Malofeev Konstantin Stepanovich
Malofeev Konstantin Stepanovich _x000D_
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CITY: Ulyanovsk region, Sursky district, S. Kazuha _x000D_
DATE OF BIRTH: 01.02.1925 _x000D_
DATE OF DEATH: - _x000D_
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The story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" is dedicated to his great-uncle, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev, who was a participant in the Great Patriotic War and went to Berlin. During the war, my uncle was wounded several times, but he still returned to the front after the hospital to his friends-fellow soldiers. That was the strength of will to win. The story is based on the recollections of my uncle. From the author. The Great Patriotic War is an epic of unprecedented heroism of our people. And no matter how many generations pass, people will return again and again to the Victory that the Russian soldier had brought to the world. Our people got this victory at a high price, millions of people died, and many returned with severe wounds that bother their hearts and were not able to heal. For the younger generation, war is history, a sacred memory of those who died on the battlefields. This is our pain, our hope… Years will pass, but the immortal exploits of our brave, steadfast soldiers who wrote the glorious pages of Victory in the heroic chronicle of the Great Patriotic War will never disappear from the memory of our people. I especially want to tell you about the exploits of my close relatives, who bore all the hardships of that brutal war on their shoulders. And my great-niece wanted to tell me about her great-uncle, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeev. I will not only tell you about my uncle in this story, but more than one event was held for the younger generation. I'm proud of my uncle, and may he rest in peace. He will always live in my heart and I will tell my children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren about him. And as long as we keep, transmit and remember those who gave them to us. We will be able to overcome everything. They corresponded with their uncle until the last days of his death. So let's not forget about the greatest feat that the Russian people have accomplished! After all, they are all defenders who were not afraid to shed their blood in the name of the Motherland! In the name of the future life! With the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" she took part in the all - Russian literary contest "Heroes of the great Victory-2016" and received a certificate of participation and a semi-finalist Diploma for the story. Also with the story "the Fate of an ordinary soldier Konstantin" I took part in a competition for writing librarians, and my story was included in the literary, artistic, historical and local lore magazine "Vesi" special issue-2017 ("Libraries of Russia" part -2). The fate of an ordinary soldier Constantine. In a peasant family, Polina and Stepan Malofeyev in the village of Knyazhukha, Sursky district, Ulyanovsk region, the long-awaited firstborn was born, and they named him Konstantin. The Malofeyev family had many children, and they had three more sons – heroes: Victor, Eugene, and Anatoly. Constantine was the oldest of the brothers. He grew up a very curious and intelligent son. And so passed a carefree and cheerful childhood, and Konstantin went to school. But, however, the war disrupted all his plans, did not give him the opportunity to continue studying further after the end of the seven-year period. A treacherous enemy has suddenly attacked our Homeland, and the entire nation is in grave danger. All the men in the village were conscripted into the Soviet Army. There were only women, old people and children left in the village. The head of the Malofeyev family, Stepan, was also called to the front, and Konstantin remained in charge of the house, and was an assistant for his mother and for his brothers. The war made everyone grow up at once. And before the draft to the front, Kostya worked on a collective farm, ploughed, sowed, harvested crops, it was not easy, but he managed, because he had responsibility for his younger brothers and his beloved mother, Polina. The war was in full swing. The house Malofeeva it's bad news, came to funerals, that Stephen died in battle against the enemy. And after this news, Constantine decided that he would avenge his father's death on his enemies. Kostya told his mother and brothers that now it was time for him to stand up for the Motherland and his family. At the end of 1942, Konstantin finally received a summons from the military Commissariat. When my mother found out that her assistant Kostya would soon leave his father's house and go to war with the enemy. She would not survive if he died, because Pauline had already lost her husband and did not want to lose her son. Polina saw off her beloved son Kostya to the war. She was very worried and worried about her son. Polina made the sign of the cross over him and placed the living animals to her heart, so that they would protect and keep him from destruction. After being conscripted into the Soviet Army, before being sent to the front, Konstantin was sent to a sniper school in Inzu, Ulyanovsk region. It was difficult to learn, since the training of snipers was accelerated, but Kostya passed the training successfully. The year 1943 came, after completing accelerated courses in the sniper school, private Konstantin was sent to the second Ukrainian front in the 278th guards rifle regiment, which was formed near Kharkiv. And from that moment, he began his frontline workdays. Their regiment took part in the attack on Kirovograd, the battle was deadly, the regiment was thinning every day, there were no replacements and there were fewer and fewer soldiers left. And now there were only seven men left of their regiment, who had fought the enemy to the last. Near the village of Novgorodki, the fighter Kostya Malofeev and his comrades faced the Germans closely, and in this deadly battle private Konstantin was wounded, but thanks to the scout, he was taken from the battlefield, as he could not move himself. In a field hospital, he underwent two complex operations, but the operations did not help, and Kostya was upset that he would be commis-sioned and sent home, and he did not want to go home, he wanted to return to the ranks of the Soviet Army and continue to fight, and save his Homeland from the invaders. The doctors send Kostya to