born June 29, 1900 in Donbass (Shubin mine).

Father is a miner (died in 1920), mother is a housewife (died in 1924). In 1901, the father was laid off from work and the whole family (including his older brother born in 1896) moved to the village of Dmitryashevka, Zadonsky district, Voronezh region (in those days - province), where part of the farm was received from his father’s brother, and my parents started farming. The farm was poor, so my father was forced to go to work on the landowners' estates during the winter.

From 1910 to 1913 studied at the Dmitryashevskaya rural school (finished 3rd grade), and later received only a military education.

From 1914 to 1917 worked for hire, first (until 1916) as a farm laborer on the estate of the landowner BUNINA, then as a laborer at the Ramon sugar factory (Voronezh region).

From 1917 to 1919 was in the village of Dmitryashevka, working in agriculture.

May 15, 1919 drafted (upon mobilization) by the Zemlyansky District Military Commissariat into the ranks of the Red Army, where he served for 38 years (until 1957), having gone through a glorious path from an ordinary Red Army soldier to a colonel and regiment commander. Participant in three wars - Civil, Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic War.

Serving in the Red Army (Workers' and Peasants' Red Army) and SA (Soviet Army - renamed 1946 )

May - October 1919- Red Army soldier of the 31st Valuysky Rifle Regiment.

October 1919 - April 1921- Red Army soldier of the 80th Infantry Regiment of the 9th Don Division. He took part in battles on the Southern Front (Civil War, 1917 - 1922) against the gangs of ULUGAI and WRANGEL, as well as in the elimination of banditry in the mountains (Chechnya).

April 1921 - September 1922(STUDY) - cadet of the 54th Petrovsky Course of Red Commanders, Port Petrovsk (later Makhachkala, Dagestan). Upon completion, he was promoted to “red commander of the Red Army”.

In February 1922 joined the ranks of the CPSU (b)- All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks.

September 1922 - September 1923- junior commander of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the 13th Dagestan Division, Derbent.

September 1923 - September 1924(STUDY) - cadet of the 8th Petrograd Infantry Command School, Leningrad, which in 1924 became part of the Kyiv United Military School.

September 1924 - August 1925(STUDY) - cadet of the Kyiv United Military School (artillery department), located in the building of the Suvorov Military School, Pechersky district of Kiev.

August 1925 - October 1926- platoon commander, chief of communications of the 9th artillery regiment battalion of the 9th rifle division, Rostov-on-Don.

October 1926 - August 1927(STUDY) - cadet of the Radiotelegraph and telephone courses for the command staff of the Red Army, Moscow.

September 1927 - December 1931- Chief of Division Intelligence (until May 1928), commander of the headquarters battery of the 9th Artillery Regiment of the 9th Rifle Corps, Kamensk. While serving in Kamensk (from 1929 - Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region), he met and married Anna Matveevna ANTONOVA, a native of this city. Two sons were born in the same city - Vladimir (born 1932), Nikolai (born 1937).

December 1931 - December 1933- battery commander of the 13th artillery regiment of the 13th rifle division, Taganrog.

December 1933 - August 1936(STUDY) - student of the Leningrad Artillery Academy named after F.E. DZERZHINSKY, Leningrad. Completed 2 courses.

August 1936 - September 1939- assistant division commander (until January 1939), division commander of the 2nd air defense regiment of the Belarusian Special Military District (Kalinin Military District), Velikie Luki.

September - December 1939- commander of a separate anti-aircraft artillery division of the 138th rifle division of the Kalinin Military District.

December 1939 - April 1940- Head of the anti-aircraft artillery of the air defense department of the 7th Army of the North-Western Front (Soviet-Finnish War, 11/30/1939 - 03/13/1940). In total, the front consisted of four armies (7, 8, 9 and 14). The 7th Army advanced on the Karelian Isthmus and fought the most difficult and bloody battles. For the successful completion of assigned combat missions, personal courage and bravery P.P. SUSHKOV. awarded the Order of the Red Star(presented in the Kremlin personally by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR M.I. KALININ).

April - May 1940- commander of the 372nd separate air defense division of the Kalinin Military District.

May - June 1940- assistant commander of the 454th anti-aircraft air defense regiment of the North Caucasus Military District (SKVO), Novorossiysk.

June 6, 1941 – March 15, 1942- Chief of Staff (until December 1941), deputy commander of the 734th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Air Defense Regiment, North Caucasus Air Defense Zone (Southern Front, Great Patriotic War, 06/22/1941 - 05/09/1945, 1418 days), Rostov-on-Don. Here, near Rostov-on-Don, he received his first “baptism of fire” in repelling fascist air raids, awarded a medal "For courage." The family (a wife with two children aged 9 and 4) was evacuated to Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. On the way, the train came under severe bombing, but everything turned out okay.

