Heroes and feats

Until the second grade, I didn't know anything about my relatives who survived the terrible war with the Nazis. The teacher suggested that we learn about how our family went through those difficult years. I asked my grandmother Anya to tell me about them and found out a lot of just terrible details. I was shown documents from that time, which have been carefully stored for many years. My grandmother was able to tell me everything more than once. She cried a lot, remembering the stories of her mother, my great-grandmother Lyudmila Kuzmina. She says that when she heard the song performed by M. Bernes " the Enemies burned down his home, killed his whole family...", she cried very much. It turns out that it is no coincidence. We keep photos, an autobiography written by Lyudmila, birth and death certificates (very unusual). After studying them, I learned a lot about my family. A beautiful, cheerful girl looks at me from the photo. This is my great-grandmother Kuzmina Lyudmila Vasilyevna. She was born in peacetime, the fifteenth of June, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-first year. I want to tell you about her and her family. The village Raipolye lost in the swamps of the Pustoshkinsky district, Velikiye Luki oblast. The name is what a Paradise.... The Kuzmins family lived in this Paradise. The head of the family was Vasily Ivanovich Kuzmin, a Gypsy by nationality, his wife was a simple Russian woman Evdokia Stepanovna and children were two sons, Nikolay and Alexander and a daughter Lyudmila. Vasily Ivanovich, my great-great-grandfather, was the Chairman of the Berezovsky village Council before the beginning of the Patriotic War. Since 1927, he joined the AUCP (b). Evdokia Stepanovna worked as the Head of the district Committee of the Berezovsky village Council. They lived together. They have worked hard. In early 1941, the family moved to the Novosokolnichesky district, home of Evdokia Stepanovna. Here the war found them. Vasily Ivanovich went to the partisans. The eldest son, Nikolay, served as a liaison. Great-grandmother Luda many years later told her daughter about the tragedy, which she witnessed and participated in. This happened in April 1942. A German punitive detachment came to the village to deal with the families of partisans and Communists. Luda managed to hide in the neighbors' basement. The younger brother also managed to escape. Evdokia Stepanovna and her eldest son Nikolay stayed at home. The Nazis broke into the house and, presumably, first shot them, and then set them on fire. Girlfriend in the house where People were hiding and shouted: "Lucy, come here. Look, there's your mother lying on the porch. Her hair is on fire!» And Lucy was only 11 years old. She saw her mother on fire, and there was nothing she could do. After the departure of the punishers, the partisans and Vasily Ivanovich came to the village. He took his daughter with him to the squad. On the way, the partisans came across the Germans. A battle ensued. My father took Luda into the swamp and left her on a hummock to wait for him. He told her not to take a step anywhere, there was a swamp all around. The girl sat in the swamp all night. She was very scared and cold. In the morning, dad came and took her to the partisan unit. And he might not have returned after the fight. In the partisan detachment, Luda started going to the 3rd grade. We keep the death certificates of Evdokia Stepanovna and Nikolay. There in the column "cause of death" it is written: "Killed by the Germans, burned", "Killed by the Germans, burned". When our area was liberated by Soviet troops, brother Alexander asked to go to the front. Fortunately, he returned after the war. Vasily Ivanovich was sent to his pre-war work due to illness. Lyudmila finished the 6 grades. She started in seventh grade, but didn't finish due to illness. She worked, got married, and had children. There are now her great-grandchildren; it’s me and my sister Masha. We will always remember our relatives who went through a difficult time. When the Immortal regiment first marched through the streets of our city in 2014, my parents and classmates and I carried portraits of our relatives. They were victorious on the ground, watered with the blood of soldiers, but not inherited by the enemy. We will try to keep the world saved by our grandfathers.

