During the Great Patriotic War, heroism was the norm of behavior for Soviet people, the war revealed the steadfastness and courage of the Soviet people. Thousands of soldiers and officers sacrificed their lives in the battles of Moscow, Kursk and Stalingrad, in the defense of Leningrad and Sevastopol, in the North Caucasus and the Dnieper, in the storming of Berlin and in other battles - and immortalized their names. Women and children fought on a par with men. The home front workers played an important role. People who worked exhausted to provide the soldiers with food, clothing, and thus a bayonet and shell.
We will tell you about those who gave their lives, strengths and savings for the Victory. Here they are the great people of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Medic heroes. Zinaida Samsonova

During the war, more than two hundred thousand doctors and half a million paramedics worked at the front and in the rear. And half of them were women.
The working day of doctors and nurses of medical battalions and front-line hospitals often lasted several days. Sleepless nights, medical workers stood relentlessly near the operating tables, and some of them pulled the dead and wounded out of the battlefield on their backs. Among the medics there were many of their own "sailors" who, saving the wounded, covered them with their bodies from bullets and shell fragments.
They did not spare, as they say, their belly, raised the spirit of the soldiers, lifted the wounded from the hospital bed and sent them back into battle to defend their country, their homeland, their people, their home from the enemy. Among the large army of doctors, I would like to name the Hero of the Soviet Union Zinaida Alexandrovna Samsonova, who went to the front when she was only seventeen years old. Zinaida, or, as her fellow soldiers called her, Zinochka, was born in the village of Bobkovo, Yegoryevsky district, Moscow region.
Before the war, she entered the Yegoryevsk Medical School. When the enemy entered her native land, and the country was in danger, Zina decided that she must definitely go to the front. And she rushed there.
She has been in the active army since 1942 and immediately finds herself at the forefront. Zina was a sanitary instructor for a rifle battalion. The soldiers loved her for her smile, for her selfless assistance to the wounded. With her fighters, Zina went through the most terrible battles, this is the Battle of Stalingrad. She fought on the Voronezh front and on other fronts.

In the fall of 1943, she took part in an amphibious operation to seize a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dnieper near the village of Sushki, Kanevsky district, now the Cherkasy region. Here she, together with her fellow soldiers, managed to seize this bridgehead.
From the battlefield Zina carried more than thirty wounded and ferried them to the other side of the Dnieper. This fragile nineteen-year-old girl was legendary. Zinochka was distinguished by her courage and courage.
When the commander died near the village of Holm in 1944, Zina, without hesitation, took over the command of the battle and raised the fighters to attack. In this battle, her fellow soldiers heard her amazing, slightly hoarse voice for the last time: "Eagles, follow me!"
Zinochka Samsonova died in this battle on January 27, 1944 for the village of Holm in Belarus. She was buried in a mass grave in Ozarichi, Kalinkovsky district, Gomel region.
For endurance, courage and courage, Zinaida Alexandrovna Samsonova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
The school where Zina Samsonova once studied was named after her.

A special period of activity of Soviet foreign intelligence officers is associated with the Great Patriotic War. Already at the end of June 1941, the newly created State Defense Committee of the USSR considered the issue of the work of foreign intelligence and clarified its tasks. They were subordinated to one goal - the earliest possible defeat of the enemy. For exemplary performance of special missions behind enemy lines, nine cadre foreign intelligence officers were awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. This is S.A. Vaupshasov, I. D. Kudrya, N.I. Kuznetsov, V.A. Lyagin, D.N. Medvedev, V.A. Molodtsov, K.P. Orlovsky, N.A. Prokopyuk, A.M. Rabtsevich. Here we will tell you about one of the hero scouts - Nikolai Ivanovich Kuznetsov.

Since the beginning of World War II, he was enrolled in the fourth department of the NKVD, whose main task was to organize reconnaissance and sabotage activities behind enemy lines. After numerous training and study in the prisoner of war camp, the customs and life of the Germans, under the name of Paul Wilhelm Siebert, Nikolai Kuznetsov was sent to the rear of the enemy along the line of terror. At first, the special agent conducted his secret activities in the Ukrainian city of Rivne, where the Reich Commissariat of Ukraine was located. Kuznetsov closely communicated with enemy officers of the special services and the Wehrmacht, as well as local officials. All the information obtained was transferred to the partisan detachment. One of the notable feats of the secret agent of the USSR was the capture of the Reichskommissariat courier, Major Gahan, who was carrying a secret map in his briefcase. After interrogating Gahan and studying the map, it turned out that a bunker for Hitler had been built eight kilometers from the Ukrainian Vinnitsa.
In November 1943, Kuznetsov managed to organize the abduction of the German Major General M. Ilgen, who was sent to Rovno to destroy partisan formations.
The last operation of the intelligence officer Siebert in this post was the elimination in November 1943 of the head of the legal department of the Reichskommissariat of Ukraine, Oberführer Alfred Funk. After interrogating Funk, the brilliant intelligence officer managed to obtain information about the preparations for the assassination of the heads of the "Big Three" of the Tehran Conference, as well as information about the enemy's offensive on the Kursk Bulge. In January 1944, Kuznetsov was ordered to go to Lvov together with the retreating fascist troops to continue his sabotage activities. Scouts Jan Kaminsky and Ivan Belov were sent to help Agent Siebert. Under the leadership of Nikolai Kuznetsov, several invaders were destroyed in Lvov, for example, the head of the government office, Heinrich Schneider and Otto Bauer.

