kornach was awarded on february 4 , 1944 for 270 combat sorties, 70 air battles and 12 downed enemy aircraftey were all belarusians, they all worked on the land, they all lived in rural areas, and since childhood i was somehow instilled in school and at home, that is love for the homeland, for belarus, for the native land, for my people, for my loved ones, read my nationality, to be afraid of her that i am belarusian. there was a trip to minsk, i thought, why would such an idea come to me, why shouldn't i be a papal priest to metropolitan philarite, and i set a goal, i found him, got to him, we talked, and he says to me: my son, the icon should be in the kiosk, i say, and what is a kot? i say, show me, i say, i don't know, well so and so, i say, why, we have a metal one, nothing will happen to it, then no, my son, i will hang the icon in the church, a parishioner will come. first job, you know, such a heartbeat often, when you take it off the matrix, it's new, and you can already see that this is like the original, which i have... i was born in the village of koshkino, this is the vitebsk re