Heroes and feats

Kirillin Vasily Fakeevich

The border troops of the NKVD protected the rear of the advancing Red Army that the surrounded Germans and their accomplices, as well as Polish and other nationalists, would not shoot in the backs of our soldiers. The photo shows: Pomerania, March 1945. Submachine Gunner of the 14th outpost, Red Army soldier of the 38th Pomeranian border regiment in the 5th shock army Gilmulla Amirkhanovich Gumarov from the Askinsky region of Bashkiria (right). The author of the photo is unknown. Retired First Sergeant. Awards: "For Combat Service", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany" Gumarov lived with his daughter Farida Khalfina in Meleuz, Republic of Bashkortostan.

1921-2014. Awarded of the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd Class

Voronezh workers rally dedicated to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. May 1945 GAOPIVO.F.9306.Op.1.D.1160

Department of miners of A. Fomina, that took part in the demining of Voronezh in 1943 (group portrait). 1943 GAOPI.F.9306.Op.1.D.85

Pakhomov Alexey Pavlovich

Voronezh residents listen to the news about the attack of Nazi Germany on the USSR. Voronezh. June 22, 1941 GAOPI.F.289.Op.3.D.311

The photo shows Maslov Nikolai Mikhailovich (1890 - 1967), a well-known local historian, historian, the first researcher of Kaluga ceramics. Researcher at the Kaluga Regional Museum of Local Lore. Since July 1941 he worked as a director of the Kaluga Art Museum. During the Nazi occupation of the city of Kaluga, Nikolai Mikhailovich saved valuable paintings from the fund of the art museum, already prepared by the Germans to be sent to Germany. Risking his life, he managed to preserve these works for the museum.

Hero of the Soviet Union Alexei Ivanovich Borodin (the third one from the right). The photo shows a group of pilots in Crimea at the Baydarsky Gate. A photograph from the Borodins' family archive was provided to the Poimskiy Historical and Architectural Museum

Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Pavlovich Lipachev was appointed as commandant of Magdeburg in Germany after the war. A photograph from the Lipachev family archive was provided to the Poimskiy Historical and Architectural Museum.

Dergausov E.V.

Sholmin Viktor Yakovlevich, Captain, Magadan, 1948. Geologist of the order-bearing Dalstroy mine. Home front worker. Sholmin Viktor Yakovlevich was born in 1911. Since 1941. - 1957 he worked as the head of the mine geology department of Dalstroyproekt in Magadan and mined gold for the income, from the sale of which our country could buy tanks and aircraft during the Great Patriotic War. Awards: medal "For Labor Distinction", 1943. (for the development of the regions of the Far North), the Order of the Badge of Honor in 1945, the medal "For Victory over Germany" 05/09/1945, for length of service and impeccable service in the troops of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs was awarded the medal "For Combat service", 1951

From the funds of the State Archives of the Penza Region (GAPO)

From the funds of the State Archives of the Penza Region (GAPO)

Demining one of the streets of Voronezh. 1943 GAOPIVO. F.9306.Op.1.D.89