From the first days of the occupation, boys and girls began to act decisively, a secret organization called "Young Avengers" was created. The guys fought against the fascist invaders. They blew up a water pump, which delayed the dispatch of ten fascist echelons to the front. Distracting the enemy, the Avengers destroyed bridges and highways, blew up a local power plant, and burned down the plant. Obtaining information about the actions of the Germans, they immediately passed it on to the partisans.
Zina Portnova was assigned more and more complex tasks. According to one of them, the girl managed to get a job in a German canteen. After working there for a while, she carried out an effective operation - she poisoned food for the German soldiers. More than 100 fascists suffered from her lunch. The Germans began to blame Zina. Wanting to prove her innocence, the girl tried the poisoned soup and only miraculously survived.

In 1943, traitors appeared who disclosed secret information and betrayed our guys to the Nazis. Many were arrested and shot. Then the command of the partisan detachment instructed Portnova to establish contact with those who survived. The Nazis grabbed a young partisan when she was returning from a mission. Zina was terribly tortured. But the answer to the enemy was only her silence, contempt and hatred. The interrogations did not stop.
“The Gestapo man went to the window. And Zina, rushing to the table, grabbed a pistol. Obviously catching the rustle, the officer turned abruptly, but the weapon was already in her hand. She pulled the trigger. For some reason I didn't hear the shot. I just saw how the German, clutching his chest with his hands, fell to the floor, and the second, who was sitting at the side table, jumped up from his chair and hastily unfastened the holster of his revolver. She pointed the gun at him too. Again, almost without aiming, pulled the trigger. Rushing to the exit, Zina pulled open the door, jumped into the next room and from there onto the porch. There she shot almost point blank at the sentry. Having run out of the building of the commandant's office, Portnova rushed down the path like a whirlwind.
"If only I could run to the river," thought the girl. But the noise of the chase was heard from behind ... "Why don't they shoot?" The surface of the water already seemed very close. And beyond the river the forest was black. She heard the sound of machine gun fire, and something prickly pierced her leg. Zina fell onto the river sand. She still had enough strength, slightly raised herself, to shoot ... She took care of the last bullet for herself.
When the Germans ran very close, she decided that it was all over, and pointed a pistol to her chest and pulled the trigger. But there was no shot: a misfire. The fascist knocked the pistol out of her weakening hands. "
Zina was sent to prison. For more than a month the Germans brutally tortured the girl, they wanted her to betray her comrades. But having sworn an oath of loyalty to the Motherland, Zina kept it.
On the morning of January 13, 1944, a gray-haired and blind girl was taken out for execution. She walked, stumbling with bare feet in the snow.
The girl withstood all the torture. She truly loved our Motherland and died for her, firmly believing in our victory.
Zinaida Portnova was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The Soviet people, realizing that the front needed their help, made every effort. Engineering geniuses simplified and improved production. Women who had recently escorted their husbands, brothers and sons to the front, took their place at the machine, mastering unfamiliar professions. "Everything for the front, everything for the victory!" Children, old people and women gave all their strength, gave themselves for the sake of victory.

This is how the collective farmers' call sounded in one of the regional newspapers: “... we need to give the army and the working people more bread, meat, milk, vegetables and agricultural raw materials for industry. We, the workers of the state farms, together with the collective farm peasantry must hand it over. " Only by these lines can one judge how much the home front workers were obsessed with thoughts of victory, and what sacrifices they were willing to make in order to bring this long-awaited day closer. Even receiving funerals, they did not stop working, knowing that this is the best way to take revenge on the hated fascists for the death of their loved ones.

On December 15, 1942, Ferapont Holovaty gave all his savings - 100 thousand rubles - to purchase an aircraft for the Red Army, and asked to transfer the aircraft to the pilot of the Stalingrad Front. In a letter addressed to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, he wrote that, having accompanied his two sons to the front, he himself wanted to contribute to the cause of victory. Stalin answered: “Thank you, Ferapont Petrovich, for your concern for the Red Army and its Air Force. The Red Army will not forget that you gave all your savings to build a combat aircraft. Please accept my greetings. " Serious attention was paid to the initiative. The decision on who exactly will get the named aircraft was made by the Military Council of the Stalingrad Front. The combat vehicle was handed over to one of the best - the commander of the 31st Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, Major Boris Nikolayevich Eremin. The fact that Eremin and Holovaty were fellow countrymen also played a role.

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved by inhuman efforts, both front-line soldiers and home front workers. And this must be remembered. Today's generation should not forget their feat.

On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, the heroes of the past are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, on duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress has compiled the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, policemen, soldiers and officers.

On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, the heroes of the past are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, on duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress has compiled the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, policemen, soldiers and officers. We just wanted to remind you that there is always a place for feat in life.

