Heroes and feats

Nikolay Karpovich Kalchenko was born on 10.6.1925 in the village of Alexandrovka, Azov region, Rostov oblast, in a peasant family. Russian. Member of the CPSU since 1967. He graduated from 9th grade in 1942. Worked as a tractor driver at a collective farm. In the Red Army since March 1942. Graduated from the regiment school of the 10th build. regiment in Fergana (Uzbekistan), served as a commander of a machine gun. 1944. He took part in battles of the Great Patriotic War since March 1944. Scout of the 101st build. regiment (4th build. division, 69th Army, 1st Belorus. front), Jr. Sergeant K. at night on 17.9.44 as part of a group of soldiers crossed to the left bank of the Vistula river south of Warsaw (Poland), where the scouts were suddenly attacked and engaged in battle. Having received an order to retreat, being wounded himself, he carried a seriously wounded comrade. 24.10.44 Ord. Glory 3 egree. Sn.Comander of the branch of the foot reconnaissance platoon of the same regiment Jr. Sergeant K during the search on the left bank of the Vistula river in the district of Gurna (6 km north-west of Zakszów, Poland) 9.11.44 first sneaked into the trench and threw grenades at the enemy. The capture group exterminated 8 Hitlerites and obtained valuable information about the enemy. 4.12.44 Order of Glory 3 degree, 27.02.58 Order of Glory 1 degree. When attacking in the direction of Frankfurt am Oder (Germany) on 29.01.45, the branch of the platoon of foot reconnaissance junior sergeant K., when surrounding and destroying the enemy group that opened fired at the car of the 45th build. Division Major-General A.B. Barinov, one of the first led a group of scouts, personally killed 3 soldiers of the enemy. 5.02.45, reflecting the counterattack of the enemy, killed 10 Hitlerites. 23.3.45 Order of Glory 2 degree. In December 1945 Petty Officer K. was demobilized and returned to his native village. In 1949, he graduated from the courses of tractor brigade foremen. He worked at a collective farm, then restored the Rosselmash plant. He lives in Bataysk, Rostov region. Worked as an excavator driver at the construction of the Volgo-Don canal, then at the Department of Mechanization and Transportation of Rostagropromstroi. He is an Honored Builder of the RSFSR (1963). Order of Merit. Order of Lenin, October Revolution, Patriotic War 1 degree, medals, including "For Courage" and "Honored Builder of the RSFSR". Participant in the Parade on Red Square in Moscow on 9.5.1995 to mark the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Ivan Ivanovich Korovin was born on March 4, 1915 in Athemar village of Mordovian ASSR. In October 1938 he was drafted into the army by the Saransk GVK of Mordovia ASSR. Immediately after the army, he got to the front. He took part in the battles near Bobruisk and at the "Kursk Bulge". In August 1943, he had a head wound, and on 26.11.1944 he received a tangential wound in the knee area. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star by Order No.146/H of 15.08.1944, the Order of Glory of the III degree, and Order 158/N of 28.09.1944. "For the Defence of Moscow", Order No. 146/H of August 15, 1944, Order 158/N of September 28, 1944. In the award list to the order of the commander of 102 rifle division No 146/N of 15.08.1944 according to which I.I.Korovin was awarded the Order of the Red Star, it is written: "Sn. Sgt. Ivan Ivanovich Korovin, secretary of the Komsomol organization of the company 40 of the Amur rifle regiment, in the Patriotic War since 11.1941, was wounded on 19.07.1943". Feat: "Comrade Korovin working as a partner in the rifle company in preparation for the offensive conducted explanatory work among the personnel on the upcoming tasks to cleanse Soviet Belarus of the German invaders. During the offensive fights, Comrade Korovin was the first to rise to the attack and lead the rest of the fighters, breaking into the enemy's trenches with a group of fighters captured 3 German soldiers. In the award sheet to the order of the commander of 102 rifle division №158/N of 28.09.1944, according to which Korovin I.I. was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, it is written: "Staff Sergeant Korovin Ivan Ivanovich, 1915, Sniper of 40 rifle regiment, was wounded on 30.08.1943. Feat: "In the offensive battles against the German invaders, Comrade Korovin proved himself as a brave, courageous and determined soldier. Working as a sniper, Comrade Korovin, while carrying out a subdivision of the offensive operation, secretly making his way to the combat crews of the German defense with the fire of his sniper rifle shot down a German corrector who had a large view of our terrain and controlled the approaches to his defense, one officer and destroyed the calculation of the German machine gun, which did not allow to approach the German defense. By the Order to the 48th Army No.024/svn of 16.07.1943 he was awarded the badge "excellent signalman". As well as was awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg. He saw the end of the war in Koenigsberg. He was demobilized on 13.11.1945 by order 0340.

