In the 23rd school I made new friends, before close friends, in addition to Aldiko and his cousins Babki (Eugene) and Kukshi (Yuri) was not. In the new school the composition of the parallel classes were very good, friendly. Of course, there were groups, several different interests, but create a group that unites the boys sixth and seventh grades. This circumstance is due to the fact that Aldik studied in the 7th grade, a year older than me. Especially friendly group United around Yura Protopopov, who lived near the school. Opposite his house lived Novikov Nicholas, who, however, dropped out of school after the 7th grade and went to work as a yacht club motorist on a cruising yacht "Comrade". This fact was the main reason that our whole group became the regulars of the yacht club. And if I did not leave for the summer to grandmother, all the summer days spent in the yacht club. Before the 8th grade, I studied very decently, mostly on fours, especially I was well given all three subjects of mathematics: algebra, geometry and trigonometry. Russian and literature were Tu-th, especially literature and apparently the reason was the teacher Helen (surname not remember), nicknamed "Mare". Her lessons were boring and tedious. In ninth grade we came Vera F., and immediately everything changed, literature has become one of the favorite items. Very much depends on the teacher, if he will be able to interest the teachers, everything falls into place, including academic performance. Physics and astronomy taught Ephraim, and his wife, Nadezhda Ivanovna, led all three mathematics. Here are all of the teachers I remember only these and it's not by accident – they loved all the disciples and losers according to their objects almost was not. In the 9th and 10th grades we sat at the same Desk with Volodya Madis. He was not a bad photographer and all the photos of my childhood, which he managed to preserve, were made by him. In high school our company appeared girls. In addition to Nina Lapshin was Kira Petrova, Galya fried and others. Winter evenings we have every week, but not once of all friendly company went to ka-current. The war dramatically changed our entire lives, the boys went into the army straight out of school, and many girls were evacuated from Leningrad. After the war, in 70-ies organized a meeting of graduates of three years before the war, of the boys of our class it is only 4 people, and two of them disabled. School friends were not the only ones, and perhaps not the main ones at the time. Closer and closer was Aldik and his cousins. With them, especially with Eugene by Lindes I became friends in the last prewar years. Their fate was quite tragic, his father died early, his mother was arrested in 1939 and two boys were left alone, practically without means of livelihood. Eugene left school and enrolled on courses of drivers and Windows-Chiv them worked at gas lorry (the so-called polutoratonny the truck). This work gave some earnings. In the fall sometimes earned some in the carriage of vegetables with handling jetties of the Middle Nevka river on Novoderevenskaya ovoschebazah. Sometimes vegetable store carried fruits and vegetables to the stores and managed to grab myself, especially when I took the grapes and apples. Surprisingly, after the arrest of the mother of the children seen forgotten and so they continued to live in his apartment on the street of Sophia Perovskoy (Small Stables Noah). This apartment has become a kind of headquarters on the neck of the company. Was there, arranging a small drink. Our main beverage was the cheapest fruit and berry wine, which we called Lee "pagoclone", and as an appetizer was excellent sunflower halva and loaves at 1 p. 45K. apiece. The company, except the owners of the apartment, was part of Aldik, Boris Svetlanov, Bob Raczynski. Sometimes there were girls from our school. Zhenya in character was a leader, he was always full of ideas for mischief. Late in the evening, or rather early in the night, when many of the residents of their great house were asleep, we went to the Swedish Church, rocked the pumps air into the organ, the keys puts some load on and started to buzz. After that, we quickly jumped into the courtyard and watched the Windows lights up. The wipers raised the alarm and we went home happy. Was leprosy and more serious, like dismantling a brick wall in a wine warehouse, located in the basements of their homes, of course, disinterested. I don't know how was his service in the army during the war, but his leadership character he showed. From an ordinary driver he was promoted to commander of the artillery anti-tank battalion, was awarded several medals, including the order of Alexander Nevsky order of the Patriotic war. Zhenya Lindes died near Berlin on the eve of the victory. When I in 1946, came to Leningrad in the early post-vacation, we first went to Zhenya's apartment, hoping to find out anything about his fate, but already there lived other people, and I did not even open the door, saying that they don't know. After this visit me several nights in a row tormented by the same dream: Eugene alive and I met him in the yard. About his death I learned much later, having met Paul Rudkowski-th, whose sister received a death notice of Eugene and his order of "Patriotic war".
