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Nikolai Gavrilovich Varlamov
(1907-1943) - sergeant of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1943).
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Nikolai Varlamov was born on January 6, 1907 in St. Petersburg into a large family of a worker at the Putilov plant. Soon after Nikolai’s birth, his father, considered “unreliable” by the police of the Russian Empire, moved with his family to Petrozavodsk, where he worked at the Aleksandrovsky projectile-making (now Onega tractor) plant. At the age of 14, Varlamov became an apprentice mechanic at this plant. In 1929-1931, he served in the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, after which he returned to the plant.
In the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, Varlamov and his two brothers voluntarily joined the Red Army. Initially he fought as part of the 71st Rifle Division, taking part in battles from the border areas to Medvezhyegorsk, where he was seriously wounded in the fall of 1941. After recovery, Varlamov returned to the front. By July 1943, Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov commanded a section of the 239th Infantry Regiment of the 27th Infantry Division of the 26th Army of the Karelian Front. He distinguished himself during the battles in Karelia.
On July 25, 1943, during the battle on the eastern bank of the Onda near the Kochkoma-Rugozero highway (village), when all possibilities in the fight against the enemy bunker had been exhausted, Varlamov closed its embrasure with himself, at the cost of his life allowing the soldiers of his squad to capture the firing point. Varlamov’s actions contributed to the successful defeat of the enemy stronghold by the company.
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Nikolai Varlamov was buried in a mass grave in the village of Kochkoma. In 1976, an obelisk was erected at his grave.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 25, 1943, for “the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism displayed,” Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Order of Lenin.
- In 1982, a monument to Nikolai Varlamov was unveiled in the village of Kamenny Bor (Segezhsky district); in 2013, the monument was moved to Petrozavodsk and installed on a street named after the hero.
- The portrait of N. G. Varlamov, like all 28 Heroes of the Soviet Union - the sons and daughters of Karelia, is installed in a monumental portrait gallery opened in 1977 in the capital of Karelia in the area of Antikainen and Krasnaya streets.
- The medium fishing trawler No. 4352, manufactured in the 1970s at the Rostock shipyard (GDR), was named after N. G. Varlamov.
The Great Patriotic War is receding further into the past, but the memory of it is still alive. From the first days of hostilities in Karelia, the fighting in the Rebolsky direction became fierce. The onslaught of the aggressor, rushing towards the railway, was courageously held back by border guards, infantrymen, artillerymen, and partisans. A hundred kilometers from the border, the advance of the fascist troops was stopped. For two and a half years, the Karelian Front held the line. It was an active defense, and during this time the front line, 1600 km long, did not change.
There are more than 50 mass graves and memorials where the battles of the Rebolsk direction raged. Every sign is illuminated with the light of grateful memory, the light of love and sorrow of the people. From generation to generation, despite all adversities, the people's memory of what they experienced is passed on - the most sacred memorial.
Once, in a wartime book, V.I. Rybakov (director of the Vyg hydroelectric power station cascade) read F.G. Kondratiev’s essay “Feat on Onda,” which tells about Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov, who closed the embrasure of the enemy bunker and at the cost of his life ensured the success of the offensive their comrades in arms. Nikolai Gavrilovich Varlamov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). Toivo Väha said: “Find the grave of your fallen comrades. Place a wild stone on it. Then people will come and erect an obelisk. And find out the names of the others. There are many graves in the country, but there should not be forgotten or abandoned ones.”
The search began for the place where the feat was accomplished. Schoolchildren from the village of Kamenny Bor took part in the search work. Varlamov’s fellow soldier, former intelligence officer of the 27th Infantry Division I.G. Ilyin, helped find the place where the heroic feat was accomplished. It was established that the memorial site, watered with blood, is located in the forest 12.5 km from the fork at 68 km of the Kochkoma-Reboly highway. The sketch of the monument was made by the artist V. Rodin. Manufactured and installed at the site of the destruction by enthusiasts of the Onda hydroelectric power station. On July 25, 1976, on the 33rd anniversary of the hero’s feat, a memorial sign - an aluminum truncated stele with a sparkling Golden Star - was unveiled. At the meeting dedicated to the opening of the memorial sign, it was decided to continue work to perpetuate the hero’s feat and make hiking along the Varlamov trail traditional.
N. Varlamov was buried in a mass grave at the 59th km of the Kochkoma-Reboly tract. He was 36 years old.
July 25, 2015 is the day of memory of Nikolai Varlamov, Hero of the Soviet Union. When performing a feat, the hero sacrifices, risks everything, even his life - in the name of truth, in the name of the Motherland.
