Heroes and feats

CITY: Pustaya Buda village, Yershichsky district, Smolensk region. DATE OF BIRTH: 15.10.1919. DATE OF DEATH: 01.01.2001 HISTORY: Rank: Sergeant First Class. Corps: Artillery. I was called up to the army in November 1939. When the war started, I had 9 months of conscription left. I served all the time in the 193rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment. I am proud that I had to defend Moscow as a part of the 193rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (later renamed to the Putilov-Kirov Guards Order of Lenin Regiment), whose history begins in 1917. Since July 1941 under the command of Colonel M. G. Kiknadze, the regiment moved to the Kuntsev firing positions, covering the main, and central-western direction to Moscow. Naturally, we tried to prepare well for the meeting with the fascist vultures. On July 21, 1941, at 10 p.m, the observation posts reported that 200 enemy aircraft were flying to Moscow at different altitudes, at intervals, with a wide front. On the far approaches, they were met by the aircraft of the 6th Fighter Aviation Corps, and the vultures were forced to disperse in groups. The artillery met the fascist planes with a wall of heavy fire. The sky was illuminated by floodlights. All night there was an intense battle. The gun barrels were hot. In the morning we saw mountains of shell casings. Only a few single planes broke through to Moscow. The Germans realized that Moscow was under reliable air defense protection, so the next day they gathered the best aces and they sent 300 aircrafts more at night from 22 to 23 July. Previously, during the day, reconnaissance planes appeared at high altitude to see the results of the previous raid. The anti-aircraft gunners again met the vultures with a wall of heavy fire. To suppress the points of anti-aircraft calculations, the Germans threw lighting bombs to illuminate the area, poured incendiary and high-explosive bombs. Everything seemed to be on fire. Lighters were sometimes thrown in whole boxes. Several land mines exploded around the battery, but fortunately they did not cause much damage. The planes never reached Moscow, but when they hit the searchlights, they dropped their deadly cargo anywhere and returned back. The Germans realized that they would soon be unable to overcome the defense of Moscow, and switched to the tactics of exhausting our forces. Single planes and dozens of them, sometimes hundreds, flew to Moscow every day, using different tactics, but they failed to break the defense of Moscow. Moscow lived its own life. At first, during the raids on Moscow, alarms were often announced, but then, when our commanders saw that the reflection of aircraft was effective, they stopped alarms in the city. I was the commander of the rangefinder squad. We used our range finder (a stereoscopic device) to determine the altitude of German aircraft, the range of flight, the angle of flight, and gave data to the AAFCE. The accuracy and continuity of our data greatly depended on the effectiveness of anti-aircraft fire. Then there was the 237th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment of the 1st Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. I was in the rank of Sergeant First Class. After the war, I was sent to a training division to train young soldiers, where I served until I was demobilized on July 7, 1946. I have awards. During my service as a member of the regiment's troops, I participated in almost all parades on red square. I worked all my life, the last 35 years - at the plant, 26 years worked as a smelter. I worked until 1985. In the army I met my beloved, who was my faithful friend during the war, and in August 1945 she became my wife. I have a son, a grandson, a granddaughter, a great-grandson.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Studenets village, Novolikeyevskaya volost, Nizhny Novgorod uyezd, Nizhny Novgorod province. DATE OF BIRTH: 28.02.1910 DATE OF DEATH: 27.07.1977 HISTORY: Rank: Lieutenant. Corps: infantry, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD, border troops. Division: 241st rifle Vinnytsia order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Red Star division. Before the war and after the war he worked at the plant "Krasnoe Sormovo", shop 12 (wood-working shop) as a master (machine operator), his occupation (specialty) is a carpenter. He was drafted into the Red Army in August 1941. He participated in many battles in the Great Patriotic War: 1. North-Western front from November 1941 to may 1942 (Demyansk offensive operation of 1942 in the Novgorod region as part of the 332nd rifle company of the 241st rifle division – commander I. D. Chernyakhovsky, the 34th army). Private shooter. He was wounded four times in the battle of Demyansk. He was presented to the Order of the Red Star. He was treated in the evacuation hospital No. 1899 from June to August 1942. Military-political (party) education – Ivanovo technical higher school (August-November 1942). Lieutenant, People’s commissariat order No. 06516/p of 10.11.1942; 2. Karelian front from November 1942 to November 1943. Battles in the Murmansk direction, the polar region, the Western Litsa "Valley of glory" (35th guards regiment, 10th guards regiment, division - commander Khudalov H. A., 14th army). The Deputy commander of a company. Military education-advanced training courses for command staff at the Chelyabinsk tank technical school. The 3rd (Bui), 1st (Kazan) training tank regiments from November 1943 to December 1945. From January to August 1946, the 4th guards Tank army of the 25th guards tank division (previously, the 25th guards tank corps), 83rd guards heavy tank regiment. Guard Lieutenant is a commander of the tank crew (tank). Other awards: - Jubilee badge "25 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 -1945"; - jubilee medals "50 years of the Armed forces of the USSR", "70 years of the Armed forces of the USSR", "For Valorous Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin".

