Date of birth: 24.07.1912_x000D_ Date of death: 24.09.1988_x000D_ History: _x000D_ Alexander Matveev was born on July 24, 1912. Career artillery officer. Served in the Far East._x000D_ He met the Great Patriotic War in the Primorsky territory, in the Ussuri District._x000D_ He began fighting in the 3rd Guards Army on the South-Western Front during the Soviet counteroffensive at Stalingrad from 19.11.1942._x000D_ He took part in the liberation of Lugansk, Zaporozhye, Kiev, Zhytomyr, Berdichev, the liquidation of the Korsun - Shevchenko group (January-February 1944), then Zhytomyr, Novograd-Volynskiy, Rovne, Dubno, Lutsk, Torchin, the Lvov Offensive (Zamostie - Russkie Peski - Sandomirz on the Vistula)._x000D_ January 1945 – a break in the district of Opatów (Poland), the entry on German soil. Approaching the Oder River, the capture of Glogau, of Frankfurt on the Oder, the access to Berlin._x000D_ Participant of the meeting of allies in World War II on the Elbe River._x000D_ On April 30, 1945, an order was given to cross the Elbe River near Riza._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, there was a meeting on the Elbe River with allied troops._x000D_ On May 1, 1945, the order was given to capture the city of Dresden and, on the night of May 1, 1945 British planes (more than 1000 pieces) raided Dresden, which was left in ruins from that raid._x000D_ After our troops fought counter-battles, the Germans concentrated their troops on the defense of Berlin._x000D_ In the South, the Vlasovites remained on the defensive, moving into Czechoslovakia through the Tatra Mountains (the ridge separating Germany and Czechoslovakia)._x000D_ On May 9, our unit approached the city of Prague, and then until May 12, 1945, they smashed the Vlasovites in the area of Benezhev._x000D_ On May 12, 1945 was the Great Victory Day, the celebration of our troops and the Czechoslovak Republic in Prague._x000D_ Chief of technical department of the howitzer artillery regiment of RTK and then the Deputy Chief of technical department._x000D_ Was awarded:_x000D_ two Orders of the Red Banner_x000D_ - Order of the Patriotic War,_x000D_ - Medal For the Capture of Berlin,_x000D_ - Medal For the Liberation of Prague,_x000D_ various medals._x000D_ At the end of the Great Patriotic War, on 31.05.1945, he was sent to the city of Mozdok for further military service._x000D_ Later, he served in the city of Stalingrad (Volgograd), Vinnytsia, and Uryupinsk._x000D_ He finished his military service in Uryupinsk in 1959 with a rank of Major._x000D_ He died on September 24, 1988.