War diary of K. Ya. Nayakshin. Mukin Dementy Nikolaevich. Search for burial site 346 sd combat path

".. To the north-west and west of the city of YELGAVA (MITAVA), our troops repulsed attacks by large enemy infantry and tanks. By order of the command, our troops left the city of TUKUMS and retreated to more advantageous positions ..."
From the summary of the Sovinformburo for August 21, 1944.

German soldiers pass by an immobilized Soviet IS-2 tank, during the fighting in Jelgava (Mitau) central Latvia. In 1944.

Probably just as connoisseurs of Russian poetry sometimes like "at random" to open some of the volumes of the complete works of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin in order to read a few lines, just by choice, so I "wander" from time to time through the archival documents of the WDS website - Memorial.

All you need to do is drive some words at random, for example. Hungary, 1945, a different cause of death and you read the fates of soldiers and officers. Who committed suicide, who was run over by a car, who poisoned themselves with methyl alcohol.

The day before, I thought. But it’s interesting - which of our fellow countrymen from Penza was not lucky at the end of the war? For example, being already in the officer rank, he fell into the clutches of the Nazis.

I am typing in the request of the WBS the text 1944, the captain, Penza, was captured.

The site gave out several names. My choice fell on the captain of the medical service Isaak Naumovich Malkin, born in 1919. captain of the medical service of the 346th rifle division. He was captured on August 20, 1944. And then the addition is released.

So yes !! ??!

Judging by the name of the officer, a Jew! And he survived in captivity. Maybe the appearance did not speak of nationality ?? And the fellow soldiers taken with him in captivity did not betray him ??

Lucky, of course. According to the documents, the captain served in the 437th medical-sanitary battalion of the 346th division.

Then I thought - how is it that the doctor of the medical battalion, being not on the front line, could have been taken prisoner ?? Began to look for information. And immediately I realized - well, here's another blank spot in the Great Patriotic War for me it became less. In August 1944, the entire division, in which Malkin was located, was surrounded.

Anatoly Fedorovich Novikov commander of the sanitary platoon 437 med. baht. 346 SD

Pavel Petrovich Maryukhin deputy for political affairs 437 medical-dignity. baht. 346 SD

Isaak Naumovich Malkin, captain, resident physician, 437 med. baht. 346 SD.

But only Malkin survived and returned. And apparently behaved in captivity with dignity. After being released and checked, he continued to serve in the Red Army.


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By the way, according to the information given on the "People's Feat" website, before the 346th division was transferred from the Crimea to the Baltic states, the captain of the medical service was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" and the Order of the Red Star.

As stated in the submission to the last award, Isaak Naumovich Malkin wading the Sivash and carrying surgical instruments, reaching the shore, immediately began to operate on the wounded, thus saving many lives. A normal man, to be sure!

And then the division, replenished with local conscripts, was transferred from the Soviet Crimea to the Soviet Baltic. At first everything went well, and then ...


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On August 19, the enemy concentrated the 168th and 314th Infantry Divisions in the Kauguri, Sloka, Kalnciems sector and launched an offensive against units of the 346th Infantry Division. numerous amphibious assault forces of the enemy Enemy warships supported the landing with the fire of naval guns Enemy aircraft bombed the defenders of the coast Above the infantry regiment of the Hitlerites with tanks broke through at Milzkalne and Smarda They destroyed the GOSPITAL (highlighted by me) 346th Rifle Division located there with wounded soldiers, doctors and nurses .... "

"On August 20, after a strong artillery preparation and with the support of a large number of tanks, self-propelled and assault guns, the enemy, with the forces of the 93rd Infantry Division and the separate consolidated battalions attached to it, went on the offensive along the entire sector of the division's defense. Having crossed the Lielupe River up to 14 infantry companies, the Germans began an offensive along the road in the direction of the farm “Sarmas.” At the same time, from the west, the Germans moved up to 20 tanks and a battalion of motorized infantry to join the crossing troops. Sydko fought a landing amphibious assault By 12 o'clock in the afternoon the Germans, with the fire support of the cruiser "Prince Eugene", managed to land infantry and military equipment from 36 ships and barges in the area of ​​Asari and Lielciems.

The Jelgava-Tukums road by this time was cut by enemy tanks and armored personnel carriers. The Germans created the so-called "Courland Corridor" 30 kilometers wide from the Gulf of Riga to the Berze River, north of Jelgava, and restored communication between Army Group North and East Prussia.

The 346th Division was completely surrounded on a large extended front. ... "

To further - you can read on the links above by me. Some of the servicemen broke through with a fight, several hundred retreated into the swamps. And then a group of scouts was sent who brought up to 90% of the fighters from this group. But of course not all of them. Hundreds were left lying on the ground, hundreds were taken prisoner. By the way, there are many Penza residents among the missing on August 20. I checked on the OBD-Memorial - the mark was released, only a few are alive.

Judging by the memoirs I read, these events were not "ignored" by the "controlling authorities."

“September 1944 Difficult fighting in the encirclement still affected the mood of the soldiers and even the commanders. I noticed this as soon as I visited the regiments of the 346th Infantry Regiment.

Naturally, the gloomy and even, one might say, depressed mood of people alerted me. After all, this has not been observed in the division before. Of course, I began to look for reasons for this. ...

It turned out that as soon as the division left the encirclement, several army representatives immediately arrived at its units. Unfortunately, they saw their task not in cheering people up, but in ... to conduct a kind of investigation. So they began to ask the soldiers who, in their opinion, was the culprit for the fact that the company, the battalion were surrounded, how certain soldiers behaved in that situation. In a word, people seemed to be divided in advance into courageous and cowards, which, quite understandably, led some to great embarrassment, while others were insulted to the core.

The tactless attitude of senior comrades to the soldiers and commanders of the division that had been in trouble caused at least bewilderment. Therefore, I considered it necessary to invite zealous "investigators". ... "

Well, for now, that's all about the 346th Infantry Division.

By the way, judging by the same website "People's Feat" in 1985, Isaac Naumovich Malkin was still alive. He was awarded the "Jubilee" Order of the Patriotic War.

And further. There is a "Book of memory of Jewish soldiers who fell in the battles with Nazism 1941-1945, Volume 2"

If they read me in Israel, please amend it. Isaac Malkin is not missing. The captain was captured and continued to study medicine.
By the way, what about that Jelgava. ours were released. BUT this already happened on October 10, 1944. According to information on the Internet, during the battles the city was destroyed by 90%, for which it received the name "Baltic Stalingrad".


The submachine gunners of the First Baltic Front are clearing Jelgava of the Germans. 1944 g.

__.08.1941 - 09.05.1945

Division formed in August 1941 in the city of Volsk, Saratov region Volga Military District.

Took part in battles near Moscow, near Stalingrad, Donbass, crossing the Sivash, in the Crimea... For military merits in the liberation of Donbass and the city of Debaltseve, the 346th Infantry Division was awarded the honorary title "Debaltsevskaya".

Since August 1944, as part of the 54th Rifle Corps of the 2nd Guards Army of the 1st Baltic Front, in September of the 60th Rifle Corps of the 51st Army, since October as part of the 1st Guards Rifle Corps. It took part in the Baltic strategic operation, the division fought in the Siauliai-Memel areas.

Since November 1944, the division has been on the defensive. on the Libava direction, on the Skuodas - Rucava line, took part in the expansion of bridgeheads on the right bank of the Barta River.

Since March 1945, as part of the 14th rifle corps of front-line subordination of the 2nd Baltic Front, since April as part of the Byelorussian-Lithuanian Military District and the 2nd Byelorussian Front.

Commanders:

  • Major General Davidovsky Ivan Elizarovich from August 20, 1941 to June 6, 1942
  • Colonel Sushchenko Maxim Andreevich from June 7, 1942 to September 25, 1942
  • Colonel Tolstov Arkhip Ivanovich September 26, 1942 to November 28, 1942
  • from November 29, 1942 to August 11, 1943
  • Lieutenant Colonel Artamonov Vladimir Vasilievich from 12 to 17 August 1943
  • Colonel Nikolay Stepanovich Ugryumov from 18 to 19 August 1943
  • Major General Dmitry Stankevsky from August 20, 1943 to December 30, 1944
  • Major General Nikolai Mishchenko from December 31, 1944 to February 13, 1945
  • Colonel Shein Konstantin Fedorovich February 14, 1945 to March 19, 1945
  • Major General Vladimir Gorbachev from March 20, 1945 to May 9, 1945

Composition :

  • 1164th Infantry Order of Suvorov III Class Regiment
  • 1166th Infantry Order of Kutuzov III degree regiment
  • 1168th Infantry Red Banner Order of Suvorov III degree regiment
  • 915th Red Banner Artillery Regiment
  • 266th separate anti-tank destroyer division
  • 414th separate reconnaissance company
  • 473rd separate sapper battalion
  • 803rd separate communications battalion (252nd separate communications company)
  • 437th separate medical and sanitary battalion
  • 430th separate chemical protection company
  • 467th motor transport company
  • 206th Field Bakery
  • 774th Divisional Veterinary Infirmary
  • 782nd field cash office of the State Bank.

Settlements:

  • NS. Buki 10/12/14/1944
  • NS. Garkai 01.11-22.12.1944
  • Art. Iechi 10-15.10.1944
  • NS. Dytinieki 22.12.1944
  • NS. Lankuti 12/22/1944
  • NS. Liepieni 12-13.19.1944
  • NS. Ratynieki 11/02/1944
  • NS. Slazhas 01.11-27.12.1944
  • NS. Sudargas 10/11/1944
  • NS. Sungali 10/18/1944
  • NS. Tylyugi 11.10.1944-28.01.1945

