A living little boy Petya with a shock of curly blond hair on his head ... Many find similarities between him and his great-grandfather Kuzmenko Ivan Petrovich, famous in Kushmurun.
Ivan Petrovich worked as a history teacher at the Kushmurun school for many years. Several generations of his students recall that next to him they wanted to pull themselves up, corresponding to his military bearing and composure. He invested in the souls of his students the most important concepts in life: honesty, responsiveness, justice. It was these qualities that he brought up in his children: Olga, Natalia and Evgeny. Olga Ivanovna Filatova and her daughter, Elena Vladimirovna Yaroshik, continuing the work of their father and grandfather, work at the school. Evgeny Ivanovich Kuzmenko is a talented poet and artist, lives in Russia, in Krasnoyarsk. But nostalgia for the expanses of the steppe is alive, the connection with the native village has not been lost. Understanding that the main thing in this life is the thread that binds generations, in order for the memory of his father to live for many more years, Evgeny Ivanovich collected all possible material and handed it over to Petya Yaroshik, the great-grandson of Ivan Petrovich.
I think it's worthy of emulation. Only in this way can we prepare a worthy replacement for the great fathers.

Musaeva M.A. , teacher of Russian language and literature of Kushmurun secondary school No. 121

By e-mail, a letter was sent to the name of a student of class 10-B of Kushmurun secondary school No. 121:

Petya, hello!

I was going to write to you about my dad (your great-grandfather), but as it turned out, I don’t know anything about him. He himself said almost nothing, did not like to remember the years of the war.
I will write what I know and what I managed to find on the Internet. I understand that it is still difficult for you to understand these cards, but over time, if there is interest, you will figure it out. By then you will have a computer and there will be a lot of new things on the Internet. Now the military archives have not yet been processed. Keep what you have for now.
Keep a certificate from the central archive of the Ministry of Defense, although the information there is scarce, there are names and numbers of the units in which your great-grandfather fought, it is easy to find the necessary information on the Internet.
And you can rightfully be proud of your great-grandfather, he walked hundreds of kilometers along front-line roads. Not just passed, but with heavy battles, risking his life every day, shedding blood, drowning in swamps, freezing in the trenches, and it's a miracle that he survived in this hell.
Thanks to him, we live. Contused, two wounded. The second is very heavy, in the knee joint of the right leg and buttock. From March 23, 1945 to January 1946, he spent in the hospital, extensive gangrene, several times they wanted to amputate his leg. Several fragments remained in it forever near the spine. The consequences of a concussion and a wound in his right leg tormented him until his last days.

In the Red Army since November 1942.
Fought in the Volkhov, Leningrad,
2nd Belorussian fronts (PART NUMBERS IN THE ARCHIVAL REFERENCE).
He liberated the Leningrad region, participated in the battles to lift the blockade of Leningrad, liberated Belarus, the Baltic states, Poland, East Prussia and Pomerania.
More on combat operations below.

And so in order:

KUZMENKO IVAN PETROVICH, was born on May 23, 1924 (the place of birth is indicated in the archival certificate), lived there until 1939, then moved to Kushmurun to build the Kartaly-Akmolinsk railway (now Astana). His childhood was difficult, his father died in 1933, he was a participant in the First World War, from 1915 to 1918, was in German captivity. According to the stories of his grandmother Sonya, he was awarded the St. George Cross, and was a paramedic at the front. My grandmother stayed with three children: my dad, d. Grisha and comrade Katya. Barely survived the famine of 1932, dad and village Grisha caught ground squirrels in the steppe and sparrows, and they ate this.

school photo 1936, dad next to the teacher, on the right.

He studied well at school, was a good athlete, had the title of "Voroshilovsky shooter", he was awarded to those who shot perfectly.

1941 Dad, Comrade Katya, village Grisha.

In the Red Army since November 1942.
From November 1942 to 05/08/1943 he was a cadet of the Zlatoust machine-gun school (see archival reference). As he recalled, it was the most difficult time. Great physical exertion, a constant feeling of hunger, the food was bad, the products were sent to the front. I ate my fill for the first time in six months when I arrived at the front.
In May 1943, with the rank of Jr. As a lieutenant, he arrived at the Volkhov Front, in the 2nd Shock Army, 44th Infantry Division, 25th Infantry Regiment (then 305th Infantry Regiment) as commander of a machine-gun platoon.
Judging by the front-line photographs, at the end of 1943 he was awarded the officer rank of lieutenant.

THE PHOTO IS MADE ON THE VOLKHOV FRONT. 1943

The enemy did not lose hope to restore the blockade of Leningrad again. On May 10, 1943, he launched an offensive with the forces of the 212th Infantry Division, which was thwarted by our troops.
All plans of the enemy to restore the blockade of Leningrad were thwarted. Moreover, the enemy was unable to use the forces of Army Group North in other directions. And already at the beginning of June 1943, in these battles, dad was wounded in his left leg. Further in the texts, operations, battles, actions of the units, in which the father fought, are highlighted in yellow. Colored circles and arrows on the maps indicate the locations and directions of strikes of the units in which he fought.

THE SITUATION ON THE VOLKHOV FRONT IN MAY 1943

PAD'S BATTLE PATH ON THE VOLKHOV FRONT 1943-1944. THE PLACES OF DISTRIBUTION AND BATTLE IN WHICH HE FIGHTED ARE DESIGNATED. MARKS MADE BY THEM, I JUST HIGHLIGHTED THEM IN RED, (accidentally found in the atlas)

It's just luck! I managed to find on the Internet the form of the 44th rifle division, a detailed description of the hostilities, and just for the period when my dad fought in it on the Volkhov front.

44 rifle division on 11/22/1943-02/20/1944

F. 44 rifle division, Volkhov front. Description 1. Case 1.
Division form.
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From 11/22/43, the division went on the defensive, taking an additional bridgehead on the western bank of the Volkhov River in front of the enemy stronghold Zelentsy, Kurnikov Ostrov, Lezno.
On January 13, 1944, the 25th Infantry Regiment of the division transferred its defense sector to the 305th SKP, which was in reserve, and received an additional defense sector from the 1016th Infantry Regiment of the 288th Rifle Division. Bridgehead on the western bank of the Volkhov River: the mouth of the Lyubunka River, Pekhovo, the confluence of the Lyubunka and Pertechenka Rivers, the railway. bridge over the Volkhov river.
On the night of January 20-21, 1941, units of the division went on the offensive and broke through the heavily fortified, deeply echeloned long-term defense of the enemy, overcoming the system of engineering barriers and German counterattacks on 21.1.44, captured the strongholds of Menevsha, Melehovo, st. Tigoda, Zelentsy, Kurnikov Island, Khmelishche, Vodose junction, Vodose.
Sheet 10.
Pursuing the retreating enemy by 23.1.44, they reached the line of the Dobrokha, Karlovka, Metino, Pertechno rivers, where, having entrenched themselves at the intermediate line of defense, the enemy for 5 days offered fierce opposition to attempts by parts of the division to break through to the Chudovo mountains. The battles on this intermediate defensive line were fought continuously and were more fierce. The enemy made more than 15 counterattacks within 5 days, and the number of counterattacking groups sometimes reached up to 150-200 people. All enemy counterattacks were shattered by the staunch resistance of our troops and were repulsed with heavy losses for him. By the morning of 1/28/44, parts of the division, having completed the regrouping, pulling up reserves and rear lines, broke the enemy’s resistance and having captured Karlova, Metino, Pertechno and 10 other settlements during 28/1/44, continued further pursuit of the enemy retreating in the general direction to the Oktyabrskaya railway .d.
At 0300 hours on January 29, 1944, units of the division, on the shoulders of the retreating enemy, fought their way into the city of Chudovo, eliminating the last stronghold of the enemy on the Oktyabrskaya railway. and thereby freeing the main railway line connecting the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, with the largest industrial, cultural and economic center - Leningrad.
For success in the battles for the city of Chudovo, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of January 29, 1944, the division was given the honorary name "Chudov".
The significance of the battles for the city of Chudovo and the successes achieved by parts of the division can hardly be overestimated.
These battles have demonstrated the high military skill of our troops, the maturity of the officers, the ability of the officers to direct offensive operations in accordance with the basic principles of modern combat tactics.
Thanks to the occupation of the city and the largest junction railway station Chudovo - Leningrad was completely liberated from the thirty-month blockade and the shortest railway was cleared. The highway connecting Leningrad with the whole country.
For 9 days of continuous fighting, over 1000 enemy soldiers and officers were destroyed, over 30 people were taken prisoner, over 30 settlements were liberated from German occupation, 5 railways. stations and a large regional center of the Leningrad region. - Mountain Chudovo.
Over 500 people were awarded orders and medals of the USSR for the skillful fulfillment of combat missions of the command in the battles for the city of Chudovo.
On January 29, 1944, units and divisions put themselves in order, pulled up the rear.
On the morning of 1/30/44, the division continued further pursuit of the enemy retreating in the direction of the railway. line Leningrad - Novgorod.
On January 31, 1944, the 25th joint venture took possession of Kortsovo-2, Sennaya Kerest, Olkhovka, and the 146th joint venture with a detour on virgin snow 1.2. 44, knocked out the enemy from the village of Krivino, Friday, 305 SKP after the occupation of Olkhovka on February 2, knocked out the enemy from the station of Rogavka (Finev Lug), freeing the last railway. station on the railway road Leningrad-Novgorod.
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During this period, the division captured more than 50 enemy soldiers, officers, of which more than 30 Vlasovites.
Since February 1944, in accordance with the order of the Military Council of the Volkhov Front, the division was withdrawn to the front-line reserve and, having completed a 70-kilometer march, by 5.2.44 concentrated in the area of ​​the Podberezye station 21 km north of Novgorod.
In the period from 5.2.44 to 11.2.44, units of the division put themselves in order, pulled up the rear and engaged in combat training of personnel.
From 5.2.44 to 10.2.44, a reinforcement of privates, sergeants and officers arrived in the division in the amount of 1850 people.
On the night of 11/12/2/44, in pursuance of the order of the commander of the 111th Rifle Corps, units of the division set out for a new concentration area. Having made a 70-kilometer march to the south-west, by 13.2.44 they concentrated in the area of ​​​​the village of Tarebutitsy (8 km) northwest of the city of Shimsk).
In the period from 13.2.44 to 15.2.44, parts of the division were engaged in combat training and carried out reconnaissance of the upcoming combat area.
On the night of 15/16/2/44, units of the division changed units of the 225th Rifle Division and occupied the line: Kukshino, the northern edge of the forest, which is 2 km north of Shimsk.
From February 17, 1944 to February 20, 1944, units of the division, in cooperation with 502nd OOTB and two companies of 124th OTLP, fought continuous fierce battles to capture the large stronghold of the intermediate line of defense - Mshaga - Voskresenskoye.
During the existence of the Volkhov Front, its troops carried out a number of significant defensive and offensive operations, among which the most important place is occupied by the operations to break the blockade of Leningrad in January 1943 and Novgorod-Luga, associated with the final removal of the enemy blockade from the besieged city in January - February 1944 The troops of the Volkhov Front played a decisive role in the defeat of the Tikhvin grouping of the enemy, frustrated his plans to make a breakthrough to the river. Svir, join here with the Finnish troops, finally close the ring of the enemy blockade around Leningrad and strangle the city of the great Lenin by starvation, artillery shelling and bombing from the air. The soldiers of the Volkhov Front are rightly proud of the fact that they took an active part in the defense of Leningrad, in the defeat of the forces of Army Group North, and above all its 18th Army.

