75 years ago, on September 30, 1943, the first stage of the battle ended.

In 1943, it was necessary to break through to the Dnieper and seize bridgeheads behind it.

Research recent years convince that young Russians know less about the battle for the Dnieper than about the battles near Moscow, on the Volga, Kursk Bulge, about Operation Bagration to liberate Belarus ... There is an explanation for this: due to the enormous spatial scope, the single battle for the Dnieper was a series of parallel front-line operations and lasted in total from August to December 1943.

After the Battle of Kursk, the strategic initiative on the Soviet-German front finally passed to the Soviet command. The Red Army outnumbered the enemy in personnel and artillery, and less significantly in tanks and aircraft. But victory was still far away. Holding a part of the left-bank Ukraine, the Nazis in advance began to create in their rear a strategic defensive line called the "Ostwall". It originated at the mouth of the Narva River, flowing into The Gulf of Finland The Baltic Sea, and along the line of Pskov, Vitebsk, Orsha, the Sozh River, it went out to the middle course of the Dnieper - a powerful natural obstacle for the advancing troops. In the south, near Zaporozhye, the "Vostochny Val" deviated from the Dnieper to the east and ran along the bed of the Molochnaya River (in the upper reaches - Tokmak), which flows into the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. Having created multi-lane fortifications on this long line, the Germans hoped to keep the troops of the Red Army behind the Dnieper and give the war a positional character.

The first footholds south of Kiev were captured by the advanced detachments of the 3rd Guards Tank Army

For the battle for the Dnieper, the liberation of the cities located on its banks, the seizure of strategic bridgeheads across the river, the Soviet Supreme High Command attracted troops of five fronts: Central (commanded by Army General K.K.Rokossovsky), Voronezh (commanded by Army General N.F. Vatutin), Stepnoy (Commander General of the Army I.S.Konev), South-West (Commander General of the Army R.Ya. Malinovsky) and Yuzhny (Commander F.I.Tolbukhin, who received the rank of Army General in the dynamics of the operation, September 21).
By order of the Supreme Command Headquarters, the troops of the Central and Voronezh fronts concentrated their main efforts on the Kiev, Stepnoye - on the Poltava-Kremenchug, South-West - on the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporozhye directions. The troops of the Southern Front were to break through the enemy's defenses on the Molochnaya River, to reach the lower reaches of the Dnieper and Crimea.
Realizing all the complexity of the battle for the Dnieper, the importance of capturing bridgeheads in the Ukrainian Right Bank, the Supreme Command Headquarters on September 9, 1943 sent a directive to the troops that those who distinguished themselves when crossing the Dnieper would be presented with the highest government awards. The directive was communicated to every commander and soldier.
Of great importance for the actions of the Red Army in the southwestern direction, the breakthrough to the Dnieper as a whole was a separate operation, which was not included in the battle for the Dnieper, carried out by the troops of the Western (commanded by Colonel-General V.D.Sokolovsky) and the left wing of Kalininsky (commanded by General- Colonel A.I. Eremenko) fronts from August 7 to October 2, 1943. As a result of the Smolensk-Roslavl operation, the first big City on the Dnieper - Smolensk.
In 1941, after the capture of Smolensk by the Germans, Goebbels wrote: “Smolensk is a broken door. The German army opened its way into the interior of Russia. The outcome of the war is predetermined. " Now, in September 1943, the correspondent of "Krasnaya Zvezda" Vasily Ilyenkov headlined the report from liberated Smolensk with the words "Gateway to the West!" Although Mogilev, located downstream of the Dnieper, b

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Order and medal-glory of the Soviet soldier. Decree on the approval of samples and description of ribbons for orders and medals of the USSR and the rules for wearing orders and medals, order ribbons and insignia, Description of ribbons for orders and medals of the USSR and pads for order ribbons. Orders (Photo) , Exhibition of samples of captured weapons in Moscow - announcement.

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Streamlining payments of allowances to the wounded, Violence of the fascists over the population of France, Night on the Armor (Story by Major Z. Hiren) I.

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Established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR dated April 6, 1930. The status of the order was established by the Decree of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR dated May 5, 1930.

Subsequently, the issues related to the awarding of the Order of the Red Star were amended and clarified by the General Regulations on the Orders of the USSR (Resolution of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR of May 7, 1936), Decrees of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 19, 1943, February 26, 1946, October 15, 1947 and December 16, 1947. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated March 28, 1980, the Status of the Order of the Red Star was approved in a new edition.