The second arrest in our house fell on our family. In the evenings, father would often read aloud to my mother sewed, and I was doing something. Read mostly adventure literature: F. Cooper, Kervud, Mayne Reid, etc. I particularly liked Cooper and Kervud. One of these nights, at about 11 o'clock or later, the phone rang. The door went open Annushka, my baby-sitter. Arrived the porter and the policeman, who suggested mom get dressed and come with him. Where and why, certainly not said to be the father, too, was not allowed, saying that she will soon be back home. It soon lasted about a year. Dad never said where it is, Yes-didn't say it was an arrest. One friend's father advised him not to pester the Leningrad prison, and try to leave town for a while, because it th can be arrested at any time. Fate contributed to this, and he was on a long business trip to the town of Luga, where he worked all summer 1936. The Council of a friend was timely, because after a month or two after his mother's arrest, also in the late evening two or three times rang the doorbell and the caretaker was right, if father. For all questions regarding father, we have said that he no longer lives with us. After that night visits of the janitor stopped. Thus, he had been arrested. But fate there is fate, and in January 1941 on the second day after his death, when father still lay homes, people from NKVD, all same, came his arrest. But apparently the dead did not need them.
This summer I spent partly with his father in the meadow, and July and August, he lived with his grandmother outside Moscow in the village, where gathered almost all the grandchildren. The house on the Stone there was one Anna, Yes my faithful dog Spitz Charlie. Mother returned home unexpectedly one November evening, after sitting in jail for almost a year. Returned emaciated, dirty, sachivalaya. Its return raised in a night for our apartment. Immediately but drinking the stove in the kitchen, and Nina Edmundovna gave her a real bath. Although it gave a subscription not to say anything, but it certainly tells us a lot. The reason for the arrest was the fact that the mother sometimes went to Torgsin, handing over silver and buying there products that were not in stores with the card system. She was required to addresses of relatives residing abroad and sent to us currency, as well as delivery precious-scribed. She denied it and apparently it helped her go. But the main reason was that as a result of interrogations "with addiction" arranged after a steam bath at it not-how many the mind and one of arrested, the doctor by profession, taught it to imitate insanity was confused. But apparently, a little insanity, it was, but it manifested itself much later, in the last years of her life. At that time, any denunciation, even anonymous, was sufficient for arrest. And now I am 99% sure that S. Fedoseyev, who worked, as it became known later in the NKVD, was the informer mentioned earlier. All the following years, and not only we, we lived under constant threat of arrest. Every late night call to the apartment causing concern and the question: "who came?"Fortunately, there were no more arrests in our apartment until January 1941. In 1935 or 36 year Lindesy exchange moved to a factory building "red Bavaria", where Harald F. worked as a commercial Director. We have new neighbors Tommel Aron Isaevich and Marita Y. with his son Yuri. They occupied a big room and at Aldiko all flowed childless couple. Relations with the new neighbors were nice, especially with the family of Tommel, but of course it was completely different people and those relationships that were Lindesay with them could not be. I was very upset by separation from Alticom, although in high school we saw each other every day, have I been as often as we have him. In all our large yard, I was a senior and the younger guys, of course, clung to me, but friendship with them for this was not due to the difference in ages, but in General, all mixed-age crowd of boys lived together without major incident.
The most severe years were 1936-38 . Even the behavior of the children in school has changed, less was the mischief and fun, as if all grown up. In the morning, before school starts, in a whisper find out which of the guys you arrested anyone. In our school I attended in the main by boys who lived in the Krestovsky and Kamenny Islands, and the arrests touched so many. Especially" vintage " on arrests was 1938. In our class, almost a third of the students in our family were arrested. Not escaped this fate and the family Lindenow. In 1938 he was arrested Harald F. and sentenced to 10 years "without right of correspondence", and this, as we now know – shot. Nina Edmundovna with both sons were exiled, but Aldiko somehow allowed to continue in school and later in University. To live he had in different places, because flat it is not preserved.