Oranienbaum bridgehead

Oranienbaum bridgehead (also known as Oranienbaum Piglet, Primorsky bridgehead, Tamengont Republic, Lebyazhinskaya Republic, Malaya Zemlya) is an area on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, which was cut off from the main Soviet forces during the Great Patriotic War and played a significant role in the defense of Leningrad.
ORANIENBAUM BRIDGE HAND (Primorsky foothold), terr. along the coast of the Gulf of Finland., from the river. Funnels to Peterhof (about 65 km long along the front, up to 25 km deep). It was formed on September 16, 1941 after the breakthrough of the german. troops to the Gulf of Finland. in the district of Uritska, was held by parts of the Kr. Army with the support of coastal and naval artillery Balt. of the fleet (the Krasnaya Gorka and Gray Horse forts played an exceptional role in the defense of the Opposite). O.'s connection with L. was carried out through the Gulf of Finland. and Kronstadt along the "Small Road of Life". Initial the defense of the O. p. was carried out by the troops of the 8th Army, from November. 1941 - troops of the Primorsky operational group Leningrad. front.
Nov. In 1943, the 2nd Shock Army was deployed to the O.P., participating in the operation to lift the blockade (Jan. 1944)."January Thunder", Krasnoselsko-Ropshinsky operation or Operation "Neva-2" - a major military operation of the Soviet troops, carried out in January 1944 under the command of Major General Ivan Fedyuninsky and Colonel General Ivan Maslennikov southwest of Leningrad. It led to the complete lifting of the blockade of Leningrad and threw the enemy back at a distance of 60-100 km from the city. She completed Operation Iskra, carried out a year earlier, to break through the blockade ring, and also led to the destruction of the Peterhof-Strelninskaya enemy grouping.

LENINGRAD, May 28, 1944, courses for anti-aircraft gunners - machine gunners.

Belarusian operation (1944)

Participated in the battles for Belarus, the Baltic States as part of the 2nd Belorussian Front, 2nd Shock Army, 381st Rifle Division, 1261st Rifle Regiment, commander of a machine gun platoon.

LIBERATION OF THE SOVIET BALTICS. July-November 1944

Belarusian offensive operation (1944), "Operation Bagration"- a large-scale Soviet offensive operation of the Great Patriotic War, carried out June 23-August 29, 1944. It was named so in honor of the Russian commander of the Patriotic War of 1812, P.I. Bagration. One of the largest military operations in the history of mankind.
Soviet troops of the 1st Baltic, 3rd, 2nd and 1st Belorussian fronts (General of the Army I. Kh. Bagramyan, Colonel General I. D. Chernyakhovsky, General of the Army G. F. Zakharov, General of the Army K. K. Rokossovsky) with the support of the partisans broke through the defenses of the German Army Group Center in many areas (Field Marshal Ernst Busch, then Walter Model), surrounded and eliminated large enemy groupings in the areas of Vitebsk, Bobruisk, Vilnius, Brest and east of Minsk.
During this extensive offensive, the territory of Belarus and part of the Baltic states were liberated, and the German Army Group Center was almost completely defeated. The Wehrmacht suffered heavy losses, in part because Hitler forbade any retreat. Subsequently, Germany was no longer able to make up for these losses.
The largest fascist group was defeated, the enemy lost more than 400 thousand soldiers and officers, more than 200 thousand Nazis were captured.

EAST PRUSIAN AND EAST POMERANIAN OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS. Battle path Kuzmenko I.P. in Poland and East Prussia and Pomerania marked on the map by himself.

East Prussian operation (January 13-April 25, 1945) - during the Great Patriotic War, Soviet troops of the 2nd (Marshal of the Soviet Union K.K. Rokossovsky) and 3rd (General of the Army I.D. Chernyakhovsky, from February 20 - Marshal of the Soviet Union A. M. Vasilevsky) Belarusian fronts in cooperation with the Baltic Fleet (Admiral V. F. Tributs) broke through the powerful defenses of the German Army Group Center (Colonel-General G. Reinhardt, from January 26 - Army Group North, Colonel-General L. Rendulich), reached the Baltic Sea and eliminated the main enemy forces (over 25 divisions ), occupying East Prussia and liberating the northern part of Poland.

Map of the East Prussian operation January 13-April 25, 1945

Map of the East Pomeranian operation, February 10-April 4, 1945

A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGHTS IN EAST PRUSSIA AND POMERANIA IN WHICH PAPA PARTICIPATED
(excerpts from documents found online)

On the morning of February 10, the troops of the left wing and the center of the front resumed the offensive, striking from a bridgehead on the left bank of the Vistula (Scheme 2). Overcoming the fierce resistance of the defending units of the enemy, who sought to delay the advance of our troops, the armies advanced in separate sectors from 5 to 10 km in a northwestern direction during the day of the battle. army (commanded by Colonel General Batov P.I.) on the left bank of the Vistula. The regrouping was associated with great difficulties, since they basically had to be transported across the Vistula on ice, in the face of impending spring floods. But, despite great difficulties, the main forces of the 2nd shock army were transferred to the left bank in a timely manner.On February 16, the army brought into battle one rifle corps from the area west of Graudenz, striking north along the left bank of the Vistula. The offensive of our units in this direction developed slowly, and the fighting was fierce. This was due to the fact that the enemy in the zone of action of these formations created a strong and deeply echeloned defense, the basis of which was strong strongholds and nodes of resistance.
Having entered the borders of Eastern Pomerania, our troops had to fight in an area abounding in lakes, swamps, most of which did not freeze in winter, and almost entirely covered with forests.The city of Elbing was blocked in the first days of February 1945 as a result of the rapid advance of the troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front in East Prussia.
Subsequent battles for the city of Elbing were fierce and abounded in a large number of examples of courage, bravery and military skill shown by soldiers, officers and generals of the Soviet Army.The most successful in these battles were the actions of the 381st Rifle Division, whose units were the first to break into the city and inflicted heavy losses on the defending enemy garrison. The rapid night actions had a stunning effect on the enemy and ensured the advance of the division's units to the opposite bank of the canal.This sudden night blow solved a big and difficult task. Not only was a large enemy grouping defending in the shipyard area defeated, but the fate of its garrison defending Elbing was also decided. On February 10, 1945, the right-flank formations of the front captured the city by storm.The motherland highly appreciated the feat of arms of the troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front, who participated in the assault on the city of Elbing. On February 10, 1945, the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, saluted the valiant soldiers with 21 volleys of 220 guns. Many distinguished units were given the honorary title of "Elbing".

Gratitude for the capture of the city of ELBING

Simultaneously with the battles to capture the city of Elbing, formations of the 2nd shock army of the 2nd Belorussian Front continued their offensive against the city and the Graudenz fortress. The enemy garrison, blockaded in the city, numbering more than 15,000 soldiers and officers, had a significant number of assault, field and fortress guns, and also had more than 100 mortars and a large number of faustpatrons. In the fortress were concentrated large reserves of everything necessary for combat in a long siege. The commander of the troops of the 2nd shock army presented an ultimatum to the head of the enemy garrison. In order to avoid unnecessary bloodshed and destruction, he offered the enemy to lay down their arms and surrender. At the same time, the Soviet command guaranteed the preservation of the lives of all soldiers and officers, and with the end of the war, their immediate dispatch to their homeland. However, the head of the Graudenzen garrison, General Fricke, rejected the proposals of the Soviet command to surrender. Moreover, as if in response to our proposals, the enemy blew up all the bridges across the Vistula. In this regard, our troops were forced to begin preparing a decisive assault on the city. The attack was supposed to be carried out simultaneously from three directions. From the north and northeast, it was decided to continue blocking the enemy garrison with the forces of two fortified regions, and after three to four days, the 381st rifle division was brought into battle in this sector, which, after clearing the Elbing region and surrendering its combat sector to other units, was withdrawn to this direction. In order to hasten the defeat of the enemy in Graudenz, the approaching 381st Rifle Division was introduced into the battle. On the morning of March 2, our troops began to gradually compress the encirclement, striking from the north, east and south. The enemy, who offered fierce resistance, made several attempts to break out of the encirclement, but all of them were unsuccessful. By March 6, 1945, formations of the 2nd shock army surrounded the enemy garrison in the fortress in a dense ring and began preparing for its assault. But the garrison of the Graudenz fortress, numbering more than 5,000 soldiers and officers, led by the head of the garrison, General Frikke, stopped resistance and capitulated.

Gratitude for the capture of the cities of GRUDZYANDZ (GRAUDENTS), ANGER and STAROGARD

During the tense battles, our troops operating in Eastern Pomerania achieved significant success and created the prerequisites for the subsequent defeat of the Vistula Army Group.The troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front in nine days of fighting advanced 50-70 km deep into Eastern Pomerania and captured a large number of cities and towns. During this time, the capital of our Motherland, Moscow, saluted the valiant troops of the front three times.
In mid-March 1945, the battle in Eastern Pomerania entered its last, final stage.
The troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front, developing the offensive from the south and west to Danzig and Gdynia, went directly to the front line of defense of the enemy's Danzig-Gdynia fortified area.
It should be emphasized that in the area of ​​Danzig and Gdynia our troops encountered very strong enemy defenses. In addition to the developed defense system on the outskirts of these cities, each of them in itself and the settlements adjacent to it were fortified areas.
Having completed the liquidation of the enemy grouping in the Altdamm region and having occupied this important operational bridgehead, the troops of the right wing of the front were able to begin preparing their formations for the upcoming decisive battles in the Berlin direction as early as March 21.

