Heroes and feats

CITY: Zlatoust DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1930 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Amosov Viktor Georgievich is my grandfather. He was born and raised in the city of Zlatoust. He met the war as an 11-year-old boy. After graduating from grade 4, he started working and helping his parents. He was an apprentice with a carpenter, a cooper and a shoemaker, so he knew how to do everything in life. When his father, a steam locomotive driver, died on another business trip, he remained in the family for the eldest. His mother raised at that moment two youngest daughters, who were 2-3 years old, she worked as a cleaner, a watchman at the school, and lived there at the school. In 1943, my grandfather went to work at the locomotive depot in the city of Zlatoust as a fireman. Grown men received him well, because he was an executive and conscientious boy. The work of the stoker is very hard, sometimes, the grandfather said, and the adult would fall asleep by the firebox. And he perfectly understood that food for the front must be delivered on time, tried not to fill up and toss coal into the locomotive's furnace in time. He was curious and intelligent, so he quickly learned not only the stoker, but even learned how to drive the train on his own. Sometimes, adults, experienced machinists went on a voyage without rest several times in a row, did not sleep for several days, and in order to have a little rest, they trusted a 13-year-old guy to drive a steam locomotive, i.e. in fact, he was not a fireman, but an assistant driver. So my grandfather worked in the depot until 1950, he was transferred from stokers to locksmiths. In 1950, on April 25, he was drafted into the army for three years. He served in military unit 3111 as a rifleman. Then he graduated from college and continued serving in military unit 3116 in the Kremlin regiment, was an assistant commander of a rifle platoon with the rank of sergeant. This division was responsible for the protection of government buildings and top secret institutions. In 1953 he returned from the army to the city of Zlatoust, his bride was waiting for him - my grandmother - Amosova Ekaterina Ivanovna, they got married on 24.12.1953. In 1960 they moved to Kusa and stayed here. They had three children. My grandfather worked in a furniture factory, was a good carpenter. He was awarded the "Labor Veteran" medal, the "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" medal. He was awarded the title of "Veteran of Labor", as well as he has a certificate of "Veteran of the Great Patriotic War." My grandfather was 76 years old when he left this world. He meant a lot to me, and I want the memory of him and his life to be eternal!

CITY: Turakovo village, Zagorsk district, Moscow region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 10/26/1942 HISTORY: Alexey Yakovlevich was born in 1915 in the village of Turakovo, Moscow region. Member of the Great Patriotic War. On October 26, 1942, he was on the staff of the 85th separate guard company of the field administration of the 41st Army, Stepnoy, 2nd Ukrainian fronts (later reorganized into the 85th about PU 2 UF, 02.13.1944 - 85 separate battalion of field protection directorates of the 2nd Ukrainian, Trans-Baikal fronts). Subdivision: 135th Infantry Krakow Red Banner Division. The company fought in the Steppe, 2nd Ukrainian, Trans-Baikal fronts. On October 26, 1942, the company commander was Art. Lieutenant Gritsenko Grigory Semyonovich was born in 1919, in the Second World War since December 1941, was awarded a personal watch by the military council of the 41st Army, subsequently, since 1943 - the commander of the 84th separate security company of the headquarters of the 27th Army. Deputy company commander for polit. parts – Senior Lieutenant Negrul Fedot Filippovich born in 1911 (later served as a captain in the reconnaissance department of the 2nd Ukrainian Front). On October 26, 1942, the company was in the village. Makarovo, Prechistensky District, Smolensk Region (Road from town Bely towards Smolensk). In those days, the headquarters of the 41st Army was subjected to massive enemy air raids. On this day in the company were killed: Sokolov Mikhail Alexandrovich - an ordinary Red Army soldier, rifleman, member. Komsomol, born in 1913, native of the Komi ASSR, buried on the eastern outskirts of the village. Makarovo, Smolensk region. Shekhonin Vladimir Alexandrovich - Jr. sergeant, deputy squad leader, shooter, Komsomol member, born in 1921, native of the town Kalinin, buried on the eastern outskirts of the village Makarovo, Smolensk region. Pyatkin Ivan Semenovich - private Red Army soldier, rifleman, non-party, born in 1913, native of the Tula region, buried on the eastern outskirts of the village Makarovo, Smolensk region. Konyshev Alexander Timofeevich - sergeant, squad leader, machine gunner, member. Komsomol, born in 1916, a native of the Perm region, buried on the eastern outskirts of the village Makarovo, Smolensk region. Fate did not save Alexei Yakovlevich Andreyev, the document read: private, Red Army soldier, rifleman, non-party, born in 1915, native of the town Zagorsk, buried on the eastern outskirts of the village Makarovo, Smolensk region.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Efimov Ivan Ilyich was born on November 23, 1923 in the village of Krasnaya Moskovka, Stavropol District, into a family of peasants. Graduated from 7 classes. At the age of 18 (May 11, 1942) he went to the front. In July 1942, he was promoted to sergeant and appointed commander of the Howitzer artillery gun. On August 15, 1942, as part of the 2nd company of the 20th Guards machine-gun and artillery battalion, he was sent to defend Stalingrad. He fought in the 3rd and 4th of the Ukrainian Front. Freed Transcarpathia, Poland, Czechoslovakia from the Nazis. On January 18, 1944, he was wounded in the arm, after the Sanbat he returned to his company. He celebrated Victory Day near Prague. He was demobilized from the army on December 15, 1945. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, the Medal "For Courage", the Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad", jubilee medals. During the war, a company accordion player was killed. The accordion was left without an owner, and the company without songs. Grandfather learned to play the accordion, although he never learned notes until the end of his life, he played by ear. Favorite songs were "Ogonyok" and "Blue Scarf". After the war he got married, the family had two daughters and a son. In 1953, the village of Krasnaya Moskovka, where my grandfather was born, was moved from the flooded zone to a new place and was renamed Podstyopki. Ivan Ilyich worked on a collective farm, for his achievements in August 1957 he was sent to the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV) in Moscow, where he received the Medal of the participant of the All-Russian Agricultural Exhibition and the Certificate of Honor. Since 1965, he worked as a plumber, supplied the village with water, and was repeatedly awarded diplomas and certificates for his good work. Ivan Ilyich died on March 22, 1984 at the age of 60, barely having time to retire.

