Heroes and feats

Rank: Chief Petty Officer Branch: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Grandfather himself avoided talking about the war as much as he could, practically did not tell anything. Here is a letter on May 13, 2017, from the head teacher of the Devitskaya school and the teacher of Russian and literature Lyudmila Chernikova (Koptseva) to my mother: Hello, Svetlana. Here read the essay. Family duet As long as human memory is alive, time has no power over it! Years and decades pass, but the people of the Earth again and again return to the events of the Great Victory, which marked the triumph of life over death. Why do we remember the Great Patriotic War again and again? About her heroes? Because we are worried about the future. We must remember the past so that fascism does not repeat itself again. This is our duty to those who won the Victory. For this very purpose, our school decided to create a school museum. Examining the material for decorating stands about teachers of the war years, I find notes from the district newspaper, photographs from the school archive about the spouses of the Hodovs, who taught at the Devitskaya school since 1936. Grigory Grigorievich and Dina Konstantinovna Khodovs did not prepare themselves for teaching. In 1936, they graduated from the Usman political education college and received diplomas of district inspectors for political education. But not so many inspectors were required, and teachers, especially rural ones, were lacking at that time. The decision to work in the school of the village Devitsa young people was unanimous! In order to have the legal right to teach, the Chodovy passed exams as an external student and began to study in absentia at the teacher's institute. Then Dina Konstantinovna continued her studies at the Biological Faculty of the Voronezh University, and Grigory Grigorievich - at the Literary Faculty of the Voronezh Pedagogical Institute. They really liked working at the school: the entire teaching staff supported the creative atmosphere. But life makes its own adjustments. In 1938, Grigory Grigorievich was drafted into the Army. Chodov had to serve the Red Army as a driver on the border with Poland, in Bialystok. On the eve of the war, he and his colleagues were seconded for cars. And when they drove a lorry to Bialystok, fascist tanks were already rushing towards them. The column was bombed, the chauffeur soldiers who survived were surrounded, looking for their own. Grigory Grigorievich fought, was wounded several times. I reached Berlin, where I met Victory. For military services and bravery shown in battles, there are awards "For Military Merit", "For the capture of Berlin", "For victory over Germany." And Dina Konstantinovna continued to work as a teacher during the war years. In this difficult time for the country, the requirements for teaching and educational work have changed. She was given a militant patriotic character. The topics and teaching methods of subjects such as literature, history, geography, physics, biology, chemistry were revised. Within the framework of the school curriculum, the teaching of these subjects began to be as practical as possible. The school introduced topics of a military - defense orientation in order to establish a closer connection between the school and life. The newspaper Pravda wrote in those days: “No matter how engrossed in the war we are, caring for children and their upbringing remains one of the main tasks ... the law on universal education remains unshakable in war conditions. We must take into account all children and take into account well, despite the complexity of wartime ... No references to the military situation. ”Teachers in those years tried to teach well, conscientiously, and the students studied well, because it was a shame to dishonestly fulfill their duties to those who who was on the battlefield. Each of the Hodovykh spouses at that time performed a feat: Grigory Grigorievich - at the front, with arms in hand, Dina Konstantinovna - in the rear, daily and hourly taking care of the rural children. After the war, they continued to work as teachers, not in the least disappointed in their second profession. The Hodovy family had two children: son Yuri and daughter Svetlana. Over the years, they have accumulated not only a large store of knowledge, but also a huge practical experience. In the issues of the regional newspaper "New Life" of different years I read reviews of the school director I.A. Bessmertnykh, teachers N. Kireeva, A. Pisareva that Dina Konstantinovna “was one of the first to restructure the teaching of biological disciplines in the light of new requirements. She conducts her lessons creatively, with the use of wide visibility and a variety of pedagogical techniques, which for many years she has been achieving one hundred percent academic success. But there is no judge for Dina Konstantinovna stricter than her own conscience. She has a highly developed sense of introspection and self-control, which helps her bit by bit to select the most successful teaching methods, it is interesting and exciting to conduct lessons, laboratory and practical work, to achieve solid knowledge of students. " And then from the notes of the district I learn how indispensable Grigory Grigorievich was in the teaching staff of the Devitskaya school. The title of "school craftsman" was firmly established behind him.He really is a jack of all trades! “Wherever you look, the fruits of his labor are visible everywhere: a model of the terrain on a geographical site, a cemented reservoir on a school site, a sanitary corner skillfully cut out of plywood with a jigsaw, chemistry instruments, numerous tables - all this was done by his hands, or by schoolchildren under his leadership. ”But the village teachers did not stop there either. Grigory Grigorievich always helped in the decoration of the village library and club. He was not only hardworking, but also a courageous person. Despite the physical illness (war, captivity, wounds did their job), he does not lose his composure. The awareness that he was needed and useful to people helped him to fight the disease. Every day, overcoming pain, he tries to build for the benefit of others. Isn't this a feat ?! And Dina Konstantinovna was also engaged in social activities. For several years she was a member of the commission on public education of the regional Council of Working People's Deputies. The family of the Hodovy teachers lived in great friendship and harmony. And in the village, when everyone was in full view of each other, fellow villagers often turned to them for advice, with a request, because they trusted them. Work for them was a natural necessity, without it they could not imagine their life and devoted themselves entirely to their favorite work. The memory of this family duet of teachers still lives in our village, because their students are still alive, and they tell their children and grandchildren about their teachers, and in the school museum there is a page dedicated to people.

Born in 1925 on March 14, the village of Koshankul, Kaztalovsky district of the Ural region (now the Republic of Kazakhstan). In 1938, the family moved to the village of Alexandrov - Gai, Saratov region (RSFSR), where he graduated from a seven-year school. When the Great Patriotic War began, Kadyr Satubaldievich was storing hay for the front. Drafted into the army on January 26, 1943, the 66th rifle regiment arrived in the city of Pugachev, Saratov region, stayed there until September 18, 1943. Then he got to the front in the 2nd Baltic Front, 1st active army, 115th rifle division, 292nd rifle regiment. He was wounded in the direction of Nevel near the Pustoshka station on November 24, 1943, and ended up in a hospital in the city of Kirov. After being wounded at the end of January 1944, the 2nd active army was sent to the 2nd Baltic Front, the 6th Guards Fighter Anti-Tank Brigade. He was wounded on March 16, 1944 on the Velikaya River near the village of Mikhailovskoye (the estate of A.S. Pushkin). He was admitted to the hospital in the city of Kirov, where he was until July 1944. After the hospital was sent to the 32nd Tank Training Regiment, artilleryman, sergeant, gun commander. After short-term training, he arrived at the 2nd Ukrainian Front, 7th Tank Corps, 1440 self-propelled artillery regiment. April 3, 1945 arrived in Czechoslovakia. Participated in the capture of the large industrial center of Czechoslovakia, Brno on April 26. On May 9, 1945, he took part in the battles for the liberation of Prague on self-propelled guns. In October 1945, a separate artillery division was redeployed to 613. It was located in the city of Proskurov (since 1954 Khmelnitsky) fought with Ukrainian nationalists (Bandera). In May 1946 he served in the 31st Tank Division, 100th Tank Regiment, where he served until demobilization. Demobilized in 1950. Government awards: Order of the Red Star, medals: "For the victory over Germany", "For the liberation of Prague", "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy", "For the development of virgin and fallow lands", "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945 years. "," 50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR. " For excellent combat and political training, he was awarded the "Excellent tankman" badge by the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, dated April 26, 1945. Died on February 18, 1976.

