KOROTKOV Alexey

(12.VIII.1904, der. Zvyagin, now Pervomaisky district of the Yaroslavl region - killed in battle 6.H.1943)
In 1926-1927. was on active duty in the Red Army. Member of the Great Patriotic War of 1941: the North-West, then the Kalinin Front. Heavy 1126-Rifle Regiment. Distinguished itself in battles for the d. New Alekseevka of Vitebsk Region Vitebsk. With a grenade in his hand crept up to the enemy machine-gun nest and destroyed it. In this battle, died, closing a platoon leader. He was buried near the village of bracken Velizhskogo Area. After the war, ashes to. transferred into a mass grave near the village of Belyaevo Velizhskogo Area. As with. Nicholas-Uhtoma Pervomaisky district of the Yaroslavl region K. a monument.