Aleksandra and Ivan Boiko, a married couple, served together as tank commander and driver, respectively.
She commanded a crew on an IS-2 and had 5 confirmed enemy tanks/SPGs destroyed.
 
The Boiko's tank unit receives new js-122 (Joseph Stalin 122) heavy tanks, 1942, tank commander, junior lieutenant Alexandra Boiko and her husband, driver/mechanic Ivan Boiko.

Aleksandra and Ivan Boiko

Fisanovich Israel Ilich, 1914-1944, commander of the submarine "M-172" of the 4th division of the submarine brigade of the Northern Fleet, Lieutenant-Captain, Hero of the Soviet Union.

Bold and determined commander, bold and persevering in the performance of combat missions. Thanks to his courage and audacity, one of the first commanders of the Northern Fleet submarines in the first days of the war got into the narrowness of the fjord Petsamo, breaking and neglecting the enemy's anti-submarine defense, penetrated into the enemy harbor and sent to the bottom fascist transport of 6-7 thousand tons displacement. In the same operation, on the approaches to the port, the second enemy transport with a displacement of 4,000 tons was sunk.

Was killed at the crossing of the fleet of Navy ships to England on 04/04/1944.

Fisanovich, commander of the submarine "M-172"

Shokhin Nikolai Mikhailovich, born in 1913, Hero of the Soviet Union, Guards sergeant-major, commander of the machine-gun department of the 1264 Infantry Regiment, 380 infantry Orel Division


In the period of the liquidation of the Germans' encircled grouping, on July 6, 1944, in the area of ​​the Pyatigodka state farm in the Chervinsky District of the Mogilev Region, Shokhin, leading a forest battle for the road along which the enemy moved, trying to break through the ring of encirclement, showed himself as a hero. Comrade. Shokhin disguised his machine gun near the road, along which a column of up to 500 Germans with submachine gunners and carts was moving, opened a flank fire on a column. In the column panic rose, the Germans decided to break through at any cost and get out of the encirclement, they tried six times to go into counter-attacks, but Comrade. Shokhin repelled one after another all attacks. On the road there were left 150 German soldiers and officers, 13 cars and dozens of motorcycles were set on fire.