Military Rank is Colonel. Branch of troops is Ground forces, Air Forces (except Naval aviation), shore service, Frontier NKVD troops. Subdivision: 9th Division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway grounds. Colonel of the USSR Frontier NKVD troops Kotov Sergey Nikilaevich was born December 17, 1904 in the village Sizma, Kirillov district of the Vologodsk region. In 1918 he finished 6 classes of the first stage and in 1919, 1 class of the 2nd stage. In 1926, he graduated from the Moscow Infantry school named after M. Yu. Aschenbrenner. In 1939, he completed 2 cources of Extention Couse Academy named after M.Frunze. Member o the CPSU (the Communist Party of Soviet Union) since 1926. Kotov Sergey Nikolaevich is a career officer, went through the entire war from 1941-1945, and was shell-shocked. The war found him with his family in Vilnius, where he served in the Army. At night, he was called to the division Headquarters and since then he has been separated from his family for 4 years. In June 1941, he held the position of Chief of the 2nd Staff Department of the 9th Rifle Division of the USSR NKVD troops for the protection of railway grounds and from the first minutes of Hitler's aggression against the USSR he became direct participant of the Great Patriotic War: in combat actions and battles at the North-Western and Western Fronts. Here there is information about fighting Major Kotov in the first days of the war.. The Headquarters of the 9th Rifle Division of the NKVD troops retreated to Moscow with the 84th Regiment commanded Major Piyashev. His wife, Kotova Claudia Alekseevna stayed alone with four young children (three sons and a daughter). On their way to evacuation area, Kotova Claudia Alekseevna and her children were bombed by Nazis; the train was destroyed, and all who remained alive were taken to concentration camps by Nazis. They didn't know anything about each other's fate during the whole war. Sergey Nikolaevich repeatedly sent requests to official authorities to search family during the war. The answer was that they were dead, missing in actions. In 1942, he served in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), where he met his second wife, Kazemirova Tamara Mikhailovna (1920-2003). In 1943, a daughter Svetlana was born (place of birth Moscow), in 1944, the second daughter, Alevtina was born.in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region), In 1945, after reuniting with the first family, he did not abandon the daughters of the second marriage, helped them financially and periodically they visited him as guests. After the war, his wife wrote memoirs of her incarceration with children in concentration camps. Sergey Nikolaevich ended the war on the 1st Baltic front with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel as Commander of the 31st Frontier Konigsberg Order of Red Star regiment of the USSR NKVD troops. Victory Day on May 9 he met in the East Prussia, in the town of Tapiau (now is city of Gvardeysk), 42 km from Konigsbergk, where 31st Frontier Regiment was deployed. After the Victory, the regiment had taken part in the liquidation of gangs on the territory of the Konigsberg region and Lithuania. In 1954, with the rank of Colonel, Kovov Sergey Nikolaevich retired to the reserve. After the service, he worked as a Deputy of the Butovsky workers' settlement Council of the Leninskiy district of the Moscow region. He died on November 23, 1974.

Klochkov Vasily Georgievich Rank: soldier of the Red Army. Military Branch: Land Forces, Air Force (except Naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD Troops, Border Guard Unit: 316th Rifle Division (1st Formation). Vasily Klochkov was born on March 8, 1911 in the village of Synodsky (today in the Voskresensky district, Saratov region). Russian. Together with his family he moved to the Altai during the famine in the Volga region in 1921. In 1929 he graduated from the school of the peasant youth in the village Lokot, Loktev District. In the years 1931-1940 he lived and worked in Mokshan, Penza region, and then in Saratov. In 1939 he became a member of the CPSU (b). In the years 1940-1941 he lived in Alma-Ata. In August 1940, he completed Union Institute the correspondence studies of the People's Commissariat for Trade of USSR. From May 1941 he worked as Deputy Manager of the trust of canteens and restaurants in the city of Alma- Ata. In 1941 Vasily Klochkov was drafted into Red Army and sent to the front, and in October-November In 1941 he fought as part of the 316th rifle division near Moscow in the direction of Volokolamsk. Appointment as a military commissar of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th Rifle Regiment (company commander - Captain P. M. Gundilovich). On November 16, 1941 he took part in the Dubosekovo Crossing in the Volokolamsk district of the Moscow Region, leading a group of tank destroyers in the defense against numerous enemy attacks. 18 enemy tanks were destroyed (however, according to the report of the regiment commander Colonel Kaprov the entire 1075th rifle regiment destroyed 15 tanks on November 16, 1941, and the German military archives show 13 tanks lost that day by the 11th tank army advancing near Volokolamsk). The words addressed to the soldiers: "Russia is big, but there is no retreat - Moscow is behind! - which were attributed to him, became known throughout the country. During the battle Vasily Klochkov died after throwing himself under an enemy tank with a pile of grenades. He was buried at the site of the battle and then reburied in the village of Nelidovo, two kilometers from the battle site.

