Dunze Michael Fedorovich_x000D_ _x000D_ Mikhail Fyodorovich Dunze was born on 30.10.1921 in the village of Vyritsa, Gatchina district, Leningrad region. In 1939. he entered the Leningrad artillery school LAU 3. In July 1941, the early graduation of engineering lieutenants took place. The entire issue was sent to the active army. M. F. Dunze was sent to the South-Western front, commander of the topographic platoon of the 817 artillery regiment, 293 rifle division, 40 army. The first combat task is to prepare and defend the line on the South-Eastern Bank of the Desna river. The fighting in this direction was fierce. This is indicated by the following figures: 293rd SD for December 07-20, 1942 lost 1,441 soldiers killed and missing! For 14 days, almost 1,500 people, 100 soldiers a day, that is, a rifle battalion died in a week, a rifle regiment in 2-3 weeks, and a division in 2 months! There was a bloody "meat grinder"! 1 February 1942. M. F. Donze received a severe wound in the leg. The platoon members carried him out and took their commander to the medical unit. He lost a lot of blood. Thanks to a military surgeon, the leg was not amputated. My father was sent to a hospital in Tomsk, where he was treated until 08.08.1942. Then in September 1942. he was accepted as a student at the military artillery Academy. Dzerzhinsky, who was in evacuation in Samarkand. M. F. Dunse took a full course of study at the faculty of ballistics and graduated from the Academy in 1947. with gold medal. From 1947 to 1951. he was an associate of the Academy, successfully defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of technical Sciences, and became a teacher at the Academy. In 1958, he defended his doctoral dissertation. He was awarded the title of Professor and appointed head of the Department of the Academy. He wrote several monographs and textbooks, and created a school on solid-fuel rocket engines. In 1976, he graduated from the military service with the rank of Colonel of the armed forces of the USSR. Then he taught for 15 years at the Moscow aviation technology Institute. Dunze was awarded two orders of the red Star (#2563016 and # 3224210), the medal "for military merit", the order "for bravery, fortitude and courage shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders and in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" # 4933991 of March 11, 1985, the medal "for victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945" and many other medals.