Introduction

This short article contains only a drop of information about the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. In fact, there are a huge number of heroes and to collect all the information about these people and their exploits is a titanic work and it is already a little beyond the scope of our project. Nevertheless, we decided to start with 5 heroes - many of them have heard about some of them, a little less information about others and few people know about them, especially the younger generation.

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved the Soviet people thanks to his incredible effort, dedication, ingenuity and self-sacrifice. This is especially clearly revealed in the heroes of the war, who performed incredible feats on the battlefield and behind it. Everyone who is grateful to their fathers and grandfathers for the opportunity to live in peace and tranquility should know these great people.

Viktor Vasilievich Talalikhin

The history of Viktor Vasilyevich begins with the small village of Teplovka, located in the Saratov province. Here he was born in the fall of 1918. His parents were ordinary workers. He himself, after graduating from a school specializing in the release of workers for factories and factories, worked at a meat-packing plant and at the same time attended the flying club. After he graduated from one of the few pilot schools in Borisoglebsk. He took part in the conflict between our country and Finland, where he received the baptism of fire. During the period of confrontation between the USSR and Finland, Talalikhin made about five dozen combat missions, while destroying several enemy aircraft, as a result of which he was awarded the honorary Order of the Red Star in the fortieth year for special successes and accomplishment of assigned tasks.

Viktor Vasilyevich distinguished himself with a heroic feat already during the battles in the great war for our people. Although he has about sixty sorties, the main battle took place on August 6, 1941 in the skies over Moscow. As part of a small air group, Viktor flew an I-16 to repel an enemy air attack on the capital of the USSR. At an altitude of several kilometers, he met a German He-111 bomber. Talalikhin fired several machine-gun bursts at him, but the German plane skillfully dodged them. Then Viktor Vasilyevich, by a cunning maneuver and regular machine gun shots, hit one of the bomber's engines, but this did not help stop the "German". To the chagrin of the Russian pilot, after unsuccessful attempts to stop the bomber, there were no live ammunition left, and Talalikhin decided to go to the ram. For this ram he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

During the war, there were many such cases, but by the will of fate Talalikhin became the first who decided to go to the ram, neglecting his own safety, in our sky. He died in October 1941 with the rank of squadron commander, performing another combat mission.

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub

In the village of Obrazhievka, a future hero, Ivan Kozhedub, was born into a family of ordinary peasants. After graduating from school in 1934, he entered the Chemical Technology College. The Shostka flying club was the first place where Kozhedub received flying skills. Then in the fortieth year he entered the army. In the same year he successfully entered and graduated from the military aviation school in the city of Chuguev.

Ivan Nikitovich took a direct part in the Great Patriotic War. On his account there are more than a hundred air battles, during which he shot down 62 aircraft. From a large number combat missions can be divided into two main - the battle with the Me-262 fighter, which has a jet engine, and the attack on the group of bombers FW-190.

The battle with the Me-262 jet fighter took place in mid-February 1945. On this day, Ivan Nikitovich, together with his partner Dmitry Tatarenko, flew on La-7 planes to hunt. After a short search, they stumbled upon a low-flying plane. He flew along the river from Frankfupt an der Oder. Getting closer, the pilots discovered that this is a new generation Me-262 aircraft. But this did not discourage the pilots from attacking an enemy plane. Then Kozhedub decided to attack on a head-on course, since this was the only opportunity to destroy the enemy. During the attack, the wingman fired a short burst from a machine gun ahead of schedule, which could confuse all the cards. But to the surprise of Ivan Nikitovich, this trick of Dmitry Tatarenko had a positive effect. The German pilot turned around so that he ended up hitting Kozhedub's sight. All he had to do was pull the trigger and destroy the enemy. Which he did.

Ivan Nikitovich performed his second heroic deed in the middle of April 1945 in the area of ​​the capital of Germany. Again, together with Titarenko, performing another combat mission, they found a group of FW-190 bombers with full combat kits. Kozhedub immediately reported this to the command post, but without waiting for reinforcements, he began an attacking maneuver. The German pilots saw how two Soviet planes, having risen, disappeared into the clouds, but they did not attach any importance to this. Then the Russian pilots decided to attack. Kozhedub descended to the height of the flight of the Germans and began to shoot them, and Titarenko with greater height he fired in short bursts in different directions, trying to create the impression on the enemy of the presence of a large number of Soviet fighters. The German pilots believed at first, but after a few minutes of the battle their doubts were dispelled, and they proceeded to active actions to destroy the enemy. Kozhedub was on the verge of death in this battle, but his friend saved him. When Ivan Nikitovich tried to get away from the German fighter that was pursuing him and being in the position of shooting the Soviet fighter, Titarenko with a short burst outstripped the German pilot and destroyed the enemy vehicle. Soon, a group of help arrived in time, and the German group of planes was destroyed.

During the war, Kozhedub was twice recognized as a Hero Soviet Union and was elevated to the rank of Marshal of Soviet Aviation.

Dmitry Romanovich Ovcharenko

The homeland of the soldier is the village with the telling name of Ovcharovo, Kharkov province. He was born in the family of a carpenter in 1919. His father taught him all the intricacies of his craft, which later played an important role in the fate of the hero. Ovcharenko studied at school for only five years, then went to work on a collective farm. He was drafted into the army in 1939. The first days of the war, as befits a soldier, met at the front line. After a short service, he received minor damage, which, unfortunately for the soldier, became the reason for his transfer from the main unit to service at the ammunition depot. It was this position that became key for Dmitry Romanovich, under which he accomplished his feat.

It all happened in the middle of the summer of 1941 in the area of ​​the Pestsa village. Ovcharenko carried out the order of his superiors on the delivery of ammunition and food to a military unit located several kilometers from the village. Towards him came two trucks with fifty German soldiers and three officers. They surrounded him, took away the rifle and began to interrogate him. But the Soviet soldier was not taken aback and, taking an ax lying next to him, cut off the head of one of the officers. While the Germans were discouraged, he took three grenades from a dead officer and threw them in the direction of the German vehicles. These throws were extremely successful: 21 soldiers were killed on the spot, and the remaining Ovcharenko finished off with an ax, including the second officer who was trying to escape. The third officer managed to escape. But even here the Soviet soldier was not taken aback. He collected all the documents, maps, records and machine guns and took them to the General Staff, while bringing ammunition and food on time. At first, they did not believe him that he alone coped with a whole platoon of the enemy, but after detailed study the place of the battle all doubts were dispelled.