Varlamov Nikolai was born in 1907 in St. Petersburg. Soon his father, as unreliable, went with his family to Petrozavodsk. Worked at the Aleksandrovsky shell plant. In the first days of the war, three brothers Vasily, Georgy and Nikolai joined the ranks of the Red Army. Nikolai Varlamov was sent to the 71st Rifle Division. “The Motherland is in danger!”, “All forces to defend the Fatherland!” - these are the slogans that inspired and mobilized the Soviet people. In heavy battles, the division's soldiers showed exceptional resilience. Despite the enemy's multiple superiority, the division completed its assigned task, covering the Kirov railway.
This year, on July 25, on the day of the 40th anniversary of the search work, the meeting dedicated to the memory of Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Varlamov was attended by: S.F. Tyukov - head of the Segezha municipal district, M.N. Romanova - assistant to the head of the Council of War Veterans and labor, L.I. Kostyuk is the director of the Charitable Foundation for War and Labor Veterans of the SPCB, A.K. Roshchina is a member of the Presidium of the District Council of Veterans. From the Kamenobor boarding school, K.M. Blankina, a biology teacher, took part in the rally. Together with the boarding school teachers A.F. Karpenko and V.A. Tavashyunene, the first Varlamov detachment was created, whose representatives were N. Dorilo (Kondopoga), S. Ivanova (Monchegorsk), N. Baranov (Sumposad), M. Chernyakovich ( Segezha) recalled how it all began. Group senior O. Makarov spoke at the rally on behalf of the “Search” group. The poems performed by Ivan Fedechko (school No. 4, Segezha), Anna Pratsuk (school No. 1, Nadvoitsy), and Amina Osmonova (kindergarten, Kamenny Bor) sounded very touching.
Life requires courage, countless strengths, patience, dignity, and memory of others. Memory. Russian land. People live in memory. Everything on earth is erased except memory... We learn goodness from living people, and courage from fallen people. It is not enough to carry flowers to obelisks and mass graves; we must carry in our hearts the names of those who fell for our happiness. We must make the memory of them our conscience. We, the living, bow our heads over the ashes of the dead. Eternal memory to them!
V.I. Kalitina, member of the Council of Veterans of the SPPM
, Karelo-Finnish SSR
USSR USSR
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Nikolai Gavrilovich Varlamov(-) - sergeant of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ().
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Nikolai Varlamov was buried in a mass grave in the village of Kochkoma. In 1976, an obelisk was erected at his grave.
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- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M.: Voenizdat, 1987. - T. 1 /Abaev - Lyubichev/. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies.
- - ISBN ex., Reg. No. in RCP 87-95382.
- Immortal exploits / Compiled by Kovalenko A.P., Sgibnev A.A. - M.: Voenizdat, 1980. - 351 p. - ISBN BBK 63.3(2)722; UDC 9(C)27(092). Editor Karhu T.P.
- Heroes of the Soviet land. - Petrozavodsk: Karelian Book Publishing House, 1968. - P. 83-96. - 367 p. - 20,000 copies.
Glory to the Heroes of the Motherland! - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1985.
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One of his estates of three hundred peasant souls was transferred to free cultivators (this was one of the first examples in Russia); in others, corvee was replaced by quitrent. In Bogucharovo, a learned grandmother was written out to his account to help mothers in labor, and for a salary the priest taught the children of peasants and courtyard servants to read and write.Prince Andrei spent half of his time in Bald Mountains with his father and son, who was still with the nannies; the other half of the time in the Bogucharov monastery, as his father called his village. Despite the indifference he showed Pierre to all the external events of the world, he diligently followed them, received many books, and to his surprise he noticed when fresh people came to him or his father from St. Petersburg, from the very whirlpool of life, that these people, in knowledge of everything that is happening in foreign and domestic policy, they are far behind him, who sits in the village all the time.
In addition to classes on names, in addition to general reading of a wide variety of books, Prince Andrei was at this time engaged in a critical analysis of our last two unfortunate campaigns and drawing up a project to change our military regulations and regulations.
In the spring of 1809, Prince Andrei went to the Ryazan estates of his son, whom he was guardian.
Warmed by the spring sun, he sat in the stroller, looking at the first grass, the first birch leaves and the first clouds of white spring clouds scattering across the bright blue sky. He didn’t think about anything, but looked around cheerfully and meaninglessly.
We passed the carriage on which he had spoken with Pierre a year ago. We drove through a dirty village, threshing floors, greenery, a descent with remaining snow near the bridge, an ascent through washed-out clay, stripes of stubble and green bushes here and there, and entered a birch forest on both sides of the road. It was almost hot in the forest; you couldn’t hear the wind. The birch tree, all covered with green sticky leaves, did not move, and from under last year’s leaves, lifting them, the first green grass and purple flowers crawled out. The small spruce trees scattered here and there throughout the birch forest with their coarse, eternal greenness were an unpleasant reminder of winter. The horses snorted as they rode into the forest and began to fog up.
