Hero of the Soviet Union Nurken Abdirov accomplished a feat. Kazakh pilots of the Soviet Union
In the Zhetysu district of Almaty there is a small street named after the Hero Soviet Union Nurken Abdirov. Finding it was quite difficult - it is located between Raiymbek and Ryskulov avenues. The correspondent walked around the private sector, where lilies, roses, petunias and irises bloom in every yard.
Nurken Abdirov - pilot. He was born in 1919 in the Karkaraly district. After school, Abdirov worked on a collective farm. In 1940 he was drafted into the Red Army, then graduated from the 1st Chkalov Military Aviation Pilot School. After that, Abdirov joined the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The young man went to the front in 1942. During the war, he had 16 sorties. On his IL-2, Abdirov destroyed several enemy tanks and more than 20 vehicles.
Abdirov passed away early - at the age of 23. Sources describe his death as follows: In 1942, during the assault on enemy positions, his plane caught fire. The fighter, realizing that there was no chance of surviving, sent a burning ship to a column of tanks. Abdirov received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously in 1943.
In Karaganda there is a monument in honor of the pilot. And on the Mamaev Kurgan in Volgograd, a memorial plate was installed. The poem "The Winged Kazakh" by Sapargali Begalin is dedicated to the feat of Abdirov.
Monument to Nurken Abdirov in Karaganda
Memorial plate to Nurken Abdirov on Mamaev Kurgan
The street named after him in Almaty stretches from Botkin to Krylov. A two-story house with shabby walls stands right on the corner.
This yellow shop on the corner resembles the interior of a restroom.
On this street, all the houses, roofs, fences - all the colors of the rainbow, for example, the gate is bright lilac.
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I was pleasantly surprised by an artificial palm tree with a toy monkey on top and hanging delicious bananas. An element of southeastern countries in your backyard.
The owners of this house, apparently, are not only creative and creative people, but also sensitive - juicy lilac petunias and a luxurious climbing rose grow here.
Despite the lack of playgrounds and yards, the local guys know what to do. Some are skateboarding.
Others are on bicycles.
They happily posed for reporters.
The inscriptions on the fences are not always pleasant and understandable.
There is a parking lot at the intersection of Abdirova Street with Krylov Street. Near a small old shop. Even the sign seems to send greetings from Soviet times.
Previously, the site talked about the streets named after the Heroes of the Soviet Union. According to the city authorities, it is planned to rename 165 duplicate streets.
8364 0Aviation occupied special place in battles on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. For heroism and unprecedented dedication, the pilots were called "air falcons."
Talgat Yakubekovich Begeldinov was born on August 5, 1922 in the Akmola region, the village of Maylybak. In 1940 he entered the Saratov military aviation school. He graduated from high school two years later with the rank of sergeant. Then there was a study at the Chikalovsky school of bombardier pilots. Before going to the front, young Talgat mastered the control of the Il-2 attack aircraft in Izhevsk.
Talgat Begeldinov
On the "flying tank" IL-2, Talgat Begeldinov flew 500 hours. At number 13 on the Il-2 aircraft, he made 305 sorties. The military are superstitious people, only Begeldinov did not believe in number 13. He received the first title of Hero of the Soviet Union for his courage in the battles during the liberation of Znamenka and Kirovograd. The second - for exploits in the battles for Krakow, Breslau and Berlin.
Nurken Abdirov
He was born in 1919 near Karkaralinsk. Nurken Abdirov participated in hostilities 16 times, destroyed 12 German tanks, 28 trucks, 18 vehicles carrying ammunition and medicine, 3 fuel tanks, 3 guns, over 50 German soldiers and officers. In 1942, he set out to destroy the fascist tanks that had accumulated in the area of \u200b\u200bthe fortress of Bokov-Ponomarevka (the fortress of the Stalingrad Bulge). During this mission, he destroyed several bunkers, 2 cannon artillery, 6 tanks. However, his plane was damaged by an enemy bullet and caught fire. Nurken Abdirov died heroically, directing his plane at the enemy. In 1943, Kazakh pilot Nurken Abdirov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. May 6, 1998 By the decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev, Baktyoraz Beisekbayev was awarded the title of “Khalyk Kaharmany”. In the same year the President Russian Federation Nurken Abdirov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia,
Among the pilots, fearless heroes of the Great Patriotic War, there were women. Khiuaz Dospanova is the only Kazakh pilot.
