Heroes and feats

CITY: city of Astrakhan DATE OF BIRTH: 04/07/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1991 HISTORY: Alexandrova Lidia Yakovlevna was born in 1921 in the city of Astrakhan in the family of Alexandrovs Yakov Vasilyevich (born 23.10.1876) and Maria Georgievna. She had two brothers: Ignat (born 1911) and Konstantin (born 1923). When the war began, Ignat's older brother was called up almost immediately, in the fall of 1941. Constantine was drafted a year later, in the summer of 1942, however, until the end of the Battle of Stalingrad in February 1943, they, unharmed recruits, were not sent to the front, so Konstantin could sometimes visit home. Lydia constantly kept in touch with the brothers at the front, they exchanged letters, photographs, even sent money and parcels to each other. Left in the rear with their mother, back in 1941 they sold their large house in the center of Astrakhan on ul. Krasnoyarskaya, 10 (since 1971, Vsevoloda Nozdrina St.) and buying half a house is much easier on the street. Pisareva, 31. All this time, Lydia, despite the war, continues to study at the Astrakhan Technical Institute of the Fishing Industry. Mother was now in her care, Lydia studied excellently, even received a Stalin scholarship (Order No. 147 from the People's Commissariat of the Fish Industry of the USSR dated February 26, 1944), which undoubtedly was an additional help. On July 16, 1944, Lydia defends her diploma with honors (Supplement to the diploma No. 711053 of July 16, 1944, registration No. 489) and receives a job assignment in Mariupol, where she and her mother move. Lydia starts working at the Mariupol fish processing plant. In the spring of 1945, Lydia receives news of the death of her elder brother Ignat in February near Konigsberg. The younger brother met on May 9, 1945 in the same place, near Konigsberg, but the war is not over for him yet, he will be transferred to the east to fight with Japan. July 1, 1946 Lydia is awarded the Order "For Valiant Labor in the Second World War 1941-1945." (to No. 0258114). A year later, finally, he returns home to Mariupol, after demobilization, brother Konstantin and also begins to work at the Mariupol fish factory. After graduation, he will be assigned to work in the suburb of Mariupol - the village of Shirokino, where he will live with his family. Lydia will stay in Mariupol, in 1956 she will graduate from the Evening Institute of Marxism-Leninism, become the chief technologist of the Mariupol (Zhdanovsky) fish factory. Lydia Yakovlevna died from a long illness in 1991, and was buried next to her brother Konstantin in the village of Shirokino, Novoazovsky district, Donetsk region.

CITY: city of Batumi DATE OF BIRTH: 02/17/1925 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops My great-grandfather was born on February 17, 1925. The family consisted of 6 people. Great-grandfather was the eldest son. His family name was Mikhail. Mikhail, while at school, helped his father in the bakery in his free time. He mastered almost all professions there and could already work independently. Before finishing the seven-year school, he had already replaced his ailing father in the bakery. When the Germans came to our city, Mikhail was on a business trip in Arzgir to extract salt. As soon as he returned, he went to the military registration and enlistment office to report the end of the trip and his arrival in the city, hoping that he would be called up to the front. He was handed a summons indicating the date of arrival at the military enlistment office, but by this time the military enlistment office, like all state institutions, had been hastily evacuated and he went to work at his former place in the bakery. As soon as the military enlistment office began to work, Mikhail was immediately called to the front in the "Border Troops" in the Moldavian city of Edinet. According to the stories of the great-grandfather, on the night of June 22nd, five divisions of 325,000 soldiers and officers were alerted and took up positions along the border. Near Edinets, near the village of Stoyanovka and near Cahul, border guards thwarted the aggressor's attempts to seize the bridges across the Prut, the bridgeheads were destroyed and the German regiment was blocked. An attempt by the Germans to break through was thwarted and after 2 days the surrounded German divisions were captured, and the 3rd Romanian army surrendered. Great-grandfather said that in the newspaper it was written that during the Yassy-Kishinev operation, 40 enemy divisions were defeated. Once, my great-grandfather said, intelligence reported that there was an enemy outpost in one of the villages, there were 30 tanks, a mortar battery and the main forces of the enemy infantry regiment, which was about to blow up an important railway junction. The balance of forces was uneven, not in favor of the border guards. But the group leader decided to attack. On the night of December 3, a detachment of border guards attacked the Nazis. Acting with determination and courage, they destroyed the enemy's firing points. 8 tanks and 4 vehicles with ammunition, 8 mortars and 7 anti-tank guns were destroyed. A German officer taken prisoner said: "From the first days of the war we heard about your border guards and we know that they are brave soldiers." 42 participants and my great-grandfather were awarded orders and medals: - "For the Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945"; In Peacetime, the merits of my great-grandfather were not forgotten. He was awarded with jubilee medals: - "XXX - Years of the Soviet Army of the Fleet"; - "XX years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; - "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; - "XXX Years of the Great Patriotic War Victory 1941-1945"; - "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR".

CITY: Korguba village, Rugozersky district of the KFSSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 07/31/1944 HISTORY: Title: Captain Troops: Artillery Yakov Petrovich Aksentyev was born in 1922 in the village of Korguba, Rugozersky district, Karelo-Finnish SSR. He was the first of the "Korgubchan" to receive secondary education, completing a ten-year course in the village of Rugozero. After completing the teacher's courses, he was sent to work as a teacher in the village of Chelmozero. And then the war. Many Korgub residents were evacuated to the Arkhangelsk region in the village of Kleshchevo. Among them are his mother Anna Yegorovna, sister Nastya and niece Valya. Yakov was called to war from this area. Here are the lines from Yakov Petrovich Aksentyev's award sheets: “In the battle for the height of 143.0 on February 7, 1944, he replaced the out-of-order division commander and the division continued to perform the combat mission. In these battles of the guard, Captain Aksentyev fought off 3 enemy counterattacks with battalion fire, timely detected a cluster for a counterattack to the enemy infantry battalion. The enemy's counter-attack was thwarted by battalion fire. I represent the Guard of Captain Aksentyev to the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. February 10, 1944 Guards Regiment Commander Major Timoshenko “Quickly and accurately covered his battery of the advancing enemy with quick and accurate fire, as a result the Hitlerites' attack failed. But the enemies did not calm down. Having gathered their forces for the second time, they went on the attack, then Comrade. Aksentyev with repeated massed fire from his battery aptly covered the advancing enemy. At the same time, up to 40 Nazis were destroyed, the rest fled. The enemy attack was repulsed. On the same day, Comrade Aksentyev with battery fire destroyed a heavy machine gun with a servant and smashed a dugout with enemy ammunition. For the shown heroism, courage and courage, I apply for the award of the Order of the "Red Star". June 11, 1943 The unit commander, Lieutenant Colonel S. Shcherbov “In the battle for the crossing of the Berezina river near the village of Svislach, with a group of scouts under heavy enemy machine-gun fire, he swam to the western bank and, correcting the division's fire, destroyed up to an enemy infantry company, 4 heavy machine gun, anti-tank gun, repelled a counterattack to the enemy infantry battalion, which prevented the enemy from gaining a foothold on the right bank of the Berezina river. For personal courage, bravery and commanding skill, I present to the Guards Captain Aksentyev for the government award, the Order of Alexander Nevsky.

