In violation of all regulations, the head of the East Siberian Railway (ESJD), Vasily Frolov, indexed contracts with “close” companies.
The Russian railway department did not get rid of corruption scandals even after Vladimir Yakunin left his post. The management of the railway monopoly is still very loose with budget funds, often concluding contracts without the tenders and competitions required by law. Tens and hundreds of millions of rubles disappear every year in this area.
The management of the East Siberian Railway (VSZD) at the beginning of 2014 concluded several contracts (No. 218/OKE-V-SIB/14, No. 222/OKE-V-SIB/14, No. 212/OKE-V-SIB/14) with a total worth almost 1 billion rubles (977,449,104.78 rubles to be exact) for the provision of cleaning and technical maintenance services for VSZD facilities until the end of 2016. All these services under the contracts were to be provided to the railway by a certain STB LLC (TIN 7717694651). The piquancy of the situation lies in the fact that - according to information from a number of sources - the beneficiary of this company is Andrei Anatolyevich Demidov, who previously worked... as an adviser to the head of the East Siberian Railway Vasily Frolov!
Frolov himself was appointed to his post in 2011 with the wish to “fulfill the parameters of the network budget” and increase the efficiency of VSJD. In mid-2015, STB LLC suddenly became puzzled by the problem of indexing the cost of its services, although there was not a word about this in the contracts. Despite this, the enterprising Mr. Demidov managed to convince high-ranking officials of the East Siberian Railway of the need to increase the cost of contract services.
In particular, he enlisted the support of the first deputy head of the road for finance M.V. Panov, who gave instructions to “work through the issue” to the head of the Eastern Eastern Railway Economic Zone A.I. Gantar and the head of the Irkutsk Center for Organization of Procurement Activities A.V. Sulla. The head of the Russian Railways CDC O.V. agreed with his arguments. Kirillov.
As a result, on February 11, 2016, Vasily Frolov signed a number of additional agreements to the previously concluded contracts with STB LLC, and some documents were issued retroactively (dated October 1, 2015). The total cost of the work was increased by 40 million rubles, and the additional agreements themselves were not, in violation of the established procedure, published on the procurement website of JSC Russian Railways ().
All this may indicate damage to the budget of JSC Russian Railways and become the subject of an investigation into a corruption conspiracy.
This is the measure of responsibility, the goal and the main responsibility of the station manager and his team.
But there is no command, as well as responsibility. But there is blatant formalism and a completely collapsed performing discipline.
I came to this conclusion while examining the emergency that happened on February 1 at the Irkutsk-Sortirovochny station. And literally the following happened (I’ll call it “the broken phone of the station duty officer and the electric locomotive driver”): the station duty officer gave an incorrect and, as analysis showed, a meaningless command to the driver, who misunderstood it, and the same duty officer confirmed the execution of this gobbledygook: “ Right. Do it." The driver was not even familiar with the shunting work plan. But there is no plan - the locomotive will not move, as it would be correct for him to judge and correct his colleague.
The result is a collision of a mainline electric locomotive with the tail of an organized train, followed by derailment of cars within the station. The careless man-made incident gave rise to disturbing thoughts. Not a single barrier worked, keeping in mind the obstacles in the form of controllers of their actions.
Having studied the material, I came to the conclusion that the prerequisites for this emergency took a very long time to form. And there are many reasons for this. But first of all, they are associated with illiterate personnel management, which raises big questions for the command staff of the road. How could one come to terms with an essentially uncontrollable situation at the station?
Just think about it. The main culprits: the station duty officer - a trainee, in the position since January of this year; the driver was repeatedly removed from operating the locomotive and fell into the risk group. Their supervisors - the driver-instructor and the mentor on duty at the station - did not actually work with them, did not control their actions, showed formalism in matters of training, thereby the wards were left to their own devices. Let's go higher. Of the nine station managers, only two have been in office for more than a year. Five managers were appointed in the 4th quarter of 2016, as, in fact, the station manager himself. In fact, three deputy station managers are busy with other jobs. One of them, by order, is listed as an intern and, despite all his leadership abilities, cannot administratively influence the situation, and in this situation he himself does not bear responsibility.
Based on this balance of power, no one needs operational work and traffic safety. Weakened command staff of the Irkutsk-Sortirovochny station, personnel reshuffle and complete demoralization of employees from top to bottom.
Why am I doing all this? Why did you decide to address all employees with this topic? Such actions are a direct threat to the safety of train traffic, and therefore affect the work of all departments, everything
road personnel.
