On December 15, 1941, 5 people from the city of Gorky, future commanders and commissars of battalions, arrived in Volzhsk. The formation of the 107th separate rifle brigade began.
The creation of these brigades in the second half of 1941 and at the beginning of 1942 was a temporary measure, which made it possible to accelerate the replenishment of the active army with trained reserves. Each rifle brigade included 3 rifle battalion, artillery and mortar divisions, a company of machine gunners and units of combat and material support. Three different staffs of the rifle brigade, with personnel ranging from 4,356 to 6,000, were active at the same time.
In April 1942, the People's Commissariat of Defense introduced a new staff of a rifle brigade with four rifle battalions, a submachine gunner battalion, an artillery battalion, and a company of anti-tank rifles.
In mid-December 1941, Vasily Vladimirovich Kabanov was assigned to the brigade and soon arrived in Volzhsk.
V.V. Kabanov - brigade commissar
In January 1942, Colonel Pyotr Efimovich Kuzmin was appointed commander of the 107th separate rifle brigade.
P.E. Kuzmin - brigade commander
On December 30, 1941, a meeting of the district committee bureau was held, to which the heads of enterprises and institutions of Volzhsk and the region were invited. The question of helping the brigade in its formation was discussed.
Food and cultural services for the personnel were organized. School No. 5 did a lot. By the efforts of teachers and students, it was put in an exemplary order, a classroom was equipped for training personnel. The brigade's headquarters is located in the building of the House of Pioneers in the old park.
House of Pioneers, where the brigade headquarters was located from December 1941 to April 1942
By the end of January 1942, the brigade was generally staffed with command personnel and political workers. Private and non-commissioned officers arrived mainly from the Far Eastern garrisons, replenished from the military reserves of the Gorky and Sverdlovsk regions, from the Mari and Chuvash republics.
Hundreds of men, women and even teenagers applied to the draft board of the military registration and enlistment office with a request to enroll them in the brigade.
A considerable part of the replenishment was made up of volunteers from the Mari Republic.
Among them were our Volzhans.
Signal operator Grigory Suslov
Young milling machine operator Grigory Suslov. As part of the brigade, and then the 117th Guards Rifle Division, he went through a glorious combat path, was awarded two Orders of the Red Star, a medal "For Courage" and other military awards.
At the insistent request, a 9th grade student of the Komsomol Kolya Romashenkov was enrolled in the scout company.
Nikolay Romashenkov - scout
Andrey Bakaev arrived at the age of seventeen.
Andrey Bakaev - communications operator
He fought in a communications company, in a rifle company of the 1st battalion, distinguished himself in battles on the Bryansk front, on the Marukh pass, on the Malaya land. He was wounded twice. He was awarded the Medal For Courage, the Order of the Red Star and Patriotic War II degree.
Among the volunteers was Nikolai Lazarev, who was not yet 18 years old.
Kolya Lazarev - signalman
He distinguished himself on the Bryansk front. He was wounded and awarded several government awards.
Volunteers and conscripts of the republic, Aleksey Sukhov, Ivan Sidorkin, Sergei, fought skillfully. Kalabushkin and others.
Lev Lipets left as part of the 4th battalion.
Lev Lipets
There were many girls among the volunteers.
Kapitolina Anoshkina,
Kapitolina Anoshkina with friend Vera Khurtina
Anna Blokhnina,
Anna Blokhnina (Samoletova)
Caucasian love,
Love Caucasian
Vera Osipova,
Vera Osipova (Aktuganova)
who had a medical education, were enrolled in the unit by nurses. Later they were awarded government awards.
Schoolgirl Zhenya Pavlova was enrolled as a medical instructor in a rifle company of the 1st battalion.
Zhenya Pavlova - medical instructor
She fought bravely, was awarded the Order of the Red Star and the Medal For Courage. On June 19, 1943, she died and was buried on Mount Myskhako.
At the beginning of February 1942, the brigade was fully completed. Loading into the trains took place on May 1 after the city meeting.
The rally began at 9 o'clock at the MBK House of Culture.
House of Culture of the Mari Paper Mill, photo of 1935
The entire local population went out to escort the soldiers to the front. The rally was opened by the first secretary of the district party committee, who expressed confidence that the 107th separate rifle brigade, formed on the Mari land, would honor the order of the Motherland. On behalf of the workers, the chairman of the factory committee P.N. Abinyakov. He assured that the home front workers will spare no effort to provide the front with everything necessary. The brigade was presented with the banner with which it marched to the Victory.
