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Nadym

He was born on April 24, 1925 in the village of Bakhtemir in the Ikryaninsky district of the Astrakhan region in a peasant family. Russian.

In 1930, the family came under dekulakization and was sent to a special settlement in the Tyumen region. He lived in the village of Shuga in the Nadymsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets District, graduated from grades 7.

In the year the war began, Anatoly was only 16 years old and he was not taken to the front.

In 1942, he graduated from the pedagogical college in Salekhard, worked as a teacher at a seven-year school in the village Katravozh Priuralsky district.

He has been in the Red Army since December 1943, and has been at the front since the same time. Junior Sergeant A. Zverev distinguished himself in the battles during the liberation of Belarus.

On June 26, 1944, Junior Sergeant A. Zverev was among the first to cross the Western Dvina River near the village of Eroshevo (Shumilinsky district, Vitebsk region). Having secretly approached the enemy's trench, he threw grenades at it, destroying 10 German soldiers, which contributed to the crossing of the regiment's assault detachments. He died in this battle.

He was buried in the village The Ullah of the Vitebsk region. There is a monument on the grave.

Junior Sergeant Anatoly Mikhailovich Zverev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 24, 1945.

There is a memorial obelisk on the shore of the Western Dvina River in the Vitebsk region, on the site of Anatoly Zverev's feat.

In 1975, the Hero's mother Maria Andreevna came to the city of Nadym for the grand opening of the memorial plaque of Anatoly Zverev.

On February 27, 1987, a bust of Anatoly Zverev was solemnly installed in the city of Nadym in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region, the authors of which were architect Peter Gumich and sculptor Pavel Nyadongi[2].

There is a monument to the hero in the village of Bakhtemir in the Astrakhan region, where he was born.

On June 14, 1965, the village was named after the hero Anatoly Zverev of the Ikryaninsky district of the Astrakhan region.

A street in his native village of Bakhtemir, a street in the city of Nadym in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region, bears the name of A.M. Zverev.

The school museum of school No. 2 in Nadym (Museum of Military Glory named after Hero of the Soviet Union Zverev A.M.) has 14 permanent stands about the life and feat of A.M. Zverev, his family, fellow soldiers. There are authentic items from the Zverev family archive, photographs, letters, the Hero's personal diary, front-line newspapers, military maps, uniforms, equipment. There are more than one and a half thousand exhibits in total.

The Salekhard Pedagogical College, which once released a young teacher from its walls, is named after the hero.

He is permanently enrolled in the lists of the military unit.