My great-grandfather Smakhtin Vasily Illarionovich born on 1 Mar 1916 in S. Istan Krivosheenko district of Tomsk region. 01.09.1937 was called to serve in Vladivostok in the artillery troops. Participated in the Khasan battles with the Japanese army, 1939 was transferred to Mongolia on the river Halkin-Gol. In November of 1941. was sent to the Volkhov front in the town of Tikhvin, participated in the battle for Leningrad, was seriously wounded. In 1942. after the hospital was allocated to the First Belorussian front under the command of K. K. Rokossovsky was appointed commander of the 76 mm guns of the sample in 1942. Participated in the Bobruisk operation, the Lublin-Brest operation, released Gomel, Bobruisk, Minsk, Brest, Siedlce, Lublin. Then followed the Vistula-Oder operation, during which they liberated Warsaw. In crossing the river Bed was seriously wounded. Has military awards: order of the red star, order of glory II and III degree, Two medals for bravery, order of the Patriotic war I degree, medal for the liberation of Warsaw, medal for liberation of Prague, medal For military merit. Awarded photos in the expanded banner! Demobilized in 1946, His name is listed in the project "Memory".