Rank: Senior Sergeant Type of Troops: Artillery Mikhail Yakovlevich Ignatov went through the whole war and lived for 83 years! Being a native of the Kurgan region, he was registered at the military registration and enlistment office. From August 1940 to May 1942 he served in the 119 engineer battalion as a cadet, received the military registration specialty "machine gunner", from May 1942 to May 1946 he went to the front, where he served in the 373 rifle regiment already in the position of deputy commander of a platoon of heavy machine guns ... And also participated in the war with Japan from August 9, 1945 to September 3, 1945. My grandfather was demobilized on August 3, 1946 in accordance with the Decree of the USSR Supreme Soviet of March 20, 1946. By order of the commander of the 373rd Infantry Regiment, 101st Infantry Division, the Kamchatka Defense Region, the 2nd Far Eastern Front, he was awarded the medal "For Courage" for exemplary performance of the command missions on the front against the Japanese aggressors and the manifestation of valor and courage. And also my grandfather was awarded the medal "For Military Merit" - the commander of the squad 8 of the company, senior sergeant Ignatov Mikhail Yakovlevich for the skilled commanding of the Squad and the suppression of the enemy's machine gun. My grandfather was awarded medals "For Military Merit", "For Victory over Germany," "For Victory over Japan", For Courage "" 20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 "," 50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR " , as well as the Order of the Patriotic War II degree "".