You don't choose times, it says famous wisdom. Some people experience a childhood with pioneer camps and collecting waste paper, others with game consoles and accounts in social networks…
Military secret
The generation of children of the 1930s inherited a cruel and terrible war, which took away relatives, loved ones, friends and childhood itself. And instead of children's toys, the most persistent and courageous took rifles and machine guns into their hands. They took it to take revenge on the enemy and fight for the Motherland.
War is not a child's business. But when she comes to your house, the usual ideas change radically.
In 1933, writer Arkady Gaidar wrote “The Tale of Military secret, Malchishe-Kibalchish and his firm word" This work by Gaidar, written eight years before the start of the Great Patriotic War, was destined to become a symbol of memory of all the young heroes who died in the fight against Nazi invaders.
Valya Kotik
Valya Kotik, like all Soviet boys and girls, of course, heard the fairy tale about Malchish-Kibalchish. But he hardly thought that he would have to be on the spot brave hero Gaidar.
He was born on February 11, 1930 in Ukraine, in the village of Khmelevka, Kamenets-Podolsk region, into a peasant family.
Valya had an ordinary childhood as a boy of that time, with the usual pranks, secrets, and sometimes bad grades. Everything changed in June 1941, when war broke into the life of sixth-grader Valya Kotik.
Desperate
The rapid Hitlerite blitzkrieg of the summer of 1941, and now Valya, who by that time lived in the city of Shepetivka, together with his family was already in the occupied territory.
The victorious power of the Wehrmacht instilled fear in many adults, but did not frighten Valya, who, together with his friends, decided to fight the Nazis. To begin with, they began to collect and hide weapons that remained at the sites of battles that raged around Shepetivka. Then they grew bolder to the point that they began to steal machine guns from unwary Nazis.
And in the fall of 1941, a desperate boy committed real sabotage - setting up an ambush near the road, he used a grenade to blow up a car with Nazis, killing several soldiers and the commander of a field gendarmerie detachment.
The underground members learned about Valya's affairs. It was almost impossible to stop the desperate boy, and then he was involved in underground work. He was tasked with collecting information about the German garrison, posting leaflets, and acting as a liaison.
For the time being, the nimble boy did not arouse suspicion among the Nazis. However, the more successful actions became on the account of the underground, the more carefully the Nazis began to look for their assistants among the local residents.
A young partisan saved a detachment from punitive forces
In the summer of 1943, the threat of arrest hung over Valya’s family, and he, along with his mother and brother, went into the forest, becoming a fighter partisan detachment named after Karmelyuk.
The command tried to take care of the 13-year-old boy, but he was eager to fight. In addition, Valya showed himself to be a skilled intelligence officer and a person capable of finding a way out of the most difficult situation.
In October 1943, Valya, who was on a partisan patrol, ran into punitive forces preparing to attack the base of a partisan detachment. They tied up the boy, but, deciding that he did not pose a threat and could not provide valuable intelligence, they left him under guard right there, on the edge of the forest.
Valya himself was wounded, but managed to get to the hut of the forester who was helping the partisans. After recovery, he continued to fight in the detachment.
Valya participated in the undermining of six enemy echelons, the destruction of the Nazi strategic communications cable, as well as in a number of other successful actions, for which he was awarded the Order Patriotic War 1st degree and medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree”.
Vali's last fight
On February 11, 1944, Valya turned 14 years old. The front was rapidly moving to the West, and the partisans helped as best they could regular army. Shepetovka, where Valya lived, had already been liberated, but the detachment moved on, preparing for its last operation- storming the city of Izyaslav.
After it, the detachment had to be disbanded, the adults had to join the regular units, and Valya had to return to school.
The battle for Izyaslav on February 16, 1944 turned out to be hot, but it was already ending in favor of the partisans when Valya was seriously wounded by a stray bullet.
They broke into the city to help the partisans Soviet troops. The wounded Valya was urgently sent to the rear, to the hospital. However, the wound turned out to be fatal - on February 17, 1944, Valya Kotik died.
