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Video: Heroes of the Great Patriotic War in color photographs. (82 images)
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Congratulations to all on Victory Day!
Works by Olga Klimbim, who reconstructs historical photos.
This selection is dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War
1. Soviet female pilots from the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Heroes of the Soviet Union Rufina Gasheva (left) and Natalya Meklin at the Po-2 aircraft. One of the most productive pilots of Soviet military aviation in combat missions.
2. Kuznetsov Petr Dementievich. He left Krasnodar for the war, marched with the infantry all the way to Berlin. For personal courage and bravery in battles, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star, many medals.
3. Pilots of the 102nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment in a caponier next to the Aerocobra board 33. From left to right: Junior Lieutenant Zhileostov, Junior Lieutenant Anatoly Grigorievich Ivanov (died), Junior Lieutenant Boldyrev, Senior Lieutenant Nikolai Petrovich Alexandrov (died), Dmitry Andrianovich Shpigun (deceased), N. A. Kritsyn, Vladimir Gorbachev.
4. Natalia Meklin (Kravtsova), Sofia Burzaeva, Polina Gelman. 1943 g.
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6. Medical instructor of the 369th separate battalion of the marine corps of the Danube military flotilla, chief petty officer Ekaterina Illarionovna Mikhailova (Demina) (b. 1925). E. I. Mikhailova is the only woman who served in the Marine Corps intelligence. She was awarded the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st and 2nd degrees, medals, including the Medal for Courage and the Florence Nightingale medal. To the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, Chief Petty Officer E. I. Mikhailova was presented in August and December 1944, but the award did not take place. By the decree of the President of the USSR of May 5, 1990, Demina (Mikhailova) Ekaterina Illarionovna was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 11608).
7. Tezekpayev Zakiy Kambarovich. He went through the war from Stalingrad to Austria, was in the artillery anti-tank troops. He was awarded medals “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For the Liberation of Belgrade”, “For Victory over Germany”, “For the Capture of Budapest”. Awarded the medal "For military merit", as written in the order: "The radiotelegraph operator of the platoon of the regiment's directorates, Private Tezekpayev Zakiy Kambarovich, for being in the area of the village of Mestegne (Hungary) on December 16, 1944, being on the battle formations of a battery, while repelling an enemy counterattack, by his personal example, he mobilized the personnel to reflect the latter. He did not leave the battlefield until the enemy's counterattack was repulsed."
8. Sarsembaev Talgatbek Sarsembayevich was drafted into the Red Army in 1942 by the Akmola RVC. He served as commander of a rifle platoon, 1135th Salsk Rifle Regiment, 339th Taman Brandenburg Red Banner Order of Suvorov 2nd Class Rifle Division, 16th Kalisz Rifle Corps of the 33rd Army of the Belorussian Front. From the award list “In the battle to break through the German defenses on the western bank of the Oder River south of Frankfurt, on April 16, 1945, despite the fierce enemy resistance and strong artillery mortar fire, with an obvious risk to life, he boldly led his platoon to storm the enemy fortifications and, breaking in at the head of a platoon in an enemy trench, destroyed more than 25 Nazis, while capturing 10 Germans. He personally destroyed 4 Nazis. In this battle he was wounded. Worthy of being awarded the Order of the Red Star. The commander of the 1135th Salsk Infantry Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Scepuro. June 3, 1945.
9. Comrade Stalin. Generalissimo. Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Armed Forces
10. Guard Captain, Deputy Squadron Commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division, Maria Dolina. Maria Ivanovna Dolina (1922-18-12-03.03.2010) performed 72 sorties in a Pe-2 dive bomber, dropped 45 tons of bombs on the enemy. In six air battles, she shot down 3 enemy fighters (in a group). On August 18, 1945, she was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for her courage and military valor displayed in battles with the enemy.
