Since the first days he participated in battles on the four fronts of the Great Patriotic War. Twice seriously wounded in battles in August 1943 and near Berlin in April 1945. A fragment of a grenade hit my grandfather in the chest, in critical condition he was taken to the hospital. Death receded because the Victory was so close! Only the scar from the shrapnel wound remained under my grandfather's heart as a disturbing memory of the terrible war. My great-grandfather on my mother's side Ocheredko Ivan Ivanovich, a participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was born on 17.02.1917 in a Cossack family in Brinkovskaya village (stanitsa) of Primorsko-Akhtarsk District of Krasnodar Krai (Krasnodar Territory). At the age of three he lost his parents.