Heroes of the Great Patriotic War
Alexander Matrosov
Submachine gunner of the 2nd Separate Battalion of the 91st Separate Siberian Volunteer Brigade named after Stalin.
Sasha Matrosov did not know his parents. He was brought up in an orphanage and a labor colony. When the war began, he was not even 20. Matrosov was drafted into the army in September 1942 and sent to an infantry school, and then to the front.
In February 1943, his battalion attacked the Nazi stronghold, but fell into a trap, falling under heavy fire, cutting off the path to the trenches. They fired from three bunkers. Two soon fell silent, but the third continued to shoot the Red Army soldiers who lay in the snow.
Seeing that the only chance to get out of the fire was to suppress the enemy's fire, Matrosov crawled to the bunker with a fellow soldier and threw two grenades in his direction. The gun was silent. The Red Army went on the attack, but the deadly weapon chirped again. Alexander's partner was killed, and Matrosov was left alone in front of the bunker. Something had to be done.
He didn't even have a few seconds to make a decision. Not wanting to let his comrades down, Alexander closed the embrasure of the bunker with his body. The attack was successful. And Matrosov posthumously received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Military pilot, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th long-range bomber aviation regiment, captain.
He worked as a mechanic, then in 1932 he was called up for service in the Red Army. He got into the air regiment, where he became a pilot. Nicholas Gastello participated in three wars. A year before the Great Patriotic War, he received the rank of captain.
On June 26, 1941, the crew under the command of Captain Gastello took off to attack a German mechanized column. It was on the road between the Belarusian cities of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. But the column was well guarded by enemy artillery. A fight ensued. Aircraft Gastello was hit by anti-aircraft guns. The shell damaged the fuel tank, the car caught fire. The pilot could eject, but he decided to fulfill his military duty to the end. Nikolai Gastello sent a burning car directly to the enemy column. It was the first fire ram in the Great Patriotic War.
The name of the brave pilot has become a household name. Until the end of the war, all the aces who decided to go for a ram were called Gastellites. If follow official statistics, then almost six hundred rams of the opponent were made during the entire war.
Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.
Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He already worked at the factory, having finished the seven-year plan. When the Nazis captured his native Novgorod region, Lenya joined the partisans.
He was brave and determined, the command appreciated him. For several years spent in the partisan detachment, he participated in 27 operations. On his account, several destroyed bridges behind enemy lines, 78 destroyed Germans, 10 trains with ammunition.
It was he who, in the summer of 1942, near the village of Varnitsa, blew up a car in which the German Major General of the Engineering Troops, Richard von Wirtz, was located. Golikov managed to obtain important documents about the German offensive. The enemy attack was thwarted, and the young hero for this feat was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked partisans near the village of Ostraya Luka. Lenya Golikov died as real hero- in battle.
Pioneer. Scout of the partisan detachment named after Voroshilov in the territory occupied by the Nazis.
Zina was born and went to school in Leningrad. However, the war found her on the territory of Belarus, where she came for the holidays.
In 1942, 16-year-old Zina joined the underground organization Young Avengers. It distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the occupied territories. Then, under cover, she got a job working in a canteen for German officers, where she committed several acts of sabotage and only miraculously was not captured by the enemy. Her courage surprised many experienced soldiers.
In 1943, Zina Portnova joined the partisans and continued to engage in sabotage behind enemy lines. Due to the efforts of defectors who surrendered Zina to the Nazis, she was captured. In the dungeons, she was interrogated and tortured. But Zina was silent, not betraying her. At one of these interrogations, she grabbed a pistol from the table and shot three Nazis. After that, she was shot in prison.
Underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of modern Luhansk region. There were over a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.
This youth underground organization was formed immediately after the occupation of the Lugansk region. It included both regular military personnel, who were cut off from the main units, and local youth. Among the most famous participants: Oleg Koshevoy, Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, Vasily Levashov, Sergey Tyulenin and many other young people.
The "Young Guard" issued leaflets and committed sabotage against the Nazis. Once they managed to disable an entire tank repair shop, burn down the stock exchange, from where the Nazis drove people to forced labor in Germany. The members of the organization planned to stage an uprising, but were exposed because of the traitors. The Nazis caught, tortured and shot more than seventy people. Their feat is immortalized in one of the most famous military books by Alexander Fadeev and the film adaptation of the same name.
28 people from the personnel of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th rifle regiment.
In November 1941, a counteroffensive against Moscow began. The enemy did not stop at nothing, making a decisive forced march before the onset of a harsh winter.
At this time, the soldiers under the command of Ivan Panfilov took a position on the highway seven kilometers from Volokolamsk - small town under Moscow. There they gave battle to the advancing tank units. The battle lasted four hours. During this time, they destroyed 18 armored vehicles, delaying the enemy's attack and frustrating his plans. All 28 people (or almost all, here the opinions of historians differ) died.
According to legend, the political instructor of the company, Vasily Klochkov, before the decisive stage of the battle, turned to the fighters with a phrase that became known throughout the country: “Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind!”
The Nazi counteroffensive ultimately failed. The battle for Moscow, which was taken away essential role during the war, was lost by the invaders.
As a child, the future hero suffered from rheumatism, and the doctors doubted that Maresyev would be able to fly. However, he stubbornly applied to the flight school until he was finally enrolled. Maresyev was drafted into the army in 1937.
He met the Great Patriotic War at the flight school, but soon got to the front. During sortie his plane was shot down, and Maresyev himself was able to eject. Eighteen days, seriously wounded in both legs, he got out of the encirclement. However, he still managed to overcome the front line and ended up in the hospital. But gangrene had already begun, and the doctors amputated both of his legs.
For many, this would mean the end of the service, but the pilot did not give up and returned to aviation. Until the end of the war, he flew with prostheses. Over the years, he made 86 sorties and shot down 11 enemy aircraft. And 7 - already after amputation. In 1944, Alexei Maresyev went to work as an inspector and lived to be 84 years old.