Thanks to the heroic deed of the soldier, Ovcharenko was recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union, and he also received one of the most significant orders- Order of Lenin together with the Gold Star medal. He did not live to see victory for only three months. The injury received in the battles for Hungary in January was fatal for the fighter. At that time he was a machine gunner 389 infantry regiment... He went down in history as a soldier with an ax.

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya

The homeland for Zoya Anatolyevna is the village of Osina-Gai, located in the Tambov region. She was born on September 8, 1923 into a Christian family. By the will of fate, Zoya spent her childhood in gloomy wanderings around the country. So, in 1925, the family was forced to move to Siberia in order to avoid persecution by the state. A year later, they moved to Moscow, where her father died in 1933. The orphaned Zoe begins to experience health problems that prevent her from studying. In the fall of 1941, Kosmodemyanskaya joined the ranks of scouts and saboteurs of the Western Front. In a short time, Zoya underwent combat training and began to perform the assigned tasks.

She performed her heroic deed in the village of Petrishchevo. By order of Zoya and a group of fighters were instructed to burn a dozen settlements, which included the village of Petrishchevo. On the night of November 28, Zoya and her comrades made their way to the village and came under fire, as a result of which the group broke up and Kosmodemyanskaya had to act alone. After spending the night in the forest, early in the morning she went to carry out the task. Zoe managed to set fire to three houses and hide unnoticed. But when she decided to return again and finish what she had begun, the villagers were already waiting for her, who, seeing the saboteur, immediately informed the German soldiers. Kosmodemyanskaya was seized and tortured for a long time. They tried to find out from her information about the unit in which she served, and her name. Zoya denied and did not tell anything, and when asked what her name was, she called herself Tanya. The Germans considered that they could not get more information and hung it up in public. Zoya met death with dignity, and her last words went down in history forever. When she was dying, she said that our people number one hundred and seventy million people, and all of them cannot be outweighed. So, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya died heroically.

Mentions about Zoya are primarily associated with the name "Tanya", under which she went down in history. She is also a Hero of the Soviet Union. Her distinctive feature- the first woman to receive this honorary title posthumously.

Alexey Tikhonovich Sevastyanov

This hero was the son of a simple cavalryman, a native of the Tver region, was born in the winter of 1917 in the small village of Kholm. After graduating from technical school in Kalinin, he entered the military aviation school. Sevastyanov finished it with success in thirty-ninth. For more than a hundred combat missions, he destroyed four enemy aircraft, two of which personally and in a group, as well as one balloon.

He received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. The most important sorties for Alexei Tikhonovich were battles in the skies over the Leningrad region. So, on the fourth of November of the forty-first year, Sevastyanov patrolled the sky over the Northern capital on his IL-153 plane. And just during his watch, the Germans made a raid. The artillery could not cope with the onslaught and Alexei Tikhonovich had to engage in battle. For a long time, the German He-111 aircraft managed to keep the Soviet fighter away from it. After two unsuccessful attacks, Sevastyanov made a third attempt, but when it came time to pull the trigger and destroy the enemy in a short burst, the Soviet pilot discovered that there was no ammunition. Without thinking twice, he decides to go to the ram. A Soviet plane with its propeller pierced the tail of an enemy bomber. For Sevastyanov, this maneuver was successful, but for the Germans it all ended in captivity.

The second significant flight and the last for the hero was an air battle in the sky over Ladoga. Alexey Tikhonovich died in an unequal battle with the enemy on April 23, 1942.

Output

As we already said in this article, not all war heroes are collected, there are about eleven thousand of them in total (according to official data). Among them are Russians, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and all other nations of our multinational state. There are those who did not receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, having committed at least important act, but by coincidence, information about them was lost. There was a lot in the war: the desertion of soldiers, and betrayal, and death, and much more, but the most great importance had exploits - these are such heroes. Thanks to them, the victory in the Great Patriotic War was won.

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

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

The 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 Evpatiy Kolovrat (1238).

Evpatiy 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 on Russia. Ryazan was the first on their way. Realizing that own forces for the successful defense of the city, the Ryazan people had little, the prince sent Evpatiy Kolovrat to seek help in the neighboring principalities.

Kolovrat left for Chernigov, where he was overtaken by the news of the devastation of his native land by the Mongols. Without hesitating a minute, Kolovrat with a small squad hurriedly moved towards Ryazan.

Unfortunately, he found the city already ravaged and burned down. Seeing the ruins, he gathered those who could fight with an army of about 1700 people rushed in pursuit of the entire horde of Batu (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 Tatar rearguard with a surprise attack.

Batu was very stunned by this frantic attack. Khan had to throw his best parts into battle. Batu asked to bring Kolovrat to him alive, but Evpatiy did not surrender and bravely fought against an outnumbered enemy.

Then Batu sent an envoy to Evpatiy to ask what the Russian soldiers want? Evpatiy answered - “just die”! The battle 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 Kolovrat's squad.

Khan Batu, struck by the courage and heroism of the Russian soldier, gave the body of Evpatiy to his squad. For their courage, Batu ordered the rest of the soldiers to be released without harming them.

The feat of Evpatiy Kolovrat is described in the Old Russian "The Tale of the Ruin of Ryazan by Batu".

• Suvorov's crossing over the Alps (1799).

In 1799, Russian troops that participated in the battles with 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 provide assistance to the Rimsky-Korsakov corps and defeat the French in Switzerland.

For this, the army was led by Generalissimo Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov. together with a wagon train, artillery and wounded made an unprecedented crossing over the alpine passes.

In the campaign, Suvorov's army fought through Saint-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 got out of the encirclement, after which she crossed the snow-covered, inaccessible Ringenkopf (Paniks) pass and went through the city of Chur towards Russia.

