CITY: Orenburg region, Kuvandyk district, village. Churaevo DATE OF BIRTH: 03/08/1907 DATE OF DEATH: 06/12/1997 HISTORY: Type of troops: Artillery. In August 1942, despite the existing reservation, our father, Mustafa Akhmetovich Alikbaev, who worked as a miner in a mining workshop at the Buribayevsk mining administration, volunteered for the front. Pope underwent military training in Sverdlovsk, after taking the oath in April 1943, he was sent to the front in the 1382th anti-aircraft artillery regiment. This is how the life of a gunner-gunner of small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery of the 1st Ukrainian, then the Belorussian Front under the command of Marshal Rokossovsky Mustafa Alikbaev began. Its task was to protect the air lines from the planes of the fascist invaders, not allowing them to go to the rear. He took part in the Battle of Kursk, supported our troops from the air and during the crossing of the Dnieper River, during the liberation of Poland, East Prussia, and the capture of Konigsberg. I celebrated Victory Day on May 9, 1945 in Berlin. “We were happy, hugged each other, congratulated, but the war was still going on. In Berlin there were battles for every street, for every house, every floor ... No, no, yes, and German soldiers came out with weapons in their hands, some surrendered, others fired. And the loss of comrades-in-arms after the declaration of victory over Germany was a bitter and insulting moment ... ”- the father recalled. Our family is lucky. Father returned from the war in the fall of 1945 alive and well. His tunic was decorated with the Order of the Red Star, medals "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Capture of Konigsberg", "For Courage", "For the Taking of Berlin", "For Victory over Germany." Having settled in his former place, he worked as a miner until he retired in 1964. For peaceful work, he was repeatedly awarded with certificates of honor, was awarded for rationalization proposals, and he also has anniversary medals. His photograph, along with other production leaders, has always hung on the Hall of Fame in the Red Corner of the factory. Dad did not like to talk about the war, he said that war is a terrible force that spares neither children, nor the elderly, nor women, and it is better for us not to see this. But every year he anxiously waited and prepared for the Victory Day. Participated in the celebrations, laid flowers at the monument to the fallen soldiers in the Second World War in the village. Buribai. Now we, his children and grandchildren, are fulfilling this mission and will never forget the feat of the older generation in the name of life.