Heroes and feats

Ruvim Minakhimovich Zvenyatsky was born in 1921 on September 12 in Yuzovka. His father, Ruvim Minakhimovich Zvenyatsky, born in 1898, worked as a film mechanic, died in October 1943 at the front of the Great Patriotic War near Smolensk; mother, Olga Naumovna Zvenyatskaya, born in 1900. –a housewife, during the war was evacuated to Kokshetav town of Kazakh SSR, and later - to Belovodsk town. In 1944 she returned to the city of Stalino. In 1937 Ioseph joined the ranks of the Komsomol. From 1938 to 1940, he was deputy secretary and later secretary of the Komsomol Committee at School No. 1 named after Dimitrov in the town of Stalino. After finishing 10th grade (in 1940), in September 1940 he was drafted by Stalin GVK into the Red Army. From 09.1940 to 12.1940, he was a soldier of the 3rd Searchlight Regiment, 3rd Air Defense Corps, Transcaucasian Military District. In October 1940, he was elected Deputy Secretary of the Komsomol Bureau of the unit. In January 1941, by the political department of the 3rd Air Defense Corps was sent to the courses of junior political workers in the political direction of the Transcaucasian Military District, where he studied from January to July 1941. In 1941, he completed the first course of the History Department of the Stalin Pedagogical Institute by correspondence. From 06. 1941, he took part in the battles - 790th Rifle Regiment, 392nd Rifle Division, 46th Army, the Transcaucasian Front – he was the political worker of the company, the Komsomol bureau. 15.09.41 By Order No. 0259 of the NKO, he was titled junior political officer. In February 1942, the Political Department of the 46th Army he was transferred by the Komsomol Bureau to the 808th Rifle Regiment, 394th Rifle Division, 46th Army. He was accepted as a candidate to the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (Bolsheviks). In June 1942, Political Department of the 46th Army transferred him to strengthen Komsomol's work in the 815th Rifle Regiment 394th Army Rifle Division of the 46th Army of the Transcaucasian front and was elected as a secretaryt of the Komsomol bureau of the regiment. From October to December 1942, he was being treated in evacuation hospital No. 2464 (Tbilisi). After treatment in the hospital, from December 1942 he continued to serve in the Black Sea Group of Forces - 287th Independent Communications Battalion, 13th Rifle Corps of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Political Division. He was elected to be a secretary of the Komsomol bureau. In December 1942, the Political Department of the 13th Rifle Corps accepted him as a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b). Party ticket No. 5079101. 30.01.43 By Order No. 029 of the Military Council of the Black Sea Group of Forces, he was promoted to the rank of Senior Lieutenant. In July 1943, in connection with the abolition of the Institute of Deputy Chief of Staff of the political unit, he was sent to the Kiev Military School of Communication as a student. From 10.1944 to 07.1947, he was a platoon commander of the Kiev Red Banner Military School of Communication named after Kalinin. By Order No. 0187 of June 6, 1947, by the Army Communications Troops Commander he was sent for further service in the Urals Military District - 63rd Rifle Corps, 969th Independent Communications Battalion - as a commander of a telegraph training platoon. On March 15, 1948, he married a citizen Miroita Mikhailovna Chipysheva. 21.02.50 by order № 0426 of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army he was awarded the title "Captain". From August 1950 to December 1950, he was the secretary of the primary party organization 969 Independent Communications Battalion. 63 Building corps Urals Military District. By order №0583 of 14.12.50 he was transferred to the Seaside Military District and appointed Chief of Communications of the Artillery Division 63rd Mechanic regiment of the 7th division. From December 1950 to April 1955 he served in the Soviet troops in the People's Republic of China (Far Eastern Military District). 08.03.55 was dismissed to the reserve by order of the USSR Ministry of Defense №01301. From 03.55 to 07.57 he worked as deputy chief of the Olgin office in the village of Olginka, Donetsk region, and from 07.57 to 04.83 - the head of Chistyakov (Torez) communications center (Chistyakovo (1964 - Torez), Donetsk region). Four convocations of 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1967 he was elected deputy of Chistyakov (Torez) City Council. By the Order of the Civil Code of the USSR № 143 of 28.04.75 he was awarded the title of "major". He was awarded medals "For military services, for the victory over Germany, the Chinese-Soviet friendship, the Order of the Great Patriotic War I degree and the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky III degree"... The last military rank - Lieutenant Colonel of the reserve. He died on October 16, 2004. He was buried in Torese, Donetsk People's Republic.