Valya was buried in the village of Khorovets. At the request of his mother, the son’s ashes were transferred to the city of Shepetivka and reburied in the city park.
A big country that has experienced terrible war, could not immediately appreciate the exploits of all who fought for her freedom and independence. But over time, everything fell into place.
For heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders by Decree of the Presidium Supreme Council USSR dated June 27, 1958, Kotik Valentin Aleksandrovich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union.
In history, he never became Valentin, remaining simply Valya. The youngest Hero of the Soviet Union.
His name, like the names of other pioneer heroes whose feats were told to Soviet schoolchildren in the post-war era, was defamed in the post-Soviet period.
But time puts everything in its place. A feat is a feat, and betrayal is betrayal. Valya Kotik, in difficult times of testing for the Motherland, turned out to be more courageous than many adults, and to this day looking for excuses his cowardice and cowardice. Eternal glory to him!
Valya Kotik is one of the pioneer heroes who matured early and at the cost of his life brought Victory closer in a cruel war.
Until recently, any schoolchild could tell his biography, he was an example for thousands of Soviet boys, they looked up to him and strived to be, like him, brave, fearless and truly love their Motherland.
Valya Kotika's family
He was born in the Ukrainian village of Khmelevka in 1930. Parents were simple peasants. My mother worked on a collective farm, my father was a carpenter. Brother Victor was a year older than him.
Soon the family moved to Shepetovka, where future hero went to school, was accepted into the pioneers and completed 5 classes. At the end of the 5th grade, and he graduated with a diploma of commendation, his father, by that time, returned home with Finnish war, gave the boy a bicycle.
But Valya didn’t really have time to ride his “iron horse”; this summer his childhood ended, native land trouble has come... war.
From underground worker to intelligence officer
Vali's family, like hundreds of other families, did not have time to evacuate and ended up in occupied territory. The looting of the city and the extermination of people by the Nazis made the boy a real avenger. He independently posted leaflets and cartoons, and collected weapons and ammunition with friends.
Meeting Ivan Alekseevich Muzalev became a fateful turn in his life path. Now he became an underground worker and carried out instructions for the organization:
- Collecting weapons and ammunition
- Gathering information about the location of enemy troops
- Fascist counting military equipment- tanks, guns
- I took a light machine gun into the forest (after disassembling it myself)
- Conducted escaped Polish prisoners of war to the partisans
- Mined the highway.
Since 1943, he becomes a scout for a partisan detachment and takes direct participation in battles.
The exploits of a pioneer hero
It was with his help that it was torn apart telephone connection enemies with Hitler's headquarters in Warsaw. He was able to locate an underground cable, which was later successfully blown up. Successful explosions of railway trains, six warehouses, including a timber warehouse, an oil depot, and a food warehouse.
Valya Kotik feat immortal photo
Standing at his post at the time of enemy attack, he managed to quickly raise the alarm, thereby saving his comrades.
Death on February 11, 1944 (on his birthday)
The Soviet Army completely drove the enemy out of Shepetivka. But the 14-year-old boy was not going to stop; their detachment was preparing to help the Red Army soldiers liberate the city of Izyaslav, which was located near their native Shepetovka. On February 16, his last attack began. In the battles for Izyaslav young scout was mortally wounded and died of his wounds the next day.
Young Hero Awards
For courage and numerous exploits, he was awarded the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War”, II degree; Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union - posthumously. Valya Kotik will never become Valentin Alexandrovich; in the history of the country he will remain forever a mischievous, young and brave boy, whom his friends and family lovingly called Valik.
On February 11, 1930, Valentin Aleksandrovich Kotik (Valya Kotik) was born - a young partisan scout of the Karmelyuk partisan detachment operating in the temporarily occupied territory of the Kamenets-Podolsk region of the Ukrainian SSR; the youngest Hero of the Soviet Union.
