Rank: Major Subdivision: 8th Guards Rifle Rezhitskaya Order of Lenin Red Banner Order of Suvorov Division named after IV Panfilov Captions on the photo: "Guards Major Al. Gorodnov at the parade among divisional scouts." "The word in reply and the oath" that we will beat the hated enemy even stronger "- the commander of the 8th Guards Panfilovskaya division, Guards Colonel Lomov at the presentation of the third order of the division" Suvorov II degree "for the liberation of Riga Army Colonel-General Kazakov attaches to the divisional banner of the 8th Guards Panfilov Division the third order "Suvorov II degree" won in the liberation of Latvia and Riga. " / Photo by Al.Makletsov / Before the war, he worked on the party line in the city of Penza. Graduated from the Academy named after N.K. Krupskaya in Leningrad. In 1941 he voluntarily went to the front through the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, leaving a large family at home: his wife Evdokia, daughters Anastasia and Maria and son Vladimir, my father. Guard Major Aleksey Fedorovich Gorodnov, head of the counterintelligence department SMERSH, as part of the 8th Guards Rifle Division, participated in the liberation of the Baltic. In 1944 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. In 1945 he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, II degree. From the award list: "Personally Comrade Gorodnov exposed and arrested a German intelligence agent in December and January." In 1950 he was directed to the construction of the Kuibyshevskaya (Zhigulevskaya) hydroelectric power station. He worked as the head of the department of workers' supply (ORS) of Kuibyshevgidrostroy. He witnessed the resettlement and flooding of his native village Uslady. Soon the whole family moved to the Port village, built for the workers of the hydroelectric power station. Unfortunately, I did not have to hear my grandfather's stories about the war, I was born in 1958, shortly before his death. And he told little, since his entire service was classified as "secret." My grandfather named me Marina after an intelligence officer who died during the war. I don't know what she was like, how she died. One thing I know for sure: she, like my grandfather, was one of those who selflessly and courageously fought for the Motherland. I am proud of my grandfather and I want his grandchildren and great-grandchildren to remember those who did not spare their lives for their happy future. Low bow and eternal memory to the participants of the Great Patriotic War!