Andrey Filippovich Zinin was born on October 15 (new style - 28), 1915 in Zimnenki village nowadays of Veshkaymsky district of Ulyanovsk region in the family of a Russian worker. He graduated from 7th grade and graduated from factory apprenticeship school in Ulyanovsk city. In 1937, Zinin was drafted into the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. He participated in the Polish campaign of the Red Army, was a cadet of the training tank battalion. He participated in the liberation campaign of the Soviet troops in Western Ukraine in 1939, took part in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940. From 1939 he became a member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks (b)/CPSU. Platoon Commander of the 377th Tank Battalion (97th Rifle Division, North-Western Front), Junior Commander Andrei Filippovich Zinin distinguished himself on February 26, 1940 near the village of Kusa (now the village of Klimovo, Vyborg District, Leningrad Oblast). Participating in the attack of the tank platoon in order to block the Zot, Zinin set fire to the Zot with five shots and destroyed three enemy snipers. When a caterpillar flew off on one of the tanks, the brave junior commander, despite the heavy fire, restored the vehicle. Andrei Filippovich helped the crew of the hit tank, saved his commander. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 7, 1940 "for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the Finnish White Guard and demonstrated courage and heroism" Junior Commander Zinin Andrei Filippovich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal (№ 492). In 1941, the Hero of the "Winter War" graduated from the Ulyanovsk Tank School. Senior Lieutenant A.F. Zinin participated in the Great Patriotic War as a company commander of IS-2 tanks of the 57th separate heavy tank regiment. After the war he continued his service in the Soviet Army. He took part in the Victory Parade. In 1954 he graduated from the officer training course, was a battalion commander, deputy regimental commander. In 1961, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel Zinin was dismissed from the reserve. He lived in Novotroitsk, Orenburg region, where he died on April 7, 1983. Honorary Citizen of Novotroitsk, which has a street named after him. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of the Red Star, and a number of medals.

He graduated from high school in 1939 in Krasnodar. From 1938 to 1940, he worked at the M. Gorky Drama Theatre in the city of Krasnodar as an electrician and illuminator. In 1940, he was recruited into the Red Army in 188th Artillery Air Defense Regiment of Minsk (to the regiment's control platoon). From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, he was actively involved in repelling enemy air raids on the city of Minsk. He went through difficult roads of retreat from Minsk to Moscow. He took part in the Battle of Smolensk, in the defense of the crossing of the Dnieper River, as well as the cities of Vyazma, Rzhev, Gzhatsk, Mozhaisk. In autumn 1941, when he took the Oath in Borodino, he defended the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, near Galitsyno-Zvenigorod. He participated in raids on the enemy's rear together with partisan detachments. As a communications officer for the platoon of the Division 216 of the Independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the Reserve of the Main Command, and then the 11th Guards of the Independent Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division of the Reserve of the Main Command, he always kept and provided telephone communication between the batteries and the headquarters of the 59th Army and the headquarters of the Volkhov front, which ensured uninterrupted fire control of the anti-aircraft and searchlight units. During the battles, he showed courage, endurance and communication skills. In 1943, he was appointed Commander of the Communications Section of the division management platoon, and was promoted to the rank of Guard Sergeant. For exemplary performance of the task, he was repeatedly thanked by the division command. He was awarded the Medal "For Courage", "For the Defense of Moscow" and others. He took part in battles in 1941 on the Western Front, and in 1942 - on the Volkhov Front. In 1943, he was given the badge of the Guards, and was awarded the badge "Excellent Communicationsman". 1944 - Leningrad Front of the Guard Sergeant V.A. Zyunin even after the Victory Day he carried out a combat demining mission in the area of Velikie Luki and Lake Seliger, until the demobilization day in August 1946 (badges, Certificates of the Leningrad Front from Govorov).

