MEMORY OF GENERATIONS
Dear friends!
In the year of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders and on the eve of Victory Day on May 9, we begin publishing stories and memoirs of BNTU workers about their heroic relatives who made a significant contribution to the approach of Victory during the Great Patriotic War. For four long years, our people have been marching towards a Great Victory. We got it at a high price. But the memory of that war is timeless. Let's remember together those difficult war years, the exploits of front-line soldiers, partisans and underground fighters on the battlefields, and selfless work in the rear in the name of Victory.
We begin the story with the memoirs of Vladimir Fedorovich Zverev, professor of the Department of "Building Structures named after T.M.Petsold" of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, about his father Fyodor Pavlovich Zverev, who worked for many years at the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute (BPI) after the war.
FYODOR PAVLOVICH ZVEREV
Born in October 1918 in the village of Novo-Alexandrovskaya in the Kuban, he graduated from high school in Moscow.
After graduating from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1941, he worked as an architect at the GSPI of the USSR People's Commissariat of Armaments. In the autumn of 1941, he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Red Army and, after studying at the Command Engineering Faculty of the Military Engineering Academy, as a brigade engineer of the 28th separate brigade, participated in a raid by the brigade's equestrian ski group behind enemy lines in the partisan areas of the Bryansk and Sumy regions. From March 1943 until the end of the Great Patriotic War, he served in the 65th Army, took part in operations on the Kursk Bulge, in the liberation of Belarus (mountains. Osipovichi, Baranovichi, Slonim, Ruzhany, Pruzhany), Polish lands and ends the war at Rostock in the Baltic with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Soviet Army, in the engineering units of the SS and KBVO. In 1954, he was transferred to teaching at the military department of the BPI. Due to the deterioration of his health, he resigned in 1960 and was transferred to a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture at the BPI Faculty of Fine Arts. Later, he was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture.
Then Fyodor Pavlovich worked at the Department of Architecture of Industrial Buildings. F.P.Zverev's scientific and pedagogical activity at the BPI is related to the training of civil engineering personnel. At the same time, he conducted extensive research work. From 1962 to 1970, he headed and personally participated in research and development on the problems of mechanization and automation of the use of radioactive sources in medicine. On this issue, he has 40 scientific papers and two copyright certificates for inventions, according to which semi-automatic protective lines (PZL) were developed and implemented in the Scientific Research Institute of the BSSR Ministry of Health, as well as in the cities of Grodno, Kiev, Moscow.
Since 1969, he has conducted significant research work on higher education problems according to the coordination plan of the USSR Ministry of Higher Education. He has published more than 30 scientific papers on these issues.
Fyodor Pavlovich also actively participated in public life. He was a member of the section "Architecture and Construction", the Scientific and Methodological Council of the Ministry of Higher Education of the BSSR, the NUP section at the Council of Rectors of Minsk and a number of scientific and methodological commissions. He was a member of the Council of War Veterans of the 65th Army, the Sovetsky district of Minsk, chairman of the headquarters of the Komsomol BPI campaigns in places of revolutionary, military and labor glory of the Soviet people, a member of the Central and Belarusian Republican headquarters campaigns.
He was elected secretary of the Party organization of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and a member of the Party Bureau of the Faculty of Architecture.
F.P. Zverev was awarded six orders and twelve medals of the USSR, one order and four medals of the People's Republic of Poland, as well as many awards from the Soviet Committee of War Veterans, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR, the Ministry of Higher Education of the BSSR, the Central Committee of the Komsomol, the Central Committee of the Komsomol, etc.
Over the years of his scientific and pedagogical work at BPI, F.P.Zverev gained respect from the faculty, students and graduates of the Institute. Currently, many thousands of BPI graduates who have completed architectural training under the guidance of F.P.Zverev are successfully working in design organizations in Belarus and abroad.
Zvereva V.F.
⭐️ SHIROKIY TIT ERMOLAEVICH
From the memories of my grandfather– a participant in the Great Patriotic War
My grandfather, Shirokiy Tit Ermolaevich, was born in 1901 in the village of Mikhalevo, Bobruisk district, Mogilev region. Republic of Belarus. As a child, he graduated from several classes at the local parish school, followed by the Civil War and service in the Red Army.
Wide i.e. in the center
After the end of the civil war, like other villagers, he and his parents received a plot of land of several hectares (2-3 hectares) and built a house in the mid-20s of the twentieth century.
