Full name: Ivan Markovich Perminov last NAME: Full name: Perminov Ivan Markovich last NAME: Perminov first NAME: Ivan PATRONYMIC: Markovich CITY: d. efremovo date of BIRTH: - DATE of DEATH: - HISTORY: My grandfather, Ivan Markovich Perminov, was drafted into the red army in the fall of 1940 and began serving in one of the training units of the far Eastern military district. In the spring of 1941, his rifle and mortar regiment was transferred to the Carpathians-on the border with the then hostile Romania, where he, being a Sergeant, commander of the company 82-120 mm mortars, met the beginning of the war on June 22. A year of grueling fighting, lack of weapons, food, medicine, and mistakes of the command staff completely undermined the morale of the South-Western front fighters, who were forced to retreat through the territory of Western Ukraine in the summer of 1941, putting up with the connivance of the local population to the Nazis. A year of humiliating retreat across the Azov steppes, multiple encirclements, huge losses, breakthroughs through the front line to their own, numerous checks, re-formations... and again in battle with the enemy, having at the beginning of the war a significant advantage. The first wound. My grandfather was in a hospital in Ukraine. One day the hospital was surrounded and the wounded were not evacuated. My grandfather miraculously managed to escape captivity: he was rescued and sheltered by local residents of Ukraine. After the war, he spoke with great warmth about those villagers who helped him at that time, helped him heal, sheltered him from the Germans, and when he recovered and was able to get out of the encirclement on his own, they provided him with everything necessary for the journey. And again-into battle. July 1942-concussion and two severe wounds to the head from shrapnel from an exploding bomb during an attack by Luftwaffe dive bombers. Then, at Stalingrad, the 1145th rifle regiment, where my grandfather fought, was on the defensive, and in June, by order of the command, went on the offensive. From the award documents: "under heavy artillery and mortar fire, the unit moved to attack the enemy's defensive line, when approaching its trenches, it (the enemy) was pelted with our grenades, the enemy began to retreat hastily, throwing their weapons and equipment on the move. Our troops pursued the enemy and when approaching the town of Krasny Luch on July 20, 1942, Sergeant I. M. Perminov. he was seriously wounded in the head and sent for treatment to the evacuation hospital No. 2153.".. Survived. Later, my grandfather, Recalling that terrible time, said that only one thing saved him in the war - faith.