Vernigorenko Ivan Mikhailovich Rank: Sergeant Branch of the armed forces: Armored and mechanized troops. Ivan Mikhailovich is from the village of Tomarovka. Before the war, he graduated from 9 classes. He took "Baptism of fire" at Belenikhino, there was a fierce battle. He remembered well the first German he saw shooting from behind a destroyed building. He fired first and hit him right in the shoulder. Then he gained experience and fought famously. Yes, to the very end of the war Sergeant Wernigerode served in the tank troops with submachine. He was wounded eight times, four times seriously, but survived. When once again after the hospital He got to the transfer point, he said that he did not want to join the infantry. And he was sent to the tank unit. He could have been commissioned after he was wounded, he was sent to study at a military school – he refused. After the battle of Kursk, he fought in Ukraine and Belarus. Participated in the Korsun-Shevchenko operation, Yassa – Kishinev operation. Liberated Poland and Romania. As part of the tank corps of the 1st Belorussian front, he approached the very lair of the Nazis-Berlin, but was seriously wounded three kilometers away. He heard the news of the capitulation of Hitler's Germany in the hospital. Ivan Mikhailovich ended the war as a squad leader in the security company of the military commandant's office in Magdeburg. Ivan Mikhailovich was awarded the medal "for bravery", two orders of Glory of the second and third degrees, and the Order of the red Star and the Patriotic war, the medal "for the liberation of Warsaw", and every anniversary year is awarded with commemorative medals. In October 1945, the Guard Sergeant returned to his native land with the order of the red star. He got a job at the Belgorod railway depot, and worked there as a locksmith, car inspector until his retirement. His work experience is 45 years. He was married, his wife Vera Stepanovna was a respected woman in the village, worked for several years at the pioneer school as a counselor, and then as a medical Registrar in the Tomarovka polyclinic. They raised two sons, Vladimir and Pavel.