Pyshma’s
secondary school
"Keeping
the memory
of
the past "
Authors:
Maria Panarina, 9A class
Alexander
Ponomarev, 9B class
Teacher: Ponomareva N.V.
Pyshma
2015
Contents
Introduction..........................................................................................................
. 3
Chapter 1. The village of Ustyanka during the Great Patriotic War......................
4
Chapter 2. The Khudyakovs – Shpilyovs families during the war
2.1. On the line of
fire...........................................................................................
6 Shpilyov Alexander
Kirillovich.............................................................................
6
Khudyakov Fedosey Vasilyevich………..............................................................
. 7
Khudyakov Dmitry Vasilyevich............................................................................
8
2.2. The rear to the front.......................................................................................
. 10
Khudyakova Anna Mikhailovna............................................................................
11
Ivachyova Tamara Vasilyevna...............................................................
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Conclusion.............................................................................................................
13
Literature................................................................................................................
14
Appendix………………… ...................................................................................
15
Introduction
The Great Patriotic War is going farther and farther away from us and also the
memory of those people who put their lives for the salvation of their country, their
people from the invasion of the invaders. What do we, "grandsons of the Victory",
know about them? Several generations have grown up after the Great Patriotic War,
a victory in which cost too much to our nation. There are fewer and fewer
people who fought on the fronts, worked in the rear.
"There is no Russian family without its own memorable hero" - is sung
in a song from the famous Soviet film. And it is true. In those years the war
touched everyone, broke into every family. So it didn’t passed by the village
of Ustyanka in Pyshma’s district, where our great-grandmothers and
great-grandfathers lived and worked. Unfortunately, it wasn’t told and wasn’t
written about them, worthy of respect and admiration. In this we see the
relevance of our work.
The purpose of our work: to research and to describe the life and
military career of our relatives from the Khudyakovs – Shpilyovs families.
Our
tasks:
-
to find information about our relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic
War and to know what they were doing in those years,
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to create a project and to present the results of our work
The
subjects of our research are our relatives (great-grandmothers
and great-grandfathers), and the object is the Great Patriotic War.
The
hypothesis of the project is that each person who participated
in the Great Patriotic War, made an enormous contribution to its final result.
Research
methods:
1)
analysis of archival materials, including our family heirlooms,
2)
the method of local history search
3)
interviewing our relatives from the Khudyakovs – Shpilyovs families.
Chapter
1. The village of Ustyanka during the Great Patriotic War
Our families often talk about our family members, who are not alive, but the
memory of them alive. And we feel that they are near, and we know them well. It
is said that people live as long as they are remembered. The pictures and
letters remember about our great-grandparents but they have become yellow with
time.
Starting to collect information about our relatives, we have learned that they
lived in the village of Ustyanka in Pyshma’s district. During the first months
of the war almost all the men went from the village, left the women, the
elderly people, teenagers and children. The entire burden of the village life fell
on their shoulders. It was necessary to cultivate the land, to grow crops, to
prepare feed for animals - cows, horses, bulls - the main traction forces in
the village.
Each farm had an annual plan of submission of agricultural products to the
state - grain, potatoes, meat, milk, wool... It was carried out under the
strict supervision of the Commissioner of the district. They gave bread completely;
to accomplish the plan even seeds were taken.
The village was abandoned, toned down. In families, especially in large, left
without men, there was not enough bread. It was necessary to cultivate the
land, to gather harvest... Working around the house and in the kitchen garden
was carried out at leisure time from the collective work. The main
horticultural crop was potato, which saved many people from starvation.
Along with nutrition there were problems with feeding livestock and especially
horses. It was necessary to procure food for the winter. In the second half of
the war it was not less important and problematic than harvest. The village and
the cattle survived during the winter became alive with the arrival of spring. People
ate all that they could take from the earth, starting with the potatoes, which
were left unselected in the fall. Starch had a nutritional value; it was
laundered, defended and dried, and then used in different incredible dishes of unwritten
cooking. Pestles appeared on fallow fields – these were delicious edible shoots
of horsetail, which were eaten by children and adults. Then strawberries and
raspberries appeared. Boys and girls caught carps in the river Urmach by baskets
and sieves.
In 1941 - 1942 school year classes in schools began everywhere from the 1st
of October. Before classes teachers and students worked in the fields
harvesting.
In 1942 evacuated people from Leningrad and other cities came to the village. They
were settled in different places and worked on the farm or at school. The
village and Leningrad’s children became friends and participated in all events together,
aimed to help the front. Also they sewed pouches, knitted socks, and mittens
for the soldiers.
