Pioneers-heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Pioneers-heroes of the Second World War Five minors who are commonly called pioneers heroes

Class hour

Pioneers-heroes during the Great Patriotic War.

Target:

Activate interest in the history of the Great Patriotic War

To promote the formation of ideas about the courage, resilience and heroism of the boys and girls who stood up for the country

Cultivate a sense of pride, for the feat of the little defenders of the Fatherland

To acquaint students with the names of the children of war heroes.

To form an idea of ​​the exploits of children during the Second World War.

· Development of creative abilities.

Lesson progress

Introductory speech of the teacher:

On June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany treacherously attacked the USSR. Having created overwhelming superiority in the direction of strikes, the aggressor broke through the defenses of the Soviet troops, seized the strategic initiative and air supremacy. Border battles and the initial period of the war (until mid-July) generally led to the defeat of the Red Army. She lost 850 thousand people killed and wounded, 9.5 thousand guns, over. 6 thousand tanks, about. 3.5 thousand aircraft; approx. 1 million people. The enemy occupied a significant part of the country, moved inland up to 300-600 km, while losing 100 thousand people killed, almost 40% of tanks and 950 aircraft.
... Our Russia had to participate in many wars, but such a terrible, difficult, bloody one as the war of the years. -- did not have. This war was special, it was about the life and death of the entire Soviet people. Therefore, everyone participated in the war! And not just on the front lines.
Women who remained in the rear with children also participated in the war. They endured incredibly hard work, working in the country's production and agriculture, supplying the front with all the necessary weapons and food.
The children, having quickly matured, worked on a par with adults, replacing their fathers, older brothers and sisters who went to the front to defend their homeland from the enemy. Times were hard for everyone. And in the rear too.
During the Great Patriotic War, more than 300 thousand young patriots, sons and daughters, along with adults, fought for our Motherland with weapons in their hands. Children at war. At first glance, there is something unnatural, incompatible in these words. Of course, it is not easy to remember what we have experienced, but it is very important for us, modern children, to comprehend the lessons of the Great Patriotic War, to gain that invaluable heroic experience that the people acquired during those terrible years. Only the memory of the people connects the past with the future. And in this sense, the memories of the participants

wars, sometimes involuntary - that is, children, are now ambassadors for us from the past and present of mankind to its future. And the theme of the exploits of children in the Great Patriotic War is covered only in memoirs. Putting aside the unfinished books, the young patriots had to pick up rifles and grenades. Children became the sons of regiments, participated in the partisan movement, were scouts. The war took away their home and childhood.

Student performances:

All people who defended the honor of our country can rightfully be called heroes. But among the young pioneers, we especially single out the names of those who were posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. These are Lenya Golikov, Zina Portnova, Valya Kotik and Marat Kazei.

Lenya Golikov.

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Zina Portnova.

Young Avengers". She participated in daring operations against the enemy, distributed leaflets, conducted intelligence.

On the instructions of the partisan detachment, Zina got a job as a dishwasher in a German canteen. She was instructed to put poison in food. It was very difficult since the German chef didn't trust her. But one day he went away for a while, and Zina was able to fulfill her plan. By evening, many officers became

Badly. Naturally, the first suspicion fell on the Russian girl. Zina was summoned for interrogation, but she denied everything. Then Zina was forced to taste the food. Zina knew perfectly well that the soup was poisoned, but not a single muscle trembled on her face. She calmly took the spoon and began to eat. Zina was released. By evening, she ran away to her grandmother, from where she was urgently transferred to the detachment, where she was given the necessary assistance.

In 1943, returning from another assignment, Zina was captured. The Nazis maliciously tortured her, but Zina did not say anything. During one of the interrogations, choosing the moment, Zina grabbed a pistol from the table and fired point-blank at the Gestapo. The officer who ran to the shot was also killed. Zina tried to escape, but the Nazis overtook her. The brave young pioneer was brutally tortured, but remained unbending until the last minute. And the Motherland posthumously awarded her with her highest title - Hero of the Soviet Union.

Valya Kotik.

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When arrests began in the city, Valya, along with his brother and mother, went to the partisans. At the age of 14, he fought on a par with adults. On his account - 6 enemy echelons blown up on the way to the front. Valya Kotik was awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 2nd class and the Order of the Patriotic War 1st class.

The Motherland posthumously honored him with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Marat Kazei.

When the war hit the Belarusian land, Marat and his mother went to the partisan detachment. The enemy was furious. Soon Marat learned that his mother had been hanged in Minsk. He became a scout, infiltrating enemy garrisons and getting valuable information. Using this data, the partisans

developed a daring operation and defeated the fascist garrison in the city of Dzerzhinsk.

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. And in the city of Minsk, a monument to the young hero was erected.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

On October 31, 1941, Zoya, among 2,000 Komsomol volunteers, came to the gathering place at the Coliseum cinema and from there was taken to a sabotage school, becoming a fighter of the reconnaissance and sabotage unit, which officially bore the name "partisan unit 9903 of the headquarters of the Western Front." After a short training, Zoya, as part of a group on November 4, was transferred to the Volokolamsk region, where the group successfully completed the task (mining the road).

On November 17, Stalin's order No. 000 was issued, ordering to deprive "the German army of the opportunity to be located in villages and cities, drive the German invaders out of all settlements into the cold in the field, smoke them out of all rooms and warm shelters and make them freeze in the open air", with this with the aim of "destroying and burning to the ground all settlements in the rear of the German troops at a distance of 40-60 km in depth from the front line and 20-30 km to the right and left of the roads."

On November 27, at 2 o'clock in the morning, Boris Krainev, Vasily Klubkov and Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya set fire to three houses in Petrishchevo, in which German officers and soldiers were located; while the Germans lost 20 horses.

Zoya was noticed, she was interrogated, mocked, but she did not say anything. In the morning they hung her in front of everyone. She courageously withstood everything, and when they hung her, she called for the fight against the Nazis.

