Born on July 22, 1921 on the Berezhny farm of the Nagolensk village council. He graduated from the Nagolensk Seven-Year School and continued his studies at the Rovenskaya secondary school. In the spring of 1939, after finishing 10th grade, he took a month-long course at the Rossosh Pedagogical School of the Voronezh Region. Upon graduation, he was sent to the Aydar secondary school as a primary school teacher. His great-grandfather was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army in 1940, and he served in the city of Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk). In six months he graduated from the courses of radio operators and received the first class. At the Kursk Bulge he received the Order of the Red Star. As part of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade, my great-grandfather went to the end of the war. And the path was as follows: from June 1941 to September 1941 the South-Eastern Front - a cadet, from September 1941 to February 1942 the Central Front - a senior radio operator, from February 1942 to October 1942 the Voronezh Front - a senior radio operator, from October 1942 to March 1943 Western front - senior radio operator, from March 1943 to November 1943 Voronezh front - head of the radio station, from November 1943 to November 1944 1st Ukrainian Front - head of the radio station, from November 1944 to May 1945 the Belorussian Front - head of the radio station. The brigade itself by this time was called the First Guards Chertkovskaya, twice the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner, the Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, B. Khmelnitsky tank brigade. On May 25, 1945 on the outskirts of Berlin, commander M.E. Katukov visited his brainchild - the 1st Guards Tank Brigade. Ilya Alekseevich was awarded medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Moscow", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany", three Orders of the Red Star, two Orders of the Patriotic War , the Order of Glory of the 3rd Degree. There are a lot of jubilee medals, commemorative tokens and signs. In 1985 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. The war for him ended in the Tiergarten, 500 meters from the Reichstag, and he was fired on June 28, 1946. And in August 1946, he was registered as a primary school teacher at the Nagolensk seven-year school. Along with this, he studied in absentia at the Rossosh pedagogical school, which he graduated in 1949. In 1952 he was transferred to the director of the Novo-Lozovskaya seven-year school. He worked until 1958, and from 1949 to 1953 he studied at the Rossosh State Teachers' Institute. From 1958 until his seniority retirement, he worked as a mathematics and physics teacher at the Nagolensk school, which was converted into a secondary school. When he was retired, he worked as a military commander and, if necessary, replaced other teachers. Berezhnoy Ilya Alekseevich died on May 10, 2008, having met the next anniversary of the Victory.