the deep rear, to the town of Buzuluk in the Orenburg region, where he again goes to the operating table, and endures several more operations after which he lay in the hospital for another four months away from his comrades. But he did not give up hope, fighting with his illness to return to the front again. Kostya told his wounded comrades what had happened to him before he was wounded. Here is one episode of military operations that private Constantine told his fellow soldiers: "they were making their way to the designated place and suddenly out of nowhere, an enemy plane appeared, a German vulture, came in three times and circled over our heads, raked with a machine gun, wanted to destroy us, and we remained alive and unharmed, the enemy failed to overcome us, Russian snipers. We were saved by a miracle and our guardian angels." And so, finally, the treatment ended and Kostya was sent to Sverdlovsk in the 39th tank training regiment. After completing his training there, Konstantin receives an appointment and becomes a commander of a gun, and goes to the front. They were brought to the Sandomierz bridgehead of the first Ukrainian front in the third tank army, commanded by General Rybalko. From here again, Kosti began fighting and the liberation of Polish cities such as Kielce, Wloszczowa, Lubliniec, częstochowa. Then freed the coast with his fellow soldiers city of Silesia, Opole, Wroslaw, bolesławiec, Forst. Kostya and his companions did not seem to have gone far in the fight against the enemy, but it was difficult. As Konstantin himself recalls: "Our soldiers fought to the death, only 600 thousand of our comrades died during the liberation of Poland." Personally, Kostya himself was in mortal danger several times, but death retreated from him, you can just say lucky, and he was also protected by his mother's prayers, which she put to his heart. And so Konstantin received a secret mission from the command, for which task he was well prepared. That night there was heavy rain and terrible darkness, and because of the bad weather Constantine lost his way and attacked a German ambush. But he was not confused and the task command performed. The next combat mission took place, when crossing the Oder, their tank had to break up a German column. Ahead was a railway with a high embankment and the tank could not immediately overcome the railway track. At this time, Konstantin was already a tank commander. When the tank cleared the railway track, the tank commander poked his head out of the hatch to see if they had arrived in the right direction. Suddenly, he saw several German soldiers ahead of him behind the embankment, who were lying down and did not think of retreating. Konstantin immediately jumped out of the tank and found himself alone among the Germans, and in his hand he had only a revolver, which contained only seven rounds. The Germans started firing, but he did not give up and fired at them with his revolver. Part of the Germans were destroyed, and the rest they suppressed with a tank. The task was done again. The command for the performance of this task awarded Konstantin the order of the "red star" for combat actions and the defeat of the enemy column. But after such a fight, Kostya was hit by a German bomb and was covered with earth's soil. He was shell-shocked and speechless. Thanks to my comrades, Konstantin recalled, who found me and dug me up. Fellow soldiers_x000D_
thought that he had died and wanted to bury him in a mass grave. But then, Konstantin began to come to himself. His comrades, he did not hear what they were asking him about. After a few hours, his hearing began to return, and he heard the sound of his tank's engine. Our troops were moving closer and closer to Germany. And now Berlin is not far away. Near Berlin, Konstantin's tank and another were on an ambush mission. The Germans made a psychic attack, but our troops stood to the death and our troops won the battle. The Germans who remained alive began to retreat. From April 16 to may 2, our soldiers stormed Berlin. On one of the streets it was necessary to conduct a reconnaissance and the honor fell to the crew of Constantine. During this operation, the tank was hit, burned, and the crew itself miraculously survived. A few days later, Kostya and his crew received another tank and continued to fight further. For his actions in the liberation of Berlin, Konstantin was awarded the order of the Patriotic war II degree and the medal for the"Capture of Berlin". Our soldiers liberated the German cities one by one: Cottbus, Lubens, Riza, and others. On may 2, we left Berlin, it was necessary to take Dresden and liberate Prague, Czechoslovakia. For the liberation of Prague, Konstantin was awarded another medal. he already has three orders and 14 medals on his chest. The war ended, our people liberated the Motherland from its enemies, but it was a shame that our soldiers continued to die. They continued to fight the Ukrainian internationalists, fought for about a year near the Carpathians. We were fighting in Lviv, and again Konstantin almost died in a fight with the internationalists in one of the battles, he was fired at by a machine gun, he miraculously survived. After the war, Konstantin served in the army for almost 8 years and was demobilized in 1950. He returned to his native village Kazuha, where he met his only love. He married and together with his beloved wife Anechka moved to the city of Kanash, where they lived together in a happy marriage for 55 years and raised three children Alexander, Antonina and Yuri. My great-uncle Konstantin Stepanovich lived his life with dignity. His life was full of numerous trials directly related to the Great Patriotic War. He was able to bear the full weight of the war on his shoulders, no matter what the victims. For bravery, fortitude and courage Konstantin Stepanovich was awarded the order of Patriotic war II degree, order of red star, medals "For victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945", "For liberation of Prague", "For taking of Berlin" medal of Zhukov and many commemorative medals. I am very proud of my uncle, who is no longer with us, and his services to the Fatherland. I will never forget it, and I will always remember it. It lives in my heart, in the family album. _x000D_
I don't remember the date of death. Malofeeva, S. A. Fate of the Private Constantine / S. A. Malofeeva. Ulyanovsk, 2018, 8 p.: illustrations (Samizdat) _x000D_
Great-niece of Konstantin Stepanovich Malofeeva Svetlana Aleksandrovna
