Velikotsky Porfiry Fedorovich_x000D_ Rank: senior Lieutenant. _x000D_ Branch of service: Army, Air Force, the Coast Guard, thе Soviet NKVD, the Border Guard._x000D_ _x000D_ My father, Porfiry Fedorovich Velikotsky, was born on February 24, 1912 in the village of Velikotsk in the Lugansk region of Ukraine. There were six children in the family, my parents died very early. The whole family was raised by my grandmother, and the family of my older brother Ivan too. After the age of 16, my father went to work in the geological exploration party at the Kursk magnetic anomaly, from where he was brought to the Soviet army in 1934. He served as a border guardian in the Sestroretsk border guard unit. Later, he decided to stay long-term service. In 1939, he married my mother. June 22, 1941, my father took over the daily duty of the unit. My mother was pregnant. _x000D_ When Molotov made an official statement about the attack of the Soviet Union by fascist troops, the families of border guardians were evacuated first to Leningrad, and then – further to Volga river, to Stalingrad. _x000D_ My father fought all the way from the Soviet-Finnish border to Berlin. He was wounded twice. The first time after being wounded in Leningrad, he was so exhausted that he was taken to the morgue by a mistake... Quite accidentally a nurse found him, realized he was alive and carried him back to the ward. This was the period of the Siege of Leningrad. In 1944, during the defense of the Karelian isthmus, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree for his documented exploits. _x000D_ From February 1942 to December 1944, he fought on the Leningrad front, first in the ranks of the 176th rifle regiment, and then in the 340th rifle regiment as part of the 46th Luzhskaya red banner order of Suvorov 2nd class division._x000D_ From December 1944 to may 1945, he was on the 2nd Belorussian front. Dad ended the war in Germany, with the rank of first Lieutenant. Together with the group of Soviet troops he stayed in Schwerin, where in 1945 he brought his wife, who in October, 1941 gave birth to a son later died in Stalingrad from exhaustion. _x000D_ In 1946, my parents returned to Sestroretsk. At first, in order to get housing, dad worked as the head of the housing Office, and since 1951, the district party Committee of Sestroretsk sent him to serve the police. At first, he worked as a criminal investigator in the Sestroretsky police Department. Health problems affected him hard caused by the difficulties suffered during the war. He was appointed a district police Commissioner. And until November 1970, my father was a district inspector in the village. _x000D_ He retired as a police captain in November 1970, and in April 1971 we got an apartment in Leningrad. Since 1973, my father became seriously ill and in 1984, September 1st, he died of a heart attack.