Participant of the Great Patriotic War; commander of the Guard Cavalry Kuban-Slonim Regiment No.30, Lieutenant Colonel. Participant of the battle for the Caucasus, liberation of Donbass, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia. On July 18, 1944, his company was the first who reached the USSR state border on Zapadniy Bug. They fought for several days, repelling enemy counterattacks. Geraskin Alexander was wounded twice, but continued to command the regiment; Hero of the Soviet Union (March 1945). After the war he worked in leading positions in the forestry of the Krasnodar Territory ("Archive of documents on the personnel of the Krasnodar Territory")