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Arkhangelsky Nikolai Vasilyevich hero of the Soviet Union. Arkhangelsky, Nikolai. Excerpt characterizing Arkhangelsky, Nikolai

Nikolai Arkhangelsky:

• Arkhangelsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1862-after 1917) - architect.
• Arkhangelsky, Nikolai Alexandrovich (1914-1982) - theater artist, Stalin Prize winner.
• Arkhangelsky, Nikolai Vasilievich (1921-1945) - squadron commander, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Arkhangelsky, Nikolai Mikheevich (1787-1857) - professor of mathematics at Kharkov University, translator.
• Arkhangelsky, Nikolai Pavlovich (in monasticism Stephen; 1861-1914) - bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Kursk and Oboyansky.

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“Either black suits her so well, or she really has gotten so prettier and I didn’t notice. And the main thing is this tact and grace!” - thought m lle Bourienne.
If Princess Marya had been able to think at that moment, she would have been even more surprised than M lle Bourienne at the change that had taken place in her. From the moment she saw this sweet, beloved face, some new force of life took possession of her and forced her, against her will, to speak and act. Her face, from the time Rostov entered, suddenly changed. How suddenly, with unexpected, striking beauty, that complex, skillful artistic work appears on the walls of the painted and carved lantern, which previously seemed rough, dark and meaningless, when the light is lit inside: so suddenly the face of Princess Marya was transformed. For the first time, all that pure spiritual inner work with which she had lived until now came out. All her inner work, dissatisfied with herself, her suffering, desire for good, humility, love, self-sacrifice - all this now shone in those radiant eyes, in her thin smile, in every feature of her gentle face.

During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky was a squadron commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment, 221st Bomber Aviation Division, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front, lieutenant.

Biography

Born on April 10, 1921 in the village of Oseevo (in other sources - Krasnomylye) now in the Shadrinsky district of the Kurgan region in the family of a teacher (in official biographies - a worker). Russian. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1943. Secondary education.

He grew up, was brought up and studied in the Tyumen North. His father worked as the director of Polnovatskaya, Kazymskaya, Shuryshkarskaya and Oktyabrskaya schools. In 1933-1937 he lived in the village of Muzhi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). After graduating from the seven-year school in 1937, he went to study in Shadrinsk to enter the flying club and become a pilot. But only the children of workers were accepted into the flight school. Then Nikolai got a job as a mechanic’s apprentice at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. At the same time he finishes evening school and attends a flying club. Here he joined the Komsomol.

In the Red Army since 1940. Entered the Chkalov Military Aviation Pilot School.

In March 1942, Sergeant Arkhangelsky arrived at the 57th Aviation Bomber Regiment and was assigned as a pilot to the 2nd Squadron. The regiment was being reorganized and was receiving new aircraft - American Bostons. Since June 1942 at the front. A month later, Lieutenant Arkhangelsky received the first order. By order of the front commander, for the delivery of important intelligence data and skillful actions in a difficult combat situation, Nikolai Arkhangelsky was awarded the first award - the Order of the Red Star. Arkhangelsky soon became an experienced aerial reconnaissance officer.

During the year of combat life on the Southwestern Front, N.V. Arkhangelsky made 104 combat missions, of which 54 were for reconnaissance of airfields and movements of large enemy forces. At the same time, the aircraft crew destroyed 13 enemy aircraft during bombing of airfields and shot down two in air battles. In June 1943, he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant.

In the summer of 1943, Nikolai Arkhangelsky and a group of Soviet pilots flew to the USA to ferry a batch of aircraft. And there, for military successes on the Soviet front achieved on an American aircraft, he was awarded the medal “For Military Merit.”

By the end of June 1944, the squadron commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment (221st Bomber Aviation Division, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front), Lieutenant Arkhangelsky, carried out 210 sorties for reconnaissance, photographing and bombing of enemy personnel and equipment . Personally shot down an enemy plane. The nomination for the title Hero of the Soviet Union was signed by the commander of the 16th Air Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Rudenko and the commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Colonel General Rokossovsky.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1944, for the exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard, Lieutenant Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 3073 ).

After presenting high government awards, the command invited the brave pilot to go to study at the Air Force Academy. But he returned to the front.