Immeasurable hardships befell the people. There was almost no one home,
wherever people received news of the death of their husband, son, father or
brother. 92 people were mobilized from the village of Ustyanka to the front and
52 people never returned from the battlefields.
Now the population of Ustyanka is 67 people. In 2011, on the initiative of Slyozkin
Alexander Alekseevich an obelisk was erected to those countrymen, who
participated in the Great Patriotic War. Among their names are names and our
relatives. (See Appendix 1)
Chapter 2. The Khudyakovs – Shpilyovs
families during the war.
2.1. On the line of fire.
Like
our friends, we do not know the war years, do not know the roar of cannon and
the night wailing sirens of air raid, don't know what 125 grams of the siege
Leningrad’s bread is, do not know the enemy captivity, do not know the sound of
postman’s boots that brought the funeral... So the memory of the war is sacred
as the memory of those who brought us the Great Victory. And we are proud that
among these heroes are the names of our ancestors - Shpilyov Alexander
Kirillovich, Khudyakov Fedosey Vasilyevich and
Khudyakov Dmitry Vasilyevich. They were born in the village of Ustyanka in Pyshma’s
district in peasants’ families that lived not far from each other. They were
simple people, but when the Great Patriotic War began and it was a severe test
for our country they stood up for its protection. They fought on different
fronts, away from each other, but the memory of their families and native village
helped them.
Shpilyov Alexander Kirillovich
Alexander
was only 20 years old when the war started. Its bloody horror treacherously
broke into his young soul, heart, still dreaming of romance. Memories of that
tragic time were so difficult for great-grandfather that he always told about
them with great emotion.
Unfortunately, Alexander Kirillovich died many years ago, but there are some of
his memories of the war, written by our relatives. That's what he talked about
his military career:
"I was drafted into the army on October 16, 1941. First we were brought in
Perm on "training". We were there from October 16 to December 20, and
then we were sent to the front. First we arrived in Rybinsk of Yaroslavl
region. Here we were issued uniforms, rifle and hence and we were taken on the
train to the front line under Volkhov of Leningrad region to help infantry regiment,
limiting the onslaught of the Germans at Leningrad. Our platoon, consisting of
36 people had to join the second company. From the station we went to the front
on foot. I could hear fighting around. We moved carefully so as not to stumble
on the Germans. Bypassing a small village our platoon was broken. I was wounded
in the chest, and when I woke up, no one was around. I began to wade in search
of our troops. I haven't slept in a few days; I was hungry and had no more
effort, so I fell asleep on the snow. Waking up, I felt that my hands were
gripped by the frost, they did not move. I got up and walked on. Then I saw a
trail of wide skis and I headed for it. I actually went to the people, they
were Russian soldiers. They picked me up and together with other wounded we
were sent to the hospital by a horse. It was on 26 January 1942. In addition to
injuries, I had a 4th degree frostbite of my toe. Then I was sent to hospital
in Ivanovo, where I spent 6 months. After the hospital we made a convalescent,
scored the team for training as medical instructors. We were taught for 2
months and then we were again brought to the front, now to the defense of
Moscow, in Smolensk region. On this front we kept the defense. At first I was a
medical instructor, and then I fought in the reconnaissance company. Once, when
we went for the "language", we were caught in the crossfire, and then
I got a hit in the head. I was back in the hospital in the city of Ivanovo and
spent there 7 months. I had three operations. The wound healed, but I began to
have epileptic seizures. With this I was demobilized. In 1944, accompanied by a
nurse I arrived home. I was treated, the attacks stopped, but the head is still
aching. The war has crippled me". (See Appendix 2)
Khudyakov Fedosey Vasilyevich
Khudyakov Fedosey Vasilyevich, born in 1910, served as a sailor on a cargo ship
of the Pacific fleet. He raided between the USSR and the USA. The constant threats
of enemy attack and frequent natural disasters have taken a lot of strength and
health of seafarers. Only fearless, powerful, intelligent people were able to
live in these terrible conditions. Such a man was Fedosey Vasilyevich. But the
war took his heroic virtue, took many years of his life. He died at the age of
fifty years, but the memory of him alive in our family. (See Appendix 2)
There are some stories about the military way of Fedosey Vasilyevich, but one
of the stories has penetrated deeply into our souls. This story was told by his
wife, Khudyakova Anna Mikhailovna to their grandchildren. During one of the sailings
the ship of our great-grandfather was sunk by the enemy. Many hours the crew
was in the water, sailors didn’t feel their bodies. Feeling the breath of
death, they said goodbye to each other. Fedosey Vasilyevich remembered his
home, wife, children, and his heart was pierced by the pain of knowing that he
will never see them.
