Heroes and feats

CITY: s. Catchers DATE OF BIRTH: 12/19/1926 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant. Type of troops: Aviation. Subdivision: 182nd Assault Aviation Tilsit Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. Svetlana's daughter tells. Larin Nikolai Aleksandrovich, was born on December 19, 1926 in the village of Lovtsy, Moscow region, in a large friendly family of an employee, with four children (there were 6 children in total). Even at school, Kolya raved about the plane, so his choice was determined. After graduating from high school in 1943, Nikolai entered the preparatory department of the Moscow Aviation Institute, from where he was drafted into the active army on March 5, 1944. He participated in hostilities as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front from October 10, 1944. Until the end of the war, he served as a master of aircraft armament 397 - Order of Kutuzov, third degree assault aviation regiment of the 182 Order of Suvorov, assault aviation Tilsit division with the rank of junior sergeant. For his conscientious attitude to the service he was twice awarded the medal "For Military Merit". Here is an extract from the order of May 22, 1945, No. 09 / N awarding: “While in the active army, he served 115 air sorties. During this time, there was not a single case of weapons failure. Day and night he works on the materiel, keeps weapons in constant combat readiness. ”He took part in the battles for the liberation of the city of Konigsberg, for which he was also awarded the medal“ For the capture of Konigsberg ”. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Aleksandrovich decided to link his life forever with serving the Motherland, with heaven. After graduating from the Chkalovsk Military Aviation School of Navigators in 1946, for further service he was sent to the city of Mitava, Latvian SSR. It was from here that his glorious and long combat path began from lieutenant to colonel, navigator of the regiment. In peacetime, an officer of the USSR Air Force Larin N.A. served regularly for the good of the Motherland. Serving in the Military Transport Aviation, he transported important cargo from the regions of the far north to Antarctica. Immaculately carried out responsible government tasks. He took an active part in the search and rescue operation during the landing of the first cosmonaut Yu. A. Gagarin, for which he was awarded. Participated in the resolution of armed conflicts in Czechoslovakia in 1968, in Yemen, transported the body of the first Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru from Moscow to Delhi. International military exercises in Czechoslovakia "Shield 72" were the final stage of the service, which he completed in 1973 in the 110th regiment of the Military Transport Aviation, Krechevitsky garrison. This legendary regiment still has a special status and is directly subordinate to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Federation. Dad's service was both dangerous and difficult. He spent 30 years of his life in the sky, was a first class navigator. When asked: "How to land a plane in smoke, fog, mountains or other difficult conditions?", He invariably answered: "You have to feel the Earth in your gut." As in the song: “Everything is clear to the navigator: in the light or in the darkness! He does not make mistakes on the way! " He was repeatedly awarded for trouble-free flights. In total, he has 25 government awards, of which 2 "for military merit", "for the capture of Konigsberg", the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. After completing the service, accustomed to being in constant combat readiness, dad could not sit on his pension, and continued to work. He worked as the head of the filmstrip department at the Film Studio of the Ministry of Defense, transferring his richest military experience to young specialists. Next to dad there was always his faithful fighting friend - his beloved wife, whom he called only "my Lyalechka". With my mother, they lived in love and harmony for no less than 60 years and 9 months. And only death could separate them. Dad was a very positive, hardworking person, he always went in for sports, doused himself with cold water, never smoked. During his service in Krechevitsy, on the Volkhov River, he opened the swimming season before the Victory Day parade, and ended before the parade on November 7, when ice floes were already floating on the river. He possessed a mathematical mindset. Being in old age, he continued to calculate utility services on a slide rule. He could not sit idle, was constantly busy, made something, was fond of photography, loved to repair watches, was unusually organized and disciplined: each of his things knew its place. In recent years, he lived in the village of Beloomut near Moscow, where he spent his childhood. Dad loved the land very much. At the time of the spring sowing season, lovingly laying seed potatoes in the hole, he gently said: "grow big and small potatoes." He kept a diary of observations of the weather, comparing ancient folk signs with the weather changes of our time. Dad loved life very much and fought for it until his last breath, instilling optimism and faith in the people around him!

CITY: village Kurai Semenovskiy s / s Shabalinsky district, Kirov region. DATE OF BIRTH: 05/08/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 03/01/1980 HISTORY: Type of troops: Technical troops (Chemical Troops,Railway Troops,Radio-radar Troops, Long Waves,topographic) Ivan Petrovich Luginin, was the 3rd child in the family. He grew up without a father, since his father, Pyotr Dmitrievich Luginin, died in the 1st World War in February 1916. From early childhood he learned all the hardships of peasant labor: he plowed and sowed, prepared fodder for livestock, mastered many crafts, without which one cannot live in a village. In September 1936, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army by the Kotelnichesky RKK for active service, where he acquired the specialty of a driver-mechanic. He served in Siberia in a chemical platoon. In December 1938, after serving, he returned home. He immediately became involved in peasant work. Soon he began to work as a tractor driver on a wheeled tractor. On June 24, 1941, my father was mobilized to the front. He was the driver of a chemical warfare vehicle in a separate chemical battalion (OCB). On November 7, 1941, he took the oath of office at the 36th separate chemical defense battalion. From May 1942 he continued his combat path in the 14th separate chemical battalion. On May 9, 1945, the war was not over for him. Their 14th separate chemical defense battalion was deployed to the Far East. After the end of the war with Japan on October 22, 1945, he was demobilized. But he did not stay at home for long, since after chemical poisoning (his participation in the Japanese war lasted only 9 days, and then, chemical poisoning and a military hospital) on October 22, he was demobilized and sent to the Gorky hospital to continue treatment. He drove home for a few days (he did not tell his family about the departure, but reported about a short vacation),left for the city of Gorky and returned home only in February 1946, after treatment in one of the Gorky hospitals (there was a certificate from the hospital about the treatment, but at the end of the 60s it disappeared somewhere, the father said that he gave it to the district hospital when he was given a disability group .) Began to work on a collective farm. In the fall of 1946 he was elected chairman of the Kuraevsky collective farm. In this position he worked until 1951, when small collective farms began to enlarge. In different years he was both a foreman and a groom. He did carpentry, was a joiner, beat off the braids of collective farmers, mending home shoes, even learned how to roll felt boots for household members. I also sewed sheepskin coats and quilts for myself, breeches. Many asked him to sew the same for them. In the winter, he left for several weeks to harvest timber for the state. They prepared in advance for the trip to the plot: they baked bread and dried crackers, frozen milk and sour cream. In 1960, after moving to the village of Cherpaki in the Svechinsky District, he began to work as a driver in a ZIL-5 car at the Krasnaya Zarya collective farm. After the transfer of the lands of the Cherpaki village from the collective farm to the Kotelnichesky feed-lot farm (in 1965), my father began to work as a tractor driver on a DT-54 tractor. In 1968 he moved to the urban-type settlement Svecha. His health deteriorated, and he was taken to the disability group. I got a job as a watchman in the Svechinsky cattle. Overwork from childhood and service in the chemical troops affected health. In 1980, after a long illness at the age of 65, his father died of pulmonary (one lung was removed in the mid-70s) and heart failure.

