ALEXEEV Grigory Alekseevich

Born in the village of Sunel'kino (since 1963 part of the village of Izederkino), now in the Morgaushsky District of the Chuvash Republic. Chuvash. He grew up in a large family. Eight brothers lived happily and helped their parents. He joined the army in 1925. He served in the border units in the Far East. After being discharged from the reserve, he moved to the Ivanovo region. When the struggle against the kulaks began, the party organization sent him to the village of Batmany in the Kineshemsky District as a representative of the NKVD. He lived in Yuzha, and from 1937 he lived in the settlement of Dolmatovsky, now in the Zavolzhsky District, where he worked as a boiler stoker in a factory. In November 1941, he was again called up for service and fought in the infantry. In one battle, he set fire to an enemy tank with a bottle. He was wounded near Rzhev and returned to the front after the hospital. He distinguished himself in battle during the crossing of the Dnieper. On the night of October 16, 1943, as part of an airborne group, he crossed the Dnieper under heavy fire near the village of Loyev in the Gomel region of Belarus. He participated in repelling enemy counterattacks while holding the bridgehead, personally knocking out several tanks.

25.10.1903 - 09.11.1943