Zitarov Vasily Stepanovich Zitarov was born in Ishtuganovo village, Yumaguzinsky district, Bashkir ASSR in 1921. The family had four children. Vasily was the eldest. He looked after his younger sisters and brother. In 1932, the family moved to the city of Magnitogorsk. Vasily finished 7 grades of school, then entered the Magnitogorsk Pedagogical College. In technical school he was an active student and a Komsomol member. He was fond of chess, music, played well the balalaika, mandolin and clarinet. He had many friends. The family lived in a barracks. Lived amicably, there were many people in the barracks. They lived as one family. There were a lot of kids around and Vasya gladly studied with them and painted their portraits. After his successful graduation from the technical school, he was assigned to Sukhteli Raion, Chelyabinsk Oblast, to a rural school as a school director. But he did not have to work; in 1938, he was recruited into the Red Army. He was to return home in 1941, but he was sent to Arkhangelsk to the Artillery School (AARS) where junior officers were trained. After graduating from the school with the rank of Lieutenant, he was sent by the Commander of the artillery squad near Leningrad during the Leningrad blockade. During the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad in January 1943, his 256th rifle division went on the offensive, on January 12, 1943, in the area between Lipki and Gaitolovo, from the area south of Rabochy settlement No. 8, with the 327th Division on the left and 372nd Division on the right. 14.01.1943 they captured the station Podgornaya and started fighting on the outskirts of Sinyavino, overcoming the ice covered shafts. On 15.01.1943 they seized the Sinyavino station. In February 1943, as a Commander of a sniper company 422nd sniper battalion 256ID was presented to the award: a medal "For Courage". Here is a description of his feat from the award list: "Lieutenant Zitarov led the work on mining the right flank of the BOU. He did not leave the place of work of mining for six nights. Under his leadership, a local system of fences was created. While providing approaches through minefields, the company lost the commander and part of the soldiers. Zitarov with two soldiers in extremely difficult conditions, with their courage and perseverance, ensured timely readiness on the right flank of the passes. Zitarov was wounded by a fascist bullet at the same place of work. "Zitarov was in the field hospital for about a month. In July 1943, during the Mga operation, he stormed a heavily fortified height of the "Forest", the company suffered heavy losses, it was assigned to replenishing and staffing. In August 1943, the division fought for the Porechensky fortified junction. As a result of the Mghinskaya operation, the Soviet troops slightly merged into the enemy's defense. The enemy suffered heavy losses, especially from artillery fire and air strikes. The German troops moved all their reserves and significant forces from other parts of the front to Mghinskoye. The Soviet troops failed to defeat the enemy's Mghinsko-Sinyavinskaya group, free the Kirovskaya railway and provide Leningrad with a strong railway link to the country. However, the main goal of the operation was achieved. The enemy was significantly weakened. Vasily Zitarov died in action on 12.08.1943. He was only 24 years old. Eternal memory to Lieutenant Zitarov Vasily Stepanovich, the defender of the country. He was buried in a common grave. (Leningrad region, Mginsky district, village Mishkino, in the area, the ruins of the village Khandrovo) . There is a memorial Plate at the monument "Back to Front" in the city of Magnitogorsk. ***There are no crosses on mass graves. And there are no widows crying. Someone brings a bouquet of flowers to them and lights up the Eternal Flame. Here previously stood the ground on its rares, and now – only granite slabs. There is no single personal destiny - all destinies are merged into one. And in the Eternal Flame you see a tank burst into flames, burning Russian huts, Burning Smolensk and burning Reichstag, Burning heart of a soldier. There are no widows crying by mass graves - stronger people come here. There are no crosses on mass graves, but is it easier? (V. Vysotsky) Battle Way. Fell, breaking the siege of Leningrad 12.08.1943 in battle, during the Mga operation.

All my childhood I spent in Balakhna on the banks of the Volga. I finished 7 classes of school No. 7 named after Kirov. I was very fond of fishing, swimming and, especially, hunting. When I turned 15, my father bought me a gun "Berdanka", and I often went to the Volga lakes, where at that time there were a lot of game: ducks, chirks. Not every of my friends had a gun at that time, especially at that age. It was not often when I got ducks and chirks, but apart from the pleasure you experience in hunting, you develop a skill, observation, orientation and knowledge of the area. It became very useful later. After playing soccer, we were free to swim across the Volga River in the area of the GGRES settlement, where it is quite wide. True, not everyone dared to do it, but most of my childhood friends were good swimmers. It is true, however, we got angry at by our parents for such a risky event. After graduating from vocational school, I worked at one of the defense plants in the city of Dzerzhinsk. It was August 1942. On the 23rd of August at about 10 p.m. in Dzerzhinsk GVK me and my peers were given summons to arrive to the military committee on August 24 at 9 a.m. to be sent to the army. Of course, we waited for this every day and were morally prepared, it is a pity that we did not have time to go home. Being in the military committee, my friends and I asked to send us to study for tankers. I did not get there. I was told that we had been recruited plenty. Me and some of my comrades were sent to the 4th separate armored training regiment in Vyksa to study for the commanders of armored vehicles. Armored personnel carriers are small cars with a crew of 2 people which served for reconnaissance and communication. They weigh 2.5 tons, armor thickness - 12mm, gun type - tank machine gun,it also had a radio. After graduating from the study on the mechanic-driver I was attached to Sasha Sokolov, who was 2-3 years older than me and had already visited the front. Before the war, he was a chauffeur, so he immediately got to the front, where he drove ammunition and was repeatedly bombed. During one of them he was wounded and was taken to hospital. After the hospital, he was sent to retrain as a mechanic-driver of an armored personnel carrier. Sasha was born in Siberia. He was healthy, not very turntable in appearance. Before the war, as he told me, he also liked to go hunting. Of course, the beast and birds in Siberia are not what we have. We quickly became friends with him. He also told me about the front, where he was a chauffeur transporting ammunition. More than once he was caught in the bombing, during which he was wounded. I kept asking him: 'Have you seen any living Germans? He frankly confessed to me that he had seen, but only prisoners. "But wait," he told me, "we will also see live ones with weapons in their hands. We will see all of them, because it will take a long time to fight!

