Fischenko Ilya Nikolaevich was born on July 20, 1916 in the village of Upornaya, Krasnodar Territory. On August 6, 1941, he was drafted by the Upornensky Regional Military Commissariat, and as a driver fought in the 44th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 15th Guards Rifle Division, first on the Southwestern Front, then on the Don, Vornezh, Steppe and I-st ​​Ukrainian fronts. The first medal - "For the Defense of Stalingrad" - Ilya Nikolaevich received on December 22, 1942, January 23, 1943 in the district of the village Alekseevka (now the Soviet district of Volgograd), the Red Army soldier Fischenko, as a medical orderly of a sanitary company, carried 27 wounded soldiers and commanders from the battlefield, 13 of them with weapons. Second Medal "For Courage" Corporal