Heroes and feats

PATRONITY: Yakovlevich CITY: village Skomovo, Ivanovo region DATE OF BIRTH: 02/27/1941 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: At the beginning of the 19th century, in the village of Skomovo, Turabievskaya volost, Yuryevsky district, Vladimir province, foreman Anisim Petrovich Nikonov lived, who, together with other residents, took an active part in construction of a village church. Anisim, being the son-in-law of Osip Kartsev, became the ancestor of the Anisimov branch, to which my great-grandfather Mikhail Yakovlevich Anisimov, the son of Yakov Vasilyevich Anisimov and Varvara Mikhailovna Filin, belongs. Many of the Anisimov family drew very well, therefore they were hereditary icon painters, and the people had the nickname "Bogomazy". The Anisimovs were prosperous peasants, had about 12 thoroughbred sheep, as well as horses from the Gavrilovo-Posad stud farm. We were migrant workers, that is, we went to work at weaving factories in Yuryev-Polsky, and in the season cultivated the land in order to feed a large family. Since the beginning of the 30s, the family of my great-great-grandfather, Yakov Vasilyevich, son of Vasily Kuzmich Anisimov, was dispossessed ... His wife, my great-great-grandmother Varvara Mikhailovna, was exiled to Siberia as an "enemy of the people" because she saved the temple icons, which they began to burn ... My great-grandfather, although he studied already in the 1920s, received his secondary education according to the old "tsarist" system, having finished 7 classes, about which there was stamped paper. After dispossession of kulaks, Yakov Vasilievich moved to Ivanovo in the Sortirovka area, and his son Mikhail left for Moscow and entered an art school. After completing the first year, he has to leave, as ill-wishers reported that his great-grandfather was the son of a kulak! It was 1937, in May Mikhail Yakovlevich leaves for Vladivostok. From December 7 to December 31, the course "Red directors of the fishing industry" took place. On Sakhalin, my great-grandfather Misha met my great-grandmother Pugach Kilina (Faina) Nikiforovna, who came from a family of Zaporozhye Cossacks. When he saw her, he immediately announced that she would be his wife and let no one touch her! On September 17 of the same year, their wedding took place in the village of Pilvo, Shirokopadsky district. This is how the son of a dispossessed peasant, an "enemy of the people", and the daughter of an ardent Ukrainian revolutionary came together. Mikhail Yakovlevich became a fisherman, later the deputy director of the fish factory for the economic part. In 1938 he became the director of a fish factory in the village of Pogibi (Sakhalin Island). In the same year, his first daughter Anna was born, and three years later, on January 17, his daughter Tamara was born. According to the stories of a relative, even before the war, my great-grandfather traveled all over Sakhalin, including the southern, Japanese, part, dealing with issues of fishing. Supervised fishing vessels, which, in case of war, were supposed to go to the military department and provide for the needs of the front. In August 1941 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. According to the stories of relatives, Faya's great-grandmother recalled that one day, around 1942, he was given a vacation and he came home. Mikhail became very emaciated and his wife tried in every possible way to fatten him up. He went through the entire war and ended it in Japan. He was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan" and a commendation from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief for distinction in the battles against the Japanese imperialists! After the war, in 1946, he took over as director of the Uglegorsk Fish Factory in Lesogorsk (Sakhalin Island). In the same year, the first son Anatoly was born, and in 1949 the second son Alexander was born. Three years later, the youngest son Arkady will be born. In 1950 the whole family moved to Ivanovo. Here, in order to feed his family, he worked in different places: in 1952 he worked at a sawmill, in 1959 he was a carpenter at a w / concrete plant, was a foreman, a production foreman, an engineer. After a quick departure from Sakhalin, my great-grandfather was afraid to occupy high positions, for the rest of his life he was not let go of the thought that he would suddenly have to flee again. Now he was not alone, he had a large family with him. For his high productivity, conscientious attitude to work and active participation, he was awarded a large number of awards and gratitude to his great-grandfather. He was a very kind and gentle person, attracted different people to himself, someone betrayed him, someone helped. And those who helped him were always more. In Ivanovo, my great-grandfather built a large house and started a large farm. I used to make felt boots and do carpentry.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/07/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 12/30/2004 HISTORY: Ivan Ivanovich Alyakhov was born on January 7, 1919 in Siberia and very early was left without a mother, who died after a short illness. He was the firstborn in the family, and it was hard for his father alone with the baby in his arms. And he decided to move to his relatives in the village of Koloshichye, Brasovsky district. Here he met a kind, sympathetic woman, with whom he linked his fate. She became a mother to him and three more children were born in their family: a brother and two sisters. In a friendly peasant family, the children grew up quickly. The time came, and Ivan Ivanovich went to school. He was an inquisitive child and had an interest in many subjects. Having finished eight classes well, he went to work on a collective farm. In September 1939 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. And from June 22, 1941 he became a participant in the Patriotic War. During