Rank: Second Lieutenant. Branch of service: Artillery. Unit: 1st Guards Glukhovskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov, Kutuzov and Bogdan Khmelnitsky Artillery Schock Division of the Suprem Command Reserve. He was born on March 21, 1925, in the city of Stavropol, Stavropol Region. In 1933, he entered school and in the 1940-1941 graduated from 7 classe of the 250th Secondary School, Oktyabrsky District of the city of Leningrad. On 01.09.1941, he entered the Leningrad River Technical School at the Hydrotechnical Department, but due to the difficult family situation and the siege of Leningrad, he was forced to leave school and go to work. On March 17, 1942, for health reasons, he left work, and on March 25, 1942, the Oktyabrsky District Military Commissariat of the city of Leningrad was evacuated from Leningrad with echelon #101. He arrived in the city of Stavropol on April 15, 1942. He was drafted into the Soviet Army on January 28, 1943, and sent to the 127th Guards Cavalry Regiment, 30th Guards Cavalry Division. From February 7, 1943 to August 30, 1943, he served in the 127th Guards Cavalry Regiment, the 30th Guards Cavalry Division, the 4th Guards Kuban Cavalry Cossack Corps, the Southern Front, as a rider, loader and gunner of the 76-mm guns of the regimental battery. From August 30, 1943 to October 22, 1943, seriosli wounded he was treated in the evacuation hospital #5459, Krasnodar Region, Novo-Kubansky District, village "Khutorok". There in the hospital, he met a nurse Maria Korenkova, who in the future became his wife. Oh, Maria, believe me dear, Don't Forget my blue eyes, What is my soul dear You own as if your own… Such poems Viktor Ivanovich dedicated Tthese lines he devoted to her. From January 7, 1944 to August 7, 1944, he served in the 52nd Guards Cavalry Regiment, the 14th Guards Cavalry Division, and the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps of the 1st Belorussian Front. During his service in the Soviet Army he participated in the Great Patriotic War - Southern front from 12.02.1943 to 30.08.1943, 1 Belarusian front - from 07.01.1944 to 09.05.1945. Had government awards. After the Great Patriotic War, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army, was sent to the border with Iraq, where he wrote the following poem: I live on the Iranian border where the Arax rolls its waves I live as I live, all the soldiers I protect the Motherland and You! My term of service is about to end I'll say goodbye to my friends. And on the train in a hard car I'll come running to you, dear!...