Konstantin Ivanovich Zolin

Zolin Konstantin Ivanovich was born in May 1911 in the village of Alekseevka, Bazarno-Karabulaksky district, Saratov region. He finished 10 forms having received his secondary education before the war. Konstantin Ivanovich was drafted into the army in Nizhny Novgorod, Gorokhovets camps, the village of Zolino. He received letters to the address: to Zolino for Zolin. He had worked as a teacher in the Arkhangelsk region then in the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the Volga Germans. From the first days of the war he was sent to the front from the Kazansky railway station in Nizhny Novgorod. Later, he showed his son (Zolin Anatoly Konstantinovich) the place from where the war had begun for him in 1941. His military unit was surrounded several times, but he managed to get out. From the memoirs of Anatoly Konstantinovich's son Zolin: “I asked my father if he could call the Great Patriotic War in one word? The answer was - a meat grinder. He asked: - Why did you stay alive? The answer was: "Randomness." Konstantin Ivanovich was a sergeant (artillery reconnaissance) of the top-computational department of the 1st division of the 17th artillery regiment of the 137th rifle division of the 48th Army of the Belorussian Front. He fought on the Western, Central and 7 th Ukrainian fronts. He was seriously wounded on 07/15/1942. During the shelling there was a hit in the dugout, he was covered with earth. They dug him out. In 1944 in Poland he was wounded in the leg. The bullet was not removed which allowed his leg to bend at the knee. Konstantin Ivanovich as the squad leader of a company of machine gunners of the 605th rifle regiment of the 132nd rifle division had performed a feat for which he was awarded with the Order of the Red Star. After the hospital he was sent to the infantry but since he was tall and could be killed at the first attack the foreman sent him to the headquarters. Zolin finished the war in Berlin.

For military services he had awards:

- Order of the Red Star (Order No. 70 / n of 05/11/1945)

- Order of Glory of the 3rd degree (Order No. 113 / n of 03/11/1944)

- Order of the Great Patriotic War of the 1st degree - medal "For Courage" (Order No. 013 / n of 08/10/1943)

- Medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg"

- Medal "For the capture of Warsaw"

- Medal "For the capture of Berlin", etc.

He returned to his family in the village of Rovnoe. The post-war years were very difficult for the family. The family was starving, their legs swelled from hunger. After the war he graduated from the Saratov Pedagogical Institute, worked as director of a pedagogical school in the village of Rovnoe where he taught mathematics. Konstantin Ivanovich's wife, Zolina Vera Nikonovna, worked as a primary school teacher.

According to Order No. 30, Clause 3 for the Rovnoe secondary school dated from August 14, 1951, K.I. Zolin was appointed the head teacher of this school.