Hello!
Help me find my great-grandfather's grave: Commander 2 Sat 1369 Joint Venture 417 Rifle Division Major Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikiforov, born in 1898 He died on December 28, 1943 and was buried in the village of Bolshaya Belozerka/Velika Bilozerka, Zaporozhye region of Ukraine.
The entry number in the OBD is 74040979.
Nikiforov Nikolai Vasilyevich, born in 1898
Last place of service: 2 Sat 1369 cn 417 sd; major.
He died of wounds on December 21, 1943.
Source - TsAMO: f. 33, op. 563784, d. 5.
The entry number in the OBD is 63561203.
Nikiforov Nikolay Vasilievich.
Last place of service: 1369 joint ventures; lieutenant.
He died of wounds on December 26, 1942.
Source - TsAMO: f. 58, op. 977525, house 324.
The entry number in the OBD is 410693880.
NIKIFOROV Nikolay Vasilievich (1898-12.1943).
Book of Memory of the Krasnodar Territory (volume 3).
My great-grandfather was a legendary man, his brother-soldiers loved him very much. The divisional newspaper "V attack" wrote about him (No. 27 of May 1, 1943). His subordinates dedicated a song to him.
Nikiforov Nikolai Vasilyevich had two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky 3rd degree, the Order Patriotic War 1st degree, Order of the Red Star, medal "For Courage". Zaporozhye journalist Mikhail Stepanovich Glushchenko wrote about this to my grandmother, i.e. daughter of Nikiforov N.V.
I am collecting bit by bit a biography because the witnesses are no longer alive. It is known from correspondence with a journalist in 1977 that he wrote a book about this division and Nikiforov, but what is the name of this book, and where to look for it I can’t even imagine! There is a journalist's address in Zaporozhye, but no one answers it.
Nikiforov Nikolai Vasilyevich was born in the village of Solodniki, lived in house number 74 on Krepostnaya Street of the village of Slavyanskaya, Krasnodar Territory.
Wife - Pelageya, children - Martha (my grandmother), Vera, Anatoly and Georgy (died in 1943, buried in a mass grave in Abinsk).
417th Rifle Division fought a glorious path from the Terek to the Baltic states, while freeing 18 major cities and over 1500 settlements, destroyed over 30 thousand German soldiers and officers, knocked out and burned 230 German tanks and self-propelled guns, captured more than 4 thousand German soldiers and officers, captured a large number of trophies. 17 soldiers, sergeants and officers who served in this division were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union!
HERO COMMANDER
Commander Nikiforov, bypassing his battle formations, sat down on the edge of one of the trenches. A mine exploded somewhere nearby. Shrapnel hissed overhead, drowning out the whistle of the wind. A rocket flared up a little to the right, a second ... Nikiforov, leaning on his elbow, sat motionless and without blinking looked ahead - at a height.
In the morning it should be ours, - he said aloud and, descending into a hastily dug dugout, bent over the map.
At dawn, when the enemy was quiet, the wind died down and the morning coolness settled like small dewdrops on the faded carpet of the plain, machine guns roared at the foot of the height, machine gun shot scattered and, spitting red clots of smoke, mortars began to speak. This was the beginning of the work of the restraining group of Nikiforov's unit.
The Germans, surprised by such a surprise, brought down the full power of their fire on the group. And at this time, merging with the ground, crushing the damp grass, the second group crawled to the right flank of the hill, stern and formidable in its determination. In front of her was Nikiforov.
A rocket, long bursts of machine guns and a powerful Red Army "Ura" encircled the hills, shimmering in the hollows, rolled towards the Terek.
Encouraged by their commander, the fighters burst into the German dugouts and trenches like a whirlwind, stabbing and beating the Germans, mad with fear, with rifle butts.
When the sun rose, Nikiforov counted more than 100 corpses of German machine gunners on the battlefield, lying next to the wreckage of their machine guns, machine guns and mortars.
At one height, Nikiforov raised his fighters to attack, destroyed up to two companies of enemy infantry, captured prisoners and trophies.
In Tikhoretsk, saving the city and thwarting the enemy's insidious plan, he personally cut off 50 burning cords connected to mines under ammunition depots, and then with his fighters first burst into the station, captured 15 fuel tanks, three tanks, 18 prisoners.
From the heights in the foothills of the Caucasus to the Azov floodplains, through blizzards, on impassable roads, in the roar of explosions and clouds of smoke, a fearless commander led his brave warriors. On the chest of Nikolai Vasilievich Nikiforov are two Orders of the Red Banner. In his chest pocket is a party book, receiving which, during the period of fierce fighting for one farm, Nikiforov said:
I swear to you, great party and Motherland, that until the end of my life, until my last breath, I will be faithful to you, my people.
Meeting May, Nikiforov tenderly squints his stern eyes, looks to where happiness was born again in the liberated villages, and, encouraging the fighters with a fighting word, says to them:
This is the same joy of May we must carry throughout our land.
P. Vyazhevich.
A song dedicated to the legendary battalion commander-2 captain N.V. Nikiforov and his battalion:
From Mozdok to the gardens of the Kuban,There was your line of fearless sons,
And forever the glory will not fade,
About your immortal prowess.
Chorus:
Over the Kuban the banner of silk winds,
The fighting battalion went west, went
The battalion went to the west and will come
The fearless commander leads him into battle.
Black shadows of death circled
At the brave every head,
But you walked victorious, walked and sang,
And the fighters fought, your eagles.
From your valiant blows
Gangs of fiends and executioners
Drapali from Kizlyar, Tikhoretsk,
From Maryanskaya, Ternovskaya, Rogacha.
Evaporate over dewy gardens
Pink mist.
Fritz beaten more than once by you
They press us to the sea, to Taman.
Companies march into battle without bending.
The Germans should not wear their heads,
Stay alive, falcons, fighting
And fight with the fury of eagles.
