Heroes and feats

BACKGROUND: My father, Dmitry Semyonovich Zhuravlov, was born on October 5, 1919 in Kuibyshev region, in Utyovka village. In 1931 the family of my father (he was 11 years old) was expropriated and sent to Karaganda. In 1942, on June 27, 1942, he was mobilized by the Kirov Rayvoenkomatom of Karaganda to work in the paramilitary guard of the Railway Station Sortirovochnaya as a fighter. The paramilitary guard of the Ministry of Railway Transport was assigned with the following duties: protection of cargo in station parks and on the way, fire fighting and preventive work at the railway junction facilities and in the residential sector. Six months later, in January 1943, my father was transferred as an assistant to the head of the paramilitary guard team. In February 1944, he was transferred to the 4th guard team, and in December 1944, he was appointed head of the fire department. It should be said that during the war and until 1962 the workers of the paramilitary guard were military, they wore military uniforms, epaulets, command staff had titles and weapons. Children's memories keep an image of my father in an officer's cap, galiph, chrome boots and a gymnast with officer belts on his waist and over his shoulder, and with a holster on his side. I was very proud of him! After the end of the WWII, my father stayed in the paramilitary guard and retired with the rank of colonel. He has government awards and honors. He died in 2008. During the war my mother, Ksenia Zhuravleva (1920 - 2004), also worked in the paramilitary guard of the Ministry of Railway Station Karaganda Sortirovochnaya as a fighter. Respectfully, Zhuravleva V.D. (Milovanova), pensioner, Naberezhnye Chelny town, RT.

BACKGROUND: Rank: Senior Sergeant Troops: Artillery Division: 200th Rifle Division (1st formation) My father, Vasiliy Zhivetin, was born on January 14, 1922, to a large family in the village of Orlik, Ispul district, Guryev region, Kazakhstan. He graduated from 7th grade. When the war broke out, he worked at a collective farm. The conscription commission at the Ispul district military commissariat of Guryev region, my father was called up for military service and sent to the unit on January 4, 1942. (Military Ticket № NT number 4178773). Dad took the military oath of allegiance on February 23, 1942, at the 200th rifle division of the 648th rifle regiment of the North-Western Front, as a part of the 11th Army. He was an 82-120 mm mortar commander with the rank of senior sergeant. Upon arriving at the Northwestern Front, the Division, which was part of Major-General Ozerov's task force of the 11th Army, was caught up in the Demyanskaya offensive near Veliky Novgorod, which began as early as January 7, 1942, when the so-called Demyanskiy Kotel was launched by the Nazis. The division immediately entered the battle in the direction of Prysmorzhie-Alexandrovka. Prismorzhye was at the prevailing altitude and from it one could control Ramushevskoye highway. The combat operations were with varying success. On May 15, 1942 mortar fire destroyed 2 dugouts with infantry south of Prysmorzhie, scattered and destroyed the enemy infantry group of up to 20 people. In this battle my father was wounded in the left shoulder and forearm and received a general contusion. He got into evacuation hospital № 1247 and was taken out of the fire. In the hospital in Stalinsk, Novosibirsk region (now Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region), he was treated until September 1942. In connection with his wound, my father was sent to his place of residence in the city of Guryev, where at school he taught and trained the young fighters for the front. He was awarded medals and the Order of Patriotic War of the 1st degree. From 1946 to 1977, before retirement, he worked as a senior engineer of ammonia compressors of alkylaciation plant. His portrait is still on the Alley of Fame of the plant.

