Heroes and feats

The veteran was born in the village of Shishkovo of the Kryzhinsky village council of the Zhukovsky District on March 13, 1925. In 1933, his father died in a famine year, and the eight-year-old boy remained the oldest man in the family. It was necessary to help the mother raise her younger brother and sisters. Alexey did not go to school, he was not up to school. Later he went to work in a kolkhoz. And then the war started. In October 1943 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He ended up on the First Belorussian Front as a Private. _x000D_ He participated in the liberation of the city of Bobruisk. In June 1944, the troops of the Belorussian Front under the command of General of the Army K. K. Rokossovsky launched an offensive operation. On June 27, a tight encirclement ring was made, and on June 29 Bobruisk was completely liberated from the German fascist invaders. _x000D_ The bloody combats for the liberation of brotherly Belarus did not pass without a trace. In July 1944, having been seriously wounded in one of the battles, Alexey Ivanovich was hospitalized. He underwent two operations on his leg. In the hospital, where he took part in the collective writing of the lyrics of the songs of the war years, in 1945 he learned excellent news: Germany had surrendered, fascism was defeated. There was no end to exultation and joy. The terrible war nightmare ended, but there were hard post-war years ahead. _x000D_ Alexey Ivanovich returned to his native village Shishkovo, but there was no house, it was burned by the Nazis. He took shelter at neighbors. His mother died soon after. There was no limit to grief. He was left homeless and the person most dear to him passed away. _x000D_ The veteran bravely endured all the that he hardships to face after the war. After a while, Alexei Ivanovich got married and had children. In 1945, Alexei Ivanovich was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany." In addition to this medal, he has three more awards. They all talk about his hard combat path. Alexey Ivanovich composed many poems and songs on military topics. With the support of the Zadubravsky village council, a collection of poems was created and published, which is called "Poets-fellow countrymen about the war". This collection also includes the poems of Alexei Popkov.

Pustynnikov Stepan Mikhailovich was born on June 26, 1923 in the village of Sof'ino, Mainsky District, Ulyanovsk Region. After graduating from Primary School, he could not continue his education, since it was necessary to help the family. In those hard years, he didn't have to think about education. After school he worked in a kolkhoz. _x000D_ “I performed various types of job in the kolkhoz. He grazed the cows, made hay, and learned to be a carpenter. . Then he mastered the profession of a tractor driver, got behind the wheel of a tractor. _x000D_ Stepan recalls: “Although it was a hard time, but interesting and fun, we were young. We worked hard, with enthusiasm, believed that we would build a just society. Our faith and our dreams were thwarted by the war, which interrupted the course of peaceful life.” In 1941, Stepan was not called up to the front, since he was only 17 years old, and he continued to work in the kolkhoz. In 1942 he was drafted to the front from his native village Sofyino. He fought on the 2nd Ukrainian Front under the command of Konev, military specialty was Sapper. In 1943 he took part in the battle for the Dnieper, was wounded. For 7 months he was treated in a hospital in the city of Bobrov, Voronezh Region. After treatment, he continued to fight the Nazis. _x000D_ He took part in the Budapest operation. On December 8, 1944, battles began for the liberation of the capital of Hungary, and only on February 13, 1945, the city was liberated as a result of bloody combats. He liberated Czechoslovakia, took part in the Prague operation, which was commanded by Malinovsky. _x000D_ Prague was liberated on May 9, 1945, on the same day in Berlin the Act of Unconditional Surrender of Germany was signed. It so happened that he celebrated Victory in the city of Prague. Remembering this day, Stepan Mikhailovich is worried: “It's no joke, because we were all waiting for victory, many of my comrades died for it. Hearing this good news, we both believed and did not believe, and wept and laughed. For 1418 long days and nights we forged Victory, sewed a shroud for fascism. On Victory Day, we dreamed of returning home to our loved ones. We remembered our fallen comrades. We asked ourselves the question: ”Why did my friend die, and not me?”

