Heroes and feats

Machine gunners Commander Nikolay Mikhaylovich Shugurov from Kemerovo (2nd left). Germany. 1945. GKU GAK. F. R-1215. Op. 9. D. 7

Shugurov N.M. Germany. 1945. GKU GAK. F. R-1215. Op. 9. D. 7

Victorious toast. Fedor Evtifeyevich Yakovuk (far right) with comrade-in-arms. 1945. GKU GAK. F. R-424. Op. 2. D. 4. L. 4

Boris Ponyavin was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1940. He met the Great Patriotic war on the Western border of the USSR. During the war, he served as a mechanic in aviation. He prepared planes for combat flights, repaired them after fighting in the sky, and participated in combat operations. He went through the whole from 1941 to 1945 on the Western Front. Celebrated the Victory in Europe in Prague. Awards: orders of the Red Banner, the Red Star, medals For Bravery, For the Victory over Germany, the Liberation of Prague. After the war, Lieutenant Colonel B. Ponyavin served in the army until 1962, he received the order of the 2nd degree for the preparation of the cosmodrome in Plisetsk. Died on 13.03.1973.

Boris Borisov was drafted into the army in December 1942.He served as sapper on the Belarusian front. Then he became a front-line driver. He fought on the 1st Ukrainian Front as a driver in 1944. There he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

During the war she served as paramedic of Sanitary Company of the Guards Rifle Regiment in the well-known Panfilov Division (the 8th Guards Rifle awarded with the Order of Lenin, Red Banner and the Order of Suvorov Division named after Hero of the Soviet Union Major General I.V.Panfilov)

Elizaveta Vasilyevna Kudyaeva (1923-1998), Junior Sergeant, telephone operator of the Communications Battalion. She was awarded with the Medals "For Battle Merit", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For the Victory Over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"

In a military sanatorium in Feodosia, Crimea. June 1941, a few days before the war Back side of the photo. On the photo - on the left, Guards Captain Vasily Emelin, Chief of Communications, military unit: 1033rd Rifle Regiment, 280 Rifle Division, 13th Army, 1st Ukranian Front. On vacation with his comrades in a military sanatorium in Feodosia, Crimea. June 1941, a few days before the war. He was sent to the front from the sanatorium.

Vasily Emelin, Guards Captain, Chief of Communications, military unit: 1033rd Rifle Regiment, 280 Rifle Division, 13th Army, 1st Ukranian Front. Awards: Order of The Red Star, medals For Military Merit, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, For the Capture of Berlin, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Ivan Kharlov (1925-2000) Guards Second Lieutenant, rifle platoon leader. During the war, he was wounded and concussed. Awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals For the Capture of Berlin, For the Capture of Warsaw.

Peter Dvornikov was called to the front in July 1941. He fought in the Red Banner Guards Nezhinsky Regiment. He was in the army and served on various fronts from July 1941 to July 1946. He commanded a self-propelled battery. He took part in the liberation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Germany. He was awarded orders of the Patriotic War 1st and 2nd degrees, medals For the Capture of Berlin, For the Liberation of Prague, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. He went from Sergeant to Major of the Soviet Army.

Lyubov Mikhaylovna Fomina (1926-2009) was a veteran of the war and labour. She worked at Lopatinskaya village school as a primary school teacher and then at school for deaf-and-dumb.

Dmitry Yegoshin was called up to the front at the beginning of the war. He was a driver of a military doctor. Somewhere in 1944, moving in a column, came under fire from the air. A nearby bomb set the car on fire. The soldiers pulled him out. After receiving severe burns to his face and hand on the right side, he was sent to the hospital. He become a disabled person of the 3rd group and was demobilized. He was awarded some medals (information about them is lost).

Viktor Ivanov worked as a tractor driver before the war. Drafted into the Red Army in March 1941 for retraining. He fought at Brest in June 1941. He died in January 1942.

Nikolay Fomin (1919-1988) fought first in the Finnish war, then in the Great Patriotic War. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, the order of the Red Star, the medal For Military Merit.