WW2 memoirs "One for All" by a boy soldier Nikolay Konstantinovich IMCHUK

One for All - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier in WW II. 

My week in Moscow meeting WW2 veterans with Sasha Goncharov opened my eyes to the country’s role in WW2. 

     It was a typical May Sunday morning in Moscow: almost no cars on the roads, and as for people - there were only early morning runners and those taking their dogs for a walk. Suddenly a figure quite unexpected for the early morning catches one’s eye.........

     Pat Rothery vividly remembers being swept overboard from HMS Impulsive into the freezing waters of the Arctic Ocean in 1942 while part of a convoy attempting to supply Russian forces.

Sponsors and participants of the project in 2012-2017

      These veteran trips became possible thanks to the financial support of the Russian companies - PJSC (public join-stock company) Aeroflot, PJSC Sovkomflot, PJSC Arbat Capital and British - BSI Global Group, Cultural Solidarity Media, New Century, Securities Research Associates Ltd.

            It was a typical May Sunday morning in Moscow: almost no cars on the roads, and as for people - there were only early morning runners and those taking their dogs for a walk. Suddenly a figure quite unexpected for the early morning catches one’s eye; on the side of the road stands a participant of the Great Patriotic War.

     After last year’s successful DERVISH 75 Celebrations and Commemorations in Arkhangelsk and St Petersburg this year the Polar Convoy Club of St Petersburg convened a Conference in their city to address ways in which Arctic Convoy memories can be kept alive once the steadily dwindling band of Veterans from Russia, the UK, the USA and other Allied Countries have all ‘crossed the bar’.