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Notes written by Izzy Hod: At an unknown Hight level, one of the most famous songs of the Patriotic War [World War II in Russia]. It was sung by Mark Bernes, who was closer to the Patriotic War [World War II in Russia] and Dmitri Khvorostovsky, who produced a record of songs from this war, in honor of his mother and grandmother, who actually fought in that war. The song was written for the movie, Silence [or, Quite], about the background of a real event, in which 18 Russian soldiers, on September 13-14, 1943, were sent to conquer and hold an unknown Hight plateau, which was controlled the outlet of the Desna river. The unit, indeed, captured the plateau and held it, but the German army cut off the access roads to it from the main Russian force in the area. By morning, only two named fighters remained alive, Garazim Ilyich Lapin and Konstantin Nikolayevich Vlasov. They met again only after many years on the hill which they bravely conquered. One was found alive, among the bodies of his dead comrades and the other, captured by the Germans and later, managed to escape from captivity, under the cover of an attack by Russian partisans. A memorial site and a museum were established there, and it is said that in 2010, a tradition was created and every year, a team of 18 representatives goes up to the battlefield on this plateau, to meet with the remains of the warriors who were on the plateau, or, who liberated it, or, with the knowledgeable researchers of the Patriotic War , about this special battle. The one who knew the details of the incident was Nikolai Grigorevich Chaika, the editor of the unit's newspaper, of the unit that recaptured the hill from the Nazi army and rescued the survivors. Chaika was among the fighters and was awarded insignia of distinction in Russia and even in the United States [the Extraordinary Service Cross].
.Nikolai Grigorevch Chaika
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AWARDS BY DATE OF ACTION:1 of 1
Distinguished Service Cross
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DURING World War II
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War Department, General Orders No. 3 (January 6, 1944)
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The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Senior Sergeant Nikolai Grigorevch Chaika, Army of the U.S.S.R., for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy, in action against our common enemy, Germany, in World War II. Senior Sergeant Chaika's outstanding accomplishments, personal bravery and zealous devotion to duty exemplify the highest traditions of the Armed Forces of the Allied Nations.
The poet, Mikhail Lvovich Matusovsky, who wrote the lyrics of the song, was a journalism officer during the war and heard about the event at the time and probably immediately wrote down the draft of the lyrics of the song, which was heard by soldiers at the front. In 1960, Matusovsky collected all the details of this battle and wrote the lyrics of the song according to them. In 1963-4, the film, Silence [Quiet], for which the song was written, was produced but it differs in content from the content of the song, a Russian soldier who has completed his duty, returns to Moscow and begins studying at the university. His father was banned and defined as an enemy of the people, therefore, the son is expelled from the university, leaves Moscow and moves away from it, all the way to Kazakhstan, where he manages to find a job. His only hope is that his beloved girlfriend will come after him. The film is from 1963-4 and describes an event, of pure and exile, which were customary a few years earlier, during Stalin's reign [until 1953, the year of Stalin's death]. A 4-episode television series called, At a nameless height, like the name of the song, was produced in 2004 and is based on the same real events that led to the writing of the song. A military unit, in World War II, sets out to conquer a strategic target, but encounters a German sniper, who kills victims of the unit's soldiers Russian and even among German officers, who were captured in order to gather information, about the state of the German soldiers and the equipment on the strategic Germans target. A soldier, a woman sniper, arrives at the unit and when she finally hits the German sniper, the unit sets out on its mission of conquering the hill, the strategic target and the fighters know it is a suicide mission. The literal description of the words of the song is as follows, The grove on the mountain is still burning and the sunset is also hot. Of the eighteen we were here in battles, only three remained. So many, of our friends were buried in the darkness of the tomb, somewhere in the village that we did not even know its name on a height that was not known either. A rain of hot shells landed there, every shell like a star falling and fading and whoever went through such an experience will not forget it forever, the violent attack. When the Messerschmid plains circled over our heads in daylight, we strengthened all the warriors and fired cannon fire against it, it was very hard but we had faith. I am often reminded of the whole group of our warriors, the friends from the days of the battle, from pillbox number three, which was covered by burning pine cuttings. I feel like I'm with them again, standing on burnt ruins, somewhere in a village we did not really know its name on a height we did not really know about before
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The film "Height 89"-one of the few modern films about the war, received from the audience mostly high ratings and positive reviews. This is not surprising, because the picture is an attempt to show the war through the eyes of ordinary people, implicated in personal stories and simple human feelings. There are no judgments in the film about the policies of the party and the government than many of the modern war films have sinned in recent times. At the sametime, "Height 89"is a really fascinating movie that looks in one breath. This is a film about love and war, about people and about difficult situations in which they get. About how war changes even the most notorious cynics, and how the eternal remains eternal and in war. The plot of the film Height 89. The plot is simple and multi-layered at the same time. Events take place at the end of the war, in 1944 on the Belarusian front. The focus is the unnamed enemy height of 89, which, according to our intelligence, is just a distraction with prop tanks and guns. To find out the truth-the task of the reconnaissance team, and our fighters are tasked-to storm the height. Just at this time in the squad comes replenishment-miraculously surviving an experienced scout, a young former criminal and a girl-sniper. All of them will be participants in the battle for height. In parallel with the planning of the battle to storm the height in the film" Height 89" there is a confrontation between two snipers-ours and the enemy. And the Russian sniper-a woman, a former champion of the USSR in shooting played by Victoria Tolstoganova. The Sniper War is a very special kind of war, on this topic rarely concentrate filmmakers, and that's why the film "Height 89" is worth watching. The film "Height 89" is both a melodrama. The characters of the film develop a difficult personal relationship. It turns out that there is a place for romance in war. The heroine Victoria Tolstoganova and Alexei Chadov have a real romance. He is all the more surprising because the hero Of Alexei Chadov-a former criminal who believes that he is conspiratorial and bullets he is not afraid. However, the war changes his outlook, and most of all he is influenced by a beautiful girl-sniper with hair color of wheat. The history of the relationship between an experienced woman and a young guy-a win-win theme. And if the background for all this is war, the success of the picture is almost assured. In the film "Height 89" intertwined the story of the relationship between people with a specific story of the assault height 89. Who is destined to survive in this drama, and who will die on the battlefield-will become clear only in the finale of the film "Height 89", but one thing is obvious-the human feat and feat of the people here are shown from a very close and understandable distance. The film "Height 89" is intended for a wide audience. Women are close to the love story, standing in the center of the film, men-strategic decisions and spectacular scenes of fighting. The film "Height 89" is a rare case when a modern film about war does not cause rejection in older people. After all, it is shot in the best traditions of Soviet films about the war. The leading musical theme of the film "Height 89" was the famous song "At an unnamed height" written by the poet Mikhail Matusovsky and composer Benjamin Basner for the film "Silence". The text is based on the real story of our troops taking an unnamed height, during which only two soldiers survived. Another of the soundtracks to the film was a military waltz "In the forest front-line" by the composer Matthew Blanter, the words of Mikhail Isakovsky. Interestingly, the film "Height 89" in 2004 was released on television in a four-episode version called "At an untitled height" and only two years later was edited for a wide-scale screening.
