Many glorious feats were accomplished by Soviet tank crews during the Great Patriotic War. But the commander of the T-34 tank, Lieutenant Dmitry Evlampievich Komarov, and the driver, Mikhail Artemyevich Bukhtuev, especially distinguished themselves when they entered into battle with an entire armored train.
Fate brought the tankers together in 1944. Already an experienced fighter, Lieutenant Komarov returned to the 15th Guards Tank Brigade, having healed after a severe wound in the leg. Sergeant Bukhtuev, after training at the Chelyabinsk tank school, was sent as a driver mechanic to the same unit.
In the summer of 1944, the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front advanced on the enemy. With the support of aviation and artillery, the 65th Army broke through the enemy defenses. The 1st Tank Corps took part in fierce battles, including the 15th Tank Brigade, where Lieutenant Komarov and Sergeant Bukhtuev served. 
On the morning of June 25, 1944, Soviet tanks reached the Chernye Brody station, but even on the outskirts of the railway junction, an enemy armored train opened heavy artillery fire on the Red Army soldiers. Nevertheless, the tankers did not retreat, gradually moving forward and responding to the enemy with cannon fire.
One of the shells fired by the armored train hit the turret of the thirty-four under the command of Komarov and seriously wounded the gunner, as well as the loader. Having unloaded and handed over to the orderlies their bleeding comrades, the lieutenant and the driver continued the battle.
On the outskirts of the Bukhtuev station, driving a tank, he crushed several enemy guns and machine-gun emplacements. Komarov fired from a cannon and used up almost the entire ammunition load. The crew destroyed an entire platoon of enemy infantry. Having burst into the station, the T-34 received another hit, the tank caught fire, and the lieutenant was wounded by shrapnel. The German armored train started off, intending to retreat to a more convenient position and continue shelling.
The tank commander, Lieutenant Dmitry Komarov, decided to stop the enemy at all costs and ordered the driver to ram the armored train.
The burning car at full speed hit a heavy train, completely knocked two platforms off the rails and damaged the wheel axle of the third. The armored train was immobilized, the Nazis abandoned it.
The 15th Guards Tank Brigade captured Chernye Brody.
During the ramming, the driver, Sergeant Mikhail Artemyevich Bukhtuev, died. He was buried near the place where he accomplished his immortal feat. Two months later, on August 22, 1944, Bukhtuev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The commander of the tank, Lieutenant Komarov, managed to leave the mangled car, crawled away to the forest belt and lost consciousness, where his fellow soldiers found him. Having recovered from his wounds, he returned to his unit, and on September 26, 1944, for courage and heroism during the capture of the Chernye Brody station, the fighter was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Unfortunately, Dmitry Evlampievich Komarov never found out about the honor shown to him, he died on September 5, 1944 in a fierce battle for the Narevsky bridgehead, three weeks before his award. 
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Komarov Dmitry Evlampievich(November 8 - September 5) - tank commander of the 15th Guards Tank Rechitsa Brigade, guard lieutenant. Hero of the Soviet Union (22.08.). He made the first armored train tank ram in the history of wars.
Biography
Dmitry Evlampievich Komarov in 1941 was drafted into active army. In 1943, Dmitry Komarov was a cadet of the 2nd Gorky Tank School. After graduating from college, Lieutenant D. Komarov was sent to the front to the post of commander of the T-34 tank.
Participation in hostilities
The tank commander, Lieutenant Komarov, took part in the battles near Orel, in the liberation of the city of Rechitsa, crossed the Dnieper, participated in the liberation of Minsk and Poland.
By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, he was forever enrolled in the lists personnel Blagoveshchensk tank school.
Awards and titles
Memory
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see also
- 15th Guards Tank Rechitsa Red Banner Order of Suvorov Regiment.
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Notes
Literature
- Heroes of the Soviet Union: A Brief Biographical Dictionary / Prev. ed. collegium I. N. Shkadov. - M .: Military Publishing, 1987. - T. 1 / Abaev - Lyubichev /. - 911 p. - 100,000 copies. - ISBN out., Reg. No. in RCP 87-95382.
- T. Bortakovsky “Stay alive! Unknown pages of the Great Patriotic War, publishing house Veche, 2015, ISBN 978-5-4444-3590-8
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R was born in 1922 in the village of Sinchuvazh, now the Shakhunsky district of the Gorky region. Russian. Hero of the Soviet Union (September 26, 1944). Awarded with orders Lenin and Red Star.
Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Lieutenant D. E. Komarov is forever enrolled in the lists of personnel of the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K. A. Meretskov. During the Great Patriotic War, he accomplished a one-of-a-kind feat.
It happened on Belarusian soil near the city of Bobruisk on June 25, 1944. The 15th Guards Tank Brigade of the 1st Guards Tank Corps of the 65th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, which included the crew of the T-34 tank under the command of Guards Lieutenant Komarov, received a combat mission: to go deep behind enemy lines, capture Chernye station Fords of the Oktyabrsky district of the Gomel region and cut railway Luninets-Bobruisk, in order to prevent the Nazis from bringing reserves into battle.
On June 25, 1944, at dawn, without the usual artillery preparation, Soviet tanks attacked the enemy at top speed and drove them back to Chernye Brody station. Having destroyed the enemy firing points, the tanks approached the station. A fascist armored train was slowly moving along the main track from the station to the exit semaphore. On the move, he led artillery fire on the advancing Soviet troops. Tank Guards Lieutenant Komarov found himself almost next to the armored train and served as a good target for the Nazis. One of the enemy shells hit the tank's turret. From a direct hit by a shell, the car shuddered and caught fire.
