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Geroyu Sovetskogo Soyuza, letchiku Nikolayu Karabulinu

He was born on November 17, 1918 in the village of Tarkhanka, now in the Nekrasovsky district of the Yaroslavl region, in a peasant family. Russian. After graduating from grades 7 and the school of the Federal Law, he worked as a turner at the Yaroslavl factory "Proletarian Freedom". Stakhanovite. He graduated from the Yaroslavl Aero Club (1938). He has been in the Red Army since 1938. In 1940, he graduated from the Stalingrad Military Aviation School of Pilots.

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since August 1941. Flight commander of the 215th Assault Aviation Regiment (47th Mixed Aviation Division, Western Front), candidate for membership of the CPSU (b), Lieutenant Nikolai Karabulin, by September 16, 1941, had made thirteen successful combat sorties on an Il-2 aircraft, destroyed a lot of enemy manpower and equipment, causing significant damage to the enemy. On July 5, 1943, the squadron commander, Captain N. M. Karabulin, died while performing a combat mission.

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 12, 1942, Lieutenant Nikolai Mikhailovich Karabulin was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal (No. 690) for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the Nazi invaders and his courage and heroism. He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Orders of Alexander Nevsky, the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree.

A street in Yaroslavl is named after the Hero, on which a memorial plaque is installed. His name is immortalized on a memorial plaque installed on the building of the Yaroslavl Aero Club. In the Yaroslavl People's Museum of the Proletarian Freedom factory there is an exposition dedicated to the glorious countryman.