Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Tsyrenov Balzhimina (1917-1952 years of life). Private, intelligence officer 1941-1943 Don front. My uncle (my father's elder brother, Ochirov Rygzyn Rodnaevich) Tsyrenov Balzhinima was born in 1917 from the marriage of Arsalanov Buda (1881-1934) and Tsyrenova Chimit (1894-1933). Until 1932, he was a huvarak (student) of the Tsugolsky datsan. He was going to become a lama. The elder brother, Budaev Ochirzhab, was the lama of the Tsugolsky Datsan, in connection with the persecution of the church in 1931 he emigrated to China. The family came under repression in October 1933. Mother, Tsyrenova Chimit, in 1933 fell ill from grief and died. At this time, young children died of hunger and cold. The surviving children were taken away by their relatives. Father, Arsalanov Buda, was arrested on October 8, 1933, and in 1934 he died in the dungeons of the NKVD. Tsyrenov Balzhinima after the family repression helped his younger brothers and sister to survive. He worked as a shepherd on the collective farm named after Lazo, from Kulinda, Olovyanninsky district, Chita region. In 1941 he was drafted into the army, served in the east of the country, at the beginning of 1942 he was sent to the front. As you know, in July 1942, during the breakthrough of the Germans to Voronezh, K. K. Rokossovsky was appointed commander of the Bryansk front. In those days, the enemy managed to reach the big bend of the Don and create a direct threat to Stalingrad and the North Caucasus. The front troops covered the Tula direction with their right wing, and the Voronezh direction with their left wing, having the task of holding the occupied line (northwest of Voronezh) and stopping the enemy's advance into the interior of the country. With a counterattack by the troops of the front, Rokossovsky thwarted an attempt by the Germans to expand the breakthrough to the north towards Yelets. Tsyrenov Balzhinima fought in a reconnaissance company in the Voronezh direction. He fought in a reconnaissance company of the 103rd or 113th brigade (commander, chief of staff,? Lazarev). The counteroffensive at Stalingrad began with the forces of the Southwest (under the command of N.F. Vatutin) and the Don fronts (under the command of K.K.Rokossovsky) on November 19, 1942, and the forces of the Stalingrad front (under the command of A.I. Eremenko) on November 20. The task of the Southwestern and Stalingrad fronts was to encircle and destroy the entire fascist group of forces in the Stalingrad direction by combining the troops of both fronts in the area of ​​the city of Kalach. The troops of the Don Front of K.K.Rokossovsky aimed to encircle the fascist grouping together with part of the forces of the Stalingrad Front in Stalingrad itself and on the near approaches to it. In 1943, Tsyrenov Balzhinima was seriously wounded in the arm. He was presented for the award according to his words, but the award never found its hero. Tsyrenov Balzhinima was discharged in the month of May 1943. He returned to his native land, in Transbaikalia. He worked as a shepherd, a foreman of herdsmen on the collective farm named after Lazo, from Kulinda, Olovyanninsky district, Chita region. For selfless labor during the Great Patriotic War, he was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945." Back in 1938, Tsyrenov Balzhinima married Sodnomova Tsymzhit, gave birth to and raised 4 children. The grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren of the brave hero-intelligence officer are growing up.