Thin pale face with regular fine features, lively enthusiastic eyes - they said they were cornflower blue. On this photo he is 19 years old. After that there was no news from Leonid, and then a notice came that Leonid Korotkevich went missing in action. He got into the colony two years before the war started at the age of 17. From the colony - to the penal battalion. The only photo from Tula or maybe Leonid Korotkevich laid down his life exactly here? In fierce defensive battles near Moscow and near Tula in October-November 1941 the Nazi troops were weakened and exhausted and lost their offensive spirit.