Crimea: a cycle of publications «Victory in the Persons» — a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Anatoly Grilomonts

Anatoly Yakovlevich was born in 1926 in the Tyumen region. There were seven children in the large family of the grooves.

Anatoly, like many of his peers, entered the ranks of the Red Army before his age. Since December 1943, he was in the reserve regiment in Achinsk, but already in May next year, being a machine gunner of the rifle regiment, he fought on the front line of the Baltic Front.

Anatoly Yakovlevich recalls about the events of the war years: “There was fear in his soul, but why fear when you don’t know where you will come from? If you are very afraid, then you will die faster. ”

The victorious May Groilomontov met in Tallinn. But on this his battle path did not end. He continued to fight against the Nazi minions — “forest brothers” in the Baltic states and Bandera in Transcarpathia. Among his awards, the Order of the Patriotic War of the II degree, medals «For Military Merit» and «For Protection of the Republic of Crimea».

Sergei Aksyonov added that after demobilization, the veteran worked in the fisherman artel in Kamchatka, and in 1960 he moved to his wife’s hometown — Feodosia.

It will not be an exaggeration to say that, including thanks to Anatoly Yakovlevich, the city acquired the species that we know. After all, it was his brigade that built clinics, kindergartens and multi -storey buildings. This is a warrior and creator, an example for youth, for all of us— said the head of Crimea.

Source: Information and press service of the Head of the Republic of Crimea