Heroes and feats

CITY: Bryansk region from. Arkino HISTORY: Grigory Artemchenkov was born on April 25, 1923 in the village of Arkino (currently - Komarichsky district of the Bryansk region) into a working class family. Received an incomplete secondary education. In 1941 he was called up to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army by the Komarichsky District Military Commissariat. In 1942, Grigory Fedorovich graduated from the military aviation school of pilots in Stalingrad, received the rank of sergeant. Was sent to the 814th Fighter Aviation Regiment. Initially, he flew the British Hurricane fighters, and from October 1942 - the Yak-1. He took part in battles on the Southwest, 1st and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. He took part in the Stalingrad and Kursk battles, Voroshilovgrad, Izyum-Barvenkovskaya, Donbass operations, the battle for the Dnieper, Lvov-Sandomierz, Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian, Upper Silesian operations. Since July 1944, Grigory Fedorovich performed combat missions as part of a reconnaissance squadron, was subordinate directly to the command of the 2nd Guards Assault Air Corps. By February 20, 1945, he flew 340 sorties (of which 125 reconnaissance, 121 covering, 89 escorts, 5 assault). In 46 air battles he personally shot down 5 aircraft, in group 1, damaged 2 aircraft. During the attack, he destroyed 10 cars, 15 carts, 3 railway cars, 1 steam locomotive, 5 air defense points, blew up 2 ammunition depots, destroyed about 35 enemy soldiers and officers. By the spring of 1945, Guards Lieutenant Grigory Artemchenkov was the flight commander of the 106th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment of the 11th Guards Aviation Division of the 2nd Guards Attack Air Corps of the 2nd Air Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front. On April 4, 1945, he was wounded in an air accident and lost his leg. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 06/27/1945 For courage and personal heroism shown during the performance of combat missions, for 125 successful combat missions for reconnaissance and downed 5 enemy aircraft, the guard Lieutenant Grigory Artemchenkov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and medals "Gold Star". After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army, was a squadron adjutant in the ground service of the 106th Guards Fighter Regiment. In 1948, he retired with the rank of senior lieutenant.

CITY: Barguzinsky district of Buryatia DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1914 DATE OF DEATH: 05.11.1985 HISTORY: Timofey Semyonovich Arsentiev, a native of the Barguzinsky district of Buryatia, was called up for military service in September 1939 by the Barguzinsky Military Commissariat. While in military service, Timofey Semyonovich was called up for mobilization by the Yeravninsky Military Commissariat in October 1941, military unit 4001, was trained in the regimental school of cadets from 10/41 to 12/41. From 12/1941 to 4/1942 - squad commander, sergeant of the 210 motorized rifle regiment of the 82 motorized rifle division. From April 1942 to June 1943 - senior sergeant, weapons master of the 6th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 3rd Guards Motorized Rifle Division. In the period from 6/1943 to 10/1945, the guard senior sergeant Arsentiev was a weapons master of the 17th guards mechanized regiment. Demobilized on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.25.1945. After demobilization, he was registered with the Barguzin Military Commissariat. During his service Timofey Semyonovich Arsentiev was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, a medal "For Courage", a medal "For the Defense of Moscow", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. "," Order of the Patriotic War II degree "and other awards. The combat path of Timofei Semenovich Arsentiev was marked by thanks of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin for the crossing of the Oder River and the capture of the city of Coben on February 6, 1945, for the capture of the cities of Semmerfeld, Neustadt and the defeat of the enemy grouping south-west of the city of Opeln in March 1945, for the capture of the cities of Rotibor, Biskau, Cottbus, Luben and for joining the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front northwest of the city of Potstdam and the capture of the city of Keben in April 1945, as well as for the elimination of the enemy grouping southeast of Berlin and the capture of the capital of Germany on May 2, 1945, for the liberation of Prague on May 9, 1945. The front roads of the formations in which they happened to serve are presented in the Certificate of Appreciation of the Guard to Senior Sergeant Timofey Semyonovich Arsentiev, dated July 1945, signed by the Commander of the First Ukrainian Front, Marshal of the Soviet Union I. Konev, Member of the Front Military Council, Lieutenant General K. Krainyukov, Chief of the front headquarters of General of the Army I. Petrov. "Dear comrade! The Great Patriotic War is victoriously over. The Red Army in fierce battles with the German fascist invaders defended the honor, freedom and independence of our Motherland, provided millions of people with the opportunity to return from front life to peaceful creative labor. You are returning to your Motherland with VICTORY. harsh years of war You honestly fulfilled your patriotic duty - you served with dignity in the valiant troops of the First Ukrainian Front, who deserved the universal love of our people with their feats of arms. " The troops of the First Ukrainian Front "... defeated the enemy in the region of the middle reaches of the Don, Kursk Bulge, crossed the Dnieper River, liberated KIEV, liberated the cities of ZHITOMIR, ROVNO, PROSKUROV, VINNITSA, KAMENETS-PODOLSK, KOVEL, TARNOPOL, CHERNISLAVYTSY, STARA LVOV. With fierce battles they marched through southern Poland, crossed the SAN and WISLU rivers, liberated the second Polish capital, the city of Krakow, broke into German territory, forced the Oder, Neise, and Shpreje rivers and, reaching the ELBA river, in the center of GERMANY, joined up with our troops Together with the valiant troops of the First Belorussian Front, they utterly defeated the Berlin group of Germans and hoisted the banner of Victory over Berlin. Crushing blows, destroying the remnants of the enemy troops, occupied the city of DRESDEN and ... liberated the capital of our allied CZECHOSLOVAKIA, the city of PRAGUE ... excellent service in the front forces ... "After demobilization Timofey Semyonovich Arsentiev devoted himself to peaceful labor in the national economy. The veteran's heart stopped on November 5, 1985. A grateful good memory of him lives in the hearts of his family and friends.

