Heroes and feats

CITY: Irkutsk region, village of Taras DATE OF BIRTH: 06/10/1924 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Nikolay Efimovich Alexandrov, was born in the ulus of Nizhnyaya Taras, Bokhansky district. The father died when he was 6 years old, after 2 years his mother died. There were five children in the family, three brothers and two sisters. The elder sister Agafya, born in 1914, replaced their mother. One of the brothers, Grigory, born in 1923, died in December 1941 near Moscow. In November 1943, Nikolai Efimovich was drafted into the Red Army and sent to study at the school of air gunners for long-range bombers such as IL4, TU2 at station. Blast furnace near Chita, where he studied until July 1944. At the end of which, he arrived in the 12th Air Army of the Leningrad Front of Long-Range Bomber Aviation on a TU2 bomber as an air gunner. From September 1944 he fought on the Karelian Front as part of the 7th Air Army. On October 4, 1944, TU2, after returning from the bombing of the northern ports of Norway, from where the Germans were exporting nickel to Germany, was hit by the fire of a German anti-aircraft machine gun, one of the engines caught fire, the plane began to lose speed and lag behind their own. The pilot, the commander, gave the order over the radio: “Don't leave the plane. I will try to plant it, but for now I will drag to the front line. " After some time, the pilot managed to land the damaged and burning plane on a dwarf tree. The events took place in the north of the Kola Peninsula. Nikolai Efimovich with everyone left the burning plane, while seizing an aircraft machine gun and ammunition for it. For more than two weeks, the crew of four people: pilot, navigator, radio operator, air gunner, went through enemy territory and went through the front line to their own. While they were making their way to the rear of the enemy in a distant ulus, to Siberia, from military unit 06871 from the Soviet Arctic, a "funeral" went to Baba Agafya that Alexandrov N.E., faithful to the military oath, fell in battles for freedom and independence of our Homeland. And about three months later, sister Agafya received a letter from his brother Nikolai that he was alive and well and that he sincerely wished them. In March 1945, his air regiment arrived in the 16th Air Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. Nikolai Efimovich took part in the battle and storming of Berlin from April 16 to 30, 1945, and bombed the Seelow Heights. His regiment then suffered heavy losses, the Germans fought doomily for this last line. Berlin itself bombed, the city was covered in smoke and fire, bombs were dropped at the command of the navigator. In mid-May 1945, part of the regiment's personnel was brought to Berlin, to the Reichstag, on the wall of which the father-in-law left his painting. At the end of July 1945, the air regiment, where Nikolai Efimovich served, under its own power from Germany through Poland, the Soviet Union flew to Mongolia for the war with Japan. Nikolai Efimovich and I restored the last segment of this flight many years after these events. From Krasnoyarsk, the air regiment flew to the airfield with. Dzhida in Buryatia, then headed for the Kashtak airfield in Chita, and from there along the Chita-Zabaikalsk railway line across the border with the Mongolian People's Republic to Choybolsan, arrived in early August 1945. The airfield was on the eastern side of the hill, and on the western side there was an anti-aircraft floor and an evacuation hospital where my parents served, I was 11 months old. Nikolai Efimovich ended the war in the Chinese port of Dairen "Dalny", near the city of Port Arthur.

CITY: Somovo village, Shablykinsky district, Oryol region DATE OF BIRTH: 06/21/1917 DATE OF DEATH: 12/06/1975 HISTORY: Type of troops: Technical troops (Chemical, Railway, Auxiliary, Radio-radar, topographic). In the ranks of the Red Army Aksyukhin F.I. drafted in 1938 (place of call - Shablykinskiy Military Commissariat, Shablykinskiy district, Oryol region). He did his military service in the Far East in the railway troops. He was building a tunnel under the Amur River while in a high pressure tunnel. In the service he received the rank of junior sergeant. In the spring of 1941 Aksyukhin F.I. returned to his native village of Somovo, Shablykinsky district, where he worked as a tractor driver. With the outbreak of war in June 1941, together with other tractor drivers, he drove a column of tractors from Somovo to the town of Livny, Oryol region. He was taken to the front on July 15, 1941. He fought in the Oryol region as a squad commander of the 33rd battalion of mechanization of railway works of the Bryansk front. At the end of November 1941, the Germans occupied the town of Yelets (then the Oryol region), while the Red Army suffered heavy losses near Yelets. A week later, Yelets was freed by Soviet soldiers, among them F.I. Aksyukhin. He recalled that in the city there was a huge number of dead Soviet soldiers, whose corpses remained on the streets and in the doorways during the week of the occupation. On December 6, 1941, during the liberation of Yelets, his brigade had to restore the bridge over the Sosna River. During the repair of the railway lines under enemy bullets, his brigade managed to restore the railway communication with Livny. During work on the bridge Aksyukhin F.I. received multiple shrapnel wounds to his left arm. Some of the fragments were later removed, but some remained in the tendons, since after removing them, the hand would have been completely immobilized. Later, for the restoration of the bridge across the Sosna River near Yelets, Fyodor Ivanovich was awarded (by order of 06/28/1942) the medal "For Military Merit". A Soviet armored train was moving from Yelets through Livny to the Upper River. His advancement was provided by F.I. Aksyukhin's brigade. He took part in the battles near Novosil and Upper. He recalls that at the Verkhovye station, a train with recruits, who were being taken to the front, fell under bombing. Several carriages were completely destroyed. When the killed soldiers were carried out of the broken wagons, one of the fighters, who was considered dead, all covered in blood, jumped off the stretcher and began to run and scream (due to a severe concussion). Later, according to the documents he had, it turned out that he was Aksyukhin's fellow countryman from the village of Muravelnik, Shablykinsky district. His name was Andryusha. Since according to official documents he was considered killed, Fyodor Aksyukhin took him into his platoon and took care of him in every possible way. Andryusha served in Aksyukhin's platoon until the end of the war, but every time he heard the noise of an approaching plane, he covered his ears with his hands, hid his head between his knees and did not move. After the war, Aksyukhin often visited Andryusha, who worked in Muravelnik as a watchman for a collective farm orchard. In the Oryol region Aksyukhin F.I. As part of the troops of the Bryansk Front, he liberated the city of Novosil, the village of Verkhovye, the village of Khotynets, the city of Karachev (then the Oryol region). After the liberation of Karachev in mid-August 1943, he asked for 2 days off to visit his relatives in the village of Somovo (30 km. From Karachev). But he was refused, since the front line passed in close proximity to his native village on the border of the Oryol and Bryansk regions. It was at this time that the wife of sergeant Aksyukhin, Aksyukhina Maria Alekseevna, was driven into slavery by the Germans along with other residents of the village of Somovo. From August 1943 to January 1944, she stayed in a labor camp in Belarus (felling