Manshuk Mametova: biography, history of heroism, photo

Manshuk Mametova is a heroine girl who died at the age of twenty, defending her homeland from the Germans during World War II. The feat that she committed gave her immortality, he is described in many historical textbooks. However, very few people know that the real name of the girl is Mansia.

The birth and childhood of the young heroine

Manshuk Mametova was born in West Kazakhstan territory, in the Urdinskiy district. She was born in 1922. When she was only 5 years old, she was adopted by close relatives. Aunt Amina Mametova and her husband, Akhmet, took her to her home. A young married couple at that time was well provided, but could not have their children.

Arriving at a visit to relatives, they saw a small Manshuk and asked her parents to give them a girl. In the family of the future heroine was three children - she and two brothers. Despite the fact that the daughter was only one, the parents agreed to the offer of relatives, because they sincerely believed that their daughter would be better than in her native poor aul. Photo by Manshuk Mametova is presented below. The girl was very nice. She had expressive brown eyes, and everyone who remembered her in her youth, said that she had a surprisingly light temperament, was very cheerful and mobile. For this, relatives and relatives called it "monshagylym" (which means "bead" in Russian). When asked to introduce herself, the future heroine always said that her name was Manshuk, and that name was hers.

The girl successfully graduated from local school No. 51 and decided to continue her education at the medical institute. This decision was influenced by a positive example of her adoptive father Ahmet. He was a famous physician and his interesting stories managed to awaken interest in medicine in his daughter. As a student, Manshuk Mametova was engaged in public activities and worked in the secretariat of the local Council of People's Commissars.

Voluntary sending to the front

Manshuk Mametova, whose biography was studied in detail after she became famous for her exploit, made a firm decision to go to the front immediately after her majority. Mametova almost the whole year sought from the military commissariat to send her to the war. The desire of the persistent girl was finally satisfied. Once in the Army Beauty, she was in the headquarters of 100 Kazakh brigade. Initially, Manshuk Zhiengalievna Mametova worked as a clerk there, and then began to perform the duties of a nurse. But this did not suit the girl at all, and a month later she was transferred to the rank of senior sergeant in one of the rifle battalions of the Guards Rifle Division No. 21.

The hidden reasons for wanting to go to war

There is a version according to which, Mametova was torn to the front and to the war not only from patriotic considerations. Her adopted father was repressed in 1937 and shot. The daughter of Akhmeta did not know about her death for a long time and for many years she wrote letters and appeals to various authorities asking him to release him. When the Second World War began, someone started spreading rumors that if the children of the repressed "enemies of the people" voluntarily go to the front and show courage there, then their parents will be pardoned by the power of the Soviets. So it is likely that this moment warmed the young girl's desire to get to the very epicenter of military operations.

The hard character of a fragile girl

Having got to the front, Manshuk Mametova passed the courses of the machine-gunners and was assigned to the combat unit under the first number. It is said that even the most experienced machine-gunners envied her perseverance and perseverance, with which she learned to handle weapons.

During the burdens of World War II, local commanders tried, as much as possible, to regret the women and girls who came to the front. If the situation allowed, they were left at the headquarters or by nurses at the sanitary stations. Also, Mametova was always offered to stay at the headquarters as a radio operator, an attendant, an assistant. But in her letter to her relatives she herself said that she insisted on being sent to the battlefield. And this is in spite of the fact that during the war the machine-gunners were secretly considered suicide bombers - the attacking enemy first of all tried to destroy the machine-gun nests.

Military love

Those who knew the girl at the time say that she was in love with her colleague Nurken Khusainova at the front. Many people remember him as a very handsome, decent and kind guy. Nurken answered Mametova's reciprocity. But since there was a very difficult time around, young people believed that it would be inappropriate to show their feelings. When there is war, there is no room for love. They say that, despite the apparent mutual sympathy, young people never admitted to each other in their feelings. By the will of fate they perished on the same day, October 15, 1943, during the defense of the Isochi station, which was located under the city of Nevel.

Day of heroic death

On the day when the legendary feat of Manshuk Mametova was accomplished, her battalion received from the headquarters an order to repulse an attack by the enemy near Nevel. The enemy immediately brought down the heavy fire of mortars and artillery at the positions of the Soviet battalion. But, restrained by the fire of Russian machine guns, the Germans retreated. During her shooting, the girl did not immediately notice how two neighboring machine guns had subsided. She realized that her companions were no longer alive, and she began alternately to shoot three guns herself, crawling from her machine gun to the neighbors.

After the Nazis were able to navigate, they sent their mortars to the position of Manshuk. The mine exploded nearby and overturned the girl's machine gun, and Mametova was wounded in the head. She lost consciousness. When Manshuk came to herself, she realized that the joyful Germans went on the offensive. She crawled to the next machine gun and continued the attack. Being seriously wounded, she was able to eliminate more than 70 Hitlerites by her shooting, which ensured a successful further advancement to our forces. From the injury, the heroine died on the battlefield.

Memory of the feat of Mametova

At first, she was posthumously assigned to the Order of the Patriotic War of the 2nd degree. Her story was published in one of the newspapers. At the petition of Malik Gabdullin (Hero of the Soviet Union) six months after his death, Manshuk was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

The Manshuk Mametova Museum in Uralsk is a place that was created to preserve the memory of the heroic deed of this girl. He settled down in a house where the heroine lived with her adoptive parents in the 1930s. The museum stores many of Manshuk's personal belongings, which were kept by her adoptive mother. Also there are letters of the girl home from the front. The museum has created a diorama "Immortal feat Manshuk", which reminds visitors about the sacrifice for peace brought Mametova.