salamatin pyotr timofeevich, a native of the ryazan region, i was born on july 12, 1923 before the war ordinary peasant family, there were four brothers and four sisters. when the war began, we here, all tenth grade, wrote an application to volunteer to go ahead. well, they took the tallest guys. here you must complete 10 classes in order to prepare you during the war as commanders of the red 404. we had the rank of junior lieutenants and were sent to the leningrad front. and we, together, for about one and a half or two, were engaged in the liquidation of the blockade or the grapes, and then the leningrad front was renamed the second baltic point and we began to work on the liberation of estonia, latvia and lithuania. well , the main task was the liquidation of a large group of troops. this is about the ulyanovsk wardrobe. we were surrounded. we tried to eliminate it before the end of the war. the horse was shot. we immediately deploy everything to another place, because because the place from where we shot the germans noticed and begin. i saw tens of hundreds of people killed then af