Heroes and feats

Kopylov Alexey Nikitich, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Novikov Ivan Semyonovich was enlisted in the Stalin Division of the Yurginsky Military Camp. Then he was sent to the Reserve Siberian Regiment for Junior Сommanders courses in the city of Novosibirsk. At the end of 1942 Junior Sergeant became a scout of the artillery brigade headquarters. And on February 23, 1943 he got his baptism of fire in the battle for Staraya Russa.

Photo taken for the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Photo taken for the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Photo taken for the 60th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

Akhmetov Zaki Akhmetgarievich

Gorbachev Pyotr Pavlovich, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Served in the secret troops

Tyulkin Vasily Arsentievich and Klavdiya Alekseevna. Shakhunya, 1941

Shmatchenko Ekaterina Grigorievna (third from the right) among friends, Cheremichkino village. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Teacher of the Cheremichkino secondary school (portrait), Cheremichkino village. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War

Tyulkina (Zyuzko) Galina Vasilievna with her mother Klavdiya Alekseevna. Shakhunya, 1942

Shibalov Evgeny Timofeevich (first from the left), 10th grade student, with classmates. Izhevsk, 1941. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Guards Wing Commander

Smirnova (Kotenko) Anna Vasilievna (portrait). Sandomierz, Poland. 1945. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Holder of the Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd class, of the Red Star

Sherstovitova (Tarasova) Anna Frolovna (portrait). 1945. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Holder of the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class

Deryugin Georgy Dmitrievich (on the right). All his life he carried in his heart that bright Victory Day which he celebrated in East Prussia in May 1945. Only a year after Victory Day, in May 1946, Sergeant Deryugin returned to his native settlement of Yaya. Before the war he worked at the Yaya timber processing plant. From here he left to serve in Red Army in 1938. Served on Lake Khasan. In the pre-war 1940 he returned to his native enterprise and on June 22, 1941, the first day of the war, he joined the ranks of the defenders of the Motherland. Then there was Kursk Bulge (the Battle of Kursk).