Heroes and feats

Born into the family of an employee. Greek. After graduating from an incomplete secondary school and 2 courses of the Tsalka Pedagogical College in his native village, he worked as a teacher in a rural school. He graduated from the correspondence department of the financial technical school in the capital of Georgia - the city of Tbilisi. In the Red Army in 1936-1939. After leaving the reserve, from 1939 to 1941 he worked as the director of the Kursavsky orphanage in the village of Krasnoyarskoye, Kursavsky district, Stavropol Territory, where his family moved in 1938. He was again drafted into the Red Army in 1941. In the same year he graduated from the courses "Shot". Member of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. In 1942, the rifle battalion commanded by F. A. Zubalov, on the outskirts of Stalingrad in an unequal and bloody battle, took possession of the Figurnaya height that dominated the area and an important strategically important settlement on the right bank of the Don River - Novaya Kalitva (Voronezh region) , providing a breakthrough for the Soviet troops. The commander of the 3rd rifle battalion of the 184th Guards Rifle Regiment (62nd Guards Rifle Division, 37th Army, Steppe Front) of the Guard, Captain Feofilakt Zubalov, distinguished himself in the battle for the Dnieper. On September 28, 1943, F.A.Zubalov, at the head of the battalion entrusted to him, was the first to cross to the right bank of the Dnieper River and secured the seizure of the dominant heights in the area of ​​the village of Mishurin Rog of the Verkhnedneprovsky district of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine. Within four days, the battalion of the guard of Captain Zubalov repulsed more than fifteen counterattacks by Hitler's infantry, supported by the SS Panzer Division "Dead Head", destroying 15 tanks and 6 enemy vehicles. The line was held. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of December 20, 1943, for the exemplary performance of the combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism of the guards shown at the same time, Captain Zubalov Feofilakt Andreevich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ". In 1944, F. A. Zubalov graduated from the accelerated course of the M. V. Frunze Military Academy. After the war, Major F.A. Zubalov was in reserve. He graduated from the All-Union School for the Training of State Farm Directors, and in 1951 - the Pedagogical Institute in the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory. He worked in various administrative and economic positions in Kabardino-Balkaria, Georgia. He also worked as director of the Essentuksky fattening state farm in the Stavropol Territory. Buried in the cemetery of the city of Essentuki. An obelisk is installed on the grave.

went to fight on July 1, 1941, went through the Battle of Stalingrad, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the medal "For the Defense of Moscow". Major rank. Together with the battalion commander, we did a great job of educating the personnel and preparing them for military operations for the Motherland, against the enemy. With the arrival of the battalion to the combat line of the eastern bank of the Volga River in the area of ​​Lotoshanka, Tomilino, Vinnovka, northeast of Stalingrad. The personnel of the battalion performed the assigned task in an exemplary manner and destroyed 11 heavily fortified firing points with manpower in their defense sector from October 20 to December 10, 1942, and suppressed the fire of 86 enemy firing points and had almost no losses on their side. From December 10, 1942 to January 10, 1943, the battalion made a 150 km crossing with a crossing over the Volga River, having all the weapons in its hands. Almost in the absence of transport, he occupied and firmly defended an exceptionally important line within the fortified area, encircling the enemy group at Stalingrad in the vicinity of the farm Sklyarov, Breslavsky, Stary Rogachik. The personnel of the battalion, despite the extremely difficult conditions (cold, lack of fuel, transport, lack of dugouts and dugouts) honorably fulfilled the task assigned to him by the command of the fortified area. He destroyed 3 guns, 18 machine-gun points, 7 dugouts, 2 observation posts, 5 vehicles, 2 mortars, destroyed and scattered to the enemy infantry battalion. During the general offensive to destroy the surrounded group of enemy troops at Stalingrad.

Rank: Sergeant. Division: 26th Rifle Zlatoust, twice Red Banner Division.

