Military Rank is Colonel. Branch of troops is Ground forces, Air Forces (except Naval aviation), shore service, Frontier NKVD troops. Subdivision: 9th Division of the NKVD troops for the protection of railway grounds. Colonel of the USSR Frontier NKVD troops Kotov Sergey Nikilaevich was born December 17, 1904 in the village Sizma, Kirillov district of the Vologodsk region. In 1918 he finished 6 classes of the first stage and in 1919, 1 class of the 2nd stage. In 1926, he graduated from the Moscow Infantry school named after M. Yu. Aschenbrenner. In 1939, he completed 2 cources of Extention Couse Academy named after M.Frunze. Member o the CPSU (the Communist Party of Soviet Union) since 1926. Kotov Sergey Nikolaevich is a career officer, went through the entire war from 1941-1945, and was shell-shocked. The war found him with his family in Vilnius, where he served in the Army. At night, he was called to the division Headquarters and since then he has been separated from his family for 4 years. In June 1941, he held the position of Chief of the 2nd Staff Department of the 9th Rifle Division of the USSR NKVD troops for the protection of railway grounds and from the first minutes of Hitler's aggression against the USSR he became direct participant of the Great Patriotic War: in combat actions and battles at the North-Western and Western Fronts. Here there is information about fighting Major Kotov in the first days of the war.. The Headquarters of the 9th Rifle Division of the NKVD troops retreated to Moscow with the 84th Regiment commanded Major Piyashev. His wife, Kotova Claudia Alekseevna stayed alone with four young children (three sons and a daughter). On their way to evacuation area, Kotova Claudia Alekseevna and her children were bombed by Nazis; the train was destroyed, and all who remained alive were taken to concentration camps by Nazis. They didn't know anything about each other's fate during the whole war. Sergey Nikolaevich repeatedly sent requests to official authorities to search family during the war. The answer was that they were dead, missing in actions. In 1942, he served in the city of Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), where he met his second wife, Kazemirova Tamara Mikhailovna (1920-2003). In 1943, a daughter Svetlana was born (place of birth Moscow), in 1944, the second daughter, Alevtina was born.in Dzerzhinsk (Nizhny Novgorod region), In 1945, after reuniting with the first family, he did not abandon the daughters of the second marriage, helped them financially and periodically they visited him as guests. After the war, his wife wrote memoirs of her incarceration with children in concentration camps. Sergey Nikolaevich ended the war on the 1st Baltic front with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel as Commander of the 31st Frontier Konigsberg Order of Red Star regiment of the USSR NKVD troops. Victory Day on May 9 he met in the East Prussia, in the town of Tapiau (now is city of Gvardeysk), 42 km from Konigsbergk, where 31st Frontier Regiment was deployed. After the Victory, the regiment had taken part in the liquidation of gangs on the territory of the Konigsberg region and Lithuania. In 1954, with the rank of Colonel, Kovov Sergey Nikolaevich retired to the reserve. After the service, he worked as a Deputy of the Butovsky workers' settlement Council of the Leninskiy district of the Moscow region. He died on November 23, 1974.