District Executive Committee building. Birobidzhan. 1930s
Photo: State Archive of the Jewish Autonomous Region
January 5, 1951
The X city party conference (12+) was held in Birobidzhan, during which a resolution was adopted “On the state and measures to improve organizational-party and party-political work in the city party organization.”
It noted that the organization of party education in party organizations has improved, the bulk of communists are covered in various forms of party education. The city has created 70 political schools, 43 circles for studying the history of the CPSU(b), 10 advanced circles, two theoretical seminars, a city party school, an evening university of Marxism-Leninism and five permanent seminars for propagandists and consultants. 305 people, including 112 non-party members, independently study the works of the classics of Marxism-Leninism, 62 communists study by correspondence in various educational institutions, more than 100 people study in secondary schools.
The conference demanded that party organizations provide political education to all communists.
January 5, 1963
The Bureau of the Regional Committee of the CPSU adopted a resolution on the introduction, from the second half of the 1962/63 academic year, in the graduating classes of secondary schools and in the senior years of secondary specialized educational institutions, of studying a new academic subject – social studies and recommended that party committees and public education authorities involve the most trained teachers in teaching this subject. To provide them with practical assistance in raising their ideological and theoretical level, it was decided to organize a permanent seminar for them at the House of Political Education.
January 5, 1923
On this day, Nikolai Dmitrievich Navolochkin was born – our fellow countryman, a famous Far Eastern writer, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR.
The future writer was born in the village of Nikolaevka, Jewish Autonomous Region, not far from the city of Khabarovsk.
In 1941, shortly after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the army. In the reserve regiment he took a radio operator course. At the end of 1942, he was enlisted in the 148th separate communications company of the 193rd Infantry Division.
Writer Nikolai Dmitrievich Navolochkin. Photo: Photo: Regional Library
Nikolai Dmitrievich took part in the Battle of Kursk, crossed the rivers – Desna, Sozha, Dnieper, Western Bug, and liberated Belarus.
In March 1943, during a battle in the village of Kochetovka, Kursk Region, radio operator Nikolai Navolochkin called fire on tanks that burst into the courtyard of the house where the radio was located, and knocked out one of the tanks. For his heroism in the battle, N.D. Navolochkin was awarded the Order of the Red Star.
With his division he reached Poland. Was wounded. I celebrated Victory Day in Novosibirsk.
After the war, Nikolai Dmitrievich graduated from the history department of the Khabarovsk Pedagogical Institute.
The first book (it was a collection of poems) was published in 1953.
In 1954, Nikolai Dmitrievich Navolochkin became a member of the USSR Writers' Union.
For several years he was the editor-in-chief of the Far East magazine (16+).
During his life, N. D. Navolochkin was awarded awards, titles and prizes:
- Prize of the Governor of the Khabarovsk Territory in the field of literature and art for the book “On Special Assignments” (12+), 1997;
- Order of the Red Star;
- medal “For Military Merit”;
- medal “For Victory over Germany”;
- medal “Brotherhood in Arms” (Poland);
- medal “For Valiant Labor”;
- medal “For the development of virgin lands”;
- honorary badge of the Government of the Khabarovsk Territory “For Merit” named after N. N. Muravyov-Amursky, 2008;
- title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Khabarovsk”, May 22, 1995 and others.
The literary heritage of Nikolai Navolochkin is varied. He is the author of prose books and collections of poetry; his credits include satirical and humorous science fiction and historical works. He wrote for adults and children.
On September 20, 2013, N.D. Navolochkin passed away.
Two Far Eastern libraries bear the name of the writer: the Nikolaev village library in the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Khabarovsk regional children's library.
January 5, 1941
The “Birobidzhan Star” (12+) published an essay “Smidovichi District of the Jewish Autonomous Region.” This essay provides answers to the following questions: “How did the Smidovichi district develop?”, “How did industry, railway transport, agriculture, schools and hospitals grow in it?” In the extensive material you can find information about the geography, forests and water areas of the region, about the improvement of life, and culture in the Smidovichi region. A separate section of the essay is devoted to the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition, at which in 1940 the Smidovichi district very impressively presented its achievements.
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