CITY: Kusu DATE OF BIRTH: 12/25/1927 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Vasily Petrovich Alashov (12/25/1927 - 01/08/2016) Vasily Petrovich Alashov, my great-grandfather, was born on December 25, 1927 in a family of workers. Father Alashov Peter Fedorovich, mother Alashova Anna Konstantinovna. The family was large and friendly. The family had 7 children. The eldest son is Nikolai, the daughter is Nina, the sons are Victor and Peter, the daughter is Antonina, the son is Vasily and the youngest is Boris. All children from an early age were engaged in peasant labor. They kept a horse, a cow, sheep, chickens, geese. So childhood was by no means easy. The family lived in need and worked tirelessly. We lived by our own labor. The elder brother Nikolai went to the front at the very beginning of the war. Unfortunately, he did not return from the front, he died on the battlefields. Great-grandfather studied at school number 6, which was located where the district clinic is now. Grandfather graduated from the 7th grade in 1941. Then he entered the FZO (factory training) in the city of Korkino, where he studied as an electrical fitter for 2 years. There they had a radio amateur club, he went to it. After training, he returned to his hometown of Kusu and went to work at the Machine-Building Plant. At the factory, together with other guys, they made shells for the army. In those years the Great Patriotic War was going on. As young boys 15-17 years old, they worked in two shifts. Each had to make 60 pieces of shells. They knew that our soldiers needed their shells. Grandfather constantly ran to the military registration and enlistment office and asked to go to the front. In 1943, my grandfather was drafted into the service at the age of 17. He went to the front as a volunteer. Twelve guys from Kusa and their grandfather went to the front. Grandpa ended up in the Northern Fleet in Murmansk. The service was not easy. Grandfather was taken as a radio operator. He had been practicing for a month before that. For half a year, grandfather was at the headquarters, then under the direction of the commander of communications in a group of radio operators, he served on the submarine destroyer "Smottenny". My grandfather was in England and the USA. His task was to adjust the fire of the batteries, to keep in touch with the headquarters and ships. In one of his campaigns, my grandfather was wounded. In Norway, they ran into a mine. Only two of the sailors survived. Grandfather was seriously wounded in a hospital in Arkhangelsk with the rank of foreman of the first class. After the Victory, my grandfather served another 7.5 years. With the onset of peacetime, they began to eliminate minefields, opening up routes for navigation. My grandfather returned home in 1950. Joined the TTK plant. He worked conscientiously for 38 years before retirement. Received the title of "Veteran of Labor". Together with my great-grandmother Alashova Galina Nikolaevna, they raised two daughters. They have been married for over 60 years. Awards: two orders of "Patriotic War II", medal "For Victory over Germany" and commemorative medals. Great-grandson Vladislav Evsyutin.