CITY: rep. Tatarstan, Buinsk DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1916 DATE OF DEATH: 09/22/1942 HISTORY: My grandfather, Vladimir Georgievich Lapshin was born in 1916 in the Republic of Tatarstan, the city of Buinsk. He studied at the Kazan Military Aviation School and in 1940, after graduation, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant of the Air Force of the Red Army. He continued his service in the Leningrad Region, where his wife later came. Before the start of the war, his family was evacuated to the city of Kanash. In my grandmother's home archive, I found a photograph, on the back of which, by the hand of my grandfather, it was written: "Before the Patriotic War of 1941. Fascism will be defeated." In May 1942, he was sent to an aircraft factory in the city of Kazan to receive a new Pe-2 aircraft. The route passed through the Kanash station, where his wife and nine-month-old daughter lived. This was their last meeting. The following news came from the Trans-Baikal Military District, (railway named after Molotov, station Borzya 100, PO Box 476 Letter B). In his letter, lieutenant of the assault link Vladimir Lapshin said that now they were being sent to the south. As it turned out later, it was the Stalingrad front. On September 21, 1942, in one of the battles in the skies over Stalingrad, after completing a combat mission, the plane was damaged and caught fire. The crew managed to land the burning plane on their territory. On September 22, 1942, in a field hospital, at the age of 26, Air Force Lieutenant Vladimir Georgievich Lapshin died of II-III degree burns. In the notice to his mother it was written: he was burned and died of burns, September 22, 1942 in the field mobile evacuation hospital No. 4187 buried in the town Leninsk, Volgograd region. There is information that Lapshin Vladimir Georgievich, fought in the 62nd Army, 765th Rifle Regiment, with the rank of lieutenant of the assault link. The memory of our loved one, who gave us a peaceful sky, lives with us.

CITY: Pereyaslovka village, Rybinsk district, Krasnoyarsk Territory DATE OF BIRTH: 10/07/1916 DATE OF DEATH: 08/26/1982 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 119th Infantry Division (1st Formation). On May 30, 1941, he was drafted from the reserve of the 1st category by the Rybinsk (Krasnoyarsk Territory) Regional Military Commissariat, to the 119 personnel division, arrived at the front on July 1, 1941, the 119 division 421sp 3rd machine gun company, the first number of the heavy machine gun (in the area of Rzhev) North-Western Front. During heavy defensive battles, he received his first wound in the shoulder. Discharged from the hospital, sent to 232 separate reconnaissance company of the 54th army. In one of the raids on the KV-1 tank, they broke into the location of the Germans, captured three fascists and took them to the headquarters. Later he received a second wound. After recovering, he was sent to Leningrad, 142nd SD 588sp. First, they built fortifications: they dug tank-cuts, trenches. Then they returned to the regimental intelligence. During preparations for the offensive, the command set the reconnaissance missions to make passes through the fascist barbed wire. The task was completed, but the Germans discovered them and brought down mortar and machine gun fire. One of the mines exploded a few meters from the father, shrapnel tore off both hands. Lost a lot of blood, unconscious was picked up by orderlies and taken to a hospital in Leningrad. Then he was taken out by water from Leningrad to Ufa. Three fingers of the left hand (from the middle to the little finger) and the first phalanx of the fingers of the right hand were amputated. On November 30, 1942, he was discharged from the military register. He returned to his native village, restored the national economy: he was first the chairman of the collective farm, then the commissioner for grain procurement. In 1961, the family moved first to Zaozerny, and in 1963 to Krasnoyarsk-45, where dad worked as a storekeeper at the construction of the Electrochemical Plant. Later he moved to the same position in the city's motor transport company, where he worked until he retired. He died in 1982. He was buried in his native village.

