Branch of service: Land Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guards. Duty station: 320th Enakievo Red Banner Order of Suvorov Rifle Division. Egor Butov was born on May 5, 1914 in Yelets. His parents passed away quite early. At the age of 9, he was left an orphan with his younger sister Tonya. He received only two classes of education. After reaching the military age, he joined the army, and after the end of the service, he remained on a long-term basis. Served in a military unit in the city of Rostov-on-Don. He was married to Natalia Butova, and had three children: a son, Yuri, born in 1939, and two daughters, Raisa, born in 1941, and Tatiana, born in 1953. From the first days of the war, he was sent to the South-West Front. From August 1942, he fought on the Western front, and from February 1943 - on the North Caucasus. He was seriously wounded twice: December 13, 1941 and September 8, 1942. In the rank of First Lieutenant of the Guards on July 30, 1943, when taking height 114/1, he broke into the enemy trench, while being shell-shocked. With his company, he destroyed up to 200 Nazis. For which he was presented with the Order of the Red Star on August 9, 1943. On February 7, in the battle for the village of Bolshaya Lepetika, Zaporozhye Region, a battalion under the command of Guards Major Butov broke the enemy's resistance, under heavy fire and was the first to enter the village. After crossing the Dnieper River, on the right Bank, the soldiers of the battalion organized a strong defense, repelling enemy counterattacks. They destroyed one officer, 4 soldiers, captured the chief Ober-Admiral and a private. The battalion did not suffer any losses . For this battle, E. Butov was presented with the order of Suvorov 3rd degree on February 9, 1944. At the end of the war, after demobilization, he moved to live in Shakhty, Rostov Region. He worked as a mine worker and as a foreman at the Nezhdannaya mine. He retired at the age of 50. He died on January 3, 1979 of a heart attack.