Heroes and feats

Rank: lieutenant. Service rank: Artillery. Umar Dmitrievich Kabolov was born in 1923 in Vladikavkaz as the son of a family of an officer of the tsarist army, Colonel Dmitry Kabolov, who was arrested in 1931 as an "enemy of the people" and banished to Siberia. Umar's mother, Elizaveta Alexandrovna Gutieva, was forced to leave her homeland and wander around the country as she could not withstand persecution by the local authorities. They settled in the town of Belev in the Tula region, where Umar was called to the front immediately after his graduation. In 1942 Umar Dmitrievich graduated from the Military Infantry School in Podolsk with the military rank of "lieutenant" and was appointed to the Military Council of the Volchov Front. There he was appointed commander of a machine gun platoon and sent to the advanced positions of our troops to defend Leningrad. In this area our troops fought bloody battles and were in the position of the army commander, General A. A. Vlasov, who abandoned his troops and voluntarily defected to the enemy, were in a difficult situation. Umar Dmitrievich Kabolov, a young lieutenant as commander of a machine gun platoon, took part in these battles. The family considered Umar missing for many years, as no news of his death had reached them. Finally, his niece recently received an archival certificate from the CGA of the Russian Ministry of Defense that Umar Dmitrievich Kabolov was killed in battle on September 8, 1942 while defending Leningrad. He is buried on the Sinyavinsky Heights, in the village of Gaitolovo, Kirovsky district, Leningrad region.

On February 13, 1922 my great-grandmother, Ksenia Andreyevna Kareva, was born in the village of Pogorelovka in the Algasovsky district of Tambov province. Her father, Andrey Ivanovich Karev, a participant in the First World War, a cavalier of St. George, died a few months before her birth due to injuries he suffered on the battlefields. His wife, Alexandra Ivanovna, a choir singer in the church, was left alone with four children in her arms. Ksenia completed four classes of primary school in her home village. A further education was not possible, so she started working as an accountant in the cereal industry at the age of 14. Later Ksenia Andreyevna moved to Ivanovo, where she worked in peat processing. Some years later she moved to Moscow. She lived in a dormitory in a wool spinning mill, where she worked as a weaver. In autumn 1941 she was sent to dig ditches. In winter the factory was evacuated and the team was disbanded. Ksenia Andreyevna returned to her home town of Pogorelovka. At that time the two older brothers were already at war. Later, the older Vasily was among those who reached Berlin, and Egor was awarded the rank of officer. It was the year 1943. 21-year-old Ksenia was sent to the front. She joined the anti-aircraft troops, where she fought as part of the gun crew bringing grenades for anti-aircraft guns. In 1944 she was demobilized and returned to the village. One year after the end of the war she moved to her sister in Magnitogorsk. Here she worked with German prisoners of war - ennobled Magnitogorsk. After finishing the vocational school she got a job as a seamstress in the clothing factory of Magnitogorsk, where she worked until 1977. Here, in Magnitogorsk, my great-grandmother married, became Ksenia Andreyevna Yatsunenko and raised three daughters. In 1946 she was awarded the medal "for the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". In 1985 she was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War for bravery, strength and courage in the fight against the Nazi invaders II She was also awarded the Zhukov Medal and the "Front Soldier" badge. Above all, however, she was proud of the certificate for military achievements in the air defense of the Fatherland during the Great Patriotic War, which was signed by the Front Commander himself. Ksenia Andreyevna died at the age of 81 years. Apart from gentleness and kindness, she possessed qualities such as courage, steadfastness and - most importantly - an extraordinary, inexhaustible thirst for life to live in peace and harmony with all.