Branch of troops: Communications troops. I want to tell you about my great-grandfather (mother's grandfather). My great-grandfather, Pavel Leontyevich Prozhirko, born in 1925, left for the war in June 1941, when he was not even 16 years old (he fled secretly from home). He was returned home. But he was persistent, ran away from home again and got on a freight train that went to the West. At one of the stations in the Odessa Region, he made his way onto the platform of an armored train. He hid and fell asleep, and woke up from a terrible roar: the guns were beating. Shells exploded. _x000D_ After the battle, the Red Army men examined the armored train and came across a boy. The boy said that he had no one, and begged the Commander to take him with him. So he found himself on an armored train and began to serve. In the fall, the armored train was bombed. My grandfather ended up in a battalion on a special mission: he blew up objects behind enemy lines. After several successful operations, he was enlisted in the battalion, here he took the oath and joined the Komsomol. _x000D_ Once a sabotage group of 16 people, my grandfather was among them, after completing the mission, was making its way through the front line. For a long time they could not get out of the encirclement. They took a passenger car off the Germans, but no one knew how to drive a car. Then my grandfather asked the Commander to let him drive the car, saying that his father was a driver. _x000D_ And they broke through to the Soviet troops. Under the shelling of the Nazis, my grandfather brought the car to the location of his unit. He celebrated Victory Day in Vienna. He was wounded four times. Has state awards: "For the Victory over Germany!", "For the capture of Budapest", "For the defense of the Caucasus!", "For military services", "For the capture of Vienna", "For the Liberation of Warsaw". Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ As a memory of the battles in Hungary, a silver cigarette case is kept in our family with an engraving: "To the Guards Corporal Prozhirko Pavel Leontyevich for excellent military operations to defeat the enemy's Budapest group from the Commander of the 3rd Ukrainian Front. 23, February 1945. TOLBUKHIN," _x000D_ He had reached his native village on the eve of 1946. After the war, he was a miner and electric welder. He participated in the Construction of a road bridge across the Volga, in Mostootryad No. 8. He worked at the Communications Plant, from where he retired. But even in retirement, my great-grandfather could not sit idle. He became a public traffic police inspector. What I have just written, I learned from the stories of my mother and her aunt. He often told them about the war, how scary it was. And at what cost did they get the Victory. _x000D_ The most terrible thing was listening to stories about the crossing of the Dnieper. They wrote about my great-grandfather several times in the newspapers: Regional Communist dated August 16, 1984 in an article entitled "The boy went to war ..." newspaper "Communist" (city of Engels dated April 8, 1983 in the article "Traffic police inspector" and dated February 28, 1985 in the newspaper Communist "(city of Engels) in an article entitled "Demo-man" _x000D_ These newspapers are carefully kept in our family. I am very proud of my great-grandfather. Bow to all veterans and eternal memory to those who are no longer with us. Those who at the cost of their lives gave us a peaceful life and those whom was gone after the war There are no words to express all gratitude for what they did, so that we live now.

Branch of the service: Ground Forces._x000D_ Nina Fedorovna Yadykina was born on September 23, 1916 in the village of Ievlevo, Bogoroditsky District, Tula Region. She became an orphan early, at the age of about 5. In February 1932, Nina entered the Serpukhov School of factory apprenticeship (Fabzaucha) at the state Serpukhov cotton and paper trust, specializing in spinning. There she met her future husband Leonid Alekseevich Panteleev. In January 1934, they completed their studies, and Nina received the qualification of a 9th grade bank broker. And on November 17, 1935, Nina married Leonid and takes the name of her husband Panteleev. _x000D_ On January 21, 1937, their daughter Galina was born. But the father did not take part in raising his daughter for long, since in August 1938 he was drafted into the army. In June 1941, the war broke out. And in October 1941, the Serpukhov spinning and weaving factory "Krasny Tekstilshchik", where Nina worked, was stopped. Nina lived with her young daughter and her husband's parents. There were starving._x000D_ An Air Regiment was based not far from Serpukhov. In 1942, Nina went to work as a dishwasher in the regimental catering unit. Every day she walked several miles home from work to see her family and bring food for her daughter and family members. _x000D_ Over time, the catering department, along with the regiment, moved further and further from her native places and Nina walked ever greater distances from home to work. Soon she began to come home every other day, then after 3 days, a week, and soon she could no longer see her daughter, letters and parcels came home only occasionally. _x000D_ Nina spent the whole war as a food worker at military unit 45068. She was a dishwasher, a cook, and a waitress. Her combat path ended on March 22, 1946 in Poland. For military merits Panteleeva Nina Fedorovna was awarded: the medal "For Victory over Germany", the Order of the "Patriotic War" II degree. _x000D_ After a long war, the family was reunited in 1947 in the Far East, where her husband Leonid served in the Navy. On duty, they had to work in North Korea. Abroad in 1948, they had another daughter, Elena. A few months later, the family returned to Russia. Panteleeva Nina Fedorovna was awarded the following jubilee medals: "40 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "50 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", Zhukov's medal. On April 3, 1997, at the age of 80, Nina passed away.

