Full name: Nikolay Timofeyevich Polyakov last NAME: Polyakov FIRST name: Nikolay PATRONYMIC: Timofeevich CITY: Mednogorsk date of BIRTH: 19.10.1910 DATE of DEATH: 13.01.1974 HISTORY: before the great Patriotic War, he served in Kronstadt as a military sailor on the famous battleship "Marat". In July 1941, he participated in the defense of Sevastopol in the Crimean front. The first RAID on Sevastopol was carried out by the Nazis at 3-15 am on June 22, 1941.The city was not ready for war. He lived, enjoyed summer, chestnut blossoms, and the birth of children. Since June 23, bombed every day. The vile howl of the fascist planes destroyed the brain, the German artillery did not leave a single whole house, many wounded among the sailors and residents, but the city fought. How the fascists were irritated by this city,which was almost wiped off the face of the earth, but did not give up! Sevastopol held the defense for 10 months and 9 days. My great-grandfather held the defense as part of the 35th battery at Cape Chersonesos. The sailors held the defense when the city had already fallen. A handful of sailors remained from the company, and they were preparing to die when one night they were picked up by a boat that miraculously made its way through the fire of the fascist batteries. Then there were retreats and the battle of the Kursk bulge, where great-grandfather was wounded and he was treated in the hospital for six months. And again in battle, to liberate Kiev, Nikolaev, Kerch, Azov. In October 1943, my great-grandfather participated in the liberation of the Kerch Peninsula: a day in the water of the Kerch Strait, and in the morning with hatchets chipped the ice around them to go into battle. As soon as the howling of aerial bombs and artillery fire subsided, the Marines rose in height and went on the attack. Then the saying was born: "One sailor is a sailor, two sailors are a platoon, three sailors are a company." the Nazis called the Marines the "black death". And here again great-grandfather in the Crimea, will fight for the brave, wounded and dear to the heart of every sailor Sevastopol. For Sevastopol, the Marines have a special account for the Nazis - and the city was taken in four days. My great-grandfather ended the war in September 1945: the Marines were clearing the planet of the remnants of the fascist infection. Great-grandfather on the chest of the order of the red star, the Patriotic war, many medals. I'm proud of my great-grandfather, he's a real hero. And my great-grandfather's favorite song is a song..."the bluest Black sea in the world is mine."..My great-grandfather died in 1974 of gangrene in his legs. The Kerch Strait reminded of itself thirty years later.