Heroes and feats

Hecheev Bembya Mandzhievich, was born in the village of Zeta, Svetloyarsk district, Volgograd region. In autumn 1938 he was drafted into the Red Army. He served in Mongolia. He showed himself in the army from the best side, so he was offered to study at the regimental school of commanders. After graduation, the guard lieutenant, the commander of the saber platoon of the 11th Guards Cavalry Sedletsk Red Banner Order of the Alexander Nevsky Regiment, goes to the front. He traveled many military roads, fought on the South, North Caucasian, Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. On April 30, 1945, Hecheev's unit was the first to cross the Hafallenditer Grosser-Haupt Canal, and from a small bridgehead skillfully ensured the crossing of the main forces of the regiment. Khecheev, at the head of his platoon, fearlessly advanced to the enemy's trenches and, by personal example, raised the fighters in a swift attack and was the first to break into the settlement, thereby managing to capture the enemy's stronghold covering the approaches to the city of Frizak. During these battles, the platoon of the guard of Lieutenant Khecheev destroyed up to 60 soldiers and officers, suppressed 10 firing points and took 13 enemy soldiers and officers prisoner. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of May 15, 1946, Bemba Mandzhievich Khecheev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Demobilized from the army, he came to his relatives in the Kosikhinsky district, Altai Territory and returned to peaceful work. In the Republic of Kalmykia, the streets of cities and towns are named after Bambi Mandzhievich Khecheev. In the Gorodovikovsky district in the village of Chapaevskoye, a monument to him was erected at the school.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Khitrin Vladimir Konstantinovich, guard junior lieutenant, platoon commander of a mortar battalion, candidate in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, took part in hostilities since 1941 in the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian, Voronezh, Kalinin and Western fronts. Wounded three times - one severe and two light wounds. He was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit" pr. 8 PGCHPK No. 0128 / n, the Order "Red Star" pr. 19 Guards. ICBM No. 01 / n, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree pr. 21 guards. Khitrin Vladimir Konstantinovich was born in 1922 in the family of Konstantin and Zoya Khitrins in the village of Blagodat, near the village of Golyushurma, Alnash district, on the Kama river. He was the eldest son in the family. He also had 5 brothers and 2 sisters (Anatoly, Arkady, Boris, Eugene, Alexander, Raisa, Zinaida) On Grace they had a large two-story house, Konstantin Nikonorovich kept bees and they had an apple orchard. All children were educated after the war. Brother Anatoly also fought in the tank forces, came back from the war alive, but shell-shocked. Brother Eugene took part in hostilities in 1956 in Hungary and was awarded the Medal For Courage. Brother Alexander served in Moscow as a guard of honor. And father Konstantin Nikonorovich served in his time in Petersburg. It's a pity that Uncle Volodya did not return ... he was a strong and courageous man. He died on April 25 or 26, 1945 in Berlin, in the Neukölln area. His grandmother, his mother, went to his grave in Germany.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of troops: Military - economic and administrative structure Subdivision: 25th Guards Rifle Sinelnikovsko-Budapest Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division In the winter of 1941, near Moscow, the Germans were already met by the second echelon of the Red Army, these are reservists, 1890 mobilized from the reserve 1918 and recruits 1922-1923 births, replenished with militias and part of the personnel troops transferred from the Far East. Medal - "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Courage", for "Don" was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He ended the war in Budapest with the rank of guards lieutenant of the commissary service. From 1 to 4 August, he participated in the breakthrough of the ring of the German encirclement east of Roslavl ...... during the forcing of the Don in August 42, T. Khodko, being the Chief Treasurer of the Housekeeping Department 25 Guards Rifle divisions, being on the western bank of the river (Starozhevsky bridgehead), in difficult conditions provided the personnel with food ... fulfilling the responsible task of providing the car with petrol art. a regiment of vehicles for the delivery of ammunition to the forefront. " Excerpt from the presentation for the medal “For Courage”: “... on the night of February 13-14, 1945, the enemy broke through the defenses and penetrated the Divisional Headquarters Directorate, preparing to break through the encirclement. Comrade Khodko, having mobilized the personnel of the administrative units, having occupied a perimeter defense, repelled enemy attacks. All enemy attempts to break through were repelled ...

