Granin, Boris Mitrofanovich

Boris Mitrofanovich Granin was born on March 12, 1910 in the village of Mikhailovskaya in the Khopersky District of the Region Donskoy Troops (now the Volgograd Region ) in the family of Cossack Troops Lieutenant Colonel Merinof Mitrofan Ilyich, a nobleman, and a philistine Maria Mikhailovna. (To conclude such a marriage, it was necessary the permission of the Emperor, whom they had been waiting for several years).

Father went missing in 1914 during the Civil War.

Boris Mitrofanovich in his youth moved to Gzhel , where he got a job. To hide his noble name (Merinov), he fictitiously married a girl with the name Granin (Later the family hid his noble origin). ^[one]

He entered the Sevastopol Naval College of Coast Defense, successfully graduated from it. Married for the second time to Maria Nikolaevna. Appointed commander of Pervomaisky Fort , part of the Kronstadt defense system.

He took a very active part in the Soviet-Finnish war . I gathered a volunteer squad of paratroopers. Then he commanded a battalion of skier paratroopers. In the forty-degree frost, the Gulf of Finland passed with him on ice and conducted a combat raid on the enemy rear.

In 1940 , after the signing of the Moscow Peace Treaty, he went to Kronstadt.

Well-established in the Finnish campaign, Granin was transferred to the Hanko Peninsula (Gangut) , rented from the Finns, together with the Ezel and Ago Islands to ensure security of entry into the Gulf of Finland . He was appointed commander of the coastal artillery defense division with the rank of captain with the Order of the Red Banner for the Finnish War. With the outbreak of war, his wife and children were sent to Leningrad, and he remained to serve in Hanko.

By order of the defense commander, Hanko Kabanov , an amphibious detachment was created led by Granin. The paratroopers called themselves "the children of Captain Granin." ^[2] To expand the defense of Hanko, the Graninians captured 19 islands. Granin led the detachment independently, reporting on each planned operation to the defense commander, convincing him of the justification of the risk. All these operations ended in success.

During the evacuation of Hanko, Boris Mitrofanovich and his scouts were instructed to leave the base last, laying several minutes. When they approached the pier all the ships were already gone. Then the returning destroyer took them. On the way to Leningrad, the ship was blown up by a mine. Many died. Granin and his friend Sorokin kept afloat for a long time on a piece of furniture in cold water. After a while, they were picked up by a torpedo boat heading to the island of Hogland .

After Hanko, his great-grandfather came to Leningrad as the commander of the railway artillery brigade. When breaking the blockade, this connection forced the Neva . During the fighting near Leningrad, there were big losses.

Then the brigade was transferred to Klaipeda . The division under the command of Granin, cut off by a bombing strike, without communication (they were already considered dead), repelled the German tank attack, allowing to liquidate the breakthrough without losses (?) In the division. Baghramyan , commander of the 1st Baltic Front, personally came to reward, presenting all personnel for awards. Granin could be introduced to the title of Hero , in the end he received the Order of Nakhimov, II degree.

After the war, Boris Mitrofanovich was transferred to Libau , appointed head of the railway brigade, given the rank of colonel. There he was elected a deputy of the city council.

In the summer of 1950 , Boris Mitrofanovich was appointed head of the military garrison on Russky Island in the Far East . After 3 years, he was transferred to Vladivostok as deputy commander of coastal defense. He entered the academy, as he held the general position, but he needed an academy to get the title. He graduated from the Academy, but suddenly had a heart attack.

He decides to end his military service and move to the Black Sea , where he graduated from college in his youth, choosing Adler to settle. He worked as the head of the rescue station.

He lived in the city center, in the place where the New Age is now.

He died in 1963 . He was buried in the old Adler cemetery above the gas station . Grave from the mass grave of fallen soldiers to the left along the beaten path. Monument with a star, chains and an anchor.

• 1940 Order of the Red Banner ^[3]
• 01/01/1942 Order of the Red Banner
• 06/08/1943 Medal "For the Defense of Leningrad"
• 10/27/1943 Order of the Patriotic War II degree
• 02/03/1944 Order of the Patriotic War I degree
• 07/08/1944 Order of the Red Banner
• 09/10/1944 Medal "For Military Merit"
• 04/07/1945 Order of Nakhimov II degree
• 09/17/1945 Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
• 11/10/1945 Order of the Red Star

• Memory of the people
• Guard Colonel Granin Boris Mitrofanovich on the History of Sochi
• In memory of the hero on the history of Sochi
• Rudny Vladimir , Children of Captain Granin, a small story, Moscow "Children's Literature", 1976
• Gangutians
• Gangut 1941