story about Nicholas Sirotinin first became public in the distant 1958.Then, unknown to anyone village librarian Falconer B. Miller described the history of the confrontation soldier artillery enemy tank battalion.Nikolai Sirotinin, a feat which even today remains a shining example of personal heroism of the Soviet soldier, became the hero of the story.
Nikolai Sirotinin: data about fighter
The family of Vladimir and Elena Kuzmich Sirotinina Korneevna Sirotinina March 7, 1921 a son named him Nicholas.The boy's father worked as a locomotive engineer, his mother engaged in farming and raising children and their families in addition to Coley had three.The family lived in the city of Orel.After high school, you know, that Nicholas worked at the plant "TEKMASH."In 1940 he was called to the front.He served as an ordinary soldier of the Red Army of Polotsk.
Nikolai Sirotinin: feat
In June 1940 the Belarusian town of Krichev tried to take 4th Panzer Division, is in a group of troops Heinz Guderian, one of the prominent German generals.Portions of the 13th Soviet army were forced to retreat.To cover the withdrawal of the column, was needed artillery support.There were two guns -komandir batteries and twenty years, puny boy Sirotinin Nikolai Vladimirovich.The gun was hidden on a collective farm field in high rye.Deployment of Russian was good gun stood on the hill, but the enemy did not see them.Before gunners opened view of the road and the bridge over the river Dobrost.
July 17, 1941 a column of German tanks drove to the highway.Battery commander coordinated the firing of guns.The first shot knocked the sergeant Sirotinin first tank on the bridge, the second hit the armored vehicle bringing up the rear.So the young soldier managed to create a plug.The enemy, in turn, decided that he was dealing with a whole battery of guns and at least a dozen soldiers.
At this time, Lieutenant-spotter was wounded and retreated to the other parts.Nicholas had to follow the example of their commander, but Sirotinin saw that he still has 60 rounds, he was to hold back the onslaught of the enemy.
on the bridge of a traffic jam, two tanks lined tried to push the car, but they are waiting for the same fate.As a result, the hero Sirotinin knocked out 11 tanks, armored personnel carriers 6, 57 infantry.
only two hours the enemy command to determine where the gun Nicholas.By this time he had left three rounds.At the end of combat artillery returned fire with a rifle, but the living is not given, although the German commander and offered such an option.
Nikolai Sirotinin, a feat which went down in history of the Great Patriotic War, was buried as a hero in the village of Falconer German military.Enemies for a long time could not believe that they were opposed only one Russian.
History was restored thanks to the notes of General Friedrich Hendlefa, commander of the 4th Armored Division.And the villagers of the village falconer heard in the sky was released triple salvo.
fiction or the real story?
Nikolai Sirotinin, a feat which was an example of courage and valor in the Great Patriotic War, when the enemy was strong, and the Russian soldiers had only a gun, became known throughout the country.This story was published by local historian from Krichev MFMelnikov in the magazine "Ogonyok" in 1958.Modern researchers have decided to track the accuracy of the battle of the falconer and found that indeed such a defensive operation was carried out and the Soviet troops really managed to keep the enemy on the outskirts of the city.
also now known that this feat of the Soviet soldier Nikolai Sirotinina was re-released two years later in "Literaturnaya".In this article, the story has acquired facts, and lined art became much more.
In 1987, in his book "It was our dear region centuries" the same local historian published a story "The word of the great soldier," in which embellished the legend.
Was there Nicholas?
Among researchers the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet period, such contradictory facts somehow not in doubt.Modern historians have come to a more detailed study of this issue.They found that in fact was a soldier Sirotinin Nikolay Vladimirovich, but he served in another division that has never been in these parts.
But whatever it was, a battle near the village of Falconer took place.This is a historically established fact, confirmed by documentary evidence.
As for acts which Sirotinin documented but notes local historian, does not exist.The graves of Russian soldier-hero either.According to eyewitnesses, she was moved to another location, and the remains of Nicholas reburied in a mass grave.Hero of the Soviet Union's legendary warrior has not received due to lack of relatives of the deceased photos.He was posthumously awarded him the Order of the Great Patriotic War only I degree.
One of the researchers of our time "unearthed" the real story of the battle at the Warsaw highway, which took place in those days, on the outskirts of the city of Krichev.The troops of the Red Army began to beat a hasty retreat across the river Sozh.Cover the soldiers had the 2nd Infantry Battalion under the command of Nicholas A. Kim, a Korean national.It is the first day of the war he joined the Red Army, took this path to the end and survived.It's his fighters carried out their task, detained enemy and allowed Russian soldiers to relocate without substantial losses.
"Nikolai Sirotinin. One soldier in the field. The feat of the 41-year"
In 2013, one of the patriotic channel was shot forty-minute film about the heroes of the Great Patriotic War (in particular, the author was trying to perpetuate a lone gunner NikolaiSirotinina).As the documentary evidence was provided archival evidence villagers falconer.The picture was very instructive, emotional and motivating.The author tried to show that the feat Nikolay Sirotnin made not because he was fearless, but because of a sense of duty and love for his homeland.
role of lone heroes in the Great Patriotic War
During World War II there were people whose personal example will raise the morale of the Russian soldier, who in the early years of failing defeats the whole front line was very weak.It is through such heroes, albeit legendary, it was rebuffed Nazi Germany.Nikolai Sirotinin - is a collective image of the Russian soldier, a hero who alone is able to stop the division and defeat the enemy with his bare hands.
Such legends are important for the education of today's youth, but do not forget about the real people who have made a real feat.At the cost of their lives, they defeated the enemy, have enabled us to future generations, to live in peace and breathe.
