Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich_x000D_ Rank: Second Lieutenant. _x000D_ Branch of service: Army, Air Force, the Coast Guard, thе Soviet NKVD, the Border Guard._x000D_ _x000D_ Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich was born in 1910 in the city of Samarkand, UzSSR, in the family of an officer of the tsar-army and a mathematics teacher. Graduated from the Uzbekistan State Pedagogical Academy, Department of the Animal husbandry. He received the title of teacher-agronomist in animal science, who has the right to teach agricultural disciplines in agricultural technical schools, rabfakah. His further work was related to horse breeding._x000D_ He was married and had three children. When the war began, he had a reservation, but he said: "My comrades will die, and I will sit behind them?» – and went to the front, leaving his wife and three children. At the front, he was a platoon commander of the 61st cavalry division of the 222nd cavalry regiment of the 4th cavalry corps, part of the 51st army of the Stalingrad front. On November 20, it struck from the lake district Tsapa (South of Stalingrad) in the General direction of Abganerovo. In the book of combat losses of the 61st cavalry division of the 222nd cavalry regiment for 1942, it is listed: ‘Platoon commander Junior Lieutenant Nikolay Rozhdestvensky, born in 1910, 26.11.1942, was killed near the village of Sharnutovo, Stalingrad region, and buried there(extract from the archive data of the Ministry of defense of the USSR)’. There is also a monument in honor of the soldiers who fell during the liberation of the village of Sharnut Sarpinsky district from the Nazi invaders during the WWII, the name of Rozhdestvensky Nikolay Konstantinovich is carved on the memorial stone too.