“On June 24, 2020, on the 101st year of his life, the Great Patriotic War participant, Hero of the Soviet Union, was awarded the fourth senior US military award - the Silver Star medal, guard Colonel Voloshin Alexei Prokhorovich,” the statement said.
The association expressed condolences to the family and relatives on the occasion of the death of Alexei Prokhorovich.
In October 2019, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, Yevgeny Shalashnikov, who stormed Berlin and left an inscription on the Reichstag, died in Tula.