Heroes and feats

CITY: Tulan village, Molotovsky district, Kirov region. RSFSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01/27/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 04/05/2004 HISTORY: ARTEMIEV Vasily Ivanovich (1918-2004) was born and raised in a strong peasant family, which in the early 1920s moved from the Kirov region to the Urals, to Bashkiria. Ivan Gerasimovich, a full holder of the orders of soldier's glory, fought in Japan and the First World War, and a respectful attitude towards military service was instilled in the family of his sons. Vasily did not have a chance to engage in everyday peasant labor, his father sent him to study and gave him a good education at that time - 7 classes, and at the age of 20 he was called up to serve in the Red Army. I had to serve in the Far East and even take part in the events of the military conflict with the Japanese military on Lake Khasan, where the commanders drew the attention of the commanders to him, a savvy and disciplined fighter. After the first year of service Artemiev V.I. was sent to the Omsk Military Artillery School, which he successfully graduated in May 1941 and was assigned to the Moscow Military District. For the first time in Moscow, a new unit, new comrades and commanders, the beginning of service, long-term plans. But the war that began on June 22 made its own adjustments. Almost immediately, the rifle unit in which he served was transferred closer to the front line, namely to Vinnitsa in Ukraine, where the most difficult battles took place. With encirclements and retreats throughout the summer of the first year of the war, the Red Army fought with the Nazis for every village, for every city, and in these battles they gained military experience, at the cost of heavy losses they learned to fight. Lieutenant Artemyev Vasily Ivanovich, in the position of commander of a rifle platoon, 232 rifle division as part of the 2nd Ukrainian Front went through the entire war with battles liberating cities and villages of Ukraine, took part in the battles for Kiev, where the enemy was reliably fortified and it was not easy. Vasily Ivanovich not only commanded gun crews, firing at enemy positions, but also made sorties with a platoon into enemy territory, occupied heights, suppressing machine-gun nests and ensuring the offensive of our soldiers !! It was as if the native land took care of it, not a single serious injury to the very border with Europe. First Romania and then Bulgaria. The enemy dug in seriously, fortified positions of concrete and iron were built, the battle was fought for every meter of land. In the same place in Romania, in a trench, and not in a solemn atmosphere, he and his comrades were awarded military orders - the Red Star and the Patriotic War 1 degree. In the battles for the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv, he received serious shrapnel wounds and contusion, the enemy's shell exploded almost nearby, then 9 months of hospitalization and write-off from the Armed Forces. Long treatment in a hospital, 9 months, on the territory of Hungary, and after that by that time the war ended and all officers who were seriously injured were written off to civilian service without asking their consent. Only two returned from those called up from the large village of Bakaly - Vasily and his friend, a school friend. This friend was found more than 20 years later by an award - the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. And then - a peaceful life, work on the development of a new branch of the economy - oil and gas. Creating a family, teaching at Kazan University and business trips to develop deposits. In the family of Vasily Ivanovich there were four children who were interested in their father's military past, for which he received orders, but he only brushed off: “Yes, I'm like everyone else! Nothing interesting ... ”I did not like to watch films about the war, but if I did, then with tears in my eyes. He died of oncology at the age of 86.

CITY: Tula DATE OF BIRTH: 02/08/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 05/24/2017 HISTORY: When the Great Patriotic War began, Lev Dmitrievich Abakumov graduated from the 9th grade of high school. When he came to the recruiting office with a request to send him to the front line, he was refused, citing his age. A year later, after graduating from the 10th grade of high school, he came to the military registration and enlistment office again and was sent to the Leningrad military school for accelerated courses for the training of miners. But again they failed to get to the front. In 1943, by order of Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin, Lev Dmitrievich was sent to study at the Higher Military Engineering School of the Red Army (the future Kuibyshev Academy). In 1948 he graduated from the Academy with the rank of a military civil engineer and a junior lieutenant. Abakumov L.D. served in the active army for 32 years. He served in Rivne, Lviv region, Klyosov, Leningrad region, in Arkhangelsk, Chukotka, in Moscow. He worked at the Central Design Institute of the Ministry of Defense as a chief project engineer. He was directly involved in the construction of the Baikonur cosmodrome. He was engaged in the construction of ground-based facilities necessary for tracking space satellites and ships from the Earth. As a specialist in the construction of antenna systems, he was sent to Cuba and Mongolia. After leaving the Armed Forces, he worked as a civil engineer. In 1991 he retired. But he couldn’t sit around. Died Abakumov L.D. May 24, 2017 at the age of 93. For many years and impeccable service in the army, Colonel Abakumov Lev Dmitrievich was awarded the following awards: Medals: "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." "XX Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "XXX Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "XXXX years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "55 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "60 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War"; "In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Soviet army and navy"; “In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Armed Forces of the USSR 1918-1958. "; "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; “For military valor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of VI Lenin”; Jubilee medal "Veteran of the Baikonur Cosmodrome"; "For Service in the Far East"; “120 years since the birth of I.V. Stalin "; "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow."