PERSONAL COMPOSITION

Total: 395

Officers

1st Infantry Battalion Commander

1168th joint venture

May 20, 1920

  • Art. Lieutenant Geurkov Artysh Grigorievich, deputy. political commander of the 2nd rifle battalion of the 1168th joint venture 1905 - 08/23/1944
  • Lieutenant Guryanov Sergey Efimovich, platoon commander of the 3rd line of the company of the 1168th SP 1922 - 02/01/1945
  • ml. Lieutenant Dadashev Dadash Alievich, commander of the 2nd platoon of the 9th rifle company of the 1168th SP 1922 - 08/23/1944
  • Lieutenant Dazhura Leonid Trofimovich, commander of the fire platoon of the 2nd battery of the 915th AP, born in 1923
  • Lieutenant Doroshenko Ivan Makarovich, platoon commander of the 4th line of the company of the 1166th SP 1916 - 01/30/1945
  • Lieutenant Dunin Konstantin Stepanovich, Art. adjutant of the SB 1166 SP, born in 1923
  • ml. Lieutenant Elin Nikolay Ivanovich, Komsomol organizer of the 2nd SB 1166 SP 1925 - 01.24.1945
  • ml. Lieutenant Eretin Georgy Yakovlevich, commander of the 1st platoon of the 3rd machine-gun company of the 1168th joint venture 1925 - captured (23.08.1944, released)
  • Lieutenant Ermolaev Anatoly Grigorievich, platoon commander of the 1st machine-gun company of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - 01/26/1945
  • captain Zavgorodniy Fedor Petrovich, Art. adjutant of the SB 1168th joint venture, born in 1912
  • captain Zangiev Georgy Soslonovich, commander of the SB 1166th SP, born in 1910
  • Captain Zetserov Boris Mikhailovich, pom. head of ORPO 1907 - captured (23.08.1944 LSSR, released)
  • captain Ivanov Ivan Fedoseevich, deputy. SB commander for the combat unit of the 1164th joint venture, born in 1915
  • Lieutenant Kapkaev Shavkat, platoon commander of the 5th rifle company of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - was captured (23.08.1944, released)
  • military doctor 3rd rank Karpunin Vasily Petrovich, commander of a sanitary company of the 1166th joint venture 1917 - was captured (23.08.1944, released)
  • Lieutenant Kovalev Viktor Pavlovich, platoon commander of the 1st mortar company of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - was captured (07/30/1944 st.Kuzevka, released 04/14/1945)
  • Lieutenant Koloda Vasily Kharitonovich, commander of a sapper platoon of the 473rd OSB, born in 1916
  • lieutenant m / s Komarov Pavel Ivanovich, paramedic of the medical company of the 1166th SP 1923 - 08/23/1944
  • ml. Lieutenant Konovalov Ivan Ivanovich, platoon commander of the 7th rifle company of the 1166th joint venture 1911 - 07/30/1944
  • guards Art. Lieutenant Kotelnikov Nikolay Sergeevich, battery commander of 120 mm mortars of the 1166th SP 1922 - 12/23/1944
  • ml. Lieutenant Krasilnikov Grigory Fedorovich, pom. chief of staff of the 6th branch of the 1166th joint venture 1903 - captured (30.08.1944 Sloka, released)
  • battalion commissar Krytyuk Fedot Vanifatyevich, deputy. commander of the combat unit of the 1st rifle battalion of the 1166th joint venture 1900 - 12/23/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Kuzemka Nikolay Dmitrievich, commander of the 7th rifle company of the 1166th joint venture 1914 - 08/23/1944
  • Lieutenant Kulgutin Petr Grigorievich, platoon commander of 45 mm guns of the 1166th joint venture 1923 - 12/23/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Lebedev Ivan Denisovich, commander of the 8th rifle company of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1921
  • Lieutenant Lenev Sergey Ivanovich, commander of a foot reconnaissance platoon of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1922
  • ml. Lieutenant Lobachev Mikhail Petrovich, commander of the 2nd platoon of the 4th rifle company of the 1168th joint venture 1909 - was captured (04.09.1944 Timiri, Stalag I B, released)
  • ml. Lieutenant Lysyuk Fedosiy Grigorievich, platoon commander of the 8th rifle company of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1909
  • Art. Lieutenant Malyshev Viktor Ivanovich, intelligence officer of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1923
  • Lieutenant Mankovsky Leonid Vasilievich, commander of the 1st rifle platoon of the 5th rifle company born in 1925
  • lieutenant m / s Maslyaev Mikhail Filippovich, vred. commander of a sanitary company of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1923
  • captain Melnikov Alexander Ivanovich, pom. chief of staff of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1917
  • Major Nabatov Yakov Abramovich, chief of artillery supply 1907 - 09/12/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Nadbitov Kharkta Mushaevich, commander of the 1st line of the company of the 1168th SP 1922 - 02.02.1945
  • Lieutenant Nazarov Petr Alekseevich, platoon commander, battery control 45 mm guns 1166th SP 1921 - 08/23/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Nesterenko Roman Speridonovich, Komsomol organizer of the 1168th SP 1923 - 08/23/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Obukhov Nikolay Ivanovich, commander of the 3rd machine-gun company of the 1166th joint venture 1923 - 07/30/1944
  • Lieutenant Andrey Ovchinnikov, commander of the 7th battery of the 915th AP __. 10.1908 - 01/31/1945
  • ml. Lieutenant Poryadin Nikolay Mikhailovich, platoon commander of the division of the 266th OIPTD 1919 - 08/20/1944
  • ml. Lieutenant Pronin Dmitry Alekseevich, commander of the 1st platoon of the 2nd machine-gun company of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1923
  • Art. Lieutenant Rechitsky Alexander Grigorievich, commander of a rifle company of the 1164th joint venture, born in 1922
  • technician-lieutenant Reshetov Evlampy Mikhailovich, pom. chief of military-technical supply, born in 1901
  • Lieutenant Ryabushkin Ivan Yegorovich, pom. chief of staff of the 1st branch of the 1166th joint venture 1904 - 08/23/1944
  • ml. Lieutenant Saletsky Gavriil Davydovich, platoon commander of 76 mm guns of the 1168th SP 1912 - 08/23/1944
  • Lieutenant Saltanov Grigory Grigorievich, commander of the 1st line of the company of the 1168th SP 1912 - 02.02.1945
  • Lieutenant Sapozhnikov Arsentiy Ivanovich, Art. adjutant of the SB 1166th joint venture, born in 1924
  • Art. lieutenant a / s Safonov Vasily Maksimovich, pom. head of the AHCh 1909 - captured (11.09.1944 Kemeri, released)
  • Art. Lieutenant Semonyan Isaak Sarkisovich, commander of a mortar platoon of the 1166th SP 1904 - 01/30/1945
  • Lieutenant Colonel Serin Leonid Ivanovich, commander of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1906
  • ml. Lieutenant Slabunov Ivan Stepanovich, platoon commander of the 3rd machine-gun company of the 1166th joint venture on 08/19/1924 - was captured (07/30/1944 Lithuanian SSR, released)
  • captain Snizhko Andrey Mikhailovich, commander of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1916
  • Lieutenant Sobolev Alexander Vasilievich, PTR platoon commander of the 2nd rifle company of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1915
  • Major Sorokin Andrey Egorovich, commander of the SB 1166 SP 1915
  • Captain Sorochenko Ivan Safonovich, commander of the 1st line of the company of the 1164th SP 1920 - 01/31/1945
  • Lieutenant Stashevsky Leonid Semenovich, commander of a sapper platoon of the 473rd OSB 1910 - captured (released)
  • ml. Lieutenant Anatoly Strokov, commander of the 2nd platoon of the 5th rifle company of the 1168th joint venture 1919 - was captured (23.08.1944, released)
  • ml. Lieutenant Sulye Nikolay Vasilievich, platoon commander of a battery of 45 mm guns of the 1168th SP 1916 - captured (23.08.1944, released)
  • guards Art. Lieutenant Teregulov Naim Abdulkhakovich, commander of the 2nd battery of the 915th AP 1923 - 08/21/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Tetenev Ivan Sergeevich, commander of the 3rd rifle company of the 1166th joint venture 1906 - 12/23/1944
  • Art. Lieutenant Timofeev Sergey Andreevich Kapellmeister 1903 - captured (released)
  • ml. Lieutenant Nikolay Fedorovich Tkachenko, commander of the 2nd platoon of the 2nd rifle company of the 1168th SP 1920 - 08/23/1944
  • ml. Lieutenant Udalov Mikhail Grigorievich, commander of the 5th rifle company of the 1166th joint venture 1923 - 08/23/1944
  • Lieutenant Usanov Fedor Vasilievich, platoon commander of the 1st machine-gun company of the 1168th SP 1910 - 02/01/1945
  • captain Farafonov Nikolay Nazarovich, deputy. commander of the 1st SB 1166 SP 1894 - 01.24.1945
  • Major Faustov Ivan Kuzmich, deputy. commander of the combat unit of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1901
  • captain Fedorenko Andrey Kharitonovich, intelligence officer of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1914
  • Lieutenant Fedorenko Petr Ivanovich, platoon commander of the 3rd mortar company of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - was captured (07/30/1944, released)
  • Art. Lieutenant Fedoseev Ivan Nikitovich, deputy. SB commander for the combat unit of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1912
  • Lieutenant Frolov Timofey Fedorovich, commander of a machine gun platoon of the 3rd machine gun company of the 1166th SP 1906 - 01/30/1945
  • Lieutenant Kholmanov Pavel Petrovich, platoon commander of the 2nd battery of the 915th AP 1919 - 08/21/1944
  • Lieutenant Chizhikov Anatoly Fedorovich, commander of a machine-gun company 1164th joint venture, born in 1923
  • captain Chumakov Vasily Korneevich, Art. adjutant of the SB 1164th joint venture, born in 1910
  • Art. Lieutenant Shepchunov Semyon Ivanovich, platoon commander of the 5th line of the company of the 1164th SP 1900 - 02/03/1945
  • Art. Lieutenant Shumyatsky Mark Borisovich, battery commander 76 mm guns 1164th SP 1923 - 01/31/1945
  • Lieutenant Yablunovsky Grigory Mifodievich, commander of the 5th line of the company of the 1166th joint venture 1919 - 01/28/1945
  • captain Yaroshevsky Grigory Abramovich, commander of the 3rd rifle battalion of the 1168th joint venture 1907 - 01/06/1945
  • military doctor Yatskovsky Vasily Polikarpovich, doctor of the medical company of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1920

