Every Russian family has its own Heroes. These are our fathers and grandfathers who defeated fascism during the Great Patriotic War. The sacred duty of each of us today is to preserve and pass on from generation to generation stories of courage and heroism.
The memory of the wartime is preserved in the stories of relatives and friends, the remaining letters from the front and in military photographs. The people who gave the descendants a peaceful sky over their heads should not be forgotten.
Employees of the FAA "ROSDORNIA" honor the feat of relatives who defended their Homeland in battles. We try to look up to our great ancestors in our daily work and daily life, we try to be like them.
No one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten!
Vasilyeva Evelina Yurievna, Head of the Press Service Department:
My grandfather, a participant and a disabled person of the war, Vasiliev Pyotr Ivanovich was born in the mountainous Azerbaijani village of Kirovka, In 1942, at the age of 18, he graduated from the 2nd Baku Military Infantry School and was sent to the active army to the North Caucasus Front with the rank of second lieutenant.
Near Mozdok, Peter commanded a machine-gun platoon and defended Vladikavkaz. After the liberation of Mozdok, while performing a combat mission near the village of Vinogradnoye, Pyotr Ivanovich was wounded and seriously contused. For the successful completion of the combat mission, he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". After treatment, my grandfather again walked along the front-line roads of Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, and ended the war in Yugoslavia. He received a second wound and concussion during the liberation of the Ukrainian village of Pyatikhatki. For his courage, he was awarded the second medal "For Military Merit".
Two military orders, 18 medals, confirm that Colonel Vasiliev Pyotr Ivanovich fulfilled his duty to the Motherland with honor and dignity during the difficult years of the Patriotic War.
After the end of the Second World War, Pyotr Ivanovich continued to serve in the Armed Forces of the USSR in various positions. Combining service with study, he graduated with honors from the Higher Party School under the Central Committee of the CPSU, Yerevan State University and the Higher School of Propagandists of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR. Grandfather, working at the headquarters of the 7th Guards Army (Yerevan) as an assistant to the head of the political Department of the Army, was twice elected a member of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Armenia, actively participating in the patriotic education of army and civilian youth, for which he was awarded a diploma of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Armenia, the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Armenia and the Presidium of the Central Committee of Cultural Workers of the USSR, as well as other certificates and diplomas.
We continue to honor the memory of him and his older brothers who died at the front.
Vasilyeva Evelina Yurievna, Head of the Press Service Department:
My great-grandfather Mikhail Nikitich Duda is from Ukraine. He died while crossing the Dnieper near the village of Pushkarevka. After the war, a monument to the dead and missing soldiers was erected there. My great-grandfather's surname is also on that obelisk. For many years, grandfather Mikhail was considered missing and only in the 70s, the yunarmeyts-searchers established a burial place in the mass grave of his grandfather and his fellow soldiers. Our relatives were invited to this event – the opening of the obelisk to the fallen in battle.
Lavrinenko Valery Nikolaevich, Deputy Head of the Department of Organizational and Methodological Work:
I want to tell you about the heroes of our family who defended their homeland in the Great Patriotic War.
Lavrinenko Ivan Stepanovich (my grandfather's brother) went to war in the autumn of 1943. He was a scout, a private, and how he fought is evident from the Award lists.
When crossing the Dnieper, Ivan Stepanovich was one of the first to cross to the other bank, dug in at a favorable line and opened fire on the enemy, covering the crossing of his comrades. During the battle, he destroyed five Nazis. For this feat, in February 1944, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
Two months later, in April 1944, Ivan Stepanovich received the highest soldier's award is the medal "For Bravery". During street battles in Odessa, seeing enemy snipers firing in the window of a residential building, Ivan Stepanovich climbed up the drainpipe and threw a grenade through the window and destroyed two snipers. Combing the streets of the city from enemy machine gunners, Ivan Stepanovich also captured an enemy officer riding a motorcycle.
And three months later Ivan Stepanovich died of wounds. He was 19 years old...
When the 18-year-old daredevil Vanka was drafted into the army, all the grandparents on the street breathed a sigh of relief – finally it will be quieter on the street. No one was surprised that Vanka was immediately taken into intelligence – where else would such a robber take?! And when the funeral came to Vanka, the whole street was crying ...
