[000:00:00;00] watch for free without registration every time we remember the great patriotic war, when we celebrate victory day we return to each of those days of the war that led us to this victory and there are a lot of these days of heroic days and the defeat of the germans near moscow and the liberation of besieged leningrad battle of kursk. everyone will agree that one of the main events. this war of this terrible war was terrible, the battle of stalingrad was the bloodiest battle in the history of all mankind. more than two million dead, i have been to volgograd and i've been told that so far. now, every year, they find there from a thousand to one and a half thousand remains of the heroes of that battle. and

how much time has passed and, alas, it is given to identify, no more than 10-15 people. the meat grinder was so terrible, and so little is possible to preserve the memory of those heroes. and among them, my cousin sannikov is very close, only one generation separates. this is the same year from which 18-year-old conscripts left for the war, the most terrible time when out of every five who left. guys, 1923 did not return four among them did not return, and my miron, only one

photograph remains of him. here he is standing, great-grandmother, fast and agrippina sannikov , there are no other photos and other information about him. strictly speaking, no, only one certificate from the archive, which says that he died. in the battles for stalingrad on october 26, 1942, he was a sergeant commander, which was formed shortly before the start of the battle of stalingrad in early october , vladislavtsirovan in the field of hostilities, literally 2-3 weeks later and died. he is in

beketovka this is one of the seven city districts of the then stalingrad, a well-known place from it, many famous alexander pakhmutova film director, but beketovka is also known for the fact that field marshal friedrich paulus was interrogated there for the first time after his capture . imagine that they didn’t come in, someone thinks, because they didn’t bomb on purpose. this area was prepared for him under uh, his headquarters after the capture of stalingrad i think that a considerable share. the fact that this did not happen, that the germans did not enter the beketovka, is just that. on the fates of the lives of those guys who laid down there. in its life, the brigade itself is in march. 43 years

later, a month after the end of the battle of stalingrad, it was disbanded and, as written in historical references. it was disbanded because almost all the fighters, the 93rd infantry brigade, died miraculously on the date, the death of my october 1942 accounts for exactly half of another historical event in the battle of stalingrad. this is the defense of pavlov's house. it began in on the twentieth of september forty-second year ended on the twentieth of november. it's in the middle that he died. my uncle, he did not defend pavlov's house, but, uh, while studying the history of the battle of stalingrad, and a lot has been written , including about this heroic episode , i found that there were 24 defenders of this house. there were 12 russian five

, ukrainians, georgians, uzbeks, kyrgyz, kazakhs, tatars, jews, kalmyks, like drops of water, there among this small group of heroes who defended the upper floors of a four-story building for 2 months. turned out representatives of very many peoples of the then soviet union, i am sure that none of them then thought about it. what nationality are they? or maybe, on the contrary, maybe, they remembered this every day, but they remembered, considering stalingrad their city and the soviet union their country, not dividing it either, returning to my glands. of course, i did not find his grave. but i was able to perpetuate his memory on mamaev kurgan, here he is my miron evstafievich sannikov among these heroes

and he became 413 names for me in our memory before that, there were 285 fighters who died near moscow along with my grandfather and, according to sannikov, the father of miron. there were 127 fighters who died in the forty-third year, liberating kharkov, and among them is another omentum, my uncle myron. and now there are only 400 of them, there are many or few, probably for one person who leads in search. this is not bad, but in fact, from the point of view of our duty to the fallen in this terrible war. this is very small, because according to the ministry of defense, there are still

about 5 million people in the mass graves of that war, still approximately on the territory of our country another million on the territory of the former soviet republics and another 2 million on the territory of the states of central eastern europe that liberated the soviet union and i am absolutely convinced that our business should be the restoration of as many names as possible on mass graves, but the most important thing restoring the fate of these people immortal feats. i do what i can. i certainly do not end here my work, which he freed. before reaching his 19 years old

, doroshev from the kind of commissariat from the kind of hunters was called in the forty-fifth year to the front as well as his other three brothers. unfortunately, out of all three. he is the only one who returned and after being drafted, he ends up in an artillery school. having passed the artillery school , he is heading to leningrad to the leningrad front; , military awards with orders with medals and very he talked interestingly about how young guys came to the front. it was very important

to say that he was not afraid not to be afraid that this fate would happen to you, especially many guys. he is not just like a foreman of a platoon, but also as a person writing a story. when my son and i were compiling a story according to a school assignment from a teacher about what we need to paint on a pedigree, we just sent the documents to ours. kiev is federal and purely by chance they sent me a very interesting note. and there, it means it is written to us today yashka came to the detachment, the yashka was raised on alarm, so yashka came in one boot , yashka had to make chunya and what tuning tuning is - this is such a birch bark box, made like a bast shoe, so that this guy could walk around without getting his feet wet and why do we know what he wrote? my grandfather, he signed his family name or vaska chili . this is a bird, which in the spring you can hear it everywhere, it hums so much, but you can’t see it. here

