What To Do During The March Break?

Klimov, Yuri. Memories. № 27.

My grandfather, Yuri Klimov (1922-2002) , left 3 volumes of memoirs about his life. In total, probably about 1000 A4 pages. Plus lots of photos. Recollections of my great-grandfather (my father's grandfather) - Klimov Vasilii Mikhailovich (1891-1978) - here .

All published parts: 1-I ; 2-I ; third ; 4-I ; 5-I ; 6-I ; 7-I ; 8 -I ; 9-I ; 10-I ; 11-I ; 12-I ; 13th ; 14-I ; 15-I ; 16-I ; 17-I ; 18-I ; 19-I ; 20-I ; 21-I ; 22-I ; 23rd ; 24-I ; 25-I ; 26 - I ; 27-I; 28-I

in Galati was made Trading with Sgt Komarov and odesitom Silonovym. Bought a box of matches and a box of soap. Soap was sent by the foreman 3rd Platoon, resident Syzran, where he had left a wife and three children. Participant in the war with the Finns, who had injured it during the war was not yet home. And now, the happiness - you need a maintainer on the train, which departs from the fired artillery casings in Syzran, in his homeland. This is him spending money and stay in my land, my wife gifts and children. [Volume 1, page 194] with the matches we have coped with the Komarov themselves, taking them with him to Bolgrad (a small town in Moldova), where it was our division. Thus, the market we have just bought a secondhand dealers from 9 rubles per box (retail price was 10 rubles). We immediately with Komarov rich. With that kind of money you can live in Romania!

Soon then our platoon was sent to the city Chernovoda to work at an army frontline stock. Attraction of this small Romanian town was a large railroad bridge across the Danube. Now this is an architectural monument of the past century. The bridge was built by architect Romanian Angel Salina in 1895 and has a length of 1545 meters. Sechas papers write that will construct a new bridge for rail and road transport, trying to preserve as a memorial.

before our arrival in g.Chernovoda was the headquarters of the commander of three Ukrainian Front Tolbukhin. My education was noticed and was appointed a clerk at the Front stock. My responsibility was making statements Glove property located in the warehouse every 10 days. This summary of the availability of property sent to in front headquarters. We lived in a good house, together with other civilized, which were recently repatreirovany, but take time to work on the stock number 18916.

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in images taken in October 1944 in g.Chernovoda, I stood with the soldiers of his squad. In the background is the bridge over the Danube behalf of the Romanian King. The bridge was built in 1895 and is an architectural monument.

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memory has not kept the names of the people with whom I had to temporarily work at the headquarters of the front warehouse p / n 18916, [Volume 1, page 195] but I still have picture of that time, made his own for the purchased camera a commission store in g.Galatse. I bought a cheap "Agfu, run on a wide film. My "Tourist", as I said, was seized during a search Apartments in Odessa Shin Romanian officer of sigurantsy.

At the headquarters of our unit. g.Chernovoda.

I put amateur photos of good friends, decent and honest friends of Staff (Accounting) warehouse. Right in the center of the photo, the table sits my boss. He is by profession an accountant from Ufa. Close with him - Captain - Chief warehouse. Right - the civilians young and pretty woman Millerovo, Rostov region, the rest of our friends from our Battalion maintenance warehouse. The photograph was taken in late September 1944 or early October, before we called back to his battalion in g.Galats.

In memory of those days kept the belt, which was borrowed from the German cavalry saddle, stored in a warehouse in a trophy property. By the way, worked there a lot of German prisoners of war, which had a lot of debate. His defeat in the war, they explained mainly by the fact that there were fewer than Russian. This suppress them. When returning to g.Galats we found that the battalion is mainly to relocate to the city of Timisoara (Romania). We will also shortly, along with other Battalion soldiers who were returning and travel in Galati, Bucharest went through the city of Timisoara. In anticipation of the train was free time, which used for inspection and exploring the capital of Romania. Stopped for the night in a private apartment in the plant Malaksi. Evening spent in the theater at the concert "Cala Tanase" - a celebrity in the artistic world of Romania at that time. About Cala Tanase I heard back in Odessa, where he came on tour.

[Volume 1, page 196] The next day, he moved to the western station of the capital, we expect passenger train on to schedule. Walking along the Peron indoor station resemblance to our Moscow Kiev railway station, we Silonovym noticed two girls rumynok, who also apparently expect a train. The girls were cute, and nothing better to do, we, we started chatting with them on the Russian-Romanian slang. Silone, as I said, was from Odessa and also understood in Romanian, learned during the occupation of their language. Train all delayed. We joke with a Romanian woman, laughing and joking. In a word whiling away the time. They turned out to female students University of Bucharest (so they imagine) and went home for three to four days in g.Karansebesh to relatives for food and money. It turned out that we are on the way and we were expecting a train ticket but they did not have. Have not been able to buy - no tickets (or rather had no money). Already in the twilight of the filed. For Soviet military identified individual (special) trains. Civilian passengers rushed to the landing, as it was in the civil war in Russia, or during the first Five in Sverdlovsk-out in Perm. It soon became clear that our friends Romanian woman left without a place in either the car or on the roof of the car. They rushed to Peron in seeking to cling to the departing train. We had to bail them out of trouble. I invited them to our soldiers' car, which was relatively free - By nearly half. Team leader of our platoon and other individual was a soldier in the hospitality compartment and did not know that the train women appeared. Of course, it was violation of the statute. The cars are not sanctified (apparently a faulty wiring), and besides, the car was knocking. Hide strangers was very simple. So we with Silonovym spent the night in the company of these lovely ladies in a separate compartment. Razve can forget this night!

fighting way in Ukraine, Moldova and Romania.

[Volume 1, page 197] morning, after two or three long tunnels, we drove to the station to which they went. To the left of the train - the Danube, on the right - Carpathian Mt. We passed the famous Danube "Damn Gate where the Danube Carpathian mountains trapped and flows rapidly in a narrow channel. Now, they say, is built Power and the court go through gateways. Yes, I forgot to include the names of their random fellow traveler. It was Sylvia and Viorica. Sylvia, to whom I have sympathy During my association with a travel gave me (at my request) a photograph as a keepsake, which I attach to these things.

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course our night in the company of young girls did not go unnoticed. Slujilye men, old men in comparison to our young, an understanding joked and joked about it. One commander did not understand what happened. Yes, and where he was to see if it is in the evening, locked in a compartment, drank to spoil and slept всю ночь.
 

далее: "Освобождение Европы",  листы 197 - 200.