Donin Dmitry Grigorievich Rank: Senior red Navy man. Military branch: the Soviet Navy and Naval forces of the NKVD border troops. My story will be about Donin's great-grandfather Dmitry Grigoryevich. My great-grandfather was born in 1920 in a peasant family in the village of Bolshye Prudishchi in the sasovsky district of the Ryazan region. After the end of the seven-year-old great-grandfather went to study at the Ryazan pedagogical school, which he graduated in 1939. He was a member of the Komsomol. In 1941, my great-grandfather was called up to serve in the Navy. He served in Leningrad on a warship as a 45 mm gunner. With the German advance on Leningrad, bombing raids intensified. In one of these air raids, the ship on which my great-grandfather served was hit and sank, but he escaped. Throughout the autumn and winter of 1941-42, my great-grandfather, as well as hundreds of sailors, were on duty along the Gulf of Finland, protecting the city of revolution from German troops. In the spring of 1942, Dmitry Grigoryevich was transferred to a group of skerry ships on an armored boat. On it, he fought for two years. In the fall of 1943, my great-grandfather was awarded the medal "for the defense of Leningrad". Before carrying out the special operation on the landing of the sea landing on 04.07.1944, my great-grandfather encouraged the sailors with a story about the landing of the Novorossiysk landing, thereby preparing them to bravely go into battle. During the operation, his armored boat was hit by enemy aircraft. The great-grandfather of the machine-gun installation courageously repelled the enemy attack, but the boat ran into a mine and was blown up. The great-grandfather was injured, his right leg was torn off above the knee and thrown overboard, but he did not drown, as he was wearing a life jacket. The sailors saved my great-grandfather and took him to the frontline hospital, later there was a hospital in Kirov. For this operation, my great-grandfather was awarded the order of the red Star. After the war, my great-grandfather came to his homeland, where he worked for 25 years as a teacher at an elementary school until it was closed. Later, he worked as the head of the club and was awarded the "Veteran of labor" medal. In 1983, my great-grandfather moved to live in the city of Yasnogorsk, Tula region. I'm proud of my great-grandfather. He went through the entire siege of Leningrad and contributed to the destruction of fascism.