Ensuring safety for railway workers is not just a production task, but also a fundamental value to which all the work of Russian Railways JSC is subordinated. The main reason for the incident was the omission in preventive and personnel work to prevent accidents on the infrastructure. Let me note that this does not require financial investments, but depends only on the workers themselves and their attitude to work.
In this regard, it is very important to increase everyone’s personal responsibility for their actions.
The basic rule of personnel management is to build human resources. What the lack of personnel reserve led to was illustrated by this case. The bench must be replenished all the time, for this it is necessary for experienced employees to pass on knowledge to young ones, and for the headquarters to support new leaders and facilitate their adaptation
and becoming.
Therefore, I ask each department, especially the line level, to pay attention to the placement of employees in key positions, their effectiveness in their positions, try to find an individual approach to each, and focus the team on achieving a common result.
Vasily Frolov, head of the East Siberian Railway
If you trace his childhood, you get the following. When Vasily was one year old, his father was called up for active service in 1910, and they met for several months at the end of 1917, then his grandfather went into civilian life, returning at the end of 1920 or beginning of 1921, when Vasily was already 11 years old - before that age, grew up without a father.
Vasily's mother, Maria, died when he was 4 years old - he was under the supervision of Anna Artyomovna and grandmother Matryona. He grew up with his first and second cousins. According to the stories, the closest relationships were with Fatey, Lazar, Isaac, with the neighboring boys Starichkov Fatey Savelyevich, Repnikov Nikifor Agapovich and others.
For two or three years, the stepmother Anisya Maksimovna had an educational influence on the father, and then, from about 1925, the second stepmother, Agreppina Grigorievna.
My father attended school approximately from 1916; we don’t know how many classes he completed. Then he worked in the household of Fyodor Sidorovich. They worked hard, the children grew up quickly. Alexandra Grigorievna Repnikova showed us a photograph (a copy was made) of her husband, Nikifor Agapovich, and my father. They were photographed in 1925 at the age of sixteen, but they look like grown men. The sixteen-year-old boys are dressed extremely simply: white graduation shirts, belted with thin belts, trousers and boots. For this occasion, they are dressed in their best, festive clothes.
At the age of 17, my father got married. At first, grandfather Fyodor looked for the Alifanovs’ daughter, Khavrosha, from the Verbovka farm, as Vasily’s wife. But it turned out that another grandfather, Fyodor Seliverstovich (Fyodor Sidorovich’s cousin and his godfather), designated Khavrosha for his son Lazar. As Varvara Feodorovna put it: “Let’s go vying with each other.”
All disputes were resolved by my father, Vasily Fedorovich, who firmly stood on his choice: “Woo Anastasia Kharlamova, and that’s all.”
Fyodor Sidorovich asked Fyodor Seliverstovich for forgiveness for the “interruption” and went to woo his mother, Anastasia Danilovna. Mom was one year older than father.
Both families adhered to the Christian faith, but the Frolovs were Old Believers. The question of faith was a very serious matter. Afanasy Nikitich Viflyantsev said that his family had a mixed faith and at his baptism the matchmakers argued for so long that the matter came to the village ataman. First one family, then the other, won. Afanasy Nikitich was baptized three times: first according to the new faith, then according to the old faith and again according to the new faith.
Our family was also mixed in faith, and disputes also arose: which of the young people should convert to which faith. The father gave in. The wedding took place secretly from the grandfather in the Kargal-Belyansk church. My father’s transition to a new faith caused a serious rift in the relationship between my grandfather and father; they didn’t even talk for a long time. They tell the following story. My father worked in the field, my grandfather didn’t even send him food. The father came home, did not see anyone, killed several chickens, and, apparently, did not put out the fire on which he was oiling the chicken carcasses, the barn burned down. They told the grandfather that Vasily was there, smearing the chickens on the fire, and the barn caught fire, the grandfather just waved his hand: “Oh, okay!”
My mother’s sister, Vera Danilovna, said: my father went to the priest in Nikolaevskaya for initiation into a new faith, and while the priest was reading him a sermon, my father suddenly thought, how will the young wife spend the night alone today? Stop, father, with the sermon, he mounted his horse and rode home. Youth has not yet firmly established faith in God.
