Dolgich Ivan Petrovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Until 1940, he lived and studied on a collective farm, then, together with his mother and four brothers, he moved to Baku and got a job. From January 1941, he was assigned to the military enlistment office, where he studied military Affairs-weapons, tactics,and combat. On March 13, 1942, Ivan Petrovich volunteered for the red army. First of all, he was sent to the city of Ordzhonikidze in the airborne brigade, where he took the military oath and studied military Affairs for 12 – 14 hours. They were trained in parachuting, jump training, weapons training, combat tactics, and fire training. In may 1942, he was sent to the North Caucasus front, where he was enlisted as a gunner of the seventy-six millimeter field gun. From June 1942 to January 1943, he was on the defensive of the 32nd Guards red banner rifle division, the 80th Guards rifle regiment, and the seventy-six millimeter cannon division in the Kuban. On August 5, 1943, their regiment went on the offensive and conducted a deep-echeloned defense in the Kuban, liberating the Taman Peninsula and the city of Taman. Then he went along the Kerch Strait, moved to Kerch. On December 4, 1943, Ivan Petrovich was wounded in a fierce and bloody battle and transferred to the Taman Peninsula, where he underwent surgery. After the operation, he was sent to a hospital in Derbent, and then to Baku in a tank training regiment. In may, he graduated from the tank regimental school, after which he went to the second Ukrainian front, to Moldova and to the firing positions near Iasi. On August 20, 1944, at Iasi, he took part in a large – scale, well-prepared Iasi-Kishinev offensive, during which their regiment broke through the front, liberated Moldova and reached the Romanian border, liberating Sibiu, Ploiesti and Focsani. Ivan Petrovich recalls that in Romania they were greeted very cordially and warmly. Then the regiment reached Hungary, where on September 15, Ivan Petrovich was wounded for the second time – two armor-piercing shells hit the tank. After the operation, he was transferred to Luhansk, and then to Kislovodsk, where he lay from November to March. From the memoirs of Ivan Petrovich: "We're sleeping, we don't know anything... at about four in the morning... the nurse found a stick, banging on the door, it almost fell off its hinges. Open the door: - You why, you that?! – she goes: - Guys, the war is over!, - we, as I remember, were lying on the beds, all jumped on this sister, a few minutes were in this state… I can't even tell you." After the war, Ivan Petrovich was sent to Pyatigorsk in a tank training regiment to train as a driver.