Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of military: Army, Air Forces (except marine aviation), Coast Guards, the troops of the NKVD, Border Guards. Korogodin Vasily Fedorovich. In boots with windings, with a duffel bag and a three-line rifle over his shoulder, from C. Yarishche to Saburovo, walked in February-March 1943 V. F. Korogodin. "I would go further, but... Vasily Fedorovich is an amazing storyteller, a trusting interlocutor. You will involuntarily listen to it about your past life, about people. Talkative old man: - I did not think to be in the war, not only did I think so alone, so I had to meet the Nazis firsthand and where - in my village, - recalls V. F. Korogodin. — Long before the Germans entered Drovosechnoe, we were already affected by the war: the evacuation of public property and livestock, receiving funerals from the front by relatives. It was hard. Very. I had to smell the gunpowder in that war in the battles of young and old, men and women, what to say. Like it or not, you will not give your share in life. — I went to the front, left my wife with five young children." After seven days of training, V. F. Korogodin was enlisted in a rifle regiment as a private. Walking along the military road. Medvedeva on the mountain, behind the village Podkopaeva, Maloarkhangel district, received the first baptism of fire. The 505th regiment advanced with fighting, though slowly. Pleshcheevo, Gubkino and other localities of the Oryol region were liberated with fierce fighting. - And here is Saburovo not far away, across the river. We stopped not for a break, but to strengthen the front line with trenches and anti-tank ditches. And they dug them from each other through 10-20 meters to the front line both day and night. At night, Korogodin participated in sorties on the front line of the enemy. Their group of 7 fighters spent about three hours at the enemy trenches in Saburovo, scouting the location of firing points. During the withdrawal, they came under artillery fire and machine-gun fire. They did not throw two wounded soldiers on the battlefield, but dragged them to their location crawling on their masks. They brought valuable information for the command. On March 6, we received an order to start breaking through the German defense in the area of Saburovo. At about 6 am, artillery preparation began — Katyusha guns, long-range and close-range weapons were launched… After a while, our stormtroopers processed the front line of the German defense. And then a chain of T-34s crawled, and the rifle divisions of our regiment moved after it. Bravely, bravely, boldly our soldiers fought for their Homeland, for Orlovshina, not sparing their lives! Ahead, of course, the Communists……Vasily Fedorovich regained consciousness in a mobile medical unit. The lower jaw is tied up, the mouth can't open, and I wanted to say something, I couldn't...So, the soldier thought, everything is lost in my life, since there is no jaw. But he was reassured by the doctor, a kind woman: "there Is no reason to worry, everything will be fine, everything will be fine." She washes almost completely torn off part of the face and quietly talks to him. In the Chelyabinsk hospital, both teeth and tongue were repaired, and the lower half of the head was sewn in place. "Yes, they sewed it on and tied it to the top, but what does it feel like for me," Vasily Fyodorovich continues, " neither to take food, nor to talk… And they fed me through a pacifier, like a small child, for almost two months, thin porridge and tea. Vasily Fedorovich received the gratitude of the Supreme commander-in-Chief and six awards of the Motherland at home, after the hospital. And the first salute of Moscow in honor of the liberation of the Oryol region was heard in Chelyabinsk. And he thought that this is a salute not only for the victory over the enemies of the survivors, but also the memory of those who died on our Oryol land. Kutepov, Selkor.State Farm.