Heroes and feats

Zyabkin Alexander Alexandrovich was born in 1907. Place of birth: Kaluga. Corporal. My grandfather was drafted in 1942. Grandfather did not like to remember the war. He was awarded of the Medal “For Courage”. Division order No. 18 dated 04/07/1945. Published: Rifle Retirement No.334, Rifle Division No.47. Archive: TsAMO. He was wounded twice. I am proud of my grandfather.

Martynov Pavel Stepanovich, First Lieutenant, the commander of the antitank company of the 1st battalion, Tank Army. He entered Novozybkov with his company on the night of September 26, 1943. They recaptured a train with civilians who were being transported to Germany.

He served in the Army since July 1941; He raised from a Private signalman to First Sergeant. Gun commander of the High Command reserve No.1672. Participated in the crossing of the Dnieper, the liberation of Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia. Awarded of the title Hero of the Soviet Union (May 1945) for distinctions shown in battles during the West Carpathian offensive operation, the liberation of Poland. After the war he worked as a deputy chairman, chairman of the Ust-Labinsky, Rogovsky, Plastunovsky regional executive commissions of the Krasnodar Territory, the lawyer of the Ust-Labinsky People's Court ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")

He served in Army since 1932; A participant of the liberation campaign in Western Belarus, war with Finland (1939-1940); participant of the Great Patriotic War. Since July 1941 he worked as the commander of the artillery battery of the 2nd motorized rifle regiment of the OMSBON troops of the NKVD, USSR; the commander of the partisan unit "Groza", "Gvardiya", operating in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland; executive officer of a battalion of a separate special-purpose unit of the NKVD / NKGB of the USSR; engineer major. After the war he worked in leading positions in the OSHOSDOR system of the NKVD / USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, head of the Regional Administration of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")

Perevezentsev Konstantin Andrianovich (1911-1987). Participant of the Soviet-Finnish War. He was drafted in 1939, fought in the Finnish War until the end of 1940. In 1941 he went to the front. In 1943 he was seriously wounded and sent to a hospital in Moscow. He came under fire and a fragment of a mine hit the leg.

The photo shows Eremich Petr Vladimirovich. During the Great Patriotic War he was a partisan in Belarus

Participant of the Great Patriotic War; commander of the Guard Cavalry Kuban-Slonim Regiment No.30, Lieutenant Colonel. Participant of the battle for the Caucasus, liberation of Donbass, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. On July 18, 1944, his company was the first who reached the USSR state border on Zapadniy Bug. They fought for several days, repelling enemy counterattacks. Geraskin Alexander was wounded twice, but continued to command the regiment; Hero of the Soviet Union (March 1945). After the war he worked in leading positions in the forestry of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")

Participant of the Russian-Japanese, World War I (senior noncommissioned officer, warrant officer, Complete Knight of the Order of St.George), Civil War; participant of the Great Patriotic War and the battle for the Caucasus. He served in the Novorossiysk partisan unit. After the war he worked in leading Soviet positions in the administration of the Krasnoarmeisky, Psebaysky, Tula, Arkhangelsk regional executive commissions of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")

Private First Class Deryugina Ekaterina Mitrofanovna (20.11. 1923 – 29.05.2008) - a native of Stepnaya Mikhailovka village, Mikhailovsky District, Voronezh Region. Drafted into the army in April 1942 at the age of 18. She served in Anti-Aircraft Artillery as part of the Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division No.510, Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment No.183. She participated in liberation of Ukraine and Poland. She met the Victory Day in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. The photo was taken from 1945. Source: archive of E.M. Deryugina’s daughter Nina Yurievna Zdorovtseva.

Fellow soldiers, female. 1944. Yekaterina Deryugina, Private First Class (sitting first from the right), Ulyana Ishchenko from Ukraine (sitting first from the left), Iraida Tyurina from Tatarstan (standing from the left). These three girls carried their friendship throughout their lives, corresponded for 63 years. Source: archive of E.M. Deryugina’s daughter Nina Yurievna Zdorovtseva

Rogachev Mikhail Klementyevich. Born in 1916 Subbotino village, Shumikhinsky district. Guards captain, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Pomeranian Guards Cavalry Regiment. He was wounded three times. Awarded of the Orders of the Patriotic War of 1st and 2nd classes, the Order of the Red Star, medals. Teacher of mathematics at the Mishkin Pedagogical School (1946-1956), head teacher at the Katay Pedagogical School. Honored teacher of the RSFSR.

I would like to share the story of my great-grandfather Alexei Tikhonovich Bocharov. I would like to tell about his brothers, who became for me a symbol of the Great Victory. My great-grandfather Aleksey Tikhonovich Bocharov was born in 1909 in Ploskoye hamlet, Dvoelucheskaya volost, Timsky district, Kursk province, in a large peasant family. Alexei Tikhonovich had four brothers: Bocharov Yakov Tikhonovich (1903), Bocharov Dmitry Tikhonovich (1905 - died in December 1941), Bocharov Akim Tikhonovich (1907 - died in July 1943), Bocharov Nikolai Tikhonovich (1916 - 1996), mother Bocharova Pelageya Illarionovna.

Filatov Sergey Petrovich. Born on May 13, 1922, Somovo village, Shablykinsky district, Oryol region. Sergei Petrovich started his military service after the completion of the defeat of the enemy on the Oryol-Kursk Bulge and the liberation of the Oryol region from the Nazis.

Ukhachev Aleksey Grigorievich, Sergeant First Class. Drafted on October 15, 1941 and marched from Aleksinsky district military enlistment office to Tula. He fought in the Army No.49. Died during the Rzhev-Vyazemsk strategic operation of 1942. His surname and initials were engraved on the Aleksin monument in the Gorushki district: “To the Myshega soldiers who fell in battles for the freedom and independence of our Motherland in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." The monument was erected by the workers of Myshega for the 20th anniversary of the Great Victory in 1965.

Tarasenkov Sergey Nikolaevich. Sergeant of the Separate Aviation Sevastopol communications squadron No.130, driver. He went through the entire war and reached Berlin, participated in the heroic defense of the Caucasus. Awarded of the medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus " on May 1, 1944, the medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". After the end of the Second World War, my great-grandfather participated in the Soviet-Japanese war, 1945.