Heroes and feats

Rank: Red Army soldier. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, troops of the border troops of the NKWD. Kolbasnikov Ivan Semyonovich went to the front as a volunteer in 1943. From December 1943 to 16 March 1944 he was a high-ranking machine-gunner in the 37th Western Rifle Regiment. From March 16, 1944 to May 16, 1944 he was a reconnaissance scout in the 2300th rifle regiment. From May 1944 to July 1945 he was a member of the 768th rifle regiment. From July 1945 to August 1945he was in the 41st Rifle Regiment. Demobilized on the basis of the decree of the presidency of Supreme Soviet of USSR of 23.06.1945. In August 1945 he was thanked by the supreme commander, marshal of Soviet Union, tov. Joseph stalin: 1. for overcoming the Carpathians (decree No. 198 of 18.10.1944); 2. for participating in the liberation of the mountains. Mikhalevtsy (Order No. 227 of 26.11.1944); 3. for participation in the liberation of the mountains. Satoralja of Ujjal (Order No. 231 of 03.12.1944 g); 4. for participating in the liberation of the mountains. Kosice (Order No. 234 of 20.01.1945); 5. for participation in the liberation of the mountains. Steshsko-Novo-Ves (decree no. 260 of 27.01.1945); 6. for the participation in the liberation of the mountains. Poprad (decree no. 263 of 28/01/1945); 7. for participation in the liberation of the mountains. Rozhemberok (decree No. 332 of 05.04.1945); 8. for participation in the liberation of the mountains. Schilino (decree no. 353 of 30.04.1945); 9. for participation in the liberation of the mountains. Bagulin, Remitted, Okuchi, Gotze, Wanibuchi (Order No. 356 of 01.05.1945 g); 10. for participating in the liberation of the mountains. Olomouc (Order No. 365 of 08.05.1945 )

