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Ivan Karpovich Golubets (May 8, Taganrog - March 25, Sevastopol) - senior border guard sailor, Hero of the Soviet Union (, posthumously).

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An excerpt characterizing Golubets, Ivan Karpovich

“Let me introduce you to my daughter,” said the Countess, blushing.
`` I have the pleasure of being familiar, if the countess remembers me, '' said Prince Andrei with a courteous and low bow, completely contrary to Peronskaya's remarks about his rudeness, going up to Natasha and raising his hand to hug her waist even before he finished the invitation to dance. He offered a waltz tour. That dying expression on Natasha's face, ready for despair and delight, suddenly lit up with a happy, grateful, childish smile.
“I have been waiting for you for a long time,” as if this frightened and happy girl said, with her smile that emerged from ready tears, raising her hand on the shoulder of Prince Andrey. They were the second pair to enter the circle. Prince Andrey was one of the best dancers of his time. Natasha danced beautifully. Her legs in ballroom satin shoes quickly, easily and independently of her did their job, and her face shone with delight of happiness. Her bare neck and arms were thin and ugly. Compared to Helen's shoulders, her shoulders were thin, her breasts were indefinite, her arms were thin; but Helene was already as if varnish from all the thousands of glances that glided over her body, and Natasha seemed like a girl who had been naked for the first time, and who would have been very ashamed of it if she had not been assured that it was so necessary.
Prince Andrew loved to dance, and wanting to quickly get rid of the political and intelligent conversations with which everyone turned to him, and wanting to quickly break this annoying circle of embarrassment resulting from the presence of the sovereign, he went to dance and chose Natasha, because Pierre had pointed out her to him. and because she was the first of the pretty women to catch his eye; but as soon as he embraced this thin, mobile body, and she stirred so close to him and smiled so close to him, the wine of her delight hit him in his head: he felt revived and rejuvenated when, taking a breath and leaving her, he stopped and began to look on the dancers.

After Prince Andrei, Boris approached Natasha, inviting her to dance, the dancer adjutant who had started the ball, and other young people approached Natasha, and Natasha, passing her unnecessary gentlemen to Sonya, happy and flushed, did not stop dancing the whole evening. She did not notice or see anything that occupied everyone at this ball. She not only did not notice how the sovereign spoke for a long time with the French envoy, how he spoke especially graciously with such and such a lady, how the prince such and such did and said how Helene had great success and received special attention from such and such; she did not even see the sovereign and noticed that he had left only because after his departure the ball had become more lively. One of the merry cotillions, before supper, Prince Andrey danced again with Natasha. He reminded her of their first meeting in the Otradnenskaya alley and how she could not sleep on a moonlit night, and how he could not help hearing her. Natasha blushed at this reminder and tried to justify herself, as if there was something embarrassing in the feeling in which Prince Andrew had involuntarily overheard her.
Prince Andrew, like all people who grew up in the world, loved to meet in the world that which did not have a common secular imprint. And such was Natasha, with her surprise, joy and timidity, and even mistakes in French. He treated and spoke to her especially tenderly and carefully. Sitting beside her, talking to her about the simplest and most insignificant subjects, Prince Andrey admired the joyful sparkle of her eyes and her smile, which was not related to the speeches being spoken, but to her inner happiness. While Natasha was chosen and she stood up with a smile and danced around the hall, Prince Andrey admired especially her timid grace. In the middle of the cotillion Natasha, having finished her figure, still breathing heavily, approached her place. The new gentleman invited her again. She was tired and out of breath, and apparently thought to refuse, but immediately again gaily raised her hand on the gentleman's shoulder and smiled at Prince Andrey.
“I would be glad to have a rest and sit with you, I am tired; but you see how they choose me, and I am happy about it, and I am happy, and I love everyone, and we all understand this, ”and this smile said a lot. When the gentleman left her, Natasha ran across the hall to take two ladies for the figures.
“If she comes up first to her cousin, and then to another lady, then she will be my wife,” said Prince Andrei quite unexpectedly to himself, looking at her. She went first to her cousin.
“What nonsense sometimes comes to mind! thought Prince Andrew; but it is only true that this girl is so sweet, so special that she will not dance here for a month and will get married ... This is a rarity here, ”he thought, when Natasha, straightening the rose that had leaned back from the bodice, sat down beside him.
At the end of the cotillion the old count, in his blue dress coat, walked up to the dancers. He invited Prince Andrew to his place and asked his daughter if she was having fun? Natasha did not answer and only smiled with such a smile, which reproachfully said: "how could you ask about this?"
- As fun as ever! She said, and Prince Andrew noticed how quickly her thin arms rose to hug her father and immediately dropped down. Natasha was as happy as never before in her life. She was at that highest stage of happiness, when a person becomes completely trusting and does not believe in the possibility of evil, unhappiness and grief.