CITY: Deryabka village, Tokayevsky district, Voronezh region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/21/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 02/04/1983 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Division: 72nd Guards Rifle Krasnograd Red Banner Division. I, Meshalkin Dmitry Sergeevich, a student of the 4th grade of the Municipal Budgetary General Education Institution "Sholokhov gymnasium, village Veshenskaya", I want to tell you about my great-grandfather, Levtsov Boris Kondratievich, born in 1924. He was a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in August 1942 as a line signalman. The great-grandfather's responsibilities included laying telephone lines and restoring damaged communications on the front line. It was a very difficult, dangerous and responsible mission. Boris Kondratyevich fought on the Kursk Bulge during the liquidation of the German offensive in the summer of 1943. As part of the Steppe Front, he acted in the Belgorod-Kharkov operation in August 1943, as a result of which, with his participation, the city of Kharkiv was liberated. In early September 1943 he took an active part in the crossing of the Dnieper River. According to the stories that have come down to me, these were very eerie and intense battles. While crossing the Dnieper, a large number of our soldiers perished, the water turned brown. It was scary to be in the thick of those events, but this feeling came later, and at that moment all thoughts were occupied with giving the enemy a worthy rebuff. First of all, uninterrupted communication had to function. This is exactly what Boris Kondratyevich provided. Ultimately, the operation was completed successfully. My great-grandfather and his division as part of the 7th Guards Army under the command of Colonel-General M.S. Shumilov. went first to the state border, made a successful crossing of the Carpathians. His front lines passed through Moldova, Romania. With his participation were taken on February 13, 1945, Budapest, on April 4, 1945, Bratislava. The news of the victory over the Nazis came to my great-grandfather when he was in Czechoslovakia. In the early morning of May 8, 1945, heavy non-stop shooting and some kind of noise were heard. Together with their comrades, they ran out of hiding to find out what was happening. The spring dawn was illuminated with bright flashes of guns and shouts of glee from the soldiers: “Hurray! Hurray! Victory!!!" There was no need to explain anything else, everything was clear as it is! What we have been going for four long years has finally come true! We won! My great-grandfather carried the memories of these happy moments throughout his life. For military merits in the war, Boris Kondratyevich, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Generalissimo I.V. Stalin, was given a Gratitude. He was awarded: - two medals “For Courage” in February and September 1944, - a medal “For Victory over Germany” on May 9, 1945, - a medal “For the Liberation of Prague”. I am very proud of my great-grandfather Boris Kondratyevich Levtsov. It is a pity that I was not lucky enough to see him. But the exploits of our great-grandfathers will live forever!

CITY: s. Yudikha, Tyumentsevsky District, Altai Territory DATE OF BIRTH: 11/17/1906 DATE OF DEATH: 07/10/1971 HISTORY: Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops .My father Lobanov Nazar Kuzmich's father died early Kuzma and mother Paraskovya, leaving the young Afanasy, Nazar and Mareya, were raised by their grandmother Domna Fadeevna and grandfather Andron. Lobanov Nazar Kuzmich, born on November 17, 1906, was drafted to the front in 1941 by the Tyumentsev RRK in the ranks of the Red Army as a private soldier, one of the first from the village of Kiprino, and together with his brother Afanasy were sent to a transit point in Saratov. After that, their paths parted and never crossed again. My father fought on the Stalingrad front, he said “the sky was not visible because of the flying German planes, there was a continuous hum, the soldiers, quickly dug their way into the ground with whatever they could, dug trenches, the ground was burning underfoot, only the sounds of“ zip, whack, whack "- these were mines falling on the heads of defenseless soldiers. The Volga was overflowing with the bodies of Russian, German soldiers, the water boiled from exploding shells and was red from the blood of the dead soldiers. Nazar Kuzmich with a wagon train brought ammunition to the front line. He had two horses: Sergo and Kaury, he loved them very much and, when he had the opportunity, fed them with a rusk or a piece of sugar. The cart was loaded, and they went to the front line. Sometimes everything went well, but often the Messerschmitts chased them, when the planes dropped mines on the train, the father took his horses by the bridle and ran with them. If there was a forest nearby - to the forest or bushes, and if there was not - they lay down in a rut, and he was next to the horses, but there were people among the Germans too. The pilots, seeing how a small man saves not himself, but his horses, low, on a shave, flew over him and flew to their bases, but one day they threw mines. Three planes flew to the base, and one chased his father's carriage and dropped a mine. One horse, Serko, was killed, his father's finger on his right hand - a ring finger- was torn off. A splinter from a mine hit the chest, and there it stuck on the main artery of the heart. The father was taken to the hospital, the finger was sewn up on his hand, but the splinter remained in his chest, because there was no way to remove it. In the hospital, my father lay for a long time, one day a military doctor came to them and said “lie down, don't get up, now Zhukov will come to you” after a while the door opened and Zhukov entered. Father was lying far away against the wall, Zhukov greeted everyone nearby, shook hands, wished everyone a speedy recovery and left. All the wounded were in a good mood that they were not forgotten. Stalin also came to the front line, his father did not see him, but said that he went down into the trenches and encouraged the soldiers with the words “be strong, victory will be ours!” After he recovered, his father was given another carriage and sent to the 3rd Belorussian Front in the Vitebsk direction. He was awarded medals "For Military Merit" and "For Courage". Near Berlin, the unit was disbanded and the father went with his horses to the collective farm, handed over the horses and the cart. He said goodbye to them for a long time: as soon as he was hiding behind the hillock, they rushed after him with a laugh. This was repeated three times. Then the chairman said "live with them in the meadow, let them get used to a peaceful life." Father went to the meadows, he took a break from the peals of the battle, and they got used to it, but as soon as a thunderstorm began, wherever they wandered, they ran, pressing their ears, to their father and immediately lay down on the ground, and at night the horses lay down with their backs to each other, so that the father could lie among them, and warm him with his body, so they slept together throughout the war. A week later, my father came to the village, tied the horses to a leash and walked away. As soon as he disappeared, the horses began to tear, laugh, rears up with tears in their eyes, with a pain in his heart, father parted with his Serko and Kaurym, with whom he went through the whole war.