CITY: Kuibyshev region HISTORY: Alekseev Fedor Nikolaevich was born in 1922. Fyodor Nikolayevich Alekseev was born on September 17, 1918 in the village of Tavolzhanka, Korsunsky district, Kuibyshev region, in the family of Nikolai Ivanovich Alekseev (1886-1919), a participant in World War I, and Evdokia Nikiforovna Alekseev (Igonina) (1888-1969). Alekseev Nikolai Ivanovich came from the war sick with consumption and soon died. Before the war, Fyodor Nikolaevich and his wife left for Maktensky district, Okmarinskaya oblast, Kazakh SSR, where he was engaged in pottery for about 2 years. In October 1940, the non-partisan Fyodor Nikolaevich was drafted by the Makten Military Commissariat into the ranks of the Red Army. The Red Army soldier Fyodor Nikolaevich served since 1940 in the Byelorussian SSR as a rifleman in the 351st joint venture rifle regiment, here in 1941 he was caught by the Great Patriotic War. He took part in hostilities with the fascist invaders as part of the 49th Red Banner Rifle Division, which by 06/22/1941 was stationed in the Brest region of the Byelorussian SSR and was one of the first to take battle against the Nazi invaders. In heavy battles, the rifle division in which Fyodor Nikolaevich served, as a result of bloody battles, suffered significant losses. The final battles of the rifle division lasted until July 03, 1941, after which the division died in the so-called Bialystok cauldron. The surviving part of the Red Army joined in scattered groups with the remnants of units of other divisions and tried to break through to their own units of the Red Army. During the attempts to break through, there were repeated skirmishes and battles with the fascist invaders. After one of these battles, left without ammunition, exhausted and hungry, Fyodor Nikolayevich was forced to take refuge in one of the village houses, where he was captured by the Nazis who surrounded the village and, together with other residents of the village, was sent to West Germany. Fyodor Nikolaevich was considered missing since 10/25/1943 near the village of Putki, Chaussky district, Mogilev region, Byelorussian SSR. Fedor Nikolaevich was released from captivity in May 1945 by American troops. 05/10/1945 was enlisted in the 674th specialist subunit rifle regiment and sent as part of its units for further service in the Far East, where hostilities with the Japanese continued. But the units of the rifle regiment did not have to take part in the hostilities, since after reaching the Urals, they learned that the war had ended in the east. Fyodor Nikolaevich was demobilized on 08/15/1946. After demobilization, he came to the village of Sukhoi Karsun, where he worked on a collective farm and in the winter he was engaged in pottery. Alekseev Fyodor Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree.

CITY: Buryat-Mongolian ASSR. Gavrilovka village DATE OF BIRTH: - DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: I knew very little about my great-grandfather Andrievsky Grigory Lazarevich. It is known that he was born in the Yeravninsky district in the village of Gavrilovka in 1912. He went to the front in the first months of the war, when he was 29 years old. His wife Praskovya Petrovna and four small children remained in his native village. Then the story ends. According to the recollections of my grandfather's son Volodya, my father fought somewhere near Stalingrad. The connection was interrupted because there were no letters. The whole family considered him missing. In the family album, only a single portrait has survived, which was taken before the war or in the early days of the war, as evidenced by the entry on the back of the photo. This year, on the eve of the Victory anniversary, my family decided to create their own small family archive "My family in the history of the war." In order to learn at least something about my grandfather, a participant in the Second World War, we had to use the electronic archives placed on the information portals "Memorial", "Memory of the People", "Heroic deeds of the people", found a page in the "Book of Memory" of Buryatia, where there was updated information regarding my grandfather, since in its previous version it said “Missing”, in the new version “Buried in Volgograd” From the documents that we managed to find, it became known that before the war my grandfather worked as a combine operator and grew bread. And in the war he rose to the rank of sergeant in a rifle division. According to different documents, the place of service changed at different times. According to the place of burial and his date of death, in this time period, we assumed that the place of his burial could be the Smolensk region. Found articles of search parties with lists of losses. Having learned from the archival documents the place of the last battle of my grandfather, Smolensk region, Iznoskovsky district, village Pinashino, we decided to study the material of fraternal burials on this territory. Seeing the map of the mass graves, they were horrified at their number. It seems that in this area there is no centimeter of land that has not absorbed the blood of its defenders. On the Internet, on various sites, we found information about a mass grave, which, we think, may be the burial place of my great-grandfather. The name of my great-grandfather also appeared on the monument in the villages of Sosnovo-Ozerskoye and Gunda. Having decided to perpetuate the memory of our great-grandfather, we created a hero page on the site “Memory of the people. Memory road ". My family will never forget that my grandfather Andrievsky Grigory Lazarevich and millions of heroes who fought during the Great Patriotic War saved the whole world from fascism so that we could live under a peaceful sky so that children would shout “Hurray!” When they fire cannons and the Victory salute sparkles in the sky!

CITY: Tatar ASSR, Kolusheva Pustosh village DATE OF BIRTH: 11/03/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Alexander Petrovich Artemyev was born on November 3, 1919 in the Kolusheva Pustosh village of the Tatar ASSR. When the boy was two years old, he was orphaned - his father died in the civil war, and his mother died of typhus. Little Sasha and his older brother Mikhail were raised by their grandmother. In 1939, at the age of 20, Alexander was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He was enlisted in the 7th Cavalry Regiment, which was stationed near the city of Irkutsk. The news of the beginning of the war caught him there. In 1941, he was transferred as part of the regiment to Moscow. His unit was transformed into a motorized rifle regiment of the 5th Army. The soldier was sent to a separate communications company, where he studied for a radio operator for several months. Alexander Petrovich took part in the radio operator defense of Moscow, in the offensive of the Red Army in the western direction. At the same time, the radio operators overcame most of the movements through life-threatening territory. Once Alexander Petrovich also got into the shelling zone. Near Mozhaisk he was wounded and concussed. For several months He was treated in a hospital. Doctors put him on his feet, and he continued to fight. He took part in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge and in the battles near Leningrad. He ended the war in the Baltic States with the rank of senior sergeant. After the Victory, he was sent to Western Ukraine as part of the NKVD troops. From 1945 to 1947 he fought against Bandera. According to the veteran, it was a war after the war. The Soviet secret services at that time did not have to deal with scattered gangs. They were opposed by a powerful network of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which terrorized the local population. In May 1947, Alexander Petrovich entered the school of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR. After graduation, he served in the Security Department No. 1 of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR. He guarded state dachas on Lake Ritsa and in Novy Afon. Once he managed to communicate with Generalissimo I.V. Stalin, who expressed personal gratitude to the member of the leader's guard. In 1953, Alexander Petrovich joined the police. He was sent to the Traffic Police Authority and then ended up in the 1st department of the Dornadzor of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee. The policeman has repeatedly taken part in the detention of offenders and criminals, including armed ones. He left the internal affairs bodies in 1977 as a senior inspector of the traffic police with the rank of police major. Already in retirement he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. I did not stay at home when I retired He finished his career at the age of 74 at the headquarters of the civil defense of the RSFSR. Alexander Petrovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For Victory over Germany” and many others. The veteran has a big family. He lived with Anna Filippovna for 70 years. He has two children - son Evgeny and daughter Tatyana, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The veteran's family is surrounded by care and attention.

