BRAIN WAVE NUMBER 10

(JUNE 2019)

Read in today’s paper: In our previous numbers we’ve already told you about some places in our native city Tyumen. Our city is beautiful and has a lot of spots worth seeing. We have already told you about some cadets’ and military traditions. Now we want to speak about our heroes. We always remember that we are the descendants of heroic people who won the Great patriotic War and saved our earth from fascism. There are a lot of beautiful Tyumen streets are called in honor of them. There are 30 streets named in honor of World War II heroes in Tyumen. 14 of them have names of Tyumen citizens. All of them are Heroes of the Soviet Union. Let’s visit Tyumen today and have an excursion through its streets of Victory! We love the city we live in! We hope you’ll like it too!

Fedyuninsky street

Logunov street

Special number:

Melnikayte street

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Fedyuninsky Street

Let’s start our travelling!!!

In 1985 the Tyumen council of veterans sug-gested to name one of tyumen streets in hon-or of Ivan Fedyuninsky. Nex year Samartsev street and Chervishevsky highway were con-nected by a new street – Fedyuninsky. Ivan Fedyuninsky was born in 1900 in Gileva vil-lage of Ttyumen region. Ivan Fedyuninsky served in the Red Army since 1919. He was in charge of a squad-ron during armed conflict on Chinese – East railroad in 1929. He became a Hero of the Soviet Union after a fight on the river Hal-kin-Gol. During the great Patriotic War he ordered the infantry corps, was the deputy commander-in chief of Volkhov and Bry-ansk fronts. He was involved in the Leningrad and Kursk fights. Ivan Fedyuninsky was awarded by four Orders of Lenin, five Or-ders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov of the first degree and many others. Ivan Fedyuninsky died in 1977.

Boris Oprokidnev was born on October 5th, 1921 in Tyumen. He graduated from Chelyabinsk military avia-tion school of observer-pilots. He served as the senior observer-pilot of the 511th exploratory aviation regi-ment of the 5th air army. During the II World War he made 140 combat flights. Senior lieutenant Oprokidnev Boris got the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union for courage and heroism. He was killed on April 2, 1945 in an air battle. In January, 2013 one of new streets in Tyumen was called in honor of the Hero of the Soviet Union Boris Oprokidnev.

Logunov Street

Oprokidnev Street

The street is between Permyakov and Fedorov Street near 30 let Pobedy Street. Alexander Logunov was a gun-layer of a grenade launcher of the 490th rifle regiment, 192nd rifle division of the 3rd Belarusian front, a private. He was born in Kachipova village of Tobolsk district in a big family of peasants. In November 1943, he was ordered to the duty in the Red Army. On 18th of October at the village of Globele Logunov shot down five Hitlerite cars. In this fight, he was wounded. On the twenty fourth of March 1945, Alexander Logunov got the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Fedorov Street In 1985 the Tyumen council of veterans suggested to name one of tyumen streets in honor of Ivan Fedy-uninsky. Nex year Samartsev street and Chervishev-sky highway were connected by a new street – Fedy-uninsky. Ivan Fedyuninsky was born in 1900 in Gileva village of Ttyumen region. Ivan Fedyuninsky served in the Red Army since 1919. He was in charge of a squadron during armed conflict on Chi-nese – East railroad in 1929. He became a Hero of the Soviet Union after a fight on the river Halkin-Gol. During the great Patriotic War he ordered the infantry corps, was the deputy commander-in chief of Volkhov and Bryansk fronts. He was involved in the Leningrad and Kursk fights. Ivan Fedyuninsky was awarded by four Orders of Lenin, five Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov of the first de-gree and many others. Ivan Fedyuninsky died in 1977.