His fate inspired the writer Boris Polevoy to write The Tale of a Real Man.
Deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment.
Victor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes on a biplane. Then he served in the aviation school.
In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots made a ram, shooting down a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and descend by parachute to the rear of his own.
Talalikhin then shot down five more German planes. Killed during another air battle near Podolsk in October 1941.
After 73 years, in 2014, search engines found Talalikhin's plane, which remained in the swamps near Moscow.
Artilleryman of the 3rd counter-battery artillery corps of the Leningrad Front.
Soldier Andrei Korzun was drafted into the army at the very beginning of World War II. He served on the Leningrad front, where there were fierce and bloody battles.
November 5, 1943, during the next battle, his battery came under fierce enemy fire. Korzun was seriously wounded. Despite the terrible pain, he saw that the powder charges were set on fire and the ammunition depot could fly into the air. Gathering the last of his strength, Andrey crawled to the blazing fire. But he could no longer take off his overcoat to cover the fire. Losing consciousness, he made a last effort and covered the fire with his body. The explosion was avoided at the cost of the life of a brave gunner.
Commander of the 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade.
A native of Petrograd, Alexander German, according to some sources, was a native of Germany. He served in the army from 1933. When the war began, he became a scout. He worked behind enemy lines, commanded a partisan detachment, which terrified the enemy soldiers. His brigade destroyed several thousand fascist soldiers and officers, derailed hundreds trains and blew up hundreds of vehicles.
The Nazis staged a real hunt for Herman. In 1943, his partisan detachment was surrounded in the Pskov region. Making his way to his own, the brave commander died from an enemy bullet.
Commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Leningrad Front
Vladislav Khrustitsky was drafted into the Red Army back in the 1920s. In the late 30s he graduated from armored courses. Since the autumn of 1942, he commanded the 61st separate light tank brigade.
He distinguished himself during Operation Iskra, which marked the beginning of the defeat of the Germans on the Leningrad front.
He died in the battle near Volosovo. In 1944, the enemy retreated from Leningrad, but from time to time made attempts to counterattack. During one of these counterattacks, Khrustitsky's tank brigade fell into a trap.
Despite heavy fire, the commander ordered to continue the offensive. He turned on the radio to his crews with the words: "Stand to the death!" - and went forward first. Unfortunately, the brave tanker died in this battle. And yet the village of Volosovo was liberated from the enemy.
Commander of a partisan detachment and brigade.
Before the war he worked for railway. In October 1941, when the Germans were already standing near Moscow, he himself volunteered for a difficult operation, in which his railway experience was needed. Was thrown behind enemy lines. There he came up with the so-called "coal mines" (in fact, these are just mines disguised as coal). With the help of this simple but effective weapon, a hundred enemy trains were blown up in three months.
Zaslonov actively campaigned local population go over to the side of the partisans. The Nazis, having learned this, dressed their soldiers in Soviet uniforms. Zaslonov mistook them for defectors and ordered them to be allowed into the partisan detachment. The path to the insidious enemy was open. A battle ensued, during which Zaslonov died. A reward was announced for living or dead Zaslonov, but the peasants hid his body, and the Germans did not get it.
The commander of a small partisan detachment.
Efim Osipenko fought back in civil war. Therefore, when the enemy seized his land, without thinking twice, he joined the partisans. Together with five other comrades, he organized a small partisan detachment that committed sabotage against the Nazis.
During one of the operations, it was decided to undermine the enemy composition. But there was little ammunition in the detachment. The bomb was made from an ordinary grenade. The explosives were to be installed by Osipenko himself. He crawled to the railway bridge and, seeing the approach of the train, threw it in front of the train. There was no explosion. Then the partisan himself hit the grenade with a pole from the railway sign. It worked! A long train with food and tanks went downhill. The squad leader survived, but lost his sight completely.
For this feat, he was the first in the country to be awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War."
The peasant Matvey Kuzmin was born three years before the abolition of serfdom. And he died, becoming the oldest holder of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
His story contains many references to the history of another famous peasant - Ivan Susanin. Matvey also had to lead the invaders through the forest and swamps. And, like the legendary hero, he decided to stop the enemy at the cost of his life. He sent his grandson ahead to warn a detachment of partisans who had stopped nearby. The Nazis were ambushed. A fight ensued. Matvey Kuzmin died at the hands of a German officer. But he did his job. He was in his 84th year.
A partisan who was part of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the headquarters of the Western Front.
While studying at school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya wanted to enter a literary institute. But these plans were not destined to come true - the war prevented. In October 1941, Zoya, as a volunteer, came to the recruiting station and after short training in a school for saboteurs was transferred to Volokolamsk. There, an 18-year-old partisan fighter, along with adult men, performed dangerous tasks: she mined roads and destroyed communication centers.
During one of the sabotage operations, Kosmodemyanskaya was caught by the Germans. She was tortured, forcing her to betray her own. Zoya heroically endured all the trials without saying a word to the enemies. Seeing that it was impossible to get anything from the young partisan, they decided to hang her.
Kosmodemyanskaya steadfastly accepted the test. A moment before her death, she shouted to the assembled local residents: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers before it's too late, surrender!" The courage of the girl so shocked the peasants that they later retold this story to front-line correspondents. And after the publication in the Pravda newspaper, the whole country learned about the feat of Kosmodemyanskaya. She became the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.
Nowadays
In our time, people began to think more squat. They are interested in things that are material, and most of the problems are somehow related to prosperity, work. I don't know if it is appropriate to say that we have become less spiritual, but such concepts as honor and duty are becoming less and less clear to us every year. Moreover, some people, especially young people, follow the propaganda mass culture and consider such feelings as conscience, sympathy and even love as stupid.
