Heroes and feats

DATE OF BIRTH: 09/18/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 09/16/2000 HISTORY: Title: Red Navy soldier. Type of troops: the USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. Subdivision: 54th Mazurian Infantry Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. Dad was born in the Arkhangelsk region in the village. Yarensk. He worked on a collective farm as a tractor driver, at the age of 16 he went to the front, adding 2 years to himself, since he was a stocky and strong-willed person. He stood out sharply among his peers. He was muscular and fit. He went all the way - starting with his studies in Solovki (training detachment of the Northern Fleet) and finished his military career in Berlin. How many injuries were there? How many hospitals were there? And each time a new appointment, new comrades. The war left its mark - until the end of his life he wore a splinter in his left hand. The bullet almost touched the heart, passed a centimeter from the heart. And the legs - they also suffered. What work did the doctors do to keep him on his feet. Honor and praise to them! After the war, he worked in the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Arkhangelsk Region as a district police officer and grew up to a police lieutenant colonel. That still work - from the detective to the inspector. And he was in the ambush and took part in the pursuit. This is what caused damage to health. Cancer quietly crept up. There were not enough stars from the sky. And on shoulder straps too. You were not a general. Well, but for us - maybe. Fifty years have passed since that damned war. Gone - there was dawn of youth, returned - all patched up. You have never asked for benefits or privileges in your life. He worked tirelessly, like in a race. He was modest, quiet. Always ready to help. But life is water. If he rushes away, you cannot catch up. The disease was mowing down a terrible, I was strong with all my heart. I could not hand to hand with her. And he left with courage. Peace and the blue sky, where you sleep - another star will forever shine over Russia! E.S. Ganyukhina (from relatives).

CITY: Mykolaiv region, Voznesenskiy district DATE OF BIRTH: 06/04/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 06/07/2015 HISTORY: She wanted to go to the front. Fighting enemies, saving people, defending the Motherland, feeling the national unity ... When Elena Andreevna Arbuzova was fifteen, representatives of the Revolutionary Tribunal came to her village in the Voznesensky district of the Nikolaev region. True, they called the girls not to fight, but to work in their departmental canteen. In 1941, Elena became a waitress for a military trade organization. She fed the leadership, traveling with the military in cities and villages, but always wanted to go to the front ... The dedication of the seventeen-year-old girl was noticed. They decided to help her. Elena began to learn how to handle a rifle, a machine gun. Then she was sent to work as a turner at a military motor depot, where she took on any job. She worked at the machine, repaired military vehicles. A wish came true: Elena is at the front, her "military profession" is a checkpoint controller in the 110th separate road operational battalion. She is a military traffic controller, checking and directing the guard. “It was scary, of course,” she recalls. “But we are used to the fact that the enemy can attack from any direction. It was only years later that I realized how dangerous my work was.” Elena Andreevna was at the "workplace" when the Romanian dictator Antonescu, Hitler's ally, was brought to Moscow. Once at the checkpoint, she almost died, hit by a huge car: the fragile girl-traffic controller was simply not seen in the road dust. But it was also scary when you stood at night all alone at the post next to the forest and you know that the Germans are very close, and the village is far away ... Elena not only stood at the post, she already knew how to shoot and repair pontoon bridges!

CITY: Bukino village, near Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region DATE OF BIRTH: 09/25/1900 DATE OF DEATH: 05/02/1955 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Ground forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision : 4th artillery division My grandfather Atuchin Ivan Yegorovich was born on September 25, 1900. in the village of Bukino (near the town of Novokuznetsk), Kemerovo region. In August 1941. he was drafted into the infantry unit by the Red Army. He was at the front until the end of the war. In 1942, Ivan Yegorovich defended Stalingrad. For bravery, for the defense of Stalingrad, he was nominated for Government awards. He was seriously wounded and sent to a hospital in the city of Vychuga, Moscow region. After his recovery, he was sent to the Kursk-Oryol Buldge. There were hot battles here. Further military fate threw him to different parts of the war. Ivan Yegorovich took part in the liberation of Ukraine in the battles on the Dnieper. In his memoirs, he said that in the battles on the Dnieper they fought so that the Dnieper river stood red from the blood of the dead soldiers. Further, he took part in the battles near Warsaw. Ivan Yegorovich was a strong physique, tall, and distinguished by endurance. At the end of the war, he was transferred to the reconnaissance company, Their brigades were thrown into Germany for reconnaissance. Ivan Yegorovich ended the war at the walls of the Reichstag. Has government awards: 1. Order of the Red Star. 2. Medals “For Courage”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For the Liberation of Warsaw”, “For Victory over Germany”, “For the Liberation of Berlin”. 3. The "Excellent scout" icon. He returned from the war alive in August 1945. to his native village Bukino and for a long time worked as a caretaker at a school. He died in 1955 from an accident. This year, May 2, 2017. It will be 62 years since our dear and courageous veteran Ivam Egorovich is no longer with us. Eternal memory to you, our dear grandfather.

