Heroes and feats

Dubinsky Leonid Pavlovich

Yakovlev Boris Vasilievich. 1941

Yakovlev Boris Vasilievich - third from the left

Born in 1909, Ulyotovsky District. 1069th Rifle Regiment of the 61st Army. Volkhov, Leningrad, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Baltic, 1st Belorussian Fronts. Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Red Star. Twice wounded and shell-shocked. Place of residence: Drovyanaya settlement. Photo taken in Moscow after the award ceremony. Bogdanov P. D. in the first row, third from the left.

Pedunenko Vasily Yegorovich

Born in 1909, Ulyotovsky District. 1069th Rifle Regiment of the 61st Army. Volkhov, Leningrad, 1st, 2nd, 3rd Baltic, 1st Belorussian Fronts. Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of the Red Star. Twice wounded and shell-shocked. Place of residence: Drovyanaya settlement. On photo Bogdanov P. D. with his war-brothers in Moscow (Bogdanov P. D. sitting)

Filonov Mikhail Guryanovich

Reshetnikov Mikhail Filippovich with his brother-soldiers. Senior Sergeant. Germany

Sukhorukov Mikhail Tikhonovich (1908-2007). Sergeant Major (Starshina)

Shamraev Fyodor Zakharovich. Born in 1901 in Tyunikov khutor (village), Voronezh Region. Called up in August 1941, Lebyazhye. Cadet, Senior Sergeant of the 1221st Rifle Regiment, 367th Rifle Division; 247th Sapper Regiment, 37th Sapper Division. Awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class, two Medals "For Courage", the Medals "For Battle Merit", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945". Demobilized in August 1945. He worked on the collective farms (kolkhoz) "Udarnik" and "Put' Communy" as a blacksmith, Chairman, foreman of a field-crop team, Head of a dairy farm. In Ploskoye village he was a Chairman of the Village Council, purveyor (supplier) of the village general store. He died in 1992.

. Shorinov Pyotr Grigorievich. Rank: Junior Sergeant. Photo was taken in Buinsk District (Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), 1940s. Source of photo: Military ID card. Photo was taken to get a military card.

Ponomarenko Nikolay Zakharovich. Private Soldier. On photo he is rightmost with his brother-soldiers. I don't know other people on the photograph. Manchuria, 1945

Gupalov Vasily Ivanovich. Lieutenant. This photo was found on the website "Feat of the People". Apparently it was attached to a personal file.

Krasnokutsky Mikhail Petrovich. Born in 1907 in Sredniye Chuburki khutor (village). In his youth he worked on a collective farm (kolkhoz) and in 1939 went to Moscow to the Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy as a foremost combine harvester operator. During the war he reached Poland where in August 1944 he was killed in action. His name is engraved on the obelisk among 220 other residents of Sredniye Chuburki khutor (village) participated in the war against Nazi Germany.

The wounded organized their own orchestra in the hospital. They performed not only for patients but also for residents of Yurievo town, Kirov Region, and the nearest villages and towns.