Zina Smirnova Biography

It also happened that the drivers of cars for the first time drove precisely in the war the source: from the personal archive of the Devillerikov family every week, the sites of the network of city portals talk about real heroes of the Great Patriotic War. From all over the country, they went to the west: some on the tank, some on Katyusha, and who - on foot.

Relatives of pilots, radioists, artillerymen share their stories and front -line pictures with us, and we share them with our readers. We publish the most striking photos from all over the country on the Instagram account “First Front”. On Monday, we told you the front history of the Ural radio operator Leo Panchetovsky. The veteran told his memories to the nephew, who wrote them down on audio.

Among them is a story about how he met with a “tiger”, having only two grenades with him. Later, he almost died in a burning “Stodekir”, saving the radio station, stood on the chest in the Belarusian swamps surrounded by the enemy, grabbed a bridgehead near Pskov. Listen to these stories - the former radio operator was also an excellent storyteller. In the meantime, we will tell 13 more stories of front -line photographs from all over the country.

The girl served as a sanitary designer on the South, Stalingrad and 2 and 3rd Ukrainian fronts in the intelligence department. In July, her enemy was surrounded by her company. Cut off from their battalion, the heroes fought for 10 hours, after which the girl alone left the encirclement and restored the connection with the battalion. For the next three days, she carried out the wounded fighters and commanders with weapons from the battlefield of the battlefield under machine gun and artillery fire.

Only 31 people. The brave girl sent the patients to the hospital with other orderlies, and again and again returned to the very fade. For the heroism shown in these July days of the guard, foreman Smirnova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, ”says Yevgeny Malinkin, head of the department for the use of archival documents of the Samara Regional State Archive of Social and Political History.

The wounds changed the appearance of Zinaida Smirnova, but the source did not break her stamina: the Samara Regional State Archive of Social and Political History in total during the service of Zinaida Smirnov received 5 injuries, including 2 heavy and 2 concussions. All this no longer allowed her to return to the front. The command was a brave girl to the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union, but she never received the hero of the hero.

He went through the war, fell in love with Austria and died of a medical mistake, Mikhail Romanov from the age of 19 served a scout in Stalingrad. At night he went for “languages”, and once he was sent to the headquarters with important paper. Along the way, he crouched after a sleepless night to rest under a tree and fell asleep, because of which he was almost given to the tribunal.

But the commander defended the scout. Later, they bombed the kitchen near Stalingrad, and for several days the soldiers had nothing to eat - they had to cook horse skins. After the war, he fell in love with a girl from Austria and stayed in Vienna for almost a year. But after his father’s letter I had to return: he recalled that in the scout’s homeland, a wife and son, who was born shortly after that the front -line soldier went to war.

Mikhail Romanov returned home to Bratsk. Then he had two more children. Mikhail Romanov - in the front row on the right with his comrades in Austria, source: Lyudmila Simutin from Austria Mikhail Romanov brought a trophy flask and notebook, in which he recorded poems. Once a man came to his house. He read the veteran’s poems and asked to give him a notebook, promising that he would print them in the newspaper.

The intelligence officer agreed, but only the poems were not printed anywhere, the notebook never returned to the owner. There are not very many photos either. Great -grandfather did not like not only conversations about the war, but also films. He always cried when he watched them. And at the age of 64, he died: gastric bleeding happened. Then they found that he was treated not from what he was ill, ”recalls the great -grandson of the front -line soldier Alexander Simutin.

On U-2, Valentin Makeev got to the front at the very height of the war in the year immediately after graduating from the flight school. He was distributed by a pilot in the guards separate aircraft regiment. Legends went about the pilots of this regiment. Some of them were shared with us by the granddaughter of the front -line soldier. The pilot, who founded the Museum of the Second World War for the pilot Pavel Kochegin, began in Eastern Europe, and ended in the Arctic.

He ended up in the army in a summer guy and spent most of the war on the Karelian front, where he got in May, and where he met Victory Day. The life of pilots in the north is combat sorties and daily routine training sessions. If all the pilots were able to control combat vehicles - two months before sending to the front, all recruits were trained at the rear airfield, then the shooting classes took place already at the site of the base of the Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Pavel Kochegin among his colleagues was the most experienced pilot and flew on Hawker Hurricane aircraft. The service in the north was complicated by severe blizzards, long and frosty winter, which affected the physical and moral state of the fighters.Pavel Kochegin on the left on the left was one of the most experienced pilots in the m fighter aviation regiment, but he regularly attended the shooting classes with his colleagues Source: Pavel Kochegins shot down Messerschmitt, which was provided by the Kurgan Museum of Local Lore on October 9, could not return to the airfield: his aircraft was shot down in the sky over Norwegia.

The pilot was covered by local residents and helped him return to his own. After the war, Pavel Kochegin did not abandon the aviation and continued the service. He was demobilized due to health reasons in the year with the rank of Guard Major. From the year he lived in Kurtamysh, where, on his initiative, they created the Kurtamysh Museum of Local Lore named after Nikolai Tomin. The cold-blooded compartment of the regiment folded the weapon and took the camera in peacetime Stepan Kurunin worked as a photojournalist, and from the first days of the war he fought on the 2nd Belorussian Front to the very victory.

