Heroes and feats

Alexey Sergeyevich Akhmatov (1914-1987) Participant in the Great Patriotic War, major, pilot. In 1941-1942 he fought on the Volkhov front as a commander of the 225th short-range bombing regiment. Participated in the Battle of Stalingrad as commander of a separate reconnaissance aviation squadron. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Badge of Honour, the Second Class Patriotic War and the Medal "For the Victory over Germany".

Vasily Vladimirovich Blinkov (born 1914) Born in Pskov, Pskov region. Participant of the Great Patriotic War from 23.06.1941 Called by the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks. Captain, military correspondent for the Leningrad Front radio newspaper with permission to collect materials in military units and formations of the Leningrad Front. Defender of Leningrad. Awarded the Order of the Red Star (1945), medals "For the Defence of Leningrad" (1942), "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945".

Bragina Valentina Vasilievna (1898-1985) Born in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region. Doctor, captain of the medical service, participant of the Great Patriotic War, labor veteran. 1941 - resident of evacuation center No. 22, military doctor of the 3rd rank of the military hospital No. 290 in Moscow. She was shell-shocked in November 1941 at the front near Vyazma. In 1943 he was awarded the title of captain of the medical service, hospital physician of the evacuation center No. 125 of the NKO USSR. After the war - doctor- hospital physician of the sanatorium No. 4 of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR in Sochi. She was awarded with medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, badges “Excellent worker in public health” and “Excellent worker in sanitary service”.

Trains with troops and equipment leaving for the front.

Women and children work at the Kuzmin metallurgical plant

A combat aircraft built with the money of the collective farmers "Politotdelets" of the Novosibirsk Region.

A train with equipment from the evacuated factory goes east

Sergey G. Bugrimenko (1920 - 2016) Participant in the Great Patriotic War, captain, head of art supply service. In June 1941, he was called up to the Red Army. He took a course at the Artillery Academy named after M.A. Lomonosov. He received the title of "Lieutenant Technician" and was sent to the current army. He took part in the Battle of Moscow, near Stalingrad, on the Kursk Bulge and reached Berlin. In July 1944 he was demobilised from the army, until December 1945 he served as head of the artillery supply of the tank brigade with the rank of technical service captain. He was awarded the Order of Patriotic War of I and II degree, the Order of the Red Star.

Vasily Vasilyevich Vavilin (born 1915) Participated in the war with Germany as part of the 96th Heavy Howitzer Artillery Brigade of the Leningrad Red Banner Order of Kutuzov, which was formed on 09.04.1943 in the Amur Region at the station Srednebelaya. Participated in the battles near Leningrad, operations on the 2nd Belarusian Front. He finished the war with the rank of captain, chief of artillery equipment. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War II class, the Order of the Red Banner, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For the Capture of Konigsberg", "For Victory over Germany", "For Victory over Japan".

Sukhova Alexandra, a turner of one of the factories in Novosibirsk, during the war, performed 3 norms per shift

Novosibirsk, in March 1942 fulfilled 12 norms per shift

Vasilenko Mikhail Abramovich (1913-1978). Hero of the Soviet Union (1945), Honorary Citizen of Blagoveshchensk (1967). Participated in the war with Germany since August 1941. Passed the combat route from the Volga to Berlin as part of the 1137th artillery regiment 169 1st Artillery Brigade, 14th Artillery Division, 6th Artillery Breakthrough Corps, 5th Shock Army of the 1st Belorussian Front. Lieutenant, fire platoon commander. In the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead on the western bank of the Oder in the Kustrin region (27-28.03.1945), the battery commanded by M.A. Vasilenko, destroyed 22 tanks. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Red Star and medals.

Collective farmers of the "Political Dealer" collective farm in the Novosibirsk Region give money to build an aircraft for the Red Army.

A wagonload of bread from the Novaya Zhizn collective farm in the Novosibirsk region is sent to deliver bread as a gift to Leningrad

A group of doctors and medical staff from Novosibirsk hospitals with wounded Soviet Army soldiers.