Modernity with its measure of success in the form of monetary units gives rise to much more heroes of the scandalous secular chronicle, rather than true heroes, their actions causing pride and worship.
Sometimes it seems that the real heroes remained only on the pages of books about the Great Patriotic.
But at any time, those who are willing to sacrifice the most expensive in the name of loved ones, in the name of the Motherland.
On the Day of Defender of the Fatherland, we will recall the five of our contemporaries who committed feats. They did not seek glory and honors, and simply fulfilled their duty to the end.
Sergey Burneev
Sergey Bourneyev was born in Mordovia, in the village of Dubenki on January 15, 1982. When Sergei was five years old, parents moved to the Tula region.
The boy grew up and adults, and the era changed around. People's peers rushed to the business who in the crime, and Sergey dreamed of a military career, wanted to serve in the Airborne Forces. After graduating from school, managed to work at the Rubber Shoe factory, and then was called to the army. He fell, however, not in the landing, but in the Special Forces squad "Vityaz".
Serious physical exertion, training did not scare guy. Commanders immediately drew attention to Sergey - stubborn, with character, real special forces!
For two business trips to Chechnya in 2000-2002, Sergey has proven himself to be a real professional, skillful and persistent.
On March 28, 2002, a detachment in which Sergey Bourneyev served, conducted a special operation in the city of Argun. The militants turned into their strengthening a local school, placing an ammunition warehouse in it, as well as a breakthrough under it a whole system of underground moves. The special forces began to examine the tunnels in search of militants in their search.
Sergey walked first and came across the bandits. The battle in the narrow and dark space of the dungeon. During the outbreak from the Sergey's automatic line, he saw a grenade rolling on the floor, thrown by the militant towards the special forces. A few fighters who did not see this danger could suffer from the explosion.
The decision came in the fraction of a second. Sergey covered his grenade with his body, saving the rest of the fighters. He died in place, but he drew a threat from comrades.
Bandagroup as part of 8 people in this battle was completely eliminated. All Comrades Sergey in this battle remained alive.
For courage and heroism, manifested in the performance of a special task in conditions conjugate with risk for life, decree of the President of the Russian Federation of September 16, 2002 No. 992 Sergeant Bourneyev Sergey Alexandrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Sergey Sergey Bourneyev is forever enrolled in the lists of his military unit of the internal troops. In the city of Reutov of the Moscow region on the Alley of the heroes of the Military Memorial Complex "The bronze bust of the hero was installed for the Fatherland.
Denis Heschins
Denis Heschov was born on June 28, 1976 in the village of Shanké, the Tselinograd region of Kazakhstan. He held the usual childhood schoolchildren of the last Soviet generation.
How is hero brought up? That, probably, no one knows. But on the fracture, the epochs of Denis chose an officer's career, after an urgent service enrolled in a military school. Maybe it affected the fact that the school he graduated from, wore the name of Vladimir Komarov - a cosmonaut pilot, who died during flight on the Soyuz-1 ship.
After graduating from the school in Kazan in 2000, the new officer did not run from difficulties - immediately found himself in Chechnya. Everyone who knew him repeat one thing - the officer did not bow, Bereg fighters and was a real "father of soldiers" not in words, but in essence.
In 2003, the Chechen war for Captain Vetchikov ended. Until 2008, he served as Deputy Commander of the Battalion on educational work in the 70 Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, in 2005 became Major.
Officer life is not sugar, but Denis did not complain about anything. His house was waiting for his wife Katya and daughter Masha.
Majora Vetchinov left a great future, general epaulets. In 2008, he became the deputy commander of the 135th motorized rifle regiment of the 19th motorized rifle division of the 58th Army for educational work. In this position, he caught war in South Ossetia.
On August 9, 2008, the column of the 58th Army on the approach to Tskhinvalu fell into the ambush of Georgian special forces. The machines were shot from 10 points. The commander of the 58th Army General Chrulev was injured.
Major ham, which was in the column, jumping from the armored personnel, entered into battle. Froying to prevent chaos, he organized defense, overwhelming the Georgian firepoints.
During Denis Hams, Denis Heschov was seriously injured, however, overcoming pain, continued to fight, covering his comrades with the fire and were along with the convoy of journalists. Almost a new heavy wound in the head could stop the major.
In this battle, Major Heschov destroyed up to a dozen opponent's special forces and saved the life of the Military Correspondent of the Komsomolsk Pravda, Alexander Kots, Special Correspondent VGTRK Alexander Sladkov and the correspondent of the Moscow Komsomol Center, Viktor Sokirko.
The wounded major was sent to the hospital, but on the road he died.
On August 15, 2008, for the courage and heroism, manifested in the execution of military debt in the North Caucasus region, Major Denis Vetchin was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Aldar Tsydenzapov
Aldar Tsydenzapov was born on August 4, 1991 in the village of Aginskoye, in Buryatia. The family had four children, including the twin sister Aldar Aryun.
Father worked in the police, mother nurse in kindergarten - a simple family, leading the usual life of residents of the Russian depth. Aldar graduated from school in his native village and was called up to the army, fell to the Pacific Fleet.
He served as a sailor of Tsydanzapov on the "Fast" destroyer, the command had confessed with confidence, was friends with colleagues. Before "Dembel" remained only a month, when, on September 24, 2010, Aldar stood up on duty by a motorwriter of the boiler room.
The destroyer was preparing for a combat campaign from the base in Fokino in Primorye on Kamchatka. Suddenly, a fire broke out in the engine compartment of the ship due to the closure of the wiring at the time of the breakthrough of the fuel pipeline. Aldar rushed to overlap fuel leakage. There was a monstrous flame around the sailor in which the sailor spent 9 seconds, able to eliminate leakage. Despite terrible burns, it got out of the compartment himself. As subsequently installed the Commission, the operational actions of the sailor of Tsydenzhapov led to the timely disconnection of the ship's power plant, which otherwise could explode. In this case, the Esminets himself will die, and all 300 crews.
