Polevkov, Nikolai Vasilievich

Born in the family of Vasily Nikitovich and Elena Arkhipovna Polevkovs. His father Vasily Nikitovich during the period of general collectivization for a long time did not want to join the collective farm and part with the horse. In 1937 this was remembered and he was repressed and rehabilitated only ten years later, in 1947. The mother had one to raise four children. His childhood fell on the years of World War II. In 1943, the invaders tried to drive him to Germany along with other peers. A clever boy fled along the road, found partisans in the forest and stayed in the detachment for nine months, until the liberation of the Mogilev region in June 1944. After graduating from the Zhevan seven-year school in 1946, he entered courses at the Pervomaisk Machine-and-Tractor Station (MTS). After graduating from the courses, he began to work as a fitter for the repair of the tractor fleet in this organization. In 1951 he was drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and served on Sakhalin. Returning to his village, he decided to study further and graduated in 1954 from the Mogilev School of Agricultural Mechanization No. 19 (the village of Buinichi of the Mogilev Region), where he received the specialty of a machine operator with a wide profile. After graduation, he worked as a tractor driver at the Gonchanskoye peat enterprise in the Klichevsky district of the Mogilev region. He took part in the drainage of swamps and industrial extraction of peat. In 1959 he moved to Minsk, where he began to work in the specialized trust No. 15 "Spetsstroymehanizatsiya" of the Ministry of Construction of Belarus for the construction of bridges and power lines in various regions and regions of the republic. Then he mastered the profession of a pile driver (copra) and took an active part in large construction projects in various cities of Belarus - at the construction of the Novopolotsk and Mozyr oil refineries, the Brest carpet factory, the Grodno Azot, and the Gomselmash buildings. In 1969 he went to work in a specialized department of mechanization No. 96 (SUM-96). This was the first construction organization in the USSR that specialized in arranging special pile foundations. In the 1970s, N.V. Polevkov worked hard on the construction of schools and residential buildings, bridges and industrial buildings in the city of Minsk. Twenty years after the end of the seven-year school, I went to evening school, then I went to study in the correspondence department of the Minsk Architectural and Construction College, which he graduated in 1974. Then he led a team of builders-copiers. At the head of this brigade, he continued to work on the construction of civil, transport and socio-cultural facilities. On June 16, 1977, he was entrusted with laying the first pile in the foundation of the first station, Chelyuskintsev Park. In total, over the years of the construction of the subway, his team participated in the laying of four hundred piles. Later he was appointed a foreman and before retiring he worked at SUM-96, actively transferring his wealth of experience to young builders. In 1996 he went on a well-deserved rest. He lives in Minsk and takes an active part in the work of the veteran organization of the city. His son Andrei followed in his father's footsteps and became a leading civil engineer at the design institute.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 9, 1986, for outstanding production achievements, early fulfillment of the tasks of the eleventh five-year plan for the construction of industrial, social and cultural facilities, residential buildings and labor heroism, Nikolay Polevkov was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor with the award of the Order of Lenin and the golden Sickle and Hammer medals.

• Medal "Hammer and Sickle" (07/09/1986)
• Order of Lenin (07/09/1986)
• Order of the October Revolution (03/19/1981)
• Order of the Badge of Honor (04/05/1971)
• Order of Labor Glory 3rd degree (04/21/1975)
• awarded with medals

• Polevkov, Nikolai Vasilievich (Russian) . Site " Heroes of the country ".
• Minsker for all time: honorary citizen - about the life of his native city from the height of a century
• For his hard work , Minsk Courier, 03/20/2013
• The head of the team that scored the first pile on the construction of the Minsk metro - about work and love for hats