CITY: Linevka village, Sol-Iletskiy district. DATE OF BIRTH: 11/28/1919 DATE OF DEATH: - HISTORY: Branch: Artillery The latest world events show the need not only to know the history of the Great Patriotic War, but also the need to be able to prove the indisputable facts of the past, which are trying to distort and present in a favorable light to someone ... Only the study of the history of your country, your genealogy gives confidence in yourself, in the bright future of your country. There is no family in which the war has not left its mark. And she did not bypass my family. We will always remember the people who fought for victory in the Great Patriotic War. Each family made a contribution to the long-awaited victory. Someone forged victory in the rear, someone at the front. My family was no exception, my grandfather Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich also fought at the front. I am very proud of my grandfather, because he endured everything in this war, survived, and most importantly, won. Today we young people also have to fight, but not at the front. Our war is a war to defend the Victory of our grandfathers, to be able to preserve what was achieved at the cost of huge human sacrifices. We must not allow those events to be forgotten, we must not allow history to be forged. We are heirs, and we are responsible to the dead and the living. Combat path Each person has his own line of fate: for some it is straight and smooth, and for some it is winding and rough. The beginning of the 20th century was a time of testing for many people. But it was especially difficult for children born in the post-revolutionary era. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich Asanov was born on November 28, 1919 in Linevka into a peasant family of hereditary Bulgar Tatars. I did not remember my mother at all; she died when he was still a baby. Soon after the death of his mother, Fathutdin Sharafutdinovich's father remarried and brought a young stepmother into the house. And then, as in an evil fairy tale: the stepmother disliked not only two kids, but also their father. In order to take possession of all the property of her husband Fatkhutdin Sharafutdinovich, she wrote reports on him that he allegedly spoke out against the Soviet regime. At night, some unfamiliar uncles knocked loudly on the door and took my father away. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich never saw him again. He was 2 years old and 4 brother when their stepmother kicked them out of their father's house. Childhood was bleak, hungry, cold. The whole village helped, in whatever way they could. Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich managed to survive, get an education, and it seemed to him that everything went smoothly, but then the war broke out, which he remembered well, being its direct participant from beginning to end. For 1418 long days and nights, the peoples of the USSR went to victory. This path was incredibly difficult. Our Motherland has fully learned both the bitterness of defeat and the joy of victories. The initial period was especially difficult. Since 1942, he began to count down the difficult life at the front. Sadyk Fatkhudinovich served in the 56th rifle regiment, where his comrades, the fired upon soldiers, called him simply Sasha, because Sadyk was the youngest and most respectful comrade by age. He started the war as an ordinary rifleman, and ended in 1945 as a squad commander of a motorized rifle regiment. He often recalled how at the beginning of the war he had to retreat, be surrounded, make his way to his own, in small groups through forests and swamps, and went forward to the west. He had to witness the bloody battles for Stalingrad. The failure to capture Moscow was viewed by the German command as a temporary moment. The Nazis very much counted on the capture of Stalingrad, believing that it was not just a city on the Volga, but also a gateway to the Caucasus, and, in addition, a deeply symbolic goal: mastering it would be perceived by everyone as proof of the invincibility of the German military machine. Huge forces were thrown by Hitler in this direction. Commander Paulus himself was loved by the Fuehrer, he entered the Nazi environment. There was a lot at stake. And all over the world they closely followed the outcome of the unprecedented battle. In the battle for Stalingrad, the fate of not only Russia was decided, but also the fate of many peoples of European countries occupied and oppressed by Germany. In the summer of 1942, a critical situation developed on the Soviet-German front. In connection with the breakthrough of the enemy into the great bend of the Don on July 17, the defensive period of the battle for Stalingrad began, which lasted until November 18. In the fighting at Stalingrad, more than 2 million were to die on both sides. On August 23, German tanks broke into Stalingrad. On the same day, bombing of the city from planes began. It lasted several days without interruption. Soon the water supply system went out of order, the power supply was cut off, but the work of the city enterprises, which produced defense products, repaired tanks and other types of weapons and military equipment, did not stop. The line between the rear and the front disappeared here ... On August 25, 1942, a state of siege was introduced in Stalingrad.The main burden of the struggle for the city, into which the enemy burst into, fell to the lot of the 62nd Army under the command of Lieutenant General V.I. Chuikov. The German command attached particular importance to the capture of Stalingrad. His capture would have made it possible to cut the Volga transport artery, through