Vereshchagin Ivan Mikhailovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Military branch: Artillery Occupied Odessa on the eve of liberation. A group of boys aged 14-15 are looking forward to the arrival of our units. And here is the long-awaited day: Soviet troops under the roar of guns enter Odessa... Vanya Vereshchagin did not remember his mother, his father was killed in the fighting near Kharkiv, and his younger brother was raised by his father's sister. And he decides to go to the front. Requests to enlist him as a volunteer in the army are refused everywhere. But he does not deviate from his intention, his hatred for the fascists and love for the Motherland are too great, and, finally, he achieves enrollment in a separate machine-gun and artillery battalion. On June 6, 1944, Ivan Vereshchagin received his first baptism of fire in Moldavia near Iasi. So began his military biography. He serves as a signalman. The unit in which Ivan Mikhailovich Vereshchagin served (106 SK 500 opab 159 UR 4 Ukrf), fought in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Germany. One point: in the front-line documents, he was born in 1930. In the post-war passport, the date of birth was 1929. I remember him saying that he added his age after the war in order to reach adulthood faster, but it is impossible to say exactly where this age difference came from now. "Having been demobilized in 1952, senior reserve Sergeant Ivan Vereshchagin goes on a Komsomol ticket to restore the mines of Donbass destroyed by the Nazis. The country needed coal. Everyone worked regardless of time, and here Ivan needed front-line training. And in 1959 - again on the road. Ivan Mikhailovich goes to the construction of a large chemical plant in Krasnoyarsk, then to the Orenburg region, where he works for three years on the construction of a Nickel-cobalt plant as a crawler crane driver. The end of 1969. The cry rang out across the country: "All - for the construction of KAMAZ, the greatest construction of the ninth five-year plan!" In December, Ivan Mikhailovich was going on vacation, and the Builder's heart pulled him to Naberezhnye Chelny to see what KAMAZ Is. I came, looked, and stayed in Chelny. I didn't want to be on the sidelines of such a great cause. At first, he worked in Spetsstroy, and since mid-1970 In the Department of construction mechanization as a crane driver DEK-25. A high sense of duty and responsibility for the assigned task, great effort and experience distinguished Ivan Mikhailovich in his work. At the Engine plant, he drilled the first wells for drilling piles. At the car Assembly plant, he worked until the complete delivery of the case. For his good work, he was awarded the title of "Drummer of Communist labor" and "Drummer of the ninth five-year plan". He received dozens of certificates and commendations for conscientious work." From an article in the newspaper "Banner of communism" may 14, 1975, Wednesday. - No. 75 (2478). - P. 2.