In Volzhsk, from the second half of December 1941 to April 1942, the formation of the 107th separate rifle brigade took place.
It included: four separate rifle battalions, two artillery divisions, a military division, a mortar battalion and separate units of reconnaissance, machine gunners, communications, engineering, medical and automotive services.
The units were staffed with regular privates and sergeants who arrived from Western and Eastern Siberia, as well as military personnel called up from the reserves from the Gorky and Sverdlovsk regions, the Mari and Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republics. The command and political staff were represented by officers who arrived from the active army and called up from the reserves, and graduates of military schools.
Colonel was appointed commander Peter Efimovich Kuzmin. At that time he had good military training and extensive experience. Born on June 15, 1900 in the Tambov region. In 1912 he graduated from 5 classes of the parochial school. And in 1918 he voluntarily joined the Red Army, where he actively fought on the fronts of the civil war against Denikin, the White Poles and gangs in the Gomel region. Later he completed courses - machine gun, command staff and higher school. And after civilian service he served in various command and staff positions. As a commander of a rifle regiment, he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940. The regiment repeatedly distinguished itself in battle, especially when breaking through the heavily fortified Mannerheim line.
At the beginning of February 1942, when the 107th separate rifle brigade was fully staffed, intense days of combat and political preparation began. Marshal of the Soviet Union K.E. Voroshilov personally checked the readiness of the brigade and concluded that it was ready to carry out combat missions.
On May 1st at 9 o'clock the units lined up in the city square, near the Marbumkombinat House of Culture. The entire population of the city took to the streets to accompany the soldiers to the front. After a solemn march, to the music of a brass band, they went to the station and boarded the railway trains. On May 5, the brigade arrived at the Bryansk Front, where it received a baptism of fire.
Feats of volunteers
So, at the urgent request, Komsomol member Kolya Romashenkov, a 9th grade student at school No. 6 in our city, was enrolled in the scout company. At the front, he took part in many reconnaissance operations, went behind the front line to take “tongues”.
Nikolai repeatedly showed courage and courage, and was repeatedly awarded with government awards.
And on May 2, 1943, in a battle on Malaya Zemlya, he died from a mortal wound. For his exploits, the Military Council of the 18th Army awarded N. Romashenkov the Order of the Patriotic War.
Among the volunteers in Volzhsk there were many girls who had a medical education. One day a girl came to the political department and addressed the commissar:
- Comrade Commissar, take me to the brigade, I want to go to the front!
Kabanov looked at her and asked:
- What will you do at the front?
At the end of 1943, during heavy shelling on Malaya Zemlya, an enemy mine ended the life of a brave Volga girl, who never lived to reach adulthood. For her courage and bravery, for carrying the wounded from the battlefield, Zhenya was awarded two of the most respected soldier medals “For Courage”.
Defense of Tuapse
This historic building no longer exists
On the morning of January 16, 1943, Colonel Pyotr Efimovich Kuzmin, while moving to a new observation post, was struck by a fragment of an enemy mine. His military achievements were highly appreciated by his homeland; he was repeatedly awarded with government awards. Thus, by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated April 11, 1940, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command in the fight against the Finnish White Guards and the valor and courage shown. In 1941 - the Order of the Red Star. June 6, 1943 - posthumously awarded the Order of Suvorov, II degree. His name is immortalized in the name of Volzhsk street.
On Malaya Zemlya
By the beginning of 1943, the entire left bank was under the control of the enemy, who controlled the movement of our fleet from above. It was urgent to deprive him of this advantage. A decision was made to land paratroopers and capture the outskirts of Novorossiysk. And when the Soviet soldiers occupied the bridgehead, the Nazis struck continuously, raining down a huge number of shells and bombs. It is estimated that there were 1,250 kg of this deadly metal for each defender of Malaya Zemlya.
The April battles of 1943 became the most difficult and brutal. From early morning, heavy artillery began to fire, and at the same time planes appeared in the sky. They came in waves of 40-60 cars. Following the high-speed bombers were dive bombers, then attack aircraft. This went on for hours. Then attacks by tanks and infantry began. This was repeated several times a day. The German command sent more and more forces to the front line.
