They defended the Motherland (about fellow countrymen who participated in the war)
Time is rapidly moving forward. The Great Patriotic War became history. New generations of people have grown up, who have never heard of gun thunder and bomb explosions. The thickets of grass trenches and trenches. Life is triumphant on the ground, scorched by war and watered with the blood of the best sons and daughters of the people.
About the former battles resemble only the remains of crumbling dugouts, yes – obelisks. There are many of them on our land. As permanent sentries, they rose to eternal fast in the city squares, village streets, on mounds and hills. Every year on the Victory Day, veterans of the Great Patriotic War meet at these obelisks. And we admire the courage of those people who did not kneel before fascism, but breached the road. We, the younger generation, are familiar with the war on books, films, stories of participants in the Great Patriotic War. And I want to tell you about one of them. This is our fellow countryman – Pozdnyakov Nikolai Ivanovich.
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In 1943, the Tatar military enlistment office was drafted into the army. Part was formed in the transit point Abakan. He served in the artillery troops of the city of Krasnoyarsk. Then he was transferred with his part to Orekhovo-Zuevo.
In 1944, by train, and then three days on foot they made their way to the front line, where the fighting was going on. Nikolai Ivanovich fought on the second Baltic front in the Orekhovo-Zuev area,
Great Onions, Torzhok, Nevel.
At the front, Nikolai Ivanovich was a machine gunner. He had many front-line friends. But especially he remembered Svyatkin, Lepeshkin, Nikolayenko. A lot of bitter events fell on the share of Nikolai Ivanovich and his friends.
There are Nikolai Ivanovich and awards for military merits: the medal “For Courage”, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Marshal Zhukov.
After the war, Nikolai Ivanovich worked 11 years at a mine in the Donetsk region. In 1958, at the request of his mother, he came to the village of Dmitrievka. Enrolled in the Tatar electric grid, where he worked for 12 years as a construction worker. After working in the Tatar communication center, and since 1985 on a well-deserved rest. Nikolai Ivanovich is a frequent visitor to the students of Dmitrievskaya secondary school.
Year after year, the ranks of veterans are dying, veterans leave their lives. Now Nikolai Ivanovich 83 years old, God grant him health.
And we must not forget our past, our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who
In the bloodiest war in the history of mankind, we survived, won the victory and bequeathed to us, so that not one foot of the aggressor would step on the Russian land any more.
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