the village of Emurtla. He died in 1989. From the memoirs: “I went to serve in the regular army in 1932. When he was leaving, my father told me: "If there is a war with Germany, then avenge for me, but don't surrender!" He fought in 1914. with German troops, was captured and spent 2 years there, and at the end of 1916 fled. I knew all the difficulties of being in captivity not by hearsay, so he told me so. He served in the Far East in the railway regiment in the city of Svobodny. After the service he lived in the village. Masali, worked as a driver on a collective farm. When the Great Patriotic War began, from the first day he got to the Far East in the Khabarovsk District. In 1942 ended up at the front near Kursk as part of the Ussuri division of the NKVD border troops. When we passed the city of Kursk, we saw a large ashes. Local residents who survived said that the Nazis drove women, old people, children into the barn, closed them, doused them with gasoline and burned them. We had to fight off many attacks. In 1943. During the battle, I was wounded in both legs and was treated in a hospital in the city of Bogoruslan, Kuibyshev region for more than three months. After the hospital he went to Bryansk, in the infantry. They liberated the cities of Bryansk, Gomel, Nezhensk. We reached Minsk, where the reorganization took place. I became a chauffeur. Their army was transferred to the 1st Ukrainian Front. We arrived in Rovno, and from there we went to Poland. I worked in trucks at the division headquarters. " On the morning of July 11, 1944. I accompanied the division commander and the colonel in a truck with security and boxes with valuable documents. We drove around the divisions, and when they began to return, we got lost in the forest. We drove straight to the rear to the Nazis. The German infantry was asleep, and when they woke up, they rushed to run. Then they came to their senses and started shooting. There was a rye field nearby. The car with the commanders drove into the rye, and I remained in the clearing. I began to turn around, but the soldiers yelled at me to stop. They jumped up and ran into the rye. I had a reconnaissance major in my cockpit, he also jumped out. I was left alone and the Germans decided to take me prisoner. And then I remembered the words of my father: "Do not surrender alive!" I could not leave the car, because it contained secret documents. I took the machine gun, sat behind the wheel and started shooting back, then jumped into the car, and when it started, a bullet hit my shoulder. I could not go and fell out of the cab. I tried to get into the car again, but my head was so dizzy that I could not even get into it. I crawled to the nearest hollow, where our soldiers picked me up. I lost a lot of blood, I was out of memory. But he managed to warn that there were important documents in the car. After this incident, I went to the hospital, stayed there for 4 months, after which I was sent to the rear. I could no longer fight because of my injury, so I was sent to the Labor Army. The division in which I fought was not far away and I volunteered to return to duty. They gave me my old car again, it was all punctured. I fought on it in Poland, in Germany. He finished the war in Breslavl. I was awarded the Order of the Red Star, the Medal For Courage. Received gratitude for the capture of the city of Breslavl and for the crossing of the Oder. " After the war he lived in the village of Yemurtlinsky, worked as a driver at the state farm "Yemurtlinsky". Buried in the village Emurtla.