CITY: Kuibyshev region, Klyavlinsky district, pos. Pine Ravine DATE OF BIRTH: 12/30/1905 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1985 HISTORY: Title: Junior sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery Worked in the Klyavlinsky District Department of the Kuibyshev Region from 1937 to 1965 in positions: from 1937 to 1939 - graderist, from 1939 to 1948 - dor. foreman, from 1948 to 1962 - foreman, from 1962 to 1965 - worker, from 1965 - retired. "From 1941 to 1945, Comrade Alyakin V.P. was at the front to defend the Motherland from the worst enemy of mankind, as a junior commander in a partisan formation in the enemy's rear. For his courage and valor in destroying the enemy in his rear, he was awarded high government awards: two orders of the Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star and medals.Working in the Klyavlinsky District Department, he treated his work well, carried out all instructions and instructions conscientiously and accurately, carried out a large explanatory work among the population about the great importance of the road sector in our socialist society. good work comrade VP Alyakin repeatedly received gratitude with the payment of cash bonuses. " (Head of the Klyavlinsky PDU No. 2464 P. KARANTSA, Chairman of the MK of the trade union - FILIMONOV) "The total implementation of the work plan assigned to him is 121% as of November 1, 1951. Labor participation as of 11/15/1951 is mastered by 94%. work under his leadership is annually accepted by the commission with a rating good. Conducts a large mass explanatory work among the population about the importance of road work in the national economy, seeking to work out the labor participation of the population in a brigade way. Comrade Alyakin is working on himself to improve the ideological, political and production level of knowledge. (Chairman of the Executive Committee of the District Council of Working People's Deputies - D. Seredavin, Head of the District Department - P. Karandashev) Parents: Peter and Justinia Alyakin Wife: Alyakina Elena Alekseevna (father - Balykov Alexey Timofeevich, mother - Balykova Feodora Timofeevna), years of life: 24.10.1903 - 8.10.1984 Children: Alexander, Peter, Maria, Leonty, Vasily INFORMATION-characteristic (Headquarters of the sub-unit named after Chapaev, formations of the sub-unit of the Rivne region on May 20, 1944): "Issued to Alyakin VASILY PETROVICH that he really was in the partisan detachment named after Chapaev from 06/19/1942 to 05/20/1944 as commander of a subversive group.During his stay in the detachment, Comrade Alyakin derailed 15 ECHELONS OF THE ENEMY with manpower and equipment. bridges - 2, earth bridges - 4, railway bridges - 2, destroyed telegraph communications for 11 kilometers, 4 cars and 2 tanks.In battles with German occupiers and Ukrainian nationalists participated 14 times.For valor and courage he was awarded the Order of O of the first degree and the medal of the Partisan of the Patriotic War of the II degree, presented to the Order of the Red Banner. " (Commissar of p / detachment - Levitsky, chief of staff p / o - Knyazev, commander of p / o - Novikov) He took part in the Patriotic War as part of the 17th separate training tank order of the Red Star regiment from May 1, 1945 to May 8, 1945 The certificate was issued for receiving the medal "For the victory over GERMANY in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." (The certificate was signed by the Commander of the 17th separate training tank order of the Red Star of the Guards regiment, Lieutenant Colonel MUKHIN, HEAD OF HEADQUARTERS LITTLE COLONEL GRIGORENKO) CERTIFICATE: "From June 19, 1942 to May 20, 1944, Alyakin Vasily Petrovich was a partisan detachment officer of the Fisherman. ) in the position: from 06/19/1942 to 07/01/1942 - a soldier, from 07/01/1942 to 05/20/1944 - commander of a blasting platoon.He left the partisan detachment on May 20, 1944 when joined with the Red Army . " (Signed by the Chief of the Ukrainian Headquarters of the Partisan Movement) Certificate issued by the command of the military unit, field mail No. 14792 "Comrade Alyakin Vasily Petrovich, that he began training on 08/18/1944 and graduated on 01/10/1945, studied in a shortened program for 5 months in the specialty Commander of a T-34 tank with a ZIS-S-53 cannon. " Acting in a partisan detachment during military operations on May 16, 1943, he was Easily Wounded. (The certificate was issued on September 3, 1943. Signatures of the commander of the formation - Fedorov, the commissar of the formation - Kizya, the chief of the medical unit, the major of the medical service - Stukkey.) Sergeant Vasily Petrovich Alyakin: "Junior Sergeant VP Alyakin arrived in the unit on 05/01/1945 as a cadet. During his stay in the training unit he showed himself only from the positive side: disciplined, cultured, literate, demanding of himself. Among of all personnel he enjoys great prestige as an excellent student in combat and political training. He works a lot to raise his ideological and political level.Morally stable, ideologically sustained. Devoted to the cause of the Party of Lenin-Stalin and the Socialist Motherland. "07/16/1945

CITY: s. Isakovo, Cheremisinovsky district, Kursk region DATE OF BIRTH: 04/20/1911 DATE OF DEATH: 10/27/1943 HISTORY: Astapov Anatoly Ivanovich was born in 1911, in the village of Isakovo, Cheremisinovsky district, Kursk region. In the Red Army since 03.1941. Place of call: Cheremisinovsky Military Commissariat, Kursk region, Cheremisinovsky district. Rank: Sergeant. During the Great Patriotic War against the German invaders, he showed himself to be a fearless warrior, exemplary in discipline, accurately and timely performing combat missions. In August 1941, with a group of soldiers, he mined the right bank of the river. Volkhov (near Novgorod) under rifle and machine gun fire. The task was completed ahead of schedule. In November 1941, he twice went on an attack on the fortified center of German resistance - vil. Cr. Visherka (in the district of Mal. Vishera). In front of the enemy's trenches, I removed anti-personnel German mines for the passage of our troops. In August 1942, acting in the group of breaking through the enemy defense in the Rzhev region, with a group of fighters, he cleared minefields and obstacles, making passages for tanks and other equipment. In this operation, in a conversation with the platoon commander, Comrade Astapov said: "... Better to die a hero than to die a coward." He justified his words with honor. When he explored the crossing point across the river. The Volga, in spite of the concussion received, brilliantly fulfilled the assigned task, giving accurate information about the place of the crossing, the location of the enemy firing points in this region. In December 1942, during the erection of defensive structures in the Dvorishche district at section 78, the Rifle Division showed examples of courage and skill: under enemy fire, 200 meters from its firing points, with his squad, he built 2 bunkers. During the construction of the last bunker, he was seriously injured, but did not leave until he completed the task. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Killed from a wound sustained by a mine burst near the village of Pozhary, Usvyatsky District, Smolensk Region (now Pskov Region) on October 27, 1943. Primary burial site: Smolensk region, Usvyatsky district, village Golubki (to the west, 800 m, near the Nevel - Usvyaty highway, 200 m north-west of the bridge over the Lovat river). Reburial place: Pskov region, Usvyatsky district, in the center of the village of Churilovo.

CITY: Log village, Leninsky District, Oryol Region DATE OF BIRTH: 02/07/1904 DATE OF DEATH: 12/24/1962 HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision : 80th Luban Rifle Division of the Order of Kutuzov Born on February 7, 1904 in the village of Log, now in the Leninsky District of the Oryol Region, into a peasant family. Russian. He graduated from 7 classes of the Parochial school. He worked on a collective farm, at a factory in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region. In the Red Army since 1941. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War in September of the same year, he became a mortarman. He fought on the Leningrad front. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1943. Was the number of the crew of the 120-mm mortar of the 143rd Infantry Regiment of the 224th Infantry Division. In the battles for the Sinyavinsky Heights, when the connection between the firing position and the observation post was interrupted, and the telephone operator was out of order, Afonin, despite strong fire, restored the damaged cable. He was awarded the medal "For Courage." On January 26, 1944, in the battle for the liberation of the city of Gatchina, Leningrad Region, from the explosion of an enemy shell, the entire crew was out of action. Senior sergeant Afonin, left alone, being wounded, independently fired from a mortar, destroyed over 12 enemy soldiers, thereby facilitating the advance of the infantry. By order of February 1, 1944, senior sergeant Afonin Fyodor Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd degree (No. 18130). After treatment in the hospital, Afonin was sent to the 80th rifle division, was appointed commander of the 82-mm mortar of the 77th rifle regiment ... He took part in the battles for the liberation of Poland, fought on the Sandomierz bridgehead and in Southern Silesia, beat the Nazis in Germany. On March 25, 1945, in the battle for the village of Greflich-Wiese (southwest of the city of Neustadt, Germany, now the city of Prudnik Poland), senior sergeant Afonin, on his own initiative, put forward a mortar into the battle formations of a rifle company and destroyed four firing points. On the same day, when repelling an enemy counterattack, the calculation suppressed the heavy machine gun and destroyed the Nazis before the platoon. By order of April 11, 1945, senior sergeant Afonin Fyodor Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree (No. 14615). On May 7, 1945, in a battle southeast of the village of Strehlen (Germany) (now the city of Strzelin, Poland), the commander of the mortar squad Afonin, as noted in the award list, “… skillfully chose a firing position and with well-aimed shots suppressed seven and destroyed three enemy machine guns. In this battle, his crew destroyed about twenty-five Nazis. Despite the injury, Sergeant Afonin remained in the ranks and continued to lead the crew until the settlement was taken. " By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 27, 1945 for courage, courage and heroism shown in the struggle against the Nazi invaders, senior sergeant Afonin Fedor Ivanovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree (No. 873). He became a full Knight of the Order of Glory. In 1946, after demobilization, he returned home. He lived in the village of Biokombinata, Shchelkovsky District, Moscow Region. Worked as a purchasing agent in a factory. Died on December 24, 1962. Awarded with the Orders of Glory of 3 degrees, medals. Dates of decrees: 02/01/1944 (Order No. 18130); 04/11/1945 (Order No. 14615); 06/27/1945 (Order number 873).

