Rank: Senior Sergeant Bank of military: Land Forces, Air forces (except naval aviation), Coast Guards, NKVD troops, Border Guards Division: 23rd cavalry division Kuryanov Ivan Illarionovich was born in 1905 in the village of Storozhevoe Korotoyaksky district of the Voronezh province. Before the war, he was a firefighter. On July 15, 1941, he was called up to the front. He took the military oath on 15.09. 1941. At the very beginning, Senior Sergeant Ivan Illarionovich Kuryanov was given the badge "Guard". He fought in the ranks of the 2nd Belorussian front, in the 23rd guards Cavalry regiment under the command of Colonel-General Rokossovsky. Got a shrapnel wound. From 15 to 27 may 1942, he was in the evacuation Hospital. Participated in the battle of Stalingrad. By decree of the PRESIDIUM of the SUPREME SOVIET of the USSR on December 22, 1942, Guards Senior Sergeant Ivan Kuryanov was awarded the medal "for the DEFENSE of STALINGRAD". He also received the medal "for BRAVERY" and the ORDER of GLORY of the 3rd degree. He participated in the battles in the Smolensk direction, in Belarus, East Prussia, and reached Berlin. Kuryanov Ivan Illarionovich for exemplary service in the red Army as a unit commander was awarded a set of civilian uniforms, a hand watch, and an accordion. Decree of the Presidium of the SUPREME Soviet of the USSR of 9 May 1945, awarded the medal "FOR VICTORY OVER GERMANY IN the GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR of 1941-1945". After the War, Ivan Illarionovich received a LETTER of thanks from the Military Council of the front for the fact that during the great Patriotic War has repeatedly been marked by grateful orders of the Supreme Commander Generallisimusa of the Soviet Union, STALIN. In peacetime, he regularly received commemorative medals. My grandfather died in 1982.