Heroes and feats

Soviet soldiers of 10th Guards Infantry Division. Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Lysenko, Commander of 24th Guards Infantry Regiment - 1st from the left, 1st row. February, 1942. Photo from personal archives of M.I. Starostin

Yury Eremeev, cadet of Leningrad Artillery School

M.I. Starostin (far left on the podium) visiting meeting dedicated to presentation of guard banner to 10th division. February 1942. Photo from personal archives of M.I. Starostin

Awarding of submariners in 1942

Captured Germans on the streets of Polyarny in 1944

Nefedov Ivan Porfirevich was born in 1920 in the village of Usovka, Nikolsky district, Penza region. He served in Red Army since 1940. At the age of 19, he was drafted to front by Dzerzhinsky district millitary commission of Kuibyshev region. He served as private, in infantery reconnaissance platoon, of 240th Infantry Regiment of 117th Infantry Division. In February 1942 he was sent to Kalinin Front as a recon. He was twice injured. Sergeant Nefyodov belonged to infantry reconnaissance platoonthe from the day of formation of Regiment. He took part in all combat operations of Reconnaissance Regiment. He demonstrated exceptional courage on June 8, 1943, during collision with a German reconnaissance group in Babynin-Zanogi area. He recieved award: Order of Red Star.

Guerrillas' detachment "Polyarnik" at "Shumi, Gorod" base before sending a group of guerrillas to enemy rare in 1943.

Personnel of fighter detachment called from among engineers and technical workers of fishing port

Ivan Ilyich Khanin, resident of town Pugachev, Saratov Region, is in the center.

Lutai Mikhail Andreevich. He liberated Poland and met Victory in Berlin.

Livintseva Alexandra Petrovna, driver. Photo taken in Berlin 1945.

Markochev Konstantin Mikhailovich, born in 1917

Lutai Sergey Andreevich, telephone operator of signal platoon of 1st Battalion of 232nd Sumy-Kiev Order of Lenin Red Banner Suvorov, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Division. He was awarded the Order of Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For Courage". Photo taken in Hungary 1945.

Festive all regiment lunch (756th Infantry Regiment) on May 9, 1945 in Berlin. Photo comes from personal archive of Andrey Borisovich Logvinov ("Honored Citizen of Pristensky District")

Reconnaissance platoon of 756th Infantry Regiment, Kingsplatz, Spree embankment, Berlin. Photo comes from personal archive of Andrey Borisovich Logvinov ("Honored Citizen of Pristensky District")