Anatoly Zhivov died when he was 19 years old. This Hero repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov, covering the embrasure of the enemy machine gun with his body.
Anatoly Pavlovich Zhivov repeated the feat of Alexander Matrosov. Anatoly closed the embrasure of the machine gun with his body to enable his brothers in arms to seize the enemy's position.
Biography
Anatoly was born on March 8 in 1925. He was born in the Kaluga region in the village of Kuzmishchevo.
When the boy was 6 years old, he and his relatives left for Moscow. The boy did not have the opportunity to get a secondary education, as he had to feed himself. Tolya was able to finish only 5 classes - a year before the start of the Great Patriotic War, he entered a locksmith's apprentice at the famous Trekhgornaya Manufaktura plant.
The beginning of the war
If not for further events, then the purposeful young man would certainly have a successful career. He would work, study, he could become a workshop foreman and even an engineer. Over time, he would have a family, wife, children. But war intervened in the plans of the young generation of that time.
In the fall of 1941, the enemy entered Moscow. The Nazis fired at the capital not only from long-range guns, but also from the air. Anatoly Zhivov, along with his peers and civilians of other ages, was on duty on the rooftops. They put out incendiary bombs.
Then the boy received the sad news that the Nazis had come to his native village. They killed many people. Anatoly's grandmother died along with the others. Then the young man vowed to take revenge on the invaders for the death of a loved one.
In the summer of 1942, workers from the capital were sent to build the Manganese mine near the town of Zhizdra. Together with his comrades, Tolya came here too.
And when the young man turned 18, at the end of the spring of 1943 he volunteered for the front.
Feat
On the front line, Zhivov showed himself to be a brave and courageous fighter. Therefore, he won respect among his comrades in arms.
Once, together with another gunner, together they held back the attack of the fascist tanks. At the same time, the heroic soldiers destroyed two tracked vehicles of the Nazis.
In early April 1944, there was a fierce battle for the city of Ternopil. Anatoly laid the communication cable. Our infantry was advancing, but suddenly there was a roar of machine-gun bursts. On the other side of the massive wall that surrounded the city prison, a fascist machine gun was scribbling from the loophole.
The fighters who tried to attack the sniper could not reach the goal, they died right near the wall. Then Anatoly Zhivov said that he would cover the firing point with the help of bottles with a combustible mixture.
The guy crawled to the hole in the wall, threw 2 bottles of explosives there. For a while, the machine gun was silent, but soon from the loophole, shooting again rang out.
Anatoly was wounded. But, despite this, the brave fighter with his last strength got to the embrasure and closed it with his body.
Then the Soviet soldiers were able to get up and quickly run to the building of the former prison, where a handful of fascists took refuge. So this enemy firing position was taken.
For his selfless feat, Anatoly Pavlovich Zhivov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. A bust of the hero made of stone was erected in Ternopil. There are also commemorative signs in Moscow. One of them is located on the building of the school where the hero studied, the second - at the "Trekhgornaya Manufactory". A film was made about the young man; during the life of his mother, she was awarded a diploma from the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the country.