CITY: Kemerovo region., Yurginsky district, village Talaya DATE OF BIRTH: 09/27/1913 DATE OF DEATH: 10/24/1994 HISTORY: Title: Junior sergeant. , border troops Behind Asanov K.D. two wars. Back in 1940, he fought with the White Finns. 07/28/1941 was again drafted into the army. He served in the Far East, and on 23 August 1942 an order came to the front. The path lay on the Ukraine. The 5th Special Shock Ski Brigade took their first battle on the Don near Boguchar. In fierce battles near Zaporozhye, he was first wounded. 05/01/1943 soldier Asanov K.D .returned. from the hospital to the unit. And now the legendary Kursk Bulge ... "The most protracted and difficult battle was precisely on the Kursk Bulge. From July 4 to July 12 we fought in one place, and from August 1 we finally broke the enemy and went on the offensive. It was impossible to describe this all around. how many fought, and in such a hell have not yet been. From the explosions of shells, mines, from burning tanks, black smoke covered half the sky. The days, I remember, were clear, and the sun was not visible because of the smoke, so only a small speck. Above the planes, below tanks, artillery. There were episodes when the tankers were poured with water: summer, the tanks fought endlessly, and the heat was stifling in them. The barrels from the shooting heated to redness - it was fashionable to light a cigarette. The iron could not stand it, but people did it, "recalled my great-grandfather (an excerpt from a newspaper article dated 12.02.1985 No. 20 (332)). In these battles he wounded again - touched the knee. After the hospital, he again returned to the front line, to his 6th Guards Army. And again he looked into the eyes of death, kneaded the mud, went on the attack under heavy enemy fire. With battles, the army advanced to Poltava, from there it was transferred to Velikiye Luki, and then to Belarus. “They hated the Germans. And one desire was - to drive them out of their land and end the war as soon as possible. How much grief, blood, deaths the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War had to see. But it came for Asanov K.D. and the last fight. Under the station Yadritsy went on the attack to cut off the Nazis' escape route. The fight was fierce, here he was seriously wounded in the head. After a long treatment, my grandfather was sent home to Siberia. The soldier had not yet fully recovered from his injury, but had already joined the ranks of those who fought for Victory in the rear. He grew and collected bread for the front.

CITY: Rostov region, Morozovsky district, Vladimirsky s / s, village Medvezhki DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1912 DATE OF DEATH: 12/14/1993 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Subdivision: 395th Infantry Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Anokhin Ignat Ermolaevich served as a Red Army soldier in the 714th Infantry Regiment of the 395th Infantry Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division of the I Ukrainian Front. For exemplary fulfillment of the command assignments on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown at the same time, he was awarded: -2 orders of the "Red Star", the medal "For Military Merit", the medal "For the Defense of the Caucasus", the medal "For Courage" , the Order of the "Patriotic War of the II degree", the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The award list for the Order of the Red Star" states: "Comrade Anokhin has continuously participated in battles since December 1941, defender of the Caucasus, participant in the battles in the Kuban, Taman and I Ukrainian Front. In battles, he proved himself to be a courageous and resolute defender of the Motherland, disciplined, in carrying out orders, precise and accurate. During the period of offensive battles on the 1st Ukrainian Front in difficult conditions, often off-road, he always carried out all orders accurately and on time. Comrade Anokhin often under enemy fire, sparing his life, delivered ammunition and food to the front line on time. In the offensive battle for Stanislav on July 26, 1944, at the moment of a particularly difficult battle, he skillfully crossed the water barrier and delivered ammunition to the front line on time. Comrade Anokhin, as a sled, always keeps the horses assigned to him in good condition and in good fatness, on which he is ready to carry out the command assignment at any moment. "

CITY: Mumra village, Ikryaninsky district, Astrakhan region DATE OF BIRTH: 04/05/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1988 HISTORY: Title: corporal. Type of troops: artillery. Division: 197th Infantry Division (1st Formation). T. Kh. Azhimov was born on 04/05/1921 in the village. Mumra of the Ikryaninsky district of the Astrakhan region in a peasant family. Primary education. He worked in a fishing artel. In the army since November 1942. Participated in battles near Old Russia, in the Bryansk forests, liberated Belarus. Lance corporal T. Kh. Azhimov, shooter of the 862nd Rifle Regiment (197th Rifle Division, 3rd Guards Army, 1st Ukrainian Front) distinguished himself in the battles during the liberation of Krasnystav (Poland). 07/24/1944, crossing the river on the move. Vepshe, one of the first Azhims burst into the city. In battle, he destroyed 16 Nazis, including 1 sniper, thereby ensuring the advance of the battalion. He was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree. At the end of July 1944, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front were tasked with crossing the river. Vistula, seize a foothold on its left bank in the Sandomierz region (Poland). On the night of July 31, corporal Azhimov and his comrades began the crossing. In the middle of the river, enemy fire intensified, shrapnel pierced the boat. By swimming, Azhimov reached the left bank of the Vistula and entered the battle for the bridgehead. He was wounded, but after bandaging he again took up arms. For courage and heroism when crossing the river. Vistula, for the exemplary performance of the command's combat mission to expand the bridgehead on its western bank, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 09.23.1944, Corporal T. Kh. Azhimov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Awarded with the orders: - "Lenin", - "Patriotic War 1 degree", - "Glory 3 degrees", - medals. After the war, Sergeant T. Kh. Azhimov was demobilized. He lived in Alma-Ata. For many years he served as commandant of an independent paramilitary fire department. He died in 1988.

CITY: Belorussian SSR, Mogilev region, village Mateevshchina DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1904 DATE OF DEATH: 08/15/1944 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. My great-grandfather, Adamov Mikhei Andreevich, was born in 1904. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he had 6 children: three boys and three girls, one of them, the youngest, my own grandfather Adamov Vasily was born in 1941, he then told about everything he remembered. His father, Mikhei Andreevich, was a stout and healthy dark-haired man. They lived with their family in the village of Mateevshchina, Mogilev region, Byelorussian SSR. And then the war came. In 1943, Mikhei Andreevich went to the partisans. It was a terrible time. When the Germans arrived, one of the neighbors told them that the head of the family was fighting in a partisan detachment. The Nazis tortured Mikhei's wife, Matryona Filippovna, beat him to death with sticks, trying to find out where the partisans were located, but she did not tell. Then the neighbors poured water over the poor woman. My grandfather, who was already three years old then, remembered how the Germans shot at his feet forcing him to dance the polka. And he was small and did not understand what was happening, but he remembered that it was scary. And then Adamov Mikhei Andreevich decided to go to the front. Mikhei's wife accompanied him for 3 km to the village of Makarintsy holding my three-year-old grandfather in her arms. Then a lot happened. My grandfather remembered how they, together with their mother, brothers and sisters, sat in a dugout under the bombardment and ate rotten potatoes. I remembered how my mother had said that the Germans had gone to Moscow. Then we drove the Germans back. Soviet soldiers were already walking through the village and life was gradually getting better. And then in 1944 a death notice came: Adamov Mikhei Andreevich died during the liberation of Poland. The place of death is considered to be the Bialystok region, Osovetsky district, the village of Khyliny. Grandfather said that immediately after the war, mother - Matryona Filippovna went to the burial place. But when she was gone, we lost part of the memories of that terrible time. But my grandfather kept them for life. Later, as an adult man, he served in Germany for five years in the missile forces and rose to the rank of captain. He tried to find information about his father, but nothing worked. He is the only one left from our family who remembers what war is. And for the sake of him, I found information about where my great-grandfather Adamov Mikhey Andreevich died and may be buried. Perhaps this is the village of Hiliny Lesne in Poland. Memorial Makuv Mazowiecki. We knew little about our ancestor that he laid down his life for the sake of all of us today to live on our land under a peaceful sky. And we didn't even have anything left of him, except for one photograph, because the great-grandmother said that he did not like to be photographed. She also said that the eldest son of Mikhei Andreevich Fyodor was very similar to his father, he also served in Germany, but in aviation. To my grandfather, who is now 74 years old, I promised that I would find the grave of his father and my great-grandfather and pay the last tribute to the memory and say: "Thank you grandfather for the Victory !!!"