Naturally, disagreements between the father-in-law and the husband deprived my mother of peace of mind. After much thought, to bring peace to the family, to restore good relations between father and son, mother decided to become an Old Believer. When she informed her father-in-law about this, Fyodor Sidorovich knelt in front of his mother and thanked her for such a decision. A dashing grunt who went through two wars, imperialist and civil, and was awarded the Cross of St. George three times. The most authoritative man in the village, proud and proud, was not embarrassed, did not consider it a humiliation for himself to kneel in front of his daughter-in-law, who was practically still a girl. You could give up on a burnt barn, but faith is a holy, serious matter, and it’s not shameful to kneel in front of your daughter-in-law.
And Lazar Fedorovich married Khavrosha, she gave birth to three children, one daughter and Khavrosha died in 1933 from hunger.
In 1927, on December 10, my older sister Anna Vasilievna was born, and on April 7, 1931, my brother Ivan Vasilyevich.
In 1932, grandfather Fyodor learned that he was on the eviction list along with his family, gathered all his household members and left for Dagestan, the city of Khasavyurt.
Vasily, with his wife and children, brother Nikolai, returned in 1932. Nikolai Fedorovich lived with his brother’s family until 1939.
They bought an adobe dugout, worked on a collective farm, their father was appointed as an accountant, then they sent him to accounting courses at Konstantinovskaya, this was in 1935. While my father was studying, I, Vladimir Vasilyevich, already existed in this world, born on February 26, 1936. My mother told me that she took me, a baby, to the field to work. While my mother was working, the foreman carried me in his arms, the sun had a favorable effect - I had a good tan.
After completing the accounting courses, my father was sent to the Semikarakorsky district, and my mother moved with her children and Nikolai Fedorovich. My parents lived in other people's apartments - on the first lane near the Sazonovs, then my father was sent to Zolotarevka for one year, where he worked as an accountant in the trading bush of the Semikarakorsky District Consumer Union. Then my father was appointed accountant of the procurement office in Semikarakorsk, we then lived on the 13th lane near the Makeevs, on Kalinin Street, the house still stands to this day, although the owners have changed, and the house has become extremely dilapidated. Valentina Vasilyevna was born in Semikarakorsk on March 1, 1939. In the fall of 1940, my father bought a small adobe hut at 55 Kalinina Street. Our housing consisted of one small room and a corridor (closet). It is difficult to say how our family fit in this dwelling - there were already six of us.
My father was going to renovate his home, replace the chakan roof, add another room, and raise the ceilings.
Two months before the start of the war, my father was appointed chief accountant of the Semikarakor District Consumer Union, and on July 2 he was drafted into the army.
Mobilization began immediately after the declaration of war. The farmsteads and villages of the Don began to buzz like a disturbed beehive. Conscripts flocked to the banks of the Don in streams and sent them to Rostov by steamboat. Fathers, sons, grandfathers went into obscurity, mothers and wives with small children remained - in twenty years of peaceful life many of them were born. The farewell was noisy and many bitter tears were shed, and vodka went out in boxes.
Relatives have the only photograph of the farewell to the front (August 1941); 72 years have passed since that time and you can trace the fates of the people captured in the photograph. Lazar Fedorovich Frolov (far right) and his wife Maria do not yet know that they are parting forever. Trifon Efimovich Kargalsky (in a cap) still doesn’t know that he will pull the already killed Lazar out of a broken tank. Trifon and the Frolov brothers Grigory (sitting on the far right) and Kalin (in a white shirt with rich hair) will pass along the roads of war and return to their native farm. Fatey Savelyevich Starichkov (my father’s childhood friend, sitting next to Grigory Fedorovich) will return. After the war, Pyotr Mikhailovich Eliseev (standing on the far left) will work at the mill. After the war, she will marry front-line soldier Matryona Grigorievna Makarova (Frolova), second from the right in the bottom row. In 1976, Yakov Lazarevich Frolov died as a result of an accident; in the bottom row in the center, he folded his fingers into a lock. Maxim Fateevich Starichkov will become an officer, in the bottom row wearing a cap. Third from the right in a suit is Afanasy Nikitich Viflyantsev.
There are twenty-six people in the photograph. Take a closer look at their faces, their simple clothes, the unsightly hairstyles of the women. A photograph of just one farewell to the war, but there were so many of them!
At the Semikarakorsk pier my mother saw off my father with Anna and Ivan; Valentina and I stayed at home under the supervision of our neighbors. No matter how hard I try, I can’t remember how the father said goodbye to his younger children.
