Shatalov Alexander Stepanovich

Балухатый, Сергей Дмитриевич - родственник Александра Степановича по его матери, с которым А.С. встречался в Ленинграде ещё до войны...

Балухатый, Сергей Дмитриевич — Википедия Серге́й Дми́триевич Балуха́тый (1893, Феодосия — 1945, Ленинград) — советский литературовед, библиограф, член-корреспондент АН СССР (1943).

Alexander Stepanovich took part in WW2 only in very beginning, in 1941. But he was removed from the front by law because he received PhD degree before it. He was ordered to raise USSR Artilleria Academia in Central Asia. He was a professor of this Academy all his life.

Had an outstanding memory, knew many of poetry by heart...