishin, is a retired captain. Grandfather - Kozub Viktor Ivanovich, also an officer, took part in combat missions in Afghanistan. He was born in Krasnodar in 1953. Then the family moved to the village of Chelbasskaja. My grandfather always wanted to be a military man. After graduating from school he entered the communication school of the Novocherkassk High Command of the military with red flag, named after Marshal Sokolovsky of Soviet Union. After graduation he was sent to Karaganda as a train commander in the signal troops. After that he served in the GDR in the city of Dresden. On 9 July 1985 he was transferred to Afghanistan. He served as head of communication of a regiment for motorized rifles in the city of Shendant. It was difficult to serve because communication had to be established under constant fire from the Mujahedin. On August 8, 1985, the regiment in which Viktor Ivanovich served was withdrawn from Afghanistan, and he continued to serve in the armed forces on the territory of USSR. My grandfather received eight medals for his services in Afghanistan. My great-grandfather, Sergeant Kozub Ivan Andreevich, served in the Northern Fleet of the Anti-Aircraft Defense Forces during the Great Patriotic War. He was the commander of the anti-aircraft crew of DShK, which guarded the sea route to the port of Murmansk, which was used for the delivery of goods under lend lease from the United States, England and Canada. Each flak calculation took into account 2 kilometers of the sea route. It was necessary to escort cargo ships and ensure their safety so that the cargo could be delivered on time and to its destination. For the impeccable fulfillment of the military duty Ivan Andreevich was awarded the medal "for the defense of the Arctic" on 5 December 1944. Then their anti-aircraft crew was transferred to the Far East, where they fought with Japanese troops. On May 9, 1945, great-grandfather was awarded the medal "for the victory over Germany" and on September 30, 1945, the medal "for the victory over Japan". Besides these most expensive awards, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd degree, and commemorative medals. After the war Ivan Andreevich worked in the collective farm. Telman St. Chel Basskaja, received the medal "for long and conscientious work". My great-grandmother, Kozub (Emelyanova) Tamara Alekseyevna worked during the war in the hinterland, in a fish factory and a bakery in the town of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. My great-great-grandfather, Lieutenant Kozub Andrey Andreevich, defended North Caucasus during the Great Patriotic War against the German fascist troops. He fought in the artillery, was platoon commander. In one of the fierce battles Andrey Andreevich was wounded. For the courage and heroism shown in the battle the great-great-grandfather was awarded the medal "for the defense of the Caucasus". My great-great-grandmother, Anastasia Kozub, lived in the village of Chelbasskaya during the Great Patriotic War. She survived the Nazi occupation. He remembers well how during the war they had stationed a female flying squadron "Night Witches" in their garden (4 planes), and the rest were in the pasture and on the territory of the neighbors. I am proud of my relatives, true defenders of the motherland. Vasilishina Anna Viktorovna , a student of 7th "A" class (14 years old) MBOU SOSH No. 2, Kanevskaya stanitsa, Kanevsky district, Krasnodar region.

Rank: soldier of the Red Army. Service rank: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, troops of the border troops of the NKWD. In 1938 he was drafted into the army. He served for three years, first in the north, then in Rostov-on-Don. The war began, and immediately he was sent to the front with practice rifles. In the Battle of Rostov he was wounded in the leg, was captured and taken to Germany. In Germany he worked in a mine, then he unloaded wagons and other heavy work. The Americans released him and handed him over to USSR. After numerous controls he was left behind in the army. Until 1946 his military unit on German territory SS caught men. From the memoirs of George's wife Maria Timofeevna Kuzmina: "Three times the Germans captured Rostov, each time they took it back from the Germans. The last time he was wounded in the leg, bled to death and lost consciousness. The fascists went there, looked at who was badly wounded there - killed them and took the young prisoners with them. They looked at him - he was wounded in the leg, loaded him up and took him away. He woke up when he was driving at night in a wagon on a bunk, dark-dark in the wagon, a lot of wounded soldiers around. A man came by in the dark and said, "I am a doctor who is injured - I can help you. George came to his senses and said "I am hurt - I was shot in the leg." The doctor looked at him and said: "All right, I'll get that fragment from you now, but how do I hold you or are you going to grit your teeth and hold on? There is no anesthetic, only a pocket knife. George gathered strength, said that he would hold on, gritted his teeth - the doctor took this fragment from him. Then he said: "Go to the toilet now, there is a bucket there, treat the wound with urine. This wound did not heal the whole time he was in captivity. And then the Americans released him and handed him over to the Russian side. We checked - his story turned out to be true. They forced him to catch half-baked fascists in the woods. He always wore a boot and a scarf on the other leg. Then those who were in captivity were enemies, because they "sold their homes", traitors. He did not write home even when he could. He was demobilized in 1946, and returned to Orenburg." After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute in Orenburg, he worked as a teacher of chemistry and biology in the village Staraya Dombarovka in the district of Dombarovsky in the Orenburg region until the end of his life.