PLACE OF BIRTH: Novy Liman village, Petropavlovsk district, Voronezh region DATE OF BIRTH: 06.07.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 20.05.2006 HISTORY: Rank: Sergiont First Class. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard. Bazylev (Logvinenko) Taisiya Romanovna was born in the village of Novy Liman in 1923. She graduated from the Novolimansk seven-year school, then worked for three years in a collective farm and entered the Bogucharsky agricultural technical school to become an agronomist. But the Great Patriotic war broke all the dreams and plans of the young girl. After her sophomore year, Taisiya and her two friends went to the war as volunteers. First as nurses, then as intelligence men. Millerovo, Lozovaya, Kharkiv, again Lozovaya, Seversky Donets, Crimea, Sakharnaya Golovka, Sapun-Gora, Dzhankoy, Simferopol, Sevastopol, Shauliai, Panevezys, Libava… Cities and villages changed, and the combat missions were very similar: find out the location of tanks, airfields, anti-aircraft batteries and execute the order without giving anything away. In the Baltic States, she was awarded a commendation for a well - executed order: "Comrade Sergeant First Class Logvinenko Taisiya Romanovna, Commander-in-Chief, Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin I. V. for excellent combat actions during the capture of Shauliai, by order of July 21, 1944, declare my gratitude to you." The same commendation for Panevezys. For her, a Sergeant First Class, an intelligence man, it is a memory of hundreds and hundreds of kilometers of front-line roads where her combat friends and girlfriends died. She was awarded the medal "For Courage", and the medal" For Combat Service". Taisiya Romanovna took them only in 1948. She met the victory in the forest near Libava (Baltic States), " the front-line soldier recalled. - There was such a salute, shooting from rifles, pistols, from machine guns. Taisiya Romanovna had a TT pistol in her hands and kept shooting into the air until she ran out of bullets. After the war, she worked as a security guard for the Moscow metro. After leaving her work in November 1947, she went to work at the Stalin automobile plant (later renamed to the Likhachev automobile plant). In March 1948, she was called to the Komsomol factory committee and offered to work on the Makarovsky combine “Glavsakhlesbumprom (South Sakhalin). There she was retired, and then together with her husband returned to their small homeland, in Petropavlovsk.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ulan-Khol village, Kaspiysky district, Republic of Kalmykia DATE OF BIRTH: 05.03.1921 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Galina Lidzhieva was born on March 5, 1921 in Ulan-Khol village of Kaspiysky district, Republic of Kalmykia. She graduated from 7 classes, and entered the Astrakhan pedagogical school. After the interview among of 20 students there were three of them: Gusinov Matsg Idrisovich, Murygina Nadezhda Yakovlevna, Khatueva Galina Khulhachievna. After studying for six months, she fell ill and returned home. After recovering, she completed short-term teaching courses in Elista. After graduation, she worked as a primary school teacher. In 1941 the Great Patriotic war began, and all young men went to the front. As an active member of the Komsomol Khatuev Galina was elected as first Secretary of the Komsomol of Ulan-Khol. From the first days of the election, she organized young people to help the front: they sewed warm clothes for the red army, collected things, knitted mittens and socks. They distributed the state loan among the population. In 1942, the construction of the Astrakhan–Kizlyar railway began. A lot of work was done to mobilize people for the construction of the embankment. In December 1943, Galina were deported along with the other kalmyks in Siberia. She was appointed responsible for the car. On the way, she fell ill with typhoid and thanks to people reached Siberia: they hid the fact that there was an ill person in the car. At the last station, wagons from the collective farms were waiting for them. The Chairman of a collective farm took her with other families, because they needed a person who knows Russian and is literate. In the spring, after recovering, she began working as an accountant on a collective farm. After working for several months, she found out where her parents were, with whom she lost contact in her homeland, as she was being evicted from another place, where she was on a business trip. Arriving at her parents' home, Galina got a job as an accountant. In June 1945, she married Lidzhiev Tavin Dzhanaevich. In December 1946, together with her family, Galina Khulkhachievna moved to the Kyrgyz SSR. Since 1948 she worked as an accountant until leaving for her homeland. In 1957 and until 1973, she worked as an accountant at The Yashkul veterinary station. After retirement, she worked until 1978 as a gas station attendant at the meat farm “Adykovsky”. In December 1960, her husband died due to illness. Galina Khulkhachievna was left with 7 children. She gave everyone an education. Galina Khulkhachievna has 14 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. She was awarded of two medals for motherhood, the Stalin medal of the homefront worker of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the Veteran of Labour medal in 1978, jubilee medals "50 years of Victory in great Patriotic war", "60 years of Victory in the WWII" April 2005, "65 years of Victory in the WWII" March 2009.