CITY: Rzhavets village, Ryazan region, Kaverinsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 11.11.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 15.07.1965 HISTORY: Title: Captain. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 102nd Infantry Far Eastern Novgorod-Severskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. The combat path of a soldier (from the memoirs of Abashkin NN): “I was handed a summons to appear at the military enlistment office, which I had been expecting for a long time. For many of my comrades had already fought, many were not alive, and some managed to return from the front without arms and legs. A messenger with good news to the house - to arrive at the military registration and enlistment office exactly at two. In the summons received it was written: I order the recruit born in 1923, Abashkin Nikolai Nikolaevich: to appear at two o'clock in the afternoon at the Kovezhensky district military enlistment office to be sent to the front. You should have two pairs of underwear for six days of food, as well as a spoon and a mug. From my village Rzhavets I was called up alone. I ended up in the 95th reserve regiment. The regiment occupied a large territory of the now former Volga camps. In this regiment, military recruits were trained in various military specialties. In this reserve regiment we studied only mortar business, we shot every day so that by the end of the day we would all be hoarse. Only one could hear: "three mines - rapid fire, five mines - fire !!!" We have mastered this kind of shooting well, learned how to shoot military mines at targets. Time was allotted for an hour or two both for drill and political training. Especially the assistant platoon commander pressed the bayonet fight. And this study to some extent was useful to me later, already being at the front. Study in the reserve regiment continued until July 25, 1942. According to the conclusion of the expert commission of the same number, it was recognized that they had mastered the program well, the time had come to send to the front. Numbers August 11-12, 1942, our echelon, which numbered up to five thousand soldiers, arrived at the Vyazniki station to form the 316th Guards Rifle Division, the same Panfilov Division, which lay with bones, and did not let the enemy into Moscow. In one of the settlements where the headquarters of the legendary division was located (although I still do not know if the commanders or soldiers who fought to their death in the area of Dubasekovo station remained), there was a distribution of new reinforcements among the regiments. The day has come to be sent to the front. And then one day, on September 5, 1942, the regiment was raised on alert and within five or six minutes left the location and left in an unknown direction for the soldiers. And only in the morning, when we settled down for a halt, we all learned that near the Vyazniki station, loading on wagons for sending to the front would soon begin. We were marching in a direction unknown to us, when a halt was made about an hour later. The command immediately followed: "All officers - to the battalion commander!" After some time, I was also called. The battalion commander informed me that the platoon commander, junior lieutenant Semiglazov, was leaving to carry out a special order, and I would stay with him. All commands concerning the platoon commander must be strictly followed. When I returned to the platoon, I was surrounded by soldiers asking why they called me, where did our platoon leader go, what would happen next, would we go to the front or dig trenches all day again, and at night we would go back to the old place? At about eleven o'clock the echelon was fully loaded and the regiment headed for the Stalingrad front. During the movement, our train was bombed three times, but the experience of the old locomotive driver and his daring maneuvers yielded results. Not a single bomb hit our structure, the regiment did not lose a single soldier, although many of the carriages were heavily riddled by fragments of bombs and bullets. The regiment moving behind us, at one small station, came under heavy bombardment, where, according to the officers of our company, there were significant casualties. Despite repeated enemy air raids, our echelon safely reached the city of Kamyshin. An urgent unloading of personnel took place. We were taken eight to ten kilometers into the steppe, cut by numerous ravines and ravines, where, after a 2-3-hour rest, the regiment set out on a marching march to help the defenders of Stalingrad. By the end of the third day, we began to approach closer to the front, where rifle and machine-gun and artillery firing was clearly audible, and at night and during the day, the glow of burning Stalingrad and the surrounding villages and villages became visible. Movement during the day stopped, as German planes began to fire and bomb not only the columns, but also individual soldiers. Now we walked only at night, and during the day we scattered across the steppe in ravines or bushes, or even just in stubble, immediately went to bed, despite the heat and thirst. We really didn't feel hot or thirsty. For three days of continuous march, the soldiers were so tired that the first day (and in September it lasts 14-16 hours) slept like dead, and disguised themselves so that the commander of one or another soldier could not always immediately find it. Finally, we have reached the front, it remains to meet with the enemy and begin to pay for all the suffering inflicted on the people and the country.On the sixth day of the march, on the night of September 14, 1942, the regiment entered the front line of our defense, half a kilometer from the Kotlubana station. While still standing in the company columns, as the commanders received the task, a mass of artillery and mortar shells fell on us. It seemed that the Germans had found us, but it turned out to be an accidental raid. The ranks of the mouth trembled, a slight panic began, and how not to be in this panic, because these were the first explosions of shells that we heard. During the shelling, our company stood not far from the place where the battalion commander assigned the task to the officers, and I well heard his words about the shelling: "This is good, baptism of fire is normal, this is in favor of our soldiers." Even then I thought: "What is the use of ours, battalion commander, if we are beaten?" But a little later, when our battalion went on the offensive, I understood the words of the battalion commander. By the morning of September 15, our company, battalion, and then the regiment took up defensive positions in the recently mown wheat field. In the ravine where our platoon was defended, there was a combine harvester with a full bunker of selected wheat, and to the right and left, as far as the eyes could see, there were heaps of uncleaned straw. This front was then called Donskoy. On September 16, at night we left the trenches we had already inhabited and went to the starting positions for the offensive, and in the morning we already saw the Germans, and felt on our own skin what war is. I remember, like now, the morning of this sunny day. At about six o'clock the company foreman brought breakfast and had just gathered the assistants of the platoon commanders, managed to divide the bread, when about 20-25 enemy aircraft appeared in the air and began to thresh our battle formations. We barely managed to scatter into the cells when the battalion's defense area turned into a continuous hell. Dust covered the entire horizon, it seemed that night had come, and the planes continued to pour cast iron rain on us. The losses were insignificant, and even more wounded, but one memory remained from breakfast. Before the planes had time to fly away and the dust had scattered, a command flew along the chain: "Prepare for the offensive." After 1-2 minutes, the regiment, and then the entire division, went on the offensive, which was tasked with taking the dominant height in the surrounding area. Soon the regiment captured this height with small losses. But then we were forced to abandon her again, as the enemy launched a counterattack with the support of a large number of tanks. The battle for the height did not stop all day. This unfortunate height passed from hand to hand three times during the day and still remained with the Germans. A lot of military equipment was burnt out. Our valiant Katyusha, which stood out from other weapons with its special design, also came under fire. There were also charred tanks with broken tracks and lowered trunks, they at the same time seemed both very terrible and at the same time very pitiful. Many soldiers were killed, both ours and the Germans. During these three fighting days, i.e. On September 14, 15 and 16, as we were told, there were local battles. A general offensive was planned for September 18. And then the day came. The task of this offensive was to capture the heights and the Stepnoy farm, with a further offensive on the Gridonsky farm in order to connect the Don Front with the Steppe Front, thereby encircling the German troops in the Stalingrad area. On the night of September 18, a Komsomol meeting was held in the company, at which the company's political instructor said that this offensive was responsible, and you, as Komsomol members, should go not only in the front ranks, but also captivate others with your example. He also said what and how much technology will support us. At 4 a.m. on September 18, 1942, artillery preparation began on a front of about four kilometers, which lasted about two hours. The front edge of the Fritzes was in continuous fire and smoke, it seemed that after such a fire not a single living creature would remain there. But it only seemed to be. As soon as our artillery moved the fire deep into the German defense, our infantry rushed to the first trench of the enemy. But before reaching ten or fifteen meters to the trench of the Germans, as they rose from the trench drunk, with their sleeves rolled up, they launched a counterattack. The ranks of our companies did not flinch, the Russian soldier was not afraid of the bandit-looking fascists. The Russian bayonet crossed with the German one, the test of the moral qualities of the two nations began. Thus began the first hand-to-hand combat in my front-line life, which almost turned out to be the last. In the midst of the battle, I somehow awkwardly twisted my leg and, having lost my balance, fell, and at that time the German's butt was brought over my head. Fortunately for me, not far from me was Sergeant Fetisov, the commander of a submachine gun platoon squad, who with a short burst from a submachine gun outstripped the German, and he fell down next to me before the rifle butt he had brought him down to the ground, with which he intended to smash my head. And when I saw this red face lying next to me on the ground, for some reason it became disgusting for me to be with him, he still smelled of wine fumes and I wanted to hit him again.Meanwhile, Fetisov came up to me, helped me up and told me not to count the crows anymore, but to watch the enemy and neighbors more vigilantly, to come to the rescue at any moment. And the battle continued. The battle is hot and merciless in nature, everything is mixed up, you don't know where yours are, where are the others. Artillery stopped firing on both sides, only occasionally rifle or submachine gun shots were heard. But the characteristic blows of butts on human heads and shoulders were distinctly heard. How long this fight lasted, I cannot determine. But the Germans in the end could not stand this terrible battle and began to retreat in disarray. On their shoulders, in the literal sense of the word, we broke into the second trench of the Germans. But the further offensive failed. Tanks came out of ambush to the aid of the Germans, their artillery opened fire. We urgently went over to the defensive, managed to change the firing positions of the mortars and artillerymen. German tanks were stopped by artillery fire. There was a kind of pause without a single shot from both sides. After a 10-15 minute pause, our artillery and mortars attacked the enemy with renewed vigor. Our tanks and aircraft entered the battle. The battle formations of the soldiers of the Steppe Front were already visible, who also hurried to our aid. But I was not destined to embrace the comrades from the Steppe Front, the bullet of the fascist who had lodged in the tank knocked out on the eve of the battle wounded me in the right shoulder. Inflamed by the battle and burning with the desire for revenge for the dead comrades, I did not feel my wound, and as other comrades ran forward and shouted: “Hurray! Forward! For the Motherland! For Stalin! For Stalingrad! " Ahead, the figures of the Steppe Front soldiers flashed again, no more than two or three kilometers left to them. The mood of the attackers rose. We have further increased the pace of the offensive. But then it happened to me, which is what I was afraid of. On the field of the greatcoat, I saw blood that had not yet been absorbed by the gray cloth. I stopped to find out where the blood came from, but in the same second the rifle fell out of my hands, it darkened in my eyes, and I sat down on the ground. Only then did I realize that I was wounded. I tried to take the rifle in my hands again, but my right hand did not obey me, my fingers were swollen, I could not connect them together or clench them into a fist, I could not lift it up. I was losing my strength, apparently I lost a lot of blood. I felt a little offended that at such a difficult moment I was leaving my fighting friends and Sergeant Fetisov, who had saved my life, although I was not sure that he was still in the ranks. I have repeatedly heard at the front when someone is wounded, they say the lucky one, at least he will have a little rest now. But for some reason I was not happy about it. I cried. And the Russian "Hurray!" farther and farther carried away from me, and I lay in the swan and shed blood and tears. Artillerymen galloped past me, changing firing positions, hurrying, dousing me with tanks, three fighters swept very low overhead, and all this was where the blood of fighting friends was shed. I was lying and thinking how to stop the bleeding, when suddenly the voices of the soldiers came to me. As it turned out later, these were orderlies, who apparently decided to wait a little while the firestorm subsided. At that time, the regimental intelligence approached me, in which my fellow countryman Seryogin fought, it was he who bandaged me and helped me get to the first-aid post, and from there on horseback, accompanied by an orderly, to Sanrota, where they really treated my wound and fed me. Lying in the crack, waiting for twilight, I saw an air battle between three Messerschmites and our two YAKs, as all of us, the wounded, prayed to God to help ours, and it seemed to us that he heard us. A few minutes later one "Messer" caught fire and fell three hundred meters from the sanrota. Some cook killed the pilot with a parachute. The second Messerschmitt fell after, the pilot was taken prisoner, the third reptile nevertheless escaped. How glad everyone was who saw this fight. How glad they were that ours took. Who are these fearless falcons? We didn't know, but we both shake their hands tightly. At nightfall, with a group of wounded, I was taken to the medical battalion, which was located in the administrative buildings of the Kotluban state farm. And finally, on September 23, our group, which had formed in the village of Nikolskoye, entered the city of Kamyshin, where, following the numerous signs placed along the streets and crossroads, we easily managed to find a transfer and dressing point. After treating the wound, which had already managed to multiply worms, I was assigned for further treatment in the city of Gorky. But I refused to go there, since the city of Gorky is far away, and I did not want to hide in the rear, and my request was respected and assigned to the city of Nikolaevsk, which was not far from Kamyshin. By evening we were already in the hospital. Sanitation. A full haircut and I'm in the ward. We must pay tribute to the doctors of this hospital - despite the late hour, we were examined right there in the wards, appointed an hour to turn up for dressing and did everything so that we could really rest.And at about 11 o'clock on September 24, I was already lying on the couch in the doctor's office, where they told me that the hand should be taken away, since gas gangrene had already spread, and further stay in this state threatens death. The hand really looked scary. The shoulder was very swollen, blue, if you press your finger, there was a hole. But I didn’t agree to amputate my hand. Then another doctor began to treat me, with some lotions, they bandaged my whole hand in soaked green liquid and began to give some injections. As a result, on the third day, the tumor subsided, the temperature dropped from 39-40 to 37 degrees. I began to get out of bed and eat. Whether these medical gadgets, or a still young organism, or maybe all taken together, soon put me on my feet. Time passed, my wound healed. The entrance hole was already tightened, but it still remained, as if a blind eye was watering where the bullet had exited. Our brother was not allowed to sit for a long time, and it is clear why, the front demanded new soldiers, the enemy was still strong, and he had to be beaten and beaten to see how he would release his last spirit. On October 23, 1942, the medical commission recognized that I was fit to be sent to the front, and on October 24, with an unhealed wound, with a group of soldiers I was sent to the transit point, which was located in the same city of Nikolaevsk, to be sent to the front. Now my dream was coming true, now I will again shoulder to shoulder to beat the fascist invaders with the valiant defenders of the city of Stalingrad; Volga. But alas! My dreams did not come true, the command of the transit point smashed them. From here I was sent to study at the front courses for junior lieutenants. The training center for the courses of junior lieutenants was located in the village of Dyakovka, Krasnokutsk district, Saratov region. This area was previously called Nemce Povolye. February has also come, which has brought a lot of joy to our people. Our valiant army has finished forever the German army at Stalingrad. Here, on the banks of the Volga, the enemy was stopped, and then smashed to smithereens. The Soviet people and their Armed Forces celebrated yet another victory over the German invaders. On April 26, an order was read to us to confer the military rank of junior lieutenants. I became an officer in the Soviet Army, and on April 27, 1943, with a group of 18 people, accompanied by a tactics teacher, Captain Rtishchev, entered the city of Yelets, to the location of the 70th Army, which was defended in the Oryol-Kursk salient. Here, in the city of Yelets, we were given officer's cotton uniforms and shoulder straps. Here they were assigned to whom in which division. On April 29, I, junior lieutenant Anisimov, and junior lieutenant Bugayev went in search of the headquarters of the 102nd Far Eastern Rifle Division, where we should arrive. From the headquarters of the regiment, both of us with ml. Lieutenant Bugaev (Anisimov was seconded to the 16th regiment) was sent to the mortar company of the 2nd rifle battalion, where he was assigned to the second mine. platoon 82 mm. mortars. Fedya Bugaev began to command the first platoon. The 3rd platoon was commanded by Lieutenant Neretin. The company commander was Lieutenant Tkachev. The platoon, regiment and the entire 102nd division were fully formed in the Far East and only in March 1943 arrived at the front. All personnel are from border guards. But in the March and April battles of 1943, she lost twenty percent of the personnel at the height at which the first rifle battalion now occupies positions. Before I joined the company, the platoon was commanded by Art. Sergeant Gorbatenko, he was also the platoon commander and the commander of the first crew, the second crew was commanded by Sergeant Mamonov, the third - Senior Sergeant Gorbachev. The platoon and company were now fully staffed, with the exception of the households. department, where there was only one pair of horses, and that was from a rabid breed of Mongolians, and they did not know how to walk in a chaise at all. Well, if they walked, then only backwards. Our second battalion took up defensive positions along the Rzhav River, the firing positions of the company's mortars were two hundred meters south of the village of Studenka. The other two battalions took up defensive positions in the second echelon. When I entered the company, it was fully prepared for defense. The firing positions were opened in a full profile, the soldiers knew the material part and its use in battle well. However, in order to test my knowledge, I asked the company commander for permission to fire a nomadic mortar. This meant that, having identified the target the day before, from a temporary OP to fire to destroy it, without giving out their main firing positions. Within a week, I checked all three calculations for accuracy in this way. Indeed, my soldiers knew how to shoot well, and chose the right firing positions. With my light hand, roaming mortar fire spread throughout the regiment. This innovation, introduced in the division, cost the Fritzes dearly. Now they could not walk with impunity not only along the front line, but also in the depths of their defense.From the fifteenth of May, platoons and companies began to withdraw to the rear for practical exercises. In addition to the main task, which was to work out the interactions of the combat arms, this training, reinforced by mortar and machine-gun platoons, performed the task of imitating the accumulation of troops, i.e. false display of troop concentration. Such companies, after compulsory training, secretly had to go to the rear for twenty to thirty kilometers in a predetermined direction, then camp, light a fire for each soldier and sit until the appearance of German reconnaissance aircraft. With the advent of these aircraft, the company and reinforcement platoons must create an artificial panic, i.e. to create the impression that we were discovered and scattered along the previously indicated routes, raising as much dust on the roads as possible and more often turning metal objects towards the sun. So, imitating the accumulation of troops in one or another sector of the front, our command led the German command into error. In fact, the concentration of forces was carried out in a completely different sector, and not in the defense area of our division. So days went by. The time was approaching when the Germans were to launch their general offensive in the Oryol-Kursk direction. This day, as it became known to our command from undercover sources, the Germans planned for June 5, 1943. But then this day has come. Artillery preparation began at exactly four in the morning. The Germans unleashed hundreds of tons of deadly cargo on our combat positions. Hundreds of tons of cast iron and steel were mercilessly kneading the earth, which saved the soldiers from death, but which could not become a grave for him. Our heavy artillery immediately entered into a counter-fight with the German artillery. About twenty minutes before the end of the artillery preparation, clouds of their bombers appeared in the sky. The intense density of mortar and artillery fire and aerial bombs set up the idea that all living things should die not only in the first trench, but also two to three kilometers deep in the defense. There is no doubt that the Germans, to some extent, were counting on this, but they miscalculated. Strong engineering structures could not suffer from every shell and, thereby, save soldiers from certain death. Ten minutes before the end of the artillery preparation and its transfer to the depths of our defense, our artillery and mortars opened a hurricane of fire on the enemy's front edge. The red-star "YAKs" rose into the air, which with the speed of lightning crashed into the battle formations of German bombers and scattered their formation, and the flying tanks, the so-called IL-2 attack aircraft, began to iron the front edge. This, in the most literal sense, affected the disorganization of the enemy's battle formations and thereby the pace of his advance. But the German artillery shifted the fire deep into our defenses. The infantry also went on the offensive, supported by a large number of "tigers", "panthers". This steel avalanche seemed unstoppable. Some of the fighters hesitated. Yes, there really was something to hesitate about. The tanks marched in three columns along the front, no less than three to three and a half kilometers along the front. But then, like a battle cry, a command flashed through the chain: “The riflemen should not enter the fight with tanks, let them go to the rear. This is the task of the gunners. " Of course, this command had an effect on the fighters, since everyone knew where the artillery was located and how much of it. Meanwhile, the steel avalanche is getting closer and closer to the front edge. With direct fire, the tanks have already disabled several combat points, and they began to iron the trenches. The second, no less terrible, column of the Ferdinands followed the Tigers, followed by another, third column, consisting of light tanks. The tanks of the first column, not meeting resistance in the first trench, rushed to the rear. The battle broke out behind the first trench, and with the approach of the second column of tanks the Germans took it. At this time, artillery and tanks that were hitherto in ambush entered the battle with the tanks of the first and second columns. One after another, the Nazi tanks began to flare up, the arrows were inspired, the battle flared up with renewed vigor, the German infantry lay down. But soon the Nazis again went forward and again with the support of a large number of tanks. Our regiments were forced to retreat into the second, and here and there into the third trench. This was the end of the first day of the great battle. The next day the Germans attacked our positions with renewed vigor. Again, new tons of steel and cast iron fell on the heads of the Soviet soldiers. But only as a result of incredible efforts and the death of a large number of manpower and equipment on the fourth day of fighting, the Germans managed to wedge into our defenses for two or three kilometers, i.e. capture two or three trenches of the forward line of defense. In further battles in our sector, the Germans could no longer advance a meter, they were forced to go on the defensive. And they just did not stop for a minute methodical fire from guns and mortars at our positions, to which we also responded in kind. On the neighbors on the right and on the left, the Nazis began to throw their units into the offensive with even greater zeal.Particularly strong tank battles broke out in the area of the Panyri station. At least three hundred tanks participated in the battle on both sides. Having used up their ammunition, they went to ram, tore at each other's tracks, the strong turned the weak over. Sometimes it got to the point that the tanks would raise one another on hind legs and both of them ran out of fuel and they crawled again and remained standing next to them until they were pulled apart in tow or delivered to some lucky fuel. As a result of fierce seven-day battles and with huge losses, the Nazis still managed to advance deep into our defense in some areas from seven to twelve kilometers. And the enemy is exhausted. He began hastily to go on the defensive. Having exhausted the main forces of the enemy, inflicting great damage on him in manpower and equipment, our troops launched a counteroffensive. On June 12, 1943, our 102nd Far Eastern was also ordered to go on the offensive. To break through the front edge of the Fritz defense, an assault group was created, which included one rifle company, reinforced with a machine-gun platoon, a mortar platoon of 82 mm mortars and a battery of 45 mm cannons. This assault group included me and my platoon. This group was commanded by the deputy. com. 30th Khasan Rifle Regiment in the combat unit Major Fedorov. At three o'clock on the 12th of June, using an uncleared field of rye, our group, unnoticed by the enemy, came close to the front edge and soon, with the support of a battery of self-propelled guns, captured the first trench of the enemy. The main forces of the regiment immediately entered the battle. After a short but stubborn battle, the regiment occupied the villages of Rzhavchik and Muravchik, then the village of Aleksandrovka. This allowed the other two regiments of the division to be brought into battle. The Germans retreated to the second line of their defense. In the battle for the village of Aleksandrovka, the company commander, Lieutenant Tkachev, the commander of the 1st platoon, Lieutenant Bugayev, and the commander of the 1st crew of the first platoon, Art. Sergeant Yaroshchuk and several soldiers. In subsequent battles, the commander of the 2nd platoon, Lieutenant Neretin, was also killed. I was the only one in the company of the officers. The next day, developing an offensive in the direction of the city of Dmitry-Orlovsky, our division also broke through the second enemy zone and, pursuing the enemy, started a battle on the outskirts of the city. The enemy stubbornly defended himself on the outskirts of the city of Dmitry-Orlovsky. In the area where our battalion was advancing, the advance of the infantry was slowed down by a 37 mm automatic cannon. I was ordered to destroy her. On my bellies, I managed to crawl pretty close to the cannon and open fire from the mortars of the entire company. After the third volley, the servant of the gun was disabled, only one fascist did not want to leave, he was lying near the gun with a cooling body, he was killed. And our infantry rose and shouted "Ours takes!" rushed forward, and soon with parts of the 65th army rushed into the city, and by the end of the day the city was completely cleared of enemy soldiers. On the sixth day, strong battles unfolded on the outskirts of the large settlement of Lepeshinskoye, where the Germans concentrated large forces of infantry and tanks. The approaches to the village were mined, and it was risky to take it on the move, without preliminary processing with less losses. Soon the artillery was brought up, tanks approached and after a 30-minute shelling, and during this time the sappers made passes in the minefields, the infantry started fighting on the outskirts of the village, and a few later the battle was already in the center of the village. The Germans could not withstand the onslaught of the Khasanovites and retreated, leaving up to three dozen killed soldiers and officers on the battlefield. At the height of the battle in the center of the village of Lepeshinskoye, I was wounded a second time during the war, in the right leg below the shin, in the temple and in the chin, but leaving the battlefield at such an hour would be a crime, and I continued the offensive until the very liberation of the village. And only when, at a height outside the village, we took up positions for a further offensive, I went to the dressing station, where the military assistant lieutenant Gorelov made a dressing for me and gave me directions to the ambulance to send me to the hospital. But I did not agree to go to the hospital. It was not the time, and the wounds seemed insignificant. After the capture of the village of Lepeshinskoe at an altitude of 134.6 I was accepted as a candidate for membership in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. It was June 28, 1943. For breaking through the defense, for the destruction of the cannon servants, the liberation of about a dozen n / points and the city of D-Orlovsky, like many of my comrades in arms, I was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". In the battle on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge and the breakthrough of the enemy's defenses, the beginning of the mass expulsion of the German fascist invaders from the borders of our Motherland was laid. Every day, village after village, village after village, city after city again entered the fraternal family. This offensive led me, our regiment, to the ancient walls of the old Russian city of Novgorod-Seversky. It was these ancient walls on the banks of the Desna River that night caught us. It