Alekseev Anton Semenovich was drafted into the army in 1942, took a direct part in the battles in breaking the blockade of Leningrad. In mid-June 1941, the last bells rang in schools throughout the country. On June 22, 1941, in the small collective farm Negda, Irkutsk region, graduates, including Anton Alekseev, dispersed to their homes after the school ball in the silence before dawn. In those minutes they did not yet know that the war had begun ... After the prom, the children of Nagdean High School gathered at the school to put things in order after the festivities. In the building, they were met by an alarmed technician: - War, guys. Molotov said on the radio that many cities had already been bombed in the west of the country. - I dreamed of going to Irkutsk, to learn to be a historian, - recalls the veteran of the Great Patriotic War. - Instead, I went to work on a collective farm. I knew that they would soon be drafted into the army. First, those guys who graduated from school a little earlier than us went to the front. They were put into a ZIS truck, about thirty people in total. They all got to the front. Only a few returned ... Some time later, summons from the military registration and enlistment office came to five of Anton Alekseev's classmates, but for some reason his name was not on the list. Anton asked his relatives to take his friends to the front. I jumped with them into the same car and drove to the recruiting station of the Cheremkhovsky district military registration and enlistment office. - I approached the captain - the head of the military registration and enlistment office: “There is no agenda. But I want to go to the front together with my classmates! Take them please!" He waved his hand and registered me. We were put on a train and sent to Ulan-Ude to the Divisional station for training at the military infantry school, where we stayed for almost eight months, '' recalls Anton Semenovich. At the beginning of the summer of 1942, almost half of the total number of cadets of the school were sent to the very millstones of the war - near Stalingrad. The remaining recruits remained to finish their training. Fighting near Leningrad .Ten days later, young guys from Siberia arrived in Leningrad, they were transported across Lake Ladoga on the steamer "Chapaev". It was dangerous to make such a transfer, because the city and its environs were under constant fire from German troops. “Of course, it was scary,” says Anton Semenovich Alekseev, a participant in the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad, not hiding his feelings of that time. - I saw the native Leningraders for the first time. People were exhausted ... Therefore, we decided to give extra rations - biscuits and butter - to all those in need. Anton Alekseev was appointed commander of the first platoon of the 136th rifle division. A few months later, he took part in breaking the blockade of Leningrad at the Pulkovo Heights. - From 15 to 18 January, we continued to persistently advance - this is the shock group of the Volkhov and Leningrad fronts, they went towards each other. The Germans were losing one position after another, - recalls Anton Semenovich. - In one of these attacks, I fought a German officer in hand-to-hand combat. And if not for my front-line comrade Sasha Baranov, a native of the Tver region, it is not known how this fight would have ended. He was next to him, took out my pistol and, while I was fighting the German, shot him twice. Another time we were with him on a reconnaissance sortie. Came under fire. One bullet grazed me and passed tangentially along my temple. For some time he lost consciousness, woke up from the wild cold. In the darkness I saw a branch of a fallen pine tree, caught on to it and got out of the hole. I found a bandage in my bag and bandaged my head. I called my contact, Sasha Baranov. Together they had to move to one of the workers' settlements - Zapashny. It turned out that while the soldiers went on reconnaissance, a battle began between the Germans and their fellow soldiers. When they headed for the location of their unit, they stumbled upon the Germans. We managed to escape from the pursuit and get to the place. In the field medical battalion, Anton was given the necessary assistance, after which he was sent for treatment to the hospital, where he stayed for two long months. And again to the front After being discharged, the young fighter again went to fight in the ranks of his own division. After breaking the blockade, she received the rank of 63rd Guards. Anton Alekseev, like all his fellow soldiers, fought in the 190th Guards Rifle Regiment under the command of Colonel Anatoly Georgievich Afanasyev. In 1944, Anton Semenovich took part in the battles on the Karelian Isthmus in the Vyborg direction. Here our troops broke through the enemy's defenses and liberated Vyborg on June 20, 1944, which created the conditions for the withdrawal of Finland from the war. In September - November 1944, the front formations took part in the battles in the Baltic States, in the breakthrough of the "Mannerheim Line". Here, in the western part of Latvia, the German group of troops was stationed - the 16th and 18th armies of the Wehrmacht. The place where fierce battles unfolded is listed in the historical data as the Courland Cauldron. The Soviet troops, in particular Afanasyev, were ordered not to let the German out of this cauldron, to conduct an offensive movement and eliminate the enemy.On February 16, the Courland offensive operation of the 2nd Baltic Front began, which lasted until May 8, 1945. - Here, during the storming of the fortress city of Lyubava, I received a second wound. The bullet went right through the left hand, pierced the right and got stuck inside. And again my faithful friend Sasha Baranov was next to me. He bandaged my hands and helped me get to the field hospital. It took me two more months to recover. However, Anton Semenovich did not have a chance to return to the front. He was given 45 days of leave and ordered to leave for his home. When he, together with a comrade in arms, who had to go to Arkhangelsk, arrived in Moscow, fireworks were given in the capital. “It thundered in honor of the capture of Vienna by our troops,” Anton Semyonovich continues his story. - I arrived home in April 1945. Literally a couple of weeks later, the news of Germany's surrender came to our village. For his courage and courage, Anton Semenovich was awarded the Orders of the Red Star, the Great Patriotic War I and II degrees. 70 years later Anton Semenovich shared his memories during a friendly meeting with the Minister of Social Protection of Buryatia T.A. Bykova. Looking at the family album, he recalled various episodes of his difficult life. He spoke with pride about children - he has five, grandchildren and great-grandchildren - there are eleven of them. After the war, he realized his dream - he became a historian, worked hard, managed to write and publish six books. And, despite being 91 years old, she is working on another publication of her own. At the same time, I typed all the texts on the computer. - When in besieged Leningrad we gave our rations to the civilian population, we were always told in response: "God grant that they survived, sons!" Perhaps this helped to return alive. And in recent years, the care of not only children, but also the state helps to prolong life. Free treatment at the Veterans' Hospital, the Center for Oriental Medicine, a decent pension, attention. Thanks to everyone who does not forget the veterans!

CITY: Tula region, Plavsky district, Pochinino village DATE OF BIRTH: 10/26/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 10/19/1994 HISTORY: Alexander Vasilyevich Aristarkhov was born on October 26, 1922 in the Pochinino village of the Krapivensky district of the Tula province (now it is the Plavsky district of the Tula region). Immediately after the start of the Great Patriotic War, on July 26, 1941, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army by the Leninsky District Military Commissariat of Moscow. During the Moscow battle, junior sergeant Alexander Vasilyevich Aristarkhov commanded a rifle squad of a foot reconnaissance platoon of the 2nd battalion of the 18th separate rifle brigade of the Western Front, from December 2 to December 22, 1941. On December 16 and 18, 1941, at the head of his squad, he participated in night sorties behind enemy lines in order to identify his forces located in the area of ​​the village of Aprelevka in the direction of the city of Naro-Fominsk. On December 19-22, 1941, Aristarkhov A.V. participated in night battles as part of a tank landing, near the city of Volokolamsk participated in three attacks. On December 22, 1941, after three days of fighting for a strong point near the town of Staro-Ivanovka, his rifle squad went into reconnaissance in force to identify enemy firing points. On the way back, as a result of machine-gun and mortar fire, A.V. Aristarkhov was seriously wounded by an explosive bullet (with damage to the lung and ribs). On March 11, 1942, he was demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army with a disability of the second group. After treatment, he received the third group of disability and worked for many years as a mechanic at the Stalin automobile plant, made many rationalization proposals. In October 1944, for heroic deeds during the counter-offensive near Moscow, Aristarkhov Alexander Vasilyevich was nominated for the Order of the Red Star, which was replaced by the medal "For Courage". He died on October 19, 1994 and was buried at the Danilovskoye cemetery, together with members of his family, participants in the Great Patriotic War: an older brother and sister, my mother, a participant in the defense of Moscow (labor front) - Kolesnikova (Aristarkhova) Valentina Vasilievna. Mom, until her death in May 2012, carefully kept the photographs of her brother.

