Millitary rank is Sergeant, Branch of troops is Artillery. My grandfather was born December 2, 1923. Before the war, he finished 7 grades of secondary school and worked on a state farm. December 14, 1941 he was called up by the Moshkovsky RСС (Rigional Military Commissariate). He was assigned to the 13th Separate Communications battalion. He was wounded near the town of Luga. After the hospital in February 1942, he fought in the 369th Separate Sapper battalion, 1st company with the rank of Junior Sergeant. Next January 1943 it was the 709th Anti-Aircraft artillery regiment, machine gun company where he has rank of Sergeant; August 1945 it was the 880th Separate Anti-Aircraft Artillery division, where the Sergeant Kovalev became the weapons Commander; May 1946 he was in the 2016th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment with the rank of Senior Sergeant, battery Sergeant. He fought on the North-Western front (from 12. 1941 to 12.1943), 1st and 2nd Baltic fronts (12.1943 to 04.1945) and Leningrad front (04.1945). He was shell-shocked. The gratitude of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief comrade Stalin "For the capture of the city of Dvinsk" (Leningrad region) was announced. He has met the victory in Courland. He was discharged on 04.02.1947. The weapon was handed over on 15.03.1947. Awarded the Order of the Red Star on 14.05.1945. Summary of his feat: "He participated in the Patriotic War from the first days, and was wounded in the battles for the Motherland. Brave and courage Section Commander, which accounts for two downed enemy aircraft. Being in the infantry formations, during the fights of May 6 and 7, his crew destroyed four enemy machine-gun points and personally he killed three soldiers with a rifle. In a difficult combat situation, he was not lost, showing courage and bravery, serving as an example for others." After the war, he returned to his native village. Married my grandmother. Together they raised 4 children and 8 grandchildren.