Page "Boris Pasternak" Paragraph 12

After the outbreak of war between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, Pasternak was elated.

When the Luftwaffe began bombing Moscow, Pasternak immediately began to serve as a fire warden on the roof of the writer's building on Lavrushinski Street.

According to Olga Ivinskaya, he repeatedly helped to dispose of German bombs which fell on it.