Rank: Sergeant._x000D_ My father, Andrei Grigorievich Paleony, was born on October 16, 1901. He told very little about himself, only recently I learned that his father was a Sergeant in the tsarist police. I know only two things about his childhood. He graduated from the seven classes of the Parish School, which at that time was not just a high education, but almost higher. Many had two or three, maximum four classes. My father was a surprisingly literate person. With seven years of education, he wrote practically without mistakes, only some new words were sometimes strange to him. Until his very old age, his handwriting was clear, even, had all the bright features of a man's handwriting. _x000D_ I am reading not only his letters, but also the synopsis during his training in anti-aircraft affairs during the war years. Everything is legible, understandable and competent. In addition, my father was reading a lot, even though all his life he worked very hard. He had an excellent visual memory and he remembered correctly written words. _x000D_ Nobody knows, because the father never spoke about it, why the 16-year-old son of the tsarist Sergeant after October 1917 went to the civil war on the side of the Reds. Maybe he was carried away by revolutionary romance or youthful protest against the existing order? One way or another, Andrei Paleony went through the entire civil war, not for fear, but for conscience, fighting against whites. He did not earn awards then, orders were rarely awarded to anyone, mainly commanders, and there were no medals yet. _x000D_ Fate kept him alive in the wars. During the Civilian War in Russia, he did not receive a single wound, only his spiked helmet Budenovka was shot through. And when the Soviet state got stronger, introduced its own laws, it remembered that in some village of Glushkovo there was a guy who had reached the draft age of 19. _x000D_ Andrei Palenyi, who had recently returned from the fronts of the Civil War, in April 1920, was drafted into active military service into the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. And they were sent to the 61st special Division of the GPU troops as a squad leader. I do not know, no one could tell me what kind of troops they were, what function they performed. Only our Andrey had served exactly four years. The father lived in a family of strict rules, one might say, in a puritanical family, where free relations with women were not encouraged. Maybe that's why he got married late. Or maybe because then there was an unshakable rule: when one is able to support his family himself, then he get married. _x000D_ In any case, only four years later after coming from the army, Andrei Palenyi decided to start his own family. His wife was picked up from a strong, big family. The eldest daughter of Mikhail Korobkin Olga at the beginning of 1929 became the wife of Andrei Paleniy. Father took over the profession of a carpenter from his father, and with hard work he earned a piece of bread. As in the Scripture: in the sweat of your brow you will earn your bread. And on November 19, the first-born son Vladimir was born to the young couple. _x000D_ Later, he would remember how, from an early age, his father taught him the same thing that many years later he taught my second brother Slava, then me: first pull out and straighten nails on a piece of iron, then plan the slats, then make frames for photographs, mailing boxes. _x000D_ This is what my father was doing all his life, from which he had an extra money to the main income. And when the second son, Slava, was born on May 12, 1936, the father completely switched to three jobs. During the day he was a carpenter, receiving the main salary. After work he was a carpenter at home, making frames and boxes. Late in the evening he went to school for a night job. He got a job as a stoker, and heated the stoves in the classrooms with peat. It burns very quickly, without giving much heat, so it had to be drowned until late at night. And in the morning he went to his main job again. _x000D_ There was another small job on the weekends. In the park we had a diner where men came to sit with friends, drink a glass or two of vodka, have a snack and talk "for life." Father in this diner sold vodka, snacks, cleared the tables. In general, he was a barman. And for this he had an extra ruble in the family budget. Father lived at such a pace. _x000D_ My father was called up to the front when he was about 40 years old, when he already had two children. The 18-year-old boys, mobilized for the war immediately after finishing high school, were not much older than the first son of Andrei Paleony. _x000D_ But together with them he left the military registration and enlistment office on August 24, 1941, together in October he took the oath and was enlisted in the 732th Separate anti-aircraft machine-gun Company of the 9th anti-aircraft machine gun Regiment as the Commander of the crew. _x000D_ He probably was appointed as the Crew Commander because he was older than everyone else, or maybe because in the training he carefully wrote down and remembered all types of aircraft, at what speed and at what altitude they fly, how to correctly determine the lead. _x000D_ Like all Red Army men, my father was retreating to the east under the onslaught of the Nazis, until he had reached the Volga at Stalingrad. One can read about the battles in the summer and autumn of 1942 and especially in the winter of early 1943 in the memoirs of the commanders. In September 1942, his 732th anti-aircraft Machine-gun Company was almost completely destroyed, only a few survived. _x000D_ Those who survived were withdrawn from the battle to the south of Stalingrad to replenish and train new recruits. But while they were waiting for replenishment, the Commander of the gunboat Kirov, Senior Lieutenant Pozdnyakov, addressed the survivors: “Soldiers, German aircraft do not allow the ships of our flotilla to deliver ammunition to Stalingrad. Is there an anti-aircraft gunner among you?” _x000D_ Thus, Sergeant Paleony became a sailor of the Volga military flotilla for a while. A month later, the Commander of the ship Pozdnyakov and the commissioner of the gunboat Kirov, Political Instructor Tverskoy, will issue a certificate with the following content: _x000D_ "The certificate was issued to Sergeant Paleony that he was with his crew on the gunboat Kirov from September 13 to October 14, 1942 inclusive." Signatures and seals. It is interesting that the Commander signed with a red pencil, but the Political Instructor did not leave an autograph. And one more touch: after serving on this gunboat, the nickname "Marine" stuck to my father. Well, he was a sailor of the flotilla, although only a month. _x000D_ After a short respite, Sergeant Singe was again in the heat of the Battle of Stalingrad. In January, during the shelling of the Nazis, an enemy shell exploded literally next to his father's anti-aircraft gun. On the morning of the next day, the death notice team went around the fired positions, collecting the dead soldiers. Someone noticed that there was no snow on the boot sticking out of the snowdrift, although it snowed at night. It meant that the boot is warm, if the snow melts, then somebody was alive. The shell-shocked and half-frozen Sergeant Paleony was taken to the Medical Battalion. Until September, my father was treated in hospitals. Thank God, he didn't get frostbitten on his feet, although then until the end of his days he toiled with them: his legs (and his hands too) were always freezing in the cold. Yes, his hearing was partially lost. I had to talk to my father a little louder than to the others, and he, in turn, also spoke loudly. Sergeant Paleoniy returned to his own Regiment, only this time as a Platoon Commander awarded the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ True, after the war, the veteran of the fighting was offended by pen pushers in the military registration and enlistment office. They wrote that he had no awards in the newly issued military card. The medal "For Courage" and the Order of the Red Star were not included in the number of father's awards. And I am to blame for not saving them in memory of my father. _x000D_ When he was seriously ill, I lived in Shostka, and my nephew, took care of him. A 15-year-old boy first played with his grandfather's awards, and then either sold them or exchanged them for something. I know for sure that my father wrote letters to my mother from the front, it's a pity that these letters were not preserved even before my childhood, I could not read a single line of my father's letters. _x000D_ But the photographs remain to this day, they have short inscriptions: "In memory of my family - wife Olya, sons Vova and Slavik, March 21, 1944", "To a loving wife from her husband, February 15, 1945". _x000D_ And an interesting incident happened with one of the pictures. When my father went to the front, the youngest of his sons, my brother Slava, was 5 years and three months old. By the end of 1944, eight and a half years. And the father asked the mother in a letter to take a photo with both sons and send him a picture. Mother did so. _x000D_ But while the letters were circulating, the front had already crossed the borders of the USSR, and the father's part ended up in Austria. Already in May 1945, my father, being in Vienna, went into a photo studio and asked the photographer to insert his portrait into a family photo. He fulfilled the request. So this photo, strange at first glance, appeared in our family photo album: a father in a military uniform, his wife and two children were photographed against the background of either the castle or the Vienna City Hall. My father finished fighting as a Company Starshina of the same 9th anti-aircraft machine gun Regiment. And on July 14, 1945 he was demobilized and joined his wife and children.

