Heroes of the fatherland wwii. The composition "feat of the people during the great patriotic war"

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

Skydiving instructors donated everything to save their students

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

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

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

Simple mortal Joe Rollino (pictured above) has done incredible, inhuman deeds during his 104-year life. Although he weighed only about 68 kg, in his prime he could lift 288 kg with his fingers and 1450 kg with his back, for which he won various competitions several times. However, not the title of "Most the strong man in the world ”made him a hero.

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

Paternal love can inspire superhuman exploits, as two fathers have proven in different parts of the world.

In Florida, Joesph Welch came to the aid of his six-year-old son when an alligator grabbed the boy's arm. Forgetting his own safety, Welch struck the alligator, trying to force it to open its mouth. Then a passerby arrived and began to beat the alligator in the stomach until the beast finally released the boy.

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

Two ordinary women raised cars to rescue loved ones

Not only men are capable of manifesting superhuman abilities in critical situations. Daughter and mother have shown that women can be heroes too, especially when a loved one is in danger.

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

In Georgia, the jack also slipped and the 1,350-pound Chevrolet Impala fell to young man... Without outside help his mother Angela Cavallo lifted the car and held it for five minutes until neighbors pulled her son out.

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

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

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

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

In 2011 for this heroic deed Hanne was awarded the New Zealand Medal of Bravery.

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

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

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

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

But Karapetyan's exploits did not end there. Eight years later, he rescued several people from a burning building, while sustaining severe burns. Karapetyan received the Order of the Badge of Honor of the USSR and several other awards for salvation under water. But he himself argued that he was not a hero at all, he just did what he had to.

A man lifted a helicopter to rescue his colleague

The set for the TV show turned into a tragedy when a helicopter from the hit TV series Magnum PI crashed into drainage ditch in 1988.

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

Heroes of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and their exploits
The battles have long since died down. One by one the veterans are leaving. But the heroes of the Second World War 1941-1945 and their deeds will forever remain in the memory of grateful descendants. This article will tell about the brightest personalities of those years and their immortal deeds. Some were still very young, and some were no longer young. Each of the heroes has its own character and its own destiny. But all of them were united by love for the Motherland and the willingness to sacrifice themselves for its good.
Alexander Matrosov
The pupil of the orphanage Sasha Matrosov went to war at the age of 18. Immediately after the infantry school, he was sent to the front. February 1943 turned out to be "hot". Alexander's battalion went on the attack, and at some point the guy, along with several comrades, was surrounded. It was not possible to break through to our own - enemy machine guns fired too dense fire.
Soon Matrosov was left alive alone. His comrades were killed by bullets. The young man had only a few seconds to make a decision. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the last in his life. Wanting to bring at least some benefit to his own battalion, Alexander Matrosov rushed to the embrasure, covering it with his body. The fire stopped. The attack of the Red Army was eventually crowned with success - the Nazis retreated. And Sasha went to heaven as a young and handsome 19-year-old guy ...
Marat Kazei
When the Great Patriotic War began, Marat Kazei was only twelve. He lived in the village of Stankovo with his sister and parents. In 1941 he was in the occupation. Marat's mother helped the partisans, providing them with her own shelter and feeding them. Once the Germans found out about this and shot a woman. Left alone, the children, without hesitation, went into the forest and joined the partisans.
Marat, who had finished only four classes before the war, helped his older comrades as much as he could. They even took him into intelligence; and he also participated in undermining German trains. In 1943, the boy was awarded the medal "For Courage" for his heroism during the breakthrough of the encirclement. The boy was wounded in that terrible battle.
And in 1944 Kazei was returning from intelligence with an adult partisan. The Germans noticed them and started firing at them. The senior comrade died. Marat fired back to the last bullet. And when he had only one grenade left, the teenager let the Germans get closer and blew himself up with them. He was 15 years old.
Alexey Maresyev
The name of this person is known to every inhabitant of the former Soviet Union... After all it comes about the legendary pilot. Alexey Maresyev was born in 1916 and dreamed of the sky from childhood. Even the transferred rheumatism did not become an obstacle on the way to the dream. Despite the prohibitions of doctors, Alexey entered flight - they took him after several vain attempts.
In 1941, the stubborn young man went to the front. The sky was not what he dreamed of. But it was necessary to defend the Motherland, and Maresyev did everything for this. One day his plane was shot down. Alexey, wounded in both legs, managed to land the car on the territory occupied by the Germans and even somehow made his way to his own.
But time was lost. The legs were "devoured" by gangrene and had to be amputated. Where can a soldier go without both limbs? After all, he is completely crippled ... But Alexei Maresyev was not one of those. He remained in the ranks and continued to fight the enemy.
As many as 86 times, a winged machine with a hero on board managed to rise into the sky. 11 German planes were shot down by Maresyev. The pilot was lucky enough to survive in that terrible war and feel the heady taste of victory. He died in 2001. "The Story of a Real Man" by Boris Polevoy is a work about him. It was the feat of Maresyev that inspired the author to write it.
Zinaida Portnova
Born in 1926, Zina Portnova met the war as a teenager. At that time, a native of Leningrad was visiting relatives in Belarus. Once in the occupied territory, she did not sit out on the sidelines, but entered partisan movement... I pasted leaflets, established contacts with the underground ...
In 1943, the Germans seized the girl and dragged her to their lair. During interrogation, Zina somehow managed to take a pistol from the table. She shot her tormentors - two soldiers and an investigator.
It was a heroic act that made the attitude of the Germans towards Zina even more brutal. It is impossible to convey in words the torment that the girl experienced during the terrible torture. But she was silent. Not a word could be squeezed out of it by the fascists. As a result, the Germans shot their captive without getting anything from the heroine Zina Portnova.
Andrey Korzun