CITY: the village of Staro-Saburovo, Nikiforovsky district, Tambov region DATE OF BIRTH: 02/14/1921 DATE OF DEATH: 09/27/2002 HISTORY: I dedicate my story to my great-grandfather - Andreev Ivan Mikhailovich (02/14/1921 - 09/27/2002), the holder of many Orders and medals ... My great-grandfather was born in the village of Staro-Saburovo, Nikiforovsky District, Tambov Region, into a peasant family. In 1940, he was drafted into the army and served in Armenia, in the city of Leninakan, near the Turkish border. There he met the first day of the war. The unit in which my great-grandfather served began to prepare for participation in hostilities. Soon she was transferred to Makhachkala, where defensive lines were being built. And in the first days of November, Ivan Mikhailovich was already on the Taman Peninsula. From December 1941 to May 1942, great-grandfather fought on the Crimean Front, from May 1942 to November 1943 - on the North Caucasian Front, from July 1943 to November 16, 1945 he served in the 62-gun artillery brigade as a senior radiotelegraph operator of the control battery, from November 16, 1945 to May 1946 he served in the 6th artillery division. He has many awards: - The Order of the Red Star - Medal "For Courage" - The Order of the Patriotic War II degree - The Order of the Patriotic War I degree - The Order of the Patriotic War I degree - The medal "For the capture of Berlin" - The medal "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. " -Order of the Patriotic War II degree Great-grandfather served as a signalman in intelligence, he often had to be on the front line to establish communications. On a mission, as a rule, they went alone or together with a partner in any weather: mud, rain, blizzard. Many amazing stories happened to him. At the very beginning of the war, before leaving on a mission, the landlady approached him and gave him a prayer sheet that was supposed to help him survive. Either Ivan Mikhailovich was destined to go through the whole war, or the truth of prayer helped, but his great-grandfather went through the whole war from beginning to end and was not even seriously wounded. Once, at the end of February 1942, his group stood near the village of Vladislavka on the Kerch isthmus. The Germans began a massive shelling, the great-grandfather got out of the dugout, crawled a couple of meters, and an explosion was heard behind his back. On the site of the dugout, a deep funnel, no one was left alive. A similar incident occurred in the forty-third year at Mount Mithridates. During a short break, my great-grandfather and a friend decided to sit by the boulder, but something pushed my great-grandfather to stand up and walk away literally two steps aside, as his friend was cut in half by a shell fragment, which exploded nearby. And there were enough such cases. The grandfather ended the war in the city of Loburg. The war ended, but for a whole year my great-grandfather served in Germany, all this time he was the constant standard-bearer of the 25th corps artillery regiment. Only in 1946 he returned to his homeland. I learned about the death of my older brother, the younger came wounded. My great-grandfather is a very brave man, he fulfilled his duty to the Motherland with honor. He worked all his life, when he came home he met his life partner, also a front-line soldier, together they raised and raised 6 children, including my grandmother. All the rest of his life he worked tirelessly, was a combine operator, driver, mechanic, was always a jack of all trades and did not refuse to help anyone. War is a cruel and rough school of life, but great-grandfather returned home, having managed to retain the best human qualities in himself: care, tenderness and kindness. He was calm, cheerful and surprisingly generous, unselfish person. I am very proud that I had such a great-grandfather. Dmitry Alexandrov, student of the 11th grade of the Municipal Autonomous EducationalInstitution "Lyceum No. 29", Tambov

Born on August 14 (27), 1915 in the village of Samushkino, Yadrinsky district, Kazan province. Member of the Great Patriotic War. War pilot. In 1942 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In 2000 he was promoted to colonel. He died in Moscow on September 3, 2013. Biography Born on August 14 (27), 1915 in the village of Samushkino, Yadrinsky district, Kazan province [1]. In 1931 he graduated from the 7th grade of the school in the village of Alikovo, in 1933 - the 1st year of the Cheboksary Pedagogical Institute, in 1934 - the courses of physical education instructors at the People's Commissariat of Education of the Chuvash ASSR. In January-August 1934, he worked as the executive secretary of the district council of physical education and physical education instructor of the Mariinsko-Posad regional executive committee (Chuvashia). In 1934-1936 he studied at the Moscow Institute of Physical Culture. In the army since August 1936. In 1939 he graduated from the Yeisk Naval Aviation School. He served as a pilot in the naval aviation (Air Force of the Black Sea Fleet). Member of the Great Patriotic War: in June-September 1941 - pilot of the 8th fighter aviation regiment of the Navy Air Force, in October 1941 - January 1943 - pilot, flight commander and deputy squadron commander of the 18th (from March 1943 - 8th Guards) assault Aviation regiment of the Navy Air Force, in January-March 1943 - squadron commander of the 47th Assault Aviation Regiment of the Navy Air Force. From March 1943 - commander of an air squadron, and in April 1943 - January 1944 - commander of the 8th Guards Attack Aviation Regiment of the Navy Air Force. He fought in the Air Force of the Black Sea Fleet. Participated in the defense of the Crimea and the Caucasus. He flew 234 sorties (of which 63 - on I-16 and LaGG-3 fighters, and 171 - on Il-2 attack aircraft). For courage and heroism shown in battles, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 24, 1942, Senior Lieutenant Efimov Miron Efimovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal. In June 1944 he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses of the Navy Air Force. In July-September 1944 - assistant commander of the 26th assault aviation regiment for flight training and air combat (Pacific Fleet Air Force). In 1944-1946 - senior pilot-inspector of assault aviation of the Flight Inspectorate of the Navy Air Force. In 1947 he graduated from the Higher Officer Courses of the Navy Air Force. In 1947-1954 he served as Chief of Staff of Fighter Aviation Regiments (Air Force of the Black Sea and North Baltic Fleets). In 1954-1957 - senior navigator of the 1080th air defense command post of the Baltic Fleet, since 1957 - senior navigator of the combat control group of the main command post of the Lvov air defense corps. Since July 1961, Lieutenant Colonel M.E. Efimov is in reserve. He worked as chief of staff of civil defense: one of the defense enterprises (1962-1965), the Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry (1965-1969), the Research Institute of Introscopy (1969-1970) and the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for the Standardization of General Technology (1970-1981 ). He lived in Moscow. He died on September 3, 2013. He was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow.

