Nikita Ivanovich Zavyalov was born in 1919, in the village of Karamaly, Nikolsky District, Penza Region. In 1940 was drafted as private. The last letter came to his family from near Smolensk. He wrote: Mom, I don’t really know, maybe it is my last letter, it is going to be a bloodshedding battle." There was no news ever since. A notification came of Nikita Ivanovich Zavyalov MIA in spring, 1943.