Rank: major. Service rank: Artillery. Division: 19th rifle Voronezh-Shumlin red banner of the Suvorov Order and the red banner of the Division Work. My grandfather-Kolesnikov N. A. Kolesnikov Nikolay Alexandrovich, (on my mother's side), was born on November 20, 1919 in the village of Lokot in the Loktevskiy district in a family of poor farmers. The Soviet power in the Siberian region was just taking the first steps towards strengthening it. The situation in the country was aggravated by the fact that the civil war was gaining strength. Nikolai's father, Alexander Kolesnikov, was killed by the White Guards in 1920. Mother Vera Ivanovna remained a widow. She raised Nikolay alone under these tragic circumstances. At the age of ten, Kolya Kolesnikov began studying at the 112 school in Rubzowsk. In spite of all the difficulties during the time of the formation of the Soviet power, the boy studied with dignity. And in 1939 the People's Commissariat of Railways, which owned the school, issued a certificate confirming the completion of the entire ten-year course. It seems that a young person opened wide horizons for self-realization, especially since many people could only dream of such an education. Nikolay Kolesnikov also dreamed. He was attracted to mining. But all the boy's plans were changed by an event that became fateful for all citizens of the young Soviet Republic: the beginning of the World War II and then the Great Patriotic War, which was waged by Hitler's Germany against USSR. The 20-year-old Nikolay Alexandrovich Kolesnikov, like many volunteers, made a choice, as the documents show. In his military ticket it says that from December 13, 1939 to January 25, 1947 Major Kolesnikov of the Red Army served in their ranks. After completing the courses for sub-lieutenants in Tashkent in the specialty: commander of a mortar platoon, the fighting epic of a fighter, a communist, a man began. The cadet prepared to become a commander of a mortar platoon and became the commander of a cavalry division along the line of signalmen. This is what it says in the documentary testimony on Lieutenant Kolesnikov Nikolay Alexandrovich signed by the senior political instructor of the School of Lieutenants in Tashkent. "From December 1939 to September 1940 Kolesnikov N. A. cadet of the School of Junior Commanders 9 OES 18 GKD, and from October 1940 to July 1941 he was commander of the Radio 33 OKTAD 18 GKD division. From July to August 1941 on the course of junior lieutenants in Uzbekistan. From August to November 1941 deputy head of the intelligence of this department". And signature: the first lieutenant Colonel Zimin: Maksimov. As the head of the communications department Nikolay Alexandrovich managed to put together combat units. He is persistent, energetic and proactive in his work. He is committed to the party of Lenin and Stalin - this is how many characteristics of soldiers during the Great Patriotic War ended. This allows us to judge how much it was necessary to know whether or not a person was faithful to the cause who decided the fate of the Fatherland and all mankind in the period from 1941 to 1945, since German fascism was a threat not only to USSR. Ways of war (memoirs by N. A. Kolesnikov). At least up to the present, or more precisely, state awards have been preserved for a long time. Since the declaration of war the government of USSR, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and. Stalin organized several fronts to protect the state in many geographical areas. First of all: this is the Ukrainian direction, the Western front, the Belarusian front and so on. So my grandfather, starting with the defense of Kharkiv, walked the streets of Moldova, Hungary and Yugoslavia... But everything is better off. And so: the invocation! This time in the life of Nikolay Kolesnikov is of special importance, because the people he met for the first time during the war became his friends - fellow soldiers, teachers and students. Nobody could have imagined that the human soul, after walking the streets of war all the way to Berlin and looking into the eyes of death, would record all the moments, facts, experiences and joys of this movement. Nikolay Alexandrovich was not only a soldier doing his military service to protect the fatherland, but also a writer who is indeed a moral evaluator of the tragedies of life. From the very first day of the war, N. Kolesnikov dreamed of writing a book about the war, about the heroic deeds of Russian soldiers, about the suffering and faith in victory of those who are, however, lagging behind. This was realized only after the war. In the story "about what the heart aches", a journalist of the newspaper G. Rubtsovsk "Battle Tempo" outlines his view of the war. And the first step, as the first movement of a child, is very memorable. "The most important trace of a person, which is stopped in life by him, is the memory of him", writes Nikolay Alexandrovich in his story. Maybe this idea is the idea of entire work and the life of a person who has learned the price of life and ... death." In the chapter "Supplies" the author of the story, "about what the heart aches", does not draw attention to himself but to his comrades in arms - fellow commanders, simply people. He gave us pictures of the characters of real people, because the story is a documentary. Very memorable people! This is Ivan Sysoevich Viktorchik-Commissar of art. Battalion, San. Instructor- Vera Sokolova, Giant- Foreman Semyon Trofimovich Klyuyev, who for the death of the political instructor Viktorchik challenged a German soldier - wrestler Wili to a wrestling match and won a duel with the enemy. The heroic deeds of the soldiers in the first months of the war were a certain behavior of the result of the beginning of the freedom fight. The friends of N. Alexandrovich did not return from the war, but he survived. All of them defended the western direction from 1941 to 1942, because they were stationed in the area of Bila Tserkva (Ukraine). The most important document for a fighter at any time are his "fighting qualities". "From the first days of participation in the front informed the art. politruk Maximov-tov. Kolesnikov ensured constant, uninterrupted communication with the divisions of the division and was constantly "at the front". But there is a silver lining. Lieutenant Kolesnikov receives a long-awaited message from home saying: "Evacuated from the European part to Western Siberia, to the Urals and to Central Asia, our factories have already provided everything necessary for the front. Rubtsovsk was transformed into an industrial city and supplied the necessary products for the front. The victory of our army in Moscow and especially in Stalingrad has finally dispelled the myth of invincibility of Nazi Germany Reinforced by almost all of Western Europe, the German Wehrmacht collapses. But the enemy is still very strong. And the Red Army still had much to do to achieve the final defeat of the enemy. Life at the front forced the people to master many specialties. They were taught by life itself. And it is better to say it yourself in the words of Nikolay Alexandrovich: "Where the Party sends, they go." He was sent to the Artillery Battalion - rewarded as a battalion commander, as if he were opening the report on his future success. It was the third year of the war. The summer. Then there was relative calm along the entire front line from the Arctic Ocean to the Black Sea, and only in some areas, as the Sovinformburo reported, was there local fighting. Two huge armies prepared and waited to fight to the death again. The Germans maintained the approach to Kharkiv and opposed the Russians in this direction with Romanian brigades occupied by Germans from SS, by degraded Romanian officers, in a word - suicide bombers. N. Kolesnikov writes about it in his story "RAID". On the basis of authentic documents, it is dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the people's great victory over the fascist invaders, as well as to the story "what the heart aches". Kolesnikov received his first decision near Kharkiv, when its artillery guns repulsed an attack of an enemy tank division. In August 1944 the Soviet troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Front were attacked under the command of Generals R. Y. Malinovsky and F. I. Tolbukhin, in cooperation with the Black Sea Front, surrounded and defeated the main forces of the German fascist group "South Ukraine" and liberated Moldova and the eastern part of Romania. "The newspaper "Pravda" wrote at that time: "...The Iasi-Kishinev operation to encircle the German troops is one of the biggest and in its political and strategic importance most outstanding. In August the Red Army German-Romanian defeated troops in a southern direction near Kishinev. 22 enemy divisions were encircled and destroyed after they refused to surrender. As a result, the entire southern front of the German army collapsed. The town of Iasi, located on the territory of Romania, is famous for having been here in 1787. In 1791 the Russian-Turkish war ended. The Yasski peace, concluded on 9.01.1792, confirmed the annexation of Crimea and Cuban to Russia. The great importance of military operations in this direction was made clear to soldiers by commanders and political trainers. There was a reason for the communists to go into battle. A call: "Communists forward" became the most important one for Captain Nikolay Alexandrovich Kolesnikov, my grandfather. In 1944 he was already a member of the 1310th Rifle Regiment for the artillery of the 19th Voronezh Rifle Division. He was on the left bank of the Dniester, 40 kilometers from Tiraspol. In the story "What the heart aches" the author writes: "About 2 thousand guns and mortars, 3 thousand tanks, 5 regiments of RS were concentrated on the 2-kilometer section of the breakthrough". The author dedicated his work to the operation Iasi-Kishinev. "Here the gates were opened in the direction of victory", writes N. A. Kolesnikov in the chapter "Breakthrough". After 20 minutes of artillery preparation the first Katyusha salvo was heard. Immediately 180 installations said their weighty word." At the front line and in the depths of the defense the Germans raged", says Nikolay Alexandrovich, "the boys even took off their tunics". Despite the fact that the fight was particularly fierce, the Russians got along with small forces. After the Soviet troops had broken through the defense, they started a counter offensive. Tanks pushed through to the Prut River to get several Nazi divisions into the ring. "Battles were thundering in the West and the East, and the sound of victory was drawing ever closer," says the author of the work. In my grandfather's book there is a chapter "Ivan Sysoevich". It is dedicated to the commissar of the Art Battalion, where Nikolay Alexandrovich served as battalion commander, as mentioned above. Since 1943 Captain Kolesnikov served shoulder to shoulder with this man. Of course they knew each other, as they say, from and to ... trusted each other completely, as they say: common bread and salt brought them closer together. After the death of the political commissar, Captain Kolesnikov was very concerned. In general Ivan Sysoevich Viktorchik, the favorite of the whole division. The human factor, which is very fashionable to talk about today, he considered important for a communist. As Secretary of the Gomel Regional Committee, Ivan Sysoevich was able to communicate with the people. And he taught Kolesnikov that. Once in a mutual quarrel Viktorchik convinced his grandfather: "Draw your own conclusions: where to pull the reins and where to stroke. Today we are on a campaign, and tomorrow we are at the front. So stroke today: tomorrow it will be too late". Perhaps after such a conversation, which was equipped with great powers of persuasion, Nikolay Alexandrovich decided to join the CPSU (b) party. The experience of communication with such psychologists as Ivan Sysoevich shows that among the communists there were people who were chased by bullets and died in a bayonet attack. "I want to go into battle as a communist" - sounded from the lips of the recruits in 1943, because they trusted the Bolshevik Party. In the chapter "Ivan Sysoevich" N. Kolesnikov proves a similar characteristic of the human psyche. "The commissar is dead, and the war goes on" - the author's words sound throughout the book and throughout his life. Two days after this tragic event in the battalion, an event occurred which in some way justifies the death of the commissar. On August 23, 1944, Romania declared war on Germany. This ended the operation Iasi-Kishinev. During the whole operation, the command of the entire Red Army did not forget to take care of the soldiers: to feed them, to give them a break. Grandfather remembers the arrival of Marshal Zhukov who joined his division in 1943. He said: "Blow up at least all the equipment down to the last mortar, - the motherland will forgive us, we will lose people - their wives, mothers, children will never forgive us". The fighters cherished his words... The order of the commander-in-chief and Stalin was announced in the mass media: "The soldiers of the 3rd Ukrainian Front crossed the Danube, thus extending the breakthrough by 150 km along the front. During the offensive 330 villages in Hungary were occupied by the Soviets. Parts (29.11.1944). This appeal was addressed to the marshal of USSR Tolbukhin F. I. and Malinovsky R. Ya. Below you will find a list of those awarded for a successful operation. Among the heroes is my grandfather, Captain Kolesnikov N. Aber. at that time Captain Kolesnikov N. And. he had the medal "for military merits", the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Alexander Nevsky. In the regulations about the orders of USSR from 7.05.1936 he is listed as the highest award for special merits. On December 5, 1945 my grandfather receives the medal "for the capture of Budapest" (the capital of Hungary). After the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR (A # 077349), Guard Major Kolesnikov was able to receive the award on June 9, 1945, the day the decree was signed. Almost 190 thousandth group of Germans of the Army "South" was surrounded and eliminated. Awards of the Motherland. For a long time after the war, historians have studied the causes of the Great Patriotic War, brilliant examples of the heroic deeds of Owls. Soldiers became the most important proof of success in war. Awards have found heroes in peacetime. By decree of the presidium of the Supreme Soviet of USSR my grandfather received the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class, for bravery, steadfastness and courage in the fight against the German fascist troops. This happened on March 11, 1985. In general piggy bank of the soldier of the order and medal: For the capture of Kharkiv, breakthrough of the Danube. For the domination of the city of Bendery. For the capture of Belgrade. For the operations on the territory of Bulgaria. For the control of the city of Constanta and other places in the East and Western Europe. It began in 1947. Nikolay Kolesnikov rode with a full cavalier of all awards. And yet the most important reward was waiting for him at home - this is marriage and the birth of 3 wonderful children and grandchildren who will never forget all that their father and grandfather did for them, which was the meaning of his whole life. He died on may 9, 1991, after waiting for his new victory in the civil war.