HISTORY: Rank: Major. Type of troops: engineering troops. Autobiography. "I, Esipov Alexander Konstantinovich, was born in 1893, on June 25, in the city of Yuryev-Polsky of the former Vladimir province in the family of a professor, surgeon of Moscow University Esipov K.A., by descent from the bourgeoisie. Father until the day of his death in 1935 replaced department at 1 and 2 Moscow State University - no one of the relatives was subjected to repression by the Soviet government and there was no one abroad, and there was no one in captivity and there was no one, as well as in the temporarily occupied areas. Party candidate No. 5569487 from 1943 from 12 July. In 1917 he graduated from the Don Polytechnic Institute and from 1918 from November to 1922 he was in the ranks of the Red Army on mobilization. Since 1922 he held the position of chief engineer of construction projects of union significance, such as the Kerch Metallurgical Plant, construction of the Uralstalmet plant. "," Chelyabtraktorstroy "," Rezinokombinat ". He was not under trial and investigation. He was not subjected to repressions from the Soviet government. In 1938, on special conscription, he was admitted to the audience. ... them. Kuibyshev, from which he graduated in 1941 and was sent to the North-West front. Married, have a daughter, adopted in 1944, taken from an orphanage - a deceased commander at the front. "Military biography. From September 1938 to October 1941 he studied at the Kuibyshev Military Engineering Academy, graduated from the Engineering and Command Faculty. From October 1941 to March 1942 - commander of the Separate front-line sapper battalion Order No. 1330 of the North-Western Front from March 1942 to July 1942 - wound, hospital, Valdai city, EP-61 From July 1942 to December 1942 - commander of a separate engineering battalion No. 178 41 Special Forces Engineer Brigade of the NWF. From December 42 to 12.03.43 - Chief of the Operations Department of the 41st Special Forces Engineer Brigade of the NWF. From 12.03.43 to June 1943 - Divisional Engineer 182 Rifle Division of the 27th Army of the NWF. July 1943 - September 1943 He was a teacher of fortification of the officers' reserve of the Engineering Forces of the NWFR Order of the Northwestern Federal District No.-632 dated July 20, 1943. November 1943 - September 1944 - at the disposal of the Chief of the officer reserve of the Engineering Forces of the Red Army. 44 of November 19, 1943 September 1944 - March 17, 1947 - commander of the 221st separate demining detachment, Order of NIVKA (Chief Engineer of the Red Army Troops) No. 0813 of September 30, 1944

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Artillery Unit: 1st Motorized Rifle Proletarian Moscow Order of Lenin Red Banner Division Eliseev Pyotr Vasilyevich was drafted into military service in 1921. In 1924. Graduated from the Saratov Infantry School of RKK commanders. Served in the artillery units of the Red Army in Miass, in the Chita region, at the Divisional station of the Trans-Baikal railway, in the village. Datsan in the Far East. From 1939 to 1941 served in Mongolia. In 1939, under the command of G.K. Zhukov, the chief of artillery of the 36th Motorized Rifle Division, Major P.V. Eliseev. took part in battles on the Khalkhin-Gol river. 03/27/1941. Lieutenant Colonel P.V. Eliseev was appointed chief of artillery of the 1st Moscow Motorized Rifle Division. June 24, 1941 as part of this division went to the front. He took an active part in the fierce battles near Orsha. Awarded with the Order of the Red Banner (not awarded). From the award list: For 12 days of the battle, personally supervised the combat work in the lower levels of the artillery units and carried away the personnel with his courage and bravery. He perfectly applied his extensive experience and knowledge of the matter in battle. He skillfully distributed artillery weapons in the most important sectors of the defense. After these battles, the division was surrounded. Some of the personnel broke through with battles at the location of the Soviet troops, some were taken prisoner. Until recently, Lieutenant Colonel P.V. Eliseev was reported missing. But as a result of searches, he was found in the lists of prisoners of war in the Langendorf camp, there were two escapes from the camps, he was transferred to the Gestapo in Carlsbad, he died in the Flossenbürg death camp on 09/10/1943. The burial place has not been established. Awarded: the Order of the Red Star - 1936, the Order of the Red Banner - 1939, the Order of the Red Banner - 1941.

Rank: Junior Sergeant Type of Troops: Aviation My great-grandfather Elin Alexander Lavrentievich went through the whole war. I know my great-grandfather only from my mother's stories. He fought bravely and made it to Berlin. He returned home only two years after the war. Great-grandfather was a junior sergeant in the 146th air depot. As my mother says, my great-grandfather did not like to talk about the war, and always tried to laugh it off or turn the conversation to another topic. She said: “When we pestered him with questions, he gently patted us on the head and smiled, but his eyes became so sad. At these moments, he seemed to be peering into the distance. Until now, my mother remembers his grandfather's hands. He had only three fingers on each hand, the little and ring fingers were tightly pressed to the palm, as if bent into a fist ... Once she asked her grandfather: "Why do you have such hands?" My grandfather said that during the war, they washed aircraft parts with kerosene or gasoline, so they were drawn. "Grandfather, is it scary in war?" "It's scary, guys, oh, how scary," answered the grandfather and held us tightly to him. " Our great-grandfather met the Great Victory in the city of Bernau, a few dozen kilometers from Berlin. After the declaration of surrender, he was in Germany for another two years. Our soldiers had to fight for another two long years. They extinguished the last hotbeds of war. At home he was considered missing. Great-grandfather died in October 1998. He lived a long life, but took the details of the terrible war with him. Kirill Prokopenko, 15 years old MCOUDO "Center for Continuing Education for Children" Novosibirsk Region

Rank: Major Type of troops: Aviation Subdivision: 5th Guards Bomber Aviation Orsha Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division Baytursun Eserkepov was born on November 6, 1917, in the village of Taldarykh, Taldy-Kurgan region, Alma-Ata region. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1935. Granddaughter: "... About my grandfather Zhakipbek Serbaev wrote here:" ... Someone, and Baytursun Eserkepov had the undoubted right to be called the same age as the revolution. Like many weather girls, there was a difficult, half-starved childhood, early orphanhood. He would die if would not have ended up in one of the orphanages created by the Soviet government. Here in Almaty he grew up, studied, graduated from the tenth year. Komsomol maturity led Baitursun, like many of our peers, including me, to the Alma-Ata Osoaviakhim flying club. branches ...... It was done like this: a steel corkscrew was screwed into the ground, to which the glider clung to a ledge that retract from the cockpit. A long rubber shock absorber cable was thrown over this ledge. The cadet sat in the cockpit, and the rest, waiting for their turn, were taken by the ends of the shock absorber and pulled it, counting out a couple of steps in chorus: twenty ... thirty ... sixty ... "The flight was short-lived, but it was a flight ... Then there was a study at the Orenburg Flight School, in the 4th training aviation air squadron of Major Pyotr Maslov. In the same place, since 1936, Sergei Lugansky studied. Granddaughter: “... Eserkepova (at that time Demidina) Tatyana Ageevna went to war. I asked her why I went? He says everyone walked then, so I went. She was a student at that time, she studied meteorology. And in the war, she predicted the weather for combat missions. She fought at Stalingrad, in Leningrad. Grandpa also participated. Was a military pilot ... ... Grandfather Baytursun was a pilot. So, they met in the war. I read his memories in the book "Heroes of the Flying Guard", written by war veterans about veterans. In the photo, Baytursun Eserkepov is the first from the right, in the second row, surrounded by comrades in arms. In his book “On the sharp turns of fate. About friends and comrades "veteran of the Great Patriotic War Baizulla Akizhanov talks about how on a smoky and hot day of the Battle of Stalingrad over the airfield, where the 38th Bomber Regiment was based, an enemy plane dropped leaflets and swiftly, with a decrease, left for the West. Goebbels's leaflets turned out to be in the Kazakh language and called on soldiers of non-Russian nationality to go over to the side of the enemy. In response, the former pupil of the Alma-Ata orphanage, the best pilot of the regiment, Baitursyn Eserkepov, appealed to the command to allow the formation of a combat Kazakh crew. The sensible and patriotic idea was immediately approved. This is how the Pe-2 dive bomber appeared with a large inscription on the fuselage "For Soviet Kazakhstan". B. Yesserkepov became the commander of the crew, Kades Imashev became the navigator, Tulebai Tadjiev became the gunner-radio operator. The Kazakh crew fought energetically and effectively. He destroyed only enemy aircraft of all kinds and structures in the air and on the ground - 29! ... In April 1945, Tulebay Tadzhiev was mortally wounded in the sky near Keningsberg and did not reach his airfield alive. The entire air regiment was buried by Tadzhiev. Baytursun Eserkepov flew 206 sorties during the war years. Granddaughter: “I flew for another twenty years, being in civilian life, and then on a medical examination, they discovered that he had problems with the“ motor ”. He was greatly offended by the doctors, because of whom he was forced to part with aviation. But my heart periodically hurt. So he stayed to live in Alma-Ata, together with his grandmother, a friend of the front-line years. They met in 1942, near Stalingrad. They served together in the 5th Guards Bomber Aviation Division. Tatyana was a technician-engineer, and served as a meteorologist. ”Baytursun Eserkepov died of a heart attack in March 1982. Awards: Orders - the Red Banner (twice), Red Star (twice), the Patriotic War of the 1st, 2nd degrees, medals: including "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Defense of the Caucasus".

Title: Military doctor of the 1st rank .Type of troops: Military medical personnel Subdivision: 311th Infantry Dvina Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Division Erofeev Ivan Efimovich was born in the village of Elshanka, Syzran district of Simbirsk province in 1896 in a peasant family of one-man villagers. Russian. Father - Erofeev Efim Yegorovich, mother - Agafya Alexandrovna. Ivan Efimovich was the eldest in the family, besides him there were 5 more brothers and 2 sisters. In 1906 he graduated from the 2nd grade of a rural school. In 1910, the whole family moved, according to the Stolypin reform, to Siberia to the Tomsk province of the Scheglovsky district, the village of Bormotovo (later in the area of ​​the Promyshlennaya village of the Kemerovo region), where the property allotment was doubled. He began working at the age of 15 as a worker at a dairy factory with an entrepreneur Babushkin in the village of Okunevka, which was 3 km from the village of Bormotovo. In 1915, together with other Siberians, he was drafted into the army and sent to the fields of the First World War in the 118th Shuisky regiment, in which he served as an ordinary soldier. He returned home from the war in 1918 as a company paramedic. The severance of relations with his family and the civil war changed his life ... In 1919 he was mobilized by Kolchak, where he served for several months as a company paramedic in the local hospital. Near Sverdlovsk, the white army retreated, and the entire infirmary went over to the side of the Reds, where he was enlisted as a medical officer in the 2nd battalion of the 185th separate brigade of the 5th army from where in 1920 the brigade was sent to Ukraine to fight banditry. In 1921 he joined the party. In 1922 he graduated from the Kiev military paramedic school, from where he was seconded to the Zhitomir Volgubpogranotryad, where in 1923 he met Olga Stepanovna Ginko, whom he later married. After graduating from the workers' faculty in 1924, he entered the Leningrad Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, where he was taught by the Nobel laureate Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov himself. After graduating from the Academy, from 1929 until the beginning of the Second World War, he worked in positions from junior to senior doctor in various military districts of the USSR. He has two sons, Vladilen and Yuri. He met the war in Kirov, being a military doctor of the 1st rank in the position of head of the school of sanitary instructors. On the first day, he told his family: "The war will be long and difficult, not less than four or five years." In July-August 1941, appointed early. dignity a miracle in the 311 rifle division that was being formed in Kirov ... My great-grandfather did not say anything about the war, especially since the 311 rifle division immediately fell into a meat grinder in the Pskov and Leningrad regions, where it fought for a long time in the forests and swamps, getting surrounded and leaving it, and then unbearable frosts began ... We know that he was twice shell-shocked, where his dugout was miraculously dug out by an orderly ... Those who survived December 1941 and January-February 1942 will remember this forever ... After the concussions he was transferred to the sanitary department of the 54th Army, and later became the head of evacuation hospitals Nos. 1991 and 3 on the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts, which were located in the city of Volkhov, where he served from 1942 to 1944. In 1944, when Ukraine was completely liberated and needed a quick restoration, evacuation hospitals from prisoners of the Germans began to be organized, the leadership of which was given to an experienced professional military. These included the evacuation hospital No. 6011, which was located in the city of Rubezhnoye and Lieutenant Colonel Ivan Efimovich Erofeev was appointed its chief. For the proper fulfillment of duties to restore the city of Rubezhnoe and control over prisoners of war, he was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner. After he was the head of the likes of Ruzhansky, special. hospitals No. 6027 and No. 2993 in the cities of Gorlovka and Berdichev, where he was also awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner. In addition, he has medals "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-45" and "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy." After the war, he retired to the reserve by age in 1954. He died in 1958 and was buried at the Grebenskoye cemetery in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow Region.

