The biography of the legendary participant of the Great Patriotic War Grigory Gorbach who was awarded two orders of the Red Star, four orders of the Patriotic War of the first and second degrees, the order of the Red Banner, the order of Alexander Nevsky and eleven battle medals. This was a brave defender of the Motherland who drove the enemy from Moscow to his fascist lair. Grigory was born in 1914 in the village of Staraya Sysoevka, the Primorsky region. In 1929 he left for active military service and became a career soldier. In 1936 he graduated from the Omsk military school named after Frunze and was sent to the location of the Transbaikalian military district. His baptism of fire was in 1939. He participated in the battles on Khalkhin Gol with Japanese militarists for which he was awarded the order of the Red Star. After being wounded he continued to serve in the Transbaikalian military district. In December 1939 the unit was alerted and sent to the Karelian isthmus. The skier company commander Gorbach fought with the white Finns until the end of the Finnish campaign, for which he was awarded the second order of the Red Star and the medal “For Bravery”. Later the army road returned Grigory to Transbaikalia where he continued military service until February 1941. Then he was sent to the Polish border near the town of Rava-Russian where he met the first volleys of the Great Patriotic War. In the museum of history of the Great Patriotic War and labor glory of the “Askold” plant of the leading enterprise of the Primorsky regional branch of the Union of machine builders of Russia, there is a book that includes stories of war veterans about the military roads passed, including the memories of Grigory Gorbach: “Stalingrad. Tractor plant. And now I see it in my dreams almost every day. There are twelve men left from our tank battalion. Almost all of them were injured. No tanks — burned down. Now we are machine gunners. We fight for every meter. We're bleeding but we're holding on. For the ninth time in a day the fascists numbering about a battalion again go on the attack. This one was also repulsed but only eight of our fighters are still alive. Almost no ammo or grenades. Fascist planes appeared in the sky and started bombing. When the reinforcements arrived, only three of our guard tank battalion were left alive.” Grigory Sergeevich participated in the defeat of the Germans near Moscow, in the battle of Stalingrad. As part of the Western front he commanded the second infantry battalion of the 31st guard division, reached the city of Mogilev, then as assistant chief of staff of the regiment fought in the third Belorussian front. For participation in the breakthrough near the city of Orsha he was awarded a commendation signed by Stalin. In October 1944 following the retreating enemy Soviet troops crossed the border near the city of Kaldad, where Goring's dacha was located. “Night. German planes strike blindly. The commander's order was executed. We are going back to our headquarters. Next to me are captain Lisitsin and lieutenant Petrov. Suddenly, in the dark, just two or three steps away from me there are silhouettes of human figures. A command is issued in German. I shoot a gun. The front Fritz falls. His companions are shooting at me. I grabbed the machine gun of the dead German, opened fire in short bursts. In this battle lieutenant Petrov was killed and captain Lisitsin was seriously wounded. Later it turned out that we had met with German intelligence. Four Germans were killed, the rest retreated.” In January 1945 Gregory participated in the capture of Konigsberg, then with his unit fighting their way to Danzig went to the bank of the Elbe river. Here he was injured and hospitalized. “The days of the storming of the main fascist base in East Prussia will not be erased from memory. The attack of our tankers was rapid. My tank caught fire and I was seriously injured. At dawn they were brought to the medical unit and placed in the basement of one of the farm buildings. I have eleven other people with me. The fascists went on the attack. Our people retreated. Through a narrow embrasure I see a tank approaching the building. A cross on the armor. Stopped. Well, I guess, it's over. I struggled up on my elbow and crawled to the landing. Behind me the wounded are groaning. Two fascists appeared in the stairwell. I don't remember how many shots I fired with my gun. The Krauts fell, followed by two others. And these did not escape the bullets. I looked through the embrasure at the tank. The Germans open the hatch. There are three of them. I only have three rounds left in my gun. Shot at point-blank range. Another German got out of the tank. My grenade hit the open hatch. The explosion, the flame was the last thing that remained in my mind. Two hours later, our units decisively drove the Germans out of the farm. All the wounded were saved.” In peacetime from 1946 till 1949 Gorbach continued to serve in the Soviet army on the territory of the GDR, then he was dismissed for health reasons. A retired guard captain in peacetime, from 1961 to 1973, he worked in the paramilitary security service of the “Askold” machine-building plant. His daughter Vera Grigoryevna remembers well the stories of her father about that wartime hard times: how often the death followed him but the fate protected him and at the last moment led him away from certain death. Grigory Gorbach will forever remain in the memory of not only his family and friends, but also in the memory of all factory workers. He, like thousands of other soldiers and officers, did the main thing - protected the world from fascism, gave us peace, freedom and a great long-awaited Victory.