Order status

Order of the Red Star established for the award of great services in the defense USSR both in wartime and in peacetime, in providing state security.

The Order of the Red Star is awarded to:

  • military personnel Soviet army, Navy, border and internal troops, employees of the bodies of the State Security Committee of the USSR, as well as persons of private and commanding staff bodies of internal affairs;
  • military units, warships, formations and associations, enterprises, institutions, organizations.

The Order of the Red Star can also be awarded to military personnel of foreign states.

The Order of the Red Star is awarded:

  • For personal courage and bravery in battles, excellent organization and skilful leadership of military operations that contributed to the success of our troops;
  • For successful fighting military units and formations, as a result of which the enemy suffered significant damage;
  • For merits in ensuring state security and inviolability of the state border of the USSR;
  • For courage and courage shown in the performance of military or official duties, in conditions associated with the risk of life;
  • For exemplary performance of special command assignments and other feats accomplished in peacetime;
  • For great services in maintaining high combat readiness of troops, excellent performance in combat and political training, mastering new military equipment and other services in strengthening the defense power of the USSR;
  • For merits in the development of military science and technology, training of personnel for the Armed Forces of the USSR;
  • For services in strengthening the defense capability of the states of the socialist community.

The awarding of the Order of the Red Star is made on the proposal of the USSR Ministry of Defense, USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs, USSR KGB, respectively.

The Order of the Red Star is worn on the right side of the chest and, if there are other orders, is placed after the order Patriotic War II degree.

Description of the order

The Order of the Red Star is a five-pointed star covered with ruby \u200b\u200bred enamel.

In the middle of the order there is a shield depicting a figure of a Red Army soldier in an overcoat and a Budenovka with a rifle in his hands. Along the rim of the shield there is an inscription “Workers of all countries, unite!”, In the lower part of the rim there is an inscription “USSR”. Under the shield there is an image of a hammer and sickle. The shield, the image of a Red Army soldier, the inscription, the hammer and sickle, as well as the edges of the star are oxidized.

The Order of the Red Star is made of silver. Silver content in the order - 27.162 ± 1.389 g (as of September 18, 1975). The total weight of the order is 33.250 ± 1.620 g.

The size of the order between the opposite tops of the star is 47-50 mm (depending on the year of issue). The distance from the center of the order to the top of any of the five enamel rays of the star is 26-27 mm.

On the reverse side, the badge has a threaded pin with a nut for attaching the order to clothing.

Bordeaux silk moire ribbon with a longitudinal gray stripe in the middle. Belt width - 24 mm, strip width - 5 mm.

History of the Order

The Order of the Red Star is one of the first Soviet orders and the second of the military institutions in time.

The order was originally worn on the left side of the chest. Since June 1943, the orders attached to the pins were moved to the right side of the chest and straps with ribbons were introduced for wearing them instead of orders and medals on field and everyday uniforms.

The first holder of the Order of the Red Star was the famous red commander, commander of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army, commander of the 1st rank (later Marshal Soviet Union), Blucher V.K. He was awarded this order in 1930 for his brilliant operation to repel Chinese aggression during the events in the Sino-East railroad in 1929. The Order of the Red Star No. 1 was awarded to Blucher on May 13, 1930.

Among the first to be awarded this order was a group of people who made the "Big Eastern" flight in September 1930 on three planes of Soviet design. Total length flight on the route Moscow - Ankara - Tiflis - Tehran - Kabul - Tashkent - Moscow was about 10,500 kilometers. The pilots who took part in the flight: Ingaunis F.A., Shirokiy F.S., Shestel Ya.A., aeronautical navigator Spirin I.T., engineer Mezinov A.I. and the famous journalist Mikhail Koltsov, acting as an observer pilot, were awarded the Orders of the Red Star.

By a decree of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of February 28, 1931, K.I. Kovalev for outstanding inventions in the military industry.

Among the first recipients of the Order of the Red Star were also servicemen K.F. Martinovich, V.A. Karutsky, I.P. Pavlunovsky. other.

One of the first awarded the Order of the Red Star was test pilot I.F. When testing the AIC aircraft cannon on an I-12 (ANT-23) experimental fighter, the control system of the machine was damaged as a result of a ruptured diffuser. The pilot brought the plane to the airfield with great difficulty. For this feat, by the Decree of May 20, 1932, Kozlov was awarded the order Red Star number 27.

