Nikolai Chepik
Chepik Nikolai Petrovich (born April 16, 1960, Mai village, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, BSSR - February 29, 1980, Afghanistan) - Hero of the Soviet Union, deputy commander of an engineering and combat engineer platoon of the 317th Guards parachute airborne regiment as part of the 40th army of the Red Banner Turkestan military district, guard senior sergeant.
In one of the battles (February 29, 1980), deputy. sapper platoon commander senior sergeant Chepik N.P. was wounded in the leg and surrounded by the Mujahideen. In order not to fall into the hands of the enemy alive, he blew up a mine, from the fragments of which he heroically died, destroying several dozen enemies.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union to Senior Sergeant Chepik N.P. was awarded posthumously by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1980. He was awarded the Order of Lenin.
By Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated December 24, 2003 No. 575, he was posthumously awarded the medal "In Commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Withdrawal of Soviet Troops from Afghanistan".
Pavel Rak
Polotsk skaryna Turov barriers
On the night of June 30, 1944, the tank platoon of Pavel Rak was tasked with breaking into the city of Borisov, occupied by German troops, starting a battle and fighting until the main forces of the corps approached. Of the four tanks, only the T-34 crew, consisting of tank commander Pavel Rak, tank driver Alexander Petryaev, and tank gunner Alexei Danilov, was able to break through the Berezina River to the city of Borisov, Minsk Region, along a mined bridge. The second and third tanks of senior lieutenant Kuznetsov and lieutenant Yunaev were burned before approaching the bridge, and the fourth tank of Captain Selin slipped over the bridge to the opposite bank of the river, but was hit and caught fire, the crew died. Then the Germans blew up the bridge across the Berezina. For 16 hours the crew fought on the streets of the city. They destroyed a lot of enemy manpower and equipment, which contributed to the liberation of the city on July 1 by Soviet troops. German troops threw several tanks and self-propelled guns against the crew. In an unequal battle, the soldiers died.
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was posthumously awarded on March 24, 1945. This title was also awarded to the crew members of A.A. Petryaev and A.I. Danilov.
On the right bank of the Berezina River in Borisov, a monument was erected - the legendary tank IS-2, a monument to the crew of P. Cancer.
A school and one of the streets of the city of Borisov are named after Pavel Rak. A memorial plaque has been erected in his native village of Karpilovka.
By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR, Pavel Nikolaevich Rak was forever enrolled in the lists of the 5th company of the N-th Guards Tank Regiment.
Father Nikolai Stepanovich - the head of the collective farm, a member of the CPSU. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was left in the village to organize the underground. Died.
Mother Melanya Lukyanovna is a collective farmer, a participant in the first Ukrainian rally of advanced workers.
H epik Nikolai Petrovich - deputy commander of an engineering platoon of the 317th Guards Order of Alexander Nevsky Parachute Regiment of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division (limited contingent of Soviet troops in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan), senior sergeant of the guard.
Born on April 16, 1960 in the village of Bluzha, Pukhovichi District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian SSR, in the family of a collective farmer. Belarusian. He graduated from the 10th grade of the Bluzhskaya secondary school. He worked as a fitter at the Minsk distance of the track.
In the Soviet Army since 1978, sent to the Airborne Forces. He became a sapper, deputy commander of an engineering sapper platoon.
Since December 1979, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik, as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops, provided international assistance to the people of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in one of the eastern provinces.
On February 29, 1980, enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of the Soviet troops. The unit in which Nikolai Chepik served was ordered to blow up the enemy's ammunition depot in the cave. Returning after the successful completion of the mission, the Soviet soldiers were ambushed. Dushmans significantly outnumbered them. During the skirmish, Chepik was wounded in the leg... Having tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, the courageous paratrooper directed it at the enemy and blew it up, hitting about 30 enemies.
At the cost of his life, the 19-year-old guardsman predetermined the outcome of the battle, fulfilling his military and international duty to the end.
He was buried in the village of Bluzha, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, Belarus, where his bust was erected.
At by order of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1980 for the courage and heroism shown in the provision of international assistance to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, guard senior sergeant Chepik Nikolai Petrovich posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
He was awarded the Order of Lenin (04/28/1980, posthumously), the medal "In memory of the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan" (12/24/2003, Republic of Belarus).