Silenceis a Soviet two-part feature film, an adaptation of Yuri Bondarev's 1962 novel of the same name. The plot. 1945. Along with other servicemen demobilized after the end of World War II, 22-year-old Captain Sergey Vokhmintsev, commander of the artillery battery, returns from Germany. The young front-line soldier looks with hope to the future of peaceful life, which began for him acquaintance with the girl-geologist Nina...However, Sergei's joy overshadows the meeting with another former combatant-Arkady Uvarov, who destroyed his battery and shifted the blame to the junior commander, who was put under the tribunal and died in a fine. Vokhmintsev, the only surviving witness to the tragedy, publicly exposes Uvarov. Conflict, which arose in the restaurant, ends with a fine for petty hooliganism...At the meeting of the new 1946, where Sergei comes with Nina, once again is Uvarov; he utters patriotic toasts and stuffs himself with friends, but Vokhmintsev refuses to drink with him for Stalin and takes Nina away, leaving the guests. Uvarov, who for the second time barely escaped public exposure of his shameful past, did not forget it...Three years later. Sergey is studying at the Gubkin Petroleum Institute, where he entered on the advice of Nina, and lives with his father and younger sister in a communal apartment, next to the families of the artist Mukomolov-the author of "ideologically alien" power paintings, and unscrupulous citizen Bykov, who wants to expand his living space. On the denunciation of a neighbor or for another reason, the old communist Nikolai Vokhmintsev was arrested by the KGB,but considers it a "mistake" and believes that "everything will be sorted out". Sergey believes in justice: it takes time to defend his father's honest name in "competent bodies", and he goes to the dean's office with a request for exemption from the training practice. But the institute already knows about the arrest, and Uvarov-an excellent student, activist, member of the bureau and best friend of the secretary of the party organization of the institute-is happy to take advantage of the present case and destroy his accuser. Student Vokhmintsev is dismantled at the party bureau, recalling and suspicious case with the loss of a safe with documents at the exit of the regiment, the commissioner of which was his father, and "hooliganism" in a public place, and the refusal to drink for the health of the leader...To top it off, Uvarov, using his authority, cynically accuses Sergei of the crime he committed himself , because the war did not leave any other witnesses...The result is the decision to expel Vokhmintsev from the party,after which the maligned student applications for resignation from the institute. Sergey goes far from his native places-to Kazakhstan, where with his "tainted" biography was able to get a job in the specialty, and lives, leaving no hope that sooner or later the truth will open.
Silence. Year: 1963. A screen adaptation of Yuri Bondarev's novel. Demobilized Sergei Vokhmintsev returns to Moscow and enters the institute. Unexpectedly, on the slanderous denunciation of the neighbor arrested his father-and Sergei as the son of the "enemy of the people" expelled from the party and the institute. The guy goes to Kazakhstan, works on a construction site. He has many loyal friends and believes in justice...
"At the Unnamed Heights" is a popular song about World War II, recorded for the movie Silence. The author of the words is the poet Mikhail Matusovsky, the composer-Benjamin Basner. The song is written on the basis of real events-the battle of 18 Soviet soldiers of the 8th Company 718 regiment of the 139th Infantry Division of the 10th Army of the Western Front under the command of Lieutenant Evgeny Poroshin against two hundred and two German soldiers on the night of September 13 to 14, 1943 at an altitude of 224.1 (54-03-31" s. 33-40-37" near the village of Ruezhanka. According to the memoirs of the poet Mikhail Matusovsky, he heard about this fight for the first time during a service in the newspaper of the 2nd Belarusian Front from the editor of the divisional multi-tyranny Nikolai Chaika. He later recalled this story in the early 1960s: And I remember all this again, when in the early 1960s director Vladimir Basov invited me and the composer Benjamin Basner to work with him on the film "Silence" based on the novel of the same name by the front-line writer Yuri Bondarev. Basov asked us to write a song that seemed to focus on the front-line fate of the two main characters of the film. A song that does not strike the scale and scope of events. And then I remembered this fight. In the history of World War II it is only a small episode, but how great its significance!...Composer Benjamin Basner recalled that the music to the song was not written immediately, and the melody came to his mind on the train. When the third version of it was rejected by the poet, and the director of the film "Silence" Basov, and the senior music editor of "Mosfilm" Lukina. I was desperate, I wanted to give up this job altogether. But Basov, having listened to my doubts, said that the time is still there, and asked to continue the search. Angry, I was on my way home to Leningrad, and suddenly on the way, in the carriage of the day train, I felt a whole new melody... There was nothing to write it down, nothing-so I sang all the way to myself, so as not to forget...Prototypes. On the night of September 14, a group of 18 soldiers of the 8th Company 718 regiment of the 139th Infantry Division was tasked with mastering the height of 224.1 near the village of Roenenka, providing a convenient exit to the Desna River. The group consisted mainly of Novosibirsk and nine worked at the Sibmetalstroy plant (now Sibselmash). Under the command of Junior Lieutenant Evgeny Poroshin, the fighters were able to complete the task and master the height, but were cut off from the main forces of the 139th Infantry Division by the superior forces of the enemy. Throughout the night, 18 soldiers held the height, repelling attacks from the superior forces of the Germans. By the morning of the group only two survived-Private Gerasim Lapin was thrown by the rupture of the shell under the bush and found the advancing fighters of his division alive, and Sergeant Konstantin Vlasov was captured by German troops (later escaped through the disassembled floor of the car, fought in the guerrilla unit). The further fate of the song. A memorial was subsequently built at the site of the battle and a museum was opened. Since 2010, a project called "At an unnamed height" has been implemented in Novosibirsk. 18 young men and women, who showed themselves worthy, annually go to the memorial to see with their own eyes the places of that memorable battle. They communicate with veterans, visit the museum, learn the details of the battle.
"At an Unnamed Height" is a 2004 Russian feature film directed by Vyacheslav Nikiforov, based on a screenplay by Yuri Chernyakov. It was also shown in abbreviated form under the name "Height 89" (2006). The film shows the dramatic story of the assault of an unnamed height. Large-scale battle scenes, everyday sketches of military everyday life are imbued with the complex personal attitude of the heroes of the picture to the war and each other. This is not so much a description of the horrors of war as a story about the fate of people. The plot. The Great Patriotic War, the end of the summer of 1944, a turning point in the liberation of the soviet Union from German occupation. The regiment arrives replenishment. Fate brought to the unnamed height of a personnel officer and a former criminal, a military interpreter and a champion in shooting-a sniper. Here, in the Belarusian forests, one will start a duel with a German sniper, the other will lead to death a company of scouts, but first they will meet love, learn the price of betrayal. On the way to the front, sitting in one and a half, there are former zek Malakhov (Alexei Chadov) and sniper Olga (Victoria Tolstoganova) who served for hooliganism. He is an ordinary, carefree fist, still not sniffing gunpowder, believing that he is conspiratorial from bullets; she-a former champion in shooting, and now a sergeant, an experienced sniper, who has on account of 25 fascists. Next to them goes from the hospital Petty Bessonov (Alexander Pashutin). The car comes under fire-on the bell tower at the fork of the road sat a machine gunner. Malakhov is baptized here, and Olga "shoots" another Nazi. They all get into one part. Olga enters into a confrontation with a German sniper. Malakhov gets into the scout. Scouts cannot perform the task to take the "language"-prevents the German sniper, shooting "languages" after the capture. Olga cannot destroy the sniper, he was an experienced officer of the SS, a participant in the battles in North Africa. In the piece is the wedding of military translator Kostya Gorelov (Roman Podolyako) and liaisonist Lida Kostromina (Ekaterina Vulychenko). Returning from the headquarters to the part on the half-to-half Kostya ran into saboteurs who beat his butt on glasses (glasses fall in the eyes) and capture the car. But Lieutenant Malyutin (Vladimir Yaglych), whom half-time met on the way, recognized the enemy and destroyed. Kostya remains alive, but he is blind. Lieutenant Malyutin, appointed as a scout, falls in love with a young liaison Katya Solovyov (Anna Kazyuchyts), and Malakhov is looking for a way to Olga's heart. Empathizing with Olga's feelings about failures with an enemy sniper, Malakhov makes a desperate, but unsuccessful attempt with a Finka in his hands to kill that. The sniper saw him through the sight many times, but only scared, considering it abnormal. He spared him this time, believing that Malakhov could lead him to Olga. On the area of the front, on which the part stands, an offensiveis brewing. But the unnamed height on the way of the offensive is a mystery. It is not known how much it is fortified, what forces are behind it. The decision is made to conduct reconnaissance combat,and for such a task you need experienced fighters. On the basis of the scouts, a group of volunteers, including the penitentiary,is created, which was repulsed by the commander of the unit, Major Inozemtsev (Andrei Golubev). The part plays a wedding between Gorelov and Kostromina and all but them go into battle. For many, this fight is the last. Olga destroys the enemy ace-sniper, Malutin's detachment in a fierce battle at the cost of heavy losses captures the height and is forced to repel the counterattack of the Germans. The only survivor is Malakhov.
