Heroes and feats

Vasily Chikhirev. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 and served until 1945. He was the commander of a transportation platoon. After the war ended, he returned home. He worked as a car mechanic for the collective farm, then as a Department Manager for the state farm. Awards: medal For the capture of Konigsberg, For the Victory over Germany, For the Capture of Berlin, commemorative medals.

Alexey Frolov volunteered for the front in November 1942. Participated for six days in the Battle of Stalingrad. He returned home in January 1943 after being wounded, but he went to the front again in October 1943, and got to the 1st Belorussian Front. He fought from Kharkov to Potsdam, participated in the liberation of the cities of Bobruisk, Minsk, and Gomel. In the fighting, he received tree wounds, one of them during the libiration of prisoners of war in Bobruisk. He was discharged after being wounded in 1946. Awards: Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree, medals For Military Merit, For Bravery, For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945, For the Libiration of Prague.

Valentin Alexandrovich Zasedatelev, Junior Sergeant

Gordeev Maxim Ivanovich, officer of the Soviet Union

Mokeev Yegor Yakovlevich, private first class, machine gun section commander

Чернов Павел Семенович, рядовой 1912-1953

There is Pelageya Petrovna Sazonova in the picture, signaller of the 4th Separate Guards Fokshansky Regiment, who took part in the liberation of Moldova, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania. Joyful news about Victory she met at the distance of 30 km from Berlin. Her first medal Pelageya Petrovna received "For Battle Merit".

Anna Ivanovna Maksimova participated in the Great Patriotic War as a senior sergeant and fought in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Domrachev Filipp Yakimovich, born in 1909, died in 1941, was a Red Army soldier who went missing during World War II. Here is his pre-war photograph.

On the photo, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Nikolay Ilenev. He was drafted into the army in 1943 and sent to the Western front. He was a signalman in a tank regiment, fought to Victory, participated in the Battle of Berlin. Awarded two orders of the Red Star and the order of the Patriotic War. Photo was taken on May 7, 2018 during the celebration of the Great Victory on the territory of the recreation center of the village of Zvonareva.

The photo shows my grandfather (on the right) Philip Melnikov with a comrade-in-arms during the Great Patriotic War. Philip sent the photo to his wife (my grandmother Anna Melnikova) from the city of Velyun in Poland.

Fekla Kazanina was born in 1924, worked throughout the war as a volunteer nurse from 1941 to 1945 in a military hospital . Awarded the medal For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. After the war, in 1947, she came to Sakhalin and began to work as a nurse in a village hospital. She had worked there for more than 40 years.

On the photo, Dmitry Chubarov. Participant of the war with Japan. He fought in the 271st Artillery Regiment, as a radio-telegraph operator. He had a large peasant family of three generations: grandmother, father, mother, children - Nadezhda, Vasily, Dmitry, Zinaida, Alexandra, Galina, lived together in one hut in the village of Troitsky in the Altai Region. Men were called to the front in 1941. Dmitry was sent to the Far East. Served since 1941, participated in military operations, went into reserve only in 1952. After the war, he lived on Sakhalin. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd degree and the medal For the Victory over Japan.

Certificate for participation in the assault and capture of Konigsberg. Fought on the Ukrainian Front, liberated Poland, reached Berlin. Pavel was a paramedic in the 38th Rifle Division, took out the wounded from the battlefield, then continued his service in the evacuation hospitals #1261. For bravery he was awarded the medal For Participation in the Heroic Assault and Capture of Konigsberg. The medal found the hero only on February 23, 1970. Ended the war in Germany, sent to the Far East. He came to Sakhalin in 1949. He died at the age of 70.

Born in 1916 in Kursk region. Drafted from Arkovo village on June 08, 1941. Sergeant. Fought in the Western front (Romania, Hungary, Germany) in tank troops, military unit 38362