Early Life
Nikolay Shchors was born in the Snovsk village of Gorodnya uyezd (Chernigov Governorate) into a family of kulak (a locomotive engineer, according to the official Soviet historiography). His father Aleksandr Nikolayevich arrived from a town of Stovptsi (Minsk Governorate) "in search of better life" to Snovsk where he was able to build his own house (since August 1939 - a memorial museum). Nikolay Shchors was the oldest child amongst his other siblings: Konstantin (1896–1979), Akulina (1898–1937), Yekaterina (1900–1984), Olga (1900–1985). In 1905 Nikolai enrolled into a parish church school. In 1906 giving a birth to another child Nikolai's mother, Aleksandra Mikhailovna Tabelchuk, died due to loss of blood. About six months after the death of his wife Nikolai's father married once again to Maria Konstantinovna Podbelo. Aleksandr and Maria had five more children: Grigori, Zinaida, Boris, Raisa, and Lidia. In 1909 Nikolai Shchors graduated out of his church school.
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