The history of the creation of the song "At the Nameless Height". "How many of them, good friends, Left to lie in the dark-Near an unfamiliar village. On a nameless height." The song "At a nameless height" was written in the 60s of the XX century by the poet Mikhail Matusovsky and the composer Veniamin Basner for the feature film " Silence" narrating about courage and friendship at the front. But there were people who claimed to have heard the song during the war. And this is no coincidence. The poet Mikhail Matusovsky during the Great Patriotic War was a war correspondent, talked a lot with soldiers and officers. He was able to reliably convey, in simple, uncomplicated words, the combat situation and the experiences of people who constantly had to risk their lives. He was recounting an episode that could have happened anywhere.You never know on the way from Brest to the Volga and from the Volga to the Elbe nameless heights, heavy battles and losses. Poet Mikhail Matusovsky (left) and composer Veniamin Basner (right). The song "At the Nameless Height" is based on a real story. We are talking about height 224.1, which is located near the village of Rubezhanka, Kuibyshev district, Kaluga region , which was in the offensive zone of the 139th rifle division in September 1943.
The battle group, consisting of Siberians, under the command of junior lieutenant Yevgeny Poroshin, was supposed to carry out a bold operation - to go behind enemy lines on the night of September 14 and capture the Bezymyannaya height. The group's radio call sign was the word "Moon" . Luna informed the command that the height was occupied. Further events unfolded tragically. The Siberians discovered by the enemy were surrounded on all sides by many times superior enemy forces. Eighteen took the fight against two hundred. The song sings: "There were only three of us left out of eighteen guys ." Only in this figure the poet was not extremely accurate. Alas, only two survived - Sergeant Konstantin Vlasov and Private Gerasim Lapin. Wounded and shell-shocked, they miraculously escaped - Vlasov was captured, from there he fled to the partisans; Lapin was found by our advancing fighters among the corpses - he came to his senses, recovered from his wounds and fought again as part of the 139th division. Waging this deadly battle, the group pinned down significant enemy forces, which made it possible for the main forces of the 718th regiment to deliver a brutal blow to the enemy from the flanks and drive him back across the Desna River. The way to Roslavl was open. On the morning of September 14, 1943, when the soldiers of the 718th Infantry Regiment broke through to the heights, they faced a picture of a brutal bloody battle. Monument at the Nameless Hill near the village of Rubezhanka. Mikhail Matusovsky was on that sector of the front, where eighteen Siberians accomplished their feat. Then he wrote the poem "Nameless Height". But the poem turned out to be just a record, a draft of a song, born twenty years later. This song was performed by many: the song was performed by: Boris Shtokolov, Yuri Gulyaev, Mark Bernes, Eduard Khil, Yuri Bogatikov, Renat Ibragimov, Dmitry Hvorostovsky, Viktor Rybin, Sergei Mazaev, Nikolai Fomenko, Iosif Kobzon.
https://www.shkolazhizni.ru/archive/0/n-16940////Culture Valentina Ponomareva Grandmaster 16///What was the pound liha at an unnamed height? Song history How many nameless high-rises are watered with the blood of our soldiers on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War – it is impossible to count! So the song about one of them is the memory of many. But it is written about a specific combat episode in the offensive zone of the 139th Infantry Division. This happened in 1943 At the end of the summer, a replenishment of volunteers arrived in the division stationed in the Kaluga region from Siberia. On the night of September 14, their group volunteered to carry out the task of capturing the Bezymiannaya Hill (on the map - 224.1) behind enemy lines, near the village of Rubezhanka. It dominated the terrain and was a key position on the outskirts of Desna, and therefore it was fortified powerfully: three times surrounded by trenches with strong firepower. The sortie was successful, and the task was accomplished, but the fascists cut off the company following the brave men, pulled up additional forces and surrounded a handful of our soldiers. Eighteen fighters had to take the fight with two hundred of Hitler's soldiers. Here are the names of the characters: Artamonov Alexander, private; Belokonov Emelyan, partorg; Vlasov Konstantin, sergeant; Vorobyev Gabriel, private; Nikolai Golenkin, private; Danilenko Nikolay, sergeant; Denisov Daniil, Senior Sergeant; Roman Zakomoldin, Senior Sergeant; Kasabiev Timofey (Tatari), private; Kigel Boris, Sergeant; Kulikov Ivan, private; Lapin Gerasim, private; Lipovitser Dmitry (according to other sources - Elyusha), private; Panin Peter, Petty Officer; Poroshin Evgeny, junior lieutenant; Romanov Peter, private; Shlyakhov Dmitry, private; Yaruta Dmitry, private. "The grove under the mountain smoked, and with it the sunset burned... There were only three of us left of the eighteen guys. How many of them, good friends, to lie in the dark - At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height." They fought desperately (no wonder German radio stations anxiously called the Siberian regiments "Russian bears"). N. Golenkin, having received a wound first in the arm, and then in the stomach, rose to his full height and went at the enemy, shooting from a machine gun, until he fell dead, having already caught up with the ranks of the fascists. "Above us, the Messers were circling, and it was visible as if in the afternoon... But only stronger we were friends Under the crossfire of artillery. And no matter how hard it was, you were true to your dream – At an unfamiliar village, On an unnamed height." Commander E. Poroshin, seeing that the forces of the battle group were running out, began to give signals with a missile, causing fire from Soviet artillery and mortars. "A rocket glowed, falling, like a burnt star... Whoever has ever seen this will never forget it. He will not forget, will not forget the Attacks furious those — At an unfamiliar village, On an unnamed height." Only two managed to survive, who received both wounds and a concussion: K. Vlasov was captured, from which he escaped to the partisans; G. Lapin managed to crawl to his own. And then the offensive of the Soviet troops began, Bezymiannaya was again taken. Among the first there was the editor of the divisional newspaper Nikolai Chaika, he told about what happened: "It's hard to find the words to convey what I saw. Even in the poses of the sixteen already dead heroes, the intensity of the battle, his rage, remained. With a grenade clutched in his hand, with an index finger on the trigger of a machine gun, the bodies of the heroes lay in puddles of their own and enemy blood. The entire height was literally littered with shrapnel, shell casings, empty disks, helmets." And Gerasim Ilyich Lapin told how horrified he was when he saw that the Nazis even mocked the bodies of the dead: "Everyone had two or three bullet holes in their head, their skulls were broken with butts. It seemed that they and the dead were fighting the enemy. However, more than a hundred beaten fascists lay on the battlefield." "I often dream of all the guys, Friends of my war days, our dugout in three rolls, the Pine tree that burned over it. It's as if I'm standing with them again on a fiery line — At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height." The 139th Rifles reached Berlin, its fighters rushed to the attack with a shout: "For the Poroshins!". This call was heard by Roslavl, Mogilev, Königsberg, Gdansk, these words were inscribed on the Reichstag ... The poet Mikhail Matusovsky fought in the same sector of the front and at the same time, in 1943, wrote the poem "Nameless Height". During the filming of the film "Silence", he told this story to the director Vladimir Basov, and he asked him, together with the composer V. Basner, to write a song for this film. Three times veniamin Basner had to rewrite the melody, three times V. Basov rejected the versions of the song, but then the music came by itself - on the train. He didn't even have a scrap of paper, and had to hum all the way so as not to forget the melody. Thus, this song was born, which immediately received nationwide recognition, and soon the authors even had to prove that it was written not during the war years, but almost 20 years after the Victory. And Mikhail Matusovsky later added a few more lines to it: "On the slopes of the stained Volga, On the banks of the Moskva River In your tanned half-coats Stood you Siberians. Let not your feat be forgotten, as those will not be forgotten — At an unfamiliar village, On an unnamed height." Let this song sound again and again, preserving memories of a difficult wartime. Eternal glory to the heroes!///Автор: Валентина Пономарева///Источник: https://www.shkolazhizni.ru/archive/0/n-16940////© Shkolazhizni.ru
