Nikolai Rigachin (1919-1945) was a Red Army scout from Karelia. Captured in the first days of the war when his battalion was encircled, he escaped from the prisoner camp and in spring 1944 joined a guards rifle regiment as a reconnaissance soldier. He fought across Ukraine, Romania and Poland, fell on 21 January 1945 in Germany and was named Hero of the Soviet Union.
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