Rank: Corporal. Service branch: Army, Air Force (except naval aviation), Coast Guard, the troops of the border troops of the NKWD. Unit: 284th Khingan Rifle Division. Guardsman. Born on 5 February 1924 in v. Alanosin of the Mikhailovsky district of the Altai region in the family of the peasant Kotov Spiridon Pavlovich and Zemtsova Vasilisa Vasilievna. Spiridon Pavlovych moved in 1896 together with his father Pavel Evtikhievich and his brother Simon Pavlovich from the district S. Shumarova Mglinskogo, province Chernigow (Bryansk area) to Siberia. Spiridon Pavlovich's family had 3 sons and 3 daughters. Nikolay Spiridonovich, after his brother Ivan Spiridonovich, was moved into Red Army in 1942. He was sent to the border with China, where he stood against the Japanese militarists. In 1945 he took part in the defeat of the Kwantung Army, troop leader of anti-tank guns of the 2nd Rifle Battalion, 1047 Rifle Regiment, 284 Rifle Division, Transbaikal Front. In 1946 he joined his elder brother Ivan in Novograd-Volynsky, Zhytomyr region, and continued his service in Soviet Army - he served in the tank regiment (V/h 36919) of Novograd - Volynski. This is the 11th guard who mechanized the red banner of Rivne, an order of the Suvorov Division. In October 1956 units of the 11th Guard with the red banner of Rivne, command of the Suvorov Division, as well as the 100th tank regiment of the 31st tank regiment with the red banner of Vistula, command of Suvorov and the division Bogdan Khmelnitsky took part in the events in Hungary. In 1957 the 8th mechanized army, to which the division belonged, became known as the 8th Panzer Army. The 11th Guard mechanized the red flag of Rivne, command of the Suvorov Division was issued in the 30th. In 1975 he retired in the rank of a midshipman. In retirement he worked in the officers' house and in the city Executive Committee. Created a large friendly family, wife Pulinets Maria Ivanovna, raised 3 daughters and 1 son. He always loved the country and always remembered his roots, together with mother they cultivated gardens and grew livestock, loved to grow flowers, especially roses. He got a dacha plot in the cooperative "Veteran", where he planted a flowering garden in an open field. He was always a military disciplined, punctual, conscientious and decent man. All his life in Novograd-Volynsky he lived in Levanevsky Str. 34 and 15, always helped neighbors, enjoyed the well-deserved respect in the district. Every year during holidays he visited relatives in Altai region and his mother's relatives in Poltava region. He loved to talk about family and always loved children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren and was loved by everyone. In the family nest on the street. Levanevsky, 15, we were always welcome. My parents were buried, my father in 2002, my mother in 2003.