Alexander Matrosov is a famous hero of the Great Patriotic War. Sacrificing his life, he helped the unit to complete an important combat mission. The feat of the young Red Army soldier was not forgotten, and thanks to numerous publications in newspapers and literary works, descendants remember him.
Biography
Matrosov was born in 1924 in the city of Yekaterinoslavl. Having lost his parents, the boy grew up first in the Ivanovo orphanage (Ulyanovsk region), and then in the Ufa labor colony. After graduating from seven classes, he remained to work in the colony as an assistant teacher.
There is a version that Matrosov is not a real name. The boy allegedly invented a new name and surname himself and entered the orphanage with a new name.
There is another childhood story of the famous hero. According to the second version, the boy's father, Matvey Matrosov, was dispossessed and deported to Kazakhstan, where “his traces were lost”. Alexander became an orphan and ended up in an orphanage. Soon the boy escaped from the state institution, for some time was homeless and independently reached Ufa, where he ended up in a labor colony. There he was a very successful pupil and an example for other children, went in for sports, wrote poetry and took an active part in political information classes.
At the age of 16, Matrosov was admitted to the Komsomol.
The feat of the red army
In 1941, the young man worked in the rear at the factory. He several times wrote requests to the military registration and enlistment office to send him to the front.
In the fall of 1942, Matrosov was officially drafted into the army. First, he studied at the Krasnokholmsk Infantry School near Orenburg. In the winter of 1943, together with other cadets, he volunteered for the Kalinin Front.
What was the feat of the young Red Army soldier? In short, you can tell the following: Matrosov sacrificed his life, throwing himself into the embrasure, thereby ensuring the advance of our riflemen.
All the accuracy of the heroic act is not known for certain; there are several versions of what happened. But it is only known that the young man's sacrifice was not in vain and his act still serves as an example of courage, self-sacrifice and patriotism to his descendants.
Consider the most popular - the official version of the feat of the young fighter Matrosov.
On February 27, 1943, the 2nd battalion received a direct order to attack a strong point near the village of Chernushki (Pskov region).
However, as soon as the Russian soldiers reached the edge, they immediately came under heavy enemy fire. The fire was conducted from three machine guns, it turned out that the bunkers were covering the approach to the village.
It was decided to send assault groups. The assault groups suppressed two machine guns, but the third German bunker continued to fire at the approaches to the village.
Fighters Pyotr Ogurtsov and Alexander Matrosov crawled to the working machine gun. On the approaches to the target, the soldier Ogurtsov was seriously wounded, and Matrosov decided to continue the combat operation on his own.
He crawled pretty close to the embrasure from the flank and threw two grenades. At first, the machine gun fell silent, but then fire reopened.
Then Matrosov rushed to the bunker and closed the embrasure with his body. As a result, he died, but gave time to his comrades in arms to successfully complete the operation.
The grave of Alexander Matrosov is now in the city of Velikiye Luki (Pskov region). He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
