Guard junior lieutenant deputy company commander of the 3rd Guards Order of Lenin of a separate mechanized brigade Serenky Vasily Petrovich was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1941 by the Starobelsk Military Commissariat of the Voroshilovgrad region. He died on December 26, 1942 and was buried at the Uryupin farm in the Morozovsky district of the Rostov region