Innovator - inventor P.M. Rotanov, an employee of the Sergach station depot. Of the 11 railways connecting the country with the rear, only 4 - among them Gorkovskaya and Kazanskaya - worked without interruption. The good work of the Sergach station depot was repeatedly noted by the people's commissar of communications. Dozens of workers who did not leave the unheated depot for days, letting steam locomotive after steam locomotive out of repair, were awarded high government awards. The Order of Lenin was also awarded to our fellow countryman P.M. Rotanov