Heroes and feats

Rank: Corporal Type of troops: Artillery Subdivision: 1st Guards Mortar Krasnoselskaya Red Banner Division Imangulov Baysar Sharifullinovich was a leader in life. He began his working career as a military commander at a school in Buryat-Mongolia after being seriously wounded in his right shoulder, which he received in heavy battles near the city of Vitebsk on December 28, 1943. 19 km from the front, in unprecedented difficult conditions, three doctors performed 3 operations on the wounded right hand, pulled out the fragments, and saved his life. But until the end of his life, until the age of 88, he carried in his hand, small fragments that could not be pulled out. Before the operation, he was given 100 grams of vodka for anesthesia. After the operation, he was sent with other wounded to recover in the city of Velikiye Luki. After recovering on 05/20/1944, he went to his native village Chokady-Tamak to his girlfriend Hamdie, and she was already married without waiting for him. Baisar Imangulov's parents, Kamil's mother and Sharifull's father, at that moment lived on the shore of Lake Baikal, having left before the war, during the famine time of 38-40 years, to Lake Baikal, in search of food for the family, ate omul fish, berries, mushrooms. After his native village, Baisar went to his parents (at that time they were still temporarily living there with the other 4 children) to the place of mobilization in Buryat Mongolia, on the shore of Lake Baikal ... There he met a very beautiful curly-haired black-eyed girl By Khalisa Shaikhlislamovna Shaehova. She was sent from Tatarstan to Buryat-Mongolia, the city of Ulan-Ude, after graduating from a teacher's college, She left the family, as her stepmother had greatly offended her. Her local names were Liza and Baysar thought she was Russian. Mom told him to marry only a Muslim woman and he could not disobey her. Getting to know Lisa better, he found out that she was Tatar, and they got married on May 1, 1945. After that, the Imangulov family left for their small homeland in Bashkortostan, the village of Chokady-Tamak. Imangulov Baysar Sharifullinovich was an excellent student of public education, chairman of the first advanced collective farm named after Matrosov in Tuimazinsky district of the Bashkir ASSR (at the time of appointment there was a collective farm Irek) - 13 years. Then he was the secretary of the party committee of the Michurin collective farm, then he was a history teacher at a secondary school in the village of Karamaly-Gubeevo, tk. at the age of 50 he graduated from the Bashkir State University, specializing in history teacher. Imangulova Khalisa Shaikhlimovna was the director of an 8-year school in the village of Kadry-Kutuevo, Tuimazinsky district, an Honored teacher of Bashkiria. They raised 5 children (three sons and two daughters).

Rank: Major. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Svetlana Mikhailovna Erendzhenova, journalist, editor-in-chief of the Kalmyk University newspaper. The hero of my essay, Serafim Semenovich Ivashkin, worked at the Kalmyk State University at the Department of History for about ten years. It is noteworthy that all his former colleagues remember this man with great warmth. Serafim Ivashkin, Mordvin-Moksha by nationality, was born on July 7, 1918 in the village of Mordovskoe Maskino in a family of middle peasants. The Ivashkins had nine children. Mother - Ivashkina Alexandra Slivenovna. Father - Semyon Ivashkin, the breadwinner of the family, died in 1932. Until the age of 11, Seraphim was illiterate, worked as a shepherd. The autobiography says: "In 1929 he entered high school, which he graduated (with a break) in 1939". In search of work, 19-year-old Seraphim went to the Far East, where he worked as a miner at the Artyomovsk mines of the Primorsky Territory from January 1937 to August 1938. In 1938, Seraphim joined the ranks of the Komsomol. When he returned, in 1939 he graduated from the workers' faculty as an external student at the preparatory courses at the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute (Saransk, Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic) and began teaching at the elementary seven-year school in the village of Novye Pichingushi, Elnikovsky district of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In November 1939, Seraphim was drafted into the Red Army. January 1940 - July 26, 1941 - cadet of the Smolensk rifle and machine gun school (Kalinin military district). In the rank of lieutenant, Serafim Ivashkin in September 1941 defends the Motherland as part of the 285th Infantry Division on the Leningrad Front. The brave and shrewd Ivashkin was appointed company commander, assistant chief of staff of the regiment for reconnaissance. “Working as the chief of staff of the 2nd battalion of 1017th rifle regiment, during the battles for the village of Larionov Ostrov from September 9 to 13, 1941, he proved himself to be a brave and brave commander,” says S. S. Ivashkin's submission. to the Order of the Red Star. - When during the first attack of our units, the commander of the 2nd battalion Kondratyev was killed (September 9, 1941) comrade. Ivashkin took command of the battalion, led the battalion boldly into a frontal attack on the Nazis entrenched in Larionov Island, covered by tanks, and was the first to occupy the village of Larionov Island with his unit. Gathering his fighters comrade Ivashkin took them further to Posadnikov Island. Being at this time wounded by a fragment of an enemy mine in the side on September 11, 1941, Comrade Ivashkin did not leave the battlefield, although he felt hard. In the battles for the Pogostye station, Comrade Ivashkin, performing the duties of an assistant chief for intelligence, on behalf of the regiment commander was with the soldiers in the 1st battalion. During the battles from 9 to 13 October 1941, he also acted boldly, attacking in the main direction of Art. Pogost and on October 13, 1941, together with the 9th company attached to the 1st battalion, occupied the station. As Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Comrade Ivashkin significantly improved the work of the regimental intelligence, took part in it personally. In the battle of Pogostye since 10/27/41, personally participating com. Ivashkin was wounded again. " The Military Council of the Army concluded: "Worthy of being nominated for a government award, the Order of the Red Star." The second wound mentioned in the Submission is severe: a blind bullet wound to the left shoulder blade. Hit a bullet a few centimeters lower ... For about two months Serafim Ivashkin was treated at the hospital, and only after the war did he learn that then he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Seraphim received another serious wound, in the head. He was considered dead and placed in a tent with the dead. In the morning, the funeral team was surprised to find signs of life in him. Medical battalion, infirmary, healed. Back in line. From archival materials it is known that by the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 1, 1943 for the exemplary fulfillment of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the valor and courage shown at the same time, Captain Ivashkin Serafim Semyonovich, deputy commander of a rifle battalion, 391 rifle regiment of 170 rifle division was awarded the Order of the Red Star. At that moment, Serafim Ivashkin did not know that this was his second order. From the award list: “During the execution of a combat mission to occupy the village. Stepanovka On July 23, 1943, the commander of the 3rd rifle battalion was killed. Comrade Ivashkin immediately took command of the battalion and resolutely, with skillful leadership, led him into battle. After personal, successfully executed orders to suppress the enemy machine-gun points, which hindered the advance, Comrade. Ivashkin raised the personnel in a counterattack and with small losses occupied the village. Stepanovka. Pursuing the retreating enemy, the 3rd battalion in front of the village of Ilyinskoye met stubborn resistance. The enemy launched 2 counterattacks with the support of artillery and tanks. Under the skilful command of Captain Ivashkin, the battalion successfully repelled the enemy's counterattacks, went over to the attack, and with heavy losses for the enemy occupied the village of Ilyinskoye.Worthy of a government award with the Order of the Red Star. Serafim Ivashkin went through the entire war: from start to finish, received five wounds, and celebrated Victory Day in Germany. He was demobilized on December 1, 1945. Ivashkin's colleague, Honored Professor of KalmSU V.B. Ubushaev also notes that it was very difficult for Serafim Semyonovich to talk about the war. “Only once at my house