Heroes and feats

Polyakov Aleksandr Ivanovich. Junior Lieutenant, political instructor. Died of wounds in a hospital in 1944. Buried in a mass grave in Leningrad Region. Eroshkina Tatyana Ivanovna, his wife, home front worker. It's the only joint photograph kept in the family.

Rakhmatullin Gayretdin. Sergeant. 1917-1991. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War and the Medals

Pilot-instructor of the Chernigov Higher Military Aviation School. Veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Retired Major

My great-great-grandfather born in 1901. Conscripted by the Stalinsky Regional Military Commissariat, Stalinsky District, Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodar Territory). Fought as part of the 1330th Rifle Regiment of the Crimean Front. Killed in action on January 17, 1942, Crimean ASSR (Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), French cemetery in Sevastopol

Titov Pyotr Nikolayevich (sits in the center) - Platoon Commander. Department (staff) of the Artillery Commander of the 44th Rifle Division of the 4th Army of the Volkhov Front

Semenyachenko Aleksandr Arkhipovich. Awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky for battles in Belarus in 1944

Potapov Vasily Afanasyevich - in the middle with a submachine gun, Private Soldier. Potapov Nikolay Afanasyevich - on the right. Two brothers met in Muedzyan.

Dubinskaya Yulia Filippovna

Born in 1917, Sosnovka village, Kemerovo Region. Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Place of service: 24th Guards Aviation Regiment, 213th Bomber Aviation Division. Perished on the night of July 28, 1943.

Photo taken after the war in peacetime

Thin pale face with regular fine features, lively enthusiastic eyes - they said they were cornflower blue. On this photo he is 19 years old. After that there was no news from Leonid, and then a notice came that Leonid Korotkevich went missing in action. He got into the colony two years before the war started at the age of 17. From the colony - to the penal battalion. The only photo from Tula or maybe Leonid Korotkevich laid down his life exactly here? In fierce defensive battles near Moscow and near Tula in October-November 1941 the Nazi troops were weakened and exhausted and lost their offensive spirit.

Born on August 14, 1919. Graduated from the 3rd grade. He was drafted into the Army on May 18, 1941. Frol Pavlovich served in the 161st Separate Rifle Brigade as a rifleman. On February 23, 1943 he was wounded in the head by a shrapnel near Staraya Russa. He had surgery. There was a complication. Second operation was done on May 5. Frol Pavlovich was treated for four months in the evacuation hospital 2817. After recovery, from July 1944 to May 1946, he was sent to the 283rd Separate Construction Battalion to build Severstroy in Murmansk (Construction in the Far North). He was awarded the Medals "For Battle Merit", "For Defense of the Soviet Transarctic", "For Victory over Germany" and the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class.

Born 17.05.1925, Kupay village. Drafted into the Army 13.02.1943, Kirovo. Rifleman, 13th reserve. At the end of 1944 he was enlisted in the 113th Guards Rifle Regiment, in a recon platoon. He was wounded in the right thigh 25.01.1945. Since April 1945 - boat motorman (boat mechanic), 142nd River Emergency Rescue Squad (in Berlin). Since January 1947 - Petty Officer (Starshina) 2nd class, boat motorman, Leningrad Ship-Lifting Detachment. Since April 1950 - Petty Officer (Starshina) 1st class, Keeper, 1st Expeditionary Ship-Lifting Detachment. Transferred to the reserve in April 1954. Awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, the Medals "For Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany", two medals "For Battle Merit", etc.

Born in 1905, Kupay village. Drafted into the Army in August 1941, Kirovo. Pavel Kuzmich was a Sergeant - Artilleryman, Gun Crew Commander of the 94th and 44th Rifle Divisions. Before the war started he served on the border. Participated in battles near Novgorod, Volkhov, Narva, Kingisepp, in Poland where he was wounded 22.04.1943. Liberated Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Was in Prussia, in Germany. Pavel Kuzmich has 4 wounds. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 2nd class, the Order of the Red Star, the Medals "For Courage" and "For Victory over Germany".

Born in 1907, Kupay village. Drafted into the Army in 1941, Kirovo. Private soldier, artillery tractor (gun transporter) driver. Participated in battles near Leningrad in the 6th Battery of the 101606th Regiment. In 1943 he was wounded in the bombing. Awarded the Medals "For Courage", "For Victory over Germany"