Zemlyakov Ivan Ivanovich - a native of Stalingrad region, the village of Machekhi of Kikvidzensky area. When the Great Patriotic War began, he barely turned nineteen. By mid-summer 1942, the war reached the Volga coast, and Kikvidza district became the front. July 14, 1942 by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Stalingrad region was declared in martial law. Men aged from eighteen to fifty began to be drafted into the Red Army in the region. By the early autumn of 1942, the Macheshansky District Military Commissariat formed a company of conscripts, where my grandfather got in. At that time, he was twenty years old. The training took very little time, because fierce battles were already taking place in Stalingrad. It was not easy to get from the place of conscription to the front - you had to overcome more than three hundred kilometers. For a month, the conscript battalion walked to the command of the Stalingrad Front. Upon arrival, my grandfather got into one of the rifle divisions of the 64th Army, where he became a machine gunner. The fighting for the city, for every street and house was going on continuously, not stopping for a minute. Despite the extraordinary courage of our soldiers, by November almost the entire city was occupied by the Nazis. But the defenders of Stalingrad were stronger than death, because they were driven by love for their Fatherland, military duty, courage and bravery. In mid-December 1942, in the battle for the city of Stalingrad, my grandfather was caught in the explosion of a grenade, wgich resulted in two serious shrapnel wounds: one to the hand, the other to the head, in the ear area. For his last fight, he was awarded the Medal of Courage (according to his son). After his wound, my grandfather was taken to the military hospital, where doctors removed the shrapnel from his hand. They could not remove the other shrapnel from his head and he lived with it for the rest of his life. After his treatment, he went back to his native village, where he continued to work for the benefit of the front. And despite the fact that my grandfather, Ivan Ivanovich Zemlyakov, took part in the war for just under three months, he contributed to the defeat of the German invaders, to the great victory at Stalingrad. For me my grandfather is a real hero. After all, he showed great courage and bravery, bravely fighting the Nazi-German invaders. He defended his homeland with dignity, though he was very young. After the war came the peaceful time, and my grandfather lived a very interesting and worthy life. He had many hobbies, but especially my grandfather loved horses. Probably, that is why he worked all his life as a foreman at stables. Like many former frontline soldiers, his grandfather was not very fond of talking about the battles. So, when he was asked: "Grandfather, did you kill the Germans?" he answered: "Everyone was shooting, and I was shooting, and they were falling” Usually, grandfather dressed modestly, simply, but on Victory Day, he took his festive suit out of the closet, decorated with his medals for participation in the Great Patriotic War. My grandfather died at the age of seventy-two. At present, thirteen of his great-grandchildren live on earth.

Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Sergei Sergeyevich Zolotarev served without injuries and returned with awards. As a grandson, I take this opportunity to tell about my grandfather, a veteran and a participant in this terrible war. I am infinitely grateful to him! He defended his Homeland, protected his children, me and my family. Now we can live under a clean and peaceful sky and this is the merit of those who selflessly fulfilled their duty, who through the Holy Gospel say: "There is no love more, but who will lay down his life for his others" (Gospel of John 15. 13.). I remember my maternal grandfather as a strong and honest man., always caring about human misfortunes and thinking little about himself, taking to heart human pain. He always fought for the truth and thus sometimes caused "fire" on himself. But most people loved him very much, were close people and were friends with him. And he was able to be friends and give people his warmth. Many famous people of that time were his friends: the Honored Artist of the RSFSR V. Serova, the Deputy Minister of Culture of the RSFSR I. Kondakov, actress Lala Chernaya and many others. Of course, they appreciated his talent, beauty of soul, all that God gave him. Although in the beginning his life was very difficult. His parents died early, and after that, the street and the orphanage, where his aunts Alexandra and Raisa Zolotareva found him with difficulties. His grandfather's aunts were from a galaxy of singers who worked in famous Sokolov choirs. These two women were educated and faithful people, who instilled in my grandfather the Christian faith, diligence and, of course, their ability to sing and give people joy. Sergey Sergeyevich Zolotaryov (1920-1980) began his adult life working in the theater. He got there as a very young boy and managed to work there for several years before being drafted on October 13, 1940. His aunt Alexandra saw him off, gave him an instruction so that he would never forget to remember God. As my mother told me, his aunt, seeing off my grandfather, gave him the order: "Be with Christ, and He will save you.” She gave him the Cross, which he never took off. Service in the army began. Probably, Sergey was the only gypsy who met the Nazis with fire in the first minutes of the war. He had the chance to serve on the border as a private, and he remembered for life the barrage of artillery rifts that killed most of his comrades. The 79th Border Guard outpost was located in Moldova, near the famous Izmail. There the guy in a green cap took his first baptism of fire. Gypsy Sergey Zolotarev went through the entire war as infantry. He was awarded medals "For bravery" and "For the defense of Stalingrad. He was fantastically lucky. During breakthroughs, bullets shot down from the tank armor his friends both on the right and on the left - and he got out of various troubles without a scratch. Once he crawled under fire on a neutral strip, where there was only one well (the wounded man needed water), and nose to nose ran into a German, who was also clasping the bowler's shackle with his teeth. The guy was saved from death only by a quick reaction ... When the Third Reich lived its last months, the command paid attention not only to the courage, but also to the talent of a young gypsy. Thus Sergey became a member of the front ensemble and returned home after performances in Germany, Hungary and Poland. His native "Romain" again accepted the mature artist into its troupe. The postwar audience praised his brilliant manner of playing in theater and cinema, and, of course, Zolotaryov was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.

