Heroes and feats

June 22, 1941 - Corporal, gunner, participant in the first battles. August 1942 - Corporal, battery gunner, participant in the Battle of Stalingrad. 1943 - participant in the battles on the Kursk Bulge. October 1943 – Guard Corporal, participant in the battle for Dnieper, wounded. January 1944 – awarded of the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union

Popenov Dmitry Konstantinovich (1914-2013) 1941 - radio man of an aviation regiment of the Pacific Fleet. 1943 –First Sergeabt, gunner-radio man of the 2nd aviation squadron of the Reconnaissance Aviation Regiment No.188 of the Northern Fleet Air Force, Polyarny. 1945 - participant of the Victory Parade in Moscow as part of the joint naval battalion of all fleets

Pyotr Timofeevich Purtov (1925-2016), Corporal, participant in the parade of war veterans in Moscow in honor of the 55th anniversary of the Victory. 1943.

Tagirov Gabdrakhman Nagimovich. He called up for military service in 1944 as a volunteer fighter. He served in the 17th Guards Lidskiy Regiment. He was seriously wounded in battle 01/30/1945.

Lazarev Stanislav Nikolayevich. 1943 - torpedo man of the destroyer "Soobrazitelny" of the Black Sea Fleet. 1944 – Petty officer II class of the guard destroyer "Soobrazitelny". February 1945 - participant in ensuring the security of the Yalta conference. 1945 – retired Captain Lieutenant, participant of Victory Parade in Moscow

Tryashkin Andrey Grigorievich (right). 1945 military rank - Guard Sergeant First Class, gun commander of the 2nd battery, 3rd division of the 88th Guards Mortar Lvovskiy Order of Alexander Nevsky Regiment. Unfortunately, it is not known when and under what circumstances the photo was taken.

Shishkin Mikhail Petrovich, Veteran of the Great Patriotic War, with his friend, fellow soldier.

This photo depicting Merkuryeva's mother Alexandra Romanovna and his little sister Lilechka with a doll was sent to Konstantin Merkuryev to the Leningrad Front. He went the difficult path of a guardsman with this photo: heavy battles and encirclement in the Myasny Bor area, breakthrough, hospitals and a return home.

Moshkin Grigory Antonovich (01.24.1919 - 04.25.1978). Drafted into the ranks of the Red Army 02.15.1940. The place of service is the 7th Aviation Brigade. Discharged to the reserve on 12/20/1942 after being wounded with amputation of the left arm.

It is the only photo of my uncle, my dad's older brother .... Sergei Petrovich was born on 10/12/1924. in the large family of Peter Ivanovich and Ekaterina Alekseevna Pirogovs. Place of residence is Pokrovskoe village, Krasno-Pakhorsky district, Moscow region. At the age of eighteen, Sergei is called up to the front of the Krasno-Pakhor regional military comissariat on 07/05/1942. Since that time, he was enlisted as a private in the 39th Army of the 881st Infantry Order of the Alexander Nevsky Regiment, 158th Rifle Division of the Kalinin Front, military unit / field mail of the 881st Rifle Regiment - No. 16655. In a short time, during 1943, he was twice awarded of medals. Medal "For Combat Service" 04/29/1943. Sergey was posthumously awarded of the Medal "For Courage".

Mokhov Konstantin Grigorievich, guard lieutenant, commander of a battery of anti-tank guns.

Mokhova Farida Sultanovna, Corporal, aircraft armament mechanic. Mokhov Nikolay Grigorievich, Lieutenant colonel, aircraft armament technician.

The photo shows my great-grandfather Grigory Ivanovich Pozhidaev, was born in Khlevnoe village on April 15, 1917. He was called up for military service on August 1, 1941. He went through the whole war and reached Berlin, signed on the Reichstag building. He received a contusion (in the spine) in 04/15/1942. Military rank: Sergeant. He returned from the front in 1946. He was awarded of medals "For Combat Service", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Capture of Berlin" and the Order of the Patriotic War, Second class. After the war he worked as a police officer of Khlevensky district. He died on November 27, 1993.

Front photo of my great-grandfather Pozhidaev Grigory Ivanovich.