The feat of pilot Vasily Degtyarev. The feat of pilot Vasily Degtyarev Pavel Degtyarev pages from a notebook

Story by Moscow journalist Taras Stepanchuk

And here are some of the pages of the brochure issued in our time on September 7, 2006 in honor of the 65th anniversary of the regiment. We have taken only pages about the combat path of the regiment in, and the garrison of Seshcha.

The scan of page 1, the file of which is located on this page under the photograph of the burial place of V.L. Degtyarev, says that over the mass grave near the village. Golubey is patronized by the garrison of the village of Seshcha, that is, the successors of the work of Vasily Leontyevich.

I would like to hope that they remember V.L. Degtyarev. and they take care of this grave in a manner worthy of his memory.

The only surprising thing is that after conferring the title of Hero of the USSR, the remains of Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev were reburied in a mass grave, and in the document for TsAMO, reporting this burial, the date of his death was written in the line for recording about him.

His villainous fate does not favor him at all!

But, despite all the adversities, we remember and respect the glorious son of our Motherland - Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev!

A squadron of Il-2 attack aircraft of the 566th attack air regiment carried out a combat mission to attack the Seshcha airfield in the Bryansk region, during which Degtyarev’s plane was shot down by enemy anti-aircraft guns. At the same time, a column of a German training battalion, whose soldiers were intensively training before being sent to the Caucasian Front, emerged from the village of Golubeya into a forest clearing. The Germans were quite surprised when a Soviet attack aircraft landed a few hundred meters from the clearing, breaking the treetops. After several seconds of confusion, the Nazis rushed towards the plane, hoping to capture the pilot. But then suddenly the plane, with a slight shudder, came to life. The fiery tracks of machine-gun bursts stretched straight into the crowd. In a few seconds, up to a third of the battalion died. Only those who hid behind the trees were saved. A little later, a wounded pilot appeared. Leaning over the cockpit, he fell out of the plane, rose to his feet and wandered towards the Desna River, hoping to quickly reach his people. However, soon Degtyarev, hiding in the reeds on one of the river islands, was noticed by one of the local traitorous police officers. To capture the pilot, battalion commander Hauptmann Müller sent a platoon of soldiers, ordering to take the Russian alive at all costs. But Degtyarev was not going to surrender alive. Before shooting himself, he sent five more fascists to the next world with his pistol, bringing their total count for that day to more than 170. An observer of the Bryansk partisans, who became an involuntary witness to this battle, reported to the command about the heroic death of the pilot and the detachment commander sent two fighters so that they would bury the hero’s body in the ground. However, the partisans witnessed a strange sight. Near the burnt plane, around the freshly dug grave and the coffin with the pilot’s body, thinned ranks of German soldiers lined up. Wehrmacht soldiers buried the Soviet lieutenant with military honors. After the liberation of the partisan Dubrovsky district, local residents reburied the remains of Vasily Degtyarev, on the banks of the Desna River, near the ancient Orthodox church. Posthumously, Vasily Degtyarev was initially awarded only the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The proposal for awarding the Hero's Star, approved by all lower authorities down to the commander of the Western Front, Colonel General (later Marshal) Sokolovsky, was “turned down” by the People's Commissariat of Defense because the Germans buried the Hero with honors. “There was no need for the Germans to bury him with frills! “, - the future short-term Secretary General K. Chernenko was indignant at the next petition. Only in November 1990, on the eve of the collapse of the USSR, a well-deserved award found the fallen Hero.

Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev was born on January 14, 1915 in Pyatigorsk. From the age of 15, he was raised without a father. Before the war, he worked as a mechanic at a motor depot, and in 1941 he volunteered to go to aviation school, after which he was released into the 566th Attack Aviation Regiment with the rank of aviation lieutenant. Flight commander Vasily Degtyarev fought competently and successfully, during nine combat missions he personally destroyed 2 enemy aircraft and suppressed 8 firing points.

