Heroes and feats

CITY: s. Maksimovka Gradizhsky (Kremenchug) district, Poltava region, Ukrainian SSR. DATE OF BIRTH: 01/23/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 06/04/1989 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 5th Guards Aviation Gomel Long-Range Division Artyukh Grigoriy Fedorovich was born on January 23, 1920, died on June 4, 1989. Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich was purposeful, neat, conscientious in character, possessed a calligraphic handwriting and for good academic results, in 1938 he was enrolled as a student at Kharkov University. On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began. By order of Joseph Stalin, students of the mathematical and physical faculties of the country's universities, who studied perfectly, were sent to evacuation to study at military institutes in order to preserve qualified personnel and the gene pool. After graduation, they were assigned an officer's rank, and they were no longer sent to the front as a rank and file. Of course, this did not free them from the hardships of wartime, but it allowed them to get to the front in the second echelon. Many lives were saved in this way. Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich in August 1941 was enrolled as a student at the Higher Military Hydrometeorological Institute in the city of Leninabad. The city had an unusual climate. There was an unbearable, scorching heat, and if the long-awaited wind blew, it raised the sand, and everything turned out to be in a whirlwind of a sandstorm. They ate a lot of fruits and dried fruits and many had stomach problems. To escape the heat, the listeners soaked and wrapped a sheet in it before going to bed and slept outdoors on the traditionally flat roofs of a Central Asian city. Once, waking up in the morning on the roof and in the sheet, Gregory felt something foreign under his arm. It turned out to be a snake. From fear, he could not move, but then, pulling himself together, gently freed himself from the uninvited guest. On November 23, 1942 Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich graduated from the Higher Military Hydrometeorological Institute, all graduates, having received a diploma and, having taken the oath, were sent to the ranks of the army. Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich was sent to the Leningrad front. This was the period of the blockade of Leningrad. Aviation, like many other military units, provided a way of life. Every day the pilots lost their comrades. The winter of 1942 was harsh and long. Due to the lack of vitamins in the diet, many military men developed scurvy. As a result of the illness, the teeth fell out in young people. However, after the spread of the epidemic, measures were taken, and coniferous decoctions were given to the military. As a result of incredible physical and psychological stress, as well as the hardships of a harsh winter, Grigory Fedorovich in 1942 suffered pneumonia, practically healed him “on his feet,” which later affected. In 1943, Grigory Fedorovich took part in the defeat of the fascist groups on the outskirts of Stalingrad. When the main battle was over, Stalingrad presented an apocalyptic picture. According to the stories of Grigory Fedorovich, ruins remained from the city, broken brick, twisted red-hot metal were enveloped in a slowly rising red haze and smoke. From the fire and spilled blood, the water in the river was also colored red. Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich flew during the war to reconnoitre weather conditions. He took part in a combat mission, with a plane landing in a forest clearing in a partisan detachment, to provide them with weapons, provisions and communications. This time, the Nazis followed the plane and began encirclement. According to the stories of Grigory Fedorovich, the entire composition of the ship had to accept a ground battle and take off under enemy fire. Grigory Fedorovich also took part in a combat sortie to Narva. For these military episodes, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. The airfields of the deployment were subjected to intensified enemy bombing strikes. On May 9, 1945, Grigory Fyodorovich met in Poland, in the city of Rzeszow. There, in Poland, in the city of Rzeszow, he met his future wife, Kovaleva Alexandra Grigorievna.Since June 1943, Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich was the Head of the Meteorological Service of the Office of the 53rd Stalingrad Aviation Division of the Long-Range Operation of the 4th Guards. Bombs. Av. Gomel Long-Range Aviation Corps, with the rank of captain. For participation in the Great Patriotic War and subsequent service in the Soviet Army, he was awarded the following awards: Order of the Red Star - twice Medal "For Military Merit" Order of the Patriotic War II degree Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 " Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad" Many jubilee medals The path that Grigory Fedorovich traveled in the Great Patriotic War can be traced by the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" and thanks to the engineer-captain GF Artyukh, who was announced as the commander of the Military Unit, General - Major of Aviation Labudev, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, for participation in the operations: - "For the defeat of the Nazi armies on the outskirts of Stalingrad and the elimination of enemy troops encircled at Stalingrad" - "For the capture of the capital of Soviet Belarus, the city of Minsk, the most important strategic hub defense of the Germans in the western direction "-" For the capture of the city and fortress of Brest, a powerful operational center for the defense of the Germans in the Warsaw direction "-" Forcing the Pronya River and making a breakthrough of 45 km. along the front and 30 km. in depth "-" For a breakthrough of the German defense in the sector of the first Belorussian front in the Bobruisk direction. " After the end of the war, Grigory Fedorovich continued to serve in the ranks of the Soviet Army. Since July 1946, he has served in the meteorological service of the General Staff of the Long-Range Aviation Air Force in Moscow. From July 1956 to September 1958 he was the deputy head of the Long-Range Aviation Meteorological Service. In connection with an illness received during the period of service, Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich was declared unfit for further service in the ranks of the Soviet army, and on September 30, 1958, he was dismissed from the post of chief of the meteorological service of Long-Range Aviation with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich was an intelligent, modest, handsome, loving person. He loved his homeland, his family, his home. He rejoiced at the successes and achievements of our country. Grigory Fedorovich took part in the celebrations for the Victory Day, was a member of the Union of Long-Range Aviation Veterans, took part in organizing and equipping the Museum of Long-Range Aviation in Ryazan with materials. Grigory Fedorovich died on June 4, 1989 after an unsuccessful operation at the Burdenko hospital. He was buried with military honors at the Nikolo-Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. His cousin, Voloshko Vasily Stepanovich, said at the commemoration on the day of the funeral that he always wanted to be like Grisha, with whom they went to school 7 kilometers on foot. In 2014, Vasily Stepanovich, Lieutenant General, was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery, who lived to be 93 years old and worked until old age as the Head of the Strategic Planning Department of the Russian General Staff. During the war, as a military pilot, he twice burned on the plane. P.S. Grigory Fedorovich's father - Fedor Ivanovich Artyukh, born in 1895, was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the front. Reached Hungary. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals, died at the age of 90.