Rank and file

  • Red Army soldier Abdraitov Ivray Abdrakhmanovich , gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Adamenko Foma Fedorovich, shooter of the 1166th joint venture 1896 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Major Alekseev Dmitry Pavlovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Akimkin Grigory Yakovlevich, telephone operator of the 915th AP 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Ananiev Vladimir Alexandrovich
  • Corporal Andimirov Emelyan Boyazitovich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1926 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Andreev Mikhail Fedorovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1909 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Andrusenko Petr Ivanovich
  • Red Army soldier Anisenko Iosif Ivanovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1918 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Aslanov Aga Karim, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1921 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Astafeev Viktor Mikhailovich, mortar gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Babkin Ignat Nikiforovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1905 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Babkov Nikolay Anisimovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1923 - 05.11.1944
  • Sergeant Baykov Petr Savelyevich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1907 - 02.11.1944
  • Art. Sergeant Balykin Ivan Petrovich, driver of the 915th AP 1906 - 12/16/1944
  • Red Army soldier Basov Petr Artemovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1923 - 12/23/1944
  • Corporal Batalen Alexey Grigorievich, radio operator of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/31/1944
  • Red Army soldier Bakhtin Leonid Ivanovich
  • Sergeant Berezutsky Ivan Petrovich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Beskrovny Pyotr Danilovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1907 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Biryukov Alexey Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1906 - 10/15/1944
  • Red Army soldier Bogatyrenko Petr Kirillovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/18/1944
  • Red Army soldier Bogdanov Alexander Andreevich
  • Red Army soldier Boev Joseph Ivanovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1909 - 11/06/1944
  • Red Army soldier Bochkarev Ivan Alekseevich
  • ml. Sergeant Bugaev Mikhail Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 03.11.1944
  • Sergeant Bulatov Semyon Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1915 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Burmak Nikolay Loginovich, orderly of the 1166th SP 1925 - 12/11/1944
  • Sergeant Major Butuzov Afanasy Andreevich, petty officer of the 1164th SP 1906 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Buyanov Pavel Ivanovich
  • Red Army soldier Vikhrov Anasha Yegorovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Art. Sergeant Vlasova Antonina Matveevna, medical instructor of the 1166th SP 1925 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Vozny Petr Stepanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1921 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Volkov Nikolay Alexandrovich
  • ml. Sergeant Volkov Nikolay Vladimirovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Vorobyov Ivan Isaevich, gun carrier of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 02.11.1944
  • Sergeant Vorobyov Pavel Petrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1922 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Vyboischikov Mark Solomonovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 02.11.1944
  • Sergeant Gavrilov Mikhail Gerasimovich, clerk of the 1168th joint venture 1918 - 08/23/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Gavrish Fedor Feodosievich, pom. platoon commander of the 1164th joint venture 1914 - 10/14/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Gaidai Grigory Ivanovich, commander of the machine-gun crew of the 1164th joint venture 1913 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Gakalenko Efim Sidorovich
  • Red Army soldier Hasanov Navruz Muradovich, reconnaissance observer of the 915th AP 1923 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Gelmanov Izgar Fashkulovich
  • ml. Sergeant Gerashchenko Kuzma Nikiforovich, gun commander of the 915th AP 1905 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Gismatulin Temerzan Sayakhovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1917 - 10/12/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Golubev Alexander Mikhailovich, medical instructor of the 915th AP 1901 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Goncharov Emelyan Terentyevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1904 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Gordienko Ivan Demyanovich
  • Red Army soldier Gornakov Vasily Yakovlevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1903 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Goryachkin Vasily Ilyich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Grachev Nikolay Mikhailovich, pom. gunner of the 1164th SP 1925 - 10/15/1944
  • Corporal Grechishnikov Mitrofan Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1910 - 10/10/1944
  • Red Army soldier Gribkov Yuri Denisovich
  • Red Army soldier Grigoriev Alexander Vasilievich
  • Red Army soldier Grishin Alexander Petrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1919 - 12/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Gryaznov Ivan Yakovlevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1908 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Husseinov Hussein Jafarovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1919 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Danilchenko Ivan Nikolaevich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Demin Ivan Petrovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1905 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Demchenko Grigory Kirsanovich, gunner of the 915th AP 1915 gun - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Denisenko Pavel Ivanovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1893 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Dmitriev Ivan Illarionovich
  • Red Army soldier Dmitrienko Ignat Vasilievich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1906 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Duryagin Vasily Fedorovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1918 - 05.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Egorov Georgy Alekseevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Eliseev Nikolay Kuzmich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 11/05/1944
  • Red Army soldier Elsukov Nikolay Egorovich
  • Red Army soldier Epifanov Stepan Nikolaevich, shooter of the 1164th SP 1905 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Eremenko Vasily Fedorovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1909 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Zhenikhov Konstantin Egorovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Zhivrin Valentin Yakovlevich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Zhuk Anton Palagovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1912 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Zabaev Ivan Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Zaitsev Konstantin Mikhailovich, sniper of the 1164th joint venture 03.03.1926 - 03.12.2015
  • Red Army soldier Zaitsev Ustim Dmitrievich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1924 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Nikolai Pavlovich Zakharov
  • Corporal Zinov Alexander Vidineevich
  • ml. Sergeant Zlochevsky Isaak Naumovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Zabaev Ismail, gunner of the 1166th SP 1909 - 10/12/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Zolotarev Nikolay Egorovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/14/1944
  • Sergeant Major Zuban Ivan Nikiforovich, petty officer of the 1168th SP 1907 - 12/23/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ikonnikov Alexander Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Sergeant Major Ilgachev Ivan Mikhailovich, petty officer of the 1168th SP 1908 - 12/23/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ilyushkin Pavel Dmitrievich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kazantsev Nikolai Ignatievich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1922 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kazarin Ivan Ivanovich
  • Red Army soldier Kamaev Nikolay Ivanovich, gunner st. machine gun 1164th SP 1922 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kamalov Martaza, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1914 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Karasev Alexander Stepanovich, shooter of the 1164th joint venture? - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Karogodov Fedor Mikhailovich
  • ml. Sergeant Karpov Pavel Dmitrievich, squad leader of the 1166th SP 1906 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Katashov Grigory Stepanovich
  • Red Army soldier Kiselev Joseph Semyonovich
  • Red Army soldier Klimko Mikhail Prokhorovich
  • Red Army soldier Kovalenko Alexander Ivanovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier of the Ark Grigory Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1907 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kolesbayev Jumash, gunner of the 1168th SP 1909 - 12/27/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kolesov Dmitry Dmitrievich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kolesnikov Gennady Stepanovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 12/26/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kolin Nikolay Andreevich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Corporal Kolobov Nikolay Sergeevich
  • Red Army soldier Kolomiets Ivan Mikhailovich
  • Red Army soldier Kononenko Petr Fedorovich, an orderly of a sanitary company of the 1166th joint venture, born in 1923
  • Red Army soldier Konoplyanko Ivan Ivanovich, sapper of the 473rd OSB 1911 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Konchibaev Sadybai Sadyrovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1918 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Koroban Alexander Petrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1899 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Korolenko Semyon Afanasevich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1904 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Korotchenko Ivan Semyonovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1904 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Major Kortashov Yuri Mikhailovich, commander of the mortar crew of the 1164th joint venture, born in 1923
  • Red Army soldier Korshun Mikhail Kirilovich, machine gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 11/03/1944
  • Sergeant Kostogryz Pyotr Arestovich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1910 - 10/31/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kostylev Gerasim Eremeevich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1906 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Koshelev Fedor Safronovich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1905 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Koshigin Mikhail Feoktistovich, orderly of the 1166th SP 1911 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Krivoklubov Vasily Efimovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1900 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kruglov Nikolay Vasilievich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/14/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Krutikov Yegor Petrovich, battery commander 45 mm guns 1164th SP 1911 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kudrevsky Sergei Konstantinovich, shooter 1164th SP 1906 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kuzikhin Nikolay Ivanovich, machine gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kuzmenkov Viktor Tikhonovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 10/13/1944
  • Corporal Kuparisov Ivan Fedorovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 10.10.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kuprin Alexander Gerasimovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1923 - 12/17/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kurbanov Shakhmet, gunner of the 1164th SP 1910 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Kuryukin Vasily Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Kutsarev Grigory Kirillovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1918 - 11/01/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Lagutin Ivan Kirillovich, commander of a 45 mm gun of the 1168th joint venture, born in 1912
  • Red Army soldier Lapushkin Andrey Vladimirovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1905 - 12/15/1944
  • Red Army soldier Lardibaladze Glia Millasovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Light Ivan Vasilievich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1919 - 10/11/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Lemesh Yakov Samsonovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 12/23/1944
  • Red Army soldier Leonov Stepan Grigorievich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1904 - 11/05/1944
  • Red Army soldier Lepeshkin Tikhon Afanasevich, carriage of the 915th AP 1904 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Lisovoy Ivan Afanasevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1912 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Archers Ivan Georgievich, machine gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Lysov Alexey Ilyich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Lyubavin Vasily Vasilievich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1911 - 04.11.1944
  • ml. Sergeant Lyubimtsev Vasily Efimovich, machine gunner of the 1166th SP 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Lyagotin Pavel Fedorovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 11/01/1944

shooter of the 1164th joint venture

1898 - 22.12.1944

  • Sergeant Makagonyuk Marya Prokofievich , squad leader of the 1164th SP 1905 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Maksimov Boris Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Makudzinov Muhamed, gunner of the 1166th SP 1907 - 03.11.1944
  • ml. Sergeant Malkulian Kochar Sarkisovich, machine gunner of the 1164th SP 1910 - 11/03/1944
  • Red Army soldier Mamaev Nikolay Dmitrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Mareev Leonid Nikolaevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Markin Alexander Ivanovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 11/07/1944
  • Sergeant Markin Vladimir Yakovlevich, pom. platoon commander of the 1164th SP 1923 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Marchuk Vasily Fedorovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1908 - 11/07/1944
  • Red Army soldier Maryashin Ivan Alekseevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Makhmudov Nasyrkhan, gunner of the 1168th SP 1904 - 12/24/1944
  • Corporal Makhmutov Rakhid Akhmetovich, shooter of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Matsebura Pavel Filimonovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1912 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Major Melkoozerov Alexander Alexandrovich, petty officer of the 1168th SP 1913 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Melnik Grigory Ivanovich, submachine gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Evgeny Platonovich Melnikov, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Menishkov Georgy Petrovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Art. Sergeant Merkushkin Grigory Andreevich, squad leader of the 1168th SP 1903 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Mironov Afanasy Ananievich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1899 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Moskalev Petr Nikolaevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Moskalenko Alexey Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Muzamerdinov Umareli, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1909 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Mukumov Latyp, shooter of the 1166th SP 1908 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Munin Ivan Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1909 - 10/11/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Muravsky Viktor Iosifovich, Komsomol organizer SB 1166th joint venture born in 1919
  • Red Army soldier Nazimutdinov Ravgat Sayakhovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/13/1944
  • Sergeant Major Naydenov Ivan Timofeevich, petty officer of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Naumenko Vasily Makarovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Nikolai Ivanovich Neznamov, submachine gunner of the 1166th SP 1925 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Nekryach Vladimir Fedorovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1900 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Nerodik Mark Petrovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1922 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Neupokoev Semyon Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1923 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Nikolay Frolovich Nikolaenko
  • Corporal Niyazov Rashit Lakipovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 2nd SB 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • foreman med. sl. Novikov Pavel Matveevich, medical instructor 414th ORR 1923 - 12/25/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ozhiganov Anatoly Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Oleinikov Ivan Emelyanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Onenko Andrey Trofimovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1925 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Onishchenko Timofey Nikolaevich, cook of the 1168th joint venture 1907 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Pavlov Nikolay Dmitrievich , gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/14/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Panov Gennady Pavlovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/16/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Pashnikov Fyodor Amosovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1913 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Perkhurov Vasily Semenovich , gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Petinov Alexander Andreevich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1910 - 11/05/1944
  • Red Army soldier Petrov Alexander Egorovich
  • Red Army soldier Petrov Alexander Nikolaevich, carriage of the 915th AP 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Pechery Yakov Fedorovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1903 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Pechersky Vasily Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1902 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Alexey Petrovich Pivovarov, telephone operator of the 915th AP 1919 - 10/11/1944
  • Sergeant Pinchuk Prokofiy Antonovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1899 - 12/27/1944
  • Sergeant Major Platitsin Viktor Nikolaevich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1918 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Plokhikh Konstantin Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Killed Ivan Kharitonovich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1907 - 04.11.1944
  • ml. Sergeant Podlegarin Andrey Stepanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Podluzhny Ivan Afonasevich, shooter of the 1168th joint venture 1898 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Poimanov Vasily Ignatievich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 10/15/1944
  • Sergeant Poleshchuk Andrey Efimovich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1901 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Potchepaev Fedor Ivanovich, commander of the rifle squad of the 1164th joint venture 1917 - 12/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Prekozhaev Vasily Pavlovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1915 - 10/31/1944
  • Red Army soldier Proskurin Kiril Andreevich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1920 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Prokhorov Alexander Akimovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Pryadko Ivan Iosifovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 10/11/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Pustovar Ivan Maksimovich, reconnaissance platoon of foot reconnaissance of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - 10/11/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Pyaterov Alexander Andreevich, platoon commander of the 1166th SP 1912 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Rozhkov Ivan Yakovlevich, armor-piercer of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Romanenko Pavel Andreevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1916 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Rostov Egor Alekseevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/10/1944
  • Red Army soldier Rudakov Mikhail Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1897 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Rudenko Georgy Kharitonovich, rideable of the 1164th joint venture 1897 - 04.11.1944
  • Art. Sergeant Rudkovsky Ivan Filipovich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture 1918 - 10/31/1944
  • Red Army soldier Rymarev Viktor Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Ryabkov Viktor Vasilievich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1925 - 10/15/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ryabov Fedor Vasilievich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ryaboshapka Ivan Dorofeevich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Sablin Fyodor Yakovlevich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sadykov Kayum, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Sideop Kakobit, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1919 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Sampalov Ivan Andreevich, telephone operator of the 915th AP 1899 - 12/15/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sanin Pavel Grigorievich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1903 - 10/11/1944
  • Sergeant Svetailo Grigory Fedorovich, gun commander of the 1164th SP 1902 - 10/11/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Semenov Andrey Andreevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Semyonov Andrey Dmitrievich, armor-piercer of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sergeev Sergey Alekseevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Serozidinov Abzal, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1918 - 12/22/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Sersimbaev Koishigiyan, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1919 - 10/11/1944
  • Sergeant Sidorkin Ivan Nikolaevich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1903 - 11/06/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sitov Vyacheslav Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sithalimov Sedomid, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1922 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Skoldin Semyon Alekseevich
  • Red Army soldier Smirnov Alexey Vasilievich, signalman of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 11/06/1944
  • Red Army soldier Smirnov Gennady Vladimirovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/16/1944
  • Red Army soldier Smirnov Dmitry Alekseevich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1908 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Nikolai Vasilievich Sokolov, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Solonsky Grigory Ivanovich, machine gunner of the 1164th SP 1908 - 11/04/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sorokin Egor Vasilievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 04.11.1944
  • Sergeant Major Sorokin Fyodor Ivanovich, petty officer of the 1164th SP 1904 - 10/10/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sorochenko Ivan Kupriyanovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 11/06/1944
  • Red Army soldier Spikhtarenko Nikolay Artemovich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1924 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Starinov Yuri Fedorovich, scout of the 1164th SP 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Strizhanov Mikhail Yakovlevich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1923 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Subotin Alexander Markelovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1909 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Suprun Vladimir Zakharovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Suslov Nikolai Alexandrovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Syrovatkin Alexey Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tagaev Mamat Tagaev, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1914 - 12/17/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tarasenko Fedor Ivanovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1924 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tachaev Karshi, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1925 - 11/07/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tevryukov Nikolay Pavlovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 10/17/1944
  • Red Army soldier Ternovoy Nikolay Tarasovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1909 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Teryaev Ivan Timofeevich, submachine gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Timofeev Ivan Dmitrievich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1922 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Timshin Nikolai Markovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tikhonov Alexander Georgievich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1923 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tikhonov Leonid Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Timofeev Alexander Timofeevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1915 - 03.11.1944
  • ml. Sergeant Tishkov Georgy Mikhailovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1911 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Tozhdenov Mukhamed, armor-piercer of the 1164th joint venture 1912 - 10/13/1944
  • Corporal Tokarev Petr Nikolaevich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 05.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Tregubenko Alexander Timofeevich, sapper of the 473rd OSB 1925 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Trenogin Konstantin Maksimovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1911 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Petr Grigorievich Tronev, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1900 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Tumko Boris Stepanovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1923 - 12/23/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tyulenev Fedor Ivanovich, gunner of the 1168th joint venture 1926 - 12/23/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tyutin Nikolai Alexandrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Urmagaliev Osman-Ali, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1914 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Faisulin Gafur Isakovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1913 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Fedorov Ivan Dmitrievich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1909 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Filienko Moisey Nikitovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1916 - 12/22/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Filimonov Semyon Alekseevich, squad leader of the 1166th joint venture of the 2nd SB 1902 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Fomichev Grigory Vasilievich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - 05.11.1944
  • Art. Sergeant Fofanov Nikolay Averyanovich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1916 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Halimuli Sharin, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1917 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Khamatov Kamil Barilovich, gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Khismatulin Zarif Megranovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Khokhlov Boris Mikhailovich, submachine gunner of the 1164th SP 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Khokhlov Ivan Pavlovich, gun number 915 AP 1904 10/11/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Khrustalev Ivan Nikolaevich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1924 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Khudayberdin Iskhak Aifulovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 10/17/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tsarunov Nikolai Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1917 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tserbunova Irina Mikhailovna, radiotelegraph operator of the 915th AP 1923 - 12/22/1944
  • Red Army soldier Tsylyakov Maxim Ignatovich, box gun 76 mm 1164th SP 1926 - 11/01/1944
  • Sergeant Charugin Georgy Andreevich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1924 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Chvyrev Mikhail Antonovich, gunner of the 1168th SP 1912 - 12/24/1944
  • Art. Sergeant Chekushkin Nikolay Dmitrievich, medical instructor of the 1166th SP 1918 - 10/13/1944
  • Sergeant Chernobin Alexey Fedorovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 10/15/1944
  • Sergeant Chernykh Mikhail Gavrilovich, machine gunner of the 1166th joint venture of the 1st SB 1924 - 12/22/1944
  • Sergeant Major Chernyshev Mikhail Ivanovich, medical instructor of the 1164th SP 1907 - 10/12/1944
  • Sergeant Chernyshov Stepan Yakovlevich, pom. platoon commander of the 1166th SP 1925 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Chuguev Nikolay Egorovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1919 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Nikolai Alexandrovich Shadrin, gunner of the 1168th SP 1926 - 12/24/1944
  • Red Army soldier Shamanaev Alexey Feoktistovich, submachine gunner of the 1166th SP 1926 - 10/14/1944
  • foreman Shamgunov Nuri Ivashunovich, petty officer of the 1164th joint venture 1912 - 11/01/1944
  • Red Army soldier Sharov Konstantin Vasilievich, gunner of the 1166th SP 1910 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Shakhtarev Grigory Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Shevchenko Petr Avtonomovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1909 - 10/13/1944
  • Corporal Shepelyuk Nikolay Osipovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1925 - 10/13/1944
  • Red Army soldier Shepelya Grigory Ermolaevich, rideable of the 1166th joint venture 1899 - 04.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Sheptenko Anton Petrovich, squad leader of the 1164th joint venture 1913 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Shilov Mikhail Grigorievich, armor-piercer of the 1164th joint venture 1910 - 10/12/1944
  • Red Army soldier Shipin Leonid Alexandrovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/12/1944
  • ml. Sergeant Shirokov Viktor Afanasevich, squad leader of the 1168th joint venture 1925 - 10/14/1944
  • Red Army soldier Shikhov Leonid Ivanovich, machine gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 10/11/1944
  • Red Army soldier Vladimir Shushuev, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 03.11.1944
  • Petty Officer Yakovlev Benedict Alexandrovich, platoon commander of the 1166th joint venture 1917 - 02.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Yakushenko Ilya Mikhailovich, gunner of the 1166th joint venture 1924 - 05.11.1944
  • Corporal Yapanov Ermolai Ivanovich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 03.11.1944
  • Red Army soldier Yachkin Vasily Nikolaevich, gunner of the 1164th joint venture 1926 - 11/01/1944