March 15 - July 13, 1942- commander of the 32nd reserve anti-aircraft artillery air defense regiment (Southern Front), Maykop.

July 13, 1942 - April 24, 1943- Chief of the artillery headquarters of the Ryazhsko-Tambov divisional air defense region.

April 24, 1943 - April 22, 1950- commander of the 1572 small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery regiment (zenap MK), field post 44703. The regiment was formed on the basis of the 96th separate small-caliber anti-aircraft division in the period from April 25 to June 20, 1943 in the Voronezh region, consisting of five divisions, 3 batteries (in total there are 1330 people in the regiment, a significant part are women). It was armed with 37-mm and 25-mm anti-aircraft guns (15 batteries, 6 guns per battery, 90 guns in total). The formation took place in conditions of ongoing intense hostilities.

Reference: On May 5, 1943, an enemy raid on the railway bridge near Cheremisino station was repelled by the 2nd Division, consisting of two batteries under the command of Senior Lieutenant BELOSTOKOV. It involved 18 Yu-87 and 4 Yu-88 under the cover of a group of Me-109 fighters. The raid began at 19:00. 35 min. When approaching the object, the planes formed a “column of links” and began dive bombing from one direction. At the time of the bombing of the bridge, Me-109s flew at low altitudes above the battle formations of the batteries, firing at them from machine guns. The battle lasted 10 minutes. The planes managed to drop over a hundred bombs. The anti-aircraft gunners disrupted the enemy's battle formation with defensive fire, and the bridge remained undamaged.

For personal courage and heroism in the battles near Voronezh P.P. Sushkov. awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree.

From November 12 1943 The regiment's divisions took up air defense of the bridges under construction across the Dnieper River near the city of Kyiv.

December 7, 1943 The regiment headquarters was relocated to the city of Kyiv and stood up for the defense of administrative facilities (the house of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR, the house of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus (U)), bridges, railway stations (Vasilkov, Boyarka, Motovilovka, Darnitsa), and the Boryspil airfield.

Total regiment shot down: aircraft - 11, SAB (luminous aircraft bombs) - 145.

Regiment commander (Lieutenant Colonel P.P. Sushkov) was appointed head of one of the three combat sectors of the air defense of Kyiv. The command post was located on the slopes of the Dnieper - in Anosovsky Park (Glory Park). For the successful completion of these combat missions awarded the Order of the Red Banner(03.11.1944)and the Order of Lenin(21.02.1945).

In total he has eight military awards, including order"Lenin" two orders"Red Banner" order"Red Star" order"Patriotic War" 1st degree, medals“For courage”, “For military merit”, “For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941 - 1945”.

After the war, the regiment remained in Kyiv, carried out combat and political training tasks according to peacetime plans, and carried out combat duty to cover important objects from air strikes.

April 30, 1955 1572 zenap MK renamed 276 zenap SK(a medium-caliber anti-aircraft artillery regiment), which was armed with the S-60 complexes (57-mm AZP - automatic anti-aircraft guns and RPK-2 radio instrument systems).

He was elected as a deputy of the Kyiv City Council of Workers' Deputies of the 2nd convocation ( 1948).

In April 1950 transferred to serve at the headquarters of the 7th Air Defense Corps (Kiev), but then, at personal request, appointed head of the air defense range(Oster, Chernigov region, military unit 25994). He refused the “general” position (in Moscow), loved the city of Kyiv and thought about children. The soldier's rumor says: “It’s better to sit backwards in a fire than to serve in Oster!”. Apparently, the service there was not easy, but Pavel Polikarpovich preferred it to the cozy general’s office in Moscow, and this was his whole life credo.

Fired from active military service in reserve in 1957 in rank "Colonel".

Lived in Kyiv on the street. Moskovskaya, 23 (from 1944 to 1979), after the demolition of the house, he received an apartment on Lesnoy Massif, st. Bratislavskaya. In recent years he lived on Vinogradar, st. Svetlitsky (moved closer to his daughter).

I was engaged in social activities and gardening at my summer cottage, Chubinsky railway station (by train, Yagotinskoe direction, about 40 minutes ride).

Pavel Polikarpovich had a brother and two sisters.

Brother (born 1896)- before the start of the Great Patriotic War, he worked in the Donbass at a mine (mine) as a simple worker. After the war, information about his fate has not been established.

