Private Pavel Lenikov and Victory connection

The family of the Deputy Pavel Shinkaryuk honors the memory of the heroes who brought the long-awaited Victory Day closer. His grandfather Pavel Yakovlevich Lenikov fought in the Great Patriotic War. He was drafted into the Red Army in 1941 by the Dubossary District Commissariat of the MSSR. Pavel Lenikov was 25 years old then. He fought on the Southwestern Front, where he was seriously wounded and contused.

Private Lenikov continued his combat path from Volgograd. He reached Hungary through Kharkov, Vinnitsa. On March 9, 1945, 2 months before the Victory, the Germans bombed and fired at the location of Soviet troops from the air, cutting off communication lines. Pavel Lenikov without waiting for the order of the commander, right under fire corrected the communication line so that it was possible to coordinate the actions of the battalions.

Pavel Lenikov graduated from the University of Tiraspol In peacetime and returned to his native village of Koshnitsa, Dubossary region to work in a school. He met his future wife Maria Ralko here. Maria Isaakovna survived the war years - for a long time she was a prisoner of the Germans, sewed clothes, cooked food.

Being retired, Veteran Pavel Lenikov sang in the choir, sang songs of the war years with fellow soldiers, and was also a frequent guest at school and kindergarten. He told the guys about the Soviet courage and at what cost the Victory got. He kept silent about the details of the war in a conversation with children, Pavel Shinkaryuk noted. Therefore, many facts about the combat path of my grandfather had to be found in the archive thanks to the site "Memory of the People".

Every year on May 9, the Shinkaryuk family lays flowers at the grave of their grandfather Pavel Lenikov. The memory of the heroic deed of the veteran is already passed on to his great-grandchildren. According to the deputy of the Supreme Council Pavel Shinkaryuk, everything must be done so that the younger generation knows about the heroic deeds of Soviet soldiers in the Great Patriotic War and the tragic events of the middle of the last century do not repeat themselves.