Victor Kuritsyn Biography

In Smolensk, they offer to erect a monument to the Soviet policeman Kuritsyn will meet at the clock. In Smolensk, they offer a monument to the Soviet policeman Kuritsyn Society, on March 12, a bronze sculpture according to the plan of the initiators should appear “under the clock”, at the intersection of Bolshaya Sovetskaya and Lenin. It was in this place in the distant year that Victoric Kuritsyn captured militaryman Oleg Knorring: the entire Soviet Union flew around the picture in the Red Star and became one of the symbols of the liberated Smolensk.

From the certificate of the police museum: “On September 25, the day after the liberation of Smolensk from the Nazis, on the corner of Bolshaya Sovetskaya Street, near the house with the famous hours, the policeman Kuritsyn took his post. Returning to his hometown after liberation, Smolyans, not having the opportunity to contact relatives and relatives due to the lack of official connection, in search of relatives, comrades and colleagues, first of all, they turned to the representative of the authorities - the postal policeman.

For a long time, in addition to the performance of the main duties, the senior lieutenant of the police, Kuritsyn Viktorin Dmitrievich, at the request of citizens, passed letters and notes with information for loved ones or comrades. Kindness, responsiveness and sincere desire of Victor Dmitrievich helped people allowed many Smolensk families to reunite after the liberation of their native land.

Over time, the Smolyans are so accustomed to leaving letters and notes to Kuritsyn to the posture policeman that he, in his kindness, was forced to sew additional internal pockets to the overcoat. ” But, frankly, I don’t know how the grandfather himself reacted to this, ”the grandson of Victor Kuritsyn Evgeny tells me. My older brother told how one day he asked him to put on a rewards with awards, and he flatly refused.

In the end he put on. But only for the photograph - after the picture was taken, I immediately took off ... ”We are sitting with Eugene in a coffee shop on Lenin Street. In large panoramic windows you can see how Smolyans hurry from work: Friday, evening. After meters, the same “house with a clock”, near which Kuritsyn is captured. Evgeny did not go in the footsteps of his famous grandfather - he graduated from the energy institute, works in the field of information technology.

The memory of grandfather keeps carefully and with special trepidation. Quiz Kuritsyn did not become exactly 20 years ago. He lived a long life - 88 years. And, apparently, very bright and rich. The figure of Kuritsyn is much more complicated than it is written and talked about recently. I personally doubt it personally, ”says Eugene. In addition, during the war he participated in the partisan movement.

Aunt told how people were led to identification directly to the apartment. It was after liberation, when it was necessary to determine whether it was “your” in front of you or “alien”. How was it really? And you will open the "work path" of the 10ths, everything is very well described there. " Our newspaper only in September wrote about Kuritsyn twice: first in passing, in a note about the exploits of the police of Smolensk during the war years.

And after some time, the publication devoted a separate text to Kuritsyn. The photocor of the “Working Work” Evgeny Burak even made a retrospective: after many years, Victorina Dmitrievich again took off against the backdrop of the famous watches. This photo is also stored with trepidation in the Kuritsyn family. From the note by Mikhail Levitin, the “Work Path” of September 24: “The senior lieutenant Kuritsyn was appointed to the central post, which extended from the drama theater to the Nikolsky Gate.

Squeezing the rifle tightly, Viktorin Dmitrievich passed among the ruins of Smolensk mined and lit by the enemy. The deserted city was burning. All around the crank is thick poisonous smoke. On the morning of September 26, the Gazik arrived from Smirnov Square. Three came out of it. Introduced themselves as military correspondents. In a high, careful thoughtful look, Victorin Dmitrievich immediately recognized the author of Vasily Terkin.

Together with A. Tvardovsky, the writer E. Vorobyov and the photo correspondent of the Red Star O. was the last one and captured a policeman under a warped case from a clock with frightening eye sockets. And in the essay about these first days of liberation, he spoke about the policeman Kuritsyn E. Maybe even then, among the ruins and ash, he introduced himself to Victorin Dmitrievich today's peaceful and flowering city with a clock counting peaceful life.

Kuritsyn originally from the Ivanovo region. In the police served from the year. From that unforgettable on September 25, he became a Smolyan.

Together with his comrades at work, Viktorin Dmitrievich did everything so that the work of Soviet people was calm. For selfless service, Major V. Kuritsyn has eleven government awards, including the Order of the Red Banner and Red Star. Having retired, Victorin Dmitrievich steps up for a peaceful post. He becomes an archivist. Every morning, long before the start of the working day, he hurries to the regional state archive.

In familiar places: past the "clock", down the Bolshaya Sovetskaya. Drummer of communist labor, V.Kuritsyn for his indefatigable energy enjoys the love and respect of employees. Thousands of people are grateful to him, to whom he helped his modest business. After all, a lot of effort and energy should sometimes be spent in order to help restore the lost documents, find loved ones, confirm the experience, send the necessary archival certificates.

Such is he always - kind and responsive, communist Viktorin Dmitrievich Kuritsyn. " In the police museum, which is located in the cultural center of the Internal Affairs Directorate, Kuritsyn is one of those figures on which the narrative is built on the role of the police during the Great Patriotic War. Under glass is not only the “same” photograph, but also the overcoat of the famous employee.

It is natural that the figure will decorate Lenin Street: “Smolensk Arbat” is beautiful from an architectural point of view, but completely “deserted” in terms of monuments. The new one will become not only a landmark, but also “tell” the Smolyans and guests of the city another good story. And if in a more official language, then "the figure of a guide policeman, the time of the Great Patriotic War, cast in bronze, will become a symbol of the civilian feat of the police officer in assisting many Smolensk families." The monument, according to the plan of the initiative group, should open on November 10.