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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.

War diary of K. Ya. Nayakshin

It seems that the fate of Professor Nayakshin was predetermined in advance by some higher powers. He was born in 1900 in Tatarstan. The same age as the 20th century, he went through all the cataclysms of history with him. Moreover, K. Ya. Nayakshin, an honorary citizen of the city of Samara, was born on October 25 according to the old style. His whole life was connected with the October events. After graduating from the parochial school, he worked as an upholsterer in the craft workshop of Naberezhnye Chelny, and also sang in the church choir. He supported the coming to power of the Bolsheviks and joined the Red Army. In the 20s he continued his studies, received a university education. He was at party and Soviet work, lectured at the Samara Pedagogical Institute, as well as at the Agricultural Institute. He became interested in antiquity and wrote a dissertation on the history of Ancient Rome. For this I read the primary sources in Latin.
During collectivization, he was sent by party bodies to the Volga villages as an agitator. Participated in suppressing the unrest of the peasants. The family several times considered him murdered. In one of the villages there is a monument, where on a plate among those killed at the hands of kulaks you can read his name. But he did not die, since the fate of Kuzma Nayakshin was different.
Since 1937 he was suspended from work. Like many other potential victims of Stalinism, he fished under the Vilonovsky Spusk. There were many people like him, unemployed, at first - hundreds, but every month their number was melting. Article 58 worked and found new victims. K. Ya. Nayakshin was in demand by the Soviet authorities only after the invasion of Hitler's troops into the territory of the USSR.
War notes 1941-1943 We recently discovered Kuzma Yakovlevich Nayakshin:
History lover Stanislav Shanko helped to read and decipher them. The diaries are published for the first time.
So, the diary of Major K. Nayakshin. The beginning of a brutal war. The entries are laconic. No time to write. And only in moments of calm it was easier and more to write. He did not embellish the war, death and machine-gun bursts were just everyday details. Someone behaved with dignity. Someone could not stand it. But the strong went ahead, such as Nayakshin. And there were many of them. It was they who led the country to Victory.
June 22, 1941 Sunday. We were going to the dacha. We walked with Vasily Zakharovich Smirnov and heard VM Molotov's speech on the radio. The war with the Germans has become a fact. I decided to immediately join in active defensive work.
June 1941 Wrote articles "The Patriotic War of 1812", "Partisans of 1812". He joined the lecturer bureau of the regional committee of the CPSU (b).
July 1941 I wrote articles. I went to Privolzhsky, Radishchevsky, Syzransky, Novo-Buyansky and other districts with lectures on the Patriotic War.
August 17, 1941 Summoned to the regional committee. Just returned from a trip to the Syzran region. He lectured at the Batraki station. August 19 to the military registration and enlistment office.
August 21, 1941 We are going to Volsk. Meeting with a friend I.F.Savich - to form a division. Meeting with Abush. I got to know Polienko, Meshcheryakov and others.
August 23, 1941 Volsk. Cold barracks. - We sleep side by side. We are the first and main group of political workers. We go swimming, ate watermelons before being sent to the troops. We will form the 346th rifle division. I have been appointed senior instructor for radio propaganda of the enemy troops.
September 1941 The troops were received. People from the Saratov region; from Tataria - political fighters; from Donbass - junior commanders.
September 14, 1941. Artillerymen had 915 artillery regiments, 1166 and 1164 rifle regiments. We took the oath. Solemnly. He got to know the divisional commander Davydovsky and the commissar Kotov better. The division commander is a wonderful person, the commissar is petty. Shchepkin, the chief of food, is dry, it looks like a careerist.
End of September 1941. Daily trips to the unit. We started learning German. We drank with Aleksandrov. Starley Mironov is tired. We got rid of him. Savich is with us. Good conversation with Abush.
October 1941 Heavy campaigns - mud, cold, rain and did not sleep or eat for three days.
November 7, 1941 Blizzard. He celebrated the holiday in the 1166 rifle regiment. Wonderful Party organizer Afanasyev and Commissar Trifonov. We drank. Peskishev was there, went to visit the telephone operators. We walked through the dugouts, talked with the soldiers.
November 21, 1941 They raised the alarm at 4 o'clock in the morning. The order is to speak. Afternoon loading. The division commander wanted to scold me for not loading the stoves, but did not. I went with the first echelon of the 1164th rifle regiment (commissar Shakurov). Up to 26 on the road.
November 26, 1941 Alexander Nevsky station. Broken, there was a raid, there are victims. In the evening the city of Ryazhsk, unloading. We went on a hike. We took up the defense. We dug trenches. I walked, talked, swore, hurried.
November 27, 1941 We moved forward.
November 28, 1941 Combat order to go to Askol. The 1st battalion of the 1164th rifle regiment left ... I go there. He arrested the scout platoon commander - he was drunk and threatened the commissioner. We took up defense in the city.
November 29, 1941 Battle order - with the second battalion of the 1164th rifle regiment with Captain Sorokin to occupy Paveletsk. First losses. The Germans literally shit ... the station is destroyed.
November 30, 1941 We go to Gorchivo. The Germans are burning everything. They fired from the cannons. We occupied the settlement. The Germans managed to escape in 30 minutes, took 230 cars and other property. Captain Sorokin was replaced, he arrived drunk, a quarrel. Together with the 1166 rifle regiment, they captured scouts, a car, killed six, and four were taken prisoner. I tried to talk to the prisoners: Czechs and Germans are different people.
December 5, 1941 Moving forward. Were in Cernava. The night of December 5 is a terrible night. They cheated with Captain Zaitsev - they almost got to the Germans. How many times did they fall. The car drove into a ravine.
December 6, 1941 The offensive began on Novo-Mikhailovskoye. I with 1166 rifle regiment, occupied the burning village. The village of Semenovka and its surroundings - everything was burnt. Troops are drawn into powder smoke zones. Fire, rain, slush, ice.
December 1941 Occupied a number of villages and villages. We went with Abush to rest. Shchepkin followed.
December 16, 1941 The battle for Volovo - the Germans managed to escape. They seized a car with the Germans, a lot of trophies. The commissar of the 1168th rifle regiment Terekhov is a hoarder.
December 17, 1941 In the "commissarovka" the commander of the 1166 rifle regiment beat up the supply platoon commander, I arrested this supply officer. People are hungry, and he is drunk. Let's go ahead.
On December 20, 1941, the Tula-Moscow, Meshcheryaki, Baburine highways were occupied at Molochny Dvorikov.
December 21, 1941 Battle for Teploe. I am again with the 1168 rifle regiment. We took this station.
December 23, 1941 The battle for Gorbachevo. We occupied this large junction station. Restored Soviet power. As in Tepliy, he himself appointed the managers and the chairman. The villages are on fire, the elevator is on fire. We go forward to the Oka.
December 30, 1941 Battle on the Oka. The Germans dug in deeply. Big sacrifices. The wounded in the barn. Unloading, mobilization of people and supply.
December 31, 1941 In the 1166 rifle regiment. Peskishev, Dyadina - in the forest, celebrated the New Year. Congratulated each other. Volley "Katyusha". Blizzard. The battle for the village of Fedyashevo began. They took it. At 4 o'clock - to the apartment. We drank for the New Year. There were Kravchenko, Lukin.
On January 1, 1942, Shchepkin came for me. Peskishev asked to leave. A good conversation with the regiment commander by the straw stove about the nature of the battles.
January 2, 1942 Heavy battles near Typichevo, Khmelevets, Bedrishchevo, Fedyashevo ... Late at night - one came to the political department in a clear field by the moon. Sasha Izyumov reported terrible news - Abush was killed. On the straw in the corner, I turned away from everyone and cried. Abush was a rare person, an intelligent, stern, loyal comrade, a Bolshevik.
January 3, 1942 Again, unsuccessful battles. The foreman was killed. Savich behaved well in battle. He mobilized people to attack. Tolkachevo was taken, but caught in the crossfire. Tanks. Forced to retreat. Victims.
January 4, 1942 Heavy fighting again in the morning. He walked in chains with soldiers under fire from artillery and machine guns. Night. The young battalion commander lost control. I had to play the role of a liaison. Corrected the connection. Political instructor Gorbachev fought heroically hand-to-hand. We went back to their original positions.
5, 6 January 1942 Again fighting, but unsuccessful.
January 7, 1942 Moving through Belyaev. Bath. Colonel Zinoviev - chief of staff, with drunken eyes led to the front line, almost to the Germans.
January 8, 1942 To Gryn. Terrible battles near the village of Gryn. Krotov and his battalion were killed. The whole village was burned down. Kapustin behaved firmly. The signalman in the hut kept repeating: "Saturn". There is no connection. Piles of the dead, Fire, blizzard. We visited the divisional commander and the army commander - a request to go to him, since the Germans are two kilometers away, and I have 7 people in the guard of the headquarters, seated under apple trees in the snow. The Germans are firing mortar fire. Tough day.
January 9-11, 1942 Days of battles for Gryn. They took the territory where the village was - not a single house. The barn is half-broken. Night. There are corpses all around. The signalman in the corner breaks down, shouts: "Saturn 2nd!" "Saturn 2nd!" ... But "Saturn" is silent. Krotov's battalion is destroyed. Krotov himself died. Kapustin behaved heroically: he, hiding behind corpses, fired. Shot through his overcoat in several places and the holster too. Dry, tall, weathered - he is somehow extraordinary at these moments. Savich with me. On the alarming night of January 10, he suggested, at my request, to the division commander Davydovsky and the army commander Popov to immediately leave the village, since there were Germans nearby.
11 January 1942 They brought a captured German - his head is tied with a woman's scarf, the chief corporal, no greatcoat, the machine gun is broken. He stretches to the string. Thug. They sent me to the headquarters. They fell into the hands of the "entourage" ... From everything it is clear that the unscrupulous, cowardly, lie. I beat one, he was lying too brazenly, and besides, he was confusing. We moved towards Zheleznitsa.
January 12, 1942 Battle of Zheleznitsa. Shchepkin gathered political workers. I am extremely dissatisfied that political workers are killed and injured a little, arguing that they do not go to the front lines. Fool and bastard! With the group of Belovodov went Pakhomov - a nice dapper guy - killed. An hour later, the commissar of the 1164th rifle regiment, Shakurov, was killed. Zheleznitsa was taken, but given back. There is no one to keep.
January 13, 1942 Battle for Zheleznitsa.
January 14, 1942 Going to the regiment to Peskishev, Vinogradov's battalion. He goes to Leonovo, I stay in Ozerinskoye with Peskishev.
January 15, 1942 In the morning, Vinogradov's battalion was defeated, he himself was wounded, the remnants of the battalion in Ozerinskoye. An hour and a half later, 4 German tanks near Ozerinsky were firing at houses and squares. The wagon train started to run. I had to stop with a revolver. Concentrated in a ravine. Heavy mortar fire, then from tanks, German infantry breaks through. We lie in the snow - a tank 200 meters away. The explosion was deafened, the fighters pulled out, put in a sleigh, woke up in the village. Trivia. The shrapnel touched the arm and side. Bandaged in the 1168 infantry regiment. After many sleepless nights, he fell asleep dead in Shchepkin's apartment. He took over the regiment after the deaths of Shakurov, Afanasyev, Abush and many others. He began to understand, and, most importantly, to be afraid that nothing would be easy and simple.
January 16, 1942 Germans attack Ozerinskoe. Tanks again in the village set fire to houses, shoot at point-blank range. Peskishev went out against them with bottles, struck by four bullets. How I loved this simple, rough, abrupt soul. The regiment commander was wounded. Ozerinsky was defended.
January 17, 1942 Peskishev was buried in the village of Gostkovo.
January 18-25, 1942 We moved with our belongings closer to Sorochinsk. An attack on the village of Teplye with the remnants of the division's forces. Lieutenant Glinkov, deputy. political instructor Khadzhimuratov fought desperately with 18 fighters, all were killed, but the Germans were not allowed a step. Heroic feat. The fearless medical instructor became the squad leader. 7 people held back the enemy, repelling attacks from entire companies. Scary nights in the village of Nogaya. Around the dense forests and in them the Germans. There are not many of us. The shelves are already depleted. We must go to Volkhov. We are moving. With Zaitsev, they organized defense throughout the village. I organize everything myself - I pull those who climbed onto the stove to warm up. I swear, although I know that people are immensely tired. But here's the order - to leave. Unfortunately, he parted with Zaitsev forever - wonderful, kind, reliable.
