Nikolay Vasilyevich Monakhov

Nikolay Vasilyevich Monakhov was born in Moscow. A sailor and submariner, he served in the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets. In the 1920s, together with his brother Aleksandr, he studied at the 13th Submarine School in Petrograd, specialising as mine machinists. Nikolay Vasilyevich Monakhov was conscripted by the Proletarskiy Military Commissariat of Moscow on 27 July 1942. On 19 August 1942 he was assigned to Workers' Battalion 144 for railway rolling stock repair. A medical examination declared him fit only for non-combat duties. Three months later, in November 1942, Monakhov went missing in action. He left behind a wife and two daughters (aged 6 and 3).