Rank: Lieutenant Type of Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Sodnom Banzaraktsayevich was born in the village of Tsagatui, Dzhida region of the Republic of Buryatia. From 1935 to 1938 was a member of the Komsomol, worked as a secretary of the Komsomol organization of the collective farm, and since March 1940 - a member of the Communist Party. He served in active military service from the fall of 1938 to the fall of 1940 as a private in the 115 Trans-Baikal Cavalry Regiment of the 8th Cavalry Division in the 1st Red Banner Cavalry Division. In July 1941, he was mobilized and sent to study at the Military Komsomol School in the city of Irkutsk, graduated in December 1941 and received the rank of junior political instructor. In January 1941, with a marching echelon, he arrived at the 3rd Guards Cavalry Division of General L.M. Dovator and appointed military commissar of the mortar battery of the 9th Guards Cavalry Regiment. It was a multinational unit, people of 10 nationalities fought in it: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Buryats, Kirghiz, Uzbeks, Cossacks, Tatars, Ossetians, Circassians. The battery was commanded by the Ossetians Nikolai Friev. At first, he was very suspicious of Sodny Banzaraktsayevich - career soldiers, as a rule, disliked political workers. However, the new military commissar was distinguished by an energetic and fearless character, and was a true patriot. He went with the soldiers on the hunt for "cuckoos" (German snipers), pulled the telephone cable together with the signalmen, during the battle corrected the firing of the mortar battery, pulled out the wounded from the battlefield, i.e. The "staff rat" did not behave in any way and therefore the battalion commander quickly changed his attitude towards him. The last battle Sodnom Banzaraktsayevich took on March 18, 1943 near the village of Moritsky, Sumy region. Fascist infantry and 28 tanks attacked the 9th Guards Cavalry Regiment. The commander of the mortar platoon, Pukhov, was seriously wounded and the military commissar pulled him from the battlefield and took command. In this battle, Khanjapov was first wounded in the leg, but continued to lead the battle. The second injury, already severe (concussion and loss of the left arm). From the battlefield he was carried unconscious. After being wounded he was treated in hospitals in the city of Kursk and the city of Omsk. After the war, Sodnom Banzaraktsayevich never forgot his fellow soldiers. He was actively engaged in the search for fellow soldiers, the search for unknown heroes, the return of their memory to relatives, countrymen through newspaper magazine publications, wrote books. He is the author of the books "Saber campaign", "My fellow soldiers", "Cavalrymen in battles for the Motherland. Khanjapov also wrote about the heroes of Khalkin-Gol, the heroes of the Red Army who were unreasonably repressed. He wrote a lot and was admitted to the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Khanjapov Sodnom Banzaraktsayevich was awarded the Medals "For the Defense of Moscow", "For Courage", the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star. He died on December 6, 1991, having lived 73 years, like his country, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. In his native village Tsagatui, Dzhida district of the Republic of Buryatia, a street is named after him.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Unit: 348th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. My paternal grandfather was missing for a very long time. We had no idea that we would ever find out anything about him. From the village council with. Lomov, Ramonsky district, Voronezh region, requests were sent to search for people who had not returned from the war. But for a very long time there was no news. My dad Nikolai Maksimovich Kharin, now deceased (died at 58 years old, 09/11/1997), shortly before his death at least learned that his father had died in battle on December 14, 1943 and was buried in the village of Asaya (in some documents d. Osoe) Rogachevsky district, Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The coordinator of the People's Immortal Regiment advised me to go to the Memory of the People website. When I entered, I could not believe my eyes. Even the documents are presented on this site, lists of the dead and where the remains of those killed from nearby villages are now reburied. My grandfather was reburied in a mass grave in the village of Mayskoye, Zhlobin district, Gomel region, Republic of Belarus. Below is a document from the "Memory of the People" site. I also learned that he served in the 348 rifle division in the 1170 regiment and was actively involved in hostilities. I would like to know in more detail: about the geography of hostilities, in what battles, perhaps there are some awards that my granddaughter and my daughters, that is, already great-granddaughters, know nothing about. But we do not yet know how to approach this, where to start and to whom and how to write correctly, so that there really is a result. But we are already happy that we managed to find out at least a little bit. From the words of a relative, I learned that my grandfather had traveled to Ukraine to earn money before the war, seemingly to the Donbass in the mines. They met their future wife, my grandmother Tanya (she has been since 1907) when he came home from Ukraine for a while. They merried. Grandma was 18 years old and he was 25 years old. And my grandfather took her to Ukraine. But she came home to give birth to children. Lomovo. According to relatives, I found out that they were a very beautiful couple, and both were very hard-working. My grandmother died at 60. To die, she went to Minvody to her daughter. I was in 1st grade, I was 7 years old when she died. And of course, I had no time to learn anything from her herself, either about my grandfather or about her life before the war. Was too small for that. I only know from relatives that before the war they gave birth to 5 children, but only two survived: daughter Ekaterina, born in 1934. and my son Nikolai, my father (born on 03/05/1939). They are no longer alive either. Ekaterina died at the age of 80 in 2014 in the city of Minvody, Stavropol Territory in the Caucasus. She left 3 sons. The rest of the children of grandfather Maxim and grandmother Tanya died very young in infancy, even before the war. Of course, I remembered that my grandmother loved me very much and I loved her too. She said: "My Ununyushka's eyes are round, like a doll's." She came to visit us in Voronezh with sunflower and pumpkin seeds. I still remember how they were unusually clean and tasty. She cleaned them for me herself. We went somewhere with her to visit in winter, there was a lot of snow ... I remember how my dad and I were visiting her in the village. Lomovo. I even remember her little house on a high mountain with a stove (on which my dad slept) and white walls. And only one room. I remember her delicious pancakes, boiled homemade eggs and her vegetable garden. We were doing something in this garden ... and there was a horse ... Dad put me on it, but not for long. She seemed very big to me. I was probably little, 3-4-5 years old I think. And I remember a huge log next to the house ... all in flowers ... Very beautiful! Now there is nothing in that place.

Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Born into the family of a middle peasant in the Oryol region with. Krasnaya Gora st. Kuibysheva, 78. Father - Semyon Korneevich Khandozhko - born in 1879. Mother - Khandozhko Sanklida Vasilievna - born in 1876. Parents were engaged in agriculture, and in 1934 they joined the collective farm. In 1929 he entered elementary school, which he graduated in 1933 with the subsequent transfer to a junior high school. In 1936 he graduated from the junior high school and entered the high school in the village Krasnaya Gora, which he graduated in 1939. After graduating from high school in order to continue his studies, he entered the Novozybkov Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. On September 27, 1939, he dropped out and was drafted into the army, but was left until further notice. On February 14, 1940 he was sent to the unit by the Krasnogorsk District Military Commissariat. On February 24, 1940 he arrived in Baku in the 32nd Light Artillery Regiment (LAP), where he served as a Red Army gunner. In September 1940, as part of the 3rd division of the 32nd LAP, he was transferred to the 129th howitzer artillery regiment (GAP), where in the same month he was awarded the rank of sergeant with the appointment of a gun commander. On June 22, 1941, as part of the 129th GAP, he left to cover the Turkish border, where he stayed until October 1941. On October 14, 1941 he arrived at the front in the Taganrog region. After fierce battles for the city of Taganrog, the 129th GAP was defeated. He was transferred to the 32nd LAP, in which he participated in the defense of the city of Rostov. On November 5, 1941, the battalion in which it was located was surrounded near the village of Bolshe-Krepinsky in the Rostov region. He stayed surrounded until November 12. They left the encirclement alone ... After that, the 32nd LAP was re-formed and sent to defend the city of Rostov. After the withdrawal in the summer of 1942 from the city of Rostov, the 32nd regiment was again defeated, the remaining battery was poured into the 3rd Guards Corps and left to defend the city of Armavir. Departing from the city of Armavir, they were cut off by the Germans near the city of Mikoyan-Shahan and surrounded. After several days of fighting, having broken through the ring of the Germans, they joined up with their troops near the city of Nalchik. He was sent to the 423rd Guards Artillery Regiment, where he served as the commander of the battalion's combat supply section. In fierce battles near the city of Nalchik, our 37th Army was surrounded on November 5, 1942 and was pushed to the mountains. All escape routes were cut off. We were in the mountains near the city of Ordzhonikidze. When radio communication with the main forces of the Caucasian Front was restored, reinforcements were sent to us on planes. On December 31, 1942, we went on the offensive, and under the blows of the Red Army, the Germans began to withdraw from the Caucasus. After the liberation of Krasnodar on February 25, 1943, for excellent military operations, he was sent by the command of the 423rd Guards Artillery Regiment to the Ryazan Artillery School, where he arrived on March 20, 1943, where he worked as an assistant commander of the 31st training platoon. On February 1, 1945, he graduated from the school, and was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant by order of the Commander of the Red Army Artillery No. 63 dated 02/01/1945. From the school he was sent to the 41st reserve officer regiment, where he stayed until April 20, 1945, after which he left for the 4th Ukrainian front in the 991st howitzer artillery regiment, from where he was demobilized by order of the Commander of the Carpathian military district on September 13, 1946 ... From August 1941 to October 1943, the parents were in the territory occupied by the Germans. There was no connection with them. After the release, the connection was restored through letters. The elder brother served in the army in the Far East with the rank of major. The two middle brothers were at the front. The sisters lived with their parents. In 1947 he left to study in the city of Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, at an agricultural institute. On February 21, 1951, in Chisinau, he married Taisa Andreevna Pluzhko, born in 1925 (Verkhnee Lisichansk district, Luhansk region, Ukraine). On July 01, 1952, he was admitted to the Vadului-Vodsky Raisselhoz Department for the post of head of the Russian Trade Union of workers of Chemical Industries. Dismissed from office on August 26, 1952 of his own free will. On September 09, 1952, he was appointed winemaker-technologist of the Sirashensky z / management of the Champagne Combine of the MSSR. On April 25, 1953, a daughter was born - Alla Semyonovna Khandozhko. On September 13, 1956, he was appointed process engineer of the production technical department of Moldglavvino MNIT MSSR. On October 19, 1957, he was transferred to the position of a production engineer of the production technical department of Moldvinprom SNKh MSSR. He worked in the production and technical department of the Moldvinprom SNKh MSSR until April 01, 1972. He left as the head of the department. On January 25, 1987, a grandson was born - Aleksey Valerievich Blinov. He worked in Chisinau, MSSR until April 25, 1989. Fired due to reaching retirement age. In 1992 he moved with his family to the city of Severodonetsk, Lugansk region, Ukraine.

Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: artillery. Subdivision: 109th Infantry Leningrad Red Banner Division. Leningrad strategic defensive operation (1941). By the beginning of the operation, the 8th Army was entrusted with the task of defending the line from the Baltic Sea to Lake Peipsi with a length of up to 225 kilometers, and in addition, 250 kilometers of the coast and islands of the Moonsund archipelago. The army had only six rifle divisions and one rifle brigade that had suffered losses in previous battles. From the area south of Türi and a little short of the coast of the Baltic Sea, the positions were occupied by the remnants of the 10th rifle corps in the form of the 10th rifle division and the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD. In the coastal strip north of Pärnu, 30-40 kilometers wide, there were no troops at all, except for the border units that had withdrawn from Pärnu and small detachments of the militia. Further to the southeast along the Emajõgi River from Inesuu to Weybri the remnants of the 125th Infantry Division occupied positions, from Weybri to the shore of Lake Peipsi - the remnants of the 48th Infantry Division. The German command clearly underestimated the capabilities of the 8th Army to resist and launched an offensive with only two divisions (61st and 217th), as well as part of the forces of the 1st Army Corps. On July 8, 1941, German troops tried to break through the army's defenses on the Emajõgi line in the 11th Rifle Corps' zone, but the attack was repulsed. On the same day, German troops launched an offensive on Viljandi, broke through the defense of army units and occupied the city, but could not advance further. The breakthrough was stopped 17 kilometers north of the city by the forces of the 22nd motorized rifle division of the NKVD and the reserve 11th rifle division without one regiment, but the most difficult situation in the army zone was north of Pärnu. The advance units of the 217th Infantry Division broke through the fragile defense of the army and began to develop an offensive against Audru, Tallinn and Türi, by the evening of July 9, 1941, having covered half the distance from Pärnu to Tallinn. The 8th Army organized a counterattack with the last reserves, in which the remnants of the 10th Infantry Division, the fresh 16th Infantry Division, border guards and detachments of the people's militia took part. From July 9 to 15, 1941, the army fights at the breakthrough site, in the Maryamaa area, as a result of which the German troops were thrown back 30 kilometers. After that, the front line relatively stabilized for some time. On July 15, 1941, the 61st Infantry Division attempted to strike at the junction of the 10th and 11th Infantry Corps in the direction of Põltsamaa, but had no success. On July 14, the army was transferred to the Northern Front. On July 18, 1941, the German offensive was suspended. For the purpose of capturing Estonia, three divisions (291st, 93rd and 207th security divisions) were transferred to the 8th Army's zone of operations; control of the 42nd Army Corps. German troops again launched an offensive on parts of the 8th Army on July 22, 1941. The blow was delivered in the Põltsamaa - Türi sector at the junction of the Soviet 10th and 11th rifle corps and developed in two directions: towards the Gulf of Finland through Türi and on Mustvee. The main blow was aimed at cutting the 8th Army with the isolation of Tallinn, the second blow was aimed at reaching the northwestern coast of Lake Peipsi, cutting off the 11th rifle corps. On July 25, 1941, German troops completed the task of an auxiliary strike, cutting off and pressing the 11th rifle corps to the shore of Lake Peipsi. The 8th Army, with the forces of two regiments of the 16th Infantry Division, tried to launch a counterattack on Mustvee, which was unsuccessful. The 11th Rifle Corps, after a few (about 3000 demoralized fighters who left the encirclement), was destroyed. Its remnants and units of the 8th Army that retreated to the east subsequently organized defense from Lake Peipsi in the Mustvee area to the Gulf of Finland slightly east of Kunda In the direction of the main attack (the 61st Infantry Division took Tyuri on July 24, 1941, which was repulsed by a counterattack by the 98th Infantry Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division, 22nd Motorized Rifle Division of the NKVD, and the 1st Latvian Workers' Regiment and again abandoned Türi on July 25, 1941. German troops regrouped, shifting their efforts to the northeast. On July 31, 1941, German units broke through to Tamsalu station, moving on Rakvere.On August 4, 1941, the enemy took Tapa, cutting off the Tallinn-Leningrad highway, on August 6, 1941, went to Kadrina, on August 7, 1941, captured Rakvere and broke through to Kunda to the Gulf of Finland, thereby cutting off Estonia. 8 Thus, after reaching the gulf, the enemy deployed its units in opposite directions: leaving the regiment of the 207th security division for coastal defense, 26 The 1st Army Corps deployed to operate against part of the 8th Army towards Narva, and the 42nd Army Corps against another part of the 8th Army towards Tallinn. On August 8, 1941, units of the 8th Army inflict counterattacks from two sides: from the east and west, in order to combine their units, encircle and destroy the enemy units that had broken through to the gulf. The 156th Rifle Regiment of the 16th Rifle Division, the Latvian Regiment of the 10th Rifle Division and units of the 22nd NKVD Motorized Rifle Division, which were advancing from the west, supported by two gunboats, a battery of 130-mm guns and Air Force aircraft, advanced from 12 to 22 kilometers, and advanced units even further. However, the 291st and 93rd Infantry Divisions attacked east of Kunda on the morning of 8 August 1941. Soviet troops were forced to leave Jõhvi and start retreating along the railway to Narva. The gap between the units of the 8th Army increased to 80 kilometers and the counterattack was stopped. Eternal Glory and Memory to the heroes who broke the "backbone" of the Nazis.

Rank: Red Army. Military biography. On the basis of the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, my father Khrenov Ivan Prokhorovich was awarded the Order "RED STAR". In addition to this award, he has other high awards - Orders and Medals. Unfortunately, they are lost. My sister and I are looking for lost awards. Our father was a scout, was surrounded on the Kursk Bulge, carried out the task of destroying the German machine gunners who surrounded the Soviet scouts. In addition to the Kursk Bulge, he was directly involved in other hostilities. He did not really like to remember and talk about the war because was a very humble person. We, his daughters, asked to tell how dad fought, how he was seriously wounded, but he answered us: "I don’t want you to know about the horrors that I experienced." Dad took care of us ... And he himself experienced these horrors as a young 17-year-old boy. To go to the front and defend his homeland, he added one additional year to himself. According to the documents, he went to the front at 18, but in fact, at 17 ... During the day he tried not to talk about the war, and at night in his sleep he continued to fight. My sister and I, from some of the phrases we heard, guessed that in troubled dreams he returned to military operations, carried out commands, went on the attack. Very rarely, he did talk about the war. We know that he had a severe wound in the arm. The bone on the arm was completely shattered. Two large shards protruded from two opposite sides of the arm. At this time, the medical battalion was bombed and it was not possible to do anesthesia. The doctor said, "If you want to live, be patient." They operated without anesthesia ... They only gave me a glass of alcohol ... But the worst thing was ahead, when he was blown up by a mine and saw his leg in a boot in the sky - his foot was torn off. A crack formed in the bone and it was necessary to saw off a part of the leg higher ... After the operation, a crack formed again and again the leg was sawed even higher. And this went on many times ... This is the kind of pain he endured ... By this time he was only 19 years old ... He returned from the front without a leg, on crutches. Despite his disability and severe injuries, returning to a peaceful life, dad continued to work as far as possible. The wounds received during the war made themselves felt. Often wounds opened in the cult, they bleed, ached. He again bravely endured the pain. From time to time, when the wounds opened up to the bone, dad was treated at the hospital for disabled people of the Second World War in Ulyanovsk - this was necessary in order to at least slightly reduce the pain and maintain health. Then a terrible illness overtook him, accompanied by unbearable pain. And again he bravely endured. Even the doctor was surprised at his patience and said, “A front-line soldier is a front-line soldier.” On March 15, 1982, my dad passed away.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 4th Artillery Division. I am immensely proud that there was a Hero in my family too - my great-grandfather Khanov Galimyan Nigamatianovich. From the words of my grandmother and his daughter, Ramazanova Milyausha Galimyanovna, my great-grandfather learned from childhood all the hardships of a difficult peasant life. To feed his family, his father went to work in neighboring villages, and he remained an indispensable helper for his mother and sisters, looked after cattle, collected firewood, etc. Great-grandfather finished his studies only until the 7th grade, started working early so that a large family could at least somehow make ends meet. After completing the courses in 1936, he worked as a secretary in the Bolshekyzylbaevsky village council. In 1940, my great-grandfather went to war with the White Finns. He could not do otherwise, because he was a communist, defender, patriot of his homeland. In 1941, his great-grandfather fought on the Leningrad front, was the commander of the 412th separate machine-gun and artillery battalion, was wounded. After defeating the Nazis, he continued to fight in the Japanese War and returned only in 1946 to his native collective farm and until 1950 worked as chairman of the Abdulla village council. These years were difficult - the country was recovering from the war. Each person counted, it was also a battle - a labor battle. No one spared any effort or time to help the country get back on its feet. They built houses, erected outbuildings, sowed, plowed, harvested. There was little equipment, but a lot of work. I had to do everything by hand, the old fashioned way. But even here our people survived and won! My great-grandfather was also in the ranks, worked hard, taught young communists. Together with everyone I was at construction sites, fields. He was awarded the Order of Glory III degree (1944), the Veteran of Labor medal (1976), the Order of the Red Star, the Medal for Courage, and the Medal for Victory over Japan. Together with their great-grandmother Kubra Akmalovna, they raised six children. Now they have 13 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren. My great-grandfather died at the age of 69. Until the end of his days, it was hard for him to remember those terrible times of his life. I will remember him, be proud and tell my future children about his deeds in the name of the Motherland, an honest and open life. Low bow for peace and a saved land to all the soldiers who bravely fought for Victory! Honor and glory to you!