On July 9, 1942, the single-seat Il-2 of Lieutenant Degtyarev went on another combat mission - to bomb an enemy airfield in the village of Seshcha. Over the Bryansk village of Golubeya, the plane was shot down and the pilot was wounded. While making an emergency landing, Degtyarev noticed in a forest clearing a huge, about five hundred people, crowd of Nazi soldiers naked to the waist. At first I didn’t realize what it was, but then I realized that the Wehrmacht training battalion was doing physical exercises...

Having landed, Vasily straightened out the crippled plane and leaned towards the sight. The stunned Germans did not have time to do anything when machine gun fire began to thunder. In a matter of seconds, the clearing was littered with the bloody bodies of the Nazis. With screams of horror, the enemies fled from the burning Il...

Having fired all the cartridges, the wounded lieutenant managed to get out of the plane and, staggering, headed towards the river, which he noticed from the cockpit during landing. Degtyarev could not help but know that all the occupiers in the area had probably already been notified of his appearance, that the pursuit would soon overtake him. To capture him, the Germans sent a platoon of soldiers and announced through an interpreter that the pilot’s life would be spared if he surrendered.

Enemy soldiers surrounded the coastal reeds in a tight ring, in which Degtyarev had taken refuge. They waited for an answer for some time, and when they realized that there would be no answer, they moved towards the wounded commander with machine guns at the ready.

The answer was pistol shots. With four bullets, Vasily Degtyarev killed four enemy soldiers, leaving the fifth bullet for himself...

In total, the Soviet pilot destroyed 179 enemy officers and soldiers in this battle.

Impressed by the courage of the Soviet pilot, the occupiers buried Vasily Degtyarev with military honors. Then local residents reburied the lieutenant’s remains on the banks of the Desna River, next to the church.

Posthumously, Degtyarev was awarded on December 11, 1943, the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. The nomination for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union was rejected under the pretext that the Nazis had given military honors to the deceased...

Only on November 11, 1990, Lieutenant Vasily Degtyarev was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The hero was buried in a mass grave in the village of Golubeya. A street in Pyatigorsk is named in his honor.

Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev (01/14/1915 - 07/09/1942), lieutenant of the 566th assault aviation regiment, on July 9, 1942, the pilot accomplished an unprecedented feat. His plane was damaged and he landed in enemy territory. The Germans wanted to take him alive. Using the aircraft's weapons and a pistol, Vasily Degtyarev destroyed 179 fascists, keeping the last bullet for himself. For this feat, only in November 1990 he was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously.

Story by Moscow journalist Taras Stepanchuk

This story is transferred verbatim from an old newspaper that was once given to his fellow soldiers by V.L. Degtyarev. At the beginning of the story there is a dedicatory inscription on the newspaper:
"To the heirs of Vasily Degtyarev's Glory.
To friends - aviators from the author, 02.23.91.
Moscow – Seshcha"

If you stand at the memorial in Pyatigorsk facing the Eternal Flame, then the stones on the left will talk about the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. One of them is pilot Degtyarev. And opposite the memorial, near the weeping willow, is the black marble Bowl of Mother’s Tears. In Pyatigorsk today they are nearby - the Eternal Flame, Vasily Degtyarev Street and the Bowl of Mother's Tears...

Thirty-one years ago, in the summer of '59, an editorial assignment brought me to Pyatigorsk. There were no rooms in the hotel, and the administrator handed over a notepad with the address.
The apartment turned out to be a small, clean room in a communal building at the foot of Mashuk. The portrait of a handsome pilot with head-over-heels in his buttonholes immediately caught my eye. The owner Ekaterina Grigorievna Degtyareva, a tall, gray-haired woman, said quietly, as if talking about herself:
- In the thirties, my husband died, the only joy left was Vasenka, my son. When he grew up, he worked as a mechanic at a motor depot, voluntarily went to school, and became a pilot. He had a bride - now she has a husband and children...
In the first year of the war, my son taught cadets, he was upset that he was not at the front: that’s why we were retreating, they say, because I wasn’t there. Then he flew off to fight. After the liberation of Pyatigorsk, they sent the Order of the Patriotic War and a letter that my Vasily died heroically, but I still can’t believe it. If he died, then how? Where is the grave?..

