Rank: Junior sergeant Type of troops: Ground Forces, Air Force (except for naval aviation), coastal service, NKVD troops, border troops Born in the Chernigov region (Ukraine). In 1925, the parents moved to the Urals, where they lived until 1932. In 1932 they left for the Novosibirsk region, Suzdal district, village Bitki where he finished 4th grade. In 1938, the parents moved to the Altai Territory, Blagoveshchensk District, the village of Kormovishche. Where he finished 6 classes. In 1941, in May, he was sent to study at the Factory and workshop education, where he received the specialty of a tractor driver. There he studied for 6 months. From 1942 he worked at MTS. In April 1942 he received a notice that his father Kiriyenko Andrey Evstafievich had died a heroic death. In August 1942 he was drafted into the army and sent to the school of junior commanders, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Klyukvennaya station. At the end of which he was awarded the rank of junior sergeant and he was sent to the city of Kansk for further service, where he remained until September 1943. In September 1943 he was sent west. In the city of Omsk, his detachment was reorganized and sent to the front. From the city of Velikiye Luki (Moscow region), as part of the 84th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 11th Guards Army, he reached the city of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) through Belarus. He was first wounded in Belarus in February 1944, on March 24 he was sent to the hospital. The second wound is also in Belarus near the city of Orma. The third, last, in the city of Konigsberg on April 9, 1945. After recovering, he was sent to the military hospital No. 672 where he worked as a radio technician. In 1955 he was sent on a Komsomol ticket to Northern Kazakhstan for the development of virgin lands, where he worked until 1986.