On January 14, 1945, while performing a combat mission, the plane of Senior Lieutenant Arkhangelsky was damaged. In poor weather conditions, the plane became icy and began to lose control. Below was enemy territory. The crew decided to send it into a concentration of enemy troops.

Awards

• Medal "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 3073)
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of the Red Star
• Medals, including:
  • American medal

Memory

• The bust of the Hero is installed in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk on the Walk of Fame, in Victory Park.
• A secondary school in the village of Muzhi, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is named after N.V. Arkhangelsky.
• There are streets named after the Hero in the city of Shadrinsk and in the village of Muzhi.
• In the 1960s, a small, self-propelled barge bore the name of Nicholas Arkhangelsky.

School-gymnasium No. 9 of Shadrinsk, Kurgan region bears the name of Arkhangelsky. Also in this school there is a museum dedicated to Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky.

During the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky was a squadron commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment, 221st Bomber Aviation Division, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front, lieutenant.

Biography

Born on April 10, 1921 in the village of Oseevo (in other sources - Krasnomylye) now in the Shadrinsky district of the Kurgan region in the family of a teacher (in official biographies - a worker). Russian. Member of the CPSU(b) since 1943. Secondary education.

He grew up, was brought up and studied in the Tyumen North. His father worked as the director of Polnovatskaya, Kazymskaya, Shuryshkarskaya and Oktyabrskaya schools. In 1933-1937 he lived in the village of Muzhi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). After graduating from the seven-year school in 1937, he went to study in Shadrinsk to enter the flying club and become a pilot. But only the children of workers were accepted into the flight school. Then Nikolai got a job as a mechanic’s apprentice at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant. At the same time he finishes evening school and attends a flying club. Here he joined the Komsomol.

In the Red Army since 1940. Entered the Chkalov Military Aviation Pilot School.

In March 1942, Sergeant Arkhangelsky arrived at the 57th Aviation Bomber Regiment and was assigned as a pilot to the 2nd Squadron. The regiment was being reorganized and was receiving new aircraft - American Bostons. Since June 1942 at the front. A month later, Lieutenant Arkhangelsky received the first order. By order of the front commander, for the delivery of important intelligence data and skillful actions in a difficult combat situation, Nikolai Arkhangelsky was awarded the first award - the Order of the Red Star. Arkhangelsky soon became an experienced aerial reconnaissance officer.

During the year of combat life on the Southwestern Front, N.V. Arkhangelsky made 104 combat missions, of which 54 were for reconnaissance of airfields and movements of large enemy forces. At the same time, the aircraft crew destroyed 13 enemy aircraft during bombing of airfields and shot down two in air battles. In June 1943, he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant.

In the summer of 1943, Nikolai Arkhangelsky and a group of Soviet pilots flew to the USA to ferry a batch of aircraft. And there, for military successes on the Soviet front achieved on an American aircraft, he was awarded the medal “For Military Merit.”

By the end of June 1944, the squadron commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment (221st Bomber Aviation Division, 16th Air Army, 1st Belorussian Front), Lieutenant Arkhangelsky, carried out 210 sorties for reconnaissance, photographing and bombing of enemy personnel and equipment . Personally shot down an enemy plane. The nomination for the title Hero of the Soviet Union was signed by the commander of the 16th Air Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Rudenko and the commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Colonel General Rokossovsky.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of October 26, 1944, for the exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders of the guard, Lieutenant Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the presentation of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 3073 ).

After presenting high government awards, the command invited the brave pilot to go to study at the Air Force Academy. But he returned to the front.

On January 14, 1945, while performing a combat mission, the plane of Senior Lieutenant Arkhangelsky was damaged. In poor weather conditions, the plane became icy and began to lose control. Below was enemy territory. The crew decided to send it into a concentration of enemy troops.

Awards

• Medal "Golden Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union (No. 3073)
• The order of Lenin
• Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
• Order of the Red Banner
• Order of the Red Star
• Medals, including:
  • American medal

Memory

• The bust of the Hero is installed in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk on the Walk of Fame, in Victory Park.
• A secondary school in the village of Muzhi, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is named after N.V. Arkhangelsky.
• There are streets named after the Hero in the city of Shadrinsk and in the village of Muzhi.
• In the 1960s, a small, self-propelled barge bore the name of Nicholas Arkhangelsky.

