Heroes and feats

CITY: Petrovenki village (Ukrainian SSR, Lugansk region, Kryndychevsky district) DATE OF BIRTH: 08.16.1921 DATE OF DEATH: 04/02/2000 HISTORY: Title: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Aviation. Ageev Leonid Timofeevich was born on August 16, 1921 in the village of Petrovenki (Ukrainian SSR, Lugansk region, Kryndychevsky district) in the family of an engineer-inventor. At the age of 18 he was drafted by the Tagansky Military Commissariat of Moscow into the ranks of the Soviet Army, and from 1940 to 1972 he was an officer in the Soviet Army. He graduated from the Vasilkovsky Aviation Technical School, as well as the Orsk Machine-Building Technical School. Member of the Great Patriotic War. He fought on the Kalinin and Voronezh fronts. On August 5, 1943, he received a severe shrapnel wound in the back during the Kursk-Belgorod operation. On August 18, 1943, the turning point came when it became clear that he would live. He called this day his second birthday. The order book was issued on June 17, 1948. He was awarded two Orders of the Patriotic War, II degree, the Order of the Red Star, two medals for Military Merit and 15 medals and insignia received during military service in peacetime. In 1947 he got married. He has two daughters. In 1972, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, he retired from the ranks of the Soviet army, thus serving for 33 years. In the same year he came to the city of Pushkino, Moscow Region. From 1975 to 1992, he worked as Lead Flight Test Engineer in the Flight Service Directorate of the Ministry of Aviation Industry. Over the years, he has carried out a lot of work on engineering and aviation support for test flights of experimental aviation. He also took exams for test pilots. In 1994, having given 53 years of aviation, he headed the Pushkin Council of Veterans. Under him, the work of the council was noticeably revitalized. The first memorial in Pushkino, erected in memory of the inhabitants of the Pushkin District who died in battle, was erected under his direct leadership and with his active participation.