The son of a tank regiment Yuri Vashurin

Without saying a word to his father, Yura left with the tankers and became the "son of the regiment." They sewed a uniform, put it on full allowance with a hundred grams of front-line and tobacco, which adults took away from him funny, with jokes. But they always gave him something from the trophies and protected him very much.

The reconnaissance unit, which included 10-year-old soldier Vashurin, stepped forward and, cut off by the Germans, was surrounded. The fighters took the fire on themselves, and he, a nimble weasel, was sent with an oral report on the position of the company to his own - for reinforcements. Everything was done accurately and on time - he saved nine soldiers of the reconnaissance company from certain death.

Koenigsberg fell, like dozens of other German cities.

The young soldier of the Second World War, overcoming all difficulties, became a highly qualified specialist in computer systems, by the way, the first in Ulyanovsk - a laureate of the State Prize.

Since 1966 he has been living in Ulyanovsk. He is active in social activities. Having perfectly mastered computer literacy, he taught hundreds of people of all ages this difficult task.

The fate of children in Nazi concentration camps and prisons

The German leadership created a wide network of various types of camps for the maintenance of prisoners of war (both Soviet and citizens of other states) and citizens of the occupied countries forcibly driven into slavery.

The masses of ruined children before their painful death were used by barbaric methods as living experimental material for the inhuman experiments of "Aryan medicine". The Germans organized a baby blood factory for the needs of the German army, a slave market was formed, where children were sold in

slavery to local owners. The terrible hour for children and mothers in the concentration camp came when the Nazis, having lined up mothers with children in the middle of the camp, forcibly torn off the babies from the unfortunate mothers. Children, starting from infancy, were kept by the Germans separately and strictly isolated. Children in a separate barrack were in the state of small animals, deprived of even primitive care. The infants were cared for by 5-7 year old girls. Every day, German guards in large baskets carried out the stiff corpses of dead children from the children's barracks. They were dumped into cesspools, burned outside the camp fence, and partially buried in the forest near the camp. Mass continuous mortality of children was caused by experiments for which juvenile prisoners of Salaspils were used as laboratory animals, where the Germans killed at least 7,000 children, some burned, and some buried in the garrison cemetery. In the Gestapo and prisons, the extermination of children also took place. Dirty and smelly prison cells were never ventilated or heated even in the most severe frosts. On dirty, cold floors infested with various insects, unfortunate mothers were forced to look at the gradual extinction of their children. 100 grams of bread and half a liter of water - that's all their meager diet for the day.

Children are home front workers

Children left behind in years of war, began their career at an early age. They honestly fulfilled their duty as wartime home front workers, did everything possible, together with adults, to provide the front with everything necessary. Boys and girls, prematurely released from vocational schools, came to factories and factories. Many of them stood on stands to get the levers of their machines. Teenage workers worked in unbearable conditions. Hungry, exhausted, they did not leave the frozen shops for 12-14 hours and contributed to the defeat of the enemy

Half-starved, half-dressed, there was not enough bread. They studied in the winter, but they did not have to study for a long time, they had to help their mothers feed themselves and their younger brothers and sisters. They learned peasant labor early, knew how to harness a horse, harness a bull and milk a cow. And this is all at 12-13 years old. “Everything for the front, Everything for the Victory”: they were so eager to bring Victory over the enemy closer, they helped in any way they could.

Final word from the teacher.

Before the war, they were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, ran, jumped, broke their noses and knees. Only relatives, classmates and friends knew their names.
THE HOUR HAS COME, AND THEY SHOWED HOW HUGE A LITTLE CHILDREN'S HEAD CAN BECOME WHEN LOVE FOR THE HOMELAND AND HATRED FOR ITS ENEMIES FLAMES IN IT.

The generation of children of the war, not only at the front, but also in the rear, having overcome the trials of military hardships, showed that it is impossible to defeat the Country that raised and educated such heroic youth! The children, having quickly matured, worked on a par with adults, replacing their fathers, older brothers and sisters who went to the front to defend their homeland from the enemy.

Young heroes have remained part of the Soviet past, which began with books and television films about young partisans. Over the years, pioneer heroes have evolved from mere mortals into signs and symbols. But here's what you still should not forget: these 13-17-year-olds died for real. Someone blew himself up with the last grenade, someone received a bullet from the advancing Germans, someone was hanged. These guys, for whom the words "patriotism", "feat", "valor", "self-sacrifice", "honor", "motherland" were absolute concepts, deserved the right to everything. Except oblivion.

Brave heart.

Like Volodya Dubinin

fought for Kerch

The young hero saved a partisan detachment from death, hiding in the quarries.

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During the Great Patriotic War, the city of Kerch became the scene of cruel and bloody battles. The front line passed through it four times, and the fighting was so fierce that less than 15 percent of the buildings in the city survived.

There were many heroes in the battles for Kerch, but the city still remembers the youngest of them - 14-year-old Volodya Dubinin.

Volodya was born on August 29, 1927 in the family of Nikifor Semyonovich and Evdokia Timofeevna Dubinin. Volodya's father, Nikifor Dubinin, fought against the Whites in a partisan detachment during the Civil War, and later became a sailor. He worked both on the Black Sea and in the Arctic, so that the family managed to travel around the country.

Volodya grew up as a mobile, inquisitive, somewhat hooligan guy. He loved to read, was fond of aircraft modeling, photography ...

When the war began, Nikifor Dubinin was drafted into the army. Evdokia Timofeevna, with Volodya and his sister, moved to her relatives, to the Old Quarantine area.

The closer the advancing Nazis were to Kerch, the more actively the city's leadership prepared for a partisan war in the event of its occupation. The bases of the partisan detachments were to be the Adzhimushkay and Starokarantinsky quarries, which were real fortresses.