the war he was wounded twice. But after the hospitals he returned to the front again. He returned from the front in the fall of 1945. In his house he met a girl who at that time rented an apartment from his parents, with whom he linked his further life. Three children were born in his new family, but the eldest died as an infant. In the postwar years, Ivan Ivanovich worked on a collective farm, and in the 70s he worked as head. club of the village of Koloshichye from here and went on a well-deserved rest. In 1986 he moved with his family to the village of Pogreby, where he spent his last years. He did not know how to be bored without work, he constantly made something, decorated the courtyard buildings. In the winter of 2004, he was gone. Then, in order to learn more about his merits during the Great Patriotic War, we studied photocopies of archive award sheets. And from them we learned the following. In September 1939, Ivan Ivanovich Alyakhov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. And from June 22, 1941 he became a participant in the Patriotic War. In the rank of senior sergeant, he was appointed commander of the telephone platoon section of the communications company 1040th rifle regiment. And for many months, he and his comrades laid communication lines between different sectors of the fronts. “During the crossing of the Dnieper River on the night of March 12-16, 1944, Comrade Alyakhov in a boat pulled communications to the right bank of the Dnieper River to the battalion commander. But in the middle of the Dnieper, his boat was pierced by shell fragments, and it began to fill with water. It did not reach 80 meters to the shore, the boat began to sink, but communication was required urgently. Then comrade Alyakhov ordered to pull the connection by swimming and everyone threw themselves into the water. Communication was established from battalion to regiment on time. During the assault on the city of Kherson, comrade Alyakhov pulled the connection to the battalion commander and three Germans met with them along the route. Comrade Alyakhov with a squad quickly entered into battle with them and destroyed them. The connection was again restored on time. And the battalion's leadership of the battle was not interrupted for a minute, because of the precise work. For his courage and initiative, Comrade Alyakhov was awarded a government award of the Order of the Red Star. From a short, specific presentation of a personal military feat or merit dated 03/27/1944. “In the battles with the German invaders in the area of ​​Chikota - Shchetel / Hungary / on March 6, 1945, Comrade Alyakhov proved himself to be a brave, courageous commander. Despite the difficult conditions of the battle, he continuously provided communications to the battalion's combat units. Under heavy fire, he personally eliminated 11 gusts of lines, which ensured the success of the battle. After the enemy went to the rear, comrade Alyakhov organized his platoon to fight the enemy's attacks. And, despite the numerical superiority of the enemy, he managed to defend his lines and inflict great damage on the enemy in manpower and equipment. From a light machine gun he personally destroyed up to 20 Nazis. By a personal example of courage and resilience, he captivated his fighters. Comrade Alyakhov has been awarded a government award of the Order of the Red Star. From a brief, specific presentation of a personal military feat or merit dated March 17, 1945.

CITY: Chuvash ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 10/25/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 06/15/1992 HISTORY: In the Red Army since August 1941. Place of service: 1251 specialist subunit 377 Rifle regiment; 225 Army reserved rifle regiment officer reserve 54 A. Awards, dates and descriptions of feats: 1) Medal for courage, 06/01/1942 - 08/31/1942 For participation in the operations of unblocking Leningrad in the Myasny Bor area. The platoon in which Stepan Alekseevich served, as part of the calculation of the light machine gun, had the task of taking the bunker, near the narrow-gauge railway. At the moment of blocking the bunker, when the enemy's infantry launched a counterattack, a light machine gun in the skillful hands of Stepan Alekseevich blocked the enemy attack, which ensured the platoon the successful completion of the task. The bunker was taken, prisoners were taken, and the garrison was destroyed! At the time of the combat mission, Stepan Alekseevich was slightly wounded, but he did not abandon the light machine gun and continued to smash the enemy until complete destruction, after which he was evacuated to the hospital. Stepan Alekseevich in August 1942, acting on the flank of a platoon having a combat mission to capture the northern outskirts of the settlement, discovered a counter-attacking enemy group and started a firefight with it, as a result of which he was wounded, while he did not leave the battlefield and continued to destroy the enemy. but at the moment of repelling a counter-attack of the enemy he was seriously wounded and evacuated to the hospital. 2) Order of the Patriotic War II degree, 09/21/1942. During the defense of the city of Chudovo, Leningrad region, he was seriously wounded - a shrapnel wound to the left foot and left forearm with damage to the bones. As a result, he received a disability of the II group. 3) Order of the Patriotic War I degree, 10/01/1943 - 10/31/1943 As a submachine gunner of a platoon with a combat mission near Kirishi in October 1943, remove the third line of enemy defense and cut the highway leading to Lobnya, in case of a breakthrough leading edge, the company went on the attack to cut off the enemy's escape route. In the shootout, Stepan Alekseevich was wounded, but remained in the ranks until the combat mission was completed. A day later he was evacuated to the hospital. As a result of the injury, he was discharged for health reasons.