Andrey Korzun turned thirty in the 41st. He was drafted to the front immediately, sending him to the gunners. Korzun took part in terrible battles near Leningrad, during one of which he was seriously wounded. It was November 5, 1943.
As he fell, Korzun noticed that the ammunition depot started on fire. It was urgent to put out the fire, otherwise an explosion of enormous force threatened to take many lives. Somehow, bleeding and suffering from pain, the artilleryman crawled to the warehouse. The artilleryman did not have the strength to take off his overcoat and throw it into the flames. Then he covered the fire with his body. The explosion did not happen. Andrey Korzun did not manage to survive.
Leonid Golikov
Another young hero is Lenya Golikov. Was born in 1926. He lived in the Novgorod region. With the beginning of the war, he left to partisan. Courage and determination to this teenager was not to take. Leonid destroyed 78 fascists, a dozen enemy trains and even a couple of bridges.
The explosion, which went down in history and carried away the German general Richard von Wirtz, was his handiwork. The car of an important rank flew into the air, and Golikov took possession of valuable documents, for which he received the Star of the Hero.
A brave partisan died in 1943 near the village of Ostraya Luka during a German attack. The enemy significantly outnumbered our fighters, and they had no chance. Golikov fought until his last breath.
These are just six of the many stories that permeate the entire war. Everyone who passed it, who even for a moment brought victory closer is already a hero. Thanks to the likes of Maresyev, Golikov, Korzun, Matrosov, Kazei, Portnova and millions of others Soviet soldiers the world got rid of the brown plague of the 20th century. And the reward for their exploits was eternal life!

Heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Alexander Matrosov

Gunner-machine 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 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 a Nazi stronghold, but fell into a trap, falling under heavy fire, which cut off the path to the trenches. They were shooting 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, Sailors with a fellow soldier crawled to the bunker and threw two grenades in his direction. The machine gun fell silent. The Red Army went on the attack, but the deadly weapon rattled again. Partner Alexander was killed, and Matrosov was left alone in front of the bunker. I had to do something.

He did not have even a few seconds to make a decision. Not wanting to let down his comrades, Alexander closed the embrasure of the bunker with his body. The attack was crowned with success. And Matrosov was posthumously awarded 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 drafted into the Red Army. He ended up in an air regiment, where he became a pilot. Nikolai Gastello took part 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 strike a German mechanized convoy. It was on the road between the Belarusian towns of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. But the column was well guarded by enemy artillery. A fight ensued. Gastello's plane was hit by an anti-aircraft gun. The shell damaged the fuel tank, and the car caught fire. The pilot could have ejected, but he decided to fulfill his military duty to the end. Nikolai Gastello directed the burning car directly at the enemy column. This was the first fiery 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 to the ram were called the Ghatellots. If you follow the official statistics, then during the entire war there were almost six hundred rams of the opponent.

Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He had already worked at the plant, having completed his seven-year period. 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 a partisan detachment, he participated in 27 operations. On his account there are 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 there was a German Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard von Wirtz. Golikov managed to obtain important documents about the German offensive. The enemy's attack was thwarted, and the young hero was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for this feat.

