Victory in the Great Patriotic War was won by the Soviet people in the name of peace and life on earth. The war touched every family. Not only those liable for military service went to the front, but also teenagers who had not yet finished school. Boys and girls tried to do everything to help in the fight against the invaders. All the people of the country stood up to defend the Motherland. Among them is my grandmother's brother Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev. Grandfather Misha was born on November 21, 1926 in the village of Chernorechenskaya in the family of rural workers Khorosheva Maria Emilyanovna and Khoroshev Alexander Borisovich. He grew up as an ordinary child, went to school, went fishing, helped his parents with the housework. He loved to joke. When the Great Patriotic War began, he was 15 years old. There were no Germans in the village of Chernorechenskaya, but they settled in the neighboring village of Gofitskoye. The German headquarters was located there. In 1942, in November, a policeman came to the house of my great-grandmother and, at gunpoint, took a 15-year-old teenager across the Laba River to the village of Gofitskoye. Grandpa Misha and other children were forced to look after German horses under threat of execution. The stable is clean and quiet, sparkling with frost on the bolts, along the walls, up to the doors of the boards, the shadow of a bayonet walks behind me. In the winter of 1942, the retreat of the Germans began. Grandfather fled barefoot to Chernorechenskaya, and in 1943 Mikhail Alexandrovich was drafted to the front. He fought in Western Ukraine. In letters home he wrote: "I'm studying to be a radio operator, studying Morse code, I am not far from the front line." My great-grandmother received a few letters from the front from her son. In August 1944, a funeral came from the front: "Your son, Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev, died a heroic death in the village of Tisovitsa, Drohobychevsky district, Lviv region." From that day on, the great-grandmother did not remove the black mourning scarf from her head. Khoroshev Mikhail Aleksandrovich was buried in the mass grave of the village of Strelki, Starosamborsky district, Lviv region. The name of Mikhail Alexandrovich Khoroshev is carved on a memorial plaque, installed in the village of Chernorechenskaya in honor of those who died during the Great Patriotic War. My grandfather died for our happy life, and it is my civic duty to know the past of my family. On May 9, I took part in the Immortal Regiment, carrying a portrait of my grandfather. And I had the feeling that he was walking next to me.