Branch of troops: Artillery _x000D_ Subdivision: 2nd Infantry Division (2nd formation)_x000D_ _x000D_ My great-grandfather, Iosif Ivanovich Subbotovsky, was born in 1909 in the Novosibirsk region. Mariinsky district, village Raevka in a family of exiled Poles. Almost all of his relatives, parents, sisters and brothers, were repressed in GULAG camps. _x000D_ As his wife mentioned, Emelyanova Anastasia Kuzminichna is my great-grandmother, "Yuzik" was a very kind, sympathetic and respected person, a Soviet officer. He also took part in the Finnish war. After in 1941 he was called to the front, communication with him was lost. My great-grandmother was looking for him for a long time, he was reported missing, but then she received the second death notification: _x000D_ Subbotovsky Joseph Ivanovich of the Guard Jr. Leiutenant, commander of a Rifle platoon, 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the 2 Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, killed in action 08/03/1942, Kalinin region. Rzhev district, village Galakhovo, north-east the outskirts, the forest ... _x000D_ Dry words, a short summary, and a whole life was cut off, even two lives, because my great-grandmother never married again and did not even allow such a thought, she kept living only with memories. She could not betray the memory of her husband and father to her only daughter. She could not betray the daughter who didn't even remember his face, his voice. _x000D_ My great-grandfather was killed near Rzhev, judging by the date, at the notorious for its grandiose losses of the Combat for city of Rzhev, in the first Rzhev-Sychevsk operation (July 30-October 1, 1942) of the Kalinin under the Commander I. S. Konev and Western under the Commander and leader of the entire operation, G.K. Zhukov fronts with the aim of defeating the German 9th Army under the Ccommander, Colonel General V. Model, which was defending in the Rzhev-Vyazemsky ledge. _x000D_ The total losses of Soviet troops in the operation amounted to about 300,000 people, or 60% of the size of the Red Army grouping at the beginning of the operation. Incomplete losses in tanks amounted to about 1085 people. Direct losses of the 30th Army amounted to 99,820 people. My great-grandfather ended the war as the Commander of a Rifle Platoon of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment of the 2nd Guards Motorized Rifle Division.