Almost all boys are attracted by military uniforms. Pavel was no exception, in 1940 he entered the Kemerovo military school, which he graduated on July 22, 1941. By order of the People's Commissar of Defense, cadet Zubchenko was awarded the military rank of lieutenant and platoon commander. After which he was sent to the Volga Military District of the city of Kazan, and in September he already took part in the battles on the Bryansk front. In February 1942, by order of the Front Commander, Lieutenant Zubchenko was recalled to intelligence courses in the city of Yelets, Oryol Region, after which he was sent to the 269th division of the 3rd army of the Bryansk Front as the commander of a separate reconnaissance company with the rank of senior lieutenant. He stayed in the reconnaissance company until May 24, 1942. By order of the chief of artillery, he was transferred to the post of chief of staff of a mortar division. On the Oryol-Kursk Bulge, on July 3, 1943, Senior Lieutenant Zubchenko was seriously wounded by shrapnel in the chest and leg and was sent to a hospital in the city of Ivanovo. After being cured, he was sent to the Central Front as a battery commander in a separate guards 35th mortar brigade, already in the rank of captain. Pavel Zubchenko by that time was only 25 years old, but he had already seen and experienced a lot, he already had military and life experience. The captain knew the value of human life, he understood that at any minute, even a second, it could end. He was respected and loved. Pavel was a real Siberian - strong, healthy, hardy, savvy, courageous, balanced, he was not afraid of difficulties. Moreover, the soldiers, having found out that their commander had played the accordion before the war, got him an accordion somewhere. Pavel mastered this musical instrument in a short time. In moments of calm and relaxation, he played the accordion and sang along with the soldiers "In the forest at the front", "Katyusha", "Ogonyok" and other songs of the wartime. He could easily go into a circle with a fiery dance. The soul of the Siberian did not become stale either. This is evidenced by the following fact. It was 1944. The Soviet army fought fierce battles for every meter of its native land. By this time, Crimea and Ukraine were liberated. The liberation of Belarus began. The Nazis committed atrocities - they killed, burned everything in their path. Once, during a lull, a boy of 12-13 years old was brought to Captain Zubchenko. With tears in his eyes, he said that the Germans had already set fire to the village, not far from the location of the battery, and now they are driving all the women and children into the barn in order to burn them alive. Kostik, that was the name of the boy, managed to hide. Zubchenko reported the situation to the regiment commander, after which it was decided to immediately attack the Nazis. When the battery approached the village, women could be heard screaming in horror, children were crying. The attack was so fierce that the Germans were forced to retreat hastily, and fortunately did not have time to set fire to the shed. And again screams, tears, but already tears of joy. Everyone thanked our soldiers. And Kostya again approached Captain Zubchenko, it turned out that the boy's father had died, the mother had been shot by the Germans a few days ago. The boy did not know what to do, where to go, there were no relatives in the village, and the village itself, too. The captain took the boy with him. In the battery, the first thing they did was fed, shod, dressed, and at the opportunity Zubchenko sent Kostyk to his parents, who already lived in Sorokino. The boy lived here for several years. He helped with the housework, because only women remained in the family. For saving children and women, Pavel Terentyevich Zubchenko received a commendation from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union Stalin. Guard Captain Zubchenko walked the front roads together with his comrades all the way to Berlin. Pavel Terentyevich was demobilized in 1947. He worked as a military commander in one of the Moscow universities, got married, returned to his native land. On December 14, 1990, the heart of Captain Zubchenko's guard stopped.

Zornikov (Umnov) Alexander Pavlovich (August 23, 1914 Tomsk - January 21, 1971, Irkutsk) - the eldest son of Maria Amvrosimovna from his first marriage with the Cossack Umnov. As an adult, Alexander met his own father, the Cossack Umnov. This meeting was decisive. Alexander decided that from that day on he would be Zornikov, and took the last name and patronymic of his stepfather - Pavel Sergeevich Zornikov. In 1931, Sasha completed 6 classes. In 1932 he entered the 4th Military Technical School in Irkutsk. He graduated from it in 1933 - this was the first graduation from IVVATU (Irkutsk Higher Military Technical School), becoming a flight military engineer - technician. On December 20, 1933, he began to live in Omsk with his beloved girlfriend - Dmitrieva Lyudmila Iosifovna. A year later, on December 21, 1934, he first became the father of Arkady Alexandrovich. In 1937, on July 14, his daughter was born - Zornikova Alla Alexandrovna. Since that year, his mother began to live with them - Zornikova Maria Amvrosievna. He was a participant in the Second World War. But he did not like to talk about the war. We know little about his exploits. But all these little fragments are very important to us. For him, the war ended on May 11, 1945 in Czechoslovakia. They were transferred that day to another airport. The plane in which Alexander Pavlovich was flying was fired upon by the Nazis. After landing on the plane, more than 20 holes were found. General Sloboda presented the pilots and our grandfather with the Czechoslovak Cross "For Courage". Grandfather, having gone to the reserve, had the right to wear a military uniform. He served in the army for 25 years. He retired with the rank of major. Has awards. I chose the permanent place of residence in Irkutsk.

