Alexander Nikitich Voloshin. His father worked as a boiler operator at the Putilov factory. With the outbreak of World War I, the Voloshin family moved to live with their relatives in Siberia. Alexander Voloshin spent all his childhood in the Novosibirsk region, where he entered the Komsomol and where he graduated from high school in 1929. During the years of the first five-year plan, Voloshin entered the construction of the Kuznetsk metallurgical plant, where he worked as a concrete worker and was active in social activities. Then Voloshin was sent as a Komsomol organizer of the mine to the Osinnikovsky mine, where he worked as a miner and a fireman.
Alexander Nikitich Voloshin. His father worked as a boiler operator at the Putilov factory. With the outbreak of World War I, the Voloshin family moved to live with their relatives in Siberia. Alexander Voloshin spent all his childhood in the Novosibirsk region, where he entered the Komsomol and where he graduated from high school in 1929. During the years of the first five-year plan, Voloshin entered the construction of the Kuznetsk metallurgical plant, where he worked as a concrete worker and was active in social activities. Then Voloshin was sent as a Komsomol organizer of the mine to the Osinnikovsky mine, where he worked as a miner and a fireman.
In 1934 Voloshin was called up for active military service in the ranks of the Red Army. While doing military service, Voloshin graduated from the correspondence department of the Leningrad Communist Institute of Journalism. Demobilized from the army in 1936, A. N. Voloshin returned to the Osinnikovsky mine and got a job in the local newspaper "For coal". Two years later, Alexander moved to Cheremkhovo and began to cooperate with the newspaper Cheremkhovsky Rabochy. During the Great Patriotic War, Voloshin took part in many battles as an ordinary sapper, was wounded. In 1945, during the battles on the Oder, he became a member of the CPSU (b). After the end of the war, Alexander returned to Siberia, where he continued his work as a journalist, collaborating with the Kuzbass newspaper in Kemerovo. Member of the USSR JV since 1950...more