Komar Alexei Akimovich, was born on March 05, 1921 in the village of Novo-Korsunskaya Timashevsky district, Krasnodar region. He graduated from 10th grade in the village of Baturinskaya Brukhovetsky District, Krasnodar Krai. Member of the CPSU since 1943. Higher education. November 30, 1939 he was drafted into the Red Army. Place of conscription: Bryukhovetskiy RVC, Krasnodar Krai, Bryukhovetskiy District. During the year he studied at the school 136 of the cavalry regiment of the Ninth Cavalry Division of the Kiev Military District in Kamenets-Podolsky. February, 1940 - February, 1941. (Bessarabia, captured by Romania; the acting army, Prut River) - commander of the machine gun crew of the 136th cavalry regiment of the Ninth Cavalry Division. February 1941. - July 1941. - After the transfer of Bessarabia to Moldova, he was sent to Odessa, to Polina Osipenko Air Academy, in the supply department. He served as the head of the fuel warehouse. He was responsible for the supply of U-2 and UT-2 aircraft and IZh fighters with fuel. The school was located 40 km from Odessa at Vygoda station. It was also there where his first baptism of fire took place on June 22, 1941. The School was evacuated (July 1941) first to Stalingrad, and then to Frunze of the Kyrgyz SSR. A few months after his study at the Artillery School in Frunze, he was again sent to the active army, 64 separate mortar division. February 1943, he became commander of the 64th Separate Mortar Brigade of the 490th Shooting Regiment of the 192nd Rifle Division of the 31st Army of the Western Front. February 1943. - March 1945. - Battery foreman, 120m/m mortar brigade, 490th rifle regiment, Minsk Order of Alexander Nevsky, 192nd rifle regiment, Orsha Division, Red Banner Division. He received a serious wound and after treatment was sent to the Ryazan Artillery School. April, 1945. - August, 1945. - A cadet of the Ryazan Artillery School. After passing the medical commission was recognized as disabled of 3rd group and unfit for military service. He fought on the 3rd Belorussian Front. Participated in the liberation of Smolensk, Orsha, Minsk, cities of East Prussia. Awarded the Order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Marshal of the Soviet Union Stalin for participation in the battles to liberate the capital of the Belarusian SSR from German invaders. Minsk, the cities of Orsha, Borisov, Lida and forcing the river Berezina he received commendations. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star, two medals "For bravery", a medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", a medal "Georgy Zhukov", eight anniversary medals and four breastplates. Veteran of 192 Orsha-Khingan Red Banner Rifle Division. After the war, he worked as a teacher and school principal. The experience of pedagogical work - more than 40 years. Veteran of labor.

Kornienko Vasily Stepanovich, in a number of documents of different years there is another patronymic - Stefanovich. He took the military oath on February 23, 1943. He entered the deadly battle with the Nazis in the early days of March 1943. At that time he was eighteen years old. Vasily Stepanovich took part in heavy battles with the enemy in the North Caucasus, then fought - first in the 683rd rifle regiment of the 151st rifle division at the 4th Ukrainian front, and then in the 4th Guards airborne rifle regiment of the 2nd Guards airborne division of the 17th Guards rifle corps of the 1st Guards army at the 1st Ukrainian front. He took part in liberation of towns and villages in the south of Ukraine and Western Ukraine. In summer 1944 (July 19 and August 14), Vasily Stepanovich was wounded: he received a contusion and bullet wound in his right shoulder. He was sent to a hospital in Kolomyia (Stanislavskaya, and now Ivano-Frankivsk region) for treatment. After recovering, he returned to his unit again. And then there were no less bloody battles with the Nazis in southern Poland and Czechoslovakia, where in May 1945 the war ended for him. Vasily Stepanovich started his fighting career as an ordinary machine-gunner, then became the commander of the department of machine-gun company, a mortar gunner, and finished it in the rank of senior sergeant in the Guard as the commander of the mortar squad of 82 and 120 mm mortars. Vasiliy Stepanovich returned to his native village only in 1950 after he was dismissed from the army to the reserve. He immediately went to work as a combine operator at MTS (machine and tractor station). He worked as selflessly as he had fought. And this is confirmed by the fact that in 1955, as a participant of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow, he was awarded the medal of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition. In 1962 he was awarded the title of "The Best Mechanizer of Stavropol" for his achievements in the competition and conscientious work. In March 1963, V.S. Kornienko was elected a deputy of the Sergievskoye Rural Council of Workers' Deputies of Alexandrovskoye District of Stavropol Territory. Later, his health, which was undermined at the front and at the combine harvester's hard work, his illness and doctors' advice prompted him to leave the combine harvester. Vasily Stepanovich began working on the fields as a sprinkler driver and was the foreman. Then he retired. He was very good at technique. There were no unsolvable puzzles for him in repairing his motorcycle and tractor, and different engines. Vasily Stepanovich also easily mastered Zaporozhets, which was given to him as he was a war invalid. He was often visited by his fellow villagers for advice and help in restoring their "iron horses". Vasily Stepanovich's labor and military merits were marked by the Orders of the Great Patriotic War of I and II degree, the Order of Glory of III degree, medals "For the defense of the Caucasus", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "Veteran of Labor" and nine more medals.

