CITY: Velikie Dvory village, Korchevsky district, Moscow region DATE OF BIRTH: 01/22/1915 DATE OF DEATH: 06/12/1994 HISTORY: Title: Senior political instructor Type of troops: Military-political composition political work. He was appointed political instructor for advanced training courses for the political composition of the reserve of the Odessa military district. The service took place in the cities of Tiraspol, Nikolaev, Zaporozhye, where the war caught. From our courses a communist battalion was formed, where I was appointed commissar of the battalion. We took up defensive positions in the Dneproges area on the right bank. The first battle was taken on August 18, 1941 and held out for the whole day. They retreated with fierce battles. Then the battles for Pavlograd. They fought back to Stalingrad, 1942. They fought in the North Caucasus for the city of Nalchik. After the victory at Stalingrad, he was assigned to the 221st Infantry Division of the Southern, then the 4th Ukrainian Front, where he fought for the entire 43-44 years. Liberated Taganrog, Mariupol. The 221st Infantry Division was named Mariupol. For these battles he received the Order of the Red Star. Then 1 Ukrainian Front, Belaya Tserkov. Vinnytsia, Zhmerynka, Kamenets - Podolsky, Ternopil. Then the Karelian front, to the area of ​​the Volkhov hydroelectric power station. Then Vyborg. They took up defense on the Karelian Isthmus against the Finns. They occupied the defense until the truce with the Finns. Then the division was transferred to the 3rd Belorussian Front, moved to East Prussia. Heavy fighting for the city of Goldap (now part of Poland). In December 1944 he was recalled to the front headquarters and sent to study at the Military-Political Academy in Moscow. He was demobilized from the army in 1954. The front line ended with the unforgettable Victory Parade on June 24, 1945.