Connection history:

It was formed from units of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd guard divisions of the Leningrad people's militia and units of 701sp 142sd from September 24, 1941 at positions near Staro-Panovo - Uritsk. The rifle regiments of the division were formed as follows: the 25th rifle regiment was renamed from the 2nd rifle regiment of the 1st rifle division of the militia transferred to the 3rd guards division of the militia, the 146th rifle regiment is the former 35th motorized rifle regiment of the NKVD 21- th division of the NKVD, and the 305th rifle regiment is the former 701st rifle regiment of the 142nd rifle division. The artillery consisted of a division of three batteries - two heavy batteries and an ode to 76mm guns. The regimental artillery was fully equipped. The formation right on the front line from heterogeneous units affected the combat capability of the division. command staff did not have time to study their subordinates. The situation was aggravated by the lack of junior officers.

On September 29, 1941, the division, acting together with the 6th Marine Brigade, launched a two-week continuous offensive in the general direction of Uritsk - Staro-Panovo, was supposed to take Ivanovka, but the offensive was not successful. Strong enemy fire brought the offensive to a halt on the outskirts of Uritsk. The private successes of the regiments that broke into the approaches to Uritsk could not be developed due to the lack of reserves. Attempts to bypass movement by the left flank of the division on Staro-Panovo also did not bring success. On October 10, it went over to the defensive at the achieved lines. As a result of fierce fighting, the division lost 209 killed and 807 wounded in 9 days.

On the night of October 13, it was replaced by units of 56sd and withdrawn to the Avtovo area in reserve 42A. On October 16, training sessions began. Mortar units and the missing artillery battalion were formed. On October 22, the rifle regiments were assigned a new numbering - 701sp became 305sp, 2sp - 25sp, 35sp - 146sp, 44ap 122ap.

By the morning of October 27, the division concentrated in the Smolny district, from where the transfer of parts of the division to the Tikhvin area began from the Smolninsk airfield. The first group of 230 people. 25sp at 4 machine. machine guns and 2 mortars. Then another 621 people. By 29 Oct. the transfer of 25 sp was completed. 305sp, 146sp and other special units set out in the Proba area, pos. Rakhya, from where they were also sent on October 29 to the Smolninsky airfield.

After being transferred to the Tikhvin area, parts of the division received from the 4A command the task of taking up defense in the area of ​​Kultino, Tsevlevo, Andreevo. 25sp took up defensive positions at this line. By November 1, the 146th Rifle Division arrived, replacing the 25th Rifle Division, which received the order to attack Sobol, Kishkino and cut the Matveevskaya Kharchevnya-Ruguiy and Setomlya roads and help the 191st Rifle Division. Having bypassed Kishkino from the west, the 25th Rifle Division cut off the road to Rugui, however, due to the withdrawal, the 191st Rifle Division was withdrawn to the north to the Lipnaya Gorka area. On November 5, the enemy, having pulled up reserves, went on the offensive against 146sp and occupied Shibnets. The counterattack of the b-on 305sp managed to knock out the Germans from Nov. Andreevo. On the morning of November 7, after strong artillery preparation, the German troops resumed their offensive against the 191st Rifle Division. Its units began an indiscriminate offensive, exposing the right flank of the division. To ref. day the enemy went to Lipnaya Gorka and occupied it. An attempt to counterattack by units of 44sp was not successful due to the lack of tanks and artillery in the division. On the morning of November 8, German troops resumed their offensive on Tikhvin. Having broken through the defenses of our troops on the Syas River, the German troops cut parts of the division into two groups. Parts of the division began to retreat to Tikhvin. Without a pre-prepared frontier, it turned out to be impossible to keep Tikhvin and he had to be left. One part of the division withdrew to the area of ​​​​the village of Astracha, the other under the command of the division commander to the north. direction in the Bor area. At this point, the division consisted of a total of about 700 people. The detachment that retreated to the area of ​​the village of Astracha (the remnants of the 305th Infantry Regiment) numbered about 300 people. On November 10, the main forces of the division took up defensive positions along the northern bank of the Shomushka River. The divisions were assigned 15 T-26s of the 60th Panzer Division; the division was also replenished at the expense of the troops of the 7th army.

On November 10, German troops, supported by 7 tanks, managed to push our troops back to the line of Ilyino, Ostrov. On November 12, a counterattack 305sp again captured Astracha. Attacks of the regiment on November 13-20 at temporary storage warehouses. May 1 was unsuccessful. On November 21, Survilin's group surrendered its section to 65sd and regrouped in the area of ​​Half a year. From November 23 to November 26, they launched an offensive in the direction of Half a year, captured the east. outskirts of the village but were forced to retreat to ref. position. On the night of December 1, 305 and 146sp set out for the Kaivaksa area, where they entered the operational subordination of 191sd. The active actions of this task force made it possible to approach and turn around fresh 65sd transferred from the Far East.

Another part of the division, under the command of the division commander, withdrew to the Bor area, took up defense in the Kaivaks area. On November 13, the attack managed to re-occupy Kayvaks, and by ref. Berezovik day. Further offensive attempts were met by the stubborn defense of the enemy, who organized a strong defensive line here. Until the end of November, they fought on the Tikhvinka River and in the Spassky Cordon area. November 28, a group of 40 people. with a surprise attack, she was able to force the Tivinka River to capture the village of Lazarevichi and take trophies there: 32 motorcycles, 100 bicycles, 3 guns and other property. On December 5, a counterattack by German troops managed to drive our units out of this village, but the division was able to hold positions from which the railway was being shot through by artillery. heavy fighting in the Lazarevichi area lasted until December 9, 1941, when the village was again returned.

On December 10, German troops leaving Tikhvin began to withdraw their troops to the Volkhov River. Going on the offensive, the regiments of the division captured the settlement. Star. Pogorelets, Navolok and to Ref. day we went to the Gerelukh area. Moving through deep snow up to 1 meter thick to ref. On December 18, the division entered the Mal. Zelenets. December 20 occupied Terebonizhye. On December 23, the village of Zamoshye was occupied; on December 26, Gorodishche. In the settlements, along the way of the advance of our regiments, the enemy left rich trophies: cars, motorcycles, artillery and ammunition. By December 27, the division reached the Larionov Ostrov region on the outskirts of Kirishi, where it met strong defenses. The fighting here lasted 6 days.

During the retreat, the German troops managed to hold a small (4 km long and 2 km deep) bridgehead in the Kirishi area. From January 2 to January 5, 42. went to the area of Yrsa. She fought for Art. Posadnikovo and Brooks. Since January 8, he has been fighting for Kirishi. Our artillery these days experienced a shortage of mines and shells. There were no mines for 120mm mortars and shells for howitzers at all. Because of this, the offensive was thwarted. On January 22, she changed parts of 377sd to the river. Volkhov near Irsa. During January and February 42g. fought in the area of ​​Plavnitsa, Novinka. In early March, 310sd was replaced. March 7 launched an attack on Larionov Island. The attack on the heavily fortified line of defense of the enemy was not successful. On March 17, she went on the defensive along the river. Volkhov. During January-March 42g. the division's losses were over 700 killed and 2,341 wounded.

Until May 27, 42. the division fought here on the western bank of the Volkhov in the area of ​​​​three bridges, the Kusinka river. Then, having surrendered its positions, the 311sd fought on the eastern bank of the Volkhov along the perimeter of this bridgehead until it was abandoned by the German troops in the fall of 1943. So, in the heaviest offensive battles, the division has been participating, for example, since June 5, 1942, since July 20, 1942, it has been attacking a bridgehead for 6 days, having units of the 11th Infantry Division as an enemy, since August 22, 1942, for almost the entire September 1942, but the bridgehead resisted.

From June 5 to July 18, 43. again fighting for the Kirishi bridgehead. Mastered part of Plavni and Novinka. 139 prisoners were taken. On September 3, it was transferred to the Tigodsky direction, having taken up defenses in the area of ​​​​the mouth of the river. Tigoda.

In the end, the bridgehead was liquidated only in October 1943, and in November 1943 the division became part of the 54th Army.

From November 22, 1943, the division went on the defensive along the eastern bank of the Volkhov, taking in addition to its defense zone a bridgehead on the western bank of the Volkhov in front of the enemy stronghold Zelentsy, Kurnikov Ostrov, Lezno, and on January 13, 1944, another bridgehead at the mouth of the Lyubunka River, Pekhovo , the confluence of the Lyubunka and Pertechenka rivers, the railway bridge across the Volkhov. Parts of the division during the Novgorod-Luga operation went on the offensive on the night of January 20-21, 1944 and on January 21, 1944 captured the strongholds of Menevsha, Melehovo, Tigoda station, Zelentsy, Kurnikov Ostrov, Khmelishche, Vodose, Vodose junction. The German troops retreated and, pursuing them, the division on January 23, 1944 reached the line of the Dobrokha, Karlovka, Metino, Pertechno rivers. There, the enemy organized an intermediate line of defense, which the division is trying to overcome, fighting fierce battles for five days. By the morning of January 28, 1944, parts of the division, having completed the regrouping, captured the settlements of Karlova, Metino, Pertechno and 10 others, continued to pursue the enemy, retreating in the general direction to the October Railway. On January 29, 1944, the division was able to take Chudovo. For nine days of fighting, the division reported on the destruction of over 1000 enemy soldiers and officers, over 30 prisoners, the liberation of over 30 settlements, 5 railway stations.

On the morning of January 30, 1944, the division continued to further pursue the enemy retreating in the direction of the Leningrad-Novgorod railway. On January 31, 1944, units of the division captured the settlements of Kortsovo-2, Sennaya Kerest, Olkhovka, February 1, 1944 - Krivino, Friday, February 2, 1944 - Finev Lug. Then the division was withdrawn to the front reserve, and after a 70-kilometer march, by February 5, 1944, it concentrated in the area of ​​Podberezye station. Until February 11, 1944, he puts himself in order, pulls up the rear and is engaged in combat training, having received a replenishment in the amount of 1850 people. On the night of February 11-12, 1944, parts of the division marched and by February 13, 1944 concentrated in the area of ​​​​the village of Terebutitsy, 8 kilometers northwest of Shimsk. On the night of February 15 to February 16, 1944, the division replaced the 225th rifle division at the Kukshino line, the northern edge of the forest, 2 kilometers north of Shimsk, and from February 17 to February 20, 1944, fought along with the 502nd separate tank battalion and two battalions 124th tank regiment under the stronghold of defense at the turn of Mshaga - Voskresenskoye. Then the division, pursuing the retreating enemy, advances in the direction of the Dno, participates in its liberation on February 24, 1944, by the end of February 1944 it reached the Ostrov and during March - April 1944 unsuccessfully tries to overcome the line of the Panther defensive line.