The earth was burning, stones were smoking, metal was melting, concrete was collapsing, but our defenders did not retreat. And on the night of September 9-10, reinforcements arrived from the mainland. A decisive battle took place, which lasted six days and nights...
The great confrontation ended with the victory of the Red Army. On September 16, Moscow saluted the valiant warriors of the North Caucasus Front and the Black Sea Fleet, which included soldiers of the 107th Rifle Brigade.
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The war continued. The brigade personnel fought near Anapa.
Its soldiers fought victoriously to carry the Guards banner to Berlin and Prague. For the successful completion of combat missions of the command in battles with the Nazi invaders, the division was given the honorary name Berdichevskaya, it was awarded the Order of B. Khmelnitsky, II degree. And the Supreme Commander-in-Chief announced 14 thanks to the personnel. Over 10 thousand soldiers received government awards, 8 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Commissioner of the 107th Infantry Brigade V.V. Kabanov lived to see Victory Day. He ended the war as head of the political department of the 117th division. Vasily Vladimirovich was awarded two Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, three Orders of the Patriotic War, 1st degree, the Order of the Red Star, and medals.
In honor of the 30th anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany, a square was laid out, in the center of which a stele was erected depicting the brigade’s battle path. By the decision of the executive committee of the Volga City Council dated April 15, 1980, Severnaya Street was renamed into the street of the 107th Rifle Brigade.
This is its brief history, the heroic path and the military glory of the warriors.
R.P.68MB- In memory of the soldiers of the 107th separate rifle brigade
The 107th separate rifle brigade was formed in the city of Volzhsk, Republic of Mari El, by order of the State Defense Committee in December 1941.
The brigade included: four separate rifle battalions, two separate artillery divisions, a separate mortar division, a separate mortar battalion and separate units: reconnaissance, machine gunners, communications, medical, engineering and automotive services. The separate 4th battalion of the 107th brigade included three rifles, a machine-gun company, a reconnaissance platoon, a medical unit and was staffed by volunteers and conscripts from the Volzhsky, Mari-Tureksky, Zvenigovsky, Morkinsky and other regions of the republic.
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For their heroism and courage, many soldiers were awarded orders and medals of the Soviet Union. Later she was transferred to the Caucasus, and by order of the command she was redeployed to the Tuapse region. The brigade was given the task: to stop the enemy’s advance on Tuapse and to carry out its task at the Marukh Pass.
By the beginning of 1943 - Malaya Zemlya, September 16 - Moscow saluted the valiant soldiers of the North Caucasus Front and the Black Sea Fleet, which included soldiers of the 107th Infantry Brigade. The brigade personnel fought near Anapa.
After the Taman Peninsula was liberated by order of the Headquarters of the Main Command of the USSR Armed Forces, the 117th Guards Rifle Division was formed on the basis of three separate brigades - the 107th, 81st and 8th. Its soldiers fought victoriously to carry the Guards banner to Berlin and Prague.
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RAMENTSY 107 RIFLE BRIGADE
Bychkov Ivan Grigorievich, born in 1917 from Boyarkino.
Gubanov Sergey Egorovich, born in 1904 from Ramenskoye.
Denisov Ivan Yakovlevich, born in 1908 from Kuznetsovo.
Zubkov Ivan Mikhailovich, born in 1906 from Biserovo.
Kuznetsov Vasily Ivanovich, born in 1908 from Ramenskoye.
From the Book of Memory of the Moscow Region, vol. 22- I:
There is no information about Bychkov and Gubanov.
All of them served in the 107th separate rifle brigade, and their military fate ended in October 1942.
The brigade was formed in Volzhsk in December 1941. It includedfour separate rifle battalions, two artillery divisions, a mortar division, a mortar battalion and separate units of reconnaissance, machine gunners, communications, engineering, medical and automotive services.
Colonel Pyotr Efimovich Kuzmin was appointed commander. At that time he had good military training and extensive experience. Vasily Vladimirovich Kabanov became Commissioner.