CITY: s. Borovskoye, Kostanay region Kazakhstan DATE OF BIRTH: 11/10/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 06/06/1956 HISTORY: Title: Major Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Born in 1910 in the village. Borovskoe, Kostanay region Kazakhstan. In 1928 he graduated from the pedagogical college, worked as a teacher in the villages of Borovsky, Presnogorkovsky in the department of public education in Kustanai. In 1934 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, served in the OKDVA, took part in the battles for the lake. Hasan. Since 1940, a member of the CPSU (b). Since August 1941 he has served as a political instructor in the 125 joint venture. In 1943 he took part in the battles in the Kursk direction as part of the 187th tank regiment, which in February 1944 became the 1289th self-propelled artillery regiment of the 7th Mechanized Corps (commander of the GSS regiment, Colonel E.P. Lysenko). The regiment actively participates in the battles for the liberation of the South of Ukraine (Yassy-Kishinev operation), Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. Particularly distinguished himself in battles at the lake. Balaton. In the battle for the town of Oradea-Mare (Transylvania), the regiment commander Lysenko was killed, in the battle for the town of Miskolts Ivan Pavlovich Alexandrov was wounded. April and May 1945 the regiment as part of the 1st KMG of General Pliev takes part in battles in Czechoslovakia (Debrecen, Brno), and on May 9, 1945 ends the war in Prague. In August 1945, the Red Banner 1289th Composite Air Regiment took part in the battles in Manchuria to defeat the Japanese. The regiment received the honorary name "Khingansky", but in the fall of 1945 it was disbanded. Ivan Pavlovich serves in the 75th tank regiment (the village of Zanadvorovka, Primorsky Territory), is transferred as a teacher to the Kiev Tank Technical School, from where in 1955 he was sent to the 3rd Tank Division (Murmansk), where he takes part in atomic weapons tests on Novaya Earth. Having received a large dose of radiation, in 1956 he died and was buried in Kiev. Raised 2 sons (both became military men - a sailor and a tankman), 2 daughters. Wife - Milyaeva Maria Ivanovna, Honored Teacher of the Ukrainian SSR

