There is a lot of information about the Great Patriotic War in our family, all my great-great-grandfathers were in one way or another its participants. My great-great-grandfather, Grigory Sergeevich Ishkin, took a direct part in it. My great-great-grandfather was called to the ranks of the Red Army on October 26, 1941, having received the rank of a Red Army soldier, served as a driver of a separate company of the Directorate of the 15th Engineer-Mine Brigade of the RGK. At the time of the call, the great-great-grandfather already had a family: two sons and a daughter, who were in the rear throughout the war (beyond the Volga River in the Yaroslavl Region) and were looking forward to the return of their father, overcoming all the difficulties and hardships that befell the family. According to my mother, grandfather Nikolai, the son of Grisha's great-great-grandfather, told her that the grandfather's family often starved, there were difficulties in everything, and beyond the river the rumble of exploding bombs and shells was still constantly heard. But nothing broke them. From February 24, 1942. Until September 14, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the Western Front. In March 1943, the great-great-grandfather was awarded the medal "For Courage" for the excellent performance of the command's combat missions for the delivery of mines to the engineering units of the 3rd Guards Army operating on the front line. The great-great-grandfather's car fell into the zone of enemy machine-gun fire, but thanks to the patience and resourcefulness of the grandfather, the cargo and personnel were delivered to the place at the specified time without loss. From November 3, 1942, Grisha's great-great-grandfather fought on the South-Western Front. During an enemy air raid on March 27, 1944 in the city of Rivne, the great-great-grandfather took his car from the damaged place with a valuable cargo to a safe place, unloading the car, quickly arrived at the scene of the fire and continued to evacuate the injured comrades from the bombing site under the bombardment. At the same time, there were no accidents and breakdowns of military equipment, as well as losses among the fighters. For this, on April 30, 1944, his great-great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. As the great-great-grandfather Grisha himself told his granddaughter, my grandmother Sveta, during the war he took part in the delivery of goods to besieged Leningrad along Ladoga, drove some general across the melting ice and so that the general did not doubt his professionalism, the grandfather nailed him his driver's door of the "lorry" GAZ-MM, making it clear that he would definitely take the general. For corporal Grigory Sergeevich, the war ended in Czechoslovakia without a single wound, after which he returned to his family in the Yaroslavl region, where he lived for many more years. The story is told by great-great-grandson, Leonid Afanasiev .