CITY: village Krasatinka DATE OF BIRTH: 12/18/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 04/19/1968 HISTORY: Born on December 18, 1918 in the village of Krasatinka, Oktyabrsky village council, Krasninsky district, Smolensk region. He lost his parents early. After graduating from 5 classes of the Nedvizh seven-year school, Nikolai began to work on the Kirov collective farm. At the age of 17 he became the best foreman. In 1939, Nikolai was called up to serve in the Red Army, where he served as a chauffeur in an artillery regiment, then completed courses for junior lieutenants and received the rank of junior lieutenant. From March 1943 - commander of a reconnaissance platoon of the 270th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 89th Guards Rifle Division of the 37th Army of the Steppe Front. On September 28, 1943, Andreenkov, as part of his platoon, crossed the Dnieper near the village of Keleberda, Kremenchug District, Poltava Region, Ukrainian SSR. “The units of the Soviet Army that had reached the Dnieper, without waiting for the arrival of the sapper units, crossed the river with improvised means and entered the battle for the right-bank bridgeheads. The first to cross the Dnieper in this sector in the guards regiment was Lieutenant Nikolai Andreenkov. With a group of intelligence officers, he captured a small strip of the coast and entrenched himself in hastily dug trenches. Only eight fighters were with him at the bridgehead, but they decided to fight to the end. The soldiers understood that the success of the crossing of the river by all divisions of the regiment depended on their fortitude and courage. The Nazis dropped hundreds of shells and mines on a handful of brave men, and then, near a battalion of infantry with tanks and automatic rapid-fire cannons, they launched an attack. Guard Lieutenant Andreenkov lay down behind a heavy machine gun and with accurate fire did not allow the Nazis to approach the intelligence offiser’s' positions. The enemy sent a tank ahead. Hiding behind his armor, a group of fascist machine gunners in short dashes moved to the shore. The intelligence officers prepared grenades, but the tank stopped a hundred meters away and opened fire from a cannon. Remaining invulnerable, he could destroy all the defenders of the bridgehead. Fighter Gorelov took an anti-tank gun and crawled towards the Nazis. Choosing the moment when the tank turned to him with its side armor, he knocked him out with a well-aimed shot, and the crew, leaving the car engulfed in flames, was destroyed from the machine gun. Having lost up to 40 soldiers and officers, the invaders retreated to their starting lines. But the respite was short-lived. Again, guns and mortars began to hit the bridgehead, several dozen submachine gunners went on the attack. - Guardsmen, not a step back! - shouted Lieutenant Andreenkov. His machine gun mowed down the Nazis, not allowing them to concentrate for the last throw, and when the Nazis managed to get close to a distance, he used grenades, and the enemy rolled back. Under the cover of fire from scouts, rafts and boats with Soviet soldiers began to cross the Dnieper, and soon battles for expanding the bridgehead began on the right bank. Fierce battles did not stop for two days. The Nazis, convinced of the futility of their efforts to throw our soldiers into the river, went on the defensive. More than 100 fascist soldiers and a large amount of weapons remained on the battlefield in front of the positions of the heroes-scouts. " Based on the book by M. Vorobyov, V. Titov, A. Khrapchenkov "Smolyans-Heroes of the Soviet Union". By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the courage shown during the crossing of the Dnieper, on December 20, 1943, Guard Lieutenant Nikolai Nikonovich Andreyenkov was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. For his courage in battles he was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner and the Red Star. In January 1944 N.N. Andreenkov was wounded and shell-shocked. After recovering, he was sent to refresher courses for command personnel. After completing the courses, he worked at the Krasninskiy district military commissariat. In August 1946, Andreenkov N.N. demobilized and worked in the Krasninsk regional executive committee. In 1959 he moved to Crimea for permanent residence, lived and worked at the state farm "Predgorie" of the Belogorsk district of the Crimean region. Tragically died on April 19, 1968 at the age of 49.

