Sasha sailor biography

The tombstone of the view of 3 sailors Alexander Matveevich-an Assistant shooter of the 2nd separate battalion of the Siberian Siberian Volunteer Brigade named after I. Stalin of the 6th Stalin Siberian Volunteer Rifle Corps of the Kalinin Front, Red Army soldier. He lost his parents early. Since the year, the Ulyanovsk Region was brought up in the Ivanovo regime orphanage, and he graduated from 7 classes.

In the year he was aimed at a car repair plant in the city of Kuibyshev now - Samara, but soon escaped from there. He served a term in the Ufa children's labor colony. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he repeatedly addressed written requests to send him to the front. He was drafted into the Red Army by the Kirovsky district committee of the city of Ufa of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in September and sent to the Krasnokholm Infantry School October of the year, but soon most of the cadets were sent to the Kalinin front.

In the army since November. He served as part of the 2nd separate rifle battalion and a separate Siberian volunteer brigade named after I. Stalin later and the later guards rifle regiment of the Guards Rifle Division, the Kalininsky front. For some time the brigade was in reserve. Then she was transferred near Pskov to the area of ​​a large chipper boron. Right from the march, the brigade joined the battle.

As soon as our soldiers went through the forest and went to the edge of it, they fell under a strong machine -gun fire of the enemy - three enemy machine guns in the bunks covered the approaches to the village. One machine gun suppressed the assault group of machine gunners and armor -piercing. The second bunker was destroyed by another group of armor -piercing.

But the machine gun from the third bunker continued to shell all the hollow in front of the village. Attempts to make him silent were unsuccessful. Then the Red Army soldier Alexander Matrosov crawled towards the bunker. He crept up to the embrasure from the flank and threw two grenades. The machine gun was silent. But as soon as the fighters rose to the attack, the machine gun came to life again.

Then the sailor rose, rushed to the bunker with a jerk and closed his body with his body.

At the cost of his life, he contributed to the fulfillment of a combat mission by a division. Initially, he was buried in the village of Chernushki, Loknyansky district. A few days later, the name of Alexander Matrosov became known throughout the country. The feat of the Matrosov was used by accident by the journalist for a patriotic article. At the same time, the hero’s death date was postponed to February 23, timing to a feat of the birthday of the Red Army.

Despite the fact that Alexander Matrosov was not the first to commit a similar act of self -sacrifice, it was his name that was used to glorify the heroism of Soviet soldiers. Subsequently, more than three hundred people committed a similar heroic act, but this was no longer illuminated. The feat of Alexander Matrosov became a symbol of courage and military valor, fearlessness and love for the motherland.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 19, for the exemplary execution of the combat missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the heroism shown and heroism, the Red Army soldier Alexander Matveevich, is posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Stalin's name of A. Matrosov was awarded to the Muvadian rifle regiment, and he himself was forever enrolled in the lists of the 1st company of this part.

In the year, ashes A. Matrosova was reburied in the city of Velikiy Luki Great Lukskaya since the year - the Pskov region on the left bank of the Lovita River, at the intersection of Rosa Luxembourg and the embankment named after Alexander Matrosov. He was awarded the Order of Lenin in the Victory Park of the capital of Bashkiria - the city of Ufa was built a magnificent monument dedicated to the immortal feat of Alexander Matrosov and Minnigali Gubaidullin, at the foot of which the eternal fire burns.

The name of Alexander Matrosov has a children's cinema in the city of Ufa and the street, the Memorial Museum A. The Memorial Museum of A. was assigned to the Museum of the Komsomol glory of the city of Velikiye Luke, which has been a structural unit of the Great Luclear Museum of Local Lore - “The Center for Patriotic Initiatives of the Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Matrosov” since September 27.

The name of the hero is assigned to many streets, schools, motor ships, collective farms and state farms. From the award sheet of A. Matrosov: “During the service in the 2nd battalion of the OS. During the battles with German invaders in the area of ​​the village of Chernushki, Kalinin region, a heroic feat made: when a company was on the fortified section of the enemy of the bunker, the Red Army soldier, having made his way to the bunker, closed the embrasure with his body, which gave the opportunity to overcome the defense point of the opponent of Cherniyushka, He broke through to the enemy bunker, closed the embrasure with his body, sacrificed himself and ensured the success of the advancing unit.

Matrosov is posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The great feat of Comrade Matrosov should serve as an example of military valor and heroism for all soldiers of the Red Army. Hero of the Soviet Union of the Guard of Private Alexander Matveevich Matrosov, to be enrolled forever in the lists of the 1st company of the Gwarmia Regiment named after Alexander Matrosov.

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