Khazov Mikhail Pavlovich is my great-grandfather. He was born in 1925 in the family of ordinary peasants Pavel and Pelageya Khazov. The family was large, there were 8 children. In 1937, my great-grandfather graduated from the 4th grade of school. There was no opportunity to study further in the village, it was necessary to help the parents. Great-grandfather began to work with his father on a collective farm. And then there was the war ... On January 4, 1943, the Pronsky district military registration and enlistment office of the Ryazan region, my great-grandfather was drafted into the Red Army. And, until the end of the war ... In the infantry from Moscow to Berlin ... On the front line ... He fought first as a signalman in a rifle regiment, then ended up in the artillery troops. And from August 15, 1943, until the end of the war, he was a scout of the 538th Army Mortar Regiment of the 33rd Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. He was wounded three times, was in the hospital, but always did not complete his treatment and ran back to his regiment, to the front, to the front line ... At the front, my great-grandfather had a friend, Ivan Donskikh. A photo has survived, which he signed as a keepsake. Ivan Donskikh - Hero of the Soviet Union! I am proud of my great-grandfather! I am proud of his friend! As my mother says, of all the awards on May 9, my grandfather always wore only the medal "For Courage", treated her with great reverence and respect. Mikhail Pavlovich Khazov, a scout of the 1st battery of the Red Army, was awarded the Medal "For Courage" for the exemplary performance of the combat mission of the command on the front against the German invaders and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. On August 4, 1944, during the enemy counterattack in the Protspol region, together with the command platoon commander, he opened fire on the advancing enemy from his personal weapons and did not allow the Germans to reach the observation post. " My great-grandfather died in 2004. From my mother's stories I know a lot about him, I know about that terrible war, I know about the well-deserved and hard-won Victory of our people! The medal, documents and photographs of great-grandfather are our family heirlooms, which we cherish with great trepidation. And so it will be passed on from generation to generation, and the memory of my great-grandfather will live on! After all, if there was no Victory, then there would be no you and me! What could be more valuable than the memory of those terrible years and pride in our ancestors ?!

Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Artillery I would like to tell a little about my stepfather's grandfather, Alexei Antonovich Khavalkin, born on March 30, 1917. He was born and lived in Tula. He was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in September 1938 and ended up in the 12th Howitzer Artillery Regiment (stationed in the city of Kalinin, now the city of Tver), as a forging blacksmith. At that time, the army widely used horses as a draft force, and howitzers in artillery regiments were transported by horses. The duties of Alexei Antonovich included horseshoeing and repairing artillery equipment. He did not manage to demobilize at the end of his military service, the war began. And their regiment in July 1941 was transferred to Belarus on the border. The Germans advanced quickly, despite fierce resistance, and soon some were bombed, and the remaining soldiers and officers were taken prisoner. During the war, Alexey Antonovich visited three Prisoners of war camps on the territory of Belarus. Several times he and his comrades tried to escape, but they were caught up with the dogs, beaten and returned back to the camp. When our troops launched an offensive in Belarus, the prisoners were taken to Norway on the island of Spitsbergen. With the offensive of the allied forces, the Germans, before retreating, destroyed the prisoners, taking them out to sea on barges - they drowned them. Alexei Antonovich was lucky, they were rescued by an English assault landing on the island. Alexey Antonovich stayed in the "death camps" from July 1941 to May 1945. Then my grandfather was kept in a check-up camp for former prisoners of war near Kaluga, and later in the town of Uzlov, Tula region. And only in 1948, after all the checks, he was unconvoyed and finally released. Cadet of the Pervomaiskaya cadet school of the Tula region, Shchyokinsky district 7 "G" class Timofeev Egor

My grandfather, Yuri Nikolaevich Kharchev, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Was born in 1919 in the city of Velikiye Luki. In 1941 he graduated from the first Leningrad Artillery School (LAO) with the rank of lieutenant. From the first days of the war he commanded a company of intelligence officers on the Leningrad front. Once, having occupied a height on the Nevsky patch, his company corrected the fire of our artillery and was surrounded. Yuri Nikolaevich, with minimal losses, took people and equipment out of the environment, for which he would be awarded the Order of the Red Banner, and he himself was seriously wounded. Extract from the order: “Comrade Kharchev, being the platoon commander of the headquarters battery, carried out his reconnaissance to enemy territory six times, always obtaining important