In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked the partisans near the village of Ostraya Luka. Lenya Golikov died like a real hero - in battle.

Pioneer. A scout of the Voroshilov partisan detachment 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 on vacation.

In 1942, 16-year-old Zina joined the underground organization Young Avengers. She distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the occupied territories. Then, undercover, she got a job in a canteen for German officers, where she committed several sabotage and only miraculously was not captured by the enemy. Many experienced military men were surprised at her courage.

In 1943, Zina Portnova joined the partisans and continued to engage in sabotage behind enemy lines. Due to the efforts of the 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 own. During one of these interrogations, she grabbed a pistol from the table and shot three Nazis. After that, she was shot in prison.

An underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of the modern Luhansk region. It numbered over a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.

This underground youth organization was formed immediately after the occupation of the Luhansk region. It included both professional soldiers 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 due to the traitors. The Nazis caught, tortured and shot over 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 stopped at nothing, making a decisive march before the onset of a harsh winter.

At this time, the fighters under the command of Ivan Panfilov took up a position on the highway seven kilometers from Volokolamsk, a small town near 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 thwarting his plans. All 28 people (or almost all, historians differ here) died.

According to legend, the company's political instructor Vasily Klochkov, before the decisive stage of the battle, addressed the soldiers with a phrase that became known throughout the country: "Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind!"

The fascist counteroffensive ultimately failed. The battle for Moscow, which was taken away crucial role during the war, was lost by the invaders.

As a child, the future hero fell ill with 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 the sortie, his plane was shot down, and Maresyev himself was able to eject. For 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 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 - after amputation. In 1944, Alexey Maresyev went to work as an inspector and lived to be 84 years old.

His fate inspired the writer Boris Polevoy to write The Story of a Real Man.

Deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Viktor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes on a biplane. Then he served in an aviation school.

In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots rammed a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and parachute down to the rear of his own.

Then Talalikhin shot down five more German planes. Killed during the next air combat near Podolsk in October 1941.

73 years later, in 2014, the 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 the Great Patriotic War. He served on the Leningrad front, where fierce and bloody battles were fought.

On November 5, 1943, during another battle, his battery came under fierce enemy fire. Korzun was seriously injured. Despite the terrible pain, he saw that the powder charges were set on fire and the ammunition depot could fly into the air. Gathering his last strength, Andrei crawled to the blazing fire. But he could not take off his greatcoat to cover the fire. Losing consciousness, he made one last effort and covered the fire with his body. The explosion was avoided at the cost of the life of the brave artilleryman.

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 since 1933. When the war began, he became a scout. He worked behind enemy lines, commanded a partisan detachment, which terrified enemy soldiers. His brigade killed several thousand Nazi soldiers and officers, derailed hundreds of trains and blew up hundreds of vehicles.

The Nazis arranged 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 was killed by an enemy bullet.

Commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Leningrad Front

Vladislav Khrustitsky was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army back in the 1920s. In the late 30s he graduated from the armored courses. Since the fall 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.

Killed in a 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 addressed the radio to his crews with the words: "Fight 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 railroad... In October 1941, when the Germans were already near Moscow, he volunteered for a complex operation in which his railway experience was needed. Was thrown behind enemy lines. There he invented the so-called "coal mines" (in fact, these are just mines disguised as coal). With this simple but effective weapon in three months, a hundred enemy trains were blown up.

Zaslonov actively agitated the local population to go over to the side of the partisans. The Nazis, having learned this, changed their soldiers into Soviet uniforms. Zaslonov took them for defectors and ordered them to be admitted to the partisan detachment. The way was open for the insidious enemy. A battle ensued, during which Zaslonov died. A reward was announced for Zaslonov, alive or dead, 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 the Civil War. Therefore, when the enemy seized his land, without thinking twice, he joined the partisans. Together with five more comrades, he organized a small partisan detachment, which committed sabotage against the Nazis.

During one of the operations, it was decided to undermine the enemy composition. But there was not enough ammunition in the detachment. The bomb was made from an ordinary grenade. The explosives had to be installed by Osipenko himself. He crawled to the railway bridge and, seeing the approaching train, threw her 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 provisions and tanks went downhill. The squad leader survived, but completely lost his sight.

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.

