Heroes and feats

HISTORY: My mother, Valentina Mikhailovna Kolesnikova (Bolshakova) was born on November 25, 1926 at the Nizhne-Baskinsk station in the Shamarsky district of the Sverdlovsk region. In those years, my mother's father worked as a foreman on the railway and they had to constantly change their place of residence. Therefore, almost all children were born at different stations. In the family of my mother's parents there were seven children, she was the sixth. As my mother said, it was also difficult to live because there was no permanent place of residence. However, despite the difficulties, she finished school (7 classes), and in 1943, at the age of 17, she was admitted to the factory №825 in the workshop №7 by a wrapper. It was the TTK plant. I met victory in the Great Patriotic War at the plant. On this day (in her words) all loudspeakers were turned on, sirens, locomotive horns, etc. were buzzing. People were crying with joy. There was some misunderstanding of the situation. And it was a victory. A peaceful life began. And in 1948 my mother met my father and got married. In 1950, his son Anatoly was born, and then in 1952 - Victor, in 1954 - Nadezhda, in 1955 - Vera, in 1958 - Galina, in 1962 - Mikhail, in 1964 - Marina. In total, there were seven of us in the family just like our mother's parents - seven. While the children were growing up, my mother did not work anywhere, she was engaged in education. And when we grew up, I went to work again. The first award given to my mother was the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." July 10, 1946. Then commemorative medals for the 40th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. And she also had awards for the birth of us, seven children. She was awarded the "Medal of Motherhood" on 02.07.1959, the second "Medal of Motherhood" from 23.10.1963 and the Order of Maternal Glory, III degree from 23.12.1965. Dad and Mom gave us all a good upbringing and education. We have different types of professions in our family. And we are proud of our parents and our large and very friendly family. Our mother passed away on August 13, 2009, at the age of 83. (From the memoirs of her daughter, Vera Ivanovna Chesnokova).

Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Korobeinikov Afanasy Guryanovich 01/27/1898 - 11/12/1972 Hero of the Soviet Union Dates of decrees 1. 03/24/1945 Medal No. 5007 Korobeynikov Afanasy Guryanovich - gun commander of the 1239th rifle regiment (373rd Mirgorodskaya Red Banner Orders and Kutuzov 2nd degree infantry division, 52nd army, 2nd Ukrainian front), senior sergeant. Born on January 27, 1898 in the village of Kiyasovo, Kiyasovsky District, Udmurt Republic, in a peasant family. Russian. Primary education. Adopted as a member of the CPSU (b) / KPSS in 1944. At the age of 12, left without a father, he moved to the city of Sarapul to work. During the civil war in 1918 - 1920 he fought in the Red Army - was the gun commander of the armored train "Free Russia". He fought on the Eastern and Southern Fronts. In the years preceding the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the consumer cooperation system. On April 28, 1942, he was drafted into the army by the Kiyasov district military enlistment office. In the army since September 9, 1943. He fought on the Voronezh, 2nd and 1st Ukrainian fronts in the 373rd rifle division. Participated in the 52nd Army in the liberation of the Left-Bank Ukraine, the crossing of the Dnieper, the expansion of the bridgehead on its right bank and the liberation of the city of Cherkassy (December 14, 1943). In January-February 1944 he took part in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, the destruction of the surrounded enemy grouping in the area of ​​the settlements of Shenderovka, Steblev, Khilki. From March 5 to April 17 he took part in the Uman-Botoshan offensive operation. During the operation, his division liberated the city of Uman (March 10, 1944), crossed the Southern Bug River, liberated the city of Yampol in the Vinnitsa region (Ukraine), and crossed the Dniester River. On the territory of Moldova, she liberated the cities of Soroca, Balti, Floreshty, and other settlements. She was one of the first to reach the state border of the USSR. Senior sergeant A.G. Korobeinikov distinguished himself in this operation from 8 to 10 March 1944 in battles on the outskirts of the city of Uman (Cherkasy region, Ukraine) and in its liberation. In the vicinity of the villages of Popovka, Ryzhovka and near the city of Uman, moving in the battle formations of the attacking infantry with his own gun, he fired direct fire at the enemy's manpower and equipment. In three days of fighting, he destroyed one tank, one 75-millimeter cannon, four machine-gun points with their calculations, more than 50 infantry. In the period from March 14 to March 19, he was among the first to cross the Southern Bug and Dniester rivers on improvised means, destroyed one tank, three guns, more than a platoon of the Nazis with the fire of his gun. Together with the advance group, he held the bridgehead until the main forces of the regiment approached. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945, for courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, senior sergeant Korobeinikov Afanasy Guryanovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 5007). From August 20 to September 5, 1944, as part of the 52nd Army, he participated in the Jassy-Kishinev operation of the 2nd Ukrainian Front. From 21 to 28 October 1944, his division made a 220-kilometer march across Poland. On the night of December 23, 1944, the division crossed the Vistula and entered the Sandomierz bridgehead. In January-February 1945 A.G. Korobeinikov, as part of the division, took part in the Sandomierz-Silesian offensive, in the crossing of the Oder River. From 8 to 14 February 1945, as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, he took part in the Lower Silesian offensive operation. From April 16 to May 2, 1945, as part of the 52nd Army, he participated in the Berlin operation of the 1st Ukrainian Front, during which on May 8, 1945, advancing from the Nieder-Bielau region, the 373rd rifle division took the city of Görlitz. However, the German troops operating in front of the 52nd Army did not lay down their arms, but began to hastily retreat to Czechoslovakia in Prague. The division was ordered to pursue the enemy. Only on May 13, 1945 for the 373rd Infantry Division and for A.G. Korobeinikov, the fighting ended. Demobilized after the war. Lived and worked in the village of Kiyasovo. He died on November 12, 1972. Buried in the village of Kiyasovo. He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, Glory of the 2nd and 3rd degrees, three medals.

