Rank: Senior sergeant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Subdivision: 248th Odessa Red Banner Infantry Division. Nikolay Ilyich Kleimenov was born on May 5, 1913 in the Oryol region. Korsakovsky district, Malinovo village. In September 1939, he took part in the part of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army (RKKA) in the war with the White Poles. He was a participant in the war with the White Finns. On December 17, 1939, he was drafted by the Shcherbakovsky Military Comissariat of Moscow as part of the 133rd separate communications battalion-driver-telephone operator. He fought in the Ukhta direction of the Finnish front. Demobilized in July 1940. Transferred to the reserve. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was mobilized by the Shcherbakov Millitary Commissariat on June 24, 1941. He fought as part of the 899 rifle regiment of the 248 rifle division of the Western Front. There was a rifle squad commander. In the summer he took the soldiers of his squad out of the encirclement. He took part in the Battle of Moscow. In the battles near Moscow on December 9, 1941, he was seriously wounded, but remained in the ranks and continued to command his squad all day. The squad carried out the order of the command and held the occupied line, repelling enemy attacks. Was presented to the Order of Glory III degree. In peacetime he worked as a chauffeur, head of a garage at the Moscow Oil Plant. Then he was transferred to work in the Riga motor depot of Moscow’s Public TransportAuthority. He was the winner of Socialist competitions, for conscientious work was awarded the Order of the Badge of Honor, medals, certificates of honor, was the winner of the competition for long-term work without accidents. My father's work experience was 35 years. Kleymenov Nikolay Ilyich, awarded with the orders of: Glory III degree; two orders of the Great Patriotic War; Badge of honor; Medals: "for the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; "for Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; "XX years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; "40 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; "50 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"; "Fifty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; "Sixty Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; "Seventy Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"; Medal of Georgy Zhukov, "in memory of 800 years of Moscow"; "for valiant labor in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of V. I. Lenin"; "850 years of Moscow"; "two medals for long-term and conscientious work." He was a member of the All-Union Society of Inventors and Rationalizers, he was constantly the winner of socialist competitions.