My father underwent military training in Rostov, near Zmeevskaya Balka. Mom once managed to visit her father in Rostov, a car came to Semikarakorsk for groceries, and the supplier turned out to be an acquaintance. Other women also went with their mother to see their husbands. All the servicemen immediately left the unit, but my father was away for a long time, he was on guard duty that day. I came to the meeting only in the evening.
One can only guess what the parents talked about for the last time in their lives, and did they even assume that this was their last date?
Mom told me that my father kept lamenting: how will you live with four small children. Anna was thirteen years old, Ivan was eleven, I was six, Valentina was four. My father advised my mother to sell all his clothes, everything valuable that was left in the family, and buy a cow.
When it was already dark, my father was called to the unit, while saying goodbye, his cap fell from his head, caught on a branch, in the darkness the parents looked for it, and then said goodbye forever.
My parents married for love, my father was a kind, sincere, calm person, “he never said a rude word to me and addressed me not by name, but by the word “dear,” as my mother recalled.
Alexandra Grigorievna Repnikova told us: “Both Vasily and Styura (Anastasia) were beautiful. Sometimes they go to church in festive clothes - people stare.”
In the last years of her life, my mother often told us: “I don’t even dream about Vasya, but I really want to see him in my dreams.”
After accelerated military training, the newly minted warriors were thrown into battle. Between Taganrog and Rostov, during the first liberation of Rostov from the German occupiers in the area of the village of Sinyavka, my father was wounded. According to the stories of colleagues, the bullet passed through the flesh of the leg below the knee without touching the bone. My father walked six kilometers to the hospital on his own, bandaging the wound with a piece of his undershirt and leaning on his rifle. From the hospital, together with other wounded Red Army soldiers, they were sent by train to Kislovodsk.
We really wanted to know what happened to my father in the Kislovodsk hospital; in December 1941, my mother received a funeral, it was reported: “Private 38th regiment of the NKVD troops, Vasily Fedorovich Frolov died of wounds on December 9, 1941 and was buried in Kislovodsk.” How is it possible, he was wounded in the leg, but died from his wounds in the hospital.
Why wasn't the leg amputated? Saving it for future fights? Or did something else happen? Now you won't know.
We made inquiries to the Podolsk military archive, then the head of the Semikarakor district social security service, a participant in the war himself, Nikolai Ilyich Moiseenko, our post-war neighbor, got involved and made a request from the social security service. The monotonous answers came: “Frolov Vasily Fedorovich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army from Art. Semikarakorskaya, st. Kalinina, 55. No other information.”
We were looking for our father's grave at the Kislovodsk Memorial Cemetery. In the winter of 1972, I was on vacation in Kislovodsk, walked around the cemetery for two days, walked around all the graves, read all the inscriptions on the graves, but did not find my father’s grave.
In 1974, we went to Kislovodsk with our mother, sister Anna and son Sasha to look for the grave of our father and grandfather. I thought I didn’t find it in the winter, maybe we’ll find it in the spring. And again failure. The thing is that my father was buried before the occupation of Kislovodsk by the Germans, and order was restored to the cemetery after the liberation of Kislovodsk, and records of the graves began to be kept in 1943.
The cemetery appeared before us well-groomed, in flowers (we visited on May 8), each grave was assigned to residents and organizations of the city, each grave had signs indicating the last name, first name and patronymic, date of birth and death of the serviceman, his rank. There were no signs on the graves of those who died before 1943; the unmarked graves are located along the perimeter of the cemetery fence, in the trees and bushes. We laid a wreath and flowers on one of the unmarked graves, the mother cried over this grave, and again we returned home with nothing.
And not long before my mother’s death, we found a fourth part of the funeral note in her box; we could clearly make out the signature: the head of the hospital, Malakhov. Hope reignited. I asked my good friend in Moscow, who was working at the General Staff at that time, Leonid Borisovich Goncharov, he is a man with a kind soul, and made a request on General Staff letterhead. The answer came quickly: the Army’s medical archives are located in Leningrad. Our Leningrader, son Sasha, joined in. He was told that Malakhov was the head of hospital No. 2004 in Kislovodsk, but there is no archive of this hospital in Leningrad. Why and where could he be? The archive worker replied: “Apparently ours retreated from Kislovodsk so quickly that they abandoned the hospital documents.” The circle is closed. So we lost our father’s grave, but at least we clearly know that he lies in the Kislovodsk Memorial Cemetery. Our father, Frolov Vasily Fedorovich, passed away at the age of 32.
