We remember! We are proud of it!

The war left terrible imprint in the Shklyarovs. Deputy of the Supreme Council Galina Antyufeeva tells about honor, valor and glory of his father and grandfather.

For decades, Victory Day, May 9, is the most important, the most soul-stirring and the most sincere holiday of the country. No other holiday can be compared with it. May 9, we somehow feel particularly strongly pride in our history.

Each day, the outgoing day distances us from the time that in people's memory could not be canceled by anything. We are alive thanks to the heroism of every soldier of the Soviet Army in the Great Patriotic War. We remember that in the days of joy, and in the days of sorrow. What do we know about the time and about the war? Only what is written in the books that remained in the memory of man. World War II was the most terrible war in human history, the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century, and victory in it our fathers and grandfathers - the greatest victory of the century.

Every family has its own pain because of loss living and memory from generation to generation pride in the great victory, for deeds of those who passed the front road and came back alive, and those who "have not come ... never."

Each family has its own special, personal history of that terrible war. War has left a imprint in our family. My father, Mikhail Semenovich Shklyarov in 8 years was left an orphan, war robbed him of his father, our grandfather. In 1941, my grandfather, Semen Moiseich Shklyarov went to the front and did not return. In 1942 it was notified that he was missing.

All his life, my father was trying to find his father. Searched through the recruitment office, but was told: "Missing, other information do not have". One day father told me that he saw an article in the newspaper "Pravda" signed "Shklyarov M.S., wrote: "Father, answer me!". The answer came: "I am not your father!".

The years passed, my father graduated from Irkutsk Higher Aviation Technical School. He served in various parts of our country, but the thought of his father never left. Recent years for health reasons, he did not get up from bed - amputation of both legs. He was a courageous man, he kept a very worthy, though it was not easy. He loved life and believed people. We, his children, decided to fulfill his dearest wish, to find his father, our grandfather.

By that time, archives of the Ministry of Defence were opened in Russia. And the first letter flew on the 18 April 2007 in the archives of the Ministry of Defense of Podolsk. We wrote in the program "Wait for me", with the hope that someone from soldiers who were with grandfather respond. We viewed information on the site groups that are engaged in the search for graves and missing soldiers. The search is not encouraging us, it's been so many years.

But, fortunately, November 24, 2008 Finally we got an answer from Podolsk: "We send available information: Commander of the 1st single infantry battalion of the 105th Infantry Brigade sergeant Shklyarov Semen Moiseevich, born in 1912, a native of Omsk region, Russko Polyansky district, p. Belfonka, drafted into the Soviet Army Irtysh RVC. Missing 8 July 1942. TsAMO base, report number 27963, dated 1942. It is also reported that the 105th Infantry Brigade as of July 8, 1942 conducted combat operations near the village Bashkin, which is located 22 kilometers south of the city Beleva Tula region".

Additional information from the archives of Defense directed to our address, reported that our grandfather is buried in the village of Tula region Zaytsevo Belevsky area. There was an immense joy, and of course, we have decided that it is necessary to go there and worship our grandfather's grave.

In 2010, my sister Tatiana visited the village Zaytsevo of Belevsky district of Tula region for the burial of soldiers killed in these places in 1941-1945. Mass grave of soldiers killed during the war, is in the forest that is running a small monument. There are plates nearby on which information about the deceased was almost erased because of time and precipitation. But residents of nearby villages on the stand restored names of the victims during World War II and buried soldiers in the village Zaytsevo in 1941-1945. Thanks to search engines, and all the inhabitants of indifferent people, thanks to which our grandfather had found its home. Now, among the soldiers who died in a brotherly grave in the village Zaytsevo listed sergeant Shklyarov Semen Moiseevich, born in 1912, who died on the battlefield, June 9, 1942. On the territory of Belevsky district of Tula region in mass graves lie more than 10 thousand soldiers. In the village Zaytsevo 1497 people were buried.

I look at pictures from the military burial, and the heart is compressed from the fact that here is my grandfather, who died defending our Motherland.

Victory Day - the Day of Victory, has always been and will be for each of us a holy holiday, and we, the descendants of the winners, the heirs of their victories are required to pass this memory children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

"Memory - is the basis of conscience and morality" - the words of Academician Dmitry Likhachev, truly convey what defines the essence of the person. As long as he can remember, he feels that everything in this fragile world depends on him, on his responsibility for the sky above his head, with the laughter of children, the chirping of birds, babbling brook ... Keep the memory, cherish the memory - it is our moral duty to our descendants!

There is not our father with us today, he died February 23, 2012, but we, his children, sang his heart's desire, our duty to his grandfather. Our father was born May 9, 1935, and even so this day is special for our family.

May 9, our country will celebrate the Day of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Frontage road passed by Soviet soldiers - not just a stage of the war, they form the heroic history of our country. Their valors, courage, self-sacrifice, heroism, love for the Fatherland - an example for all post-war generations. 70 years separates us from those tragic events, the wounds are scarred over of the face of humanity, but wounds of the heart of mankind are not scarred over.

Immortal those who saved the Motherland! The bright memory of those who never returned from that terrible war! Health and welfare those who live, our dear veterans! We remember! We are proud of it!

                        Galina Antyufeeva, Deputy of the Supreme Council.