Heroes and feats

Workers at the entrance to the gold washing pit (1942)

Private Boris Zinovievich Shestakov, born in 1923, was discharged from the hospital in March 1942.

Born in 1920. Called up to the front in 1941. Ended the war with the rank of a Senior Lieutenant of the medical service. She saved lives of the wounded on the North-Western, Volkhov, Kalinin and Leningrad fronts.

Budapest, 1944. Lukyanov Konstantin Vasilievich (on the left), Red Army Soldier, front-line driver.

Just people. Just go

Guards Lieutenant pilot Fadeev Serafim Grigorievich, born in 1919, native of Sergach town. In the ranks of Red Army since 1940. Commander of the 23rd Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class (14.03.1943), the Order of the Red Banner (04.09.1942), the Order of the Red Banner (06.02.1944)

On photo my grandfather Kulik Pyotr Grigoryevich. Born on May 1, 1910. Participant of the two wars. In the Great Patriotic War he was seriously wounded. Unfortunately, the Orders and Medals were not preserved.

Private Soldier. Born in 1903 in Melkovka village of Lipovsky Village Council of Yurinsky District. In January 1942 he was called up to the front. Killed in action on August 11, 1942. Buried in Kamenka Verkhovskaya village of Voronezh Region on the left bank of the Don river.

Kolbushova, Poland. July, 1945. Served on the Western, Southern, Don, Steppe and 2nd Belorussian fronts from June 1941 to May 1945 as a feldsher in the 2nd Separate Medical and Sanitary Squadron of the 6th Guards Caucasian Division. Participant of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Moskalenko Nikolay Nikiforovich, Sergeant. Photo taken to create commemorative albums for veterans in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the Victory.

Viktor Sergeevich Butenko started his battle way in 1941 as a private soldier. He served in the air regiment. At the very beginning of the war he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk Junior Aviation Technical School. He was enlisted in the 995th Air Assault Regiment. Viktor Sergeevich prepared planes for flights. That was a very responsible job: after all the outcome of the upcoming battle and the effectiveness of the air mission depended on the serviceability of the aircraft. Ended the war in Berlin. Before that there was Stalingrad, the liberation of Europe. Viktor Sergeevich Butenko was awarded Orders and Medals: the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, two Medals "For Battle Merit", the Medal "For Capture of Budapest", the Medal "For Capture of Vienna".

Pannikov Mikhail Fedorovich, sapper. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class.

Ryabushchenko Nikolay Petrovich started his battle way near Moscow in November 1941 when he was only eighteen years old. After graduating from the aviation school he got a diploma of air navigator. He flew on the biplane Po-2 to the front line to bomb enemy massing troops and equipment. He brought to the squadron headquarters military information about the location of the enemy troops. Delivered clothing, food and ammunition to our troops surrounded by the enemy. Six months later the air regiment where Nikolay Petrovich served was disbanded and the air navigator was sent to the short-term courses to learn how to pilot a high-speed aircraft - a dive-bomber.

Voynov Pyotr Fomich, Red Army Soldier. Fought and perished in February 1943 near Leningrad.

Plotnikov Stepan Efimovich was born in 1922 in Ilyinka village in Gorno-Altai Autonomous Region (Altai Republic). Finished seven classes of the incomplete secondary school, including Kemerovo Military Infantry School on the accelerated program in the specialty of a mortar platoon commander.