On May 5, 2015, our son Alexander Vladimirovich discovered the following information on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense. In the personal list of injuries of commanding officers and rank and file who died during the fighting from October 10, 1941 to January 6, 1942 in hospital No. 2004, I found the name of our father and grandfather: “Frolov Vasily Fedorovich, born in 1909, drafted by the Semikarakorsky RVK of the Rostov region, soldier 38th Infantry Regiment of the NKVD, was admitted to the hospital on December 8 with a blind wound to the soft tissue of the right buttock from a shell fragment. Gas infection. Sepsis. Died on December 9, 1941.”
And in the list of those who died from wounds in evacuation hospital No. 2004 (Indicative data are repeated) it is written: “Blind shrapnel wound of the soft tissues of the right buttock. Gas gangrene of the right buttock. Anaerobic infection. Degeneration and congestive plethora of internal organs. Dilatation of the ventricles of the heart, especially the right one. The patient was delivered by ambulance on December 8 in serious condition and with signs of gas infection. Immediately upon admission, wide incisions were made with the introduction of anti-gangrenous serum. Despite the measures taken, the wounded man died on December 9 after spending less than a day in the hospital.”
Sasha found the history of the combat path of the 38th regiment, which in June 1941 stood on the Western border of the USSR. With the beginning of the war, he retreated, was surrounded, the remnants of the regiment reached Yaroslavl and were sent to Moscow for reorganization. Therefore, we conclude that the father could not have been on the lists of the 38th NKVD regiment.
After a long search, Sasha found that with the beginning of the war, the 33rd NKVD regiment was formed in Rostov and this regiment fought in the South (Taganrog-Rostov). Frolov Vasily Fedorovich was drafted into the Army on July 2, 1941 and took a course as a young soldier in the city of Rostov, where our mother Anastasia Danilovna once visited him.
Apparently, someone in the accompanying document when sending my father to the hospital mistook the second three in the regiment number for an eight, and this mistake played a disservice in finding the number of the unit in which my father served. We made inquiries about the 38th regiment, in which my father did not serve.
We copied part of the history of the 33rd regiment, and we became confident that it was in this regiment that my father served.
Representatives of the VSJD labor collective gathered on Wednesday in the hall of the Irkutsk Musical Theater named after Zagursky. The ceremonial meeting was opened by Vladimir Yakunin: “A change of chief has always been an event for the entire railway system. Therefore, this issue is reported to the representatives of the team by the head of JSC Russian Railways. I will not hide that the decision to appoint Vasily Fedorovich Frolov was not an easy one for the leadership of the Federal Passenger Company, who had to part with his deputy, but, nevertheless, such a decision was made.” Vladimir Yakunin recalled the reasons for the transfer of the former head of VSZhD, Anatoly Krasnoshchek, to a new position: his experience as the head of the road, who implemented pilot projects for reforming the industry, is now needed in the highest management echelons of Russian Railways.
At a brief briefing before the start of the meeting with the road staff, Vladimir Yakunin introduced the new appointee to journalists: “Vasily Frolov is known among us. This is a person with the appropriate qualities and knowledge, and I am absolutely confident that he will be able to continue the work that is being carried out today at VSJD.”
The biography of Vasily Frolov, born on September 18, 1965 in the village of Belogorsch, Bryansk region, says that all of his work activity is connected with the road. He received his higher education in the specialty “Management of transportation processes in railway transport” at the Moscow Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, where he defended his diploma in 1988. After university, he worked as a park duty officer, station duty officer, and station dispatcher. He worked his way up to deputy head of the Kochetovka station of the South-Eastern Railway, after which from 2007 to 2010 he held senior positions in departments of the Moscow Railway. In July 2010, he was appointed first deputy general director of JSC Federal Passenger Company. From January 2002 to December 2007, Vasily Frolov was a deputy of the Oryol Regional Council of People's Deputies. He holds the title “Honorary Railway Worker of JSC Russian Railways”, and has awards and commendations from the head of the Moscow Railway and the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation. It is also reported that Vasily Frolov is married and has two children.
Now the former and new leaders of VSJD are exchanging information necessary for the effective entry into office of Vasily Frolov. Moreover, Anatoly Krasnoshchek says that he is not going to break with the Irkutsk region and will continue to work as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region.