11. Sanitary instructor, foreman of the medical service Valentina Sokolova. July 1943.
12. Berlin 1945
13. Red Army soldiers are monitoring the movement of German troops near Sevastopol.
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17. Tankman Mikhail Smirnov.
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22. Squadron Commander of the 6th Separate Guards Assault Aviation Regiment, Captain Ivan Alexandrovich Musienko (1915 - 1989) at the Il-2 attack aircraft.
23. Rose Shanina.
24. The pilot of the 73rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Junior Lieutenant Lydia Litvyak (1921-1943) after a sortie on the wing of his Yak-1B fighter.
25. Alexander Georgievich Pronin (1917-1992) - Soviet fighter pilot.
26. Legendary sniper of the 163rd rifle division, senior sergeant Semyon Danilovich Nomokonov (1900-1973), on vacation with his comrades. Northwestern Front. On the sniper's chest is the Order of Lenin, which he was awarded on June 22, 1942. During the war years, Semyon Nomokonov, an Evenk by nationality, hereditary hunter, eliminated 367 enemy soldiers and officers, including one German major general.
27. Squadron Commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards Major Evdokia Andreevna Nikulina (1917-1993).
28. Fighter pilot Antonina Lebedeva (1916 - 1943).
29. Hero of the Soviet Union, flight commander of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Guards Lieutenant Nina Zakharovna Ulyanenko (1923 - 2005).
30. Hero of the Soviet Union, senior lieutenant Anatoly Vasilyevich Samochkin (1914 - 1977).
31. Guard Captain, Deputy Squadron Commander of the 125th Guards Bomber Aviation Regiment of the 4th Guards Bomber Aviation Division Maria Dolina at the Pe-2 aircraft.
32. Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic Khorlogiin Choibalsan with Soviet pilots, awarded for participation in the battles on Khalkhin Gol, 1939
33. Khorlogiin Choibalsan.
34. Volunteer sniper Nadezhda Kolesnikova.
35. Vasily Margelov.
36. Ekaterina Vasilievna Ryabova (July 14, 1921 - September 12, 1974) - Soviet pilot, participant of the Great Patriotic War, navigator of the squadron of the 46th Guards Women's Night Bomber Regiment of the 4th Air Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Guard Senior Lieutenant. The hero of the USSR.
37. Serbian partisan Milja Marin (Toroman). Nurse of the 11th Kozarchansk brigade. 1943 g.
38. Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (nee Malinin; March 28, 1912, Moscow - January 4, 1943, Saratov region) - Soviet pilot-navigator, major; one of the first women to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
39. Marshal of the Mongolian People's Republic Khorlogiyin Choibalsan with Soviet pilots awarded for participation in the battles on Khalkhin Gol, 1939
40. Sofya Petrovna Avericheva (September 10, 1914, Bolshoi Never - May 10, 2015, Yaroslavl) - Soviet and Russian theater actress, participant in the Great Patriotic War.
41. The Viktorov family, Monino.
42. Soldiers and commanders of the 7th Guards Tank Corps in Berlin 1945.
43. Captain Alexander Pronin and Major Sergei Bukhteev before departure. In the cockpit of "Airacobra" S. S. Bukhteev. Since June 1943, the 124th Fighter Aviation Regiment / 102nd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was re-equipped with American-made P-39 Airacobra fighters.
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45. Bauyrzhan Momyshuly (1910 - 1982) - participant of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union, Panfilovite, participant of the battle for Moscow, writer.
46. Dospanova Khiuaz Kairovna (1922-2008) - pilot of the Great Patriotic War, navigator-gunner.
47. Mikhail Petrovich Devyatayev (July 8, 1917, Torbeevo, Penza province - November 24, 2002, Kazan) - Guard Senior Lieutenant, fighter pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. He escaped from a German concentration camp in a bomber he hijacked.
48. Soviet female pilots, Crimea, 1944
49. Ilya Grigorievich Starinov (July 20 (August 2) 1900 - November 18, 2000) - Soviet military leader, colonel, partisan saboteur, "grandfather of the Soviet special forces."
