Military unit: 1st Stalingrad long-range aviation division. Alexander Nikiforovich was born in 1918 in the village of Kulakovo where he got primary education. His first job was with the forestry, next he moved to Murmansk, where he worked as a worker on the railway. Then he became a foreman. In 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army. During the Great Patriotic War, he fought at the South-Western, 3rd Ukrainian, 2nd Baltic and Stalingrad fronts. Military rank – Sergeant. During the battles of WWII he was wounded for a few times. By the beginning of the war, it was on the border with Romania. On June 25, 1941, he was shot in the stomach. At first, Alexander Nikiforovich was in a field hospital at Vapnyarka station, then at the town of Michurinsk. He remained in the hospital until October 1941. In 1942, Alexander Nikiforovich was sent to the 3rd Ukrainian front. He liberated the cities of Stalingrad, Rostov-on-Don, Dneprpetrovsk, Kirovograd, and Nikolaev. In 1943, he was transferred to the 2nd Baltic front. On March 25, 1943, he was wounded in the right arm. The Victory day he met at the Lubava city. He was discharged in 1948. He was awarded the medals "for Military Merit", "for the Defense of Stalingrad" and other commemorative medals. His other awards were: "For the Victory over Germany", "50 years of the armed forces of the USSR", " 20 years of Victory", "30 years of the Soviet Army", "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; badges: "Excellent restorer", "Excellent railway worker". After the Great Patriotic war, he worked in the Shokshinsky forest station as a master, then within the collective farm "Russia". Gorbunov had Communist party membership.