But the crew was saved by the Americans and they were brought to America. The
life in the U.S.A seemed to the great-grandfather as a paradise. There was
peace and tranquility; the local dwellers showed a very warm attitude to the
Russian sailors. All sailors were admired by their hospitality.
Khudyakov
Dmitry Vasilyevich.
Dmitry Vasilyevich Khudyakov was a partisan. He was born September 8, 1914, in
a peasant family in the village of Ustyanka in Pyshma’s district. In 1922 he
went to the first class of the rural 5-years school. In 1925 Dmitry Khudyakov
joined the pioneers. In 1930 he graduated from Pyshma’s school of a
peasant-based youth. In 1928 Dmitry became a Komsomol member. In 1930 he was
elected the Secretary of the Komsomol cell. In 1935 Dmitry Vasilyevich began to
work in a reading house. In February 1936 he was drafted into the Red Army.
After a military service, he was sent to military school of infantry, and
graduated from it as a excellent student of military and political study in
honor of the closing of the 18th Party Congress. In March 1939, he was sent to Kamyshlov’s
regiment and became the commander of a platoon of the regimental school. And in
December he was sent to war with Finns as a platoon commander of the volunteer
ski battalion. Here at the Finnish war, Dmitry Vasilyevich received the baptism
of fire, gained experience that was useful in the battles against the fascist
invaders during the Great Patriotic War.
The great-grandfather met the Great Patriotic War in Latvia as a commander of
the infantry company of 524 infantry regiment, a part of the 51st rifle corps of
22nd Ural Army of the Western front. After the battle on the highway Opochka -
Sebezh, not caught up to the other parts of the Red Army, Khudyakov’s company
was deep behind enemy lines. Approximately 16 July 1941 they met with a group
of the Red Army’s soldiers and commanders as they detached from their units.
So, in a forest thicket near the town of Nevel of Pskov region a partisan
detachment named after Chkalov was created. Soon it grew to 200 people. The
famous Pioneer-hero Lenya Golikov was in their partisan detachment. In this
detachment Khudyakov was the commander of the intelligence. He had managed to
establish strong links with the local dwellers. It was the first partisan
detachment on the Soviet-German front, operating in the deep rear of the enemy.
In November Chkalov’s detachment joined the 2nd special partisan brigade, in
which Dmitry Vasilyevich became the deputy head of the intelligence section. In
July 1942 on the shores of Lake Sig, south of the town of Ostashkov of Kalinin region,
the 2nd special partisan brigade was transformed into the 3rd Leningrad
partisan brigade. Six months later, Dmitry Vasilyevich became the commander of
the regiment. The commander of the 3rd Leningrad partisan brigade was the
legendary Alexander German. Their motto was: "To seek, to stalk, to destroy!"
The 3rd Leningrad brigade was the terror of the Nazis. Therefore, in
September 1943, the Germans launched the largest punitive expedition against
Leningrad partisans, involving 14 thousands of German soldiers with artillery,
tanks and airplanes. The battle at the village Zhitnitsa in Novorzhev’s
district on the 6th of September in 1943 was the hardest. In this battle, fighting
off the Nazis, surrounded the command post, the great-grandfather received
several wounds. The wounds were dangerous, so a gangrene of the left hand began.
On 8 September 1943, on the birthday of Dmitry Vasilyevich, a partisan surgeon
Vikenty Ivanovich Gilev in an incredibly difficult field conditions without
anesthesia sawed my
great-grandfather’s left arm off
above the elbow with the hacksaw.
That was the end of a military Odyssey of Dmitry Vasilyevich. For his courage,
heroism, bravery Dmitry Vasilyevich was awarded the order of Alexander
Nevsky," the Red Banner, the Red Star, the medal "Partisan of the
Patriotic War I degree", "For valour", "For defense of
Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany" and other awards. (See
Appendix 3)
After healing his wounds Dmitry Vasilyevich worked as the head of the
Department of agitation and propaganda of the Communist party in Krasnaya
Polyana of Leningrad region, then he worked in Dno of Pskov region. In the
early fifties he came to Kamyshlov of Sverdlovsk region, where he lived until
the end of his days.
In 2003, there was erected a monument to Dmitry Vasilyevich Khudyakov, and his grave
is under patronage of the cadet school. (See Appendix 4)
About Dmitry Vasilevich Khudyakov, his military career, partisans exploits,
courage and heroism there was written in the books "Not broken by the
storm" by M.L. Voskresensky, "Leningrad in my heart",
"Unusual raid" by N.V.Masolov, "Front without rear" by D.
