Alexander Timofeevich Satanin. .....1922 - 19.12.1992 My family has memories of several participants of the Great Patriotic War. One of them was my great-grandfather from my grandfather's side (my father's father) Alexander Satanin. He was born in 1922 in the village of Obval of the Tamalinskiy District of the Penza Region. On the eve of the war, he left for the Sverdlovsk Region to join his brother to study at a technical school. But the destiny has disposed differently. Instead of a technical school, my great-grandfather entered the Cherkassy Infantry School, which during this period was relocated from Ukraine to the city of Sverdlovsk and became the 2nd Sverdlovsk Infantry School. My great-grandfather's studies were short-lived. Soon he got to the front. It was during this period that the most important in the history of the Great Patriotic war battle of Stalingrad began. It took place on the territory of the modern Voronezh, Rostov, Volgograd Regions and the Republic of Kalmykia from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943. The German offensive lasted from July 17 to November 18, 1942, its goal was to capture the big bend of the don, the Volga-Don isthmus and Stalingrad (today Volgograd). The implementation of this plan would block transport links between the central regions of the USSR and the Caucasus, and create a springboard for a further offensive to capture the Caucasian oil fields. In July and November, the Red Army managed to force the Germans to be bogged down in defensive battles. In November and January, it encircled German troops as a result of operation Uranus, repeled the deblocking German attack "Wintergevitter" and squeezed the encirclement ring to the ruins of Stalingrad. The encircled group capitulated on February 2, 1943. This victory marked the beginning of a "radical turning point" in the war. According to the number of irretrievable losses (killed, died of wounds in hospitals, missing) of the warring parties, the battle of Stalingrad was one of the bloodiest in the history of mankind: 478,741 people. The number of dead civilians could not be determined even approximately, but the count is no less than tens of thousands. During the battle of Stalingrad, my great-grandfather was seriously wounded. A young Tatar saved him from death by carried him out of the ruins. Then there was a long recovery in a hospital in Saratov. Unfortunately, after that, Alexander could no longer fight, he was sent to the rear and continued to work there. For his services, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree. Alexandra Satanina 10A MAOU "Lyceum #29" Tambov.