Born May 6, 1919 in the village. Repolovo (now the Khanty-Mansiysk region). In 1939 he graduated from the Tobolsk zooveterinary technical school, during all four years of study he was in charge of the sanitary department of the technical school. Prepared instructors for the GSO badges. Was a badge of the GTO-2 Art., GSO-2 Art., Air Defense-2 Art. Since 1942, a member of the VKP (b) party. In 1939 A.E. Zolnikov was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army, sent to the city of Sverdlovsk, and took courses for medical instructors for 8 months. After completing the course, he became a military assistant. He treated the wounded in a Finnish company and traveled to Petrozavodsk. Served in Bashkiria, Beloretsk in 1930 - early 1941. On June 17, together with the Ural Corps, he was deployed to the West in Lithuania. He received his first baptism of fire on June 28, 1941. On the banks of the Western Dvina. After several days of heavy defensive battles, the part in which G.P. Zyryanov, received the command to move back to Vitebsk, at the station Sirotino G.P. Zyryanov was wounded and sent to the hospital. In September 1941, after recovering, he was again sent to the front as part of the 48th heavy mortar battalion in the reserve of the Western Front. Then he was in the 50th Army, throughout 1942 he remained in its composition, then served in the 11th Tank Brigade. June 1943 - student of the Moscow Military-Political School named after V.I. IN AND. Lenin, at the end of which he was awarded the military rank of lieutenant. From July 1943 to August 1952 he was a counterintelligence officer “SMERSH”. Demobilized in September 1952. Awards: Order of the Red Star, Order of the Patriotic War, II degree; medals “For the Defense of Moscow”, “For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945”, “For Victory over Japan”. After demobilization in 1952, he served in the MGB of the Soviet army. In 1952-1963. worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs; in 1963 he became the chairman of DOSOAAF; from 1970 to 1975 worked as a personnel engineer for a construction organization, then took the post of deputy. director of the creamery. Died April 13, 1987.