Ivan Karpovich Golubets - senior sailor, border guard. The helmsman of the Black Sea Fleet patrol boat became famous in March 1942, when at the cost of his own life he saved dozens of ships and hundreds of human lives.
Childhood and youth
Ivan's biography began in 1916 in Taganrog, Rostov Region. He was born into a working-class family, so after finishing the seven-year period, he decided to continue his education in FZU. The young man began his working career as a fitter at the Azov Metallurgical Plant. The young man demonstrated his hard work and became a drummer for communist labor.
In the navy
In 1937, Golubts was drafted into the Navy. Two years later, he graduated from the Balaklava school of border guards and began serving on a ship in Novorossiysk.
From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, Ivan took part in the defense of Sevastopol. The boat on which he served was at the disposal of the Sevastopol garrison. Its main task was to carry out patrols and guard the exits from the bay. The Red Navy man Golubts was loved in the navy. He was a helmsman, on whose skills a lot depended, an athlete and a great merry fellow. Boats were the first to meet ships that went to the city with reinforcements and ammunition. They also accompanied children, women and wounded soldiers leaving the city. By 1942, the city was deep in the rear, but continued to fight heroically.
Feat
On March 25, 1942, Ivan was sent ashore on business. When the sailor was on the pier of Streletskaya Bay, he saw a shell hit a nearby boat SK-0121. Its fragments, which pierced the side, caused a fire in the engine compartment. Part of the fragments got into the fuel tank, and it burst into flames. The bay was filled with ships, there were warehouses, workshops and piers nearby, and depth charges could explode on a patrol boat at any moment. The lever, with the help of which the lethal load was dropped, was jammed by an explosion. Without hesitation, Ivan began to manually dump the dangerous cargo from the patrol boat. After all the 160-kilogram depth charges were in the water, 20 small bombs flew overboard one after the other. Even the order of the commander to leave the ship did not stop Golubets. The sailor understood the danger, but did not stop working, not for a minute, until an explosion thundered. It took him several minutes to complete the work he had begun. He was not going to die, this was the first time that luck failed him. At the cost of his own life, the hero saved the nearby combat boats and many human lives. For his courage and heroism, the senior sailor was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.
Memory
A bust was installed in Sevastopol, one of the streets of the hero city bears his name. The memory of the heroism of Ivan Golubets is also honored at the homeland of the Red Navy sailor in Taganrog. In 1950, the hero was enlisted in the lists of one of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet. A fishing trawler, a border patrol ship and several other domestic vessels are named after him. So the Motherland highly appreciated the hero's contribution to the defense of the Black Sea frontiers from the enemy.
