Vyacheslav Simonov - Remember this! Don’t let it sink into oblivion! Second edition. The life and death of the Pioneer Base «Oceanrybflot»

I mean the electronic version of your book. To keep the memory of the sailors, and “did not fall into oblivion,” please help “patch the gap” in the archive of the history of PBORF. Agree that without stories about the very first captains of the late 40s of the last century, the history of the base will not be quite real. I send you the surviving evidence of the modest merits of A. A. Volodin at that harsh time. I hope that we will be able, speaking in the sea language, to start a “patch” on the hole that happened at the Ship of Historic Memory of PBORF, which Captain A. Volodin gave the last thirty years of his life.

With a deep respect for you, Victor.”

Naturally, I immediately, having learned the address of Victor, sent him his copy of the book. And I received a reply of this content:

“Dear Vyacheslav Fedorovich! Received your wonderful book, why immensely happy and eternally grateful for such a gorgeous gift. To have a book about my small homeland, about the port and the city in which he was born and raised 70 years ago, is worth a lot. I think that if my father had seen it, I would certainly have supported me in this assessment. Thank you so much for creating it! Victor Volodin, Kolpino, Leningrad region.”

Agree that such a letter warms the soul of the author and makes more serious work on the material. That’s why I started with Victor to “plant a patch on the hole at the Ship of Historical Memory of PBORF”, which the Knight of the Order of Glory, the honored Captain Volodin Alexey Artemyevich gave the last thirty years of his life.

Victor sent a picture of his father. In 1939, Alexey Artemyevich graduated from the course of river-sea navigations in the city of Astrakhan. Until the war, he was walking across the Caspian Sea as an assistant captain on the Tobolsk fishing seiner. On June 27, 1941, he was drafted into the active army by the district military enlistment office in the village of Ukryanya.

1412 days and nights brought Victory closer in the mother – infantry ordinary machine gunner. He was wounded three times. The fourth year of the war ended on the Kurland Peninsula in the 8th separate Guards Mitava Liaison Battalion of the First Rifle Corps. He was awarded the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree and the Medal for Victory over Germany. After the war, he was recruited to the Koenigsberg region. On April 27, 1946 (as recorded in the workbook) Alexei Volodin was hired in the Neukuhrevsky Fish Factory as captain of a motorcycle boat. As soon as other minesweepers were received, he was appointed for an MRT – “Fearless”, onboard which was committed a lot of labor feats, which, perhaps, you will not remember. In 1947, Alexey Artemyevich was nominated by the base’s workers and Pioneersk residents as deputies of the Kaliningrad Regional Council of Deputies.

Here is a preserved view of the candidate Volodin.

Candidate for deputies of the Kaliningrad Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies

for Pioneer constituency No. 63.

The famous fisherman Alexey Artemyevich Volodin was born in 1914 in the village of Karalat, Kamyzyak district, Astrakhan region, in the family of a fisherman. As a 13-year-old boy, he began working as a fisherman in the fishing collective “Memory of Kuibyshev” in his homeland. Since then, he has not parted with his profession.

In 1939 he was appointed captain on the ship of the fishing collective “Memory of Kuibyshev” and then as captain of the sea fishing in the city of Astrakhan, where he worked until the summer of 1941. During the Great Patriotic War, Alexey Artemyevich was in the ranks of the active Army. He participated in the liberation of Donbas, the Crimean Peninsula, the Baltic republics. Awarded the “Order of Glory” of the Third Class and the “Medal for Victory over Germany”.

In 1946 he enlisted in the Baltgosrybtrest and was appointed to Pioneer fishery as captain of the “Fearless” fish trawler. Under his leadership, the trawler’s team fulfilled the annual plan by October 8. Participating in the All-Union Socialist Competition, the team for work in the second quarter received a monetary prize and a rolling pennant of the ministry.

Now Captain A.A. Volodin and his team are fighting for the implementation of the second annual plan by November 7, 1947. A non-partisan Bolshevik, who fervently loves his homeland, Alexey Volodin is registered as a candidate for deputies of the Kaliningrad Regional Council of Workers’ Deputies in Рioneer constituency No. 63

And this is the order No.121 of August 26, 1947 for the Baltic State Fisheries Trust. He celebrates and encourages the editorials of the All-Union Social Competition in the second quarter of 1947.

Order on the Baltic State Fisheries Trust “August 26, 1947.” No. 121 Kaliningrad

“1”

I announce for the information of all captains, mechanics, sailors, fishermen, ITR, and employees of the Enterprises of The Baltgosrybtrest: As a result of the All-Union Competition competition for excellent work in the second quarter Prizes were awarded:

The team of MRT “Fearless” – Captain Volodin, pennant of the Ministry and the first prize in the amount of six thousand eight hundred rubles;

The team of MRT “Restless” – Captain Ivanov, the second prize, five thousand rubles and

a brigade to put of seine-nets – Brigadier Vasilyev, the third prize, five thousand five hundred Rubles.

“2”

The director of the Pioneersk fishery, T. Goncharov, together with Governor Tralflot T. Yermoshkin, distributed the prizes between the teams “Fearless” and “Restless”, and the director of the fishery Svetlovskiy T. Smolin to distribute the prizes among the members of the brigadier Vasilev.

“3”

For the successful work of the team captain Yermolayev a pre-peace of three thousand rubles.

“4”

Congrats to the award-winning comrades. I call on all captains, mechanics, sailors, brigadiers, fishermen and workers, engineers, technicians, shop heads, craftsmen and employees to expand the socialist competition even more widely and, equal to the editorials, to achieve high performance of the co 30th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

“5”

All directors of enterprises to put this order in a prominent place and the work of the editorial industry to illuminate in the factory wall newspapers.

Manager of the Baltic State Trust (signature) /Korotenko/

In 1953, Captain Volodin Aleksey Artemyevich was included in the book of honor.

The testimony remains. Here is it.

For the high production performance achieved in the socialist competition. Volodin Aleksey Artemyevich was put down to the Book of Honor of the Baltgosrybtrest and the Trade Union Committee on December 30, 1953.

Certificate of entry into the book of honor.

According to Victor’s son, the veteran of war, a Chevalier of the “Order of Glory” and a medal for “Victory over Germany”, even before the war was closely associated with the fishing industry of the Soviet Union. He fed the country with fish, working on fishing vessels of the Caspian basin. But as soon as the terrible hour came for the country, he joined the ranks of the defenders of the Fatherland. A simple machine gunman went through the whole war.

He was wounded three times, but always returned to the front line. In the spring of 1946, having removed the military gymnast, he returned to the front line. Now it’s a worldtime front. The victorious Great Country needed food. And Alexey Artemyevich went to sea again. But it was a different pool. The Baltic Sea lovingly received a professional fisherman. They understood each other. But severe military wounds undermined health.