Dubrov Gavriil Nikolaevich_x000D_ _x000D_ Gavriil Nikolaevich Dubrov in 1942, having received a certificate of secondary education, was called up by the Apanasenkovsky RVC in the Red Army and sent to the training regiment of Junior commanders. After taking the oath of office, with the rank of senior Sergeant, squad leader, as part of a marching company, he was sent to the 876th artillery regiment. He went through the battle path from the great Russian river Volga to Berlin. Gavriil Nikolaevich said that the battles at the front were difficult and bloody, but for him they were the most brutal on the Kursk bulge in July 1943 and the Berlin operation in April 1945. - On the Kursk bulge there was a deadly battle from sunrise to dark. Guns and mortars thundered. Everything was shaking from the roar of tanks and exploding shells and mines. There were hundreds of planes in the air, and everything was on fire. After heavy artillery and air training, field communications were disrupted, and it was necessary to restore it in hell, losing signalmen in open areas, under the bullets of enemy machine guns and mortars. On July 12, 1943, we launched a counteroffensive and liberated the city of Orel on August 5. Then there were bloody battles during the crossing of the Dnepr, the liberation of Kalinovichi, Bobruisk, Kovel, Lublin, the crossing of the bug river, the Vistula, the liberation of Warsaw and the storming of Berlin. In defeated Berlin, Gavriil Dubrov and his military friends signed on the walls of the Reichstag: "Stavropol residents, the victory is ours". Gavriil Nikolaevich Dubrovu had the honor to participate in the first post-war Victory Parade in Berlin in June 1945 in the area of the Reichstag and the Brandenburg gate. The parade was hosted by Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov, commander-in-Chief of the group of Soviet troops in Germany. Gavriil Dubov is also a participant in the Victory Parade in Moscow on red square in honor of the 55th anniversary of the great Victory over Germany.