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The most unusual feats of the Great Patriotic War. Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits Heroes of the Great Patriotic War briefly

The most unusual feats of the Great Patriotic War. Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits Heroes of the Great Patriotic War briefly

More than a dozen years ago, Mikhail Efremov was born - a brilliant military leader who proved himself during the periods of two wars - Civil and Patriotic. However, the feats that he accomplished were not immediately appreciated. After his death, many years passed until he received a well-deserved title. What other heroes of the Great Patriotic War have been forgotten?

Steel Commander

At the age of 17, Mikhail Efremov joined the army. He began his service as a volunteer in an infantry regiment. Two years later, with the rank of ensign, he participated in the famous breakthrough under the command of Brusilov. Mikhail joined the Red Army in 1918. The hero gained fame thanks to armored guns. Due to the fact that the Red Army did not have armored trains with good equipment, Mikhail decided to create them on his own, using improvised means.

Mikhail Efremov met the Great Patriotic War at the head of the 21st Army. Under his leadership, the soldiers held back the enemy troops on the Dnieper, defended Gomel. Not allowing the Nazis to go to the rear of the Southwestern Front. Mikhail Efremov met the beginning of the Patriotic War, leading the 33rd Army. At this time, he participated in the defense of Moscow and in the subsequent counteroffensive.

In early February, the strike group, commanded by Mikhail Efremov, made a hole in the enemy's defenses and went to Vyazma. However, the soldiers were cut off from the main forces and surrounded. For two months, the fighters carried out raids on the rear of the Germans, destroyed enemy soldiers and military equipment. And when the cartridges with food ran out, Mikhail Efremov decided to break through to his own, asking by radio to organize a corridor.

But the hero never did. The Germans noticed the movement and defeated Efremov's shock group. Mikhail himself, in order not to be captured, shot himself. He was buried by the Germans in the village of Slobodka with full military honors.

In 1996, persistent veterans and search engines ensured that Efremov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

In honor of Gastello's feat

What other heroes of the Great Patriotic War were forgotten? In 1941, a DB-3F bomber took off from the airfield near Smolensk. Alexander Maslov, and it was he who flew the combat aircraft, was given the task of eliminating the enemy column moving along the Molodechno-Radoshkovichi road. The plane was hit by enemy anti-aircraft guns, the crew was declared missing.

A few years later, namely in 1951, in order to honor the memory of the famous bomber Nikolai Gastello, who rammed on the same highway, it was decided to transfer the remains of the crew to the village of Radoshkovichi, to the central square. During the exhumation, they found a medallion that belonged to Sergeant Grigory Reutov, who was a gunner in Maslov's crew.

They did not change the historiography, however, the crew began to be listed not as missing, but as dead. Heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits were recognized in 1996. It was in this year that the entire crew of Maslov received the corresponding title.

The pilot whose name has been forgotten

The exploits of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War will remain in our hearts forever. However, not all heroic deeds are remembered.

Pyotr Yeremeev was considered an experienced pilot. He received his for repulsing several German attacks in one night. Having shot down several Junkers, Peter was wounded. However, having bandaged the wound, a few minutes later he again took off on another plane to repel an enemy attack. And a month after this memorable night, he accomplished a feat.

On the night of July 28, Eremeev was assigned to patrol the airspace over Novo-Petrovsk. It was at this time that he noticed an enemy bomber that was heading for Moscow. Peter went into his tail and started shooting. The enemy went to the right, while the Soviet pilot lost him. However, he immediately noticed another bomber, which went to the West. Coming close to him, Eremeev pressed the trigger. But the shooting was never opened, as the cartridges ran out.

Without thinking for a long time, Peter cut his propeller into the tail of a German aircraft. The fighter turned over and began to fall apart. However, Eremeev escaped by jumping out with a parachute. For this feat they wanted to hand him over, but they did not have time to do this. On the night of August 7, the pod was repeated by Viktor Talalikhin. It was his name that was inscribed in the official chronicle.

But the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits will never be forgotten. This was proved by Alexei Tolstoy. He wrote an essay called "Battering Ram", in which he described the feat of Peter.

Only in 2010 he was recognized as a hero

In the Volgograd region there is a monument on which the names of the Red Army soldiers who died in these parts are written. All of them are heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and their exploits will forever remain in history. On that monument is the name Maxim Passar. The corresponding title was awarded to him only in 2010. And it should be noted that he fully deserved it.

He was born in the Khabarovsk Territory. Hereditary hunter has become one of the best among snipers. He showed himself back in By 1943, he destroyed about 237 Nazis. The Germans set a significant reward for the head of the well-aimed Nanai. He was hunted by enemy snipers.

He accomplished his feat at the very beginning of 1943. In order to liberate the village of Peschanka from enemy soldiers, it was necessary first to get rid of two German machine guns. They were well fortified on the flanks. And it was Maxim Passar who had to do it. 100 meters before the firing points, Maxim opened fire and destroyed the crews. However, he failed to survive. The hero was covered by enemy artillery fire.

Underage Heroes

All of the above heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits were forgotten. However, all of them must be remembered. They did everything possible to bring the Victory Day closer. However, not only adults managed to prove themselves. There are some heroes who are not even 18 years old. And it is about them that we will talk further.

Along with adults, several tens of thousands of teenagers participated in the hostilities. They, like adults, died, received orders and medals. The images of some were taken for Soviet propaganda. All of them are heroes of the Great Patriotic War, and their exploits have been preserved in numerous stories. However, five teenagers should be singled out, who received the corresponding title.

Not wanting to surrender, he blew himself up along with enemy soldiers

Marat Kazei was born in 1929. It happened in the village of Stankovo. Before the war, he managed to finish only four classes. Parents were recognized as "enemies of the people." However, despite this, Marat's mother, back in 1941, began to hide partisans at home. For which she was killed by the Germans. Marat and his sister joined the partisans.

Marat Kazei constantly went to reconnaissance, took part in numerous raids, undermined the echelons. He received the medal "For Courage" in 1943. He managed to raise his comrades to attack and break through the ring of enemies. At the same time, Marat was wounded.

Talking about the exploits of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, it is worth saying that a 14-year-old soldier died in 1944. It happened while doing another job. Returning from reconnaissance, he and his commander were fired upon by the Germans. The commander died immediately, and Marat began to shoot back. He had nowhere to go. And there was no opportunity as such, since he was wounded in the arm. Until the cartridges ran out, he held the defense. Then he took two grenades. He threw one immediately, and kept the second until the Germans approached. Marat blew himself up, killing several more opponents in this way.

Marat Kazei was recognized as a Hero in 1965. The underage heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits, stories about which are widespread in a fairly large number, will remain in memory for a long time.

Heroic deeds of a 14-year-old boy

The partisan scout Valya was born in the village of Khmelevka. It happened in 1930. Before the capture of the village by the Germans, he graduated from only 5 classes. After that, he began to collect weapons and ammunition. He passed them on to the partisans.

Since 1942 he became a scout for the partisans. In the fall, he was given the task of destroying the head of the field gendarmerie. The task was completed. Valya, together with several of his peers, blew up two enemy vehicles, killing seven soldiers and the commander Franz Koenig himself. About 30 people were injured.

In 1943, he was engaged in reconnaissance of the location of an underground telephone cable, which was subsequently successfully blown up. Valya also took part in the destruction of several trains and warehouses. In the same year, while on duty, the young hero noticed the punishers, who decided to round up. Having destroyed the enemy officer, Valya raised the alarm. Thanks to this, the partisans prepared for battle.

He died in 1944 after the battle for the city of Izyaslav. In that battle, the young warrior was mortally wounded. He received the title of hero in 1958.

