Heroes and feats

In the photo, the granddaughter of a librarian holds a portrait of a war veteran and her great-grandfather.

war veteran

Fyodor Andreyevich Knyazev (16.111925 - 1.06.1984) Born in the village of Ulyanovka, Kolyshleiskiy district of Penza region. On January 10, 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army. He fought in the 304th rifle regiment as commander of 85 mm, 122 mm and 152 mm guns. Title - sergeant. From August 1945 to September 1945, he took part in the war with Japan. He was awarded medals "For the victory over Japan" and "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy". He returned from the war without being injured. On the group photo Princes F.A. in the centre.

Fyodor Andreyevich Knyazev (16.111925 - 1.06.1984) Born in the village of Ulyanovka, Kolyshleiskiy district of Penza region. On January 10, 1943 he was drafted into the Red Army. He fought in the the 304th rifle regiment as commander of 85 mm, 122 mm and 152 mm guns. Title - sergeant. From August 1945 to September 1945, he took part in the war with Japan. He was awarded medals "For the victory over Japan" and "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy". He returned from the war without being injured. On the group photo Princes F.A. in the centre.

war veteran

Ivan Alexandrovich Kiselev (1924 - 1996, private, rifleman, awards: Order of the Red Star, etc.).

Participants in the Great Patriotic War. From left to right: 3rd: Ukhanov Ivan Petrovich from the village of Novogoryevsk, Yegoryevsk district, Altai Territory. The photo was taken in Moscow on June 8, 1942.

Group photo. Sitting from left to right: 1st - I.S. Potapov, 2nd - Mikhail Demin, 3rd - Vasily Merentsov. Residents of the Yegoryevsk district. The photo was taken in November 1942.

Group photo. First row from left to right: 2nd - Shevelev Andriyan Alexandrovich, born 1908. He fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front. He was awarded medals: "For Combat Services", "For the capture of Budapest", "For the Liberation of Belgrade", "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945".

In the photo, Maria Andreyevna Tsybinogina, born in 1923 (a worker's village of Balanda, Saratov Region). She wrote an application to the district military registration and enlistment office asking to be sent to the front. The summons arrived in November 1942. She served six months in Saratov in the 720th anti-aircraft regiment. Then they were loaded into echelons and taken to the front. Maria Andreevna Tsibinogina celebrated Victory Day in Beslau (Germany).

Alexey Petrovich Chesakov. The photo was taken in 1945 in Hungary, in the hospital where he was taken after a contusion in the head and wounds in the arm and leg.

Mikhail Nikolaevich Alekseev - born in 1918 (Monastyrskoye village, Balandinsky district, Saratov province). In the photo, him among his fellow soldiers (sitting on the right) in Belopolye in September 1941.

Aleksashkin Ilya Gavrilovich, Senior Sergeant, Nurlatsk district, village Bogdashkino, 1973. I was 13 years old when I saw this photograph. I used to keep it. And when I started working, I enlarged the photo.

My grandfather In the photo, my dear grandfather, Tronin Nikolai Romanovich. Participant of the Great Patriotic War, participant in the offensive Rzhev operation in 1942-1943.

On the image: Nikolay Aleksandrovich Prokhorov