Rank: Red Army soldier. The soldier's page is run by his granddaughter Chernyshova (Kryazheva) Tatyana Ivanovna, head of the territorial Department of the village Tanzara. Kryazhev Fyodor Stepanovich (my grandfather) 1918-1990 years of life. He was a hard-working man. Before the war, he worked as Chairman of the collective farm "II five-year plan". It is known that on the first day of the war, he spoke at a rally calling on everyone to go to the front without waiting for mobilization, and that he would be the first to do so! Here is how it is written in the book of Torgashin M. P.: "In the early morning of June 24, the forty-first, more than 300 mobilized people who were born in 1918-1905, gathered at the village council, and twice as many of their accompanying wives, parents, relatives, children. The Secretary made a roll call, noted in the lists those who were already in the district military Commissariat yesterday, they were told: "Come with everyone." Young Chairman Fyodor Kryazhev kept his word at the rally on June 22. Early the next morning, on a red stallion, he went to the first Secretary of the district party Committee, Mikhail Fedotovich. He convinced the Secretary to release him from work and send him to the front. Lieutenant Fedya Kryazhev was appointed a political officer and together with his comrades and fellow villagers, he goes to the front. A political fighter is a special political agitator, not only by his word, but, most importantly, by his example. The political fighters were always among the soldiers and in front of the soldiers in battle, appointed from the Communists and Komsomol members. From the book " On two fronts»: "Captain Fyodor Stepanovich Kryazhev volunteered for the Army and has been at the front since June of the forty-first. In the summer of 1941, together with the troops in unequal battles, he retreated in the Central direction. Participated in the Smolensk defense, in the battle of Yelnya, defended Moscow, was seriously wounded. After the hospital, he was sent to the Western front near Vyazma. Fyodor did not know that his younger 18-year-old brother Mikhail was fighting here somewhere nearby, and he did not know under what circumstances his brother died so absurdly. Here he received a letter from his wife. She announces the birth of his son Ivan. In these battles, Fyodor Kryazhev was wounded again. Again the hospital, and then sent to the troops of the 1st Belorussian front. He took part in the liberation of Minsk and Brest. Fyodor did not know that his countrymen Vladimir Chiganov and Ivan Torgashin were fighting in the same guards division near Brest. Both were seriously injured and almost simultaneously sent for long-term treatment to a hospital in the city of Morshansk, Tambov region. The battle route of the guard of captain Fyodor Kryazhev went west through Warsaw, Poznań to Berlin. He participated in the storming of Zelowskih fortifications— heights on the outskirts of Berlin. Here, in April 1945, Fyodor Kryazhev was seriously wounded for the third time...