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was won by the Soviet people in the name of peace and life on earth. The war touched every family. Not only those liable for military service went to the front, but also teenagers who had not yet finished school. Boys and girls tried to do everything to help in the fight against the invaders. All the people of the country stood up to defend the Motherland. Among them is my grandmother's brother Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev. Grandfather Misha was born on November 21, 1926 in the village of Chernorechenskaya in the family of rural workers Khorosheva Maria Emilyanovna and Khoroshev Alexander Borisovich. He grew up as an ordinary child, went to school, went fishing, helped his parents with the housework. He loved to joke. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was 15 years old. There were no Germans in the village of Chernorechenskaya, but they settled in the neighboring village of Gofitskoye. The German headquarters was located there. In 1942, in November, a policeman came to the house of my great-grandmother and, at gunpoint, took a 15-year-old teenager across the Laba River to the village of Gofitskoye. Grandpa Misha and other children were forced to look after German horses under threat of execution. The stable is clean and quiet, sparkling with frost on the bolts, along the walls, up to the doors of the boards, the shadow of a bayonet walks behind me. In the winter of 1942, the retreat of the Germans began. Grandfather fled barefoot to Chernorechenskaya, and in 1943 Mikhail Alexandrovich was drafted to the front. He fought in Western Ukraine. In letters home he wrote: "I'm studying to be a radio operator, studying Morse code, I am not far from the front line." My great-grandmother received a few letters from the front from her son. In August 1944, a funeral came from the front: "Your son, Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev, died a heroic death in the village of Tisovitsa, Drohobychevsky district, Lviv region." From that day on, the great-grandmother did not remove the black mourning scarf from her head. Khoroshev Mikhail Aleksandrovich was buried in the mass grave of the village of Strelki, Starosamborsky district, Lviv region. The name of Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev is carved on a memorial plaque, installed in the village of Chernorechenskaya in honor of those who died during the Great Patriotic War. My grandfather died for our happy life, and it is my civic duty to know the past of my family. On May 9, I took part in the Immortal Regiment, carrying a portrait of my grandfather. And I had the feeling that he was walking next to me.

Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: artillery Unit: 112th Cavalry Bashkir Division. The Notepad contains sincere and slightly naive judgments of an ordinary soldier of the Great Patriotic War. “My grandchildren Andrei and Sasha gave me the notebook on Victory Day 1982,” writes Khalidar Muksinovich. - I start it with my military biography, so that my children and grandchildren know who I served, in which units I fought. My "piece of time", where I brought my thoughts during the war years, has already fallen apart, so I have to rewrite them in this diary. " The 112th Bashkir Cavalry Division, where he ended up as a private, began military operations near Voronezh. Then part of them was transferred to Stalingrad. Wounded in November 1942, Khasanov, after being hospitalized in the 224th Infantry Division, continued to fight in the Donbass. After a second wound as a member of the artillery regiment of the 203rd Infantry Division, he reached Czechoslovakia, where he met the end of the Great Patriotic War. In the fall of 1945, he took part in the defeat of Japanese troops in Mongolia and China. He was demobilized with the Order of the Red Star and the Patriotic War and two medals "For Military Merit" on his chest. In Ufa, where he came from the front, he met his betrothed - Markhaba Abdrakhmanovna, who was also a front-line soldier. They got married in 1948 and had ten children. Everyone was raised, taught, raised, made into people. Khalidar Muksinovich died two years ago, leaving to posterity a large number of his invaluable notes. I offer a small piece of text from Khasanov's "piece of time", which describes the last days of the Great Patriotic War. March 24. Received the fourth "toy" (gun). Six people joined the replenishment - Neshalsky, Voginchuk, Ronnov and others. March, 25. During the crossing of the Hron River, Tretyakov, Bychkov, Lukyanchuk and Zaitsev were killed. Sobchenko disappeared without a trace. 26 March. Today Stepanov was wounded at the rate of Lomonosov. April 10th. When we were standing on the outskirts of Senitsa, I met a fellow countryman, senior sergeant Khamidullin from the Buzdyak district. He serves in the 610th joint venture regimental battery as the commander of the "goodbye homeland" ("magpie"). April 11th. Lapeta died today, Akiliev, the driver, was wounded. My gun was also "wounded", so we went to the army workshop. April 12th. Today, having collected some trophies, I sent home a package. April 13. Returning from the army workshop, he received an order to suppress a machine-gun point that interferes with the movement of infantry. Having deployed the cannon, with direct fire, he smashed the house in which the German machine gunner was. 14th of April. Voginchuk died while fighting enemy tanks on a forest road. April 19. Night battle at height 325. Nesterenko, Konev and others were wounded. Many horses died. 20 April. We got into trouble. Lomonosov's cannon is broken again. I left to take it. April 22. Lomonosov brought a new cannon. 26 April. Today they occupied a rather large settlement of Koberzyce, where Lezenko was wounded (for the second time). Our battery fired at the town well, but fortunately there were no casualties. The people in Caberjica were wonderful. The women brought hot food in the evening, helped to bandage the wounded, and the men sat next to us at night in defense with weapons in their hands. April 27. Moldovan Pistol died today. May 2. The Germans smoked us out of Nemchitsa, launching 18 tanks into the attack. The guns of Lomonosov and Kutsenko are broken. Baretsky died. 5 May. At night we were replaced by a Romanian division. When we drove about four kilometers, a machine-gun burst came from the neighboring forest - either the Germans or the Vlasovites. From my calculation old man Seleznev was wounded. For my soldiers, this was the last victim of the war. And the column continued moving without stopping. May 8. At two o'clock in the afternoon the news of the end of the war was received by radio. May 9. Before dawn our artillery regiment concentrated in a pine forest. Here the regiment commander Lieutenant Colonel Kalinin, having built us up, announced the surrender of Germany. But we went in pursuit of the retreating enemy. May 12, 1945. We stopped in the city of Stemberg on the banks of the Zasava River, set up our tents and rested, as in peacetime.