Title: Sergeant_x000D_ Branch of service: Artillery_x000D_ Hello there!!I don't know much about my grandfather Vasily Kolbyashkin, December 31, 1917 - date of birth! He was drafted into the Red Army by Dubovsky District Military Commissariat of the Stalingrad Region on October 13, 1938 in the 24th Rifle Regiment where he served as a driver in 1938-1939. He participated in the Finnish war. After he served in 532nd Motor Transport Regiment from 1939-1942. These were already the difficult first years of the Great Patriotic War. Further, he served in the 15th Rifle Regiment as a gun commander from October 1942 to November 1943, and was also in the 105th Rifle Regiment from 1943 to 1944 as a gun Commander of the 85mm gun. He ended the war in the 8th Automobile Regiment as Commander of the drivers detachment in 1944-1946. I am Very proud of my grandfather and all the great feat of the Russian people, the Russian soul! I imitated my grandfather in many ways, even though I did not see him. He did not live until I was born. He was wounded more than once, lost ribs on one side. After he came home, he was a first-class driver and just a strong, honest and kind person for the rest of his life. The Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War was the main holiday for him. Such heroes as our grandfathers made the feat that for many centuries people on the planet should not forget, honor, and cherish it. One should learn to love his homeland, patriotism, strong faith in his country and people! Be true to your heart and Russian soul1 AND WE, RELATIVES AND CLOSE ONES ARE PROUD OF OUR GRANDFATHER AND WILL CARRY THE MEMORY OF HIM TO OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN! ETERNAL MEMORY TO THE HEROES! RUSSIA!