G.Z.Klishin was born in 1919 in the village of Ulei, Staroyuryevsky district, in a peasant family. In 1939 George was drafted into the army, he had the chance to fight with the white Finns. In the Great Patriotic War he was tank commander of the famous "thirty-four" cannon. An experienced soldier distinguished himself in many battles with the enemy, which began on the southern front in December of the forty-first year. Proof of this were the awards - the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War of Second Degree. A brave warrior takes part in the liberation of many towns and villages in Ukraine. In January-February 1945 he distinguished himself in the fighting on the territory of Poland. On January 23, 1945, the vanguard, which included KLISHIN's car, reached the Oder near Steinau and fought a battle for the bridge. KLISHIN was the first to reach the Oder crossing. By firing enemy infantry on the bridge, he did not allow the enemy to blow up the bridge, but allowed his troops to cross to the opposite bank. On January 26, the 29th motorized brigade of Colonel A. E. Efimov crossed the Oder by improvised means in the area of the settlements Tarnsdorf and Diban. During the combat operations of the 1st Tank Battalion in the battles for crossing the Cherna Nida and the Oder, he proved to be an extraordinarily brave, courageous and determined commander of the t-3 tank cannon. As part of the crew, KLISHIN destroyed three enemy T-4 tanks, two Tiger tanks, a Panther tank, 4 armored personnel carriers and up to seventy enemy soldiers and officers. By decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet the USSR of April 10, 1945 for heroism and courage shown in fights with the Nazi invaders, the guard sergeant of the 62nd guard Perm-Keletsky tank brigade with red banner of the 10th guard tank Ural -Lviv red flag command of the Volunteer Corps Suvorov and Kutuzov KLISHIN G. Z. was awarded the title Hero of Soviet Union. Sergeant G. Z. KLISHIN died on February 10, 1945. At the age of 25, Georgy KLISHIN was appointed as a Hero of Soviet Union.

Rank: Sergeant Vasily Kirpichnikov was born in 1922 in Neplyuevka village, Kartalinsky district, Chelyabinsk region. The only thing left - was a photograph, which the artist had written in the spirit of the time, and a funeral from which it was known that Vasily, then a young guy who later became a sergeant, fought bravely against the enemy and died. In August 1943 there was fierce fighting for Kharkiv. Later they are counted among the most important tank battles of the Second World War. Here is what we learned from a letter of the commander of the unit 64611 Dzyubin: "in the morning of August 14, 1943. A few kilometers from the city of Kharkiv, during a tank landing attack by our part of the enemy, your beloved son, Vasily Arkhipovich, the brave fell to death. Your son was in the days of the German summer offensive from August 6 to 12, 1943. Your son was in the most responsible areas during the days of the German summer offensive from July 6 to 12, 1943 and did not flinch during the enemy's heavy attacks with his calculation of 2 TR and personally took out a German tank and armored vehicle, for which he was awarded the Order of the "Patriotic War 2 St".When crossing the river, your son Vasily was the first to swim under the hurricane bombardment and the bombardment of enemy planes, reached the opposite bank and mercilessly destroyed its manpower and equipment, for which he was awarded the Order of the "Red Star" for the second time.3 For the second time, your son, who was the best party organizer in one of our divisions, raised dozens of communists in the spirit of boundless love for the motherland and devotion to the party of LENIN and STALIN. "Unfortunately, this is the only thing left of our grandfather. There were no children, he did not even have time to marry. He was only 22 years old! Of course, my great-grandfather Rodion, who also did not return from the war, and my great-uncle Mikhail, who was lucky enough to come out of the war alive (he lived his whole life with a fragment in his heart, but he left no descendants either), will never be forgotten! And our future generation will remember their military exploits, themselves. And may there always be a peaceful heaven above our heads! THANK YOU, MY GRANDFATHER, FOR WINNING!!!!