During the battle for the Devil's Bridge, the French managed to damage the span and to overcome the abyss. under fire, Russian soldiers tied the boards of a nearby barn with officers' scarves and went into battle over 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 steep 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 participated as an ordinary soldier. Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich.

• 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, became the property of Poland and again returned to Russia.

By the beginning of June 1941, units of two rifle divisions of the Red Army were located on the territory of the fortress: the 6th Oryol Red Banner and the 42nd Infantry Division 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 hampered by forests, swamps, river channels and canals that surrounded the fortress. The German strategists took 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 tough rebuff. The report said: “The Russians are fighting fiercely, especially behind our attacking companies. In the Citadel, the enemy organized a defense with infantry units supported by 35-40 tanks and armored vehicles. The fire of Russian snipers led to large losses among officers and non-commissioned officers. " Within one day on June 22, 1941, the 45th Infantry Division only lost 21 officers and 290 lower ranks in killed.

On June 23, at 5:00, the Germans began shelling the Citadel, while trying not to hit their soldiers trapped in the church. On the same day, tanks were used against the defenders of the Brest Fortress for the first time.

On June 26, on the North Island, German sappers blew up the wall of the school building for political personnel. 450 prisoners were taken there. The Eastern Fort remained the main focus of resistance on the North Island. On June 27, 20 commanders and 370 fighters from the 393rd Anti-Aircraft Battalion of the 42nd Infantry Division, led by the commander of the 44th Infantry Regiment, Major Pyotr Gavrilov, were defending there.

On June 28, two German tanks and several self-propelled guns returning from repair to the front continued to fire at 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.

On June 29 at 8:00 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 headed by Gavrilov continued to fight in the Eastern Fort. The major was captured only on 23 July. Residents of Brest said that until the end of July or even before 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 found in the barracks of the 132nd separate battalion of the NKVD escort troops: “I am dying, but I am not surrendering. Goodbye, Motherland. 20 / VII-41 ".

• Campaigns of Kotlyarevsky's detachments 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, Kotlyarevsky with 600 soldiers and 2 guns fought back for 2 days in the old cemetery from 20,000 soldiers of Abbas Mirza. 257 soldiers and almost all of Kotlyarevsky's officers were killed. There were many wounded.

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

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

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, while two continued their march.

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

In 1806, in a field battle at Khonashin in 1644, Major Kotlyarevsky's fighters defeated the 20-thousandth army of Abbas Mirza. In 1810, Abbas-Mirza again marched against Russia with troops. Kotlyarevsky took 400 rangers and 40 horsemen and came forward to meet them.

“On the way,” he stormed the Migri fortress, defeating a 2,000-strong garrison, and captured 5 artillery batteries. After waiting for 2 companies of reinforcement, the colonel took a battle with 10,000 Persians of the Shah and forced him to retreat to the Araks River. Taking 460 infantry and 20 mounted Cossacks, the colonel destroyed the 10-thousand detachment of Abbas-Mirza, having lost 4 Russian soldiers killed.

In 1811, Kotlyarevsky became a major general, crossing the impregnable ridge with 2 battalions and a hundred Cossacks and seizing the Akhalkalak fortress by storm. The British sent the Persians money and weapons for 12,000 soldiers. Then Kotlyarevsky went on a campaign and took by storm the fortress Kara-Kakh, where military warehouses were located.

In 1812, in a field battle at Aslanduz, 2,000 Kotlyarevsky's soldiers with 6 guns defeated the entire army of Abbas Mirza of 30,000 people.

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

• The capture of Izmail by Suvorov (1790).

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

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

Near Izmail, in the area of ​​the present village of Safyany, in the shortest possible time, earthen and wooden analogs of the ditch and walls of Izmail were built - the soldiers trained to throw a moat with a fascinator, quickly put up ladders, after climbing the wall, they quickly chopped and chopped the stuffed animals installed there, imitating defenders.

For two days, Suvorov conducted artillery training 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 in the streets of the city lasted until 16:00.

The attacking troops were divided into 3 detachments (wings), 3 columns each. A detachment of Major General de Ribas (9,000 men) attacked from the river side; the right wing under the command of Lieutenant-General PS 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. The cavalry reserves of Brigadier Westphalen (2,500 men) were on the land side. In total, Suvorov's army numbered 31,000 people.

Turkish casualties totaled 29,000 killed. 9 thousand were taken prisoner. Of the entire garrison, only one person 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 supplies of provisions and jewelry for 10 million piastres were captured. M. was appointed commandant of the fortress. I. Kutuzov, in the future a 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 Yassy 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.

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Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and their exploits

The fighting has long since died down. One by one the veterans are leaving. But the heroes of the Second World War 1941-1945 and their exploits will forever remain in the memory of grateful descendants. This article will tell about the brightest personalities of those years and their immortal deeds. Some were still very young, and some were no longer young. Each of the heroes has his own character and his own destiny. But all of them were united by love for the Motherland and the willingness to sacrifice themselves for its good.

Alexander Matrosov

The pupil of the orphanage Sasha Matrosov went to war at the age of 18. Immediately after the infantry school, he was sent to the front. February 1943 turned out to be "hot". Alexander's battalion went on the attack, and at some point the guy, along with several comrades, was surrounded. It was not possible to break through to our own - enemy machine guns fired too dense fire.

Soon Matrosov was left alive alone. His comrades were killed by bullets. The young man had only a few seconds to make a decision. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the last in his life. Wanting to bring at least some benefit to his own battalion, Alexander Matrosov rushed to the embrasure, covering it with his body. The fire stopped. The attack of the Red Army was eventually crowned with success - the Nazis retreated. And Sasha went to heaven as a young and handsome 19-year-old boy ...

Marat Kazei

When the Great Patriotic War began, Marat Kazei was only twelve. He lived in the village of Stankovo ​​with his sister and parents. In 1941 he was in the occupation. Marat's mother helped the partisans, providing them with her own shelter and feeding them. Once the Germans found out about this and shot a woman. Left alone, the children, without hesitation, went into the forest and joined the partisans.

Marat, who had finished only four classes before the war, helped his older comrades as much as he could. They even took him on reconnaissance; and he also participated in undermining German trains. In 43rd, the boy was awarded the medal "For Courage", for heroism shown during the breakthrough of the encirclement. The boy was wounded in that terrible battle.

