Dandyaev Mikhail Valerievich Biography

The great victory to unknown soldiers return the names.

The story of one search today I want to tell that the warriors of the Great Patriotic War G. So, the crew of the bomber regiment of the bomber aviation division of Bad died during the collapse of the Pe-2 aircraft on October 8, how was it? In the fall of the year, the attention of residents of the villages of Semenovskoye and Peregudovo, which are 2 km. Everyone ran out to the nearest field.

Children came running first. The plane was burning. On its wing, people were able to consider the Red Star. The crew died. Residents buried pilots in the cemetery in the village of Semenovskoye or Semenovo-Shuisky, as it has been called since ancient times. The grave was nameless, only a small inscription about the date of burial. Time passed, the war ended, and the women who buried the pilots continued to take care of the grave.

And so, in the year, a letter came to the Gorkin school in which the woman wrote that she was looking for the grave of her brother - Volodkin Vladimir Platonovich. According to her, he died near the village of Gorka. The pioneers immediately began searches, asked almost all the inhabitants and found eyewitnesses of that tragedy. The answer immediately followed that there really was such a grave, everything described in her letter coexisted, but no one knew names of the pilots.

This woman was called Rogulina Vera Platonovna. The school teachers and the guys invited her to visit them and asked to bring the photos of her deceased brother - Vladimir Volodkin. Schoolchildren met her very warmly, prepared a creative concert, and she, in turn, spoke about her brother. Volodya was a simple village boy, studied at school, was one of the first Komsomol members, lived in the period of collectivization and industrialization of the country.

Vladimir himself always actively participated in the public life of the village, especially during the formation of a collective farm. The first tractor in the village appeared in the years, and Volodya already at the age of 16 became a tractor driver. And when the combines appeared, then, having finished the courses, he became a combiner. Volodya had three younger brother and sister. I remember very well the years when Volodya worked as a combineer.

I was then years old. Every day I wore him dinner in the field. As I see now the first combines, enormous, as it seemed to me, and a pouring stream of grain, and a smiling and satisfied brother. Volodya as his brother was very responsive, but how he loved his younger brothers-two. I always tried to buy something for them: clothes, shoes. I remember what suits he bought to the younger brothers, and how elegant they were.

We all rejoiced with Volodya. In the spring of the year, we suffered misfortune - mother died. And in the fall of the same year, Volodya was drafted into the army, to the aviation school. He studied in the city of Chkalovo, Orenburg region. In May, he graduated from the school and came on vacation. He brought us all a lot of gifts and joy. We hoped that we have a senior, beloved brother who would not leave us, and we would be happy.

How proud we were to him and loved him! Having left his vacation, he left, left forever ... The war began ... The Germans were occupied by our territory, so we no longer received letters from Volodya ... ”The story of Vera Platonovna very touched the teachers, and the students of the village, who came to the meeting. Vera Pavlovna visited her brother’s grave, bowed, laid flowers, and cried softly.

So the grave of the pilots gained their first name. Already in the year a sign was installed with the words: “Eternal memory.