Heroes and feats

Loshakov Dementy Ivanovich, head of the political department of the rear army of the first Belorussian front, (second from left) with three comrades

Loshakov Dementy Ivanovich, Head of the Political Department of Logistics of the First Belorussian Front

Postolenko Nikifor Mikhailovich

Soviet military leader, lieutenant colonel of the KGB of the USSR, intelligence officer, partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Machine gun platoon commander Pavel Petrovich Chicherov (center) with fellow soldiers

Shemet Vasily Nikitovich, born on February 25, 1916. He left for the Soviet-Finnish war in 1939. In 1941, while in his native village of Kanevskaya, he met my great-grandmother Maria Kramar, who had been waiting for him from the war until the summer of 1946. It was to her in 1942-1943 (the date is not known for sure) that he sent this photo from the front

Gumenyuk Fedor Savovich volunteered at the very beginning of the war, an ordinary soldier. Went through the whole war. In the category: Book of Memory of Krasnodar Territory. No information.

NIKOLAY ALEKSEEVICH ASTRATOV My grandfather is from Pytalovsky district. He was a participant in the so-called Last Battle of the Great Patriotic War. In the Kurland cauldron, he was wounded in the leg. After that, he did not have to fight anymore. He had many medals and awards of the Great Patriotic War. Most of his life he worked as a director of a milking plant in Rezekne, Latvia.

Ivan Morozov near Tula was wounded in 1944 and lost a leg

Olga Morozova, nurse 1942-1945

Serenky Leonty Semyonovich was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 by the Starobelsk Military Commissariat of the Voroshilovgrad region. He fought in the 214th rifle division and died on September 4, 1943. He was buried in the village of Dobropolye in the Kharkov region.

Serenky Ivan Leontievich (1923 — 01.27.1944) left to fight in 1942 and served in the 6th Airborne Guards Rifle Regiment. Killed in action on January 27, 1944. Buried in the village Burki of the Mirgorodsky district of the Kirovograd region. His name was immortalized on the memorial plaque opened on August 1, 2016 in the village Orlovskoe, Marksovsky district, where among the 14 surnames of our fellow countrymen-paratroopers there is also the surname of our Serenky Ivan Leontievich

Puzanov Semyon Abramovich 1907 rank-guards private

Sergeev Pavel Petrovich, captain

Serenkiy Alexey Leontievich (1925-03.10.1943) was drafted by the Marx RVC of the Saratov region in 1943. He served on the 3rd Ukrainian Front in the 263rd Infantry Regiment. On September 12, 1943, without having fought for a year, Alexei was wounded, and on October 3, 1943, Alexei Leontyevich Serenky died in evacuation hospital No. 281, according to some documents "of wounds", according to others "of illness." He was initially buried at the city cemetery of Rossosh, Rossosh district, Voronezh region.