Rank: Red Army soldier. Troops: Army, Air Force (except marine aviation), Coast Guard, NKVD, Border Guard. Division: 332nd Rifle Division of the Ivanovo-Polotsk Volunteer Rifle Division, twice Red Banner Division of the Order of Suvorov. Korchagin I. A. is my paternal grandfather. A member of the civil war, cavalryman, 1st Cavalry army. He left for the front in January 1942 as part of 332 buld. div. He sent a letter home to his wife and children in March 1942 .It was the only letter. He was killed in the first battle. This was told to my grandmother by a fellow countryman who returned from the front after being wounded, he lived in a neighboring village. Here's what he said:"We went into attack, there was heavy machine-gun fire. A lot of people died. After the fight, snow fell and I couldn't find Vanya. He did not return from the battle." Personally, I myself made a request to the archive of the Ministry of Defense, and the answer came from there that in 1941-42, due to the tense situation at the front, there was often confusion and the place of the battle was not exactly known. I even turned to the writer who described the battles on the Kalinin front, because the name of Lieutenant Paskhin, commander of the unit, coincided with the name of the commander of the unit in which Ivan Alekseevich fought. But the chief editor of the publishing house / it seems to be "Soviet Russia" sent a response that the author of the book unfortunately died, warmly sympathized with me and wished me success in the search. Still, we found our veteran. The veteran's daughter Lyubov Ivanovna Agafonova made a request to search organizations in Smolensk region and they found a mass grave 7 kilometers away from the city of Gagarin, in the village of Ivanovka, where the soldiers of 332 Ivanovo-Polotsk build. div. were buried. We thank them very much.