They fought for their homeland coloring book. Federal Air Transport Agency Southern Interregional Territorial Directorate of Air Transport Federal Air Transport Agency

I am convinced that only the truth can be a worthy monument to the fallen and to the time when it was so difficult to defend not only the life of the country, the dignity of the people, but also the right to one’s own life, which in general was just beginning then, and, of course, the opportunity to see now , after more than forty years, this excited tenderness of young foliage, the hidden expectation of a re-encounter of this green magic of spring...

Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Be

Guard sergeant, 1945

I have long decided that in the anniversary year, the Face of Victory for me will be this magnificent theater and film actor, a participant in the Great Patriotic War, whose name is difficult to associate in my mind with the tragedy of our country of 1941-45.

In the series of fellow front-line soldiers, Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky is, in my opinion, the most atypical. A mysterious Russian Actor, multifaceted and incomprehensible, with royal graceful manners, enormous artistic taste... It seemed that here he was - a man of noble blood, not from here, a star of the first magnitude, what should he do at the front?

But the reality turned out to be much more prosaic and harsher. Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovich, a native of the distant Siberian village of Tatyanovka, Tomsk region, whose parents were ordinary workers, having seen his father off to the front in 1941, became his mother’s support for a year and a half in a large family, where he was the second oldest of six children.

Kesha combined work at the hospital with studies, first at the paramedic-midwifery school, and then at the projectionist courses. At the same time, he worked as an extra at the Krasnoyarsk Drama Theater. In January 1943, Innocent was drafted into the army and sent to study at the Kiev Infantry School. But he did not have time to finish it. For being in school time was collecting potatoes left in the field, he was expelled from the school and sent to the active army. So, as a lanky boy who had not been shot at, Smoktunovsky found himself at the front and immediately in hell itself - on the Kursk Bulge. As part of the 212th Guards Regiment of the 75th Guards rifle division he also participated in the liberation of Kyiv and the fighting on the Dnieper.

Once, a liaison officer of the regiment headquarters, Private Smoktunovsky, under enemy fire, forded across the Dnieper combat reports to division headquarters. It happened like this: on the Dnieper bridgehead, the Germans with precise artillery attacks interrupted our communications, stretched along the bottom of the channel. In order to report on the situation on the bridgehead to the highest authorities located on an island in the middle of the Dnieper, the tallest ones were selected from the units so that they would wade, under fire, continually plunging headlong into the water, holding over it only a package with a report, to reach to the goal. Often these attempts ended in the death of soldiers.

This is how Innokenty Mikhailovich himself recalled this episode: This idea was doomed, everyone understood that. My partner, as soon as he entered the water, was wounded and could not stay close to me. I had to leave, try to break through the shelling zone - there was also such an instruction, and somewhere in the middle of the channel, choking, barely managing to grab air before going under the water again, looking back, I saw him throwing his arms strangely , sideways, like someone who had stumbled or was drunk, fell heavily into the water, floundered, got up and fell on his side again. I tried to shout something to him, but I think it was wrong, stupid, and simply useless - the roar of explosions from the intensified shelling (the guys at the mortars saw that I was still alive and afloat) drowned out everything around me. Having passed the deep part of the channel, looking back as he ran, he tried to catch with his gaze the passed section of the ford, but no one was there anymore: he had either been carried away by the current, or he had sunk. Because of some snags, I still tried to look around... but the bank and the channel were sadly empty. I delivered that stupid package, in this respect everything was in order, and I was even nominated for a medal for courage, although they awarded it to me 49 years later right on the stage of the Moscow Art Theater after the play “Molière”. Many people watched this crossing of Smoktunovsky, and that’s all, those who saw how they beat us on the channel were quite surprised to learn that I wasn’t even scratched: Well, you’re lucky, long one, you’re just lucky, despite the fact that you’re a goner.

On December 3, 1943, in the battles near Zhitomir, Smoktunovsky was captured, spent a month wandering around prisoner of war camps in Zhitomir, Shepetovka, Berdichev, suffering humiliation, bullying and hunger: They fed gruel from the intestines, sometimes animal feces floated in there... An attempt to escape was punishable by immediate execution. There was another way out - those who wished were offered service in the ROA... But it didn’t suit me,” Innokenty Mikhailovich admitted in his memoirs.

