Mochalin biography

Street in the city of Shebekino Mochalin Nikolay Gavrilovich-commander of a platoon of machine gunners of the COA of the Marine Corps of the Marine Rifle Brigade of the Army of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, lieutenant. Born on December 26, in the village of Titovka of the Shebekinsky volost of the Belgorod district of the Kursk province, this village is one of the microdistricts of the city of Shebekino Belgorod region in the worker's family.

He graduated from 9th grade Titovskaya Primary School, Shebekinsky Semiy -Years School and Evening School. After graduating from an art school in the city of Donetsk, he worked as an artist in the House of Rest “May 1st” in the city of Shebekino, at the Shebekinsky Kukhne factory. In the Red Army since September 8. Since that time at the front. He was a shooter, commander of a group of blockers of the enemy’s assaults, commander of a platoon of communication, commander of a platoon of machine gunners of the marine corps, commander of a rifle company.

In the year he graduated from the regimental school, in the year - the courses of junior lieutenants. Member of the CPSU from the year. In battles three times wounded. He participated: - in defensive battles in the area of ​​the cities of Shebekino, Volchansk, on the Aidar River, in the exit from the encirclement for the Don in years; - in the battles in the steppes of Kalmykia in the Astrakhan direction - B; -in the battles of the city of Kerch, in the liberation of the Southern Crimean coast, the city of Sevastopol, in the Yasko-Chisinau operation, including the liberation of the cities of the Tatarbunars, Galats, in the liberation of Romania, Bulgaria, in the battles in Yugoslavia in the region of Voevodin and in the region of the cities of Zenyanin and Vukovar-B; - In the battles in Hungary and Austria, including for the cities of Budapest and Vienna - to the commander of a platoon of machine gunners of the Marine Corps, Lieutenant Mochalin, Lieutenant Mochalin with fighters, landed on December 8 in the deep rear of the enemy near the city of Vukovari now Croatia and cut an important road, thereby blocked the ways of retreat to the fascists and disorganizing their rear.

For more than 2 days, his platoon held the captured line, reflecting 12 enemy attacks. During this battle, Lieutenant Mochalin personally destroyed 2 self -propelled installations, a tank and several dozen fascists. In July, he graduated from improving infantry officers in the city of Krasnoyarsk. Since September, senior lieutenant N. Mochalin is in stock.

He lived in the city of Shebekino. He worked in senior positions in the fire department of the Shebekinsky district and in the Fire Department of the Fire Department of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Belgorod Region. From the year - on a well -deserved rest. The captain conducted great military-patriotic work among young people. In the year he was awarded the title of "Honorary Citizen of the Shebekinsky District and the city of Shebekino." He died on March 2.

He was buried in Shebekino. The name of the hero is placed on a memorial complex in the city of Nikolaev. The perpetuation of the memory of the Hero of the Soviet Union N. Mochalin in the city of Shebekino: - One of the streets of the city is named after him; - on the house where he lived, a memorial plaque was installed; - The stele with its portrait is installed on the city alley of fame.

Nikolai Mochalin from childhood dreamed of becoming an artist awarded the Orders of Lenin. He painted well and already in his school years created several serious genre paintings. In the year, he entered the art school in the city of Donetsk. After graduation, Mochalin returned to his homeland and began to seriously think about an art school in Moscow. In the meantime, he got a job as an artist to the rest house “May 1st”, painted posters, posters, colorful agites, made out the premises, on one of the walls of the main hall he painted a large panel about the successes of socialist construction with a magnificent figure of the leader in the middle.

At the same time, he did the same at the Shebekinsky Kukhne factory. But Nikolai’s dream of becoming a great artist was not destined to come true. The Great Patriotic War began. In early September, when the enemy approached Belgorod, Mochalin was drafted into the Red Army, and here, in the Shebekinsky RVC, he became a Red Army soldier of the formed local fighter battalion. He participated in defensive battles on the outskirts of the native city.

The front line in the Volchansk -Shebekino area lingered until May. In the spring of the year, the fighter battalion was disbanded, and Mochalina was determined by the cadet in the regimental school of the GO reserve rifle regiment of the Army of the South-Western Front. But he could not learn how to learn - in May, tragic events began on the southwestern front, large front forces of the front were surrounded in the Barvenkovo ​​area.

A prerequisite for the enemy attack on Stalingrad was created. Before starting the main attack on Stalingrad, the Nazi command began two private operations: Wilhelm on Volchansk and Fredricus II on Kupyansk. The units of the Army, including Mi, a reserve rifle regiment, had to retreat to the east with battles. The defense of our units in those days broke up into separate foci and was completely disorganized.

At the turn of the Aidar River, the situation was complicated, the enemy broke through to Voronezh and Kantemirovka, and the units were surrounded. The cadet of Mochalin, among other surviving cadets of the regiment on different days, had to enter into battles with the Nazis together with various rifle units that independently emerged from the encirclement. He was lucky enough to survive in this critical setting, and on July 17, he crossed the Don to the location of our troops.

