Brief biography of the participant

Place of birth: Pallasovka station, p. Savinka of the Stalingrad region. Grandfather graduated from the seven -year -old. He was married to my grandmother, Agafier Romanovna. Before the war, the family lived at the address: st. Sverdlova, 71, apt. According to his mother, his grandfather worked in the building of the former house of trade unions. In the room stood a machine gun "Maxim".

Before the war, the whole family spent the summer in the Gardens of Gardens, where his grandfather went with soldiers to the shooting range. He was in charge of amazing. Grandfather often wrote letters to his sister Nina, family, children to mother was 12 years old when the war began. He loved children very much. But the letters of the beginning of the war were not preserved, and I am not known to the combat path of this segment of the war.

From letters and years it is known that in the year the grandfather was shell -shocked and was under the cure. In the same 44, he studied at the tank school in Chardjou, there is a photo. The school graduated from the tank commander. Then he went to the city of Nizhny Tagil. The last letter from the front was written after the battle of April 2. Lines from the letter: “There were very strong battles, but we took a number of cities and sat down.

So far alive and well. ” A letter to Sister Nina came on April 16, when her grandfather was no longer alive. From a friend of Alexei Alekseevich there was a letter that his grandfather had died in battle, his tank was hit. There was an agreement between friends if one of the friends perishes, the other will inform the family about this. According to her mother, there is a copy of the funeral: “...

Junior Lieutenant Zhevak A. After reburial is the place of the mass grave - the village of Romanovo Zelenogradsky district of the Kaliningrad region. There is a correspondence with the district commissar, a photo of a memorial plate on which the surname is immortalized - A. Zhevak Low bow to everyone who folded their heads for victory, and our grandfather for victory on the outskirts of Koenigsberg.

The battle for East Prussia was the most bloody battle of the campaign of the year. The East Prussian operation of the year on January 13-April 25 is considered a strategic offensive operation in the Great Patriotic War. The purpose of the operation was the defeat of the enemy group in East Prussia and the northern part of Poland. The battles for the “cradle of Prussian militarism” were distinguished by great perseverance and bitterness.

Here, the Germans created a deeply stored defense.

The losses of the Red Army in this operation exceeded thousand. Very large was the damage to the Red Army in technology, he surpassed other operations in the G. campaign to commemorate the Medal “for the capture of Koenigsberg”. I have no information about my grandfather’s awards.