Certificate No. 2439 on completion of advanced training courses belonged to Pavel Nikolaevich Kupryakov, Honored Builder of the RSFSR. Pavel Kupryakov held the position of head of the construction site of “Severovoenmorstroy”.

Kupryakov was born in 1915 in the village of Poloma, Arsentievsky district, Kostroma Oblast. In 1932, he received a Komsomol ticket and was sent to explore the Russian North. At first, he worked as a carpenter in Kandalaksha, near Murmansk. Then, he studied construction management. After graduation, Kupryakov arrived at a new place of work in the village of Vayenga, where he began working in the Special Military Construction Department of Glavvoenstroy under the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR. In August 1941, Pavel Kupryakov was appointed to the position of supervisor in the engineering department of the Northern Fleet.

In the following years, Kupryakov worked on construction sites of military and civilian facilities, where he worked his way up from supervisor to head of the construction site. He retired in 1983.

When Pavel Kupryakov arrived in Vayenga, there were two tent camps and only two residential buildings on the site of Severomorsk. Under the leadership of Kupryakov and with his direct participation, the following facilities and areas were built: the Rossiya cinema, the bridge on Dushenova Street, the House of Officers, school No. 10, the House of Creativity of Children and Youth, the printing house of the newspaper “On Guard of the Arctic”, a swimming pool and a sauna, a polyclinic on Lomonosov Street, the Vayenga hotel, a sailor’s club and the Trade House. All residential brick buildings on Safonov, Dushenov, and Kirov streets were built by the construction organization, headed by Kupryakov. The first eleven-story residential buildings on Safonov Street were also erected under his leadership.

In 1976, Kupryakov became an honorary citizen of Severomorsk. The Executive Committee of the Severomorsk City Council of Deputies awarded him this status for his “impeccable and prolific work on the construction of the city of Severomorsk from the day of its foundation to its transformation into a modern socialist city in the Arctic — the capital of the Red Banner Northern Fleet.“

Upon his retirement, Pavel Nikolaevich Kupryakov and his wife moved to the town of Bobruisk. He died on February 20, 1994. On April 18, 2000, a memorial plaque was placed at No. 11 Dushenova Street in memory of the honorary citizen and Honored Builder of Russia.