CITY: Chuvash Republic, Batyrevsky district, village Kzyl-Chishma DATE OF BIRTH: 02/15/1921 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Zeynulla Gainullovich Abitov, born on February 15, 1921. Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 11th Kirovograd Artillery Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. Among the people who protected billions of people from fascism in 1941-1945 is my maternal great-grandfather. This is my mother's own grandfather. His name is Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich. We lived with him in the same village - in the village of Kzyl-Chishma. They lived on different streets, but visited them often. I know that he also bravely fought for the Motherland against the German invaders, participated in the Great Patriotic War as part of the active army from October 1942 to February 1945. Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich was born on February 15, 1921 in the village of Kzyl-Chishma. On the evening of June 22, 1941, all the youth of the village were at a party. She danced, sang, played. My great-grandfather also had fun, played the accordion. Suddenly, the chairman of the collective farm, the director of the school and the secretary of the party cell entered the house where the party was taking place. They brought the terrible news: "The war has begun!" Soon all the young people gathered in the club. My great-grandfather at that time was the secretary of the Komsomol organization. He really wanted to defend his homeland. The dream has come true! The next day he was already mobilized into the ranks of the Red Army. In October 1941, Abitov Zeynulla Gainullovich was sent to study at the Omsk military school. Good cadres and good officers were needed to conduct the war. Great-grandfather studied for one year. After graduating from college in October 1942, the young lieutenant was sent to the Stalingrad front, where terrible battles were fought. Lieutenant Abitov was appointed platoon leader in the 95th artillery regiment of the 11th artillery division. It was at Stalingrad that his character was tempered, he learned to fight. It was here, quite by chance, that my great-grandfather met Minnebana, his fellow villager and friend Tagirov, in the trench. They managed to communicate quite a bit. Soon my relative found out that his friend, the shooter, had died. Great-grandfather often recalled those difficult times, with tears he recalled his friend, whom he saw only for a minute in the trench. Hitler was aimed east, towards the Volga and Stalingrad. The capture of Stalingrad was very important to him for several reasons. It was the main industrial city on the banks of the Volga, a vital transport route between the Caspian Sea and northern Russia. The capture of Stalingrad would ensure the safety of the German armies advancing into the Caucasus on the left flank. Finally, the fact that the city bore the name of Stalin, Hitler's main enemy, made the capture of the city a winning move. The word Stalingrad reminds of a battle that surpassed all armed clashes of the past in terms of scope, tension and consequences. On July 17, the troops of the Stalingrad Front received their first baptism of fire. In a large bend of the Don, at the border of the Chir and Tsymla rivers, the forward detachments of the armies entered into battle with the vanguards of the German army divisions. It is here that the greatest epic of the Second World War, the Battle of Stalingrad, begins. In November 1942, after three months of bloody massacre, the Germans reached the banks of the river, almost completely capturing the destroyed city. Unusually merciless was the battle on the Mamayev Kurgan, a height soaked in blood, towering over the city. The height passed from hand to hand several times. During one of the Soviet counterattacks on Mamayev Kurgan in order to intercept it, the Soviet troops lost an entire division of 10 thousand people in one day. They suffered losses, but not a single unit was completely destroyed. Many fighters considered it a shame to be absent from the battlefield due to minor injury. They stayed because they did not want to leave their comrades. After the battles on the Mamayev Kurgan, the Kurgan itself seemed to be poured out of metal. It was all riddled with fragments of bombs and shells. Now on the Mamayev Kurgan there is a monument worthy of this battle. But the day came - November 19, 1942, when the troops of the fronts operating at Stalingrad went on the offensive. By December 19, over 300 German tanks had already participated in the offensive. But thanks to the courage and resilience of the Soviet troops, the offensive was stopped and then thrown back 200 kilometers from Stalingrad. Thanks to this victory, the fate of the war as a whole was finally decided. In early January, an operation began to eliminate the encircled group. On February 1, 1943, after a crushing blow from our artillery, the northern part also surrendered. On February 2, 1943, at 16 o'clock, the Battle of Stalingrad ended. At Stalingrad, our army won the first great victory over the Nazis. In one of the battles, my great-grandfather was wounded in the leg and was taken to the hospital. After the hospital, he took courses for officers. Then he was transferred to the 3rd Ukrainian Front, appointed company commander. Then he participated in the 1st Belorussian Front in the liberation of the cities of Belarus. By that time he was promoted to senior lieutenant.Later, my great-grandfather took part in the battles for the Right-Bank Ukraine, in the crossing of the Dnieper. In Germany, not far from the Oder River, he, unfortunately, was very seriously wounded in the leg, so he had to meet Victory Day in the hospital. When I learned about the Victory, I experienced a great feeling of joy. Great-grandfather recalled: “When we learned that the war was over, we jumped out of bed and jumped for joy. Everyone was screaming and crying. It is impossible to convey what a joy it was for us. It turns out that my wound opened, blood began to flow, but I did not feel it. There was so much happiness, joy from the Victory, from the fact that they remained alive, so much grief that not everyone will return. " Great-grandfather returned home in November 1945. Was transferred to the reserve with the rank of senior lieutenant. For military merits, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Red Banner of the Battle, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal for the defense of Stalingrad, etc. In addition, recently, in 2010, he was given a car and an apartment. They wanted to leave my great-grandfather to study at the military academy, but he really wanted to return to his native village. He really missed his family. His mother and 4 sisters remained in the village. And he returned home. After returning, my great-grandfather continued to work on the collective farm. I got married. In 1946 he was elected chairman of his native collective farm. He served as the head of the collective farm for 5 years. He has achieved very great success in his work. For his hard work, soon in 1951, he was appointed director of the Chkalovsk creamery, where he worked for 5 years. From 1957 until his retirement, his great-grandfather worked as an accountant on his native collective farm. Together with his wife, they raised 3 children. In 1986 he was awarded the rank of captain. Remembering Stalingrad, my great-grandfather said: “Asphalt turned into sand, houses collapsed before our eyes, blood, horror. After fierce fighting, little of the city remained. It seemed that no one would survive. But we defended Stalingrad. The Germans who had surrendered shouted: “Hitler is kaput. ..Hitler kaput ... "My grandfather always repeated these words:" Let the children grow up peacefully, not being afraid of bomb explosions. I wish there were no such harsh days as they were during the war. We fought for the future of the country, for a peaceful sky overhead. You should enjoy every peaceful day, study and work honestly. There are such good opportunities for all this! " 279 people left my village for the war. 116 fellow villagers forever remained in the memory of relatives and friends as young, they died. 163 people returned home alive. There are not many veterans left in the village today. There are only 2 of them left ... It’s a pity that people I knew are leaving. I wish the veterans health. As a child, my mother often left me with my great-grandfather. When he played the accordion, I loved to dance and sing. He was always cheerful, until his last days he loved to play his harmonica, remember his youth. In recent years, although he was old, he behaved like a real officer, always clean and tidy. I say thank you very much for the peaceful sky, for the gentle sun. After all, he was only 19 years old when he went to war, he was a lieutenant, led a platoon, a company. I am very proud of him, of his courage, because he fought for the Motherland, defended the country. I love my great-grandfather very much! We can undoubtedly call him a HERO!

Type of troops: Engineering troops. Subdivision: 32nd Guards Rifle Taman Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. I want to tell you about my grandfather Ignatov Ivan Petrovich, who was born in 1911 in the village of Karaul, Inzhavinsky district, Tambov region. When the war began in 1941, my grandfather was 30 years old. He was married and lived in Ukraine. And his wife, my grandmother Raisa Titovna, with three children was evacuated from Ukraine. During the crossing of the Volga River on a ferry, they were bombed by the Germans. My father Valery Ivanovich was born in 1941 right on the Volga during the bombing of the Battle of Stalingrad. They went through a lot. But people then helped each other in difficult times. They also helped my grandmother with three children. Meanwhile, my grandfather Ivan Petrovich was already fighting the Germans. He fought the entire war on different fronts: - from 1939 to October 1941. cadet and commander of a sapper platoon of the 389th Infantry Regiment, Odessa Military District; - from 1941 to 1942 deputy the commander of the sapper company of the 2nd squad of the sapper battalion of the 26th rifle brigade, North Caucasian front; - from 1942 to 1943 engineer squadron commander, chief of engineering service of the 9th Kuban Cossack division, Southern Front; - since 1943 commander of a separate battalion of an infantry division. He was a sapper officer. Was injured. At the front he joined the CPSU. My grandfather went to Konigsberg, where he ended the war. My dad used to say that for my grandfather, the war was the main event in his life. He could talk about the war for hours, recollect various frontline incidents, recollect his fighters-comrades. I saw photographs of Ivan Petrovich. All his chest was in orders and medals: Order of the Red Star No. 448156, Order of the Patriotic War I degree No. 56627, Order of the October Revolution No. 13022, Order of the Patriotic War No. 1921951, Order of Alexander Nevsky No. 22140; medals - "For Courage" No. 256929, "For the Defense of the Caucasus" No. 049488, "For the capture of Konigsberg" No. 236224, "For Victory over Germany" No. 0216634; 5 Jubilee medals, "For Valiant Labor", "Veteran of Labor". He was constantly invited to speak to schoolchildren and workers. May 9th was the main holiday. Grandfather put on a ceremonial uniform with orders and medals and went to the parade. He had the rank of retired major. Until his very last days, he was vigorous, fit, true to his ideals. Many people were killed during the war. They fought for their homeland, for their loved ones. It is a pity that now there are not many veterans left alive. My grandfather also died in 1998. I would like the younger generation to remember their history, to love their Motherland - Russia. Honored their heroes. Known and unknown. And I want to end with the words of the front-line poet Alexander Tvardovsky: I know, it’s not my fault that others didn’t come from the war. The fact that they - who are older, who are younger - Remained there and not about the same speech, That I could, but could not save them, It's not about that, but still, nevertheless, nevertheless ....

