Rank: Lieutenant. Military branch: Land forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast service, the NKVD troops, Border Guards. My father's family had many children. There were four brothers( Vasily, Fyodor, Pavel, Ivan) and three sisters (Aksyuta, Daria. Anastasia). During the war, the following people were killed: Fyodor (was executed in a Nazi concentration camp), Vasily (died near Minsk in 1943), Aksyuta and Darya's husbands, and Anastasia (went missing during the siege of Leningrad). Pavel was enlisted in 1943, was wounded and survived. My father participated in the battles for Smolensk. His division was renamed into the 7th Guards Division for participation in these battles. He took part in the battles for Moscow (near the cities of Narofominsk and Serpukhov), where he was seriously wounded. One episode from my father's front-line stories stuck in my memory sibce my childhood. I have never seen in any films or historical stories that the Germans attacked Moscow together with dogs that tore wounded soldiers to shreds. When they took up a position at the front line, there was a terrible dog barking. Every fighter, hearing this, felt the horror of the upcoming attack, when in case of injury, he would be torn apart by dogs. Shells whistled above his head, and a wall of fire appeared in front of him. Then the volley was repeated. Shells began to burst closer to the soldiers. Their first thought was: ""If the salvo is repeated, we will certainly be covered."" That's how my father first found out what was ""Katyusha. But the third salvo was fired at the village, where Germans with dogs and civilians stayed. Everything was mixed up: the barking of dogs, the screams of the wounded and dying, Russian and German speech. The attack of the Germans with dogs was stopped by the burning of this village (along with the civilian population)."