Letter to the family from the front dated May 31, 1943: “Hello, my dear family: Fields, Marfusha, Vera, Tolya! Please accept my warm regards and best wishes for your life. Today I received three letters from you, for which I am sincerely grateful. Several times, but not all letters have the date when the letter was written.
I'm alive and well. I continue to smash monsters, Today they did a good job, up to 100 hours were destroyed. Now is a break, there is time to write you a letter. My life, what is called military, what can I write to you. You write that you are bored, I am aware of this and believe you. What you want to go home is also right. Regarding Zhora, I informed you. With regard to money - I made a certificate, only you will tell me as soon as possible how you will receive all this. With regard to Slavyansk, I told you what I had with me, but now I don’t know.
Write a letter to your friend, they will tell you what they are doing now.
Now I will write you my numbers of military merit documents that I have already received: Temp. Award No. 391509 dated 31 / XII-42g prik. VZF No. 062-4 ord. Red Banner No. 54851. vr. beats No. 391508 pr. No. 58 Ar SKF No. 011-4 dated March 20, 1943 Order of the Red Banner No. 2506 for the rest, as soon as I receive it, I will send it.
The handwriting deteriorated, artillery began to beat, and the trench was cramped. I also promised to send a song that they sing about me, so I'm writing. I sent you the certificate that you asked for, let me know when you receive it.
Write, finish.
Again the handwriting deteriorated, 65 Fritz flew by. Today the air battle has moved into depth. And yesterday we had as many as there are in a hurricane of jackdaws. This is where I end. Please write your news, for some reason you rarely receive my letters. Write down if you received a newspaper clipping.
With regards, your husband and father Kolya. Hello to all your friends."
The 417th Rifle Division began to form during the war years in Tbilisi, in accordance with the directive of the USSR NPO No. ORG / 2/577 and the order of ZAKIZO No. 0079 / a of February 22, 1942. The formation went from March 8 to March 20, 42. By national composition 80% were Russians and 15% Ukrainians.
On August 1, the division was ordered to move from Tbilisi to Ordzhonikidze. The division consisted of 10770 people, 8 122mm howitzers, 26 76mm guns, 9 45mm, 6 120mm mortars, 76 82mm.
The division's baptism of fire took place on the southern bank of the Terek in the Mundar-Yurt region from August 31 to September 9, where the division's decisive counterattack destroyed the enemy who had crossed the Terek. On September 7, in cooperation with the 10th Guards Rifle Brigade, attacked in the direction of Promostny. On September 9, the division was attacked by the enemy, but held its positions, inflicting heavy losses on the German troops. September 20 occupied the defense of the south. Mozdok at the front 15-18 km covering the highway to Ordzhonikidze. Having built a solid defense, the fighters repelled an enemy tank attack on September 22. Also, several attacks by German troops followed in October (7 and 21), but the division managed to repel all attacks.
From mid-December, our troops began to prepare for an attack on Mozdok, conducting private offensive operations. On the night of January 2, units of the division began to storm the enemy's defenses. Having broken the enemy defenses and pursuing the regiments, they went to the Terek. The fighters of the division on boats and rafts captured from the enemy immediately crossed the Terek and to the outgoing. January 3 captured the city of Mozdok. Later, pursuing the enemy, the division liberated Zheleznovodsk and many others. settlements North Caucasus. On January 30, the division liberated the city of Tikhoretsk. Then, going to the Sea of Azov, she liberated the city of Yeysk. After capturing the Chepeninskaya division, the offensive continued in the direction of Taman. The unit had to operate in the difficult conditions of the Taman floodplains. However, this did not stop the regiments of the division, which managed to capture Art. Novo-Drerelievskaya. On February 9, a powerful counterattack of the enemy from Rogovskaya followed. The division was completely surrounded. But the enemy attacks were repelled and, going on the offensive on February 11, the regiments drove the Germans out of Novo-Dzherelievka. On February 26, the division broke into Belikov, where it fought for 5 days. It was only on March 18 that Belikov was fully occupied. March 19 occupied Petrovskaya.
Forcing floodplains and estuaries, the division captured Svistelnikov and approached the river. Kurka. Here the fighting went on for a month. On April 23, on May 1, having made a march to Kushchevskaya, she took up defense along the river. Her. In May, she was transferred to the Krasnoarmeyskaya area, where she became part of 37A. In May, she replaced the 55th Guards Rifle Division on the front line, and on the night of July 19 she entered the reserve of the commander of the SCF. Until the end of September, the division fought in the North Caucasus. From September 26 to 29, she was transferred to the Donbass and unloaded at the station. Rovenki.
The troops of the Southern Front pursued the retreating defeated enemy in the Donbass. 417sd has not yet entered the battle, following in the second echelon of the front. In October, as part of 44A, he fought to break through the enemy’s defenses, zap. Bol. Tokmok. By October 26, the German defenses were breached and the army began to pursue the retreating German troops. By the beginning of November, the division reached the river. Dnieper near Kakhovka.
In April-May, the division participates in the Crimean offensive operation and the storming of Sevastopol. In June, the division, consisting of 51A, was transferred to the area of st. Dobrush, Gomel region, from where the march of the 51st and 2nd Guards armies, following the advancing units of the 1st Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts, entered the gap between the German army groups "North" and "Center". 417sd liberated the city of Panevezys and participated in repulsing the enemy counterattack near Tukums. Until the end of the war, the division fought with the Courland grouping of the enemy.
May 9, 1945 The division accepted the surrender of the German 126pd together with its commander, General Helling.
417th Rifle Division- military unit of the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.
Full title
417th Rifle Sivashskaya Red Banner, Order of the Suvorov Division.