information about the enemy and showing great composure, courage, valor and skillfully directed the actions of the entire reconnaissance group ... always after receiving the order to withdraw the battery, he was the last to leave the battle, covering the entire group. In one of the reconnaissance, Comrade Kharchev with the Red Army soldier Gavrilov, covering the battery withdrawal, held back a strong enemy attack together, while killing eleven soldiers. The next time Kharchev, going deep into enemy territory with a telephone set, adjusted the fire of our artillery. The enemy not only opened weapons and machine-gun fire, but also launched mortars, mines exploded nearby, covering Kharchev with earth, but he continued to adjust the artillery fire. For bravery, courage and useful data obtained in intelligence, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Rank: Corporal. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. My grandfather Alexander Vladimirovich Khokhlov was born in the city of Vyazma, Smolensk province on August 15, 1908. His mother, Matrona, died in childbirth. First, he was taken up by his grandfather, the mother's father, who lived in the village. It was a short, happy time in his childhood. But when the child grew up, the father took him to his city. The family lived very poorly: the father married a second time, 3 more children were born, the stepmother did not love Sasha. He was sent to beg from home, to ask for bread. Good people gave bread, but it happened that the dogs attacked, and some people beat. And most of what he collects, the stepmother took away the younger children. Then Alexander was given "to the people", he served in a wealthy family, where the attitude towards him was also far from good. Alexander felt freer after the revolution - he became a Komsomol member, entered the teacher's institute. Before the war, Alexander Vladimirovich Khokhlov worked as a history teacher in a rural school in the Smolensk region, was the head teacher. During the German occupation, on a false denunciation (that he was a communist), he was sentenced to death, but when the Germans were already leading to execution, local residents stood up for him and asked the German officer to check his documents. He checked his passport, canceled the shooting, ordered to send him to a concentration camp for civilians. Together with another teacher A.V. Khokhlov planned his escape. The wire in the camp was still without current. The escape was a success. The concentration camp was in the Smolensk region, my grandfather managed to come to his village. Here he built a dugout in the forest, in which he hid during the day, and at night he came home to the children (2 daughters and a son, his wife died before the war), the woman who took care of the children also fed him. In March 1943, when the front approached Vyazma, the grandfather took the children to the forest. The youngest daughter asked for a drink, and he was afraid that the Germans would hear, he melted the snow. And then I heard Russian speech - our soldiers came. Alexander jumped out to them and began to hug: “Brothers! Relatives! Come! I'm hiding here with the children. " The children were sent to an orphanage in the Kirov region, and their grandfather was drafted into the Red Army (Semelevsky district military enlistment office). A.V. Khokhlov went from Vyazma to Berlin in the 33rd army, which from 1944 was part of the 1st Belorussian Front. At first he was a telephone operator, and then, after training, he became a radio-telegraph operator. Participated in the Berlin operation. In April 1945 Khokhlov saw a German officer at close range. The German fired the pistol first, but missed. And the grandfather from the PPSh was accurate. The officer turned out to be a staff officer, with important documents in the tablet, which helped our army in conducting an offensive operation. Grandfather was awarded for this. Alexander Khokhlov received his first wound on the night of February 23-24, 1945. April 24, 1945 A.V. Khokhlov kept in touch during the battle being wounded. For this feat he was awarded the Order of Glory III degree (4.06.1945). A.V. Khokhlov was mobilized only in 1946. Echelons with Soviet soldiers passed through Hungary. Grandfather was riding in the second, and the first was blown up. He and other soldiers were ordered to clear paths. In 1946 A.V. Khokhlov first arrived in the Smolensk region, but there he saw only ruins and went to the Kirov region, where there were children. He stayed in the village of Semyonovskoye, Shabalinsky District, began to work again as a history teacher at school, married a Russian language teacher Nina Aleksandrovna Petropavlovskaya, and two more daughters were born. After retiring, he worked part-time. Somewhere in the late 70s, while on duty in the boiler room, A.V. got under a current of 380 V, but a man who entered soon turned off the voltage and saved his grandfather. But health was seriously undermined - the heart muscle was damaged, a heart attack, and he received no treatment. In 1980 A.V. Khokhlov moved to the city of Pushchino, Moscow Region, to his daughter. Here he stitched his last years. In 1985 he celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Victory in Pushchino. In July 1985 he died of a second heart attack at the age of 77.

