Life as whirlwind: we remember Botyan Aleksey Nikolaevich

It was one of those few people who not simply saw all XX century and managed to take a good part of the XXI century, but were active makers of history of the world. That who in those great, terrible and unforgettable times managed to defend a civilization from occurrence of creeping darkness of Nazism. Quite recently Hera of Russia, the gentleman of the Polish award Virtuti Militari, the colonel Botyan Aleksey Nikolaevich celebrated the 103rd birthday. Today Botyan Aleksey Nikolaevich did not become. daily social and political business newspaper "Izvestiya" remember the person who saved Krakow. Botyan Aleksey Nikolaevich was born in February 10, 1917, in the eve of revolution, in a deaf village...