CITY: Sverdlovsk region, Sysertsky district DATE OF BIRTH: 12/20/1918 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: I want to tell you about my grandfather, Vasily Petrovich Arkhipov. Vasily Petrovich was born in the Sysert district of the Sverdlovsk region. He joined the army in 1938, was drafted into the Navy and served in the Far East. In June 1941 he was demobilized and was waiting for the train, which gathered all the demobilized and was supposed to take them from the Far East. And on June 22, the Great Patriotic War began. On the morning of June 23, all the demobilized were gathered near the train and announced the beginning of the war. They were told that they have every right to go home and wait for the call there. But you can immediately volunteer for the front. "Who agrees, step forward!" Every single one volunteered. With the same echelon, they were immediately taken to the landing division near Moscow. They were taught to jump with a parachute, my grandfather had 14 jumps, taught to navigate the terrain. We were also engaged in the protection of bridges near Moscow. My grandfather said that there were cases when his squad detained the cars of saboteurs filled with explosives sent to blow up one of the bridges. Then Vasily Petrovich became the commander of the machine-gun section, was a machine-gunner. He drove the fascists all the way to Budapest, where he was wounded. He was wounded by shrapnel from a grenade, and he went to the hospital. Vasily Petrovich was a senior sergeant. He returned home in 1945 after serving 7 years. During the years of service he was awarded two medals "For Military Merit", two medals "For Courage", a medal "For the capture of Budapest", has the Order of the Patriotic War. He lived a long life, got married, raised two children. After the war and until the end of his days he lived in Yekaterinburg. Despite the difficult path he traveled, he always remained a highly moral person. He never expressed himself rudely, quit smoking, although at that time the front-line soldiers smoked all over the place, I never saw him drunk. Victory Day will forever remain the main holiday in his life. I remember how we always congratulated him, and he put on his awards. Even in solemn family photographs, which were specially taken in photo salons, he was always with his orders and medals.

CITY: s. Kruglik Ivnyanskiy district, Belgorod region DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1922 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Major, 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, 267th Sivash Infantry Division. He liberated Stalingrad, Crimea, fought in Latvia, Poland and, having already become a major, stormed Berlin. Rank: Major of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front, 267th Sivash Infantry Division. He liberated Stalingrad, Crimea, fought in Latvia, Poland and, having already become a major, stormed Berlin. From the "Order to the troops of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front of May 17, 1944 No. 97 | n" Comrade Afonin, during the fighting during the breakthrough of the heavily fortified strip of the Germans, in the Sivash area, on the Crimean bridgehead, working as a commander of a mortar company, showed exceptional energy and organizational skills in the placement of fire weapons and mortar fire. In the decisive battles near the village of Karanki, as a result of well-thought-out and predetermined goals, the company of comrade. Afonina with mortar fire destroyed 9 machine-gun emplacements of the enemy, leading camouflage fire. In one day, she destroyed up to 50 German soldiers and officers. During the offensive battle, quickly changing firing positions, organized fire did not give the retreating enemy the opportunity to concentrate. By its actions, the mortar company ensured the planned forward movement of the battalion's infantry. Comrade Afonin acted boldly and decisively in battle (from the archive). From the "Order to the troops of the 51st Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front dated 20.05.1944 No. 38 \ n": "During the breakthrough of the long-term defense of the Germans on the approaches to Sevastopol, Sapun-Gora was in the battle formations of the company and skillfully commanded it. our offensive with mortar fire destroyed 11 enemy firing points, which contributed to the advancement of our infantry forward, destroyed 124 German soldiers and officers. During the enemy counterattack, Comrade Afonin firmly held his lines and with mortar fire destroyed the Sevastopol group of 400 Hitlerites.Personally from his weapon Comrade Afonin destroyed 19 Germans (from the archive). Afonin Georgy Polikarpovich for the feats accomplished during the war, repeatedly received thanks from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin: 1) Order of May 10, 1944 - for the storming of the bases on the Black Sea - the city of Sevastopol; 2) Order of April 11, 1944 - for excellent military operations in breaking through the defense rotivnik on the southern coast of the Sivash; 3) Order of July 22, 1944 - for excellent military operations in the capture of the city and a large communications center of Panevezys; 4) Order of July 27, 1944 - for military operations during the capture of the city of Shauliai. On November 15, 1945, by Order No. 01178 of October 29, 1945 with the rank of major, my great-grandfather was transferred to the reserve. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, by a decree of December 24, 1966, awarded Georgy Polikarpovich Afonin the high title of "Honored Doctor of the RSFSR" for his services in the field of public health.

CITY: s. Abai, Gornoaltaiskaya oblast DATE OF BIRTH: 05/13/1911 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant. Our grandfather and great-grandfather, Lieutenant of the Red Army Boris Semyonovich Astafyev, was born on May 13, 1911 in the village of Abai, Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region, into a large family with 8 children (6 sons and 2 daughters). He died on November 20, 1976 in the city of Frunze (Kyrgyzstan). Our grandfather came to the North-Western Front in 1942 after the Shot course in the Volga Military District. Throughout the war, he was the commander of a machine-gun platoon, company. Unfortunately, the entries in the military card are not clear: numbers and dates, the names of places and settlements are not. Our grandfather took Konigsberg in 1945. After that, he was sent to serve in the Far East in the 39th Army of the Primorsky Military District, where he served as a deployer. The war with Japan was not easy either. Our grandfather had several severe injuries. For about 9 months in 1943 he was in hospital No. 3696 with severe wounds to the head and lower limbs. There were also lighter wounds later. Of the awards preserved in the family: 2 Orders of the Red Star, a medal for the capture of Konigsberg, a medal for a victory over Germany, a medal for a victory over Japan. He suffered many military hardships. In winter, he took the soldier out of the encirclement, froze in the trench. He starved with the soldiers, buried comrades killed by the Nazis. He passed all the tests, like most of the Red Army soldiers. The Astafiev family gave 5 sons to fight the Nazis. Senior - Matvey before the war perished in the camps of the GULAG, Alexander and Fyodor died from the German fascists, Grigory returned from the front very sick and soon died. Our grandfather Borya and his younger brother Nikita Semenovich, having won a worthy victory, crossed the 60-year line of life. This is the story of one Russian front-line soldier, defender of the Motherland, and whom we often remember, love and are proud of.

