Rank: Senior Sergeant. Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized Troops. Subdivision: Artillery Division of the Bryansk Front (Trophy Artillery Division)._x000D_ My great-grandfather Georgy Terentyevich Tikhov finished 7th grade School before the war and entered a technical School as an auto mechanic, graduated with honors. He could drive a tractor, drive a combine and other machines. _x000D_ It happened near Stalingrad, when my great-grandfather served as a communication technician. They received an order to urgently restore communication with the adjoining unit, which was located behind a forest strip, two kilometers from them. They gave me a coil of telephone wire and ordered to carry it out. It was necessary to crawl through the field, which was at gunpoint of the Germans. There were five technicians. They moved very slowly, constantly hiding in the snow, pressed faces to the ground, cursed the enemy and called all the saints. Bullets whistled overhead. For the last meters, great-grandfather was already pulling the cable alone, four soldiers were killed behind. The great-grandfather received the first gratitude from the Commander for the timely, well-established communication. And during his rest hours, he suddenly discovered that his greatcoat had been pierced in two places by bullets at chest level, in front and behind. _x000D_ My great-grandfather and great-grandmother fought on the 3rd Ukrainian Front and passed through Ukraine, Crimea, Austria. They come from the same village, but they never knew each other. They met for the first time at the hospital. Great-grandfather was demobilized only in May 1946. On the way, he contracted typhus and the last fifty kilometers in front of the house, he was taken in the back of a lorry, already unconscious. He was unloaded together with a duffel bag in the hospital yard and assigned to a Separate infectious diseases ward. He woke up on the eleventh day when my great-grandmother was on duty. Georgy Terentyevich Tikhov opened his eyes and saw nurse Maria, delicate, blue-eyed and fair-haired. He looked at her and fell in love. _x000D_ After the war, my great-grandfather Georgy Terentyevich worked for a long time as a driver in the kolkhoz “Rodina”. He transported a wide variety of goods every day. If the sowing campaign began in the spring, the great-grandfathers had to transport the seeds to the fields, and if the grain was harvested in the summer, he transported the grain from the fields to the elevator.