Aldar in the hardest state was taken to the hospital of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok, where the doctors fought for four days for the life of the hero. Alas, September 28, he died.
Decree of the President of Russia No. 1431 dated November 16, 2010, the Sailor Aldar Tsydenzapov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Sergey Solnechnik
Born on August 19, 1980 in Germany, in Potsdam, in the family of the military. To continue the dynasty of Seryozha, decided in childhood, without looking around all the difficulties of this path. After the 8th grade, he entered the Cadet boarding school in the Astrakhan region, then without exams he was admitted to the Kachino Military School. Here, his next reform was found, after which the school was disbanded.
However, Sergey from the career of the Military It did not disagree - he entered the Kemerovo Higher Military Command School of Communication, which graduated in 2003.
Served by a young officer in Belogorsk, in the Far East. "A good officer, real, honest," said Friends and subordinates about Sergey. And they gave him a nickname - "Combat Sun".
Getting a family did not have time - too much time went to the service. The bride was patiently waiting - after all, it seemed, there was still a whole life ahead.
On March 28, 2012, regular exercises in the PCD-5 grenades included in the course of preparation of military service soldiers took place at the part.
A 19-year-old ordinary crane, prompting, threw a grenade unsuccessfully - she, hitting the bars, flew off back, where his colleagues stood.
The confused boys with horror looked at death lying on Earth. Combat The Sun reacted instantly - throwing the soldier, he closed the grenade with his body.
The wounded Sergey was taken to the hospital, but he died from numerous injuries on the operating table.
On April 3, 2012, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Major Sergey Solhennikov for heroism, courage and dedication, manifested in the performance of military debt, was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Irina Yanina
"The war is not a female face" - the wise phrase. But it turned out that in all wars that Russia was led by women, there were women along with them to carry all the burdens and deprivation.
Born in Talda-Kurgan of the Kazakh SSR November 27, 1966, the girl Ira did not think that the war from pages of books would go into her life. School, medical school, position of sanitaria in a tuberculous dispensary, then in the maternity hospital - a purely peaceful biography.
Everything turned the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russians in Kazakhstan suddenly became other people's unnecessary. Like many, Irina and family went to Russia, where she had enough of his problems.
The husband of the beauty of Irina difficulties could not stand, left the family in search of a more easy lobe. Ira was left alone with two children in her arms, without normal housing and angle. And here is still unhappiness - the daughter had leukemia, from which she quickly faded.
Even men are broken from all these troubles, they go into pie. Irina did not break - after all, she remained the son of Zhenka, the light in the window, for whom she was ready to minimize the mountains. In 1995, she entered the service in the internal troops. Not the feet for the sake of the sake of - there they paid money, they gave a paw. The paradox of the newest story is to survive and raise the Son, the woman was forced to go to Chechnya, in the bake. Two business trips in 1996, three and a half months as a nurse under daily shelters, blood and dirt.
Nurse medical company prompt brigade in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from the city of Kalach-on-Don - in this position Sergeant Yanina fell on his second war. Banda Basayeva rushed to Dagestan, where local Islamists were already waiting for them.
And again battles, wounded, killed - the daily routine of the medical service in the war.
"Hello, my little, favorite, the most beautiful son in the world!
I really missed you. You write me how are you doing, how are you friends with whom? Do not be sick? In the evenings do not go late - now there are a lot of gangsters. Be around the house. One do not go anywhere. Listen to all at home and know - I love you very much. Read more. You are already a big and independent boy, so do everything right so that you do not scold you.
Waiting for your letter. Listen to all.
Kiss. Mum. 08/21/99
This letter Irina sent her son 10 days before his last battle.
On August 31, 1999, the brigade of the internal troops, in which Irina Yanina served, stormed the village of Karamakhi, turned terrorists into an impregnable fortress.
On that day, Sergeant Janin under the enemy's fire was assisted by 15 wounded fighters. Then, on a BTR, leaving the line of fire three times, bringing 28 more severely angry from the battlefield. The fourth flight became fatal.
The BTR fell under the hugan fire of the enemy. Irina began to cover the loading of the wounded retaliatory fire from the machine. Finally, the car managed to move on the way back, but the militants from the grenade launched the BTR.
Sergeant Janina, until the strength had enough, pulled out wounded from the burning car. She herself did not have time to get out - in the BTRA began to explode the ammunition.
On October 14, 1999, Sergeant of Medical Service Irina Janina was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously), it is forever enrolled in the lists of personnel of their military unit. Irina Yanina became the first woman awarded the title of Hero of Russia for fighting in the Caucasian Wars.
The article describes the feats of the most famous heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Their childhood is shown, youthful years, entry into the ranks of the Red Army and the fight against the enemy.
During the Great Patriotic War, there was a high increase in patriotism and combat spirit of Soviet citizens. Soldiers at the front and civilian population did not spare their strength to fight the enemy. The slogan "Everything for the front! Everything for victory! ", Proclaimed at the beginning of the war, completely displayed a nationwide mood. People were ready for any victims for the sake of victory. A large number of volunteers entered into the ranks of the Red Army and troops of the militia, residents of the occupied territories conducted a guerrilla war.
The title of the Hero of the Soviet Union received more than 11 thousand people. The most famous stories about the exploits entered school textbooks, many works of art were devoted to them.
The slogan "Everything for the front! All for victory! "
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhevyub.
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhevyub was born in 1920 at Sumshchina. After graduating from high school in 1934, Ivan Kozhevube studied in the chemical and technological technical school in the Shostki. Free time dedicated classes at the local Aerocluba. In 1940, Kozadub was called up for military service and entered the Chuguev Military Aviation School. Then he stayed there to work as an instructor.
In the first months of the war, the Aviashkol, in which Kozhevub worked, was evacuated in the rear. Therefore, the pilot began his combat path in November 1942. He repeatedly filed reports in order to get to the front and as a result of his desire to come true.
In the first battle, Kozhezhenb could not manifest his brilliant combat qualities. His plane was damaged in a fight with the enemy, and then mistakenly fired by Soviet Zenitchiki. The pilot managed to land despite the fact that his La-5 was not subject to repair.