Ivanov Mikhail Vasilyevich was born in 1916 in the Leningrad region, in a working class family. After graduating from school (1932), he studied at a factory school (1934). He began his career at a plant in Kronstadt. Was drafted into military service, served in the Baltic Fleet, on the battleship Marat (1936). During the Great Patriotic War he took part in the heroic defense of Leningrad. He was seriously wounded (1942). Was being treated at a military hospital in Sverdlovsk. I learned about the formation of the Ural Volunteer Tank Corps, submitted an application, and achieved enrollment in the Sverdlovsk Tank Brigade. On May 1, 1943, he took the oath, swore an oath of loyalty to the working people. He served as a scout, repeatedly conducted reconnaissance of the enemy's front line of defense. He passed the military way from Kursk to Berlin. Liberated Prague. At the front, he joined the ranks of the CPSU (1944). After the end of the war, he came to Severouralsk (1955), got a job as a mechanic at the Cheremukhovskaya mine. After graduating from the evening department of the Krasnoturinsk Industrial College, he worked as a foreman in the mechanical workshops of the mine. Conducted a great public work. Elected as a deputy of the village council. Chairman of the primary organization of the "Knowledge" society, member of the board of the city society "Knowledge". After graduating from the Institute of Marxism-Leninism, he lectures on an international topic (1965). For high professionalism and active life position he was awarded the Order of the October Revolution, the jubilee medal “For Valiant Labor. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of V.I. Lenin ". For the valor and courage shown in the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of Glory of the III degree, medals "For military merit", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the liberation of Prague." He passed away on February 24, 1978. The staff of the Cheremukhovskaya mine filed a petition to rename Shakhtyorskaya Street into Mikhail Vasilyevich Ivanov Street - a participant in the Great Patriotic War in connection with the 40th anniversary of Victory. By the decision of the executive committee of the city council of April 25, 1985, the petition was warmly supported. A street named after Ivanov appeared in the village of Cheremukhovo.

CITY: s. Kinobol, Yuryev-Polsky District Vladimir Region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/16/1922 DATE OF DEATH: 04/15/2015 HISTORY: Type of Troops: Signal Corps Subdivision: 37th Infantry Division (2nd formation) Rank: Junior Sergeant Born in the village. Kinobol, Yuryev-Polsky district, Vladimir region. In the period from 1941-1945 served as a signalman in the airborne troops. Received the title of Junior sergeant. He was on the Stalingrad front, participated in the Battle of Kursk, the liberation of Belarus, the battles near Belgorod and the crossing of the Oder River. Awards received: Order of Glory, Order of the Patriotic War of I and II degrees, medals "For Courage", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For the Liberation of Belarus". He was wounded in both legs and shell-shocked. Fragments of an enemy shell hit the leg, but thanks to field surgeons, some of the fragments from the leg were removed, and the stuck fragments in the tendons had to be left in order not to make the soldier lame for life. Having spent more than a month in the hospital, Pavel Nikolaevich caught up with his fellow soldiers. Participated in the battles at the Kursk Bulge, was awarded the medal "For Courage". For battles in Poland he received the medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw". For crossing the Oder he was awarded the Order of Glory. When Pavel Nikolayevich served in a group of troops in Germany, he met a former prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp, Natalya Grigorievna, who was driven to Germany from the Kaluga region. And after her release, she worked in the service platoon of the unit. In peacetime, Pavel Nikolaevich worked at a bakery. He has three children and five grandchildren. When we all came to visit my grandfather, he talked about the war and loved to sing us a song about a wounded soldier, and then a tear flowed from him ..... Grandfather passed away on April 14, 2015.

