Alexey Gololobov (captain of the guards) was born on the 17th of March, 1915, in the city of Omsk. After graduating from the railway Polytechnic in 1932 he volunteered to explore new areas of the Far East. He worked in various construction and railway organizations. In 1937 he was called up for active military service, completed officer courses and received the rank of lieutenant. He served in the Transbaikalian military district. As part of the 93rd rifle division he took part in the fight against the Japanese invaders on Khalkhin Gol. The dad also took part in the war with Finland where Siberian military units were transferred. He spoke with particular bitterness about this period of his military service where many of his comrades died in heavy battles. Throughout the Great Patriotic War from 1941 he served in the active army, fought in various places, including in SMERSH units – first as a senior lieutenant and then as a captain in the guards. According to surviving documents, he fought in the 20th Guards rifle division, the 37th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian front. He was seriously wounded twice and was concussed near Vienna where he was in the hospital. The fragments in his body remained until the last days of his life. After the war he worked in Vienna. Dad didn't like to think about his most difficult experiences and events related to participation in battles, with the loss of friends. Only very rarely did he admit what a terrible loss he had to endure when, in fact, in the first year of the war his older brother, Alexander, died. Sometimes, in response to persistent questions and requests from relatives he was more willing to tell not the terrible everyday life of the war but all sorts of curious cases from his front-line life. By nature he was always very strong-willed and optimistic, a bright and kind person who sought to see only the best features in everyone. But at the same time he was characterized by courage, and often reckless courage. His surviving combat characteristics of those times tell how he personally raised the soldiers to attack when leaving a possible encirclement or liberating localities on the territory of Ukraine, Romania, Hungary and Austria. He was awarded two orders of the Red Star, the order of the Patriotic War, and many medals. The end of the war found my dad in Austria where he continued to serve in the Central group of our troops. After demobilization he first returned to Lviv where he lived before the war and then went to Novosibirsk where he was appointed deputy chairman of the Zaeltsovsky district Executive Committee. Subsequently he worked in the Novosibirsk and Omsk councils of national economy, deputy director of one of the largest enterprises in Novosibirsk - the plant "Tyazhstankogidropress" named after Efremov, then in a special design bureau in Akademgorodok near Novosibirsk. He took part in the creation of enterprises and technologies for military and space purposes. Being a veteran and disabled person of the Great Patriotic War, he worked until the last day of his life on the 6th of November, 1985.