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 This is what a Red Army soldier E.I.Barinov wrote from the front lines to his wife who was evacuated:” We have lived together for a long time, my darling but I have to leave you because the foul beast attacked our motherland to confine us. Damned Nazis are the reason of all the troubles. But we will not let them rule. There is so much hatred and resentment in my heart that I would tore their filthy souls into pieces and my revenge would know no bounds. The victory is getting closer and I will do my best to defeat the enemy. Just support me with your ardent love”.
 Yuravichi people had to learn different roads during the years of distemper. I.A. Telesh wrote “ From Moscow to Berlin. Telesh I.A.” on the walls of defeated Reichstag. The bearer of the Order of Lenin colonel Ivan Telesh defended Moscow in 1941 and crushed enemy in its den in 1945.
-About ten dwellers of Yuravichi took part in the battle of Stalingrad. Those were P.L. Ptashka, Y.P. Telesh, P.P. Telesh, M.I. Kasyan, G.M. Lapusta and others. Among people from Yuravichi were those who liberated Belarus and Ukraine, Eastern Europe, assaulted Berlin. They proved again that Yuravichi’s land gave the world true heroes and people of spirit. Here goes another evidence of it. This is the letter from command that were sent from front to the liberated town.
+About ten dwellers of Yuravichi took part in the battle of Stalingrad. Those were P.L. Ptashka, Y.P. Telesh, P.P. Telesh, M.I. Kasyan, G.M.Lapusta and others. Among people from Yuravichi were those who liberated Belarus and Ukraine, Eastern Europe, assaulted Berlin. They proved again that Yuravichi’s land gave the world true heroes and people of spirit. Here goes another evidence of it. This is the letter from command that were sent from front to the liberated town.
- “Dear Sofya Ivanovna! Not long ago the division where your husband Ivan Dubrovsky serves combated against enemy which outnumbered our force. Your husband showed the masterpiece of courage and battlecraft. The enemy attacked 5 times but they had to step back with losses. Your husband kept the guard firmly and fanned Nazis with a machine-gun. As a result the enemy stepped back with great losses. The headquarters of division highly appreciated your husband’s endurance and spirit so he was awarded with the Order of the Red Star.
-.15.1944
- Military unit commander assistant Halsky.
-When Sofya Ivanovna read the first lines of this letter in 1944 she nearly fainted because she realized it was a “killed in action” note. But Ivan Dubrovsky was given a chance stay alive. He was wounded twice: in November 1944 and in April 1945 but enemy bullet could stop him on his way to victory. He got to front in December 1943 straight after the village liberation where he worked as a bookkeeping clerk at shoe cooperative.
+ “Dear Sofya Ivanovna! Not long ago the division where your husband Ivan Dubrovsky serves combated against enemy which outnumbered our force. Your husband showed the masterpiece of courage and battlecraft. The enemy attacked 5 times but they had to step back with losses. Your husband kept the guard firmly and fanned Nazis with a machine-gun. As a result the enemy stepped back with great losses. The headquarters of division highly appreciated your husband’s endurance and spirit so he was awarded with the Order of the Red Star".
-Recruits were taught military science for 3 months and their baptism of fire took place not far from Yuravichi –  at Merlinskie farmsteads in Elsk district.
+.15.1944
-The he performed a heat which was awarded with the order of the Red Star with his fellow-villager Leonid Patashek who was his second string.
+Military unit commander assistant Halsky.
+When Sofya Ivanovna read the first lines of this letter in 1944 she nearly fainted because she realized it was a “killed in action” note. But Ivan Dubrovsky was given a chance stay alive. He was wounded twice: in November 1944 and in April 1945 but enemy bullet could stop him on his way to victory. He got to front in December 1943 straight after the village liberation where he worked as a bookkeeping clerk at shoe cooperative. Recruits were taught military science for 3 months and their baptism of fire took place not far from Yuravichi –  at Merlinskie farmsteads in Elsk district. Then he performed a heat which was awarded with the order of the Red Star with his fellow-villager Leonid Patashek who was his second string.
 He came back from the war being disabled person of group II. He tried to close up the wounds but then he decided to help family without regard to endless pain.
 First he worked as a warder. Then in 1950 when “Udarnik” and “Krasniy Flag, “imeni Kuibisheva” and “Pervogo Maya” kolkhozes were merged into “imeni Lenina” he became an assistant of chief accountant there. In 1952 Ivan was promoted to chief accountant. It should be mentioned that he leant the trade willfully. In 1968 he graduated from Gomel agricultural technical school by correspondence. He always got high marks because he was used to do his best whether he fight, worked or studied.
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-====== Вызваленне ======
+====== Liberation (Вызваленне) ======
+On the 27th of November the 2nd Kalinkovichi partisan unit swept out Nazis from Ogorodniki on the order of command of the 61st army and joined with Soviet forces active unit. On the 28/29 of November people from Boici, Vadovichi, Chornavshchina, Berezovka and Slobodka met their liberators.
+The 11th rifle regiment of the 55th division headed by major Cholidze was the first one that forced its way to Yuravichi. At that time German and Hungarian units passed Pripyat over the bridge that was detonated right away. Enemy also headed to Prudka but the 111th regiment chief of staff major Yarovoi told that Soviet soldiers had met with resistance.
