Prikazchikov Mihail Nikolaevich
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I would like to tell you about my grandgrandfather Prikazchikov Mihail Nikolaevich, after whom I was named.
My grandgrandfather was born on the 4th of November of 1912 in Balahna in a family of a cobbler.
He was the eldest son in a family considered to be really big at that time - there were ten children , but only seven of them stayed alive. When my grandfather was 12, his father was deprived of his business. His shop was confiscated and his workshop was closed and his children were made to become the deprived.
"Like father like son". Because of their father the children couldn't continue their education. So they were not able to go to school. My grandfather's mother had to send the eldest children to her father to Gorodets. And my grandfather was able to study there.
On his return to Balahna my grandfather became a worker at Nizhniy Novgorod Hydroelectric Power Station, which had been opened, and he also entered the working youth school.
While working he dreamed of getting higher education, he worked hard to prepare for the exams and his wish came true. In 1939 he became a student of Moscow State University.
He was at home having a holiday when the events of 1941 broke out and he had to choose between studying and fighting the enemy. He couldn't stay inactive and joined the soviet army at once to proyect his native land.
Русская версия Приказчиков Михаил Николаевич
