Your Deed Will be Аlways in Оur Нearts

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Pavel Semenovich Kuzmin was born on 2 nd of January 1914 in the family of workers. Having finished the school he worked in an electric power station as an operator . After the accident which he could prevent P. Kuzmin was sent for studying in Leningrad High Naval college . In 1938 he graduated with honors from this college and started to serve aboard the Baltic Fleet submarine Sch-303 . In October 1940 lieutenant Kuzmin graduated from special courses for officers and on 24 th of October 1941 he became a captain of the submarine Sch-408 . Pavel Semenovich Kuzmin The deed In 1941 the submarine wasn’t completely built and was ready only in May 1943 . On 18 th of May 1943 the submarine started its first and the last journey . The submarine Sch-408 was destroyed in Baltic Sea on 22 nd of May 1943 года. While breaking antisubmarine barrier Sch-408 was damaged and was to rise to the top. During two-hours battle the submarine could sink two enemy boats but had terrible troubles and went down with the Naval flag on the top of the submarine.

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In 1944 P.S. Kuzmin was posthumously awarded with The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire . The head of Submariner club asked the Naval Archives if Sch-408 crew hadn’t been rewarded in Russia. The team of 504 school joined this request. Some activists are going to organize the searching expedition in the area of Sch-408 destruction. Students from our school are looking for the relatives of Sch-408 crew. It is also planned to restore memorial plate and enlarge school museum. Nobody is forgotten - nothing is forgotten

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Memory is stronger than the time There is a street near our school named after submariner Kuzmin. You can find a memorial plate on the house #4. In 1960-s there was P.S.Kuzmin submarine museum in our school #504. The museum existed till 1990 and then was closed. In 2013 the museum was recreated with the help of school graduates and teachers and Kirovskiy district administration.

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By Ann Andreeva School 504 Saint-Petersburg