Rank: Junior Sergeant. Service branch: Artillery. Unit: 1st Artillery Division of the RGC. Kuzmin Ivan Mikhailovich was born on 15 February 1916 in the village of Svyatogorye, a village in the estate Lazo, Khabarovsk region. He had a 6-class education, at the age of 16, faked the year of birth to go to work, as the family was in a difficult situation due to hunger and oppression in the country. Later he served in the army and received the rank of Junior Sergeant. In 1941, at the age of 24 years, he was called up for war - the place of conscription- estate Lazo RVC, Khabarovsk region. Unfortunately there is no a lot of information about his military service. It is known that Ivan Mikhailovich was a gunner and commander of the gun service. From the attached documents it is known that in 1943 he performed a service for which he was awarded one of the medals. Unfortunately we could not find any information about other medals and orders. Combat unit-866 gap RGK1 Ukrf Ivan Mikhailovich was called up on the territory of Khabarovsk, in the Far East, and fought on the Western Front - reached Czechoslovakia and the war was over, this is certainly known. His way of fighting led through the whole country! After the end of the war my great-grandfather returned to his village Svyatogorye, worked as a carpenter, married my great-grandmother Lydia, they had three children: Tamara, Leonid and Galina. After the birth of the youngest daughter, the great-grandfather decided that there were no prospects in the village, so he went to Khabarovsk, got a job as a carpenter in the Khabarovsk RSU (repair and construction department), and a little later moved to Khabarovsk with his wife and children, because the company gave him a flat. A few years later, he got a job at the Headquarters of the Far Eastern Federal District, also as a carpenter. He did not talk to much about his service in the war, but showed medals. There were many of them, and after the war he also received commemorative medals. In 1983 he lost his wife. My great-grandmother died of diabetes. The children were already grown up and had their own families, so my great-grandfather remarried a few years later. He met his great-granddaughter (born 1991). He died suddenly on April 16, 1995. Medals and decorations were unfortunately lost and were inherited by a new wife.