Great feat Nicholas Sirotina

In the summer of 41-th we are not only retreating. 19-year-old boy from the Eagle single-handedly fought with a column of German tanks.
"The Germans came up against him, as in the Brest Fortress»
Cole Sirotinin fell in 19 years to challenge the saying "One man is no man." But he did not become a legend of the Great Patriotic War, Alexander Matrosov and Nikolai Gastello.
In the summer of 1941 in the Belarusian town of Krichev broke 4th Panzer Division Heinz Guderian, one of the most talented German generals-tank. Part of the 13th Soviet army retreated. Not only retreated gunner Kohl Sirotinin - a boy, a small, quiet, puny.
If you believe in the Orel essay collection "A good name," it was necessary to cover the withdrawal of troops. "There remain two people with a gun" - said the commander of the battery. Nikolai volunteered. The second was the commander.
On the morning of July 17 on the highway seemed a column of German tanks.
- Kohl took up a position on a hill right on the collective farm field. The gun was drowning in high rye, but it was clearly visible and the highway bridge over the creek Dobrost - says Natalia Morozova, director of the museum of local lore Krichevsky.
When the head tank left on the bridge, Kohl's first shot knocked him. A second shell set fire to an armored personnel carrier, bringing up the rear.
Here we have to stop. Because it is not clear so far, why Kohl stayed in one field. But the version is. He probably just had a task - to create a bridge to the "stopper" knocked out the lead car of the Nazis. The lieutenant at the bridge and adjust the fire, and then, apparently, called on the congestion of other German tanks fire of our artillery. Because of the river. It is known that the lieutenant was wounded and then he went in the direction of our positions. There is speculation that Kohl had to move to his own, completing the task. But ... he had 60 rounds. And he was!
Two tanks tried to sneak the head tank from the bridge, but also were hit. Armored vehicle tried to overcome the river Dobrost not on the bridge. But stuck in the marshy shore, where he found her the next round. Kolya shot and shot, knocking the tank for the tank ...
Guderian's tanks ran into a Kohl Sirotinina as in the Brest Fortress. Already burned 11 tanks and armored personnel carriers 6! The fact that more than half of them burned one Sirotinin - precisely (some got and artillery from across the river). Nearly two hours of this strange fight the Germans could not understand where the entrenched Russian battery. And when Colin came to the position that had only three shells. They offered to surrender. Kohl said firing on them from a carbine.
This, the last battle was short-lived ...
"Still, he was Russian, whether such reverence?»
These words of Lieutenant of the 4th Armored Division Henfeld wrote in his diary: "July 17th, 1941. Falconer, near Krichev. In the evening, an unknown Russian soldier buried. He alone stood by the gun, he shot a long column of tanks and infantry, and was killed. All were amazed at his courage ... Oberst (Colonel) in front of the tomb said that if all the soldiers fighting the Führer as the Russian, then conquered the whole world. Three times fired a volley of rifles. Still, he was Russian, whether such reverence? »
- In the afternoon, the Germans gathered at the place where there was a gun. There also was forced to come to us, the locals, - says Verzhbitskaya. - I like knowing the German language, the main German with orders ordered to translate. He said that since the soldiers must defend their homeland - fatherland. Then from the pocket of his tunic of our soldiers got killed by a medallion with a note from someone yes. German chief told me: "Take and write their mother tongue. Let the mother know what a hero was her son and how he died. " I was afraid to do it ... Then standing in the grave and covered with Soviet cape body Sirotinina German young officer pulled out a piece of paper at me and medallion, and something said roughly.
The Nazis long after the guns were at the funeral, and the graves of the collective farm in the middle of the field, not without admiration for counting shots and hits.
As Sirotinin Kohl found himself in a mass grave.
Today, in the village of Falconer grave, in which the Germans buried Kohl, no. Three years after the war, the remains Coley moved into a mass grave, the field plowed and planted, a gun put into scrap. Yes, and it was called a hero just 19 years after the deed. And not even a Hero of the Soviet Union - he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Patriotic War I level.
Only in 1960 the staff of the Central Archive of the Soviet Army explored all the details feat. The monument to the hero also set, but clumsy, with a fake gun and just somewhere to the side.

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