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More than 15 thousand Kizlyars fought against the Nazi invaders during the Great Patriotic War. Five thousand four hundred people were awarded military orders and medals. Nine of the bravest of them became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

Here are their names:

Pyotr Maksimovich Krutov, a member of the CPSU, was drafted into the army from the village of Bolshaya Areshevka in the Kizlyar district in October 1942. During the Great Patriotic War, he participated in the battles on the Stalingrad, Voronezh, and steppe fronts. The military rank is senior sergeant, commander of the communications department.

On October 2, 1943, he ensured uninterrupted communication of the unit with the command during the battles for the expansion of the bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper. He especially distinguished himself on October 5, 1943, during the breakthrough of enemy tanks in the area of Western Borodayevka. Under continuous enemy fire, Pyotr Maksimovich managed to remove the entire communication line. Two days later, during an aerial bombardment, despising the deadly danger, together with his squad, he eliminated numerous gusts of the line and ensured uninterrupted communication of the military unit.

On October 10, 1943, enemy tanks, breaking through our defense line, surrounded the command post of the 72nd Guards Rifle Division. P.M. Krutov with a detachment of 7 people organized a circular defense, repelled the attacks of enemy machine gunners with rifle and machine gun fire. On October 26, 1943, he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his courage and bravery.

In 1946, after demobilization from the Soviet Army, he worked in the apparatus of the Kizlyar City Committee of the CPSU, then worked as director of a fruit and vegetable farm in CHIASSR.

Yuri Mikhailovich Balabin, a native of the village of Alexandriyskaya (Kizlyar district), a member of the CPSU since 1944, in the Soviet Army since 1940. He participated in battles with the Nazi invaders on the Voronezh, Steppe, Second Ukrainian, First Ukrainian fronts. Major General of Aviation, awarded three Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, the Patriotic War I degree, Alexander Nevsky, and many medals.

In the battles to defeat the German invaders during the liberation of Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Moldavia, Poland, during the formation of the Vistula, Oder, Spree rivers, in the battles for the cities of Oels, Liegnitz, Breslau, Berlin, Y.M. Balabin made 232 successful sorties as the leader of large groups of 18-24 Il-2 aircraft.

He participated in the battles for the liberation of Belgorod, Kharkov, Kirovograd, Lviv and others. Balabin showed exceptional examples of heroism in the battles for Berlin. He led his groups on the attack seven times.

The fearless air warrior Yuri Mikhailovich has proven himself not only a master of daring assault strikes, but also an experienced aerial scout.

Yuri Mikhailovich Balabin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 27, 1945 for exemplary performance of command tasks.

Nikolai Ivanovich Batashov, senior sergeant, commander of the mortar crew of the 128th Red Banner Mortar Regiment. He participated in the Finnish campaign and in the Great Patriotic War on the Voronezh and Central Fronts.

N.I. Batashov proved himself a brave warrior in the battles with the Fascist invaders. On October 6, 1942, near the village of Ermine Field, the enemy launched a counterattack, supporting its infantry with tanks, artillery and mortar fire, and intensified aerial bombing. Batashov was ordered to stand with his crew to the death and cover the withdrawal of infantry and his division to reserve positions. Two battalions of enemy infantry, supported by self-propelled weapons and a tank, were moving to the line where Batashov was located. He and his calculation, being wounded and bleeding profusely, continued to wage an unequal battle: the calculation of direct fire destroyed two cannons and four machine guns of the enemy with their calculations, up to 60 Nazis. The enemy's self-propelled weapon approached 300-400 meters to Batashov's position and opened fire on calculation. One shell hit a mortar trench, smashed a mortar, killed the gunner and loader. Batashov, losing consciousness, took an anti-tank rifle and engaged in battle with a self-propelled weapon. Our artillery, which had changed battle formations, opened fire on the cannon and pinned the enemy infantry to the ground. The division's scouts took advantage of this opportunity to evacuate the wounded, unconscious commander of the calculation, senior Sergeant N.I. Batashov.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated January 10, 1944, Nikolai Ivanovich Batashov was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In Kizlyar, N.I. Batashov worked in the office of the City Committee of the party, then in the auction.

Ivan Mikhailovich Sidorenko is a lieutenant. He has been in the ranks of the Soviet Army since 1939. He has four wounds. In a fierce battle with the Nazi invaders in April 1943, a company under the command of I.M. Sidorenko destroyed about 400 enemy soldiers and officers, seized many weapons and military equipment.

The command's order to defeat the enemy group, which prevented the advance of our troops, was carried out. Ivan Mikhailovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 4, 1944.

I.M. Sidorenko arrived in Kizlyar for permanent residence in 1946. He worked for many years as a graphic designer at PMK-283.