Vasily Klochkov (1911-1941) Hero of the Soviet Union. Born in the village of Sinodsky of Volsky uyezd (now Voskresensky district).

Rank: Senior Officer: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Krivtsov Ignat Ivanovich was born on 03.03.1908 in the village of Bunino, Solntsevsky District, Kursk Region. Russian. Member of the CPSU. Graduate of 4 classes. He grew up, studied and worked like many of his peers in the village. At the age of thirty-two he went to Makeyevka, worked as a miner in the Markovskaya mine and went to the front in August 1941. When the war began, the worker Ignat Krivtsov volunteered to go to the front. The command selected courageous, strong-willed people who were able to perform the most difficult and responsible tasks. These are exactly the people the commanders saw in Ignat Ivanovich... Krivtsov did not hesitate long and weighed his strength, but his heart told him that he could withstand the ordeal. And he said: - "I am ready to perform any task"! So the average Kryvtsov was an intelligence officer of the division. During the first combat mission, the four fearless fighters set off at dawn. It was necessary to take the "language". For three days, in heavy rain, under bullets, the soldiers, covered with masks, studied the enemy. At the end of the third day they damaged the communication wires of the enemy units in several places, in the hope that the Germans would immediately begin to correct the line. And so it happened. There were three of them: the fascists, as owners, entered our country in full growth. Suddenly there was a short "Hande Hoh"! The Germans were confused at first, then they grabbed their weapons and rushed into the bushes. But it was too late. Automatic fire mowed down two of them, and a third raised his hands. He was taken to headquarters. The commander of the platoon of the Pedestrian Investigation 146 guards rifle regiment (70th Army 1 pc Belarusian Front) Sergeant Kryvtsov during the attack on Poland is often reconnaissance command tasks as at the front and behind enemy lines. On the approaches to the river Narew in the area of the settlement Yakushevo, Warsaw Voivodeship, 28.08.1944, the Abteilung together with the Abteilung penetrated into enemy positions. Courageously acting, energetically destroyed the machine gun with the calculation and for the further fight seven more Hitlerists. Guards Sergeant Krivtsov 09.02.1945 not noticeable for the Nazis the Nazis passed their front line, went together with other scouts to the positions of the German machine-gunners. Soldiers with grenades and machine gun fire destroyed three calculations. This was exploited by the units of the regiment and a sudden night attack took the village of Alkenen. 29.06.1945 Wachfeldwebel I I. Krivtsov was awarded the Order of the Art of Glory I. Many times the scout Ignat Ivanovich Krivtsov looked death in the eye and did not always emerge victorious from fights with the enemy... Twenty "languages" of recruits and officers - he delivered to the headquarters, risked his life twenty times to ensure the combat success of our units. More than once he had to heal his wounds in field hospitals. And every time he returned to the front, went on reconnaissance, went towards victory. The Motherland took note of the military heroic deeds of the Boy Scout Ignat Ivanovich Krivtsov with high awards and awarded him 3 orders of "Glory", the Order of the Red Star and the "Order of Patriotic War" of the "first art", the medal "for military merits". After the war Ignat Ivanovich worked in the city of Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, as a kilner of the ceramics department on the order of the red banner of the "Avtosteklo" factory, was a drummer of communist work. Retired by age. But until today perhaps few people in the factory know that next to them worked a man whose life was a heroic deed. Ignat Ivanovich died on 23.05. I981 in Konstantinovka.