I do not like what is happening to us, because people who forget about the spiritual or, in other words, the moral, and think completely in material categories, are completely incapable of action. Action with a capital letter. One that does not hesitate to be called a feat.
Feat
A feat is an act, a heroic act, by which a person shows all his best qualities: heroism, courage, ability to self-sacrifice. It’s hard for me to accurately define the word “feat”, because this is not an easy scientific term. There is more behind this word.
One of the main components of a feat, to put it in a technical language, seems to me to be the fact that a person who commits it risks his health, and sometimes his life, but does not require absolutely anything in return. So a man who enters a burning house, a soldier who covers his comrade with his body, people who step on thin ice to help a drowning man, they all accomplish a feat.
Heroic Professions
I am very pleased that there are still such heroic professions as rescuers, firefighters, policemen and soldiers, which enable people to show such high qualities.
The ability to perform a feat is what, in my opinion, distinguishes us from machines and animals, without which humanity will not be able to exist in the future.
Some interesting essays
- The history of the creation of the novel Fathers and Sons of Turgenev
In 1860, Turgenev's collaboration with the Sovremennik magazine ended. The liberal views of the writer were incompatible with the revolutionary-democratic mood of Dobrolyubov, who wrote a critical article in Sovremennik on Turgenev's novel.
- The image and characteristics of Knurov in Ostrovsky's Dowry essay
One of the contenders for the sympathy of Larisa Ogudalova is Mokiy Parmenych Knurov. He is no longer a young man and very wealthy man. This gives him confidence, slowness and respect in society.
Nature fascinates with its fantastic landscapes, pleases the human eye, brings a lot of positive emotions. The beauty of nature is unique at any time of the year.
The ideal family is people who understand each other without extra words. If parents experience real feelings, it is noticeable even to the naked eye.
I am a rather versatile person, I like to read books, play music, teach foreign languages but most of all I love to draw. Drawing has become my hobby since childhood, my mother often recalls
Every day in Russia, ordinary citizens perform feats who do not pass by when someone needs help. The country should know its heroes, so this collection is dedicated to brave, caring people who have proven by deed that heroism has a place in our lives.
1. Unusual incident with miraculous salvation took place in the city of Lesnoy. A 26-year-old engineer named Vladimir Startsev saved a two-year-old girl who had fallen from a fourth-floor balcony.
“I was returning from the sports ground, where I was training with the children. I look, some kind of pandemonium, ”recalls Startsev. - People under the balcony were fussing, shouting something, waving their arms. I raise my head up, and there a little girl, with the last of her strength, grabs the outer edge of the balcony. Here, according to Vladimir, he turned on the climber's syndrome. Moreover, the athlete has been engaged in sambo and rock climbing for many years. The physical form allowed. He assessed the situation and intended to climb the wall to the fourth floor.
“Already prepared to jump to the balcony of the first floor, I raise my eyes, and the child flies down! I instantly regrouped and relaxed my muscles to catch her. This is how we were taught in training, - says Vladimir Startsev. “She landed right in my arms, she cried, of course, she got scared.”
2. It happened on August 15th. On that day, my sister and nephews and I came to the river to swim. Everything was good - heat, sun, water. Then my sister says to me: “Lyosha, look, the man drowned, out, swims by. The drowned man was carried away fast current, and I had to run about 350 meters until I caught up. And our river is mountainous, the cobblestones, while running, fell several times, but got up and continued to run, barely overtook. 
The child turned out to be the victim. On the face all the signs of a drowned man - an unnaturally swollen stomach, a bluish-black body, veins swelled. I didn't even know if it was a boy or a girl. He pulled the child ashore, began to pour water out of him. The stomach, the lungs - everything was filled with water, the tongue kept sinking. Asked for a towel next door standing people. No one filed, they disdained, they were frightened by the sight of the girl, they took pity on her for their beautiful towels. And I'm wearing nothing but swimming trunks. Because of the fast run, and while I was pulling her out of the water, I was exhausted, there was not enough air for artificial respiration.
About resuscitation
Thank God, my colleague, nurse Olga, was passing by, but she was on the other side. She started screaming for me to bring the baby to her on the shore. The child who swallowed water became incredibly heavy. The peasants responded to the request to carry the girl to the other side. There, Olga and I continued all resuscitation actions. They drained the water as best they could, did a heart massage, artificial respiration, for 15-20 minutes there was no reaction, neither from the girl, nor from nearby onlookers. I asked for an ambulance, no one called, and the ambulance station was nearby, 150 meters away. Olga and I couldn’t afford to be distracted even for a second, so we couldn’t even call. After some time, a boy was found, and he ran to call for help. In the meantime, we were all trying to revive a little girl, five years old. From despair, Olga even began to cry, it seemed that there was no hope anymore. Everyone around said, leave these useless attempts, you will break all her ribs, why are you mocking the dead. But then the girl sighed, the nurse who came running heard the sounds of a heartbeat.
3. A third-grader rescued three young children from a burning hut. For the heroism shown, 11-year-old Dima Filyushin was almost flogged at home. 
... On the day when a fire broke out on the outskirts of the village, the twin brothers Andryusha and Vasya and five-year-old Nastya were alone at home. Mom left for work. Dima was returning from school when he noticed a flame in the neighbor's windows. The boy looked inside - the curtains were ablaze, and next to him, on the bed, three-year-old Vasya was sleeping. Of course, the student could call the rescue service, but without hesitation, he rushed to save the kids himself.
4. Young 17 summer girl from Zarechny, Marina Safarova, became a real hero. The girl pulled the fishermen, her brother and the snowmobile out of the hole with a sheet. 
