""Sergey Pavlovich Kozlov was born in 1923 in Blagoveshchensk, Amur region... On August 18, 1941 the Frunzenskiy military commissariat sent Sergey to the courses of radio operators to the aviation school in the town of Buguruslan, Kuibyshev region, where he had dreamed to study at so much while he was still at school. After graduation, Sergey was sent to the front. At the front, Sergei served as an anti-aircraft gunner, flew a PE-2 plane as a radioman and a shooter, and was a participant in the battles at the Orlov-Kursk Bulge. The PE-2 bomber (Peshka) is a Soviet dive bomber of World War II, the most mass-produced frontline bomber of the USSR. Sergey was wounded and was treated at the hospital for six months. After the hospital, he went back to the front again, to the landing troops. In 1944 his mother Evdokia received a funeral notice for her husband, which said: ""Senior Lieutenant Kozlov Pavel Spiridonovich fell the death of the brave for the liberation of the Homeland from the German invaders. Pavel Spiridonovich Kozlov was killed in June 1944 and was buried in the village of Zoronovo, Vitebsk region, in the Mass Grave. (On the territory of the village council in the village of Zoronovo, there is a memorial complex, where 8082 people are buried, 8 mass graves and one memorial sign). Sergei finished the war in Koenigsberg in 1945 and returned home to the city of Frunze as a warrior-hero, where his mother, brother and little sister were waiting for him. The post-war period was hard: rations, card system. Sergey's brother was very sick, and his mother had no health either. They decided to go closer to relatives to Blagoveshchensk - with relatives it would be easier. The family went to Blagoveshchensk, but couldn't get there right away. At that time Blagoveshchensk was a closed city. Their way was through Khabarovsk, where they waited for passes to enter Blagoveshchensk, and Sergey got a temporary job. In Blagoveshchensk, from 1947 to 1948, he worked as a construction technician at the brewery. At that time he met his future wife Matienko Nina Semenovna. Whole family went to Khabarovsk region, down the Amur River to the Bystrinsky LPH ""Glavvostokrybtary"", where Sergey worked as a foreman until 1950, then - foreman in the Maginsky Lumber Mill. In June 1951, he returned to Blagoveshchensk, where his entire subsequent life was connected with this beloved city. "