BACKGROUND: Victor Ivanovich was born on November 7, 1924 in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg region. Until he was 17 years old, he lived in this city, graduated from 8th grade and entered the Feldsher-Midwifery Technical School, where he studied for only 2 years, as on July 1, 1942, he was drafted into the army. He served in the Division Intelligence, 53rd Guards Division, 4th Shock Army. Soon, he and his entire division were sent to the town of Tikhvin, where they smashed the enemy's echelons, thus initiating the liberation of the Leningrad blockade. In March 1943, Viktor Ivanovich went to the city of Staraya Rusa, where he was later sent for a special operation in the enemy's rear. For 28 days Viktor Ivanovich together with the department of 12 people was moving in the enemy rear until they were spotted by German soldiers. For two days they were walking away from the chase, and in the end they not only broke away from the Germans, but even managed to confuse them. After this mission, all the members of the department were awarded the Order of the Red Banner, it was the first order of Viktor Ivanovich, which soon numbered as many as five: 2 Orders of Glory, Red Star, Order of the Great Patriotic War, as well as the Medal of Bravery! Unfortunately, Viktor Ivanovich was wounded on March 13, 1943. He stayed in hospital for 3 months. And it was not the only wound, later he was concussed, after which Viktor Ivanovich was sent to the reserve 204th regiment in the Lithuanian SSR. After the liberation of East Prussia, he was transferred there in the estate Groskazgen to clean up the crops. Having worked on the estate for a while, Viktor Ivanovich and his 4 other friends were convicted of looting, removed all the orders from each of them and ordered to be shot in two days. But in fact, these guys were not guilty of anything, they were convicted by a German woman from the neighboring estate, and later everything fell into place, except for one thing - the orders were not returned to anyone. Viktor Ivanovich returned to his hometown, got a job as a coppersmith at a mechanical plant, worked there for 6 months until he met an old friend, who got him a new job at the Ministry of Material Reserves – a petrol storage, a driver. In 1976 Viktor Ivanovich was sent to Kalmykia on the case of building state farms, within 2 years he had to build 5 state farms. And in July 1979, Viktor Ivanovich retired. He returned to Slavyansk-on-Kuban. From the "Book of Memory", collected by students of MBOU Lyceum № 4. Slavyansk-on-Kuban, in the framework of "Blue Handkerchief," "My countrymen - the heroes of the Russian Land" to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory.

BACKGROUND: Troops: Communication Troops. Even before the war, the family moved to Krasnoyarsk Krai for permanent residence. After finishing 10th grade in 1942, she voluntarily came to the Komsomol and asked to be sent to the front. Having received the consent, she passed the medical commission, and in September 1942, having loaded into echelons, she was sent together with other girls to the east. The military service was held near Khabarovsk as a telegraph operator. After the declaration of war with Japan, as part of the 119th Independent Battalion of the 11th Air Army she served near the village of Konstantinovka near the Amur River. The news of the Victory was also received here. For participation in the Great Patriotic War, she was awarded the Order of Patriotic War II degree, medals "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Victory over Japan. In addition to combat, Anna has awards for achievements in labor and jubilee medals. And then she returned to her homeland near Khabarovsk. But diplomatic relations with Japan remained tense, and a decision was made to relocate the battalion to Kamchatka. Anna served in Vladivostok for some time, and after receiving an order for demobilization, she returned home to Krasnoyarsk. On the recommendation of the district party committee, she graduated from the Novosibirsk Law School and, having received a referral to the Kemerovo region, worked for the Ministry of Justice. For 19 years she worked as a people's judge. More than five years she worked as a chairman of the Kirovsky District Court of Kemerovo. Zheleznova Anna Grigoryevna, for her diligent work and high performance, was repeatedly encouraged by letters of commendation, honorary certificates, valuable gifts. She took an active part in public life to promote the laws of the Russian Federation. Anna Grigoryevna was repeatedly elected a deputy of the district council of workers' deputies of Kirovsky district of Kemerovo