Before the onset of spring, young people decided to last time visit the Sursky reservoir, in the Penza region, and after that "tie up" until next year, since the ice is no longer as reliable as a month ago. Without going far, the guys left the car on the shore, and they themselves moved 40 meters from the edge and drilled holes. While her brother was fishing, the girl drew sketches of the landscape, and after a couple of hours she froze and went to get warm in the car, and at the same time warm up the engine.
Under the weight of motor vehicles, the ice could not stand it and broke through in the places where the holes were drilled, as after a perforator. People began to sink, the snowmobile hung on the edge of the ice by the ski, the whole structure threatened to break off completely, then people would have very little chance of salvation. Men clung with their last strength to the edge of the hole, but warm clothes instantly got wet and literally pulled to the bottom. In this situation, Marina did not begin to think about probable danger and rushed to the rescue.
Having seized her brother, the girl, however, could not help him in any way, since the balance of forces of our heroine and the superior mass turned out to be too unequal. Run for help? But not a single living soul is visible in the area, only a company of the same fishermen can be seen on the horizon. Go to town for help?
So bye time will pass people can simply drown from hypothermia. Thinking like this, Marina intuitively ran to the car. Opening the trunk in search of an item that could help in the situation, the girl drew attention to a bag with bed linen, which she took from the laundry. - The first thing that came to mind was to twist the rope from the sheets, tie it to the car and try to pull them out. - Marina remembers
The pile of laundry was enough for almost 30 meters, it could have been longer, but the girl tied an impromptu cable with a double calculation.
- I've never braided so fast, - the rescuer laughs, - I twisted thirty meters in three minutes, this is a record. The remaining distance to the people, the girl ventured to drive on the ice.
- It is still very strong near the shore, I moved out onto the ice and quietly went backwards. The door opened just in case and drove off. The cable from the sheets turned out to be so strong that in the end, not only people, but also a snowmobile were taken out of the hole. After the rescue operation was completed, the men took off their clothes and climbed into the car.
- I don’t even have rights yet, I handed it over, but I’ll get it only in a month, when I turn 18 years old. While I was taking them home, I was worried, suddenly traffic cops would come across, and I would be without a license, although in theory they would have let me go, or helped to deliver everyone home.
5. little hero Buryatia - this is how 5-year-old Danila Zaitsev was christened in the republic. This kid saved his older sister Valya from death. When the girl fell into the hole, her brother held her for half an hour so that the current would not drag Valya under the ice. 
When the boy's hands were cold and tired, he grabbed his sister by the hood with his teeth and did not let go until a neighbor, 15-year-old Ivan Zhamyanov, came to the rescue. The teenager was able to pull Valya out of the water and in his arms carried the exhausted and frozen girl to his home. There, the child was wrapped in a blanket and given hot tea to drink.
Upon learning of this story, the leadership of the local school contacted regional management Ministry of Emergency Situations with a request to reward both boys for a heroic deed.
6. 35-year-old resident of Uralsk Rinat Fardiev was repairing his car when he suddenly heard a loud knock. Having run up to the scene, he saw a sinking car and without thinking twice jumped into the icy water and began to pull out the victims. 
“At the scene of the accident, I saw a confused driver and passengers of the VAZ, who in the dark could not understand where the car they had crashed into had gone. Then I followed the tracks of the wheels down and found the Audi in the river with the wheels up. I immediately entered the water and began to pull people out of the car. First I got the driver and passenger who was sitting in the front seat, and then the two passengers from the back seat. They were already unconscious at the time."
Unfortunately, one of the people rescued by Rinat did not survive - the 34-year-old Audi passenger died of hypothermia. Other victims were hospitalized and this moment already written out. Rinat himself works as a driver and does not see much heroism in his act at all. “The traffic cops told me at the scene of the accident that they would decide on my promotion. But from the very beginning I did not seek publicity and receive any awards, most importantly, I managed to save people, ”he said.
7. A Saratovitian who pulled two little boys out of the water: “I thought I couldn’t swim. But as soon as I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything. 
Cries heard local, 26-year-old Vadim Prodan. Running up to concrete slabs, he saw Ilya drowning. The boy was 20 meters from the shore. The man, wasting no time, rushed to save the boy. In order to pull the child out, Vadim had to dive several times - but when Ilya appeared from under the water, he was still conscious. On the shore, the boy told Vadim about his friend, who was no longer visible.
The man returned to the water and swam towards the reeds. He began to dive and look for the child - but he was nowhere to be seen. And suddenly Vadim felt his hand caught on something - diving again, he found Misha. Grabbing him by the hair, the man pulled the boy ashore, where he gave him artificial respiration. A few minutes later, Misha regained consciousness. A little later, Ilya and Misha were taken to the Ozinsky Central Hospital.
“I always thought to myself that I don’t know how to swim, only to stay on the water a little,” Vadim admits, “But as soon as I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything, and there was no fear, there was only one thought in my head - I need help.
Rescuing the boys, Vadim hit the rebar lying in the water and injured his leg. He later received several stitches in the hospital.
8. Schoolchildren from Krasnodar Territory Roman Vitkov and Mikhail Serdyuk rescued old woman from a burning house. 
On their way home, they saw a burning building. Having run into the yard, the schoolchildren saw that the veranda was almost completely engulfed in fire. Roman and Mikhail rushed to the shed for the tool. Grabbing a sledgehammer and an ax, knocking out a window, Roman climbed into the window opening. An elderly woman slept in a smoky room. It was possible to take out the victim only after breaking the door.
9. A in Chelyabinsk region priest Alexei Peregudov saved the life of the groom at the wedding. 
During the wedding, the groom lost consciousness. The only one who did not lose his head in this situation was Priest Alexei Peregudov. He quickly examined the patient, suspected cardiac arrest and provided first aid, including indirect massage hearts. As a result, the sacrament was successfully completed. Father Aleksey noted that he had only seen chest compressions in movies.
