Rank: Colonel Branch of military: Artillery Combat path (history of the military path) In 1941, he graduated from the school of the village of Oktyabrsky Gorodok in the tatishchevsky district of the Saratov region. He was a cadet of the Chkalovsky (now Orenburg) anti-aircraft artillery school. In April 1942, he was sent to the Moscow air defense front as a platoon commander of the 1202 anti-aircraft artillery regiment. The Moscow air defense front was formed by the decree of the state defense Committee of the USSR on April 5, 1942. on the basis of the Moscow corps Air Defense district for the purpose of Air Defense of Moscow and parts of important objects of the Central industrial district from massive attacks by German aircraft. The front office was located in Moscow. The border of the front coincided with the border of the Moscow corps air defense area and passed along the line of the cities of Kovrov, Yuriev-Polsky, Kashin, Nosilovo, Kalinin, Staritsa, Rzhev, Dobra, Yukhnov, Tarusa, Serpukhov, Kashira, Zaraysk, Ryazan, Kasimov, Kovrov. The troops of the front provided a repulse of mass raids on the capital of German aviation, causing it significant damage. At the same time, parts of the Moscow air defense front covered communications, supply bases and groups of troops of the North-Western, Kalinin, Western and Bryansk fronts. Significant forces of the front in the spring of 1943 were involved in the air defense of groups of troops and rear facilities of the Central and Voronezh fronts in the Kursk region. From June 1943 to April 1944, he fought on the Western air defense front. He was a platoon commander of the 1771 anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 58th anti-aircraft artillery division of the Special Moscow air defense army. In the summer-autumn campaign of 1943 and the winter campaign of 1944. troops of the Western air defense front shot down more than 1,200 German aircraft from April 1944 to September 1945. he fought on the Northern air defense front, was a platoon commander of the 1771 anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 58th anti-aircraft artillery division of the Special Moscow air defense army. The front operated in a band over 3000 km wide. The troops of the Northern air defense front greatly contributed to the successful conduct of operations by red Army units in the summer-autumn campaign of 1944. They thwarted an attempt by enemy aircraft to disrupt the frontline communications of the Soviet troops. Only during the preparation and conduct of the Belarusian operation in 1944, 320 enemy aircraft were destroyed. Of the 117 enemy air raids on objects and communications in the frontline zone, only in 7 cases it managed to break through to the targets and strike them. 11.11.2014 Nikolay Gavrilovich passed away.