Born on January 31, 1926 in the village of Bakaly, Bakalinsky district of Bashkiria in a peasant family. Graduated from 8 classes. He worked in a collective farm village. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1944. He joined the ranks of the Red Army voluntarily in December 1942, having changed his year of birth in his passport from 1926 to 1925. On October 24, 1943, in a battle near the city of Krivoy Rog (Ukraine), he was wounded and hospitalized. After that he was sent to a reserve regiment, and then was appointed a gunner of an 82-mm mortar in one of the regiments of the 15th Guards Rifle Division. Later he became the commander of the crew. In late January - early February 1944, in the battles for the villages of Malo-Sofievka and Novo-Sergievka (Dnepropetrovsk region of Ukraine), he destroyed 15 Nazis and 5 soldiers from a machine gun with mortar fire. For this fight he received the first award - the medal "For Military Merit". At the end of February 1944, a mortar crew, in which Zotov was the gunner, crossed the Ingulets River together with the infantry. For this fight he received an award - a medal "For Courage". On April 6, 1944, in a battle three kilometers north of the village of Razdelnaya in the Odessa region of Ukraine, Sergeant Zotov, commanding the guards, exterminated over ten enemy soldiers and one officer from a mortar. In the summer of 1944, the 5th Guards Army was transferred from the 2nd Ukrainian Front to the 1st Ukrainian Front, whose troops were attacking in the Lvov, Rava-Russky and Stanislavsky directions. During the offensive, they liberated the city of Lvov, crossed the San River and entered Polish territory. On August 21, Sergeant Zotov, commanding a mortar crew, suppressed two enemy firing points, destroyed up to 20 Nazis. Was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In the period from 24 to 27 January 1945, in the battles to expand the bridgehead on the left bank of the Oder River, north of the German city of Oppeln, now the Polish town of Opole, the mortar crew of the 47th Guards Rifle Regiment under the command of Guard Sergeant Zotov destroyed anti-aircraft weapons and two machine guns ... For the battle he received an award - the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. In 1947 he graduated from the Ivanovo military-political school. In the rank of lieutenant he served in the group of Soviet forces in Germany. In May 1951, he was transferred to a military unit located in the city of Kaliningrad, where he was elected secretary of the regiment's party bureau, and then appointed deputy political officer of the Yuri Smirnov battalion. In October 1956 he was transferred to the reserve. He returned to his homeland in Bashkiria. Since November 1960 - director of a school in the town of Oktyabrsky. In 1964 he graduated by correspondence from the Bashkir State University named after the 40th anniversary of the October Revolution. In 1980 he moved to the city of Ufa. He worked as the director of school number 46 of the Leninsky district. He was awarded the title "Honored Teacher of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic". Died July 16, 1996. He was buried in Ufa at the Yuzhny cemetery.

