Type of troops: Aviation Subdivision: 206th Fighter Aviation Division Nikolai Ivanovich Grigorov, born in 1914 in the village Dolbino of the Belgorod region. In 1934 he taught at a public school. He entered the institute on the Komsomol call, left the institute and went to study as a technician for aircraft weapons. From 1935 to 1938, cadet of the 2nd Leningrad Military Aviation Technical School named after V.I. Lenin Komsomol. In the ranks of the Red Army since 1935. 1939 - The Finnish War. The Great Patriotic War took place from June 22, 1941 to May 14, 1945. All the years of the war he was at the front line, servicing the combat missions of the famous planes of the Great Patriotic War, night bombers U-2 (Po-2). In just 70 days (in the period from 02.14.1942 to 04.24.1942), he personally prepared 548 combat night sorties of aircraft, suspended 54,800 kg of bombs. U-2VS - light night bomber, developed under the leadership of N.N. Polikarpov on the basis of the U-2 initial training aircraft. At the beginning of the war, there were no established structures for hanging and dropping bombs from these aircraft. There was a lot of invention, a lot of solutions suggested by practice. It was at this time that Nikolai Ivanovich proposed an improved design for dropping bombs from an aircraft. In 1942, in the most difficult year of the war, he received his first award - the Medal For Courage, of which he was very proud. He repaired aircraft and aircraft armaments located at forward airfields under enemy fire, trained the Red Army soldiers transferred to his aid. It was not his fault that there was a refusal to take off or a delay in the plane, or the failure of the materiel to work. He started the Great Patriotic War near Bryansk and Orel. As part of the 31st army, he participated in defensive battles in the Smolensk and Kalinin areas and near Moscow. Participated in the counteroffensive near Moscow, in Kalininskaya, Sychevo-Vyazemskaya, Rzhevskaya, Rzhevo-Sychevskaya, Rzhevo-Vyazemskaya, Spas-Demenskaya, Smolensk offensive operations. -Orshansk, Minsk, Vilnius, Kaunas, Gumbinnensk, Insterburg-Königsber, East-Prussian offensive operations, as well as in the destruction of the East Prussian enemy grouping south-west of Königsberg and in the Prague offensive operation. After the war, the groupings of German troops were destroyed for another 3 days. He finished the war near Riga, then served in Sigulda, Polesk, Chernyakhovsk in the 206th Guards Division. Awarded with medals "FOR Courage (No. 103519", "FOR COMBAT SERVICES (No. 3137784)", "FOR THE TAKING OF KENIGSBERG (No. 040324)" "FOR VICTORY OVER GERMANY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR 1941-1945 (No. 0315720); RED STAR, 2 Orders of the PATRIOTIC WAR II degree (No. 263323, 3497767), the Red Battle Banner (No. 529081), as well as medals - 20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945; 30 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War War of 1941-1945; 40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945; 50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, 25 years of victory in the war of 1941-1945, as well as medals “30 years Soviet Army and Navy "," 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," 60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," 70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR "," Veteran of the War "," For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin "And" Veteran of Labor ".