In the 30s, the Order of the Red Star was often awarded for actions not directly related to the conduct of hostilities. Here is one example: the crew of the plane of the 256th air brigade consisting of pilot Vysokos P.P. and navigator Erenkov M.D. during the flight, I discovered a break in the chassis ski attachment (the flight took place in winter time). Komsomolets Erenkov climbed onto the wing and, held by the hands of Vysokos, repaired the damage. Erenkov and Vysokos were awarded the Order of the Red Star for their courage and rescue of the plane.

For outstanding services in organizing an exemplary setting of medical care in the central hospital and for direct outstanding work in the field of surgical treatment, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR, by its Resolution of July 7, 1933, awarded the Order of the Red Star to Mandryk Petr Vasilyevich - the head of the central hospital of the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs.

In connection with Aviation Day, the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR issued a Decree of August 17, 1933, which awarded the Order of the Red Star to seven pilots and three mechanical engineers of the Red Army Air Force - pilots Michugin, Aladinsky, Yumashev, Gromov, Apanovich, Stokhansky, Kogan and mechanical engineers Pavlov , Levin and Postnov. Four employees were also awarded military schools Air Force of the Red Army - Chief and military commissar of the 1st military school of aviation technicians Panin, senior director of the Military Academy of the Red Army Lapchinsky, deputy chief of the military construction department of the Red Army Gorshkov, commander and military commissar of the N-squadron Meleshkin.

Separately, this Decree of August 17 contains lists of awarded in the aviation industry, Civil Air Fleet (Civil Air Fleet) and Osoaviakhim. In the aviation industry, 19 people were awarded and the list of the names of the engineer-director of plant No. 22 S. Gorbunov was opened. (for the successful mastering of the production and serial production of heavy aircraft) and the chief mechanic of the plant No. 22 NN Godovikova. (for exceptional merits in the field of assembly, installation and installation of motors on airplanes, which made it possible for a trouble-free flight during tests). At number 12 on this list was the name of the outstanding aircraft designer of all times - Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev. Deputy Chief of TsAGI Professor Tupolev received the Red Star "for the creation of a number of outstanding aircraft samples." The order with the number 159 on the reverse was presented to him on December 7, 1933, but after a while he was arrested and all awards were withdrawn from him. Before the war, Tupolev was acquitted and all the awards were returned to him, but they already had completely different numbers. So, for example, number 20119 was on the Order of the Red Star.

According to the Civil Air Fleet, 11 people were awarded and the first were the pilot Krasny N.N. (for outstanding work in the execution of the tranfinplan and exceptional flying qualities) and pilot A.S. Demchenko. (for outstanding services in polar and other important flights). According to Osoaviakhim, only 5 people were awarded and the first number was the name of the deputy chairman of the Central Council of Osoaviakhim S.M. Belitsky (for outstanding services in organizing the Soviet defense industry - ODF, Osoaviakhim and the military scientific society). Among the five awarded were the names of the future world famous aircraft designers A.S. Yakovlev (for exceptional services in the construction of light-engine types of aircraft) and S.V. Ilyushin (for outstanding services in the organization of mass training gliding, the design of training gliders and the organization of a higher glider school and a glider plant). The Ilyushin Order had serial number 176.

Aviation played a colossal role in enhancing the prestige of the young Soviet state in the international arena. That is why the government of the USSR did not skimp on awards to the aviators. Just three months after the major Decree of August 17, another decision of the Presidium of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR "on rewarding workers in the aviation industry" was issued. On November 14, 1933, design engineers Selitsky, Bonin and Markov were awarded the Order of the Red Star. On the same day, for participation in the organization of the flight into the stratosphere, the pilot engineer of Dirigiblestroy V.G. Garkanidze "for the exceptionally skillful organization of all the work at the start and filling the stratospheric balloon with hydrogen."

Along with aircraft manufacturing, an important industry national economy there was also the extraction of precious metals. This is reflected in the awarding of the Order of the Red Star to the Head of the Main Directorate of the Gold Industry A.P. Serebrovsky, who had previously been awarded the Order of Lenin. He received his second order on March 22, 1935 "for overfulfilling the 1934 production program for the Main Directorate of the Gold Industry of the People's Commissariat for Heavy Industry and success in mastering technology."