And in 1944 Kazei was returning from intelligence with an adult partisan. The Germans noticed them and started firing at them. The senior comrade died. Marat fired back to the last bullet. And when he had only one grenade left, the teenager let the Germans get closer and blew himself up with them. He was 15 years old.

Alexey Maresyev

The name of this person is known to every inhabitant of the former Soviet Union. After all, we are talking about the legendary pilot. Alexey Maresyev was born in 1916 and dreamed of the sky since childhood. Even the transferred rheumatism did not become an obstacle on the way to the dream. Despite the prohibitions of doctors, Alexei entered flight - they took him after several vain attempts.

In 1941, the stubborn young man went to the front. The sky was not what he dreamed of. But it was necessary to defend the Motherland, and Maresyev did everything for this. One day his plane was shot down. Alexei, wounded in both legs, managed to land the car on the territory occupied by the Germans and even somehow make his way to his own.

But time was lost. The legs were "devoured" by gangrene and had to be amputated. Where can a soldier go without both limbs? After all, he is completely crippled ... But Alexei Maresyev was not one of those. He remained in the ranks and continued to fight the enemy.

As many as 86 times, a winged machine with a hero on board managed to rise into the sky. 11 German planes were shot down by Maresyev. The pilot was lucky enough to survive in that terrible war and feel the heady taste of victory. He died in 2001. "The Story of a Real Man" by Boris Polevoy is a work about him. It was the feat of Maresyev that inspired the author to write it.

Zinaida Portnova

Born in 1926, Zina Portnova met the war as a teenager. At that time, the native inhabitant of Leningrad was visiting relatives in Belarus. Once in the occupied territory, she did not sit on the sidelines, but joined the partisan movement. I pasted leaflets, established contacts with the underground ...

In 1943, the Germans seized the girl and dragged her to their lair. During the interrogation, Zina managed to somehow take a pistol from the table. She shot her tormentors - two soldiers and an investigator.

It was heroic deed, which made the attitude of the Germans towards Zina even more brutal. It is impossible to convey in words the torment that the girl experienced during the terrible torture. But she was silent. Not a word was squeezed out of her by the Nazis. As a result, the Germans shot their captive, and did not achieve anything from the heroine Zina Portnova.

Andrey Korzun

Andrei Korzun turned thirty in the 41st. He was drafted to the front immediately, sending him to the gunners. Korzun took part in terrible battles near Leningrad, during one of which he was seriously wounded. It was November 5, 1943.

As he fell, Korzun noticed that the ammunition depot started on fire. It was urgent to extinguish the fire, otherwise an explosion of enormous force threatened to take many lives. Somehow, bleeding and suffering from pain, the artilleryman crawled to the warehouse. The artilleryman did not have the strength to take off his overcoat and throw it into the flames. Then he covered the fire with his body. The explosion did not happen. Andrey Korzun did not manage to survive.

Leonid Golikov

Another young hero is Lenya Golikov. Was born in 1926. He lived in the Novgorod region. With the beginning of the war, he left to partisan. Courage and determination this teenager was not to take. Leonid destroyed 78 fascists, a dozen enemy trains and even a couple of bridges.

The explosion, which went down in history and carried away the German general Richard von Wirtz, was his handiwork. The car of an important rank flew into the air, and Golikov took possession of valuable documents, for which he received the Star of the Hero.

A brave partisan died in 1943 near the village of Ostraya Luka during a German attack. The enemy significantly outnumbered our fighters, and they had no chance. Golikov fought until his last breath.

These are just six of the great many stories that permeate the entire war. Everyone who has passed it, who has brought victory even for a moment closer, is already a hero. Thanks to the likes of Maresyev, Golikov, Korzun, Matrosov, Kazei, Portnova and millions of others Soviet soldiers the world got rid of the brown plague of the 20th century. And the reward for their exploits was eternal life!

Before the war, these were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, bred pigeons, sometimes even took part in fights. But the hour of difficult trials came and they proved how huge an ordinary little child's heart can become when sacred love for the Motherland flares up in it, pain for the fate of its people and hatred of enemies. And no one expected that these boys and girls are capable of performing a great feat for the glory of freedom and independence of their Motherland!

Children left in the destroyed cities and villages became homeless, doomed to death by starvation. It was terrible and difficult to remain in the territory occupied by the enemy. Children could be sent to a concentration camp, taken to work in Germany, turned into slaves, made donors for German soldiers etc.

Here are the names of some of them: Volodya Kazmin, Yura Zhdanko, Lenya Golikov, Marat Kazei, Lara Mikheenko, Valya Kotik, Tanya Morozova, Vitya Korobkov, Zina Portnova. Many of them fought so hard that they deserved military orders and medals, and four: Marat Kazei, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova, Lenya Golikov, became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

From the first days of the occupation, boys and girls began to act at their own peril and risk, which was indeed fatal.

"Fedya Samodurov. Fedya is 14 years old, he is a pupil of a motorized rifle unit commanded by the Guard Captain A. Chernavin. Fedya was picked up in his homeland, in a ruined village Voronezh region... Together with the unit he participated in the battles for Ternopil, with a machine-gun crew he kicked the Germans out of the city. When almost the entire crew died, the teenager, together with the surviving soldier, took up the machine gun, firing long and hard, delayed the enemy. Fedya was awarded the medal "For Courage".

Vanya Kozlov, 13 years old,he was left without relatives and for the second year he has been in a motorized rifle unit. At the front, he delivers food, newspapers and letters to soldiers in the most difficult conditions.

Petya Tooth. Petya Zub chose a no less difficult specialty. He has long decided to become a scout. His parents were killed, and he knows how to settle accounts with the accursed German. Together with experienced scouts, he gets to the enemy, reports his location on the radio, and artillery fires at their orders, crushing the fascists. "(Argumenty i Fakty, No. 25, 2010, p. 42).

