Chybykov Mendy Kypchakovich from Nizhnaya Talda, Ongudai aimak of the Oirot Autonomous Region (now the Altai Republic) served during the war years as an orderly of twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal I.Kh. Baghramyan. Participant in the battles at the Kursk Bulge and at Stalingrad. Returned from the front in 1945.