Shatkovsky biography

Shatkovsky Alexander Fedorovich Gg. The graduation evening was noisy. Sasha danced at the graduation ball, ahead was a whole life, full of hope. And in the morning, the whole country recognized the terrible news, on June 22 there was already a war. Like thousands of boys and girls, Sasha voluntarily enters the Red Army. Although he was neither in growth nor an oblique fathom in his shoulders, the guy was taken into the paratroopers.

In August, he was sent to the Saratov region to the village of Divkovka, where landing units were formed. Recruits were taught to jump with a parachute, shooting from all types of weapons. A. Shatkovsky’s service was held in the oh airborne brigade of the 8th Airborne Corps. In June, the brigade was reorganized to the South Rifle Division, and as part of the army, commanded by General V.

Chuikov, was aimed for defense of Stalingrad, where heavy, exhausting battles went day and night. The guardsmen of this unit were fearless, they did not know the retreats and fought until the last forces. In August, in one of the battles in the area of ​​the city of Kalach, under Stalingrad, the paratroopers were thrown against a column of tanks. The Germans under their cover stubbornly attacked the positions of the division.

The battles went continuously day and night. There were heavy losses, mortally wounded the commander of the battalion, senior lieutenant Lizunov, he was replaced by the commander of the machine gun company Lieutenant Ruben Ibarruri. Soon, he was seriously wounded posthumously received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In a separate flamethrower platoon, the lieutenant’s commodity was wounded, A.

paratroopers replaced him with 9 meters tanks. Only such a distance could be thrown lying a heavy gram manual grenade. Then flamethrowers and anti -tank rifles were used. The fierce fire of the enemy sometimes left no hope of salvation. The fighters rushed with grenades under the tanks. They died, but did not retreat! By the end of the day, the flamethrowers managed to disable four tanks and a lot of manpower.

The enemy did not pass. In this battle, Alexander Shatkovsky was seriously wounded. He received 14 fragmentation wounds. He was almost considered the deceased, but the orderlies took Alexander's bleeding to the "large land", the doctors in the hospital returned him to duty. Under Stalingrad, Alexander Shatkovsky received his first award, the medal "For Courage". After recovery, in December, he was sent to the 5th Guards Airborne Brigade by the commander of a mortar platoon.

In September, in its composition he was landing on the rear of the enemy in the Kanevo-Cherkasy forests. He participated in the forcing of the Dnieper, in the battles for the liberation of Ukraine. A. Shatkovsky entered the battle dozens of times directly from the sky. On the outskirts of Kyiv, the enemy turned the right bank of the Dnieper into an impregnable fortress. All attempts to force the river was extinguished by the city of lead.

A bridgehead was needed, and three airborne brigades were thrown into the rear of the enemy. They distracted the German divisions that stood on the right bank of the Dnieper. The paratroopers beat them from the rear. And at this time, Soviet units - the Ground Forces crossed the Dnieper. A. Shatkovsky ended the war in Germany. In April, he and his comrades acted in a deep rear: they smashed the military-industrial facilities of the enemy and thereby contributed to the success of the military operations of the ground forces.

On May second, fights with the Nazis were still fought in this direction.

The foreman A. Shatkovsky was at a military post when he heard that something incomprehensible was happening in the unit. Fighters of a small garrison run out of dugouts, begin to shoot from machine guns and pistols, let the missiles and shout: “Victory, victory, Ur! Shatkovsky went to her through fierce battles, losing friends and comrades. Only in the year the pair of the Citizen returned.

After the war, Alexander Fedorovich received a higher education. He was a graduate of the Moscow higher education and worked. The economic bodies of the Kazakhstan, held the first deputy minister of social security, participated in the development of the draft law “On the benefits and social protection of the participants in the Second World War”. Two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, medals “For Courage”, “For the Defense of Stalingrad”, “For Victory over Germany” and other awards.