The feat was captured on canvas. V.Gnarovskaya

Gnarovskaya Valery Osipovna
18.10.1923 - 23.09.1943
Hero of the Soviet Union
Gnarovskaya Valery Osipovna - medical instructor 907 th Infantry Regiment 244 th Infantry Division of the 12th Army of the Southwestern Front, Private.
Born October 18, 1923 in the village of Modolitsy Plyussky District of the Pskov region in a family servant. Russian. Podporozhsky Graduated from high school named after AS Pushkin.




Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, her father was drafted into the Red Army, and with the approach of German troops to Leningrad Gnarovskih family evacuated to Ishim Tyumen region. There, they were sent to the village Berdyuzhe where Valeria with her mother began to work at the local post office. From the very beginning of the war Valeria has repeatedly appealed to the local military enlistment office with a demand to send it to the front, but each time was refused.
In the spring of 1942 Komsomol village Berdyuzhe went to the station Ishim and have them enroll in shaping it 229 th Infantry Division. Valeria with her friends received military training, studying health matter.
In July 1942, the division was sent to the Stalingrad front, and immediately entered into heavy fighting in which Valery Gnarovskaya showed courage, lifting the Red Army to attack and introducing himself from the battlefield wounded.



According to the memoirs of its front-line friend E. Doronin:
On the approaches to the front in the heat, the dusty road, in full gear, we walked day and night ... Not far from the station Surovikino our unit came into effect. There were heavy fighting. ... Disturbing was the soul, especially in the first minutes. We're so confused, they were afraid to get out of the shelter on the battlefield. Beats artillery shells, bombs - all mixed up in a continuous roar. It seemed that everything on earth is collapsing and crumbling earth under their feet.
I remember: the first trench ran Valeria and shouted: "Comrades! For the Motherland, and not afraid to die! Come on! "- And without hesitation all left the trenches, rushed to the battlefield.



During the 17-day division was incessant fighting with the enemy, was surrounded and within a week made its way to his. Valery courageously fulfilled the duty physician. But it soon became ill with typhoid fever. The soldiers broke through the environment, carried on hands barely live girl. She was awarded the medal "For Courage". After recovering again at the front.
In the summer of 1943 Valery Gnarovskaya again came to the hospital with a concussion, but soon reverted back to the unit. In a letter to his mother on August 22, 1943, she wrote that she was alive and well, the second time visited the hospital after concussion hard of hearing, but hopes that this will take place:
From 15.08 on 21.08.1943, the fight went hot with Fritz. The Germans rushed to the height where we were, but all their attempts were in vain to break through. Bravely and courageously fought our soldiers - all my dear and lovely friends ... Many of them died a heroic death, but I'm still alive and I must you, my dear, to say that I have worked on glory. About 30 seriously wounded soldiers made the battlefield.
During the period of offensive fighting VO Gnarovskaya saved the lives of more than 300 wounded.



September 23, 1943 in the battle near the village of Ivanenko, now the village Gnarovskoe Volnyansk district of Zaporozhye region of Ukraine, sanitary instructor of 907 th Infantry Regiment 244 th Infantry Division ordinary Valery Gnarovskaya pulled himself to the wounded and deliver them to the dressing station. At this time in the direction of the dressing station broke two German "Tiger". Rescuing the wounded, Valery Gnarovskaya with a bunch of grenades rushed under one of them, and undermined his second was hit by the Red Army came to the rescue. She was buried in the village Gnarovskoe.
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on June 3, 1944 for exemplary performance of command assignments and for displaying courage and heroism in the battles against the Nazi invaders, the Red Army Gnarovskoy Valerie Osipovna posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
She was awarded the Order of Lenin medal.
In the city Podporozhye Leningrad region Hero of the Soviet Union Gnarovskoy VO a monument, and the school building - a plaque. Name of the heroine of the street in the cities Podporozhye, Tyumen. In the village center is a bust Gnarovskoe V.O.Gnarovskoy, on the spot death - a memorial.



From submission to the award
... Only in the battle for the city of Gmina Dolice the river Seversky Donets made from the battlefield 47 wounded soldiers and officers with their weapons ... personally destroyed 28 German soldiers and officers. Under State Farm Ivanenkovo ​​2 enemy tanks of the "Tiger" broke through the line of our defense - rushed to the location of the headquarters of the regiment. At this critical moment, the tanks came close to 60-70 meters to the location of headquarters. Gnarovskaya, grabbing a bunch of grenades and rising to his full height, rushed to a meeting ahead of marching enemy tanks and sacrificing their lives, ran under the tank.
As a result of the explosion the tank was stopped ...
- The commander of the 907 th Infantry Regiment 244 th Red Banner Division Zaporozhye Colonel Pozhidaev March 21, 1944.



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