Elusive scouts

Volodya and his friends found out about the partisan detachment in the Starokarantinsky quarries. The boys began to ask adults to take them to the partisans. After some hesitation, the commander

detachment Alexander Zyabrev gave the go-ahead. The boys, able to get out of the quarries through narrow crevices, were indispensable as scouts.

Once at home, Volodya found a medal "For Labor Valor" and attached it to his shirt, noting: "Beautiful." Sister Valya, who was two years older than Volodya, reasoned:

But this is not your reward. This medal must be earned. And you're still small!

Volodya blushed, took off the medal and answered:

"You'll see what I'll become."

After the occupation of Kerch, Volodya left with a detachment to the quarries.

The partisans in the quarries of the Old Quarantine very soon began to disturb the German command. However, the Nazis could not knock them out of there. Then they began the siege, blocking all the exits and diligently filling the cracks with cement.

This is where the boys come in handy. Volodya Dubinin, Vanya Gritsenko, Tolya Korolev left the quarries where adults could not get out, and brought valuable information about the enemy.

When the Nazis blocked all the large manholes, only the small and nimble Volodya could climb into the remaining ones. Then other boys began to work as a "cover group" - they distracted the soldiers blocking the entrances, making it possible to get out. Also, at the agreed time, the guys met Volodya, who was returning from reconnaissance.

Racing with death

Volodya and other guys were engaged not only in reconnaissance. During the battles, they brought ammunition, assisted the wounded, and carried out other orders of the commander.

In December 1941, the Nazis decided to flood the Starokarantinsky quarries and put an end to the partisans. Volodya, who was in intelligence, found out about this when only a few hours remained before the start of the punitive action.

Risking his life, during the day, practically in full view of the German patrols, Volodya managed to penetrate

into the catacombs and warn the partisans of the danger. The commander raised the detachment on alarm, and people began to hastily build dams in order to interfere with the plans of the Nazis.

It was a race against death. At some point, the water in the quarries rose almost to the waist. Nevertheless, in two days the partisans managed to create a system of dams that prevented the Nazis from destroying the detachment.

The scout Volodya Dubinin played the main role in rescuing the partisans.

Hero forever

On the eve of the new year, 1942, the command set the task of scout Dubinin to get to the Adzhimushkay quarries and contact the partisan detachment based there.

But, when Volodya went to fulfill the order, he came across ... Soviet soldiers. These were amphibious assault fighters who liberated Kerch during the Kerch-Feodosiya operation.

The joy of Volodya and his comrades knew no bounds. But the Nazis surrounded the Starokarantinsky quarries with a network of minefields, and the partisans could not leave them. It was physically impossible for adults to leave where Volodya left.

And then Volodya volunteered to be a guide to the sappers. The first day of demining was successful, but on January 4, 1942, at about 10 am, a powerful explosion thundered at the entrance to the quarry. Four sappers and Volodya Dubinin were blown up by a mine.

The dead sappers and Volodya were buried in a mass partisan grave in the Kerch Youth Park.

Posthumously, Vladimir Nikiforovich Dubinin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

The city of Kerch still faced fierce battles, the second occupation and the long-awaited final liberation on April 11, 1944.

In 1973, Kerch was awarded the title of "Hero City".

In the battles for Kerch, thousands of Soviet soldiers showed courage and heroism, but the feat of Volodya Dubinin was not lost among them.

One of the streets of his native city was named after him, and in 1964 on it

A monument to Volodya was unveiled.

In 1949, the writers Lev Kassil and Max Polyanovsky published the book "Street of the Youngest Son", dedicated to Volodya Dubinin. From that moment on, the young partisan gained all-Union fame.

Decades later, during the years of perestroika, it will seem to some that this glory is undeserved, like the medal that little Volodya attached to his shirt.

But history itself put everything in its place. The feat of Volodya Dubinin and the memory of him are still alive.

Andrey Sidorchik

Since 2009, February 12 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Day of Child Soldiers. This is the name of minors who, due to circumstances, are forced to actively participate in wars and armed conflicts.

According to various sources, up to several tens of thousands of minors took part in the hostilities during the Great Patriotic War. "Sons of the regiment", pioneer heroes - they fought and died on a par with adults. For military merits, they were awarded orders and medals. The images of some of them were used in Soviet propaganda as symbols of courage and loyalty to the motherland.

Five underage fighters of the Great Patriotic War were awarded the highest award - the title of Hero of the USSR. All - posthumously, remaining in textbooks and books as children and adolescents. All Soviet schoolchildren knew these heroes by name. Today, "RG" recalls their short and often similar biographies.

Marat Kazei, 14 years old

Member of the partisan detachment named after the 25th anniversary of October, intelligence officer of the headquarters of the 200th partisan brigade named after Rokossovsky in the occupied territory of the Byelorussian SSR.

Marat was born in 1929 in the village of Stankovo, Minsk Region, Belarus, and managed to finish the 4th grade of a rural school. Before the war, his parents were arrested on charges of sabotage and "Trotskyism", numerous children were "scattered" among their grandparents. But the Kazeev family did not become angry with the Soviet authorities: In 1941, when Belarus became an occupied territory, Anna Kazei, the wife of the “enemy of the people” and the mother of little Marat and Ariadne, hid wounded partisans in her place, for which she was executed by the Germans. And the brother and sister went to the partisans. Ariadne was subsequently evacuated, but Marat remained in the detachment.

Along with his senior comrades, he went to reconnaissance - both alone and with a group. Participated in raids. Undermined the echelons. For the battle in January 1943, when, wounded, he raised his comrades to attack and made his way through the enemy ring, Marat received the medal "For Courage".

And in May 1944, while performing another assignment near the village of Khoromitsky, Minsk Region, a 14-year-old soldier died. Returning from a mission together with the intelligence commander, they stumbled upon the Germans. The commander was killed immediately, and Marat, firing back, lay down in a hollow. There was nowhere to leave in an open field, and there was no opportunity - the teenager was seriously wounded in the arm. While there were cartridges, he kept the defense, and when the store was empty, he took the last weapon - two grenades from his belt. He threw one at the Germans immediately, and waited with the second: when the enemies came very close, he blew himself up along with them.