Sister (born 1911)- in 1946 she lived in the village of Dmitryashevka, a collective farmer. Further fate is unknown.

Sister (born 1920)- in 1946 she lived in Donbass. Further fate is unknown.

Died August 17, 1984. He was buried at the Berkovetsky cemetery in Kyiv (plot No. 82, row 17, place 21).

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10-04-2016, 06:00

Before the Great Patriotic War, the 61st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment (ZAP) with machine-gun and searchlight battalions provided cover for the Main Naval Base of the Black Sea Fleet (GMBB Black Sea Fleet) - Sevastopol from air attack. It consisted of four divisions. Three of them, armed with medium-caliber artillery systems (MCA), were equipped with the latest at that time, 85-mm anti-aircraft guns and semi-automatic anti-aircraft guns of 76.2 mm caliber. The fourth division of small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery (MZA) had 16 automatic guns of 37 mm caliber. The machine gun battalion consisted of 46 machine guns (28 quadruple M-4 mounts and 18 single-barrel M-1). The searchlight battalion had 27 stations.

At the request of the regiment commander, fighters from the 62nd Fighter Aviation Brigade (commanded by Colonel G. Dzyuba), which was operationally subordinate to the head of the fleet's air defense, Colonel I. Zhilin, could be called to Sevastopol and was based at four Crimean airfields. It consisted of aircraft of outdated designs: I-15, I-16 and I-153. 61 zap served the 11th battalion of air surveillance, warning and communications (VNOS) of three companies, which had 54 visual observation posts and two RUS-1 detection radar stations. The battalion was also at the disposal of the air defense chief.

The air group left for the defense of Sevastopol consisted of 51 wheeled fighters and 31 seaplanes of the fleet, which was also subordinate to a detachment of air barrage balloons, which had 23 twin balloons. Anti-aircraft batteries of the 1st division were stationed in the north of Sevastopol and covered objects from the northern direction. The batteries of the 2nd division were located in the southwestern, and the 3rd division in the southeastern parts of the city.

The batteries of the MZA battalion were located on the shore of the Northern Bay with the task of destroying low-flying air targets. Anti-aircraft machine gun installations were located directly next to the defended objects. The ships of the fleet had their own anti-aircraft artillery, which when the ships were stationed in the bay was part of the air defense system of the Main Naval Base. With this arrangement of anti-aircraft weapons, cover for the ships was provided by three-layer anti-aircraft artillery fire.

The personnel of the air defense units were well trained, many privates and sergeants were completing their 4th year of service. The units maintained a high level of combat readiness. On June 20, the Black Sea Fleet returned from exercises and received orders to remain in readiness No. 2. Command posts were deployed, and a limited number of crew members were sent ashore. A third of anti-aircraft weapons were on combat (operational) duty around the clock; one of the SZA batteries was in three-minute readiness to open fire. These circumstances contributed to the fact that the sudden attack of fascist planes on Sevastopol on the morning of June 22, 1941 did not take the Sevastopol anti-aircraft gunners by surprise; they managed to open fire in a timely and organized manner.

It is widely known that the first German bombers did not drop bombs, but magnetic bottom mines using parachutes. These mines were a fairly new and well-classified weapon. With their help, the Nazis planned to block the exit from Sevastopol Bay, and then destroy the ships of our fleet with air strikes. Air defense forces did not allow the Germans to carry out this plan. As for the magnetic mines themselves, one of them landed in shallow water and did not explode. Military engineer 3rd rank M. Ivanov neutralized the mine, after which it was carefully studied. Thanks to this, the new weapon is no longer a secret.

Until November 1941, enemy aircraft continued to carry out day and night raids on Sevastopol, single aircraft and small groups of 2-3 bombers, with the aim of conducting reconnaissance and mining fairways. During this period, 17 enemy aircraft were destroyed by coastal and naval anti-aircraft artillery, as well as fighter aircraft.

During the raids, the Nazis used a variety of tactics. For example, reconnaissance aircraft, when approaching the Main Naval Base, gained an altitude of more than 6800 meters and approached targets from the direction of the sun, which made it difficult to track them using optical instruments. Enemy pilots used cloud cover to camouflage themselves. As soon as anti-aircraft fire began on the aircraft, it immediately went into the clouds, and then appeared in “windows” clear of clouds and carried out reconnaissance. Soviet anti-aircraft gunners quickly learned the enemy's tactics and began to use countermeasures. In cases where an enemy aircraft approached from the direction of the sun, protective glass was placed on the optical sights of air defense systems. If the German pilots went into the clouds, the anti-aircraft gunners continued to accompany them with their sights, rotating the aiming flywheels at the same speeds as during visual observation. When the plane appeared in the “window”, it found itself in the field of view of the PUAZO sighters.

