Nayakshin, Kuzma Yakovlevich

Born in the family of a poor peasant s. Kara-Elga of the Aktanyshsky volost of the Menzelinsky district (now Zainsky district ) of the Ufa province .

In 1913 he graduated from a two-year school. From 1914 to 1916 he studied at the Menzelinsky Agricultural College.

I tried many professions (upholstery furniture, shoemaker, singer in the choir). The beginning of the October Revolution coincided with his birthday, which was perceived by him as a sign from above. He joined the ranks of the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army , participated in the civil war , in the fight against Komuch and Kolchak ^[3] . In July 1919, he was shell-shocked in battles with Kolchakites .

At the end of November 1917 he was elected a member of the Aktash volost land committee, where he worked as secretary.

Since January 1919 - member of the CPSU . C 1921 - Head political enlightenment in Naberezhnye Chelny ^[4] .

In May 1925, he was seconded to the Urals , where from 1924 to 1925 he worked as head of the Verkhne-Kamsky , and from 1925 to 1926 - Kurgan okrugpolitprosvet.

During collectivization, he was sent by party bodies to the Volga villages as an agitator . Participated in the suppression of peasant unrest. The family considered him dead several times. In one of the villages there is a monument, where on the tablet among the dead at the hands of the fists, you can read his name ^[5] .

In August 1926 he moved to Perm , where he worked as a teacher of social and political disciplines of the pedagogical college. In 1927, externally passed final exams for the course of the socio-economic department of the pedagogical faculty of Perm University .

From 1928 to 1929 - Head of the Perm Pedagogical College.

Since January 1931 - deputy. Director (Vice-Rector) for the academic part of Perm University and the Perm Pedagogical Institute ( S. A. Stoychev at that time was the rector of both universities). On September 15, 1931, the rector S. A. Stoychev appointed V. A. Beklemishev to the post of the head of the educational department of the university; K. Ya. Nayakshin remained the head of the educational part of the pedagogical institute ^[6] .

In 1932 he was appointed in Samara to the position of Deputy Director for the scientific and educational part of the Middle Volga Pedagogical Institute . In 1933 he was the director of the Research Institute of Pedagogy and at the same time deputy head of the kraiono. In 1934 - Deputy Director for Academic Affairs of the Samara Agricultural Institute . In 1937, he was a researcher and head of the history cabinet of the Institute for Advanced Teachers ^[7] .

From 1941 to 1945 he participated in the Great Patriotic War (details - in his military diary ^[5] ) ^[8] . Here he made friends with Ilya Erenburg , Alexei Tolstoy , Evgeny Petrov , Vyacheslav Shishkov . He worked as deputy chief of the political department of the rifle division, and then as a lecturer in the political department of the army. He had to participate in military operations on the defense of Moscow ^[3] . Participated in the Battle of Kursk . With battles he marched to the western border of the USSR , liberated Poland .

He finished the war in Berlin and was sent to the post of commandant of Magdeburg) ^[8] .

In 1946 he worked as a senior lecturer at the Kuibyshev Pedagogical Institute at the Department of History of the USSR.

Since 1947 - Senior Lecturer and Head. Department of the Regional Party School (Higher Party School).

Since September 1, 1960 - head of the Department of History of the CPSU of the Kuibyshev (industrial) Polytechnic Institute , where he worked until 1980. In 1964 he was approved as a professor.

In 1977 he became an honorary citizen of the city of Kuibyshev ^[9] .

In 1931 he published the book "Essays on the methodology of communist education in the school of the Federal Law School (Method of Projects and Social Studies in the Federal Law School)" ^[4] .

In the 1930s, he prepared for defense a dissertation related to the history of ancient Rome . During its development, he learned Latin to read originals without translations. The repressions of 1937 interrupted his scientific activity. In 1979, under his editorship, the collection Samara Sparks was published. They laid the foundation for the scientific development of the history of the Middle Volga , Kuibyshev region ; He is the author of many scientific works.

His book “Formation: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov-Lenin. Formation of the Qualities of a Professional Marxist Revolutionary” (1982) [1] [2] has been translated into many foreign languages.

Under his leadership, defended more than 20 master's theses ^[3] .

He owns 70 publications, including 12 monographs and 6 documentary collections. He also prepared a number of textbooks and teaching aids on the history of the Samara Territory ^[7] .

For many years he headed the Presidium of the Kuibyshev Regional Branch of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture .

On his initiative, many historical monuments in Samara and the region were marked with plaques ^[10] .

The fees for his work were transferred to the Peace Fund ^[8] .

• Medal "For Courage" (February 22, 1942).
• Order of the Red Star .
• Order of the October Revolution .
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor .

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• Nayakshin Kuzma Yakovlevich // Museum of the History of the Samara Territory.
• Nayakshin Kuzma Yakovlevich - Professor of the Kuibyshev Order of the Red Banner of Labor of the Polytechnic Institute named after V.V. Kuybysheva, candidate of historical sciences, local historian (1900-1982) // Central State Archive of the Samara Region.