Rank: Sergeant. Branch of troops: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards. Division: 8th Rezhitskaya of the Order of Lenin and Suvorov Red Banner guards rifle division named after I. V. Panfilov. My uncle - Gorokhov Nikifor Safronovich, blood brother of my father Gorokhov Alexander Safronovich, was called up to the Red Army on mobilization on November 15, 1941 by the Molotov RVC of the city of Kuibyshev. In the Great Patriotic war, he took part in battles within Kalinin, North-Western, 2nd Baltic fronts from March, 1942 to November 19, 1944. 1077th rifle regiment (commander of the guards regiment Lieutenant Colonel Fyodor RESHETNIKOV), on September 23, 1942 renamed the 30th guards rifle regiment of the 8th guards Red Banner rifle division of the Order of Lenin and Suvorov named after the Hero of the Soviet Union Major General Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov, division commander of the guards Major General Ivan CHERNYUGOV. Positions and ranks during the period of military operations: mortar gunner-Guard Private, assistant mortar gunner-Guard Corporal, mortar gunner-Guard Junior Sergeant of the 2nd mortar company, 1st rifle battalion. Military unit number 51932, address for the fieldmail 30 GV. SP, 8 GV. SD. On November 19, 1944 received a blind shrapnel penetrating wound to the right elbow joint with damage to both condyles of the humerus. Was on treatment in 6 MSB (medical and sanitary battalion) from 19 November 1944; PG 48 (evacuation temporary hospital) Teveli, Latvian SSR since November 20, 1944; EG 1027 (evacuation hospital) of Sebezh, Pskov region since November 26, 1944; EG 2570 (evacuation hospital) of Solikamsk, Solikamsk district, Perm (Molotov) region since December 16, 1944. On March 4, 1945, the Military Medical Commission of EG 2570 under article 49 of the second-third columns of the schedule of diseases of the order of the NKO of the USSR No. 336 of 1942 about the contracture of the right elbow joint after a blind shrapnel wound with intra-articular damage to both condyles of the humerus found him unfit for military service with the exception from the register. VTEK resolution: disabled person of the second group. After returning from the front, he worked for a long time in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He took an active part in the military-patriotic education of young people.