However, the command and headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet criticized the first battles with German aviation. There were cases of chaotic, disorganized fire, when one enemy aircraft was fired upon by several (sometimes up to 10) batteries. Some commanders were excited and confused and were too hasty in issuing firing data. This was due to the fact that it was not easy for the command staff to immediately gain confidence, abruptly falling from a peaceful situation to a combat one. Also, in the first days there were no remote observation posts in the maritime sector, but during this period German aviation carried out raids from the sea, and our anti-aircraft gunners were in tension and without normal rest at the guns and instruments, up to 18 hours a day.

Before the winter of 1941, the fleet command took a number of measures to strengthen air defense in the maritime sector. Barrage balloons were deployed at a distance of 4-6 km from the coastline. The command post of the 62nd air brigade was moved to the Black Sea Fleet air defense command post, and the fighter air regiments were partially stationed at the airfields of Sevastopol. The newly formed SZA batteries were deployed along the coastal edge in the area of ​​​​the Konstantinovsky ravelin (each battery was reinforced with an MZA platoon to combat flying, low-altitude and diving aircraft). The shipyard manufactured, using the compartments of the old ship, a floating anti-aircraft battery, which was armed with 7 anti-aircraft guns (four 76 mm guns and three 37 mm caliber), 2 DShK machine guns and 2 searchlights. It was located 6 km from the coast abeam the Chersonesos lighthouse.

For more efficient management of air defense systems around Sevastopol, six defense sectors were created. In two of them (in the area of ​​​​Kachi and the Chersonesos lighthouse), commanders of fighter aviation and anti-aircraft artillery units had the right to act independently when repelling enemy air raids. Fighters were sent to the distant approaches to the base by decision of the Black Sea Fleet air defense chief. The naval anti-aircraft artillery had its own sectors for firing. By the beginning of the autumn of 1941, more advanced RUS-2 radar installations were obtained, which detected enemy aircraft 15-20 minutes before they approached the base. This made it possible for fighter aircraft to move from continuous patrolling in the air to a system of duty at airfields.

At the end of October, German troops broke into Crimea: Manstein's 11th Army rushed to Sevastopol, the number of anti-aircraft artillery at this point had increased: from Nikolaev, Sarabuz, Yevpatoria and other cities temporarily abandoned by our troops, 122 units arrived in Sevastopol, 25 , 26, 114 separate anti-aircraft artillery divisions (ozad), 62 zap began to form.

At the beginning of November 1941, German troops rushed to storm the city, trying to take it on the move. The enemy concentrated more than two hundred bombers and fighters at Crimean airfields. And in the Sevastopol Defense Region (SOR), created on November 4, 1941, about 100 aircraft were based.

Enemy aircraft began launching massive attacks on Soviet warships and the city. The first raid was carried out on the night of November 2. The noise of aircraft engines was heard from several directions. The searchlights illuminated only individual targets, so it was not possible to immediately determine the number of aircraft and their battle formations. The unit commanders were forced to open barrage fire. The Sevastopol sky lit up with hundreds of flashes of anti-aircraft shells. Of the 63 aircraft, one was shot down. Several broke through to the city and the bay. Some residential areas and ships were damaged by the bombing. It is worth remembering that the barrage at that time was imperfect, ineffective, required the consumption of a large amount of ammunition (anti-aircraft artillery spent 7039 shells on November 2), and their delivery to Sevastopol was fraught with great difficulties. Therefore, anti-aircraft gunners resorted to this method of firing only in extreme cases, shooting at group, unobservable targets. Visible (illuminated) aircraft were usually subjected to accompanying fire.

Massive raids became more frequent in mid-November. The targets of the attacks were mainly field and coastal artillery batteries, troops on the defensive, and ships in parking lots. The enemy used a number of new tactics. For example, before striking at altitudes of up to 7000 meters, one or two air reconnaissance aircraft flew over. The anti-aircraft gunners began shelling them, and at this time enemy bombers appeared from other directions and at other altitudes. We had to redirect our anti-aircraft batteries and fighter duty units. The artillerymen needed time to prepare new data for firing, so they opened fire either too late or in an insufficiently organized manner. As a result, individual planes broke through to the objects.