Afanasyev, "The Memory of stormy years» by F. I. Burilov, N.V. Masolov and
others. (See Appendix 5)
There were published articles about him in the newspapers "Leningradskaya
Pravda", "Pskovskaya Pravda" of Kalinin and Novgorod regions.
Dmitry Vasilyevich Khudyakov was honored pioneer of many schools. The name of
the great-grandfather is listed in "The List command and the political
composition of the partisan formations and the most famous partisan". In Kamyshlov’s
Museum they collected a lot of information about the partisan way of Dmitry
Vasilevich Khudyakov and his activities in the postwar period. (See Appendix 6)
2.2.
The rear to the front.
The second front, labor, remained the rear. No matter what situation there was on
the war fronts, what mount did not compress the hearts of the people, it was necessary
to sow bread, to gather harvest, to
chop wood, to collect the parcels to the front, to give their scarce
labor savings on the construction of war machines, to do a lot of other things,
to write letters and wait with anxiety and hope. The war had a serious impact
on the way of life in the rear, dramatically complicating it. Material -
technical base of farms has dwindled. For the needs of army the best crawler
tractors, trucks and farm horses were taken. People worked on cows. The mobilization
of human resources to the front caused a sharp reduction of the working rural
population. Instead people gone to the front they began to train new machine
operators, field workers, foremen, mostly from women. Teenagers had to do the
adult’s work. And those of the men, who did not get into the army after conclusion
of the medical commission, were conscripted into the labor army for
construction of productive areas for the evacuated factories and execution of
military orders.
All people worked to win. Any common cause was required as personal.
The regional newspaper "Forward to Communism" №8, 1943 wrote:
"In the collective farm named after Khalturin most men went to the front.
Only elderly people, women, teenagers left. They took the entire burden of
collective work. But they are as real fighters of the rear front courageously
carry out all problems. Egor Egorovich Epanchintsev is seventh decade. It is
high time for him to relax. But no, the old man does not know a rest. He says,
"My son beats the damn German. So surely can I sit comfortably at home? I
will help my son to defeat the enemy faster and then rest."
Even the children tried to keep up with the elders. They weeded the fields,
digging potatoes, picked up the ears, sledding carry firewood from the forest
in winter, sawed and chopped it.
Workers of the district actively participated in the nationwide movement to aid
the front, collecting warm clothes for the soldiers of the Red Army and money
in the Defense Fund, gave their earned savings on a tank column
"Sverdlovsk Komsomolets", on squadron "Ural Ranger", on a
tank column "State-farm work of the Urals» and on the construction of
other military vehicles. They managed to collect 1 million 400 thousand rubles
and to introduce them to the construction of squadron "Sverdlovsk
farmer". In addition, all families participated in the annual subscription
state loans, but lived hungry. Bread was not enough even for children. Quinoa,
nettle, clover and other herbs were added into food. The words "All for
the front, everything for victory" were not just a slogan; they reflect
the thoughts and actions of each person affected by the war.
A victory was won by a high price. For those who fortunately returned home
alive, the war never ended, continuing to remind by old wounds, severe diseases,
early graying. How to measure how many strength and health were lost by our
women, working weekends and holidays on heavy, not women's work? How to measure
mothers’ sadness and tears of widows who lost their sons and husbands?
Khudyakova Anna Mikhailovna
Khudyakova Anna Mikhailovna, a wife of Fedosey Vasilyevich, stayed at home
with three small children, but throughout the war she worked as a combiner. All
men's work lay on the weak women's shoulders, but great-grandmother pulled this
hard burden.
For her hard work she received workdays. On the farm there was not the salary.
After obligations of the state farms distributed their income among farmers,
proportionally to developed workdays to supply agricultural products. Moreover,
the cash component of the income of the farmers on workdays was insignificant.
But, despite working in the field almost from morning till evening, Anna
Mikhailovna had to do chores: washing, cooking, cleaning the house, keeping the
garden in order just to feed her family. (See Appendix 2)
Ivachyova Tamara Vasilyevna
Ivachyova Tamara Vasilyevna was born November 6, 1927 in the village of
Ustyanka in Pyshma’s district of Sverdlovsk region, where she lived most of her
life.
She met the Great Patriotic War when she was a 13 years-old girl. Three elder
brothers of Tamara Vasilyevna went to the front, so the whole heavy rural labor
fell to her share. First she helped the adults to work in the field, on the
farm, caring for the animals.