Banner of the 107th separate rifle brigade
Having passed a solemn march, the parts of the brigade moved to the station to the music of a brass band and incessant applause. The warriors perceived the warm farewell of the townspeople as a military order of the Motherland.
In early May 1942, the 107th brigade was transferred to the 61st Army of the Bryansk Front.
On July 7, in this area, the 1st rifle battalion fought with the aim of reaching a new position. In the course of it, a more advantageous defensive line was captured.
On the battlefield, courageous medical workers were able to provide timely assistance to all the wounded. Medical instructor Zhenya Pavlova and military assistant Nadya Zemlyanova were the first of the team's medical workers to be awarded government awards.
During the period of battles on the Bryansk Front - from May 5 to August 8, 1942, the rifle brigade, conducting defensive battles, participated in three offensive operations, destroyed hundreds of soldiers and officers and a lot of enemy military equipment. More than a hundred soldiers of the brigade were awarded orders and medals for their heroism and courage. Soviet Union.
In August 1942, the 107th Rifle Brigade was deployed to the Caucasus. On September 3, she concentrated in the Sukhumi region and became part of the 46th Army of the Transcaucasian Front.
The situation was dire. On September 4, the commander of the 46th Army, Major General K.N. Leselidze ordered to send one of the brigade's rifle battalions to the Marukh pass with the task of stopping the enemy's advance and, together with other units, to destroy it. Take up defense on the Black Sea coast from Krasny Mayak to Sukhumi. Be prepared to repel the amphibious assault.
The 1st rifle battalion, equipped, made a march through the mountains of the Main Caucasian ridge and arrived at the Marukh pass.
For more than a month, the battalion, together with other units, fought stubborn battles with superior forces enemy. But the enemy was stopped.
Having completed the assigned task, the battalion returned to the brigade, which was fighting northeast of Tuapse.
In September 1942, the 107th Separate Rifle Brigade was transferred to the 18th Army, leading the battles in the Tuapse direction.
Map of the Tuapse battle, October 1942
During the hostilities near Tuapse - from October 10, 1942 to January 1943 - the 107th brigade carried out the order of the commander of the Black Sea group, stopped the enemy's advance along the highway on Tuapse. Without retreating not a step, inflicted heavy losses on the enemy in manpower and equipment.
By the end of October 1942, the enemy reached the rear of the brigade. The threat of encirclement was created. Telephone communication with the 4th rifle battalion was interrupted. All who could hold a weapon held back the enemy.
In battle, the signalman, a Volzhan, Nikolai Lazarev, distinguished himself. The signalmen were given the task of establishing communication with the company of machine gunners and the reconnaissance company. With comrade Nikolai Fomin, N. Lazarev, taking reels of cable and telephones, ran and crawled to the designated place.
The enemy opened heavy mortar fire, the telephone cable was broken in several places. Fomin took up the elimination, Lazarev continued to move to the specified point. The telephone connection was restored, but a few minutes later it was broken again. Lazarev went to the line, but was seriously wounded. After being cured, he was sent to another unit. After the war, he returned to Volzhsk, worked at the Marbumkombinat.
As a result of the enemy's access to the approaches to Shahumyan, a gap was formed between the 383rd and 328th rifle divisions. There was a threat of the enemy's exit through the Ostrovskaya Shchel to the Tuapse highway.
In front of the commander of the 107th Rifle Brigade that had just arrived, Colonel P.E. Kuzmin was tasked with covering this direction and stopping the advance of the Nazis. The brigade commander quickly moved rifle battalions to the road junction near Ostrovskaya Gap. Fierce battles did not stop for several days. German bombers attacked the battle formations of the 107th Infantry Brigade almost continuously. Enemy infantry, supported by strong artillery and mortar fire, again and again tried to break through to the Tuapse highway, but each time it rolled back to its original position, leaving the dead and wounded on the battlefield.
The brigade, formed from Siberians, already had experience in military operations in the mountains at the Marukh Pass as part of the 46th Army. These were mainly young soldiers and sergeants, conscripts in 1939. About 1700 envoys of the Moscow militia joined the brigade in early October. 580 Communists and 1560 Komsomol members cemented the ranks of the soldiers of the 107th Rifle Brigade.
In the battles for the village of Shaumyan, the scout N. Romashenkov, the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the company, distinguished himself.
The defense occupied by the 107th brigade northeast of Tuapse became insurmountable for the enemy.
On January 15, 1943, the brigade, along with other formations of the 18th Army, went on the offensive.