History of formation and combat path
The 417th Rifle Division began to form during the war years in Tbilisi, in accordance with the directive of the USSR NPO No. ORG / 2/577 and the order of ZAKIZO No. 0079 / a of February 22, 1942. The division went through a combat path from the capital of Georgia to Libava, participating in the liberation of the Kuban, Crimea, Ukraine, and the Baltic states
As of February 1, 1943, the front under the command of Army General I. I. Maslennikov included 4 combined arms armies- 9th, 37th, 44th, 58th and 4th air armies.
In accordance with the directive of the headquarters, the commander of the North Caucasian Front developed a plan for an offensive operation, according to which main blow was applied on the right wing of the front by the 58th and 9th armies from the line of Brinkovskaya, Bryukhovetskaya in the general direction to Slavyanskaya and Varenikovskaya.
In order to get to their starting position for the offensive, individual formations of the 58th Army had to make a 75-120-kilometer march in difficult off-road and muddy conditions. Meanwhile, the command of the North Caucasian Front was in a hurry with the offensive and began it on February 9, not expecting a complete concentration of troops in the initial areas. Reinforcement artillery and even part of the military artillery lagged behind by 80-100 km. As a result of this, the 58th and 9th armies, which delivered the main blow, were unable to break through the enemy defenses for two days.
Before the troops of the North Caucasian Front, the 17th german army consisting of twenty-one divisions (seventeen infantry, one tank, one motorized and two cavalry). Possessing a sufficient number of vehicles and having many good roads in their rear, the enemy troops did not experience any difficulties with the supply, which was carried out from the Crimea.
German and Romanian troops retreated to the southwest. Overcoming impassability, the enemy was pursued by units of the 417th rifle division.
The 417th Rifle Division as part of the 58th Army of the North Caucasian Front liberated the cities of Mozdok, Zheleznovodsk, Tikhoretsk, Yeysk, the villages of Leningradskaya, Pavlovskaya, Bryukhovetskaya, the Gorno-Vesely farmstead, fought along the Blue Line breakthrough, fought the enemy in Ukraine - in the Donbass and Crimea, fought near the Dnieper and in the Baltic states, took part in the liquidation of the Courland grouping of the Wehrmacht.
Compound
Subordination
as of 04/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Military District - district subordination
as of May 1, 1942 - Transcaucasian Military District - district subordination
on 06/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - front-line subordination
on 07/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - front-line subordination
on 08/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - front-line subordination
as of 09/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - Northern Group of Forces - subordinated directly to the command of the Northern Group of Forces
on 10/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - Northern Group of Forces - 9 A
on 11/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - Northern Group of Forces - 9 A
on 12/01/1942 - Transcaucasian Front - Northern Group of Forces - 44 A
on 01/01/1943 - Transcaucasian Front - Northern Group of Forces - 58 A
on 02/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 58 A
on 03/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 58 A
on 04/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 58 A
on 05/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 58 A
on 06/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 37 A
on 07/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - 37 A
as of 08/01/1943 - North Caucasian Front - front-line subordination
on 09/01/1943 - Southern Front - front-line subordination
on 01.10.1943 - Southern Front - 44 A - 63 SK
on 11/01/1943 - Southern Front - 44 A - 63 SK
on 01.12.1943 - 4 Ukr. front - front subordination - 67 SC
on 01/01/1944 - ?
as of February 1, 1944 - Reserve SHK rates- 69 A - 63 SC
on 03/01/1944 - 4 Ukr. front - 51 A - 63 SC
on 04/01/1944 - 4 Ukr. front - 51 A - 63 SC
on 05/01/1944 - 4 Ukr. front - 51 A - 63 SC
as of 06/01/1944 - Reserve rate of the Supreme High Command - 51 A - 63 SK
on 07/01/1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 08/01/1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 09/01/1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 01.10.1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 11/01/1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 01.12.1944 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 01/01/1945 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 02/01/1945 - 1 Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 03/01/1945 - 2nd Baltic Front - 51 A - 63 SK
on 04/01/1945 - Leningrad Front - Courland Group of Forces - 51 A - 63 SK
on 05/01/1945 - Leningrad Front - Courland Group of Forces - 51 A - 63 SK
Command
commanders
Distinguished Warriors
- Avaliani, Lavrentiy Ivanovich, sergeant, squad leader of the 1372nd rifle regiment.
- Baranov, Nikolai Vasilievich, lieutenant colonel, commander of the 1372nd Infantry Regiment.
- Babazhanov, Dadash Babazhanovich, Red Army soldier, squad leader of a company of submachine gunners of the 1369th Infantry Regiment.
- Gal, Alexey Trofimovich, Red Army soldier, shooter of the 1372nd Infantry Regiment.
- Gromakov, Vasily Fedorovich, junior lieutenant, commander of a machine-gun platoon of the 1372nd Infantry Regiment.
- Dzigunsky, Mikhail Yakovlevich, lieutenant, platoon commander of the 1372nd Infantry Regiment.
- Elagin, Sergey Ivanovich, junior sergeant, squad leader of the 1376th Infantry Regiment.
- Zabolotsky, Anatoly Ivanovich, lieutenant, commander of a rifle company of the 1369th rifle regiment.
- Ivashkevich, Grigory Mefodievich, Red Army soldier, shooter of the 1376th Infantry Regiment.
- Karas, Savva Leontievich, major, deputy commander of the 1369th Infantry Regiment for combat unit.
VICTORIES
Work performed: Lopatina Veronika
Galinka Alexandra
8th grade students.
Head Karpeikina E.N.
museum director
VICTORY CALENDAR
Battle path 417 of the Sivashskaya Red Banner
Order of Suvorov Rifle Division.