The footman Peter said something to the coachman, the coachman answered in the affirmative. But apparently Peter had little sympathy for the coachman: he turned on the box to the master.
- Your Excellency, how easy it is! – he said, smiling respectfully.
- What!
- Easy, your Excellency.
"What he says?" thought Prince Andrei. “Yes, that’s right about spring,” he thought, looking around. And everything is already green... how soon! And the birch, and the bird cherry, and the alder are already starting... But the oak is not noticeable. Yes, here it is, the oak tree.”
There was an oak tree on the edge of the road. Probably ten times older than the birches that made up the forest, it was ten times thicker and twice as tall as each birch. It was a huge oak tree, two girths wide, with branches that had been broken off for a long time and with broken bark overgrown with old sores. With his huge, clumsy, asymmetrically splayed, gnarled hands and fingers, he stood like an old, angry and contemptuous freak between the smiling birches. Only he alone did not want to submit to the charm of spring and did not want to see either spring or the sun.
“Spring, and love, and happiness!” - as if this oak tree was saying, - “and how can you not get tired of the same stupid and senseless deception. Everything is the same, and everything is a lie! There is no spring, no sun, no happiness. Look, there are the crushed dead spruce trees sitting, always the same, and there I am, spreading out my broken, skinned fingers, wherever they grew - from the back, from the sides; As we grew up, I still stand, and I don’t believe your hopes and deceptions.”
Prince Andrei looked back at this oak tree several times while driving through the forest, as if he was expecting something from it. There were flowers and grass under the oak tree, but he still stood in the midst of them, frowning, motionless, ugly and stubborn.
“Yes, he is right, this oak tree is a thousand times right,” thought Prince Andrei, let others, young people, again succumb to this deception, but we know life - our life is over! A whole new series of hopeless, but sadly pleasant thoughts in connection with this oak tree arose in the soul of Prince Andrei. During this journey, he seemed to think about his whole life again, and came to the same old reassuring and hopeless conclusion that he did not need to start anything, that he should live out his life without doing evil, without worrying and without wanting anything.
On guardianship matters of the Ryazan estate, Prince Andrei had to see the district leader. The leader was Count Ilya Andreich Rostov, and Prince Andrei went to see him in mid-May.
It was already a hot period of spring. The forest was already completely dressed, there was dust and it was so hot that driving past the water, I wanted to swim.
Prince Andrei, gloomy and preoccupied with considerations about what and what he needed to ask the leader about matters, drove up the garden alley to the Rostovs’ Otradnensky house. To the right, from behind the trees, he heard a woman's cheerful cry, and saw a crowd of girls running towards his stroller. Ahead of the others, a black-haired, very thin, strangely thin, black-eyed girl in a yellow cotton dress, tied with a white handkerchief, from under which strands of combed hair were escaping, ran up to the carriage. The girl screamed something, but recognizing the stranger, without looking at him, she ran back laughing.
Prince Andrei suddenly felt pain from something. The day was so good, the sun was so bright, everything around was so cheerful; and this thin and pretty girl did not know and did not want to know about his existence and was content and happy with some kind of separate, certainly stupid, but cheerful and happy life. “Why is she so happy? what is she thinking about! Not about the military regulations, not about the structure of the Ryazan quitrents. What is she thinking about? And what makes her happy?” Prince Andrei involuntarily asked himself with curiosity.
Varlamov Nikolai Gavrilovich - squad commander of the 239th Infantry Regiment of the 27th Infantry Division of the 26th Army of the Karelian Front, sergeant.
Born on January 6, 1907 in the family of a worker at the Putilov (now Kirov) plant in St. Petersburg. Russian. Soon after Nikolai’s birth, his father, blacklisted by the police for “unreliability,” and his family went to the city of Petrozavodsk, Olonets province (now the capital of the Republic of Karelia), where he became a worker at the Aleksandrovsky projectile-making (now Onega tractor) plant. Nikolai Varlamov’s career began at the same plant, when he became a mechanic’s apprentice at the age of 14. After completing active service in the Red Army in 1929-1931, he returned to the workforce of the Onega plant.
In the first days of the Great Patriotic War, three Varlamov brothers - Vasily, Georgy and Nikolai - joined the ranks of the Red Army. Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov, together with other fellow Petrozavodsk residents, was sent to replenish the 71st Infantry Division, in the ranks of which he fought from the border to Medvezhyegorsk, where in the fall of 1941 he was seriously wounded.