On January 16, brigade commander P.E. Kuzmin. By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 6, 1943, for the exemplary fulfillment of the tasks of the command, for the skillful leadership of the troops and the courage and courage shown by P.E. Kuzmin posthumously awarded the order Suvorov of the second degree.
At the end of January 1943, the brigade was transferred to the Gelendzhik area. Objective: to seize Mount Myskhako, then advance on Glebovka and cut the Novorossiysk-Anapa road.
On the night of February 10, 1943, artillery, mortars and ammunition were transferred to the bridgehead. In the following nights, the transfer of artillery and mortars, the landing of the 107th Infantry Brigade continued ... The brigades, having landed on the shore, immediately entered the struggle to expand the bridgehead.
On April 17, heavy bloody battles unfolded in the defense zones of the 8th Guards, 51st and the right flank of the 107th rifle brigades. Here the enemy delivered the main blow. He strove to break through at any cost along the Fedotovka - Myskhako state farm road along the Bezymyanny brook gorge (“the valley of death”).
There was a struggle for every meter of land. The 107th Rifle Brigade repulsed more than 16 enemy attacks during the day.
Nikolai Romashenkov in April 1943 wrote a letter to his mother Anastasia Mikhailovna in Volzhsk: “ Dear Mom! I was accepted as a candidate member of the party, and the head of the political department of the brigade said that he recommended me as the secretary of the Komsomol organization of the battalion ... I was in intelligence many times and I believe: our guys are friendly, they will not leave in trouble».
This was Nikolai's last letter. On May 2, 1943, in a battle on Malaya Zemlya, Nikolai died from a fatal wound. In the last minutes of his life, bleeding, he turned to his compatriot Zhenya Pavlova: “ Zhenya, after the Victory you will return to Volzhsk, tell your sister, mother and father that I gave my life for my beloved Motherland».
For heroic deeds in battles, Nikolai Romashenkov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree, posthumously.
Small Earth, 1943
A difficult task fell to the lot of the signalmen. Among them was our fellow countryman Gregory. Suslov. Once, in the course of the battle, the connection was once again cut off. Suslov took a telephone set, a coil of wire, said to a friend: “You know, Vanya, this is a 28th hit on the wire. The Fritzes are not appeased, but the connection will still be there. " Despite the explosions of shells and mines, both set off on another risky voyage.
For 7 months the 107th separate rifle brigade fought in Malaya Zemlya. During this time, she destroyed several thousand enemy soldiers, a large number of guns and mortars, vehicles with ammunition. More than two thousand soldiers of the brigade were awarded government awards.
Novorossiysk - Taman offensive operation, which ended on October 9, 1943, was the final stage battles for the Caucasus.
On the same day, a directive came on the formation of the 117th Guards Rifle Division, which consisted of 3 brigades: the 8th Guards, the 81st Marine Brigade and the 107th Separate Rifle Division. The commander is Colonel L.V. Kosonogov, deputy commander for political affairs and head of the political department of the division - V.V. Kabanov, Chief of Staff of the Division - Lieutenant Colonel V.G. Prudnik.
After the liberation of the Taman Peninsula, the troops of the North Caucasian Front began preparations for the battles for the liberation of the Crimea.
By mid-December, the 18th Army was redeployed to the Right-Bank Ukraine and became part of the 1st Ukrainian Front.
The troops fought heavy defensive battles in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Dnieper and the Southern Bug. It was necessary to hold the defense, and then, during the counterattack, go to the Zhitomir-Berdichev direction. At dawn on January 1, 1944, the Zhitomir-Berdichev highway was intercepted. On January 5, 1944, in stubborn and fierce battles, Berdichev was liberated.
Freeing Berdichev, part 117 guards division continued the offensive.
On January 6, 1944, the order of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the USSR I.V. Stalin: “For successful fighting during the liberation of the city of Berdichev from the German fascist invaders and the courage and courage shown at the same time, the 117th Guards Rifle Division should be named BERDICHEVSKAYA, and the personnel should be given gratitude. "
In mid-March 1944, the division was withdrawn from the battle and was ordered to march to the Ternopil region. On 22 days and 22 nights, from March 27 to April 16, there were stubborn battles for Ternopil, which ended in the complete destruction of the enemy.
During the Lvov-Sandomierz operation of the 13th Army, the 117th, together with formations, fought over 500 km, liberating over 100 settlements from the enemy.
From the Sandomierz bridgehead 1, the Ukrainian front advanced on Breslavl, and then forward to Berlin!
