Heroes and feats

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Ilyin Vasily Ivanovich was born in the village of Lyaki, Sarmanovskiy district on January 10, 1925. In 1942, when he was 17, he volunteered for the front after finishing the 10th grade. He received the rank of sergeant after graduating from the school of junior commanders, graduated from the war as a captain. Position: artilleryman, head of artillery divorce. Participation in battles: at Stalingradrm (1943), in the Vitebsk direction (1944), in the Orsha direction (1944), the liberation of Poland (1945), for Konigsberg (1945). : near Stalingrad, near Vitebsk, during the liberation of Poland. Awards: - Order of Glory I degree, Order of the Patriotic War I degree; - Medals: "For courage", "For the capture of Konigsberg", "Zhukov"; - Jubilee Medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War - 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years old, 55 years old, 60 years old, 65 years of Victory; 50 years. 60 years, 70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR; - badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - "Veteran of Labor". Vasily Ivanovich organized a seven-year school in the village of Yana-Bulyak, Sarmanovsky district, and was its first director. He connected all his career with this rural school, was a permanent head teacher, taught history to students. He was a good artist of propaganda posters, his works in Soviet times were often met in villages, along the roads to the collective farms of the Sarmanovsky region. From the story of Ilyin Vasily Ivanovich about the first battles at Stalingrad: “In August 1942, together with my other comrades, I was sent to a unit near Stalingrad. We moved 75-100 km at night. My first battle was at Stalingrad. The battles at Stalingrad were the most terrible - it thunders, rumbles, they shoot at us, tanks are coming at us, we are pulling the wounded, someone is being crushed by tanks. The enemy is conducting very strong machine-gun fire to kill. During one of the battles at Stalingrad, when our unit captured the first line of defense and launched an attack on the second, communication with the headquarters was lost. I was ordered to find a broken cable and restore communication. Holding on to the cable, I crawled towards the battle line. Shells were bursting around, machine guns were firing - I couldn't even raise head , I didn't even notice that was wounded in the hand. Finally, I found a break, almost on the confrontation line. I connected the wires by pinching them with his teeth. At this moment, the leg was wounded, a shell fragment hit in the cheek. I woke up in the hospital.

Rank: Military assistant. Type of troops: Military veterinary staff. Senior sergeant Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev has been at the front since June 1941. As part of the 33rd Separate Ski Brigade of the 127th Light Rifle Corps of the 19th Army of the Karelian Front, he participated in battles in the Kestenginsky, Murmansk and Medvezhegorsk areas. In battles with the German fascist invaders and White Finns, Isaev I.M. was wounded four times and received a severe concussion. For special courage, dedication and courage shown in the defense of the socialist Fatherland, senior sergeant I.M. Isaev on May 22, 1944 was awarded the Order of the Red Star.The dearest Order, May 7, 2013, Ranenburgskiy Vestnik. In March 1941, the Ranenburg district military registration and enlistment office summoned veterinary assistant Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev to the Red Army. The military commissar patted the guy on the shoulder and said: "Serve, Ivan, honestly!" 6 military awards and 5 wounds - this is the result of that pat on the shoulder and parting words before sending him to the front. In March 1941, the Ranenburg district military registration and enlistment office summoned veterinary assistant Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev to the Red Army. The military commissar patted the guy on the shoulder and said: "Serve, Ivan, honestly!" And a little earlier, in April, as historians testify, a meeting between Hitler and the commander of the mountain-rifle corps Dietl took place. The Fuehrer told the general: “Don't wait, but attack. You have to walk these ridiculous 100 kilometers from Petsamo to Murmansk. " Perhaps the Nazis would have covered these "ridiculous 100 kilometers" if it were not for the Ryazan guy and his fellow soldiers of the Soviet army. From the award list: “Senior Sergeant Isaev has been at the front since June 1941, took part in battles in the Kestenginsky, Murmansk and Medvezhegorsk directions. In the battles of 1941 near Murmansk, senior sergeant Isaev, commanding a squad, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy. Having been wounded and being evacuated from the battlefield to the medical battalion, senior sergeant Isaev, after being bandaged from the medical battalion, again went into battle. Continuing to destroy the German invaders, he took command of the platoon and led him into the attack, where he received a second wound. In the January battles of 1942 in the Medvezhegorsk direction, Comrade Isaev also showed courage and courage. Wounded, he refused to be evacuated to the hospital and continued to destroy the advancing White Finns. At the trench in which the squad of senior sergeant Isaev was defended, the soldiers counted more than forty White Finnish soldiers. In the operations carried out by the battalion, senior sergeant Isaev was given the task of evacuating the wounded soldiers and officers of the battalion from the battlefield. Comrade Isaev coped with the task brilliantly. As the appointed veterinary assistant of the battalion, Comrade Isaev works tirelessly with the personnel to save the horse. During the period of its work, the horse train has no traumatic injuries or diseases. I petition for the courage and courage shown in the battles with the German and White Finnish invaders to award senior sergeant Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev with the Order of the Red Star. The commander of the 3rd separate ski battalion, Major Obushny. I.M. Isaev would later be awarded other military awards, but all of them, in our memory, he wore only once, in 1965, on the twentieth anniversary of the Victory over Germany. We often asked him why he always only wears the Red Star. He replied that it is more convenient to wear the order: there are no straps. And on the new year 1970 he admitted that this award is the most expensive for him. By the way, in the same year I somehow missed the Lipetsk bus and, hoping to go home, went out onto the Chaplyginskoe highway. Raised his hand - the UAZ stopped, from which he heard: "Sit down." In the car, I got into a conversation with the chairman of the regional plan of Leonid Ivanovich Lysenko, who, recalling the war, told about the losses of our troops on Lysaya Gora. I have also shown awareness of these events. Leonid Ivanovich asked in surprise: “How do you know about these battles? Have you been there? " I replied, "No, my father was there." Leonid Ivanovich looked at me attentively and said: "Wait, wait, are you the son of Ivan Mikhailovich?" - "Yes". “Your father,” the front-line soldier continued, “knew all our 33 separate ski brigade. And we were platoon commanders in different companies, but in the same battalion. " ... In the memoirs of Hitler's generals, as well as in the "works" of the current "would-be historians" we read that the Russians won the Germans by frost, snow, mud, dust, etc. No, gentlemen: the Russian guys won you - they come from Ryazan, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Moscow, from all other Soviet cities, villages and villages. On September 13 this year, Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev would have turned 91 years old. 42 years old, he did not live to see this date. 6 military awards and 5 wounds - this is the result of that pat on the shoulder and the words that the Ranenburg district military commissar said before being sent to the front: "Serve, Ivan, honestly!" Ivan Mikhailovich Isaev was from a large peasant family. In 1940 he graduated from the veterinary technical school. After the war, he worked as a physical education teacher. He was elected chairman of the Kirov collective farm in Novochemodanovo, raised virgin soil in the Kustanai region.He knew how to defend the Motherland and work for it. Thank you, father, grandfather and great-grandfather, for the Victory, for the fact that we live! Eternal memory to you! Isaev Evgeny Ivanovich, son of a war veteran, village Voskresenskoye. In early June 1944, our 33rd Ski Rifle Brigade was on wheels. As part of the 127th corps, we were transferred to Lodeinoe Pole, to the southernmost section of the Karelian front. On June 10, a powerful offensive of the Leningrad Front began on the Karelian Isthmus. Everyone understood: now it's our turn. And on June 21, the troops of the Karelian Front went on the offensive in South Karelia. The Finnish group "Olonets" was simultaneously attacked by the 32nd Army in the Medvezhyegorsk area and the 7th Army in the Lodeynoye Pole area. On the first day of the 7th Army's offensive, the guardsmen of the 4th and 99th divisions crossed the Svir River and seized the bridgehead. Strengthening the onslaught and expanding the bridgehead, on June 24, the troops overcame the Svir along the entire length. The enemy began to hastily retreat to Olonets, to the second line of defense. From newspapers and lightning leaflets, the entire front learned these days about the feat of sixteen guards on the Svir. Placing scarecrow "troops" on small rafts, they swam across a wide river, pushing the rafts in front of them and calling on themselves the fire of enemy fire weapons. The discovered firing points were suppressed by the artillerymen. And the daredevils, in spite of all deaths, reached the right bank and "caught" there before the reinforcements landed. In order to prevent the enemy from gaining a foothold in the second line of defense, two naval brigades landed in the Finnish rear with the help of the Ladoga flotilla, and our reserve corps replaced the tired and lost front lines. The enemy's second line of defense was broken through on the move, and the pursuit of the Olonets grouping units retreating to the border began. On June 25, we walked along the empty streets of wooden Olonets. On June 26, units of the 32nd Army and the Onega Flotilla liberated the city of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia. On this occasion, Moscow saluted our front. The further we went into the depths of the forests and swamps, the closer the border, the more stubbornly the enemy resisted, the fiercer the battles were. Retreating, the Finns blew up bridges, mined roads and roadsides, and set up forest heaps on paths and clearings. Our advancing battalions were often subjected to sudden long-range artillery fire raids, were fired upon by sabotage groups from ambushes, and nevertheless moved forward. Artillery and tanks supported us. _x0008_ They lagged behind, but they continued to move along the hard roads, following the sappers. Our battalion fought a stubborn battle on July 6 near the village of Kasnyaselga, which covered our exit to the Salmi-Pitkyaranta highway. The Finns launched counterattacks several times. Having occupied a perimeter defense, our battalion repelled them. When the 2nd and 3rd battalions came to the aid of the vanguard, the enemy retreated, clearing the highway. The brigade was now advancing as the vanguard of the corps. The main goal is ahead - Pitkyaranta. Heavy fighting took place on July 9 on the outskirts of Pitkäranta. At Loimola, the enemy created a strong stronghold, used a very advantageous line for defense. It was impossible to take a strong point on the move. The brigade commander, Colonel Makarov M.S., sent the main forces around, through the swamp, and ordered the 3rd battalion of Major Obushny to advance head-on, along the highway, diverting attention and fire to itself until the main forces reached their starting lines, and then attack the stronghold point on a common signal, from both sides. The third battalion did not manage to reach the starting line secretly. On the marching columns the fire of enemy batteries fell. There was nothing to suppress these batteries. And the rifle chains moved in waves, then rushing forward, as soon as the bursts of shells stopped, then they lay down. Together with the arrows, my mortarmen moved forward and hastily took up a position. The first platoon of 82 mm mortars in my company - all the artillery support of the battalion. The other two platoons are brought up to fire ammunition, passing mines along a long chain. Near the lake, with the contact Vasya Noskov, they squeezed into a fresh funnel. This is the NP. From here on the phone I give a command to fire, I start to beat from three mortars at firing points, in trenches. Above the lake, above both heights, there is a continuous rumble of explosions, the crackle of machine-gun and machine-gun bursts, it smells of smoke and tar ... The fire fight has been going on for several hours. Time seemed to have stopped. And there is still no news from the left flank from the brigade headquarters. At first everything went fine there. Having passed a long distance by the swamp, the battalions approached the enemy's height, rounding the strong point. It seemed to give a