Kyrgyzstan lost another participant in the Great Patriotic War.
World War II veteran Nikolai Kuzmich Mironenko died in Bishkek at the age of 100. He was born on March 3, 1927 in the Novosibirsk region. In 1935 his family moved to Fronze. The war had a severe impact on Nikolai Kuzmich's loved ones: in 1942, his father died at the front, and his sister returned from the war disabled.
Before enlisting in the army, Nikolai Kuzmich worked in a factory repairing sewing machines. In 1944 he was drafted into the Soviet army. He served in a reserve battalion and after the end of World War II did not immediately return to civilian life - the military service continued until 1951.
After the liberation, Mironenko graduated from high school in the evening, then entered the Agricultural Institute and received a higher education. Later he worked in the Ministry of Road Transport. Together with his wife he raised a son and a daughter.
His fate became part of the history of a generation that had to survive the war, the loss of loved ones and the difficult years after the war. After the service, Nikolai Kuzmich devoted himself to peaceful work.
The memory of such people is especially important for Kyrgyzstan. During the Great Patriotic War, the republic sent about 360 thousand people to the front. About one in three of them did not return home. More than 150 thousand soldiers of the Kyrgyz SSR were awarded orders and medals, more than 70 received the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Happy memory to Nikolai Kuzmich Mironenko.
At the end of October, Kyrgyzstan said goodbye to the keeper of the memory of the siege of Leningrad, Galina Ivanovna Tolskaya.