For the 117th Guards Berdichev Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky Rifle Division, May 11 was the last day of the war.
In Czechoslovakia, a memorial plaque was installed on the Plasi square:
"SQUARE OF THE CZECHOSLOVAC-SOVIET FRIENDSHIP.
By the forces of the citizens of Plasi, a memorial plaque was erected on the place where the 117th Guards Division finished its combat path in 1945 ".
By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 26, 1945, the 117th Guards rifle division for breaking through the enemy's defenses on the Neisse River, she was awarded the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, II degree.
107 separate rifle brigade was formed in the city of Volzhsk of the Republic of Mari El by order of the State Defense Committee in December 1941. The brigade included four separate rifle battalions, two separate artillery battalions, a separate mortar battalion and separate units: reconnaissance, machine gunners, communications, medical , engineering and automotive service. The detached 4th battalion of the 107th brigade included three rifle, machine-gun companies, a reconnaissance star, a medical unit and was recruited from volunteers and conscripts from the Volzhsky, Mari-Turekskgo, Zvenigovsky, Morkinsky and other regions of the republic. Combat path: until October 1942, the 107th brigade fought near Bryansk. In a short time, it has established itself as a close-knit military unit capable of fulfilling any order of the Fatherland. During defensive battles, participated in three offensive operations, destroyed hundreds of enemy soldiers, officers, and military equipment.
For their shown georism and courage, many soldiers were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union. Later, the brigade was transferred to the Caucasus, by order of the command, it was redeployed to the Tuapse region. The task was set before the guesses: to stop the enemy in Tuapse, to complete their task at the Marukh pass. By the beginning of 1943 - Malaya Zemlya, September 16 - Moscow saluted the valiant soldiers of the North Caucasus and The Black Sea Fleet, in which included the soldiers of the 107th rifle brigade. The personnel of the brigade fought near Anapa. After the Taman Peninsula was liberated by order of the Headquarters of the Main Command of the USSR Armed Forces on the basis of three individual brigades -107th, 81st and 8th, 117th Guards Rifle Division was formed. Its soldiers carried the guards banner to Berlin and Prague with battles. Lipets L.Ya. One thousand four hundred and eighteen days the People's War was going on. Don't forget about her. Will be remembered for a long time: battles near Moscow, And terrible bombings, and howling sirens. And on the Volga-mother strong Stalingrad, And not conquered, proud surviving Leningrad ... 107th glorious in Volzhsk was born. Such is the hypostasis of the brigade. And when the order came to go to fight, Our whole city came out to see off that brigade. Here we passed Moscow, direction to Bryansk. Here the fighters received their first "baptism". One hundred and seventh fought, did not surrender, About her battles fame spread. Soon an order was received from the Supreme Commander to beat the enemies in the South, to defend the Caucasus. ... There, on the passes, the mountains are high, And below them are the stormy streams of the Pshish River. And our countrymen did not flinch in the mountains, Although all the days were very difficult. How heroes fell in the terrible battles there Romashenkov Kolya, Pavlova Evgenia ... And other brave ... All are countless, Who entered immortality, Glory to them and Honor! And they ended the war on a foreign land, Recording the one hundred and seventh Banner in history (January 2004)
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Bychkov Ivan Grigorievich, born in 1917 from Boyarkino.
Gubanov Sergei Egorovich, born in 1904 from Ramenskoye.
Denisov Ivan Yakovlevich, born in 1908 from Kuznetsovo.
Zubkov Ivan Mikhailovich, born in 1906 from Biserovo.
Vasily Kuznetsov, born in 1908 from Ramenskoye.
From the Book of Memory of the Moscow Region v.22-I:
There is no information about Bychkov and Gubanov.
All of them served in the 107th Separate Rifle Brigade, and their military fate ended in October 42nd.
The brigade was formed in Volzhsk in December 41st. It includedfour separate rifle battalions, two artillery battalions, a mortar battalion, a mortar battalion and separate subunits of intelligence, machine gunners, communications, engineering, medical-sanitary and automobile services.
Colonel Pyotr Efimovich Kuzmin was appointed commander. At that time, he had good military training and extensive experience. Vasily Vladimirovich Kabanov became the Commissioner.
I do not think that our fellow countrymen have served in the brigade from the moment of formation, because it was staffed mainly at the expense of parts of the Far East and Siberia, with conscripts from some rear areas. Perhaps they arrived there in September 42, if they served in the Moscow police, when 1700 people. from its composition the brigade was replenished.
