Heroes and feats

Dyakov Nikolay Nikiforovich was born on April 20, 1925 in Guryevsk town, Kemerovo Region. In 1942 Nikolay Nikiforovich was drafted into Red Army. He studied in Voroshilov city (Ussuriysk) to be a gunner. At the end of winter together with the regiment he went to the West – to the 1rst Ukrainian Front. He was wounded. Little by little he recoverd but began to stutter. So he went on fighting until the end of the war. Returned home. He worked as a driller in a mine, then he went to Sverdlovsk to study to be a mining foreman. Awarded the Order of the Red Star and three Medals "For Courage". He passed away 16.06.2016

Dyakov Nikolay Nikiforovich celebrates Victory with his brother-soldiers. Königsberg, 1945

It was announced that a photographer had arrived from Leningrad, and whoever wanted to be photographed walked in turns about 500 meters along the clearing: there was a photographer working in a log cabin like ours. He was alone, in a military uniform. The guys took pictures, came, then I went. I came back to the dugouts - there were fresh shell-holes. The guys said that the Germans were active, there was no infantry in front, the battalion commander ordered the telephone operator Panin to take a spare phone, extend the line communication to the earth-and-timber emplacement and report to the observation post what was happening in front of him. Misha went away and was sitting. A mine flew right into his artillery emplacement, he was contused and was immediately sent to the hospital.

Kuzmin Nikolay Efimovich, missing in action in Belarus in 1942

Partisans come out of the Serbolovsky forest. State Archives of Pskov Region

Downed German plane near Beglovo station. 1942. State Archives of Pskov Region

Scout-radio operator Evsigneeva (Devyatina) Ekaterina Georgievna. Senior Sergeant, radiotelegraph operator of the 263rd Separate Communications Company of the 1st Bomber Aviation Corps "

Downed transport airplane U-52 near Malye Gorby village, Staraya Russa District. 1942. State Archives of Pskov Region

Partisan of the 5th Partisan Brigade Lenya Fedorov. State Archives of Pskov Region

A.A. Selezov, participant of the Great Patriotic War. 1943. State Archives of Pskov Region

Born in 1917 in Deshovki village, Kozelsk District, Kaluga Region. Place and date of conscription: Kozelsk Regional Military Commissariat on September 18, 1938. Missing in action in February 1942. Sergeant. His mother Ekaterina Zakharovna received the last letter in November 1941.

After graduating from the Volsk Aviation Technical School, he got into the 72nd Aviation Bomber Regiment on the Finnish Front. He celebrated Victory Day in Germany. After graduating from the Air Force Academy named after Zhukovsky he continued to serve in the Volsk Military School of the Home Front.

On the reverse side of the photo written: "Multinational crew of the "Spotter Plane" ("Korrektirovshchik") aircraft. Novinko, Dubolazov, Nikitin, Bukdeev, Deiko, Garanin, Kobyakov, Kromen. August, 1942

On the reverse side of the photo written: On the day of the 25th Anniversary of Red Army. February 23, 1943. Crew of the "Spotter Plane" ("Korrektirovshchik") aircraft. Aircraft technician, graduate of the Volsk Military School Kobyakov Ivan Pavlovich (1940)

On the reverse side of the photo written: "Spotter Plane" ("Korrektirovshchik") crew changing the engine on the SB plane (high speed bomber). 1943."