In September 2014, an emergency occurred on the territory of a military unit during an exercise in Lesnoy. The junior sergeant pulled the pin off the grenade and dropped the ammunition. Colonel Serik Sultangabiev, having managed to react in time,.

The President of Russia, on the proposal of the command of the Internal Troops, signed a decree conferring the highest rank on the colonel.

In July 2014, several journalists and photojournalist Andrei Stenin went to Donbass to provide reliable information about what is happening in the south-east of Ukraine.

The circumstances of the death of Andrei Stenin in the Donbass. As FederalPress reported earlier, the convoy of refugees, in which the photographer was, came under fire north-west of the village of Dmitrovka. The Ukrainian army, presumably the 79th airmobile brigade, opened fire on the vehicles of civilians from guns and machine guns. As a result, ten cars were destroyed, but several people managed to escape and hide in the roadside bushes.

The next day, representatives of the Ukrainian command inspected the site of shelling of the column, after which the territory with the remains of the dead and wrecked vehicles was treated with Grad rocket launchers. All journalists who died in Donbass were posthumously awarded.

In June last year, a major accident happened at the Achinsk refinery. During the start-up work on the gas fractionation plant, a volumetric explosion and fire occurred. As a result.

In January 2012, a fire broke out in the basement of a residential building in Omsk. Thick black smoke came from there, which enveloped the second entrance of the house, people from the windows asked for help. The arriving firefighters evacuated 38 people, including eight children, and went to the smoky basement.

Despite zero visibility, the fire brigade under the leadership of the senior warrant officer of the sixth fire brigade Alexander Kozhemyakin carried out two gas cylinders that could explode.

Half an hour later, the audible alarms of the breathing apparatus went off at the firemen. This meant that the air in the cylinders was running out. Kozhemyakin, realizing that there was a real threat to the life of his subordinates, became the last one and helped his comrades get out of the smoky and cluttered basement. Freeing a subordinate entangled in the wire, the commander suddenly lost consciousness. For more than an hour, ambulance doctors tried to bring him back to life, but without regaining consciousness. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.

In September 2010, a fire broke out in the engine room of the Bystry destroyer at the Fokino naval base due to a short circuit in the wiring at the time of a fuel pipeline break. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, who took over on duty as a boiler-house operator, immediately rushed to block the leak. For about nine seconds, he was in the center of the fire, after eliminating the leak he was able to independently get out of the compartment engulfed in flames, receiving severe burns. The prompt actions of Aldar and his colleagues led to the timely shutdown of the ship's power plant, which could otherwise explode and cause massive damage to the ship.

Aldar was taken to the hospital of the Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok in a grave condition. Doctors fought for his life for four days, but he died. In 2011, a sailor posthumously became.

Superheroes aren't just for comics and movies. All over the world there are many real heroes performing superhuman feats. From incredible strength to incredible displays of courage and perseverance, these real people have shown by their example what incredible feats can be accomplished thanks to the power of the human spirit.

10. A blind man rescued a blind woman from a burning house

Imagine what it would be like to try to rescue a blind person from a burning building, guiding them step by step through searing flames and smoke. Now imagine that you, too, are blind, as in this inspiring story. Jim Sherman, who is blind from birth, heard cries for help from his 85-year-old neighbor as she was trapped in her burning house. In a feat that can confidently be called heroic, he made his way to her house from his nearby trailer, feeling his way along the fence.

Once he got to the woman's house, he somehow managed to get inside and locate his terrified neighbor, Annie Smith, who is also blind. Sherman pulled Smith out of the burning house to safety.

9. Skydiving instructors sacrificed everything to save their students


Not many people survive a fall from a height of thousands of meters. However, no matter how incredible it may seem, two women managed to do it, thanks to the selfless deeds of two men. The first man gave his life to save the man he had just met. Skydiving instructor Robert Cook and his student, Kimberley Dear, took to the skies to make her first jump when the plane's engine failed. In an incredible feat, Cook told Deer to sit on his lap, clasping their gear. When the plane crashed to the ground, Cook's body absorbed the impact, killing him but protecting Kimberly Deer from what was to be a fatal accident.

Another skydiving instructor, Dave Hartsock, also saved his student from being hit. It was Shirley Dygert's first jump in tandem with an instructor. Although their plane did not malfunction, Diegert's parachute did not deploy. In the course of the terrible free fall, Hartsock was able to position himself under his student, taking the blow as they fell to the ground together. Despite the fact that Dave Hartsock broke his spine, leaving his body paralyzed from the neck down, they both survived the fall.

8. A man carried four soldiers from the battlefield


Despite being a mere mortal, Joe Rollino spent his 104-year life doing incredible, superhuman acts. Although he weighed only approximately 68 kilograms in his prime, he was able to lift 288 kilograms with his fingers and 1450 kilograms on his back. He has won several strongman titles and many honors.

However, it was not his talent in strength competitions that made him a hero in the eyes of many people and not his title of "Strongest Man in the World", which he received on Coney Island. During World War II, Rollino served in the Pacific and received a Bronze & Silver Star for his bravery in the line of duty, as well as three Purple Hearts for his combat injuries that caused he spent a total of 24 months in hospital. He is best known for the fact that he pulled his comrades out of the battlefield, two in each hand, and then returned to the line of fire to carry more of his injured counterparts to safety.