In 1965, Marat Kazei was awarded the title of Hero of the USSR.

Valya Kotik, 14 years old

Partisan scout in the Karmelyuk detachment, the youngest Hero of the USSR.

Valya was born in 1930 in the village of Khmelevka, Shepetovsky district, Kamenetz-Podolsk region of Ukraine. Before the war he completed five classes. In a village occupied by German troops, the boy secretly collected weapons and ammunition and handed them over to the partisans. And he waged his own little war, as he understood it: he drew and pasted caricatures of the Nazis in prominent places.

Since 1942, he contacted the Shepetovskaya underground party organization and carried out her intelligence assignments. And in the fall of the same year, Valya and his fellow boys received their first real combat mission: to eliminate the head of the field gendarmerie.

"The roar of the engines grew louder - the cars were approaching. The faces of the soldiers were already clearly visible. Sweat dripped from their foreheads, half-covered with green helmets. Some soldiers carelessly took off their helmets. The front car caught up with the bushes behind which the boys hid. Valya got up, counting the seconds to himself "The car drove past, an armored car was already against him. Then he rose to his full height and, shouting "Fire!", threw two grenades one after the other ... Simultaneously, explosions sounded from the left and right. Both cars stopped, the front one caught fire. The soldiers quickly jumped to the ground , rushed into the ditch and from there opened indiscriminate fire from machine guns, "- this is how the Soviet textbook describes this first battle. Valya then fulfilled the task of the partisans: the head of the gendarmerie, Lieutenant Franz Koenig and seven German soldiers died. About 30 people were injured.

In October 1943, the young fighter reconnoitered the location of the underground telephone cable of the Nazi headquarters, which was soon blown up. Valya also participated in the destruction of six railway echelons and a warehouse.

On October 29, 1943, while on duty, Valya noticed that the punishers had raided the detachment. Having killed a fascist officer with a pistol, the teenager raised the alarm, and the partisans had time to prepare for battle. On February 16, 1944, five days after his 14th birthday, in the battle for the city of Izyaslav, Kamenetz-Podolsky, now Khmelnitsky region, the scout was mortally wounded and died the next day.

In 1958, Valentin Kotik was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Lenya Golikov, 16 years old

Scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Born in 1926 in the village of Lukino, Parfinsky District, Novgorod Region. When the war began, he got a rifle and joined the partisans. Thin, small in stature, he looked even younger than all 14 years old. Under the guise of a beggar, Lenya walked around the villages, collecting the necessary data on the location of the fascist troops and the number of their military equipment, and then passed this information on to the partisans.

In 1942 he joined the detachment. “Participated in 27 combat operations, exterminated 78 German soldiers and officers, blew up 2 railway and 12 highway bridges, blew up 9 vehicles with ammunition ... troops Richard Wirtz, heading from Pskov to Luga, "- such data is contained in his award leaflet.

In the regional military archive, Golikov's original report with a story about the circumstances of this battle has been preserved:

"On the evening of August 12, 1942, we, 6 partisans, got out on the Pskov-Luga highway and lay down not far from the village of Varnitsa. There was no movement at night. we were, the car was quieter. Partizan Vasilyev threw an anti-tank grenade, but missed. The second grenade was thrown by Alexander Petrov from a ditch, hit a beam. The car did not immediately stop, but went another 20 meters and almost caught up with us. Two officers jumped out of the car. I fired a burst from a machine gun. Did not hit. The officer sitting at the wheel ran across the ditch towards the forest. I fired several bursts from my PPSh. Hit the enemy in the neck and back. Petrov began to shoot at the second officer, who kept looking back, shouting and fired back. Petrov killed this officer with a rifle. Then the two of them ran to the first wounded officer. They tore off shoulder straps, took a briefcase, documents. There was still a heavy suitcase in the car. We barely dragged it into the bushes (150 meters from the highway). Being still at the car , we heard an alarm, ringing, screaming in the neighboring village. Grabbing a briefcase, shoulder straps and three trophy pistols, we ran to our own ... ".

For this feat, Lenya was presented with the highest government award - the Gold Star medal and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. But I didn't manage to get them. From December 1942 to January 1943, the partisan detachment, in which Golikov was located, left the encirclement with fierce battles. Only a few managed to survive, but Leni was not among them: he died in a battle with a Nazi punitive detachment on January 24, 1943 near the village of Ostraya Luka, Pskov Region, before he was 17 years old.

Sasha Chekalin, 16 years old

Member of the partisan detachment "Forward" of the Tula region.

Born in 1925 in the village of Peskovatskoye, now the Suvorov district of the Tula region. Before the start of the war, he graduated from 8 classes. After the occupation of his native village by Nazi troops in October 1941, he joined the fighter partisan detachment "Forward", where he managed to serve for just over a month.

By November 1941, the partisan detachment had inflicted significant damage on the Nazis: warehouses were burning, vehicles were exploding on mines, enemy trains were derailed, sentries and patrols disappeared without a trace. Once a group of partisans, including Sasha Chekalin, ambushed the road to the town of Likhvin (Tula region). A car appeared in the distance. A minute passed - and the explosion blew the car apart. Behind her passed and exploded several more cars. One of them, crowded with soldiers, tried to slip through. But the grenade thrown by Sasha Chekalin destroyed her too.

In early November 1941, Sasha caught a cold and fell ill. The commissioner allowed him to lie down with a trusted person in the nearest village. But there was a traitor who betrayed him. At night, the Nazis broke into the house where the sick partisan lay. Chekalin managed to grab the prepared grenade and throw it, but it did not explode ... After several days of torture, the Nazis hanged the teenager on the central square of Likhvin and for more than 20 days did not allow him to remove his corpse from the gallows. And only when the city was liberated from the invaders, the combat associates of the partisan Chekalin buried him with military honors.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Chekalin was awarded in 1942.

