WWII veteran Ivan Voloshin died in Saratov at the age of 100.

In Saratov, Ivan Yakovlevich Voloshin, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, passed away at the age of 101. This was announced on October 31 by the head of the regional center, Mikhail Isaev.

He also expressed his condolences to the family and friends of the veteran.

"Ivan Yakovlevich was born on September 12, 1925 in the village of Petrikovka, Dnipropetrovsk region, where he spent a short childhood. <...> With the outbreak of war, at the age of 15, he remained in charge of a family where six children were raised besides him," Isaev wrote on his Telegram channel.

Voloshin was drafted into the Red Army in February 1944. The above biography notes that the veteran participated in the battles on the 7th Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts as a radio operator and machine gunner of the T-34 tank, in the battles for the liberation of Lithuania and Latvia.

After Victory Day, he served in the army in Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad) in a tank unit, in February 1950, after demobilization, he remained on overtime duty until February 1969. In 1972, Voloshin moved to the village of Krasny Tekstilshchik in Saratov, where he lived until the end of his life.

The veteran was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, the Order of Glory III degree, the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals for the Victory over Germany, the capture of Konigsberg and eleven post-war medals, the head of Saratov added.

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