+The command of regiment sent the battalion of lieutenant Trohin to save the town while major units attacked fascists at the front. The cosmoliners of the 84th regiment came to help the infantrymen. The gunners of sergeant A.M.Gascsuhin transported a gun through swamp in their hands to open covering fire in time. Hero of the Soviet Union I.O.Semyanchenko, a sniper A.I.Aponasevich who killed more than a hundred fascists, a battalion commander major S.M.Poshachanko, sappers I.K. Artamonov and K.I.Yuranev who defused thousands of mines, a lieutenant mortar man I.F.Moskalei and many others were among the soldiers of the regiment. And there were many rookies from Chernigov region who were neither taught nor equipped.
+Fascists did not sustain a double-attack and scarpered. They left 50 wounded and captive people.
+Major Smyalkin headed the 107th regiment on the left bank at the front at that time.
+The group ruled by Alexander Dima traced 3 earth-and-timber emplacements and a dug-out at the southern of Yuravichi. They sneaked up to the enemy weapon emplacements, killed all the fascists in the dug-out and seized the position without losses.
+At 6 am on the 29th of November Soviet soldiers tired of the night fight appeared in Yuravichi streets. Horses hauled guns, soldiers carried machine-guns and mortars on their shoulders. Town dwellers came out from their shelters and met the liberators with tears of joy in their eyes.
+Grigory Potashko’s wife took out a portrait of Lenin. The portrait was painted with oils on a 2-meter-high veneer by an inmate of an orphanage E.Shihamn. Before the war it the portrait lied at the center in kolkhoz club. When fascists approached the town Grigory Potashko suddenly remembered that the portrait had been left in the club. He was there in a few minutes. He picked it off, wrapped with bagging, and hid it at attic. On the same day in the evening fascists stayed at his place. The new hosts and policemen turned Yuravichi upside-down trying to find the portrait but they failed.  Grigoriy Potashko did not see the victory. He died of typhus in 1943. He told her wife ante mortem: “Our soldiers are going to be here soon...take care of the portrait”. She kept his last will. (This portrait is kept in a school museum).
+Yuravichi looked painfully after the liberation. Many houses were burnt up or ransacked by fascists to build dug-outs and defenses. Burnt and destroyed German materiel was everywhere. Windows in houses were smashed out, fences were burnt. Smoke and ashes smothered the town.
+On the next day after the liberation fascists tried to take the village. But they were attacked by the 111th regiment. Drunk submachine gunners faced “Tigers”(German tanks). A severe fight started.
+German tanks approached the positions taken by the battalion of senior lieutenant Trohin. Soldiers lied in trenches, let the tanks pass and then started to attack German infantry. When the tanks got away the commander of battalion with the head of staff and soldiers a bayonet attack that made enemy go back.
+The tanks that were not supported by infantry could not do much. Missiles and bullets that hit some of the tanks made them stop forever.
+Two soldiers stood out during that this fight. One of them was sergeant Ivan Kisilev. The other’s name was not defined. They put an enemy tank out of action with an ominous cross on its side while it was moving towards them with the intention to squash them.
+Sergeant Kiselev let the tank approach for a few meters, tossed a grenade and fell to the ground. The explosion banged. A left track was destroyed and the tank moved by inertia. His fellow-fighter was killed. The tank rolled on its right track, covered fainted Kiselev with turf and stopped.
+The fight calmed down. Silence fell on the field where it had been a fight just now. Night was falling.
+German tankers got out the tanks and began to fix repair them. They walked on the turf that covered Kiselev. It helped to regain his consciousness. He shook his arms and legs. “I should be alive” – he thought to himself. But he could not touch his head with his arm because he was pressed much by the turf. And he could not turn over because Germans were close. He heard them fix tracks. The sergeant was gasping but his sufferings did not last long. Germans started engines. “This is the end”, – he thought. His heart burst and body broke out in a cold sweat.  – The tank will squash me so no one will notice me lying here”.
+The ground shook and pushed him off. The tank fetched the way with clanking tracks.
+“I’m lying hear alive while enemy escapes” – he said to himself. He forced himself, got out the ground and followed the tank. He tumbled over and reached the tank with his last strength to toss two antitank grenades under the tank.
+The blast wave threw him aside and he fainted again. But the tank stopped forever. His fellow-fighters picked him and captured the tankers.
+Unfortunately the bearcat did not see the victory. After a few days in Mozyr liberation fight he died a hero’s death. He was buried in a common grave in Astrajanka village in Mozyr district.
+The whole 3rd battalion of the 519th regiment died in the fight for village Gryada. Only two soldiers survived. Germans fought for each territory.
+Armies needed fresh forces. More than 100 rookies from liberated Yuravichi were drafted to the army. M.A. Hrashkov remembers about those days: “We were drafted in Berezovcsi recruitment center and later sent to the 111th regiment though I had a white ticket. In a week I was lying in a trench with a machine-gun and looked through a hollow at burnt Gryada. There were four trench lines in front of the village. Germans held their positions at graveyards. Five guys from Yuravichi were with me but they died soon”.
+Yuravichi land paid too dear for liberty and independence: 312 Soviet soldiers died during the liberation of Yuravichi, 188 Yuravichi dwellers did not come home and remained to lie on the fields of war.