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Maria Ivanovna Lagunova
BornJuly 4, 1921
Okonechnikova, Nikitinskaya volost, Kamensky district, Yekaterinburg province, Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
DiedDecember 26, 1995
Brovary, Kiev region, Ukraine
NationalityUkrainian
Other namesFrau Meresjev
CitizenshipUkraine
Occupationsergeant Soviet Guards USSR Great Patriotic War
Awards

Medal of Courage 1941

Maria Ivanovna Lagunova (born.July 4, 1921 - died.December 26, 1995) - Soviet tanker[1] a participant of the Great Patriotic War. During the war years - a mechanic-driver of the T-34 56th Guards Tank Brigade, guard sergeant.[2]

Biography

Maria Ivanovna Lagunova was born on July 4, 1921 in the village of Okonechnikova of the Ushakovsky Village Council of the Nikitinskaya Volost of the Kamensky District of the Yekaterinburg Province (now the Kataisk District of the Kurgan Region).[3]

In four years she lost her mother and from early years began to work to feed and dress herself. She graduated from junior high school (five years).[4]

Soon she was taken to her sister in Sverdlovsk, where she worked as a nanny. Since the age of 16, she started working at the Uralobuv factory. She worked as an electrician, but wanted to become a truck driver. And when a free minute was given out, and the factory truck stood without «work» or repair, studied it and was happy if she was allowed to sit behind the wheel.[5]

During the Great Patriotic War

At the front

With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, Nikolai's older brother went to the front, and Maria also decided to follow his example. After repeated appeals to the Stalin RVC of Sverdlovsk, she received a summons and sent among the same 20-year-old girls to the Chelyabinsk school of military tractor drivers.[6]

In the winter of 1942, he was sent to the airfield service battalion on the Volkhov Front, a few kilometers from the front lines. During 1942, she fell on her tractor trees, stubbed stumps, leveled the ground, cleaned the snow. During the bombing of the airfield, corporal Lagunova was concussed and sent to the reserve regiment,[7] where she was identified as a projectionist.

Driver mechanic

In February 1943, a military representative from the Urals came to the regiment to select tankmen for training. Maria also decided to enroll, but was refused. Then she wrote a letter to Moscow, M.I. Kalinin, and in a few days the military representative was ordered to take MI Lagunov as a cadet. Thus, among 700 male cadets, future tankmen who arrived in March 1943 in the city of Nizhny Tagil, there was one girl.[8]

The course program was designed for four months, but the best cadets of the 19th Training Tank Regiment of the 2nd Training Tank Brigade were asked to take exams early in June. Maria was among the best mechanics-drivers and passed exams ahead of schedule. By flatly refusing to stay in the regiment as an instructor,[9] the mechanic driver M.I. Lagunova is directed to the front in the 424th separate tank battalion of the 56th Guards Tank Brigade.[10]

References

  1. ^ Tikhy, Yuriy (February 25, 2016). "Mechanic-driver of a steel machine". Progress of Primorye. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  2. ^ Skvortsov, Valery (August 4, 2015). "No one is forgotten". NEWSPAPER "NEW LOTS". Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  3. ^ "LAGUNOVA Maria Ivanovna". Persons Zauralye. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  4. ^ ""FRAU Maresiev" -TANKIST MARIYA" (PDF). Position. May 15, 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  5. ^ ""Frau Maresiev" - Marusya Lagunova". Doctor Of Sciences Always Online. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  6. ^ Dybenko. "The real man is a tanker Maria Ivanovna Lagunova". uCrazy. January 31, 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  7. ^ Yeferev, Sergey (February 16, 2015). "Women-tankers of the Great Patriotic War. Maria Lagunova". Military review. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  8. ^ Kuzhily, Dmitry (May 6, 2017). "Tank at the museum. In memory of the legendary training regiment and its heroes". News Agency "Between the Rows". Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  9. ^ Smirnov, S.S. "Stories about unknown heroes". LIB. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  10. ^ "Order of the unit". The feat of the people. September 27, 1943. Retrieved 19 May 2018.