Radaev Ivan Semyonovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Sergeant Unit: 107th rifle division (1st formation) Our grandfather Radaev Ivan Semyonovich, early left without a mother Agafya Alexandrovna and at the age of 12, he already worked part-time on private farmsteads, did all sorts of work on the farm, then unlearned as a tractor driver, and worked in MTS. Soon he went to military service in the Red Army, then got married and in 1935 the first child was born, just before the war they had three children with our grandmother, in 1939 he went to the Finnish war as part of the 56th SD. 184 JV passed all three months of the war, soon the Great Patriotic War broke out, on June 26, 1941, as an echelon of the 107th SD. 630 JV, grandfather fell under Moscow under the village of Mitino, Smolensk region, after fighting for a month on August 14, machine gunner Radaev was wounded in the hospital EG-2913, after treatment on October 5, sent to Kalinin in 185 SD 257 SP, there in hot battles already during the counteroffensive of our army received a second severe shrapnel wound on December 16, 1941, under the village of Turginovo, Tver region, 155 medical battalion, then the hospital in Moscow in Timiryazevka. Then, on follow-up care sent to the EG-388 of the city of Barnaul in the end of February, the 42nd recognized noncombatant, and until December 1942 he served in the district of Voroshilovgrad, accurate information about this period of his military destiny, it is only known that they were there secretly at the Volga on barges by night floated down to the hold with cabbage, in the defense of Stalingrad, he had risked his life, bringing lunch to his unit with field kitchen, and came under enemy air force, where he received his third wound, a contusion, and in December 1942 the reserve home, from the front, further work in the fields, raise his six kids, foreman of tractor drivers, awarded the medal for the development of virgin land", as well as for military exploits of the order of the Red Star, order of the Patriotic war, 1st class, and other awards.