Front photos of Soviet actors. Part 3. Gerdt, Boyarsky, Vinnik



I think no one will be surprised to hear that among the Soviet actors there were many veterans of the Great Patriotic War, soldiers who fought in the fields of this terrible war. In this collection front-line photo actors, united not only by war. All of them are united by one film - "The Golden Calf"


Zinoviy Gerdt



Zinovy ​​Gerdt volunteered to join the Red Army in July 1941. He was sent to study at the Moscow Military Engineering College from where, in December of the same year, he was sent to the front. In the rank of lieutenant, commander of a field company, Gerdt fought on the Don, near Voronezh, and at the end of the year, after the failure of the German offensive near Stalingrad, he was transported together with parts of the Voronezh Front to Belgorod. In February 1943, he was seriously wounded. Doctors at first wanted to amputate the leg, but after 11 operations the leg managed to save


Gerdt (top right) in the hospital after being wounded


Nikolai Boyarsky



Nikolai Boyarsky went to the front in June 1941. He did not like to talk about war, but his battle stories are best told by his award-winning sheets.

"... During the assault on the Turkish shaft on 3.11.43, I showed courage and bravery, destroying three Nazis."



"... on August 17, 1944, in the battles for the bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Veyta River near the village of Surmini from the submachine gun and grenades, 6 Nazis were killed."



"... October 10, 1944 in the battle for a place Mikhelsakuten, he, one of the first to break into the town, destroyed the driver of the enemy, who tried to get and steal one of the vehicles. On October 12, in the Klumben area, he, with the fire of his machine gun, destroying 11 enemy soldiers, did not give a large group of enemy submachine gunners to cross the river and hit the flank of our units. "



"... In battle on January 24, 1945 in the region of Khristoplaten, in repelling the counterattacks of the enemy, he personally fired a light machine gun and destroyed 12 enemy soldiers ... On January 25, 1945, in the area of ​​Tait, he, pursuing the retreating enemy, went to his rear and, cutting his way, scattered and partly destroyed to the platoon of enemy infantry. Sergeant Boyarsky himself in this battle destroyed 6 of the Hitler's personal weapons. "



"... on April 8, 1945, in the area of ​​Klein Amalienau, he, having found an enemy sniper in one of the houses, crept up to him and destroyed him from the machine gun. In the same house he took two prisoners. On the same day, in the area of ​​the Zoological Garden in one of the buildings, Sergeant Boyarsky destroyed 6 Hitlerites from the machine gun and 14 took him prisoner to the headquarters "



Awarded: Order of the Red Star, Order of Glory II degree, Order of Glory III degree, medal For courage, medal For military merit, medal For the capture of Koenigsberg, medal For victory over Germany




Pavel Vinnik



Pavel Vinnik lived in Odessa at the beginning of the war. As a 16-year-old boy, he was eager to go to the front: "I really wanted to go there!" Then everyone was eager for the front, everyone was dying at home, when they saw death, involuntarily protested and willing to sacrifice themselves to stop this carnage. fighter battalions. "They consisted of workers, civilians - in general, not military.When the offensive began on Odessa, we began to retreat - first along the coast, then we were transported by sea to Nikolaev, and then again overland to the North Caucasus. managed to leave for Vinnitsa to her aunt and uncle. It was interesting that although we had rifles, it was believed that we were still not in the army in force, but only after Mozdok the command was given to transfer them to the army, I did not have enough age, but the guys assigned me a couple of years. I got into the 5th Shock Army, the 416th Shooting Azerbaijan Division, to the 1374th Infantry Regiment, to the Mother-infantry, and I went to Berlin with it, "Vinnik



He was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War II degree, the Order of the Red Star, medals For the capture of Berlin, For the liberation of Warsaw, For the victory over Germany


In addition, the film featured participants in the Great Patriotic War Vladimir Pitsek, Vladimir Vanyshev, Yevgeny Perov. But their front-line photos I could not find


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Award sheets are taken from the site www.podvignaroda.ru










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