CITY: s. Krasnomylskoe DATE OF BIRTH: 04/10/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 01/14/1945 HISTORY: Type of troops: Aviation Graduated from the school with honors and was among the top five in 1941 (according to M.A., Mekhonoshina, according to A.I. Galyukov - 1940) was sent to the Orenburg flight school (the memoirs of Anatoly Galyukov and M.A., Mekhonoshina were used) In 1942, after graduating from the flight school, Nikolai with the rank of junior lieutenant (A.I.Galyukov - sergeant) was sent to the front. Pilot Nikolai Arkhangelsky, a native of the village of Krasnomylskoe, Shadrinsky District, arrived on the South-Western Front in the 57th Bomber Regiment at the end of June 1942. In the winter of 1942, the regiment was manned with flight personnel and from April 28 to May 25 it was retrained for the B-3 bomber in 113 reserve aviation regiment in Kirovobad. Having finished retraining, the regiment, consisting of two squadrons, flew to the Morozovskaya airfield, where it became part of 221 bomber division. And from June 24, he began intensive hostilities in the defensive operation of the Southwestern Front as part of the 8th Air Army, and then in the Stalingrad defensive battle. On July 10, 1942, while performing a reconnaissance mission for an enemy stronghold in the Rossosh area, the crew got into the enemy's anti-aircraft fire zone. The left motor was set on fire by a direct hit. Lieutenant Arkhangelsky on one engine, engulfed in flames, took photographs of the target and only after that he left for his territory. Above the front line, two Me-109s attacked him. On the second attack, the right motor failed. By skillful maneuver and accurate fire, the crew shot down one fighter, extinguishing the fire, Arkhangelsky landed the plane on his territory. From June 24 to July 27, the regiment with bombing and assault strikes helped our troops retreat beyond the river. Oskol, r. Don and to Stalingrad. The battles of the regiment were highly praised by the command of the 8th Air Army, 21st Army and the command of the Southwestern Front. By order of the commander of the 8th Air Army No. 08 of August 1, 1942, gratitude was expressed to the entire personnel of the regiment for successful combat work. The Military Council of the 21st Army in a telegram transmitted: “For excellent military operations on enemy motorized parts from June 28 to June 30, 1942, everything we would like to thank the flight crew. " Order to the troops of the Stalingrad Front No. 9n dated August 9, 1942 and order to the troops of the Southwestern Front No. 12n for exemplary performance of combat missions and displayed valor and courage, 65 flight and technical personnel were awarded orders and medals. Among them, Nikolai Vasilievich Arkhangelsky was awarded the Order of the Red Star. For courage and perseverance in the performance of combat missions, 75 personnel of 57 bomber division were awarded orders and medals. By order of the South-Western Factory No. 0183 on January 25, 1943 N.V. Arkhangelsk was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. On March 21, 1943, by order No. 17, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Since June 1, 1943, Nikolai Vasilyevich has made 106 sorties, of which 44 sorties for reconnaissance, showing valor, courage and heroism. On June 15, 1943, the President of the United States was awarded the Military Merit Medal. The merits of Arkhangelsky were highly appreciated: “For the excellent performance of the combat missions of the command, he is worthy of the highest Government award - the title of“ Hero of the Soviet Union ”, with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. Squadron commander of the 57th Bomber division Captain Abazadze. He is worthy of the highest government award - the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. Commander of the 57th Kalinkovichi Bomber Regiment - Ivantsov August 10, 1944 Worthy of the highest government award - the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the presentation of the "Order of Lenin" and the medal "Gold Star". Commander of the 221st Bakhmach Bomber Aviation Division, Colonel - Buzylev August 11, 1944. Worthy of the highest government award of the title of "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal, for the performance of 210 successful combat missions on the fronts of the Patriotic War. The commander of the 6th mixed air corps, Colonel Borisenko, August 12, 1944. THE CONCLUSION OF THE COMMANDER OF THE 16TH AIR ARMY IS Worthy of the highest Government award - the conferral of the title “Hero of the Soviet Union.” The commander of the 16th Air Army, Colonel General of Aviation - Rudenko. August 12, 1944. THE CONCLUSION OF THE MILITARY COUNCIL OF THE FRONT IS WORTHY OF THE HIGHEST GOVERNMENT AWARD - the award of the title “Hero of the Soviet Union”. August 22, 1944. On October 26, 1944, the deputy squadron commander, senior lieutenant N.V. Arkhangelsky was awarded the "Hero of the Soviet Union" with the presentation of the "Order of Lenin" and the medal "Golden Star". Decree of 26.10. 1944 Foundation of op. 793756 d.z. sheets 94-95. On January 14, 1945, the 57th regiment was transferred to perform hostilities in the Warsaw - Poznan offensive operation. The regiment assisted in breaking through the heavily fortified defensive zone on the river. Vistula.