School-gymnasium No. 9 of Shadrinsk, Kurgan region bears the name of Arkhangelsky. Also in this school there is a museum dedicated to Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky.

Big things can be seen from a distance. Therefore, the more we move away from the great upheavals of the early twentieth century, the more clearly their cause-and-effect relationships emerge, the more clearly the images of historical figures appear. It dries up like a husk, and the propaganda dirt with which these images were generously sprinkled at one time falls off with a crash, and we are sometimes surprised to discover that they turn into holy icons, in front of which the hand itself reaches out to depict the sign of the cross.

Let us note that the Church of Christ consists not only of historical figures into whose hearts rays of holiness fell, remaining forever. Yes, they burn like stars, marking the eras of earthly existence. However, they would not burn so brightly if they were not surrounded by hosts of ordinary members of the body of Christ, as the Holy Apostle Paul calls the Church (see 1 Cor. 12:27). After all, when a person is alone, he needs little light. And when others follow him, especially if the darkness has thickened, more light is required, and this person is forced to undertake a greater feat. Through him, the life-giving light of eternity spreads to the little children of the Church, and through the latter - to the outside world. This prevents him from plunging into complete darkness. And here he is still standing, receiving the grace pouring into himself from God.

This is a story about the small members of the body of Christ, thanks to whom the Church survived

This place is the village of Kamenniki, Rybinsk district, Yaroslavl region (previously this settlement was called the village of Kamennik-Popovsky). A brick church in the name of the Life-Giving Trinity with chapels of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary and St. Demetrius of Rostov was built here “with the care of parishioners” in 1791 on the site of a wooden one of the same name. Previously, this was the bank of the Volga, an area that had long been inhabited. If you move up the Volga, 15 versts from here stood the city of Mologa; if you move down, at 17 - Rybinsk. Now the temple stands on the shore of the largest reservoir in the world. He is a witness of great upheavals, great destruction, great construction projects. Perhaps he is some kind of image of the deadness and darkness of oblivion of indigenous Rus' emerging from the ashes.

So, let's get to the point.

Archpriest Nikolai Sakharov

On December 20, 1911, Archbishop Tikhon of Yaroslavl and Rostov (the future Patriarch) appointed priest Nikolai Pavlovich Sakharov, 65 years old, as rector here.

The Formal Statement of 1920 has been preserved, which is currently located in the temple. Here Father Nikolai writes about himself: “On July 15, 1866, he graduated from the full course of the Yaroslavl Theological Seminary with a 2nd category certificate. On July 1, 1867, he was ordained a priest... On May 6, 1915, for 47 years of diligent service, he was awarded the Order of St. Anne, 3rd degree.”

The connection between Father Nicholas and Bishop Tikhon was not interrupted even after the latter’s accession to the patriarchal throne, as evidenced by the following entry: “On March 27, 1920, by the Decree of His Holiness the Moscow-All-Russian Patriarch of March 11/24, Tikhon was awarded the rank of archpriest on the day of Holy Easter.”

People loyal to the Patriarch and close to him were held in special regard by the authorities

No matter how happy Father Nicholas was to receive this patriarchal award, it should be understood that it did not promise him anything good in terms of everyday life, because people loyal to the Patriarch and close to him were in special regard with the authorities.

During his entire more than half a century of service in the priesthood, Father Nikolai was on vacation only twice: from July 9 to August 6, 1908 - in Odessa and from June 6 to 20, 1916 - in Moscow and Optina Pustyn.

Deacon Alexey Semenovich Amvrozov, who helped Archpriest Nicholas in his ministry, is worthy of special mention. The Gazette says about him: “The son of a priest. Dismissed from the 3rd grade of the Poshekhonsky Theological School on May 25, 1900. He graduated from the course at the church singing school at the brotherhood of St. Demetrius, the Wonderworker of Rostov, July 1, 1901. Appointed as a psalm-reader at the church in the village of Popovsky-Kamennik on September 16, 1902. On August 28, 1916, he was taken into military service for mobilization. At the request of the parishioners and to help the elder archpriest, he was ordained to the rank of deacon in 1920.”

