Heroes and feats

Nataliya Ivanovna Grosheva (2nd left), Red Army soldier

Nataliya Ivanovna Grosheva, Red Army soldier

Nataliya Ivanovna Grosheva (2nd right), Red Army soldier

Liybov Ilyinichna Gavrilenko (Nadkina) (2nd row, 2nd left), Sergeant, Nataliya Vasilyevna Balykova (Nadkina) (2nd row, 3rd left), Sergeant. Courses of chefs of Uprodsnab of the Moscow Military district. February 28, 1943.

Anastasiya Ignatyevna Kosynkina, Red Army soldier

Крупский Василий Яковлевич,разведка,концлагеря,СМЕРШ,Победа!

Соков Алексей Иванович. Чтобы попасть на фронт,приписал себе год. Всю войну прошлое в пехоте. Был ранен.

My grandfather

Leonid Lukich Zykov (1912-1943) born in Peski village, Mishkino district, one of big organisers of partisan movement in Smolensk region.

Borovykh Panfil Pavlovich

Nikolay Vasilyevich Kolotygin born in N.Peski village, 1920. Senior Sergeant, head of antiaircraft gun, was fighting for 1941-1945. He shot 5 Nazi airplanes down. He lived in Novopeski village.

Lapin Nikolay Yakovlevich. Born in 1918, Petrovskoe village. He graduated from the 7th grade of the Mishkinsky secondary school. Electrician. In 1938-1941 he served as a tank gunner-radio operator in Primorye. In January 1942 he was wounded near Kerch. On August 4, 1942, the KV crew with his participation knocked out and burned 6 German tanks in Tinguta station near Stalingrad. His crew defended the approach to the Astrakhan bridge for a long time, but was hit. Guards First Sergeant Lapin N. Ya. was wounded. In 1943-1944 he participated in the liberation of Belgorod, Uman, Balti, Kovel, Polish cities. He was awarded of two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, the medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad", etc.

Pyotr Kalistratovich Kudrin born in 1923, Sladkiye Karasi village. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941 in Mishkino. Sergeant, head of rifle squad, died in medical battalion on October 20, 1944 and buried in Lithuania, Klaipeda district, 200 meters west from Ausodad farm.

Anton Ivanovich Yablonskikh born in 1916 in Patriarsha village. He was drafted into the Soviet Army in 1941 in Kirovo as a Read Army sodier, cavalryman. His last battle was in December, 1942.

Ivan Kolesnikov, born in 1917 in the Rubtsovsky District, senior Sergeant of the 201st Separate Sapper Battalion of the 182nd Rifle Division. Went through the whole war. He participated in the battles for Leningrad, courageously performing his duty as a soldier, and was seriously wounded. For military services in 1943, he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree (he with three other sappers installed 700 anti-personnel mines in one night), and in 1945, for courage, bravery and exemplary performance of the tasks of command, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. The minesweeper makes a mistake once. My great-grandfather was not mistaken, he returned from the war to his wife and children, but eight years after the Victory in 1953, he died of tuberculosis.