Rank: Corporal. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, the troops of the border troops of the NKWD. Unit: 284th Khingan Rifle Division. Guardsman. Born on 5 February 1924 in v. Alanosin of the Mikhailovsky district of the Altai region in the family of the peasant Kotov Spiridon Pavlovich and Zemtsova Vasilisa Vasilievna. Spiridon Pavlovych moved in 1896 together with his father Pavel Evtikhievich and his brother Simon Pavlovich from the district S. Shumarova Mglinskogo, province Chernigow (Bryansk area) to Siberia. Spiridon Pavlovich's family had 3 sons and 3 daughters. Nikolay Spiridonovich, after his brother Ivan Spiridonovich, was moved into Red Army in 1942. He was sent to the border with China, where he stood against the Japanese militarists. In 1945 he took part in the defeat of the Kwantung Army, troop leader of anti-tank guns of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, 1047 Rifle Regiment, 284 Rifle Division, Transbaikal Front. In 1946 he joined his elder brother Ivan in Novograd-Volynsky, Zhytomyr region, and continued his service in Soviet Army - he served in the tank regiment (V/h 36919) of Novograd - Volynski. This is the 11th guard who mechanized the red banner of Rivne, an order of the Suvorov Division. In October 1956 units of the 11th Guard with the red banner of Rivne, command of the Suvorov Division, as well as the 100th tank regiment of the 31st tank regiment with the red banner of Vistula, command of Suvorov and the division Bogdan Khmelnitsky took part in the events in Hungary. In 1957 the 8th mechanized army, to which the division belonged, became known as the 8th Panzer Army. The 11th Guard mechanized the red flag of Rivne, command of the Suvorov Division was issued in the 30th. In 1975 he retired in the rank of a midshipman. In retirement he worked in the officers' house and in the city Executive Committee. Created a large friendly family, wife Pulinets Maria Ivanovna, raised 3 daughters and 1 son. He always loved the country and always remembered his roots, together with mother they cultivated gardens and grew livestock, loved to grow flowers, especially roses. He got a dacha plot in the cooperative "Veteran", where he planted a flowering garden in an open field. He was always a military disciplined, punctual, conscientious and decent man. All his life in Novograd-Volynsky he lived in Levanevsky Str. 34 and 15, always helped neighbors, enjoyed the well-deserved respect in the district. Every year during holidays he visited relatives in Altai region and his mother's relatives in Poltava region. He loved to talk about family and always loved children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was loved by everyone. In the family nest on the street. Levanevsky, 15, we were always welcome. My parents were buried, my father in 2002, my mother in 2003.

Rank: Red Army troop type: Land Forces, Air Force (excluding naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Unit: 81st Rifle Kalinkovichi red banner command of the Suvorov Division Kalmataev Galima (passport - kalmataev Nikolay Semyonovich) in 1943, called to the Red Army from the 5th branch of the farm "Batrak" Alekseevsky district of Kuibyshev region, now the village Sandy Dol Neftegorsky district of Samara region. After training, Galim is drafted as a rifleman in the 519th Rifle Regiment of the 81st Rifle Division. We do not know what time it is on the calendar. From July 12 to August 18, 1943 the 81st Rifle Division of the 13th Army takes part in the strategic offensive operation "Kutuzov" of Orel, which was carried out during the battle of Kursk. After the Battle of Kursk, the 81st Rifle Division, as a part of the 61st Army, was temporarily held in reserve at the headquarters of the Supreme Command and soon after entered the offensive Chernihiv-Pripyat, which was an integral part of the strategic operation Chernihiv-Poltava - the first stage of the Battle of the Dnieper. After the defeat of the Germans at the battle of Kursk it was necessary to liberate the western part of the country. 01.10.1943 Division, according to information from the magazine of combat operations, reached the Bank of the Dnieper. Two groups of 12 scouts crossed the Dnieper and carried out reconnaissance flights towards the village of the Gluthets. Parts of the division intensively prepared and collected improvised transport material for the crossing of the Dnieper. Some of them crossed the Dnieper for several days. The enemy defended itself fiercely, it had the order to prevent Soviet troops from crossing the Dnieper beyond the line of the defences "East Wall". Beyond the Dnieper, the fascists hoped to find a breathing space, to regroup the troops and to stop the Red Army. "... The Dnieper will flow back rather than the Russians overcoming it...", - said Hitler. One by one the enemy attacks were repelled, our troops continued to cross the right bank. On October 7, our grandfather Kalmatayev Galim crossed the Dnieper together with his 519 rifle regiment. On October 14 at 20.30 the enemy occupied the village of the Gluthets with up to two battalions and 12 tanks. 22 planes bombarded our positions and crossed them. At 9:00 am the soldiers of the 467th rifle regiment decisively drove the Germans out of the village of Glushets and restored the previous position. At 9:40 a.m. the division, supported by artillery and air force, takes the offensive and after fierce fighting, at 1 p.m. they take the village Staraya Lutava. During these battles Kalmataev Galim was killed on October 15. We have no eyewitness reports or documents except for the report of irreparable losses and the battle protocol of the 81st rifle division.