PLACE OF BIRTH: the village of Ryabcheva (Rabchinsky town) Voronezh uyezd, Voronezh province. DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 22.12.1999 HISTORY: Rank: Sergeant. Corps: Land forces, Air force (except naval aviation), coast service, troops of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, border guard. He was born in the village of Ryabchevo (Ryabchensky town) Voronezh uyezd, Voronezh province (now Kashirsky district, Voronezh region). He was buried in the village of Levaya Rossosh, Kashirsky district, Voronezh region. He served in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army from May 11, 1942. Place of call up: Novo-Usman district military commissariat of the Voronezh region, new Usmansky district. Russian. Member of the Leninist Young Communist League of the Soviet Union. He served as a Sergeant, the commander of the mortar mine company, the 3rd infantry battalion, the 40th army of the Voronezh front from July 4, 1942 to 26 July 1942. He was awarded of the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd Class and the order of Glory, 3rd Class. The award list: "On July 26, 1942 while serving as the commander of a mortar crew in the battle for the village of Shilovo, seven kilometers from Voronezh, he was seriously wounded by a mine fragment in his left hand. He was treated in hospital No. 1241 in Stalinsk, Novosibirsk region. After being cured in the hospital, the medical Commission declared him unable for military service with a re-examination in 6 months according to the article 69-a of the order of the People's Commissariat of defense of the USSR No. 336 of 1942. As a result of a severe shrapnel wound, he has limited movement of the left hand and fingers in the hand. Disabled person of the Group III. In 1985 he was presented to the award - the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class (Award document No: 74; Date: April 6, 1985)

Corps: Land forces. Lisovin Andrey Pavlovich 1910-1994. When the Great Patriotic war began, he was 31 years old. He fought as a private in the infantry on the territory of Belarus in a division under the command of General Vlasov. In the autumn of 1942, due to Vlasov's betrayal and his defection to the Germans, Andrey Pavlovich, among many other fighters, was surrounded and taken prisoner. Twice escaped from captivity, but was captured by the Nazis and tortured. As a punishment, the Germans doused him and other participants of the escape with cold water in the cold, pierced their feet with bayonets, wounds and scars from which remained for life. To prevent further escape attempts, Andrey was sent to a camp for prisoners of war in Germany, and from there he was transferred to work in a factory. Then a German burgher took him to work on a farm, where my grandfather looked after the cattle, ate and slept in the same room with them. In 1945 he was released from captivity by the troops of the American allies and handed him over to Soviet soldiers. For two more years after the end of the war, Andrey was in a special camp for former prisoners of war in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) and passed the so-called security check. All this time, our family had no information about him, because after 1942, he was reported as missing in action. In 1947 Andrey Pavlovich returned home to the Kuban, to the village of Dinskaya on the farm named after Lenin. Awards: the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class, the medal "For Combat Service", as well as six other commemorative medals. He died in 1994 at the age of 84.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Ozerkovka settlement. DATE OF BIRTH: 06.09.1912 DATE OF DEATH: 04.08.2002 HISTORY: Rank: Red army Soldier. Corps: land forces. Division: 170th rifle division (1st formation). On September 24, 1941 he was drafted into the army by the Sterlitamak regional military commissariat of the Bashkir ASSR. He served in the Red Army as a part of the 170th rifle division 134th special reconnaissance battalion. On June 26, the 170th military division was incorporated into the 22nd Army. On June 29, the first echelon of the division arrived at the station of Kuznetsovka in the area of Sebezh. Almost immediately, arriving units were sent to combat positions. The division took up defense as a part of the Western front at the turn of the Sebezhsky fortified area on the right flank of the 22nd army. On July 2, the division came into combat contact with the enemy. By August 24, the Germans captured Velikiye Luki. The 22nd army and 170th rifle division was again surrounded. Many soldiers and officers of the division were captured at Velikiye Luki. From the story of Laktionov Andriyan Vasilyevich in the retelling of his nephew Loktionov Pyotr Mikhailovich: "There was nothing to eat in the woods. Commanders said us to rest, all of us lay down. We woke up, the Germans were above us with machine guns, weapons were taken away. They formed us and led. In captivity I worked for the German peasant Bauer. I escaped with other prisoner, we were childhood friends. We were caught, sent to the mines in the Ruhr. If you do not meet the norm, they beat you with a hose filled with sand. We escaped again but was caught again. Then our soldiers released us and sent to penal battalions. They gave old tunics, one rifle and a grenade for three of us. They said: take that hill over there, we'll forgive everything. After the battle, only 5 people out of 300 remained. Then I fought in the Konev army, received a letter signed by Konev that the red army soldier Laktionov Andriyan Vasilyevich justified the trust. When I returned, a wave of repressions began, those who were in captivity were put in prison. When they came, I showed them this certificate, and they gone away." In 1945, Andriyan Laktionov was demobilized.