CITY: Aleksandrov-Gai village DATE OF BIRTH: 06/28/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 04/18/1994 HISTORY: Title: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery He left for the front at 17, adding a year to himself. In the Red Army since 1941. Place of call: In the Military Commissariat, the Byelorussian SSR, Minsk, Voroshilovskiy district. Rank: Red Army soldier Fought in the regiment of the 123rd Red Banner Infantry Regiment-62nd Infantry Division. Awarded - the Order of the Red Star-06.02.1945, the medal "For Courage" -10.12.1944; Order of the Patriotic War II degree. Captured (released) _ 03.1943 Combat path -1944-45. Combat operations in the composition: 123th joint venture: 06/23/1944-0.07.1944. 123 cn: 08.08.1944-08.08.1944 Awarded with the Medal "For Courage" In the award list there is an entry: Commander of the 123rd reg.p. Lieutenant Colonel Glavnov. dated 01/29/1945 "In offensive battles, he showed courage and courage, destroyed the calculation of the enemy's machine-gun point, thereby ensuring the advancement of our units and the fulfillment of the combat mission. In battles from 17.10.-23.10.44 123 cn: 17.10.1944-23.10.1944. 123 cn. : 10/31/1944 - 10/31/1944 123 joint venture: 01/07/1945 - 01/16/1945 Awarded with the "Order of the Red Star". Taken from the account card: "Comrade. Akhmatov participating in offensive battles from 21.01.45-28.01.45. proved himself to be a courageous, decisive warrior, skillfully led the machine-gun squad. By personal example, he inspired the fighters in an offensive impulse. Machine-gun fire struck two enemy counterattacks. In this battle, fire from a tank machine gun destroyed 22 German soldiers and officers. "123 joint venture: 01/22/1945-28.01.1945 123 joint venture: 01/28/1945 - 01/31/1945 123 joint venture; 01/31/1945-31.01.1945 In the award list entry: Kombat of 123rd rifle regiment Lieutenant Colonel Glavnov. from 01/29/1945 "In offensive battles, he showed courage and courage, destroyed the calculation of the enemy machine-gun point, thereby ensuring the advancement of our units and the fulfillment of the combat mission. In battles from 17.10.-23.10.44 he destroyed 9 German soldiers ....... "In rank: the junior sergeant reached Berlin there and met Victory. He was wounded several times. With a splinter at his temple he lived his life, every day a splinter reminded of himself, of the war. Eternal glory to him, we are proud of our father and grandfather!

CITY: Turkestan region of the South Kazakhstan region. DATE OF BIRTH: 11/07/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 06/30/2004 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 96th Rifle Gomel Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Seitkaeim Ashirov was born in 1924 in the Turkestan region of the South Kazakhstan region in the family of a poor Kazakh. When in 1931 the inhabitants of the Otrar aul united into a collective farm, Ashir Yesimbetov (Seitkasim's father) was one of the first to join it. After graduating from a seven-year school, he began to work on the collective farm and Seitkayim. Drafted into the Red Army in June 1942 by the Kyzylkum district military enlistment office of the Chimkent region of the Kazakh SSR. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since July 1943. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1945. The commander of the reconnaissance section of the 332nd Infantry Regiment (96th Infantry Division, 48th Army, 1st Belorussian Front), Komsomol sergeant Seitkasim Ashirov distinguished himself in battles near the village of Zabolotye, Baranovichi district, Brest region of Belarus. In the area of ​​the village of Zabolotye on July 3, 1944, Seitkasim and two scouts approached a German mortar battery. With a surprise attack, using grenades and a machine gun, the group destroyed the crews and sowed terrible panic among the Germans. The enemy was driven out of the village and driven back several tens of kilometers. In this battle, Seitkasim Ashirov showed exceptional resourcefulness. Having spent his personal ammunition, he snatched a rifle from the fascist and continued to beat the Germans with their own weapons. Eleven soldiers and one officer were killed, and another officer was captured by a brave intelligence officer. In this battle, in total, the reconnaissance group led by S. Ashirov captured six mortars, two tractors, four vehicles and seven prisoners. This ensured the success of the combat operations of the regiment in which S. Ashirov served. For this feat, the batyr from South Kazakhstan was awarded the highest military award - he became the Knight of the Golden Star. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945, for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, Sergeant Ashirov Seitkasim was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ( No. 6117). For military merit, he was also awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, Glory III degree. In 1946, senior sergeant S. Ashirov was demobilized. He returned to his native village. In 1968 he graduated from the Samarkand Agricultural Institute in Uzbekistan. He worked as the chief animal technician at the state farm "Koksuisky", then director of the state farm "Chardara" in the Chimkent now South Kazakhstan region of Kazakhstan. He died on June 30, 2004.

CITY: Taylashevka village, Krivosheinsky district, Tomsk region, RSFSR. DATE OF BIRTH: 07/01/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 07/04/2014 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 394th Infantry Krivoy Rog Red Banner Division. Anisenya Mikhail Mikhailovich was drafted into the Red Army for mobilization on August 19, 1942 by the Krivosheinsky Military Commissariat, Tomsk Region. Served: 373rd reserve rifle regiment, 23 reserve rifle division, Berdsk, Novosibirsk region - shooter, private, August 29, 1942 - May 1943; In the Great Patriotic War from May 1943 to May 9, 1945 on the South-West, Steppe, 3rd Ukrainian, 2nd Ukrainian fronts, consisting of: 810th Infantry Regiment (address - military unit field mail 61271) regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Titov Ilya Samsonovich, 394th Infantry Division of the Kryvyi Rih Red Banner Division, Commander Colonel Lisitsyn Alexander Ivanovich - shooter, private, May 15, 1943 - September 1, 1943, 46th Army Commander of the troops Major General Vasily Glagolev - shooter of the year, private, May 1943 - September 1943. 139th separate barrage detachment (address - military unit field mail 48562), commander of the detachment, Captain Ivan Alekseevich Kryukov, 46th Army, Commander of troops Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Vasily Vasilyevich Glagolev until May 1944, Lieutenant General Ivan Shmelev Timofeevich from May 1944 - shooter, private, September 1, 1943 - November 18, 1944. A separate command battalion of the 46th Army. Military unit field mail 26743, - shooter, private, November 18, 1944 - August 18, 1945; 46th Army Commander of the troops Lieutenant General Ivan Timofeevich Shlyomin until January 1945, Major General Mikhail Sergeevich Fillipovsky January - March 1945, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Alexander Vasilievich PETRUSHEVSKY from March 1945. Demobilized on February 15, 1948 on the basis of the Resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers of February 13, 1948. After the war, he worked at the collective farm "im. Ostrovsky ", a tractor driver; in Krivosheinsk MTS - as a tractor driver; on the collective farm "im. Lenin "- a collective farmer, tractor driver; in the state farm "Belostoksky", village Pudovka, Krivosheinsky district, Tomsk region - a handyman, hammer MTM. Retired from August 23, 1979.

