of Aksay who were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, memorial structures were erected. Among them: twice hero of the Soviet Union N. D. Gulaev, Heroes Of The Soviet Union A.V. Guba, A.E. Dubikov, G. A. Zagorinsky, M. V. Kovalyov, V. I., Moskalenko, G. S. Petrovskiy, P. P. Primakov, V. D. Rezanov, A. H. Roy (monument to Aleksey Khrisanfovich was opened quite recently - on 22 June 2016 - the same year he died [3]), F. Y. Rubakho, P. E. Tatarkin. To the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the city and Aksay district on 14 February 1983, a solemn opening of the second part of the memorial marble plaques was held. These plaques contained lists of names of those who hadn’t returned from the war. [4] Monument To N. D. Gulaev On 10 July 1949 a bronze bust of Nikolai Dmitrievich Gulaev was erected in the park on the central Square of Heroes. Nikolai Gulaev was a fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. During the years of the War he arranged 250 combat flights, led 69 air battles, and shot down 57 enemy aircraft himself. The Aksay school № 1 as well as the military–historical complex of the city Museum were named after him. [5] Memorial to the dead soldiers in Verkhnepodpol'nyy khutor The memorial to the dead soldiers in Verkhnepodpol’nyy khutor (Russian: хутор) was erected in 1996. In July 1942 Germans entered the khutors in the South part of the Rostov region. The elderly, women, and children were enslaved. Nazis took out all the grain harvest of 1942. On 23 January the corps of the 24th Guards Rifle Division started a heavy fight against enemy tanks and foot troops near the khutor. The corps of the 3rd Guards Division and of the 87th Rifle Division arrived as reinforcements. Heavy fights for the khutor lasted until 9 January 1943. Germans were driven out, but almost everything in the khutor was destroyed by them. After the liberation people began to settle at the higher territory where during the postwar years appeared a village. [6] Memorial to the past inhabitants of the stanitsa (Grushevskaya stanitsa) During the years of the Great Patriotic War, many inhabitants went to fight from the Grushevskaya stanitsa (Russian: станица) to protect their homeland. 257 soldiers did not come back home from the battlefield. Liberators of the Grushevskaya stanitsa were buried in