Full name: Petrov Alexander Mikhailovich last NAME: Petrov first NAME: Alexander PATRONYMIC: Mikhailovich CITY: Samara, Kuibyshev district DATE of BIRTH: 25.10.1926 DATE of DEATH: - HISTORY: "He was born in 1926 in the city of Samara (Kuibyshev district). Graduated from the 7 classes. As a seventeen-year-old boy, he was drafted into the army in 1943. In the house of pioneers, there were circles where I studied auto business. The army took into account that I was a little familiar with technology, so I was sent to the Penza region, the village of Bessonovka, to the 5th automobile training regiment. There I also began to study cars. When our troops were already in Ukraine, our battalion was assigned there, in the city of Romny. They settled in the barracks of the German fascists. In March 1944, we were sent to the city of Naro-Fominsk, near Moscow. We received new equipment from America - an American M15 armored personnel carrier. Loaded into echelons in early April 1945. We arrived in Germany, unloaded, and the Germans bombed us there. Many died. The equipment was out of order; this armored personnel carrier was expensive. It had three barrels: a cannon and two large-caliber machine guns-the planes were fired at. Then they send me to Moscow to save my equipment. There I got a new car, where there were already 4 large-caliber machine guns hitting one point, the gun was no longer there. America delivered these armored personnel carriers to us via Iran. Just before the end of the war, around may 1, we were loaded into the train, and we went again. We thought about going back to the front, didn't say anything, kept everything a secret. We reach Irkutsk on may 9, when our commanders told us that we were going to the East. They arrived in Chita when Stalin and Churchill decided to go against Japan, which was the aggressor. Then the commander of the battalion were assigned someone to send there, the Sakhalin, Vladivostok, Mongolia. We were sent to Mongolia, and then to Manchuria, which was occupied by Japan. In Mongolia, the city of Choibalsan, we settled for 3 months. Then the plane arrived, we were built and read the order to cross the border. And we went to fight in Japan. Here I fought, and here, after the surrender of Japan, we ended the Second world war. After that, I served in Mongolia for a year. For 30 years, he served in the missile forces, was demobilized, and worked at an Aircraft factory." Lives with his wife, Stepanida Petrovna Belozerova, in Ulan-Ude.