CITY: Dvuluchnoye village, Urazovsky district, Kursk region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1907 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Born in 1907 in the village of Dvuluchnoye, Urazovsky district, Kursk region in a peasant family. Father Ananiev Yegor Timofeevich served for 25 years in the tsarist army, troops - cavalry, later served in the Red Army, troops - cavalry. R.E. Ananiev was the only child in the family. Ananyev Roman Yegorovich, at the beginning of the war - 1941: age 34, was married, had four young children: two daughters and two sons, the eldest son Ananiev Vasily Romanovich (great-grandfather of Ananyev Vladik) was 9 years old, before the war Ananiev R.E. graduated from Factory and workshop education railway transport, worked on the railway. In 1941, the Urazovsky District Military Commissariat of the Kursk Region was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, fought in the 140th Infantry Regiment of the Western Front, the initial military rank: Red Army (private). Ski units of the Red Army: in the summer of 1942, separate ski brigades began to form centrally, to staff which were sent: sailors of the Pacific Fleet, cadets of schools, physically strong recruits, soldiers with front-line experience who knew how to ski. Purpose of creation: opposition to large enemy tank reserves. In November 1942, the Red Army soldier Roman Egorovich Ananyev was included in the 40th separate ski brigade, which was formed on the basis of the 140 Western Rifle Regiment. According to the Central Archives of the USSR Ministry of Defense: By the beginning of 1943, R. E. Ananyev was the commander of a section of the 40th separate ski brigade. In January 1943 he took part in battles in the Leningrad region. According to report No. 6736 about irrecoverable losses: January 28, 1943 Ananyev Roman Yegorovich was killed in battle. He was buried in the forest, in a mass grave 3 km north-west of the village of Volovka, Polevsky district of the Leningrad region.

CITY: Panino village, Pavlovsky district, Gorky region DATE OF BIRTH: 02.02.1923 DATE OF DEATH: 01.10.2002 HISTORY: Title: corporal. Type of troops: artillery. Unit: 268th Rifle Mginskaya Red Banner Division. My grandfather, Viktor Ivanovich Averin, born on 02.02.1923, was called up to the front in May 1942. He ended up in the 73rd naval rifle brigade, which took part in breaking the blockade of Leningrad - he was appointed a Komsomol organizer of the company. Grandfather was a machine gunner and submachine gunner, he was all the time on the front line. During the breakthrough, when their brigade advanced 6-7 km, in one of the battles he was wounded and contused for the first time. The orderlies took him to the hospital. After he recovered, he was sent to the 55th Marine Rifle Brigade. In one of the hard battles with the elite Nazi SS division near Leningrad, my grandfather was wounded a second time and he was sent to the hospital, where the splinters were removed and his wounds were stitched up. When grandfather received medical treatment, he was sent to the 947 rifle regiment of the 268 rifle division, which was fighting in the Leningrad region. It was 1943. The German troops were still strong and the fighting was heavy and deadly. The battles did not stop for a single day, they only subsided at night, and in the morning our soldiers again went on the attack with the enemy. Grandfather was a good machine gunner and from his machine gun "Maxim" successfully repulsed all the counterattacks of the Nazis. During his entire stay on the front line, my grandfather never retreated. In one of the heavy battles with the enemy on October 24, 1943, my grandfather was severely wounded in his right arm, he was taken to a hospital in the city of Leningrad, where he underwent surgery and was treated for almost six months, but his right hand did not work and he could no longer fight. In April 1944, doctors recognized him as a war invalid and sent him to the rear. For participation in the battles, my grandfather was awarded 10 medals. And in 1954-1956. grandfather participated in the development of virgin and fallow lands, for which he was awarded a medal. My grandfather lived until 2002 in the city of Kostanay, Republic of Kazakhstan. He had a very good family and was a wonderful grandfather!

