Branch of Troops: the USSR Navy and Naval forces of NKVD Frontier troops. Born April 12, 1927 in the city of Kostroma. Parents: Krasnov M. A. and Krasnova V. S. In pre-war childhood he was engaged in the club of Young sailors. In this regard, in 1943 Valentin Mikhailovich was sent to the Jung school on the Solovetsky Islands. He started his service in 1943 and finished it in 1949. After demobilization, he visited his sister Tatiana, who was then working in the rural Matveev school. Valentin Mikhailovich won over all the local residents with a sailor uniform and the Yablochko dance. On the recommendation of a fellow officer, he met in absentia and in 1950 married Krasnova (Sinopushkina) Zinaida Grigorievna. He has brought my young wife from Yegoryevsk (Moscow region) to Kostroma. Their son Valery was born here. In 1952 Valentin Mikhailovich and his family moved to Yegoryevsk in the village of Berezhki. He worked at a factory and graduated from a technical school in absentia. Since the mid-60s of the twentieth century, he worked at the cotton mill "Leader of the proletariat" as the Head of the Labor protection Department. He established labor protection at the plant in an exemplary manner. Many textile companies came to him on a tour and for experience in the design of visual agitation of labor protection. In life, he was a very sociable and cheerful person, he could find a common language with anyone. Valentin Mikhailovich was toastmaster at all his nephews ' weddings. From his grandfather Kucherov, Savely he inherited the ability to sew, even embroidered a rooster on the car on the bib for his son, and sewed trousers for his wife. He died on December 5, 1991. He was buried in the rural cemetery of the village of Berezhki.