DATE OF BIRTH: 05.03.1907 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: My grandfather, Nikolai Lugovtsov, started the war early in the morning on June 22, 1941 as a young officer. If it was not for the commander of the air forces of the Odessa district, contrary to the order not to succumb to provocations, did not raise, risking his head, in alarm his subordinate units, then it is completely unknown whether the first day of the war would be the last for grandfather. And so he fought happily ever after, got out of the encirclement near Kiev (by the way, more of ours got there than the Germans at Stalingrad), received the first Order of the Red Star in December 1941 (during the period when they were shot much more than they were awarded). Judging by the data of the then front-line press, he hijacked our plane under the fire of Nazi soldiers, which had made an emergency landing on a no-man's land shortly before. Now his numerous orders and medals have been inherited by me. Among others there are medals "For the capture of Berlin" (Berlin surrendered on May 2, 1945), "For the liberation of Prague" (May 9). How did I guess to ask my elderly grandfather where he celebrated Victory Day? "In Vienna, I slept in a drained fountain in the square in front of the Vienna City Hall." After the war, grandfather's regiment was transferred to Bulgaria. The officers were allowed to discharge the family from the evacuation. This is how my mother finished 10th grade in Sofia. After leaving school, she had no choice but to try her luck at the university center closest to Bulgaria. In 1947, she entered the Odessa Medical Institute and witnessed the events, quite truthfully, in her opinion, shown in the film "Liquidation".

CITY: khutor Lukachevka DATE OF BIRTH: 06/03/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 06/07/1995 HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 397th Infantry Session Order of Kutuzov Division. The older generation of Malakeevites remembers Nikolai Iosifovich Laktionov, who in 1956-58 worked as the secretary of the party committee, and then until 1964 as chairman of the Sverdlov collective farm. He was a very energetic person, he took care of the collective farm business, because he himself was from the peasants. After the end of the war, he served in the 100th separate reconnaissance company of the rifle division, was deputy platoon commander. Senior sergeant, a former front line intelligence officer, he was in good standing with the command of the military unit, he was offered to stay in the service. But family circumstances got in the way: they wrote from home how difficult life is in the hungry post-war years. It was a pity for my mother (my father died at the front), who herself had to raise her family. Therefore, Nikolai Iosifovich returned home - to the Lukichevka farm, where he was born in June 1923 and raised in a peasant family. There was almost no childhood. He graduated from the 7th grade of the Malakeevskaya school, then - the Facrory and Works educational school and worked at a mine in Donbass. And in August 1941 the Red Army was drafted. On an autumn November day, Nikolai walked from the regional center of Nikitovka home to Lukichevka, carrying a full suitcase of groceries and army gifts to his relatives. A soldier walked and recalled his front-line roads of the Great Patriotic War, which he walked in four years. As an eighteen-year-old boy, he got to the front, fought, sparing his life, was wounded four times, but survived. He fought in the infantry. At first he was a machine gunner of the 40th rifle regiment. The young soldier received his baptism of fire in the battles near Moscow. Then he fought in the Kalinin region. On May 19, 1942, in a battle near the city of Staraya Russa, he was seriously wounded. After the hospital - the front again. He got into a platoon of the Antitank Rifle 448 infantry regiment, soon became the commander of the weapons crew. In one of the battles he knocked out a German tank from an anti-tank gun, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. After treating the second wound, in January 1943, Nikolai Iosifovich fought in the 397th rifle division in an anti-tank rifle platoon. In May 1943, after treating a wound in the leg, he returned to his regiment, got into divisional reconnaissance. In a short time he studied a marching radio station, mastered the Morse code. So in the 545th separate reconnaissance company he served until the end of the war. His combat path ran from the Kursk Bulge to the Elbe. More than once he had to go to the rear of the enemy for the "tongue." Together with the reconnaissance group, he participated in the capture of about 40 "tongues". Once in Belarus, the intelligence officer took an important "tongue" - the commander of a cavalry regiment, who had valuable information. For this he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In Poland, the reconnaissance group captured three "tongues" at once, and not ordinary soldiers, but officers. They gave valuable information to the command of the division. For this operation, Nikolai Iosifovich received the Order of Glory of the third degree. And for crossing the Oder River on January 31, 1945, he was awarded the Order of Glory, second degree. Many times the brave intelligence officers looked death in the face. Once (this was in Germany) the intelligence officers were looking for a house to live in. One of them went to check the house. They waited, waited, but he was not there. The commander sent Nikolai to find out what was the matter. Laktionov entered the house, and immediately someone shot him with a pistol. The bullet hit the neck. Already falling, Nikolai caught a glimpse of the gunman. It was a German officer in civilian clothes. When I woke up, I saw a dead comrade lying next to me. Bleeding, Nikolai went out into the courtyard and saw the same German officer sitting in the park. Pulling up the Shpagin subgun, he stitched it with a long burst of machine guns. Once again, Nikolai Iosifovich managed to avoid death. So, remembering his front line, about military affairs, and Nikolay got to his native village. The rest was short-lived. Already in December, he became the chairman of the Dolzhansky general store, and in 1952-54 - the director of the Nikitovskaya procurement office. Then she studied at the trade and cooperative school in the city of Engels. After its completion, a soldier, order bearer, and besides, a member of the CPSU (b) since July 1943, N.I. Laktionov was promoted to party work. He was elected secretary of the party committee of the enlarged Khrushchev collective farm. When this collective farm was divided into two, N.I. Laktionov was elected chairman of the new collective farm named after Sverdlov. These were the years of the establishment of the economy, the improvement of the welfare of its workers. From June 1, 1965, Nikolai Iosifovich again worked in trade - as deputy chairman of the regional consumer union, director of the Veidelevsky RTO. And when he left for a well-deserved rest, he bore the title; - personal pensioner of local importance. In all leading positions, N.I. Laktionov showed himself to be a skillful leader, a decent, modest person.

