vasily filipovich morgelov, one of those fighters the commanders about whom the soldiers write songs, there is no other way to say about him, but not because during his lifetime, his words and actions were legendary, but because he performed real feats and more than once found himself on the brink of death. ready to sacrifice himself for a high goal. vasily filippovich walked with his regiment, and then from the forty- ninth division, which would become the guards, the path from krasnodon to kherson with battles, of course. the facts of his biography echo the most important events in the history of the country. steppe on the approaches to stalingrad, you can dig in only half a bayonet. this is his regiment for three days under an air raid. repelled the attacks of german tanks , hot snow, as yuri bondarev described those battles in his novel, and they bombed so that in 30 minutes of the battle vasily filippovich’s regiment, in which they were dug in, the company commander said, there were 600 soldiers, after 30 minutes they began to carry out roll call, when the planes took off, it wa