Unfortunately, he did not make it - he is listed as Missing in Action, around October of 1941. He was just an infantry guy.
Almost every Russian has a story like that - someone who perished in that war.
Just wanted to remind people that some of this has real stories. And maybe some of you should take a moment to remember those people.
He was part of Battle for Moscow, around the battle around Smolensk, so fall of 1941, before the winter came. Encirclement most likely.
Same happened with mine 
My great Grandfather Was an aircraft mechanic for A-26s in the Aleutian islands of Alaska against the Japanese.
mine instead fought two years in egypt and then in africa against the english and came back alive but i’m sorry for your
I have a Relatives who fought in the Philippines.
I never heard any stories of brave battles, but mostly stories of starvation. The only thing He told me over and over again was that he roamed the jungle like a vagrant and that the Filipino guerrillas were terrifying.
My grandfather had no guns, only bombs, and were deployed on a beach somewhere. If Operation Downfall had happened, I would not have been born.
My great grandfather was a miner in Portugal.
He did mine metals to be used on German tanks in ww2. Some went to tiger 2. And that for me it’s more than a honor to live with.
Its seems that is what brings us together playing this game, we hold these things from our ancestors…
the second world war was fought 80 years ago is something extremely recent and it was the amount of events that came after and the rapid technological advance that made us seem like ancient history
Yeah, i know it was not that far away in time at all btw recently i finished reading Panzer Commander: The memoirs of Hans Von Luck, before that i did Otto Carrius - Tigers in the mud, both of them really interesting and touching i will re-read them again probably… especially the Carius book really shows off what these peoples were facing back than… most of us cannot imagine. 
oh i did not expect this answer and nice to see someone who distinguishes war from the usual propaganda and knows that soldiers only fight for their country not for an ideology and that even behind men painted as monsters there are people like us
RIP
In Russia and all other ex soviet countries is incredible to see in the monuments of every town the names of those who fight until the end for their country.
in Italy our “anti-fascists” deface and damage everything that remembers Italy from 1924 to 1943 because for them it is a piece of history to be erased destroyed monuments to dead soldiers, civilian victims, damage to the image of anyone who is a little famous is remember that Italy was on the axis that the partisans made more civilian victims than the German / American occupation forces during the civil war I am happy that you in Eastern Europe remember this to learn and move towards a better future
My Great Grandfather participated as Feldwebel with Machinegun on the eastern and the western front.
He was wounded by a sniper in Stalingrad.
He was in Normandy when he was captured and made a prisoner of war working on a french farm
because he knew how to farm from home in eastern Germany.
I honor him. Got 3 pictures of him in his uniform.
And still after over 70 years I hear stories about him and my great grand uncles about the war.
The history is my interest. I read about it or watch informative videos about it almost every day.
Let us all live in peace. With truth and empathy.
Remembering the 22nd of June 1941 where all this story of tragedy and heroism started in the USSR that’s still remembered in Russia and other ex Soviet countries known as The Great Patriotic War. I have read some stories written by Soviet soldiers from the war especially on the most difficult chapters of the war with the constant fear of German bombers and tanks in 1941-1942.
Mikhail Kalashnikov also participated in the Moscow campaign on the Battle of Bryansk where he was wounded in battle and ultimately gave him the resolve to design a weapon to help defend his country that eventually led to the AK.
Kinda not true, russians took Hugo Schmiser, his whole team and factory equipment back to their homeland (for a good 4-5 years), kalashinkov is just a normal guy which was created by soviet propaganda - how it comes that he created only this one weapon… and thats it from him, no engineer is doing like this they are constantly creating and improving their things - again look at hugo schmizers work. I am not german myself i got russian ancestors from my mothers side, but soviet propaganda should not be believed. . And for the ex-soviet countrys like mine (Bulgaria) we defenetly were under brutal soviet tyrany, so its questionable that we got “freed” from Germans (we were part of the axis forces) because for us, the things became a lot worst after we got under soviet occupation… thats the true
Gotta show this video regarding the AK’s development as some people still believe on the Schmeisser AK myth or the AK copied STG myth. This has been discussed for ages already and some still believe on such myths.
Wow, I did not know so many shared their stories too. Thank you so much, it makes me feel a lot better, for some reason. Makes feel like I’m not alone in this.