Rank: Red Army. Type of troops: - ground forces, - air force (except naval aviation), - coastal service, - troops of the NKVD, - border troops. Unit: 348th Infantry Bobruisk Red Banner Order of Kutuzov Division. My paternal grandfather was missing for a very long time. We had no idea that we would ever find out anything about him. From the village council with. Lomov, Ramonsky district, Voronezh region, requests were sent to search for people who had not returned from the war. But for a very long time there was no news. My dad Nikolai Maksimovich Kharin, now deceased (died at 58 years old, 09/11/1997), shortly before his death at least learned that his father had died in battle on December 14, 1943 and was buried in the village of Asaya (in some documents d. Osoe) Rogachevsky district, Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The coordinator of the People's Immortal Regiment advised me to go to the Memory of the People website. When I entered, I could not believe my eyes. Even the documents are presented on this site, lists of the dead and where the remains of those killed from nearby villages are now reburied. My grandfather was reburied in a mass grave in the village of Mayskoye, Zhlobin district, Gomel region, Republic of Belarus. Below is a document from the "Memory of the People" site. I also learned that he served in the 348 rifle division in the 1170 regiment and was actively involved in hostilities. I would like to know in more detail: about the geography of hostilities, in what battles, perhaps there are some awards that my granddaughter and my daughters, that is, already great-granddaughters, know nothing about. But we do not yet know how to approach this, where to start and to whom and how to write correctly, so that there really is a result. But we are already happy that we managed to find out at least a little bit. From the words of a relative, I learned that my grandfather had traveled to Ukraine to earn money before the war, seemingly to the Donbass in the mines. They met their future wife, my grandmother Tanya (she has been since 1907) when he came home from Ukraine for a while. They merried. Grandma was 18 years old and he was 25 years old. And my grandfather took her to Ukraine. But she came home to give birth to children. Lomovo. According to relatives, I found out that they were a very beautiful couple, and both were very hard-working. My grandmother died at 60. To die, she went to Minvody to her daughter. I was in 1st grade, I was 7 years old when she died. And of course, I had no time to learn anything from her herself, either about my grandfather or about her life before the war. Was too small for that. I only know from relatives that before the war they gave birth to 5 children, but only two survived: daughter Ekaterina, born in 1934. and my son Nikolai, my father (born on 03/05/1939). They are no longer alive either. Ekaterina died at the age of 80 in 2014 in the city of Minvody, Stavropol Territory in the Caucasus. She left 3 sons. The rest of the children of grandfather Maxim and grandmother Tanya died very young in infancy, even before the war. Of course, I remembered that my grandmother loved me very much and I loved her too. She said: "My Ununyushka's eyes are round, like a doll's." She came to visit us in Voronezh with sunflower and pumpkin seeds. I still remember how they were unusually clean and tasty. She cleaned them for me herself. We went somewhere with her to visit in winter, there was a lot of snow ... I remember how my dad and I were visiting her in the village. Lomovo. I even remember her little house on a high mountain with a stove (on which my dad slept) and white walls. And only one room. I remember her delicious pancakes, boiled homemade eggs and her vegetable garden. We were doing something in this garden ... and there was a horse ... Dad put me on it, but not for long. She seemed very big to me. I was probably little, 3-4-5 years old I think. And I remember a huge log next to the house ... all in flowers ... Very beautiful! Now there is nothing in that place.