ivanovich elagin. and this is what the memorial now looks like, where in 1949 a local resident, the legendary commander of a rifle squad, who had gone through the entire great patriotic war, was buried; this is how our soldiers saw the monument immediately after liberation. ovdeevka. the gold star is barely visible and there is debris everywhere. no one cared for the monument for many years. it is important that at least they were not destroyed, as happens with most of the same memorials in ukraine. approaching the slab, which was littered with branches and pieces of concrete, was cleared. and they saw the inscription hero of the soviet union, elagin. trying to find out the details of the feat of sergei elagin, a fighter. who discovered this monument during the liberation of avheevka from ukrainian militants did not even suspect how closely their 1980s red banner guards tank regiment was connected with this front-line hero. sergei elagin went to war from here from avdeevka in june 1941, commanded a squ