BACKGROUND: Zhukovsky Nikolai Ivanovich was born on December 8, 1923, in the Stavropol Territory, Petrovsky District, village of Shvedino. He began his labor activity in 1933 in the collective farm "Frunze", worked as a groom. When the war began, Nikolai Ivanovich was 17 years old. His father (Ivan Zhukovsky) and brother (Vasiliy Zhukovsky) went to serve in the Red Army. In 1942, the funeral notice came. Nikolay was drafted to the front. While at the frontline, he learned about his brother's death from his mother's letter. 18-year-old Kolka became the third man from the Zhukovsky family who went to defend his Homeland with a weapon in his hands. Nikolai Ivanovich fought in the 276th Division of the 65th Rifle Regiment and fired an anti-tank gun. He chased the Nazis away and freed Gofitskoye, Prosyanka, Hrachevka, Beloglinka and Rostov from their Homeland. In the town of Saurmogila (near Taganrog) Nikolai was wounded, then there were six months of hospital and again the war, the legendary 1st Belorussian Front under the command of Zhukov, the hardest battles on the Visla (the river in Poland), where even the land burned. "Our troops spent two hours shelling each square of the enemy's territory when we, the infantry, broke into the Nazi dugouts, the Germans sat contoured, blood was flowing from their ears, almost all of them were shouting 'Hitler Kaput!' and putting their hands up,' said Nikolai Ivanovich. At the same place, on the Visla, Nikolai's leg was wounded. He spent a month recovering and then he was on the Odra (a river in Germany). At that time, the Hitlerites did not spare shells, preventing Soviet fighters from crossing to the other side, the river turned red with the blood of our soldiers. Nikolay Zhukovsky forced Oder, he had to fight on the enemy's land in Germany, when taking the city of Lebus in winter 1945, he was contused and wounded again, and for a year and a half he was being treated in Poland in one of the hospitals. In 1946, before returning home, Nikolai went to Brest and found his brother's grave, bowed to it with the words: "Here we are, brother!” The Order of Glory and the Order of the Red Star sparkled on the chest of matured Kolya. Three soldiers left home to defend their Homeland, only Nikolai came back. Later, Nikolai Ivanovich married Olga Mikhailovna, with whom they raised four children and built a large house near the old one. All his life grandfather Kolya worked hard, after the war he worked as a shepherd on the farm (since 1947), retired in 1976. The old wounds made themselves known, Nikolai Ivanovich Zhukovsky died on January 18, 2014.

BACKGROUND: Title: Lieutenant. My grandfather was born in the Far East in the early 20th century to a military family who served under the Tsar. At the age of 14, he became an orphan. Nevertheless, he received a decent education for those times - four grades of school. He was brought up by an elderly Japanese and was taught all the wisdom of life. Ivan Ivanovich followed in the footsteps of his father - became a military man, and later joined the CPSU. By the order of the party, he moved with his wife and two children to the Altai - to develop the virgin lands of the region. There he built a house on his own, and his son helped him to do it. They had a large vegetable garden and pets. Two more children were born in Slavgorod, including my mother. After his military service in 1941, he was transferred to Nalchik, and from there to Leningrad. During the blockade, he led a car convoy carrying food to the city across Lake Ladoga. It was on his orders that the cars began to move on the ice not one after another, as it used to be, but in a wedge. This method allowed to reduce losses. At some point, on one of the rides, his car was hit by a German from the air. He was sitting next to the driver and miraculously survived. The driver died on the spot. His grandfather was wounded by a shell fragment and a part of the scalp was blown off. He quickly took control of the truck and drove the car to the shore. He felt weak on the shore and lost consciousness. He learned about his wound only when he regained consciousness in the hospital. There he spent six months. He was awarded several orders and medals. He did not like to talk about the war. When he was asked to remember something, he cried. In the postwar years, he worked in the fields of the Altai region, took the workers to collect wheat, and brought a car full of grain back to the elevator. I remember him cheerful, singing songs. My grandfather's favorite song is "A girl accompanied a fighter to the position".