Andrey Egorovich Kuznechenko was born in 1914 in the Ulyanovsk region, the village of Yazykovo. He was drafted into the Red Army in February 1942 by Molotovsky District Military Commissariat of Kuibyshev (now Samara). Previously, the family name was Kuznechenkov, but during the war it changed and lost the letter "v" at the end. As it was possible to establish from the family archive and the electronic database of the Ministry of Defense, Andrey Kuznechenko went through almost the entire Great Patriotic War, ending it in Berlin. During the war he was repeatedly awarded various orders and medals, including the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Glory 3rd degree, the Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st degree, medals: "For the defense of Stalingrad", "For the capture of Koenigsberg", "For the capture of Berlin", "For Bravery", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Andrei Egorovich was also awarded numerous certificates for his participation in combat operations (including those in East Prussia). During the war, A.E. Kuznechenko served as a mortar thrower in the land forces - in the 54th Guards Makeyevka Riflemen Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division of the 3rd Guards Riflemen Corps. He had military ranks: Sergeant Guards, Senior Sergeant Guards, Guards Officer. In 1944-1945, he served as a commander of the 120-mm mortar battery of the 163rd Guards Rifle Regiment. As it follows from the award sheet dated June 30, 1944, according to which A.E. Kuznechenko was presented to the Order of the Red Star, on August 8, 1943 he was wounded in action.

Kondakova (Avakina) Zoya Mikhailovna was born in 1926, after 7 grades of junior secondary school No. 2 in Sasovo she graduated from the Rokovsky nursing courses and from April 17, 1943 to June 1945 fought on the front line of the 3rd Belorussian Front as a sancheminstructor with a battery of 1389 air defense artillery regiment of 34 air defense artillery division. She participated in the liberation of Belorussia. Her father, Mikhail Samoshkin, fought and died 90 km from her regiment. He was buried at the military cemetery in Vitebsk region, Polotsk district, v. Vladimirovka. Zoya Mikhailovna participated in the taking of Koenigsberg, for which she was awarded a medal. Her task on the front line was to provide medical care to the wounded, check water and food for suitability for consumption, as the Nazis often tried to poison everything during the retreat. Several times, she got into encirclement. On March 4, 1944, under the strong artillery fire of the enemy senior sergeant Kondakova showed firmness and courage. Despising death, she provided medical care to the wounded battery fighters, for which she was awarded the Medal of Merit. Zoya Mikhailovna was dismissed on demobilization on the basis of the Law of the Supreme Soviet of the SSR from June 23, 1945. She was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of II degree, jubilee medals. She finished her working career in Sasovo in 1983. Her husband, Alexey Petrovich Avakin, born in 1928, during the war worked at the wagon depot of the Sasovskaya railroad. He was awarded the medal "For valorous work in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". The spouses brought up a son and daughter..

Born on February 27, 1919 in Aktobe. He graduated from 7th grade there and worked as a typesetter for some time. As a schoolboy he sent his first, still very uncertain poems to the children's magazine "Oktyabr Balasy" ("Child of October"), the editor of which was Musa Jalil. After studying at the Paranginsk Teachers' Training College (Mari ASSR), Gaynan Kurmashev worked for several years as a teacher in Paranginsk Raion and Aktobe. He was in charge of school amateur art activities and for some time combined his teaching activities with the duties of an art director in one of the clubs of his native city. At the age of 19, he was appointed school director. In 1939, Gainan Kurmashev was drafted into the army. He graduated from the school of junior commanders, received the title of junior lieutenant. He took part in combat operations of the Soviet-Finnish war. Before the beginning of the Patriotic War, he served in the Gomel region. In the army Gaynan studied radio modeling. This fact, as well as the reputation of a reliable in all respects person predetermined the decision of the military leadership to throw him into the enemy's rear with a special task. In doing so, Gaynan was taken prisoner, where he became one of the leaders of an underground organization in the "Idel-Ural" legion. In February 1944, the Second German Imperial Court sentenced Gaynan Kurmashev to death. The sentence was carried out in Pletcensee prison on the guillotine on August 25, 1944 at 12:06. By the Decree of the President of the USSR of May 5, 1990, Gainan Kurmashev was posthumously awarded the Order of the "Patriotic War" of I degree - for courage and heroism, active underground activities against the Nazi invaders.

