Photo shows Gavriil Vasilyevich Savelyev, Senior Lieutenant, at trophy motorcycle in Germany, spring, 1945. G.V. Saveliev (1924 - 1999) was drafted in 1942 from the village of Pokrovka, Kvarkensky district, Chkalovsk region. He entered Chkalov machine-gun school but did not finish his studies as all cadets were sent to Stalingrad. In 1944 he graduated from tank school in Turkmenistan. He took part in battles at Sandomierz bridgehead, in Berlin area, in Prague liberation. After the war he lived in the town of Yasny, Orenburg region. Died and buried in Yasny