I – from Kobrin Guards …

1944. Fights for Kobrin's release. On approaches to the city Germans show the strongest resistance. After a powerful raid of the 271st night bombing aviation division our troops at last advanced to the attack and began to conduct a battle on streets, moving ahead quarter after a quarter...

In that fight Alexey Sharapov got wound. His letter from the Tomsk region came to the Kobrin military and historical museum of A.V. Suvorov recently. On February 24 Alexey Pavlovich was 90 years old. Chafe soul of reminiscence, old wounds disturb, the shed blood calls to places of former battles...

Alexey Sharapov began the service in 1939. In 1942 it already was on the Western front - protected Moscow, the Eagle and Kursk, was at war in the Sumy and Chernihiv regions in Ukraine. On the earth of Belarus its 37th Guards shooting regiment entered at the end of September, 1943. At the settlement Suppressing were transported through Dnieper at dark autumn night...

- Fight not on life, and to death began at the coast when we were noticed by Germans, - Alexey Sharapov remembers. - We took a trench behind a trench, threw grenades, shot with the submachine guns. Sustained losses... Each new day began as the next circle of hell - sometimes it seemed that all bullets and shells are directed to you one. Attack followed attack, with variable success - today the reinforcement approached us, tomorrow Germans turned into counterattack.

Until the end of days there was in Alexey Pavlovich's memory that fall of 1943... As victorious shout "Alles doych" was replaced by the raised hands and the words "Hitler Kaput" as it was properly a pity for captured Germans as released Kalinkovichi, Mazyr, took railway junctions and stations. Because of almost impassable marshy places the Pinsky direction was considered especially difficult. Germans applied all possible ways to deduction of positions. Alexey Sharapov remembers how once as a barrier in attack Hitlerites exposed crowd of locals as drove on a position of the Soviet troops of herd of pets... And from April 18 to April 20, 1944 just went to battalion positions in "psychological attack" - an equal system, as on a ceremonial parade-ground... Also were cut off by a well-aimed volley of incendiary bullets. For participation in that fight Alexey Pavlovich was awarded the order Patriotic war of the I degree.

Then there was Baltic - Segul, Riga, and at last - the Warsaw direction. It seemed, the spring of 1945 itself gave birth to heroes. All understood - ahead a victory. The hardened persistent fights, multilayered boundaries of the German defense, two weeks of continuous fights... In total military operations of the first battalion in which the author of the letter was at war in the territory of Germany continued from January 25 to May 2, 1945, 26 cities were taken. Berlin was the following, the 27th. After capture of an outpost of nazi Germany the 37th Guards shooting regiment of the 12th Guards Pinsky division which among 12 caused most a stir received in due time the name "Kobrin" left to Elba...

Today Siberian Alexey Sharapov sends the congratulations in honor of the 65th anniversary of release to Republic of Belarus - the country which was plentifully watered with blood of many same as he. Their names - on a stele in the square of Morozov, on mass graves, monuments and obelisks. War made related all, irrespective of a nationality and the birthplace. Come also you, the reader, to memorable places of fighting glory, incline the head before a feat of arms, bow to those who gave the life for living nowadays...

Savchenko, N. I – from Kobrin Guards … / Nadezhda Savchenko//Kobrynski vesnik. – 2009. – 1 lipenya. – Page 2. From memoirs of Siberian Alexey Sharapov releasing Kobrin in July, 1944 as a part of the 37th Guards regiment.



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