CITY: S.Kutema Pervomaisky district, TASSR DATE OF BIRTH: 02/21/1914 DATE OF DEATH: 07/28/1990 HISTORY: Title: Red Army soldier Type of troops: Coastal defense and air defense artillery, coastal units, aviation of the RKKF and the Naval Forces of the NKVD border troops Good afternoon. Today I want to tell you about my grandfather, a disabled veteran of the Second World War - Arzyutov Alexander Fedorovich. He is not my grandfather by blood, because my grandmother married my grandfather in April 1983, when I was already 4 years old, but we considered grandfather ours and called him "grandfather". He was very kind and loved to joke, but he never talked about the war, only on May 9 he ironed his suit, put on a few medals and went out for a walk. Everything. There was no more talk. Only from my grandmother, a home front worker, we knew that his family and wife had died. And the photograph of his first wife, who died, was always hung on the wall. My grandfather was very lonely, and when he had many relatives (children, grandchildren, grandmother's brothers and sisters) with my grandmother, he immediately came to life. My grandmother shared with my mother: "when he got up in the morning, he always asked: well, Anya, who are we going to visit today?" Grandparents were very funny, grandfather always joked, and grandmother never understood or took his jokes. And we do not even know at whom or the more we laughed, at the grandfather with his jokes or at the grandmother, who did not understand them. They complemented each other very much and looked very happy, like children ... We all lived very amicably and loved our grandfather very much. On July 28, 1990, at the age of 76, he died. They buried him at the Samosyrovsky cemetery. Grandmother then always went to the cemetery and looked after the grave. After the death of my grandmother, all the documents were inherited by me, there were also those of my grandfather. So we found out that my grandfather was a rifleman of the 588th rifle regiment of the 222nd squad on an air defense (air defense) armored train from February 1945 to March 1945, where he was wounded on March 21, 1945 in his left arm. In the documents, we also found a certificate from the military commissariat of the Vakhitovsky district of Kazan that Alexander Fedorovich Arzyutov served in the ranks of the USSR Armed Forces from 02/14/1943 to 06/23/2945. Later we found information declassified by the Ministry of Defense that the year and month our grandfather was in captivity and was taken prisoner on 1.12.1943 (in the city of Pyryatin), then he was released. From the same record, you can see that he was in the army since 06/26/1941, but so far we have not found information for this period (from the beginning of service to captivity). In the documents that I inherited, there were documents of my grandfather's first wife - the Red Army book. Her name was Istomina Polina Radionovna (Arzyutova Pelageya Radionovna), born in 1910, corporal, cook. Her father: Maheev Radion Silantyevich, TatSSR, Rybnoslabodsky district of the village of Urakhcha. She served in 222 zen branches. armored trains from 02/14/43 to 06/23/45. And so now we can only assume that the grandfather met his first wife during the war. He was an air defense gunner, and she was a cook on an armored train. Under what circumstances she died, we do not know, but her portrait hung on the wall of her grandfather until his death ... This is the fate ... This is how a modest fireman, janitor and locksmith, who graduated from grade 4, never talking about war, defended his country, his homeland, was wounded in battle and was captured by the enemy. Love your relatives, learn about their life, pass it on to your children and grandchildren. Grandpa, we remember you. And we will pass on your story to our children, and we will pass it on to our grandchildren ... Your granddaughter Katya.