The Nazis also used small groups of aircraft (9-12), echeloned in time and altitude. First, the first group of enemy bombers appeared, and after a minute or two, new group targets appeared from other directions and at other altitudes. Usually in such cases, fighters were aimed at one of the groups of aircraft, while anti-aircraft batteries fired at the others, strictly in their own sectors.

In November, pilots and anti-aircraft gunners repelled 134 air raids involving 380 aircraft; in December, during the second assault, 344 raids with 467 aircraft. Pilots and anti-aircraft gunners destroyed 131 aircraft on the ground and in the air.

A special feature of the air defense of Sevastopol was that air defense units had to operate in conditions of undivided dominance of enemy aircraft in the air. With each new assault on Sevastopol, the German command attracted an increasing number of aircraft to attack Soviet troops and the city. Thus, during the second assault (December 1941), the enemy allocated an aviation squadron of 150 bombers only for operations against fleet ships. The Sevastopol defensive region had only 53 serviceable aircraft.

Our air force was dwindling every day. Small airfields where Soviet fighters were based (on the Kulikovo field and at the Chersonesus lighthouse) were constantly subject to air strikes and artillery shelling. During the defense of Sevastopol, 3,372 air bombs and 15,624 artillery shells exploded at these airfields. In the parking lot alone, 40 of our aircraft were destroyed and 131 were damaged. About 100 pilots were killed and 103 wounded in the battles. No more than two dozen of our fighters could participate in the decisive battles for Sevastopol. Bomber aircraft, in particular Pe-2 aircraft based at Caucasian airfields, carried out bombing and assault attacks on enemy airfields in Crimea and were able to destroy and disable many enemy aircraft. However, the main share of the fight against fascist aviation fell on anti-aircraft artillery and the remaining fighter aircraft.

Another feature of the combat operations of anti-aircraft artillery in the defense of Sevastopol was that 75% of its personnel were used to repel enemy ground attacks, to fight against tanks and infantry. Therefore, anti-aircraft artillery was not fully used in the fight against German aircraft. In addition, by order of the command, 4,727 privates and sergeants and 83 officers were allocated to the Marine Corps from air defense units, as a result of which many anti-aircraft artillery guns and devices were serviced by reduced crews.

In November, the 880th anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the Primorsky Army was included in the air defense of the Sevastopol defensive region, consisting of three SZA divisions and one MZA. However, the material of its guns was badly worn out or damaged, there was not enough ammunition, and the regiment itself was not fully equipped with personnel. The naval anti-aircraft gunners could not help either. On May 20, 1942, before the decisive battles for Sevastopol, they lacked shells to full ammunition: for 85 mm guns - more than 13 thousand pieces, for 76.2 mm guns - about 13 thousand pieces. Sometimes, due to a lack of ammunition, commanders did not open fire on single enemy aircraft, and saved the meager supply of shells for fighting ground targets.

By the spring of 1942, the number of anti-aircraft weapons in Sevastopol had decreased significantly. The newly formed 62 zap, 122 zap and a detachment of barrage balloons were transported to the Caucasus along with the ships of the squadron. In Sevastopol there were: 61 zap, 1, 55, 114 zap, floating battery. A total of 64 medium-caliber guns, 15 small-caliber guns, 12 quad M-4 anti-aircraft machine guns, 29 searchlight stations. For the third assault, the Nazis gathered units and formations from all over Crimea near Sevastopol, concentrating here up to 600 aircraft of all classes. The forces were too unequal.

On June 7, 1942, after lengthy artillery and air preparation, the Germans went on the offensive. The anti-aircraft gunners, like other Sevastopol fighters, fought to the death, inflicting significant damage on the enemy. Here are some examples.

The personnel of the 227th anti-aircraft battery of senior lieutenant I. Grigorov in the Mamasai Valley area in a short period of time repulsed 11 enemy attacks involving fascist tanks, destroying 7 tanks, 4 vehicles, 13 mortars, 5 machine gun points, over an infantry battalion and 1 airplane. The 229th anti-aircraft battery of senior lieutenant N. Startsev in the Inkerman Heights area destroyed and scattered 8 enemy companies, suppressed 3 mortar batteries, 30 machine gun points.

From June 7 to June 13, 1942, the 365th anti-aircraft battery of Senior Lieutenant I. Pyanzin, which occupied a position near the Mekenzievy Gory railway crossing, fought bravely and surrounded. Dozens of air and ground enemy attacks were repulsed. The fascist tanks managed to break into the firing position when the battery ran out of shells and grenades. Then the seriously wounded battalion commander I. Pyanzin transmitted in clear text over the radio: “There is nothing to fight back with... there are fascists in the position, open fire on our command post, I will correct it myself.”