In February 1943 was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the Moscow machine gun school. In July, on alert, the school was raised and sent to the front at the Oryol-Kursk Bulge. At first he was a machine gunner, took part in battles in the Bryansk direction in the region of Karachev. Then, with the organization of submachine gunners, he was transferred to a platoon of submachine gunners. Several times he went on reconnaissance, and in the battle on August 14, cutting the railway to Bryansk, he was wounded by a mine fragment. By this time, the battalion included 10-15 people. Then in 1944 he went back to the front, to the 1st Belorussian. This time he was in the active army for about six months. During this time, as part of a sapper brigade, he took part in the crossing of the Bugo-Narva River north of Warsaw. The river is 200-250 meters with a gentle bank on our side and with a steep, steep bank on the side of the Germans. The crossing on the pontoons was successful. Then he took part in the construction of a 1200m bridge across the Vistula. Moreover, the construction proceeded under frequent fire from enemy artillery. After that I was at the Magnushevsky bridgehead south of the Vistula. He took part in preparations for breaking through enemy defenses. At night, they made passes in minefields, and then participated in the assault on the approach to Lodz. He was wounded in the chest and lungs. He spent 4-5 months in various hospitals, then was demobilized from the army due to injury. Rank: Junior Lieutenant.

Zombori Alexander was born on October 24, 1925, after completing 10 classes, was called up to the front, was the deputy commander of a reconnaissance platoon. From 01.1943 to 06.1944 he was the commander of the rifle squad of the 95th reserve rifle regiment. From 06.1944 - 10.1944 - commander of the rifle squad of the 503rd rifle regiment. From 10.1944 - 02.1945 - courses of junior. lieutenants 5 army. From 02.1945 - 03.1946 commander of a platoon of machine gunners of the 503rd rifle regiment. He was wounded in 02.1943. 05/11/1945 was presented to the award of the Order of the Red Star. Zombori Alexander Iosifovich platoon commander of a rifle company of the 503rd rifle Mitavsky Order of Suvorov regiment of the 91st rifle Melitopol Red Banner division - a participant in the battles for the liberation of the Baltic States from 16.02.1945, commanding a rifle platoon during the defense period in February 1945 in the area on the western bank of the Vartava River - Brundzali of Libavsky district, Latvian SSR, successfully organized his platoon to work on the creation of engineering structures on his site. He skillfully placed and controlled fire weapons, which contributed to the creation of an impregnable defense. Repeatedly he was with his platoon in outposts, and personally by his example helped to suppress the activity of the enemy. For the skillful command of a rifle platoon in various combat conditions, as well as for personal courage, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Georgy Nikolaevich in 1942 - a 19-year-old lieutenant, deputy commander of the BM-13 "Katyusha" rocket launcher battalion, was withdrawing his unit from near Belgorod - four Katyusha installations, a fuel tanker, a commander's willys, about 50 fighters. There was no front, the Germans broke through it and our units retreated. Where were the Germans, where ours were nobody knew. They retreated at night, during the day they defended themselves in the groves. The Luftwaffe bombed any group of our troops that they found. There were practically no small arms, except for his pistol and one machine gun on a jeep. The reconnaissance on which road to go was carried out during the day. During one of the patrols, they stumbled upon the tail of the column, but in the dust they could not make out ours or the German. We stopped together with the column, listened - the speech was German. They quietly lagged behind and to their own. It became clear that a powerful mechanized enemy group was advancing along the same road with them. Clarified its composition - 4 tanks, ten trucks with infantry, a fuel tanker, command vehicles. The column stopped for the night in the village. It's time to make decisions. It is clear that the location of our column could become known to the Germans at any moment. Then the lid is nothing to defend with. Georgy Zemtsov decided to attack first. Attack against orders. Katyusha is a secret weapon and closer than 15 km rapprochement with the Germans was prohibited. We made an ambush on a hill overgrown with wood. The road from the village led to this hill then bends around it. Four installations were well camouflaged and, with negative trim, direct fire aimed at the road, conventionally dividing it into four parts. Aiming at the eye. When in the morning the German column at the exit from the village was drawn into this section of the road, they fired a volley from all four installations .... The shells did not have time to turn on the reactive part, on one starting powder charge they entered the midst of the Germans. The howl of shells, flames, explosions - everything was mixed in this volley. Nothing was visible, everything was covered with smoke .. George quickly took the Katyusha away after the volley, fearing the Luftwaffe who arrived after 10-15 minutes after the discovery of ours ... Another hour or two, there was something smoldering exploded. But here's the thing ... there was no one to call the aviation. The battalion of "Fritzes" and not having time to understand what had happened turned into ash ... True, the young lieutenant did not report this episode to the command, fearing the tribunal for formally violated the order. I wonder what the Germans thought at the headquarters? Where did the warhead go without even reporting the attack? It disappeared from the theater of operations. There was and now not. This is how it happens ...