From these meager lines a whole destiny grows. The “man with a gun,” who, taking advantage of his position, could become closer to power, chooses the path of poverty and reproach for the sake of Christ. At the age of 37, he has an annual allowance of 44 pounds of rye for four eaters and takes the rank of deacon at a time when some bishops voluntarily removed their rank, “for fear of the Jews.”

The same Gazette says about one more person: “Church elder Pyotr Yakovlev Rubtsov, son of a peasant, 61 years old, peasant of the village of Ugla, Nizhne-Nikulskaya volost, Rybinsk district. He studied at the elementary zemstvo school. He assumed the post of headman on May 10, 1920.”

The document, by the way, states: “The church money is safe behind the key of the church warden.” This next innovation of the Soviet government implied the opportunity to drive a wedge between the abbot and the headman.

In the chapter “Special Notes” it is noted: “In 1918, the Bolsheviks took land from the clergy, of which they left a small part for themselves. They took copies of the metric books. And the small part of the land left was kept for plowing from 1920 to 1921. August 21st, 1920 Decree of 1920 July 25th No. 12.”

The natural consequence of this policy of the Bolsheviks (the ban on plowing the land remaining in conditional ownership), coupled with drought, was the terrible famine of 1922.

Unfortunately, neither the time nor the place of death of Archpriest Nikolai Sakharov is known to us.

On September 14, 1935, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR adopted a resolution on the construction of the Rybinsk and Uglich hydroelectric power stations, which implied the creation of reservoirs with the flooding of large areas “to ensure the necessary navigable approach to the Moscow-Volga Canal from the river. Volga".

On December 7, 1935, in connection with the above-mentioned resolution, Volgolag was organized. His administration was located in the village of Perebory (if you count in a straight line, across the bay, 5 kilometers from Kamennik). On January 1, the number of Volgolag prisoners was 19,420 people, and on August 1, 1941, it increased to 85,505. The local shores are watered with their sweat and blood.

The village of Kamennik became one of the centers of Volgostroy and Volgolag. In 1936, a factory of reinforced concrete structures was built here (the construction of dams required a lot of reinforced concrete, and Kamennik, not falling into the flood zone, had reserves of wild stone). Both civilians and prisoners worked at the plant.

On September 4, 1936, the evacuation of residents of the lands flooded by the Rybinsk Reservoir was announced. In 1941, the city of Mologa, more than 700 villages and villages, 3 monasteries (Yugsky, Afanasyevsky Mologsky and Leushinsky) went under water, more than 130 thousand people were forced to relocate. Some of them settled in Kamennik and its environs - workers were needed here.

Archpriest Nikolai Arkhangelsky

From 1923 to 1937, the parish was ruled by Archpriest Nikolai Pavlovich Arkhangelsky. We learned about his life path primarily from the story of his now deceased granddaughter Yulia Kronidovna Bikmurzina.

The future Archpriest Nikolai was born in 1872 into the family of a priest. His father left this life early. One spring he was called to confess and give communion to a seriously ill patient. On the way, Father Pavel fell through the ice. I tried to save the horse. I was completely wet, but I fulfilled my pastoral duty. After this he fell ill with pneumonia and soon died. Five young children remained. Mother (Paraskeva), with God’s help, put everyone on their feet, helped everyone get an education. She lived in Vasilievsky on Sheksna, and was buried in Kamennik.

Father Nikolai began his service as rector in the Church of the Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica in the village of Stolypin, Poshekhonsky district. Through his efforts, the specified wooden church was restored, for which Father Nikolai was awarded the Gratitude of the Ministry of the Imperial Household for No. 1350 dated September 30, 1916. We present its text here.

“Your Reverence, Father Nikolai Pavlovich. Imperial Archaeological Commission on the report of its members, academician of architecture P.P. Pokryshkina and K.K. Romanov about the restoration of the ancient wooden church entrusted to you in the name of St. Great Martyr Demetrius of Thessalonica, brings you his sincere gratitude for your diligent and skillful attitude towards this restoration.”

This fact is useful to know in order to understand the feelings of a zealous and sensitive shepherd at the sight of the elements of destruction that struck Russia less than six months after receiving this high gratitude.

