CITY: Kirteli Bolshe-Tarkhani district DATE OF BIRTH: 11/25/1926 DATE OF DEATH: 08/18/1985 HISTORY: Title: Corporal. My grandfather, Nikolai Sergeevich Adaryaev, was born in the village of Kirteli, Bolshe-Tarkhan district, on November 25, 1926. His childhood was difficult (his mother died early), and after graduating from the 4th grade, he went to help the shepherds for food. On October 21, 1943, he was called up for active military service by the draft commission of the B-Tarkhan military commissariat. I had to serve for 7 years. From October 1943 to July 1945 he was a submachine gunner. He was awarded the rank of corporal. Participated in the war with Japan. From August 1945 to September 1950, he served as a light machine gunner in the 1045th Infantry Regiment. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 30, 1945, he was awarded the medal "For Victory over Japan." There were other awards, but not all of them survived. His main civilian specialty is a tractor driver for tracked tractors. All his life he worked as a tractor driver on his native collective farm. At first, at efficiency, he processed mainly beets from sowing to the end of harvesting, and then on large tractors. He was not afraid of work, he carried out the assigned work in good faith. He was very fair and always spoke the truth in the face, which not everyone liked. Grandfather was proud that he was a war veteran and a labor veteran. Every year on May 9, I remember, he cried. He said: "God forbid you to see the war!" On August 7, 1985, he was handed a certificate of a participant in the war. I counted the years until retirement, but the unexpected happened ... At the age of 58, he fell near his house from a hay cart from a tractor cart. Unfortunately, it was not possible to save - he died in the hospital after an operation on August 18, 1985. In the army, for all 7 years, our grandfather served with a resident of the village of Vasilyevka, Kuzin Alexander Romanovich. Their friendship continued after the service. Grandfather often came to visit his friend Sasha, who had a sister, Valya. During one conversation, the father says: "Why, Aunt Matryona, maybe I will marry your Valya - I really like her." Great-grandmother did not mind. On April 8, 1952, their marriage was registered. We left to work in the Urals. From earnings they returned back to the village in 1956 with a new surname Adaryaevs, since Odaryaev in Russian sounds like Adaryaev, and was recorded. The error was not corrected. It is not for nothing that they say: "Where I was born, there I was." They gave birth and raised 9 children. Mom - Adaryaeva Valentina Romanovna - was awarded medals both as a mother-heroine and for her work in her native collective farm. In 1945 she was 15 years old, and she also contributed to the common Victory.