The Great Patriotic War is the most bloody and ruthless in world history, it took away millions of human lives, including the lives of many young people who bravely defended their Motherland. Golikov Leonid Alexandrovich is one of the heroes of his country.
This is an ordinary boy, whose childhood was carefree and happy, he was friends with the guys, helped his parents, graduated from seven classes, after which he worked at a plywood factory. The war caught Lenya at the age of 15, instantly cutting off all the boy's youthful dreams.
Young partisan
The village in the Novgorod region, where the boy lived, was captured by the Nazis and, trying to establish their new order, they began to commit excesses. Lenya Golikov, whose feat is inscribed in history with a red line, did not reconcile himself to the horrors that were happening around him and decided to fight against the Nazis; after releasevillage, he went to the emerging partisan detachment, where he fought alongside adults. True, at first the guy was not taken for a young age; help came from a school teacher who was in the partisans. He vouched for the boy, saying that he was a reliable person, would show himself well and would not let him down. In March 1942, Lenya became a scout in the Leningrad partisan brigade; a little later he joined the Komsomol there.
Fight against fascists
The Nazis were afraid of the partisans, because they mercilessly destroyed German officers and soldiers, blew up trains, attacked enemy columns. Enemies saw elusive partisans everywhere: behind every tree, house, turn - so they tried not to walk alone.
There was even such a case: Lenya Golikov, whose feat became an example of patriotism for young people of different generations, was returning from intelligence and saw five Nazis looting in the apiary. They were so engrossed in getting honey and fighting bees that they threw their weapons on the ground. The young scout took advantage of this, destroying three enemies; two managed to escape.
The boy who grew up early had a lot of military merits (27 military operations, 78 enemy officers; several explosions of enemy vehicles and bridges), but the feat of Leni Golikov was not far off. It was 1942…
Fearless Lenya Golikov: a feat
We will present a summary of it now.
Highway Luga-Pskov (near the village of Varintsy). 1942 August 13th. Being with a partner in intelligence, Lenyablew up an enemy passenger car, in which, as it turned out, was Richard von Wirtz, Major General of the German engineering troops. The portfolio he had with him contained very important information: reports to higher authorities, minefield diagrams, detailed drawings of some samples of German mines and other data that were of great value to the partisans.
The feat of Leni Golikov, a summary of which is described above, was evaluated by the Gold Star medal and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union; indeed, posthumously. In the winter of 1942, the partisan detachment, which included Golikov, fell into the German encirclement, but after fierce fighting he was able to break through and change location. Fifty people remained in the ranks, cartridges were running out, the radio was broken, food was running out. Attempts to restore contact with other units were unsuccessful.
In ambush
In January 1943, 27 exhausted partisans, exhausted by the chase, occupied the three extreme huts of the village of Ostraya Luka. Preliminary reconnaissance found nothing suspicious; the nearest German garrison was quite far away, several kilometers away. The patrols were not put up so as not to attract undue attention. However, there was a "kind man" in the village - the owner of one of the houses (a certain Stepanov), who informed the headman Pykhov, who, in turn, told the punishers about what guests had come to the village at night.
For this treacherous act, Pykhov received a generous reward from the Germans, but at the beginning of 1944 he was shot astraitor to the motherland. Stepanov, the second traitor, was only a year older than Leni, in troubled times for himself (when the turn of the war became clear) he showed resourcefulness: he went to the partisans, and from there to the Soviet Army. Stepanov even managed to earn awards and return home almost as a hero, but the hand of justice caught up with this traitor to the Motherland. In 1948, for treason, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison, and with the deprivation of all awards received.
They are gone
Ostraya Luka on this unkind January night was surrounded by 50 punishers, among whom were local residents who collaborated with the Nazis. The partisans, taken by surprise, had to fight back and, under the bullets of enemy shells, urgently go back to the forest. Only six people managed to break out of the encirclement.
In that unequal battle, almost the entire partisan detachment died, including Lenya Golikov, whose feat remained forever in the memory of his associates.
Sister instead of brother
Initially, it was believed that the original photo of Leni Golikov was not preserved. Therefore, to reproduce the image of the hero, the image of his sister Lydia was used (for example, for a portrait painted in 1958 by Viktor Fomin). Later, a partisan photo was found, but the familiar face of Lida, who acted as a brother, adorned the biography of Leni Golikov, who became a symbol of courage for Soviet teenagers. After all, the feat accomplished by Lenya Golikov is a vivid example of courage and love for the Motherland.
In April 1944, Leonid Golikov wasawarded (posthumously) the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the heroism and courage shown in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
In everyone's heart
In many publications, Leonid Golikov is referred to as a pioneer, and he is on a par with the same fearless young personalities as Marat Kazei, Vitya Korobkov, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova.
However, during the perestroika period, when the heroes of the Soviet era were subjected to "mass exposures", these children had a claim that they could not be pioneers, because they were older than the prescribed age. The information was not confirmed: Marat Kazei, Zina Portnova and Vitya Korobkov were indeed pioneers, but with Lenya it turned out a little differently.
He got into the list of pioneers thanks to the efforts of people who are not indifferent to his fate and, apparently, out of the best of intentions. The first materials about his heroism speak of Lena as a member of the Komsomol. The feat of Leni Golikov, a summary of which was described by Yury Korolkov in his book "Partisan Lenya Golikov", is an example of the behavior of a young man in the days of mortal danger hanging over his country.
The writer, who went through the war as a front-line correspondent, reduced the age of the hero by just a couple of years, turning a 16-year-old boy into a 14-year-old pioneer hero. Perhaps, with this, the writer wanted to make Leni's feat more striking. Although everyone who knew Lenya was aware of the current state of affairs, believing that this inaccuracy fundamentally changes nothing. In any case, the country for the collective imageThe pioneer hero needed a suitable person who would also be a Hero of the Soviet Union. Lenya Golikov matched the image optimally.
His feat is described in all Soviet newspapers, many books have been written about him and the same young heroes. In any case, this is the history of a great country. Therefore, the feat of Leni Golikov, like himself - a man who defended his homeland - will forever remain in the heart of everyone.