Konstantin Nikolaevich Kalinin is a senior sergeant, commander of the infantry battalion of the 948th Infantry Regiment of the 257th Infantry Red Banner Division.

During the crossing of Sivash on the night of November 2, 1943, K.N. Kalinin, loaded with 82 mm mines in addition to rifle equipment, was the first to enter the icy waters of Sivash and, having overcome a four-kilometer water barrier with the fighters of his squad, entered the Crimean land. In the battles of November 3 and 4, 1943, the department steadfastly repelled numerous attacks by superior enemy forces. Replacing a machine gunner who was out of action, Kalinin destroyed up to 80 enemy soldiers. When the damaged machine gun failed, he blocked the path of the attacking Germans with grenades. The enemy's attacks were choked. In the battles to expand the bridgehead on January 27, 1944 in the area of hill 17. Kalinin rushed into the enemy trenches with his squad, personally destroyed two officers and several soldiers in hand-to-hand combat. His squad captured two enemy platoons. In the second line of defense, Kalinin's squad fought an unequal battle for four hours with German machine gunners planted on cars. The unparalleled fortitude and courage of the squad commander and the fighters decided the success of the battle.

On April 11, 1944, Kalinin's squad, thrown as part of a company into a breakthrough of the German defense, penetrated 4 kilometers into the enemy's rear and, after a fierce battle, broke into the anti-tank moat between the lakes Knyazheske and Krasnoe.

The Germans, cut off in the area of the villages of Mal Bem and Kopeyka, sought to break through and launched 14 attacks during the day, which were repulsed by Kalinin's detachment. The heroes of the department destroyed 70 enemy soldiers and officers during the day, of which 20 were personally destroyed by the commander.

Konstantin Nikolaevich Kalinin was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 16, 1944

Ivan Ivanovich Piskun is a lieutenant, commander of the rifle company of the 795 infantry regiment of the 228 infantry Voznesenskaya division, a member of the CPSU. On the fronts of the Great Patriotic War since July 1941. He was wounded on February 7, 1943 and September 28, 1944.

Lieutenant I.I. Piskun on October 25, 1944, with his company, repelled five fierce attacks on the left bank of the river and, skillfully using his fire means, threw the enemy out of his heavily fortified defenses and overturned into the river.

The enemy on the left bank left up to 100 soldiers and officers dead. Using improvised means, I.I. Piskun on the night of October 25, 1944, under heavy enemy fire, crossed with a company to the right bank and with a shout of "Hurrah" at the head of the company rushed to the attack. The company captured the bridgehead. Within four days, I.I. Piskun's fighters repelled 18 attacks, destroyed up to 200 enemy soldiers and officers, suppressed five machine-gun points, advanced 200 meters and held the conquered bridgehead until the approach of the battalion units.

For his courage and heroism, Ivan Ivanovich Piskun was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union by Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 24, 1945.

Vasily Afanasyevich Bovt is a sergeant of the Guards, commander of the machine gun crew of the 180th infantry regiment of the 60th Guards Pavlograd Red Banner Rifle Division, a member of the CPSU.

In the battles during the crossing of the Alt-Oder River in Germany on April 16, 1945, under heavy enemy fire, he was the first to cross the river with his own calculation, quickly dug in and covered his advancing infantry. In the battles for Reichenberg on April 17, 1945, he showed exceptional courage and fearlessness, repelling five enemy attacks continuously and destroying 25 Nazis. Thanks to the heroic fortitude of V.A. Bovt, the occupied line was held, and the danger of the enemy entering the rear of our units was prevented.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946, Vasily Afanasyevich Bovt was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the last years of his life, V.A. Bovt lived and worked in Kizlyar. He was buried in the city cemetery. There is a monument on his grave.

Sergey Ivanovich Bolgarin, a native of the Slobodzensky district of Moldova, born in 1925, a graduate of the Odessa Federal Law No. 1.

In 1941, he was evacuated to the Kizlyar district. He was drafted by the Kizlyar RVC, enlisted as a gunner of an easel machine gun of the 86th Cavalry Regiment, 32nd Cavalry Division, 3rd Cavalry Corps of the Third Belorussian Front.

In hot battles near the village of Shaki in the Sannensky district of the Vitebsk region in July 1944 and near the town of Lida in the Grodno region on July 8 of the same year, Corporal Bulgarian destroyed machine gun nests and up to two enemy platoons.

On July 10, in the battle for the crossing on the Ditvau River near the village of Perechany in the Lida district, he disabled enemy sappers who were trying to blow up a railway bridge. At the same time, he was seriously injured, although it was believed that he was dead. On March 25, 1945, he was "posthumously" awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.