short respite to the exhausted people, to clarify the tasks for the companies, and a general attack could begin. And at that moment the heights "spoke" with rifle and machine-gun fire. The enemy figured out our plan. And preempted. Twice the battalions rose for a decisive thrust. And twice fell on unsteady hummocks, in rusty swamp water, pressed by dense leaden rain. To retreat in such a position meant to suffer unnecessarily losses and not fulfill the combat mission of the day. There is only one way out - only forward. But how to raise the chains pressed by the aiming fire?And the brigade commander orders the commandant's platoon to unfold the banner and move forward. And he himself went with a platoon, snatching his Mauser from the holster. This was not often seen in the war, when the banner was carried forward in battle. He was protected and guarded as the very military honor. But when it burns with red cotton and flutters in front, when our "father" himself went forward under the banner, no one can lie face down. Standard-bearers fall one after another, the entire commandant's platoon perishes, but the banner is not allowed to fall. Companies rose in one impulse, all who could rise. And they moved uncontrollably into the enemy trenches. The Russian "hurray" drowned out the shooting. The Finns resisted fanatically. Some jumped out of the trenches to meet the attackers without uniforms, in undershirts. Several people rush to the banner, firing on the move from machine guns. The brigade commander unloads the Mauser over and over again. But it is also stitched by an automatic fire. "Bata" was not allowed to fall, was caught by strong soldier's arms and carried forward, to the height repulsed from the enemy. The enemy's resistance was broken, the line covering the approaches to Pitkyaranta was in our hands. And on a temporary bridge built by sappers, units of another unit are moving along the highway. The corps commander enters the second echelon. We opened the way for him to Pitkyarantu. Opened at a high price. The brigade lost more than a third in killed and wounded. The soldiers experienced the death of their beloved commander as a personal grief. It was decided to bury him in Petrozavodsk. On July 10, a platoon of scouts accompanied the brigade commander on his last journey. On the same day, units of our corps took the important center of the enemy's defense, the city of Pitkyarantu. The further offensive was stopped by order of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. The victory of our troops in South Karelia in the summer of 1944 was of great military-political significance: the Leningrad region and Karelia were completely cleared of the Finnish-fascist occupation, the Kirov railway was completely liberated; Finland was forced to break off relations with Germany and withdraw from the war. In September, echelons took our brigade back to the North, to the Arctic Circle, where new battles and new tests awaited us. I.K. Musienko, veteran of the Great Patriotic War.

Rank: Junior Sergeant Type of Troops: Artillery Subdivision: 8th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division Ivanov Pyotr Fomich was born on October 15, 1904 in the village of Zemtsy, Spas-Demensky District, Smolensk Region, Russian. The family had 4 children, he was the eldest. From an early age, Pete had to help his parents with the housework, from the age of 13 he began to travel with his father to Murmansk to work. And at the age of 14, his parents married Peter to a woman much older than him. In this marriage, 2 daughters were born. Life in the village became more and more difficult and he had to leave his family. Twenty-year-old Peter went to work in the central cities of the country. He worked as a carpenter at construction sites. He graduated from the 7th grade of the secondary school of the city of Orekhovo-Zuevo, and in 1932 he graduated from the same building technical school. In Mospino he met Kamyshnaya Maria Fedorovna (born on March 15, 1910), a native of the Chernigov region, Ukraine. The young woman, too, at an early age left her father's house and went to work. At first she worked in the fields at the state farm, later she got a job as a cook in the dining room. Young people moved from the central part of the country to the small town of Krasnodon to build coal mines. It seemed that the whole life was ahead. On October 20, 1941, Pyotr Fomich was mobilized by the Krasnodon district military registration and enlistment office for the construction of defensive structures, later he was enlisted in the active army in the II reserve rifle regiment, a shooter, where he served until January 15, 1942. He had mathematical abilities, was well versed in the coordinates on the ground, and was well oriented. From January 15, 1942 to May 10, 1942, he was enlisted in the 45th Western Artillery Regiment of the front as a radio operator-decoder. From May 10, 1942 to April 7, 1943, he served in the 8th Guards Separate Reconnaissance Artillery Division (ORAD) as a sound meter (Stalingrad Front). From April 7, 1943 to May 10, 1944, as part of the 3rd Ukrainian Front in the 8th Guards ORAD, as a sound meter. From May 10, 1944 to July 15, 1944, as part of the 1st Belorussian Front, the 8th Guards ORAD as a chemical engineer. Later he was transferred to the 43rd Cannon Artillery Zaporozhye-Odessa Red Banner of the Order of Lenin, Order of Suvorov, Order of Kutuzov, brigade as sound meter. Ivanov Pyotr Fomich went through the whole war, defended his homeland from his native threshold and reached Berlin. Member of the CPSU (b) since March 1943. Has gratitude: "For breaking through the enemy defense in the area of ​​the city of Kovel", "For breaking through the enemy's defense on the western bank of the Vistula" (01.16.1945), "For breaking through the German border and invading the Brandenburg province" (01/31/1945), "For breaking through the German defense on the Oder River and attacking Berlin" (04/23/1945). Has military awards: medals "FOR BATTLE SERVICE" Order No. 041 / M dated 05/10/45, "FOR THE DEFENSE OF STALINGRAD", "FOR THE DEFENSE OF STALINGRAD" OVER GERMANY ". Ivanov Pyotr Fomich was demobilized on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR of 06/23/1945. In a peaceful life, he returned to his original profession of a construction technician. He worked at the Churilovo-Zapadnaya mine as a foreman. He built a house, raised 2 children, and made every effort to educate his children. He was always strict and demanding not only to himself, but also to those around him. Upon retirement, he worked as a carpenter, built houses for people. The Great Patriotic War undermined the health of Pyotr Fomich and on November 15, 1956 he passed away.

Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Ilnitskiy Arkady Viktorovich, was born in the city of Biysk in the family of a priest - Ilnitskiy Viktor Aleksandrovich and Filippova Ekaterina Gavrilovna. They got married on December 4, 1911 in the village of Ulala, Ulalinskaya Inorodnaya volost, Biysk district, Tomsk province. Viktor Aleksandrovich was born in the city of Kamenets-Podolsky, in a family of hereditary veterinarians and was called up for military service in the Life Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment, in St. Petersburg, where he served as a veterinarian. There was a death of horses in the regiment, he was tried and exiled to Siberia. They had three children. The eldest, Nina, was born a weak, sickly child and died at 18 in 1935 in the city of Biysk. Arkady Viktorovich graduated from high school in Stalinsk (Kuznetsk) in 1938 and began to work as a teacher in the village of Batkat, Shegarsky district of the Tomsk region. In August 1939 he entered the Tomsk Institute, and in October he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He graduated from the regimental school. In September 1941, as part of the Siberian regiments, he defended Moscow. He went through the entire war, was wounded three times, twice seriously and ended the war in Manchuria. In December 1945 he was demobilized from the city of Mukden, Zabaikalsky District. In 1946, he recovered at the Tomsk Electromechanical Institute of Railway Engineers and graduated in 1951. When he was assigned, he was offered Moscow and Leningrad, places in the nearest cities were already taken, he chose Moscow and was sent to Metrogidrotrans. His wife, Anna Stepanovna (Korovko), with whom they recently signed, went with him. She herself is from the Krasnodar Territory from a family of repressed kulaks, exiled to Siberia, where she was born. Uncle Arkady had his first love - Tamara Novikova, who studied with him in the same school and they were supposed to get married, but Tamara's parents were against it - the son of an enemy of the people and the girl's family - the grandfather, whom Lenin guarded during the revolution, and his cousin guarded prisoners in Kolyma. Did not work out. She became pregnant and gave birth to a girl - Svetlana. Svetlana Arkadyevna Borzunova, who later became a poetess and deputy. editor of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the city of Blagoveshchensk. She talks about herself and her family in the book of poems - “You are my destiny”. Blagoveshchensk. 2001 There is also a poem about her father - Arkady Viktorovich Ilnitsky. When the grandfather, Viktor Aleksandrovich Ilnitsky, was buried, the funeral procession passed by the school windows. The teacher asked his son, he was in the 4th grade, to go and say goodbye to his father. He refused. Apparently, he was ashamed, father is a priest, and the year is 1932 ... Hence, and this poem by Svetlana Borzunova. The archive contains a photo of Uncle Arkady, where it is written - the city of Bensihu. South Manchuria. And there is no entry in the military card about participation in that war. It is not clear why hide it? He talked a lot about Manchuria - We went to shave in twos, one shaves, and the other plays with a pistol ... In Moscow, work in a box office, business trips to Baikonur. He rose to the rank of captain. He lived in Rostokino, had two daughters. Died in 1979 ... Data from the Podolsk military archive. Ilnitskiy Arkady Viktorovich.BV military ID N225835, personal number B521370 issued by the Dzerzhinsky district in Moscow on November 25, 1967. Lieutenant engineer of the Moscow Military District. He took the oath on November 6, 1939. He began service on October 27, 1939, to December 24. 1945 Participation in the fronts of the Great Patriotic War - August 1941. To May 1945. Central Front - from August 41. To Dec. 41 years (As the commander of the gun crew). (Battles near Moscow) Central Front from 1941 to Sept. 1943. (In the capacity of the foreman of the battery) Karelian - 2nd Ukrainian Front - from 1944 to May 1945. (In the position of foreman - platoon commander). Awards: Order of the Red Star - Order of the 6th Tank Army - 31.05.45 (Issued on February 6, 1946) Medal "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" - issued on February 22. 1945 Medal "For Victory over Germany" - issued on August 16. 1945 Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" - issued on 4 November. 1946 Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" - issued on 4 November. 1946 (AN178782) Anniversary medals ...

Rank: Major Arkady Yegorovich was born in the Kirov region. It was 1939. The echoes of the impending war soared, but no one wanted to believe it was possible. He was called up for military service. He served in Tuapse on the 16th separate railway battery. On the night of June 22, 1941, Private Isupov was at the searchlight point, seven kilometers from the unit. Already approaching the unit, I saw an unusual revival. "War!" - Shouted a familiar sailor: "Germany has declared war on us!" And soon he was sent to a searchlight company in the front line. He will remember the fourth of July for the rest of his life. He arrived in Sevastopol at a time when the air raid was going on. The sensation was terrible, the earth trembled, it seemed that it swayed like a deck, explosions, screams. Then I got used to it. The worst thing was when there was a "star raid" - 50-60 German planes blew up the sky ... They also had to cover the city and the most important objects. In one of these raids, an air wave also concussed Arkady Yegorovich. A week of treatment, and then to Anapa, to the 36th separate anti-aircraft artillery division, to cover the aviation regiment ... At the front, there were changes, and the Germans were driven from their native land. On May 9, 1945, they were in Ochakovo, in dugouts, when Senior Lieutenant Kuryshev literally burst in at night. And he shouted: "Lads, victory, the war is over!" And then it began: they shot, shouted, hugged. There were also front-line 100 grams. But the war was not over. They were sent to Sevastopol, where they provided minesweeping. Only in March 1947 did Arkady Yegorovich returned home. “I believed and will believe that we won thanks to the steadfastness of Soviet soldiers,” Isupov says. About how Arkady Yegorovich fought testify: - Order of the Red Star - Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree - Medal for the defense of Sevastopol - Medal for the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 - Zhukov medal - Jubilee medal Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet - Jubilee medal of 20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 - Jubilee medal of 50 years of the armed forces of the USSR - Jubilee medal for valiant labor, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin - sign of the winner of the socialist competition in 1973 Jubilee medal of 30 years of victory in Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 - Anniversary medal 60 years of the armed forces of the USSR - Anniversary medal 40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 - Anniversary medal 70 years of the armed forces of the USSR - Anniversary medal 50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 -1945 - medal 300 years of the Russian fleet - Sign of the Front-line soldier 1941-1945 He died on May 24, 2004. Eternal memory to him!