Zina Portnova, 17 years old

Member of the underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers", intelligence officer of the Voroshilov partisan detachment on the territory of the Byelorussian SSR.

Born in 1926 in Leningrad, she graduated from 7 classes there and went on vacation to her relatives in the village of Zuya, Vitebsk region, Belarus for the summer holidays. There she found the war.

In 1942, she joined the Obol underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers" and actively participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the invaders.

Since August 1943, Zina has been a scout of the Voroshilov partisan detachment. In December 1943, she was given the task of identifying the reasons for the failure of the Young Avengers organization and establishing contact with the underground. But upon returning to the detachment, Zina was arrested.

During the interrogation, the girl grabbed the pistol of the Nazi investigator from the table, shot him and two other Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured.

From the book "Zina Portnova" by the Soviet writer Vasily Smirnov: "The most sophisticated executioners interrogated her .... She was promised to save her life if only the young partisan would confess everything, name all the underground fighters and partisans known to her. And again the Gestapo met with the astonishing their unshakable firmness of this stubborn girl, who in their protocols was called a “Soviet bandit.” Zina, exhausted by torture, refused to answer questions, hoping that she would be killed faster in this way. was taken to the next interrogation-torture, threw herself under the wheels of a passing truck, but the car was stopped, the girl was pulled out from under the wheels and again taken for interrogation ... ".

On January 10, 1944, in the village of Goryany, now the Shumilinsky district of the Vitebsk region of Belarus, 17-year-old Zina was shot.

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to Portnova Zinaida in 1958.

The article provides information about the pioneer heroes of the Great Patriotic War:
- Valya Kotik
- Victor Khomenko
- Vitya Cherevichkin
- Volodya Dubinin
- Zina Portnova
- Lara Mikheenko
- Lenya Golikov
- Marat Kazei

Name Vali Kotika became a symbol of fidelity to duty, purposefulness, selfless courage. The young partisan died a few days after his fourteenth birthday. Fourteen is very little. At this age, you usually only make plans for the future, prepare for it, dream about it. Valya also built, prepared, dreamed. There is no doubt that if he lived to this day, he would have become an outstanding personality. But he did not become either an astronaut, or a worker-innovator, or a scientist-inventor. He remained forever young, remained a pioneer.

About the Hero of the Soviet Union Vale Kotike written hundreds of novels, short stories, essays. The monument to the young hero stands in the city of his feat Shepetovka and in the capital of our Motherland, Moscow.

The history of the short and glorious life of a pioneer is known throughout the country. For millions of young pioneers Valya Kotik became an example in the education of character. And in them lives a piece of his soul, his brave heart.

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 Shepetivka, Valya Kotik together with 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 day came when Valya accomplished his feat.

The roar of the engines grew louder as the cars approached. The faces of the soldiers were already clearly visible. Sweat dripped from foreheads half covered by green helmets. Some of the soldiers carelessly removed their helmets.

The front car caught up with the bushes behind which the boys hid. Valya got up, counting the seconds to himself. The car drove past, an armored car was already against him. Then he rose to his full height and shouted "Fire!" one after the other threw two grenades ... Simultaneously, explosions sounded from the left and right. Both cars stopped, the front one caught fire. The soldiers quickly jumped to the ground, threw themselves into a ditch and from there opened indiscriminate fire from machine guns.

Valya did not see this picture. He was already running along the well-known path into the depths of the forest. There was no chase, the Germans were afraid of the partisans. The next day, the Gebitskommissar, government adviser Dr. Worbs, wrote in a report to the higher authorities: “The Fuhrer’s soldiers attacked by large bandit forces showed courage and endurance. They accepted an unequal battle and scattered the rebels. Oberleutnant Franz Koenig skillfully led the fighting. While pursuing the bandits, he was seriously wounded and died on the spot from loss of blood. Our losses: seven killed and nine wounded. The bandits lost twenty people killed and about thirty wounded ... ". Rumors about the partisan attack on the Nazis and the death of the executioner - the chief of the gendarmerie quickly spread in the city.

The pioneer, who had just turned fourteen years old, fought shoulder to shoulder with adults, liberating his native land. On his account - six enemy echelons blown up on the way to the front. Valya Kotik was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, and the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War," 2nd class.

Valya Kotik died as a hero, and the Motherland posthumously honored him with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In front of the school where this brave pioneer studied, a monument was erected to him.

His heroic way of fighting the Nazis pioneer Vitya Khomenko took place 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 underground workers at the turnout ...

Together with Shura Kober, Vitya was given the task of crossing the front line in order to establish contact with Moscow. In Moscow, at the headquarters of the partisan movement, they reported on the situation and told about what they had observed on the way.

Returning to Nikolaev, the guys delivered a radio transmitter, explosives, and weapons to the underground workers. Again, fighting without fear or hesitation. On December 5, 1942, ten underground workers were captured by the Nazis and executed. Among them are two boys - Shura Kober and Vitya Khomenko. They lived as heroes and died as heroes.

The Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree - posthumously - was awarded by the Motherland to her fearless son. The name of Vitya Khomenko is the school where he studied.

Vitya Cherevichkin

A teenager of fourteen years old is looking from the photo. He has short hair. High forehead. Concentrated face and thoughtful look. The name of the boy Vitya Cherevichkin. His photograph can be seen in the Palace of Pioneers in the city of Rostov. The fifth graders of the 78th Rostov school named their pioneer detachment after the young hero. Bears his name and one of the streets of Rostov. The song “Vitya Cherevichkin lived in Rostov...” was composed about him, which rang in the pioneer detachments and which tells about the life and study of Vitya, about his gray-winged pigeons, about his feat and death in the winter of 1941 ...

"VITYA CHEREVICHKIN LIVED IN ROSTOV..."