CITY: Novosibirsk region., Dovlensky district, village Utyanka DATE OF BIRTH: 07/19/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 04/04/1993 HISTORY: Participant of the Finnish-Russian war of 1939-1940. Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, the city of Ablov Ilya Mikhailovich Year of birth:1918. Red Army soldier in the Red Army since 1939 Place of birth: Novosibirsk region., Dovlensky district, village Utyanka Record number: 1002343730 Title: private in the Red Army since 02.1940. Place of conscription: Guryevsky Military Commissariat, Kemerovo region, Guryevsky district Record number: 32281204 Father reached Berlin and “signed” on the Reichstag ... ... and left his record ... ABLOV! Ablov I.M. reached the Elbe ... The war for my father ended in May 1946. For another year, Soviet troops were in Germany ... This year my father served in Brandenburg, Rathenov ... ... our father, Ilya Mikhailovich Ablov, served for almost 9 years ... In the fall of 1936 he was drafted into the army ... And in the fall of 1938 he was demobilized ... ... arrived home ... But the Finnish-Russian war began ... ... and again the call ... ... after this war, my father was no longer sent home ... In February 1940 he was sent to study at the regimental school of radiotelephonists (432 howitzer artillery regiment) ... And then ... ... war ... Ablov Ilya Mikhailovich served in the 18th Pomeranian howitzer orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky of the 6th Dvina division of the breakthrough of the Supreme High Command Reserve. Near Moscow Ablova I.M. seriously wounded ... he did not show signs of life ... and lay among friends at the grave ... village Moshki (Torzhok) ... And suddenly ... a woman passing by ... heard groans ... These were the groans of a soldier - Ilya Mikhailovich ... So my father got into the medical battalion ... and survived ... But ... the funeral went home ... Father had a front-line album ... Father began to keep his album after May 9, 1945 ... For another year he served in Germany ... ... he kept the peace on German soil ... ... together with American troops ... Photos were inserted right in the notebook ... and it was called an album ... Note, the war had no nationality ... they were friends without looking at the color of their skin and eye shape ... From May 1945 to May 1946, my father served in Brandenburg, Rathenow ... Therefore, the front-line album was continued already in a German notebook ... And only in May 1946 he was demobilized ... Front awards of Ablov Ilya Mikhailovich: 1. Order of the Red Star. 2. Medal "For Courage". 3. Medal "For the Defense of Moscow". 4. Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". 5. Medal "For the capture of Berlin." 6. Medal "For the victory over Harmania". In 1970, in the city of Torzhok, a meeting of fellow soldiers of the 18th Pomeranian howitzer orders of Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky artillery brigade of the 6th Dvina division of the breakthrough of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command took place. ... after being wounded near Moscow, my father was considered dead for 25 years ... And after he recovered, he served in the same brigade ... And together with his fellow soldiers, he almost "side by side" reached Berlin ... ... but they learned about it 25 years later ... Description of each feat of our father , Ablov Ilya Mikhailovich, and the numbers of orders about his awards, we found on the site "The feat of the people."

CITY: Belousovka village, Pavlogradskiy district, Omsk region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/07/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 04/26/1999 HISTORY: Mikhail Iosifovich Alekseenko was drafted into the army as a conscript born in 1926 and served until he returned to his homeland in the Omsk region in 1950. Upon returning home, a metric was found confirming that he was born on January 7, 1925 in the village of Belousovka, Pavlogradsky district, Omsk region. He graduated from a seven-year school, before the army he worked on a collective farm. It was hard at that time, there was not enough bread, equipment, horses. Mikhail Iosifovich, like his peers, helped their parents, the collective farm, as much as they could. In December 1943, Mikhail Iosifovich, a young youth who did not manage to stand firmly on his feet, went to defend the Motherland from the fascist invaders. Mikhail Iosifovich served in the 148th rifle division of the 1st Ukrainian Front. The division where Aleksey Mikhailovich served successfully routed the enemy in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation. In these battles, the young sergeant was slightly wounded in his right arm, but remained in the ranks. The unit continued the offensive, and together with it and the guard Sergeant Alekseenko participated in the battles for the liberation of the Polish cities of Debica and Krakow. Having burst into the territory of Germany, into the lair of the Nazis, the guardsmen of the 148th rifle division crossed the Oder River. In March, the unit in which Mikhail Iosifovich served took part in the Upper Silesian offensive operation. On March 24, when the village of the Circle of Guards was captured, Sergeant Alekseenko was seriously wounded. The second injury was serious and ended up in the hospital. On March 26, 1945, this was the time when the Soviet army was crushing the enemy in Germany. It was not possible to take part in the capture of Berlin, I learned about the surrender of Germany in the hospital, but the war for Mikhail Iosifovich was not over yet. After being discharged from the hospital, he participated in the war with Japan, and after defeating it, he was in the service for four more years in the Far East, until 1950. While serving in the Far East, he met his wife Anna Ustinovna. He returned to his native land and together with all his fellow villagers to raise the national economy destroyed by the war. In the same year he began to work on the collective farm. Zhdanov. Mikhail Iosifovich Alekseenko worked with full dedication in his native collective farm, this is evidenced by his awards - a pile of certificates of honor and letters of thanks for impeccable work, the medal "For Valiant Labor". For participation in the war he was awarded government awards: medals "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45." and "For the victory over Japan". Mikhailovich Iosifovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Mikhail Iosifovich never received his award for the last battle. Years passed. Together with his wife Anna Ustinovna, they brought up and raised three sons, Alexander, Sergei and Vladimir, and a daughter, Valentina. In 1999, Mikhail Iosifovich Alekseenko passed away. From the award list for the medal "For Military Merit": "Devoted to the cause of the party of Lenin-Stalin and the socialist homeland. Morally stable. Politically developed mediocre. In matters of combat training, he has good grades. Disciplined. Demanding to himself and to his subordinates. He does a lot of education. and training of the personnel of the department. Discipline in the department is good. Classes are able to organize and conduct. Comrade Alekseenko from June 1944 to April 1945 participated in the front of the struggle against the German invaders. 1st Ukrainian front. 60 army 148 guards regiment. In 1945 On March 24, as a squad leader during the capture of the village, Krug was seriously wounded and was sent to the hospital where he was until the day of victory over Germany.Conclusion: For the exemplary performance of the mission of the command of the struggle against the German invaders, it is worthy of being awarded the medal "For Military Merit". "