He was born in a peasant family. Tatar. Graduated from 4th grade. He worked as a foreman at the collective farm "Kyzyl-Bulyak" in Dyurtyulinsky district. In 1936-38, he did active military service in the Red Army and was an artillery commander. Upon his return to his native village, he was elected chairman of the Kyzyl-Bulyak collective farm. In August 1941, Dyurtyulinsky District Military Committee of Bashkir ASSR again recruited him into the Red Army. In battles of the Great Patriotic War since August 1941 he fought at the Kalinin, Steppe, 1st and 4th Ukrainian Fronts. In 623rd Artillery Regiment, in the ranks of which he fought from Moscow to Prague, was considered a master of precision artillery fire. He was a member of the CPSU since 1942. Gun commander of the 3rd Battery of the 623rd Artillery Regiment (183rd Infantry Division, 38th Army, 1st Ukrainian Front), sergeant Z.Z. Zaripov on March 19-20, 1944, in the battles for the city of Vinnitsa - the regional center of Vinnitsa region of Ukraine, commanding the gun crew, hit seven enemy fire points and a large number of soldiers. For courage and bravery shown in the battles, on April 29, 1944 sergeant Zaripov Zinur Zaripovich was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd degree (№ 41845). On July 25-27, 1944, in the battles for the ancient Ukrainian city of Lviv - the regional center of the Lviv region, sergeant Zinur Zaripovich suppressed five enemy guns, two mortars, four jets, smashed eight observation points, and destroyed a lot of enemy life. For courage and bravery shown in battles, on October 21, 1944 sergeant Zaripov Zinur Zaripovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree (№ 9796). On February 12-13, 1945, sergeant Zaripov Z.Z., commander of the gun of the 3rd Battery of the 623rd Artillery Regiment (183rd Rifle Division, 38th Army, 4th Ukrainian Front), in the battles near the Polish town of Strumen, when repulsing the enemy's tanks and infantry counterattack, disabled the enemy guns. Commander of the crew, for three days, he held back the onslaught of the enemy, killing more than twenty fascist soldiers and officers. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 29, 1945, sergeant Zaripov Zinur Zaripovich was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree (№ 1744) for exemplary performance of command tasks in battles with the Nazi invaders, becoming a full knight of the Order of Glory. In 1945 Sergeant Zaripov Z.Z. was demobilized. He returned to his native places. He worked in the collective farm "Kyzyl-Bulyak", Durutulinsky rayon: chairman of the collective farm, deputy chairman, head of the farm. He died on July 11, 1995. He was buried in Ismayilovo village of Durtyulinsky rayon, Bashkiria. He was awarded with Orders of Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Glory of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd degree, medals. In March 1942, the Red Army man, DUBROVIN FEDOR ILLYCH, after being wounded, treated and a reserve regiment was sent for further service in 183 Rifle Division, 623 artillery regiment, which held the defense of northeast Rzhev, in the 29th Army. (He walked with this regiment in the 1st division, in the 1st and 3rd batteries, in the control platoon until the end of the war in the position of: telephone operator - senior scout).

My father, Pavel Aleksandrovich Zamyatin, volunteered for the front in 1941, having assigned himself a year to be taken to the military recruitment office. He was in time for the battle near Moscow, where he took part in raids on the close rear of the Germans as part of subversive units. In one of the battles, he was seriously wounded in the leg and was taken to hospital. He was presented to the Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" and, after recovery, was sent to a tank school. But he did not finish it - the battle for Stalingrad began and the cadets took part in the battles. They fought in the Separate Training Battalion of the 36 Guard Riffle Division (Colonel Denisenko) of the Stalingrad Front. For heroism in battles (personally pulled out of the battlefield 12 fighters and 3 commanders, destroyed 1 enemy sniper) Guards cadet was presented to the medal "For Courage," but the unit commander sent him in the presentation of the Order of the Red Star, which he received in November 1942, as well as the title of Jr. Lieutenant of Tank Forces and assignment to the 2nd Guards Tank Division (Major-General Filippov), 2nd Guards Tank Division. Mechanized Corps (General Sviridov). With this corps of 4 Guard Tank Army (Lieutenant General Lelyushenko), he fought for the liberation of Ukraine, Romania, Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia. The battle way was also marked with the orders of the "Battle Red Banner", "Patriotic War" of the 1st degree, medals: "For bravery", "For combat services", "For the defense of Stalingrad", "For the capture of Budapest", "For the capture of Vienna", "For the liberation of Prague", "For the victory over Germany”. During the war he received 3 heavy and 2 light wounds. He finished the war on May 12, 1945 in Prague, the last liberated city of Europe during World War II. Already in peacetime, he participated in the first exercises to overcome the radioactive terrain and underwater tank driving. He received an increased share of radiation. He was awarded the second Order of the Red Star, medals: "30-40-50-60 years to the Armed Forces of the USSR", "20-30-40 years of Victory over Germany", "For 20 years of impeccable service". He finished his service in the Armed Forces of the USSR in 1964 due to health reasons in the rank of Major - and the post of Chief of chemical service of the unit.