CITY: ulus Naimagut DATE OF BIRTH: 03/19/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 05/31/2010 HISTORY: Afanasy Mitrofanovich was born on 03/19/1921 in Naimagut ulus of Osinsky district in a large family. June 6, 1941 was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army. Until 1944 he was a participant in the construction of Nikolaevsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Sent to the front as part of the 320th Rifle Enakiyevo Order of the Suvorov Red Banner Division, the 27th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. On April 10, 1945, in the evening they arrived at the command post of the 481st Infantry Regiment. Major Ozaryan talked with them, who explained that 400-500 meters from them was the front line of the Germans' defense. There was a shootout. The village was burning. The next morning, at dawn, they went on the attack. The enemy's fire was very strong, they fired from all types of weapons. On May 3, on carts, they began to move up the Austrian Alps, climbed to an altitude of 1438 m. Below in the valley it was warm as in summer, and in the mountains it was cold, it was snowing, a blizzard was chalk. Cartridges, grenades and food were brought only by horse. It was very difficult to take out the wounded, but the dead were buried here. In the evening, the company commander announced that Nazi Germany had surrendered and instructed the soldiers on the procedure for taking prisoners. The enemy had to abandon their weapons and surrender. On May 9, the shooting continued until 3 am. In the morning everyone went up the hill, where the Germans had been sitting before. From June 3 to August 17, their 27th army in full force returned to their homeland. Afanasy Mitrofanovich was awarded medals: "For Courage", "For the Capture of Budapest", "For Victory over Nazi Germany", the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. "CASE IN THE ALPS". Memories of Afanasy Mitrofanovich: "It was at the very end of the war in the Austrian Alps. Around May 3. Our unit, after climbing the mountains, lay on the defensive. Occasionally gunfire was heard, enemy shells fell behind, lifting stones and earth into the air. Dazzling blue sky with crystal the dome was blue over the tops of the mountains. The mountain breeze slightly stirred the foliage of the huge oak tree under which we lay, talking idly: "The machine gun is shooting, devil! Is the end of the war, guys, soon?" "Soon! Soon! Come and wait at home! Eh! I wish I could go home! Now it’s a sowing campaign! On the left was a guy from Yakutia. I had an irresistible desire to leave. The thought flashed through: “Suddenly a stray shell!” There was a barn nearby, noise and laughter were heard from there. I obeying some feeling got up and went They were listening to the battalion Vasily Tyorkin. A few minutes later there was an explosion. Everyone jumped out of the barn ... At the foot of the oak tree where the soldiers had just lay, a huge crater gaped ... - Where is Kornilov? - No Kornilo wah ... and there are no others either ... It was he who dreamed of getting home to the sowing campaign. So, just before the victory, the comrades died. And my sixth sense saved me! "

OROD: Kyrgyzstan, city of Osh DATE OF BIRTH: 03/15/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/2014 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 119th Infantry Division (1st formation) Guards division submachine gunner, In the tenth grade, the Oshan Suleiman Abduvaliev did not have to study for a month. He was barely eighteen years old when the military enlistment office called him to the front. September 1942 ended, and in the vastness of the USSR there were fierce battles with the fascist horde. And the military echelon was taking Suleiman to the places of battles, taking the third son of the old men Abduvaliev to the war. The two elders had already died by that time. The eldest son of Kurvonali left for the army in 1938. A year later, its part took part in the Finnish War. Then the Nazis attacked the country. During the first battles with them, he disappeared without a trace. Melibay's second son was drafted into the Red Army in 1940 and fought at the front from the very beginning of the war. And soon the parents received a funeral with the official words: "He died the death of the brave." And so the train was carrying the third son of the Abduvalievs to the battlefield. At a training center near Penza, recruits were taught to handle weapons. Suleiman was enrolled in the mortar company and was soon sent to the 119th Guards Division, but the young fighter did not have to stand at the 125-mm mortar - the command decided to send part of the mortarmen to the infantry, the ranks of which were noticeably decreasing after each battle. So, a young Kyrgyz man became a submachine gunner. He took part in battles near Velikie Luki, in the Vitebsk region, and fought on Estonian soil as part of the second Baltic Front. In the summer of 1943, he was relatively wounded in the head. After recovering, he again found himself at the front. - The forty-third year I remember for the rest of my life, - the old warrior recalls. - Just arrived at the unit, as in the first battle I was wounded in the leg. A week in the hospital and again a battle in which a strange story happened to me. They went hand-to-hand with shouts: "For the Motherland, for Stalin!", Burst into the location of the enemy defense. I found myself on the edge of a fascist trench, in which there were a dozen Fritzes, pointed a machine gun at them, and they raised their hands in unison, surrendering. He took them out of the trench and handed them over to the fighters who ran up. For this he received a thrashing from the commander, who said that he should have escorted the Fritzes himself, then he would have received an order for the feat. And in December of the same 1943, Suleiman came under German dagger fire. Already in the trench, he felt something hot hit. Lost consciousness. I woke up covered in blood, from severe pain in the shoulder and right arm. A shell fragment inflicted two wounds at once. Brother-soldier Ivan Mikheev came to the rescue, with whom Suleiman was hardly familiar. This Belarusian moved to him from a neighboring trench, carried him to the nearest mobile first-aid post, practically saved the wounded man's life, became his bosom friend. The injury turned out to be serious, Suleiman spent several months in the hospital. The medical commission concluded that with such wounds he was no longer a fighter: and in March 1944, the war invalid returned to Osh. Suleiman tried himself in several jobs for several years. In 1946 he got married. With Makhbubakhan, they raised eleven children, and she is a heroine mother. “In 1951 I decided to firmly get a civilian profession,” says the veteran, “I finished driving courses. The front-line soldier also continued his studies in evening school without interrupting work, graduated from the Osh Agricultural College, received the profession of an irrigator, but in life it was not useful to him, but he could not part with the chauffeur business, to which he had given forty years. In 1976, Abduvaliev was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor for the transportation of national economic goods, which replenished the veteran's award box, including two Orders of the Patriotic War and 22 medals - combat and jubilee. Suleiman lives happily with Makhbubakhan to this day. Family ties have linked them for 64 years and few people in the half-million city can compete with this married couple in this. Children work as doctors and teachers, in business. The old people today have 35 grandchildren and 41 great-grandchildren. The Abduvalievs live - the elders live in a private house with the youngest of their sons, Ikram, he is a businessman, constantly in business, and three great-grandchildren do not give boredom to their great-grandfather and great-grandmother: a boy and two girls. Suleiman has a lot of everyday life. Often the Council of Elders sends him to nearby schools to meet with students. He visits his front-line friends Alym Kudaiberdiev from the Karasuy village of Papan, Karim Kenzhaev from Aravan, Musa Sasykbaev from Ozgor. While drinking tea, veterans remember the days of the past, fellow soldiers scattered across the CIS countries. And in the recent past, Suleiman performed the hajj to Mecca twice. This year, God willing, the former front-line soldier will celebrate his 86th anniversary and the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory - a date that holds a special place in the memory of the old soldier. N. Pletnev.