CITY: Novozdockoye village, now Valuisky district, Belgorod region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1907 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Captain By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated November 5, 1944 for exemplary performance of command assignments and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, to the guard to Captain Aglotkov Fyodor Nikolaevich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. During the defense of Odessa, he bombed Romanian units in Belyaevka, Mayaki, Vygoda, Freindental, as well as the crossing of German troops across the Dnieper. During the defense of Crimea, he bombed parts of the avenue in the settlements of Kart-Kazak, Novo-Aleksandrovka, Ishun, Grigorievka. Member of the CPSU (b) since 1931. In the Red Army since 1929, in the Navy since 1934. In 1938 he graduated from the Naval Aviation School. Stalin. Since 1938 - navigator of the MBR-2 flying boat of the 82nd separate naval reconnaissance aviation squadron (OMRAE) of the Black Sea Fleet Air Force, based on Donuzlav. June 22, 1941 - navigator of the 82nd OMRAE detachment, lieutenant. From the beginning of the war until August 20, 1941, he flew 18 reconnaissance missions and 4 missions to bomb the Romanian port of Sulin. From August 20 to December 2, 1941 he flew 52 sorties, 43 of them at night. At the beginning of 1943 he took part in daytime raids on Taman. In April 1944, he began flying in the crew of the Guard Captain Chuprov, the new commander of the 1st Squadron. By that time, the squadron had relocated to Sokologornoye. On April 24, 6 Il-4s were in the lead in bombing a German convoy. All 6 bombers attacked the ship "Archduke Karl", but it was not injured. On the night of August 20-21, 1944, during an attack on the Constanta naval base (Romania), 11 Il-4 bombers were attacked by a pair of Bf.110G-4 night fighters from 8 / NJG6 (8th detachment of the 6th night squadron Luftwaffe fighters). Aglotkov's plane was shot down. The entire crew was killed: the commander of the 1st guard squadron Captain Chuprov, the navigator of the 1st guard squadron Captain Aglotkov, the communications chief of the 1st guard squadron, senior lieutenant Vorobiev, guard air gunner Sergeant Dovbnya.

DATE OF BIRTH: 01.01.1917 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Type of troops: Artillery Afonichkin Dmitry Pavlovich Born in 1917 Title: Lieutenant Position: Commander of the 1st fire platoon of 76mm Batteries / Cannons 1049 Rifle Regiment of 300 Rifle Division. He served in the Red Army since 1938. Lieutenant Afonichkin has repeatedly shown himself to be a brave commander in battles with the German invaders. In the battles near the settlement of Pyatnitskoye, he shot the Nazis soldiers who had settled in the houses with direct fire, destroying three enemy firing points. 10.06. 1942, the Germans crossed the river with large forces. North. DONETS near the village BOGORODICHNOE. Bypassing our defenses from the flanks under cover of strong mortar and artillery fire, the enemy decided to surround and destroy the firing position of the platoon commander Afonichkin. Despite the fact that the enemy was firing heavy weapons and mortar fire at the firing position and fighters were out of order from the calculation, Lieutenant Afonichkin tightly restrained his firing point. When the Germans approached 70-100 meters to the gun comrade. Afonichkin, he organized firing at the cortege from a gun. When firing direct fire, up to 70 fascists and two machine-gun nests were destroyed. enemy bullets pierced Afonichka's leg and liver, but he did not move away from the gun as long as there were shells, and the gun was intact. Two shells remained, the enemy bullet hit the gun's panorama and wounded the gun commander, who replaced the gunner after his death. Afonichkin weakened, the survivor is terrible, and the commander of the gun carried him out of the battlefield under a hail of bullets. Lieutenant Afonichkin is a faithful son of the Socialist Motherland, devoted to the cause of the Party of Lenin-Stalin, as a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), he systematically educated his subordinates in the spirit of an offensive impulse. For his special exploits comrade. Afonichkin is nominated for the Government award with the Order of the Red Banner. Later, the Order of the Red Star was presented for the award. Received the rank of senior lieutenant.

Mustakim Salakhievich was drafted into the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army in 1943 by the Kyzyl-Yulduz District Military Commissariat of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (now the Rybno-Slobodsky District) and assigned to 81 apabr (81st cannon artillery brigade). For participation in the battles to capture the city of Narva (06/27/1944); to break through the enemy defense northwest of the city of Tartu (09/20/1944); the capture of the city of Tallinn (09.22.1944); to break through the enemy defense north-west of the city of Pultazh (01/18/1945); the capture of the city of Marienburg (01/26/1945); on the capture of the city of Graudenz (06.03.1945); the capture of the city of Aylau (03/12/1945); on the mastery of the cities: Grayvoron, Rotenberg, Griva, etc. (04/30/1945); for the mastery of the city of Svinemunde (05/01/1945) Mustakim Salakhievich was awarded the following main awards: - Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; - medal "For Courage" - the date of the feat 03/18/1945-19.03.1945 (in the document TsAMO recorded as "Ibragimov Miftah Salafeevich"). In the award list for the medal "For Courage" his feat is described as follows: "Comrade M. Ibragimov. in battles with the German fascist invaders on the fronts of the Patriotic War, he showed himself to be a staunch, courageous, proactive and disciplined fighter. Working in the gun crew as an installer, Comrade Ibragimov, with his precise and precise work, all the time contributed to the successful fulfillment of the combat mission by his gun and platoon. Comrade Ibragimov took part in many battles, in which, despite the difficulties and dangers, he always performed all tasks quickly and accurately, firing, destroying the enemy's manpower and equipment. In the battles for the city of Gdansk on the approaches to it on March 18-19, 1945, Comrade Ibragimov, with his crew, destroyed 2-75 m / m direct-fire guns and / 3-gun 105 m / m enemy battery with crews that hindered the advance of our infantry. With the participation of Comrade Ibragimov, a number of enemy counterattacks were repulsed and many enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed. Comrade Ibragimov Miftah Salafeevich is quite worthy of the government award - the medal "For Courage" ”.