7. Father fought an alligator to save his son


Fatherly love can inspire superhuman exploits, as two fathers from different parts of the world have proven. In Florida, Joseph Welch came to the aid of his six-year-old son when an alligator grabbed the boy's arm. Without thinking about his own safety, Welch beat the alligator non-stop, trying to get him to let his son go. Finally, a passerby arrived in time to help Welch and began kicking the alligator in the stomach until the beast finally let go of the boy.

In Mutoko, Zimbabwe, another father saved his son from a crocodile attack in a river. A father named Tafadzwa Kacher began poking the crocodile with reeds in the eyes and jaws until he released his son. Having released the boy, the crocodile rushed at his father. Tafadzwa had to gouge out the animal's eyes to free his hand. The boy eventually lost his leg due to a crocodile attack, but survived and spoke of his father's superhuman bravery.

6. Two real-life Wonder Women who lifted cars to save lives


Men aren't the only ones who can show superhuman strength in times of crisis. The daughter and mother have shown that women can also be heroes, especially when a loved one is in danger. In Virginia, a 22-year-old woman saved her father's life when a BMW he was working on slid off a jack and landed on his chest, crushing him. Realizing that there was no time to wait for help, the young woman lifted the car and pulled her father out, then gave him artificial respiration to force him to breathe.

In Georgia, another jack slid out and lowered the 1,350-pound Chevy Impala onto a young man. Without assistance, his mother, Angela Cavallo, lifted the car and held it for five minutes until neighbors managed to drag her son to safety.

5. A woman stopped an uncontrolled school bus


Not all superhuman abilities are made up of strength and courage, some of which are the ability to think quickly and act in an emergency. In New Mexico, a school bus carrying children became a road hazard when a driver had a seizure. The girl who was waiting for the bus saw that the bus driver was in trouble and turned to her mother for help. The woman, Rhonda Carlsen, immediately came to the rescue.

She ran next to the bus and with gestures persuaded one of the children on the bus to open the door. After the door was opened, Carlsen jumped on the bus, grabbed the steering wheel, and calmly stopped the bus. Her quick reflexes helped prevent harm that could be done to the children on the bus, not to mention any bystanders who might get in the way of the uncontrolled bus.

4. A teenager pulled a man out of a truck hanging over an abyss.


A truck with a trailer tilted over the edge of a cliff in the dead of night. The cab of the large truck creaked as it came to a stop, and began to dangle dangerously over the ravine below. The truck driver was trapped inside. A young man came to his aid, broke a window and dragged the driver to safety with his bare hands. This is not a scene from an action movie, but a real event that took place in New Zealand at Waioeka Gorge on October 5, 2008.

18-year-old hero-turned-Peter Hanne was in his house when he heard the crash. Without thinking about his own safety, he climbed onto the balancing truck, jumped into the narrow gap between the cab and the trailer, and smashed the rear window of the driver's cab. He gently helped the injured driver to safety as the truck creaked and swayed under their feet. In 2011, Hanne was awarded the New Zealand Bravery Medal for his heroic deed.

3. Bullet-riddled soldier who returned to the battlefield


The war is full of heroes, and many of them risk their lives to save their fellow soldiers. In the film Forrest Gump, we saw the eponymous fictional character save several of his fellow soldiers, even after he was shot. In real life, there are even more exciting stories, such as the story of Robert Ingram, who received the Medal Of Honor.

In 1966, under siege by the enemy, Ingram continued to fight and save his comrades after being hit by three bullets - one in the head, which left him partially blind and deaf in one ear, the second hit in the hand, and the third dug into his left knee. Despite his injuries, Ingram continued to kill the North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking his squad, and went under fire to save his fellow soldiers. His bravery is just one fascinating example of the many wartime heroes who defended their countries with incredible feats.

2. World swimming champion rescued 20 people from a sinking trolleybus


Aquaman is no match for Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved 20 people from drowning in a trolleybus that fell into the water in 1976. 11-time world record holder, 17-time world champion, 13-time European champion, seven-time USSR champion, Armenian speed swimming champion was finishing a training run with his brother when he witnessed a 92-passenger trolley bus off the road into a reservoir falling into the water 24 meters from the shore. Karapetyan dived into the water, kicked out the rear window and began to get dozens of passengers out of the trolleybus, which by that time was already at a depth of 10 meters in the icy water.

It was estimated that it took him approximately 30 seconds to save one person, which allowed him to save person after person before he passed out in the cold, murky water. Of all the people he pulled out of the trolleybus in that short time, 20 people survived. However, the heroic work of Karapetyan did not end there. Eight years later, he ran into a burning building and dragged several people to safety, suffering severe burns. Karapetyan received the Order of the Badge of Honor from the USSR and many other awards for underwater rescue, but he claimed that he was not a hero and did only what he had to do.