wood near the town of Borisov), and then was driven to Germany, where she lived and worked in the stockyard of a German farmer in the town of Friedrichshof until January 1945. when Soviet troops occupied the area on the border with Poland. In February 1945 she returned home. In March 1945, already senior sergeant Aksyukhin F.I. took part in the battles for the liberation of Vienna, for which he was awarded the medal "For the capture of Vienna." From Austria in mid-April 1945, his battalion was transferred to the Far East, where he took part in the war with Japan, and then continued to serve until 1948. In 1948 he returned to the village of Somovo, where he worked as chairman of the village council. Died Aksyukhin F.I. in 1975 on the day he was discharged from the hospital in Oryol from anaphylactic shock caused by an injection of penicillin. He was buried at the village cemetery in Somovo, Shablykinsky district, Oryol region. Another interesting case occurred with F.I. Aksyukhin's cousin. and his neighbor in the Aksyukhinsky courtyards of the village of Somovo - Aksyukhin Terenty Semenovich. At midnight on May 8, 1945, on the outskirts of Berlin Karlshorst, a native of the Oryol region, senior sergeant Terenty Semenovich Aksyukhin witnessed the signing of an act of unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany. Field Marshal Keitel was nervous. He took a pen to sign the act and pressed too hard on the nib. It broke.Aksyukhin, who was standing behind, took his pen out of his pocket and handed it to the Hitlerite commander. The next day, many front-line newspapers wrote: "The world is signed by the pen of a Soviet soldier." Senior Sergeant Terenty Semyonovich Aksyukhin, squad leader of anti-tank rifle platoon of the maneuvering group of the 105th border regiment, by Order No. 198n of June 19, 1945, was awarded a medal "For military merit" for carrying out work to restore revolutionary order in the city of Berlin on 05/02/1945, for the detention and disarmament of 25 German soldiers and officers by the department, for clearing the metro from enemy troops and personally detaining 5 people of a criminal element. When signing the act of complete surrender of Germany, Comrade Aksyukhin served well and vigilantly. The grave of Terenty Semenovich Aksyukhin is located next to the grave of Fyodor Ivanovich Aksyukhin.

CITY: Orenburg province DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1907 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Captain Type of troops: Artillery. Akinshin Mikhail Nikitovich was the commander of an artillery park in the 8 howitzer artillery brigade of the 8th guards howitzer artillery Vilna Red Banner Order of Kutuzov II degree brigade). He took part in the liberation of Kharkov and the city of Merefa. For seven days the soldiers of the 8th artillery division defended the city. On March 7, 1943, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, the division was given the honorary title of Guards. For the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the German invaders during the capture of the city and the fortress of Konigsberg and the valor and courage shown at the same time, all personnel were commended by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. The 212 and 213 guards howitzer artillery regiments of the 8th guards howitzer artillery Vilna Red Banner Order of Kutuzov II degree of the brigade were awarded the Order of Kutuzov, III degree, and its 214 guards howitzer artillery regiment was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Mikhail Akinshin met Victory Day with fellow soldiers in Lithuania. And in June 1945, the 8th Guards Howitzer Artillery Brigade set off on a long journey and, after a 30-day march by rail, concentrated on the banks of the Kerulen River. And then followed a march across the steppe expanses of Mongolia. On August 9, 1945, our troops crossed the state border of the Mongolian People's Republic with Manchuria. came to the outskirts of the city of Solun - an important junction of highways and railways - and met here stubborn resistance from the Japanese. A fierce firefight ensued. The powerful salvoes of "Katyushas" and the fire of the artillery battalion were followed by an attack. On the morning of August 14, 1945, the city of Solun was completely cleared of Japanese troops. On September 2, 1945, Japan surrendered. With the victory, Mikhail Akinshin returned home to his wife and daughter, lived in Orenburg, worked in the railway transport.

CITY: Linevka village, Sol-Iletskiy district. DATE OF BIRTH: 11/28/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Branch: Artillery The latest world events show the need not only to know the history of the Great Patriotic War, but also the need to be able to prove the indisputable facts of the past, which are trying to distort and present in a favorable light to someone ... Only the study of the history of your country, your genealogy gives confidence in yourself, in the bright future of your country. There is no family in which the war has not left its mark. And she did not bypass my family. We will always remember the people who fought for victory in the Great Patriotic War. Each family made a contribution to the long-awaited victory. Someone forged victory in the rear, someone at the front. My family was no exception, my grandfather Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich also fought at the front. I am very proud of my grandfather, because he endured everything in this war, survived, and most importantly, won. Today we young people also have to fight, but not at the front. Our war is a war to defend the Victory of our grandfathers, to be able to preserve what was achieved at the cost of huge human sacrifices. We must not allow those events to be forgotten, we must not allow history to be forged. We are heirs, and we are responsible to the dead and the living. Combat path Each person has his own line of fate: for some it is straight and smooth, and for some it is winding and rough. The beginning of the 20th century was a time of testing for many people. But it was especially difficult for children born in the post-revolutionary era. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich Asanov was born on November 28, 1919 in Linevka into a peasant family of hereditary Bulgar Tatars. I did not remember my mother at all; she died when he was still a baby. Soon after the death of his mother, Fathutdin Sharafutdinovich's father remarried and brought a young stepmother into the house. And then, as in an evil fairy tale: the stepmother disliked not only two kids, but also their father. In order to take possession of all the property of her husband Fatkhutdin Sharafutdinovich, she wrote reports on him that he allegedly spoke out against the Soviet regime. At night, some unfamiliar uncles knocked loudly on the door and took my father away. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich never saw him again. He was 2 years old and 4 brother when their stepmother kicked them out of their father's house. Childhood was bleak, hungry, cold. The whole village helped, in whatever way they could. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich managed to survive, get an education, and it seemed to him that everything went smoothly, but then the war broke out, which he remembered well, being its direct participant from beginning to end. For 1418 long days and nights, the peoples of the USSR went to victory. This path was incredibly difficult. Our Motherland has fully learned both the bitterness of defeat and the joy of victories. The initial period was especially difficult. Since 1942, he began to count down the difficult life at the front. Sadyk Fatkhudinovich served in the 56th rifle regiment, where his comrades, the fired upon soldiers, called him simply Sasha, because Sadyk was the youngest and most respectful comrade by age. He started the war as an ordinary rifleman, and ended in 1945 as a squad commander of a motorized rifle regiment. He often recalled how at the beginning of the war he had to retreat, be surrounded, make his way to his own, in small groups through forests and swamps, and went forward to the west. He had to witness the bloody battles for Stalingrad. The failure to capture Moscow was viewed by the German command as a temporary moment. The Nazis very much counted on the capture of Stalingrad, believing that it was not just a city on the Volga, but also a gateway to the Caucasus, and, in addition, a deeply symbolic goal: mastering it would be perceived by everyone as proof of the invincibility of the German military machine. Huge forces were thrown by Hitler in this direction. Commander Paulus himself was loved by the Fuehrer, he entered the Nazi environment. There was a lot at stake. And all over the world they closely followed the outcome of the unprecedented battle. In the battle for Stalingrad, the fate of not only Russia was decided, but also the fate of many peoples of European countries occupied and oppressed by Germany. In the summer of 1942, a critical situation developed on the Soviet-German front. In connection with the breakthrough of the enemy into the great bend of the Don on July 17, the defensive period of the battle for Stalingrad began, which lasted until November 18. In the fighting at Stalingrad, more than 2 million were to die on both sides. On August 23, German tanks broke into Stalingrad. On the same day, bombing of the city from planes began. It lasted several days without interruption. Soon the water supply system went out of order, the power supply was cut off, but the work of the city enterprises, which produced defense products, repaired tanks and other types of weapons and military equipment, did not stop. The line between the rear and the front disappeared here ... On August 25, 1942, a state of siege was introduced in Stalingrad.The main burden of the struggle for the city, into which the enemy burst into, fell to the lot of the 62nd Army under the command of Lieutenant General V.I. Chuikov. The German command attached particular importance to the capture of Stalingrad. His capture would have made it possible to cut the Volga transport artery, through which bread and oil were delivered to the center of the country. Heavy defensive battles began on the outskirts of the city. The Soviet command brought cadets of a military school and battalions of the people's militia into battle, which included 125 thousand residents of the city - everyone who was able to bear arms. On the northern outskirts of the city, the Nazis were stopped and then thrown back three kilometers. On the morning of September 13, the Nazis brought thirteen divisions into battle, took hundreds of aircraft into the air. They broke through the defenses and entered the central part of Stalingrad. On September 14, the enemy captured the highest place in the city - Mamayev Kurgan, which changed hands several times. From this dominant height, the Nazis could conduct aimed fire at any point in the city that was within the reach of artillery and mortars. The 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev, who had just crossed the Volga, arrived in time to help the defenders of Stalingrad. On September 16, she again took possession of the Mamayev Kurgan. Recalling these difficult days, General VI Chuikov, who at that time was the commander of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, wrote: “By mid-October, the battle ... reached such a scale that the history of war had never known ... The number of enemy aircraft daily exceeded thousand, and on October 14 reached a record figure of 2540 ... Enemy artillery and aviation set fire to oil tanks. Burning oil spilled. The flame rose up to 800 meters. The earth was burning ... The Volga was burning ... It seemed that all living things should have perished in the midst of this sea of ​​fire, in the midst of incessant bombing, that human nerves were no longer able to withstand this hellish tension. But the warriors ... survived. They stood like an indestructible wall on their borders. " The fighting in the city itself lasted more than two months. In military history, such stubborn urban battles are almost unknown. Every house turned into a fortress, and the battle was fought for every floor or basement, for every wall. It was a battle of attrition, and the morale of German soldiers and officers was noticeably weakened during it. The enemy went on the offensive against the city three times: in September, October and November. Each time the Germans managed to break through to the Volga at a new point. It seemed that one more small effort - and Stalingrad would be taken. However, the ultimate victory eluded them. By November, the Germans had captured almost the entire city, which was turned into solid ruins. They were separated from the river only by a narrow, intermittent strip of land. The width of this "thread" was measured in hundreds of meters. For more than two hundred days and nights from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, heavy, bloody battles were fought on the territory of the Don and Volga steppes. At 07:30 on November 19, a powerful artillery preparation began, which continued 80 minutes. During this time, about 3,500 guns and mortars, concentrated on three narrow sections of the breakthrough with a total length of 23 kilometers, dropped tens of thousands of shells on the enemy. So the offensive of the Soviet troops began ... The line separating the second period of the Great Patriotic War from the first was the turning point in the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, that is, the transition from defense to the counteroffensive of the Red Army. The troops of the South-West (commander N.F. Vatutin), Donskoy (commander K.K. Rokossovsky) and Stalingrad (commander A.I. Eremenko) fronts surrounded 22 enemy divisions with a total number of 330 thousand people. The surrender of the grouping of Field Marshal Paulus was a turning point, first of all, psychologically, namely, in the perception of Germany and Nazism throughout the world. Fascism and Hitlerism were no longer perceived as an irresistible force. The Great Battle of Stalingrad ended in a brilliant victory for the Soviet troops. Now the initiative for military action was torn from the hands of the Nazis. The whole world understood: the victory over fascism is not far off. The victory at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a radical change in the Great Patriotic War. She showed the whole world the strength of the Red Army, the increased skill of Soviet military leaders, the strength of the rear, which provided the front with a sufficient amount of weapons, military equipment and equipment. The international prestige of the Soviet Union grew immeasurably, and the positions of fascist Germany were seriously shaken. The Kursk Bulge became the second big test for Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich. The Great Battle of Kursk is one of the largest battles of the Second World War in terms of its scope, forces and means involved, tension, results and military-political consequences. It went on for 50 incredibly difficult days and nights. In order to achieve the quick success of its offensive, the German command relied on the massive use of armored vehicles (tanks, assault guns, armored personnel carriers) in the first operational echelon.The medium and heavy tanks T-IV, T-V ("panther"), T-VI ("tiger"), which entered service with the German army, and the assault guns Ferdinand had good armor protection and strong artillery weapons. Their 75-mm and 88-mm guns with a direct firing range of 1.5-2.5 km were 2.5 times higher than the 76.2-mm cannon of the main Soviet T-34 tank. The troops of the Central and Voronezh fronts were mainly involved in the defensive operation near Kursk. By the beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the Central and Voronezh fronts and the Steppe Military District numbered 1,909 thousand people, more than 26.5 thousand guns and mortars, over 4.9 thousand tanks and self-propelled artillery units (ACS), about 2.9 thousand . aircraft. Great importance was attached to the creation of artillery groups. Particular attention was paid to the massing of artillery in the likely directions of enemy strikes. The Battle of Kursk was one of the largest battles of the Second World War. On both sides, more than 4 million people were involved in it, over 69 thousand guns and mortars, more than 13 thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, up to 12 thousand aircraft. Soviet troops defeated 30 divisions (including 7 tank) of the enemy, whose losses amounted to more than 500 thousand people, 3 thousand guns and mortars, more than 1.5 thousand tanks and assault guns, over 3.7 thousand aircraft ... In the Battle of Kursk, the level of military art of the Soviet troops increased. In the field of strategy, the Soviet Supreme High Command creatively approached the planning of the summer-autumn campaign of 1943. The peculiarity of the decision was that the side with strategic initiative and general superiority in forces went over to the defense, deliberately giving an active role to the enemy in the initial phase of the campaign. Subsequently, within the framework of a single campaign process, following the defense, it was planned to switch to a decisive counteroffensive and deploy a general offensive in order to liberate the Left Bank Ukraine, Donbass and overcome the Dnieper. The headquarters gave instructions to the fronts to cross the Dnieper on the move. The troops were supposed to reach the lower reaches of the Dnieper and to the Crimea. During the period from 22 to 30 September, they reached the Dnieper on a 750 km front from Loyev to Zaporozhye and crossed the river of the army of the Central, Voronezh, Steppe and South-Western fronts on the move, capturing a number of bridgeheads. By the end of September, the Left-Bank Ukraine was almost completely liberated. The plans of the fascist command to stabilize the front on the Dnieper were thwarted. A stubborn struggle for bridgeheads unfolded. The Supreme Command headquarters put forward the task of eliminating the remaining bridgeheads of the enemy on the left bank of the Dnieper and expanding the captured bridgeheads. With the seizure of strategic bridgeheads on the Dnieper, conditions were created for an offensive in Belarus, the complete liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine and the development of a successful offensive.In the course of the Donbass strategic operation (August 13 - September 22, 1943), army troops in cooperation with the troops of the 28th Army, forces cavalry and mechanized formations of the front defeated the Taganrog enemy grouping and, in cooperation with the landings landed by the ships of the Azov military flotilla, and the partisans, liberated Taganrog (August 30). In the course of the subsequent successful offensive in cooperation with the forces of the Black Sea Fleet, the army liberated Mariupol on September 10. From September 26, she took part in the Melitopol operation (September 26 - November 5). At the end of October 1943, the army was withdrawn to the front reserve, regrouped to the area northeast of Kakhovka and, replacing parts of the 5th Shock Army, defended the Zavadovka - Kakhovka - Britany line. During November 2, in the area between the Dnieper River and the coast of the Karkinitsky Bay, our troops continued to pursue the retreating enemy and captured the city of Kakhovka, the city of Skadovsk, regional centers of the Nikolaev region Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich took part in the battles for the liberation of Donbass, the cities of Kakhovka and Kherson. During the crossing of the Dnieper River to Pereslava, when the 4th brigade covered the crossing, the water literally boiled. In this battle, the platoon commander Vasily Ivanovich Fursov was wounded. Sadyk Fatkhudinovich managed to pull him out and save his life, risking himself. He recalled: then he did not think about fear. For courage and courage on September 23, 1943, Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". During fierce battles near the Kvashino, Pokrovo-Kireevka patrol from August 18 to September 4, 1943, he uninterruptedly delivered mines under heavy artillery and mortar shelling of the enemy. On June 2, 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his valor in battle, with the fire of his mortar he managed to suppress 4 enemy machine-gun points and destroy an anti-tank gun. In the battles for the Dnieper operation he was awarded the medal "For Courage". Until the end of the war, he went through Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria.He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Vienna." In 1945, after returning home with a victory Linevka, created a family, raised seven children. He never complained about anything - he hoped only for himself. He talked a lot about the war, recalled everyday life at the front, his friends - comrades, not only survivors, but also about those who laid down their heads for the independence of the Fatherland. The 4th Guards Mechanized Stalingrad Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov corps has a long, truly heroic military history. His soldiers traveled more than 8,300 kilometers along the thorny roads of the Great Patriotic War and were in the fire of battles for about 1000 days and nights. He participated in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad defensive operation, in the Battle of Stalingrad, in Rostov, Donbass, Melitopol, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya, Odessa, Yassko-Chisinau offensive operations, the liberation of Bulgaria, in the Belgrade and Budapest offensive operations. The corps was formed in May 1942 in the city of Stalingrad, manned by three tank and one motorized rifle brigades and was called the 13th Panzer Corps. In November 1942, he received three mechanized brigades for staffing, and in January 1943, by order of the People’s Commissariat No. 13, he was transformed into the 4th Guards Mechanized Corps. At different times, 44 regular and 38 attached units and formations fought in its composition. The corps received the baptism of fire in June 1942 in the Kharkov region. Then he took an active part in all stages of the Battle of Stalingrad. The formations and corps units fought defensive battles in the Stalingrad direction for two and a half months. Leaving one defensive line after another under the onslaught of superior enemy forces, they withdrew to the southwestern outskirts of the city in early September, consolidated their foothold and continued to hold the defensive line until October 25, 1942. On this day, the corps surrendered its defense zone to rifle units and was withdrawn for re-formation. The correspondent of the corpus newspaper "Stalingradets" writer Mikola Rud dedicated the poem "Stalingrad-Taganrog" Donbass to this event. In the smoke Ukraine. How many roads have been covered! The words "Stalingrad-Taganrog" are shining on our banner from now on. dearer “Forward!” And we pull out the oppressed people from death and grief by the enemy. Thanks to the leader, Fatherland awards! As before, in a fierce battle We are the Banner and the will and spirit of Stalingrad As a symbol we carry in battle. After the defeat of the enemy's Stalingrad grouping, the corps fought stubborn battles in the battles for the liberation of the Rostov region, Donbass and southern Ukraine. In August 1944, his soldiers successfully completed their combat mission in Moldova and transferred the hostilities outside our homeland. Fulfilling the mission of liberating the peoples of Southeast Europe from fascism, the soldiers of the renowned corps carried their battle flags across the coastal regions of Romania, then across Bulgaria, Eastern Yugoslavia, Hungary and Southern Czechoslovakia. The formations and units participated in 20 major defensive and offensive operations, carried out according to the plans of the Supreme Command Headquarters on the southern flank of the Soviet-German front. 