https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/2496320/post125218418////"AT AN UNNAMED HEIGHT"/// Saturday, April 24, 2010 12:12 PM + to quotes///A Memoir of the War///"At an Unnamed Height"///Further, deeper into history goes the Great Patriotic War.///Songs written during the years of battles are now broadcast on the radio in programs called "Songs of Our Fathers". But now there is a new song - a memory of the war. It was written for the film "Silence" by the poet Mikhail Matusovsky and the composer Beniamin Basner And people who had never heard the thunder of guns, born after 1945, took this song as their own, as a song of sons. Well, of course, the veteran fathers loved it too, but it's important for me to note that the younger generation has picked up a song that doesn't seem at all like " fashion hits " — songs that — whether they're worth it or not — are called "modern."///How to explain the nationwide success of this song? I think that, sounding for the first time on the eve of the twentieth anniversary of the Victory, the song responded to the renewed stirred up interest in the heroic past. In public life. like in the ocean. there are ebbs and flows.///The song "At an Unnamed Height" was brought by the tide. Attaching to the plot of the film "Silence", the song, however, could be completely independent: its task in the picture is to show the closeness of two front-line friends, to remind of the dead comrades. The poet painted in this song a picture that reliably conveys the combat situation, told an episode that could seem invented - whether there were few nameless heights, heavy battles and losses on the way from Brest to the Volga and from the Volga to the Elbe. But the search, conducted by the editorial board of the newspaper "Soviet Siberia", confirmed that the song "At the Nameless Height" is based on a real story, that in Novosibirsk they remember the names of all "eighteen guys", that, like many nameless heights, but in the song it was about one - about the height, which is located near the village of Rubezhenka, Kuibyshev district, Kaluga region. What combat episode became the basis of the song "At an Unnamed Height"? Nameless was in the offensive line of the 139th Infantry Division, there, in front, in the hands of the enemy. This height was dominant, its capture could dramatically change in our favor the situation on this sector of the front. In August 1943, the division received reinforcements - Siberian volunteers, Novosibirsk workers. The combat group, consisting of Siberians, communists, under the command of junior lieutenant Yevgeny Poroshin, was to make a bold operation - to pass on the night of September 14 behind enemy lines and capture the Bezymiannaya Hill. The radio call sign of this group of brave souls was the word "Moon". The Luna informed the command that the altitude was occupied. Then the events unfolded tragically. The Siberians discovered by the enemy were surrounded on all sides by many times superior enemy forces. Eighteen took the fight against two hundred!! The song sings: "There were only three of us out of eighteen guys" Only in this figure the poet was not extremely accurate. Alas, only two, only two survived - Sergeant Konstantin Vlasov and Private Gerasim Lapin. Wounded and shell-shocked, they miraculously escaped - Vlasov was captured, from there he fled to the partisans; Lapin was found by our advancing fighters among the corpses - he regained consciousness, recovered from his wounds and fought again as part of the 139th Division. So, I named three of the eighteen guys- the commander and the two survivors. But in Novosibirsk they remember all the names, and I consider it my duty to list them:///Nikolay Danilenko///Dmitry Yaruta///Emelyan Belokov///Petr Panin///Dmitry Shlyakhov///Roman Zakomoldin///Nikolay Galenkin///Timofey Kasabiev///Gavriil Vorobyev///Alexander Artamonov///Dmitry Lipovitser///Boris Kigel///Daniil Denisov///Petr Romanov///Ivan Kulikov///Of the eighteen heroes of Bezymiannaya, nine worked at the Sibselmash plant. Like the workshop of the plant, the brainchild of the first five-year plans, the Bezymiannaya Hill smoked on a September night. Shoulder to shoulder, Siberian workers stood in a circle, fighting to the last cartridge, to the last grenade. The former editor of the newspaper Nikolai Chaika tells on the pages of "Soviet Siberia": "On a September morning in 1943, on the duty of a front-line journalist, one of the first with advancing columns got to the Nameless Height near the unfamiliar village of Rubezhenka. It's hard to find the words to betray what I saw. Even in the poses of the sixteen already dead heroes, the intensity of the battle, his rage, remained. With a grenade clutched in his hand, with an index finger on the trigger of a machine gun, the bodies of the heroes lay in puddles of their own and enemy blood. The entire height was literally littered with fragments, shell casings, empty disks, helmets". Mikhail Matusovsky was on the part of the front where eighteen Siberians performed their feat. At the same time, he wrote the poem " Nameless Height ". But the poem turned out to be only a recording, a sketch of the song, born twenty years later. It was probably impossible to fit in the song a mention that the heroes of the Nameless Height were Siberians. It's a pity, because in the songs and legends there is still little said about the great feat of the Siberian volunteers, who showed legendary courage and bravery. At the height of Bezymiannaya in 1996, a monument was erected. On the stone are stanzas of the song. A fellow soldier of eighteen, Lieutenant Colonel V. Plotnikov, published a documentary novel about the heroes of Bezymiannaya. And the poet Mikhail Matusovsky attributed another stanza to his song: On the slopes of the stained Volga, On the banks of the Moskva River In your tanned half-coats Stood you Siberians. May your feat not be forgotten, As those will not be forgotten - At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height…/// Горела роща под горою И вместе с ней горел закат... Нас оставалось только трое Из восемнадцати ребят.Как много их, друзей хороших, Лежать осталось в темноте - У незнакомого поселка, На безымянной высоте.Светилась, падая, ракета, Как догоревшая звезда...Кто хоть однажды видел это, Тот не забудет никогда. Он не забудет, не забудет Атаки яростные те - У незнакомого поселка, На безымянной высоте. Над нами "мессеры" кружили, И было видно, словно днем...Но только крепче мы дружили Под перекрестным артогнем. И как бы трудно ни бывало, Ты верен был своей мечте - У незнакомого поселка, На безымянной высоте. Мне часто снятся все ребята, Друзья моих военных дней, Землянка наша в три наката, Сосна сгоревшая над ней. Как будто вновь я вместе с ними Стою на огненной черте - У незнакомого поселка, На безымянной высоте.
