CITY: Tatar ASSR, Kolusheva Pustosh village DATE OF BIRTH: 11/03/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Alexander Petrovich Artemyev was born on November 3, 1919 in the Kolusheva Pustosh village of the Tatar ASSR. When the boy was two years old, he was orphaned - his father died in the civil war, and his mother died of typhus. Little Sasha and his older brother Mikhail were raised by their grandmother. In 1939, at the age of 20, Alexander was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He was enlisted in the 7th Cavalry Regiment, which was stationed near the city of Irkutsk. The news of the beginning of the war caught him there. In 1941, he was transferred as part of the regiment to Moscow. His unit was transformed into a motorized rifle regiment of the 5th Army. The soldier was sent to a separate communications company, where he studied for a radio operator for several months. Alexander Petrovich took part in the radio operator defense of Moscow, in the offensive of the Red Army in the western direction. At the same time, the radio operators overcame most of the movements through life-threatening territory. Once Alexander Petrovich also got into the shelling zone. Near Mozhaisk he was wounded and concussed. For several months He was treated in a hospital. Doctors put him on his feet, and he continued to fight. He took part in the Battle of the Kursk Bulge and in the battles near Leningrad. He ended the war in the Baltic States with the rank of senior sergeant. After the Victory, he was sent to Western Ukraine as part of the NKVD troops. From 1945 to 1947 he fought against Bandera. According to the veteran, it was a war after the war. The Soviet secret services at that time did not have to deal with scattered gangs. They were opposed by a powerful network of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which terrorized the local population. In May 1947, Alexander Petrovich entered the school of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR. After graduation, he served in the Security Department No. 1 of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of State Security of the USSR. He guarded state dachas on Lake Ritsa and in Novy Afon. Once he managed to communicate with Generalissimo I.V. Stalin, who expressed personal gratitude to the member of the leader's guard. In 1953, Alexander Petrovich joined the police. He was sent to the Traffic Police Authority and then ended up in the 1st department of the Dornadzor of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow City Executive Committee. The policeman has repeatedly taken part in the detention of offenders and criminals, including armed ones. He left the internal affairs bodies in 1977 as a senior inspector of the traffic police with the rank of police major. Already in retirement he was awarded the rank of lieutenant colonel. I did not stay at home when I retired He finished his career at the age of 74 at the headquarters of the civil defense of the RSFSR. Alexander Petrovich was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals “For Military Merit”, “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For Victory over Germany” and many others. The veteran has a big family. He lived with Anna Filippovna for 70 years. He has two children - son Evgeny and daughter Tatyana, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The veteran's family is surrounded by care and attention.