When the Great Patriotic War ended, the 417th Sivash Rifle Division in full force arrived in the Urals, in the city of Chebarkul. Equipment and personnel were located on the outskirts of the city. They set up barracks for the soldiers, dug dugouts for the commanders. Thus began the military camp in which we now live. There were 16 heroes of the Soviet Union in the division, the name of one of them, junior sergeant Kashirin, is our school and our street. The division was disbanded in the 70s, but the memory of it is kept in the town. We have an Alley of Heroes, on which monuments are placed. Collected in the school museum great material along the combat route of the 417th Sivash Rifle Division, newspaper clippings, letters from veterans, wartime battle sheets, self-printed books on the history of the division. We used this material when compiling this article.
The beginning of the formation of the division in Tbilisi. Division Commander Major General Filatov Alexander Alekseevich, Chief of Staff Lieutenant Colonel Mudrik Petr Methodievich.
The division completed combat training.
The division was redeployed to the theater of operations in the Caucasus region.
The 1376th rifle regiment of the division set out in the direction of the village of Mundar-Yurt, immediately joined the battle and by the evening captured its northern outskirts, but further advance was stopped by enemy artillery fire.
There were fierce battles on the bridgehead captured by the enemy, and by the end of September 1 South coast Terek was cleared of the Nazis. So the 417th division received its baptism of fire.
The division went on the offensive towards the advancing enemy in order to prevent the enemy from reaching the Akhal-Churt valley.
The enemy, with a strength of up to 60 tanks and a large number of machine gunners, attacked the positions of the 1372 regiment. A bloody battle ensued. The attack was repulsed. 40 wrecked tanks remained on the battlefield.
The division took up a solid defense, covering one of the main directions - the main highway leading to the city of Mozdok. Several times the enemy troops unsuccessfully tried to break through the defenses of our troops.
September 1942 - January 1943
For 4 months, in fierce and bloody battles, the division covered the direction to Mozdok. There were many victims, both on our side and on the part of the Nazis. During the fighting, more than 5,000 soldiers and officers and more than 100 enemy tanks were destroyed by parts of the division.
The operation in the Mozdok direction had great importance in the defense of the Caucasus. In this operation, our troops thwarted the plan Hitler's command to seize the oil-bearing regions of the Caucasus.
Poems by Yakov Tolmazhdev
On the Mozdok direction
On the Mozdok direction
The fight was fierce and cool.
There we were baptized
Near the village of Mundar-Yurt.
They fired. without help
Tanks with swastikas were burned.
So it's really not gods
Can burn pots.
So you can beat the Nazis,
If hatred in the chest?
If our temper is frantic,
Then mercy, enemy, do not wait.
So in a time of hard times
They fought boldly, went with hostility.
On the steppes of Chechnya, Ossetia
And the Terek has rivers.
Breaking spider webs
Our time has come.
AT New Year, under the forty-third
Mozdok became free again.
Whatever the damage,
Hundred days on the defensive
Fought staunchly for the Caucasus!
Parts of the division began crossing the Terek River.
“We began crossing the Terek River along the remains of a bridge blown up by the Nazis, on four rubber boats captured from the enemy. As soon as the fighters of the battalion drove the fascists away from the shore, right there on the river appeared, from nowhere, a mass of canoes, wooden and inflatable boats, in which old men, women and teenagers, energetically working with oars, ferried groups of fighters to the northern bank. It was a touching sight. This confirmed patriotism and love for their homeland and their own army.
The city of Mozdok was liberated.
“People come out of the dungeons from the sooty walls of houses riddled with fragments. They stand in crowds and joyfully greet the columns of our troops moving from the crossing, tightly hug and kiss our soldiers, invite them to come to rest. But there is no time for rest. The soldiers are in a hurry. They need to overtake the enemy and deal with him.
(From the memoirs of a participant in the events of S.N. Chernykh (“From the Terek to Libava”)
From that day began a long, through 5 fronts, combat path of the 417th Infantry Division from the Terek Valley to the Baltic.
They liberated the villages: Pravodolskaya, Chernoyarskaya, Lukumskaya, Novoossetinskaya, Soldierskaya, Staropavlovskaya.
The march continued: Psykhurei, Maryinskaya, Great Break, Zheleznovodsk.
March across Stavropol: Kalaborka, Novoblagodarnoe, Suvorovskoye, Amateur, Surkulsky, Yankul, Staromarievka, Mikhailovskoye, Moscow, Izobilnoye.
The village of N-Levushkovskaya was liberated.
February.
The villages of Atamaninskaya, Bicheva Pavlovskaya and others were taken.
From the memoirs of Ugrevaty Ivan Nikiforovich (a letter in the school museum):
« W here, near the village of Atamaninskaya there was a battle with tanks. Seven tanks against us. Tanks go to the house where the wounded are located. The commander of the training battalion and I ran up and fired off machine guns, but can you scare a tank with machine guns? I had the only grenade, I launched it in the direction of the tank, there was a strong explosion, but I didn’t hit the tank, but still it turned and took off running, and left. Thus, the wounded were saved. For this I was awarded the medal "For Courage".
Attack on height 121.4. The Germans are fleeing, many are taken prisoner. The Crimean village was taken.
S. Chernykh. Article "For the legendary height." Newspaper "Call" April 1975 Crimean District Council of Workers' Deputies. (copy in the museum)
« O advancing, the enemy clung to every advantageous line. One such frontier was the so-called Blue Line. Among the main nodes of resistance in its center was a height of 121.4.
May 31 to June 6 at a height of 121.4 there were continuous fierce battles, several attacks were beaten off a day. Enemy aircraft made daily 400-700 sorties on the positions of the division. The hill shuddered from the explosion of bombs and shells, and was completely pitted with craters. However, the soldiers of the division withstood the onslaught of the enemy, and at 4 o'clock in the morning on June 6, 1369, the regiment knocked the enemy off the ridge, going in the direction of the height.
The soldiers of the 417th division fought bravely and courageously. During almost 4-month battles at an altitude of 121.4, the Nazis suffered great damage in manpower and equipment. Over 30 tanks and hundreds of fascists were destroyed.”