The first bomber is a future hero hit during the 40th combat departure under Kurk. The next day, he again struck the opponent's damage, and after a few days later she won the battle with two German fighters.
By the beginning of February 1944, in the account of Ivan Kozhevab 146 combat departures and 20 knocked enemy aircraft. For military merit, he was handed over the first golden star of the hero. Twice the hero of the pilot became in August 1944
In one of the battles over the territory occupied by the Germans, the Kozhevab fighter was damaged. Motor aircraft stall. In order not to get into the hands of the enemy, the pilot decided to throw his plane to the significant strategic object of the enemy, so that the maximum damage to the Nazis will put the Nazis. But at the very last moment the engine of the car suddenly earned and the Keltub was able to return to the base.
In February 1945, Kozadub and his slave entered into battle with the FW-190 Fighter Group. They managed to knock off 5 opponent aircraft out of 13. After a few more days, the list of trophies of the heroic pilot was replenished with a fighter M-262.
The last battle of the famous pilot, in which he shot down 2 FW-190, was held over Berlin in April 1945. The third golden star Hero was awarded after the completion of the Great Patriotic War.
All Ivan Kozdadub made more than 300 combat flights and shot down more than 60 enemy aircraft. He perfectly shot and hit the enemy airplanes from a distance of about 300 m, rarely imposing in the near battle. For all the years of war, the enemy never managed to knock down the levisheluba.
After the end of the war, the heroic pilot continued to serve in aviation. He became one of the most famous military USSR and made a brilliant career.
Ivan Kozdalub
Dmitry Ovcharenko was born in the peasant family in Kharkiv. His father was a rustic carpenter and with young age he trained his son with an ax.
Dmitry's school education was limited to grade 5. After graduation, he began to work in the collective farm. In 1939, Ovcharenko was called upon service in the Red Army. From the very beginning of hostilities, he was on the front line. After the injured, Dmitry was temporarily released from service in the machine-gun company and performed the duties of the momentary.
Delivery of ammunition on the front was associated with a significant risk. July 13, 14941 Dmitry Ovcharenko was driving in his company. Near the small town of Lescent, he was surrounded by a counterpart of the enemy. But Dmitry Ovcharenko was not frightened. When the Germans selected his rifle, he remembered the Topore, which always took with him. The enemies began to inspect the cargo, folded in the cart, and the Soviet soldier snatched the ax, who always took with him, and killed the officer who commanded the group. Then he threw the opponent with grenades. 21 soldiers was killed, the rest rushed to run. Dmitry caught up and drove another officer. The third German officer managed to escape. After the whole occurring, the brave fighter successfully delivered ammunition to the forefront.
Dmitry Ovcharenko continued the military service as a machine gunner. His commander noted the courage and the determination of the fighter, who served as an example for other redarmeys. The heroic act of Dmitry Ovcharenko was also highly appreciated by the superior command - November 9, 1941 Marthercher received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Dmitry Ovcharenko continued to fight on the front line until the beginning of 1945 and died under the liberation of Hungary.
Talalikhin Viktor Vasilyevich was born in the village of Teplovka of the Saratov region on September 18, 1918 in the peasant family. Another of youth Victor became interested in aviation - in the town where his family lived, there was a carrier, and the teenager often looked at cadets marching through the streets.
In 1933, the Talalichina family moved to the capital. Victor graduated from FSU, then found work on the meat processing plant. Free time Viktor Talalikhin dedicated classes in AeroClub. He wanted to be no worse than the older brothers who had already tied their fate with aviation.
In 1937, Viktor Talalikhin entered the Borisoglebsk Aviation School. After completing studies, military service continued. The young pilot took part in the Finnish War, where he shown himself and at the same time a bold fighter.
From the beginning of the Second World War, in front of the pilots there was a challenge to defend Moscow from German shells. By this time, Talaliahin has already performed the responsibilities of the squadron commander. He was demanding and strict to subordinate, but at the same time delve into the problems of pilots and knew how to convey to them the significance of each of his order.
On the night of August 7, Viktor Talalikhin made another combat departure. Not far from the village of Village Kuznechikov faced a fierce battle. The Soviet pilot was injured and decided to knock down an enemy plane by throwing his fighter on him. Talalichine was lucky - after applying Taran, he was alive. The next day, he was awarded the Golden Hero Star.
Healing from the Russian Academy of Sciences The young pilot returned to line. The hero was killed on October 27, 1941 in battle in the sky over the village of Kamenka. Soviet fighters covered the movement of ground troops. The fight with the German "Messera" began. Talalikhin came out the winner of two fights with opponent aircraft. But at the end of the battle, the pilot received a difficult injury and lost control of the fighter.
Viktor Talalikhin for a long time was considered the first Soviet pilot that applied the night ram. Only years after the war, it became known that other pilots were used such a reception, but this fact does not detract from the talalichine's furthest. During the war years, he had many followers - more than 600 pilots did not spare their lives for the sake of victory.
Alexander Matrosov was born on February 5, 1924 in Ukraine in the city of Ekaterinoslava. The future hero early remained orphan and brought up in an orphanage. When the war began Alexander, being another minor, he tried several times to get to the front volunteer. And in the fall of 1942 his desire was fulfilled. After studying in the infantry School of Matrosov, as well as other recruits, sent to the forefront.
At the end of February 1943, in the liberation of the Pskov region, the division performed a combat challenge - to seize the fortified enemy point, located in the area of \u200b\u200bthe village of Chernushki. The Red Army fell in the offensive under the cover of the forest. But as soon as they went to the edge, the Germans began to fill the Soviet soldiers from machine guns. Many soldiers were immediately disabled.
For the suppression of enemy machine guns, an assault group was thrown into battle. German firepoints were dzota-fortifications built of wood and earth powder. Red Army team managed to quickly destroy two of them, but the third machine gun in spite of everything continued to prevent the Soviet offensive.