1. The man lifted the helicopter to rescue his employee

The set of the TV show became a real drama when a helicopter from the hit TV series Magnum PI fell into a drainage ditch in 1988. Preparing for a soft landing, the helicopter suddenly banked, got out of control and fell to the ground, all of which was filmed. One of the show's pilots, Steve Kux, was trapped under a helicopter in shallow water. In an incredible Man of Steel moment, Warren “Tiny” Everal ran up and lifted the helicopter off Kaks. The helicopter was a Hughes 500D model, and such a helicopter weighs at least 703 kilograms when there is no cargo in it.

Tiny's quick reaction and superhuman strength saved Kax from the weight of the helicopter, which bound him to the water, which could crush him. Although the pilot's left arm was injured, he recovered from what could have been a fatal accident thanks to a local Hawaiian hero.

We present to your attention the most heroic domestic deeds committed by our children. These are stories about children-heroes who, at the cost of their lives and health, without hesitation rushed to the rescue of those who needed help.

Zhenya Tabakov

The youngest hero of Russia. A real Man who was only 7 years old. The only seven-year-old holder of the Order of Courage. Unfortunately, posthumously.

The tragedy played out on the evening of November 28, 2008. Zhenya and his twelve-year-old older sister Yana were at home alone. An unknown man rang the doorbell, who introduced himself as a postman who brought an allegedly registered letter.

Yana did not suspect that there was anything wrong and allowed him to come in. Entering the apartment and closing the door behind him, the "postman" took out a knife instead of a letter and, grabbing Yana, began to demand that the children give him all the money and valuables. Having received an answer from the children that they did not know where the money was, the criminal demanded that Zhenya look for it, and he himself dragged Yana into the bathroom, where he began to rip off her clothes. Seeing him ripping off his sister's clothes, Zhenya grabbed a kitchen knife and in desperation stuck it in the criminal's lower back. Howling in pain, he loosened his grip, and the girl managed to run out of the apartment for help. In a rage, the failed rapist, pulling the knife out of himself, began to thrust it into the child (eight stab wounds incompatible with life were counted on Zhenya's body), after which he fled. However, the wound inflicted by Zhenya, leaving a bloody trail behind him, did not allow him to escape from the pursuit.

By the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 20, 2009 No. For courage and dedication shown in the performance of civic duty Evgeny Evgenievich Tabakov was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. The order was received by Zhenya's mother, Galina Petrovna.

On September 1, 2013, a monument to Zhenya Tabakov was unveiled in the courtyard of the school - a boy driving a kite away from a dove.

Danil Sadykov

A 12-year-old teenager, a resident of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, died saving a 9-year-old schoolboy. The tragedy took place on May 5, 2012 on Entuziastov Boulevard. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, 9-year-old Andrey Churbanov decided to get a plastic bottle that had fallen into the fountain. Suddenly he was electrocuted, the boy lost consciousness and fell into the water.

Everyone shouted "help", but only Danil jumped into the water, who at that moment was passing by on a bicycle. Danil Sadykov pulled the victim onto the side, but he himself received a severe electric shock. He died before the ambulance arrived.
Thanks to the selfless act of one child, the other child survived.

Danil Sadykov was awarded the Order of Courage. Posthumously. For the shown courage and dedication in saving a person in extreme conditions, the award was presented by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Instead of a son, the boy's father, Aydar Sadykov, received it.

Maxim Konov and Georgy Suchkov

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, two third-graders rescued a woman who fell into an ice hole. When she was already saying goodbye to life, two boys walked by the pond, returning from school. A 55-year-old resident of the village of Mukhtolova, Ardatovskiy district, went to the pond to take water from the Epiphany hole. The ice-hole was already covered with an edge of ice, the woman slipped and lost her balance. In heavy winter clothes, she found herself in the icy water. Clinging to the edge of the ice, the unfortunate woman began to call for help.

Fortunately, at that moment two friends, Maxim and George, were passing by the pond, returning from school. Noticing the woman, they, without wasting a second, rushed to help. When they reached the hole, the boys took the woman by both hands and pulled her out onto the hard ice. The guys escorted her home, not forgetting to grab a bucket and a sled. The arrived doctors examined the woman, provided assistance, she did not need hospitalization.

Of course, such a shock did not pass without a trace, but the woman does not get tired of thanking the guys for being alive. She donated soccer balls and cell phones to her rescuers.

Vanya Makarov

Vanya Makarov from Ivdel is now eight years old. A year ago, he saved his classmate from the river, who fell through the ice. Looking at this little boy - a little over a meter tall and weighing only 22 kilograms - it is difficult to imagine how he alone could pull the girl out of the water. Vanya grew up in an orphanage with his sister. But two years ago he got into the family of Nadezhda Novikova (and the woman already had four of her children). In the future, Vanya plans to go to study at a cadet school in order to later become a lifeguard.

Kobychev Maxim

A fire in a private residential building in the village of Zelveno, Amur Region, broke out in the late evening. The neighbors discovered the fire with a great delay, when thick smoke poured from the windows of the burning house. After reporting the fire, the residents began to extinguish the flames by pouring water over it. By that time, things and walls of the building were on fire in the rooms. Among those who came running to help was 14-year-old Maxim Kobychev. Having learned that there are people in the house, he, not being lost in a difficult situation, entered the house and pulled a disabled woman born in 1929 into the fresh air. Then, risking his own life, he returned to the burning building and carried out a man born in 1972.

