Rank: Corporal. Branch of the service: Ground Forces. Subdivision: 145th Rifle Vitebsk Red Banner Division. Before the war he lived on the territory of the Kirov Region, presumably his family was dispossessed and sent to the Urals. Around the 1930s, they returned to the Kirov Region, the birthplace of their eldest daughter (1929), my great-grandmother, is the village of Isupovshchina (Isupovskaya) in the Prosnitsky District of the Kirov Region. Father: Starodumov Konstantin Ivanovich. Brothers: Alexander, Nikolai (born in 1897), Gregory (1910-1942, missing). Wife: Starodumova (Dudina) Claudia Mikhailovna (1906) Children: Starodumova (Meteleva) Tamara Vasilievna (1929-2006), Starodumova (Kreknina) Larisa Vasilievna (1930 ...), Starodumova (Kreknina) Faina Vasilievna (1934 gr), Starodumov Modest Vasilievich (1936), Starodumova (Tselischeva) Lilia Vasilievna (1939). Vasily Konstantinovich found the war at the age of 42, was drafted into the Red Army in October 1941, in the Great Patriotic War from March 1942. The entire combat path passed as part of the 403 Rifle Regiment of the 145th Rifle Vitebsk Division (2nd formation), liberated the territory of the Latvian SSR as part of the Baltic Front. _x000D_ On December 21, 1944, he died from many wounds received during the breakthrough of the enemy's defenses in the area of the village of Pusari. A death notice was sent to the family. He was awarded four times, no awards have been presented. _x000D_ Several times, starting from about 1975, the children and grandchildren of Vasily Konstantinovich visited the mass grave No. 617 on the Sharideshi farm of the Latvian SSR, where my great-great-grandfather was buried together with other defenders, met with the a medic and his colleagues who were with him in the last days of his life. At present, there is no information on the preservation of mass graves on this farm.