Rank: Corporal. Service rank: Army Corps of Engineers. Division: 120th Gatchina Rifle Division with red banner. "History of the Engineer" Kostin Pyotr Andreevich. Pyotr Andreevich was born on June 20, 1925, in the village of Gubino in the Lebedyansky district. He was drafted into the army on January 10, 1943, when he was not yet 18 years old. Three days later he was on his way to the Far East. First he was sent to the training unit of junior commanders, where Pyotr Andreevich studied shooting from the Maxim machine gun and the skills of sapper business for three months. Then he was transferred to a cavalry regiment on the border near Lake Hunk. And when the young soldier showed good knowledge and skills, he was transferred to the Leningrad region as a machine-gunner of a regiment company. Here he received his baptism of fire. Kostin fought on the Leningrad and 4th Belarusian fronts and in 1945 was part of the 1st Ukrainian front. He liberated the Novgorod region and the city of Pskov from the Nazis and, under the command of Major General L. A. Govorov, took part in breaking the siege of Leningrad. With him he also liberated Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In February 1944 he received a shrapnel wound in his hip and a bullet wound in his shoulder during the battle. He was treated in a hospital in Leningrad for five months. After his recovery he was sent as a pioneer to the 326th Separate Battalion. He fought under the command of Marshal I. S. Konev, liberated Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Without his participation the "meeting on Odra" was not complete. Pyotr Andreevich is a very strong and brave man, a brave warrior, and his numerous awards are a proof of it: Order of Glory III Grad, Order of the Patriotic War II Grad, Medal "for the victory over Germany", Medal "Zhukov", Medals for the liberation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. After the war, in 1947, Peter returned to his home village. For 30 years he worked on the state farm "Agronomist", rising to the rank of foreman of the tractor brigade. Then he managed a cattle farm. The veteran died on 4 May 2017 in his home village Gubino. We will always keep his memory in our hearts! Author: Anastasia Zyuzina, 16 years old, MBOU SOSH p. SVH. Agronomist of the Lebedyansky district, Lipetsk region.

Rank: Red Army Troop Type: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard Battalion of the Sky WATCHERS Maria Filippovna Kuzenkova was born in 1922 in the Ardatovsky District. In Atemasova she completed 5 classes. The family had many children, it was necessary to go to work to feed all of them. Maria trained as a saleswoman, and after a short study she started to work independently. How many of these young girls wanted to have a job, go to work, earn money, help their parents! But the war, indifferent to the feelings and aspirations of the civilian population, covered the fatherland with a black wing. The hard hour of the trial has come. In April 1942, Maria Ulyanova (that is her maiden name), who could not look expressionlessly at the grief that came to her native village (since the first days of the war the funerals did not pass Atemasovo), together with her friends, turned to the Komsomol district committee with the request to give direction to the front. In the recruiting office, the officer who was processing the documents looked at the red-cheeked girl, who was ‘two centimeters’ tall, shook her head and sighed violently: "And this one too, to the front! The tired officer could not imagine that at the end of the war this little girl would reach the capital of Poland, take part in liberation, receive the medal "for the liberation of Warsaw" and set out to liberate Polish countries from the fascist yoke. In spring 1942, after completing special courses, Maria was drafted into the VNOS battalion (air surveillance, notification and communication). The girls were taught to observe air targets, to recognize enemy planes and our planes by their noise and of course by their silhouettes, so as not to confuse them. Originally, the unit was located at the so-called observation points, which were located at different places in the Gorky region. Through binoculars the observers looked up into the sky, determined the types of aircraft, their number and the direction of flight and urgently transmitted all data to the command of the anti-aircraft and air defense units guarding the Gorky sky. The fate of important industrial plants, which were bombed by enemy pilots, and the lives of the people depended on their abilities. They lived in the fields, in shelters. Their necks tired, sometimes they were dizzy from the constant gaze at the sky (during the day and night, by the way). But the observers did not pay attention to this - because there, at the front, it was a hundred times more difficult. The Germans were defeated near Moscow, and Red Army drove the German divisions to the West. Maria was assigned to the 82nd Air Defense Division, which advanced with other units of the first Belarusian front. How much sadness she saw on her way to the front! How many dead, mutilated soldiers, hanged, burned, old men, women and children shot! After the liberation of Soviet towns and villages, the troops of the first Belarusian front entered Polish soil. Maria Filippovna returned from the war at the end of July 1945 with the medals "for the liberation of Warsaw" and "for the victory over Germany". First she worked in Atemasov, then she moved with her family to Kulebaki.

