Efimov Alexander Matveyevich was born in 1918 into a peasant family. In addition to Sasha, the family also had two children: a younger brother and sister who died during the famine that began in the USSR in 1929, after which the Efimov family moved to Siberia, to the Omsk region, and then, when Sasha was 14 years old, to Moscow where they lived on Poltava street. Alexander had only 4 classes of education. Before being drafted into the Red Army, he worked first as a carpenter's apprentice, and then as a carpenter at a military factory near the Savyolovsky railway station. In 1939, Alexander Matveyevich was called up for military service in the Red Army in the artillery, where he served in the Leningrad Military District, first as a cook, and then, after the outbreak of the Soviet-Finnish War at the end of 1939, as an anti-aircraft gunner. After the end of the Soviet-Finnish War, Alexander continued his military service in the Red Army until the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. With the beginning of the blockade of Leningrad, Alexander Matveyevich defended the sky of the city from the German fascist invaders. In 1942 he was first wounded and was sent to the hospital, but escaped from the hospital to his unit while on his way to the bathhouse. After the hospital, when young anti-aircraft gunners from Moscow arrived in the regiment, Sasha was transferred to the infantry as a machine gunner. During the Soviet offensive in August 1943, he was wounded by fragments of an enemy mine. From the memoirs of Alexander Matveyevich: "We were running to the attack and then suddenly, as if with something heavy, they hit on the head. I woke up - there was no left foot, blood was gushing, my right leg was cut by shrapnel. I took off my trouser belt, pulled my leg over." It was picked up by our intelligence officers who were returning from a mission. For almost a day he lay near a burning tank, to which he crawled to warm up, because he had lost a lot of blood. He was sent to a hospital in Novosibirsk, where he remained until May 1945. The left leg was amputated up to the knee, and the right was saved. For that battle, corporal Efimov was presented for an award, but the award documents were lost. But later he was awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad", and after the war the medal "For Victory over Germany" and the orders of the "Patriotic War" II and I degree. After the hospital, Alexander Matveyevich returned to Moscow and lived with his mother. Sasha's father died in 1942. After the war he worked in an artel of disabled people in the archive and as a homeworker, and after that as a junior salesman in a manufactured goods store. He got married in 1948. His wife was an amazingly kind person and her name was Alexandra or Shura, as Sasha called her. She died early, although she lived in perfect harmony for more than 30 years. Alexander Matveyevich died in 1993, after waiting for the birth of his great-granddaughter (this was his dream). Buried at the Friday cemetery in Moscow. His descendants - son, grandson, great-granddaughter and great-grandson - live in Moscow.