Fyodor Andreyevich Kolyuka was born in 1913 in Uspenke village of Buryn district, Sumy region. In 1932, after graduating from high school, he entered the Teacher Training College of the city Makeevka. In 1935, after graduating from the technical school, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. He served in the armored unit of the Kiev Military District as a sergeant (tank commander) until 1938. From 1938 to 1940 he was a cadet of the Orlov Armored School (Moscow Military District). From February 1940 to July 1942, he was a platoon commander of the cadets' platoon of the Oryol Armoured Personnel School (Moscow Military District). Fyodor Andreyevich began to take direct part in the battles in July 1942, at the North Caucasus Front, as Deputy Commander of the company of the tank brigade command. That brigade was attached to Cavalry Corps #17, which consisted of the Don and Kuban Cossacks under the command of Major General Kirichenko, a Civil War veteran. From Kolyuk's memoirs: "On July 29, the Germans began pushing back the 42nd Cavalry Regiment. Tanks and a motorized rifle battalion were introduced to support the regiment. The appearance of the tanks made a stunning impression on the Germans. With considerable losses, they began to withdraw in the riot. The German command hurriedly drew up a fresh force and the fighting resumed. It was a serious test of courage and combat skills for the brigade's personnel. And the brigade convincingly proved its excellent fighting ability. At the end of the day, the enemy pulled up the new units, performing a detour maneuver west of us (Biryuchoi station). He (the enemy) fell on our left flank at the area of the 30th Infantry Division and squeezed them out. The threat was created to surround all our units defending on the left flank. At this extremely acute moment, the commander of the tank company, Senior Lieutenant Goncharuk made a skilled tactical maneuver. He and his company promptly attacked the enemy's convoy, consisting of 2 infantry battalions and a division of mechanized anti-tank artillery. The strike was so fierce and formidable, and brought such devastation into the enemy's ranks that the Germans, despite their considerable numerical superiority, turned to more careful action. The daring attack of Goncharuk's tanks confused the plans of the Germans, their intention to make a detour and capture the village of Staro-Minska in order to disrupt the systematic deployment of our 17th Cavalry Corps, and thus put our units in a desperate situation. However, the Germans, wishing to seize the Kalinovka, accelerated the advance before our units arrived there. Then, Lieutenant Klimov attacked them and forced them to stop. He skillfully maneuvered under the fire of anti-tank guns, several of them were shot and more than one dozen Hitlerites were crushed with caterpillars. My grandfather was awarded medals for participation in the battles and for courage and bravery shown in the performance of military duty - "For the Defence of the Caucasus", "For Merit in Action", "For the Victory over Germany", orders - "Red Star", "Red Banner", "Patriotic War". In one of the battles, Fyodor Andreyevich's tank was directly hit by an enemy shell. At the end of his treatment, he continued to serve as commander of the company of cadets and senior teacher of firing training at the Orlov Tank School. From 1956 Kolyuk F.A. served as the commander of the tank battalion in the Belarusian Military District and in 1960 was dismissed to the reserve in the rank of Major. Over many years of impeccable service Fyodor Andreyevich brought up many officers, including Colonel-General - D.A. Volkogonov, Major-General Yu and many others.

Ilya Komarov was born on August 2, 1912 in the Republic of Buryatia, Zaigraevsky district in the village of Novaya Bryan. In 1935, he was conscripted into the army by the Khorinsky Military Committee. In December 1943, the battles for liberation of the district center of Taraskino took place. The tank, in which Komarov was, rushed into battle, destroying the enemy with fire and caterpillars, opening the way for a rifle company. A high railway embankment appeared in front. A fascist barrel was rising towards the tank. They could not shoot each other - the barrels were facing the sky. The radio shooter handed over the command to destroy the tank with a battering ram. In such cases, there was no time to think about it. To go on the frontal ram meant death. And how he wanted to get out of the battle as the winner, alevi and well!. Mechanic-driver Komarov hit the Nazi "Tiger" with the back of the fighting vehicle. The Tiger turned over. Embraced by flames, the enemy tank collapsed. The infantry's path was open. When Taraskino was freed, his comrades rocked him long and noisily. The battering ram was appreciated - the warrior's chest was decorated with the Order of the Red Star. In this battle, he got a contusion. He stayed in hospital for three months. After his recovery, he was sent to a distribution center, and from there to his company at the most important objects in the city. During his time in Leningrad, he managed to see and experience a lot. It was a terrible time. Leningrad was cut off from large land: there was no light, no water, no fuel, there was not enough food. Soldiers saw how people starved to death. The soldiers were provided with food from the air. Food was thrown off the planes, called "crop duster". Ilya Ippatyevich Komarov had many big and small awards: "For bravery", "For combat services", "For the defense of Leningrad", "Order of the Patriotic War" and other awards marked his military work. Ilya Komarov welcomed Victory Day in Leningrad. It was a great joy. Everyone congratulated each other, hugged and cried. They received a Narcomov ration, set a festive table, played music. It was a holiday with tears in the eyes. Ilya Ippatievich served in the army for another year and a half, only in December 1946 he came home. That ram on the fascist "Tiger" was the last battle, when not only his life hung by a thread, but also many soldiers and infantrymen, who rose to the attack after the "thirty-four", led by Komarov. Ilya Ippatievich died on February 17, 2004.

