Valentin Orlov Biography

Vysokogorsky Orlov Valentin Vasilievich is one of those who courageously defended his homeland, giving all themselves, all forces to fulfill the sacred duty. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. He died in May. But we remember about him. Valentin Vasilievich was born in the year, from the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region. He graduated from the Lipetsk mortar artillery school in Belarus.

During the war, he fought in the Western Leningrad, 3rd Belorussian, Transbaikal fronts. He commanded a mortar company, battery, division. He was wounded four times in battles, twice hard. The first combat baptism of the Lipetsk Military School received on June 26. Moving in a western direction, joined the battle with a parachute landing in the grove, the task of our fighters was facing - to knock the Germans from there.

The losses were large on both sides. People died hundreds. On August sixth, everyone was awarded the military rank of lieutenant. Soon the person was sent to the Leningrad Front. Here Valentin Vasilievich took part in two offensive, in the breakthrough of the blockade of Leningrad, which began on January 12 of the year and ended in February. After these fights, Orlov V. in March participated in the battles of the city of Koenigsberg.

The battles for any city represented an exceptionally complex operation, because every house turned into a fortress. In these battles, he was seriously injured and was hospitalized in the city of Kaunas. After the cure, it is sent to the Sevastopol separate anti -tank brigade of the RGK. To conduct hostilities against Japan, three fronts were deployed: the first Far Eastern, the second Far Eastern and Transbaikalsky.

After the end of hostilities, the team of Orlov V. shortly after the victory, a gradual reduction in the armed forces began. In the year, Valentin Vasilievich was demobilized. In October, he joined the Usadskoye SPTU and worked in it for 20 years as deputy director for educational work, military commissar. During this time, the Chistopol agricultural technical school and the historical and philological faculty of Kazan State University graduated in absentia.

He worked as a teacher of history in a shrinking secondary school. In the year he retired, was the chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Usadsky joint venture. For courage, courage and stamina, Valentin Vasilievich was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, two orders of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, a medal for the defense of Leningrad and other medals and breast signs.

Of course, we did not know that thousands of soldiers and officers, tanks and aircraft, guns disappeared in border battles in terrible boilers - Belorussian, Smolensk, Vyazma. It's hard to remember this. When the Typhoon began so christened the Nazis by the attack on Moscow, our defense was broken. As a result, the troops of the two fronts - Western and backup - were surrounded.

The invaders on October 7 entered Vyazma. My parents father and mother on the night of October 5, along with thinned units, went in the direction of Moscow. Having reached Moscow, according to the evacuation, they were disconnected. Mother got to Samara, and father in Kazan. For more than a year, they lived in the other hand, and then the mother moved to Kazan. Thus, being at the front of the struggle against German fascism, I was myself the whole war, without any connection.

Of course, the front -line brotherhood was of great importance, but the parents were in the foreground. After the war, I found my parents. When nuclear explosions were shown by N. Khrushchev in the beginning of the x, he immediately decided to freeze the production of aircraft, tanks, guns and other military equipment. He instructed the reduction of the armed forces. According to this decree in September, I was demobilized.

I had to start all from scratch. Attached images:.