http://2w.su/memory/1090///Home » Memory///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1///Added: 28.02.2012 – 13:413 comments///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1Further, deeper into history goes the Great Patriotic War.///Songs written during those battles and about those years can now be heard often performed by young singers. One of them was written by the poet Mikhail Matusovsky and composer Veniamin Basner for the film "Silence" based on the novel by Yuri Bondarev. Her task in the picture is to show the closeness of two front-line friends, to remind of the fallen comrades. The poet painted in this song a picture that reliably conveys the combat situation, told an episode that could seem invented - whether there were few nameless heights, heavy battles and losses on the way from Brest to the Volga and from the Volga to the Elbe. But a search conducted by the editorial board of the newspaper "Soviet Siberia" confirmed that the song "At an Unnamed Height" is based on a real story, that in Novosibirsk they remember the names of all "eighteen guys", that, like many nameless heights, but in the song it was about one - about the height, which is located near the village of Rubezhenka in the Kuibyshev district of the Kaluga region. This "Nameless" was in the offensive zone of the 139th Infantry Division, there, in front, in the hands of the enemy. The height was dominant, its capture could dramatically change the situation in this sector of the front in our favor. It was September 13-14, 1943.///Unnamed - height 224.1. On which two survived...///The song sings, "There were only three of the eighteen guys left..." Only in this figure the poet was not extremely accurate. Alas, only two, only two survived - Sergeant Konstantin Vlasov and Private Gerasim Lapin. Wounded and shell-shocked, they miraculously escaped - Vlasov was captured, from there he fled to the partisans; Lapin was found by our advancing fighters among the corpses - he regained consciousness, recovered from his wounds and fought again as part of the 139th Division. Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1In August 1943, the division received reinforcements - Siberian volunteers, Novosibirsk workers. The combat group, consisting of Siberians, communists, under the command of junior lieutenant Yevgeny Poroshin, was to make a bold operation - to pass on the night of September 14 behind enemy lines and capture the Bezymiannaya Hill. The radio call sign of this group of brave souls was the word "Moon". The Luna informed the command that the altitude was occupied. Then the events unfolded tragically. The Siberians discovered by the enemy were surrounded on all sides by many times superior enemy forces. Eighteen took the fight against two hundred!!! During the Smolensk offensive operation of the Soviet troops in the autumn of 1943, in the offensive zone of the 139th Rifle Division (10th Army), the way of Soviet soldiers to the Desna River and the city of Roslavl was blocked by the heavily fortified hill 224.1, which dominated the entire terrain. It was fortified with three rows of trenches, densely littered with machine gun nests, two tanks, and a self-propelled "violinist" gun. Surrounded by minefields, the height occupied an important strategic position and seemed impregnable. Numerous attempts by the 718th regiment of Lieutenant Colonel E. G. Salov to seize the enemy's stronghold did not bring success. It was decided to create an assault group and entrust it with this task. There were a lot of volunteers. We chose the platoon of the Ural junior lieutenant E. I. Poroshin, who had already distinguished himself in the past battles. On the night of September 14, the assault group went on a mission. Stealthily sneaking up on the fortifications, the Siberians threw grenades at the first trench and the Hitlerites in it, knocked them out and rushed to the second row of fortifications. The suddenness of the attack, the swiftness of the actions allowed to quickly overcome 600 meters and break into the height! However, the eighth infantry company of the third battalion following them was cut off by machine gun fire and the assault group was surrounded by superior enemy forces. Having occupied a circular defense, the brave men fought an unequal bloody battle throughout the night. Sergeant Major Panin was the first to die, then Yemelyan Belokonov fell silent, then Lipovetser and Shlyakhov. Destroying the enemy machine gun with grenades, the commander of the group Poroshin fell from an enemy bullet. The survivors dug in and continued to hold back the onslaught of the enemy. The Siberians repulsed several attacks of the Hitlerites. In the morning, an artillery firefight began. The Germans shot ours at point-blank range with tanks, cannons and six-barrel mortars. Dmitry Yaruta's legs were broken by a mine, Boris Kitel's arm was torn off. Bleeding profusely, they continued to fire at the enemy until their last breath. All wounded, Nikolai Golenkin rose to his full height and, holding the machine gun with his left hand (the right was broken and hung like a whip), rushed forward, shooting at the enemy. Breaking into the ranks of the enemy, he fell on the machine guns of the fascists. So at the cost of his life, Golenkin gave his comrades the opportunity to reload weapons, bandage wounds, gather strength and continue the deadly battle. With the dawn, the strength of the Siberians dried up. At first, everything went quiet on the right flank, where Denisov's group was fighting back. Then Artamonov fell, fighting alongside Vlasov. Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1 Conducting this deadly battle, the group shackled significant enemy forces, which made it possible for the main forces of the 718th regiment to deliver a cruel blow to the enemy from the flanks and throw it back behind the Desna River. The way to Roslavl was open. On the morning of September 14, 1943, when the soldiers of the 718th Rifle Regiment broke through to the heights, they saw a picture of a brutal bloody massacre. In addition to the sixteen dead of our soldiers, there were more than a hundred corpses of German soldiers and officers from the units of the 317th Grenadier and 365th Infantry Regiments of the German Army. And in one of the craters, covered with earth, our soldiers saw a protruding shoe, and when they began to dig up, they found their fellow soldier Gerasim Lapin, who still had a pulse beating. The explosion of the mine concussed him and threw him into a crater, and then sprinkled. In the medsanbat, the soldier was treated, and then he continued to fight as part of the same regiment, was wounded twice, but both times after recovery he returned to his unit. Then he was sent to study and transferred to another unit, from which he reached Berlin. After the war, Lapin returned to his native Donetsk. The fate of another surviving hero of unnamed heights, Sergeant Konstantin Vlasov, was different. When he ran out of ammunition, he made a bunch of three grenades, and left the fourth for the most extreme case. As the four Fritz began to approach him, he threw a bunch of grenades and laid them on the spot. Then seven more showed up. Vlasov decided to let them get closer and blow them up with the last grenade, but the grenade did not explode, and he was captured wounded. Sergeant Vlasov spent a day in the Roslavl prison, 49 days in the Bobruisk pow camp. On November 4, 1943, the prisoners were loaded into a train and taken west to Germany. Just before the shipment, Kostya hid a primitive folding knife with a flat handle under the insole of another shoe. Already on the way, under the sound of the wheels, Vlasov, together with other prisoners, alternately cut the board with this knife against the external lock of the door, squeezed out the cut board, unwound the wire on the cheek and, rolling out the heavy wagon door, jumped out of the car at full speed. In the darkness of the night, they scattered through the surrounding bushes. A few minutes later, they were called out by the guerrillas. Together with other fighters who escaped from German slavery, Vlasov was enrolled in the Belarusian partisan detachment "Avenger", participated in many partisan operations, mercilessly avenged his fallen comrades. After the war he worked in Novosibirsk at his native plant. He died in 1978.///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1Of the eighteen heroes of Bezymiannaya, nine worked for the front at the Sibselmash plant.