And we go along Semashko Lane down to Bauman Street. The house at Baumana Ulitsa, 35-a has a memorial plate that reads: "T. L. Kunikov, Hero of the Soviet Union, who died a hero's death in the fights for the Motherland in 1943, had lived in this house." Tsezar Kunikov was born in Rostov-on-Don in a family of a military man. In 1918, the family left the city. Later Tsezar Kunikov graduated from Moscow Industrial Academy and Moscow Mechanical Engineering Institute and got a profession not connected with war. However, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he returned to his home city. T. Kunikov was appointed Commander of the water obstacle detachment at the approaches to Rostov. The soldiers of the detachment drew patrol duty in the Don River delta, their speedboats were equipped with machine guns and defended and liberated Rostov in November 1941. After fights with the Nazi in the Don region, the marine infantry battalion was formed. T. Kunikov was appointed its Commander. Under his command, the legendary landing party disembarked at Malaya Zemlya, near Novorossiysk, in February, 1943. In April, 1943, he was awarded the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union for the heroic landing operation. Posthumously. Apart from it, he was decorated with the Medal for Distinguished Labor, the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner, the Order of Alexander Nevsky.
