Khramtsov Petr Ivanovich was born in the village of Sterkhovo, Sargatsky District, Omsk Region in 1914. Red Army soldier (private) of a separate tank destroyer division of the 58th separate rifle brigade of the 54th army of the Volkhov front. Called up in 1942 by the Sargat Military Commissariat of the Omsk region. He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals, including "For the Defense of Leningrad", "For Victory over Germany." Participant in the military operation "Iskra" to break the blockade of Leningrad in 1942-1943. January 30, 1943 is the date of the end of Operation Iskra. The headquarters of the Supreme Command ordered the troops of the Leningrad and Volkhov fronts to inflict "additional blows from the flanks" in order to encircle the enemy's MGinsko-Sinyavin grouping. According to the final plan of the offensive, starting from February 8, 1943, the 54th Army of the Volkhov Front from the Smerdyn area (Smerdynskaya offensive operation) delivered "flank strikes". Thus, on February 10, 1943, the Smerdynsk offensive operation began. Having broken through the enemy's defense sector between the Makaryevskaya Pustyn 'and Smerdynia, our units stumbled upon a well-planned second defensive zone saturated with engineering structures. Insufficient artillery support, terrain conditions affected the course of the offensive. Enemy reserves began to accumulate on the flanks. On February 14, 1943, reserves were thrown into the offensive: the 58th separate rifle brigade, numbering 5463 people, including Siberians and the 7th Guards Tank Brigade, which were combined into a mobile group. After February 16, the offensive of the entire strike group of the 54th Army was suspended. In response, the Germans launched a series of attacks from the flanks and along the Lezna River, cut off part of the units of the mobile group of Soviet troops. On the night of February 20-21, the encircled units of the 58th brigade made their way to the army units with huge losses. A little more than 100 people left the entourage. On February 20, the offensive of the 54th Army was suspended. Soviet troops went on the defensive. The 58th brigade was awarded the rank of the Guards. For 12 days, from 10 to 22 February 1943, this area became an absolute hell, our soldiers performed hundreds of feats, thousands of lives were given in the name of protecting Leningrad in the forests and swamps of the Tosno region. The fallen 58th separate rifle brigade of the 54th army of the Volkhov front, which took part in that operation, included private Petr Ivanovich Khramtsov. Khramtsov P.I. listed as missing in the period from 14 to 22 February 1943 in the Smerdyn area of ​​the Tosno district of the Leningrad region. Khramtsov P.I. On February 18, 1943, he received a shrapnel wound in his legs and was being treated in 2229 Surgical Field Mobile Hospital (HPPG). From the memoirs of P.I. Khramtsov, told by his daughter L.P. Parygina. “… Being on the battlefield after another attack at dusk on February 18 with broken legs among the dead, he believed death was not so much from blood loss as from freezing. Help came from a sanitary dog, who found me, alive, among the corpses, and saved me from death. There was no strength to bandage himself with bandages from the medical bag attached to the collar. He pulled out a special stick from the collar and put it in the dog's teeth. After a while, the dog brought me an orderly and then, in a harness, brought me to the medical center, then I got to the evacuation hospital ... ”.