We continue telling the stories of the employees of the IEE RAS who participated in the Great Patriotic War.
From July to September 1941, Krylov Petr Semenovich (since 1939 - a student of the Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev) participated in the construction of the first line of defense of Moscow in the Smolensk region as part of student battalions. In September-October 1941, as part of the student detachment of the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, on assignment from the People's Commissariat of Agriculture of the USSR, he worked on harvesting in the Saratov and Stalingrad regions. Then he was drafted into the Red Army. From April to May 1942 - squad leader. From May 1942 to March 1943 - cadet of the Stalingrad Military School of Communications. After graduating from the school, he was the head of the radio station of the headquarters of the 25th Guards Mechanized Nizhyn Order of Bohdan Khmelnitsky Brigade of the 7th Guards Nizhyn-Kuzbass Order of Suvorov Mechanized Corps of the Reserve of the General Command (as part of the 1st Ukrainian Front) from March 1943 to May 1945. He participated in combat in the Battle of Stalingrad, on the Oryol–Kursk Bulge, in the liberation of left-bank Ukraine, in the battle of the Dnieper, in the liberation of Kyiv and right-bank Ukraine, near Königsberg, in Poland during the battle of the Oder, liberation of Warsaw, Krakow, Czestochowa, in Czechoslovakia during the liberation of Prague, in Germany in the Berlin operation. In 1943, he was wounded in battle during the battle of the Dnieper.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served in the Soviet Army in Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Demobilized on December 1, 1945 from Budapest. For bravery, courage and bravery demonstrated in combat operations against the Nazi invaders, he was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree, medals "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945", "For the Liberation of Prague", the Zhukov Medal, and jubilee medals.