11 times they were introduced into the breakthrough formed by the combined arms formations and fought deep behind enemy lines. They independently broke through enemy defensive lines 5 times. In four defensive operations for a long time they repelled the blows of superior enemy forces. All 33 months the corps was part of the active army and was never withdrawn to the rear. Even its reorganization from a tank to a mechanized one and all the resupply took place in the immediate vicinity of the front line. The personnel of the corps lived a front-line life with its harsh laws. The everyday feats of combat comrades-in-arms seemed the most common phenomena of front-line everyday life. The soldiers' permanent residence, their "apartments" were dugouts and trenches, cabins and car bodies, tank turrets and self-propelled artillery installations. They were "written" in them until the complete victory over the enemy. They ate in them, spent all their free time, wrote letters to relatives and loved ones, wrote poetry. For successful hostilities, the corps personnel were commended twelve times by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin. Eleven units and formations were awarded guard ranks, thirteen units and formations were awarded honorary titles in honor of the liberation of various cities of the Soviet Union and the countries of South-Eastern Europe, and ten were awarded government awards.For courage, bravery and unparalleled feats in the fight against the German fascist invaders, 16660 soldiers were awarded government awards and 20 soldiers received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war, the corps was transformed into the 4th Guards Mechanized Division (from 10.06.1945). The Guards Mechanized Division was part of the 10th Special Mechanized Army of the Southern Group of Forces, created on the territory of Bulgaria in 1946. The war unleashed by Germany brought innumerable calamities to tens of millions of people: it took lives and turned cities and villages into ruins. The entire people rose to defend the Motherland, to defeat the hated enemy. The entire people rose to defend the Motherland, to defeat the hated enemy. In battles, the soldiers showed miracles of heroism. Their mothers, wives and children, replacing the men who had gone to the front, labored selflessly in the rear. The country lived with one thought: “Everything for the front! Everything for the victory! " After the end of the war, Gulshat Gibadullinovna returned to Linevka with a victory. Then he moved with his family to Buranny. Raised seven children, gave them education. All children are alive and well, they have their own families. Like their parents, they faithfully fulfill their parental duty. Whatever position they occupy, they work to match their parents. Sadyk never complained about anything, hoped only for himself, talked a lot about the war, always the main thing in his stories is everyday life at the front, memories of friends - comrades, not only survivors, but also of those who laid down their heads for the independence of the Fatherland.

CITY: Village of Dvoynoy Melensky District, Vladimirovsk Region DATE OF BIRTH: 05/08/1908 DATE OF DEATH: 05/18/1984 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Division: 341st Infantry Division (1st Formation). My great-grandfather, Ivan Ilyich Averyanov, became a member of my family of participants in the Great Patriotic War. He was born on May 8, 1908 in the village of Dvoyny Melensky District, Vladimirovsk Region. The son of simple peasants Ilya Antonovich Averyanov and Evdokia Fedorovna Averyanova. Received four classes of education. At 22, he married Natalya Ilyinichna Repina. A year later, their son Ivan was born, and two more later, their daughter Valentina, my grandmother. But Ivan Ilyich did not enjoy his happy family life for long. In 1939 he was drafted to the front during the Russian-Finnish war. On August 13, 1941 he was enlisted in the Red Army. He was declared unfit for combat service and from September 12, 1941 to July 13, 1942, he was appointed deputy political officer of the 1141 rifle regiment of the 341 rifle division. In 1943 he was transferred to the 6th training auto battalion in the third company, where he served until demobilization. He was a participant in the Russo-Japanese War. Twice received minor wounds and was sent to the Sochi hospital. He returned home on December 31, 1945. The reunited Averyanov family settled in the village of Podgornoye, Novoselsky district, Grozny region (now the village of Shalazhi, Chechen Republic), where they lived until 1959. Later, the Averyanovs moved to the homeland of Ivan Ilyich, but did not stay there for a long time. Nine months later, they moved to the village of Zaterechny in the Nefiekumsky District of the Stavropol Territory, where their descendants still live. Ivan Ilyich has nine grandchildren who regularly meet in his house, continuing the family tradition. Averyanov Ivan Ilyich died on May 18, 1984 in the village of Zaterechny at the age of seventy-five years.

CITY: the city of Novosibirsk DATE OF BIRTH: 08/13/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 02/15/1993 HISTORY: Boris Andreevich Abramov was born on 08/13/1921 in Novosibirsk. Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Sergeant Major. He served in the armored and mechanized troops. He died on February 15, 1993. 10/20/1939 in the city of Novosibirsk was called up for military service and passed it in the 5th Panzer Division of the Baltic Special Military District, Alytus, Lithuanian SSR. From 07.1941 to 08.1943 he served in the 53rd separate tank repair battalion of the armies of the Voronezh Front (from 10.1943 - the 1st Ukrainian Front) as a senior brigadier for the repair of armored vehicles. From 08.1943 to 07.1945 he served in the 94th separate tank repair battalion of the 4th Guards Kantimirovsky Tank Corps of the 1st Ukrainian Front as a senior brigadier for the repair of armored vehicles, the commander of the Letuchka. Awarded: Order of the "Red Star" No. 926747, order book No. 582105 of 03/19/1946; medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", certificate without number, awarded on 04.02.1946; medal "For the Liberation of Prague", certificate A No. 319806, awarded on 20.01.1947; medal "For the capture of Berlin", certificate B No. 324687, awarded on 03.06.1947. After the war, from 08.1951 to 11.1989, he worked at the Moscow Automobile Plant named after I.V. Stalin (from 06. 1956 - the Moscow Automobile Plant named after I.A. USSR champion in motor sports in 1957. In 1960, he took part in the restoration of a car that served Lenin, kept in the State Historical Museum. He died on 15.02.1993 in the city of Moscow, was buried at the Kotlyakovsky cemetery.