Tongues of flame engulfed the armor. And the armored train was slowly moving away from the station. The tank commander decided to ram the Nazi armored train. At top speed, the "thirty-four" crashed into the armored platform of an armored train and knocked it off the rails. Having lost the armored train, the enemy fled. This daring ram took place in front of the brigade's tankers. Inspired by an unprecedented feat, they moved forward and completely liberated the Chernye Brody station from the Nazis.
During the ramming, the tank driver died, and the lieutenant of the guard was wounded. For some time he was in the hospital, then returned to his native tank brigade and participated in the liberation of Belarus and fraternal Poland. On September 4, 1944, in one of the fierce battles, an enemy shell pierced the armor of a tank in which Guards Lieutenant D. E. Komarov was located, and the brave tankman died. The Hero was buried in the village of Zatory - southeast of the Polish city of Pultusk.
For many years now, fellow countrymen of the Hero of the Soviet Union D. E. Komarov have been coming to the Blagoveshchensk school on permits from the Shakhun district committee of the Komsomol of the Gorky region. Komarovtsy, as they are called in the school, strive to justify the high trust and be worthy heirs of the glory of the Hero.
In the military unit where Dmitry Komarov served, a crew named after the Hero was formed. In all exercises and classes, he is invariably the best in the unit.
Literature:
Tyulnikov L. K., Basovich Ya. I. Heroes of the Soviet Union - Gorky. Gorky, 1981, p. 125.
Forever in line. M., 1985. Book. 8. S. 167–184.
Forever in the heart of the people. Minsk, 1984. S. 250.
Komarov Dmitry Evlampievich
(08.11.1922 - 05.09.1944)
Born on November 8, 1922 in the village of Sinchuvazh, Shakhunsky District, Gorky Region. Russian. He studied at the Petukhov primary and Chernovskaya incomplete secondary schools. After the ninth grade of the Shakhun school, he worked as an accountant for a railway track section in the city of Shakhunya.
Participated in the summer battles near Orel. In the autumn of 1943, Komarov took part in the liberation of the city of Rechitsa, crossed the Dnieper. At the end of November 1943, the tank was set on fire by a direct hit from a shell. Komarov was wounded in the leg. After being cured in January 1944, he returned to his native unit.
In the summer of 1944, Operation Bagration began. Overcoming swampy swamps, the tankers entered the gap south of the village of Parichi and, being ahead of other units, reached the forest near the villages of Slobodka and Romanishche by the end of the day on June 24.
On June 25, 1944, the tank brigade was given the task of cutting the Luninets-Bobruisk railway and liberating the Chernye Brody station. Despite the fire of 10 Artshturm self-propelled artillery mounts located on the outskirts, Komarov's tank was one of the first to break through to the station. But then a fascist armored train opened fire on the cars from cannons. The shells of the tankers did not cause him any harm. An enemy shell hit Komarov's tank on fire, and the commander himself was wounded. But the tank was on the move! And then the tank commander Dmitry Komarov and the tank driver Mikhail Bukhtuev made the only decision. At top speed, the tank, enveloped in flames, crashed into an armored train. Two armored platforms, having derailed, overturned. The armored train stopped. It was the first and only tank ram of an armored train in the history of wars. .
Inspired by the feat of their comrades, the tankers of the 15th Guards Brigade rushed forward, and at 1500 Chyornye Brody were liberated.
During the ramming, the driver M. Bukhtuev died a heroic death. Komarov, shooting back from the Nazis with a pistol, managed to hide in the forest and there he lost consciousness from loss of blood. Scouts picked him up in the forest on the seventh day.
After treatment in a front-line hospital, he participated in the liberation of Minsk, Poland.
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 26, 1944 for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command on the front of the fight against the German invaders and the courage and heroism shown in this Dmitry Evlampievich Komarov was awarded title of Hero of the Soviet Union .
But the brave tanker did not live to see that day. On September 5, 1944, in a fierce night battle for a bridgehead on the western bank of the Narew River, Dmitry Komarov died. He was buried in the Polish village of Zatory.
One of the streets in the city of Shakhunya, the Chernovskaya school where he studied, and the pioneer team of school No. 98 of the Kanavinsky district of the city of Gorky (now the city of Nizhny Novgorod) are named after the Hero. A memorial plaque was installed at school No. 1 in Shakhunya.By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Guards Lieutenant Dmitry Evlampievich Komarov was forever enrolled in the lists of the 1st company of the Blagoveshchensk Higher Tank Command Red Banner School named after Marshal of the Soviet Union K.A. Meretskov.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of the Red Star and the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.
Archival documents on the assignment of Guards. Lieutenant Komarov Dmitry Evlampievich with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
An obelisk was erected at the place of the fiery ram at the Chernye Brody station in memory of the feat of the brave tankmen.
Tank-monument near the platform Black Brody.
Corner of the Hero of the Soviet Union Guards. Lieutenant Komarov Dmitry Evlampievich, forever enlisted in the lists of the 1st company of cadets of the BVTKKU.
Operation Bagration. Part I. Liberation of Vitebsk. Fates and deeds. Ramming an armored train