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Krasnogorsk village, Chelyabinsk region. DATE OF BIRTH: 12.03.1924 DATE OF DEATH: 11.11.1998 HISTORY: Rank: Red army soldier. Corps: Artillery. The newspaper "Zvezda", separate memoirs of the war of Litvinov Pyotr Vasilyevich. From mid-April 1945, fighting began on the outskirts of Berlin. The attack was rapid, but the enemy stubbornly resisted. The fighting was heavy and bloody, and every day we lost our comrades killed and wounded. At the end of April, the division was about 20 kilometers from Berlin. Every day we moved forward. It was often necessary to change firing positions in order to keep up with the rifle companies and support them with aimed fire. The Germans tried to suppress the fire of the battery, which brought them great damage. One of the fire raids on our battery brought heavy losses. Nikolai Saraev, the gunner of the mortar, standing next to us, was killed by the fragments of the exploded bomb. He was only 19-20 years old. Our mortar crew was also injured – the gun commander, Sergeant First Class Ivan Melnichenko, was seriously wounded in the chest, and I was also wounded. The platoon commander Lieutenant Gregory Khodjaev told me to bring the wounded Melnichenko in medical company. Under heavy artillery fire we managed to get to medical company. They bandaged me there and I ran, or even crawled, back to the position of my battery. For several days, I with the loader private Boris Donchenko fired a mortar. There was no replenishment. Ususally the gun crew consisted of 4 people: the commander, the gunner, the loader and the driver. The last one barely had time to bring us mines. Less than a week later, as the commander of the gun Melnichenko returned to the battery. He escaped from the doctors, without being treated. When our troops broke into Berlin, the direction of our division's offensive was the Reichstag. The command suggested the Nazis to capitulate. Soviet parliamentarians came out with a white flag in the area of our combat positions. But the Germans fired at them, and a parliamentary major was killed. The last firing position of our battery was in the courtyard of a printing house in 300 meters from the Reichstag on May 1, 1945. The building of the printing house was completely destroyed, only the basement remained, where there were piles of topographic maps. We rested on them in breaks between fights. On May 1, there were still strong battles, but it was felt that the Nazis had already come "kaput"! On this day, the mortar gunner of our battery, Boris Burlachenko, was killed. Then the fighting in Berlin stopped, and the German-fascist troops capitulated.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Krasnokutsk village, Kharkiv region. DATE OF BIRTH: 15.07.1910. DATE OF DEATH: 11.01.1980. HISTORY: Rank: First Lieutenant. Corps: aviation. My father Lyashenko Vladimir Yakovlevich was born in a large family of a worker who worked for many years for the Kharkiv landowner - sugar manufacturer Kharitonenko. After graduating from Krasnokutskaya school, my father was engaged in organizing collective farms on the territory of the Krasnokutsky district of the Kharkiv region. In 1935 he was sent to study at the Chuguev military aviation school for fighter pilots. He mastered IL-2 fighter planes and other military equipment. After graduating from school in 1937, he was sent to Saltsy, Leningrad region, for military service and strengthening the country's defense capability. In 1938, my father's first daughter Nina was born. The war found my father there in Saltsy near Leningrad. The enemy was advancing rapidly and there was a threat of capturing Leningrad. Then the command decides to strengthen the Leningrad front with new equipment, in particular with new fighters, and sends my father to head a group of fighter pilots to the Far East in Khabarovsk to receive new fighters. They traveled by rail and the path turned out to be very far, especially since events on the fronts were developing rapidly, the enemy was moving deeper into the country. The train in which the pilots were traveling was delayed at stations, because it was necessary to pass trains with military cargo and soldiers towards the front. Then the command decides to send the pilots with fighters from the Khabarovsk garrison to Leningrad, and the to leave pilots who went to Khabarovsk for new fighters for service and strengthen the local garrisons in the Far East. So my father got to the Far East and guarded the Eastern borders of our homeland. He served in Belonogova, Khabarovsk region, Belogorsk, Yelizovo, Kamchatka. He was the commander of a fighter squadron and performed reconnaissance and defensive flights on long-range lines. In 1945, when the Germans were defeated in the West, fighting came to the East. My father bravely and courageously destroyed the Japanese soldiers and, very quickly, the war in the Far East was over. The strongest Kwantung army of Japan threw out a white flag.