Its history 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 that had stopped nearby. The Nazis were ambushed. A fight ensued. Matvey Kuzmin was killed by a German officer. But he did his job. He was 84 years old.

A partisan who was part of the headquarters sabotage and reconnaissance group 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 a short training at a school for saboteurs was transferred to Volokolamsk. There, an 18-year-old fighter of a partisan unit, along with adult men, performed dangerous tasks: she mined roads and destroyed communication centers.

During one of the sabotage operations, Kosmodemyanskaya was captured by the Germans. She was tortured, forcing her to betray her. Zoya heroically endured all the trials without saying a word to her enemies. Seeing that it was impossible to get anything from the young partisan, they decided to hang her.

Kosmodemyanskaya steadfastly accepted the test. An instant before her death, she shouted to the assembled local residents: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers, before it's too late, surrender! " The girl's courage shocked the peasants so much that they later retold this story to front-line correspondents. And after the publication in the newspaper Pravda, 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.

Alexander Matrosov

Gunner-machine 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.

Nikolay Gastello

Military pilot, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th long-range bomber aviation regiment, captain.

Lenya Golikov

Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He had already worked at the plant, having completed his seven-year period. When the Nazis captured his native Novgorod region, Lenya joined the partisans.

In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked the partisans near the village of Ostraya Luka. Lenya Golikov died like a real hero - in battle.

Zina Portnova

(1926-1944)

Pioneer. A scout of the Voroshilov partisan detachment 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 on vacation.

Young guard

An underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of the modern Luhansk region. It numbered over a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.

Panfilov

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 stopped at nothing, making a decisive march before the onset of a harsh winter.

The fascist counteroffensive ultimately failed. The battle for Moscow, which was assigned the most important role in the course of the war, was lost by the invaders.

Alexey Maresyev

His fate inspired the writer Boris Polevoy to write The Story of a Real Man.

Victor Talalikhin

Deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Viktor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes on a biplane. Then he served in an aviation school.

In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots rammed a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and parachute down to the rear of his own.

Then Talalikhin shot down five more German planes. He died during another air battle near Podolsk in October 1941.

73 years later, in 2014, the search engines found Talalikhin's plane, which remained in the swamps near Moscow.

Andrey Korzun

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 the Great Patriotic War. He served on the Leningrad front, where fierce and bloody battles were fought.

Alexander German

Commander of the 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade.

The Nazis arranged 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 was killed by an enemy bullet.

Vladislav Khrustitsky

Commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Leningrad Front

He distinguished himself during Operation Iskra, which marked the beginning of the defeat of the Germans on the Leningrad front.

Konstantin Zaslonov

Commander of a partisan detachment and brigade.

Before the war he worked on the railroad. In October 1941, when the Germans were already near Moscow, he volunteered for a complex operation in which his railway experience was needed. Was thrown behind enemy lines. There he invented the so-called "coal mines" (in fact, these are just mines disguised as coal). With the help of this simple but effective weapon, hundreds of enemy trains were undermined in three months.

Efim Osipenko

The commander of a small partisan detachment.

For this feat, he was the first in the country to be awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War."

Matvey Kuzmin

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.

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya

A partisan who was part of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the headquarters of the Western Front.

Introduction

History knows no more large-scale, fierce, destructive and bloody confrontation than the one that our people had to wage with the fascist aggressors. In the war of 1941-1945. the fate of not only the Fatherland was decided, but also of many other peoples and countries - essentially of all mankind. The servicemen of the internal troops fought shoulder to shoulder with the Red Army against the invaders. Eternal and holy is the feat of our compatriots who defeated fascism and won the Great Victory.

The Great Patriotic War will forever remain in the memory of the descendants and successors of the great people great country... About thirty million of our compatriots died heroically for the freedom of our Motherland. Sometimes it seemed to the enemy that the collapse of the USSR was inevitable: the Germans, near Moscow and Leningrad, were breaking through near Stalingrad. But the fascists simply forgot that over the centuries Genghis Khan, Batu, Mamai, Napoleon and others tried unsuccessfully to conquer our country. The Russian people were always ready to defend their homeland and fight to their last breath. There was no limit to our soldiers' patriotism. Only a Russian soldier rescued a wounded comrade from the heavy fire of enemy machine guns. Only the Russian soldier beat the enemies mercilessly, but spared the prisoners. Only the Russian soldier was dying, but he did not give up.

