UrFU Publishes Memoirs of 102-Year-Old Veteran of the WWII

12:03, May 3, 2018

“Story of life, love and war” by Semen Kozmin

UrFU Publishing house released memoirs of a colonel, veteran of the World War II Semen Kozmin. The author who will turn 103 in few months presented his book at the meeting of the veterans of the university. The basis for his work was correspondence with his wife during the war, who saved the letters and passed them back to husband before her death.

 ‘We wrote each other since November 1939, when I became a soldier, until November 1945,’ said Semen Kozmin. ‘On February 5, 2005 my wife handed me a folder with 383 letters. I read them and remembered where I was and what I did in details. Then my wife passed away. And I decided that this letter should remain.'

The book tells about the beginning of the World War II and the Great Patriotic War, the Battle of the Caucasus and Novorossiysk, the celebration of the victory on May 9, 1945 and Soviet-Japanese War.

However, the book is not only about war, it is also about love. It tells how important and hard it is to save relations not seeing each other for 6 years and how this feelings help to survive and endure hard war years. This is also address to young generation; the veteran underlines importance of moral principles of the family, the necessity to keep love of the couple despite all the challenges.

We would like to note, that the book was publish with the support of the memebers of the Veterans’ Council, UrFU Administration and the Trade Union of Ural Institute of Humanities.