CITY: AZERBAIJAN SSR KUSAR DISTRICT S. UKUR DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1898 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Major General. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 250th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Mahmud Abilov was born in 1898 in the village of Ukur, Qusary. He made his way from an ordinary soldier to a combat general of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. M.A. Abilov during the Civil War, Abilov was a soldier of the XI Red Army, and in 1938 he was a battalion commander, a participant in battles with Japanese troops near Lake Khasan. Company commander of the 77th Azerbaijan Mountain Rifle Division, squad leader of the 3rd Baku Infantry Regiment, course commander of the Transcaucasian Infantry School (Tbilisi), squad leader of the same school. After graduating from the Academy of the Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, the commander of the 146th separate rifle brigade of the Siberian Military District. In 1942, together with his brigade, he was placed at the disposal of the command of the 34th Army of the North-Western Front, participated in the liberation of the cities of Smolensk, Elena, Roslavl. In the periods 04/14/1943 - 02/09/1944, 03/15/1944 - 05/27/1944 commanded 70 Rifle Division. In 1944, he showed skill in the liberation of a large number of cities, villages and railway junctions of Belarus, captured by the Nazis. Then he commanded the 250th rifle division and walked the glorious path from Demyansk to Berlin itself, to the Elbe River, where he met with the allies in the anti-Hitler coalition - with the Anglo-American troops. Before the Berlin offensive operation on April 20, 1945, by the decision of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR M.A. Abilov at the age of 47 was awarded the rank of major general. He is the only military general in Dagestan and one of two from Azerbaijan (along with Hazi Aslanov) who received this title during the Great Patriotic War. On May 2, 1945, the city of Moscow and the capitals of all Soviet Union republics saluted in honor of the Soviet troops who completed the liquidation of the group of fascist troops encircled in the south-east of Berlin. The order dated to this great event also reflects the name of Major General M.A. Abilova. Many bright pages in the history of the Red Army were written during the war by the 250th division of M.A. Abilova. The homeland highly appreciated his military achievements. He was awarded the Orders of Suvorov II degree and Kutuzov II degree, as well as the Orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, the Red Star, the American Cross of Honor I degree of the officer's legion, 14 medals. The formations commanded by Major General Mahmud Abilov have repeatedly successfully solved the combat missions of the command in defensive and especially offensive operations, which is reflected in the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin. Seven times in honor of the soldiers of General M.A. Abilov, the capital of the Motherland, Moscow, saluted. He was greeted in his personal messages by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M.I. Kalinin and US President G. Truman. He was dismissed by a decree of the Ministry of Defense on December 13, 1955. On August 22, 1998, by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan Heydar Aliyev, at the republican level in Baku, Qusar and in the native village of General Ukur, festive events were held on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of M.A. Abilova. In memory of the great compatriot, the central square of the city of Qusar and one of the central streets of the city, as well as one of the streets of Baku bear the honorary name of Mahmud Abilov. Also on the central square of Kusarov, a bust of Mahmud Abilov was erected on a high pedestal. In recent years, since the erection of the bust of the general in Qusar, a remarkable tradition has developed when wedding corteges passing through the square, stopping, lay flowers at the bust of General Abilov.