In 1935-1936, the Soviet government awarded a large group of command, political and technical personnel of the Red Army with the Order of the Red Star for their successes in mastering military equipment. So the junior tank technician of the 134th mechanized brigade Martynenko P.Ya. received the order for the training of 40 tank mechanics, who became honors in combat and political training. At the same time, his own tank worked 1000 hours without accidents or breakdowns. Another tanker, tank commander Komsomolets Oshkaderov P.M. received the order for the total accident-free mileage of the tank over 21 thousand kilometers. He spent 800 hours in the tank. There were also women among the awardees. Squadron Commander Nesterenko M.P. from 1929 she flew a fighter. She received the Order of the Red Star for her high flying skills.

One of the first collectives awarded with this order was the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda (Resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of December 27, 1933) - for their successes in ensuring the combat and political training of the Soviet Army. Later, this newspaper was also awarded the Orders of the Red Banner, Lenin and the October Revolution.

The newspaper called “Heroic Red Army” was awarded the Order of the Red Star for its participation in the battles on Khalkhin Gol. This newspaper belonged to the 1st Army Group, which fought the Japanese in the summer of 1939. The head of the newspaper was Brigadier Commissar Ortenberg D.I.

In 1935, the Order of the Red Star was awarded to the Song and Dance Ensemble of the Soviet Army, which later became the Red Banner (in 1949).

By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star had produced more than 21,500 awards (including 17 units and institutions). The largest number of awards (1935) is associated with the battles at Lake Khasan in 1938.

For merits and deeds during the Great Patriotic War, the Order of the Red Star was awarded more than 2 million 860 thousand awards.

During the Second World War, Junior Sergeant Belovol D.A. was one of the first to be awarded the Order of the Red Star. On returning from the mission, a group of our aircraft was attacked by enemy fighters. In the ensuing air battle, Belovol managed to shoot down 3 enemy aircraft, but he himself received 4 wounds. For his courage and heroism on July 8, 1941, Belovol was awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Among the 1740 military units and formations of the Soviet Army and the Navy awarded the Order of the Red Star (including 14 Czechoslovak and Polish units that fought on the territory of the USSR)

After the war, the prestige of the order declined slightly due to the fact that in 1944 they began to award it to servicemen for long service (15 years of impeccable service). This order was canceled only in 1958, which again raised the prestige of the award.

The Order of the Red Star was awarded to many officers who distinguished themselves in suppressing the "counter-revolutionary insurgency" in Hungary in 1956. So, in only one 7th Guards Airborne Division, 184 people were awarded this award.

Often in post-war time servicemen were awarded the Order of the Red Star for saving military equipment, for quick and decisive actions in extreme situations and other selfless actions in a non-combat situation. Some awards were made posthumously. During a training flight on a jet fighter with a cadet of the Kharkov Higher Military aviation school pilots Kulinich V.G. the engine has failed. The cadet drove the car into a green field, trying to make an emergency landing. When the ground was already close, the pilot noticed people working in the field. To save them, he sharply turned to the right, after which the plane lost speed, fell on the wing and crashed. Cadet V.G. Kulinich posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Star.

As noted above, the Order of the Red Star was awarded to formations, units and institutions. Basically, this order was awarded to units that did not take a direct part in hostilities, but were engaged in the provision, supply, repair, provision medical care and other activities that contributed to the success of the Red Army. For example, you can name some of them:

  • 5th, 21st, 28th and 56th air-based regions (RAB);
  • 1047th Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment;
  • 333rd separate self-propelled artillery division;
  • 588th separate sapper battalion;
  • 73rd separate assault engineer-sapper battalion;
  • 105th mountain engineer-sapper battalion;
  • 753rd separate communications battalion;
  • 783rd Separate Automobile Order of Alexander Nevsky Battalion;
  • 403rd, 524th, 552nd, 669th, 671st, 681st, 702nd, 766th, 895th and 930th airfield service battalions (BAO);
  • 130th mobile aircraft repair shop;
  • 154th military construction detachment.

By the decree of the PVS of the USSR of October 2, 1943, the Order of the Red Star was awarded to vocational school No. 1 in the city of Gorky and vocational school No. 3 in the Moscow region.

IN post-war years the order was awarded to a number of military medical institutions (Kiev district military hospital, Kharkov military hospital, etc.).