Rank: Specialist_x000D_ Branch of service: Coastal Defense Artillery and Air Defense, Coastal Guard, Air Force, NKVD troops, Border Guard_x000D_ My great-grandmother Tamara Klevtsova (Dyukova) was born in 1923 in the village of Treskino, Inzhavinskiy District, Tambov Region. Her youth was spent in the villageof Injavino, where she graduated from school in 1941. All the girl's dreams were connected with entering the Theater Institute to become an actress. This had everything for that: she sang well, danced, rode horses like a real circus performer, jumped into the water from trees and bridge railings, swam well,and shot. But the dreams were not to be fulfilled: on June 22, 1941, when things were already packed in suitcases, the news came – the war. Together with her friends, Tamara went to the military enlistment office, but they, eighteen-year-old girls, of course, were not taken to the war, but sent to work for a collective farm. There she worked as a bookkeeper, but regularly went to the draft Board and she succeeded: together with her best friend, Anna (they were friends all their lives) sent to the labor front: to build defensive positions in the Bryansk and Smolensk. She had to endure a lot during the year of digging trenches: hunger, cold, shelling. But the girls did not leave thoughts of the front, and finally, in July 1943, they were called up to serve in the 26th Separate Division of the Balloon Barrier, first as telephone operators, and then as ballon personell. The division was located in Arkhangelsk. The balloon was lifted into the sky both day and night. It carried an invisible iron cable with bombs attached to it 2 - 4.5 km up. It was enough to stumble on such a cable, as a helpless German plane fell to the ground. Fragile girls had to drive bulky, elephant-like, hydrogen-filled gas baloons in pairs for tens of kilometers, on foot, in any weather, in a downpour, frost. The balloons were filled with 125 cubic meters of gas and needed to be recharged every day because the hydrogen seeped out. Her hands were numb, and the ropes tore the skin from her palms. Of course, it was not easy for my great-grandmother, but she did not give up, she believed in victory. And it helped her strength, dexterity and amazing endurance, brought up by many years of sports training. And Specialist Dyukova spent two whole years carrying balloons on her shoulders that could escape from her hands at any moment. In 1943, at the front, she met her younger brother Boris, who had fought in the Baltic Fleet in an escort for allied ships. After the end of the war, Tamara was demobilized from the army by order of July 13, 1945 and came to the city of Kirsanov. Here she married Vladimir Klevtsov, who returned from the war, with whom she studied at school together and kept in touch throughout the war. In Kirsanov, she graduated from an external pedagogical school and worked at a railway school, first as a pioneer leader, then as a primary school teacher. Pupils gratefully remember the glorious deeds of the pioneer squad: hiking in their native land, pioneer bonfires, amateur art shows, physical culture holidays. Tamara worked at school for 11 years, but for health reasons she had to leave – the hardships of wartime affected her. But she could not stay at home and in 1961 came to work in the library of the Kirsanov technical school of mechanization and electrification of agriculture, where she worked until retirement. My great-grandmother Tamara has many thanks and awards, but the most important award is the memory of her students, workmates, everyone who knew this tireless worker: the organizer of amateur performances, the head of the reading circle, the organizer and participant of the theater club. And all this hand in hand with her life partner, loyal friend and husband Vladimir Klevtsov, with whom they lived 48 bright happy years, raised two children and three grandchildren.

Vasily Zamyatin was born in 1916, was called up to the front by the Krasnoslobodsky District Military Commissariate in 1941. In the armed forces of the Don Front - in 1942. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal for the Defense of Stalingrad as a Specialist and gunner of the 979th Artillery Regiment of the 173rd Rifle Division._x000D_ In the armed forces of the Belorussian Front - in 1943. He was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree as a Gards Sergeant and gun commander of the 2nd Battery of the 156th Guards Artillery Regiment._x000D_ Died 13.02.1945._x000D_ In 1945, in the armed forces of the 1st Belorussian front with the rank of Guard Sergeant Major, as a gun commander of the 2nd battery of the 156th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 77th Guards Chernihiv Order of Lenin of the Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov Rifle Division, V. Zamyatin was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree._x000D_ He was buried in Poland, 1.8 km South of Frankfurt am Oder (Germany). Type of burial: mass grave, Gejowskie Voivodeship, the city of Sochi, street of the Polish Army. Thanks to data from websites about veterans, the family learned about the burial site. From the archives of the Ministry of Defence, it became known about all the awards and a description of the military merits of Vasily._x000D_ Vasily's siblings, Stepan (born in 1913) and Semyon (born in 1922), returned from the front and have military awards.

