Rank: Sergeant. Type of troops: Artillery. Ilyin Vasily Ivanovich was born in the village of Lyaki, Sarmanovskiy district on January 10, 1925. In 1942, when he was 17, he volunteered for the front after finishing the 10th grade. He received the rank of sergeant after graduating from the school of junior commanders, graduated from the war as a captain. Position: artilleryman, head of artillery divorce. Participation in battles: at Stalingradrm (1943), in the Vitebsk direction (1944), in the Orsha direction (1944), the liberation of Poland (1945), for Konigsberg (1945). : near Stalingrad, near Vitebsk, during the liberation of Poland. Awards: - Order of Glory I degree, Order of the Patriotic War I degree; - Medals: "For courage", "For the capture of Konigsberg", "Zhukov"; - Jubilee Medals of Victory in the Great Patriotic War - 20 years, 30 years, 40 years, 50 years old, 55 years old, 60 years old, 65 years of Victory; 50 years. 60 years, 70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR; - badge "25 years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War"; - "Veteran of Labor". Vasily Ivanovich organized a seven-year school in the village of Yana-Bulyak, Sarmanovsky district, and was its first director. He connected all his career with this rural school, was a permanent head teacher, taught history to students. He was a good artist of propaganda posters, his works in Soviet times were often met in villages, along the roads to the collective farms of the Sarmanovsky region. From the story of Ilyin Vasily Ivanovich about the first battles at Stalingrad: “In August 1942, together with my other comrades, I was sent to a unit near Stalingrad. We moved 75-100 km at night. My first battle was at Stalingrad. The battles at Stalingrad were the most terrible - it thunders, rumbles, they shoot at us, tanks are coming at us, we are pulling the wounded, someone is being crushed by tanks. The enemy is conducting very strong machine-gun fire to kill. During one of the battles at Stalingrad, when our unit captured the first line of defense and launched an attack on the second, communication with the headquarters was lost. I was ordered to find a broken cable and restore communication. Holding on to the cable, I crawled towards the battle line. Shells were bursting around, machine guns were firing - I couldn't even raise head , I didn't even notice that was wounded in the hand. Finally, I found a break, almost on the confrontation line. I connected the wires by pinching them with his teeth. At this moment, the leg was wounded, a shell fragment hit in the cheek. I woke up in the hospital.