Born in 1911, far from the southern Urals. Place of birth – city of Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Region. Before the military service, he worked as a turner, and graduated from school in grades seven. Date of conscription - still a peaceful time in the USSR - February 21, 1940. He went through the war from beginning to the end, and endured many ordeals – harsh battles, partisan struggle, the horrors of the first concentration camp, and unjust exile. During his service, he received the rank of Lieutenant and served in the 457th combat regiment. During the war, Mikhail was the Political Officer of a company of the Vorobyov Partisan Detachment and in November 1942 went missing. He went to Dachau – one of the first concentration camps in Germany. All his hands and feet were scarred – because he had escaped from the camp twice, but the Nazis sent dogs on his trail, which tore him alive and dragged him back. This horror lasted for three years, until April 1945, when US soldiers broke into the camp and libirated the prisoners. For another month, he sat on the territory of the camp and waited for the documents to be made for him, so that he could finally return home. But it was not that simple. After all, if one was in a concentration camp, he could give up all his secrets and betray his homeland. Before the war, he was married, but to protect himself, his wife refused him. He walked to the Krasnodar Region, in a ragged robe, weighed only 45 kg. Only then did he learn that he no longer had a wife, and that his own sister was forbidden to talk to him. After three days, he was sent to exile in Chelyabinsk. For a half of his life he tried to prov that he was not an enemy of the people and that he was taken prisoner unconscious. In Chelyabinsk, he met his second wife. His story ended well – he had two daughters and several grandchildren. He finaly was rehabilitated. All his awards and titles were returned, for example, the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree. Died from the effects of the war. One of Dachau's favorite tortures was the vacuum. Its purpose was to study the strains that German pilots could face at high altitudes or when landing with an unexpected drop in pressure and a decrease in oxygen content. Mikhail was paralyzed for the third and last time on October 19, 1986.