PLACE OF BIRTH: Konstantinovskoe village, Petrovsky district, Stavropol territory. DATE OF BIRTH: 18.04.1924 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Rank: First Lieutenant. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border guards. I want to tell you about Ledovsky Ivan Ivanovich. He was born on April 18, 1924. When the war started, he was just 19 years old... He received his military education at the Zhytomyr school. Ivan Ivanovich graduated in 1942 with the rank of Lieutenant. He took the military oath on December 23, 1942. He had to go through a lot of grief, pain, fear and horror, however, like the rest of the millions of people in our long-suffering nation. Firstly, he was a machine-gunner, then a commander of a machine-gun platoon, then a machine-gun company. The most difficult thing in the war, according to his stories, is the stepback of our army. After all, the army stepbacked along with factories and plants, the civilian population with tears in their eyes, and sometimes with words of condemnation looked after our army. After all, civilian people had to live in the occupied territory... In 1942-1943 Ivan Ivanovich fought on the South-Western front, he participated in the liberation of Zaporozhye, in the destroying of the enemy's bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper. In November 1942, the front troops participated in the encirclement of the enemy group at Stalingrad. There he was seriously injured and was treated in the hospital. In January 1944 he came back in action. At that time the commander of the South-Western front was Marshal of the Soviet Union, S. K. Timoshenko. In 1944, Ivan Ivanovich was wounded again, concussed, and hospitalized... Lao Tzu wrote: " The perfection of a warrior lies in vigilance, constant combat readiness, in severity, in sincerity, in impenetrable calm." Ivan Ivanovich was like that. So he remained for the rest of his life strong-willed and calm, confident in himself and his abilities person. He knows the value of words and always was responsible for his actions. After the hospital, he returned to the 2nd Baltic front. In June 1944, he participated in Reicko Dvina operations, defended the river Dvina. During this operation, he received the most expensive medal for his heart - "For Courage". The medal is especially valuable for all front-line soldiers, since it was awarded exclusively for personal bravery shown in battle. This is the main difference between the medal "For Courage" and some other medals and orders that were awarded for participation in battles. He received his medal for taking the prisoner of the war. He captured a fascist with important data for the command. Ivan Ivanovich has the order of the Patriotic war, 1st class. This is the first Soviet award of the great Patriotic War period. And yet, this is the first Soviet order that had a division into classes. The highest class of the order is the 1st class. For skilful, initiative and courageous actions in battle that contributed to the successful completion of combat missions, Ivan Ivanovich was awarded of the medal "For Combat Service". He also has military awards for the capture of Kharkiv, Nevel and Vitebsk. He was dismissed to the reserve on 3.06.1945 with the rank of First Lieutenant. His family keeps his awards. Six medals: medal "For the Victory over Germany" (12.02.1946), anniversary medals- "20 years of Victory", "30 years of victory", "40 years of Victory", "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". After the war, he was also awarded for labor merits. For many years of conscientious work in the field of public education, he was awarded the medal "Veteran of Labor" and "For Labor Merits". Immediately after the end of the war, he went to work at a school. He began his teaching career in a rural school, where he worked as a teacher of history and military affairs. After graduating from the Stavropol state pedagogical Institute, he became a history teacher. He was also an inspector in the Department of public education. From 1957 to 1963, he was a head of the District. In 1963, he became Deputy Chairman of the Petrovsky district Executive Committee of the Stavropol territory. He also was a school principal. On January 15, 1997, Ivan Ivanovich died and was buried in Svetlograd, Stavropol territory. I, like all my peers, do not know war. I don't know and I don't want to know war! But those who died in the distant war years did not want it either! And we must preserve the memory of the heroes, of the feat they performed fighting at the front and forging Victory in the rear!