Type of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 298th rifle division (1st formation) Ivanov Peter Alekseevich was born on July 12, 1921 in the village of Tashla, Gafuri district of the Bashkir ASSR. He was drafted into the Red Army on October 9, 1940, and served in the Far East. In December 1941 he was sent to the school for junior commanders. He entered the first battle in June 1942 on the Stalingrad front in the bend of the Don, near the village of Peskovatka and the Vertyachy farm. In this battle, he was wounded and sent to the hospital. But in connection with the current combat situation in the area of ​​the Kutluban railway station, where his artillery regiment 828 occupied the defense, he left the hospital and returned to his unit. After the encirclement of the fascist army of Field Marshal Paulus, the 828 artillery regiment became part of the Don Front. On the day of Paulus' capture, P.A. Ivanov commanded an assault group, was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield. For courage and heroism shown during the Battle of Stalingrad, P.A. was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Then he took part in the battles on the Kursk Bulge, in the Korsun-Shevchenko battle, in the forcing and seizure of the fascist bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper. Ivanov P.A. participated in the liberation of the cities of Poltava, Sumy, Uman, Chisinau, Shpola. On March 24, 1944, as part of the 80th Guards Rifle Division, he was one of the first to cross the state border of the USSR. Then there were fierce battles for the cities of Timisoara, Szekesfehervar, Budapest, Vienna. I celebrated Victory Day in the city of St. Pölten, 50 km west of Vienna. Pyotr Alekseevich finished the war with the rank of captain. For his courage and bravery Ivanov P.A. awarded three Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner, 16 medals, among which are medals For Victory over Germany, For the Defense of Stalingrad, For the capture of Budapest, For the capture of Vienna. " After demobilization in 1947, he entered and graduated from the Pedagogical Institute, taught history, was the director of the school. From 1961 to 1987 he worked at OJSC Ufaneftekhim, he was awarded the title of Honorary Veteran of the Plant, Honored Innovator of the USSR. Ivanov P. A. took an active part in social work, was a member of the Council of Veterans, did a lot of work on the patriotic education of youth, was the organizer and consultant of the search teams "Bulat" (gymnasium No. 82) and "Fregat" (school No. 109). In 2014, he was awarded the Honorary Badge of the Administration of the Urban District of the city of Ufa "For Services to the City."

Rank: Red Army. Division: 297th Infantry Division (1st Formation). Ivanishin Nikolay Dmitrievich born in 1912. Was born in the Oryol region of the Soskovsky district, the village of Korovye bog. In 1935 he married my great-grandmother Ivanishina (Golyzhenkova) Anna Ivanovna. In 1937, they had a daughter, Maria, and already in 1939, their great-grandfather left for Finnish. He worked in the editorial office and went to the front in the military editorial office. But, having got to the front, he took a gun and stood in line. He had excellent abilities in the Russian language and literature. He possessed innate literacy, was very fond of literature, and painted beautifully. Until now, his gift for the fine arts is passed on to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. After the Finnish War, he came in 1940. In 1939 my grandmother Nina was born to him. He left for the Great Patriotic War from the first days, leaving his pregnant wife with two children at home. He went to the western front as a private infantry! And he went through the whole war before reaching victory 2 months !!! In 1944 he was wounded and sent to the Urals in Solikamsk for treatment. During the war, by chance, their formation stood on the border with his native village. There was an enemy in his home at that moment. He went to his family in secret. The village learned about this and the policemen reported that there were Soviet soldiers in the village. He and several of his comrades were hiding in the basement of a house. The Germans made a decision to put gas there. While they were training, the women, on pain of death, led the soldiers out of the basement. The Nazis let gas into an already empty basement. Nikolai Dmitrievich died in Hungary. He was buried in a mass grave: Hungary, Warm. Fejer, village Telki, western outskirts. His wife Ivanishina Anna Ivanovna never got married. She brought up and raised three children, 2 daughters and a son, whom she named after her father Nikolai! In our family, 2 more of his grandsons called after our grandfather. Eternal memory and glory to the hero !!!!

Rank: Senior Sergeant Type of Troops: Artillery Mikhail Yakovlevich Ignatov went through the whole war and lived for 83 years! Being a native of the Kurgan region, he was registered at the military registration and enlistment office. From August 1940 to May 1942 he served in the 119 engineer battalion as a cadet, received the military registration specialty "machine gunner", from May 1942 to May 1946 he went to the front, where he served in the 373 rifle regiment already in the position of deputy commander of a platoon of heavy machine guns ... And also participated in the war with Japan from August 9, 1945 to September 3, 1945. My grandfather was demobilized on August 3, 1946 in accordance with the Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet of March 20, 1946. By order of the commander of the 373rd Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division, the Kamchatka Defense Region, the 2nd Far Eastern Front, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for exemplary performance of the command missions on the front against the Japanese aggressors and the manifestation of valor and courage. And also my grandfather was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" - the commander of the squad 8 of the company, senior sergeant Ignatov Mikhail Yakovlevich for the skilled commanding of the Squad and the suppression of the enemy's machine gun. My grandfather was awarded medals "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany," "For Victory over Japan", For Courage "" 20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "," 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR " , as well as the Order of the Patriotic War II degree "".

