Born in 1923 in Uren District, Gorky (Nizhny Novgorod) Region. Drafted into the Army as part of the infantry. In one of the battles he got a shell-shock and was hospitalized. After the hospital he was discharged and sent to the home front, to a collective farm (kolkhoz) where he helped to provide food for our Army until the end of the war. On photo Vasily Alekseevich in adulthood.