A little short of 17

What other heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 should be mentioned? Scout in the future Lenya Golikov was born in 1926. From the very beginning of the war, having obtained a rifle for himself, he joined the partisans. Under the guise of a beggar, the guy went around the villages, collecting data on the enemy. He passed all the information to the partisans.

The guy joined the detachment in 1942. During his entire military career, he took part in 27 operations, destroyed about 78 enemy soldiers, blew up several bridges (railway and highway), blew up about 9 vehicles with ammunition. It was Lenya Golikov who blew up the car in which Major General Richard Witz was driving. All his merits are fully listed in the award list.

These are the underage heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits. Children sometimes performed such feats that even adults did not always have the courage. It was decided to award Lenya Golikov with the Gold Star medal and the title of Hero. However, he was never able to get them. In 1943, the combat detachment, which included Lenya, was surrounded. Only a few people got out of the encirclement. And Leni was not among them. He was killed on January 24, 1943. Until the age of 17, the guy never lived.

Killed by a traitor

The heroes of the Great Patriotic War rarely remembered themselves. And their exploits, photos, images remained in the memory of many people. Sasha Chekalin is one of those. He was born in 1925. He joined the partisan detachment in 1941. He served no more than a month.

In 1941, the partisan detachment inflicted significant damage on the enemy forces. Numerous warehouses were on fire, cars were constantly undermined, trains went downhill, sentries and enemy patrols regularly disappeared. The fighter Sasha Chekalin took part in all this.

In November 1941, he caught a bad cold. The commissioner decided to leave him in the nearest village with a trusted person. However, there was a traitor in the village. It was he who betrayed the underage fighter. Sasha was captured by partisans at night. And finally, the constant torture was over. Sasha was hanged. For 20 days he was forbidden to be removed from the gallows. And only after the liberation of the village by the partisans, Sasha was buried with military honors.

The corresponding title of Hero was decided to be awarded to him in 1942.

Shot after prolonged torture

All of the above people are heroes of the Great Patriotic War. And their exploits for children are the most the best stories. Then we will talk about a girl who, in courage, was not inferior not only to her peers, but also to adult soldiers.

Zina Portnova was born in 1926. The war found her in the village of Zuya, where she came to rest with her relatives. Since 1942, she has been posting leaflets against the invaders.

In 1943 she joined a partisan detachment, becoming a scout. In the same year, she received her first assignment. She was supposed to uncover the reasons for the failure of the organization called "Young Avengers". She was also supposed to establish contact with the underground. However, at the moment of returning to the detachment, Zina was seized by German soldiers.

During the interrogation, the girl managed to grab a pistol lying on the table, shoot the investigator and two more soldiers. While trying to escape, she was captured. She was constantly tortured, trying to force her to answer questions. However, Zina remained silent. Eyewitnesses claimed that once, when she was taken out for another interrogation, she threw herself under a car. However, the car stopped. The girl was taken out from under the wheels and taken away for interrogation. But she was silent again. That's what the heroes of the Great Patriotic War were like.

The girl did not wait for 1945. In 1944 she was shot. Zina at that time was only 17 years old.

Conclusion

The heroic deeds of soldiers during the fighting numbered several tens of thousands. No one knows exactly how many brave and courageous deeds were committed in the name of the Motherland. This review described some of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and their exploits. Briefly, it is impossible to convey all the strength of character that they possessed. But there is simply not enough time for a full story about their heroic deeds.

They say that there were too many tragic events in the outgoing year, and there is almost nothing good to remember on the eve of the New Year. Tsargrad decided to argue with this statement and collected a selection of our most prominent compatriots (and not only) and their heroic deeds. Unfortunately, many of them accomplished a feat at the cost of their own lives, but the memory of them and their deeds will support us for a long time and serve as an example to follow. Ten names that thundered in 2016 and should not be forgotten.

Alexander Prokhorenko

A special forces officer, 25-year-old Lieutenant Prokhorenko, died in March near Palmyra while conducting Russian air strikes against ISIS militants. He was discovered by terrorists and, being surrounded, did not want to give up and caused fire on himself. He was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously, and a street in Orenburg was named after him. The feat of Prokhorenko caused admiration not only in Russia. Two French families donated awards, including the Legion of Honor.

Farewell ceremony for the hero of Russia, senior lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenko, who died in Syria, in the village of Gorodki, Tulgansky district. Sergei Medvedev/TASS

In Orenburg, where the officer comes from, he left a young wife, who, after the death of Alexander, had to be hospitalized in order to save the life of their child. In August, her daughter Violetta was born.

Magomed Nurbagandov

A policeman from Dagestan, Magomet Nurbagandov, and his brother Abdurashid were killed in July, but the details became known only in September, when a video recording of the execution of police officers was found on the phone of one of the liquidated militants of the Izberbash criminal group. On that ill-fated day, the brothers and their schoolchildren rested in nature in tents, no one expected the attacks of bandits. Abdurashid was killed immediately because he stood up for one of the boys, whom the bandits began to insult. Mohammed was tortured before his death, because his documents of a law enforcement officer were found. The purpose of the bullying was to force Nurbagandov to renounce his colleagues on record, acknowledge the strength of the militants and call on the Dagestanis to leave the police. In response to this, Nurbagandov addressed his colleagues with the words "Work, brothers!" The enraged militants could only kill him. President Vladimir Putin met with the brothers' parents, thanked them for their son's courage and awarded him the title of Hero of Russia posthumously. The last phrase of Mahomet became the main slogan of the outgoing year and, one might assume, for years to come. Two small children were left without a father. Nurbagandov's son now says that he will only become a policeman.

Elizabeth Glinka

Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS

The resuscitator and philanthropist, popularly known as Doctor Lisa, has done a lot this year. In May, she took the children out of the Donbass. 22 sick children were rescued, the youngest of whom was only 5 days old. These were children with heart disease, oncology, and congenital diseases. For children from Donbass and Syria, special treatment and support programs have been created. In Syria, Elizaveta Glinka also helped sick children and organized the delivery of medicines and humanitarian aid to hospitals. During the delivery of another humanitarian cargo, Dr. Liza died in a Tu-154 plane crash over the Black Sea. Despite the tragedy, all programs will continue. Today for the guys from Lugansk and Donetsk there will be a New Year's tree...

Oleg Fedyura

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, Colonel of the Internal Service Oleg Fedyura. Press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Primorsky Krai / TASS

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, who proved himself during natural disasters in the region. The rescuer personally visited all the flooded cities and villages, led search and rescue operations, helped evacuate people, and he himself did not sit idly by - he has hundreds of such events on his account. On September 2, together with his brigade, he was heading to another village, in which 400 houses were flooded and more than 1,000 people were waiting for help. Crossing the river, KAMAZ, in which Fedyura and 8 other people were, collapsed into the water. Oleg Fedyura saved all the personnel, but then he could not get out of the flooded car and died.

Love Pechko

The entire Russian world learned the name of the 91-year-old female veteran from the news on May 9th. During the festive procession in honor of Victory Day in Slavyansk, occupied by Ukrainians, the Ukrainian Nazis threw eggs at a column of veterans, doused with brilliant green and sprinkled with flour, but the spirit of the old warriors could not be broken, no one was out of order. The Nazis shouted insults, in the occupied Slavyansk, where any Russian and Soviet symbols are prohibited, the situation was extremely explosive and could turn into a massacre at any moment. However, the veterans, despite the threat to their lives, were not afraid to openly put on medals and St. George ribbons, after all, they did not go through the war with the Nazis in order to be afraid of their ideological followers. Lyubov Pechko, who took part in the liberation of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, was splashed with brilliant green in the face. The pictures, in which traces of brilliant green are wiped from the face of Lyubov Pechko, circled social networks and the media. From the resulting shock, the sister of an elderly woman, who saw the abuse of veterans on TV, died and had a heart attack.