CITY: Voroshilovgrad region, Lozno-Aleksandrovsky district, settlement Timonovsky DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1903 DATE OF DEATH: 03/19/1944 HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service , NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 50th Guards Rifle Stalin (Donetsk), twice Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division Combat path of the Guards Division in which my grandfather Guards junior sergeant II Akinin fought, died in battle during the liberation of Nikolaev He was buried together with 170 of his comrades in arms in a common mass grave in the village of Konstantinovka, Novo-Odessa region, Mykolaiv region, Ukraine. Eternal glory! Everlasting memory! 50th Guards Rifle Stalin's Twice Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division - a military unit of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War. The division took part in the liberation of the territory of fifteen regions of the Soviet Union. Having passed over 11 thousand kilometers with battles and overcoming numerous water obstacles - Don, Mius, Dnieper, Western Bug and others, her soldiers liberated over 2 thousand settlements, captured about 20 thousand enemy soldiers and officers, captured 127 tanks, 30 aircraft, over 1,500 guns and mortars, more than 2 thousand machine guns. For successful hostilities, courage and bravery, about 15 thousand soldiers, sergeants and officers of the formation were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union. Formed on 11/17/1941 on the Southwestern Front in the Voronezh region as the 124th Infantry Division (2nd formation) .In the active army from 12/06/1941 to 03/29/1944, from 05/28/1944 to 09/14/1944, from 10/13/1944 on 03/31/1945 and from 04/20/1945 to 05/11/1945.1941 during the formation of the division, the command of the 124th Rifle division was used, which emerged from the encirclement near Kiev participated in defensive battles on the Seversky Donets river north of Belgorod. 1942 participated in the Kharkov battle as part of the 28th A The South-Western Front fought in the Ostrogozh area, participated in the Battle of Stalingrad. For skillful actions, courage and bravery of the personnel, it was transformed into the 50th Guards Rifle Division. From November 19, 1942 to February 25, 1943, the division covered about 600 kilometers and liberated more than 140 people The Guards Battle Banner was awarded to the unit on May 2, 1943. 1943-1944 participated in the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine, Belarus (on July 8, 1944, the division took part in the liberation of the city of Baranovichi, 16-17 July the city of Pruzhany, July 22 liberated Kamenets [1]) and the eastern regions of Poland. 10.1944 participated in the Gumbinnen-Goldap offensive operation 01 - 04.1945 participated in the East Prussian offensive operation 04 - 05.1945 participated in the Berlin offensive operation 05.1945 participated in the Prague offensive operation No. 05 / OP of the generalized combat experience of the 28th Army for July 1944. The 50th Guards Rifle Division was cited as an example in the section on Bypass maneuver of troops during the capture of populated areas, which described the actions of the division during the capture of the city of Baranovichi. At 1.30 8.7.44, the head regiments of the division burst into the mountains. Baranovichi. In the same document, in the Deep Intelligence section, the actions of the reconnaissance group of the Guard of Captain Vishevtsev are given as an example: The reconnaissance group of the 50th Infantry Division under the command of the Guards of Captain Vishevtsev covered the actions of the enemy from his rear for up to 70 km and stopped its work only in connection with the fact that the power supply of the radio ended. - Brief summary No. 05 / OP of the generalized combat experience of the 28th Army for July 1944. The last battle took place on May 12, 1945, during the defeat of the remnants of the enemy troops in the town of Mlada Boleslav.

DATE OF BIRTH: 11/07/1918 Title: Petty Officer Type of Troops: Aviation Subdivision: 261st Assault Aviation Svirskaya Order of the Suvorov Division My grandfather, Guard Petty Officer Sergei Mikhailovich Andrianov, served during the Great Patriotic War, in aviation, he was a mechanic of photographic equipment, led aviation -photography. In the photo he is in the rank of petty officer. He fought near Murmansk, the village of Murmashi. Military unit: 114 Guards 261 (114th Guards Bomber Kirkenes Red Banner Aviation Regiment) (261 mixed aviation Svir Division) Awarded the medal "For Military Merit" Awarded the medal "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" Grandfather was drafted into the army in October 1938. He fought in the Finnish, and ended the war in Manchuria. From the award list: Grandfather "took part in the war since 06/22/1941 as a photographic assistant, technician and mechanic for photographic equipment. During the Patriotic War, he served 426 sorties for photographing the front edge, rear and defense of the enemy. Since March 1944, he served in 114 GBAKP 53 aircraft for photographing.During the Patriotic War, he manufactured 7 photographic installations on aircraft LA 5, Kittyhark, Hurricane and 10 paired photographic installations for aircraft Boston - 3A. In March-April 1944, he served 4 sorties for photographing the enemy's front edge with quadruple photographic installations. His work did not have a single failure of photographic equipment due to his fault. The materiel of the photographic equipment was always kept in combat readiness. During the sorties of the regiment when breaking through the enemy's defenses on the Svir, he ensured the reliable operation of cameras for photo control and reconnaissance. " After the Murmansk region, my grandfather fought in Mongolia. After the war, he often joked that he could no longer eat this rice, so he ate it during his service in Mongolia. He retained his love for photography after the war. I still have the "Kiev" camera which my mother got from it, and then to me.