These were the days when there were fierce battles with the Nazis on the banks of the Lower Don. The enemy rushed to Rostov, and he managed to take the city. It's a hard time. Vitya saw the glow of fires, heard shooting in the city, knew that the Nazis were robbing and shooting Soviet people. He could answer all this with one word: “Fight!”. Once the boy saw that the SS were chasing the tenants out of a large building. There were telephone wires. One after another, shiny cars drove up. Messengers were constantly scurrying from the banks of the Don. “This is headquarters,” Vitya understood. Soon he learned that large fascist formations were concentrated in the area of ​​​​the Red Aksai plant. Vitya decided at all costs to establish contact with the Soviet troops. They stood in Bataysk, on the other side of the Don. But how to do that?

Even before the start of the war Vitya Cherevichkin, like many of his peers, loved to chase pigeons. The family had relatives in Bataysk, and pigeons instead of postmen. Vitya Cherevichkin often carried news from Rostov to Bataysk. From time to time, Soviet planes appeared over the city. And Vitya decided to show them the location of the fascist headquarters. When the engine hummed in the sky, the boy released pigeons over the headquarters. But the pilot either did not notice his signals, or did not understand. The plane has disappeared. Then the young scout wrote a note with important messages, tied it to the paw of a red dove and threw his pet up:

Fly to Bataysk!..

Vitya was worried. What if the dove doesn't fly? Maybe there are no relatives in Bataysk anymore? Who will hand over his report to the Soviet command? As soon as a Soviet plane appeared over Rostov again, doves rose from Vitya's hands once again and began to circle over the fascist headquarters. The pilot flew the plane very low. Vitya began to energetically signal with his hands. Suddenly, someone grabbed him by the shoulder. The boy was noticed by a fascist officer.

Vitya tried to escape, but a soldier ran up from somewhere. The young hero was taken to the German headquarters.

Are you a scout? .. Where are the partisans? .. - the officer raged during interrogation, threatening the boy with a pistol. Vitya was beaten, trampled underfoot, but no amount of torture could break his will. He was silent. In the evening, the teenager was taken towards the Don. He walked, moving his legs heavily. But he held his head high. Behind him relentlessly marched his enemies. From behind the Don, the roar of the Soviet offensive was already heard. Vitin's dove flew to Bataysk. Here he was noticed, and the note was handed over to our headquarters. Now shells and bombs were exploding in the area of ​​the Krasny Aksai plant, where large enemy forces had accumulated. Clubs of black smoke covered the quarter where the fascist headquarters stood. It was Soviet artillery and aviation that smashed the enemy, concentrating fire on those points that he, the young intelligence officer Vitya Cherevichkin, indicated. Soviet troops returned to Rostov, and the young Leninist with military stories was buried in a mass soldier's grave

Volodya Dubinin- a brave partisan scout, the hero of the well-known book by L. Kassil and M. Polyanovsky "Street of the Youngest Son".

Before the war, the Dubinin family consisted of four people. According to the stories of Evdokia Timofeevna's mother, Volodya was restless, active, always striving to realize in life what filled his hot head with dreams.

Volodya spent his childhood in Kerch. When World War II broke out, Volodya was only 14 years old. Together with the adults, he went to the Starokarantinsky quarries. With his comrades Vanya Gritsenko and Tolya Kovalev Volodya Dubinin often went to reconnaissance. Young scouts brought to the detachment valuable information about the location of enemy units, about the number of Nazi troops. Based on these data, the partisans planned their combat operations. It was intelligence that helped the detachment in December 1941 to give a worthy rebuff to the punishers. During the battle in the adits, Volodya Dubinin brought ammunition to the partisans, and then he himself took the place of a seriously wounded soldier.

The boy knew well the layout of the underground galleries, the location of all exits to the surface. And when in January 1942, after the liberation of Kerch by the Red Army units, the sappers began to clear the area around the quarries, he volunteered to help them.

On January 2, the young hero died after being blown up by a mine. By order of the commander of the Crimean Front, he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner. The school where Volodya Dubinin studied and the street where he lived now bear his name.

L Eningrad schoolgirl, Zina Portnova in June 1941, she came with her younger sister Galya for summer holidays to her grandmother in the village of Zui, near the Obol station (Shumilinsky district of Vitebsk region). She was fifteen...

In Obol, an underground Komsomol youth organization "Young Avengers" was created (headed by E. S. Zenkova) and in 1942 Zina was elected a member of its committee. From August 1943 she became a scout of the partisan detachment. K. E. Voroshilov brigade them. V. I. Lenin. She participated in daring operations against the enemy, in sabotage, distributed leaflets, and conducted reconnaissance on the instructions of the partisan detachment.

First, she got a job as an auxiliary worker in the canteen for German officers. And soon, together with her friend, she carried out a daring operation - she poisoned more than a hundred Nazis. They could seize her immediately, but they began to follow. To avoid failure, Zina was transferred to a partisan detachment.

Somehow she was instructed to reconnoiter the number and type of troops in the Obol region. Another time - to clarify the reasons for the failure in the Obol underground and establish new connections ... Returning from the assignment to find out the reasons for the failure of the Young Avengers organization, Zina was arrested in the village of Mostishche and identified as a traitor. 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. At one of the interrogations, grabbing the investigator's pistol from the table, she shot him and two more Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured.

Then she was no longer interrogated, but methodically tortured, mocked. Eyes gouged out, ears cut off. They drove needles under her nails, twisted her arms and legs ... The brave young pioneer was brutally tortured, but until the last minute she remained steadfast, courageous, unbending. January 13, 1944 Zina Portnova was shot.

And soon the 1st Baltic Front went on a swift offensive. A major operation of the Soviet troops, called "Bagration", began. A million-strong grouping of enemy armies was defeated. Soviet troops with the help of partisans liberated the Belarusian land from the Nazis.

