Stepan Stepanovich Korolev was born on May 17, 1917 in a strong peasant family in the North of Russia, in the Arkhangelsk region near Plesetsk, where the cosmodrome stands today. Stepan had many brothers and sisters. They all went to school, helped their parents grow rye in the fields and potatoes and onions in the garden, mowed hay, and grazed cows and horses. Stepan was a member of the Komsomol. When the Great Patriotic War began, five brothers went to the frontlines. Stepan had already been serving in the army since 1938, where he joined the communist party and was a paratrooper. Since the beginning of the war, Stepan Korolev had been deputy political officer, then political officer of the company, secretary of the party bureau of the 214th paratrooper brigade of the Belarusian military district. Since December 1941, he took up the position of the executive secretary of the party bureau of the special purpose detachment. He fought on the Western front near Moscow. Later, the special purpose brigade was transferred to help the Bryansk partisans near Dyatkovo, where Stepan participated in combat operations to defeat the enemy garrison at the Rzhanitsa station, in the liberation of the city of Dyatkovo. He, along with his friends, parachuted into the rearward of the enemy lines. Trying to be unnoticed, paratroopers blew up fascist trains with weapons, destroyed fire batteries, fought battles with the enemy, causing panic in its ranks. In one of his battles, Stepan Korolev was wounded. When he, along with other wounded soldiers, was being sent to the "mainland", the Nazis bombed their signal fires, and their plane could not land. Stepan Korolev got to the hospital too late. His leg was amputated. The combat officer started living with a prosthetic leg and started walking with a walking stick. He was only 25 years old... Stepan Stepanovich Korolev was awarded the order of the Red Star and Red Banner, the order of the Patriotic War of the I degree, and 13 medals. Several books on the history of the Plesetsk district were written about him and his brothers. After being wounded, Stepan Stepanovich Korolev continued to serve in the army, in the rearward. When he returned home after the Victory, he worked in the district party committee, then as an editor of the district newspaper. He gave lectures and talked to students, young officers, and soldiers about the war. He considered Victory Day - May 9 -to be the main holiday of his life. He died on December 6, 1995, leaving four adult children and six grandchildren. Now, he has eight great-grandchildren