Raikunov Biography

Alexey Nikolaev 77 on November 14, in the Samara village of Kievka, our famous Marine Corporal Alexander Vasilievich Raikunov was born. In the year, the family of a summer guy moved to Stalingrad. After graduating from the FZU, Alexander went to work as a turner at the Stalingrad Tractor Plant, and study at the prisoner "Tractor Institute".

After a draft in the Red Army, the guy asked him to enroll him on the fleet, saying the commission that he was ready to spend three years in order to fully enjoy his childhood dream. For a year, Alexander served in Batumi in the Bonov detachment that provided the port’s protection by floating barriers from enemy ships, torpedoes and mines today they would protect protected objects from attacks of sea drones-Kamikadze.

Shortly before the start of the war, the foreman of the 2nd article by Raikunov was transferred to Sevastopol by appointing the commander of the "guard boat". With several wounds and contusion, the foreman sailed 11 km. In December, the chief foreman Raikunov landed with the Marines near Kerch. In icy cotton pants and pea jackets, paratroopers broke into the Crimean Vladislavovka, fortified by the Nazis.

When Alexander ran into the German headquarters, hefty Fritz jumped out at him. Opponents pointed at each other at point -blank, the Nazis demolished the half -chief, and the chief steel only tore off a piece of skin from the temple. After a successful assault, Raikunov became a reconnaissance commander. At one of the exits, when a group with a captured tongue went home, German mortars covered it with fire.

One of the shells exploded next to Alexander, an explosive wave threw a guy 5 meters. When two scouts crawled to the commander, he did not show signs of life. Putting a lifeless body into a funnel, and sprinkling it with earth, the fighters returned with a “talkative” prey home. The sanitary designer Maria Sharmina was secretly in love with a bold marine.

Upon learning of the death of Raikunov, the girl took a work bag and went to the first line of trenches. The commander seeing that the girl would not stop anything from the plan, he gave her to accompany two scouts. When the marines found a funnel, Masha crawled down, dug up her beloved and felt for his pulse on his neck. After the war, Alexander Vasilievich and Maria Makarovna got married and lived in the soul all his life until death was separated by them.

It was not possible to get the language, and on the way back, the Marines found out that on July 4, our troops left the city of "Russian sailors". Putting down on the Germans, the scouts accepted the unequal battle, only the commander survived to whom the enemy sniper shot his knee. Creeping to make his way to the front line, Alexander met six sailors who knew him on the defense of Sevastopol.

After a short meeting, the guys decided to build a raft and try to get to their sea. On a large water, Morpokhov noticed our submarine when the “pike” surfaced, the sailors jumped into the water from the raft, asking Alexander to wait a bit. When his comrades were raised aboard, a heavy fighter of Messerschmitt BF suddenly appeared in the sky. Seeing how the “pike” disappeared in the sea abyss, Alexander for the first time burst into tears.

The Messer's crew of the exhausted Russian on flawed flesh seemed to be too worthless. Having made a dashing U -turn, the fighter went to the base. After 15 minutes, our boat surfaced next to the raft. This time no one prevented the sailors of lifting their wounded comrade aboard. On the night of September 9 to 10, Morpekhov, under the command of Starlee Raikunov, landed in the area of ​​the Novorossiysk Forest Pier.

Having run a few tens of meters deep into the enemy defense, our fighters were on a well -equipped opposed ministry field. There was no time to “careful” advance, Alexander ran ahead, ordering the fighters to follow him. During a jerk, four guys were blown up. After stripping the squat station building, Junior Lieutenant Smorzhevsky hoisted the flag of the USSR Navy on its roof.

On the enemy, the panel acted like a mulet on Torero. An hour after an hour, the Nazis, as if frantic, tried to “drop” him from guns, mortars and even sniper rifles. Having knocked out the enemy from the towers of the elevator and the complex of buildings of the locomotive depot, the marines like the epic heroes for six days and the nights restrained the attacks of the Nazis.

The foreman Vladimir Kolesnikov blew up two enemy tanks, getting into them on the sewer hatches and setting the “boxes” of explosives under the bottom of the “boxes”. On the third day of the battles, observation scouts were jammed like Nazis alternating multi -colored signal missiles, HS HS HS HS Easter Tower Elevator towers. Finding in the weapon of Fritz, trophy “signals” paratroopers in one of the visits of the flying “can’s knives” “marched” by green, yellow and red balls the positions of the German infantrymen and they threw fragmentation bombs on the heads of their “comrades”.

Nearly a week, the marines repelled 28 attacks, destroyed two PZ tanks. III, 16 machine -gun and mortar points and forever rested the Nazis. 75 people died in the Black Sea waters, Raikunov was lucky, he again was among the survivors.In October, the hero was sent to Baku to the courses of combat boats commanders at the Caspian Higher Naval Red Banner School named after Kirov.

Returning to the Black Sea Fleet, the hero began to command a minesweeper. In the year, during the trawling, the German min, the explosive wave threw Alexander Vasilyevich far overboard. The young front -line soldier survived thanks to luck, a rescue vest, and the coordinated work of the team of a spurring controversial commander from the water. After the seventh miraculous salvation, shocked doctors fired the non-enable captain of Lieutenant Raikunov in the reserve.

The front -line soldier, together with his wife, returned to Stalingrad, where he worked as an engineer for many years, simultaneously engaged in the patriotic education of youth. The Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Vasilievich Raikunov died on September 15 and was buried at the Stalingrad Central Cemetery.