A unique photograph of Father Nicholas has been preserved against the backdrop of the restored church, where the following is written in his hand, in accordance with the rules of pre-revolutionary spelling:

“1930, July 11th day. This photographic image is from the newly renovated temple of the “Old Mithraeus” in the village. Stolypin, Poshekhonsky district, Poshekhonsky vol. Taken by the court photographer of the Archaeological Imperial Museum in the month of June (late days) 1915 in the presence of the head of the Museum, Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov. (I keep this photograph as a memory of my life in Stolypin).”

To express oneself in a letter in 1930 using the old spelling, to mention the Ministry of the Imperial Court and a certain Konstantin Konstantinovich Romanov - all this, without a doubt, required great courage. As for K.K. Romanov, we are still not talking about the Grand Duke (he was the chairman of the Imperial Archaeological Commission since 1892), because Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich reposed after illness in Pavlovsk on June 2 (15), 1915.

The person featured here is K.K. Romanov (1882-1942) - famous architect, restorer, architectural researcher, archaeologist, ethnographer, teacher.

During the terrible years of militant atheism, the zealous shepherd did not abandon his preaching work

Copies of the documents, photographs and records presented here were provided to us by the great-grandson of Archpriest Nikolai, Igor Sokolov, in 2016. In my presence, his aunt gave him for safekeeping the Bible of Father Nicholas, which she still kept in her possession. This book is remarkable for the inscription made by Archpriest Nicholas on the flyleaf in 1934, which testifies that even in these terrible years of militant atheism, the zealous shepherd did not abandon his preaching labors for the good of the people of God.

We present this entry, made in the old spelling, in full.

“On the 28th day of September 1934, this book was given to me in memory of the soul of the servant of God John, who died on September 24, 1934. According to the late Ivan Arsenievich Shcherbakov, this book lay in the chest for about 30 years, and only from the 31st year did its owner begin to read it. Initially, as the deceased said, reading this book, I almost became an atheist. I helped him by showing him how to read using parallel passages. The seed fell on good soil. A year later, the deceased served a grateful prayer service to the Savior. The confessor of the deceased, Rev. c. With. Kamennik Nikolai Arkhangelsky.

If the Bible was in the chest for about 30 years, we get approximately 1900. During times of prosperity and external favor for the faith, she was not in demand by her owner. But tribulations came, persecution of faith came, and the word of God, which had been hidden, was brought out and began to work, shedding the saving light of truth, responding to the sincere thirst of the human heart.

The milestones of Father Nikolai’s life path, the steps of his ascent to Golgotha, are marked with such brief notes. Now we unfold them and gradually comprehend the greatness of the soul of this humble rural shepherd, who carried his cross to the end without a murmur.

Let us turn again to the memories of Yulia Kronidovna. They were written down from her dictation, printed out and given to her for checking. She signed that the printout of her story was correct.

“The year 1937 has arrived. We felt that things were heading towards an arrest. I was 9 years old. On the patronal feast of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, my parents took me to Kamennik. We arrived by boat. It was a good autumn, sunny. There were a lot of rowan trees. And then Aunt Kharita came to us and said that grandfather had been arrested, it was November 5th.

I remember in 1939 I came home from school: my mother was talking to some man, giving him tea. He was after prison. He said that grandfather died. On the eve of the Intercession they talked while sitting on their bunks. The man should have been released. Grandfather managed to give the address of my parents. Suddenly, during a conversation, he fell onto the bunk. He died the next day.

The war has begun. Those who arrested and interrogated began to worry. One man turned to his father and said that he could tell how his father-in-law was interrogated. “What a strong old man your father-in-law was! I stood under interrogation for 36 hours. Investigators changed. No one could stand it that long: they either signed or fainted. Everyone came and looked at this “priest” as if it were a miracle. As he said “no,” he stood his ground.” Interrogated in Rybinsk. The authorities came to the conclusion: “He will die, but he will not sign.” They themselves wrote what was needed for the trial."

The old priest defeated the anger and cruelty of the GPU investigators

Here we interrupt Yulia Kronidovna’s memories to note: the good shepherd defeated devastation even before it spread across the entire Russian land, restoring the temple in the Poshekhon village of Stolypin; he defeated godlessness in the souls of people poisoned by revolutionary propaganda; finally, he defeated the malice and cruelty of the GPU investigators, experienced in the science of “breaking a person.” So he ascended from strength to strength in order to betray his victorious spirit into the hands of the Ascetic Christ, Who, we believe, placed on his head the wreath of the confessor of the true Faith.