Andrey Andreevich Kalachikov was born on November 17, 1907 in Semipalatinsk in the family of a carpenter. After graduating from school he went to Orenburg, where he studied at the College of Industry and Economics. After graduating from the technical school he entered the Leningrad Higher Technical Pilot School and graduated in April 1928. He was sent to the Higher Flight School in Orenburg, where he graduated with distinction in 1929 and worked as a flight instructor at the school. In 1938 he fought in Spain in the international brigade. On 23 February 1939 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the outstanding performance of his duties in Spain. After the war he received a commemorative medal from Spain for his participation in Spanish events. During the Great Patriotic War he commanded a regiment consisting mainly of PE -2 dive bombers. He ended the war with the rank of Colonel of the Guard, Commander of the 127th Guard Bomber Flying Regiment Borisov. For military awards and impeccable service in the Soviet Armed Forces he received the Order of Lenin, four orders with the red banner, the Suvorov Order of the 3rd grade., the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd grade, the Order with the red star; the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the capture of Koenigsberg", "For the victory over Germany"; the commemorative medal for participation in Spanish events and two commemorative medals. The last years of his retired life, Andrey Andreevich, lived in Volsk in the Saratov region, where he died on 22 January 1980. His wife gave all his military awards to the Museum of Local History in Wolsk.

Rank: The Red Army soldier was born in 1914 in Sumy region, Sineevsky district, Kapustinsky village. In 1941 he was drafted to the Sinevsky RVC, Ukrainian SSR, Sumy Region, Sinevsky district. One version: Fights in stock: 5 GW. AP 04.02.1942 - 08.02.1942, military operations consisting of: 5 HS. AP 02.03.1942 - 02.03.1942, fighting in stock: 5 GW. AP 03.03.1942 - 03.03.1942, fighting in stock: 5 GW. AP 29.05.1942 - 29.05.1942, burial site: Voronezh obl, Ostrogozhskiy R-n, Russian-Trostyanskiy s/s, p Russkaya Trostyanka. Died of wounds 07.07.1942. According to another version: defensive battles in the direction of Smolensk. 3.7-7.8.41, 03.07.1941-07.08.1941, defensive battle in the direction of Smolensk. 3.7-9.9.41,03.07.1941 - 09.09.1941, combat operations in the framework of: 24 a 08.07.1941 - 08.07.1941, combat operations in the framework of: 24 a 08.07.1941 - 08.07.1941, combat operations in the framework of: 24 a 15.07.1941 - 15.07.1941, combat operations as part of: 24 a 15.07.1941 - 15.071941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 a 17.07.1941 - 18.07.1941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 a 17.07.1941 - 18.07.1941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 a 20.07.1941 - 21.07.1941, combat operations as part of: 24 a 20.07.1941 - 21.07.1941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 A 22.07.1941 - 22.07.1941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 A 22.07.1941 - 22.07.1941, combat operations within the scope of: 24 a 09.08.1941 - 09.08.1941,combat operations as part of: 24 a 09.08.1941 - 09.08.1941,fighting in: 24 A 16.08.1941 - 16.08.1941, fighting in: 24 A 16.08.1941 - 16.08.1941,fighting in: 24 A 16.08.1941 - 16.08.1941,fighting in: 24 A 21.08.1941 - 21.08.1941, fighting in: 24 A 21.08.1941 - 21.08.1941, fighting in: 24 A 21.08.1941 24 A 22.08.1941 - 22.08.1941, fighting in: 24 A 22.08.1941 - 22.08.1941 24 A 23.08.1941 - 23.08.1941, fighting as part of: 24 A 29.08.1941-29.08.1941, counterattack on the enemy group in the Jelnya area. 30.8-9.9.41 30.08.1941 - 09.09.1941, fighting as part of: 24 A 29.08.1941-29.08.1941, counterattack on the enemy group in the Jelnya area: 24 A 01.09.1941 - 01.09.1941,Fighting operations in: 24 A 01.09.1941 - 01.09.1941,Combat operations in: 24 A 01.09.1941 - 03.09.1941,Combat operations in: 24 A 01.09.1941 - 03.09.1941,Combat operations in: 24 A 04.09.1941 - 04.09.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 04.09.1941 - 04.09.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 04.09.1941 24 a 05.09.1941 - 06.09.1941,hostilities in: 24 a 05.09.1941 - 06.09.1941,fighting in: 24 a 05.09.1941 24 A 10.09.1941 - 10.09.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 10.09.1941 - 10.09.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 11.09.1941 - 11.09.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 11.09.1941 - 11.09.1941,combat operations in: 24 A 24 A 22.09.1941 - 22.09.1941, defensive battle near Moscow. 2.10-5.12.41 g. 02. 10. 1941-05.12.1941, defence operation in the directions of Maloyaroslavets and Mozhaisk. 2.10-5.12.41 02.10.1941 - 05.12.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 04.10.1941 - 04.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 04.10.1941 - 04.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 05.10.1941 - 05.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 05.10.1941 - 05.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 07.10.1941 - 07.10.1941, fighting in: 24 a 07.10.1941 - 07.10.1941, fighting in: 24 a 07.10.1941 24 a 13.10.1941 - 15.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 a 13.10.1941 - 15.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 18.10.1941 - 18.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 18.10.1941 - 18.10.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 11.11.1941 - 11.11.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 11.11.1941 - 11.11.1941, combat operations in: 24 A 30.04.1942 - 30.04.1942, defence operations in the Donbass. 7.7-24.7.42, 07.07.1942-24.07.1942 - Died of severe wounds. He was seriously injured, as a result of which he died of a serious injury on 07.07.1942. According to one version he was buried in Voronezh region, Ostrogozhsk R-n, Russian-Trostyanskiy s/s, p Russkaya Trostyanka, according to the other version in Voronezh region, M. V.-HROs.