Pierre at this ball for the first time felt offended by the position that his wife occupied in the higher spheres. He was sullen and absent-minded. There was a wide fold across his forehead, and he, standing by the window, looked through his glasses, not seeing anyone.
Natasha, heading for dinner, walked past him.
Pierre's gloomy, unhappy face startled her. She stopped opposite him. She wanted to help him, to convey to him the surplus of her happiness.
“How fun, Count,” she said, “isn't it?
Pierre smiled absently, obviously not understanding what was being said to him.
“Yes, I'm very glad,” he said.
“How can they be dissatisfied with something, Natasha thought. Especially as good as this Bezukhov? " In Natasha's eyes, all those who were at the ball were equally kind, sweet, wonderful people, loving each other: no one could offend each other, and therefore everyone should be happy.

One of the streets of our city bears the proud name of the Hero Soviet Union, Ivan Karpovich Golubts. But how many people know what a brave feat he accomplished? With this blog, I want to tell all Anapchans about this person, a pupil of the Anapa Maritime Border School, now the Institute of the Coast Guard of the FSB of Russia

Golubets Ivan Karpovich became one of the Ukrainians who inscribed his name in the history of the second defense of Sevastopol and the Great Patriotic War... During a fire on a hunting boat equipped with many powerful bombs, the sailor showed dedication and at the cost of his life saved a group of warships from loss of life.

The future sailor was born on April 25, 1916 in Taganrog. As a member of a worker's family, after the 7th grade, he also chose the factory path and entered the factory school at metallurgical plant... Already at the age of 20, Ivan was a qualified worker of the sheet-rolling shop of the Azov Metallurgical Plant. A.A. Alekseeva. The young man, who stands out for his hard work and active position in the team, became a drummer for labor and was awarded an honorary badge.

In 1937, Ivan was drafted into Navy and sent to study at the Anapa Maritime Border School. Two years later, he graduated from the Balaklava Maritime Border School, after which he served in Novorossiysk in the 1st and 2nd Black Sea detachments of border ships. The young sailor from the first days took part in the Great Patriotic War.

When the defense of Sevastopol began, the boat on which the senior sailor, helmsman Golubets, was serving, was part of the Sevastopol garrison. Agile warships guarded the exits from the bays: the boats were the first to meet the transports breaking through to the besieged city, and the last to escort them, taking away the wounded, women and children from the fortress.

Sevastopol met the spring of 1942, already in the deep rear. On March 25, the steering patrol boat SK-0183, stationed in Streletskaya Bay, was sent ashore on duty. At this time, the enemy began shelling the bay with long-range artillery, sheltered in the Mekenziev mountains. Shells began to burst near the ships, and hot metal whistled in the air.

As a result of a close hit, the SK-0121 hunter-boat standing at the pier was damaged: shrapnel pierced the board, and the engine compartment caught fire. The crew members present on the ship almost extinguished the fire when another shell exploded nearby, in almost the same place, which is extremely rare. Its fragments fell into a tank with fuel and an extensive fire began on the ship - gasoline was burning, which could not be extinguished by standard means. Flames engulfed the ship, the crew was pushed to the bow and ordered to jump into the water.

