CITY: D. Wisla DATE OF BIRTH: 01/01/1924 DATE OF DEATH: 09/14/1943 HISTORY: Title: Red Army. My husband's grandfather is Sergey Filippovich Lapshin, born in 1924. When the Great Patriotic War began, he lived in the village of Gasino. His father - Lapshin Philip Matveyevich was sent to the front in 1941, then Sergei was still 17 years old. He stayed at home, where his mother, three little brothers and two older sisters went through the war with him. A year later, the funeral came - my father died, went missing. As it turned out later, he was blown up by a mine in a field when the Germans were advancing. So trouble came to their house. In the summer of 1942, and he goes to war. While the training and preparation of young guys - future soldiers - was underway, he was in the Vistula village, not far from Kotelnich. There was hunger, they were fed very poorly, they ate frozen cabbage. Then his mother - Lapshina Anna Nikolaevna - collected the parcel. Everything that was edible in the house was decided to be sent to Sergei. In winter, his mother and fiancee set off in sandals for three hundred kilometers on foot, carrying a roll of food on a sled. The path was long and dangerous, I had to stop in the nearest villages for the night. But, fortunately, no one offended them, and they were able to deliver the package to Sergei and meet him. This was their last meeting. Soon he was sent to the front. He did not have to serve for long ... Red Army soldier Lapshin Sergei Filippovich died heroically. On September 14, 1943, on the battlefield, he carried his wounded comrade and himself received a severe wound from which he died. His friend survived. When the second death notice came to the house, his mother, who experienced severe mental pain, burned all the letters, even the death notice was thrown into the oven .. The exact place of his burial is unknown, we know he was just buried on the river bank. But which one? - now it is already unknown ... He was only 18 years old. There was nothing left but tiny photographs with their images and eternal memory and gratitude to them for their heroic deed and death for our future