The Great Patriotic War entered the history of our people like fiery pages. War. How many human lives it took. It's scary when people die because of someone's terrible mistake. But those who survived that war, liberated our land from the enemy, dreamed that peace would be restored on it, so that their children and grandchildren would never experience the horror of this terrible word war. Out of 79 of my fellow countrymen who fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, 43 countrymen did not return home. At the moment, no one is left alive. Women bore no less the burden of the war on their shoulders. Not only did women show heroism in the rear, they repulsed attacks on a par with men and died without sparing their lives, defending their native land from the enemy. And now, I will tell you about one of them about Galina Aleksandrovna Ignatenkova (Vertiprokhova) born in 1926. In July 1943, Galina received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office. There they were sent to the commission, issued passports, and the next day they were taken by carts to Abakan. A train came up, loaded everyone into boxcars, and the train moved off. The girls cried, waved their handkerchiefs, sang the song "Farewell, beloved city." When the tears dried up, the fear intensified, they drove, not knowing where. When the Urals moved, my heart ached anxiously. Everything around is destroyed to the ground, warped tanks, planes lie in huge heaps. Only one railway line survived. These places were often bombed by the Germans, so the escort warned the youth: "Don't go far, if you are in alarm, hide in ditches." But nothing happened. And the first explosion was heard by Galina near Penza. We drove for a long time. At night they announced that they had arrived at the site. So Galina ended up in the labor army. We got out of the carriages and could not understand where we were. All around are ruins. It turned out to be Stalingrad. Not a single whole building remained, not a single living creature was seen on the streets. Barracks were built on the banks of the Volga, and they were settled there. We did not work for two days until we looked around and settled down. Then they gave the girls shovels, sent them to clear the trenches heaped up during the fighting. We had to dig out German dugouts and collect trophies. When clearing the dugouts, they often found our dead soldiers. Whenever possible, their identity was restored and buried in mass graves. Everything that was suitable was transported to the tractor plant. Galina was then incomplete 17 years old. Once my friend and I ran into a mine and it exploded. They were covered with earth. When they woke up, a friend was wounded, and even her arm was torn off. Galina fell ill with epilepsy from fear. It was terrible and painful to see the death of comrades and to realize that the same thing could happen at any moment. In February 1944, at the conclusion of medical board she was sent home.

Alexey Egorovich Ilyin, born on February 18, 1925 in the khutor Ore of the Eremovsky village council of the Rovensky district. After the liberation of the Rovensky region from the fascist invaders, on February 3, 1943, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. From February 1943 until the end of the war, he served in 211 separate companies of the specialized 42 engineering brigade. He fought on the Ukrainian front. He began his combat path with the liberation of Voronezh, then the Kursk Bulge in the Prokhorovka direction, liberated the city of Kharkov, Belgorod, Kiev, Lvov, Krakow. He participated in the destruction of the Korsun-Shevchenko group of Germans, fought on the Sandamir bridgehead, liberated Prague, stormed the German city of Breslau and ended the war on May 14, 1945 in Dresden. Was directly at the front from February 1943 to May 30, 1945. Then he was sent to the Moscow Military Engineering School. Zhdanov, having completed it and received the rank of lieutenant, was sent to the 100th Airborne Division, first as a platoon commander, and then as a commander of an engineering company. In 1957 he was demobilized from the armed forces. Already a reserve captain, an instructor of paratroopers. He was a pensioner of the Ministry of Defense. For a long time he was the Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Rovenki village. Awarded: Orders of the Patriotic War, the Red Banner, medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and 16 anniversary awards. He did a lot of work on the military-patriotic education of youth.

