WE SHOULD NOT FORGET THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE URSS WERE STRONG&COURAGEOUS DURING THE WWII. 


Belarusian defenders of Leningrad commemorated
Nov 19, 2011 20:13 Moscow Time




St Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, has unveiled a memorial to the Belarusian members of the Soviet forces who defended the city against the Nazis. There were moving tributes to the wartime brotherhood-in-arms between the peoples of the Soviet Union.
The memorial stands at the site of a fierce wartime battle for control of the left bank of the River Neva,
The unveiling coincided with the 70th anniversary of what is known as the Road of Life, which linked Nazi-encircled Leningrad with the Soviet mainland across the ice-bound Lake Ladoga.
(TASS)
The family name Sharapov is a famous name in Russia. Even during the WWII this name was already well known. It is a family name of fighters. 



Also here [more info about combats on Karelian Front in 1942-1944] - the memoires of Yuri Sharapov-Antonov [press correspondent of 289th infantry division], he died in 2005
8 pages of biography: http://www.iremember.ru/...onov-uriy-pavlovich.html
First sergeant Yuri Sharapov-Antonov in 1943 [infantry]

"I'd love to open a tennis school for children in my hometown of Sochi." said Sharapova Maria.