But, nevertheless, their arrival with replenishment is most likely, when the brigade has fought on the Bryansk front since May 8, especially since in the summer it lost an entire battalion - the fourth. He formed and trained separately from the main forces of the brigade and went to the front on June 24. On July 1, at one of the stations near Voronezh, a train containing about 500 battalion fighters came under heavy bombardment. Everything was on fire, carriages with ammunition exploded on neighboring tracks. From the echelon, only the twisted skeletons of carriages and 35-40 miraculously survived battalion fighters remained. Out of 500! All of them were sent to other units, and in the brigade the 4th battalion had to be re-formed.
Three of the Ramens later fought in this battalion - squad leader Sergeant Denisov, Red Army submachine gunners Gubanov and Zubkov. A Red Army soldier, shooter Bychkov fought in the 2nd battalion, and a Red Army soldier, submachine gunner Kuznetsov - in a separate submachine gunner battalion.
In the fall of the 42nd, 107th brigade (except for the 1st battalion) was transferred to the 18th Army of the Black Sea Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front and took part in the Tuapse defensive operation.
The further path of the brigade was described in his memoirs by its former commissar V.V. Kabanov.
The 107th Separate Rifle Brigade received the order: by the morning of October 11, take up defensive positions in the area at height 388.3, \u200b\u200bGoytkh pass, height 396.8, in order to prevent the enemy from entering the valley of the Pshish river, to railroad and the highway. It is only 30 km north-east of Tuapse.
The 4th battalion was to defend the area of \u200b\u200bheight 396.8.
The 3rd battalion with a mortar battalion and two batteries of the artillery battalion - the area of \u200b\u200bthe Ostrovskaya gap, heights 388.3, \u200b\u200b352 and firmly hold the road junction three kilometers south of Shahumyan.
The 2nd battalion to defend the Goytkh pass at the turn of heights 363.7, 384, the submachine gun battalion to defend Mount Indyuk.
There was little time to prepare the defensive line. The enemy continued the offensive, crowding out the subunits of the advanced units, which retreated in small groups through the brigade's battle formations. On the same day, October 11, the 3rd and 4th battalions, which took up defenses in the first echelon of the brigade, took up a battle with the advancing Nazi units. The enemy subjected our defense to fierce attacks (in some areas he attacked up to eight or nine times), but did not achieve success.
The Germans were rushing to Tuapse, to the Black Sea. They brought up fresh units, artillery, continuously attacked, bombed both the brigade's battle formations and its rear. All defense areas were pitted with craters, but the brigade was standing. Fierce battles were fought on both banks of the Pshish River.
The 4th battalion not only defended, but also successfully attacked. In two companies, he crossed the Pshish to an altitude of 618.7, which had steep wooded slopes. The Germans immediately tried to throw our soldiers across the river, but all their attempts were unsuccessful. It came to hand-to-hand fights, but traditionally ours were stronger in them.
To improve the position, the brigade commander ordered the 4th battalion to capture the dominant height of 618.7. On October 16, a reinforced company of machine gunners, supported by artillery and mortars, attacked the hill three times, but to no avail. Only by the end of the day the assault group broke into the trenches of the Germans, where they held out until dawn the next day. Having suffered significant losses from enemy mortars and artillery, on October 17, the assault group received an order to leave the hill.
Sergeant Denisov was also in this assault group. He died on October 17 at that height - 618.7, as recorded in the report on the brigade's irrecoverable losses.
According to the report, on October 19, the submachine gunner Kuznetsov went missing. Perhaps this happened in the area of \u200b\u200bMount Turkey, which was defended by separate battalion submachine gunners, and maybe in another place, because his companies were used to reinforce other battalions in the most important sectors. This place is not indicated in the report of the brigade. Kuznetsov could have died, he could have been captured, but no documents about his fate have been found.
On October 21, the enemy struck a strong blow in the sector of the brigade's right neighbor and, having pressed it, began to bypass the defense area of \u200b\u200bthe 4th battalion. The next day, the situation deteriorated even more. The enemy went to the rear of the brigade, a threat of encirclement was created. The telephone communication of the headquarters with the 4th rifle battalion was interrupted. The battalion commander, Captain A. V. Kaminsky, and his deputy for political affairs, Captain A. D. Kabanov, gathered everyone who was nearby: messengers, signalmen, cooks, sleds, lightly wounded soldiers, and created a group of them to cover the flank. Led by paramedic Golovko, armed with machine guns, they entered the battle. From morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, a small group held back the enemy. None of the fighters flinched.