Troops: Artillery. Vasily Nikolaevich was born on March 28, 1925 in the village of Pogromets, Volokonovsky district, Belgorod region in a large peasant family with 13 children. After graduating from 6 grade, he went to work, because he had to help his parents. In June 1941, Volokonov District Executive Committee sent him to Leningrad to the plant Krasny Vyborzhets, where he worked on a mechanical hammer, digging anti-tank ditches. In August 1941 he returned to the village Pogromets. He got to the front in 1943 when he was 18 years old. Together with inexperienced peers, who had no military training, he was abandoned to pursue the enemy. Near Kharkov, Vasily Nikolaevich was wounded and was taken to hospital. He was then sent to the first Baltic front. Kravtsov Vasily Nikolaevich - a member of the defense of Leningrad, participated in the battles on the outskirts of the city of Pskov, liberated Belarus and Latvia. He received the second wound at Ladoga. After the hospital - the Second Baltic Front. In March 1945, on the outskirts of the city of Liepaja, he was seriously wounded. He was treated in Riga, and then sent to the Leningrad hospital, where he welcomed Victory. In October 1945, Vasiliy Nikolaevich was demobilized and returned to his native village Pogromec. Here he continued his labor activity. He restored his native collective farm "Krasny Put", worked as a private servant, electrician, from 1966 to 1997 - as a storekeeper. The total working experience of Vasily Nikolaevich is 54 years. He left for a well-deserved rest at 73. With his wife, Anna Grigorievna, he lived in peace and harmony for 57 years. Vasily Nikolaevich was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of II degree, Zhukov medal, "For military merits", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", anniversary medals and in a peaceful time "For labor valor", "Veteran of work". Kravtsov V.N. takes an active part in public life of the rural district, is engaged in patriotic education of youth. He is a frequent guest in high school, rural House of Culture.

Division: 89th Rifle Division (1st formation) My grandfather, Kamenskikh Anatoly Ivanovich , was born in Sarapula, Udmurtia ASSR. In 1944, being a 17-year-old boy decided to go to the front, at the station took a passing train, but in Saratov region town of Balashov was removed from the train. He told us: "I was asked, where I was going" I said that I want to get to the front, I will fight. I was a tall guy, when they asked me what year of birth I was, I said that 1924, and actually 1927, thus added to my age. They believed me, I had no documents on me. That is how I got to the front, to the marching company of the 267th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 89th Guards Division of the First Belarusian Front. The commander of the corps was Bersarin, who later became the commandant of Berlin. Thus, we reached the city of Frankfurt-on-Oder in Germany with battles. In early February 1945, at night we forced the river Oder, there was ice, but the water was already up to the knee. Having crossed, we started the fight, we had to take the bridgehead to get a foothold, but we were pinned down with machine gun fire, we couldn't move on. Then, the platoon commander announced the general structure, and set the task of eliminating machine-gun points, he asked: "Any volunteers? Who will go?". Me and two other comrades went forward. We were given anti-tank grenades and were ordered to dispense each of us to a machine-gun point. And I was given a rocket launcher and instructed to give a signal with a series of red rockets after the destruction of the firing points. We started to follow the commander's order. When the firing points were blown up, I gave the signal with the flare gunner and the offensive began. For this feat I was presented for awarding the title of Hero of Soviet Union. But on February 04, 1945, in street battles, I received shrapnel wounds in both hands. The fighters and I fought from a residential house, a grenade flew into the window of the house, began to spin on the floor, my comrades got confused..., I grabbed it and threw it out of the window, but the explosion hit me and I was badly injured. After the battle, I was placed in the field hospital where I was operated on urgently; I lost three fingers on both hands. I passed 4 stages of evacuation and was admitted for treatment in the evacuation hospital №1408 only on 22.03.1945. I met the first day of Victory in the hospital. He was assigned to the 2nd disability group. In 1990-92, we, children and grandchildren, appealed to Sarapulskiy Gorvoenkomat, as well as to the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, with a request to find documents on the awarding of our grandfather to the title of Hero. The answer was that such documents existed, and they were signed by all the commanders, including the corps commander. We can only speculate why they were not given a move, maybe due to injury and departure from the unit, as well as confusion with the years of his birth in the turmoil of war the documents were simply lost. It's a shame that our grandfather did not receive his reward during his life.