is such a bird, this is our generic name, and this is how he signed, grandfather led combat fighters. and uh, there is even a small note that he was awarded with an additional ration, after the war, he returned to the komi republic, graduated from the party school and, together with the others, began to set up life in the region. and journalists, by the way, worked in the newspaper. i already found out about this when i myself was a journalist and worked on television. i was very pleased. somehow i started to open the work of my grandfather, because i work m-m with the acceptance of rivers. after zero rafting, our region of the komi republic is famous for the fact that during and wars and in general always gave a lot of years in country a and coal, just the same from vorkuta i went to leningrad e to blagodatny leningrad saved and they warmed, so to speak, our residents, kaliningrad leningrad lawyer a and

wood. naturally, she walked. she, and my grandfather took me to the river with him. they rafted him for several days, collecting the remains of logs in order to clean the river, because the rivers were the main roads and building materials were brought along these rivers in order to ensure life, and the territory of our district, and i really value my grandfather, because this man has become such a standard of male strength for me , i will constantly carry it through the years and pass it on to my children and grandchildren already about the fact that you need to live in such a way that parents are not ashamed, and the children were proud. here i am proud of my mgm. my hero my grandfather alexei nikolayevich nikitin went through the whole war, joined the army on march 6 , 1942, in the fiftieth army under

the command of a general on december 30, 1941 , grandfather e, on march 23, forty-second should have turned 18 years old on march 6. well, less less than a month before his seventeenth birthday. it was he, with his liberators, who began the battle path from the city of kaluga from his hometown, along with the fiftieth army, until the very end of its combat completion. e. glory is yes königsberg through the entire kaluga region through belarus through poland königsberg, respectively, in the fiftieth army ended the war with my grandfather. although he died from the army. uh, only in 1957 did he start the war as a private very quickly. he served up to the corporal, and by the end of the war already in 40. uh, he fought as a junior, then as a senior lieutenant, the brightest, probably the brightest of the exploits, probably his

memoirs, uh, as i heard it from him, this is uh, fighting for a hare mountain, uh, the current kaluga region and so on was, the smolensk region, the current baryatinsky district of the kaluga region. zaitseva mountain. e. i will dwell on this a little more, because this is a very tragic story of our e, military glory. eh, zaitseva mountain is e height. e, in front of the warsaw highway, height 2068.9 m. imagine a plain and a half kilometers of plain, and with a swamp below, and this is the height that, in fact , kept our troops from being cut for the germans. warsaw highway and encircle the army that fought under the german army, so, here are the battles, there began in early april 1942, a lot of our soldiers died, because

it was almost impossible to take the height immediately under the dominance of german artillery from our command , it was general balding then after a huge number of failed attempts storm in the forehead. uh, the height of zaitsev gora. uh , by the way, a huge number of our soldiers died there. maybe that's why in soviet times there was little mention of these griefs, because according to various estimates, from 100 to 400,000 people died right there in this place and the soldiers called this mountain the peak of death in history. e, in particular, ivan the terrible , who in the second year 1550 took kazan with the help of an undermining under the wall of the kazan kremlin. he decided to do the same. undermining under the top of zaitsev gora, respectively, 43 people were recruited. and what is symbolic most of the people were taken from the former miners

of the donbass miners, imagine the guys then 18 of the earth. eh, he entered the number of these forty-three people. my grandfather. under the most difficult conditions, they began to dig this tunnel, uh, 10 meters high, 1.10 m high, only 70 cm wide, this was done at night so that the germans would not notice that everything was done exclusively with shovels, they pulled out clay with picks and pebbles. eh, buckets. just one more time. okay. they tried. it's natural to understand what's going on. uh more uh, they attacked three times, then the fighters threw threw picks, shovels, and took up arms. uh, after the digging was completed, and it was also in the most difficult conditions, uh, and uh, after 70 m of tunneling, when they went 70 m, they first came across boulders, they had to bypass this boulder.

uh, immediately at a hundredth meter uh, they stumbled upon uh, carbon dioxide, and people had to invent something so that they could work, because after 20 minutes of work they immediately lost consciousness, and then they put bellows from hoses there, took corrugated corrugated tube from hoses from gas masks and pumped more air. well, that is, it was extremely, it was hard to do everything, but nevertheless, in 40 days this tunnel was completed and laid there, under various estimates, from ten to twenty tons of tnt and by order of general bodin. uh, the one who commanded this tunnel. uh, colonel maxim psov. direct team leader. e novikov e. well, they turned the knob and blew it up. in fact , this height. after a huge power explosion. a funnel just shook the ground, then it formed 100 m in diameter and about

