Rank: Captain. Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops. Division: 233rd Infantry Division (1st Formation). My great-grandfather Iosif Semenovich Gorelov was born on 09/21/1916 in the village Malo-Bobrovo, Dmitrovsky District, Kursk Region, in a peasant family. In 1933 he graduated from the 7th grade and went to work in the collective farm "Wings of the Soviets". From 1937 to 1940 he was in the Kharkiv military district (aviation driver of the 24th air brigade). In 1939 he joined the Komsomol. From 1940 to 1942 - commander of the militarized guard section of the Moscow-Volga canal. 1942 - 1943 – intelligence officer of the 684th artillery regiment of the 233rd rifle division of the Moscow military district, Don Front. In November 1943, the party committee of the 233rd Kremenchug rifle division received I.S. Gorelov to the party. 1943-1947 – intelligence officer 684 artillery regiment of the second steppe Ukrainian front. In 1947 he returned to his native village and continued his labor activity on the collective farm "Wings of the Soviets". Gorelov I.S. gratitude was announced from the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, for excellent military operations in the implementation of a breakthrough and participation in the battles for Zvenigorodka, Shpola, Smila, Boguslav and Kanev. Awarded: the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the medal “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, the medal “For the capture of Budapest”, the medal “For the capture of Vienna”, the medal “For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, the medal “For courage ", Medal" For conscientious work. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ", the medal" Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", the medal" Thirty years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 ", the medal" Forty years of Victory in the Great World War 1941-1945 ", medal" Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", Medal" Sixty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ", medal" Seventy Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR ". Joseph Semenovich Gorelov died on 04/06/1998. My family is good for our Hero!It was told by Diana Morozova, the great-granddaughter of Joseph Semenovich