CITY: Voronezh DATE OF BIRTH: 03/09/1927 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 13th division of the NKVD convoy troops Son of the regiment. Alekseev Vyacheslav Gavrilovich. 03/09/1927 - 1946. Before the war, the mother's family lived at the corner of Sacco and Vanzetti and Malaya Smolenskaya streets in Voronezh. The house was destroyed during the war. There was a school next to the house, where Slava, my mother's brother (Vyacheslav Gavrilovich Alekseev, born March 9, 1927), studied before the war. The elder brother, Boris Alekseev, worked before the war at the plant. Dzerzhinsky, was drafted into the Red Army. Killed at the front. Mother's father fought, died in Belarus in 1944 (about him separately). In the city park of Voronezh, on the extreme slab of the common grave, the inscription "Son of the regiment, Alekseev Slava. 07.24.1942". But the inscription is not true. Slava did not die in July 1942 ... Grinko, in his essay "Little Chekist", describes in detail how junior lieutenant Arefiev (Arefiev's platoon was part of the 233rd NKVD regiment) received the task of taking up defenses on S. Razin and cover the approaches to the Chernavsky bridge. Just not far from the house where my mother's family lived (at the fork in S. Razin, Tsyurupa and Sacco and Vanzetti streets, just below Manezhnaya), soldiers took up defensive positions in one of the empty houses. Here Slava nailed to them, who, probably, seeing that his home was destroyed, thought that all his relatives had died. At that time, the boy graduated from 7 classes, he was 14 years old. So Slava remained in Arefiev's platoon, received a weapon and a soldier's certificate that since July 5, 1942 he has been in military service in the Red Army. Knowing well the area where he grew up, Slava helped the soldiers to occupy the most advantageous positions, reached with a platoon to the blown up Chernavsky bridge, where Arefiev's platoon took the last hand-to-hand combat. And Slava, along with a wounded soldier, was tasked with delivering a report to the headquarters of the 233rd NKVD regiment. Junior Lieutenant Alexei Stepanovich Arefiev, the commander of the 4th platoon of the 233rd NKVD regiment, died along with his soldiers in the battle at the Chernavsky bridge. He was buried in a mass grave in the Yunnatov park. And Slava Alekseev, together with a wounded soldier, found the headquarters in Otrozhka, reported to Major D. M. Yakubenko about the last heroic minutes of the battle of Arefiev's platoon. Slava Alekseev remained to fight in the 233rd regiment at the age of 14. So, in his memoirs, the former commander of the mortar company of the 233rd regiment K.A.Kokorev writes that in August the regiment, by order of the command, left the area of ​​the Agricultural Institute on the left bank of the river, during the crossing of the river, the regiment's son, Slava Alekseev, again distinguished himself. to go ford. By the end of the summer of 1942, the NKVD regiments were withdrawn from Voronezh. The 233rd regiment was sent to Stalingrad to escort the captured Germans and their allies. In the summer of 1944, the regiment, together with the Red Army, entered the liberated Lviv, where it was stationed earlier, before the start of the war, and settled in its barracks. The glory of the soldier reached Lviv together with the regiment. All this time, my mother and grandmother had no information about Slava, returned to Voronezh, and considered Slava dead. Accidentally on the street from a classmate Slava learned that he is alive, is in Lviv! The correspondence began (some letters were kept by my mother). And in 1944, Slava, having received a short-term vacation, himself visited his family, who at that time lived on the street. Socialist (home was destroyed). Slava himself personally told his mother and sister about his adventures. In 1946, the family received a funeral about the death of Vyacheslav Alekseev. We still do not know anything about the circumstances of the death or the place of burial. Our family has been trying for many years to find at least some information about this ... Today, the administration and students of school No. 36 in Otrozhka pay great attention to the memory of my uncle. Thanks to their efforts, a memorial plaque was erected on one of the buildings in Otrozhka, where in 1942-43 the headquarters of the combat area was located, leading the defense of the city. Special thanks to the military institute of the Armed Forces, which is considered the successor to the traditions of the 233rd NKVD regiment. A monument to the soldiers of this regiment was erected on the territory of the institute. If someone has any information about Alekseev Vyacheslav Gavrilovich on March 9, 1927, please contact by phone 8 920 452 04 30 Marina, 2420 119 Lyudmila Aleksandrovna. Our family will be very grateful for any information! Prepared based on the materials of Valery Kononov, ethnographer, associate professor of Voronezh State University - with great gratitude. In the photo - Slava Alekseev during a short-term vacation in Voronezh in 1944 and a fragment of a slab on a mass grave, where Slava is mistakenly listed as dead in 1942.

CITY: Krasnodar Territory Giaginsky District, Tambovsky village DATE OF BIRTH: 10/11/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 05/27/2016 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 9th Plastun Rifle Krasnodar Red Banner, Orders of Kutuzov and the Red Star Volunteer Division. Victory Day occupies a special place in our family. On May 9, 1945, the long-awaited news of the end of the Great Patriotic War came to all homes. Today's world was defended by our great-grandfathers in heroic battles. They gave us life and a future without bombing, gunfire and death. Among these people was my great-grandfather - Abramenko Ivan Vasilyevich. Ivan Vasilievich was born on October 11, 1924 in the Giaginsky district of the Krasnodar Territory in a family of rural workers. In the hungry year of 1933, Ivan Vasilyevich's parents died, and his own aunt took him into her family. Life in a large family was difficult. Adults and children toiled in the fields of their collective farm to hand over grain to the state's bins. The yield by today's standards was small - 12 centners per hectare. But this figure was perceived as a great victory. The peaceful labor of people was interrupted by the war. In the summer of 1942, the territory of the Kuban was occupied by fascist German troops. Young people gathered at the military enlistment offices every day, demanding that they be sent to the front. Among them was Ivan Vasilievich. He has not yet turned 18 years old. To get into the active army, he added an extra year to himself in the questionnaire. This is how the military page in his biography began. The second year of the war was a time of hardships. The hastily formed military units of the Soviet army retreated to the Caucasus Mountains with battles. There was a shortage of weapons, ammunition, food. During the reconnaissance mission near the city of Tuapse, Ivan Vasilyevich was seriously wounded. Returning from the German rear with a captured officer, he stepped on an enemy mine. The soldier was saved from death by an automatic rifle hanging on his chest. After treatment in the hospital, he again returns to his military unit, which became part of the 9th Krasnodar Plastun Division. She was part of the reserve of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief (I.V. Stalin) and fought in the most difficult sectors of the front. With her participation, our native land was liberated, as well as the city of Kerch and the territory of Crimea. 1944 was remembered by Ivan Vasilyevich for the fierce battles for the Polish city of Dembice, where an underground German plant was located, which produced aerial bombs. Ivan Vasilievich was the commander of an artillery crew. His task was to suppress enemy fire and provide protection to our infantry. For his participation in this operation, he was awarded the Order of Glory. At the beginning of 1945, stubborn battles began in the region of the Vistula and Oder rivers. They were attended by 22 thousand guns. For participation in this operation, Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. At the request of the allies of the USSR - the British and the Americans - continuous battles were fought in the Berlin and Prague directions, since their main forces were surrounded. Ivan Vasilievich took part in a meeting of the allied forces on the Elbe River. He ended the war, liberating the city of Prague - the capital of Czechoslovakia. Until 1964, Ivan Vasilyevich lived and worked as a driver in the village of Chernigov, Apsheronsky district, and then moved with his family to the Oktyabrsky grain state farm, which was then an advanced farm in the Yeisk district. There he continued his career until retirement. Being on a well-deserved rest, Ivan Vasilyevich is actively involved in social life. He meets with schoolchildren, works with young people, and is a mentor for the leaders of a rural settlement. According to the results of its work, the Council of Veterans of the Oktyabrsky settlement has occupied 1-3 places in the region over the past three years. For his work with the younger generation, Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the award of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory, was awarded several times with certificates of honor. In 2006, with his assistance, a room for Combat and Labor Glory was created at Municipal Budgetary General Education Institution Secondary School No. 22. Its expositions are constantly replenished with new exhibits found as a result of the search work of students, the help of fellow villagers. This clearly shows the connection between generations. They are brought together by two concepts: memory and love for the Motherland. Ivan Vasilievich headed the Council of Veterans of the Oktyabrsky village for 18 years. Has awards: the Order of Glory, the Order of the Patriotic War I and II degrees, the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus", the medal "For the liberation of the Kuban", the medal "For Victory over Germany", anniversary medals. My great-grandfather passed away on May 27, 2016 at the age of 92. The memory of him is sacredly kept in our family.