BACKGROUND: Major Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for maritime aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard Division: 73rd Rifle Division (2nd formation). Zhitkov Alexey Konstantinovich was born on September 29, 1919 in Simferopol. Then his parents returned to Moscow. In 1937, he graduated from the 8th grade of school. On June 21, 1941, he graduated from the Mossovet Electromechanical Technical School. He worked in Moscow streetcar. On October 15, 1941 he voluntarily joined the Red Army and left for the frontline. He fought on the western front in the Acting Army in the 130th Rifle Division as a private. After his wound in March 1942 he was hospitalized in Orekhovo-Zuyevo. In May 1942, he was sent to the 2nd Berdichev Infantry School in Aktyubinsk, where he studied from June to December 1942. After graduation, he was sent to the disposal of the Don Front, and then to the 21st Army, where he served as commander of the reserve company of officers from January to April 1943. In April 1943, he was appointed to the 71st Guards Rifle Division of the Voronezh Front, where he worked until March 1944 as commander of a machine-gun company and adjutant of the senior independent machine-gun battalion. Then, he worked as an adjutant of the battalion's 219th rifle regiment 2nd Baltic Front and as an assistant chief of staff for operations of the 4th Independent Ski Battalion 1st and 2nd Baltic Front. From March 1944 to July 1944 he was in hospital because of his wound. After the hospital in July 1944 from the OC 6 Guards Army was assigned to the post of commander of 171 penalty company of the 1st Baltic Front, where he remained until June 1945. In August 1945, after the dissolution of the company from the OC 6 Guards Army was assigned to 23 rifle corps, from the corps - 51 Gv. rifle division of the Baltic Military District to the post of commander of the rifle battalion. On October 10, 1945, he received the training battalion of the 51st Guards Rifle Division, where he worked until March 1946. From March 1946 to August 1946, he worked as commander of the 156th Guards Rifle Battalion. He was not in captivity or encirclement. He had 2 wounds in 1942 and 1944. He was awarded combat orders: "Patriotic War" 1st and 2nd degree, "Red Star", combat medals: "For the Defense of Moscow", "Defense of Stalingrad", "Victory over Germany. 22. 02.1945 he married Elizaveta Andreyevna Krasnoschekova. After the war until 1946, the family lived in Riga. In August 1946 he was demobilized. Then, together with his wife E.A. Zhitkova, he returned to Moscow to his mother Ekaterina Filippovna Zhitkova. He worked in UPTM, Glavmosgortrans as head of the Moscow Tramway Service until July 1979. In 1972, he graduated from VZISI. He was awarded medals: "20 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "30 years of victory in the Great Patriotic War", "Fifty years of the Armed Forces of the USSR", "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow", "Sixty years of the Armed Forces of the USSR". He died on July 27, 1979 in Moscow at the age of 59. He was buried at the Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery in Moscow.

BACKGROUND: Title: Senior Lieutenant. Troops: Army, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard Newspaper "The Star of Pre-Irtyshye" August 23, 1965 ... The master of the workshop of the engineering plant Zhumadil Zhukubaev was called to the City Executive Committee. For the feat committed during the Great Patriotic War was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Defense. ...1942 the city on the Volga ...the positions of the 93rd rifle regiment redrawn the fields of the village Dubky and aimed at the famous tractor plant. Regiment commander Colonel Oleynikov summoned a soldier Zhukubaev and instructed him to get the "tongue" whatever it takes. For three days, scouts did not let go of the enemy's trenches. It was impossible to move in secret, the body wafted, and a wounded comrade moaned next to him with his teeth clenched. At the end, by the shots, the defense system was approximately located and the object of attack was selected. At night, a bold raid was made. The fascists came to their senses only when the scouts threw two bound occupants and a trophy machine gun into their trenches. -Congratulations to sergeant Zhukubaev with his award - a medal "For bravery" Valuable information was given by the "tongues". We will save many lives during the offensive. After Stalingrad, there was the Kursk Bulge. Near Belgorod, the Germans took a desperate step to take revenge on the Volga. They threw 300 tigers and panthers at our positions near Kazachy Log farm. Shards of shells on the ground were lying like sawdust," Zhumadil shows on the floor of the workshop. The losses were huge. Few of the commanders survived. Zhumadil will never forget, the last minutes of life of the commander of the machine gun platoon Loginov, who jumped on the tiger and continuously buttstocked on the armor in rage. When there was no longer any strength left, several men with grenades threw themselves under tanks. But there were many, many tanks. And the platoon began to retreat. Something terrible shouted then sergeant Zhukubaev, hit someone, threatened to shoot, but still kept the fighters from panic escape. Tanks passed through the trenches in which the soldiers took refuge. And when the German infantry approached, it was suddenly met with the powerful fire of the positions seemed to be erased into powder. Sergeant Zhukubaev, who replaced the killed officer, led the platoon on the offensive. And he led it all the way to the Dnieper. They forced the Dnieper on their improvised boats under continuous enemy fire. They kept the bridgehead on the right bank for seven days. For this battle, Lieutenant Zhukubaev was introduced to the Order of the Red Banner. But the award did not reach him. He was already in hospital. The award found him in Pavlodar 20 years later..... The Guards Regiment began the assault of Berlin. And here, as at the beginning of the combat way he had to go again to the reconnaissance. In one of the central sectors of the fascist capital, the advance of our troops encountered a serious defense. They had to take with assault not only every house, but also a floor and an apartment. The regimental commander learned that the headquarters of the 165th German Armored Division was located at the corner of Adolf Avenue and Spetselstrasse. Lieutenant Zhukubaev, who led the defense of this sector, went there to get the 'tongue'. They snuck into the house invisibly, through back passages and sewers. Six sentries were taken out. On the third floor, there was an oak door. The first lieutenant broke the door. It was dark. But suddenly, a bright light cut the darkness. Zhumadil slammed the door in lightning speed, but it was already too late. Fascists wounded him three times. He wasn't out of the game, and didn't even feel the terrible pain that would deprive him of sleep for many weeks later in the hospital. The "tongues" were taken. The gaping eyesocket of Lieutenant Khomenko was bandaged with an individual package by an orderly Khomenko of Kharkiv. Now, it is hard to imagine that, mortally wounded, he was taking a group of scouts out of the German defense center for over a day. During these uninterrupted battles, his combat ordinancer was killed by a mine. Here are some facts from Zhukubaev's characteristics: in winter, one had to go to the steppe to work on the construction of a pioneer camp. There were no volunteers. At that time, master Zhukubaev was the first to go up, and just as it was on the frontline, he led his whole crew with his example... Not many months later, the kids had a new pioneer camp.... It happened that one of the workers started drinking. They kept silent until he started to come to work tipsy...The work was treated with cold indifference...Master Zhukubaev intervened, did not allow to fire the person...what he talked to him about was improper to ask. But the peace was restored, and the enterprise kept a qualified good specialist.....