By order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR of August 12, 1980, he was permanently included in the lists of personnel of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division. He was entered in the Book of Honor of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
The name of the Hero is a street in the village of Druzhny, Pukhovichsky district, Minsk region, Belarus, and the school where he studied. At the end of December 2004, a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union N.P. Chepik opened in the regional center of the Vitebsk region of Belarus - the city of Vitebsk.
FIELD OF LIFE
We could meet him in Kabul - we were there at the same time. Didn't have to. And here is the bust. What was he like - senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik? How did you live? What remains of a life of only twenty years? Many, if not all, material traces disappear without a trace. The memory of exploits - never.
Today we know who Chepik became in his twenties. And who could become in forty or fifty? One can only guess about this. He was not expected to have a bright future. He was an honest, hardworking, decent guy. Normal! But it is here, in a stable, good normality, that energy, nobility and selflessness are born, ripen, which, under a certain set of circumstances, lead to a feat.
There comes a moment, and an ordinary representative of his generation - in this case, Nikolai Chepik, but it could be someone else - shows what he is capable of. In fulfilling his duty, he accomplishes a feat.
Chepik saved the lives of those whom he protected at the cost of his own life. This is the pinnacle of what is possible.
The unit in which Nikolai served as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops in Afghanistan was located in one of the eastern provinces of the country. Attacks of dushmans on civilians, arson of schools, mosques, and brutal murders have become more frequent here. The gangs of mercenaries abandoned from abroad, in their cruelty, probably surpassed even the atrocities of the German fascists.
February nights in the Afghan mountains are not just dark. They are slate black. The snow is black, the sky is black, the wind is black - it's time for black deeds.
Dushmans attacked the unit before dawn. Vile, insidious and sudden. The snow-covered stone ridge was the last front line of Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik.
He saw how a large group of dushmans was approaching them, the living ring was shrinking tighter and tighter. And now one, and then the second bullet pierced his legs. Bullets whistled over the heads of his friends - soldiers, compatriots, and behind the soldiers, farther, were the inhabitants of a tiny village forgotten by the Muslim god, in which dukans were dying. And Nikolai made a decision: to cover his comrades, everyone who was behind him with his own life.
A deafening explosion rolled over the earth. Thirty dushmans fell down dead, the rest fled.
The last thing he could still see were the peaks of the Hindu Kush, and above them a huge - up to the very Motherland - brightening sky.
CHEPIK Nikolai - Hero of the Soviet Union... Senior Sergeant of the Guard. Nikolai Chepik prepared himself in the best way for military service. When he joined the sapper company, he was already a discharger in several sports. Therefore, in the early days, I did not feel the difficulties that beginners usually face at first. Nicholas served, as they say, with a soul. He honestly fulfilled his military duty, perfectly mastered the difficult specialty of a sapper, and became an excellent student. He helped his comrades a lot, shared his experience with them. And it is no coincidence that Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was appointed deputy platoon commander. Time flew by quickly, and the service of the guardsman was coming to an end. But Nikolai did not have a chance to change his army uniform for a civilian suit. The harsh time of testing came suddenly, breaking all plans, destroying many hopes. And Nikolai, with weapons in his hands, along with his fellow soldiers, had to engage in a mortal battle with an insidious enemy. In that last battle, the beautiful character traits of Nikolai and other guardsmen were even more clearly revealed, their courage and heroism showed immense love for their homeland, for their people, fidelity to sacred military duty. The fight was exceptionally brutal and lasted for a long time. Held in the mountains, he demanded great endurance and courage from the guards. Nikolai participated in the defeat of a large enemy group. I had to work in the mountains. Guards Senior Sergeant Chepik advanced in the chain of attackers, inspired his subordinates in battle with his courage and courage. The assault group, led by Nikolai, destroyed more than ten enemies in the village. Then the guards boldly got close to the heavily fortified enemy firing points and destroyed them. And everywhere the commander was in front, showed a personal example, led. Being equal to the sergeant, privates Alexander Rassokhin and Kerim Kerimov, who were part of the guard group, acted boldly and boldly. The Komsomol members were truly fearless. None of them paid any attention to the bullets whistling over their heads, fired at the brave men by enemy snipers. All the thoughts of the guardsmen were subordinated to one thing - the desire to ensure the success of the offensive of the unit in this direction. Having received an order to destroy the enemies who had settled in one of the caves, Nikolai with three soldiers, under fire from snipers, made his way behind enemy lines and completed the combat mission. When returning to their own group was discovered and surrounded. In an unequal battle, the guardsmen were seriously wounded, but bleeding, they continued to fight with the enemy. Bullets screeched against the stones. The enemy showered the daredevils with dense lead rain. Enemy bullets ended the life of one sapper, the second, the third. Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was left alone, but continued to fight. In short well-aimed bursts, he mercilessly smashed enemies. But the ammo ran out. Like a flock of jackals, enemy soldiers rushed at the hero in a bloodthirsty pack, anticipating reprisals against an unarmed Soviet soldier. When they ran up almost close, suddenly burst out a strong explosion. Nikolai Chepik blew up the only remaining mine, died himself and destroyed 32 enemies. So heroically died a simple Belarusian guy, a faithful son of his great Motherland, a glorious pupil of the Lenin Komsomol, a guardsman who fulfilled his military duty to the end. The passage of time is irreversible ... More and more soldiers come to the unit where the senior sergeant once served Nikolay Chepik. And every young warrior wants to be like a fellow soldier hero. No, he didn't die. The courage of the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was embodied in immortality. The young guards carefully keep the memory of a glorious brother-soldier. With her in their hearts, today's soldiers successfully master the difficult military business, learn to defend their beloved Motherland the way Nikolai defended it - selflessly, skillfully. Chepik Nikolai was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously) “Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Petrovich Chepik to be enlisted forever in the lists of the unit ...” (From the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR). Biography Born in the village of May, near Minsk. There he spent his childhood and youth. Nikolai grew up brave, honest and fair. Everyone who knew him treated him with great respect, loved him for his open character, kind heart, sensitivity to others. The feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik is an example of courage, courage and honor. Veteran
Battle sheet. 1981
Battle sheet. 3rd Battalion, 317th Regiment,Afghanistan 1981
Deputy com. platoon of a sapper company, a native of the village. May. Pukhovitsky district, Minsk region member of the Komsomol, in the ranks of the SA since May 1978. Fulfilling his military duty to assist the Afghan people, senior s-t Chepik N.P. participated in the elimination of a large gang of rebels.
Moving forward in the chain of the attackers, Chepik acted courageously, incenatively, dragging his comrades along with him. During the battle in the village it was destroyed before the separation of the enemy. Leading the assault group, Nikolai boldly approached the loopholes and blew them up. Having received an order to blow up a fortified cave with the rebels who settled in it, under fire from snipers, at the head of 3 sappers, he made his way behind enemy lines and completed his combat mission. On their return, the group was discovered and surrounded. In the first battle, they were seriously wounded, but continued to fight back.
When the comrades died and the cartridges ran out, senior s-t Chepik N.P. let the bandits approach him and with the Mon-100 mine blew them up along with him, destroying 32 bandits.
Leaflet.
Printing house "Guards Valor". 1980
"Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Petrovich Chepik to enroll forever in the lists of the unit ..."
(From the order of the Minister of Defense of the USSR).
Leaflet. Printing house "Guards Valor". 1980 COURAGE PRODUCES IMMORTALITY
GUARD Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was born in the village of Mai near Minsk. There he spent his childhood and youth. Nikolai grew up brave, honest and fair. Everyone who knew him treated him with great respect, loved him for his open character, kind heart, sensitivity to others.
Nikolai Chepik prepared himself in the best way for military service. When he joined the sapper company, he was already a discharger in several sports. Therefore, in the early days, I did not feel the difficulties that beginners usually face at first. Nicholas served, as they say, with a soul. He honestly fulfilled his military duty, perfectly mastered the difficult specialty of a sapper, and became an excellent student. He helped his comrades a lot, shared his experience with them. And it is no coincidence that Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was appointed deputy platoon commander. Time flew by quickly, and the service of the guardsman was coming to an end. But Nikolai did not have a chance to change his army uniform for a civilian suit. The harsh time of testing came suddenly, breaking all plans, destroying many hopes. And Nikolai, with weapons in his hands, along with his fellow soldiers, had to engage in a mortal battle with an insidious enemy.
In that last battle, the beautiful character traits of Nikolai and other guardsmen were even more clearly revealed, their courage and heroism showed immense love for their homeland, for their people, loyalty to the sacred military duty.