The Soviet people learned about the exploits of the young avengers fifteen years later, when in July 1958 the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR was published. For the exploits and courage shown during the Great Patriotic War, a large group of members of the Obol underground Komsomol organization "Young Avengers" was awarded orders of the Soviet Union. And on the chest of the head of the organization, Efrosinya Savelyevna Zenkova, the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union sparkled. This high award of the Motherland was awarded posthumously to Romashka - Zina Portnova. Near Obol, near the highway, among green young trees and flowers, a tall granite monument was erected. The names of the dead young avengers are carved on it in golden letters.

In Leningrad, on a quiet Baltic street, the house where the legendary Romashka lived has been preserved. Near the school where she studied. And a little further away, among the new buildings, a wide street named after Zina Portnova, on which a marble wall with its bas-relief is installed.

Lara Mikheenko

For the operation of reconnaissance and explosion of the railway bridge across the Drissa River, a Leningrad schoolgirl was presented to the government award Larisa Mikheenko. 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 refused 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. A bare-haired, barefoot girl. She has no weapons in her hands - only a beggarly scrip. But this girl is a fighter, because the information she delivers to the detachment helps the partisans to beat the enemy ... Having changed into rags, Lara walked around the villages, finding out where and how the guns were located, sentries were placed, which German vehicles were moving along the highway, what for trains and with what cargo they come to 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 on November 4, 1943, and on November 7, the partisan detachment joined with units of the Soviet Army. In the Decree on the award Larisa Mikheenko The Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class, is worth the bitter word: "Posthumously."

Lenya Golikov Born in 1926 in the village of Lukino, Polavsky District, Leningrad Region (now it is the Parfinsky District, Novgorod Region). Leni's father - Golikov Alexander Ivanovich - worked as a foreman in the rafting of timber, and his mother - Ekaterina Alekseevna - was a housewife.

In 1935, Lenya entered a school located in the neighboring village of Manuylovo. There he joined the pioneers. Like most boys, he grew up mobile, cheerful, hooligan. So he remained in the memories of his peers: the organizer of children's games and battles, the initiator of long trips on rafts along the river. Lenka loved to wander through the forest, sit with a fishing rod by the river, loved to read books and sing.

In 1939, his father fell seriously ill and Lenya went to work at the Tulitovsky rafting point.

When the war began, and the Nazis occupied the village of Lenino, he did not want to work for the Nazis and quit his job. From the first days of the occupation, local partisans operated in the Starorussky and Polavsky regions. More than once, Lenya wandered through the forest in search of partisans, dreaming of getting into the detachment. Having learned from his teacher at the Manuilov school V.G. Semenov about the formation of a partisan brigade, Lenya turned to the command with a request to enroll him in the detachment. He was refused, however, he did not back down and A.P. Luchin, subdued by the boy's perseverance, himself begs I.I. Gleikha (commander of the newly formed detachment to take Golikova connected). Together with his peers, he once picked up several rifles at the battlefield, stole two boxes of grenades from the Nazis. All this they later handed over to the partisans.

Lenya Golikov was awarded a medal for bravery. For 10 days, the partisan detachment fought fierce battles in the area of ​​​​the village of Sosnitsy, destroying 100 Nazis and liberating several settlements. A considerable merit in the success of the company belonged to Lena Golikova. It was he who indicated the combat position in the attic of the school, from where the partisans blocked the path of the Nazis, who were trying to recapture the village of Sosnitsy, with a hurricane of fire.

In January 1943, pursued on the heels of punishers, the partisans retreated to the Dno-Novosokolniki railway. There, behind the railway, the burnt, but not conquered, Partizansky region began. It remained to make one last push, but the unforeseen happened. On the morning of January 24, the brigade headquarters stopped in the village of Ostraya Luka, Dedovichi District, to bury the nurse Tonya Bogdanova. In order not to attract attention, they decided not to put up patrols, they simply took turns on duty in the barn. The village headman turned out to be a traitor and sent his son after the punishers. At night, the partisans were surrounded by the Nazis. Shooting back, they began to retreat to the forest. The wounded chief of staff of the 4th brigade T.P. Petrov covered the retreat of his comrades. In front of Leni Golikova brigade commander S.M. was mortally wounded. Glebov. As soon as Lenya took a bag with documents from his hands, he himself was struck down by machine gun fire. Thus ended the life of a young patriot. He was buried together with Glebov S.M., Petrov T.P. and other partisans in the village of Ostraya Luka, Dedovichsky district, Pskov region.

"Golikov joined the partisan detachment in March 1942, the award list says. - Participated in 27 combat operations ... Destroyed 78 German soldiers and officers, blew up 2 railway and 12 highway bridges, blew up 9 vehicles with ammunition ... August 15 in the new combat area of ​​​​the brigade Golikov smashed a passenger car in which Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard Wirtz was traveling from Pskov to Luga. A brave partisan killed the general with a machine gun, delivered his tunic and captured documents to the brigade headquarters. Among the documents were: a description of new samples of German mines, inspection reports to the higher command and other valuable intelligence data.

The Hero was presented during his lifetime, for secret documents obtained in intelligence. But he didn't have time to get it.

Streets in Leningrad, Pskov, Staraya Russa, Okulovka, the village of Pola, the village of Parfino, a state farm in the Parfinsky district, a motor ship of the Riga Shipping Company, in Novgorod - a street, the House of Pioneers, a training ship for young sailors in Staraya Russa, pioneer squads and detachments bear the name of the hero areas. Monuments to the hero were erected in Moscow and Novgorod. In the regional center on the Volkhov, a monument was erected near Victory Square. A story, a poem, several essays were written about his feat and fearlessness, a song was composed.

Marat Kazei

On the very first day of the war Marat Kazei I saw two people in the cemetery. One, in the form of a Red Army tanker, spoke to a village boy.

Listen, where are you...

The stranger's eyes darted around uneasily. Marat also drew attention to the fact that the gun was hanging from the tankman almost on his stomach. “Our people don’t carry weapons like that,” flashed through the boy’s head.