PLACE OF BIRTH: village of Nadezhdino (currently Yelnikovsky district), Mordovia DATE OF BIRTH: 11.10.1911. DATE OF DEATH: 29.01.1945. HISTORY: Rank: Lieutenant. Corps: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guard. Unit: 32nd Rifle Verkhnedneprovskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov division. Mikhail Fedorovich Larin, one of three policemen, heroes of the Great Patriotic war, who was awarded of the rank the Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. He was born in 1911 in Mordovia, in the village of Nadezhdino (now Yelnikovsky district) in a peasant family. In 1923 Mikhail Larin graduated from four classes (according to some sources – six classes). In 1927-1933 he worked as a woodcutter and carrier in the Lukoyanovsky logging company. He was called up for military service in 1933. From 1933 to 1935 he served in the cavalry units of the Belarusian military district, first as a red army soldier, and then as a junior commander. In 1933, he entered the school of junior cavalry commanders, and he successfully completed it in 1934. After leaving the reserve, he came to live permanently in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) and entered the service of the internal affairs bodies. Mikhail Fedorovich met the war as an employee of the 8th police department of the Zhdanovsky district. From the first days of the war, he repeatedly appealed to the military enlistment office and to the leadership of the city police department to send him to the front. In September 1942 his insistent demands were met. A month later, he served in the active army as a machine gunner, and then as a commander of a machine gun platoon on the Kalinin, Western and 1st Baltic fronts. After the battle for Kursk, Mikhail Larin was treated in a hospital. At the end of 1942 he graduated from officer courses and returned to his regiment as a Second Lieutenant. During the battle for East Prussia, Mikhail Fedorovich was appointed commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 113th rifle regiment, the 32nd rifle division, the 19th rifle corps, the 4th shock army of the 1st Baltic front. Lieutenant Larin repeatedly showed personal courage, heroism, resourcefulness in the battles for the Motherland. By the beginning of 1945, he was already a holder of two orders of the Red Star, the Order of Glory, 3rd class and several medals. In January 1945, Lieutenant Mikhail Fedorovich Larin was killed in the battle for the Kurishe-Nerung spit (now the Curonian spit) of the Baltic sea. He was only 34 years old. On the night of January 28-29, 1945, Lieutenant Larin led one of the two assault detachments of the 113th rifle regiment, which was assigned the mission: from Memel (now - the Lithuanian city of Klaipeda), secretly cross the Kurisches-Haff Bay (now the Curonian lagoon) on the ice, capture the bridgehead on the Kurishe - Nerungi spit and hold it until the main forces of the division approach. The mission was completed: with a bold blow, the assault detachments captured the bridgehead, pushed the Nazis back from the road connecting the Konigsberg, Memel and Courland groups of troops. Mikhail Fedorovich was twice wounded in this heavy fight, but did not leave the battlefield. His soldiers repelled six counterattacks by the Nazis. Larin personally destroyed 15 fascists in this battle. The third wound, received on January 29, 1945, was fatal. He was buried in one of the mass graves of the Klaipeda, Lithuania. Mikhail Larin was awarded of the rank the Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously for this feat by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 19, 1945. In the post-war years, his name was not forgotten. In the hero's homeland in the village of Nadezhdino, a bust was erected in his memory. In Nizhny Novgorod, a street in the Prioksky district, where he used to serve in the police, is named after the Hero of the Soviet Union M. F. Larin. In Soviet times, three pioneer squads - 18, 151, and 154 schools was named after his name. On June 25, 1976, a ship named "Mikhail Fedorovich Larin"was launched from the slipways of the shipbuildingyard.

