grandfather and tsykin ivan ivanovich and kuvshinnikov nikolai nikolaevich went through the entire warrom the first days until its end until the great victory in 1945. both were wounded, but... ended the war with orders, medals, and were greeted as heroes in their homeland. this photograph shows my paternal grandfather kuvshinnikov nikolai nikolaevich, this is the father of my father, kuvshinnikov alexander nikolaevich, he was born in the village of turundaev, he was not drafted into the regular troops, in the forty-first year, when the germans were already squeezing the ring... it was a decision was made to form defense committees cherepovets vologda and attract more than 60,000 volagzhan residents of the entire vologda province to the construction of defense structures , and mine was among these fighters grandfather nikolai nikolaevich and the construction of these defenses. construction began in mid -october forty-one, and it was very hard work, autumn, slush, winter, there was practically no supply of ammunition, supplies, food was delivered irregularly, because all this was aimed

vologda region throughout the country was directly affected by the war, both my grandfathers and tsykin ivan ivanovichikov nikolai nikolaevich went through the entire war from the first days to its end, to the great victory in '45, both were wounded, but ended the war with orders, medals and... it was decided to form cherepoevsky defense committees and attract more than 60 thousand residents from all over the vologda province to the construction of defense structures , and my grandfather nikolai nikolaevich was among these fighters, and the construction of these defense structures began in mid- october of the forty-first year and that was it. .. the hardest work, autumn, slush, winter, there was practically no supply of ammunition, ammunition, food was delivered irregularly, because all this was directed primarily to the front, already by the end of october, my exhausted grandfather nikolai nikolaevich wrote a letter to his wife, glafera aleksanovna kuvshinnikova, about his plight and that he was seriously ill, threw everything, took food, took a piglet that was in the household, went to the construct