CITY: city of Astrakhan DATE OF BIRTH: 07/11/1923 DATE OF DEATH: 10/21/1995 HISTORY: Title: Sergeant Type of troops: Artillery Aleksandrov Konstantin Yakovlevich was born in 1923 in Astrakhan. In addition to him, there were two more children in the family - the elder brother Ignat ( 1911) and sister Lydia (1926). Before the war, Konstantin finished 7 classes of high school, worked, like his older brother, at a construction site. When the war began, their father was no longer alive. In the fall of 1941 Ignat was called up. Konstantin worked in the rear for another year until he was 18 years old, and in the summer of 1942 he was also drafted by the Stalinist Military Commissariat, Astrakhan. At this time, the Battle of Stalingrad began, and young soldiers who were not fired were taught the basics of military science in their training fate, then they were sent to harvest in the fields, then again to training, and only after the end of the Stalingrad operation in the winter of 1943 they were sent to the front. Like Ignat, Konstantin became an artilleryman, only he served not in the cavalry, but in the motor artillery as a gunner of a 76-mm anti-tank gun as part of the 1250th Order of Lenin of the Sevastopol Fighter Anti-Tank Artillery Regiment, the 35th Separate Fighter-Anti-Tank Artillery Sevastopol Brigade of the High Command Reserve Brigade. Konstantin fought from Krasnoperekopsk to Sevastopol, liberated the Crimea, liberated the Baltic states, took part in the battles for the capture of Konigsberg, participated in the defeat of the Japanese in Mongolia. According to order no .: 19 / n of November 18, 1944, Konstantin was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" for the fact that "in a fierce battle near the village of Tolzo in Estonia, under the fire of the Nazis, he brought shells to a gun standing on direct fire, and this provided fulfillment of the assigned combat mission ". A month later, by order No. 20 / n of December 25, 1944, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the fact that "in the battle for the city of Valmiera in Latvia, he replaced the wounded gunner and destroyed 1 machine gun and two German infantry squads with direct fire." Two months later, on February 14, 1945, in heavy bloody battles for the Prussian city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) near the village of Maraunen Konstantin, "while repelling the enemy's counterattack, despite the strongest shelling of the Nazis, coolly pointed a gun and shot the advancing German infantry point-blank." As a result, the fire of his guns "destroyed 20 enemy soldiers and officers and repelled a counterattack. Continuing to fire," Junior Sergeant Aleksandrov helped our infantry move forward and occupy an advantageous line. For courage, courage and skillful actions in battle, he was presented with the Order of the Red Star, but in fact he was awarded the second medal For Courage (Order No. 3 / n of February 28, 1945). For military services, in addition to the above, Konstantin was also awarded medals "For the capture of Konigsberg", "For victory over Germany", "For victory over Japan" (order of June 09, 1945), the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree (archive doc No. 89 of 04/06/1985, Order No. 3285750 - stolen, like one of the medals "For Courage"). The long-awaited Victory Day on May 9, 1945, Konstantin met in Konigsberg with the rank of sergeant, but was demobilized only in September 1947 in Mongolia. After the war, he returned to his sister and mother in Mariupol, in the fall of 1947. entered a worker at the Mariupol fish plant. He was sent to a 6-month course for marinade masters and fish processing masters, after which he became an assistant master in the Shirokino fish shop (Shirokino village, Novoazovsky district, Donetsk region). He married Nikolayenko Ekaterina Semyonovna. In 1954 he was sent for a year to study at the Riga Fish Technical School, specializing as a master technologist of the fishing industry. Lived and worked as a caviar master in the village of Shirokino. Three children: Ivan (born 1953), Olga (1955-1958), Elena (born 1959). He died in 1995, was buried in the village of Shirokino