Heroes and feats

Valentina Ivanovna Safronova (1918-1943) - scout for the Bryansk city partisan detachment, Hero of the Soviet Union (1965).

222 rifle division was formed in March-April 1941 in Bryanshchna. At the end of August-September 1941, units of the division were engaged in defensive battles and passed into frequent counterattacks on the borders of the Desna and Stryana rivers.

Junior commander, Kirill Timofeevich Adushev, born in 1914, died of wounds in 1942.

Yegor Adushev (1906-1968) served in the railway forces during the war.

The photo was taken in the town of Bryansk, Oryol region (now the regional centre of the Bryansk region). Bryansk region was occupied by German fascist invaders for almost two years.

Andrey Ivanovich Kostykin (1919-2001), meteorologist, weather forecaster during the Great Patriotic War.

The photo was taken in the city of Bryansk (now the regional centre of the Bryansk region). Anna Kochetkova was shot by the Nazis on 25 October 1941 in the village of Khatsun, Karachevsky district, Orel region (now Bryansk). Her father, Kochetkov Mikhail Yakovlevich, was appointed to Khatsun as Chief Forester in early summer 1941. Before that the family lived in Bryansk. Together with Anya, her parents, all villagers and refugees from Bryansk were shot that day.

Mikhail Yakovlevich Shtyrlin (1908-1995) was wounded during the war.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Podgorny (1922-1942), a native of Kazakhstan, a lieutenant of the Guards, died in the Voronezh region, Bogucharsky district, Solontsy.

Didin Ignat Fyodorovich (1915-?), a native of the village of Radchenskoye, a senior lieutenant and company commander of the 64th Battalion Division of the VNOS specia detachment (air surveillance, alert and communication), killed the enemy on its territory.

From October 23, 1941, the 50th Army took an active part in the Tula defensive operation, which was an integral part of the battle for Moscow.

This photo was taken in Berlin by WWII veteran Alexei Ivanovich Astakhov.

Maria Krivosheeva (1930-1943) - native of the village of Lyubegoshch, Dyatkovsky district. A young partisan was martyred by the Nazis in 1943.

Glotova Anastasia Aristarkhovna (1919-?), a native of Kolesnikov in the Kantemirovsky district, the operating nurse went through the war with her field hospital and met her victory at the walls of Berlin. She was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Second-Class Patriotic War, medals "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany" and "For the Liberation of Stalingrad".

Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment The photo was handed over by Great Patriotic War veterans.