The hopelessness of maternal loneliness shocked me. Leaving Pyatigorsk, I promised Ekaterina Grigorievna to find out what I could about the fate of her son.
The search began in the Central Archive of the USSR Ministry of Defense. In the operational report of ShAD 224 there is an entry: “On July 9, 1942, Lieutenant Degtyarev did not return from the mission.” That morning, nine ILs flew out to bomb and attack an enemy airfield near the village of Seshcha...
It was not possible to find out anything else from the documents for the forty-second year. I continued my search further, in the forty-third, in the funds of the air division, the First Air Army and the Western Front. And one more thing was found: the handwriting shows that the person writing was worried.

...One day in April, a liaison officer of the Rognedinsky partisan brigade was delivered to the headquarters of the air army. Along with the combat report, he carried across the front line the collective petition of the partisans to award the pilot Vasily Degtyarev the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The details of the tragedy that happened in the summer of '42 on the banks of the Desna River were revealed unexpectedly and completely.

...A half-thousand-strong column of a German training battalion left the village of Golubeya into a forest clearing. At the officer’s command, the occupiers posted sentries, laid down their weapons, and stripped to the waist. Exercise has begun.
According to partisan intelligence information, the training battalion was preparing to be sent to the Caucasus. The people's avengers received orders to prevent the battalion from leaving the Bryansk region for the front. That morning, scout of the Dubrovsky partisan detachment of the Rognedinsky brigade, Evdokia Terekhova, disguised herself, watched the clearing with binoculars. Suddenly a shadow flashed over the forest: breaking the treetops, a red star plane with the number “8” on the fuselage landed on the far edge of the clearing, without releasing its landing gear.
The ranks of the battalion froze and, breaking at once, rushed towards the plane. Easy prey! But suddenly the plane shuddered and came to life. Trails of fire stretched straight into the crowd. The Nazi horde was melting before our eyes. Forgetting about everything, the partisan intelligence officer watched as the remnants of the battalion scattered from the wounded plane. Those who managed to turn away from the lead tracks were saved.
Through binoculars, Evdokia Terekhova saw the pilot emerge from the cockpit: from under his tousled forelock a trickle of blood flowed down his cheek. Having fallen overboard, the pilot fell to the ground, and black smoke from the plane, thickening, reached towards the sky.
And the incredible happened: the Russian pilot stood up and headed towards the Desna. Nobody bothered him. No one was following. Probably, the surviving Nazis had no time for him. If this miracle had saved Degtyarev’s life and left his mother with his only son...
An easy prey, which seemed like a fallen Soviet attack aircraft, turned into such damage that the fascist battalion lost its combat effectiveness. Stationed in the village of Golubeya that summer morning, he experienced the full extent of war while on the rear.
It took time to evacuate the wounded and cope with the removal of a considerable number of dead. A wet and joyfully excited policeman came to Hauptmann Müller, the battalion commander. Hauptmann learned that the commander of the local security police department, Fyodor Koloskov, was trying to serve the great Germany, and therefore he, Koloskov, searched the riverine reeds and looked out for the pilot who had disappeared on the island. The pilot must be captured immediately, and his uniform and watch must be handed over to him, Fyodor Koloskov.
To capture the pilot, Hauptmann sent a platoon of soldiers, and ordered the translator to announce that if the Russian soldier surrendered voluntarily, his life would be spared.
What did Vasily Degtyarev experience in the last minutes of his life?
Grenades exploded across the river and in the reeds. Encouraging themselves with machine gun fire, the platoon rushed towards the wounded pilot. A pistol shot rang out and the leading soldier fell. Through the crackle of machine guns, single shots were heard again, and three more fell dead. And finally, a shot, after which none of the attackers fell.