///As the workshop of the plant-brainchild of the first five-year plans - the Height of Bezymiannaya smoked on a September night. Shoulder to shoulder, Siberian workers stood in a circle, fighting to the last cartridge, to the last grenade. https://2w.su/memory/1090/2///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1///Added: 28.02.2012 – 13:413 comments///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1Private Artamonov Alexander Alekseevich. He was a jack-of-all-trades. He loved to sing, with a song he took on any job. Having prepared himself, he passed the chauffeur exams. He loved and knew how to draw well. When the war began, he did not get out of the cockpit for days. He was appointed head of the transport department of the plant. Alexander Alekseevich more than once asked to go to the front. He was not released for a long time, but in June 1943 his request was granted.///Private Belokonov Emelyan Ivanovich. His career began in 1917 at the Rostov plant. In 1928 he went to build Rostselmash. A few years later, Belokov became the chairman of the Rostselmash construction site. Before the war, he worked on a construction site of great importance. He arrived in Novosibirsk as part of a construction company. From here, with a ticket from the October District Committee of the party, he voluntarily went to the front.///Sergeant Vlasov Konstantin Nikolaevich. Konstantin Vlasov was one of only two survivors of this battle. When he ran out of ammunition, he decided to blow himself up and the fascists surrounding him with the last grenade. He pulled out a check, but there was no explosion. The Nazis seized him and threw him in the Roslavl prison, then in the Bobruisk pow camp, and from there he was sent to the West. I ran off the train. From November 5, 1943 to June 5, 1944, Sergeant Vlasov served as a private in a separate detachment "Avenger" of the Minsk region, where he was seriously wounded.///Private Vorobyov Gavriil Andreevich. Master of Management of Housing and Communal Construction. Gavriil Vorobyov came to Sibselmash when the plant was still under construction. At first, he carried land from the factory pits. He then led a team of locksmiths. Everyone knew this huge, dense healthy man as a man of a tender soul, who knew how to smile joyfully and kindly, cheerfully and wittily joke. At the front, with his light hand, a tale went for a walk around the regiment that a soldier always shares with the enemy: he leaves himself a shell casing, sends a bullet to the enemy. He loved work, song and life. So he remained in the memory and hearts of those who knew him.///Private Golenkin Nikolai Ivanovich. He fell to the death of a hero where his youth passed. Golenkin was appointed responsible for the evacuation of the enterprise where he worked. He escorted his comrades to the rear, and he asked to go to the front. The last echelon he was sent to Siberia. He worked as a foreman, a partorg of the workshop. I worked for days. He gave his ration to the weak. In July 1943 he volunteered to go to the front.///Sergeant Danilenko Nikolay Fedorovich. He was born and raised in the village of Lyagushye, Kupinsky District, Novosibirsk Region. He was not even two years old when his father, a Red Partisan, was killed. Nikolai joined the Komsomol and began to work as a mechanic. He served in the Navy for four years. In December 1940, communist Nikolai Danilenko returned to Siberia and began working at the factory.///Senior Sergeant Denisov Daniil Alekseevich. Hereditary master modeler. He built Komsomolsk-on-Amur, served in the tank troops, and when labor reserves were created, he was among those who were entrusted with the education of the younger working shift. The war began, and Daniel declared: "Since there is a war, then we will go to war!" But he was not allowed to go to the front, he was ordered to prepare a labor shift for the front-line soldiers. Before him, his sisters Olga and Anna went into the army.///Senior Sergeant Zakomoldin Roman Emelyanovich. He grew up in the Tambov region in a large friendly family. He was among the first to join the Komsomol. In 1933 it was time to serve in the Red Army. Roman was sent to the artillery. After the army, he went to Taganrog, to his relatives, and began to work at the combine harvester plant. With the beginning of the war, together with the staff of the plant, he evacuated to Novosibirsk. In the autumn of 1941 he applied to be accepted as a member of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). His comrades, without hesitation, gave him a recommendation. One of them is the ball of Gerasim Ilyich Lapin. The same Lapin with whom Roman had to fight on Nameless Heights.///Private Kasabiev Tatari Nalykovich. In his autobiography, he wrote: "Before the revolution, my father had nothing but working hands." The Soviet government gave their family a happy life. In 1931 he joined the Komsomol. Then he worked at one of the factories in the Dzerzhinsky district of Novosibirsk. During the war, all five Kasabiev brothers defended their homeland.///Sergeant Kigel Boris Davydovich. He volunteered for the front from the Novosibirsk Meat Processing Plant, where he grew from an apprentice electrician to chief technologist. He was a man of inexhaustible energy and diverse interests. Almost as a boy, Komsomolets Boris Kigel, at the call of the party, went to the village to participate in the elimination of illiteracy, there he designed a receiver. He was interested in the problems of automation of production and improvement of the quality of products. He was an active innovator. At the beginning of the war, he volunteered to go to the front.///Private Kulikov Ivan Ivanovich. Born in Tobolsk. The range of his interests was wide. In his free time, Ivan Ivanovich can be found reading volumes of Pushkin, Lermontov, Goethe. He loved to draw, to paint landscapes. He was a tall, strong, not too talkative, but very sympathetic and sincere person, a good friend, a worker and a family man. On the day when the house where the Kulikov family lived burned down, Ivan Ivanovich Kulikov kissed his wife and daughter and volunteered for the front.///Private Lapin Gerasim Ilyich. Before the war, Gerasim Lapin was a miner, elected chairman of the precinct committee of the trade union. In the first days of the war, he was sent to Novosibirsk to help quickly install the equipment necessary for the production of ammunition. In the battle on Nameless Heights, Lapin was thrown aside by the blast wave, and he lost consciousness. In a deep hole under a bush, our fighters found it. It was he who told about what was happening beyond the "fiery line". Private Lapin reached Berlin and avenged the death of his friends. In the autumn of 1945, he returned to his native Donbass.///Private Lipovetser Elyusha Yakovlevich. At the Kharkov Tractor Plant, he was known as a wonderful technologist. He worked a lot, sparing neither effort nor time. Heavystankogidropress came to Novosibirsk when this enterprise did not yet exist. There were two empty buildings. Machines had to be installed in them. Lipovetser and a team of sixteen-year-old boys and girls completed the task. Before leaving for the front, he ran to the factory and slowly said: "Well, guys, I came to say goodbye. Leave. See you soon!"///Petty Officer Panin Petr Ivanovich. He served in Baku, the Far East and Siberia. He was tasked with testing ammunition. He worked all day at the test site. "You are already at the front," Panin was told at the military recruitment office when he came to ask for the active army. And only after the new type of ammunition was fully mastered, the communist Panin Pyotr Ivanovich was sent to the front.///Private Romanov Pyotr Andreevich. Pyotr Romanov was the youngest of eighteen. He grew up in the village of Mishenskoye, Tula Region. Since childhood, he loved poetry. At the age of fifteen he became a collective farm accountant. Everyone was happy with his work. I was looking forward to the time to serve in the army. He served in the Far East in anti-aircraft artillery. He went to work at the plant - and he was evacuated together with the plant to Novosibirsk. In the summer of 1943 he went to the front. He wrote to his family: "I am going to take revenge on the fascist bastards. Guys are better than the other. The Germans will remember us!"///Private Shlyakhov Dmitry Ageevich. Communist Dmitry Ageevich Shlyakhov became the commander of production after graduating from the Institute of Transport Engineering. In the first months of the war, he had to organize the relocation of machine tools to the Urals, to Siberia. Then supervise their installation in Krasnoyarsk and Novosibirsk. Despite the softness of his character and the fact that he did not serve in the army until 1943, the soldier from Shlyakhov turned out to be excellent. He held the weapon in his hands firmly and confidently, shot unusually accurately and gave his life in the fight against the enemy.