After being cured in the hospital and serving in the rear units of N.G. Varlamov achieved assignment to the active army: in the summer of 1943, he was appointed commander of a section of the 9th company of the 239th Infantry Regiment (27th Infantry Division, 26th Army). By this time, the division had been defending the Rebol direction for two years. Its units, in conditions of stabilization of the Karelian Front, conducted combat operations of local importance.
On July 25, 1943, in a battle on the eastern bank of the Onda River near the Kochkoma-Rugozero highway (Karelia), soldiers overcame a wire fence, but the further path was blocked by bullets from an enemy machine gun. Success could only be achieved by destroying the bunker. The squad commander of the 239th Infantry Regiment, Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov, crawled up to him and threw a grenade, but the machine gun continued to fire. Having exhausted all possibilities in the fight against the enemy’s firing point, he covered the embrasure of the enemy bunker with his chest. By sacrificing himself, the warrior-hero ensured victory and saved the lives of dozens of comrades. Inspired by the feat of the brave warrior, the company's soldiers went on the attack, broke into the strong point and defeated the enemy garrison.
The courageous sergeant was buried near the city of Segezha on the 59th kilometer of the Kochkoma-Reboly highway, where an obelisk was erected in 1976.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 25, 1943, for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown to Sergeant Varlamov Nikolai Gavrilovich awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously).
Awarded the Order of Lenin (09/25/1943, posthumously).
At boarding school No. 7 in the village of Kamenny Bor, Segezha region of Karelia, a museum named after Nikolai Varlamov was opened, and in 1982, with funds raised by the workers of the Segezha region, a monument to the Hero was opened in Kamenny Bor. His name was given to 10 pioneer squads of Karelia. In the city of Petrozavodsk, the memory of the Hero is immortalized in the name of the street, a bust of N.G. Varlamov is installed in the House of Culture of the Onega Tractor Plant, his name is given to a large refrigerated fishing trawler (1984) and a tugboat of the White Sea-Onega Shipping Company. Portrait of N.G. Varlamov, like all 27 Heroes of the Soviet Union - sons and daughters of Karelia, is installed in a monumental portrait gallery opened in 1977 in Petrozavodsk, in the area of Antikainen and Krasnaya streets.
Nikolai Gavrilovich Varlamov (1907-1943) was born in St. Petersburg into the family of a worker at the Putilov plant. Soon after his birth, Nikolai’s father and his family were deported to Petrozavodsk as “unreliable.” Here he entered the Aleksandrovsky shell-making plant. Nikolai went to work at the same plant, which became the Onega Tractor Plant in Soviet times, at the age of 14. In 1929 – 1931 served in the Red Army, after which he returned to the plant.
At the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai and his brothers Vasily and Georgy volunteered for the front. Sergeant Nikolai Varlamov was sent to the 71st Infantry Division, which fought with the Finns who occupied Karelia. In the fall of 1941, near Medvezhyegorsk, Nikolai was seriously wounded. After undergoing treatment in the hospital, he returned to duty.
In the summer of 1943, Nikolai Varlamov was appointed squad commander of the 9th company of the 239th Infantry Regiment (27th Infantry Division, 26th Army). The division defended the Rebol direction (Karelian Front) and carried out combat operations of local importance.
On July 25, 1943, in a battle on the eastern bank of the Onda River near the Kochkoma-Rugozero highway, when all possibilities in the fight against the enemy bunker had been exhausted, Nikolai Varlamov covered its embrasure with his body. The soldiers, inspired by the feat of the brave commander, rushed into the attack, captured and destroyed the enemy garrison. At the cost of his own life, Varlamov ensured the success of the offensive operation.
The courageous sergeant was buried in a mass grave not far from the place of his death on the 59th km of the Kochkoma-Reboly highway in the Segezha region. In 1976, an obelisk was erected at his burial site.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated September 25, 1943, for “the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism displayed,” Nikolai Gavrilovich Varlamov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and awarded the Order of Lenin.
One of the streets of Petrozavodsk was named after Nikolai Varlamov. In the village of Kamenny Bor, Segezha district, in 1982, a monument to the hero was unveiled on the territory of boarding school No. 7, which bore his name. At that time, the Varlamov movement was very popular in Karelia. Its initiators were the director of the Vyg hydroelectric power station cascade, Viktor Ivanovich Rybakov, and the relatives of Nikolai Varlamov. At boarding school No. 7, the “Search” club was created and a hero’s museum was opened. Every year youth hikes were organized to the place of Nikolai Varlamov’s death. At one of the gatherings of Varlamovites, the idea arose to raise funds for a monument to the hero of Karelia. After the school was closed, in 2013 the monument was moved to Petrozavodsk and installed on Varlamov Street next to the main building of the river school. The work on its installation in Petrozavodsk was carried out by the Karelian Republican Branch of the Russian Peace Foundation.