II. Read and translate the text. Names of Omsk’s Streets

Names of Omsk’s Streets

Many streets in Omsk are given the names of honorable people who were born, lived and worked in Omsk. One of such streets is named after Barhatova. Valentina Barhatova was a tank driver during the Great Patriotic War. She was born in Irkutsk in 1924 but later she came to the Omsk Region. After school she worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In 1942 she enlisted as a tank driver. She was sent to the battlefield near Stalingrad and fought there bravely. For her heroic deeds she was awarded to a medal and three orders. In 1944 she was killed in action and buried in the Crimea.

Budarin Street is one of the central streets in Omsk. But many years ago it was a quiet street with many trees in it. Nicolai Budarin lived in his parents. He was a good athletic. When the war with Finland began in 1939 he went to the front and later during the Great Patriotic War he defended Moscov and Stalinrad from the nazis. He was a courageous warrior and was awarded the rank of colonel and also the title and the Gold Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1943 he was wounded and soon died from the wound.

Nekrasov Street is situated behind of the Drama Theatre, in the heart of Omsk. Pyotr Nekrasov was an actor. He was born in 1889. His mother and father died when he was just two years old. He lived in an Omsk orphanage where he learned some crafts and became a skilled joiner, at age of six, in addition to it, he danced perfectly. Soon he was taken to the Omsk Theatre and became an actor. He worked at Tomsk, Saratov and Samara theatres where he played small parts in plays by Chekhov and Ostrovsky. He took part in the Civil War where he was wounded and soon came back to Omsk. There he worked as an actor and later as a producer in the Omsk Theatre. Altogether, he performed about 500 parts in different plays.

On the Irtysh’s left bank there is Perelyot Street. It is named after a hero of a Soviet Union Aleksey Perelyot, a fighter pilot. He was born in 1914 in the Ukraine. He was raised in a poor family. In sprite of all these difficulties he graduated from an industrial school in Kharkov. His dream was to become a pilot therefore he joined the local pilot club and then the Air Pilot School in the Crimea. In 1940 he started working at the Omsk Tupolev Reseach Centre. On the 11^th of May, 1953 his plane crashed during a test-flight and he perished.

One more outstanding person lived in Omsk whose name is given to a street. His name is Ivan Strelnikov. He was born on the 9^th of May, 1939. He studied at school in the village of Okoneshnikovo and worked at a collective farm. In 1958 he joined the Soviet Army and became a professional military man. He was a frontier guard. On the 2^nd of March, 1969 China soldiers penetrated the Soviet island Damanskiy, the territory guarded by Ivan Strelnikov and his soldiers. It was a hard battle and, as a result, 22 Soviet soldiers and their commander were killed. Strelnikov was awarded to the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. He was just 30 years old but he did his best to defend his Motherland and to fulfil his military duty. In addition to the street in Omsk, a street in his native village of Okoneshnikovo is also named after him.