I think no one will be surprised to hear that among the Soviet actors there were many veterans of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers who fought in the fields of this terrible war. In this collection front-line photo actors, united not only by war. All of them are united by one film - "The Diamond Arm"
Yury Nikulin
Yuri Nikulin was drafted into the army on November 18, 1939. During the Soviet-Finnish war, as part of the anti-aircraft battery, he guarded the approaches to Leningrad.
During the Great Patriotic War he also fought near Leningrad.
I met the victory in Courland; was demobilized in May 1946 in the rank of senior sergeant.
During the war he was awarded medals For Courage
(originally was presented to the Order of Glory III degree)
For the defense of Leningrad
and For the victory over Germany
Anatoly Papanov
Anatoly Papanov was drafted into the army in 1940. The news of the beginning of the war caught him in Orenburg. Short preparation - and to the front. He was a senior sergeant, commanded a platoon of anti-aircraft artillery. In June 1942, he received a serious wound near Kharkov; The explosion to him severely disfigured his right leg and tore off two fingers on it. Papanov spent six months in the hospital and at 21 he became an invalid of the third group. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War I and II degrees
Vladimir Gulyaev
Vladimir Gulyaev during the Great Patriotic War went to work as a mechanic in an aircraft workshop, and on April 20, 1942 became a cadet of the Molotov Military Aviation School of Pilots. With honors, after graduating and having received in November 1943 the rank of junior lieutenant of the Air Force, the pilot-stormtrooper Vladimir Gulyaev went to the front.
I made 60 sorties on an IL-2. He fought in Byelorussia, the Baltic States. Has had been ill with a malaria, some times has been wounded and contused.
Awarded two Orders of the Red Banner
and two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree
Medals For the capture of Koenigsberg and For the victory over Germany
The war ended in Lieutenant in East Prussia. Participant of the Victory Day parade on June 24, 1945
Nikolay Trofimov
Nikolai Trofimov served in the navy during the Great Patriotic War. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Order of the Red Star, the medal For the Defense of Leningrad, For the victory over Germany
Leonid Gaidai
Leonid Gaidai graduated from the school on June 21, 1941, and on June 23, 1941 went to volunteer for the army, but he was not taken because of his age. He was called up in the fall of 1941 and initially served in Mongolia, then was sent to the Kalinin Front, to reconnaissance. On December 14, 1942, in fights for the village of Enkino, pelted with grenades the enemy's firing point and destroyed three Germans, took part in the capture of prisoners, for which he was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". He sustained a serious injury, having exploded on an anti-personnel mine, after which he was declared unfit for further military service and sent to the hospital
In addition, Stanislav Chekan and Viktor Uralsky are among the front-line actors who appeared in the film. Only I did not find their front-line images. Here is such a "Diamond Arm"
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Award sheets are taken from the site www.podvignaroda.ru
See also the stories from the series "Actors of Victory":
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