Valeria Gnarovskoya was born in 1923 in Modolitsy village of Plussky district. Later she moved to the north of Leningrad region together with parents. There Vale-ria graduated from a secondary school, became a mem-ber of the Komsomol. In July, 1941 her father was called up for military service, and Valeria together with her mother, younger sister and grandmother was evacu-ated to Omsk region. Valeria took classes of nurses and successfully graduated from them. On April 10, 1942 she was called up for military service. Valeria Gna-rovskaya took part in fierce fightings as a nurse of the 907th shooting regiment. Under a roar of an artillery cannonade, whistle of bullets the girl selflessly fulfilled the duty, giving help to wounded fighters and com-manders. Being a nurse she saved many fighters and commanders. On a narrow sector of the front Hitlerites

mounted an assault.Valeria with a heavy grenades cluster ran out towards a head tank and rushed under its caterpillars. Thanks to heroic deed of Valeria Gnarovskaya the break was liquidated, the enemy attack was beaten off. The feat of the young heroine re mained in memory of people as a symbol of courage and fearlessness.

Melnikaite Street

Gnarovskaya Street

Melnikaite Street is an important city street because it

connects its center with other parts. From the beginning

of the Great Patriotic War Melnikayte's family was evac-

uated to Tyumen. On August 12, 1941 Marite started to

work on a factory. Then graduated courses of demolition

men and left her home. She became a head of a guerrilla

group. On July 13, 1943 fascists shot Marite up. She re-

mained faithful to the Homeland up to the end. On

March 22, 1944 Melnikayte posthumously got the rank

of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Tanygin Street Boris Tanygin was a commander of mortar de-tachment of the 140th Guards shooting regiment and the 1st Belarusian front, lance sergeant. He was born on March 1, 1926 in Staraya Lyalya vil-lage of Sverdlovsk region in a worker's family. Since 1935 he lived in Artamonovo village of Yarkovsky district in Tyumen region. He worked as a mechanic. He was in Red Army since 1943. On January 14, 1945 the commander of mortar datachment of the 140th Guards shooting regiment lance sergeant Boris Tanygin suppressed two enemy mortars and a ma-chine-gun point of Hitlerite infantry in offensive combat on the left bank of the river Vistula. For the courage in fights, on January 31, 1945 the lance sergeant Tanygin was awarded the order Slava of the 2nd degree. In March, 2003 the name of Boris Tanygin was appro-priated to one of streets in Tyumen.

In the center of Tyumen there is Alexander Matrosov Street. Alexander Matrosov (Mukhamedyanov Shaki-ryan Yunusovich) was born in 1924 in Ekaterinoslavl. It is Dnepropetrovsk nowadays. He lost his parents when he was a child and was brought up in an orphan-age. He had been at war since 1942 in the 91st rifle brigade on the Kalinin front. On February 27, 1943 the second battalion got the task to attack a support point near the village of Chernushki. He came across the

battle mission at the expense of his life. Alexander Matrosov's feat became a symbol of cour-age, military valor and love of the country. His name became a symbol of courage and fearlessness. The rank of Hero of the Soviet Union was given to him in 1943 posthumously.

Scherbakov Street

Matrosov Street

Fedor Scherbakov was born in 1915 in a tiny village Guselnikovo which isn't on the map now in a poor fam-ily. As all people of his generation, he started to work when he was very young. When the war began, the 26-year-old soldier of the Red Army took up arms to pro-tect the Homeland from the first days. Especially heavy combats were in the north, on the Karelian front. He did military service in the 368th shooting division under the command of major general V. Sopenko. Defensive actions in the Polar region were conducted in extremely severe climatic conditions – in the strongest frosts, in dark polar nights, in case of gale-force winds. But, for all that, the Soviet troops held down actions of German troops. The Kola Peninsula with its large supply of minerals, and also the large industrial center of the Soviet Polar region and non-freezing port Murmansk were kept for the country. Fedor Scherbakov died not in the war. He died in peacetime, discharging his duty. He saved people from the fire and died himself.

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Beznoskov Street

He was called on service in the Red Army in 1941. There he passed the way from a private to a captain. He was awarded the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union. Ivan Beznoskov was born in Tyumen on January 20, 1918 in a workers’ family. He was called up for military service in autumn of 1938. In July, 1941 he went to the front, in August of the same year he was wounded. In November, 1941 he protected Moscow. Then he took part in a liberation of Kharkiv, forced Dnieper, retook Ukraine and Poland from fascists. With troops of the 1st Ukrainian front Ivan Bez-noskov had almost reached Berlin.