You don’t choose times, says the well-known wisdom. Some people experience a childhood with pioneer camps and collecting waste paper, others with game consoles and accounts on social networks.
The generation of children of the 1930s suffered a cruel and terrible war, which took away relatives, loved ones, friends and childhood itself. And instead of children's toys, the most persistent and courageous took rifles and machine guns into their hands. They took it to take revenge on the enemy and fight for the Motherland.
War is not a child's business. But when she comes to your house, the usual ideas change radically.
In 1933, the writer Arkady Gaidar wrote “The Tale of the Military Secret, the Boy-Kibalchish and His Firm Word.” This work by Gaidar, written eight years before the start of the Great Patriotic War, was destined to become a symbol of memory of all the young heroes who died in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
Valya Kotik, like all Soviet boys and girls, of course, heard the fairy tale about Malchish-Kibalchish. But he hardly thought that he would have to be in the place of the brave hero Gaidar.
Valya Kotik was born on February 11, 1930 in Ukraine, in the village of Khmelevka, Kamenets-Podolsk region, into a peasant family.
Valya had an ordinary childhood as a boy of that time, with the usual pranks, secrets, and sometimes bad grades. Everything changed in June 1941, when war broke into the life of sixth-grader Valya Kotik.
The rapid Hitlerite blitzkrieg of the summer of 1941, and now Valya, who by that time lived in the city of Shepetivka, together with his family was already in the occupied territory.
The victorious power of the Wehrmacht instilled fear in many adults, but did not frighten Valya, who, together with his friends, decided to fight the Nazis. To begin with, they began to collect and hide weapons that remained at the sites of battles that raged around Shepetivka. Then they grew bolder to the point that they began to steal machine guns from unwary Nazis.
And in the fall of 1941, a desperate boy committed real sabotage - setting up an ambush near the road, he used a grenade to blow up a car with Nazis, killing several soldiers and the commander of a field gendarmerie detachment.
The underground members learned about Valya's affairs. It was almost impossible to stop the desperate boy, and then he was involved in underground work. He was tasked with collecting information about the German garrison, posting leaflets, and acting as a liaison.
For the time being, the nimble boy did not arouse suspicion among the Nazis. However, the more successful actions became on the account of the underground, the more carefully the Nazis began to look for their assistants among the local residents.
In the summer of 1943, the threat of arrest hung over Valya’s family, and he, along with his mother and brother, went into the forest, becoming a fighter in the Karmelyuk partisan detachment.
The command tried to take care of the 13-year-old boy, but he was eager to fight. In addition, Valya showed himself to be a skilled intelligence officer and a person capable of finding a way out of the most difficult situation.
In October 1943, Valya, who was on a partisan patrol, ran into punitive forces preparing to attack the base of a partisan detachment. They tied up the boy, but, deciding that he did not pose a threat and could not provide valuable intelligence, they left him under guard right there, on the edge of the forest.
Valya himself was wounded, but managed to get to the hut of the forester who was helping the partisans. After recovery, he continued to fight in the detachment.
Valya participated in the undermining of six enemy echelons, the destruction of the Nazi strategic communications cable, as well as in a number of other successful actions, for which he was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, and the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree.”
On February 11, 1944, Valya turned 14 years old. The front was rapidly moving to the West, and the partisans helped the regular army as best they could. Shepetovka, where Valya lived, had already been liberated, but the detachment moved on, preparing for its last operation - the assault on the city of Izyaslav.
After it, the detachment had to be disbanded, the adults had to join the regular units, and Valya had to return to school.
The battle for Izyaslav on February 16, 1944 turned out to be hot, but it was already ending in favor of the partisans when Valya was seriously wounded by a stray bullet.
Soviet troops rushed into the city to help the partisans. The wounded Valya was urgently sent to the rear, to the hospital. However, the wound turned out to be fatal - on February 17, 1944, Valya Kotik died.
Valya was buried in the village of Khorovets. At the request of his mother, the son’s ashes were transferred to the city of Shepetivka and reburied in the city park.