CITY: Geli village DATE OF BIRTH: 01/12/1925 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 1st Guards Artillery Glukhovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky breakthrough division of the RGK. Many decades have passed since the end of the Second World War on May 9. We are modern youth, we cannot even imagine all of its horrors. And this is good. We are very lucky to live in peacetime, to have many opportunities in life. We know about the war from the stories of old people and from history books. And for millions of people, these terrible events were a reality. The war brought a lot of grief. Probably, every family has lost loved ones, many of them do not even have a grave. Young guys died in terrible battles without trying life properly. Children of the war years could not even think of beautiful toys. They couldn't even go to school normally. Many of them were left orphans. And cripples returned from the war, not only with wounds on their bodies, but also with pain in their souls. My great-grandfather Asadulaev Magomed Asadulaevich, was born in 1925 on January 23. In 1943 he volunteered for the front. Their division entered Berlin first. He has the Order of Courage, a medal for the capture of Berlin, for courage, the Order of the Patriotic War, a medal in memory of the war, etc. During the war, he received a shrapnel wound in the head. I would like to see him and ask him about many things, but alas, I could not ... Therefore, May 9 - Victory Day - is a holiday both bright and sad at the same time. On the one hand, our army won a victory, liberated our country. But all this at a very high price - millions of lives, rivers of tears and many crippled destinies. To thank the veterans - living and deceased - for their feat on Victory Day is the smallest thing we can do. We must remember those thanks to whom we now live in the world. This will help us learn a bitter lesson.

CITY: the village of Maryevka, Tambov region DATE OF BIRTH: 12/22/1913 DATE OF DEATH: 03/01/2004 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Military medical personnel .My grandfather - Nikolai Stepanovich Androsov - Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation, Honorary Citizen of the Hero City of Murmansk is the title was awarded by the decision of the City Council in 1998. His work was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the October Revolution, the Second Degree of the Patriotic War and many medals. Nikolai Stepanovich Androsov was born on December 22, 1913 in the village of Maryevka, forty kilometers from the city of Tambov. His parents had nine children: two girls and seven boys. In addition, the family also brought up a nephew, Peter, whose parents died when he was six years old. His grandmother Marfa Ivanovna taught Kolya to read and write. She was not a relative of the Androsovs. The grandmother was brought from Tambov to save her from hunger during the Civil War. She made ink out of soot, and wrote with bird feathers. Nikolai graduated from four classes in Maryevka, and finished seven years in the village of Bolshaya Talinka. Then the family moved to Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, to uncle Mikhail Vasilyevich. Then he studied at the Factory and workshop educaion, work at the plant, where Nikolai Androsov had an industrial leg injury. After recovery - again work at the factory and study at the workers' faculty, at the medical department. After the workers' faculty in 1935 he entered the Donetsk Medical Institute, which he graduated in 1940. And in 1940, the young doctor Nikolai Androsov was called up for military service as an ordinary doctor of urgent service. His motorized rifle regiment was stationed in a forest near Libava (near Riga). Changes in the measured soldier's life began on June 19, 1941. On the territory of Lithuania they learned about the beginning of the war. Nikolai Stepanovich at that time was appointed acting head of the regiment's medical service. July 25 saw the first battle with the Germans. Their unit was deeply wedged into the enemy line. There was a threat of encirclement. Early the next morning, they were forced to retreat to new positions. This maneuver did not change the situation for the better. The battle continued until darkness. With its offensive, by order of the regiment commander, all the survivors went on the attack to break through the encirclement. After that, the survivors wandered through the forest in search of the living and some military unit. There were five of them, one wounded in the leg. He was carried on a makeshift stretcher. By the morning, the exhausted fighters made a halt at the edge of the forest to rest during the day, and after dark, move again to the east. Nikolai Androsov woke up from the command “Stand up” and saw the directional barrels of machine guns of the Lithuanian police, and then there was a meeting with the Nazis already as a prisoner. The Red Army soldier Androsov, a prisoner with personal number 11089, went through the horror and death of the fascist camps in Siauliai, Vilnius, Kolvariya, Furstenberg. Androsov tried to escape from one camp, and as a result - a cell in the Vilnius prison, then an officer's penalty camp, and then the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Words cannot convey what I have seen there. If the prisoner was guilty of something, he was placed on a special machine, fixed and hit with a big stick on the buttocks and upper thighs from the full swing. He shouted in an inhuman voice throughout the camp. In October 1943, a group of prisoners of war, which included Nikolai Androsov, was taken to the Lamsdorf concentration camp (Upper Silesia). After a while they were transferred to the penalty block. Knowledgeable people explained: if a prisoner is taken out of the penalty block, then they make a note "dropped out." Late in the evening of December 10, 1943, a train with servicemen, including Androsov, arrived at the Auschwitz station. Six kilometers from the station, as they later learned, there was a large concentration camp. They were lined up in a column. They were ordered to take each other's arms, and the prisoners were driven along the slippery road. All were lightly dressed and shod with wooden stocks. It was very cold outside. Tired people fell. They were beaten with rifle butts. Whoever could get up and walk again. Then German guards with dogs appeared. The dogs tore at their clothes, bit the weakened people, and became angry at the smell of human blood. The camp lights appeared. Everyone was taken to a building with a tall chimney. The exhausted people breathed a sigh of relief. But the door to the building was closed. It was deep night in the yard. The guards knocked for a long time. Finally the door opened, and a German minister in a sleepy voice asked what was the matter. The guards answered: "Take the Russian partisans." The owner of the building demanded "paper" ("papier"). They answered him: “What’s your“ paper ”? It's night now. Tomorrow morning we will give you“ paper. ”So they argued for a long time. But the German still did not accept the group into the“ bathhouse. ”The angry guards drove the prisoners of war further. Then, when they settled in, they found out that due to the lack of "papyr" on that fateful night they were not admitted to the crematorium. Here in the camp Nikolai met Ivan Filippov. Both of them became members of the underground resistance group.They helped the weaker ones with a piece of bread, procured medicines for the sick, informed about the events at the front. The main activity of the initiative group was the organization of escapes. Dozens of prisoners of war managed to escape from the tenacious thorny paws of Auschwitz thanks to an underground group. "The Walking Death" was the name of the SS doctor Klauberg in the camp. He selected 400-500 healthy women and conducted his vile experiments on them. The "test subjects" were injected with