Rank: Red Navy. Type of troops: signal troops. Northern Fleet communications service radio operator. In June 1942, she volunteered for the signal troops of the Northern Fleet. Place of service: 516 communications center of the Northern Fleet. From the well-known dates of the formation of the Northern Military Flotilla: June 1, 1933 and the arrival of the first detachment of ships in the Arctic Circle - August 5, 1933, the events for the equipment of the Kola coast took place with amazing enthusiasm, characteristic of all our people - the creator of the 30s. May 19, 1933 is considered the day of creation of the Northern Fleet Communication Service. During the year, the first stage of observation and communication posts was deployed on the Kola coast, a communication center for the flotilla and the Kola region of the Observation and Communication Service (SNiS) was equipped. The number of naval personnel and coastal troops grew rapidly, the geography of their basing and use expanded, and the tasks of the Northern Flotilla became more complicated. In 1937, the flotilla was reorganized into the Northern Fleet, within which, in the summer of 1938, an observation and communications department was created under the leadership of Nikolai Ivanovich Tsvetkov. In the pre-war years, its other leaders made a great contribution to the creation and development of SNiS SF: V. Shchennikov, B. Krasnoselsky, N. Leontiev. Thanks to the selfless labor of the fleet's signalmen, by 1941 the SNIS service of the fleet was able to solve not only training, but also combat missions to ensure command and control of forces and troops. Vera Anatolyevna, a radio operator, came to the Northern Fleet as a young girl. She and other girls were taught in a training group in Solovki, then in the city of Kem. Subsequently, a detachment of radio operators (8 girls) worked in Olenyaya Guba and in the city of Polyarny. In 1943 they were transferred to the fishing village of Mishukovo. The radio operator Rukhlova (Khabarova) still remembers his comrades - V. Zabuldashkin, Kimolton, A. Dmitriev. During the Great Patriotic War, signalmen provided control of submarines, surface ships and aircraft in combat operations to disrupt enemy transport operations, to protect their communications, when escorting allied convoys, in organizing amphibious and antiamphibious operations on the Kola coast. The largest final event in the Northern Fleet's combat activities was the Petsamo-Kirkineskaya operation (Operation West), during which the forces of the fleet together with the troops of the Karelian Front in October 1944 liberated the Soviet Arctic from the Nazi invaders. For the successful conduct of the operation, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief IV Stalin, the communications officers of the Northern Fleet were commended. Currently, Vera Anatolyevna lives with her husband, Sergey Andreevich Khabarov, in Moscow.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel Type of Troops: Signal Corps Nikolai Panfilovich Khazov was born on December 27, 1913 in a peasant family in the village of Bolshoi Vyas, Luninsky District, Penza Region. Russian. In 1929 he graduated from 7 classes. In 1933 he was drafted into the Soviet Army by the Luninsky Military Commissariat. In 1936 he graduated from the military infantry school in Kazan. He took part in the battles at Lake Khasan in 1938. Was injured. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from June 1943 he fought on the Southwestern and 3rd Ukrainian fronts. Wounded three times. Commander of the 172nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 57th Guards Rifle Division of the 8th Guards Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Guard Lieutenant Colonel. Pursuing the retreating enemy, my regiment made a 500 km march in 17 days. and on January 26, 1945, he reached the banks of the Warta River, knocking out the enemy from their positions and ensuring the encirclement and defeat of a large enemy grouping in the city of Poznan. For two and a half months, the fighting continued to expand the bridgehead. The regiment suffered heavy losses. At three o'clock in the morning on May 2, the Berlin garrison laid down its arms. An inexplicable silence fell over the city. The great battle ended with the complete victory of the Soviet Army. On March 24, 1945, Nikolai Panfilovich Khazov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. But even after the Victory, our fellow countryman did not take off his shoulder straps. In 1949 he graduated from the Military Academy. MV Frunze, in 1955 - one course at the Military Academy of the General Staff named after K. E. Voroshilov. With the rank of retired colonel, Nikolai Panfilovich lived and worked in Moscow as a senior engineer at the Research Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences. For his services to the Fatherland he was awarded the Order of Lenin, four Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Suvorov, 3rd degree, two orders of the Red Star, and the Medal for Military Merit. He was buried in the village of Bolshoy Vyas, and a bust of the Hero was installed in Lunino.