Lieutenant Colonel, 269th Rifle Rogachevskaya Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division A boy from the small steppe village of Pervomaisky, Ipatovsky District, from childhood dreamed to be a teacher. After finishing High School, he entered the Mozdok Pedagogical School, successfully graduated from it. And now he had a long-awaited teacher's diploma in his hands, and there was a bright future shining! But the June 1941 was already knocking on the window with a green birch branch. Mikhail was drafted into the army on June 9. Thirteen days later the Great Patriotic War started, which he went through from the first to the last day. _x000D_ There were many stories in his military biography. He commanded a platoon of sub machine gunners, was wounded. After the hospital, from March 43rd, he served as a Senior Sergeant, Commander of an Artillery section of a Division. According to the data in reconnaissance reports, the coordinates of targets for our guns were calculated. If the topographer is wrong, our shells will fly past the enemy. It was he, Mikhail Poberey, who marked targets on the wax beads before the famous Battle of Kursk. He waited for the offensive like everyone else, but on July 1, the Chief of Staff summoned him and announced: _x000D_ “You will make a good Commander. It was decided to send you to study at the Penza Artillery School ”. Already on the train, Senior Sergeant Poberei learned that a battle had started In the history of World War II this was one of the bloodiest and greatest battles. He also learned that all his colleagues were killed. His fate saved then. He diligently mastered military science for a year, and in September 44th he came back on the front line, in the 269th Vinnytsia Red Banner Orders of Kutuzov, Bogdan Khmelnitsky, Alexander Nevsky Anti-tank Destroyer Regiment. He commanded a platoon. _x000D_ He celebrated the victory in Prague. After serving 20 years, and all this time he was faithful to his native tank regiment, was demobilized as a Lieutenant Colonel. Finally his dreams came true: he taught history and was the Head teacher of Secondary School No. 25 in Stavropol, the School inspector. All the time he actively participated in social work. Since 1962, he headed the section of patriotic education of draft youth in the assistance committee of the regional military enlistment office. From 1985 to the present, Mikhail Dmitrievich has been working in the Council of Veterans: (1985-1995 in the Industrial District of Stavropol, from 1996-2014 in the Petrovsky District Council of Veterans). He skillfully attracted veterans to work on the patriotic education of students. Interacting with schools, Mikhail Dmitrievich organized the work of young correspondents with veterans of the Great Patriotic War at home, helping schools in to create the "Combat Glory" school museums with new relics, exhibits, documents, local names of heroes. Poberei Mikhail Dmitrievich has state awards: Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War II degree._x000D_ Medals: For Military Merit, For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War, For Impeccable Service, I and II degrees, "For Valiant Labor", "Zhukov" and others. Numerous Diplomas, 15 of them are Russian and regional. In 2006 he was awarded the diploma of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II "For the secular education of the younger generation." _x000D_ In 2007 he was awarded the title of Laureate of the Russian Forum "Public Recognition".

There is hardly a single family in this country where the memory of the courage defenders is not kept. Our family is no exception. We are proud that my great-grandfather was a part of that war. Unfortunately, he died the same year I was born, so I didn't see him. The Great Patriotic War left its mark on every family. Someone did not return from the war, and someone returned wounded, shell-shocked, but he remained alive. _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Potienko Anatoly Andreevich, also returned home. He went through the whole war all the way to Berlin, got there and, fortunately, is alive. The war for him began on the North Caucasian front. He was a signalman with the ranks of Junior Lieutenant and Lieutenant. He served in the 1442nd Radio Platoon of the 414th Anapa Red Banner Infantry Division. On October 7, 1943, he was awarded for the support of radio communications throughout all hostilities. _x000D_ “He created a cohesive and well-trained team of radio operators. During the period of battles he showed excellent examples in providing communications for the Division. During intense hostilities, where wire communications were destroyed by fire enemy, radio communication worked smoothly, thanks to the selfless work of Comrade Potienko. In the area of height 88.1, the radio was damaged, but Potienko Anatoly Andreevich personally eliminated the damage under fire and achieved communication. ” For this, the Minister of Defense of the USSR awarded my great-grandfather the Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ My great-grandfather took part in the hostilities for the liberation of the city of Sevastopol and on May 31, 1944 was awarded the second Order of the Red Star. _x000D_ At a challenging combat situation, he kept uninterrupted radio communication between the command post of the Corps, the command post of the Division and the command post of the regiments._x000D_ In addition to two orders, my great-grandfather also received the Medal “For the Defense of the Caucasus” and the Medal “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.” I am proud that my great-grandfather defended this country, that he and his peers did everything possible for me to be born in a free country. Thank you my great-grandfather!