10. A veteran distinguished himself in Mordovia Chechen war Marat Zinatullin, who rescued an elderly man from a burning apartment. 
Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional fireman. He climbed along the fence to a small barn, and from it he climbed onto the balcony. He broke the glass, opened the door leading from the balcony to the room, and got inside. The 70-year-old owner of the apartment lay on the floor. The pensioner, who was poisoned by smoke, could not leave the apartment on his own. Marat, opening front door from the inside, carried the owner of the house to the entrance.
11. Roman Sorvachev, an employee of the Kostroma colony, saved the lives of his neighbors in a fire. 
Entering the entrance of his house, he immediately figured out the apartment from which the smell of smoke comes. The door was opened by a drunken man, who assured that everything was in order. However, Roman called the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The rescuers who arrived at the scene of the fire were unable to enter the premises through the door, and the uniform of the EMERCOM officer did not allow them to get into the apartment through the narrow window frame. Then Roman climbed up the fire escape, entered the apartment and pulled out an elderly woman and an unconscious man from the heavily smoky apartment.
12. A resident of the village of Yurmash (Bashkortostan) Rafit Shamsutdinov saved two children from a fire. 
Rafita, a fellow villager, flooded the stove and, leaving two children - three year old girl and a one and a half year old son, went to school with her older children. The smoke from the burning house was noticed by Rafit Shamsutdinov. Despite the abundance of smoke, he managed to get into the burning room and carry the children out.
13. Dagestan Arsen Fittsulaev prevented a disaster at a gas station in Kaspiysk. Later, Arsen realized that he actually risked his life. 
An explosion suddenly thundered at one of the gas stations within the boundaries of Kaspiysk. As it turned out later, a foreign car driving at high speed crashed into a gas tank and knocked down a valve. A minute of delay, and the fire would have spread to nearby tanks with combustible fuel. In such a scenario, casualties would not have been avoided. However, the situation was radically changed by a modest gas station worker, who skillfully averted the disaster and reduced its scale to a burned-out car and several damaged cars.
14. And in the village of Ilyinka-1 Tula region schoolchildren Andrey Ibronov, Nikita Sabitov, Andrey Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin pulled the pensioner out of the well. 
78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. Andrey Ibronov and Nikita Sabitov heard cries for help and immediately rushed to save the elderly woman. However, three more guys had to be called to help - Andrei Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin. Together, the guys managed to pull an elderly pensioner out of the well. “I tried to get out, the well is not deep - I even reached the edge with my hand. But it was so slippery and cold that I could not grab onto the hoop. And when I raised my hands ice water stuffed into the sleeves. I screamed, called for help, but the well is far from residential buildings and roads, so no one heard me. How long this went on, I don’t even know ... Soon I began to feel sleepy, I raised my head with the last of my strength and suddenly saw two boys looking into the well!” – said the victim.
15. In Bashkiria, a first-grader saved a three-year-old child from icy water. 
When Nikita Baranov from the village of Tashkinovo, Krasnokamsk district, accomplished his feat, he was only seven. Once, while playing with friends on the street, a first grader heard a child crying from the trench. In the village, gas was supplied: the dug pits were flooded with water, and three-year-old Dima fell into one of them. There were no builders or other adults nearby, so Nikita himself pulled the choking boy to the surface
16. A man in the Moscow region saved his 11-month-old son from death by cutting the boy's throat and inserting the base of a fountain pen there so that the choking baby could breathe. 
An 11-month-old baby had a sunken tongue and stopped breathing. Father, realizing that seconds counted, took kitchen knife, made an incision in the throat area of \u200b\u200bhis son and inserted a tube into it, which he made from a pen.
17. She closed her brother from bullets. The story took place at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 
In Ingushetia, it is customary for children to congratulate their friends and relatives at this time in their homes. Zalina Arsanova and her younger brother were leaving the entrance when shots rang out. An attempt was made on the life of one of the FSB officers in a neighboring courtyard. When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that it was shooting, and younger brother is in the line of fire, and covered him with herself. The girl with a gunshot wound was taken to the Malgobek Clinical Hospital No. 1, where she underwent an operation. Internal organs Surgeons had to assemble a 12-year-old child literally piece by piece. Luckily everyone survived
18. Students of the Iskitim branch of the Novosibirsk Assembly College - 17-year-old Nikita Miller and 20-year-old Vlad Volkov - became real heroes of the Siberian town. 
Still: the guys tied up an armed raider who was trying to rob a grocery kiosk.
19. A young man from Kabardino-Balkaria saved a child from a fire. 
In the village of Shitkhala, Urvan district of the KBR, a residential building caught fire. Even before the arrival of firefighters, the whole district came running to the house. No one dared to enter the burning room. Twenty-year-old Beslan Taov, having learned that a child was left in the house, without hesitation, rushed to his aid. Having previously doused himself with water, he entered the burning house and a few minutes later came out with the baby in his arms. The boy named Tamerlane was unconscious, in a few minutes he could not be saved. Thanks to the heroism of Beslan, the child survived.
20. A resident of St. Petersburg did not allow the girl to die. 
A resident of St. Petersburg, Igor Sivtsov, was driving a car and saw a drowning man in the waters of the Neva. Igor immediately called the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and then made an attempt to save the drowning girl on his own.
Bypassing a traffic jam, he approached the parapet of the embankment as close as possible, where the drowning woman was carried by the current. As it turned out, the woman did not want to be rescued, she tried to commit suicide by jumping from the Volodarsky bridge. After talking with the girl, Igor convinced her to swim to the shore, where he managed to pull her out. After that, he turned on all the heaters in his car, and sat the victim to warm up until the ambulance arrived.
Fifty great feats of Soviet soldiers worthy of memory and admiration...
1) Only 30 minutes were allocated by the Wehrmacht command to suppress the resistance of the border guards. However, the 13th outpost under the command of A. Lopatin fought for more than 10 days and the Brest Fortress for more than a month.
