Kalsin Grigory Fedorovich
Rank: red army soldier.
He was drafted into the Red Army in June 1942 by the Verkhoshizhem RVC. Red Army soldier. At the front since October 1942, 1 severe wound, 1 light wound and 1 severe contusion to the spine in February 1943 with vertebral damage. In the summer of July 1943, he was commissioned with a diagnosis of musculoskeletal disorders, a disabled person of the Patriotic War. In April-May 1943, he was treated in the evacuation hospital No. 1510. Kirov. In June 1943, he entered the evacuation hospital No. 1952 of the village. Orichi. In July transferred to the hospital p. Verkhoshizhem'ye. At the end of July, he was transferred to his wife to care for the seriously injured. (Since 1948, he was observed and treated at the regional hospital of the disabled of the great Patriotic War in Kirov, 113 K. Marx street. In 1996, it was renamed the Kirov regional hospital for war veterans). My grandfather, Grigory Fyodorovich, could not sit and walk. After a year of intensive treatment and constant training of the back, arms and legs, I learned to sit down. Six months later, I learned to walk around the room, leaning on chairs, holding on to the walls. For about seven years, my grandfather did not go outside the house without an escort. And yet, every year he stood on his feet more firmly. In 1950, my grandfather started working on a collective farm. For the rest of his life, my grandfather wore an iron leather corset that held his back upright. My grandfather defeated death three times. The first time, surviving in battle, February 1943. The second one defeated the disease and got back on his feet, in May 1945. And the third time is a celebration of life, in August 1946, the birth of daughter Ali. Information and documents with the number of the military unit, unfortunately, have not been preserved. And we grandchildren, comparing the dates of injuries received and what happened at the front, can only assume about the place of service of the grandfather, about his combat path.