Rank: Lieutenant of Military Department: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Kachevsky Nikolay Fedorovich worked at Makashev School as a teacher of mathematics and physics, as a teacher of military training. He was born on April 24, 1921 in the village of Seloma, Borisoglebsky district, in a large farming family. He started working early. After seven years at school he worked in a collective farm. In 1937 he entered the Voronezh Aviation College, which he graduated on June 25, 1941, on the fourth day of the war. After the distribution he was sent to the Ufa engine building plant, where he worked for several months. In April 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to the courses of the command staff. After completing these courses he was sent to the Stalingrad front as an infantry platoon commander. The unit arrived on November 19, 1942, the day of the famous breakthrough, which ended with the encirclement of the Stalingrad fascist group. As part of Stalingrad, then the 3rd Ukrainian Front, Lieutenant N. F. Kachevsky participated in the liberation of the Donbass, south and right - Bank Ukraine, Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria. He met the victory in Sofia. He was awarded with medals and decorations. After demobilization in 1946, he entered the Borisoglebskij Teacher Institute. After graduating in 1948 he worked as a teacher of mathematics at the grammar school in Makashev. There he worked for 46 years, imprinting himself in the hearts and memories of his students and teachers. The teacher had many qualities: incorruptible honesty, decency, kindness to people, but the most important characteristic of his nature was the highest responsibility for the cause he served. In recent years, Reserve Officer N. F. Khachevsky taught children about military affairs. Conscripts knew the basics of military service, military regulations, acted skilfully in tactical exercises in offensive and defensive actions, received good skills in drill and fire training, and this was a great merit of the military leader. Nikolay Fyodorovich and Yulia Nikiforovna gave their children a lot of attention and warmth. There was a cult of knowledge in the family. The father taught the children to work independently. My son and my two daughters finished school with distinction and received a higher education. Anatoly became professor, doctor of science. Nadia and Natascha are engineers. They were not spared the difficulties of this friendly family. Nadia, the most energetic and cheerful of the children, died early, very young. This shocked the already older parents and seriously affected the mother's health. In 1996 Nikolay Fedorovich took a well-deserved break. The circumstances were such that they had to leave their house on the bank of the Khoperi River and move to the town of Borisoglebsk.

Nikita Petrovich Korzh went into active military service in 1929, started working in a collective farm after 8 years in the army and was called to the front in August 1941. From the memoirs of a soldier in the Red Army: "The Starominsky platform resembled an anthill, women sobbed, clutching their children to their breasts and imploring us to return. First he came to Ukraine, fought in the Sumy region, and then their regiment was transferred to Moscow. The Kuban-Kosak received his baptism of fire at Naro-Fominsk. There he received his first medal "for bravery", after he had fulfilled the commander's task of tracking down and taking out a German sniper. The battle of 10 October 1941 Nikita Petrovich remained in his memory for the rest of his life. From the Red Army memoirs: "The Germans scribbled incessantly from machine guns and mortars, burned nearby textile factory, blocked their breath with the stench of smoldering cotton wool. When they saw that the commander shouted "Attack!" without taking a step, fell, knocked down by a bullet, the 36-year-old Nikita Petrovich, who was looking around for the young boys, decided that he should take command as an older man, but soon received a wound in his left leg, lost consciousness. Only at night, under cover of darkness, a nurse in a raincoat dragged them to a safe place. Then he lay in the evacuation hospital in Saransk for 6 months, only in spring 1942 he returned home as an invalid. His family only narrowly escaped execution and survived thanks to the liberation of the village of Starominskaya from the invaders. From the author: "The veteran of the Great Patriotic War did not receive his legitimate medal" for the defense of Moscow. According to relatives he was not included in the lists of participants in the fighting near Moscow. I think the reward will find its hero after all".

