Rank: Petty Officer. Branch of Service: Armored and Mechanized troops. Grigory Barminsky was born in 1919 in the village of Rakitnoye, Belgorod Region. He received a 4-year education at the Rakityan School. Passed courses of the driver in Motorviehacle Company. In 1939, he was drafted into the Soviet army. He served in the North Caucasus in a unit of the automobile battalion. On June 22, 1941, at the end of his term of service, he was supposed to leave the army for home, but at 4 o'clock in the morning, the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was announced. In this regard, the departure home had to be postponed for a long five years. Grigory fought on the Caucasian Front, was wounded in 1942 and sent to a hospital. After he was discharged from the hospital, he again went to fight, and was sent to the Transcaucasian Front. During the battle for the Caucasus, when the Soviet army was advancing, he was seriously wounded again. During the surgery, doctors were unable to remove all the fragments from his chest. After the hospital, he again asked to go to the front. From 1943 to 1945, he fought on the Transcaucasian Front. For courage and heroism during the Great Patriotic war, Grigory Barminski was awarded medals For courage, For the defense of Caucasus, the Order of the Red Banner, Order of Glory 3rd degree and 2nd degree. In July 1945, Grigory returned to his native village, with the rank of Petty Officer, where he created a family. Until his retirement, in 1978, he worked as a car mechanic in the Rakityan Motorviehacle Company. The life path of Grigory Burminsky was listed in the book of memory of the Rakityansky District of the Belgorod Region. Grigory Prokofievich died in 2000 at the age of 81.