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1941 year. THE WAR BEGAN

22iyunya 1941 began the Great Patriotic war. It was a complete surprise to all the people living in our country. It is now known that this surprise was only for the people. The General staff and the foreign Ministry received warnings in advance, even with an exact indication of the beginning of the war. But the "great leader of all Nations" considered these warnings nothing less than the machinations of enemies who wanted to quarrel with Hitler and categorically forbade any preparations for war. It is not my job to analyse the causes of these events. I, as a participant of this war, will tell only about myself, how I perceived the war, directly participating in it.
On June 21, on the eve of the war, My friends V. Madis and Kolya Melnikov and I gathered for fishing in reeds off the shores of Lakhta. Hours 5 утра22-go, leaving the house, I saw on the practice football field, in front of our house, the military pull guns. I thought," some teaching Again, " and ran to the Bank of the Crosses, where the boys was waiting for me. We lay down on oars and in an hour and a half were in our favourite reeds. Fishing was not very successful and two hours in the afternoon decided to return to the yacht club, where there should be a holiday and race yachts and dinghies. Going out into the Bay, we "put the sail", ie.  raised oars with strained jackets and under these impromptu sails dovol-but quickly swam to the yacht club, wondering on the way the complete absence of sails in all visible space of the Bay. Somewhere in the direction of Kronstadt, we have seen barely distinguishable planes, flying very strange, and seems to be one of them puffed and fell, but the visibility was poor, and opinions differed. Volodya argued that exactly one plane crashed, I can not approve of. When we learned about the beginning of the war, it became clear that it was an air battle. Approaching the yacht club were surprised by the complete absence of people at the piers. And only when approached and went up to the buffet, aunt Mary-barmaid tearfully told us about the beginning of the war.
23rd, consultation with parents and kids decided to go to the draft Board, because we were all of military age, although he had a deferment as students. 24th in the seaside military registration and enlistment office on the street Shamsheva got directions to a medical examination to etc. Co-operatives (now named. Lensoveta). All three were deemed fit without any restrictions and the 26th was supposed to be at the point of formation to the field of Mars in\x Institute. Unfortunately, there we were separated, I was assigned to a backup regiment in a communications platoon. Regiment was formed in the school of communication. Lensoveta on Suvorovsky. Arriving there with his simple belongings, I was immediately cut under the car, washed in the bath and outfitted. 30, the regiment was sent to the front lines, taking advantage of prevailing scrip-Toja, I slipped off AWOL to say goodbye to my parents. Farewell was very short, I only managed to inform the number of field mail, sadly had a snack, took home cutlets, the last for the next 5 years and ran to the Baltic-commodity. Fortunately, no one noticed my absence, and I had time. The night our train was broken and in the morning arrived at some small station in Kingisepp. Unloaded, we were taken to the forest on vacation. However, the rest did not work, began to issue weapons, and I, as a Communicator, and even property. My job was called"telephone man." All equipment consisted of:
— carbine ammo pouches (about 5 kg)
- gas mask - (about 2 kg)
- 2 grenades-1,5 kg
— 2 coils of telephone cable- (11kgh2=22 kg)
- telephone - 3 kg
Total — about 33 kg.
With all this farming, I spent 20 days in different tactical exercises. It should be noted that my live weight at that time was only 52 kg. I Coped well, and the authorities remained rather my endurance and development of telephone equipment. At the end of July, sometime after the 20th front we have been approached, and the regiment deployed in a battle order. I fell to the battalion CC duty telephone operator. Night the phone rang and rough, Oh-ripsi voice demanded on the phone "first", i.e. the commander of the battalion. From a conversation with the battalion commander, I realized that this is a fight. What is the battle I was presented by our cinema-to the movies, where "red" has always won and had almost no losses. The mood was cheerful, panic, and fear not. Somewhere around 7 am seemed two tanks. "Beginning" — said the commander. And so the war began for me.