Branch of Service: Military Medical Staff _x000D_ She got married on June 21, 1941, when they were returning home in the morning after the wedding, she learned that the war had begun._x000D_ On June 23, she was mobilized and taken as a nurse to the ambulance train. In the war, the wounded called her Nadezhda (Hope), in the faith of salvation. While loading the wounded into the train, she was hit by a bomb and a shell fragment torу out her gall bladder. After the hospital, she was transferred to Armavir (REP-31), where she had access to particularly important documents. When the Germans attacked, the city was evacuated, and she was instructed to return and find the missing safe box of the Military District Medical Department in order to take very important secret documents from it. Thanks to the citizens who helped my grandmother, she took out the documents from Armavir on her own._x000D_ Upon returning, the Chief of the Political Department of REP-31, Major Petrov, took off his breas the Order of the Red Star and handed it to her for completing this task._x000D_ But he did not have time to reissue the documents, because he was killed in the bombing. On the same day, she learned that her husband had died. She managed to get 200 wounded soldiers out of the encirclement, loaded them into a passing ambulance train, and after 6 hours on the road, a ton bomb hit the train and my grandmother received a severe concussion. 5 days she moved in a suspended grid, all that was left of the car. The train brought my grandmother to Baku, where she was sheltered by the Aliyev family. After the hospital, she was sent to the rear, to Central Asia. After the war, she worked as a pediatrician, was active in literature, and wrote poetry, stories, fables, was the head of the literary salon "Lira" in Tolyatti. She wrote a novel about the war, but did not have time to publish it.

Ivan Maksimovich Kolesnikov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, has been at the front from the very first days, fought near Leningrad and participated in lifting the blockade from Leningrad. He was seriously wounded and lost his sight forever. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and many other government awards.

Rank: Sergeant Branch of service: Signal Troops Unit: 360th Nevelskaya Double Red Banner Rifle Division My great-great-grandfather Andrey Koludarov was born on October 30, 1912 in the working village of Kamskoye Ustye of the Kamsko-Ustinsky District of the Tatar ASSR, near the city of Kazan. In 1932, he married my great-great-grandmother Anastasia, and in 1934, my great-grandfather Alexander Koludarov was born. In 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, and my great-great-grandfather was at the front of the war to defend our great and beloved Homeland. He was 29 years old. During the war, he was a signalman and served as a radio operator for the regiment commander. He went on reconnaissance, was always on the front line of fire. He served as a Sergeant. He participated in the heroic defense of Moscow at Velikiye Luki as part of the division. Only 25 people came out of the battle alive, including my great-great-grandfather Andrey. How many comrades died before his eyes, how many emotions and grief passed through his heart, how many times he was covered with earth, and how many times bullets flew over his head! Apparently, the guardian angel was protecting him so that he would return safe and sound. During all the battles of the division, he personally provided the division headquarters with radio communications. He participated in the offensive battles for Velikiye Luki, Nevel, in the Vitebsk Region, kept uninterrupted communication with the regiments in difficult combat conditions. He was a participant in the liberation battles for Belarus and the Soviet Baltic States, in the offensive battles for Polotsk, Kraslava, Dvins. Andrey finished the war in Berlin and returned home in the summer of 1945. But, unfortunately, he did not live a very long time. He died on January 8, 1971. He was just 59 years old. We all remember and love him. May his memory be eternal!

