Alexey Egorovich Ilyin, born on February 18, 1925 in the khutor Ore of the Eremovsky village council of the Rovensky district. After the liberation of the Rovensky region from the fascist invaders, on February 3, 1943, he was drafted into the Soviet Army. From February 1943 until the end of the war, he served in 211 separate companies of the specialized 42 engineering brigade. He fought on the Ukrainian front. He began his combat path with the liberation of Voronezh, then the Kursk Bulge in the Prokhorovka direction, liberated the city of Kharkov, Belgorod, Kiev, Lvov, Krakow. He participated in the destruction of the Korsun-Shevchenko group of Germans, fought on the Sandamir bridgehead, liberated Prague, stormed the German city of Breslau and ended the war on May 14, 1945 in Dresden. Was directly at the front from February 1943 to May 30, 1945. Then he was sent to the Moscow Military Engineering School. Zhdanov, having completed it and received the rank of lieutenant, was sent to the 100th Airborne Division, first as a platoon commander, and then as a commander of an engineering company. In 1957 he was demobilized from the armed forces. Already a reserve captain, an instructor of paratroopers. He was a pensioner of the Ministry of Defense. For a long time he was the Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Rovenki village. Awarded: Orders of the Patriotic War, the Red Banner, medals: "For Military Merit", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945." and 16 anniversary awards. He did a lot of work on the military-patriotic education of youth.