Khiuaz Dospanova
She was born on May 15, 1922 in the Atyrau region. The name of this girl, Senior Lieutenant Dospanova, is well known. She flew more than 300 sorties and was badly wounded four times. The Germans called the 46th guards regiment bomber pilots, where Khiuaz served, "night witches". For heroism and selflessness shown on the front of the Great Patriotic War, she was awarded the Red Star, the Order of the Civil War II degree and other medals. In 2004, by decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N.A. Nazarbayev, Khiuaz Dospanova was awarded the title of “Hero of the People”. On May 20, 2008, Khiuaz Dospanova passed away.
In 1956, a Hero of the USSR and the Russian Federation, a helicopter pilot, Colonel Kairbolat Maidanov was born in the village of Taskudyk, Syrymsky District.
In 1988, he participated in the rescue of a special military detachment from the encirclement in Afghanistan. He pulled out the crew members of two helicopters - 46 people - from enemy fire and whistling bullets. On a military mission he made 1250 sorties, total - 1100 hours. The leadership believed in his experience and skill, therefore, they gave him the full right to take to the air at any time without the consent of the head of the aviation regiment.
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ABDIROV NURKEN
Curriculum vitae
Abdirov Nurken was born in 1919 in village No. 5 of the Karkaraly region. In 1938 he worked as the head of the library of mine No. 1. From July 25, 1938, he worked in the Karaganda Regional Prosecutor's Office as a manager, in 1939 he graduated from the flight courses of the Karaganda flying club and received the specialty of a reserve pilot. August 21, 1939 was appointed people's investigator. He was drafted into the army in February 1940. The war caught Nurken as a cadet at the Orenburg Aviation School.
During 16 sorties, Sergeant Abdirov with his crew destroyed 12 tanks, 28 vehicles with troops and cargo, 18 ammunition carts, 3 fuel tanks and smashed 3 enemy bunkers.
On December 19, 1942, pilot-sergeant N. Abdirov and gunner-radio operator A. Komissarov, led by four IL-2 aircraft, fulfilling an order for a bombing and assault raid on a heavily fortified enemy line and a large concentration of tanks in the Bokovskaya-Ponomarevka area (Rostov region), showed exceptional courage and heroism by sending their burning aircraft to the accumulation of enemy equipment. October 23, 1941 Nurken wrote to his parents in Karaganda from an aviation school:
Mum! The time for combat training has come to an end. Today or tomorrow we are going to the place where hot fights are unfolding ... No, I will not give up my life for free. My youth will be with me even in death...
During the last sortie, up to 6 tanks, 3 bunkers, a lot of enemy equipment and manpower were destroyed.
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council USSR dated March 31, 1943 Nurken Abdirov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for the exemplary performance of combat missions of the command and the courage and heroism shown at the same time, and Alexander Komissarov was posthumously awarded in 1966 awarded the Order Patriotic War II degree.
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Abdirov Nurken // History of Kazakhstan: encyclopedic reference book / ch. ed. K. Baigabulova. -- Almaty, 2010.- P.9.
Abdirov Nurken // Karaganda. Karaganda region: encyclopedia / ch. ed. A. Abdulin. - Almaty, 2008. - P. 97.
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Bragin A. In the steppe, underground, in the sky / A. Bragin // Great-grandfathers and great-grandchildren.- Alma-Ata, 1980.- P. 177-187.
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Nurken Abdirov // Throw into immortality / Creative photo studio "Journalist" of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan. - Alma-Ata, 1976 .- S. 42-45.
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Minin V. Piqué to immortality
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The people carry vengeance in their hearts, and they show the power of vengeance in deeds. And if Moscow is the heart Soviet people, then Karaganda is his angry frowning eyebrows, one of the stone clubs, the blow of which strikes the enemy to death.