Brief biography of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Sergeant Major Grigory (Gavril) Kushnarenko. Date of birth: July 13, 1913. Place of birth: village Anastasievskaya, Slavic District of the Krasnodar Region. Grigory received the name after being wounded in the hospital during the restoration of documents (both heard and recorded, instead of Gavril - Grigory). Nationality: Russian. Education: graduated from the 4th grade in 1932. Partisanship: non-partisan. Information about conscription for active military service: drafted in 1935 by the Novorossiysk City Military Commissariat. Recognized fit for non-combat service and enlisted in the 22nd Artillery Territorial Regiment as a signalman. Service in the Red Army: in variable composition (294 days) 1935-1939, 22nd Artillery Territorial Regiment, signalman. Career: 1939-1941 Novorossiysk Cement Plant. Mobilized: July 22, 1941. Participation in the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945): From July 27, 1941 to November 18, 1941 - 3rd Marine (rifle) Regiment of the 25th Chapaev Division, Sergeant Major, squad leader (defense of Sevastopol, Mikenziev mountains area). From November 18, 1941 to February 1, 1942 - evacuation hospitals (Batumi, Tbilisi. Shrapnel wound to the left shoulder blade. The shrapnel from the shell did not reach the heart 1.5 mm) From February 1, 1941 to September 16, 1943 – 10th Reserve Signal Regiment, Sergeant Major, assistant platoon commander, training platoon commander. From September 16 1943 to August 27, 1944 – Deputy Commander of a platoon, 983rd Separate Signal Battalion, 75th Infantry Corps of the 27th Army (Commander Lieutenant General S. Trofimenko) of the 2nd Ukrainian Front (Commanded by the Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Malinovsky). From 27 August 1944 to October 28, 1944 – 27th Penal Battalion. From October 28, 1944 to December 15, 1944 - treatment in the evacuation hospital (contusion). From October 15, 1944 to November 1945 - Staff Sergeant, the Commander of the Cavalry of the Department of communication, 952nd Separate Order of the Red Star Signal Battalion, 104th Rifle Corps (Commander Lieutenant General M. Filippovsky), 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front (commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union F. Tolbukhin). November 1945 - demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 25 September 1945 (Vienna. Austria). Awards and distinctions: - Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, - Medal For Bravery #2417120, - Medal For the Defense of Sevastopol, - Medal For the Capture of Budapest, - Medal For the Victory over Germany. Appreciation certificates from the Supreme Commander J. Stalin: - for the capture of the cities of Vaslui, Ramnicu, Seret Northern Transylvania (Romania), - for the capture of the cities of Lucefer, Budapest, Körmend (Hungary). Residence and place of work: After the Great Patriotic War, he lived in the village of Novoleushkovskaya, Pavlovsk District, Krasnodar Region, Novo-Embankment Street, #9. He worked as an electrician for the Novoleushkovsky Elevator from 1946 to 1976. 13. Date of death - September 24, 2013. He was buried in the village of Novoleushkovskaya in the Pavlovsky District of the Krasnodar Region at the village cemetery (South – West side 30 meters North of the cemetery border).