...Returning to the partisan base at night, intelligence officer Evdokia Terekhova reported the death of an unknown pilot. Commander of the Rognedinsky brigade Ivan Ivanovich Mural , who later became the Bryansk regional military commissar, decided to deliver the hero’s body to the base.
In the evening, two young partisans approached a forest clearing near the village of Golubeya. Looking at the clearing, the partisans froze...
Near the burnt plane, thinned ranks of occupiers lined up around a freshly dug grave. Here, in a coffin, lay our pilot. Wehrmacht soldiers were burying the Soviet lieutenant with military honors.
We don’t know what Hauptmann Müller said, but in order for a Wehrmacht officer to decide on such a funeral, the human personality was required to be capable of an independent, extraordinary act. The battalion commander knew that he would have to answer for the funeral ceremony of the Russian pilot. But he went for it...

After the liberation of the partisan Dubrovsky region, local residents reburied the deceased pilot. On the steep bank of the Desna, near the ancient Orthodox church, Vasily Degtyarev rested.

...Having finished the search, I sent a letter to Pyatigorsk. Since then, correspondence has been established between us. The pilots of the joint air squad from Mineralnye Vody delivered the hero’s mother to Moscow, and we went together to the Bryansk region. The entire population of the village of Seshcha, the villages of Olsufevo and Golubeya came out to meet Ekaterina Grigorievna.
Ekaterina Grigorievna stroked the cold marble of the monument and, falling to her knees, hugged her son’s grave. A military band was playing and women were crying. The pioneers of the Degtyarev detachment, soldiers and officers of the aviation regiment in which Lieutenant Degtyarev served, carried the garland of Glory.

On the initiative of the Stavropol Regional Komsomol Committee, Vasily Degtyarev’s feat was immortalized in the names of streets and schools, pioneer squads and detachments, and Komsomol youth brigades. And letters to the house at the foot of Mashuk came in an increasing stream. Of the many responses, there were only two unkind ones, but they shocked the destitute mother and hastened her death.

...And yet the world is small, sometimes to the point of unreality. In the early sixties, a handsome man found me and introduced himself:
- Victim of repression - Fyodor Nikolaevich Koloskov. Amnestied according to the “Voroshilov” decree, as a result of which I petition for the authority of the newspaper to contribute to my rehabilitation and monetary compensation, so that the time spent in prison is included in my work experience, according to the decree of Comrade Voroshilov...
I was struck by the impudence and cynicism of this policeman, who sought not even forgiveness, but benefits. And no fear of repentance before the black enormity of one’s guilt. After which he committed another crime, which is not provided for by any articles of the law, and therefore has no jurisdiction and is not subject to criminal punishment.
Having written a letter to Ekaterina Grigorievna, Koloskov lied that he was trying to save her son, extorted a signature on a petition for his, Koloskov’s, rehabilitation and promised to “help with money” for this.
Having received a refusal, Koloskov wrote a second letter. Cruelty towards the murdered pilot found its continuation in him - in revenge on the hero’s old sick mother. Interspersed with swearing, Koloskov compared his considerable income with Ekaterina Grigorievna’s very modest pension and mocked, describing how her son decayed in the cold and damp earth, and on this earth he, Koloskov, walks and tramples the fallen...

From human grief and blood, a Cup of maternal tears appeared in Pyatigorsk, and they, tears, roll down onto marble, and that marble is black, like the fate of Ekaterina Grigorievna, the fate of other destitute mothers.
They say that winners' wounds heal faster. But our memory of the war bleeds even today in almost every family.

In the repository of the Pyatigorsk Museum of Local Lore, I had the opportunity to get acquainted with the materials of the Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev Foundation. There is also a copy of the award sheet - the original is stored in the Central Archives of the USSR Ministry of Defense.
The award sheet was signed by the commander of the attack air division and it ends like this: “... worthy of the highest government award of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.”
Letters from schools, squads and pioneer detachments named after Degtyarev are lovingly collected and carefully stored in the museum fund; from villages and cities, the addresses of which together make up that great and immense thing that the word “Russia” reflects in our minds. They contain the shared pain of the mother’s loneliness and the belief that her son’s feat will be crowned with a golden heroic Star. But this did not happen.