over a cup of tea, in a confidential conversation, he told me about a bullet wound to the head,” says Vladimir Badakhaevich. - It happened in a fight between Captain Ivashkin and a German lieutenant colonel, when they came face to face. Ivashkin defeated the enemy, but at the same time received a serious wound in the head. The fascist officer turned out to be a "bird of high flight", and the command awarded Ivashkin with an award. The military concussion constantly reminded Serafim Semyonovich, he suffered from it, but this did not affect his teaching and scientific activities. He was always demanding of both students and himself. " After demobilization, Seraphim returned to Mordovia, graduated from the regional school (Saransk, Mordovian ASSR), as well as the correspondence department of the history faculty of the Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Polezhaeva (Saransk). For a year he worked as a propagandist for the Maidan District Party Committee, then as an inspector of schools in the Saransk District Committee of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In the summer of 1947 S.S. Ivashkin married Anna Vasilievna Simakova. On February 20, 1948, in the village of Kochelaevo, their daughter Lyubov was born. From April 2, 1949 - to August 18, 1958 S.S. Ivashkin - Senior Researcher, then Head of the Central State Archives of the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. While working at the State Archives, Serafim Semenovich took up scientific activities. One fact from the memoirs of Vladimir Ivashkin is indicative: “From the trophy“ good ”, my father brought a little from Germany. Some kind of spoon, some kind of knife, a saber in a scabbard with a black handle, which I later gave to my nephew in the village. So, trifles, "souvenirs". But the main thing that was not a trifle for him was that he brought a PRINTING MACHINE. At that time, it was of considerable value and deficit, especially for the writing fraternity, for a novice scientist - for sure! To convert the font from German to Russian, I had to sell my father's jacket: there was no extra money in the family. I remember how a silent, quiet master with a soldering iron came to our house and during the work he clarified everything, "the machine is registered with the relevant authorities or not." His father reassured him with a smile, admonished him, and he still doubted, sighed all the time, but neatly did his job. During 1953-1956 Serafim Semenovich studied in graduate school. On January 24, 1956, he defended his Ph.D. thesis, and by the decision of the Council of the Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute, he was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Historical Sciences. In 1958, Serafim Semenovich moved to the city of Semipalatinsk (Kazakh SSR), where from 1958 to 1972 he worked at the Semipalatinsk Pedagogical Institute named after N.K. Krupskaya head of the department of history. 03/25/1970 he was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor". In the second half of 1972 S.S. Ivashkin moved to Elista. At Kalmyk State University, Serafim Semyonovich worked for nine years as head of the department of the history of Soviet society. All the years of teaching activity S.S. Ivashkin continued to engage in scientific work. The description provided by the leadership of the Kalmyk State University of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Council of Ministers of the USSR said: “... Professor S.S. Ivashkin. takes an active part in the social life of the university, was elected a member of the party bureau of the faculty and the party committee of the university. Since working at the university, he has successfully led a scientific circle at the Department of History of the USSR, has been actively involved in the military-patriotic and international education of student youth, is a member of the presidium of the Elista city branch of the society for the protection of historical and cultural monuments, and leads the primary organization of this society at the university. His social and scientific work was awarded with the Lenin Diploma and the badge "Excellence in Higher Education". By the decision of the Supreme Attestation Commission under the Council of Ministers of the USSR on February 23, 1979 (protocol No. 7), Serafim Ivashkin was awarded the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences. List of scientific works of S.S. Ivashkin included 33 printed and handwritten works on the history of the development of agriculture in the USSR. At the same time, at least a third of the works concern agriculture in Kazakhstan. By the decision of the Higher Attestation Commission under the Council of Ministers of the USSR on October 3, 1980, he was awarded the academic title of professor. Serafim Semenovich was highly appreciated in the university community. Serafim Semyonovich worked almost until the last day of his life. On January 12, 1994, he was gone, but the memory of a worthy man is alive, who during the Great Patriotic War, not sparing himself, defended our fatherland, and then worked hard for many years at the Higher School.

Ivan Ivantsov took the military oath in August 1941 as an 18-year-old boy after completing courses for driver mechanics. It was then that he felt like a real soldier. 7th Guards Tank Brigade ... For five long years it became the family and home of a young soldier. The bubbling maelstrom of war carried him to one of the most cruel and bloody areas - the Leningrad Front. Here he received his first baptism of fire. The tragedy and feat of Leningrad is terrible to remember even now, after so many years. Leningrad was an impregnable stronghold. Tankers repelled enemy attacks several times a day. Sometimes the temperature in the tank reached 60 degrees, and the swampy terrain with ravines and bumps demanded extreme stress from the driver. Here, near Leningrad, Ivantsov's tank came under fire: a German Faust cartridge smashed the left side of the vehicle. Wounded, half-blind tankers tried to leave it. But from the second shell, the tank caught fire and flared up like a match. Choking smoke filled the insides, the car lost its maneuverability. The Nazis immediately began to surround him. They walked calmly, confidently, impudently, hoping to take the crew alive. He looked at the approaching Fritzes through broken triplexes, and a single thought was beating in his head like an alarming alarm bell: “Really, everything? Is it a prisoner? " In the next second, in front of the astonished Nazis' eyes, a 35-ton steel colossus with a huge flaming torch rushed through the enemy's advancing human chain to its positions. For this battle, Senior Sergeant Ivantsov was awarded the Order of the Red Star. And the front roads led the tanker Ivantsov further, to the west. The enemy was still strong. But he no longer had the main thing - confidence in his victory. And the rumble of the approaching Soviet guns echoed for him with a terrible echo. After the liberation of Novgorod, the tank battalion of Ivan Ivantsov was transferred to Nizhny Tagil. Here, deep in the rear, a victory over the enemy was forged. At the tank factory, right from the conveyor line, the soldiers received brand-new T-34s smelling of fresh paint, loaded them onto platforms, and military echelons rushed them through the night and fog into the very lair of the enemy - to Berlin. And so the soldier's roads brought him to Germany. Here, in a foreign land, in hot battles, tanker Ivantsov burned twice in a tank in the spring of 1945. The storming of Berlin. This assault was attended by three Soviet fronts, over two million people, six thousand tanks. And among these tanks was the famous "thirty-four" of the guard of senior sergeant Ivan Ivantsov. He burst into Berlin on it and raced through its streets and squares as a liberator and hero - a modest Russian soldier from distant Bashkiria. For the Berlin operation on his chest, two orders of the Patriotic War, 1 and 11 degrees, shone. After the war, in 1946, he returned to his native land, married a simple girl, also a front-line soldier, the beautiful Zoechka. In 1976, the Council of Veterans of the Leningrad Front invited the Ivantsovs' husband to a meeting of veterans of the 58th Army. They traveled to Novgorod, walked through the places of past battles, laid wreaths on the graves of their military friends who died here. And in 1978 the same meeting of fellow soldiers took place in Leningrad ... I like to be in their modest cozy apartment. They are always glad to have guests. Ivan Fyodorovich opens the front-line album, gets military awards, and the memory of a disturbing bird again returns him to his distant fighting youth. Tatiana Masyagutova, member of the writing organization of Kumertau.

Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 79th Guards Rifle Zaporozhye Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. My dad Evgeny Viktorovich Ignatiev was born in Bryansk on September 22, 1925. When the war began, Zhenya was 15.5 years old, just finished 8th grade. Recalling, he said: "I took the beginning of the war without any particular shock. With boyish spontaneity I believed in the strength and might of the Red Army, in its quick victory." But the war "hung" over the city. German reconnaissance aircraft began to appear more and more often, at the end of June they bombed the railway. The evacuation of enterprises and institutions began. A fighter battalion was organized under the leadership of D. E. Kravtsov, where children of pre-conscription age were admitted. Zhenya enrolled in a fighter battalion. There they studied military affairs, patrolled the streets, guarded some objects, went to places where saboteurs might be dropped. On October 6, our troops left the city, the Nazis entered. The Germans rounded up the youth and took them to Germany. Zhenya and her younger sister Natasha were hiding in a destroyed, burnt-out house, which was already overgrown with weeds, and so that the dogs would not track them down, they sprinkled the traces with snuff given to them by their mother. The chance helped Zhenya take the path of fighting the Germans. Once, after several days of occupation, he met his school friend Vasya Semyonov. He had already managed to visit the rear of the enemy, managed to get to the Germans and escape from them. In the evening, they started talking, and he made it clear that there was an underground in the city. Zhenya was included in the top five, the eldest of which was Nikolai Lisovsky (Honored Artist of Russia, actor of the Bryansk Drama Theater). In the underground, information about the enemy was obtained, several times it turned out to mine German vehicles. One of the most audacious actions was to steal a map from the commandant's office. The points of the location of the anti-aircraft defense of the Germans, headquarters, barracks, commandant's offices were plotted on the map. This card was handed over to the partisans. A week later, our aircraft bombed all targets that were mapped. In 1943, on September 17, our troops liberated Bryansk. On September 20, Zhenya was sent to a reserve regiment. It prepared marching companies to be sent to active units at the front. Here they learned to carry out army regulations, lived like soldiers in dugouts on the Mamonov field. From the reserve regiment he was sent to the Belorussian Front, commanded by Rokossovsky. Very fierce battles were fought in Belarus. On December 15, near Zhlobin, Zhenya was seriously wounded. When he began to crawl out of the trench to attack, he heard a mine whistle, and he seemed to be struck from behind, he lost consciousness. This splinter hit the back of the neck, passed a few millimeters from the carotid artery and stopped near the spine, hitting a nerve. When he woke up, the soldiers went ahead, only the dead were lying around. So he lay almost until the evening, then losing consciousness, then coming to himself. And in the evening, once again regaining consciousness, I heard that people were walking nearby. It was the funeral team that gathered the dead. Zhenya tried to call them: "Brothers, brothers ...". They saw that he was alive and sent him to the medical battalion. Since the splinter touched a nerve near the spine, Zhenya stopped talking. The wound was very serious and Zhenya was sent on an ambulance train to the rear. I rode on the train for several days, from the shaking the splinter moved away from the spine and he felt that the speech returned. Zhenya called a nurse, she was a doctor, and they pulled out a splinter with forceps. It was a complete surprise when he found himself in the Bryansk hospital. While they were passing the sanitary inspection, I saw an acquaintance who worked in the hospital as a plumber, and through him conveyed the news home that he was here. An acquaintance, whose name was Nikifor, conducted the wiring and heard his name, came up and, of course, did not immediately recognize him, Zhenya lay all tied up like a doll. Nikifor immediately ran home to Zhenya, it was at Christmas, at which time his mother was baking buns. Relatives came running despite the time (it was five o'clock in the morning). The head of the hospital gave my mother a permanent pass so that she could stay next to her son. An operation was performed in the hospital, after which he recovered and began to come home. I spent 4 months in the hospital. The convalescent team went to the reserve regiment. In the reserve regiment, Zhenya ended up in the regimental school for junior commanders, after which he was awarded the rank of sergeant, commander of a heavy machine gun crew. From here he was sent to the 227th Guards Regiment of the 8th Army of General Chuikov, which was already fighting in Poland. In early February, the regiment crossed the Oder (south of Kustrin) and the fighters captured the bridgehead, after which they fought to expand the bridgehead. On April 16, late at night in Berlin, 140 searchlights were simultaneously turned on, and at the same time artillery preparation was made from thousands of guns and mortars. The gunners' fire was so dense that Zhenya's infantry took the first position almost without firing.During one of the attacks, he was wounded in the leg and while he was dragged from the battlefield to the medical battalion and received medical assistance, his part went ahead. Having escaped from the medical battalion, he caught up with her only after 3 days. During this time, in the confusion that arose, the clerk put him on the list of the dead. The "funeral" went home, and his name appeared on the list of a fraternal burial in the settlement Wrightwein, Frankfurt / Oder district, Seelow district, foot of Wrightwein hill. (information about the place of burial of his granddaughter was found on the website of the WBS Memorial in 2015 during the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Victory). His sister Natasha received the "funeral" and did not show it to anyone, even to her mother, not knowing how to tell her about it. And after a while, a postcard came from Eugene, written after the date of "death" and Natasha realized that her brother was alive! He reached Tergarhen. On May 9 we learned that we had VICTORY. During the war, Eugene received three wounds: one heavy, and two light - in the leg and arm. One small splinter remained in his back for life, and a splinter of a fascist mine, which he got from a wound after a severe wound in the neck, is kept in our family, a small, heavy, metal piece of death. During the hostilities Ignatiev Yevgeny Viktorovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, the medal "For Courage", the medal "For the liberation of Warsaw", the medal "For the capture of Berlin" and the medal "For the victory over Germany". For the 40th anniversary of the Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, they were awarded to those front-line soldiers who had military orders.

Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Fought on the Western Front as part of the 20th army, 1170 artillery regiment. From April 1942 to March 1943 it was the gun number for 76 mm cannons. On February 23, 1943, together with his comrade, he restored the broken connection. Already on the way back he was wounded in the back, his friend carried him to the unit. Despite the fact that the military card says "severe wound to the spine", he was incredibly lucky, because the bullet went through almost the entire body, almost without affecting the vital organs. Entering the lower back from the right, she passed the spine, next to the heart, pierced a lung and exited at the left shoulder. Was presented to the Order of the Red Star. The medical personnel who carried him to the rear passed through Moscow, where he lived at the time. And Vasily Mikhailovich ran home to see his parents. At first they considered him a deserter and wanted to put him under a tribunal, but after understanding the situation, they simply sent him to the hospital, but he did not receive the Order of the Red Star. After treatment, art. regiment. From March 1943 to July 1945 he was a computer worker of the Separate Reconnaissance Division of the 1170th Artillery Regiment. After the war, Vasily Mikhailovich returned home to Moscow, entered the university, but could not graduate, because his father was seriously ill and soon died, he had to go to work. He worked at ZIL as a turner, and from August 1947 until his retirement at the Moscow Experimental Thermal Power Plant at the All-Union Thermal Engineering Institute (MoETS VTI), first as a normalizer, then as a senior foreman of a repair and construction department. First of all, he was a wonderful artist. As a boy, he studied at the Surikov School. He was a member of the Moscow Artists' Union. Several of his paintings are kept in the Kolomenskoye Museum. Vasily Mikhailovich loved his family very much. Passed away at the age of 80.

Rank: Sergeant of the State Security Service Type of troops: NKVD and NKGB troops (except for border troops) My father, Inozemtsev Vasily Yegorovich, was drafted into the Red Army on March 14, 1942 by the Issykul district military enlistment office of the Omsk region. From March to September 1942 he served as a telephone operator in the 245th Rifle Regiment of the 123rd Rifle Division of the 23rd Army of the Leningrad Front. From September 1941 to September 1942, the division defended the northern approaches to Leningrad in the Elizavetinsky and Lembolovsky BRO (the Lembolov-copper plant line). He was wounded on September 12 in the left leg and from September to October 1942 was being treated in the evacuation hospital №3283. After his recovery, he served in the 482nd separate communications battalion as a telephone operator on permanent lines from October 1942 to October 1943. Was wounded again. From October to December 1943 he was treated in the evacuation hospital №281. He continued to serve as the commander of the department of permanent communication lines from December 1943 to August 1946 in the 250th separate battalion of government communications of the NKVD of the 11th separate regiment of government communications of the NKVD, and later awarded the honorary title of Warsaw and awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and from March 7, 1945 of the year reorganized into the 11th separate Warsaw Red Banner Brigade of the Government Communications of the NKVD, later awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Departments of government communications were created at the fronts. Separate regiments, battalions and companies were subordinate to them. Communication was organized along "axes" and "directions". "Axial" was pulled to the front headquarters (usually 2 lines in different places). A "direction" was laid to the armies in one line. On March 18, 1946, the NKVD was renamed the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In August 1946, he was transferred to the 157th Red Banner Infantry Regiment of the Order of Alexander Nevsky, the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (from January 21, 1947, the Internal Troops of the MGB) as an encoder-cipher. The regiment carried out tasks for the protection of the rear under the group of Soviet occupation forces in Germany, namely, for the protection of uranium deposits, processing enterprises of the SJSC "Vismut". On April 26, 1949, on the basis of the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers of October 14, 1948, with the rank of sergeant, was dismissed from service. During his service he was awarded medals: "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." , "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Warsaw". In commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. In addition, he was awarded various jubilee medals.

My father, Irkhin Fedor Anisimovich, born in 1915, was a participant and invalid of the Great Patriotic War. In his youth, he worked as a tractor driver in his native collective farm, married in 1936, and in 1937 left to serve for 3 years in the Red Army, at home with his mother, their first-born son Nikolai was born, in the same year. Coming from the army, he again worked as a tractor driver. When the war began, he went to the front at the very beginning of the war. In November 1941, a daughter, Nadezhda, was born, whom her father did not see until his return from the war in 1943. He fought in a defensive operation near Odessa, was wounded and lost a leg, was in the hospital, where his right leg was amputated to the knee. After being discharged from the hospital, he was sent for rehabilitation to Azerbaijan to his older brother Lukyan Anisimovich, who worked as some kind of chief at the Adji-Kabul railway station. After rehabilitation, he returned home to the Krasnodar Territory, the Srednyaya Chuburka farm in the Kushchevsky district, where he worked on the Oktyabr collective farm, having studied at livestock breeders' courses, since he could no longer work as a tractor driver on a prosthesis. He worked conscientiously, was a member of the collective farm board, a deputy of the village council, he was respected in his own collective farm. After returning from the war, they had 2 more daughters with their mother - Valentina (that's me) in 1944 and Raisa in 1949. We all grew up and received a secondary education, and then some - a higher, some a secondary technical. Father loved all of us very much and really took care of the family, was always interested in our affairs and helped in everything. He worked as a senior livestock breeder, a clerk and a manager of a sheep farm, devoting himself entirely to work and even retired at 55 for fear that it would take a long time to look for documents to confirm his status. I never used any benefits, since the first benefits for the 30th anniversary of the Victory came out only when he, already terminally ill, was in a hospital in Rostov-on-Don, and did not live six months before his old-age pension. We, his children, are very sorry that at a time when the real participants and invalids of the war were working conscientiously, no one honored them as the present remaining veterans. Therefore, we are glad that such an event as the immortal regiment revives the memory of everyone who is no longer with us, but they are alive in our memory and worthy of the best memories! And let no one dare to rewrite the history of our country and the history of the Great Patriotic War, in which our grandfathers and fathers defended our right to a peaceful life under a clear sky. Glory to all veterans and health to those who are alive, and to those who died and died, honor and respect. We always remember them. Eternal memory to all defenders and veterans!

