Vetokhin Alexander Pavlovich_x000D_ _x000D_ In the village of Kirovo, in the Victory garden, bordered by strict fir trees, memorial marble plaques with the names of villagers who gave their lives for the Motherland rest on plinths. Among them is the name of Alexander Pavlovich Vetokhin... Missing during the war… Born in the eighteenth century in the village of Voskresenskoye (now Kirovo). There were seven children in the family. My mother, Alexandra Kapitonovna, brought us up alone. They lived in a small hut with one room, slept side by side. After finishing seven years in the village of Kirov, he went to work at the Taktashinsky state farm as a statistician. He was fond of sports, especially volleyball. At that time, everyone dreamed of serving in the Red Army and physically prepared themselves for this. The dream came true in 1939: Alexander was drafted into the army by the Kirov district military Commissariat. In a letter omitted at one of the stations, Alexander wrote that their composition is sent to the front: "I Saw Mishkino, my heart was torn in my chest: I wanted to go home and hug all my family. But you can't: an impudent enemy must be repulsed, and he will get it." The last letter was from the front in September 1941. Sasha wrote that the enemy would be destroyed and driven out of the Soviet land. "The Germans are very afraid of the Russian "Hurrah!" - he wrote. There were no more emails... We learn about the further fate of Alexander Vetokhin from the story of Alexander Mikhailovich Paklin from the village of Dubrovny, who visited Sasha's relatives after the war. Summer of 1941 Fierce fighting. The enemy is irresistibly rushing to the capital. Our troops, offering the strongest resistance, are forced to retreat before the countless hordes of rabid fascists. There were fights near the city of Rzhev, in the Kalinin region. Bobrovka village on the Bank of the Lazura river-a tributary of the Volga. Here, in this hell, our countrymen met-Alexander Paklin and Alexander Vetokhin. One is a tankman, the other a signalman (107th tank division). Here Paklin learned about the death of Sasha Vetokhin... During the battle, communication between the regimental commander and the battalion command post was disrupted. Sasha Vetokhin, under heavy machine-gun fire, found the damage and restored communication. At the cost of life. Knowing that much depends on his actions, the fate of hundreds of fighters. Having received, obviously, a wound, having seen a new break in the wire, I wrapped it around my hands with the last effort, losing consciousness. So he re-established the connection: the current went through his body. He was found dead with wires wrapped around his arms. It was the death of a true hero. He was 22 years old. It is painful to realize that the eyewitness's story did not clarify the fate of Alexander Pavlovich: in the Mishkin district military Commissariat, he is still missing, although the exact place of his death is known.