Vladimir Yakunin considers the main task of the East Siberian Railway today to be work on increasing loading, which should be 2.9% throughout the network. “In the holding system, VSZD occupies a central position as a link between the western regions of Siberia and the Far East. Almost 6% of Russian Railways’ network loading falls on VSZhD, of which 23% are non-ferrous metals and 24% are timber cargo. How efficiently, harmoniously and reliably VSZD operates determines how efficiently and harmoniously our entire network operates,” says the president of Russian Railways. In many ways, the performance indicators of the East Siberian Railway, according to Yakunin, differ for the better from the general network. “Cargo turnover increased by 5.4% compared to 2010. The local speed increased by 0.6%, while its level is 25.5% higher than the network average. The turnover of wagons has been accelerated by nine hours compared to last year’s level,” Vladimir Yakunin listed the results of the railway workers’ work. Led by Vasily Frolov, the Eastern Railway will not only have to consolidate its success, but also solve a number of problems, including a reduction in passenger traffic, he added. In his speech, the head of the holding also mentioned plans to build a second branch of the BAM, launch new high-speed lines, and modernize infrastructure.
At the end of the speech, to the applause of the railway workers, Vladimir Yakunin presented Vasily Frolov with a signed employment contract and a certificate of the head of the East Siberian Railway. The new manager expressed gratitude to senior management for their trust. “The East Siberian Railway has always been the flagship of innovation among Russian railways,” said Vasily Frolov. – Advanced technologies and new equipment were introduced here. All projects implemented here were replicated on other railways of the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. During the period of industry reform, I would like to note that VSJD has always been stable and efficient. This testifies to the excellent staffing that the road has today and its powerful potential. I can only thank you for entrusting me with leading such a road. But, remembering that one is not a warrior in the field, I want to appeal to the team: only together we can maintain and improve the results of which the East Siberian Railway is proud today.”
F rolov Vasily Fedorovich - commander of the mortar crew of the 83rd Guards Rifle Regiment (27th Guards Rifle Division, 8th Guards Army, 1st Belorussian Front), guard sergeant - at the time of nomination for awarding the Order of Glory, 1st degree.
Born on August 17 (according to other sources, June 27), 1924 in the village of Zhdanovka, Sasovsky district, Ryazan province (now the village does not exist, it was in the Saraevsky district of the Ryazan region) in a large peasant family. Graduated from 6 classes, tractor driving courses. He worked at Belorechenskaya MTS, Sarajevo district. In 1940 he left for Moscow and worked at a defense plant. When the Great Patriotic War began, the plant was evacuated to the rear, and Vasily returned home. He worked on a collective farm.
In August 1942 he was drafted into the Red Army. Mastered the specialty of a mortar gunner. At the front since July 1943. He fought on the Stalingrad, Don, South-Western, 3rd Ukrainian and 1st Belorussian fronts. He was a gunner, then commander of a 120-mm mortar crew. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1944.
On July 18, 1944, when breaking through enemy defenses northwest of the city of Vladimir-Volynsky (Volyn region), Guard Sergeant Frolov and other crews suppressed an enemy battery, 2 machine guns and destroyed many Nazis. Provided support for advancing units when breaking through enemy defenses in the area of the city of Kovel.
By order of September 10, 1944, Guard Sergeant Frolov Vasily Fedorovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 3rd degree (No. 237124).
On January 14-15, 1945, in battles near the village of Lipy (28 km northeast of the city of Radom, Poland), Guard Sergeant Frolov suppressed a battery of 75-mm cannons and 3 mortars with mortar fire and disabled over a squad of enemy infantry.
By order of March 31, 1945, Guard Sergeant Frolov Vasily Fedorovich was awarded the Order of Glory, 2nd degree (No. 29359).
On April 16, 1945, in an offensive battle on the left bank of the Oder River in the area of the village of Weinberg (15 km southeast of the city of Seelow, Germany), the crew of Sergeant Frolov’s guard covered an enemy mortar battery with well-aimed fire, suppressed a machine gun, which contributed to the successful completion of the combat mission by the advancing units .
On May 15, 1946, the sergeant was awarded the Order of Glory, 1st degree (No. 1154) by the Kazaks of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on May 15, 1946, for the exemplary performance of command assignments in battles with the Nazi invaders at the final stage of the Great Patriotic War. Became a full holder of the Order of Glory.
In 1947, Guard Sergeant Major Frolov was demobilized.
Returned to his homeland. Lived in the village of Bogramovo, Rybnovsky district, Ryazan region. He worked as a tractor driver, then as a foreman of the tractor brigade of the Belorechenskaya MTS, Sarajevo district. He died on November 1, 1950 from lobar pneumonia. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Ostrovki, Saraevsky district, Ryazan region.