Rank: Petty Officer. Type of troops: Armored and mechanized troops. Ilnitskiy Arkady Viktorovich, was born in the city of Biysk in the family of a priest - Ilnitskiy Viktor Aleksandrovich and Filippova Ekaterina Gavrilovna. They got married on December 4, 1911 in the village of Ulala, Ulalinskaya Inorodnaya volost, Biysk district, Tomsk province. Viktor Aleksandrovich was born in the city of Kamenets-Podolsky, in a family of hereditary veterinarians and was called up for military service in the Life Guard Preobrazhensky Regiment, in St. Petersburg, where he served as a veterinarian. There was a death of horses in the regiment, he was tried and exiled to Siberia. They had three children. The eldest, Nina, was born a weak, sickly child and died at 18 in 1935 in the city of Biysk. Arkady Viktorovich graduated from high school in Stalinsk (Kuznetsk) in 1938 and began to work as a teacher in the village of Batkat, Shegarsky district of the Tomsk region. In August 1939 he entered the Tomsk Institute, and in October he was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army. He graduated from the regimental school. In September 1941, as part of the Siberian regiments, he defended Moscow. He went through the entire war, was wounded three times, twice seriously and ended the war in Manchuria. In December 1945 he was demobilized from the city of Mukden, Zabaikalsky District. In 1946, he recovered at the Tomsk Electromechanical Institute of Railway Engineers and graduated in 1951. When he was assigned, he was offered Moscow and Leningrad, places in the nearest cities were already taken, he chose Moscow and was sent to Metrogidrotrans. His wife, Anna Stepanovna (Korovko), with whom they recently signed, went with him. She herself is from the Krasnodar Territory from a family of repressed kulaks, exiled to Siberia, where she was born. Uncle Arkady had his first love - Tamara Novikova, who studied with him in the same school and they were supposed to get married, but Tamara's parents were against it - the son of an enemy of the people and the girl's family - the grandfather, whom Lenin guarded during the revolution, and his cousin guarded prisoners in Kolyma. Did not work out. She became pregnant and gave birth to a girl - Svetlana. Svetlana Arkadyevna Borzunova, who later became a poetess and deputy. editor of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in the city of Blagoveshchensk. She talks about herself and her family in the book of poems - “You are my destiny”. Blagoveshchensk. 2001 There is also a poem about her father - Arkady Viktorovich Ilnitsky. When the grandfather, Viktor Aleksandrovich Ilnitsky, was buried, the funeral procession passed by the school windows. The teacher asked his son, he was in the 4th grade, to go and say goodbye to his father. He refused. Apparently, he was ashamed, father is a priest, and the year is 1932 ... Hence, and this poem by Svetlana Borzunova. The archive contains a photo of Uncle Arkady, where it is written - the city of Bensihu. South Manchuria. And there is no entry in the military card about participation in that war. It is not clear why hide it? He talked a lot about Manchuria - We went to shave in twos, one shaves, and the other plays with a pistol ... In Moscow, work in a box office, business trips to Baikonur. He rose to the rank of captain. He lived in Rostokino, had two daughters. Died in 1979 ... Data from the Podolsk military archive. Ilnitskiy Arkady Viktorovich.BV military ID N225835, personal number B521370 issued by the Dzerzhinsky district in Moscow on November 25, 1967. Lieutenant engineer of the Moscow Military District. He took the oath on November 6, 1939. He began service on October 27, 1939, to December 24. 1945 Participation in the fronts of the Great Patriotic War - August 1941. To May 1945. Central Front - from August 41. To Dec. 41 years (As the commander of the gun crew). (Battles near Moscow) Central Front from 1941 to Sept. 1943. (In the capacity of the foreman of the battery) Karelian - 2nd Ukrainian Front - from 1944 to May 1945. (In the position of foreman - platoon commander). Awards: Order of the Red Star - Order of the 6th Tank Army - 31.05.45 (Issued on February 6, 1946) Medal "For the Defense of the Soviet Arctic" - issued on February 22. 1945 Medal "For Victory over Germany" - issued on August 16. 1945 Medal "For the Defense of Moscow" - issued on 4 November. 1946 Medal "For the Liberation of Prague" - issued on 4 November. 1946 (AN178782) Anniversary medals ...