Danil Maksudov

In January of this year, during a strong snow storm, a dangerous traffic jam formed on the Orenburg-Orsk highway, in which hundreds of people were blocked. Ordinary employees of various services showed heroism, leading people out of ice captivity, sometimes endangering own life. Russia remembered the name of police officer Danil Maksudov, who was hospitalized with severe frostbite after giving his jacket, hat and gloves to those who needed it most. After that, Danil helped to get people out of the traffic jam for several more hours in a blizzard. Then Maksudov himself ended up in the emergency traumatology department with frostbite on his hands, it was about the amputation of his fingers. However, in the end, the policeman went on the mend.

Konstantin Parikozha

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Orenburg Airlines Boeing 777-200 crew commander Konstantin Parikozha, who was awarded the Order of Courage, during the state awards ceremony in the Kremlin. Mikhail Metzel/TASS

A native of Tomsk, the 38-year-old pilot managed to land a liner with a burning engine, in which there were 350 passengers, including many families with children and 20 crew members. The plane was flying from the Dominican Republic, at an altitude of 6 thousand meters there was a bang and the cabin was shrouded in smoke, panic began. During landing, the landing gear caught fire. However, thanks to the skill of the pilot, the Boeing 777 was successfully landed and none of the passengers were injured. Parikozha received the Order of Courage from the hands of the President.

Andrey Logvinov

The 44-year-old crew commander of the Il-18, which crashed in Yakutia, managed to land the plane without wings. They tried to land the plane to the last and in the end they managed to avoid casualties, although both wings of the plane broke off on impact with the ground and the fuselage collapsed. The pilots themselves received multiple fractures, but despite this, according to the rescuers, they refused help and asked to be the last to be evacuated to the hospital. "He managed the impossible," they said about the skill of Andrei Logvinov.

Georgy Gladysh

On a February morning, the rector of an Orthodox church in Krivoy Rog, Priest George, as usual, was riding his bicycle home from the service. Suddenly, he heard cries for help from a nearby body of water. It turned out that the fisherman fell through the ice. Batiushka ran to the water, threw off his clothes and, signing himself with the sign of the cross, rushed to help. The noise attracted the attention of local residents, who called an ambulance and helped pull the already unconscious retired fisherman out of the water. The priest himself refused honors: " I didn't save. It was God who decided for me. If I had been driving a car instead of a bicycle, I simply would not have heard the cries for help. If I started to think whether to help me a person or not, I would not have time. If the people on the shore had not thrown a rope at us, we would have drowned together. And so everything happened by itself". After the feat, he went on to perform church services.

Julia Kolosova

Russia. Moscow. December 2, 2016. Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova (left) and Yulia Kolosova, winner in the "Children-Heroes" nomination, at the awards ceremony for the winners of the VIII All-Russian festival on the subject of security and salvation of people "Constellation of Courage". Mikhail Pochuev/TASS

Valdai schoolgirl, despite the fact that she herself is only 12 years old, she was not afraid to enter a burning a private house hearing the cries of the children. Julia took two boys out of the house, and already on the street they told her that one more of their little brothers was left inside. The girl returned to the house and carried a 7-year-old baby in her arms, who was crying and was afraid to go down the stairs shrouded in smoke. In the end, none of the children were hurt. " It seems to me that in my place, any teenager would do this, but not every adult, because adults are much more indifferent than children", - the girl believes. Caring residents of Staraya Russa collected money and gave the girl a computer and a souvenir - a mug with her photograph. The schoolgirl herself admits that she did not help for the sake of gifts and praise, but she, of course, was pleased, because she is from a poor family - Yulia's mother is a seller, and her father works at a factory.

Many women, having small children in their arms to take care of, worked in factories and factories.

Children and old people, standing at the machines for days and nights, made weapons for the soldiers, constantly malnourished, in the cold and overcoming the most difficult conditions. They did everything in their power to help survive the war and defeat the invaders.

Many soldiers and officers were awarded orders and medals, many received the title of Hero Soviet Union.

The title of Hero of the Great Patriotic War was awarded to soldiers, officers, sailors, partisans, and pioneers. All the people of a vast country stood up to defend their homeland. Everyone gave their strength to fight the enemy, both those who fought at the front and those who worked in the rear. Only thanks to the exploits of millions of people, the new generation received the right to a free life.

We must remember the names of the heroes who gave their lives in the struggle for liberation: Alexander Matrosov, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Nikolai Gastello and many others, which will be discussed.

Alexander Matrosov

Matrosov Alexander Matveevich - submachine gunner of the 2nd separate battalion of the 91st separate Siberian volunteer brigade named after I.V. Stalin of the 6th Stalinist Siberian Volunteer Rifle Corps of the 22nd Army of the Kalinin Front, private.

Born February 5, 1924 in the city of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). Russian. Member of the Komsomol. He lost his parents early. 5 years was brought up in the Ivanovo regime orphanage(Ulyanovsk region). In 1939 he was sent to a car repair plant in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara), but soon escaped from there. By the verdict of the people's court of the 3rd section of the Frunzensky district of the city of Saratov dated October 8, 1940, Alexander Matrosov was sentenced under article 192 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR to two years in prison for violating the passport regime (the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR on May 5, 1967 overturned this sentence) . He served time in the Ufa children's labor colony. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he repeatedly applied with written requests to send him to the front ...

He was drafted into the Red Army by the Kirov District Military Commissariat of the city of Ufa, Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in September 1942 and sent to the Krasnokholmsky Infantry School (October 1942), but soon most of the cadets were sent to the Kalinin Front.

In the army since November 1942. He served in the 2nd separate rifle battalion of the 91st separate Siberian volunteer brigade named after I.V. Stalin (later the 254th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 56th Guards Rifle Division, Kalinin Front). For some time the brigade was in reserve. Then she was transferred near Pskov to the area of \u200b\u200bthe Big Lomovaty Bor. Right from the march, the brigade entered the battle.

On February 27, 1943, the 2nd battalion received the task of attacking a stronghold near the village of Pleten, west of the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district of the Pskov region. As soon as our soldiers passed through the forest and reached the edge of the forest, they came under heavy enemy machine gun fire - three enemy machine guns in bunkers covered the approaches to the village. One machine gun was suppressed by an assault group of machine gunners and armor-piercers. The second bunker was destroyed by another group of armor-piercers. But the machine gun from the third bunker continued to shell the entire hollow in front of the village. Efforts to silence him were unsuccessful. Then the Red Army soldier Alexander Matrosov crawled towards the bunker. He approached the embrasure from the flank and threw two grenades. The machine gun fell silent. But as soon as the fighters went on the attack, the machine gun came to life again. Then Matrosov got up, rushed to the bunker and closed the embrasure with his body. At the cost of his life, he contributed to the combat mission of the unit.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was born in September 1923 in the Tambov region, the village of Osino-Gai. The father was a priest. The younger brother received the award of the Hero of the Soviet Union. In 1930 the family settled in Moscow. Here Zoya graduated from nine classes of high school.

From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Zoya strove for the front. To do this, she turned to the regional committee of the Komsomol. A few days later, she was sent to military unit No. 9903. This military unit was sent to the front of the Mozhaisk direction on the instructions of the headquarters. Twice Zoya was behind enemy lines. In November 1941, in the village of Petrishchevo, Moscow Region, she was captured by the Germans.

To find out secret information, she was subjected to various tortures. But Zoya was silent, not saying anything, not even her first and last name. After severe torture, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was executed on the rural square of the village of Petrishchevo on November 29, 1941.