CITY: Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, village Malo Mordovskiy Pashet. Record number: 1421299598 DATE OF BIRTH: 10/13/1909 DATE OF DEATH: 05/14/1969 HISTORY: Title: senior sergeant. Kind of troops: ground forces, air force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops The family of Mikhail Egorovich Anashkin had many children, consisted of seven children. Mikhail was the eldest son, from childhood he was independent and responsible. In the Red Army since 12/07/1941. Place of call: Privolzhsky Military Commissariat, Kuibyshev region, Privolzhsky district Member of the CPSU (b) since 1944. Participated from 7.1942 to 9.1942, the Stalingrad front, from 7.1943 to 2. 1944, the Bryansk and Belorussian front (Western Front), from 4. 1944 the 1st Ukrainian. He had the rank of senior sergeant. Position: commander of a battery of 45 mm guns, 828 rifle Vladimir-Volynsky regiment of 197 rifle Bryansk Red Banner division. He was wounded: 09/15/1942 g severely, 10/13/1943. easily. Has awards: 1. Medal "For Military Merit" order 828 joint venture №54-n dated 29.5.1944. A short, specific statement of personal military feat or merit: To reward the commander of a platoon of anti-tank guns of the 2nd rifle boat - Sergeant Mikhail Egorovich Anashkin for being a participant in the Patriotic War since January 1942. During the offensive battles on the Belorussian Front, he was seriously wounded on December 12, 1943. He is currently an excellent student in combat and political training. His calculation knows his weapon perfectly. 2. Order of Glory III degree, order №197spko №51-n from 30.8.1944. A short, concrete description of a personal military feat or merit: Sergeant Anashkin, in an offensive battle on August 9, 1944, when capturing the village of Gurno, under a hurricane of enemy artillery fire, rolled his gun into an open firing position and with direct fire destroyed a mortar with a crew and two machine guns, interfering with the advance of the infantry, which contributed to the success of the battle. Conclusion: for the destruction of enemy fire weapons, for personal courage and courage, he is worthy of the government award of the Order of Glory, 3rd degree. 3. Order of Glory II degree order 142-n dated 10/12/1944. A short, specific statement of personal military feat or merit: Senior Sergeant Anashkin, in a fierce defensive battle on the Dorotinsky bridgehead on September 11, 1944 at a critical moment of the battle, when the enemy was supported by tanks went on the offensive against our positions, under his artillery fire, he rolled his gun forward of the infantry battle formations and with direct fire, shot at close range the advancing Nazis and destroyed his equipment. Only during this battle, the calculation of the brave commander knocked out an enemy tank, suppressed the fire of two firing points and destroyed up to 10 Nazis. Conclusion: for the destruction by fire of his guns, fire weapons and manpower of the enemy and the courage and courage shown at the same time, he is worthy of the government award of the Order of Glory, 2nd degree. After the Great Patriotic War, he lived with his family in the village. Obsharovka, Privolzhsky district. He had 4 children: three daughters and sons. He continued to work until 1968. Battle wounds constantly reminded of themselves. He died in 1969. He was buried in the village cemetery with. Obsharovki.

CITY: Voronezh region, Ternovsky district, with. Novokirsanovka DATE OF BIRTH: 01/13/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 05/13/2002 HISTORY: A tall, thin old man, gray-haired, with gray-blue eyes. This is how I remember him. Great-grandfather Misha died when I was 8 years old. My great-grandfather told a lot of stories, but because of my small age, I don't remember them well. I know almost the whole story about his participation in the Second World War from the words of my grandmother. A tall, thin old man, gray-haired, with gray-blue eyes. This is how I remember him. Great-grandfather Misha died when I was 8 years old. My great-grandfather told a lot of stories, but because of my small age, I don't remember them well. I know almost the whole story about his participation in the Second World War from the words of my grandmother. On January 15, 1940 he was drafted into the army. While serving on the territory of Ukraine, they announced the beginning of the Second World War, and was immediately sent to the front. He was a squad commander of the 18th artillery regiment. He fought on the Volkhov front. Was in the forests and swamps surrounded. They ate killed horses. They gave 200 grams per day. horse meat. “Swimming across the Volkhov River in winter, he was wounded in the leg almost near the bank. He began to swim to the shore. The strength was gone. "Aksenov!" - The lieutenant began to give me his hand and he was wounded in it. Having got out of the river, we hugged him and went to the hospital. " He was the commander of the intelligence department. He fought in Petrozavodsk (Karelia) in the Karelo-Finnish SSR. Was shell-shocked. He was buried in a shell crater. When they dug him up, he heard nothing and did not speak. This went on for a whole month. And afterwards he could hardly hear in one ear. My great-grandfather was also wounded in the back. He left a large, round scar that left a deep impression on me as a child. He fought in Japan. Great-grandfather said that the Japanese prisoners asked permission to catch frogs, and they were immediately fried on fires and eaten. A Japanese man gave him a watch. My great-grandfather also brought a photograph of a Japanese family: a captive Japanese man and his wife, leading a small child by the arms. Great-grandfather returned from the war when my grandmother was already 6 years old. She knew him only from photographs that he sent from the front. When the fighters from the village returned home, everyone joked about my grandmother, saying: "Your father has come," and she answered - "No, when my dad comes, we will drink wine." He returned at night with his brother Vasily. Great-grandmother Masha was confused and could not even find her skirt. They lit a lamp. Grandma woke up. Looking out from the stove, she said, "Here is my dad." According to my grandmother, when films about the war were shown, my great-grandfather began to tell different stories, but could not stand it and cried. Then the great-grandmother stopped him, saying "enough, enough." Great-grandfather was awarded many medals, one of which is the Medal for Courage. His favorite song was "The Volkhov Drinking". When we celebrated any holidays with our family, we were sure to sing this song. Even after his death, one of us said: "Let's sing the favorite song of Misha's grandfather," and everyone began to sing, "Who made his way to Leningrad in swamps, breaking the enemy's throat! .. Let's drink to the Motherland, drink to Stalin, Drink, and again pour! .. "

CITY: Pervomaisky district, village Kutema, Tatar ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1905 DATE OF DEATH: 01.01.1979 HISTORY: Title: Major. Type of troops: Aviation. He passed the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. military pilot. He met the victory as the commander of the 45th Guards Night Bomber of the Warsaw Red Banner Order of Suvorov Aviation Regiment. He flew more than 200 sorties, never was shot down. On combat missions he took with him an unusual mascot, a large teddy bear. For exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German invaders during the capture of the city and fortress of Poznan, the regiment commanded by Major I. F Abroskin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Two pilots in his regiment were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Personally I.F. Abroskin was noted in the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Stalin IV No. 284 of February 23, 1945, for his participation in the battles for the capture of the city and the fortress of Poznan. Extract from the order for awarding the Order of the Red Star: - During the period of stay in the 45th Guards Aviation Regiment during the internship, he showed himself to be disciplined, energetic, and proactive. He quickly mastered flights at night, entered service and conducted 22 sorties at night to bombard manpower, equipment, enemy targets, without any cases of loss of orientation and breakdowns of the material part. He performed combat missions in the face of strong opposition from air defense missile systems and enemy night fighters. During the preparation for the offensive of our troops on the Rogachev - Bobruisk bridgehead, while carrying out a combat mission to reconnoiter the location of enemy manpower and equipment, he was twice hit by anti-aircraft artillery over the target and returned to his airfield on a damaged aircraft and made a landing without accidents or breakdowns. Correctly and skillfully organized the flight personnel for combat work and personally took a direct part in the offensive operations of our troops in the Bobruisk direction, flew to bombard enemy manpower and to control the execution of combat missions by crews. In the air he is bold, persistent and determined. In a combat situation, decisions are made quickly and correctly. -Excerpt from the order on awarding the Order of the Red Banner: In the active army since 22.6.1941, he arrived at this position in October 1944. Upon arrival in the regiment, he proved himself to be a disciplined and demanding commander, but not tactically competent enough, which dramatically in the first and subsequent days affected the combat training of the regiment and personnel. During the period of command of the regiment, 4,064 night sorties were made with a flying time of 3,350 hours, of which 2,914 sorties were made for bombarding enemy personnel and equipment, and 151 for reconnaissance. them for 59 reconnaissance missions. Non combat missions for communication 19 with a flight time of 18 hours. 