The Staro-Avtozavodskoe Fraternal Military Burial — a mass grave The Great Patriotic War, located at Staro-Avtozavodskoe Cemetery (formerly the "Molochnoye" civilian cemetery) Avtozavodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod, on Paryshevskaya Street. Registration card at the Military Memorial Center: No. 52-106.[1]
Burials and Records
According to the information plaque installed by the Administration of the City of Nizhny Novgorod, titled "Military Burial — Mass Grave," 171 people rest here: 18 officers and 153 sergeants and enlisted soldiers. A list compiled by staff of the Avtozavodsky Military Commissariat as of May 8, 1992, contains 174 surnames; the document was signed by Military Commissar Colonel Petrushin and the head of the Avtozavodsky District administration, Sokolnikov. Engraved across three commemorative plaques on the stele are a combined total of 169 names: 42 surnames on the first plaque, 64 on the second, and 63 on the third.[1]
Among those interred are soldiers and commanders of the Red Army who died from wounds and illness in evacuation hospitals of Local Evacuation Point 41 (MEP-41, City of Gorky), as well as servicemen who perished during The City of Gorky in 1941–1943 — among them soldiers of the 10th Reserve Rifle Regiment of the 1st Gorky Reserve Rifle Brigade / Division (Gorky-7, P.O. Box 126-a).[1]
Sources and Research
A research complex with biographies — "frontline biographies" — of those buried here was prepared by researchers V. N. Nefyodov and I. V. Nefyodov. The work drew on: surnames from the commemorative plaques, registration cards of those who died in MEP-41 hospitals, nominal lists of those killed in air raids, alphabetical death registers of evacuation hospitals EH 2811, 2813, 2790, and others, materials from the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, data from the OBD "Pamyat Naroda" and OBD "Memorial (nnov.ec)" databases, the electronic database "Podvig Naroda," the Book of Memory of the Nizhny Novgorod Region" (vols. 14 and 16, Avtozavodsky District), as well as a number of online resources. Assistance in the research was provided by Larisa Kalyuzhnaya (Yerokhina); photographs of the burial site and commemorative plaques were supplied by Olga Smirnova.[1]
Among the identified biographies are natives of various republics of the USSR. Tumasha Abdurazakov (born 1922, Kirghiz SSR), a Guards private sapper of the 21st Guards Nevelskaya Rifle Division, was wounded on April 4, 1943, admitted to EH 2790, and died on May 26, 1943. Pyotr Ustinovich Averkin (born 1905, Voroshilovgrad Region), a private in the 1174th Rifle Regiment of the 348th Rifle Division, was admitted to hospital on December 27, 1941 with septic phlegmon of the left forearm and a bone fracture, and died of his wounds on January 4, 1942; his documents record the place of burial as a mass grave in the settlement of "Molochnaya Ferma" (or Strigino), Avtozavodsky District, City of Gorky.[1]
Sources
- opentextnn.ru — Nefyodov V. N., Nefyodov I. V. Staro-Avtozavodskoe Fraternal Military Burial — OPEN TEXT