Nicholas Gastello

Nikolai Frantsevich Gastello was born in May 1908 in Moscow. My father was a German who had lived in Russia for a long time. In 1933, Nikolai graduated from the Lugansk flying school and began to serve in aviation on a bomber. During the Soviet-Finnish war, he took part in air battles. He participated in the battles on the Khalkhin Gol River, for participation in which he was awarded the Order of Lenin. And by the beginning of World War II, he was already a squadron commander in aviation.

Victor Gastello, the son of a pilot, has repeatedly spoken about the death of his father and his crew. This version was published in well-known Russian publications.

This version looks like this. On June 26, 1941, at the very beginning of the war, throughout the day, the 3rd long-range bomber aviation corps attacked the enemy. Military operations took place in Belarus, in the Radoshkovichi-Molodechino region near the village of Dekshany. The 207th Aviation Regiment was on its second sortie of the day. The regiment had two aircraft. The crew of Nikolai Gastello consisted of four people: navigator Lieutenant Anatoly Burdenyuk, gunner-radio operator Sergeant Alexei Kalinin and squadron adjutant gunner Lieutenant Grigory Skorobogaty. Little is known about the second plane, only that its pilot was Senior Lieutenant Fyodor Vorobyov, and Lieutenant Anatoly Rybas was the navigator. A little over an hour after the start of the flight, a column of enemy military equipment was discovered from a height. Only one aircraft, piloted by Lieutenant Vorobyov, returned to the base. Upon arrival, he and the navigator filed a report in which they described the feat of commander Gastello and his crew. According to them, the downed plane crashed into a column of armored vehicles, and the main part of the armored vehicles was destroyed by a powerful explosion.

For many years there was only this version of what happened that day. But in the 90s of the last century, others began to put forward. So, in 1994, the Izvestia newspaper published an article “The crew of Captain Maslov is worthy of the title of heroes,” which stated that two bombers did not return from a combat mission that day. The 1st under the command of Nikolai Gastello, and the second - Captain Alexander Spiridonovich Maslov, commander of the 3rd squadron of the 42nd aviation division.

Marat Kazei

The war fell on the Belarusian land. The Nazis broke into the village where Marat lived with his mother, Anna Aleksandrovna Kazya. In the fall, Marat no longer had to go to school in the fifth grade. The Nazis turned the school building into their barracks. The enemy was furious.

Anna Alexandrovna Kazei was captured for her connection with the partisans, and soon Marat found out that his mother had been hanged in Minsk. The boy's heart was filled with anger and hatred for the enemy. Together with his sister, a Komsomol member Ada, pioneer Marat Kazei went to the partisans in the Stankovsky forest. He became a scout at the headquarters of the partisan brigade. Penetrated into enemy garrisons and delivered valuable information to the command. Using this information, the partisans developed a daring operation and defeated the fascist garrison in the city of Dzerzhinsk ...

Marat took part in the battles and invariably showed courage, fearlessness, together with experienced demolition men, he mined the railway.

Marat died in battle. He fought to the last bullet, and when he had only one grenade left, he let the enemies get closer and blew them up ... and himself.

For courage and bravery pioneer Marat Kazei was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A monument to the young hero was erected in the city of Minsk.

Lenya Golikov

He grew up in the village of Lukino, on the banks of the Polo River, which flows into the legendary Ilmen Lake. When the enemy captured his native village, the boy went to the partisans.

More than once he went to reconnaissance, brought important information to the partisan detachment. And enemy trains and cars flew downhill, bridges collapsed, enemy warehouses burned ...

There was a battle in his life that Lenya fought one on one with a fascist general. A grenade thrown by a boy knocked out a car. A Nazi with a briefcase in his hands got out of it and, shooting back, rushed to run. Lenya is behind him. He pursued the enemy for almost a kilometer and finally killed him. There were some very important documents in the briefcase. The headquarters of the partisans immediately sent them by plane to Moscow.

There were many more battles in his short life! And the young hero who fought shoulder to shoulder with adults never flinched. He died near the village of Ostraya Luka in the winter of 1943, when the enemy was especially fierce, feeling that the earth was burning under his feet, that there would be no mercy for him ...

Outstanding military leader of the Great Patriotic War, General of the Army Alexei Innokentyevich Antonov

On the eve of the sixtieth anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, a group of military leaders addressed the President of Russia V.V. Putin with a request to confer the title of Hero of Russia (posthumously) to the outstanding military figure of the Great Patriotic War, General of the Army Alexei Innokentyevich Antonov.
Army General A.I. Antonov, by the will of evil fate or by coincidence, was not awarded either the title of Hero of the Soviet Union or the title of Marshal, although he was repeatedly worthy of both. How could it happen that the chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union at the final stage of the war was ignored by Stalin, who, as you know, appreciated Antonov, one can only guess.
There is a version that Antonov, being the chief of the General Staff, rejected the proposal of L.P. Beria about cooperation with him and for this, through the efforts of the latter, he was exiled to the Transcaucasian Military District for the post of deputy commander of the district, and the proposal for conferring the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union was never realized.

Valya Kotik

He was born on February 11, 1930 in the village of Khmelevka, Shepetovsky district, Khmelnitsky region. He studied at school number 4 in the city of Shepetovka, was a recognized leader of the pioneers, his peers.

When the Nazis broke into Shepetovka, Valya Kotik and his friends decided to fight the enemy. The guys collected weapons at the battlefield, which the partisans then transported to the detachment in a wagon of hay.

Having looked closely at the boy, the communists entrusted Valya to be a liaison and intelligence officer in their underground organization. He learned the location of enemy posts, the order of the changing of the guard.

The Nazis planned a punitive operation against the partisans, and Valya, having tracked down the Nazi officer who led the punishers, killed him ...

Yuta Bondarovskaya

Wherever the blue-eyed girl Yuta went, her red tie was invariably with her ...

In the summer of 1941, she came from Leningrad for a vacation to a village near Pskov. Here overtook Utah formidable news: war! Here she saw the enemy. Utah began to help the partisans. First she was a messenger, then a scout. Disguised as a beggar boy, she collected information from the villages: where the headquarters of the Nazis were, how they were guarded, how many machine guns.

Zina Portnova

The war found the Leningrad pioneer Zina Portnova in the village of Zuya, where she came for the holidays - this is not far from the Obol station in the Vitebsk region. In Obol, an underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers" was created, and Zina was elected a member of its committee. She participated in daring operations against the enemy, in sabotage, distributed leaflets, on instructions partisan detachment conducted reconnaissance.

It was December 1943. Zina was returning from a mission. In the village of Mostishche, a traitor betrayed her. The Nazis seized the young partisan and tortured her. The answer to the enemy was Zina's silence, her contempt and hatred, her determination to fight to the end. During one of the interrogations, choosing the moment, Zina grabbed a pistol from the table and fired at the Gestapo at point-blank range.

The officer who ran into the shot was also killed on the spot. Zina tried to escape, but the Nazis overtook her...

The brave young pioneer was brutally tortured, but until the last minute she remained steadfast, courageous, unbending. And the Motherland posthumously noted her feat with her highest title - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Galya Komleva

When the war began, and the Nazis were approaching Leningrad, for underground work in the village of Tarnovichi - in the south of the Leningrad region - Anna Petrovna Semenova, a school counselor, was left. To communicate with the partisans, she picked up her most reliable pioneers, and the first among them was Galina Komleva. Cheerful, brave, inquisitive girl in her six school years was awarded six times with books with the signature: "For excellent study"

The young messenger brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and she forwarded her reports to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, products, which were obtained with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive at the meeting point on time, Galya, half-frozen, herself made her way to the detachment, handed over a report and, having warmed up a little, hurried back, carrying a new task to the underground.