372 tons of bombs of various calibers were dropped, causing damage to the enemy: 5 cars, 8 anti-aircraft machine guns were destroyed, 34 explosions were caused, 120 fires were created. There were 37 hits in buildings and 5 hits in the railroad. dor. canvas. Their losses: shot down by enemy anti-aircraft artillery and did not return from the combat mission of the materiel - no, in the personnel - 1 person. Non-combat: aircraft - 2, personnel - 4, accidents - 5, breakdowns - 1, loss of orientation - 1. The technical staff repaired and restored by minor and current repairs of aircraft - 24, engines - 31. For successful and good combat work 54 Person of the regiment's personnel during the period of command was awarded government awards, and the regiment for successful operations near Warsaw received its own name "WARSAW" and for the successful liquidation of the encircled enemy grouping in the city of Poznan was awarded the Order "RED BANNER". The regiment's personnel are well-knit and capable of performing any tasks. Personally, Comrade (Commander, Chief) Abroskin himself, during the command period, made 77 combat night sorties to bomb the enemy and control the work of the crew. Flies with desire. The piloting technique is good. With the issuance of the directive of the Military Council of the front 0143, the personnel of the regiment correctly understands and the party - Komsomol apparatus in its daily work is working around it. There are no cases of drunkenness and immoral phenomena in the last 2 months of 1945 in the regiment.

CITY: Penza region, Bessonovsky district, village Kologreevka DATE OF BIRTH: 08/02/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 02/28/1993 HISTORY: From the memoirs of B.F. Averyanov In September 1939. I was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. For the first time I happily rode from Penza on the FD paravoz to the east. Passing city after city along the Trans-Siberian Railway, it became clear that we were following in the direction of Vladivostok. It took us eighteen days to get to our destination: in Novosibirsk we washed in a bathhouse, in big cities we were fed hot food at stops. At the end of September, we got out of the car at the designated place, the station Chita-1, and brought us to the place "Sukhaya Pad". We saw a panorama of the center of Transbaikalia. The wide Trans-Baikal steppes stretched to the west. In a large pine forest, in summer camps, in established tents, the army life of recruits began. The war in Mongolia has just ended, the Red Army has taught the Japanese samurai a lesson on the river Kholkhin-Gol. Many Red Army men who had returned from the war were now serving with us, and many of us young soldiers told how they fought and defeated the Japanese. The regiment took part in the war at Kholkhin-Gol, many pilot officers had military awards. At the headquarters of the Trans-Baikal Military District, they assigned us to groups and began taking exams on the basis of secondary education. Dictation was written first, then mathematics, geography and history. From our regiment passed the exams: I, Pyotr Prokhorov and Ivan Kleimenov, and we were enrolled as cadets in the Smolensk Military-Political School. Molotov. On the last day, before departure, on Sunday, we rested at the large stadium where the concert was taking place. Suddenly the concert was interrupted and it was announced that Germany had attacked the USSR. The Great Patriotic War began. On June 23, 1941, we left for Smolensk. With us was Mr. Butenko, who had been recruited from the reserve, appointed as a flight theory instructor at the same school. Already on the way we were sent to the company of Captain Sinelnikov, so the intensive combat training began. Mr. Butenko taught "flight theory" and until the end of his studies did not lose sight of us: he asked about studies, life, etc. Soon the school was transferred to Saratov and placed on Lenin street not far from the station. Here we studied, worked and lived. The training program was accelerated, they were engaged in 12-18 hours a day. free time remained only for sleep. There were heavy fighting at the front. In November 1941, the Germans began to stubbornly rush to Moscow, the Nazis captured Kharkov on the southwestern front. The cadets raised their voices about sending everyone to the front. The winter of 1941-1942 was cold, the frosts in Saratov reached -30-40g. In November, they began to dig in the city of Saratov. Fortifications were built: anti-tank ditches, trenches, pillboxes, machine-gun points, all earthworks by hand. The city was preparing for defense. It was a difficult time for us cadets, but the residents of Saratov also invested a lot of work in the construction of engineering structures. The time of study was coming to an end, in February 1942. exams have come. The certification began, but I was a candidate for the party, and they were not certified as deputy commanders for the political part of the squadron. At the direction of the heads of PURKKA, they allowed excellent students to go to places where the cadet could receive recommendations to the party. In early February, I left for Penza with a passing train in a freight car with evacuated citizens. At school, on the third day after arrival, a party meeting was held and I was accepted into the party. Two days later, an order was announced for the assignment of an officer rank and sending to the front. Therefore, at school I was not able to fully complete the documents for the party and completed them already at 417 SD (Rifle Division) in March 1942, in the unit that was being formed for the front. At the end of February, they sent us from school to Tbilisi to the North Caucasian Front. I ended up at 417 S.D. and was appointed to serve in the 1376 regiment, to the post of deputy. the commander of a rifle company in the watered part. Having received a direction in personnel, we drove in an organized way to the Vaziani station. In the early summer of 1942, I was already at the front. They brought us to the station Bislan, a large city located in North Ossetia with a large treacle plant. The stop was made in the village of Arkhonskaya, located in a picturesque place. It was completely defeated, and the entire 5th Guards Brigade of the 10th Guards Corps was concentrated there. So we reached the starting line, preparations began for the offensive. From time to time we already heard high shots, explosions of mines and shells. Our battalion commander was Captain Gamzatov, 45 years old, a high Ossetian, originally from these places. He announced to us that the battalion was placed at the disposal of the 5th Guards Brigade, i.e. we became part of the 10th Guards Corps .... The Caucasus, how well it engraved itself in my memory, almost the entire Caucasus moved, fell in love and studied. I was glad when in 1944 I was awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus". Indeed: Archonka and Ishcherskaya, Gizel and Molkabek, Mozdok and Sukhumi, Tuapse and Gagra, Hot Springs and Maykop, Krasnadar and the Crimean village, and finally, the village of Shanzhi, where I was seriously wounded.With difficulty then the soldiers dragged me away from the fascists who were pressing on us. I had to wander around hospitals for a long time ... Caucasus! My beloved Caucasus! Once we were on the defensive against the large Caucasian mountain - Kazbek, mountains like mountains, did not make a sound and only shook from the explosions of shells. And what bloody battles were there .. The fascists tried to seize the city of Grozny, were eager for the Grozny oil. The German army was strong and in 1942 it was not easy for us. Continuous air raids on the leading edge, continuous fire from artillery, mortars, tanks and self-propelled guns and small arms were not silent. And we lost friends and comrades ... The hardships of life at the front did not bother me, during this time I gained command confidence. From the Arkhon stanitsa we moved to the village of Rassvet. Fierce battles were going