Kirill Daineko and Sergey Skripnik

In the Chelyabinsk region, two friends for 12 years have shown real courage, saving their teachers from the destruction caused by the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.

Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik heard their teacher Natalya Ivanovna calling for help from the dining room, unable to knock down the massive doors. The guys rushed to save the teacher. First, they ran into the duty room, grabbed a rebar that had turned up under the arm and knocked out the window into the dining room. Then, through the window opening, the teacher, wounded by glass fragments, was transferred to the street. After that, the schoolchildren discovered that another woman, a kitchen worker, needed help, who was flooded with utensils that had collapsed from the impact of the blast wave. Promptly dismantling the blockage, the boys called adults for help.

Lida Ponomareva

The medal "For the rescue of the perished" will be awarded to a sixth grade student of the Ustvash secondary school of the Leshukonsky district (Arkhangelsk region) Lidia Ponomareva. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, the press service of the regional government reports.

In July 2013, a 12-year-old girl rescued two seven-year-olds. Lida, ahead of the adults, jumped into the river first after the drowning boy, and then helped the girl swim out, who was also carried away by the current far from the shore. One of the guys on land managed to throw a life jacket to the drowning child, behind which Lida pulled the girl to the shore.

Lida Ponomareva - the only one of the surrounding children and adults who found themselves at the scene of the tragedy, without hesitation, rushed into the river. The girl doubly risked her own life, because her injured arm was very painful. When the next day after the children were rescued, mother and daughter went to the hospital, it turned out that it was a fracture.

Admiring the girl's courage and courage, the Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region Igor Orlov personally thanked Lida by phone for her brave deed.

At the suggestion of the governor, Lida Ponomareva was nominated for a state award.

Alina Gusakova and Denis Fedorov

During the terrible fires in Khakassia, schoolchildren rescued three people.
On that day, the girl accidentally found herself near the house of her first teacher. She came to visit a friend who lived next door.

I hear someone shouting, said to Nina: “I’ll come right now,” Alina says about that day. - I see through the window that Polina Ivanovna is shouting: "Help!" While Alina was rescuing a school teacher, her house, in which the girl lives with her grandmother and older brother, burned to the ground.

On April 12, in the same village of Kozhukhovo, Tatyana Fedorova, together with her 14-year-old son Denis, came to visit her grandmother. A holiday after all. As soon as the whole family sat down at the table, a neighbor came running and, pointing to the mountain, called to put out the fire.

We ran to the fire, began to put out with rags, - says Rufina Shaimardanova, aunt of Denis Fyodorov. - When they extinguished most of them, a very sharp, strong wind blew, and the fire went towards us. We ran to the village, ran into the nearest buildings to hide from the smoke. Then we hear - the fence is bursting, everything is on fire! I could not find the door, my thin brother ducked into the crack, and then came back for me. But together we cannot find a way out! Smoky, scary! And then Denis opened the door, grabbed my hand and pulled out, then his brother. I have panic, my brother panic. And Denis soothes: "Calm down Rufus." When we walked, nothing was visible at all, my lenses in my eyes were fused from the high temperature ...

This is how a 14-year-old schoolboy saved two people. Not only helped to get out of the house enveloped in flames, but also led to a safe place.

The head of the EMERCOM of Russia Vladimir Puchkov presented departmental awards to firefighters and residents of Khakassia, who distinguished themselves in the elimination of massive fires, in the fire station number 3 of the Abakan garrison of the EMERCOM of Russia. The list of awardees included 19 people - firefighters from the Russian Emergencies Ministry, firefighters from Khakassia, volunteers and two schoolchildren from the Ordzhonikidze district - Alina Gusakova and Denis Fedorov.

This is only a small part of the stories about brave children and their not childish actions. One post will not be able to contain the stories about all the heroes. Not everyone is awarded medals, but this does not make their act less significant. The most important reward is the gratitude of those whose lives they saved.

Heroes of the Great Patriotic War

Gunner-machine gunner of the 2nd separate battalion of the 91st separate Siberian volunteer brigade named after Stalin.

Sasha Matrosov did not know his parents. He was brought up in an orphanage and a labor colony. When the war began, he was not even 20. Matrosov was drafted into the army in September 1942 and sent to an infantry school, and then to the front.

In February 1943, his battalion attacked a Nazi stronghold, but fell into a trap, falling under heavy fire, which cut off the path to the trenches. They were shooting from three bunkers. Two soon fell silent, but the third continued to shoot the Red Army soldiers who lay in the snow.

Seeing that the only chance to get out of the fire was to suppress the enemy's fire, Sailors with a fellow soldier crawled to the bunker and threw two grenades in his direction. The machine gun fell silent. The Red Army went on the attack, but the deadly weapon rattled again. Partner Alexander was killed, and Matrosov was left alone in front of the bunker. I had to do something.

