Gavriil Petrovich Kropin, Senior Lieutenant Commander of a machine gun platoon, received 3 wounds during the Great Patriotic War: lightly wounded in the right leg in September 1943, in the right leg in March 1944, in the right thigh in March 1945 in the battles at the outskirts of Berlin. He was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 2nd degree, the Order of the Red Star, and the Medal "For the Victory over Germany".