In order to destroy the enemy machine gun, the fighters of sailors and cucumbers went to Dzota. But the cucumbers were injured and the sailor had to act alone. He threw the German consolidation with grenades. A machine gun for a moment of quiet, and then again started shooting. Alexander instantly accepted the decision - rushed to the ambrusura and closed it with his body.
On June 19, Alexander Matrosov became posthumously became the hero of the Soviet Union. During the war, the number of redarmeys who closed enemy guns exceeded 500 people.
Feat 28 Panfilovtsev
In the fall of 1941, the troops of Hitler's Germany launched a large-scale attack on Moscow. In some sections, they managed to get closer to the capital of the USSR. All the troops and folk militia detachments are thrown on the protection of the capital.
The 316th Infantry Division formed in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan took part in the battles. The command of the unit was carried out by Major General I. V. Panfilov, named by the division fighters became called "Panfilovtsy".
I. V. Panfilov
November 16, the opponent began an attack. German tanks stormed the Soviet positions in the Dubosekovo Dubosekovo area, where the 1075th rifle regiment was deployed. The fighters of the 2nd battalion shelf accepted the main blow.
According to the military time, 28 Red Army people under the leadership of Politruck V. Klochakov were organized into a special group of tank fighters. For 4 hours, they led an unequal fight with the enemy. Armed with anti-tank guns and bottles with an incendiary mixture, Panfilovtsy destroyed 18 German tanks and died themselves. The total losses of the 1075th regiment amounted to more than 1000 people. In total, the regiment destroyed the 22 tank of the enemy and up to 1200 German soldiers.
The enemy managed to win the battle under Volokolamsky, but the battle took a lot more time than the German commanders took it. Soviet military leaders managed to use this time to regroup the troops and create a new asshole on the way to Moscow. In the future, the Germans failed to continue the offensive, and in December 1941, the Soviet troops defeated Consturdar, who finally discarded the enemy from the capital.
After the fight, the division commander was a list of fighters participating in the battle. Subsequently, they were represented by the title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. But the regiment commander made several inaccuracies. Because of his mistakes, the names of Fighters, previously dead or wounded, who could not participate in battle were made to the list. Perhaps several surnames were forgotten.
After the completion of the war, an investigation was conducted, during which it turned out that 5 fighters from among the 28 Panfilovians did not actually died, and one of them was captured and collaborated with the Nazis, which was convicted. But the official version of the event was the only widespread in the USSR. The modern historians believe that the number of soldiers who kept the defense was not equal to 28 and that in fact completely different redarmeys could participate in battle.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was born in 1923 in the village of Osinovy \u200b\u200btraffic police of the Tambov region. Her family in the future moved to Moscow. Zoya was an emotional and enthusiastic girl, in his youth she dreamed of a feat.
After the start of the war, Zoya, like many Komsomol members, voluntarily joined the partisan detachment. After a short training, the group of saboteurs were thrown into the rear of the enemy. There, Zoya fulfilled his first task - she was entrusted to mining roads near Volokolamsk - busy by the Germans of the district center.
Then the partisans received a new order - to upload the villages and individual houses where the invaders stopped at the post. The lack of opportunity to sleep under the roof under the conditions of winter was supposed to, according to command, weaken the Germans.
On the night of November 27, a group of Zoe Kosmodemyanskaya, two more fighters performed a task in Petrishchevo village. At the same time, one of the members of the group, Vasily Talkrak, allowed negligence and fell into the hands of the Germans. Then Zoya was captured. She was noticed and issued to the Germans of Sviridov - the owner of the house, which Zoya tried to set fire. The peasant who issued the partisan in the future collaborated with the Germans and after their departure was tried and sentenced to shooting.
The Germans brutally tortured by Zoya, trying to receive information about ties with partisans from her. She categorically refused to call any names, but himself called Tanya in honor of Tatiana Solomakhi - Komsomolskaya kismers, who died during the fight against the White Guards in Kuban. According to the testimony of local residents, Zoe was beaten by a digestive on the frost. In bullying over it, two peasants participated, at home of which were injured from fire.
The next day, Zoya was hanged. Before execution, she kept very courageously and called on the local population to fight the occupiers, and German soldiers - to give up. Nazis still mocked on the body of the girl. She passed another month before they allowed local residents to bury the Zoe. After the liberation of the Moscow region, the Garyzanka was postponed to Novodevichi cemetery in Moscow.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya became the first woman who honored the honorary title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Her feat entered the Soviet history textbooks. An example was brought up not one generation of Soviet citizens.
What kind of exploits of the Great Patriotic War do we know? Alexander Sailors, who closed the ambrusura; Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, which the fascists spent; The pilot Alexei Maresiev, who lost both legs, but continued to fight ... It is unlikely that someone can remember the names of other heroes. Meanwhile, people who have committed impossible to protect their homeland, a lot. Their names are called the streets of our cities, and we do not even know who they are and what. The editors decided to correct this situation - we suggest you learn about the 10 most incredible exploits of the Great Patriotic War.
Nikolay Gastello
Nikolay Gastello
Nikolay Gastello was a military pilot, captain, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th Fallen Bombarde Aviation Regiment. Before the Great Patriotic War, Gastello worked as a simple mechanic. He passed three wars, he received the rank of captain a year before the Second World War.
On June 26, 1941, the crew, who commanded Nikolai Gastello, flew to hit the German mechanized column, located between the Belarusian cities of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. During the operation, the Gastello Airplane was bridged with an anti-aircraft gun shell - the plane caught fire. Nikolai could catapult, but instead he sent a burning plane to a German column. Before that, for all the time of the Second World War, no one did this, so after the perfect gastello feat of all pilots who were solved to go to the ram, called Gastellovcans.
Lenya Golikov Lenya Golikov
The Lenya Golikov, during the Great Patriotic War, consisted in the Leningrad partisan brigade as a brigade scout of the 67th squad of the 4th. When the best practices began, he was 15 years old, he left the partisan squad when the Germans seized his native Novgorod region. During his stay in the partisan brigade, he managed to participate in twenty-seven operations, destroy several bridges in the enemy's rear, destroy ten compositions, transported ammunition, kill more than seventy Germans.
