A native of the village of SOSNOVKA of the Krasnoyarsk village council of the Zvenigovsky district of the Mari ASSR, like many other men at the time when the treacherous enemy came, he gave his life so that you and I were born. From the letters of the squad leader, senior sergeant Dertunov Andrei Venediktovich to the wife of the deceased - Maria Ivanovna and brother Grigory Afanasyevich: “We were 4 people together: our battery commander, myself, Illarion and another telegraph operator. Just managed to jump into the shelter near the house - a shell of a mine exploded. Illarion went extreme. Already at the door he was hit by a shrapnel in the back, it came out through the chest. We all fell to the ground at that time, we saw that Ilarion lying "