Full name: Dmitry Pchelintsev Mihailovich last NAME: Full name: Pchelintsev Dmitry Mikhailovich last NAME: Pchelintsev first NAME: Dmitry PATRONYMIC: Mikhailovich CITY: Bataevka village, Astrakhan district DATE of BIRTH: 01.01.1902 DATE of DEATH: 20.05.1942 HISTORY: Title: Red army Type of troops: Land forces, air force (except naval aviation), coast service, NKVD troops, border guards Dmitry Mikhailovich PCHELINTSEV-born in 1902. Lived before the war in the village. Verkhny Baskunchak, Stalingrad region (now Astrakhan), worked in the village. Lower Baskunchak. He died in the battle for the Socialist Motherland, loyal to the military oath, showing heroism and courage on may 20, 1942, the place of death of the Kharkiv region-so recorded in the funeral. This notice is still kept in our family. From the history of the events of may 1942. These events are called by historians of the second world war "Kharkiv cauldron" or " Cursed place of the red Army»: "Soviet soldiers near Kharkiv fought with selfless courage, mercilessly smashed the enemy. The fascists clung to every high-rise, every locality. Looking for weaknesses. On the second day of the offensive, 370 Nazi tanks launched a counterattack. Our troops sometimes acted incoherently, with intermittent supply of ammunition. The situation in a number of areas quickly became more complicated. On the morning of may 17, an avalanche of artillery fire hit the front line of our 9th army. Then German planes began to bomb headquarters, communication centers, and crossings. This was followed by tanks and motorized infantry. All merged into a continuous roar. The fascists, bypassing our strong points, rushed forward to the rear of our armies. There was only one way out: immediately stop the Soviet offensive, gather all the forces in a fist and stop the attacking enemy. The General staff twice offered Stalin permission to do so. And both times there was a refusal. When the long-awaited permission was received, it was already too late: on may 23, the troops of the German group "Kleist" and the 6th army of Paulus joined South of Balaklea. Three of our armies and mobile groups found themselves in a" bag " prepared by the enemy. The second act of the drama began, short but violent and bloody. Surrounded by fought heroically, from the last opportunities. And soon ran out of ammunition, fuel. There was no organized supply from outside. The fascists acted methodically, ruthlessly, their reconnaissance planes searched for targets, then began bombing even small concentrations of Soviet soldiers. Tanks pushed those who remained alive into gullies and large ravines, crushed everyone in a row, and shot them with machine guns.Unfortunately, it is now simply impossible to determine the exact number of deaths. But there is not the slightest doubt that there were a lot of fallen in the battles. This is one of the bloodiest battles in the entire great Patriotic war - every day the troops lost an average of 15399 people (killed, wounded and captured).»