That was the time when, during the Khrushchev thaw, the frost of future frosts began to be visible, and I had government troubles due to the fact that in my essay at that time I “propagated the false humanism of my enemies on the pages of the party press.” The published truth did not fit into established stereotypes and postulates about unconditional, obligatory hatred of any representative of the opposing side. And on top of everything else, I began to actively strive for the posthumous awarding of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev and, in the words of a poem from my childhood, “I wrote a letter to Klim Voroshilov...”
The failed commander of the Great Patriotic War, twice Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor K. Voroshilov was at that time Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. I don’t know whether he remembered the commanders killed in the thirties or the traitors amnestied in the fifty-fifth, but at my request he decisively concluded: “Refuse.” After which I was honored with a conversation by the responsible employee of the Presidium’s apparatus, K. Chernenko. Concentrated and gloomy, he demanded an explanation, and I explained to him in documents: having accomplished a feat, pilot Degtyarev died on July 9, 1942. His division learned about this from the Bryansk partisans in the spring of '43: the date of signing the award sheet was April 24. The proposal of the commander of the assault air division was successively approved by the commander of the First Air Army, Lieutenant General Khudyakov, and the commander of the Western Front, Colonel General Sokolovsky, later Marshal of the Soviet Union, Chief of the General Staff. The People's Commissar of Defense rejected the proposal due to the fact that the pilot was buried with honors by the Germans. By Army Order No. 077/N of December 11, 1943, Lieutenant Degtyarev was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War, first degree."
That’s all,” said Comrade Chernenko. “The Germans didn’t have to bury him with all sorts of tricks.”
I showed tactlessness by objecting:
- We criticize Stalin and still act like Stalin. What if Degtyarev had remained on earth, and not in the earth, like thousands of other heroes?
- We have no unburied heroes! – a threat sounded in the voice of the future three-time Hero of Socialist Labor. “How much more can you inspire?” If you don't calm down...
Then I met with Marshal Sokolovsky at his dacha near the Ikshinsky reservoir. Seriously ill, Vasily Danilovich signed my petition, bitterly noting:
- I wish you success, but now I’m out of work, the weight of my signature is no longer the same...
Again there was a refusal, the suggestion of the next mayor, but the heroic feat was in sight, and I continued to fight for justice. In the order of their assumption of high positions, he turned to twice Hero of Socialist Labor N. Podgorny, four times Hero of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labor Marshal L. Brezhnev.
It is hardly worth clarifying what feelings were caused by the refusals by word or silence of these and other titled self-awardees who appropriated undeserved distinctions with a kiss. Which of them received the “Golden Star” of Vasily Degtyarev?
How fair it would be if another tragedy of the war ended with dignity, and the feat of Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev was immortalized with the well-deserved “Gold Star” of the Hero.
His Star...
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Mural Ilya Ivanovich (1908-?), military intelligence officer, lieutenant colonel (1943).
Born in 1908, Belarusian. Member of the CPSU(b). In the Red Army since 1930, he was drafted by the Bobruisk RVK of the BSSR (according to other sources, by the Paris RVK of the Polesie region). Participant of the Red Army's Liberation Campaign in Western Belarus in 1939, participant of the Finnish company in 1939-1940. Participant of the Patriotic War since June 22, 1941.
Captain Mural I.I. He was among the first to take the blow of the German robber troops, as he was in the 229th Infantry Regiment of the 1st Infantry Corps of the 10th Army of the Western Special Military District on the border with Germany. The headquarters of the 8th Infantry Division was stationed in Lomza. In accordance with the ZOVO cover plan, the division was supposed to occupy the Osovetsky fortified area and positions along the state border on the front of Shchuchin, Brzozovo, Ptaki, Servatki. On the very first day of the war, the division headquarters came under aerial bombardment. On June 23, 1941, the division held the front in the Shchuchin area. From June 25, 1941, the division retreated towards Bialystok, surrounded by German troops. Since June 27, 1941, the front headquarters had no information not only about the division, but even about the 10th Army, which included the 8th Infantry Division. At the beginning of July it was destroyed in the Bialystok cauldron; individual groups continued unorganized resistance until the end of July.