The chance to escape came a month later, when the Germans were sending their column to Germany: ...I escaped from captivity. There was widespread dysentery in our camp. When we were on the march, we were being driven somewhere in a convoy, I felt sick to my stomach, and I asked to go under the bridge. I sit and hear retreating footsteps upstairs. They forgot about me. I sat under the bridge until dark. Coming out from under the bridge at night, he wandered among forests and swamps, avoiding highways where he could easily run into the Germans. So, half-forgotten, he reached the last village hut, knocked on the door and lost consciousness.

She sheltered, warmed, washed the soldier, dying from exhaustion, illness and mental trauma, and went out, risking own life and the lives of her children, Ukrainian peasant woman Vasilisa Shevchuk (Baba Vasya, as he called her) from the village of Dmitrovka, Kamenets-Podolsk (now Khmelnitsky) region. Later, the actor recalled Baba Vasya with great gratitude, remembered and helped not only her, but also her children and grandchildren: How can I forget the Shevchuk family, which sheltered me after escaping from captivity? Baba Vasya died a long time ago, and her daughter Oniska still lives in Shepetovka, and these dear, sincere people, who literally saved me, visit us, and we always welcome them.

Smoktunovsky stayed in Dmitrovka for about a month, and in February 1944, chance helped him get to the partisans. For several months he fought in the partisan detachment named after. Lenin Kamenets-Podolsk connection. In May of the same year, the front line moved sharply to the west, due to which this partisan detachment merged with the regular units of the Red Army. Smoktunovsky recalled: ...the joy of the approaching end of the war bubbled in each of us, and we uncontrollably walked west... In October-December 1944, junior sergeant Smoktunovsky, commander of the Guards submachine gunner squad rifle regiment participated in the battles for the liberation of Poland and Warsaw. The night battles near the village of Domirau (Dobmrovka) were especially fierce: Nine people survived that night; not touched, not wounded - and even less, just a few. I am one of them. However, I didn’t do anything that everyone else wouldn’t do: fall here, crawl away, bend down, stand behind cover, wait out an artillery attack for a second, lying at the bottom of a crater, dive into a ditch from a bomb flying from above - in general, I did everything that what everyone did, everyone around was a normal soldier, fighter, person. I didn’t see, didn’t know, others who acted differently; in two years of continuous front-line life, I didn’t meet a single one.

On February 18, 1945, the commander of the submachine gun company squad, junior sergeant Smoktunovsky, was nominated for a medal For courage behind fighting near the village of Lorzen. Innokenty Mikhailovich ended the war in the German town of Grevesmühlen with the rank of guard senior sergeant.

Fate clearly took care of Innokenty Mikhailovich: I have never been injured. Honestly, it’s strange for me - two years of real terrible life at the front: I stood at gunpoint from German machine guns, fought surrounded, escaped from captivity... But I wasn’t wounded.

In the fall of 1945, the future actor was demobilized from the army. Even due to his very short stay in captivity, he was prohibited from living in 39 largest cities Soviet Union. Therefore, Innokenty Mikhailovich worked in theaters in Krasnoyarsk, Norilsk, Makhachkala, and Stalingrad. In the mid-fifties he moved to Moscow. Starred in several films. But real fame came to him in Leningrad on the stage of the Bolshoi Drama Theater in the role of Prince Myshkin in the play by Georgy Tovstonogov Idiot. Well, oh future fate you know the actor as well as I do...

And yet, Innokenty Mikhailovich starred in the film in 1956 Soldiers, based on the story by Viktor Nekrasov In the trenches of Stalingrad, where he played the role of the clumsy, stooping, intelligent, bespectacled mathematician Lieutenant Farber, who fought bravely during Battle of Stalingrad, giving us the opportunity to imagine the actor in the image of the liberator of Europe... Filming took place in Stalingrad. It turned out that Smoktunovsky was the only front-line soldier in the film crew, so he unwittingly also became a freelance military consultant for the film.

Innokenty Mikhailovich with his daughter Masha.

And then a photo gallery of Soviet actors and directors who took part in the Great Patriotic War.
But the selection did not include artists, members of front-line brigades who gave concerts and staged performances
for Red Army soldiers on the front line, in hospitals.

Some of them, even before the war, became actors, playing in theaters and theater studios (Anatoly Abramov, Sofya Avericheva, Boris Bityukov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Pyotr Glebov, Zinovy ​​Gerdt, Mikhail Gluzsky, Mikhail Pugovkin, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Adolf Ilyin, Vladimir Etush ) or acted in films (Fyodor Nikitin, Grigory Pluzhnik, Antonina Maksimova).