Industrial enterprises were rarely awarded the Order of the Red Star. It is worth mentioning the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant im. Lenin, awarded in 1944. In the same year, 1944, even the Moscow film studio "Tsentrnauchfilm" was awarded a military order. The Grekov Studio of War Artists was also awarded the Order of the Red Star in 1965. The Central Naval Museum in Leningrad and the Central Museum of the USSR Armed Forces in Moscow received the Order of the Red Star in 1975.

In addition to the newspapers “Krasnaya Zvezda” and “Heroic Red Army” described above, the order was awarded to the magazines “Soviet Warrior” (1944), “Military Knowledge” (1975), “Aviation and Cosmonautics” (1978), the newspaper of the Central Committee of DOSAAF “Soviet Patriot ”(1977), and several other publications.

The award could be given and foreign citizenswho fought as part of the allied armies or provided assistance soviet troops... For example, for outstanding military activity that contributed to the great success of the Anglo-American troops in North Africa and Italy, and for the bravery and courage shown at the same time, a group of US Army personnel was awarded the Order of the Red Star - Colonel Arthur G. Salisbury, Lieutenant Edwin F. Gould, Sgt. James L. Camle, Sgt. William B. Krause, Sgt. James R. Fields, Sgt. Robert D. Storevich, and Sgt. Emery B. Hutchings.

On March 22, 1944, the British Captain Guy O. Monde was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his successful leadership in the acceptance and dispatch of allied sea convoys with weapons and other goods for the USSR. Another captain of the British Army - A.G. Valis - was awarded the Order of the Red Star by the Decree of the PVS of the USSR on May 23, 1944. The same decree was awarded to another 20 people from the British military stationed in Iran and Iraq. Probably, they could have been awarded with awards for their participation in the supply of equipment and weapons under the "Lend-Lease". From the royal navy The Order of the Red Star of Great Britain was awarded to Lieutenant Commander Alan Sayers, Lieutenant Reginald Thomas Horan, Lieutenant Jeffrey Holker Murray and artilleryman Francis Charles Tibbs.

In total, from the beginning of the Great Patriotic War to June 1944, 182 foreign citizens were awarded the Order of the Red Star.

Awarding of foreigners continued after the victory over fascist Germany... In 1955, the Order of the Red Star was awarded to the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Hungarian People's Republic, Lieutenant General Gyula Usta, who during the war years led an anti-fascist partisan detachment operating in Hungary. By a decree of March 16, 1959, the Pole Felix Dombrowski was awarded the Order of the Red Star, who hid a Soviet pilot who was shot down over enemy territory from the Germans. On June 30, 1964, five Norwegian citizens were awarded the Order of the Red Star for their courage and bravery in rescuing Soviet soldiers (three of them were awarded posthumously).

In the post-war years, about 900 thousand Orders of the Red Star were awarded (most of them for length of service).

A curious awarding event took place in 1955. Many people know about the heroic battle of the Russian cruiser "Varyag" and the gunboat "Koreets" with the Japanese squadron on January 27, 1904. Fifty years later, 45 more participants in that tragic battle remained alive. All of them were awarded medals “For Courage” in 1954 in recognition of their heroic deed and in connection with the 50th anniversary of this event. Some of the "Varangians" a year later (in 1905) took part in the uprising on the battleship "Potemkin". Accordingly, in 1955, in connection with the 50th anniversary of this revolutionary event, they were presented with new awards, but not medals, but the Order of the Red Star. For example, the former Varyag stoker, Pyotr Yegorovich Polyakov, was awarded the Medal For Courage in 1954, and in 1955 (as a “Potemkin”) he received the Order of the Red Star.

Since the Order of the Red Star could be awarded again for new feats and distinctions, as well as for length of service, many soldiers and officers were awarded this order again.

Six Orders of the Red Star adorn the chest of retired lieutenant colonel Vasily Vasilyevich Silantyev. The first award, Lieutenant-Technician Silantyev, was awarded in August 1943 for his distinction in the Oryol operation. He pulled out a wounded tanker from a wounded T-34, and later drove a damaged German T-IV tank to the location of our troops. The second "star" was awarded to the brave officer for his participation in the crossing of the Dnieper, according to the order of the commander of the 51st Guards tank brigade No. 013 / n dated October 6, 1943. Silantyev received the third order on September 13, 1944 for distinction in the Proskurov-Zhmerinskaya operation. Captain Silantyev was awarded the Fourth Red Star in May 1945 for his participation in the capture of Berlin and the liberation of Prague. After the war, Vasily Vasilyevich continued to serve in the armored forces, and two more Orders of the Red Star for many years of impeccable service sparkled on his uniform. In addition to six Orders of the Red Star, Lieutenant Colonel Silantyev was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree for his participation in the Lvov-Sandomierz operation, as well as many medals.