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 321st Rifle Chudovsko-Dnovskaya Red Banner Division He lived before the war at the Podyuga station of the Konosha District of the Arkhangelsk Region. He was drafted to the front on July 26, 1941 by the Konosha District Military Commissariat. He studied at the Leningrad Communication School for four months in 1941. He graduated from the Courses for Junior Lieutenants of the Leningrad Front as a Rifle Platoon Commander. November-December 1941- Head of the radio station. December 1941 - January 1942 - treatment in hospital. January 1942—March 1942 - military Courses. March 1942 - June 1942 - Platoon Commander. June 1942 - January 18, 1943 - Platoon Commander, Deputy Company Commander. January 18, 1943 - February 1943 - treatment in hospital. February 1943 - June 1944 - Commander of an Assault Rifle Company. June 1944 - July 1944 - treatment in hospital. July 1944 - January 1945 - Commander of Rifle Company. October 9, 1944 - awarded the rank of Senior Lieutenant. January 26, 1945 - April 1945 - treatment in hospital.. August 7, 1945 - transferred to the reserve. _x000D_ He fought on the Leningrad Front from August 1941, on the 2nd Belorussian Front from October 13, 1944. Awarded with: the Order of the Red Star, the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", the medal "For the victory over Germany." Senior Lieutenant P. N. Parfeniev on the Korel Isthmus he commanded a Rifle Company. _x000D_ He conducted a contact reconnaissance for the height of 123.2 in the area of Lake Lembolovsky. The height was taken. The enemy decided to restore the situation and launched a counterattack. Under the leadership of Comrade Parfenyev, four counterattacks were repulsed. In this battle, Comrade Parfeniev personally killed five Finns from a machine gun. Eleven Finnish soldiers and one officer were taken prisoner. Senior Lieutenant Pavel Nikolayevich Parfeniev is a participant in numerous battles for the liberation of this country. He returned to the battlefield after a third severe wound and was distinguished by the Order of the Red Star. (From the military presentation to the awarding, Commander of the 74th Rifle Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Karpov).

He was born in the city of Sevastopol on November 26, 1907. In September 1928 he entered the Kiev Artillery School as a cadet and graduated in 1931. From 1933 to 1935 he attended evening classes at the Kiev branch of the Combined Arms Academy. M. V. Frunze. From September 1931, he held command positions in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the USSR. From September 1931 to September 1932 he was a platoon Commander of the Kiev Artillery School. From September 1932 to February 1935 he was an Assistant Commander of the battery at the Kiev Artillery School. From February 1935 to May 1937 he had been Commander of the training battery of the 100th Artillery Regiment of the 100th Rifle Division in the city of Berdichev. From May 1937 to September 1938 he had been battery Commander of the 46th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 100th Rifle Division of the Western Special Military District of the city of Minsk (Uruchye village). From September 1938 to May 1941 he had been Division Commander of the 46th Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the 100th Order of Lenin's Infantry Division of the Western Special Military District of Minsk. From May 1941 to July 1941 he had been Divisional Commander of the 713th Artillery Regiment of the 6th Anti-tank Artillery Brigade from the reserve of the High Command in the 10th Army of the Western Special Military District (Western Front), the area east of the city of Bialystok (Ruzhanstok). _x000D_ From July 1941 to September 1941 he had been Commander of the 39th Reserve Artillery Regiment of the Western Front, the village of Staraya Ruza. From September 1941 to December 1941 he had been Commander of the 39th corps (cannon) Artillery Regiment of the reserve of the Main Command of the Western Front. _x000D_ From December 1941 to December 1941 he was Head of the Reconnaissance Department of the Artillery Department of the 20th Army of the Western Front. From December 1941 to March 1942 he was Commander of the 896th Artillery Regiment of the 331st Infantry Division of the 20th Army of the Western Front. From March 1942 to April 1943 he was Commander of the 1020th High Power Howitzer Artillery Regiment of the Moscow Military District, at the station Suslonger. From April 1943 to September 1947 he was Commander of the 102nd Order of Kutuzov of the High Power Howitzer Artillery Brigade as part of the 20th Orsha Artillery Breakthrough Division of the Reserve of the High Command, commanded a group of Artillery destruction at Bryansk, III-Belorussky, I-Baltic, II-Baltic fronts. _x000D_ He participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 21, 1941 to May 9, 1945. On December 25, 1941, he had a serious head injury at a combat near the village of Khvorostinovo, 1.5 km west of Volokolamsk, during a breakthrough of the enemy's defenses on the Lama River. In July 1943, he was wounded while breaking through the enemy's defenses near Orel. In June 1944, he was slightly wounded while breaking through the enemy's defenses near Orsha. _x000D_ He was awarded with the Order of the Red Banner in 1944 for skillful leadership and personal courage during the Orsha operation. In 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree for the skillful leadership of the Artillery Group of destruction in the Libau and Memel directions. In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. For the length of service in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1943 he received the medal "For Defense of Moscow", in 1945, the medal "For Victory over Germany." During the Great Patriotic War, in the orders of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, three letters of gratitude were personally announced for the skillful leadership of the troops in breaking through the enemy's heavily fortified defense zone near Orsha, Riga and Shaulai. In 1947, for health reasons, I was expelled from the ranks of the Soviet army with the rank of Colonel. In 1947 he started working as director of the Polotsk meat processing plant. In 1948 - 1950 he worked as director of the Polotsk city water pipeline. In 1950 - 1953 he worked as the head of the pier in the city of Polotsk.