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51. Amet-Khan Sultan (1920 - 1971) - Soviet military ace pilot, participant of the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
52. Roza Yegorovna Shanina (April 3, 1924, Edma, Vologda province - January 28, 1945, Reihau (German) Russian, East Prussia) - Soviet single sniper of a separate platoon of female snipers of the 3rd Belorussian Front, holder of the Order of Glory; one of the first female snipers to receive this award. She was known for her ability to accurately fire at moving targets with a doublet - two shots that follow each other. On the account of Rosa Shanina, 59 confirmed destroyed enemy soldiers and officers were recorded.
53. The crew of the Soviet 37-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun model 1939 (61-K) is monitoring the air situation in Berlin. 1945 g.
54. Captain of the medical service.
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56. Lyudmila Mikhailovna Pavlichenko (née Belova; July 12, 1916, Belaya Tserkov, Vasilkovsky district, Kiev province - October 27, 1974, Moscow) - sniper of the 25th Chapaevskaya rifle division of the Red Army. Hero of the Soviet Union (1943). After the end of the war, she was an employee of the General Staff of the USSR Navy with the rank of Major of the Coastal Defense Forces.
Lyudmila Pavlichenko is the most successful female sniper in world history, with 309 confirmed fatal hits on enemy soldiers and officers.
57. Soviet soldiers cross the Dniester.
58. Red Army soldiers marching through the city of Schneidemühl. February 1945
59. Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
60. Lieutenant of the Red Army.
61. Evdokia Borisovna Pasko - navigator of the squadron of the 46th Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment, Hero of the Soviet Union.
62. Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko - commander of the Red Banner submarine C-13 of the Red Banner submarine brigade of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet, captain of the 3rd rank, known for the "Attack of the Century". The hero of the USSR.
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64. Marina Mikhailovna Raskova (nee Malinin; March 28, 1912, Moscow - January 4, 1943, Saratov Region) - Soviet pilot-navigator, major; one of the first women to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
65. Sniper Evgeny Makeev.
66. Mikhail Ilyich Koshkin (in his youth) - Soviet design engineer, head of the tank building design bureau of the Kharkov plant, initiator and chief designer of the T-34 tank.
67. 1st Squadron, 15th Guards Assault Aviation Regiment.
68. Central Front. 1943 year.
69. Sculptor Anatoly Ivanovich Grigoriev. Work on the portrait of the pilot Nikolai Arsenin. Moscow front. 1942
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70. Ulyanin Yuri Alekseevich. October 1941 Born on May 27, 1926 in Moscow into the family of a hereditary nobleman. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Technical Sciences, writer, retired lieutenant colonel, participant of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and the defense of Moscow. Author of four books and over 130 scientific, popular articles, essays and publications. He died in 2010.
71. Nurse Kolesnikova evacuates a wounded soldier on a dog sled. 1943 year.
72. Lieutenant of the medical service.
73. Viktor Vasilyevich Talalikhin (September 18, 1918, Teplovka village, Volsk district, Saratov province, RSFSR - October 27, 1941, Podolsk district, Moscow region, USSR) - military pilot, deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Regiment 6- 1st Air Defense Fighter Aviation Corps, junior lieutenant. The hero of the USSR. He was one of the first in the USSR to carry out a night air ram.
74. Senior paramedic Rumyantseva Ekaterina Ivanovna.
75. Konstantin Stepanovich Alekseev - (1914 - 1971) - Colonel of Aviation, Hero of the Soviet Union.
76. Sniper Rosa Shanina.
77. Student of the 4th year Kapitolina Yakovlevna Reshetnikova with the badge "Ready for work and defense."
78. Comrade Stalin.
79. Red Army soldier Katya Spivak regulates traffic on the streets of Berlin, 1945-10-05
80. Lyudmila Pavlichenko.
81. Berlin 1945.
82. Moscow, May 9, 1945
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