Brief biography of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Sergeant Major Grigory (Gavril) Kushnarenko. Date of birth: July 13, 1913. Place of birth: village Anastasievskaya, Slavic District of the Krasnodar Region. Grigory received the name after being wounded in the hospital during the restoration of documents (both heard and recorded, instead of Gavril - Grigory). Nationality: Russian. Education: graduated from the 4th grade in 1932. Partisanship: non-partisan. Information about conscription for active military service: drafted in 1935 by the Novorossiysk City Military Commissariat. Recognized fit for non-combat service and enlisted in the 22nd Artillery Territorial Regiment as a signalman. Service in the Red Army: in variable composition (294 days) 1935-1939, 22nd Artillery Territorial Regiment, signalman. Career: 1939-1941 Novorossiysk Cement Plant. Mobilized: July 22, 1941. Participation in the Great Patriotic war (1941-1945): From July 27, 1941 to November 18, 1941 - 3rd Marine (rifle) Regiment of the 25th Chapaev Division, Sergeant Major, squad leader (defense of Sevastopol, Mikenziev mountains area). From November 18, 1941 to February 1, 1942 - evacuation hospitals (Batumi, Tbilisi. Shrapnel wound to the left shoulder blade. The shrapnel from the shell did not reach the heart 1.5 mm) From February 1, 1941 to September 16, 1943 – 10th Reserve Signal Regiment, Sergeant Major, assistant platoon commander, training platoon commander. From September 16 1943 to August 27, 1944 – Deputy Commander of a platoon, 983rd Separate Signal Battalion, 75th Infantry Corps of the 27th Army (Commander Lieutenant General S. Trofimenko) of the 2nd Ukrainian Front (Commanded by the Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Malinovsky). From 27 August 1944 to October 28, 1944 – 27th Penal Battalion. From October 28, 1944 to December 15, 1944 - treatment in the evacuation hospital (contusion). From October 15, 1944 to November 1945 - Staff Sergeant, the Commander of the Cavalry of the Department of communication, 952nd Separate Order of the Red Star Signal Battalion, 104th Rifle Corps (Commander Lieutenant General M. Filippovsky), 26th Army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front (commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union F. Tolbukhin). November 1945 - demobilized from the ranks of the Red Army on the basis of the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated 25 September 1945 (Vienna. Austria). Awards and distinctions: - Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, - Medal For Bravery #2417120, - Medal For the Defense of Sevastopol, - Medal For the Capture of Budapest, - Medal For the Victory over Germany. Appreciation certificates from the Supreme Commander J. Stalin: - for the capture of the cities of Vaslui, Ramnicu, Seret Northern Transylvania (Romania), - for the capture of the cities of Lucefer, Budapest, Körmend (Hungary). Residence and place of work: After the Great Patriotic War, he lived in the village of Novoleushkovskaya, Pavlovsk District, Krasnodar Region, Novo-Embankment Street, #9. He worked as an electrician for the Novoleushkovsky Elevator from 1946 to 1976. 13. Date of death - September 24, 2013. He was buried in the village of Novoleushkovskaya in the Pavlovsky District of the Krasnodar Region at the village cemetery (South – West side 30 meters North of the cemetery border).