AT post-war period the height of 121.4 was named the Hill of Heroes. A majestic memorial complex was built on it.
Ivan Belyakov.
Kuban field,
High mound.
Standing on a mound
Giant soldier.
Calm, severe
Granite Soldier.
In his hands
Combat machine.
Looking at the fun
Happy guys...
A soldier recalls distant days.
Fights for the farm Gornovesely. Fights repeatedly turned into hand-to-hand combat. All attacks were repulsed. The division entrenched itself on the achieved lines. Enemy aircraft bombed our positions, the Division continued to repel attacks. August 16th. The blue line has been broken.
at a great cost
We got him...
In the battle across the river
The battalion went down.
Kakhovka forever
Let's remember. Let it go
There are two milestones in the heart:
And joy and sadness.
Memoirs of S.N. Chernykh from the book "From the Terek to Libau" 1981
With November 1943 years of fierce fighting unfolded on the Nikopol bridgehead. Near Dnepropetrovsk. The division fought long and hard battles, but did not retreat, not a single step, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment. And our losses were great. 710 people died, more than 2,000 were injured.
In early November, an order was given to cross the Sivash. Sivash - a rotten sea, is a system of small bays near the western coast Sea of Azov covering the entrance to the Crimea from the north. It was possible to overcome this bay only in certain places known only to local residents.
The fighters walked up to their chests in water and mud with ammunition on their shoulders, went to the southern bank of the Sivash. Engineering Troops two pontoon crossings were built, which the enemy often put out of action; therefore, with the onset of daylight, they had to be dismantled. A storm broke out, and the crossing was postponed. For March 1944.
The sapper battalion and communications, mortar companies of all rifle regiments were transferred to the bridgehead on the Crimean peninsula. The offensive was scheduled for March 28. It was again postponed, because. a snowstorm began, the temperature dropped to -5, the wind speed was 15 m per second. Sivash went berserk, tore the pontoon bridges. Buran paralyzed combat life at the front. Our soldiers had to dig out from under the snow.
April 7 came the order to advance. The division was put into action. The enemy offered stubborn resistance. Our fighters showed mass heroism.
April 8 the division reached the starting line of the offensive in the Karaganka area. In a stubborn battle wedged into the enemy defenses and occupied the second line of trenches .
April 9 The division fought in the main direction. During the day of the offensive, the soldiers of the division captured 5 enemy trenches, repulsed 5 violent attacks, and captured 170 Nazis.
April 10th the division continued the offensive, captured Tomashevka. And they reached the line that opens the way to the steppe part of Crimea.
April 11 During the day, the division destroyed 800 Nazis and captured 207. The way to Simferopol was opened.
During the 3-day battles to break through the enemy defenses on the Sivash, the soldiers of the division showed massive heroism, honorably completed the task, crushed the heavily fortified enemy defenses on the 14-kilometer inter-lake spit and opened the gates to the Crimea.
In the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief I.V. Stalin dated April 13, everything personnel Gratitude was announced to the 417th division, and salute was given in Moscow in honor of the soldiers of the liberators of Simferopol. 20 volleys from 224 guns.
By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the division was given the name Sivash.
Y. Tolmazhdev "Soldier's duty" May 9, 1982 Chebarkul garrison .
By the shores of the rotten sea,
Storming the fortresses of the enemy.
The Crimea lay before us. And visibly
He was waiting for freedom from the shackles.
We rushed into battle irresistibly,
And Bobrakov led us into battle.
Chest-deep in water fighters skillfully
Built dams and bridges
Sivash was crossed boldly
Crushing outposts
The enemy was pouring fire, it was stormy.
Messer hung.
But no enemy force
Couldn't stop us.
The impulse is swift, courage,
The order was fulfilled in three days.
Crimea is ours! He is again under the scarlet banner,
Now forever, forever.
For this fight, for courage, firmness
Our army became Sivash.
We proudly bear this name
Sivash residents have something to remember.
As on the shores of the Rotten Sea
In the icy waters of the Sivash
We went forward, arguing with the elements,
Storming the fortresses of the enemy.
There our youth passed.
The soldiers of the Sivash division were ordered to storm Sapun Mountain, which was the key to the liberation of Sevastopol.
The division went on the offensive. and by 12.00 1276 the regiment captured the first trench northeast
the slope of the base of the Sapun-mountain.
The division is advancing. Sapun Mountain is a stone ridge 240 meters high with steep cliffs. A dense wire network of obstacles, minefields, dozens of bunkers and bunkers.
Being on the previous lines, the units were preparing for a decisive offensive.
After aviation treatment of the front edge of the enemy with volleys of Katyushas, the units went on the offensive. The platoon of Lieutenant Afanasyev was the first to reach the top of Sapun Mountain, they armed a banner on the top, which meant that the top was taken.
From the divisional newspaper "On the Attack"
« O the main chain of reinforced concrete fortifications on the dominant heights on the outskirts of Sevastopol has been passed! Our units have won a new brilliant victory. On one of the important Sevastopol heights, a Komsomol member Gusev erected a red banner on which was written "We will carry the glory of the heroes of Sivash to Sevastopol!" Heroes of Sivash showed againthemselves as masters of breaking through enemy fortifications ... "
As a result of the assault on Sapun Mountain, parts of the division destroyed 19 bunkers, 43 bunkers, 4 strong points, and captured 250 Germans.
Sevastopol was cleared of the Nazis.
