Rodchenko Andrey Vasilyevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Red Army troops: the Land forces, the Air force (except for naval aviation), the coast service, the troops of the people's Commissariat of internal Affairs, the border guard Civil war, devastation, famine-all this passed him by, he was too small. But farm labor has known before. My father and mother worked on the collective farm from morning to night. His mother, Maria Vasilyevna, was put on the Red list for her good work. At the age of fifteen, Andrey Vasilyevich also began working on the collective farm: he plowed on oxen, sowed, and performed other work. He was even trusted to train young bulls in the furrow, as an experienced Plowman, which he recalls with some pride. He was not accepted into the army because of poor eyesight. In 1940, recruiters came to the village to recruit young people for the construction of the Molotov Siberian railway. Andrey Vasilyevich also enlisted. I liked my job. The young people were cheerful and hard-working. I learned the news of the war there. Soon they wrote from home that my father was fighting at the front. In April 1942, Andrey Vasilyevich was also drafted into the army. The topographical detachment to which he was assigned was sent to the far East. We worked 80 kilometers from the border with China: we photographed the area and put it on maps. In October of the same year, the detachment returned to the 387th rifle regiment, and preparations began for sending to the front - the Smolensk direction. After disbanding, Andrey Vasilyevich became a fighter of the 19th guards Rudnensky division at Rokossovsky. It reflected the tank counteroffensive on Moscow, was the first number of an anti-tank rifle. The fighting was hot. German tanks were burning, like candles. But more and more appeared in place of the burned ones. In February 1943, he was wounded. He spent several days in the Sychevsky hospital in the Smolensk region and was sent to the reserve regiment. And soon the front again. Now Andrey Vasilyevich fought in the 88th division of the 33rd Belarusian army in the group of 22 reconnaissance battalions. With this battalion, he passed Belarus, liberated Poland. Most often, the squad received a task-to take the "language". Andrey Vasilyevich doesn't remember how many of them were delivered to the headquarters. But then one day "language" turned out to be an important figure, because the whole group was presented for awards. Andrey Vasilyevich-to the order of the red Star. But, as often happened at the front, after the announcement of awards, the battalion went further, and the well-deserved order found a soldier not soon. In 1944, our countryman was seriously wounded. He was evacuated from a Polish hospital to Minsk and from there to Ufa. In Ufa, he was treated for a long time, and there he learned about the end of the war. He returned home in February 1946 as an invalid. Two years later, the award came. In the Rovensky district military Commissariat, he was awarded the order of the red Star. Andrey Vasilyevich also has other awards - the order of the Patriotic war of the first degree, the medal "for the victory over Germany". After the war, he lived as best he could, worked as hard as his health allowed. Always lived modestly.