BACKGROUND: Junior Sergeant Rank of the Army: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for maritime aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Zakharov (in marriage Kurilo) Zinaida Alekseevna (7.11.1922 - 25.1.2005) was born in the village of Nachalovo, Astrakhan (now the Volga region) in the Astrakhan region, Russian, b/p, education - 7 grades of school. She worked as a worker at the Mikoyan Astrakhan Fish Cannery. In Astrakhan, she studied as a signalman. She was called up to the ranks of the Red Army Enotayevsky RVC 27.2.1942. She served in the 346th rifle regiment. In May-December 1942 she served in the 14th (19?) Separate Spare Communication Regiment, 324th Separate Bat-On Communications Company, staff company, station number 32. She served as a radio operator in the anti-aircraft unit (?). Military rank - junior sergeant. Position - com. division. She received a leg injury, was treated in the evacuation hospital № 1673 in Kazan. After that, 17.4.1943 by Kazan military - transit point was sent for further service in the 9th topographic detachment of Kukmor (Tatar ASSR) (military - topographic services created and updated topographic maps on vast territories. Girls - topographers were jokingly called "cartographers" by the soldiers). She returned from the war. 6.4.1985 The USSR Ministry of Defense was awarded the jubilee order of the 2nd degree (¹ 87) for bravery, firmness and courage, shown in the fight against German fascist invaders. In 2000 she was awarded the sign "FRONTOVIK 1941 - 1945". She was also marked with jubilee medals in honor of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1996 she was awarded medal to the 100th anniversary of Georgiy Zhukov. In 2005 she was awarded the medal "60 years of Liberation of the Republic of Belarus". She worked in trade. In 1977 she was awarded the Veteran of Labor Medal for her long and diligent work. She was buried in the village of Nikolskoye, Yenotayevsky district, Astrakhan region. Parents: father - Alexey Kuzmich Zakharov (1897 - 1930), mother - born Evdokia Gavrilovna Shimbarova (30.8.1900 - 25.9.1979). Brothers: Georgiy (13.2.1924 - 10.10.1960), Victor (19.4.1926 - 17.12.1987). Sister: Elena (Tsymbalova, 25.5.1928 - 20.2.2016). Husband - Kurilo Nikolay Mikhailovich (20.10.1927 - 10.3.2007). Children: Galina (Lazareva, 2.9.1952 - 13.7.2012), Evgeniy (28.8.1960 - 19.4.2011).

BACKGROUND: Title: Lieutenant. Troops: Artillery. Division: 31st Vitebsk Guards Rifle Division of the Order of Lenin Red Banner of the Order of Suvorov. January 28, 2016 marked the 71st year since the death of my uncle Viktor Ivanovich Zolotin. Victor was drafted into the army after graduating from the first year of law school in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), in August 1942. For 6 months Viktor had been trained at the Artillery School in Irbit. After his training he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He fought at the First Byelorussian Front, 64th Guards Artillery Regiment, 31st Guards Rifle Division, 31st Vitebsk Rifle Division, Order of Lenin, Red Banner Division, Commander of the Artillery Battery. For many years we did not know about his burial place. Through the site prussia39.ru and the Memorial Society, we found medical documents and the grave of the deceased. In the medical document (magazine) under № 286 there is a record: Victor Ivanovich Zolotin, 1924 year of birth, place of service -64 Gv. SP, lieutenant, native of Sverdlovsk region. N-Serginsky district, Mikhailovsky z-d, called N-Serginsky RVC, Sverdlovsk region, died 28.01.1945, hospital 655 KPPG, Gross Lindenau, East Prussia mass cemetery, grave 22 (corrected to 7). Thanks to the site prussia39.ru it was found out that my uncle was buried in the mass cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Kaliningrad region, Gvardeysky district, the village of Ozerki (before 1947 Gross Lindenau). He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Thanks to the councel of the Governor of the Kaliningrad region to immortalize the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland and the administrator of the site prussia39, on the eve of the Great Victory Day we received a message that the name of the Guards Lieutenant Zolotin Victor was immortalized. We take pride and remember ! This is the last letter from Viktor from the front. 