At times, German commanders were horrified by the rage and tenacity, courage and heroism of ordinary Russian soldiers. One of the German officers said: "When my tanks go on the attack, the earth trembles under their weight. When the Russians go into battle, the earth trembles with fear of them." One of the captured German officers looked for a long time into the faces of the Russian soldiers and, in the end, sighing, gave out: "Now I see that Russian spirit about which we were told many times." Many feats were accomplished by our soldiers during the Great Patriotic War. Young guys sacrificed themselves for this long-awaited Victory. Many of them did not return home, went missing or were killed on the battlefield. And each of them can be considered a hero. After all, it was they who, at the cost of their lives, led our Motherland to the Great Victory. The soldiers died, knowing full well that they give their lives for the sake of happiness, for the sake of freedom, for the sake of a clear sky and a clear sun, for the sake of future happy generations.

Yes, they accomplished a feat, they died, but did not give up. The awareness of his duty to the Motherland drowned out the feeling of fear, pain, and thoughts of death. This means that this action is not an unaccountable feat, but the conviction of the righteousness and greatness of the cause for which a person deliberately gives his life.

Victory in the Great Patriotic War is a feat and glory of our people. No matter how the assessments and facts of our history have changed in recent years, May 9, Victory Day, remains a sacred holiday for our people. Eternal glory soldiers of war! Their feat will forever remain in the hearts of millions of people who value peace, happiness and freedom.

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1. The exploits of Soviet soldiers and officers during the Great Patriotic War

The war between the USSR and Nazi Germany was not an ordinary war between two states, between two armies. It was the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against the German fascist invaders. From the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet people had to deal with a very serious enemy who knew how to wage a big modern war. Hitler's mechanized hordes, regardless of losses, rushed forward and betrayed everything that they met on the way to fire and sword. Thanks to iron discipline, military skill and dedication, millions of Soviet people, who looked death in the face, won and survived. Feats Soviet heroes became a beacon that other hero warriors were equal to.

Viktor Vasilievich Talalikhin

Born September 18, 1918 in the village. Teplovka of the Volsky district of the Saratov region. Graduated from Borisoglebokoye Military Aviation School of Pilots. He took part in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. He flew 47 sorties, shot down 4 Finnish aircraft, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Star (1940).

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War since June 1941. He flew over 60 combat missions. In the summer and autumn of 1941, fought near Moscow<#"justify">... Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub

(1920 - 1991), Air Marshal (1985), Hero of the Soviet Union (1944 - twice; 1945). During the Great Patriotic War in fighter aviation, squadron commander, deputy regiment commander, conducted 120 air battles; shot down 62 aircraft.

Three times Hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub on La-7 shot down 17 enemy aircraft (including the Me-262 jet fighter<#"justify">... Alexey Petrovich Maresyev

Maresyev Alexey Petrovich fighter pilot, deputy squadron commander of the 63rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Guard Senior Lieutenant.

Born on May 20, 1916 in the city of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, into a working class family. Drafted into the Soviet army in 1937. He served in the 12th Aviation Border Detachment. He made his first sortie on 23 August 1941 in the Krivoo Rog region. Lieutenant Maresyev opened the battle score at the beginning of 1942 - he shot down a Ju-52. By the end of March 1942, he brought the number of downed Nazi aircraft to four

In June 1943, Maresyev returned to service. He fought at the Kursk Bulge as part of the 63rd Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, was deputy squadron commander. In August 1943, Alexei Maresyev, during one battle, shot down three enemy FW-190 fighters at once.

In August 1943, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Guard Senior Lieutenant Maresyev was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Later he fought in the Baltic States, became the navigator of the regiment. In 1944 he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. In total, he flew 86 sorties, shot down 11 enemy aircraft: 4 before injury and seven with amputated legs. In June 1944, Major Maresyev of the Guard became an inspector-pilot of the Office of Higher educational institutions Air force. Boris Polevoy's book "The Story of a Real Man" is dedicated to the legendary fate of Alexei Petrovich Maresyev.

Retired Colonel A.P. Maresyev was awarded two Orders of Lenin, Orders of the October Revolution, Red Banner, Patriotic War 1 degree, two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor, Orders of Friendship of Peoples, Red Star, Badge of Honor, "For Services to the Fatherland" 3 degrees, medals, foreign orders. He was an honorary soldier of a military unit, an honorary citizen of the cities of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Kamyshin, Oryol. A minor planet is named after him Solar system, public fund, youth patriotic clubs. Was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. Author of the book "On the Kursk Bulge" (Moscow, 1960).

