Piryazev, Nikolai Semenovich

With great interest Nikolai Semenovich was engaged in "reconnaissance" of the origin of various toponyms of his native Ozyorsk Territory . He also investigated the origin of the name of the city of Ozery (originally the village of Ozerki), putting forward the version that the etymology of the word is not connected with the presence of lakes in the district, but with the word "ozira". Detailed explanations of this hypothesis can be found in the work of N. S. Piryazev, “My city is sharp-sighted” (Zarya newspaper, No. 1, 2007, p. 4) (inaccessible link) .

It was thanks to the efforts of Nikolai Piryazev that the inhabitants of the city of Ozyory began to be called Ozerki. Previously, there was the word "puddle", which was especially inconvenient to apply to the female population. If about a man one could say “pond” (which is not too harmonious, but bearable), then the feminine word form was simply not used because of her clumsiness (pond? Pond?). Love for the word and a reverent attitude towards it prompted N.S. Piryazev to make proofs in such an important vocabulary of his fellow countrymen. Nikolay Semyonovich told all the ups and downs of this story to his fellow countrymen on the pages of the Zarya newspaper in the article “How We Become Ozerchi” .

Father - Semyon Ivanovich Piryazev (1923, p. Zatvornoye, Skopinsky district, Ryazan region - 2002, Ozyory, Moscow region ) - a veteran of World War II , fought from Stalingrad to Vienna . He was awarded the medals “For Military Merit” , “For Courage” , the Order of Glory of the III degree , etc. He returned from the front after being wounded . He worked in the Ozyorsk city newspaper Zarya, editor of the Leninets edition of the Yemelyanovka state farm , and was a member of the Russian Journalists Union .

Mother - Zinaida Mikhailovna Piryazeva (Simonov’s maiden name ; 1924, p. Belye Kolodezi, Ozersky district, Moscow region - 2012, Ozyory, Moscow region) - participant of the Great Patriotic War , awarded with medals “For the Defense of Moscow” , “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. "

Nikolai Semenovich Piryazev was born on August 7, 1946 in the village of Belye Kolodezi, Ozersky District, Moscow Region .

Nikolai Semenovich recalled his childhood as follows: “I grew up in a real peasant hut covered with straw. Then, on each house, plaques were nailed about what the owner should run to the fire: some with an ax, some with a hook, some with a bucket. My father worked as a foreman. On the Oka, buoys were installed along the banks, and at night they placed kerosene lanterns so that ships could walk along the river. I remember how I had to persuade my father to take me with him. Of course, he could not refuse his only son, and once again we went by boat on the Oka. My joy knew no bounds ” ^[1] .

An interesting fact is that in early childhood the character of a lone scientist formed, exploring everything individually, not trusting the results obtained by anyone but himself. Nikolai Semyonovich spoke of his asociality as follows: “From my childhood, in my opinion, I did not recognize collectivism and did not like being organized. I remember how, after a two-day stay in kindergarten, my friend and I ran away from there. "I was even able to persuade my parents not to take me to kindergarten anymore."

In 1952, his family moved to the city of Ozyory, Moscow Region, where Nikolai graduated from high school and went to work as a mechanic , and after that as an electrician .

In 1967 he married Lydia Nikolaevna Guseva, with whom he raised, raised two sons Andrei and Alexei.

Since 1969, when the Ozyorsk district was re-formed, he worked as a senior literary editor at the editorial office of the newspaper Zarya .

In 1971-1973 He served in the Soviet Army in Kubinka, Moscow Region .

Since 1975 - a member of the Union of Journalists of Russia .

Since 1978, he worked as the editor of the Tekstilshchik newspaper .

In 1980 he graduated in absentia from the Electromechanical Faculty of the Textile Institute in Moscow .

He worked as a driver at a water intake station , was actively involved in regional studies , and worked as a lecturer and guide of the local museum .

In 1994, he founded and headed the literary-historical association "Ozyorsk chronicler" .

In 2003, Nikolai Semyonovich became one of the silver laureates of the regional contest in the city ​​of Kolomna, “Traditions of the Old Ages” .

He died on May 27, 2008, was buried in the Ozyorsk city cemetery.

On November 15, 2018, at a meeting of the Ozyorsk Council of Deputies, the local historian Nikolai Semenovich Piryazev was awarded the title of Honorary Citizen of the Ozyory City District (posthumous). The award found a hero

1. “Drops of Russian Glory: Heroic Past of the Ozyorsk Territory” ^[2] (the book was written in collaboration with his father, Semyon Ivanovich Piryazev).
2. “Marshal brought Ozerskaya Zemlya” ^[3] - a book about the Marshal of the armored forces , twice Hero of the Soviet Union Mikhail Efimovich Katukov .
3. “Singer of the Prioksky Territory” ^[4] - short stories about the Russian writer Dmitry Vasilievich Grigorovich .
4. "Gray-haired old Sennitskaya . " ^[five]
5. School textbook on local history "Ozersky Krai" . ^[6]
6. Scheme of the city of Ozyory and the Ozyorsk district . ^[7]
7. The memory book of the Ozyorsk municipal district of the Moscow region ^[8] - N. S. Piryazev - one of the compilers and editors of the first and second supplemented editions.
8. 8. On January 24, 2019, the book “Drops of Russian Glory: Heroic Past of the Ozersky Territory” was reprinted due to the small circulation of the first book. http://ya-kraeved.ru/pereizdanie-knigi-ns-piryazeva/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=_XhilECXviA

Also N. S. Piryazev is the author and co-author of many articles and brochures on local history .

Nikolai Semenovich participated in the filming of the documentary “In the Land of Mirror Lakes” (director Vladimir Kononenko, “Cathedral-film”, 2006). Watching the film makes it possible to see in what manner Nikolai Semyonovich conducted his excursions, to listen to the legends and stories from the past of the Ozyorsk Territory from his lips.

N. S. Piryazev is a co-author of the script for the documentary film "The Grigorovich Trail" (inaccessible link) , shot by an ozersky photographer and local historian Maxim Muromsky.

In 2012, the widow of Nikolai Semenovich Lidiya Nikolaevna Piryazeva transferred the personal archive of N. S. Piryazev to the archive of the Ozyorsk municipal district in the form of folders with documents and photographs, as well as digital recording media.

• Last interview with N. S. Piryazev, reprint in the newspaper Zarya (June 4, 2009 No. 22 (11274)) in honor of the anniversary of death
• A note on the archive of N. S. Piryazev
• The plot of the Ozersky cable television “Recollection of N. S. Piryazev” (2009)
• The plot of the Ozersky cable television archive N. Piryazeva (2012)
• Documentary film "The Grigorovich Trail" on the site of the Ozyorsk Palace of Culture (inaccessible link)
• Grigorovich’s Trail on YouTube