which bread and oil were delivered to the center of the country. Heavy defensive battles began on the outskirts of the city. The Soviet command brought cadets of a military school and battalions of the people's militia into battle, which included 125 thousand residents of the city - everyone who was able to bear arms. On the northern outskirts of the city, the Nazis were stopped and then thrown back three kilometers. On the morning of September 13, the Nazis brought thirteen divisions into battle, took hundreds of aircraft into the air. They broke through the defenses and entered the central part of Stalingrad. On September 14, the enemy captured the highest place in the city - Mamayev Kurgan, which changed hands several times. From this dominant height, the Nazis could conduct aimed fire at any point in the city that was within the reach of artillery and mortars. The 13th Guards Division of General A.I. Rodimtsev, who had just crossed the Volga, arrived in time to help the defenders of Stalingrad. On September 16, she again took possession of the Mamayev Kurgan. Recalling these difficult days, General VI Chuikov, who at that time was the commander of the 62nd Army of the Stalingrad Front, wrote: “By mid-October, the battle ... reached such a scale that the history of war had never known ... The number of enemy aircraft daily exceeded thousand, and on October 14 reached a record figure of 2540 ... Enemy artillery and aviation set fire to oil tanks. Burning oil spilled. The flame rose up to 800 meters. The earth was burning ... The Volga was burning ... It seemed that all living things should have perished in the midst of this sea of ​​fire, in the midst of incessant bombing, that human nerves were no longer able to withstand this hellish tension. But the warriors ... survived. They stood like an indestructible wall on their borders. " The fighting in the city itself lasted more than two months. In military history, such stubborn urban battles are almost unknown. Every house turned into a fortress, and the battle was fought for every floor or basement, for every wall. It was a battle of attrition, and the morale of German soldiers and officers was noticeably weakened during it. The enemy went on the offensive against the city three times: in September, October and November. Each time the Germans managed to break through to the Volga at a new point. It seemed that one more small effort - and Stalingrad would be taken. However, the ultimate victory eluded them. By November, the Germans had captured almost the entire city, which was turned into solid ruins. They were separated from the river only by a narrow, intermittent strip of land. The width of this "thread" was measured in hundreds of meters. For more than two hundred days and nights from July 17, 1942 to February 2, 1943, heavy, bloody battles were fought on the territory of the Don and Volga steppes. At 07:30 on November 19, a powerful artillery preparation began, which continued 80 minutes. During this time, about 3,500 guns and mortars, concentrated on three narrow sections of the breakthrough with a total length of 23 kilometers, dropped tens of thousands of shells on the enemy. So the offensive of the Soviet troops began ... The line separating the second period of the Great Patriotic War from the first was the turning point in the course of the Battle of Stalingrad, that is, the transition from defense to the counteroffensive of the Red Army. The troops of the South-West (commander N.F. Vatutin), Donskoy (commander K.K. Rokossovsky) and Stalingrad (commander A.I. Eremenko) fronts surrounded 22 enemy divisions with a total number of 330 thousand people. The surrender of the grouping of Field Marshal Paulus was a turning point, first of all, psychologically, namely, in the perception of Germany and Nazism throughout the world. Fascism and Hitlerism were no longer perceived as an irresistible force. The Great Battle of Stalingrad ended in a brilliant victory for the Soviet troops. Now the initiative for military action was torn from the hands of the Nazis. The whole world understood: the victory over fascism is not far off. The victory at Stalingrad marked the beginning of a radical change in the Great Patriotic War. She showed the whole world the strength of the Red Army, the increased skill of Soviet military leaders, the strength of the rear, which provided the front with a sufficient amount of weapons, military equipment and equipment. The international prestige of the Soviet Union grew immeasurably, and the positions of fascist Germany were seriously shaken. The Kursk Bulge became the second big test for Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich. The Great Battle of Kursk is one of the largest battles of the Second World War in terms of its scope, forces and means involved, tension, results and military-political consequences. It went on for 50 incredibly difficult days and nights. In order to achieve the quick success of its offensive, the German command relied on the massive use of armored vehicles (tanks, assault guns, armored personnel carriers) in the first operational echelon.The medium and heavy tanks T-IV, T-V ("panther"), T-VI ("tiger"), which entered service with the German army, and the assault guns Ferdinand had good armor protection and strong artillery weapons. Their 75-mm and 88-mm guns with a direct firing range of 1.5-2.5 km were 2.5 times higher than the 76.2-mm cannon of the main Soviet T-34 tank. The troops of the Central and Voronezh fronts were mainly involved in the defensive operation near Kursk. By the beginning of the Battle of Kursk, the Central and Voronezh fronts and the Steppe Military District numbered 