Hero of the Soviet Union, graduate of the Law Faculty of Rostov State University.

Nikolai Mitrofanovich was born in 1921 on the Meliozovka farm in the Rostov region into a peasant family. He graduated from 7th grade, and then worked at a factory in Taganrog.

Nikolay Shcherbakov has been in the Navy since 1940. On the front of the Great Patriotic War – from June 1941. He took part in the defense of Odessa and was wounded. After treatment, he served in the coastal defense of the Poti Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet.

In February 1944, sailor Shcherbakov was sent to the 384th separate marine battalion of the Black Sea Fleet. He took part in the battles for the liberation of the villages of the Kherson region Aleksandrovka, Bogoyavlenskoye (now Oktyabrsky) and Shirokaya Balka.

In 1946, Sergeant Nikolai Shcherbakov was demobilized. For the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, sailor Shcherbakov received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union . He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and medals.

After the end of the war, Nikolai Mitrofanovich studied at the Faculty of Law of the Russian State University. He was among those who came to the university in a soldier’s tunic. Today Rostov school No. 87 bears the name of Hero of the Soviet Union Nikolai Shcherbakov.

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