ivan sergeevich was born into a peasant family in the village of cherkasskoe.e completed seven classes and after that began working as an assistant accountant at a brick and tile factory in his native village. in 1937, ivan sergeevich joined the ranks worker of the peasant red army. demobilized in 1940, but not for long. already from the first days of the war, he joined the ranks of the active soviet army and began his combat biography as a company sergeant major, but literally a year later he found himself in the thick of it, fought on the bryansk front, and was already in command of a rifleman. after the storming of könecksberg, and this was a month before victory day, the participants, members of their division, which, by the will of the lord, remained alive almost in full strength, they were put in trucks and taken somewhere, the soldiers joked, that for the first time since the beginning of the war they were being taken as gentlemen and they joked that most likely they... to berlin, i must say that ivan sergeevich went through the entire war from the first