CITY: Moscow region, Mozhaisky district. Fomkino village DATE OF BIRTH: 03/10/1923 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Lieutenant Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops Subdivision: 59th tank division In September 1937, special military schools of the RSFSR People's Commissariat for Education were created to train future highly qualified commanders of all kinds troops. Young men who graduated from these schools could go to study at any military school of their own accord. In April 1941, he was enrolled as a cadet at the Pushkin Auto-Technical School near Leningrad. On October 24, 1942, he was reorganized into a tank school. He graduated from the school in November 1942 with honors as a lieutenant. Appointed commander of a platoon of cadets in the Second Gorky Tank School, wich was created in the city of Vetluga. They graduated from the school as lieutenants for the position of commander of a tank platoon, the rest - with the rank of junior lieutenant for the position of commander of a T-34 tank. 1943 was sent to the Second Belorussian Front. He took part in battles: In the days of July 1943, the tankers of the brigade, along with other formations of the Red Army, blocked the path of the German hordes with their chests, which had gone over to the general offensive on the Kursk Bulge. The brigade liberated Lebedin, Lubny, Pereyaslav-Khmelnitsky and dozens of settlements in Ukraine. On September 19, 1943, on the day of the capture of the city of Lubny by our brigade, by order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal STALIN, the 2nd Tank Corps was given the rank of "Guards" and it was renamed into the 8th Guards Tank Corps. The Soviet government highly appreciated the combat deeds of the brigade - it awarded the high rank of tankmen - STALIN'S GUARDS. In the summer and autumn of 1944, the brigade's Guardsmen marched through the whole of Poland with battles. The shrine of the brigade - its guards banner was decorated with two military orders: the order of the "RED BANNER" and the order of "SUVOROVA 2 DEGREE". The brigade's guardsmen were among the first to rush in and stormed the city of Danzig, the most important and first-class port and naval base of the Germans on the Baltic Sea. After returning from Germany, the 59th brigade stood in Brest for six months. During this time, it was transformed into a regiment, and the corps into a division. Most of all, my father appreciated the order for the capture of Konigsberg. 04/30/1945 Award list for the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree for the city of Preussisch Stargard and Linfitz. Worthy of the government award Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. 05/18/1945 Award list for the Order of the Red Banner for Emaus, Danzig. Recipient of a government award of the Order of the Red Banner. Medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." Jubilee medal "20 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" 2, in 1970 the Jubilee Medal "25 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" 3. in 1975, the Jubilee Medal "30 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War" "For the capture of Konigsberg" No. 011263 dated 6.11.45.