In the summer of 1942, next to the village of Varnanti Lenya, Golikov undermined the car in which the German Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard von Wirtz was driving. As a result of this operation, Golikov was able to produce important documents in which the German offensive was said. This made it possible to rip the preparing attack of the Germans. For this feat, Lenya Golikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He died in the winter of 1943 in the winter of 1943, near the village of Outrase Luka, he was 16 years old.
Zina Portnova Zina Portnova
Zina Portorova was the explosion of the partisan squad named after Voroshilov, who acted in the territory occupied by the Germans. When the war began, Zina was in Belarus on vacation. In 1942, at the age of 16, she joined the underground organization "Young Avengers", where at first she was engaged in the fact that the anti-fascist leaflets were distributed in the territories occupied by the Germans. Then Zina got a job in the dining room for the German officers. There, she was performed a number of sabotage, the Germans did not grab it only miracle.
In 1943, Zina joined the partisan detachment, where he continued to engage in sabotage in the rear of the enemy. But soon thanks to reporters who switched to the side of the Germans, Zina was captured, where it was subjected to cruel torture. However, the enemies underestimated the young girl - torture did not make her give her, and during one of the interrogations, Zina managed to grab the gun and kill three Germans. Shortly after that, Zina Portnova was shot, she was 17 years old.
Young guard Young guard
Thus called the underground anti-fascist organization, which led its activities in the area of \u200b\u200bthe modern Lugansk region. "Young Guard" included more than a hundred participants, the youngest of which was only fourteen years old. The most famous members of the "Young Guard" are Oleg Kosheva, Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsov, Vasily Levashov, Sergey Tylenyn and others.
The participants of this underground organization produced and distributed leaflets in the territory occupied by the Germans, and also committed sabotage. As a result of one of the sabotage, they were able to deal with a whole repair shop in which the Germans cleared tanks. They also managed to burn the stock exchange, from where the Germans hiped people to Germany.
Traitors issued the participants of the "Young Guard" to the Germans just before the planned uprising. More than 70 members of the organization were captured, subjected to torture, and then were shot.
Victor Talalikhin Victor Talalikhin
Viktor Talalikhin was the Deputy Commander of the Squadron of the 177th Fighter Aviation Regiment of Air Defense. Talalikhin took part in the Soviet-Finnish war, during which he managed to destroy the enemy's four aircraft. After the war, he went to serve in an aviation school. During the Second World War, in August 1941 he knocked down a German bomber, going to the ram on him, and stayed alive, choosing from the cab and descending on a parachute in the rear to his.
After that, Viktor Talalichina managed to destroy five more fascist aircraft. However, in October 1914, the hero died during participation in the next air battle near Podolsk. In 2014, Victor Talalikhin plane was found in the suburban swamps.
Andrey Korzun Andrey Korzun
Andrei Korzun was an artillersmith of the 3rd counter-follower artillery corps of the Leningrad Front. Korzun was called into the army at the very beginning of the Second World War. His battery fell under the squall fire of the enemy on November 5, 1943. In this battle, Andrei Korzun was seriously injured. Seeing that the powder charges were adjusted, because of which the warehouse with ammunition can take off to the air, Korzun, experiencing the strongest pain, crawled to burning powder charges. Forces to remove your chinel and cover it with her, he no longer had, so he, losing consciousness, covered him with himself. As a result, the korzun explosion fell did not happen.
Alexander Herman Alexander Herman
Alexander Herman was the commander of the 3rd Leningrad Brigade Partisan. Alexander served in the army since 1933, and when the Great Patriotic War began, he went to scouts. Then he began to command a partisan brigade, which was able to destroy several hundred railway compositions and cars, kill thousands of German soldiers and officers. The Germans tried to enter the partisan detachment for a long time, and in 1943 they managed it: the detachment was surrounded in the Pskov region, and Alexander Herman was killed.
Vladislav Khrustitsky Vladislav Khrustitsky
Vladislav Khrustitsky was the commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade on the Leningrad Front. Vladislav served in the army since the 20s, in the late 1930s he graduated from armored courses, and in the fall of 1942 he began to command the 61st separate light tank brigade. Vladislav Khrustitsky distinguished himself during the Iskra surgery, which gave impetus to the future defeat of the fascists on the Leningrad Front.
In 1944, the Germans have already retired from Leningrad, but Vladislav Khrustitsky's tank brigade fell into a trap under Volosovo. Despite the fierce fire from the enemy, Khrustitsky on radio conversion handed over the order "stand to death!", After which the first went ahead. In this battle, Vladislav Khrustitsky died, and the village of Volosovo was released from the fascists.
Efim Osipenko Efim Osipenko
Efim Osipenko was the commander of the partisan squad, which he organized with several his comrades immediately after the capture of his Earth by the Germans. Osipenko detachment made anti-fascist sabotage. During one of these sabotage officers, Osipenko was supposed to throw under the German railway line-made explosives made from grenade, which he did. However, the explosion did not happen. Without a long time, Osipenko found a railway sign, and a stick attached to him hit a grenade. It exploded, the composition with food and tanks for the Germans went under the slope. The hero survived, but lost sight. For this operation, Efim Osipenko received the "Partiz of Patriotic War" medal, it was the first award such a medal.
Matvey Kuzmin Matvey Kuzmin
Matvey Kuzmin became the most elderly participant in the Second World War, who received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but, alas, posthumously. He was 83 years old when the Germans took him in captivity and demanded them through the forest and swamps. Matvey sent his grandson forward to warn the partisan detachment that was next to them. Thus, the Germans fell into the ambush and was broken. During the battle, Matvey Kuzmin was killed by a German officer.
Twelve of several thousand examples of unparalleled baby courage
Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War - how many of them were there? If you count - how else otherwise?! - The hero of every boy and every girl, whom fate led to war and made soldiers, sailors or partisans, are dozens, if not hundreds of thousands.
