Heroes and feats

Margarita Ivanovna Putrenko (top row, first right) with workers of the evacuation hospital 1036. Railway department. Mishkolc, Hungary. 27.03.1945

Gehman Isaak Shmulovich (1911-1995) Participated in the war with Germany from December 1941 to 1945 in the 13th Army of 81 divisions of the 1st Ukrainian Front, 81 Infantry Division, later - 58th Guards Rifle Division. He fought near Bryansk, on the Kursk Bulge, liberated Ukraine and Belarus. He was wounded. He finished the war with the rank of major. He served in the Soviet Army until 1957. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 1 and 2 degrees, the Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For Bravery", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Liberation of Prague" and others.

Gubkin Grigory Nikitovich (1919-2003) Hero of the Soviet Union (1945). Participated in the war with Germany from September 1941 to May 9, 1945. Was at Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge, with battles took place Belarus and Lithuania. Captain, commander of the 2nd Battalion, 297th Rifle Regiment. On August 17, 1944 his battalion near Kudirkos-Naumiesis of the Lithuanian SSR successfully broke through the enemy's defense and was the first in the Soviet Army to enter the state border with fascist Germany. He was awarded with the Orders of Lenin, Red Banner, Bogdan Khmelnitsky 3rd class, Alexander Nevsky, Patriotic War 1 (1985) and 2nd class, the Red Star, medals "Gold Star", "For Courage".

Demin Nikolai Arkhipovich (1918-1998) Participant in the war with imperial Japan in 1945, assistant platoon commander of the foot reconnaissance platoon of the 8th rifle regiment, 3rd rifle division. On September 8, 1945, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his exploits in the battles of taking the Hohermojin resistance node: by the actions of his reconnaissance group he obtained particularly valuable information about the enemy, destroyed fire points and power supply nodes, which eventually led to the surrender of the Japanese garrison. The garrison was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of First Class Patriotic War and medals.

Austria, St. Helten. Januszkiewicz V.M. – participant of WWII. Born June 12, 1925 in the village of Lenino, Kopyl district, Minsk region, Belarus. He was called to the USSR Supreme Soviet on January 6, 1943. From June 1943 to January 1945, he was a sapper bomber of the 2nd Guards Airborne Division, January 1945 to October 1946, a sapper of the 34th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 104th Airborne Division. He fought in the 3rd and 2nd Ukr. Fr. Was awarded the Order of Patriotic War 2 st., medals "For Courage", "For Military Merit", "For the capture of Vienna", "For the Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945. Fired in the reserve in 1950.

In the photo, Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Ivanovich Avramenko. Our countryman, a native of the village of Novotroitskoe, Petropavlovskiy district, Voronezh region. The photo was taken from the family archive of the Hero's grandson. He died heroically while defending the city of Nikolaev (Ukraine). A detailed account of the heroic deed of our countryman is described in the book "The Bogatyry of the Voronezh Land!

Demyan Timofeyevich Tukoev (right). Mobilized to the Red Army on 18 September 1941 from the Krasnoturansk District of Kortuz. On the left is a comrade-in-arms, commander of the rifle division, Nikolai Penkov. October 28, 1941.

Bokov A. V. - participant of WWII. Born on 3 September 1927 in the village of Khredino, Strugokrasnensky district, Pskov region. Called to the USSR Supreme Soviet on December 1, 1944 by the Strugokrasnensky Regional Military Commissariat. He fought as a shooter in the 78th Reserve Rifle Regiment, 36th Reserve Rifle Division, then as a senior sailor in the Podvizhny destroyer. For participation in WWII he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of 2nd degree, the medal "For the Victory over Germany in WWII 1941-1945". Fired to the reserve in 1951.

Evdokim Efimovich Lopatkin 1903-1983 He fought in 1941-1942. He was furnished and took part in the restoration of Leningrad.

Georgy Ilyich Dolgosheev, Junior Lieutenant, 1913. Conscripted to the front since August 1, 1941. He fought at the Far Eastern Front as part of 82 rifle regiments, from October 1941 he was called up at the Western Front. On November 7, 1941, he was wounded and was cured until February 12, 1942. After being wounded in November 1941, he served in military unit 5975 as a foreman of a rifle company, then as an assistant commander of a rifle company of 120th rifle regiment of the Stalingrad front.

A.P. Pavlov - participant of WWII. Pavlov was born on February 23, 1914 in the village of Khana, Lychkovsky district, Novgorod region. Called for mobilization on 16 April 1942 by the Ulyanovsk Regional Military Commissariat. April 1942 - April 1943 - Commander of Section of the 408th rifle regiment, April 1943 - October 1944 - Assistant to the Commandant of 100th Separate Battalion of Field Management, October 1944 - May 1945 - Assistant to the Commandant of 11th separate field control battalion. He was awarded medals "For Courage", "For Merit in Combat", "For Bravery", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Victory over Germany in the years 1941-1945". Demobilised on 18 October 1945 with the rank of sergeant.

Aleksey Semyonovich Kurbatov went to the front in 1941 and never returned.

Sailor Fyodor Nikiforovich - participant of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Born in 1915 in the village of Skurly, Pytalovo district, Pskov region. Called to the front on August 25, 1941 by the Novo-Sheshiminsky Regional Military Commissariat of the Tatar Soviet Union. For participation in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 he was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of the 1st century, the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". Demobilized with the rank of common soldier.

Belarusian partisans, Kirov Squad. Starikov Ivan Yakovlevich, commander of the platoon-right in the upper row.

Vinogradova L.G. - native of Abrene (Pytalovo), member of the guerrilla movement.