CITY: the village of Nizhnee Ablyazovo, Penza Region DATE OF BIRTH: 03/22/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 12/16/2006 HISTORY: WHO SAYS THAT IS NOT SCARY AT THE WAR, THE ONE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT THE WAR ...... Grandfather did not like to talk about the war, like many who have walked this path from beginning to end. The holiday on May 9 was always celebrated in the village with grandfather and grandmother, in the Klyuchi of the Penza region. As a large family, they went out into the countryside or set tables near the house, celebrating the Victory Day with numerous friends and neighbors. Even on that day, grandfather said little about that wartime. Throughout the war, my grandfather Ivan Romanovich kept a front diary, where he described the events taking place with him. From this diary, we - his children and grandchildren, know what life trials he had to go through. When the war began, my grandfather was 19 years old. Before the war he worked as a tractor driver in the village of Krasny Yar, Saratov region. He was drafted into military service in August 1941 by the Balakovo RVK - in the "hottest" wheat harvest. He participated in battles - from November 1942 to May 1945. His service began in the Far East, from 09/21/1941 to 11/07/1942. - at the 50th radio beacon of the Pacific Fleet, with the rank of private Red Navy - signalman. He took the oath of office in November 1941. After completing the training of personnel, in early November 1942, the formed marching battalion was sent to the front. 11/25/1942 after arriving in the Tambov region. the recruits were housed in a forest camp. Local front-line soldiers warmly and amicably greeted the Far Eastern sailors, who walked on a frosty winter evening in boots, paper socks and light sailor black greatcoats. Of the warm things there were only hats, and even then not all of them. After the formation, the sailors were sent to the bathhouse, where they had to part with the naval clothes. Because there were no warm fur coats and felt boots, the soldiers were given gray overcoats and boots with windings (footcloths) 3 meters long. Began training for military operations in the PTR company (anti-tank company). Grandfather and his comrade, corporal Sorokin, were given one weapon for two, weighing 16 kg., With which they crawled all day through the deep snows of the Tambov region. It's time to go to the front. From the Rada station, echelon after echelon, rifle units began to withdraw to the Stalingrad Front. After arriving on the very front line of the front, the squad leaders ordered to prepare for battle. A large number of enemy tanks were expected. The division, which included my grandfather and his partner in the anti-tank gun Sorokin, must hold off the onslaught of the Germans, who tried in every possible way to break through to their units, into the ring near Stalingrad. Grandfather knew that the fight would be tough. All night long, everyone prepared for it very carefully, dug trenches in turn. The ground was very hard, and you had to hit a dozen times with a heavy pickaxe to dig out a small patch of earth. So the whole night passed in work, the morning that came was calm, only in some places there was a small skirmish. The aviation did not operate due to bad weather. The first battle of my grandfather at Stalingrad and his first serious wound in the right shoulder blade. An excerpt from the diary: “... Early in the morning, after breakfast, a command was given to prepare for battle and carefully observe the enemy. I put my carbine on the parapet, took out cartridges and two grenades from the bag and put them next to me. My partner and I lay down at the bottom of our trench, which looked like an oblong and not deep hole. Bullets began to whistle, enemy aircraft appeared in the air, which immediately began to bomb and shoot from machine guns at our defenses. All lay quietly in their trenches in their places and waited for the appearance of German tanks. The platoon leader constantly looked through binoculars. Suddenly the roar of engines was heard from the direction of the German defense. - Tanks, tanks, - someone shouted from the right flank. Noticing them, the platoon commander gave the command to crawl forward 100-200 meters with anti-tank rifles. The bullet rain intensified. Sorokin and I, hearing the command, jumped out of our hiding place and ran with a gun to a small hill. Ahead, at a distance of 400 meters, there were about 40 German tanks, shelling our defenses with artillery and machine-gun fire. With every minute the battle flared up more strongly, artillery hit from both sides. Airplanes appeared, but whose they were, I could not make out. Black smoke emanated from the burning German tanks, which obscured all visibility. “They are burning, they are burning,” the soldiers shouted, and everyone began to run down to the river. Raising the gun, Sorokin crawled forward and I followed him, dragging a carbine and cartridges from the Antitank company behind me. The heavy bag was difficult to pull in the snow, and the ammo pouch hanging on the waist belt slowed down the movement even more. On the right side of me, 10 meters away, signalmen were crawling, pulling coils of cable behind them. Suddenly one of them shouted "mom" and, crying, fell into the snow. What happened to him, no one knew, it was not up to him, most likely, he simply did not endure the tests in such an "atmosphere".Shells exploded near me and Sorokin, bullets flew almost over the ear. I did not understand what was wrong with me, I was shooting and firing at the German tanks, which were burning like candles on the steep opposite bank of the river. I could hear the groans of wounded soldiers who asked for help. The number of those killed grew. First wound. Suddenly, I noticed how the German infantry ran out from behind the tanks. Sorokin chose a convenient place and prepared to repel the attack, the Germans crawled closer and closer to our defenses. Suddenly deafening explosions rang out near us. Sorokin began to crawl to another place, hoping that there would be less shelling. I followed him, but after another explosion I suddenly felt a severe burn in my back, under my right shoulder blade, blood immediately flowed under my shirt and from my mouth. I wanted to turn on my left side, but my strength was running out. With great difficulty, he lay down on his back again, the blood pouring from his mouth began to flood his face and did not let him breathe. Turning, Sorokin saw me wounded and shouted orderlies, but there was no one nearby. Suddenly two people ran up to me, one of whom was an old friend of mine from the Far East. Taking me, they crawled to the first dugout, which contained the ENP of some artillery unit. Shouts of contradiction were heard that this was not a sanitary point. A fat lieutenant was shouting, wrapped in a huge fur coat and holding a telephone receiver in his hands. “We’ll only bandage his wound and take it away,” the soldiers answered. Well, you don't feel sorry for the man, let some stray splinter finish him off, ”the soldiers continued to say. But the fat lieutenant was silent. They bandaged my wound, put it on my overcoat and dragged me back to the trenches ... ... .. ". Then there was treatment in a hospital from 12/22/1942 to 02/12/1943 in the village of Mokraya Olkhovka, then referral to the convalescent battalion, to the village of Lapshinka, which was 13 km away. from the hospital. Two weeks later, my grandfather was sent to the 1st Infantry Battalion, the reserve 31st Infantry Regiment, in the village of Oberdorf, where there were again training sessions that took place in the fields. Soon there was talk that this regiment should move closer to the front. According to the reports, they learned that the Germans were retreating far to the west, to Oryol. For the front, reserves were needed, and on April 24, 1943, the soldiers were gathered in a small clearing outside the village and reported that representatives from the same tank army had arrived. Oryol-Kursk battle From July 1943, my grandfather began service in the 107th tank brigade of the Central Front, in a command company, in a communications platoon and was already a signalman-telephone operator. The "rookies" were taught the telephone business in a hurry, in a small clearing with telephones and cable wires. An excerpt from the diary: “... They stretched a cable line for 100 meters, connected telephones and began to learn to receive calls from each other, transmit telephone messages, find a damaged line and quickly fix it. The forest in which we were located was under enemy fire all day, shells flew overhead and exploded somewhere nearby. This is how my comrades Podsoblyaev, Demin, Sviridov and I began a new life at the front. Days passed, our unit took up defenses north of the village of Olkhovatka, Kursk region, and heavy battles began, formidable front-line everyday life. The night shelling subsided a little, I knew that after that there would be a short silence, so I had to hurry to establish communication and, taking some cable with me, I ran across the field to the forest. I was approaching the front line of the defense. The Germans began to fire more flares more often. they were afraid of our soldiers approaching their defenses. I came across a lot of fresh funnels, during the day they were not here, which means that the connection was broken somewhere in this place, - I reasoned. Suddenly a piece of cable fell out of my hands, which means that the other end of the cable will have to be looked for, - I continued to say to myself. I tied one end of the cable to a pole of some kind of suspension line and began to look for the other end of the line that was broken. For two hours I wandered between the funnels on the tall grass in search of this cable and still found it. I was waiting for help from the Observation Point or from the CTS, but as a result I never got it. I took the broken end of the cable line and pulled in the direction of the second end, which was tied to the pole, I didn't have to drag it for a long time, I felt that the line was stretched exactly across the field, but there were another 200 meters to the other end. I scolded myself many times for that he didn't take a spare cable with him. And as time went on, it dawned, in the morning the Germans always made small attacks, so it was necessary to quickly connect all the units of the unit, especially the Observation Point and Command Post, with communications. - And then suddenly a battle will flare up, but there is no connection, - I thought. Fortunately for me, the cable was found quickly, and I connected it to my line, which was working properly. After that, I ran to my trench, where there was a telephone set at the headquarters of the 1st tank battalion, to check if the communication was working. Having reached the trench, I quickly grabbed the telephone receiver and wanted to press the call button, but suddenly I heard a conversation between the command post and the Observation Point.The brigade commander said that the Germans had scheduled an attack at 06-00 in the morning and that they needed to be ahead of them and start the attack 1 hour earlier ………. ”. Then the grandfather took part in the battles: - Korsun-Shevchenko operation. - battle for the liberation of Vapnyarka. - the crossing of the Dniester, the capture of the city and the important railway junction Balti. - battle during the capture of the city of Warsaw. - East Pomeranian operation - In these battles, under heavy shelling, many soldiers and officers died, who can hardly ever be forgotten after the February battles in Pomerania. While already in Germany, on April 25, 1945, grandfather Ivan was wounded in the head for the second time. He was treated in a hospital in the city of Neudamm. There he also learned about the end of the war. An excerpt from the diary: “… .On May 02, 1945, all the patients in the hospital learned about the surrender of Berlin, no one believed about the end of the war, which had lasted for 4 years. On the night of May 9, 1945, all the wounded were awakened by the shooting from machine guns. At first, everyone was scared, they thought that some gang had attacked the city, then they calmed down when they found out what really happened. The hospital attendant learned from the city commandant that it was a salute in honor of the victory over Nazi Germany. Early in the morning of May 10, the captain, the deputy head of the hospital for political affairs, entered our ward and read a leaflet on which it was written about the surrender of Germany, and the wounded immediately revived from such unexpected and pleasant news. Only those wounded, whose eyes were knocked out, their arms and legs were torn off, didn’t have fun, they grieved that they did not live to see the Victory in good health ……. ”. Grandfather Ivan ended the war in the 49th Guards Tank Brigade - the 12th Guards Tank Corps, the 2nd Guards Tank Army, the 1st Belorussian Front, under the command of the Guards Colonel Abramov Tikhon Porfirievich. Battle wounds: in November 1942 - at Stalingrad in the right shoulder blade, in April 1945 in Berlin in the head. Passage of military service: - 09/21/1941 - 11/07/1942 - 50th radio beacon of the Pacific Fleet, private Red Navy - signalman. - 11/25/1942 - 12/21/1942 - training battalion of machine gunners 98 Rifle Division- machine gunner. - 03/04/1943 - 03/24/1943 - 31st reserve rifle regiment, 1st rifle battalion - shooter. - 07/05/1943 - 11/20/1944 - 107th Tank Vapnyar Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Brigade, control company - telephone operator. - 20.11.1944 - 15.11.1946 - 49th Guards Tank Brigade - control company - senior telephone operator. Demobilized: November 15, 1946 with the rank of junior sergeant of the guard - senior telephone operator. This is how they survived, this is how they won the war. You ask - how was this war given to them? She was given to them by a terrible blood. For military operations he was awarded: Order of the Red Star. Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". Medal "For the capture of Berlin." Medal "For Victory over Germany". He had a guard badge "Guard", which was issued only to servicemen of regiments with a guards battle banner.