Kurin Pyotr Mikhailovich was born in 1907 in the village of Yamshchina, Insar region of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Non-party, graduated from the 4th grade of the school. He was married to Anastasia Kurina, from this marriage came Mikhail, Claudia, Anatoly and Vasily. On 29 June 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army by the Insar RVC. The documents of the military transfer office PRB 36 3 SD show that Kurin P. M. left the unit on 27 July 1941. (File of PRB 36 3SD, reference number 2024, p. 508 of 2080). In the documents of the Leningrad transit point, registration card 61258, it is stated that Kurin Pyotr Mikhailovich arrived in the 804th Rifle Regiment of the 70th Rifle Order of the Lenin Division with wagons, was abandoned on 18 September 1941 because of injury and on 18 October 1941 20 2 O. B. V., who arrived again on 19 October 1941 at No. 268 at the headquarters of the 55th The last place of service - Rifle Regiment 804, Rifle Division 70 of the Lenin Order. He disappeared in December 1942 while defending the city of Leningrad. Kurin Pyotr Mikhailovich is listed in the Book of Memory of the Republic of Mordovia, Volume 4, page 538 of 647, and his memory is immortalized on the monument to the villagers who fell for their fatherland in their native village Yamshchina, Insarski district of the Republic of Mordovia. Unfortunately, his children are no longer alive, but there are grandchildren and great-grandchildren who live in their homeland, in the Republic of Mordovia, as well as in other towns, and honor his memory.

Rank: Captain. Service branch: Army, Air Force (with the exception of Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, troops of the NKWD border troops. Ivan Danilovich Kudrya -secret service officer who led a sabotage group working in Kiev during the World War II. Kudrya was born in 1912 into a farming family living in Salkovo, today's village of Protsev, Kiev region, Boryspil district. He had to grow up without a father, so Ivan worked a lot as a farmhand from childhood on. After finishing 7 grades of school, he started to work as a locksmith in MTS. Then, after training in teacher courses, he ran a primary school in the village of Chaplinka, Dnipropetrovsk region. In the autumn of 1934 Ivan Danilovich was called up to join the Red Army in the NKVD Border Guard. Kudrja served in the border units on the western borders, and even then he showed himself to be a brave and courageous man. He was recommended by the command to study at the NKVD school, whereupon he was sent to serve in the foreign intelligence service. After completing his studies in 1938, Kudrya began working on the committees of the GB, and in 1939 he was accepted into the ranks of the CPSU (b). In March 1941 Ivan Kudryu was sent to work in Kiev, where he encountered the war. Our troops were in retreat, and in order to fight the German invaders in the Ukrainian capital, a reconnaissance and sabotage group was organized from the ranks of local residents, and Ivan Kudryu was assigned to lead it. Since September, the Maxim group, under whose name Kudrya worked with the underground, began carrying out acts of sabotage. As a result of the operations, the Nazis suffered considerable damage to manpower and equipment. Underground workers blew up a cinema with the fascists there and the office of the military commander. Sabotage operations were regularly carried out on the railway, in factories and at Darnitsa station. The group gained new people for their work, collected valuable information, which was transferred to the front after communication with the mainland was restored. Kudrya carefully maintained secrecy, but the Gestapo still introduced an agent to his group, and in July 1942 Maxim was arrested along with some of his associates (Zhenya Bremer, a German citizen, Okipna Raisa, an opera actress). The group continued to operate, and for a long time nobody knew anything about the fate of the arrested. After a thorough search, which took many years, it turned out that they were tortured for about three months during daily interrogations, but they did not succeed in breaking the will of the underground. Ivan Kudrya died in silence, without giving a single name, without telling a single episode of the activities of his group. The Soviet intelligence officer Ivan Danilovich Kudrya received the Order of Lenin for outstanding service, courage and bravery in 1965 and was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Soviet Union by decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of USSR on May 8, 1965.

My father, Mikhail Ivanovich Kuvakin, was born in the city of Kusa in 1913. Before the war he worked in Kusinsky d / d No. 2, as a headmaster for educational work. In 1933 he married V. P. Purgina, and they had three children, the eldest Raya, born in 1934, and the sons Alexander, born in 1937, and Yuri, born in 1939. 28.01.1940 the Finnish war began, and my father volunteered. He served in Ski Battalion number 106. The Finnish War ended in March. But by government decree all soldiers born in 1913 were brought to Moldova, and he did not return home until September 1940. He spent the winter at home. And on 22 June the war started again, with Germany. And in the first month of the war my father was drafted back into the army. On November 23, 1941, near Tikhvin, he received a shrapnel wound on his left buttock and lower leg with an injury to the sciatic nerve. From 29th of November 1941 he was treated at EG 3469, from which he retired on 10 March 1942. Because of an injury to the left sciatic nerve, the military medical commission was declared unfit for military service according to article 9-a gr. 1 of the NKO's medical register of USSR No. 184 1940 with one exception from the register. He was recognized as a disabled person of the Great Patriotic War of the 3rd group. For participation in the Great Patriotic War M. I. Kuwakin was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree and has 4 medals: "for the victory over Germany" for brave work in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "50 years of the Armed Forces of USSR", " 20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". After he was injured, he came home on crutches and was taken on a horse to work in an orphanage. But then he recovered a little and walked by himself. My father died in 1974, and as a participant in the Great Patriotic War, the regional government erected a marble monument to him.