CITY: s. Penkovo, North Kazakhstan region DATE OF BIRTH: - DATE OF DEATH: 04/21/2015 HISTORY: Dmitry Mikhailovich Averin was drafted into the army on 03/19/1942. Served in 1942-1946. He finished the war in Berlin in 1945 as a company commander, senior lieutenant, in the First Ukrainian Front, the 81st Mountain Brigade. Awards: Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medal "For the capture of Berlin" In 1942, at the age of 19, Dmitry Mikhailovich Averin was drafted into the army in the Central Asian Military District, after which he was immediately sent to higher officer courses. He graduated from the officer training courses "excellently", becoming the commander of a mortar platoon with the rank of junior lieutenant. After completing the courses, the duration of which was about a year, he was sent to Iran, as part of the 53rd Army. Our military units, simultaneously with the British troops, within the framework of Operation "Consent", have been in Iran since August 1941 in order to ensure the military security of both countries in the face of the German threat. In 1944, when the Soviet Army was moving to Berlin with its liberation march, Lieutenant Dmitry Averin was sent to the Western Front, to the 52nd Guards Mechanized Division, commanded by General Kozin Nestor Dmitrievich. The 52nd Division at that time was directly involved in the Vistula-Oder and East Pomeranian operations. During the last operation, the division liberated about 90 settlements, including 8 cities. During the Berlin offensive, a division as part of the 3rd Shock Army was launched on the offensive on April 19, during which it overcame three defensive lines and on the morning of April 21, the first division from the Red Army entered Berlin. Continuing the offensive, the division liberated 120 blocks of the city from April 22 to May 2. As a mortar platoon commander, young lieutenant Dmitry Averin took part in the battles for the liberation of the cities of Leibniz and Breslau. The city of Breslau was destroyed during these battles. Here for the young soldier the war ended. On April 25, 1945, in the area of ​​Torgau on the Elbe, the legendary meeting of Soviet and American troops, known to descendants as the "Meeting on the Elbe", took place. After the declaration of the Great Victory, Dmitry Mikhailovich was sent from Berlin to the German city of Torgau. Until 1946, he was engaged in the repatriation of Soviet prisoners of war, that is, he returned to their homeland all Soviet people who were captured by the Nazis. He accompanied full trains all the way to the Polish border. Here he met and fell in love with his future wife, Vera. This was followed by a return to his small homeland, in the city of Petropavlovsk, Kazakh SSR, where he taught mathematics at school, and then was the director of school No. 3 in the city of Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan region. Died on April 21, 2015, at the 93rd year of life.

CITY: Krasnoyarsk district, Achinsky district, village V-Kumyrka. DATE OF BIRTH: 10/30/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 02/17/2013 HISTORY: On March 4, 1943, he was drafted into the USSR Armed Forces, served in the city of Achinsk (128 reserve regiment) until August 1943. The combat path took place on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. (2nd Baltic Front, 10th Army, 15th Corps). November 1, 1943 wounded in the temple tangentially. 1.5 months was in the hospital (Lithuanian military hospital, November-December 1943) 93 Guards. regiment, separate guards p. uch. battalion com. Hero of the Soviet Union, Major Ivan Tretyak (in the future Army General, Commander of the Belarusian and Far Eastern Military Districts), 29th Yelninskaya Red Banner Far East str. Division, sniper. On August 27, 1944, he was wounded by a shrapnel in the back near the lake. October 1944-January 1945 249 Guards regiment, 85 divisions, mortar 120 mm. mortars. On January 10, 1945, the sled Erokhin asked: "Ivan, I am frozen, I will walk, and you drive the horses." He sat down and heard a click, and then there was an explosion, got up and lost consciousness. The grenade exploded well, the rest were without fuses. The wound was in the right buttock. 3.5 months in the hospital (January-April 1945) field hospital 4173. On May 9, 1945, a mare was foaled, the foal was named Victory. April-October 1945 - 293 art. battalion, telephone operator. July 1-19, 1945 suffered from jaundice (2548 ev. hospital). On September 25, 1945, a decree was issued on the demobilization of military personnel. November 1, 1945 came home from the front. After the war, he worked in the village of Kumyrka as an accountant, in the village of Borsugash as a milkman. Since 1955, the Krasnoyarsk Territory has lived, Emelyanovskiy District, Arey settlement, until his retirement he worked as Ch. state farm accountant. Awarded with the Order of Gloryof the 3rd degree (using sniper fire near the village of Gnilukha, he destroyed 10 Germans), the medal "For Victory over Germany" and the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree. Compiled by the son of Viktor Ivanovich Abramenko, e-mail arei13@ya.ru

CITY: Moscow DATE OF BIRTH: 12/27/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 07/27/1976 HISTORY: In 1939 he graduated from the 10th grade of school and entered the Moscow Automotive Institute. On December 13, 1939, he was drafted by the Soviet Military Commissariat into the ranks of the Navy. He was enlisted in the communications company of the first special brigade of the marine corps as a Red Navy. From February 23 to March 13, 1940 he participated in battles with the White Finns as part of the 1st Marine Forces. At the end of the war he served on the Karelian Isthmus in the town of Koivisto. In June 1941, his unit was transferred to Tallinn, Estonian SSR. On July 13, 1941, the 1st Special Marine Brigade entered the battle with the fascist invaders. From 24 August she took part in the defense of Tallinn. On August 26, the order of the command was received to cover the evacuation from Tallinn. On the night of August 28, the brigade, which included Mikhail, was ordered to leave combat positions and go to the harbor to be loaded onto ships. But she could not dive, since on the morning of August 28, aviation and artillery began to bomb the port actively. The order was given: to break up into small groups and make their way along the enemy's rear to Leningrad. Over 250 km they made their way through forests and swamps without food. The ammunition has run out. Everyone was very tired. In the area of ​​the city of Rakvere, they were taken prisoner. Mikhail Mikhailovich ended up in a camp in the city of Vilyandi. In 1942 he was transferred to Pskov, then to Narva and later to Pärnu and Sake (in Courland (Latvia)), where he remained until the end of the war. On May 9, 1945, after the surrender of the Courland grouping, he was liberated by units of the 55th Army of the Baltic Fleet. He was sent to Spies Must Die, where he stayed until June 20, 1945. After checking, he was sent to the 149th Army Reserve Regiment to serve as a private. On August 7, 1945, he was enlisted in the Army Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Sevastopol Regiment, where he stayed until October 1945. On October 20, 1945, he was enrolled in the divisional school of cadets. On June 1, 1946, he was demobilized and returned to Moscow. He recovered at the institute, after which he was assigned to the Hammer and Sickle plant in Kharkov as a design engineer. He worked at the Ministry of Construction and Road Engineering.