CITY: v. Podosokorye, Solvychegodsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 01/09/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 05/04/1990 HISTORY: Stepan Andreevich Anokhovsky born in 1919, a native of the village of Podosokorye, Solvychegodsky district, was drafted into the army for military service on 10/05/1939, by the Solvychegodsky district military commissariat. Then he did not even suspect that he would return to his homeland only in the summer of 1946. Stepan, a Red Army border guard, served in the 95th Border Detachment in Western Ukraine. The service was not easy, defectors were detained from the territory of Romania all the time. On June 22, 1941, the war began. The 95th border detachment was attacked by enemy motorized infantry. The Germans did not manage to take by surprise the border outpost where Stepan served. The attack was repulsed. At the end of July 1941, in the area of ​​the city of Uman, a significant part of the Soviet troops of the Southwestern Front was surrounded. In the future, the following events followed: defensive battles, attempts to break through the enemy's encirclement, shell shock, injury and enemy capture. The second attempt to escape from enemy captivity was successful. When they managed to get to their own people, the NKVD investigators were not without interrogation. After numerous checks, he was reinstated and sent to the active army. Further service he served in the 41st Rifle Regiment, 84th Red Banner Kharkov Rifle Division as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, as an anti-tank gunner (ATR). When the Red Army went on the offensive, he was retrained to another military specialty - mortar. In the military rank of senior sergeant, he was the commander of a mortar crew in the mortar battery of the 382nd Infantry Regiment. Stepan Andreevich took part in the liberation of Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Austria. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, Senior Sergeant Anokhovsky Stepan Andreevich - commander of the 122 mm howitzer, 78th howitzer regiment, served in Romania near the city of Arad. From there he was demobilized in the 3rd stage on June 3, 1946. Stepan Andreevich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals "For Courage", "For the capture of Budapest", For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", as well as jubilee medals.