The units covering the brigade's right flank delayed the enemy's advance in the direction of the Goytkh Pass, but the danger of his going to Mount Indyuk did not pass, because the Germans continued to spread in the direction of the Semashkho Pass. The 107th Brigade was reinforced by one battalion of the 8th Guards Rifle Brigade, and by October 29 the enemy advancing on the pass was defeated. In these battles in the area of \u200b\u200bheight 396.8, two more of our fellow countrymen were killed: on October 27 - Ivan Zubkov, and on October 28 - Sergei Gubanov.
On October 29, the 107th brigade received an order to stop active operations in the direction of Goith, to firmly hold the occupied lines and, together with the 119th rifle brigade and the 8th guards brigade eliminate the enemy in Prochev's gully.
The task was assigned to the 2nd battalion of the brigade. Previously, the brigade commander sent a reconnaissance group as part of a reconnaissance platoon of three sappers, two crews of light machine guns and a group of signalmen.
Under cover of darkness, the scouts reached the southern outskirts of the village of Shahumyan, where they found a congestion of Nazis. The scouts dispersed, creating the appearance of a large force, and opened fire from three directions. In confusion, suffering losses, the Germans fled. Having received a message about the success of the reconnaissance group, the battalion commander, Major F.V.Burenko, sent rifle companies bypassing Hill 388 and reaching the Prochev gully. Despite the darkness, the personnel acted decisively. Prochev's beam was cleared of the enemy.
In this battle, on October 29, Ivan Bychkov died. According to the report on irrecoverable losses, as in the case of Zubkov and Gubanov - in the area of \u200b\u200bheight 396.8.
During the hostilities near Tuapse - from October 10, 1942 to January 15, 1943 - the 107th brigade carried out the order of the commander of the Black Sea Group of Forces, its battalions did not retreat a single step and stopped the advance of the Germans along the highway to Tuapse. With access to the sea, the Germans planned to cut off our Novorossiysk grouping. Did not work out.
So where do the remains of our fallen lie? There is no information about this in the Book of Memory.
During such intense battles for quite a long time, characterized by attacks and counterattacks from both sides, there is no need to talk about the exact burial place of the fallen, unless the grave was named. Most likely, after the war, the names on the graves were put on the lists. irrecoverable losses, therefore, they are simultaneously listed in two graves, and the remains of the fallen in different places are picked up by the search engines every year.
The gravestones of the burials bear the names:Bychkov Ivan Grigorievich - st.Goith, Gubanov Sergey Egorovich - h.Ostrovskaya Shchel and st. Goytkh, Zubkov Ivan Mikhailovich - st. Goyth and kh. Ostrovskaya Shchel (recorded as Zubov, IO, year of birth and date of death coincide), Denisov Ivan Yakovlevich - village of Fanagoriyskoye.
If the places of death (heights 396.8 and 618.7), and the village of Ostrovskaya Shchel, and st. Goyth is located in close proximity, then the village of Fanagoriskoye is more than 30 km from these places in a straight line, excluding the mountainous terrain. How could Denisov be there? To the south of Phanagoria, in Ponadvisla, there is a large burial place of those who died from wounds, and one could assume that Denisov was wounded and sent there to a hospital, but this is impossible and inexplicable. Send a seriously wounded man across the mountains, off-road, along the front line? Despite the fact that in the area of \u200b\u200boperations of the 107th brigade, field hospitals were in the Ostrovskaya Shchel village, the villages of Shaumyan and Indyuk. On the tombstone in Fanagoria there is neither the year of birth, Denisov, nor the place of death, only the rank is sergeant, and the date of death is 10/17/42. Perhaps this is another Denisov, but nowhere else have I found such a different sergeant. Apparently, this is another post-war mistake, and the remains of our compatriot rest at height 618.7.
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Monument-stella in honor of the 107th rifle brigade
Until October 1942, the 107th brigade fought near Bryansk. In a short time, having established itself as a close-knit military unit, capable of fulfilling any order of the Fatherland. Conducting defensive battles, they participated in three offensive operations, destroyed hundreds of enemy soldiers, officers, and military equipment. For their heroism and courage, many soldiers were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union.
The war continued. The personnel of the brigade fought near Anapa.
