Heroes and feats

Vishnevsky Semyon Alekseevich (1920-1990), First Lieutenant, commander of an anti-tank defense platoon, people's poet of the Mari ASSR. 1945.

In 1942, the front came to the Don and Katerina Kondratyevna decided to go into the active army. She became a medical instructor for a company of machine gunners, a favorite of the unit. Katya remembered her first battle to the smallest detail. In Ukraine, a company of machine gunners received a replenishment. Under the enemy's counterattack, the unfired soldiers began to retreat. Katerina Kondratyevna noticed that the commander had been killed, stood up to her full height and said: “The guards are not retreating! Forward!". And the first rushed to the enemy. Inspired by her fearlessness, the submachine gunners rushed forward and overthrew the Nazis.

A.K. Beschasnova volunteered for the front on February 12, 1942, took the oath in Kamensk, and the first battle in Dashing. In 1944 she fought in the 16th anti-aircraft arillery air defense regiment in Romania. She met Victory Day in the hospital, and later went to Czechoslovakia in the city of Kosice to my regiment. She was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and medals "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For Victory over Germany".

In the photograph taken in 1940, Olga Aleksandrovna Tikhomirova, a future nurse and intelligence office of the partisan detachment. She went to the front in the summer of 1942 after completing nursing courses. She died on March 6, 1943 during the breakthrough of the encirclement.

Photo taken in Yoshkar-Ola

One of the most famous photographs of photojournalist Viktor Antonovich Tyomin. With the signature of the author.

The photo shows one of the streets of Berlin in April 1945.

Workers of Shop No. 7 of Plant No. 297 (now the Mariysk Machine Building Plant). Yoshkar-Ola city.

A. N. Koshmanova was born on June 13, 1920 in the village Kryvyi Rih, Krivoy Rog district. She graduated from the 7 classes of the Krivoy Rog school in 1934. Then a 3-year medical college in 1937 in Taganrog. Specialty - paramedic. July 11, 1941 mobilized into the ranks of the Soviet Army. In 1943 she was promoted to junior lieutenant of the medical service. She fought on the North Caucasian Front, 58th Army 356th Infantry Regiment. She was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany".

In 1943, Lena Kravtsova achieved sending to the front, became a medical instructor, then a paramedic. April 1944. Having successfully crossed the Dniester, our troops deployed to the city of Orgiev. In one of the sections of the flared battle, the Soviet soldiers had to lie down - the Nazis fired destructive fire. - Tanks! - the soldiers heard the voice of junior lieutenant Elena Kravtsova. The girl with a bunch of grenades rushed forward. Well-aimed throw, deafening explosion. The tank was enveloped in smoke. But Elena no longer heard the thunderous "Hurray-ah": a shell splinter cut her life off. Elena Kravtsova was posthumously awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of Orgiev.

V.K. Medvedchikova was born on February 3, 1924 in the village Novospasovka Millerovsky district, graduated from school №1 in Millerovo in 1941. She worked in the city of Rostov-on-Don in a sorting front-line hospital. She went to the front when the front line was near the city itself. But soon she was wounded and ended up in a mobile hospital, where she remained to work. With this 279 hospital, she went through the entire war as a nurse on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. She met the victory in Hungary. She was awarded the medal "For Victory over Germany" and jubilee medals.

Mikhailichenko B. T. was born on November 27, 1923 in the city of Millerovo in a working class family. In 1941 he graduated from the 10th grade of secondary school №1. Was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army and sent to the Novocherkassk Cavalry School. In August 1942, he voluntarily transferred to the Airborne Forces and until November 1942 served as the commander of a rifle and parachute platoon in the 13th Airborne Brigade. In November 1942 he was sent to the active army on the Stalingrad Front as part of the 111th Guards Rifle division. He was the commander of a company of machine gunners, the commander of a rifle battalion on the 3rd Ukrainian Front.

Kuvshinov Leonty Petrovich 17.06.1913 — 27.05.1979 Born in the village Ukraintsevo, Issinsky district, Penza region. Member of the Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, foreman. During the Second World War, he served on the Dovator fire-fighting boat in the Caspian Sea. He was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." After the war he worked as a carpenter, was a very modest and laconic person. He spoke very little about the war. He brought up five children. In the May issue of the Issinskaya regional newspaper "Vperyod" was published material about the participants of the Great Patriotic War - fellow countrymen.

Fire-fighting boat "Dovator" in the Caspian Sea. On which Leonty Petrovich Kuvshinov served as a participant of the Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars, foreman.

Andrey Ivanovich Belov 06.1905 — 08.03.1986 Born in the village Ukraintsevo, Issinsky district, Penza region. Chief Food of the Leningrad Front. He left for the war in July 1941, returned in July 1945. He reached Berlin. Sergeant. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, the Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." In the post-war years, up to retirement, he worked as a chief accountant at one of the enterprises in the village Issa. Raised five children