Dvukhsherstnov Vladimir Georgievich_x000D_ _x000D_ Rank: Paramedic. Branch of the armed forces: Military medical staff. My grandfather, Vladimir Georgievich Dvukhsherstnov, was born in the village of Ulanovo in the Medynsky district of the Kaluga region. There were six children in the family – three brothers and three sisters. He was the eldest. Before the war, he graduated with honors from the Kaluga zootechnical technical school and worked as a zootechnician in Tarus. Then he was drafted into the army and sent to study at the Kiev military medical school, graduated in early July 1941, and was sent to Moscow as a military paramedic in the cavalry corps of General Dovator, who participated in the defeat of the Nazis near Moscow. For the courage and heroism shown by the cavalrymen near Moscow, the Dovator corps received the right to be called the guards. During the great Patriotic war, the cavalry corps made raids up to 100 km behind enemy lines, while it destroyed the fascists, their equipment, weapons and food depots, and deprived them of communication. The enemy panicked and retreated. My grandfather took part in horse scouting raids and told me how obedient the horses were. They were as quiet as humans. My grandfather said that they are very sensitive animals and great helpers to people. They had to hide in the scouting, and the horses and men lay quietly in the snow. It was cold, and the horses warmed the people. During heavy fighting, my grandfather not only fought, but also carried out the wounded from the battlefield, provided them with first aid, and worked in a field hospital. The guards cavalry corps, in which my great-grandfather served, traveled thousands of military kilometers from Moscow to Berlin. Great-grandfather was lucky in the war: in all the years of the war, he lost seven horses, and he was never wounded. For courage and bravery, my great-grandfather was awarded two orders of the red star, two medals "for military merit", medals" for the defense of Moscow"," for the liberation of Warsaw"," for the capture of Berlin","for the victory over Germany". After the war, my grandfather continued to serve in the Soviet Army, graduated from the Omsk military medical school and became a dentist. After the end of the service, he returned to Kaluga and until his last days worked in the clinic of the Kaluga turbine plant, where patients called him "our real Aibolit"for his kind heart and Golden hands.Everyone remembers him as a cheerful and hardworking person.