CITY: Vladimirovka, Nikolaev region, Ukrainian SSR DATE OF BIRTH: 01/07/1920 DATE OF DEATH: 05/28/1960 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. My grandfather Artamonov Nikolai Nikolayevich was born on January 7, 1920, in the village. Vladimirovka, Nikolaev region of the Ukrainian SSR. On September 01, 1940 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army by the Vladimir Military Commissariat. Prior to the Second World War, he served in the 22nd Light Tank Brigade, 4th Army of the Belarusian Special Military District. This part was in the city of Brest-Litovsk, 8 km west of the city, near the German border. The war caught my grandfather on the first day, June 22, 1941. With an unexpected massive onslaught of German troops, their brigade did not accept the battle - it retreated. During the retreat, part of the brigade's personnel arrived in the city of Novo-Zybkov, Byelorussian SSR. New military units were formed in Novo-Zybkov. When the German troops approached, these still not fully formed units retreated in the direction of Mogilev. In Mogilev, at the beginning of July 1941, grandfather was sent to the headquarters of 25 Mech. corps - combatant department for the position of Senior clerk. Already in August 1941. This mech. corps was disbanded and the headquarters of the Bryansk Front was formed on the basis of the corps headquarters and other headquarters of the formation, where grandfather served in the front personnel department. In September 1941. He was transferred to the personnel department of the 50th Army. For the excellent performance of his duties, my grandfather was awarded a silver cigarette case, this is what is written in his description: “... knows how to keep a military secret. In a difficult situation in 1941 near Tula, being cut off from the Headquarters, he completely preserved the Office of the Department and delivered it to the headquarters ... "And in 1944, for the timely fulfillment of his functional duties, my grandfather was awarded the Order of the" Red Star ". Description of the feat: "Senior lieutenant of a / s Artamonov has been working in the personnel department of the 50th army since the organization of the army. For 3 years of work in the department, he grew from a clerk to an assistant chief of the 2nd section. Throughout his work, he does exceptional work with timely execution of the tasks of the Command. Quickly and avoiding mistakes, he works out the award material for the report to the Military Council of the Army.In the most difficult conditions of daily movement on the way for the advancing units, Comrade Artamonov managed to ensure the removal of medals of orders for awarding and immediately brings them to the attention of the commanders of the units. delivery of orders and medals to units and formations, with this task Comrade Artamonov always copes well. 08/07/1944 southeast of Minsk in the area of ​​the village of Dobrenev, the enemy trying to get out of the encirclement with a group of about 300 people attacked the army headquarters, a short battle began to destroy this group. Comrade Artamonov calmly and courageously carried out all the instructed by the chief, he was instructed to take the car with the documents to a safe place. Despising the danger to life under the enemy's automatic rifle fire, Comrade Artamonov loaded orders and property onto the car and took the car to a safe place. "

