Rank: Senior Sergeant. _x000D_ Division: 328th Infantry Division (1st Formation). _x000D_ _x000D_ I know very little about my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich. All that the grandmother had time to tell was that he went to the war very quickly. A 26-year-old boy left to fight for his wife and daughter. We come from the Voronezh region of Semiluki, which stands on the right bank of the Don. It was from there that his combat path began. I don’t know the details of my grandfather’s service, my grandmother didn’t tell, the letters from the front also didn’t survive, I was just waiting for him all my life. We, all the relatives, just knew that my grandfather was missing. _x000D_ I am his grandson, Malykhin Alexander Ivanovich, for the last 2 years I have been collecting grains of everything that can be found in archives and websites, my grandfather Tkachev Ivan Vladimirovich served in the rank of Senior Sergeant in 328 Rifle Division under the command of Major General Peter Antonovich Eremin. His position was squad leader. The Division was stationed near Staraya Russa not far from Lake Ilmen, his combat path began from there. Then the Division was transferred to the Tula region near Bogoroditsk. There, the Division took part in the combats with the armored forces of Guderian as part of the Western Front. Then the Division of the ball was transferred to the Kaluga region in the Sukhinichi area. He took part in the combats near Kozelsk. Then he fought from Sochi to Krymsk, and in August 1943 they were transferred to Ukraine in Lugansk. Through Donetsk, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, the 328 Rifle Rifle, which included my grandfather, goes to Kiev, and participates in combats near Kiev in the area of the settlement of Belgorodok. _x000D_ It all what was possible to find out after studying the combat reports of the 328th Rifle Division. The last news from him was received from the Zhytomyr region, Lutovsky district. _x000D_ There was a state notification that Tkachev I.D. born in 1915, missed in military action.