Zhenis Social and Charitable Project
03.05.2018
In-commission again
On the eve of Great Victory Day, within the frames of Zhenis social and charitable project initiated by the group of companies of JSC Samruk-Energy, the representatives of the Public Fund of Bogatyr Coal LLP visited the veterans-miners of the Great Patriotic War and congratulated them on the forthcoming holiday.
Year by year there are less and less alive participants of those far events. As of today in Ekibastuz region there are only nine veterans left. Two of them – Aleksey Demiyanovich Perelyakin and Aleksandr Fedorovich Shchetchikov – are honorable miners of the coal enterprise called Bogatyr Coal LLP.
Despite their venerable age they try to keep soldier’s straightening. The soldiers met their guests dressed up in uniform overcoats with multiple awards. They were indescribably happy to get attention and gifts: sets of food products, money rewards and holiday bunches of flowers presented by the representatives of Bogatyr Coal Public Fund Nataliya Engel and Larisa Sonnykh on behalf of the company management.
This summer Aleksey Demiyanovich celebrated his 95-th birthday. Three years ago he had the blood stroke and now he lives with his daughters – Tatyana and Galina. However, the veteran puts on a brave face dreaming of living in his own apartment. The firmness of his nature and spirit has been brought up in him by the far war.
Four years prior to the Great Victory he gave his duty to the Motherland on the battle-field. After the end of the three-month courses on training of mortar gunners in 1942 the young Alesha Perelyakin was directed with other young soldiers to build defensive facilities along the Argun River. A little bit later the newly formed infantry regiment was relocated to log timber necessary for the construction of defensive facilities of the Soviet spearheads. At the end of the war the military division was relocated to the Soviet-Chinese border. After that Aleksey Demiyanovich took part in the war with Japan in the composition of the 1036-th regiment of the 293-rd infantry division.
Transferred to the reserve after the hospital he came back to his native region in August of 1946 – to Novosibirsk region, and then he moved to the Altay region. Having moved to Ekibastuz, where he has been still living for over 50 years, he was employed at Yuzhny coal mine of Irtyshugol trust as an electric repairman, person on duty for equipment maintenance.
For the military service during the war years Aleksey Demiyanovich Perelyakin was awarded with Order of Domestic War of the 2-nd grade, with the medal called For Victory over Japan, badge called The Great Patriotic War Participant, and multiple jubilee medals. The veteran also has labor merit signs, such as Winner of the Socialist Competition, Foreman-Mechanic Operator of the Coal Industry.
One more hero of the Great Patriotic War - Aleksandr Fyodorovich Shchetchikov - is full of love to life. Currently being 94 years old he remembers very well when he being an 18-year-old guy in the rank of a sergeant had his first fire baptism at the Kursk Bulge in the composition of the air defense gun regiment. He also took part in the battles for Kiev, freed Ukraine, Poland, and Transcarpathia, met the Victory in the suburbs of Prague. The regiment, in the composition of which he was fighting heroically, was the only one in the division awarded with Order of Wartime Red Banner. The veteran himself has a lot of military awards: Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, Military Service Medal, Medal for Victory over Germany and many others.
After the war Aleksandr Fyodorovich lived and worked in the Far East. In 1967 he moved to the miners' town, where he worked as a mining worker on repair of mine tunnels at Bogatyr coal mine for many years.
Today being a pensioner he remembers the past time, his colleagues, and of course the years full of courage and bravery, and his fellow soldiers, to whom he will drink the front 100 grams of vodka on the great holiday.
Marina PONKRATOVA
Photo by Oleg MALCHUK.