I'll bring... milk and bread. Now. He nodded towards the village. - And then come to us. Our house is on the edge, close...

Bring it here! - Already quite emboldened, the tankman ordered.

"Probably the Germans," thought Marat, "the paratroopers"...

The Germans did not drop bombs on their village. Enemy planes flew further east. Instead of bombs, a fascist landing force fell. Paratroopers were caught, but no one knew how many of them were dropped ...

Several of our border guards rested in the hut. Anna Alexandrovna, Marat's mother, put a cast iron with cabbage soup and a glass of milk in front of them.

Marat flew into the hut with such a look that everyone immediately felt something was wrong.

They are in the cemetery!

The border guards ran to the cemetery for Marat, who led them along a short path.

Noticing armed people, disguised fascists rushed into the bushes. Marat is behind them. Having reached the edge of the forest, the "tankers" began to shoot back ...

In the evening, a truck drove up to Kazeev's hut. Border guards and two prisoners were sitting in it. Anna Alexandrovna rushed to her son with tears - he was standing on the steps of the cab, the boy's legs were in blood, his shirt was torn.

Thank you mom! - the warriors shook hands with the woman in turn. - They raised a brave son. Good fighter!

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 data, 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.

In May 1944, while performing the next reconnaissance mission, he was surrounded by the Nazis, fired back to the last bullet and, not wanting to surrender, blew himself up and the enemies surrounding him with a grenade.

For courage and bravery pioneer Marat Kazei May 8, 1965 was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A monument to the young hero was erected in the city of Minsk.

On February 17, 1944, the brave pioneer hero Valya Kotik died in battle. For the feat he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - posthumously. We remember the stories of all the young heroes who received the country's highest award

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Valya Kotik

Valya Kotik was born on February 11, 1930 in the Ukrainian village of Khmelevka. When the war began, Valya had just entered the sixth grade, but from the very first days he began to fight the German invaders. In the autumn of 1941, together with his comrades, he killed the head of the field gendarmerie by throwing a grenade at the car in which he was traveling. Since August 1943 he was in the partisan detachment named after Karmelyuk, was wounded twice. In October 1943, he discovered an underground telephone cable, which was soon blown up, and the connection between the invaders and Hitler's headquarters in Warsaw was cut off. He also contributed to the undermining of six railway echelons and a warehouse. On October 29, 1943, while on patrol, he noticed punishers who were about to raid the detachment. Having killed the officer, he raised the alarm, and thanks to his actions, the partisans managed to repulse the enemy. In the battle for the city of Izyaslav on February 16, 1944, he was mortally wounded and died on February 17. In 1958, Valentin was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Marat Kazei

After the death of his mother, Marat and his sister went to the partisan detachment. The boy went on reconnaissance, both alone and with a group. Participated in raids, undermined the echelons. In January 1943 he received a medal for bravery, because, wounded, together with his comrades, he made his way through the enemy ring. And in May 1944, Marat died. Returning from a mission with the intelligence commander, his group stumbled upon the Germans. The commander was killed immediately, and Marat, firing back, lay down in a hollow. There was nowhere to go in the open field, besides, Marat was seriously wounded. While there were cartridges, he kept the defense, and when the store was empty, he picked up his last weapon - two grenades. He threw one at the Germans, and left the other. When the Germans came very close, he blew himself up along with the enemies. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded in 1965 - 21 years after his death.

Lenya Golikov

Lenya Golikov was a brigade scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade. Golikov started out as a simple sentinel and observer, but quickly learned the explosive business. Participated in 27 combat operations. In December 1942, the partisan detachment in which Golikov was located was surrounded by the Germans. But the partisans managed to break through the encirclement and go to another area. The forces after such a struggle were weakened, 50 people remained in the ranks. The commander of the detachment decided not to set up patrols at night, so as not to attract attention. In the morning, the sleep of the partisans was interrupted by the roar of a machine gun: someone informed the Germans about their arrival in the village. In that battle, the entire headquarters of the partisan brigade was killed. Among the fallen was Lenya Golikov. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union Lena was awarded posthumously by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 2, 1944.

Zina Portnova

Zina participated in the distribution of leaflets among the population and sabotage against the Nazis. Working in the canteen of retraining courses for German officers, at the direction of the underground, she was able to poison more than a hundred officers. Wanting to prove her innocence to the Germans, the girl tried the poisoned soup and miraculously survived. Since August 1943, she joined the partisan detachment named after K.E. Voroshilov. In December 1943, she was captured in the village of Mostische and identified by a certain Anna Khrapovitskaya.

At one of the interrogations in the Gestapo, grabbing the investigator's pistol from the table, she shot him and two more Nazis, tried to escape, but was captured. After being tortured, she was shot in a prison in the city of Polotsk. By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of July 1, 1958, Zinaida Martynovna Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Sasha Chekalin

Sasha Chekalin was captured along with the inhabitants of Peskovatskoe at the beginning of the war, and on the way to Likhvin under escort, in front of the city, he persuaded everyone to flee into the forest.

In July 1941, Sasha volunteered for a fighter detachment, then for the Peredovoi partisan detachment, where he became a scout: he collected intelligence information about the location and number of German units, their weapons, and routes of movement. On an equal footing with adults, he participated in ambushes, mined roads, undermined communications and derailed trains.

In early November, I caught a cold and came to my home to rest. Noticing the smoke from the chimney, the headman reported this to the German military commandant's office. The arriving German units surrounded the house and offered Sasha to surrender. In response, Sasha opened fire, and when the cartridges ran out, he threw a grenade, but it did not explode. He was captured and taken to the military commandant's office. For several days he was tortured, trying to get the necessary information from him. But having achieved nothing, they staged a demonstrative execution in the city square. Sasha was hanged on November 6, 1941. was hanged. Before his death, Sasha managed to shout: “Do not take them to Moscow! Don't defeat us!" Alexander Chekalin was posthumously awarded the Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union on February 4, 1942.