Title: Politruk Troops: Military-Political Division: 2nd Rifle Division (2nd formation) My great-grandfather, Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich , did not like to remember the war, let alone talk about it. My grandfather always had tears in his eyes. So we: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, knew so little about him, our grandfather. What a pity and shame! My great-grandfather was born on March 8, 1921 in the village of Polyana, Ternovsky Raion, Voronezh Oblast, to a family with many children (three brothers and two sisters). Ivan was the youngest. In October 1940, my great-grandfather's parents: father Vasiliy Ivanovich and mother Natalia Abramovna escorted their youngest Vanyusha to serve in the Soviet Army. The service was held in the 100th Mountain Rifle Regiment. He became a sergeant and was appointed deputy political worker for his success in the service. It was there that he received the news of the beginning of the war. My great-grandfather and his fellow countrymen gathered at the Ternovo Military Committee of the Voronezh region, and they were assigned a training camp. My parents accompanied their son Ivan to the war; their eldest son vasiliy was already at the fronline. Therefore, parents wiped tears and hugged their son. The order "Get ready!" interrupted the farewell. The new recruits went to war. Our soldier fought bravely, received several light wounds, but did not go to the hospital, became a senior sergeant and served as a political worker. He was always at the front, leading the fighters with him. His 150th Independent Rifle Battalion held back the fierce attacks of the Nazis. But in early July 1942, the Germans took over Voronezh. And on August 7, 1942, Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich was seriously wounded in the right thigh and right knee. He got to the evacuation hospital № 3582 in Alma-Ata, where he was treated for a long time. February 12, 1943 he sent a photo to his parents. During the last fight, where he was seriously wounded, my great-grandfather Zhdankin Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the medal "For bravery", which his grandfather cherished very dearly, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for bravery, firmness and courage, shown in the fight against German - fascist invaders. And in March 1944, because of the gravity of his wounds, he was released from military duty.So for my great-grandfather, the war ended.