In the meantime, all forces were thrown into extinguishing the boat from the shore. After all, the hunter was equipped for the campaign, on board was a supply of powerful depth charges, each weighing 160 kg. This weapon possesses a terrible destructive power, calculated to destroy the strong steel hulls of submarines through the multi-meter water column. Detonating in the air, depth charges could destroy not only all ships in the bay, but even warehouses, workshops and piers. They even tried to sink the boat with anti-tank grenades, but to no avail, because they had to be thrown so as not to provoke the explosion of large bombs.

It seemed that there was no way out, but then a decisive Red Navy man appeared - Ivan Golubets and did what no one would have ordered him to. As he ran, he buttoned his jacket, pulled down his winter hat, and through the iron barge, next to which the burning hunter was moored, he rushed along the burning gangway into the fire itself - at the stern, where the dangerous cargo was fastened. As an experienced naval sailor, Ivan knew that the first thing to do was to drop depth charges into the water. But the levers of the dropping devices jammed, and the sailor began to manually roll overboard the barrels filled with explosives. According to eyewitnesses, the black smoke from the burning fuel hid the sailor and from the shore only from the burst of bombs they knew that he was alive and continued his work

When Golubets dropped all the big bombs, he set about small ones, of which there were 22 on the boat. But the fire had already crept up to the deck fenders, where small-caliber shells for the boat's guns were stored. The charges began to explode one after the other, piercing the surrounding space in clouds of debris. From the shore, into a megaphone, the senior sailor was shouted that it was time to save himself - the most important thing was done, but he, looking out of the smoke in a smoldering jacket, waved that a little more ...

The bombs exploded, the debris of the boat scattered tens of meters, the shore was washed over by a wave, and the roofs of the nearest buildings were broken. By the force of the explosion, one could assume that Ivan Golubets did not have enough time to drop only two small bombs. Except for the “SK-0121” boat that took off into the air, no other ship in the bay was damaged, and not a single person died, except for a brave volunteer sailor

As the war correspondent Nikolai Lanin, who was at that time in Sevastopol, writes in his memoirs, he had a chance to talk with colleagues and friends of the brave sailor. “Sitting by Ivan Golubets’s bed, still unoccupied by anyone, I listened to stories about him in the tiny bow-room for more than an hour or two,” the author says. According to the commander, Golubets was a very skillful sailor, an inveterate athlete and, moreover, the most cheerful person on the ship. The comrades are sure that Ivan assessed the danger, but was not going to die: "He was lucky ... He didn't have time to die!"

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 14, 1942, senior Red Navy sailor Golubets Ivan Karpovich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He was also awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree and the Order of Lenin.

In Sevastopol, on the shores of Streletskaya Bay, not far from the place where the sailor performed his feat, an obelisk was erected.

Now this monument is located on the territory of the military unit A4414 of the Ukrainian Navy.

His name is inscribed on the Memorial Board in the Museum Black Sea Fleet.

Eternal memory to those who did not return from the war ...

Many people know the description of the feat of the sailor Ivan Golubets, who at the cost of his life in March 1942 saved the battalion of sea hunters and several dozen of his colleagues.

According to the official version, passing from one printed source to another, on March 25, 1942, during the shelling of the Streletskaya Bay by the German long-range artillery on the SKA-0121 patrol boat, as a result of an explosion of an enemy shell that occurred nearby, one of the petrol tanks was pierced by shrapnel. A fire broke out. Since at that moment there were 8 large and 22 small depth charges on the boat, there was a threat of a powerful explosion, as a result of which 4 patrol boats being repaired nearby, a floating crane, a bolinder, and a ship repair shop could be destroyed. Senior Red Navy sailor Ivan Golubets joined the fight against the fire. Realizing that it would not be possible to extinguish the outbreak of fire on his own, he began to throw depth charges overboard to prevent an explosion. The last of them exploded, killing the sailor. He was buried with honors near the place of his death, and after the war an obelisk was erected on this place.