Even during the war, Boris Polevoy's book "The Story of a Real Man" was published, the prototype of which was Maresyev.

Krasnoperov Sergey Leonidovich

Krasnoperov Sergey Leonidovich was born on July 23, 1923 in the village of Pokrovka, Chernushinsky district. In May 1941 he volunteered for the Soviet Army. He studied for a year at the Balashov Aviation School of Pilots. In November 1942, attack pilot Sergei Krasnoperov arrived at the 765th Attack Aviation Regiment, and in January 1943 he was appointed deputy squadron commander of the 502nd Attack Aviation Regiment of the 214th Attack Aviation Division of the North Caucasian Front. For military distinction he was awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Red Star, Patriotic War, 2nd degree.

The regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Smirnov, wrote about Sergei Krasnoperov: "Such heroic deeds of Comrade Krasnoperov are repeated in every combat sortie. The pilots of his flight have become masters of assault. The flight is united and occupies a leading place. The command always entrusts him with the most difficult and responsible tasks. has created a military glory for himself, enjoys a well-deserved military prestige among the personnel of the regiment. " Indeed. Sergei is only 19 years old, and for his exploits he has already been awarded the Order of the Red Star. He was only 20 years old, and his chest was adorned with the Golden Star of the Hero.

Seventy-four sorties were flown by Sergei Krasnoperov during the fighting on the Taman Peninsula. As one of the best, he was trusted 20 times to lead a group of "silts" to attack, and he always carried out a combat mission. He personally destroyed 6 tanks, 70 vehicles, 35 wagons with cargo, 10 guns, 3 mortars, 5 anti-aircraft artillery points, 7 machine guns, 3 tractors, 5 bunkers, an ammunition depot, sunk a boat, a self-propelled barge, destroyed two crossings across the Kuban.

Matrosov Alexander Matveevich

Matrosov Alexander Matveyevich - rifleman of the 2nd battalion of the 91st separate rifle brigade (22nd army, Kalinin front), private. Born on February 5, 1924 in the city of Yekaterinoslav (now Dnepropetrovsk). In October 1942 he entered the Krasnokholmsk Infantry School, but soon most of the cadets were sent to the Kalinin Front. In the army since November 1942. On February 27, 1943, the 2nd battalion received the task of attacking a strong point near the village of Chernushki (Loknyansky district of the Pskov region). As soon as our soldiers passed the forest and came to the edge, they came under heavy enemy machine-gun fire. Two machine guns were destroyed, but the machine gun from the third bunker continued to fire at the entire hollow in front of the village. Then Matrosov got up, jerked to the bunker and closed the embrasure with his body. At the cost of his life, he contributed to the execution of the combat mission of the unit.

A few days later, the name of Matrosov became known throughout the country. The feat of Matrosov was used by a journalist who happened to be at the unit for a patriotic article. Despite the fact that Matrosov was not the first to commit such an act of self-sacrifice, it was his name that was used to glorify the heroism of Soviet soldiers. Subsequently, over 200 people performed the same feat, but this was no longer widely reported. His feat became a symbol of courage and military valor, fearlessness and love for the Motherland.

“It is known that Alexander Matrosov was far from the first in the history of the Great Patriotic War to accomplish such a feat. More precisely, he had 44 predecessors (5 in 1941, 31 in 1942 and 8 - until February 27, 1943) And the very first to close the enemy machine gun with his body was political instructor A.V. Pankratov. Subsequently, many more commanders and soldiers of the Red Army performed a self-sacrificing feat. Until the end of 1943, 38 soldiers followed Matrosov's example, in 1944 - 87, in Last year war - 46. The last in the Great Patriotic War, the guard sergeant Arkhip Manita closed the embrasure of the machine gun with his body. It happened in Berlin 17 days before the Victory ...

out of 215 who performed the "feat of Matrosov", the heroes were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Some feats were appreciated only many years after the war. For example, the Red Army soldier of the 679th Infantry Regiment Abram Levin, who closed the embrasure of the bunker with his body in the battle for the village of Kholmets on February 22, 1942, was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree only in 1967. There are also documented cases when the brave men who performed the "sailor's" feat survived. They are A.A. Udodov, R.Kh. Raise, V.P. Maiborsky. and Kondratyev L.V. " (V. Bondarenko "One Hundred Great Feats of Russia", M., "Veche", 2011, p. 283).