BACKGROUND: The word of the father. In this family, the family archive is cherished with reverence. Its zealous keeper Alevtina Bondareva, a retired teacher, willingly tells about her family tree, shows the letters, photos and documents. Here is a military man on the photo card. Courageous, beautiful face. Alevtina Aleksandrovna became silent and after an instant pause, almost whispered quietly: "And this is my dad," her voice trembled. I ask her to tell about her father. She put her hands on her knees, excitedly began to staighten the apron, as if automatically folding and straightening it. -I have already lived a long life," she said. I know the price of happiness and sadness. I spent my childhood surrounded by tender, caring, my dear mother and grandmother. I can say that my future life was quite successful. I worked at school for thirty years. I loved my husband and was loved. I am happy with my children and grandchildren. I have a lot to thank the fate for. But through my mother's and mine life, fate ploughed a terrible furrow. And it is not covered with either flowers or thistle. The war took away her beloved husband, and my father ... In 1932, my mother graduated from the Borisoglebsk Pedagogical School, worked two years in Buturlinovsky district and returned to her homeland. She was admitted to the Makashevskaya seven-year school as an elementary school teacher. The staff of the school was mostly young. Alexander Grigorievich Zhivotenko, a tall, slender, blue-eyed guy, was a Russian language teacher. He paid attention to a small swarthy girl. The young people were irresistibly attracted to each other. And not only appearance was the reason, but also kinship of souls, subtlety of feelings, human reliability. They got married. A year later, I was born. I want to tell a lot about my father. I know him only from the stories of my mother and relatives, letters from the front and photos. And the words from the song are very close to me: I would give anything to see Dear face alive just once. Many of us, many of us, who by the pictures know their fathers. When I was two years old, which was in 1939, they removed the reservation for army service from rural teachers and medical workers. My father also left to serve. He passed through the Finnish war and was awarded with an order. Continuing to serve, he wrote from Lvov that he would return soon. But the war roared. Father couldn't visit the family and come back for a day. He was very longing. How much sadness, love and tenderness was in his letters to his Sasha and little daughter. One day he sent a portrait of his mother, painted by him with a pencil from a small photo. On the back side of the picture is the word of the song: "You, my love, I know you are awake, And at the crib quietly, You are crying". And in every letter: "I love you, I miss you, I'll be back, take care of my daughter ...". I grew up, and my father and I started our own correspondence. He began to send letters written in large capital letters in my name. And my mother taught me the alphabet, reading these daddy's letters. Faith and love kept him from bullets. He had several months left until the end of the war, when in one of the battles he was seriously wounded in both legs. In September 1944, it was reported that Alexander Petrovich Zhivotenko died in a hospital in Iassi (Romania) and was buried in the garden of the seminary. Together with the funeral notice, we received my father's personal belongings: awards, documents and letters. In children's memory, this day was left black. In front of my eyes blackened with grief my mother ans somehow immediately got older. A friend of my father, Mikhail Stepanovich Gribanov, when he learned about his death wrote from the frontline: "Unbelievable, monstrously unbelievable it seems that he is no longer with us ...". And with this grief in her chest, her mother had to survive with the baby in her arms. More than once she was asked to marry. But the very thought that there might be another man in her life seemed to her to be a black betrayal. An honest and whole person, she kept faithful and holy memory about her husband, to whom she once gave her heart. I often reread letters, look through albums, and tell children and grandchildren about their grandfather and great-grandfather. And they are proud of him. She looked at me and somehow helplessly waved her hands: Only the little ones can't understand: "How do you, grandmother, love him, if you didn't know him at all? "Ah, like that... With my heart!"

Род войск: Бронетанковые и механизированные войска. Журавлев Алексей Федорович родился в 1912 году в Саратовской области в селе Языковка Жерновского района. Работал в колхозе. В 1932 году женился на Шапошниковой Евдокии Алексеевне(Журавлева), родившейся тоже в селе Языковка Жерновского района Саратовской области. В 1932 году у них родился сын Николай. В 1933 году они переезжают в город Баку и поселяются на острове «Артем» (в настоящее время о.Пираллахи). Поступает на работу на острове рабочим. В 1938 году у них рождается дочь Лидия. В 1940 году Журавлев Алексей Федорович заканчивает курсы и становится водителем газобалонных автомашин. В 1941 году идет на фронт. Сохранились с фронта два письма. Первое письмо от 1 декабря 1941 года, где отец сообщает, что были в Сталинграде, а затем их отправили в город Прохладный на ремонт танков (отец был танкистом). В письме он пишет: «…Вот сейчас пришел момент – злейшего врага, проклятого всем миром, Гитлера, зимой разобьем и весной домой, может, приеду». Второе письмо от 18 января 1945 года написано при выписке из госпиталя, а где находился он, в письме зачеркнуто, а лечился в госпитале в Югославии. Затем было получено извещение о том, что Журавлев Алексей Федорович погиб 1 февраля 1945 года и похоронен с отданием воинских почестей в 20 м северо-западнее церкви с. Геболь Яралик, Венгрия округ Эрд. Память о своем отце я храню всю свою жизнь (дочь Лидия) и гордость, что он совершил подвиг, освободив всех нас от фашистской чумы, и мы – его внуки и правнуки, которые знаем своего деда и прадеда по воспоминаниям бабушки (его жены) и нашей мамы – храним в сердце память о своем дедушке Алексее Федоровиче и говорим СПАСИБО тебе за ПОБЕДУ, за ЧИСТОЕ и СВЕТЛОЕ НЕБО НАД ГОЛОВОЙ. Дочь Лидия Алексеевна Трофимова (Журавлева).