9.01.45. Hello my dear and beloved daddy, mom and Nura! I send you my warm greetings from the front and wish you all the best in your life, and most importantly - health. Yesterday I received at once letters of congratulations from my daddy and mom. I sincerely thank you for these letters, they have brought me much joy. I am very happy with my mother's letter - the most precious for me. But still, it was the second letter, and I didn't get the first one - apparently, the censor didn't let it go through. Well, at least I got this one. I'm also very glad about my dad's letter, you are the one who keeps regular correspondence with me. Thank you very much from the front man for that. Your letters are a great joy for me. But I didn't get anything from Nura by the new year - maybe she didn't have time, but she could have written a little. Letters from you, dear ones, came just in time. Soon we are going into battle - the last and decisive. And these letters for me were as if a blessing in the forthcoming fights. So I go into battle calmly. How I am is obvious - in a dugout. But it is still tolerable. Some people live right on the outside. It is much worse. Yesterday, I have to tell you, I received 7 letters in one go. It is just a miracle. There were your letters, Semkin’s, Karamysheva’s, Lebedev Igor (my schoolmate), Svischev Zhenya (also), Vladimir and others. It was a wonderful day for me. It is good that they do not forget. Now, you are writing that my mother is in poor health. So why don't you, mom, get treatment, don't you have enough money. If you really don't have enough, then write, I will help. Now I can help much more, my salary has doubled now, i.e. it is 2500r. We were allowed to send parcels - I will send what I have to send. So treat my mother so that her health remains good. Now my request and order – if Lelia Semkina comes, greet her better and warmer. You will do it not for her, but for my respect. That's all for now. I wish you all the best. And I'm going to the decisive Battle! Good bye. I kiss you. See you soon. Your Victor. It was the last letter!

BACKGROUND: Zaitsev Vasily Ivanovich was born on May 7, 1927 in the village of Verkhnyaya Grunya, Korenevsky district, Kursk region. His parents were Ivan Alypovich Zaitsev and Alexandra Tikhonovna Zaitseva. Four children were brought up in the family. Father worked as a collective farm chairman from the moment of establishment of the collective farm until he was drafted to the front in June 1941. Father did not return from the war and died near Leningrad in 1943. The mother worked at the farm. The war began when Vasiliy was only 14 years old. He had to sow, plough and work like an adult. In 1941, in the autumn the Germans came to the village. Life immediately changed. The Nazis forced people to work for thems, robbed civilians, and mocked children and old people. The liberation of Upper Growne by Soviet troops on March 8, 1943 became a great joy. But the family had to evacuate, because a grand battle was being prepared in the area. The villagers were moved to the village of Dyakovka. They were there until the fall, when the Battle of Kursk ended. They went home by themselves, how ever they could. In 1944, an early draft was announced and 17-year-old Vasily Ivanovich was drafted into the army in the 42nd Artillery Reserve Regiment. In March, the reserve artillery regiment was sent to the front. They spent 27 days driving to the Far East. Zaitsev V.I. got into a separate reconnaissance artillery division. At night he was raised on the alarm and sent to Japan, in the direction of Sopka Camels. That was where Vasily Zaitsev served. On August 23, we declared war on Japan and then fierce battles began. Sopka Pyramid, the city of Mulin, the city of Mudojian... Japan surrendered. The young soldier served as an artillery soldier, he had to conduct and restore communication in the most difficult conditions. Then the regiment was transferred to his homeland, the Primorsky Krai, Hasansky district, Slavyanka village. Vasily Ivanovich gets to the sergeants' school. After graduating from school, he received the post of commander of the communications department. Vasily Ivanovich had to serve 3 years on early draft and 4 years on urgent draft. In 1949, he became the foreman of the economic unit until demobilization. After returning home, he had to work hard, it was necessary to restore the economy destroyed by the war.