on for the village, and they could not take it. Having created a strong point, and the village was located on an elevated place, the Germans had a good view of the area around them. There was a large plain around the village, and it was along it that we had to advance on Rassvet. In the defense of the Germans, in addition to a large number of mining troops, dug-in tanks, artillery and self-propelled guns participated. The Nazis mowed down the advancing units with powerful fire and it was difficult to approach the village. The combat mission of the offensive was set for us by Captain Gamzatov, the officers were lying on the embankment of the anti-tank ditch. The battalion's personnel were concentrated at the bottom of the ditch. Lying on the beams, the captain indicated the place of concentration and the location of the mouths during the attack. The Nazis apparently noticed us and opened mortar-artillery fire. Gamzatov quickly gave the command to go down into the ditch, which we did. The battalion commander gave the command: "Get to your places, get ready for the attack!" The morning was clear and sunny, and small white clouds floated across the sky. We started to attack. We moved along the ditch to the place of the attack, at the end of it we jumped out and began to swing into a chain in short dashes. German machine guns and assault rifles started working. We came close to the village along the ditch, but the thought was still in my head that it would be hard for us to get it if we got there, since they had been trying to attack it for several days. It must have happened, luckily for us, fog fell on the plain. He appeared very quickly and lay tight and dense, covered everything, it became nothing to be seen. The fascists still felt that we were advancing and did not weaken the fire. The enemy's tracer bullets pierced the thick air, momentarily showing the path of the advance. Only the whistle of bullets made me cuddle tightly to the ground, the minutes seemed like an eternity. The shooting of the fascists, although it was furious, but not aimed, which, in essence, saved us and made it possible to approach the village, i.e. penetrate deeply into the enemy's defenses. However, the Fritzes forced us to lie down, pouring fire on large-caliber machine guns from buried tanks. Kolya Zabolotny and I lay down badly, our feet were in the water of a fast flowing stream. The fact is that the Terek River has a lot of small tributaries, so we didn’t have time to run one of them. The Germans began shelling us with artillery. Each burst of a shell made the ground shudder, lifting up columns of smoke with the ground and debris, which whistled around us. Our artillery started working and a firefight began. This and the fog helped us to come to our senses, orient ourselves, determine the location of the company and dig in, bury ourselves in the ground. This was the first short respite. Then again a green rocket, a signal for an offensive, and we run forward, but the solid fire of the Germans makes us lie down. The company commander, Lt. Nasonov, and I ran the entire chain of fighters, checking their condition, both physical and maral. A day passed in continuous attacks on the village of Rassvet. They moved slowly, but moved, suffering heavy losses. Many were knocked out of the company of soldiers, we were missing fighters: Ovchinnikov, Konesov, Sidenkin, Petrov, Razvyazov and many others, whose names are difficult to list, were also killed. At night they took us off the front edge, replaced us with other units, and we moved in the direction of the village of Ischerskaya. By dawn, they took up defenses of the newly liberated village. German trenches, communications, dugouts and dugouts are equipped with comfort. Height 3 km. from Ishcherskaya, it was dug round about with trenches and communication trenches, pillboxes and bunkers were made, platforms for guns were equipped. A trench was dug into the village from this hill, through which they received ammunition and food from the village. There were a lot in the dugouts: blankets, pillows and mattresses looted from the population, obviously the Nazis were waiting for the best time to attack again later. They lived boldly, heaps of bottles and cans of canned food with European labels, plundered in France, Holland, Belgium, lay near the dugouts. , Denmark. There were many different parcel boxes lying around, the return addresses on which testified that they were sent from the occupied countries of Europe, which the Germans robbed for good. I managed to find shaving soap, a necessary and indispensable thing in the field. We stopped waiting for the full concentration of all the brigade's divisions. Gamzatov at the command post gathered us and announced that a big march was ahead, but did not say where: either he did not know himself, or the route had not yet been precisely established. Upon returning from the command post, we gave a command to prepare for the campaign. Autumn, November 1942, it is raining and snowing, but a poncho with a cord around our neck saved us. They walked in full combat gear: heavy machine guns, cartridges for them, weapons and ammunition were all on the soldier. We stretched out in a marching column and walk along the Mozdok steppes. Was it hard to walk? Yes, it was hard, they walked in silence, waiting for the arrival at the place where they would put us on the defensive or offensive. Sometimes you walk, hold on to each other, take a little nap or forget and immediately feel relief. And we walked and walked. The infantry had no means of transportation, machine guns, machine guns, ships and ammunition were carried on themselves and on foot. Drenched and chilled, resting on short halts, they walked, walked and walked. Roads, roads, roads ... they have no end. You will see artillerymen and you will be jealous, they ride in cars with trailers or on horses and shout, making fun of us: "Hey, the infantry is not dust!" The Caucasus, how long we walked over you, we all endured and never thought about death, we said: "Seven deaths will never happen, but one cannot be avoided." There were battles near Gizil and Dawn. When moving around North Ossetia, we passed auls and villages, stopped in them to rest and got to know the life and life of the mountain people well, they were friendly to us and treated us to national dishes. There were also many Caucasians in the company, both from the Caucasus itself and from the Transcaucasus: Georgians, Armenians, Azeris, Ossetians.

DATE OF BIRTH: 10/04/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 02/07/1998 HISTORY: When the marines liberated Kerch and the village of Adzhimushkay and descended into the quarry, they, war-hardened sailors, were shocked by what they saw: ... the further into the depths of the stone galleries , the harder it is to breathe. It smells of age-old dampness. Coldly. On the floor are rags, sheets of paper. And the remains of people. A sheet taken at random is another shock. This is the daily delivery of different products per person: 15 grams, 10 grams, 5 grams. And in the next compartment - dozens of corpses of Soviet soldiers. In greatcoats, in bandages, reclining, head thrown back - in these positions they were caught by death. Nearby are weapons and gas masks. Shops of rifles and machine guns are empty: people fought to the last bullet. Gloom and heavy spirit of the grave complete the ominous picture. The shocked sailors realized that this was a self-sacrifice in the name of the Fatherland. With the name of the heroes of Adzhimushkaya, the soldiers later liberated Kerch, Crimea, Sevastopol. There were 15 thousand people in the Adzhimushkai quarries. There was not enough food, water, air. The enraged fascists were throwing lighted gas bombs at the catacombs. To fight them, the defenders arranged shifts and threw burning checkers into boxes of sand. Then the Nazis began to inject gas with a compressor and drilled holes in the walls for hoses. But the defenders found a way out. They tied the hoses in a knot. Then the Germans began to inject gas directly through the holes. And here the defenders found a way out - they created gas-tight walls. Water has become the No. 1 problem for the underground garrison. People sucked water from damp walls, collected it drop by drop into mugs. It was very difficult for emaciated people to dig wells; many died. And the fascists, if they heard the knock of a pickaxe, blew up this place, realizing that people were looking for water. The notes of the defenders have survived. From them you can see how hard it was for the fighters. And when our troops left Sevastopol, the Germans intensified their psychological attack: “Surrender. We promise you. You were left alone in Crimea, everyone surrendered. " But the fighters understood that they were holding the German troops and did not allow them to go to Taman. They fulfilled their duty to the Motherland with honor. Members of the underground garrison did not sit in the catacombs. They