After the Taman Peninsula was liberated by order of the Headquarters of the Main Command of the USSR Armed Forces, the 117th Guards Rifle Division was formed on the basis of three separate brigades - the 107th, 81st and 8th. Its soldiers with battles victoriously carried the guards banner to Berlin and Prague. For the successful completion of combat missions of the command in battles with the Nazi invaders, the division was given the honorary name Berdichevskaya, it was awarded the Order of B. Khmelnitsky, II degree. And the Supreme Commander-in-Chief announced 14 commendations to the personnel. Over 10 thousand soldiers received government awards, 8 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
107th Infantry Brigade Commissioner
Having retired, he did a lot of work on the military-patriotic education of young people. Provided invaluable assistance in the creation of museums of military glory of the 107th separate rifle brigade in Novorossiysk, Moscow, Berdichev, Volzhsk. The colonel died on March 23, 1987 in Moscow. A street of our city in the Mashinostroitel microdistrict is named after him.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany, a park was laid, in the center of which a stele was erected with the image combat path brigades. By the decision of the executive committee of the Volga City Council dated April 15, 1980, Severnaya Street was renamed into 107th Rifle Brigade Street.
Such is her short story, the heroic path and battle glory warriors.
Stela 107 of the Special Rifle Brigade is another attraction of the city of Stela 107 of the Separate Rifle Brigade. On August 13, 1974, the Executive Committee of the Volga City Council of Working People's Deputies of the Mari ASSR decided to build a boulevard in honor of the memory of the 107 brigades who died.
The structure of the monument is made of reinforced concrete and consists of two parts.
At a height of 80-90 cm from the pedestal, the stele was originally framed by a belt of metal 80 cm high with an inscription. Currently, a belt is attached to a metal frame.
The top of the Stela on the north side is decorated with the sign of the 107th brigade and the 18th army. Against the background of a five-pointed relief star, there are images of a hammer and sickle - symbols of the Soviet state.
On a straight wall, on a large red star, the battle path of the 107th rifle brigade is depicted.
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In Volzhsk, from the second half of December 1941 to April 1942, the 107th separate rifle brigade was formed.
It included: four separate rifle battalions, two artillery battalions, a minivision, a mortar battalion and separate units of reconnaissance, submachine gunners, communications, engineering, medical and sanitary and automobile services.
The units were staffed with cadre privates and sergeants who arrived from Western and Eastern Siberia, as well as conscripts called up from the reserve from the Gorky and Sverdlovsk regions, the Mari and Chuvash ASSR. The command and political structure was represented by officers who arrived from the active army and called up from the reserve, graduates of military schools.
Colonel was appointed commander Petr Efimovich Kuzmin... At that time, he had good military training, extensive experience. Born June 15, 1900 in the Tambov Region. In 1912 he graduated from 5 classes of the parish school. And in 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army, where he actively fought at the fronts. civil war against Denikin, White Poles and gangs on the territory of the Gomel region. Later he graduated from courses - machine gun, command staff and high school... And after the civilian he served in various command and staff positions. As a commander of a rifle regiment, he participated in soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940 The regiment under was repeatedly distinguished in battle, especially during the breakthrough of the heavily fortified Mannerheim line.
There were few public buildings in the city, so with the military units there were problems. The soldier was housed in apartments local residents, placed on the basis of the Mari Pulp and Paper Mill. Food for the personnel was also organized there.
In early February 1942, when the 107th Separate Rifle Brigade was fully staffed, intense days of combat and political training began. Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov personally checked the brigade's readiness and concluded that it was ready to perform combat missions.
On May 1, at 9 o'clock, the units lined up in the city square, near the House of Culture of the Marbumkombinat. The entire population of the city took to the streets to escort the soldiers to the front. Having passed a solemn march, to the music of a brass band, they went to the station, plunged into train trains. On May 5, the brigade arrived at the Bryansk front, where it received its baptism of fire.
Feats of Volunteers
Hundreds of men, women and adolescents turned to the draft board of the military registration and enlistment office, who asked to be enrolled in the brigade.
So, at an urgent request, a student of the 9th grade of school No. 6 of our city, Komsomol member Kolya Romashenkov, was enrolled in the scout company. At the front, he took part in many reconnaissance operations, went behind the front line to take "tongue".
Nikolai has repeatedly shown courage and courage, has been repeatedly awarded government awards.
And on May 2, 1943, in a battle on Malaya Zemlya, he died from a fatal wound. For his exploits, the Military Council of the 18th Army awarded N.Romashenkov the Order of the Patriotic War.
Among the volunteers in Volzhsk there were also many girls with a medical education. Once a little girl came to the political department and turned to the commissioner:
- Comrade commissar, take me to the brigade, I want to go to the front!