Yakov Nikitovich was drafted into the Red Army on 09/19/1939 by the Ukhtomsky RVK of the Moscow Region. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War from 06/26/1941. Served with the rank of Guard Senior Sergeant in the 64th Guards Artillery Regiment of the 31st Guards Rifle Vitebsk Order of Lenin, Red Banner Order of Suvorov, Division of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front. Being the driver of the 2nd division of the regiment, reliably and in a timely manner, regardless of the enemy's fire effect, he ensured the transportation of artillery and the supply of ammunition to the regiment's field guns. He was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the fact that on July 16, 1944 he participated in the crossing of the Neman River by a vehicle with a gun and ammunition under heavy enemy artillery fire and aerial bombardment, successfully completed the assigned combat missions, which contributed to the rapid deployment of the battalion and the success in holding a springboard against the German invaders. The breakthroughs of the Red Army in 1944 were so rapid that individual units and formations penetrated deeply into the enemy's defenses, while their rear and communications were threatened by the retreating, but not yet defeated enemy. In such conditions, the work of supply columns of military units became especially dangerous, the paths of which could be cut by the infantry and motorized units of the Wehrmacht, which emerged from the "fog of war". Such an incident occurred in the autumn battles of 1944 in East Prussia with the guard senior sergeant Ya.N. Isaev. While on a voyage with ammunition, the vehicles were attacked by a group of eight German infantrymen. An experienced guard senior sergeant vigorously took the battle and personally destroyed two infantrymen with fire from a carbine, and then crushed two more with a car. On that day, the ammunition arrived safely and on time at the firing position of the artillery battery. For the shown steadfastness, courage, personal courage and valor, Ya.N. Isaev 18.11.1944 was awarded the Order of the Red Star. The famous guards division, in which Yakov Nikitovich served, completed its combat path in East Prussia, seizing Konigsberg and Pillau (now Kaliningrad and Baltiysk, Russia) by storm, where it met the day on May 9, 1945.

On one of these May nights in 1918, in the yurt of the poor cattle-breeder Namgai, a boy was born as the third child in the family. They called him Churgui-ool. In those years, historical events took place in Tuva: there was a struggle for freedom. He was a strong boy, with bright dark eyes and a stubborn little chin. Churgui-ool lost his father early. The father died of illness. "He really was born to the sound of swords," Namgai thought, looking affectionately at his middle son. "He will be a brave man, and he will be very happy." As if he foresaw the future of his son, Churgui-ool really grew up as an inquisitive, intelligent guy. At 18, he secretly went to the army from his mother. But then there was such a case: when they wrote down the names of the guys, one person who stood in front of Churgui-ool said that his surname was Khomushku, then Churgui-ool said without hesitation that his surname was also Khomushku. from then on he became Khomushku. According to the document on-Churgui-ool Khomushku Namgaevich. When the years of service ended, Churgui-ool did not go home, enrolled in driver courses. Khomushku passed the off-road test steadily and courageously. He did not stop there, he began to think about entering a technical school, decided to become a mechanic, and then prepare for college. The childhood and youth of the son of simple arats Kuzhuget Namgaya and Hokpesh is not particularly different from others. The family together with Churgui-ool had 4 children: Serzhi the elder brother, Bichii-sister, Churgui-ool, Chule the younger brother. In his youth, he was a man with advanced views, responsible, headstrong, decisive in character. All his actions are evidence of this. June 22, 1941. From that day on, the Tuvan people began to fight against fascism: to help the front, and the young guys rushed to the front. In 1943, the first volunteer tankers went to the front, including Churgui-ool. After retraining, volunteer Tuvans received the specialties of drivers-mechanics. all of them were enlisted in the 25th regiment of the 72nd tank division. "... soon Uman was captured. The 25th Tank Regiment immediately received a double award: it was awarded the Order of the Red Banner and many tankers were awarded orders and medals. And Khomushku Churguy-ool, the son of an arat of their distant Tuva, became a Hero of the Soviet Union." A long and glorious way was passed by the crew, in which Khomushku worked as a driver. Later Churgui-ool took part in the battles for the liberation of Hungary, Romania and Czechoslovakia. I celebrated Victory Day in Czechoslovakia. The names of fellow soldiers Khomushku Ch.N. 1.Idam Kyrgys-1929 2. Kyzyl-Tas Tyulyush-1914 3. Nurzat Tulush-1917 4. Shoidun Tulush-1918 5. Hole Ondar-1918 6. Sayyn-ool Khovalyg-1922 7. Bortuy-ool Oyun-1921 8. Biche-ool Bai-Kara-1923 He returned as a hero from the Great Patriotic War. He began to work, began to build a peaceful life together with others. He married a girl from Tes-Khem kozhuun. They had two sons. After the death of his wife, he married a second time. Churgui-ool worked as chairman of the village council, was respected by everyone. More than once he celebrated the Victory with joy and sadness.