Together with Komsomol member Tasya Yakovleva, Galya wrote leaflets and scattered them around the village at night. The Nazis tracked down and captured the young underground workers. They were kept in the Gestapo for two months. After being severely beaten, they threw him into a cell, and in the morning they took him out again for interrogation. Galya did not say anything to the enemy, she did not betray anyone. The young patriot was shot.

The Motherland marked the feat of Gali Komleva with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Kostya Kravchuk

On June 11, 1944, units leaving for the front lined up on the central square of Kyiv. And before this battle formation, they read the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on awarding the pioneer Kostya Kravchuk with the Order of the Red Banner for saving and preserving two combat banners of rifle regiments during the occupation of the city of Kyiv ...

Retreating from Kyiv, two wounded soldiers entrusted banners to Kostya. And Kostya promised to keep them.

Lara Mikheenko

For the operation of reconnaissance and explosion of the railway. bridge over the Drissa River, a Leningrad schoolgirl Larisa Mikheenko was presented with a government award. But the Motherland did not have time to present the award to her brave daughter ...

The war cut off the girl from her hometown: in the summer she went on vacation to the Pustoshkinsky district, but she could not return - the Nazis occupied the village. The pioneer dreamed of breaking out of Hitler's slavery, making her way to her own. And one night with two older friends left the village.

At the headquarters of the 6th Kalinin brigade, the commander, Major P. V. Ryndin, at first turned out to accept "so small": well, what kind of partisans are they! But how much even its very young citizens can do for the Motherland! The girls were able to do what strong men could not. Dressed in rags, Lara walked around the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were placed, what German cars were moving along the highway, what kind of trains and with what cargo they came to the Pustoshka station.

She also participated in military operations ...

The young partisan, betrayed by a traitor in the village of Ignatovo, was shot by the Nazis. In the Decree on awarding Larisa Mikheenko with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, there is a bitter word: "Posthumously."

Vasya Korobko

Ernigovshchina. The front came close to the village of Pogoreltsy. On the outskirts, covering the retreat of our units, the company held the defense. The boy brought the cartridges to the fighters. His name was Vasya Korobko.

Night. Vasya sneaks up to the school building occupied by the Nazis.

He sneaks into the pioneer room, takes out the pioneer banner and hides it securely.

Sasha Borodulin

There was a war. Above the village where Sasha lived, enemy bombers hooted angrily. The native land was trampled by an enemy boot. Sasha Borodulin, a pioneer with the warm heart of a young Leninist, could not put up with this. He decided to fight the Nazis. Got a rifle. Having killed a fascist motorcyclist, he took the first military trophy - a real German machine gun. Day after day he conducted reconnaissance. More than once he went on the most dangerous missions. A lot of destroyed cars and soldiers were on his account. For the performance of dangerous tasks, for the courage, resourcefulness and courage shown, Sasha Borodulin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner in the winter of 1941.

Punishers tracked down the partisans. For three days the detachment left them, twice escaped from the encirclement, but the enemy ring closed again. Then the commander called in volunteers to cover the retreat of the detachment. Sasha stepped forward first. Five took the fight. One by one they died. Sasha was left alone. It was still possible to retreat - the forest was nearby, but every minute that delayed the enemy was so dear to the detachment, and Sasha fought to the end. He, allowing the Nazis to close a ring around him, grabbed a grenade and blew them up and himself. Sasha Borodulin died, but his memory lives on. The memory of heroes is eternal!

Vitya Khomenko

Pioneer Vitya Khomenko passed his heroic path of struggle against the Nazis in the underground organization "Nikolaev Center".

At school, in German, Vitya was "excellent", and the underground instructed the pioneer to get a job in the officer's canteen. He washed dishes, sometimes served the officers in the hall and listened to their conversations. In drunken arguments, the Nazis blurted out information that was of great interest to the "Nikolaev Center".

The officers began to send the quick, smart boy on errands, and soon made him a messenger at the headquarters. It could not have occurred to them that the most secret packages were the first to be read by the underground at the turnout ...

Volodya Kaznacheev

1941... In the spring I finished fifth grade. In the fall he joined a partisan detachment.

When, together with his sister Anya, he came to the partisans in the Kletnyansky forests, in the Bryansk region, the detachment said: “Well, replenishment! , they stopped joking (Elena Kondratyevna was killed by the Nazis).

There was a "partisan school" in the detachment. Future miners and demolition workers were trained there. Volodya perfectly mastered this science and, together with his senior comrades, derailed eight echelons. He had to cover the retreat of the group, stopping the pursuers with grenades ...

He was connected; often went to Kletnya, delivering valuable information; waiting for darkness, posting flyers. From operation to operation he became more experienced, more skillful.

For the head of the partisan Kzanacheev, the Nazis put a reward, not even suspecting that their brave opponent was just a boy. He fought alongside adults until the very day when his native land was liberated from fascist evil spirits, and rightfully shared with adults the glory of the hero - the liberator of his native land. Volodya Kaznacheev was awarded the Order of Lenin, the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree.

Nadia Bogdanova

She was executed twice by the Nazis, and fighting friends for many years considered Nadya dead. She even erected a monument.

It's hard to believe, but when she became a scout in the partisan detachment of "Uncle Vanya" Dyachkov, she was not yet ten years old. Small, thin, she, pretending to be a beggar, wandered among the Nazis, noticing everything, remembering everything, and brought the most valuable information to the detachment. And then, together with partisan fighters, she blew up the fascist headquarters, derailed a train with military equipment, and mined objects.

The first time she was captured when, together with Vanya Zvontsov, she hung out a red flag on November 7, 1941 in Vitebsk, occupied by the enemy. They beat her with ramrods, tortured her, and when they brought her to the ditch - to shoot, she had no strength left - she fell into the ditch, for a moment, ahead of the bullet. Vanya died, and the partisans found Nadya alive in the ditch...

Fedyuninsky Ivan Ivanovich

van Ivanovich Fedyuninsky was born on July 17 (30), 1900 in the village of Gilevo, 36 km from Tyumen, into a working-class family.

He joined the Red Army in 1919. After graduation civil war, during which he was wounded in the leg, I.I. Fedyuninsky worked for 3 months in the military registration and enlistment office of Tyumen, from where he was sent to Omsk to take courses at a military infantry school. After successfully completing it in 1924, he chooses the Far East as his place of service.

At the new duty station, the situation was extremely turbulent due to constant conflicts on the CER. By 1929, I.I. Fedyuninsky received command of the 6th company of the 36th rifle division of the Special Far Eastern Army. It was in this post that he distinguished himself during the largest clash with Chinese troops, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

In 1930, the young commander was sent to Moscow to study at the "Shot" courses, which he graduated with honors and returned to the Far East. Having risen to the rank of commander of the 24th rifle regiment of the 36th rifle division, Major I.I. Fedyuninsky in 1939, then the division was already a motorized rifle division, distinguished himself during the battles at Khalkhin Gol, for which he was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. In the same place, on August 20, 1939, he received a second wound in the leg. After leaving the hospital in 1939-40, he commanded the 82nd motorized rifle division in Mongolia.

In April 1941, having passed the advanced training courses for the highest commanding staff, Colonel I.I. Fedyuninsky was transferred from Far East, where under his command there was a rifle division, to the Kyiv Special Military District, leading the 15th rifle corps.