Kochetov Egor Yakovlevich was Born on 20.03.1914 in v. Prilepy, Solntsevsky district, Kursk region. He graduated from the 4th grade of education and joined Soviet Army. During his service he was trained as a cook. He worked in a metallurgical plant in Mariupol. During the Great Patriotic War he was not called to the front, but remained at the plant. When the front line approached the city in 1941, the evacuation of industrial plants and workers to the Urals and Siberia was organized. On the way there the train was bombarded with the evacuees, the surviving workers made their way to their troops. Egor Yakovlevich was taken by the Germans. He was tortured and beaten to admit that he was a partisan. But he had a pass for the factory, and he was sent to Germany, to the Buchenwald concentration camp. Egor Yakovlevich and his friend Nikolay tried to escape from the concentration camp, but they were captured. They were beaten, doused with water and beaten again. Half dead they were sent to the peat processing plant; there they were thrown into pits with water for peat extraction. If they did not meet the standard, they were left in the pit overnight. In spring 1945 Egor Yakovlevich and all the other prisoners were sent by the Germans in a column to be shot. When the troops from Anglo-American launched an offensive on Berlin, columns of prisoners for liberation were fired upon, Egor crawled into the bushes near the house, he was picked up by a German family and left behind. He remained with them until the liberation of German territory by Soviet troops. Then he was recruited into the regiment as a driver for the export of prisoners from Germany. He took part in the fights in Western Ukraine with the Bandera nationalists hidden in the woods, who in their cruelty were in no way inferior to the Nazis.

Rank: Alexey Konstantinovich Krivoshev is a soldier in the Red Army, my uncle. Alexey Konstantinovich was born on October 1, 1923. Parents - Krivosheyev Konstantin Ivanovich and Krivosheva (Pastbina) Maria Osipovna. He completed the courses of deputy political officers in the city of Melekess and a volunteer went to the front. The date of conscription in the archives is 22.03.1942. Most likely he arrived to Sevastopol from Novorossiysk within the framework of reinforcements delivered by sea. Involved in the heroic defense of Sevastopol as part of the 388th rifle division of the 778th rifle regiment of the 1st company. He was responsible for the third devastating Nazi offensive to take the city, which began in June 1942. These were the days of the fiercest and bloodiest battles for the city. He wrote his last letter on 9 May, according to the postmark was sent on 10 June. In August 1942 A. K. Krivosheev disappeared. My grandmother waited for him all her life. Only before her death she ordered a prayer for rest for my uncle. In 1985 my aunt Valentina Chudinova wrote this verse about him. He grew up cheerful, mischievous, with an open, clear gaze. The boys were always there. They went skiing, skating and jumped out of the yar into the water, swung on branches in the forest and learned to shoot immediately. And in the sleepy river under the willow, he put a net in the bend, swung the broom lightly. He went to his father's horses. And it is true, from childhood on, his father awakened in him a love for horses, which he used to bathe in the river with a band during the summer holidays. And wanted to represent everything on father's farm in a scientific way. He studied books in the veterinary department. He also wanted to solve the riddle with the intelligent eye of nature, observe the solar eclipse. My brother was loved by friends, girlfriends, people, and the whole village said: He will be a good guy. What became of him, no one: he walked in the forty-first in the fire and black smoke. "Novorossiysk is a beautiful city," he wrote a letter to his mother. I wish I could follow the path my brother took in his youth. There was peace in the big cities, and only in Sevastopol difficulties were waiting for him. What difficulties? Who is the witness? Neither wounded nor killed. Perhaps reduced to ashes.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of the troops: Land Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Guard I am a student in the 6th grade of Kindelinsky High School, I enjoy life. Every family has its heroes, has its own war history, and we need to know more about the heroism of our grandfathers - the glorious defenders of the motherland. I decided to write about the fate of my two great-grandfathers, about how different their lives were. They are two brothers Korytin Ivan Nikolaevich and Korytin Alexey Nikolaevich. The events of those years stand invisibly before me, two brothers, one forged a victory at the front and died, the other crowned his military service with a job behind him. Two brothers and two different fates!!! Ivan Korytin was born in 1922. In 1939, at the age of 17, he was drafted into the Soviet army. Before demobilization, the Great Patriotic War began. He served as commander of a machine-gun company, was a lieutenant. In 1942 the family received the news that Ivan was missing. He died during the Smolensk breakthrough. He was 20 years old. The news of his death came in 1943. I thought about it. Why is it so unfair? But he gave his life for our future without hesitation, without bargaining with fate. He gave his life not because the hero "is cut from a different cloth", but because it was necessary at that time in those terrible "forties - deadly". They are all soldiers. They did not think they were heroes, they did their duty, like people who go to work every day. God did not give them the victory to meet at home, to plow the fields, to educate their children, they lie in silence in the steppe, Alexey Korytin is my second great-grandfather, who crowned his military service with a job in the back and led a decent life for himself and for the one who did not return from the battlefield. Yes, and this is true. He was so eager to live, work, create, as for two. My great-grandfather was born in 1924 on 30 January after Ivan, the family was big - 9 children. The working biography