phenol, poisons, and induced artificial gas gangrene. Nikolai and Ivan did not escape such experiments. On them, Klauberg decided to test the new anesthesia. The doctors (Androsov and Filippov) were tied to beds, and the SS man gave them intravenous anesthesia. This experiment cost Filippov a lot; he lost his right eye. It was hard and painful for Nikolai Stepanovich, a man of the most humane profession on earth, to remember the fascist atrocities. But how could you forget the four million people who died in Auschwitz? April 30, 1945 became the second birthday of Nikolai Androsov. On that day, a column of 25 thousand prisoners followed from the Auschwitz concentration camp and suddenly was left without protection. All prisoners immediately fled in all directions. A group of 7 people, which included Androsov and Filippov, after several hours of walking, made a halt in the forest in the late evening. And then on the first of May we met a column of Americans who threw chocolate and cigarettes to former prisoners. Nikolai and his comrades spent the night with a lonely German woman, changed into the civilian clothes of her son, and celebrated Victory Day in this village. After an appropriate check in October, Nikolai Stepanovich arrived home by train. And in November 1945, for health reasons, he was demobilized. In the winter of 1946, N.S. Androsov arrived in Murmansk, and since then, until he retired in April 1996, he practiced as a surgeon in the Murmansk regional hospital. Then there were two surgical departments in the Murmansk regional hospital. One of them provided planned, the other - emergency surgical care. Nikolay Androsov worked in the second department as a resident physician. This department was headed by a talented surgeon Pyotr Bayandin. And he, Androsov, was not always smart when he came here, to the regional hospital. Then, in 1946, he was 33 years old. For a surgeon, this is a lot. Pyotr Andreevich said: "You are two years old. If you do not master it, it means you do not have to do surgery. For now, forget about Sundays." And he forgot. And generally forgot about the rest. He read textbooks on surgery and operations . Operated and read special magazines. In two years he did as much as another could not have done in six. But wherever he was, no matter what he did, the accursed memory helpfully slipped gloomy pictures ... The haggard faces of his friends ... Dirty bunks ... A machine gun pointed at the prisoner. A wire rose in my memory ... The endless wire of the concentration camps. A scream was ready to break from Androsov's lips at that moment. Nikolai Stepanovich opened his eyes - he was sitting in the staff room, around the doctors. He relived the dark days of captivity again and again. I had to force myself to forget those dark days. And he could not overpower himself. It often seemed to him that doctors were suspicious of him. It seemed to him that he clearly read in their eyes: "Oh, you were in captivity? Well, well ... we know those who were in captivity ..." And how many forces were carried away by all sorts of "checks." "Vigilant" people called him up and started cunning, degrading questions of human dignity. I was never sure that he would return home from these inquiries. He really wanted to become a surgeon, such as Pyotr Andreevich Bayandin, and studied, studied. The memory of the hard days of captivity gradually faded. Friends helped. Androsov worked with the same tension. And he got his way. Became a surgeon. A real surgeon! Pyotr Andreevich Bayandin was not mistaken in his student, he considered him a good surgeon. And yet it was very difficult for the young residents to work with their head Androsov. After all, he almost never praised them. But he very often called them "bums". On the day of his 50th birthday, doctors presented Nikolai Stepanovich with a watch with a joking inscription: “To the dear chef from“ idlers. ”In the internship, they often talked about novelties in medicine, the latest monographs by scientists. He generalized it. And so that other surgeons could successfully cope with serious diseases, Nikolai Stepanovich passed on his experience and practice in 17 printed works published in the "Bulletin of surgery" named after II Grekov, medical journals of the country "Surgery". " Surgery named after II Pirogov ". All his studies are of great practical and scientific value. Nikolai Stepanovich Androsov is a doctor with vast experience in the diagnosis and treatment of surgical diseases, who owned the operational technique of large cavity surgery and intrathoracic operations. He had a broad outlook and erudition. , both in his specialty and in a number of related ones: traumatology, oncology, urology, anesthesiology.Fully ensured the performance of the volume of operations in the department in accordance with the modern level of highly qualified clinics. He showed non-standard thinking in the supervision of patients. Over the years of work, Nikolai Stepanovich has constantly developed a unified approach and continuity in the treatment of patients, returning them to active labor activity. For 50 years of his active surgical activity, Nikolai Stepanovich Androsov performed about 13 thousand operations, returned people to health, the ability to live and work. Nikolai Stepanovich always knew that in order to become a good surgeon, you must have one quality - to love your patients. Don't be sorry. And love. Nikolay Androsov grew rapidly as a practicing surgeon. Subscribed and read special journals on surgery and medicine. More than once he traveled to Moscow and Leningrad, got acquainted with the work of the country's leading surgical companies. He loved his job. By the end of the vacation, he began to miss the hospital. It happened that, having arrived from vacation, I went straight from the station to the department for an hour. Just say hello to the doctors. But the patient entered, and he stayed for a long time until he found out what happened to the patient. Androsov was strict, very strict. His blue eyes, always friendly, suddenly turned cold, angry. I did not tolerate sloppiness. I asked my residents for every, even the smallest, oversight so that I wanted to fall through the ground. And it began to seem - no, you will never be a good doctor. And Androsov, as if out of spite, at this time starts a conversation about how to have an operation - half the battle. Handicraft is even less than half the battle. The main thing is to leave the patient. And there are no trifles here. Because of the little things, you can lose the patient. Nikolai Stepanovich knew how to notice dark days in the life of young residents, as if he overheard their sad thoughts, heavy doubts. He will come up, speak and, as if by the way, drop: - Do not be upset that I am reprimanding you. It would be worse if he was silent. I am reprimanding, it means I believe in you, so I know that you will become a surgeon. Possessing vast experience in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the broadest outlook and erudition, Nikolai Stepanovich brought up a whole galaxy of talented specialists, generously passed on his knowledge and unique skills to them. Today, his students work independently, manage surgical departments both in our region and beyond. Androsov Nikolay Stepanovich - surgeon of the highest category. Has the title "Honored Doctor of the RSFSR", "Excellence in Health Care". For many years of impeccable work, he was awarded many government awards. Has 7 medals and 3 orders, including in 1971 he was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1981 he was entered in the Book of Honor of the Murmansk region. Nikolai Stepanovich Androsov died in March 2004. But he will forever remain in the memory of many people. In the memory of his disciples, now outstanding surgeons, in the memory of those whom he helped, the relatives of those whom he saved ... In our memory - his children and grandchildren. We all loved grandpa very much.