Oktyabrsky Philip Sergeevich

Philip Sergeevich Oktyabrsky ( real name- Ivanov) was born on October 11 (23), 1899 in the village of Lukshino (now the Staritsky district of the Tver province) into a peasant family. He graduated from four classes of a rural school, after which in 1915 he left first for Shlisselburg, and then for St. Petersburg to work. He worked as a stoker, then as an assistant driver on steamboats that sailed along Ladoga, Svir, Neva.

In 1918, F.S. Oktyabrsky voluntarily joined the ranks Baltic Fleet. During the Civil War, he served as a sailor on the ships of the Baltic Fleet, and since 1920 - on the Northern Flotilla on the auxiliary cruiser Lieutenant Schmidt. In 1922 he graduated from courses at the Petrograd Communist University, after which he worked in the naval department of the Political Directorate of the Red Army, in the political department of the flotilla. In 1928 he completed courses at the Naval School named after M.V. Frunze. Later he commanded a division, and then a detachment and a brigade of torpedo boats in the Baltic and Pacific fleets. In 1935, already a brigade commander, F.S. Oktyabrsky was awarded his first Order of the Red Star, which he received for mastering boats at the new maritime theater and developing methods for interacting ships with aviation, coastal defense and ground forces.

From February 1938 to August 1939, F.S. Oktyabrsky commanded the Amur military flotilla.

From August 1939 to April 1943 he commanded the Black Sea Fleet. The most difficult days of the period of the Great Patriotic War stood out for the period of his leadership.

June 22, 1941 at one in the morning by order of the People's Commissar of the Navy N.G. Kuznetsov Black Sea Fleet was put on alert. At 03:17 on the same day, aviation and air defense of the fleet, as well as anti-aircraft batteries of ships, began to repel the first air raid of the Luftwaffe. Enemy aircraft dropped not only bombs, but also mines, which were supposed to impede the actions of the fleet at sea. The organization of the fight against them became a priority for the fleet commander.

A.V. Ostrovsky

"... in a military campaign he showed courage, courage, high qualities of a submarine commander ..."

In the Soviet submarine fleet, perhaps, one cannot find an officer with such a difficult fate as Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko, in whom heroism, extreme composure and many days of hard drinking, desperate courage and a disregard for the assigned work coexisted side by side. He is the first "heavyweight" among the Soviet submariners: he has four sunk vehicles weighing 42,557 gross register tons. But he also got more than anyone else: in October 1941, he was expelled from candidates for membership in the party; bringing to court a military tribunal (did not take place due to the sinking of the "Wilhelm Gustlov"); demotion in rank from captain 3rd rank to senior lieutenant; expulsion first from the submarine fleet, and then from the Navy in general.

N.G. Kuznetsov, People's Commissar and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy during the war years, who signed the order to dismiss A. I. Marinesko to the reserve in November 1945, wrote many years later: Admiral, I am quite definitely - negatively. But knowing his courage, determination and ability to achieve major military successes, I am ready to forgive him a lot and pay tribute to his services to the Motherland.

The tribute, although late, was paid: on May 5, 1990, almost 27 years after his death, A.I. Marinesko was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and in Kaliningrad a monument was erected to him, which many guests of the city consider it their duty to visit.

Chuikov Vasily Ivanovich

Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov was born on January 31 (February 12), 1900 in the village of Serebryanyye Prudy, Venevsky district, Tula province (now Moscow region) into a peasant family. In 1911 he graduated from the four classes of the Serebryanoprudsk rural school. In 1912 he graduated from the 1st grade of the higher primary school. At the age of 12, he left home to work in St. Petersburg, where he worked in the Tselebeyev baths, and then in furnished rooms. In August 1914 he entered the spur workshop as an apprentice. In December 1916 he returned to his native village and took up peasant labor.

In December 1917, V.I. Chuikov left for Kronstadt and entered the mine squad as a cabin boy. In April 1918, he and his older brothers, who served as sailors in the Baltic Fleet, were demobilized and left for the village, but soon V.I. . After completing his courses in August 1918, he was sent to the Southern Front.

During the Civil War, V.I. Chuikov from August to November 1918 was an assistant company commander in the 1st Special Ukrainian Brigade R.F. th Infantry Division V.M. Azin in the combat unit, and then, until July 1921 - the commander of the 40th Infantry Regiment, renamed the 43rd Infantry Regiment of the 5th Infantry Division. Fought in the various parts Red Army against the troops of Admiral A.V. Kolchak, against the Polish troops on the Western Front. During the fighting he was wounded four times and shell-shocked twice. In 1920 and 1925 he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner, as well as a gold watch. After the end of the Civil War, for six months he was the head of combat section No. 4, the head of the garrison of the city of Velizh and the chairman of the commission on banditry.

In 1925, V.I. Chuikov graduated from the Military Academy named after M.V. Frunze. In the autumn of 1926, V.I. Chuikov visited China for the first time as a diplomatic courier. In November 1927 he graduated oriental faculty the same educational institution. After graduation, he was sent to the post of head of the 1st department at the headquarters of the Moscow Military District, where he was until January 1928. Further, until September 1929, he was in China as a military adviser. In September 1929 - August 1932 he was the head of the department of headquarters of the Special Far Eastern Army (since January 1, 1930 - the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army). In its composition, he participated in military clashes in Manchuria. From August 1932 to October 1935, V.I. Chuikov was the head of the advanced training courses for intelligence officers.

Imagine that you are trying to save a blind man from a burning building, making your way step by step through burning flames and smoke. Now imagine that you are also blind. Jim Sherman, blind from birth, heard his 85-year-old neighbor's cries for help when she was trapped in her burning house. He found his way along the fence. Once he got to the woman's house, he somehow managed to sneak in and find his neighbor, Annie Smith, also blind. Sherman pulled Smith out of the fire and took him to safety.

Skydiving instructors sacrificed everything to save their students

Few people will survive a fall from several hundred meters. But two women made it through the dedication of two men. The first gave his life to save the man he saw for the first time in his life.

Skydiving instructor Robert Cook and his student Kimberley Dear were about to make their first jump when the plane's engine failed. Cook told the girl to sit on his lap and tied their straps together. As the plane crashed to the ground, Cooke's body took the brunt, killing the man and leaving Kimberly alive.

Another skydiving instructor, Dave Hartstock, also saved his student from being hit. It was Shirley Dygert's first jump and she jumped with an instructor. Digert's parachute did not open. During the fall, Hartstock managed to get under the girl, softening the blow to the ground. Dave Hartstock injured his spine, the injury paralyzed his body from the very neck, but both survived.

A mere mortal Joe Rollino (Joe Rollino, pictured above) during his 104-year life has done incredible, inhuman things. Although he weighed only about 68 kg, in his prime he could lift 288 kg with his fingers and 1450 kg with his back, for which he won various competitions several times. However, it was not the title of "The Strongest Man in the World" that made him a hero.

During World War II, Rollino served in the Pacific and received a bronze and silver star for gallantry in the line of duty, as well as three purple hearts for battle wounds, for which he spent a total of 2 years in the hospital. He took 4 of his comrades from the battlefield, two in each hand, while also returning to the heat of battle for the rest.

A father's love can inspire superhuman feats, as two fathers in different parts of the world have proven.

In Florida, Joesph Welch came to the rescue of his six-year-old son when an alligator grabbed the boy's arm. Forgetting his own safety, Welch hit the alligator in an attempt to force it to open its mouth. Then a passer-by arrived and began to beat the alligator in the stomach until the beast finally let go of the boy.

In Mutoko, Zimbabwe, another father saved his son from a crocodile when it attacked him in a river. Father Tafadzwa Kacher started poking the cane into the animal's eyes and mouth until his son ran away. Then the crocodile took aim at the man. Tafadzwa had to gouge out the animal's eyes. As a result of the attack, the boy lost his leg, but he will be able to tell about the superhuman courage of his father.

