Fight at the station

According to the German war plan, known as Plan Barbarossa, Rostov-on-Don was one of the key cities, the capture of which was to provide a lightning war against the Soviet Union. Since the beginning of the war the Germans quickly moved to the east and has the 20th November 1941 stormed the outer defensive belt Rostov.

Occupants are getting closer to the city center, the railway station, wanting to capture the bridge over the Don. However, they did not disdain the use of the dirtiest and most insidious methods. German military intelligence spies were sent into the city and groups of saboteurs, disguised as soldiers of the Red Army. For this elite fighters were involved in the 800-th regiment of special designation "Brandenburg", reinforced Recon 1st mechanized infantry regiment of the division "Life standard of Adolf Hitler."

Saboteurs managed to set fire RIIZHT, fish store, factory of sparkling wines, and with killings of Soviet citizens and the spread of panic rumors, they hoped to disorganize our defenses.

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For all employees of the railway station, passengers waited for the departure of trains, the emergence of the Germans was a complete surprise. The shooting started, people began to flee, caught many stray bullets.

The events at the station was immediately reported to the head of Alex Road Ignatyevich Netsvetaev. That's what leadership informed by telephone the stationmaster Demin, "Now stand in the space between the windows and around the bullets fly. Shoot us men dressed in uniforms of the Red Army. They poured kerosene and set fire to their cars ».
To understand the situation, the head line personally went to the station.

That happened on the way, Aram testified Babloyan - zhelpischetorga director, who was in the car Alexei Ignatievich "Netsvetaev called the defense headquarters and reported about the shooting at the station. We got into his car ZIS-101.

It was about two in the afternoon. At the corner of Engels (Bolshaya Sadovaya) and Dolomanovsky we were stopped by armed men in the Red Army coats. We began to pull out of the car. Only then we realized that it was the Germans. We put the house on the corner Dolomanovsky. On the bad Russian demanded documents. Alex Ignatievich unbuttoned coat and fascists saw the award on his tunic. They immediately pushed him to the wall of the house and shot with machine guns. "



The head of the Rostov NKVD Pokotilo Sergey Viktorovich, after a call Netsvetov ordered understand what is happening at the station. This task was entrusted with the task force led by Lieutenant Fedor security Afanasyevitch Kulaev. The group also includes experienced and well-trained security officers Aram Bashmahchiev Nicholas Semykin, Nikolai and Anton Sinelnikov Chernyavtsev.

Walking down the street Engels, security officers saw the car head of the road and killed Alexei Ignatievitch Netsvetov. A few steps on a bridge over a river in the group Kulaeva Temernik enemy opened fire.

Security officers found themselves in a quandary: they saw only soldiers and officers in the form of the Red Army, who fired at the Soviet soldiers and civilians. Red Army ran Kulaevu said that the fire near the railway bridge and the railway station are German saboteurs dressed in our form.

It was clear that if the German saboteurs are operating at the station, their goal - to capture this bridge. This could lead to irreparable consequences. The first time the retreat of Soviet troops would be disrupted and lead to catastrophic losses. A second bridge across the Don allow the Germans to carry out a throw to the east, which would give them access to the oil resources of the Caucasus. Realizing the dangers are the saboteurs lieutenant Kulaev sent the Red Army to the report of the commander and his group entered into an unequal battle with the Nazis. Fired selectively: only those who opened fire on them.



Through bold action, the KGB pushed German saboteurs in the direction of a large stone bridge, and then entered the station building. The success of the fight has greatly contributed to the correct guidance of subordinates by the commander of the group - Kulaeva, who had combat experience in the civil war in the defeat of the gangs in the North Caucasus. Bravely fought Party secretary Bashmahchiev. The squad leader Semykin and fighters Sinelnikov Chernyavtsev and passed a good school training while serving in the Red Army.

Group Kulaeva managed to break saboteurs to disrupt the station. But by the time the main German troops had entered the city, the station came forward detachments of the division "Life standard of Adolf Hitler." And without that unequal battle became even more desperate.



The situation was complicated for security officers, but they continued to bravely fight the enemy. Even finding themselves surrounded by the enemy - in the station building - being wounded, the shortage of ammunition, courageous fighters for a long time held the line against the Nazis, and about a hundred were given the opportunity to send the station a few levels. As long as the fight lasted at the station, the military leadership has managed to strengthen the protection of the city bridges. In an unequal battle the five heroes of security officers were killed.

Having taken the next day the city of Rostov-on-Don, the Nazis desecrated their flesh. Soviet patriots removed from shoes, clothes, and then put them directly on the forecourt and shoot anyone who tried to approach them.

November 28 Rostov released November 30 found the body of heroes, and buried them in the square. Kirov (later moved to the burial Fraternal Cemetery). Who is building the train station Rostov-chief can see a plaque with the inscription:

"In November 1941, near the railway station, to protect the city in the fight against the Nazi secret police commando died heroically Kulaev Fedor Afanasyevitch Bashmahchiev Aram Arshakovich, Semykin Nikolai, Anton Chernyavtsev Nikitich Nicholas Sinelnikov Mefodevich».

Sources:
 - V. Berezin, Fight at the station. lib.rus.ec/b/352841/read
 - Documentary film-reconstruction Don Military History Museum "Fight at the station." donskoy-muzey.ru/nashi_filmy
 - Marina Flegmatova. The last flight of Alexey Netsvetov. www.gudok.ru/zdr/173/?ID=606274&archive=24528
Photo:
 - forum.patriotcenter.ru/index.php?to...87377#msg187377
 - www.rostov.ru/people/articles/2009/05/08/130451/
 - Images from the film "Fight at the station».



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