2) At 4 hours 25 minutes on June 22, 1941, the pilot, Senior Lieutenant I. Ivanov, made an air ram. This was the first feat during the war; awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
3) The border guards and units of the Red Army launched the first counterattack on June 23rd. They liberated the city of Przemysl, and two groups of border guards broke into Zasanye (the territory of Poland occupied by Germany), where they defeated the headquarters of the German division and the Gestapo, while freeing many prisoners.
4) During heavy battles with tanks and assault guns of the enemy, the gunner of the 76 mm gun of the 636th anti-tank artillery regiment Alexander Serov destroyed 18 tanks and assault guns of the Nazis during June 23 and 24, 1941. Relatives received two funerals, but the brave warrior survived. Recently, the veteran was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.
5) On the night of August 8, 1941, a group of bombers of the Baltic Fleet under the command of Colonel E. Preobrazhensky made the first air raid on Berlin. Such raids continued until September 4th.
6) Lieutenant Dmitry Lavrinenko from the 4th tank brigade is considered to be the number one tank ace. For three months of fighting in September-November 1941, he destroyed 52 enemy tanks in 28 battles. Unfortunately, the brave tanker died in November 1941 near Moscow.
7) The most unique record of the Great Patriotic War was set by the crew of Senior Lieutenant Zinoviy Kolobanov on the KV tank from the 1st Panzer Division. For 3 hours of battle in the area of the state farm "Voiskovitsy" (Leningrad region), he destroyed 22 enemy tanks.
8) In the battle for Zhytomyr in the area of the Nizhnekumsky farm on December 31, 1943, the crew of junior lieutenant Ivan Golub (13th Guards Tank Brigade of the 4th Guards Tank Corps.) Destroyed 5 "tigers", 2 "panthers", 5 hundreds of guns fascists.
9) An anti-tank gun crew consisting of Senior Sergeant R. Sinyavsky and Corporal A. Mukozobov (542nd Infantry Regiment, 161st Rifle Division) in the battles near Minsk from June 22 to June 26 destroyed 17 tanks and assault guns of the enemy. For this feat, the soldiers were awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
10) Calculation of the guns of the 197th Guards. regiment of the 92nd Guards. rifle division (howitzer 152 mm) consisting of the brothers of the guard senior sergeant Dmitry Lukanin and guard sergeant Yakov Lukanin from October 1943 to the end of the war destroyed 37 tanks and armored personnel carriers and more than 600 enemy soldiers and officers. For the battle near the village of Kaluzhino, Dnepropetrovsk region, the fighters were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Now their 152-mm howitzer cannon is installed in the Military Historical Museum of Artillery, Engineering and Signal Corps. (St. Petersburg).
11) Sergeant Petr Petrov, the commander of the 37 mm gun crew of the 93rd separate anti-aircraft artillery battalion, is rightfully considered the most productive ace-anti-aircraft gunner. In June-September 1942, his crew destroyed 20 enemy aircraft. The calculation under the command of a senior sergeant (632nd anti-aircraft artillery regiment) destroyed 18 enemy aircraft.
12) For two years, the calculation of 37 mm guns of 75 guards. army anti-aircraft artillery regiment under the command of Guards. Sergeant Nikolai Botsman destroyed 15 enemy aircraft. The latter were shot down in the skies over Berlin.
13) Gunner of the 1st Baltic Front Claudia Barkhotkina hit 12 enemy air targets.
14) The most productive of the Soviet boatmen was Lieutenant Commander Alexander Shabalin (Northern Fleet), he led the destruction of 32 enemy warships and transports (as a commander of a boat, a flight and a detachment of torpedo boats). For his exploits, A. Shabalin was twice awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
15) For several months of fighting on the Bryansk Front, a soldier of the fighter detachment, Private Vasily Putchin, destroyed 37 enemy tanks with grenades and Molotov cocktails alone.
16) In the midst of fighting on Kursk Bulge On July 7, 1943, the machine gunner of the 1019th regiment, senior sergeant Yakov Studennikov, alone (the rest of his crew died) fought for two days. Having been wounded, he managed to repel 10 Nazi attacks and destroyed more than 300 Nazis. For the accomplished feat, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
17) About the feat of soldiers 316 SD. (Division Major General I. Panfilov) at the well-known Dubosekovo junction on November 16, 1941, 28 tank destroyers met the attack of 50 tanks, of which 18 were destroyed. Hundreds of enemy soldiers found their end at Dubosekovo. But few people know about the feat of the fighters of the 1378th regiment of the 87th division. On December 17, 1942, in the area of the village of Verkhne-Kumsky, the fighters of the company of senior lieutenant Nikolai Naumov, with two crews of anti-tank rifles, repelled 3 attacks of enemy tanks and infantry while defending a height of 1372 m. The next day, more attacks. All 24 fighters died defending the height, but the enemy lost 18 tanks and hundreds of infantrymen.
18) In the battle near Stalingrad on September 1, 1943, machine gunner Sergeant Khanpasha Nuradilov destroyed 920 Nazis.
19) In Battle of Stalingrad in one battle on December 21, 1942, marine I. Kaplunov knocked out 9 enemy tanks. He knocked out 5 and, being seriously wounded, disabled 4 more tanks.
20) In the days of the Battle of Kursk on July 6, 1943, Guard Pilot Lieutenant A. Gorovets took the fight with 20 enemy aircraft, and shot down 9 of them.
21) On account of the crew of the submarine under the command of P. Grishchenko 19 sunk enemy ships, and in the initial period of the war.
22) Pilot of the Northern Fleet B. Safonov from June 1941 to May 1942 shot down 30 enemy aircraft and became the first twice Hero of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War.
23) During the defense of Leningrad, sniper F. Dyachenko destroyed 425 Nazis.