On June 22, 1944, being north-east of Ostrov, two assault detachments conduct reconnaissance in combat at the site of the 32nd Infantry Division in the Stomino-Borovitsa area. On July 17, 1944, the division went on the offensive during the Pskov-Ostrov offensive operation, breaking through the defenses, advancing on Ostrov, and on July 21, 1944, fighting enters the city, conducting heavy street battles.

The division continued its offensive in the general direction of Laura. On July 30, 1944, the division is located in the Veretye ​​area, had the task of advancing in the general direction to Cherny Ruchey, Avika, Ugarevo, and by the end of the day on July 30, 1944, cut the Pskov-Riga highway in the area north of the village of Ugarevo and in the village of Olukhovo-Nevsky, attacks the rearguards of the 23rd and 30th Infantry Divisions, but the attack bogged down under fire, as did the offensive of the entire front, which soon stopped at the Marienburg defensive line.

During the Tartu offensive operation, the division begins an offensive from a sector near Laura in the general direction to Valga, quickly advances during the offensive, at the end of the second decade of August repels enemy counterattacks near Antsla, by the end of August 1944 reaching the approaches to Valga.

Since September 1944, it has been advancing during the Riga offensive operation, breaking through the enemy’s defenses near Valga, on September 19, 1944, it takes part in the liberation of the city, then, continuing the offensive through Valmiera, by the end of September 1944, it reached the fortified Sigulda line west of Cesis. On October 13-15, 1944, part of the forces took part in the liberation of Riga, after which she went to the approaches to Tukums, and from that moment, until the surrender of the Courland group in May 1945, she fought, storming the defense line near Tukums.

At the beginning of May 1945 withdrawn to the second echelon in the area of ​​​​Livberze station. Here, on May 9, the fighters of the division learned about the signing of unconditional surrender by Germany. A rally was held in the division, the fighters fired small arms into the air for more than 10 minutes. On May 10, the division plunged into echelons to be sent to the Tallinn area ...

Disbanded in 1946

Last year, at the end of August, an official delegation from the Zhytomyr region, headed by Governor Yury Zabela, visited Finland. The purpose of the trip was the opening of a monument to the Red Army soldiers of the 44th Infantry Division, who died in the Soviet-Finnish Winter War, formed mainly from conscripts from the Zhytomyr region - the city of Novograd-Volynsky and the corresponding region. The monument in the city of Suomussalmi was erected on the initiative of the grandson of the head of the charitable organization "Memory", a resident of Korostyshev, Leonid Kostyuk, who died in that war (the author of the monument is architect Vitaly Rozhik).

The paradox of history: the death of most of the soldiers of the 44th division in early January 1940 became one of the foundations for establishing sister city relations between Suomussalmi and Novograd-Volynsky in the mid-90s. And the Finns took care of the graves of the fallen before, despite the fact that these fallen were fulfilling the order of the Soviet government to occupy Finland and establish a puppet regime there, because they understood that it was not so much about the subjects, but about the victims of the criminal Stalinist regime .. .

FROM ONE FRONT TO ANOTHER

As you know, the Second World War began for Ukrainians on September 1, 1939, when in the ranks of the Polish Army, Zholnezhi-Galicians and Volynians met Nazi aggressors with fire. Soon, armed groups of the OUN entered into hostilities, with the goal of establishing national power in Western Ukraine. And on September 17, in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Ukrainian and Belarusian fronts of the Red Army went on a “liberation campaign” to the West, against which units of the Polish Army and OUN soldiers acted.

In a word, the Ukrainians then were not on two, but, figuratively speaking, "on three sides of the front line." But if in the tragic days of September 1939, at least part of the Ukrainians tried to consciously fight for national interests as they understood them (on all "three sides of the front line"), then the next episode of the Second World War - the USSR's aggression against Finland - is associated with the use of Ukrainians solely as "cannon fodder" to satisfy the geopolitical ambitions of one of the two leading Red Banner totalitarian regimes, namely, the Bolshevik regime of Joseph Stalin.

And one of the most tragic episodes, and at the same time, the symbols of the Winter War, as it is called in the West, was the death in January 1940 of the 44th Kiev Red Banner Rifle Division. Shchors. The fate of this division and its soldiers is very indicative, so to speak, model in terms of the attitude of the Stalinist regime to the "human material" and the situation in which the Ukrainians were during the Soviet Union.
... Pine forest curls along the slopes
Border mean outlook.
Accept us, Suomi beauty
In a necklace of transparent lakes!..

I'm sure this song, with its original melody and professionally written lyrics, is unfamiliar to the majority of The Day's readers. It is not surprising. We are talking about a work written by order of the ideological department of the CPSU (b) a few months before the attack on Finland, in which the goals of the military operation were completely transparent and even, so to speak, honestly formulated, which after its completion in the USSR they tried not to remember. Namely, not “moving the border away from Leningrad”, as was later said, but the establishment of a puppet regime in Suomi with a very likely (when the right time comes) its annexation to the Soviet Union.

Actually, the USSR did not officially declare war on Finland. He only "helped" the puppet government of the so-called Democratic Republic of Finland, headed by the Comintern Otto Kuusinen, in the fight against the "White Finns" (that is, with all those who yearned for independence and democracy for their country, with the legitimate government of this state). The appeal of the mentioned song "Suomi-beauty" - they say, open the gates wide, and we will help you deal with the "enemies of the people" - did not meet with a response in the hearts of the Finns. Therefore, the Winter War, as a component of the Second World War, became terrible and bloody. Even if you look at it through the prism of later military events.

The Red Army carefully prepared for the march on Helsinki. Not only songs were learned - the troops tirelessly learned to act in combat conditions. “Under Leningrad, the forces “hardened” in the victorious battles at Khalkhin Gol in Mongolia were actively pulled up. They trained for 18-20 hours a day: they polished sports and combat techniques at sea, on land, learned to ski ... Political instructors methodically "brought up" hatred for their northern neighbors. Like, the borders of bourgeois Finland are actually at a distance of a cannon shot from the “cradle of the revolution”! .. ”- a veteran of this war Grigory Garashchenko recalled today. The Finns saw what was happening and mobilized their reserves. Still, the attack was unexpected. “It was felt that they were not waiting for us,” said the same Garashchenko. - I remember an episode: units crossed the Sestra River, which delimited two sovereign states, and caught the Finns ... having breakfast in a border cafe. Those, suspecting nothing, invited our people to the table, poured a glass of beer ... "

But the Finns came to their senses and deployed their military forces very quickly. And it turned out that the Red Army, despite all the preliminary preparations, was not able to successfully conduct military operations against an energetic and selfless enemy. And then echelons from different parts of the Soviet Union stretched to the front, carrying the best divisions and brigades to the battlefield. In general, 12 divisions were transferred from the Kiev and Odessa military districts to the northwest. Among them was the 44th Infantry, which had recently taken part in the "liberation campaign" in Western Ukraine. Actually, it figured even in the pre-war plans for combat operations of the 9th Army and was supposed to strengthen the strike of the divisions of the first echelon of this army, but they did not have time - like a number of other formations - to be transported to the theater of operations in time.

IN CANVAS BOOTS - 40 C

This division was created in the autumn of 1918. She took an active part in the battles against the troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the Russian White Army and the Poles. One of its first commanders was Nikolai Shchors. In the second half of the 1930s, it was almost completely staffed with command personnel, military specialists and equipment, and before the march on Western Ukraine in September 1939, the number of its personnel was brought to full-time by calling up reservists - about 17 thousand bayonets.

The equipment of the 44th Rifle (let me emphasize, it is a rifle, and not a motorized) division debunks the myth that the Red Army entered the Second World War technically backward. The division arrived on the Finnish front with: one and a half hundred radio stations, more than five hundred cars, 44 tanks, more than 100 tractors, fifty motorcycles. The division had enough artillery and mortars, and in addition - several thousand horses, which could serve very well in winter off-road conditions. But...

But the division did not receive clothing for operations in harsh winter conditions (even mittens!) Boots were issued only to commanders and some units, and - here's the paradox! - it was these units that were mainly transferred to the front line by road. Others had to walk 245 kilometers from the Kem station to combat positions in inferior overcoats and canvas boots.

The 44th Division was not unique in terms of being equipped with clothing. “The command, political officers, pilots and tankers had warmer uniforms: they had casings, wadded sweatshirts, felt boots ... For infantrymen, this was considered a great luxury. Like, in heavy sheepskin coats it is inconvenient to go on the attack and storm. They went into battle in gray woolen overcoats, cotton tunics, flannelette underwear, and cotton mittens. In Budyonovka helmets with semi-woolen lining... On his feet - boots wrapped in rags, - recalled Grigory Garashchenko. - A food! Bread arrived at the front line in the form of a frozen brick, the same porridge, barely warm tea. Even the "People's Commissar's" one hundred grams froze in such a frost.

Consequence: on the way to the front, 10% of the personnel of the division got frostbite. From the 20th of December 1939, when the division began hostilities, its food supply practically ceased. Therefore, the fighters became half-starved, and then just hungry. And instead of food, they were given pieces of paper with the text and notes of the song "Suomi-beauty":
Tanks break wide clearings
Planes fly in the clouds
low autumn sun
Lights fires on bayonets.

See how honest? The aggression was planned for sometime in October or early November, but they did not have time to bring up the troops, and therefore the Red Army was thrown on the offensive in the middle of winter, in 40-degree frost, without proper equipment, while the few Finnish troops were perfectly prepared for battles in winter taiga conditions.

And in addition to everything, the division had to engage in battle in the area of ​​the Arctic Circle, where in winter there is a continuous haze without morning and evening, illuminated only by flashes of the aurora.

However, all this the Soviet command forgot (or simply did not want to) take into account. According to his plans, the three rifle divisions of the 9th Army were to swiftly pass through Suomussalmi by the shortest route to the western coast of Finland, to the port of Oulu in the Gulf of Bothnia and cut the country in half, depriving it of railway communication with Sweden. The Red troops managed to go deep in this direction by 35-40 km, and then the Finnish reserves approached. And although the Finns had several times less forces, they stopped the Soviet divisions. And then, taking advantage of snowstorms and frosts, they began to surround them.

On January 1, 1940, the Finns attacked one of the regiments of the 44th division and surrounded it the next day. Communications and other parts were cut. The strike group, which was trying to break through to the encircled, was cut off from other divisions of the division. One of the battalions, which had not received food for several days, left its positions without permission. On January 4, the division was divided into several parts. The commander of the 9th Army, which included the 44th Division, Chuikov (the future hero of Stalingrad) asked Moscow for permission for the division to retreat.