It is worth noting that the non-governmental organization “Memorial” provides the following information about Archpriest Nikolai on its website “Victims of Political Terror in the USSR”.

“Arkhangelsky Nikolai Pavlovich. Born in 1872, Yaroslavl region, Poshekhonsky district, Dmitrievskoye village; Kamennikovskaya Church, archpriest. Lived: Yaroslavl region, Rybinsk district, village of Kamenniki. Arrested November 5, 1937

A parishioner's story

The atmosphere of external devastation and at the same time internal composure, characteristic of that difficult era, is well conveyed by the story of the parishioner of the church, Sofia Sergeevna Rostyagaeva.

“I was born in the village of Sheine on Sheksna, which is now flooded. They brought her here, to the village of Bereg, at nine months old. I know about former times from the stories of my mother, and especially my grandmother Lyubov Agafonovna Khlamova.

She was born in 1881 and lived to be 101 years old. She herself was from the village of Averkovo (at the mouth of the Mologa). She got married in the village of Bereg. He had his own farm, a plot of timber outside the village of Lavrovo. Her husband, my grandfather Vasily, was much older than her, died before the revolution.

In collectivization, because she herself did not join the collective farm and did not allow the two children who remained in her care, the land was taken away, the very corner of the house was cut off, horses, cows, and a pig were taken away. They cleaned the whole house, even took away the rugs, leaving only two cast iron pieces.

The son, in order not to go to the collective farm, fled to Rybinsk at night and hid there with relatives. They took my grandmother and demanded that she give him up; they threatened her with a pistol. In response to the threats, she said that she had nothing to lose, and they abandoned her.

In 1942, they began to cut down our forest, and even in the summer. This was wild, because industrial wood was harvested only in winter. The forest was taken away long ago, but the grandmother continued to consider it hers. She constantly went to clean it, removed branches, fenced off anthills. And suddenly they report: your forest has been cut down. She ran to look and then wailed for a long time: “They destroyed the forest!”

Before the advent of the Rybinsk Sea, barges were dragged along the Volga by barge haulers. Their gear was drying on the shore near our village, and we loved to swing on them, like on a swing.

The last people whom Father Nikolai Arkhangelsky married in the church were my parents - Sergei and Claudia - in 1931, then the wedding was prohibited. My mother was a singer. One day in the fall of 1937 they came to a service, but the church was closed. My mother was sent to the church elder Alexey Ksenofontovich Govyadinkin. She came to him, and he, without getting off the stove, said: “Go home, close yourself and don’t come out, or you’ll be like Father Nicholas...” That’s how they learned about the arrest of the rector.

In the summer of 1938, the bells were removed. My grandmother’s brother Alexander Agafonovich Petrov took part in this. They promised him money to buy a cow, and he was tempted and went... The bells were taken on carts to Rybinsk. And our neighbor Anna Alekseevna Korelyakova then told him: “Agafonych, you will have no arms and no legs.” And so it happened, he died like a tree stump: first, due to gangrene, one leg was taken away, then the other, and so were his arms.

In the fall of 1938, the bell tower was blown up. In 1939, the church was converted into a factory office. The director’s office was set up in the altar of the summer Trinity Church, and various services were located in the summer church itself. They laid out the second floor, where there was an accounting department and a cash register.

Before the war, my dad worked on the construction of the Rybinsk lock as a foreman. Mostly prisoners worked there. One day I came home at night, all gray. We learned about what happened that day from our mother when we became adults. It was forbidden to talk to children about such things, so as not to spill the beans where it was not necessary.

That day the dam broke, and 10 teams of 100 people each worked at the bottom of the lock. My dad went upstairs for some reason, and at that moment water started pouring out. Everyone below died. In memory of these ten brigades, 10 coniferous trees were planted on the peninsula where the monument to Mother Volga stands.

After the arrest of Nikolai’s father, a village council and a collective farm office were set up in his house. The authorities forced people to celebrate Soviet holidays. On March 8, for example, no one celebrated here then. So, the chairman of the village council, Evdokia Ivanovna, put the village women in a sleigh with a red flag and sent them to go to all the villages to sing songs. But they didn’t know Soviet songs and sang church songs.