CITY: Artashat, Erivan district DATE OF BIRTH: 01/28/1894 DATE OF DEATH: 02/08/1980 HISTORY: Title: Major General. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: Artillery Division of the Bryansk Front (Trophy Artillery Division). He participated in three wars - the First World War, the Civil War in Russia and the Great Patriotic War - he was awarded eighteen awards. For participation in the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner, the Patriotic War I degree and medals (all orders and medals were transferred to the Military Museum of Armenia). Born on January 28, 1894 in Artashat, Erivan district in a peasant family. He graduated from the 6th grade of the Yerevan gymnasium, worked as an official at the post office. In March 1915, he was drafted into the Russian Imperial Army. In May 1916 he graduated from the school of warrant officers and served in the 272nd reserve infantry regiment in the city of Novocherkassk. From the beginning of 1917 he was on the Southwestern Front. He was elected commander of the machine-gun team of the 74th Stavropol Infantry Regiment of the 19th Infantry Division. For participation in battles, he was awarded the Badge of Distinction of the Military Order, the Order of St. Vladimir of the 4th degree, the Order of St. Stanislav of the 3rd degree and the Order of St. Anna of the 3rd and 4th degrees. He participated in hostilities as part of the Red Army against the Dashnak government of the Republic of Armenia. From 1922 to 1931 he served on armored trains and in the Armenian Infantry Division. Since 1932 - teaching at the Transcaucasian United Military School and the Kharkov Artillery School. Graduated from the Higher Artillery School and the Military Academy of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (hereinafter - the Red Army) named after M.V. Frunze. Before the Great Patriotic War, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he served as deputy head of an artillery school for combat and training. He began the Great Patriotic War as deputy chief of a detachment of Kharkov cadets. In the initial period of the war, he commanded the artillery of the 8th Infantry Division, which was part of the Bryansk Front (1941-1943). Then he was appointed commander of the 64th Cannon Heavy Artillery Brigade (1943), and then took the post of deputy. commander of artillery of the 43rd Army of the 1st Baltic Front (1943-1944). At the final stage of the war, he was the chief of artillery of the 1st Rifle Corps of the 43rd Army of the 1st Baltic Front and the 1st Shock Army of the Leningrad Front (1944-1945) and distinguished himself in the battles for the liberation of Belarus and the Baltic states. In 1942 he joined the CPSU (b). November 19, 1944 K.V. Akhnazaryan was awarded the rank of Major General of Artillery. After the end of the war K.V. Akhnazaryan continued to serve in the Soviet Army as commander of the artillery of the 1st Rifle Corps, the 5th Guards Don Cossack Cavalry Corps and the 29th Rifle Corps. In 1953 he was dismissed due to illness. While in retirement, he worked in the military-scientific society of the House of Officers of the Garrison in the city of Krasnodar.

CITY: Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Mishkinsky District, Kurmanaevo village DATE OF BIRTH: 12/31/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 12/21/2001 HISTORY: Subdivision: 41st Guards Rifle Division Korsun-Danube Order of Suvorov Living today, remember the past. Remember! Through the centuries, after years - About those who will never come Never, remember ... R. Rozhdestvensky My grandmother often said: "To live in peace, one must remember those who gave it." In the Great Patriotic War, four of my great-grandfathers and one great-great-grandfather fought for their homeland. My great-grandfather, whose name I bear, was named Andreev Nikolai Andreevich. I also want to tell you about him. He was one of the first to begin service in the newly formed (by order of the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief from October 10, one thousand nine hundred and forty-one) Airborne Forces, which consisted of young men living in Siberia and the Urals. At night, at high altitude, the boys were dropped by parachute behind enemy lines, two or three hundred of kilometers behind the front line. Their task was to return on foot through forests and swamps in pitch darkness, breaking through the front line from the rear. The total weight of the uniform and the load was thirty kilograms, with such a load it was necessary not only to go, but also to fight the enemy! When dropped by parachute, a strong wind at a height threw and carried them towards the paratroopers far from the landing site, several paratroopers wounded in the air were captured by the Nazis. A day later, great-grandfather and his comrades reached the place of captivity and saw a terrible picture: all the paratroopers who fell into the hands of the Germans were hanged by their chins on iron hooks with their hands tied behind their backs. The great-grandfather fought from Vyazma through the Smolensk and Kaluga regions to Stalingrad. He was awarded the Medal for Military Merit. He participated in the breakthrough of the Stalingrad Front from September 3 to 11, 1942, when only three hundred guardsmen survived from the Guards regiment of two thousand people. In a report about this, General of the Army Zhukov on September 12, 1942 reported to Stalin, emphasizing: "Our swift blow forced the enemy to turn his main forces from Stalingrad against us, which facilitated the position of Stalingrad, which would have been taken by the enemy without this blow." Here is an extract from the order: “On the Stalingrad front, Comrade Andreev took part in battles many times, he has twenty-seven killed German soldiers and officers to his account. In the Kotluban area near Stalingrad, with his squad, he captured four bunkers (long-term firing points) and six bunkers (long-term protected firing points) of the enemy, taking anti-tank guns, ten machine guns, twenty-two rifles, in addition, twenty-two German soldiers were taken prisoner ". On September 16, 1942, when battles for every house were already going on, hand-to-hand fights broke out fiercely, starting in the morning and not abating until dark, and often continuing at night, my great-grandfather was seriously wounded and became disabled. For the battles at Stalingrad, my great-grandfather was awarded the highest soldier's award "Order of Glory" and the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad". Andreev Nikolai Andreevich was buried in the city of Birsk. His photograph still hangs in the city's military registration and enlistment office in the section "Cavaliers of the Order of Glory." And the milestones of the battles are described in the book by A.A. Yaroshenko "The 41st Guards Army went into battle." I remember and am proud of my great-grandfather.