24) The Presidium of the USSR Armed Forces adopted the first Decree on conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the war on July 8, 1941. It was awarded to pilots M. Zhukov, S. Zdorovets, P. Kharitonov for air ramming in the sky of Leningrad.
25) The famous pilot I. Kozhedub received the third Gold Star - at the age of 25, the gunner A. Shilin received the second Gold Star - at the age of 20.
26) During the Great Patriotic War, five schoolchildren under the age of 16 received the title of Hero: Sasha Chekalin and Lenya Golikov - at the age of 15, Valya Kotik, Marat Kazei and Zina Portnova - at the age of 14.
27) The heroes of the Soviet Union were the pilots brothers Boris and Dmitry Glinka (Dmitry later became twice a Hero), the tankers Yevsey and Matvey Vainruba, the partisans Evgeny and Gennady Ignatov, the pilots Tamara and Vladimir Konstantinov, Zoya and Alexander Kosmodemyansky, the brothers pilots Sergei and Alexander Kurzenkov, brothers Alexander and Peter Lizyukov, twin brothers Dmitry and Yakov Lukanin, brothers Nikolai and Mikhail Panichkin.
28) More than 300 Soviet soldiers closed the enemy embrasures with their bodies, about 500 aviators used an air ram in battle, more than 300 crews sent the wrecked planes to enemy troop concentrations.
29) During the war years, more than 6,200 partisan detachments and underground groups operated behind enemy lines, in which there were over 1,000,000 people's avengers.
30) During the war years, 5,300,000 orders and 7,580,000 medals were awarded.
31) There were about 600,000 women in the active army, more than 150,000 of them were awarded orders and medals, 86 were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
32) 10900 regiments and divisions were awarded the Order of the USSR, 29 units and formations have 5 or more awards.
33) During the years of the Great Patriotic War, 41,000 people were awarded the Order of Lenin, of which 36,000 were awarded for military exploits. More than 200 military units and formations were awarded the Order of Lenin.
34) More than 300,000 people were awarded the Order of the Red Banner during the war years.
35) For exploits during the Great Patriotic War, more than 2,860,000 awards were made with the Order of the Red Star.
36) The Order of Suvorov 1st degree was first awarded to G. Zhukov, the Order of Suvorov 2nd degree No. 1 was received by Major General tank troops V. Badanov.
37) The Order of Kutuzov 1st degree No. 1 was awarded to Lieutenant General N. Galanin, the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree No. 1 was received by General A. Danilo.
38) During the war years, the Order of Suvorov of the 1st degree was awarded 340, the 2nd degree - 2100, the 3rd degree - 300, the Order of Ushakov of the 1st degree - 30, the 2nd degree - 180, the Order of Kutuzov 1st degree - 570, 2nd degree - 2570, 3rd degree - 2200, Order of Nakhimov 1st degree - 70, 2nd degree - 350, Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree - 200, 2nd degree - 1450 , 3rd degree - 5400, the Order of Alexander Nevsky - 40,000.
39) The Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class No. 1 was awarded to the family of the deceased senior political officer V. Konyukhov.
40) Order Great War of the war of the 2nd degree were awarded to the parents of the deceased senior lieutenant P. Razhkin.
41) N. Petrov received six Orders of the Red Banner during the years of World War II. Four Orders of the Patriotic War marked the feat of N. Yanenkov and D. Panchuk. The merits of I. Panchenko were awarded with six Orders of the Red Star.
42) Order of Glory 1st degree No. 1 received foreman N. Zalyotov.
43) 2577 people became full cavaliers of the Order of Glory. After the soldiers, 8 full cavaliers of the Order of Glory became Heroes of Socialist Labor.
44) During the war years, the Order of Glory of the 3rd degree was awarded to about 980,000 people, the 2nd and 1st degrees - more than 46,000 people.
45) Only 4 people - Hero of the Soviet Union - are full cavaliers Order of Glory. These are artillerymen of the guard senior sergeants A. Alyoshin and N. Kuznetsov, infantry foreman P. Dubina, pilot senior lieutenant I. Drachenko, who lived in Kyiv for the last years of his life.
46) During the Great Patriotic War, the medal "For Courage" was awarded to more than 4,000,000 people, "For Military Merit" - 3,320,000.
47) The feat of arms of intelligence officer V. Breev was awarded with six medals "For Courage".
48) The youngest of those awarded the medal "For Military Merit" is six-year-old Seryozha Aleshkov.
49) The medal "Partisan of the Great Patriotic War" of the 1st degree was awarded to more than 56,000, the 2nd degree - to about 71,000 people.
50) For a feat behind enemy lines, 185,000 people were awarded orders and medals.
Law and duty No. 5, 2011
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Heroes of the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945):
- Fifty facts: the exploits of Soviet soldiers during the Great Patriotic War- Law and duty
- 5 myths about the beginning of the war from the military historian Alexei Isaev- Foma
- Victory or Victory: how we fought- Sergey Fedosov
- The Red Army through the eyes of the Wehrmacht: the confrontation of the spirit- Eurasian Youth Union
- Otto Skorzeny: "Why didn't we take Moscow?"- Oles Buzina
- In the first dogfight, don't touch anything. How aircraft gunners were trained and how they fought - Maxim Krupinov
- Saboteurs from a rural school- Vladimir Tikhomirov
- Ossetian shepherd destroyed 108 Germans in one battle at the age of 23- Сont
- Mad Warrior Jack Churchill- Wikipedia
- (56 words) Feat is a big word. But this is how one can describe the act of Guli Koroleva, described in the book dedicated to her “The Fourth Height” by Elena Ilyina. During the battle, she took out 50 wounded soldiers from the field, and after the death of the commander, she took command. And even being mortally wounded, she continued to fight until her last breath. One can only admire the courage of this girl.