A sixteen year old schoolgirl Olya Demesh with her younger sister Lida at the Orsha station in Belarus, on the instructions of the commander of the partisan brigade S. Zhulin, fuel tanks were blown up with the help of magnetic mines. Of course, the girls attracted much less attention from the German guards and policemen than teenage boys or adult men. But the girls were just right to play with dolls, and they fought with the soldiers of the Wehrmacht!

Thirteen-year-old Lida often took a basket or bag and went to railways collect coal by mining intelligence on German military echelons. If the sentries stopped her, she explained that she was collecting coal to heat the room in which the Germans lived. Olya's mother and younger sister Lida were seized and shot by the Nazis, and Olya continued to fearlessly carry out the partisans' assignments.

For the head of the young partisan Oli Demesh, the Nazis promised a generous reward - land, a cow and 10 thousand marks. Copies of her photograph were distributed and sent to all patrol services, policemen, headmen and secret agents. Capture and deliver her alive - that was the order! But they failed to catch the girl. Olga destroyed 20 German soldiers and officers, derailed 7 enemy trains, conducted reconnaissance, participated in the "rail war", in the destruction of German punitive units.

Children of the Great Patriotic War

What happened to the children during this terrible time? During the war?

The guys worked day and night in factories, factories and industries, standing behind the machines instead of brothers and fathers who had gone to the front. Children also worked at defense enterprises: they made fuses for mines, fuses for hand grenades, smoke bombs, colored flares, assembled gas masks. They worked in agriculture, grew vegetables for hospitals.

In school sewing workshops, the pioneers sewed linen and tunics for the army. The girls knitted warm clothes for the front: mittens, socks, scarves, sewed pouches for tobacco. The guys helped the wounded in hospitals, wrote letters to their relatives under their dictation, put on performances for the wounded, arranged concerts, causing a smile from the war-worn adult men.

A number of objective reasons: the departure of teachers to the army, the evacuation of the population from western regions in the east, the inclusion of students in labor activity in connection with the departure of the family breadwinners to the war, the transfer of many schools to hospitals, etc., prevented the deployment in the USSR during the war of a universal seven-year compulsory education, which began in the 30s. In the remaining educational institutions training was carried out in two, three, and sometimes four shifts.

At the same time, the children were forced to store firewood for the boiler rooms themselves. There were no textbooks, and due to lack of paper they wrote on old newspapers between the lines. Nevertheless, new schools were opened, additional classes were created. Boarding schools were created for the evacuated children. For those young people who left school at the beginning of the war and were employed in industry or agriculture, schools for working and rural youth were organized in 1943.

In the annals of the Great Patriotic War Until now, there are still many little-known pages, for example, the fate of kindergartens. "It turns out that in December 1941 in besieged Moscowkindergartens worked in bomb shelters. When the enemy was driven back, they resumed their work faster than many universities. By the fall of 1942, 258 kindergartens had opened in Moscow!

From the memories of the war childhood of Lydia Ivanovna Kostyleva:

“After the death of my grandmother, I was assigned to Kindergarten, older sister at school, mom at work. I went to kindergarten alone, by tram, in less than five years. Once I got seriously ill with mumps, I was lying at home alone with a high fever, there was no medicine, in my delirium I fancied a pig running under the table, but nothing happened.
I saw my mother in the evenings and on rare weekends. The children were raised by the street, we were friendly and always hungry. From early spring, they ran on mosses, fortunately, the forest and swamps are nearby, they picked berries, mushrooms, and various early grass. The bombings gradually ceased, the residences of the allies were located in our Arkhangelsk, this brought a certain flavor to life - we, children, sometimes dropped warm clothes, some food. Basically, we ate black shangi, potatoes, seal meat, fish and fish oil, on holidays - "marmalade" of seaweed, tinted with beets. "

More than five hundred educators and nannies in the fall of 1941 dug trenches on the outskirts of the capital. Hundreds worked in the logging area. The educators, who yesterday led a round dance with the children, fought in the Moscow militia. Natasha Yanovskaya, a kindergarten teacher in the Bauman region, heroically died near Mozhaisk. The educators who remained with the children did not perform feats. They simply rescued babies whose fathers fought, and mothers stood at the machines.

Most of the kindergartens became boarding schools during the war, children were there day and night. And in order to feed children in a half-starved time, to protect them from the cold, to give them at least a little bit of comfort, to keep them occupied for the benefit of the mind and soul - such work required a great love for children, deep decency and boundless patience. "(D. Shevarov" World of news ”, No. 27, 2010, p. 27).

The children have changed their games, "... a new game - in the hospital. They played in the hospital before, but not like that. Now the wounded are real people for them. But the war is played less often, because no one wants to be a fascist. They are carried out by trees. They shoot snowballs at them. We have learned to help the victims - those who have fallen and bruised. "

From the boy's letter to the front-line soldier: “We used to play the war too often, but now much less often - we are tired of the war, it would sooner be over, so that we can live well again ...” (Ibid.).

In connection with the death of their parents, many street children have appeared in the country. The Soviet state, despite the difficult war time, nevertheless fulfilled its obligations to children left without parents. To combat neglect, a network of children's receivers and orphanages was organized and opened, and the employment of adolescents was organized.

Many families of Soviet citizens began to take orphans to their upbringingwhere they found new parents for themselves. Unfortunately, not all educators and heads of children's institutions were distinguished by honesty and decency. Here are some examples.

“In the fall of 1942, children dressed in rags were caught in the Pochinkovsky district of the Gorky region, who were stealing potatoes and grain from collective farm fields. Investigations, local police officers discovered a criminal group, and, in fact, a gang, which consisted of employees of this institution.

In total, seven people were arrested in the case, including the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev, accountant Sdobnov, storekeeper Mukhina and others. During the searches, 14 children's coats, seven suits, 30 meters of cloth, 350 meters of manufacture and other misappropriated property were seized from them, which was allocated with great difficulty by the state during this harsh wartime.

The investigation established that by not supplying the due norm of bread and food, these criminals only during 1942 stole seven tons of bread, half a ton of meat, 380 kg of sugar, 180 kg of biscuits, 106 kg of fish, 121 kg of honey, etc. The employees of the orphanage sold all these scarce products on the market or simply ate them themselves.