went to the surface at night, destroyed enemy firing points, got food, weapons. Many died in battle, others from weakness could not return and died. The defense was led by P.M. Yagunov, who was killed by a stray German grenade. On May 8, 1942, when the Nazis launched a powerful offensive against the positions of the troops of the Crimean Front, units exhausted by continuous battles and fierce bombing retreated to Kerch. Having lost tanks, artillery, and used up ammunition, Soviet troops began to evacuate to the Taman Peninsula. It ended on the night of May 19-20. On May 16-17, a large consolidated detachment under the command of Colonel P. M. Yagunov, consisting of the remnants of units of various types of troops, was surrounded in the Adzhimushkaya area. Having not received an order to withdraw, the detachment continued to bravely fight the Nazis. The Adzhimushkai quarries, where the Soviet soldiers managed to break through, became their last defensive line. In the Big (Central) quarries, four rifle battalions, a headquarters, and a political department were formed, the basis of which was a reserve of command and political personnel. The underground garrison was headed by Colonel P. M. Yagunov and senior battalion commissar I. P. Parakhin. The Chief of Staff was Senior Lieutenant P. Ye. Sidorov. Already on May 20, active hostilities began, night sorties, in which the Nazis suffered significant losses. The existence of two garrisons posed a constant threat to them. Making sure that the Soviet soldiers were not going to lay down their weapons, the Hitlerite executioners used a means prohibited by the international convention as criminal. From May 24, they began to inject poisonous gases into the catacombs. At this terrible time full of tragedy, the head of the main radio station, Senior Lieutenant F.F. Kaznacheev, broadcast the message of Colonel P. M. Yagunov: "Everyone! Everyone! Everyone! All the peoples of the Soviet Union! We, the defenders of the Kerch defense, are choking on gas, we die, but we don't surrender! .. "The garrison suffered huge losses from the first gas attacks. But it was not despair and fear that possessed those who survived, but hatred of the enemy. Partitions were hastily erected on the gas paths, and primitive gas shelters were built. The Nazis surrounded the quarries with a dense network of barbed wire, blew up the exits, covered them with earth, and made powerful explosions on the surface of the catacombs. Hundreds of people died under the rubble, and still remain unmarked underground graves. Stocks of food and ammunition were depleted. From the very first days, the defenders of the underground garrison felt an acute shortage of water: they could get it only in two outer wells, which the Nazis kept under targeted fire day and night. In order to finally deprive the besieged sources of water, the invaders threw one of the wells with the corpses of the dead, the other - with wreckage of cars, stone blocks.Fortunately, they were jammed, so the bottom and part of the trunk were free. For several days, a special team, choking on the acrid dust and soot of lamps, pounded an underground passage to the well. They took water from it until the Nazis blew up the well. Aware of how unreliable the source outside the catacombs is, the underground garrison fighters with great efforts cut two wells in the rock below the ground. One of them has survived to this day. Experiencing incredible hardships and hardships, the heroes of the quarries not only lived, existed - they fought. The Adzhimushkays chained up significant enemy forces: the regiments of the 46th and 132nd infantry divisions, the battle group of Colonel Korne. On the night of July 9, Soviet soldiers carried out one of the largest military sorties, during which they destroyed the enemy garrison in the village of Adzhimushkai. In the morning, the organizer of the defense, Colonel P. M. Yagunov, was killed. Lieutenant Colonel G.M.Burmin, who replaced him, vowed to continue the struggle. In mid-July, the Adzhimushkays began to die of hunger; they died under landslides and shelling, from diseases and wounds. At the end of October 1942, after a 170-day defense, the few surviving defenders of the underground fortress fought their last battle in the quarry. They disabled 20 enemy soldiers. The heroes were captured by Hitler's executioners; some were shot, others were sent to concentration camps. The soldiers of the underground garrison held out for five and a half months. The Adzhimushkai defense went down in the history of the Great Patriotic War as one of its most heroic and at the same time tragic pages. Kerch Brest, an unconquered fortress on the Crimean land - this is how people later called the legendary Adzhimushkai for his immortal feat. Among those captured was my grandfather, Artemiev Sergei Ustinovich. He continued to fight the enemy in captivity, he was an underground activist. My grandfather went through three death camps: Buchenwald, Asventsim and Dachau. His associates arranged seven escapes for him, but none of them was crowned with success. During one of the escapes, he was seriously wounded. He was released from captivity on April 29, 1945. Until his death, he carried this mark on his hand: 14758 ...

CITY: Vladimir region, the city of Murom DATE OF BIRTH: 02/20/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 02/12/1985 HISTORY: Alexander Petrovich Aurov (02/20/1922 - 02/12/1985). Aurov Alexander Petrovich was born on February 20, 1922 in the city of Murom, Vladimir region. On June 24, 1941, he left the first year of the Faculty of Chemistry of G. Lobachevsky volunteered for the front. Was sent to the 129th Infantry Division. One of the most memorable battles in his recollections was the defense of Smolensk in July 1941. The 129th division, which approached the city on July 16, received the task of taking up defenses along the Dnieper River. Until July 20, the 129th division bore the brunt of the defensive battles in this direction. With an extreme shortage of artillery, mortars and machine guns, with a poor supply of ammunition, the division fighters repeatedly rushed into the German positions on the northern outskirts of Smolensk, but they had nothing to gain a foothold in the occupied territory. For the heroism shown, Sergeant A.P. Aurov was nominated for the medal "For Courage". Enemy counterattacks each time forced the division to retreat to its original positions. On the night of July 22-23, the enemy managed to cross to the left bank of the Dnieper near the cemetery, at the junction of the territories of the 129th and 152nd rifle divisions, after which fierce street battles erupted. On July 28, the situation on the front of the 20th Army became sharply complicated. The Germans managed to break through the defenses. As a result, the 152nd Rifle Division and part of the 129th were under the threat of encirclement. The 16th Army had to finally leave Smolensk and withdraw, which was done on the night of July 28-29. Aurov Alexander Petrovich with the fighters were the last to leave the city. In memory of this defense of Smolensk, a memorial plaque was installed on the railway station building. During the withdrawal, the division's standard-bearer was killed, the division's banner was lost, the reconnaissance group headed by Alexander Petrovich returned to the abandoned city and recaptured the division's banner from the Nazis, for which A.P. Aurov. was presented to the Order of the Red Banner. On the night of 7-8 August, the division moved to the Bobrovo area. As of August 29, it defended itself northeast of Klemyatino and further along the Ustrom River to the mouth of the Trubelnya River. On October 7, the Germans broke through to Vyazma and surrounded the troops of the 19th, 20th, 24th, 32nd armies, thereby forming the "Vyazemsky pot". Only some of them managed to break through the encirclement front and reach their own. Aurov Alexander Petrovich could not go out to his own people and, together with the soldiers, joined the partisan detachment of Nikifor Zakharovich Kolyada (partisan pseudonym - "Batya"). In April-May 1942, his troops killed more than 1.8 thousand enemy soldiers and liberated 230 settlements. For military operations as part of a partisan detachment, Alexander Petrovich Aurov was awarded the Order of Glory, III degree. During the rescue of the commander from the battlefield, Alexander Petrovich was seriously wounded, as a result of which gangrene of the right hand developed. The arm was amputated in the field. After a while, he was transferred to the front line to his own. Demobilized for disability in October 1942. After demobilization, he gave up the disability of the 1st group, received a higher education and worked as an engineer until retirement for the benefit of his homeland. Had a number of patents and inventions. He died on February 12, 1985 from extensive myocardial infarction. Buried in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region.