CITY: Krasnye Pochinki village, Bolshe-Tarkhansk region, Tatar ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1911 DATE OF DEATH: 02/05/1945 HISTORY: Title: Junior lieutenant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. The very next day after the liberation of Torun, a fatal battle took place. As a result of the battle, the commander of the 136th division introduced N.K. Lapaev. posthumously to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Description of the feat from the Award list: “The crew of Lieutenant Lapaev distinguished themselves in the battles during the liquidation of the Thorn group in the area of ​​the village of Ostrometsko and to the north of it in the forest. 02/02/1945, the crew as part of the battery, supporting the offensive of the infantry of the 342nd rifle regiment, was the first to break into the village, fearlessly destroying the firing points and enemy personnel with self-propelled gun fire. In a continuous three-hour battle, the crew destroyed: 3 machine guns, two 37 mm anti-aircraft cannons, 7 enemy vehicles and self-propelled guns, and up to 70 Nazi invaders. During the battle with the enemy self-propelled gun, the car was burned, the crew was surrounded by German machine gunners, dismounting from the burning self-propelled gun Lapaev. Dokuchaev, Kholodovsky and Naazvanov, despising death, continued to fight with grenades and machine guns in their hands. Three times the Germans counterattacked the crew of daredevils and each time they had heavy losses and rolled back. Having fired all the cartridges, used up all the grenades and laid up to 50 Hitlerites around them, the crew died in battle a heroic death for their exceptional fortitude in battle and loyalty to the Socialist Motherland. Comrade Lapaev is posthumously worthy of the Government award for conferring the title "HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION". The order was signed by the division commander and the army commander, a positive conclusion was issued by the Army Military Council, the Front Military Council and the Award Commission. However, the Military Council of the Front made a decision on awarding on June 5, 1945, a month after the end of the war, and Lapaev N.K. posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

CITY: village Lasch-Tayaba, Yalchik region, Chuvash Republic DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1953 HISTORY: Nikolai Leontyev was born in 1910 in the village of Lasch-Tayaba, Yalchik region, Chuvash Republic in a simple peasant family. Since childhood, he was a hardworking boy. After his father died in 1921 (it was a hungry year), the whole household fell on his shoulders. He was the only man in the family. He had two sisters: Valentina and Olga. Kolya worked in the field: plowing, sowing, weeding potatoes, harvesting. He was tall, slender and handsome. His eyes were blue and his hair was blond. He married his beloved girlfriend Valentina. Before the war, they had children Marya, Vasily, Olya, Zoya. Nikolai volunteered for the front in 1941. He fought in besieged Leningrad. According to him: “The city was surrounded by German invaders, planes flew everywhere, dropped bombs. Our half-starved soldiers fought against the Nazis without sparing their strength and lives. Houses were destroyed. Hunger mowed down the exhausted Leningraders. There was no one to bury the people who died from hunger and cold: there were no healthy citizens among the blockade ... ”Nikolai fought bravely, he destroyed several dozen German fascists. Was injured. After several months spent in the hospital, he returned back to his unit. How did you stay alive? He doesn't know himself. He says that God saved him. After all, at every step he could “catch” a bullet, be blown up by a mine ... Nikolai said: “There are no cats, no dogs, no birds left in the city, either they have eaten everything, or everything has died out. The corpses of people were in apartments, houses. They were not tolerated or buried. They received for them (as if they were alive) rations, bread made of flour with sawdust to maintain the soul and body, 200-300 grams per day. Water for drinking was taken from the holes in the asphalt that appeared after the shelling. People, eating bread from sawdust and drinking water from puddles, often died with wild pain in the stomach and a crooked smile on their lips ... ”Upon returning home from Leningrad (after the liberation of the city), Nicholas, a soldier exhausted from battles and hunger, was fed by Russian women with semolina , dairy products, thus raised to their feet. One woman begged to stay. Nikolai thought about his family and children all the time. I came home safe and sound. It was such a rarity at the time. He had medals "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Unfortunately, they have not survived to this day. After the war, Nikolai worked on a collective farm, built a house, and raised children. In 1948, his son Volodya was born, three years later another son, Kolya. But Nikolai did not have a chance to bring up and raise them. In 1953, due to old wounds, he fell seriously ill and suddenly passed away.

CITY: Stavropol Territory Blagodarnensky District, village Alexandria DATE OF BIRTH: 01/21/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 05/01/1985 HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant. Type of troops: Engineering troops. Division: 103rd Infantry Division (1st Formation). On June 24, 1941, the Blagodarny Regional military Commissariat of the Stavropol Territory, his father was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and, as part of the 688 Specialist subunit of the 103rd Infantry Division, was sent to the Western Front. During the battles for Yelnya, my father was wounded in his right leg and was sent to hospital No. 2040. According to his father, the battles for Yelnya were the most terrible time of the entire war. In February 1942, my father was enrolled in the 903 specialist subunit of the 242 rifle division of the 2nd formation, which, according to the Directive of the Supreme Command Headquarters No. 170220 dated 04/05/1942, was included in the reserve of the Supreme Command and sent to Stalingrad, but in May 1942 it entered composition of the 38th Army and took part in the Kharkov operation, near the city of Volchansk. In August 1942, his father was enrolled in the 215th separate road construction battalion, and he took part in the Battle of Stalingrad. In August 1943, his father was enrolled in 398 Specialist Subunit 118 Rifle division, which was part of the 28 Army of the Southern Front, and he took part in the Miusskaya and Melitopol operations. On October 1, 1943, my father was wounded in the arm and was included in the lists of personnel losses as killed in the area of Zeleny Lug. October-November 1943 was in hospital No. 2343. The 118th Infantry Division became known as the 118th Melitopol Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Infantry Division. In March 1944, my father was again enlisted in the 215th ODSB, which on October 6, 1944 was included in the 14th Army of the Karelian Front, and took part in the Petsamo-Kirkenes offensive operation. I am not aware of my father's participation in hostilities in Manchuria, nevertheless, he received a commendation from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." In the documents of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, he found the fact that his father was awarded the medal "For Courage" by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 223/127 of 06.11.1947, but until his death, his father did not know about this award. I received it in 2015.