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Aviation My grandfather Ivanov Alexander Vladimirovich was born in the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region. The story is from him. I met the beginning of the war at the military school of pilots in the city of Armavir on June 22, 1941. In August we graduated from military school, but sent us not to the front, but to the Far East. There we had to protect the borders of our Motherland. But when it became definitely known that Japan would not side with Germany, the flight crew of three air divisions, 6 fighter regiments were sent to the front. The 3rd Fighter Corps was formed from the pilots of the Far East. The corps was commanded by Colonel Savitsky. The regiment was armed with the latest Yak-1 aircraft. All pilots were looking forward to the start of combat work. I was the youngest of the pilots in the regiment, I was in my twenties. With all my might I tried not to lag behind my comrades in flight work. The regiment began combat work. The first combat mission was to cover their troops in the area of ​​the city of Novorossiysk - Malaya Zemstanitsa Krymskaya. The weather was sunny, spring. Everyone tried to clearly maintain order of battle in the ranks. We came to the given area. We had an altitude of 4000 meters, on the radio I heard the voice of the commander of the group, Captain Lapshin: "Attention! The enemy is on the right" and immediately the command, "Let's attack!" The first air battle began. It was difficult to correctly assess the situation, there was not enough experience, unusual attention was distracted by fans of glowing trails and unfamiliar aircraft silhouettes; In this battle, our group did not shoot down a single aircraft, but all the pilots felt a real air battle, all of them had complete confidence in their abilities. In the next flight, the account of the downed aircraft was opened by the flight commander of Senior Lieutenant Sasha Lavrenov (later Hero of the Soviet Union). The air battles became more intense with each passing day. Air battles practically did not stop all day. Our pilots entered the battle immediately upon approaching the front line. In the last days of April, the fighting in the air turned into a real air battle. Our troops went on the offensive. The air was literally cramped. IL-2 attack aircraft were working near the ground. At medium altitudes, groups of bombers performed their tasks, each had cover for fighters. And all this happened over a small area, the village of Krymskaya - the city of Novorossiysk. Air battles lasted for several hours. Groups of aircraft on both sides changed without stopping the battle. In some air battles, 50 or more aircraft from each side took part. A few days before the end of the Kuban operation, in one of the sorties, after finishing the air battle, we headed for the airfield, for a while I relaxed my attention and came under fire from ME-109. The upper casing was torn off from the right edge, shrapnel hit the right arm and leg, the gas tank came out at an angle to the top of the plane. He swayed up and down from the oncoming air flow, holding on to the gas lines. ... Friends, seeing my position, covered me from the air. Everything went well, we managed to reach the airfield and land normally. It was another lesson that one should not forget the instructions of the senior pilots: "discretion begins with takeoff and ends with landing." Further, the combat path of our regiment passed through the south of Ukraine as part of the 4th Ukrainian Front. 1943 was the most productive year. Our troops marched from the walls of Stalingrad to Kiev. It is 1300 km. Every day, being above the troops, we watched this unstoppable advance. A dusty trail followed our columns of troops and equipment on all roads. Everyone moved west. On April 8, 1944, the liberation of Crimea began. The offensive began through Sivash. Three days later we landed at the Simferopol airfield. Crimea was cleared of German invaders in just 1 month. On May 9, Sevastopol was liberated. I would like to tell you about the Berlin operation. In January 1945, we, as part of the 1st Belorussian Front, took part in the liberation of Warsaw. The old Polish city was destroyed to the ground. In early April 1945, we landed at an airfield in Germany near the small German town of Morin. Berlin, as they say, is just a stone's throw away. For the aerodrome work, the German population was brought in, many women, teenagers, elderly men. We look at this nation with interest. None of them raise their heads, work with concentration, avoid eye contact. Thin, pale, now they feel the war at home. Every day we performed the main task of covering the ground forces. On April 16, 1945, the 1st Belorussian Front launched an offensive. There was a thick haze in the air, flew out in groups of 6-8 aircraft. The main task was to cover their ground troops on the battlefield. During the day, each pilot made 6-7 sorties. The complete superiority of our aviation was felt in the air. On one of the sorties we patrol in a given area west of the Oder with a group of 6 aircraft. I am the leader of the group. I see off to the side slightly above 6 "messengers".I get up on a parallel course with a climb. The Germans noticed us, but obviously they do not intend to enter the battle. We increase the speed, they will not be able to leave; I transmit to the guidance station "I see six messengers, we are attacking." The Germans have no choice but to accept the battle. Intense combat work continues every day. A week later we land almost at the very fascist den, 25 km away. from Berlin, next to the ring motorway. Here it is a fascist nest. It presented the darkest view from the air. Over the vast space, gray-dirty ruins, a sea of ​​fires and a black smoky sky smoked. In the last days, April 27-28, our regiment landed at the Dalgov airfield, 3-4 km west of Berlin, not far from its suburbs. It was a German experimental airfield. In the hangars we saw 2 ME-262 turbojet aircraft and one ME-163 jet fighter with a liquid-propellant jet engine. Pilots, hastily retrained from bombers and transport aircraft, began to appear in the air on German fighters. Some aces with iron crosses preferred to advance to the airfield to the Americans and British. In those days, I obviously turned up such a hastily trained pilot, inexperience was guessed in his actions. This was my last victory, the twelfth. On May 2, 1945, it was just beginning to dawn, we were awakened by explosions and automatic fires. We got up on alarm, a few minutes later we were at the planes. The regiment commander reported on the situation: "The German units are striving to break out of the center of Berlin and go west." Came just to our airfield. A short order follows: "After takeoff, release the entire ammunition load at the advancing (or, more correctly, at the retreating) Germans, landing at a nearby airfield." We take off, find clusters of dark figures in the middle of the street and houses stuck to the walls, and in long bursts we release all the ammunition at them. The technical staff and the aerodrome service took up defensive positions at the aerodrome. The headquarters of our division has already reported the situation above. Our tanks approached. The retreat was cut off. And by 15.00 on the same day, all units in Berlin ceased resistance. This mission on May 2 was the last combat mission. The war is over. We stood by the planes, looked at each other, quite differently, and smiled. And it became sad when they remembered their friends, pilots, who had not lived up to this day quite a bit. On this day, I felt both joy and pride that I was born in a Soviet country and that I am its full citizen. Ivanov Alexander Vladimirovich died on 13.03.1995.