One of the five-time holders of the order was the renowned fighter pilot, twice GSS, Major General of Aviation Stepanenko I.N. In addition to him, Major General Morosanov I.A., GSS Colonel Yakimov A.P., Colonel Stognev P.S. were awarded five Orders of the Red Star. other.

Many military personnel were awarded four Orders of the Red Star. Almost all of them had officer ranks. Therefore, I would especially like to mention Junior Sergeant IK Bocharov, Hero of the Soviet Union, who was awarded these four orders.

The brave girl Adele Litvinenko went to the front at the age of 14 and by the age of 17 she had earned three Orders of the Red Star. Shortly before the end of the war, she was seriously wounded and became an invalid of the 1st group. Despite this, Litvinenko returned to work, worked as a rolling mill operator in the restoration of Donbass and was subsequently awarded the high title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

The last awarded the Order of the Red Star in the history of the USSR were four servicemen who received this award "for courage and courage displayed in the performance of military duty." According to the Decree of the President of the USSR No. UP-3069 of December 19, 1991, the Order of the Red Star was awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Gennady Anatolyevich Permyakov, Major Alexander Pavlovich Petrenko, Major Vladimir Mikhailovich Shamanov and Captain Lyakh Vladimir Viktorovich.

As of January 1, 1995, the Order of the Red Star has received approximately 3,876,740 awards.

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Order of the Red Star. September 1943

His first battle award - I received the Order of the Red Star after I fought for a year and two months on the front line near Rzhev and on the Kursk Bulge, was wounded and performed many feats.

But they forgot to reward me, but they often sent me to dangerous cases, because they knew my luck and "indestructibility".

For six months we fought hard but unsuccessfully for Rzhev. I miraculously survived, but how many people died there! Our division was renewed three times in those battles! Soviet soldiers performed miracles of heroism there, they died in thousands in swamps, under terrible shelling and bombing, again and again rose and fled to attack the enemy machine guns across the corpse fields. In addition to participating in battles, I successfully went to the rear of the Germans three times for the "language", I was sent after other search groups had not returned from the mission and it was impossible to take the "language". But I was lucky. I went on reconnaissance, ran along with the infantry in attacks in order to see the enemy's firing points and adjust the battery fire. When there was not a single officer left in the rifle companies, I, a tenacious artilleryman, raised and led the soldiers into the attack. But, like many, he was never awarded.

The battles for Rzhev were not crowned with success, and therefore almost no one was awarded there. This once again confirms that the awards were determined not by the exploits of the soldiers, but by the strategic successes of the marshals. A military operation was successful - a certain number of awards are being released for it. These awards are distributed among the military units participating in the operation. And in the units, they reward those whom the authorities want to reward.

Then our division was transferred to Stalingrad. Heavy fighting in the winter of 1943 in Donbass. To our misfortune, General Vatutin blundered and the Supreme High Command cheated in carrying out Operation "Jump" to liberate Donbass. The operation failed, and because of this we were surrounded in Barvenkovo. Then it was me, a twenty-two-year-old lieutenant, who was sent with a report to the army headquarters. It was necessary in broad daylight to be able to get out of the encircled Barvenkov through the positions of enemy tanks and infantry. I delivered the report, and even along the way, during the bombing, I saved nine children in Barvenkovo.

Then the battles on the Seversky Donets, the Battle of Kursk. On the eve of the Battle of Kursk, the Germans concentrated their tank divisions near Kharkov, in the forests on the Donets. Our division during May and June could not take the "language" in any way. The Germans very carefully kept the secrets of their preparation for this battle. However, thanks to the sophistication of the search organization, I miraculously managed to capture a German tanker behind the Donets. The delighted general hugged us and promised to reward the entire group of scouts. But months passed, and the general forgot 5 his promise.

The Battle of Kursk died down with heavy battles. She carried off to the graves two-thirds of the scouts who, together with me, mined the "tongue" at the Kursk Bulge. I, thank God, survived, escaped with a minor wound. We took Kharkov, Krasnograd. The completely exhausted division was returned to Kharkov, to Merefa, for replenishment. It was there, in September 1943, that I, together with others, including the logisticians, were presented with the first award - the Order of the Red Star. Based on the results of the Battle of Kursk. I was no longer a scout or a platoon commander, but commanded an artillery battery for six months. That's how “easily” I “grabbed” my first order.