And the young eagle Nurken Abdirov, who smashed the enemy, without thinking about his numbers, without being embarrassed by his multiplicity, I want to compare with a bright lightning that flashed from under these frowning eyebrows, flying out of this angry heart. If a young eagle has a vigilant look, if its wings know no tiredness, if it is strong as hardened steel, know that it has flown out of a nest like Karaganda. Heroes are born here - the pride of the country. If heroes are born by mothers, then Karaganda is the place where these heroes grow and get stronger. Old father Abdir and caring mother Bakzhan moved from Karkaralinsk to Karaganda at a time when their children were still young.
“It was I who cut through the “black mouth” of the famous steam mine,” says Abdirov.
To justify the strength of the father and the milk of the mother means to justify the hopes of the country - the golden cradle of childhood. the rest of the youth. Even when he was a modest accountant in a bookstore, Nurken looked at the portraits of famous pilots of the Soviet Union and dreamed of becoming the same fearless pilot.
“Are my shoulders already narrower, my arms thinner, my fingers weaker than theirs,” he said more than once to his comrade.
“So, so, my future akyn!” his comrade supported him and predicted a great future for his young friend.
In every act of Nurken, his tirelessness showed through, the activity of his nature was manifested. While studying and working, he still found time to study at the Karaganda regional flying club and received the title of reserve pilot. He is attracted by the sky, fiery feelings draw him up. And when, in 1940, the twenty-year-old Nurken was drafted into the army, he was already a real pilot. Therefore, instead of many years of training, in less than two years he graduated from a military school for pilots and in the fall of 1942 he received the rank of sergeant, became an attack pilot. On the memorable day of the first flight against the enemy - October 23, 1942 - before fulfilling the great goal that he dreamed of for many years, when it was necessary to give an account to the country that raised and educated him, Nurken worried deeply and was reflected in a letter to his mother:
"Mum! Our long preparation is over. We are heading to the front, where hot battles are going on. If in my youth I was rude to you, showed disobedience, now, bowing my head in front of you, I ask you to forgive me. Enemies won't be able to easily take my life. If I am destined to die, then many of them will lie at my head. In my hands is a high-speed plane carrying a lead gift to the Germans... If we do not destroy the Nazis, they will destroy us, and a joyful, free life will not return for you. Dear dad and mom, dawn has come, now we are flying out. Now the whole country knows how dearly Nurken gave his youth on the front of the Great Patriotic War.
A heart that is not capable of love cannot be filled with a sense of revenge. Nurken loved his parents and relatives in a special way warmly and unforgettable. Old Bakzhan keeps 82 letters of Nurken. They clearly show the true love of a big heart. Nurka-nu wants to know from day to day about the life of his old people who have remained so far away. He writes them words that give vigor, bring joy. His letters, addressed to 2-year-old Svetlana, the daughter of Sarsen's older brother, show how much affection the heart, so ruthless to the enemy, hides. Most of these letters begin with the appeal "Svetzhan". In one of them he writes:
"Svetzhan! Yesterday I wandered around the city and went into a bookstore, and they sell portraits of little children. I liked them very much and I bought one of them for you. Mom and Askap, make sure that Svetzhan is always as clean and tidy. Let her hair and her whole appearance be as on this card ”(29/VII-42).
The young dzhigit, who so dearly loved his people, his land, his relatives, had the opportunity to visit home, once to cuddle up to his mother's chest, but refused this opportunity, did not want to take advantage of it at a time when the enemy crossed the threshold Soviet country when severe suffering befell the peoples of their native Ukraine and Belarus. He hastened to the front. “I am in a hurry to fill the growling throats of the enraged fascist dogs with deadly bullets, so I am not going home. I use the time intended for rest to destroy the enemy. Without this, mother, none of us can see rest, ”Nurken writes in one of his letters.
And a little earlier, reporting his desire to finish his studies as soon as possible, he writes: “All the peoples of the Soviet Union have the same answer: do not allow even the shadow of a fascist to darken the face of the Soviet land.”
The situation of elderly parents and a sick brother constantly worried Nurken, but nevertheless, without wasting a minute, he took up the great cause of protecting the Motherland. In the constant tension of front-line life, he knew how to snatch a couple of free minutes to reach out to his parents, hug them - write a letter. For he knew how expensive and long-awaited it was for loved ones.
