Even before the start of the war with the Nazis, Tatyana Baramzina learned to shoot straight. Subsequently, these skills were useful to her in the battles for the freedom of the Fatherland. In her last battle, the girl and her comrades had to fight the superior forces of the enemy. For her feat of arms in this fierce battle, Baramzina was posthumously awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
From the biography of Tatyana Nikolaevna Baramzina
The future sniper girl, Hero of the Soviet Union, was born in the city of Glazov (now Udmurtia). Tatyana's birthday is December 19, 1919. Her father was at first a worker, and during the NEP he began to trade in bread, for which he was subsequently limited in civil rights. Mom was engaged in housekeeping, and then she also connected to her husband's business affairs. In 1933, the house of the Baramzin family was confiscated.
Tanya in childhood was a courageous and physically developed girl. She swam well. After graduating from seven classes of school, Tatyana entered the pedagogical school, where she entered the Komsomol and the Osoaviakhim society. One of the skills she acquired was the ability to shoot a rifle. In 1937 she graduated from colleges and for some time worked as a teacher in rural schools.
In 1940, Baramzina decided to continue her education and became a student at the Faculty of Geography of the Perm Pedagogical Institute. When the war began, Tatiana decided to go to the front, but this was refused. Then she went to nursing courses and at the same time worked as a teacher in a kindergarten where the children of the evacuees were brought up.
During the war
In 1943, Baramzin was enrolled in a female sniper school. In April 1944, the girl was sent to the 3rd Belorussian Front. Taking part in the battles, Tatiana personally destroyed 16 enemy soldiers. However, she soon developed vision problems. She refused to demobilize and decided to retrain as a telephone operator. She more than once had to restore broken communications under artillery fire.
In early July 1944, Baramzina, as part of a rifle battalion, was sent to the rear of the enemy to perform an important combat mission. The group was to occupy a transport hub and hold it until the arrival of the main units.
While on the march near one of the Belarusian villages, the battalion met with the superior forces of the fascists. A battle ensued, during which Tatiana had to provide medical assistance to her wounded comrades. Having sent some of the wounded to the nearest forest, and hiding others in a dugout, Baramzina remained in the battle area. Firing back to the last bullet, Tatiana destroyed up to two dozen enemy soldiers.
But the forces were unequal. Having captured the dugout, where the Soviet soldiers took refuge, the Nazis shot the wounded soldiers from an anti-tank rifle. Baramzina was left alive and tortured for a long time, gouging out her eyes and cutting her body with a dagger. After that, she was finished off with a shot in the head. Subsequently, the brave girl was identified only by fragments of her uniform.
Tatyana Nikolaevna Baramzina was buried near the Volma station. After the war, the remains of Tatiana were transferred to a mass grave in the village of Kalita, Minsk region.
On March 24, 1945, Tatyana Baramzina was posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin, she was also awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