began in 1937 at the age of 13 years on the farm "Red October". He worked as a craftsman, in a big collective farm - there was enough work. He started to help the family, raise children and do the household. It seems that life got better, and then the war.............! In 1942 Alexei was drafted into the army, into the Tozk camps, he was 18 years old. In 1943 he was sent to the military factory in im. Kuibyshev in Buzuluk. Every four military years he worked in the factory, the rule of life was "Everything for the front! Everything for victory!" Everyone worked selflessly. Within a month and a half the ammunition production was built up. The workers showed examples of work heroism. My great-grandfather told me and my father how difficult it was in those years. He worked as a foreman. He had 14-15 year olds on his team. They worked in two shifts. Throughout the war, my great-grandfather made mines and bomb shells. And for his conscientious work in the hinterland, he received the medal "for bravery in work". He had other medals, but he was very proud of them. My great-grandfather received the medal "for special merits" for special services. I worked in the factory all through the war, and it was there that I met Victory. I am deeply grateful to our veterans for the fact that today I live in a free Russia. We can say that they saved not only our country, but the whole world. I hope that in the future people will become wiser, friendlier and wiser and stop destroying their own kind for the sake of their lust for power. We will live, meet the dawn, believe and love. Just remember that! Just do not forget it! Believe me, people, the whole earth needs this memory. If we forget the war, it will come back.

Rank: Foreman of the armed forces: aviation. Kondurov Nikolay Semyonovich was born in a peasant family. In the first months of the war, the government decided to create the Lipetsk special reserve aviation regiment to protect the leadership of the Stavka country. All this time, my grandfather served as an aircraft technician, the Lipetsk aviation regiment was very often used in military operations, my grandfather hung bombs and repaired aircraft. When the Germans came close to Moscow and captured the nearby Efremov and Zadonsk, the entire Lipetsk aviation regiment, like many factories in the country, was evacuated deep into our country, to the Urals. My grandfather was in the service, and his family lived near Sverdlovsk, in the village of Timashevo. My grandmother hardly ever saw him. Only when he came and brought food from ration. My grandmother had 4 small children in her arms. When the Soviet troops drove the fascists away from Moscow, the air regiment was transferred back to Lipetsk, where my grandfather served until the Victory as a foreman mechanic. We all lived in a Military town. Only in retirement, he retired to the reserve, but did not give up his favorite business. He continued to work at Lipetsk airport, but preparing to fly is already peaceful planes. My grandfather was an excellent judge of aircraft engines. By the sound of the aircraft engine running, he could determine the cause of the engine failure, which helped prevent 2 cases of passenger plane accidents. My grandfather, Nikolay kondurov, was awarded a personalized watch for his professionalism. My grandfather had awards and decorations and a lot of letters of thanks. He was awarded the "Order of the red Star" and "Order of the red banner", the Medal" for Bravery", For the" Capture of Berlin" and others. Grandfather did not tell anything about his work, because of the secrecy of information, information was limited to jokes, and he was a modest person. My grandfather died early, at the age of 64. He was buried with military honors at the old military cemetery in Lipetsk. In Memory of my grandfather Nikolay Semyonovich Kondurov - forever in our memory. We are proud of our grandfather! Thank you for our Victory and for the clear sky above.

Karasev G.S. was born on 14 February 1922 in Koshelikha village, Pervomaiskiy district, Gorky region, died in 2013; rank: NCO. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, troops of NKVD border troops. Grigory Stepanovich went to the front on 12 August 1941. He took part in combat operations from the first days of the war. The machine-gunner Grigory Stepanovich bravely repulsed the attacks of the fascists of the Center Group near Rzhev. The Battle of Rzhev was one of the bloodiest episodes of the Great Patriotic War. According to the researches of the historian A.V. Izayev, conducted on the basis of the archives of the Ministry of Defense, the losses at operations on the 200-250 km long around Rzhev from January 1942 to March 1943 amounted to: irrevocable - 392,554 people; sanitary - 768,233 people. In March 1944, while the fighting he was surrounded, wounded on the arm, saved by miraculously crawling out on a snow field. "Perhaps he was saved by the cross his mother put on his head as a farewell gift" - says his daughter Antonina Grigorievna. After the treatment in the hospital of Ufa, the young soldier was drafted into the reserve regiment. But even there he had to take part in combat operations at the front in the rocket and mortar unit Katyusha. It became easier, but since the weapon was secret, they did not go with it to the villages, they lived mainly in the forest, and there they slept on the snow, laid down branches of pine needles, they did not even dream of washing themselves. On April 21, 1945 he went to explore the road near the village of Legenen together with a train assistant and on the way he came under artillery fire. Assistant Reshetov was badly wounded, but Grigory Stepanovich brought his friend to safety and gave him first aid despite the incessant shelling of the enemy. After sending Reshetov off with a passing car and a medical unit, he set out on a mission, finding a blasted bridge and a mined road and finding ways to avoid the dangerous section. For his heroism and bravery, he was awarded the Government Order of Red Star. Grigory Stepanovich remained in the active army until December 1947 and returned to his homeland only six years after the war began.