Rank: Sergeant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Anatoly V. Khayuchiy Guards junior sergeant Date of birth -1925 Place of birth Altai Territory, Rodinsky district, p. Kayaushka Place of conscription- Sarkand MilitaryCommissariat, Kazakh SSR, Alma-Ata region, Sarkand district Military unit 5 Guards. Detachment Motorized submachine gunner battalion Date of entry into service -03.1943 As part of the Active Army: to 12/01/1943 from 08/07/1944 to 05/11/1945 Combat route from: April 23, 1943, the brigade as part of the tank group, the brigade advanced until May 9, 1943. On May 11, 1943, in the reserve of the tank group of the North Caucasian Front, the brigade was engaged in the restoration of materiel and advanced in cooperation with the 10th Guards. sbr. From June 6, 1943, in the reserve of the North Caucasian Front, the brigade was engaged in the restoration of materiel, on July 22, 1943, the brigade entered the operational subordination of the 56th Army and advanced as part of the tank group of Colonel Shurenkov. From July 28, 1943, in the reserve of the 56th Army, the brigade was engaged in the restoration of materiel, then advanced in the zone of the 11th Guards. sc. From August 16, 1943, the brigade in the reserve of the North Caucasian Front was operatively subordinated to the 18th Army. On September 14, 1943, as part of the 18th Army, the brigade advanced on Novorossiysk, Anapa, Taman, Primorsky, after the capture of the cities, the brigade in Taman was engaged in the restoration of materiel. On November 14, 1943, the brigade concentrated in the Kuchugura area, being in the reserve of the North Caucasian Front. On December 1, 1943, in the reserve of the Supreme Command Headquarters in the Kharkov military camps, the brigade was reorganized, cobbled together and included in the 4th Ukrainian Front. On August 9, 1944, in the reserve of the 4th Ukrainian Front, the brigade was marching to new concentration areas, on October 13, 1944, in the Boryn region, the brigade was operatively subordinated to the 18th Army. On October 16, 1944, as part of the subordinate group of the 18th army, the brigade advanced, pursued from November 1 to 5, 1944 was under the operational subordination of the 30th sc. From November 6, 1944, in the reserve of the 18th Army, the brigade was engaged in the restoration of materiel, then it advanced as part of the mobile group of the army, then in cooperation with the 2nd Guards. airborne division, from December 1, 1944 subordinated to the 17th Guards Rifle Corps and in cooperation with the corps, attacked and defended. On January 27, 1945, in the reserve of the 4th Ukrainian Front, the brigade became operational under the 38th Army. From February 2, 1945, the brigade, being in the reserve of the 4th Ukrainian Front, advanced. On February 24, 1945, the brigade entered the reserve of the 4th Ukrainian Front for resupply. In the front reserve, the brigade was engaged in the restoration of materiel and combat training. On March 2, 1945, the brigade was operatively subordinated to the 1st Guards. army and attached to the 107th sk. From March 13, 1945, the brigade, being in the reserve of the 107th Rifle corps, advanced on Ryhund. On March 18, 1945, in the reserve of the 38th Army, the brigade entered the operational subordination of the 126th lieutenant. sc. There is reason to believe that from the Soviet units and formations, the M4A2 tanks were the first to receive the 5th Guards. brigade and 563rd brigade of the North Caucasian front. Soon, by order of the commander of the front No. 08 / OP, the 1st tank company of the 563rd separate TankBattalio(9 M4A2) was transferred to the 5th Guards Tank Brigade, and 9 M3 light from the 5th Guards Tank Brigade were transferred to the 563rd Separate Tank Battalion. Such an exchange was necessary to equip the 563rd separate tank battalion with light tanks, which were planned to be used during the landing in South Ozereyka. After the war he returned to his homeland, lived and worked in Taldy-Kurgan, Kazakhstan

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Was born in 1906 in the village. Chaltyr, Myasnikovsky district, Rostov region. In 1920 he graduated from high school and enrolled in accounting courses. In 1929, with his older brothers Aharon and Hovhannes, he moved to the Leninavan farm, Myasnikovsky district, where the “Wave of revolution” collective farm was organized. He worked as an accountant, was a member of the collective farm board, and after joining the party was elected instructor of the district party committee in the village. Chaltyr. In 1930, his son Ashot was born. In 1936, daughter Clara was born. In 1937 he was sent to the city of Novorossiysk for advanced training courses. In 1938 he graduated from the