Nikolay Gribanov was born in Brykovka village, Dukhovnitsky District, Saratov Region. Nikolay Gribanov joined the Army in 1943 but got his baptism of fire only a year and a half later. All that time he was learning the science of battle. The unit where the boy from the Volga region served started active offensive battles in the Baltic States starting from August 1944. Nikolay Vasilievich Gribanov repeated the feat of Aleksandr Matrosov. Sergeant Nikolay Gribanov, stitched with bullets, gathered his last strength and closed the embrasure (firing slit) of the enemy's artillery emplacement with his body. He shielded himself the advancing line of his unit soldiers. Nicholay was 19 years old ... .. They buried the Hero in Vaiņode village, Latvian SSR (Soviet Socialist Republic).