CITY: s. Evpraksino, Privolzhsky district, Astrakhan region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/14/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 02/17/1944 HISTORY: Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin (September 1 [14], 1910 - February 17, 1944) - Soviet officer, participant of the Great Patriotic War, deputy commander of the 2nd rifle battalion for combat units 724th Infantry Regiment, 315th Infantry Division, 51st Army of the Southern Front. Hero of the Soviet Union (11/01/1943), captain. Born in 1910 in the Astrakhan province, in the village of Evpraksino (now the Volga region of the Astrakhan region). Russian by nationality. He served in the Red Army from 1932 to 1934. In the summer of 1940, on the basis of the SNK decree of July 4, 1940 and the National Coordinating bodies order No. 196 of July 10, on the re-registration of private and junior commanding personnel of the reserve, he was again drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. Completed training courses for junior lieutenants. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from the end of June 1941. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Kerch and the Kerch Peninsula. He was seriously wounded. Upon recovery, he took a direct part in the battles at Stalingrad. In the offensive battles for the capture of the city of Melitopol from October 13, 1943, Captain N.S. Aleshin, deputy commander of the 2nd rifle battalion for combat units (724th rifle regiment, 315th rifle division, 51st army), was in the infantry battle formations. He personally knocked out two enemy tanks with grenades, and in total during the fighting in the city of Melitopol, the fighters of Captain Alyoshin's unit repulsed more than twenty counterattacks by Nazi tanks and infantry, destroyed a large number of enemy manpower and four medium tanks. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 1, 1943, Captain Nikolai Sergeevich Alyoshin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the medal "Golden Star". On the southern front (renamed the 4th Ukrainian), the enemy began to retreat. In the course of the pursuit of the Nazis, Soviet troops reached the Sivash coast, and by November 1, 1943, they broke into the Perekop Isthmus. In November 1943, during the breakthrough of the Turkish Wall on the Perekop Isthmus, the battalion commander of the 724th Infantry Regiment of the 315th Melitopol Red Banner Infantry Division, Major Alyoshin was seriously wounded and on February 17, 1944, he died in hospital No. 2347. Buried in the village of Askania-Nova, Kherson region. Awards: Hero of the Soviet Union (November 1, 1943, Gold Star medal No. 1294); Order of Lenin (November 1, 1943). Memory: In the botanical garden of Askania-Nova, a bas-relief of N. S. Alyoshin was installed, on which his name was engraved. By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Hero of the Soviet Union Alyoshin was forever enlisted in the lists of the personnel of the military unit.

CITY: Mozhaiskoye village, Novooskolsky district, Belgorod region DATE OF BIRTH: 05/07/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 03/15/2012 HISTORY: Title: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Signal troops Subdivision: 37th rifle division (2 formations) From the Autobiography. On June 24, 1941 he was drafted into the Red Army. However, we only reached Kastornaya, and our team was returned. They say that we were supposed to be sent to one of the schools, but the war confused all plans. He returned and continued to work at the regional hospital in Velikomikhailovsky. There was mobilization, German planes flew by. On October 4, 1941, I was again called up and sent to the Voronezh School of Radio Specialists. The front was approaching. On October 2, the Germans occupied Kursk. The school was evacuated inland and sent on October 28. We moved on foot in the Voronezh, Tambov and Saratov regions. We walked through the crops of beets, sunflowers, corn, through arable land to the Rtishchevo station. And we ended up in Novosibirsk. It didn't take long to study. At the end of February 1942 they finished their studies and in March they were already on the Karelian front. I got into the 20th Red Banner Regiment of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs as a radio operator, but soon the regiment was transformed into the 20th Infantry Regiment of the 37th Infantry Division. They took up defense at the eighth lock of the Belomor-Baltic Canal, in the Maselskaya - Povenets section. Conditions are harsh: forests, snow, mosquitoes in summer. The regiment almost did not conduct active operations. Rotting in the swamp. In January 1943 he joined the party. In March 1943, the division was transferred to keep the 16th German army "in a sack" on the North-Western Front ("Demyansky Cauldron"). They held them in good faith, and fought bypassed the entire "cauldron". They fought especially fiercely near Staraya Russa. Here I received the first medal "For Military Merit". Then there were battles in the Nevel-Novosokolniki area. Particularly fierce battles took place near the village of Nikitino. The Germans occupied our trenches. They threw grenades through the window into the company dugout in which our radio station was located. There were many killed and wounded. My partner Franz Kaminsky and I were lucky, we got off with a light concussion. For this fight I received the Order of the Red Star. March 1944. Heavy fighting north of Wasteland. He was wounded in the head. April-May - battles for the expansion of the bridgehead across the Velikaya River, seven kilometers from the Pushkin Mountains. Then march under Idritsa. Next is the 2nd Baltic Front. At Sebezh they crossed the Latvian border. July-August 1944: battles for Vilany, Madona, Ludza and Rezekne, crossing of the Aiviekste river. They fought towards Riga. On October 13, 1944 Riga was liberated from the Germans. Thanks were announced by Stalin's order. Then the battles to liquidate the Kurland group of Germans. Together with everyone he endured all the hardships of trench life: freezing, soaking, starving. Always in mortal danger - shelling, bombing. As a result, in January 1945 he ended up in the hospital, where he stayed until May 7, 1945. After being discharged, he was left in the hospital as treasurer, after the disbanding of the hospital, he was sent to the military registration and enlistment office and on October 1, 1945, he was demobilized (limited fit for military service). Recognized as a disabled war invalid of the second group. In 1942 he was appointed deputy political instructor of the communications company and was awarded the appropriate rank. In 1943 he was awarded the rank of senior sergeant. He was a radio operator, head of a radio station, provided radio communication between the regiment commander and the division commander (Krasikov - Gusarov). I consider myself lucky. Throughout the war he was in the same communications company. We have formed a front-line family: demanding, intelligent and kind commanders, dear comrades. Representatives of many nationalities served in the company, but no one noticed this. We did one common cause - we defended our common home, our Fatherland, we fought. After the war, we met with front-line friends in Latvia, then Soviet. It was a joyful and unforgettable meeting. Many of our friends are no longer alive, and there is no great power, which we defended from the Nazis. Letters and photographs keep the memory of comrades.