I, Alexey Vasilyevich Zyatkov, was drafted into the Soviet army in October 1940 and ended up serving in the city of Minusinsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. After completing the course of a young soldier, he was sent to a regimental school. The school taught what a person is capable of and his capabilities, everyone had to have twice the strength of a soldier. War was declared at the school, the cadets were awarded titles according to the knowledge gained at the school, and were distributed in parts. I was awarded the title of deputy political commander of a rifle company and given the green light to the front. Before reaching Orsha, the railway line was bombed, and we had to walk day and night to the front line. In one of the morning dawns, reconnaissance reported that the Germans were ahead. The command was given to the first battalion, without having breakfast, to defeat the German landing, and then to have breakfast. Half an hour later, the second battalion was raised, and then the third. It was not a landing, but regular units. As a political officer, I knew the situation better than the rank and file. There were no neighbors on the left or on the right. The regiment entered the battle. All our attacks were repulsed. This is how the war began for me. In this battle, I was wounded and went to the hospital. After my recovery, I was sent to the sapper courses, after the completion of the short-term courses I was assigned to units. In March 1942, when the First Panzer Army was organized, I, as a junior commander, was sent to the First Panzer Army under the command of General Katukov. In a hurry, I was appointed junior commander in the 19th mech. a brigade, a communications platoon. On the shoulders a coil of wire, a telephone set, a gas mask and a carbine were then replaced with an automatic machine. Communication is the nerve of the army. Without communication, the army is incapable of combat. At the beginning of the war, the main communication was wired, there was little radio, but the commanders were afraid of them: so that the Germans would not track them. The tanks stopped, the infantry lay down, the connection was broken, and now the signalman, where by dashes, where crawling with a full load, is looking for a breakthrough, connects the wires, without disconnecting from the line again a gust. Around the pitch hell, shells, mines burst, bullets whistle the infantry dig in, and the signalman, crawling on his stomach, eliminates the breakthroughs. The first battles began on the Kalinin Front. Our brigade rushed first to break through, then to plug the gaps made by the Germans. We were not kept in one place for a long time. We were in motion all the time. After completing the task, they are transferred to another area. At first they tried to keep us thrown over at night, and when our planes began to appear, threatening areas were thrown over during the day. Our First Panzer took part on all fronts, from the Kalinin Front and southward to the Carpathians. On the Kalinin Front, Bogoroditskoye, Kholm, Ostashkovo were liberated. From there they were transferred to Kursk, Oboyan. I saw a tank battle near Prokhorovka. It is difficult for the human mind to imagine what the battle of tanks was. Burnt, turned upside down by caterpillars, torn apart from the inside. They are standing vertically, leaning against each other, and around the burned tankers. In two months we were transferred to Kursk. The troops trained to repel the tank armada of the Germans, and we won. Our unit was in Ukraine. Bakhmach, Chertkov, Kolomys were freed. On the central front, we were thrown to a breakthrough, and we occupied the fortifications prepared by the Germans - they had to repel our attacks without using the fortifications erected by them. Then our First Tank Army was sent to encircle Warsaw, for which I was awarded the medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". How many cases have been - you see that death flies at you. I especially remember the case - it was in the Kursk region. I was returning from headquarters to my unit. The steppe was bare, and suddenly I saw: a huge pit, several kilometers away, overgrown with trees below, and there was a mass of carts, cars, people, and suddenly I heard the hum of planes. I looked into the sky, and there were a dozen fascist planes. I lay down under the edge of the ravine, with me two more fighters. Panic began in the pit. The planes went to bomb this yar. I jumped up and ran into the steppe towards the planes. He ran until the bombs whistled. Then I fell. A bomb exploded fifty to sixty meters ahead. I was thrown up, clods of earth fell, and I became deaf, although I covered my ears. When the planes took off, I went to the yar. Where I and two fighters lay, the edge of the yar was mowed, the bushes that grew along the edge lay far below, and in the yar there was something terrible: people, horses were shouting, cars were burning. Everything was black. After a while, I went blind. They didn't send me anywhere. I was at the unit. After three or four days, vision was restored. Our unit fought for Neustadt, Küstrin, Berlin. The storming of Berlin was terrible. Not only the Germans, but also us, the Russians, were given huge searchlights. An order was given to remove the blackout from the headlights of cars and tanks. And suddenly everything lit up, rumbled, and the team was - forward! It was hell, the Germans were still responding with artillery. But everything moved forward. Awards For the capture of Berlin was awarded the medal "For the capture of Berlin". For bravery, perseverance and courage in the fight against the German invaders he was awarded: in 1942 Medal "For Courage" No. 284416.In 1943 Medal "For Courage" 610882 In 1944 Medal "For Courage" No. 995448 Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". For the capture of Berlin Order of the Red Star No. 1118046. Order of the Red Star. In 1971, he was awarded the Order of Lenin for his long and impeccable work.

Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Aviation. Subdivision: 3rd Long-Range Aviation Division. In 1939 I graduated from the Kachin Aviation School. The war with Germany found us in Spassk-Dalny. We moved to Monino and got brand new DB-ZF (IL-4). We bombed tank and mechanized troops in the areas of Dmitrov-Orlovsky, Chepilovo-Yukhnov, Novgorod-Seversky, Medyn, Drakino, Staritsa-Kalinin. They bombed and destroyed bridges and crossings on the Ugra and Izverya rivers, pontoon, highway and railway bridges across the Volga river, destroyed aircraft and destroyed airfields in Smolensk, Bobruisk, Mogilev, Dvoevka, Gzhatsk, made night raids on railway junctions in Orel, Vitebsk , Kaluga, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk, Rzhev, Gzhatsk. But even more difficult were the flights with the landing at the "partisan airfields". It took exceptional skill to land a heavy C-47 on a small platform in a forest clearing or a hummock meadow, and then lift it into the air, loaded as much as possible with wounded partisans and children ... Already in April of the 45th, battle-hardened regiment veterans were sitting at the controls and confidently led their planes to Berlin ... For everyone who burned down in this war, for everyone who died on the gallows and died under the torture of Hitler's executioners, for the barbarously shot, tortured women, children, old people, for our burned down cities, burned out village, for the death and blood of our comrades, we destroyed the den of the fascist beast. And again to the Far East on the transport and landing C-47A. Here I know all the mountains, hills and airfields. After the victory over Germany, we had such a passion that Japan would be defeated in the shortest possible time. And already on September 2, 1945, the act of Japan's unconditional surrender was signed. The Second World War is over. Kushnirenko Vasily Kuzmich, during the years of the Great Patriotic War, made 2626 sorties, of which 287 were combat, incl. 243 nightlife. The following aircraft were mastered: R-5; Po-2; P-6; I-16; Sat; IL-4; B-25; S-47; LI-2; IL-12. When performing combat missions, he flew a total of 700 thousand kilometers, incl. 160 thousand kilometers - over the territory of the enemy. He dropped over 200 tons of bombs on various military and industrial facilities. During his service, he flew 3767 flights.

