DATE OF BIRTH: 11/08/1922 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Title: Senior Sergeant. He studied at a rural school and at the end of ten classes in June 1941, he wanted to enter a flight school, as he dreamed of becoming a pilot. But his dream did not come true, as the Great Patriotic War with Germany began and he was called to the front. He did well in school and was therefore called up to serve in the radio engineering troops at a low-power radio station. Anatoly Pavlovich was a radio operator, transmitting telephone signals over wires about the location of German units. He was a sergeant. In his youth, Anatoly Pavlovich was fond of hunting, he went well on skis and shot accurately from a gun. These skills and fighting character, and especially endurance, helped him defeat the Nazis and go through the roads of war as part of the Ukrainian and Belorussian fronts from 1941 to 1945. When there was a break at the front, he took the button accordion in his hands and played war songs to the soldiers, and especially lyrical ones, which reminded everyone of their relatives, loved ones and acquaintances. During the war years, Anatoly Pavlovich had awards: "For Valor", "For Courage and Bravery", "For Victory over Japan and Germany", etc. In May 1945, the war with the fascists ended, the soldiers returned home with great joy. And for my great-grandfather, the war continued in Japan on Mount Kholkin-Goll, for two more years he was in the Far East, and only in 1947 he returned home to the Yaroslavl Region. His parents died without waiting for their son. He entered the textile technical school and after graduation began to work as a foreman at the weaving factory of the flax mill. He died in 1984 from an illness resulting from the war.