The fight was exceptionally brutal and lasted for a long time. Held in the mountains, he demanded great endurance and courage from the guards.
Nikolai participated in the defeat of a large enemy group. I had to work in the mountains. Guards Senior Sergeant Chepik advanced in the chain of attackers, inspired his subordinates in battle with his courage and courage. The assault group, led by Nikolai, destroyed more than ten enemies in the village. Then the guards boldly got close to the heavily fortified enemy firing points and destroyed them. And everywhere the commander was in front, showed a personal example, led.
Equal to the sergeant, privates Alexander Rassokhin and Kerim Kerimov, who were part of the guard group, also acted boldly and boldly. The Komsomol members were truly fearless. None of them paid any attention to the bullets whistling over their heads, fired at the brave men by enemy snipers. All thoughts of the guardsmen were subordinated to one thing - the desire to ensure the success of the offensive unit in this direction.
Having received an order to destroy the enemies who had settled in one of the caves, Nikolai with three soldiers under fire from snipers made his way to the rear of the enemy and completed his combat mission. When returning to their own group was discovered and surrounded. In an unequal battle, the guardsmen were seriously wounded, but bleeding, they continued to fight with the enemy. Bullets screeched against the rocks.
The enemy showered the daredevils with dense lead rain. Enemy bullets ended the life of one sapper, the second, the third. Guard Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik was left alone, but continued to fight. In short well-aimed bursts, he mercilessly smashed enemies. But the ammo ran out. Like a flock of jackals, enemy soldiers rushed at the hero in a bloodthirsty pack, anticipating reprisals against an unarmed Soviet soldier. When they ran up almost close, suddenly burst out a strong explosion. Nikolai Chepik blew up the only remaining mine, died himself and destroyed 32 enemies. So heroically died a simple Belarusian guy, a faithful son of his great Motherland, a glorious pupil of the Leninist Komsomol, a guardsman who fulfilled his military duty to the end.
The passage of time is irreversible... More and more new soldiers come to the unit where senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik once served as a guard. And every young warrior wants to be like a fellow soldier hero. No, he didn't die. The courage of the Komsomol member Nikolai Chepik was embodied in immortality. The young guards carefully keep the memory of a glorious brother-soldier. With her in their hearts, today's soldiers successfully master the difficult military business, learn to defend their beloved Motherland the way Nikolai defended it - selflessly, skillfully.
Warriors! The feat of a fellow soldier of the Hero of the Soviet Union, senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik, is an example of courage, courage and honor. In military everyday life, strive to act in a front-line manner, equaling the military glory of the heroes of your brother-soldiers!
set of postcards, 1987
"We are internationalists"
On February 29, 1980, enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of the Soviet troops. The unit in which Nikolai Chepik served was ordered to blow up the enemy's ammunition depot in the cave. Returning after the successful completion of the mission, the Soviet soldiers were ambushed. Dushmans significantly outnumbered them. During the skirmish, Chepik was wounded in the leg... Having tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, the courageous paratrooper directed it at the enemy and blew it up, hitting about 30 enemies.
At the cost of his life, the 19-year-old guardsman predetermined the outcome of the battle, fulfilling his military and international duty to the end ...
Dushmans attacked the unit before dawn. Vile, insidious and sudden. The snow-covered stone ridge was the last front line of Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik.
He saw how a large group of dushmans was approaching them, the living ring was shrinking tighter and tighter. And now one, and then the second bullet pierced his legs. Bullets whistled over the heads of his friends - soldiers, compatriots, and behind the soldiers, farther, were the inhabitants of a tiny village forgotten by the Muslim god, in which dukans were dying. And Nikolai made a decision: to cover his comrades, everyone who was behind him with his own life.
A deafening explosion rolled over the earth. Thirty dushmans fell down dead, the rest fled.
And bread and song
Recently, the country learned about the feat of a Belarusian guy, senior sergeant Nikolai Chepik. He was fulfilling his international duty in Afghanistan. The attacked dushmans surrounded Chepik, a threat to his life loomed. And then Nikolai, wounded, pulled the remaining grenades towards him. There was an explosion. More than thirty dushmans found their death next to the paratrooper, who, at the cost of his life, saved his comrades.