Institute of Mass Correspondence Education of the Party Active under the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks in the city of Rostov-on-Don. He was repeatedly called up for military training and retraining courses, and after completing the course of political workers he received the rank of lieutenant. In 1940, his son Markar was born. In 1941, after the start of the Great Patriotic War, he supervised the evacuation of the property of the Volna Revolutsii collective farm to the village of Kievka, Remontnensky district, Rostov region. On November 21st, German troops captured the city of Rostov-on-Don, but the city was liberated by the Red Army's counteroffensive on November 29th. After the expulsion of the Germans, the evacuees returned back to the collective farm. In 1942, daughter Mariam was born. In early May 1942, they brought the conscription agenda, and the army. Subsequently, the wife of Pirap recalled. When he received a summons, took off his cap, hit the ground with force and said: “Where should I go now? Leave four children on you? How is it possible, the mind is incomprehensible. " At that time, for all honest people, the defense of the Motherland was considered a sacred duty. His elder brothers Aharon and Hovhannes were already at the front. Aharon was a sniper and was in a military unit stationed north of Stalingrad, and Ovanes was in a motorized rifle regiment in Crimea. In May 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to Stalingrad, where, after completing his command courses, he was promoted to senior lieutenant. Participated in the Battle of Stalingrad as part of the 8th Guards Army. He was a political instructor. After the encirclement and defeat of German troops at Stalingrad, the military unit in which he served, was redeployed to the Voronezh region. Participated in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge. After the victory at the Kursk Bulge and the liberation of Kursk, and then Kharkov, he was sent to the Voroshilovgrad region, where the German command managed to develop an offensive in the direction of the Seversky Donets. At the borders of the Seversky Donets, the enemy was stopped in heavy battles, despite the fact that the German troops were replenished with selected units. The 8th Guards Army, which was ordered to strike to liberate the Donetsk region, took up a defensive line along the Seversky Donets. Using a respite during the defense, the command of the 8th Guards Army developed a plan and prepared an offensive to liberate the Donetsk region. From 8 to 23 August 1943, a successful offensive of the Red Army was carried out to liberate the Donetsk region. In a letter dated August 25, 1943, he writes: “... on August 23, in the morning at 8 o'clock, during the offensive he was wounded, in a row for the third time. The bullet hit the neck, entered on one side and exited on the other. I am in the hospital for treatment. " In a letter dated September 4, 1943, he writes: “... the wound has closed and again I am at the front. I don't write about the news, because every day you hear about the successes of the Red Army. " In a letter dated September 7, 1943 (the last letter) he writes: "... they gave out a good paper and decided to report once again that he quickly recovered from the wound he received, is alive and well, I am at the front." During the war years, the post office worked irregularly. Often, letters from the front were delayed and did not arrive sequentially, but several letters together. It was even more difficult with the reply letters, since the front was continuously moving forward, the location of the military units was changing, and their numbers also changed. The letters written from Kursk, where he mentioned awards and the next increase in military rank, have not survived. On the 7th of September I wrote a letter, and on the 8th I was wounded in battle, for the fourth time in a row, and what happened after that is not known, there were no more letters. In 1944, a request was made to the Main Personnel Directorate of People’s Commissariat. The answer was received: To your N GUK-4/081244 dated December 8, 1944, I inform you that military unit Khatlamadzhiev Khachik Markarovich served in military unit 59353. On September 8, 1943, he was wounded in battle and was evacuated to a hospital for treatment. His further fate is unknown to me. Chief of Staff of military unit 59353 Guards. major / Dudko /. 2.6.1992 Archive of military medical documents (Leningrad) informs: In the general registration of (incomplete) wounded, sick and dead in medical institutions of the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, information about Khatlamadzhiev Khachik Markarovich is not available. Head of the 3rd department, department / Martynyuk.

