Before the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he lived in Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR, worked in a mine. At the beginning of the war he received a reservation. Rescuing children from the occupation, he moved to the Kirovograd region of the Ukrainian SSR, but ended up in the occupied territory. In 1944 he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He fought in 267th Guards Rifle Regiment as a machine gunner. When forcing the river. The spree suppressed the firing points of the fascists, which helped our units to cross the river, grandfather was the first to break into the mint and destroyed up to 25 fascists, which gave our units the opportunity to seize the mint building. _x000D_ He was awarded the Order of the Red Star. Other awards "For Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany". _x000D_ As the man who went through the war, my grandfather did not like to talk about the war. Only once did he tell me about the reconnaissance in force by their recon unit. They were given the combat mission to cross a small river in order to clarify the enemy's firing positions. 98 people entered the combat with the Nazis, and only two survived, including my grandfather. _x000D_ My granddad said: "The Nazis opened such fire on us that only rags remained of our clothes." A very small fragment from many days of that terrible war, but it says a lot. Grandfather graduated from the war with the rank of Sergeant.