In the fall of 1942 or spring of 1943, NKVD soldiers, Uzbeks, drove prisoners to the temple and forced them to dig a hole in front of the porch, the depth of a man; where the fire was lit. The prisoners began to take out icons, books, utensils and burn them. Women crowded around, they asked: “Guys, fear God, give us icons.” Some prisoners managed to throw an icon or book into the crowd at the risk of their lives, which people immediately hid. At that time I was studying in an elementary school, which was a former parochial school. The head of the school, Guryanova Anna Alexandrovna, was a pious woman. She approached the soldiers and said: “At least give me the paper, the children at school have nothing to write on.” The Uzbeks began to break books over their knees, tore off the bindings, threw them into the fire, and threw the books into the crowd of children, we caught them. Anna Alexandrovna did not give any of these books for educational purposes. As I later found out, she distributed church books to reliable people. And she sewed notebooks for us from technical paper.

In the spring of 1944, the school was flooded up to the windows. We completed the school year in church: grades 1-2 in the right aisle, grades 3-4 in the left. In the summer, the school building was moved to a higher location on the shore.

Three “zones” were set up next to the plant: one was for political people, the other was for criminals, and the third was for women. At one time Ruslanova was sitting there. They used it to set their watches. Just as in the “zone” there is a divorce at seven in the morning, so Ruslanova sings: “Felt boots, felt boots, not hemmed, old.” Most of the workers at the plant were prisoners: the engineering and technical workers were political, and the workshop workers were criminals.

Every day, coffins were taken out into the forest on sleighs, with two dead bodies in a coffin, “jack”

During the war, many prisoners died from hunger and disease. Every day, coffins were taken out into the forest on a cart or sleigh, with two dead people in a coffin in a “jack” group. Each one was pierced in the forehead with a bayonet - in order to take the dead person out of the camp. We children (stupidly) asked to ride on a sleigh with coffins.

My dad came back from the front in April 1945 after being wounded. They suggested amputating his arm, but he did not agree and died two years later. When victory over Germany was announced, he cried like a baby. I've never seen anything like this again.

There was a particularly severe famine in 1947. We survived only thanks to goats and ducks - there was milk and eggs; caught fish. Bread was then given out at 50 g per person per day. We accumulated milk and exchanged it for bread in the criminal “zone.” Out of hunger they ate a corner of the collective farm barn. It was all rotten, and my mother made cakes from wood dust. They seemed very tasty to us then. We slowly climbed into the barn, picked out the soft core from the logs, and covered the holes with clay to make it invisible. After these tricks of ours, the barn collapsed onto a corner. The authorities were wondering - what should they take from us?

With God’s help we survived everything.”

With hope for the future

The memory of the feat of ordinary believers is the foundation of our future

I am sure: thanks to the humble workers in the field of Christ, many rural shepherds and simple peasants, slandered and slandered by godless propaganda, the Church of Christ has survived; indigenous Rus' has been preserved, albeit in a ruined, desecrated, disfigured form. If the blood of martyrs is the seed of Christianity, then the memory of the feat of ordinary believers is the foundation of our future. We collect stones scattered by the storms of the past century in order to recreate the temple of God, consisting of human souls (see 1 Peter 2:4-5).

Today, October 16, which fell on Sunday, the day of remembrance of the Hiero-Confessor Agafangel, Metropolitan of Yaroslavl and Rostov, as well as the Council of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Yaroslavl Land, in our church after the liturgy a solemn requiem service was celebrated for two archpriests Nicholas, as well as for everyone in the year Godless persecution, who laid down their life for Christ.

If anyone is interested in a more detailed history of our temple, it is presented here:

Born on April 10, 1921 in the village of Krasnomylye, Krasnomyl volost (in other sources - the village of Oseevo, Barnev volost), Shadrinsky district, Yekaterinburg province of the RSFSR USSR (now Shadrinsky district, Kurgan region).

His father worked as the director of Polnovatskaya, Kazymskaya, Shuryshkarskaya and Oktyabrskaya schools. In 1933-1937 he lived in the village of Muzhi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).

Since 1937 he lived in Shadrinsk, studied at secondary school No. 9.
Since 1939, he worked as a mechanic at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant and studied at the flying club.

In August 1940 he was drafted into the Red Army. Entered the 1st Chkalov Military Aviation Pilot School. In November 1941, he was sent as a pilot to the 9th Reserve Aviation Regiment.

