Rank: Sergeant Branch of Service: Artillery After finishing school, my great-grandfather Peter Barmenkov went to work for Borovichesky Shaft Construction Company in Leningrad Region. It was the summer of 1941. The radio reported on the morning of July 22, that Hitler's Germany had attacked our country without declaring a war. Thus began the Great Patriotic War. It found my great-grandfather far from home. He, under fire, along with a fellow countryman, had to get home to join the Red Army as quickly as possible and stand up for the Motherland. Unfortunately, his friend got lost on the road, and my great-grandfather came home alone. By the time the war began, he was only seventeen years old. He was called up to the front by the Kirov Regional Military Commissariat on July 23, 1941. My great-grandfather, Peter Barmenkov, served as a Sergeant. He was a squad leader of a company of submachine gunners of the 885th Red Banner Rifle Regiment, the 290th Rifle Division, the 10th Army of the Western Front. At the village of Perenezhi, near Zaitseva mountain, on the night of February 12-13, 1943, my great-grandfather participated in a reconnaissance mission to capture the prisoner. When the group collided with a German patrol, he acted coolly, boldly and decisively, killed three Germans and was himself seriously wounded in the stomach. The group completed the task, took two prisoners, a machine gun, two submachine guns and a rifle. For his military feat, my great-grandfather was awarded the Order of the Red Star. He often thought about the war and told about it to my mother when she was little. It turns out that when my great-grandfather was injured, he fell behind his group and was forgotten in the confusion. Returning to the place of their deployment, the commander by the name of Kolesnikov began to count his soldiers. It turned out that one was missing. The commander had to go back for him. He found my great-grandfather in the snow. He was still alive. The commander carried him to the location of the unit. My great-grandfather often said that he owed his life to his commander. Then the great-grandfather was treated in the hospital for a long time, and after treatment, he returned home to the village of Faiansovaya. My great-grandfather never returned to the front after being seriously wounded. For his military services, he was awarded medals For Bravery, For Military Merit, the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.