Moscow gave this permission only late in the evening of January 6. The next day, not even a withdrawal began, but a spontaneous escape of parts of the division. According to the Finnish General Siilasvuo, “the panic of those surrounded was increasing, the enemy no longer had general and organized actions, everyone tried to act independently in order to save his life; the forest was full of fugitives...”. Many of the Red Army soldiers and commanders froze during the retreat - after all, a blizzard raged. The wounded were left to fend for themselves. The division lost a total of about 70% of its personnel in a week, about 1200 fighters and commanders were captured, a large number of Red Army soldiers got frostbite. In general, Soviet troops (44, 163, 155 rifle divisions) near Suomussalmi lost about 23 thousand personnel. Finnish troops in the area lost only about 800 men.

As a result of the defeat of only the 44th division, the Finns captured in good condition 97 guns, 160 cars, 37 tanks, 6 armored cars, 280 machine guns, several thousand rifles, an almost countless amount of ammunition (the numbers in different documents differ slightly, but this is not surprising - today the machine gun is out of order, tomorrow it “comes to life” in the hands of a front-line craftsman); all these weapons were soon used in battles against the Red Army. And also - 600 surviving horses, which were finally fed in "captivity".

FIGHT - DID NOT WANT TO REST - DID NOT BE ABLE

Why were the Finnish troops, who did not have a single tank, who had several times fewer cannons and machine guns, able to utterly defeat the 44th division and other encircled Soviet troops? Why did the total losses of the Red Army in the battles near Suomussalmi in the first week of January 1940 exceed 23,000 personnel alone who died? Of course, the bad luck of the Kremlin strategists and the extremely unsatisfactory supply of troops also played their role. But the main thing, it seems, was something else. The morale of the soldiers, including the Ukrainian Red Army, who did not want to die for Stalin and for "democratic Finland", although they were unable to rebel against the regime.

“The Red Army is destroying an entire state, destroying cities and towns, depriving the civilian population of housing and leaving them hungry. Our families go around the yards and beg. We’ll beg a little more and we’ll all become beggars, ”the fighters of one of the Soviet divisions said, according to the NKVD reports. “They promised to free the Finnish people from the yoke of capitalism,” noted the Red Army soldier Kondratyuk, “and during the bombing they destroyed civilians, how will the Finnish people look at the USSR now?”

You can quite clearly hear the voices of the soldiers of the 44th division in the documents of the NVKD and political departments. Just like other Red Army soldiers, they could not understand why this war was being waged. “The Soviet Union, they say, is for the liberation of the Finnish people,” one Red Army soldier reasoned, “we are fighting, tens of thousands of people are dying and the same number will die, and why do we need this? There is no bread, meat, sugar, long queues are formed, prices are rising - that's what we have lived up to. Ukraine is the most grain-growing of the republics, but sits without bread.”

The fighters showed confidence that, they say, the Finnish people resisted the Red Army so stubbornly because they were well aware of the torments that the peasants of the USSR suffered during collectivization. The Red Army soldiers Sidorenko, Krashevsky and Dudenko of the 41st reserve separate rifle battalion, which was transferred by rail to the theater of operations in January 1940, shared the following thoughts: “The party was led to the conclusion that there is no bread, no meat, not even matches in the country. Life in Poland used to be better than after the liberation by the Soviet authorities. Western Ukrainians threw off the yoke, and tightened the collar.” “I don’t know what we are fighting for,” said Chernyak, a Red Army soldier of the same battalion, “under Soviet rule, I lived poorly, and those we liberate lived better, why should we liberate them?” “Houses are dying of hunger, but we go to protect someone, and why?” - his brother-soldier Melnik was indignant.

In the same part, in addition to the anti-Soviet statements identified by the NKVD, threats to commanders were also recorded. 100 people escaped from the train on the way to the front. The same mood prevailed in the 44th division; while moving to Finland from Ternopil, about a hundred people also deserted on the way. Almost a whole company...

Problems with the level of discipline in the Soviet troops and the unwillingness to fight for incomprehensible goals ultimately led to the fact that the general orders of the People's Commissariats of Defense and Internal Affairs dated January 24, 1940 - already after the death of the 44th division - behind the five Soviet armies operating at the front were there are 27 NKVD control and barrage detachments of 100 people each. And of the nearly 1,800 military personnel convicted by military tribunals during this period, approximately 40% were deserters. Many soldiers were convicted for anti-Soviet statements.

And how mocking in these conditions the song sounded!
We are used to fraternizing with victories,
And again we carry in battle
On the roads traveled by grandfathers,
Your red star glory.

After the 44th division suffered a crushing defeat in the first half of January, it practically did not conduct combat operations. An investigation into the cause of the crash began. The perpetrators were found almost immediately. On January 11, 1940, the trial went on for 50 minutes. Vinogradov, commander of the 44th Rifle Division, Volkov, chief of staff, and regimental commissar Pakhomenko, head of the political department, were sentenced to death as "traitors to the motherland." The order was carried out immediately.

But two years before that, Vinogradov commanded only a battalion! Thus, we have a typical nominee of 1937-1938, who, not having proper training and education, had to take a high place instead of the executed commanders, who nevertheless had a better level of training and, most importantly, psychological readiness to lead large formations. And in the Finnish war, Vinogradov was no worse and no better than most Soviet commanders. It's just that his division objectively found itself in very difficult conditions. Yes, and his fighters were also typical: Ukrainians who did not really want to fight for someone else's for them, as evidenced by the NKVD operational reports, the Soviet empire.

Those soldiers of the 44th division who were taken prisoner had a chance to survive and change their lives. During the Winter War, the Finns treated the captured Red Army soldiers normally. They were visited by such prominent figures of Ukrainian emigration as, say, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the UNR Shulgin. To awaken the national consciousness of the captured Ukrainians, a broad cultural and educational work was carried out by Ukrainian nationalists in the camps. But after all, the majority of the houses had families that were responsible for the behavior of the prisoners with their heads ... And after the war, by agreement with Finland, the Red Army prisoners of war, with the exception of about 200 people who refused to return to their homeland, were transferred to the Soviet side. 777 of them admitted to having "compromised" themselves; they were mostly sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, and 232 of them were shot. The rest, almost 4,500 people, on whom no materials were found to bring to trial, were sent as "suspicious persons" to the Gulag concentration camps, where almost all of them died.

Among those who remained in Finland were soldiers of the 44th division. How much is unknown. I wonder what their fate is? At least, there is no reason to consider them "traitors to the motherland" - the real traitors and criminals were Stalin and Voroshilov, who drove tens of thousands of people to their deaths in 40-degree frost in inferior overcoats and canvas boots, and even without mittens ...

On the other hand, can we, from the height of time, reproach those soldiers of the 44th division who, from Finnish captivity, decided to return to the USSR in order to go to the Gulag for flagrant naivety? Who are they, those captured fighters of this formation who did not dare to choose freedom, even in a foreign land, but voluntarily returned to Stalin's slavery? I do not undertake to give unambiguous assessments, but, probably, we are talking about another group of victims of the historical tragedy - the absence of the Ukrainian state.

The Red Army, in the end, nevertheless learned to fight, but only under the condition of a multiple quantitative and absolute fire advantage. However, the losses were still huge. “The troupes of Red Army soldiers were strewn with forests, glades, roads and hummocks of the Gulf of Finland. I'm not exaggerating. How many young people (and our 95th division was replenished twice with five thousand people each) did not even visit a single battle: in the evening they arrived at the front line, settled in snowdrifts and ... fell asleep forever. The wounded also froze, without waiting for medical assistance, - Grigory Garashchenko recalled. - Later, out of desperation, we began to build shelters from the bodies of killed fellow soldiers. These terrible tents were insulated by woolen overcoats of dead comrades. If this happened on the southern face of the front, on the Karelian Isthmus, one can imagine what happened in the taiga and snows of the Arctic. But Stalin still had a lot of troops - they caught up to a million fighters and commanders.

But Finland never became Soviet, and among the Red Army soldiers - victims of the Winter War (it is still unknown how many there were - historians give numbers in the range from 128 to 340 thousand) at least a quarter were from Ukraine. The endless martyrology of the Ukrainian victims of the 20th century, who died from the Holodomor, who were shot, who died senselessly in different wars, also includes the fighters of the 44th Rifle Kiev Division, forgotten in the Motherland in the past, which suffered a catastrophe in battles, and then sought the NKVD (to somehow to smooth over the defeat, nine soldiers of the division were awarded the title of Heroes of the Soviet Union - and almost all of them died in the next war). Well, being cannon fodder is a typical fate of nations that do not have their own statehood, but are forced to serve foreign regimes. This is probably the main lesson of the Winter War for today's Ukraine. And it is good that fellow countrymen today pay tribute to the memory of those who died in that war.

The 44th separate rifle brigade was formed on October 19, 1941 on the basis of the order of the Siberian Military District No. 0073 of October 16, 1941. It was formed in Krasnoyarsk from cadets of military schools and was considered the most combat-ready unit of the Siberian Military District. Preparation and combat coordination of units and divisions of the brigade took place in the city of Krasnoyarsk from October 19 to November 16, 1941.

He took over this brigade in Krasnoyarsk from ___.11.1941 and commanded a brigade, as part of the 1st Shock Army, during a counteroffensive near Moscow, Mironov Andrey Yakovlevich, until his wound on 03/02/1942. Source:

Appointed: military commissar of the brigade - senior battalion commissar Alekhin, chief of staff of the brigade - major (lieutenant colonel) Pisarev Radion Gavrilovich, military commissar of the brigade headquarters - battalion commissar Nakov Mikhail Kerbekovich.

After almost a month of combat training on the evening of November 20, 1941, the 44th separate rifle brigade was sent by rail from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow. During a stop in the city of Sverdlovsk, the brigade received 12 guns of 76 mm caliber. On the night of November 27, 1941, the entire brigade arrived at the Khotkovo station of the Sergiev Posad district of the Moscow region, where it entered the newly formed 1 shock army, which was in the reserve of the Headquarters of the Supreme High Command. On November 29, Nazi troops broke through the Moscow-Volga Canal near the city of Yakhroma, Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Region. The 44th separate rifle brigade was transferred here right from the wheels on a night foot march.