Title: Senior Lieutenant Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard Division: 171st Rifle Division (1st formation) Alexey Evstegneevich Zhuravlev was born in 1905 in Rostov region, in the city of Taganrog. He was married, wife Zhuravleva Natalya Alekseevna. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, the Red Army since October 1936. After graduation from military school he served as commander of machine-gun company of 525th rifle regiment of 171st rifle division. 171st rifle regiment was deployed on September 18, 1939 on the basis of the 38th Don Mikoyan Rifle Division. Before the war, it was located in the North Caucasus Military District. It met the beginning of the war on the territory of the Kharkov Military District at the time of its relocation to the west. On July 12, the 27th Infantry Corps's division began concentrating in the Yasnogorodka area. By midday, the 15th, along with other units of the Corps, began to arrive at the Teterev-Mikulici station on the Kiev-Korosteny railroad and the next day engaged the infantry and tanks at the Nalivaikovka-Makarov border. On July 17, the Germans again tried to break through the division's positions in the Liptovka area, after which the division continued to fight for several days in that area. According to the information from the 525th RD combat route dated June 29, 1941, the commander of the machine-gun company of the 525th rifle regiment, Senior Lieutenant A.E. Zhuravlev, was killed on July 15, 1941, fighting with fascist invaders in the Ukrainian SSR, Kiev region, Makarov district, Andreyevka village.

Troops: USSR Navy and Naval Forces Border Guards NKVD. I was born in peaceful time. I heard about the war on TV and read in books. In a conversation with my mother, by chance, it turned out that my grandfather, my mother's father, participated in the Great Patriotic War. Grandfather Vanya was born in one thousand nine hundred and twenty-fourth year in the village Kvasovo Uritsky district, and at the beginning of the war he was only fifteen years old. The fascists very quickly seized the village where he lived. Life during the occupation was very hard. It was very hungry and scary, he had to live in dugouts. It was necessary to hide from fascists and policemen, because young people were hijacked to work in Germany. Grandfather was saved from the hijacking by an accident, the tractor ran over his leg. There was a complicated fracture, and the leg wouldn’t come together for a long time. In the forty-third year, the Soviet troops liberated his village. Grandfather Vanya was immediately drafted into the army. He fought in the Baltic Fleet in the Marines. He took part in many combat operations. Grandfather freed the Baltics from the Nazis. He was wounded twice. After treatment in hospitals, he returned to his home unit and continued fighting. He finished the war in Koenigsberg. My grandfather fought with dignity, for which he was awarded two medals, but unfortunately, they have not been preserved. My mother said that my grandfather did not like to talk about the war. She showed me a photo, where my grandfather was in military uniform. This is the only photo from the war. My grandfather was demobilized in the forty-seventh year, and soon married my grandmother. I am proud of my grandfather. He had to endure a lot: to survive the military rush, to defend his Homeland with dignity, and then to establish life in his native collective farm. My grandfather worked hard and died young, and the military wounds - shrapnel in his arm and back - affected him. I will never forget that I had a grandfather who fought for our peaceful life and the blue sky above our heads.

