Rank: Senior Sergeant. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized Troops. He was born in the Tambov region, Morshansk district, village Serpovoe.At the age of 15 he entered the Moscow Crafts School. On November 7, 1941, he took part in a military parade on Red Square as a student of the Crafts school. On 15 June 1942 he was recruited by the Morshansky district Commissariat. From June 1942 he was a machine gunner in the 67th rifle regiment, from March 1943 he was a cadet in the 11th brigade, from January 1944 he was a squad leader in the 95th tank brigade of the Belorussian front, and on June 28, 1944 he was wounded. He was leading captured Germans, suddenly a German tank blocked the road and fired at them with direct fire, he managed to jump back, crawled, but was covered with automatic fire, resulting in a severe wound to the pancreas and lung. He was treated in Georgia. Then, until the end of the war, he served as a clerk due to health reasons. He remembered how in hand-to-hand combat he killed a German with a knife, as both of them ran out of ammunition. He was awarded the Medal of Courage, the Medal of Merit, the Order of the 1st Class Patriotic War, and other medals. He was discharged in 1947 with the rank of senior Sergeant. He joined the fire Department at the Krasnodar Oil Refinery, graduated from evening school and entered the all-Union Distant Learning Polytechnic Institute, specializing in chemical technology. For 3 years he worked at the Trade Unions Regional Committee as Deputy Chairman for Oil and Chemical Industry. He graduated from The University Of Marxism-Leninism. He was married with 2 children, a son and a daughter. Retired as Deputy Director of an Oil Refinery in Krasnodar. He died on June 24, 2010 as a result of cardiac arrest