EVENING BELL: Lines of the Ending Day On September 23, 1942, near Sakharnaya Golova Hill near Novorossiysk, Lieutenant Pavel Kogan, commander of a reconnaissance group, died. A remarkable poet, whose poems were widely quoted even before the Great Patriotic War: "Since childhood, I've disliked ovals! Since childhood, I've drawn angles!" "In the distant, blue sea, a brigantine raises its sails."