On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, my father, Semyon Vladimirovich Ivanov, fought, as well as his brothers: Peter, Ilya, Georgy. Ilya died a heroic death in the Baltic on October 17, 1944, and we only recently learned about the fate of Peter (he also fought in the Soviet-Finnish war). For many years, to all inquiries from his relatives about his fate from the military registration and enlistment office and the state archive, they answered sparingly: "Ivanov P.V. is not included in the lists of those killed, missing and died from wounds." And in the late 1980s, a letter came from Belarus, from which we learned about the fate of Uncle Peter. Search pioneers reported that during the construction of the Dubniki-Cherven road in May 1987, the remains of 23 Soviet soldiers were found. They found four soldier's medallions with names. One of the four faceted capsules inadvertently tried to open, but the paper, fragile from time to time, crumbled into dust before our eyes. With the help of criminologists, who were contacted by the recruiting officers, it was possible to read the notes in the three remaining capsules-medallions. One of the medallions read: “Ivanov Pyotr Vladimirovich, Red Army soldier, Chkalovsk region, Pavlovsky district, village Novo-Dmitrievka ". The schoolchildren - the pathfinders of the group "Search" of the Wielkopolska secondary school of the Cherven district of the Minsk region, as a result of the search and questioning of eyewitnesses, established that in August 1941, near the village of Dubok, the Nazis drove a column of prisoners of war. When the column approached the rye field, the prisoners fled. The guards opened fire, so not all daredevils managed to escape. Many died during the escape. The inhabitants of the village secretly buried the dead without placing any sign on the grave for the sake of safety. So their remains lay in the ground for over 40 years. Relatives could not learn anything about the fate of loved ones, until chance and painstaking work of enthusiastic search engines helped to establish the truth. But neither father nor mother (my grandfather Vladimir Filippovich and grandmother Malanya Filippovna Ivanov) never learned anything about the fate of Peter's eldest son. Didn't live through ...

HISTORY: Title: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 28th Artillery Division. Nikolai Ivanovich Ivanov - a native of the village. Zarovnee Pskov region. He held the defense of the city of Leningrad at the Pulkovo Heights, was the commander of an artillery crew. He ended the war in 1947 in Vinnitsa (Western Ukraine) with the rank of foreman. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of Glory. In the post-war period, he was the chairman of the collective farm "Stalin's Put" (later renamed "Dictatorship"). In addition to military merits, Nikolai Ivanovich Ivanov was an excellent family man, the father of 4 daughters: Lyudmila, Tatiana, Svetlana and Marina Ivanov, each of whom remembers, honors and respects her father. From the memoirs of Nikolai Ivanovich's children: Memories of our father, even after his death, fill our hearts with joy and some kind of extraordinary warmth. It was, without exaggeration, light. In this person, it seemed, all the kindest and purest spiritual qualities that are still alien and unfamiliar to many have merged: kindness, openness, hard work and, of course, adamant, impeccable honesty - a quality that in a modern world full of lies and pretense, almost completely disappeared from the human soul. From the memoirs of Maria Ivanovna Ivanova (wife of Nikolai Ivanovich): .... The post-war period brought a lot of troubles and destruction to our family. The whole village respected my husband, after the war he was elected chairman of the collective farm, but despite this we all lived in poverty as well. For all the time he did not bring a single stolen penny, despite the fact that we could hardly make ends meet, lived honest and hard work, raised four daughters ... And somehow survived ... From the memoirs of Tatyana Ivanova (Makukha ) - the second daughter of Nikolai and Maria Ivanov: Our father graduated from only 4 classes of a poor rural school, but at the same time he was well versed in many things, including construction - in 1961, a new one was erected on the site of a dilapidated village house with a thatched roof by his father's hands still standing house. This once again proved that the human mind is in no way dependent on school education. From the memoirs of Marina Ivanova (Trifonova), the youngest daughter of Nikolai and Maria Ivanov: As a child, I undoubtedly loved both parents, but the time spent with my mother was not imprinted in my memory as much as the time spent with my father. To say that mother was a bad person? No ... It just seems to me that the heavy burden of this terrible war fell on her shoulders with a much heavier burden and influenced her character. She was strict. What else could you expect? The war found her at a young age, she was deported to Germany and was able to return only to the end of the war. As for the father ... During the war he was never wounded, but his soul was wounded. We were children then and due to our age we did not realize it. Guided by innocent childish curiosity, I often asked him: "Dad, tell us about the war?" But he could not satisfy my curiosity: at the first mention of these fateful years, he shuddered all over and tears flooded this clear and always cheerful face. Then I still had no idea what pain I inflicted on my loved one every time I asked what seemed to me the simplest question, expecting to hear exciting stories about battles and life in war. I still regret it ... *** Nikolai Ivanovich lived a very short life - only 65 years, but during this life he committed many kind and selfless deeds. He even treated his ill-wishers in a friendly manner and without any aggression. And despite the fact that he is no longer with us, he is alive in our memory. Even grandchildren and great-grandchildren, who, to the greatest regret, could not find him during his lifetime, are proud of their grandfather's feat. A feat committed not only in the name of the Fatherland, but also in the name of all the kindest and brightest that is in this world.

