NIKOLAY ALEKSEEVICH ASTRATOV My grandfather is from Pytalovsky district. He was a participant in the so-called Last Battle of the Great Patriotic War. In the Kurland cauldron, he was wounded in the leg. After that, he did not have to fight anymore. He had many medals and awards of the Great Patriotic War. Most of his life he worked as a director of a milking plant in Rezekne, Latvia.