By the way, we did not fight for awards then. We didn't even think about them. Therefore, we did not get upset when we were not awarded. And we didn’t need them: there was no end in sight to the war, it’s not going to kill it today or tomorrow, or even the next second, we’re on the front line — why do I need it, this award? I even rejoiced when they did not reward for a long time, otherwise they will reward, give me the payment for this - you will seize death. We fought not for awards, but for the Motherland, we would have to exterminate more Germans who have done so much harm to us.

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CHAPTER XVII The front is narrowing. The 10th Flotilla is stepping up its actions. May - September 1943 I take command of the flotilla. The tasks are expanding. Gibraltar attacked from Olterra. The threat of disembarkation. Sardinia or Sicily? On July 10, all doubts were dispelled. Division of boats for

(From the special correspondent of "Krasnaya Zvezda")

Our line of defense in one sector of the front stretched for a long distance along the river, which separated the unit standing here from the enemy. It was here that there was less data on his forces and means. The pilots saw tanks in the depths of the German positions, observers found a concentration of artillery. But what parts are these, how many of them, what are they going to do - no one could establish.

Several times our fighters tried to search for and capture the "language". They swam across the river, got out to the shore, but here strong fire stopped them. Sometimes the Germans opened fire even when the boat with our soldiers was in the middle of the river. The soldiers changed the direction of their search, but everything was repeated the same way. Only once did they manage to pass unhindered into the depths of the coastal strip in an area covered with thickets of reeds and surrounded by a viscous swamp.

The soldiers walked along the swamp without encountering a single enemy soldier. Then they decided to go even deeper into the rear of the Germans through the swamp. Now they are already at the target, but at this time a machine gun began to fire, missiles flashed, and the search again ended in vain. It turned out that the Germans vigilantly guard their positions both from the front and from the flank.

Long-term observation of the enemy revealed that he was concentrating all his forces on the front line. In the nearest village, located only two or three kilometers from the coast, there were no Germans. Only once a day, at 12 o'clock, one or several cars drove up here. As you can see, the Germans took food from the population. By about two o'clock in the afternoon they were returning to their dugouts and trenches. In this village, it was decided to set up an ambush to capture a prisoner.

The task was, at first glance, not so difficult. Using the unprotected swamp, it was as if a group of fighters could be sent to the village, and they would have done what was needed. But the Germans came here in a large armed detachment. In addition, their positions were partially held in close proximity to locality... Consequently, one could not expect that the audacious capture of the "tongue" in broad daylight behind enemy lines would succeed without any support. The combat work of an ambush, like any other type of combat, requires a clear organization and thoughtful interaction.

The commander of the detachment, Senior Lieutenant Solod, decided to divide his people into three groups - one exciting and two supporting. Air reconnaissance data showed that the enemy had tanks in the hollow behind the village, and Comrade. Malt decided to reinforce one supply group with three anti-tank rifles. He put observers on the most elevated place of our coast, who were supposed to inform him about everything that was happening on the side of the enemy and which he himself would not have been able to see. Communication with the observers was carried out by radio. In the same way, there was an agreement between the scouts and artillerymen, who, if necessary, had to cover the detachment with fire.

The detachment knew where to cross. It remained to choose a convenient time for the crossing and penetration into the village. The senior lieutenant decided it was best to do this at dawn. At night the Germans are expecting our reconnaissance. Of course, they will also follow the swamp, where an attempt has already been made once to search. And at dawn, judging by the reports of our observers, the enemy's vigilance weakens. This means that this is the most successful time for the operation.

The sun was just rising when three boats moored to the thickets of reeds. Three fighters immediately went to the village. Soon a report came from them that the Germans were not there. After that, the whole detachment was involved in the village. Its order of battle was built as follows. In a grove on the outskirts of the village, by the road along which German cars usually passed, an exciting group, led by Lieutenant Dyachenko, sat down. Anti-tank rifles were positioned along the other road leading into the ravine where the German tanks were stationed. The second support group, reinforced with machine guns, covered the retreat of the exciting and controlled the path to the swamp so that the Germans could not cut off our soldiers. Senior Lieutenant Solod had two radio operators, one submachine gunner, as well as messengers from all groups. Now everything was ready to meet the enemy. All that remained was to wait for him.