Rank: Senior Sergeant. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. From July 1941 to April 1945 5 Guards VDBr. 2nd battalion of communications platoon. Commander of the telephone department. 1942 - 1943 - Northwestern Front. 1943 - the 2nd Ukrainian front behind enemy lines. April 1945 - January 1946 - 956th Attack Aviation Regiment. Air gunner, airman, parachute handler. January 1946 - May 1947 - 953rd Attack Aviation Regiment. Parachute stacker. May 1947 - March 1948 - 952nd Attack Aviation Regiment. Parachute stacker. From 1948 to 1951 he worked as a compressor driver at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Labor Protection. During this time, he graduated from the 10th grade of high school and entered the Moscow Engineering and Economics Institute in the evening department, which he graduated in 1956. From 1951 to 1959 worked at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Ferrous Metallurgy, first as a laboratory assistant, and then as a scientific and junior researcher. From 1959 to 1964 worked in the Economic Council of the Moscow (regional) economic administrative district as a senior engineer, and then as an assistant to the deputy chairman of the Economic Council and head of the production and distribution department for heavy industry. From 1964 to 1967 worked in the Committee for Instrumentation by means of Automation Control Systems under the USSR State Planning Committee as chief specialist in technical and economic indicators of the Planning and Economic Management industry. From 1967 to 1974 worked in the USSR State Planning Committee as an expert in the department of education and culture. On February 26, 1974, his father was removed from the military register, and on November 5, 1974, he died.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops 79th cadet naval rifle brigade was formed in September-December 1941 in the city of Novorosiysk. The brigade commander is Colonel Alexei Stepanovich Potapov. Military Commissar - Regimental Commissar Slesarev Ivan Andreevich. Chief of Staff - Major Morozov The ground forces were headed by the commander of the Primorsky Army, Major General Petrov I.E.By the beginning of June 1942, these forces consisted of seven rifle divisions, four brigades of marines, two regiments of marines, two tank battalions (38 tanks T -26) and one armored train. Ivanov A.R. was the commander of a tank company. On December 17, 1941, the Germans launched the second assault on Sevastopol. Arriving in the midst of the fighting for Sevastopol in December 21st of 1941, the 79th cadet naval rifle brigade was thrown into the decisive sector of the defense - in the Mekenziev mountains. Together with the 345th Rifle Brigade, it played an exceptional role in repelling the second enemy offensive. It occupied positions in the area of ​​the Mekenzia farm. Capturing Sevastopol cost the enemy dearly. For eight months of fighting near Sevastopol, the enemy lost up to 300 thousand soldiers and officers killed and wounded, as well as a large amount of equipment. The defensive defense of Sevastopol, which lasted from autumn 1941 to July 1942, chained significant enemy forces to itself, which contributed to the improvement The situation for our troops on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front. After the failure in November of the first and in December 1941 of the second German offensive against Sevastopol, the Nazi command undertook a new, third offensive in June 1942. Taking this offensive, the enemy expected to seize Sevastopol in the shortest possible time in order to free up his 11th Army for operations on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front. In the June battles for Sevastopol, the brigade fought with the same selflessness. For three days of the June fighting, it lost up to 50% of all personnel. Ivanov A.R. was injured and hospitalized. The brigade actually ceased to exist, its remnants were reduced to a two-company battalion, which fought as part of other formations until the last day of defense. The heroic eight-month defense of Sevastopol went down in the history of the Great Patriotic War as an unsurpassed example of long-term and stubborn defense, as an example of mass heroism and dedication of the Soviet troops.

Rank: Colonel. On August 6, 1941, Peter Evstafievich was drafted into the army and sent to the military infantry school in the city of Stalinsk (now Novokuznetsk), after graduating with the rank of lieutenant and the position of platoon commander, he was sent to Ufa. The young officer trained sergeants to the front. Further, Peter Evstafievich was directed to the formation of the 58th Army. At this time, I learned that his father had died. But there was no time to grieve, the war was going on. He received his baptism of fire from Zhitomir as part of the 99th rifle division and was soon appointed commander of a mortar company. The division liberated the cities: Starokonstantinov (Ukraine), Ternopil, Lvov, crossed the Danube and went to Budapest. Further, his path lay through Romania and Hungary. On the island of Chepel Ilyin Pyotr Evstavfievich was admitted to the Communist Party. And again into battle. In Budapest, already in the rank of captain, he commanded a battalion and led the attack shouting "Hurray", "For the Motherland", "For Stalin." We went to the enemy. Further to Vienna, the liberation of Czechoslovakia. Here is the day of victory! But the war did not end for P.E. Ilyin, a new order: to the Far East, where there were battles with Japan. When the war ended Ilyin P.E. was sent to the headquarters of the East Siberian District and was assigned to serve in the military commissariat, to prepare young people for service in the army. They were given 22 years of life, of which 13 years as a military commissar of the city of Achinsk and the Achinsk region of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. In 1946 he married Anna Fedotovna Chebykina, who worked for the Leninsky Put’ newspaper and was also awarded medals for selfless labor.

Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Aviation. Her combat path began in May 1942 at the station. Bakaritsa of Arkhangelsk within 1.5-2 months. completed the course of a young soldier, then was sent to the Karelian Front as part of the 7th Air Army of the 101st battalion, where part of it built dugouts for flight personnel and airfields and landing sites to guard the Kirov railway. (Murmansk-Vologda), along which military supplies and food were transported. This road was continuously bombed by enemy aircraft, so it had to work under the bombing. After the liberation of the Soviet Arctic, part of it was transferred to the West in the mountains. Kaliningrad (Tver), to Belarus, to East Prussia, and she was demobilized in August 1945 from the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). She was awarded medals "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", For the liberation of the Soviet Arctic "," For the capture of Konigsberg. "The Veteran of Labor medal, jubilee medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1942-1945 year 20,30,40,50,60,70 years. She has already gone through a lot, this is what she wrote in her memoirs: "Oh, and the girl's lot was hard in the war. I was appointed a foreman. We built airfields and landing sites for planes, cleared of felling, uprooted stumps. We worked for 16-20 hours under bombing. "The food was not important: 650 g of bread, but a talker, whitewashed with flour. Yes, sauerkraut, which we prepared ourselves. That's the whole ration." after the war came to her village: Not a single man. Women plow on themselves and fell wood. "And our mother has 6 daughters." I am the eldest. The only brother Pavlik (Pavel Aleksandrovich Pirogov, born in 1918, died a heroic death on the Sinyavinskiye heights near Leningrad, died on 14/01/1943 in the rank of corporal of the 71st Rifle regiment was a liaison and a member of the Komsomol "). , village of Gontovaya Lipka, east of the road, "- information from the personal list of irrecoverable losses of the commanding staff of the 71st rifle division from January 13-20, 1943. She had to raise all her sisters. And they lived with their great-grandfather for 44 years. grandmother Valya (journalist) and her brother Alexander. He is a retired lieutenant colonel. On May 9, Mom and Dad will carry the portraits of my great-grandfathers in the columns of the Immortal Regiment.