CITY: Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Kovylkino now the Republic of Mordovia DATE OF BIRTH: - DATE OF DEATH: 04/15/1989 HISTORY: Born in 1916. In the Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 in the Western, South-Western, Western, Stalingrad, Southern, Voronezh and the 1st Ukrainian fronts. On March 9, 1942, he was seriously wounded. December 18, 1942 Order No. 0135 / n to the troops of the 57th Army, Art. Lieutenant M.G. Akhremov - communications officer of the 4th Air traffic control. On 20.11.42, when entering the corps into the breakthrough, Akhremov was tasked with establishing communication with 59 mech. brigade and send its forward units along the route. The area was mined, the enemy was shelling. Fulfilling the order, Comrade Akhremov’s armored car was blown up by a mine, Comrade Akhremov was wounded, however, he completed the task. He sent the driver to the hospital, and, despite being wounded, returned to the unit and continued to work. On 28.11.42, communication with 15th Rifle division, which was at a distance of 20 km, was interrupted. from Shtakor. At night Akhremov was sent to transmit the battle order to the division. The terrain along which the route passed was not cleared of the enemy. Nevertheless, Comrade Akhremov fulfilled the task, the order was delivered on time. March 14, 1943 Order number 14 / n units of the 3rd Guards Stalingrad Mechanized Corps, Guards. Art. Lieutenant M.G. Akhremov - commander of a tank company of the 43rd Guards. Tank Regiment 7th Guards. MBr. February 17, 1944 by Order No. 05 / n of the Commander of the Armored and Mechanized Forces of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Guards. captain M.G. Akhremov - the commander of a company of T-34 tanks of the 43rd Guards on 08/17/1943 to 09/27/1943 led his company extremely boldly and decisively, and with his personal example, courage, courage and high military valor, he attracted the entire personnel to fulfill the combat order ... During the breakthrough, when approaching the village of Kholodov, the company under the command of Akhremov from a height of 185.5 was met with artillery and mortar fire, but the first company attacked the enemy on the move and occupied the village of Kholodov. A daring maneuver and tank fire sent the enemy infantry to flight, and the enemy artillerymen ran after the infantry, abandoning their guns. At maximum speeds, pursuing and destroying the enemy, the first tank company burst into the village of N. Syrovatka, taking advantage of the confusion and panic in the enemy's camp, destroying the enemy's living force and equipment with the fire and tracks of its tanks. In this battle, 10 tanks were knocked out, including two T-VI TIGER tanks, 32 guns of different calibers, including five self-propelled guns, up to two companies of enemy soldiers and officers, and occupied the village of N. Syrovatka, thereby a company provided the right flank of the brigade and the corps as a whole, from enemy artillery and mortar fire. Personally, Akhremov in these battles, showing stamina, courage, courage, with his tank, fire and tracks, destroyed 150 Nazis, knocked out 4 tanks, including one T-VI TIGER tank, destroyed 12 guns with crews, including 2 self-propelled guns, 4 mortars with crews, 6 vehicles with various military cargo and 3 motorcycles. The assigned combat mission of the regiment command to the company was fulfilled with honor. Name of awards: Order of the Red Star. Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. Order of the Red Banner. Order of the Patriotic War II degree

CITY: Kasselsky settlement, Nagaybaksky district, Chelyabinsk region DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1901 DATE OF DEATH: 02.24.1943 HISTORY: Konstantin Artemyev was born in Kassel in 1901 in the family of the Orenburg Cossack Ivan Artemiev, who at first was a clerk for the village ataman Ivan Dmitriyevich Kash in 1917, not accepting Soviet power, he left with the White Cossacks. Konstantin, being a 16-year-old youth, left with the "reds", ended up in the detachment of the commander of the Red Army, Grigory Ivanovich Kotovsky, where he joined the Bolshevik party. His path was thorny for seven years, when his relatives did not receive any news from him. Together with a detachment of Kotovsky, he fought with the Basmachs in the Crimea, in the Ukraine and returned home in crimson revolutionary riding breeches, awarded with a personalized pistol and horse. And at home, not everything was good - his father died during the retreat of the whites near the village of Ferschampenoise, his mother died. Soon Konstantin met his fate - Praskovya and married her. Praskovya Dosmanova was a beautiful blue-eyed girl. The young family settled in Kassel. In 1929-1930, when collectivization began, they already had four children: Claudia, Catherine, Fedor, Maria. The family lived in Fershampnoise, the head of the family, Konstantin Ivanovich, worked as the editor of the district newspaper. During the times of persecution and repression, they had to return to Kassel, their father was accused of sabotaging the collective farm property. But, fortunately for the family, everything turned out well, and they moved to the Verkhneuralsky district in full force, and his father worked as the head of the mill, grain warehouse. By 1940, they already had seven children, Zoya, Tatiana, Valentina were born. The children of Konstantin and Praskovya Artemievs - Maria Podyacheva, Zoya Zharova, Tatyana Podobedova, Valentina Kiselyova and Yuri Artemiev (born 1942) were present at the meeting, they recalled mother's warm hands and happy pre-war life when their father was there. The war began. Praskovya was pregnant with her eighth child; on January 29, 1942, an heir appeared in the family. His father did not have to babysit for long. Exactly two months later, on March 25, he received a summons to the front. The Artemiev family has preserved these childhood memories of the sad farewell of his father to the front. All the hardships and worries about the children fell on the 36-year-old woman-mother. And the soldier Konstantin Artemiev defended Stalingrad as part of the 64th Army under the command of General Mikhail Shumilov. He covered a height of 142.2 (Lysaya Gora) near the village of Beketovka, south of the city of Stalingrad. What was our hero thinking about, in 1943, holding the height of 142.2? Probably about children, about his beloved wife, and about a very young son ... He fulfilled his duty to the end and remained lying forever on that burnt height, dug with deep craters, covered with fragments from bombs and shells.