In 1945 he ordered a squadron of the 333rd shooting regiment of the 13th army of the 1st Ukrainian front. In January, 1945 his squadron secured an airfield on the west bank of Oder near Lyuben. The squad-ron provided a progress of the division on the Berlin direction. But that fight became the last for captain Beznoskov. He was seriously injured and died in hospital.

In the years of war Oleg Koshevoy, being a young boy, helped wounded in hospitals to write letters to their families, read them newspapers and books. And later became the head of an underground Komsomol or-ganization "Molodaya Gvardiya" which appeared in Donbass occupied by Ger-mans. Under the leadership of Oleg, about 130 young members of “Molodaya Gvardiya”

fighted with fascist aggressors as they could: searched for their location and plans, took prisoners, blew down ammunition parks, re-leased hundreds of Soviet prisoners. In Janu-ary, 1943 Koshevoy was killed by fashists.

Now in honor of Koshevoy a Tyumen street is called.

Chaykina Street

Koshevoy Street

Lisa Chaykina was born on August 28, 1918 in Runo village of Tver region. From the first days of the Great Patriotic War the girl par-ticipated in building of defences. Later she was a head of a mopping-up detachment. In October, 1941 Chaykina's group became par-tisan, she began to send important enemy documents to the Red Army with ease. On November 22, 1941 Lisa Chaykina was sent to Peno to learn a number of enemy military posts. On the way to Peno she came to the farm Red Pokatishche to her friend, an intelligence agent Marusya Kuporova where she was noticed by Ger-mans. Germans broke into Kuporovs' house, killed a family, and took Lisa Chaykina away to Peno. They shot her up on November 23, 1941. On March 6, 1942 the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumous-ly given to Elizabeth Ivanovna Chaykina.

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Kosmodemyanskaya Street Zoya was born in Vladivostok. She lived with her family in Siberia. Later they moved to Moscow. She studied at Moscow school No. 201. The war divided her life in two parts, she came to the front as a vol-unteer, being a schoolgirl and became a partisan. On November 21 1941st a group of volunteers went behind an enemy line with a task to commit arsons in several places, occupied by Germans. Doing the task, Zoya was caught and stringed up on the square.

Kosmodemyanskaya became the first woman during the Second World War awarded the rank of Hero of the So-viet Union (posthumously).

Nikolay Gastello was born on May 6, 1907 in Moscow. In May, 1932 he was called up for Red Military service. He was sent to study in aviation school of pilots in Lugansk. He start-ed to fly as a right pilot on the TB-3 bomber. Since November, 1934 N. Gastello had already piloted the plane. The commander of a squadron, the participant of fights with Japanese aggressors was brought up the level of heroes. On June 26, 1941 the air-combat crew under a com-

mand of captain Gastello was shot up. Gastello made a fire ramming. He directed the burning car to the column of the enemy. All crew members died.

Charkov Street

Gastello Street

Timofey Charkov was a com-mander of a platoon of the 979th shooting regiment (the 253rd shooting division, the 40th ar-my, the Voronezh front), the second lieutenant. He was born in Kiryushino village of Tobolsk district in a peasant’s family. He finished 7 classes at school in Vrekhniye Aremzyany village of Tobolsk district. After that he graduated form a school of accountancy. He took part in battles in Northwest, Voronezh, 1st Ukraini-an, the 1st Belarusian fronts. In 1943 he graduated courses of second lieutenants. During an assault Dnieper crossing and on the occupied place of arms called Bukrinsky he went down fighting. Together with his platoon on September 26, 1943 he transported through Dnieper near Hodorov village. For courage and heroism, the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union was given to Timofey Charkov.

Brain wave №10 JUNE 2019 Malinovsky Street

Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice Hero of the Soviet Union Malinovsky was at war up to the capitulation of Germany. In 1918 he was awarded by the French Military Cross with a silver star. He was a participant of the Great Patriotic War since June, 1941. The 48th infan-try corp under Malinovsky's command was in-volved in a heavy border battle down the river Prut.