Rank: Senior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Artillery. Subdivision: 108th Guards Rifle Nikolayevskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. Krasilnikov Nikolai Petrovich was born in the Tatar ASSR in 1922. Here he lived in the village of Klyaush, Takanysh district with his family. He began his military career in 1941. Krasilnikov N.P. He fought in the Transcaucasian Front, as a platoon commander of a separate 120 mm mortar division of the 10th Guards Red Banner Rifle Brigade. In December 1942, in just two weeks of fighting, his platoon destroyed 3 vehicles, 1 machine gun and 53 enemy soldiers. For this he was awarded the Medal For Courage. The war years passed. Krasilnikov N.P. managed to take part in battles as part of various fronts. These are the Second Ukrainian, Third Ukrainian and Fourth Ukrainian. By the fall of 1944, he became platoon commander of the headquarters of the artillery commander of the 108th Guards Nikolaevskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. In December of the same year, under heavy artillery fire, N.P. Krasilnikov. with a platoon of signalmen crossed the Danube River and established communication between the commander of the division's artillery and its subunits, thereby facilitating the successful offensive of the Soviet troops in this sector. For the courage shown by the guard, Lieutenant N. Krasilnikov was awarded the Order of the "Red Star". He also took part in the Balaton defensive operation, which was carried out from 6 to 15 March 1945 in the area of ​​Lake Balaton. During the battle, Soviet troops repelled the offensive of the German army. By the beginning of 1945, Hungary remained the only ally of Nazi Germany. During fierce battles on February 13, 1945, the capital of Hungary, the city of Budapest, was taken. He took part in this battle - Guard Lieutenant Krasilnikov N.P. He met the Great Victory already in the rank of Guard Senior Lieutenant in Hungary, where he was awarded the Medal for the capture of Budapest. After demobilization from the Soviet Army, already in peacetime, Krasilnikov N.P. for a long time he worked on the construction of new coal mines in the Tula region, where he was a truck crane driver. In the 80s of the last century he retired, but nevertheless continued to work and run a personal subsidiary farm. In 1994 he was gone. Close people remembered him as a cheerful, merry and purposeful person.

Rank: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Troops of the NKVD and the NKGB (except for the border) Olga Nikiforovna served in the troops of the NKVD. In 1941, when the Nazis were inexorably moving east, and the scattered Russian units desperately resisted and died in the thousands in the meat grinder of the eastern front, the Abwehr's bloodhounds recruited hundreds of Soviet citizens in the frontline zone. At the same time, they did not hesitate to use adolescents as informants. The payment for such cooperation, despite the child's age, was too high. The war did not spare anyone. Usually, the detained teenagers ended up in prison, and those who were older were shot. One day in the autumn of 1941, while at the location of her hospital, Olga Nikiforovna heard from one of the officers that a boy named Dudkin Kronid was among the detainees. That was the name of Olga Nikiforovna's brother. One can only guess what Olga Nikiforvna experienced when she learned that Kronid was detained. According to her, only one thought was beating in my head - "for what?". She knew firsthand the methods of work of the Soviet counterintelligence and the doom of the fate of her young brother was beyond doubt. Then Olga Nikiforovna took a desperate step - she turned to the command of the NKVD regiment, stating that the detained Dudkin Kronid was her brother. The history of those years knows many cases when such attempts to save a person ended tragically for both. It was extremely rare in wartime to figure out who was a traitor and who was not. Each of the military commanders was pressed by the burden of danger to fall into a wolf's trap, so no one listened to the pleas of the young nurse. In this seemingly hopeless situation, Olga Nikiforovna was able to convince the command that her brother Kronid was not a traitor, but was detained in the front-line zone, since he wanted to get to the front and share the fate of other soldiers who fought against fascism. At that moment Kronid was a little over 14 years old and for obvious reasons he was denied the call. So Kronid decided to decide his own fate. They believed her and the boy was released. Olga Nikiforovna went through the entire war and carried dozens of soldiers and officers from the battlefield on her shoulders. Olga Nikiforovna died on November 13, 2012, but her feat should not be forgotten. Personal information: Erokhova (nee Dudkina) Olga Nikiforovna, later - Kurantova, served in the evacuation hospital No. 3818 from August 16, 1941 (order on l / s No. 15) to February 16, 1943 (order on l / s No. 47), then in the evacuation hospital No. 1882 from March 13, 1943 (order for l / s No. 7) to February 15, 1944 (order for l / s No. 46), then in the evacuation hospital No. 3076 from February 19, 1944 year (order on l / s No. 50) to April 24, 1945 (order on l / s No. 117) in the position of a freelance nurse. She was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War, II degree (number of the award document 74 of 04/06/1985)

Kotovsky Ivan Konstantinovich was born on January 1, 1914 on the Mashinsky farm of the Oblivsky district of the Rostov region. Before the war he worked on a collective farm. In July 1941 he went to the front. In the summer of 1941, the great-grandfather took part in the battles near Smolensk, in July - September 1942 - in the defensive operation in the Voronezh direction as part of the 835 rifle regiment of the 237th rifle division (2 formations), in January 1943 - in the Ostrogozhsko - Rossoshan offensive operation, which included in history under the name "Stalingrad on the Upper Don", as part of the 830 artillery regiment of the 305th rifle division (2 formations). Rank: Senior Sergeant. He was wounded three times: in the battle near Smolensk (summer 1941), during the liberation of the village of Olkhovatki in the Voronezh region (September 1942), in the battles near the town of Stary Oskol (February 1, 1943) Twice he was undergoing treatment at GLR No. 1135 (Bobrov, Voronezh region) and in evacuation hospital No. 1706 (Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg). In 1943, after a severe injury, he was demobilized for health reasons. In 1985, for the courage, stamina and courage shown in the fight against the German fascist invaders, and to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, Ivan Konstantinovich Kotovsky was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree. His great-grandfather was also awarded the Zhukov medal (1995), the honorary badge "Front-line soldier 1941-1945" (2000 year) and commemorative medals (1967, 1985, 1988, 1995, 2005, 2010). Died October 11, 2010.