CITY: Republic of Komi, Izhemsky district, village Varysh DATE OF BIRTH: 05/14/1927 DATE OF DEATH: 06/21/2011 HISTORY: Nikolai Mikhailovich was born in 1927 in the family of a noble reindeer breeder from Varysh - Mikhail Efimovich Arteev. After completing the seven-year period, Nikolai entered the Vorkuta Mining College as an electrical engineer. But he studied for only 8 months. I got sick and had to return home. After the recovery, the director of MTS Vokuev Akim Nikitich invited him to work as a mechanic at MTS. There was an acute shortage of men, and a 16-year-old boy took up this difficult job. A year later, Nicholas was drafted into the army. This was the last military draft. From Bakur and Varysh, Efim Nemchinov, Vasily Arteev, Dima Kolodeshnikov, Stepan Terentyev were called together with him. They were sent to Irayol on foot. Nikolai Mikhailovich recalls: “When we reached Irael, we were told that German prisoners of war were working on the railway tracks. We specially went to look at them. All of them were in summer clothes, it was felt that they were freezing. " For several months Nikolai studied at the Vologda Aviation School of Communications and on March 1 he was sent to the active army. Together with the marching company, he arrived at the airfield in Belarus, where the 22nd Air Division was based. In total, the division had 54 TU bombers, and the regiment had 27. Fighters were also based here. He worked in the communications center of the headquarters of the assault aviation division. Reconnaissance was one of the main tasks of the attack aircraft. Signalers decoded the reports of the pilots and passed them on to the headquarters, constantly kept in touch with the bombers that flew out to bomb enemy fortifications and communications. The end of the war found a young soldier in Poland, at the Poznan field airfield. After the victory, he was sent to Moscow, to the communications center of the Air Force headquarters. During the defeat of militaristic Japan, he served the troops in the Khabarovsk direction, and then until 1951 - military parades, exercises of troops. I often had to go on business trips. Nikolai Mikhailovich remembered flights to Amderma, Belarus, Azerbaijan. In recent years he worked on an American teletypewriter. For more than 7 years he served in the military aviation. He was demobilized with the rank of corporal in November 1950. After demobilization and until his retirement in May 1982, he constantly worked in the Mokhchen MTS. At his enterprise, he has always been the best worker, a young example. In 1971, for his shock work, Nikolai Mikhailovich was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, and in 1977 he was awarded the high title of Honored Worker of the Komi ASSR. Nikolai Mikhailovich lived with his wife Matilda Vasilievna for over 50 years. They have three children: daughters Nadezhda and Lyubov, son Ivan. There are already granddaughters and great-granddaughters. Nikolai Mikhailovich says: “I don’t have to blush for my past years. He fought and worked as befits a patriot of his homeland. " Nikolai Mikhailovich died in 2011.

CITY: Mogilev region, Slavgradsky district, village Gizhenka DATE OF BIRTH: 08/14/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 12/03/2004 HISTORY: Born in 1919 01/01/1940 voluntarily entered the 1st Mogilev rifle-machine gun school, which graduated from 07.20.1941 in the city of Kersonov, Tambov region. From 20.07.41 to 18.10.41, the platoon commander of the Antitank company 846 Specialist subunit 267 Rifle Regiment. From 01.12.41 to 21.02.42, deputy company commander. He served in the 48th Ropsha Ropsha Red Banner Division named after M.I.Kalinin. From 20.03.42 to 01.01.43, the commander of a training machine-gun company, and then the commander of a rifle battalion of the 167th army reserve rifle regiment of the 59th Army. From 05.03.44 to 15.06.44 in the reserve of the 2nd Shock Army of the Leningrad Front. From 15.06.44 to 25.12.44, commander of a rifle battalion of the 301st rifle regiment of the 48th rifle division. From 02/05/45 to 08/28/46, deputy regiment commander for combat units of the 301st rifle regiment of the 48th rifle division. Ball was wounded three times: in October 1941, in February 1942, in December 1944. The last wound was received in Latvia near the Garakas farm. In front of the rifle regiment. which included the battalion of I.Z. the task was set to knock the enemy out of their positions, in the strip of which there was a height that dominated the location of our troops. After the artillery preparation, at the appointed time, Aleksandrov's battalion went on the offensive. Having wedged into the depth of the front line about two kilometers, the battalion took the height. But from the flanks, the battalions were unable to break through the enemy's line of defense and remained at their former positions. Thus, the battalion of Alexandrov I.Z. was cut off from his own. The Germans, not wanting to put up with the loss of a very advantageous position for themselves, rained fire on the battalion with all types of weapons, and then one attack followed more violently than the other. The continuous attacks of the Germans against the battalion continued for five days. A tank-self-propelled regiment was transferred to the aid of the Germans from another sector of the front. This became known from the testimony of a captured tanker. On the fifth day, leading the soldier in a counterattack, Aleksandrov I.Z. was wounded in the arm, but did not leave the battlefield. On the sixth day, with the help of the reserve that had arrived in time, the regiment broke the enemy's resistance, and Aleksandrov I.Z. was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. He met the victory in Czechoslovakia with the rank of major. He died in 2004.