I REMEMBER! I AM PROUD!

BY OLGA GOLOVINACLASS 10V

PERVOMAISK SECONDARY SCHOOLTAMBOV REGION

2013

To the blessed memory of those millions of valiant men, women, children and old people who gave their lives in the sacred fighting for the freedom and independence of our Motherland during the Great Patriotic war in 1941 – 1945 is dedicated…

OUR CAUSE IS

RIGHT.

THE ENEMY WILL

BE SMASHED.

VICTORY WILL BE

OURS!

THE MAP OF MILITARY ACTIONS

SOME STATISTICS We paid for this

victory an enormous cost - 27 million human lives.

60% of Russians lost their kith and kin in the war.

Every fifth family had to leave its home.

Relatives were killed or injured in 88% of families.

TAMBOV REGION PERVOMAISK DISTRICT

OUR PERVOMAISK DISTRICT IN THE GREAT

PATRIOTIC WAR

THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR AGAINST FASCIST INVADERS IS DATED FROM 1941 UNTIL 1945,

IT LASTED 1418 DAYS AND NIGHTS.

16,000 people of our district fought heroically against the enemy.

8000 citizens did not return from the battlefields of war.

Many citizens of Pervomaisky district were conferred orders and medals , six of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

GOLD STARS OF PERVOMAISK

Sergey Vassilyevich Achkasov Sergey Vassilyevich Achkasov (1919- (1919-

1943)1943)

Sergey Vasilyevich Achkasov (1919-1943)

was born in the village of Staroklyonskoye. He dreamed to become a military pilot and he did!  When the Great Patriotic war began he defended the sky over our capital Moscow from the enemy , later he defended Voronezh and some other towns. He made 160 flights and personally destroyed 8 fascist planes. He died as a hero in 1943 and was posthumously awarded the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Ivanovich TolmachyovMikhail Ivanovich Tolmachyov (1909-(1909-

1944)1944)

Mikhail Ivanovich Tolmachyov (1909-1944)

was born in the village of Staroklyonskoye.  He went to the front as a volunteer. He was a gunner. He fought heroically for the liberation of Smolensk, Orel, Sukhinichi in our country, then came Belorussia, Lithuania.  For speeding up the river Neman in 1944, he was awarded the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union.  He died in 1944 in the town of Kapsukas. There is a monument to Mikhail Ivanovich Tolmachyov on his grave there. 

Victor Fomich KocherovVictor Fomich Kocherov (1924-1996) (1924-1996)

Victor Fomich Kocherov (1924-1996)

was born in settlement Pervomaiskiy.  After secondary school he served in the Army, he became a sniper and was sent to the front.  He liberated Russia, Belorussia, Lithuania, and Eastern Prussia from the Nazis.  He was awarded the rank of the Hero of the Soviet Union for speeding up the river Neman in 1944. After the war Victor graduated from the institute and worked as an engineer in Sverdlovsk. In 1974 he left Sverdlovsk for Voronezh and lived there till his death.

Andrey Andreyevich PopovAndrey Andreyevich Popov (1914- (1914-1997)1997)

Andrey Andreyevich Popov (1914-1997)

was born in the village of Khobotets-Vasilyevskoe in the family of a peasant. When the war began he was working as a tractor-dtiver in a local collective-farm.

He began his military service as an artilleryman not far from Smolensk and beat Germans bravely. He was a real hero. He defended Moscow, Stalingrad, Kalinin, Orsha. He took part in liberation of Belorussia and fought in the Far East, in Japan.

The soldier came back in 1946 and went on working in his native collective-farm.

Alexander Nikolayevich ManokhinAlexander Nikolayevich Manokhin (1920-1995) (1920-1995)

Alexander Nikolayevich Manokhin (1920-1995)

was born in the village of Khobotets-Vasilyevskoe. He dreamed to become a pilot and his dream came true in 1938 after graduating from Borisoglebsk flying school .On the third day of the Great Patriotic war he became a fighter pilot. Fascists called his “Il-2” a “flying tank”, “ a black death”. Alexander Nikolayevich fought heroically in the sky over Leningrad, Starodub, Yelnya, Kalinigrad, Pillau and other towns. He became the Hero of the Soviet Union at the age of 23.

After the Great Patriotic war he served in the Army and taught young pilots to fly.

Yakov Petrovich ShipilovYakov Petrovich Shipilov (1925- (1925-

2002)2002)

Yakov Petrovich Shipilov (1925- 2002)was born in the village of Staroseslavino in the family of a carpenter. He began his military way in the Northern Caucasus and ended in Poland. He got the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union for speeding up the river Tissa in 1945, when he was only 20. After the war he served in the Soviet Army and was the chief of a parachute service. Though he lived in Rostov -on-the Don he often visited his “little Motherland” and met with his villagers.

NOBODY IS

FORGOTTEN,

NOTHING IS

FORGOTTEN!

(OLGA BERGGOLTS)

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