CITY: Malye Golubochki village, Arsenyevsky district, Tula region. DATE OF BIRTH: 03.12.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 22.05.2009 HISTORY: My dad, Dmitry Vasilyevich Astakhov was born on December 3, 1923 in the village of Malye Golubochki, Tula Region. He graduated from 10 classes in June 1941. He was preparing to go to Leningrad at the Naval School, but eventually became a signalman, completing an accelerated course at the Voronezh Military School of Communications in Samarkand. Upon graduation, he was sent to the Novosibirsk region. in the 29th separate ski brigade as a radio platoon commander. On January 11, 1943, the brigade was sent to the front in an echelon. They arrived at their destination on February 10, 1943. They entered the 60th Army of the Central Front under the command of General of the Army Rokossovsky and took up defensive positions on the Kursk Bulge (from the end of March to the beginning of July 1943). Fierce battles on the Kursk salient began on June 5, 1943.The brigade became part of the 112th Rifle Division of the 13th Army Colonel General Pukhov. The offensive began on 13 July. The 1st Ukrainian Front was formed and the 13th Army entered this front. The task of the communications platoon, which was commanded by the Pope, was to provide constant reliable communications to the command of the division. After crossing the Desna, the battle for the Dnieper began. At the end of September 1943, the Dnieper was crossed over a temporary bridge and two communication lines were laid - air and underwater. The left flank of the 1st Ukrainian Front liberated the city of Kiev. The division, continuing the offensive, went to the town of Korosten and liberated it. The division was named the 112th Rylsko - Korosten Infantry Division. At the beginning of February 1944, the division took part in the liberation of the city of Rivne, and by the end of April entered the area of ​​the city of Brody, Lviv region. In July 1944, the city of Lviv was liberated.Forcing the San River, they liberated the city of Rzeszow on Polish territory and rushed to the city of Sandomierz on the Vistula River. Signalers worked in the sweat of their brow, sometimes not keeping up with the advancing infantry. It was necessary to remove the laid communication line, catch up with the division headquarters and, in the new area, establish communications from the division headquarters to the regiment headquarters. This is how my father's difficult, selfless front line continued. On April 20, 1945, the division arrived at Breslau (now the Polish Wroclaw), and soon the regiment commander received an order to attack from the eastern side of the surrounded city. Fierce fighting broke out in the streets of Breslau. Berlin was taken on May 2, 1945. The encircled group in Breslau became more accommodating. On May 5, as a result of a bilateral meeting in Deutsch Lees, the commander of the Breslau garrison signed a surrender order. Date of acceptance of surrendered troops - May 7, 1945. In total, 49 thousand soldiers and officers were received during the whole day. All were saved with their lives, awards and personal belongings. The combat path of my father was marked with three Orders of the Red Star, two Orders of the Great Patriotic War and many medals. After the war, dad graduated from the Academy of Communications in Leningrad and continued to serve at the Ryazan Higher Military School of Communications as a teacher. In 1974 he went into the reserve. From 1974 to 1996 worked at the Ryazan Instrument Plant and only in October 1996 went on vacation. Eternal glory to the soldiers who fought for our Motherland! Blessed memory of the heroes who gave their lives for the Fatherland!

CITY: Uglovka settlement DATE OF BIRTH: 10/29/1915 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Mikhail Fadeevich Afanasyev was born on October 29, 1915 in the village of Uglovka, Okulovsky district. In his youth he was drafted into the Red Army. After graduating from the regimental school and courses he studied at the military artillery school, but did not graduate, since the war began. It found a young artilleryman with the rank of junior lieutenant near Tallinn. In mid-August 1941, the evacuation of troops by sea from Tallinn began. MF Afanasyev and his comrades got to the ship "Luga". During the passage, the ship was subjected to a torpedo attack by the enemy. One of the torpedoes hit the target. Together with many others, Mikhail Fadeevich found himself in the water. I managed to catch hold of a floating, empty cable reel. Later, the survivors were picked up from the water by teams of sailors on boats specially directed for this purpose. Then there was a way by sea to Kronstadt. Subsequently, M.F. Afanasyev had a chance to fight near Leningrad. In an artillery regiment, he commanded a battery. He was wounded several times. After one of the battles, doctors removed more than three hundred fragments from his body. During the battle at the Pulkovo Heights, a mine explosion almost blew off his right arm. It took him two days to get to the hospital, where a young surgeon performed a unique operation at that time and saved his hand. Having recovered from his wounds, he returned to combat formation. After the blockade of Leningrad was lifted, Mikhail Fadeevich, with the rank of major, fought in the 2nd Belorussian Front, and then on the 1st Belorussian Front. His artillery group took part in the capture of Berlin. Having reached the capital of Nazi Germany, Mikhail Afanasyev signed on the wall of the Reichstag. For his courage and heroism shown in battle, he was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner. The award was presented to the hero personally by Marshal Zhukov. He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and 9 medals. He has the Order of Alexander Nevsky, which he was awarded for the development and implementation of an operation behind enemy lines near Narva. Returning to a peaceful life, the former front-line soldier proved himself equally worthy in his creative work. M.F. Afanasyev had to work in very responsible positions, in particular, as the director of the gortop, the regional industrial complex, the deputy director of bargaining for personnel, the head of the department of the district party committee, etc. And in any assigned area of ​​work, Mikhail Fadeevich was distinguished by competence, an exclusive attitude to his official duties, and adherence to principles. It is no coincidence that he was awarded medals "For Labor Valor", "Veteran of Labor". And MF Afanasyev was actively involved in social activities. This is difficult to imagine, but it is a fact: for more than half a century he was a people's assessor in court. For many years Mikhail Fadeevich worked in the Council of War and Labor Veterans. He is married to Elena Timofeevna Afanasyeva, nee Bogdanova, whom he met in 1940. The couple raised and gave birth to five children - three daughters and two sons.