My uncle, Grigory Karpovich Pozdeev was born in 1925, in the village of Verkhnetroitskoe, Belebeevsky canton of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now it is the territory of the Verkhnetroitsky rural council of the Tuimazinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan). He graduated from nine classes of Secondary School in the village of Nizhnetroitskoye. After studying for less than a month in the tenth grade, he was drafted to the front in September 1943 at the age of 17. A participant in the Battle of Kursk, which was part of the Artillery units of the 19th Red Banner Tank Corps and the 106th Infantry Division of the 27th Infantry Corps, with battles - along the roads of the Central and 1st Belorussian fronts. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Warsaw, took Berlin. Since 1945 he had been Lieutenant, Commander of the machine gun platoon of the 905th Rifle Regiment of the 248th Rifle Division. On April 25, 1945, during the capture of Berlin, in a combat in the Limberstrasse area, he was seriously wounded. For this battle he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, he celebrated Victory Day in the hospital. After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served as a political worker in the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany. After serving more than a year after the war, he was demobilized with the rank of Senior Lieutenant. In 1947 he returned home to the village of Verkhnetroitskoye. Senior Lieutenant Grigory Pozdeev returned home not only with Victory, military medals and orders, but also with severe wounds to both legs. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals “For Military Merit”, "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Berlin" and "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." He graduated from the Oil Technical School in the city of Bugulma, where he studied as a driller. Working in the "Tuimazaburneft" trust, he worked his way up from a driller to a drilling foreman. Winner of the socialist competition of the Ministry of the Oil Industry in 1953. In 1958 he was sent on a business trip to the People's Socialist Republic of Albania to pass on his work experience. He returned to Bashkiria in 1961 and already in 1963 the management of the Tuimazaburneft trust sent him to the development of deposits in Western Siberia, to the city of Nefteyugansk. All his life wounds haunted him, but Grigory Karpovich did not give up, he worked in the oil industry for more than thirty years. He was always honest, had fair principles. He was retired in 1983. For his labor achievements he was awarded numerous awards: the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin” in 1970, the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1975, as well as the medal “For the development of mineral resources and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia.” In addition, he was awarded the 50th Anniversary Medal of the USSR Armed Forces and other commemorative medals. In 1985, in honor of the 40th anniversary of Victory, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. He died in 1989.

Rank: Lieutenant. _x000D_ Unit: 8th Infantry Division (2nd formation). _x000D_ On August 14, 1941, my great-grandfather was drafted by the Dzhurunsky military registration and enlistment office of the Aktobe Region and sent to the Frunzensk Military Infantry School. The training was accelerated, they were engaged in 12 hours. It was very hard to study. In the summertime, they lived in tents outside the city, where training took place. And in November 1941 he was placed in the building of the Technical School. The School had 2,000 cadets. When the fascist troops approached Moscow, they formed a cadet Brigade from three battalions and sent them to the front. Grandfather was in the fourth Battalion, he and other cadets were sent to complete their studies. In early March 1942, the Regiment as part of the Division was sent to the front in Novomoskovsk (formerly Stalinogorsk). In the newspaper Orskaya Chronicle, I read: “The city was a terrible sight: destroyed houses, there was no station building at all, only a railway. We went on a campaign to the Bryansk front. It was hard to walk: there was much snow, we were awkward. After a while, my hearing was restored. Fortunately, no one died in this combat. _x000D_ All his life great-grandfather kept the captured German spoon-fork, which the soldiers gave him. His fellows scrawled his name and surname of their Rifle Platoon Commander on its surface. In July 1942, the great-grandfather first saw the rocket launchers Katyushas, which fired three shots at the advancing Germans, stopping their attack. On May 9, the regiment went on the offensive with the support of tanks. By the end of the day, our positions were restored to 30 kilometers, which had previously been occupied by the enemy. To the west of the village of Nikolskoye, Nikolsky District, Oryol Region, on July 9, 1942, attacking the retreating enemy, he destroyed up to 30 Germans with his platoon. Here he was seriously wounded.