Rank: Petty Officer. Branche of service: Armored and mechanized troops. Ivan Kolesnikov (1923-2006). Born on September 21, 1923 in the Rostov Region, Chertkovsky District, village of Petrovka (mother Natalia, father Maxim). In June 1941, he graduated from school. He lived on Redkin's farm in the Chkalovsky (now Orenburg) Region. When the war began, he was still 17, but he asked to volunteer for the front, saying that he was already 18 years old. He was in the intelligence service. Once upon a time near Makeyevka (Ukraine) they were surrounded. Awards and documents (Order of the Red Banner (or Star), Komsomol membership ID, ID of a Candidate of a party member they had to bury in the forest. But fortunately, they escaped from the encirclement and got to their own. Later, he was sent to study at the tank school at accelerated courses of mechanics and drivers. And the rest of the years he fought in the tank forces. He graduated as a tank mechanic with the rank of Guards Sergeant. He fought in the 8th Guards Molodechno Red Banner Mechanized Regiment. He distinguished himself in the battles for the capture of the city of Molodechno (Belarus) and the city of Shauliai (Lithuania). Had one wound in the lung. He finished the war in Konigsberg. After the victory over the Nazis, he participated in the Soviet-Japanese war. He was demobilized in 1946. He was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree, Patriotic War 2nd degree, Medals For the Victory over Japan, etc. He died on March 20, 2006. Preserved photo with his comrades (tank crew), which says: "Memory of friends who served in the tank unit. Left to right: Ivan Kolesnikov, Vasily Nalobin, Nikolai Kulik. Primorsky Krai. 25.09.46"

Hero of the Soviet Union, a retired colonel. He was born on December 29, 1916 in Novonikolskoye village, Boguvarsky district, Voronezh region in a family of poor peasants. The family included his elder brother Mefodiy, born in 1900, Trofim, born in 1908, Ivan - 1910, Egor - 1914. The brothers, Trofim and Ivan, died at the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Andrey Matveyevich had two sons. Andrey, born in 1947, and Mikhail, born in 1952. Both followed in their father's footsteps - became tankers. Andrei retired to the reserve in the rank of colonel. Mikhail died of a heart attack in 1991. Andrey's grandson graduated from Kharkov Tank College, fought in Chechnya, and is currently doing military service in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In 1931 Andrey Matveyevich finished 5 grades, after graduating from the vocational school in 1933 he received seven-year-long education. In 1937, he graduated from the Kyiv Pedagogical Technical School by correspondence. In 1939, he graduated from the Saratov Armored School. In 1946, he graduated from the Academy of Armored and Mechanized Forces. In 1955, he graduated from the Academy of General Staff. From 1931 to 1937 he was a member of the Komsomol, from 1937 in the Communist Party. Before being drafted, he was elected to the Armed Forces, worked at a factory in Kamensk-Shakhtinsk. He held such job positions as: locksmith, assistant, and then head of the technical department at the repair plant in the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, Rostov region. He worked as a special cruiser M.T.S., pedagogical technical school. In 1937 he entered, in 1939 graduated from the Saratov Tank School. One year after graduating from the school, he was a political instructor of the Tank Company of the 257th Tank Battalion, 60th Tank Brigade. He commanded the tank company of the 68th Tank Regiment in the Kiev Special Military District. From August 1941, he was deputy commander of the tank battalion of the 18th Tank Brigade. Since January 1942, Deputy Commander of the 149th Independent Tank Battalion, 1st Guards Rifle Corps, 14th Shock Army. From July 1942 to December 1943, he was commander of the 2nd Tank Battalion, 94th Tank Brigade, 3rd Guards Tank Army. From January 1946 to November 1948, he was a battalion commander for cadets at the Saratov Tank School. He participated in the Great Patriotic War from June 22, 1941 to December 30, 1943. The battles took place from Brest to Moscow. He took part in the offensive operation of our troops near Stalingrad, surrounded by the 6th Army of Paulus. Participated in the liberation of Donbass and the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. He was awarded for bravery, heroism, skillful management of subordinates while performing combat missions. Orders: -Lenin; -Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union; -Two Orders of the Red Star; -Alexander Nevsky; -Fatherland War, First Class; Medals: - "For Merit in Combat" - "For the Defense of Moscow" - "For Victory over Germany" - "Military Service Veteran" - "For Irreproachable Service III, II and I Degrees". -9 jubilee medals. After his dismissal, he moved to Kamensk-Shakhtinsk, where he worked as an operator of a party organization, a military teacher training school. Honorary Citizen of Kamensk-Shakhtinsk. In 1996 he moved to Chelyabinsk to his son Andrey. He died on July 28, 2000. He was buried in the Uspenskoe Cemetery of the city of Chelyabinsk. Episodes from military life. In November 1943 there were heavy battles on the right bank of the Dnieper River. The tank brigade was fighting south-west of the city of Kiev, near the town of Vasilkov. The brigade was commanded by Hero of the Soviet Union Lieutenant Colonel Dragunsky (later twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General). In one of the directions, the tank brigade received data that a column of German tanks and armored vehicles was moving towards the location of the brigade. Captain A.M. Kovalyov was given the task of reconnoiterating the enemy and reporting on the size of the enemy. Battalion commander A.M. Kovalyov advanced on the tank, accompanied by two combat vehicles, towards the enemy and took up position for observation at the edge of the forest. He counted three tanks in the Germans' convoy, about a dozen vehicles with infantry, and reported that to the brigade headquarters. He decided to shoot at the Nazis. The head tank was hit in the first salvo; after the second salvo, the tank that closed the column caught fire. Firing from the tanks, the tankers destroyed the infantry, cars, in the course of this battle were hit all the tanks that were in the German column, destroyed 2 light tanks, 5 cars. The enemy could not withstand and began to retreat. A.M. Kovalev took advantage of this and expected their retreat. With three tanks, chasing the retreating Germans, occupied the settlement, which was to be freed by his brigade on this day. Taking advantage of panic in the enemy's ranks, the tank brigade under Kovalyov's command took advantage of the prevailing height, which it was going to take only the next day. Hidden at the altitude, he reported the results of the battle to the brigade headquarters. At that time, tank commander Rybalko arrived at the brigade headquarters to check the reconnaissance and prepare for the battle to take the settlement and the prevailing altitude. He immediately ordered the brigade commander to draw up documents to present A.M. Kovalyov with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. It was November 15, 1943.

