Branch of troops: Armored and Mechanized troops_x000D_ Our uncle Fedor was supposed to return from the army in 1941. The family was already waiting for him at home, but the war broke out, and Fedor continued his service in the tank forces. He was the Tank Commander. His mother had a strange death notification: "Killed. Missing." The last words left some hope, and Agrafena Gerasimovna was waiting for her son or news about him all this time. And, as it turned out, not in vain. _x000D_ Several years after the war, his younger brother Peter, a military man, made a speech at the congress. After his speech, two strangers approached him: “Did you happen to have an older brother ?” They turned out to be his fellow soldiers. So he found out about the fate of his brother Fedya. _x000D_ When their tank was knocked out, they were captured. Fyodor was wounded, but he could not come to terms with his position, and they tried to escape. The Nazis set dogs on them. The wounded Fedor was left to the dogs to give time for others to flee. Fyodor was torn to pieces. This is the last thing they heard through the shots ... _x000D_ We had never found where he could have been buried, we remember him every time at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Moscow.