Lenya Golikov. The feat accomplished by Lenya Golikov

The Great Patriotic War - the most bloody and ruthless in world history, it has selected millions of human lives, including the lives of many young people who boldly turned to defend their homeland. Golikov Leonid Alexandrovich - one of the heroes of his country. This is an ordinary boy, whose childhood was carefree and happy, he was friends with the guys, helped his parents, graduated from seven classes, after which he worked in a plywood factory. The war caught Lenya at the age of 15, instantly cutting off all the youthful dreams of the boy.

Young Partisan

The village in the Novgorod region, where the boy lived, was captured by the fascists and, trying to establish their new orders, began to create outrages. Lenya Golikov, whose feat is inscribed in history with a red line, did not accept the horrors created around him and decided to fight against the fascists; After the liberation of the village, he left for the formed partisan detachment, where he fought alongside adults. True, at first the guy was not taken for a young age; Help came from a school teacher who was partisans. He vouched for the boy, saying that he is a reliable person, he will show himself well and will not let you down. In March 1942, Lenya became a scout in the Leningrad partisan brigade; A little later he joined the Komsomol there.

Fighting against fascists

The fascists were afraid of the partisans, because they mercilessly destroyed German officers and soldiers, blew up trains, attacked enemy columns. Enigmatic partisans seemed to enemies everywhere: behind every tree, house, turn, - so they tried not to walk one by one. There was even such a case: Lenya Golikov, whose feat became an example of patriotism for young people of different generations, returned from the reconnaissance and saw five Nazis looting in the apiary. They were so keen on getting honey and fighting bees that they threw weapons on the ground. This young scout and used, destroying three enemies; The two managed to escape.

Combat merit in the early adult boys there were many (27 military operations, 78 enemy officers, several explosions of enemy vehicles and bridges), but the exploit of Leni Golikov was not far off. It was 1942 ...

Fearless Lenya Golikov: a feat

We will now outline his brief content.

Highway Luga-Pskov (near the village of Varintsy). 1942 year. 13 August. Being with his partner in the reconnaissance, Lenya blew up the passenger car, which, as it turned out, was Richard von Wirtz - major general of the German engineering troops. In his portfolio there was very important information: reports to higher authorities, minefield schemes , detailed drawings of some samples of German mines and other data that had a huge value for partisans.

The feat of Leni Golikov, the summary of which was described above, was evaluated by the Gold Star medal and the conferment of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; True, posthumously. In the winter of 1942, the detachment of partisans, in which Golikov was a member, got into the German encirclement, but after violent fighting he was able to break through and change the location. In the ranks left fifty people, cartridges were running out, the radio was broken, food was running out. Attempts to reestablish communication with other detachments were unsuccessful.

In ambush

In January 1943, 27 exhausted, exhausted chases of the partisans occupied the three extreme log huts of Ostra Luka. Preliminary reconnaissance revealed nothing suspicious; The nearest garrison of the Germans was far enough, several kilometers away. The patrols were not exhibited, so as not to attract undue attention. However, there was found in the village a "good man" - the owner of one of the houses (a certain Stepanov), who informed the elder Pikhov, and he, in turn, to the punishers about what guests had come to the village at night.

For this treacherous act Pykhov received a generous reward from the Germans, but in early 1944 he was shot as a traitor to the Motherland. Stepanov - the second traitor, was older than Leni for only a year, in troubled times for himself (when it became clear the turn of the war) showed dodgy: he went to the partisans, and from there to the Soviet Army. Stepanov even managed to earn awards and return home almost a hero, but the hand of justice overtook this traitor of the Motherland. In 1948, for treason, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, and with the deprivation of all received awards.

They are no more

Sharp Luke in this unseemly January night was surrounded by 50 punitive men, among whom were local residents who collaborated with the fascists. Captured by surprise the guerrillas had to fight back and, under the bullets of enemy shells, urgently go back to the forest. It was only six people who managed to break out of the encirclement. In that unequal battle almost the entire partisan detachment died, including Lenya Golikov, whose feat forever remained in the memory of his comrades-in-arms.

Sister instead of brother

Initially, it was believed that the original photograph of Leni Golikov was not preserved. Therefore, to reproduce the image of the hero, the image of his sister Lydia (for example, for a portrait written in 1958 by Victor Fomin) was used. Later the guerrilla photo was found, but Lida's usual face as a brother adorned the biography of Leni Golikov, who became a symbol of courage for Soviet teenagers. After all, the feat accomplished by Lenya Golikov is a vivid example of courage and love for the Motherland.

In April 1944, Leonid Golikov was awarded (posthumously) the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for showing heroism and courage in the struggle against the fascist invaders.

In everyone's heart

In many publications, Leonid Golikov is referred to as a pioneer, and he stands alongside the same intrepid young people as Marat Kazey, Victor Korobkov, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova. However, in the perestroika period, when the heroes of Soviet times were subjected to "mass revelations," these children had a claim that they could not be pioneers, because they were older than the legal age. The information was not confirmed: Marat Kazey, Zina Portnova and Vitya Korobkov were really pioneers, but with Lena it turned out a little differently.

In the list of pioneers, he fell due to the efforts of people not indifferent to his fate and, apparently, from the best motives. The first materials about his heroism speak of Lena as a Komsomol member. The exploit of Leni Golikov, whose brief description was described by Korolkov Yuri in his book Partisan Lenya Golikov, is an example of the young man's behavior during the days of the deadly danger looming over his country.

The writer, who passed the war as a front-line correspondent, reduced the hero's age for just a couple of years, making a 14-year-old pioneer hero out of a 16-year-old boy. Perhaps, this writer wanted to make Lenin's feat more vivid. Although everyone who knew Lenya was aware of the present state of affairs, believing that this inaccuracy fundamentally does not change anything. In any case, the country needed a suitable person for the collective image of the hero pioneer, who would also be the Hero of the Soviet Union. Optimum under the image approached Lenya Golikov. His feat is described in all Soviet newspapers, many books have been written about him and the same young heroes. In any case, this is the history of a great country. Therefore, the exploit of Leni Golikov, like himself, a man who defended his homeland, will remain forever in everyone's heart.