HISTORY: When the war started, his father, Trofim Zaitsev, went to the front. Vasiliy also asked to be sent, but his specialty as an engine fitter was scarce. However, the stubborn guy continued to write a statement after statement, so that the reservation would be removed from him. In 1942, when the order to evacuate the plant came, Vasiliy refused to go to a new place. He was threatened by a court martial for this daring act, but the young man felt sorry for by the plant management. He was allowed to go to the troops. On the Eastern Front, Vasiliy Zaitsev rushed to the German front, to the front line, and instead found himself in the Far East in the Siberian division, which stood at the border waiting for the Japanese to attack. Here, he had to serve until the spring of 1943. After the Battle of Stalingrad, the frontier units were reshaped. Vasiliy was offered to stay in the Far East - 'You be the newsbringer, as before. You're a young guy, don't be a fool - why do you need battles?'. But soldier Zaitsev did not listen to "good advice". With great joy he accepted the assignment to the German front - to the Kursk Bulge. After the defeat at Stalingrad, Hitler decided to take revenge in the summer campaign. It was the Kursk Bulge that was chosen by the German command to strike the main blow. Soviet commanders also pulled all forces and reserves near Kursk. In the spring of 1943, Vasiliy Zaitsev was riding in one of the echelons. By that time he had already mastered the new army "specialty": artillery intelligence. Zaitsev's first battle took place near Prokhorovka, part of the 93rd Guards Howitzer Brigade of the 20th Artillery Division. On the night of July 5, a group of scouts with Vasiliy Zaitsev moved into position. They found a suitable place, chose a trench and disguised themselves. At dawn, German tanks appeared, which were firing. Visibility was zero. But Vasiliy was able to find a suitable birch and from its top began to correct the shooting of our artillery. Now, the shells of our battery were accurately hitting the target. The Germans guessed that the spotter of the Russians hid on top of one of the trees and began to hit all the high places. The birch also got the hatch, but it's an amazing fact! - Zaitsev did not even get hurt. When the fight ended, it turned out that all who were in his reconnaissance group, were killed - except Vasiliy! Although on top of the birch, the risk of being killed was much higher than in the trench. Zaitsev was awarded the Medal "For Combat Merit" for his ingenuity. Vasiliy Zaitsev's first fight ended with a reward, but there were still many battles ahead. 20th Artillery Division was thrown on all fronts, sent to the heat. Vasiliy Zaitsev managed to visit the 2nd and 3rd Baltic, Bryansk, Belorussian, Ukrainian and Leningrad fronts. He participated in the hardest battles for Siauliai and Orsha. He finished the war by taking Koenigsberg. An "invisible" warrior. The most surprising thing is that, just like on the birch near Prohorovka, in the hottest battles Vasiliy Zaitsev did not get a single wound during the war. And this is despite the fact that only three of his division survived until May 9. His friends even nicknamed Vasiliy - for invulnerability! - "the invisible artillerist”. By the end of the war, division intelligence officer Zaitsev was awarded the Medals of Merit, the Order of Courage and the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War. As a combat veteran with numerous awards, Vasily Zaitsev was included in the Victory Parade. After several months of training in Yasnaya Polyana, the combined regiment of the 1st Baltic and Leningrad fronts marched victoriously across Red Square. After the parade, Vasily Zaitsev was sent to the unit in Leningrad - with the prospect of obtaining the officer rank. But the foreman had already fought enough - he had seen a lot of blood, he wanted to go to his homeland, to Jendovishche. Moreover, in Leningrad, Vasiliy met his future wife Nina. In 1945 they got married, and a year later his eldest son was born. When the young family returned to Semiluki, Vasiliy Zaitsev found a job as a locksmith at a refractory plant. He managed to work as both a foreman and a master. He worked like everyone else, and few of his colleagues knew that Vasiliy Trofimovich was a man with an extraordinary fate. Vasiliy Zaitsev's son Gennadiy, a student of the Nakhimov College, also took part in the parade in honor of the great victory - he walked through the Red Square, minted a step, like his father 30 years before...

