this photograph shows my paternal grandfather kuvshinnikov nikolai nikolaevich, this is the father of my father, kuvshinnikov alexanderikolaevich, 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 primarily at the front, which was already exhausted by the end of october my grandfather nikolai nikolaevich wrote a letter to his wife glafer aleksanna. kuvshinnikova, about his plight and that he was seriously ill. glafe gave up everything and took food, took a piglet that was in the household and went to t