One of the "Missing"_x000D_ War. A terrible and difficult time._x000D_ It is rare to find a family in our country that was not touched by it. Family photo albums keep the memory of the great fighters who fought for Motherland. Stories about the feat of the Soviet people are being passed from mouth to mouth. By May 9, children and adults carry flowers to the memorials. This is really a real holiday, which we celebrate even after 70 years with tears in our eyes. There is a monument to those who died in the terrible battles of the Great Patriotic War in every city, in every small village. On thousands of obelisks, you can see millions of names of soldiers and officers who defended the independence of our country. But among this list there is no surname of my great-grandfather, Vasily Semyonov. He is still missing... The Shaturskiy District Military Commissariat called up by in August 1941. For several months, he wrote letters from the front to his wife and children, and then he disappeared... for 74 years. Until the last day, my grandmother, his daughter, hoped that he was alive. She was waiting for him for many years. Children grew up, grandchildren grew up, and everyone was waiting for Vasiliy. We believed to the last that he had somehow managed to escape, perhaps even settled on another continent… They even hoped that he had another family, but only if he was alive. I did not know my great-grandfather, nor did my mother (his granddaughter) found him, but we were always interested in his fate. We wanted to know what had happened to him. After all, there had been no news of him since October 1941. Information about the great-grandfather appeared recently. A couple of years ago, I once again monitored sites with archives of the Second World War and on one of them came across documents that put an end to our search, which lasted several decades. Information about my great-grandfather appeared on the website of OBD Memorial. At some point, I noticed that there appeared data about POW camps (stalags). I went to this page and ... saw "Semenov"... “Ryazan”. My mother came running at my shout. - Found! We found my grandfather! My mother has tears in her eyes... Grandpa was watching us from the monitor...He was thin, in a camp uniform, and held his number in his hands. At the beginning of the war, he was captured, then in Stalag 321 Arbca. The Germans meticulously recorded all the data about the great-grandfather: height, weight, hair color, fingerprints and a lot of other information. Even his mother's maiden name was indicated! There was also information about where my great-grandfather was buried, in the cemetery next to Stalag. Most likely, he died of typhus. I found out about the OBD Memorial website 5 years ago. This generalized data Bank contains information about the defenders of the Fatherland, who died and went missing during the Great Patriotic War, as well as in the post-war period. Its creators did a great job and created a huge archive of the dead. The OBD Memorial website has given our family a new history. Gave us our grandfather. Finally, the seal of a person "with an unknown fate" has been removed from his name. We will print out the last photo of my great-grandfather. Now it will be passed down from generation to generation along with the story of the Great War.