"we Remember! We are proud! We serve Russian Federation! ": Karelin Maxime , Deryabin Merkury Semenovich, Smetanin Nicholas Kuzmich – great-grandfathers and the grandfather of the head of investigative department of Yemeliyanovo district Central Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the city of Moscow across Kr...

In my family two great-grandfathers and the grandfather - veterans! Great-grandfathers fell death brave on Great Patriotic War fields. One grandfather passed a front way from Saint Petersburg to Vienna and remained is live. Karelin Maxime 1907 year of birth was called on the front in the first days of war at the beginning of July, 1941. Karelin Maxime was at war as a part of 31 Guards shooting divisions which were a part of 16 armies of the western front. He was killed on February 23, 1943 in battles under Shirokovk's village of the Duminichesky area Smolensk Region (now the Duminichesky area is a part Kaluga Region). Mine is buried...