Feodosiy Nikiforovich Rezanov

Feodosiy Nikiforovich Rezanov was a local historian, one of the founders of the Gazimuro-Zavod Local History Museum, which was named after him. He was born in the village of Aktaguchi into a simple peasant family on January 9, 1921. In 1939 he became an elementary school teacher at the Zeren School, where he worked for exactly one year. Then he served in the army, his service prolonged due to the war. Until December 1945 he served as a corporal telephone operator in a separate machine-gun battalion.

After the war he worked as a teacher in the village of Gazimurskiye Kavykuchi. After a year he went to study in Irkutsk, and then was assigned as a drawing and drafting teacher at the Gazimuro-Zavod secondary school. He also studied by correspondence at the Moscow University of Arts in the painting department. He took an active part in the creation of the museum and preserved it for successors and descendants.

Rezanov collected materials about veterans of the Great Patriotic War. A participant himself in the war against Japan, he hurried to pay tribute to the living and fallen participants of the battles, hurrying because the ranks of those still alive were dwindling. He celebrated his last Victory Day on May 9, 1992, and on May 21 he died of a heart attack.