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 01.01.1942 HISTORY: War touched my family ... My mother's brother, Artamonov Alexander Stepanovich, the second child in the family of my grandmother Artamonova Agrafena Nikolaevna and grandfather Artamonov Stepan Trofimovich, who lived in a small house in Glades of the Skopinsky district of the Ryazan region. Son Alexander was born in 1923, and my mother in 1940, on the very eve of the war. In 1941, Alexander turned 18 years old, he graduated from 8 classes and worked at the Skopino mine, so from the beginning of the war he had a reservation. And at home there were still 7 young brothers and sisters who had to grow up in the harsh years of the war. You can write a lot about the hard life of the Artamonov family during the war years, their fates were similar to all Russian families living in villages and villages. Hunger, hard work in the fields, in order to collect the largest possible harvest and send everything to the front to the soldiers. Everything for the front, everything for the victory! It was under this slogan that the villagers lived then. And the children, barely getting to their feet, set off with the adults to the fields: they collected spikelets, carried heavy bales of grass and straw, cooked potato peels, and escorted their older brothers and sisters to the front. And they expected news from them. Grandmother Grunya, so affectionately called her numerous grandchildren, went to the front two sons: Alexei and Alexander. The elder Alexey went through the whole war, returned all wounded and died in the village of Polyany in his mother's arms before the first anniversary of the Victory in 1946. Alexander was drafted on January 16, 1942 with the rank of private in the Zheltukhinsky District Military Commissariat of the Skopinsky District. He was 18 years old, it was the sixth month of the war. Sasha wrote only one letter from the road to the front line. And he disappeared ... For a long time, grandmother Agrafena Nikolaevna upholstered the thresholds of the recruiting office, but there was no news. And only in 1943 the news came that Private Artamonov was missing. The grandmother waited for her son for a long time, waited until his death. She told me, her granddaughter, fairy tales and stories from her life, she confessed that every night she shudders from the knocking and noise outside the window. And she still thinks that her beloved Sasha has returned from the war, and now she will embrace him and her heart will calm down. My grandmother died in 1975, in the year of the 30th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Last 2014, having found a photo of Alexander Artamonov in the family archive, we registered him on the Victory Parade website and went to the festive parade, carrying a portrait with the campaign logo in our hands. And this year we tried to find information about Alexander Artamonov in the search system "Memorial", which contains information about all participants in the Great Patriotic War. We managed to find a copy of the registration sheet, which states that Private Artamonov A.S. born in 1923, called up to the Zheltukhinsky Military Commissariat, who has a mother, Artamonova Agrafena Stepanovna, dropped out of the Red Army in July 1942 as "missing." We also found a list of the names of the Red Army soldiers buried in a mass grave in March 1943. There is only a surname, name and patronymic, and the title is private. There is no year of birth or other data. But for some reason it seems to us that it is he - our grandfather Alexander Artamonov, an unharmed fighter of the Red Army, who immediately fell into the heat of war, into the hellish cauldron of the Smolensk battle .. There, where the earth burned, watered with the blood of thousands of soldiers ... released on March 12, 1943. troops of the Western Front during the Rzhev-Vyazemskaya operation. It was during this period that the remains of the Red Army were buried. Burial address: Smolensk region; Vyazemsky district, Tumakovsky s / s, Byvalitsy village, (42 km from Vyazma), military cemetery No. 11 This mass grave contains the remains of 1,300 Red Army men who died during the liberation of this area. That's all so far that we know about our relative - Alexander Artamonov. But we do not give up hope of finding his grave and bringing a handful of earth to the grave of his mother Agrafena Nikolaevna Artamonova (Morgunova).

CITY: the village of Veliky Sambir, Konotop district, Sumy region DATE OF BIRTH: 02/09/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 02/02/2006 HISTORY: Andrienko Fyodor Markovich (02/09/1924 - 02/02/2006) was born in the village of Veliky Sambir, Konotop region, Sumy region. In 1936 he finished 7 classes and entered the Konotop pedagogical school. On June 20, 1941, he received a diploma as a primary school teacher. And the next day the war began. Together with his friends he asked to go to the front, but the seventeen-year-old boy was refused in the military registration and enlistment office. And he left for the village of Trunovskoye, Stavropol Territory, where his family lived at that time.In July 1942, Fedor was drafted into the Red Army in the Trunovsky Military Commissariat of the Trunovsky District of the Stavropol Territory. First he served in the reserve regiment. He received his first baptism of fire at the Kursk Bulge on the 1st Ukrainian Front. He commanded the communications department of the mortar crew. Everyday life at the front is harsh. Spend the night at an observation post (OP), which sometimes is a knee-deep trench filled with a slurry of snow and water, from dusk to dawn, without losing your vigilance for a minute, performing the task assigned to you by the command, and at the same time expecting any action from the enemy - It is not simple. Or run to the attack in broad daylight, which seems to be twilight, peering ahead through the curtain of smoke, fire, rearing from the explosions of the earth. And make decisions. Fyodor Markovich recalls such an episode from his military life. It was in Belarus, not far from the village of Vasilkevichi, which, in all likelihood, is no longer on modern maps after the Nazi occupation and the battles that raged there. “I was on the NP 300 meters from the mortars. At some point, the enemy felt stronger and went on the offensive. An order was received to withdraw from the Observation point, to move to firing positions. At the firing positions, I saw our comrade, the commander of a mortar crew, who was wounded. Without thinking twice, I replaced it. I was good at reconnaissance and aiming, I was good at shooting. I have fired many shots. At this time, a wounded soldier, an ATR, approached from our retreating soldiers. And the enemy was already not far away. I then decided to shoot from his ATGM. First time. I have never fired an ATGM. And already at a distance of visibility of the enemy - it was a tank with soldiers, I fired in their direction. Good luck. I got hit by the tracks. The tank stopped. And at this time our general retreat began to subside. The German offensive also died down. In this battle he was wounded and was treated