Vladimir Vladimirovich Korneychuk , a war veteran, began his front line career in 1944 as a pioneer at the front. He was drafted into the army on 7th August. He was trained. In November, at the same time as K. K. Rokossovsky was appointed commander-in-chief of the 2nd Belarusian front, he was sent into combat under his command. The Pioneer Brigade, in which he served, moved westwards and followed the retreating enemy, which was pursued by the Soviet troops. Rokossovsky, who was still under the command of the 1st Belarusian Front, did everything possible and impossible to cross the Vistula. The Vistula trembled and hummed. They blew up the ice and equipped the Ford. Self-propelled guns were transported on pontoons. The German fascist troops withdrew to the Oder River. The Nazis called the Oder "the river of German destiny" and therefore threw large troops here. Along the Western Bank of the river pillboxes made of concrete and steel were built. They were placed in such a way that the entire surface of the water and the bank were bombarded by machine gun pillboxes. Due to the high military skill of the soldiers they crossed the water barrier. Our brigade with pontoon transport vehicles approached the water line at the same time as the advanced command. The transfer of the division across the water line took place at the crossing. The commander of the 2nd Belarusian Front, Konstantin Rokossovsky, wrote: "...we had the opportunity to observe the work of the pioneers. They were working up to their necks in icy water amidst shrapnel and mines, and built a crossing. Every second they were threatened with death, but the people understood their duty as soldiers and thought of one thing: to help their comrades in the West Bank and thus bring victory closer...". We have a good commander who has already been taught by the terrible experience of war. He gave the order in time: "Lie down!" We were lucky, we had no casualties, we approached victory with confidence. Victory! The war is over! We were all happy. Finally they believed firmly that the last war in history was over and that there would never be another war. We drank vodka... Then we were transferred to the Far East, where the war was still going on. We were fully equipped with shovels, grenades and explosives. They were guarding the tunnels and the railroad. They blew up the system of remaining enemy fortifications. He really wanted to go home and hug my brother and sister. Thank God he's back. The peaceful biography of Vladimir Vladimirovich was connected to the construction business for 32 years. Built, created, created, made. He was surrounded by special honor and attention. He has awards. Builders were needed at all times. This work gave hope for stability and faith in the future. He chose this profession because he wanted to see the real result of his work, that people need this result. After the war he found happiness, peace and family. Now a war and work veteran, who is already 87 years old, lives in a private house and has been working in beekeeping for many, many years. One of the reasons is the love for bees, besides, your honey seems to be much tastier. You see, near the house in a small garden in a row are beehives. Above the beehive there is a thick, even and even solemn ringing. In different directions some bees fly away hurriedly and noisily, and others return home heavy, quietly and loaded with nectar and pollen. And the garden in this swarm of bees seems cheerful. Beekeeping is an active recreation. It improves health, strengthens the human body, increases performance. So Vladimir Vladimirovich lives like a worker bee.

My mother, Tamara Klyukhina, was born on 23rd April 1921 in Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Regiont. My grandmother, Ksenia Kulagina, came to Zlatoust from the province of Samara in the early 1900s. My mother had two brothers and two sisters - Maria, born in 1907, and Zinaida, born in 1911. In 1934 my grandmother died at the age of 50 after an illness. The 13-year-old mother, who was left an orphan, was taken in first by her older sister and then by the middle sister. After my mother had finished the 7th grade, she entered the pedagogical technical school, but the scholarship was not paid there for a long time, and my mother had to go to a vocational school to study milling. After finishing school she went to Magnitogorsk, where the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steelworks was built, and started working in a car depot. There she met my father, Dmitry Kharitonovich Karpenko, and I was born in 1940. Dmitri was a fighter pilot during the war and did not return from combat duty on July 16, 1943, right at the beginning of the Battle of Kursk. My mother worked at the Magnitogorsk car dealership throughout the war, and at the end of the war she was the head of the personnel department. She received the medal "for brave work in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" and all the following commemorative medals. In January 1947 mother married Ivan E. Kljuchina, who was like a father to me. Since 1955 she lived in Sverdlovsk, later in Ekaterinburg. Until 1976, she worked as the head of the human resources department in the Fifth Automobile Repair Plant, which was established in 1946 on the basis of the Fifth Automobile Repair Base, which was evacuated from the city of Smolensk to Sverdlovsk in 1941 to repair the automotive equipment of the Urvo troops. My mother was awarded the last medal "70 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" on the eve of her death. She died suddenly on 10 April 2015 at the age of 93.