For the battles on Sapun Mountain and the liberation of Sevastopol, 10 people received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union
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The hero of the USSR Ivashkevich Grigory Methodievich On the night of May 1, a Red Army soldier and Ivashkevich from the 1376th regiment led a group of scouts of 4 people, who were tasked with penetrating behind enemy lines and getting the “language”. They made a passage into the minefield and the barbed wire, approached the enemy's trench. They discovered 2 Germans and took them prisoner, but did not have time to retreat, they were noticed and fired on them. Having destroyed the captured Germans, the scouts entered into battle with the advancing enemy group. Ivashkevich's comrades died. The escape route was cut off. Ivashkevich collected weapons and ammunition from his dead comrades and captured Germans and took up defensive positions in the trench. All night he fought off enemy attacks. In the afternoon, the Germans opened mortar fire on the trench and launched attacks. But all attacks were repulsed. The Soviet soldier was wounded three times. Evening came. The brave scout crawled up to the dugout and destroyed 6 Germans with grenades, here he received a fourth wound. A group of our fighters who arrived to help saw Ivashkevich, wounded and covered in blood, with grenades in his hands in a German dugout. During the day, he destroyed 40 Nazis, 3 machine-gun points, a dugout.
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The hero of the USSR Gromakov Vasily Fyodorovich The commander of the platoon of the 3rd pulrota of the 1372 regiment, junior lieutenant Gromakov, during the assault on Sapun Mountain, was one of the first with his platoon to break into the enemy's trenches, where in hand-to-hand combat the platoon exterminated up to 60 Nazis. personally destroyed the garrison of 2 bunkers with grenades. During the assault on the crest of Sapun Mountain, the agitator Simoshin handed him the banner taken from the murdered foreman Fesenko and rushed forward. His platoon was the first in the offensive sector of the regiment to reach the crest of Sapun Mountain and Gromakov hoisted a red banner on it. In street battles, he personally destroyed 7 Nazis and 6 were taken prisoner. . |
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The hero of the USSR Saribikyan Ishkhan Barsegovich During the assault on Sapun Mountain, he moved far ahead with his crew and skillfully changing positions, with well-aimed bursts destroyed 5 enemy firing points and over 50 soldiers, ensuring the assault infantry captured the first line of trenches. When the first number of the calculation failed, Skarybekyan himself lay down behind a machine gun and destroyed more than 20 Nazis. When, as a result of the wound, his hand hung helplessly, and the machine gun fell silent, Sarybekyan pulled out a grenade and, dragging the fighters behind him, was the first to break into the second line of the enemy’s defense trench. At the moment when the advancing infantry lay down, Sarybekyan, despising death, with an inactive wounded hand, crawled to the embrasure of the bunker, threw grenades at it and ensured that his unit successfully captured the top of the mountain. |
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The hero of the USSR Mukha Grigory Nikiforovich Grigoriy Nikiforovich Mukha, commander of a company of submachine gunners of the 1269 regiment, skillfully managed the company, acting boldly and decisively during the assault on Sapun Mountain, blocked 3 pillboxes, destroying their garrison, and opened the way to the top of the advancing company. Overcoming the stubborn resistance of the enemy, the company of Captain Mukha quickly broke out to the top of Sapun Mountain, quickly entrenched on it, repelled 2 fierce attacks of the enemy, destroying up to 50 Nazis, and captured 2 cannons, 6 machine guns, 12 Germans captured. Skillfully interacting with rifle units, the company on the shoulders of the retreating enemy was one of the first to break into Sevastopol and in street battles destroyed more than 70 soldiers, knocked out a transporter and 3 vehicles, ensuring the advancement of our infantry deep into the city. |
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The hero of the USSR Zabolotsky Anatoly Ivanovich Lieutenant Zabolotsky, during the assault on Sapun Mountain, at the moment of transferring the fire of our artillery into the depths of the enemy’s defenses, when the enemy firing points came to life with massive fire pressed our infantry to the ground, he was the first to raise his company to attack. He and an example of personal courage and fearlessness, dragging the fighters in the forefront of the company, broke into the enemy trenches .. As a result of a short but fierce battle, the company knocked the enemy out of the first line of trenches. Boldly and boldly pursuing the retreating enemy, the company stormed the 2nd and 3rd lines of trenches and was the first to reach Sapun Mountain, hoisting a flag on it. During the assault on the height, the company captured 69 German soldiers. Having entrenched with a small company on the top of the mountain, he repulsed 4 fierce counterattacks, including one tank one. Pursuing the retreating enemy, the company penetrated deeply into the enemy defenses. Repelling counterattacks, the small number of the company destroyed more than 130 enemy soldiers. Continuing the offensive as part of the battalion, the company was the first to break into the outskirts of Sevastopol
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The hero of the USSR Baranov Nikolay Vasilievich. Lieutenant Colonel Baranov commanded the 1372 Infantry Regiment. Assault groups the regiment personally under the leadership of Baranov, taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy troops, rushed to destroy the bunkers and bunkers, destroyed more than 50 enemy points, more than 700 soldiers, thereby enabling the infantry to move forward. Thanks to skillful leadership and a lightning strike from the flanks, parts of the division in hand-to-hand combat in all six lines of enemy trenches captured the Sapun Gora ridge by storm. 1372 Infantry Regiment on the left flank hoisted the Red Banner. Not allowing the retreating enemy to gain a foothold at the gates of the fortress of the city of Sevastopol, Baranov threw out troops and at the very gates of the city blocked the path of the retreating enemy, causing great damage. During these battles, the regiment took trophies - 27 machine guns, 25 guns, 200 machine guns, 11 vehicles and other weapons. For his heroism, the assault on the mountain range of Sapun-mountain and the fortress-city of Sevastopol was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. |
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The hero of the USSR Karas Sava Leontyevich Lieutenant Colonel Karas, commander of a battalion of an infantry regiment .. The regiment began to storm a heavily fortified line: mountain range with many bunkers and bunkers. A fierce battle ensued for the first trenches. At this time, Sava Karas showed courage and courage. At the head of several shock groups and an assault detachment, he made his way to the rear of the Nazis and a battle ensued for the second trench. An unequal battle lasted for two hours, during which 6 pillboxes, 10 pillboxes were destroyed, the Nazis were driven out of the second trench, and a company of enemy infantry was destroyed. Not allowing the retreating enemy to gain a foothold, the soldiers of the regiment approached the hero-city with a swift dash. Lieutenant Colonel Savva Karas with a group of fighters was the first to enter Sevastopol. In three days of fighting, the regiment destroyed 600 enemy soldiers. For the skillful leadership of the regiment's combat operations and personal heroism, Lieutenant Colonel Karas Savva Leontyevich was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. |
Ya. Tolmadzhev.
