Okinin, Boris Stepanovich

Born in 1912 in the village of Lychno, Ustyuzhensky District, Vologda Region

From 1924 to 1929 he studied at secondary school No. 1 of Cherepovets. After graduating from a river technical school, he worked at the Nevsky Shipyard in Leningrad.

World War II

From the first days of the war, Boris tried to go to the front, but he was not taken: the position held by Okinin was subject to reservation.

In August 1941, Okinin volunteered for a partisan detachment, in the first months of the war he was behind enemy lines in the vicinity of the village of Vyritsa, Leningrad Region.

On December 15, 1941, when the detachment, returning to the base, came across punishers, Okinin, covering up the partisans' withdrawal while firing from a light machine gun, died. His body was disfigured. Okinin was buried at the place of death, in a clearing in the forest. He was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor .

After the War

After the war, comrades in the detachment and the factory erected a monument to the deceased. In October 1979, the new street of Cherepovets (before this - the 5th line) in the area of ​​the FMK was named after the partisan Okinin.

• Medal "For Courage" posthumously.

• At the place of death and subsequent burial, a commemorative stele was installed. In the 90s of the twentieth century, the burial place was lost in the archives, in 2018 it was discovered by search engines.
• The name of the partisan named the street in Cherepovets

• Boris Stepanovich Okinin (1912-1941)
• The lost grave of a WWII soldier from Ustyuzhensky district was found in the Leningrad region
• Partinan Okinin Street in the Victory Streets project. (VIDEO)

• Ustyuzhna: essays on the history of the city and the region / P. A. Kolesnikov . - Arkhangelsk: North-West Book Publishing House, 1979. - S. 113
• Ustyuzhna: historical and literary almanac / M.A. Beznin. - Vologda, 1995 .-- S. 74 (Issue 3)