From August to December, 1941 he was a com-mander of the 6th army. From August to October, 1942 he was a commander of the 66th army. He was also a participant of the defensive battle for Stalingrad (September 30 – October, 1942). From October to November, 1942 he was a deputy com-mander-in-chief of the Voronezh front. On September 8, 1945. the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union and a medal "Gold Star" was given to mar-shal of the Soviet Union Malinovsky.

Vatutin Nikolay was a military com-mander of the 1st Ukrainian front. He was born on December 16, 1901 in Chepukhino village of Kursk region in a peasant’s family. All tasks which were given to general Vatutin by the State Committee of Defense and Gen-eral headquarters were, as a rule, car-ried out perfectly.

He was able to focus all forces on the main direction, to increase efforts and to strike pow-erful blows suddenly to the flank of enemy groups. On February 29, 1944 at 16:30 he went to Slavut. There were a crowd of people in the street and the general gave an order to

learn what had happened. Suddenly someone started to shoot from windows and general Vatutin was killed. On April 17 N. Vatutin was buried in Kiev.

Maresyev Street

Vatutin Street

Maresyev was born in Kamyshin in Russian family. Before joining the army in 1937 Maresyev worked as a turner and then participated in the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. In 1940 he graduated from Bataysk Military School of Aviation. He began his flights as a fighter pilot in August 1941. He had shot down four German aircraft by March 1942, but on April 4, 1942 his Polikarpov I-16 was shot down near Staraya Russa and captured by Nazi forces. Despite being badly injured, Alexey managed to return to the Soviet-controlled territory. During his 18-day-long journey his injuries deteriorated so badly that both of his legs had to be amputated below the knee. Desperate to return to his fighter pilot ca-reer, he subjected himself to nearly a year of exercise to master the control of his prosthetic devices, and succeeded at that, returning to flying in June 1943. He died of a heart attack on May 19, 2001, just an hour ahead of his official 85th birthday celebration.

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Над номером работали: Кадет 8Е класса: Дорожко Иван, преподаватель географии Безбородоа Татьяна Борисовна

Руководитель проекта: Неустроева Анна Андреевна, преподаватель английского языка

№10 JUNE 2019 Zaslonov Street Konstantin Zaslonov was a famous

Soviet partisan commander in Belo-russia, a hero of the Great Patriotic War. He rose through the ranks from the position of a single parti-san unit commander to later become a partisan brigade commander and ending up in charge of all parti-san forces in the Orsha region. In 1930 he graduated from the Ve-likiye Luki Railroad Technical College. In 1935 he was appointed assistant chief of a motive power depot in Novosibirsk. In 1939 he headed up the Orsha Locomotive Depot. With German troops ad-vancing and approaching Orsha, Zaslonov moved to Moscow. In October 1941 he volunteered to be deployed in the enemy-occupied territory together with several other railway workers. Once there, he created an underground guerrilla group. Members of the group used the so-called "coal mines" to blow up 93 German locomotives.

Zakharov Street Matvey Zakharov, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the Gen-eral Staff, Deputy Defense Minister, was born in Voylovo, a vil-lage in Kalininsky District, Tver Oblast in peasant’s family. Zakh-arov joined the Red Guards in 1917. He served under Kliment Vo-roshilov during the Russian Civil War. Zakharov graduated from the Frunze Military Academy in 1928, and from Soviet General Staff Academy in 1937. By the end of 1941, after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, he was moved north, where he was made the Chief of Staff of the Northwestern Theatre. He helped to plan a number of brilliant operations against German forces. After the war, Zakharov held a number of key positions in the army. Between 1945-1960, Zakharov was the Commandant of the General Staff Academy, Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Chief Inspector of the Army, Commanding Gen-eral of the Leningrad Military District and Commander in Chief of the Group of Soviet Forces in Germany. On May 8, 1959, Zakharov was made a Mar-shal of the Soviet Union.Marshal M. Zakharov died on January 31, 1972. The urn con-taining his ashes is bur-ied by the Kremlin Wall Ne-cropolis.