Rank: Colonel Military Branch: Artillery. Awards: - Alexander Nevsky Order for the Fights in the City of Danzig, April 1945 - Order of the Patriotic War 1st Grade for the Fights in the Cities of Tius, Khrush, Trojan, Harpin. September 1944 - Order of the Patriotic War 1st Grade, May 1985 - Order of the Patriotic War II. Order for the Fights in the City of Lublin, August 1944 - Order of the Patriotic War II. Order of the Patriotic War East Prussia. February 1945 - Order of the Red Star for the battles at the Battle of Kursk near Prokhorovka, Watchdog, Pravorot. August 1943- Order of the Red Star for participation in the Hungarian events, December 1956 - Medals "for military merit", "for the capture of Koenigsberg", "for the victory over Germany" and 14-anniversary medals. Kalyapin Stepan Dementievich after completing the first year of the Serdobsk zootechnical school voluntarily entered the Soviet Army and in May 1940. entered the Tashkent Military School named after V.I. Lenin. After graduation in August 1941 he received the rank of a lieutenant colonel of the platoon 1277 SP 389 SD, where he taught cadets of the Tashkent school until summer 1943. In March 1943 he was appointed commander of battery 269 of the mortar regiment of the 8th Panzer Corps. With the 08.07.1943 G. as part of the 2nd Panzer Corps he took part in the battle of Kursk. Throughout the Great Patriotic War he was commander of the 2nd battery of the mortar regiment of the 269th Guard, Sedletsky, the orders Red Banner of Kutuzov and Alexander Nevsky Regiment of the 8th Panzer Corps. As a part of the fronts Voronezh, 1st Ukrainian, 1st and 2nd Belarusian Front he took part in the battles for the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus and Poland (Lublin, Warsaw) and fought in East Prussia. In January 1945 he was wounded. On the day of the victory, 9 May 1945, at the age of 22.5 years, he was in Prenzlau, 70 km from Berlin, in the rank of a captain.

Branch of service: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, the troops of the of the NKVD, border troops. Before the war she lived in Pushkin city, Leningrad region, and worked as a nurse in a children's hospital. When the Nazis attacked our country, young Masha decided to join the Red Army. She was drafted into the medical unit of the militia battalion as a nurse. On September 13, 1941 Pushkin was occupied by the Nazis. The army's retreat ended near the Shushary station. From there Maria accompanied the wounded to Leningrad. She could not return to her military hospital - she was sent to work in the newly founded hospital No. 65. Leningrad was mercilessly bombed, the fascists concentrated on food camps - Hitler hoped to break the Leningraders by starvation. When Lake Ladoga froze over, the "Road of Life" appeared. Food was brought by car across the ice to Leningrad. In the hospital, Maria received 125 grams. crackers, 150 gr. pea puree and 220 gr. millet porridge. When the biscuits were weighed, there was always a surplus, which was sucked off all day with water. Maria's brother lived with his wife and two children in Kirisskaya Street. Everything Maria received in the hospital - porridge, mashed peas - was put into a pot of boiling water and made a soup. In April 1942 her brother died of dystrophy, he was only 30 years old. In the hospital where Mary Arkhipovna worked, there were many injured people. Almost all were severely exhausted. "For some reason I remember a very young soldier who kept asking me: 'Nurse, do something, I do not want to die', I replied: 'You are not going to die, I have given you an injection with camphor and caffeine', remembers Maria Arkhipovna. After a while the soldier died. She had suffered his death for a very long time. In January 1943, the hospital where Maria worked was sent on the "road of life" to the bulge of Oryol-Kursk. The road along Ladoga was terribly dangerous - to reduce the number of victims of the Nazi bombing, no more than two people were put in cars. In Lipetsk region it was planned to locate the Maria Konovalova’s hospital in Zadonsk, but then for some reason it was sent to Lipetsk. So in April Konovalova became a nurse in the evacuation hospital No. 282, and the department where Maria worked was located in Lenin Street. In Lipetsk Konovalova learned that Belarus, where her family lived, was liberated in January 1943. She wrote letters, but there was no reply for a long time. Some time later Maria received a letter with the following content: "Since we studied together, I inform you that your relatives and other inhabitants of the city were shot by the Nazis in January. Nadia Dolgova ". Fate tied the life of Maia with a former pilot. She was 20 years old at that time. They met in the Upper Park of Lipetsk. Later Alexander Petrovich Konovalov invited Maria Arkhipovna to visit and introduced her to his mother. The wedding took place on November 7, 1943. In 1954 Maria Arkhipovna became a Liptschanka. In 1960 she started to work as a laboratory assistant at a medical college. She retired in 1994. She has two sons, two grandchildren and a small great-grandson, Pasha. From the stories of M. A. Konovalova sank into the heart of purely female details - how her friend's clothes were collected before her wedding in military Lipetsk, how she carried a portion of zaviruha (paste) on foot over Leningrad to hungry nephews, it was also diluted with water. And it was a holiday. Maria Arkhipovna has many awards - "for the defense of Leningrad", the Order of the Patriotic War, the badge of honor "excellent health worker ""veteran of work" and others.

