Kalinin Pyotr Nikolaevich has education of the 4th grade of the Kalinin School. During the war he fought in the 62nd Army, a corporal of the 170th company of satchelmen, Stalingrad front. He has state awards: "For Bravery", "For Defense of Moscow", "For Defense of Prague", "60 Years of Victory" and other commemorative medals. Two of his brothers were killed during the war. Before the war he worked as a bricklayer in Stalino (Donetsk). Pyotr Nikolaevich remembers well how his brothers in arms burned alive. However, the satchel-flame thrower weapon can be called a "Stretch". It is a balloon with several liters of kerosene on its back, a hose in its hands and a column of fire that strikes 25 meters. With such a defensive and offensive device in the trench, you cannot turn around too much, and on the ground it is not safe: a stray projectile hits the rucksack - and a person will flare up like a torch. From our special company of flamethrowers in 170 people, only 8 people were left after the battle of Stalingrad, and only three soldiers, - Pyotr Nikolaevich remembers, - the rest died. Then they sent us reinforcements - an Echelon of Siberians - and formed the 3rd Flame Thrower Anti-Tank Battalion. What has changed? The kerosene tank became heavier - 64 liters, so the advancing tanks were dug in and "fried" with it. The flames were 35-40 meters high. Many of the men did not have the nerve to look at the approaching clanging and shooting guns on a huge scale. The war for P. N. Kalinin ended several times. The first - after several months of heavy fighting around Stalingrad. The veteran remembers how he wiped away tears of joy when he saw our advancing tanks and Germans leaving their shelters and fortifications and throwing down their weapons. The Fritz fled when they tried to stay closer to the Volga (there were no partisans there), were captured, and they were immediately sent to rebuild the city. And the path of Pyotr Nikolaevich continued until the next "war" (as he himself says) - the Oryol Kursk Arch. Now, however, he did not run around the trenches, but on his "semi-truck" he brought cylinders with "fuel" to the flamethrowers. "When the wagon was torn apart, it burned, there was no screw to be found, and I was still alive, somehow I managed to jump out, and the fragment did not get caught", Kalinin shrugs, as if he still does not believe that something like that could have happened. Nevertheless, he served as a driver in the battalion until the end of the war. Tell him to come to Prague today, so that he does not get lost Pyotr Nikolaevich: he drove up and down all the military roads along this route, as they say. He took part in the battles for the liberation of Stary Oskol, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, cities of Moldova and Ukraine. The victory found him in Prague. - They had fun, everyone was happy, the men did not shy away from tears that flowed over their dusty, unshaven faces, leaving bright paths behind. We could not do without 100 grams," the veteran recalls. I had to experience the crossing of the Dnieper, free Hungary. The day of victory Pyotr Nikolaevich was in Prague during the defeat of the last divisions of the Vlasovites. Before the war the Kalinins did not live easily, 15 children grew up in the family. They all worked as soon as they got on their feet. But there was still not enough money to live on, and Pyotr went to Stalino (now Donetsk) to mine coal in the mines. There he found the news of the outbreak of war. On Monday, June 23, instead of being sent to his workplace, he was sent directly to the front, as they said- to defend Kiev. "We reached Poltava - we received a message: Kiev has been taken". Also "late" in Kharkiv, Rostov, then we bombed the train. "Retreat, panic, days of hunger were the most terrible time, terribly painful thoughts about the fate of the family, the homeland and yet (fortunately now) he was too late for the Japanese war: while they reached Moscow from Czechoslovakia, the surrender was signed. The commander gave the order to prepare a wagon to transport wood, and after a while Pyotr Nikolaevich heard behind him: "Kalinin, take your coat and documents, you have won back, go home! Go home! Go home!" I came to my home village, looked for a girl, got married. Olga Leonidovna and Peter Nikolaevich lived together for 60 years. They raised two sons - both following in their father's footsteps - and became drivers. "He is a good stove fitter, a good bricklayer, built a warm house and drove the chairman of the collective farm", complimented him his-wife- Olga Leonidovna.