Branch of troops: Technical troops. Subdivision: 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division. In 1941 he graduated from the 9th grade of a Secondary School in the city of Evpatoria, he wanted to go to the front, they did not take it because of his age. His father, Isaac Podolsky, sent his son and wife out of the city, while he himself stayed with the plant. Until the last days he was engaged in the evacuation of equipment and documents, he did not have time to leave, he was shot by the Germans. Vadim, (that was the name of his comrades at School, and then they called him all his life), having left with his mother to evacuate to the Urals, entered a Military School there, received the rank of Lieutenant and went to the front. In the battles for Poland, he was seriously wounded, was in the hospital for a long time, almost lost a leg, was discharged and sent as a military Commander to School, where he met his future wife. In 1947 he was again recognized as fit for military service and drafted into the army. He served in the Railway Troops. He traveled with his large family (wife, mother and 5 children) across the entire Soviet Union (Dnepropetrovsk, Irtysh-Ob, Siberia, Ural, Transbaikalia, BAM). He served honestly, respected soldiers and officers, he was always loved and respected by those around him, was a political worker, always in the spotlight. Having begun his service in wartime as a Lieutenant, he was demobilized from the army as a Colonel, then worked at a School as a Military Commander. He loved children, actively participated in the social life of the school and the city. And everyone loved and respected him. I must say that his whole family was like that, in all military towns where they happened to live, people always came to us for advice, consolation, asking for help, with various questions. Mom, Podolskaya Anna Maksimovna, worked all her life at school in elementary grades, fiddled with her children all the time, and not only in class. All her children were good, she did not say a bad word about any of them. And even in retirement, she taught children to read and count, wherever she was, in the yard, on the train, on the beach ... She also was handy with a needle, and at one time was an instructor in cutting and sewing circle. Our grandmother, father's mother, Podolskaya Dina Zinovievna, did not officially work anywhere, but she also always took care of children, she sang well, cooked great, and loved to treat and share culinary recipes with neighbors. It was always fun in our house, there were a lot of guests, dad played the guitar, sang, danced, and played various games.

Rank: Lieutenant. Subdivision: 46th Rifle Division (2nd formation). Military ID: series L, N 35197, Infantry, VUS 1, Lieutenant, reserve, 3rd grade, Communist party since , party card N 4972502. Service: March 1941 - March 1942: Head of the Quaternary service, evacuation unit N 3044, Yaroslavl; March 1942 - November 1942: Private Separate Sapper Battalion of the 53rd Army; November 1942 - March 1943: cadet of the Military-Political School in Ivanovo, certificate series ХН-000001, No. 78202, awarded the rank of Lieutenant; March 1943 - October 1943 in the reserve of Gorky; October 1943 - January 1944 - Platoon Commander of the 698th Infantry Regiment of the 46th Infantry Division; November 1944 - October 1945: Head of the Quaternary maintenance unit, 321st Escort Regiment of the NKVD. Participation in the Great Patriotic War with Germany: March 1942 - November 1942: private, 11th Separate Engineer Battalion of the 53rd Army of the North-Western Front; October 1943 - April 1944: Platoon Commander, 698th Infantry Regiment, 46th Infantry Division, 2nd Baltic Front. On 10/10/1945 he was released with the rank of Lieutenant. Injuries: Pustoshka, Pskov Region: severe wound from a firearm in his right arm on January 9, 1944. Information about the wound: "In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 698th Rifle Regiment Comrade Ivan Davydovich Penkin was seriously wounded on January 18, 1944. Diagnosis: a through bullet wound of the right elbow joint and damage to the radius. Command unit 23841, Major of Medical Services, Lokshin. _x000D_ He was treated from 18.04.1944 to 27.05.1944. On 07/25/1944 a severe blind injury by a grenade fragment to the right hand with damage to the third finger and right elbow joint, No. 3044. Wound certificate: “In the battles for the Soviet Motherland, Lieutenant of the 469th Rifle Regiment Comrade Penkin Ivan Davydovich was on July 25, 1944. seriously wounded: a grenade fragment of the right hand with damage to the third finger and the right elbow joint. Head of the evacuation hospital 3044. Nekrasovskoye village. He was undergoing treatment from August 6, 1944 to August 29, 1944 ”.

