Vysogorets Mikhail Amsovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Captain military Branch: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Mikhail Amosovich was born on 02.12.1920 in d. Dukhovschina, now D. Strezevo Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus, in a peasant family, in addition to his family was brother Victor and sister Nina. In 1940, he graduated from the Vitebsk teachers ' Institute. In the red Army since 1941. In the same year, he graduated from the Moscow military engineering school. As part of the cadet companies, he had to take a baptism of fire, repelling the onslaught of the enemy on the outskirts of the capital. Cadets of the school fought near the cities of Yaroslavets, Yukhnov, Naro-Fominsk. He fought in the Primorye army, on the Voronezh, first Ukrainian, and first Belorussian fronts. Participated: - in performing special tasks to blow up important objects in the rear of enemy troops in the Kaluga region. In December 1941, he was sent as a commander of a sapper platoon to the first guards tank army. He had a chance to liberate the Northwestern cities of the Moscow region from the Nazis. At the front since 1942. The commander of the engineering company of the 13th guards separate motor engineering battalion (17th motor engineering brigade, 1st guards tank army, 1st Ukrainian front) of the guards, captain Vysogorets, in July-August 1944, when crossing the Western bug, San and Vistula rivers under enemy fire, supervised the construction of bridges, and by personal example inspired the soldiers to speed up all engineering work. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on 23.09.1944. After the war, he was dismissed to the reserve. Left for g. Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region, graduated from a construction College, worked as the head of the production and technical Department of the Mine construction Department No. 8 of the kuibyshevugol trust. Since 1974, he lived in the village of Shakhovskaya in the Shakhovsky district of the Moscow region. Before retiring, he worked as the head of the production and technical Department of PMK-287. Then, since 1982-Deputy chief physician of the Central district hospital. He died on 22.04.1996. Buried in d. Strezevo Beshenkovichi district, Vitebsk region of the Republic of Belarus.