I don’t think that our fellow countrymen have served in the brigade since its formation, because... it was staffed mainly by parts of the Far East and Siberia, with conscripts from some rear areas. Perhaps they arrived there in September 1942, if they served in the Moscow police, when there were 1,700 people. from its composition the brigade was replenished.
But, nevertheless, their arrival with reinforcements is most likely when the brigade fought on the Bryansk Front from May 8, especially since in the summer it lost an entire battalion - the fourth. It was formed and trained separately from the main forces of the brigade and went to the front on June 24. On July 1, at one of the stations near Voronezh, a train containing about 500 battalion soldiers came under brutal bombing. Everything was burning, and wagons with ammunition exploded on neighboring tracks. All that remained of the train were the mangled carcasses of the carriages and 35-40 miraculously surviving battalion soldiers. Out of 500! All of them were sent to other units, and in the brigade the 4th battalion had to be re-formed.
Three of the Ramens later fought in this battalion - the squad leader, Sergeant Denisov, and the Red Army machine gunners Gubanov and Zubkov. Red Army soldier, rifleman Bychkov fought in the 2nd battalion, and Red Army soldier, machine gunner Kuznetsov - in a separate battalion of machine gunners.
In the fall of 1942, the 107th Brigade (except for the 1st Battalion) was transferred to the 18th Army of the Black Sea Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front and took part in the Tuapse defensive operation.
The further path of the brigade was described in his memoirs by its former commissar V.V. Kabanov.
The 107th separate rifle brigade received an order: by the morning of October 11, take up defense in the area of height 388.3, Goytkhsky pass, height 396.8, in order to prevent the enemy from entering the valley of the Pshish River, to the railway and highway. It is only 30 km northeast of Tuapse.
The 4th battalion had to defend the area of height 396.8.
The 3rd battalion with a mortar battalion and two artillery battalion batteries - the Ostrovskaya gap area, heights 388.3, 352 and firmly hold the road junction three kilometers south of Shaumyan.
The 2nd battalion will defend the Goytkh pass at the line of heights 363.7, 384, and the battalion of machine gunners will defend Mount Turkey.
There was little time to prepare a defensive line. The enemy continued the offensive, pushing back the units of the advanced units, which were retreating in small groups through the brigade's battle formations. On the same day, October 11, the 3rd and 4th battalions, which took up defensive positions in the first echelon of the brigade, took on the advancing Nazi units. The enemy subjected our defense to furious attacks (in some areas he attacked up to eight to nine times), but achieved no success.
The Germans were rushing to Tuapse, to the Black Sea. They brought up fresh units and artillery, continuously attacked, bombed both the brigade's combat formations and its rear. All defense areas were riddled with craters, but the brigade stood. Fierce fighting took place on both banks of the Pshish River.
The 4th Battalion not only defended itself, but also successfully attacked. With two companies he crossed Pshish to height 618.7, which had steep wooded slopes. The Germans immediately tried to throw our fighters over the river, but all their attempts were unsuccessful. It came down to hand-to-hand combat, but in them, traditionally, ours were stronger.
To improve the position, the brigade commander ordered the 4th battalion to capture the dominant height of 618.7. On October 16, a reinforced company of machine gunners, supported by artillery and mortars, attacked the heights three times, but to no avail. Only towards the end of the day the assault group broke into the German trenches, where they held out until dawn the next day. Having suffered significant losses from enemy mortars and artillery, on October 17 the assault group received an order to leave the heights.
Sergeant Denisov was also in this assault group. He died on October 17 at that altitude - 618.7, as recorded in the report about the irretrievable losses of the brigade.
According to the report, on October 19, machine gunner Kuznetsov went missing. Perhaps this happened in the area of Mount Turkey, which was defended by a separate battalion of machine gunners, or maybe in another place, because. his companies were used to reinforce other battalions in the most important areas. This location is not indicated in the brigade's report. Kuznetsov could have died, he could have been captured, but no documents about his fate were found.