During the defense of Sevastopol, anti-aircraft gunners inflicted enormous damage on the enemy. Only the soldiers of the 61st anti-aircraft artillery regiment from June 22, 1941 to June 30, 1942 destroyed 171 enemy aircraft, 84 tanks, 53 artillery and mortar batteries, 38 machine gun points, 164 vehicles with manpower and cargo, and up to 14 thousand. German soldiers and officers. Thanks to the high combat readiness of the air defense units of the Main Military Base of the Black Sea Fleet, they thwarted the enemy’s initial plan, designed to mine the exit from the port and destroy the ships of the squadron. Coastal anti-aircraft artillery, in addition to its task of destroying enemy aircraft, was an important means of combating enemy ground forces. The effectiveness of anti-aircraft gunners' combat operations in the defense of Sevastopol was achieved thanks to clear and flexible interaction with fighter aircraft and naval air defense units, and reliable and continuous control of air defense units.

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How many girls and women, along with men, defended our Motherland during the Great Patriotic War! Pilots and anti-aircraft gunners, paramedics, nurses, doctors, medical instructors, sailors and snipers, officers and privates... You can’t count them all! Someone returned, and someone stayed there, in the war... I want to talk about one of them, my aunt, Natalya Afanasyevna Korzunina,

a native of the village of B. Polom in the former Belsky district. An ordinary Russian woman worker and warrior. She was born in 1918 and was the youngest in a large family (besides her three sisters and a brother). Her father died in civilian life, shortly after her birth. She grew up like all peasant children. She studied only one winter, helped with housework, then worked on a collective farm. There was a manager collective farm nurseries (completed a two-week course in the village of Belaya), worked in the fields and as a cowgirl. In 1940 she came to Kirov and soon got a job at the Kirov Harmony artel and began studying at evening school.

The war started and everything changed. Having finished school, they were sent to work at a brick factory, where girls manually rolled carts with raw bricks. And this with a height of “one meter and a hat” and a “mutton weight” of just over forty kilograms!

And in the spring of 1942 they were mobilized to work on the railway. She worked as a wagon lubricator. A 12-hour shift, and then they still stayed to equip freight cars for transporting people. There was not always enough energy and time to go home before the next shift, the girls fell on the floor in the change house and fell asleep. There were cases when people accidentally fell under the wheels of carriages. Once I lost my bread cards at the beginning of the month. How to survive, the thought came to me: I’ll throw myself under the carriage! But then she sold some of her simple clothes at the market and bought a children’s card (300 g of bread per day!). She survived! The girls from the school worked with her. It was hard for adults, but these two wanted to go home to their mother. One day the girls boasted that they had written a statement to the military registration and enlistment office. “We’ll eat our fill of bread in the army!” She thought, maybe I should join the army? The girls ran to get some paper and wrote her a statement. On the way home, I folded it into a triangle, threw it in the mailbox and forgot. This was in the fall of 1943.
And at the end of October I received a summons from the military registration and enlistment office. And already on November 1, 1943, we left for the front. We met in the carriage, there were girls from different parts of the region, and there were also fellow countrymen. We drove for almost a month, it was cold and hungry, and there was nowhere to wash. They sold what they could from their belongings at the stations and bought food. On November 28, we arrived in Poltava, enrolled them in the 1575 anti-aircraft artillery regiment of the 9th Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defense Corps, and received uniforms. And the service began.
The Red Army book says:

Rank and position: Red Army soldier, gun number.

Unit name: 3rd battery.

Took the oath on December 20, 1943.

Later she received the rank of corporal.

In May 1944, the regiment was transferred to Kharkov, where anti-aircraft gunners guarded the tractor plant.
Then there was Budapest. On the Internet I found materials from the history of air defense "Defending the skies of Ukraine." It says that: “The 1575 ZAP MZA, with a medium-caliber division and a searchlight company attached to it, took part in the liquidation of the enemy group in the Budapest area, cargo for which was delivered by air. From January 28 to February 16, 1945, the regiment shot down 28 aircraft, including .h. 14 transport Yu-52. (Auntie’s crew has one of them!). Having suffered heavy losses, enemy aviation almost ceased its operations in mid-February. The regiment commander, Lieutenant Colonel Goran, was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky, and the entire personnel of the regiment -medal "For the capture of Budapest". Here on the banks of the Danube the combat path of the 9th Stalingrad Red Banner Air Defense Corps ended."