1,909 thousand people, more than 26.5 thousand guns and mortars, over 4.9 thousand tanks and self-propelled artillery units (ACS), about 2.9 thousand . aircraft. Great importance was attached to the creation of artillery groups. Particular attention was paid to the massing of artillery in the likely directions of enemy strikes. The Battle of Kursk was one of the largest battles of the Second World War. On both sides, more than 4 million people were involved in it, over 69 thousand guns and mortars, more than 13 thousand tanks and self-propelled guns, up to 12 thousand aircraft. Soviet troops defeated 30 divisions (including 7 tank) of the enemy, whose losses amounted to more than 500 thousand people, 3 thousand guns and mortars, more than 1.5 thousand tanks and assault guns, over 3.7 thousand aircraft ... In the Battle of Kursk, the level of military art of the Soviet troops increased. In the field of strategy, the Soviet Supreme High Command creatively approached the planning of the summer-autumn campaign of 1943. The peculiarity of the decision was that the side with strategic initiative and general superiority in forces went over to the defense, deliberately giving an active role to the enemy in the initial phase of the campaign. Subsequently, within the framework of a single campaign process, following the defense, it was planned to switch to a decisive counteroffensive and deploy a general offensive in order to liberate the Left Bank Ukraine, Donbass and overcome the Dnieper. The headquarters gave instructions to the fronts to cross the Dnieper on the move. The troops were supposed to reach the lower reaches of the Dnieper and to the Crimea. During the period from 22 to 30 September, they reached the Dnieper on a 750 km front from Loyev to Zaporozhye and crossed the river of the army of the Central, Voronezh, Steppe and South-Western fronts on the move, capturing a number of bridgeheads. By the end of September, the Left-Bank Ukraine was almost completely liberated. The plans of the fascist command to stabilize the front on the Dnieper were thwarted. A stubborn struggle for bridgeheads unfolded. The Supreme Command headquarters put forward the task of eliminating the remaining bridgeheads of the enemy on the left bank of the Dnieper and expanding the captured bridgeheads. With the seizure of strategic bridgeheads on the Dnieper, conditions were created for an offensive in Belarus, the complete liberation of the Right-Bank Ukraine and the development of a successful offensive.In the course of the Donbass strategic operation (August 13 - September 22, 1943), army troops in cooperation with the troops of the 28th Army, forces cavalry and mechanized formations of the front defeated the Taganrog enemy grouping and, in cooperation with the landings landed by the ships of the Azov military flotilla, and the partisans, liberated Taganrog (August 30). In the course of the subsequent successful offensive in cooperation with the forces of the Black Sea Fleet, the army liberated Mariupol on September 10. From September 26, she took part in the Melitopol operation (September 26 - November 5). At the end of October 1943, the army was withdrawn to the front reserve, regrouped to the area northeast of Kakhovka and, replacing parts of the 5th Shock Army, defended the Zavadovka - Kakhovka - Britany line. During November 2, in the area between the Dnieper River and the coast of the Karkinitsky Bay, our troops continued to pursue the retreating enemy and captured the city of Kakhovka, the city of Skadovsk, regional centers of the Nikolaev region Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich took part in the battles for the liberation of Donbass, the cities of Kakhovka and Kherson. During the crossing of the Dnieper River to Pereslava, when the 4th brigade covered the crossing, the water literally boiled. In this battle, the platoon commander Vasily Ivanovich Fursov was wounded. Sadyk Fatkhudinovich managed to pull him out and save his life, risking himself. He recalled: then he did not think about fear. For courage and courage on September 23, 1943, Asanov Sadyk Fatkhutdinovich was awarded the medal "For Military Merit". During fierce battles near the Kvashino, Pokrovo-Kireevka patrol from August 18 to September 4, 1943, he uninterruptedly delivered mines under heavy artillery and mortar shelling of the enemy. On June 2, 1945, he was awarded the Order of the Red Star for his valor in battle, with the fire of his mortar he managed to suppress 4 enemy machine-gun points and destroy an anti-tank gun. In the battles for the Dnieper operation he was awarded the medal "For Courage". Until the end of the war, he went through Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Austria.He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, medals "For the Defense of Stalingrad", "For Victory over Germany", "For the Liberation of Warsaw", "For the Liberation of Prague", "For the Capture of Vienna." In 1945, after returning home with a victory Linevka, created a family, raised seven children. He never complained about anything - he hoped only for himself. He talked a lot about the war, recalled everyday life at the front, his friends - comrades, not only survivors, but also about those who laid down their heads for the independence of the Fatherland. The 4th Guards Mechanized Stalingrad Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov corps has a long, truly heroic military history. His soldiers traveled more than 8,300 kilometers along the thorny roads of the Great Patriotic War and were in the fire of battles for about 1000 days and nights. He participated in the Voronezh-Voroshilovgrad defensive operation, in