Major General Nikolay Andreyevich Polevoy. Born in 1906 in Belev, Tula region. Participant in the Soviet-Finnish War. During the Great Patriotic War - Assistant Chief of Staff of the 40th Tank Brigade, Chief of Staff of the 268th Infantry Division, Chief of Staff of the Commander of the Armoured and Mechanised Troops of the Leningrad Front, Chief of Operations of the 3rd Guards Tank Army, Chief of Staff of the Armoured and Mechanised Troops of the Belarusian Military District. After the war - Head of the Civil Defence Department of the Lenin State Library of the USSR.