Rank: Lieutenant. Type of troops: Aviation. Isaikin Grigory Vasilievich worked at the Kalasevskaya secondary school, Ardatovskiy district, Republic of Mordovia as a teacher of the Mordovian language and literature. He was born on June 15, 1918 in the village of Kalasevo, Kozlovsky district of the Mordovian ASSR. From the age of 9 he studied in elementary school. He finished his studies in 1931. In 1932 he entered the 5th grade of the Ardatov youth school. He studied at Ardatov for two years. After finishing the 6th grade, he entered the preparatory courses at the Ardatov Pedagogical College. In 1932 he entered the first year of the Ardatov Pedagogical College, which he graduated in 1936. By order of the People's Commissariat for Education of the MASSR, he went to the Kozlovsk Regional Department of Education. He was appointed a teacher in grades 5-6 of the Kalasevskaya seven-year school, where he worked for one year. From August 1938 to 1940 he was a teacher of 5-7 grades of the Old Naimanskaya seven-year school in the Bolshe-Bereznikovsky district. In 1938 he registered a marriage with Elizaveta Zakharovna Gavryushova. Daughter Raisa was born in Bolshiye Berezniki. In 1940 Isaikin Grigory Vasilyevich was drafted by the Bolshe-Bereznikovsky District Military Commissariat and enrolled as a cadet at the Melitopol Military Aviation School of Letnabs and Navigators, which he graduated in 1942. After Grigory Vasilyevich left for the army, the family moved to the village of Kalasevo. From 1942 to 1945, Grigory Vasilyevich was at the front. During his stay at the front, he made 525 sorties. In the ranks of Soviet aviation, he served as navigator of the crew, flight, and in the last years of his service - navigator of an air squadron. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of the Patriotic War of the first degree, the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree. He was a member of the CPSU (b) since 1942. After the end of the war, Grigory Vasilyevich worked until retirement at the Kalasevskaya school. Isaikin Grigory Vasilievich died in 1980. He was buried in the cemetery of the village of Kalasevo.