Anatoly Shapiro

World War II After the start of Operation Barbarossa, the Nazi-Wehrmacht invasion of the Soviet Union, Shapiro re-enlisted as a volunteer in the Red Army in October 1941. Assigned to 76 platoon equipped with tanks within the 6th marine infantry brigade, Lieutenant Shapiro commanded a specialist explosives and demolition unit, and was immediately sent to the front line.

After World War II After the war, Shapiro worked in a military plant, but states he was persecuted for years because of being Jewish. In 1992, his entire family decided to emigrate to the United States, settling in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. As a result, Shapiro began writing several books, mostly memoirs about the war. His last book is entitled Зловещий марафон (Ominous Marathon).

Shapiro died on 8 October 2005 and is buried at Beth Moses cemetery in Suffolk County, Long Island, New York.