Heroes and feats

Sergei Demjanovich Kuroedov, the commander of the “Soviet Murman” partisan detachment.

Lavrinov Nikolai Sergeevich, KIA near Moscow

Vasily Maksimovich Nazarov, Major, Commissar of the Tank Battalion of the 21st Guards Regiment

Fire in the building No 40 on Stalin Street. Murmansk. 1942

Murmansk city. 1942 г.

Alexander Fyodorovich Golubev, mortar rifleman of the 15th Guards Rifle Division, 44th Regiment

Northern Fleet Commander Vice Admiral A. G. Golovko (left) and Captain 2 rank N. A. Lunin, Hero of the Soviet Union, commander of K-21 submarine.

Babin E.N. with friends during the Great Patriotic War.

A torpedo plane attacks enemy transport. 1942 г.

Ivan Ivanovich Santiev, rifleman of the mortar battalion of the 4090th separate motor brigade.

Alekseev Yevsey Alekseevich, Hero of the Soviet Union, junior sergeant, gunner of the 5th battery of the 154th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 76th Guards Rifle Division of the 61st Army of the Central Front with colleagues. Berlin, May 9, 1945. Alekseev E.A. was born in the village of Sardayal in the Mari-Turek region of the Mari ASSR.

Nikolay Trifonovich Makov. Born in 1921 in Lop-Sola village. Studied at the Verh- Ushut and Kuzhener schools. The day Germany attacked our country he served in the Red Army. He went into battle with the Nazis in Belarus. Together with 13 soldiers, he left the encirclement. During 19 months of being behind enemy lines, he was caught four times and escaped from the concentration camp four times. In Belarus and in the Smolensk region, he distributed leaflets among the population temporarily falling into the hands of the Germans. Since the spring of 1943, he fought as part of his native army. He received three wounds. Awarded with medals: "For service in battle", "For the capture of Konigsberg" and thanks.

My grandfather, Ivan Panfilovich Soldatov, a Red Army soldier, went missing on 15.01.1944. The photo was taken at the hospital and sent in a letter to his wife.

There were many examples of self-sacrifice for the common cause at that time. The train driver Ivan Petrovich Beloglazov was driving a train. On one of the runs, a control plug was knocked out of the steam locomotive's boiler. The driver was not taken aback. He jammed the hole and brought the train to the station. In peacetime, not everyone would have dared to lead the train in the face of the threat of a steam boiler explosion. And during the war years, when the delivery of cargo to its destination was extremely important, it was not considered a feat.

Boris Kuzmich Kravtsov with a colleague in Czechoslovakia, town of Chemelitsa.