///Private Yaruta Dmitry Ilyich. At the age of sixteen he went to build the Dneproges. Then I went to Zaporizhstal. He worked as a worker, exceeded the standards, studied. He was a komsorg of the workshop, a slave of the factory circulation. He volunteered to go to the front also because he wanted to take revenge on the Nazis for the death of his two brothers./// Junior Lieutenant Poroshin Evgeny Ivanovich. Squad leader. Born on February 3, 1913 in Yekaterinburg. After graduating from school, he entered the Chemical and Technological College. After his graduation, he went to the north of the region on the Komsomol voucher, where a whole complex of factories was being built. In the autumn of 1935 he was drafted into the army. In November 1941 he participated in the battles near Moscow. He was wounded, but rushed from the hospital to the front. In the 718th Rifle Regiment, Second Lieutenant Poroshin arrived when ours broke through to the Snopot River./// https://2w.su/memory/1090/3///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1///Added: 28.02.2012 – 13:413 comments///On a quiet August morning, Second Lieutenant Poroshin arrived at the 718th Regiment, where he received a platoon of Siberians. - The main task of each of us is to defeat the German pack. And only then will it be possible to live normally," the officer said, getting acquainted with subordinates. Such were they - people who loved their work, team, family, soldiers with diplomas of technology and engineering, with the hearts of knights without fear, volunteers from Novosibirsk.///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1Roslavl and Chausy, Mogilev and Lomzha, the approaches to Königsberg and Chersk, Gdansk and Pomerania - this path was taken by the Roslavl Red Banner order of Suvorov 139th Rifle Division, in which siberians fought. And every time the unit received reinforcements, the newcomers were told about the battle on Nameless Heights. The fallen heroes survived their deaths. Their feat became an example of courage and a standard of behavior in battle. Together with the fellow soldiers of the heroes, the son of Emelyan Belokonov, pilot Ivan Belokonov, carried the baton of the feat. He, too, was killed in action. And later in the ranks of the army served the son of Nikolai Ivanovich Golenkin - a tankman Valery Golenkin. Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1Years passed, the children of the fighters grew up. The wounds inflicted by the war were healed. The children of Gavriil Andreevich Vorobyov worked in the factories of Novosibirsk. The eldest daughter of Alexandra Gavriilovna was a drummer of communist labor. The daughter of Boris Davydovich Ktsigel - Tatyana Borisovna - Candidate of Medical Sciences, investigated the effect of a new heart drug. They graduated from institutes in absentia and received diplomas of engineers Valya Yaruta and Tonya Kasabiyeva. Good workers were Elena and Dmitry Belokonov, Olimpiada and Lyudmila Artamonov, Lyudmila Kasabieva, Vladimir and Nina Kulikov, Elvira Shlyakhova. Children and grandchildren have grown up to be worthy heirs to the glory of their fathers...///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1///The grove under the mountain smoked, And with it the sunset burned...There were only three of us left Of the eighteen guys. How many of them, good friends, To lie in the dark - At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height. A rocket glowed, falling, Like a burnt star...Whoever has ever seen this will never forget it. He won't forget, he won't forget the Violent Attacks — At an unfamiliar village, On an unnamed height. Above us, the "messers" circled, And it was visible, as if during the day... But only stronger we were friends Under the crossfire of artillery. And no matter how hard it was, You were true to your dream – At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height. I often dream of all the guys, Friends of my war days, Our dugout in three rolls, the Pine burned over it. It's as if once again I'm standing with them on a fiery line — At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height. Mikhail Matusovsky was on the sector of the front where eighteen Siberians performed their feat. At the same time, he wrote the poem "Nameless Height". But the poem turned out to be only a recording, a sketch of the song, born twenty years later.///Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1 At the height of 224.1 - Nameless - a monument was erected///The memorial complex on Bezymiannaya Height was opened on May 9, 1980 and was built according to the project of Moscow sculptors brothers Alexander Dmitrievich and Nikolai Dmitrievich Shcherbakov and architect, laureate of the State Prize of the RSFSR Evgeny Ivanovich Kireev. Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1A native of the Kuibyshev district (on the territory of which the height of 224.1 is located), the writer Sergei Mikheenkov wrote the story "Nameless Height". When you read what kind of events unfolded here on the night of September 13-14, 1943, you understand how strong in spirit our soldiers were, selfless, invincible. Feat at Unnamed Height No. 224.1A fellow soldier of eighteen, Lieutenant Colonel V. Plotnikov, published a documentary story about the heroes of Bezymiannaya, calling it "Soldiers from the Song", wrote essays on the combat and life path of eighteen Siberian volunteers.///Plotnikov's book conveys the drama of that battle: It was past midnight, and none of the brave volunteers knew what kind of counterattack they were repelling...The Germans were very close. How you need at least a little respite to recharge the machines. Then the bleeding communist Nikolai Ivanovich Golenkin decided, at the cost of his own life, to snatch a respite from the enemy for his comrades. Clenching his teeth, he stood up to his full height and, holding the machine gun with his right hand – the left one hangs like a whip – rushed at the enemies. Bloodied, blackened by gunpowder soot and dust, terrible and formidable in his anger, he staggered, walking and walking, continuously watering his enemies with machine gun bursts. From the surprise, the Hitlerites groaned. In the sudden silence of the enemy, it was heard in broken Russian language: - The Russian is golden! Don't shoot! Respect your courage! You've fought like lions, but there aren't many of you. Surrender. Mi guarantee your life! - Fascist bastard, I'll show you the "guarantee" !.. Gavriil Vorobyov shouted. His words were drowned in the roar of a grenade thrown by Sergeant Danilenko. The picture, which unfolded in front of eyewitnesses of the consequences of this battle, is indelibly imprinted in the memory. From the memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel of the Reserve, former editor of the newspapers of the Roslavl Red Banner Order of Suvorov of the 139th Rifle Division and "Soviet Siberia" Nikolai Chaika: "On a September morning in 1943, on the duty of a front-line journalist, one of the first with the advancing columns got to the Nameless Height near the unfamiliar village of Rubezhenka. It's hard to find the words to convey what I saw. Even in the poses of the sixteen already dead heroes, the intensity of the battle, his rage, remained. With a grenade clutched in his hand, with an index finger on the trigger of a machine gun, the bodies of the heroes lay in puddles of their own and enemy blood. The entire height was literally littered with shrapnel, shell casings, empty disks, helmets. I knew many Siberians long before this fierce night battle, I talked with them more than once, "agitated" to become military leaders of our newspaper. And now, peering into their black bloodied faces, I didn't recognize anyone: before that they had been disfigured. Enemies were already mocking the dead brave souls. Everything that I happened to see that morning on the Nameless Height, everything that was told to us by the participant of this unequal battle, Private Gerasim Ilyich Lapin, who returned to his battalion, we immediately told us in the divisional newspaper and "combat leaflets". So the feat of the Siberians soon became known to the entire front."///As you know, two survived - G.I. Lapin and K.N. Vlasov./// G.I. Lapin said about that night: "I cannot describe the actions of everyone. I was an ordinary soldier and could not see the entire battlefield. And there once was. We were divided into pairs: one fires, the other charges the disks to the machine guns, and then vice versa. I remember how Boris Davidovich Kigel's arm was torn off. Refusing to bandage, he fought with one hand. And only when this hero was mortally wounded, his machine gun fell silent. I remember how Nikolai Ivanovich Galenkin was wounded in the left arm. He hit the enemy with one right hand. Then he was shot in the stomach. He gathered all his strength, got up and went at the enemy, firing. Machine guns are fired at him, and he goes and goes, instilling fear in the fascists. Only after catching up with their ranks, Galenkin fell dead.
