Rank: Red Army soldier. Branch of troops: Artillery. Joined Red Army in 1943. Place of conscription: RVC Mostovskiy, Krasnodar region, Mostovsky district. Andrey Konstantinovich Hopka, as a barefoot boy, survived in Ukraine thru the famine of 1933, when death mercilessly claimed the lives of his mother and two sisters. In search of daily bread had to make a difficult move to the Kuban, and then the war began. During nazi occupation of Caucasus, that lasted from September 1942 to February 1943, they had to suffer the mockery and humiliation of the enemy. Immediately after the liberation of Kuban, an eigteen-year-old Gopka A.K. was called up as a radiotelegraph operator for the 145th artillery brigade of the rocket forces that had abandoned fighting in the Caucasus. Heavy artillery, within which was fighting A. K. Gopka, liberated many cities in Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, and Austria. After the victory, A. K. Gopka was transferred to one of the suburbs of the city of Plovdiv, in Bulgaria, where he completed the Junior Sergeants course. Then there was a service in Georgia, in Azerbaijan, where he commanded the artillery department. It was only in February of 1947 that the radiotelegraphist of the rocket forces and artillery, Junior Sergeant A. K. Gopka, returned to his home in Kuban. The hardships of wartime were replaced by joyful events: meeting with relatives, marriage, and the birth of children. In 1961, fate threw the family of A. K. Gopka in Kalmykia. For a quarter of a century, at the Leninsky state farm, a former front-line soldier had to be a handyman, a tractor driver, and a cattleman. But at any work he found joy and moral satisfaction.