Tikhon Ivanovich Plutakhin Full name: plutakhin Tikhon Ivanovich last NAME: Plutakhin FIRST name: Tikhon PATRONYMIC: I. the CITY: Preobrazhenka village, Starooskolsky district, Belgorod region DATE of BIRTH: 30.04.1918 date of DEATH: 12.01.1985 HISTORY: Title: Red army soldier military Branch: aviation Division: 232nd rifle division (1st formation) My great-grandfather plutakhin Tikhon Ivanovich was born on April 30, 1918 in the village of Preobrazhenka in the Starooskolsky district of the Belgorod region. Father plutakhin Ivan Petrovich-a collective farmer, mother plutakhin Maria Zakharovna-a housewife. The family had six children.Before the army, Tikhon Ivanovich worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. Education – 4 classes. On September 25, 1938, the draft Commission in the Shatalovsky district Commissariat of the Belgorod region recognized him as fit for military service, called up for active military service and sent to the unit.The war caught Tikhon Ivanovich at the end of his term of service. Until February 1943, he fought in the 232 rifle division of the 419th airfield service battalion. From February 1943 to July 1945-138 aviation technical regiment for maintenance of military aircraft.In July 1945, the 138th aviation technical regiment was transferred to the Japanese front, where it fought until October 1946. On October 15, 1946, he was demobilized by decree Of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 20, 1946. Plutakhin Tikhon Ivanovich liberated cities and villages in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Germany.Awarded medals: "for the capture of Berlin", "for the liberation of Prague"," for the victory over Germany","for the victory over Japan".She has also received commendations from the Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union comrade Stalin I. V. My great-grandfather Plutakhin Tikhon Ivanovich was a very honest, hardworking, fair and kind person. He told his children and grandchildren about the war, about his colleagues, about the cities he visited and liberated from the Nazis. He told a lot about the great men of the war-Marshal G. K. Zhukov, K. K. Rokossovsky, I. S. Konev, about the hero of the Soviet Union, pilot And. Pokryshkin. These were people he had to meet in the line of duty.After demobilization, Tikhon Ivanovich returned to his native collective farm, where he worked as a tractor driver. In 1952, after moving with his entire family, he moved to the Caucasus in the village of Verkhny Naur in the Nadterechny district of chiassr. From 1959 until the end of his life, he lived in the village of Rubezhnoye in the Naursky district of CHIAASR. Together with his wife Pluchino Love's mother raised five children, among whom was my grandfather Plutakhin Alexander Tikhonovich.