On October 21, the enemy struck a strong blow in the area of the brigade’s right neighbor and, having pushed him back, began to bypass the defense area of the 4th battalion. The next day the situation worsened even more. The enemy reached the rear of the brigade, creating a threat of encirclement. The telephone connection between headquarters and the 4th Infantry Battalion was interrupted. Battalion commander Captain A.V. Kaminsky and his deputy for political affairs, Captain A.D. Kabanov, gathered everyone who was nearby: messengers, signalmen, cooks, sleds, lightly wounded soldiers, and created a group of them to cover the flank. Led by paramedic Golovko, armed with machine guns, they entered the battle. From morning until four o'clock in the afternoon, a small group held back the enemy. Neither fighter flinched.
The units covering the right flank of the brigade delayed the enemy’s advance in the direction of the Goytkh Pass, but the danger of his reaching Mount Turkey did not pass, because The Germans continued to spread towards the Semashkho Pass. The 107th Brigade was reinforced by one battalion of the 8th Guards Rifle Brigade, and by October 29, the enemy advancing on the pass was defeated. In these battles in the area of height 396.8, two more of our fellow countrymen were killed: on October 27 - Ivan Zubkov, and on October 28 - Sergei Gubanov.
On October 29, the 107th Brigade received an order to cease active operations in the direction of Goytkh, firmly hold the occupied lines, and, together with the 119th Rifle Brigade and the 8th Guards Brigade, eliminate the enemy in the Procheva gully.
The task was entrusted to the 2nd battalion of the brigade. Previously, the brigade commander sent a reconnaissance group consisting of a reconnaissance platoon of three sappers, two crews of light machine guns and a group of signalmen.
Under the cover of darkness, the scouts went to the southern outskirts of the village of Shaumyan, where they discovered a concentration of Nazis. The scouts dispersed, creating the appearance of large forces, and opened fire from three directions. In confusion and suffering losses, the Germans fled. Having received a message about the successes of the reconnaissance group, the battalion commander, Major F.V. Burenko, sent rifle companies around Height 388 with access to the Procheva gully. Despite the darkness, the personnel acted decisively. Procheva Beam was cleared of the enemy.
In this battle, on October 29, Ivan Bychkov died. According to the report of irretrievable losses, like Zubkov and Gubanov, they were in the area of height 396.8.
During the fighting near Tuapse - from October 10, 1942 to January 15, 1943 - the 107th Brigade carried out the order of the commander of the Black Sea Group of Forces, its battalions did not retreat a single step and stopped the advance of the Germans along the highway to Tuapse. With access to the sea, the Germans planned to cut off our Novorossiysk group. Did not work out.
So where are the remains of our fallen? There is no information about this in the Book of Memory.
During such intense battles over a fairly long period of time, characterized by attacks and counterattacks on both sides, it is not possible to talk about the exact burial place of the fallen, unless the grave was named. Most likely, after the war, the names of the burials were put on the lists of irretrievable losses, which is why they are listed in two graves at the same time, and search engines raise the remains of those who fell in different places every year.
The names of the burials are marked on the gravestones:Bychkov Ivan Grigorievich - st. Goytkh, Gubanov Sergey Egorovich - h. Ostrovskaya Shchel and st. Goytkh, Zubkov Ivan Mikhailovich - village Goytkh and village Ostrovskaya Shchel (recorded as Zubov, IO, year of birth and date of death coincide), Denisov Ivan Yakovlevich - village Fanagoriyskoye.
If both the places of death (heights 396.8 and 618.7), and the Ostrovskaya Shchel village, and Art. Goytkh are located in close proximity, then the village of Fanagoriyskoye is more than 30 km from these places in a straight line, excluding mountainous terrain. How could Denisov end up there? South of Phanagoriysky in the Ponadwisla district there is a large burial place of those who died from wounds, and one could assume that Denisov was wounded and sent there to the hospital, but this is impossible and inexplicable. Send a seriously wounded person through the mountains, off-road, along the front line? Despite the fact that in the area of operations of the 107th brigade, there were field hospitals in the village of Ostrovskaya Shchel, the villages of Shaumyan and Indyuk. On the gravestone in Fanagoriysky there is neither the year of birth, Denisov, nor the place of death, only the rank - sergeant, and the date of death - 10/17/42. Perhaps this is another Denisov, but nowhere have I found such another sergeant. Apparently, this is another post-war mistake, and the remains of our fellow countryman rest on height 618.7.
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