Mariya Lagunova
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Maria Ivanovna Lagunova | |
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| Born | July 4, 1921 Okonechnikova, Nikitinskaya volost, Kamensky district, Yekaterinburg province, Soviet Federative Socialist Republic |
| Died | December 26, 1995 Brovary, Kiev region, Ukraine |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Other names | Frau Meresjev |
| Citizenship | Ukraine |
| Occupation | sergeant Soviet Guards USSR Great Patriotic War |
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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]
Sergeant M.I. Lagunova received a baptismal baptism of the Guards at the Kurskaya Duga. After the counterattack of the Soviet troops near Kursk, tankers fought farther to the west, through Sumy, Chernihiv, and Kyiv regions of Ukraine.[11]
Maria Ivanovna showed herself an experienced and brave driver, enjoyed the military authority of the tankers. On her account was already a lot of trapped fire dots, rifles and soldiers of the enemy. The brigade talked about her: «This is our tank ass».[12]
From 1943 he was a candidate for membership in the All-Union Communist Party.[10]
The last 13th battle
On September 28, 1943 near Kiev, in the city of Brovary, the brigade was carrying heavy battles. The village of Knyazhiychi passed from hand to hand twice. Captain Mityakin, deputy commander of the political battalion, captain Mityaykin personally led the tankers to another tank attack on German positions while in T-34 (commander of the tank - Lieutenant Chumakov), where M.I. Lagunova served as a mechanic driver. For her, it was already the 13th on account battle.[1]
Initially, the attack developed successfully: bursting on the German lines, the crew destroyed the German gun, crushed the dungeon and shot the machine gun from the trenches of soldiers and officers of the enemy. But soon the tank was put down. The shell damaged the caterpillars and fell into the seat of a mechanic driver.[13]
At the hospital
M.I. Lagunova was evacuated from a tank unconsciously delivered to a field hospital. Waking up, she found that there were no legs. Also, there was no right hand.[11][14]
She was delivered by plane to Sumy, from there to Ulyanovsk, and then to Omsk. Here surgeon Valentina Borisova conducted her a series of operations to partially save her legs for the opportunity to walk on prosthetics.[15]
References
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- ^ Skvortsov, Valery (August 4, 2015). "No one is forgotten". NEWSPAPER "NEW LOTS". Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "LAGUNOVA Maria Ivanovna". Persons Zauralye. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ ""FRAU Maresiev" -TANKIST MARIYA" (PDF). Position. May 15, 2013. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ ""Frau Maresiev" - Marusya Lagunova". Doctor Of Sciences Always Online. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Dybenko. "The real man is a tanker Maria Ivanovna Lagunova". uCrazy. January 31, 2017. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Yeferev, Sergey (February 16, 2015). "Women-tankers of the Great Patriotic War. Maria Lagunova". Military review. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Smirnov, S.S. "Stories about unknown heroes". LIB. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Order of the unit". The feat of the people. September 27, 1943. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Masha - the driver of tanks". Regional public organization "Women and Information". Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Lessons of Courage. Lagunova Maria Ivanovna". Gazeta31. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Geiko, Yu. "Tankist named Maria". ARMOR. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ Smirnov, Sergey (May 3, 2010). "Tankist Maria Lagunova is a woman of steel will". State History. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
- ^ "Maria Lagunova is a woman-tanker who became famous in fighting for Brovarsk". ATBROVARY. January 17, 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2018.