Peter Kononov at the truck. Born in December 1925 in the Voronezh Region, Nikitovsky District, village of Palatovo. He was drafted into the Red Army in April 1943 by the Karasuk District Military Commissariat. After 3 months of training in Gorky, he received a driver's license of the 3rd class. He spent his entire combat service until the end of the war in the 1719 Anti-aircraft Artillery Regiment as a driver of an anti-aircraft machine gun company.