![]() ![]() It turned out that our unit had been taken out by bombing and instructions were issued not to send more personnel to the city until further notice. About twenty of us, all natives of Lvov were detained at the military commissariat for two days. According to the mobilization instruction when drafted, I was supposed to arrive in the city of Lvov within 24 hours, to Stryisky Park where my tank unit was stationed. When Molotov's speech was broadcast on the radio, I put together a backpack, said goodbye to my wife and went to the military commissariat. So I was mentally and physically prepared for the war. But the most exciting things in our institute were flight training and the parachute clubs. At the institute I had an opportunity to be certified as Master of Sports in mountaineering, departing every summer for the mountains of the Caucasus and the Pamir together with the (Ukraine SSR) Republic’s team. Military training was an integral part of a student’s life at that time. After several months spent in the commanders’ training camps, the rank of commander was conferred on all of us and we all were certified for the position of "tank platoon commander". I studied at the paramilitary department in the institute. Did you have a chance to be in the Army before the war? I then returned to my plant in Kiev as a chief mechanic. I graduated from it in March, 1939 and was qualified as a mechanical engineer for chemical machine engineering. A few years later I entered the Kiev Industrial (Polytechnic) Institute. ![]() In 1932 I went to Kiev and began to work at the Mechanical Plant. For three years I worked in a factory in Dneprodzerzhinsk as a laborer first, and then as a machinist. At that time an exodus of the youth from villages began. There I finished a seven year school and studied at a college for mechanics, but when I was 17, I picked up a bag of dried biscuits and went to look for a job. Trying to escape from hunger and violence, the family moved to a place named Boguslav, and a few years later, to the village of Yanovka. He returned home after the Revolution, but a year later he died of complications from the wounds received at the front. In 1914 my father was drafted for the WW1 front. I was born in 1912 in the village of Dybentsy in the district of Boguslavsky of the Kiev Region. ![]()
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