Branch of military: Land Forces,Air Forces (except for Naval aviation), Coast Guards, the NKVD troops, Border Guards Division: the 39th Guards rifle Stalingrad-Barvenkovskaya Order of Lenin, twice the Red Banner, Order of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky’s division. There was a man who lived, suffered, rejoiced, dreamed, wrote poems and collected memories of comrades, met with friends, tried to fill every moment of life with meaning – and now he is gone, my great-grandfather Krylovich Stanislav Iosifovich died fifteen years ago. But the memory of him is still alive… The fate of a person is inextricably linked to the fate of the country! And it all started like this… In March 1934, Stanislav's elder brother arrived, took the boy away from his parents and hooked him up to be a pupil of the 71st cavalry regiment. So the fate was decided-regimental life, two wars for ten years to come… For the first two years, Stanislav was allowed to go home on vacation, he played Chapaev with the boys, commanded his nephews, and proudly wore a budenovka. But in 1937, my father, the head of the railway station Myasnoy Bor, and then the station Tregubovo, was arrested and shot in Leningrad on the "Polish case", although the father of eleven children was originally from Lithuania and had no connection with his relatives. After completing the course, health education supervisor Krylovich left in his regiment, but then participated in the Finnish campaign, was wounded, and in November 1940 became an assistant of the commander of the 1012 communications platoon of the artillery regiment. Summer camps, drill training, the duties of a mass cult occupied all the time, it was not even possible to meet with the relatives. And then the War! Just the regiment was in summer camps in Estonia, they began to retreat, get out of the encirclement, many times fell under bombing, rushed into hand-to-hand combat. Wounded Stanislav went to his own, immediately went to hospital, and in December, when the Nazis were approaching Moscow, got into the 117th Guards regiment, became the commander of the intelligence. This first year of the War was the most intense, painful thoughts overcame the young soldier. And 1942 was a turning point in the fight against fascism. With the fighting, our units retreated to the Volga – scattered, bloodless units marched across the steppe. The soldiers were very thirsty, they did not sleep for several days, nothing was known about the situation of the 35th Guards division, they went out in deep gullies towards Stalingrad. The battle for hill 137,2 at the Vertyachy farm near the Opytnoi station close to the village of Ezhovka was particularly fierce. Scout Krylovich did not return from the mission, the documents recorded: "went missing". But the letters were not sent to their relatives – the Novgorod region was occupied, the mother, sisters and nephews were stolen and some were in Germany, some in Latvia at hard work. And Sergeant Krylovich broke out to his soldiers, with the remnants of the 35th division, he went to re-form. Already in October, as part of the 117th rifle regiment of the 39th Guards division, he took an oath at the Red October factory, when Chuikov handed over the division's banner. The fightings on the Northern slopes of Mamayev Kurgan and for the Hardware factory, completing combat missions and first awards for courage and bravery. On November 17th, a wounded scout who lost a lot of blood was carried out from Mamayev Kurgan by advancing Soviet soldiers. The Sergeant received the medal "for military merit" and The order of the Red Star in the hospital of the city of Anzhero-Sudzhensk, where he was treated for several months. Then he studied at the Rubtsovsky military infantry school, served in the commandant's office of the city of Novosibirsk. Only in 1944, in the month of June, they gave “the go-ahead” to requests to send to the front, and Stanislav, who found friends in Novosibirsk, met the love, left for the front. The fightings for Warsaw, Poznan, then moving to the Nazi’s lair, service in the 34th Department of naval intelligence, where the assistant platoon commander was awarded the badge "Excellent scout". In Poznan, Stanislav saved a boy from the rubble, a Polish boy named Stanislav was hungry. What food he and a flask of water, the Soviet intelligence officer gave him and moved on. And in Berlin again he met street fightings, even in the zoo he had to conduct a shootout with the Nazis. Smoke, shots – and near the pink island were flamingos. A fairy tale and a terrible reality-this contrast struck. But there was no time to think! It was necessary to force the channels – and there were stone slopes, those were not able for clinging on. The scouts made their way to the other side through narrow passages of communications and engaged in battle. On April 30th, the explosion of the faustpatron Stanislav was thrown back and strongly concussed. It's a shame! Everyone was cheering, celebrating the