Rank: Sergeant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Subdivision: 24th Artillery of the Order of Suvorov Breakthrough Division Khvastunov Valentin Ivanovich - participant of the Great Patriotic War, three times order bearer, guard senior sergeant, born on August 21, 1924 in the village of Konstantinovo, Spassky District, Gorky Region. He was drafted to the front in August 1942, got into the 2nd tank battalion of the 12th Guards Tank Shepetivskaya Red Banner Order of the Suvorov Brigade, 4th Guards Kantemirovsky Tank Corps. He was the gun loader for the SU-85. He fought on Voronezh, on the 1st Ukrainian fronts. Acting in the crew of L-TO Trofimov in battle on December 19-20, 1943, he showed resourcefulness and courage. The German Tiger tank, which appeared in 1942, was the most powerful enemy on the battlefields until the end of World War II. The combination of powerful armor and superior firepower meant that with the right position and with an experienced crew, the Tiger was nearly invulnerable. The fighter Khvastunov knew this well and how the loader did everything so that the crew's guns could destroy the T-6 tank coming to them and the armored personnel carrier with enemy infantry with their fire. When the Tiger tank entered the battle, the armor and cannon made it a serious enemy. And this serious enemy was destroyed by our crew. When the gunner and gunner were wounded, the soldier Khvastunov replaced them and fired from his gun, repelling the enemy's onslaught. In December 1943 he was awarded a government award - the Order of Glory, III degree. In January 1945 he was wounded during the battle. But the young organism did not disappoint. Healed and went back to battle. He took part in battles near Voronezh, liberated Kharkov, Odessa from the Nazis, smashed the enemy in Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Taking part in breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defenses, crossing the Nida River - a river in southern Poland, the left tributary of the Vistula, while capturing the Polish cities of Krakow and Dzyaloshice, he showed himself to be a brave and courageous warrior. For some time he served as the battalion clerk. He treated this work carefully and conscientiously. He put a complete order in the battalion's documentation, organized the storage of documents. Personnel records were kept exceptionally accurate. He actively helped in the work of the headquarters. Under enemy fire, he collected the information necessary for the headquarters from the crews. In February 1945 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He lived to be 75 years old, was buried at the Krasnoarmeysky cemetery in the city of Volgograd.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01/23/1925 DATE OF DEATH: 01/09/2017 HISTORY: WWII veteran Azirashvili Sergo, despite his advanced age, was a very athletic person with an active lifestyle. I met him in 2016, when our organization, the Anti-Fascist Coalition of Multinational Georgia, of which I am president, was giving gifts to veterans of the Great Patriotic War. He immediately offered his help in any business, as he really liked the activities of our organization. After that, our paths crossed repeatedly and each time he offered his help. On June 19, 2016, our organization sent WWII veterans to the resort of Tskaltubo (Georgia) for health rehabilitation. Azirashvili Sergo went with his neighbor, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, 93-year-old Mariam Arzumanova. The veteran benefited from the rest at the resort - his energy increased and his health improved. On January 7, 2017, within the framework of the annual action "Days of Mercy", which takes place from January 2 to January 14, 2017, our organization and the "National Congress of Slavic Peoples of Georgia", represented by the President of the Congress Lika Zakharova, invited the veterans of the Great Patriotic War and gave them gifts and medicines. Sergo Azirashvili was also present at this action. On that day, he was full of energy and was going to meet with representatives of the ruling party in the near future and make his proposals to improve the living standards of WWII veterans. He was full of emotions and ideas ... On January 10, the relatives of Azirashvili Sergo contacted us and said that our veteran on January 9, in the evening, went out for a walk and buy himself the necessary medicines. When crossing the road, he got into an accident - he was hit by a trailer. The trailer driver did not notice Sergo crossing the road and knocked him down at full speed. Our veteran did not die immediately. His physical condition gave him the strength to get into the ambulance himself, which took him to the nearest hospital. But the blow was so strong that our veteran died from a profuse internal hemorrhage, not having reached a few hundred meters to the hospital. This is how the life of one of the few remaining veterans of the Second World War ended (according to the information of the Department of Veterans) in Georgia ...