However, in recent times a number of testimonies have appeared that significantly clarify and even modify the picture of the events that have taken place. But before presenting these evidences it is necessary to try to independently consider the objective circumstances of the incident. Could one person, in the 10-15 minutes he had at his disposal from the start of the fire to the moment of the explosion, independently throw such a number of bulky and heavy objects overboard, and even being in the midst of a raging flame?

Indeed, 35 years after the past events, the Council of Veterans of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet received a letter from one of the eyewitnesses and participants in these events, then the sailor of the SKA-0111 patrol boat Nikolai Zubkov. According to the letter, Ivan Golubets was not a member of the crew of the SKA-0121 boat on fire, he was the helmsman of the SKA-0183. The first to start extinguishing the fire were members of the SKA-0121 crew, Petty Officer 2nd Class Viktor Timofeev and Red Navy sailor Vasily Zhukov. A few minutes later, the pilot of the SKA-0183 boat, senior Red Navy sailor Ivan Golubets, came to their aid. The three of them managed to throw all the depth charges overboard, but died as a result of the explosion of one of the gas tanks of the burning boat. Their bodies were buried the next day at the Russian (now Old City) cemetery of Sevastopol, not far from its western wall, next to the grave of the sailors-miners who had died six months earlier. The funeral team consisted of the crew members of the SKA-0111 boat - boatswain Vasily Lapin, sailors Novikov and Zubkov. Both graves have survived to this day, only the grave of the two heroes is unnamed, since, according to the official version, the hero was alone and was buried in Streletskaya Bay.

The command of the unit, almost immediately after the events that took place, sent a submission to the higher authorities about conferring the title of Hero of the Soviet Union on all three of the dead, but it was awarded only to Ivan Golubets, since his last name was the first alphabetically, and he was a member of the Komsomol, while the other two were non-partisan.

This eyewitness testimony is also confirmed by data from the Central Naval Archives of the USSR (now TsVM Russian Federation), f. 864, op. 1, case 1313, fol. 60, entered into the Sevastopol Book of Memory, which indicates the simultaneous death of all three people and one place of their burial (the western wall of the Russian cemetery). In the same case, obviously, is also the presentation of three sailors to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

This is the solution to yet another mystery in the history of the Black Sea Fleet and the second defense of Sevastopol.

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Kulevchinskoe battle

On June 11, 1829, Russian troops under the command of General of Infantry Ivan Dibich inflicted a decisive defeat on the Turkish army at Kulevche in eastern Bulgaria.

Kulevchinskoe battle

On June 11, 1829, Russian troops under the command of General of Infantry Ivan Dibich inflicted a decisive defeat on the Turkish army at Kulevche in eastern Bulgaria.

Russian army, numbering 125 thousand people and 450 guns besieged the fortress of Silistria occupied by Turkish troops. On June 11, a Russian detachment attacked the Turks and captured the heights of the village of Kulevcha.

The victory in the Battle of Kulevchin gave the Russian army a passage through the Balkans to Adrianople (now Edirne, Turkey). The Turkish army lost 5 thousand people killed, 1.5 thousand prisoners, 43 guns and all the food. The Russian army lost 1270 people killed.

After the conclusion of the Treaty of Adrianople, Russian troops left Kulevch.Thousands of Bulgarians rushed after them, fearing Turkish repression. Kulevch became empty, and the settlers founded a new village in the Odessa region, which is still called Kulevch. where do they live today about 5000 ethnic Bulgarians.

The execution of Tukhachevsky

On June 11, 1937, the highest commanders and political workers of the Soviet Armed Forces Tukhachevsky, Primakov, Yakir, Uborevich, Eideman and others were shot about the verdict of a military tribunal in Moscow on charges of organizing a "military-fascist conspiracy in the Red Army."