CITY: v. Ashurkovo Izdeshkovsky district of the Smolensk region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/30/1923 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant. Type of troops: artillery. Before the war, she studied at an agricultural college in the Smolensk region. She moved to Moscow to live with her parents in 1941. I would like to remember the beginning of the war. I was uploading the third year of the Western Basic Agricultural College, I had one exam to pass when they heard the declaration of war. So we did not pass the exam. By the way, my older brother studied there, and the guys the day before received diplomas of graduation from the technical school, and the next day they were mobilized into the army, and already in May 1943 a funeral came for my brother. A few days later we were taken by truck to the Dnieper. There, on the left bank of the river, in the rear of our troops, we dug an anti-tank ditch, more than three meters deep. We lived in sheds, worked in two or three shifts. They brought us food by car. We, students, worked not far from the bridge over the Dnieper (Western Front, Vyazemskaya line of defense). They worked, it seems, in the rear of the 16th army of the personnel Transcaucasian division. The officers assured us that the German tanks would not pass this ditch. How many German planes flew over our heads! Bombs, lighters fell, leaflets fell and fell. They said that our work was in vain, Moscow would still be German. It’s hard to remember when we dug the moat,me, a seventeen-year-old girl, was deciding what to do next. Of course, go to Moscow to my parents. I still remember what was said around: Moscow was bombed, and the population was evacuated. Somehow I got to Vyazma. Tickets to Moscow were given only according to Moscow documents. I stood in a long line, but they didn't give me a ticket. I again stood at the back of the line. What I hoped for is unclear. Shells burst all around, fires blazed, screams and groans were everywhere, me, hungry, was in someone's detached state. But my hope was justified. A teacher of our technical school accidentally saw me in the queue. He, already a military officer, traveled for an appointment and transported his family. He took me a ticket as a nanny of his children. What a joy it was when I saw Moscow almost unchanged. Of course it became stern, she was all in disguise, but her parents were safe and sound. Soon I was again mobilized to build fortifications in the Khimki area. It's strange to remember now, but while you get from Khimki to Maryina Roshcha, where I lived, they will announce three or four times, then alarms, then hang-ups. You’ll get home by morning, and an hour later you’ll go to work again. During alarms, transport stopped. Then she worked for a short time at a garment factory, sewing underwear for the army. We worked in shifts day and night. You fall asleep at a sewing machine, sew a finger with a needle, wake up from pain, go to the first-aid post (he was right in the shop), help and go to work again. In early April 1942, she was mobilized by the Oktyabrsky District Military Commissariat of Moscow on the recommendation of the District Komsomol Committee. She passed a medical examination at the regional military registration and enlistment office and instead of a passport received a summons to the Red Army. They said that our recruitment was the first official Komsomol recruitment of girls. We were sent to the 193rd Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment to defend Moscow on April 6, 1942. Conditions in the army for girls were initially somewhat different from those for men. For example, we were given 600 grams of bread each, men for as much as 800. Boots are two or three more numbers. But soon everything returned to normal - we became equal soldiers. Very soon they mastered the work on anti-aircraft fire control devices and replaced the men with these numbers. I had the best stereoscopic vision, and I became a stereoscopist (rangefinder). There were four of us in the calculation. The device increased the target by 24 times, so our data for firing guns at German aircraft were the main ones. We determined the type of aircraft, flight range, flight angle and transmitted it to the anti-aircraft fire control device (AAFCE). When the Nazi planes were not visible, the data was given from the command post, and we still observed, focusing on sounds, or illuminated with searchlights. I remember the first baptism of fire. Night, a heavy rumbling rumble with interruptions is heard. The target is not visible. In such cases, they fired at the command post data. From above, shell fragments fall like hail. The planes never reached Moscow and dropped their deadly cargo somewhere. How many such days and nights were there with visible and invisible goals! It was very annoying when a reconnaissance aircraft was flying at an altitude of 11-12 km, and the guns could effectively hit targets only up to an altitude of 9,600 m. But the bombers did not rise to such a height. And how much joy there was ... A heavy German bomber is flying. We observe, giving the coordinates of the flight. At a certain distance, when approaching Moscow, our anti-aircraft guns begin to work, and you look: the plane will circle, circle and fly back, dropping its cargo somewhere, not reaching Moscow. I don't remember a single case when a fascist vulture flew through our security zone. And how many of them, "under-flight", turned home! The intelligence officers flew many times at high altitudes, and here we were powerless, we could only observe whether they would suddenly lower the altitude in order to transmit the command to destroy them. German aircraft flew to Moscow in small and large groups, at different altitudes. It seemed that some were flying away, others were arriving. Sometimes during breaks it was possible to eat. All the time they lived in dugouts. Dampness, cold. We were sure to escort for visible targets. Sometimes they lowered the altitude, this was noticeable in winter. You catch the target with the eyepieces of the device and watch it for hours, especially the reconnaissance target; it is impossible to tear off the eyepieces, the entire nasopharynx freezes. I would like to remember the first fireworks. It is a pity that I do not remember which city was liberated. The battery received an order: the gunners with guns to arrive at the disposal of the command of the Moscow Military District. Only the instructors and the utility unit remained. We said goodbye to our boys from the gun crew (all of them were conscripts who had not served a little due to the outbreak of the war). They thought that they were being sent to the front line, since the army had already gone on the offensive. In the evening we hear a fireworks display, and a few hours later our guns returned with crews. Then our 6th battery always went to the fireworks. Combat German aircraft, reconnaissance aircraft flew almost until the end of the war, apparently, it was difficult for them to come to terms with the fact that Moscow remained undefeated. Moscow found itself under the reliable protection of anti-aircraft gunners and fighter pilots. The heavy fire of our anti-aircraft guns, the ability to conduct aimed fire - all this served to save Moscow from great destruction, to preserve our beloved capital. It is not for nothing that our division, the first of the anti-aircraft artillery divisions, was awarded the title of the Guards. Our division remained to protect Moscow until the end of the war. I served in it until the end of the war. She was demobilized in July 1945 with the rank of junior sergeant of the guard. During the war, parents worked in the manufacture of concrete structures for the construction of defensive fortifications. Soon my father was mobilized into the 302nd Separate City Battalion of the Moscow Air Defense Forces, where he served until May 17, 1945. Finally, the long-awaited Victory came. It is impossible to describe the joy with which we greeted the Victory salute! Now, after many years, it is still impossible to understand why it so happened that the Germans could bypass our fortifications on the Dnieper, surrounding several armies and divisions, and take hundreds of thousands of our soldiers and officers prisoner, from where the reports were taken that Moscow was bombed and etc. War. How much sorrow and suffering it brings! People who start wars probably have nothing human. Only in our little family did a brother die in the prime of his life, a sick father came from the war and soon died, and where I studied, everything was destroyed by the Germans, and therefore it was impossible to restore educational documents. And how I wanted to learn! But we loved the Motherland and did everything to win, sparing no effort. “The life of every soldier belongs to the Fatherland,” said the appeal of the Military Council of the Western Front, and we honorably performed our military duty. With great difficulty, through the teachers of the agricultural technical school in the ministry, she received a certificate of education and in 1961 she graduated with honors from the All-Union Correspondence College of Light Industry. In the same year, I was admitted to the All-Union Correspondence Institute of Textile and Light Industry without exams, but I could not graduate. She worked all her life, the last 25 years - at a fur factory. In August 1945, she married her commander Mikhail Kuzmich, Lyuev. We lived with him in good agreement for more than 55 years. He was a very kind person. He died in 2001. Blessed memory of him! And then our great-granddaughter was born.