Assault on Sapun Mountain
Passed the whole Crimea. Sapun mountain
It emerged as a natural fortress.
And now it's time for us
Take an external examination for military maturity.
Breather in six tiers in armor.
mined. Covered from heaven and land.
It should only be pierced in the forehead.
Point blank. To destroy their defenses.
"And the fight broke out." Went to storm
All types of troops. To fight holy and right.
And they beat the enemy and burned,
Like our ancestors, the Swedes near Poltava.
Do not describe the intensity of the struggle.
The day became night, and the night became hell.
And collapsed behind the rampart
Under the onslaught of the Soviet soldier.
Do not count the heroism of all the fighters,
Like loss, suffering, overload.
There were hundreds of daredevils
Heroes of the Soviet Union!
And among our daredevils:
Regiment commanders - Karas and Baranov,
And the Russian guy Gromakov,
Kazakh Dadash, Ishkhan from Yerevan.
Our Dzigunsky is a doubly hero.
He fell, but hoisted a banner on the hill.
He is now on Sapun Mountain,
Immortalized on a diorama.
And the adversary trembled. Runs…
Whole regiments are being taken prisoner.
The bugler trumpets the victory gathering,
And the height blossomed with flags.
Diorama"Storm Breather- the mountains"
The division was relocated to the Gomel region, then to the Baltic states.
The division launched an offensive against the city of Panevezys (Baltic), drove the enemy from positions at the turn of the Nevyazh River and, overcoming stubborn resistance, captured Penevezhis by storm. Moscow saluted the soldiers who liberated the city.
The division entered the city of Siauliai .
After fierce bloody battles, she freed him.
September.
As part of the First Baltic Front, the Division successfully solved the problem by isolating three German armies in Courland
From memories S.N. Chernykh from the book "From the Terek to Libau" 1981
« January 22 the division reached the starting line of the offensive. The purpose of the offensive is to clear the forest and go to the Varta River and further advance on Libava.
The fighting started right away. Our division had to repulse about a dozen attacks, including a powerful shelling on January 29, which lasted 40 minutes. The fascist group was already defeated by28 January, but the Russian soldiers did not stop, they constantly drove the enemy.
During the battle, nineteen-year-old Alyosha Kashirin immortalized his name.
Our division operated in the main direction of the 63rd Rifle Corps on the outskirts of Libava. Paplaka station was an enemy stronghold. The battles for it became the final for the division in the Great Patriotic War.
Our division celebrated Victory Day in the Priekule region of the Latvian SSR.
From the memoirs of Plaksin Mitrofan Dmitrievich.
« AT last night before the surrender on May 8, some woman screamed all night and threatened that the German army had forces that could crush our forces and offered to be taken prisoner with a guarantee of saving lives. All night I built minefields with sappers and miners, and worked in vain, because early in the morning the Germans with white rags on a stick agreed to capitulate. Thus ended the Great Patriotic War.
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The hero of the USSR Kashirin Alexey Ivanovich Rota launched an offensive. The chain of shooters, stretching across the snowy field, approached the enemy in short dashes. Half the way had already been covered, when a German machine gun fired a sudden fire at the infantrymen with flank fire. The fire blocked the path of the shooters and forced them to lie down in an open field. A difficult moment has come. At that moment, Alexei Kashirin crawled from the chain of shooters to the enemy's trenches. In the hands of Kashirin - grenades. One by one, he threw them into the German machine gun. But the enemy continued to hit our company. There was only one thing left - to close the loophole. Then Alexei decided to do it with his body. He jumped up from the ground and rushed straight to the bunker. The machine gun is dead. The company rose and rushed to the trenches of the enemy. The order was carried out with honor. Alexei Kashirin died a hero's death.
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Song of the Hero S. Veniaminov
Not a blizzard howled over the forest,
The blizzard does not whistle over the forest,
That company entered the battle,
To knock out the enemy from the forest.
The steps were getting wider
In the attack, the run accelerated,
Komsomol member Kashirin fled
Through the roar of guns and snow.
Towards a machine gun stream
The enemy began to frantically cut,
And forced the chain of our company
Lie down in the snow in the meadow.
Nobody gave orders
Close the machine gun with yourself,
But a fighter from Ryazan heard
As the heart calls for a feat.
Kashirin bravely rushed ...
And the fascist chatter fell silent,
The saint choked with blood
Fire blazing trunk.
Let it hide the blood stains
Powder on crumpled snow.
But the memory of the feat of arms
Soldiers in their hearts will save.
"Throw to immortality." Hood. Zvorygin N
Conclusion
70 years ago the Great Patriotic War died down. Fewer and fewer veterans of this war remain. Recently, Anatoly Alexandrovich Kurakin, a veteran of the 417th Sivash Rifle Division, who lives in the city of Chebarkul, turned 90.
It seems that all this was so long ago, so far from us, from our life today. But modern events echo the old military history. We live in a military town, our fathers, and some of their mothers are military personnel. Some of them visited "hot spots".
When the 417th division liberated the Chechen city of Mozdok, then, as veterans write in their memoirs, “Chechen women with flowers, with tears of gratitude in their eyes, met their liberators - Soviet soldiers". And after many years, perhaps the grandchildren of these women began to fight against the grandchildren of these liberators.
Our graduate Hero of Russia Alexander Khamitov was wounded in the fighting in Chechnya, he was taken to a hospital in the city of Mozdok. And this was the first city that the 417th division liberated in 1943.