CITY: the village of Shlangi, Drozhzhanovsky District, Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic DATE OF BIRTH: 04/15/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 07/01/1986 HISTORY: Aisin Khasiyat Salakhovich was born on April 15, 1918 in the village of Shlanga Drozhzhanovsky District of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in the family of a collective farmer. Tatar by nationality, non-partisan, education of the 2nd class. He worked as a collective farmer at the "Avangard" state farm. He was married to Aisina Emmegelsum Abdullatovna born in 1919. Six children were born in the marriage: Aisina Fauzia Khasiyatovna, Aisina Nurgizya Khasiyatovna, Aisin Khriyatulla Khasiyatovich, Aisin Rafik Khasiyatovich, Aisin Rasik Khasiyatovich, Aisina Farida Khasiyatovna. At the age of 24, Khasiyat Salakhovich, like many others, paid a debt to the Motherland. He went to war. On March 12, 1942, the Drozhzhanovsky Military Commissariat of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Aisin Khasiyat Salakhovich, was drafted into military service together with his brothers Aisin Nuretdin Salakhovich, Aisin Kasym Salakhovich, Aisin Arif Salakhovich. Written contact with the brothers was lost in 1943. They were recognized as missing. He took the oath of allegiance on July 12, 1943, with the 285th mortar regiment with the rank of private. His military specialty was - 82 mm mortar and 120 mm. mortars. From March to April 1942 he served as a shooter in the 327th reserve rifle regiment. From April to August 1942 he served as a 120 mm mortarman in the 205 mortar regiment. From August 1942 to 1943 he served as a mortarman in the 288th mortar regiment. On August 9, 1943, he received a slight blind shrapnel wound to the right half of the chest near the city of Kharkov. Until September 1943 he was undergoing treatment at the 7th military hospital №1108. After recovering, he re-entered military service and from September to October 1943 was in the position of mortar officer of the 5th Guards Mortar Regiment. After a month of service, he again had to undergo treatment in the 7th military hospital No. 35603. In November 1943, he fought in the 8th artillery regiment as a 120mm mortar gunner. And already from the end of November 1943 to March 1946 in the 209 mortar regiment as a 120 mm mortar operator. Hasiyat Salakhovich was awarded the medal "For Courage". From the text of order No. 05 / n dated 05/18/1945, one can learn about the feat of our grandfather: “three gunners of the second battery, 209th Mortar Order of Bogdan-Khmelnitsky Regiment of Private Aisin Khasiyat Salakhovich during the period of battles on 20.22.04.1945 in the area Troppau (Czechoslovakia) in the offensive zone of the 472 Rifle Regiment, 100 Rifle Division, 60 Army, 4 Ukrainian Front, Comrade Aisin skillfully, quickly and accurately pointed his mortar at the indicated targets. 04/21/1945 the installer of the calculation was out of order, where the gunner Aisin, comrade Aisin worked for himself and for the installer, ensuring uninterrupted firing from the mortar. " In addition, he was awarded medals "for the victory over Germany", "Order of the Fatherland II degree". After the end of the war, he returned home to his village. He continued to work at the "Avangard" state farm, joined the party. Aisin Hasiyat Salakhovich died in 1985 at the age of 67. He was buried in the village of Shlanga, Drozhzhanovsky district of the Tatar ASSR. Our grandfather Aisin Khasiyat Salakhovich participated in the Great Patriotic War of the Central Front, 1 Ukrainian Front, 2.4 Ukrainian Fronts as part of the 209 mortar regiment as a mortarman from April 1942 to May 1945. We, grandchildren, proudly carry the memory of him to the present day. We pass this pride to our great-grandchildren.