Rank: Junior Sergeant. Force Type: coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. My grandmother, Vera Kazakova, was born in 1923 in the village Verkhny Mamon in the Werchnemamonski district of Voronezh region. In large family. The father died early and the children experienced poverty and hunger. After finishing 8 classes, she entered the Bogucharsk Pedagogical School. There was no money, she went to Boguchar on foot, her suit was made of canvas, but the desire for knowledge was always very strong in the family. On 21 June 1941 the graduation ceremony of the primary school teachers took place. My grandmother never received her high school diploma because during the war a bomb landed in the school's archive building. My grandmother was called to the front, but many of her peers volunteered with her. Military speciality: anti-aircraft artillery scout, head of the control post. Years of service: 1942-1945. Place of employment: Commissariat of B-Mamonskiy district in Voronezh region. Conscripted: 10.04.1942. Combat unit: 2nd division of the battalion of the 4th VNOS regiment. Completion of the combat unit: July 1945. Participation: Battle of Kursk, Voronezh liberation operation. April 1942-November 1943 4th VNOS Regiment, military rank - observer. November 1943-July 1945 2nd division of the battalion of the 4th VNOS Regiment - head of the VNOS post. Memoirs: "In the summer of 1946 a young girl in a tunic arranged to meet a young and very drunk soldier. Unlike him, she recognized her classmate. But, nevertheless, she came to the cinema with a friend. So 10 days later my grandmother married my grandfather, Vasily Petrovich Kalinin. The young family moved to the village. Chernozemny, where a position for a primary school teacher became available. In 1959, Grandpa was elected chairman of the executive committee of the Village Council, now - the village. Kalacheevsky and the family moved to the Kalacheevsky state farm. Granny has worked as a primary school teacher all her life and has earned many awards. Among others from the Ministry of Education of Soviet Union. Before she retired she worked as the head of a boarding school, but in 1979 she retired early because I was born. Grandmother died on January 7, 2016, but my memory returns to her every day. Many people say kind words about her when they meet, because she learned more than one generation in our village. The memory of her is forever in our hearts!

Kiryakova (Dubrovina) Maria Ilinichna was born in 1912 in the village Novo-Krasnoe, Ryazan region. She grew up in a family without a father, and without a breadwinner life was very difficult in the village. Her father died during the First World War near Riga. She had to start her career early, so after studying there for 4 years, she graduated from the Novo-Krasno-Sloboda school of the 1st level and started helping in the household. After marrying Vasily Kiryakov and giving birth to her daughter Zinaida (1934) and sons Nikolay (1936) and Ilya (1938), they moved to live in v. Korotkovo Orekho - Zuevsky district, Moscow region. In 1940 they had a son, Boris, who was to die of smallpox in 1942. Her husband went to work in the Dulevsky porcelain factory, and she got a job in the collective farm in v. Korotkovo. The war with Nazi Germany is the worst ordeal that has happened to our people in its entire history. The entire Soviet people rose up to fight the enemy, who was armed to the teeth, and everyone wanted to contribute to the defense of the country. At the end of June 1941, two thirds of the Orekhovo-Zuev Communists were mobilized to the front. At the very beginning of the war, a detachment of militias left Dulevo, with whom Maria Ilinichna's husband, Vasily Vasilyevich Kiryakov, also volunteered for the front. In Orekhovo-Zuev they joined the battalion with which they went to the front. Their division was incorporated into the 4th Moscow Rifle Division of the People's Militia (Kuibyshev district), which was transformed into the 110th Rifle Division (2nd formation) on September 26th. Rifle Division (2nd Formation). In it he will serve as a scout of the 1287 Rifle Regiment. The restructuring of the town's enterprises in military terms was carried out quickly and in an organized manner. The textile workers of the cotton factory started to produce military fabrics: raincoat tents, kirza, parachute fabric. Just in time they provided all military supplies: "frontline", "urgent", "special" and others. The "Karbolit" plant started the production of revolver heads, anti-tank hedgehogs and the "Steklomash" named Baryshnikov - steam boilers, furnaces for heating the soldiers. Dulevsky porcelain factory for military signal heads started production of TF-2 insulators. For the wounded they managed to start the production of ocular prostheses. At a meeting of the city defense committee the task was set to transform Orekhovo-Zuevo into an impregnable fortress. Anti-tank ditches and trenches were built around the city, and anti-aircraft batteries were stationed in factories and by the railway. Blackouts were carried out in houses and industrial plants, and strips of paper were stuck to window panes. Air defense and chemical defense exercises were regularly carried out in every factory. Many people became soldiers of the labor front. 4,500 women went to dig fortifications in the districts Naro-Fominsk, Serpuchow and Kashira. Yes, and it was very difficult for women in the collective farm during the war. The woman in the village is the main force. She was responsible for planting and harvesting. Each of them had a husband, a brother, a son and a father at the front. Many former collective farmers fought in the ranks of the active army. The women of the village were equal to them and remembered: they helped their relatives and compatriots to defeat the enemy faster and to return home: to their collective farm, to their local family. All the work in the collective farm was done by women and young people. Many horses were taken from the collective farm for the needs of the front. It was a very difficult time. All products from the fields and farms were sent to the front. From there the soldiers sent letters of thanks. In the first year she received several letters from the front, in which she wrote about the difficult conditions at the front, that they were near Moscow and believed that the victory would be ours. And in January 1942 came the funeral in which it was written: "In the battle of Naro-Fominsk on January 9, 1942 was killed Vasily Kiryanov, born in 1909, birthplace Ryazan region, village Novo-Krasnoe. Soldier of the Red Army of the 110th Rifle Division, scout of the 1287th Rifle Regiment. Place of burial - Moscow Region, Naro-Fominskiy R-n, the Mecatina". The war changed not only the usual way of life, but also the composition of the rural population. Many men died at the front. For her work during the war she was awarded the medal "for brave work in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". After the war life was restored slowly and difficult, there were not enough men's hands. The main square in the village was occupied by women. Plowing and sowing, harvesting, tending the cattle, foraging and much more, in addition to family obligations, fell on the shoulders of women. "I am a horse, I am a bull, I am a woman and a man," many of them used to say in the post-war period. How often we walk past older people, we do not think about. How often do we walk past older people and do not think about how they have lived, how they have worked, how their personal lives have developed. But behind these people is history, and not just history, but the history of our country. During the Great Patriotic War, the women of our villages and towns, as well as the women of the entire Soviet Union, had the duty to provide the defenders of the motherland with everything they needed. Victory in the war is also a victory for the workers on the Soviet home front... She had to raise the children alone. She has done a good job in this task. The children grew up, learned and went to work: daughter Zinaida in the porcelain factory Dulevsky, son Nikolay in the bus factory Likinsky, and Ilya went to study and work in Moscow, where he still lives. She was loved by her grandchildren, granddaughters and nephews, who often visited her in the village during the summer. Maria Ilinichna remained in everyone's memory a very friendly person who gave his last to help another and always did not lose heart in any situation.