DATE OF BIRTH: 12/07/1923 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Type of troops: Coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops Atroshchenko Ivan Yakovlevich was born on December 7, 1923 in the village of Horoshevka, Gomel region, Belorussian SSR. In 1939, after graduating from the 9th grade of the Ogorodnya-Kuzminichi school (Dobrush district, Gomel region), he entered a 9-month course in Novobelitsa at the former pedagogical and working faculty. Ivan Yakovlevich began his labor activity in 1940, in the Deniskovichi elementary school, in the Brest region. On July 12, 1941, from his native village of Khoroshevka, where he was on vacation, he went to war. In the first year of the war, Ivan was awarded for his participation in the defense of Moscow. In December 1942, near Rzhev, he was seriously wounded by shrapnel - half of his palm was torn off. On the Kursk Bulge, Ivan, together with his comrades, defused 36 anti-tank mines for the passage of our thirty-fours. For accomplishing this task he was awarded the medal "For Courage". After treatment in the hospital, he took part in the liberation of Orel, Belgorod and Kharkov.After another wound he fell under Leningrad, in the air defense forces, served in the regiment of the balloon barrage, where he met the Great Victory. In October 1945, the front-line soldier returned to his homeland and was appointed deputy director of the Demyansk Special Children's Home, where orphans of the dead front-line soldiers and partisans were brought up. In 1956 he graduated by correspondence from the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology of the Chkalov Gomel Pedagogical Institute, for more than 45 years he taught geography, biology and chemistry in Demyanki. He did a lot of educational work, led the agitational collective in the village council. His wife, Ekaterina Terentyevna Belova, is an honored school teacher of the BSSR I.Ya. Otroshchenko made a great contribution to the military-patriotic education of young people, was a frequent visitor to the city's schools, vocational schools, and the regional military registration and enlistment office. He was awarded the title of Honorary Member of the District Council of Veterans. At the end of the war, he received the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. The fond memory of a soldier, mentor, sincere and kind person will forever remain in the hearts of students, all those who lived and worked next to him.

CITY: Kirteli Bolshe-Tarkhani district DATE OF BIRTH: 11/25/1926 DATE OF DEATH: 08/18/1985 HISTORY: Title: Corporal. My grandfather, Nikolai Sergeevich Adaryaev, was born in the village of Kirteli, Bolshe-Tarkhan district, on November 25, 1926. His childhood was difficult (his mother died early), and after graduating from the 4th grade, he went to help the shepherds for food. On October 21, 1943, he was called up for active military service by the draft commission of the B-Tarkhan military commissariat. I had to serve for 7 years. From October 1943 to July 1945 he was a submachine gunner. He was awarded the rank of corporal. Participated in the war with Japan. From August 1945 to September 1950, he served as a light machine gunner in the 1045th Infantry Regiment. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 30, 1945, he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." There were other awards, but not all of them survived. His main civilian specialty is a tractor driver for tracked tractors. All his life he worked as a tractor driver on his native collective farm. At first, at efficiency, he processed mainly beets from sowing to the end of harvesting, and then on large tractors. He was not afraid of work, he carried out the assigned work in good faith. He was very fair and always spoke the truth in the face, which not everyone liked. Grandfather was proud that he was a war veteran and a labor veteran. Every year on May 9, I remember, he cried. He said: "God forbid you to see the war!" On August 7, 1985, he was handed a certificate of a participant in the war. I counted the years until retirement, but the unexpected happened ... At the age of 58, he fell near his house from a hay cart from a tractor cart. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save - he died in the hospital after an operation on August 18, 1985. In the army, for all 7 years, our grandfather served with a resident of the village of Vasilyevka, Kuzin Alexander Romanovich. Their friendship continued after the service. Grandfather often came to visit his friend Sasha, who had a sister, Valya. During one conversation, the father says: "Why, Aunt Matryona, maybe I will marry your Valya - I really like her." Great-grandmother did not mind. On April 8, 1952, their marriage was registered. We left to work in the Urals. From earnings they returned back to the village in 1956 with a new surname Adaryaevs, since Odaryaev in Russian sounds like Adaryaev, and was recorded. The error was not corrected. It is not for nothing that they say: "Where I was born, there I was." They gave birth and raised 9 children. Mom - Adaryaeva Valentina Romanovna - was awarded medals both as a mother-heroine and for her work in her native collective farm. In 1945 she was 15 years old, and she also contributed to the common Victory.

CITY: Ryazan region, Ukholovsky district, village Satino DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1903 DATE OF DEATH: 08/10/1943 HISTORY: Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops ... Division: 65th Guards Rifle Division Riga. 08.08.43 years of the 22nd Guards Rifle Division of the 10th Guards. The army was tasked with moving closer to the front line at night in readiness for action at the junction between the 56th and 65th divisions in order to develop the success of their offensive in the direction of Gnezdilovo, Pavlinovo. On August 8, artillery preparation began at 8 a.m. After 30 minutes, the infantry and tanks went on the attack. The enemy again met the attackers with organized fire. In order to increase the impact of units of the 19th Guards Rifle Corps, the army commander in the morning brought the 22nd Guards Division into battle at the junction of the 56th and 65th Guards Divisions. Previously, the 119th Tank Regiment was brought into action in the same direction. The enemy stubbornly resisted, in areas where the guardsmen managed to break into his defenses, fiercely counterattacked with infantry and tanks. The advancing troops literally snatched every meter of Russian land from the hands of the Nazis. During a day of stubborn fighting, the army's troops in the breakthrough sector captured the strongholds of the enemy's first position and approached his second position. The following figures indicate the intensity of the fighting: on August 7 and 8, up to 4,800 Nazis were destroyed, 25 tanks, including 5 Tigers, two Ferdinand self-propelled guns; 12 guns, 15 mortars, 42 machine guns, 630 rifles were captured. Our troops also suffered losses. Among the heights along which the enemy defenses stretched out was the height 233.3 north of the village of Gnezdilovo, which covered the path leading to the Spas-Demensk-Yelnya road, along which the enemy troops were supplied. From this height, the Nazis held a 20-kilometer defense line. The height dominated the entire zone of the main attack of the army, without capturing it, it was impossible to move forward. Several times, units of the 22nd Guards Division attacked the enemy defense center. But, despite the perseverance and heroism of the soldiers, the attacks did not give the desired results. The commander of the 62nd Guards Rifle Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel A. I. Zenkovich, and his deputy for political affairs, Major A. P. Paroshin, and the commander of the 1st Rifle Battalion, a young communist, twice order-bearer, Senior Lieutenant V. N. Vasilchenko, died the death of the brave. At 23 hours 50 minutes, units of the 1st assault engineer brigade of Colonel I. G. Petrov by storm captured the Gnezdilovskaya height (233.3), as well as together with other military units of the villages of Gnezdilovo, Sluzna, and others. The battalion of Major F. N. Belokonya and the training company of Captain D. D. Yevtushenko. However, the bloody struggle for the height continued for almost four subsequent days. Near the villages of Veselukha and Nadezhda, the 22nd Guards entered the battle. rifle division of Colonel N. A. Guz. (This map shows our village.) 08/09/1943. The Nazis with the forces of the 2nd tank division attacked the positions of our troops in the area of ​​Gnezdilovskaya height (233.3). The attack was repulsed by our artillery. The enemy brought in a fresh 56th Infantry Division into battle, which, together with the 2nd Panzer Division, was withdrawn by the Germans from the Oryol direction. New enemy formations continued to arrive in the following days. Particularly stubborn battles unfolded in the area where the 22nd Guards Rifle Division entered the battle. The 23rd Guards Tank Brigade was transferred to reinforce the division, but the advance of infantry and tanks was restrained by fire from a height of 233.3. Several times, units of the 22nd Guards Division attacked the enemy defense center. But, despite the perseverance and heroism of the soldiers, the attacks did not give the desired results. On August 10, at the junction of 22 and 56 Guards. divisions into battle entered the 29th Guards Rifle Division Major General A. T. Stuchenko. Fierce battles for the height 233.3 in places turned into hand-to-hand combat. The battalion of Major Belokon entered the battle with the enemy and almost completely destroyed the garrison of the enemy stronghold. Warriors - sappers destroyed over 300 Nazis, took 9 non-commissioned officers prisoner. The Front Military Council awarded 71 guards, incl. Major Belokon, who received the newly established Order of Alexander Nevsky. "The feat of the sappers of the 1st assault engineer-sapper battalion, said in the order of the commander of the Western Front, - will go down in the history of the engineering troops of the Red Army ... as an example of boundless superiority." Due to the very strong resistance of the enemy, in three days of fighting, our units managed to penetrate the German defenses by only four kilometers. Then the Soviet command decided to bring the 10th army into action and on August 10 struck north-west of Kirov. In this direction, the situation for the Soviet troops was developing more favorable. By decisive actions of army units and formations, the enemy defense was broken through to a depth of 10 kilometers during the first two days.