CITY: Tashkent DATE OF BIRTH: 02/17/1905 DATE OF DEATH: 02/17/1952 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Type of troops: Military-political composition Born on February 17, 1905 in the city of Tashkent in the family of a hairdresser. Since 1912. his father began to work in the cotton industry as a cashier-collector. Mother died in 1927, father in 1937. The family had 5 sons and a daughter. All brothers were officers and fought on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. Nikolai Konstantinovich in 1922 graduated from the Lenin 2nd grade Soviet school. From 1920 he worked in the "Tsentrokozh" Administration. In 1927. Graduated from the F. Engels Leningrad Institute of National Economy. After graduation, he worked at the Leningrad State Steklotrest. Later, at the Tashkent Department of Labor Economics, Glavkhlopkoma. Since 1927. member of the Komsomol. Conducted active Komsomol, trade union, propaganda activities, was the chairman of the Regional Bureau of the ITS of the Union of Cotton Workers of the North Caucasian Regional Committee. From 1933 he worked in the cotton trust in the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Region, at the Paper-Spinning Mill of the Glukhovsky Combine as the head of the Planning and Production Department. Later he was the head of the Labor and Salary Department of the Glukhovsky Combine Administration. In the first years of the war, by order of the People's Commissar of the Textile Industry of the USSR, he was sent to the Tashkent Textile Factory named after Stalin. According to the recollections of Nikolai Konstantinovich's wife, he was involved in the evacuation of a cotton mill from the city of Glukhov and setting up production in the city of Tashkent. In May 1943 he was seconded to the Uzbek Council of People's Commissars, where he worked as a senior consultant for the textile industry. In March 1944. was mobilized into the Red Army and sent to the military-political school of propagandists. After which in January 1945 he was sent to the 1st Belorussian Front as an agitator of the regiment. He took part in battles, starting with the crossing of the Oder, as well as the capture of Berlin and other operations of the Red Army. He graduated from the war with the rank of senior lieutenant. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, medals "For Labor Distinction", "For Victory over Germany", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Labor Valor during the Patriotic War of 1941-45." After demobilization in October 1945 he worked in the People's Commissariat of Textiles of the RSFSR, in the Ministry of Light Industry as the head of the office. He died on February 17, 1952 in Moscow.