Rank: Lieutenant Military Branch: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 301st Stalin's Rifle Division of Order Suvorov Ivan Akimovich Kolomoets was born in the village of Elisavetovka in Rostov region. In 1937 the Military Commissariat of the Starominsky district in Yeisk moved into Soviet Army. Then he was sent to study in the 95th Rifle Division of the 161st Regiment and enrolled in a tank school as a cadet in Kotovsk, Odessa region. From October 1939 to May 1940 he was a member of Belofino Company, from July 1940 to October 1940 he took part in the liberation of Moldova from the Romanian invaders. Then he was released. On May 10, 1941 he was called up for retraining and sent to Yeisk to the Military School of Naval Aviation and then to the school for training of junior specialists in Astrakhan, where he was a sergeant of the car company.since September 1942 .at the North Caucasus front of a separate battalion of machine-gunners of the 34th Separate Rifle Brigade, foreman of the 3rd company, then until August 1943 commander of a company of machine-gunners. From August 1943 at the front South-Western as a part of the Rifle Regiment 1054 of the 301st Donetsk Order of the Suvorov Order of the 2nd class of the Suvorov Division of the 9th Suvorov Division, participated in the liberation of Kuban, Stavropol Territory, North Caucasus, then liberation in Donbass-Makeyevka and Donetsk etc. He was seriously wounded and taken to a hospital in Donetsk, Taganrog, Syzran. After the hospitals he was ordered and sent to the place of convocation of Starominskaya RVC, Krasnodar Territory. He worked as the chairman of the collective farm "Twenty years of October", then as the head of the military department of the district party committee and again as the chairman of the collective farm "Red Way", but the wounds reminded of themselves and he had to undergo long-term treatment. After that he worked at other workplaces. Because the way of struggle he had awards: 1st medal "for military merits", " 2nd Order of the Red Star", 3rd medal "for the defense of the Caucasus", 4th medal "for the victory over Germany", as well as medals on the anniversaries of the victory - 20 years, 25 years, 35 years etc. In peacetime he received the medal "for brave work", the medal "Small silver" for successes in social work.agriculture of the All-Union Exhibition in 1955. On the frontline roads of combat operations he knew the hero of Soviet Union V. S. Antonov from 1942 to the 34th separate rifle brigade until the end of September 1943 on 301 rifle divisions. In his book "The Road to Berlin" Antonov mentions in the episodes during the liberation of Makeevka and Donetsk, Kolomoets I. A. in 1975 and 1983 was invited to the anniversaries of the liberation of Donetsk. This is our great-grandfather!!!!! Yes, you can write a book about him, and sometimes he did not really tell his children and grandchildren about his heroic deeds. Probably those who really fought did not want to remember the horrors of war that fell on their young years. LET THERE ALWAYS BE PEACE IN THE WORLD!!!!! FOR YOUR HEROIC ACTS, WE MUST ALWAYS REMEMBER THEM!!!!! THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT VICTORY!!!!! Great-grandchildren: Georgia and Nastasya Efremov. Armavir, Krasnodar region. Yan Kolomoets, Khabarovsk.

Rank: Red Army Troop type: Ground troops, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard From the memoirs of Major General of the Reserve, Chief of Staff, Division Commander M. I. Shchedrin - "31st Army in the Battle of Kalinin" on December 26, after a ten-minute artillery RAID, the army resumed the attack, but only the 250th division, which captured Leushkin and repulsed the German counterattack, managed to break through the enemy defenses in the north at night Chukhin. To make the breakthrough, the commander led the 54th Cavalry Division (commander Lieutenant Colonel Tsarkov) and a rifle regiment of the 250th Division. By morning the enemy had built up reserves and completed the breakthrough with a strong counterattack. The cavalrymen entered the Smagino area, defeated up to 170 Hitlerists, then advanced to Kokonyagino and Chernovo and smashed the hinterland and the German headquarters. Under the onslaught of superior enemy forces they retreated to Smagin and organized a circular defense here and with the infantry of the 922nd Regiment (Commander Major Gritskevich). For three days the Soviet soldiers held out behind enemy lines, fended off all counterattacks and inflicted heavy losses on the Nazis. They held the occupied line until our main forces approached. The Military Council of the Front thanked the soldiers of the 54th Cavalry Division and the 922nd Regiment for their extraordinary bravery, courage and heroism, and gave an example of their actions to all units, with the fierce fighting often ending in close combat. During the 26th to 29th of December, the villages of Leushkino, Kostenevo, Chuchino and Sidorovo went hand to hand several times. The evening of November 29 in the Battle of Kostenevo was initiated by the second squadron of the 5th Division, and in the night of December 30 the army broke through the German defense on the Kostenevo - Cugino area and repelled counterattacks, widened and deepened the breakthrough. The stubborn resistance at the intermediate line can be judged only by this fact alone in Gostenev, the fascists left 70 soldiers' corpses untidy, left 7 rifles, 12 machine guns and many other weapons. Now the army resumed the pursuit, but the enemy continued to resist stubbornly.1 January 1942 soldiers of the 247th Division liberated the city of Stariza, which was simultaneously occupied by units of the 29th Army from the north.