Alexander Zaitsev was born in 1910. In the first days of the war, his wife, Anna Minaeva, defended her engineering degree and was sent to a factory that built aircraft for the front. Their daughter was not even a year old at the time. Alexander was not immediately mobilized because, after defending his diploma, he was sent to the Ministry of Heavy Industry to participate in the conversion of the Kolomna Machine-Building Plant to the production of military products and the evacuation of the plant from Moscow to the Urals. After placing the factory in Sverdlovsk, Alexander Zaitsev was drafted into the army until demobilization in 1947. He served in the sapper battalion of the 164th Rifle Division of the 2nd formation (later - Vitebsk Red Banner). Participated in the defense of Moscow. At Volokolamsk he directed the construction of the defense line, at a distance of 10-15 meters from the German trenches. Our infantrymen crawled across the river on ice and were killed by enemy machine-gun fire. A. Zaitsev (Technican Lieutenant, party leader of the battalion) with his comrades laid logs across the river, filled them with water. And since the winter of 1941 was very cold, an ice wall immediately formed, protecting the retreating units from Nazi fire. During heavy fighting, a tunnel specialist was miraculously found, with the help of which they dug a passage to the foot of the German bunker and blew it up from underground. Then high-explosive charges were placed under the Warsaw Highway. Alexander received the Medal For Bravery in November 1942, in the Tula Region on the Western front. Then there were battles near the city of Rzhev, where he was seriously concussed by an air bomb. But since only four of the 12 officers of the battalion were still alive, he kept in the ranks through pain and weakness. In 1943, A. Zaitsev, having already become an Assistant Commander of the sapper battalion, received the Medal For Military Merit for setting up minefields on the territory of Belarus. 1944, operation Bagration - the battalion participated in the General offensive on the city of Vitebsk. The troops of Marshal Bagramyan, Commander of the 2nd Belorussian Front, entered East Prussia in the autumn of 1944, then, breaking through the German front, reached the Baltic sea in the area of Liepaja (former Courland), encircling a large group of fascist troops. The main front went to the West, to Central Europe and Germany, and the 186th Sapper Battalion remained on the line of defense of the surrounded Germans. For fighting to liberate Konigsberg, Alexander received the Order of the Red Star. The Kurland group was liquidated only after the German capitulation in the spring of 1945. The unit was given a whole battalion of Germans to participate in the demining of the territory. This was one of the last dangerous events of wartime for Alexander Zaitsev – he and several machine gunners led three hundred Germans through the forest to the location of their unit. Our grandfather told a lot of warm words and stories about the examples of loyalty and courage of horses that provided the movement of the sapper battalion throughout the war. He was discharged with the rank of a Captain.

Rank: Red Army Soldier. Unit: 162nd Rifle Division (2nd formation). Kaburkin Alexander fought in 562nd Rifle Battalion on the Western front from January 2, 1943 to May 4, 1943. Every day the sappers were on the front line: it was necessary to remove the barbed wire, clear the areas for the passage of our tanks and infantry. In addition, at night in the dark, they went to scout, met with the Germans face to face, but no one shot at each other, because it was impossible to make a fuss and among the German soldiers there were also peaceful people who did not need this war and they also wanted to live. And there were many such cases. Once, after the liberation of a village in the Smolensk Region, the sappers were given the task of combing the entire neighborhood. The leader with several sappers went to check. There were no houses in the village, everything was burned down. The sappers, including a grandfather, cleared mines, checked the basements and cellars. Somewhere not far away they heard German speech, but no one was in sight. They went on and saw the shadow of a man (it was night). They went quietly to the cellar, where they could hear voices. It turned out that German soldiers were sitting there, eating and drinking. We should have taken them alive. The leader of the group ordered: "Kaburkin, jump into the cellar and neutralize the Germans." Grandfather jumped into the cellar. He shouted, "Hands up! You are surrounded!” The Germans realized that they had fallen into Russians hands, and one by one they began to leave the cellar without firing a single shot. Alexander was presented to the government award - the Medal For Bravery. They met the Germans face-to-face a lot more when they went on reconnaissance, but everything ended well. In one of the battles near Smolensk on May 4, 1943, he was wounded in both legs. Alexander was sent to a hospital in Sloboda, Kirov Region. There he was treated for a long time, the wounds did not heal, festered. Shrapnel was embedded in both shins, and the bones were shattered. After a long treatment, my grandfather was sent home for a full recovery. At home, every 2 weeks, he had to be registered at the military enlistment office, then go back to the front. But the wounds did not heal for a long time, and the legs continued to rot. It was hard and painful to walk. Sometimes, when the legs were treated by a doctor, fragments fell out, but the largest ones that stuck in the bones remained until the end of life.