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 17th Kiev-Zhytomyr Artillery Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Breakthrough Division. Biigishi Ibragimov graduated from the Aviation School named after. Chkalov. He graduated well, education and general development, and most importantly, diligence allowed him to graduate from school among the best. The command decided to keep the capable pilot as the school's aviation instructor. So from January 1940 until the very beginning of the war, he flew and trained future pilots. On June 22 - Sunday - the pilots planned to hold football and volleyball matches with the recruits ... But the plans were not destined to come true. On the second day of the outbreak of the war, pilot Biigishi Ibragimov was sent as a pilot of the 5th separate air squadron of the Central Front. The young pilots still had a lot to learn, but the war itself became the teacher. Almost none of the pilots of the 5th Separate Aviation Squadron had combat missions. When our young, untrained pilots rose into the air, Goering's "aces of diamonds" came out to them. Considering this, the command, as soon as the pilots arrived near Kharkov, made it possible for several units to take off for free hunting. Biigishi took his plane into the air a couple of times, but did not meet a single German plane. But a day later, when our two flights took off, a long-awaited meeting with the enemy took place. The Germans damaged several of our planes and one even burned down, but, fortunately, the pilot managed to jump out of the burning plane. The command thanked our pilots for the first and very successful battle. For newcomers to take a battle with experienced German pilots and return, having lost only one car, is already a success, especially by the morning of the next day our ground troops informed the pilots that as a result of this battle they saw several burning and falling German planes. Within one week Biigishi took part in aerial reconnaissance four times, including two military clashes with German pilots. In the fourth combat sortie ours were attacked with great numerical superiority by German aircraft. The battle was hard, several enemy planes burned down, but ours also got it pretty. In this group battle, one of the downed enemy planes was credited to Ibragimov's account, but he found out about it lying on a stretcher, when our orderlies picked him up, after he fell out of a burning plane. As a result of being wounded in this air battle, he had to be treated for seven months in an evacuation hospital in the city of Troitsk, Chelyabinsk region. After his recovery, he was assigned to the ground forces, where Biigishi fought until the end of the war as platoon commander of 1251 park artillery regiment of the 17th Bryansk and 1 Ukrainian fronts. The Motherland noted the pilot's military merits with the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, as well as military medals: "For Military Merit", "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany", as well as many other awards ... The veteran died in the city of Buinaksk, was buried in his native village of Verkhnee - Kazanishche.

HISTORY: My great-grandfather, Ivanushkin Alexander Petrovich, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. Born on February 22, 1908, in the village of Protasovo (Kolpnyansky District, Oryol Region). In 1939, at 31, he was drafted to the front. Great-grandfather came as a soldier, ended the war with the rank of lieutenant. At the front, Alexander Petrovich was a brave soldier and a reliable friend. He has a lot of photographs sent by his comrades as a keepsake. Great-grandfather left the Oryol region and went all the way to Germany and the capture of the Reichstag. He also had two brothers: Ivanushkin Nikolai Petrovich - a colonel, who came from the Oryol region to Eastern Europe and Ivanushkin Ivan Petrovich - a pilot. Participated in: - in breaking through the German defense in the eastern city of Stattgard and reaching the coast of the Baltic Sea in the area of ​​Kolberg (Gratitude of 03/04/1945 No. 288); - in the seizure of the cities of Western Pomerania: Belgrade, Treptow, Greifenberg, Cummin, Gultsov and Plata (Certificate of 03/06/1945 No. 292); - a breakthrough in the German defense and an offensive on Berlin (thanks 23.04.1945, No. 339); - in the seizure of the district and the main building of the Reichstag (Gratitude of 04/30/1945, No. 6); - in the mastery of Berlin (Gratitude from 05/02/1945, No. 359). - participated in the storming of the Reichstag as part of the 150 Idritsky rifle division. And they witnessed how Yegorov and Kantarii hoisted the banner of victory over the Reichstag. Great-grandfather has more than 15 medals. After this Great Victory, the great-grandfather was awarded numerous medals. From the front, my great-grandfather's wife Maria Petrovna and 3 children were waiting at home: - my grandfather Leonid Alexandrovich, who was 10 years old at that time, - my sister Evgenia - 9 years old, - brother Vladislav - 16 years old. Later, my grandfather moved them to live in Moscow, as my grandmother was seriously ill and grandfather needed help. My grandfather had a son in 1966 on September 19 - my dad and great-grandfather's grandson. Also, my great-grandfather saw me - his great-granddaughter, I was born in 1987 on December 12. In 1991, on April 10, my great-grandfather died. He was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. Now we are looking after his grave: grandfather, grandson and great-grandchildren. I regret that little information was preserved and my great-grandfather did not particularly want to share difficult memories, and my grandfather does not remember much anymore - he is 80 this year. But I'm incredibly proud that I have such a great-grandfather. He is a real man, fearless, courageous ... We will always Remember, Thank, Honor our great-grandfather and all the front-line soldiers who gave us victory and a bright sky overhead.