On January 25-31, 1942, they attacked the village of Ivanovka 18 times, but could not take it. We have little artillery fire, the Divisional Commander swore - why are Savich and I here, under fire.
February 1-6, 1942 In Sorokino we receive replenishment from the collective farmers of the Smolensk and Tulsk regions. They are not prepared, but must be thrown into battle immediately. Many die because of poor training. I am going for replenishment to Belets, the scandal with the 387th Infantry Division, I get 700 people at once, I line them up on the outskirts of the streets. German planes are firing. No mercy. I leave 20 people in cars, the rest on foot. They are collected slowly. Polienko sends them to the shelves in batches.
February 7, 1942 Night at Polienko's. Popov intervened, says - Schepkin has been recalled. Kapustin will be the boss. - I will be his deputy. Even so, I'm not chasing ranks.
February 8, 1942 In Ukolitsa I am taking on a new position. Essentially the same, although there is more responsibility. I look through directives and other papers.
February 9-28, 1942 Belovodov with 70 soldiers heroically defended the lines. 7 days and 7 nights. Continuous battles - during the day they will move 100 meters - at night again forward. We fought well. Andrusenko (nachkhim) began to fight. He's not a bad commander, not a chhim. Polienko drinks. Alexandrov was wounded. Savich caught a cold. Now Kapustin took a deep breath. We live three together. Volodya cooks wonderfully. We cannot share the horses in any way. Finally, we agreed: Kapustin - bay, Savich - black, and me - mine. We go to Bolkhov. 7 kilometers left. We were tired and could not take the city. In essence, this is active defense. On February 22, he received a medal "For Courage". The workers of the political department handed over.
March 1942 Trips to the unit, meetings, reports. Karpenko and Yevtushenko live side by side and drink at lunchtime.
April 1942 Evicted residents of Ukolitsa in 24 hours himself. It is raining heavily. Kapustin fell from Pulka's horse, she broke her leg. They ordered to cut, we defended. Survived. Difficult with food, going to the army. People's Commissar Pavlov brought in something worthless. Dirt, no roads. Polienko received a severe reprimand. They were going to judge - I defended. "Units in defense. Nutrition began to improve.
May 1942 We traveled well with Lubyanov. He set up a bath in the forest. The Germans, three hundred meters away, play Vadim Kozin's gramophone every day: "Let's shake hands and go on a long journey for many years ..."
June 1942 We left for the forest. The dugouts are landscaped. Savich and I are in our hut. Does not spill. Kapustin is nearby. You can live, only your soul is restless. German planes bomb a little every night. Artillery fire daily.
July 1942 Preparing to celebrate the division. They wrote her story with Alexandrov. It turned out nothing. The division commander and Popov approved. I am going to Lieutenant General Belov and Dubrovsky to sign documents on awarding the regiments. They received it well. I'm going to the headquarters of Zhukov, Bulganin, Makarov. Accepts Makarov, although he is ill. We contact Bulganin. They promise support, I leave the documents. I spend the night in Maly Yaroslavets and drive back. In Tula, the fuel is running out, I got it with great difficulty. It's hard on the fronts in the south.
August 1942 The first days are normal. The command post is now in the ravine - in the field. I go there every day. They shoot all around. The whole Prick is on fire. So it came. 4 hours 55 minutes on August 11, the Germans launched an artillery offensive - devilish fire. Up to 200 tanks went to Belovodov. Junkers - up to 80. Bombing, hell all around. Belovodov's regiment was crushed. The Germans are walking, you can see how everything is burning around. I'm at the command post, next to Popov, Kapustin (Savich at a meeting in the army). Aleksandrov went off to watch the Germans go. The earth trembles. Order to retreat. The Germans are approaching the village of Sorokino. There is no connection with Lubtsov and Lukin. They are already surrounded. The Junkers smashed all our artillery, only one howitzer remained, with 14 rounds for it. That's all. Popov ordered to immediately take all the staff documents and files. I get into a passenger car. The mail hesitated and remained with the Germans. Through the ring of gaps I got to the rear. There is complacency. They give the order - to load, to go, what cannot be captured - to burn. Polienko arrived. German tanks are already nearby. I headed out onto a forest road. The gap. The car is hit - the driver is in one direction, I am running in the other direction. At the turn, our horses are on them. Planes are being bombed. The horses were killed. I run out onto another road. Our howitzer is being dragged there. I ran half a kilometer. A previously stuck editorial car is catching up - I'm in it. Oh hell, the whole train drove into the forest and got stuck. I saw the "wounded". A tribunal awaits them (for crossbow - editor's note). The division commander drove onto the road by car. The German is bombing at the tail of the retreating column. There is impassable mud in the forest, carts and cars are dragging on themselves. When leaving the forest, I give the order to stop, to set up a barrage detachment, the young Uchbazites all the same run in panic. I drive up to Karpenko and Yevtushenko. We decided to keep the defense near the village of Kulikovo, to expose all the living. There were up to 300 people. I appointed Karpenko as commander, Yevtushenko as commissar. He ordered the rear to be withdrawn into the forest for 4 kilometers. We did not sleep at night. It was restless.
August 12, 1942 Savich returned easier. Terekhov came, but without people - suspicious. Some of the entourage got there one by one. They formed detachments - three battalions, appointed commanders and political workers. Karpenko - in Kulikovo. Yevtushenko is in a ravine, I'm with him. Visited the rear. The Germans are advancing all over the site. The villages are burning. The Germans entered the Sukhinichi-Kaluga railway line. Delay at any cost! Kulikovo holds on, but we are in a semi-circle. Across the river, the Germans are in our rear, bypassing the forest. Hard. I spoke to the headquarters. They do not know the details, and in general they are not in the know. General Samfin arrived. They reported. He looked and left. Belov promised a tank brigade. The situation is more and more critical with each passing hour. And then they came from the chefs, brought in everything. The secretary of the district committee arrived, the workers are wonderful people, but at the wrong time. We thanked them for their gifts. They understand our position without words. Pale, anxious, they somehow spent the night, and we asked them to leave, thanking them. Karpenko fights desperately near Kulikovo. Sent to his aid the former commander of the 66th Infantry Regiment. The Germans surrounded his headquarters. Fought back. Tanks are buzzing. We are a bunch of people, and the direction is very important. Hold!
August 1942 Petrov's tank brigade arrived. Petrov took command of the site. He boasted - I'll show you how to fight. The tanks were pulled into a forest road, into impassable mud. At night, the Germans set fire to 27 tanks. Petrov was wounded - confused. We are alone again. With Yevtushenko we are going to the approached rifle regiment (1151). We inform. It got easier as they covered our left flank.
August 17, 1942 At last I felt better. Oh, those nights in the woods, on the roads, in a semi-circle, without serious forces, and German tanks are nearby. We did not sleep with Savich for four nights. The 3rd Panzer Corps and the 251st Rifle Division arrived. We handed over the site. We are going with the whole division. There were 1,918 people out of 10,000. 4,600 soldiers were killed, the rest is unknown where, possibly surrounded. The division commander Popov died, the wonderful Kapustin died, the fate of the entire staff is not known. Attributed to the 16th Army of Rokossovsky. From there they were redirected to the 50th Army. Lubyanov returned. Wonderful. He behaved heroically. The wounded Alexandrov arrived again. He is not afraid, perhaps even has no fear! The wonderful Fishko and a number of others, almost all political instructors and party organizers, perished. Belovodov returned. All are brought together in one squad. Commissioner of a hundred Lubyans. We saved the regiment number. We are in the village, the regiment is fighting. Bad fame has gone. As if we retreated from the area, allegedly abandoned the Ukolitsa. Yes, the fate is unenviable. We could not resist when half of the people died, there were no cannons and machine guns, they were defeated. There is no ammunition, but the Germans have hundreds of tanks, dozens of aircraft and motorized infantry. But our people did not leave, remained surrounded and heroically, making their way, almost everyone died. Is it possible to scold people for the fact that they remained alive, having done everything possible and impossible? I come to Lubyanov. Forest. There is a battle, the killed Germans are lying around. No, Lubyanov and the soldiers did not disappoint. When our fighters were seen in action, they began to say differently. The cavalrymen themselves drifted off, and our corps commander declared gratitude, set them up as an example for his units. The new order is again in the 61st regiment, we are going under Belev. Anchishkin arrived. An intelligent man with erudition, with vast experience in party work. We quickly agreed, even Savich obeyed. We live in the village, we put ourselves in order. We calculate what is and what is not. I have left - in what I jumped out of the wrecked car - a uniform, an overcoat and a cap. Even before Anchishkin's arrival, Polienko and I gathered all the officers, we set tasks - to comprehend what happened. We suppress rumors. At this moment, Skalovsky was like snow on his head. I am glad, because he is a serious commander, an artilleryman, knowledgeable. He was given the command of a division, or rather, I instructed him as a senior. Karpenko and Yevtushenko are offended, since they again remained in the same positions with their regiment.
September 1942 An unexpected order - to the location of the main headquarters. We are loading, we are going to Tula, we are looking - Michurinsk. Sent to the Tishinskie camps, essentially a rest. Meetings, meetings. Colonel Komiluchovsky was warmed up. For cowardice they sent me to the penal battalion.
September 15, 1942 Again to Plavsk. They settled in the villages. We receive replenishment. Unfolded the work. A new divisional commander arrived - fat, I don't like it. A new commissar has arrived - an uncivilized man. It got bored. We are part of the 5th Panzer Army,
October 1942 I went to see Ushakov, the head of the Fifth Tank Army. Telegram from the Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. They are withdrawing. I'm going.
October 26, 1942 From Shipov, near the town of Efremov, I am going and going to the 15th Air Force. I have no idea about aviation. The furnishings are quarrelsome and dirty. Oh, it's worse here than here. But nothing. I am going on a business trip to the 71st Aviation Battalion, on the way I took my things from the former duty station in Plavsk. I saw Belovodov - they said goodbye warmly. And here's the joy - Savich is here. We had lunch. We talked. It became sad. Goodbye. Now that's it - I'm not in the 346th Rifle Division. I am going to new places, to new surroundings, to new strangers - to aviators.
November 1942 The terrible month of Stalingrad. Additional payment in the aviation regiments of the 176th Aviation Division - one motive - to survive. At first, the pilots treat the surcharge with coolness, and then refuse, as do the infantry. This is unusual.
December 1942 Going home on a business trip. Here it is, a military country. They live hard at home, as expected, but cheerfully, and this is the main thing. I visited the Kruglovs, Gavrilov - they are holding on well. Young people feel uncomfortable. They are cowardly before the war and are ashamed to be at home, they work badly, since everyone is absorbed in the production of food. In the bakery store (corner of L. Tolstoy and Chapaevskaya) the line starts from Krasnoarmeiskaya. They have been standing since 4 in the morning, writing numbers on their palms. Many do not get bread anyway. Oh, and I don't want to go back to the front, but I have to. I'll get there in January 1943.
Further, as part of the units of the 1st Belorussian Front, K. Ya. Nayakshin took part in the Battle of Kursk. He fought to the western border of the USSR, liberated Poland. He ended the war in Berlin and was sent to the responsible post of commandant of Magdeburg. After giving four years of his life to fight the German troops, he became at the origins of the formation of a new peaceful Germany. After demobilization, Kuzma Yakovlevich was engaged in teaching in Samara, wrote many books on the history of the region, until the end of his days he retained his love for nature, for fishing. In 1982, he was accidentally pushed on an iron staircase, ultimately causing his death. The country began to prepare for renewal and restructuring. The old cadres, saturated with Bolshevism and Leninism, turned out to be like a bone in the throat. The fate of many was sealed.