Service branch: Army Corps of Engineers. TIMOFEY F. KOSENKO (20.10.1924-08.03.1985). Born in the village of Bolshie Osinniki, Idritsky district, Pskov region. In 1940 he came to Leningrad to study. On August 26, 1942, the Petrograd RVC of Leningrad was drafted into Red Army and sent as a pioneer to the 34th separate ski brigade of the Leningrad Front, where he took the oath on September 5th. He took part in breaking the siege of Leningrad. On February 2, 1943 he suffered a severe concussion. He was treated in a number of evacuation hospitals. On September 7, 1943, after being healed in evacuation hospital 5798, he was sent to the Letyazhsky RVC of the Kirov region. From March to April 1944 he fought on the Baltic front, from May 1944 - on the 2nd Belarusian front as a pioneer assault troop of the 3rd company of the 6th division of the Guard Assault Storm Troopers Battalion. In July 1944 he was seriously wounded. In August 1945 he was released to the reserve in the rank of a corporal. After the war he lived and worked in Sebezh in the Pskov region. Was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of I Art. (11.03.1985); medals "for the defense of Leningrad" (22.12.1942), "for bravery" (06.02.1946), "for the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" (09.05.1945), "for brave work" (26.03.1970), "Veteran of Labor" (23.06.1981), anniversary awards. Sources of information: Archive of Main Directorate of personal and military medical documents of the Ministry of Defense of USSR, list of awards for the medal "for bravery", certificates for military and anniversary medals, order book, military ID.

Service branch: Coastal defense and air defense Artillery, coastal units, aviation of the Red Army AND Naval units of the border troops of the NKWD. My great-grandfather, Fyodor Kisilev, was born in 1927 in Maklaushi village in the Ulyanovsk region. When he was 3 years old, the family decided to move to Siberia to earn their living. They lived very poorly. The grandfather was the youngest in the family, there were 5 children. In one bad year the potatoes were all soaked and rotten, so I had to go to the villages and beg. There was nothing to eat. Great-grandfather completed only 4 classes and started to help his parents in the fields. When he was 17 years old, he was drafted into the army in 1944. They took him to the East. It was November. It was very cold. The train was going to Vladivostok. They are very cold, but there is nothing to do. I had to bear it. Defined in one part of the Air Defense "Air Defense". My great-grandfather told me that there was no place to live, they built a shelter for the winter to avoid freezing at all. Since they were still very young, they were given something to light Japanese planes with searchlights, and anti-aircraft gunners were already shooting them down. The work took place at night, so they gathered at night, on alert, and set to work. It was frightening. Finally the planes could start shooting. Great-grandfather says: "So we sit in the barracks, then the commander runs in and shouts that the war is over. Everyone was very happy and started to hug each other. " but my great-grandfather did not return home immediately, he served for six more years and arrived in 1951. Life went well. He got a job and got married soon. He is 89 years old now. Everyone in the family loves and respects him.

In November 1922 the gray-eyed girl Vera was born on a small farm in the vast steppes of Ukraine. From early childhood she worked, helped her parents in the fields, at home. Lessons - last but not least, lying on her stomach in the mowed stubble field, herding a herd of cows. The school is five kilometers from home, back and forth every day. But the girl proved to be capable, learned well, and her parents wanted to train their daughter as a teacher. The teacher is the most respected person in the village, and in 1941 the girl is studying at the Teacher's Institute. The terrible news of the beginning of the war hit the black plate of the loudspeaker, she lost consciousness, slipped down the wall. The institute said: "Go home. Then I learned that the teacher of the institute, the handsome poet P Artemenko, created a partisan underground, was tortured by the Nazis in a concentration camp in Lubny, Poltava region. In the homeland under the Nazis, working in a collective farm (the Germans kept the collective farms), overslept in the field early in the morning, the local policemen will mark with the whip. 1943 - the Red Army marched into Ukraine, but the retreating fascists took the "color of the nation" - young girls, women. Berlin... a huge camp barrack... Drudge work in a cable factory... hunger... turnip soup with worms. Prisoners from France received parcels while Soviet prisoners starved to death. Then, in the slave market, the landowner's wife liked her. The work was hard, but at night they managed to boil potatoes and gather apples. Through the woman's reaction she learned about the affairs at the front, she asked if it was cold in Siberia, it was clear that she was preparing for exile to far-off lands. So Vera realized that the Soviet troops were advancing, but the hope for liberation was illusory, she believed that the war ended at the border. And she did not react to the timid wooing of her unhappy brother, a man from Siberia, because she wanted to return to her homeland. Finally, the long awaited victory left the Folvark in May 1945 to meet the Soviet soldiers. The ruins, a terrible mess, finally reached the location of the unit. They asked: "Educated?" They reported as civilians and handed out rations. So she served until autumn. She really wanted to go home and could not imagine life without home. Finally at home she finished studies at the Pedagogical Institute in Kiev. She lived in a hostel in a room for 20 people, Khreshchatyk (Central Street of Kiev) in ruins. She went home for bread crumbs and a piece of bacon - on the running board of a suburban train. After graduating from the Pedagogical Institute - a teacher in the Kiev region. Terrible grief - a friend of the village at the Institute went to teach children in Western Ukraine. Returned in a closed coffin - Bandera killed. Post-war life continued as usual: marriage, birth of a daughter. But life was not limited to the family, she was involved in social work, was very kind, friendly, helpful in word and deed. Vera Vasilyevna, awarded the anniversary medals "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War" and "60 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War".