He did not have even a few seconds to make a decision. Not wanting to let down his comrades, Alexander closed the embrasure of the bunker with his body. The attack was crowned with success. And Matrosov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Military pilot, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th long-range bomber aviation regiment, captain.

He worked as a mechanic, then in 1932 he was drafted into the Red Army. He ended up in an air regiment, where he became a pilot. Nikolai Gastello took part in three wars. A year before the Great Patriotic War, he received the rank of captain.

On June 26, 1941, the crew under the command of Captain Gastello took off to strike a German mechanized convoy. It was on the road between the Belarusian towns of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. But the column was well guarded by enemy artillery. A fight ensued. Gastello's plane was hit by an anti-aircraft gun. The shell damaged the fuel tank, and the car caught fire. The pilot could have ejected, but he decided to fulfill his military duty to the end. Nikolai Gastello directed the burning car directly at the enemy column. This was the first fiery ram in the Great Patriotic War.

The name of the brave pilot has become a household name. Until the end of the war, all the aces who decided to go to the ram were called the Ghatellots. If you follow the official statistics, then during the entire war there were almost six hundred rams of the opponent.

Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He had already worked at the plant, having completed his seven-year period. When the Nazis captured his native Novgorod region, Lenya joined the partisans.

He was brave and determined, the command appreciated him. For several years spent in a partisan detachment, he participated in 27 operations. On his account there are several destroyed bridges behind enemy lines, 78 destroyed Germans, 10 trains with ammunition.

It was he who, in the summer of 1942, near the village of Varnitsa, blew up a car in which there was a German Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard von Wirtz. Golikov managed to obtain important documents about the German offensive. The enemy's attack was thwarted, and the young hero was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for this feat.

In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked the partisans near the village of Ostraya Luka. Lenya Golikov died like a real hero - in battle.

Pioneer. A scout of the Voroshilov partisan detachment in the territory occupied by the Nazis.

Zina was born and went to school in Leningrad. However, the war found her on the territory of Belarus, where she came on vacation.

In 1942, 16-year-old Zina joined the underground organization Young Avengers. She distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the occupied territories. Then, undercover, she got a job in a canteen for German officers, where she committed several sabotage and only miraculously was not captured by the enemy. Many experienced military men were surprised at her courage.

In 1943, Zina Portnova joined the partisans and continued to engage in sabotage behind enemy lines. Due to the efforts of the defectors who surrendered Zina to the Nazis, she was captured. In the dungeons she was interrogated and tortured. But Zina was silent, not betraying her own. During one of these interrogations, she grabbed a pistol from the table and shot three Nazis. After that, she was shot in prison.

An underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of ​​the modern Luhansk region. It numbered over a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.

This underground youth organization was formed immediately after the occupation of the Luhansk region. It included both professional soldiers who were cut off from the main units, and local youth. Among the most famous participants: Oleg Koshevoy, Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, Vasily Levashov, Sergey Tyulenin and many other young people.

The "Young Guard" issued leaflets and committed sabotage against the Nazis. Once they managed to disable an entire tank repair shop, burn down the stock exchange, from where the Nazis drove people to forced labor in Germany. The members of the organization planned to stage an uprising, but were exposed due to the traitors. The Nazis caught, tortured and shot over seventy people. Their feat is immortalized in one of the most famous military books by Alexander Fadeev and the film adaptation of the same name.

28 people from the personnel of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th rifle regiment.

In November 1941, a counteroffensive against Moscow began. The enemy stopped at nothing, making a decisive march before the onset of a harsh winter.

At this time, the fighters under the command of Ivan Panfilov took up a position on the highway seven kilometers from Volokolamsk, a small town near Moscow. There they gave battle to the advancing tank units. The battle lasted four hours. During this time, they destroyed 18 armored vehicles, delaying the enemy's attack and thwarting his plans. All 28 people (or almost all, historians differ here) died.

According to legend, the company's political instructor Vasily Klochkov, before the decisive stage of the battle, addressed the soldiers with a phrase that became known throughout the country: "Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind!"

The fascist counteroffensive ultimately failed. The battle for Moscow, which was assigned the most important role in the course of the war, was lost by the invaders.

As a child, the future hero fell ill with rheumatism, and the doctors doubted that Maresyev would be able to fly. However, he stubbornly applied to the flight school, until he was finally enrolled. Maresyev was drafted into the army in 1937.

He met the Great Patriotic War at the flight school, but soon got to the front. During the sortie, his plane was shot down, and Maresyev himself was able to eject. For eighteen days, seriously wounded in both legs, he got out of the encirclement. However, he still managed to overcome the front line and ended up in the hospital. But gangrene had already begun, and doctors amputated both of his legs.

For many, this would mean the end of the service, but the pilot did not give up and returned to aviation. Until the end of the war, he flew with prostheses. Over the years, he made 86 sorties and shot down 11 enemy aircraft. And 7 - after amputation. In 1944, Alexey Maresyev went to work as an inspector and lived to be 84 years old.

His fate inspired the writer Boris Polevoy to write The Story of a Real Man.

Deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment.

Viktor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes on a biplane. Then he served in an aviation school.

In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots rammed a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and parachute down to the rear of his own.

