“I am very pleased that my premiums returned to me”, – says Nikolay Vilkov. In 1943, he 17-year-old boy went to the front as a volunteer. Was in intelligence, fought in the Baltic, Belorussian front, was seriously wounded.
I mostly fought in the regimental intelligence, the task was difficult, dangerous. Swam for the language of the Niemen. Came three against four Germans. You roll them up, disarmed, and when back sailing, the boat wave swept. Almost all drowned. Me and my friend managed to swim. For and was awarded, I was then given the order of the Patriotic war, – remembers the veteran.
During the war from the Altai region on the front left more than 600 thousand, 283 thousand Altai soldiers never returned. Including more than 41 thousand Barnaul fought at the war fronts and 16 thousand of them died. Today the number of veterans not so much.
Nadezhda G. Mordovtseva is one of the few who have experienced the hardships of war and the horrors of Nazi concentration camps. From the first day of the war, she requested a volunteer to the front, and in August 1941 she was sent on courses of radio operators. And in November, 22-year-old girl appeared on the Volkhov front, as part of the 2nd shock army under the command of General Vlasov. Hope was a platoon commander and telecommunications workers, helped the wounded with a bag of nurses, built the decking for crossing the river.
in the Summer of 1942 in the battle of Leningrad Nadia was badly wounded and she was captured. Three long years spent in Nazi concentration camps but managed to survive in inhuman conditions. In the spring of 1945 it together with other prisoners, was liberated by Soviet soldiers. After returning to the homeland she left the Barnaul teacher training College and for forty years worked as the teacher of initial classes.
Despite his advanced age – and last year, Babkina said 100-year anniversary, she remains active in social work in the war veterans Committee of the Central district of Barnaul, conducting lessons of courage in schools. With the 75th anniversary of the Victory Babkina Mordovtseva congratulated at home, representatives of the Ministry of education gave the veteran a modern TV so she could watch the jubilee celebrations and war movies, and in online mode to communicate with relatives and combat friends.