My great-grandfather Zhukov Fedosiy Efimovich was born on December 16, 1919 in the village Blagoveshchenyka Kakhovsky district of Kherson region in a peasant family. In the 30s during the period of collectivization my great-grandfather's family was dispossessed and exiled to the Urals. They were carried in commodity wagons. Many were dying of cold, hunger and diseases. In spring, when the snow melted, they reached the nearest village, it was the state farm of Alexandrovsky, Perm region, where they stopped for permanent residence. The Great Patriotic War abruptly turned the whole country's life around. At the beginning of the war, Grigory Yefimovich Zhukov, the brother of my great-grandfather, went to the front. The great-grandfather already had a family – a wife and a daughter. He himself worked at a defense enterprise, so his numerous requests to send him to the front were refused. In 1944 my great-grandfather managed to get him sent to the front. He fought in the 15th Army in the 166th Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner. He liberated Ukraine, Byelorussia, Poland from Nazi invaders and reached Germany. He was wounded 2 times in the battles, once in fierce battles for Koenigsberg (now Kaliningrad). My great-grandfather did not like to tell about the war, but a few episodes of his stories are preserved in the memory of his daughter (my grandmother). The Nazis tried to keep the fortress city of Koenigsberg at all costs. This was evidenced by their appeals written in large letters on the walls of houses: "We will win - God is with us!", "From now on we are mad!", "We will fight with fanatical madness! And the positions of the Soviet troops were constantly targeted and accurately fired at by the Nazis. And then they found the fire adjuster. It was an old German woman, who was passing on information about the location of Soviet troops. Our troops opened heavy artillery fire at blocks and objects held by the enemy. Air strikes were fired at them from the air. Some groups of German troops in different parts of the city began to surrender not withstanding the pressure. Soon, the process became massive. On April 9, 1944 in the concrete casemate of the bomb shelter act of unconditional surrender of the garrison was signed by the commandant of the fortress, General Otto Lash. The Soviet flag swooped over the Derdona Fort. My great-grandfather's merits were marked by the government awards - the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree; medals "For bravery"; Zhukov medal. Jubilee medals. After the war Fedosiy Yefimovich returned home, but his wife and daughter were not there, and no one knew where they were. His brother also came back alive from the front. Not every family had such happiness at that time. The great-grandfather looked for his wife and daughter for a long time, but the search did not give anything. Ten years after the war, he married for the 2nd time. His wife was a nurse from the hospital, where he had a surgery. My great-grandfather never saw his daughter from his first marriage. 6 years ago she found us through the Internet.

Title: Red Army man. Troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Born July 2, 1921 in the village of Moiseevka, Krasnoturansky district of Krasnoyarsk Krai,. Graduated from 6th grade. He worked at a collective farm. In 1941, he was drafted into the Red Army Krasnoturansk District Military Committee and was sent to the 449th Rifle Division, which was being formed in Abakan. In July 1942, as part of the division, which received another number - 309, went to the front. His battle way he began as a signalman in the 842nd Artillery Regiment. In 1943 he was wounded, after the hospital he was sent to the reserve regiment in the town of Chkalov. Since February 1944, he fought in the 10th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Division. On July 18, 1944, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was the first of the regiment to cross the Western Bug River. Near the settlement, he got into the enemy's trench and destroyed the machine gun, which interfered with the advance of our troops. On July 29, in the vicinity of the town of Sedlce, with a group of scouts, he hit a truckload of ammunition and several enemy soldiers and an officer. By order of the 3rd Guards Cavalry Division of August 9, 1944 the Red Army soldier Zhorov Andrei Andreevich was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd degree. January 21, 1945 near the town of Thorn, the Red Army soldier Zhorov, being in the search party, under enemy fire took out of the battlefield a killed comrade. On February 1, near the village of Vengrov, he shot down several enemy soldiers with an automatic rifle and took one as prisoner. He was wounded, but continued his combat mission. According to the order of the 1st Byelorussian Front on March 12, 1945, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 2nd degree. On April 26, 1945, in the northeast of Fürstenwald, the Red Army soldier Zhorov, as part of the reconnaissance group, was the first to break into the enemy trench and put out of action a machine-gun point and several enemy soldiers with precision fire. In the battle for the village of Krylle, he suppressed 2 machine-gun points and exterminated 5 soldiers and 1 officer. In one of the next raids, the scouts found the concentration camp, attacked the guards, killing 18 opponents, and released more than one and a half thousand prisoners. The scout Zhorov finished the war on the Elbe River. In 1946, he was demobilized. By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946, the Red Army soldier Zhorov was awarded the Order of Glory of the 1st degree for bravery and heroism shown in the battle with the German invaders in the Great Patriotic War. He became a full knight of the Order of Glory. He returned to his Homeland. He worked as a foreman of a field brigade. He was awarded the Order of Lenin for his high-performance work in the postwar period. Since 1958, he worked as a communications and radio communications installer at a communications hub. He was a member of the CPSU since 1969. He lived in the village of Krasnoturansk, Krasnoyarsk region. He died on March 8, 2004. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, medals. In the village of Krasnoturansk, on the house where the veteran lived, a memorial plaque was opened.