On the eve of the Victory Day employees of the Belgorod Region Investigations Directorate of the Russia’s Investigative Committee visited veterans of the Great Patriotic War to give them presents and flowers. The veterans told them about their life during the war and their further career in prosecutor’s office.
Vasily Filippovich Ryazantsev at the beginning of the war was a lathe operator at Tbilisi aircraft factory. He had an exemption from active duty, but volunteered for the war. He fought in Ukraine (Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk), took part in freeing Crimea and Sebastopol, then in freeing Eastern Prussia and forced a crossing over the Niemen. Mr. Ryazantsev was awarded the order of Glory of III class, order of the Patriotic War and the medal for freeing Königsberg.
Iosif Isaakovich Kazliner. On 22 June 1941 he was at his school-living party. He was evacuated to Saratov in July 1941, before the Germans occupied Vitebsk. He worked as a lathe operator on a factory. At 18 Mr. Kazliner joined a military school and after graduation was sent to the Voronezh frontline in the 25th Guards division (named after Chapayev). He was commander of a firing platoon and commander of a battery. He was granted a lieutenant. Mr. Kazliner fought in Kursk battle, took part in freeing Kharkov and crossing of the Dnepr, which according to the veteran they were crossing “on the enemy’s shoulders”. He was wounded in the battle near Krasnograd and was awarded the order of the Red Star, the order of the Patriotic War and medals for fine service.
Vera Semyonovna Bulavina was a teenager when she was brought to a concentration camp in Germany. She was set free by the Red Army in 1945.
Leonid Vasilyevich Gnusarev was asking to go on the frontline, when he was 16, for that he even lied that he was a year older. He was sent to the Leningrad Infantry School, which during the war was located in Engels in Saratov Region. He rushed to the frontline after graduation in early 1945. He was lieutenant when the war was over, has the medal for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War in 1941-1945.
The employees of the Investigations Directorate wished the veterans sound health and thanked them for peaceful sky above the heads of younger generations.
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