CITY: Krutets village, Saltykovsky district, Saratov region. DATE OF BIRTH: 12.06.1904 DATE OF DEATH: 19.10.1976 HISTORY: Title: Major. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. The combat path of I.S. Avdoshin during the Great Patriotic War. The frontline fate of Ivan Stepanovich was difficult. He went through, literally, the entire war - from the first to the last day! Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin fought in the tank forces, which means that he had to participate in almost all major military operations of the Great Patriotic War. He left memories of the most striking episodes of his frontline biography, which were used in writing this essay. As you know, trying to take revenge for the defeat at Stalingrad, the German command in April 1943 developed a plan for a large-scale offensive operation, code-named "Citadel". Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin fought in the 2nd Tank Army under the command of General A.G. Homeland, as part of the forces of the Central Front under the command of K.K. Rokossovsky. The 2nd Panzer Army was moved to the second - the main line of defense. Given the enemy's superiority in tanks, especially heavy tanks, the tankers were ordered to bury their combat vehicles up to the towers in the ground, turn them into steel pillboxes in order to shoot enemy attacking tanks from the spot. To carry out the operation in the area south of Oryol, the Germans concentrated 8 infantry, 6 tank and 1 mechanized divisions, which were part of the 9th German Army of Army Group Center. The main blow of the Nazis was directed at Olkhovatka. Here the enemy concentrated up to 500 tanks, hoping to break the defenses of the Soviet troops with a powerful ram. Early in the morning on July 6, 1943, a compound of the 13th Army and the 2nd Panzer Army launched a counterattack on the enemy grouping. Both sides fought with extraordinary tenacity. Our troops pushed the enemy 1.5-2 km to the north. But after powerful artillery and air preparation, the enemy resumed the offensive on Olkhovatka, bringing in two more tank divisions in a small area. Now almost all the forces of the German shock group, advancing on Kursk from the north, took part in the battle. The fierceness of the battles grew with each passing hour, but the enemy failed to break through our defenses. The 17th Guards Rifle Corps and the 2nd Panzer Army, supported by frontline artillery and aviation, repulsed the onslaught. The perseverance and massive heroism of our soldiers and officers stopped the enemy. For the feat accomplished in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin received his first Order of the Red Star. From the story of Ivan Stepanovich himself about an episode that happened in the war. After a tank attack, the Germans were driven out of the village. The tankers were in the tank, resting after a hot battle. The Germans made a desperate attempt to counterattack. The machine gunners surrounded the tank in which Ivan Stepanovich was with the crew. There was no way to destroy the enemy from the tank. Then Ivan Stepanovich, opening the hatch, began to shoot the enemy point-blank with a pistol. The tankmen followed him. They repelled the enemy's counterattack, the crew and the tank were saved. On July 12, a turning point came in the Battle of Kursk. On July 15, the Central Front went over to the offensive. From July 16, the fascist German command began to withdraw its troops. The Battle of Kursk, one of the greatest battles of the 2nd World War, lasted 50 days. On August 23, the Battle of Kursk ended. The counter-offensive developed into a strategic offensive on a huge scale from Velikiye Luki to the Black Sea. Together with his fellow soldiers, Ivan Stepanovich moved further westward. On October 30, 1943, the Central Front was renamed the Belorussian Front. In January-February, the troops of the Belorussian Front captured Mozyr, Kalinkovichi, Rogachev, crossed the Dnieper and seized a bridgehead on its opposite bank. In June 1944, Ivan Stepanovich took part in the battles for the liberation of Rogachev. The wooded and swampy terrain around Rogachev prevented the Germans from putting up strong resistance to our troops. The actions of our troops were distinguished by flexibility and maneuverability. They crushed enemy forces and destroyed them in parts, tankers were especially distinguished. The successful offensive of our troops in the Rogachev direction led to the fact that the enemy command began to withdraw troops from the Zhlobin-Rogachev line beyond the Berezina. Ivan Stepanovich received a medal "For Military Merit" for these battles. And in 1974, when the 30th anniversary of the liberation of Rogachev was celebrated, Ivan Stepanovich went to the celebration of this date in the city of Rogachev, met with his fellow soldiers. It was the third concluding period of the Great Patriotic War. The Red Army faced very difficult tasks - to liberate the territory of the USSR from the fascist invaders, to restore the state border, and then to help the peoples of Europe in the fight against fascism and end the war in Berlin.As Ivan Stepanovich recalled, during this period of the war, political workers, to whom he belonged, had to do serious work - psychologically prepare the fighters for the fact that for Soviet soldiers the tests could not be completed by the liberation of their country. Meanwhile, it should be borne in mind that it was difficult for our soldiers to leave behind the destroyed cities and burned villages, where their families remained, and go to Europe, not knowing whether they would return from there from foreign countries alive, whether they would see after long years of war their loved ones. It was necessary to unite this mass of people, raise their offensive spirit, prepare them to overcome the difficulties that will inevitably meet on the long and difficult path of offensive. Each warrior had to realize that the enemy was still strong, and he would desperately resist in order to prevent the Red Army from reaching the western borders. "Daily political information for soldiers, work with new recruits, transferring the experience of experienced soldiers to them, holding meetings, individual conversations, issuing leaflets, memos for soldiers and sergeants - all this was in the field of view of political bodies," Ivan Stepanovich recalled. In this work, he took a direct part, as an agitator of the political department of the first mechanized corps. After the battles for the liberation of Belarus, the 2nd Panzer Army received the title of the Guards. Now the 2nd Guards Tank Army was part of the 1st Belorussian Front, commanded by Marshal G.K. Zhukov. On January 17, 1945, the forces of this front, together with the 1st Polish Army, liberated Warsaw. Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin took part in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw and was awarded the medal “For the liberation of Warsaw”. Having completed the liberation of Poland, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front entered the territory of Germany. Moving towards the Oder, the unification of the front by February 3, 1945, completely cleared the right bank of the river from the enemy, crossed it and seized a bridgehead in the Kustrin area. 6 armies, including 2 tank armies, entered the Oder. Meanwhile, in Eastern Pomerania, the enemy had a pre-prepared, heavily fortified defensive line - the Pomeranian Wall, which consisted of several defensive lines, well equipped in engineering terms. The Hitlerite leadership tried to keep Pomerania, as it was the most important economic center. From there, the Germans planned to launch a counteroffensive. Considering the current situation, significant forces were involved in the defeat of the Pomeranian grouping. Going on the offensive, Soviet troops delivered powerful blows to the East Pomeranian group. A huge battle took place, the group was destroyed, Pomerania was completely cleared. For participation in the defeat of the Pomeranian group, Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin was awarded the Order of the "Patriotic War" of the 1st degree. Further the path went to Berlin. Hitler "hoped" for a miraculous turn in the course of the war, and therefore turned the capital of Germany and the approaches to it into a powerful fortified area. The command assigned the Soviet tankers a serious task - to break through the enemy's defenses. To this end, by mid-April, the forces of the 1st Byelorussian Front were concentrated in the Kustrin area. The offensive began at the end of the night of April 16. The 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Armies made up the striking force. On April 21, troops of the 1st Belorussian Front cut the circuit highway and started fighting for the suburbs. On April 25, 1945, Soviet troops completed the first stage of the Berlin operation - the encirclement of the German group. On April 26, the assault on the German capital began. The troops of the 1st Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts, overcoming fierce enemy resistance step by step, approached the city center. It was already not far to the imperial office in the bunkers of which Hitler was with his entourage. It was not far from the Reichstag. To break the enemy's resistance, it was decided to bomb important targets in Berlin. On April 25, more than two thousand bombers dropped hundreds of bombs. By the end of the day, Soviet soldiers reached the boundaries of the central sector of the city. Tanks entering the streets of Berlin lost one of their main advantages - maneuverability. This made them very vulnerable. On their own, without infantry, they could not fight in the city, but the infantry also needed fire support from tanks. In the defense system of the central sector, the massive buildings of the Reichstag and the Ministry of the Interior stood out, turned into powerful centers of resistance, where the Nazis showed particular cruelty. Ivan Stepanovich Avdoshin on his tank directly participated in the battle for the central sector of the city. The battles for the Reichstag, which began on April 30, were completed only on May 2, the remnants of the Reichstag garrison surrendered. Ivan Stepanovich saw with his own eyes the hoisting of the Red Banner over the dome of the Reichstag, and after the surrender he was photographed with his fellow soldiers against the background of the defeated Reichstag.За разгром Берлинской группировки Иван Степанович Авдошин получил свой второй орден «Красной звезды» и медаль «За взятие Берлина». Судьба хранила Ивана Степановича. За всю войну он был один раз контужен, а вот пулевых и осколочных ранений ему, находившемуся в самом пекле военных событий, удалось избежать. Лишь однажды пуля пробила ватник, прошла по касательной к телу, сделав на коже петлю. Случаются и на войне чудеса. Войну Иван Степанович закончил в Берлине в звании майора. За время боевых действий Иван Степанович Авдошин был награждён двумя орденами «Красной звезды», орденом «Отечественной войны» 1-ой степени, медалями: «За боевые заслуги», «За освобождение Варшавы», «За взятие Берлина», «За победу над Германией».

