Nikolay Kuznetsov (Crew)

Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov was born in the village of Zyryanka, Perm province, Russian Empire - a Soviet state security officer, intelligence officer and partisan who personally eliminated 11 generals and high-ranking officials of the occupation administration of Nazi Germany. Hero of the Soviet Union (1944, posthumously). Nikolai Kuznetsov was born into a peasant family, he had older sisters Agafya, Lydia and younger brothers Fyodor and Victor. At first he bore the name Nikanor, and in 1931 he changed it to Nikolai. In 1926, he graduated from a seven-year school and entered the agronomic department of the Tyumen Agricultural College. After studying for a year and becoming a Komsomol member during this time, due to the death of his father from tuberculosis, he was forced to return to his native village. In 1927, he continued his studies at the Talitsky Forestry College, where he began to independently study the German language,...Read More