The title “Honored Builder of the Estonian SSR” was awarded for personal merits to military engineers and construction workers. In addition, this title could be bestowed upon employees of various organizations engaged in production, design and research. The title was usually awarded for participation in the construction of high-quality buildings and structures of great architectural value that fit harmoniously into the architectural ensemble of a specific area, as well as buildings and structures that used modern high-quality materials. The title was also given for participation in the implementation of major projects for the construction of social housing and reconstruction of dilapidated houses.
One of the workers who earned the honorary title was the Soviet officer Boris Stepanovich Fulik. He was awarded it on August 7, 1965.
Boris Fulik was born in 1918 in the village of Grishino, Sumy Oblast. In 1934, he began his service in the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, where he worked his way up from a cadet at the Higher School of Civil Engineering to Lieutenant General. In 1941, Fulik joined the Construction Department of the Baltic Fleet. At the beginning of the war, he was captured and ended up in a concentration camp, where he was tortured and forced to work in the harshest conditions. Boris Fulik attempted to escape from the camp five times, and only the sixth attempt was successful. However, his unit met the former prisoner of war rather coldly. Fulik was demoted, expelled from the party, and had to start his career from scratch in order to regain the trust of his comrades and superiors. Fulik took on the most difficult tasks.
Between 1964 and 1970, Boris Fulik served as head of the Construction Department of the Baltic Fleet. From 1972, Fulik worked as Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet for Construction. Under his leadership, Kirov and Sasha Kovalyov streets were built in Severomorsk, and a swampy field in the bay area was turned into a park.
On July 19, 1984, a street in Severomorsk was named
after Fulik.
