Heroes and feats

Vlasov, Assistant Chief of the Task Force of the 6th Leningrad Partisan Division. 1942-1943. State Archives of Pskov Region

Sherstovitova (Tarasova) Anna Frolovna with her brother-soldiers (3d from the left). Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Holder of the Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd class, "Kuzbass Valour". Former Assistant to the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kemerovo Regional Council of Working-People’s Deputies.

Tarasova Anna Frolovna (portrait), photo taken in 1942. Pensioner, Veteran of Labour, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Holder of the Orders of the Patriotic War 2nd class, "Kuzbass Valour". Former Assistant to the Deputy Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kemerovo Regional Council of Working-People’s Deputies.

On photo Baderko Vasily Vladimirovich.

Kondrashov Alexey Fedorovich

Served in the anti-aircraft regiment during the Great Patriotic War. Ended the war in 1945 in Budapest with the rank of a Sergeant.

Kuzkin Fedor Dmitrievich (1915-1985). Native of Meshchovsk District, Kaluga Region. Place of conscription: Meshchovsk Regional Military Commissariat, Meshchovsk District, Kaluga region. Since June 24, 1941 he fought as part of the 162nd Fighter Aviation Grodno Red Banner Regiment, 309th Fighter Aviation Smolensk Red Banner Division of the 2nd Belorussian Front with the rank of a Lieutenant Technician. Provided uninterrupted operation of the flight unit during 815 mission sorties. Awarded the Medal "For Battle Merit" and the Order of the Red Star.

Prokoshin Boris Dmitrievich (1923-1942). Born in March 1923 in Tatievo village, Peremyshl District, Kaluga Region. Before the war he worked as an accountant on a collective farm (kolkhoz). He was mobilized to fight against the Germans in 1942. He graduated from military courses and went to the front. In the same 1942 he was wounded and sent to the hospital in Tashkent. He died of his wounds in the hospital and was buried in a common grave in Tashkent, as evidenced by the entry in the Book of Memory of Peremyshl District

Tatyana Ivanovna was 20 years old in 1939 when she got into Khalkhin-Gol as a nurse. Not as a doctor yet but just as a nurse. Because she was still in her second year at the Khabarovsk Medical Institute.

Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory, Sergeant. He started the war near Moscow, ended in Königsberg (Kaliningrad). Throughout the war he was a front-line scout. Now 96-year-old Ilya Ivanovich lives in Omsk. Photo was taken by a reporter for the newspaper

Gusev Pyotr Terentievich - Battalion Komsomol organizer and Varkova Maria Ivanovna - Commander of the recon department of the 131st Separate Artillery Brigade of the Baku Air Defense Army. Awarded the Medals.

Doctors examine the wounded. 501st Medical and Sanitary Battalion of the 173rd Rifle Division.

501st Medical and Sanitary Battalion of the 173rd Rifle Division near Sukhinichi in the forest.

Born in 1920 in Sergeikovo village, Kurganovsky Village Council, Dzerzhinsky District, Smolensk Region. Red Army Soldier, served as a cook. Killed 19.02.1942

Karasev Sergey Nikitovich. I want to tell you about my grandfather Karasev Sergey Nikitovich whom I have never seen. He went missing in the first days of the war. My grandfather was born in Kaluga in 1904. Since 1938 he had been a senior political instructor, since 1939 - a student of the Military-Political Academy named after V. I. Lenin. In August 1941 he was drafted into the 6th Army as a senior instructor for work among partisan detachments in the enemy rear. In September 1941 he went missing on the Southern Front. We don't know how our grandfather died, there is no grave where you could put a bouquet of flowers. My sister found this meager data through the Archives of the Russian Defense Ministry in Podolsk.