Ivan Ivanovich Korovin was born on March 4, 1915 in Athemar village of Saransk district of Penza province. In October 1938 he was drafted into the army by the Saransk GVK of Mordovia ASSR. Immediately after the army came to the front. He was a sniper, participated in the battles of Bobruisk, in the defense of Moscow, in the Battle of Kursk, as well as in the capture of Koenigsberg. In August 1943, he received a head wound, and on November 26, 1944, he was tangentially wounded in the knee area. "In 1943, he was awarded the Medal "For exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and showed courage and valor". On August 15, 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, on September 28, 1944, the Order of Glory of the III degree, and on May 1, 1944, he was awarded the Medal "For the Defense of Moscow". In the award sheet to the order of the commander of the 102nd rifle division from August 15, 1944, according to which Korovin I.I. was awarded the Order of the Red Star, it is written: "Sgt. Korovin Ivan Ivanovich, secretary of the Komsomol organization of the company 40 of the Amur rifle regiment, in the Patriotic War from 11.1941, has a wound dated from 19.07.1943". Feat: "Comrade Korovin working as a partorganizator in the rifle company in preparation for the offensive conducted explanatory work among the personnel on the upcoming tasks to cleanse Soviet Belarus of the German invaders. During the offensive fights, Comrade Korovin was the first to rise into the attack and led the rest of the fighters, breaking into the enemy's trenches with a group of fighters captured 3 German soldiers. In the award sheet to the order of the commander of 102 rifle division from September 28, 1944, according to which Korovin I.I. was awarded the Order of Glory III degree, it is written: "Sgt. Korovin Ivan Ivanovich, 1915, sniper of 40 rifle regiment, was wounded on 30.08.1943. In the offensive battles against the German invaders, Comrade Korovin showed himself as an brave, courageous and determined soldier. Working as a sniper, Comrade Korovin, while carrying out a subdivision of the offensive operation, secretly making his way to the combat crews of the German defense with the fire of his sniper rifle shot down a German corrector who had a great view of our terrain and controlled the approaches to his defense, one officer and exterminated a German machine gun, which did not allow to approach the German defense. By the order of the troops of the 48th Army on July 16, 1943 he was awarded the badge "Excellent Signalman". He was also awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", the medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg”. He has the Order of "Patriotic War 2 degree" and medals for the anniversary dates of the Victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945. Ivan Ivanovich met the end of the war in Koenigsberg. He was demobilized on November 13, 1945 by order № 0340.