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 173rd Rifle Orsha Red Banner Division. Once in my childhood I found a document written by my dad. I really liked his handwriting. The text told about his labor activity. I was surprised by the fact that in his ninth grade, his father was teaching Russian to a fifth-grader in his school due to a lack of teachers. Literacy helped him enroll in short-term officer courses during the Great Patriotic War. In three months the kishlak boy turned into a lieutenant and went to look death in the eye. On his shoulders lay the responsibility for several hundred Uzbek fellow countrymen, yesterday's farmers-peasants, who never left their villages. They not only did not know Russian and did not know how to write, many of them had not even seen a rifle before. During the battle, they were given one rifle for two, due to the lack of weapons in the first months of the war. My father was a Komsomol organizer of the battalion, at the same time a translator. In the course of one of the battles, an experienced commander was killed, and all this horde of "not shot soldiers" went to him. After being seriously wounded in the city of Suwalki (Poland), he was not suitable for the formation and he was sent to the rear, to his homeland, to restore the country's economy. In 1977, after his death, his front-line friend told me that when they learned in Besharyk that his father was returning from the front, many came to meet him at the station. Before he got out of the carriage, he was surrounded on all sides, and everyone began to ask about their relatives at the front. The father got on the locomotive and began to tell how their fathers and brothers heroically fight the enemy. There was complete silence, and it was already impossible to stop him, even the train had to be delayed. When he finished his speech, everyone began to cry. Women, children, men ... The whole station. My father had several military awards. After the war, his mother wore these combat medals on the ends of her hair, on her pigtails. Such a fashion was in Besharyk. Then they got lost. Only the Order of the Red Star has survived. My father did not like to talk about the war. When he was in a good mood, he would tell something about his fellow soldiers, but about himself he spoke very sparingly.

There is a lot of information about the Great Patriotic War in our family, all my great-great-grandfathers were in one way or another its participants. My great-great-grandfather, Grigory Sergeevich Ishkin, took a direct part in it. My great-great-grandfather was called to the ranks of the Red Army on October 26, 1941, having received the rank of a Red Army soldier, served as a driver of a separate company of the Directorate of the 15th Engineer-Mine Brigade of the RGK. At the time of the call, the great-great-grandfather already had a family: two sons and a daughter, who were in the rear throughout the war (beyond the Volga River in the Yaroslavl Region) and were looking forward to the return of their father, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships that befell the family. According to my mother, grandfather Nikolai, the son of Grisha's great-great-grandfather, told her that the grandfather's family often starved, there were difficulties in everything, and beyond the river the rumble of exploding bombs and shells was still constantly heard. But nothing broke them. From February 24, 1942. Until September 14, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the Western Front. In March 1943, the great-great-grandfather was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the excellent performance of the command's combat missions for the delivery of mines to the engineering units of the 3rd Guards Army operating on the front line. The great-great-grandfather's car fell into the zone of enemy machine-gun fire, but thanks to the patience and resourcefulness of the grandfather, the cargo and personnel were delivered to the place at the specified time without loss. From November 3, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the South-Western Front. During an enemy air raid on March 27, 1944 in the city of Rivne, the great-great-grandfather took his car from the damaged place with a valuable cargo to a safe place, unloading the car, quickly arrived at the scene of the fire and continued to evacuate the injured comrades from the bombing site under the bombardment. At the same time, there were no accidents and breakdowns of military equipment, as well as losses among the fighters. For this, on April 30, 1944, his great-great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. As the great-great-grandfather Grisha himself told his granddaughter, my grandmother Sveta, during the war he took part in the delivery of goods to besieged Leningrad along Ladoga, drove some general across the melting ice and so that the general did not doubt his professionalism, the grandfather nailed him his driver's door of the "lorry" GAZ-MM, making it clear that he would definitely take the general. For corporal Grigory Sergeevich, the war ended in Czechoslovakia without a single wound, after which he returned to his family in the Yaroslavl region, where he lived for many more years. The story is told by great-great-grandson, Leonid Afanasiev .

