Monument in honor of B.A. Bogatkov

Boris Andreevich Bogatkov was born in 1922 in the city of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk krai. He studied in the cities of Achinsk, Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk. In 1938, for the poem "The thought of the Red Flag" he received a diploma at the All-Union inspection of children's literary creativity. In 1940 he came to the city of Moscow, where he worked as a shaft man in the construction of the subway and studied at the evening department of the Literary Institute named after A.M. Gorkii. Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the Army in the Field. In 1942, after a concussion, he was demobilized and soon returned to the city of Novosibirsk. He wrote satirical poems for "Okon TASS", his works were published in local newspapers, and he was stubbornly seeking a return to the army.
 
After much trouble, he was enlisted to one of the Siberian volunteer divisions and soon got to the front. B.A. Bogatkov received the rank of Senior Sergeant and the post of Commander of a platoon of submachine gunners. In rare moments of calm, he wrote poetry. On August 11, 1943, during the attack of enemy positions on the Gnezdikovsky heights (Smolensk area) died a heroic death. Boris Andreevich Bogatkov was posthumously awarded the order of the Patriotic War of the Ist degree.
 
Monument in honor of B.A. Bogatkov in the city of Novosibirsk in the street named after him was opened in July 1977. The author and the sculptor - M.I. Menshikov