In winter, each farm had a plan to send people on logging. Therefore, when
great-grandmother was 15 years old, she was sent on logging on the North of the
region, where teenagers chopped wood doing heavy men’s work. Without warm
clothing, with axes and crosscut saws knee-deep or waist-deep in snow, women,
and often young girls, poured wood, fighting for the title of frontline teams.
Then, when Tamara Vasilievna was about 16 years old, she was sent to
Sverdlovsk plant named after Kalinin, evacuated from the Western borders of the
country. Life was heavy there. They worked under the open sky, frozen, starved,
and were happy to have even frozen potatoes. People were dying, standing at the
machine. But living people went «forth and up», «forth and up», and Tamara
Vasilyevna was with them. At the factory she worked until the end of the war.
Tamara Vasilyevna bravely endured
everything: hunger, cold and separation from brothers, who fought on the
front, and mother, remained in the village. Our great-grandmother told us how in
the first year of the war they received a death notices on brother Dmitry, and
they mourned him with village dwellers. But six months later they suddenly got a
letter from him! It turned out that he was contoured after a strong explosion and was covered with earth. Only
one his boot was stuck out of the
ground. Passing soldiers first decided that he was dead, but then «a
boot moved». Dmitry Vasilyevich was dug up and taken to the hospital, after treatment
he returned to the front.
After the war, Tamara Vasilyevna returned to her native village, was a foreman
on a cattle farm. For her work great-grandma was awarded numerous diplomas and
medals such as "Shock worker of the five-year plan", "Veteran of
labor", "For valiant labor", "50 years of Victory in the Great
Patriotic War", "60 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War".
(See Appendix 7)
Remembering those terrible war years, great-grandmother always told with tears
in her eyes, "God forbid you to relive those things that we had to go
through!"
Conclusion
The ninth of May is a special day. This is the day when we bow to the
heroism of the soldiers and commanders of the Great Patriotic War, give glory
to millions of known and unknown heroes who defended our country. This date is
in the heart of everyone who knows the price of peace, who puts honor and
freedom of our Motherland above all. This day is too costly to every Russian
man, because there is no family in our country, which is not affected by the
tragic events of the Great Patriotic War.
In the year of the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War
we wanted one more time to remember our relatives who lived in a difficult
time. In our difficult routine all of us should find the time to refresh our
memory of what happened to our family in those years. There are a lot of ways
to remember the weekdays of the Great Patriotic War: stories of the living
participants of the war, films, memoirs and works of art. But we have learned about
it from the stories of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers, grandmothers
and great-grandmothers.
In our work we tried to describe the life of only one family from a small Urals
village during the war and its contribution to the Victory. But how many
families were there in Pyshma’s district or in the whole Russia? From such
family stories, a history of a great nation, our Motherland – Russia, is made
up.
Of course, those who were born after the war do not understand many things, and
they cannot feel what people endured
during the war years. But it is in our power to keep the eternal memory of our
relatives who gave us life, gave this free country, this pure heaven and pride for
our Russian soldier. We must love our history, because without knowing of the
past we have no future.
Literature
1.
Tomatkin
V. S., Cherdantsev I. K. Our Pyshma’s area. Pyshma, 1994.
2.
The Book of Memory of victims of the Great Patriotic War.
3.
"Memory. Letters about the war and the blockade. Leningrad: Lenizdat,
1985.
4.
http://podvignaroda.mil.ru. Electronic Bank of documents "Feat of the
people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
5.
Documents from the family archives of the Khudyakovs – Shpilyovs families.
Appendix
1
A
memorial cross in Ustyanka
A
monument in Ustyanka
Appendix 2
Shpilyov
Alexander Kirillovich with his family. 1960-s.
Fedosey
Vasilyevich and Anna Mikhailovna with their daughter Nina. 1956
Appendix 3
Khudyakov D. V., a commander of the 3rd partisan
regiment, acting on the occupied territory of the Leningrad region.
Shooting date: 1943 Location: Russia, Leningrad
region
Appendix 4
D. V. Khudyakov before leaving
Granddaddy is 46 years. 1960.
for the Finnish war. 1939.
Dmitry
Vasilyevich with his mother, sister
Tamara and his wife Anna. 1973.
The opening of the monument.
Kamyshlov.
August, 20 2003.
Appendix 5
Books about the 3rd Leningrad partisan brigade
Appendix
6
In
Kamyshlov’s local Museum.
Appendix
7
With my great-grandmother. 2006.
Awards
of Ivachyova Tamara Vasilyevna
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