The family album is a huge, immense album of all our stories, captured, collected together, and therefore true and unchanging in time. The tradition of collecting and keeping a family album has become a part of our life. Every family has photographs that leave the memory of dear people. Perhaps every family has a family album. Leafing through our family album. It contains photographs that have turned yellow with age. Native faces look at me from them: these are my mom and dad, grandmothers and grandfathers, great-grandmothers and great-grandfathers. Today I want to tell you about my great-grandmother - Dina Ivanovna Ivashchenko, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Each past year separates us from the events of the Great Patriotic War. And how valuable it is to hear the voices of the few witnesses of heroic deeds and great battles. Their stories, their words are like echoes of the past. On June 2, 1941, my great-grandmother Dina was only 14 years old. Quite a girl, she graduated from only 7 classes. Carefree childhood and youth were provided for her: her parents, four older sisters and two brothers loved and pampered her. June 22, 1941 in Grozny, where she was born, grew up and lived almost all her life, great-grandmother Dina, was a wonderful sunny day. Together with a girlfriend, they decided to go to the center, to the cinema. But suddenly the tram stopped, panic began. Not understanding anything, they returned home. The neighbors all gathered in the common kitchen at home and discussed the latest news - Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. How? Why? What will happen now? No one knew. But the foreboding of a terrible misfortune united everyone at once. In the same summer, 1941, Dina and high school students were first sent to the village of Asinovskaya, then to Chechen-Aul, to pick cotton. When a hospital was opened in the city, and the first wounded began to arrive, the whole class went to help make dressings, write letters to the soldiers' relatives. They worked almost round the clock and no one grumbled. The slogan “Everything for the front! Everything for Victory! " - was not an empty sound. Then, as part of labor brigades, Dina took part in the construction of defensive fortifications in the Argun direction: the Nazis rushed to the oil storage facilities of the Caucasus. Dina's native Zavodskoy district of Grozny was a strategic target for them, since there were the main reserves of the Red Army's oil products. Air raids began literally from the first days of the war. There were no bomb shelters, only dugouts were hastily dug and wooden logs were thrown - that's all. Once Dina did not have time to reach the shelter, and before her eyes a well-aimed German ace hit the tank with fuel - deafening explosions were heard, fiery oil poured along the ground. “At that moment, I stood rooted to the spot and, without looking up, watched the roof of the container fly straight at me. What force turned me around and made me run - I don't know. Legs felt as if they were full of lead. I had the feeling that I was standing still, that I would never get to the dugout ... It was very scary! " - said the great-grandmother. In 1942, factories were hastily evacuated from Grozny. The elder sister of Alexander, working as the chief engineer of the Lenin plant and participating in the evacuation of the plant, took Dina with her to the city of Guryev. Guryev was a major railway station in Kazakhstan. There for some time I had to live and study and work. In 1943, the opportunity arose to return to the hometown of childhood - Grozny. She worked as a switchboard operator. The work is exhausting. But nobody complained. With what impatience everyone was waiting for the Victory. How they rejoiced and passed on to each other this joyful news of Germany's surrender, our Victory! "I so wanted to live to see Victory!" - said great-grandmother Dina. In the future, her fate was quite successful: family, husband and three children, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and one great-granddaughter - the main wealth of her life. Talking about that time is hard and painful, so veterans are more silent and sparingly wipe away a tear. Patriotism and the desire to win were companions of those years. Our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers gave us a great example of perseverance and love for the Motherland. And already we - grandchildren and great-grandchildren - say thanks to all veterans and home front workers for the opportunity to live, love and create under this gentle blue sky. On March 30, 2013, my great-grandmother passed away. But she will forever remain in our hearts. And her photos are in our family album.