At the end of the same July, the Nazi troops crossed the Don in the area of ​​the village of Tsimlyanskaya and developed an attack to the North Caucasus, to Stalingrad from the south and Astrakhan. The Directorate of the Army was urgently transferred to Kalmykia. After a short test in the competent authorities of Mochalin, they considered it not their honor surrounded by the regimental school, they awarded the sergeant’s title and sent to a separate rifle brigade, which in early September became part of the Army of the Southeast Front.

Here, sergeant Mochalin was appointed commander of a group of blockers. The Nazi troops advanced mainly along the main road of Elista - Yashkul - Hulhut - Astrakhan, and in the rest of the directions in the Kalmyk steppe tried to move to the Volga and the Caspian Sea of ​​their individual units. Sometimes landing was thrown away. A group of Mochalin's blockers entered into battles with the enemy in the area of ​​the villages of Iki Burul, Adyk, Utta, the village of Hulhut, further than which the enemy did not go to the east.

In the same way, in November-December of the year, the troops of the Army of the Stalingrad Front of the Nazis were driven to the west. After the cure in February, Sergeant Mochalin was appointed commander of a communications platoon of the Mosky Rifle Regiment of the North Caucasus Front. In April, he was sent to the courses of junior lieutenants, at whom he studied until September.

Then the junior lieutenant Mochalin fell into the officer reserve of the Primorsky Army of the North Caucasus Front. In November, the Kerch Strait was crossed by Soviet troops and bridgeheads were conquered on the Kerch Peninsula. These bridgeheads in the Kerch region with the troops of the Separate Primorsky Army were connected into one, and heavy battles went to them.

In the early January of the year, Mochalin was enrolled in the naval rifle brigade and crossed to Crimean land. In January-March, the platoon of Mochalin participated in the mastery of several tactical heights north of Kerch. The platoon of machine gunners Mochalin, among other units, burst into the city and participated in street battles. Marine infantrymen distinguished themselves during the liberation of the Kerch port.

For the difference in these battles, Lieutenant Mochalin was awarded the Order of the Red Star on the eve of the assault on Sevastopol. The platoon of Lieutenant Mucalin cleared the village of Dzhanshiyev from the enemy and on May 9 began to fight on the outskirts of Kamyshy and Cossack Bays and Cape Khersones. In this battle, Mochalin was wounded, but did not leave the battlefield until the end of the combat mission.

For heroism, manifested during the assault on Sevastopol, Lieutenant Mochalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner. In August, during the Yasko-Chisinau operation, the platoon of Lieutenant Mochalin’s machine gunners forced the Dniester Liman and participated in the liquidation of the enemy’s surrounded group north of the village of Tatarbunara. Then, having entered the army of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, I am a sea brigade, and in its composition and a platoon of Mochalin, I liberated the cities of Galats, Khirshov, entered the territory of Bulgaria.

In September, the army was transferred to the 2nd Ukrainian Front, and relocated to the district of the Romanian city of the decisive, where it immediately without preparation went on the offensive on Belgrade. The platoon of Lieutenant Mucalin participated in the liberation of the Yugoslav Left Bank of Tisa, the city of Zrenynin and other settlements of Voevodina.

In October-November, the troops of two Ukrainian fronts began to expel the Nazis from Yugoslavia. Ways of the enemy retreat to Hungary walked along the mountainous Yugoslav roads along the Danube. One of the paths went through the Croatian city of Vukovar. Fighters of the Mochalin platoon, using a mountainous area, secretly picked up the enemy and threw it with grenades, and then took up defense on a dirt road going to the city of Osyk.

At this line, the marine infantrymen held on to the 2nd day, reflecting 12 attacks trying to break into the north of the Nazi units of the Army group "F". In these battles, the Marines caused great damage to the enemy, destroying the Nazis, and Lieutenant Mochalin destroyed 2 Ferdinand self -propelled guns and immobilized the tank. In addition, he struck up to 30 Nazis with fire of a hand machine gun.

For heroism, manifested in the battles on the banks of the Danube, Lieutenant Mochalin was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In January of the year, the troops of the Army, crossing the Danube in the area of ​​the city of Erchi, went around Budapest from the west, as a result of which he turned out to be surrounded. On this day, Lieutenant Mochalin was wounded for the third time during the war and was evacuated to the field hospital.

After recovery, Lieutenant Mochalin did not get into his native sea brigade. At the final stage of the Great Patriotic War, he participated in the battles for the capital of Austria the city of Vienna. After the victory, in July, Mochalin became a listener for the improvement courses of infantry officers in the city of Krasnoyarsk, and after they ended with the rank of senior lieutenant, he remained to serve the head of the department in the Kirovsky district committee of Krasnoyarsk.In September, he quit the reserve, returned to his homeland to the city of Shebekino and worked in the fire department of the district and city for up to a year.

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