We are proud of you - heroes of the Great Patriotic War! Victory Day! Our entire country, millions of people from many countries, will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. Many of those who defeated Nazi Germany and brought the world a costly Victory are no longer among us. But a person is alive as long as his memory is alive. One of the participants in the Great Patriotic War was our father Arsentiy Isaevich Ivanov. Our dear, beloved father passed away 32 years ago. He was buried by the whole large village, as a respected and honorary citizen. Today we, his children, consider it our duty to tell about him, who went through the entire war, from its first day and ending with its last salvo in Berlin, over the defeated Reichstag. This is a story not only about him, but also about his fellow soldiers, who during all four years of the brutal war fought side by side with him and endured all the hardships of the war. Father was born on 05/22/1911 in the village of Novo-Semenkino, Belebeevsky district of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The family had many children. The father was the oldest in the family. Before the war he managed to start a family, graduated from the courses of a veterinary paramedic and sniff gunpowder in the White Finnish war. And now June 1945. Having received the summons right in the field, hastily said goodbye to his wife and kissed his three children, the father (he was called up by mobilization, along the Belebeevsky RVK Bash. ASSR) walked to the recruiting station. At that time, the oldest in the family was only 6 years old, and the youngest was born shortly before the start of the war. Our father, Sergeant Arsentiy Isaevich Ivanov, fought in the 79th Rifle Corps of the Nerlinsky Corps (later Berlin), the 3rd Shock Army under the command of General S.N. Perevertkin from the first bottom of its formation. My father was a signalman. After completing the appropriate training, he became the commander of the liaison office. In a war, a lot depends on the work of signalmen. Providing communication is a responsible and hard work, you constantly had to be on the front line. His father received his first baptism of fire in battles near Moscow and was seriously wounded in the leg there, and in total during the war he was wounded five times: 1942, slightly wounded in the left leg, II.1943. severe wound in the left leg, 1943. light wound in the right forearm, 1944 lung in the right shoulder, 1944. minor injury and four injuries to the lower leg. While in this hell, he thought about us, children, about his brothers Andrei and Mikhail, sister Maria, who also fought at the front: - Ivanov Mikhail Isaevich-lieutenant, intelligence, 1914 g / b. - Ivanova / Kirillova / Olga Isaevna, a home front worker, she was injured during the construction of roads, lost her eye, 05/09/1919 / b. - 08.08.2007 - Ivanova / Afanasyeva / Maria Isaevna-sergeant m / s, medical instructor. 748 anti-aircraft artillery regiment, awarded a medal for the defense of Stalingrad and for the victory over Germany, 09/09/1923 - 06/22/1993 - Ivanov Andrey Isaevich, Red Army soldier, private, shooter. 365 reserve rifle regiment, 02/20/1925 - 28.07.1956 How did the soldier feel when he received news from home that his little son Anatoly died of whooping cough without receiving any medical assistance. At that time, there was no paramedic in the village, and 40 km to the regional center, no horses or cars could get there. They were needed at the front. Everything for the front, everything for the victory! Having gone through all the circles of the hell of war, my father was demobilized on the basis of the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 25.IX.1945. and only at the end of autumn 1945 he returned home. Homeland highly appreciated the military merits of his father, awarding him: -Order of Glory III degree (№V.116153, 1944), for crossing the Vistula; -Order of the Patriotic War II degree (No. 288383, 1945), for services in the offensive on March 1 against the Pomeranian group of the enemy; -Medal for the liberation of Warsaw, 1945, from the Nazis; -Medal for the capture of Berlin, 1945; -Medal for the victory over Nazi Germany, May 1945 Germany. Station Iodikendorf. March 19, 1945. 1st Belorussian Front. A group of soldiers and sergeants of the 79th Rifle Corps / in a little over a month it will receive the name "Berlin" / 3rd Shock Army. The four standing (on the right) recently received the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, which were presented by the head of the political department of the corps, Colonel Ivan Sergeevich Krylov. From left to right, first row / sitting /: 1. Private Alenov Alexander Vasilievich (Gorky region). 2. Lance corporal Abramov Nikolai Alexandrovich (died 1971). 3. Private Kraevsky Andrey. Second row / stand /: 1. Private Vladimir Ivanovich Koblyakov (Astrakhan).

He was born on January 31, 1920 in the family of Andrey Ivanov, a blacksmith at the railway depot, and Anastasia Ivanovna, a housewife. Military ranks: - Cadet from July 1939; - Technician Lieutenant - April 02, 1943 (Order of April 2, 1043 #0749); - Technician First Lieutenant - from April 1946; - Engineer Captain - since April 27, 1949 (Order of April 27, 1949 #0455); - Engineer Major - since January 28, 1952 (Order of January 28, 1952 #0294); - Engineer Lieutenant Colonel - since March 24, 1954 (Order of March 24, 1954 #01421); - Engineer Colonel - since November 28, 1959 (Order of November 28, 1959 #2205). During his service and work, he was received state awards – three Orders and 18 Medals, including: 1. Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree; 2. Order of The Red Star; 3. Order of The Red Star; 4. Medal of Military Merit; 5. Medal For Military Valor (to the 100th Anniversary of Lenin's Birth); 6. Medal For the Defense of Leningrad; 7. Medal Veteran of The Armed Forces; 8. Medal 20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 9. Medal 30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 10. Medal 40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 11. Medal 50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; 12. Medal 30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy; 13. Medal 40 years of the Soviet Army and Navy; 14. Medal 50 years of the Soviet Army and Navy; 15. Medal 60 years of the Soviet Army and Navy; 16. Medal 60 years of the Soviet Army and Navy; 17. Medal in Memory of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad; 18. Medal for Impeccable Service 1st degree; 19. Medal for the Victory over Germany; 20. Medal 300 Years of the Russian Navy; 21. The Medal of Zhukov. He was awarded the first order of the Red Star in 1944 for exemplary performance of the task of the GKO for the construction of facility for launching ships in the Yeisk commercial port. The ships launched at the port were intended for the formation of the Danube Military Flotilla, which in the near future was to fight along the Danube River from the mouth (Vilkovo) through Romania, Yugoslavia, Hungary to the city of Vienna (Austria).

