Alexander Vasilievich Diev_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: senior Sergeant. Branch of service: army, air force (except marine aviation), the coast guard, the troops of the NKVD border troops. Diev Alexander Vasilyevich-born in 1919, a native of p. Nikologory, Ivanovo (now Vladimir, approx. author) of the region. According to the award list, A.V. Diev was in the ranks of the red army with the rank of senior Sergeant in 1939, called to the front by the Ivanovo RVC on 22.06.1941. October 1939-may 1942-198 airfield service battalion head of the food warehouse; may 1942-September 1943-969 rifle regiment commander of the household. platoon's; September 1943-November 1945 Deputy chief of slaughter point #7 field office #2 under 10 Western Rifle division. From my great-grandfather's stories about the war, the most powerful and terrible impression was made by the Kursk bulge.: "We came to feed the soldiers after the battle on the Kursk bulge and saw this picture: there is no one around, only completely craters from explosions and a mess of broken burning tanks on the field..." Diev was wounded three times, received a severe wound in the back in November 1942, twice lightly wounded in the right leg in 1941 and in 1943, and carried shell fragments under his heart and in his leg all his life. By order of the commander-in-chief of the group of Soviet occupation forces in Germany on August 9, 1945, senior Sergeant A.V. Diev was awarded the medals "for military merit" and "for the victory over Germany". In November 1945, A.V. Diev received a commendation for his service, and was discharged in November 1945. He returned from the war in 1946. According to the military ID card, A.V. Diev was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree. TSAMO. F. 33. Op. 686196. Ed. HR. 1176. L. 178. Order of division No. 108 / n of 27.09.1945. Military ticket of Diev A.V. From the personal archive of Galkina N. A. Oral memoirs of Diev A.V., transmitted by Galkina N. A., who lives in p, Nikologory, Vladimir region, recorded by Galkina E. M.-Nerekhta, 2015. TSAMO. F. 33. Op. 686196. Ed. HR. 1176. L. 5. Award list Dieva A.V. Military ticket Dieva A.V. From the personal archive Galkina N. A.