The execution of Tukhachevsky

On June 11, 1937, the highest commanders and political workers of the Soviet Armed Forces Tukhachevsky, Primakov, Yakir, Uborevich, Eideman and others were shot about the verdict of a military tribunal in Moscow on charges of organizing a "military-fascist conspiracy in the Red Army."

This process went down in history as the "Tukhachevsky case." It arose 11 months before the execution of the sentence in July 1936. Then, through Czech diplomats, Stalin received information thatamong the leadership of the Red Army, a conspiracy is brewing, led by Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Mikhail Tukhachevsky, and that the conspirators are in contact with the leading generals of the German high command and the German intelligence service. A dossier stolen fromsS security services, which containeddocuments of the special department "K" - a camouflaged Reichswehr organization dealing with the production of weapons and ammunition prohibited The Versailles Treaty... The dossier contained recordings of conversations between German officers and representatives of the Soviet command, including the minutes of negotiations with Tukhachevsky. With these documents, a criminal case began under the code name "The Conspiracy of General Turguev" (the pseudonym of Tukhachevsky, under which he came to Germany with an official military delegation in the early 1930s).

Today, in the liberal press, the version that "stupid Stalin" becamea victim of the provocation of the special services of Nazi Germany, who planted fabricated documents about the "conspiracy in the Red Army" for the purpose of decapitation Soviet Armed Forces on the eve of the war.

I happened to get acquainted with the criminal case of Tukhachevsky, but there was no confirmation of this version. I'll start with the confessions of Tukhachevsky himself.The marshal's first written statement after his arrest was dated May 26, 1937. He wrote to the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Yezhov: “Being arrested on May 22, arriving in Moscow on the 24th, I was first interrogated on the 25th, and today, on May 26, I declare that I admit the existence of an anti-Soviet military Trotskyist conspiracy and that I was at the head of it. I undertake to independently explain to the investigation everything concerning the conspiracy, without hiding any of its participants, not a single fact and document. The founding of the conspiracy dates back to 1932. It was attended by: Feldman, Alafuzov, Primakov, Putna and others, which I will show in detail in addition. " During interrogation by the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, Tukhachevsky said: “Back in 1928, I was dragged into the right-wing organization by Yenukidze. In 1934 I personally contacted Bukharin; I established an espionage connection with the Germans since 1925, when I went to Germany for exercises and maneuvers ... While traveling to London in 1936, Putna arranged for me to meet with Sedov (the son of L.D. Trotsky. - S.T.) .. . "

There are also materials in the criminal case previously collected on Tukhachevsky, which at one time were not given a course. For instance,testimony from 1922 of two officers who served in the past in the tsarist army. They named ... Tukhachevsky the inspirer of their anti-Soviet activities. Copies of the interrogation protocols were reported to Stalin, who sent them to Ordzhonikidze with such a meaningful note: "Please read. Since this is not excluded, it is possible." Ordzhonikidze's reaction is unknown - he apparently did not believe the slander. There was another case: the People's Commissariat for the military and maritime affairs the secretary of the party committee of the Western Military District complained about Tukhachevsky (wrong attitude towards the communists, immoral behavior). But the People's Commissar M. Frunze imposed a resolution on the information: "The Party believed Comrade Tukhachevsky, it believes and will continue to believe." An interesting extract from the testimony of the arrested brigade commander Medvedev that in 1931 he became "aware" of the existence of central offices Red Army counterrevolutionary Trotskyist organization. On May 13, 1937, Yezhov arrested Dzerzhinsky's former comrade-in-arms A. Artuzov, and he testified that information received in 1931 from Germany reported a conspiracy in the Red Army under the leadership of a certain General Turguev (pseudonym Tukhachevsky), who was in Germany. Yezhov's predecessor, Yagoda, said at the same time: "This is not serious material, turn it over to the archive."

After the end of the Great Patriotic War, fascist documents with assessments of the "Tukhachevsky case" became known. Here is some of them.