Hero's return
A native of Pukhovichi Nikolai Chepik - Hero of the Soviet Union, one of the first to receive this title for the performance of international duty in Afghanistan - posthumously. During the battle with the dushmans, Nikolai was wounded in the leg. The soldiers saw how he tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, directed it at the enemies. He could not go far himself - his wounded leg did not allow. The choice had to be made quickly, and the paratrooper detonated the mine. By sacrificing himself, he predetermined the outcome of the battle. The explosion struck about fifty dushmans. And the reinforcements that arrived in time for the paratroopers destroyed the remnants of the gang. It was in February 1980...
newspaper "People's newspaper"
(Republic of Belarus), 09.07.2003
His deed is not forgotten.
Before the 357th regiment of the 103rd division of the airborne troops, in which Nikolai served, special tasks were set. Work in the enemy's rear, the elimination of bandit formations, the protection of the local population - operations that require not a massive attack by large forces, but the delivery of accurate and effective strikes at key points in enemy territory.
On that day, February 29, 1980, a group of four people under the command of deputy platoon commander Nikolai Chepik was returning from a successfully completed mission - they were instructed to blow up a cave in which dushmans settled. Suddenly, the paratroopers stumbled upon a dushman detachment. An unequal battle ensued. The enemy tried to take the guys into the ring, but a small detachment of Nikolai desperately resisted. When comrades died one after another and Nikolai ran out of bullets, letting the dushmans come closer, he blew up the remaining mine. Together with the Soviet soldier-internationalist, 32 bandits were killed. Nikolai Chepik was only 20 years old.
newspaper "Zerkalo"
(Republic of Belarus), 01.02.2004
We need peace, not war
Nikolai Chepik served in the paratrooper sappers unit. On February 29, 1980, Nikolai's unit, returning to its place of deployment after clearing the roads, was ambushed. Some of the soldiers died. Sergeant Chepik took command. He was wounded in the thigh, ordered everyone to retreat, and he himself remained to cover his comrades. Could not move independently. After some time, he used up all the ammunition. Dushmans came close, surrounded the soldier from all sides. They probably counted on easy prey, but they didn’t even have time to come to their senses, as the paratrooper set off a directional mine ...
newspaper "Railwayman of Belarus", February 14, 2007
They were just getting started
He wrote home that a paratrooper loses a battle when he is already dead. The dushmans who surrounded three of our soldiers on the last day of February 1980 did not know this. Both comrades died under their heavy fire, only Chepik remained, clutching a grenade in his hand. Surrender?.. Not how he was brought up... There was an explosion... He died, but took with him the lives of several dozen more dushmans.
BMD named after N. Chepik. 3rd Battalion, 317th Regiment, Afghanistan, Kandahar 1981
Born on April 16, 1960 in the village of May, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region. He graduated from the 10th grade of the Bluzhskaya secondary school. He worked as a fitter at the Minsk track distance.
In the Soviet Army since 1978, sent to the airborne troops. He became a sapper, deputy commander of a sapper platoon.
Since 1979, Senior Sergeant Nikolai Chepik, as part of a limited contingent of Soviet troops, provided international assistance to the people of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in one of the eastern provinces.
On February 29, 1980, enemy groups tried to penetrate the location of the Soviet troops. The unit in which Nikolai Chepik served was ordered to blow up the enemy's ammunition depot in the cave. Returning after the successful completion of the mission, the Soviet soldiers were ambushed. Dushmans significantly outnumbered them. During the skirmish, Chepik was wounded in the leg... Having tied a directional fragmentation mine to a tree, the courageous paratrooper directed it at the enemy and blew it up, hitting about 30 enemies. At the cost of his life, the 19-year-old guardsman predetermined the outcome of the battle, fulfilling his military and international duty to the end. He was buried in the village of Bluzha, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, where his bust was erected.
By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of April 28, 1980, for the courage and heroism shown in providing international assistance to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Senior Sergeant Chepik Nikolai Petrovich was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Awarded the Order of Lenin.
Forever enrolled in the lists of the military unit. The name of the Hero is a street in the village of Druzhny, Pukhovichi district, Minsk region, and the school where he studied. At the end of December 2004 .
LITERATURE
1.Bocharov, G. N. The feat of Nikolai Chepik / G. N. Bocharov. - 2nd ed. - M .: Young Guard, 1986. - 205 p., ill.
7. Sokolovsky, G./ G. Sokolovsky // Belarusian military newspaper. - 2009. - 14 Feb. - p. 7.
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