Nurken Abdirov, a 22-year-old Soviet eagle who flew out of the famous nest named Karaganda. for the exceptional courage shown in the war, he received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Nurken is the seventh Hero of the Soviet Union, who was given to the Motherland during the Patriotic War by the Kazakh people. His life has not yet been studied, the exploits have not yet been fully disclosed. But two features inherent in Nurken are clearly outlined even now. Here they are.
Nurken is a fiery Komsomol member. He had no time for idleness. After returning from work, he immersed himself in reading. If he was called, he raised his head for a second, but immediately went back to the book. The school did not give him all the knowledge, and he tried with all his might to fill this gap.
The days of Nurken were filled with service and classes at the flying club, the nights with reading. Cold water helped to open the closing eyelids, Soviet writers opened up the world. Nurken tirelessly mined the ore of knowledge. But just as there are pieces of waste rock in a thick layer of ore, there are many gaps in the knowledge provided by the Karaganda Mining and Metallurgical College. An inquisitive mind hastens to fill in these gaps.
If we add to this trait of character the heroism so vividly manifested at the front, then before you, with complete conviction, will stand the image of the hero Nurken, a hero in the full sense of the word, a man who has mastered the high knowledge of his time, mastered modern technology, perfectly studied all the ways of crushing war. In other words, you will see an advanced person of an advanced time. A young Soviet man, whose heart knows no fear, who strives to swim easily and freely in the vast sea of knowledge. This is one.
Another is that Nurken Abdirov, Hero of the Soviet Union, did not master flying skills during the days of the war: he is a representative of that galaxy of young people who, like the Gorky falcon, rush upwards to heaven from their youth. It seemed that he wanted to reach their heights, where his heroic movements were free, where they were not limited to the boundaries of the battle. This is the son of the Kazakh people, who, dreaming of heaven, was full of thoughts about his homeland and saw in heaven a wide field for the fight for the future, for humanity.
We have already mentioned that the heroic deeds of Nurken have not yet been fully revealed. But if every Soviet youth could destroy, like Nurken, 12 enemy tanks, 28 trucks, 18 ammunition vehicles, 3 fortifications, 3 guns and over fifty soldiers and officers, his combat score would be good.
In a letter to his family, dated the eve of his death, Nurken writes:
"Svetzhan! We fly into the positions of the Germans and pour lead rain on them ... Recently, having taken off on a mission, we found a lot of German tanks. Presumably, few of the hundreds of tanks survived ”(December 18, 1942). There is no doubt that Nurken accounted for a considerable number of destroyed tanks.
The Soviet land is crying out for vengeance. Call of the wounded land - the order of the angry country, must be carried out without delay. And if before 10 shells fell on the head of the enemy, now hundreds of them fall. If before a hundred crashed, now a thousand crashed. Hatred boils in the hearts of the fighters. It is necessary to discard the fingers of the zheztyrnak, who is getting close to the throat, and cut off his arms to the elbow. With such a desire, Nurken took off on his gray hawk "YAK" for another flight.
The enemy is hiding behind the fortifications, he continues to send bullets, he still does not want to stop the harvest of death. So, it must be destroyed.
The Karaganda eagle flew into the enemy fortifications, and two of them crumbled to dust. Over 20 German officers and soldiers clung to the ground in a dead embrace, never to tear themselves away from it again. German guns began to bombard Nurken. The eagle turned and swooped down again. This time he knocked out six enemy tanks. But the eagle was also wounded - the plane began to burn. Bullets whistled around him, and he himself was engulfed in flames. The fire quickly spread to the wings of the plane. The hero made a decision in line with the heroic traditions of the Soviet people:
“Last strength to my people!”
The image of Captain Gastello flashed before his mind's eye. What did he do when he found himself in the same position? He died the death of the brave and with his death stood up for the defense of the Motherland. He remembered 28 hero-guardsmen from his native Kazakhstan. How did they do? 26 died a heroic death, but defended the heart of the country - Moscow.
And Nurken did not part with his faithful friend - the plane, but turned it towards the enemy's concentration and fell on his tank column. The young life of Nurken cost the enemy dearly. They paid for it with many tanks, with the death of many soldiers and officers.
The Karaganda eagle performed a heroism worthy of an eagle and accepted a death worthy of an eagle. Karaganda eagle received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