Kabanov looked at her and asked:
- What are you going to do at the front?
- How old are you?
- Soon it will be 16.
- That's what, Zhenya, - said the commissioner, - you are still very young, it is too early to go to the front, people at least 18 years of age are being drafted into the army. Yes, probably your mother will not let you go.
Zhenya got upset and left the office. And the next day she came again, but not alone, but with her mother. He looks at her and says:
- Mom, tell the commissioner that you are letting me go to the front!
Mother, wiping away her tears, turned to the commissioner with the words:
- As soon as Zhenya found out about your brigade, she only insists that she will go to the front. No matter how much I persuade, no matter how much I say that no one will take such a girl, she stands her ground. Let him go with you.
This is how Zhenya Pavlova was enrolled as a medical instructor in a rifle company of the first battalion. She fought bravely. It was always where the wounded needed help.
At the end of 1943, during a heavy shelling on Malaya Zemlya, an enemy mine cut short the life of a brave Volga girl who never lived to reach adulthood. For her courage and courage, for taking the wounded from the battlefield, Zhenya was awarded two of the most respected soldiers' medals “For Courage”.
Defense of Tuapse
Until October 1942, the 107th brigade fought near Bryansk. In a short time, having established itself as a close-knit military unit, capable of fulfilling any order of the Fatherland. Conducting defensive battles, they participated in three offensive operations, destroyed hundreds of enemy soldiers, officers, and military equipment. For their heroism and courage, many soldiers were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union.
This historic building is no longer there
On the morning of January 16, 1943, Colonel Pyotr Efimovich Kuzmin, while moving to a new observation post, was hit by a fragment of an enemy mine. Fighting achievements were highly appreciated by the Motherland, he was repeatedly awarded with government awards. So, by the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 11, 1940, he was awarded the Order of the Battle Red Banner for exemplary performance of combat missions of the command in the fight against the Finnish White Guards and for the valor and courage shown at the same time. In 1941 he was awarded the Order of the Red Star. June 6, 1943 - posthumously awarded the Order of Suvorov II degree. His name is immortalized in the name of Volzhskaya street.
On Malaya Zemlya
Geographically, the Small Land does not exist. This is a rocky area of \u200b\u200bland near Novorossiysk, pressed against the water. Its length along the front was 6 kilometers, its depth was 4.5.
By the beginning of 1943, the entire left bank was in the hands of the enemy, who controlled the movement of our fleet from a height. It was urgent to deprive him of this advantage. It was decided to land the paratroopers and seize the Novorossiysk suburb. And when the Soviet soldiers occupied the bridgehead, the Nazis beat continuously, unleashing a huge number of shells and bombs. It is estimated that this deadly metal accounted for 1250 kg for each defender of the Lesser Land.
The April battles of 1943 became the most difficult and brutal. From early in the morning, heavy artillery began to hit, at the same time planes appeared in the sky. They walked in waves of 40-60 cars. Following the high-speed bombers were diving, then attack aircraft. This went on for hours. After that, the attacks of tanks and infantry began. This was repeated several times a day. The German command threw more and more forces into the front line.
The earth was burning, stones were smoking, metal was melting, concrete was crumbling, but our defenders did not retreat. And on the night of September 9-10, reinforcements arrived from Big land... A decisive battle took place, which lasted six days and nights ...
The great confrontation ended with the victory of the Red Army. On September 16, Moscow saluted the gallant soldiers of the North Caucasian Front and the Black Sea Fleet, which included soldiers of the 107th rifle brigade.
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The war continued. The personnel of the brigade fought near Anapa.
Its soldiers with battles victoriously carried the guards banner to Berlin and Prague. For the successful completion of combat missions of the command in battles with the Nazi invaders, the division was given the honorary name Berdichevskaya, it was awarded the Order of B. Khmelnitsky, II degree. And the Supreme Commander-in-Chief announced 14 commendations to the personnel. Over 10 thousand soldiers received government awards, 8 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The commissar of the 107th rifle brigade V.V. Kabanov lived to see Victory Day. He ended the war as chief of the political department of the 117th division. Vasily Vladimirovich was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, three Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, and medals.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany, a park was laid, in the center of which a stele was erected depicting the combat path of the brigade. By the decision of the executive committee of the Volga City Council dated April 15, 1980, Severnaya Street was renamed into 107th Rifle Brigade Street.
Such is its short history, heroic path and military glory of the warriors.