Regiment command:
Sidorov Peter Maksimovich, regiment commander (1944), lieutenant colonel
Kiselev Andrey Vasilievich, regiment commander (1945), lieutenant colonel
Kiselev Alexander Dmitrievich, Chief of Staff, Lieutenant Colonel
Kozlinsky Stepan Dmitrievich, deputy for combatant, lieutenant colonel
Andreev Vladimir Alexandrovich. political officer (1944-1945), Art. lieutenant
Muratov Stefan Andreevich, political officer (1945), major
The Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda newspaper published an article by A. Chernyavsky "Defeat: from Konigsberg to Mudanjiang". It tells about the combat path of the veteran of the 346th Infantry Regiment Vladimir Iosifovich Khantsevich. Here are excerpts from the article:
On May 2, 1945, our 346th Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevsky Rifle Regiment (commander - Lieutenant Colonel Andrey Vasilyevich Kiselev), which is part of the 63rd Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Division, plunged into a train at Norkiten station and moved in an unknown direction.
On June 6, the train arrived at the Manzovka station (Primorsky Territory) and, after unloading, moved to the deployment area - in the field, where the arrangement of the summer tent camp began. Replenishment soon arrived. These were soldiers of the spring draft, born in 1927, who had completed a 2-month course for a young soldier in training units. All of them were from the North Kazakhstan region. The daily, painstaking study began. On July 15, the regiment left the camp and moved to the Grodekovo area. The movement took place at night, during the day we rested, observing all camouflage measures. A few nights later, we arrived in the area of ​​the upcoming battles, taking up positions in the area of ​​the "Pear" height, located on the opposite side of the border, which ran along the creek. After the rains, it turned into a stormy river. We equipped trenches, dug dugouts.
Our 63rd division was to break through the defenses in one of 17 fortified areas that were built by the Japanese near our borders. Each fortified area is 50-100 km along the front and up to 50 km deep in the territory saturated with various defensive structures.
The height "Pear" was the center of one of the most powerful fortified areas, pillboxes (long-term firing points) were built on it, capable of withstanding shelling from large-caliber guns. The pillboxes were connected by underground passages to neighboring heights. An observation post was set up at the top of the height, which made it possible to survey our territory far into the depths. A road was laid to the height, connecting with the central regions of Manchuria.
In early August, a large group of officers from the division headquarters, led by the division commander, Major General BB, arrived in the area where the regiment was located. Gorodovikov. He was in field uniform with the foreman's shoulder straps. After inspecting the border, the regiment commander was ordered, together with the engineer battalion of the division, to connect our dirt road with the Japanese one, which runs near the Grusha hill.
The next day, sappers arrived, two T-34 tanks came, with their help they pierced the highway that connected the two sections into one road. The tanks caused a stir on the Japanese side. The head of the Japanese frontier post appeared and demanded a meeting with the senior commander. After the "negotiations", the work continued. Our company was assigned to ensure the safety of the sappers. The order was short: "Do not use weapons." By the end of the day, the sappers had done their job, made some of the timber harvested on the Japanese side, and connected our dirt road with the Japanese. Later, this road played a large role in the offensive operation of the 5th Army.
The beginning of the war was approaching. On the basis of our battalion, an advanced detachment was created, reinforced by a platoon of sappers by a group of signalmen with a radio station. The task of the detachment was to move forward as quickly as possible, without getting involved in protracted battles. The company commander received a map.
On August 8, dinner was two hours earlier than usual. After supper there was a formation of the battalion, which was informed that the Soviet government had declared war on Japan. Everyone was given cartridges, grenades, dressing bags, dry rations. Clouds appeared in the sky, rain froze. At this time, the border guards came. These were our guides. After a while, a group of soldiers with border guards left in the direction of the Japanese border post. Soon a messenger from this group appeared and informed the battalion commander that it was possible to move - the personnel of the Japanese outpost had been destroyed. In the pouring rain, with continuous flashes of lightning discharges, our vanguard crossed the border.
The offensive began without artillery preparation, using the night and the downpour for a surprise attack. After crossing the border, it was necessary to quickly go to the area of ​​the location of object No. 1 (as it was marked on the map). It was a large garrison with a large communications center, a combat supply point and the headquarters of an army grouping.
Our first battle was so swift that the enemy did not have time to offer organized resistance. Having violated the system of defense and communications, our detachment created favorable conditions for the action of the main forces in breaking through the fortified area. Soon from the area of ​​the height "Pear" began to hear the cannonade of a strong battle. It was the main forces of the division that entered the battle.
The detachment moved further, inland. Towards evening, groups of Japanese began to overtake us - these were border guards and soldiers from the defeated garrisons. They were aggressive, we had to use force, which caused losses on our side.
Night was approaching. We turned onto a country road, set up security, settled down to rest. Judging by the map, we have gone 20-25 km from the border. We went to the object number 32 - it was a railway station. Before our arrival, the main forces of the garrison withdrew towards the city of Mudanjiang, leaving a small detachment, which entered into battle with our scouts and was completely destroyed. We received an order to guard the railway bridge and wait for the regiment's approach. The next day regiment units approached. Our detachment for "rest" was assigned a place at the end of the column, and the regiment moved forward to Mudanjiang. In the main direction of the 5th Army's offensive, the Japanese retreated further and further. On August 13, fighting broke out on the outskirts of the city of Mudanjiang. Here fierce battles broke out.
The neighbors of our army, units of the 1st Red Banner, advancing on the cities from the north, broke into the outskirts of the city, and heavy street battles began. Parts of the Fifth Army, advancing on the city from the east, lingered on the heights in front of the Mudanjiang River. The Japanese, firmly entrenched in the heights, blocked the advance of our artillery and tank units along the road. There were no other ways to get around. By this time, a critical situation was created among our neighbors who entered the city. Under the onslaught of the superior forces of the enemy, they were forced to leave the city. The situation demanded an increase in the onslaught in order to help a neighbor. In the morning, our forward detachment was brought into battle with the task of knocking out the enemy from the dominant height and ensuring the passage of the pontoon unit to the Mudanjiang River and establishing a crossing.
They went on the attack, but when they reached the barbed wire, not destroyed by the artillery, there was confusion. At this time, a storm of fire fell from the surviving bunker. The detachment lay on an open slope among the numerous corpses of the participants in yesterday's battle. There was a heavy, cadaverous smell, which had a depressing effect on the soldiers. It was necessary to urgently take action. The squad leader decides to blow up the bunker with grenades. We sent two soldiers from our platoon. Enough time passed, there was no explosion. Then the company commander orders me: take two soldiers and go. Crawling to the bunker, they soon stumbled upon the fighters sent earlier - they both died not far from it. We took the grenades from them and crawled on. They managed to get relatively close, it was clear how a stream of deadly fire was spewing out from the embrasure. They threw grenades. The explosion covered the bunker, the machine gun stopped firing.
The squad rose and rushed forward. We quickly jumped into a trench that went from the bunker deep into the defense. At that moment, I was wounded. The soldiers provided first aid, took off their tunic - the wound was large, covering the shoulder and forearm. Bandaged. I was left in the trench. The shooting soon stopped. The height was taken and a column with pontoons and other equipment moved along the road to the river. The way to the city of Mudanjiang was opened. The next day, August 16, the city was taken. Later in the hospital, when dressing, the doctor said that such an injury occurs from an explosive dum-dum bullet.
For us, who fought, the memory of the war is still alive. We will remember her until the end of our days. All 25 young guys from the platoon, with whom I had to fight in Manchuria with Japan, will never be forgotten. Five of them died in the fields of Manchuria, thirteen were wounded, seven remained in the ranks. All of them are still in my army memory today.
From the memoirs of a veteran of the regiment, foreman Aleksey Aleksandrovich Henov, provided by his granddaughter - Elena Koretko, Perm:
The formation of the 63rd rifle division began in the village of Navoloki. The 45th and 86th rifle brigades from the North-Western Front also arrived here for the formation. From two brigades and reserve regiments, the 63rd rifle division was formed, which became part of the 3rd reserve army. The 346th Infantry Regiment was formed in the village of Selivanovo under the command of the regiment commander Major Ivanov Nikolai Alexandrovich and Chief of Staff Senior Lieutenant Petr Ivanovich Voskresensky. Khenov was assigned to a communications company, the commander of which was Captain Gultyaev, and senior lieutenant Nikolai Demyanovich Mocharny was his deputy for the combat unit. After the work on putting together the units was completed, on May 4, 1943, the regiment entered the Baldasovsky forest, where the combat training of personnel began. On May 20-23, the regiment made a 100-km march and concentrated in the vicinity of the village of Trebushinki, Yukhnovsky district. The Germans burned the village back in 1941, only one house remained from it, in which the regiment's headquarters was located, all units were located in the forest. The regiment was again engaged in combat training, regimental and divisional exercises were held, everything went to the fact that it was soon into battle.
On July 10, 1943, the third reserve army was named 21 active army and on July 12, 1943, it marched to the Western Front. The division accepted the baptism of fire in the Spas-Demensky direction.
In the area of ​​the village of Semenovka (height 237.3), the Germans tried to push back our troops and take over the highway. 08/20/1943 under the onslaught of numerically superior enemy forces, our unit, defending it, began to retreat. The division entered the battle straight from the march.
Fierce battles lasted for three days, the Germans introduced fresh reserves into battle, let the "tigers" into battle, their aviation dominated the air. Our artillery and infantrymen fought off 12 attacks a day, the village of Semenovka changed hands several times. Convinced of the unsuccessfulness of their offensive, the attacks ceased on 08/24/1943. The regiment suffered heavy losses, but the highway remained in our hands. We were replaced by newly arrived units, the regiment went to rest. After a short rest and putting the units in order, on 08/29/1943 the regiment launched an offensive in the Smolensk direction.
On the very first day of the offensive, the regiment occupied the villages of Bushnya, Hotnizhets, Mikhailovka and the Korobets station. 08/30/1943 at 19.00, together with other units, the regiment broke into the city of Yelnya and occupied it. German aviation bombed the city with massive air raids for two days, but it remained in our hands. In the battles for Yelnya, the chief of staff of the regiment, Captain Voskresensky Petr Ivanovich, was killed, the commander of the regiment, Major Ivanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich, and the deputy commander of the regiment for combat units, Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Nikolayevich Zolotov were seriously wounded. The regiment was temporarily commanded by the chief of the division's intelligence department, Major Alexey Ivanovich Pirogov, the chief of staff arrived from the personnel department of the guard division, Major Litvin. For the capture of Yelnya, the division was commended by the Supreme Command by Stalin.
On September 5-6, 1943, in the Smolensk direction, the regiment occupied the villages of Novo-Tishevo and Vys-Leonovo. In the vicinity of the villages of Maloye Tishevo, Buda and Lyakhovo, the Germans tried to stop our offensive. There the Germans had a prepared defense in advance: three lines of trenches and a natural obstacle - a deep ravine. Pulling up reserves and artillery, in the afternoon of 09/15/1943 our offensive began again. In artillery preparation, the Katyusha provided a particularly high density of fire, and our aviation was active. The German defense was broken, the Germans suffered colossal losses, their trenches and ravine were littered with corpses.