In August 1941, Captain Mural I.I. organized a sabotage group of up to 40 people, which then grew into a partisan detachment of up to 160 people. Before uniting with the Zhukovsky partisan detachment, Comrade. Vorobyov in March 1942 - detachment of captain Mural I.I. conducted over 50 combat operations during which 630 German soldiers and officers were killed, 8 trains with troops and cargo, one armored train, 4 tanks were derailed on the Bryansk-Roslavl railway section (three of which were personally destroyed by Comrade I.I. Mural .), 32 vehicles with manpower and military cargo, 300 km of enemy communication lines were damaged, etc. All combat operations were personally led by Comrade. Mural I.I.
By order of the Military Council of the 10th Army in August 1942, Captain Mural I.I. appointed head of the 3rd Infantry Partisan Division. In this position he did a lot of organizational work. In October 1942, the division destroyed 2,229 German soldiers and officers, 274 police officers, derailed 8 military echelons, destroyed 9 tanks, one aircraft, 36 vehicles with manpower and ammunition, 15 guns, etc. The command of the 3rd Infantry Partisan Division in the person of the commander, Major I.V. Korbut. and Military Commissar Maltsev was nominated for the Order of Lenin. The proposal was supported by the head of the Operational Group of the Western Headquarters of the Partisan Movement at the 10th Army, senior battalion commissar Chazov, Representative of the Central Shpd on the Western Front, Member of the Military Council of the front, Secretary of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks D. Popov proposed to award the Order of the Patriotic War, 1st degree. By order to the Troops of the Western Front in May 1943, Major Mural I.I. the chief of staff of the Rognedinsky partisan division (brigade) was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
Since May 1944, Lieutenant Colonel Mural I.I. appointed to the post of head of the intelligence department of the Polish Partisan Headquarters. In July 1944, he was thrown behind enemy lines in the Lublin Voivodeship with a special command assignment. The courageous officer completed an important task, and also derailed two military trains on the section of the railway between Klimentovichi and Pulavani, thereby stopping traffic on this section of the road until the arrival of the Red Army units. Under the leadership of comrade. Mural I.I. The underground communication line of the Germans was undermined in three places in the area between Warsaw and Lublin. The Chief of Staff of the Polish Partisans, Colonel Sergei Osipovich Pritytsky, was nominated for the Order of the Red Banner. The award ceremony took place. Further fate is unknown.
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The feat of Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev became known from the story of intelligence officer Evdokia Terekhova, who was discussed in the article "THE BOWL OF A MOTHER'S TEARS."
Indeed, there was such a scout in the Dubrovsky partisan detachment. Here's a story about her:
The intelligence officer of the Dubrovsky partisan detachment was Evdokia Stefanovna Terekhova . On instructions from the command, she got a job as a cleaner in the barracks, which housed the guards of the bridge across the Desna in the Olsufiev area. The documents that Terekhova delivered to the detachment were of particular value. The intelligence officer did a lot of explanatory work among the Azerbaijani legion stationed by the fascists in these parts. A significant part of the legionnaires went to the partisan detachment. Later, Evdokia Terekhova, who came under the suspicion of the police, was forced to go into the forest, where she became a fighter in the Dubrovsky partisan detachment.
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Probably she:
Terekhova Evdokia Stepanovna
Year of birth: __.__.1924
Place of birth: Voronezh region, Bobrovsky district, village. Sukhaya Berezovka
Award document number: 74
date of award document: 04/06/1985
Entry no.: 1520749905
Order of the Patriotic War, II degree
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Of course, I would like to dot all the points AND in the case of the feat of the pilot Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev and find the above-mentioned information documented, namely:
1 Find the relatives of Terekhova Evdokia Stefanovna (Stepanovna) and interview them about her participation in the Dubrovsky partisan detachment and directly about her report to the command of the detachment about the feat of V.L. Degtyarev.
2. Find that report from the commander of the partisan detachment Mural Ivan (Ilya) Ivanovich, on the basis of which the award sheet was subsequently written for V.L. Degtyarev.
3. Find information from the information center of the Russian Federation about criminal prosecution, materials of the criminal case, or at least the verdict against the policeman Fyodor Nikolaevich Koloskov.
4. Is there information about the burial of over 170 Wehrmacht soldiers in the area of ​​the village of Golubeya, Dubrovsky district, Bryansk region.
5. Find information about air gunner Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev or confirmation that at that time 571 ShAP 224 ShAD flew solo Il-2 aircraft.