Victory, and he was in hospital. But a friend came, and took him to the Reichstag. Sergeant Krylovich returned from the front half-deaf, mute, and with two pieces of glass in his leg. But where go back to? There was no home, you needed to look for relatives, you needed the treatment. And he went to the girl in distant Siberia, in Novosibirsk region, where his fiancee Anya served in a military unit, signed and began to live. And then there was a sister in Leningrad (survived the blockade with her daughter!) the sisters returned from Germany, the mother and her younger daughter came to Stanislav, the elder brother made himself felt - he was at the War, was wounded, and was assigned to a large defense plant by the party trade. But the struggle for life, for the truth, continued. For two years, Anna nursed her husband, and he started talking, then finished accounting courses, and the children appeared. A difficult life – the loss of two older children, problems with housing, caring for a sick mother and sister. His wife has long been accepted into the party, and Stanislav seeks a certificate that his father is not an enemy of the people, several times submits an application to the party – but is refused. And happy events – found the hero and other awards: the second Order of the Red Star, the medal "for bravery", "for Warsaw", "for victory", "for Berlin", kept thanks from the command, gifts to fellow soldiers – trophy watches, purse, photos from Berlin. He didn’t not lose contact with his comrades-in-arms; he kept up correspondence and helped them achieve their benefits. Three daughters were growing up, in 1960 they were accepted into the party, elected Chairman of the trade Union Committee at a large sawmill in Mogochino, Tomsk region, where the family began to live since 1954. Stanislav Iosifovich was elected a Deputy of the district Council many times, played in an Amateur theater, sang in a choir, even danced, although all this was difficult, but you wanted to live a full life! When the daughters grew up and received an education, meetings with fellow soldiers, activities in the Council of veterans of native divisions, trips to Volgograd, to Reutov near Moscow, conversations with young people and work with conscripts took up Stanislav Iosifovich . And unexpected meetings – daughter Irina went to visit Polish friends, where they kept a flask with scratched initials and a star from the War, although the boy Stasik grew up and became the father of a family. In Anjero-Sudzhensk, a girl Vera was found who patronized the wounded in 1942, and families formed a friendship. Moving to his daughters in the Mari ASSR War veteran forced with renewed vigor to take up search work, he wrote poetry, sang in the choir of veterans, a regular guest in the editorial office of the newspaper "Forward", a friend of the pioneers. Until the last day of his life, he survived the War. At night, he raved, threw himself on the parapet in battle, shouted. And in the morning he breathed a sigh of relief and died. My great-grandfather shared all the victories, joys and troubles of his country in full. Always believed in the best, was able to enjoy life and left me his archive. Butina Angelina, 15 years old

Rank: Sergeant. Place of conscription Dzhankoy RVC, Crimean ASSR. Bukrinskaya offensive operation. 12.10-24.10.43 12. 10. 1943 - 24.10.1943 page of the combat operation. Kiev offensive operation. 3.11-13.11.43. Defensive operation in the Kiev direction. 13.11-23.12.43 13. 11. 1943 - 23.12.1943 page of the combat operation 03. 11. 1943 - 13.11.1943 page of the combat operation. Zhytomyr-Berdichev offensive operation. 24.12.43 g. - 15.1.44 g. 24. 12. 1943-15.01.1944 page of the combat operation. Korsun-Shevchenko offensive operation. 24.1-17.2.44 g. (Operation of the 2nd shock)24.01.1944-17.02.1944 page of the 2nd strike combat operation. Defeat on the right Bank of Ukraine. February-March 1944 01. 02. 1944-31.03.1944 page of the combat operation. Proskurovo-zhmerinskaya offensive operation. 4.3-17.4.44 G. (Opera 6th beat. The defeat of the Germans in Western Ukraine. July-August 1944 01. 07. 1944-31.08.1944 page of the combat operation. Lviv-Sandomierz offensive operation. 13.7-30.8.44 g. (Operation 1944 page of the combat operation. Fighting on the Sandomierz bridgehead. 30.8.44 g. - 12.1.45 g. 30. 08. 1944-12.01.1945 page of the combat operation. Sandomierz-Silesian offensive (January offensive of the 1st Ukrainian front). 12.1-28.1.45 12.01. 1945-28.01.1945 page of the combat operation. Lower Silesian offensive operation. 8.2-28.2.45 08. 02. 1945-28.02.1945 page of the combat operation. March offensive of the left wing of the 1st Ukrainian front (Oppeln operation). 15.3-31.3.45 g. 15. 03. 1945-31.03.1945 page of the combat operation. Berlin offensive operation. 16.4-8.5.45 16. 04. 1945-08.05.1945 page of the combat operation. Prague offensive operation. 6.5-11.5.45 g. 06. 05. 1945-11.05.1945 page of the combat operation.of the 6th strike)13.07.1944 - 30.08.

