Branch of troops: Engineering troops. Subdivision: 26th Guards Rifle East Siberian Gorodok Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. He was born on May 23, 1924 in the village of Bolshaya Otrada, Khvorostyansky District, Voronezh Region. He graduated from the 4th grade of School and worked as a carpenter in the kolkhoz. He was drafted into military service on August 12, 1942 and immediately sent to the 369th Reserve Rifle Regiment as a cadet. The Regiment was stationed near the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi, and was part of the Transcaucasian Front. From November 1942 to July 1944 he served as squad Commander of the 79th Guards Motorized Rifle Red Banner Regiment of the 26th Guards Rifle Division. In July 1944, he was transferred to serve in the newly created new troops Assault Engineer-Sapper Brigades. Sergeant Prokhorov becomes the squad leader of the 42nd Special Engineer and Sapper Battalion of the 9th Assault Engineer and Sapper Novgorod-Khingan Red Banner Order of Kutuzov of the Reserve Brigade of the High Command. In March 1945 he was awarded the medal "For Courage". _x000D_ After the end of World War II, four battalions were transferred to the Far East, where they participated in the assault on the Japanese fortified areas of the Kwantung Army: 9, 5, 20 and 21. He returned home in November 1945. In addition to the medal “For Courage”, he was awarded medals “For Victory over Germany”, "For Victory over Japan" and the Order of the Great Patriotic War, II degree. He was wounded three times, the first time on the day of his draft into the army on August 12, 1942. On February 3, 1943, he was wounded and even had an impaired hearing all his life, and on November 10, 1943 he was seriously wounded in the leg. This shard remained in his leg forever. Returning from the front, he met with Alexandrina Alexandra Pavlovna and on February 11, 1946, they got married. All their lives they honestly worked at the Otrada sovkhoz (Dobrinsky District of the Lipetsk Region), gave birth to eight children, three of whom, unfortunately, did not survive. Two of them died in one year: Alexandra Pavlovna in May, and Boris Nikolaevich in August, 1993.