Rank: Junior Sergeant Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 230th Infantry Division (1st formation) To the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. The girl went through the whole war Photo: communa.ru A letter on the page of the "Commune" in social networks prompted the newspaper journalist to search for the data of a front-line grandmother. This letter came to the site of "Commune". “My name is Nadezhda Mikhailova. My grandfather died near Voronezh in 1942. He was a fire spotter. My grandmother was never able to find his grave. His name was Petr Aleksandrovich Mikhailov. A native of the Borovichi district of the Novgorod region. Maybe you can help me "? Tamara Gashimova “scattered” the letter on social networks - and thought: what do I know about my grandmother? Where did you fight, where did you meet the Victory? Medals and a guards badge, and those for childhood-stupidity lost. This photo shows Tatiana Israilova, a twenty-three-year-old girl with a medal "For Courage". August 1945. Czechoslovakia. How many times, looking at the picture, remembering the rare and laconic stories of my grandmother about the war, in essence the answers to my sister's and my questions, I thought: could I leave my parents, study at the institute, my beloved city, and go to the front at the age of 19? To be radio operator. To the front line. In the worst hell - to lay and provide communication on the front line. To know that at any moment I can die, be captured or go missing. And still leave. I do not know. Granny lived in the center of Tbilisi. Her parents managed to get rid of the prefix "Ter" to their family name in time and painlessly merged into a new, Soviet life. She, the only daughter, was cared for and cherished. Rejoiced when she entered medical. The doctor is the most feminine profession. Always in a clean office, in a white coat. And for the family, the benefit is great. I am nine or ten years old. Grandma comes into the room. I kiss her and feel the subtle smell of cigarettes. Having heard enough at school that smoking is poison, I preach and categorically declare: - Quit smoking, or I will no longer love you! Grandmother in response strokes my head and says that this will not happen again. In the evening, my mother said that my grandmother had learned to smoke during the war. When, retreating or, conversely, advancing, part of them broke away from the rear, then the field kitchen had to wait for two or three days. First, they stretched the crackers, and then turned out the duffel bag in search of bread crumbs ... In August 1941, she was sent to the 10th separate linear reserve communications regiment for a three-month course for radio operators. In November 19-year-old Tatyana Israilova went to the front. Until December 1942, judging by the entry in the military card, she was a radio operator in the 966 rifle regiment. No division number, no army or front name. According to my mother, I knew that my grandmother was twice wounded and shell-shocked. But where and under what circumstances did this happen? A few weeks ago on the website "People's feat" I found a sheet about her awarding the medal "For Courage" in the city of Gyor, dated July 31, 1945. It says: “To reward the radio operator of the control company of junior sergeant Israilova Tatyana Georgievna. Being in battles on the Southwestern Front on January 20, 1942, at night, under heavy enemy fire, she conducted a communication line, restored the broken line within two hours, which made it possible to present an urgent report. On 08/25/1942, under heavy enemy fire, when leaving the encirclement, she timely submitted the order of the commander to the battalion headquarters. Lightly wounded on 20 January 1942, severely shell-shocked on 25 August 1942. The military ID only contained the numbers of the regiments and the hospital. In the award - only the front. Two days of searching on various sites to restore the combat path. I didn't want to drink, eat, or sleep. If only to find. Found it. Introduced. It became scary. I read: “On January 18, 1942, Soviet troops made the first attempt to liberate Kharkov. The shock group of the Southwestern Front broke the stubborn resistance of the enemy in the areas of Balakliya and Slavyansk. " On January 20th, a nineteen-year-old girl with a huge, heavy coil makes a connection. Then he rebuilds it after the bombing. Night. Bullets. Explosions. Earth from under your feet. The first wound ... Where exactly? Now you don't know. Again I throw requests into the search engine. Again I scan dozens of Internet pages with my eyes. Outside the window is night. Suddenly, a line flashes - "966th Infantry Regiment". The same one, grandmother! I open it and see: “On August 23, 1942, the 26th division fought in Dneprodzerzhinsk together with the 966 regiment of the 230th rifle division. On August 24, they emerged from the encirclement and crossed to the left bank of the Dnieper. At half past one in the night of August 25, Soviet troops left Dnepropetrovsk under the onslaught of the enemy, ferrying people and equipment to the left bank of the Dnieper. " It was on that night that Tatyana Israilova, delivering the report, was severely shell-shocked. After the hospital, she was granted leave in Tbilisi. This is evidenced by a miraculously preserved copy of the certificate of the Tbilisi Garrison Polyclinic dated September 5, 1942. It contains a record: service in connection is contraindicated.But my grandmother returned to her regiment and served in it until December 1942. Before his second shell shock ... A film about the war is on the TV screen. My sister and I watch without stopping. And the grandmother says: there were no soldiers in the trenches in new, ironed gymnastics and boots polished to a shine. And there were no songs. What songs, when there are lice and dirt all around? And the soul-taking whistle of bombs. And the pain of losing her friends, squeezing a girl's heart in an iron vice? The main thing is to complete the task and return alive. Write to mom. Time to whisper a prayer before the fight. Yours. The simplest one. To go home. And if you die, so immediately. No torment, no captivity. How, a prayer ?! - we round our eyes. - There is no God! The teacher told us. - No, no, - soothes us. I learned that she was baptized only after her death. Further on the military card reads: December 1942 - August 1943 - evacuation hospital 3121. Finding it was the easiest. The 375-bed hospital was located at the Gorkoye Lake resort, nine kilometers from the Alakul station of the Shchuchansky district of the Kurgan region. Here she was for eight months. Here I met my twenty-first birthday. In August 1943, Tatiana Israilova was sent to the tenth separate communications regiment. She served in it until December 1944. The regiment was at first part of the 33rd Army of the Western Front, then wandered from one Belorussian front to another. She participated in offensive battles in Belarus, crossed the Dnieper, liberated Mogilev, Bialystok, Minsk. And again - military ID: December 1944-October 1945 - 25th separate mechanized regiment of the 7th Guards Mechanized Corps of the 1st Ukrainian Front - squad leader. And again the search. I will soon find out: with her girls, she participated in the Sandomierz-Silesian, Lower Silesian and Upper Silesian operations, the liberation of the southern regions of Poland, the crossing of the Oder. I was happy with them when in April the corps was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, II degree. Then there was the Berlin, then the Prague strategic operations. I read and understand: my memory does not fail me. I remember how my grandmother regretted that they were transferred from Berlin to Czechoslovakia. Among the grandmother's documents there is also a copy of the wound certificate issued by the Surgical Field Hospital No. 5164 "Prague" on September 8, 1945. Tatyana Israilova demobilized on October 15, 1945 