In my aunt’s notes I read: “On January 26, we arrived in Budapest. On February 27, we moved to the island. On March 25, to the bridge. On July 27, at 7 o’clock in the morning, we left the battery and went home.
The war ended and Corporal Korzunina, awarded the medals “For Military Merit”, “For

Victory over Germany" and the badge "Excellent Artilleryman", she returned home. But she never received the medal "For the capture of Budapest". All that remained was a certificate "for receiving the medal", signed by the regiment commander and chief of staff. And a note from some employee from the military registration and enlistment office, across the certificate, “the unit is not listed on the list”...

In June 1946, she again came to work at the Kirov Harmony artel (later the Kirov Button Factory), where she worked for almost 20 years as a left-hand mechanism assembler. And before retiring, she worked for 8 years at the Krasny Toolmaker plant. Personal life did not work out. The war left behind youth and those who could become destiny. I don’t know if her betrothed died in battle or if she didn’t have time to meet him... She never talked about it. So she lived her life alone, without “returning from the war” from her youth. At the age of 84, he suffered from a terrible illness, a stroke. We were able to put her on her feet, for about 2 years she could still walk, then she completely fell ill... But her mind faded away gradually, only her youth remained in her memory, and then childhood... She called me mom, and I am younger than her 30 years old, was getting ready to go to the village from which she left more than 60 years ago and which no longer existed for a long time... And one day... “We have to go!” Where - I ask. “How to go where? Hand over your overcoat and rifle! Yesterday the war ended...” Overcoat! She came from the front in an overcoat and returned to her native village. She worked at a school for a year and conducted military training. A year later, wearing the same overcoat, she came back to Kirov and returned to her "Garmoshka". And the overcoat also served her as both clothing and a blanket...
She helped raise her nephews and their children. She was a beloved aunt and grandmother.
From my aunt’s stories about the war, I remember the incident “how the hair on my head moved.” Yes, that's what she said. It was in the late autumn of '44. She stood on duty at night. All around is the steppe, the platoon is sleeping in a dugout, it’s terrible darkness. And such HORROR! She closed her eyes, grabbed the rifle and stood there. And he feels the hair moving on his head, lifting his cap. Never in my life was it so scary as I defended my shift, I don’t remember. I woke up my shift worker, but started talking to her about my fears. And in the morning a friend asks: “Natasha, admit it, it was scary at night!” Later we learned that at that time the Germans slaughtered the same platoon, which was several kilometers away from them!

Historical form

521st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment

(military unit 51838)

1804th small caliber anti-aircraft artillery regiment (04/03/1955)
521st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment (08/09/1960)

04/28/1944 the regiment was awarded the Red Banner

Formation

In Leningrad on June 16, 1943, the commander of the 243rd MZA regiment, lieutenant colonel Kutaev formation has begun 1804 small caliber zenape(small-caliber anti-aircraft artillery).

The basis of the formation were:

• 243rd Directorate of MZA Regiment;
• MZA divisions 115, 169, 189, 192, 194, 351 zenap of the Leningrad Air Defense Army ( Dir. Organization of the General Staff Directorate).

Field mail number 51838 was assigned.

Participation in battles and campaigns

War time

1943

Since its formation, the regiment has participated in the Great Patriotic War as part of the Leningrad Air Defense Army.

The regiment defended the most important objects of Leningrad:

• Smolny,
• 5th hydroelectric power station,
• Kirov plant,
• plant named after Marty,
• plant named after Stalin,
• "Red Vyborzhets" plant
• Bolshevik plant,
• GOMZ plant,
• "Krasnaya Zarya" plant
• airfields: Uglovo, Yanino, Smolnaya, Kasimovo.

Regimental command post: Leningrad, New Lane, 6.

Rear of the regiment: Leningrad, st. Herzen, 55.

During the raid on the station. On Lake Ladoga, our aviation fought with enemy aircraft, and when returning to the airfield, it was attacked by the 12th FV-190. The 12th battery opened fire and knocked out one FV-190.

06/23/1943 during a raid on the station. On Lake Ladoga, our aviation fought with enemy aircraft, and when returning to the airfield, it was attacked by the 12th FV-190. The 12th battery opened fire and knocked out one FV-190.

In the period 16.10-24.10.1943 from the air. The 10th and 12th batteries were removed at an angle, from the air. Kasimovo - 4th battery and redeployed to cover the City Reservoir, Kirov Bridge, 2nd Hydroelectric Power Station, instead of them the 13th and 14th batteries were placed to cover the airfields. The 3rd battery was redeployed: the 1st platoon - to a strong point near the Finlyandsky Station, the 2nd platoon - to a strong point near the 5th Hydroelectric Power Station. 12/23/1943 The 12th battery was assigned to cover the loading of troops to break the blockade in the area of ​​​​the village of Lisiy Nos.

