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2 unusual facts about Morozov


Morozov

Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau (KMDB), a Ukrainian state-owned tank design bureau

Rogozhskoye Cemetery

The largest and richest family burial belongs to the Morozov dynasty - a 'cemetery within a cemetery' protected by an elaborate wrought iron canopy.


Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Моро́зов; July 7, 1854, Borok – July 30, 1946) was a Russian revolutionary who spent about 25 years in prison before turning his attention to various fields of science.

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The son of a landowner by a serf woman, Morozov was born in the village of Borok in the Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia.

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In his declining years, Morozov established a laboratory in his native Borok, north of Uglich, to monitor and study "inland waters".

Pavlik Morozov

The most popular account of the story is as follows: born to poor peasants in Gerasimovka, a small village 350 kilometers north-east of Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk), Morozov was a dedicated communist who led the Young Pioneers at his school, and a supporter of Stalin's collectivization of farms.

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In 1932, at the age of 13, Morozov reported his father to the political police (GPU).

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Morozov's story was the basis of Bezhin Meadow, an unreleased film from 1937 that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein.


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