Anatoly Krasnov was born on April 22, 1917 in the village of Belkino, Gzhatsky uyezd, Smolensk region. Anatoly's parents were farmers who grew bread and apples. There were many apple trees in the manor. They soaked the apples and sold the surplus. In 1935 Anatoly Grigoryevich married Fedoseeva Klavdia Ivanovna. In 1936 a daughter, Nina, was born in the family, and in 1938 a daughter, Alexandra, was born. The young man was interested in technology, and from his youth he began to master the profession of a tractor driver. Worked in MTS Gzhatsk, the first tractor was the so-called "Kolesnik" with spikes on iron wheels. When the second world war began, Anatoly was harvesting in the fields of the district. In August 1941, when there was a threat of occupation, Anatoly volunteered for the front and was assigned to the 222nd artillery regiment. During the fighting, he was wounded in the left and right hands, and received shrapnel in the leg. In December 1941, Anatoly Grigoryevich went on the offensive near Moscow and was seriously wounded and shell-shocked, he was miraculously pulled out of the battlefield and sent to the Urals. He woke up in the hospital in the city of Krasnoufimsk. It turned out that on the way he was ill with typhoid, but survived. They treated him and sent him home for six months. His native village was occupied by the Nazis, and in the spring of 1942, he went to Orekhovo-Zuyevo to visit his sister. There his profession came in handy, and he again sat down at the tractor: plowed, sowed, harvested. In September 1942, he returned to the active army in the 150th rifle division as a Rifleman. From June 1943, he served as a chemist and chemical instructor in the 129th mortar regiment. Anatoly Grigoryevich met the end of the war in the victorious may of 1945 in Kaliningrad. He was preparing to return home, where there was devastation and famine and his wife, mother and two daughters were waiting for him, his father died during the occupation. But a new order was given and he was sent to the far East to fight the Japanese. We drove for a long time across the country, the trip lasted more than a month. Especially Anatolia was memorable for the magnificent lake Baikal. There was still a lot in Anatoly Grigoryevich's life during that war, but in July 1946 he returned home with the rank of Junior Sergeant. There was no time to rest, so he got back on the tractor. For 35 years, Anatoly Grigoryevich plowed, sowed, harvested, and transported wood for housing construction. For service and conscientious work, he was awarded the order of the Red Star and the Badge of honor, and medals: for military merit, for the victory over Germany, for the victory over Japan. In 1986, Anatoly Grigoryevich died, he was killed by a bandit in the courtyard of his house in the village of Belkino.