On November 30, 1941, the brigade crossed to the bridgehead south of the city of Yakhroma on the western bank of the canal.

from December 1, 1941 - participation in the counteroffensive near Moscow: the capture of the village of Stepanovo, the Shakhovskaya station;

from February 20, 1942 - a brigade as part of the 1st shock army was transferred to the North-Western Front to destroy a German group of 7 divisions surrounded near Demyansk and took up defense near the village of Novosvinukhovo in the Rushenskoye direction. The brigade, drained of blood in a few days and having been surrounded, again took up defense near the village of Ramushka;

end of April 1942 - the brigade was transferred to the area of ​​the village of Bolshiye Grivy in the Rushinsky direction and took up defense;

Until April 1943, the brigade fought as part of the 1st Shock Army in the Staraya Russa-Kholm area, then it was withdrawn to the village of Detchino, Tula Region.

From April 1943 - 62nd Rifle Division (III F).

After the reorganization, the brigade was deployed into the 62nd Rifle Division (III f) under the command of Major General Efremov.

May 1943 The division became part of the 3rd reserve army and built a defensive line along the eastern bank of the river. Ressa, near the town of Yukhnov, Smolensk region.

from August 1943 - the division as part of the 21st Army (II f) fought for the liberation of Yelnya and Orsha.

brigade commander

Colonel

Mironov Andrey Yakovlevich

Chief of staff

Pisarev Radion Gavrilovich

Office 44 osbr
Brigade commanders:

Lieutenant Colonel Anikin - commander during the formation from 19.10 to 9.11.1941;

Major Rygalov - acting commander from 9.11-27.11.1941;

Colonel Mironov Andrey Yakovlevich, commander from 11/27/1941 to 03/03/1942, wounded on 03/02/1942 under vil. Peas;

Lieutenant colonel Shishimorev Grigory Petrovich- appointed 03/12/1942, killed 26 (27) 03/1942;

Colonel Subbotin Mikhail Timofeevich- appointed 04/09/1942, wounded 04/20/1942 near the village of Ramushevo;

Colonel Fedotov Ivan Petrovich, appointed 04/27/1942 - suspended as unable to cope, recalled to army headquarters;

Colonel Chirkov Fedor Ivanovich- appointed 07/07/1942;

Major General Efremov Vasily Vladimirovich- appointed 12/13/1942.

Brigade commissioners:

11/09/1941 - 03/04/1942 - battalion commissar Chugunov (wounded near the village of Gorushka);

03/04-03/25/1942 - battalion commissar Malygin (missing on 03/25/1942);

03/25-04/26/1942 - battalion commissar Alekhin (killed near the village of Ramushevo);

From 04/27/1942 - battalion commissar Soldaev Ivan Ivanovich (died 10/12/1943).

The 44th brigade arrived at the front as part of the following units and divisions:

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1deb. rifle battalion;

2 sec. rifle battalion;

3 sec. rifle battalion;

otd. mortar battalion;

otd. communications battalion;

otd. artillery battalion 76 mm guns;

otd. anti-tank battalion;

otd. mortar division - 120 mm mortars;

otd. reconnaissance company;

otd. a company of submachine gunners;

otd. a company of anti-tank rifles;

otd. sapper company;

otd. horse-drawn company;

otd. medical company. - Source:

The 44th separate rifle brigade with command and brigade units in Krasnoyarsk deployed 4 rifle battalions in Achinsk, Abakan, Kansk and Uzhur. It was supplemented by cadets of the Achinsk Infantry, 1st Kiev Infantry, 1st Kiev Artillery, Kiev Communications, Ordzhonikidzegrad Automobile and Motorcycle Military Schools, Kharkov and 66th District Schools of Junior Aviation Specialists, schools of junior command personnel of regiments of the 43rd Reserve Rifle Brigade, others military schools in the district. They formed a unit before the arrival of the brigade commander, Colonel A.Ya. Mironov, and led in succession: Major General A.T. Volchkov and brigade commander A.S. Ostroumov.

The party organization of the Krasnoyarsk Territory has made every effort to adequately form this union. On November 14, 1941, the 44th separate, rifle cadet brigade, as one of the most combat-ready formations of the Siberian Military District, departed from Krasnoyarsk to the front in order to take part in the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow as part of the 1st Shock Army. - Source:

44th separate rifle brigade. Historical form.

1. On the basis of what directive (decree, order) was formed.

The 44th separate rifle brigade was formed on the basis of the order of the Siberian Military District No. 0073 dated October 16, 1941.

2. 62 Rifle Division was formed on the basis of 44 Dep. page of the brigade, on the basis of the Directive of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade. Stalin No. 12237 of March 25, 1943.

3. Period of formation.

44 OSB was formed from October 19, 1941 to November 16, 1941.
62nd Rifle Division was formed from April 5, 1943 to May 25, 1943.

4. In which military district was it formed.

44 OSB was formed in the Siberian Military District.

5. 62nd Rifle Division was formed as part of the 3rd Reserve Army of the Moscow Military District.

6. Place of dislocation during formation.

44 OSB was formed in the city of Krasnoyarsk.

7. 62 sd - in the Detchino area, Sukhodrev station, Tula region.

8. For which states the connection was formed (No. No. of states)

44 OSB was formed according to the states of the Cadet Brigade No. 04 / 730; 04 / 740; 04/741; 04/742; 04/743; 04/744; 04/32; 04/33; 04/35; 04/36; 04/37; 04/38; 04/39; 04/16; 04/69.

9. 62 SD was formed by states: 04/550 - 04/562.

10. 44 OSB took part in the Patriotic War from November 27, 1941 to March 20, 1943 as part of the 1st Shock Army of the Western and Northwestern Fronts, entered the battle on the orders of the 1st Shock Army.

62nd Rifle Division, as part of the 3rd Reserve Army, arrived on the Western Front on May 30, 1943. And it is concentrated in the Yukhnov area. Did not participate in battles.
(The 44th separate rifle brigade subsequently merged, from April 1943, into the 62nd rifle division, so their simultaneous formation is indicated here)

The end of November 1941 - the arrival of the brigade near Moscow as part of the 1st Shock Army, in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bDmitrovskoye Highway on the northern outskirts of the capital;

from December 1, 1941 - participation in the counteroffensive near Moscow: the capture of the village of Stepanovo, art. Shakhovskaya;

from February 20, 1942 - a brigade as part of the 1st Shock Army was transferred to the North-Western Front to destroy a German group of 7 divisions surrounded near Demyansk and took up defense near the village of Novosvinukhovo.

The brigade, drained of blood, after several days of continuous fighting and having been surrounded, again took up defense near the village of Ramushevo;
end of April 1942 - the brigade was transferred to the area of ​​the village of Bolshiye Grivy in the Ramushevsky direction and took up defense;

until April 1943 - the brigade fought as part of the 1st Shock Army in the Staraya Russa - Kholm area, then it was withdrawn to the village. Detchino, Tula region.
After the reorganization, the brigade was deployed into the 62nd Infantry Division (commander Major General Efremov).
May 1943 - the division became part of the 3rd reserve army and built a defensive line along the eastern bank of the river. Ressa, near the city of Yuzhnov, Smolensk region;

since August 1943, the division as part of the 21st Army fought for the liberation of Yelnya and Orsha.
Further, the division was transferred to the 31st Army and participated in the defeat of the Orshinsky group of Germans, crossed the Dnieper, liberated Belarus and Lithuania.
The division met the end of the war in East Prussia. - Source:

Brief description of the fighting of the 44th separate rifle brigade in 1941
The 44th OSB was formed on October 19, 1941 in Krasnoyarsk by order of the Siberian Military District No. 0073 of 10/16/1941. After a month of combat training, on November 27, 1941, she arrived in full force on the Western Front, where she became part of the 1st Shock Army.
From November 27, 1941 to January 19, 1942, the brigade fought against the German invaders near Moscow: in the Yakhroma, Solnechnogorsk, and Shakhov directions. During this period, the brigade conducted a number of military operations with the enemy, following the combat orders of the command. The most characteristic hostilities during this period were the battles near the village of Stepanovo, Dmitrovsky district, Moscow region. and near the village of Leonidovo, Moscow Region.
The village of Stepanovo, defended by a reinforced enemy battalion supported by 20 tanks and a large amount of artillery, was turned into a strong center of resistance with all-round defense, supported by flanking fire from neighboring villages and artillery fire from other centers of resistance.
A day after its arrival on the Western Front, on November 29, 1941, the brigade received a combat order to capture the village of Stepanovo. With the capture of the village of Stepanovo, the brigade took trophies: 6 tanks, 24 guns, 19 vehicles and many other military equipment.
Our losses in this battle amounted to 60% of the personnel killed and wounded.
Pursuing the enemy, on December 11, the brigade approached the village of Leonidovo, Moscow Region, which was a stronghold defended by a company of enemy submachine gunners, supported by mortars and three guns. After a stubborn battle, the 3rd battalion, together with the 1st and bypass maneuver from the north of the 8th ski battalion, by the end of December 13, the village of Leonidovo was cleared of the Nazis. Many machine guns, submachine guns and ammunition were captured during the liberation of the village.
Our losses in this battle amounted to 400 people killed and wounded.
In the process of further pursuit of the enemy, on December 30, 1941, the brigade received an order to capture the village of Kruglovo (on the banks of the Lama River).
The enemy, using the long-term constructions of the pre-war construction of the Red Army at this turn, went on the defensive, with the goal of waging a big battle - with the task of delaying the advance of the Red Army units and taking out the looted property through the station. Shakhovskaya.
The brigade did not have enough time to prepare the offensive, and on December 30, it launched an attack on the front line of the enemy on the move, while having up to 30% of the strength required by the state. On January 15, 1942, the brigade was withdrawn to the Klin area, where it received 1,500 reinforcements.
TsAMO RF. F. 44th separate rifle brigade 44th separate rifle brigade in the battles near Moscow - 1941