- (47 words) Despite the fact that the hero of A. Tvardovsky's poem "Vasily Terkin" does not consider his act a feat, he can be considered a hero. The man, ignoring the great risk, selflessly swims across the river to convey an important report to the command. It could cost him his life, but he still decided on this act.
- (48 words) In M. Sholokhov's story "The Fate of a Man", the theme of not only a military feat, but also a moral one, is raised. The driver Andrey Sokolov, being at the front, learns about the death of his entire family. Despite this, he found the strength not to break down and adopt an orphaned boy. The strength of the character of the hero cannot but delight.
- (50 words) B. Vasiliev's story “The Dawns Here Are Quiet…” tells about the military feat of a whole group. During reconnaissance, the women's detachment and the foreman have to engage in a desperate battle with the enemy. Each of the women dies heroically and painfully. Even realizing the danger, they broke out to the front and sacrificed their lives on a par with men.
- (52 words) "The Tale of a Real Man" by B. Polevoy is not by chance that it has such a name. The author talks about real history pilot Alexei Meresyev. The hero was shot down by a fighter over the territory occupied by the Germans, tried to find his way back through the forests until he went out to his own. Even having lost both legs, the man continues to repulse the enemy. Such a person can truly be called great, and his deed - a feat.
- (61 words) In the story "Obelisk" by V. Bykov, a controversial attitude to the hero's deed arises. Teacher Ales Morozov creates an anti-fascist group with his students during the war. Not listening to the teacher, the guys commit the murder of a brutal policeman. After their capture, Ales is offered to surrender voluntarily. The man comes, realizing that the students will not be released. Subsequently, they are all executed. Years later, someone considers this act reckless, and the witness of the events - a feat.
- (44 words) In the epic novel "War and Peace" L.N. Tolstoy shows us that a feat is not always noticeable. Captain Tushin, who practically took the bullets on himself, was reprimanded for going out without an order, although the courageous resistance of his battery shocked even the enemy. The feat was noticed only thanks to the intercession of Prince Andrei.
- (52 words) Thomas Keneally's novel Schindler's Ark tells the story of real person- German Oskar Schindler. The man saved great amount Jews during the Holocaust. He illegally hired them as his workers, sheltering them from persecution. After the capitulation of Germany, the hero was forced to flee, but entire generations of Jews remained, grateful to him for the moral feat that he accomplished.
- (53 words) "Alpine Ballad" by V. Bykov is a story about bitter self-sacrifice. Ivan Treshka, who accidentally escaped the concentration camp, meets Julia. The sudden feeling that flared up between them is interrupted by the fascists pursuing them. Here the hero accomplishes his feat: having reached a dead end, Ivan saves the girl, throwing her from the gorge into a snowdrift, while he himself remains to be torn to pieces, sacrificing his life.
- (59 words) B. Vasiliev's story "He was not on the lists" tells about the protection Brest Fortress. Undoubtedly, everyone who rebuffed the enemy in that battle accomplished a feat. But the only surviving lieutenant Pluzhnikov is striking in his stamina. Deprived of his comrades, he continues to fight valiantly. But even being taken prisoner, he so admired the Nazis with his courage that they took off their caps in front of him.
Examples from life, cinema and media
- (57 words) In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the son of a concentration camp commandant befriends a Jewish boy on the other side of the fence. Eventually, the parents find out about it and insist on moving. However, the boy manages to get over the fence to help his friend in search of his father. Despite the tragic outcome of events, even such a sincere desire to help can be considered a feat.
- (41 words) Rescuers or firefighters constantly risk their lives to save others. Each shift is a new challenge. Such work requires incredible courage and fearlessness, it takes a lot of nerves. Often they themselves do not consider this a feat, but for the people who receive their help, they are real heroes.
- (42 words) Not all feats are on a grand scale. A boy who is afraid of heights, but takes a small kitten from a tree, also accomplishes a feat. He struggles with his fear, stepping over it in order to ultimately save a defenseless animal. Within himself, he overcomes a great barrier. It deserves respect.
- (56 words) Once my friend and I were sunbathing on the beach. Nearby, in shallow water, a girl was wandering, but suddenly she abruptly disappeared from sight. We got excited and my friend went to check out that place. It turned out that there was a double bottom - she fell and began to sink. A friend, not afraid of danger, dived after her and saved her life. I consider this a real feat.
- (43 words) A feat can be completely different. My friend is constantly helping homeless animals. I can call this a feat, as she sincerely cares for them, takes them home and keeps them warm and comfortable. Despite all the difficulties, she picks up the rejected pets, keeping them alive.
- (47 words) I once came across an article about a young man who saved a little girl who had fallen out of a window. The guy just walked by, reacted incredibly quickly and managed to catch the child. With this action, he accomplished a real feat. Heroes are among us. And they do not wear developing raincoats at all, but ordinary jeans and T-shirts.
- (42 words) In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows II main character performs an incredible feat when he decides to sacrifice his life to save everything magical world. He meets with the main evil face to face. Ignoring the persuasion of friends who are ready to fight, Harry remains steadfast.
- (40 words) I have always considered the adoption of a child to be a moral feat. I admire how people are able to take on such responsibility, to give love and warmth to a stepchild. Such a feat was accomplished by my uncle and aunt. I respect them immensely for such a complex and generous decision.
- (47 words) People very often become attached to their pets. The hero of a story I stumbled upon on a news website wanted to protect his pet so much that he rushed at the bear when it attacked his puppy. The man showed inhuman courage, thanks to which his pet survived. This can be called a real feat.
- (62 words) In my opinion, Stephen Hawking's first wife accomplished an incredible feat. Jane did not leave the scientist when he began to develop an illness that later led to paralysis. She continued to look after him as long as possible, gave him three children, literally devoted all her youth to him. Even though the couple divorced many years later, this choice of a woman still fascinates me.