CITY: Village of Yegndy Agach (now the village of Sheremetyevka), Maryanovsky district of the Omsk region DATE OF BIRTH: 10/15/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 08/18/2006 HISTORY: Astakhov Ivan Mikhailovich was born on 10/15/1923 in the village of Yegendy Agach, Maryanovsky district of the Omsk region. Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. When the war began, he was 17 years old. He was sent to study at a medical school. He was called up to serve in the Maryanovsky Military Commissariat of the Maryanovsky district of the Omsk region in 1942. From November 1943 to March 1944 he served on the 1st Ukrainian Front. Participated in the hostilities of the Kiev offensive and Kiev defensive operations. From March 1945 he served on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. He served in the rank of a junior lieutenant of the medical service as a paramedic at a medical aid station of the 49th Guards Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade of Destruction of the 19th Artillery Breakthrough Division. From the beginning of hostilities, Ivan Mikhailovich was at the medical center at the brigade headquarters. Under the fire of enemy artillery and aviation, he provided emergency medical assistance to 25 wounded brigades and rifle units, of which six of them were carried with weapons under artillery fire to a safe place. With the right treatment, he managed to ensure that the wounded were left in the units without evacuation in the first-aid station, where they recovered, continuing to do their work. During the war, he visited Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria. After the war, he remained to serve in the army in the border troops of the USSR. He rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel. He graduated from service in 1973. After demobilization, Ivan Mikhailovich worked for many years as an ambulance paramedic. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War, the badge of the excellent student of the border troops, the badges "Guard" and "Front-line soldier", medals "For the capture of Vienna", "For the capture of Budapest", "For military services", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic war of 1941-1945 "," For distinction in the protection of the state border ", the medal of Georgy Zhukov and jubilee medals. He died on 18.08.2006.

CITY: Tsagan-Nur village, Maloderbetovsky ulus DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 01/01/1988 HISTORY: Title: Junior lieutenant. Anjuraev Yaman Anjuraevich was drafted on July 21, 1941 by the Sarpinskiy ulus military commissariat. He was sent to the Rostov Military Infantry School. The school was stationed near Novocherkassk in a summer camp. In mid-October 1941 he took part in defensive battles for Rostov. In one of the battles he was wounded, together with other wounded he was taken to Armavir. In December, they were discharged from the hospital and sent to Prokhladnaya station, where marching teams were formed. From there they were sent to the Bryansk front. Yaman Anjuraev began serving in the 81st Infantry Division, which was part of the 48th Army. He was sent to a two-month advanced training course for command personnel at the courses for junior lieutenants of the Bryansk Front. In November, junior lieutenant Anjuraev was released to the post of adjutant of a rifle battalion. Anjuraev arrived in Yelets. Here he received a referral to his division, which was part of the 13th Army, for the position of platoon commander of a separate ski battalion. The battalion performed various missions. He stood on the defensive, his units often raided behind enemy lines. Skiers carried out reconnaissance and sabotage operations. They took prisoners. Once the junior lieutenant Anjuraev with two Red Army men barely dragged the "tongue", the Fritz turned out to be large and heavy. On February 9, 1943, the division liberated the Ponyri station, after which it took up defensive positions on the occupied lines. Lieutenant Anjuraev, clearing the Kursk land, was seriously wounded in the head and shell-shocked. He goes to the hospital again, where he underwent surgery, but had to remove his eye. By the decision of the Commission of the Supreme Command, the subsequent order of the Ural Military District, junior lieutenant Yaman Andzhuraevich Andzhuraev in February 1944 was demobilized from the USSR Armed Forces due to injury. He was awarded the Orders of the Patriotic War I and II degrees, six medals.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1923 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Yakov Nikolaevich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in November 1941, demobilized in November 1945 as a specialist with higher education. Before the war, he graduated from the Saratov Institute of Finance and Economics, so he was eligible for an officer's position. But, wishing to end the war as quickly as possible, he served as a sergeant. For several years Yakov Nikolaevich served on the Karelian Isthmus. These were harsh everyday life. They lived in dugouts, ate in the snow, they shot on it and rested when the sun warmed up. Sometimes, after long hours of fighting, an overcoat froze to the snow, and had to be torn off. Repeatedly went on reconnaissance to "get a tongue." During the assault on the city of Kesting, he was lightly wounded in the back. The regiment in that battle was surrounded by the Germans, the command sent two more regiments to help, but they failed to take the city. These are the everyday life of the army. On the second Belorussian front, Andrianov Yakov Nikolaevich took part in the battle during the capture of Konigsberg. He was wounded by a shell fragment in the right side. He was carried out of the battlefield by a nurse, bleeding and unconscious. The hospital decided that the soldier had died, was taken to the morgue, where he lay until morning. In the morning, taking apart the corpses, they found signs of life in the wounded man. An urgent operation was carried out, two crushed ribs were taken out. Fortunately, the lungs hurt a little. So, everything worked out. My grandfather survived, but until the end of the war he was in the hospital. Now he is 91 years old, he is blind and deaf, but his warm heart keeps the memory of those terrible days and love for his Homeland. Thank you, grandfather, Yakov Nikolaevich, for the Victory over the Nazis, for the life given to us, children and grandchildren! Shishkin Nikita

DATE OF BIRTH: 11/08/1922 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant. He studied at a rural school and at the end of ten classes in June 1941, he wanted to enter a flight school, as he dreamed of becoming a pilot. But his dream did not come true, as the Great Patriotic War with Germany began and he was called to the front. He did well in school and was therefore called up to serve in the radio engineering troops at a low-power radio station. Anatoly Pavlovich was a radio operator, transmitting telephone signals over wires about the location of German units. He was a sergeant. In his youth, Anatoly Pavlovich was fond of hunting, he went well on skis and shot accurately from a gun. These skills and fighting character, and especially endurance, helped him defeat the Nazis and go through the roads of war as part of the Ukrainian and Belorussian fronts from 1941 to 1945. When there was a break at the front, he took the button accordion in his hands and played war songs to the soldiers, and especially lyrical ones, which reminded everyone of their relatives, loved ones and acquaintances. During the war years, Anatoly Pavlovich had awards: "For Valor", "For Courage and Bravery", "For Victory over Japan and Germany", etc. In May 1945, the war with the fascists ended, the soldiers returned home with great joy. And for my great-grandfather, the war continued in Japan on Mount Kholkin-Goll, for two more years he was in the Far East, and only in 1947 he returned home to the Yaroslavl Region. His parents died without waiting for their son. He entered the textile technical school and after graduation began to work as a foreman at the weaving factory of the flax mill. He died in 1984 from an illness resulting from the war.

