Sedeshev P. M.

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Sedeshev Pyotr Makarovich (1918-2011) - freelance correspondent of the regional newspaper "LZ Segodnya" (Shemonaikha district of East Kazakhstan region), participant of the Great Patriotic War, holder of the Order of the Patriotic War II degree and other medals.

Sedeshev Pyotr Makarovich was born on June 15, 1918 in the village of Nechunaevo, Shipunovsky district, Altai Krai. Left without parents early, he was brought up by his grandparents. In 1933, he received an eight-year education at the Shipunovo secondary school.

He began his career as an ordinary collective farmer in the collective farm "Krasny Plowman".

In September 1939, he was drafted into the Red Army and took part in the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-1940 as a radio scout in the communications company of the 596th Infantry Regiment. Then, as part of the 122nd Rifle Division, he liberated Karelia, the Leningrad Region, Norway, and Finland from the Nazi invaders. He was a radio operator, a heavy tank driver, a correspondent of the frontline newspaper "Soviet Arctic". Participated in two seminars of war correspondents, met with writers Ilya Ehrenburg, Nikolai Tikhonov, Boris Polev, Elena Kononenko, Konstantin Simonov.

After returning from the front in 1946, he worked as the head of communications at the Leninogorsk Polymetallic Combine, the head of the regional radio club.

In 1960 he graduated from the Alma-Ata Electrotechnical College of Communications. He worked as the head of the Leninogorsk, then Kirov communications office, an engineer at the UMZ.

From 1972 to 1986, he worked as a senior telecommunications engineer at the Verkhny Ubinsky Special Purpose Communications department.

After the war, P.M.Sedeshev continued his creative activity, writing memoirs, articles, essays, short stories, short stories, sketches.

For many years he was secretary of the Council of War and Labor Veterans of the Verkhny Ubinsky rural district, mentor of youth.

He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For Bravery", "For the Heroic Defense of the Soviet Arctic", "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" by Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov G.K., "Veteran of Labor", jubilee medals, Certificates of Honor of the Shemonaikhinsky District Committee of the KP of Kazakhstan for long-term cooperation with editorial office of the newspaper "Leninskoe Znamya", coverage of issues of nature protection, education of love for the world around.

He died on April 23, 2011.

Publications by P.M. Sedeshev

Седешев, П. Как молоды мы были... [Текст] : [К 50-летию Победы] / П. Седешев // Ленинское знамя. - 1985. - 21 янв. - С. 2.

Седешев, П.  Озеро Северьянское [Текст] / П. Седешев // Ленинское знамя. - 1993. - 21 авг.

About P.M. Sedeshev

Никифоров, И. Д. Шемонаихинский район Восточно-Казахстанской области Республики Казахстан. 1928 - 2003 [Текст] : История, события, люди / Никифоров И.Д. - Усть-Каменогорск : Медиа-Альянс, 2003. - 252 с.