with medals "For Courage" and "For Victory over Germany." She returned to Tbilisi, got a job as a signalman. She got married and gave birth to four children. Three of them were buried in infancy, only my mother survived. To save her, who miraculously climbed out after lung infiltration, without hesitation, she changed the humid climate of her beloved Georgia to the dry but frosty climate of Yakutia. The husband refused to go. Then she alone, across the country, with a one-year-old daughter in her arms and a Singer sewing machine, went to Magadan. From there - to the cold pole, in Oymyakonye. To the Dalny mine, next to which the first houses of the Artyk settlement were just beginning to be built. ... My sister and I are sitting in the kitchen of my grandmother. Granny offers us scrambled eggs and tomatoes. At first we are mischievous, we wrinkle our noses - we don't want to, although we have never tried this. And then suddenly we agree. Tasty extraordinary! Until now ... Everything and always she did herself. I have never enjoyed anyone's friendship and affection. And I never envied anyone. With my own hands I built a house with all the amenities. A greenhouse to feed my daughter with fresh vegetables. In the short northern summer, the yard was surrounded by the greenery of trees and flowers planted by her hands. Living on one salary, I managed to constantly take my mother to Moscow, Leningrad, Tbilisi, to theaters, art galleries. Collected a large library. She managed to do everything: build, plaster, sew and knit for the entire female half of the family, embroider with satin stitch and a cross, chop coal, chop wood. It didn’t cost her anything to get electricity, glaze the window frames. And in the morning - come to work in an elegant suit, with a beautiful haircut. All her life, until retirement, my grandmother worked as a radio operator, first in Tbilisi, then in Yakutia. The work book and the insert are full of gratitude. ... Once my grandmother found me bursting into tears. Smearing tears on her cheeks, she admitted that, climbing over the fence after the boys, she tore her dress. I sobbed, knowing that I would get a scolding from my mother. At seven years old, it seemed like a real tragedy. Grandma hugged me and said: a torn dress is not grief. Grief is when nothing can be changed. Grief is death. But even here no one should see your tears. Respect the strong; the weak are sorry. I understood the meaning of these words when I became an adult. When I comprehended what I knew about my grandmother from my mother's words. She was ill for a long time. But she passed away suddenly, at the age of 56, as a result of a hypertensive stroke. Two days before that, a parcel with corn flour and sweets arrived from Tbilisi. We ate the goodies right away, my mom was going to bake the corn cakes on the weekend. Did not make it...

Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Signal troops. Our father Sergei Andreevich Ivanov met the beginning of the war in Leningrad, but front-line mobilization did not affect him immediately, because on June 18, 1941, while undergoing field practice as part of his studies at the geodetic technical school, he broke his left collarbone and until November was being treated at the trauma institute ... On November 8, he was sent to study at the military school of radio operators of the Leningrad Front to study radio business. From the beginning of September 1941, the circle of the blockade of Leningrad was closed. The difficult pages of the life of the townspeople began. In his memoirs, the father writes that he wanted to eat and sleep all the time. Once, leaving the dugout where the students-radio operators lived, he lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital. In early April 1942 he was sent to the 55th Army, which was stationed in the southeast in the Rybatskoye settlement. There he met the radio operators, with whom he was later linked by many years of friendship. Among them was Vyacheslav Lappo - an Estonian, a good-natured person, the future creator of the receiving antenna of the first artificial Earth satellite. From my father's recollections of the war: "A terrible shelling was in one of the autumn days of 1943. The Nazis fired at the territory of the Spartak garden, which was located in the southeast of Leningrad. There, in a van, was my radio station. A trench was dug for the car, but since the soil was swampy, it was not possible to dig deeply. We only managed to cover the chassis of the car, and the van was almost all over the trench. During the shelling, I received a radiogram. Through the window I saw how the shells exploded and the explosions approached the radio station. One of the fragments from the explosion, breaking through the roof of the van, fell on the table where the radio station was. I took the splinter - it was still hot, the next explosion threw the car in which I was sitting and shook it violently. After the artillery shelling, the commander of our company said that the shell went into the swampy soil under the car and exploded in the depths. He scolded me for not getting out of the car and hiding in a trench. I replied: “How would the soldiers and the command look at me after that?” During this shelling and senior sergeant Podgorny was wounded by a shrapnel in the arm. He was saved from death by the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad" - a splinter hit it. On this day, two of our officers were killed. " Together with the 55th Army, (later 67) of the Leningrad Front, my father participated in the liberation of the Leningrad, the territory of the present Pskov region and the Baltic states. As a participant in hostilities during the Great Patriotic War, my father was awarded medals "For Courage", "For the Defense of Leningrad", the Order of the Great Patriotic War and other jubilee government awards. Since 1948, his father's life is closely connected with the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute named after CM. Kirov (hereinafter - the Pskov State Pedagogical University), he has gone from a student of the Faculty of History to Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor, head of the department. The memory of him is forever with us. Sons Andrey and Victor, grandchildren Pavel, Natalia, Alina.

Rank: Red Army. Branch of the service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. I would like to write about my father, Mikhail Pavlovich Ischenko. He was born in 1926 in Ukraine, in the small town of Volnovakha, not far from Donetsk (at that time, Stalino) in a simple working-class family. As a child, he experienced everything, both hunger and cold, he even had to eat sparrows. Having barely reached the age of eighteen, he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1944 and fought as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He took part in the liberation of Orsha and part of Belarus. My father is from the generation of defenders of the Fatherland of the last military draft, and this is a special category of people. On January 13, 1945, the Soviet army launched the East Prussian operation, and at the beginning of April 1945, the assault on Konigsberg began. According to Soviet data, the losses of the troops of the 3rd Belorussian Front during the assault on Koenigsberg amounted to 3,700 people killed. The father survived but was seriously injured. A shrapnel knocked out 3 ribs, and the bullet stuck in soft tissues 1 cm from the spine. I remember from childhood how I looked at his X-ray and was surprised how a person can live with a bullet in the body. He lived a long life, he was many times invited to Belarus to military parades, but his health did not allow, and the country of the Soviet Union no longer existed. Having passed next to death, the father acquired exceptional resistance to adversity and a constant readiness to come to the rescue, despite his age and illness. He died in Donetsk at the age of 81.