Retreating, the Germans burned down the Smolensk villages. When we entered settlements, ashes and burning coals remained in place of houses. As a rule, the Germans retreated at night and their retreat was accompanied by conflagrations. Flames blazed everywhere ahead of us, and every soldier knew when the Germans were retreating. Passing through the Smolensk region, instead of villages and villages, we saw plaques or, as they were called then "pointers" with the inscription that there was such and such a settlement. We often saw such "settlements" overgrown with weeds - a sure sign that the Germans burned them down in 1941. A new command arrived in the regiment: the regiment commander, Major Lysenko Anton Karpovich, the chief of staff, Major Grigory Vasilievich Belov, and the deputy regiment commander for combat units, Major Andrey Vasilievich Kiselev. The regiment settled down to rest in a ravine 200 meters south of the village of Zverovichi and was preparing for new battles.
We were in the second echelon, 09/23/1943 went on the march. Darkness, rain, knee-deep mud, at dawn reached the crossing over a small river, but there were so many parts, and the crossing was weak, that we stayed in the pouring rain until evening. In the evening we reached the village of Ptakhovo, march again, stopping in the village of Laptevo. 09/26/1943 crossed the river Sozh and march again. In the area of ​​the village of Novoye Selo on 10/10/1943, the Germans took up defensive positions. The regiment took the starting line in the area of ​​the former village of Bayevo. A swampy swamp lay on the outskirts of the enemy's position. This was the border separating the Smolensk region from Belarus. The Smolensk region was almost completely liberated.
10/12/1943 the regiment launched an offensive. On a narrow sector of the front, the Germans concentrated a large amount of artillery and brought up human reserves. On the outskirts of their positions there was a swampy swamp, which did not have our success. To the right of us, the attack was led by a Polish division. The Germans fiercely resisted, their aviation dominated the air and bombed our battle formations from sunrise to sunset. We fought in this area for six days. Finally, on 10/19/1943 we were withdrawn from the battle. Having made a small march, we took up defensive positions near the village of Nikitino.
Being on the defensive, we exhausted the enemy, never giving him rest day or night. Our snipers did well. The scouts with their daring night searches every now and then brought in German "languages".
01/27/1944 the regiment was taken to rest in the miraculously survived village of Suimishche. After a month's rest, 02/28/1944 the regiment made a march near Orsha, where it was again to lead an offensive on Novoye Selo. Early in the morning, 03/07/1944, artillery preparation began. Heavy, stubborn battles were fought for nine days. The swamp turned into a huge puddle, water and mud during the day, frost at night. It is impossible to dig in properly, water. The losses are big, no success. 03/10/1944 the regiment commander Major Lysenko Anton Karpovich and his adjutant Lieutenant Andrey Tikhonovich Levchenko were killed. The command of the regiment was taken by Major Basserov Semyon Vasilyevich (later, November 1944-September 1945, the commander of the 297th rifle regiment of the 184th SD, lieutenant colonel) from the 291st rifle regiment of the 63rd rifle division.
Finally, we were replaced by newly arrived units and we marched off to Vitebsk. Exhausted by such long bloody battles, we could barely keep our feet, everyone looked terrible. Near Vitebsk, in the area of ​​the village of Sverchki, the regiment took up defensive positions, Lieutenant Colonel Roman Naumovich Vodovozov (later, July-September 1944, commander of the 297th rifle regiment of the 184th SD), who arrived from the personnel department of the division, took command of the regiment.
The defense we occupied was extremely unfavorable. We defended the Vitebsk-Orsha highway in a rather narrow section. This area was clearly visible by the enemy and, having noticed the slightest movement, the enemy opened frantic artillery fire. Their reconnaissance aircraft "frame" now and then appeared over our defenses, and each time it was followed by artillery raids one after another. The Germans did not spare shells and, as we saw later, their reserves were enormous. We were all the time in a state of tension, the enemy was still strong and he was here, next to him, you can expect anything. A new regiment commander arrived - Lieutenant Colonel Sidorov Peter Maksimovich, preparations for new battles began.
The western front was divided into three Belorussian ones. Our 63rd Rifle Division, commanded by Major General Laskin, was part of the 5th Army, commanded by Lieutenant General Krylov, and the army was part of the 3rd Belorussian Front, under the command of Army General Chernyakhovsky.
On June 22, 1944, a massive offensive of our troops began along the entire front. With us it was like this: on the night of June 22, reconnaissance in force was carried out, the operation was a success. In the morning, artillery preparation began, which lasted two hours. The Germans offered little resistance, their long-term defenses were broken through, and the offensive began. The Germans hurriedly retreated, abandoning equipment, ammunition and various military equipment. On June 23, the city of Vitebsk was taken, the division moved in the direction of Minsk.
For the breakthrough of the deeply echeloned defense of the Germans and the capture of Vitebsk, the division was expressed gratitude to the Supreme Command, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR it was named "Vitebsk".
In four days of offensive battles from June 22 to June 25, 1944, the regiment liberated 37 settlements from the German invaders, among them: Zavoroty, Antovil, Starobylie, Horovatka, Aleksandrovo, Obol, Khodorovka, Teplyaki, Zhartsy, Ostrovshchina, Ryabtsy, Pistons, Kaplany, Perebrody other. They repulsed from the enemy 23 guns of different calibers, 7 machine guns, 3 ammunition depots and 2 engineering equipment depots and many other property and weapons. More than 10,000 people were freed from fascist slavery.
The offensive of our troops was so rapid that the retreating Germans did not have time to blow up the bridges. In pursuit of the retreating enemy, we marched 60-70 km a day. Inspired by our successes, we walked day and night without rest, slept on the move and on short halts, sweating on the sultry July days.
The division took part in the encirclement and destruction of the German garrison in Minsk, as well as scattered enemy groups that found themselves in the rear of our troops.
On July 1, 1944, at 14-00, they crossed the Berezina River, at noon on July 2, they crossed the former border with Poland, entered western Belarus. On July 3 at 4-00 we entered the town of Buclav. Belarus is almost completely liberated from the German invaders, we are marching across Lithuania. The Germans are trying to stop our advance, but in vain. Where our units faced resistance, artillery and aviation fell on the heads of the enemies.
In the town of Meishagola, the Germans held out for three days, but it was completely swept away, only the church miraculously survived. Everything else has been turned into piles of bricks and debris.
The division took part in the encirclement and destruction of the German garrison in the capital of the Lithuanian SSR, the city of Vilno. On July 13, a gratitude from the Supreme Command was announced for the capture of the Vilna division.
On the night of July 13, 1944, the regiment ford crossed the fast river Viliya. The successful crossing of the river was facilitated by the fact that there was a light rain, the sky was clouded with clouds and there was no enemy aircraft. The Germans, in all likelihood, directed their efforts to preserve the Vilnius garrison, and the regiment did not encounter major obstacles at the crossing. But when crossing the Neman on the night of July 16, a lot of effort and ingenuity was required, since the German coast was heavily fortified, preparation was required to take a bridgehead. The crossing was facilitated by the fact that our coast was covered with forest, and the enemy's coast had absolutely no vegetation, not even bushes. The artillery was brought up and installed at the edge of the forest, for direct fire. When darkness fell, only one platoon of volunteers with improvised means began to cross the Neman. The Germans opened fire on them, finding their firing points in the darkness. For our artillery, which was on direct fire, this was and was necessary. To suppress the enemy's firing points, our artillery brought down all its power on the German position, the platoon safely moved to the opposite bank, captured all the enemy's ferry means and returned to their bank on them. The enemy's firing points were suppressed, and a massive crossing of the Neman began. The Germans fired only weak rifle fire and our units had no losses.
Two battalions had already crossed the Neman and occupied a bridgehead on the enemy's coast, when the regiment received a new task: to destroy a group of Germans who were trying to break through to help the garrison in Vilna, but found themselves caught in a ring by our units. Leaving the outpost of the conquered bridgehead beyond the Neman, the regiment began to fulfill a new mission. With the help of a tank unit that arrived in time, the encircled group was eliminated, after which the regiment moved to Kaunas.
Kaunas was a German fortress, its approaches were defended by reinforced concrete pillboxes and forts left over from the last World War and improved by the Nazis. But the Red Army already had enough experience and funds to destroy such fortifications, and this time it coped successfully. At about four o'clock in the morning on 08/01/1944, the regiment, together with other units, entered the city. Residents greeted us with flowers, treated us with fruit, wine, invited us to visit.
Retreating, the Germans blew up all the bridges across the Neman River, but this did not stop the advance of our troops. A pontoon crossing was quickly set up and units with military equipment crossed the Niemen, starting in pursuit of the retreating enemy.
Immediately after the liberation of Kaunas from the Nazi invaders, residents began to build a temporary bridge across the Neman. In a few days he was ready, the advance of military cargo and equipment had no delay.
On August 1, 1944, the division received a gratitude from the Supreme Command for the capture of the fortress and the city of Kaunas, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner by the Decree of the PVS of the USSR.
Lithuania was liberated on August 17, 1944. Our regiment was the first to reach the border with East Prussia at 3-00 on 17 August. The company of senior lieutenant Ivan Evgenievich Korotitsky in the area east of the border tower No. 50 and north of tower No. 52 crossed the Sheshupa river and on its eastern bank occupied the Prussian villages of Glabele, Berzheningnen and Groskeninsbruch. But having received the order to withdraw to its territory, the company retreated and the regiment took up defensive positions. On this day, Korotitsky died in battle. For the first exit to the border with East Prussia, the Military Council of the front announced gratitude to the division.
On August 20, the regiment transferred its defense sector to the 558th rifle regiment and was transferred to a sector near the town of Syntovty. Here, being on the defensive, during the shelling of our positions by the enemy, the regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Pyotr Maksimovich Sidorov, and his political officer, Major Ankudovich Vadim Ivanovich, were wounded. Major Andrey Vasilyevich Kiselev, who had previously held the post of deputy regiment commander for drill training, was appointed commander of the regiment. Captain Petr Makarovich Korzhan arrived to the post of political commander.
Our division has already accumulated considerable experience in breaking through the German defense. Having rested well after the summer battles and campaigns, on October 16, 1944, the division again began to break through the German defenses on the border with East Prussia. But, taking advantage of our respite, the Germans further improved their defenses and considered them impregnable.
Our task was to break into the den of the fascist beast. The first two days of fighting had little success. On October 19, the resistance of the Germans was finally broken and in the area of ​​the small town of Naumistes (now Vladislavov) we, having broken through the enemy's defenses, crossed the border and went deep into the territory of East Prussia for 30 km.
The German defense in this area was really solid: several lines of trenches, barbed wire, gouges, anti-tank ditches and a minefield. In the depths of the defense, powerful reinforced concrete pillboxes were built. In addition, in the border strip, buildings that at first glance seemed harmless were in fact strong points. There were no villages along the border, only a farmstead, mostly brick-built, with walls of extraordinary thickness, cellars were concreted and in them special windows - embrasures. Attic spaces are usually brick-built and contain living quarters. The Germans used them as observation posts, often there were machine-gun emplacements that fired at our infantry.
