Rank: Colonel Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Subdivision: 399th Infantry Novozybkovskaya Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division. At the end of the autumn of the first war year, the country experienced the most dramatic moment - the enemy was already under the walls of the capital and was preparing for the decisive thrust. More and more men went to the front. At this alarming time, the summons was brought to him. Although he officially had a reservation, he went to the military registration and enlistment office. He became a cadet in the training unit of signalmen and was trained to be a radio-telegraph operator, but the cadets were often used as sappers for laying communications, they hollowed out the frozen ground with blunt crowbars and pickaxes. At the end of the training course, the guys arrived in Stalingrad, in the 337th Howitzer Regiment of the Reserves of the High Command. And when they were almost close to the front line, the legendary order of Stalin was read in front of the formation: "Not a step back!" And it was true - no one could take a step back, because the barrage detachments were located there. Everyone needed just one victory. Then long battles with the advancing enemy began. The dead laid down up to the horizon, there was no land visible under them. Scary. But he was a signalman, which means constantly risking himself in the line of fire, splicing wires under the barrage of bullets and shells. When Vladimir rushed to restore the connection again, he received a splinter in his leg. The wounded soldier was transported to the nearest village, to a field hospital. Operations were performed inside the building, and the rest were folded under the open sky near the fence. The surgeons worked for three days without sleep. Finally, it was Vladimir’s turn. The splinter was taken out and presented as a keepsake. On an overcrowded steamer he was sent to Volsk, and then by train to Zlatoust. The train passed by Samara. While they were standing on the platform, Berelkovsky persuaded the compassionate woman to run after his father (he went to front in the early days, but then was discharged). Before the train departed, they had time to talk at least a little. Vladimir arrived to the assembly point again after treatment. This time he was sent to Central front, south of Tula. It was the beginning of the 1943, the losses were still huge, in a few days there was hardly a platoon left from the rifle companies. Radio operators of Belorussia with scouts successfully “played a radio game” with the Germans and set them off on a false trail - the enemy bared sectors of the front at Bobruisk, where they made a breakthrough. Then they moved to East Prussia and Pomerania. They closed the group in Pilau, blocked Königsberg. Finally, the long-awaited victory came.