Others have realized acting skills in theater universities (Nikolai Trofimov, Yuri Ozerov, Ekaterina Verulashvili, Antonina Maksimova, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Gleb Romanov) or schools (Yuri Averin, Boris Ivanov, Nikolai Boyarsky, Evgeniy Vesnik, Pavel Vinnik, Maxim Grekov, Ivan Lapikov, Alexey Smirnov, Nikolai Slesarev)

But most could not even imagine that they would become artists in the future.

Among the future front-line actors there were those who forties-rock served in the army (Nikolai Grinko, Yuri Katin-Yartsev, Mikhail Gluzsky, Nikolai Zasukhin, Yuri Nikulin), were cadets at military schools (Vladimir Gulyaev, Alexey Smirnov, Pyotr Todorovsky, Grigory Chukhrai), underwent military retraining or completed courses for young fighters (Peter Glebov, Boris Ivanov)

With the beginning of the war, many, without waiting for conscription into the active army, went to the front as volunteers (Alexander Vokach, Ekaterina Verulashvili, Zoya Vasilkova, Oleg Golubitsky, Zinovy ​​Gerdt, Marinella (Gulya) Koroleva, Fyodor Nikitin, Elena Sanko, Lydia Shtykan)

Young Evgeny Burenkov, Sergey Gurzo, Vasily Korzun went to fight straight from school; some, in order to quickly get to the front, attributed years to themselves (Vladimir Basov, Alexey Vanin, Nikolai Eremenko Sr., Vladimir Zamansky, Alexey Mironov, Mikhail Pugovkin, Gleb Strizhenov)

We had to fight on different fronts, in different units and ranks.

In addition to the infantry (Nikolai Slesarev, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Nikolai Boyarsky), different types artillery (Vasily Korzun, Otar Koberidze, Alexey Lyarsky, Leonid Chubarov, Alexey Mironov, Yuri Nikulin, Anatoly Papanov, Fyodor Nikitin), signal troops (Nikolai Pastukhov, Yuri Ozerov, Grigory Pluzhnik) there were also more exotic military specialties.

Alexander Vokach, Kirill Lavrov served in the air force; the military navigator was Vladimir Kashpur, the pilots who flew on very dangerous missions were Vladimir Gulyaev and Valentin Zubkov. Mechanic Valery Chkalov said about the latter: This guy will never die.

Nikolai Burenkov and Nikolai Trofimov fought as part of naval units, Grigory Chukhrai was a paratrooper, Georgy Yumatov and Mikhail Vasiliev were marines.

At first Vladimir Etush was a military translator, then he served in intelligence, like Mikhail Pugovkin and Alexey Smirnov.

Nikolai Dupak and Stanislav Rostotsky fought in the cavalry troops, Nikolai Volkov, Viktor Pavlovsky, Vladimir Zamansky in the tank troops, and Zinovy ​​Gerdt was the sapper. Service in the militia was no less difficult and dangerous (Fyodor Nikitin) and partisan detachments(Pavel Luspekayev, Innokenty Smoktunovsky)

Unfortunately, there were those who experienced all the horrors of captivity and concentration camps, from which they tried to escape. Alexander Afanasyev, Nikolai Eremenko, Nikolai Lebedev managed to survive in fascist camps and were released Soviet troops.

The front-line roads were also different for all participants in the war: some fought from the first to last days war, like Boris Bityukov, Gleb Romanov, someone less - a year or two or several months, there were also those who died almost in the first days of the war, like Boris Yasen.

Some participants in the war did not receive a scratch or were slightly wounded, others (Zinovy ​​Gerdt, Boris Ivanov, Leonid Gaidai, Sergei Gurzo, Pavel Luspekayev, Zamansky, Yuri Nikulin, Mikhail Pogorzhelsky, Mikhail Pugovkin, Stanislav Rostotsky, Vladimir Etush) received heavy injuries in the battles. wounds and injuries. Many of them were discharged due to health reasons.

The soldiers of the Patriotic War fought with dignity. I think each of them could repeat the words of Vladimir Yakovlevich Samoilov: He didn’t perform any feats, but he didn’t show his back to the enemy either... Almost all participants were awarded orders and medals. Many of them ended the war in Europe; Pavel Kormunin, Alexei Mironov, Nikolai Prokopovich, Pavel Vinnik reached Berlin. And Vladimir Gulyaev took part in the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 in Moscow.

