Alexey Gerasimovich Borovskikh was born on February 18, 1918 in a family of village workers. They lived in the town of Stalinsk, Trinity district in the village Gornovoe. His father Gerasim Danilovich Borovskikh was born in 1889 and was engaged on his own farm, bekeeping. In 1917, he fought as a soldier during the October Revolution in St. Petersburg. After the establishment of Soviet Power, he was sent as a blacksmith to restore the village Horovoe. During World War II, he worked in a mine. He brought to life 14 children and raised them to be hard workers. He lived to be 95 years. His mother Agafya Matveevna Borovskikh (Kostyakova), born in 1893, was a Russian housewife. A simple hard-working woman who raised 14 children. Based on the Red Army book, as well as stories told by his children, we recount the following about the life of Alexey Gerasimovich Borovsky. In August 1940, a year before the war, Alexey Gerasimovich started pilot school as a cadet. At this school, they were taught to fly AIR-model airplanes. This knowledge would help him in the future, in the Second World War. In the first wave of volunteers, together with his friends, Alexey Gerasimovich went to the frontlines. However, for unknown reasons, he missed the train. Later it turned out that all his friends who left on that train had died. In July 1941, at the age of 23, Junior Sergeant Alexey left for the war as part of unit No. 187, as a squad commander. Alexey Gerasimovich’s main task was to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the locations of the fascists. Before the start of the battles, or even during them, he had to fly his aircraft very close to the fortifications of the Germans and note the location of soldiers, military fortifications, and military equipment. This was associated with a huge risk, since the plane had to be flown very close to the ground and close to the front. In May 1942, Alexey Gerasimovich was transferred to No. 803 separate reconnaissance artillery division and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. In this division, Alexey Gerasimovich served throughougt the entire war until May 1945. Alexey Gerasimovich Borovsky was awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for bravery, fortitude and courage shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders. There were many other awards, which unfortunately have not reached our time. Immediately after the war with the German invaders, Alexey Gerasimovich continued to defend his homeland as part of unit No. 215 of the independent machine gun and artillery battalion in the rank of senior sergeant. This unit was urgently transferred to the Eastern front for the war with Japan. Troops of the 1st Far Eastern front under the command of Marshal MERETSKOV of the Soviet Union crossed the Ussuri river, broke through Gutowski, Michonski, Pogranichniki, and Daninsky fortified areas of the Japanese, went through remote mountain taiga terrain, advanced 500 miles, and captured cities like Mishan, Jilin, Yanji, Harbin. For exceeding combat, senior Sergeant Alexey Borovskikh Gerasimovich was awarded a COMMENDATION by order of the Supreme Commander of the Generalissimo of the Soviet Union, comrade Stalin (from comrade Stalin's order No. 372 of August 23, 1945). A month later, on September 30, 1945, Alexey Gerasimovich was awarded the medal for the victory over Japan. In November 1945, Alexey Gerasimovich was transferred to the 241 independent reconnaissance artillery division as a field commander, where he served until 1947. After returning from the war, Alexey Gerasimovich got a job as an electric in the city of Stalinsk. In 1948, he met his life partner Maria Matveevna Vasilyeva. The Second World War started on the day of Maria Matveevna’s 18th birthday, since her birthday was on June 22, 1922. Throughout the war, she worked for the good of her homeland for which she was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945". During their life together, they had three children: two sons and one daughter. Alexey Gerasimovich lived to be 74 years (05.01.1993) surrounded by loving children and grandchildren. I am proud of my grandfather, thanks to whom I was born and can tell about his heroism.