The title of Hero of the Soviet Union, Alexander Matveevich Matrosov, was posthumously awarded on June 19, 1943. Buried in the city of Velikiye Luki. On September 8, 1943, by order of the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR, the name of Matrosov was assigned to the 254th Guards Rifle Regiment, he himself was forever enlisted (one of the first in the Soviet Army) in the lists of the 1st company of this unit. Monuments to the Hero are installed in St. Petersburg, Tolyatti, Velikiye Luki, Ulyanovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Ufa, Dnepropetrovsk, Kharkov, and the streets and squares of Alexander Matrosov in cities and villages the former USSR there are no less than a few hundred.

Ivan Vasilievich Panfilov

In the battles near Volokolamsk, the 316th Infantry Division of General I.V. Panfilov. Reflecting continuous enemy attacks for 6 days, they knocked out 80 tanks and destroyed several hundred soldiers and officers. Enemy attempts to seize the Volokolamsk area and open the way to Moscow<#"justify">... Nikolay Frantsevich Gastello

Nikolai Frantsevich was born on May 6, 1908 in Moscow, in a working class family. Graduated from 5 classes. Worked as a mechanic at the Murom steam locomotive factory construction machines... In the Soviet Army in May 1932. In 1933 he graduated from the Luhansk military school of pilots in bomber units. In 1939 he took part in the battles on the river. Khalkhin - Goal and the Soviet-Finnish War 1939-1940 In the active army since June 1941, the squadron commander of the 207th Long-Range Bomber Aviation Regiment (42nd Bomb Aviation Division, 3rd Bomber Aviation Corps DBA) Captain Gastello performed on June 26, 1941 the next mission on a mission. His bomber was hit and caught fire. He directed the burning plane towards the accumulation of enemy troops. The enemy suffered heavy losses from the explosion of the bomber. For the accomplished feat on July 26, 1941, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The name Gastello is forever entered in the lists of military units. At the place of the feat on the Minsk-Vilnius highway, a memorial monument was erected in Moscow.

9. Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya ("Tanya")

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya was born on September 8, 1923 in the village of Osino-Gai (now the Tambov region). October 31, 1941 Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya voluntarily became a soldier of the reconnaissance and sabotage unit No. 9903 of the headquarters of the Western Front. The training was very short - on November 4, Zoya was transferred to Volokolamsk, where she successfully completed the task of mining the road. On November 17, 1941, the Supreme Command Headquarters issued order No. 0428, ordering “to destroy and burn to ashes all settlements in the rear of the German troops at a distance of 40-60 km in depth from the forward edge and 20-30 km to the right and left of the roads. To destroy settlements within the specified radius of action, immediately abandon aviation, widely use artillery and mortar fire, teams of scouts, skiers and partisan sabotage groups supplied with Molotov cocktails, grenades and subversive means. "

And the very next day, the leadership of unit No. 9903 received a combat mission - to destroy 10 settlements, including the village of Petrishchevo in the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region. As part of one of the groups, Zoya went on a mission. She was armed with three KS Molotov cocktails and a revolver. Near the village of Golovkovo, the group with which Zoya was walking came under fire, suffered losses and disintegrated. On the night of November 27, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya reached Petrishchev and managed to set fire to three houses there. After that, she spent the night in the forest and returned to Petrishchevo again in order to carry out the combat order to the end - to destroy this settlement.

But over the course of a day, the situation in the village has changed. The invaders gathered local residents for a gathering and ordered them to guard the houses. It was a local resident named Sviridov who noticed Zoya at the moment when she tried to set fire to his barn with hay. Sviridov ran after the Germans, and Kosmodemyanskaya was captured. Mocked Zoya terribly. They flogged with belts, brought a burning kerosene lamp to their lips, drove barefoot through the snow, and pulled out their fingernails. Kosmodemyanskaya was beaten not only by the Germans, but also by local residents, whose houses she burned down. But Zoe held on with amazing courage. She did not give her real name during interrogation, she said that her name was Tanya.

