Mikhail Artemyevich was drafted into the Red Army on 09.01.1942 by the Bayan-Aul RVC of the Pavlodar region, Kazakh SSR. Retired Lieutenant Colonel. He died on January 30, 1999 in Novorossiysk. He was drafted into the army immediately after finishing high school, as soon as he turned 18, and was sent to the reserve regiment in the city of Bogotol of the Krasnoyarsk region for primary training. After three month training he was sent to the front line. In the middle of the 1942 Bykadorov arrived at the final unloading station in Ostashkov, Kalinin region, and was assigned as the first number of the Maxim machine gun system to the machine gun company of the 918th rifle regiment of the 250th rifle division of the 53rd army of the North-Western front (an area at the distance of 10 km to the west of the village Votolino in the Demyansk district).The fighting here went on with great tenacity almost all the summer of 1942. The squad of the Maxim machine gun many times was involved in ensuring the combat operations of regimental and divisional scouts to capture a prisoner for interrogation and to participate in the conduct of reconnaissance by combat. At the end of January 1943, M. A. Bykadorov was offered to go to a tank school with accelerated 8-month training. At the end of February, he arrived in Samarkand, where the 2nd Kharkiv tank school was located. On November 15, he was appointed a squad leader in the same company. On November 19, new SU-76 self-propelled guns were delivered to the tank school. He was retrained on them, studied the material part of the ACS, its weapons, theory and practice of shooting. In the third decade of August, he acceeded Communist Party, became member of CPSU (b) and on September 7 got his party ticket. On September 24, right after Mikhail successfully passed the exams, he was awarded the military rank of "Junior Lieutenant", and he was commissioned to the center for the formation of self-propelled artillery units in the city of Mytishchi, Moscow region, where he obtained personnel, got the material part and left for the front line. In January 1945, the 31st tank brigade in the 5th guards TA was alerted. Started Mlawska-Albinska operation. From 5 to 6 rifle men from the motorized rifle brigade were assigned as landing troops for each tank and self-propelled gun. On the night of January 23-24, M. A. Bykadorov personally received an order from the commander of the 31st tank brigade to stand in an ambush with the task of preventing the Germans from breaking through the bridge on the road 200-250 m away. The self-propelled gun took up a fighting position, masked it with a snow parapet, and prepared for battle. As a result of this battle, a column of nazi vehicles of about 150 units was stopped. Many of the vehicles had anti-aircraft guns on their trailers.The Germans fled, fearing capture. The battle lasted about 1.5 hours. For this night battle, the entire crew of the ACS was presented with a reward. M. A. Bykadorov and driver-mechanic I. M. Zvyaglov were awarded the order of the Red Star, gunner P. M. Mayorov - the order of Glory of the III degree, and loader I. I. Cherenkov - the medal "for Bravery". All February and March Bykadorov squad never stopped fighting. During one of the battles, a self-propelled gun, that was to the left at 40-50 meters away, caught fire. A moment later, M. A. Bykadorov's self-propelled gun caught fire from a direct hit. The crew left the car and survived. In the second crew, two were killed, the commander of the ACS received severe burns, was hospitalized, from where he returned to the unit after the end of the war. In one of the battles in East Prussia, the SAU-76 of his combat friend Georgy Tolkachev was burned down due to the direct hit from a German shell. The crew survived, but Georgy was seriously wounded. M. A. Bykadorov helped him climb into his self-propelled gun and took him out of the battlefield. After he had recovered his health and left hospital before Victory day on the 9th of May, he made a gift of his photo card, which is still stored in the family archive... This is exactly what he wrote on it : "to my dear friend and the comrade as a token of memory ... in the days of the greatest victory over Hitler's Germany. Never forget those days when we fought together for our Country and you saved my life when I was wounded. Thank you, my dear! May 9, 1945. Germany. Tolkachev". Unfortunately, it is not known how his friend`s post-war life developed. On the same day, M. A. Bykadorov learned about his award of the order of the Patriotic War of the first degree for the January battles. In the end of the great Patriotic war he served as a commander of the SU-76 self-propelled artillery installation with the rank of "Junior Lieutenant". For military valor he was awarded: the order of the "Patriotic War" 2nd degree and the order of the "Red Star", and soon after the end of the war -with medals: "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "for the Liberation of Warsaw", "for the Capture of Konigsberg" and the medal of the Polish people's Republic "for Warsaw". During his participation in the fighting, he was twice wounded and shell-shocked. After the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army. Retired from the post of chief of staff of the regiment of strategic missile forces in 1968 due to an illness.