Rank: Red Army soldier._x000D_ Unit: 110th Rifle Division (1st formation)._x000D_ HOLD ON, DEAR MARINE..._x000D_ Without difficulty we found a house for several families at the entrance to the village Loboykovo. Anna Klimenko, was not at home at this hour, she went to the pharmacy for medicines. But Peter was caught on the spot. It was kind of cold inside. There were several pine logs near the stove. The ceilings were high — one can not heat such a space, and there is wood, the owner explained, putting on a handmade down sweater without hurrying. Word for word, and a conversation started about the soul-stirring military dashing years. That's right, it's a difficult topic..._x000D_ I myself come from the Olka villadge. When the Patriotic War began, I was already 19 years old. Seven of us from our village were called up for service. Duffel bags on carts, and themselves on foot. So we moved to Dubovka. And there my ways with the villagers parted. I got to the city of Orel near Moscow. The soldiers of the 110th Rifle Division saw everything on the front-line roads: the joy of victories and the bitterness of defeats._x000D_ I was a witness to the fact that after another bombing of the city by the Nazis, here it was standing unharmed - a granite monument with an eagle. And how much weight he dragged, listed under number 1: one anti-tank rifle one and a half meters long weighed 22 kg. This is without a magazin containing 71 rounds, for which infantryman number 2 was responsible. P. Klimenko saw as his comrade died. And the enemy bullet did not avoid him: he was wounded in the left arm on August 16, 1943. It happened near Vyazma, Smolensk Region._x000D_ And then there was a hospital in Kaluga, then in Moscow, Mozhaisk. In the spring of 1944, Peter went to the village of Olkha, in the hope of meeting with his small homeland, with relatives about whom he knew nothing. For all three years he did not get any letters from there. He came to the village and found his mother Evdokia t home, in the kitchen. My father was at war at that time, and returned when the war was over._x000D_ In 1945, after the Victory, he married his Anna. Her fate was also difficult in those harsh 1940s: hunger, cold, physical labor that was too much for the girl at earthworks in the Saratov Region... So she worked all her life in animal husbandry, the narrator continued ... the clock is ticking peacefully. Minute by minute, time passes. But there was a time when the village of Olkha with its collective farm "Bolshevik" was crowded. In the 1960s, when the school and medical center were closed, the population began to leave: some to Loboykovo, others to Danilovka, and some even further away. The last to leave Olkha were the Korneev and Varvarovsky families. It was somewhere in the years 1975-1976. What does an elderly person need most at 82? Agree, health, and it was not enough of it - the war took its toll._x000D_ Thank you to your family for the warmth. In Loboykovo lives a son of Peter with his family, in the Mikhailovka — the daughter with already adult two children. In Danilovka lives the brother - Viktor, and in fact there was a time when their father Philip and their mother raised five sons... November - half-winter has already arrived. On the farmstead of the veteran, poultry - chickens, ducks - talk peacefully. How to live in a village without a farm? Still blooming near the porch courageous, to match the owners, not afraid of the cold, flowers-buttons of September: white, purple, pink, blue the embodiment of hope and goodness. And let them not leave the house of our narrator and those who passed through the flames of hell to Victory ..._x000D_ E. Kvochkin. "Danilovskie vesti" #136, November 11, 2004.

Lyudmila was drafted into the army. She served as a nurse in the 551st Airfield Service Battalion in the Central Asian Military District from 1941 to 1945. She finished the war with the rank of Specialist. Has government awards. After her husband retired, they moved to Irkutsk. Lyudmila worked as a senior surgical nurse at the children's hospital in Ivano-Matreninskaya. She had to go to early retirement to care for her seriously ill husband. After his death, she went to live with her daughter to Bolshoy Severny, Mamsko-Chuysky District of the Irkutsk Region. She returned to Irkutsk together with her granddaughter Elena Tomilova in 1976. There she lived until 1995. She was buried next to her husband, at the Radishchevsky Cemetery in Irkutsk.

Ivan Kuzmich Seleznyov, born July 15, 1919, died March 23, 1987

Konstantin Anisimovich Arzhanov, Junior Lieutenant, went missing in action in 1942