Rank: colonel. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except Navy Aviation), Coast Guard, the troops of the border troops of the NKWD. Division: 94th Guard Rifle Zvenigorod-Berlin command of the Suvorov Division. Andrey Kravchenko . Born on 23.12.1912 in the village Malinino Timashevsky district of Krasnodar region. In the Red Army since 1931, 220 p. p. 74 of the Taman Rifle Division, in 1933 he was awarded the rank of junior commander. Long service 1933-1938 with the rank of a non-commissioned officer of a machine-gun company. 1938 refresher courses for Junior Reserve Lieutenants in Millerovo, Rostov region. In 1938 he was appointed platoon commander after the squaw in / h 5399. From 1939 to 1940 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Staff of Military Unit 5399 for mobilization work. In 1940 he was transferred as deputy chief of staff of the 5th division of the 171st rifle division. Division. In 1941, within the framework of this division, he met with the fascist invaders who traitorously invaded the territory of our motherland. In August 1941 he was wounded between Bila Tserkva and the Vasylkiv district in the Kiev area. After the hospital he was appointed deputy chief of staff of the secret service of the 220th rifle regiment of the 74th rifle division. In January 1942. he was sent to study at Military Academy for daring and combat successes. Frunze. In August 1942, after finishing his studies, he was appointed head of the operational department of the 43rd Ski Brigade of the S-Z Front of the 53rd Army. After the defeat of the German Army in the Demyansk pocket in March 1943, the 43rd Ski Brigade was disbanded and A. I. Kravchenko was appointed deputy chief of staff of the 53rd Army for the VPU. In May 1944 he took part in the breakthrough of the Kursk bulge near Belgorod and in the defeat of the group Korsun-Shevchenko. In May 1944 he became the commander of the rifle regiment of the 286 Guard of the 94th Guard of the rifle division of the 53rd Army. On September 3, 1944 the advanced rifle regiment of the 286 Guard was the first to reach the Odra River in the town of Amkinets, where it captured a bridgehead and kept it until the arrival of the main forces of the 5th Army. A. I. Kravchenko was awarded for this achievement - Hero of Soviet Union. As part of the 5th Shock Army, the regiment stormed the city of Berlin. Later, the 286th Guard Rifle Regiment was renamed the 286th Guard Rifle Regiment with Red Banner Branderburg, and the 94th Guard Rifle Division was renamed the 94th Guard Rifle Division Zvenigorod-Berlin with Red Banner Order of Suvorov II Grad Gewehrdivision After the victory A. I. Kravchenko was appointed military commander of the district and town of Nordhausen in the state of Thuringia. Since January 1956 Colonel A. I. Kravchenko - in reserve. Since 1956 he lived in Timoshevsk. Worked as chairman of the city council. In 1971 he moved to the city of Volgograd. Died on 02.01.1976. He was buried at the Voroshilovsky cemetery in Volgograd.