Title: Lieutenant GB Rank: Military and political personnel I want to tell about my great-grandfather Krylov Konstantin Pavlovich. I know about him from the words of my grandmother Krylova Nadezhda Konstantinovna. I don't know much about my great-grandfather. Konstantin Pavlovich Krylov was born on December 25, 1919 in Baku. His family by origin was a worker and peasant. There were three children in his family. He received a seven-year education at school. In 1939, his great grandfather began his military service as a Red Army soldier. In 1940 he was transferred to service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and in 1942 was sent to Saratov for a six-month reconnaissance course in the Saratov Frontier School. After completing the course in 1943, he was hired to work in SMERSH (short for "Death to Spies!") - the name of a number of mutually independent counterintelligence organizations in the Soviet Union during World War II. He served as the head of the garrison and deputy chief of the outpost. During the war, by the nature of his service, he was in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Yugoslavia. In 1946, he was discharged from service due to health reasons. In the Voronezh Military Hospital, where he was being treated, he met his future wife and they went to live in the city of Grozny. My great-grandfather became a turner and began working at the Grozny factory. For many years, his military past was classified. During perestroika, he was recognized as a participant and veteran of the Great Patriotic War. My great-grandfather said almost nothing about his service, so I know little about him.

Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard My grandfather, Alexander Mikhailovich Kalinchev is a veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He was born on November 28, 1923, in the village of Lopotok, Cheplyginsky district, Ryazan region. The family had 8 children (5 sisters and 3 brothers). In early childhood, he learned from his grandfather how to make very beautiful boots, carve wood and make furniture with his own hands. After finishing school, he learned to be a chauffeur. In 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army and sent to serve in the Far East in the city of Bikin. He served in the 88th regiment of the 226th Rifle Reconnaissance Battalion of the First Red Banner of the Far East Army. Since my grandfather was a chauffeur, he was entrusted with a special machine on which were installed location, radar and reconnaissance devices, including teletype and radio. This car was serviced by 4 radio operators, each was responsible for a specific installation. In June 1941, the grandfather was to be demobilized, but since there was no specialist to replace him, he was asked to stay until a replacement was found and he agreed. And when the Great Patriotic War began, their regiment was moved to the border with China, because Japan, which fought on the side of Nazi Germany, landed its troops in the Far East (Mongolia, China). With his regiment grandfather liberated China from the Japanese invaders, participated in a major battle near the city of Mudazian. Before the offensive, their war machine was sent with a reconnaissance purpose - to find out the number and location of enemy troops. When they completed the task, they were ordered to return. And when they were going to their unit, they were chased by a Japanese pilot, who began to fire a machine gun at the car, because most likely he ran out of shells. To get away from the pursuit and to keep the crew and equipment, our grandfather chose this tactic: at first, he was going at a high speed, and then he was sharply braking and the plane could not adjust to the car and fired past it. And when the pilot ran out of ammunition, he went to the next round and flew in the direction of the car to scare our soldiers, the soldiers did not get confused and opened fire from submachine guns and rifles at the plane. The plane was flying very low, so the bullets hit the fuel tank and the plane exploded. But while the crew tried to escape from the pursuit, they did not see how they ran off the road and got into the swamp, the car with the front wheels stuck in a bog. It was decided to dismantle the equipment and the soldiers took off everything they could and carried it to the unit. And the grandfather was responsible for the car and could not leave it, he had to destroy the machine if the Japanese tried to capture it. For 3 days, he guarded the car and cut the reeds and tree branches to get the car out of the swamp. And he succeeded, he was able to lift the machine and slip everything he had prepared under the wheels, and the machine drove out of the swamp. When he arrived at the location of his unit, they were not waiting for him there because they thought that he had died along with those people who went to his aid and died under the bombing of Japanese planes. For the fact that Grandpa was able to save the machine, he was awarded the Order of World War I degree. After this incident, our grandfather became, among his colleagues, a talisman. When the group went on a difficult and dangerous task, they always asked that Alexander Kalinchev was driving the car. It was as if he was guarded by an invisible force and only he knew what kind of force it was - leaving to serve, his mother secretly gave him a cross, as if she had guarded him - for the whole war, Grandfather was not injured and everyone who was with him in the car, remained safe and sound, getting out of the battle or the most terrible bombings. 1945 - Victory, he welcomed on September 2 in the Chinese city of Handekend. Their regiment returned to the city of Bikin. He already dreamed of returning home, but one day he was summoned by the commander and asked to stay in the service as an experienced installer, he agreed and served for another 2 years. He was demobilized in 1947. He was awarded the Medal of Courage and the Medal for Victory over Japan. He returned to the town of Elektrastal, Moscow region, where his family lived by then. And he was immediately taken to a secret military plant. Working at this factory, he met his future wife - Praskovia Feodorovna, who worked in the security of the plant. Soon they got married and had 4 sons and 1 daughter - my mother, Lyudmila Alexandrovna. My grandfather worked at the plant till 1955 and quit for health reasons. With his large family, following the recommendation of doctors, he moved to a village called Elinarkhovo. He worked at the collective farm as a driver and my grandmother was a milkmaid. In this village he lived until 2013. There was a fire in December, the house burned down completely, my grandfather was very worried, because he lost not only his belongings and furniture, but also the battle awards won by such hard work. Now, my grandfather lives in Shakhovskaya settlement, Moscow region. After the fire, he was given a one-room apartment. And on May 9, 2015, our grandfather was invited to the Celebration Parade in Moscow. Our family is proud of our grandfather and we want to wish him health, to say thank you very much for the Victory!!!