Then Talalikhin shot down five more German planes. He died during another air battle near Podolsk in October 1941.

73 years later, in 2014, the search engines found Talalikhin's plane, which remained in the swamps near Moscow.

Artilleryman of the 3rd counter-battery artillery corps of the Leningrad Front.

Soldier Andrei Korzun was drafted into the army at the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War. He served on the Leningrad front, where fierce and bloody battles were fought.

On November 5, 1943, during another battle, his battery came under fierce enemy fire. Korzun was seriously injured. Despite the terrible pain, he saw that the powder charges were set on fire and the ammunition depot could fly into the air. Gathering his last strength, Andrei crawled to the blazing fire. But he could not take off his greatcoat to cover the fire. Losing consciousness, he made one last effort and covered the fire with his body. The explosion was avoided at the cost of the life of the brave artilleryman.

Commander of the 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade.

A native of Petrograd, Alexander German, according to some sources, was a native of Germany. He served in the army since 1933. When the war began, he became a scout. He worked behind enemy lines, commanded a partisan detachment, which terrified enemy soldiers. His brigade killed several thousand Nazi soldiers and officers, derailed hundreds of trains and blew up hundreds of vehicles.

The Nazis arranged a real hunt for Herman. In 1943, his partisan detachment was surrounded in the Pskov region. Making his way to his own, the brave commander was killed by an enemy bullet.

Commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Leningrad Front

Vladislav Khrustitsky was drafted into the ranks of the Red Army back in the 1920s. In the late 30s he graduated from the armored courses. Since the fall of 1942, he commanded the 61st separate light tank brigade.

He distinguished himself during Operation Iskra, which marked the beginning of the defeat of the Germans on the Leningrad front.

Killed in a battle near Volosovo. In 1944, the enemy retreated from Leningrad, but from time to time made attempts to counterattack. During one of these counterattacks, Khrustitsky's tank brigade fell into a trap.

Despite heavy fire, the commander ordered to continue the offensive. He addressed the radio to his crews with the words: "Fight to the death!" - and went forward first. Unfortunately, the brave tanker died in this battle. And yet the village of Volosovo was liberated from the enemy.

Commander of a partisan detachment and brigade.

Before the war he worked on the railroad. In October 1941, when the Germans were already near Moscow, he volunteered for a complex operation in which his railway experience was needed. Was thrown behind enemy lines. There he invented the so-called "coal mines" (in fact, these are just mines disguised as coal). With the help of this simple but effective weapon, hundreds of enemy trains were undermined in three months.

Zaslonov actively agitated the local population to go over to the side of the partisans. The Nazis, having learned this, changed their soldiers into Soviet uniforms. Zaslonov took them for defectors and ordered them to be admitted to the partisan detachment. The way was open for the insidious enemy. A battle ensued, during which Zaslonov died. A reward was announced for Zaslonov, alive or dead, but the peasants hid his body, and the Germans did not get it.

The commander of a small partisan detachment.

Efim Osipenko fought back in the Civil War. Therefore, when the enemy seized his land, without thinking twice, he joined the partisans. Together with five more comrades, he organized a small partisan detachment, which committed sabotage against the Nazis.

During one of the operations, it was decided to undermine the enemy composition. But there was not enough ammunition in the detachment. The bomb was made from an ordinary grenade. The explosives had to be installed by Osipenko himself. He crawled to the railway bridge and, seeing the approaching train, threw her in front of the train. There was no explosion. Then the partisan himself hit the grenade with a pole from the railway sign. It worked! A long train with provisions and tanks went downhill. The squad leader survived, but completely lost his sight.

For this feat, he was the first in the country to be awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War."

The peasant Matvey Kuzmin was born three years before the abolition of serfdom. And he died, becoming the oldest holder of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

Its history contains many references to the history of another famous peasant - Ivan Susanin. Matvey also had to lead the invaders through the forest and swamps. And, like the legendary hero, he decided to stop the enemy at the cost of his life. He sent his grandson ahead to warn a detachment of partisans that had stopped nearby. The Nazis were ambushed. A fight ensued. Matvey Kuzmin was killed by a German officer. But he did his job. He was 84 years old.

A partisan who was part of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the headquarters of the Western Front.

While studying at school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya wanted to enter a literary institute. But these plans were not destined to come true - the war prevented. In October 1941, Zoya, as a volunteer, came to the recruiting station and after a short training at a school for saboteurs was transferred to Volokolamsk. There, an 18-year-old fighter of a partisan unit, along with adult men, performed dangerous tasks: she mined roads and destroyed communication centers.

During one of the sabotage operations, Kosmodemyanskaya was captured by the Germans. She was tortured, forcing her to betray her. Zoya heroically endured all the trials without saying a word to her enemies. Seeing that it was impossible to get anything from the young partisan, they decided to hang her.

Kosmodemyanskaya steadfastly accepted the test. An instant before her death, she shouted to the assembled local residents: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers, before it's too late, surrender! " The girl's courage shocked the peasants so much that they later retold this story to front-line correspondents. And after the publication in the newspaper Pravda, the whole country learned about the feat of Kosmodemyanskaya. She became the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.