Only one comrade Novoseltsev received fifteen servings of breakfast and lunch for himself and his family members every day. At the expense of the pupils, the rest of the attendants also ate well. The children were fed "dishes" made from rot and vegetables, citing poor supplies.

Throughout 1942, they were given only one candy each for the 25th anniversary. October revolution... And what is most surprising, the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev in the same 1942 received an honorary diploma from the People's Commissariat of Education for excellent educational work... All these fascists were deservedly sentenced to long terms of imprisonment "(Zefirov MV, Dektyarev DM" Everything for the front? How the victory was actually forged ", pp. 388-391).

At such a time, the whole essence of man is manifested .. Every day to face a choice - how to act .. And the war showed us examples of great mercy, great heroism and great cruelty, great meanness .. We must remember this !! For the future !!

And no time can heal wounds from war, especially children. "These years that were once, the bitterness of childhood does not allow to forget ..."

Young heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Cognitive material for extracurricular activities on literary reading or history for primary school on the topic: WWII

Before the war, these were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, bred pigeons, sometimes even took part in fights. These were simple children and adolescents, whom only relatives, classmates and friends knew about.

But the hour of difficult trials came and they proved how huge an ordinary little child's heart can become when sacred love for the Motherland flares up in it, pain for the fate of its people and hatred of enemies. Together with the adults, the burden of adversity, calamity, and grief of the war years fell on their fragile shoulders. And they did not bend under this weight, they became stronger in spirit, more courageous, more enduring. And no one expected that these boys and girls are capable of performing a great feat for the glory of freedom and independence of their Motherland!

No! - we said to the fascists, -

Our people will not tolerate

To make Russian bread fragrant

Called the word "brot" ...

Where is the strength in the world

To break us down

She bent us under the yoke

In those parts where in the days of victory

Our great-grandfathers and grandfathers

Have you feasted so many times? ..

And from sea to sea

The Russian regiments got up.

We got up, united with the Russians,

Belarusians, Latvians,

People of free Ukraine,

Both Armenians and Georgians,

Moldovans, Chuvash ...

Glory to our generals,

Glory to our admirals

And to ordinary soldiers ...

On foot, floating, on horseback,

Tempered in hot battles!

Glory to the fallen and the living

Thanks to them from the bottom of my heart!

Let's not forget those heroes

That lie damp in the ground

Giving life to the battlefield

For the people - for you and me.

Excerpts from S. Mikhalkov's poem "Fairy for Children"

Kazei Marat Ivanovich(1929-1944), partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1965, posthumously). From 1942 scout partisan detachment(Minsk Region).

The Nazis broke into the village where Marat lived with his mother, Anna Alexandrovna. 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 fierce. For communication with the partisans, Anna Aleksandrovna Kazei was seized, and soon Marat learned that his mother had been hanged in Minsk. The boy's heart filled with anger and hatred for the enemy. Together with his sister, Ad oy Marat Kazey 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 data, the partisans developed a daring operation and defeated the fascist garrison in the city of Dzerzhinsk. Marat participated in battles and invariably showed courage, fearlessness, together with experienced demolition men he mined railroad... 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, fifteen-year-old 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.

Portnova Zinaida Martynovna (Zina) (1926-1944), a young partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1958, posthumously). Scout of the partisan detachment "Young Avengers" (Vitebsk region).

The war found Zina Portnova from Leningrad in the village of Zuya, where she came on vacation, not far from the Obol station of the Vitebsk region. In Oboli, 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, distributed leaflets, and conducted reconnaissance on the instructions of a partisan detachment. In December 1943, returning from a mission, in the village of Mostishche, Zina was betrayed as a traitor to the Nazis. The fascists 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 shot point-blank at the Gestapo. 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 partisan was brutally tortured, but until the last minute she remained steadfast, courageous, unbending. And the Motherland posthumously marked her feat with her highest title - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Valentin Aleksandrovich Kotik(Valya) (1930-1944), a young partisan of the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union (1958, posthumously). Since 1942 - a liaison underground organization in the city of Shepetovka, a scout for a partisan detachment (Khmelnitsky region, Ukraine).

Valya was born on February 11, 1930 in the village of Khmelevka, Shepetovsky district, Khmelnitsky region. He studied at school number 4. When the Nazis broke into Shepetovka, Valya Kotik, together with her friends, decided to fight the enemy. The guys collected weapons at the site of the fighting, which the partisans later transported to the detachment on a hay cart. Having looked closely at the boy, the leaders of the partisan detachment entrusted Vale to be a liaison and intelligence officer in their underground organization. He learned the location of enemy posts, the order of changing the guard. The Nazis planned a punitive operation against the partisans, and Valya, after tracking down the Hitlerite officer who led the punishers, killed him. When the arrests began in the city, Valya, along with his mother and brother Viktor, went to the partisans. An ordinary boy, who had just turned fourteen, fought shoulder to shoulder with adults, freeing his native land. On his account - six enemy echelons, blown up on the way to the front. Valya Kotik was awarded the order World War I degree, medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" II degree. Valya died as a hero in one of the unequal battles with the Nazis.

Golikov Leonid Alexandrovich(1926-1943). Young hero-partisan. Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade, operating in the Novgorod and Pskov regions. Participated in 27 military operations.

In total, he destroyed 78 fascists, two railway and 12 highway bridges, two food and fodder warehouses and 10 vehicles with ammunition. He distinguished himself in battles near the villages of Aprosovo, Sosnitsa, Sever. Accompanied a wagon train with food (250 carts) to besieged Leningrad. For valor and courage he was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Battle Red Banner and the Medal For Courage.

