Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Artillery He got to the front after Bryansk region was liberated in September 1943. Having suffered in Nazi captivity from the atrocities of the Nazis, the guys themselves came to the newly organized military registration and enlistment offices. He comes from the small village of Baikovo, near Karachev. He helped bring shells to the artillerymen when there were fierce battles for Karachev. In the army, he was assigned to a rifle unit. After two weeks of training, they sent a submachine gunner to the front with a marching company. In a respite between battles, when their part was taken to rest, the artillery commanders who came to them took away several people. So he became an artilleryman. He was short, but nimble, quick-witted, he caught military training on the fly. In the battles for Vitebsk, he was already appointed the gunner of the 76-mm gun. In the summer of 1944, their artillery regiment of the 30th rifle division was all the time in the combat formations of the infantry, supporting the advancing companies and battalions with fire. Especially fierce battles unfolded on the outskirts of the city of Borisov. The fascists in one of the sectors of our defense launched a counteroffensive. The rifle company was pushed aside. But further the gunners did not allow them to advance. The battery was at the forefront of the enemy attack. The explosions of shells and mines, the whistle of machine-gun bursts did not stop, did not pin down our gunners. Neglecting the danger, Khokhlov, with his crew, quickly rolled the gun out of cover in his hands and began to shoot the enemy infantry with direct fire, suppressed several machine-gun nests. The fascists could not stand such a friendly fire, Seeing the support of the artillerymen, our infantry rose in a swift attack. On that day, they drove the enemy for more than ten kilometers. He took part in the liberation of the Belarusian city of Molodechno, the Lithuanian city of Alytus, near the Pillau fortress on the Baltic coast. For several days, infantry, artillery, naval paratroopers destroyed the encircled group of Nazis on the narrow sandy spit of Frisch Nerung. Already when the battle subsided, a shell that exploded a few steps away heavily concussed Ivan Mikhailovich. He met Victory Day in one of the field hospitals. For this reason, he was early demobilized.