the Battle of Stalingrad, in Rostov, Donbass, Melitopol, Nikopol-Krivoy Rog, Bereznegovato-Snigirevskaya, Odessa, Yassko-Chisinau offensive operations, the liberation of Bulgaria, in the Belgrade and Budapest offensive operations. The corps was formed in May 1942 in the city of Stalingrad, manned by three tank and one motorized rifle brigades and was called the 13th Panzer Corps. In November 1942, he received three mechanized brigades for staffing, and in January 1943, by order of the People’s Commissariat No. 13, he was transformed into the 4th Guards Mechanized Corps. At different times, 44 regular and 38 attached units and formations fought in its composition. The corps received the baptism of fire in June 1942 in the Kharkov region. Then he took an active part in all stages of the Battle of Stalingrad. The formations and corps units fought defensive battles in the Stalingrad direction for two and a half months. Leaving one defensive line after another under the onslaught of superior enemy forces, they withdrew to the southwestern outskirts of the city in early September, consolidated their foothold and continued to hold the defensive line until October 25, 1942. On this day, the corps surrendered its defense zone to rifle units and was withdrawn for re-formation. The correspondent of the corpus newspaper "Stalingradets" writer Mikola Rud dedicated the poem "Stalingrad-Taganrog" Donbass to this event. In the smoke Ukraine. How many roads have been covered! The words "Stalingrad-Taganrog" are shining on our banner from now on. dearer “Forward!” And we pull out the oppressed people from death and grief by the enemy. Thanks to the leader, Fatherland awards! As before, in a fierce battle We are the Banner and the will and spirit of Stalingrad As a symbol we carry in battle. After the defeat of the enemy's Stalingrad grouping, the corps fought stubborn battles in the battles for the liberation of the Rostov region, Donbass and southern Ukraine. In August 1944, his soldiers successfully completed their combat mission in Moldova and transferred the hostilities outside our homeland. Fulfilling the mission of liberating the peoples of Southeast Europe from fascism, the soldiers of the renowned corps carried their battle flags across the coastal regions of Romania, then across Bulgaria, Eastern Yugoslavia, Hungary and Southern Czechoslovakia. The formations and units participated in 20 major defensive and offensive operations, carried out according to the plans of the Supreme Command Headquarters on the southern flank of the Soviet-German front. 11 times they were introduced into the breakthrough formed by the combined arms formations and fought deep behind enemy lines. They independently broke through enemy defensive lines 5 times. In four defensive operations for a long time they repelled the blows of superior enemy forces. All 33 months the corps was part of the active army and was never withdrawn to the rear. Even its reorganization from a tank to a mechanized one and all the resupply took place in the immediate vicinity of the front line. The personnel of the corps lived a front-line life with its harsh laws. The everyday feats of combat comrades-in-arms seemed the most common phenomena of front-line everyday life. The soldiers' permanent residence, their "apartments" were dugouts and trenches, cabins and car bodies, tank turrets and self-propelled artillery installations. They were "written" in them until the complete victory over the enemy. They ate in them, spent all their free time, wrote letters to relatives and loved ones, wrote poetry. For successful hostilities, the corps personnel were commended twelve times by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union I.V. Stalin. Eleven units and formations were awarded guard ranks, thirteen units and formations were awarded honorary titles in honor of the liberation of various cities of the Soviet Union and the countries of South-Eastern Europe, and ten were awarded government awards.For courage, bravery and unparalleled feats in the fight against the German fascist invaders, 16660 soldiers were awarded government awards and 20 soldiers received the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union. After the war, the corps was transformed into the 4th Guards Mechanized Division (from 10.06.1945). The Guards Mechanized Division was part of the 10th Special Mechanized Army of the Southern Group of Forces, created on the territory of Bulgaria in 1946. The war unleashed by Germany brought innumerable calamities to tens of millions of people: it took lives and turned cities and villages into ruins. The entire people rose to defend the Motherland, to defeat the hated enemy. The entire people rose to defend the Motherland, to defeat the hated enemy. In battles, the soldiers showed miracles of heroism. Their mothers, wives and children, replacing the men who had gone to the front, labored selflessly in the rear. The country lived with one thought: “Everything for the front! Everything for the victory! " After the end of the war, Gulshat Gibadullinovna returned to Linevka with a victory. Then he moved with his family to Buranny. Raised seven children, gave them education. All children are alive and well, they have their own families. Like their parents, they faithfully fulfill their parental duty. Whatever position they occupy, they work to match their parents. Sadyk never complained about anything, hoped only for himself, talked a lot about the war, always the main thing in his stories is everyday life at the front, memories of friends - comrades, not only survivors, but also of those who laid down their heads for the independence of the Fatherland.