Vanyura Vyacheslav Ivanovich_x000D_ _x000D_ My grandfather was born in a family of teachers Mariya Bonifat’yevna and Ivan Alekseevich. He lived a very dignified, heroic life. My mother, the daughter of Vyacheslav Ivanovich, who was only one year old in 1941, passed my grandfather's autobiography into my hands. Further are the excerpts from this document: "After graduating from seven-year school, I entered the Kharkiv electrical engineering School of the southern railway, after graduating from the technical school from 1938 to 1939, I worked as a duty agent of the accounting Bureau at the Osnova station. In 1939, I voluntarily entered the first Leningrad military Aviation technical school named after K. E. Voroshilov. After graduation, I was sent for further service in the 154 Fighter aviation regiment of Pushkin (Leningrad military district) as an aviation mechanic. The regiment was armed with I-16 aircraft. In the great Patriotic war, I participated from June 22, 1941 until May 9, 1945: from June 22, 1941 to August 21, 1941 as part of the 154 fighter aviation regiment, 39 Fighter aviation regiment of the Leningrad Front, I was an aviation mechanic. On August 21, 1941, when the Germans stormed Pushkin airfield, I was wounded, and after being wounded, I was being treated in the Sverdlov hospital in Leningrad until September 1941. After recovery, I continued to serve in the technical team at the management of the 275 fighter aviation division of the Leningrad Front as an aviation mechanic until 1943, then in the communications link at the management of the 275 fighter Aviation division of the Leningrad Front as a senior aviation mechanic. In 1943, I was transferred to the 196 fighter aviation regiment of the 275 fighter aviation division of the Volkhov Front. In 1944, as part of the 196 fighter aviation regiment of the 324 fighter aviation division, I participated in the defence of the Soviet Arctic. After the defeat of the Germans in the Arctic and Finland's withdrawal from the war, in December 1944, as part of the 196 fighter aviation of 324 regiment of the Svir Red Banner fighter aviation division, he arrived in the Moscow military district to receive materiel. The division was in the reserve of the Main command and was equipped with a new material unit, YAK-9U aircraft. In 1945, I took part in preparations for the Victory Parade as an aviation technician. In December 1945, I was sent to study at the First Leningrad Red Banner military aviation technical school for advanced training of senior technicians of aviation squadrons, from which he graduated in 1946 and was enrolled in military unit 75320, which was renamed the Riga Red Banner Higher aviation engineering military school of the air force named after K. E. Voroshilov. I graduated from this School in May 1952. After graduation, I was awarded the qualification of an air force mechanical engineer for operation." My grandfather's further career was closely connected with aviation in the 43 Air Army in Mirgorod in 1952-1953, then he was sent to the 36655 military unit and served as a senior design engineer. In 1958, the military unit was renamed into military base №.220, and grandfather continued his service as a senior engineer - technologist, assistant to the head of the technical Department. He has been married since 1939. His wife, Miroshnichenko Anna Petrovna, was born on February 3, 1919. Their children are my mother Irina Vyacheslavovna, born in 1940, and her brother Yura, born after the war, in 1951. My grandfather's family lived in Uman, Cherkasy region, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Riga. At the beginning of my story, I said that my grandfather studied all his life. It is also written in his autobiography: "In 1955, I enrolled in the Evening University of Marxism - Leninism, from which I graduated in 1958. From 1960 until 1962, I studied at the philosophical faculty of the Evening University of Marxism - Leninism in the political Department in the military unit. From 1962 to 1974, I worked at the University of International relations as a lecturer, promoter of international relations. Simultaneously, I taught at the People's University." My grandfather was awarded orders and medals. In our family are kept the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Courage", "For military merit", "For the defence of Leningrad", "For the defence of Soviet Arctic", "For the Victory over Germany" medals dedicated to the anniversaries of the Soviet Army and Navy.