Filippov Afanasy Vasilyevich (my grandmother's brother) went to war in November 1941, was a driver and went missing in May 1942.
Filippov Alexander Vasilyevich (my grandmother's brother, she called him "Shurka") was a sapper and died while performing a combat mission in November 1943 on the Kerch Peninsula.
Bogatyrev Mikhail Timofeevich (my wife's grandfather) went to war in December 1941. He fought in the infantry and went missing near Leningrad in April 1942. His wife and four children stayed at home. The wife was a beauty, and after the war many people wooed her. But she waited for her Misha for the rest of her life, almost 50 years, and never got married.
Kornev Ivan Vasilyevich (my wife's grandfather) fought for six years from 1939 to 1945 and, in addition to the Great Patriotic War, went through three more wars: the Finnish One, in Mongolia on the Khalkhin-Gol River and the war with Japan. In April 1944, Ivan Vasilyevich was awarded the Order of the Red Star: as a senior driver, at night under enemy fire, he organized and, among other things, by his personal example provided urgent transportation of construction materials to restore the bridge blown up by the Nazis.
Lavrinenko Nikolay Mikhailovich (my favorite folder) was born in 1930.
Strong and unyielding, he lay for several years after a stroke, but still managed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory and survived his 90th birthday for a few days.
My folder is also a war hero. No, he did not fight the fascists, but as a 12-year-old boy, he saw the fascists right in front of him and hated them in an adult way. In the autumn of 1942, Manstein's tank army entered his hometown of Kotelnikovo in the Stalingrad region, which was rushing to the Paulus army surrounded at Stalingrad. Fascists lived in my father's house for several months. He told me how hungry he was stealing stew from the fascists (but if they had seen it, they would have been shot on the spot). Once, on the outskirts of Kotelnikovo, after a shootout between our scouts and the fascists, 12-year-old Kolka even took possession of the machine gun of the murdered fascist and hid the machine gun at home. But my mother (my grandmother) still found the machine and threw it into the cesspool (my grandmother told me this).
It is in those parts, not far from Kotelnikovo, that the action of the book and film "Hot Snow" by the outstanding front-line writer Yuri Vasilyevich Bondarev, who died two years ago at the age of 96, takes place.
Here it is – a short story of the heroic feat of the great ancestors of our family, the dead and survivors who defended the freedom and independence of our Great Motherland, who won the right to life for all of us – now living.
How can I forget about it?
How can my son and my grandchildren forget about this?
HOW CAN WE ALL FORGET ABOUT THIS?
Alexey Sergeevich Kozin, Deputy Head of the Department of the Register of New Technologies:
Egorov Nikolay Egorovich was born in Smolensk region (Andreevsky district, D. Kruchi) on May 15, 1924.
In order to get to the front at the age of 17, he attributed to himself 1 year and entered the service on September 26, 1941.
He fought at Mozhaisk, Bryansk, Minsk, Warsaw, Berlin, Konigsberg.
AWARDS:
Medal "For the Defense of Stalingrad" 22.12.1942
Medal "For military merit" 20.02.1943
Order of the Patriotic War II degree 13.07.1944
Order of the Red Star 03.04.1945
Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" 09.05.1945
Medal "For the capture of Konigsberg" 09.06.1945
Medal "For the capture of Berlin" 09.06.1945
Order of the Patriotic War I degree
Natalia Pudova, Head of the Department of Innovative Technologies in Engineering Research:
My great-grandfather was born in Astana, Kazakh SSR, was called up for military service at the age of 19 in 1939. In 1941, he was enlisted in the 316th Panfilov Rifle Division. He fought in 1941 in the Battle of Moscow. He was the commander of the mortar squad. In 1942, he participated in the Battle of Rzhev under the command of Colonel-General I.S. Konev. In 1943, he spent 45 days continuously in the battles on the Orel-Kursk Bulge. Personally killed two Germans: one in hand-to-hand combat, the other with a rifle. He was seriously wounded and concussed during a combat mission behind enemy lines. For the battles on the Kursk Bulge, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