CITY: the former village of Seewald, Frankish canton, Saratov region, Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Volga Germans; now the village of Verkhovskoye (Verkhovka), Aleshninsky village settlement, Zhirnovsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 12/28/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 01/09/1997 HISTORY: My grandfather Artser Alexander Valentinovich was born into a large German peasant family. In 1931, the entire Arzer family (the kulak family) was evicted from the Saratov region (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans) for a special settlement in the Dzhambul region of the Kazakh SSR as dispossessed. He began his pre-war labor activity in 1940 as a primary school teacher in a rural school. He knew 2 languages: German and Russian. In 1941, grandfather Sasha was 23 years old. Soviet ethnic Germans during the Second World War were considered unreliable, which is why my grandfather was mobilized into the labor army, in the 2nd stage, according to the Decree of the State Defense Committee of the USSR No. 1123ss dated 01/10/1942. This document obliged People’s Commissariat to mobilize for work in logging, industrial and railway construction 120 thousand German men aged 17-50 years from among those deported from the Volga region to many regions, including the Kazakh SSR. On May 17, 1942, grandfather was drafted into the labor army of the Sairam Military Commissariat and sent to the disposal of the head of Bakalstroy of the NKVD as part of a team of 17 Germans. From June 1942 to the end of November 1946, my grandfather worked as an assistant train driver, a worker in logging, in stone quarries. From the recollections of grandfather Sasha: “... it was a difficult time. The physical strength of the strongest, healthiest person and the psychological mood were exhausted,“ strangled. ”Not everyone could withstand forced labor service as part of the German workers, regardless of the object of work, the barracks position , fenced-in guarded "zones" with a military routine, illness, death, fear, humiliation, bullying, the status lowered by the authorities to the level of prisoners. Work in the labor army became both a Feat and a Tragedy. It was necessary to forge Victory over the enemy in conditions of mistrust and isolation " ... In 1946, grandfather Sasha was demobilized. He returned to the Dzhambul region of the Kazakh SSR (the surviving Germans from the labor army were allowed to return only to the places of eviction where their relatives were) and was in a special settlement until July 1954, after which he was released from the special settlement and received an unlimited passport. My grandfather immediately went to work as a handyman. In the bitter frosts, he prepared firewood, in the summer heat he worked in the field, helped grow vegetables, mowed hay. After a hard day at work, in the evenings I played the balalaika, without knowing the musical notation. He had an excellent ear for music and a beautiful voice. Perhaps one of these releases helped him forget all that past, difficult times that weakened people. He got married in 1948. Wife - Elena Konstantinovna Yatsenko, born in 1922, a native of the Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR, Ukrainian by nationality. In July 1941, she was evacuated from Kiev to the Kazakh SSR, Dzhambul region. In 1950, my daughter Valentina (my mother) was born. On July 20, 1954, the grandfather was released from the special settlement together with his wife and children. From the enormous responsibility to his family, parents, and most likely from the enormous peasant industriousness inherent in the genes, grandpa was able to be a persistent, strong and resilient person. His labor activity is large and versatile - the department of the regional trade in the position of a store manager; malaria station - booster instructor; at Machine and Tractor station - coppersmith and combine operator; Artel named after N.K. Krupskaya - foreman, upon completion - builder; Agrigate Plant, further Dzhuvalinsky rayavtodor - foreman (work experience -30 years). For his conscientious work, my grandfather Sasha received many awards and distinctions, letters of thanks: the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the medal "50 Years of Victory in the Second World War", the "Veteran of Labor" medal, the badge "Winner of the socialist competition in 1975", badge "Honorary road worker of the Kazakh SSR", etc. The memory of my grandfather Alexander, a labor army soldier is immortalized in the Form of open archival data "Open list of victims of political repression in the USSR", as well as on the pages in the book of memory of the project Gedenkbuch ", dedicated to the largest forced labor camp for labor-mobilized Germans in the USSR.

CITY: Ingushetia DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1921 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Aliroev Khamid Dadievich was born in the village. Psedakh of the Malgobek region of the Mountain ASSR in 1921. In 1939 he graduated from the Chechen-Ingush pedagogical school, then worked as an instructor in the Psedakhskiy RK VKPib. Drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1941. The military path of H. Aliroev began in May 1942 near Novoshakhtinsk. He was the deputy commander of the Antitank company in the 613th regiment of the 91st division of the 51st Army. In mid-1943, he graduated from the Pushkin Tank School and, as part of the 143th separate tank brigade, participated in the liberation of Belarus and Latvia. Since August 1944, senior lieutenant H. Aliroev fought as a tank company commander as part of the 30th Guards Tank Brigade. Participated in the liberation of the cities of Mitava, Seda, Bauska, Riga, Boldoni and others. According to the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on September 14, 1944, the T-34 tank under the command of Kh.D. Aliroeva was the first to cross the Lielupe River in the area of ​​the Mezotne state farm and burst into a heavily fortified enemy defenses, as a result of which 1 cannon with a crew, 4 machine guns and up to 40 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed. For the skillful and rapid crossing of the Lielupe River and the breakthrough of the heavily fortified enemy defense and the courage and courage shown in battles Kh.D. Aliroev was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. On October 5, 1944, Khamid Aliroev broke through the enemy's defenses near the village of Daukshi and was the first to cross the Venta River, destroying 2 self-propelled guns, 4 armored personnel carriers. In the area of ​​the village of Belsi - 4 guns, 7 mortars, 10 machine guns. On October 6, 1944, in the Barbiskiai area - 1 tank and up to 40 enemy soldiers and officers, and fought over 40 km. For the courage and courage shown on November 7, 1944, H.D. Aliroev was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. Here is how one of the episodes of the war with the participation of Khamid Aliroev was described: “A group of our tanks burst into the enemy's location, destroying the Nazis with fire and tracks. Lieutenant Aliroev's tank ran into the position of an enemy anti-tank battery and immediately destroyed it. The Germans, however, managed to delay the advance of our unit, and Aliroev's crew found themselves at the enemy's location, cut off from their own. Six German tanks from different directions rushed towards the Soviet vehicle. Lieutenant Aliroev personally stood at the gun and opened fire, maneuvering on the ground. With the second round, a brave Soviet officer set fire to one German tank. Soon two more tanks were knocked out. Fifteen enemy attacks were repelled by Aliroev's crew, being surrounded on all sides. The next day our units pushed the enemy back, and the heroic crew joined theirs. " In total, Senior Lieutenant Kh.D. Aliroev 14 knocked out enemy tanks, several destroyed artillery batteries, one armored train, many fire and machine-gun points, destroyed a large number of enemy manpower. For courage and immeasurable heroism, bravery and courage shown during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. the administration of Grozny sent a petition to the relevant authorities for awarding Aliroev Khamid Dadievich the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).