Two ordinary women lifted cars to save loved ones

Not only men are capable of displaying superhuman abilities in critical situations. The daughter and mother showed that women can be heroes too, especially when a loved one is in danger.

In Virginia, a 22-year-old saved her father when a jack slipped from under the BMW he was working under and the car fell on the man's chest. There was no time to wait for help, the young woman lifted the car and moved it, then gave her father CPR.

In the state of Georgia, the jack also slipped, and the 1350-kilogram Chevrolet Impala fell on young man. Alone, his mother Angela Cavallo lifted the car and held it for five minutes until her son was pulled out by neighbors.

Superhuman abilities are not only strength and courage, it is also the ability to think and act quickly in an emergency.

In New Mexico, a school bus driver suffered a seizure, putting children in danger. The girl waiting for the bus noticed that something had happened to the driver and called her mother. The woman, Rhonda Carlsen, took immediate action. She ran next to the bus and gestured to one of the children to open the door. After that, she jumped inside, grabbed the steering wheel and stopped the bus. Thanks to her quick reaction, none of the students were hurt, not to mention the people passing by.

A truck with a trailer was driving along the edge of a cliff in the dead of night. The cab of a large truck stopped right above the cliff, the driver was in it. A young man came to the rescue, he broke the window and pulled the man out with his bare hands.

This happened in New Zealand in the Wayoka Gorge on October 5, 2008. The hero was 18-year-old Peter Hanne, who was at home when he heard the roar. Without thinking about his own safety, he climbed onto the balancing car, jumped into a narrow gap between the cab and the trailer, and broke the rear window. He carefully helped the injured driver out while the truck staggered under his feet.

In 2011, Hanne was awarded the New Zealand Bravery Medal for this heroic act.

The war is full of heroes who risk their lives to save fellow soldiers. In the movie Forrest Gump, we saw how a fictional character saved several of his co-workers, even after he was wounded. In real life, you can meet the plot and abruptly.

Here, for example, is the story of Robert Ingram, who received the Medal of Honor. In 1966, during the siege by the enemy, Ingram continued to fight and save his comrades even after he was wounded three times: in the head (as a result, he partially lost his sight and became deaf in one ear), in the arm and in the left knee. Despite being wounded, he continued to kill the North Vietnamese soldiers who attacked his unit.

Aquaman is nothing compared to Shavarsh Karapetyan, who rescued 20 people from a sinking bus in 1976.

The Armenian speed swimming champion was jogging with his brother when a bus with 92 passengers ran off the road and fell into the water 24 meters from the shore. Karapetyan dived, kicked out the window with his feet and began to pull out people who by that time were in cold water at a depth of 10 m. They say that it took 30 seconds for each person he saved, he saved one by one until he lost consciousness in cold and dark water . As a result, 20 people survived.

But the exploits of Karapetyan did not end there. Eight years later, he rescued several people from a burning building, suffering severe burns in the process. Karapetyan received the Order of the Badge of Honor of the USSR and several other awards for underwater rescue. But he himself claimed that he was not a hero at all, he just did what he had to.

A man lifted a helicopter to save his colleague

The TV show site was turned into a tragedy when a helicopter from the hit series Magnum P.I. crashed into a drainage ditch in 1988.

During landing, the helicopter suddenly banked, went out of control and fell to the ground, while everything was filmed. One of the pilots Steve Kaks (Steve Kux) was trapped under a helicopter in shallow water. And then Warren "Tiny" Everal (Warren "Tiny" Everal) ran up and lifted the helicopter from Cax. It was a Hughes 500D which weighs at least 703kg empty. Everal's quick reaction and his superhuman strength saved Cax from a helicopter pinning him in the water. Even though the pilot hurt himself left hand, he escaped death thanks to a local Hawaiian hero.

Pravoslavie.fm is an Orthodox, patriotic, family-oriented portal and therefore brings to the attention of readers the top 10 amazing feats of the Russian army. The top does not include […]

Pravoslavie.fm is an Orthodox, patriotic, family-oriented portal and therefore brings to the attention of readers the top 10 amazing feats of the Russian army.

The top does not include single feats of Russian warriors like Captain Nikolai Gastello, sailor Pyotr Koshka, warrior Mercury Smolensky or staff captain Pyotr Nesterov, because with the level of mass heroism that the Russian army has always been distinguished for, it is absolutely impossible to determine the top ten warriors. They are all equally great.

Places in the top are not distributed, since the described feats belong to different eras and it is not entirely correct to compare them with each other, but they all have one thing in common - a vivid example of the triumph of the spirit of the Russian army.

The feat of the squad of Evpaty Kolovrat (1238).

Evpaty Kolovrat is a native of Ryazan, there is not much information about him, and they are contradictory. Some sources say that he was a local governor, others - a boyar.

News came from the steppe that the Tatars were marching against Russia. Ryazan was the first on their way. realizing that own forces for the successful defense of the city, the Ryazans did not have enough, the prince sent Evpaty Kolovrat to seek help in neighboring principalities.

Kolovrat left for Chernigov, where he was overtaken by the news of the devastation of his native land by the Mongols. Without a moment's hesitation, Kolovrat with a small retinue hastily moved towards Ryazan.

Unfortunately, he found the city already devastated and burned. Seeing the ruins, he gathered those who could fight with an army, numbering about 1,700 people, rushed in pursuit of the entire Batu horde (about 300,000 soldiers).

Having overtaken the Tatars in the vicinity of Suzdal, he gave battle to the enemy. Despite the small size of the detachment, the Russians managed to crush the rearguard of the Tatars with a surprise attack.

Batu was very stunned by this violent attack. Khan had to throw his best parts into battle. Batu asked that Kolovrat be brought to him alive, but Yevpaty did not give up and fought bravely with the enemy outnumbered.

Then Batu sent an envoy to Evpaty to ask what the Russian soldiers wanted? Evpatiy answered - "only die"! The fight continued. As a result, the Mongols, who were afraid to approach the Russians, had to use catapults and, only in this way, they were able to defeat the Kolovrat squad.

Khan Batu, amazed by the courage and heroism of the Russian warrior, gave the body of Evpatiy to his squad. The rest of the soldiers, for their courage, Batu ordered to be released without harming them.

The feat of Evpatiy Kolovrat is described in the Old Russian “The Tale of the Devastation of Ryazan by Batu”.

Suvorov crossing the Alps (1799).

In 1799, the Russian troops that fought the French in Northern Italy as part of the Second Anti-French Coalition were recalled home. However, on the way home, the Russian troops were to assist Rimsky-Korsakov's corps and defeat the French in Switzerland.

To do this, the army led by Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. together with the convoy, artillery and the wounded, she made an unprecedented transition through the alpine passes.

On the campaign, Suvorov's army fought through St. Gotthard and the Devil's Bridge and made the transition from the Reuss Valley to the Muten Valley, where it was surrounded. However, in the battle in the Muten Valley, where she defeated the French army and left the encirclement, after which she made the transition through the snow-covered, inaccessible Ringenkopf (Paniks) pass and headed towards Russia through the city of Chur.

During the battle for the Devil's Bridge, the French managed to damage the span and to overcome the abyss. Under fire, the Russian soldiers tied the boards of a barn that turned out to be nearby with scarves and went into battle along them. And while overcoming one of the passes, in order to knock the French down from a height, several dozen volunteers without any climbing equipment climbed a sheer cliff to the top of the pass and hit the French in the rear.

In this campaign, under the command of Suvorov, the son of Emperor Paul I, Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich, participated as an ordinary soldier.

