died in 1968.
He is my great-great-grandfather on mother’s side.
He fought in the Second Word War.
He was wounded twice.
He had got 5 brothers who took part in the war, too.
Two of his brothers were killed on different fronts.
Vasiliy Grigorievich Molchanov
He was born in 1924.
He died in 1992.
He is my great-grandfather on mother’s side.
He went though the war with his namesake Vasiliy Ivanovich Shelestov.
They became the real friends.
Our families are still friends.
We visit his family in Barnaul and they come to Moscow too.