CITY: Khokhlovka village Mikhailovsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 12/19/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 11/10/2014 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 102nd Infantry Division (2nd Formation). The hero of my story is my grandfather, Lazarev Nikolai Petrovich, who fought at the front during the Great Patriotic War. Imagine a man who is almost 95 years old, who recalled the war with great pain ... And who died on November 10, 2014, and his memory is very alive ... This is my grandfather Nikolai Petrovich Lazarev, who was born in 1920 year in the small village of Khokhlovka in our district. Now it may seem strange to someone, but at that time he had 12 children in his family. They did not live richly, father Pyotr Samoilovich was considered a literate person in the village, so he was elected chairman of the village council and chairman of the Progress collective farm in the village of Vysokoe. My grandfather was the eldest child in the family and with all this he managed to get a secondary education. But I didn't have to study further, I had to help my family and work at a cement plant in the village of Oktyabrsky. He helped his parents as best he could, but in the fall of 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army as a border guard in the 56th Annunciation Red Banner Border Guard Detachment in the Far East. You can write a whole story about all his life affairs, for which he has a lot of gratitude, he told us to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren more than once how hard it was in the future. There, in the Far East, Grandpa and his comrades learned about the attack of the German invaders, about how the Nazis invaded our country, bombing and robbing. It became especially scary when it became known that the Germans had captured our city of Mikhailov ... My soul was torn with pain and fear for my mother, father, sisters and brothers, loved ones, relatives ... Everyone wanted to quickly get to the front and fight against the Germans, expel them from our land. And such a time has come, in the Far East in December 1942, the 102nd rifle division was formed to help the Western Front. The Mikhailovsky border guards entered it, including my grandfather, who was a very young 20-year-old guy. The 102nd Infantry Division of the 70th Army arrived in wagons by rail to the large village of Ponyri, near the city of Kursk. During the war, my grandfather was a soldier, and then a sergeant and liaison of the battalion commander. Once he was returning from a mission and heard a deafening noise from a German tank behind him, the bastard was not shooting, but slowly crawling after him ... He saw a small hole in front and jumped into it, and the tank kept going and going straight at him .. " It's all over for me .. ", - thought my grandfather .. And then the tank drove over him .. A terrible pain pierced the whole body, but he was not frightened and with terrible anger he grabbed a grenade and threw it into the tank. The tank stopped with a knocked out gear. My grandfather jumped onto the tank and shouted “Get out, you bastards!” And pointed his machine gun at the Germans. The Germans did not expect him to be alive and shook with fear. Then our soldiers heard the noise from a grenade and ran to his aid. This is how my grandfather captured a German tank. And he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for this. The command was preparing materials on awarding him the rank of officer, but then he was seriously wounded near the Kursk Bulge and he was written off from the front due to his injury. He distinguished himself more than once in battles and was awarded the Order of the "Patriotic War of the First Degree", medals "For Courage", "For Victory over Germany." After being wounded, he was treated for a long time in the Ryazan hospital. And after being discharged by the decision of the District Committee of the Party and the Komsomol, he was sent to work in the editorial office of the Oktyabrskaya district newspaper "Soviet Patriot". From this he began his career. Then in 1946, after preparatory courses at the Moscow House of Journalists with the help of teachers from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, he was approved as editor, where he worked for 10 years. And in 1956, the Oktyabrsky settlement was liquidated and transferred to the jurisdiction of the Mikhailovsky district, at that time he was appointed deputy editor of the newspaper "Zvezda", where he worked for more than 45 years ... Subsequently, he worked as head of the department of letters and newspapers until 1984 before leaving on retire. In 1944 he married Nina Vasilievna Mysina, a former worker at the Spartak cement plant. During the war, as an eighteen-year-old girl who had just graduated from school, she extinguished with honors the rockets on the roof of the factory, which the Germans dropped from planes to blow up the factory. Before her eyes, her close friend was torn apart by a fugasca. They raised and raised three children: Anatoly, Valentina and Svetlana. Grandfather and grandmother survived everything in those distant times: both hunger and cold, but the war tempered them forever. My grandmother died exactly six months later, on the same day and at the same hour ... May 10, 2015 .. They remain for us a living example of real decency, and how they loved our Russia! All her pains and troubles were taken to heart, sincerely glad that it became a little easier for people to live. I want to learn a lot from my loved ones, they are an example for all of us!