CITY: ASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 08/17/1910 DATE OF DEATH: 05/03/1987 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. Type of troops: Artillery. Division: 1st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division. Harutyunyan Senik Srapovich was born in 1910 in Armenia. In a peasant family of 8 people. Senik was the middle son. Educated 6 classes. After the revolution, he began to work on a collective farm, was a Komsomol member, and took part in collectivization. When the Second World War began, all the sons were called to the front. Great-grandfather fought on the southern front in the Crimea. In 1942 in March he was captured in the camp of the city of Zhitomir. In September 1942 he organized an escape from the camp. 8 people escaped with him. Having organized an escape from the German camp, my great-grandfather Senik Srapovich fought in the detachment named after Chapaev as part of the partisan unit of Yu.I. Melnikov, who operated on the territory of the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine. A group of 5 partisans, operating on the Novgorod-Volynsk-Zhitomir highway, destroyed 1 and captured 2 German cars. And on the night of March 1944, partisans attacked a railway bridge, killing 50 enemy soldiers. Returning to the partisan base, the saboteurs mined the railroad bed, as a result of which the train with the enemy's manpower derailed. The partisan detachment of my great-grandfather had a connection with the patrol organization led by G.S. Protosevich. Thanks to the underground, a printing house appeared in the partisan detachment. The leaflets contained messages from the Soviet Information Bureau and poems by Soviet poets. Together with the underground workers, the Chapaev partisan detachment carried out a very large sabotage, - recalls the great-grandfather. In the spring of 1943, at the Stanishevka station, a group of partisans set fire to tanks with gasoline and made a collision of 2 enemy echelons. 14 wagons with ammunition and 2 steam locomotives were destroyed. The movement was restored only after a week. On another occasion, the partisans learned that the Zhitomir commissar general Leizer issued an order dated April 17, 1943 on "Total mobilization", that is, on the hijacking of labor to Germany from Zhitomir. The partisans carried out a very daring operation and saved 7,800 people from theft. In late 1943 - early 1944, the Red Army started fighting in Zhitomir, and the Nazis were soon driven out. Her actions were greatly facilitated by the struggle of the partisans. At the call of the Motherland, at the behest of conscience, the partisans rose to mortal combat with the invaders and made a worthy contribution to the achievement of the great Victory. Until 1944, Senik remained in the partisan detachment, until Ukraine was liberated from the Nazi invaders. Since 1944 he served in the field army "First Ukrainian Front". My great-grandfather came to Berlin. In 1945 he was demobilized. Upon arrival home, he continued to work on the collective farm. Military awards, medals, photos and documents of that time are carefully kept in the family archive. Harutyunyan Senik Srapovich was awarded: - "Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree"; - Medal "For Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945"; The victorious spring of 1945 was brought by our soldiers, such as my great-grandfathers!

CITY: Borisovo village, Valuisky district of Voronezh province DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1906 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Junior Sergeant. Awards: commemorative medals - "20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.", "40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; medal - "One hundred years since the birth of V. I. Lenin"; medal - "Veteran of Labor". By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 11, 1985, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree. He took part in the Great Patriotic War against Nazi Germany on the Voronezh, Bryansk and second Ukrainian fronts. From an early age he began to help his father with the housework. In 1917 he graduated from a rural elementary school, after which he began working with his father in his household. In 1920 the family became a member of the Krasnaya Zvezda agricultural commune; in this agricultural commune, and later agricultural artel, he worked as an ordinary worker until 1925. From January 1923 to June 1925, Arseny Fedorovich worked as the secretary of the Nasonovskaya rural cell, first of the Russian Ypung Communist League, and from 1924, after the renaming of the Komsomol organization - Komsomol. From January 1930 to July 1935 A.F. Avilov was a student at the Moscow Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture. After the distribution, A.F. Avilov worked as a senior mechanic at the Veidelevskaya MTS of the Voronezh Region, then was transferred to work as the director of the Rzhaksy interdistrict overhaul workshop, where he worked until October 1937. On October 3, 1937, he was arrested and charged under Article 58, paragraphs 7 and 11 of the RSFSR Criminal Code. Was under investigation in the Voronezh prison for 2 years, 2 months and 6 days. On December 9, 1939, at the court session of the Voronezh regional collegium of the court, he was acquitted by the court and released from custody. The Tambov regional party committee restored his rights as a member of the CPSU. After returning to his family, A.F. Avilov worked as a physics teacher at the Budennovsk secondary school and a teacher at the Budennovsk agricultural college. On July 14, 1942, he was seriously wounded at the front near Voronezh. He was treated in a military hospital in the city of Ranenbaum, Ryazan region until October 1, 1942. After recovering, he was again sent to the front. Being retired, A.F. Avilov took an active part in the social life of the village, for many years he was the chairman of the village comrades' court and was repeatedly elected a people's assessor of the Krasnogvardeisky district court. He died in June 1988.