Isakov Oleg Andreevich - my grandfather Born on July 25, 1925 in Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR. By the beginning of the war, my grandfather was 16 years old - this was not a draft age. The elder brother went to the front and disappeared without a trace. The Isakovs' grandfather's family (parents, brothers and sister) lived in Kazakhstan. In those years it was Kaz SSR, Karaganda region, Dolinka village. Was called up for military service in 1943, Karaganda Military Commissariat. Graduated from the Krasnodar Artillery and Mortar School, Kushka. He fought during the war, consisting of: 298 mines 35 minbr 31 Aerodrom Control RGK 60 A. (Ukrainian Front - Poland - Germany - Czechoslovakia - Hungary). 01/12/1945 accomplished a feat, for which he was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky. Then he was in the rank of ml. lieutenant. According to the documents: on January 12, 1945, during the actions of the forward reconnaissance battalion, being in the front lines of the infantry, by his skillful action in controlling the battery fire, he ensured the capture of the front lines of the enemy trenches. He showed courage and courage. Being twice wounded, he did not leave the battlefield, he continued to control the fire of his battery. Grandfather was awarded medals. Unfortunately, all awards have been stolen. There were about 15 medals, except for the Order of Nevsky and a dagger. The dagger survived in the family. In the postwar years, my grandfather continued to serve in the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. From 1943 to 1972 - served in the Soviet Army and the Internal Troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Dismissed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs troops for retirement, by length of service, with the right to wear military uniforms, reserve lieutenant colonel, 3rd grade. The last position was deputy commander of unit 6505 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. Member of the CPSU No. 07371784 since 1948. In retirement, for several more years, he continued to work in the branch of the CPSU, on a voluntary basis. Grandfather in life was a very kind, sincere, pleasant person. In 1950 in Dolinka, my grandfather met his grandmother Belova Nina Vasilievna. They got married and gave birth to two sons - Alexander and Alexei. We moved to the city of Karaganda, where they lived all their lives. They lived very amicably. Grandpa was an avid fisherman and hunter. The whole region knew him. Throughout my life, I have not heard from him not one swearing or rude word. He was very much loved and respected not only by his friends and colleagues, but also by his subordinates and local residents. With Kazakh elders, grandfather was on friendly terms. In the villages he was greeted cordially, treated as a particularly respected person. Grandfather Oleg died: 05/18/1989. A lot of people came to the funeral, about 200 people.

Born in the Maly Bakhtai ulus, Alarsky district of Irkutsk region. Drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army in October 1940. He served in the east in the cavalry. He graduated from the regimental school. In January 1942, as part of a newly formed volunteer regiment, he arrived near Moscow to replenish the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps. As part of the Corps, he reached the town of Sukhinichi, Kaluga Region, where he was wounded and ended up in a field hospital in the town of Aleksin, Tula Region. In December 1942 he was sent to the Novocherkassk Cavalry School (Podolsk). In January 1944 he graduated from college with the rank of junior lieutenant. Shoulder straps were presented by Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny. In February 1944 he was sent to the 15th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 4th Guards Cavalry Division of the 2nd Guards Cavalry Corps. He passed as part of the Corps, in the position of commander of a saber platoon, through the Pinsk swamps, through Poland, to Germany. In April 1945, they met with American troops on the Elbe River. And in May 1945 they met the long-awaited Victory. Awards: Three Orders of the Red Star, Order of the Battle Red Banner, Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; Medals: "For military services", "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.", In peacetime was awarded the medal "Veteran of Labor". Received the Order of the Red Banner for the feat accomplished in the battles for the city of Bromberg, then he personally destroyed 10 German soldiers and took three prisoners. Under the city of Feneburg, under his leadership, an enemy observation post was destroyed. He killed up to 20 Germans with a platoon near the village of Mirenzey and took 4 prisoners. He received the Order of the Red Star for a feat: he burst into the enemy's location, captured one prisoner with valuable documents and personally destroyed four German soldiers from his weapons. In the battles for the village, Noy, with his platoon, destroyed 3 enemy firing points and 10 German soldiers. At the village, Bredikov repelled 2 enemy counterattacks, destroying up to 30 soldiers, personally annihilated one officer and 5 enemy soldiers. After the end of the war, he served in mechanized, tank and motorized rifle units in the town of Gvardeysk, Kaliningrad Region. In July 1960 he was dismissed from the ranks of the Soviet Army with the rank of captain. Since September 1960 he lived in the mountains. Angarsk, Irkutsk region. He worked at the production association "Angarsknefteorgsintez". In 1971 he retired, but continued to work at the SRSU. He died on April 21, 2009. Buried in the cemetery of Angarsk.

