Nikolai Morozov Biography
The announcements on June 7 in the year Soviet academician Nikolai Sergeyevich Morozov turned 88 years old. Despite his advanced age, the scientist achieved sending to the front, where he fought for a month with a sniper. Academician Morozov is considered the oldest participant in not only the Patriotic, but also the Second World War. Nikolai Morozov was born in the year.
His father was a Yaroslavl landowner, and the mother of the Novgorod peasant woman. For the poor academician, an academician is excluded from the Moscow gymnasium, and he enters the popular circle. He became interested in revolutionary activity and became one of the creators of the terrorist organization “People’s Volya”. Enters abroad, where he meets Karl Marx. At an illegal entry into Russia, he was arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment in the year for terrorism.
In the year he went out of amnesty to freedom. Over the years spent in prison, Morozov learned a dozen languages and wrote dozens of scientific works in chemistry, physics, aviation, philosophy, astronomy, and economics. After the release, he arrested several times, but went out of mind on an amnesty.
He served in total for about 30 years. After the revolution, Lenin criticized his aggressiveness in relation to the bourgeoisie and the complete nationalization of industry. He was not subjected to repression, but was sent to his estate Borki in the Yaroslavl region, where he continued scientific activity. At the initiative of Morozov, the Institute of Biology of Internal Water and the Geophysical Observatory of the Academy of Sciences was formed in Borki.
The cunning of the scientist in the year the summer academician took place of Snowavihim's sniper courses, where he received excellent shooting skills. After the start of the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai Alexandrovich threw the Leningrad military enlistment office with letters with a request to send his front. The academician said that while the Nazis are stomping the Soviet land, everyone should bring their treasure into the work of a common victory.
He said to the military commissars that he wanted to take revenge on the enemy for women and children killed in Leningrad. To achieve the goal, the old man had to go to the trick. At the military registration and enlistment office, he said that he was working on a new telescopic sight and he needed to conduct field tests of optics. If in Leningrad the scientist is not given permission, then he will ask him in Moscow from Comrade Stalin himself.
In the fall of the year, the military leadership surrendered, and due to advanced age, academician Morozov was sent to the Volkhov front for a period of one month. In December of the year, Nikolai Morozov was attached to one of the battalions holding the defense in the Volkhov direction in December. An elderly scientist surprised the fighters with his vigor and confident handling of a rifle.
For several days, Nikolai Alexandrovich looked closely at the terrain and, finding a suitable position, lay into an ambush. Having spent half a day in the snow, he kills a German officer a well -aimed shot. The deep old man, along with the soldiers, spends the night in the dugouts and hides from shelling in the dugouts. The famous academician, who replaced the warm office to a cold trench, come to look from neighboring units.
Fame did not prevent Nikolai Morozov from shooting several more German soldiers. Interestingly, the academician studied the pool flight path in detail and always made his amendments to humidity or wind. After the month allotted by the authorities ended the scientist, despite the protests, sent to the rear. For several months, he unsuccessfully demanded his return to the front.
In the year, Academician Morozov was awarded the medal “For the Defense of Leningrad” and the Order of Lenin. The oldest participant in World War II in the summer of the year at the age of 92 died. Pushchino Avenue Science, house 3.