The war could not have happened without girls, who served not only in medical units, hospitals and ambulance trains(Elina Bystritskaya, Nadezhda Karataeva, Lidiya Shtykan). Sofya Avericheva was a scout, Antonina Maksimova was a radio operator, Elena Sanko was an artillery sergeant major. And three future artists held various positions in the air defense forces - meteorologist Zoya Vasilkova, anti-aircraft gunner Ekaterina Verulashvili and political instructor Evgenia Kozyreva.

And these are non-professional film actors who starred in films as children and then died on the fronts of the Patriotic War. Gulya Koroleva ( Kashtanka, Women of Ryazan, Daughter of a Partisan), Volodya Konstantinov ( New Gulliver), Valentin Litovsky ( The poet's youth, Sasha Pushkin), Alyosha Lyarsky ( Gorky's childhood And In people in the role of Alyosha Peshkov), Boris Yasen ( Timur and his team, Mishka Kvakin) It is likely that some of them would have continued their artistic careers.

Vladimir ETUSH, Nikolay LEBEDEV, Elina BYSTRITSKAYA, Nikolay DUPAK, Vladimir ZAMANSKY.
Otar Koberidze did not live to see the anniversary of the Victory exactly two months.
Actors, participants in the Great Patriotic War, whom we have the happy opportunity to congratulate today
Happy Holidays and wish them good health and longevity.

I want to say something special about this charming actress. This is a living legend, actress of the Yaroslavl Russian State Academic Drama Theater named after Fyodor Volkov Sofya Petrovna Avericheva, who celebrated her 100th anniversary last September! She has a truly amazing biography. Before the war, she worked for two years at the Yaroslavl Drama Theater. One day a colleague who knew how to read her hand told her: Yes, you have a field of Mars! And this means a military career. As soon as the war began, Sophia joined the people's militia. She was trained to work underground, she daily improved her German. Sophia herself asked to go to the front, and specifically into reconnaissance. She knew how to drive a truck and a motorcycle, spoke German and mastered some types of small arms - a machine gun, a machine gun. She became a fighter in the separate 225th reconnaissance company in the 234th Yaroslavl Communist Rifle Division formed in the city. At first she was a reconnaissance fighter, then a machine gunner. In repeated operations in capture groups on the front line and deep in the rear of the Germans, where she was often sent, she showed exceptional bravery, courage and endurance.

With her division, she went through the battle route from Moscow to the Elbe. She was wounded twice, but remained in service. Has 18 awards, including two medals For courage, orders Battle Red Banner, Red Star. The actress dedicated the book to her fellow soldiers Scout's Diary, the basis of which was her front diary. She returned to the theater stage after the end of the war and played more than a hundred roles. Happy holiday!

It is clear that I could not cover all the actors and directors who fought, if anyone has any additions, you are welcome.
I will be very grateful.

Since my post is called They fought for their homeland, then finally, a few shots from the film of the same name based on the story by Sholokhov, in which Sergei Bondarchuk filmed several front-line actors: Yuri Nikulin, Nikolai Volkov, Alexei Vanin, himself and Innokenty Smoktunovsky.

Every person is born talented! Every child has inherent abilities in all areas of creativity. And their disclosure and development depends on the degree of adult participation. It is to develop the creative potential of children that distance creative competitions are held. One of them is a drawing competition.

That unforgettable time of the spring day of 1945, when a great event took place, whose name is VICTORY, is moving further and further away! On this day, people cried with happiness, congratulated each other, sang, danced, and wished each other peace on earth. On this day every year, fireworks sparkle, folk festivals are held, relay races, competitions, promotions, and meetings with war veterans and home front workers are held. Light Great Victory solemnly shines in the gold of orders and medals, flickers in the streets and squares with multi-colored fireworks, turns red in the first spring tulips, sparkles in children’s smiles. And we suggested telling children and teenagers about how they relate to the Victory Day and the war through painting.

The first drawing competition was held as part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War Patriotic War and became an annual event.

1 Goals and objectives of the children's drawing competition

Instilling in the younger generation a sense of pride in the exploits of their ancestors;

Patriotic education of children and adolescents through the use of fine arts;

Countering negative trends aimed at revising the results of World War II and discrediting the role of Soviet people in the Great Victory;

Fostering a respectful attitude towards the history of the Fatherland, war veterans and home front workers during the war years;

Attracting executives educational institutions to better patriotic and moral-aesthetic education of children;

Identification and support of gifted children.