According to the official data of the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense (TsAMO) of Russia, over 3500 servicemen under the age of 16, during the war in combat versions of the war. At the same time, it is clear that not every commander of the unit, which risked to take the shelf's son to raise the son, found the courage to declare a pupil on the team. Understand how they tried to hide the age of small fighters their fathers-commanders who, and in fact, many were instead of fathers, can be in confidence in premium documents. In the yellowed archival sheets in most minor servicemen are indicated by a clearly overstated age. Real it turned out much later, after ten, and even after forty years.
But there were still children and adolescents who fought in partisan detachments and held in underground organizations! And there were much more there: they sometimes went to the partisans with whole families, and if not, then almost every teenager, which turned out in the occupied land, was for whom to revenge.
So "tens of thousands" - this is not an exaggeration, but rather, the denial. And, apparently, we never know the exact number of young heroes of the Great Patriotic War. But this is not the reason not to remember them.
Burlin boys went to Berlin
The youngest of all famous little soldiers - in any case, according to the documents stored in military archives, can be considered a pupil of the 142nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 47th Guards Rifle Division Sergey Aleshkin. In archival documents, you can find two certificates of awarding the boy born in 1936 and in the army from September 8, 1942, shortly after the punishers shot his mother and her older brother for contact with the partisans. The first document of April 26, 1943 - about awarding his medal "For military merit" due to the fact that "Tov. Aleshkin Favorites Regiment "" His cheerfulness, love for the part and surrounding in extremely difficult moments he instilled cheerfulness and confidence in victory. " The second, dated November 19, 1945, about awarding the pupils of the Tula Suvorov Military School "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945": In the list of 13 Suvorov, the last name Aleshkina is first.
But still such a young soldier is an exception even for military time and for the country, where all the people rose to the defense of the Motherland, from Mala to Velik. Most young heroes who fought at the front and in the rear of the enemy were on average for 13-14 years. The very first of them were defenders of the Brest Fortress, and one of the sons of the regiment - the Kavaler of the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Glory III degree and the Medal "Overland" Vladimir Tarnovsky, who served in the 370th pillar of the 230th Rifle Division - left his autograph on Reichstag's wall in the victorious May 1945 ...
The most young characters of the Soviet Union
These four names are Lenya Golikov, Marat Kasey, Zina Portorova and Valya Cutch - now over half a century are the most famous symbol of the heroism of young defenders of our Motherland. Fought in different places and those who committed different things in circumstances, all of them were partisans and all posthumously awarded the highest award of the country's title of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Two-Lena Golikov and Zina Portnova - by the time they had a chance to show unprecedented courage, turned to 17 years old, two more - the Vale of the cat and Marat Casey - only 14.
Lenya Golikov was the first of the four who won the highest title: Assignment Decree was signed on April 2, 1944. The text says that the title of Hero of the Soviet Union of Golikov was awarded "for the exemplary fulfillment of command tasks and manifested courage and heroism in battles." And indeed, in less than a year - from March 1942 to January 1943, Golikov managed to participate in the defeat of three enemy garrisons, in the undermining a dozen with excess bridges, in capturing the German Major General with secret documents ... and the heroic to die in Battle under the village of Outrash, without waiting for a high award for the seizure of a strategically important "language".
Zina Portnic and Valais The cat's title of the Heroes of the Soviet Union was awarded 13 years after the victory, in 1958. Zina was awarded the award for the courage with whom she led the underground work, then carried out the duties of a connected between the partisans and the underground and eventually carried out inhuman flour, hitting the Hitlermen at the very beginning of 1944. Valya - for the totality of exploits in the ranks of the Shepetovsky partisan detachment of the name of Karmelyuk, where he came after a year of work in the underground organization in Shepetovka itself. And Marat Kazai was awarded the highest award only a year of the 20th anniversary of the victory: a decree on the title of the title Hero of the Soviet Union was published on May 8, 1965. For almost two years - from November 1942 to May 1944 - Marat went to the partisan compounds of Belarus and died, undermining the last grenade and herself, and surrounding his Nazis.
Over the past half century, the circumstances of the features of the fourth of the heroes became known to the whole country: not one generation of Soviet schoolchildren has grown in their example, and today they certainly tell about them. But among those who did not receive the highest award, there were a lot of real heroes - pilots, sailors, snipers, scouts and even musicians.
Sniper Vasily Kurka.
The war caught Vasya sixteen-year-old teenager. In the first days, he was mobilized to the labor front, and in October, he made enrollment in the 726th Rifle Regiment of the 395th Rifle Division. At first, inappropriate age, the boy, who also looked for a couple of years younger than his age, left in the mound: they say, there is nothing to do teenagers on the advanced. But soon the guy achieved his own and was translated into a combat unit - to the snipers team.
Vasily Kalka. Photo: Imperial War Museum
Amazing Military Fate: From the first to the last day, Vasya Kloka went in the same shelf of the same division in the same shelf! Made a good military career, Having reached the title of Lieutenant and accepting the rifle platoon. He recorded on his own account, according to various sources, from 179 to 200 destroyed Nazis. Passed with battles from Donbass to Tuapse and back, and then farther, to the west, to Sandomira bridgehead. There's a Lieutenant Kurka and was mortally wounded in January 1945, less than six months before the victory.
Pilot Arkady Kamanan.
The location of the 5th Guards Assault Aviakorpus 15-year-old Arkady Kamanan arrived together with the Father, appointed to the post of commander of this famous part. The pilots were surprised to learn that the son of the legendary pilot, one of the seven of the first heroes of the Soviet Union, the Chelyuskina rescue expedition participant will work by aircraft in the squadron of communication. But soon they were convinced that the "General Son" did not justify their negative expectations at all. The boy was not hiding behind the back of the famous Father, but simply did his job well - and struggling to the sky.
Sergeant Kamanin in 1944. Photo: War.ee.