He went to fight with a mature summer man with an army service behind him and almost immediately became the head of the regiment, and returned to the commercial regiment. For the feat near Gdansk, when Kurunin’s regiment captivated more than the Germans, Stepan Fedorovich received the Order of the Battle Red Banner. Having folded the weapon, he again picked up the camera: he shot visits to Stalingrad Che Guevara, Khrushchev, Ibarruri and many others.

And also an interesting episode with the participation of the major was described in his book “Nemertine Miles Notes of the Commander” Vladimir Dzhanjagawa. He directed a hit plane to enemy tanks by freeing the Northern capital from the blockade on the Leningrad Front, the pilot Alexei Chumakov was severely wounded in the head, but after treatment returned to the front line. In this photo, which was taken on July 29, the 1st Aviation Equestion of the Air Aviation Regiment of the Aviation Division of the Air Army.

Alexey Chumakov was allocated in a red circle sent this photo to the family in memory of himself: Alexei Trofimov-under the cover of fighters, a group of 18 attack aircraft IL-2, at the helm of one of whom was my grandfather, took a combat course. After some time, they stumbled upon a column of fascist tanks and struck it. Despite the strong fire that the Germans opened from the ground, the pilots made the second entry, and then the third.

An anti -aircraft shell hit the aircraft, ruled by Alexei Chumakov, and he directed the burning car in the thick of the accumulated German tanks, ”says the hero of the hero Alexei Trofimov. Alexey Chumakov never received any award, although his colleagues were awarded. The veteran's family sent all the necessary documents and hopes that he will receive a well -deserved reward.

She escaped to the front at the age of 17 Lyudmila Bogatyreva was born in the year, and in August the summer girl with her girlfriends, secretly from her parents, she escaped to the front and immediately fell into the environment. Fortunately, the Soviet military liberated them and sent them home. Lyudmila Ivanovna with her friend Source: Family Archive later Lyudmila Ivanovna graduated from the Red Cross society and in April of the year already officially went to war.

Working in the hospital of a surgical nurse, she met her future husband. He met his father in the member of the summer Alexander Motorin to the Novosibirsk Military Polar School, and immediately after the release-to the front, where he commanded a mortar platoon. In the spring, after he was wounded, he ended up in the hospital, where he met his father - he took the wounded from the battlefield and delivered to the operating unit.

It was a random meeting, the only one during the war and the last, because shortly after Alexander Motorin was discharged, the news of the death of his father came. The war separated them, but they found each other “... upon arrival in the city of Mishan, we were told that we had fulfilled our task and no longer needed, since the Japanese Kwantun Army was almost defeated, but our company was left in Manchuria at the request of the Chinese government to restore order and to ensure the connection of our troops.” This is an excerpt from one of the stories that the Frontovik family Ivan Shkilev preserved.

He served in the Far East, where he met the beautiful girl Maria Kolbycheva. He was already demobilized when, at the request of the commander, he was detained on the spot for the training of recruits. At this time, the Great Patriotic War began. She defended Khabarovsk from the raids of enemy aircraft. She was demobilized in September. About a year later, Ivan Shkilev was demobilized.

After the war, they found each other and never separated again. He shot down the aircraft of enemies and became his own on Pinezhia when and where the photo was taken, the source is unknown: the archive of Alexander Klobukov is a brave fighter-fighter in an embrace with his plane-this is a native of the Moscow region Lev Shcherbakov. After the Great Patriotic War, he flew around the north, led the airport in the village of Pinega, the Arkhangelsk region, married a Pinezh teacher, whose family completely felt all the bitterness of the war.

The front -line photograph is kept by his nephew - Pinezhanin Alexander Klobukov. The creative outfit of the "comrade of the doctor" the hope of Russians went to the front in June. She received a diploma of a children's doctor, but at the front she had to treat adults.The soldiers respectfully turned to her “Comrade Doctor”. Hope was transferred from the front to the front.

In order to distract from chaos and the horror of war, the girl came up with a hobby: she spread the old gauze bandages and crocheted napkins and tablecloths from them. Later, the Russian hope was transferred to Leningrad, where she survived the blockade. And then they again sent to the front. Already in peacetime, Nadezhda told her granddaughter that her friend-doctor, who was also in the war, had not eaten ration bread for a very long time, she saved him-and gave her grandmother for her birthday.

The musician at the front when music teachers Vasily Krylov in M ​​was drafted into the army, he was 40 years old. He was a participant in brigades who gave concerts to the fighters of the Red Army, but the role of Sergeant Krylov in the army was not limited to the role of Sergeant Krylov. He participated in the hostilities on the Karelian Front, and after the contusion served as a orderly and carried the wounded from the battlefield.

He went from an ordinary to the senior sergeant and from the Moscow Region to Königsberg. After the liberation of Belarus, Ivan Boychenko had to change the military specialty: he graduated from a flight school in Leningrad and became an air shooter on the plane silt