1. I REMEMBER!
I AM PROUD!
BY OLGA GOLOVINA
CLASS 10V
PERVOMAISK SECONDARY SCHOOL
TAMBOV REGION
2013

2. 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…

3. OUR CAUSE IS RIGHT.
THE ENEMY WILL BE
SMASHED.
VICTORY WILL BE
OURS!

4. THE MAP OF MILITARY ACTIONS

5. 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.

6. TAMBOV REGION
PERVOMAISK DISTRICT

7. 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.

8.  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.

9. GOLD STARS OF PERVOMAISK

10. Sergey Vassilyevich Achkasov
(1919-1943)

11. 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.

12. Mikhail Ivanovich Tolmachyov
(1909-1944)

13. 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.

14. Victor Fomich Kocherov
(1924-1996)

15. 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.

16. Andrey Andreyevich Popov
(1914-1997)

17. 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.

18. Alexander Nikolayevich Manokhin
(1920-1995)

19. 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.

20. Yakov Petrovich Shipilov
(1925- 2002)

21. 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.

22. NOBODY
IS
FORGOTTEN,
NOTHING
IS
FORGOTTEN!
(OLGA BERGGOLTS)

23. INFORMATION