We wrote about Pavel Buravtsev not so long ago (one cannot but say about Pavel Buravtsev), and in fact, we did not expect such a stormy reaction from readers, but … 120 thousand views - you must agree, they mean something. And 28 May, as you know, was the Day of the Border Guard.
And what happened that day in Stavropol could not be passed over in silence. It was on such a wonderful holiday at a citywide rally that Major General Pavel Vasilyevich Solovyov presented the mother of the hero-border guard Nina Pavlovna Buravtseva with such a long-awaited document.
This document is not an award sheet or some kind of reference. This is a full-fledged Resolution of the Administration of the city of Stavropol Stavropol Territory No. 975 dated May 13, 2021 on the name of one of the streets of the southern capital of the Territory after Pavel Buravtsev.
This is her son - Pavel Anatolyevich Buravtsev, junior sergeant of the border troops, called to serve on the border in April 1985. Killed in action on November 22. Seven months after the call. In Afghanistan. Near the village of Afridzh. He returned to the southern city, to his home on Karl Marx Street in a zinc coffin.
One can understand the mother's grief. It has not faded even after thirty-five years. Long ago, her husband and Pasha's father, Anatoly Andreevich, passed away. His heart simply could not stand the instant separation from his son.
From Pavel remained bitter maternal thoughts, some things that he valued while conquering the mountain peaks of the Caucasus, and letters that were included in the published "Anthology" of the most poignant letters from that war. From the Afghan.
Which in Russia they have already begun to forget and simply do not talk about it in the highest offices. What for?! It seems like there was no her. And there are no guys on the churchyards who would live and live, raise children, work and be happy. We have betrayed them! Because we are silent!
Quite a long time ago my journalistic destiny threw me to the city of Stavropol. Together with the editor-in-chief of the weekly "Literary Russia" Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich Ohryzko and a group of writers and poets. We came to work at the border posts.
Returning to the southern city and walking along its beautiful streets, I told the editor-in-chief of the most famous Russian newspaper about Pavel Buravtsev, who died in battle along with 18 border fighters.
Vyacheslav Vyacheslavovich suggested writing material about this. He soon appeared on the pages of the newspaper. And then he said:
"It would be nice if one of the streets in this city was named after his name and surname."
Yes, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. But now, imagine it happened. With the support of veteran border guards, thinking and understanding representatives of the administrative structures of the Stavropol Territory, this street appeared in the southern city of Russia. Pavel Buravtsev.
On the same day, May 28, Nina Pavlovna hastened to come to the street that bears the name of her son. She, of course, was filled with pride at that moment. For your beloved, dear Pashka.
She stood silently on this street for a long time. Suddenly, somewhere in the distance, as it seemed to her, a blurred figure appeared. A guy almost the same as her Pasha. "Son," Nina Pavlovna thought at some moment.
This is not mysticism. On these streets, named after them, sons always return to their mothers.
You just mark their names and themselves on the world map.
