Boris Aleksandrovich Kalaushin

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Family

Father

Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin 1877 or 1878 – 1933

father’s wife

Yevdokiya Fyodorovna Kalaushina (née Semakina)

Brothers and sisters

• Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kalaushin b. 1901
• Aleksandra Aleksandrovna Chirskova (née Kalaushina) 1907 – 1980
• Mariya Aleksandrovna Kalaushina 1910 – c. 1990
• Mikhail Aleksandrovich Kalaushin 1912 – 1978
• Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Belorusova (née Kalaushina) 1916 – date of death unknown
• Son of Aleksandr Alekseyevich Kalaushin (name not recorded)

Children

• Aleksandr Borisovich Kalaushin b. 1932
• Dmitry Borisovich Kalaushin 1938 – 2011

Related by marriage

• The Shcherbinin family

Life events10

1. 1 May (14) 1904

   Born in the Convoy barracks

   ◇ family testimonySt Petersburg

2. 1916

   A house with a power plant and a cinema

   ◇ family testimonyLabinskaya stanitsa

3. 1926

   Leningrad University: begins (chemistry student (expelled “for his Cossack origin”))

   ◈ published source

4. August 1929

   “For Cossack origin”

   ◈ published sourceSt Petersburg

5. 1929-08

   Leningrad University: ends

   ◈ published source

6. 1934

   Award: Workplace bonus

   ◈ published source

7. 1941

   Service begins: the Red Army (mobilised 22.06.1941; missing in action)

   ◈ published source

8. 22 June 1941

   “Better to die than surrender”

   ◇ family testimonyNovgorod

9. missing since 15 August 1941

   Death

10. 1941

    Service ends: the Red Army

    ◈ published source

Places6

• Novgorodnamed in the roster entry · events 1941 · died
• St Petersburgborn 1904 · named in the roster entry · study 1926–1929 · events 1904–1929
• Armavirnamed in the roster entry
• Labinskaya stanitsanamed in the roster entry · events 1916
• Sukhumnamed in the roster entry
• Teriyokinamed in the roster entry

Awards2

Service and institutions2

• Leningrad Universitychemistry student (expelled “for his Cossack origin”)1926–1929-08◈ published source
• the Red Armymobilised 22.06.1941; missing in action1941–1941◈ published source

In the chronicle

1. 5. At Court

   • …1904, his son Boris was born — the first of the direct line of the Kalaushins to be born in St Petersburg. His daughters remembered their father as a dashing horseman. Lyudmila Aleksandrovna said that he could…
   • …churches for 1904, above all the church at the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street — the baptism of Boris Aleksandrovich (TsGIA SPb, f. 19).

2. 7. The Upheaval

   • …— so his labour book records. It was the very cinema that had belonged to the family before the Revolution. In 1926 Boris Aleksandrovich became a student of chemistry at Leningrad University, and in August 1929 he…
   • …authorities came to their senses only before the war”, the compiler of the roster wrote of those years. And on 16 July 1992 the resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation “On the rehabilitation…
   • The university. TsGA SPb, f. R-7240 (Leningrad University): △ probably the student file of B.A. Kalaushin (1926–1929), in op. 10; such files are also held in the Joint Archive of St Petersburg University.

3. 9. The Great Patriotic War

   • Boris Aleksandrovich Kalaushin was born in St Petersburg on 1 May 1904 Old Style (14 May New Style), in the barracks of His Majesty’s Own…
   • …in time to catch the troop train, and there, under the lime trees, his parents parted for the last time.
   • …department of the 128th Rifle Division, with the rank of voyentekhnik (military technician) 2nd rank. On 30 July 1941 he wrote to his wife from near Novgorod; the family kept the letter:
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4. 12. The Chroniclers

   • …Nikolayevich and a grandson of the Convoy uryadnik Aleksandr Alekseyevich. His father, Boris Aleksandrovich, a cinema technician, was mobilised on 22 June 1941 and in August that year, during the retreat from…
   • …Nikolayevich Koloushin (1983); the photograph of Vasily Afanasyevich’s family, 1904–1905 (source); B.A. Kalaushin’s letter of 30.07.1941.

5. 14. Sources and Further Research

   • …baptism of Boris Aleksandrovich, who, the family says, was born in the Convoy barracks on Shpalernaya Street.
   • …State Archive of St Petersburg (TsGA SPb), f. R-7240 (Leningrad University): △ probably the student file of B.A. Kalaushin, 1926–1929, which the roster cites as “GIA SPb, op. 10”; the file of Matvey Matveyevich,…

6. 6. The Workshop

Sources

Roster entry No. 138

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