Old photos from the photo album of Great Patriotic War veteran Dmitry Tarasov. He was born in 1928 in the Kursk Region. In June 1941, Dmitry Tarasov was 14 years old and had just finished the seventh grade He and his friends often worked part-time at a local collective farm. His father was a drilling rig foreman, and his mother was a housewife raising nine children. The Nazis soon occupied the Kursk Region. Pro-Nazi collaborators shot two of the boy's brothers, and his older brothers deployed to the front on the first days of the war. Tarasov was drafted into the Red Army in April 1943 at the age of 16. He was assigned to the 512th Reserve Rifle Regiment in the city of Cheboksary and was trained as a heavy machine gun operator. He also graduated from a driving school there. After the regiment was disbanded, Tarasov joined a searchlight unit in Kaunas, Lithuania. Later, he served with a tank regiment and carried soldiers and equipment in his truck. in the spring of 1945, Tarasov, then 18, was sent to the Primorye Territory where he served for another five years. After being discharged from the army, Tarasov settled down in the Trans-Baikal Territory. He worked as a driver and subsequently enrolled at a railway engineers' school. After studying there for three years, Tarasov became an assistant train driver with a train maintenance facility. He became a train driver some time later. He became acquainted with a woman named Galina at the Collective Labor horticulture cooperative, and they married later on. Tarasov now lives alone. Olga, his daughter, visits him, cooks lunch and helps him with daily chores. The veteran is an avid outdoorsman, he likes to walk along an embankment and also shouts for a football team.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War
- Location: Zabaikalsky Krai, Russia
- Event date: 19.03.2020
- Date published: 20.03.2020
- Author: Evgeny Yepanchintsev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 5409x3602px, 7.4Mb
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