Heroes and feats

Pleshakov Ivan Stepanovich. Photo taken in November 1944, after being awarded with Order of Red Star for force-crossing the Dnieper and Order of Patriotic War II class for liberation of Zaporozhye and Nikolaev cities

Romanovsky Vasily Ulyanovich, Lieutenant (L). Photo taken in Mongolia in 1940.

Sergei Vasilievich Vavilov (1914-1941) - political instructot (Commissar) of Artillery battery of 606th Infantry Regiment of 317th Infantry Division of 56th Army of Southern Front; Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

Mustafa Saberov, a friend of the legendary pilot, manager of Alga collective farm in Sergach region, contributed 100,000 rubles for production of 'Valery Chkalov' aircraft, and donated 25 poods of bread. About 2 million rubles were raised in Sergach district for construction of 'Chkalov squadron in December 1942.

Romanovsky Vasily Ulyanovich, Lieutenant, was drafted to Red Army by Maisky district millitary commission in 1939. Died on September, 1st, 1943. Buried in the village of Byvalki, Smolensk region.

Hospital staff in Sergach, 1945

Tokarev Yegor Yegorovich was born in 1922 in the village of Bobrovka, Krasnoarmeisky District, Saratov Region. He served as a tanker. He died on July 19, 1943 in the village of Gerasimovka, altitude 284 m near Rostov. He was buried in a mass grave; schoolchildren look after the grave.

Sevostyanov Alexander Vasilievich, cadet of 81st Howitzer Artillery Regiment.

Nikolai Alekseevich Bobin (1914-1943), Soviet pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union (1942), Captain. Great Patriotic War participant.

Over 7 thousand people, residents of Sergach region took part in construction of defence lines.

Rodintsev Andrey Petrovich was born on September 28, 1924 in the village of Bobrovka. In August 1942 he was drafted and sent to an artillery school. After graduation he served as gunner in 805th Howitzer Regiment in Voronezh Front. He was awarded for military service. Discharged, he returned to the village where he worked as a foreman on railroad. He died on October 10, 1985.

Anti-tank ditches

Alexander Vasilievich Bazhanov (August 19, 1917 - June 29, 1944), Hero of the Soviet Union (August, 22,1944), Senior Sergeant, participant of Great Patriotic War, Commander of Battery of 76-mm guns of 68th Infantry Regiment of 70th Infantry Division of 33rd Army 2nd, Belorussian Front.

Andreev Alexey Dmitrievich (1916-1949), Guards Senior Lieutenant, Company Commander of 237th Guards Infantry Regiment of 76th Guards Infantry Division of 61st Army of Central Front, Guards Senior Lieutenant, awarded with Order of Lenin, Order of Alexander Nevsky, Order of Patriotic War 2nd class, a medal

Sakharov Ivan Stepanovich, Sergeant October, 27th, 1911 - June, 26th, 1988