Born on August 27, 1912 in the village of Novotroitskoye, Tumanovsky District, Smolensk Region. Senior Lieutenant. At the front since 1939, he was a machine gunner, commander of the tank Т-34. On June 26, 1941he entered the first battle with the Nazis on the 2nd Baltic Front near Yartsev, was seriously wounded. In 1942 he graduated from the 1st Gorky Tank School and was again sent to the 2nd Baltic Front in the 3rd Tank Mechanized Corps. Since December 1943, he fought on the approaches to the border of the Latvian SSR, took part in the liberation of the city of Šauliai, then was transferred to the Kurliandskiy Peninsula. For battles on the Kurliandskiy Peninsula awarded the Order of the Fatherland. # NIRHTU