Soon Arkady achieved his one: first he rises into the air as a summer leaving, then the navigator on the U-2, and then goes to the first independent departure. Finally - the long-awaited appointment: the son of General Kamanin becomes the pilot of the 423rd separate squadron. Before the victory of Arkady, who served before the title of the foreman, managed to fly almost 300 hours and deserve three orders: two - the Red Star and one - a red banner. And if it were not for meningitis, literally in a matter of days, killed 18-year-old guy in the spring of 1947, perhaps in the cosmonaut detachment, whose first commander was a kamanan-senior, it would have been a kamanan junior: in the Names of Zhukovsky Arkady, it managed to enter Back in 1946.
Front-line scout Yuri Zhadno
In the army, the ten-year-old Yura turned out to be accidental. In July 1941, he went to show a little-known ferrod in the Western Dvina retreating redarmers and did not have time to return to his native Vitebsk, where the Germans had already entered. So and left with a part to the east, to Moscow, to start the return path to the West from there.
Yuri Zhadno. Photo: Russia-Reborn.ru.
In this way, Yura managed a lot. In January 1942 he, he never had a parachute with a parachute, goes to the revenue that fell into the environment to the partisans and helps them break through the enemy ring. In the summer of 1942, together with the group of searcher's intelligence officers, a strategically important bridge over Berezina explodes, sending a bridge cannon to the bottom of the river, but also nine trucks passing around him, and less than in a year it turns out to be the only one of all connected, who managed to break through to the surrounded Battalion and help him get out of the Ring.
By February 1944, the 13-year-old breast of the 13-year scout was decorated with a courage and the Order of the Red Star. But the projectile broke literally under his feet interrupted the front career of Yura. He got into the hospital, from where he was heading to the Suvorov school, but did not pass on the state of health. Then the retired young intelligence officer retrained into the welders and on this "front" also managed to become famous, having traveled with his welding machine almost half of Eurasia - built pipelines.
Infantryman Anatoly Komar
Among the 263 Soviet soldiers who closed enemy embrasures closed by their bodies, the most younger was the 15-year-old Private 332rd intelligence company of the 252nd Rifle Division of the 53rd Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front Anatoly Komar. In the existing army, the teenager was hit in September 1943, when the front came close to his native Slavyansk. It happened almost as well as Yura Zhadno, with the only difference that the boy served as a conductor not from retreating, but at the coming red-Armenians. Anatoly helped them go deep into the front-line lane of the Germans, and then left along with the upcoming army to the West.
Young partisan. Photo: Imperial War Museum
But, unlike Yura Zhadno, the front-line path of the mosquito was much shorter. Only two months later, I was able to wear epaulent recently in the Red Army and go to intelligence. In November of the same year, returning from his free search to the rear in Germans, the group of intelligence officers revealed himself and was forced to break into her with the battle. The last obstacle on the way back was a machine gun, pressed exploration to Earth. Anatoly Komar threw a grenade into him, and the fire verse, but it was worth the reconnaissance as a machine gunner began to shoot again. And then, the closer to the enemy of Tole rose and fell on the machine-gun trunk, by purchasing precious minutes for a breakthrough.
Sailor Boris Kuleshin
On the cracked photography against the background of sailors in black shape with cartridge boxes on the back and the superstructure of the Soviet cruiser, a boy is ten years old. His hands are firmly squeezed by the machine gun of the PPS, and the head is banging with the Guards ribbon and the inscription "Tashkent". This is the pupil of the crew of the leader of the destroyer "Tashkent" Boris Kuleshin. The snapshot was taken in Poti, where after repair the ship went to the next cargo of ammunition for a deposited Sevastopol. It is here that the Skhodni "Tashkent" and the twelve-year-old Boris Kuleshin appeared. His father died at the front, the mother, as soon as Donetsk was occupied, stolen to Germany, and he himself managed to go through the front line to his own and together with the retreating army to the Caucasus.
Boris Kuleshin. Photo: WERALBUM.RU.
While they persuaded the commander of the ship Vasily Eroshenko, while they decided, which combat part of the junction, sailors managed to give it a belt, caking and automatic and take a picture of a new crew member. And then there was a transition to Sevastopol, the first in the life of Bory raid on Tashkent and the first in the life of the closet for the zenith artavtomat, which he was on a par with other zenitchiks. In his fighting post, he was injured on July 2, 1942, when German aviation tried to sink the ship in the port of Novorossiysk. After the hospital, Boria, after the captain, Eroshenko came to a new ship - the Guards Cruiser "Red Caucasus". And already here, he found his deserved award: presented for fights at Tashkent to the medal "for courage", he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of the Red Banner of the Army of Marshal of the Budennye and Member of the Marshal Commander. And in the next front shot, he is already banging in the new formen of the young sailor, on the head of which a shortage of the guards ribbon and the inscription "Red Caucasus". It is in this form in 1944 Boria and went to the Tbilisi Nakhimovskaya school, where in September 1945 was among other teachers, educators and pupils were awarded the medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
Musician Peter Klypa
The fifteen-year-old pupil of the musical platoon of the 333rd rifle regiment Peter Klypa should have been, like other minor inhabitants of the Brest Fortress, with the beginning of the war go to the rear. But to leave the fighting citadel, which was among others and the only native man - his older brother Lieutenant Nikolai, Petya refused. So he became one of the first in the history of the Great Patriotic War of adolescent soldiers and a full participant in the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress.
Peter Klypa. Photo: worldwar.com.
He fought there until the beginning of July, until he received an order together with the remains of the regiment to break through to Brest. From here and started by Petitia. Running through the influx of Bug, he was among other colleagues captured, from which he soon managed to run. I got to Brest, lived there a month and moved to the east, behind the retreating Red Army, but did not reach. During one of the nights, he was discovered with a friend, and adolescents were sent to forced work in Germany. We liberated Petya in 1945 by American troops, and after checking, he even managed to serve in the Soviet Army for several months. And on returning to the Motherland again pleased with the bastard, because he succumbed to the persuasion of an old friend and helped to speculate drunk. Liberated Peter Klypa only seven years old. Thank you for it, he needed a historian and writer Sergei Smirnov, on the tavern recreated the history of the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress and, of course, who did not miss the history of one of her young defenders, who was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War I degree after liberation.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet people showed unparalleled heroism and became once again an example of self-sacrifice in the name of Victory. Red Army women and partisans did not regret themselves in battle with the enemy. However, there were cases when the victory was not at the power and courage, but a cunning and cunning.
