Biography Smirnov Writer

Sergey Sergeyevich Smirnov, see the sign, remembers the world, remembers the world. Smirnov’s main thing was the perpetuating of the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. The writer for the first time made the heroic epic of the protection of the Brest fortress in the summer of the year, when the besieged garrison remained in the deep rear of the Nazi troops for more than a month resisted the Nazis.

The feat of the fortress, the fate of the defense participants remained in obscurity for a long time. Smirnov undertook a huge work on collecting materials about them, which received a popular response. Smirnov held by Smirnov for several years on radio and television gave rise to a massive patriotic movement to search for unknown heroes. Smirnov received more than a million letters.

The main goal of Smirnov’s search is to comprehend the spiritual, moral experience of the Great Patriotic War, genuine facts, documentary episodes discovered by the author, sometimes surpass any fiction and legend. Smirnov managed, as the conditions of that time allowed, to tell about the drama of Soviet prisoners of war. He did a lot to restore the good name of many specific people who visited Nazi captivity and then undergoing humiliating interrogations and repressions in their homeland, languishing in the Berievsky camps.

Lyubomudrov Smirnov Sergey Sergeyevich Proseik, playwright, journalist, public figure. Born in Petrograd. He began his career at the Kharkov Electromechanical Plant. In gg. With the city of Smirnov, he was the author of plays and film scores, documentary books and essays about unknown heroes of the Great Patriotic War, including the Brest Fortress, for many years he conducted a popular program on television - the “feat”.

The most important feat of S. Smirnov is the rehabilitation of the heroes of the Brest fortress. He was one of the initiators of the creation of the Museum of Defense of the Fortress; The materials collected by him are more than 50 folders with letters, 60 notebooks and notebooks with records of conversations with the defenders of the fortress, hundreds of photographs, etc.

The stand is dedicated to him in the museum of the fortress. Smirnov recalled: “Our enemies spoke in amazement about the exceptional courage, stamina and persistence of the defenders of this stronghold. And we betrayed all this to oblivion what heroism on the western border could be. The German freely crossed the border and, under a green traffic light, reached Moscow.

Don't you know that? In the city of Smirnov became the laureate of the Lenin Prize for the book "Brest Fortress". On this occasion, G. Svirsky wrote: “To whom the traitors need? .. Our party and its XX Congress, having finished with the lawlessness and mistakes of the Stalin personality cult period, opened for you, as well as for the whole country, a new lane of life.” On the frontal place.

Literature of moral resistance.

The work of the writer S. Smirnov was completed by the rehabilitation of A. Fil, the liberation of P. Klypa, the removal of all suspicions with the removal of all suspicions with Majorov Gavrilov and Others of the Brest Fortress survivors, excluded from the party, were properly employed by B. Victorov without the head of the military prosecutor One of the interviews to the question “What main idea did you take out of communication with the children of great parents?

The eldest son of S. Smirnov - Andrey Smirnov R. Notes 1 of these data were taken from the “Scriptwriters of the Soviet feature cinema” by M. In another source about the military period in the life of S. Smirnov, it is said differently: “With G. in the fall of G. Panfilov on many fronts”, who was in the Great Patriotic War of M. From the first minutes of the war, the garrison of the Brest fortress fell into an extremely difficult situation.

Colonel General L. Sandalov recalls: “At 4 a.m. on June 22, a hurricane fire was opened at the barracks in the central part of the fortress, as well as on bridges and entrance gates and houses of the mainstream. This raid was confused among the Red Army, while the Komskistav was partially destroyed. The surviving part of the commanders could not penetrate the barracks because of a strong bargaining fire as a result of the Red Army soldiers and the junior Komsomol, deprived of leadership and management, dressed and stripped, in groups and once independently left the fortress, overcoming under the artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire, the Mukhavets river and the rampart of the fortress.

It was impossible to take into account the losses, since the personnel of the 6th division mixed with the personnel division to this should be added that the “fifth column” began to act actively. In the city and fortresses, the light suddenly went out. The telephone connection with the city stopped, some commanders still managed to get to their units and units to the fortress, but they could not withdraw the units.

As a result, the survivor personnel of the 6th and th divisions remained in the fortress as its garrison, not because he was set tasks for the defense of the fortress, but because it was impossible to get out of it.The material part of the artillery of the garrison of the fortress was in open artillery parks and therefore most of the guns were destroyed.

Almost all horses of artillery and mortar units were in the courtyard of the fortress near Konovyazyy and were almost entirely destroyed. The cars of the auto -balions of both divisions burned down for the raid of German aircraft »Sandals of L. used materials of Prince. Around Stalin. Historical and biographical reference book. Saint Petersburg, ,