My grandfather, Kononenko Fyodor Kuzmich, was born in a large cossack family on June 20, 1914 in Umanskaya (now the village of Leningradskaya), located in the North of the Krasnodar territory. He left for the war in 1941. He fought in the fourth Mozyr guards cavalry red banner division named after the order of Suvorov. Part of it was liberated Rostov-on-don. In 1943, he fought for the liberation of Kiev, Zhitomer, Gomel and Crimea. Great-grandfather injured his head, not hard, but he lived with a fragment inside for the rest of his life. During crossing Kerch Strait in the evacuation operation of Crimea, my grandfather said, they were attacked by Nazi planes and bombed. They bombed the barges, which used to cross. A lot of soldiers died. The rest of them moved to Taman land by swimmimg. The commendation list says " Cossack Kononenko built a raft from improvised material, swam across the Kerch Strait and took out weapons and equipment." In the same commendation list " at night, under the fire of the enemy, cossack Kononenko quickly established a connection between 39th and 37th guards command posts. In the battles of the guards, cossack Kononenko showed himself as a brave, initiative and disciplined warrior" and on February 5, 1944 he was awarded the medal "for bravery". In the winter of 1944, they were surrounded by enemy in the forests of Hungary. There is an extract from the commendation list: " with the division passed a hard way through the gorges of the Carpathian mountains, saved the life of the commander and horses more than once". For this fate on November 3, 1944 my great-grandfather was awarded the order of Glory of the III degree. In February 1945, guard private Kononenko was awarded the order of the red Star, for being the first, who noticed the column of moving enemy, opened fire and destroyed the enemy trying to get around our soldiers. In may 1945, guardsman of the Red Army Fyodor Kuzmich was awarded the order of the Patriotic was of the II degree. A note from the commendation list "when two German tanks attacked the headquarters of the division, he was the first one, who started the evacuation of staff documents and radio stations, "destroyed six German soldiers with automatic fire." He returned home in 1946 and continued working in his native collective far and passed way from tractor driver to mechanic.