An interesting diary entry by Goebbels dated May 8, 1943: "There was a conference of Reichsleiters and Gauleiters ... The Fuehrer remembered the incident with Tukhachevsky and expressed the opinion that we were completely wrong when we believed that Stalin would destroy the Red Army in this way. The opposite was true: Stalin got rid of the opposition in the Red Army and thus put an end to defeatism. "

In his speech before subordinatesin October 1943, SS Reichsfuehrer Himmler said: “When large demonstration trials were going on in Moscow and the former Tsarist cadet, and subsequently the Bolshevik General Tukhachevsky and other generals, all of us in Europe, including us, the members of the party and the SS, adhered to the opinion that the Bolshevik system and Stalin made one of their biggest mistakes here. By assessing the situation in this way, we have greatly deceived ourselves. We can truthfully and confidently state this. I believe that Russia would not have survived all these two years of war - and now it is already in its third - if it had kept the former tsarist generals. "

On September 16, 1944, a conversation took place between Himmler and the traitor-general A.A. Vlasov, during which Himmler asked Vlasov about the Tukhachevsky case. Why did he fail. Vlasov replied: "Tukhachevsky made the same mistake as your people on July 20 (an attempt on Hitler's life). He did not know the law of the masses." Those. and one and the second conspiracy is not denied.

IN his memoirs, a major Soviet intelligence officerlieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov asserts: “The myth of the involvement of German intelligence in Stalin’s reprisal against Tukhachevsky was launched for the first time in 1939 by the defector V. Krivitsky, former officer Intelligence Agency of the Red Army, in the book "I was an agent of Stalin." In doing so, he referred to white general Skoblin, a prominent agent of the INO NKVD among the White emigration. Skoblin, according to Krivitsky, was a double working for German intelligence. In reality, Skoblin was not a double. His undercover case completely refutes this version. The invention of Krivitsky, who became a mentally unstable person in emigration, was later used by Schellenberg in his memoirs, attributing to himself the merit in falsifying the Tukhachevsky case.

Even if Tukhachevsky turned out to be clean before the Soviet authorities, in his criminal case I found such documents, after reading which his execution seems well deserved. Here are some of them.

In March 1921, Tukhachevsky was appointed commander of the 7th Army, aimed at suppressing the uprising of the Kronstadt garrison. TO it is known to have been drowned in blood.

In 1921 Soviet Russiawas covered anti-Soviet uprisings, the largest of which in European Russia was the peasant uprising in the Tambov province. Regarding the Tambov uprising as a serious danger, the Politburo of the Central Committee at the beginning of May 1921 appointed Tukhachevsky as commander of the troops of the Tambov district with the task of completely suppressing it as soon as possible. According to the plan developed by Tukhachevsky, the uprising was largely suppressed by the end of July 1921.

Venus' atmosphere explored

11 June 1985 automatic interplanetary station "Vega-1" reached the vicinity of the planet Venus and performed a complex scientific research according to the international project "Venus - Halley's comet". As early as June 4, 1960, the USSR government issued a decree "On plans for the exploration of outer space", which ordered the creation of a launch vehicle for a flight to Mars and Venus.

Venus' atmosphere explored

On June 11, 1985 the automatic interplanetary station "Vega-1" reached the vicinity of the planet Venus and carried out a complex of scientific research under the international project "Venus - Halley's comet". As early as June 4, 1960, the USSR government issued a decree "On plans for the exploration of outer space", which ordered the creation of a launch vehicle for a flight to Mars and Venus.

From February 1961 to June 1985, 16 Venera spacecraft were launched in the USSR. In December 1984, the Soviet spacecraft "Vega-1" and "Vega-2", designed to explore Venus and Halley's comet. On June 11 and 15, 1985, these AMS reached Venus and dropped landing modules into its atmosphere.
As a result of the experiments carried out by the devices, the atmosphere of the planet, which is the densest among the planets, was studied in detail. terrestrial groupbecause it contains up to 96 percent carbon dioxide, up to 4 percent nitrogen and a little water vapor. A thin layer of dust was discovered on the surface of Venus. Most of it is occupied by hilly plains, the highest mountains rise 11 kilometers above the average surface level.

