Two years ago, only a few people knew about the amazing story of a 93-year-old veteran from the small town of Berezovsky near Yekaterinburg. Today, the name of Nikolai Vasenin is known to millions of people not only in Russia, but also abroad. This is the story of a simple guy from the Kirov region, who at the very beginning of the Great During the Great Patriotic War, in June 1941, he was captured during the Bialystok operation in Belarus.