November 1941 Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya was hanged by the invaders. Before her death, she uttered a proud phrase, which later became famous: "There are 170 million of us, you can't outweigh everyone!" On January 27, 1942, the first publication in the press about the feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya appeared - the article by P. Lidov "Tanya" (it was published by Pravda.) Soon it was possible to establish the identity of the heroine, and on February 18 a second article appeared - "Who was Tanya." Two days before that, a decree had been issued posthumously conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Kosmodemyanskaya. She became the first woman to be awarded this title during the Great Patriotic War. The heroine was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow.

About the feat of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya already in 1944, a feature film was shot about him, monuments to the heroine adorned the streets of Moscow, Petersburg, Kiev, Kharkov, Tambov, Saratov, Volgograd, Chelyabinsk, Rybinsk, poems and stories were written about Zoya, and her honor, in the cities and villages of the former USSR, there are several hundred.

Aliya Moldagulova

Aliya Moldagulova was born on April 20, 1924 in the Bulak village of the Khobdinsky region of the Aktobe region. After the death of her parents, she was brought up by her uncle Aubakir Moldagulov. With his family she moved from city to city. She studied at the 9th secondary school in Leningrad. In the fall of 1942, Aliya Moldagulova joined the army and was sent to a sniper school. In May 1943, Aliya submitted a report to the school command with a request to send to the front. Aliya ended up in the 3rd company of the 4th battalion of the 54th rifle brigade under the command of Major Moiseyev. By the beginning of October, Aliya Moldagulova had 32 killed fascists on her account.

In December 1943, Moiseyev's battalion was ordered to drive the enemy out of the village of Kazachikha. By capturing this settlement, the Soviet command hoped to cut the railway line along which the Nazis transferred reinforcements. The Nazis fiercely resisted, skillfully using the benefits of the terrain. The slightest advance of our companies came at a high cost, and yet slowly but steadily our fighters approached the enemy's fortifications. Suddenly a lone figure appeared ahead of the advancing chains.

Suddenly a lone figure appeared ahead of the advancing chains. The Nazis noticed the brave warrior and opened fire from machine guns. Seizing the moment when the fire weakened, the soldier rose to his full height and carried the entire battalion with him.

After a fierce battle, our soldiers captured the height. The daredevil lingered in the trench for a while. His pale face showed traces of pain, and strands of black hair emerged from under his hat with earflaps. It was Aliya Moldagulova. She destroyed 10 fascists in this battle. The wound was light, and the girl remained in the ranks.

In an effort to restore the situation, the enemy rushed to counterattack. On January 14, 1944, a group of enemy soldiers managed to break into our trenches. Hand-to-hand fighting ensued. Aliya with well-aimed bursts of a machine gun mowed down the fascists. Suddenly she instinctively felt the danger behind her. She turned sharply, but it was too late: the German officer fired first. Gathering her last strength, Aliya threw up her machine gun and the Hitlerite officer fell to the cold ground ...

Comrades carried the wounded Aliya from the battlefield. The fighters wanted to believe in a miracle, they offered blood to save the girl. But the wound was fatal.

June 1944, corporal Aliya Moldagulova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Conclusion

From the very first days of the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet people had to deal with a very serious enemy. The Soviet people spared neither strength nor life in order to bring the hour of victory over the enemy closer. Shoulder to shoulder with men, women also forged victory over the enemy. They bravely endured the incredible hardships of war, they were unparalleled workers in factories, collective farms, hospitals and schools.

Win or die - this was the question in the war against German fascism, and our soldiers understood this. They deliberately gave their lives for their homeland when the situation demanded it.

What fortitude was shown by those who did not hesitate to cover the embrasure of the enemy bunker that was spewing deadly fire with their bodies!

The soldiers and officers of Nazi Germany did not perform such feats, and could not accomplish them. The spiritual motives of their actions were reactionary ideas of racial superiority and motives, and later - the fear of just retribution for their crimes and automatic, blind discipline.

The people glorify those who fought bravely and died, with the death of a hero, bringing the hour of our victory closer, glorify those who survived who managed to defeat the enemy. Heroes do not die, their glory is immortal, their names are forever entered not only in the lists of the personnel of the Armed Forces, but also in the memory of the people. People make up legends about heroes, erect beautiful monuments to them, and call the best streets of their cities and villages after them. More than 100 thousand soldiers, sergeants and officers of the troops were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union, and almost 200 graduates of the troops were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In honor of the soldiers of the internal troops, more than 50 monuments and obelisks were built, about 60 streets and more than 200 schools were named. The heroic deeds of those who defended the life and independence of our Motherland will forever remain in the people's memory.

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