In 1937, Ivan Mikhailovich was drafted into the ranks of the Armed Forces. He was sent to Saratov at the Red Banner Command Tank School. At the beginning of June 1941 he graduated from college and was sent for further service to the city of Vilnius in Lithuania. He arrived at the unit on June 18, and already on June 20, their tank unit was standing on the western border and was waiting for something. There was already talk that there would be a war. On June 22, 1941, at 4:00 am, shooting began, German reconnaissance aircraft circled in the air. Here they already learned that they would fight the Germans. The western group of troops was surrounded, many soldiers were captured. Ivan Mikhailovich was shell-shocked, but did not lie in the hospital, as he simply was not there. Only at the end of August 1941, they managed to get out of the encirclement with battles in the area of ​​Bryansk. Here he received a direction to leave for Voronezh, and from there to Stalingrad. His regiment took part in the defense of Stalingrad, for which all participants were awarded the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" and a commemorative badge. The Battle of Stalingrad for many of its participants was a school of courage and courage. After the defeat of the Germans, the regiment was sent to the city of Kurgan to train tank crews for the front. Ivan Mikhailovich fought on the BT-7 tank and taught young specialists to manage it. The war went on, the equipment changed, the T-34 tanks began to be produced. To teach people, you had to retrain yourself. In 1944 he was sent to Leningrad to an armored school, from which he graduated in May 1945. There he met the joyful news of the long-awaited victory. Few people survived the war, returned without injuries and wounds. Ivan Mikhailovich burned twice in the tank and was shell-shocked. After the war, he served in Germany, Belarus, Ukraine, was demobilized with the rank of major. He returned to his homeland, worked as chairman of the village council in Baldeyka, then the regional party committee sent him to Gybdan as director of the timber industry enterprise. In 1962, he transferred to the Kizner military unit and worked as the head of security. From here I went on a well-deserved rest. Ivan Mikhailovich lived a long and heroic life, together with his wife they raised and raised four daughters. He died on January 28, 2002 at the age of 85. Awarded with medals: "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945", the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree.

My great-grandfather, Yegor Ignatiev, was born on December 9, 1917 in the village Milukhino Bezhanitsky Velikoluksky district. At the age of 10, he and his family moved to the village. Novonikolskoe, Dzerzhinsky district, Krasnoyarsk Territory. After finishing school in grade 7, great-grandfather goes to work in a rural grocery store. When the war began, he called all the men in the village and told them: "Take everything you need in the store!" And since July 1941, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Red Army. The war found him as a grown man, 24 years old. He was sent to military unit №66476 by the foreman of the medical service. The combat path of the great-great-grandfather began on 08/30/1941. Egor Kondratyevich traveled the hard glorious path from Moscow to Konigsberg. And all the time he was at the front, in battles with the German invaders. He was badly wounded three times and awarded four government awards. Working as a senior clerk of the company, during the offensive on the Konigsberg direction in conditions of a constant mobile unit, he ensured the strictest accounting and safety of food and all property of the unit, as a result of which the slightest losses and theft of trophy and army valuables were prevented. He remembered many battles. But he especially remembered the battle at Yelnya. Collapse of Operation Typhoon. “Tears come out in my eyes, a lump rolls up my throat when I think about the late autumn of 1941. The bitterness of defeat, experienced in the days when a brown plague was approaching the capital along the roads of the Smolensk region, the Kalinin land, the Moscow region broken by the wheels of caterpillars. Black crosses on the turrets of tanks and the sides of cars, white skulls on the sleeves of uniforms. The time is anxious and formidable. After all, the enemy threatened our capital. It was then that I, a young Siberian boy, who had worked as a salesman in a rural store before military service, received my baptism of fire. The unit fought defensive battles along Yelnya. Here the Nazis felt what the steadfastness of a Russian soldier was, they felt the strength of our bayonet. But the forces were still unequal ... The sky was covered with smoke, black-brown clouds covered the sun. Fields, roadsides - all in craters. Mournfully rustle in the wind, as if mourning the fallen, birches and aspens. The enemy did not spare anyone - neither women, nor children, nor old people. Shoulder to shoulder with us fought the soldiers who came out of the encirclement. They told more than once about the horrors they experienced. And we took revenge. Batteries of anti-tank and anti-aircraft guns stood in the way of the enemy's armored armadas. They beat them with direct fire to hit the enemy for sure, to delay him. Where there were no guns, mobile detachments of tank destroyers appeared. Demolitions and sappers. They will drive up in a lorry, or even on ordinary horse-drawn carts, set mines, hedgehogs. And often brave Red Army men, armed only with grenades or Molotov cocktails, entered into single combat with the “tigers”. They did not spare themselves, did not take care, if only the enemy did not come up. Until the last bullet, to the last drop of blood, they fought on the outskirts of the capital. In one of the battles I was wounded. After returning from the hospital, I took part in the release of Klin. Words cannot convey that joy. After all, we drove the enemy to the west. So the ominous operation codenamed Typhoon was thwarted. Acting according to this plan, the Nazis tried to seize Moscow, but suffered a severe defeat. With a sense of pride, I now remember my fellow soldiers, participants in the Battle of Moscow, one of the greatest battles of the Second World War. ... We again walked on the Smolensk land, familiar from the autumn of 1941. Now to the west. " E. Ignatiev Great-grandfather was awarded 4 government awards. Among them is the most honorable medal "For Courage". Great-grandfather was also awarded medals "For the Defense of Moscow", "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the war, he was awarded jubilee medals and the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. After the war, on October 31, 1945, he returned to his home, where his mother, father and family greeted him. And in November 1945 he married Ekaterina Vasilievna Ignatieva. They lived their whole lives together. Graduated from evening school. He worked as a seller, was the director of a food processing plant, organized agricultural supplies, then he was transferred to the regional party committee as an instructor. Yegor Kondratyevich died on 15.01. 2002.