As time went. It was clear: the Germans did not notice how our soldiers crossed the river, and did not even control the swamp with separate patrols. The detachment could safely carry out its task.

At about 12 o'clock a covered German truck appeared near the village. When he entered the grove, the capture group, at the command of Lieutenant Dyachenko, suddenly opened fire. At the same time, grenades flew into the car. The enemy was taken by surprise. Most of the Germans were killed by the soldiers, one non-commissioned officer, who jumped out of the car, was seized by the Red Army soldier Shevchenko, two of them managed to escape. It took a few more minutes to search the truck and the dead, to take away all the documents they had. Having finished their business, the exciting group began to retreat to the river.

As if there was complete luck. But the two Germans who escaped had apparently reported our ambush to their tankers. On the road from the hollow we moved to the village of three german tank... To enable the detachment to withdraw, the crews of the anti-tank rifles took the blow. They calmly let the tanks approach them and knocked out one of them. The other two tanks, on which the landing party was located, continued to march directly towards the armor-piercers. Now the exciting group was already at the river. The armored riflemen had no reason to delay, and Senior Lieutenant Solod ordered them to retreat through the grove to the swamp. The tanks went around the grove and almost at the same time with the armor-piercing went to the thickets of reeds. But here they were already powerless: the swamp did not allow them to move on.

A struggle began with the German paratroopers, who tried to poke their heads into the reeds. Now the machine guns of the second support group came into action. Having decided, apparently, that nothing could be done in the swamp, the Germans withdrew. Only the tanks, standing at the edge of the thickets, fired indiscriminately, which had no effect, because the tankers could not see anything in front of them. Our soldiers approached the boats. Senior Lieutenant Solod, who reported on the radio all the details of the battle, conveyed the last order to the gunners - to cover from the flanks the crossing of the fighters to their shore.

Thanks to the clear support and well-thought-out organization of actions, the ambush perfectly completed its task and did not lose a single person. Let us dwell briefly on some of the details that ensured the success of the detachment. The crews of anti-tank rifles were not too lazy to equip their positions in the same way as in a regular defensive battle. The second support group was partially located in the trees, which allowed it to suddenly open fire on the enemy from above and throw grenades at him. It goes without saying that all the fighters were well disguised and constantly monitored, which in many ways supplemented the testimony of the control prisoner.

On the same day, comparing the information received from the prisoner, with data from air reconnaissance, neighbors and with entries in observation logs, the chief of the detachment was able to report to the unit commander what the forces and intentions of the enemy were. This alone has paid off the effort and time spent on organizing the ambush. // Captain ... FUNCTIONAL ARMY.

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Daring raid on the enemy's dugout

WESTERN FRONT, May 24. (By telegraph from our. Corr.). A group of scouts of the N unit, under the leadership of Lieutenant Zakharov, performed a night put on an enemy dugout.

The approaches to the location of the Germans were firmly fortified: the swamp, as well as a wire fence stretched in three rows, served as reliable protection. Here, at a height that wedged into the neutral zone, the enemy equipped his firing point, and forty meters from it - a dugout.

At 23 o'clock the scouts began to surreptitiously overcome the swamp. When they reached the middle of the way, the Germans opened machine-gun fire. But this did not stop the daredevils. They continued to move forward.

Approaching the wire fence at a distance of 30 meters, the scouts lay down. Sappers with two submachine gunners for cover moved forward and quickly cut through the wire. The capture group, led by junior lieutenant Shavshin, rushed crawling into the passages and almost reached the enemy firing point. Suddenly the Germans fired a red rocket. The scouts pressed tightly to the ground and did not move until the rocket went out.

The Germans continued to fire indiscriminately from the machine gun. Taking advantage of this, junior lieutenant Shavshin, scout Mikhmel crawled even closer and rushed into the machine-gun nest, scout Dubarev jumped up behind them. Shavshin hit one German on the back of the head with a machine gun, Mikhmel dealt with the second, and the third was finished off by Dubarev. At this time, the scout Aldoshkin threw grenades into the communication passages and blocked the Germans' exit. The cover group threw grenades at an enemy dugout located 40 meters away.

The Germans were so stunned by the suddenness of the fire that they did not fire a single shot. Having captured the "tongue", the scouts returned safely to their unit.