On August 13, 1942, returning from reconnaissance from the Luga-Pskov highway near the village of Varnitsy, he blew up a passenger car in which there was a German major general engineering troops Richard von Wirtz. In a shootout, Golikov shot from a submachine gun the general who was accompanying his officer and driver. The scout delivered a briefcase with documents to the brigade headquarters. Among them were drawings and descriptions of new samples of German mines, inspection reports to higher command and other important military papers. Nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. On January 24, 1943, Leonid Golikov died in an unequal battle in the village of Ostraya Luka, Pskov Region. The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, by a decree of April 2, 1944, awarded him the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Arkady Kamanin dreamed of the sky when he was still quite a boy. Arkady's father, Nikolai Petrovich Kamanin, a pilot, took part in the rescue of the Chelyuskinites, for which he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. And also my father's friend, Mikhail Vasilyevich Vodopyanov, is always nearby. There was a reason for the boy's heart to catch fire. But they didn’t let him into the air, they said: grow up. When the war began, he went to work at an aircraft factory, then at an airfield. Experienced pilots, even for a few minutes, happened to trust him to fly the plane. Once an enemy bullet broke the glass of the cockpit. The pilot was blinded. Losing consciousness, he managed to transfer control to Arkady, and the boy landed the plane at his airfield. After that, Arkady was allowed to seriously study flying, and soon he began to fly on his own. Once from a height, a young pilot saw our plane shot down by the Nazis. Arkady landed under heavy mortar fire, carried the pilot to his plane, took off and returned to his own. The Order of the Red Star shone on his chest. For his participation in battles with the enemy, Arkady was awarded the second Order of the Red Star. By that time he had already become an experienced pilot, although he was fifteen years old. Until the very victory, Arkady Kamanin fought with the Nazis. The young hero dreamed of the sky and conquered the sky!

Utah Bondarovskaya in the summer of 1941 she came from Leningrad on vacation to a village near Pskov. Here a terrible war overtook her. Utah began to help the partisans. At first she was a messenger, then a scout. Disguised as a beggar boy, she collected information in the villages: where the fascists' headquarters were, how they were guarded, how many machine guns. The partisan detachment, together with units of the Red Army, left to help the partisans of Estonia. In one of the battles - near the Estonian farm Rostov - Yuta Bondarovskaya, the little heroine of the great war, died a heroic death. The Motherland awarded its heroic daughter posthumously the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree, the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree.

When the war began, and the Nazis were approaching Leningrad, a counselor was left for underground work in the village of Tarnovichi - in the south of the Leningrad region high school Anna Petrovna Semyonova. To communicate with the partisans, she selected the most reliable of her guys, and the first among them was Galina Komleva. Cheerful, brave, inquisitive girl for six of her school years was awarded six times with books with the signature: "For excellent studies." The young messenger brought assignments from the partisans to her leader, and forwarded her reports to the detachment along with bread, potatoes, food, which they got with great difficulty. Once, when a messenger from the partisan detachment did not arrive on time at the meeting place, Galya, half frozen, made her way into the detachment, conveyed a report and, slightly warmed up, hurried back, carrying a new task to the underground. Together with the young partisan Taseya Yakovleva, Galya wrote leaflets and scattered them around the village at night. The Nazis tracked down and seized the young underground workers. They were kept in the Gestapo for two months. The young patriot was shot. Gali Komleva's feat was celebrated by the Motherland with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree.

Leningrad schoolgirl Larisa Mikheenko was presented with a government award for the reconnaissance operation and the explosion of a railway bridge across the Drissa River. But the young heroine did not have time to receive her award.

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 village was occupied by the Nazis. And then one night Larisa with two older friends left the village. At the headquarters of the 6th Kalinin brigade, commander Major P.V. Ryndin at first refused to accept “such little ones”. But young girls were able to do what strong men could not. Dressed in rags, Lara walked through the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were posted, which German cars were moving along the highway, what kind of trains and with what cargo they came to the Pustoshka station. She also took part in military operations. A young partisan, betrayed by a traitor in the village of Ignatovo, was shot by the Nazis. The decree on awarding Larisa Mikheenko with the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree contains a bitter word: "Posthumously."

I could not put up with the atrocities of the fascists and Sasha Borodulin... Having procured a rifle, Sasha destroyed the fascist motorcyclist, took the first battle trophy - a real German machine gun. This was a good reason for admitting him to a partisan detachment. 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 shown courage, resourcefulness and courage, Sasha Borodulin in the winter of 1941 was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. Punishers tracked down the partisans. The detachment left them for three days. In a group of volunteers, Sasha remained to cover the retreat of the detachment. When all the comrades died, the brave hero, allowing the Nazis to close a ring around him, drew a grenade and blew them and himself.

The feat of a young partisan

(Excerpts from M. Danilenko's essay "Grishina's Life" (translated by Y. Bogushevich))

At night, the punishers surrounded the village. Grisha was awakened by a sound. He opened his eyes and looked out the window. A shadow flickered across the moonlit glass.

- Dad! - Grisha called softly.

- Sleep, what do you want? - responded the father.

But the boy didn’t sleep anymore. Stepping barefoot on the cold floor, he quietly walked out into the hallway. And then I heard someone tore open the doors and several pairs of boots thundered heavily into the hut.

The boy rushed into the garden, where there was a bathhouse with a small extension. Through the crack in the door, Grisha saw how his father, mother and sisters were taken out. Nadia was bleeding from her shoulder, and the girl was clutching the wound with her hand ...

Until dawn, Grisha stood in the annex and looked in front of him with wide eyes. The moonlight sounded sparingly. Somewhere an icicle fell from the roof and shattered with a quiet clink on the rubble. The boy shuddered. He felt neither cold nor fear.

That night, a small wrinkle appeared between his eyebrows. Appeared to never disappear again. Grisha's family was shot by the Nazis.

A thirteen-year-old boy walked from village to village with an unchildly stern look. I went to Sozh. He knew that somewhere across the river was his brother Alexei, there were partisans. A few days later, Grisha came to the village of Yametsky.

A resident of this village, Feodosia Ivanova, was a messenger of a partisan detachment commanded by Pyotr Antonovich Balykov. She brought the boy to the detachment.

The commissar of the detachment Pavel Ivanovich Dedik and the chief of staff Alexei Podobedov listened to Grisha with stern faces. And he stood in a tattered shirt, with his legs knocked down to the roots, with an unquenchable fire of hatred in his eyes. Grisha Podobedov's partisan life began. And no matter what mission the partisans went on, Grisha always asked to take him with him ...