HISTORY: Aristov Pavel Ivanovich 07/03/1926 - 23.12.2005. Pavel Ivanovich was born on July 3, 1926 in the village of Ovsyanichikha, Puchezhsky district, Ivanovo region. Father - Aristov Ivan Vasilievich, mother - Natalya Vasilievna. Graduated from 5 classes. Was drafted to the front on November 3, 1943, was demobilized only in September 1950. After studying in the 20th department of the training auto regiment 858 bn, from June 1944 he was sent to airfield service in military unit 23573 as a driver - gunner and an electromechanical driver until September 1950. He liberated Belarus, and with his part reached Berlin. “The German command attached great strategic importance to its positions in Belarus,” he told his fellow villagers. - They were ordered to be protected at any cost, so the liberation of Belarus for our troops was not at all an easy walk. Nevertheless, the offensive was swift. On June 26, 1944, the Red Army liberated Vitebsk, on the 27th, after fierce battles, the Nazis still left Orshansk, on the 28th Soviet tanks were already in Borisov, which was completely cleared on July 1. Near Minsk, Vitebsk and Bobruisk, 30 enemy divisions were killed. 12 days after the start of the operation, Soviet troops advanced 225-280 km, overcoming half of Belarus in one jerk. The Wehrmacht was completely unprepared for such a development of events, and the command of the Army Group Center itself was grossly and systematically mistaken. Time was counted by hours, and sometimes by minutes. At first, it was still possible to avoid the encirclement, retreating in time to the river. Berezina and created a new line of defense here. In this case, it is unlikely that the liberation of Belarus would have been accomplished in two months. But Field Marshal Bush did not give the order in time. And our troops won a convincing victory. " Pavel Ivanovich was awarded: medal "For Victory over Germany" 05/09/1945, "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" 22.02.1948, "20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 -1945", "50 years of the armed forces ", With all anniversary medals. Together with his wife Aristova Anastasia Vasilievna, they raised two children: a son, Nikolai, and a daughter, Galina. From 1956 until his retirement, Pavel Ivanovich worked as a driver on the Leninsky Put collective farm. In 1966 he was awarded the Zhukov Medal, the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of Belarus medal in 2005. In 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for bravery, fortitude and courage displayed in the struggle against the German fascist invaders. Pavel Ivanovich was a respected person, friendly, humane, was elected chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Leninsky Put collective farm. He died on December 23, 2005. (According to the recollections of Galina Pavlovna's daughter Fomicheva)

HISTORY: Antonov Ivan Aleksandrovich 07/05/1925 - 05/07/1984 Ivan Aleksandrovich was born on July 5, 1925 in the village of Rogulikha, Krasnogorsk village council, Puchezhsky district, Ivanovo region, into a peasant family. He learned about rural labor early. After leaving school, he studied at the Factory andworks education in the village of Sokolskoye. When the Great Patriotic War began, Ivan Alexandrovich was 18 years old, he was immediately taken to the front. He fought in Belarus, near the city of Vitebsk. The battles were heavy and protracted. After the liberation of Demidov, the troops of the 43rd Army, where Ivan Aleksandrovich served, from October 1943 continued to conduct offensive and defensive battles to liberate Vitebsk and all of Belarus. On the liberated land of Eastern Belarus, the soldiers were greeted by the skeletons of furnaces and chimneys of burnt villages and villages. There were almost no civilians. The battles for Vitebsk began on the eve of the 26th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. In the early morning of November 5, 1943, at exactly 8 o'clock in the morning, volleys of army artillery and mortars were heard - a 4-hour processing of enemy positions began. Then dozens of Il-2 assault aircraft were taken into the air. The frozen ground trembled from a powerful bomb strike on the front edge of the enemy's defenses. The Nazis held on to their positions for a long time, but their nerves could not stand it, and they began to leave the first line of trenches and trenches, throwing weapons and equipment. The advance detachments of the advancing overtook the enemy. A hand-to-hand fight ensued. The Nazis launched fierce counterattacks with the participation of large tank forces and the support of six-barrel mortars with fire. The offensive in some areas continued for several more days and then gradually ceased. Troops of the 43rd Army approached close to the enemy's Vitebsk fortified area only by the end of December 1943. Ivan Aleksandrovich came from the war as an invalid, without his right arm and a deep wound in his chest. I was in the hospital for a long time. The post-war years were difficult, difficult, I had to work hard to feed my family. But, despite all the difficulties and problems, he married Klipova Anna Nikolaevna. They lived with Anna Nikolaevna all their lives, raised four children, all children were given the opportunity to get an education. In his younger years, Ivan Aleksandrovich worked as a postman in his native collective farm MTS (now SPK PZ "Leninsky Put"), then as a shepherd, grazing the collective farm herd of cows and sheep. It was hard to work with one hand, but he overcame all difficulties. He helped at home with the chores: sawed and chopped wood, carried water from the river on a yoke. But all the hard work lay on the shoulders of the wife. Children from an early age learned to help their mother. Someone was hanging out with the younger children, and someone else worked with her on the collective farm field: weed and fiddled with flax, in the fall they harvested potatoes. All work was carried out for workdays, money was not paid at all, so they ate only what they collected in their gardens and allotted land plots. Meat, eggs, milk were handed over to the state at the expense of taxes. But all the same, people lived amicably, cheerfully, helped each other. Life went on as usual. The children did not see the holidays, they helped their parents to earn more workdays. Ivan Alexandrovich and Anna Nikolaevna are agricultural workers, they gave all their strength to make the village live. They dreamed not of awards and glory, but dreamed of raising the collective farm, glorifying it with their labor. Ivan Alexandrovich was awarded the badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War", the medal "For Courage", "30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", the jubilee medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "60 years Of the Armed Forces of the USSR ". Ivan Alexandrovich Antonov died on May 7, 1984. (According to the memoirs of her granddaughter O.K. Siluyanova)