Born in 1917 in the Bozby village of the Dzhetygarinsky district, education of 7 classes. Participated in the Great Patriotic War from 1941 to 1943. In September 1939, the Dzhetygarinsky Military Commissariat was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He served in the city of Mozhga, Udmurd SSR. In June 1941 he was sent to the Kamyshlovsky Auxiliary Operations Center. Since December 1941, with the rank of foreman, he fought in the 398th Infantry Regiment near Moscow, as part of the troops of the Moscow Defense Zone. In early 1942 he was wounded, after treatment in the city of Moscow, recalled to the school of political instructors and lieutenants under the 20th Army. At the end of the courses in the rank of lieutenant, he fought as deputy battalion commander near Rzhev (Rzhev-Sychevskaya, Rzhev-Vyazemskaya operations). When breaking through the defense, he was appointed battalion commander of the 463rd Infantry Regiment of the 118th Infantry Division of the 31st Army Western Front. On March 2, 1943, he was seriously wounded and sent to EG No. 1705 in Sverdlovsk, transferred to Serov in EG 421, where on August 17, 1943, on the basis of Article 49 of Ch. ІІ-ІІІ of the schedule of diseases of the order of the People’s Commissariat of the USSR No. 336 of 1942 was recognized as unfit for military service with re-examination, subject to dismissal at the disposal of the military enlistment office for injury. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", jubilee medals. After the war he served in the military unit of the Magnitogorsk garrison. Military rank senior lieutenant. In the 50s he moved to the village. Urkash of the Kamystinsky district, disabled person 2-gr. Zhupar raised 3 children with his wife, there are grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He died in 1967, was buried in the village. Urkash of the Kamystinsky district of the Kostanay region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The son and grandchildren live in the Nagaybaksky district of the Chelyabinsk region of the Russian Federation.

My grandfather (born on March 18, 1926) lived in the Khaybulli region, the village of Akkuja. He graduated from 3 classes, then work is a need. 11/24/1943, was drafted from the Khaibulli Military Commissariat, Bashkir ASSR, was 365 western rifle regiment, military rank of rifleman, in December 1944, military unit of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, rifleman until June 1948. Remembering his childhood, our grandfather did not really like to talk about the war, no matter how much we asked him, kept silent, or joked. He could only tell when he wanted to speak out, probably ... From his story we know that military training took place in the Totsk camp, under Orenburg. He was called up together with his fellow villager Gainetdin Tulebaev. When asked was it scary to leave home at 17? He answered without hesitation: - No, because before being sent to the front, we went through excellent training not only in attack, but also in defense. Where did you have to fight? - I was in the Baltic States, in Ukraine, in Poland and it's a pity that twenty-five kilometers did not reach Berlin, they returned to the unit to eliminate the remnants of gangster groups. Looking at the old photo, I see the inscription Krakow in 1943, I ask what memories and feelings arise when looking on this photo? - First, you remember people who were side by side together during the hostilities and military sorties. He was silent for a while, after which he said that it was a pity that he did not remember everyone by their last name. And yet, he told about many of his comrades. - Oh, this is senior sergeant Kirishenko, a "great" politician. And then, all the seriousness disappeared from his face, and already with a smile said: "Ershin loved to add salt to food, and Usov Ivan Makarovich knew how to tell fairy tales, and everyone loved him for it. If he says:" I want to drink, "right there one of the soldiers jumped up and brought water. He always cheered people up. Without such soldiers there would be no hope of victory. Our grandfather was the best grandfather in the world !!! He always told us: "The worst thing on earth is war, a war that youthfulness, and the souls of our children and grandchildren. And we must all try to prevent wars on our planet at all "!!! Our grandfather was wounded in the legs, and until his death these injuries made themselves felt .. Despite this, the grandfather lived a decent life !! Thanks to him and to all Veterans for a peaceful sky over their heads !!!