CITY: s. Buyanovo, Krasnensky District, Smolensk Region DATE OF BIRTH: 04/17/1918 DATE OF DEATH: 04/29/2002 HISTORY: Title: Major Branch of the Army: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 5th Guards Gomel Long-Range Aviation Division Artyukh Alexandra Grigorievna (maiden name Kovaleva) was born on April 17, 1918 in the village of Buyanovo, Krasnensky District, Smolensk Region. In 1938 she finished 10 classes of school No. 523, which was located on Mira Avenue, Moscow, entered Moscow Hydrometeorological Institute and dreamed of becoming an oceanologist. In August 1941, the institute was reorganized into the Higher Military Hydrometeorological Institute of the Red Army. The students were offered the choice of either voluntarily joining the Red Army and continuing their studies, or continuing their studies in other educational institutions. Everyone decided to voluntarily join the ranks of the Red Army. All summer, students dug anti-tank defensive ditches on the outskirts of Moscow. They were on duty on the roofs, extinguishing incendiary bombs, including Alexander Kovalev. They took part with enthusiasm in the defense of Moscow. In October 1941, Alexandra Grigorievna Kovaleva was enrolled as a cadet at the Higher Military Hydrometeorological Institute. The military profession of a hydrologist is especially dangerous and involves the work of building crossings and bridges. The students completed their studies during the evacuation in the city of Leninabad. In June 1943, Alexandra Grigorievna Kovaleva was sent to the active forces. She served in the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Corps of Long-Range Aviation in the rank of lieutenant, then in the rank of guard engineer-captain. The building was named Gomel. The rest of the students were also sent to the front, in the army. The airfields where the weather bureau were located were often bombed. We worked day and night. They flew to the front line to investigate weather conditions. Alexandra Grigorievna met the news of the victory over Nazi Germany on the territory of Poland, in the city of Rzeszow near Krakow. There she met her husband Artyukh Grigory Fedorovich. For participation in the Great Patriotic War and subsequent service in the Soviet Army, she was awarded the following awards: - Order of the Red Star. Entry in the Order Book dated August 1, 1945. -Medal "For Military Merit". Awarded on March 21, 1947. -Medal "For the capture of Budapest" awarded on March 30, 1946. (-Medal "For the capture of Berlin" -Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." -Memorial medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow 1147-1947" - "For the defeat of a German tank group and the capture of the city of Szekesfehervar , Mor, Zirez, Veszprem, Yenning "-" For the completion of the defeat of the Konigsberg group of German troops "-" For the capture of the capital of Germany, the city of Berlin "After the war, Alexandra Grigorievna served in the Air Force in military unit 13736 in the Ostafyevo garrison until 1968. Alexandra Grigorievna throughout her life had an active life position and showed herself in public work with veterans, being a member of the Council of WWII Veterans. Was a member of the Russian Union of Reserve Officers, a veteran of the Air Force. Artyukh Alexandra Grigorievna was engaged in raising children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, lived 84 years and died 29 April 2002 from a stroke.Artyukh Alexandra Grigorievna was buried at the Nikolo-Khovanskoye cemetery.

CITY: Fertile village of Kalmyk ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 12/20/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 01/02/2004 HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. Type of troops: signal troops. Unit: 361st Amur Rifle Division. Abramov Nikolai Vasilievich was born on December 20, 1919 in the village of Fertile, Kalmyk ASSR. The family had three children: two brothers and a sister. In the 30s, the family moved to Stalingrad. Before the war, in 1939, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, and had to serve in the Trans-Baikal Military District. He got into a special company of signalmen, which was responsible for uninterrupted communication with the General Staff, with the headquarters of the armies. Here I learned that a war with Nazi Germany had begun. And so its part remained to protect the southeastern borders of our Motherland. Before the war, he graduated from the courses of junior command personnel and in the rank of junior lieutenant headed a platoon of communications. On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union entered the war with Japan. The enemy did not expect that Soviet troops would be able to cover hundreds of kilometers in a week in the most difficult conditions. The element of surprise was so great, and the blow was so strong that the Kwantung Army could not recover after it. During the period of hostilities against the Japanese invaders, Lieutenant Abramov showed himself as a true patriot of our Motherland, as a skillful and brave commander of a cable-pole platoon. Twice laid communication lines under enemy fire and ensured uninterrupted communication. On August 16, he organized assistance to a team of signalmen, who were in a difficult situation during a raid by a gang of samurai. Leading his platoon, Lieutenant Abramov, from 9 to 24 August, timely fulfilled the tasks assigned to him to direct communication lines, while showing fearlessness and reasonable initiative. Was presented to the government award - the Order of the Red Star. After the war, in 1956, he graduated from the Stalingrad Medical Institute, became a surgeon, and continued his service in the Armed Forces. In 1953 he was again drafted into the army as a senior doctor of the regiment. In 1960 he left the army, came to Stalingrad, built a house. He lived in it until he was 84, died in 2004. Buried in Volgograd.

