Biography of Rapov

He had a house on Smolenskaya Square in Moscow, villages and peasants in the Oryol and Yaroslavl provinces, participated in the war - years and became the hero of the Plevna, his name was carved on the monument. Alexander Nikolaevich, like the parent, was a military man, rose to the rank of headquarters captain. He married the noblewoman Olga Nikolaevna Ovsyannikova, who worked before marriage as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Rapov was born on January 14 on January 1 according to the old style of the year in Rybinsk, and three months later the father was transferred to Rivne, where the family moved. There she remained before the outbreak of World War I, when she was evacuated to Moscow. In the year, Alexander Rapov died on the Austrian front near the city of Tarniv. He raised his regiment on the attack on the Galician fields and, having received 18 wounds, did not give himself captive.

Posthumously Alexander Nikolaevich received the title of Lieutenant Colonel and the St. George Cross. The hero’s body was taken to their homeland for four months - to Rybinsk, where a widow and children just moved from Moscow. She raised her son with the nanny - Elikanida Prokofievna. As a child, Mikhail Rapov loved to draw, observe nature, was engaged in a circle of young naturalists, wrote poetry.

In the year, Mikhail Rapov got a junior researcher at the Ivanovo Research Institute for the Organization of Fisheries and then visited the hydrobiological expedition. From the end for a year, he worked as an artist in iso, in the brigade of the Rybinsk Motor -Building Plant. At this time, a group of local teachers prepared a textbook on natural science for the publication.

Konstantin Sergeyevich Maslennikov, who headed this work, asked for twenty -year -old Mikhail to make the decoration of this book, and he successfully coped with the task. Several times Rapov tried to enter one or another university in all of them, but he did not accept the documents. And only in the year he still became a student of the Rybinsk Aviation Institute.

During his studies, he was responsible for his art design. In the year, he graduated with honors from the institute, having received the qualifications of a mechanical engineer-a technologist for cold metal processing with cutting. At the same time, he began to teach special disciplines in the training department. In the year, Mikhail Alexandrovich married Margarita Alekseevna Aleksandrovskaya-a native of the city of Poshekhonya-Volodar, Yaroslavl region, a graduate of the chemical faculty of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute, and on April 2, they had a son Oleg, a future historian.

From July to September, instead of the aircraft engine stipulated by the assignment, it was released, and in order to quickly return the fighters and bombers damaged in battle, the plant workers organized the repair of aircraft engine in the front -line conditions. By the beginning of October, German troops went to Kalinin. They had no more than kilometers to Rybinsk. Since October 25, equipment for barges began in the Rybinsk port.

Following the same barges were brought by factory workers with families. In total, railway wagons and 25 river barges with equipment arrived from Rybinsk, and 10 industrial buildings were built for its placement. About 50 thousand Rybans arrived near Ufa, for whom they built houses and barracks, 2 tent camps, partially settled in the city of Chernikovsk, from where they quickly laid the rails and launched a tram.

Soon, the first products of the enterprise began to be supplied to the front. From December to March, the daily release of engines was more than doubled. To prepare specialists at the beginning of the year in Ufa, an aviation college evacuated from Rybinsk began work, and on January 15, Mikhail Rapov was transferred to the post of deputy director for educational work.

After the defeat of the Germans near Moscow, part of the equipment and specialists was returned to Rybinsk. Following the Aviation College who barely settled in Bashkiria returned. Rapov led in him a course of "metal -cutting machines", the wife taught chemistry. In the summer, the Rapovs spouses were awarded medals "for valiant work in the Great Patriotic War - Years." In the year, Mikhail Alexandrovich was appointed head of the university technological department, and headed the subject commission of technical mechanics since the year.

After the war, he resumed work on the book. Rapov studied the works of Russian and Soviet historians, read the annals, visited the Kulikovo field more than once, photographed and made sketches. The first and second books of the novel were published in the year, the third book in the year. Rapov was actively interested in local history. In the year, his book “Stone Tales” was published about the treasures of ancient Russian architecture Yaroslavl, Uglich, Rostov, Tutaev.

In the year, Mikhail Aleksandrovich became the founder and first chairman of the Rybinsk City Society for the Protection of Monuments of History and Culture, and held this post for six years. In the year, Rapov’s book “Rybinsk” was published - Essays on a modern city with a tour at certain periods of history, including the creation of a Rybinsk reservoir. Then the Museum of the Aviation College was opened, in the creation of which Ropov took a direct part.About six years he worked on the story of Zimogora - the book was published in the year.

She talks about the life of the Volga Burlaks. Largely, thanks to Rapov, the old “Burlatskaya” glory of the city was revived, and three years later, a monument to the Burglak of the sculptor Lev Pisarevsky was erected in Rybinsk. In the year, a photo album "Rybinsk" with the text of Mikhail Rapov, dedicated to the summer of the city, came out. Mikhail Alexandrovich Rapov died after a heart attack on May 12 and was buried in the Khovansky cemetery of the capital.

In honor of Mikhail Rapov, one of the streets of Rybinsk was named, a memorial plaque was installed on the house where he lived. Books by M. Rapova: Dawns over Russia: the story of the years that brought Rus' to Kulikovo Field. Stone tales: treasures of ancient Russian architecture of the Yaroslavl region. Zimogory: Historical Tale. Ettinger, V. Armanda; Did M. find a mistake or a typo?

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