BACKGROUND: Writer, thinker, logic, artist, poet. The participant of the Great Patriotic War. Guards junior lieutenant. Cavalier, tanker, assault pilot (more than 18 combat sorties). Awarded the Order of the Red Star, and numerous medals. "On the day of his 18th birthday, Alexander Zinoviev voluntarily arrived at the recruiting station and was assigned to the cavalry regiment of the Special Far Eastern Red Army. On the disbandment of the Red Army in the spring of 1941 part of Zinoviev was moved to the western border. After the beginning of the war, Zinoviev participated in battles, was wounded and sent as a cadet to the Ulyanovsk Military Aviation School for pilots, where in 1942-43 he wrote "Ballad of the Aviation Cadet", which was a success in the oral performance of the author, a model for it was the poem "Vasily Turkin" by A.T. Tvardovsky. After training, Zinoviev became a pilot on an IL-2 attack aircraft; he repeatedly participated in air battles. During the war, Zinoviev wrote a significant number of poems and prose, which, for fear of search, he took with him on the flights. In 1946 Zinoviev was demobilized with the rank of captain. Zinoviev returned from the army with a suitcase of manuscripts, the most harmless of which - "The Tale of Betrayal" - was destroyed in 1946 on the advice of K.M. Simonov to avoid arrest. "Russian literature of the twentieth century. Prose writers, poets, playwriters" // Biobibliographical dictionary: Institute of Russian Literature RAS (Pushkin House). Alexander Zinoviev: "In the war won the Soviet tenth-grader". Alexander Zinoviev - "The Confession of the Scapegoat" (1998): "The plane I flew (IL-2) was amazing in many ways. I consider it the most brilliant invention for the purposes of war. Once I was thoroughly dissolved. One projectile fell into a box for machine-gun bands, the other - into the engine. Several cylinders were out of order. But still I got to the nearest airfield, where the other regiment was "sitting" and landed. The engineers who inspected my car said that in this condition the plane could not theoretically fly. But I still flew. Alexander Zinoviev (2006): "I was not afraid of death. I learned to overcome the fear of death as a child. I was wounded (at war). If the bullet had passed a little lower, death would have come. Then I fought in the assault aircraft, where the mortality rate was very high. Stormtroopers worked at low altitudes, and our objects were bridges, railway stations, tanks. The attack aircrafts were always under heavy anti-aircraft fire and Messer attacks. The risk was therefore very high. And although the IL-2 was armored in the most important places, almost every flight could be described as being a hair's breadth from death. After the war, Alexander Zinoviev was an Academician of the Finnish Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Fine Arts of Bavaria, the Academy of Social Sciences and others. He is a laureate of international scientific and literary awards, including the Alexis de Tocqueville Prize (sociology), the Tevere Prize (literature), the Medici Etrange Prize (literature), and others. Author of more than 40 scientific and literary works translated into 26 languages of the world. He is an Honorary Citizen of Orange (France), Avignon (France), Ravenna (Italy), Kostroma (Russia). He spent 21 years of forced emigration (1978-1999) in Munich, Germany. He was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow. In memory of Alexander Alexandrovich, there is a memorial plaque at Moscow Humanities University and a monument in the city of Kostroma. A.A. Zinoviev's biography (author Pavel Fokin) was published in the series "ZHZL". In 2014 in Odessa was staged the ballet "Scream" based on his novel "Go to Golgotha". About 20 films about the life and work of A.A. Zinoviev were shot

BACKGROUND: Zatynaiko Antonina was born on April 25, 1921 in Samoilovka village of Saratov region in a large family of a poor peasant. Since 1930, her father worked as a lineman at the station Tri Ostrova S-E railway (Saratov region). After graduating from school, Antonina entered the Balashov Teachers' Institute, which she graduated from in 1940 as a teacher of natural sciences. By distribution she goes to work in Chardzhou city of Turkmen SSR in seven-year-long school № 8, where she teaches biology, chemistry and German language. In 1941 A.V. Zatynayko moved to Samarkand. The beginning of the Great Patriotic War changes a calm and measured way of life. As a true patriot of her country, she could not stay away from the tragic events. In June 1941, she was sent by the Samarkand Regional Military Committee to work in the evacuation hospital № 3966 as a clerk of the Internal Affairs Department, where she worked until November 1944. A.V. Zatynayko's honest and responsible work in the evacuation hospital was marked by numerous commendations: - "for the great work carried out in inhanced rhythm, on the recounting of all hard and soft inventory and property with a variety of books of account as of 1.06" (5.06.1942); - "for exemplary work in the service of wound patients who are cured in the hospital" (7. 