CITY: Novy Sharap village DATE OF BIRTH: 10/30/1921 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant Unit: 2nd Panzer Division Senior Sergeant, participant of the Stalingrad and Kursk battles, fought on the Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. She recalls: "If it had not been for the war, I would not have had to join the ranks. Two centimeters of height was not enough to be taken into the army. And when the war broke out, they did not refuse such" rejected ". Mikhail Ignatievich was drafted into the army at the very beginning of the war in 1942. After the courses of the young soldier, which took place in Barabinsk, he immediately fell under Kharkov, where there were fierce battles. Soon there was a retreat across the fields of Ukraine and the Don region. He was a mortar gunner. In one of the bloody battles near Nizhne-Cherskaya he was seriously wounded. "On October 19, 1942, a powerful offensive of the Soviet Army began. In this battle, I received my first wound and was sent to the hospital. After a little medical treatment, I again rushed to the front, because my comrades were there, it was very hard for them, because the military operations were not I returned when our unit was already south of Stalingrad.Here I had to fight under the command of General A.I .Eremenko, on November 13, 1942, together with my partner, we were sent on reconnaissance to clarify the location of the enemy's firing points. We completed the task, put the German positions on the map, and returned to the unit. " He defended Stalingrad as a mortar gunner. A mortar was smashed at Stalingrad, and he himself survived. After that, the Siberian was appointed commander of the assault group. Mikhail Ignatievich told how one night they managed to knock the Germans out of one two-story house. But early in the morning the Germans decided to return the house. They did not succeed - they repulsed the attack. It was in this battle that he was wounded for the second time. “After treatment, I was included in the 38th Motorcycle Rifle Brigade, I was the commander of a rifle squad. By the way, it was the soldiers of our brigade who captured the German military commander Paulus. Despite the fact that they fiercely defended, we succeeded. In this battle I was wounded for the third time. Again the hospital. And this time the young organism took over. After the hospital I graduated from the courses of radio operators and from then until the end of the war I did not part with the radio station. I threw it only when it got particularly hot and I had to shoot back. In Stalingrad, a rally was held in honor of the Victory of the Soviet troops. This Victory brought the Germans to their knees. Although they were still trying to take revenge on July 5, 1943 on the Kursk Bulge. Here I also had to participate In this battle I was a radio operator-mortar gunner, and in the first battle, we knocked out 15 tanks. In subsequent battles, our soldiers knocked out and burned another 47 enemy tanks, and not a step back. For these battles our regiment was awarded the title "Guards". He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. But there were a lot of losses, and the command sent our regiment to a new formation in the rear, and we were given a little rest. After Kursk, they went on the offensive and by September 1943 they had already crossed the Dnieper. Then there was the liberation of Ukraine and Belarus, where we all had to participate in bloody battles. Behind the liberated cities: Mogilev, Suma, Gomel, Raschitsa, Chernigov. Minsk was liberated in three days. And on the Soviet-Polish border we stayed for some time, waiting for an order from Moscow to cross the state border. Then there was the crossing of the Vistula, the liberation of Warsaw and fascist Germany. How long did we go to her! After crossing the Oder on April 16, 1945, there was a large-scale offensive by Soviet troops. And exactly one week later, our guns hit Berlin. Freeing block after block, on May 2 we reached the Reichstag. And here it is, the long-awaited victory! I ended the war in Berlin by storming the Reichstag, then I was only 23 years old, but I was considered an old fighter, because I had 4 wounds (one at Stalingrad and in Poland, and two wounds in Belarus) and was awarded the Order of the "Red Star" and "Patriotic War". I believe that I have fulfilled my duty to the Fatherland to the end. "After the victory, the second tank tank, in which MI Antropov fought, remained in Germany, and for another year he served in military service. Only in 1946 he returned home, took relatives from the village and went to Berdsk, where he lived all his life.

Abramov Vasily Egorovich

CITY: Mumra village, Ikryaninsky district, Astrakhan region DATE OF BIRTH: 04/05/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 02/14/1988 HISTORY: Title: Corporal. Division: 197th Infantry Division (1st Formation). Tulebay Azhimov - participant of the Great Patriotic War, shooter of the 862th rifle regiment of the 197th rifle division of the 3rd Guards Army of the 1st Ukrainian Front, Hero of the Soviet Union (1944), corporal. Tulebay Azhimov was born in 1921 in the village of Mumra, Ikryaninsky District, Astrakhan Region, into a peasant family. In the mid-30s, the Tulebai family was included in the number of kulaks and sent from the Astrakhan steppes to a special settlement in the wilderness of the Tyumen region. The family lived in the village of Cherny Mys, Surgut region. Tulebai worked in a fishing artel. In the Red Army he was drafted in 1942 by the Surgut Military Commissariat of the Omsk Region. He fought on the North-Western, Bryansk, Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts. Distinguished himself in battles when crossing the Vistula River, expanding a bridgehead on its western bank. From the award list [3]: On July 24, 1944, in the battles for the liberation of the city of Krasnostav (Poland), under heavy hurricane artillery-mortar and machine-gun fire, the enemy rushed forward and pursued him. Forcing the river Vepsh on the move, point-blank, shooting the Germans. Bursting into the city ahead of everyone else, Comrade Azhimov liberated house after house, destroying 15 Nazis from his personal weapons. … Noticed a dead comrade who had fallen. He immediately realized that an enemy sniper was at work. Using an eye gauge to determine the house from which the aimed fire was being conducted, Comrade Azhimov, stealthily sneaking up to the house, rushed into it and shot the sniper point-blank, ensuring the battalion was moving forward. On the night of July 31, 1944, under heavy enemy fire, Comrade Azhimov began to cross the Vistula River. Reaching the middle, rifle and machine-gun fire intensified, Comrade Azhimov's boat was pierced, which quickly began to sink. ... Azhimov swam to the left bank and immediately joined the battle to expand the bridgehead. ... Azhimov continued to move forward, firing, but unexpectedly an enemy bullet wounded him. ... overpowering the pain, somehow bandaging the wound, with even greater rage of the avenger-liberator rushed into battle ... " heroism corporal Azhimov Tulebay was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 4539). After demobilization he lived in Kazakhstan, in the city of Alma-Ata. Served as commandant of an independent paramilitary fire brigade. He died on February 14, 1988. Buried at the central cemetery in Almaty. Medal "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (09/23/1944); Order of Lenin (09/23/1944); Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree (04/06/1985); Order of Glory III degree (08/13/1944); Medals. Bust on the Walk of Fame in the Victory Park of the city of Khanty-Mansiysk. On May 9, 2005, a bust of Tulebay Azhimov was opened in Surgut.