In March 1942, he arrived in the 57th short-range bomber aviation regiment, as a pilot in the 2nd squadron. The regiment was being reorganized and received new aircraft - American Douglas A-20 Havoc/DB-7 Boston.

On July 10, 1942, he received the task of reconnaissance of the situation in the Rossosh area, where the German stronghold was located. Arkhangelsky flew safely over the front line. But the city itself was tightly covered with anti-aircraft batteries. The plane's left engine caught fire. The pilot managed to put out the flames and continued to carry out the command’s mission. By order of the commander of the troops of the Stalingrad Front, Nikolai Arkhangelsky was awarded the first award - the Order of the Red Star - for the delivery of important intelligence data and skillful actions in a difficult combat situation.

During his year of service on the Southwestern Front, Arkhangelsky made 104 combat missions, 54 of which were reconnaissance of airfields and movements of large enemy forces. At the same time, the aircraft crew destroyed 13 enemy aircraft during bombing of airfields and shot down two in air battles. In June 1943, he was awarded the rank of junior lieutenant.

On the Central and 1st Belorussian Fronts, Arkhangelsky made another 106 combat missions. Arkhangelsky flew on combat missions on the American Boston-3 aircraft. The pilot studied the foreign aircraft well, its high-altitude capabilities and speed. The aircraft was especially effective for reconnaissance and bombing from high altitudes. In the summer of 1943, Nikolai Arkhangelsky and a group of Soviet pilots flew to the USA to ferry a batch of aircraft. And there, for military successes on the Soviet front achieved on an American plane, he was nominated by the American President for a medal. In the summer of the same 1943, Air Marshal A.A. Novikov presented the medal “For Distinguished Service” on behalf of the President of the United States.

In one of the issues, the newspaper of the 16th Air Army wrote: “Pilot Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky celebrated the anniversary of his stay at the front in July. During this time, the young pilot’s abilities as an aerial reconnaissance aircraft during the winter offensive battles of the Red Army were revealed in all their brilliance. No matter how difficult the task, Arkhangelsky completed it with honor. It flies in any weather conditions. This is a real ace."

By the end of June 1944, the squadron commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment, Lieutenant Nikolai Arkhangelsky, carried out 210 sorties to reconnaissance, photograph and bomb enemy personnel and equipment. Personally shot down an enemy plane. The proposal for conferment of the title Hero of the Soviet Union was signed by the commander of the 16th Air Army, Hero of the Soviet Union, Lieutenant General Rudenko and the commander of the 1st Belorussian Front, Colonel General K. K. Rokossovsky.

After presenting high government awards, the command invited the brave pilot to go to study at the Air Force Academy. But he returned to the front.

On January 14, 1945, while performing a combat mission, the aircraft of the deputy commander of the 57th Bomber Aviation Regiment Kalinkovichi, Senior Lieutenant Arkhangelsky, was damaged. The plane became icy and began to lose control. Below was enemy territory. The crew decided to send it into a concentration of enemy troops. The icy bomber crashed into the ground, killing the crew. The crew of the deputy squadron commander, senior lieutenant Nikolai Arkhangelsky, consists of: navigator lieutenant Ivan Kuzmich Ponomarev; gunner-radio operator senior sergeant G. P. Yakimenko; air gunner sergeant I. I. Aksenovich.

Fellow soldiers buried the remains of the brave crew in a mass grave in a park in Radzyń Podlaski (Poland).

Awards: By Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated October 26, 1944, for the exemplary performance of command assignments and the courage and heroism shown in battles with the Nazi invaders of the Guard, Lieutenant Nikolai Vasilyevich Arkhangelsky was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal ( No. 3073). — Order of the Red Star, August 9, 1942. — Order of the Red Banner, February 25, 1943. — Order of the Patriotic War, II degree, March 21, 1943. — United States Distinguished Service Medal, June 15, 1943.

Bust of Hero N.V. Arkhangelsky is installed in Khanty-Mansiysk on the Walk of Fame in Victory Park. A secondary school in the village of Muzhi, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is named after N.V. Arkhangelsky. School-gymnasium No. 9 in the city of Shadrinsk, Kurgan region, is named after Arkhangelsky.