Nikolay Yeltsin

Nikolai Ignatyevich Yeltsin was born in 1906 in the village of Basmanovskoye in the Perm Governorate (now Talitsky District of Sverdlovsk Oblast) into a family of prosperous peasants. After the October Revolution, his father was dispossessed during dekulakization. Nikolai and his younger brother Andrian were hired to work on the construction of the Kazan Aviation Plant. == Arrest and imprisonment ==

In 1934, Nikolai and Andrian Yeltsin were arrested. The cause of their arrest was dissatisfaction with working conditions and statements against the forced collection of money "to aid Austrian workers." Nikolai Yeltsin was convicted of "counter-revolutionary activity" and sentenced to three years in corrective labor camps. He served his sentence during the construction of the Moscow–Volga Canal in the Dmitrovlag camp system. For exemplary behavior, he was released early in 1936. According to other sources, immediately after sentencing, Nikolai Yeltsin was exiled to the city of Berezniki in Perm Oblast to work on the construction of a potash plant, where his brother Ivan, who had also been arrested, was later sent. During the late 1930s, he lived in Berezniki, working on the construction of the local chemical plant. == Later life ==

During the Great Patriotic War, he was not drafted due to his status as a valuable construction specialist. After the war, the family returned to Berezniki, then moved to Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), where he worked as a construction foreman. His son Boris, who was then First Secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU, participated in organizing the funeral. In 1989, Nikolai Ignatyevich Yeltsin was posthumously rehabilitated. == Family ==

In 1930, he married Klavdia Vasilyevna Starygina (1908–1993). They had two sons: • Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1931–2007) — first president of the Russian Federation; • Mikhail Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1937–2009) — high-altitude rigger, worked at the Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) House-Building Combine. His brothers, Andrian and Ivan, were also arrested. Andrian died at the front during the Great Patriotic War. == Awards ==

• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" == References ==