On October 28, our offensive ended, the regiment was taken to rest in the town of Abshruten on the territory of East Prussia. For the breakthrough of the powerful, deeply echeloned defense of the Germans in East Prussia, the division was commended by the Supreme Command.
Having gone to rest, we again engaged in combat training.
On January 13, 1945, an offensive began along the entire 3rd Belorussian Front. Later we learned that the offensive began everywhere, on all fronts at the same time.
For two and a half months of our respite, the Germans were strongly fortified and not only prepared to repel our offensive. They were preparing to attack themselves with the intention of ousting our troops from East Prussia. Good intentions, but they were not destined to come true.
The artillery preparation that lasted for two hours did not bring us success; for two days we could not move forward. The artillery had to work additionally to break the enemy's resistance. Finally he began to retreat, but retreating, every now and then tried to gain a foothold on the previously prepared defensive lines. In the first five days of fighting, we advanced only 40-45 km, and then the pace of the offensive began to increase every day. For participation in the breakthrough of the German defense of the division, gratitude of the Supreme Command was again announced.
We occupied the settlements of Pimkallen, Stalludenen, Gumbinnen and on January 21, 1945, captured the city of Insterburg, an important communications hub and a powerful fortified area of ​​the Germans on the way to Konigsberg.
In Insterburg, our units captured large trophies, a lot of various foodstuffs and various military equipment. There were no inhabitants in the city, the haste of their flight was felt everywhere. In many apartments, you could see the table laid and the unfinished dinner. The merchants abandoned their shops and fled with the retreating Nazis. With long-range guns, the Germans subjected the city to the strongest shelling, day and night the city burned and collapsed, filling the streets with bricks and rubble of buildings.
For the capture of the city of Insterburg, the division was commended by the Supreme Command. For breaking through the defense in East Prussia, the division was awarded the Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree, and the 346th Infantry Regiment was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky (Decree of 02.19.1945).
The population of East Prussia left with the retreating Nazi armies, leaving behind livestock and property. Finally, they experienced the fate of our 1941 people.
Soon civilians began to come across. Poles were walking towards us, returning to their homeland. There were Russians who fled from German slavery.
By the forces of two fronts - ours and the 2nd Byelorussian, the Germans were clamped in pincers and pressed against the Baltic Sea. We occupied settlements one after another. Finally, they occupied the city of Kreuzburg, the town of Tiefenthal. Despite the presence of spring mud and rains, the pace of the offensive did not decrease, we moved to Konigsberg.
In the area of ​​the town of Tiefenthal, the front commander, General of the Army, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Chernyakhovsky, was killed. The front was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasilevsky.
The Germans were pressed against the Frisches Gough. Their further retreat was possible only along the spit, the width of which in places was no more than 400 meters. This only route of escape from the shore was under fire from our artillery all the time. The ships of the Baltic Fleet fired on the spit from the sea, and the aviation of both fronts was not indifferent. The extermination of the fascist conquerors was here in the full sense of the word.
On April 10, 1945, the last German fortress in East Prussia, the city of Konigsberg, collapsed. For several days, the division fought for the city in the southwest direction. Finally, on April 9, units of the 11th Army broke into the city and, with the help of units of the 5th Army, captured the city on April 10th. The Red Banner was developing over Konigsberg.
On April 17, the German grouping in East Prussia was completely defeated, the remnants of the German army surrendered. We came close to the Baltic Sea.
For his participation in the battles in East Prussia, Henov was awarded the second Order of the Red Star.
So, from Kaluga to the shores of the Baltic Sea, our glorious 63rd Vitebsk Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division marched in cruel battles with the Nazi invaders.
On the way back from Frisches Gough through Rinau, Mettkoim, Nauzken station, Kailin, Wangen, Bendizen manor yard, Legitten farm, Labiau town, Tatenberg, Lukischken, Povangen, Krakau, Dedave, Kleinflis, Shtrinland. Having stopped on April 20 in the courtyard of the master, they put themselves in order, really washed in the bathhouse, changed their uniforms into summer uniforms. After celebrating May 1, May 3 marched to Narcitten station. Here wagons were handed over to us, their equipment began, then loading. Soon we set off and, having passed the Insterburg we had recently taken, we left East Prussia.
On May 9, 1945, at the Molodechnoye station - Western Belarus, the train was stopped and a rally was announced on the occasion of the victory over Nazi Germany. The head of the political department of the division, Colonel Kuzmin, spoke at the meeting. Joy knew no bounds. The festivities began in the train, the residents of Molodechnoye station brought in moonshine. On this day, everything was forgiven to all of us, the day of the desired victory over fascism came, we drank to victory, the end of the war!
We drove through Minsk, in Moscow the echelon was taken to the Kazan road, the path is clear - we are going to the Far East.
We pass the cities of Kazan, Sverdlovsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Khabarovsk. Finally, on June 9, we arrived at the Manzovka station, where they unloaded. We were stationed 7 km from the Manzovka station, at the foot of large hills, in houses built from tents.
Replenishment arrived, combat training began. We were getting ready to settle scores with the Japanese samurai. The division was commanded by Major General Gorodovikov, Hero of the Soviet Union, and again in the 5th Army under the command of Colonel General Krylov.
In July, they made a march towards the border with Manchuria and concentrated in the area of ​​Medvezhya Mountain, 30 kilometers from the border and 12 kilometers from Grodekovo station.
Our 5th Army was part of the 1st Far Eastern Front, commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union Meretskov.
Preparations for the offensive were entering the last stage, some of our units were already at the border and were monitoring the enemy. On August 6, after a short march, we went to the border and concentrated in the area of ​​the "Potato" hill.
There was a swamp between the "Potato" hill and the hill occupied by the enemy. The enemy's hill was covered with forest, and we have only sparse bushes. A day before the offensive, one of the companies, having received an order from the regiment commander, crossed over to the enemy's hill, chopped up a forest and paved the above-mentioned swamp. At the same time, not a single shot was fired from the Japanese.
Early in the morning of August 8, without any artillery preparation, as was always the case in the war with the Germans, our units, together with the border guards, quietly crossed the border, destroyed the Japanese border posts and began to penetrate the territory of Manchuria. We walked several kilometers when the Japanese tried to detain our units. From the hills where pillboxes were built, they opened fire on us, but our self-propelled guns quickly cleared the way for the infantry, destroying them.
Climbing the hill and looking back, one could see what an avalanche of troops and equipment was moving deep into Manchuria, and it was clear that no force was able to stop it.
The Japanese Kwantung Army, vaunted all over the world, on the very first day of our offensive began to retreat without offering resistance. But the roads from the border inland were bad. The Japanese, apparently, only thought to attack and did not build roads. The first days we advanced slowly, then the pace of the offensive began to increase every day, but the campaign was not easy: hills, swamps, mountain streams - this was the path of our troops.
On August 10 we occupied the Hobei station, on August 11 "Gold mine", on August 13 the city of Mulin, on August 15 the Madaoshi station. Already here, some parts of the Kwantung Army began to surrender. We see whole columns of samurai following to the collection points of prisoners. Among the prisoners there are many Japanese women, apparently the wives of officers, walking in columns with the children behind their backs.
On the outskirts of the station and the city of Mudanjiang on August 18, the Japanese tried to resist. With the interaction of artillery and aviation, the resistance was broken and our units took possession of it. On August 20, they occupied the Dunhua station, and on August 21 they entered the city of Jirin, where they disarmed the Japanese garrison and settled in their military town on the outskirts of Jirin.
The Kwantung Army surrendered. Our regiment ended the hostilities on this, and soon they were finished everywhere. In 13 days, through the hills and swamps, in the unbearable heat, we covered almost 500 km.
On August 23, 1945, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Comrade Stalin, the division was commended for participating in the breakthrough of the Border Fortified Region, overcoming the hard-to-reach, mountainous taiga terrain stretching for 500 km and capturing the city of Girin in Manchuria.
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on September 19, 1945, the division was awarded the Order of Kutuzov of the 2nd degree, and our 346th Infantry Regiment was awarded the second Order of the Red Banner.
So, the 63rd Rifle Vitebsk Order of "Suvorov" 2 degrees, the Order of "Kutuzov" 2 degrees, and, consequently, the 346th Rifle Regiment twice Red Banner Order of Alexander Nevsky, for their combat path have 8 commendations from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Comrade Stalin and 1 commendation from the Military Council of the front.
On October 23, we leave Manchuria and, having plunged into wagons, we proceed to the Soviet Union. On October 29, they arrived at the Hun-Chun station, 20 km from the state border, and on October 31, in the Soviet Union, they settled in a village with a Chinese name - Hun-Chun. On November 10, we arrived at the town of Barabash, and on November 11 at the designated point of Pogran-Petrovka, having settled in the Soviet military town, with our Soviet name.
But we did not stay long on Soviet soil. Less than two weeks later we were taken back to Manchuria, this time to the Yangtze city and back to our military town of Pogran-Petrovka, they returned on April 21, 1946. We returned here through Wangqing, Tumin. Soon we heard the good news: on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the demobilization of older soldiers from the army was announced. I belonged to this category too.
In the first half of May 1946, the dispatch of demobilized soldiers began from Pogran-Petrovka. We were presented with certificates in which feats of arms and warm words of parting words were signed by the division commander, Colonel Samarin, and the head of the political department, Colonel Deynega.
But not everyone waited for the Victory Day and those joyful days of returning home. Many, very many remained on the battlefields and I will never forget my well-known comrades, among them:
Senior sergeant, head of the radio station Lekomtsev Nikolai Semenovich, 1917, a merry fellow, a good accordion player, originally from Kirov, struck down on 08/05/1944 by a sniper bullet in Lithuania.
The battalion commander, Captain Garnaev Ivan Vasilyevich, 1922, was killed on April 18, 1944 during an artillery raid on the regiment's command post in the Sverchkov area.
The chief of staff of the regiment, Captain Voskresensky Petr Ivanovich, 1902, who died on 08/30/1943 during an air raid by the Germans in the city of Yelnya
Battalion adjutant captain Viktor Nikolaevich Zolotov, 1910, died 06/23/1944
Regiment commander Major Lysenko Anton Karpovich, 1903, killed 03/10/1944
Chief of the chemical service, senior lieutenant Salnikov Pyotr Ivanovich, 1921, who died on 09/19/1945 in a car accident
Sergeant Klyauzov Aleksey Vasilyevich, 1904, escaped from Nazi captivity, fought in the West and died on 08/13/1945 in Manchuria in a battle at the Pelinskhe junction.
On the fields of Lithuania on October 17, 1944, the regiment's agitator, Captain Bayadilov Abulkhair, 1913, and many, many others, died.

Over the years, there have been many good friends and comrades in arms who have survived. Some are still in the ranks of the Soviet army, and most are working for the glory of our Motherland.
Good memories remain of Sergeant Major Vasily Chebotarev, we have known him since 1943, he comes from the Rostov region. In 1965, 19 years after our parting in Pogran-Petrovka in 1946, I tracked him down through the Rostov address desk. He lives in Taganrog, worked as the city's communications chief. While at a resort in Kislovodsk, we agreed to meet on the way back, and on May 15, 1965, the meeting took place in Taganrog. How much joy and memories this unforgettable meeting brought.

Alexey Henov, 1966, Perm