Ivanov Evgeny Nilovich - Hero of the Soviet Union, squadron commander of the 999th assault aviation regiment of the 277th assault aviation division of the 13th air army of the Leningrad Front, captain. Born on February 26, 1921 in the village of Lysva in the Perm district of the Perm province (now the city of Lysva in the Perm region), in a working class family. He graduated from Lysvenskaya school № 1. After school in 1936 he entered the flight school, but did not go through age. In 1939 he graduated with honors from the Perm Medical Assistant and Obstetric School and completed a training course at the local flying club. In December 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. In 1940 he graduated from the Perm Military Pilot School and was assigned to the combat unit with the rank of junior lieutenant. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since May 1943. He fought as part of the 999th Assault Aviation Regiment on the Leningrad Front. He took part in the battles for the liberation of the Baltic States, fought in East Prussia. He went from an ordinary pilot to a navigator of the regiment. In one of the sorties in the summer of 1943, he was wounded, held out the downed Il-2 to his territory and landed. He woke up in the hospital and only after 4 months he returned to the regiment. In February 1944 he became squadron commander. Member of the CPSU since 1944. The squadron commander of the 999th assault aviation regiment, Captain Ivanov, from July 18, 1943 to September 22, 1944, flew 119 sorties, of which 102 were for ground attack and 17 for reconnaissance of the enemy. Destroyed and damaged about 150 field and anti-aircraft artillery guns, 59 cars, 14 steam locomotives, 18 railway cars, 5 aircraft, 14 bunkers, 5 heavy artillery guns that fired at Leningrad. Ivanov's squadron only from February 1 to September 22, 1944, flew 615 sorties to attack enemy troops and facilities. Presenting Captain Ivanov for the highest award in September 1944, the regiment commander wrote: “Ivanov's skillful assault actions are widely known to the troops of the Leningrad Front, whose offensive operations he perfectly covered from the air. They are also known to the inhabitants of the city of Leningrad, whose lives he saved in the harsh days of the blockade. " By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of February 23, 1945, Captain Ivanov Yevgeny Nilovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the exemplary performance of command assignments and for the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard. The hero did not have time to receive the well-deserved reward. On March 19, 1945, in the area of ​​the city of Wormditt (now the city of Orneta in Poland), the navigator of the regiment, Captain Ivanov, rammed, directing the burning plane to the enemy's mortar battery. Three days later, the city was occupied by Soviet troops. The remains of the Hero of the Soviet Union Yevgeny Ivanov and the gunner-radio operator Korolev were buried on the outskirts of the city of Vormditt (Ornet). Later he was reburied in the Polish town of Braniewo (Elblonska Street, Grave No. 9) in the Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, the Orders of Suvorov III degree, the Patriotic War I and II degrees, the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad".

the village of Emurtla. He died in 1989. From the memoirs: “I went to serve in the regular army in 1932. When he was leaving, my father told me: "If there is a war with Germany, then avenge for me, but don't surrender!" He fought in 1914. with German troops, was captured and spent 2 years there, and at the end of 1916 fled. I knew all the difficulties of being in captivity not by hearsay, so he told me so. He served in the Far East in the railway regiment in the city of Svobodny. After the service he lived in the village. Masali, worked as a driver on a collective farm. When the Great Patriotic War began, from the first day he got to the Far East in the Khabarovsk District. In 1942 ended up at the front near Kursk as part of the Ussuri division of the NKVD border troops. When we passed the city of Kursk, we saw a large ashes. Local residents who survived said that the Nazis drove women, old people, children into the barn, closed them, doused them with gasoline and burned them. We had to fight off many attacks. In 1943. During the battle, I was wounded in both legs and was treated in a hospital in the city of Bogoruslan, Kuibyshev region for more than three months. After the hospital he went to Bryansk, in the infantry. They liberated the cities of Bryansk, Gomel, Nezhensk. We reached Minsk, where the reorganization took place. I became a chauffeur. Their army was transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front. We arrived in Rovno, and from there we went to Poland. I worked in trucks at the division headquarters. " On the morning of July 11, 1944. I accompanied the division commander and the colonel in a truck with security and boxes with valuable documents. We drove around the divisions, and when they began to return, we got lost in the forest. We drove straight to the rear to the Nazis. The German infantry was asleep, and when they woke up, they rushed to run. Then they came to their senses and started shooting. There was a rye field nearby. The car with the commanders drove into the rye, and I remained in the clearing. I began to turn around, but the soldiers yelled at me to stop. They jumped up and ran into the rye. I had a reconnaissance major in my cockpit, he also jumped out. I was left alone and the Germans decided to take me prisoner. And then I remembered the words of my father: "Do not surrender alive!" I could not leave the car, because it contained secret documents. I took the machine gun, sat behind the wheel and started shooting back, then jumped into the car, and when it started, a bullet hit my shoulder. I could not go and fell out of the cab. I tried to get into the car again, but my head was so dizzy that I could not even get into it. I crawled to the nearest hollow, where our soldiers picked me up. I lost a lot of blood, I was out of memory. But he managed to warn that there were important documents in the car. After this incident, I went to the hospital, stayed there for 4 months, after which I was sent to the rear. I could no longer fight because of my injury, so I was sent to the Labor Army. The division in which I fought was not far away and I volunteered to return to duty. They gave me my old car again, it was all punctured. I fought on it in Poland, in Germany. He finished the war in Breslavl. I was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Courage. Received gratitude for the capture of the city of Breslavl and for the crossing of the Oder. " After the war he lived in the village of Yemurtlinsky, worked as a driver at the state farm "Yemurtlinsky". Buried in the village Emurtla.