Gavriil Samuilovich Gurevich, was born on November 5, 1911. He finished seven years of school, studied at the Polotsk construction technical school (1929-1932), then worked on the construction of the Oktyabrskaya garment factory, lived with his family in Minsk. He was a student at the construction Institute in Minsk, where he worked until April 1941, when he was transferred to the special construction of the NKVD. It appears in the passport that Gavriil Samuilovich was employed in the construction of the NKVD camps of the USSR in March-April 1941 and worked there until July 1941. By order of the NKVD No. 00328 given on March 24, 1941, it was entrusted with the construction of airfields for the air forces of the Red Army. The work was carried out by prisoners sentenced to correctional labor (without detention), construction battalions, prisoners of war and collective farmers mobilized by local authorities."" My grandfather did not tell me anything in detail about this period, but according to the documents, it appears that he worked there until October 1941 (he was registered in this period in Kursk, 6 Pravdy street) before the object was handed over. From November 1941 to the end of 1943, he served in the 33rd Military Road Detachment of the 3rd Military Road Administration of the Bryansk Front as a Platoon Commander, participated in the Bryansk, Central and 1st Belorussian fronts, which was mainly focused on the restoration and construction of bridge crossings.In March 1944, he was transferred to the 76th Military Road Detachment of the Main road administration of the Red Army of the Transcaucasian Military district, from where he was demobilized on December 18, 1945."