A large country that experienced a terrible war could not immediately appreciate the exploits of all those who fought for its freedom and independence. But over time, everything fell into place.
For his heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 27, 1958, Valentin Aleksandrovich Kotik was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In history, he never became Valentin, remaining simply Valya. The youngest Hero of the Soviet Union.
His name, like the names of other pioneer heroes, whose feats were told to Soviet schoolchildren in the post-war period, was subjected to defamation and mockery in the post-Soviet period.
But time puts everything in its place. A feat is a feat, and betrayal is betrayal. Valya Kotik, in a difficult time of testing for the Motherland, turned out to be more courageous than many adults, who to this day are looking for justification for their cowardice and cowardice.
Eternal memory to him!
Soviet children, pioneers and others, who fought on an equal basis with adults for the freedom of our country, who died in the fight against the enemy, who lived to see the Victory - they are all in Immortal Regiment thousand years of Russian history.
During the Great Patriotic War, being in the temporarily occupied Nazi troops territory of the Shepetovsky district, Valya Kotik worked to collect weapons and ammunition, drew and posted caricatures of the Nazis. Since 1942, he had connections with the Shepetovsky underground party organization and carried out its intelligence orders.
Having taken a closer look at the boy, the communists entrusted Valya with being a liaison and intelligence officer in their underground organization. He learned the location of enemy posts and the order of changing the guard. The day came when Valya accomplished his feat.
The roar of the engines became louder - the cars were approaching. The faces of the soldiers were already clearly visible. Sweat dripped from their foreheads, half-covered by green helmets. Some soldiers carelessly took off their helmets.
The front car reached the bushes behind which the boys were hiding. Valya stood up, counting down the seconds to himself. The car passed, and there was already an armored car opposite him. Then he rose to his full height and shouted “Fire!” he threw two grenades one after another... At the same time, explosions were heard from the left and right. Both cars stopped, the front one caught fire. The soldiers quickly jumped to the ground, threw themselves into a ditch and from there opened indiscriminate fire from machine guns.
Valya did not see this picture. He was already running along a well-known path into the depths of the forest. There was no pursuit; the Germans were afraid of the partisans. The next day, Gebietskommissar Government Advisor Dr. Worbs wrote in a report to his superiors: “Attacked by large forces of bandits, the Fuhrer’s soldiers showed courage and restraint. They took on an unequal battle and scattered the rebels. Oberleutnant Franz Koenig skillfully led the fighting. While chasing bandits, he was seriously wounded and died on the spot from loss of blood. Our losses: seven killed and nine wounded. The bandits lost twenty people killed and about thirty wounded...” Rumors about the partisan attack on the Nazis and the death of the executioner, the chief of the gendarmerie, quickly spread in the city.
Since August 1943, the young patriot was a scout in the Shepetovsky partisan detachment named after Karmelyuk.
In October 1943, a young partisan scouted the location of the underground telephone cable of Hitler's headquarters, which was soon blown up. He also participated in the bombing of six railway trains and a warehouse.
On October 29, 1943, while at his post, Valya noticed that the punitive forces had staged a raid on the detachment. Having killed a fascist officer with a pistol, he raised the alarm, and the partisans managed to prepare for battle.
On February 16, 1944, in a battle for the city of Izyaslav, Kamenets-Podolsk, now Khmelnitsky region, a 14-year-old partisan scout was mortally wounded and died the next day.
The young partisan died a few days after his fourteenth birthday. Fourteen is very little. At this age, you usually just make plans for the future, prepare for it, dream about it. Valya also built, prepared, dreamed. There is no doubt that if he had lived to this day, he would have become an outstanding personality. But he did not become an astronaut, nor an innovative worker, nor a scientist-inventor. He remained forever young, remained a pioneer.
He was buried in the center of the park in the city of Shepetivka, now in the Khmelnitsky region of Ukraine.