Defense of the Brest Fortress (1941).

The Brest Fortress was built by the Russian military in 1836-42 and consisted of a citadel and three fortifications that protected it. Later, it was modernized several times, passed into the ownership of Poland and again returned to Russia.

By the beginning of June 1941, units of two rifle divisions of the Red Army were stationed on the territory of the fortress: the 6th Oryol Red Banner and 42nd rifle divisions and several small units. In total, by the morning of June 22, there were about 9,000 people in the fortress.

The Germans decided in advance that the Brest Fortress, standing on the border with the USSR and therefore chosen as one of the objects of the first strike, would have to be taken only by infantry - without tanks. Their use was hindered by forests, swamps, river channels and canals that surrounded the fortress. The German strategists gave the 45th division (17,000 men) no more than eight hours to capture the fortress.

Despite the surprise attack, the garrison gave the Germans a hard rebuff. The report said: “The Russians are fiercely resisting, especially behind our attacking companies. In the Citadel, the enemy organized defense with infantry units supported by 35-40 tanks and armored vehicles. The fire of Russian snipers led to heavy losses among officers and non-commissioned officers. During one day on June 22, 1941, the 45th Infantry Division only lost 21 officers and 290 lower ranks in killed.

On June 23, at 05:00, the Germans began shelling the Citadel, while trying not to hit their soldiers blockaded in the church. On the same day, for the first time, tanks were used against the defenders of the Brest Fortress.

On June 26, on the North Island, German sappers blew up the wall of the building of the political staff school. 450 prisoners were taken there. The East Fort remained the main center of resistance on the North Island. On June 27, 20 commanders and 370 soldiers from the 393rd anti-aircraft battalion of the 42nd rifle division, led by the commander of the 44th infantry regiment, Major Pyotr Gavrilov, defended themselves there.

On June 28, two German tanks and several self-propelled guns returning from repairs to the front continued to bombard the Eastern Fort on the North Island. However, this did not bring visible results, and the commander of the 45th division turned to the Luftwaffe for support.

June 29 at 08:00 a German bomber dropped a 500-kilogram bomb on the Eastern Fort. Then another 500-kilogram and finally 1800-kilogram bomb was dropped. The fort was practically destroyed.

Nevertheless, a small group of fighters led by Gavrilov continued to fight in the Eastern Fort. The major was captured only on July 23. The inhabitants of Brest said that until the end of July or even until the first days of August, shooting was heard from the fortress and the Nazis brought their wounded officers and soldiers from there to the city, where the German army hospital was located.

However, the official date for the end of the defense of the Brest Fortress is July 20, based on the inscription that was found in the barracks of the 132nd separate battalion of the NKVD escort troops: “I am dying, but I do not give up. Farewell, Motherland. 20/VII-41”.

Campaigns of the detachments of Kotlyarevsky during the Russian-Persian wars of 1799-1813.

All the exploits of the detachments of General Pyotr Kotlyarevsky are so amazing that it is difficult to choose the best one, so we will present them all:

In 1804, with 600 soldiers and 2 guns, Kotlyarevsky fought off 20,000 Abbas-Mirza soldiers in the old cemetery for 2 days. 257 soldiers and almost all of Kotlyarevsky's officers died. There were many wounded.

Then Kotlyarevsky, wrapping the wheels of cannons with rags, made his way through the camp of the besiegers at night, stormed the nearby fortress of Shah-Bulakh, knocking out the Persian garrison of 400 people from there, and sat down in it.

For 13 days he fought back from the corps besieging the fortress of 8000 Persians, and then at night he lowered the guns along the wall and left with a detachment to the fortress of Mukhrat, which he also took by attack, knocking out the Persians from there, and again prepared for defense.

In order to drag the cannons through the deep ditch during the second crossing, four soldiers volunteered to fill it with their bodies. Two were crushed to death, and two continued their march.

In Mukhrat, the Russian army came to the rescue of Kotlyarevsky's battalion. In this operation and during the capture of the Ganzha fortress a little earlier, Kotlyarevsky was wounded four times, but remained in the ranks.

In 1806, in the field battle at Khonashin, 1644 fighters of Major Kotlyarevsky defeated the 20,000-strong army of Abbas Mirza. In 1810, Abbas-Mirza again marched with troops against Russia. Kotlyarevsky took 400 rangers and 40 cavalry and came out to meet them.

"On the way" he stormed the fortress of Migri, defeating the 2,000th garrison, and captured 5 artillery batteries. Having waited for 2 companies of reinforcements, the colonel accepted the battle with 10,000 of the Shah's Persians and forced him to retreat to the Araks River. Taking 460 infantry and 20 cavalry Cossacks, the colonel destroyed the 10,000-strong detachment of Abbas Mirza, losing 4 Russian soldiers killed.

In 1811, Kotlyarevsky became a major general, having crossed the impregnable mountain range with 2 battalions and a hundred Cossacks and captured the Akhalkalak fortress by storm. The British sent the Persians money and weapons for 12,000 soldiers. Then Kotlyarevsky went on a campaign and stormed the Kara-Kakh fortress, where military depots were located.

In 1812, in a field battle near Aslanduz, 2000 soldiers of Kotlyarevsky with 6 guns defeated the entire army of Abbas-Mirza in 30,000 people.

By 1813, the British rebuilt the Lankaran fortress for the Persians according to advanced European models. Kotlyarevsky took the fortress by storm, having only 1759 people against the 4,000th garrison, and during the attack almost completely destroyed the defenders. Thanks to this victory, Persia sued for peace.

Capture of Ishmael by Suvorov (1790).

The Turkish fortress of Izmail, which covered the Danube crossings, was built by the Ottomans by French and English engineers. Suvorov himself believed that it was "a fortress without weak points."

However, having arrived near Izmail on December 13, Suvorov spent six days actively preparing for the assault, including training troops to storm mock-ups of the high fortress walls of Izmail.

Near Izmail, in the area of the current village of Safyany, earthen and wooden analogues of the moat and walls of Ishmael were built as soon as possible - the soldiers trained to throw a moat with a fascist, quickly put up ladders, after climbing the wall they quickly pricked and chopped the stuffed animals installed there imitating the defenders.

For two days, Suvorov conducted artillery preparation with field guns and cannons of the rowing flotilla ships; on December 22, at 5:30 in the morning, the assault on the fortress began. Resistance on the streets of the city lasted until 16:00.

The attacking troops were divided into 3 detachments (wings) of 3 columns each. The detachment of Major General de Ribas (9,000 men) attacked from the river side; the right wing under the command of Lieutenant General P. S. Potemkin (7,500 people) was to strike from the western part of the fortress; the left wing of Lieutenant General A. N. Samoilov (12,000 people) - from the east. Brigadier Westfalen's cavalry reserves (2,500 men) were on the land side. In total, Suvorov's army numbered 31,000 people.

Turkish losses amounted to 29,000 killed. 9,000 were taken prisoner. Of the entire garrison, only one man escaped. Slightly wounded, he fell into the water and swam across the Danube on a log.

The losses of the Russian army amounted to 4 thousand people killed and 6 thousand wounded. All 265 guns, 400 banners, huge stocks of provisions and jewelry worth 10 million piastres were captured. The commandant of the fortress was M. I. Kutuzov, in the future the famous commander, the winner of Napoleon.

The conquest of Ishmael was of great political importance. It influenced the further course of the war and the conclusion in 1792 of the Iasi Peace between Russia and Turkey, which confirmed the annexation of Crimea to Russia and established the Russian-Turkish border along the Dniester River. Thus, the entire northern Black Sea region from the Dniester to the Kuban was assigned to Russia.

Andrey Segeda

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