417 division liberated Ukraine. Donbass - Canadian farm, Kakhovka. How many Soviet soldiers died in the battles for Ukraine. Can we now leave the people of Donbass in trouble?
417 division liberated the Crimea. The peninsula is watered with Soviet blood. And now we are glad that Crimea has returned to Russia.
Yes, the Great Patriotic War ended long ago. The whole world condemned fascism. But the war continues, fascism is reborn, Europe calmly looks at Ukrainian fascists justifies their actions. The world is restless, and we are all worried about it.
To avoid fascism, you need to remember the history of the Great Patriotic War. Our school museum sacredly preserves the memory of the 417th Sivash Rifle Division, its battle path, its Heroes and brave warriors. This memory is in our hearts. This memory makes us patriots of our Motherland.
23.10.1906 - 02.05.1982
Deprived of the title of Hero
L ev Efim Borisovich - commander of the 1376th rifle regiment (417th rifle division, 4th Ukrainian front), lieutenant colonel.
Born on October 23, 1906 in the village of Sergeenki, now the Tyomkinsky district of the Smolensk region. Jew. He graduated from the 7th grade in the village of Vyrubovo in the same district.
In October 1928 he was drafted into the Red Army. He graduated from the regimental school of the 190th Infantry Regiment (64th Infantry Division, Belorussian Military District), served as a squad leader there. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1929. In 1930 he was demobilized.
Lived in the city of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk region. He graduated from two courses of the evening komvuz, worked as a party organizer of Magnitostroy.
In June 1936 he was again drafted into the Red Army. Since June 1938, political instructor Lev served as a propaganda instructor in the Ural Military District, then as an instructor in the political department, senior instructor in propaganda of the political department of the 170th Infantry Division, since June 1940 in the same position in the 6th tank division Transcaucasian military district.
Member of the Great Patriotic War since November 1941. At that time, the battalion commissar Lev was the military commissar of the 819th rifle regiment of the 396th rifle division. Fought on the Crimean front. In March 1942 he was slightly wounded in the head. Then the military commissar of the regiment until August 1942 fought on North Caucasian Front, and until November of the same year - on the Transcaucasian front. In February 1943 he graduated from the courses "Shot" (Solnechnogorsk).
Since April 1943, Major Lev commanded the 1376th Infantry Regiment of the 417th Infantry Division. The regiment under his command as part of the division successfully participated in the battles of the North Caucasian and 4th Ukrainian fronts. On August 8, 1943, he was slightly wounded in the head a second time.
November 2, 1943 63rd rifle corps, which included the 417th rifle division, liberated the legendary Kakhovka. The next day, one battalion of the 1376th Infantry Regiment crossed the Dnieper. It was not possible to hold the bridgehead, after a few days the battalion essentially fell under the blows of the enemy. The reward for these battles was the regiment commander E.B. The lion became the Order of the Red Banner.
After the fighting on the Dnieper, on January 19, 1944, the division was withdrawn to the front reserve, and in February it was transferred to new district concentration on the northern bank of the Sivash. At the end of March, units of the division, including the 1376th Infantry Regiment, crossed the Sivash to the captured bridgehead and on April 9 went on the offensive. The Crimean offensive operation began.
The division broke through several defensive lines, entered the operational space with battles and reached Sevastopol. Here, during the assault on Sapun Mountain, the regiment of the 1376th Infantry Regiment operated on the left flank of the division. Under the able command of E.B. The Lion Regiment destroyed several hundred Nazis, several pillboxes and bunkers, dozens of firing points in three days of fighting.
Over 120 people for the battles to capture the city of Sevastopol were presented to the highest distinction - the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Among them were all the commanders of the regiments of the 417th Infantry Division.
After the end of the fighting for the liberation of Crimea, the 417th Rifle Division was transferred to the 1st Baltic Front. Here, during the Siauliai offensive, the 1376th rifle regiment under command participated in the liberation of the city of Panevezys (Lithuania) from the Nazi invaders on July 22, 1944. For these battles, the regiment was given the honorary name "Panevezhsky".
At Kazom of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of March 24, 1945 for the skillful command of a rifle regiment, exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the struggle against the Nazi invaders and the courage and heroism shown at the same time to Lieutenant Colonel Lev Efim Borisovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 6372).
After the end of the war, he continued to serve in Soviet army. Since September 1946, he commanded the 264th separate rifle battalion in the 45th bleaching rifle brigade of the Ural Military District. In 1947 he graduated from the "Shot" courses for the second time. From November 1953 he commanded a rifle regiment. Transferred to the reserve on December 13, 1954 under Article 59 "a" with the right to wear a military uniform.
Lived in the city of Chelyabinsk.
In September 1960, he was arrested and in October of the same year sentenced under article 119 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR (sexual intercourse with a person who has not reached puberty) to 8 years in prison.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of November 22, 1961, on the proposal of the court, Lev Efim Borisovich was deprived of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union and all state awards.
After serving his sentence, he lived in the Chelyabinsk region, then in the city of Chelyabinsk. Died May 2, 1982.
Colonel (5.02.1952). For military distinctions and length of service he was awarded the Orders of Lenin (03/24/1945), three Orders of the Red Banner (11/7/1943, 12/17/1943, 1954), the Order of Kutuzov 3rd degree (01/26/1944), the Order of the Patriotic War 1st degree , Red Star (1949), medals "For Military Merit" (02/21/1943, 04/30/1945), "For the Defense of the Caucasus", "For the Capture of Berlin", "XXX Years of the Soviet Army and Navy".
After the 20th anniversary of the Victory, veterans of the 417th Infantry Division repeatedly wrote petitions with a request to restore E.B. Leo in the rank of Hero of the Soviet Union, but invariably received a refusal. Painfully extraordinary for a military officer was the article of the Criminal Code, according to which he was convicted.