For his heroism in the fight against the Nazi invaders, by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of June 27, 1958, Valentin Aleksandrovich Kotik was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
One of the most famous child heroes of the Great Patriotic War is Valya Kotik. Feat ( summary his biography and military activities is the subject of this review) this boy is probably known to every schoolchild. This work provides a description of his life and participation in battles in the partisan detachment. His personality became an example of courage and heroism Soviet people, manifested during the years of the German invasion of our Motherland. The child's fate was all the more tragic because he died at the age of fourteen, however, despite his young age, did a lot for the liberation of his native city, for which he was awarded the highest military award.
Childhood years
In 1930, Valya Kotik was born into the family of an employee. The feat (a brief summary of which will be described below) of this boy had great value not only in a practical, but also in an ideological sense, since his actions became an example to follow. He was the youngest in the family and was in the sixth grade at the time of the enemy invasion.
At first, the child began to pay attention to fascist posts and distribute propaganda leaflets calling for a fight against the invaders. Thus, the schoolboy attracted the attention of the leader of a local underground organization, who settled in his house. At first a little hero great war Valya Kotik mistook him for an enemy spy and traitor, however, upon learning the truth, he became a member of his group. They began to give him small assignments: to monitor German officers, obtain and protect weapons. Capable child showed courage, quickness and ingenuity, so that he began to be given more responsible and serious assignments.
Participation in the partisan movement
The boy quickly learned how to handle weapons and explosives. He was able to mine the roads and highways along which patrols passed. One day, a child noticed the head of the local gendarmerie in a passing car, who was driving to his hometown of Shepetivka. The student threw a grenade and the car exploded.
Thus, Valya Kotik made a great contribution to the liberation of the city. Feat (summary of it military biography reflects tragic fate many child partisans) of the boy is that he united physical agility with ideological conviction, thanks to which he did not leave his detachment even at a time when he was offered to cross to safe areas of the country.
1942-1944
At first, the student served as a liaison officer in underground group, however, he soon began to participate in battles. An important step In his military biography, he came under the command of Lieutenant Muzalev, who led the occupied territories. The teenager actively fought on the side of the Red Army and was wounded twice.
In 1943, Valya Kotik interrupted Warsaw’s connection with the main German headquarters. The feat, a brief summary of which allows us only to approximately judge the significance of this step, facilitated the actions of the members of the underground organization in the liberation of the conquered territory. The boy also took part in undermining German trains. In addition to his powers of observation and skillful organizational skills, he also proved himself to be an excellent patrolman. One day, he, alone from the entire group of partisans, noticed an impending raid on his comrades and raised the alarm in time, thus saving all the people.
Death
Valya Kotik, a feat whose biography is compulsorily studied in all Soviet schools, fought on Ukrainian territory. As mentioned above, he was offered to move to a safer area, but he did not want to leave his home unit. He took part in the liberation operation to lift the occupation from the city of Izyaslav. According to one version, the boy was sent on reconnaissance, noticed a German patrol, raised the alarm, but was mortal wound, after which he quickly died. Some scientists believe that the wound young hero was easy, but he died due to shelling during the evacuation. He was buried in hometown. Many streets in Russian cities are named after him, as well as pioneer camps, schools, squads. Several monuments have been erected to him, including in the capital of our country. A number of films are dedicated to his life.
Confession
Among the many partisans who made a significant contribution to the victory, Valya Kotik, a pioneer hero, stands out. Heroes of Russia and the USSR always received highest awards and orders. So the boy initially received partisan medals, and in 1958 he was awarded the main honorary title countries. As mentioned above, a film was made about him.
According to the plot of the film, the character, a young schoolboy, sacrifices his life by blowing himself up with a grenade so as not to be captured by the enemy. It is significant that many young fighters became famous after their tragic death. In this series, Kotik takes pride of place, as he carried out a number of actions strategic importance. The destruction of the connection with the headquarters was a step whose significance went beyond local success. Therefore on school lessons According to history, attention should be paid to the importance of his underground activities in the liberation of Ukraine from German occupation.
