Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. My grandfather, captain Ivan Sinelnikov, born on April 7, 1905 like many of his contemporaries was called to the front in June 1941. In his native, small, county town of Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh region. My grandmother Natalia Sinelnikova stayed with three small children - a son Yuri, born in 1930, a daughter Rimma, born in 1932 and a son Veniamin, born in 1939. In November 1941 my grandmother had a fourth child, my father Igor, who was not destined to see his father, my grandfather alive, but I will tell more about this this later. In the early summer of 1942 with the advance of the German-fascist invaders and the occupation of the area, my grandmother had to run on foot with four children, including a six-month-old infant in her arms, along with the large population of the city from the advancing enemy troops into the country. She told me about one case when they almost died during their flee. During the raid by enemy aircraft, the grandmother tried to hide in some basement, which was already full of people and she was simply not allowed there due to lack of free space. She hid with the children in the nearest shed, covering the children with what came to hand. After the raid, coming out of the barn, she learnt that the basement, where they were not allowed to hide was hit by a bomb and everyone was killed. After the liberation of the Ostrogozhsk district from the Nazi invaders in January 1943, the grandmother and her children returned home, but there she was waiting for the terrible news - the notification that her husband, captain Ivan SINELNIKOV, born on April 7, 1905, chief of staff of the battalion of the 70th tank brigade, 5 tank corps, 33 Army, Western front was missing. She waited for him for the rest of her life, hoped that he would return and raised four children alone. She wrote everywhere she could in order to find him, or at least to find out where he was buried but it was in vain. Then my mother continued the search after they got married with my father, and only after almost 50 years after the end of the Great Patriotic war, thanks to the work of our searchers, the place of his burial was discovered. On the site obd-memorial.ru there is full information about it. During the operation "Mars" (the Second Rzhev - Sychevskaya operation from 25.11.1942 to 20.12.1942) on December 12, 1942, he was wounded (through shrapnel wound of the left knee joint with joint damage. Anemia. Sepsis.). He was taken to the mobile field hospital No.482 for the treatment on December 16, 1942. He died of wounds on January 12, 1943. Buried in village Poletkina, Zubtsovsky district, Kalinin (Tver) region, the new cemetery on the south side, the first grave No.55. He was reburied in a mass grave of Zubtsov Memorial complex of Tver region, Moskovskaya Gora by order of the Executive Committee of the Zubtsov district No.120 dated 20.07.1955. On may 9, 1995 my father, his older brother Yuri and I visited the mass grave where my grandfather was buried in the city of Zubtsovo, Tver region. From there, we brought a handful of earth for my grandmother, who was still alive at the time. God rest her soul. On April 7 this year, we celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of our front-line soldier. I REMEMBER! I'M PROUD! ETERNAL GLORY TO THE LIVING! ETERNAL MEMORY TO THE FALLEN! I'll come to you in May, will sit on a bench in silence and whisper: "Hello, my grandfather... Thank you for the Victory. ... for me, ... for us, ... for silence."'