Rank: Red Army Soldier. Branch of Service: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for Naval Aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD troops, Border Guard. Division: 167th Sumy-Kiev Double Red Banner Rifle Division. Nikolai Beloshapko, at the age of less than 18, was called up to the front in the autumn of 1941. He fought in the 167th Sumy-Kiev Double Red Banner Rifle Division, on the Voronezh and Ukrainian Fronts. Participated in the Battle of Kursk and the tank battle of Prokhorovka, liberated Ukraine, Czechoslovakia. Rank and position: private, scout. Awarded: Medal For Military Merit for the liberation of Sumy and Romna; Medal For Courage - for the crossing of the Dnieper River and the liberation of Kiev; Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree" - for the battles in the Carpathians and the liberation of Kosice, Nowy Targ, Presov; Order of Glory, 3rd degree - for fighting in the foothills of the Carpathians and the liberation of Lvov. He met the victory in Czechoslovakia. For a while after the war, he served in the army and was discharged in 1947. Then he worked for a collective farm of the villadge of Perepravnoe. He got married in 1950. His wife, a teacher, after completing her studies was sent to work the village of Benokovo, Mostovsky District, Krasnodar Region. So, they moved there. My mother Anna Osyko, a biology teacher, devoted to children almost 40 years of her life. For her hard work, she was awarded the title of Excellent Worker of Public Education and received the medal Veteran of Labor. During the war, my mother, as a teenager, together with her peers "forged Victory", working for a collective farm. For this, she later received the title of Home Front Veteran. My parents, war-hardened, knew the value of life. They were strong in spirit. They have always been an example for their children and grandchildren with their thirst for life and their desire to work conscientiously in any field. Unfortunately, for eight years, there is no father and for three years there is no mother with us. In our hearts we keep a bright and kind memory of them. Daughter: Tatyana Lukina.