About war much has been written, so I will limit myself to only what I saw with my own eyes.22iyunya 1941 began the Great Patriotic war. It was a complete surprise to all the people living in our country. It is now known that this surprise was only for the people. The General staff and the foreign Ministry received warnings in advance, even with an exact indication of the beginning of the war. But the "great leader of all Nations" considered these warnings nothing less than the machinations of enemies who wanted to quarrel with Hitler and categorically forbade any preparations for war. It is not my job to analyse the causes of these events. I, as a participant of this war, will tell only about myself, how I perceived the war, directly participating in it.
On June 21, on the eve of the war, My friends V. Madis and Kolya Melnikov and I gathered for fishing in reeds off the shores of Lakhta. Hours 5 утра22-go, leaving the house, I saw on the practice football field, in front of our house, the military pull guns. I thought," some teaching Again, " and ran to the Bank of the Crosses, where the boys was waiting for me. We lay down on oars and in an hour and a half were in our favourite reeds. Fishing was not very successful and two hours in the afternoon decided to return to the yacht club, where there should be a holiday and race yachts and dinghies. Going out into the Bay, we "put the sail", ie.  raised oars with strained jackets and under these impromptu sails dovol-but quickly swam to the yacht club, wondering on the way the complete absence of sails in all visible space of the Bay. Somewhere in the direction of Kronstadt, we have seen barely distinguishable planes, flying very strange, and seems to be one of them puffed and fell, but the visibility was poor, and opinions differed. Volodya argued that exactly one plane crashed, I can not approve of. When we learned about the beginning of the war, it became clear that it was an air battle. Approaching the yacht club were surprised by the complete absence of people at the piers. And only when approached and went up to the buffet, aunt Mary-barmaid tearfully told us about the beginning of the war.
23rd, consultation with parents and kids decided to go to the draft Board, because we were all of military age, although he had a deferment as students. 24th in the seaside military registration and enlistment office on the street Shamsheva got directions to a medical examination to etc. Co-operatives (now named. Lensoveta). All three were deemed fit without any restrictions and the 26th was supposed to be at the point of formation to the field of Mars in\x Institute. Unfortunately, there we were separated, I was assigned to a backup regiment in a communications platoon. Regiment was formed in the school of communication. Lensoveta on Suvorovsky. Arriving there with his simple belongings, I was immediately cut under the car, washed in the bath and outfitted. 30, the regiment was sent to the front lines, taking advantage of prevailing scrip-Toja, I slipped off AWOL to say goodbye to my parents. Farewell was very short, I only managed to inform the number of field mail, sadly had a snack, took home cutlets, the last for the next 5 years and ran to the Baltic-commodity. Fortunately, no one noticed my absence, and I had time. The night our train was broken and in the morning arrived at some small station in Kingisepp. Unloaded, we were taken to the forest on vacation. However, the rest did not work, began to issue weapons, and I, as a Communicator, and even property. My job was called"telephone man." All equipment consisted of:
— carbine ammo pouches (about 5 kg)
- gas mask - (about 2 kg)
- 2 grenades-1,5 kg
— 2 coils of telephone cable- (11kgh2=22 kg)
- telephone - 3 kg
Total — about 33 kg.
With all this farming, I spent 20 days in different tactical exercises. It should be noted that my live weight at that time was only 52 kg. I Coped well, and the authorities remained rather my endurance and development of telephone equipment. At the end of July, sometime after the 20th front we have been approached, and the regiment deployed in a battle order. I fell to the battalion CC duty telephone operator. Night the phone rang and rough, Oh-ripsi voice demanded on the phone "first", i.e. the commander of the battalion. From a conversation with the battalion commander, I realized that this is a fight. What is the battle I was presented by our cinema-to the movies, where "red" has always won and had almost no losses. The mood was cheerful, panic, and fear not. Somewhere around 7 am seemed two tanks. "Beginning" — said the commander. And so the war began for me.

About war much has been written, so I will limit myself to only what I saw with my own eyes.