This is not simple curiosity. I just had the opportunity to verify that the political departments of the Red Army were attributing information that did not actually exist.
Although in relation to the pilot V.L. Degtyarev. and many other pilots who fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, I have no doubt about their exploits, even if they made only one combat mission.

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Feat of Degtyarev V.L. reflected in the award sheet for political officer 571 cap captain N.I. Generalov.

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Vasily Leontyevich Degtyarev(-) - lieutenant of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Hero of the Soviet Union ().

Biography

During his participation in hostilities, Degtyarev made 9 combat missions, destroyed 2 aircraft, suppressed the fire of 8 firing points, and inflicted serious damage to enemy troops in military equipment and manpower. On July 9, 1942, during the next combat mission, the Il-2 aircraft piloted by Degtyarev was shot down near the village of Olsufyevo, Zhukovsky district, Bryansk region. Degtyarev made an emergency landing near the village of Golubeya. He fought off the enemy soldiers who surrounded him with fire from his pistol, and shot himself with the last cartridge. He was buried in the village of Golubeya.

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• Cavaliers of the Order of Glory of three degrees. Biographer. dictionary. M.: Voenizdat, 2000.

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M me Schoss, who went to see her daughter, further increased the countess’s fear with stories of what she saw on Myasnitskaya Street in the drinking establishment. Returning along the street, she could not get home from the drunken crowd of people raging near the office. She took a cab and drove around the lane home; and the driver told her that people were breaking barrels in the drinking establishment, which was so ordered.
After dinner, everyone in the Rostov family set about packing their things and preparing for departure with enthusiastic haste. The old count, suddenly getting down to business, continued to walk from the yard to the house and back after dinner, stupidly shouting at the hurrying people and hurrying them even more. Petya gave orders in the yard. Sonya did not know what to do under the influence of the count’s contradictory orders, and was completely at a loss. People ran around the rooms and courtyard, shouting, arguing and making noise. Natasha, with her characteristic passion in everything, suddenly also got down to business. At first, her intervention in the bedtime business was met with disbelief. Everyone expected a joke from her and did not want to listen to her; but she persistently and passionately demanded obedience, became angry, almost cried that they did not listen to her, and finally achieved that they believed in her. Her first feat, which cost her enormous effort and gave her power, was laying carpets. The count had expensive gobelins and Persian carpets in his house. When Natasha got down to business, there were two open drawers in the hall: one almost filled to the top with porcelain, the other with carpets. There was still a lot of porcelain laid out on the tables and everything was still being brought from the pantry. It was necessary to start a new, third box, and people followed it.
“Sonya, wait, we’ll arrange everything like this,” Natasha said.
“You can’t, young lady, we already tried,” said the barmaid.
- No, wait, please. – And Natasha began to take out dishes and plates wrapped in paper from the drawer.
“The dishes should be here, in the carpets,” she said.
“And God forbid that the carpets be spread out into three boxes,” said the barman.
- Yes, wait, please. – And Natasha quickly, deftly began to take it apart. “It’s not necessary,” she said about Kyiv plates, “yes, it’s for carpets,” she said about Saxon dishes.