CITY: Lug, Leningrad Region DATE OF BIRTH: 12/10/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 12/17/1997 HISTORY: Born on December 10, 1910 in Luga, Leningrad Region, in a large peasant family. In 1926 she came to Leningrad to work. She worked as a nanny in the Nepman family, and then as a worker at industrial enterprises in Leningrad. Since 1935 she sailed on ships of the merchant fleet of the Soviet Union. I have visited many countries of the world. In the first days of the war, the ship's crew was in Tallinn. She took part in the tragic Tallinn crossing. From the very beginning of the war, she worked at the Leningrad Defense Plant. She survived the blockade of Leningrad. In 1943 she was drafted to the front. She fought in combat units of the Red Banner Baltic Front. She was an anti-aircraft gunner. She fought at the Oranienbaum patch and in Kronstadt. As part of the advanced units of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, she reached Konigsberg, took part in the hardest battles for this impregnable German fortress. In 1944 she returned to Leningrad and again, before retirement, worked as a highly qualified drill operator at a defense industry enterprise. She was actively involved in social work: she was a member of the trade union committee of the plant, a brigade leader of a communist labor brigade, a member of the comrades' court of the shop. Repeatedly won the socialist competition at her native plant. She proudly bore the high title of "Drummer of Communist Labor". I was very proud of all this. For participation in the Great Patriotic War and military services she was awarded many front-line awards - the Order of the Great Patriotic War II degree and medals, including - "For the Defense of Leningrad" and "For the capture of Konigsberg." Evgenia Antonovna lived a difficult, but bright and interesting life. She dearly loved our Motherland, deservedly was proud of the high title of the Participant of the Great Patriotic War. May 9, on Victory Day, she always wore military awards. Evgenia Antonovna was a very strong and strong-willed person. Neither the 900 most difficult and terrible days of the Leningrad blockade, nor the hardships and privations that fell to her at the front, nor the difficulties of the first post-war years, broke her. Personal life was also not easy. In the most difficult periods of her life, she remained calm, confident in her abilities, the conviction that kindness, caring attitude to those close to her and those around her, disinterestedness, willingness to help a person in a difficult life situation, optimism and faith in a good human principle is the natural state of a person. Such an understanding of human existence has always helped her and filled her difficult life with deep human content, meaning and dignity. Yevgenia Antonovna until the end of her days was in the thick of the events surrounding her, led, as far as possible, an active lifestyle. She loved to visit theaters, film premieres, concerts, she was very fond of ballet and classical music. Until the last days of her life, courageously overcoming a serious illness, she was interested in everything that was happening around. Until the very last days of her life, Evgenia Antonovna remained a caring and gentle mother. Evgenia Antonovna died on December 17, 1997 and was buried in the Yuzhnoye cemetery of Leningrad.

CITY: Petrosashen village, Hadrut region, Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Okrug DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 04/27/2020 HISTORY: Private guard Arustam Arakelovich Hayrapetyan (1919-1993) - - invalid of the Great Patriotic War, commander of the gun crew of the 19th Guards artillery regiment High Command Reserve. As an artilleryman (the commander of a 122 mm gun crew), a participant in the Soviet-Finnish and World War II, he survived during the defensive battles for Sevastopol, Stalingrad and the Caucasus, during the liberation of the cities of Crimea: Kerch and Sevastopol, Ukraine and Poland, but died from hands of non-humans, during the well-known events in Nagorno-Karabakh. He was wounded, the last - in the battles for Poland. My grandfather talked about the deaths of many Red Army soldiers during the landing on the Crimean coast (during a storm they jumped onto sheer cliffs). According to his grandfather, despite the fact that he was the commander of the gun crew, he went on reconnaissance more than once, incl. behind the "language". For a number of successful actions, in addition to medals, he was twice presented for orders. The fate of these documents is not known (the award lists have not yet been displayed on the "People's feat" website). I know the name of only one of the military units where my grandfather fought: the 19th Guards Artillery Regiment of the RGK. My grandfather's military ID, issued on February 23, 1939, has survived. He was drafted by the Hadrut military Commissariat of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous District. The date of demobilization from the army due to another injury and disability was September 8, 1944 (EG-1244). Awards: Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (1985), medals "For Courage" (2), "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Defense of Sevastopol", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", as well as all commemorative medals up to 1990 inclusive. After being cured of the Great Patriotic War, A.A. Ayrapetyan (fingers on one of his hands were amputated), in the fall of 1944 he returned to his native village, started a family, was engaged in agriculture, hunting. Together with his wife, they gave birth and raised 5 children (from whom 21 grandchildren and granddaughters, a huge number of great-grandchildren).

CITY: Saitovka village, Pochinkovsky district, Gorky region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/07/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 08/08/2001 HISTORY: Father - Alabin Stepan Fedorovich, mother - Alabina Agrafena Timofeevna, died in childbirth when her son was about two years old. The father married stepmother and lived with her all his life. The stepmother had her own children. They did not have common children. My father had a mill on the Alatyr River. In the village of Saitovka, the family had half a house. The first floor of the house was made of bricks, the second was wooden. During collectivization, my father refused to join the collective farm. For this he was exiled together with Stepan into exile to the Urals. There they lived in the cities of Magnitogorsk and Solikamsk. Then they returned to their homeland. Before being drafted into the army, Stepan lived in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) and was drafted into the army from there in September 1941. The war found him while serving in the army. At the front he was a chauffeur, carried ammunition. Once an enemy shell hit the car, Stepan miraculously remained intact - the overcoat suffered - its bottom to the belt was torn off, as if cut off. During one of the offensives of our troops, he was wounded. The orderlies were rescued - they pulled out of the funnel from the shell and taken to the sanitary battalion. From there he came out without the hair on his head, which grew after a while. With the rank of "lieutenant", he was demoted to the rank and file, for saying that the allies would come to the rescue when the superiority of forces was on the side of the USSR. During the service he drove the general, with whom we sometimes dined in private restaurants in Poland and Romania. They did not always take money from them for lunch, explaining that to see how the general and the soldier had dinner together, many visitors came and the owner had big profits because of this. While crossing the river, he was an accidental witness of how soldiers threw a grenade at the officer's car, who just shot a soldier who was lingering on the bridge. After the war, Stepan came home with a broken buckle of the officer's belt, he said that the buckle saved his life - a mine fragment interrupted her, punched a tunic, but his undershirt remained intact. After the end of the war, he took part in the liquidation of gangs and illegal groups in Ukraine. The servicemen were put on train platforms with orders to shoot anyone who tried to attack and rob a passing train. He was demobilized in the fall of 1947 after a letter from his father to the military registration and enlistment office stating that his parents were old and could not do without the help of his son. Stepan was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree in 1985, and medals. Upon returning home to the village of Nikaevka, Bolsheboldinsky district of the Gorky region, to his parents, he married Sbitneva Vera Nikolaevna, also a native of the village of Saitovka, with whom they lived their whole life in perfect harmony and had six children. After Stepan never told the horrors of the war. He told about the life of people abroad or funny and kind stories from the front. He worked on a collective farm, and then in the forestry as a forester. He loved working with wood, loved books, periodicals.