DATE OF BIRTH: 19.12.1913. DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Logacheva Anna Alekseevna is a veteran of the Second World War, Second Lieutenant of the medical service. In June 1941, she lived with her first husband (his full name, unfortunately, is unknown), who was at that time the head of the border post, and two young children in Opochka, Pskov region. On July 8, 1941, Opochka was occupied by German-fascist troops and it was liberated only on July 15, 1944. Anna Alekseyevna served as a paramedic at the same border post as her husband. Her husband went to the front from the first day of the war, and on June 30 or July 1, she was called to the front. Throughout the war, Anna Alekseevna served as the chief of the sanitary railway echelon. She took out the wounded to the rear. During one of the bombings that hit their train, she unhooked a burning car from the train, which was hit by a shell. For the feat she was awarded of the medal "For Courage". Anna Alekseyevna said that in 1944, at the commandant of the Kazan railway station, she met her husband. It was their last meeting. She carried the wounded to the rear, and he carried the recruits to the front. She never saw him again... Her first husband was killed at the front, and two small children are still missing, because the train in which they were evacuated to the rear was bombed by the Germans. She's been looking for them all her life... Unfortunately, the house where the family of Anna Alexeevna lived after the war (Uryvkina, Pestrechinsky district of Tatar ASSR) burnt down. Most of all, Anna was worried about the burned front-line photos, and photos of her first family, husband, and children.

DATE OF BIRTH: 22.07.1922. DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Corps: Artillery. Lazarev Georgy Lavrentievich was born in Nechayevo village, Karachan district, Kursk region. He fought in the great Patriotic war from August 1943 to October 1944. He took part in major military operations in the battles of the Kursk bulge. During the war, G. L. Lazarev was an anti-tank artillery gunner and gun commander. In October 1944, having received a serious wound, he was treated in a military hospital and after recovery was sent to work in the rear. Government awards and badges: the Order of the Great Patriotic War, 2nd class, the Order of the Red Star, medal "For courage", medal "For Victory over Germany", jubilee medals "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945" 9.05.1966, "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945" 20.06.1976, "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945" 09.05 1985, "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945" 22.03.1995. By the decree of the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 11.03.1985, Lazarev G. L. was also awarded of the Order of Patriotic War, 1st class for courage, persistence and braveness demonstrated in the struggle against the Nazi invaders. In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Victory of Soviet people in the Great Patriotic war 1941 - 1945 by Decree of the Chairman of the Russian Federation B. N. Yeltsin, Lazarev G. L. was awarded of the Medal of Zhukov dated 06.03.1995. Since 1950s until November 2001, Lazarev G. L. lived in Shirokiy Karamysh settlement, Lysogorskiy district. He worked for many years as a driver at the state farm “Shirokkaramyshsky”, then as a driver and a housekeeping manager at the Shirokkaramyshsky secondary school. Lazarev G. L. was awarded of Certificates of Merit and valuable gifts for conscientious work. He was married, had 2 sons and 2 daughters, 2 grandsons and 2 granddaughters. He died on November 22, 2001.

CITY: Aleksandrovka village of Petrovsky settlement Bolshe-Krepinsky district of Rostov region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/01/1913 DATE OF DEATH: - History: Title: Senior Lieutenant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, troops NKVD, border troops Subdivision: 317th Budapest Rifle Red Banner Division Lugovoy Semyon Nikiforovich since 1935 served in the Far East in coastal defense units on Suchan, in the rank of lieutenant commanded of a rifle company. It was not a calm area. He had to pacify the greedy samurai on Lake Hassan. Lieutenant Lugovoi,knowledgeable mountain-shooting and sniper business, served in the east in the highlands, trained personnel for the upcoming battles. In 1942 he was sent to the city of Tyumen in a training brigade to train snipers for the front. When the Soviet Army began to approach the Carpathians with battles, Semyon Nikiforovich was sent to the 4th Ukrainian Front, where they were preparing to attack in the mountains - along the roads of Suvorov. The commander of a rifle company, and then the commander of the headquarters of the rifle battalion Lugovoi S.N. took part in the liberation of Uzhgorod. The regiment was ordered to occupy a strategically important height. The regiment completed this task, but was surrounded. For 12 days without food, with a small supply of ammunition, the enemy's onslaught was held back, while the guard battalion arrived in time to help them break through the encirclement. Later - heavy fighting, first on the approaches, and then on the streets of Budapest. For the battles in the Carpathians and the liberation of Budapest, the Supreme Command expressed gratitude to all units, who distinguished themselves were awarded. Senior Lieutenant S.N. Lugovoi was awarded two Orders of the Red Star. He met the long-awaited Victory Day in the hospital - during the liberation of Vienna, he received a serious injury to his cervical spine. But the war for S.N. Lugovoi was not over. His unit, where he returned from the hospital (despite the protests of doctors), was assigned to the east against militaristic Japan, where he participated in the defeat of its troops until complete surrender. Only in 1946 he returned to his family in Rostov-on-Don.

