Rank: Junior Lieutenant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Khitrin Vladimir Konstantinovich, guard junior lieutenant, platoon commander of a mortar battalion, candidate in the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, took part in hostilities since 1941 in the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian, Voronezh, Kalinin and Western fronts. Wounded three times - one severe and two light wounds. He was awarded the Medal "For Military Merit" pr. 8 PGCHPK No. 0128 / n, the Order "Red Star" pr. 19 Guards. ICBM No. 01 / n, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree pr. 21 guards. Khitrin Vladimir Konstantinovich was born in 1922 in the family of Konstantin and Zoya Khitrins in the village of Blagodat, near the village of Golyushurma, Alnash district, on the Kama river. He was the eldest son in the family. He also had 5 brothers and 2 sisters (Anatoly, Arkady, Boris, Eugene, Alexander, Raisa, Zinaida) On Grace they had a large two-story house, Konstantin Nikonorovich kept bees and they had an apple orchard. All children were educated after the war. Brother Anatoly also fought in the tank forces, came back from the war alive, but shell-shocked. Brother Eugene took part in hostilities in 1956 in Hungary and was awarded the Medal For Courage. Brother Alexander served in Moscow as a guard of honor. And father Konstantin Nikonorovich served in his time in Petersburg. It's a pity that Uncle Volodya did not return ... he was a strong and courageous man. He died on April 25 or 26, 1945 in Berlin, in the Neukölln area. His grandmother, his mother, went to his grave in Germany.