CITY: Proskurovo (now Khmelnitsky), Vinnitsa region, Ukraine DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1911 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Daughter's story Esther M. Shmukler (Litvak) “My dad Litvak Moisha Fishelevich was born in 1911 in Proskurovo (now Khmelnitsky), Vinnytsia region, Ukraine. At the age of 4, Moisha lost his mother. There are four children left in the family and their father and aunt (mother's own sister) Moishe were engaged in raising them. Soon the whole family moved to live in Kherson, where Moisha graduated from high school, and then from the Metallurgical College. In Kherson, the young man Moisha met my mother and on February 14, 1937 they got married and moved to live in the city of Kazan at the invitation of a friend. Moishe Litvak got a job at the chemical plant. V.I. Lenin. When the war began, my parents had two children. Moyshe Litvak was given a reservation, but he went to the military registration and enlistment office and voluntarily went to the front. In February 1942, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle platoon of the 286th rifle regiment of the 90th rifle division of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front. He broke through the blockade of Leningrad. I remember the story of how the father raised the son of the regiment. Once, after the battle, Moyshe Fishelevich went to the headquarters to report on the conduct of a military operation. And he gave the order to his fellow soldiers to return to the place of deployment. As the soldiers walked across the field, they heard children crying among the killed people. After searching, the soldiers found a little boy 2 years old under the body of a murdered woman. The fighters took the boy with them. When Moyshe Fishelevich returned from the headquarters to the company, he heard a child's voice, so he learned about the boy. And the boy became the son of the regiment. The boy spent the whole war in a company under the command of his father. And after the war, the boy was taken by one of the soldiers. In January 1943, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle platoon of the 286th rifle regiment of the 90th rifle division of the 55th Army of the Leningrad Front. In April 1943, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle company of the 289th rifle regiment of the 120th rifle division of the 67th Army of the Leningrad Front. In January 1944, Moisha Litvak was undergoing medical treatment in the evacuation hospital No. 1116 in Leningrad. In besieged Leningrad, his father received 4 wounds. From February 20, 1944, Moisha Litvak was promoted to senior lieutenant. In May 1944, Moisha Litvak was appointed commander of a rifle company of the 1259th rifle regiment of the 381st rifle division of the 2nd Shock Army. After the liberation of Leningrad, dad was transferred to the 2nd Belorussian Front. He fought in the lands of Finland and Poland. On the website "The feat of the people" there is a description of the feat of Moishe Litvak. On January 7, 1945, Moisha Litvak was very seriously wounded in the hip region, his liver was pierced and fragments remained. In addition, he was seriously wounded. In February 1945, Moisha Litvak was sent to the Kuibyshev hospital for recovery, and then on February 14 he was transferred to evacuation hospital No. 2783 in Kazan for recovery. Victory Day, May 9, 1945 Moisha Fishelevich Litvak met in Kazan.9 October 1945, Moisha Litvak was appointed head of the 4th unit of the Yudinsky RVK of the TASSR. In 1946 he was transferred to the reserve due to illness. Moishe Litvak has 4 daughters, 3 granddaughters and 1 grandson, 2 great-granddaughters, 2 great-great-grandchildren. "

CITY: Kamyshinka village, Mariinsky district, Kemerovo region DATE OF BIRTH: 03/25/1924 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Senior Lieutenant Type of troops: Artillery Unit: 167th Infantry Division (1st formation) News of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Guryevich met in the city of Guryevsk, where the Lazarev family lived by that time. Immediately, he and a few other classmates went to the city military registration and enlistment office to sign up as volunteers for the front, but the boys who had just graduated from the tenth year were refused, recommending to come up in a year. For almost a year, Misha Lazarev worked at the Guryev Metallurgical Plant, replacing his father, who had gone to the front by that time. And in 1942, in the direction of the military registration and enlistment office, he went to study at the Tomsk Artillery School, which he graduated in 1943. He began his service in the active army as the commander of a platoon of "forty-fives" of the 465th regiment of the 167th rifle division on the Voronezh front. In 1943, as part of the rifle division, Mikhail Lazarev participated in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, participated in the liberation of Kiev, Drohobych, Uzhgorod, crossed the Dnieper. He is a direct participant in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation. Lazarev M.G. took part in the liberation of Poland. Mikhail Guryevich met the victory in Czechoslovakia as commander of an artillery battery. For the heroism shown in battles with the fascist invaders Lazarev M.G. was awarded five military orders: two Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the war, until 1948, he took part in the routing of Ukrainian nationalist gangs. In 1950 Lazarev M.G. Graduated from Novosibirsk Law School, in 1958 - Moscow Law Institute. In 1951 he was elected a people's judge of the Anzhero-Sudzhensky city court of the Kemerovo region. Lazarev Mikhail Guryevich worked in the Anzhero-Sudzhensk city court for over 40 years, and of these 30 years he was elected chairman of the Anzhero-Sudzhensk city court. Until now, Anzhero-Sudzhensk remembers with kind words the former judge Mikhail Guryevich Lazarev for his humanity and justice. Mikhail Guryevich not only considered criminal and civil cases, but was also actively involved in educational work - evenings of questions and answers at enterprises, lecturing in labor collectives, visiting court sessions. For high performance in March 1967, Mikhail Guryevich, the first in Siberia, was awarded the honorary title "Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR." While on a well-deserved rest, Mikhail Guryevich was actively involved in social activities, was a member of the Council of Elders of the city of Anzhero-Sudzhensk and a member of the Anzhero-Sudzhensk branch of the All-Russian public organization of war and labor veterans, the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies. On August 19, 2013 Lazarev Mikhail Guryevich was awarded the Medal "Honorary Citizen of the Kemerovo Region".