CITY: Stalingrad region, Uryupinsky district, Golovsky farm DATE OF BIRTH: 03/11/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 03/08/1971 HISTORY: Alexey Emelyanovich Arzamastsev was born on March 11, 1923 in the Stalingrad region, Uryupinsky district, Golovsky farm. He finished 6 classes, after which he worked as a ship mechanic. On March 5, 1942 he was drafted to the front. Until May 25, 1942, he was a cadet, after which he spent the whole war as a corporal as commander of the 1st gun of the 2nd battery in the 58th Guards Artillery Sevastopol Regiment, 32nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Division. From June 25, 1942 to October 9, 1943 he took part in the battles for the Caucasus, for which he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus". From September 9 to September 20, 1942 he took part in the defense of Tuapse. On May 5, 1943, he was awarded a medal "For Military Merit" for battles in the Kura and Lysaya Gora area: "Gunner of the 2nd battery of the Guard of the Kr-ts Arzamastsev Alexei Yemelyanovich for suppressing two artillery and two mines enemy batteries , in the region of Kura and Lysaya Gora destroyed one car, scattered and partially destroyed up to one and a half companies, smashed three bunkers and one machine gun, helped repel two attacks of enemy infantry with the fire of his gun; for a week supplied the supported infantry on the front line with ammunition and food. " On November 9, 1943, during the battles on the Chushka spit, the Kerch Peninsula, he received a tangential shrapnel wound in the occipital region of the skull. From November 11, 1943 to February 14, 1944 he was in the hospital. Then he was sent to the unit. On March 16, 1944, the operation to liberate the Crimea began. May 7, 1944 took part in the assault on Sapun Gora. On May 9, 1944, Sevastopol was liberated. On June 6, 1944, in Dubrov, Gomel region, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his participation in the battles for Sevastopol. “In the battles for Sevastopol, he showed heroism and courage in the fight against the German invaders and destroyed 3 bunkers, 4 large-caliber machine guns, 1 mortar battery with his cannon, and crushed 2 enemy batteries and destroyed the infantry before platoon. Moving along with the infantry, his gun destroyed 2 light machine guns with direct fire and knocked out 3 enemy vehicles with retreating infantry. " From July 17 to August 28, 1944 - the Shauliai offensive operation and repulsing enemy counterattacks in the areas west and northwest of Shauliai. On October 20, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, Grade 3 and the Medal For Courage: “When breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses on October 5, 1944, Comrade Arzamastsev's gun destroyed the heavy machine gun, destroyed the bunker and suppressed the fire of the mortar battery. From 7.10.44 to 10.10.44 the gun was in the pursuit group. In the area of Cape Grinkishki, Comrade Arzamastsev knocked out an armored personnel carrier and, with direct fire from his gun, destroyed up to 6 submachine gunners to a squad. " On December 20, 1944, as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front, he broke through the long-term enemy defenses in East Prussia, then blockaded Konigsberg from the southwestern direction. On February 7, 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for battles in the Kunigelen area, East Prussia: “During the offensive battles on January 27, 1945, in the Kunigelen area (East Prussia), being the gunner of 1 gun of the 2 battery, comrade ... Arzamastsev, from an open firing position, shot the counterattacking enemy from his gun at point-blank range. After repelling a counterattack on the battlefield, up to 25 killed, wounded soldiers and officers of the enemy remained. The counterattack was repulsed, and the supported infantry occupied the brick factory without delay or loss. " Then he took part in the East Prussian offensive operation from January 13, 1945 to April 25, 1945, which included the Storm of Konigsberg from April 6 to 9. For which he was awarded the medal "For the capture of Konigsberg". After the capture of the city of Konigsberg on April 11, 1945, the troops began to eliminate the remaining encircled Zemland enemy grouping. Until December 1945, he was at the location of the division in the city of Himmelsberg, after which he was sent to the Kalinin region, Kushalinsky district, for rural work and military training. On February 4, 1947, with a severe concussion, he returned to his native farm, where his sister Maria Emelyanovna and future wife Fedorova Elena Pavlovna were waiting for him. In 1948 the eldest son Anatoly will be born, in 1953 the daughter Nina and in 1959 the youngest son Alexander. But all this time, the concussion made itself felt, at night, in a dream, he also went into battle. It took an operation. He entrusted himself only to his military friend Zhogov Vasily Fedorovich. Unfortunately, the bandage was forgotten during the operation, which led to blood poisoning and death on March 8, 1971 at the age of 48. The funeral took place on his birthday on March 11. After 37 years, the loving couple was reunited.

CITY: s. Kurush, Republic of Dagestan. DATE OF BIRTH: 06/18/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 06/18/2010 HISTORY: In October, in all the mountain villages of Southern Dagestan, another conscription of citizens to the Soviet Army took place. Military commissars had to create temporary evacuation points for recruitment in places convenient for mobilizing citizens who worked in distant pasture farming. At that time, the regions of Southern Dagestan had winter pastures in the Mugan steppe along the Kura river valley on the territory of the Azerbaijan SSR. To call citizens from these places, an evacuation point was created in the area of ​​the Samur River near the so-called "Golden Bridge". From here, the mobilized echelons were sent to Georgia to undergo the course of a young soldier with the subsequent transfer to the active forces. Having quickly passed the basics of knowledge of small arms and regulations, Aslanov Zakhrab in January 1942 was sent to Kharkov, where there were fierce battles for the South-Eastern part of the USSR. The fellow countrymen who arrived with him were assigned to other active military units. The harsh winter of 1942 was not up to everyone. Many highlanders, dressed out of season, not adapting to the climate, and not yet having time to join the battle, froze in the trenches. The same fate befell the soldiers of the Wehrmacht, who counted on an easy summer victory over the USSR. Zahrab, recalling the events of that period, declares that the soldiers who withstood the tests of the war and the harsh 1942, secured the right to life in the following years in the flesh until the Victory over Nazi Germany. Many of the wounds he received during the liberation of Budapest, Zhitomir and Poltava, Zakhrab considers in the order of things in his fate and the fate of every Red Army soldier in the Great Patriotic War. The rapid advance of the Soviet Army to the West forced the German command to clench into a fist to repulse. To this end, it created a powerful military grouping under the code name "South" on the territory of Hungary in the Budapest region with three defensive lines, mainly on the western bank of the Danube River and around Budapest. Guided by the decision of the VGT Headquarters of December 12, 1944, the headquarters of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts developed a plan to encircle and destroy the enemy with the aim of the subsequent liberation of the capital of Hungary. For two months, there were fierce positional battles for every square meter of Hungarian land. Hundreds of Soviet Army soldiers were left to lie in the Danube hills. Here on February 11, i.e. Two days before the end of the all-front operation, the commander of the artillery crew Aslanov Zakhrab received a severe leg injury and a concussion, remaining lying under the overturned artillery mount for more than a day. At that time, some soldiers went to their Victory, others to field sanbats, and still others to mass graves. Zakhrab Yulchievich was picked up from the position as dead, but before being buried, one of the servicemen saw life in him, and he was taken to a field hospital, and then placed on an ambulance train and taken to Molotov. Zakhrab began a struggle for survival, which he with great courage endured while amputating his left leg in the Molotov Hospital for Victory!