Grisha Podobedov became an excellent partisan intelligence officer. Once the messengers reported that the Nazis, together with the police from Korma, robbed the population. They took 30 cows and everything that came to hand, and go in the direction of the Sixth village. The detachment went in pursuit of the enemy. Petr Antonovich Balykov was in charge of the operation.

“Well, Grisha,” said the commander. - You will go with Alena Konashkova to reconnaissance. Find out where the enemy stopped, what they are doing, what they are thinking of doing.

And here in the Sixth village wanders a weary woman with a hoe and a sack, and with her a boy, dressed in a large quilted jacket not for his height.

“They sowed this millet, good people,” the woman complained, addressing the policemen. - And try to raise these clearings with a small one. Not easy, oh, not easy!

And no one, of course, noticed how the boy's keen eyes followed each soldier, how they notice everything.

Grisha visited five houses where the fascists and policemen stayed. And he found out about everything, then reported in detail to the commander. A red rocket soared into the sky. And in a few minutes everything was over: the partisans drove the enemy into a cleverly placed "bag" and destroyed him. The looted goods were returned to the population.

Grisha went to reconnaissance also before the commemorative battle near the Pokat River.

With a bridle, limping (a splinter hit the heel), the little shepherd scurried among the Nazis. And such hatred burned in his eyes that, it seemed, she alone could incinerate enemies.

And then the scout reported how many guns he saw at the enemies, where there were machine guns and mortars. And from partisan bullets and mines the invaders found themselves graves on the Belarusian land.

In early June 1943, Grisha Podobedov, together with the partisan Yakov Kebikov, went on reconnaissance to the area of ​​the village of Zalesye, where a punitive company from the so-called volunteer detachment "Dnepr" was stationed. Grisha made his way into the house, where the drunken punishers had a party.

The partisans silently entered the village and completely destroyed the company. Only the commander escaped, he hid in a well. In the morning, the local old man pulled him out of there, like a nasty cat, by the scruff of the neck ...

It was last operation, in which Grisha Podobedov participated. On June 17, together with Sergeant Major Nikolai Borisenko, he went to the village of Rudaya Bartolomeevka for flour prepared for the partisans.

The sun shone brightly. A gray bird fluttered on the roof of the mill, watching people with sly eyes. The broad-shouldered Nikolai Borisenko had just loaded a heavy sack onto the cart when the pale miller came running.

- Punishers! He gasped.

The foreman and Grisha grabbed the machine guns and rushed into the bushes that grew near the mill. But they were noticed. Evil bullets whistled, cutting off alder branches.

- Get down! - gave the command to Borisenko and fired a long burst from the machine.

Grisha, taking aim, gave short bursts. He saw how the punishers, as if having stumbled upon an invisible obstacle, fell, beveled by his bullets.

- So you, so you! ..

Suddenly the foreman gave a deep gasp and clutched at his throat. Grisha turned around. Borisenko twitched all over and fell silent. His glazed eyes now gazed indifferently into the high sky, and his hand dug, as if stuck, into the stock of the machine gun.

The bush, where now only Grisha Podobedov was left, was surrounded by enemies. There were about sixty of them.

Grisha gritted his teeth and raised his hand. Several soldiers immediately rushed to him.

- Oh, you Herods! What did you want ?! - shouted the partisan and slashed at them point-blank from a machine gun.

Six Nazis fell at his feet. The rest lay down. More and more often bullets whistled over Grishina's head. The partisan was silent, did not respond. Then the bolder enemies rose again. And again, under well-aimed machine-gun fire, they pressed themselves into the ground. And the machine has already run out of cartridges. Grisha drew his pistol. - I give up! He shouted.

A policeman, tall and thin as a pole, ran up to him at a trot. Grisha shot him right in the face. For some elusive moment, the boy scanned the rare bush, the clouds in the sky and, holding the pistol to his temple, pulled the trigger ...

You can read about the exploits of the young heroes of the Great Patriotic War in the books:

Avramenko A.I. Messengers from captivity: a story / Per. with ukr. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1981. - 208 e .: ill. - (Young Heroes).

Bolshak V.G. Guide to the Abyss: Docum. story. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1979 .-- 160 p. - (Young Heroes).

Vuravkin G.N. Three pages from the legend / Per. from Belarusian. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1983 .-- 64 p. - (Young Heroes).

Valko I.V. Where are you flying, crane ?: Dokum. story. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1978 .-- 174 p. - (Young Heroes).

Vyhovsky B.C. Fire of a young heart / Per. with ukr. - M .: Det. lit., 1968 .-- 144 p. - (School library).

Children of the wartime / Comp. E. Maksimova. 2nd ed., Add. - M .: Politizdat, 1988 .-- 319 p.

Ershov Ya.A. Vitya Korobkov - pioneer, partisan: a story - Moscow: Military Publishing, 1968 - 320 p. - (Library of the young patriot: About the Motherland, exploits, honor).

Zharikov A.D. Feats of the Young: Stories and Essays. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1965. —- 144 e .: ill.

Zharikov A.D. Young partisans. - M .: Education, 1974 .-- 128 p.

Kassil L.A., Polyanovsky M.L. The street of the youngest son: a story. - M .: Det. lit., 1985 .-- 480 p. - (Student military library).

Kekkelev L.N. Countryman: The Story of P. Shepelev. 3rd ed. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1981 .-- 143 p. - (Young Heroes).

Korolkov Yu.M. Partisan Lenya Golikov: a story. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1985 .-- 215 p. - (Young Heroes).

Lezinsky M.L., Eskin B.M. Live, Vilor !: a story. - M .: Young Guard, 1983 .-- 112 p. - (Young Heroes).

Logvinenko I.M. Crimson Dawns: doc. story / Per. with ukr. - M .: Det. lit., 1972 .-- 160 p.

Lugovoi N.D. Scorched childhood. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1984 .-- 152 p. - (Young Heroes).

Medvedev N.E. Eaglets of the Blagov Forest: doc. story. - M .: DOSAAF, 1969 .-- 96 p.

V.N. Morozov A boy went to reconnaissance: a story. - Minsk: State Publishing House of the BSSR, 1961 .-- 214 p.

V.N. Morozov Volodin front. - M .: Molodaya gvardiya, 1975 .-- 96 p. - (Young Heroes).