Rank: Red Army Soldier Branch of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval Aviation), Coastal Service, NKVD troops, Border Troops. Division: 289th Infantry Division (2nd Formation). Semichev Alexander Nikolaevich was born in 1900 in the village of Knyazhaya, Vologda region. At the age of 27, he went to a friend in Novosibirsk. There he graduated from the courses of accountants. Then he was sent to Altai, where an artel was created. In Altai, he met his future wife Nadezhda Alekseevna. Before the war, his older children were born, Valya and Tolya. So the family was established. In Altai, he worked in his profession. He also worked in Dushanbe, Pereyaslavl-Zalessky in the areas of work. Subsequently, the work brought him to the Lopasnensky district of the Moscow region. At this time the war began and Alexander Nikolaevich was 41 years old. He is sent to serve on the Karelian front (north of the Arkhangelsk region). At the front he was a private machine gunner of the 1st machine gun company of the 1048th Rifle Regiment of the 289th Rifle divisions (2-formations). Participated in the Svirsk-Petrozavodsk offensive operation (June 21 - August 9, 1944) of the Soviet troops of the left wing of the Karelian Front. He miraculously survived after a mine exploded next to him. After the war, Alexander Nikolayevich worked as a Chief Accountant at the Novy sovkhoz in the town of Klin, and in 1961 he retired and returned to his family in Lopasnensky district for permanent residence, where his daughter Alexandra Alexandrovna was born. For courage and efforts before the Fatherland, Alexander Nikolaevich received the Order of the Red Star and the Order of Glory of the third degree. He passed away from a serious illness in 1974. He buried at the place of residence.