CITY: the village of Unzha, Makaryevsky district, Kostroma region DATE OF BIRTH: 12/23/1914 DATE OF DEATH: 12/26/1979 HISTORY: Title: Senior lieutenant. My father, a senior lieutenant of the medical service, was born on December 23, 1914 in the village of Unzha, Makaryevsky district, Kostroma region. In the Red Army since January 1936. Drafted to the Yaroslavl Regional Military Commissariat of the mountains. Yaroslavl. He worked at the front from the first days of World War II in the positions of commander of a sanitary platoon of a rifle battalion of the 927th rifle regiment of the 251st rifle division of the 30th Army, a senior paramedic of the 13th Separate Guards anti-tank destroyer division, participated in the defeat of the Germans near Moscow as part of 1308 specialist subunit, 18 Rifle Division, commander of the evacuation department Medical Battalion-2 11 GSGKD, senior paramedic of the Separate battalion of combat support 24 Rifle brigades of the Internal Troops of the NKVD of the Southwestern Front. In the December battles of 1943, he provided first aid to 24 wounded soldiers and officers and evacuated them to Medical Battalion-2. In the January battles for the village. Losvida, Vitebsk region, on January 6, 1944, was wounded in the right hand, but did not leave his area of ​​work until the battle was quiet, continuing to provide medical assistance to wounded soldiers and commanders, besides, he was wounded: 07.23.1941 in an offensive battle for the village of Soino, Smolenskaya area lightly wounded in the right thigh and contused; 10/28/1941 in an offensive battle for the village. Chvanovo, Moscow Region, lightly wounded in the back of the head and shell-shocked, 03/16/1942, in an offensive battle for the village of Maklaki, Smolensk Region, lightly wounded in the right hand, 08/21/1943 in an offensive battle for the village. The mustache of the Kharkov region was lightly wounded in the left thigh. In the February-March battles of 1944 in the Vitebsk direction, Andronnikov V.P. timely and skillfully provided medical assistance to the wounded not only of his division, but also of other units. He personally carried 32 wounded soldiers and their commanders from the battlefield with their weapons, providing the latter with timely medical assistance. In battles, he showed himself to be a courageous and caring commander, he was always in the most dangerous areas in readiness to provide first aid. For the caring and proactive performance of his duties in combat conditions, he was awarded the Government medal "For Courage", by order 11 of the State Committee for Civil Defense of the Russian Federation No. 08 / n dated 02/10/1944, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown in this. He was also awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For the capture of Konigsberg", the medal "For the Defense of Moscow", the medal "For the victory over Germany" and the jubilee medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." After the end of the war, he worked at the City Health Department in Magnitogorsk. He died on December 26, 1979. Buried at the Pravoberezhnoye cemetery in Magnitogorsk.

CITY: s. Zaitsevo, Stalin (Donetsk) region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/21/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Colonel. Type of troops: Technical troops (Chemical, Railway, Auxiliary, Radio-radar, topographic). Aksenov Yakov Ivanovich was born on October 21 (23), 1919 in the village of Zaitsevo, Donetsk region. Father was a drifter, died at the front in 1942, mother died in 1927, leaving three sons. Before the war, in 1937 - 39. worked as an apprentice of the telegraph operator of the 5th communication distance of the Nikitovka station of the North-Donetsk railway. In the army since 1939. The radio operator of the 442nd separate communications division (Transcaucasian Military District). 1941 - 42 - Head of the radio station, foreman of the shift of the 513th separate communications division (North Caucasian Front). In 1942 he was a listener of intelligence courses for advanced training of command personnel at the Higher School of the Red Army. In 1942 - 1945. - Head of the direction-finding radio station of the 4th separate division of the special services of the NKVD troops (2nd Ukrainian Front). 1945 -1948 - responsible duty officer of the operational unit of the headquarters, assistant to the chief of the operational unit of the headquarters of a separate special service division (Central Group of Forces). 1948 - 49 From 1949 to 1951, he was a student at the MGB officer training school, 1949-1951 - head of the power unit, electrical engineer, assistant to the head of the operational unit of the 4th separate special service division (Central Group of Forces). 1951-1964. - Head of the Operations Division of the Military Unit 61615 (Transcaucasian Military District). Lieutenant colonel. From 1964 he worked in the directorate of the radio and television network (Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR). Member of the CPSU since 1941. Member of the CPSU since 1944. Buried in Donetsk.

CITY: Kusu DATE OF BIRTH: 12/25/1927 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Vasily Petrovich Alashov (12/25/1927 - 01/08/2016) Vasily Petrovich Alashov, my great-grandfather, was born on December 25, 1927 in a family of workers. Father Alashov Peter Fedorovich, mother Alashova Anna Konstantinovna. The family was large and friendly. The family had 7 children. The eldest son is Nikolai, the daughter is Nina, the sons are Victor and Peter, the daughter is Antonina, the son is Vasily and the youngest is Boris. All children from an early age were engaged in peasant labor. They kept a horse, a cow, sheep, chickens, geese. So childhood was by no means easy. The family lived in need and worked tirelessly. We lived by our own labor. The elder brother Nikolai went to the front at the very beginning of the war. Unfortunately, he did not return from the front, he died on the battlefields. Great-grandfather studied at school number 6, which was located where the district clinic is now. Grandfather graduated from the 7th grade in 1941. Then he entered the FZO (factory training) in the city of Korkino, where he studied as an electrical fitter for 2 years. There they had a radio amateur club, he went to it. After training, he returned to his hometown of Kusu and went to work at the Machine-Building Plant. At the factory, together with other guys, they made shells for the army. In those years the Great Patriotic War was going on. As young boys 15-17 years old, they worked in two shifts. Each had to make 60 pieces of shells. They knew that our soldiers needed their shells. Grandfather constantly ran to the military registration and enlistment office and asked to go to the front. In 1943, my grandfather was drafted into the service at the age of 17. He went to the front as a volunteer. Twelve guys from Kusa and their grandfather went to the front. Grandpa ended up in the Northern Fleet in Murmansk. The service was not easy. Grandfather was taken as a radio operator. He had been practicing for a month before that. For half a year, grandfather was at the headquarters, then under the direction of the commander of communications in a group of radio operators, he served on the submarine destroyer "Smottenny". My grandfather was in England and the USA. His task was to adjust the fire of the batteries, to keep in touch with the headquarters and ships. In one of his campaigns, my grandfather was wounded. In Norway, they ran into a mine. Only two of the sailors survived. Grandfather was seriously wounded in a hospital in Arkhangelsk with the rank of foreman of the first class. After the Victory, my grandfather served another 7.5 years. With the onset of peacetime, they began to eliminate minefields, opening up routes for navigation. My grandfather returned home in 1950. Joined the TTK plant. He worked conscientiously for 38 years before retirement. Received the title of "Veteran of Labor". Together with my great-grandmother Alashova Galina Nikolaevna, they raised two daughters. They have been married for over 60 years. Awards: two orders of "Patriotic War II", medal "For Victory over Germany" and commemorative medals. Great-grandson Vladislav Evsyutin.