Type of troops: Signal troops My grandfather graduated from the 7th grade of secondary school in the village of Kamyzyak in the Astrakhan region in 1927. From May 1935 to March 1936 - cadet of the regimental school of junior commanders of the 170th rifle regiment, 57th rifle division, Trans-Baikal Military District, the city of Sretensk. March 1936 - August 1937 - commander of the radio department of the 170th rifle regiment, 57th rifle division, Zabaikalsky military district, the city of Sretensk. August 1937 - December 1938 - head of the radio station 11-Army corps of the 11th separate communications battalion, 57th rifle corps, Zabaikalsky military district, the city of Ulan Bator. January - April 1940 - assistant commander of a communications platoon of the 22nd artillery regiment, 44th rifle division, Finnish front. April 1940 - August 1941 - cadet of the Stalingrad Military School of Communications of the North Caucasian Military District. August 1941 - November 1941 - commander of the cadet platoon of the Stalingrad military school of communications of the North Caucasus Military District, the city of Stalingrad. November 1941 - March 1942 - head of the radio station 11-AK 86 of a separate communications regiment, 57 of the Army of the Southwestern Front. March - May 1942 - deputy commander of the radio station of the 86th separate communications regiment, 57th Army, Southwestern Front. May - July 1942 - assistant commander of the 109th Army Air Surveillance, Alert and Communications Company, 57th Army. July-September 1942 - after being wounded, undergoing treatment in evacuation hospital No. 3263. September 1942 - February 1943 - head of communications of the 771th artillery regiment division, 248th rifle division, 28th Army, Southern Front. February 1943 - June 1945 - chief of communications for the 771st artillery regiment, 248th rifle division, 5th Shock Army, 1st Belorussian Front. June 1945 - April 1946 - Chief of Communications of the 409th Artillery Brigade, 248th Infantry Division, 5th Shock Army, Germany. April 1946 - January 1947 - communications chief of the 407th artillery regiment, 301st rifle division, 5th Shock Army. On January 1, 1947, he was transferred to the reserve of the Soviet Army for demobilization with the rank of major. He was repressed for 8 years. He left the camp from November 1948 to May 1953. In March 1953, the criminal record was removed. He lived in marriage with my grandmother Egorova Natalya Tarasovna, born in 1915 in the city of Astrakhan, all his life. He had two sons born in 1935 and 1941 and a daughter born in 1947. In 1943, another son was born in the Dnepropetrovsk region (we have no data about him). Awarded with the orders: Red Star - for military services, World War II degree - for military distinctions, World War I degree - for years of service in the Soviet Army; medals "For the liberation of Warsaw", "For the defense of the Caucasus", "For the capture of Berlin", "For the victory over Germany" and others.