Heroes and feats

In the foreground is the Lieutenant Commander of a rifle platoon of the 289th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 97th Guards Red Banner Poltava Rifle Division. The photo was taken in October 1945 in Czechoslovakia.

faces of war Photo of A.P. Kurnyaev

faces of war Photo of Nikolai Vasilievich Zakharichev, born in 1912. Drafted into the ranks of the Red Army on June 2, 1941. On December 26, 1941, he was wounded and demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army.

Photo of Elisov Roman Anisimovich - a resident of the village. Preobrazhenka of Pugachevsky district

In the photo, among the musicians, Garbuzova Alexandra Ilinichna, a resident of the Chistoozerny district of the Novosibirsk region. In 1944, she took accelerated courses for telegraph operators in the city of Kalinin, from where she was sent to Belarus to the active front. Alexandra Ilyinichna served in the 110th separate communications battalion named after Alexander Nevsky. When a musical orchestra was created in the battalion, young Alexandra was the soloist in it, and her favorite song was "Chelita". In the front photo we see her with the orchestra.

Garbuzova Alexandra Ilinichna (pictured on the right), a resident of the Chistoozerny District of the Novosibirsk Region, with her comrades in arms. In 1944, she took accelerated courses for telegraph operators in the city of Kalinin, from where she was sent to Belarus to the active front. Alexandra Ilyinichna served in the 110th separate communications battalion named after Alexander Nevsky. She met the victory in Germany. Alexandra Ilinichna was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medal "For Military Merit", the medal "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany."

Garbuzova Alexandra Ilinichna (pictured on the right), a resident of the Chistoozerny District of the Novosibirsk Region, with her comrades in arms. In 1944, she took accelerated courses for telegraph operators in the city of Kalinin, from where she was sent to Belarus to the active front. Alexandra Ilyinichna served in the 110th separate communications battalion named after Alexander Nevsky. She met the victory in Germany. Alexandra Ilinichna was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medal "For Military Merit", the medal "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For the victory over Germany."

Smirnova Valentina Karlovna (pictured on the right), a resident of the Chistoozerny district of the Novosibirsk region, with the rank of corporal, fought in the anti-aircraft sanitary division as a reconnaissance observer, her task was not easy - among the roar of the bombings, to report the exact coordinates of the aircraft. Sometimes there were moments of respite, for example, in a front-line photo of a girl reading the newspaper «Pravda». Valentina Karlovna met the victory on the Danube in August 1945, she has been awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medal «For Victory over Germany”

Smirnova Valentina Karlovna (pictured on the right), a resident of the Chistoozerny district of the Novosibirsk region, with the rank of corporal, fought in the anti-aircraft sanitary division as a reconnaissance observer, her task was not easy - among the roar of the bombings, to report the exact coordinates of the aircraft. Sometimes there were moments of respite, for example, in a front-line photo of a girl reading the newspaper «Pravda». Valentina Karlovna met the victory on the Danube in August 1945, she has been awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medal «For Victory over Germany”

Stoilik Tatyana Ignatievna (pictured on the right), a resident of the Chistoozerny District of the Novosibirsk Region. The news of the war caught her on the dance floor. At the age of 20, she completed courses for paramedics in the city of Novosibirsk. In the early years, she served in a medical company in the 8th Panfilov Guards Division. Guard junior lieutenant of the medical service Stoykina (nee) Tatyana Ignatievna, as a paramedic of a sanitary company, also carried out checks on the roads. Tatyana Ignatievna has awards: the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, the medal "For the capture of Berlin", the medal "For the Victory over Germany", the Zhukov medal.

faces of war The photo shows: M. Tarasov, Evgeny Zhilyakov and G. Malkov. Photo of April 3, 1939.

Received 4 commendations: for the liberation from the Nazi invaders of the cities: Ostropol, Bratislava, Drohobych, for breaking through the heavily fortified enemy defense of northwestern city of Budapest.

Photo of Zhuravlev Konstantin Nikolaevich - a participant in the Battle of Stalingrad.

Minaev Ivan Maksimovich. Minaev Ivan Maksimovich passed the combat path as part of the 46th Army of the Ukrainian Front from Stalingrad, taking part in the liberation of Lugansk, Kharkiv, Krivoy Rog, Tiraspol, Bucharest, Budapest, Vienna, Brno.

faces of war Savelova Ekaterina Dementyevna - a resident of the city of Pugachev, Saratov region, was in the army from 1941-1943.