https://rg.ru/2005/02/22/partizan.html///The hero of the popular song partisan in the Belarusian forests///Why is the museum with such a big name located in Gorelce? The teacher is a pensioner, partisan and front-line soldier Sergei Sipach is clearly surprised by this question. - Where else?! On November 7, 1942, a partisan parade dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the October Revolution was held in our village - under the very nose of the Hitlerites. 1200 partisans and local residents participated in it. The event, you will agree, for the occupied territory is really extraordinary. But another story led me to Gorelec, traces of which were searched for a long time by a local history teacher. Back in the 1960s, Sergei Ivanovich was inspired by the idea of creating a partisan museum at the school. It all began, however, with the book of Kovpak, who never fought in the Pukhov region. But about him, as a hero of the Great Patriotic War, Sipach told in history lessons. Then Kovpak was still alive. Once the children asked a difficult question related to a Ukrainian partisan, and thereby put Sergei Ivanovich in a deadlock. The teacher wrote a letter to Kiev, not even knowing the exact address of the hero. Among other things, he shared his thoughts on the need to restore the local guerrilla memory. Soon the parcel arrived. It contains the book "From Putivl to the Carpathians" and warm words of support from Kovpak himself. And letters flew all over the Union. Among many, Konstantin Nikolaevich Vlasov from Novosibirsk also responded. An ordinary fighter from the Avenger squad. Sipach knew about him from the memories of other partisans. The local historian of the "Avenger" case planned to show a separate exposition in the future museum. This small detachment fought the fascists and policemen selflessly. Only from May 1943 to July 3, 1944, the "avengers" conducted 87 operations to blow up the railway track. They destroyed and damaged 79 steam locomotives, 784 wagons with fascists, and equipment. Ambushes were organized on the highway 36 times, dozens of trucks and cars were destroyed. But, discovering all these statistics, Sipach searched for living stories in the memory of his old and new acquaintances, tried to restore the fate of the dead "forest soldiers". One of the former partisans dropped the phrase: "You know, because Vlasov died twice. The first time was at an unnamed height. This is what is sung about him in the movie "Silence"...The fact of Sipach was intriguing. And he began to collect everything that was written about the battles near Roslavl, where the very height was located, and the famous 139th Roslavl Red Banner Division. It was formed in Chuvashia, and there lived and worked a fellow countryman, a former partisan and former secretary of the Rudensky underground district committee of the Komsomol Andrei Tarasov. He even wrote a book about his brother-in-arms, and he came to Gorelets from distant Cheboksary more than once. Slowly - bit by bit - everything became clear for Sergei Ivanovich. And the author of the words "At an Unnamed Height" - the poet Mikhail Matusovsky - also helped. He sent a book about the heroes of the 139th to the museum and told how the song known to millions of people was born. "Not far from the large village of Betlitsa, Kuibyshevsky District, Kaluga Region, there is the village of Rubezhenka," Mikhail Matusovsky recalled. - There, near this "unfamiliar village", is the height marked on the map with the number 224.1. Eighteen fighters from the 139th Division fought for this height... I was told about the unequal battle of the soldiers by the editor of the large-circulation newspaper "Stalin's Call" Nikolai Chaika during one of the trips to the unit of the 2nd Belorussian Front. And then, many years later, the director Vladimir Basov, who shot the film "Silence" at the Mosfilm studio, needed a song-memory of the dead, who did not reach Berlin, did not see the Red Banner over the Reichstag, did not hear the peaceful silence, those who put the most precious thing on the altar of Victory - life. Vladimir Basov appealed to the Leningrad composer Veniamin Basner and me with a request that we write such a song...///The grove under the mountain smoked, And with it the sunset was burning...There were only three of us left. Of the eighteen guys...///What about Vlasov? Is he one of those three? Let's restore the events at Hill 224.1, on the capture of which it depended on whether the 139th Division could reach Roslavl. 18 brave men volunteered to form a strike group to break through the German defenses. The first 600 meters were overcome quickly enough. We broke into the heights. The success of the group began to develop the eighth company, which went around. But it met with strong resistance. A combat report with a note has been preserved: "... the company, on approach to the trenches, was cut off from 18 men from the flanks and shelled by heavy fire." After several attacks, the company broke into the first and then the second line of enemy trenches. And 18 brave souls still fought on the back slope of the Nameless, cut off from their own. Under heavy fire from fascist machine guns, the fighters stood to their death. And they withstood several counterattacks. And in the morning, when the units of the 139th Division broke through to the heights, they found the bodies of the dead Red Army soldiers lying mixed with the Germans. As it turned out at first, only Private Gerasim Lapin remained alive. The blast wave threw the soldier aside. Once in a deep hole, he lost consciousness. Lapin was taken to the hospital. And the rest were taken by a mass grave. Konstantin Vlasov was also "buried". In the documents, the corresponding entry was made: "... buried in mass grave No. 24 tenth on the right." A funeral was sent home... But in fact, Vlasov, when the Nazis came close to him, pulled out the check of the last grenade. But for some reason there was no explosion. The Nazis seized the exhausted soldier. First, the Roslavl prison. Then - a concentration camp in Bobruisk. From there we managed to escape. The National Archives of Belarus still keeps a certificate: "Vlasov Konstantin Nikolaevich, born in 1911, military rank of sergeant, served as an ordinary partisan in a separate detachment "Avenger" of the Minsk region from November 5, 1943 to July 5, 1944. He arrived at the partisans from the Bobruisk POW camp and escaped while transporting prisoners by rail." "Fellow soldiers also considered Konstantin Nikolayevich dead for a long time," says Sergei Ivanovich. - And only in 1964 he was invited to the village of Rubezhenka. Together with Gerasim Lapin, he opened a monument in honor of those who died at an altitude of 224.1. And we in our museum "Partisan Glory" separately highlighted in the exposition the history of the song "At an Unnamed Height". We also have a book of personnel of the Avenger squad. Opposite the surname Vlasov - a note that he ... died during a guerrilla operation. We hurried again. A soldier from the "Nameless" did not die, he was only wounded, he was buried in one of the forest villages. And after getting a little stronger, I returned to the squad. By the way, Konstantin Nikolaevich visited not so long ago and in our Gorelets hiding in the forest, he walked through the places where he once was a partisan. We invited to the meeting former fighters of the Avenger squad, those whom we could find. And they cried, and they sang, and they remembered... When, it happens, we spend an evening in our school or village club and invite veterans to visit, young artists always perform a song dear to all of us: It's like I'm with them again. I stand on the fiery line - At an unfamiliar village, At an unnamed height. Want to know more about the Union State? Subscribe to our news in social networks.
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