Siberians made a huge contribution to the defeat of the Nazi troops near Moscow and provided invaluable support in all subsequent battles. But there is still not enough summary research on the Siberian military formations and their combat path. This also applies to the battle near Moscow.
Since 2000, the asset of the folk museum "Memory" of our 19th school in Krasnoyarsk has been conducting research work on the battlefields and in the archives to collect material about the 44th division. brigade page.
Many works on the history of the Moscow battle highlight the dramatic situation that developed in the Klinsko-Solnechnogorsk direction in late November - early December 1941. It is difficult to imagine a more acute danger for Moscow.
On November 27, 1941, the 44th separate rifle brigade arrives in the 1st shock army.
On November 29, Nazi troops broke through the Moscow-Volga canal in the Yakhroma region. Stalin entrusted the commander of the army, Vasily Ivanovich Kuznetsov, with personal leadership of the counterattack on the enemy grouping that had broken through. The 44th brigade was transferred here right from the wheels after the night march.
For many soldiers, the very first lessons of the merciless "literacy campaign" of the war were the last. I had to learn on a lot of blood.
The remains of our soldiers still lie near Moscow and near Staraya Russa. The task of the Krasnoyarets search detachment, in which we work, is to find, raise and bury soldiers with the honors they deserve.
On one of the slabs of the memorial cemetery in the village of Davydovo, Starorussky district, Novgorod region, we found the name of Shishimorov, commander of the 44th division. brigade page. This means that our countrymen are also here, but many of them were reported missing.
In October 2007, during construction work in the village of Stepanovo, Dmitrovsky District, Moscow Region, the remains of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War were discovered. According to the data read from the found medallions, it was established that these were fighters of the 44th division. brigade page. There were no doubts among the veterans, who confirmed that the village of Stepanovo was liberated only by the soldiers of the 44th brigade.
According to the TsAMO RF database, we have established the names of our Krasnoyarsk fellow countrymen. On December 5, 2007, a solemn burial took place in the village of Stepanovo, which was attended by representatives of the Krasnoyarsk Territory - participants in search expeditions.
The memory of the soldiers of the 44th OSBR - the defenders of Moscow is immortalized at the Memorial to the Siberian Soldiers on the 42nd km of the Volokolamsk Highway, at the grand opening of which was Georgy Mikhailovich Kuleshov, a veteran of the brigade.
In 2005, the first book "The Battle Path of the 44th Separate Rifle Brigade" was published, authored by brigade veteran Pavel Antonovich Zhishchenko.
On December 5, 2006, a significant event took place: a memorial plaque was unveiled on the building where the headquarters of the 44th brigade was located. This is the result of joint work of youth and veterans. The opening ceremony was attended by veterans of the 44th OSBR Kuleshov Georgy Mikhailovich and Zhishchenko Pavel Antonovich. They played a crucial role in restoring the events of those heroic and tragic years.

04.07.1941 - 1946

It was formed on July 4, 1941 as the Petrograd rifle division of the people's militia. On July 24, it was renamed the 3rd Guards Leningrad Rifle Division of the People's Militia. September 24 in positions under Staro-Panovo — Uritsk renamed the 44th Infantry Division as part of the 42nd Army of the Leningrad Front.

At the end of October 1941, as part of the 4th separate army, she was transferred to the approaches to Tikhvin, where she participated in the liberation of the city on December 9, 1941. From January 1942, as part of the 4th Army of the Volkhov Front, from May to June, the division was part of the group of troops of the Volkhov direction of the Leningrad Front.

Until the autumn of 1943, the division as part of the 4th Army of the Volkhov Front was fighting along the perimeter of the bridgehead occupied by German troops on the eastern bank of the Volkhov. The bridgehead was liquidated in October 1943, in November 1943 the division became part of the 111th Rifle Corps of the 54th Army and on November 22 went on the defensive along the eastern bank of the Volkhov.

On the night of January 20-21, 1944, units of the division went on the offensive during the Novgorod-Luga operation. January 29 for participation in the release the city of Chudovo The 44th Rifle Division was given the honorary name Chudovskaya. On January 30, the division continued to further pursue the enemy retreating in the direction of the railway Leningrad — Novgorod.

At the beginning of February 1944, the division was withdrawn to the front-line reserve, until February 11 it puts itself in order. By February 13, units of the division as part of the Leningrad Front concentrated in 8 kilometers northwest of Shimsk and since February 16 they have been fighting under the stronghold of defense at the turn of Mshaga - Voskresenskoye. Then, pursuing the retreating enemy, comes towards the bottom, participates in the liberation of the city - February 24, by the end of February the division reached island. During March - April unsuccessfully trying to overcome line of defensive line "Panther".

Since July 17, 1944, the division as part of the 3rd Baltic Front goes on the offensive during the Pskov-Ostrov offensive operation, breaking through the defenses, advancing on Island and on July 21, 1944 enters the city with fighting, leads heavy street fighting.

July 30, 1944 the division is in the area Veretier, had the task of advancing in the general direction on Black Creek, Avik, Ugarevo and by the end of the day cut Highway Pskov - Riga, in the area to the north villages of Ugarevo and in Olukhovo-Nevsky village, attacks the rearguards of the 23rd and 30th Infantry Divisions, but the attack bogged down under fire, as did the offensive of the entire front, which soon stopped at defensive line "Marienburg".

In August 1944, during the Tartu offensive operation, the division, as part of the 119th Rifle Corps of the 67th Army, launched an offensive, from a site near Laura in the general direction to Valgu, rapidly advancing during the offensive, at the end of the second decade of August repels enemy counterattacks near Antsla, after which it goes to the approaches to Valge.

Since September 1944, as part of the 1st shock army, it has been advancing during the Riga offensive operation, breaking through the enemy’s defenses at Valgi, September 19, 1944 participates in the liberation of the city, then, continuing the offensive through Valmiera, by the end of September 1944, went to fortified line "Sigulda" west of Cēsis.

On October 13-15, 1944, part of the forces as part of the 123rd Rifle Corps took part in the liberation Riga, after which she went out to the approaches to Tukums.

From November 1944, as part of the 112th Rifle Corps of the 1st Shock Army of the 2nd Baltic Front, and until the surrender of the Courland grouping in May 1945, he fought, storming the defense line near Tukums.

Since February 1945, the division as part of the 119th Rifle Corps, since April as part of the 112th Rifle Corps of the Courland Group of Forces of the Leningrad Front, the division ended the war as part of the 67th Army.

The 44th Infantry Chudovskaya Red Banner Division was disbanded in 1946.

Commanders:

• Colonel Artyushenko Pavel Alekseevich from September 25, 1941 to June 13, 1942
• Colonel Vorobyov Dmitry Demyanovich from June 14 to November 4, 1942
• Colonel Zolotarev Vasily Ivanovich from November 5 to December 1, 1942
• Colonel Rogov Nikolay Vasilievich from 2 to 21 December 1942
• Major General Vorobyov Ivan Andreevich from December 29, 1942 to July 8, 1944
• Colonel Mironenko Anatoly Anisimovich from July 9, 1944 to May 9, 1945

Compound :

• 25th Rifle Ostrovsky Red Banner Regiment
• 146th Ostrovsky Rifle Regiment
• 305th Rifle Valga Regiment
• 122nd Artillery Riga Regiment
• 288th separate anti-tank battalion
• 4th separate reconnaissance company
• 61st separate engineer battalion
• 237th separate communications battalion
• 78th Separate Medical and Sanitary Battalion
• 105th motor transport company
• 114th separate company of chemical protection
• 346th field bakery
• 91st Divisional Veterinary Infirmary
• 594th field post station
• 625th field cash desk of the State Bank

Settlements:

• X. Mikumuizha 19-21.02.1945

• X. Karkli 02/18/1945

PERSONNEL

Listed 163 surnames

Officers

• Major Anufriev Ilya Trofimovich, deputy commander of the 25th joint venture 1902 - 04/03/1945
• Lieutenant Amirdzhanov Pavel Amazaspovich, platoon commander of the 122nd AP 1910 - 12/24/1944
• Art. Lieutenant Arshinov Filipp Filippovich, commander of a mortar platoon of the 25th joint venture 1915 - 01/05/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Astashin Boris Semenovich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1920 - 01/05/1945
• Lieutenant Aubakirov Mutallan, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 146th joint venture 1919 - was captured (01/05/1945 Dzhukste, released)
• Lieutenant Batanin Ivan Petrovich, commander of a foot reconnaissance platoon of the 305th joint venture 1922 - 02/04/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Batuev Vladimir Fedorovich, commander of the page company of the 305th joint venture 1924 - 03/24/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Bashin Nikolai Ivanovich, commander of the page company of the 305th joint venture 1904 - 04/01/1945
• Lieutenant Bogdanov Viktor Illarionovich, platoon commander of the telephone and cable company of the 237th OBS 1915 - 12/12/1945
• Lieutenant Bogdanov Pavel Semenovich, commander of a mortar platoon of the 305th joint venture 1923 - 01/05/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Vereshchagin Ivan Grigorievich, commander of a sapper platoon of the 25th joint venture 1912 - 01/05/1945
• Lieutenant Volkov Boris Petrovich, commander of a platoon of control of a battery of 76 mm guns of the 25th joint venture 1920 - 01/05/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Vorobyov Nikolai Alekseevich, battery commander of the 122nd AP 1913 - 01/05/1945
• Captain Golovkov Georgy Efimovich, battery commander of the 122nd AP 1921 - 01/05/1945
• Lieutenant Degtyarev Ivan Mikhailovich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 305th joint venture 1919 - 05/27/1945
• Lieutenant Deshutin Valentin Georgievich, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 25th joint venture 1924 - 04/03/1945
• Lieutenant Didenko Ivan Timofeevich, commander of a platoon of 45 mm guns of the 146th joint venture 1924 - 01/05/1945
• Lieutenant Dubrovkin Iosif Arnoldovich, battery commander of the 305th joint venture 1923 - 03/09/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Zekunov Ivan Savelyevich, commander of a mortar company of the 305th joint venture? - 24.08.1945
• ml. lieutenant Yelimesov Kapar, commander of the page platoon of the 146th joint venture 1915 - 01/05/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Ivanov Nikolai Alexandrovich, commander of a sapper company of the 61st OSB 1919 - 02/17/1945
• ml. lieutenant Izbulatov Khamza Ibragimovich
• ml. Lieutenant Ilyasov Yuri Gadylovich, commander of the page platoon of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 01/05/1945
• guards Major Karnienko Timofey Ivanovich, commander of a separate training battalion? - 04/29/1945
• ml. lieutenant Lisitsyn Artemy Fedulovich, commander of the page platoon of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 01/06/1945
• Lieutenant Lisov Evgeny Pavlovich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1922 - 02/16/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Maslov Nikolay Vasilievich, company commander of the 146th joint venture 1909 - 01/05/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Mishenev Andrey Ivanovich, Art. adjutant of the Security Council of the 305th joint venture 1915 - 01/10/1945
• Lieutenant Moskalev Ivan Makarovich, commander of a page platoon of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 03/23/1945
• ml. lieutenant Nekerov Vasily Andreevich, commander of the page platoon of the 305th joint venture 1924 - 02/19/1945
• ml. lieutenant Nesterenko Iosif Emelyanovich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1923 - 01/05/1945
• Lieutenant Onofreychuk Fedor Emelyanovich, commander of a mortar platoon of the 146th joint venture 1921 - 01/05/1945
• Art. lieutenant Oreshin Alexey Petrovich, company commander of the 146th joint venture 1918 - 01/05/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Pakulov Mikhail Vasilievich, commander of a mortar platoon of the 25th joint venture 1924 - 03/21/1945
• Lieutenant Prilutsky Petr Alekseevich, deputy battery commander of the 146th joint venture 1913 - __.02.1945
• Lieutenant Pyatakov Vasily Ilyich, company commander of the 25th joint venture 1921 - 01/05/1945
• , commander of the page platoon of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• Captain Samsonov Dmitry Ivanovich, commander of a mortar company of the 305th joint venture 1904 - 03/23/1945
• Captain Safonov Vasily Alekseevich, battery commander of the 122nd AP 1916 - 01/05/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Sekalo Igor Ulyanovich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1926 - 02/16/1945
• Art. lieutenant vet. sl. Semenov Georgy Semenovich, Art. veterinarian of the 305th joint venture 1914 - 02/19/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Simonov Anatoly Georgievich, company commander of the 25th joint venture 1923 - 01/05/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Tagiltsev Mikhail Lvovich, company commander of the 25th joint venture 1924 - 01/21/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Tarutin Sergey Mikhailovich, commander of a page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1916 - 01/05/1945
• Captain Telembaev Alexey Timofeevich, commander of a mortar company of the 25th joint venture 1907 - 01/06/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Terin Ivan Vasilyevich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1914 - 01/05/1945
• , commander of the page platoon of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 02/12/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Shabliy Nikolai Vlasovich, company commander of the 146th joint venture 1919 - 12/24/1944
• Captain Shvetsov Semyon Parfentievich, deputy commander of the Security Council of the 305th joint venture 1913 - 01/06/1945
• captain Shchetinin Polikart Nikiforovich, party organizer of the 61st OSB? - 01/05/1945
• Captain Yablonsky Mikhail Andreevich, Art. adjutant of the Security Council of the 305th joint venture 1909 - was taken prisoner (01/06/1945, released)
• Captain Yaroshevsky Grigory Abramovich, commander of the Security Council of the 305th joint venture 1907 - 01/06/1945
• Lieutenant Yarushin Ivan Vasilievich, commander of a page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1917 - 01/05/1945