Winch against an inaccessible dot
During the battle for Novorossiysk at the Small Land, the Marine Earth served and fought Marine Pikes Stepan - a descendant of Kerch fishermen, generations of the produced in the Black Sea.
Thanks to his smelter, soldiers managed to take an enemy dot without loss (a long-term firepoint), which before that seemed impregnable. He represented a stone house with thick walls, the path to which were overporning barbed wire. Empty tin cans were inspired on the "barley", rather than each touch.
All attempts to take dot battle ended in failure - assault groups carried losses from machine-gun, mortar and artillery fire and were forced to retreat. Stepan was able to get a winch with a cable, and at night, imperceptibly informing the wire bugs, climbed this cable to them. And when he returned back, then led the mechanism into action.
When the Germans saw a passing barrage, first opened a squall fire, and then they ran at all from the house. Here they were captured. Later, they said that, seeing the passing barrier, they were frightened that they were dealing with the unclean force, and drank. Strengthening was taken without loss.
Turtles-saboteurs
Another case occurred on the same "low earth". There are many turtles in that area. Somehow one of the fighters came to mind to tie to one of them can be a can and release amphibious towards German fortifications.
Hearing the brand, the Germans thought that the Red Army was cut by a wire barrier, on which empty canned cans were inspired as a sound alarm, and about two hours were spent ammunition, shooting a plot where there was not a single soldier.
The next night, our fighters were allowed in the direction of the position of the enemy dozens of such amphibian "saboteurs". A rumble of cans in the absence of a visible opponent did not give the Germans to the Germans, and for a long time spent a huge amount of ammunition of all calibers, fighting off non-existent enemies.
Undermining mines for several hundred kilometers
The name of Ilya Grigorievich Starinov is inscribed in a separate line in the history of the Russian army. Having passed the civil, Spanish, Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic War, he perpetuated himself as a unique partisan and a diversionant. It was he who created simple, but extremely effective mines to undermine German trains. Under his leadership, hundreds of demolitions were prepared, which turned the rear of the German army trap. But his outstanding diversion itself was the destruction of Lieutenant General Georg Brown, who commanded the 68th Infantry Division of the Wehrmacht.
When our troops, retreating, left Kharkov, the military and immediately the first secretary of the Kiev Regional Committee of the WCP (b) Nikita Khrushchev insisted that the house in which Nikita Sergeevich lived in the city on Dzerzhinsky Street. He knew that the German officers from among the command, when they stand at the post in the occupied cities, are quartered with a maximum comfort, and his home came to these purposes as it is impossible.
Ilya Starins with a group of sappers laid a very powerful bomb in the Khrushchev boiler room, which opened a radio signal. The fighters right in the room dug a 2-meter well and laid a mine with equipment. So that the Germans did not find it, in the other corner of the boiler room "hid", disassembled poorly, another mini-belling.
After a couple of weeks, when the Germans have already completely occupied Kharkov, the explosives activated. The explosion signal was served from Voronezh, the distance to which was 330 kilometers. Only a funnel remained from the mansion, several German officers died, including those mentioned Georg Brown.
Russian ceremonies and shoot the sheds
Many of the actions of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War caused a surprise at the German troops close to shock. Chancellor Otto von Bismarck attributes phrase: "Never fight Russian. For each of your military trick, they will answer unpredictable non-stupidity. "
The reactive systems of the salvo fire, which our fighters are affectionately called "Katyusha", shot 82 mm and M-13 caliber machines of 132 mm. Later began to use more powerful modifications of these ammunition - reactive shells of a 300 mm caliber under the M-30 index.
Guide devices for such shells were not provided on vehicles, and for them made launchers, in which, in fact, only the angle of inclination was adjusted. The shells laid on the installation either in one row or two, and directly in the factory transport packaging, where there were 4 projectiles in a row. To launch, it was necessary to connect the shells to the dynamo machine with a spinning handle, which initiated the ignition of the throwing charge.
Sometimes because of the inattention, and sometimes simply by negligence, without reading the instruction, our artilleryrs forgot to remove wooden stips for shells from packaging packs, and they flew to the enemy position right in the packages. The packaging dimensions reached two meters, which is why there were rumors among the Germans that the thorough Russian "shoot the sheds".
With an ax on a tank
No less incredible event occurred in the summer of 1941 in the North-West Front. When parts of the 8th Tank Division of the Third Reich surrounded our troops, one of the German tanks drove into the edge of the forest, where his crew saw a smoking field kitchen. She smoked not because she was chopped, but because in the stove burned firewood, and the soldiers' porridge and soup were cooked in the boilers. Near the Germans did not notice anyone. Then their commander got out of the car to raise provisions. But at that moment, the red Armenian grew from under the ground and rushed to him with an ax in one hand and a rifle to another.
Tankist quickly jumped back, closed the hatch and began to shoot our soldier from the machine gun. But it was already late - the fighter was too close and could leave from under the shelling. Climbing the enemy car, he began to beat the machine gun on the machine gun, until his barrel bent. After that, the cook closed the gap to observe the cloth and began to pierce the ax along the tower itself. He was alone, but he went to the trick - began to scream allegedly located to comrades, so that they would rather carry anti-tank grenades to undermine the tank if the Germans do not surrender.
Through a few seconds, the hatch of the tank opened and from there the hands raised up. Having witnessed the rifle on the enemy, the Red Army forced the crew members to tie each other, after which he ran to stir up the preparing food that could burn. We returned to the edge of one-pilot, who successfully abandoned the attack of the enemy, and found him: he strangled his porridge peacefully, and four captive Germans were sitting next to him and there was a tank nearby.
The soldiers were fed, and the cook received a medal. The name of the hero Ivan Pavlovich Head. He passed the whole war and has been awarded more than once.