CITY: Yeysk, Krasnodar Territory DATE OF BIRTH: 08/10/1914 DATE OF DEATH: 09/19/1994 HISTORY: Alaferdov Alexander Galustovich was born on August 10, 1914 in the city of Yeisk, Kuban Region (now Krasnodar Territory). In 1924, he graduated from the 4th grade of primary school in the village of Staroshcherbinovskaya, and in 1929 his family moved to the city of Taganrog. There Alexander graduated from the factory apprenticeship school (Factory and workshop education), having received not only a working specialty, but also a document on 7-year education. He worked as a mechanic in factories. After conscript service in the Red Army (1936-1939), which he passed in Rostov-on-Don, he moved to the Krasnodar Territory, where he worked as the head of the trade department of the Slavic Fish Cooperative in the village of Achuevo. Then he became a cadet of the Vinnitsa (2nd Krasnodar) military infantry school, which was stationed in the Kuban. Upon completion, he was left in it by the platoon commander. In early July 1942, a rifle regiment was formed from the cadets of the school, which hastily departed to defend Stalingrad. In total, according to the directive of the Headquarters, cadet regiments of 12 military schools were urgently sent to the fiery borders of the city on the Volga to cover the withdrawal of our troops. Fighting heavy bloody battles, these regiments with their heroic resistance thwarted the plan of the fascist command - on the move, to capture Stalingrad by 25 July. In August 1942, in the area of ​​the Tinguta station (now the Svetloyarsk district of the Volgograd region), the regiment of the Vinnytsia school, finding itself completely surrounded, fiercely fought against the German fascist invaders for three days. Few were lucky to break through to their own people: most of the cadets died, wounded or shell-shocked were taken prisoner. Among those who were captured was Alexander Alaferdov, who managed to bury his personal documents before being captured. Apparently, taking this into account, after the liberation of January 27, 1943 by Soviet troops from Nazi captivity at the Peschanokopskoye station of the Rostov region, he was able to pass a check in the city of Salsk and was sent by an ordinary soldier to the Miussky sector of the front - there were fierce battles to break through a heavily fortified defense and experienced fighters were very much needed. He began to fight again as a sapper in the 152nd Rifle Brigade, which in May 1943 was reorganized into the 118th Rifle Division. As part of the 463rd Infantry Regiment of this division, he reached the den of the fascist beast. There is also his contribution to the fact that by the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief on October 23, 1943, the 118th Infantry Division, among other formations and units that distinguished themselves in the battles for the liberation of the city of Melitopol, was named "Melitopol", and on September 1, 1944, the 463rd the rifle regiment was awarded the honorary name "Vislensky". November 8, 1943 "for the excellent performance of the command assignments for reconnaissance, mining and demining", as well as the construction of stairs through the anti-tank escarpment during the October offensive battles in the Melitopol district of the Zaporozhye region - a sapper platoon of the 463rd Infantry Regiment of the 118th Infantry Division, Red Army Alexander Alaferdov is awarded a medal "For Military Merit". In August 1944, Aleksandr Alaferdov distinguished himself in the battles for the Blizzard settlement: when enemy tanks and machine gunners broke into the area of ​​the command post, he "participated in repelling their attack and destroyed four German machine gunners." And on August 21, 1944, the medal "For Courage" became a well-deserved reward for the junior sergeant, assistant commander of the sapper platoon Alexander Alaferdov. On October 6, 1944, senior sergeant Alexander Alaferdov was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. On February 16, 1944, he was awarded the Order of Glory, II degree. On February 22, 1945, operating south of the city of Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), Sergeant Major Alexander Alaferdov led a group of sappers that removed 70 anti-tank mines, 19 of them on his personal account. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated June 27, 1945, for exceptional courage, courage and fearlessness at the final stage of the Great Patriotic War, Sergeant Major Alaferdov Alexander Galustovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree. Became a full Knight of the Order of Glory. In August 1945, Alexander Alaferdov was demobilized and transferred to the reserve with the rank of lieutenant, returned to the Kuban. He lived in the village of Sadovy, Slavyansky district, worked at the state farm "Sad-Gigant", as a skipper at the landing stage of the Slavyanskaya pier, as a labor teacher in secondary school No. 8. He became one of the first in the region as the head of a peasant farm. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. Alexander Galustovich Alaferdov died on December 19, 1994, was buried in the Alley of Heroes at the cemetery of the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban. In honor of the full holder of the Order of Glory, Alexander Galustovich Alaferdov, a stele was installed in the 40 Years of Victory park in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban, and in the village of Sadovoye one of the streets was named after him.