Derepa Boris Pavlovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Major military Branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border troops On the fronts of the great Patriotic War Boris Pavlovich since July 1941. Participated in the defense of Kiev, retreated with the Southern and North Caucasian front in the foothills of the Caucasus. Since the beginning of 1943, it has been liberating the North Caucasus and participating in the 64th army's offensive on the outer front of the battle of Stalingrad. In may, the army is renamed the 7th Guards, transferred to the Kursk direction, and Boris Pavlovich is appointed senior assistant to the chief of the intelligence Department of the headquarters of the newly formed 24th Guards Rifle corps. In the summer of 1943, the corps participated in the battle of Kursk, liberated Belgorod and Kharkiv, crossed the Dnieper in the fall, and by the end of the year concentrated its forces at Kirovograd, which it liberated at the end of January 1944. In the spring, the 7th Guards army reaches the Dniester river, in the summer it is relocated to Northern Romania and participates in the Iasi-Kishinev operation. It was there, in the area of the fortified area on the Seret river, that Boris Nikolaevich received the order of the Patriotic War II degree. Major Derepa carried out a colossal intelligence work to find out the location, number and combat capability of the German-Romanian units up to the companies, which positively affected the course of the combat operation in this area. By October 1944, the 24th Guards corps completed the liberation of Romania and crossed the border into Hungary. The long winter months of the protracted Budapest offensive begin. In the battle for the Gronsky bridgehead (border of Czechoslovakia and Hungary) Boris Pavlovich repeatedly interrogated prisoners, organized groups of scouts and in difficult moments of the battle coordinated the actions of the commanders of small units, timely informing them of the orders of the army command. In April 1945, Boris Pavlovich participates in the Bratislava-Brno operation, and meets the victory in Prague. After the war, he continued his military service in the Moldavian SSR, and lived in Kishinev.