Service branch: Coastal defense and air defense Artillery, coastal units, aviation of the Red Army AND Naval units of the border troops of the NKWD. My great-grandfather, Fyodor Kisilev, was born in 1927 in Maklaushi village in the Ulyanovsk region. When he was 3 years old, the family decided to move to Siberia to earn their living. They lived very poorly. The grandfather was the youngest in the family, there were 5 children. In one bad year the potatoes were all soaked and rotten, so I had to go to the villages and beg. There was nothing to eat. Great-grandfather completed only 4 classes and started to help his parents in the fields. When he was 17 years old, he was drafted into the army in 1944. They took him to the East. It was November. It was very cold. The train was going to Vladivostok. They are very cold, but there is nothing to do. I had to bear it. Defined in one part of the Air Defense "Air Defense". My great-grandfather told me that there was no place to live, they built a shelter for the winter to avoid freezing at all. Since they were still very young, they were given something to light Japanese planes with searchlights, and anti-aircraft gunners were already shooting them down. The work took place at night, so they gathered at night, on alert, and set to work. It was frightening. Finally the planes could start shooting. Great-grandfather says: "So we sit in the barracks, then the commander runs in and shouts that the war is over. Everyone was very happy and started to hug each other. " but my great-grandfather did not return home immediately, he served for six more years and arrived in 1951. Life went well. He got a job and got married soon. He is 89 years old now. Everyone in the family loves and respects him.