Heroes and feats

Bocharnikova Maria Pavlovna. Born in 1923. In 1942 she volunteered for the front. She served on the 2nd Ukrainian Front in the mechanized cavalry corps. Maria Pavlovna had to do different work. She was a medical instructor, carried wounded soldiers out from the battlefield and bandaged them, worked in a hospital. During the war she had to shoot more than once, was wounded and treated in a hospital and even was surrounded. Together with her brother-soldiers Maria Pavlovna took part in the liberation of Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Hungary, Austria. She celebrated Victory Day in Germany.

Ovchinnikov Pyotr Aleksandrovich. Home front worker. Born in 1924 beyond the Ural Mountains. When he was 17, he trained to be a welder. He produced tanks throughout the war, supported his family, two brothers and a sister. He worked around the clock, seven days a week, occasionally taking a nap. After the war he continued to work as a welder, served in the Army. He worked as a welder all his life. After retirement, even before the age of 80, he was a sought-after specialist. The photo taken during his service in the Army.

Bogoslovsky Dmitry Fyodorovich (pen-name Dim. Orai). Mari writer, journalist, participant of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.

Native of Sychi village, Orshansky District of the Mari ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), participant of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. Hero of the Soviet Union

Born in 1923 in Uren District, Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) Region. Drafted into the Army as part of the infantry. In one of the battles he got a shell-shock and was hospitalized. After the hospital he was discharged and sent to the home front, to a collective farm (kolkhoz) where he helped to provide food for our Army until the end of the war. On photo Vasily Alekseevich in adulthood.

Command and political staff of the 289th Anti-Tank Artillery Luga Regiment after liberation of Luga town, Strugi-Krasnye and Plyussa settlements (Khlebnikov Pyotr Efimovich in the second row, second from the right)

Behind enemy lines. In his native village with his beloved girlfriend ... State Archives of Pskov Region

Solomatin Nikolay Semenovich. Sergeant. Born in 1910 in Chukhuryurt village, Azerbaijan. Drafted into the ranks of Red Army in 1941. Served as a mortar man in the 342nd Rifle Division of the 4th Ukrainian Front. Died in 1987. Awarded Orders and Medals

Artists of the front-line concert brigade of the Mari State Philharmonic among soldiers of the 3rd Ukrainian Front

K. R. Geist and V. E. Smirnova. Artists of the front-line concert brigade of the Mari State Philharmonic performing on the 3rd Ukrainian Front

Partisans on a mission. State Archives of Pskov Region

Arrival of Soviet pilots to the enemy rear. State Archives of Pskov Region

Ivanov Nikon Aleksandrovich (on the left). Born in Toktamyzh village, Sernur Region, Mari ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic). Participant of the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945.

6th Leningrad Partisan Brigade getting the latest issue of the partisan newspaper "For the Soviet Motherland". State Archives of Pskov Region

Stepanov Maksim Stepanovich (pen-name Max Mine). Mari writer, journalist, participant of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945.