Heroes and feats

Lieutenant V.A. Migunova mortar crew in combat positions, 1942

Vasily Rodionov was born in 1909 and lived in the village of Savaderkino, Shumerlinsky District, Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. Was drafted as Private in 1941 by Sumerlinsky district millitary commission. After conscript, his wife found out that she was pregnant with the 5th child, but he never found out about it. He was missed in action in December, 1942 . Source of information: Central Archive of Ministry of Defense

Ovchinnikov Alexey Alexandrovich missed in action in 1941 near the village of Shornovo, Moscow region.

Komarov Fyodor Yakovlevich, born in 1916, was drafted as Private in 1941 in the village of Vurmankassy, ​​Urmarsky district, Chuvash ASSR. Missing in action. My great-grandfather had 2 sons. He was among the first to go to war along many other Soviet people, and never came back

Photo shows my dad, Malykhin Ivan Nikolaevich, Sergeant.

Lyubko (Korovina) E.G., North Caucasian Front, 1942

Photo shows my father, Private of 144th Infantry Regiment of 49th Infantry Division of 2nd Guards Army , a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Sukhanov Nikolay Petrovich, Major, Political Instructor (politruk), site of action, 1943

Yuri Eremeev, 1943

Radio operator is always a radio operator. MOROZOV DMITRY ALEKSEEVICH. Happy changes overwhelmed the residents of Annovka, one of the villages of Teplo-Ogarevsky District where Mitya Morozov graduated from seven-years school. A seventeen-year-old boy decided to master military skills. During the crossing of the Radomka river near Staluvka village 27.08.1944 the units overcame the water line with fights. Dmitry Alekseevich was the first to reach the opposite bank. Together with his comrades he destroyed German firing points and killed at least 10 enemy soldiers and officers. For this he was awarded the Order of Glory 3rd class. After the war he continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 1950 D. A. Morozov was transferred to the reserve.

Chernova (Andreeva) Zinaida Stepanovna. On photo my mother Chernova (Andreeva) Zinaida Stepanovna (1928-1996), home front worker. Photo taken after awarding her the Medal "Home Front Worker" in 1947.

Pashkov Ivan Semenovich, Private Soldier, born in 1895

Since the first days he participated in battles on the four fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Twice seriously wounded in battles in August 1943 and near Berlin in April 1945. A fragment of a grenade hit my grandfather in the chest, in critical condition he was taken to the hospital. Death receded because the Victory was so close! Only the scar from the shrapnel wound remained under my grandfather's heart as a disturbing memory of the terrible war. My great-grandfather on my mother's side Ocheredko Ivan Ivanovich, a participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was born on 17.02.1917 in a Cossack family in Brinkovskaya village (stanitsa) of Primorsko-Akhtarsk District of Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodar Territory). At the age of three he lost his parents.

Family. My great-grandfather Gritsay Vasily Ivanovich was called up to the front on 11.07.41 from Ukraine, Voroshilovgrad Region, Uspensky District. He and my great-grandmother moved there from our village (stanitsa) of Leningradskaya just before the war. My great-grandfather was a Lieutenant, Commander of the Rifle platoon of submachine gunners of the 897th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 242nd Mountain Rifle Taman Division, a scout. The 242nd Rifle Division was formed in the summer of 1941 in Moscow Military District and fought in the Western direction. By August, 5 the division had lost more than 3.500 men killed, missed and wounded. Killed in action on September 28, 1944 liberating Poland from the Nazis. Buried in Poland.

Bashkir Academic Drama Theater named after Mazhit Gafuri