Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Fought on the Western Front as part of the 20th army, 1170 artillery regiment. From April 1942 to March 1943 it was the gun number for 76 mm cannons. On February 23, 1943, together with his comrade, he restored the broken connection. Already on the way back he was wounded in the back, his friend carried him to the unit. Despite the fact that the military card says "severe wound to the spine", he was incredibly lucky, because the bullet went through almost the entire body, almost without affecting the vital organs. Entering the lower back from the right, she passed the spine, next to the heart, pierced a lung and exited at the left shoulder. Was presented to the Order of the Red Star. The medical personnel who carried him to the rear passed through Moscow, where he lived at the time. And Vasily Mikhailovich ran home to see his parents. At first they considered him a deserter and wanted to put him under a tribunal, but after understanding the situation, they simply sent him to the hospital, but he did not receive the Order of the Red Star. After treatment, art. regiment. From March 1943 to July 1945 he was a computer worker of the Separate Reconnaissance Division of the 1170th Artillery Regiment. After the war, Vasily Mikhailovich returned home to Moscow, entered the university, but could not graduate, because his father was seriously ill and soon died, he had to go to work. He worked at ZIL as a turner, and from August 1947 until his retirement at the Moscow Experimental Thermal Power Plant at the All-Union Thermal Engineering Institute (MoETS VTI), first as a normalizer, then as a senior foreman of a repair and construction department. First of all, he was a wonderful artist. As a boy, he studied at the Surikov School. He was a member of the Moscow Artists' Union. Several of his paintings are kept in the Kolomenskoye Museum. Vasily Mikhailovich loved his family very much. Passed away at the age of 80.