Your life is a real feat. Live and don't give up: Akim of Pavlodar region congratulated Pavlodar veterans on the holiday

The head of the region Abylkair Skakov visited veterans of the Great Patriotic War living in Pavlodar. He visited every veteran and thanked him for his courage and bravery.

- We are indebted to you, - the head of the region said in an interview with Ivan Kondrashov.

Ivan Kondrashov, as part of the 1st Belorussian Front, passed the combat path from Stalingrad to Berlin. After the war, he was sent on a Komsomol permit to raise virgin lands in Kazakhstan.

For his exploits on the battlefield, Nikolai Poddubny was awarded the medal "For Courage". In addition, Nikolai Grigorievich was awarded medals "For the Victory over Germany", the Zhukov Medal, the Order of the Patriotic War. The veteran told the governor of the region the story of how he met the news of the Victory.

- Just before the Victory, I was a liaison of the 52nd Army, I toured all the battalion headquarters on a motorcycle, - recalls Nikolai Poddubny. – One day, returning from a mission, I stopped by the signalmen, one of whom reported that Germany had capitulated. I get back to my place by three in the morning. I told the sentry this good news and asked him to shoot in the air. So we woke up our whole unit.

The veteran fought on the Northwestern and Ukrainian fronts. He was a bomber, a staff member. Got wounded. After the end of the war, he returned to Novosibirsk, was sent to the Pavlodar region for work.

Nikolai Poddubny is 97 years old, but despite his venerable age, he is still cheerful. The war veteran read poems of his own composition. The governor of the region thanked Nikolay Grigoryevich for the warm welcome and wished him good health.

Nikolai Stupka does not complain about life either. He was called up for military service in 1944. He took part in the war with Japan. In 1955, he moved to the city of Pavlodar, got a job as a foreman in Promstroy.

 

 Abylkair Skakov, on behalf of all residents of the Pavlodar region, congratulated the veteran on the upcoming holiday and invited him to listen to a concert organized in his honor by the artists of the Estai Palace of Culture. The songs "Victory Day", "Katyusha", "Dark Night" were performed.

 The head of the region wished cheerfulness, vitality and Mikhail Gorbunov. The veteran was drafted into the active army in 1943. He was sent to the Trans-Baikal Front as part of the 17th Army of the 209th Rifle Division.

After demobilization, he lived in Kyrgyzstan in the village of Tokmak, worked at the Glavtsinksvinets mining and processing plant. He came to Pavlodar in 1955, helped build the regional center as an excavator operator.

Vasily Grigorash also made a great contribution to the development of the region. In 1951 he came to Pavlodar and joined the locomotive depot. He retired from the depot in 1988 with just one single entry in the workbook.

Abylkair Skakov thanked the veteran for his work, for his active attitude to life. In turn, Vasily Ivanovich wished the current generation success in their work.

- I wish the youth not to get sick, not to grow old in spirit, to love their Homeland and their family. I wish you all a long life," said Vasily Grigorash.

96-year-old Evdokia Popova met the head of the region with a warm welcome and in high spirits. During the war, Evdokia Ivanovna served as a field nurse. The veteran sadly recalled that difficult time for all mankind.

- Don't ask me how many fighters I took out of the battlefield, we didn't count – the more, the better, - she says. – After all, they had to be hidden so that the splinter wouldn't hit them later.

Evdokia Ivanovna still manages the household on her own: the house is clean and tidy. Akim of the region especially noted her endurance and discipline and wished her to remain the same fit and cheerful for many years to come.

Abylkair Skakov also wished vital energy to another representative of the beautiful half of humanity, Maria Kurbatova.

- Your life is a real feat, – said the head of the region. – You've been through a lot, now we have to carry you in our arms. Live and don't give up. I congratulate you on the upcoming Victory Day.

Maria Kurbatova volunteered at a sniper school in Moscow. After her graduation in 1943, she was sent to the front. She fought as part of the 18th Army of the 138th Division of the Rifle Division of the 4th Ukrainian Front. In the rank of senior sergeant, she liberated Ukraine, Poland and Czechoslovakia. After the war, she worked in the field of trade, studied in absentia and worked her way up from a salesman to the chief accountant of Kazobuvtorg.

The governor of the region also visited Andrei Rybalko, who took part in the liberation of Belarus and Poland. As part of the 114th Regiment of the 37th Division, he reached East Prussia. In February 1945, he was seriously wounded. In 1946 he was demobilized. After demobilization, he worked in his native village as a tractor driver, a driver. In 1981, he went on a well-deserved rest.

Sergey Vyzhutovich, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, greeted Abylkair Skakov in a cheerful mood. The aksakal told the akim of the region about how he liberated the territory of Poland from the enemy. I met the victory in Rostock, Germany. After the war, he came to his parents in Pavlodar, got a job as a turner at the October factory.

In 1952, he was drafted into the army again, served in a flight military unit in Pavlodar as a mechanic of aviation radio equipment. In 1956, after the army, he worked in the construction department of Pavlodarpromstroy as a foreman, foreman. At the construction of urban communications, Sergey Nikolaevich repeatedly put forward successful rationalization proposals, for which he was awarded a diploma of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Kazakh SSR.

In addition, Abylkair Skakov visited Pyotr Tashlykov. In 1942, after graduating from the Vladivostok Military Infantry School, he served in the 21st separate rifle Brigade as a commander of a mortar platoon. In 1945, the veteran fought on the Far Eastern Front against Japan as a platoon commander of submachine gunners. After the war, he continued to serve in the army, entered the KazGU Faculty of Law, which he successfully graduated from. In 1956, he was sent to work in the Pavlodar Regional Prosecutor's Office. He retired from the post of prosecutor of the Industrial District of Pavlodar in 1984. Akim wished the veteran good health, good spirits and vital energy.

On the eve of Abylkair Skakov made a detour of the districts with congratulations to veterans. The head of the region visited Yefim Petrenko in the village of Sharbakty, Kuzma Chuikin in the village of Mikhaylovka of the Zhelezinsky district and Maria Matyushina in the village of Sychevka of the Pavlodar district.

A day earlier, the governor of the region congratulated veterans living in the Irtysh and Bayanaul districts, the villages of Kalkaman and Shiderty, in the city of Ekibastuz on the Victory Day. The head of the region noted that they are the golden fund of the Pavlodar region.    

To date, 18 veterans of the Great Patriotic War live in the Pavlodar region. On the eve of the Victory Day, they received one-time financial assistance in the amount of two million tenge.