leksandr Kuzmich from 1944 to 1951 was in the ranks of the Soviet Army, was awarded medals: "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy"; "For impeccable service in the organs of the Ministry os State Security-Ministry of Internal Affairs of the 3rd degree." From December 1944 to May 1951, he served in the border troops on the Turkish border, went from a private to a foreman of the outpost. Ivanov A.K. worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs from October 1951 to May 1953, was dismissed due to staff reductions. He was admitted again in July 1953 and until January 1957 he worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Grozny region. In 1955 he entered the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute in Rostov-on-Don, and then, due to his move to Kemerovo in 1957, transferred to the Novosibirsk Faculty of the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute and graduated in 1961. In 1961 Ivanov A.K. elected a member of the Kemerovo Regional Court to the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases. For all the time of his labor activity Ivanov A.K. characterized as conscientious, hardworking and principled, actively participating in party and public life. Working in the regional court, he was twice elected to the party bureau and was the deputy secretary of the party organization. Provided practical assistance to the people's courts in the zone assigned to him. In 1965, for high performance in work in the people's courts controlled by A.I. Ivanov. gratitude is declared. In 1966 he was expelled from the state of the regional court, in connection with the election of a people's judge to the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Vasily Andreevich Ivaschenko was born on August 19, 1919 in the village of Laptev-Log, Altai Territory, into a prosperous peasant family. Two days after his birth, his mother suddenly died from an epidemic of typhoid fever. The father still has five children in his arms. In 1940, it was time to be drafted into the active army. He served as a recruit in Novograd-Volynsk, near the city of Rovno in Ukraine, in a motorized rifle regiment. Did not have time to complete military service, the Great Patriotic War began. The cadets were sent to the city of Lutsk. Having not reached the place, they were fired upon by Messerschmitts on the way. The killed and wounded appeared. It was a baptism of fire. On the fourteenth day, near the town of Rozhische, not far from Lutsk, a German bullet interrupted his right arm. In the medical unit they bandaged and sent to Kharkov to the hospital. The major arrived shortly before his recovery. It was necessary to select eight more literate people to send officers to the school. They took him too. After a year of study, Vasily Andreevich, with the rank of junior lieutenant, arrived at the front at the disposal of Captain Savchuk, twice a hero of the Soviet Union, and walked with him all the roads of the war to the end. On the same day he received command of a platoon of mortars and the order "Cross the river, cross, gain a foothold, and drive out the Nazis from the Sandomierz bridgehead." They fought a fierce battle. The commander of the artillery battery was killed in this battle. Vasily Andreevich takes over command of the battery. The battle lasted all night, by morning the enemy was driven out of the city of Sandomierz. The divisional commander awarded Vasily Andreyevich the Order of the Red Star for his courage. And part of them immediately entered a new, no less fierce battle. And again for his courage and courage in the evening the same commander presented him with the second Order of the Red Star. What does not happen in war, even in one day the reward finds a hero twice. There were many cities and villages on his way, for which he heroically fought. Despite the fact that Vasily Andreevich did not like to remember the events of those days and I understand that for the peaceful sky over my head I owe just such heroes as my grandfather.

Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Unit: 7th Guards Mortar Kovno Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division. Soldiers are not born ... Vladimir Ignatiev was born on June 22, 1923 in the village of Nikitino, Oryol Region, into a peasant family. Volodya's childhood was not easy, his mother died giving birth to his younger sister, his father soon went missing and, at the age of 8, he and his sister remain an orphan. The baby was adopted by her aunt Zinaida, her father's sister, and taken to Moscow, and Volodya and his older half-brother Ivan were taken into care by neighbors. He had to grow up early and, not only study, but also take care of their daily bread. Together with his brother he worked on a collective farm, in the summer as a shepherd, in the winter at the barnyard. After graduating from the seven-year school, Volodya went to Moscow, to his aunt, to continue his education. While working as a locksmith apprentice at the Radio Factory, he graduated from high school. At the plant, he joined the Komsomol and immediately plunged into Komsomol work, was a member of the Komsomol committee of the enterprise, a freelance instructor of the Proletarian RK Komsomol of the capital. The plans were to enter the Law Institute ... But on June 22, 1941, together with the age of majority, war came ... On June 23, Volodya, a Komsomol leader, with an extraordinary patriotic enthusiasm and consciousness of duty to the Motherland, spoke at a rally in front of the workers of the plant, his comrades. With a detachment of the Proletarsky district of the capital, Vladimir Ignatiev went to the labor front. For three months they built fortifications, dug trenches, working day and night. In September, Vladimir returned to Moscow and was immediately drafted into the army. The Stalinist roar of the military enlistment office directs him to a marching company. Soldiers ... yesterday's boys ! We walked on foot from Moscow to Murom. They were given uniforms, taught to use weapons, shoot, stab, throw grenades ... Soon they will have to take their first battle! Then, near the city of Yukhnov, which is only two hundred kilometers from the capital, a severe battle broke out. A platoon of recruits was repelling the onslaught of the enemy! Don't miss it! Survive at any cost! Soldiers are not born, they become! And they will become real soldiers, defenders, liberators !Vladimir Ignatiev also became a soldier. For his first fight, later in 1944, he will receive a medal "For the Defense of Moscow". Volodya served six months in a rifle unit from a private to an assistant platoon commander. On March 3, 1942, in a battle for the village of Pchelnya (Kaluga region), he was seriously wounded, a bullet went right through his left shoulder, very close to the