CITY: city of Murmansk, Murmansk region DATE OF BIRTH: 04/16/1927 DATE OF DEATH: 09/18/1985 HISTORY: Born on April 16, 1927 in the city of Murmansk, Murmansk region (Kola Peninsula). Parents: Mother - Volosanova Ekaterina Efremovna (died in 1932), Father - Volosanov Vasily (died in 1935). Sister - Volosanova Alexandra Vasilievna, born in 1918 (married Korennik), worked as a senior accountant in the department of measures and measuring instruments. She died in Murmansk in 1960. Family: 1949, in March she registered her marriage with Daniil Natanovich Aizikovich (born in 1924), in marriage she began to bear her husband's surname Aizikovich. On November 25, 1949, in a family (in Murmansk), she gave birth to a daughter - Marina Daniilovna Aizikovich (married Pavlenko). On February 22, 1958, in the family (in Taganrog), she gave birth to a daughter - Irina Daniilovna Aizikovich (married Stepanova). In Taganrog, the family lived at 21, Ukrainskiy lane, apartment 33. 1941-1945 Valentina Vasilievna lived in an orphanage and was evacuated to Siberia. 1946 (at age 19) Valentina returned to Murmansk. In 1947-1951, after graduating from the courses of state verifiers (verification is a set of operations performed in order to confirm the compliance of measuring instruments with metrological characteristics), she began to work as the State Verifier of Measuring Instruments under the Murmansk Executive Committee (Regional Executive Committee is the authority of the regional Council of People's Deputies). 1951, together with his family (husband and first daughter) moved to Leningrad. At that time, the husband was studying in the Higher Radio-technical officer classes (courses) of the Navy. 1952, the family moved to Taganrog. They first lived at the address: Taganrog, Transportnaya street, house 54, and then moved to the address: Taganrog, Ukrainian lane 21, apartment 33. 1953-1985. after moving to the city of Taganrog, Valentina Vasilievna, decided to devote her life to creativity. She was one of the best fashion designers in the city of Taganrog, as well as her own maternal aunt: Chernysheva Natalya Efremova, who at that time lived at the address: Moscow, Arbat lane, 23, apartment 8 and headed the Moscow atelier, where the spouses of the Kremlin officials (later was the head of the costume department of the Vakhtangov Theater). She died on September 18, 1985 at the age of 58 in Taganrog. She was buried at the city cemetery of the city of Taganrog, Rostov region.