Rank: Lieutenant-General of the Signal Forces Branch of military: Signal Forces Grigory Kravtsov born on the 14th of May, 1922 Participant of the Second World War, died on the 11th of January, 1945. On the 6th of April, 1945, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR awarded Lieutenant Grigory Mikhailovich Kravtsov the posthumous title Hero of the Soviet Union. The village of Starozhilovka, where Grigory was born and grew up, was awarded the title of Kravtsovo. June 22, 1941. When the War began, Grigory Kravtsov was 19 years old. He was an honest soldier and fulfilled his duty to the Motherland to the end. He asked to go to the front, and in 1942 he was sent to the military-political school and was taught that the War was not for one day. Grigory Kravtsov was assigned to the 163rd fighter aviation regiment. However, Lieutenant Grigory Kravtsov did not have to fly for long, he was wounded in a battle with Nazis’ vultures and only by an inhuman effort of willpower did the plane reaching its airfield and landed. This was his last battle with the Nazis in the air. The hospital days dragged on him in a long line. November 9, 1944 went with the group in search. In the trench, we came across a sentry who managed to shout, and a battle ensued. In this battle, Kravtsov personally destroyed 8 German soldiers. He acted himself clearly and skillfully led the night fight. The scouts repulsed several attacks with grenades, destroyed the defensive node of the Nazis, which ensured the passage of Soviet units. They took two prisoners and returned to their position at dawn. For completing the task and showing courage and bravery, by order of the commander of the 69th army, Grigory Kravtsov was awarded the Patriotic War II degree. Last battle, Grigory Kravtsov was wounded twice and he did not leave the battlefield, he died in battle on January 11th, 1945, in the town of Florenov (Germany).

Rank: Red army soldier Branch of military: Artillery Division: 315th rifle Melitopol Red Banner Tikhon Fomich Kravchenko was born on the 13th of August, 1906 in the village of Berestovka, Lipo-Dalinsky district, Sumy region in Ukraine in the family of a peasant Kravchenko Foma Andreevich and Anna Ivanovna. His parents died when Tikhon Fomich was 8 years old and he was an orphan. From Ukraine, he came to the Orenburg region in the village of Rozhdestvenka, Burtinsky district in 1924. Tikhon Fomich was drafted into the army on mobilization in December 1941. In January 1942, he was enlisted in the 125th rifle regiment. During this period, as part of the 125th rifle regiment, Tikhon Fomich took part in the battles near Voronezh and the Kursk region. Since August 1943, he was enlisted in the 180th rifle regiment as a rifleman. On the 23rd of October, 1943, he was severely wounded in the left shoulder blade in a battle in Ukraine. After the hospital, he returned to the front and in March 1944 enlisted in the 315th Guards rifle regiment as a Rifleman. He took part in the liberation of the cities of Ukraine: Uman, Vapnyarka, Feodosia, the Carpathian Ridge, Sevastopol (Russia), Marovskaya Islands (Czech Republic), Nowy Targ (Poland). For excellent combat actions in the battles for the liberation of Olomouc (Czech Republic), Bogumin (Czech Republic), Cieszyn (Poland), a commendation was announced from the Supreme Commander of the Marshal of the Soviet Union, comrade Stalin. Tikhon Fomich reached Berlin and returned home in December 1945. He was awarded the order of the Red Star, the medal for bravery, the medal for victory over Germany, and the order of the Patriotic War. In General, Tikhon Fomich did not talk about the War, it was not accepted to ask questions in his family, because he was very worried. After the War, he returned to his native village, where his wife Maria and four children were waiting for him. He worked on the collective farm for more than 30 years. Together with his wife, he raised six children. Tikhon Fomich died on March 3, 1990.