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One of the streets of Anapa, named after the Hero of the Great Patriotic War, Ivan Golubts. What is known about the 25-year-old guy who saved dozens of people at the cost of his life?

Ivan Golubets was born on May 8, 1916 in Taganrog, studied to be an electrician and worked at a metallurgical enterprise. In 1937, after being drafted into the army, he entered the navy. After 2 years he graduated from the Balaklava Maritime Border School, and then served in the 2nd and 1st Black Sea detachments of border ships.

Shortly before the start of the Great Patriotic War, he studied in Anapa for six months. According to the museum at the current Coast Guard Institute, they have preserved the characteristics of Ivan Golubets and a document that says that he even participated in local competitions.

When the war broke out, Ivan served on a boat that was part of the Sevastopol garrison. On March 25, 1942, Ivan was sent ashore on official business. By that time, the fortified city had already been under blockade for five months and fought heroically.

The enemy began shelling Streletskaya Bay from long-range artillery, hitting one of the patrol boats. The engine compartments caught fire. Fragments of another projectile hitting the fuel tank engulfed the ship in flames. There was a threat of an explosion of the depth charge reserve on the patrol boat and the destruction of ships in the bay.

The soldier fearlessly rushed onto the burning boat, made his way through the raging flames to the stern and began to drop heavy depth charges into the sea. He succeeded, but there were still 20 small explosive devices on the ship. He began to dump them too, and the flame had already engulfed the stern. Realizing the danger, the brave sailor did not stop until one of the last bombs exploded. By sacrificing himself, Ivan Golubets saved dozens of human lives and combat boats.

By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 14, 1942, for exemplary fulfillment of command assignments and displayed courage and heroism in battles with the Nazi invaders, senior sailor Golubts Ivan Karpovich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Streets in Taganrog, Sevastopol, Simferopol, Anapa and in the village of Leplyavo are named after him.

Photo: memorial plaque on the street in Anapa

By the way, there is evidence that Ivan did more than one heroic deed. Below is an excerpt from an article on Flot.com.

“35 years after the past events, the Council of Veterans of the Red Banner Black Sea Fleet received a letter from one of the eyewitnesses and participants in these events, then the sailor of the SKA-0111 patrol boat Nikolai Zubkov. He said that the first to start extinguishing the fire were the members of the SKA-0121 crew, Petty Officer 2nd Class Viktor Timofeev and the Red Navy sailor Vasily Zhukov, and Ivan Golubets, who was the helmsman of the SKA-0183, came to the rescue.

The three of them managed to throw all the depth charges overboard, but died as a result of the explosion of one of the gas tanks of the burning boat. Their bodies were buried the next day at the Russian (now Old City) cemetery of Sevastopol, not far from its western wall, next to the grave of the miner sailors who had died six months earlier. The funeral team consisted of the crew members of the SKA-0111 boat - boatswain Vasily Lapin, sailors Novikov and Zubkov. Both graves have survived to this day, only the grave of the two heroes is unnamed, since, according to the official version, the hero was alone and was buried in Streletskaya Bay.

The command of the unit, almost immediately after the events that took place, sent a submission to the higher authorities on awarding all three of the dead the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but it was awarded only to Ivan Golubets, since his last name was the first alphabetically, and he was a member of the Komsomol, while the other two were non-partisan.
This eyewitness testimony is also confirmed by data from the Central Naval Archives of the USSR (now the TsVM of the Russian Federation), f. 864, op. 1, case 1313, fol. 60, entered into the Sevastopol Book of Memory, which indicates the simultaneous death of all three people and one place of their burial (the western wall of the Russian cemetery). In the same case, obviously, is also the presentation of three sailors to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. "

Of course, this does not detract from the feat of Ivan Golubets, who without hesitation took a huge risk and gave his life for the sake of others. It's just a pity that heroic deeds are forgotten by history.

Earlier "Notepad Anapa" wrote what a feat