1. And the whole century we’ll meet them from the war…

2. MOSCOW IS BEHIND
Iliya Elizarovich Barmin was born in 1916 in the village of Repnoe During the Great Patriotic War he was a tanker.
He met fascists on the western border. Near Smolensk Barmin was wounded. By the beginning of the Moscow battle he had destroyed ten enemy tanks.

3. In the beginning of November Barmin Iliya Elizarovich and his comrades defended one of the sectors of the front line. They were near the village of Gorodishche on the Volokolamsk highway.
A big column of about 80 fascist tanks and armoured carries ran towards our positions. The first to begin firing was Iliya Barmin. At that moment the advanced tanks were only at a distance of 400 metres from him.

4. Three tanks blazed up like torches
Three tanks blazed up like torches. At the same time Barmin’s comrades-in-arms also began firing and destroyed a few tanks in the tail-end of the column.
In spite of superior numbers fascists were entrapped: they could move neither forward nor backward.

5. In that fight Barmin burnt 11 fascist tanks
In that fight Barmin burnt 11 fascist tanks. On April 12, 1942 Iliya Elizarovich Barmin was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

6. Our victory came but unfortunately he didn’t see its happy day
Our victory came but unfortunately he didn’t see its happy day. Iliya Barmin perished in one of the fights in 1943.

7. WINGS OF THE EAGLE
Popov Andrey Ivanovich was born in 1923 in the village of Chuevo-Alabushka. In 1938 the family left for Lyzlovo, the village in the Moscow region. In 1940 he became a trainee of the air-club in Noginsk; then he was sent to the flying school in Kachinsk.
He was there when the Great Patriotic war began. The school was evacuated to the Saratov region.

8. In August 1942 Andrei became a pilot of air regiment 653, the regiment of fighter planes. He fought at the Kalinin, North-Western and Bryansk fronts.
Soon he became a commander of a flight of three planes.

9. By February 1944 he had made 126 war flights, taken part in 40 air fights, shot down 18 fascist planes.
On April 13, 1944 Andrei Ivanovich Popov was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

10. On the eve of the Byelorussian offensive he was sent to find out the situation near Minsk. He flew but didn’t return to the base. In the regimental documents we can read, “He was missing on the 23d of June, 1944.”

11. CROSSING THE DNIPER
Our country-man Ivan Ivanovich Osipov served in the 91st field engineer battalion. He was a lieutenant, a commander of a platoon.
He was born in Uvarovo in When the war began he went to the Red Army as a volunteer. It was in At first he had to finish a military engineering school. Since 1943 he had been at the front. In summer 1943 the sappers had to rebuild roads and river crossing.

12. At the end of September,1943 Osipov got an order to head the group of sappers and build a ferry over the Dnieper. Under continuous fire the sappers began building rafts and preparing rubber boats

13. Lieutenant Osipov had always been in the most dangerous places.
A few shells straddled the centre of the ferry and a shell-splinter stroke down the young lieutenant. Near the ferry, on the bank of the Dnieper the sappers buried his commander.

14. For heroic deed Ivan Ivanovich Osipov was posthumously awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union on June 3, 1944.

15. Автор: Курникова Л.Н., Уварово, 2015