Biography of Tungus Sniper
Get one most read article once a day. Join us on Facebook and VKontakte. Subscription can be unsubscribed at any time. During the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet sniper of Hamnigan descent Semyon Nomokonov alone destroyed the Nazis, including Major General. In March, the Soviet Informburo reported that two hundred and sixty -three Germans were liquidated by them. It turns out that with the efforts of Danilovich alone, the number of the Nazi army was almost daily decreased by one fighter.
Another 8 Kwantunovites were exterminated by him in the Soviet-Japanese war. Nomonov seeds from the beginning of the war have been familiar from childhood with working weapons of the three -line rifle Mosin. And only by the end of the th, after dozens of successful sorties, he switched to optics. A hunter from the Shilkin Hamnigans and attempts to learn a letter to the elusive Soviet Tungus.
He regularly went to a large beast with a child, and he received the nickname “The Eye of the Korshun” for accuracy and ingenuity in his native places. By the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, Nomokonov was already married to him a second time, raised children from both marriages, worked as a collective farm carrier and traditionally engaged in hunting crafts.
Semyon picked up the first textbooks only at 32, trying to master the Russian letter with his younger son. However, he could not learn to read and write fluently. An unsuccessful start on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War and fatal random shot at first the illiterate Siberian hunter experienced difficulties in the service. Problems arose at the Date of Evenks out of the blue: the Siberian who was incorrectly understanding the orders was sent to the kitchen by the assistant cook, but from there he was driven away due to a “non-bribed” slicing of bread.
It’s not in the best way that things went on a military uniform, where the Siberian confused the size, collecting uniform sets out of place. The next place of Nomokonov’s service was the sanitary detachment, where he and the colleague group were evacuated from the battlefield of the wounded. Somehow, after the overwhelming German bombardment in the fall of Go, the future sniper loaded on the stretcher of the injured soldier.
Out of the corner of his eye, Semyon noticed a German aiming at him. Having assessed the situation in a matter of seconds, he threw up a rifle lying near the wounded and struck the attacking on the spot with one exact shot. The witnesses of the incident were shocked by what they saw, not expecting such quickness, accuracy and composure from the illiterate orderly orderly. Rumors about Nomokonov spread on all nearby fronts, reaching the command.
And very soon the promising fighter was enrolled in a sniper platoon. Work in tandem with a first -class sniper and revenge for the fighting comrade Semyon Nomokonov and Tongan Sanjiyev. Among his colleagues, he met his fellow countryman - the authoritative sniper Sanjiyev, on the account of which at that time were listed near the destroyed Nazis. Nomokonov’s first battle exit was just paired with Sanzhiev.
Having taken positions, snipers were waiting for prey. Having discovered the target, Sanzhiev opened fire and missed. The response German bullet was deadly for the Buryat ASA. Struck by a combat comrade so simply ragged by life, Nomokonov vowed to take revenge on the Nazis and, in particular, the murderer of Sanzhiev. Nomokonov tracked down the Germans for several days, lying in a cheese trench, moving only at night and skillfully masking.
The hunt for the enemy sniper ended with his workshop with the liquidation, and Semyon Nomokonov put the first mark on his tobacco pipe. Colleagues-Snipers surprised the oddities of Semyon Danilovich. The rifle with an optical sight, he preferred Mosin’s “three -line” to the optics he was convinced to go to m. He traditionally held all kinds of laces, threads, fragments of mirrors with him.
On his feet he wore horses made of horse hair, making his movement silent. All these devices from childhood allowed Semyon to deceive animals, but now he used his knowledge in people hunting. For such habits, the colleagues called Nomokonov a "taiga shaman." He was masked so that he was not even found for a long time, not to mention the Germans. The sniper arranged many hours of rest in wheat fields, reincarnated into boulders and stumps, and once was disguised as a smoke pipe on the roof of a burned-up building.
Nomokonov’s surname was known to the enemy. One of the captive fascists said that among the Germans there were rumors that in the ranks of Russian snipers a cunning and cruel Tungus appeared like Genghis Khan. The Germans staged a real hunt for him, sending the best shooters and scouts along his elusive traces. He angered the Nomokonov fascists in October G., having struck the general of the Hitler’s bet, who arrived to inspect the first -line troops.
Even enemy artillery hunted Siberian. As soon as he shot at the next target, in addition to dense rifle fire, lead rain from mortars and artillery of all calibers fell on the area of his position, in addition to dense rifle fire. Nomokonov was wounded at least nine times, it was also shell -shocked several times. However, the Nazis failed to get a jewelry working Soviet sniper.A dozen wounds and post -war goods "Taiga Shaman".
Fighting the Japanese, he also masterfully “took off” 8 members of the Kwantun Army. His post -war life took shape successfully. The eldest son, who defended his homeland like his father, returned home alive and healthy. Being part of a sniper group, the nomocon-Jr., to whom accuracy and strategic mindset was inherited, with his own hand liquidated 56 Nazis. In the family, Semyon Danilovich was born six more children.
Subsequently, all nine offspring of the legendary sniper served for the good of the country in the Navy, in tank units, in intelligence and military construction. Nomokonov continued to work on the collective farm, despite the acquired celebrity. Both journalists and ordinary people who wanted to thank the sniper for excellent service came to him from afar.