heart .. After the hospital Volodya was sent to study at the Volsk Military Chemical School, where he underwent accelerated training , he receives the rank of lieutenant. In July 1943, Lieutenant Ignatiev returned to the front, to the 7th Guards Division of the 4th Guards Mortar Brigade of the 2nd Belorussian Front, to the legendary Katyushas. The conditions were difficult, the Katyusha was a formidable weapon, always at the forefront. His responsibilities included providing combat vehicles with shells, going out on special missions, conducting reconnaissance of the area, and after the battle, during respite, classes with soldiers and officers, teaching them how to use chemical protection equipment. He served for two years in one division. Here he was elected as a Komsomol organizer, and in February 1944 he was admitted to the party. As part of the brigade, he took part in military operations to liberate Orsha, Minsk, Bialystok, Warsaw ... And the last battle - the capture of the enemy fortress Swinemunde and the island of Rügen. For his courage he was presented with military awards: in July 1944 - the medal "For Courage", in February 1945 - the Order of the Red Star, in May 1945 - the medals "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For the Victory over Germany." Lieutenant Ignatiev was demobilized from the army only in August 1946. After the end of the war, I wanted to continue serving in the army, but my health did not allow, injury and concussion affected. Returning to Moscow, Vladimir graduates from the correspondence legal institute, VYUZI, works in the State Arbitration of the RSFSR. In peacetime, for services to the Motherland during the Second World War, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. All his life, first of all, he worked hard and honestly, skillfully combined the performance of direct work and public duties. In the State Arbitration of the RSFSR - for many years a party leader. Vladimir Mikhailovich Ignatiev - Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR, holder of the Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Red Star

Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Aviation. Isaikin Grigory Vasilievich worked at the Kalasevskaya secondary school, Ardatovskiy district, Republic of Mordovia as a teacher of the Mordovian language and literature. He was born on June 15, 1918 in the village of Kalasevo, Kozlovsky district of the Mordovian ASSR. From the age of 9 he studied in elementary school. He finished his studies in 1931. In 1932 he entered the 5th grade of the Ardatov youth school. He studied at Ardatov for two years. After finishing the 6th grade, he entered the preparatory courses at the Ardatov Pedagogical College. In 1932 he entered the first year of the Ardatov Pedagogical College, which he graduated in 1936. By order of the People's Commissariat for Education of the MASSR, he went to the Kozlovsk Regional Department of Education. He was appointed a teacher in grades 5-6 of the Kalasevskaya seven-year school, where he worked for one year. From August 1938 to 1940 he was a teacher of 5-7 grades of the Old Naimanskaya seven-year school in the Bolshe-Bereznikovsky district. In 1938 he registered a marriage with Elizaveta Zakharovna Gavryushova. Daughter Raisa was born in Bolshiye Berezniki. In 1940 Isaikin Grigory Vasilyevich was drafted by the Bolshe-Bereznikovsky District Military Commissariat and enrolled as a cadet at the Melitopol Military Aviation School of Letnabs and Navigators, which he graduated in 1942. After Grigory Vasilyevich left for the army, the family moved to the village of Kalasevo. From 1942 to 1945, Grigory Vasilyevich was at the front. During his stay at the front, he made 525 sorties. In the ranks of Soviet aviation, he served as navigator of the crew, flight, and in the last years of his service - navigator of an air squadron. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree. He was a member of the CPSU (b) since 1942. After the end of the war, Grigory Vasilyevich worked until retirement at the Kalasevskaya school. Isaikin Grigory Vasilievich died in 1980. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Kalasevo.

The Great Patriotic War is one of the most terrible trials that befell the Russian people. Its severity and bloodshed left a huge imprint on the minds of people and had dire consequences for the life of an entire generation. Children and war are two incompatible concepts. War breaks and maims the lives of children. But children lived and worked alongside adults, trying to bring victory closer with their feasible work ... The war claimed millions of lives, ruined millions of talents, destroyed millions of human destinies. At the present time, many people, in particular, young people, know little about the history of their country, but witnesses to the events of the Great Patriotic War are becoming less and less every year, and if their memories are not written down now, they will simply disappear along with the people. without leaving a well-deserved trace in history. Ivanova-Utochkina Zinaida Ivanovna born in 1924. In 1941 she was 14 years old. After passing the exams in the first summer of war, she worked from school on a collective farm in the harvest. The teachers left, 6 adults stayed with the children. "The Germans entered in August." Zinaida Ivanovna went on foot to Rostov-on-Don with her teacher Marya Grigorievna and another schoolgirl. The first night was spent under a hay. In the afternoon, on the way, we met two young men 2 years older, they also decided to spend the night under a hay. The next day, Zinaida Ivanovna recalls, they met two Germans. They were traveling in a car, one was in the cab, the other was upstairs. The fellow travelers knew the German language, after the conversation, the Germans put the children in the car and took them to Salsk. There was nowhere to spend the night in the city, they advised me to contact the chairman. At the chairman's house, they were met by an elderly woman who answered that they had to wait for their son. He came in the evening, gave permission to spend the night, gave out four loaves of bread and bacon. In the morning they took me to the Village Council, there were many Jews. They led the column in an unknown direction, left it on the way. In their native Rostov-on-Don, the boys were met by their parents. Here Zinaida Ivanovna learned that a shell had hit the house where she lived on Moskovskaya Street. Only fragments remained, skeletons of iron beds. In the courtyard, a dog named Sizik sat alone. Neighbor aunt Valya Korsakova told about the incident, but did not help. Everything that could be useful has already been removed from the wreckage of the house. I went to spend the night with my aunt Sonya, Manya, my sister, was going to the theater. After