11.1942); - "for good work in the service of wound patients, contributing to their quickest recovery" (23.02.1943); - "for excellent work in the reception of patients" (8.04.1943); - "for an exemplary attitude to the performance of their duties" (6.11.1943). In 1943 in Samarkand Antonina V. Zatynayko got acquainted with her future husband - captain of the Soviet Army Kirill Aleksandrovich Bodrenkov, who at that time was appointed deputy chief of hospital on political part in evacuation hospital № 3966. On 6.08.1945 they had a son Oleg. Antonina V. Zatynaiko went through a difficult life path from a student of the Teacher's Institute (in pre-war years), through the hard time of wartime, and later (after the demobilization of her husband in 1946) numerous journeys from town to town at the place of appointment of her husband Bodrenkov Kirill Aleksandrovich (Ashgabat, Voronezh, Izhevsk, Sarapul of Udmurtia ASSR, Glazov, Murom, Kursk). Striving to be closer to the interests of Kirill Aleksandrovich Bodrenkov (Candidate of Historical Sciences - 1952, and later - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor - 1981), Antonina Vasilyevna enters and finishes the Faculty of History of the Udmurt State Pedagogical Institute (1954), works as a teacher in a secondary school, college, technical college, pedagogical institute. In 1960, by order of the Ministry of Education of the RSFSR, her husband was transferred to work at the Kursk State Pedagogical Institute. And from February 1961 to 1977, A.V. Bodrenkova worked at the Kursk Music College as a teacher of history, social science, pedagogy and psychology. Antonina was always distinguished by a high level of culture, intellectuality and education. Her conscientious work, fruitful pedagogical and active public work, active participation in military-patriotic education of students, impeccable work on aesthetic education of the younger generation are marked by numerous letters of commendation, Honorary Diplomas of the Administration of the Kursk Music College, Leninsky District Committee, executive committees of the City and Regional Council of Workers' Deputies. Kursk. Antonina Vasilyevna has the following government awards: - Jubilee medal "For Valorous Labor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Lenin "(1970); - Medal "Veteran of Labor" for long-term conscientious work (1976); - Resolution of the Executive Committee of the Kursk Regional Council of Workers' Deputies and the Presidium of the Regional Council of Trade Unions was awarded the sign" Winner of the socialist competition in 1975. Documents prepared by the daughter of Zatynayko-Bodrenkova Antonina - Skubko Natalia Kirillovna (born in 1954).

BACKGROUND: Our family remembers and carefully keeps the only photo of our grandfather Grigory Evseevich Zolotarev, born in 1909, a native of Kursk region now (Belgorod), Tomarovskiy district, village Streletskoye. Since 1922 he lived in Novoalexandrovka farm with his parents Evsey, Ekaterina and sister Olga. In 1929 he married a blue-eyed girl Natalia. In 1930 the firstborn son Andrey was born, and in 1934 Nikolay was born. Grandmother did not like to remember those terrible days of the war, but all her life she hoped and waited that her husband would return. During the first days of the war, my grandfather was drafted to the front by Tomarovskiy RBK, Kursk region, into 923 rifle regiments. On the "Memorial" website, from the documents specifying the losses, the case number of the source of information 464, it is printed that the Red Army soldier G.E. Zolotarev left on 05.1943 and went missing. According to another version, according to his colleague, he died in 1941 near Smolensk. The place of burial is unknown.

BACKGROUND: Semyon Andreyevich Zvezdilin was called up on February 6, 1942 by Khrenovsky RVC. He fought at the 1st Ukrainian Front. From the award sheet: "Performing the post of automatic rifleman 49 rd 33rd army in the battles at Smolensk direction in the forest on August 13, 1942, was lightly wounded by a shrapnel of a mine in his right forearm and went to hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter of 695 rd in the battles for the village of Lipovets, Vinnitsa region, on March 12, 1943, was lightly wounded by a shell fragment in his right arm and went to hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter 49 rd in the battles for the city of Donetsk, Voroshilovograd region on March 11, 1944 was seriously wounded by a shrapnel in both legs and went to the hospital for treatment. Acting as the shooter 454 rd 221 rd 69th Army 1 The Ukrainian Front on July 20, 1944 in the battles for the town of Zlochevo was seriously wounded by a mine fragment in both legs and the right hand and went to hospital for treatment. The wound resulted in the absence of a thumb and reduction of 2 and 3 fingers on the right hand. He was found unfit for service after the treatment. Fired from the RKKA as a disabled person of the 3rd group". Semyon Andreyevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Great Patriotic War of I degree. Semyon always felt which bullet will fly by and which one will hit him. During the war, he constantly read a prayer to Mikhail Archangel. Sometimes a bullet flew past, taking just the earflap from the hat. Because of injuries in hospitals, he was a frequent visitor, but never returned home, always to his unit. He told very little about the war to his relatives, he did not like it. We only knew that he was a scout for some time. From the front he wrote letters to Maria Zenina (his first wife), one of them she remembered the most: 'Instead of a line only dots, guess what it means yourself'. After the war, Semyon Andreyevich worked at a collective farm. His military pension was only 9 rubles. No matter how much my great-grandfather tried to forget about the war, it constantly reminded of itself: his combat wounds made themselves known. His jaw was shattered, his tongue was dangling, and his leg had to be cut off. He died on August 26, 1990, he was buried in the village Parusnoe, Novousemansky district.