Rank: Lieutenant Colonel. Branch of the service: Ground Forces Unit: 3rd Moscow Communist Rifle Division. _x000D_ The hardships of the First World War fell to his shoulders. Straight from the imperialist trenches, he went to the Civilian war in Russia. There he was a common soldier, a Comissar, and a unit Commander. When he was demobilized from the Red Army, he held various leading economic positions. The Great Patriotic War found him in the position of Chief of the Central Board of one of the USSR people's commissariats. In October 1941, Pshenichny had the opportunity to be evacuated with the People's Commissariat. However, hearing about the call of the Moscow Bolsheviks' activists to defend the capital, he decided that his place was there, in the folk combat formation of people who fought with the Nazis, and voluntarily joined the Communist Battalion. During the formation of the 3rd Moscow Communist Division, he agreed to become the assistant Chief of Staff of the Regiment, then became the Commander of the 1st Battalion of the Regiment. _x000D_ In January 1942 Pshenichny P. M. appointed Commander of the 664th Infantry Regiment, assessing his endurance, cold-blooded prudence and management, efficiency and, courage. His subordinates loved him very much. Pshenichny was one of those commanders who were always and everywhere at the forefront, in the midst of the soldiers. For example, reconnaissance group was organized to capture a "prisoner tongue" for interrogation, Pshenichny would come to the recons, talks with each of them, personally checks the plan of the operation, makes adjustments, together with the recons for several days studies the terrain, approaches to the enemy's trenches, etc. There is a fierce combat, people can not to torn off their head above the ground, Pshenichny suddenly appears and raises the fighters to attack. There were legends about the courage and say-devil actions of Pyotr. They said that he was bewitched by an enemy bullet. _x000D_ His comrades joked: “The skeletal old woman wielding a scythe is scared of Communist Comrade Pshenichny. And besides her, who dares to touch him?” Pshenichny, commanding regiment, led people into combats, raised them in attacks, and only once he was wounded in the arm. What a source of strength had he, even then, an elderly man, who able to lift up his wounded, bloody hand and lead the fighters forward? Anyone who saw this remembers to this day. The Order of Lenin marked his extraordinary feat. The Regiment Commander died on August 16, 1942 from a stray mine fragment after a a fierce combat. Someone claims that it was a sniper's bullet. Pyotr died a hero's death. The service of a commander is a daily burning at work, an everyday efforts. Every day and hour he bears an enormous responsibility before the people, before all those whom he leads into combat, before his own conscience. Many warm memories were left about the Commander, Pshenichny P.M. by his comrades in arms.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant Alexey Kirillovich was born on March 17, 1922 in the village of Podzharovka, Iznoskovsky District. The family had seven children: four girls and three boys. The youngest in the family was Vasily Kirillovich, born in 1941. Unfortunately, one of the girls died in her youth due to illness. Alexey Kirillovich finished 10 classes in 1940. In the same year he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He became a cadet in a Regimental School at the 8th Armored Regiment. In 1941 he became the Senior turret gunner of the 327th Armored Regiment. In November 1942, he was appointed squad Commander of the 251st Army Engineering Battalion. _x000D_ Since December 1942 he went to the war and in the same year became a member of the Komsomol. In December of the same year, he was wounded. In January 1943, he was appointed squad leader of the 5th Separate Engineering. As a cadet in 1944 he was sent to the Zhdanov Military School to Kostroma. In October, he was appointed Commander of a department of the Leningrad Military Engineering School. In December, in the rank of Junior Lieutenant, he was appointed Commander of an Engineering Platoon of the 6th Guards Motorized Engineering Battalion, 5th Guards Separate Engineering. In the battles to destroy the Zemland Group of Forces, he skillfully led a platoon while escorting the tanks of the 2nd tank Battalion of the 213th Tank Brigade in combat, preventing the destruction of equipment in the enemy's minefields. The platoon took a direct part in the combat, capturing 52 German soldiers. Alexey Kirillovich personally destroyed three German soldiers and captured five. The Commander of the Battalion of the Guards, Major Viktor Vasilyevich Yesin, was presented on April 19, 1945 to the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, was awarded the Order of the Red Star. This is what Petukhov wrote about Alexei Kirillovich Petukhov in the award on the sheet, the Commander of the Battalion of the Guards, Major Viktor Vasilyevich Yesin: _x000D_ “The platoon of Junior Lieutenant Petukhov was in combat with the tanks of the 2nd Battalion of the 213th Tank Brigade. Thanks to skillful actions, personal example and the correct alignment of forces in combat on the part of Junior Lieutenant Petukhov, his platoon coped well with the engineering support of the advancing tanks. Not a single tank was blown up on the aisles made by the platoon of Junior Lieutenant Petukhov in the enemy's minefields. On the route of movement of tanks in different areas, a platoon of Junior Lieutenant Petukhov removed 120 Anti-tank mines. Moving ahead of the tanks, the platoon of Junior Lieutenant Petukhov took a direct part in the combat for the settlements of Plautvenen, Lengniten. In Lengniten alone 52 people were taken prisoner by a platoon. Personally, Comrade Petukhov took five German soldiers prisoner and shot three on the spot. Skillfully controlling the platoon, Comrade Petukhov did not stop the advance of the tanks for a minute, which contributed to the success of offensive operations to defeat the Zemland group of enemy forces. Worthy of submission to the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. After the end of the war, Alexei Kirillovich was promoted to Lieutenant on May 31, 1945. In January 1946 he was appointed platoon Commander of the 2nd Battalion of the military Construction Brigade of the UOS SV. On July 5, 1946, he was dismissed according to Art. 43, A . From February 28, 1948, he worked in the security department at Sergeant police positions for the protection of public order of the executive committee of the Moscow City Council. _x000D_ On July 13, 1964, he was transferred to the reserve for health reasons. November 15, 1971 A. K. Petukhov was awarded the rank of Senior Lieutenant. Alexei Kirillovich and Alexandra Ivanovna Petukhovs had three children: Tamara Alekseevna (1949), Lyubov Alekseevna (1953) and Yuri Alekseevich (1956). Now each of them has their own children and grandchildren. One of the grandchildren was named after their brave grandfather, Alexey. In November 1987, Alexey Kirillovich died, and in April 2009, his wife, Alexandra Ivanovna, died. Now the descendants of A.K. Petukhov live in the Moscow Region.