Lubyantsev Vladimir Timofeevich CITY: Loboykovo village, Danilovsky district, Volgograd region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1926 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Taisiya Vasilyevna Lubyantseva has carefully kept the letters of her beloved from the front, yellowed from time, for seventy years. I listen to the text and am amazed: a nineteen-year-old boy, who is in the midst of the horrors of war and who survived the death of his comrades, writes about his feelings during the break between heavy battles, leads a lyrical description of the spring Danube. He also talks about the front-line brotherhood, when the crew of a combat vehicle becomes a real family, and about cases of betrayal, when whole battalions of defectors are fighting on the side of the enemy. And in each of his words there is a thirst for life and hope: "Thaya, wait for me. Maybe by waiting you will save me ..." Two brothers and one fate Nikolai Lubyantsev, having received an APC at Kubinka station, got into the 5th mechanized corps under the command of General M.V. Volkov, in the reconnaissance company of the 2nd mechanized brigade. When they took part in heavy battles in Ukraine, during a strong spring flood, it was impossible to either pass or drive to the other side. The reconnaissance group, wandering waist-deep in the icy March water, put marks for the passage of equipment, and then put information on the map. For the successful course of the operation, the scouts received gratitude from the commander of the 6th Tank Army, General A.G. Kravchenko. Later Nikolai took part in major military operations. He met Victory Day in Prague. For courage and valor, the driver of the armored personnel carrier of the reconnaissance company of the Lubyantsev brigade Nikolai was awarded military awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two orders of the Red Star, five military medals, the Badge "Excellent intelligemce officer" and 22 thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin. Simultaneously with Nikolai, his younger brother Vladimir passed his combat path. Despite the two-year age difference, the brothers grew up like twins, studying in the same class, all ten years sitting at the same desk, playing sports, music together, growing up together. And three months after the call to the front, Nicholas voluntarily with a group of Komsomol members went to defend the Motherland and sixteen-year-old Volodya. And also, like an older brother, he was sent to study tanking in the village of Tsarevo. MOTHER'S FEAT The first wound in the head was received by tanker Vladimir Lubyantsev during the battles near the Ukrainian city of Stalino (now Donetsk). He, who was wounded in the head, was ordered by the commander to leave the car through the emergency exit. As soon as the fighter had time to crawl away a little, another shell hit the tank. He saw how the tank caught fire, how the hatch opened and a familiar figure emerged from it. But at that moment there was an explosion. He, with pain digging his hands into the ground, shouted from his powerlessness to fix something. Vladimir was the only one of the crew who survived. The second serious wound was also received in Ukraine, near the city of Nikolaev. Then the connection was broken, and the first fighters sent to fix the problem could not reach the goal. Vladimir and a friend were sent second. The comrade died, and Lubyantsev, having completed the task, was returning back when he was overtaken by two sniper bullets, which pierced two ribs and lodged in the lung. Having received a letter from a nurse from a Rostov hospital about the serious injury of her son, Ulyana Evdokimovna went to save him. There were many hospitals in Rostov at that time, and an unknown woman who was traveling with her on the train volunteered to help in the search for her son. A young woman sheltered a soldier's mother at home, although she herself lived with three children and her mother in the basement of a bombed house. The kind family helped her as much as it could. Only on the third day was it possible to find out that Vladimir Lubyantsev was in a hospital in Nakhichevan. For seven days she looked after Volodya, fed him, and he was on the mend, but still could not get out of bed. And then at night the hospital was urgently evacuated in an unknown direction. The mother returned home and for a long time did not receive any news about her son. For about seven months, Vladimir was treated in hospitals before his mother found out about his location. And again, having issued a pass in the police and the military registration and enlistment office, she went in search of him in the distant Krasnoyarsk Territory. I got to Kuibyshev safely, and the trains to Siberia were overcrowded. Ulyana Evdokimovna was in despair. But here, too, kind people came to the rescue. A group of military men, having learned about the purpose of the trip of an unfamiliar woman, dragged her into the carriage through the window. She brought her son home by November 7, 1944, sick and weak. And in the spring of 1945 he took to his bed. And again the mother began to nurture him, to raise him to his feet. The miracle happened thanks to the professionalism of Dr. B.N. Ageev and nurse Zhenya Volkova, as well as the great maternal love and selflessness. Our correspondent "Danilovskie Vesti" April 2, 2015