living there for a week, she traded in sugar. Then she went to live with her stepmother and half-sister Klava. Klava worked as a messenger for the Germans. Registered. They ate herring, bread, anchovy. They offered to leave for work in Germany. Zinaida Ivanovna, not understanding what was happening, agreed. Fortunately, her path stopped in the village of Stepnoy, where she joined the women from Brest. Came February 23, 1943, Soviet troops lifted the occupation. She worked in the field, knitted sheaves, harvested corn. Trenches were dug up to Tikhoretsk. Later I got a job in the police, it was necessary to visit public places and collect information. A telegram came from my sister, she invited me to come to Ordzhonikidze, 300 rubles were attached to the telegram. But there was nothing to go. After talking at work, she was released, having written off her uniform. Arriving, I got a job on a collective farm. Sister Anna got married. Other sisters, Valentina and Maria, were in the orphanage. Zinaida Ivanovna went to work at a construction site, where a note came, she was invited to study at the railway school as an electrician, the term of study was 10 months. On the day when the diplomas were to be presented, planes circled over the city. We decided that the Germans were attacking again. It was May 9, the war was over! Those born in 1923-1924 were sent to study further at the railway technical school until December. The news came, my father returned wounded. Zinaida Ivanovna returned to Ordzhonikidze, sister Valya was already 18 years old, Maria was taken from the orphanage. They did not have time to get there, my father died. They were buried in Armavir, the old cemetery, grave No. 49. They gave out fabric for the coffin upholstery. I have never been there since. Since December 1945 he has been living in the village of Voskhod. Labor experience of Zinaida Ivanovna is 44 years, only on the collective farm in the village of Voskhod. "Oh, war, what have you done, vile ..." Over the long four years that the Great Patriotic War lasted, children, from toddlers to senior schoolchildren, have fully experienced all its horrors. War every day, every second, every dream, and so on for almost four years. But war is hundreds of times more terrible if you see it through the eyes of children ... And no time can heal wounds from war, especially children. "These years that were once, the bitterness of childhood does not allow to forget ..."

Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. My family also has its own defender who bravely fought for the entire Russian people during the Great Patriotic War - my great-grandfather Ignatenko Pyotr Semenovich. During the outbreak of the war, he served in the army, and his regiment was sent to the front from the very first days. Grandpa Petya fought valiantly. Near Voronezh, during one of the Nazi offensives in 1942, he was seriously wounded, and already in an unconscious state was captured by the Nazis. From that moment began his long and difficult path of a captured Soviet soldier. He visited several concentration camps and miraculously survived. The last camp was on the territory of West Germany, which was liberated by the offensive of American troops in 1945. US soldiers admired the heroism of the Soviet fighters. They organized a hospital for former prisoners of war, in which they restored the health of former concentration camp prisoners, among whom was my great-grandfather. The Americans began to agitate our soldiers not to return to the USSR, offered them to go to the United States, promising large financial assistance and intimidating them that in the USSR they would be shot as former prisoners of war by the Germans. But my grandfather did not believe a single word of theirs and dreamed only of returning home as soon as possible and seeing his relatives and friends. After the victory, he was discharged from the hospital and transferred to the Soviet troops. When he was demobilized from the army, he was offered to work at an aluminum plant in Stalinsk, Kemerovo region, and until his retirement he worked in the field of metallurgy. My grandfather was awarded many military medals and awards, the most expensive of which for him was the medal "For Courage"; in peacetime he was awarded the title of "Honorary Metallurgist".

Rank: Captain 3rd rank Type of troops: USSR Navy and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops. Born on April 10, 1920 on the Novokoretsky farm, Novograd-Volynsky district, Zhytomyr region. In 1939 he graduated from the Belotserkovsky Medical College and was called up for active service in the Navy. From December 1939 to November 1943 he served as a medical assistant in the Pacific Fleet's Torpedo Boat Brigade. In 1941, after completing officer courses at the Pacific Higher Naval School, he was awarded the title of "Military Assistant". In March 1943 he was a lieutenant in the medical service. In November 1943, he was enlisted in a special command - crews of boats, acquired in the United States under Lend-Lease, formed in Vladivostok. In June 1944, the personnel of the 20th division of the Great Hunters of the Navy, arrived in the United States (Miami). After mastering the materiel and practicing combat missions, in October 1944, the division made the transition to Scotland. Due to stormy weather in the Atlantic, many boats needed serious repairs, which were implemented in the ports of Glasgow and Edinburgh. In April 1945, the division, as part of a convoy of a convoy of allied transports, arrived in the town of Polyarny, Murmansk Oblast. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve in the Navy. In the Northern Fleet he served as a medical assistant on various ships. In 1950 he was transferred to Leningrad on an experimental ship "Reid" Research Institute No. 11 of the Navy. Having mastered the diving specialty in 1955 he received the qualification "Officer-diver". In 1960 he was awarded the title of "Diving Specialist of the Navy". He took part in testing new models of diving equipment. From February 1963 he was engaged in light diving training for submariners in the 3rd training scuba diving detachment, Kronstadt. The last place of service was the 39th brigade of submarines under construction and repair, Leningrad. He finished his service in 1970 with the rank of "Captain 3rd Rank". He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals For Military Merit, For Labor Valor, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR, "For impeccable service of the 1st degree", as well as jubilee medals to commemorate the Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, in connection with the anniversary dates of the USSR Armed Forces and the medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad". He died on January 25, 1987.