USSR State Prize | People's Artist of the USSR | USSR Academy of Medical Sciences | USSR Union of Artists | USSR Championship | People's Architect of the USSR | USSR's Academy of Sciences | USA vs. USSR radio chess match 1945 | People’s Artist of the USSR | Enver Mamedov (right) presents the ''USSR'' magazine on the CBS | Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR |
The most popular account of the story is as follows: born to poor peasants in Gerasimovka, a small village 350 kilometers north-east of Yekaterinburg (then known as Sverdlovsk), Morozov was a dedicated communist who led the Young Pioneers at his school, and a supporter of Stalin's collectivization of farms.