“I lived in my parents' house until 1929, graduated from the 4th grade of the village school. I lived in an orphanage from 1929 to 1930. Then studied at the Novostroymaterial Pofessional School in Kuibyshev from 1930 to 1932. It was disbanded in 1932. Before and after the October revolution, the family was engaged in agriculture. The mother was dekulakized and exiled for one year outside the district in 1930. The mother and her eldest son went to Kuibyshev, where I also went. Now my mother lives as a dependent of her brother in Petropavlovsk. I consider myself a Russian. I graduated from the Petropavlovsk Teachers' Institute in 1939, Faculty of History and received the title of teacher of grades 5-7. I do not speak any foreign languages. I started working independently in 1932. I worked as a carpenter's apprentice in Kuibyshev from September 21, 1931 to October 1933, where completed 7 classes in the evening school of factory youth. I studied at the Petropavlovsk Pedagogical College from October 17, 1933 to June 25, 1936. I was a 3rd grade teacher from September 25, 1936 to August 14, 1937, worked in a seven-year school for one year and taught history in Atbasar, Akmolinskiy Region. I studied at the Petropavlovsk Teachers' Institute from September 1937 to July 27, 1939, and graduated with honors, then worked as a teacher of history in the Petropavlovsk Veterinarian College from September 1939 to November 1939. I served in the armed forces fom November 1939 to July 1945. I worked as the Director of the Yavlensky Secondary School in the Leninsky District of the North Kazakhstan Region from July 1945 to March 1947. I worked as the Director of the Letovochnaya Secondary School in the Keller District of the Kokchetav Region from August 1947 to September 1949. I was a Director of the Obukhov Secondary School in the Kellerovskiy District of the Kokchetav Region since September, 1949. I didn't serve in the old army. I joined the armed forces at the call of the Petropavlovsk City Military Commissariate on November 15, 1939 from the position of a teacher. I served in the 724th Rifle Regiment from November 15, 1939 to December 17, 1939 and in the 201st Rifle Regiment of the 31st Rifle Division from December 17, 1939 to March 31, 1940. I was treated in hospital #1150, and from May 5, 1940 to November 10, 1940 was on vacation. I served as a private in the 857th Artillery Regiment of the 81st Mountain Rifle Division from November 10, 1940 to July 15, 1941. I was a platoon leader in the 857th Artillery Regiment of the 8th Guards Rifle Division from July 15, 1941 to March 17, 1942. I served as a platoon leader of the battery management platoon of the 27th Artillery Regiment of the 8th Guards Rifle Division from March 17, 1942 until March 11, 1943. I was the commander of the battery of the 122-mm howitzers of the 27th Artillery Regiment from March 11, 1943 to August 27, 1944. I was treated at hospital #1055 from August 27, 1944 to February 17, 1945. In the reserve of the Ural Military District - from February 1945 to May 25, 1945. In reserve since June 1945. Participated in the battles with the white Finns in 1940 on the Karelian Isthmus. I participated in the Great Patriotic War from July 1941 to January 1942 as a platoon leader on the North-Western Front near Moscow. he was the detachment's intelligence chief on the Kalinin Front from January 1942 to February 1944 and was a battery commander on the 2nd Baltic Front from February 1944 to August 1944. I began my military service a private, and ended as a Guards First Lieutenant. I was lightly wounded on the Finnish front in March 1940. I was seriously wounded in the Great Patriotic War in August 1944. I never was a prisoner of war. Decorated: Orders: - Red Star – in 1942; - Patriotic War 2nd degree – in 1943; - Patriotic War 1st degree – in 1944; Medals: - For the Defense of Moscow - in 1943; - For the Victory over Germany - in 1945; Awarded for distinction in battles by Decrees of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. He became a member of the CPSU (b) in May 1942, and was accepted by the Political Department of the 8th Guards Rifle Division.”