today, on the outside of the kholm gate , a memorial sign has been installed in memory of regimental posthumously awarded the order of lenin. near fomen at dawn on june 22, the political instructor was there. matyosyan himself wrote about these events, was awakened by a terrible noise, exploding shells, artillery shelling went through the fortress, quickly got dressed, ran out into the corridor, ran into the duty officer of the unit, asking the question what happened, the duty officer said, i don’t know, maybe some kind of warehouse - it exploded, but soon everyone understood, yes, that this was the beginning of a war, a war had begun. matelosyan received his first head wound in the first counterattack, but the bullet went tangentially and he remained in service. together with the fighters. made several attempts to break out fortress, but to no avail, it became clear that the garrison was surrounded, he received a more serious wound in the thigh, either a mine, or some kind of shell, which means that an artillery shell exploded, and half of his thigh, which means he vomited, with mea