20 m. e deep our troops have risen. so, uh, they recaptured the height. uh, well, the germans managed to get together right away. and after a while the height. they again fought the hardest battle , the hardest digging, the only one in the history of the war. e. and in general, as a matter of fact , those events that took place on the mountain site. they left an indelible impression on all the soldiers who fought there, grandfather went through it, and then during his service. uh, he was awarded during the war two ordinates of the red star, uh, in forty-five the year of the sixth, and in may, the order of the patriotic war of the second degree, uh, that's all, it was. well , how did i find out later? uh, because during his lifetime he did not like to talk about it for really very significant feats, in particular, at the beginning he fought in a reconnaissance company and took the order for the first red star

for taking the language of bergi frey the second. uh, i received the second order of the red star for putting our fighters under fire directly. eh, in general, a lot of feats. he did it for courage. medal too. e. it’s just that they never gave our fighters, then, of course, i’m proud of the families. uh, it's a pity that we couldn't find out, uh, about how he served, how he fought during his lifetime. eh, i’ll repeat it again, he didn’t like to talk about it, but, nevertheless, our fighters are worthy of the brightest memory. and this memorial must never die nor is it ours. history is our pride and it is an example for all living. so it happened father mitin gerasim pavlovich, he was born in 1917. and the boy's young man was admitted to the army of thirty in the eighth year and met the war already as

a professional military officer. but unfortunately, the birth in february was already seriously injured. and after that he served for a long time, but now i remember a few features about him, firstly, he never complained about anything and really did not like to remember the army in general, the war itself. only i know that here he is, being seriously wounded. yes, in the murmansk region there are 44 of them at the other end. e of the country and in this he always remembered saying what military medicine was at that time, that for 44 days he was the first there for several days he was completely unconscious, but nevertheless. so he survived it all. and he told me that they looked after him very well. he was so professional, a military officer and very strict. i never remember once again that he

was somehow sloppy and somehow sloppy. this is already in the early nineties. i had to work as a head of a defense enterprise. i had many officers who carried out military acceptance. and i always see this when i see and will see an officer always carrying some kind of net there. there is no god forbid, in this grid there is still some bottle of milk or there is a wrapped sausage. i have always said. listen to you officer in general, how can you do something that not everyone has ever understood. well, literally in recent years, and already the father was gone. and here we are getting ready. uh, also by the ninth of may , the immortal regiment and the world were advised to contact the ministry of defense, in general , to find out my way. although it was small and here is the premium line. they sent, well, right on the first one, and they sent award foliage to my appeal. i have read it, of course. just an amazing story of how he, the future

company commander, participated in the battles. there, on the northern western front, he broke into a german trench, stabbed four germans and was stitched with a machine gun, he was always seriously wounded, he always complained about this crying in the tents. the fighters took him out. so, on the battlefield. delivered badly wounded. in general, in the end, they restored, of course, there was an amazing person, such an amazing whole hmm pleiades were such people proud that we had such people and that they were about us hope that here with your help with the help of the immortal regiment. we are the same examples to our children and grandson. and we will give it to our descendants about these wonderful people. in my family , many went through the crucible of the great patriotic war. i would like

to talk today about two heroes. uh, this is, firstly, my cousin grandfather sergei mikhailovich bobrov , a red army man, was a very young man. my grandfather's older brother, he was an excellent athlete. both he and grandfather they played very actively went in for sports played russian bandy hockey then. it was e popularly man, physical intellectually very interested. eh, such a versatile developed person studied the art of poetry well. he, uh, voluntarily went to the front in the first days of the war.

but he was mobilized in moscow, and given that such landing troops well, then it was somewhat different landing troops, but nevertheless , landing operations were already quite actively involved in the rear of the german troops. and then years after the end of the war , uh, after he was uh listed. here, then we are great-grandfather great-grandmother hmm his parents. they still managed to get information about how uh hmm sergey died, and he died, unfortunately, in the first months of the war. uh, it was the end of july, the beginning of august, the exact date,

by the way, remained, uh, unknown. but it was . the partisans kindled fires. uh, they marked the territory of the landing zone in order to help ours. uh, to our paratroopers and, uh, they were thrown out. unfortunately, this territory was already this bridgehead was already occupied by the germans, the germans used such deceptive tactics of the officers were shot still in the air. unfortunately, this is such a tragic page. he is like millions of other young people, but young girls. uh, of course, heroically absolutely uh, fought fought the nazis gave his life. e, and we, we, our family, we every

year, we carry his photograph in the immortal regiment. he is with us, of course, he is here , too, landmarks for my sons. in particular, to be equal to the second relative, whom i would like to tell. hmm , this is my wife's grandfather. yes ivanovich rumyantsev he was also a krasnoarmeytsev. he voluntarily went to the front. in the forty-first year he was enrolled. e worked as a driver in the automobile battalion, er, and all the days from the first to the last day, in fact , the blockade. eh, he worked in leningrad. on this direction. he carried loads along e, the road

of life along lake ladoga, risking his life. we know that many, uh, unfortunately, hmm uh, of those who provided this way of life. it was extremely important for the inhabitants of besieged leningrad, in fact, the artery of life . many of them, uh, died. he nevertheless survived fought until the end of world war ii. e before victory after e, lifting the blockade of leningrad e, and then e all. life to death he died, in 2001 he worked on the avenue e, was such moscow tolik was such. uh plant. he worked there. and well, as we now say, he made such a good working career, the man had such an iron will absolutely. e, with self-discipline, er, and hmm always very er, warmly remembered his

comrades. although, in fact , these are the things that are important to us, er, these people. is not only because they are our relatives not only because this is the story of our e our family of our families. eh, these are beacons for us. these are beacons, first of all, for our youth. but these people should be equal and today, when our country is fighting neo-nazism, but in fact, it depends only on us, only on our country today. will there be