My grandfather's house on the farm D. Mikhalevo
In 1926, my grandfather married my grandmother, Olga Leontievna Shirokaya, born in 1905, who lives in the same village.
Judging by the stories of the villagers, grandfather was very hardworking, savvy and reasonable. He was distinguished by his restraint, fairness and hard work, for which he was respected by the villagers. Agriculture was skilful and the family lived relatively soundly. During the collectivization of agriculture in the country, grandfather donated a horse, most of the land, and all the equipment to the collective farm and joined the collective farm. After some time, the villagers elected grandpa foreman, and then chairman of the collective farm, where he worked until the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War in 1941. At that time, collective farms were small in size (one or two villages). The collective farm "7th Congress of Soviets", which was headed by Tit Ermolaevich, consisted of three settlements (one of them farm-type) and had about 80 yards with a total population of about 400 people.
By this time, Grandfather's health was not good. During the Civil War, he contracted sciatica in his legs and was therefore relieved of military duty by the time of the Patriotic War (1941).
After the liberation of the village from the Germans, grandfather was again appointed chairman of the collective farm, but, guided by his patriotic duty, he volunteered for the front. Four minor children (from 2 to 14 years old) remained at home in the care of their grandmother.
My grandmother coped with the responsibility assigned to her with honor. She not only raised her children in difficult post-war conditions, but also raised them to be worthy citizens of her country. Three of them received higher education, two received government awards (medals). The youngest (my father), Gennady Shirokiy Titovich, successfully graduated from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute in 1965 and worked at the Institute (BPI, BGPA and BNTU) in various positions (head) for almost his entire life, until 2022. post-graduate student, lecturer, associate professor, professor, secretary of the party organization, dean of the faculties of evening, construction and technological, general technical and pre-university training). He has published more than a dozen textbooks with the Stamp of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, including two manuals in the Russian Federation. Retired from the position of professor, Honorary veteran of labor.
At the front, my grandfather served as a private, a rifleman in the 137th Infantry Division. He died in Poland in the autumn (11/19/1944) in TPPG-2691 and was buried inWulka-Lubemska, Warsaw Voivodeship, along with other colleagues. Then, in 1953, he was reburied at the memorial cemetery in Pultuska. Currently, a commemorative tombstone is installed on the grave.
Grandfather's name was included in the list of the second edition of the book "Memory", and also immortalized on the portal "Memory of the People" of the Military-Patriotic Park of Culture and Recreation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation "Patriot".
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Management at BNTU Vainilovich Ella Gennadievna
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VITKOVSKY GRIGORY ANTONOVICH
Grigory Antonovich Vitkovsky, a famous Belarusian graphic artist, one of the founders of the technique of classical etched etching in Belarus, was born on August 25, 1923 in Minsk. Here, in the studio of fine art, for the first time he picked up a pencil and paints.
The young man really wanted to study, but the terrible year 1941 decided the fate of Grigory Vitkovsky and his contemporaries in its own way. There were many years of the Great Patriotic War. In the ranks of the Red Army, he fought on the Western Front and in the Far East, and only returned to his native Minsk in 1947.
From July 6, 1944, as part of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Corporal Vitkovsky G. A. participated in the East Prussian strategic Operation, in the battles for the capture of Konigsberg, then participated in the Manchurian offensive operation as part of the troops of the Trans-Baikal Front, the war with Japan, the capture of Port Arthur, the defense of the Port Arthur naval base 1945-1947.
Minsk was still in ruins, there was not enough housing, it was cold and hungry. However, despite this, art was reviving. In 1947, Grigory Antonovich returned to Minsk and entered the Minsk Art College. In the uncomfortable classrooms of the art school, former soldiers stood at easels. After graduating from college, he entered the graphics department of the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute, where, among other things, he studied the technical features of graphic art. Grigory Antonovich graduated from the Institute in 1959 under the guidance of teachers P. Lyubomudrov and S. Gerus. After graduation, Grigory Antonovich works in a publishing house: he designs books, makes drawings for magazines. Thus, illustrations for the collection of short stories by M. Lynkov (1966) are born.
The war experienced before his eyes manifested itself in different periods of the artist's creative career. The burnt soul of the Great Patriotic War was reflected in the etchings "Sorrow" and "June 1941" (1967)
Grigory Vitkovsky dedicated a colorful lithograph "Heroes of the Minsk underground" (1985) to the Minsk underground. Documentarily authentic works of the late creative period: "The Hour of reckoning is approaching", "The voice of the party underground", "Torches under Kozyrev".