in the Murom hospital. Then, as a commander of a battery control platoon in a mortar regiment as part of the 7th Guards Mechanized Corps, he participated in hostilities on the 1st Ukrainian, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian fronts. We entered Europe with battles. We went through Poland, Czechoslovakia. Was an eyewitness to the speech of Rokossovsky. He called to proudly bear the high rank of the Russian soldier - liberator, heroically finish off the enemy in his lair, not to vent anger on the civilian population, not to loot, like the Nazis. The attack on Berlin was especially memorable. To save the Nazis in Berlin, German armies marched from the Balkan Peninsula, from the south. And the Berlin divisions, which were supposed to defend Berlin, to save themselves, fled to the south. And now - a collision. We were actually surrounded by two German armies - retreating and advancing. It was a real cauldron - merciless hand-to-hand combat. It was scary, but fear was overcome by a high sense of patriotism. And I really did not want to die in the last days before the end of the war. The breath of Victory was already felt. I met Victory Day in an evacuation hospital in the city of Chesnohov, Poland, where he was sent after a serious injury. After treatment, they were given ten days of home leave, and then returned to their 7th Guards Mechanized Reserve Corps of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Headquarters. " Guard senior sergeant F.M. Andrienko awarded with military awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Glory of the third degree. He was especially proud of the Order of Glory, to which he was presented for the courage and courage shown in the last months of the war. “On February 14, 1945, Weidnanzau, under heavy mortar and artillery fire from the enemy, disrupted the connection between the battalion's NP and the battery. Comrade Andrienko eliminated 14 gusts of the communication line. On March 19, 1945, the enemy in the Kranzdorf area launched counterattacks. Comrade Andrienko, being at the NP, among 14 fighters went to counterattack the enemy. 4 German soldiers were killed, 8 were taken prisoner, a service carriage was destroyed, documents and topographic maps were seized, and Comrade. Andrienko were taken to the headquarters. In 1946 Andrienko F.M. was mobilized on the basis of Stalin's order for the early mobilization of teachers and other specialists. In 1946 he got married. Andrienko Nina Vasilievna became his wife - a veteran of the Second World War, awarded with the Orders of the Patriotic War of the second degree, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of the Caucasus." Andrienko Fyodor Markovich devoted his entire further life to the profession he had chosen in his distant pre-war youth - pedagogy. He graduated from the Stavropol Pedagogical Institute in absentia. And he never regretted the chosen path. He always respected his colleagues and was proud of his students. Received the title of "Honored Teacher". After retirement, he could not sit at home. With great pleasure and awareness of the importance of his activities, he served as an honorary member of the regional council of the Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, was awarded the medal "For diligence and usefulness." Children and grandchildren are proud of the exploits of Andrienko Fyodor Markovich and Nina Vasilievna, they cherish the awards and sacred memory of their great feat.

CITY: Kurgan region, village Bakharevo DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1908 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Subdivision: 184th Infantry Division (1st formation). “There is no such family in Russia where your hero would not be remembered” War ... This is grief, tears. She knocked on every house, brought trouble, touched the fate of many families. Fathers and children, husbands, brothers and sisters, grandmothers and grandfathers went to the front from each family. My grandfather Abdrakhmanov Nasyr also left. I don't want the memory of my grandfather to fade and disappear. He went to war on July 13, 1941 at the age of 33. And my grandmother stayed at home with three small children in her arms. The first 2 years my grandfather served as a cavalryman in the 61st cavalry regiment. Then he got into the 290th Infantry Regiment of the NKVD VV and became a scout. From the award list, I learned that during his stay in the 290th rifle regiment, he pulled out 30 wounded soldiers and commanders with their weapons from the battlefield. For his courage and courage in the fight against German fascism, he was nominated for the Government award: the Order of the Red Star. Then he was seriously wounded. His comrades dug him up. He was wounded and half buried in the ground. I lay in the hospital until I came to my senses. For three months I could not speak! He was in serious condition, but doctors saved his life. They offered an operation, but he refused, he was afraid of an undesirable outcome. And again he was eager to fight. He was sent as a foreman of a company to the 222 rifle division. On the front road, he met a fellow countryman from a neighboring village, but it was not possible to talk to him, there was no time. So he went all the way to Berlin. After the war, they left to serve in Moscow in the secret troops, but my combat grandmother managed to get him back home. After all, three children were waiting for him at home, and my dad, the tenth child, would not have been born if he had stayed there to serve! If you remember my grandmother, then she is my Mother - Heroine, awarded the honorary, highest title among women "Mother Heroine", awarded the "Medal of Motherhood" and the Order of "Maternal Glory". After all, she gave birth to and raised ten children. My grandfather returned home in October 1945 with a splinter in his vertebra. And only my grandmother knew, and every autumn - in the spring she healed my grandfather's unhealed wound. He never passed away with a fascist splinter at the age of 73. After the war, grandfather returned to his native village, until his retirement he worked as a forester in his native collective farm. He did not like to talk about the war. I have never been to the hospital, did not have a disability. He was a very humble and simple man, and at the same time extraordinary. Because he taught his children - to love, worry, hope, rejoice, in a word - live! The memory of my grandfather will always be in my heart!