Heroes and feats

Muratov Ivan Afanasyevich

Grigory Yakovlevich Khlameikin. Grigory Khlameikin was born on 15 January 1924. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was 17 years old. Having added a year to his life, he left for the front. The Red Army soldier Khlameikin got to the North-Western front. He took part in the Toropetsko-Kholmsk operation (1942), the Old Russian operation, which ended unsuccessfully. As part of the North-Western Front, Bryansk was liberated. He went through almost the entire war, but did not reach Berlin. On April 1, 1945, during the battles near Kranowitz (Poland), he was seriously wounded. He was awarded two orders and medals. He died on 24 January 2000.

Maximkin Maxim Efimovich. Maxim Yefimovich Maxim was born in 1910 in the village of Malye Streltsy in the Kolyshlya district of Penza region. In 1934 he was conscripted into the Soviet Army as an ordinary Red Army soldier in the 96th rifle regiments. In 1939 - the Finnish war, in the 90th rifle regiment as the commander of the rifle squad. 1941 (WWII) - commander of the 375th squad of the anti-tank battalion. He fought in the Kalinin direction, in the battle for Torzhok. In 1941, the first wound. In 1942 he took part in the defense of Leningrad. In 1944 - the Vitebsk offensive operation; second wound. He ended the war in Germany. Awards: medals for military merit, for courage, for the victory over Germany. He died on August 3, 1980.

Anna Grigorievna Lysova. Born in Suschevka village, Kolyshleyskiy district, Penza region, Russia. On July 25, 1923 she left for the front at the age of 19 in 1943. She found herself at the South-Western front near Stalingrad. Served in the 56th Railway Cargo Air Defense Regiment, 1322 battalion of anti-aircraft gun platoon. She took part in the Ostrogozhsko-Rossoshanskaya operation. She escorted trains with cargoes to the front, was always in the 20 km zone from the front line. Liberated Ukraine. As part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, she took part in the Berlin operation. Met the victory in the suburbs of Berlin. She was demobilized on August 15, 1945. She died in 1985.

Odnoral Stepan Alekseevich, 1926 - 1978. Graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Communications. Before the war itself he was taken to the military training camp for several months, so he got to the front from the first day of the war. He served as a senior lieutenant. He demined cities. Demobilised in 1946. He was awarded the Order of Glory for Victory over Germany. Died in 1978.

Evdokia Vasilievna Goroshkina, 1924 - 1972. Born in the village of Treskino, Lunino district, Penza region. During the war she came to Leningrad, and by the will of fate the family became a hostage of the terrible blockade of Leningrad. After the liberation of Leningrad was conscripted to military service as a telephone operator. She has awards and medals. After the war she married and gave birth to three children. She spent her whole life working at the Penza Bike Plant. She died in 1972.

Ivan Petrovich Goroshkin was born in the village of Treskino, Luninsky district, Penza region, Russia. After graduating from a decade in 1939 he entered the Penza State Pedagogical University, Faculty of History. When he finished the second year, the war broke out. He was called to the front in September 1941. He took part in the Battle of Moscow, fought on the Belarusian and Ukrainian fronts. Wounded (shrapnel wound in his right hand). He received awards: Order of the Patriotic War, Medal for the Battle of Moscow, Medal of Courage and others. After the end of the war, he married and continued his studies at PSPU. He taught history, labour and mathematics at rural schools.

Pavel Grigorievich Arkhipov is a native of the village of Monastyrskoye, born in 1914. Pavel Arkhipov participated in the defence of Leningrad, in breaking through the blockade of the besieged city on the Neva as part of the 177th Separate Artillery Division of the Leningrad Front. He liberated the cities of Tikhvin, Vyborg. For courage and heroism Arkhipov was awarded medals "For Combat Services", "For the Defence of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany".

Photo of Berlin (1945) from the archive of Markin Mikhail, our countryman.

Photo of Berlin (1945) from the archive of Markin Mikhail, our countryman.

Ovchinnikov Valentin Nikolaevich; rhetorician - commander of the rifle division. Ukrainian front: Dnieper forcing. Source: the story of the veteran himself. The photo was taken after the war, when he served in the fire service, where he continued to wage war with fire in peacetime. This photo hangs in the Firemen's Museum of Fame No 31 in Orenburg.

Letter from Maria Tereshina announcing the death of her husband Ivan Fedorovich. He was killed on 28 June 1942.

Fyodor Fyodorovich Khramov, portrait

the photo shows my great-grandfather, Boris Samuilovich Polestiner, taken in 2008.

Vladimir I. Lobanov, 1919 - 2008. In the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army since November 1941 Place of Recruitment: Ryazan GVK, Moscow. Ryazan, Ryazan region. Title: Junior Lieutenant. Place of service: 80 Sv 17 Sv. Awarded with the Order of the Red Star. Date of heroic deed: 29.08.1943 Deed: "Participated in battles on the Central Front in the 149th Novgorod-Volynskaya Rifle Division, first as a commander of the 233rd Engineer Battalion Division, then as a commissar of the 2nd Battalion, 479th Rifle Regiment. He was seriously wounded near Sevsk on 29.08.1943. He was cured in Ryazan EG № 1748 from August 1943 to February 1944. After recovery he was sent to Zhitomir in 80 spare rifle regiment".