Kuzma Lukyanovich Gaponov was born to a peasant family on the 23rd of October, 1892, in the village of Petrushevka in Krinichny volost, Sudzhansky uyezd, Kursk province. In 1895 he moved with his parents from the island of Malo-Peschanskaya volost of the Mariinsky district of the Tomsk province. In 1914 K. L. Gaponov was conscripted into the army. He served in the 8th engineering battalion of the 7th Siberian corps which was located in Galati, Romania. He took part in the First World War. He served in the tsarist army until 1918. From 1918 to 1919 he served as a red army soldier in a separate pontoon battalion of the workers' and peasants' Red Army. The battalion was located in the city of Kiev. After returning from the army in 1919 K. L. Gaponov got married. In the family of Kuzma Lukyanovich Gaponov and Matrena Kasyanovna were born five children. They were peasants on their farms. From 1928 to 1930 Kuzma Lukyanovich was the chairman of the Ostrovsky village council of the Izhmorsk district of the Novosibirsk region. In 1934 he joined the collective farm named “The 1st of August”. K. L. Gaponov was elected chairman of the “The 1st of August” collective farm at the village meeting. From 1939 until leaving for the front K. L. Gaponov was the chairman of the collective farm "Kuznetsstroy". On the 20th of June, 1940, Kuzma Lukyanovich Gaponov joined the ranks of the the All-Union Communist Party. With the beginning of the war K. L. Gaponov had a reservation but he refused the reservation and on the 3rd of September, 1941, he was called up into the army and served as a soldier in the 20th reserve aviation regiment in the village of Tolmachevo in Novosibirsk. From 1943 till 1945 he fought on the 3rd Ukrainian front and was a private in the 112th separate engineer battalion. Kuzma Lukyanovich met the Victory over Nazi Germany in Yugoslavia. In July and August 1945 the battalion in which K. L. Gaponov served was transferred to the Far East. At the station of Izhmorska the troop train did not stop. Kuzma Lukyanovich tied the letter prepared for the family to a stone and threw it at the station. That's how the family found out where their husband, their father was. After the end of the war with Japan private K. L. Gaponov was mobilized by age. He returned to the village of Ostrovka. Gaponov Kuzma Lukyanovich was awarded: the medal "For liberation of Belgrade"; a medal "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945"; a medal "For Victory over Japan". K. L. Gaponov died on the 25th of April, 1977, he was buried in the cemetery of the village of Tisul of the Mariinsky district of the Kemerovo region.