Maintaining children's interest in Russian history;

2 Requirements for drawings submitted to the Competition

Drawings must correspond to the theme of the Competition;

Possible topics for competition drawings:

1. Get up, the country is huge.

2. Military labor of a soldier.

3. Stories of a veteran.

4. Soviet army- Liberator Army.

5. This must not be forgotten.

6. Childhood, scorched by war.

7. Women's faces of war.

8. My dear Veterans.

9. Illustration based on works of children's literature dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

10. Composition based on artistic and documentaries about the Great Patriotic War

3 A drawing could only be submitted to the competition by its author (parents with the consent of the author or the director educational institution with the consent of the author and parents).

4 Drawings must be completed without the help of parents or teachers.

5 Drawings can be made on any material (whatman paper, cardboard, canvas, etc.) and executed in any drawing technique (oil, watercolor, ink, colored pencils, crayons, etc.). Works submitted to the Competition must be no smaller than A4 format (210mm x 290mm)

6 The number of works submitted to the Competition by one child cannot exceed 1 drawing.

7 Participants are divided into four age categories:

Group I - up to 7 years (preschool children)

Pupils:

Group II - from 7 to 10 years (inclusive)

Group III - from 11 to 14 years (inclusive)

IV group - from 15 to 18 years (inclusive)

8 Participants submitted their works to the competition for a month on weekdays from 10.00 to 18.00 and for convenience, drawings were accepted in two territories in Balashikha and in the microdistrict. Railway.

According to the results of the competition, 318 applications were submitted in the first year competition works, in subsequent over 500 and in 2018 the number of works amounted to 618 of which 4 children become winners of the Competition every year in four age categories, and another 16 were recognized as prize-winners and holders of special nominations. The winners and runners-up received valuable prizes from the organizers in the form of professional creativity kits.

In accordance with the Action Plan of the Southern Interregional Territorial Air Transport Administration of the Federal Air Transport Agency in preparation for the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, a competition was held at the Southern Interregional Territorial Administration of the Federal Air Transport Agency children's drawing“They fought for their homeland...”

The jury included representatives of the Southern Interregional Technical University of the Federal Air Transport Agency, the Union of Aircraft Workers of the South of Russia, OJSC Rostov-on-Don Airport and OJSC Donavia.

The competition received 187 drawings made in pencil, watercolor, felt-tip pens, gouache, and oil. Children depicted scenes of air battles, tank battles, honoring veterans, Victory Parade. Many sent portraits of their great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers who took part in the war to the competition.

The competition jury determined the winners in three age categories.

1st place: Karpova Ksenia (6 years old) “They entered into mortal combat with the enemy between heaven and earth...” (photo 1).

2nd place: Konopleva Valeria (5 years old) “Fields of former glory” (photo 2).

III place: Cho Irina (6 years old) “Nurse-nurse” (photo 3).

"For the originality of the drawing"- Khadzhaev Zarif (2 years) “Victory Salute”, Ilyashenko Vladislav (6 years) “Russian Soldier”.

1st place: Semkin Saveliy (9 years old) “Protection of the train” (photo 4).

2nd place: Polatovsky Artem (9 years old) “Decisive battle” (photo 5).

III place: Makarenko Elizaveta (9 years old) “At a halt” (photo 6).

"For the originality of the drawing"- Ivan Silkov (10 years old) “The Battle of Stalingrad”; Rud Georgy (8 years old) “Air Combat”; Borisenko Maria (9 years old) "Battle for Sevastopol".

1st place: Good Anna (16 years old) “They fought for their Motherland!” (photo 7).

2nd place: Zaripov Timur (17 years old) “The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours!" (photo 8).

III place: Berman Ekaterina (13 years old) “Not an easy path” (photo 9).

"For the originality of the drawing"- Polina Lazareva (14 years old) “Heroes of the mine detection service”; Rud Daniil (14 years old) “Air battle.”

The winners of the competition will be presented with memorable gifts, and all participants will be rewarded with letters of gratitude. All works submitted to the children's drawing competition will be published on the website.

In the pictures: The competition jury selects the best works.

OUR WINNERS

Photos provided by parents of participants.