Rank: Red Army soldier. _x000D_ Sviridov Alexey Danilovich was a sapper of 95th Border Detachment of the NKVD troops of the USSR of the Directorate of the Border Troops of the NKVD of the USSR of the Lithuanian District. _x000D_ According to the Book of Memory of the Border Troops (vol. 3, p. 36), he died in combat on October 18, 1944 in the town of Taurage, the district center of the former Lithuanian SSR. The burial place is unknown. _x000D_ "On October 17, 1944, on the basis of order No. 01128 issued two days earlier by the head of the district of 95th Border Order of Lenin, a detachment of troops of the NKVD of the USSR for the first time after the start of the Great Patriotic War began to protect the State Border of the USSR. The border commandant's office had been just liberated by Soviet troops with the Memel region of East Prussia along the line of the former border of the Lithuanian SSR with Germany: Aukshtupe settlement; 4th border commandant's office - Eish settlement; 5th border commandant's office - Yurburg settlement. _x000D_ Service groups every day engaged in combat with small groups of fascists and saboteurs. This led to inevitable losses in the ranks of the border guards. _x000D_ On October 18, 1944, a Red Army sapper Aleksey Danilovich Sviridov was killed. Alexei had a family, a wife and four young daughters.His wife tried to find out information about the burial place of her husband and some details, but everything was classified, only after many years did she manage to find out something through a search on the Internet.