Type of troops: Troops of the NKVD and NKGB (except for the border). Koval Zhorzh Abramovich - Soviet intelligence officer, teacher at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D.I. Mendeleev. Georges Koval was born on December 25, 1913 (old style) in the American town of Sue City, Iowa, into a family of Jewish emigrants from Western Belarus. He graduated from an American school and two years of chemistry college. When in 1932, during the crisis in the United States, everyone lost their jobs, the Kovalei family decided to leave for the Soviet Union. At the age of nineteen, Georgy Koval entered the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. Mendeleev, who graduated with honors. During his studies, Koval attracted the attention of the Main Intelligence Directorate: a talented chemist with knowledge of American realities could be very useful to the Soviet Union at this difficult time. After special training at the GRU, Koval began his work in the United States in 1940 under the operational pseudonym Delmar. When work began on the Manhattan Project (the creation of the atomic bomb), Georges Coval managed to get into the atomic center in Oak Ridge. He was assigned to the health safety department - his job was to ensure that radiation did not harm employees. Thanks to this, Koval had wide access to all objects of the huge nuclear complex. Climbing the career ladder, he gained access to more and more valuable information, which he transmitted to the USSR. Initially, Koval, under an assumed name, collected information about new toxins that could be used in chemical weapons. Thanks to Koval, information about the production of nuclear materials - plutonium, polonium and others - was collected and sent to Moscow. And the secret data received from him in December 1945 - February 1946 prompted Soviet scientists an idea and confirmed the correct way to solve the problem associated with the neutron fuse. When the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945, a Soviet defector informed the US authorities that the Soviet Union knew details about the Manhattan Project. Two years later, Koval had to flee the country: the American counterintelligence caught the eye of Soviet literature, which told about the Kovalei family, in the photo was Georgy Abramovich himself - patriots and happy emigrants from Iowa. Two months before the test of the first Soviet atomic bomb, Georges Abramovich resigned from the GRU, not reaching the officer rank, and got a job at his native Moscow State Technical University named after Bauman. At Baumanka he taught until retirement and dealt with the problems of chemical technology and the automation of chemical production. Koval Zh.A. enthusiastically engaged in science, prepared and published about a hundred serious scientific works, which were recognized in scientific circles. He took an active part in the work of scientific conferences, made presentations and reports, and for many years of work at the institute he was able to create a whole scientific heritage, which is still used by students of the D.I. Mendeleev. He lived in Moscow, where he died on January 31, 2006. He was awarded a medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", jubilee medals, a badge of honor "For service in military intelligence." On October 22, 2007, it became known that Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree conferring the title of Hero of Russia to intelligence officer Georges Koval - in the official statement he was named the only Soviet intelligence officer who managed to infiltrate the secret facilities of the project. His work, the statement said, enabled the Soviet Union to accelerate the creation of its own atomic bomb. Many details of the activities of this remarkable intelligence officer are still hidden under the heading "top secret".