Full name: SURNAME: Petrov first NAME: Prokopiy PATRONYMIC: Arkhipovich CITY: d.Poluzaozerye Berdyuzhsky district of the Tyumen region DATE of BIRTH: 07.07.1899 DATE of DEATH: 14.12.1970 HISTORY: Military branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border troops My father Petrov Prokopiy Arkhipovich, was born on July 7, 1899 in the village of Poluzaozerye, Berdyuzhsky district. His father, Petrov Arkhip Fomich, was engaged in agriculture and cattle breeding. The family had six children, mark, Procopius, Peter, and Ivan, and two daughters. Prokopiy Arkhipovich married in 1921 the girl he loved. His wife was Remove Thekla Prohorovna was born 18.11 1903. In January 1922, their first child Peter was born, in July 6, 1928, their daughter Valentina was born, and on September 17, 1929, their second daughter Vera was born. They lived in work and provided for their family. In 1938, my father and his family moved to Uvatsky district in d. Homeland. There they had three more children: Ilya on July 27, 1932, Nina on January 12, 1938, and Alexander on October 2, 1940. My father was a boat captain. He was a participant in 2 wars. In the civil war from 1918-1921, he served as a cavalryman in the army of Budyonny, often sent to intelligence . Participated in the battles near the village of Gniloe in Ukraine. After the Civil war, he completed shipping courses in Omsk and worked as a boat captain in the Uvatsky district. He carried cargo and food along the Ob Bay and further to the Nenets. Before the second world war, there was a disaster, there was a terrible flood. The entire village of Rodina was swept away. The water was a 9-meter shaft. One wave goes washes away any house, and the second hits and the house on the logs rolls. Things, furniture, clothes float on the water, everything is teeming, seething, people were gathered on boats, boats went through the streets. My father was on a flight at the time. The mother managed to put three children in a boat and take them to the mountain, and three remained sitting at the window, the water was up to their waists, but someone's boat saved them. After this flood, the War began. My father was taken to the front. Moscow had to be defended. There was a first wound in the leg, they were taken to the hospital by train. German planes flew in, and the entire train was destroyed. My father was thrown back by the blast wave and covered by the corner of the car. He somehow managed to get the answer, find it. Enemy planes descended very low and fired more machine guns at the wounded. When my father was cured, he was sent to the horse guards, because he was a cavalryman in the civil Service. And they were sent mounted against tanks. There are very few survivors. My father survived, but he had a lot of injuries. (From the memoirs of Urzhumova's daughter Nina Prokopyevna)