1944

On January 17, the 13th, 15th batteries and DKP-5 were redeployed to the area of ​​the railway bridge in Shlisselburg.

04/28/1944 the regiment was awarded Red flag.

In March 1944, the second platoons of the 1st, 2nd, 9th batteries were included in the nomadic platoons to cover airfields and communications with operational subordination to the commander of the 77th air defense.

During the first half of 1944, the regiment's batteries fought to destroy small groups of enemy aircraft. 55 live firing exercises were conducted.

In August, all 15 batteries were reorganized from 4 to 6 guns.

Post-war time

1945

In August 1945, the regiment's batteries were removed from the air defense facilities and transferred to barracks (Leningrad, Izmailovsky Prospekt, 13).

In September, the regiment was reorganized into 3 divisions, of which one was training and two were linear (923 people).

1946

The regiment switched to peacetime states.

1949

The 4-gun batteries were expanded to 8 guns.

1955

The 1804th small-caliber zenap was assigned the number 521st zenap.

1958

1960

Changed name to 521st Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment letter "A" and transferred to the 28th Air Defense Corps.

Since May 22, 1960, it has been part of the 28th KPVO and is based in the city of Borshchev, Ternopil region.

Name changed 521st Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment Air Defense (DGS VPVO dated 08/09/1960).

1961

The chief of staff of the regiment is called chief of staff-deputy regiment commander. In divisions, the senior adjutant is the chief of staff-deputy. division commander, in divisions the groups are called squads, in technical divisions (tdn) the first group is the second squad, the second group is the third squad, the third squad is the first squad.

1962

The regiment deploys two personnel divisions to its full strength.

1967

A group of S-200 air defense missile system specialists has been formed.

1988

The S-75 division of the 312th air defense regiment was added to the 521st air defense regiment.

1989

The 4th air defense division S-75 and the 1st air defense division S-200 were disbanded.

1999

Regiment disbanded November 30, 1999.

Command

Regimental commanders:

• p/p-k Kutaev Konstantin Konstantinovich (1943-1945)
• p/p-k Bliznyuk Vasily Mikhailovich (1945-1946)
• Nakashidze village Anton Mikhailovich (1946-1951)
• p-k Nosov Boris Anatolyevich (1951-1954)
• p/p-k Semenov Semyon Ivanovich (1954-1960)
• p/p-k Shulyakovsky Konstantin Stepanovich (1960-1963)
• p/p-k Yakovlev Nikolay Vasilievich (1963-1966)
• p-k Zeynalov Mantur Abdulalievich (1966-1971)
• p/p-k Shashkov Anatoly Yakovlevich (1971-1973)
• p/p-k Davidenko Stanislav Vladimirovich (1973-1974)
• p/p-k Fomenko Vasily Ivanovich (1974-1977)
• p/p-k Matveev Anatoly Alexandrovich (1977-1982)
• p-k Urgachev Vladimir Demyanovich (1982-1987)
• p/p-k Skarkov Oleksandr Vasilievich (1987-1989).

Chiefs of Staff:

Political officers:

• Mr. Rakitchenko Nikolai Kondratievich (1943)
• Mr. Tyrov Sergey Nikolaevich (1943-1944)
• p/p-k Petrov Andrey Ivanovich (1944)
• Mr. Tarasov Nikolai Alekseevich (1944-1946)
• p/p-k Sazhin Panteleimon Mikhailovich (1946-19...)
• p/p-k Shirokov Petr Ivanovich (1949)
• p/p-k Reshetnyak Georgy Eliseevich (1950)
• p/p-k Klyuchko Andrey Alexandrovich (1958)
• Mr. Yakovlev Nikolai Vasilievich (1960)
• Mr. Fedyanin Ivan Petrovich
• p/p-k Chebaturkin Viktor Efimovich (1966)
• Mr. Lyubimsky Leonid Alexandrovich (1967)
• Mr. Korenitsky Alexander Alexandrovich (1970)
• p/p-k Zadakhya Ivan Romanovich (1974)
• Mr. Firsov Fedor Frolovich (1976)
• Mr. Shabunevich Bronislav Bronislavovich (1978)
• Mr. Novgorodsky Anatoly Dmitrievich (1979)
• Mr. Usoltsev Alexander Leonidovich (1985)
• Mr. Kardash Alexander Viktorovich (1987).