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Sixteen-year-old Shura Chekalin engaged in [[Resistance during World War II|underground resistance]] activities in the region of Tula near Moscow. In the first days of November 1941, he took part in an ambush of German vehicles, destroying one vehicle with a hand-grenade. After becoming ill, Chekalin was bedridden, and his location was betrayed to the Germans by an unknown informant. When Germans approached to arrest him, he threw a hand grenade at them, but it failed to explode. He was brutally tortured |
Sixteen-year-old Shura Chekalin engaged in [[Resistance during World War II|underground resistance]] activities in the region of Tula near Moscow. In the first days of November 1941, he took part in an ambush of German vehicles, destroying one vehicle with a hand-grenade. After becoming ill, Chekalin was bedridden, and his location was betrayed to the Germans by an unknown informant. When Germans approached to arrest him, he threw a hand grenade at them, but it failed to explode. He was brutally tortured, and hanged on November 6, 1941. His body was left hanging for twenty days, taken down only after the area had been retaken by the [[Red Army]]. |
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He was posthumously made a [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on February 4, 1942. The town of [[Chekalin]] was renamed for him in 1944. |
He was posthumously made a [[Hero of the Soviet Union]] on February 4, 1942. The town of [[Chekalin]] was renamed for him in 1944. |
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Revision as of 13:03, 17 July 2011
Alexander (Shura) Pavlovich Chekalin (Template:Lang-ru; March 25, 1925 – November 6, 1941), was a Russian teenager, Soviet partisan, and Hero of the Soviet Union.
Chekalin was captured, tortured, and hanged for partisan activities in Tula Oblast near Moscow during the German-Soviet War.
Biography
Sixteen-year-old Shura Chekalin engaged in underground resistance activities in the region of Tula near Moscow. In the first days of November 1941, he took part in an ambush of German vehicles, destroying one vehicle with a hand-grenade. After becoming ill, Chekalin was bedridden, and his location was betrayed to the Germans by an unknown informant. When Germans approached to arrest him, he threw a hand grenade at them, but it failed to explode. He was brutally tortured, and hanged on November 6, 1941. His body was left hanging for twenty days, taken down only after the area had been retaken by the Red Army.
He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union on February 4, 1942. The town of Chekalin was renamed for him in 1944.