Enlisted personnel

• Sergeant Aleshchenko Maxim Antonovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1917 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Antipov Vasily Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1924 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Baranov Ivan Alekseevich
• red Army soldier Batyaev Yuri Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1923 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Batalov Vasily Petrovich
• Sergeant Belonogov Fedor Matveevich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1913 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Beltsik Petr Vasilyevich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1906 - 01/18/1945
• Art. Sergeant Berdnikov Ivan Semenovich, commander of the page of the department of the 25th joint venture 1907 - 02/16/1945
• Red Army soldier Boychuk Ivan Vasilyevich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1907 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Bubnel Bronislav Kozimirovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1912 - 02/19/1945
• Corporal Vazhenin Dmitry Efimovich
• red Army soldier Valkov Vasily Alekseevich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1905 - 02/16/1945
• sergeant med. sl. Vasiliev Alexey Vasilievich, medical instructor of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Vasiliev Ivan Fedotovich
• ml. Sergeant Vasiliev Petr Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1914 - 02/19/1945
• foreman Vasiliev Fedor Ilyich, foreman of the company of the 146th joint venture 1923 - 02/18/1945
• Corporal Vasin Fedor Konstantinovich, gunner of the 288th OIPTD 1909 - 02/22/1945
• red Army soldier Vinogradov Ivan Nikitich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1911 - 02/19/1945
• ml. Sergeant Vinokurov Ilya Leontievich, commander of the page of the department 1926 - 02/18/1945
• Sergeant Goncuro Ivan Ignatievich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1915 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Derevyanko Petr Stepanovich
• red Army soldier Dzhualinsky Vasily Andreevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1922 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Dremlyuga Vasily Petrovich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1911 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Dronov Ivan Fedorovich
• red Army soldier Dubovoy Stepan Nikiforovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1917 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Fedor Dmitrievich Ermakov
• red Army soldier Zagorelsky Denis Ustinovich
• red Army soldier Zaitsev Yakov Pavlovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1903 - 02/18/1945
• foreman Zalevsky Ivan Vasilyevich, radio platoon commander of the 146th joint venture 1918 - 01/05/1945
• Red Army soldier Zelenko Nikolai Fedorovich
• Art. Sergeant Zotov Anatoly Andreevich, commander of the page of the department of the 305th joint venture 1924 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army Ivanov Pavel Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1915 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Ivonin Vasily Irinsevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1895 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Ionov Vasily Vasilyevich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1916 - 02/16/1945
• ml. Sergeant Ishuk Petr Antonovich, machine gunner of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Kazak Ivan Filippovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1904 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Kasenkov Emelyan Kuzmich, machine gunner of the 305th joint venture 1911 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Andrey Sergeevich Kiselev, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1907 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Klimenko Pavel Danilovich
• Red Army soldier Klochkov Ivan Kirillovich
• red Army soldier Kozlovsky Teodor Teodorovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1916 - 01/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Kolesnikov Artem Ilyich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1898 - 02/21/1945
• foreman Korneev Ivan Andreevich, commander of the page of the department of the 146th joint venture 1911 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Kostrykin Sergey Timofeevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1894 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Kochan Petr Ilyich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1903 - 02/18/1945
• Red Army soldier Kochergin Nikolai Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Krivoshey Ivan Vladimirovich, machine gunner of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/21/1945
• Corporal Kuvaev Dmitry Alekseevich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1910 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Kurbanov Shamshi, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1908 - 02/20/1945
• Sergeant Kurochkin Alexander Vasilyevich, commander of the machine-gun squad of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Lebedev Konstantin Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1925 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Levcheko Ivan Pavlovich, medical instructor of the 146th joint venture 1910 - 02/21/1945
• ml. Sergeant Leushin Ivan Nikitovich, commander of the page of the department of the 25th joint venture 1903 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Liman Zalman Mashkovich
• ml. Sergeant Litvak Adam Makarovich, pom. gunner of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/23/1945
• red Army soldier Loktionov Timofey Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1910 - 02/21/1945
• Sergeant Lukanov Afanasy Fedorovich, shooter of the 4th ORR 1921 - 02/24/1945
• red Army soldier Maksimov Alexey Maksimovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1916 - 02/19/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Maslov Vladimir Vasilievich, commander of the page platoon of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Melnik Evtukh Efimovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1899 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Mironov Pavel Prokopevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1913 - 02/21/1945
• Sergeant Mikhailov Arkady Mikhailovich, shooter of a foot reconnaissance platoon of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Mullagaliev Mansur, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1897 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Nadin Efim Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1901 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Nikitin Leonid Semenovich, machine gunner of the 25th joint venture 1914 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Egor Ivanovich Nikiforov, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1894 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Novikov Mikhail Petrovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1919 - 02/18/1945
• Red Army soldier Oleinik Vladimir Vasilyevich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1923 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Ostafeychuk Petr Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1914 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Georgy Ivanovich Ostreiko, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1909 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Paryshev Gavril Kondratievich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1899 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Pishenko Ivan Terentyevich, shooter-scout of the 305th joint venture 1922 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Poznyak Nikolai Dmitrievich, squad leader of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• foreman Ponomarev Nikandr Antonovich, commander of the department of the 305th joint venture 1905 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Ravilov Minvali Abinovich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1926 - 02/16/1945
• ml. Lieutenant Rotnov Georgy Ivanovich, commander of the page platoon of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Rudenko Ivan Ivanovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1907 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Rysov Ulyuk, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1905 - 02/21/1945
• Corporal Savochka Nikolai Mikhailovich, machine gunner of the 305th joint venture 1909 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Sagitov Medil, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1925 - 02/14/1945
• Art. Lieutenant Semenov Grigory Semenovich, Art. veterinarian of the 305th SD 1914 - 02/19/1945
• Art. Sergeant Semyonov Nikolay Vasilievich, commander of the page platoon of the 25th joint venture 1908 - 01/01/1945
• red Army soldier Sergeev Fedor Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1905 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Ignaty Yakovlevich Sirkin, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1926 - 02/22/1945
• red Army soldier Sokolov Sergey Nikitovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1894 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Spitsak Andrey Yakimovich, machine gunner of the 305th joint venture 1912 - 02/21/1945
• Sergeant Stepanov Vladimir Kimrillovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1923 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Tabachuk Nikolai Vasilievich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1902 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Tkachenko Yakov Denisovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1901 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Tkachuk Grigory Ivanovich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1924 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Trafimchuk Mikhail Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1908 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Trukhanov Alexander Andreevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1902 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Tyunin Ivan Semenovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1898 - 02/18/1945
• ml. Sergeant Ufimtsev Anatoly Fedorovich, gunner of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/22/1945
• red Army soldier Fedulov Vasily Grigorievich, gunner of the 25th joint venture 1913 - 02/21/1945
• ml. Sergeant Fedko Alexey Mikhailovich, pom. platoon commander of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• Corporal Fokin Nikolai Abramovich, commander of the machine-gun squad of the 146th joint venture 1923 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Nikolay Matveyevich Fomin, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1926 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Khamzin Lavletta Galliulovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1904 - 02/18/1945
• Lieutenant Kheilikov Mitrofan Petrovich, commander of the page platoon of the 305th joint venture 1925 - 02/19/1945
• Red Army soldier Kholin Nikolai Ignatievich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1902 - 02/21/1945
• red Army soldier Chaplyk Vasily Maksimovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1900 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Shalaev Emelyan Vasilyevich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1912 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Shapoval Semyon Alekseevich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1904 - 02/21/1945
• Red Army soldier Shtefuryak Nikolai Ivanovich, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1910 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Yuldashev Sultan Abrakhmanovich, shooter of the 25th joint venture 1925 - 02/16/1945
• red Army soldier Yuldashov Sharap, shooter of the 146th joint venture 1905 - 02/18/1945
• red Army soldier Yakovlev Pavel Yakovlevich, commander of the page of the department of the 305th joint venture 1922 - 02/19/1945
• red Army soldier Yanovsky Grigory Gavrilovich, shooter of the 305th joint venture 1926 - 02/21/1945

If your family archive contains photographs of your relative and you send his biography, this will give us the opportunity to perpetuate the memory of a soldier, a participant in the hostilities of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, on the territory of the Republic of Latvia.

The feat that the soldiers performed during the defense and liberation of the Republic of Latvia led to Our Victory, and the memory of the people who gave their lives for this will not be forgotten.