CITY: Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, village Kendelen DATE OF BIRTH: 01/03/1917 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Magomet Khazhibekirovich Atmurzaev celebrated two victories over the enemies of his country. Mohammed was with those who defeated the White Finns in 1940, with those who fought as far as the Elbe and embraced the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition. He will forever remember that distant, exciting meeting with the soldiers of the American army: “We were happy as children. And this is understandable: after all, they and we walked bloody roads to the meeting, leaving behind thousands of miles of fiery roads, overcoming many rivers and seas. river, one hundred and thirty kilometers west of Berlin, we celebrated the victory over fascism. Two fellow countrymen, two tankmen: Magomet Atmurzaev and Magomet Zalikhanov. Their friendship began long before the start of joint military service. Zalikhanov was born and raised on the banks of the stormy Baksan, in the village of Verkhny Baksan, at the foot of the two-headed Mingitau. The homeland of Atmurzaev is the largest Balkarian village of Köndelen. On September 1, 1938, both friends were drafted into the army. Zalikhanov then worked as secretary of the Elbrus district committee of the Komsomol, Atmurzayev - assistant to the first secretary of the regional party committee. one military unit. The request was granted. And when they graduated from the one-year regimental school in Ryazan, they again wished if they served together and ended up in one tank crew. However, this was not without some "buts". The fact is that both of them studied to be a tank commander, and the law of one-man command operates in the army. Which of them should be the commander? Here national customs worked, according to which preference is given to the eldest. True to the traditions of his native people, Atmurzaev asked the authorities: - Let Zalikhanov be the commander of our tank. He is two years older than me. He should be the commander in our crew ... In the cold winter of 1940, tankers Zalikhanov and Atmurzaev honorably carried out the orders of the command. The heroism of the tank commander Magomet Zalikhanov and the driver-mechanic Magomet Atmurzaev was described in the third issue of the Bolshevik magazine for 1940: “Recently, friends took part in the battle. The enemy blew up the bridge and fired from the nearest firing point. The unit commander ordered to destroy it. The tank of Atmurzaev and Zalikhanov went to the task and coped with it brilliantly.The friends destroyed the enemy's firing point, and our infantry got the opportunity to move forward .... The White Finns pulled up a wire fence, dug holes everywhere, set up anti-tank obstacles. However, the tank, controlled by Atmurzaev, as always , obediently walked forward ... ". Magomet Zalikhanov received the Order of the Red Banner for those battles with the Finns. Atmurzaev recalled: - "There were heavy battles on the Karelian Isthmus. Under our onslaught the enemy retreated. We drove on thick ice. Satisfied with the swiftness of the enemy pursuit, I forgot about the need to move carefully on the ice, that in some places there were dangerous places that threatened And something that we feared most happened. The ice could not withstand the load, and the tank sank into the icy water. I don't remember anything else. I only remember that I woke up in a hospital bed and heard the doctors quietly talking to each other: " Will live ... "Then friends told me the details of what had happened. They pulled the tank out of the water. Only the commander gave signs of life, but we - the three crew members - were already mourning. Suddenly I stirred. The soldier who noticed this shouted joyfully:" Alive! .. " I was urgently taken to the hospital, where I lay for four and a half months.The next war found Magomet Atmurzaev in the Ryazan region.On that fateful day, June 22, he was in military camps. the first battle with the Nazis took place near the city of Seno. At night, the tank platoon, where Mohammed was fighting, received an order: "At any cost to detain the enemy until the main forces approach" .... The pre-dawn silence was broken by the rumble of engines. Four tanks appeared, followed by several motorcycles. It was enemy intelligence. The platoon commander warned the tankers: "Shoot only after letting the Fritzes get close!" Unaware of the Soviet tanks camouflaged in cover, the Nazis approached our positions. The moment has come. Direct fire was opened at the enemy. Magomet Atmurzaev distinguished himself in this battle. He knocked out the lead tank with a well-aimed shot. Behind him, the second car froze in place, engulfed in flames .... The battle continued. The enemy brought up fresh forces, but the Balkarian was fiercely hitting the moving fascist tanks. The third car of the enemy was already burning, knocked out by our fellow countryman. However, a few minutes later, the Nazis still managed to set fire to Atmurzaev's tank. The commander himself was wounded in the head, and the driver was killed. The doctors diagnosed him with severe concussion. For many months they fought for the life of Atmurzaev. And they won. But the consequences of the concussion did not disappear, headaches often pursued the former tanker.In this battle, Atmurzaev showed an example of courage, high combat endurance. The command of the unit reported about the feat of the dashing horseman from Köndelen in a letter to his parents. The letter was signed by the commander of the 36th tank regiment, Major Krupsky, and the regiment commissar, battalion commissar Verkovich "In the battles with the bloody fascist bandits who treacherously attacked our Motherland, your son Atmurzaev Mahomet showed exceptional courage, valor, and courage. He fights fearlessly and with great skill. with the enemy, well-aimed fire destroyed three German tanks. Being on the front line, under fire, inspired his soldiers by personal example. Your son was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his courage and valor. We are sure that in future battles he will also fearlessly go to the enemy For you, for freedom, happiness, for the great Soviet people, against the black fascist scum. Our unit is proud of such soldiers as your son. His feats of arms are an example of genuine patriotism and loyalty to his duty. Honor and glory to the heroes of the Patriotic War! " Atmurzaev, after the hospital, is again on the front line, fighting as part of the 16th tank brigade operating in the Leningrad direction. Here he became the commander of the powerful KV (Klim Voroshilov) tank. In one of the heavy battles, Atmurzaev was again seriously wounded and was recovering for six months. After recovering, he was sent to the Volkhov front. But here he was told: - "You have not yet completely recovered to fight on a tank. But we will appoint you as the commander of the armored platform of the forty-eighth armored train." In war, they do not choose their position. Here the fighters hold the test of strength, tempered in severe battles. Becoming the commander of the armored platform, he participated in night raids on Bolshaya and Malaya Vishera, sorties on other defensive fortifications of the enemy. Days, months, years of hard frontline life passed. And along with them, the combat score of Atmurzaev increased, his military skill grew. No wonder Mohammed was entrusted with a tank platoon, which he commanded from May 1942 to April 1944. And Atmurzaev served at that time in the 29th separate tank brigade, and it was here that two important events took place that will forever be remembered by the brave tanker. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. But no sooner had his friends congratulated him on receiving the second military order, as he was again seriously wounded. Fortunately, Mohammed this time survived, recovered and returned to duty. On the heels of pursuing the Nazis, liberating the cities and villages, first of his native country, then Poland, he participated in the storming of the "impregnable" fortress - Konigsberg. Under a hurricane of fire, he crossed the Oder, took the German cities of Neubranderburg, Treptow, Rostock, Wittenberg and many others. Magomet Khajibekirovich completed his combat path on the Elbe. After a while, every year, when on May 9 a veteran of two wars wore a festive costume, the orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, Patriotic War I degree, many medals glittered on his chest. The "Veteran of Labor" medal shone next to the military awards. After the front, Magomet Atmurzaev worked for many years in the accounting department of one of the collective farms of the Dzhambul region of Kazakhstan. Upon returning to his historical homeland, he became a censor in the Office for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press under the Council of Ministers of Kabardino-Balkaria. Here Magomet Khazhibekirovich worked for many years until he left for a well-deserved rest. The head of the family once said: "I am happy with the happiness of my children and grandchildren! It was worth living and fighting for it ...". Mohammed and Saykhat Atmurzaevs raised three children, gave them a higher education. “We don't get together so often, with the whole family: each of the adults is always busy with his own business,” complains the great-grandmother Saykhat. - I am glad that from meeting to meeting we are becoming more and more. Now I have four grandchildren, three granddaughters and a great-grandson. How grandfather Mohammed loved them, who left us ... The veteran of two wars died in 1999. Magomet Atmurzaev left us both his devotion to his native land, and his readiness to defend it with arms in hand, if necessary, and his tender affection for fellow countrymen, children and grandchildren. He made us richer for a lifetime, a life given to people.