He went through the war from Leningrad to Germany. For exploits he was awarded two medals "For Courage" and the Order of the Patriotic War II degree. Vladimir Alekseevich lives in a small village in the Irkutsk region. Sometimes he gets on a train and goes to the city to visit his son, grandson, great-grandchildren. But there are moments of silence when “you sit and remember everyone, both the living and the dead.” And the more silence, the more memories, the ghosts of war.