Ryabokon Alexey Dmitrievich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant._x000D_ Branch of troops: Aviation. _x000D_ Division: 260th assault aviation Svirskaya Red Banner order of Suvorov division. _x000D_ In the early morning of June 22, 1941, the war broke into every family treacherously, like a tornado. Even those who had never held a weapon before went to the front. For these people, the war became the great Patriotic war. They went to protect everything they loved so much. My grandfather Alexey Dmitrievich Ryabokon did not stay away. He did not think about glory, at the age of 19, he was ready to give his life for peace and freedom on earth. He graduated from the 9th aviation school of initial training in Buguruslan. In the city of Chkalov 1 Chkalovskiy military school of pilots. On may 9, 1945, the long-awaited Victory Day came. This we now know about this. And then in may 1945, a young pilot, second Lieutenant of the 839th Assault Aviation Novogireevskiy Red Banner regiment Alexey Ryabokon flew flights as part of IL-2 aircraft. It destroyed military echelons, enemy manpower, and motor vehicles, suppressing battery fire at the stations of Malchin, Mizdrov, Kalkoffen, and Lebbin in Germany. A group of stormtroopers with the participation of the aircraft my grandfather was destroyed by a ship in the area of the Pomeranian Bay near Swinemunda. For exemplary performance of combat missions at the front against the German invaders, my grandfather was awarded the order of the red star. But war is war, and on one of his flights his plane was shot down. My grandfather didn't die. He managed to land his plane, but the landing was hard. After being injured, my grandfather was sent to a sanatorium in Landeck (Baden-württemberg, Germany) to restore his health. War is a terrible time, but that's when my grandfather and my grandmother met. It was at that sanatorium in Landeck that they met. She worked as a nurse (she is also a participant in the great Patriotic war), and he was recovering from injuries. After the war, from 1946 to 1948, my grandfather served in Tbilisi in 242 bomber regiment 180 of the air division and 373 bomber regiment 180 of the air division. In 1948, for health reasons, he was dismissed to the reserve. In 1949, he was accepted into the MGB and sent to the 17th police Department of Ordzhonikidze district of Baku as head of the passport office. Peace, love, happiness ... it seemed to Young Alexey and Olga Ryabokon that now they are together forever. But war is insidious, it can kill in peacetime. At the age of 33, my grandfather was torn out of life by an illness caused by injuries received in the war. And although he did not live long, life with my grandmother was happy, in this marriage a daughter was born, my mother. After his death, his grandmother lived a long life, 34 years, but never married. When I asked her," why alone? Why didn't you get married?" She answered: "there is no better man on earth Than my Alyosha." I am grateful to God that they were alive, that they met and fell in love with each other, and that their daughter, I, and their granddaughter preserved and carried their life story through the years. I told this story to my daughter, and she will tell it to her children so that they know that ordinary Soviet people performed a great feat. I am proud that my grandfather was one of them. (recorded Terbentuk I. A.)